January 12th
The January 12 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 12 ) is the 12th day of the Gregorian calendar , thus still remain 353 (in leap years 354) day by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 29 BC Chr .: As a sign that peace reigns in the empire after the civil war , the Roman Senate closes the gates of the Temple of Janus .
- 1528 : Gustav I. Wasa is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
- 1814 : The Prussians under General Leopold Wilhelm von Dobschütz succeed in the wars of liberation in storming the Saxon fortress of Wittenberg, which was captured by the French under Napoléon Bonaparte in 1806 and then massively fortified .
- 1816 : A general amnesty is issued in France for those taking part in the French Revolution .
- 1839 : Chile destroys the Peruvian fleet near Casma in the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation War .
- 1848 : After several weeks of unrest, an uprising against the Bourbon rule in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies begins in Palermo .
- 1871 : The two-day battle at Le Mans in the Franco-Prussian War ends with a strategic victory for the Prussian army. The French Armée de la Loire is no longer a threat after heavy losses.
- 1904 : While the German protection force in German South West Africa is bound by an uprising by the Bondelswarte , the Herero under Chief Samuel Maharero attack the city of Okahandja . This marked the beginning of the Herero uprising .
- 1905 : The Riksdagshuset , the seat of the Swedish parliament, is inaugurated after around eight years of construction.
- 1912 : On the initiative of the United States, the first International Opium Conference takes place in The Hague , which agrees on strict state control of drug trafficking .
- 1912 : In the last Reichstag election before the First World War and the end of the German Empire in 1918, the SPD becomes the strongest party for the first time, not only in terms of votes, but also in terms of seats.
- 1916 : During the First World War, the SPD parliamentary group in the Reichstag excludes Karl Liebknecht , who shortly before co-founded the Spartakus group within the SPD , and other war opponents.
- 1919 : In Germany, the Spartacus uprising is suppressed by Friedrich Ebert with the help of the Supreme Army Command , led by Gustav Noske ( MSPD ).
- 1922 : The French Prime Minister Aristide Briand resigns due to massive criticism of his conciliatory attitude towards Germany in compliance with the Versailles Treaty and the German reparation payments .
- 1932 : In Arkansas , Hattie Caraway wins the election to the United States Senate . She will succeed her late husband, Thaddeus H. Caraway, and is the first woman to serve on the Board for a full term.
- 1945 : The 1st Ukrainian Front begins in the Second World War from the Vistula bridgehead near Baranow with the broad-based Vistula-Oder operation against Army Group A under Josef Harpe , during which the Red Army widely crossed the border of the German Reich at the beginning of the war. The West Carpathian operation begins on the same day .
- 1951 : The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide , adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1948 , comes into force.
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- 1964 : Less than a month after Zanzibar's independence (December 10, 1963), the black majority under the leadership of John Okello rises against Arab rule and proclaims the People's Republic of Zanzibar . Almost the entire Arab and Indian population of the island is murdered in the uprising.
- 1967 : The Commune I around Fritz Teufel , Dieter Kunzelmann , Rainer Langhans and others is created by occupying the apartment of the writer Uwe Johnson in the Berlin Niedstrasse 14 in the Friedenau district . It forms an important part of the extra-parliamentary opposition and the German student movement .
- 1968 : A new penal code is passed in the GDR , which replaces the Reich Penal Code of 1871 and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1958.
- 1970 : With the surrender of Biafra , the civil war between Nigeria and Biafra that has been going on since 1967 ends . Biafra will be reintegrated into Nigeria . Biafras head of state Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu seeks exile in Ivory Coast .
- 1976 : The last Spanish troops withdraw from the former Spanish Sahara province, as agreed after the Green March at the negotiations in Madrid . This ends the Spanish colonial rule in the former Spanish West Africa .
- 1990 : A nine-day pogrom broke out in Baku , killing around 90 Armenians .
- 2016 : Ten German tourists are killed in a terrorist attack in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul .
economy
- 1780 : In Zurich, Salomon Gessner publishes the first edition of the Zürcher Zeitung .
- 1883 : Georg Coch founds the kk Postsparcassenamt , today's BAWAG PSK , in Austria and introduces the world's first postal check.
- 1906 : The Dow Jones Industrial Average share index closes above 100 points for the first time.
- 1922 : The Swiss Jacob Fahrni applies for a patent for a bar mower designed as a motor mower .
- 1999 : Europe's first hydrogen filling station goes into operation in Hamburg . Six companies carry out delivery activities using hydrogen propulsion in suitable vehicles.
- 1999 : In Brazil, the attempt to keep the real currency high through central bank purchases fails . As a result of the Brazilian crisis and speculators on the financial markets, its course then collapsed sharply.
- 2004 : The Queen Mary 2 of the shipping company Cunard Line , which at that time was the largest passenger ship in the world with 148,528 GT, sets out from her home port of Southampton on her maiden voyage towards the Canary Islands, the Caribbean and Florida.
- 2010 : Founding of the armaments company Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles .
science and technology
- 1818 : The Grand Duchy of Baden grants Karl von Drais the privilege to drive the draisine .
- 1866 : The Royal Aeronautical Society is founded in London .
- 1868 : Amariah Hills receives the first US patent for a roller lawn mower .
- 1957 : On the occasion of the International Geophysical Year , the Davis Station is established as Australia's southernmost research station in Antarctica to support Australian research expeditions .
- 1967 : After his death, James Bedford's body is put into cryostasis . The deceased is the first person who hopes for resuscitation in the future in this way.
- 1987 : In La Brévine , in the Neuchâtel Jura , temperatures of −41.8 ° C are measured, which is the coldest record for an inhabited place in Switzerland .
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- 2005 : One year late, the US space probe Deep Impact takes off with a Delta II launcher on its way to Comet Tempel 1 , where it is supposed to hit on July 4th.
- 2007 : Comet C / 2006 P1 (McNaught) passes through the field of view of the coronograph LASCO C3 of the SOHO space observatory operated by NASA and ESA. It is the brightest comet that has ever been registered with this device. Some of it is even visible to the naked eye in daylight.
