October 11th
The October 11 is the 284th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 285th in leap years ), thus remain 81 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1305 : Otto III, Duke of (Lower) Bavaria , is crowned King of Hungary .
- 1531 : In the Battle of Kappel during the religiously motivated Second Kappel War , the people of Zurich succumb to the five Catholic inner cities (Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri and Zug). The reformer Ulrich Zwingli falling in the battle.
- 1541 : Emperor Charles V gives his 14-year-old son Philip II the duchy of Milan as a fief.
- 1633 : The Battle of Steinau an der Oder , today Ścinawa , the victorious imperial forces take under Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War , a Swedish corps under Heinrich Matthias von Thurn caught and gain Frankfurt (Oder) back.
- 1643 : In the Battle of Winceby , parliamentary troops prevail against royal units in the English Civil War .
- 1649 : The siege of Wexford , begun on October 2, ends in the midst of surrender negotiations with the unexpected storming of the city by troops under Oliver Cromwell's command. The Soldateska kills hundreds of enemy soldiers and an estimated 1,500 civilians. The city is looted and destroyed.
- 1702 : During the Great Northern War , the Russian army takes the island fortress of Nöteborg , located at the outflow of the Neva from Lake Ladoga . The Swedish garrison lying in it gives up after ten days of siege with constant fire and without hope of relief .
- 1746 : In the Battle of Roucoux during the War of the Austrian Succession , the French under Moritz von Sachsen defeat the Pragmatic Army made up of Austrians, British and Dutch.
- 1776 : In the Battle of Valcour during the American Revolutionary War, the British naval forces destroy most of the ships of the US Navy , but can no longer prevent the defeat in the Saratoga campaign .
- 1797 : During the First Coalition War , the sea battle at Camperduin takes place off the Dutch coast . A Dutch squadron of sixteen ships of the line is defeated by a British ship formation of about the same size. This puts a damper on French plans to invade England .
- 1865 : In Jamaica breaks under the leadership of Paul Bogle of the Morant Bay Rebellion of. The British Governor Edward John Eyre had him put down in the following days with means that subsequently triggered his recall.
- 1873 : In the sea battle off Cartagena , the Mediterranean squadron of the republican central government of Spain fights against the fleet of the rebellious canton of Cartagena.
- 1899 : After an ultimatum by Paul Kruger , the President of the Transvaal , and the President of the Orange Free State , Steyn , is rejected by the British, the Transvaal officially declares war on Great Britain . The next day the Boer War begins .
- 1916 As a reaction to the anti-Semitism widespread in the German officer corps , according to which Jews were withdrawing from armed service at the front, the Prussian War Minister Adolf Wild von Hohenborn orders the so-called “ Jewish census ”.
- 1931 : On the initiative of Alfred Hugenberg , the anti-democratic Harzburg Front , directed against the Weimar Republic , is founded.
- 1942 : On the night of October 12, the Americans defeat the Japanese at the Battle of Cape Esperance during World War II .
- 1949 : Wilhelm Pieck is elected the first (and only) President of the GDR .
- 1949 : The Federal Press Conference is established in Bonn .
- 1954 : The Việt Minh take control of the northern part of Vietnam and form the communist Democratic Republic of Vietnam .
- 1956 : By a resolution of the Bundestag, the Federal Motor Transport Authority in Flensburg - Mürwik is allowed to keep the central traffic register from January 2nd, 1958 .
- 1963 : The 87-year-old Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (CDU) presented the Federal President Heinrich Lübke (CDU) with his resignation in Bonn .
- 1963 : In the Fritz Hanke case , the first and, for about ten years, only federal German judgment is pronounced in a trial against a shooter from the National People's Army (NVA) on the inner-German border . Hanke is sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for attempted manslaughter.
- 1976 : As part of its 200th anniversary celebrations, the United States introduces the highest rank General of the Armies of the United States in the Army . It is the only one to be awarded posthumously to George Washington . No US officer will be allowed to be more senior than himself in the future.
- 1986 : A two-day summit meeting between US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev begins in Reykjavík. It fails the next day because the US insists on the Strategic Defense Initiative to build a defense shield against ICBMs.
- 1987 : Uwe Barschel , the former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein , is found dead by two journalists in a hotel room in Geneva . The circumstances of death await a final explanation. The Barschel affair had previously made headlines.
- 1994 : The second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court declares the coal penny to be unconstitutional.
- 1998 : At the awarding of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade , award winner Martin Walser triggers the Walser-Bubis controversy with his speech in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .
- 2002 : 14 German and Czech cities and municipalities found the association Friends in the Heart of Europe in the West Bohemian city of Aš .
economy
- 1811 : The steamship Juliana of the American inventor John Stevens begins the ferry service between New York City and Hoboken (New Jersey) . It is the world's first use of a steamship as a ferry .
