September 11
The September 11 is the 254th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 255th in leap years ), thus remain 111 days by year end.
In both the Coptic and Ethiopian calendars , it is the first day of the year, unless the following year is a leap year. In this case, the beginning of the year will be postponed to September 12th.
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events
Politics and world events
- 813: Ludwig the Pious is crowned co-emperor by his father Charlemagne at an imperial assembly in Aachen .
- 1297: William Wallace wins a sensational victory over the English troops at the Battle of Stirling Bridge and drives them out of Scotland .
- 1541: At the beginning of a three-year uprising of the Mapuche against the Spanish conquistadors , the indigenous people around Toqui Michimalonco attack Santiago de Chile and destroy the city. Only the commitment of Inés de Suárez , the lover of the city's founder, Pedro de Valdívia , can avert a complete defeat for the Spaniards .
- 1609: Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan Island .
- 1620: In the battle of Tirano in Valtellina , an army of the Three Leagues , Berns and Zurich is defeated by Spanish troops.
- 1649: The Puritans under Oliver Cromwell, who were victorious in the English Civil War , were penalized against insurgent Irish , leading to the Drogheda massacre .
- 1697: In the battle of Zenta , imperial troops under Prince Eugene of Savoy defeat the Ottoman army of Sultan Mustafa II. Prince Eugene celebrates his first brilliant victory as a general.
- 1709: In the War of the Spanish Succession , the battle of Malplaquet takes place , in which the anti-French alliance wins with heavy losses of its own.
- 1714: Barcelona is conquered by French troops of Marshal von Berwick during the War of the Spanish Succession ; the Catalans have sided with the anti-French alliance. The Spanish ruler Philip V removes their old prerogatives and dissolves the independent Catalan institutions.
- 1777: British troops under General William Howe defeat colonists under George Washington in the American Revolutionary War in the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania and then advance on Philadelphia .
- 1802: France annexes the Subalpine Republic .
- 1814: The Battle of Plattsburgh , the defeat Americans , the British and give the British-American War thus a decisive turn in their favor. On Lake Champlain , the US fleet, under the command of Thomas Macdonough, defeated a British flotilla brought in from Canada.
- 1830: In Ecuador , which left Greater Colombia in May , the parliament elects Juan José Flores in Riobamba as the country's first president.
- 1836: In the province of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil , separatists under Antônio de Sousa Neto proclaim the Republic of Piratini during the Farrapen Revolution . However, it was subsequently not recognized under international law and only existed until March 1, 1845.
- 1857: Mormons at war with the United States ambushed a settler train from Arkansas during the Mountain Meadows Massacre . All adults are killed, the children given to Mormon families. The secret society of the Danites is held responsible for the deed.
- 1897: The kingdom of Kaffa surrenders to the armed forces of Ethiopia under Emperor Menelik II after months of fighting .
- 1907: In the Canadian port city of Vancouver there are bloody riots against Japanese immigrants, who are driven from their jobs by whites. When the Japanese fight back, the Asian district is stormed and burned to the ground.
- 1914: World War outside Europe : Australia leads on New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago an invasion by and defeat in the Battle of Bita Paka the German military contingent.
- 1914: The battle of Lemberg between the troops of Russia and Austria-Hungary ends with a defeat for the Habsburg monarchy , from which it no longer recovers.
- 1921: The Nahalal settlement is founded as the first Jewish moshaw in the Jezreel plain .
- 1921: The election for the second Thuringian state parliament results in a majority for the left-wing parties SPD, USPD and KPD. The SPD and USPD form a minority government with the tolerance of the KPD.
- 1941: The foundation stone for the Pentagon is laid.
- 1943: Second World War : German troops occupy Corsica and Kosovo -Metohien, beginning of the dissolution of the ghettos of Minsk and Lida by the Nazis.
- 1944: Second World War : The first Allied troops of the US Army cross the border of the German Empire north of Trier . During the so-called “ fire night ” in Darmstadt , 11,500 people died in a major attack by the Royal Air Force followed by a firestorm.
- 1944: The French city of Dijon is liberated for the second time in its history on this date - for the first time during the siege in 1513 by mainly federal troops.
- 1945: The Allied Council of the Four Occupation Powers in Austria is constituted.
- 1947: The first train of Soviet prisoners of war after the Second World War arrives in Wiener Neustadt . By the end of 1947, around 162,000 former prisoners of war had arrived.
- 1949: The people's initiative Return to Direct Democracy is adopted in Switzerland .
- 1954: The Federal Social Court in Kassel is ceremoniously opened.
- 1961: The armed uprising in South Kurdistan under Mustafa Barzani begins, which gradually becomes a popular movement of national liberation. The Iraqi Air Force begins massive bombing of Kurdish villages.
- 1961: The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is founded in Switzerland under the name World Wildlife Fund .
- 1970: With Operation Tailwind, the US extends the Vietnam War to Laos in order to increase the pressure on the Viet Cong fighters on the Ho Chi Minh Trail . The operation lasts until September 13th.
- 1973: A military coup against the government of Salvador Allende , supported by the US government, takes place in Chile under Augusto Pinochet . According to official estimates, around 3,000 Chileans fell victim to the following military junta . Over 1 million people are fleeing into exile.
- 1989: Hungary opens the Iron Curtain to give Germans from the GDR the opportunity to travel to the West.
- 1989: The security forces of the GDR try to prevent further Monday demonstrations in Leipzig with brutal violence and arrests .
- 1990: US President George HW Bush delivered a speech in which he for the first time before a large audience about the " new world order " (new world order) is talking about.
- 1991: The Soviet Union announces the complete withdrawal of its military units still stationed in Cuba .
- 1997: In a referendum, the majority of the people of Scotland vote for the establishment of a Scottish regional parliament .
- 2001: Terrorist attacks in the USA : Four passenger planes are hijacked on domestic flights, two of which are directed by the perpetrators to the World Trade Center and one to the Pentagon . The fourth plane crashes in a field near Shanksville , Pennsylvania . A total of around 3,000 people die - “September 11th” will be the word of the year 2001 in Germany .
- 2001: The General Assembly of the Organization of American States adopts the Inter-American Democratic Charter in Lima .
- 2007: Russia tests the father of all bombs , supposedly the most powerful conventional bomb in the world at the time.
business
- 1841: The painter John Rand receives a US patent for the tube he invented , which was originally intended to be filled with paint.