Culture
- 1692 : In Tordinona in Rome takes place premiere of the opera Eraclea ovvero Il ratto delle Sabbine of Giovanni Bononcini .
- 1844 : The opera Caterina Cornaro by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .
- 1852 : The Teatro Santa Elisabetta in Messina , renamed Teatro Vittorio Emanuele II eight years later , opens.
- 1959 : The Motown record label , actually the Motown Record Company, LP , is founded by Berry Gordy in Detroit, Michigan under the name Tamla Record Company . Outside the United States, the company is sometimes known as Tamla-Motown .
- 1968 : Manfred Mann publishes the Bob Dylan composition Mighty Quinn , which in this version becomes a number one hit in many countries.
- 1969 : The rock band Led Zeppelin releases their debut album of the same name , which includes the song Dazed and Confused .
- 1981 : The television series The Denver Clan premieres on US TV station ABC .
- 1984 : With a concert of the singer Renaud is in Paris, the Zenith , the main concert hall of France, inaugurated.
- 1992 : The sculpture The Little Defiant Head by Gustav Vigeland , stolen from Oslo's Frogner Park on New Year's Eve , is found again.
- 1994 : The Academy of Music and Theater in Rostock is established as the successor institution of the university founded in 1947 in music, theater and dance in Rostock .
society
- 2006 : Mehmet Ali Ağca , who carried out an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981 , is released on probation.
religion
- 1522 : Paul Speratus holds a Mass in Vienna St. Stephen's sermon, the first Protestant in Austria applies. He was later excommunicated as a heretic for this sermon and his criticism of celibacy .
- 1953 : Pope Pius XII. appoints Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli to the Cardinal and the Patriarch of Venice .
Disasters
- 1807 : The city of Leiden is badly damaged by the explosion of a ship carrying gunpowder . 151 people are killed, an estimated 2,000 are injured and around 220 houses are destroyed.
- 1888 : The Schoolchildren's Blizzard sweeps over the US states of the Great Plains . At least 200 people who are surprised by the blizzard are killed, the majority of them school children.
- 1920 : The French passenger steamer Afrique is on the French coast when the generators fail in a storm and the steamer is unable to maneuver and is thrown onto a reef, where it leaks and sinks. Of the 609 passengers and crew members, only 34 survive. The accident is considered one of the greatest disasters in the history of French steam shipping .
- 1945 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 in the Mikawa Bay , Japan, resulting in about 1,900 deaths.
- 2006 : At least 362 Muslim pilgrims die in a mass panic during the Hajj in Mena near Mecca and more than 250 are injured.
- 2010 : According to the government, 200,000 people are believed to be killed in an earthquake with a magnitude M W = 7.0 with the epicenter near Port-au-Prince , the capital of the Caribbean island state of Haiti . 250,000 more people are injured and 1.5 million are left homeless. The country's presidential palace also collapses.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1945 : The Chilean volcano Corcovado in the Andes is climbed for the first time by mountaineers Gerhard Kress, Alfredo Gash and Hans Engel.
- 1968 : The opening game of the sixth African Football Championship takes place in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa .
- 1969 : The New York Jets win in the Orange Bowl Stadium in Miami with a 16: 7 victory over the Baltimore Colts to Super Bowl III . New York quarterback Joe Namath is named Super Bowl MVP .
- 1975 : The Pittsburgh Steelers win in Tulane Stadium in New Orleans with a 16: 6 win over the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl IX . Pittsburgh's running back Franco Harris is named Super Bowl MVP.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1483 : Heinrich III. , Count of Nassau, Lord of Breda
- 1505 : Ludwig zu Stolberg , German regent
- 1553 : Johannes Wanckel , German historian
- 1562 : Charles Emanuel I , son of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy
- 1580 : Johan Baptista van Helmont , Flemish universal scientist, doctor, natural scientist and chemist
- 1588 : John Winthrop , English Puritan and governor
- 1591 : Jusepe de Ribera , Spanish painter
- 1597 : François Duquesnoy , Flemish sculptor
- 1628 : Charles Perrault , French writer
- 1638 : Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg , Austrian imperial general, defender of Vienna
- 1656 : François Le Fort , Swiss confidante of Tsar Peter I, reorganizer of the Russian armed forces and first Russian admiral
- 1674 : Alexis Simon Belle , French painter
- 1674 : Reinhard Keizer , German composer and opera producer (baptism date)
- 1682 : Burkhard Leberecht Behrisch , German lawyer and mayor of Dresden
18th century
- 1702 : Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved , French painter
- 1702 : Józef Andrzej Załuski , Polish nobleman, Catholic bishop, author, politician and book collector
- 1711 : Gaetano Latilla , Italian composer
- 1713 : Johann Gottfried Arndt , Livonian historian
- 1714 : Christoph Friedrich von Derschau , German poet and first Prussian government president of East Frisia
- 1716 : Antonio de Ulloa , Spanish scholar and admiral
- 1721 : Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Prussian Field Marshal General
- 1722 : Nikolaus von Luckner , German general, Marshal of France
- 1729 : Edmund Burke , British philosopher and politician
- 1729 : Lazzaro Spallanzani , Italian scientist
- 1736 : Pedro Benito Antonio Quevedo y Quintano , Spanish bishop and cardinal
- 1740 : Samuel Gottfried Geyser , German educator and Protestant theologian
- 1740 : Maria Karolina of Austria , Austrian princess
- 1746 : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Swiss educator
- 1748 : Ludwig Gottfried Madihn , German university professor and university rector
