12. August

The August 12 is the 224th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 225th in leap years ), thus remain 141 days by year end.

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events

Politics and world events

0030 BC Chr .: The Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra dies under unexplained circumstances, but presumably by suicide.
0943: A Bavarian army under Duke Berthold defeats invading Magyars on the Wels Heath . The Hungarian invasions then subsided for several years.

1099: At the Battle of Ascalon , the Crusader army of the First Crusade under Gottfried von Bouillon defeated the Fatimids under Al-Afdal Shahanshah , but the city of Askalon was not conquered due to internal disputes.

1121: Dawit IV. The builder

1121: In the Battle of the Didgori , the Georgian King Dawit IV. The builder defeated the Seljuks decisively and thus opened the way to Tbilisi .

1323: The Nöteborg Treaty defines the border between Sweden and Novgorod for the first time .

1399: Tartars under Emir Edigü and Khan Timur Kutlugh defeat the troops of Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania in the battle of the Worskla , a tributary of the Dnieper . The Lithuanian defeat put an end to Vytautas' ambitions in the east.

1530: Florence , besieged by Charles V's troops since October, surrenders. The expelled Medici or their partisans regained power in the city.

The aristocratic republic in 1569

1569: The Union of Lublin , which was decided at the Sejm , which had been meeting since January 10th , founds the aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania . The Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have been linked in personal union since 1389.
1665: An English squadron attacked a Dutch merchant convoy in the Battle of the Bay of Bergen .
1676: The Wampanoag chief Metacomet , known as King Philip , is surrounded by English soldiers on Mount Hope and shot. That ends King Philip's War .
1679: Lake St. Clair is named after René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, based on Saint Clare of Assisi .
1687: The Imperial Austrian army wins the battle of Mohács against the Ottoman Empire , which enables the Habsburgs to enter Hungary and Slovakia .
1708: During the War of the Spanish Succession , the Allies siege the French city of Lille .

1759: Battle of Kunersdorf

1759: In the Battle of Kunersdorf during the Seven Years' War , the Prussians under Frederick II , the Great, succumb to the united Russian-Austrian troops. The way to Berlin is open to Russians and Austrians. Four days later, Frederick the Great spoke of the miracle of the House of Brandenburg because of their disagreement on how to advance further .

1788: Swedish officers and nobles come together in the Anjalabund , which opposes the absolutist ruling King Gustav III. waged war against Russia and calls for a Reichstag to be convened.

1806: In Buenos Aires the soldiers under the command William Carr Beresford who were in the country due to a British invasion surrender to the Spanish armed forces of the later viceroy Santiago de Liniers .

1813: After an ultimatum addressed to Napoleon Bonaparte expired, Austria's foreign minister, Count Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich, dissolves the peace congress in Prague and declares war between Austria and France .

1833: The city of Chicago is officially founded.

1833: In Switzerland , a majority of the cantons dissolve the Sarnerbund because it is incompatible with the federal treaty.

1845: During the visit of the Saxon Prince Johann to Leipzig, the royal military shoots several Leipzig citizens. Then there are protests.

1866: The truce between Austria and Italy in Friuli Cormòns ends the Third Italian War of Independence .

1898: The Republic of Hawaii is formally annexed to the United States . For them, the archipelago was of great strategic importance in the Spanish-American War . There is resistance and protests against the annexation among the locals .

1919: With the adopted Bamberg constitution , Bavaria receives the first democratic constitution in its history.

1921: In Berlin, after Lenin's appeal for help, the KPD -near International Workers Aid is founded, which provides support in emergencies from its donations.

1923: Gustav Stresemann is tasked with forming a cabinet in the German Reich after the government under Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno has resigned.

1933: The Cuban dictator Gerardo Machado is overthrown by a general strike and flees the country.

1940: The second phase of the Battle of Britain begins with a major attack by the German Air Force on radar stations near Portland and Dover and other coastal targets .

1944: Four companies of the SS division "Reichsführer SS" murder almost all residents of the Italian village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema . Most of the 560 victims are women and 116 children.

1949: In Geneva, a modification of the Geneva Conventions is signed by 18 states at the end of a diplomatic conference. In the light of experiences in World War II , four agreements are agreed, the most important of which is the protection of civilians in times of war .

1952: About 30 Russian-Yiddish writers, artists and intellectuals are executed in Moscow's Lubyanka on the night of the murdered poets ; the exact number of victims is uncertain. Many of them were in contact with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee , including Itzik Feffer , Leib Kwitko , Solomon Abramowitsch Losowski and Perez Markisch .

1953: The Soviet Union draws level with the USA in the arms race with the detonation of a hydrogen bomb .

1961: The GDR Council of Ministers decides to set up barriers and controlled border crossings to West Germany .

1966: Three police officers are killed on Braybrook Street in London , causing one of the largest manholds in British police history to begin.

1969: The Northern Ireland conflict escalates when Protestants storm the Catholic district of Bogside in Londonderry and celebrate the 280th anniversary of the liberation of “Derry” from the Catholics. The Catholic population barricades themselves and engages in street battles with the Protestants.

1970: The policy of détente in the Brandt era : the Moscow Treaty signed the first of the Eastern Treaties .

1978: Japanese-Chinese relations : Japan signs the Sino-Japanese peace and friendship treaty with China in response to the " ping-pong diplomacy " of the USA.

1980: In the Treaty of Montevideo , eleven predominantly South American states found the Latin American Integration Association .

1990: The West German FDP unites with the Bund Free Democrats , the German Forum Party (DFP) and the FDP of the GDR at a special party conference in Hanover . Two bloc parties from the GDR , the LDPD and the NDPD , have joined forces in the Bund Free Democrats .

2004: Sweden announces that it has reached a population of exactly nine million people.

2006: The UN Security Council unanimously passes resolution 1701 to end the war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah .

2013: Regardless of new revelations in the global surveillance and espionage affair , Chancellery Minister Ronald Pofalla declares the allegations made against the secret services involved "off the table" and that there have been "no millions of fundamental rights violations" in Germany.

business

1851: Isaac Merritt Singer receives a patent for the first operational sewing machine .

1860: The Empress Elisabeth Railway from Vienna to Salzburg is ceremoniously opened.

