March 11

The March 11 is the 70th day of the Gregorian calendar (71st in leap years ), thus remain 295 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

222: Elagabal

• 0222 : Mutinous soldiers murder the young Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who became known as Elagabal , and his mother Julia Soaemias .
• 0928 : After his brother Tomislav disappears without a trace and the subsequent declaration of death, Trpimir II becomes the second Croatian king.

1405: Frankfurt Römer (engraving from 1822)

• 1405 : The City Council of Frankfurt am Main buys the town houses Haus zum Römer and Haus zum Goldenen Schwan and turns them into the city's town hall .
• 1499 : The Swiss Confederation resolves in a daily statute that in the battles of the recently started Swabian War against the Swabian Federation and the House of Habsburg, no prisoners should be taken and wounded opposing fighters should be "dismissed".
• 1500 : The Bohemian Landtag adopts the Vladislav regional order named after King Vladislav II , which is considered the first written constitution in Bohemia and grants the nobility extensive political rights.
• 1649 : The Frondeurs , fighting against increasing absolutism in France , sign the Peace of Rueil with Louis II. De Bourbon , Cardinal Mazarin and Anna of Austria as regent for the minor Louis XIV .
• 1700 : In Sweden is Swedish calendar introduced with the aim of it slowly to the Gregorian calendar adapt. In Sweden, the date of March 1 ^Swed. , The day before that was February 28 ^jul. .

1710: Battle of Helsingborg

• 1710 : During the Great Northern War , a Swedish army under Magnus Stenbock defeated the Danes under Christian Detlev von Reventlow in the Battle of Helsingborg , thus finally ending the Danish attempts to recapture areas in southern Sweden that were lost in the Peace of Roskilde .

1770: Location of the Solander Islands

• 1770 : On his first South Sea voyage with the Endeavor, James Cook discovered an archipelago off the South Island of New Zealand , the Solander Islands , which he named after the botanist Daniel Solander who was traveling with him .
• 1812 : The Prussian Jewish edict of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. decrees the equality of Jewish citizens in Prussia .
• 1824 : The United States Department of War establishes the Bureau of Indian Affairs to deal with the concerns of the Native Americans and their reservations .

1845: Hone Heke with his wife Hariata

• 1845 : After the Treaty of Waitangi from 1840 was broken by the British and the Māori tribal leader Hone Heke sawed down a British flagpole several times for this reason, the flagpole war begins as part of the New Zealand Wars between the Māori tribes and the British .
• 1848 : During the revolution in the Austrian Empire , the Committee of St. Wenceslas was founded in Bohemia , which was renamed the National Committee shortly afterwards and called for an independent state.
• 1861 : During the Civil War, which is the Constitution of the Confederate States of America decided.
• 1871 : In the course of the Kulturkampf, all schools in the German Reich are placed under state supervision and the church school inspections are replaced by the School Supervision Act.

1872: Leipzig high treason trial

• 1872 : The high treason trial against August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht begins before the jury court in Leipzig , because they put forward a peace proposal in the Reichstag debate in 1870 about the granting of further funds for the Franco-German War .

1882: Ernest Renan

• 1882 : In his speech at the Sorbonne on the subject of “What is a nation?”, The French historian Ernest Renan expressed the idea of ​​a European confederation .
• 1885 : Gustav Nachtigal , Reich Commissioner for West Africa, places the Mahinland in later Nigeria "under German protection".
• 1917 : Tsar Nicholas II gives the order to shoot against the rebels of the February Revolution , but the majority of the troops refuse to do so.
• 1917 : During the First World War, British troops take the city ​​of Baghdad, which belongs to the Ottoman Empire, without major resistance.
• 1925 : After Friedrich Ebert's death, the President of the Reichsgericht Walter Simons becomes Interim President of the German Reich .
• 1933 : A few days after the seizure of power in Germany, the National Socialist leadership of the Free State of Braunschweig initiated the so-called Warenhaussturm , a violent action against “Jewish department stores” organized by SA and SS member Friedrich Alpers and NSDAP interior minister Dietrich Klagges and by SA and SS is carried out.

1938: Kurt Schuschnigg

• 1938 : The Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg resigns after an ultimatum from Adolf Hitler with the words "that he should give way to violence" . The National Socialist Arthur Seyß-Inquart forms a new government. On the same day, Hitler gave military instructions for the invasion of Austria to annex Austria .

1941: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act

• 1941 : US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend Lease Act , which enables the United States , which was still neutral during the Second World War , to supply Great Britain and later especially the Soviet Union with war material on loan.
• 1966 : In Indonesia , General Suharto takes power through a coup against President Sukarno , who formally remains in office but is in fact disempowered.
• 1978 : Fatah members from Lebanon ambush two Israeli buses between Haifa and Tel Aviv and take the inmates hostage . 37 people were killed and 79 injured during the liberation campaign. Three days later, the marches Israeli army for that reason under the name Operation Litani in Lebanon one.
• 1985 : One day after Konstantin Tschernenko's death, the Central Committee of the CPSU elects 54-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary - one of the youngest in its history .

1990: Lithuania

• 1990 : The Supreme Soviet of Lithuania declares the country's independence from the Soviet Union following a positive referendum on February 9th . Vytautas Landsbergis becomes the acting head of state .
• 1990 : After his election victory on December 14th, Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship .
• 1992 : The March 9 from Darwin losgefahrene Lusitânia Expresso on her is mission "peace in Timor" by Indonesia stopped warships and must be reversed.

