March 12th
The March 12 is the 71st day of the Gregorian calendar (72nd in leap years ), thus remain 294 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1171 : After riots against the Genoese merchants based in Constantinople , Emperor Manuel I Komnenos arrests and expropriates all Venetians in the Byzantine Empire , as he holds the Republic of Venice responsible for the incident. Relations between Byzantium and Venice break.
- 1470 : During the Wars of the Roses , the Battle of Losecote Field ends with the success of the House of York under King Edward IV of England .
- 1560 : The Genoese admiral Giovanni Andrea Doria takes the Ottoman island of Djerba . To recapture the strategically important island, whose owner controls the sea routes between Algiers, Tripoli and Tunis, Sultan Suleyman I sends a fleet of 120 ships under Piale Pascha . As a result, the sea battle of Djerba between the Ottomans and the Christian fleet commanded by Doria took place on May 9th .
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- 1664 : England's King Charles II transfers ownership of the entire Dutch Atlantic coast of North America to his brother Jacob , the Duke of York and Commander-in-Chief of the English fleet, which, however, belongs to the Netherlands as the colony of Nieuw Nederland . The royal decision promptly provokes disputes between the two states.
- 1689 : Former English King James II lands in Ireland with 5000 French soldiers , whose parliament has not joined the Glorious Revolution , and subsequently, with the support of the Jacobites , secures rule over most of the kingdom .
- 1712 : Sweden switches back to the Julian calendar . In Sweden the date is March 1st July. , The day before that was February 30th, Sweden .
- 1849 : King Karl Albert of Sardinia-Piedmont declares war on the Austrian Empire because the Chamber of Deputies and the people want a continuation of the independence struggle in northern Italy that began with the March Revolution during the Risorgimento .
- 1854 : After the Russian Tsar Nicholas I rejected a Western peace proposal, Great Britain and France ally themselves with the Ottoman Empire , which is at war with Russia . The conflict grows into the Crimean War .
- 1867 : The Irishman Henry James O'Farrell carried out a gunshot attack on the British Prince Alfred , son of Queen Victoria , during his stay in Australia, but injured him only slightly. Alfred can start his journey again just a month later.
- 1870 : Antoine d'Orléans, duc de Montpensier , who is hoping for the Spanish throne, kills the Infante Heinrich von Bourbon, the brother of Spain's titular king Franz , in a duel .
- 1878 : Walvis Bay and a strip of land surrounding it in southwest Africa become British property .
- 1879 : During the Zulu War , a detachment of the British Army accompanying a supply convoy suffers a severe defeat by a Zulu force on the Ntombe River .
- 1913 : With a ceremony on Kurrajong Hill , the future Australian capital is baptized Canberra .
- 1917 : The Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves the Duma in the course of the February Revolution . This then holds a "private meeting" in which a Provisional Committee is set up to restore public order .
- 1918 : After the Bolsheviks come to power in Russia , Moscow becomes the capital of the Russian SFSR instead of Petrograd . The government moves to the Moscow Kremlin .
- 1920 : In the late evening and at night, mutinous Reichswehr officers march with their men to Berlin. The deposed General Walther von Lüttwitz controls the operation that marks the start of the Kapp Putsch .
- 1922 : The Transcaucasian Republic is founded through a merger of Georgia , Armenia and Azerbaijan . Your capital will be Tbilisi .
- 1929 : Die Weltbühne publishes an article about the secret establishment of an air force in the Weimar Republic. More than two years later, this leads to the Weltbühne trial against author Walter Kreiser and publisher Ossietzky for treason .
- 1930 : Mahatma Gandhi and 78 of his followers set out on the so-called salt march in order to break the British salt monopoly in an act of civil disobedience .
- 1930 : The German Reichstag approves the Young Plan , according to which Germany has to pay reparations to the victors of the First World War by 1988 .
- 1933 : During the Great Depression , US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the first of 30 speeches to the people of the United States known as Fireside Chats with a speech on the banking crisis .
- 1934 : In a coup , the head of state Konstantin Päts and army chief Johan Laidoner take power in Estonia . Päts bans political parties and suspends freedom of expression and freedom of the press in the country.
- 1938 : Due to the military transfer of the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler from the day before troops move of the German Wehrmacht in Austria and thus carry out its connection to the German Reich .
- 1945 : One of the largest air raids of the Second World War destroys Dortmund . It is the last of a total of eight air raids on the city .
- 1945: The air raid on Swinemünde the 8th US Air Force calls for about 4,500 victims.
- 1945: The Vienna State Opera catches fire after American bombing, which was actually aimed at the refinery in Floridsdorf .
- 1947 : During the Cold War , US President Harry S. Truman publishes the Truman Doctrine , based on the two-camp theory , in a speech to Congress , which is at the beginning of the US containment policy to curb communism .
- 1950 : In a referendum held in Belgium during the Second World War due to its unclear relationship with National Socialism , 57.6% of the population spoke out in favor of Leopold III's return . as king.
- 1968 : Mauritius becomes independent from Great Britain , but remains part of the Commonwealth of Nations . At the same time, a new flag is officially introduced.
- 1971 : In Turkey, the military is under pressure from Süleyman Demirel of Nihat Erim replaced as prime minister.
- 1984 : The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) chairman , Arthur Scargill , calls for a nationwide strike against Margaret Thatcher's economic policies .