1908: Production of the Ford Model T (also known colloquially as Tin Lizzie , in German: Blechliesel ) begins .

science and technology

1812: The first rack railway goes into operation in England . It connects a coal mine in Middleton with Leeds to transport coal .
1821: The Universidad de Buenos Aires is founded as the first university in Argentina .
1877: The Martian moon Deimos is discovered by Asaph Hall .
1960: With the balloon satellite Echo 1 , NASA puts the first passive communication satellite into earth orbit.
1962: The cosmonaut Pawel Popowitsch takes off into space on board the Vostok 4 , exactly 24 hours after Vostok 3 with Andrijan Nikolajew . This is the first time that two manned spacecraft are in orbit at the same time .
1977: The prototype space shuttle Enterprise , from the space shuttle program, completes its first free flight.

Sue at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago

1990: The American paleontologist Sue Hendrickson discovers a specimen of a fossilized skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota . It is the most complete and best preserved skeleton of its kind found to date. The skeleton is now in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and bears the name Sue in honor of the discoverer .

2005: The space probe Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA breaks on their way to Mars on which they reached on March 10 of 2006.

2018: The NASA space probe Parker Solar Probe , for researching the solar corona , is launched.

Culture

1845: The opera Alzira by Giuseppe Verdi is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .

1845: Beethoven Monument

1845: The Beethoven monument designed by Ernst Hähnel and executed by Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet is ceremoniously unveiled on Bonn's Münsterplatz . The unveiling ceremony will be accompanied by a festival lasting several days, directed by Franz Liszt . The first Beethoven Hall is being built as the venue .

1922: The Salzburg Great World Theater by Hugo von Hofmannsthal , as a adaptation of Calderón's The Great World Theater , is premiered under the direction of Max Reinhardt in the Salzburg Collegiate Church.

2017: The documentary Mrs. Fang by the Chinese director Wang Bing wins the Golden Leopard at the 70th Locarno Film Festival .

religion

1868: Baha'u'llah , the founder of the Baha'i religion, is deported from Adrianople to Acre by the Ottoman government .

1897: In the encyclical Augustissimae virginis mariae , Pope Leo XIII recommends . every ecclesiastical community the establishment of a rosary fraternity . You should by praying the Rosary , the piety promote.

1950: Pope Pius XII. publishes Humani generis , an apostolic circular condemning modernist doctrines in the Church .

1951: Founding of the "German Mission Community, Association for Charity e. V. “, today DMG interpersonal , a Christian aid and missionary organization with 350 employees in 76 countries worldwide.

Disasters

1881: Fire in the National Theater in Prague . The brass roof, the stage and the auditorium burn down completely.
1953: The severe earthquake on Kefalonia and Zakynthos in 1953 almost completely destroys both islands.
1985: Japan Air Lines flight 123 , a Boeing 747 en route from Tokyo to Osaka , crashes into Takamagahara Mountain. Of the 524 people on board, only four survived the accident; According to the number of casualties, it is the worst aviation accident in history with just one airplane.
2000: The Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea after several explosions . The entire crew of 118 men was killed.

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

nature and environment

A quagga , extinct in 1883

1883: The world's last specimen of the quaggas , an atypically colored subspecies of the plains zebra, dies in the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam .

Sports

1901: In Lucerne the football club is FC Luzern founded.
1904: In Rio de Janeiro the football club is Botafogo Football Club founded.

1913: Mount Robson

1913: Konrad Kain leads the first ascent of Mount Robson , the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies .
1928: The IX. Summer Olympics in Amsterdam .
1946: The football club Sampdoria Genoa is created from the merger of the two clubs SG Sampierdarenese and SG Andrea Doria .
2012: The closing ceremony of the XXX. Summer Olympics takes place in London's Olympic Stadium.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 17th century

Christian III (* 1503)
Peter Ernst Mansfeld (* 1517)
Isabella Clara Eugenia (* 1566)
Prince Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar (* 1590)

1503: Christian III. , Danish and Norwegian king
1506: Franciscus Sonnius , Bishop of Antwerp
1517: Peter Ernst I. von Mansfeld , governor of the Spanish crown in the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Brussels and field marshal
1521: Jacob Heerbrand , German theologian and reformer
1566: Isabella Clara Eugenia , governor of the Spanish Netherlands
1575: Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg and Würzburg, witch hunter
1589: Domenico Fiasella , Italian painter
1589: Ulrich von Pommern , Protestant Bishop of Cammin
1590: Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Hadamar , German nobleman
1591: Louise de Marillac , founder of the French order of the Vincentian Sisters

17th century

Isabella Clara of Austria (* 1629)
Luise Elisabeth of Courland (* 1646)
Marie of Lorraine (* 1674)
Dorothea Friederike of Brandenburg-Ansbach (* 1676)

1604: David Lindner , German legal scholar
1604: Tokugawa Iemitsu , 3rd Shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate
1629: Isabella Clara of Austria , Duchess of Mantua
1634: Adam Colonia , Dutch painter
1644: Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Bohemian violinist and composer (baptism date)
1646: Luise Elisabeth von Kurland , German-Baltic nobleman, Landgrave of Hessen-Homburg
1647: Johann Heinrich Acker , German theologian and writer
1647: Eberhard Werner Happel , German novelist
1651: Margarita Teresa of Spain , Infanta of Spain
1666: Antonio Balestra , Italian painter, draftsman and engraver
1666: Odoardo II Farnese , son and heir of Duke Ranuccio II Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
1668: Johann Rudolf Victor von Pretlack , General of the Cavalry and General Field Marshal Lieutenant
1674: Maria of Lorraine , Princess of Monaco
1676: Dorothea Friederike von Brandenburg-Ansbach , German noblewoman
1682: Simon Paul Hilscher , German medic
1688: Christian , Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg
1696: Maurice Greene , English composer and organist

18th century

Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken (* 1704)
Conrad Ekhof (* 1720)
George IV, King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover (* 1762)
Robert Southey (* 1774)