1993: Janet Reno

• 1993 : Under US President Bill Clinton, Janet Reno becomes the first woman to become a United States Attorney General and thus head of the Justice Department .
• 1996 : John Howard of the Liberal Party of Australia , re-elected three times since then , is sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia for the first time after his election victory on March 2nd .

2003: the ICC in The Hague

• 2003 : The first judges of the newly created International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague are sworn in.
• 2004 : 191 people die in a series of train bombings in Madrid - over 1,500 are injured. The government's handling of the attacks leads to the defeat of the Partido Popular under José María Aznar in the parliamentary elections that take place three days later .
• 2005 : King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia of Spain inaugurate the Forest of the Absent in Retiro Park in Madrid . In response to protests from relatives, it is renamed Forest of Remembrance. The 192 olive and cypress trees remember the victims of the attacks a year ago.

2006: Michelle Bachelet

• 2006 : In Chile , Michelle Bachelet from the coalition of parties for democracy takes over the presidency for the first time.
• 2018 : The National People's Congress in Beijing approves an amendment to the constitution that allows Chinese President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely.

economy

• 1671 : The Danish West India Company is founded. It handles long-distance trade with the Gold Coast and the Danish West Indies .

1702: The Daily Courant

• 1702 : The first English-language newspaper, The Daily Courant, appears in London.
• 1751 : John Hill writes the world's first column in the London Adviser and Literary Gazette under his pseudonym The Inspector .
• 1885 : In Austria-Hungary statutory work regulations are issued. The maximum working time is set at eleven hours. Night work for women and young people and child labor are prohibited .
• 1896 : The foundry of Hermann Berthold is in the AG H. Berthold converted.
• 1947 : Wallace W. Robinson receives a US patent for the scoop stretcher he invented , which is used to rescue and rescue victims.
• 1991 : British news channel BBC World Service Television begins broadcasting.

science and technology

• 1794 : The École centrale des travaux publics is founded in Paris , which later becomes one of the elite universities in France as the École polytechnique .

1861: Lisbon Astronomical Observatory

• 1861 : The foundation stone for the Lisbon observatory is laid in Lisbon .
• 1904 : A prototype of the gyro compass is successfully tested in the Baltic Sea by Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe on the Schleswig steamer .

Culture

• 1743 : The Great Concert Music Society gives its first concert in Leipzig . The Gewandhaus Orchestra later developed from the company .
• 1757 : The oratorio The Triumph of Time and Truth , Handel's last work, is premiered in London .
• 1793 : The opera Eugène ou La Piété filial by Henri Montan Berton is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
• 1829 : With the first re-performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion after his death by the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy established a Bach renaissance in the 19th century.
• 1830 : The opera I Capuleti ei Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
• 1851 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the drama Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo is premiered in Venice. The opera is a great success.
• 1867 : The first French version of Giuseppe Verdi's Grand opéra Don Carlos, based on the play of the same name by Friedrich Schiller, is premiered in Paris .

1907: Pueblo Bonito in the Chaco Canyon

• 1907 : The Chaco Canyon in New Mexico, a center of Pueblo culture between 850 and 1250 , is designated as a National Monument of the USA. Today it is a National Historical Park .
• 1910 : In Washington, DC, the National Museum of Natural History opens regardless of unfinished construction.
• 1925 : The silent comedy Seven Chances ( Seven Chances ) of Buster Keaton comes into the American cinema. In contrast to Keaton, the critics are unanimously enthusiastic about the film, which is also a financial success.
• 1976 : In Germany, ARD begins broadcasting the crime series Detective Rockford - a call is enough , in which James Garner plays the title role.

society

• 2009 : In Winnenden near Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg , a 17-year-old gunman shoots twelve people in the Albertville secondary school and three passers-by during the subsequent escape. After being shot by a police officer, he kills himself with a shot in the head.

religion

Pope Eugene IV

• 1431 : The newly elected Pope Eugene IV is enthroned in the Vatican St. Peter's Church in Rome.
• 1513 : Giovanni de 'Medici is elected Pope . He decides on the name Leo X , but must still receive the sacrament of ordination before his coronation .
• 1988 : The Abdul Aziz Shah Mosque is completed in Shah Alam , the largest mosque in Malaysia with a capacity of 24,000 people .

Disasters

1841: The President by storm

• 1841 : The paddle steamer President , the largest steamship of its time, sets off from New York with 109 people on board for Liverpool. It will be seen for the last time on March 13th, after which it will disappear without a trace on the North Atlantic.
• 1864 : The Dale-Dyke Dam in England breaks, the tidal wave devastates large parts of Sheffield and kills around 270.

1888: Snow in New York City

• 1888 : A blizzard begins to cripple life on the east coast of the USA . The huge blizzard raged for three and a half days. At the end of the bad weather, around 400 deaths are counted.
• 1933 : An earthquake of unknown magnitude in Long Beach , California kills 115.
• 2011 : The Tōhoku earthquake shakes Japan , triggering a tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster .

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

Sports

• 1951 : The first Asian Games come to an end in New Delhi .
• 1991 : With her victory in the finals in Key Biscayne , Monica Seles becomes the new number 1 in the women's tennis world rankings , replacing Steffi Graf , who has held this position for 186 weeks since August 17, 1987 and a total of 377 weeks that has never been reached before.

