November 12th
The November 12 is the 316th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 317th in leap years ), thus remain 49 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1202 : Due to the death of his ruling brother Knut VI. Waldemar II becomes the new king in Denmark .
- 1614 : With the Treaty of Xanten , the Jülich-Klevische succession dispute is settled and a dispute at the European level is thus averted.
- 1673 : With the surrender of the fortress commander Daniel Dietrich von Landsberg zu Erwitte , the siege of Bonn in the Dutch War ends . The French forfeit their supply route across the Rhine to the territory of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces .
- 1793 : Jean-Sylvain Bailly , former first mayor of Paris and temporary president of the National Assembly , is guillotine . The day before, the astronomer was sentenced to death as "a king's friend and violent oppressor of people's freedom" .
- 1841 : The siege of Jalalabad begins during the First Anglo-Afghan War .
- 1848 : The Frankfurt National Assembly passes the law on a German war and trade flag , which for the first time prescribes the colors black, red and gold as a national symbol.
- 1863 : The first national Red Cross Society is founded with the Württemberg Medical Association.
- 1878 : US President Rutherford B. Hayes decides as arbiter requested by Argentina in the dispute over the border in the Gran Chaco in favor of Paraguay and at the expense of the Triple Alliance .
- 1893 : The British Indian Administration Secretary of State, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand , establishes a new border between Afghanistan and British India . The Durand Line is still largely the southern and eastern borders of Afghanistan.
- 1918 : The Council of People's Representatives gives women the right to vote and stand for election in Germany and Austria.
- 1918 : The Bavarian People's Party (BVP) is in Regensburg founded
- 1918 : In Vienna, when the Republic of German Austria is proclaimed, the Habsburgs' 600-year rule over Austria ends .
- 1920 : Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Rapallo Border Treaty . The city of Fiume , now Rijeka, occupied by Italian militants led by the fascist and nationalist Gabriele D'Annunzio , is declared a free state.
- 1921 : The Washington Naval Conference of the five leading naval powers meets for the first time to discuss questions of arms control.
- 1927 : Leon Trotsky is expelled from the CPSU , making Josef Stalin the unrestricted ruler of the Soviet Union .
- 1933 : The NSDAP holds an election to the Reichstag in which only it can be elected, as well as a " referendum on Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations ".
- 1944 : The largest German battleship , the Tirpitz , is attacked by British four-engine Lancaster bombers with 5.4-tonne bombs (" Tallboys ") during World War II near Tromsø (Northern Norway) and capsized. 1,204 crew members are killed.
- 1948 : Japanese army leaders convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Tokyo trials . The seven death sentences will be carried out on December 23.
- 1948 : With the only general strike in West Germany to date , several million workers in the American and British occupation zones demonstrate for wage increases and the reintroduction of price controls.
- 1955 : Delivery of the appointment certificates to the first 101 volunteers of the Bundeswehr in Andernach . These were 2 lieutenant general ( Hans Speidel and Adolf Heusinger ), 48 staff officers, 40 captains, 5 first lieutenants and 6 non-commissioned officers.
- 1968 : The Soviet state and party leader Leonid Brezhnev proclaims the so-called Brezhnev doctrine of limited sovereignty in the socialist camp at the fifth congress of the Polish United Workers' Party . It should the invasion of troops into Czechoslovakia in the Prague Spring justified because a threat to the socialist system have passed.
- 1969 : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is expelled from the Congress Party by party President S. Nijalingappa for alleged anti-party behavior . As a result, Indira Gandhi will not be voted out of office, but the Congress party will split.
- 1973 : After Vice President Spiro Theodore Agnew resigned , US President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Rudolph Ford as his successor.
- 1982 : Former KGB chairman Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov succeeds the late Leonid Brezhnev as general secretary of the CPSU .
- 1990 : Emperor Akihito is proclaimed the 125th Tennō of Japan.
- 1990 : The evacuation of three occupied houses in Berlin leads to solidarity actions in the area around Mainzer Strasse, which was largely occupied at the time . The following clashes between the occupiers and the police culminated two days later in the evacuation of Mainzer Strasse .

The Santa Cruz Cemetery in Dili
- 1991 : In Dili , the capital of today's East Timor , the Santa Cruz massacre by Indonesian security forces takes place in which around 270 people are killed.
