June 11th

The June 11 , the 162nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 163rd in leap years ), thus remain still 203 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1042 : By marrying Empress Zoe , Constantine IX becomes . as co-regent in the Byzantine Empire .
• 1125 : At the Battle of Azaz , a united army of the Crusader states prevailed against a larger force of the Seljuks .
• 1157 : Albrecht the Bear recaptured Brandenburg Castle and drove Jacza from Köpenick . This is considered to be the founding date of the Mark Brandenburg .
• 1345 : The influential Byzantine minister Alexios Apokaukos is overpowered and killed by prisoners while inspecting a prison under construction without his bodyguard. His death marks the beginning of the end of the civil war that raged in the Byzantine Empire .

1488: Jacob IV.

• 1488 : Jacob IV becomes King of Scotland at the age of 15 after his unpopular father Jacob III. was killed fighting noble rebels during or after the Battle of Sauchieburn.

1666: "Naval battle of the four days"

• 1666 : One of the longest skirmishes in history begins with the four-day battle in the Second Anglo-Dutch naval war .
• 1742 : Upon British mediation, Prussia and Austria conclude the preliminary peace in Breslau to end the First Silesian War . Austria must cede most of Silesia to Prussia.

Cook's Route 1768-1771

• 1770 : From his first voyage to the South Seas , James Cook runs aground at Cape Tribulation with his ship HMS Endeavor . The Great Barrier Reef discovered in this way almost led to the ship's sinking.
• 1775 : The French King Louis XVI. is crowned in Reims Cathedral.
• 1798 : Malta surrenders without a fight to Napoleon Bonaparte , who has embarked on the Egyptian expedition with his troops . The Order of Malta subsequently left the island and went to Russia.
• 1868 : In the Ottoman Empire , the aid organization for wounded and sick soldiers is formed, from which the Turkish Red Crescent later emerges.
• 1878 : Because the majority of the Reichstag rejected a ban on the Social Democrats after an assassination attempt on Kaiser Wilhelm I , it is dissolved by the Kaiser in accordance with the provisions of the constitution. The next Reichstag election is scheduled for July 30th .

1903: Draga and Aleksandar

• 1903 : The Serbian royal couple Draga and Aleksandar are murdered by a group of officers in the Royal Palace in Belgrade. The Kara Karorđević house replaces the Obrenović house in the Kingdom of Serbia, which died out after the attack .
• 1938 : Following an order from the Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek , three Chinese provinces are deliberately flooded by the Yellow River . This is to stop the Japanese troops advancing towards Wuhan in the Second Sino-Japanese War . Blasting the dykes without warning the civilian population is estimated to cost nearly 900,000 Chinese lives, destroy 4,000 villages and several cities and make millions of people homeless.
• 1945 : One day after the Soviet military administration in Germany admitted anti-fascist , democratic parties and trade unions in their sphere of influence, the Communist Party of Germany was re-established in Berlin by the Ulbricht group .
• 1955 : 17 days after his appointment, Lower Saxony's minister of education, Leonhard Schlueter , resigns as a result of protests by the Göttingen university management because of his right-wing extremist background.
• 1958 : In its “ pharmacy judgment ”, the German Federal Constitutional Court formulates the three-stage theory that specifies when the freedom of occupation may be restricted by law.

1962: Frank Morris

• 1962 : Frank Morris , John and Clarence Anglin manage to escape from the maximum security prison in Alcatraz , whether they will have survived is uncertain.

1963: George Wallace and Nicholas Katzenbach in front of the University of Alabama

• 1963 : At the booth in the Schoolhouse Door , the Governor of Alabamas , George Wallace , demonstratively stands in the door of the Foster Auditorium of the University of Alabama to deny access to the two African American students Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood. Only after the intervention by the US Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and President John F. Kennedy and under threat of the deployment of the National Guard does he finally clear the way.
• 1963 : The Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burns himself to death in Saigon to protest against the oppression of the Buddhist majority in his country; the photo of his self-immolation becomes the press photo of the year .

1964: The elementary school in Volkhoven

• 1964 : In the Volkhoven assassination attempt in Cologne, Walter Seifert, who retired early, kills 10 people with a self-made flamethrower and a lance and injures 22 others, some seriously. He then kills himself. The act is still regarded as the first rampage at a German school to this day.