- 1877: Leopold Ullstein founds a newspaper and magazine publisher in Berlin .
- 1961: About the Bremer carmaker Borgward is the bankruptcy proceedings opened after July fail comparison procedure requested.
- 1961: The first edition of the consumer magazine DM appears. Product tests arouse interest in the new magazine .
science and technology
- 1609: The English navigator Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River , which was later named after him .
- 1746 Giovanni Domenico Maraldi discovered as Messier 2 designated globular clusters in the constellation Aquarius .
- 1912: The diesel Sulzer Klose thermal locomotive for the Prussian State Railways is completed in Berlin , the world's first diesel locomotive .
- 1928: In Denmark 's second city Aarhus , the Aarhus University founded.
- 1940: For the first time a computer is controlled remotely, which George Stibitz ( Bell Labs ) realizes via telephone line.
- 1944: The Universidad Veracruzana is founded in the Mexican city of Xalapa .
- 1952: The American doctor Charles A. Hufnagel inserts an artificial heart valve that he developed himself into the first patient .
- 1974: Charles Kowal discovers the Jupiter moon Leda (Jupiter XIII) .
- 1985: The ISEE-3 / ICE space probe passes Giacobini-Zinner - this is the first time a comet is explored by a probe.
- 1988: The asteroid Polydoros from the group of Jupiter Trojan is by Carolyn Shoemaker discovered.
- 1995: The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 , the flagship of the Cunard Line at the time , is hit by a cavalryman . The incident turned out to be mild, but led to freak waves or cavalry men no longer being dismissed as seaman's yarn , but being taken seriously and researched scientifically.
- 2007: The SOHO space observatory discovers its first demonstrably periodic comet 322P / SOHO , whose orbit was calculated in advance by Sebastian Hoenig .
Culture
- 8: Epoch of the Ethiopian Calendar (Gregorian)
- 260: In the Raetian provincial capital, Augusta Vindelicorum , the governor Simplicinius Genialis sets a consecration stone . The victory altar is the goddess of victory Victoria consecrated and reminiscent of a victory against the Germanic tribe of Juthungen .
- 284: The Coptic Calendar has the assumption of power by Diocletian as a point of reference (Gregorian)
- 1801: Friedrich Schiller's romantic tragedy The Maiden of Orléans is premiered in Leipzig . The piece, which belongs to the Weimar Classic , will be his most frequently performed work in Schiller's time.
- 1847: The catchy tune Oh! Susannah (I come from Alabama) by the composer Stephen Collins Foster will be performed for the first time in a saloon in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania .
- 1867: The extensive first volume of Karl Marx 's main work Das Kapital appears in Hamburg .
- 1925: The operetta Die Teresina by Oscar Straus based on a libretto by Rudolph Schanzer and Ernst Welisch is premiered at the German Art Theater in Berlin .
- 1933: The first performance of the propaganda film Hitlerjunge Quex takes place in Berlin.
- 1951: In the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the place premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress instead.
- 1962: The Beatles record their first single, Love Me Do.
- 1965: The Rolling Stones' first appearance in Germany in the Halle Münsterland in Münster.
- 1988: After the originally planned premiere did not take place on November 13, 1869, the rediscovered Messa per Rossini , a joint composition by several Italian composers on the first anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's death , is premiered by the Gächinger Kantorei under the direction of Helmuth Rilling at the European Music Festival Stuttgart .
religion
- 910: Duke Wilhelm I of Aquitaine founds the Cluny monastery , which became an engine for church reforms .
- 1822: The Catholic Church announces through the Congregation of the Roman and General Inquisition that the doctrine of the heliocentric view of the world may be spread in general.
- 1893: The Indian Swami Vivekananda presents his interpretation of Hinduism at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago.
- 1955: The Bern Temple , the first temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ) in Europe, is consecrated.
Disasters
- 1041: The Bremen fire destroys a large part of Bremen's old town.
- 1541: The Volcán de Agua bursts and destroys the Guatemalan capital, today's suburb Ciudad Vieja , with a scree and mud avalanche . Several hundred people die.
- 1877: The British three-masted sailor Avalanche sinks off the Isle of Portland after colliding with the freighter Forest , killing 106 people.
- 1881: On the Tschingelberg in the Swiss canton of Glarus , around 10 million m³ of rock break off as a result of improper slate mining and spill part of the village of Elm ; 114 people die in the landslide and 83 buildings are destroyed.
- 1916: The Québec Bridge collapses for the second time while attempting to complete it. 13 people are killed.
- 1944: 107 miners are killed in a firedamp explosion in the Monopol Grimberg 3/4 pit in Bergkamen , including numerous Russian slave laborers.
- 1944: In the Gelsenberg camp for Jewish female forced laborers in Gelsenkirchen-Horst , at least 150 female concentration camp prisoners are killed in bomb attacks because they were not allowed to use shelters.
- 1982: During the Mannheim "International Airship Days" , a US military helicopter of the type Boeing CH-47 Chinook crashes with parachutists from France, Wales and Germany on the Mannheim-Heidelberg motorway. All 46 inmates are killed.
- 1985: More than 100 people are killed in a head -on collision between two trains near Moimenta-Alcafache . It is the worst railway accident in the history of Portugal .
- 2015: After a storm, a construction crane overturned in Mecca in the immediate vicinity of al-Masjid al-Haram, killing at least 107 people and injuring 238 others.
- 2017: Hurricane Irma causes extensive damage in Florida .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1930: The Stromboli volcano erupts. As far as is known, it is the most violent eruption of this constantly active volcano to date .
- 1996: A rock attack occurs in a disused potash mine near Teutschenthal in Saxony-Anhalt . Seismographs around the world record the triggered earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 on the Richter scale .
Sports
- 1858: A group of four mountaineers stands for the first time in the Valais Alps on the cathedral , the highest mountain that lies entirely within Switzerland.
- 1875: The first professional women's baseball game play Blondes and Brunettes in Springfield , in the US state of Illinois from.
- 1910: In Fürth Sportpark Ronhof (today Stadium on Laubenweg ) with the game SpVgg Fürth against Karlsruher FV opened.
- 1926: Otto Peltzer defeated the "wonder man" Paavo Nurmi in a world record time over 1500 m in 3: 51.0.
