12th of May
The May 12 is the 132nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 133rd in leap years ), thus remain still 233 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 12 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 113 : The Trajan's Column is inaugurated at the Trajan's Forum in Rome .
- 919 : In Fritzlar Heinrich der Vogler is by the tribes of the franc and Saxony as Henry I to the East Frankish chosen king. Eberhard , the brother of King Konrad I , who died in December , presented him with the imperial insignia . This is the first time that a Saxon is king of Eastern France.
- 1082 : In the Battle of Mailberg , the Bohemian Duke Vratislav II defeats his adversary Leopold II , Margrave of Austria .
- 1525 : During the German Peasants' War in the Battle of Böblingen, the Württemberg peasants are defeated by the mercenary army of the Swabian Confederation under Georg von Waldburg-Zeil . Their leader Matern Feuerbacher then flees south.
- 1588 : The leader of the Catholic Holy League , Henri I. de Lorraine, duc de Guise , initiates an apparently spontaneous popular uprising in the predominantly Catholic Paris against King Henry III. who, in his eyes, leans towards the Huguenots . The king is driven out of the city on the day of the barricades .
- 1641 : Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford , most important confidante of the English King Charles I , who claims absolute rule , is executed by beheading on the basis of a Bill of Attainder of the House of Commons .
- 1689 : England and the Netherlands join the Augsburg Alliance , which was founded on July 9, 1686 as a defensive alliance against King Louis XIV of France, thereby expanding it to form the Great Vienna Alliance . The aim of the alliance is to maintain the agreements of the Peace of Westphalia and the Peace of the Pyrenees .
- 1743 : After militarily rejecting the claims of the Wittelsbacher Karl Albrecht von Bayern in the War of the Austrian Succession , the Habsburg Maria Theresa becomes three years after the death of her father Karl VI. crowned as his successor to the bohemian queen.
- 1780 : After several weeks of siege, the American general Benjamin Lincoln has to surrender and hand over the city of Charleston in South Carolina to the British under Henry Clinton . It is the worst American defeat in the American War of Independence .
- 1789 : In New York City, William Mooney founds the politically active club Society of St. Tammany with the meeting place at Tammany Hall . The association, which developed into a party, later attracts attention through scandals, the provision of advantages for its members and corruption .
- 1797 : The last Doge of Venice , Ludovico Manin , abdicates and the Grand Council of the lagoon city holds its last session. Napoleon Bonaparte's troops, who invaded the Republic of Venice, lie on the mainland in front of the city . The era of the Serenissima is coming to an end, Venice later becomes Austrian property in the Peace of Campo Formio .
- 1814 : Shortly after entering Paris, King Louis XVIII dismisses . as a measure of the restoration in France the 300,000 strong Napoleonic army home.
- 1864 : During the German-Danish war , an armistice negotiated in London comes into force, but it is only of short duration as the warring parties cannot agree on a border in Schleswig .
- 1865 : More than a month after the official surrender of the Confederate States of America , the two-day battle of the Palmito Ranch, the final battle of the Civil War, begins in Texas .
- 1870 : The Canadian Parliament passes the Manitoba Act . With its entry into force on 15 July 1869 by the will of Hudson's Bay Company purchased territories Northwest Territories and Rupert's Land to the Canadian territory incorporated and the province within this area Manitoba created.
- 1873 : After the death of his brother Karl XV. in the previous year Oskar II was crowned King of Sweden in the Nikolaikirche in Stockholm .
- 1881 : After the invasion of French troops is the date the Ottoman Empire associated Tunisia by the Treaty of Bardo , also called Treaty of Ksar Said , a protectorate of France, even if the Bey of Tunis, Muhammad III. al-Husain , formally ruler of the country, remains.
- 1885 : During the Northwest Rebellion in the Canadian Northwest Territories , the decisive battle of Batoche begins between the North West Mounted Police under Frederick Middleton and the Métis under Louis Riel and Gabriel Dumont . It lasts until May 15th.
- 1916 : Trade unionist James Connolly is one of the last to be executed at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin as the leader of the Easter Rising in Ireland . The shootings end the following day due to great international pressure.
- 1925 : Paul von Hindenburg is sworn in as the second Reich President of the Weimar Republic .
- 1926 : With the occupation of Warsaw bridges by the local garrison begins in Poland the May Coup of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski against Prime Minister Wincenty Witos . An attempt at mediation by President Stanisław Wojciechowski fails. The fighting lasts until May 15th.
- 1937 : After the abdication of his brother Edward VIII because of the affair with Wallis Simpson on December 10 of the previous year, George VI. crowned King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
- 1940 : With the first bomb attack by the Royal Air Force on German cities with 35 bombers on Mönchengladbach , the aerial warfare in World War II begins in Germany as well.
- 1942 : During the war against the Soviet Union in World War II , the Red Army starts an offensive against the city of Kharkov, held by the German Wehrmacht . The Second Battle of Kharkov lasted until May 28th.
- 1943 : The four-day massacre of Changjiao by the Imperial Japanese Army in the Second Sino-Japanese War kills around 30,000 civilians in the Chinese province of Hunan .
- 1949 : The Soviet Union ends the eleven-month blockade of Berlin on the basis of the Jessup-Malik Agreement concluded on May 4th .
- 1949 : The three western military governors in Germany formally proclaim the occupation statute , which will come into force on September 21. It opened up limited sovereignty to the emerging Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1958 : The United States and Canada in response to the sign Sputnik shock in the Cold War , an agreement establishing the North American Aerospace Defense Command , which monitor the space and from attacks a common entity, intercontinental ballistic missiles to warn.
- 1965 : The Federal Republic of Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations. The trigger for this is the state visit by GDR State Council Chairman Walter Ulbricht to Egypt from February 24 to March 2.
- 1975 : The three-day Mayaguez incident begins with the hijacking of the US container ship SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand about 60 nautical miles off the coastline of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge .
