May 11th
The May 11 is the 131st day of the Gregorian calendar (132nd in leap years ), thus remaining 234 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know 11 May (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 415 BC Chr .: In Athens , which is in the middle of the preparations for the Sicily expedition in the Peloponnesian war against Sparta , numerous herms with severed heads are found in the morning . The Hermenfrevels is suspected because of, among other things the commander Alcibiades , but the process is moved, not to delay his departure.
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- 330 : After several years of construction, Emperor Constantine the Great inaugurates the previous Byzantium under the name Nova Roma and makes it the capital of the Roman Empire . After his death the city was named Constantinople .
- 1189 : One and a half years after the conquest of Jerusalem by the Ayyubids under Sultan Saladin, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa sets out in Regensburg with an army of several thousand for the Third Crusade .
- 1258 : In the Treaty of Corbeil , James I of Aragon gives up hereditary claims to two French counties, while France's King Louis IX. recognizes that Northern Catalonia and Barcelona remain with the Kingdom of Aragon .
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- 1484 : The army of Emperor Friedrich III. under the leadership of Kaspar von Roggendorf , who wanted to relieve the Korneuburg , besieged by Hungarian troops under Tobias von Boskowitz and Černahora , suffered a heavy defeat in the battle of Leitzersdorf . With this victory, the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus , who holds large parts of the Habsburg hereditary lands , also deprived his competitor of any possibility of recapturing these territories.
- 1573 : The French Duke Heinrich von Valois is elected in Kamion as the first king of Poland-Lithuania , which formed the Realunion in 1569 . For his election he had to make extensive concessions to the princes of the aristocratic republic in the Articuli Henriciani .
- 1647 : Petrus Stuyvesant arrives as the newly appointed General Director of the Dutch West India Company in Nieuw Nederland , where he replaces Willem Kieft , who is to be tried for numerous misconduct in the mother country.
- 1745 : In the War of the Austrian Succession, the French under Moritz von Sachsen win a loss-making victory against the Pragmatic Army under Wilhelm August, Duke of Cumberland in the Battle of Fontenoy .
- 1792 : On his expedition along the northwestern Pacific coast of the American continent, US captain Robert Gray sails into the mouth of a river that he calls Columbia Columbia River after his ship and which he takes possession of for the United States.
- 1798 : During the French Revolution , the board member Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux supports the bloodless coup d'état of the 22nd Floreal VI, which is directed against the Jacobins .
- 1812 : British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is shot dead by John Bellingham on the way to the Palace of Westminster . It is the only successful assassination attempt on a British Prime Minister to date.
- 1818 : Charles XIV. Johann is crowned King of Sweden in Stockholm . The former Marshal of France founded the royal house of Bernadotte .
- 1824 : The first British-Burmese War begins with the capture of the Burmese port city of Rangoon by British troops under Archibald Campbell .
- 1849 : As a result of the imperial constitution campaign , the Baden garrison mutinies in the Rastatt fortress . The uprising spreads nationwide and a few days later forced Grand Duke Leopold to flee Karlsruhe.
- 1852 : The Arboretum in Nottingham opened.
- 1857 : On the second day of the Indian uprising against the British colonial power , the Sepoys take command in Delhi . In the Red Fort , Grand Mogul Bahadur Shah II gives them his blessing - presumably under duress .
- 1858 : The eastern part of the previous Minnesota Territory is incorporated under the name Minnesota as the 32nd state of the United States . The western part is initially "disorganized area", to be combined three years later to the Dakota Territory .
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- 1860 : The Italian guerrilla fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi lands under the protection of two British warships with the Train of Thousands near Marsala in Sicily to conquer the Bourbon- ruled kingdom of the two Sicilies in the course of the Risorgimento .
- 1864 : In the Battle of the Yellow Tavern of the American Civil War , Confederate cavalry under Fitzhugh Lee is subject to Union supremacy under Philip Sheridan . Among others, Southern General James Ewell Brown Stuart is fatally wounded.
- 1866 : King Ludwig II of Bavaria signs the mobilization order, with which Bavaria enters the German war between Austria and Prussia on Austria's side .
- 1867 : With the second London Treaty , the great powers Great Britain, France, Prussia and Russia succeed in the Luxembourg crisis between the French Emperor Napoleon III. and to be enclosed with the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . The Grand Duchy is declared neutral and independent.
- 1873 : In the German Empire under Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , the first of the May laws is passed, with which the state influences the training and appointment of Catholic clergy. This marked the beginning of the culmination of the culture war with the Catholic Church .
- 1878 : The socialist Max Hödel carried out a pistol attack on the German Emperor Wilhelm I in Berlin , but nobody was injured. The attack is a pretext for the enactment of the Socialist Law on October 19th.
- 1891 : Tsarevich Nicholas II is assassinated while visiting Japan during the Ōtsu incident . A police officer from his Japanese escort injured the victim with a saber in the face and failed with a second blow.
- 1894 : Wildcat work stoppages begin in Illinois , which escalate into one of the largest labor protests in the United States as the Pullman strike .
- 1918 : In the North Caucasus , after the October Revolution in Russia, the North Caucasus Republic is officially proclaimed. The capital of the state, which has only existed for barely two years, is Vladikavkaz ; the prime minister is Tapa Tchermoeff.
- 1921 : The German government under Chancellor Joseph Wirth complies with the Allies' London ultimatum under threat of occupation of the Ruhr area , which prompted the Fehrenbach cabinet to resign . The German reparations should amount to 132 billion gold marks , as regulated by the victors at the London conference against strong German protests.