- 1837 : In Sweden, the Säffle Canal, which enables more than 91 km of inland navigation , is inaugurated by King Charles XIV. Johann .
- 1935 : In view of the tense economic situation and the age of the ship, the demolition of the RMS Olympic begins in the northeastern English city of Jarrow with the expansion of the interior furnishings . The Titanic's sister ship is the only ship in the Olympic class named after her that has not fallen victim to a disaster.
- 2008 : On the occasion of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, all 185 member countries demonstratively support the action plan of the seven leading industrialized countries ( G-7 ) to defuse the escalating financial crisis .
science and technology
- 1745 : The cathedral dean Ewald Georg von Kleist discovers the principle of the Leiden bottle . The following year, Pieter van Musschenbroek also came across the effect of electric shocks in Leiden .
- 1852 : The University of Sydney begins teaching. It is the oldest university on the fifth continent .
- 1899 : The Kaiser grants the Prussian technical universities the right to award doctorates ( Dr.-Ing. ).
- 1940 : With his glider -type crane D-11 of the German pilot reached Erich Klöckner an altitude of 11,460 meters and thus set a new altitude record for gliders on.
- 1958 : NASA launches Pioneer 1, the first unmanned lunar probe , although the probe cannot overcome the force of gravity .
- 1968 : Apollo 7 is the first manned flight of an Apollo spacecraft. The astronauts Walter Schirra , Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham are on board .
- 1968 : The nuclear powered research ship Otto Hahn sets out on its test drive.
- 1984 : The space traveler Kathryn D. Sullivan takes the first US citizen during the Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G a spacewalk .
- 1990 : The X-31 experimental aircraft for practical testing of the thrust vector control completes its maiden flight.
- 2000 : The space shuttle Discovery takes off from Kennedy Space Center on flight STS-92 , the hundredth mission of a space shuttle .
- 2018 : After the failure of the second stage of the launcher in the first minutes of flight, the Soyuz MS-10 does not reach orbit and has to make an emergency landing. The two crew members Nick Hague and Alexei Ovtschinin remain unharmed.
- Space events
1968: The Apollo 7 crew
1984: Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan doing outdoor work
2000: The crew of the STS-92 mission
2018: The Soyuz MS-10 crew
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Culture
- 1727 : For the coronation of George II , George Frideric Handel's Coronation Anthems are premiered in Westminster Abbey .
- 1874 : The world premiere of the comic opera The Taming of the Shrew by Hermann Goetz takes place in Mannheim.
- 1901 : The Marquis von Keith , a play in five acts by Frank Wedekind , is premiered in the Berlin Residenztheater .
- 1912 : The operetta Der Zigeunerprimas by the composer Emmerich Kálmán and the librettists Fritz Grünbaum and Julius Wilhelm has its world premiere at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna.
- 1913 : The first performance of the operetta The Ideal Wife of Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1941 : The world premiere of the opera Die Hexe von Passau by Ottmar Gerster takes place in Düsseldorf.
- 1944 : Otto Preminger's crime film Laura , a masterpiece of “ film noir ”, premieres in New York .
- 1947 : The 6th Symphony by Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew is premiered in Leningrad. The composer sees his work as a tragic counterpart to his heroic-patriotic 5th symphony .
- 1964 : Heinar Kipphardt's play In the J. Robert Oppenheimer case is premiered in the theater version at the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin (director: Erwin Piscator ) and at the Münchner Kammerspiele (director: Paul Verhoeven ).
- 1968 : The first part of the Olsen Gang is shown in cinemas in Denmark .
- 1971 : The Single Imagine by John Lennon is published.
- 1975 : The US television station NBC broadcasts the first episode of the comedy series Saturday Night Live .
- 1980 : The opera Der Traumgörge by Alexander von Zemlinsky is premiered 38 years after the composer's death in Nuremberg .
The Mary Rose in the Anthony Roll (1546)
- 1982 : The salvaged parts of the English warship Mary Rose , which sank in the Solent estuary in 1545 , arrive in Portsmouth . The wreck will be preserved there and later exhibited.
religion
- 1954 : With the encyclical Ad caeli reginam , Pope Pius XII. the feast day of Mary, Queen of Heaven . The Roman Catholic Church has been celebrating the festival on August 22 each year since 1969.
- 1962 : Pope John XXIII. opens the Second Vatican Council , to which he has also invited observers from 18 non-Catholic churches.
- 1998 : Pope John Paul II canonize sister Edith Stein , who was killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp because of her Jewish origin .
Disasters
- 1634 : The largest island in the Wadden Sea, Strand , goes down on the night of October 12 in a hurricane or the subsequent storm surge . The so-called Burchardi flood kills around 10,000 people, of which around 6,400 of the 8,600 residents of Alt-Nordstrand are killed. An estimated 50,000 head of cattle die. The natural disaster creates today's coastline.