- 1751 : Ferdinand I , Infante of Spain, King of Naples and King of the Two Sicilies
- 1757 : Bernhard Stöger , German Catholic theologian, philosopher and educator
- 1759 : Anna of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover , Princess Royal and Princess of Orange and Prince Regent of Friesland
- 1760 : Zofia Potocka , Greek courtesan
- 1771 : Pierre-Louis de Blacas d'Aulps , French statesman and diplomat
- 1771 : Christoph Maurus Fuchs , German painter
- 1771 : Paul Ludwig Simon , Prussian architect and scientist
- 1772 : Michail Michailowitsch Speranski , Russian statesman and liberal reformer
- 1777 : Stepan Ivanovich Dawydow , Russian composer
- 1778 : William Herbert , British botanist, poet, clergyman and MP
- 1779 : Nicolas Clément , French chemist and physicist
- 1780 : Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette , German theologian
- 1783 : Erik Gustaf Geijer , Swedish writer
- 1788 : José da Gama Carneiro e Sousa , Portuguese military and politician
- 1792 : Johan August Arfwedson , Swedish chemist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1800 : Eugène Louis Lami , French painter
- 1802 : Philipp Wilhelm Wernher , Hessian politician
- 1803 : Christian Pløyen , Danish lawyer and high government official, Governor of the Faroe Islands
- 1807 : Adelbert von Bornstedt , German publicist and revolutionary
- 1808 : Jean-Félicité-Théodore Ortolan , French expert on the law of the sea
- 1808 : Paul Taglioni , Italian-Austrian dancer and ballet master
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- 1808 : Wilhelm Philipp Schimper , Alsatian botanist and paleobotanist
- 1809 : Leopoldo O'Donnell , Spanish general and politician, Count of Lucena and Duke of Tetuan
- 1809 : Emanuel von Friedrichsthal , Austrian travel writer
- 1810 : Ferdinand II , King of Naples and the Two Sicilies
- 1817 : Karl von Schmidt , German major general
- 1818 : Ludwig Traube , German doctor, internist and pathophysiologist
- 1819 : Joseph Crèvecoeur , French composer
- 1819 : Ernst Anton Zündt , German writer
- 1820 : Carl Theodor Reiffenstein , German architecture and landscape painter
- 1820 : Enrico Cosenz , Italian general
- 1821 : Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Afanassjew , Russian violin virtuoso and composer
- 1822 : Étienne Lenoir , French inventor and businessman
- 1825 : Joseph Robert Davis , American Confederate general
- 1826 : Alfred Deléhelle , French composer
- 1827 : Carl Wilhelm Louis Preuss , German clergyman, first apostle of the general Christian apostolic mission
- 1831 : Gustav Adolf Pompe , German theologian and poet
- 1833 : Eugen Dühring , German philosopher, economist and anti-Semitic author
- 1836 : F. Albert Schwartz , German photographer
- 1837 : Adolf Jensen , German composer
- 1837 : Fritz Kalle , German manufacturer and politician
- 1842 : Teobert painter , German photographer, discoverer and researcher of Mayan ruins
- 1849 : Jean Béraud , French painter and graphic artist
- 1849 : Murphy J. Foster , American politician
- 1849 : Candelario Obeso , Colombian writer
- 1850 : Paul Lange , Austrian architect
- 1850 : Hans Wolf , German judge
1851-1900
- 1852 : Joseph Joffre , French general, member of the Académie française, Marshal of France
- 1852 : Hugo Zöller , German explorer and journalist
- 1853 : Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro , Italian mathematician
- 1856 : John Singer Sargent , American painter
- 1857 : Knut Ångström , Swedish physicist
- 1858 : Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe , British statesman and writer
- 1859 : Dietrich Behrens , German Romanist
- 1860 : Walter von Saint Paul-Illaire , German colonial official
- 1861 : James Mark Baldwin , American psychologist and philosopher
- 1862 : John George Adami , British-Canadian pathologist
- 1863 : Jean-Baptiste Abel , French politician
- 1863 : Vivekananda , Indian, Hindu monk and scholar
- 1866 : Reinhold Burger , German glass technician and inventor
- 1867 : Alfred Forke , German sinologist
- 1868 : Heinrich Triepel , German lawyer, international and constitutional lawyer
- 1869 : Bhagavan Das , Indian politician, theosophist and scholar
- 1869 : Carl Küchler , German travel writer
- 1870 : Karel Burian , Czech opera singer
- 1872 : Beatrice Langley , English violinist
- 1873 : Wassyl Krytschewskyj , Ukrainian art scholar, painter, architect, graphic artist and set designer
- 1873 : Spyridon Louis , Greek athlete
- 1874 : Hermann Thiersch , German archaeologist
- 1875 : Helene Aeckerle , German author and translator
- 1875 : Homer Daniel Angell , American politician
- 1876 : Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , German-Italian composer
- 1876 : Jack London , American writer and journalist
- 1878 : Ferenc Molnár , Hungarian writer and journalist
- 1879 : Paul Guthnick , German astronomer
- 1879 : Ray Harroun , American racing car driver
- 1880 : Menyhért Lengyel , Hungarian writer
- 1881 : Léon Fabert , French racing car driver
- 1881 : Léon Molon , French racing car driver and aircraft pioneer
- 1882 : Jakob Jud , Swiss Romance Studies
- 1883 : Wilhelm Groß , German artist and preacher
- 1883 : Gustav Otto , German aircraft manufacturer
- 1884 : Heinrich Lübbe , German mechanical engineer and inventor
- 1884 : Konrat Ziegler , German classical philologist
- 1884 : Paul Hunder , German football player
- 1885 : Thomas Ashe , Irish independence fighter
- 1885 : Harry Benjamin , American psychologist
- 1887 : Wolf Trutz , German film and stage actor
- 1888 : Claude Delvincourt , French composer
- 1889 : Alma Karlin , Austro-Hungarian writer and painter
- 1889 : Mirza Baschir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad , Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
- 1890 : Arthur Graefe , German cultural politician in the Free State of Saxony
- 1890 : Béchara el-Khoury , Lebanese President
- 1890 : Johannes Vares , Estonian writer and communist