- 1985 : In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , the SPD under Prime Minister Johannes Rau achieves a record result with 52.1% of the vote.
- 1991 : The Soviet Union destroys the last of its medium-range missiles of the type SS-20 in compliance with the INF agreement .
- 1997 : The First Chechen War ends with the signing of a peace treaty by Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin and Chechen President Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov . However, the political status of Chechnya is not clarified in the treaty.
- 1998 : The Hamburg Regional Court pronounces a judgment on liability for links on the Internet, which is subsequently referred to by numerous website disclaimers .
- 1998 : After it to border conflicts between since May 6 Eritrea and Ethiopia has come, occupied Eritrea which situated therein Yirga Triangle . This escalates the incidents of the Eritrea-Ethiopia war around the borderline established by the European colonial powers in the 1920s.
- 2004 : The European Commission presents a strategy paper on the European Neighborhood Policy . Countries with no prospect of accession are to be given incentives to modernize their politics, economy and society through stronger ties to the European Union in order to create “a ring of stable, friendly states”.
economy
- 1661 : In Mainz, a ship bridge over the Rhine is opened to traffic. Bridge tolls are charged for crossing the river .
- 1818 : Queen Katharina founds the Württembergische Spar-Casse for the entire Kingdom of Württemberg .
- 1847 : The bookseller of the same name founds the Ferdinand Schöningh publishing house in Paderborn .
- 1856 : Members of the Academic Association of Hut Berlin found the Association of German Engineers (VDI) on an excursion to Alexisbad in Harzgerode .
science and technology
- 1364 : The University of Krakow is founded with papal approval. The Polish King Casimir III. thus establishes the second university in Central Europe.
- 1551 : The National University of San Marcos in Lima is at the behest of Charles V established. It is the oldest continuously existing university on the American continent.
- 1827 : After more than two decades of absence, Alexander von Humboldt returns at the urging of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. back to Berlin.
- 1912 : After more than two years of construction, the Wendelsteinbahn , an electrically operated cogwheel railway to the Wendelstein in the Bavarian Alps, built by Otto von Steinbeis from his own resources , has its maiden voyage.
- 1926 : The Italian aviation pioneer Umberto Nobile flies over the North Pole in the airship Norge together with the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen and the American millionaire Lincoln Ellsworth , the first safe journey to the North Pole .
- 1941 : The Berlin inventor Konrad Zuse presents the calculating machine Z3 , which he built in collaboration with Helmut Schreyer - the first fully functional program-controlled computer.
- 1965 : Luna 5 is the second Soviet lunar probe to reach the moon , but crashes in an uncontrolled manner.
- 1966 : In Uetze in Lower Saxony , the Deutsche Bundespost ceases to operate the last manual exchange for calls within Germany.
- 2002 : One of the last Russian Buran space shuttles is destroyed by the collapse of the ceiling of the hangar at the space station in Baikonur . Eight members of the repair team are killed.
- 2010 : With the opening of the standard bridge over the Rovuma between Tanzania and Mozambique, there is for the first time a direct, continuous road link along the entire East African coast of the Indian Ocean .
Culture
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- 1664 : Tartuffe , a comedy in five acts by Molière , has in Versailles its premiere . This first version caused a scandal due to its drastic and revolutionary criticism of religious hypocrisy, which led to the play being banned.
- 1832 : The comic opera L'elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan. The libretto is by Felice Romani based on Eugène Scribes Le philtre . It becomes one of the composer's most frequently performed operas.
- 1894 : The first opera by Richard Strauss , Guntram , is premiered in Weimar . She is welcomed in a friendly way, but removed again after a few performances.
- 1922 : The operetta Frasquita by Franz Lehár with the libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert has its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1933 : Since the works of Oskar Maria Graf did not fall victim to the book burning in Germany in 1933 , on the contrary, they were even recommended for reading by the National Socialists, he wrote the demand Burn me! In the Wiener Arbeiter-Zeitung .
- 1938 : The cheerful opera Schneider Wibbel by Mark Lothar with the libretto by Hans Müller-Schlösser is premiered at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin .
- 1949 : The opera Il Cordovano by Goffredo Petrassi based on the novel El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- 2000 : In London, the Tate Gallery of Modern Art opens to the public in an old coal-fired power station in Southwark . Originally designed by Giles Gilbert Scott , the building was redesigned for Tate Modern by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron for £ 134 million .
- 2018 : The singer Netta Barzilai wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon with the title Toy for Israel .
society
- 1191 : The English King Richard the Lionheart and Berengaria of Navarre are married in Limassol , Cyprus . The king then goes on the Third Crusade again .
- 1932 : Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, the two-year-old son of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh kidnapped on March 1 , is found murdered.
- 1971 : The first news anchor on German television reads Wibke Bruhns from 22:15 the Today -Spätnachrichten in ZDF .
- 1990 : Jeanne Calment becomes the oldest person and in the following years increases the verifiable maximum human lifespan by more than seven years to 122 years and 164 days.
religion
- 254 : Stephen I is the successor of the late I. Lucius Bishop of Rome .
- 1328 : At the instigation of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria, the people in Rome elect the Franciscan Pietro Rainalducci as Nicholas V as the antipope of John XXII, who resides in Avignon .
- 1721 : The Norwegian priest Hans Egede breaks with his family by ship to Greenland on to there suspected him Vikings to proselytize . Instead, he meets the Inuit on July 3rd and becomes the "Apostle of the Greenlanders".
- 1982 : During a visit by Pope John Paul II to the Portuguese pilgrimage site of Fátima , an assassination attempt on his bodyguards fails . The traditional Catholic priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn attacks the Pope with a bayonet .
Disasters
- 2008 : In a severe earthquake in Sichuan in the south of the People's Republic of China with a magnitude of 7.9 on the moment-magnitude scale , almost 70,000 people die. 5.6 million become homeless.