- 1737 : An earthquake in the Calcutta area , India, kills around 300,000.
- 2006 : A Cirrus SR-20 sport aircraft hits the Belaire Apartments in Manhattan. The pilot Cory Lidle and his flight instructor are killed, 21 people are injured.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1958 : Ursula Bruns and several like-minded people found the German Pony Club in Bonn , which is later renamed the Icelandic Horse Riders and Breeders Association . The association aims in particular for recreational riding of Icelandic horses .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 17th century
Melchior de Polignac
(* 1661)
Elizabeth Griffith
(* 1727)
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers
(* 1758)
- 1523 : Eleonore von Fürstenberg , Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1585 : Johann Heermann , German hymn poet
- 1590 : William Pynchon , Assistant Treasurer of Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1599 : Abraham de Fabert , French general and military engineer
17th and 18th centuries
- 1629 : Adolf Johann I , Swedish Imperial Marshal, Duke of Stegeborg and Pfalz-Kleeburg
- 1629 : Armand de Bourbon , Prince of Conti
- 1640 : Ludwig Heinrich , Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern-Kaiserslautern
- 1641 : Hans Rudolf Tschudi , Swiss pastor, Wartau, Canton St. Gallen
- 1644 : Johann Heinrich Sprögel , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- 1661 : Melchior de Polignac , French cardinal, diplomat and poet
- 1668 : Louis III. de Bourbon , Prince of Condé, Governor of Burgundy and Bresse
- 1688 : Adolf Gideon Bartholdi , German educator
- 1727 : Elizabeth Griffith , Irish writer and actress
- 1732 : Heinrich Friedrich Innocentius Apel , Saxon lawyer and politician
- 1732 : Raphaël Bienvenu Sabatier , French medic
- 1738 : Arthur Phillip , British Governor of New South Wales
- 1741 : Alberto Fortis , Italian scholar
- 1751 : Jean-Henri Voulland , French politician
- 1755 : Fausto Elhuyar , Spanish chemist
- 1758 : Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers , German doctor and astronomer
- 1766 : Poul Poulsen Nolsøe , Faroese national hero
- 1768 : Jean-Édouard Adam , French chemist and physicist
Peter of Nobile
(* 1774)
Simon Sechter
(* 1788)
Emilie Linder
(* 1797)
- 1771 : Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm von Arnim , German administrative officer, manor owner and parliamentarian
- 1774 : Peter von Nobile , Austrian architect
- 1786 : Stevenson Archer , American lawyer and politician
- 1788 : Simon Sechter , Austrian music theorist, music teacher and organist, conductor and composer
- 1791 : Carl Bertelsmann , German printer and publisher
- 1796 : August Wilhelm Julius Ahlborn , German landscape painter
- 1797 : Emilie Linder , Swiss painter and patron
- 1798 : Ida Arenhold , co-founder and first head of the Friederikenstift hospital in Hanover
- 1799 : Paula Montal Fornés , founder of the Spanish order
19th century
1801 to 1850
Gustav Struve
(* 1805)
- 1805 : Gustav Struve , German politician, lawyer, publicist and radical democratic revolutionary
- 1806 : Alexander I , Serbian prince
- 1810 : Anton Zwengauer , German painter
- 1811 : Johann Conrad Ammann , Swiss doctor, natural history and art collector
- 1817 : Marie Amalie von Baden , Princess of Baden and Duchess of Hamilton
- 1821 : George Williams , British founder of the Christian Young People's Association (YMCA)
- 1825 : Maria Firmina dos Reis , Brazilian poet and journalist
- 1825 : Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Swiss poet of realism
- 1827 : Asaf Jah V , Prince of Hyderabad
- 1828 : August von Amelunxen , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1833 : Friedrich von Hassel , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1835 : Ernst Sars , Norwegian historian
- 1840 : Roberto Stagno , Italian opera tenor
- 1841 : Friedrich Hegar , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1844 : Henry John Heinz , American businessman and inventor
- 1845 : Reinhold Kraetke , German State Secretary of the Reich Post Office
- 1846 : Carlos Pellegrini , Argentine President
- 1849 : William Knox D'Arcy , British entrepreneur
- 1849 : Carl Wolff , Transylvanian economist, journalist and politician
- 1850 : Jaro Pawel , Austrian gymnastics teacher and Germanist
1851 to 1900
- 1854 : Adela Zamudio , Bolivian teacher, writer, playwright and painter
- 1857 : Henri Cain , French librettist and painter
- 1860 : Luise Koch , German educator, politician and women's rights activist
- 1863 : Georges Gardet , French sculptor