- 1891 : Heinrich Dinkelbach , German economist and industrial manager
- 1893 : Alfred Rosenberg , German politician and war criminal
- 1893 : Hermann Göring , German politician and Commander in Chief of the Air Force, war criminal
- 1893 : Mikhail Iossifowitsch Gurewitsch , Soviet aircraft designer
- 1894 : Georges Carpentier , French boxer
- 1895 : Walther Brouwer , German crop scientist
- 1896 : David Wechsler , American psychologist
- 1897 : Arthur Ripley , American screenwriter, film director and producer
- 1899 : Piero Meriggi , Italian classical philologist, linguist and Indo-Europeanist
- 1899 : Paul Hermann Müller , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1899 : Josef Wagner , German Gauleiter of South Westphalia and Silesia
- 1900 : Fuller Albright , American endocrinologist
- 1900 : Herbert Albrecht , German NSDAP functionary and politician
- 1900 : Väinö Hannikainen , Finnish composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Kurt Jooss , German dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
- 1902 : Georges Delaroche , French racing car driver
- 1902 : Bernhard Panzram , German priest and rector of the University of Freiburg
- 1903 : Jürgen von Alten , German actor, screenwriter and film director
- 1903 : Igor Wassiljewitsch Kurtschatow , Soviet physicist
- 1904 : Bernhard Fischer-Schweder , German SS officer, police chief and mass murderer
- 1904 : Fred McDowell , American blues musician
- 1904 : Horst Teichmann , German physicist and university professor
- 1905 : Nihal Atsız , Turkish author, historian and poet
- 1905 : Tex Ritter , American country musician and actor
- 1906 : Emmanuel Levinas , French philosopher
- 1906 : Heinrich Friedrich Siedentopf , German astronomer
- 1907 : Sergei Pavlovich Koroljow , Soviet missile designer
- 1908 : Gert Adriani , German art historian
- 1908 : Jean Delannoy , French film director
- 1908 : Friedrich Kaufhold , head of the Berlin fire brigade
- 1908 : Alfredo Zalce , Mexican artist
- 1909 : Archie Cochrane , British epidemiologist
- 1910 : José Salazar López , Mexican Archbishop
- 1910 : Pio Ortelli , Swiss educator and writer
- 1910 : Luise Rainer , German-British actress
- 1911 : Robert Abshagen , German communist, resistance fighter, concentration camp prisoner and Nazi victim
- 1911 : Gabriel Almond , American political scientist
- 1911 : Paul Matthies , German soccer player
- 1912 : Pipí Franco , Dominican singer and composer
- 1912 : Dinmuchamed Kunayev , Soviet politician
- 1913 : Willi Birkelbach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1914 : Albrecht Graf von Goertz , German designer
- 1914 : Orlando Villas Bôas , Brazilian anthropologist and sertanista
- 1915 : Frank Annunzio , American politician
- 1916 : Pieter Willem Botha , South African President
- 1916 : Jay McShann , American blues and swing pianist, band leader and singer
- 1917 : Siegfried Brehmer , German chess composer
- 1918 : Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian author and guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation
- 1918 : Julio Gutiérrez , Cuban composer, conductor and pianist
- 1919 : Hans Richter , German actor
- 1920 : Mac Speedie , American football player and coach
- 1921 : John Davis , American weightlifter
- 1921 : Hanno Günther , German resistance fighter
- 1921 : Fride Larsson , Swedish military patrol runner
- 1921 : Wolfgang Weischet , German meteorologist, geographer and climatologist
- 1921 : Harald Wust , German General Inspector of the Bundeswehr
- 1923 : Sune Wehlin , Swedish modern pentathlete
- 1924 : Friedrich Wilhelm Ahnefeld , German anesthesiologist and university professor
- 1924 : Olivier Gendebien , Belgian racing car driver
- 1924 : Nevit Kodallı , Turkish composer
- 1925 : Hans Gierster , German conductor
- 1925 : Katherine MacGregor , American actress
- 1925 : Jutta Pallos-Schönauer , Romanian-German painter and graphic artist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Morton Feldman , American composer
- 1926 : Andrew Laszlo , American cameraman
- 1926 : Ray Price , American country singer
- 1927 : Leopold Ahlsen , German writer
- 1927 : Herbert Aulich , German painter, graphic artist and object artist
- 1927 : Ignatz Bubis , German businessman and politician, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- 1927 : Leopoldo Federico , Argentine bandoneonist and tango composer
- 1927 : Salvatore Martirano , American composer
- 1927 : Leslie Orgel , British chemist
- 1928 : Bill Lange , American football player
- 1928 : Peter Lerche , German legal scholar
- 1928 : Lloyd Ruby , American racing car driver
- 1928 : Tommy Spurlin , American rockabilly musician
- 1929 : Jaakko Hintikka , Finnish philosopher
- 1929 : Alasdair MacIntyre , British-American philosopher
- 1930 : Mikio Andō , Japanese children's author, literary critic and university professor
- 1930 : Tim Horton , Canadian ice hockey player and entrepreneur
- 1930 : Luitgard Im , German theater and film actress
- 1930 : Glenn Yarbrough , American singer ( Limeliters )
- 1931 : Roland Alphonso , Jamaican tenor saxophonist
- 1931 : Angela Brunner , German actress
- 1931 : Yolande Dulude , Canadian singer
- 1931 : Pierre Monneret , French motorcycle racer
- 1932 : Lammert Leertouwer , Dutch church historian and Reformed theologian
- 1932 : Des O'Connor , British entertainer and singer
- 1933 : Johanna Anderka , German writer and poet
- 1933 : Liliana Cavani , Italian film director
- 1933 : Kamal al-Ganzuri , Egyptian Prime Minister
- 1934 : Hans Hüneke , German athlete
- 1934 : Jannpeter Zopfs , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1935 : Horst Luthin , German lawyer, author and editor
- 1936 : Egon Kapellari , Austrian bishop
- 1936 : Émile Lahoud , Lebanese President
- 1936 : Raimonds Pauls , Latvian composer
- 1937 : Marie Dubois , French actress
- 1937 : Shirley Eaton , British actress
- 1938 : Qazi Hussain Ahmad , Pakistani theologian and politician