1971: Alcatraz

• 1971 : Alcatraz Island off San Francisco, occupied by Indian activists for 1½ years , is finally evacuated.
• 1981 : The Berlin House of Representatives , elected in the early elections on May 10th, elects Richard von Weizsäcker , a CDU politician, to be the governing mayor of West Berlin for the first time .
• 1985 : The largest exchange of agents in history takes place on Glienicke Bridge near Berlin .
• 1994 : With the publication of the twenty-ninth Criminal Law Amendment Act in the Federal Law Gazette, Section 175 of the Criminal Code, which made male homosexuality under the age of 18 a criminal offense, ceases to apply in Germany .
• 1996 : Four people are killed and twelve injured in the bomb attack on the Moscow Metro .
• 1999 : The United Nations sends the UNAMET mission to prepare for an independence referendum in East Timor, which is occupied by Indonesia .
• 2001 : Timothy McVeigh , convicted of attacking the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , is executed by lethal injection.

economy

1836: Ludwig Railway

• 1836 : Freight is transported for the first time on the Ludwig Railway, which opened on December 7 of the previous year . These are two barrels of beer for a fee of six kreuzers per barrel.
• 1945 : The first edition of the Upper Austrian News appears.
• 1974 : The German Bundestag resolves to increase civil servants' salaries by 11% (retrospectively from January 1, 1974).
• 1982 : Lesney Products & Co. Ltd. goes bankrupt. The company became world-famous for the Matchbox cars it produced and relocated production to the Far East after bankruptcy.
• 1991 : The daily newspaper Der Morgen , the central organ of the LDPD in the GDR and taken over by Axel Springer AG in 1990 , is discontinued.
• 2001 : Change becomes mandatory in German nuclear policy . The federal government and four operating companies of nuclear power plants conclude the agreement to phase out nuclear energy on the basis of the nuclear consensus of June 14, 2000.

science and technology

1871: The Hayden Expedition

• 1871 : The geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden starts with 34 men and 7 wagons from Ogden , Utah, on his Hayden expedition , which takes him to the Yellowstone area. His report leads to the creation of Yellowstone National Park on March 1 of the following year .
• 1928 : Fritz Stamer conducts the first manned rocket flight. The Lippisch-Ente- type glider, equipped with solid rockets , is started with a rubber rope.
• 1973 : University of Delaware scientists celebrate completion of Solar One, the world's first solar- powered home.
• 1985 : The Soviet space probe Vega 1 passes the planet Venus and places a landing probe and a research balloon in its atmosphere.

Culture

• 1854 : The song Die Wacht am Rhein of max schneckenburger is with the music of Carl Wilhelm occasion of the silver wedding of the Prussian Prince William, the future Emperor I. Wilhelm , premiered.

1881: Prague National Theater

• 1881 : The world premiere of Bedrich Smetana's opera Libuše is Prague National Theater opened. The libretto comes from Josef Wenzig in the Czech translation by Ervín Špindler and is based on the Königinhofer manuscript, which was probably forged by Václav Hanka .
• 1914 : The premiere of the opera Don Juan's Last Adventure by Paul Graener takes place in Leipzig.
• 1919 : The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke settles in Switzerland, where he overcomes his creative crisis.
• 1936 : In London, begins art exhibition London International Surrealist Exhibition , which the British public works of Surrealism presents. 64 artists from 14 countries show their work. The exhibition is opened by André Breton .
• 1960 : The opera A Midsummer Night's Dream , commissioned by Benjamin Britten , premiered at the Aldeburgh Festival .

1982: ET logo

• 1982 : In the United States comes Steven Spielberg's movie ET - The Extra-Terrestrial in the movie theater .
• 1988 : In London's Wembley Stadium , the place Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute place; Contributors include Peter Gabriel , Tracy Chapman , the Eurythmics , Stevie Wonder and Simple Minds .
• 2005 : A conference on the occasion of 25 years of the Alternative Nobel Prize takes place in Salzburg under the title Winning Alternatives . In addition to Jakob von Uexküll , 70 award winners will attend the event .

society

1509: Catherine of Aragon

• 1509 : The English King Henry VIII marries Catherine of Aragon , the widow of his older brother Arthur , after granting a papal dispensation.

religion

• 1975 : The 16th German Evangelical Church Congress begins in Frankfurt am Main . Its motto is "In fears - and see we live."
• 1997 : A concordat is concluded between the Holy See and Thuringia .

Disasters

• 1641 : Caracas is hit by an earthquake that kills around 200. It is the first known event of its kind since the city was founded.
• 1981 : A 6.7 magnitude earthquake in Iran kills around 3,000.

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

Sports

• 1911 : Young Boys Bern win the Swiss championship for the third time in a row .
• 1933 : Fortuna Dusseldorf defeated in the final of the German Football Championship 1932/33 against FC Schalke 04 3: 0th It is the only championship title for Fortuna Düsseldorf so far.

Graphic of the Le Mans accident of 1955

• 1955 : Mike Hawthorn triggers the most devastating accident in motorsport history at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . The driver Pierre Levegh and 83 spectators are killed. However, the race management does not cancel the race, which is won by Hawthorn. After the accident, motorsport events in France, the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland are canceled or banned. In Switzerland there is still a motor sport ban on circuit races.
• 1982 : At Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Larry Holmes defends his heavyweight boxing world title against Gerry Cooney with a technical knockout.
• 1983 : In Mungerdorferstadion wins 1. FC Köln which so far only derby in the final of the German Cup against the then second division side SC Fortuna Köln 1: 0th
• 2005 : Heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson retires after a technical knockout defeat in the sixth round against Kevin McBride .
• 2005 : The Amsterdam Admirals win the World Bowl XIII in American football against defending champion Berlin Thunder with 27:21.