- 1943 : During the Battle of the Aleutians in the Pacific War, US troops attack the Aleutian island of Attu, which has been occupied by the Japanese since 1942 . The battle for the island lasts half a month.
- 1945 : The German occupation of the fortress Saint-Nazaire surrenders to the Allies three days after the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht on May 8, 1945.
- 1945 : Soviet soldiers meet the Americans near Budweis . This ends the Prague Operation , the Red Army's last major offensive in World War II .
- 1946 : In opposition to the Malay Union , founded on April 1st under pressure from Great Britain , the United Malays National Organization is founded.
- 1949 : Siam finally changes its name under King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Thailand . After the first renaming on June 24, 1939, the country briefly reassumed its old name after the Second World War.
- 1952 : During a demonstration against the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany in Essen, the 21-year-old communist worker Philipp Müller is shot by the police. It is the first time in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany that a demonstrator has been killed by the police.
- 1960 : According to its own statements, the Israeli secret service Mossad seizes the former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires and brings him to Israel.
- 1972 : The bomb attack on the headquarters of the V Corps of the US Armed Forces in Frankfurt am Main marks the beginning of the May offensive of the Red Army Faction . Lt. Col. Paul A. Bloomquist is killed and thirteen other people are injured.
- 1972 : After the failed constructive vote of no confidence in Chancellor Willy Brandt , the basic treaty between the Federal Republic and Poland is ratified in the Bundestag .
- 1973 : The German Bundestag is basic treaty ratified on relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic.
- 1981 : The Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs Heinz-Herbert Karry ( FDP ) is shot by terrorists in his bedroom. The Revolutionary Cells group later confessed to the attack.
- 1987 : In Lyon the trial of a start Butcher of Lyon become known Klaus Barbie . As head of the Gestapo in southern France, Barbie was responsible, among other things, for the deportation of Izieu's children and numerous massacres.
- 1998 : In India , despite massive protests, underground nuclear tests are carried out. The tests, code-named Operation Shakti, are the second Indian nuclear weapons tests after Operation Smiling Buddha on May 18, 1974.
- 2000 : According to official figures, India's population exceeds one billion.
- 2003 : In a referendum in Lithuania, 91.1% of the voters vote in favor of the country's accession to the European Union .
- 2011 : 13 member states of the Council of Europe sign the Council of Europe conventions on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence .
economy
- 1796 : The Quaker William Tuke opened in York 's first private psychiatric hospital for the insane The Retreat in England, one of the first in the history of psychiatry . The institution, which is characterized by the renunciation of coercion and violence, still exists today.
- 1833 : The states of the Thuringian Customs and Trade Association founded the day before join the German Customs Union .
- 1892 : The Swede Johan Petter Johansson receives a patent for the adjustable wrench he invented .
- 1892 : On his return from France, the German distiller Hugo Asbach founds the Asbach & Co distillery in Rüdesheim am Rhein to produce German brandy and takes over the business of the export company for German cognac .
- 1931 : The Österreichische Credit-Anstalt declares its insolvency during the global economic crisis , thus triggering a major financial crisis. The bank is subsequently saved from final ruin through restructuring measures and with state help.
- 1949 : Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank , the public-law development bank for agriculture and rural areas based in Frankfurt am Main, is founded.
science and technology
- 868 : In China, the Diamond Sutra is made as a wood tablet print. This document with texts from Mahayana Buddhism is considered to be the oldest printed book product in history.
- 1926 : The Italian polar explorer Umberto Nobile starts in Ny-Ålesund, Norway, with a crew of 16, including Roald Amundsen and the financier of the expedition, Lincoln Ellsworth , on the Norge airship to travel across the North Pole .
- 1936 : The Reichsbahn sets a world speed record for steam locomotives with a DR class 05 locomotive . The locomotive reaches a speed of 200.4 km / h on a flat stretch between Hamburg and Berlin near Friesack .
- 1960 : In the shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St. Nazaire , the longest passenger ship in the world to date , the SS France commissioned by the shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, is launched.
- 1997 : For the first time a world chess champion is defeated by a computer in a competition under "tournament conditions": Garry Kasparov is defeated by the Deep Blue developed by IBM with 2.5: 3.5.
- 2009 : The space shuttle Atlantis is launched on a maintenance mission to the Hubble space telescope . The STS-125 mission was the telescope's final maintenance mission .
Culture
- 1910 : In the US state of Montana is the signature of US President William Howard Taft of Glacier National Park built.
- 1917 : The world premiere of the opera Turandot. A Chinese fable by Ferruccio Busoni after Carlo Gozzi takes place at the Zurich Opera House .
- 1931 : The premiere of the film M - A City Seeks a Murderer by Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou with Peter Lorre in the title role under the original title M takes place at the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin . The film becomes a hit with audiences but receives mixed reviews from the press.
- 1946 : The Unanswered Question by Charles Ives will be premiered in New York.
- 1981 : The musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Trevor Nunn based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats premieres with Elaine Paige at the New London Theater in London's West End .
- 2002 : Exactly 21 years after the premiere, the last performance of Cats takes place . The work, produced by Cameron Mackintosh , thus becomes the longest-played musical of all time.
- 2003 : A sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini , the Saliera (a salt barrel), is stolen from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna on Sunday night .