- 1938 : Heinz Braun , German painter and actor
- 1938 : Alan Rees , British racing car driver and team manager
- 1938 : Monika Schindler , German film editor
- 1938 : Devendra Singh , American psychologist
- 1939 : Tamás Aján , Hungarian sports official
- 1939 : Helmut Eisendle , Austrian psychologist and writer
- 1939 : Thomas Müller , German composer and pianist
- 1939 : Joachim Yhombi-Opango , Congolese politician
- 1940 : Matthias Habich , German actor
- 1940 : Ronald Shannon Jackson , American jazz drummer
- 1940 : Serge Latouche , French economist and philosopher
- 1940 : Rolf W. Saalfrank , German chemist
- 1941 : Long John Baldry , British singer
- 1941 : Hans Georg Koch , German composer
- 1942 : Roland Amstutz , Swiss actor
- 1942 : Horst Bieber , German author
- 1942 : Michel Mayor , Swiss professor of astronomy
- 1943 : Brun-Otto Bryde , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1943 : Hans-Georg Gerling , German politician
- 1943 : Dirk Thiele , German journalist and sports reporter
- 1944 : Dieter Anders , German lawyer
- 1944 : Hans Henning Atrott , German political scientist
- 1944 : Joe Frazier , American boxer
- 1944 : Jim Gray , American computer scientist
- 1944 : Vlastimil Hort , Czech-German chess grandmaster
- 1944 : Fatos Kongoli , Albanian writer
- 1944 : Viktorija Walentinovna Postnikowa , Russian pianist
- 1944 : Inge Viett , German RAF terrorist
- 1944 : Klaus Wedemeier , German local politician, Mayor of Bremen
- 1945 : Maggie Bell , British singer
- 1946 : George Duke , American pianist, arranger and producer
- 1946 : Ryszard Jan Szurkowski , Polish road cyclist and trainer
- 1947 : Gustl Angstmann , German writer
- 1947 : Peter Hofmann , German chemist
- 1947 : Matt Molloy , Irish flute player
- 1947 : Winfried Neuhäuser , German soccer player
- 1948 : Anthony Andrews , British actor and film producer
- 1948 : Gordon Campbell , Canadian politician
- 1948 : William Nicholson , British writer, screenwriter and director
- 1949 : Paul Barresi , American actor and director
- 1949 : Ottmar Hitzfeld , German soccer player and coach
- 1949 : Haruki Murakami , Japanese author
- 1949 : Michael W. Vannier , American doctor and radiologist
- 1949 : Wayne Wang , American director
- 1950 : Sinaida Stepanovna Amossova , Soviet-Russian cross-country skier
- 1950 : Hermann Köhler , German athlete
- 1950 : Murray Salem , American actor and screenwriter
1951-1975
- 1951 : Kirstie Alley , American actress
- 1951 : Ernst Bier , German jazz drummer
- 1951 : Rush Limbaugh , American radio host
- 1951 : Drew Pearson , American football player
- 1952 : Florian Havemann , German writer, painter and composer
- 1952 : John Walker , New Zealand athlete
- 1952 : Walter Mosley , American crime novelist
- 1952 : Ricky Van Shelton , American country musician
- 1953 : Friedrich Ostendorff , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1954 : Andreas Franz , German writer
- 1954 : Johannes Gerlach , German radiation physicist and politician
- 1954 : Mojo Mendiola , Germanist, Afro-Americanist, music journalist and impresario
- 1954 : Felipe Rose , American singer and dancer ( Village People )
- 1954 : Howard Stern , American radio host
- 1954 : Klaus-Peter Wolf , German writer and screenwriter
- 1955 : Hans-Joachim Hartnick , German cyclist and trainer
- 1955 : Rockne S. O'Bannon , American film director and film producer
- 1956 : Marie Colvin , American journalist
- 1956 : Ute Freudenberg , German pop singer
- 1956 : Nikolai Iwanowitsch Noskow , Russian rock singer,
- 1957 : Anna Fotyga , Polish politician, Foreign Minister
- 1957 : John Lasseter , American animated film director
- 1957 : António Vitorino , Portuguese politician, EU commissioner
- 1957 : Audronė Žigaitytė-Nekrošienė , Lithuanian composer, music pedagogue, critic and journalist
- 1958 : Christiane Amanpour , British-Iranian journalist
- 1958 : Andreas H. Apelt , German publicist and author
- 1958 : Matthias Döschner , German soccer player
- 1958 : Hannes Weninger , Austrian soccer player, coach and sports manager
- 1959 : Blixa Bargeld , German musician, composer, author and actor
- 1959 : Per Gessle , Swedish musician ( Roxette )
- 1959 : Ralf Moeller , German bodybuilder and actor
- 1959 : Weranika Tscharkassava , Belarusian journalist
- 1960 : Oliver Platt , Canadian actor
- 1960 : Dominique Wilkins , American professional basketball player
- 1961 : Andrea Carnevale , Italian football player
- 1961 : Stefano Ceccaroni , Swiss-Italian football coach
- 1962 : Uwe Adamczyk , German politician
- 1962 : Radek Drulák , Czech football player
- 1962 : Emanuele Pirro , Italian racing car driver
- 1962 : Gunde Svan , Swedish cross-country skier
- 1963 : Peter Androsch , Austrian musician and composer
- 1963 : Guy Chambers , British musician and record producer
- 1963 : François Girard , Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1964 : Laura Arraya , Peruvian tennis player
- 1964 : Jeff Bezos , American founder and president of Amazon
- 1964 : Karen Krauss , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court in Kassel
- 1964 : Kevin Russell , German-British singer ( Böhse Onkelz )
- 1965 : Jutta Arztmann , Austrian politician
- 1965 : Maybrit Illner , German television presenter
- 1965 : Marina Kiehl , German ski racer
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- 1965 : Rob Zombie , American singer
- 1966 : Ingrid Jensen , Canadian jazz trumpeter
- 1966 : Olivier Martinez , French film actor
- 1966 : Craig Parry , Australian professional golfer
- 1967 : Tōru Fujisawa , Japanese manga artist
- 1967 : Takehiko Inoue , Japanese mangaka
- 1967 : Meho Kodro , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1967 : Michael Theurer , German politician, MdL
- 1968 : Laura Mañá , Spanish actress, director and screenwriter
- 1968 : Rachael Harris , American actress and comedian
- 1968 : Heather Mills , British model
- 1969 : Dickson Dee , Chinese sound artist, DJ, turntablist, composer, music producer and organizer