- 1932: The French professional football league takes ten games to play mode on.
- 1972: The games of the XX. The Olympics in Munich will end with the closing ceremony one day later than planned. Those in attendance stand up at the event to commemorate the victims of the Olympic assassination attempt on Israeli athletes .
- 1995: The 1995 World Chess Championship begins in New York City between defending champion Garry Kasparov and challenger Viswanathan Anand .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
Ulisse Aldrovandi
(* 1522)
Johann Georg
(* 1525)
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne
(* 1611)
- 1182: Minamoto no Yoriie , Japanese shogun
- 1198: Hōjō Shigetoki , Japanese nobleman
- 1476: Luise of Savoy , Duchess of Angoulême and mother of the French King Franz I.
- 1494: Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Duchess of Geldern
- 1522: Ulisse Aldrovandi , Italian doctor and naturalist
- 1525: Johann Georg , Elector of Brandenburg
- 1584: Thomas Erpenius , Dutch orientalist
- 1599: Gottfried Cundisius , German Lutheran theologian
- 1611: Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne , Viscount de Turenne, French military leader and Marshal of France
- 1627: Johann Ernst II , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1635: Johann Jakob Hofmann , Swiss theologian, classical philologist, historian and lexicographer
- 1640: Gerard de Lairesse , Dutch painter
- 1648: Hieronymus Snitger , Hamburg merchant and politician
- 1656: Ulrike of Denmark , as the wife of Charles XI. Queen of Sweden
- 1657: Johann Sinapius , Silesian scholar and historian
- 1679: Leopold , Duke of Lorraine and Bar
- 1692: Lukas Fracht , Swiss entrepreneur and pietist
- 1699: Anna Maria Antonie , Princess of Liechtenstein
- 1700: James Thomson , Scottish poet
18th century
- 1711: William Boyce , British composer (baptized date)
- 1724: Johann Bernhard Basedow , German pedagogue, philosopher and writer
- 1735: Joseph Colloredo-Mels and Wallsee , Austrian minister and general
- 1736: Marguerite-Catherine Haynault , French lady-in-waiting and mistress of Louis XV.
- 1741: Johann Jakob Engel , German writer and philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment
- 1743: Nicolai Abildgaard , Danish painter, sculptor and neoclassical architect
- 1747: Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel , Landgrave of Hessen-Rumpenheim
- 1749: Justus Perthes , German publisher, founder of a geographic-cartographic publishing house
Johann Jakob Engel
(* 1741)
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard
(* 1743)
Justus Perthes
(* 1749)
- 1751: Charlotte von Sachsen-Meiningen , Duchess of Sachsen-Gotha and Altenburg
- 1753: Giovanni Antonio Antolini , Italian builder, architect and engineer
- 1753: Friedrich August Baumbach , German composer and Freemason
- 1756: Philipp Christian Friedrich Bodecker , German head of the Oldenburg forest administration
- 1760: Johann Friedrich Brandis , German lawyer and university professor
- 1762: Joanna Baillie , British Romantic poet
- 1763: Ignaz Gyulay , Austrian general, field marshal and president of the court war council
- 1766: James Brown , American politician
- 1768: Karl Friedrich Alexander Freiherr von Arnswaldt , German science politician and Minister of State
- 1769: Johann Erdmann Hummel , German painter
Mungo Park
(* 1771)
Friedrich Kuhlau
(* 1786)
Franz Ernst Neumann
(* 1798)
- 1771: Mungo Park , British explorer of Africa
- 1773: Christian Gottfried Lorsch , German lawyer and mayor of the city of Nuremberg
- 1778: Karl Ludwig Nordmann , domain tenant and animal breeder
- 1784: Lodovico Pavoni , Italian priest and founder of the order
- 1786: Friedrich Kuhlau , German-Danish composer
- 1787: Karl Wilhelm Wach , German painter
- 1788: Ernst Friedrich Köhler , German Lutheran clergyman
- 1798: Franz Ernst Neumann , German physicist, is considered one of the founders of theoretical physics
- 1799: Adolphe Pictet , Swiss linguist
- 1800: Franz Anton Staudenmaier , German Catholic theologian and professor
19th century
1801-1850
- 1805: Friedrich von Bothmer , Bavarian infantry general
- 1811: Johann Carl Hickel , Austrian writer
- 1811: Ludwig von der Pfordten , Bavarian and Saxon legal scholar and politician
- 1816: Carl Zeiß , German mechanic and entrepreneur, founder of Carl Zeiss
- 1817: Matthäus Hörfarter , German Catholic theologian
- 1818: Otto Theodor von Seydewitz , German politician, President of the Reichstag of the German Empire
- 1822: Heinrich Adolph Meyer , German marine researcher and manufacturer
- 1822: Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa , Queen of Württemberg
- 1824: Jacob Bernays , German philologist and philosophical writer
- 1825: Eduard Hanslick , Austrian music aesthetician and critic
- 1827: Anthony Eickhoff , German-American journalist, editor, author, lawyer and politician
Carl Zeiss
(* 1816)
Fitz Hugh Ludlow
(* 1836)
Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot
(* 1845)
Bernhard Howaldt
(* 1850)
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- 1833: Carl von Noorden , German historian
- 1835: William Wirt Allen , American Confederate Brigadier General in the Civil War
- 1836: Fitzhugh Ludlow , American writer
- 1838: Adam Asnyk , Polish poet and playwright
- 1843: Julius Krautz , German executioner
- 1843: Adolf Wach , German legal scholar
- 1844: Hermann Joseph Klein , German astronomer and meteorologist
- 1845: Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot , French engineer and inventor
- 1845: Robert Lüdtge , German physicist
- 1847: Mary Watson Whitney , American astronomer
- 1850: Bernhard Howaldt , German entrepreneur and engineer
1851-1900
- 1851: Hermann Molkenbuhr , German craftsman and politician, MdR
- 1852: Heinrich von Lützow , Austro-Hungarian diplomat
- 1853: Katharina Schratt , Austrian actress
- 1854: Peter Hille , German writer
- 1854: Albert Andreae de Neufville , German banker
- 1855: Georg Schmiedl , Moravian-Austrian teacher, co-founder of the Friends of Nature Association
Katharina Schratt
(* 1853)
Julian Byng