- 2010 : The Center Pompidou-Metz is opened by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Metz .
society
- 1832 : An anatomy law is passed in Great Britain to prevent theft of corpses . It allows anatomists of relatives to dissect unclaimed corpses. An anatomy inspector is appointed to prevent corpses from being illegally dissected .
Disasters
- 1953 : A tornado strength F5 during the three-day Waco tornado outbreaks kills in Waco , Texas, 114 people. The outbreak was May 9-11.
- 1974 : In an earthquake of magnitude 7 in Sichuan and Yunnan in the People's Republic of China about 20,000 people are killed.
- 1985 : The Valley Parade fire disaster at Bradford football stadium in Yorkshire, England during the promotion ceremony for Bradford City football team killed 56 and injured 265.
- 1996 : On ValuJet Flight 592 , shortly after take-off from Miami International Airport , a Douglas DC-9 crashes into the Everglades as a result of a fire on board , killing all 110 occupants.
- 1996 : After the day before there was a weather change with a snowstorm on Mount Everest , only 22 of the 30 people who were on their way to the summit at that time can return alive. This is the worst accident on Mount Everest so far . The expedition member Jon Krakauer later recorded his experiences in the bestseller Into Thin Air .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1959 : The female gorilla Fatou is admitted to the Berlin Zoological Garden .
- 1984 : A passage of the earth in front of the sun as seen from Mars takes place.
- 2004 : On the Philippine island of Calayan Island in the group of the Babuyan Islands , a previously unknown species of bird, the Calayan rail , is discovered.
Sports
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1160 : as-Sakkākī , Arabic grammarian and rhetorician
- 1366 : Anne of Bohemia , first royal wife of Richard II of England
- 1494 : Adam I , Supreme Chancellor of Bohemia
- 1542 : Jakob Christoph Blarer von Wartensee , Bishop of Basel
- 1568 : Christian I , Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
- 1578 : Christian Günther I , Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- 1586 : Angelo Giori , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1594 : Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency , Princess of Condé
- 1604 : Louis de Bourbon , Count of Soissons and Peer of France
- 1614 : Balthasar Mentzer the Younger , German theologian
- 1625 : Elisabeth Marie von Münsterberg-Oels , Duchess of Württemberg-Oels
- 1626 : Caspar Posner , German physicist and medic
- 1652 : Johann Philipp von Arco , imperial field marshal lieutenant
- 1660 : Johann Rudolf Byss , Swiss painter
- 1679 : Esaias Reusner , German lutenist and composer
- 1680 : Ignaz Kögler , German Jesuit and China missionary
- 1694 : Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl , German composer and organist
- 1698 : Pierre Contant d'Ivry , French architect
18th century
- 1715 : Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach , German organist
- 1720 : Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen , German nobleman ( The Tales of Lies from Baron Münchhausen )
- 1722 : Peter Camper , Dutch medic
- 1727 : Ludwig Joseph von Welden , Prince-Bishop of Freising
- 1728 : Pierre Gaviniès , French violinist and composer
- 1738 : Johann Melchior Birkenstock , Austrian politician
- 1739 : Eleanor Charlotte Butler , Irish noblewoman, one of the ladies of Llangollen
- 1741 : Johann Christian Albinus , German civil servant
- 1746 : Heinrich Bettkober , German sculptor
- 1747 : Carl May , German phello sculptor
- 1751 : Ralph Earl , American painter
- 1751 : Ferdinand Otto Vollrath Lawätz , German-Danish lawyer, landowner, author and civil servant
- 1752 : Johannes Albrecht , German doctor and writer
- 1752 : Johann Friedrich Blumenbach , German anatomist and anthropologist
- 1754 : Johann David Beil , German actor and stage poet
- 1755 : André Amar , French revolutionary
- 1760 : Ádam Pálóczi Horváth , Hungarian writer, folk song collector and composer
- 1762 : Jacob Johan Anckarström , Swedish assassin
- 1764 : Konrad Engelbert Oelsner , German political publicist
- 1765 : Emil Friedrich I. zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , sovereign of the county of Bentheim
- 1765 : Johann Georg Lehmann , German geodesist and cartographer
- 1766 : Georg von Habermann , Bavarian major general
- 1769 : Samuel Ludwig Löffler , German civil servant
- 1771 : Laskarina Bouboulina , heroine of the Greek War of Liberation
- 1777 : Vincenz Eduard Milde , Archbishop of Vienna
- 1780 : Karl Benedikt Hase , German classical philologist and librarian
- 1780 : Michele Tenore , Neapolitan-Italian botanist
- 1783 : Peter Willemoes , Danish admiral
- 1787 : Alfred I. zu Windisch-Graetz , Austrian field marshal
- 1788 : Otto von Gloeden , German architect
- 1791 : Jan Václav Voříšek , Bohemian composer
- 1794 : Ernst Stiedenroth , German philosopher
- 1799 : Hedwig von Olfers , German writer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Henri Labrouste , French architect
- 1805 : Heinrich Kochhann , German politician
- 1805 : Philipp von Foltz , German painter