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 19th century

• 0832 : Shōbō , Japanese monk of the early Heian period
• 1526 : Heinrich Rantzau , Danish governor
• 1530 : Johann Wilhelm I , first Duke of Saxe-Weimar
• 1543 : Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg , Duchess of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen

Torquato Tasso (* 1544)

• 1544 : Torquato Tasso , Italian poet
• 1615 : Johann Weikhard von Auersperg , Austrian Minister, Prince of Auersperg, Imperial Prince of Tengen and Duke of Münsterberg
• 1616 : Johannes Brever , German Lutheran theologian
• 1645 : Valentin Veltheim , German moral philosopher and Lutheran theologian
• 1654 : Heinrich Georg Neuss , German hymn poet
• 1683 : Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach , Queen of Great Britain
• 1707 : Friedrich Grimm , German pastor of the Reformed Confession and grandfather of the Brothers Grimm
• 1726 : Wassili Jakowlewitsch Tschitschagow , Russian admiral and polar explorer
• 1755 : Nikolaus Ferdinand Auberlen , musician and composer from Württemberg
• 1761 : Friedrich Vieweg , German publisher, founder of Vieweg Verlag
• 1769 : Hans Joachim Steinmann , Mayor of St. Gallen
• 1779 : Philipp , Landgrave of Hessen-Homburg
• 1781 : August von Legat , Prussian lieutenant general and director of the Potsdam military orphanage
• 1785 : Eleonore Prochaska , German freedom fighter
• 1790 : Ignaz von Rudhart , Bavarian politician and Prime Minister of Greece
• 1795 : Magnus Jacob Crusenstolpe , Swedish nobleman, lawyer, publicist and writer

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Heinrich Friedrich Philipp von Bockelberg , Prussian diplomat
• 1807 : Louis Boulanger , French painter
• 1810 : Eberhard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , politician and Prussian state official
• 1811 : Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper , American politician and lawyer

Urbain Le Verrier (* 1811)

• 1811 : Urbain Le Verrier , French mathematician and astronomer
• 1813 : Philipp Ludwig Adam , German entrepreneur and politician
• 1813 : James Anderson , British-Italian photographer
• 1818 : Marius Petipa , French-Russian dancer and choreographer
• 1818 : Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville , French chemist
• 1819 : Henry Tate , English trader, founder of the Tate Gallery
• 1821 : Georg Schmitt , German composer and organist
• 1822 : Joseph Bertrand , French mathematician and educator
• 1824 : Julius Blüthner , German piano maker
• 1827 : Franz Magnus Böhme , music teacher, German folk song researcher and collector
• 1829 : Jakob Anderegg , Swiss mountain guide
• 1830 : Eduard Dallmann , German explorer and polar explorer
• 1831 : John Arnot Jr. , American politician

Ernst Wichert (* 1831)

• 1831 : Ernst Wichert , German writer and lawyer
• 1832 : William Ruffin Cox , Confederate general
• 1836 : Wilhelmine von Hillern , German actress and writer
• 1838 : Ōkuma Shigenobu , Japanese politician, prime minister
• 1839 : Arthur Pue Gorman , American politician
• 1839 : Franz von Meran , Austrian nobleman, ancestor of the Meran family
• 1840 : Rudolf Hausleithner , Austrian painter
• 1841 : Franz Misteli , Swiss classical philologist and linguist
• 1844 : Ignaz Graf von Attems , Austrian politician
• 1850 : Sophie von Adelung , German writer and painter
• 1850 : Eduard Züblin , Swiss engineer and entrepreneur

1851-1900

• 1853 : George A. Anderson , American politician
• 1855 : Josef Lang , Austrian executioner
• 1856 : Gotthold Gundermann , German classical philologist

Thomas James Clarke (* 1858)

• 1858 : Thomas James Clarke , Irish revolutionary
• 1858 : Jean Charles Naber , Dutch legal scholar
• 1860 : Emil Ertl , Austrian poet and writer
• 1860 : Rodolphe Wytsman , Belgian painter
• 1861 : Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt , German ancient orientalist and ancient historian
• 1861 : Oscar Seifert , Leipzig original
• 1862 : Georg Busch , German sculptor
• 1863 : Ernst Theodor Haux , German entrepreneur
• 1863 : Volodymyr Lypskyj , Soviet botanist
• 1864 : Georg Gröne , German sculptor
• 1866 : Charles Andler , French German studies specialist and professor

Louis Bachelier (* 1870)

• 1870 : Louis Bachelier , French mathematician
• 1874 : Christian Bürckstümmer , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1876 : Carl Ruggles , American composer
• 1878 : René Vierne , French organist and composer
• 1881 : Ladislav Zelenka , Czech cellist
• 1882 : Gunnar Gundersen , Australian mathematician, university professor and chess player
• 1883 : Paul Levi , German lawyer and politician
• 1884 : Lewi Pethrus , Swedish pastor, initiator and leader of the Pentecostal movement in Sweden
• 1885 : Malcolm Campbell , English racing driver and journalist
• 1885 : Hans Leibelt , German actor
• 1887 : Raoul Walsh , American film director
• 1889 : Christian Arnold , German painter
• 1889 : Paul Jaray , Hungarian aerodynamicist, father of streamlines
• 1890 : Vannevar Bush , American engineer and computer scientist
• 1891 : Max Kaus , German painter and graphic artist
• 1892 : Otto Laubinger , German actor and National Socialist functionary
• 1893 : Leopold Szondi , Hungarian medic and psychologist