2010: Logo of the soccer World Cup

• 2010 : With the 1-1 draw in the opening game between South Africa and Mexico , the 2010 Soccer World Cup begins in the Republic of South Africa .
• 2012 : The Spaniard Rafael Nadal becomes the first tennis player to win the men's final of the French Open in Paris for the seventh time .
• 2012 : The Los Angeles Kings win the Stanley Cup for the first time after beating the New Jersey Devils 6-1 .
• 2017 : Rafael Nadal wins the French Open for the tenth time in his career. In the final he defeated Stan Wawrinka in three sets.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1323 : Heinrich I , first count of Nassau-Beilstein
• 1403 : Johann IV. , Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg, Count of Hainaut, Holland and Zeeland
• 1456 : Anne Neville , Queen Consort of England
• 1527 : Anna Sophie , Princess of Prussia and Duchess of Mecklenburg
• 1555 : Ludovico Zacconi , Italian music theorist
• 1564 : Joseph Heintz the Elder , Swiss painter

Ben Jonson (* 1572)

• 1572 : Ben Jonson , English playwright and poet
• 1579 : Jan Cornelisz Geelvinck , Amsterdam wholesaler and regent
• 1585 : Evert Horn , Swedish field marshal
• 1600 : Johann Botsack , German theologian
• 1624 : Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel , French philosopher and theologian
• 1633 : Georg Götze , German Lutheran theologian
• 1645 : Johann Heinrich Horb , German theologian
• 1653 : Matthias Klotz , German violin maker
• 1659 : Yamamoto Tsunetomo , Japanese samurai and author
• 1662 : Tokugawa Ienobu , fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan
• 1668 : Georg Serpilius , Protestant theologian and song poet
• 1671 : Yamamoto Tsunetomo , Japanese author and samurai
• 1672 : Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer
• 1673 : Johann Melchior Kraft , German theologian
• 1682 : Georg Heinrich Bose , Leipzig merchant
• 1697 : Francesco Antonio Vallotti , Italian composer, music theorist and organist

18th century

• 1704 : Carlos Seixas , Portuguese composer and harpsichordist
• 1709 : Joachim Martin Falbe , German sculptor, etcher and draftsman
• 1716 : Otto von Münchhausen , German botanist

Johann Georg Palitzsch (* 1723)

• 1723 : Johann Georg Palitzsch , Saxon farmer astronomer
• 1726 : Maria Theresia Rafaela of Spain , Dauphine of France
• 1739 : Johann Friedrich Schultz , German Protestant theologian, mathematician and philosopher
• 1749 : Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel , Marie-Antoinette's maid of honor and governess of the royal children
• 1752 : Daniel Erhard Günther , German physician and university professor
• 1754 : Anton Anreith , German sculptor
• 1776 : John Constable , British landscape painter
• 1779 : Bernhard von Lindenau , German astronomer, Saxon minister and art collector
• 1791 : Paul Partsch , Austrian geologist and mineralogist
• 1796 : François-Louis Cailler , Swiss chocolate pioneer, founder of Cailler
• 1799 : Ludwig Pernice , German legal scholar

19th century

1801-1850

• 1806 : Julius Köbner , Danish co-founder of the German, Danish and Dutch Baptist Church
• 1811 : Ferdinand Gottlieb Flechtner , German textile manufacturer
• 1814 : Alexis Roger , French composer

Julia Margaret Cameron (* 1815)

• 1815 : Julia Margaret Cameron , British photographer
• 1818 : Alexander Bain , Scottish philosopher, psychologist and educator
• 1831 : Carl von Arnim , German lawyer and administrative officer
• 1832 : Augustus Hill Garland , American politician
• 1832 : Christian Nikolaus Schnittger , German painter, draftsman and photographer
• 1832 : Jules Vallès , French publicist, revolutionary and journalist
• 1834 : Johann Bauschinger , German mathematician and construction technician
• 1841 : William B. Shattuc , American politician, Congressman for Ohio
• 1842 : Carl von Linde , German engineer and inventor, founder of Linde AG
• 1843 : Francisco Joaquim Ferreira do Amaral , Portuguese military and politician
• 1846 : Karl Wegener , German railway engineer, master builder, architect and entrepreneur as well as club and association functionary
• 1847 : Millicent Garrett Fawcett , British suffragette
• 1850 : Abraham Adler , German economist