- 1865 : Karl Gerold Goetz , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1865 : Emma Graf , Swiss women's rights activist
- 1865 : Jakob Hausheer , Swiss theologian, linguist and university professor
- 1865 : Hans E. Kinck , Norwegian writer
- 1866 : Carlos Arniches , Spanish playwright and writer
- 1866 : Johannes Petrus Kuenen , Dutch physicist
- 1866 : Gustav Neuhaus , German lawyer and linguist
- 1868 : Joseph Anglade , French Romanist, Provençalist and Medievalist
- 1868 : Ernst Kornemann , German ancient historian
- 1871 : Harriet Boyd-Hawes , American archaeologist
- 1872 : Emily Davison , British suffragette and radical campaigner for women's rights
- 1872 : Reinder Pieter van Calcar , Dutch bacteriologist
- 1875 : Carlos Brandt , Venezuelan writer, philosopher and historian
- 1876 : Käthe Buchler , German photographer
- 1876 : Gertrud von Le Fort , German writer
- 1878 : Karl Hofer , German expressionist painter
- 1879 : Maria-Luise von Hannover-Cumberland , Princess of Great Britain and Ireland, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg
- 1880 : Gertrud Eitner , German teacher and politician, MdR
- 1881 : Eugène Flaud , French racing car driver
- 1881 : Hans Kelsen , Austrian lawyer
- 1881 : Hans Otto Löwenstein , Austrian film director and producer
- 1881 : Lewis Fry Richardson , British mathematician and peace researcher
- 1881 : Angela Stifft-Gottlieb , Austrian museum expert and prehistorian
- 1882 : Robert Nathaniel Dett , Canadian composer
- 1882 : Will Vesper , German writer
- 1883 : Archibald Thompson Davison , American musicologist, music teacher and choir conductor
- 1883 : Wilhelm Hamacher , German politician
Friedrich Bergius
(* 1884)
Eleanor Roosevelt
(* 1884)
François Mauriac
(* 1885)
Willie Hoppe
(* 1887)
Edmond Soussa
(* 1898)
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- 1884 : Friedrich Bergius , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1884 : Eleanor Roosevelt , American human rights activist and diplomat, first lady of the USA, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1884 : Sig Ruman , American actor
- 1885 : Alfréd Haar , Hungarian mathematician
- 1885 : Edmund Knorr , German teacher, home keeper, nature conservationist and ornithologist
- 1885 : François Mauriac , French writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1885 : Alicia Moreau de Justo , Argentine socialist politician and feminist
- 1886 : Max Augustin , Austrian politician
- 1887 : Oscar Shaw , American actor
- 1887 : Willie Hoppe , American billiard player, 51-time world champion
- 1888 : Alfred Agostinelli , French mechanic, chauffeur and secretary
- 1888 : Emil Bohnke , German violist, composer and conductor
- 1888 : Christine Teusch , German politician, Minister of Education in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1889 : Fritz Adam , German politician
- 1889 : Paula Hertwig , German biologist
- 1889 : Charles F. Wennerstrum , American lawyer, presiding judge in one of the Nuremberg follow-up trials
- 1890 : August H. Andresen , American politician
- 1890 : Fanny Jensen , Danish social democratic politician
- 1891 : Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham , American psychoanalyst
- 1891 : Hans Liesche , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1891 : Armandinho , Portuguese guitarist and composer
- 1892 : Karl Hähnel , German athlete
- 1894 : Boris Pilnjak , Russian poet
- 1895 : Jakov Gotovac , Croatian composer and conductor
- 1895 : Hans Schiebelhuth , German writer and poet of Expressionism
- 1896 : Elisabeth Nettebeck , German politician, MdL
- 1897 : Joseph Auslander , American poet
- 1898 : Edmond Soussa , Egyptian carom player, eleven times world champion
- 1900 : Carin Fahlin , Swedish Romanist, Hispanic and Medievalist
- 1900 : Lina Franziska Fehrmann , German child model and muse of the Brücke artists
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Emil Hlobil , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1903 : Hans Söhnker , German actor
- 1904 : Ehmi Bessel , German theater and film actress
- 1905 : Jean-Marie Villot , French priest, Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal, Cardinal Secretary and Treasurer
- 1906 : Walther Abel , German classical philologist
- 1906 : Earl Clark , American football player and coach
- 1906 : Herbert Volwahsen , German sculptor
- 1909 : Hellmut Holthaus , German editor and writer
- 1910 : Cahit Arf , Turkish mathematician
- 1910 : Albert Hößler , German resistance fighter
- 1910 : Luis G. Roldán , Mexican singer
- 1911 : Nello Pagani , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1911 : Juan Carlos Zabala , Argentine marathon runner, Olympic champion