- 1811 : Theodor Apel , German writer and founder
- 1811 : Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , Swiss politician
- 1813 : Alois Auer von Welsbach , Austrian printer, inventor and illustrator
- 1815 : Richard Ansdell , English painter
- 1815 : Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville , British politician
- 1817 : Fanny Cerrito , Italian ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1817 : John F. Potter , American lawyer, judge, and politician
- 1823 : Alfred Stevens , Belgian painter
- 1824 : Engelbert-August von Arenberg , German nobleman
- 1824 : Jean-Léon Gérôme , French history painter
- 1824 : Louis Spangenberg , German architect and painter
- 1825 : Wilhelm Bogler , German architect
- 1827 : Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , French sculptor
- 1827 : Elisabeth Rosenthal , German headmistress
- 1835 : Kārlis Baumanis , Latvian composer and poet
- 1838 : Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer , Swiss numismatist
- 1838 : Theodor Alexander Weber , German painter
- 1839 : Nagakura Shimpachi , Japanese military
- 1840 : Ferdinand Meyer , Swiss politician and historian
- 1841 : Ernst von Possart , German actor
- 1847 : Godefroid Kurth , Belgian historian
- 1848 : Wilhelm Windelband , German philosopher
- 1850 : Justus Hecker , German medical historian
1851-1900
- 1853 : Benedetto Lorenzelli , Italian cardinal
- 1853 : Ludwig Baumann , Austrian architect
- 1854 : Léon Ehrhart , French composer
- 1854 : Ottmar Mergenthaler , German watchmaker and printer
- 1855 : Anatoli Konstantinowitsch Lyadow , Russian composer
- 1856 : Hermann Dietrich , German lawyer and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1858 : Carl Hauptmann , German playwright and writer
- 1860 : Eduard Endler , German architect
- 1862 : Albert Karl Arnstadt , German politician
- 1862 : Franklin S. Billings , American politician, governor of Vermont
- 1864 : Ethel Lilian Voynich , British writer
- 1866 : Adolf von Achenbach , Prussian politician
- 1871 : Carl James Bühring , German architect and local politician
- 1871 : Paul Cazeneuve , Canadian actor and theater director
- 1871 : Frank Schlesinger , American astronomer
- 1872 : Maximilian Bayer , German officer, scout
- 1874 : Einar Jónsson , Icelandic sculptor
- 1875 : Harriet Quimby , American pilot
- 1875 : Louis Weinert-Wilton , German writer
- 1878 : Paul Schlesinger , German court reporter
- 1881 : Theodore von Kármán , Hungarian pioneer of aerodynamics and aeronautical research
- 1882 : Joseph Marx , Austrian composer
- 1883 : Johannes Maria Verweyen , German philosopher
- 1884 : Rudolf Dix , German lawyer and notary
- 1884 : Charlot Strasser , Swiss psychiatrist and writer
- 1885 : Joe King Oliver , American musician
- 1885 : Korbinian Aigner , German pastor and pomologist
- 1886 : August Klingenhaben , German Africanist
- 1887 : Erich Worm , German gymnast
- 1887 : Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian pianist
- 1888 : Irving Berlin , Russian-American composer
- 1888 : Paul Gury , Canadian actor, director and screenwriter of French descent
- 1889 : Paul Nash , British painter
- 1890 : Willie Applegarth , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 1891 : Henry Morgenthau , American politician
- 1892 : Margaret Rutherford , British actress
- 1893 : Augustin Rösch , German Jesuit priest, provincial, as a member of the Kreisau circle resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1894 : Martha Graham , American dancer
- 1894 : Komaki Ōmi , Japanese writer
- 1895 : Robert Fuchs , German major general
- 1895 : Will-Erich Peuckert , German folklorist and writer
- 1895 : William Grant Still , American composer
- 1896 : Paul Bäumer , German pilot
- 1896 : Filippo De Pisis , Italian painter
- 1896 : Josip Štolcer-Slavenski , Croatian composer
- 1897 : Kurt Gerron , German actor and director
- 1897 : Kurt Wehlte , German painter, painting technician, restorer
- 1899 : Curt Courant , German cameraman
- 1900 : Pridi Phanomyong , Thai politician and Prime Minister
- 1900 : Elinor Hubert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Edwin Arnet , Swiss writer and journalist
- 1901 : Rose Ausländer , German poet
- 1902 : Friedrich Schmiedl , Austrian rocket pioneer
- 1902 : Kirill Semjonowitsch Moskalenko , Marshal of the Soviet Union
- 1903 : Charlie Gehringer , American baseball player
- 1904 : Salvador Dalí , Spanish painter, graphic artist, writer, sculptor and set designer, main exponent of Surrealism
- 1904 : Willy Sommerfeld , German silent film pianist
- 1905 : Joe McCoy , American blues guitarist and singer
- 1905 : Grete Weiskopf , German children's book author
- 1905 : Johann Bernhard Michael Schneider , German chess problem composer
- 1907 : Albert Großhans , German shoe merchant and politician
- 1907 : Eva Schulze-Knabe , German painter and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1907 : Hermann Behrends , German general of the police and Waffen-SS
- 1907 : Hermann Gutmann , German entrepreneur
- 1907 : Francisco Rada , Colombian accordionist, composer and singer
- 1908 : Heinz Frölich , German actor
- 1909 : Georg von Holtzbrinck , German publisher and bookseller