1851-1900

• 1851 : Oscar Borg , Norwegian composer, conductor, organist and flautist
• 1851 : Theodor von Scheve , German chess master
• 1853 : Samuel Rousseau , French composer
• 1854 : Alfred Müller , German ethnologist, author and secondary school director
• 1855 : Georg August Zenker , German gardener, botanist and zoologist
• 1858 : Margarethe Quidde , German musician and writer
• 1859 : Johannes Oscar Schubert , German mathematician, physicist, geodesist and meteorologist

Richard Strauss (* 1864)

• 1864 : Richard Strauss , German composer and conductor
• 1865 : John Madden , Scottish football player and coach
• 1867 : Charles Fabry , French physicist
• 1867 : René Hanriot , French racing car driver and aviation pioneer
• 1868 : Bert Bailey , Australian actor, author, and theater impresario
• 1875 : George Herbert Walker , American banker
• 1878 : Herbert Kund , German officer and traveler to Africa
• 1879 : Joseph Friedrich Abert , German historian and archivist
• 1879 : Julia Claussen , Swedish singer and music teacher
• 1880 : Willem Janssen , Dutch football player
• 1882 : Alvin Langdon Coburn , American photographer
• 1882 : Géza de Kresz , Austro-Hungarian-Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer
• 1883 : Eberhard Ackerknecht , German-Swiss veterinary atom
• 1883 : Ferdinand Lion , Swiss journalist and writer
• 1888 : Bartolomeo Vanzetti , American-Italian anarchist
• 1889 : Walter Ackermann , German educator

Wesley Ruggles (* 1889)

• 1889 : Wesley Ruggles , American film director and actor
• 1893 : Karl Weissenberg , Dutch physicist, one of the first rheologists
• 1895 : Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin , Soviet politician, defense minister, prime minister
• 1896 : Henri Poitras , Canadian actor and playwright
• 1897 : Alexandre Tansman , Polish-French composer
• 1899 : Kawabata Yasunari , Japanese writer, Nobel Prize winner

20th century

1901-1925

• 1902 : Hermann Aicher , Austrian theater director
• 1902 : Ernst Wilhelm Nay , German painter

Ernie Nevers (born 1903)

• 1903 : Ernie Nevers , American football player
• 1904 : Emil František Burian , Czech composer
• 1904 : Pinetop Smith , American jazz pianist
• 1905 : Ladislaus Winterstein , German politician, Mayor of Hattersheim am Main, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1906 : Jan Hoffman , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 1906 : Leo Steinweg , German motorcycle racer
• 1908 : Rolf Agop , German conductor and university professor
• 1908 : Francisco Marto , Portuguese witness to an apparition of Mary

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (* 1910)

• 1910 : Jacques-Yves Cousteau , French marine explorer
• 1910 : Theodor Schieffer , German historian
• 1911 : Peter Acht , German diplomat and historian
• 1911 : Detlev Lais , German saxophonist and pop singer
• 1912 : James Algar , American animator and documentary film director
• 1912 : Muchtar Aschrafowitsch Aschrafi , Uzbek-Soviet composer
• 1912 : Emil Juracka , Austrian field handball player
• 1913 : Vince Lombardi , American football coach
• 1915 : LeRoy Apker , American experimental solid-state physicist
• 1915 : Arnold Jacobs , American musician
• 1917 : Franz Hesse , German Protestant Reformed theologian and university professor

Ruth Hughes Aarons (* 1918)

• 1918 : Ruth Hughes Aarons , American table tennis player
• 1918 : Marianne Laqueur , German computer scientist
• 1919 : Horst Schubert , German mathematician
• 1920 : Fernando Bernabé Agüero Rocha , Nicaraguan politician
• 1921 : Hans Detlev Becker German journalist and manager ( Der Spiegel )
• 1921 : Waltrud Will-Feld , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1922 : Alberto Bovone , Italian cardinal
• 1923 : Wolfram Achtnich , German crop scientist
• 1923 : Connie Clausen , American actress, writer and literary agent
• 1923 : Jean Pierre Vité , German forest scientist
• 1924 : Horst Kramer , German forest scientist
• 1925 : Elfriede Ott , Austrian chamber actress, singer and director
• 1925 : William Styron , American writer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Carlisle Floyd , American composer
• 1926 : Georg Mautner Markhof , Austrian industrialist and politician, member of the National Council
• 1927 : Ernst-Heinz Amberg , German theologian
• 1927 : Alfred Niepieklo , German football player
• 1928 : Helmut Arndt , German historian
• 1928 : Fabiola Mora y Aragón , Belgian queen
• 1930 : Ellen Schwiers , German actress
• 1931 : Werner Arnold , German weightlifter
• 1932 : Thomas Butler , American bobsledder
• 1932 : Athol Fugard , South African writer
• 1932 : Gert Prokop , German writer
• 1933 : Josef Paul Kleihues , German architect
• 1933 : Harald Szeemann , Swiss exhibition designer