- 1992 : A trial begins against Erich Honecker and five other SED figures because of the order to shoot at the inner-German border .
- 1994 : Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga becomes head of state in Sri Lanka .
- 1995 : The first free parliamentary elections take place in Azerbaijan .
- 1995 : Mozambique joins the Commonwealth of Nations as the first country not having a colonial relationship with the United Kingdom .
economy
- 1895 : The Automobile Club de France is the world's first traffic club in Paris .
- 1938 : With the ordinance to exclude Jews from German economic life , the Aryanizations in the time of National Socialism come to an end.
- 1943 : In a Führer decree known as Lex Krupp , Adolf Hitler orders the conversion of the Friedrich Krupp AG company into a partnership with a specially regulated succession . This saves the family inheritance tax .
- 1953 : The Sender Free Berlin is founded.
- 2003 : An estimated 50,000 globalization critics meet in Paris for the 2nd European Social Forum , which will last until November 16.
science and technology
- 1799 : Alexander von Humboldt observes and describes a meteor shower from the Leonids in Cumaná , Venezuela - the basis for the later knowledge that such celestial events occur periodically.
- 1847 : The Scottish doctor James Young Simpson publishes a paper in Edinburgh on the effects of chloroform that have been tested on himself . He then uses the anesthetic on the parturient .
- 1862 : CHF Peters discovers the asteroid (77) Frigga .
- 1877 : The first German telegraph line with telephones is opened near Berlin between Rummelsburg and Friedrichsberg.
- 1901 : Luigi Carnera discovers the asteroid (479) Caprera .
- 1936 : The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge over the San Francisco Bay between San Francisco and Oakland in the US state of California opens.
- 1980 : The Voyager 1 space probe passes Saturn and sends detailed images of the ring system to Earth.
- 1981 : After 84 hours and 9,244 km, the American Ben Abruzzo and his crew land with their balloon Double Eagle V in a balloon in the Mendocino National Forest in California after the first crossing of the Pacific .
- 2014 : The Philae lander of ESA's Rosetta space probe successfully lands on comet 67 / P Churyumov-Gerassimenko .
Culture
- 1638 : The Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam is created as a municipal facility. It is one of the first botanical gardens in the world.
- 1780 : In Wolfersdorf , a town in the Hallertau , four farm boys disregard a ban on dancing . The folk dance Zwiefacher is therefore documented for the first time in the court record.
- 1856 : The operetta Six Demoiselles à marier by Léo Delibes is premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris .
- 1857 : During drainage work on the Lauersfort manor in the Moers district, the Lauersfort phalera from the 1st century AD is found, which is now in the Berlin Collection of Antiquities.
- 1859 : Jules Léotard is the first person to perform a somersault from the trapeze at the Cirque Napoléon in Paris . The aerial rope act flying trapeze is born.
- 1860 : In Vienna, the Dianabad-Saal, which used in the winter season as a concert hall and ballroom is Dianabad opened.
- 1909 : The world premiere of the operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna . The libretto is by Robert Bodanzky and Alfred Maria Willner . The world premiere, conducted by Robert Stolz , was greeted with enthusiastic applause.
- 1947 : The Vermeer forger Henricus Antonius van Meegeren is sentenced by the fourth chamber of the Amsterdam District Court to the minimum sentence of one year in prison for forgery and fraud.
- 1987 : The Frankfurt Opera House is destroyed by arson . The reconstruction costs 170 million DM.
- 1989 : Three days after the fall of the Berlin Wall , the concert for Berlin takes place in West Berlin's Deutschlandhalle , with which young people from East Berlin and the GDR are to be welcomed.
- 2004 : After opening as a concert hall on December 14th of the previous year, opera operations in the Teatro La Fenice in Venice , which burned down on January 29th, 1996 , can be resumed with the world's most modern stage machinery .
religion
- 1323 : With the papal bull Cum inter nonnullos , Pope John XXII attacks . drastically in the poverty struggle of the Franciscans . The Pope condemns the spiritual allegation that Christ and the apostles had nothing of their own but heresy and makes it clear that these allegations are a denigration of Scripture .
- 1425 : Bernard Garnier is appointed Benedict XIV. Antipope to antipope Clement VIII. And to Pope Martin V , whom almost all countries have recognized.
- 1431 : With the bull Quoniam alto, Pope Eugene IV declares the Council of Basel , which opened on July 29th, to be dissolved and calls an alternative council to Bologna. The church representatives present in Basel, however, are not impressed and hold their first meeting on December 14th.