- 2010 : On Afriqiyah Airways flight 771 , an Airbus A330 hits the runway of Tripoli International Airport in poor visibility during a go - around maneuver . According to official information, 103 people are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1890 : The Gloucestershire vs. Yorkshire game in Bristol marks the beginning of the first official county championship game for the English cricket championship. Yorkshire wins the cricket match with 8 / wickets .
- 1957 : A serious accident occurs at the Mille Miglia : In addition to the Spanish racing driver Alfonso de Portago and his co-driver, ten spectators, including five children, are killed. The accident leads to the discontinuation of the traditional car race.
- 1976 : After a 1-0 win over AS Saint-Étienne, FC Bayern Munich wins the European Cup for the third time in a row .
- 1984 : The new Grand Prix track on the Nürburgring is opened. The first race to be held on the new track is a touring car show race in which Formula 1 world champions Keke Rosberg and Niki Lauda compete. The winner is the still unknown Ayrton Senna .
- 2012 : Borussia Dortmund wins the championship double and the DFB Cup for the first time. In the 5: 2 against FC Bayern Munich has Robert Lewandowski scored three goals.
- 2018 : Despite a victory on the final day of rises Hamburger SV first and last Bundesliga founding member after 55 seasons League affiliation from the football league from.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1010 : Song Renzong , fourth emperor of China from the Song dynasty
- 1160 : Ibn al-Athīr , Muslim historian of the High Middle Ages
- 1325 : Ruprecht II , Elector Palatinate
- 1330 : Wilhelm I , Count of Holland, Zealand and Hainaut
- 1401 : Shōkō , 101st Emperor of Japan
- 1471 : Dorothea von Brandenburg , abbess in the Poor Clare Monastery in Bamberg
- 1479 : Pompeo Colonna , cardinal
- 1496 : Gustav I. Vasa , King of Sweden
- 1515 : Christoph von Württemberg , Duke of Württemberg
- 1529 : Sabina von Brandenburg-Ansbach , Electress of Brandenburg
- 1551 : Kanō Sōshū , Japanese painter
- 1573 : Henri de Bourbon , Duke of Montpensier, French military leader
- 1590 : Cosimo II. De 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 1606 : Joachim von Sandrart , German painter, engraver and art historian (Teutsche Academie der Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste)
- 1622 : Louis de Buade , French colonial administrator and governor of New France
- 1626 : Louis Hennepin , French missionary and explorer
- 1670 : August II , Elector of Saxony, King of Poland
- 1671 : Erdmann Neumeister , German hymn writer, poet and theologian
- 1684 : Philipp Otto von Grumbkow , Prussian statesman
- 1688 : Johann Andreas Rothe , German pastor and song writer
- 1700 : Luigi Vanvitelli , Italian architect
18th century
- 1703 : Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer , French composer, harpsichordist and singer
- 1706 : François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix , French physician and botanist
- 1707 : Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer
- 1712 : Karl Wilhelm Friedrich , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- 1725 : Louis-Philippe I de Bourbon , Duke of Orléans
- 1729 : Michael von Melas , Austrian general
- 1732 : Carl Friedrich Gerstlacher , German lawyer, publicist, university professor and civil servant
- 1738 : Friedrich Konrad Lange , German-Danish Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1739 : Johann Baptist Vanhal , Bohemian composer
- 1742 : Karl Heinrich Geisler , German legal scholar
- 1745 : Jens Juel , Danish painter
- 1749 : Caroline von Uechtritz , German nobleman and author
- 1754 : Franz Anton Hoffmeister , German composer
- 1755 : Giovanni Battista Viotti , Italian violinist and composer, is considered one of the fathers of modern violin technique
- 1756 : Maria Amoretti , Italian lawyer
- 1767 : Manuel de Godoy , Spanish politician
- 1772 : Heinrich Menu von Minutoli , Swiss explorer and archaeologist
- 1774 : Friederike von Reden , German Pietist, called the mother of the Hirschberger Valley , wife of Friedrich Wilhelm von Reden
- 1778 : Johann August Zeune , German pedagogue, geographer and Germanist
- 1779 : Giambattista Torricelli , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and writer
- 1783 : Caspar von Geismar , German nobleman, Imperial Russian General Adjutant to the Tsar
- 1794 : George Cathcart , British general
- 1797 : Johann Hermann Kufferath , German composer
- 1798 : Cornelis Adriaan Bergsma , Dutch chemist, botanist and agronomist
- 1799 : Ferdinand Fellner , German painter
- 1800 : Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart , French astronomer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire , French Dominican, preacher and theologian
- 1803 : Justus von Liebig , German chemist
- 1803 : Alexandre Montfort , French composer
- 1806 : Georg Adolf Erman , German physicist
- 1809 : Robert Charles Winthrop , American politician, MP and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator for Massachusetts
- 1812 : Hermann Martin Asmuss , German zoologist and paleontologist
- 1812 : Edward Lear , British painter, illustrator and writer
- 1812 : Lorenzo Nina , Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal Vatican secretary of state and cardinal
- 1812 : Peter Hansborough Bell , American businessman, Governor of Texas
- 1815 : Louis Jules Trochu , French general, President of the National Defense Council