- 1992 : 24 years after Mauritius gained independence, a new constitution comes into force and the country becomes a republic. The role of the head of state is formally passed from Queen Elizabeth II to the previous governor general Veerasamy Ringadoo as president.
- 1993 : 257 people are killed and 713 injured in ten bomb explosions in the center of the Indian city of Bombay . Nobody is committed to the attacks. Officials suspect Islamist groups to be the originator.
- 1999 : The former Warsaw Pact -Staaten Poland , Czech Republic and Hungary enter into the first phase of NATO's eastward expansion of NATO in.
- 2000 : The reformer Said Hajjarian , who published revelations about the chain murders in the 1990s, is murdered in Tehran .
- 2001 : The centuries-old Buddha statues of Bamiyan in Afghanistan are blown up by Taliban militias on the orders of Mohammed Omar, despite international protests, after the gunfire had previously failed to intentionally destroy the figures in the eyes of the religious warriors.
- 2003 : The Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić is ambushed by snipers in Belgrade in front of the government building .
- 2004 : The parliament of South Korea initiates impeachment proceedings against President Roh Moo-hyun for violating his duty of neutrality . Prime Minister Goh Kun takes over his agendas on an interim basis.
economy
- 1894 : The Coca-Cola Company from Asa Griggs Candler sold Coca-Cola for the first time in bottles.
- 1956 : The Dow Jones Industrial Average share index closes above 500 points for the first time.
- 1982 : Bankruptcy proceedings are opened against motorcycle manufacturer Kreidler .
- 1986 : In Hanover, CEBIT is opened for the first time as an independent trade fair .
- 1987 : Following a complaint from the European Commission, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg declares the German ban on selling foreign beers that are not produced in accordance with the German purity law as beer domestically as inadmissible.
science and technology
- 62 : Heron of Alexandria mentions a lunar eclipse over the city of Alexandria .
- 1365 : Duke Rudolf IV, the founder , and his brothers Albrecht and Leopold sign the founding deed of the University of Vienna . After Charles University in Prague, it is the second oldest university in the Holy Roman Empire and the oldest still existing university in the German-speaking area. The lectures initially take place in the St. Stephan Citizens' School .
- 1781 : Pierre Méchain observed as the first astronomer who later Messier 109 known galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major .
- 1893 : The German Reichstag passes the law on the introduction of a uniform time determination , with which Central European Time is uniformly introduced in Germany from April 1st .
- 1910 : The Georgios Averoff , the flagship of the Greek Navy from 1911 to 1952 , is launched.
- 1928 : Kurt C. Volkhart drives the first rocket- powered car on the Opel factory racetrack in Rüsselsheim .
- 1955 : The Alouette II helicopter, produced in France, ascends for its maiden flight .
- 1985 : From Air Force Base Vandenberg is Earth observation satellite Geosat the US Navy started.
- 1989 : Tim Berners-Lee presents the idea of the World Wide Web at CERN .
Culture
- 1857 : The opera Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave has its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. It failed the audience and was only successfully performed in a comprehensively revised version in 1881.
- 1954 : Three years after the composer's death, Arnold Schönberg's unfinished opera Moses und Aron , which was initially considered unperformable, was premiered in concert form in Hamburg. The work is composed in twelve-tone technique and is based on a single twelve-tone row .
- 1954 : The Sahitya Akademi , India's Literature and Language Academy, is officially founded in New Delhi.
- 1987 : The revised version of the musical Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil based on the novel Die Elenden by Victor Hugo celebrates its "Broadway premiere" at the Broadway theater .
society
- 2008 : An Australian search team from "The Finding Sydney Foundation" discovered the wreck of the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and a little later also the wreck of the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney at a depth of around 2500 m off the west coast of Australia . Both ships sank under controversial circumstances after a naval battle on November 19, 1941.
religion
- 515 BC Chr . : The second Jerusalem temple is completed and will be dedicated .
- 744 : The missionary Sturmius starts with seven companions on behalf of Boniface the monastery of Fulda to build, which later became the center of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fulda is.
- 1088 : The Bishop of Ostia , Eudes de Châtillon, succeeds Victor III. elected Pope and takes the name Urban II .
- 1144 : Gerardus Caccianemici dal Orso, elected three days earlier, is enthroned as Pope Lucius II .
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- 1622 : Pope Gregory XV. speaks Ignatius of Loyola , Francis Xavier , Teresa of Ávila , Isidore of Seville and Philip Neri sacred.
- 1950 : In the encyclical Anni sacri , Pope Pius XII. a program by the clergy to combat global atheism .
- 1994 : For the first time the Anglican Church of England ordains 32 women as priestesses after the ordination of women was declared possible in 1975 in the General Assembly of the Anglican Church .
Disasters
- 1928 : The dam of the St. Francis Dam near Los Angeles breaks. The tidal wave kills between 400 and 500 people.
- 1934 : The Japanese torpedo boat Tomozuru capsizes in a storm off Sasebo during an exercise . 100 of the 113 crew members are killed.
- 1993 : A three-day blizzard sweeps across America's east coast, killing around 300 people and causing over $ 6 billion in property damage.
- 2003 : The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies the lung disease SARS, which has broken out in East Asia, as a global threat.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1891 : The sports club Djurgårdens IF is founded in Stockholm, which will become one of the most successful clubs in Sweden, especially in football and ice hockey.