- 1912 : Fedora Alemán , Venezuelan singer
- 1912 : Erich Arndt , German pastor
- 1913 : Jack Nethercutt , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1913 : Lilo Ramdohr , German, member of the White Rose resistance group
- 1914 : Reuben Fine , American chess player and psychoanalyst
- 1914 : Marc Gignoux , French racing car driver
- 1916 : Luis Kalaff , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer
- 1917 : John Adriano Acea , American jazz pianist
- 1917 : José d'Angelo Neto , Brazilian Archbishop
- 1917 : Helga Tiemann , German painter
- 1917 : Grete Yppen , Austrian painter
- 1918 : Jerome Robbins , American dancer
- 1919 : Art Blakey , American jazz drummer
- 1919 : Kader Firoud , French football player and coach
- 1920 : Kurt H. Aufrichtig , British art historian
- 1920 : James Aloysius Hickey , American Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, and Cardinal
- 1921 : Ernst Dürr , Austrian politician
- 1924 : Nora Schmitt , German writer
- 1924 : Mal Whitfield , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1925 : Wander Bertoni , Austrian sculptor
- 1925 : Elmore Leonard , American crime novelist
- 1925 : Robert Linn , American composer and music teacher
1926-1950
- 1926 : Rudolf Arens , German grassland scientist
- 1927 : Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium , mother of the Luxembourg Grand Duke Henri
- 1927 : Pierre Doukan , French violinist, composer and music teacher
- 1927 : William Perry , US Secretary of Defense
- 1928 : Ernst Ammann , German set designer and actor
- 1928 : Alfonso de Portago , Spanish racing car driver
- 1928 : Inge Taubert , German historian
- 1929 : Curtis Amy , American saxophonist and flautist
- 1929 : Liselotte Pulver , Swiss actress
- 1929 : Daniel Wayenberg , Dutch pianist and composer
- 1929 : Dorothee Wilms , German politician
- 1930 : Dagobert Lindlau , German journalist
- 1930 : Georges El-Murr , Lebanese Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia (Jordan)
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- 1932 : Richard Lugner , Austrian building contractor
- 1932 : Dana Scott , American mathematician and logician, computer scientist and philosopher
- 1932 : Dottie West , American country singer
- 1934 : Ingeborg Huld-Zetsche , German archaeologist
- 1934 : Peggy Parnass , German-Swedish actress, columnist, court reporter and author
- 1935 : Jan van Vlijmen , Dutch composer
- 1936 : Billy Higgins , American jazz drummer
- 1936 : Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa , Spanish writer
- 1937 : Jack Bresenham , American computer scientist
- 1937 : Bobby Charlton , English football player
- 1938 : Maddalena Kerrh , German actress and voice actress
- 1939 : Norma Blum , Brazilian actress
- 1939 : Maria Bueno , Brazilian tennis player
- 1939 : Bernd Cullmann , German athlete
- 1939 : Zenon Grocholewski , Polish cardinal
- 1939 : Khin Nyunt , Myanmar general and politician
- 1940 : Christoph Blocher , Swiss entrepreneur and politician, Federal Councilor
- 1940 : Reiner Frieske , German handball goalkeeper
- 1941 : Lester Bowie , American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer
- 1943 : Geert van Keulen , Dutch composer, conductor, clarinetist and music teacher
- 1943 : George McMillan junior , American politician
- 1943 : John Nettles , British actor and historian
- 1944 : Joana , German singer and songwriter
- 1945 : Bernhard Hefti , Swiss sculptor
- 1946 : Daryl Hall , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1946 : Sawao Kato , Japanese artistic gymnast
- 1946 : George McCorkle , American musician and songwriter
- 1946 : EY Meyer , Swiss writer
- 1947 : Mwata Bowden , American jazz musician
- 1948 : Darrell Castle , American politician
- 1948 : Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson , Ghanaian Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1950 : Al Anderson , American guitarist
1951-1975
- 1951 : Jean-Jacques Goldman , French composer and interpreter
- 1952 : Jim Kahr , American guitarist and singer
- 1952 : Angelika Mertens , German politician
- 1953 : Martin Lücker , German organist, church musician and professor
- 1954 : Hermann Gaub , German biophysicist
- 1954 : Sascha Hehn , German actor
- 1954 : Danny Sugerman , American music manager
- 1955 : Duncan Fuller MacTavish Atwood , American javelin thrower
- 1955 : Ionel Augustin , Romanian football player and coach
- 1955 : Hans-Peter Briegel , German soccer player and coach
- 1955 : Manfred Oeming , German theologian
- 1956 : Marisol Casado , Spanish triathlete, President of the International Triathlon Union