(* 1862)
Eduard Profittlich
(* 1890)
- 1861: Juhani Aho , Finnish writer and journalist
- 1861: Erich von Falkenhayn , German general, Prussian war minister and chief of the general staff
- 1862: Julian Byng , Canadian general and politician
- 1862: Augustin Henninghaus , German missionary and bishop
- 1862: O. Henry , American writer
- 1862: Mary Proctor , American astronomer and writer
- 1863: Heinrich Schneegans , German Romanist
- 1863: Georg Witkowski , German literary historian
- 1865: Wilford Bacon Hoggatt , American politician
- 1865: Rainis , Latvian poet, playwright, translator and politician
- 1868: Henry Justin Allen , American politician
- 1871: Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa , Spanish painter
- 1873: Rudolf Kassner , Austrian writer, essayist, translator, cultural philosopher
- 1874: Viktor Achter , German entrepreneur
- 1874: Franjo Dugan , Croatian composer
- 1875: Max Winckel , German chemist and nutrition researcher
- 1876: Alfonso Broqua , Uruguayan composer
- 1876: Stanley Rowley , Australian athlete
- 1877: Felix Dzerzhinsky , Russian professional revolutionary, head of the Cheka
- 1877: James Jeans , British physicist, astronomer and mathematician
- 1877: Amélie Thyssen , wife of Fritz Thyssen and founder
- 1880: Felix Knubben , German church musician and composer
- 1881: Asta Nielsen , Danish actress
- 1883: Emil Rausch , German swimmer
- 1884: Hans Böhler , Austrian painter
- 1885: Friedrich Wilhelm Banneitz , German engineer and physicist
- 1885: DH Lawrence , British writer
- 1886: Ernst Ackermann , Swiss statistician
- 1887: Friedrich von Zitzewitz , German administrative officer, district administrator in Schlawe and government vice-president in Köslin
- 1890: Max Ernst Opitz , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Leipzig
- 1890: Eduard Profittlich , German Jesuit, witness of faith, martyr, apostolic administrator for Estonia and titular archbishop
- 1890: Marius Ulfrstad , Norwegian composer
- 1891: Rudi Agte , German soccer player, coach and official
- 1891: Noël Gallon , French composer and composition teacher
- 1892: Lucien Buysse , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1892: Pinto Colvig , American actor, draftsman, animator, and author
- 1892: Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern , German draftsman and painter
- 1893: Douglas Hawkes , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1894: Vally Weigl , Austrian-American composer and music therapist
- 1894: Gert Heinrich Wollheim , German expressionist painter
- 1895: Edmond Grin , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1896: Georg Arnold-Graboné , German painter
- 1896: Robert S. Kerr , American politician
- 1898: Otto Heinrich von der Gablentz , German political scientist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1898: Erich Grisar , German worker poet
- 1898: Werner Höll , German painter, wood cutter and art critic
- 1898: Otto Reckstat , German industrial worker and union official
- 1899: Philipp Bouhler , German National Socialist party official
- 1899: Jimmie Davis , American country singer and songwriter, Secretary of the Interior and Governor of Louisiana
- 1900: Ernst Keller , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1900: Semyon Alexejewitsch Lavotschkin , Soviet aircraft designer
- 1900: Rudolf Schicketanz , German politician
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Hans Mühlenfeld , German politician and ambassador, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
- 1901: Joachim Maass , German writer and poet
- 1902: W. Harold Anderson , American basketball player and coach
- 1902: Barbecue Bob , American blues pioneer
- 1903: Karl Joseph Leiprecht , German Roman Catholic clergyman, bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese
- 1903: Theodor W. Adorno , German philosopher, sociologist, music theorist and composer
- 1903: Jean Aurenche , French screenwriter
- 1903: Yamanoguchi Baku , Japanese poet
Theodor W. Adorno
(* 1903)
Ludwig Gross
(* 1904)
Gerhard Schröder
(* 1910)
Ferdinand Marcos
(* 1917)
Florian Vetsch
(* 1921)
- 1904: Kurt Karl Doberer , German engineer, journalist, writer and philatelist
- 1904: Jazz Gillum , American blues musician
- 1904: Ludwik Gross , Polish-American cancer researcher and virologist
- 1904: Werner Hersmann , German SS officer, leader of a special command, commander of the security police and the SD
- 1904: Erich Schelling , German architect
- 1904: Friedrich Schönauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1904: Lyman Bradford Smith , American botanist
- 1905: Francis Rome , British officer
- 1906: Gustav Seitz , German sculptor and draftsman
- 1907: Cécile Chabot , Canadian writer and illustrator
- 1908: Liselotte Strelow , German photographer
- 1909: Hans Augustin , German lawyer
- 1909: Joachim Fernau , German writer and painter
- 1909: Gerd Lohmer , German architect and bridge builder
- 1910: Karl Branner , German politician, Lord Mayor of Kassel
- 1910: Walter Robert Corti , Swiss philosopher and publicist
- 1910: Manuel Mujica Láinez , Argentine writer and journalist
- 1910: Gerhard Schröder , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, multiple Federal Minister, candidate for Federal President
- 1911: Bola de Nieve , Cuban musician
- 1912: Gisèle van Waterschoot van der Gracht , Dutch painter and publisher, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1916: Josef Gauchel , German football player
- 1917: Herbert Lom , Czech actor
- 1917: Ferdinand Marcos , Filipino politician, President
- 1918: Peter Palitzsch , German theater director
- 1919: Georg Klotz , leading member of the South Tyrol Liberation Committee
- 1919: Ota Šik , Czech-Swiss economist and painter
- 1920: Karl Fuchs , German politician, MdL, MdB, MdEP
- 1920: Rudolf Opitz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1921: Myqerem Fuga , Albanian politician
- 1921: Bruno Moravetz , German sports reporter
- 1921: Ydnekachew Tessema , Ethiopian football player, coach and official
- 1921: Florian Vetsch , Swiss Government Councilor