- 2002 : In Potsdam, Prime Minister Matthias Platzeck and the Apostolic Nuncio Giovanni Lajolo sign the Concordat between the Holy See and the State of Brandenburg . Brandenburg is the last of the new states to conclude such a treaty.
Disasters
- 1908 : 348 miners die in a firedamp explosion in the Radbod colliery in Hamm , Westphalia.
- 1970 : A cyclone with wind speeds of up to 230 km / h and meter-high tidal waves hits East Pakistan, today's Bangladesh . More than 300,000 people are killed .
- 1996 : In the Charkhi Dadri aircraft collision between a Boeing 747 from Saudi Arabian Airlines and an Ilyushin Il-76 from Air Kazakhstan in the airspace over India, all 349 people in both aircraft die.
- 1999 : An earthquake in northwestern Turkey kills around 370.
- 2017 : On the border between Iraq and Iran , an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the moment-magnitude scale claims around 540 victims.
- 2001 : An Airbus A300 , American Airlines Flight 587 to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, crashes into an inhabited area in New York City, USA, less than three minutes after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport . All 260 people on board and five residents die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1930 : Despite a 2: 3 home defeat against Sparta Prague in the second final game , Rapid Vienna wins the Mitropa Cup in football with an overall result of 4: 3 .
- 1958 : After long attempts , the mountaineer and climber Warren Harding and his team succeed in climbing the difficult rock face of Mount El Capitan, called The Nose , in Yosemite National Park .
- 1962 : The cycle track in Ghent, which hosts six-day races every year, is destroyed by a major fire.
- 2004 : The German triathlete Nina Kraft is banned for two years for doping with erythropoietin (EPO).
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1450 : Jacob of Savoy , tenth son of Duke Ludwig I of Savoy and Anna of Lusignan
- 1503 : Philipp , Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg
- 1547 : Claudia von Valois , French princess and Duchess of Lorraine
- 1615 : Richard Baxter , English theologian
- 1618 : Gottfried Welsch , German medic
- 1633 : Stephan Farfler , watchmaker, possibly the first to build a wheelchair
- 1648 : Juana Inés de la Cruz , Mexican poet
- 1655 : Francis Nicholson , British colonial governor of several American colonies
- 1657 : Anna Dorothea von Sachsen-Weimar , abbess of the Quedlinburg Imperial Monastery
- 1666 : Mary Astell , English writer, rhetorician and philosopher
- 1679 : Firmin Abauzit , French scholar
- 1684 : Edward Vernon , Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy and Member of the British Parliament
18th century
- 1732 : Johann Gottlieb Lessing , German educator
- 1742 : Friedrich Carl Christian Ulrich von Ahlefeldt , German lieutenant and general
- 1746 : Jacques Alexandre César Charles , French physicist, chemist, inventor and aviation pioneer
- 1755 : Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst , Prussian general
- 1758 : Jean-Joseph Mounier , French politician
- 1767 : Bernhard Romberg , German cellist and composer
- 1777 : Enewold Christian Alsen , German lawyer
- 1780 : Pieter Retief , Boer pioneer (Voortrekker)
- 1789 : Stephan Metz , Mayor of Mainz
- 1789 : Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer , German lawyer, political publicist, co-initiator of the Hambach Festival
- 1790 : Gottlieb Heinrich Schmückert , General Post Director of the Kingdom of Prussia
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Hans Heinrich Ryffel , Swiss entrepreneur and politician
- 1815 : Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American civil and women's rights activist
- 1817 : Baha'u'llah , Persian founder of the Baha'i religion
- 1819 : Daniel Sanders , German linguist and lexicographer
- 1827 : Gustav Adolf Merkel , German music teacher and composer
- 1831 : Anton Kerner von Marilaun , Austrian botanist and professor
- 1833 : Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin , Russian composer, chemist and medicin