Otto Grotewohl (* 1894)

• 1894 : Otto Grotewohl , German politician, Prime Minister of the GDR
• 1895 : Elisabeth of Hessen-Darmstadt , Princess of Hesse and the Rhine
• 1895 : Hans Drexler , German classical philologist
• 1895 : Fritz Loewe , German meteorologist and polar researcher
• 1896 : Anton Anderluh , Austrian folk music collector
• 1896 : Caesar von Hofacker , German officer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1896 : Hermann Weber , German motorcycle designer and racing driver
• 1897 : Henry Cowell , American composer
• 1897 : René Dély , French racing car driver
• 1897 : Johann Raithel , German general
• 1898 : Amédé Ardoin , American musician
• 1899 : Frederik IX. , King of Denmark
• 1900 : Richard Aster , German SA leader
• 1900 : Laughing Charley Lincoln , American blues guitarist and singer

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Josef Martin Bauer , German writer
• 1901 : Karl Hoffmann , German politician
• 1903 : Ronald Syme , New Zealand historian
• 1904 : Albrecht von Hagen , German lawyer and resistance fighter
• 1906 : Ferid Alnar , Turkish composer
• 1906 : Beppo Brem , German actor
• 1906 : Zino Davidoff , Ukrainian-Swiss entrepreneur
• 1907 : Georg Maurer , German poet, essayist and translator

Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (* 1907)

• 1907 : Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , German lawyer and resistance fighter
• 1907 : Mortimer Morris-Goodall , British racing car driver
• 1908 : John Einar Åberg , Swedish writer and screenwriter
• 1908 : Hansjörg Oeschger , German forester and activist of the youth movement
• 1909 : Max Lüthi , Swiss literary scholar and fairytale interpreter
• 1910 : Robert Havemann , German chemist and communist, critic of the regime in the GDR
• 1910 : Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Kokkinaki , Soviet test pilot
• 1910 : Jacinta Marto , Portuguese blessed, witness to an apparition of Mary
• 1911 : Pericle Patocchi , Swiss writer and teacher
• 1911 : Fritz Trautwein , German architect
• 1912 : Paul Janes , German football player
• 1912 : Karl Kleinjung , German Stasi general
• 1912 : Hanns-Gero von Lindeiner , German forester, hunter, diplomat and politician
• 1913 : John Weinzweig , Canadian composer
• 1914 : William Lloyd Webber , British church musician and composer
• 1915 : Werner Böhmer , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1915 : Vijay Hazare , Indian cricketer
• 1915 : Karl Krolow , German writer

JCR Licklider (born 1915)

• 1915 : JCR Licklider , American psychologist and computer scientist
• 1916 : Erkki Aro , Finnish orienteer
• 1916 : Ferdy Mayne , German actor
• 1916 : Harold Wilson , British Prime Minister
• 1917 : Günter Goetzendorff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1919 : Mercer Ellington , American jazz musician
• 1919 : Joaquín Mendivel , Cuban pianist, arranger, composer, orchestra leader and music teacher
• 1920 : Nicolaas Bloembergen , American physicist
• 1920 : Benjamin Ferencz , US prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials
• 1921 : Astor Piazzolla , Argentine tango musician, bandoneon player and composer
• 1921 : Emma-Maria Lange , German sculptor and doll maker
• 1922 : Martin Jim Aitken , British physicist
• 1922 : Giuseppe Baldini , Italian football player and coach
• 1922 : Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek psychoanalyst, lawyer and resistance fighter
• 1922 : Abdul Razak , Malaysian politician
• 1923 : Louise Brough , American tennis player
• 1923 : Horst Fügner , German motorcycle racer
• 1923 : Hildegard Gerster-Schwenkel , German dialect poet
• 1924 : Franco Basaglia , Italian psychiatrist
• 1924 : Erich Schmitt , German cartoonist
• 1924 : Jozef Tomko , Slovak cardinal
• 1925 : Christopher Anvil , American science fiction writer
• 1925 : Joachim Cadenbach , German actor and television presenter

1926-1950

• 1926 : Heinz Kiessling , German musician and orchestra director, composer and music producer
• 1926 : Karl Moersch , German politician
• 1926 : Peer Schmidt , German actor and voice actor

Joachim Fuchsberger (* 1927)

• 1927 : Joachim Fuchsberger , German actor and entertainer
• 1927 : Freda Meissner-Blau , Austrian politician
• 1927 : Dempsey Wilson , American racing car driver
• 1927 : Vince Boryla , American basketball player, coach, official and scout
• 1928 : Gerhard Ambros , German politician
• 1928 : Käthe Recheis , Austrian author for children and young people
• 1928 : Frederick Stafford , Austrian-Czechoslovakian actor and sportsman
• 1929 : Giorgos Savvidis , Greek literary scholar
• 1929 : Theo Sorg , German Protestant theologian
• 1930 : Lennart Heimer , Swedish-American neurosurgeon
• 1930 : Troy Ruttman , American racing driver
• 1930 : Günter Sieber , German politician, ambassador of the GDR
• 1931 : Janosch , German children's book author and writer
• 1931 : Rupert Murdoch , Australian media entrepreneur
• 1932 : Leroy Jenkins , American composer
• 1932 : René Morel , French-American violin maker
• 1933 : Jesús Gil , Spanish politician, entrepreneur and football official
• 1933 : Roman Suchecki , Polish cellist and music teacher
• 1934 : Ingrid Lotz , German athlete
• 1935 : Ernst Lindner , German football player
• 1935 : Heinz Schemken , German politician