- 1922: Adegboyega Folaranmi Adedoyin , Nigerian athlete
- 1923: Vasilije Mokranjac , Serbian composer
- 1924: Daniel Akaka , American politician
- 1924: Reubin Askew , American politician
- 1924: José Behra , French racing car driver
- 1924: Tom Landry , American football coach and player
- 1924: Rudolf Vrba , Slovak-British-Canadian pharmacologist, concentration camp refugee, resistance fighter
- 1925: Willi Herold , German soldier, war criminal
- 1925: Harry Somers , Canadian composer
1926-1950
- 1927: Myrta Silva , Puerto Rican singer and composer
- 1927: Walter Zeller , German motorcycle racer
- 1928: Friedrich Berentzen , German spirits manufacturer
- 1928: Earl Holliman , American film and television actor
- 1928: Jěwa Wórša Lanzyna , Sorbian painter, graphic artist and book designer
- 1929: Joe Lee Johnson , American racing driver
- 1929: Greta Klingsberg , Israeli singer and translator
- 1930: Jack Davis , American athlete
- 1930: Jean-Claude Forest , French comic artist
- 1931: Hans-Ulrich Wehler , German historian
- 1932: Bob Packwood , American politician, senator from Oregon
- 1933: William Luther Pierce , American physicist, founder and leader of right-wing extremist organizations
- 1933: Nicola Pietrangeli , Italian tennis player
- 1933: Rachid Sfar , Tunisian politician
- 1934: Norma Croker , Australian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1935: Arvo Pärt , Estonian composer
- 1935: Károly Palotai , Hungarian football referee
- 1935: Estiphan Panoussi , Persian-American oriental philologist and philosopher
- 1935: German Stepanowitsch Titow , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1935: Jacques Gaillot , French Catholic theologian and bishop
- 1936: William Asprey , English football player and coach
- 1936: Charles Dierkop , American actor
- 1936: Christian Heermann , German Karl May researcher and biographer
- 1936: Beny Rehmann , Swiss musician
Robert Crippen
(* 1937)
Mickey Hart
(born 1943)
Franz Beckenbauer
(* 1945)
- 1937: Leif Frimann Anisdahl , Norwegian graphic designer and postage stamp artist
- 1937: Paola Ruffo di Calabria , Queen of the Belgians
- 1937: Robert Laurel Crippen , American astronaut
- 1937: Tomas Venclova , Lithuanian poet and writer
- 1938: Peter Iden , German theater and art critic
- 1939: Alain Giletti , French figure skater
- 1939: Josef Jakob , Romanian handball player and coach
- 1940: Brian De Palma , American film director
- 1940: Gerlinde Berk , German politician, MdL
- 1940: Klaus Gerwien , German football player
- 1940: John David Hawkins , British Hittite scientist
- 1940: Nông Đức Mạnh , Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
- 1941: Paul Barge , French actor
- 1941: Tanja Berg , German pop and jazz singer
- 1942: Bill Elgart , American jazz drummer
- 1942: Lola Falana , American singer, dancer and actress
- 1942: Gerome Ragni , American actor, author, and painter
- 1942: Marybeth Tinning , American serial killer
- 1943: Hartmut Losch , German athlete
- 1943: Mickey Hart , American drummer and percussionist
- 1943: Vitaly Komar , American artist
- 1943: Gilbert Prousch , British artist
- 1943: Dieter Schubert , German rower
- 1944: Serge Haroche , French physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1945: Franz Beckenbauer , German soccer player, coach and official
- 1945: Hans-Jürgen Kleinholz , German football player
- 1945: Leo Kottke , American musician, singer and songwriter
- 1946: Balthasar Schwarm , German luge rider
- 1946: Sandy Skoglund , American photographer and installation artist
- 1947: Toni Bruk , Sorbian film director and producer
- 1947: Bob Catley , British rock singer
- 1947: Gerry Conway , British folk drummer
- 1948: Maria Eichhorn , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948: Flemming Hansen , Danish handball player
- 1948: Hilbrand Hartlief , Dutch volleyball player and sports reporter
- 1948: John Martyn , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1948: Frauke Tengler , German politician
- 1949: Bill Whittington , American racing car driver
- 1950: Barry Sheene , British motorcycle racer
1951-1975
- 1952: Martin Elste , German musicologist
- 1952: Klaus-Peter Hildenbrand , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1954: Herbert Bösch , Austrian politician, MEP
- 1955: Kurt Ansperger , Austrian kickboxer
- 1955: Hiram Bullock , American jazz guitarist
- 1955: Pupo , Italian singer
- 1956: Adriane Lenox , American theater and film actress
- 1956: Christof Florus , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Gaggenau
- 1956: Thomas Griese , German lawyer, judge and politician
- 1956: Adam Lipiński , Polish politician
- 1957: Barbara Bongartz , German writer
- 1957: Preben Elkjær Larsen , Danish football player
- 1957: Jon Moss , British drummer
- 1957: Gernot Rumpold , Austrian politician
- 1957: Günter Reichelt , German wrestler and trainer
- 1958: Silvio Baldini , Italian football coach
- 1958: Roxann Dawson , American actress
- 1958: Julia Nickson-Soul , Singaporean actress
- 1958: Scott Patterson , American actor
- 1959: Jeffrey Hoover , American composer and painter
- 1960: Ágúst Hauksson , Icelandic football player
- 1960: Predrag Nikolić , Bosnian chess player
- 1961: Philip Ardagh , British author for young people
- 1961: Stefan Banz , Swiss artist and curator
- 1961: Virginia Madsen , American actress
- 1961: Ingrid Puller , Austrian politician
- 1962: Julio Salinas , Spanish soccer player
- 1962: Filip Dewinter , Belgian politician
- 1962: Kristy McNichol , American film actress
- 1963: Pietro Ferrero junior , Italian entrepreneur
- 1963: Roderich Kiesewetter , German general staff officer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1963: Burkhard Knobbe , German soccer player
- 1963: Donato Sabia , Italian athlete
- 1964: Mimi Kodheli , Albanian politician
- 1964: Yuki Nakaji , Japanese manga artist
- 1964: Kathryn Watt , Australian cyclist
- 1964: Victor Wooten , American bass player
- 1965: Bashar al-Assad , Syrian President
- 1965: Paul Heyman , American wrestling manager and promoter