- 1834 : Franz Brandts , German industrialist
- 1836 : Samuel David , French composer
- 1840 : Auguste Rodin , French sculptor
- 1841 : Preston Lea , American politician
- 1842 : John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1848 : Eduard Müller , Swiss politician
- 1849 : Ernst Sandberg , German medic
- 1850 : Mikhail Ivanovich Tschigorin , Russian chess player
- 1850 : Therese von Bayern , German ethnologist, zoologist, botanist and anthropologist
1851-1900
- 1851 : Eduard Engel , German literary historian and stylist of Jewish origin
- 1853 : Oskar Panizza , German doctor and writer
- 1855 : Amandus Heinrich Adamson , Estonian sculptor
- 1856 : Felix Auerbach , German physicist
- 1858 : Alexis Contant , Canadian composer, organist and music teacher
- 1861 : Paul Preuss , German botanist and explorer
- 1863 : Franz Boluminski , German colonial official
- 1863 : Karl Dove , German geographer, meteorologist and Africa explorer
- 1863 : Johannes Thienemann , German ornithologist
- 1866 : Sun Yat-sen , Chinese politician
- 1870 : Minna Bachem-Sieger , German politician, women's rights activist and poet
- 1872 : Hermann Röchling , German coal and steel entrepreneur
- 1872 : Otto Schlüter , German geographer
- 1873 : Adolf Schipper , German officer and colonial official
- 1875 : Fritz Erle , German engineer and racing car driver
- 1875 : Stanislaus von Prowazek , Czech-Austrian zoologist and bacteriologist
- 1877 : Raban Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German ministerial official and diplomat
- 1877 : Warren Robinson Austin , American diplomat and politician
- 1877 : Torolf Voss , Norwegian composer and conductor
- 1879 : Wilhelm Schubert , German officer
- 1881 : Maximilian von Weichs , German Field Marshal General of the Second World War
- 1881 : Ulrich von Hassell , German diplomat and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1881 : Jacob Hergenhahn , German-American gymnast
- 1882 : Giuseppe Antonio Borgese , Italian author
- 1883 : James Wheaton Mott , American politician
- 1886 : Agustín Acosta , Cuban politician and writer
- 1886 : Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth , German-Swiss mountaineer and geologist
- 1889 : Carl Haensel , German writer
- 1891 : Seth Barnes Nicholson , American astronomer
- 1895 : Luis Emilio Mena , Dominican composer and musician
- 1896 : Makino Shin'ichi , Japanese writer
- 1896 : Hermann Klippel German dialect poet from Upper Lusatia
- 1897 : Alfred Aufdenblatten , Swiss cross-country skier
- 1897 : Hans Deppe , German director
- 1898 : Leopold Okulicki , leader of the Polish Home Army
- 1899 : Hildegard Bleyler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1899 : Martín Cárdenas , Bolivian botanist
- 1899 : Wilhelm Lachnit , German painter and graphic artist
- 1900 : Emanuel Ringelblum , Polish-Jewish historian, politician, educator and journalist, the underground archive put Oneg Szabat to
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Herbert Weißbach , German actor
- 1905 : Jacques Savoye , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1907 : Ernst Albrecht , German football player
- 1908 : Hans Werner Richter , German writer, founder of the group 47 writers' meeting
- 1910 : Kurt Hoffmann , German film director
- 1911 : Chad Varah , British priest, founder of modern telephone counseling
- 1912 : Tuffy Leemans , American football player
- 1912 : Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz , Ecuadorian priest, Archbishop of Guayaquil and cardinal
- 1914 : Peter Whitehead , British racing driver
- 1915 : Roland Barthes , French critic
- 1915 : Sunshine Sue , American country musician
- 1915 : Lawrence Winters , American opera singer
- 1916 : Paul Emery , British racing car driver and designer
- 1916 : Jean Papineau-Couture , Canadian composer
- 1916 : Ernst Schaude , German administrative lawyer
- 1917 : Jo Stafford , American singer
- 1920 : Mattia Moreni , Italian painter
- 1920 : Richard Quine , American actor and screenwriter, composer, producer, and film director
- 1921 : Hartmut Aschermann , German theologian