- 1817 : Edmund Heusinger von Waldegg , German mechanical engineer and railway pioneer
- 1820 : Josef Mánes , Czech painter and representative of Romanticism
- 1820 : Florence Nightingale , British nurse, pioneer of modern nursing, reformer of British sanitary and health services
- 1821 : Bernhard Kothe , German composer, church musician, music historian and teacher
- 1823 : John Russell Hind , British astronomer
- 1828 : Dante Gabriel Rossetti , British painter
- 1830 : Jean Conte , French composer
- 1835 : Mikhail Nikolajewitsch Annenkow , Russian general
- 1842 : Jules Massenet , French opera composer
- 1845 : Gabriel Fauré , French composer
- 1848 : Louis Stahl , German architect
- 1850 : Robert Binswanger , Swiss psychiatrist
1851-1900
- 1851 : Samuel Dickstein , Polish mathematician
- 1851 : Joseph Toole , American politician, governor of Montana
- 1853 : Adam Karrillon , German doctor and writer
- 1854 : Max Bernstein , German lawyer, critic and playwright
- 1856 : Josef Neumann , German clergyman and pioneer of the abstinence movement
- 1856 : Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper , German botanist
- 1857 : Oskar Bolza , German mathematician
- 1859 : Rudolf von Bennigsen , German colonial official, governor of German New Guinea
- 1861 : Hugo von François , German officer
- 1862 : Oskar Freiwirth-Lützow , German artist
- 1862 : Johannes Poggenburg , German Roman Catholic Bishop of Münster
- 1863 : Charles Bordes , French composer and music teacher
- 1864 : Caesar Flaischlen , German lyric poet and dialect poet
- 1866 : Gustav Adolf von Götzen , German officer and Africa explorer
- 1868 : Al Shean , German-American comedian
- 1869 : Carl Schuhmann , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1870 : Guido von Gillhaußen , German officer and war poet
- 1872 : Ede Telcs , Hungarian sculptor and medalist
- 1875 : Hans Richard Heinmann , German painter and graphic artist from the Saxon Eastern Ore Mountains
- 1875 : Mathias Kneißl , Bavarian robber
- 1877 : Johannes Stelling , German member of the Reichstag, victim of National Socialism
- 1878 : Martha Abicht , German kindergarten teacher
- 1878 : Massimo Bontempelli , Italian writer
- 1878 : Julius Graumann , German painter
- 1878 : Ernst Thrasolt , German Roman Catholic priest
- 1880 : Lincoln Ellsworth , American polar explorer
- 1881 : Ahmed Abdullah , American screenwriter and writer of Russian descent
- 1882 : Ludovic Lamothe , Haitian pianist and composer
- 1882 : Franz Ruttner , German limnologist
- 1883 : Fredrik Böök , Swedish professor of literature, critic and writer
- 1884 : Josef Brönner , German politician
- 1885 : Charles Dullin , French actor, director and theater manager
- 1885 : Mushanokōji Saneatsu , Japanese writer and painter
- 1885 : Mario Sironi , Italian painter
- 1886 : Hermann Grabner , Austrian composer
- 1887 : Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat , French archivist and paleographer
- 1887 : Johan Wichers , German composer
- 1888 : Egmont Colerus , Austrian writer
- 1888 : Theodor Reik , Austrian-American psychoanalyst
- 1888 : Fritz Schäffer , German Federal Minister of Finance
- 1889 : Otto Heinrich Frank , German businessman, father of Anne Frank
- 1889 : Abelardo L. Rodríguez , Mexican President
- 1889 : Hans Wegmann , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1890 : Kurt Student , German Air Force officer
- 1891 : Johannes Paul , German historian
- 1892 : Fritz Kortner , German actor and theater director
- 1892 : William Preston Lane , American politician, governor of Maryland
- 1893 : Otto Kühne , German politician, trade union official and resistance fighter
- 1895 : William Francis Giauque , American chemist
- 1895 : Jiddu Krishnamurti , Indian philosopher, author, theosophist and spiritual teacher
- 1896 : Heinrich Acker , German politician
- 1896 : Erich Correns , German chemist and politician
- 1897 : Joe Little Twig , American football player and police officer
- 1899 : Maurice Carême , Belgian writer
- 1900 : Karl von Appen , German set designer
- 1900 : Helene Weigel , German actress and director of the Berliner Ensemble, wife Bertolt Brechts
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Heinrich Kirchner , German sculptor
- 1903 : Kusano Shinpei , Japanese lyric poet
- 1903 : Detlef Struve , German politician
- 1903 : Lennox Berkeley , British composer
- 1904 : Ryū Chishū , Japanese actor
- 1905 : Artur Becker , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1905 : Herbert Busemann , American mathematician
- 1906 : Maurice Ewing , American physicist
- 1906 : Hans Ils , German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism, Member of the Bundestag
- 1906 : Aurel von Milloss , Hungarian-Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet director
- 1907 : Leslie Charteris , American writer
- 1907 : Katharine Hepburn , American actress
- 1908 : Alejandro Scopelli , Argentine-Italian soccer player and coach
- 1910 : Johan Ferrier , Surinamese President
- 1910 : Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin , British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1910 : Gordon Jenkins , American musician
- 1911 : Wilhelm Leichum , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1912 : Archibald Cox , American lawyer, special investigator in the Watergate affair
- 1913 : Igor Sakharovich Bondarewski , Soviet chess player
- 1914 : Bertus Aafjes , Dutch writer
- 1915 : Brother Roger , Swiss Reformed theologian, founder of the Taizé men's ecumenical order