1704: Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken , by marriage Countess Palatine and Duchess of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
1711: Johann Stapf , South German sculptor and building expert
1716: Johann Jakob Simmler , Swiss Protestant clergyman and church historian
1720: Conrad Ekhof , German actor
1722: Giuseppe Baldrighi , Italian Rococo painter
1753: Johann Konrad Holzach , Swiss theologian and headmaster
1756: François de Beauharnais , French nobleman
1756: William Tilghman , American lawyer and politician
1757: Louisa Stuart , British writer
1762: George IV , King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
1762: William Branch Giles , American politician
1762: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , German doctor, social hygienist and public educator
1767: August Ferdinand Ludwig Dörffurt , German pharmacist and mayor of Wittenberg
1767: Friederike Leisching , German painter and draftsman
1774: Heinrich August Christian Ludwig Diemer , German legal scholar
1774: Robert Southey , British poet, historian and critic
1779: Georg Friedrich Karl Joseph , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1781: Robert Mills , American architect and cartographer
1791: Joseph von Arneth , Austrian archaeologist and numismatist
1794: Jacques Martin , Swiss Protestant clergyman
1796: Hermann Ernst Endemann , German lawyer
1797: Manuel Aguilar Chacón , President of Costa Rica
1800: Jean-Jacques Ampère , French historian, philologist and writer

19th century

1801-1850

1801: Julius Heinrich Petermann , German orientalist
1805: Ernst Theodor Echtermeyer , German writer, literary historian, aesthetician and philosopher
1805: Johann Karl Rodbertus , German economist, founder of state socialism
1806: Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac , French publicist
1807: Bernhard Hirzel , Swiss Reformed theologian and orientalist
1808: Karl Gustav Geib , German criminalist and professor, secretary and teacher of King Otto of Greece
1809: William Huntington Russell , American co-founder of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones
1811: Hermann Püttmann , German publicist, editor, journalist and art critic of the Vormärz
1812: Samuel Stehman Haldeman , American naturalist and linguist
1819: George Ezekiel , German journalist and writer
1825: Frederick Ouseley , British composer
1825: Władysław Taczanowski , politician of the Polish minority in the German Reich, MdR
1829: John Horace Forney , American general

Carl August von Steinheil (* 1801)
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (* 1831)
Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (* 1843)
Abbott H. Thayer (* 1849)

1831: Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , American occultist and writer of German-Russian origin
1831: Helene von Nassau , Princess of Nassau
1831: Friedrich Klopfleisch , German prehistorian and art historian
1832: Peter Soemer , German theologian and poet
1834: Maximilian von Feilitzsch , German politician, Bavarian State Minister of the Interior
1839: Hermann Baumstark , German theologian
1840: Adolf Dorner , German educator
1841: Franz Schwechten , German architect
1843: Colmar von der Goltz , Prussian field marshal and military historian
1844: Bernhard Schwarz , German Africa explorer
1846: Ludwig Jeep , German classical philologist
1847: Raimund Grübl , Austrian lawyer and politician
1849: Abbott Handerson Thayer , American painter

1851-1875

1852: Leo von Abbema , German architect
1854: Ignát Herrmann , Czech writer, humorist and editor
1855: Georg Triller , German Catholic theologian, cathedral dean and vicar general in the diocese of Eichstätt
1856: Eduardo Dato , Spanish politician, Prime Minister
1857: Ernestine von Kirchsberg , Austrian landscape painter
1858: Alessandro Lualdi , Archbishop of Palermo and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1859: Ludwig Ausserwinkler , German chemist and photographer
1860: Klara Hitler , mother of Adolf Hitler
1861: Johannes Meinhold , German Protestant theologian
1862: Martin Brendel , German astronomer
1862: Alfred Kaiser , Swiss researcher on Africa and Sinai
1863: Frederick R. Simms , British industrialist and automobile pioneer
1864: Kuno von Westarp , German lawyer, administrative officer and politician, MdR
1865: Josef Deitmer , German Catholic theologian, auxiliary bishop in Breslau, based in Berlin

Klara Hitler (* 1860)
Jacinto Benavente (* 1866)
Edith Hamilton (* 1867)
Mary Roberts Rinehart (* 1876)

1866: Jacinto Benavente , Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize winner
1866: Brynolf Wennerberg , Swedish poster artist and painter
1867: Edith Hamilton , German-American writer
1868: David Farbstein , Swiss politician
1869: Edmund von Strauss , Austrian conductor
1871: Gustavs Zemgals , Latvian politician
1872: Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg , member of the British royal family
1875: Phokion Naoúm , German explosives chemist

1876-1900

1876: Mary Roberts Rinehart , American writer

1877: Anders Brems , Danish singer, clarinetist and music teacher

1880: Marguerite Radclyffe Hall , British writer

1880: Christy Mathewson , American baseball player

1881: Alexander Michailowitsch Gerasimow , Russian painter

1881: Cecil B. DeMille , American director and film producer

1883: Lorenz Bock , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Prime Minister

1883: Marion Lorne , American actress

1884: Fulco Ruffo di Calabria , Italian fighter pilot

1886: Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher , Austrian painter

1886: Evalyn Walsh McLean , American entrepreneur's daughter , last private owner of the Hope diamond

1887: Walter Hempel , German football player

1887: Helene Roth , Swiss painter

1887: Erwin Schrödinger , Austrian physicist and scientific theorist, Nobel Prize winner

Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (* 1880)
Maria Olszewska (* 1892)

1888: Walter Georgii , German meteorologist
1889: Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro , Peruvian general and politician, president
1890: Stella Harf , German actress
1891: Karl Aulitzky , Austrian classical philologist and high school teacher
1891: Antonio Cortis , Spanish opera singer
1891: Lutz Götz , German actor
1892: Maria Olszewska , German opera singer (alto / mezzo-soprano)
1892: Ray Schalk , American baseball player and manager
1892: Hans Hartvig Seedorff Pedersen , Danish lyric poet
1893: Edwin Bauersachs , German dialect poet from the Ore Mountains
1893: Thea Hucke , German painter
1893: Willy Marschler , German politician
1894: Albert Leo Schlageter , German officer and free corps fighter
1894: Hermann Teuber , German painter and graphic artist
1894: Jack Underwood , American football player
1895: Walter "Kid" Smith , American old-time musician
1896: Otto Haußleiter , German political scientist and administrative officer
1896: Henry Müller , German football player
1896: Tsunenohana Kan'ichi , Japanese sumo wrestler, 31st yokozuna
1897: Gerhard Pfahler , German psychologist, educational scientist
1897: Otto von Struve , Russian-American astronomer
1898: Karl Auer , German football player
1898: Oskar Homolka , Austrian actor
1898: Karl von Westphalen , German politician and journalist