Gene Wilder (* 1933)

• 1933 : Gene Wilder , American actor
• 1933 : Walther Zügel , German bank manager
• 1934 : Henri de Laborde de Monpezat , French prince consort of Queen Margrethe II.
• 1934 : John da Silva , New Zealand wrestler and boxer
• 1936 : Wolfgang Römer , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1937 : Rino Marchesi , Italian football coach
• 1937 : John Robin Warren , Australian pathologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1938 : Peter Eigen , German lawyer
• 1938 : Doris Fuchs-Brause , American gymnast
• 1938 : Stu Martin , American jazz drummer
• 1939 : Wilma Burgess , American country singer
• 1939 : Herbert Knoblich , German politician, MdL
• 1939 : Boje Maaßen , German educator, specialist author and politician, co-founder of the Green Party
• 1939 : Bernard Purdie , American drummer
• 1939 : Jackie Stewart , British Formula 1 racing driver
• 1940 : Karl Feuerstein , German politician and trade unionist
• 1940 : Volkmar Sigusch , German sex researcher and doctor
• 1941 : Helmut Krauss , German actor, cabaret artist and voice actor
• 1942 : Peter Blusch , German football player

Gunter Gabriel (* 1942)

• 1942 : Gunter Gabriel , German singer
• 1942 : Hellmut Lorenz , Austrian art historian
• 1943 : Johann Kurzbauer , Austrian politician, member of the National Council
• 1943 : Walter Zuber , German politician
• 1944 : Jens-Peter Kurzwelly , German lawyer
• 1944 : Marcel Mignot , French racing car driver
• 1945 : Ernst Bahr , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1945 : Roger Schawinski , Swiss media pioneer and television presenter
• 1946 : Svatopluk Čech , Czech clarinetist, saxophonist and arranger
• 1946 : Jan Petersen , Norwegian lawyer and diplomat
• 1947 : Bob Evans , British racing car driver

Lynsey de Paul (born 1948)

• 1948 : Lynsey de Paul , British songwriter and singer
• 1948 : Sumaya Farhat-Naser , Palestinian politician
• 1949 : Frank Beard , American musician
• 1949 : Ingrid Newkirk , British activist, co-founder and president of the animal welfare organization PETA
• 1949 : Tom Pryce , British racing car driver
• 1949 : Issei Sagawa , Japanese murderer and writer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Manfred Breuckmann , German radio presenter and sports reporter

Wolfgang Bosbach (* 1952)

• 1952 : Wolfgang Bosbach , German politician and lawyer, Member of the Bundestag
• 1952 : Helmut Reitze , German director of the Hessischer Rundfunk
• 1952 : Bronisław Wildstein , Polish journalist and writer
• 1953 : Reginald Ford , Guyanese boxer
• 1953 : Vera Jakowlewna Komissowa , Russian athlete, Olympic champion
• 1953 : Volker Ladenthin , German educational scientist
• 1954 : Gerhard Grandke , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Offenbach am Main
• 1955 : Milan Novotny , Czech-Swiss music teacher, composer and accordionist
• 1956 : Steven A. Cohen , American hedge fund manager and art collector
• 1956 : Joe Montana , American football player
• 1957 : Walter Hauser , Swiss writer and journalist
• 1958 : Barry Adamson , British musician

Hugh Laurie (born 1959)

• 1959 : Hugh Laurie , British actor
• 1959 : Claudius Seidl , German publicist and film critic
• 1960 : Sissy Raith , German soccer player and coach
• 1962 : Andreas Mihatsch , German photographer and film producer
• 1963 : Anne Kasprik , German actress
• 1963 : Sandra Schmirler , Canadian curler, Olympic champion
• 1964 : Jean Alesi , French Formula 1 racing driver
• 1964 : Andreas von Holst , German guitarist ( Die Toten Hosen )

Christian Streich (* 1965)

• 1965 : Christian Streich , German soccer coach
• 1965 : Lars Henrik Gass , German author, curator and director of the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
• 1965 : Manuel Uribe , Mexican, one of the heaviest men in medical history
• 1966 : Dragomir Josifow , Bulgarian composer, conductor and pianist
• 1966 : Gary Kwok , Canadian racing car driver
• 1967 : Clare Carey , Zimbabwean-American actress
• 1967 : Oliver Ortmann , German pool player
• 1968 : Jill Gallard , British diplomat
• 1968 : Hans Horn , German film director and producer
• 1969 : Peter Dinklage , American actor
• 1969 : Sergei Nikolayevich Juran , Russian football player and coach
• 1969 : Matthias Maucksch , German soccer player and coach
• 1970 : Brock Marion , American football player
• 1973 : José Manuel Abundis , Mexican soccer player
• 1973 : Joy Denalane , German singer
• 1974 : Richard von der Schulenburg , German keyboard player
• 1975 : Tonje Kjærgaard , Danish handball player