- 1913 : FC Dornbirn is brought into being by means of a founding meeting in the Dornbirn Gasthaus zur Flur . The club colors are set with red-white-black.
- 1953 : In Paris des Princes Parc is Watersnoodwedstrijd held a charity - football game between France and a selection of professional football players in the Netherlands, with proceeds going to the victims and survivors of the tsunami disaster is determined from 1 February 1953 in the Netherlands. The game is now seen as a decisive step towards the introduction of professional football in the Netherlands .
- 1958 : The power forward of the Cincinnati Royals Maurice Stokes falls headlong in the last basketball game of the season, but is able to continue playing. Three days later, he fell into a coma with post-traumatic encephalitis and became paralyzed.
- 2010 : The 10th Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver are officially opened by the Canadian Governor General Michaëlle Jean . They will last until March 21st.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1096 : Knud Lavard , first Duke of Schleswig
- 1270 : Charles I , Count of Valois, founder of the House of Valois
- 1336 : Eduard , Duke of Geldern and Count of Zutphen
- 1386 : Ashikaga Yoshimochi , Japanese Shogun
- 1418 : Philip II , Count of Nassau-Weilburg
- 1434 : Wilhelm III. , German nobleman, Count von Henneberg
- 1476 : Anna of Poland , Duchess of Pomerania
- 1479 : Giuliano di Lorenzo de 'Medici , brother of the later Pope Leo X, Lorenzo de Medici
- 1501 : Pietro Andrea Mattioli , Italian doctor and botanist
- 1515 : Caspar Othmayr , German priest, theologian and composer
- 1527 : Siegfried Sack , German theologian and cathedral preacher at Magdeburg Cathedral
- 1554 : Johannes Andreae , German pastor and theologian
- 1573 : Agnes Hedwig von Anhalt , Electress of Saxony and Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
- 1606 : Johann Caspar Bauhin , Swiss doctor and botanist
- 1613 : André Le Nôtre , French landscape architect
- 1624 : Damian Hartard von der Leyen , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Worms
- 1626 : John Aubrey , British archaeologist
- 1637 : Anne Hyde , first wife of King James II of England
- 1652 : Johann Heinrich Ernesti , German educator and rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig
- 1664 : Moritz Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Zeitz
- 1668 : Johann Samuel Stryk , German legal scholar
- 1685 : George Berkeley , Irish theologian and philosopher
- 1686 : Detlev Friedrich von Ahlefeldt , heir to Brodau and Danish major general
18th century
- 1701 : Wilhelm von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg , German nobleman, imperial general field master
- 1703 : Ladislaus Amade von Várkonyi , Hungarian poet
- 1705 : Noël de Jourda, comte de Vaux , Marshal of France
- 1706 : Johan Pasch , Swedish painter
- 1710 : Thomas Arne , British composer
- 1720 : Ernst von Apfaltern , Austrian Jesuit and philosopher
- 1724 : Benedict Strauch , German educator and Catholic theologian
- 1725 : Nicolás del Campo , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of the Río de la Plata
- 1728 : Anton Raphael Mengs , painter from Bohemia
- 1728 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Taube , German administrative officer in Austrian service
- 1729 : Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder , German librarian, lexicographer and historian
- 1732 : Joseph Gärtner , German botanist
- 1735 : Ernst Bengel , German superintendent
- 1741 : Ernst Jakob Danovius , German Lutheran theologian
- 1753 : Jean-Denis Lanjuinais , French politician
- 1753 : Justus Christian Loder , German-Baltic medic
- 1753 : Franz Volkmar Reinhard , German Protestant theologian
- 1763 : Martin Chittenden , American governor of Vermont
- 1769 : Archibald Campbell , British general
- 1770 : François Gérard , French painter
- 1776 : Hester Stanhope , English adventurer
- 1781 : Friederike von Baden , Queen of Sweden
- 1784 : William Buckland , English geologist and paleontologist
- 1788 : Pierre Jean David d'Angers , French sculptor
- 1795 : George T. Wood , soldier, politician, and second governor of Texas
19th century
1801-1850
- 1807 : James Abbott , British general
- 1809 : Gustav Werner , German Protestant pastor and founder of the foundation of the same name
- 1818 : Georges Bousquet , French composer, conductor and music critic
- 1819 : Henriette Nissen-Saloman , Swedish opera singer
- 1821 : John Abbott , Canadian lawyer, politician and Prime Minister
- 1821 : Hermann Hettner , German literary and art historian
- 1821 : Luitpold of Bavaria , Prince Regent of Bavaria
- 1823 : Hermann Rogalla von Bieberstein , German-American civil engineer and politician
- 1824 : Gustav Robert Kirchhoff , German physicist
- 1825 : Alexei Sergejewitsch Uvarow , Russian archaeologist
- 1826 : Sophie Cruvelli , German opera singer
- 1826 : Robert Lowry , Baptist clergyman and composer
- 1828 : Benjamin Leigh Smith , British polar explorer
- 1832 : Charles Cunningham Boycott , British land manager in Ireland
- 1832 : Charles Friedel , French chemist
