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
- pharaoh Cleopatra dies under unexplained circumstances, but presumably by suicide. 30 BC Chr .: The Egyptian
- Duke Berthold defeats invading Magyars on the Wels Heath . The Hungarian invasions then subsided for several years. 943: A Bavarian army under
- 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: 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.
- 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: 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.
- 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: 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
- 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: 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cleopatra VII. , Last queen of the Egyptian Ptolemaic empire 30 BC Chr .:
- Ludwig II , Roman Emperor and King of Italy 875:
- Noting , Bishop of Constance 934:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 2006: Jan Steler , Polish-French bobsleigh athlete , architect and luge official
- 2007: Ralph Alpher , American physicist
- 2007: Franz Antel , Austrian film director, producer and author
- 2008: Donald Erb , American composer
- 2008: Francis Lacassin , French journalist, writer and screenwriter
- 2009: Les Paul , American guitarist
- 2009: Harry Zingel , German author and social economist
- 2011: Patrícia Acioli , Brazilian judge
- 2012: Henri Greder , French racing car driver
- 2012: Joe Kubert , American comic artist
- 2012: Ruedi Reich , Swiss theologian
- 2013: Prince Johan Friso , Dutch nobleman
- 2014: Lauren Bacall , American actress
- 2015: Mundito Espinal , Dominican journalist, presenter and composer
- 2015: Jaakko Hintikka , Finnish philosopher
- 2015: Reiner Pfeiffer , German journalist
- 2016: Keith Blunt , English football coach
- 2016: Hans Leopold Davi , Swiss writer
- 2016: Michael Stiller , German journalist
- 2016: Dominik Surek , German engineer
- 2018: Samir Amin , Egyptian-French economist and author
- 2019: DJ Arafat , Ivorian musician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Paul Speratus , Bishop in Marienwerder and song writer (Protestant)
- Name days
- Others
- Glorious Twelfth , the traditional start of grouse hunting in Britain
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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