1976-2000

• 1977 : Pamela Großer , German television presenter and actress
• 1977 : Paul Kalkbrenner , German techno musician
• 1977 : Ryan Dunn , American actor and stunt performer ( Jackass )
• 1978 : Mario Fesler , German writer

Joshua Jackson (* 1978)

• 1978 : Joshua Jackson , American actor
• 1978 : Bruce Jouanny , French racing car driver
• 1979 : Danilo Gabriel de Andrade , Brazilian soccer player
• 1980 : Jennifer Armentrout , American author
• 1981 : Emiliano Moretti , Italian football player
• 1982 : Marco Arment , American iOS developer and web designer
• 1982 : Renate Urne , Norwegian handball player
• 1984 : Wesley Harms , Dutch darts player

Vágner Love (* 1984)

• 1984 : Vágner Love , Brazilian soccer player
• 1984 : Clemens Ostermann , German voice actor and musician
• 1985 : Dmitry Kaldun , Belarusian singer
• 1985 : Petter Tande , Norwegian skier
• 1986 : Shia LaBeouf , American actor
• 1986 : Sebastian Wredenberg , Swedish biathlete
• 1987 : Eugen Knecht , German-Russian actor
• 1987 : Gonzalo Castro , Spanish soccer player
• 1987 : Marsel İlhan , Turkish tennis player
• 1988 : Marcos Antonio , Brazilian soccer player
• 1988 : Claire Holt , Australian actress
• 1989 : Lorenzo Ariaudo , Italian football player
• 1989 : Keith Aulie , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1989 : Sinha Melina Gierke , German actress
• 1991 : Dan Howell , British blogger and YouTuber
• 1991 : Irini Ioannidou , German soccer player

Julian Alaphilippe (* 1992)

• 1992 : Julian Alaphilippe , French cyclist
• 1992 : Zoey Monroe , American porn actress
• 1993 : Pascal Andres , German cinema, television and theater actor
• 1994 : Ivana Baquero , Spanish actress
• 1995 : Malte Abelmann-Brockmann , German handball player
• 1999 : Kai Havertz , German soccer player
• 1999 : Saxon Sharbino , American actress

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0090 BC BC : Publius Rutilius Lupus , Roman politician
• 0089 BC BC : Titus Didius , Roman politician
• 0888 : Rimbert , Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg
• 0999 : Everger , Archbishop of Cologne
• 1017 : Thiddag , Bishop of Prague
• 1051 : Bardo of Mainz , Archbishop
• 1102 : Rupert , Bishop of Bamberg
• 1183 : Henry the Younger , co-king of England
• 1185 : Conrad II of Raitenbuch , Bishop of Regensburg
• 1216 : Heinrich , Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
• 1304 : Albrecht von Löwenstein-Schenkenberg , founder of the city of Murrhardt
• 1323 : Béranger Frédol the Elder , Bishop of Béziers and Cardinal
• 1341 : Bolko II , Duke of Schweidnitz and Münsterberg
• 1345 : Alexios Apokaukos , Byzantine statesman
• 1364 : Agnes , Queen of Hungary
• 1393 : Jean I. de Bourbon , French nobleman, Count of La Marche, as Jean VII. Count of Vendôme and Castres and Peer of France
• 1397 : Stefan Poduška von Martinitz , royal councilor and favorite of the Bohemian King Wenceslaus IV and governor of Glatz and von Frankenstein
• 1399 : Johann von Neuberg , Bishop of Seckau
• 1416 : Heyno Sobbe , Lübeck goldsmith and member of the New Council
• 1419 : Rudolf III. , Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1420 : Johann III. , Burgrave of Nuremberg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
• 1434 : Bernhard I , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Prince of Lüneburg and Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
• 1446 : Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick , English nobleman
• 1473 : Herbord , Catholic priest, Benedictine and abbot of the St. Januarius monastery in Murrhardt
• 1474 : Johann Westphal , mayor of Lübeck

Jacob III († 1488)

• 1488 : Jacob III. , King of Scotland

16th to 17th centuries

• 1535 : Johann VII von Hoya, German count and military leader of Lübeck and Sweden
• 1540 : Georg Hohermuth von Speyer , German conquistador
• 1557 : Johann III. , King of Portugal from the House of Avis
• 1560 : Marie de Guise , Queen of Scotland
• 1568 : Heinrich the Younger , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
• 1569 : Wolfgang , Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg
• 1576 : Anthony Cooke , English nobleman, politician and humanist
• 1604 : Valentin Schindler , German philologist and orientalist
• 1616 : Johannes Wanckel , German historian
• 1620 : John Budden , English jurist
• 1633 : Johannes Crellius , German Socinian theologian and educator
• 1647 : Christoph Matthäus , German rhetorician, historian and physician in the Netherlands
• 1661 : Georg II , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• 1675 : Dorothea Maria of Saxe-Weimar , Duchess of Saxe-Zeitz
• 1698 : Balthasar Bekker , German-Dutch Protestant theologian, philosopher and preacher