Harald zur Hausen (* 1936)

• 1936 : Harald zur Hausen , German physician and Nobel Prize winner
• 1936 : Antonin Scalia , American lawyer, Associate Justice at the Supreme Court of the United States
• 1937 : Paciano Basilio Aniceto , Filipino Archbishop
• 1937 : Kurt Bong , German jazz drummer and orchestra leader
• 1937 : Alexandra Ivanovna Sabelina , Russian foil fencer and Olympic champion
• 1938 : Christian Wolff , German actor
• 1939 : John C. Wells , British linguist and professor of phonetics
• 1939 : Hartmut Soell , German politician
• 1940 : Alberto Cortez , Argentine singer-songwriter
• 1940 : Fanny Morweiser , German writer and artist
• 1940 : Kajo Schommer , German politician and state minister
• 1942 : Willi Weber , German manager
• 1943 : Arturo Merzario , Italian racing car driver and team owner

Peter Florian (* 1944)

• 1944 : Peter Florian , Romanian pianist and composer
• 1944 : Lutz Mackensy , German actor
• 1944 : Wolfgang Reiniger , German politician, Lord Mayor of Essen
• 1945 : Geoff Brown , British volcanologist and geologist
• 1945 : Harvey Mandel , American blues musician and guitarist
• 1948 : Roy Barnes , American politician
• 1948 : Franz Lambert , German composer and organist
• 1948 : Dominique Sanda , French actress
• 1949 : Georg Schramm , German cabaret artist
• 1949 : Werner Weist , German soccer player
• 1950 : Katia Labèque , French pianist ( Katia and Marielle Labèque )
• 1950 : Bobby McFerrin , American jazz musician
• 1950 : Dieter Schiele , German hunting and horse painter
• 1950 : Carlo Schmid-Sutter , Swiss politician
• 1950 : Jerry Zucker , American director and screenwriter

1951-1975

• 1952 : Douglas Adams , British writer
• 1952 : Pier Paolo Bianchi , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1953 : Carole André Smith , French actress
• 1953 : Willi Winter , German cabaret artist
• 1954 : David Newman , American composer
• 1954 : Gale Norton , US politician, first US Secretary of the Interior
• 1955 : James Kazuo Koda , Japanese Catholic priest and bishop

Nina Hagen (* 1955)

• 1955 : Nina Hagen , German singer, actress and songwriter
• 1956 : Willie Banks , American track and field athlete
• 1956 : Carla Estrada , Mexican television producer
• 1956 : Ozzie Newsome , American football player
• 1957 : Rupert Ahrens , German President of the Association of PR Agencies in Germany (GPRA)
• 1957 : Hartmut Pelka , German soccer player
• 1958 : Eddie Lawson , American motorcycle racer
• 1959 : Maria Epple-Beck , German ski racer
• 1959 : Nina Hartley , American porn actress
• 1959 : Martin Loeb , French actor
• 1959 : Elisabeth Schroedter , German politician, MEP
• 1959 : Dejan Stojanović , Serbian-American poet
• 1960 : Magnus Büchel , Liechtenstein judoka
• 1960 : Dieter Finke , German soccer player

Elias Koteas (* 1961)

• 1961 : Elias Koteas , Canadian actor
• 1961 : Frank Lüdecke , German cabaret artist
• 1961 : Barbara Schaefer , German journalist and author
• 1961 : Helena Verdel , Austrian-Slovenian journalist and non-fiction author
• 1962 : Alexander Hold , German judge
• 1962 : Jeffrey Nordling , American actor
• 1963 : Davis Guggenheim , American director and producer
• 1963 : Alex Kingston , British actress
• 1963 : David LaChapelle , American photographer and director
• 1963 : Olaf Raschke , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Meißen
• 1963 : Veronika Vitzthum , Austrian ski racer
• 1964 : Steffen Bringmann , German athlete
• 1964 : Karin Gastinger , Austrian politician, Federal Minister
• 1964 : Andréas Härry , Swiss musical writer and producer
• 1964 : Christian Henn , German racing cyclist

Leena Lehtolainen (* 1964)

• 1964 : Leena Lehtolainen , Finnish writer
• 1964 : Vinnie Paul , American drummer ( Pantera )
• 1965 : Nigel Adkins , English football player and coach
• 1965 : Michael P. Aust , German curator, cultural organizer and film producer
• 1965 : Eric Jelen , German tennis player
• 1966 : Joe Hachem , Lebanese-Australian poker player
• 1967 : John Barrowman , British-American entertainer
• 1967 : Jean-Guihen Queyras , Canadian cellist
• 1968 : Simone Buchanan , Australian actress
• 1968 : Boris Guckelsberger , German composer and guitarist
• 1968 : Lisa Loeb , American singer and actress
• 1968 : Pascal FEOS , German disc jockey and music producer
• 1970 : Cathlen Gawlich , German actress and voice actress
• 1970 : Thomen Stauch , German drummer ( Blind Guardian )
• 1971 : Johnny Knoxville , American actor

Steffen Wesemann (* 1971)