- 1832 : Walter Grimshaw , British author of chess problems
- 1834 : Hilary A. Herbert , American politician
- 1835 : Gregorio María Aguirre y García , Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal
- 1835 : Simon Newcomb , Canadian astronomer and mathematician
- 1836 : Rudolph Melchior , German-American artisan
- 1837 : Alexandre Guilmant , French organist and composer
- 1838 : William Henry Perkin , British chemist
- 1842 : Cherubine Willimann , superior general in Koblenz
- 1843 : Hinrich Wrage , German landscape painter and graphic artist
- 1848 : Karl Hagemeister , German painter
- 1850 : Clay M. Greene , American writer
- 1850 : Heinrich Reimann , German musicologist, organist and composer
1851-1900
- 1853 : Karl Arnold , German chemist and mineralogist, scholar, lecturer, privy councilor, alpinist, non-fiction author and writer
- 1853 : Georg von Schanz , German lawyer and political scientist
- 1854 : Gottfried Strasser , Swiss pastor and poet
- 1862 : Alfredo Peri-Morosini , Swiss bishop
- 1863 : Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian poet and politician
- 1863 : Georg Anthes , German violinist, opera singer and theater director
- 1863 : Gheorghe Marinescu , Romanian neurologist and neuropathologist
- 1863 : Wladimir Ivanovich Vernadski , Russian geologist, geochemist and mineralogist
- 1866 : Franz Rudolf Bornewasser , German priest, auxiliary bishop in Cologne, bishop of Trier, archbishop
- 1866 : Leopold van Itallie , Dutch pharmacologist and toxicologist
- 1868 : Fritz Berger , Swiss founder of the Free Church Community for Christ
- 1870 : Christian Portner , Swiss evangelist
- 1872 : Ernst Hottenroth , German sculptor
- 1876 : Elbert Lee Trinkle , American politician
- 1877 : Wilhelm Frick , German Nazi politician
- 1878 : Sepp Amschl , Austrian teacher and composer
- 1879 : Alfred Abel , German actor
- 1879 : Charles Delestraint , French general
- 1882 : Alfred Apfel , German lawyer, criminal defense attorney and author
- 1882 : Alfred Goeldel-Bronikowen , German marksman
- 1882 : Franz Krezdorn , German football player
- 1883 : Ernest Cox , British engineer and entrepreneur
- 1883 : Oskar Wackerzapp , German politician
- 1884 : Joseph Chavée , Belgian racing car driver
- 1884 : Hugo Hirsch , German operetta and hit composer
- 1885 : Erwin Haller , Swiss Germanist
- 1886 : Vittorio Pozzo , Italian football coach
- 1888 : Erich Rothacker , German philosopher and sociologist
- 1888 : Hans Knappertsbusch , German conductor
- 1890 : Idris , King of Libya
- 1890 : William Dudley Pelley , American anti-Semite
- 1890 : Willy Walb , German engineer, automobile racing driver and race director
- 1891 : Michael Polanyi , Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher
- 1892 : Felix Bressart , German actor
- 1893 : Erwin Planck , German politician
- 1895 : Otakar Batlička , Czech writer, resistance fighter and globetrotter
- 1896 : Mario Astarita , Italian banker and art collector
- 1896 : Erna Gersinski , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1898 : Tian Han , Chinese playwright
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Jean Mineur , French film producer and director
- 1902 : Tüdel Weller , German journalist and writer
- 1904 : Adolf Arndt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1904 : Bodo Uhse , German writer
- 1905 : Takashi Shimura , Japanese actor
- 1907 : Wiggerl Kraus , German motorcycle racer
- 1908 : Kurt Stöpel , German racing cyclist
- 1908 : Nicholas Kaldor , Hungarian economist
- 1910 : László Lékai , Primate of Hungary and Archbishop of Esztergom
- 1910 : Wachtang Tschabukiani , Georgian dancer and choreographer
- 1911 : Gustavo Díaz Ordaz , Mexican President
- 1911 : Harry Fisher , American trade unionist and peace activist
- 1912 : Joel Mason , American football player and basketball coach
- 1912 : Bruno Uher , Austrian composer
- 1913 : Teobaldo Depetrini , Italian football player and coach
- 1913 : Loulie Jean Norman , American soprano
- 1914 : Jan Kapr , Czech composer
- 1915 : Alberto Burri , Italian painter
- 1915 : Jiří Mucha , Czech cosmopolitan and writer, publicist and screenwriter
- 1916 : Christian Broda , Austrian politician
- 1918 : Helmut Brennicke , German actor, director, radio play speaker, acting teacher and author
- 1919 : Casandra Damirón , Dominican singer
- 1917 : Leonard Chess , Polish-American entrepreneur
- 1918 : Elaine de Kooning , American painter
- 1919 : Mike Stepovich , American politician, Governor of Alaska
- 1921 : Giovanni Agnelli , Italian industrialist
- 1921 : Gordon MacRae , American singer and actor
- 1921 : Don McCafferty , American football coach
- 1921 : Chet Mutryn , American football player
- 1921 : Ralph Shapey , American conductor and composer
- 1922 : Arnim Dahl , German stuntman and artist
- 1922 : Helga Goetze , German artist, writer and political activist
- 1922 : Jack Kerouac , American writer, representative of the Beat Generation ( On The Road )
- 1923 : Hjalmar Andersen , Norwegian speed skater
- 1923 : Ugo Attardi , Italian painter, sculptor and writer
- 1923 : Norbert Brainin , Austrian-British violinist