- 1921 : Robert Fleming , Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choir director and music teacher
- 1922 : Charlotte MacLeod , Canadian crime novelist
- 1923 : Aleksy Antkiewicz , Polish boxer
- 1923 : Alirio Díaz , Venezuelan guitarist
- 1923 : Loriot , German humorist and draftsman, actor and director
- 1925 : Gaetano Arfé , Italian politician, journalist and historian
- 1925 : Heinz Schubert , German actor
- 1925 : Stanislav Šebek , Czech composer and music teacher
1926-1950
- 1927 : Jack Butler , American football player and scout
- 1928 : Henry Büttner , German cartoonist
- 1928 : Napoleón Dihmes , Dominican opera singer
- 1929 : Michael Ende , German writer
- 1929 : Grace Kelly , American actress and Princess of Monaco
- 1929 : Wolfgang Meid , German Indo-Europeanist
- 1930 : Tonke Dragt , Dutch writer for children and young people
- 1930 : Ève Gagnier , Canadian soprano and actress
- 1933 : Bruno Sacco , Italian constructor, designer at Mercedes-Benz
- 1933 : Wolfgang Schlueter , German jazz musician
- 1934 : Charles Manson , American cult leader and mass murderer
- 1934 : Leonid Stein , Soviet chess grandmaster
- 1934 : Al Hendrix , American rock 'n' roll and country singer
- 1934 : Vavá , Brazilian soccer player
- 1936 : Ingrid Holzhüter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1937 : Richard Truly , American astronaut
- 1938 : Richard George May , British politician and lawyer at the International Criminal Court
- 1938 : Benjamin William Mkapa , Tanzanian politician
- 1938 : Mort Shuman , American singer and songwriter
- 1939 : Lucia Popp , Slovak singer
- 1940 : Jürgen Todenhöfer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, manager and author
- 1941 : Rainer Riehn , German composer and conductor
- 1941 : Cristina Peri Rossi , Uruguayan writer
- 1941 : Dieter Wedel , German director and screenwriter
- 1942 : Nikolaus Amrhein , German biochemist and plant scientist
- 1943 : Errol Brown , Jamaican-British singer and songwriter ( Hot Chocolate )
- 1943 : Brian Hyland , American pop singer
- 1943 : Wallace Shawn , American actor and writer
- 1943 : Björn Waldegård , Swedish rally driver
- 1944 : Matthijs van den Adel , Dutch bank manager
- 1944 : Ken Houston , American football player
- 1944 : Booker T. Jones , American musician and songwriter
- 1944 : Xavier Mathiot , French racing car driver
- 1945 : François Conod , Swiss writer
- 1945 : George Eaton , Canadian racing car driver
- 1945 : Neil Young , Canadian rock musician
- 1946 : James F. Amos , American military man
- 1946 : Keith Claudius Mitchell , Grenadian Prime Minister
- 1947 : Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser , American rock musician ( Blue Öyster Cult )
- 1947 : Patrice Leconte , French film director
- 1948 : Jack Dolbin , American football player
- 1948 : Egon Schmitt , German football player
- 1950 : Ulrich Schule , German chess player
- 1950 : Coen van Vrijberghe de Coningh , Dutch actor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Ben Siebenrock , German sculptor
- 1951 : Hill-Marta Solberg , Norwegian politician
- 1952 : Ernie Fletcher , American politician, governor of Kentucky
- 1952 : Max Grodénchik , American actor
- 1952 : Thomas Lengauer , German computer scientist
- 1953 : Ursula Mogg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954 : Marek Chlanda , Polish draftsman, graphic artist, installation and performance artist
- 1954 : Olivier Hutman , French jazz pianist
- 1954 : Paul McNamee , Australian tennis player
- 1955 : Les McKeown , British singer ( Bay City Rollers )
- 1955 : Harald Maack , German actor
- 1956 : Uwe Strübing , German composer
- 1957 : Cécilia Maria Sara Isabel Attias , French mannequin
- 1960 : Kevin Ratcliffe , Welsh football player
- 1961 : Nadia Comăneci , Romanian gymnast, Olympic champion
- 1961 : Tomas Espedal , Norwegian author
- 1962 : Lisa Adler , German actress and acting coach
- 1964 : Thomas Berthold , German soccer player
- 1964 : David Ellefson , American musician
- 1964 : Barbara Stühlmeyer , German author and scientist