Peter Altmeier (* 1899)
Thea Rasche (* 1899)

1899: Peter Altmeier , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
1899: Eduard Andorfer , Austrian art historian
1899: Alfred Kantorowicz , German writer
1899: Thea Rasche , German pilot and journalist
1900: Elisabeth Freifrau von und zu Guttenberg , German nobleman, founder and chairwoman of several charitable institutions and organizations
1900: Lisa Ullrich , German politician, MdR, resistance fighter against National Socialism

20th century

1901-1925

1901: Anton Lamprecht , German painter
1901: Else Schmitz-Gohr , German composer, pianist, university teacher
1902: Franz Etzel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister of Finance
1902: Mohammad Hatta , Indonesian independence fighter and politician, Vice President, Prime Minister
1902: Robert F. Kennon , American politician
1902: Kirellos VI. , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark of the Coptic Church
1902: Gretel Schulte-Hostedde , German sculptor and ceramicist

Mohammad Hatta (* 1902)
Gretel Schulte-Hostedde (* 1902)
Robert F. Kennon (* 1902)
Hans Urs von Balthasar (* 1905)

1903: Walter Bodmer , Swiss painter and sculptor
1903: Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1904: Edward Montague Hussey Cooper , Australian actor
1904: Margret Bilger , Austrian artist
1904: Alexei Nikolajewitsch Romanow , Russian tsarevich
1904: Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann , German portrait, figure and landscape painter, costume artist
1905: Giordano Aldrighetti , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver
1905: Hans Urs von Balthasar , Swiss Catholic theologian and cardinal
1905: Albrecht Köstlin , German agricultural economist, agricultural labor scientist and construction technologist
1905: Karl Paryla , Austrian actor and director
1905: Hans Seigewasser , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
1906: Harry Hopman , Australian tennis player
1907: Gladys Bentley , African American blues singer and entertainer
1907: Joe Besser , American comedian
1907: Andrew Charlton , Australian swimmer, Olympic champion
1907: Étienne Hajdú , French sculptor of Hungarian descent
1907: Josef Stangl , Bishop of Würzburg
1907: Miguel Torga , Portuguese writer
1908: Nina Vladimirovna Makarova , Russian composer
1909: Franz Six , German SS general, task force leader, participant in the Holocaust and war criminal
1910: Gustav Lantschner , Austrian-German ski racer
1910: Bruno Max Leuschner , German politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED and chairman of the State Planning Commission of the GDR
1910: Heinrich Sutermeister , Swiss composer
1910: Jane Wyatt , American actress

Gladys Bentley (born 1907)
Cantinflas (* 1911)
Adolf Burger (* 1917)
Marcel Naville (* 1919)

1911: Hubert Armbruster , German lawyer and professor
1911: Cantinflas , Mexican actor, singer, comedian and producer
1912: Wilhelm Baumann , German field handball player
1912: Samuel Fuller , American director, screenwriter, and actor
1912: Feroze Gandhi , Indian politician and journalist
1912: Rex Griffin , American old-time and country musician
1912: Christian Pescheck , German prehistorian, university teacher and monument conservator
1913: Raphael Armattoe , Ghanaian doctor, author and poet
1913: Ajahn Maha Bua Nyanasampanno , Thai monk and abbot of Wat Pa Ban Tat
1913: Narciso Jubany , Archbishop of Barcelona and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1913: Alexander Alexandrowitsch Kotow , Russian chess player and author
1914: Hans Theilig , German handball player
1916: Ralph Nelson , American director and screenwriter
1916: Mario Prassinos , Greek-French painter
1917: Adolf Burger , Slovak printer and Holocaust survivor, eyewitness of the Bernhard action
1917: LeRoy Grannis , American photographer
1917: Ebba Haslund , Norwegian writer
1917: Hanns Anselm Perten , German actor, director and theater manager
1917: Alfred Vogt , German sailplane designer
1919: Erwin Amend , German composer and concert master
1919: Margaret Burbidge , British astrophysicist
1919: Marcel Naville , Swiss banker, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross
1919: Vikram Sarabhai , Indian physicist
1919: Clark Templeman , American racing car driver
1920: Wilhelm Altvater , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1920: Hans Marquardt , German publisher
1920: Percy Mayfield , American blues musician
1920: János Percz , Hungarian designer and graphic artist
1921: Martin Appelfeller , German major general of the MfS
1921: Walter M. Jefferies , American production designer
1922: Humphrey Atkins , British politician
1922: Miloš Jakeš , Czechoslovak politician

Miloš Jakeš (* 1922)
Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq (* 1924)
Dale Bumpers (born 1925)
Werner Nachmann (* 1925)

1923: Dragutin Haramija , Yugoslav politician, Prime Minister of SR Croatia
1923: Helmut Prassler , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
1924: Cynthia Gooding , American folk singer
1924: Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq , Pakistani general, president
1925: Dale Bumpers , American politician
1925: Norris McWhirter , British publisher, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records
1925: Werner Nachmann , German entrepreneur and politician, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
1925: Kerstin Thorvall , Swedish writer, illustrator and journalist
1925: Thor Vilhjálmsson , Icelandic writer

1926-1950

1926: John Derek , American actor and director
1926: Ann Druffel , American UFO researcher and author
1926: Georg Rosbigalle , German football player
1926: Paul Suter , Swiss sculptor
1927: Bernie Piltch , Canadian jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist
1927: Heinrich Reinhart , Austrian writer and local researcher
1927: Porter Wagoner , American country singer
1928: Dan Curtis , American film director and film and television producer
1928: Herbert Kremp , German journalist and publicist
1928: Fatima Meer , South African sociologist and anti-apartheid activist
1929: Charles Moore , American hurdler, Olympic champion
1929: Buck Owens , American country singer
1929: Hans-Dieter Söling , German biochemist
1929: Jōji Yuasa , Japanese composer
1930: Klaus Erich Agthe , German-American businessman and author
1930: Ron Herron , British architect and author
1930: George Soros , American investment banker and currency speculator
1930: Peter Weck , Austrian director, theater director and actor
1931: William Goldman , American screenwriter and writer
1931: Jiří Stránský , Czech writer, screenwriter, dramaturge and translator