- 1923 : Hanne Hiob , German actress
- 1923 : Erwin Jehle , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
- 1923 : Hans Platschek , German painter and publicist
- 1923 : Walter Schirra , American astronaut
- 1923 : Mae Young , American wrestler
- 1924 : Valerio Bacigalupo , Italian football player
- 1925 : Georges Delerue , French film composer
- 1925 : Harry Harrison , American author
- 1925 : Leo Esaki , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1925 : Louison Bobet , French racing cyclist
- 1925 : Lucius Burckhardt , Swiss sociologist and economist
1926-1950
- 1926 : George Ariyoshi , American politician, governor of Hawaii
- 1926 : Karl Czok , German historian
- 1926 : Eberhard Heinrich , German journalist and politician of the GDR
- 1926 : Heinz Schönberger , German clarinetist and orchestra leader
- 1927 : Raúl Alfonsín , Argentine President
- 1927 : Georg Hörtnagel , German double bass player and concert agent
- 1927 : Elmar Zeitler , German physicist
- 1928 : Edward Albee , American writer
- 1928 : Walter Althammer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1928 : Philip Jones , British trumpeter
- 1928 : Werner Krolikowski , politician of the GDR
- 1928 : Paul Kuhn , German pianist, band leader and singer
- 1928 : Aldemaro Romero , Venezuelan composer and conductor
- 1929 : Winnie Gebhardt-Gayler , German illustrator
- 1929 : Hans Müllejans , German theologian and Aachen Cathedral Provost
- 1929 : Francisco Pulgar Vidal , Peruvian composer
- 1930 : Hans Hammerschmid , Austrian composer, arranger, pianist and conductor
- 1930 : Vern Law , American baseball player
- 1931 : François Rabbath , American composer
- 1932 : Don Drummond , Jamaican ska trombonist
- 1932 : Barbara Feldon , American actress
- 1932 : Andrew Young , American civil rights activist
- 1934 : Henryk Bista , Polish actor
- 1934 : Adolf Frohner , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1935 : Heinz Ahrens , German industrial manager
- 1935 : Jacques Benveniste , French medic
- 1935 : Arne Eggebrecht , German Egyptologist
- 1935 : Manfred Werp , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1936 : Eddie Sutton , American basketball coach
- 1937 : Zurab Sotkilava , Georgian football player and opera singer
- 1938 : Dimitri Terzakis , Greek composer
- 1939 : Martha Schad , German historian and author
- 1940 : Al Jarreau , American jazz, pop, R&B singer and songwriter
- 1940 : MA Numminen , Finnish singer, composer and filmmaker
- 1941 : Erkki Salmenhaara , Finnish composer and musicologist
- 1942 : Fred Julsing , Dutch cartoonist
- 1942 : Ratko Mladić , Bosnian-Serb general, war criminal
- 1942 : Jimmy Wynn , American baseball player
- 1943 : Mina Assadi , Persian poet and author
- 1943 : Christean Wagner , German politician, Hessian state minister
- 1944 : Peter Orloff , German singer and songwriter
- 1944 : Herbert Wessel , German athlete
- 1945 : Sammy Gravano , American criminal
- 1945 : Jim Sharman , Australian film and theater director
- 1946 : Dean Cundey , American cameraman
- 1946 : Liza Minnelli , American actress and singer
- 1946 : Ricky King , German musician
- 1947 : Aldo Arencibia , Cuban cyclist
- 1947 : Peter Harry Carstensen , German politician, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1947 : Kalervo Palsa , Finnish painter
- 1947 : Franz Zettl , Austrian musician
- 1947 : Konrad Hünteler , German musician
- 1947 : Mitt Romney , American Republican Party politician
- 1948 : William M. Anderson , Northern Irish film editor
- 1948 : James Taylor , American singer
- 1948 : Les Holroyd , British musician ( Barclay James Harvest )
- 1948 : Ole Thestrup , Danish actor
- 1949 : Bill Payne , American rock pianist and keyboardist
- 1949 : Reinhard Weis , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1949 : Rob Cohen , American director
- 1950 : Javier Clemente , Spanish football player and coach
- 1950 : Manfred Jäger , German enduro athlete
- 1950 : Jon Provost , American actor
- 1950 : Leo Wieland , German journalist
1951-1975
- 1952 : Yasuhiko Okudera , Japanese soccer player
- 1952 : Randy Stonehill , American singer and composer
- 1953 : Alwin Fitting , German employee representative at RWE Power AG
- 1953 : Jürgen Fritz , German musician
- 1953 : Carl Hiaasen , American journalist and writer
- 1953 : Ron Jeremy , American porn actor
- 1953 : Ryan Paris , Italian musician
- 1954 : Richard Winfred Anane , Ghanaian politician and human medicine
- 1954 : Elena Aprile , Italian particle physicist
- 1954 : Inessa Galante , Latvian soprano
- 1955 : Johann-Heinrich Ahlers , German politician
- 1956 : Ove Robert Aunli , Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1956 : László Kiss , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1956 : Steve Harris , British bassist and songwriter
- 1956 : Pim Verbeek , Dutch football coach
- 1956 : Peter Weiß , German politician
- 1957 : Patrick Battiston , French football player
- 1957 : Marlon Jackson , American musician and singer
- 1958 : Phil Anderson , Australian cyclist
- 1958 : Max Herbrechter , German actor and cabaret artist