- 1965 : Regula Aebi , Swiss athlete
- 1965 : Christian Nauheimer , German film editor
- 1966 : Nils Minkmar , German-French historian and publicist
- 1966 : Anette Norberg , Swedish curler
- 1967 : Mannhard Bech , German handball player
- 1967 : Ann Lee , British singer
- 1968 : Johnny Lee Archer , American pool player
- 1968 : Nick D'Virgilio , American drummer, singer and guitarist
- 1969 : Harry Attison , Vanuatu football referee
- 1970 : Valerie Haller , German presenter
- 1970 : Tonya Harding , American figure skater
- 1970 : Craig Parker , New Zealand actor
- 1970 : Oscar Strasnoy , Argentine composer
- 1970 : Hrvoje Verzi , German athlete
- 1972 : Wolf Edwards , Canadian composer
- 1973 : Mayte Garcia , American singer and actress
- 1973 : Egil Gjelland , Norwegian biathlete
- 1973 : Thomas Christoph Heyde , German composer, media artist and curator
- 1973 : Radha Mitchell , Australian actress, film producer and film director
- 1974 : Tareck El Aissami , Venezuelan politician
- 1974 : Alessandro Birindelli , Italian football player
- 1974 : Tyrone Marshall , Jamaican soccer player
- 1975 : Edvin Murati , Albanian football player
- 1975 : Dario Šimić , Croatian football player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Tevin Campbell , American R&B singer and songwriter
- 1976 : Dmitri Dorofejew , Russian speed skater, Olympic medalist
- 1976 : Judith Holofernes , German singer ( Wir sind Helden )
- 1977 : Paul Hanley , Australian tennis player
- 1978 : Eric Addo , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1978 : Alexandra Maria Lara , German-Romanian actress
- 1978 : Celine Sciamma , French screenwriter and film director
- 1978 : Ashley Williams , American actress
- 1979 : Corey Maggette , American basketball player
- 1979 : Kristine Opolais , Latvian soprano
- 1979 : Coté de Pablo , Chilean-American actress
- 1980 : Isabellah Andersson , Swedish long distance runner
- 1980 : Ryan Gosling , American actor
- 1980 : Charlie Hodgson , English rugby player
- 1980 : Gustaf Skarsgård , Swedish actor
- 1981 : Phil Aucoin , American ice hockey player
- 1981 : Annika Becker , German athlete
- 1981 : DJ Campbell , English soccer player
- 1981 : Sergio Floccari , Italian football player
- 1982 : Sibylla Deen , Australian actress

Anne Hathaway (* 1982)
- 1982 : Anne Hathaway , American actress
- 1982 : Maxim Tschudow , Russian biathlete, world champion
- 1982 : Wu Hui-ju , Taiwanese archer
- 1983 : Kate Bell , Australian film actress
- 1984 : Francesco Magnanelli , Italian soccer player
- 1984 : Omarion , American R&B singer and actor
- 1985 : Adlène Guedioura , Algerian football player
- 1986 : Ignazio Abate , Italian football player
- 1986 : Robert Müller , German soccer player
- 1986 : Jaclyn Ngan , American actress
- 1986 : Nedum Onuoha , English football player
- 1988 : Benjamin Moukandjo , Cameroonian football player
- 1988 : Russell Westbrook , American basketball player
- 1989 : Philipp Riese , German soccer player
- 1990 : Adrianna Franch , American soccer player
- 1990 : Florent Manaudou , French swimmer
- 1991 : Roberto Inglese , Italian football player
- 1992 : Trey Burke , American basketball player
- 1995 : Philipp Aschenwald , Austrian ski jumper
- 1995 : Thomas Lemar , French football player
- 1997 : Jannik Borgmann , German soccer player
- 1998 : Marco Bezzecchi , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1998 : Adrien Etiévent , French telemarker
Died
Before the 16th century
- 574 : Aemilianus of Cogolla , Spanish hermit, teacher and miracle worker
- 607 : Boniface III. , Pope
- 657 : St. Lieven , Belgian bishop and saint
- 663 : Kunibert , Bishop of Cologne
- 882 : Gottschalk , Bishop of Eichstätt
- 973 : Burchard III. , Count in the Thur and Zurich Gau, Duke of Swabia
- 975 : Notker II. , Monk in St. Gallen, doctor and painter
- 1035 : Canute the Great , King of Denmark, England and Norway
- 1087 : William I , Count of Burgundy
- 1094 : Duncan II , King of Scotland
- 1110 : Gebhard III. von Zähringen , Bishop of Constance
- 1127 : Godebold , Bishop of Utrecht
- 1150 : Hartbert , Bishop of Utrecht