- 1965: Moby , American musician and singer, DJ and record producer
- 1965: Graeme Obree , British cyclist
- 1965: Axel Schock , German journalist and book author
- 1966: Princess Kiko , wife of Prince Akishino of Japan
- 1966: Dainis Ozols , Latvian cyclist
- 1967: Maria Bartiromo , American television presenter and author
- 1967: Harry Connick Jr. , American singer, pianist, and actor
- 1967: Maja Schmid , Swiss freestyle skier
- 1968: Akeem Anifowoshe , Nigerian professional boxer
- 1968: Slaven Bilić , Croatian football player
- 1968: Tobias Koch , German pianist
- 1968: Andreas Tews , German boxer
- 1969: Martin Kotůlek , Czech football player
- 1969: Birgit Wolf , German athlete
- 1970: Federico Arnaud , Uruguayan artist
- 1970: Aaron Dworkin , American violinist and music teacher
- 1970: John Spencer , Scottish soccer player
- 1971: Richard Ashcroft , British musician
- 1971: Stéphane Daoudi , French racing car driver
- 1971: Nicoleta Grasu , Romanian athlete
- 1971: Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska , German chess player
- 1971: Barbara Ricci , Italian actress
- 1972: Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh , Iranian soccer player
- 1972: Harry Luck , German author and journalist
- 1972: Andreas Menger , German soccer player
- 1972: Dodo Roscic , Austrian journalist and television presenter
- 1973: Sean Gagnon , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973: Tanya Hansen , Norwegian porn actress
- 1973: Johann Lonfat , Swiss football player
- 1973: Alessio Silvestrin , Italian ballet dancer, choreographer and composer
- 1974: Christian Belz , Swiss long-distance runner
- 1974: Orlando Duque , Colombian cliff divers
- 1974: Ulli Mair , Italian politician
- 1974: Jens Nolte , German cameraman
- 1975: Pierre Issa , South African soccer player
- 1975: Mimi Fiedler , German actress
- 1975: Tanja Lasch , German pop singer
- 1975: Dirk Meyer , German voice actor
1976-2000
- 1976: Tomáš Enge , Czech racing car driver
- 1976: Nike Fuhrmann , German actress
- 1976: Steffen Lehmann , German actor and speaker
- 1976: MC Rene , German-Moroccan rapper and stand-up comedian
- 1976: Marco Rose , German soccer player
- 1977: Jonny Buckland , British guitarist ( Coldplay )
- 1977: Ludacris , American rapper
- 1977: Marcel Saibert , German actor and singer
- 1977: Matthew Stevens , British snooker player
- 1978: Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk , Norwegian handball player
- 1978: Edward Reed , American football player
- 1978: Dejan Stanković , Serbian football player
- 1979: Christian Endler , German soccer player
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- 1979: David Pizarro , Chilean football player
- 1979: Ariana Richards , American actress
- 1979: Cameron Richardson , American actress
- 1980: Christophe Le Mével , French racing cyclist
- 1980: David McPartland , Australian cyclist
- 1980: Antonio Pizzonia , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver
- 1981: Marcus Becker , German canoeist
- 1981: Andreas Birnbacher , German biathlete
- 1981: Morlockk Dilemma , German rapper
- 1981: Paul Pieck , German cameraman
- 1982: Satoru Abe , Japanese biathlete
- 1982: Elvan Abeylegesse , Ethiopian-Turkish athlete
- 1982: Ryan Slattery , American actor and film producer
- 1983: Lauryn Williams , American athlete
- 1984: Dominic Peitz , German soccer player
- 1984: Mayssa Pessoa , Brazilian handball player
- 1985: Shaun Livingston , American basketball player
- 1985: Rodnei , Brazilian soccer player
- 1986: Sonja Barjaktarović , Montenegrin handball player
- 1986: Andrej Križaj , Slovenian ski racer
- 1987: Robert Acquafresca , Italian-Polish soccer player
- 1987: Anže Damjan , Slovenian ski jumper
- 1987: Tyler Hoechlin , American actor
- 1987: Susianna Kentikian , German boxer
- 1987: Meamea Thomas , Kiribati weightlifter
- 1988: Mustafa Aşan , Turkish football player
- 1988: Diane Caldwell , Irish football player
- 1988: Jeremy Hall , American football player
- 1988: Michael Zullo , Australian soccer player
- 1988: Torge Oelrich , German comedian and internet artist
- 1988: Sandra Vergara , Colombian actress, model, and talk show host
- 1991: Jordan Ayew , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1991: Kygo , Norwegian DJ
- 1992: Kubilay Anteplioğlu , Turkish football player
- 1992: Borut Mačkovšek , Slovenian handball player
- 1993: Lena Lotzen , German soccer player
- 1994: Levin Amweg , Swiss racing driver
- 1994: Lucas Auer , Austrian racing driver
- 1994: Joshua Bluhm , German bobsleigh driver
- 1994: Dwayne Benjamin Didon , Seychellois swimmer
- 1996: Travis Cooper , American biathlete
- 1997: Marin Pongračić , German-Croatian football player
21st century
- 2001: Mackenzie Aladjem , American actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- 889: Willibert , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1083: Munjong , 11th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1102: Ermengol V , Count of Urgell
- 1123: Marbod of Rennes , French theologian, poet and writer
- 1196: Maurice de Sully , Bishop of Paris
- 1203: Stephan von Tournai , Bishop of Tournai
- 1222: Adam , Abbot of Melrose and Bishop of Caithness
- 1223: Heinrich the Elder , Lord of Mödling
- 1227: Ludwig IV , Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony
- 1227: Thomas Olivier , Bishop of Paderborn
- 1263: Otto I , Count of Tecklenburg
- 1297: Hugh de Cressingham , English knight
- 1298: Philipp von Artois , Lord of Conches, Mehun, Nonancourt and Domfront
- 1349: Jutta of Luxembourg , French Crown Princess
- 1375: Friedrich II. Von Bülow , Bishop of Schwerin
- 1381: Almaric St Amand , English nobleman, military man and civil servant
- 1397: Pernelle Flamel , Parisian benefactress and alchemist
- 1419: Albrecht von Wernigerode , Bishop of Halberstadt
- 1465: Matthias Wedel , German legal scholar
- 1472: Giovanni Arnolfini , Italian merchant
- 1507: Galeotto Franciotti della Rovere , Bishop of Lucca and Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Benevento
- 1527: Charles I. de Croÿ , Prince of Chimay