- 1958 : Kathrin Schmidt , German writer
- 1958 : Wilfried Mohren , German sports reporter
- 1959 : Dennis Alexio , American actor
- 1959 : Hermann Parzinger , German prehistoric scientist and President of the DAI
- 1960 : Reinhard Johler , Austrian ethnologist and social anthropologist
- 1960 : Courtney B. Vance , American actor
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- 1962 : Andreas Köpke , German soccer player and manager
- 1962 : Darryl Strawberry , American baseball player
- 1963 : John Andretti , American racing car driver
- 1963 : Joaquim Cruz , Brazilian athlete
- 1963 : Stefan Göttelmann , German church musician and solo organist
- 1963 : Kazik Staszewski , Polish rock and punk musician
- 1964 : Dieter Eckstein , German soccer player
- 1965 : Max Müller , Austrian actor and singer
- 1968 : Aaron Eckhart , American actor
- 1968 : Bjarne Mädel , German actor
- 1969 : Chad Silver , Swiss-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 : Beyazıt Öztürk , Turkish showmaster, actor and entertainer
- 1969 : Graham Coxon , British musician and painter
- 1970 : Jan Eiberg Jørgensen , Danish handball player
- 1970 : Gudula Geuther , German radio journalist
- 1971 : Karolina Arewång-Højsgaard , Swedish orienteer
- 1972 : Christian Möllmann , German actor and singer
- 1972 : Andreas Tzermiadianos , Greek chess player
- 1972 : Lisa Werlinder , Swedish actress and singer
- 1973 : Tim Fischer , German chansonnier
- 1974 : Petra Aigner , Austrian sociologist
- 1974 : Charles Akonnor , Ghanaian-German soccer player
- 1974 : Bettina Bernadotte , German-Swedish aristocrat, managing director of Mainau GmbH
- 1975 : Cecilie Leganger , Norwegian handball player
- 1975 : Zoë Beck , German writer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Andreas Erm , German athlete
- 1976 : Deron Quint , American ice hockey player
- 1977 : Amdy Faye , Senegalese soccer player
- 1977 : Rita König , Romanian-German foil fencer
- 1978 : Daniel Becke , German racing cyclist
- 1978 : Arina Tanemura , Japanese manga artist
- 1978 : Jörg Zereike , German handball goalkeeper
- 1979 : Rhys Coiro , American actor
- 1979 : Pete Doherty , British singer and guitarist
- 1979 : Enrico Kern , German soccer player
- 1979 : Annika Lau , German radio and television presenter
- 1979 : Tim Wieskötter , German canoeist
- 1980 : Cristian Fiél , Spanish-German soccer player
- 1980 : California Molefe , Botswana athlete
- 1980 : Jérémie Njock , Cameroonian football player
- 1981 : Friedrich Mücke , German actor
- 1982 : Samm Levine , American actor and comedian
- 1983 : Atif Aslam , Pakistani pop singer
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- 1984 : Jaimie Alexander , American actress
- 1985 : Macarena Aguilar , Spanish handball player
- 1985 : Christianne Mwasesa , Congolese handball player
- 1985 : Bradley Wright-Phillips , English soccer player
- 1986 : Kasper Irming Ryan Andersen , Danish handball player
- 1986 : Martynas Andriuškevičius , Lithuanian basketball player
- 1986 : Daniar Dshunussow , German ice hockey player
- 1986 : František Rajtoral , Czech football player
- 1987 : Johannes Dürr , Austrian cross-country skier
- 1987 : Jessica Hardy , American swimmer
- 1987 : Timo Kunert , German soccer player
- 1987 : Markus Noel , German handball player
- 1987 : Teymur Rəcəbov , Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
- 1988 : Frederic Böhle , German actor, theater actor and singer
- 1988 : Konstantinos Mitroglou , Greek football player
- 1989 : Hakan Arslan , Turkish soccer player
- 1989 : Jennifer Werth , German soccer player
- 1990 : Jesper Asselman , Dutch cyclist
- 1990 : Milena Raičević , Montenegrin handball player
- 1990 : Dawid Kubacki , Polish ski jumper
- 1990 : Franziska Müller , German handball player
- 1991 : Felix Kroos , German soccer player
- 1991 : Fabian Schomburg , German handball player
- 1991 : Errdeka , German rapper
- 1992 : Daniele Baselli , Italian football player
- 1994 : Katie Archibald , Scottish track cyclist
- 1996 : Tom Booth-Amos , British motorcycle racer
- 1996 : Philo Paz Patrick Armand , Indonesian racing car driver
- 1999 : Kendall Applegate , American actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 250 : Pionius , Christian martyr
- 417 : Innocent I , Pope
- 604 : Gregory the Great , Pope, Benedictine, Father of the Church and Doctor of the Church
- 636 : Sisenand , King of the Visigoths
- 818 : Theophanes , chronicler and saint
- 1022 : Symeon the New Theologian , Byzantine Doctor of the Church, mystic and poet
- 1122 : Giso IV. , Count in Oberlahngau and Count of Gudensberg
- 1160 : al-Muqtafi , Abbasid caliph
- 1162 : Knud Henriksson , Danish duke
- 1190 : Siegfried III. , Count of Lebenau
- 1209 : Nezāmi , Persian poet
- 1214 : Baldwin of Toulouse , Vice Count of Bruniquel and Lautrec
- 1253 : Fina , saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1289 : Dimitri II the self-sacrifice , Georgian king
- 1289 : Guido II , Count of St. Pol
- 1316 : Stefan Dragutin , Serbian king
- 1325 : Erich II , Duke of Schleswig
- 1356 : Rudolf I , Duke and Elector of Saxony