- 1969 : Eduardo Hurtado , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1969 : Sławomir Majak , Polish football player
- 1969 : Robert Prosinečki , Croatian football player
- 1969 : Holger Zastrow , German politician, MdL
- 1970 : Indrek Hargla , Estonian writer
- 1970 : Raekwon , American rap musician
- 1970 : Zack de la Rocha , American singer
- 1971 : Shane Dronett , American football player
- 1971 : Alexander Kunze , German soccer player
- 1971 : David McAllister , German-British politician, Member of the Bundestag and Prime Minister
- 1971 : Thorsten Prenzler , German politician
- 1973 : Alexis Bug , German actor, writer and director
- 1973 : Robert Hock , German ice hockey player
- 1973 : Rich Parent , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 : Hande Yener , Turkish pop singer
- 1974 : Melanie Chisholm , British singer
- 1974 : Tor Arne Hetland , Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1974 : Ivica Mornar , Croatian football player
- 1974 : Nina Proll , Austrian actress, singer and dancer
- 1975 : Leda Abati , Italian biathlete
- 1975 : Alexander Bonde , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and State Minister
- 1975 : Rick Hoogendorp , Dutch soccer player
- 1975 : Richard Kitzbichler , Austrian soccer player
- 1975 : Yua Kotegawa , Japanese manga artist
- 1975 : Lisa Rieffel , American actress and singer
- 1975 : Jocelyn Thibault , Canadian ice hockey player
1976-2000
- 1977 : Dominic Auger , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 : Olli Banjo , German hip-hop artist
- 1977 : Marijo Marić , Croatian football player
- 1977 : Tom Sietas , German freediver
- 1978 : Stephen Abas , American wrestler
- 1978 : Tom Flammang , Luxembourg cyclist
- 1978 : Bonaventure Kalou , Ivorian football player
- 1979 : Marián Hossa , Slovak ice hockey player
- 1979 : Grzegorz Rasiak , Polish football player
- 1979 : David Zabriskie , American professional cyclist
- 1980 : Juan José Abril , Spanish track and road cyclist
- 1980 : Amerie , American R&B singer and actress
- 1980 : Michael Niederig , German soccer player
- 1980 : Shane Stefanutto , Australian soccer player
- 1981 : Jonathan Arnott , English politician
- 1981 : Dagmar Bernhard , Austrian singer
- 1981 : Niklas Kronwall , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1981 : Luis Ernesto Pérez , Mexican soccer player
- 1981 : Georgios Stefanou , Greek volleyball player
- 1982 : Justin Aikins , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 : Shawn Desman , Canadian pop / R&B singer
- 1982 : Kinga Grzyb , Polish handball player
- 1982 : Melanie Marshall , British swimmer
- 1982 : Paul-Henri Mathieu , French tennis player
- 1983 : Bryan Bergougnoux , French soccer player
- 1983 : Luka Dobelšek , Slovenian handball player
- 1983 : Stefan Schauer , German ice hockey player
- 1984 : Robert Archibald , Australian polo player
- 1984 : Viktor Igorewitsch Budjansky , Russian football player
- 1984 : Chaunté Lowe , American high jumper
- 1984 : Alain Montwani , Andorran football player
- 1985 : Yohana Cobo , Spanish actress
- 1985 : Cynthia Addai-Robinson , American actress
- 1985 : Tobias Eberhard , Austrian biathlete
- 1985 : Artem Milewskyj , Ukrainian football player
- 1985 : Michael Stegmayer , German soccer player
- 1986 : Pablo Daniel Osvaldo , Italian-Argentinian football player
- 1986 : Christoph Stephan , German biathlete
- 1987 : Nathan Doyle , English soccer player
- 1987 : Kirati Keawsombat , Thai soccer player
- 1987 : Nikita Khartchenkov , German basketball player
- 1987 : Mychajlo Krywchykow , Ukrainian handball player
- 1987 : Maarija Mikiver , Estonian soccer player
- 1987 : Edoardo Mortara , Italian racing car driver
- 1987 : Iván Nova , Dominican baseball player
- 1987 : Naya Rivera , American actress
- 1987 : Will Rothhaar , American actor
- 1987 : Salvatore Sirigu , Italian football player
- 1987 : Kris Sparre , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 : Matthias Baur , German handball player
- 1988 : Milica Čović , Serbian handball player
- 1988 : Andrew Lawrence , American film actor
- 1988 : Radim Nečas junior , Czech football player
- 1988 : Tim Rubink , German soccer player
- 1988 : Douglas , Dutch soccer player
- 1989 : Leonhard Kaufmann , Austrian soccer player
- 1989 : Bastian Oczipka , German soccer player
- 1989 : Aneta Sablik , Polish singer
- 1989 : Ross Smith , English dart player
- 1989 : Axel Witsel , Belgian football player
- 1990 : Sergei Alexandrovich Karjakin , Russian chess grandmaster
- 1990 : Patrick Siefkes , German soccer player
- 1991 : Yusuf Onur Arıkan , Turkish soccer player
- 1991 : Daniel Batz , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1991 : Robin Lässer , German motorcycle racer
- 1991 : Pixie Lott , British pop and soul singer, songwriter and actress
- 1991 : Benjamin Meschke , German handball player
- 1993 : Ronya Othmann , German writer
- 1993 : Zayn , British singer ( One Direction )
- 1994 : Albion Avdijaj , Albanian-Swiss football player
- 1994 : Emre Can , German soccer player
- 1994 : Jonas Maier , German handball player
- 1994 : Fabian Schnellhardt , German soccer player
- 1995 : Alessio Romagnoli , Italian football player
- 1995 : Maverick Viñales , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1996 : Ella Henderson , British singer-songwriter
21st century
2001-2025
- 2004 : Marinus Hohmann , German actor
Died
Before the 16th century
- 302 : Arcadius of Caesarea , early Christian martyr
- 847 : Baturich , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1093 : Werner , Bishop of Merseburg
- 1140 : Ludwig I , Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1167 : Aelred von Rievaulx , English abbot, preacher and mystic
- 1194 : Kaim , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1230 : Egino IV , Count of Urach
- 1265 : Godfrey de Ludham , Archbishop of York
- 1277 : Philippe de Toucy , regent of the Latin Empire of Constantinople