- 1209 : Philippe du Plessiez , Grand Master of the Templar Order
- 1227 : Al-Malik al-Mu'azzam 'Isa Sharaf al-Din , Emir of Syria and Palestine
- 1227 : Siegfried I. von Lichtenberg , Bishop of Hildesheim
- 1278 : Dietrich von Marburg , Bishop of Gurk
- 1282 : Robert IV , Count of Dreux and Braine
- 1375 : Johann Heinrich von Luxemburg , Count of Tyrol and Margrave of Moravia
- 1404 : Marie of Châtillon-Blois , Duchess of Anjou
- 1434 : Ludwig III. , French nobleman, titular king of Naples, duke of Anjou and Touraine
- 1463 : Didakus , Spanish lay brother and missionary
- 1475 : Johanna von Rosental , Bohemian queen
- 1484 : Andreas Jamometić , Archbishop of Kraina
16th to 18th century
- 1503 : Albrecht V. Göler von Ravensburg , German nobleman, Vogt in Kreuznach
- 1532 : Aegidius de Viterbo , Italian cardinal, theologian and humanist
- 1540 : Boing von Oldersum , Drost von Jever and fiance of Maria von Jever
- 1547 : Sebastian Aitinger , secretary of the Schmalkaldic League
- 1555 : Stephen Gardiner , English theologian, statesman, humanist and Graecist
- 1560 : Caspar Aquila , German theologian
- 1567 : Anne de Montmorency , French military leader
- 1572 : Heinrich zu Stolberg , German regent
- 1573 : Johann Jakob Ammann , Swiss Protestant clergyman and headmaster
- 1574 : Francesco Stancaro , Italian humanist, medic, Hebraist, Unitarian theologian and reformer
- 1595 : John Hawkins , British navigator
- 1603 : Johann VII. , Count of Oldenburg
- 1623 : Kanō Sadanobu , Japanese painter
- 1623 : Josaphat Kunzewitsch , Slavic Basilian monk, preacher and martyr
- 1635 : Julius Wilhelm Zincgref , German writer
- 1641 : Philipp Ludwig III. , Count of Hanau-Munzenberg
- 1660 : Antonius Aemilius , German historian and philosopher
- 1671 : Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron , general during the English Civil War
- 1672 : Melchior Barthel , German sculptor
- 1678 : Hermann Löher , mayor, city councilor and aldermen in Rheinbach, author of a pamphlet against the persecution of witches
- 1693 : Maria van Oosterwijk , Dutch baroque painter
- 1712 : Tokugawa Ienobu , Japanese Shogun of the Edo period
- 1720 : Peter Wessel Tordenskiold , Danish sea and national hero
- 1723 : Joseph Clemens of Bavaria , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1738 : Theodor Andreas Potocki , Bishop of Kulm and Ermland, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland-Lithuania
- 1739 : Hans Heinrich Schulthess , Swiss businessman, politician and Pietist
- 1742 : Christoph Hochreutiner , Swiss Mayor and representative of the Diet
- 1766 : Johann Wolfgang van der Auwera , German sculptor
- 1779 : Helfrich Peter Sturz , German Enlightenment writer
- 1780 : Johann Gottfried Weller , German Protestant clergyman and historian
- 1787 : Maria Pellegrina Amoretti , Italian lawyer
19th century
- 1825 : Carl Leberecht Messow , German Protestant clergyman
- 1833 : Johann Gottlob Worbs , German theologian and historian
- 1847 : Johann Gottfried Hoffmann , German statistician, political scientist and economist
- 1852 : Adolph Schoder , Württemberg politician
- 1857 : Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana , Uruguayan President
- 1857 : August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag , German officer, civil servant and landowner
- 1861 : Albert Dufour-Féronce , German banker, entrepreneur and railway pioneer
- 1863 : Per Krafft the Younger , Swedish painter
- 1869 : Amos Kendall , American politician
- 1869 : Friedrich Overbeck , German painter
- 1876 : Edouard Plouvier , French playwright and librettist
- 1878 : Berthold v. Freydorf , Royal Prussian General
- 1879 : Jakob Heine , German doctor
- 1882 : John Gould Stephenson , American medic, director of the Library of Congress
- 1893 : Alexander Freiherr von Bach , Austrian politician
- 1895 : Pierre-Edmond Hocmelle , French organist and composer
- 1898 : Otto Theodor von Seydewitz , German politician, President of the Reichstag of the German Empire
20th century
1901-1950
- 1907 : Arnulf Prince of Bavaria , Bavarian Colonel General