- 1909 : Kurt Großkurth , German actor and singer
- 1910 : John Paddy Carstairs , British writer, film director and screenwriter
- 1910 : Albert Steinberg , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1911 : Helmut Arndt , German economist
- 1911 : Ludwig Kratz , German chemist
- 1911 : Jaap van Praag , Dutch organizer
- 1911 : Mitchell Sharp , Canadian politician
- 1911 : Olga Ivanovna Skorochodowa , Russian author
- 1911 : Phil Silvers , American actor
- 1913 : Robert Jungk , German-US-American-Austrian publicist, journalist and futurologist, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize
- 1913 : Hellmut Brunner , German Egyptologist
- 1914 : Bob Atcher , American country singer
- 1914 : Onelio Jorge Cardoso , Cuban writer and journalist
- 1915 : Franz Berding , German politician
- 1916 : Camilo José Cela , Spanish writer and Nobel Prize winner
- 1917 : Thomas Burton Adams , American politician
- 1917 : Wilhelm Auerswald , Austrian physiologist and university professor
- 1917 : Eva Garza , Mexican singer
- 1918 : Leopoldo de Luis , Spanish poet
- 1918 : Richard Feynman , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1919 : Dan O'Herlihy , Irish actor
- 1919 : John Michael Hayes , American screenwriter
- 1920 : Michele Sindona , Italian lawyer and banker
- 1921 : Geoffrey Crossley , British racing car driver
- 1921 : Herbert Giersch , German economist
- 1921 : Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , German politician
- 1921 : Hans Maier , German football player
- 1922 : Fritz Senft , Swiss writer
- 1923 : Ilse Buck , Austrian gymnastics teacher, radio presenter and author
- 1924 : Eugene Dynkin , Russian mathematician
- 1924 : Antony Hewish , British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1924 : Jörg Mauthe , Austrian journalist, writer and cultural politician
- 1924 : Luděk Pachman , Czech-German chess player
- 1924 : Werner Creutzfeldt , German internist
- 1925 : Rubem Fonseca , Brazilian writer
- 1925 : Edward J. King , American politician, governor of Massachusetts
- 1925 : Max Morlock , German football player
- 1925 : Günther Simon , German film actor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Roberto Escobar Budge , Chilean composer and philosopher
- 1926 : Rob Schroeder , American racing car driver
- 1927 : Charles W. Arnade , American historian and Hispanist
- 1927 : Traugott Bender , German politician
- 1928 : Yaacov Agam , Israeli visual artist and representative of kinetic art
- 1928 : Anne van der Bijl , Dutch missionary
- 1928 : Christopher Bird , American botanist and writer
- 1928 : Marco Ferreri , Italian film director
- 1928 : Frank Wolff , American actor
- 1929 : Gerhard Klingenberg , Austrian theater director and general manager
- 1929 : Arturo Yamasaki , Peruvian-Mexican football referee
- 1930 : Xiomara Alfaro , Cuban singer
- 1930 : Edsger W. Dijkstra , Dutch computer scientist
- 1930 : Hans Mohr , German biologist
- 1930 : Konrad Kruis , judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1930 : Kurt Morawietz , German writer
- 1931 : Jean-François Aubert , Swiss constitutional lawyer and politician
- 1932 : Dieter Honisch , German art historian and museum director
- 1932 : Sigrid Heuck , German author for children and young people
- 1932 : Francisco Umbral , Spanish writer
- 1933 : Louis Farrakhan , American leader of the Nation of Islam movement
- 1933 : Joe Hembus , German film critic
- 1933 : Dieter Heß , German botanist
- 1933 : Mychal Judge , American Roman Catholic priest
- 1933 : Aníbal de Peña , Dominican singer, pianist and composer
- 1934 : Jack Twyman , American basketball player
- 1934 : Thomas Buergenthal , American lawyer
- 1934 : Jim Jeffords , American politician
- 1935 : Doug McClure , American actor
- 1935 : Kurt Bergmann , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1936 : Carla Bley , American musician and composer
- 1936 : Inge Fuhrmann , German sprinter
- 1936 : Hinrich John , German athlete and Olympic participant
- 1937 : Dieter Grimm , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1937 : Ildikó Ujlakiné-Rejtő , Hungarian fencer
- 1939 : Renato Ascencio León , Mexican bishop
- 1939 : Henning Boëtius , German writer
- 1939 : Christoph Haehling von Lanzenauer , German professor of business administration
- 1940 : Anthony Kwami Adanuty , Ghanaian bishop
- 1940 : Niklaus Meienberg , Swiss writer and journalist
- 1940 : Herbert Müller , Swiss motor sportsman
- 1940 : Volker Röhricht , judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
- 1941 : Eric Burdon , British rock singer (The Animals)
- 1942 : Elisabeth Gehrer , Austrian politician
- 1943 : Dieter Böhmdorfer , Austrian Minister of Justice
- 1943 : Dieter Hennig , painter, graphic artist and object artist
- 1943 : Nancy Greene , Canadian ski racer
- 1944 : Roy Blumenfeld , American rock musician
- 1945 : Niels Birbaumer , German psychologist and neurobiologist
- 1945 : Ingelore Lohse , German athlete
- 1945 : Hans-Walter Schädler , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1946 : Jürgen Rieger , German lawyer and politician
- 1946 : László Polgár , Hungarian educator
- 1946 : Lenore Von Stein , American composer