George Soros (* 1930)
Peter Weck (* 1930)
William Goldman (born 1931)
Queen Sirikit (* 1932)

1932: Jay Julian Armes , American private investigator
1932: Oskar Saier , German clergyman, Archbishop of the Diocese of Freiburg
1932: Sirikit , Queen of Thailand
1932: Sergei Michailowitsch Slonimski , Russian composer, pianist and musicologist
1933: Anita Gradin , Swedish politician
1933: Ronald Paris , German painter
1934: Stefan Abajiev , Bulgarian football player and coach
1934: Arnold Angenendt , German theologian and church historian
1934: Achim Schrader , German sociologist
1935: John Cazale , American actor
1935: Reinhard Granderath , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
1935: André Kolingba , President of the Central African Republic
1935: Harry Kupfer , German opera director
1935: Karl Mickel , German poet, playwright and essayist
1936: Hermann Anders , German jazz trombonist
1936: Iosif Bükössy , Romanian football player and coach
1936: Margot Eskens , German pop singer
1936: Rachid Mekhloufi , Algerian-French soccer player
1936: John Poindexter , American admiral and politician
1936: Gerold Tandler , German politician, MdL, multiple state minister
1936: Jürgen Wohlrabe , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Berlin House of Representatives, Member of the Bundestag

Eva Poll (* 1938)
George Hamilton (* 1939)

1938: Eva Poll , German gallery owner and curator
1938: Helene Thurner , Austrian luge athlete
1938: Klaus Wolf , German politician, Minister for Post and Telecommunications in the GDR
1939: George Hamilton , American actor
1939: Pam Kilborn , Australian athlete
1939: Helene Partik-Pablé , Austrian politician
1939: Roy Romanov , Canadian politician
1939: Pam Ryan , Australian athlete, Olympic medalist
1939: Claus Wilcke , German actor

Claus Wilcke (* 1939)
Tony Allen (* 1940)

1940: Tony Allen , Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter
1940: Dorothea Chryst , German opera singer
1940: Aleksandar Jossifow , Bulgarian composer
1941: Craig Douglas , British pop singer
1941: Edwin Roberts , Trinidadian athlete
1942: Volker Anding , German ambassador
1942: Wolfgang Huber , German Protestant theologian, bishop and council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany
1942: Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt , German sports doctor
1942: David Munrow , English musician and musicologist
1942: Wolfgang Rückert , German politician, MdL
1942: Pat Rupp , American ice hockey player
1943: Margit Bendokat , German actress
1943: Herta Däubler-Gmelin , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
1943: Christoph Grimm , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, President of the State Parliament
1943: Jean-Pierre Talbot , Belgian actor

Herta Däubler-Gmelin (* 1943)
Fernando Collor de Mello (* 1949)
Mark Knopfler (* 1949)
Iris Berben (* 1950)

1944: Alken Bruns , German translator, Scandinavian and historian
1944: Francesco Morini , Italian football player
1945: Bernard Accoyer , French politician
1945: Nelson Aguiar Ramírez , Cuban dissident
1945: Ute Mora , German actress
1945: Jean Nouvel , French architect
1946: Gerd Anthoff , German television and theater actor
1946: Alain Pellegrini , French general
1947: Howard Atherton , British cameraman
1947: Stefano Benni , Italian writer, journalist and satirist
1947: Albie Donnelly , British musician and singer
1947: Atli Gíslason , Icelandic politician
1947: Waltraud Lehn , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1948: Peter Aufgebauer , German historian
1948: Sam Neely , American country singer
1949: Fernando Collor de Mello , Brazilian politician, President
1949: Mark Knopfler , British musician ( Dire Straits )
1949: Terence Oldfield , British composer and musician
1950: Iris Berben , German actress
1950: George McGinnis , American basketball player

1951-1975

1951: Klaus Toppmöller , German soccer player and coach
1951: Wolfgang Wulf , German politician, MdL
1952: Gerardo Amato , Italian actor
1952: Chen Kaige , Chinese director and writer
1952: Hans-Ulrich Treichel , German writer
1953: Bernardo Aguerre , Uruguayan guitarist and composer
1953: Carlos Mesa , Bolivian President
1953: Franz Posch , Austrian folk musician
1953: Randy Williams , American athlete

Chen Kaige (* 1953)
Carlos Mesa (born 1953)
François Hollande (* 1954)
Bruce Greenwood (born 1956)

1954: Ray Abruzzo , Italian-American actor
1954: François Hollande , French politician
1954: Sam J. Jones , American actor
1954: Pat Metheny , American jazz guitarist
1954: Max Straubinger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1954: Karl-Heinz Wellmann , German science editor
1955: Hanspeter Gass , Swiss businessman and councilor
1955: Heintje , Dutch pop singer and child actor
1955: Markus Ramseier , Swiss writer
1955: Dietmar Schauerhammer , German bobsledder
1956: Bruce Greenwood , Canadian actor
1956: Brigitte Kraus , German athlete
1956: Dorothee Stapelfeldt , German art historian and politician, Member of the State Parliament, Mayor President, Senator
1956: Akimi Yoshida , Japanese manga artist
1957: Martin Aeschlimann , Swiss physicist
1957: Isaac de Bankolé , French actor
1957: Ulrich Neymeyr , German auxiliary bishop of Mainz
1957: Wolfram Paulus , Austrian film director and screenwriter
1957: Wolfgang Schmid , German historian
1959: Michael Andrejewski , German lawyer and politician, MdL
1959: Jerzy Kornowicz , Polish composer
1960: Hendrina Adriana Maria van den Akker , Dutch music and voice actress
1960: Laurent Fignon , French cyclist

Isaac de Bankolé (born 1957)
Kristin Krohn Devold (* 1961)
Peter Krause (* 1965)
Tanita Tikaram (* 1969)

1961: Kristin Krohn Devold , Norwegian Minister and Economist

1961: Andrea Maria Dusl , Austrian film director

1961: Gottardo Gottardi , Swiss grandmaster in correspondence chess

1961: Roy Hay , British musician ( Culture Club )