• 1971 : Steffen Wesemann , Swiss cyclist
• 1972 : Martin Braxenthaler , German mono-skier
• 1972 : Timo Brunke , German word artist, poet and author
• 1973 : Christian Carstensen , German politician
• 1973 : Thomas Christiansen , Spanish-Danish football player
• 1973 : Martin Hiden , Austrian football player
• 1973 : Vedin Musić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1974 : Bastian Asdonk , German author, journalist and musician, co-founder of the video platform Hyperbole
• 1975 ; João Barbosa , Portuguese racing car driver
• 1975 : David Cañada , Spanish cyclist

1976-2000

• 1976 : Anja Weisgerber , German lawyer and politician, MEP
• 1976 : Stephan Glaser , German soccer player
• 1976 : Thomas Gravesen , Danish football player
• 1977 : Stefan Arsenijević , Serbian film director and screenwriter

Marco Kreuzpaintner (* 1977)

• 1977 : Marco Kreuzpaintner , German director and screenwriter
• 1978 : Craig Fairbaugh , American musician
• 1978 : Albert Luque , Spanish soccer player
• 1978 : Didier Drogba , Ivorian football player
• 1979 : Elton Brand , American basketball player
• 1979 : Benji and Joel Madden , American musicians (Good Charlotte)
• 1981 : Ruhal Ahmed , spent two years in Guantanamo without charge, victim of torture
• 1981 : David Anders , American actor

Matthias Schweighöfer (* 1981)

• 1981 : Matthias Schweighöfer , German actor
• 1982 : Thora Birch , American actress
• 1982 : Mircea Monroe , American actress
• 1983 : Irini Aindili , Greek athlete in rhythmic gymnastics
• 1984 : Mandy Hering , German handball player
• 1984 : Ines Österle , German soccer player
• 1985 : Ivanov , Bulgarian football player
• 1985 : Stelios Malezas , Greek football player
• 1985 : Hakuhō Shō , Mongolian sumo wrestler
• 1985 : Nikolai Topor-Stanley , Australian soccer player
• 1985 : Einar Uvsløkk , Norwegian Nordic combined
• 1986 : Cindy Billaud , French athlete
• 1986 : Dario Cologna , Swiss cross-country skier, Olympic champion

Nico Semsrott (* 1986)

• 1986 : Nico Semsrott , German comedian and slam poet
• 1987 : An Jong-ho , North Korean soccer player
• 1987 : Alec Dufty , American football player
• 1988 : Julian Leist , German soccer player
• 1988 : Halgurd Mulla Mohammed , Iraqi soccer player
• 1988 : Vincenzo Sarno , Italian football player
• 1988 : Fábio Coentrão , Portuguese football player
• 1989 : Sawen Andriasjan , Armenian chess master
• 1989 : Malcolm Delaney , American basketball player
• 1989 : Mate Maleš , Croatian football player
• 1989 : Anton Yelchin , American film actor
• 1990 : Nadine Brandl , Austrian synchronized swimmer
• 1991 : Alessandro Florenzi , Italian football player
• 1991 : Søs Søby , Danish handball player
• 1992 : Florian Trinks , German soccer player
• 1992 : Lisa Wohlgemuth , German pop singer
• 1993 : Anthony Davis , American basketball player
• 1994 : Tayfun Aksoy , Belgian-Turkish soccer player
• 1994 : Carlos Mané , Portuguese football player
• 1994 : Franziska Preuß , German biathlete
• 1996 : Elio Capradossi , Ugandan-Italian soccer player
• 1999 : Mirko Antonucci , Italian football player
• 1999 : Ibrahima Niane , Senegalese soccer player

Died

Before the 15th century

• 0222 : Elagabal , Roman emperor
• 0222 : Julia Soaemias , mother of Elagabal
• 0859 : Eulogius of Córdoba , Archbishop of Toledo and one of the martyrs of Córdoba
• 0928 : Tomislav , Croatian king
• 1029 : Ulrich , Count of Ebersberg, Margrave of Krain, Vogt of Obermünster, Tegernsee and Freising and of Ebersberg Monastery
• 1078 : Ellenhard , Bishop of Freising
• 1088 : Berthold von Reichenau , chronicler
• 1120 : Adelheid von Enzberg , Countess of Tübingen and monastery donor
• 1122 : Alram , Benedictine and abbot of Kremsmünster Abbey
• 1180 : Hugo von Verden , Bishop of Verden
• 1198 : Marie de Champagne , French princess and countess of Champagne
• 1340 : Johann II , Count of Sponheim zu Kreuznach
• 1345 : Aigustė Anastasia of Lithuania , Grand Duchess of Moscow
• 1348 : Peter I , abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien
• 1353 : Theognostus , Metropolitan of Kiev
• 1381 : Johann II , Count of Saarbrücken

15th to 18th century

• 1420 : Heinrich II. , Duke of Münsterberg
• 1428 : Eskill , Norwegian Archbishop of Nidaros
• 1458 : Euthymius II , Archbishop of Novgorod and Pskov

Albrecht I of Brandenburg († 1486)