- 1956 : Nicanor Duarte Frutos , President of Paraguay
- 1957 : Luciano Favero , Italian football player
- 1957 : Martin Wimmer , German motorcycle racer
- 1959 : Wayne Gardner , Australian motorcycle racer
- 1960 : Stan Douglas , Canadian artist
- 1960 : Michael Niesemann , German oboist and university professor
- 1961 : Hany Abu-Assad , Dutch-Palestinian film director
- 1961 : Ali Asad , British cameraman
- 1961 : Alfred Dorfer , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
- 1961 : Gilda , Argentine pop singer
- 1961 : Lois Renner , Austrian visual artist
- 1961 : Steve Young , American football player
- 1962 : Joan Cusack , American actress
- 1963 : Matthias Stich , German marksman
- 1965 : Bruno Cathomas , Swiss actor
- 1965 : Juan Ignacio Cirac , Spanish physicist
- 1965 : Thure Riefenstein , German actor and director
- 1965 : Luke Perry , American actor
- 1965 : Sean Patrick Flanery , American actor
- 1965 : Alexander Hacke , German musician, record producer, film music composer and actor
- 1966 : Christoph Peters , German writer
- 1966 : Bill Sweedler , American racing car driver and entrepreneur
- 1967 : Proschat Madani , Iranian-Austrian actress
- 1969 : Tetjana Tereschtschuk-Antipowa , Ukrainian hurdler
- 1970 : U-God , American hip hop musician
- 1972 : Claudia Black , Australian actress
- 1973 : Roman Frieling , German dancer, dance sport trainer and judge
- 1973 : Takeshi Kaneshiro , Japanese-Taiwanese actor
- 1973 : Janis Nikos , German-Greek pop singer and entertainer
- 1974 : Jason Arnott , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 : Mehmet Emin Toprak , Turkish actor
- 1974 : Valerie Niehaus , German actress
- 1975 : Renate Lingor , German soccer player
- 1975 : Thomas Mraz , Austrian actor
- 1975 : DJ Tomekk , Polish hip hop DJ and music producer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Emily Deschanel , American actress
- 1977 : Matt Bomer , American actor
- 1977 : Antiopi Melidoni , Greek water polo player
- 1977 : Kouji Yamanishi , Japanese racing car driver
- 1978 : Reinfried Herbst , Austrian ski racer
- 1978 : Sascha Reinelt , German hockey player
- 1979 : Adam ML Tice , American church musician, composer and hymn poet
- 1980 : Serge Branco , Cameroonian football player
- 1982 : Patrick Biggs , Canadian ski racer
- 1982 : Guillermo Imhoff , Argentine soccer player
- 1982 : Mauricio Victorino , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1983 : Ruslan Ponomarjow , Ukrainian chess player
- 1983 : Bradley James , British actor
- 1984 : Jailson Severiano Alves , Brazilian soccer player
- 1984 : Sebastian Ernst , German athlete
- 1984 : Morten Olsen , Danish handball player
- 1984 : Oliver Tesch , German handball player
- 1985 : Erica Dasher , American actress
- 1985 : Álvaro Fernández , Uruguayan football player
- 1985 : Matthias Puhle , German handball player
- 1985 : Philipp Seitle , German handball player
- 1985 : Isabella Rosenby Thomsen , Danish handball player
- 1985 : Michelle Trachtenberg , American actress
- 1986 : Patrick Angele , Swiss politician
- 1987 : Patrick Fabian , German soccer player
- 1987 : Musa Hajdari , Kosovar middle-distance runner
- 1987 : Ariella Kaeslin , Swiss gymnast
- 1987 : Pablo Mouche , Argentine soccer player
- 1988 : Séamus Coleman , Irish football player
- 1989 : Jenrry Mejía , Dominican baseball player
- 1989 : Anton Nebylizki , Russian racing driver
- 1989 : Paula Schramm , German actress
- 1989 : Michelle Wie , American golfer
- 1990 : Behzod Abduraimov , Uzbek pianist
- 1990 : Paul Niemann , German actor
- 1990 : Sebastian Rode , German soccer player
- 1991 : Moorchegani Iman Jamali , Iranian handball player
- 1992 : Cardi B , American rapper
- 1992 : Emilia Pikkarainen , Finnish swimmer
- 1993 : Anastassija Sergejewna Romanowa , Russian ski racer
- 1995 : Darja Alexandrovna Ovtschinnikowa , Russian ski racer
- 1996 : Lineth Beerensteyn , Dutch soccer player
- 1997 : Omar Pašagić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1997 : Nico Rinderknecht , German soccer player
- 2000 : Hayden Byerly , American actor and voice actor
- 2000 : Neele Marie Nickel , German actress
21st century
- 2001 : Daniel Maldini , Italian soccer player
Died
Before the 17th century
Ludwig the Bavarian
(† 1347)
Ulrich Zwingli
(† 1531)
Meriwether Lewis
(† 1809)
James P. Joule
(† 1889)
Anton Bruckner
(† 1896)
- 965 : Brun , Archbishop of Cologne, Duke of Lorraine
- 1106 : Rupert , counter-bishop in the diocese of Würzburg
- 1159 : William , Count of Boulogne
- 1168 : Hartwig I. von Stade , Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
- 1188 : Robert I, the great , French Count of Dreux, son of Louis VI.