- 1563: Johann Pennarius , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
Johannes Brenz
(† 1570)
Beatrice Cenci
(† 1599)
Odoardo Farnese
(† 1646)
James Harrington
(† 1677)
- 1570: Johannes Brenz , German reformer and Protestant theologian
- 1577: Pedro de Villagra y Martínez , Spanish soldier and governor of Chile
- 1586: Kaspar Arnurus , German moral philosopher and logician
- 1594: Balthasar Báthory , Transylvanian politician
- 1596: Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser , Dutch navigator
- 1599: Beatrice Cenci , Roman patrician, executed for parricide
17th and 18th centuries
- 1602: Sebastian Artomedes , German Protestant theologian and hymn poet
- 1606: Karel van Mander , West Flanders poet, writer, painter and draftsman
- 1607: Luzzasco Luzzaschi , Italian composer and organist
- 1624: Johann Gottfried von Fürstenberg , Canon and President of the Electoral Mainz Council
- 1627: Matthäus Ulicky , Reformation preacher in Bohemia, executed
- 1629: Adam von Herberstorff , Bavarian governor of Upper Austria
- 1639: Orazio Gentileschi , Italian painter
- 1645: Nikolaus Esterházy , Hungarian nobleman
- 1646: Odoardo I Farnese , Duke of Parma
- 1661: Jan Fyt , Flemish painter
- 1666: Paul Fürst , German publisher, book and art dealer
- 1677: James Harrington , English philosopher
- 1680: Go-Mizunoo , 108th Emperor of Japan
- 1709: Christian Siegmund von Aschersleben , Prussian colonel
- 1714: Johann Ludolph Quenstedt , bookseller and first mayor of Wittenberg
- 1719: Domenico Martinelli , Italian architect
Rudolf Jacob Camerarius
(† 1721)
François Couperin
(† 1733)
Johann August Ernesti
(† 1781)
- 1721: Rudolf Jacob Camerarius , German botanist and physician
- 1733: François Couperin , French organist and composer
- 1741: Johann Jacob Schübler , Nuremberg baroque master builder, architectural theorist and writer and mathematician
- 1753: Johann Joseph Wratislaw von Mitrowitz , Bishop of Königgrätz
- 1756: Johann Friedrich Christ , German archaeologist and art scientist
- 1760: Louis Godin , French astronomer
- 1767: Alexander Borissowitsch Buturlin , Russian general
- 1768: Joseph-Nicolas Delisle , French astronomer
- 1781: Johann August Ernesti , German theologian and philologist
- 1783: Johann Friedrich von Alvensleben , German civil servant
- 1788: Joseph of Braganza , Infante of Portugal
- 1789: Luka Sorkočević , Croatian diplomat and composer
- 1793: Johann d'Arnal , French engineer colonel and knight Maria Theresa
- 1799: Johann Samuel Adler , Prussian civil servant
19th century
David Ricardo
(† 1823)
Louis Juchault de Lamoricière
(† 1865)
Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
(† 1863)
Thomas Graham
(† 1869)
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- 1814: Johann Georg Ferdinand von Ammon , Prussian civil servant
- 1823: David Ricardo , British economist
- 1825: Christian Jakob Salice-Contessa , Silesian local politician and romantic writer
- 1836: Karl August Gottlieb Dreist , German educator
- 1838: Christoph Wilhelm Gatterer , German cameraman and forest scientist
- 1851: Sylvester Graham , American preacher and opponent of conventional medicine
- 1858: Alexander Lwowitsch Guriljow , Russian composer
- 1860: Friedrich Ludwig Keller , Swiss and Prussian lawyer and politician
- 1861: Karl Gottlieb Anton , German classical philologist
- 1863: Johann Wilhelm Schirmer , German painter and graphic artist
- 1865: Louis Juchault de Lamoricière , French general and statesman
- 1868: Louis Germond the Elder , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1869: John Bell , American politician
- 1869: Thomas Graham , British chemist
- 1873: Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez , morganatic husband of Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily, Queen Mother and Regent of Spain
- 1874: Franz Löhr , German sculptor
- 1875: Heinrich Rückert , German historian and Germanist
- 1876: Nathaniel B. Baker , American politician
- 1886: Eduard Robert Flegel , Lithuanian traveler to Africa
- 1888: Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , President of Argentina
- 1890: Eduard Degener , German-American politician
- 1891: Franz Adams , German administrative lawyer
- 1891: Otto Stromer von Reichenbach , Mayor of Nuremberg
- 1893: Adolphe Yvon , French painter
- 1896: Alexander Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian Privy Councilor and Lieutenant Field Marshal
- 1900: Otto Martin Torell , Swedish geologist, naturalist and North Pole driver
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Émile Bernard , French organist and composer
- 1905: Jules Arnous de Rivière , French chess player
- 1906: Carl de Ahna , German medic and politician
- 1910: Heinrich Caro , German chemist
- 1913: Julius Perlis , Austrian chess player
William Cornelius Van Horne
(† 1915)
Georges Guynemer
(† 1917)
Konstantin Korowin
(† 1939)
Nikita Khrushchev
(† 1971)
- 1915: William Cornelius Van Horne , American railroad pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1917: Georges Guynemer , French fighter pilot
- 1922: Louis Adolphe Coerne , American composer
- 1924: Muhammad Jamalul Alam II , Sultan of Brunei
- 1929: Paul Rosenhayn , German writer and screenwriter
- 1924: Christian von Krogh , German colonial officer
- 1924: Mieczysław Surzyński , Polish organist and composer
- 1939: Konstantin Korowin , Russian painter, stage designer and teacher
- 1940: Hermann Stehr , German writer
- 1943: Susan Stebbing , British philosopher
- 1944: Robert Benoist , French racing car driver and resistance fighter
- 1944: Rudolf Kissinger , German pastor, teacher, local researcher, club and association functionary
- 1944: Joseph Müller , German priest and pastor, opponent and victim of National Socialism
- 1947: Alice Keppel , British mistress
- 1948: Muhammad Ali Jinnah , Pakistani state founder and president
- 1949: Henri Rabaud , French composer
- 1950: Jan Christiaan Smuts , South African statesman and soldier
1951-2000
- 1953: Kurt Göhrum , German general of the SS police, chief of police in Berlin
- 1954: Ulrich Graf , German mathematician