- 1374 : Go-Kōgon , Japanese pretender to the throne
- 1447 : Beatrix of Bavaria , Countess of Pfalz-Neumarkt
16th to 18th century
- 1507 : Cesare Borgia , Italian Renaissance ruler
- 1510 : Mihnea I. cel Rău , voivode of Wallachia
- 1547 : Wenzeslaus Linck , German Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1567 : Margarethe , Archduchess of Austria and co-founder and canon of the Haller Damenstift
- 1568 : Cyriacus Lindemann , German educator
- 1572 : Mem de Sá , Portuguese nobleman, lawyer and Governor General of Brazil
- 1575 : Erich V , Count of Hoya
- 1582 : Andreas Ellinger , German medic and neo-Latin poet
- 1628 : John Bull , English organist and harpsichordist
- 1637 : Anders Christensen Arrebo , Danish clergyman and writer
- 1648 : Tirso de Molina , Spanish poet
- 1655 : Anna Maßmeyer , victim of the witch hunts of the city council of Minden
- 1681 : Frans van Mieris the Elder , Dutch painter
- 1697 : Gaspar de la Cerda Sandoval Silva y Mendoza , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1699 : François Le Fort , Swiss confidante of Tsar Peter I, reorganizer of the Russian armed forces and first Russian admiral
- 1700 : Casimir , Count of Lippe-Brake
- 1703 : Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford , English nobleman
- 1723 : Anna Christine Luise , Countess Palatine von Sulzbach, Duchess of Savoy and Crown Princess of Sardinia-Piedmont
- 1734 : Antonius Schultingh , Dutch legal scholar
- 1737 : Karl Alexander , 11th Duke of Württemberg
- 1747 : Samuel Crell , German preacher
- 1764 : Marie Antoinette von Ahlefeldt , German Countess and Prioress of the Uetersen Monastery
- 1772 : Franz de Paula Penz , Tyrolean priest and church builder
- 1790 : Andreas Hadik von Futak , Austrian field marshal and rider leader
19th century
- 1812 : Johann Jakob Griesbach , German professor
- 1820 : Alexander MacKenzie , British geographer and explorer
- 1831 : Vladimir Grigoryevich Orlov , Russian science manager, brother of Grigory Orlov
- 1832 : Friedrich Kuhlau , German-Danish composer
- 1834 : Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach , German mathematician
- 1837 : Franz Xaver Josef Ackermann , lawyer and politician from Baden
- 1840 : Georg Friedrich Baumgärtel , German educator
- 1840 : Gustav Wilhelm Struckmann , German lawyer and author
- 1845 : Maria Catharina Tismar , German foundation founder
- 1851 : Christoph Arentz , German Benedictine priest and scientist
- 1852 : Georg August von Auenfels , Austrian major general and knight of the Military Maria Theresa Order
- 1865 : Jakob Adam , Swiss politician and lawyer
- 1869 : Ernst Haberbier , German composer and Imperial Russian court pianist
- 1872 : Zeng Guofan , Chinese statesman
- 1880 : Bernhard Gugler , German mathematician and musicologist
- 1886 : Ysaak Brons , German politician, businessman and shipowner, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1898 : Johann Jakob Balmer , Swiss mathematician and physicist
- 1898 : Zacharias Topelius , Finnish-Swedish poet and writer
- 1899 : Julius Vogel , Prime Minister of New Zealand
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : John Peter Altgeld , American politician
- 1902 : Georg Hummel , German electrical engineer, inventor and entrepreneur
- 1905 : Rudolf von Alt , Austrian landscape and architecture painter
- 1906 : Joseph Monier , French gardener, invented reinforced concrete
- 1907 : Gabriel Anrep , Swedish genealogist
- 1909 : Frieda von Bülow , German writer
- 1909 : Herrmann Julius Meyer , German publisher
- 1910 : Bertram Armytage , Australian cavalry officer and polar explorer
- 1914 : George Westinghouse , American inventor
- 1916 : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , Austrian writer
- 1924 : Joachim von Pfeil , German Africa explorer
- 1925 : Sun Yat-sen , Chinese politician
- 1926 : Hugo Güldner , German engine builder and technology pioneer
- 1927 : Georges Docquois , French writer
- 1927 : Walter Henry Rothwell , British conductor
- 1928 : Marija Nikolajewna Yermolowa , Russian theater actress
- 1930 : Alois Jirásek , Czech writer and historian
- 1931 : Lillie P. Bliss , American patroness and co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art
- 1932 : Ivar Kreuger , Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Svenska Tändsticks AB (STAB)
- 1934 : Harry Green , British long-distance runner
- 1935 : Joseph Delmont , Austrian artist, writer and director, first predator scenes in film history
- 1937 : Jenő Hubay , Hungarian composer and violin virtuoso
- 1937 : Charles-Marie Widor , French organist, composer and teacher
- 1941 : Charles Sanford Skilton , American composer and organist
- 1942 : Robert Bosch , German industrialist and philanthropist
- 1942 : William Henry Bragg , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1943 : Karl Heldmann , German historian
- 1943 : Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor
- 1943 : Paul Wittig , German architect, civil engineer, director and chairman of the board of the Berliner Hochbahngesellschaft
- 1944 : Romolo Murri , Italian theologian
- 1945 : Friedrich Fromm , German general