- 1232 : Gebhard I. von Plain , Bishop of Passau
- 1241 : Stephen of Seagrave , English knight and lord judge, royal justiciar
- 1273 : Hildebold von Wunstorf , Archbishop of Bremen
- 1301 : Wilhelm von Montfort , Abbot of St. Gallen
- 1303 : Boniface VIII , Pope
- 1304 : Conrad III. , Duke of Silesia
- 1340 : Nikolaus von Ybbs , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1347 : Ludwig the Bavarian , German Emperor
- 1361 : John Paschal , English priest
- 1424 : Jan Žižka , Bohemian army leader of the Hussites
- 1449 : Nikolaus II. Sachau , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1461 : Giorgio Fieschi , Italian cardinal
- 1505 : Jean II. Grimaldi , Lord of Monaco
- 1531 : Ulrich Zwingli , Swiss reformer
- 1550 : Georg Pencz , German painter, draftsman and engraver
- 1564 : Martin Borrhaus , German Protestant theologian and reformer
- 1598 : Joachim Camerarius the Younger , German doctor, botanist and natural scientist
17th and 18th centuries
- 1607 : Johann Stromer , German legal scholar
- 1627 : Bernardo de Balbuena , Spanish poet
- 1633 : Philaret , Patriarch of Moscow
- 1636 : Johann Albrecht Adelgrief , German prophet
- 1648 : György Rákóczi , Prince of Transylvania
- 1670 : Louis Le Vau , French builder Louis XIV.
- 1677 : Otto Johann Witte , German politician
- 1691 : Israël Silvestre , French painter and engraver
- 1705 : Guillaume Amontons , French physicist
- 1707 : Johann Reinhold von Patkul , Livonian and Saxon statesman
- 1708 : Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus , German philosopher and mathematician
- 1721 : Anton Florian , Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1733 : Christoph I. zu Dohna-Schlodien , Brandenburg-Prussian general and diplomat
- 1740 : Magdalena Augusta von Anhalt-Zerbst , Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
- 1757 : Zacharias Hildebrandt , German organ builder
- 1763 : Anna Victoria of Savoy , niece and chief heiress of Prince Eugene of Savoy
- 1790 : Marmaduke Tunstall , British ornithologist and collector
19th century
- 1809 : Meriwether Lewis , American explorer
- 1813 : Robert Kerr , British zoologist and translator from Scotland
- 1820 : James Keir , British chemist and industrialist from Scotland
- 1825 : Julius Georg Paul du Roi , German lawyer and director of the Braunschweig Peasants' Institution
- 1829 : Claus Frimann , Norwegian pastor and poet
- 1833 : Ernst Fries , German Romantic painter
- 1849 : Valentin Streuber , German politician and revolutionary from Baden
- 1852 : Gotthold Eisenstein , German mathematician
- 1877 : Léon Prévost , French composer
- 1878 : Satanta , chief of the Kiowa
- 1887 : Carl Ernst von Malortie , German cookbook author and minister
- 1889 : James Prescott Joule , British physicist
- 1890 : Mathias Auinger , Austrian paleontologist
- 1892 : Abdyl Frashëri , Albanian politician
- 1896 : Anton Bruckner , Austrian Romantic composer as well as organist and music teacher
- 1897 : Léon Boëllmann , French organist and composer
20th century
1901 to 1950
Jean-Henri Fabre
(† 1915)
Jean Cocteau
(† 1963)
Uwe Barschel
(† 1987)
- 1907 : Adolf Furtwängler , German archaeologist
- 1910 : Felicjan Faleński , Polish writer
- 1915 : Jean-Henri Fabre , French entomologist, poet and writer, is considered a pioneer in behavioral research and ecophysiology
- 1916 : Otto I , German nobleman, King of Bavaria
- 1921 : Haruthiun Abeljanz , Swiss chemist
- 1922 : August Leopold Philipp Maria Michael Gabriel Raphael Gonzaga , Brazilian claimant to the throne
- 1922 : Anton Kolm , Austrian director, film pioneer
- 1924 : Francisco Aguilar Barquero , President of Costa Rica
- 1926 : Albert Robida , French writer and caricaturist
- 1927 : Michael von Braganza , Portuguese pretender to the throne
- 1935 : Steele Rudd , Australian writer
- 1938 : Hermann Rodewald , German agricultural scientist
- 1940 : Vito Volterra , Italian mathematician and physicist
- 1943 : Jan Mosdorf , Polish nationalist
- 1949 : Albert H. Rausch , German writer
1951 to 2000
- 1957 : René Auberjonois , Swiss painter and draftsman
- 1958 : Johannes R. Becher , German writer and politician, Minister, President of the Kulturbund der DDR
- 1958 : Osvaldo Licini , Italian painter
- 1958 : Maurice de Vlaminck , French painter
- 1961 : Chico Marx , American actor
- 1963 : Jean Cocteau , French writer, director and painter
- 1964 : Peter Lindner , German racing car driver
- 1964 : Franco Patria , Italian racing car driver
- 1964 : Jean Pairard , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- 1965 : Dorothea Lange , American photographer