- 1947 : Elisabeth Käsemann , German sociologist
- 1947 : Hansjürgen Garstka , Berlin data protection officer
- 1947 : Latif Nazemi , Afghan poet, literary critic and writer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Ed Stelmach , Canadian politician
- 1952 : Shohreh Aghdashloo , Iranian actress
- 1952 : Frances Fisher , British-American actress
- 1952 : Hallur Ellingsgaard , Faroese teacher, textbook author and party leader
- 1952 : Monika Kaserer , Austrian ski racer
- 1952 : Renaud Séchan , French musician
- 1953 : Helma Orosz , German politician
- 1953 : Thomas Middelhoff , German manager
- 1955 : Rainer Niemeyer , German handball player
- 1955 : Thomas Rühmann , German actor
- 1955 : JJ Jeczalik , British keyboardist and programmer
- 1956 : Jella Teuchner , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1957 : Hans-Günter Henneke , German honorary professor and presidential member of the German District Association
- 1957 : Manfred Hausleitner , Austrian drummer
- 1957 : Peter North , American actor and porn actor
- 1958 : Peter Antonie , Australian rower and Olympic champion
- 1958 : Tim Bollerslev , Danish economist
- 1958 : Christian Brando , American actor
- 1960 : Jesper Christian Asholt , Danish actor
- 1960 : Jürgen Schult , German athlete and Olympic champion
- 1960 : Heike Ulrich , German actress
- 1961 : Christiane Arp , German journalist
- 1962 : Grega Benedik , Slovenian ski racer
- 1962 : Luca Drudi , Italian racing car driver
- 1962 : Steve Wacholz , American drummer
- 1963 : Michael S. Aßländer , German business ethicist
- 1963 : Ingbert Liebing , German politician
- 1963 : Michael Hartmann , German politician
- 1963 : Natasha Richardson , British film actress
- 1964 : Efstratios Apostolakis , Greek football player
- 1964 : John Parrott , English snooker player
- 1965 : Guido Maria Kretschmer , German fashion designer and TV presenter
- 1965 : Marty Chan , Canadian writer
- 1965 : Stefano Domenicali , Italian motorsport official
- 1965 : Charles-Louis Seck , Senegalese athlete
- 1966 : Angela Elis , German television presenter
- 1966 : Nancy Hower , American film, stage actress, and musician
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- 1966 : Thomas Oberender , German author and dramaturge
- 1966 : Christoph Schneider , German musician
- 1966 : Christine Skropke , German badminton player
- 1967 : Alberto García Aspe , Mexican soccer player
- 1967 : Apache Indian , British rapper, singer and songwriter
- 1967 : Inka Schneider , German presenter and journalist
- 1968 : Hendryk Schamberger , German figure skater and figure skating coach
- 1968 : Pavel Gross , German-Czech ice hockey coach and former ice hockey player
- 1969 : Yasutaka Hinoi , Japanese racing car driver
- 1969 : Simon Vroemen , Dutch athlete
- 1970 : Phillip DeVona , American actor
- 1970 : Harold Ford Jr. , American politician
- 1970 : Johanna Christine Gehlen , German actress
- 1970 : Nicky Katt , American actor
- 1970 : Eva Menasse , Austrian writer
- 1971 : Dominique Arribagé , French football player and coach
- 1971 : Mathias Schlung , German actor and comedian
- 1971 : Markus Meyer , German castle actor
- 1972 : Jenny Elvers , German actress and presenter
- 1972 : Tomáš Dvořák , Czech athlete
- 1973 : Britta Becker , German field hockey player
- 1973 : Isabelle Flachsmann , Swiss singer, dancer and actress
- 1973 : Sabine Völker , German speed skater
- 1973 : Tsuyoshi Ogata , Japanese marathon runner
- 1974 : Simon Aspelin , Swedish tennis player
- 1974 : Benoît Magimel , French actor
- 1974 : Zany , Dutch DJ and music producer
- 1975 : Danny Schwarz , German soccer player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Cardinal Offishall , Canadian rapper
- 1976 : Sahlene , Swedish pop singer
- 1977 : Janne Ahonen , Finnish ski jumper
- 1977 : Oliver Bröcker , German actor
- 1977 : Nikolai Valeryevich Bolshakov , Russian cross-country skier
- 1977 : Pablo García , Uruguayan football player
- 1977 : Sina Mainitz , German journalist
- 1977 : Victor Matfield , South African rugby player
- 1978 : Laetitia Casta , French model and actress
- 1978 : Antonio Colom , Spanish cyclist
- 1980 : Nevio Passaro , German-Italian musician
- 1981 : Austin O'Brien , American film actor
- 1982 : Cory Monteith , Canadian actor
- 1983 : Natalia Zabala Arroyo , Spanish beauty queen
- 1983 : Holly Valance , New Zealand actress and singer
- 1983 : Matt Leinart , American football player
- 1984 : Andrés Iniesta , Spanish soccer player
- 1984 : Arttu Lappi , Finnish ski jumper
- 1984 : Diego Rottensteiner , Austrian soccer player
- 1986 : Abou Diaby , French football player
- 1986 : Gandsorigiin Mandachnaran , Mongolian wrestler
- 1988 : Ace Hood , American rapper
- 1988 : Oscar Carlén , Swedish handball player and coach
- 1988 : Severin Freund , German ski jumper
- 1988 : Marcel Kittel , German racing cyclist
- 1988 : Moritz von Zeddelmann , German actor
- 1989 : Katrin Neudolt , Austrian badminton player
- 1989 : Giovani dos Santos , Mexican soccer player
- 1990 : Florian Hart , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Julian Leal , Colombian racing driver
- 1992 : Bettina Auer , German writer
- 1992 : Thibaut Courtois , Belgian football player