1961: Dieter Landuris , German dancer and actor

1961: Tetjana Samolenko-Dorowskych , Soviet athlete

1961: Andreas Suchanek , German business ethicist
1962: Luca Olivieri , Italian guitarist and singer
1963: Futahaguro Kōji , Japanese sumo wrestler, yokozuna
1963: Susanne Wenzel , German table tennis player
1964: Dirk Mierau , German actor
1964: Hanno Settele , Austrian radio and television journalist
1965: Peter Krause , American film and television actor
1966: Uwe Abel , German soccer player
1966: Stefan Fassbinder , Lord Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Greifswald
1966: Daniel Simmes , German soccer player
1966: Heinz Wöstmann , German lecturer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
1967: Emil Kostadinow , Bulgarian football player
1967: Philibert Nang , Gabonese mathematician
1968: Kasem Hoxha , German-Albanian actor
1968: Elin Nilsen , Norwegian cross-country skier
1969: Tanita Tikaram , British singer and songwriter
1970: Ellory Elkayem , New Zealand director
1971: Michael Ian Black , American actor and screenwriter
1971: Rebecca Gayheart , American actress
1971: Pete Sampras , American tennis player

Rebecca Gayheart (* 1971)
Pete Sampras (* 1971)
Del tha Funkee Homosapien (* 1972)
Casey Affleck (* 1975)

1972: Demir Demirkan , Turkish musician and actor
1972: Del Tha Funkee Homosapien , American rapper
1972: Takanohana Kōji , Japanese sumo wrestler, yokozuna
1973: Isabel Arlt , German actress and chanson singer
1973: Joseba Beloki , Spanish cyclist
1973: Mark Iuliano , Italian football player and coach
1973: Richard Reid , British terrorist
1973: Mark Zabel , German canoeist
1974: Dirk Mommertz , German pianist
1975: Casey Affleck , American actor
1975: Roberto D'Aversa , Italian football player and coach
1975: Robert Burås , Norwegian guitarist and songwriter
1975: Steven Elm , Dutch speed skater
1975: Patrick Joswig , German actor

1976-2000

1976: Tina Angel , German erotic model
1976: Norman Bordin , German neo-Nazi and politician
1976: Manolo Jiménez , Andorran football player
1976: Mikko Viljami Lindström , Finnish guitarist ( HIM )
1976: Lina Rafn , Danish songwriter, producer and pop singer ( Infernal )
1976: Sørenn Rasmussen , Danish handball player
1976: Wednesday 13 , American musician
1976: Alexander Wipprecht , German actor and presenter
1977: Jesper Grønkjær , Danish football player
1977: Iva Majoli , Croatian tennis player
1977: Richard Spiegelburg , German athlete
1978: Hayley Wickenheiser , Canadian ice hockey and softball player
1979: Zlatan Bajramović , Bosnian football player
1979: Ian Hutchinson , British motorcycle racer
1979: Brendan Iribe , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
1979: Cindy Klassen , Canadian speed skater
1979: Austra Skujytė , Lithuanian athlete
1980: Jessica Ginkel , German actress
1980: Maggie Lawson , American actress
1980: Dominique Swain , American actress

Wednesday 13 (* 1976)
Hayley Wickenheiser (* 1978)
Dominique Swain (* 1980)
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (* 1983)

1981: Djibril Cissé , French football player
1981: Caylian Curtis , Czech porn actress
1981: Emiliano Dudar , Argentine soccer player
1981: Steve Talley , American actor
1982: Tadesse Abraham , Eritrean long-distance runner
1982: Najmeh Abtin , Iranian archer
1982: Elisabetta Fantone , Canadian actress and artist
1982: Daniel McMillan , British handball and American football player
1982: Daniela Schreiter , German comic artist
1982: Alexandros Tzorvas , Greek football player
1982: Even Wetten , Norwegian speed skater
1983: Yoshiyuki Asari , Japanese biathlete
1983: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar , Dutch football player
1984: Martin Goeres , German actor
1984: Felix Lobedank , German handball player
1984: Sherone Simpson , Jamaican athlete, Olympic champion
1985: Charlotte Salt , British actress
1986: Alessandra Amoroso , Italian singer
1986: Nicola Etzelstorfer , Austrian actress
1986: Peggy Nietgen , German soccer player
1987: André Hamann , German model
1987: Sigurbergur Sveinsson , Icelandic handball player
1988: Mark Arcobello , American ice hockey player
1988: Frederic Löhe , German soccer player
1988: Leah Pipes , American actress
1989: Amilton Minervino da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
1989: Geoffrey Mujangi Bia , Belgian football player
1989: Marc Schuh , German wheelchair athlete, junior world champion
1990: Mario Balotelli , Italian football player
1990: Wissam Ben Yedder , French football player
1991: Mads Mensah Larsen , Danish handball player
1991: Danae Dörken , German-Greek pianist
1992: Cara Delevingne , British model and actress
1992: Maurice Müller , German soccer player
1992: Willi Steindl , Austrian racing driver
1992: Jacinta Wawatai , New Zealand actress
1993: Ewa Farna , Czech-Polish singer

Leah Pipes (* 1988)
Cara Delevingne (* 1992)
Ewa Farna (* 1993)
Bex Taylor-Klaus (* 1994)

1994: Cristian Ramírez , Ecuadorian soccer player
1994: Ethan Ringel , American racing car driver
1994: Bex Taylor-Klaus , American actress
1996: Arthur , Brazilian soccer player
1996: Amelie Herres , German actress
1996: Torri Webster , American actress
1996: Joelle Wedemeyer , German soccer player
1997: Taiwo Awoniyi , Nigerian soccer player
1998: Mariana Cress , Marshallese sprinter
1998: Stefanos Tsitsipas , Greek tennis player
1999: Matthijs de Ligt , Dutch football player

Died

Before the 17th century

0030 BC Chr .: Cleopatra VII. , Last queen of the Egyptian Ptolemaic empire
0875: Ludwig II , Roman Emperor and King of Italy
0934: Noting , Bishop of Constance
1012: Waltard , Archbishop of Magdeburg
1077: Sieghard , Patriarch of Aquileia
1106: Dietrich III. , Count of Katlenburg
1156: Blanka , Princess of Navarre
1158: Anselm von Havelberg , Bishop of Havelberg and Archbishop of Ravenna
1204: Berthold IV. , Count of Andechs, Duke of Merania and Margrave of Istria
1222: Vladislav Heinrich , Duke of Bohemia and Margrave of Moravia
1274: Olivier de Termes , Occitan knight, faydit and crusader
1294: Guillaume de Conflans , Bishop of Geneva
1315: Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick , English magnate
1316: John Marshal, 2nd Baron Marshal , English nobleman and hereditary Marshal of Ireland
1319: Rudolf I , Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine near the Rhine
1344: Burchard Grelle , Archbishop of Bremen
1365: Ortolf von Weißeneck , Archbishop of Salzburg
1419: Heinrich Grymhardt , priest and official in Cologne
1424: Yongle , Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
1469: John Woodville , English nobleman
1469: Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers , English nobleman