- 1965 : Walther Stampfli , Swiss politician
- 1967 : Franz Asboth , Austrian politician
- 1967 : Halina Poświatowska , Polish poet
- 1968 : August Mayer , German gynecologist
- 1969 : Elisabeth Nettebeck , German politician, MdL
- 1974 : Erich Wewel , German publisher
- 1976 : Connee Boswell , American actress, blues and jazz singer
- 1977 : Ibrahim al-Hamdi , President of the Yemen Arab Republic
- 1977 : MacKinlay Cantor , American writer
- 1977 : El Sayed Mohammed Nosseir , Egyptian weightlifter
- 1983 : Pauline Alderman , American musicologist and composer
- 1985 : Tex Williams , American country musician
- 1986 : Georges Dumézil , French religious scholar
- 1986 : David Hand , American animator, film director and producer
- 1987 : Uwe Barschel , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1987 : Erich Peter , German general, head of the GDR border troops
- 1988 : Max Imdahl , German art historian
- 1989 : Henryk Hubertus Jabłoński , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1989 : Marion King Hubbert , American geologist and geophysicist
- 1991 : Pietro Ferraris , Italian football player
- 1992 : Ignatius Ghattas , American Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Newton (USA)
- 1993 : Yvar Mikhashoff , American pianist
- 1993 : Jess Thomas , American hero tenor
- 1995 : Isolde Ahlgrimm , Austrian harpsichordist
- 1996 : Lars Valerian Ahlfors , Finnish-American mathematician
- 1996 : Pierre Grimal , French classical philologist
- 1996 : William Vickrey , Canadian-American economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1997 : Käthe Gold , Austrian actress
- 1999 : Johannes Fiebag , German writer, scientist and ufologist
- 1999 : Leo Lionni , American graphic artist, painter and book author
- 1999 : Fakir Baykurt , Turkish teacher and writer
- 1999 : Zbigniew Wiszniewski , Polish composer and music teacher
- 2000 : Rudolf Angelides , Austrian architect
- 2000 : Pietro Palazzini , Italian cardinal to the curia
21st century
- 2002 : Werner Eberlein , German politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
- 2003 : Johann Abt , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 2003 : Edward Breathitt , American attorney and politician, governor of Kentucky
- 2003 : Fredy Knie senior , Swiss circus director
- 2004 : Reinhard Hesse , German speechwriter and journalist
- 2004 : Fernando Sabino , Brazilian writer and journalist
- 2005 : Johannes Gachnang , Swiss artist, exhibition maker and publisher
- 2005 : Stephen Kondaks , Canadian violist and music teacher
- 2005 : Michael Maerker , German sculptor and painter
- 2006 : Asat Abbassow , Tatar opera singer
- 2006 : Cory Lidle , American baseball player
- 2006 : Jacques Sternberg , Belgian writer
- 2007 : Mehmed Uzun , Turkish writer
- 2007 : Sri Chinmoy , Indian spiritual teacher, writer, poet, composer, musician, artist and athlete
- 2008 : Vija Artmane , Latvian and Soviet actress
- 2008 : William Claxton , American photographer
- 2008 : Jörg Haider , Austrian politician
- 2008 : Peter Bender , German ancient historian and journalist
- 2009 : Veronika Neugebauer , German actress and voice actress
- 2011 : Jerachmi'el Assa , Israeli politician
- 2012 : Helmut Haller , German soccer player
- 2013 : Wadih El Safi , Lebanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor
- 2013 : Erich Priebke , German war criminal
- 2013 : María de Villota , Spanish racing car driver
- 2014 : Norbert Neururer , Austrian politician
- 2018 : Paul Andreu , French architect and author
- 2018 : Dieter Kemper , German racing cyclist
- 2019 : Robert Forster , American actor
- 2019 : Alexei Archipowitsch Leonow , Soviet cosmonaut
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Nectarius of Constantinople († 397), Archbishop of Constantinople from 381 to 397
- St. Philip , deacon of the early Jerusalem community, legendary bishop of Tralles and martyr (Coptic, Armenian, Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant: LCMS )
- Huldrych Zwingli , Swiss priest and reformer (Protestant)
- Saint Leonid of Optina , Russian monk and pastor (Orthodox, in the Julian calendar)
- St. Brun , German Chancellor and Archbishop (Roman Catholic, Protestant memorial day is on October 10th)
- until the calendar reform in 1969: Feast of the Motherhood of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary (today January 1st)
- More information about the day
- Coming Out Day (since 1988)
- International Girls' Day (since 2012)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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