• 1486 : Albrecht Achilles , Elector of Brandenburg
• 1491 : Marco Barbo , Italian cardinal
• 1514 : Jan Bouwensz , Counselor of Holland
• 1539 : Johannes Baptist Righi , Franciscan hermit
• 1568 : Alexandru Lăpușneanu , voivode of the Principality of Moldova
• 1602 : Emilio de 'Cavalieri , Italian composer, organist and diplomat, choreographer and dancer
• 1626 : Rudolf Hospinian , Swiss Protestant clergyman and theologian
• 1646 : Stanisław Koniecpolski , Polish aristocrat, statesman and the highest military leader of the Polish-Lithuanian Union
• 1679 : Luise Marie von der Pfalz , Princess of Salm
• 1685 : Marx Augustin , legendary Viennese bagpiper
• 1694 : Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy , French harpsichordist, organist and composer
• 1711 : Karl Schweikard von Sickingen , Knight of the Teutonic Order
• 1714 : Johanna Vergouwen , Flemish painter
• 1715 : Jan Erasmus Quellinus , Flemish sculptor
• 1718 : Guy-Crescent Fagon , French physician and botanist
• 1719 : Pierre Seignette , French doctor and pharmacist
• 1722 : John Toland , English free thinker
• 1730 : Diego Morcillo Rubio de Auñón , Spanish cleric, Archbishop of Lima and Viceroy of Peru
• 1756 : Johann Deodat Blumentrost , Russian medic
• 1768 : Giovanni Battista Vaccarini , Italian architect
• 1799 : Johann Heinrich Mücke , German pedagogue and philologist
• 1800 : Friedrich Karl Gottlob Hirsching , German polymath and lexicographer

19th century

• 1812 : Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger , British-French painter, etcher and aquatint engraver

Marie Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg († 1818)

• 1818 : Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg , grandmother of the Prussian Queen Luise
• 1820 : Benjamin West , British painter
• 1829 : Christian Jakob von Schneider , German writer and publisher
• 1831 : Józef Kozłowski , Polish composer
• 1833 : Franz Passow , German classical philologist
• 1837 : Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz , German lieutenant general and cartographer
• 1841 : Giovanni Antonio Antolini , Italian builder, architect and engineer
• 1844 : Heinrich Bittcher , German teacher, philologist and theologian
• 1847 : Johnny Appleseed , American ecological pioneer
• 1851 : Heinrich Ernst von Hoff , German officer and civil servant
• 1853 : Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , German nobleman
• 1869 : Vladimir Fyodorowitsch Odojewski , Russian writer and composer
• 1874 : Moritz Hermann von Jacobi , German physicist and engineer, developed the first practical electric motor
• 1883 : Alexander Michailowitsch Gorchakov , Russian diplomat, foreign minister and chancellor
• 1885 : Augustine Aglio , British sculptor, book illustrator, and watercolor painter
• 1886 : Franz Antoine , Austrian gardener, court gardener in the Hofburggarten in Vienna

Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen († 1888)

• 1888 : Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , German social reformer and municipal civil servant , namesake of the Raiffeisen cooperative organization
• 1889 : Benjamin Franklin Baker , American composer
• 1892 : Caroline Reinagle , English composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1893 : Aaron F. Perry , American politician
• 1894 : Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt , Russian chemist and doctor
• 1897 : Eduard Kreyssig , German architect, urban planner and civil engineering specialist
• 1897 : Daniel Sanders , German linguist and lexicographer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Friedrich Engelhorn , German entrepreneur, founder of BASF

Franz Sacher († 1907)

• 1907 : Dimitar Petkow , Bulgarian politician
• 1907 : Franz Sacher , Austrian confectioner
• 1908 : Josef Hlávka , Czech builder, architect and patron
• 1911 : Ernst Brenner , Swiss politician
• 1915 : Rolf Boldrewood , Australian author
• 1916 : Florence Baker , British African explorer
• 1916 : Henry G. Davis , American businessman and politician, US Senator for West Virginia
• 1918 : Reinhold Steig , German literary historian
• 1919 : Harald Fryklöf , Swedish organist, music teacher and composer
• 1922 : Anastasia Michailowna Romanowa , Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
• 1923 : Karl von Müller , German naval officer, commander of the small cruiser SMS Emden
• 1924 : Helge von Koch , Swedish mathematician
• 1924 : Helene von Mülinen , Swiss women's rights activist
• 1924 : Peter von Oldenburg , brother-in-law of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
• 1928 : Franz Roubaud , Russian painter

Joseph Toole († 1929)

• 1929 : Joseph Toole , American politician and first governor of Montana
• 1930 : Alfred Biese , German literary historian
• 1930 : Silvio Gesell , businessman, financial theorist and founder of free economics
• 1931 : Otto Hense , German classical philologist
• 1931 : Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , German director
• 1932 : Hermann Gunkel , German Protestant theologian
• 1935 : Yusuf Akçura , Tatar-Ottoman activist and ideologist
• 1936 : Yumeno Kyūsaku , Japanese writer
• 1939 : Albert Boehringer , German chemical and pharmaceutical entrepreneur ( Boehringer Ingelheim )
• 1942 : Enric Morera , Catalan composer
• 1944 : Edgar Zilsel , German philosopher
• 1946 : Ahmad Kasravi , Iranian linguist, historian and philosopher
• 1948 : Felix Linnemann , German President of the German Football Association
• 1949 : Hans Langmaack , German actor, radio play speaker, director, reciter and acting teacher

Heinrich Mann († 1950)

• 1950 : Heinrich Mann , German writer ( The Subject )

1951-2000

• 1952 : Pierre Renoir , French actor
• 1953 : Rudolf Herzog , German classical philologist and archaeologist
• 1955 : Alexander Fleming , British bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner (discovery of penicillin)
• 1955 : Olaf Hytten , Scottish actor
• 1955 : Boško Milenković , Yugoslav racing driver
• 1956 : Sergei Nikiforowitsch Wassilenko , Russian composer and conductor