- 1992 : Pierre-Ambroise Bosse , French athlete
- 1993 : Josef Černý , Czech cyclist
- 1993 : Jhon Córdoba , Colombian football player
- 1993 : Maurice Harkless , American basketball player
- 1994 : Dmytro Bilozerov , Ukrainian billiard player
- 1997 : Lana Condor , Vietnamese-American actress
- 1999 : Amir Adamowitsch Adujew , Russian-French football player
- 1999 : Sabrina Carpenter , American actress and singer
Died
Before the 18th century
- 907 : Egilmar , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 912 : Leo VI. , Byzantine emperor
- 925 : Nicholas I , Patriarch of Constantinople
- 940 : Eutychios of Alexandria , Melkite patriarch of Alexandria
- 994 : Maiolus , Abbot of Cluny
- 1028 : Landry , Earl of Nevers
- 1142 : Robert de Brus , Norman nobleman and military man
- 1271 : Heinrich I von Raron , Bishop of Sitten
- 1304 : Ghazan Ilchan , Mongolian Ilchan of Persia
- 1313 : Robert Winchelsey , English clergyman
- 1409 : Joan Devereux , English noblewoman
- 1469 : Sigmund Wann , Wunsiedler citizen and founder of the foundation
- 1487 : Sibylla von Helfenstein , abbess of the Fraumünster in Zurich
- 1528 : Eitelhans Langenmantel , Augsburg patrician and martyr of the Anabaptist movement
- 1589 : Johann Lüdinghusen , Mayor of Lübeck
- 1592 : Christoph Walther III , German painter, carver and court organist
- 1607 : Michele Ruggieri , Italian priest and missionary in China
- 1610 : Matteo Ricci , Italian priest and missionary in China
- 1621 : Johann Arndt , German post-Reformation theologian
- 1633 : Catherine de Clèves , Duchess of Guise
- 1646 : Yagyū Munenori , Japanese sword master and author
- 1660 : Christoph Althofer , German Lutheran theologian
- 1662 : Johann Adlzreiter von Tettenweis , German lawyer and politician
- 1662 : Joachim von der Marwitz , German court official and soldier
- 1679 : Esaias Reusner , German lutenist and composer
- 1694 : Elisabeth Lemmerhirt , mother of Johann Sebastian Bach
18th and 19th centuries
- 1708 : Jules Hardouin-Mansart , French architect
- 1715 : Maria Mancini , French nobleman, Mazarinette and mistress of Louis XIV.
- 1716 : Franz de Hieronymo , Italian Jesuit and people's missionary, saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1731 : Mary Astell , English writer, rhetorician and philosopher
- 1739 : Pierre Charles Trémolières , French painter
- 1751 : Johann Christian Kundmann , German physician, numismatist, collector and author
- 1758 : Johann Georg Oldekop , German Protestant clergyman
- 1760 : Alaungpaya , ruler of the Third Burmese Empire
- 1763 : Natalja Fjodorovna Lopuchina , Baltic governor's daughter at the Russian court
- 1771 : Franz Edmund Weirotter , Austrian painter and etcher
- 1778 : William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham , British politician, MP, Keeper of the Lord Seal, Prime Minister
- 1817 : Jean-Siffrein Maury , French cleric and politician
- 1838 : Jędrzej Śniadecki , Polish chemist and doctor
- 1849 : Otto Nicolai , German composer
- 1849 : Stephan Ludwig Roth , Transylvanian-Saxon writer, school reformer and politician
- 1853 : Dominikus Kuenzer , German Roman Catholic priest, MdL, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1857 : Eugène François Vidocq , French criminal, criminalist and the first ever detective
- 1859 : Johann von Österreich , Austrian field marshal, German imperial administrator
- 1865 : Carl Högl , Austrian master builder in Vienna
- 1866 : George Edmund Badger , American politician
- 1867 : Johann Friedrich Hermann Albers , German medic and pathologist
- 1871 : John Herschel , British astronomer
- 1873 : Ignacio Agramonte , Cuban lawyer and freedom fighter
- 1877 : Johann Heinrich Achterfeld , German theologian, professor and editor
- 1878 : Maximilian Joseph Auer , German porcelain painter
- 1881 : Henri-Frédéric Amiel , Swiss writer and philosopher
- 1885 : Ferdinand von Hiller , German composer
- 1888 : Frederick Miller , founder of the American Miller Brewing Company
- 1891 : Alexandre Edmond Becquerel , French physicist
- 1891 : Eugène Ortolan , French lawyer, diplomat and composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1916 : Karl Schwarzschild , German astronomer and physicist
- 1916 : Max Reger , German composer and organist
- 1917 : Otto Klauwell , German composer
- 1920 : Jim Colosimo , Italian-American, predecessor of Al Capone as leader of the Chicago underworld
- 1920 : William Dean Howells , American writer
- 1927 : Juan Gris , Spanish-French Cubist painter
- 1928 : Emil Bohnke , German composer, conductor and violist
- 1928 : Lilli Bohnke , German violinist
- 1931 : Georg Wissowa , German classical philologist
- 1931 : Arno Zaspel , German motorcycle racer
- 1937 : Afonso Costa , Portuguese politician, multiple finance minister and prime minister of his country
- 1937 : Viliam Figuš-Bystrý , Slovak composer
- 1938 : Friedrich Eckenfelder , German painter
- 1938 : Yevgeny Karlowitsch Miller , general in the Russian Civil War
- 1938 : Friedrich Knutzen , German politician
- 1942 : Hagiwara Sakutarō , Japanese writer
- 1944 : Max Uhle , German archaeologist