- 1917 : Rika Unger , German sculptor
- 1918 : Alfred Bickel , Swiss football player and coach
- 1919 : Gerald Bales , Canadian organist, pianist, composer, choir director and music teacher
- 1920 : Irena Anders , Polish stage actress and singer
- 1920 : Felix Anschütz , German internist, cardiologist and university professor
- 1920 : Vilém Flusser , Czechoslovak media philosopher and communication scientist
- 1920 : Josef Schrudde , German surgeon
- 1920 : Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen , German glass painter
- 1921 : Farley Mowat , Canadian writer
- 1921 : Giovanni Benelli , Italian Roman Catholic theologian, Archbishop of Florence and Cardinal
- 1921 : Joseph Beuys , German artist
- 1922 : Roy Salvadori , British racing driver
- 1923 : Georges Abi-Saber , Lebanese bishop
- 1924 : Jürgen Dethloff , German inventor
- 1925 : Yogi Berra , American baseball player and manager
1926-1950
- 1926 : Helmut Bläss , German theater director, director and actor
- 1926 : James Samuel Coleman , American sociologist
- 1926 : Weltin Wolfinger , Liechtenstein bobsleigh driver
- 1928 : Burt Bacharach , American pianist and composer
- 1928 : Jan Krugier Polish-Swiss gallery owner and art collector
- 1928 : Hermann Regner , German music teacher and composer
- 1929 : Heino Falcke , German theologian
- 1929 : Heinrich Segur , head of the German service at Vatican Radio
- 1929 : Sam Nujoma , Namibian President
- 1930 : Jess Franco , Spanish director, filmmaker and actor
- 1930 : Manuel Marulanda , Colombian guerrilla leader
- 1930 : Patricia McCormick , American diver
- 1933 : Gerhard Riedmann , South Tyrolean writer and dramaturge
- 1933 : Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky , Russian poet and writer
- 1934 : Werner Bräunig , German writer
- 1935 : Gary Peacock , American jazz bassist
- 1935 : Johnny Bucyk , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1935 : Yuri Petrovich Vlasov , Soviet weightlifter
- 1936 : Klaus Doldinger , German musician and saxophonist
- 1936 : Guillermo Endara Galimany , Panamanian President
- 1936 : Frank Stella , American painter and sculptor
- 1937 : George Carlin , American comedian, actor, and author
- 1937 : Susan Hampshire , British actress
- 1937 : Horst Kassner , German motorcycle racer
- 1938 : Andrei Alexejewitsch Amalrik , Russian historian, publicist, writer and dissident
- 1939 : Daniel Acharuparambil , Indian Archbishop of Verapoly
- 1939 : Uta Hallant , German actress and voice actress
- 1939 : Ron Ziegler , American press secretary in the White House
- 1940 : Peter Huckauf , German writer
- 1941 : Norman Whitfield , American soul / rhythm and blues producer and songwriter
- 1941 : Erik Zimen , Swedish biologist
- 1942 : Klaus Adam , German national basketball player
- 1942 : Barry B. Longyear , American SF writer
- 1942 : Billy Swan , American country musician
- 1942 : Friedhelm Hofmann , German Roman Catholic theologian, Bishop of Würzburg
- 1942 : Heinz Köhler , German politician
- 1942 : Ian Dury , British singer and songwriter
- 1942 : Klaus Solmecke , former mayor of Gevelsberg
- 1942 : Michel Fugain , French singer and composer
- 1943 : Michael Ahlt , German lawyer
- 1943 : Jacky Haran , French racing car driver
- 1944 : Ada Isensee , German painter
- 1944 : Chris Patten , British politician, Hong Kong Governor and European Commissioner
- 1944 : Eva Demski , German writer
- 1944 : Hans-Peter Kemper , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1944 : Wilfried Woyke , German football player
- 1945 : Alan Ball , English football player and coach
- 1945 : Pascal Clément , French politician
- 1945 : Ian McLagan , British rock musician
- 1945 : Diana Raznovich , Argentine writer, theater maker and caricaturist
- 1945 : Gayla Reid , Canadian writer
- 1946 : Willy Braillard , Belgian entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1946 : Daniel Libeskind , American architect, advocate of deconstructivism
- 1946 : Józef Rychlik , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1946 : Horst Schnellhardt , German politician, MEP
- 1947 : Georg von Rauch , German anarchist
- 1947 : Rolf Zuckowski , German guitarist and composer, producer and author
- 1948 : Aqmaral Arystanbekowa , Kazakh diplomat and politician
- 1948 : Lindsay Crouse , American actress
- 1948 : Steve Winwood , British multi-instrumentalist and singer
- 1949 : Josef Beutelmann , German business economist
- 1949 : Moto Hagio , Japanese mangaka
- 1949 : Otto Kapfinger , Austrian architect, author and publicist
- 1949 : Hans Leyendecker , German journalist
- 1949 : Harry Wijnvoord , Dutch television presenter
- 1950 : Bruce Boxleitner , American actor
- 1950 : Gabriel Byrne , Irish film actor
- 1950 : Reinhard Roß , German politician
- 1950 : Billy Squier , American rock musician
- 1950 : Renate Stecher , German athlete, Olympic champion
1951-1975
- 1951 : Vic Stanfield , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1952 : André Greiner-Pol , German rock musician
- 1952 : Patrick Hooper , Irish marathon runner
- 1952 : Margie Mahoney , American cross-country skier
- 1952 : Norbert Stolzenburg , German soccer player
- 1953 : Reinhold Aumaier , Austrian writer and composer
- 1953 : Günther Lohre , German athlete
- 1954 : Barry Ackroyd , British cameraman
- 1954 : Friðrik Þór Friðriksson , Icelandic film director and filmmaker
- 1954 : Annette Kreft , German actress
- 1954 : Rafael Yglesias , American writer and screenwriter
- 1955 : Natalja Achrimenko , Russian shot putter