- 1355 : Albrecht I of Hohenfels , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1392 : Johann III. Radlica , Bishop of Cracow (* before 1361)
- 1411 : Heilmann von Wattenheim , German priest and papal representative
- 1464 : Thomas Ebendorfer , Austrian theologian and historian
- 1475 : Phélise Regnard , French nobleman and mistress of the heir to the French throne
16th to 18th century
- 1517 : Giovanni Francesco Fortunio , Italian humanist, Romanist and grammarian
- 1519 : Maximilian I , Duke of Burgundy, German King, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1537 : Lorenzo di Credi , Italian painter, goldsmith and sculptor
- 1550 : Andrea Alciato , Italian humanist
- 1557 : Eberhard Billick , German auxiliary bishop in Cologne and counter-reformer
- 1567 : Eva von Trott , lover of Duke Heinrich the Younger of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1573 : William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham , English nobleman
- 1575 : Georg Agricola , German pedagogue and physician
- 1614 : Elisabeth von Bergh-s'Heerenberg , Abbess of Essen, Nottuln, Freckenhorst and Metelen
- 1642 : Johann Ernst von Hanau-Münzenberg-Schwarzenfels , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1646 : Henning Cramer von Clausbruch , merchant, diplomat and mayor of the free imperial city of Goslar
- 1647 : Arnold Mengering , German theologian
- 1658 : Johann Carl Aichbühel , Austrian professor, rector of the University of Vienna
- 1665 : Pierre de Fermat , French lawyer and mathematician
- 1674 : Giacomo Carissimi , Italian composer
- 1700 : Margareta Bourgeoys , educator in New France and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1701 : Abraham Leuthner , Bohemian mason and builder
- 1724 : Daniel Müller , lawyer and mayor of Lübeck
- 1730 : Johann Christoph Schwedler , German theologian and hymn poet
- 1735 : John Eccles , British composer
- 1743 : Peter Adolf Boysen , German theologian, philosopher and historian
- 1743 : Johann Friedrich Hertel , German legal scholar
- 1754 : Georg Sigismund Green the Younger , German theologian
- 1759 : Anna of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover , Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
- 1765 : Johann Melchior Molter , German composer and conductor
- 1771 : Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens , French writer and philosopher
19th century
- 1803 : Giuseppe Baldrighi , Italian Rococo painter
- 1806 : Manuel Abad y Lasierra , Spanish bishop
- 1819 : André Morellet , French economist and writer
- 1822 : Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider , German classical philologist, natural scientist and lexicographer
- 1824 : Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Ziegenbein , German educator and Protestant clergyman
- 1825 : Rudolf André , German farmer and author
- 1829 : Michael Gotthard Fischer , German organist and composer
- 1829 : Friedrich Schlegel , German cultural philosopher, philosopher, writer, critic, literary historian and translator
- 1831 : Jean Thérèse de Beaumont d'Autichamp , French general
- 1833 : Marie-Antoine Carême , French chef
- 1834 : William Grenville, 1st Baron Grenville , British politician and Prime Minister
- 1835 : Christian Wurm , Royal Bavarian Police Director, Police Commissioner of Nuremberg
- 1836 : Gerhard Vieth , German gymnastics teacher
- 1837 : Augustin Andreas Geyer , Catholic clergyman and fossil collector
- 1839 : Joseph Anton Koch , Austrian painter
- 1842 : Johanna Stegen , Prussian patriot, known as the hero girl of Lüneburg
- 1843 : Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Robert , German painter and university professor
- 1848 : Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck , Prussian Field Marshal General
- 1850 : Vinzenz Joseph Deycks , German lawyer and notary
- 1856 : Ľudovít Štúr , Slovak philologist, writer and politician (founder of the Slovak literary language)
- 1858 : Joachim Haspinger , Austrian Capuchin priest and Tyrolean freedom fighter
- 1860 : Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki , Polish general
- 1862 : Jørgen Herman Vogt , Norwegian lawyer and politician
- 1865 : Carl Christian Ullmann , Reformed mediation theologian
- 1867 : Georg Merz , German optician and astronomer
- 1874 : Samuel Weishaupt , Swiss theologian and choir director
- 1875 : Thomas E. Bramlette , American politician
- 1875 : Tongzhi , Emperor of China
- 1877 : Wilhelm Hofmeister , German botanist and professor
- 1880 : Ida Hahn-Hahn , German writer and poet
- 1885 : August von Württemberg , Prussian Colonel General
- 1890 : Olympe Audouard , French suffragette
- 1892 : Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Apfelstedt , German pastor and local researcher
20th century
1901-1950
- 1904 : Reinhold Johow , German lawyer
- 1906 : Theodor Weber , German bishop
- 1909 : Hermann Minkowski , German mathematician and physicist
- 1911 : Georg Jellinek , German-Austrian constitutional lawyer and legal sociologist
- 1911 : Franz Eugen Schlachter , Swiss revival preacher, classical philologist, writer and translator ( Schlachter Bible )
- 1911 : Harfenjule , German singer, harp player and Berlin original
- 1914 : Elisabeth zu Carolath-Beuthen , German nobleman and life companion of Herbert von Bismarck
- 1915 : Émile Amélineau , French Egyptologist and Coptologist
- 1915 : Nariakira Arisaka , Japanese military
- 1915 : Caroline Hammer , Danish photographer
- 1916 : Léon César Autonne , French engineer and mathematician
- 1918 : Ottmar von Angerer , German medic
- 1921 : Gervase Elwes , English singer
- 1923 : Thyra Sehested , Danish historian
- 1924 : William V. Allen , American politician
- 1924 : Albert von Waldthausen , German banker
- 1927 : Hermann von Tappeiner , Austrian physician and pharmacologist
- 1931 : Giovanni Boldini , Italian portrait painter
- 1932 : Adolf Jandorf , German wholesale merchant and founder of KaDeWe