18th century

• 1704 : Johann Ulrich Mayr , German painter
• 1712 : Louis II. Joseph de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme, French marshal
• 1713 : Felix Meyer , Swiss landscape painter
• 1715 : Johann Samuel Stryk , German legal scholar
• 1719 : Johann Abraham Schmierer , German composer

Adam Franz Karl († 1732)

• 1732 : Adam Franz Prince von Schwarzenberg , Austrian Obersthofmarschall
• 1734 : Georg Albrecht , Prince of East Frisia
• 1739 : Farfallino (originally Giacinto Fontana), Italian opera singer
• 1748 : Felice Torelli , Italian painter
• 1749 : Johann Bernhard Bach the Elder , German composer
• 1757 : Martin Aumüller , Bohemian sculptor and wood carver
• 1764 : Christoph Stoltzenberg , German composer
• 1774 : Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim , Elector and Archbishop of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Worms
• 1782 : Juan de Torrezar Díaz y Pimienta , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Granada
• 1794 : Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewsky , German portrait painter
• 1796 : Nathaniel Gorham , American politician

19th century

Charles Pierre François Augereau († 1816)

• 1816 : Charles Pierre François Augereau , French general and Marshal of France
• 1829 : Adolf Müllner , German writer
• 1843 : Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg , Austrian Benedictine monk, writer, literary theorist
• 1847 : John Franklin , English captain and polar explorer
• 1848 : Dominik Epp , Swiss landowner and politician
• 1853 : Johannes Cornelis de Jonge , Dutch historian
• 1856 : Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen , German Germanist
• 1857 : Albrecht von Roeder , German-American lawyer and local founder

Prince Metternich († 1859)

• 1859 : Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich , Austrian statesman
• 1863 : Samuel G. Andrews , American politician
• 1866 : Theodor Kotschy , Austrian botanist
• 1867 : Karl Otto Weber , German surgeon and pathologist
• 1868 : August Sicard von Sicardsburg , Austrian architect
• 1868 : James Brooke , British navigator and explorer; the first white Raja of Borneo
• 1877 : Johann Heinrich Fierz , Swiss entrepreneur and national councilor
• 1877 : Ignaz Pallme , Austrian traveling salesman and Africa explorer
• 1881 : Conrad von Rappard , German lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• 1883 : Carl Grädener , German composer
• 1884 : August Hauner , German pediatrician and university professor
• 1894 : John Tuttle Andrews , American lawyer and politician
• 1897 : Henry Ayers , Prime Minister of South Australia
• 1897 : Carl Remigius Fresenius , German analytical chemist

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Otto Eckmann , German painter and graphic artist

Gijsbert Hendrik Lamers († 1903)

• 1903 : Gijsbert Hendrik Lamers , Dutch Reformed theologian
• 1906 : Heinrich Hart , German writer and naturalistic literary and theater critic
• 1913 : Humfrey Anger , Canadian organist, composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1913 : Mahmud Şevket Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1914 : Adolf Friedrich V , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• 1915 : Ignatius Maloyan , Armenian Catholic Archbishop of Mardin
• 1918 : Elise Prehn , German flower painter
• 1921 : Wilhelm Sievers , German geographer and explorer
• 1924 : Théodore Dubois , French composer
• 1926 : Hans Thaler , Austrian gynecologist and obstetrician
• 1927 : Ernst Moser , German writer and bookseller
• 1929 : Gyula Andrássy the Younger , Austro-Hungarian politician

Hildegard Burjan († 1933)

• 1933 : Hildegard Burjan , Austrian social politician, member of the state parliament, member of the National Council and founder of the Caritas Socialis sister community
• 1934 : Lev Semjonowitsch Vygotsky , Russian psychologist
• 1935 : Johannes Geffcken , German classical philologist
• 1936 : Robert E. Howard , American fantasy writer
• 1937 : José María Lacalle , Spanish composer
• 1941 : Alexander Cameron Rutherford , Canadian politician
• 1942 : Herbert Baum , German-Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism (Herbert Baum group)
• 1944 : Gertrud Grunow , German opera singer and pianist
• 1944 : Vojtěch Preissig , Czech painter and graphic artist
• 1948 : Hugh M. Dorsey , American lawyer, politician, and governor of the state of Georgia
• 1949 : Koçi Xoxe , Albanian politician
• 1949 : Oton Župančič , Slovenian writer