- 1954: Rupert Hollaus , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1954: Alexander Steffen , German horticultural director, plant breeder and author
- 1955: Oswald Kroh , German educator and psychologist
- 1956: Herminio Masantonio , Argentine soccer player
- 1957: Petar Stojanović , Serbian composer
- 1958: Hans Grundig , German painter and graphic artist
- 1958: Robert Lach , Austrian musicologist
- 1960: Karl Benno von Mechow , German writer
- 1962: Vladimir Artemjew , Soviet rocket scientist
- 1963: Richard Oswald , Austrian film director and screenwriter
- 1965: Manfred Schiek , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1966: Hans von Ahlfen , German military
- 1967: Kurt Ulrich , German film producer
- 1968: Tommy Armor , Scottish-American golfer
- 1969: Leon Payne , American country musician
- 1970: Ernst May , German architect and urban planner
- 1971: Nikita Khrushchev , Soviet politician, party leader of the CPSU, head of government
- 1971: Woty Werner , German painter and picture weaver
- 1973: Salvador Allende , Chilean doctor and president
- 1973: Rudolf Hiden , Austro-French soccer player and coach
- 1978: José Antonio Calcaño , Venezuelan composer, music critic and diplomat
- 1978: Valerian Cardinal Gracias , Indian clergyman, Archbishop of Bombay
- 1978: Georgi Markow , Bulgarian writer
- 1978: Ronnie Peterson , Swedish Formula 1 racing driver
- 1979: Ignacio Aguirrezabala , Spanish football player
- 1979: Alexander Schawinsky , Swiss painter, photographer and set designer
- 1980: Christian Mergenthaler , German politician, MdL, MdR, Prime Minister of Württemberg, Minister of Culture
- 1981: Walter Heinrich Fuchs , German phytomedicist
- 1981: Mihai Moldovan , Romanian composer
- 1982: Philipp Mohler , German conductor and music teacher
- 1982: Albert Soboul , French historian
- 1983: Brian Muir , Australian racing car driver
- 1984: Else Reventlow , German women's rights activist and social democrat, editor
- 1987: Margot Büttner , German conservationist
- 1987: Lorne Greene , Canadian film actor
- 1987: Peter Tosh , Jamaican musician
- 1988: Hugh Bancroft , Canadian organist and composer
- 1988: Charles Jay , French composer
- 1989: Ludovic Feldman , Romanian composer
- 1989: William Vollery , Swiss racing car driver
- 1990: Iris von Roten , Swiss lawyer, journalist and women's rights activist
- 1990: Frederick Fyvie Bruce , Scottish theologian and New Testament scholar
- 1992: Werner Reichardt , German physicist and biologist
- 1993: Luis Antonio Escobar , Colombian composer and musicologist
- 1993: Mary Jane Reoch , American cyclist
- 1994: Friedrich Schmiedl , Austrian rocket pioneer, inventor of rocket mail
- 1994: Jessica Tandy , British actress
- 1995: Ralph Kent-Cooke , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1996: Willi Weiskirch , German politician
- 2000: Enver Şimşek , Turkish NSU victim
21st century
- 2001: around 3000 people in the terrorist attacks in the USA, including:
- 2001: Mohammed Atta , Egyptian Islamist terrorist
- 2001: Garnet Bailey , Canadian ice hockey player, coach and scout
- 2001: Mark Bavis , American ice hockey player, coach and scout
- 2001: Todd Beamer , budget manager for Oracle
- 2001: Berry Berenson , American actress, photographer and model
- 2001: Bill Biggart , American photojournalist
- 2001: Charles Burlingame , American pilot
- 2001: Jonathan Briley , American sound engineer in the Windows on the World restaurant in WTC 1
- 2001: Kevin Cosgrove , American executive and vice president of Aon Corporation
- 2001: Hani Handschur , Saudi Arabian terrorist
- 2001: Ziad Jarrah , Lebanese terrorist
- 2001: Mychal Judge , American Roman Catholic priest
- 2001: Daniel M. Lewin , American computer scientist
- 2001: John Ogonowski , American pilot
- 2001: Abdulaziz al-Omari , Saudi Arabian terrorist
- 2001: John P. O'Neill , American counter-terrorism expert
- 2001: Marwan al-Shehhi , terrorist from the United Arab Emirates
- 2001: Paul Zinsli , Swiss scientist
- 2002: Kim Hunter , American actress
- 2002: Johnny Unitas , American football player
- 2003: Anna Lindh , Swedish Foreign Minister
- 2003: John Ritter , American actor
- 2004: Fred Ebb , American musical writer
- 2004: Petros VII , Cypriot Patriarch of Alexandria
- 2005: John Slade , American broker
- 2005: Henryk Tomaszewski , Polish poster painter
- 2006: William Auld , Scottish writer
- 2006: Peter Clentzos , American pole vaulter
- 2006: Joachim Fest , German historian and publicist
- 2007: Joe Zawinul , Austrian musician
- 2007: Gene Savoy , American journalist
- 2008: Klaus J. Jacobs , German-Swiss entrepreneur and patron
- 2008: Mario de Jesús Báez , Dominican composer and music publisher
- 2009: Juan Almeida , Cuban revolutionary and politician
- 2009: Jim Carroll , American writer, musician and punk
- 2009: Roger Melis , German photographer
- 2009: Roland W. , German pop singer
- 2010: Bärbel Bohley , German civil rights activist and painter
- 2010: Heinrich Gillis Görtz , German painter and graphic artist
- 2010: Harold Gould , American actor
- 2011: Jean-Claude Abrioux , French politician
- 2011: Karl-Eddi Armgort , German politician
- 2011: Andy Whitfield , British-Australian actor
- 2014: Joachim Fuchsberger , German actor and entertainer
- 2015: Rudolf Radke , German journalist and publicist
- 2015: Wolfgang Sieg , German writer
- 2017: JP Donleavy , American-Irish writer
- 2017: Heiner Geißler , German politician
- 2017: Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah , Malaysian electoral king
- 2017: Peter Hall , British director
- 2019: Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie , Indonesian politician
- 2020: Christian Poncelet , French politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johannes Brenz , German pastor and reformer (Protestant)
- St Deiniol , Welsh Bishop (Roman Catholic)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Spain : Diada Nacional de Catalunya , regional holiday in Catalonia
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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