- 1945 : Karl Gander , German teacher and local researcher
- 1945 : Ludwig Rochlitzer , Austrian composer
- 1946 : József Gera , Hungarian pediatrician and politician
- 1947 : Winston Churchill , American writer
- 1949 : August Bier , German surgeon
1951-2000
- 1951 : Alfred Hugenberg , German entrepreneur and politician, Reich Minister, pioneer of National Socialism
- 1953 : Itō Shizuo , Japanese lyric poet
- 1954 : Marianne Weber , German women's rights activist, sociologist and legal historian
- 1955 : Charlie Parker , American jazz saxophonist
- 1955 : Leo Wohleb , President of the former German state of Baden
- 1955 : Theodor Plievier , German writer
- 1956 : Bolesław Bierut , Polish politician
- 1957 : Josephine Hull , American actress
- 1960 : Semyon Ilyich Bogdanow , head of the Soviet military administration in Brandenburg
- 1961 : Hedwig Wangel , German actress
- 1964 : Abbas Mahmud el-Akkad , Egyptian writer, historian, poet, philosopher and journalist
- 1966 : Sydney Camm , British aerospace engineer
- 1970 : Grete Merrem-Nikisch , German soprano
- 1975 : Paul Fitzgibbon , American football player
- 1977 : George Eldredge , American actor
- 1977 : Rutilio Grande , Salvadoran Jesuit Father of Liberation Theology
- 1978 : Agustín Acosta , Cuban politician and writer
- 1980 : Arthur Dobson , British racing car driver
- 1984 : Heinz Oskar Wuttig , German screenwriter
- 1985 : Earle C. Clements , American politician
- 1987 : Richard Levinson , American film producer and screenwriter
- 1988 : Alessandro Bausani , Italian Iranist, Islamic scholar and linguist
- 1989 : Maurice Evans , British actor
- 1990 : Rose Renée Roth , Austrian actress
- 1990 : Philippe Soupault , French poet and writer
- 1991 : José Maria Antunes , Portuguese football player and coach
- 1991 : LeRoy Collins , American politician
- 1991 : Ragnar Granit , Swedish physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1991 : William Heinesen , Faroese poet
- 1992 : Heinz Kühn , German politician, MdB, MdL, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, MEP
- 1993 : Brother Robert , French doctor and monk
- 1993 : Michael Kanin , American screenwriter
- 1993 : Mac Speedie , American football player and coach
- 1996 : Paul Scherman , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1997 : Hendrik Brugmans , Dutch politician
- 1998 : Siegfried Seifert , German zoologist
- 1999 : Yehudi Menuhin , British-American violinist and conductor
- 2000 : Cloyd Duff , American timpanist
21st century
- 2001 : Robert Ludlum , American writer, actor, and producer
- 2002 : Louis-Marie Billé , French clergyman, Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of France
- 2002 : Friedrich Falch , Austrian politician
- 2002 : Spyros Kyprianou , Greek Cypriot politician and president
- 2003 : Zoran Đinđić , Serbian Prime Minister
- 2003 : Howard Fast , American writer
- 2003 : Andrei Kiwiljow , Kazakh cyclist
- 2004 : Finn Carling , Norwegian writer
- 2004 : Yvonne Cernota , German bobsleigh driver
- 2005 : Karl Blessing , German publisher
- 2005 : Lisa Fittko , Austrian writer
- 2006 : Jonatan Johansson , Swedish snowboarder
- 2006 : Emil Beck , German fencing trainer
- 2006 : Jurij Brězan , Sorbian writer
- 2006 : Luis Frías Sandoval , Dominican choir director
- 2007 : Lennart Heimer , Swedish-American neurosurgeon
- 2008 : Erik Ågren , Finnish-Swedish writer and poet
- 2008 : Erwin Geschonneck , German actor
- 2008 : Lazare Ponticelli , last French World War I veteran
- 2008 : Paulos Faraj Rahho , Iraqi clergyman, Archbishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- 2009 : Pinsl , German painter
- 2010 : Robert Allan Attersley , Canadian politician and ice hockey player
- 2010 : Miguel Delibes , Spanish writer
- 2010 : Ernst Herhaus , German writer
- 2010 : Hanna-Renate Laurien , German politician
- 2011 : Günter Amendt , German social scientist
- 2011 : Karl Delorme , German politician
- 2011 : Karlfried founder , German philosopher and historian of philosophy
- 2011 : Joe Morello , American musician
- 2011 : Dietmar Mues , German actor
- 2011 : Nilla Pizzi , Italian singer
- 2012 : Timo Konietzka , German-Swiss soccer player and coach, shooter of the first Bundesliga
- 2013 : Clive Burr , British drummer ( Iron Maiden )
- 2015 : Michael Graves , American architect and designer
- 2015 : Terry Pratchett , British fantasy writer
- 2016 : Lloyd S. Shapley , American economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize winner
- 2017 : Horst Ehmke , German politician and Federal Minister
- 2018 : Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov , Soviet or Russian actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Gregory the Great , Roman theologian and church father, bishop and pope (Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox)
- St. Pionius , presbyter and martyr of Asia Minor (Armenian)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Faroe Islands : Grækarismessa (since 1943)
- Mauritius : Independence from Great Britain (1968)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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