- 1955 : Piotr Bikont , Polish director, actor, journalist and theater manager
- 1955 : Wilhelm Ewald , German heraldist and museum director
- 1956 : Greg Phillinganes , American session keyboardist
- 1957 : Carlos Burga , Peruvian boxer
- 1957 : Aribert Günzler , German pianist and conductor, author and composer
- 1958 : Cuno Affolter , Swiss journalist and comics expert
- 1958 : Massimo Briaschi , Italian football player and players agent
- 1958 : Danny Krausz , Austrian film producer
- 1958 : Niki Reiser , Swiss musician and composer
- 1958 : Eric Singer , American drummer
- 1959 : Lutz Blochberger , German actor
- 1959 : Ving Rhames , American actor
- 1960 : Lisa Martin-Ondieki , Australian long distance runner, Olympic medalist
- 1961 : Paul Begala , advisor to Bill Clinton
- 1961 : Andreas Cichowicz , German journalist and television presenter
- 1961 : Thomas Dooley , American football player
- 1961 : Billy Duffy , British guitarist
- 1961 : Christian Hellmann , German journalist
- 1961 : Tonino Tesei , Italian composer
- 1962 : Emilio Estevez , American film actor
- 1962 : April Grace , American actress
- 1962 : Brett Gurewitz , American guitarist and songwriter
- 1963 : Stefano Modena , Italian racing car driver
- 1963 : Heinz Rother , German soccer player
- 1964 : Raimond Burgman , Dutch carom player and world champion
- 1964 : Ferdinand von Schirach , German lawyer and writer
- 1965 : Renée Simonsen , Danish model and children's book author
- 1966 : Sonja Ablinger , Austrian politician
- 1966 : Stephen Baldwin , American actor
- 1966 : Annette Bulfon , German politician
- 1966 : Bebel Gilberto , Brazilian singer and songwriter
- 1966 : John Lesher , American film producer
- 1966 : Deborah Kara Unger , Canadian actress
- 1967 : Tim Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 : Paul d'Amour , American bass player
- 1968 : Ivan Avanesjan , Armenian politician
- 1968 : Tony Hawk , American professional skateboarder
- 1968 : Falilat Ogunkoya , Nigerian athlete
- 1970 : Samantha Mathis , American actress
- 1970 : Gerald Teschl , Austrian mathematician
- 1971 : Kristin Asbjørnsen , Norwegian singer and composer
- 1971 : Matthias Breitkreutz , German soccer player
- 1971 : Boris Reitschuster , German journalist and non-fiction author
- 1971 : Chris Snell , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 : Damian McDonald , Australian cyclist
- 1973 : Hasan Aka , German-Turkish journalist and publicist
- 1974 : Paweł Niedźwiecki , Polish cyclist
- 1975 : Jonah Lomu , New Zealand rugby player
- 1975 : Miriam Pielhau , German presenter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Daniel Newman , British film actor and producer
- 1977 : Jeffrey Aubynn , Swedish football player
- 1977 : Graeme Dott , Scottish snooker player
- 1977 : Norbert Grudzinski , German football referee
- 1977 : Mareile Höppner , German television presenter and journalist
- 1978 : Malin Åkerman , Canadian actress
- 1978 : Jason Biggs , American actor
- 1978 : Amy Sloan , Canadian actress
- 1978 : Hossein Rezazadeh , Iranian weightlifter
- 1979 : Joaquim Rodríguez , Spanish cyclist
- 1979 : Aaron Yoo , American actor
- 1980 : Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Afanassenkow , Russian ice hockey player
- 1981 : Astrix , Israeli progressive & psytrance DJ and producer
- 1981 : Anna Gadt , Polish jazz singer
- 1981 : Rami Malek , American actor
- 1981 : Alexander Trost , German handball player
- 1982 : Marvin Anderson , Jamaican sprinter
- 1982 : Tom Reichelt , German cross-country skier
- 1983 : Alicja Bachleda-Curuś , German-Polish actress
- 1983 : Igor de Camargo , Brazilian-Belgian soccer player
- 1983 : Domhnall Gleeson , Irish actor
- 1983 : Baykal Kulaksızoğlu , Swiss-Turkish football player
- 1983 : Charilaos Pappas , Greek football player
- 1984 : Sajjad Anoushiravani , Iranian weightlifter
- 1985 : Claudia Schückler , German handball player
- 1985 : Dániel Tőzsér , Hungarian football player
- 1986 : Ondřej Vaculík , Czech ski jumper
- 1986 : Emily VanCamp , Canadian actress
- 1987 : Kassim Aidara , French-Senegalese football player
- 1987 : Markus Palionis , Lithuanian-German football player
- 1987 : Robbie Rogers , American football player
- 1988 : Aja Evans , American bobsleigh athlete
- 1988 : Marcelo , Brazilian soccer player
- 1988 : Babett Peter , German soccer player
- 1989 : Benjamin Bara , German actor
- 1990 : Florent Amodio , French figure skater
- 1990 : Lumaraa , German rapper
- 1991 : Joseph Dombrowski , American cyclist
- 1992 : Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen , Norwegian biathlete
- 1992 : Erik Durm , German soccer player
- 1992 : Lucas Foresti , Brazilian racing driver
- 1992 : Malcolm David Kelley , American actor
- 1992 : Matthias Maak , Austrian soccer player
- 1992 : Dale Parker , Australian track and road cyclist
- 1992 : Matt Savage , American autistic musician and savant
- 1992 : Tyron Zeuge , German boxer
- 1993 : Wendy Holdener , Swiss ski racer
- 1993 : Tilman Pörzgen , German actor
- 1996 : Sebastian Ofner , Austrian tennis player
- 1998 : Cosmin Pascari , Romanian rower
- 1998 : Julia Scheib , Austrian ski racer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 886 : Hugo Abbas , lay abbot, leading figure in western France
- 1003 : New Year's Eve II , Pope
- 1012 : Sergius IV , Pope
- 1025 : Adalbero II , Bishop of Basel
- 1060 : Mathilde of Swabia , Duchess of Swabia
- 1088 : Johannes Dukas , brother of the Byzantine emperor Constantine X.