- 1944 : Marat Kasej , Belarusian partisan fighter, Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1945 : John Rogers Commons , American economist and sociologist
- 1945 : Zyrill Fischer , Austrian Franciscan priest and resistance fighter
- 1945 : William von Simpson , German writer
- 1947 : Richard Ohnsorg , German actor, theater founder and director
1951-2000
- 1952 : Alessio Ascalesi , Italian religious, Archbishop of Naples
- 1952 : Philipp Müller , German communist, shot dead by a police officer in Essen
- 1952 : Giovanni Tebaldini , Italian composer, musicologist and organist
- 1953 : Jean Adair , Canadian actress
- 1953 : Bradley Walker Tomlin , American painter
- 1953 : Willy Schootemeijer , Dutch composer
- 1954 : Sait Faik , Turkish writer
- 1955 : Nikolai Mitrofanowitsch Krylow , Russian-Soviet mathematician
- 1956 : Walter Sydney Adams , American astronomer
- 1956 : Matsumoto Takashi , Japanese writer
- 1958 : Beatrice Langley , English violinist
- 1961 : Josef Auinger , Austrian detective
- 1962 : Hans Luther , German politician, Imperial Chancellor in the Weimar Republic
- 1962 : Richard Reitzner , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1963 : Herbert Spencer Gasser , American neurophysiologist
- 1966 : Henry S. Caulfield , American politician
- 1969 : Jim Bowdoin , American football player
- 1970 : Johnny Hodges , American jazz saxophonist
- 1971 : Rafał Wojaczek , Polish poet
- 1973 : Bohdan Arct , Polish author and fighter pilot
- 1973 : Lex Barker , American actor
- 1973 : Odd Grüner-Hegge , Norwegian composer, conductor and pianist
- 1976 : Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect and designer
- 1976 : Heinrich Baaken , German Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop of the Münster diocese
- 1979 : Felix von Eckardt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1979 : Lester Flatt , American country musician
- 1981 : Bob Marley , Jamaican reggae musician
- 1981 : Heinz-Herbert Karry , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, assassination victim
- 1981 : Odd Hassel , Norwegian chemist
- 1982 : Åke Gustav Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1984 : Stanislav Šebek , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1984 : Toni Turek , German soccer player
- 1985 : Ria Ginster , German singer and singing teacher
- 1987 : Hans Klotz , German church musician and organologist
- 1988 : Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann , German sociologist and ethnologist
- 1988 : Kim Philby , British double agent
- 1989 : Rafael Martínez Alba , Dominican conductor and music teacher
- 1990 : Erich Dietz , German painter and sculptor
- 1990 : Wenedikt Wassiljewitsch Erofejew , Soviet writer
- 1992 : William A. Mueller , American sound engineer
- 1995 : Hans-Joachim Böhme , GDR Minister for Higher and Technical Schools
- 1995 : David Avidan , Israeli writer
- 1995 : Tibor Sárai , Hungarian composer
- 1996 : Ademir de Menezes , Brazilian soccer player
- 1996 : Jerry Murad , American harmonica player
- 1997 : Ernie Fields , American jazz trombonist and band leader
- 1997 : Osman Per , Turkish soccer player
- 1997 : Marco Richterich , Swiss painter
- 1998 : Ernst Ising , German mathematician and physicist
- 1999 : Werner Fuchs , German soccer player and coach
- 2000 : Rudolf Pfister , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 2000 : Paula Wessely , Austrian actress
21st century
- 2001 : Douglas Adams , British writer
- 2001 : Wolfgang Arps , German actor
- 2001 : Klaus Schlesinger , German writer
- 2003 : Noel Redding , British guitarist and bassist
- 2004 : John Whitehead , American musician and producer
- 2006 : Floyd Patterson , American boxer, world champion
- 2007 : Tanumafili II , head of state of Samoa
- 2008 : Eugen Jesser , President and Director of the Vienna Boys' Choir
- 2009 : Manfred Riedel , German philosopher
- 2009 : Mike Staab , German music producer and DJ
- 2011 : Branko Karabatić , Yugoslav handball player and coach
- 2012 : Erich Arndt , German pastor
- 2013 : Emmanuelle Claret French biathlete
- 2013 : Yayé Garba , Nigerien officer
- 2014 : Reg Gasnier , Australian rugby league player and coach
- 2014 : Jeb Stuart Magruder , American politician
- 2015 : Jef Geeraerts , Belgian writer
- 2015 : Gideon Singer , Israeli actor
- 2016 : Peter Behrens , German musician
- 2016 : Franz Viehmann , German actor
- 2017 : Joachim Kaiser , German journalist and critic
- 2017 : Bedřich Loewenstein , German-Czech historian
- 2018 : Gérard Genette , French literary scholar
- 2018 : Horst Hagedorn , German geographer
- 2019 : Thomas Silverstein , American murderer
- 2019 : Michael Trede , German surgeon
- 2020 : Jerry Stiller , American actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Evellius , formerly Christian martyr (Catholic and Orthodox)
- Johann Arndt , German pastor (Protestant)
- St. Cyril of Salonika , Byzantine abbot, missionary and theologian (Orthodox)
- St. Method of Salonica , Byzantine missionary, theologian and bishop (Orthodox)
- St. Maiolus , priest, Benedictine and for forty years the 4th abbot of Cluny
- St. Mamertus , Bishop, " Ice Saint " (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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