1951-2000

• 1953 : Marcel Herrand , French actor
• 1955 : Pierre Levegh , French racing driver
• 1955 : Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , French composer
• 1956 : Corrado Alvaro , Italian writer
• 1959 : Grantly Dick-Read , British medic
• 1962 : Else Kolshorn , German trade unionist
• 1963 : Friedrich Wagner , German archaeologist
• 1963 : Thích Quảng Đức , Vietnamese monk
• 1964 : Ace Harris , American pianist, singer, arranger and band leader

Plaek Phibunsongkhram († 1964)

• 1964 : Plaek Phibunsongkhram , Thai politician and field marshal, prime minister
• 1964 : Richard Meister , Austrian classical philologist and pedagogue
• 1966 : Jimmy Davies , American racing car driver
• 1967 : Ernesto Ruffini , Italian Catholic clergyman, bishop and cardinal
• 1967 : Wolfgang Köhler , German co-founder of Gestalt psychology and theory
• 1968 : Otto Heinrich Greve , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1968 : Justin Abraham Najmy , Syrian bishop in the United States
• 1970 : Earl Grant , American singer and guitarist

Alexander Kerensky († 1970)

• 1970 : Alexander Fyodorowitsch Kerensky , Russian politician
• 1970 : Leonhard Koppelmann , German theater and radio play director and author
• 1971 : Bert Ambrose , English violinist and band leader
• 1972 : Joakim Bonnier , Swedish Formula 1 racing driver
• 1974 : Julius Evola , Italian cultural philosopher
• 1975 : Ralph B. Atkinson , American film technician and film producer
• 1975 : Floro Ugarte , Argentine composer
• 1976 : René Delacroix , French film director
• 1976 : Peter Pan , German cabaret artist
• 1978 : Ernst Paul , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

John Wayne († 1979)

• 1979 : John Wayne , American actor
• 1980 : Bolesław Woytowicz , Polish composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1984 : Enrico Berlinguer , Italian politician and anti-fascist
• 1984 : Siegfried Balke , German chemist, manager and politician, Federal Minister
• 1986 : Jim Trueman , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1988 : Giuseppe Saragat , Italian politician
• 1989 : Conrad Baden , Norwegian composer and organist
• 1990 : Oldřich Nejedlý , Czechoslovak football player
• 1991 : John Vallier , English pianist, composer, music teacher and musicologist
• 1993 : Bernard Bresslaw , British actor
• 1993 : Friedrich Thielen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

Margret Hofheinz-Döring († 1994)

• 1994 : Margret Hofheinz-Döring , German painter
• 1995 : Giorgos Savvidis , Greek literary scholar
• 1996 : Brigitte Helm , German actress
• 1998 : Thomas Abernethy , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1998 : Gordian Landwehr , German Catholic religious priest
• 1999 : Henri Chaix , Swiss jazz pianist, orchestra leader and arranger
• 1999 : DeForest Kelley , American actor
• 2000 : Réjane Cardinal , Canadian singer

21st century

• 2001 : Pierre Eyt , French clergyman, Archbishop of Bordeaux
• 2001 : Timothy McVeigh , American assassin
• 2003 : Trude Schiff-Löwenstein , German-American surgeon
• 2004 : Egon von Fürstenberg , Swiss fashion designer

Mario Jeckle († 2004)

• 2004 : Mario Jeckle , German computer scientist
• 2005 : Juan José Saer , Argentine writer
• 2005 : Vasco Gonçalves , Portuguese general and politician
• 2006 : Rolande Falcinelli , French composer, pianist, music teacher and organist
• 2008 : Ove Andersson , Swedish rally driver
• 2008 : Adam Ledwoń , Polish football player
• 2009 : Marian Goliński , Polish politician
• 2009 : Jürgen Gosch , German theater director
• 2011 : Peter Brakelmann , German politician, MdL
• 2011 : Ernst-Otto Schlöpke , North German native writer
• 2012 : Raymond Eid , Syrian Senior Archbishop
• 2012 : Teófilo Stevenson , Cuban boxer
• 2013 : Miller Barber , American professional golfer
• 2013 : Robert Fogel , American economist, Nobel Prize winner
• 2014 : Ruby Dee , American actress
• 2014 : Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , Spanish conductor

Ornette Coleman († 2015)

• 2015 : Ornette Coleman , American jazz musician
• 2015 : Dusty Rhodes , American wrestler
• 2016 : Rudi Altig , German racing cyclist
• 2016 : Trudi Roth , Swiss actress and cabaret artist
• 2017 : Alexandra Kluge , German actress and doctor
• 2017 : Ernst Triebel , Austrian organist and conductor
• 2018 : Erich Meuthen , German historian
• 2018 : Josef Pointner , Austrian author
• 2019 : Gabriele Grunewald , American athlete
• 2019 : Billy McKee , Northern Irish political activist
• 2020 : Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet , Gabonese politician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Barnabas , Roman martyr and bishop (Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Armenian)

• Name days
  • Barnabas

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

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