Richard Evelyn Byrd († 1957)

• 1957 : Richard Evelyn Byrd , American polar explorer and admiral
• 1957 : Jinzai Kiyoshi , Japanese writer and translator
• 1958 : Ole Kirk Christiansen , Danish cabinet maker and toy maker, inventor of Lego bricks
• 1958 : John Joseph Dempsey , American politician
• 1960 : Roy Chapman Andrews , American explorer, adventurer, and paleontologist
• 1962 : Jakob Ahrer , Austrian lawyer and politician
• 1962 : Will Vesper , German writer
• 1965 : Joseph Joos , German journalist and politician
• 1965 : Dionisio Kfoury , Syrian auxiliary bishop in Antioch
• 1965 : Clemente Micara , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1967 : Hanns Lothar , German actor
• 1967 : Rudolf Schetter , German lawyer and politician, MdR
• 1968 : Bernhard Bleeker , German sculptor
• 1968 : Sepp Allgeier , German cameraman and photographer
• 1969 : Hermann Aubin , German-Austrian historian, science organizer and history politician
• 1969 : Ella Scoble Opperman , American music teacher, organist and pianist
• 1969 : John Wyndham , British SF writer

Alder Stanley Gardner († 1970)

• 1970 : Erle Stanley Gardner , American crime novelist
• 1971 : CD Broad , English philosopher
• 1971 : Philo Farnsworth , American inventor
• 1972 : Martin Blank , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 1972 : Ferdinand Friedensburg , German politician, Lord Mayor of Berlin, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
• 1974 : César Concepción , Puerto Rican trumpeter, arranger, orchestra conductor and composer
• 1977 : Alberto Rodríguez Larreta , Argentine racing car driver
• 1978 : Claude François , French musician
• 1979 : Beattie Feathers , American football player and coach
• 1979 : Jeanne Leleu , French composer
• 1980 : Karl-Maria Schley , German actor and radio play speaker
• 1982 : Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin , Soviet pilot
• 1983 : Jussi Aro , Finnish linguist
• 1983 : Willi Lindlar , German politician
• 1985 : John Michael G. Adams , Barbadian politician
• 1986 : Sonny Terry , American blues musician
• 1987 : Dietrich Bahner senior , German entrepreneur and politician
• 1988 : Christianna Brand , British writer

John Jay McCloy († 1989)

• 1989 : John Jay McCloy , American lawyer and politician
• 1990 : Lorenz Kellhuber , German jazz pianist and composer
• 1991 : Maria Reining , Austrian opera singer
• 1992 : Richard Brooks , American director
• 1995 : Rein Aun , Estonian athlete (decathlon)
• 1995 : Boris Pash , American officer, head of the Alsos mission in World War II
• 1995 : Lotte Rausch , German actress
• 1997 : Hugo Weisgall , American composer and conductor
• 1999 : Hansjörg Martin , German writer
• 2000 : Antonius Hofmann , Catholic Bishop of Passau
• 2000 : Alfred Schwarzmann , German gymnast

21st century

• 2001 : Tatjana Lietz , German-Latvian teacher and painter
• 2002 : Walter Asam , German lawyer and politician

Marion Countess Dönhoff († 2002)

• 2002 : Marion Gräfin Dönhoff , German publicist
• 2002 : Rudolf Hell , German inventor
• 2002 : James Tobin , American economist
• 2004 : Gerhard Bengsch , German writer and screenwriter
• 2005 : Stanley Grenz , American theologian and ethicist
• 2005 : Herbert A. Strauss , American historian of German descent
• 2006 : Slobodan Milošević , Yugoslav and Serbian politician, President of Yugoslavia and Serbia
• 2006 : Jesús Miguel Rollán , Spanish water polo player
• 2006 : Raymond Touroul , French racing car driver and stunt man
• 2007 : Milan V. Dimić , Serbian-Canadian literary scholar
• 2007 : Betty Hutton , American actress, singer and entertainer
• 2007 : Georg Zundel , German physicist, entrepreneur and philanthropist involved in peace politics
• 2008 : Hans A. Engelhard , German politician, Federal Minister of Justice

Hans van Mierlo († 2010)

• 2010 : Hans van Mierlo , Dutch politician and Minister of State
• 2010 : Harry Pross , German journalist and journalist
• 2011 : Klaus Peter Cadsky , German-Swiss cartoonist
• 2012 : Henry Adefope , Nigerian politician
• 2013 : Helga Arendt , German athlete
• 2013 : Arsenius Butscher , German motorcycle racer
• 2014 : Ken Russell , American football player
• 2014 : Marga Spiegel , German Holocaust survivor
• 2015 : Walter Burkert , German classical philologist
• 2016 : Joe Ascione , American jazz drummer
• 2016 : Peter Conradi , German politician
• 2017 : John Surtees , British automobile and motorcycle racer
• 2017 : Tony Haygarth , British actor and playwright
• 2018 : Sarah Haffner , German-British painter and author
• 2018 : Karl Lehmann , German cardinal
• 2018 : Siegfried Rauch , German actor
• 2019 : Hal Blaine , American musician
• 2020 : Burkhard Hirsch , German politician
• 2020 : Charles Wuorinen , American composer, pianist and conductor

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Pionius , Asian Minor presbyter and martyr (Protestant, Roman Catholic, Orthodox)

• Name days
  • Rosina

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

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