- 1090 : Liutold von Eppenstein , Duke of Carinthia, Margrave of Verona
- 1109 : Domingo de la Calzada , Castilian builder and hermit
- 1160 : Otto III. , Duke of Olomouc
- 1182 : Waldemar I , King of Denmark
- 1203 : Nantelmus of Ecublens , Bishop of Sion
- 1242 : Wilhelm I of Diepholz , Bishop of Minden
- 1243 : Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent , Justiciar of England and Ireland
- 1277 : Rudolf I , Count of Tübingen
- 1285 : Berthold von Leiningen , Bishop of Bamberg
- 1293 : Heinrich IV. Von Kuenring-Weitra , ministerial nobleman in Ostarrîchi
- 1293 : Thomas Bek , Bishop of Saint David's
- 1343 : Kuno von Falkenstein , German nobleman
- 1361 : Adhémar de Monteil , Bishop of Metz
- 1382 : Joan I , Queen of Naples
- 1397 : Heinrich Totting von Oyta , German theologian and philosopher
- 1417 : Friedrich III. von Moers , German Count of Moers and Saar Werden
- 1424 : Johann I von Hoya , Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Hildesheim
- 1447 : Hein Hoyer , Hamburg statesman and mayor
- 1465 : Thomas Palaiologos , Byzantine nobleman, despot of Morea, prince of Achaia
- 1490 : Joan of Portugal , Portuguese princess from the house of Avis
16th to 18th century
- 1525 : Anna , Princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Landgrave of Hesse
- 1536 : Detlev von Reventlow , first Protestant bishop of Lübeck
- 1596 : Johann Philipp von Hohensax , Swiss nobleman
- 1601 : Anna III. zu Stolberg , 30th abbess of the Imperial Monastery of Quedlinburg
- 1616 : Urban Pierius , German Protestant theologian
- 1641 : Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford , British politician
- 1642 : Safi I , Shah of the Safavids
- 1660 : Hans Friedrich von Knoch , German member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- 1684 : Edme Mariotte , French physicist
- 1697 : Georges d'Aubusson de La Feuillade , French clergyman
- 1699 : Lucas Achtschellinck , Belgian landscape painter
- 1700 : Johannes Brever , German Lutheran theologian
- 1700 : John Dryden , English poet, literary critic and playwright
- 1701 : Johann Schmuzer , German plasterer
- 1708 : Adolf Friedrich II. , Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1712 : Adrian Beier the Younger , German legal scholar
- 1715 : Johann Christian Adami , German theologian and hymn poet
- 1738 : Charles III. Wilhelm , Margrave of Baden-Durlach, founder of Karlsruhe
- 1759 : Johann Michael Winterhalder , German sculptor
- 1761 : Louis Charles de Lameth , French general
- 1766 : Michael Christoph Brandenburg , German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, poet and librettist
- 1772 : Johann Friedrich Gühling , German Protestant theologian
- 1796 : Johann Peter Uz , German poet
- 1799 : Juan Vicente de Güemes , Spanish colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain
19th century
- 1829 : Johann Gottlieb Brucker , German medic
- 1840 : Ignaz Stupan von Ehrenstein , Austrian Councilor
- 1843 : Charlotte von Kalb , German writer
- 1845 : Karl Wilhelm Baumgarten-Crusius , German educator
- 1845 : August Wilhelm Schlegel , German literary historian
- 1848 : Miguel Barreiro , Uruguayan politician
- 1848 : Gottlob Christian Crusius , German philologist, educator and author
- 1848 : Ulysses Anton von Salis-Soglio , Austrian officer
- 1849 : Laurenz Lersch , German classical philologist
- 1850 : Heinrich August Pierer , German officer, publisher and lexicographer
- 1851 : Ferdinand Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg , Bavarian government president
- 1854 : Melchior Berri , Swiss architect
- 1858 : Georg Benedikt Winer , German Protestant theologian and philologist
- 1859 : Sergei Timofejewitsch Aksakow , Russian writer
- 1860 : Charles Barry , British architect
- 1864 : James Ewell Brown Stuart , American officer, Confederate cavalry general in the American Civil War
- 1867 : Ignatius Brjantschaninow , Russian engineer, priest monk, Bishop of Stavropol
- 1871 : Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , French composer
- 1875 : Heinrich von Hofstätter , German Roman Catholic theologian, Bishop of Passau
- 1878 : Catherine Esther Beecher , American writer
- 1879 : Ludwig Angerer , Austrian photographer
- 1884 : Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer
- 1896 : Juan Morel Campos , Puerto Rican composer
- 1897 : Minna Canth , Finnish writer
- 1898 : Raimund Grübl , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1898 : Karl Racké , Mayor of Mainz
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Karl Oppel , German writer
- 1904 : Paul Chapuis , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1907 : Joris-Karl Huysmans , French writer
- 1908 : Melesio Morales , Mexican composer
- 1910 : William Huggins , British astronomer
- 1913 : Friedrich Huch , German poet and writer
- 1914 : Willy Pöge , German entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman
- 1916 : James Connolly , Irish politician
- 1921 : Emilia Pardo Bazán , Spanish writer
- 1922 : Hugo Conwentz , German botanist and conservationist
- 1924 : Bertha Drechsler Adamson , English violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1924 : Henri Maréchal , French composer
- 1925 : Arthur Napoleão , Brazilian composer
- 1929 : Edi Linser , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1930 : Paul Panda Farnana , Congolese agronomist
- 1931 : Theodor Lerner , German journalist and polar researcher
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- 1931 : Adolfo Wildt , Italian sculptor
- 1931 : Eugène Ysaÿe , Belgian violinist and composer
- 1935 : Józef Piłsudski , Polish field marshal
- 1944 : Oskar Kusch , German submarine commander in World War II
- 1944 : Arthur Quiller-Couch , British writer and critic
- 1945 : Achmed Abdullah , American writer and screenwriter
- 1945 : Magda Trott , German writer and women's rights activist