Cleopatra VII. († 30 BC)
Emperor Yongle († 1424)
Pope Sixtus IV († 1484)
Anna of Poland († 1503)

1484: Sixtus IV , Pope
1503: Anna of Poland , Duchess of Pomerania
1520: Angelina Srpska , saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church
1520: Johannes von Schlabrendorff , Bishop of Havelberg
1551: Charles Brandon , English Member of Parliament
1551: Paul Speratus , German theologian, reformer and song poet
1577: Thomas Smith , English diplomat

17th century

1604: Johann I , German historian, Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
1611: Hermann von dem Bergh , imperial count von dem Bergh, governor of Spanish money
1612: Giovanni Gabrieli , Italian composer
1621: John Barclay , Scottish poet and satirist
1623: Antonio Priuli , 94th Doge of Venice
1627: Esaias Stiefel , theological enthusiast and founder of a sect
1633: Jacopo Peri , Italian composer
1634: Friedrich Ulrich , Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
1638: Baltasar von Marradas , Spanish Knight of Malta, Field Marshal, governor in Bohemia
1648: İbrahim , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

Antonio Priuli († 1623)
Marie de Rohan-Montbazon († 1679)
Pope Innocent XI. († 1689)

1652: Jakob de la Gardie , Reichsmarschall and chairman of the council of war
1659: Dara Shikoh , son of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, religious thinker, mystic and poet
1667: Cornelis van Poelenburgh , Dutch painter
1669: Louis I de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme and cardinal
1674: Philippe de Champaigne , French painter
1676: Metacomet , Indian chief of the Pokanoket
1679: Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Chevreuse , French intriguer and frondeuse
1682: Louis Rattuit de Souches , imperial general
1684: Nicola Amati , Italian violin maker
1689: Innocent XI. , Pope
1695: Huang Zongxi , Chinese philosopher, political analyst, and historian

18th century

1706: Johann Deutschmann , German Lutheran theologian
1714: Anne , Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland
1722: Giovanni II. Cornaro , 111th Doge of Venice
1725: Pierre de Montesquiou d'Artagnan , French military man and Marshal of France
1728: Antonius Jacobus Henckel , German theologian
1728: Hendrick Zwaardecroon , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies

1730: Benedicta Henriette von der Pfalz , Duchess of Braunschweig-Calenberg

Queen Anne († 1714)
Giovanni Cornaro († 1722)
Pierre de Montesquiou († 1725)
Rachel Ruysch († 1750)

1750: Rachel Ruysch , Dutch Baroque painter
1752: Antonio Corradini , Venetian sculptor
1759: Tobias Heinrich Gottfried Trost , German organ builder
1760: Nicolaus Ephraim Bach , German composer and organist
1760: Karl Gotthelf Müller , German rhetorician, poet and Lutheran theologian
1763: Olof von Dalin , Swedish poet, writer, satirist and historian
1763: Peter Gerwin von Franken-Siersdorf , Vicar General in Cologne
1766: Gustav Friedrich Gebser , Electoral Saxon civil servant
1794: Johann David Beil , German actor and stage poet
1797: Gotthelf Greiner , glassmaker and co-inventor of Thuringian porcelain

19th century

1805: Johann Friedrich Anthing , German silhouetteur
1807: Bernardino Honorati , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1807: Johann Stephan Pütter , German constitutional law teacher and journalist
1811: John Acton , Italian politician and military man
1822: Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry , British statesman
1826: Victor Hugues , French colonial administrator under Robespierre, Napoleon I and Louis XVIII.
1827: William Blake , British poet, mystic and painter

Robert Stewart († 1822)
William Blake († 1827)
George Stephenson († 1848)
Albert Gallatin († 1849)

1843: Toussaint Charbonneau , French-Canadian explorer, trader and member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
1843: Franz-Ludwig Mersy , German theologian
1848: George Stephenson , British engineer, railway pioneer
1849: Albert Gallatin , American diplomat
1854: Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon , French adventurer
1857: William Daniel Conybeare , British geologist and paleontologist
1862: Johann Michael Ackner German archaeologist and naturalist
1865: William Jackson Hooker , British botanist
1865: Rudolf Mayer , Czech poet and writer
1875: Leopold Freiherr von Hoverbeck , German landowner and politician
1875: Heinrich Adolf von Zastrow , Prussian general

William Gosse († 1881)
Josephine Wessely († 1887)
James Edward Keeler († 1900)
Wilhelm Steinitz († 1900)

1881: William Gosse , British-Australian naturalist and explorer
1885: Helen Hunt Jackson , American author
1887: Josephine Wessely , Austrian actress
1889: Georg Michael Pachtler , German Jesuit, theologian, priest and educator
1890: Heinrich Otte , German clergyman and medieval archaeologist, art and church historian
1891: James Russell Lowell , American poet, essayist, and diplomat
1897: Antonius van der Linde , Dutch chess historian and librarian, theologian and philologist
1900: James Edward Keeler , American astrophysicist
1900: Herman Riegel , German art historian, museum director, founder of the General German Language Association
1900: Wilhelm Steinitz , Austrian-American chess player

20th century

1901-1925

1901: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , Finnish-Swedish polar explorer
1903: Albert Erdmann Karl Gerhard von Levetzow , German politician, MdR
1903: Werner Nolopp , German composer
1904: William Renshaw , English tennis player
1909: Rudolf Swiderski , German chess master
1910: Adolf Michaelis , German archaeologist
1911: Jules Brunet , French member of a military mission to Japan
1911: Jozef Israëls , Dutch painter
1911: Raimund von Stillfried , Austrian officer, painter and photographer
1912: Michele Saladino , Italian composer and music teacher
1916: Hans Eppinger senior , Austrian physician
1917: Gustav Kampmann , German painter and graphic artist
1917: Wilhelm Morgner , German expressionist painter and graphic artist
1920: Louisa Lawson , Australian writer, editor, suffragette and feminist
1920: Hermann von Struve , German-Baltic astronomer and mathematician

Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld († 1901)
Louisa Lawson († 1920)
Hermann von Struve († 1920)
Arthur Griffith († 1922)

1921: Caspar Isenkrahe , German mathematician, physicist and natural philosopher
1922: Arthur Griffith , Irish politician, founder of the Sinn Féin party , president
1923: Bernhard von Prittwitz and Gaffron , Royal Prussian Rittmeister, state elder of Upper Silesia
1924: Sándor Bródy , Hungarian writer
1925: Léon Gustave Dehon , French founder of the Sacred Heart Priests Order

1926-1950

1927: Carl Pulfrich , German physicist and optician

1928: Leoš Janáček , Czech composer

1929: Robert Henri , American painter

1929: Rudolf Nováček , Czech composer and conductor

1932: Franz Wilhelm van den Wyenbergh , German goldsmith

1934: Hendrik Petrus Berlage , Dutch architect

1937: Felix Beran , Austrian-Swiss technician, poet, writer and translator

1938: Ludwig Borchardt , German Egyptologist

1938: Václav Klement , Czech entrepreneur and founder of the Škoda automobile company

Václav Klement († 1938)
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. († 1944)
Karl Leisner († 1945)
Al Shean († 1949)

1940: Ulrich Bigalke , German engineer, automobile racing driver, filmmaker and fighter pilot
1940: Johann-Volkmar Fisser , German general
1942: Pasquale Amato , Italian singer
1942: Fred Endrikat , German writer and cabaret artist
1942: Rudolf Hasse , German racing driver
1943: Wolfgang von Chamier-Glisczinski , German lieutenant general
1943: Kurt Eggers , German writer and Nazi cultural politician
1943: Hermann Frieb , German social democratic politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
1943: Bebo Wager , German founder of the resistance group Revolutionary Socialists against the Nazi regime
1944: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. , American pilot, brother of John F. Kennedy
1945: George Arundale , British-Indian Freemason and theosophist
1945: Karl Leisner , German Catholic priest, concentration camp victim and martyr
1946: Alfred Stock , German chemist
1949: Al Shean , German-American comedian

1951-1975

1953: Paul Gurk , German writer and painter
1953: Bobby Kohlrausch , German automobile racing driver
1955: Miloslav Fleischmann , Czech ice hockey player
1955: Thomas Mann , German writer, Nobel Prize winner
1955: James Batcheller Sumner , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
1956: Gianpiero Combi , Italian football player
1956: Albert Freude , German Roman Catholic pastor
1956: Ernst Kreidolf , Swiss graphic artist and illustrator of children's books
1957: Ludwig Kratz , German chemist
1958: Otto Müller-Jena , German architect
1959: Max Nonne , German neurologist

Thomas Mann († 1955)
James Batcheller Sumner († 1955)
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen († 1964)
Walter Rudolf Hess († 1973)

1962: Reginald Ruggles Gates , geneticist and botanist
1964: Ian Fleming , British writer
1964: Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Maksutow , Soviet optician, inventor of the Maksutov telescope
1964: Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen , Danish engineer and industrialist
1966: Artur Alliksaar , Estonian poet
1969: Josef Glaser , German soccer player
1969: Hans-Egon Hass , German lawyer, Germanist and university professor
1969: Hugh Hodgson , American music educator, pianist, conductor, and composer
1970: Luigi Picchi , Italian organist, composer and music teacher
1973: Walter Rudolf Hess , Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
1974: Heinrich Pellenz , German entrepreneur
1975: Pinchas Sapir , Israeli politician and minister

1976-2000

1978: Fritz Laves , German mineralogist and crystallographer

1978: Gregor Wentzel , German physicist

1978: John Williams , British motorcycle racer

1979: Ernst Boris Chain , British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner

1979: James Gordon Farrell , Irish-British writer

1980: Tachihara Masaaki , Japanese writer

1980: Manuel Tato , Argentine theologian

1982: Henry Fonda , American actor

1982: Salvador Sánchez , Mexican boxer

1983: Kana Asumi , Japanese voice actress
1983: Edmund Kolbe , German painter
1983: Franz Radziwill , German painter
1985: Jakob Adlhart , Austrian sculptor
1985: Kyu Sakamoto , Japanese singer
1985: Manfred Winkelhock , German automobile racing driver

Ernst Boris Chain († 1979)
Henry Fonda († 1982)
Jean-Michel Basquiat († 1988)
William B. Shockley († 1989)

1986: Johann Pesser , Austrian football player and coach
1986: Ernst Wendt , German theater director
1987: Lena Ohnesorge , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
1988: Jean-Michel Basquiat , American graffiti artist, painter and draftsman
1989: William B. Shockley , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
1990: Georg Hansemann , Austrian religious educator and priest
1990: Roy Williamson , British musician and instrument maker
1991: Hans Weigel , Austrian writer and theater critic
1992: John Cage , American composer
1994: Barbara Grabowska , Polish actress
1994: Manfred Salzgeber , German actor and filmmaker
1996: Viktor Hambardsumjan , Soviet and Armenian astrophysicist and astronomer
1997: Luther Allison , American blues guitarist
1998: Ida Krehm , Canadian pianist, conductor and music teacher
2000: William Bradley , British racing car driver
2000: Max Grießer , German actor and singer
2000: Loretta Young , American film actress

21st century

2002: Enos Slaughter , American baseball player
2003: Walter Jackson Ong , American clergyman, literary scholar and media theorist
2003: Esteban Servellón , Salvadoran composer, musician, conductor and music teacher
2004: Godfrey Hounsfield , British electrical engineer, Nobel Prize winner, one of the fathers of computed tomography
2004: Carlo Ross , German writer
2004: Alfons Spiegel , German journalist
2004: Peter Woodthorpe , British actor
2004: George Yardley , American basketball player
2005: Francy Boland , Belgian jazz pianist and arranger
2005: Johannes Fischer , German church musician and composer
2005: Lakshman Kadirgamar , Sri Lankan politician
2005: Uwe Röhl , German church musician, organist and composer