- 1936 : Léon Fabert , French racing car driver
- 1937 : Heinrich Christian Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian KuK state president in the Duchy of Carniola and Privy Council
- 1938 : Gösta Ekman , Swedish actor
- 1941 : Edu Snethlage , Dutch football player
- 1942 : Theodore Annemann , American magician
- 1942 : Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov , Soviet aircraft designer
- 1943 : Howard Atwood Kelly , American gynecologist
- 1943 : Frank A. Perret , American inventor, entrepreneur, and volcanologist
- 1944 : Juliette Paxton Atkinson , American tennis player
- 1945 : Arthur Hoffmann , German resistance fighter
- 1945 : Theodor Kroyer , German musicologist
- 1947 : Karl August Nerger , German naval officer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Momme Andresen , German chemist
- 1952 : Jessie Lipscomb , British sculptor
- 1954 : Max Niedermann , Swiss classical philologist and politician
- 1956 : Franz Dinghofer , Austrian judge and politician
- 1957 : Carl Arthur Scheunert , German veterinarian, founder of vitamin research
- 1957 : Ken Wharton , English Formula 1 racing driver
- 1958 : Arthur Shepherd , American composer
- 1960 : Carlos Di Sarli , Argentine tango musician
- 1960 : Nevil Shute , British writer, aircraft engineer and pilot
- 1961 : Joseph AA Burnquist , American politician
- 1962 : James Garfield Gardiner , Canadian politician
- 1962 : Willy Odenthal , German politician, MdL, MdB, MEP
- 1964 : Michael Amlacher , Austrian politician
- 1964 : Stewart Hoffman Appleby , American politician
- 1964 : Byron Ingemar Johnson , Canadian politician
- 1967 : Pierre Clause , French racing car driver
- 1970 : Abbas Dabylow , Soviet Karakalpak poet
- 1974 : Heinrich Schneider , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, President of the State Parliament, Member of the Bundestag
- 1976 : Agatha Christie , British writer
- 1976 : Bohuslav Kokoschka , Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer
- 1977 : Henri-Georges Clouzot , French director
- 1979 : Pete Smith , American film producer
- 1980 : Finn Ronne , Norwegian-American polar explorer
- 1981 : Elma Grohs-Hansen , German sculptor and textile artist
- 1982 : Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen , Dutch legal scholar
- 1983 : Frédérique Petrides , American conductor of Belgian origin
- 1986 : Marcel Arland , French writer and literary critic
- 1986 : Ludwig Biermann , German physicist
- 1988 : Piero Taruffi , Italian Formula 1, sports car and motorcycle racing driver
- 1989 : Zygmunt Hübner , Polish theater director
- 1989 : Willy Schneider , German folk singer
- 1990 : Gaston Crunelle , French flautist and music teacher
- 1990 : John Hansen , Danish football player
- 1990 : Paul Amadeus Pisk , Austrian musicologist and composer
- 1991 : André Kaminski , Swiss writer
- 1992 : Lode Anthonis , Belgian cyclist
- 1994 : Samuel Bronston , American film producer
- 1995 : Kay Aldridge , American actress
- 1995 : Nicolas Hajj , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1996 : Bartel Leendert van der Waerden , Dutch mathematician
- 1997 : Raymond Arveiller , French Romance philologist and lexicologist
- 1997 : Charles Brenton Huggins , Canadian-American surgeon
- 1998 : Peter Jona Korn , German composer
- 1998 : Phyllis Nelson , American singer
- 1998 : Ramón Sampedro , Spanish sailor, quadriplegic and euthanasia advocate
- 2000 : Marc Davis , American animator
21st century
- 2001 : Julius Aßfalg , German orientalist
- 2001 : Adhemar da Silva , Brazilian athlete
- 2001 : Luiz Bonfá , Brazilian guitarist and composer
- 2001 : William Hewlett , American businessman, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
- 2002 : John Stephen Hales , Australian businessman
- 2002 : Oleg Grigoryevich Jantschenko , Russian organist, composer and conductor
- 2002 : Cyrus Vance , US politician and secretary of state
- 2003 : Hans Arens , German literary and linguist
- 2003 : Dean Amadon , American ornithologist
- 2003 : Jaime Figueroa , Puerto Rican violinist
- 2003 : Leopoldo Galtieri , Argentine general and de facto President of Argentina
- 2003 : Maurice Gibb , British-Australian musician member of the Bee Gees
- 2003 : Kinji Fukasaku , Japanese director
- 2004 : Olga Alexandrovna Ladyschenskaja , Russian mathematician and physicist
- 2005 : Manfred Fuhrmann , German classical philologist
- 2005 : Achille Maramotti , Italian fashion entrepreneur and lawyer
- 2005 : Bernard Meadows , British sculptor
- 2005 : Amrish Puri , Indian film actor
- 2006 : Manfred Bopp , German soccer player
- 2006 : Roland Hüttenrauch , German physicist and engineer, board member of Stiftung Warentest
- 2006 : Udo Thomer , German actor
- 2007 : Alice Coltrane , American jazz musician
- 2007 : Larry Stewart , American philanthropist, known as "Secret Santa"
- 2009 : Claude Berri , French film director, actor, film producer and screenwriter
- 2009 : Arne Næss , Norwegian philosopher
- 2010 : Georges Anglade , Haitian-Canadian writer, geographer and politician
- 2010 : Hédi Annabi , Tunisian UN diplomat
- 2010 : Zilda Arns , Brazilian doctor
- 2010 : Noël Goemanne , Belgian-American composer, church musician, organist and choir director
- 2011 : Didier Bonnet , French racing driver and racing car designer
- 2012 : Reginald Hill , British writer
- 2013 : Jean-Claude Olivier , French motorcycle racer and motorsport official
- 2014 : John Button , British racing car driver
- 2016 : Ruth Leuwerik , German actress
- 2017 : Giulio Angioni , Italian writer and anthropologist
- 2021 : Ferenc Arok , Yugoslav football player and coach
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Tatiana of Rome , Roman virgin and martyr (Catholic, Orthodox)
- St. Remigius of Reims , Gallo-Roman bishop (Protestant, the Catholic and Orthodox memorial day in Germany is on January 13th )
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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