- 1946 : Germain Lefebrve , Canadian singer, choir director and music teacher
- 1948 : Francisco Alonso , Spanish composer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Wassili Michailowitsch Alexejew , Russian sinologist
- 1951 : Carl Kraemer , German animal rights activist
- 1953 : Fritz Mackensen , German painter
- 1953 : Jeanne Maubourg , Canadian singer and music teacher
- 1956 : Vladimír Ambros , Czech composer
- 1956 : Louis Calhern , American actor
- 1956 : Arthur Letondal , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer
- 1957 : Alfonso de Portago , Spanish racing car driver
- 1957 : Stefan I (Exarch) , Bulgarian Metropolitan and Exarch
- 1957 : Erich von Stroheim , American actor and director
- 1960 : Cecil Armstrong Gibbs , British composer
- 1961 : Tony Bettenhausen , American racing car driver
- 1962 : Pedro Pablo Ramírez , Argentine President
- 1962 : Walter Scherau , German folk actor
- 1963 : Oumbertos Argyros , Greek painter
- 1963 : Franz Arnold , Austrian canon lawyer
- 1963 : Ernst Marischka , Austrian film director
- 1963 : Stanisław Wiechowicz , Polish composer
- 1967 : Julius Kalaš , Czech composer
- 1968 : Erich Bockemühl , German teacher, poet and organist
- 1970 : Władysław Anders , Polish general and politician
- 1970 : Nelly Sachs , Jewish-German-Swedish writer and poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 1972 : Steve Ihnat , American actor, screenwriter and director
- 1972 : Marcel Mongin , French racing car driver
- 1973 : Willy Gebhardt , German editor and politician (SED)
- 1973 : Art Pollard , American racing car driver
- 1976 : Keith Relf , British singer and songwriter (The Yardbirds)
- 1976 : Jaroslaw Serpan , Czech-French painter
- 1977 : Barry Ashbee , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1977 : Lau Lauritzen junior , Danish actor, film director and screenwriter
- 1979 : Rudolf Kempe , German conductor
- 1981 : HAP Grieshaber , German painter and graphic artist
- 1982 : Humphrey Searle , British composer
- 1984 : Robert Cooley Angell , American sociologist
- 1985 : Rodolfo Arizaga , Argentine composer
- 1985 : Jean Dubuffet , French painter and sculptor
- 1985 : Bohdan Wodiczko , Polish conductor and music teacher
- 1986 : Elisabeth Bergner , German actress
- 1987 : James Jesus Angleton , American agent
- 1987 : Victor Feldman , British jazz musician
- 1989 : Edmond Mouche , French racing car driver
- 1990 : Lotte Backes , German composer
- 1991 : Hans Peter Schanzlin , Swiss musicologist
- 1993 : Zeno Colò , Italian ski racer
- 1993 : Edda Seippel , German actress
- 1994 : John Smith , British politician, leader of the Labor Party
- 1995 : Rodrigo Arenas Betancur , Colombian writer and sculptor
- 1995 : Ștefan Kovács , Romanian football player and coach
- 1995 : Arthur Lubin , American film director
- 1995 : Adolfo Pedernera , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1996 : Homer Keller , American composer and music teacher
- 1997 : Willi Laatsch , German soil and forest scientist
- 1998 : Hermann Lenz , German writer
- 1999 : Theodor Ritterspach , German judge
- 2000 : Bradley J. Anderson , American costume designer
21st century
- 2001 : Perry Como , American singer
- 2001 : Didi , Brazilian soccer player
- 2001 : Alexei Andrejewitsch Tupolew , Soviet aircraft designer
- 2002 : Alfred Vogt , German sailplane designer
- 2003 : Sadruddin Aga Khan , Iranian-French-Swiss UN refugee commissioner
- 2003 : Renate Riemeck , German peace activist
- 2004 : Michael Guttenbrunner , Austrian poet and writer
- 2004 : John LaPorta , American jazz clarinetist
- 2004 : Paul Matzkowski , German soccer player
- 2005 : Alf Arrowsmith , English soccer player
- 2005 : Monica Zetterlund , Swedish singer and actress
- 2007 : José Benito Barros , Colombian composer
- 2007 : Dadullah Akhund , Afghan Taliban military leader
- 2007 : Teddy Infuhr , American actor, child actor
- 2007 : Gottfried Schädlich , German officer and writer
- 2008 : Eugen Jesser , Austrian musician, president and director of the Vienna Boys' Choir
- 2008 : Robert Rauschenberg , American pop artist
- 2008 : Hans Rotta , German publisher, editor, editor and biologist
- 2008 : Robert Russell , English actor
- 2008 : Irena Sendler , Polish nurse and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 2010 : Baldur Heckel , Austrian technician and chairman of the Styrian Singing Association
- 2011 : Michael Althen , German film critic
- 2011 : Renate Günthert , German fashion designer and entrepreneur
- 2012 : Eddy Paape , Belgian comic artist
- 2013 : Horst Königstein , German director
- 2013 : Gerd Langguth , German political scientist
- 2014 : Charalampos Angourakis , Greek politician
- 2014 : HR Giger , Swiss visual artist and painter, Oscar winner
- 2015 : Peter Gay , American historian and author
- 2015 : Ruth Segomotsi Mompati , South African activist, politician and diplomat
- 2016 : Hans-Joachim Altendorff , German soccer player
- 2016 : Bohumil Kubát , Czechoslovak wrestler
- 2017 : Mauno Koivisto , Finnish politician and President
- 2017 : Amotz Zahavi , Israeli sociobiologist and evolution theorist
- 2018 : Will Alsop , British architect
- 2018 : Tessa Jowell , British politician
- 2019 : Machiko Kyō , Japanese actress
- 2019 : Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , Lebanese Cardinal
- 2020 : Astrid Kirchherr , German photographer and artist
- 2020 : Michel Piccoli , French actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Moduald , Franconian Bishop (Catholic)
- Hl. Nereus and Achilles , martyrs Roman (Catholic)
- St. Pancras , Roman martyr, " ice saint " (Protestant, Catholic)
- Sel. Alvaro , second prelate of Opus Dei (Catholic)
- International Nursing Day
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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