- 1914 : Augusto dos Anjos , Brazilian poet
- 1914 : Sylvester Stieber , German officer and colonial official
- 1916 : Percival Lowell , American astronomer, founder of the Lowell Observatory
- 1917 : Hans Bachmann , Swiss painter
- 1921 : Fernand Khnopff , Belgian painter and graphic artist
- 1922 : Bellamy Storer , American diplomat and politician
- 1924 : Caspar Augustin Geiger , German genre, history and still life painter
- 1925 : Roman Statkowski , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1925 : Tominaga Tarō , Japanese writer
- 1926 : Leopold Freiherr von Aichelburg-Labia , Austrian politician
- 1932 : Evangeline Adams , American consultant, astrologer, and author
- 1933 : Fred Holland Day , American photographer and publisher, thought leader in artistic photography
- 1934 : Walther Bensemann , German football pioneer, founder of the sports magazine Kicker
- 1934 : Henri Verbrugghen , Belgian conductor, violinist and music teacher
- 1940 : Alejandro García Caturla , Cuban composer
- 1941 : Martha Abicht , German kindergarten teacher
- 1941 : Leo Graetz , German physicist
- 1941 : Eduardo Schaerer , Paraguayan politician
- 1942 : Elmer Niklander , Finnish athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1943 : Agnes Bluhm , German doctor
- 1944 : Georg David Birkhoff , American mathematician
- 1944 : Edgar Stillman Kelley , American composer, conductor, organist, pianist, music critic and music educator
- 1945 : James Wheaton Mott , American politician
- 1948 : Umberto Giordano , Italian composer
- 1950 : Lesley Ashburner , American hurdler
1951-2000
- 1953 : Edmund Kaufmann , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1954 : Richard Ambronn , German geophysicist
- 1954 : John Meehan , American screenwriter
- 1955 : Tin Ujević , Croatian poet
- 1961 : Gustaf Henning Andersson , Swedish politician
- 1962 : Bror Abelli , Swedish director, actor, singer, writer and cinema owner
- 1962 : Joseph Georg Oberkofler , Austrian lawyer, narrator and poet
- 1966 : Don Branson , American racing car driver
- 1966 : Ewald Budde , German politician
- 1967 : Gerd Semmer , German poet, columnist and translator
- 1967 : Stanisław Adamski , Polish clergyman and politician, Bishop of Katowice
- 1971 : Dietrich Klagges , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister and Prime Minister of the Free State of Braunschweig, convicted criminal
- 1972 : Rudolf Friml , American pianist and composer of Bohemian-Jewish origin
- 1972 : Tommy Wisdom , British racing car driver and journalist
- 1973 : Willy Ackermann , Swiss actor, operetta buffo and cabaret artist
- 1973 : Alfred Ahner , German painter and draftsman
- 1977 : Ingrid Schubert , German terrorist, founding member of the RAF
- 1979 : Ursula Adam , German journalist and poet
- 1980 : Andrei Alexejewitsch Amalrik , Russian historian, publicist, writer and dissident
- 1981 : Herman Pilnik , German-Argentine chess master
- 1982 : Rudi Baerwind , German painter
- 1982 : Eduardo Mallea , Argentine writer and diplomat
- 1985 : Ildebrando Gregori , Italian religious priest, Venerable Servant of God
- 1986 : Shimao Toshio , Japanese writer
- 1987 : Lasgush Poradeci , Albanian poet
- 1988 : Lev Aronson , German cellist, cello teacher and composer
- 1988 : Kusano Shinpei , Japanese lyric poet
- 1988 : Tomasz Sikorski , Polish composer
- 1990 : Eve Arden , American actress
- 1991 : Kamal Bamadhaj , Malaysian-New Zealand human rights activist
- 1994 : Wilma Rudolph , American athlete
- 1997 : Lucy Ackerknecht , German psychotherapist and author
- 1998 : Gwendolyn Koldofsky , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 2000 : Leah Rabin , Israeli politician, wife of Yitzchak Rabin
21st century
- 2003 : Jonathan Brandis , American actor
- 2003 : Tony Thompson , American musician
- 2004 : Usko Meriläinen , Finnish composer and conductor
- 2007 : Werner Geier , Austrian radio journalist
- 2007 : Bob Holbert , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 2007 : Ira Levin , American screenwriter and writer
- 2007 : Peter Steiner , Swiss musician and advertising figure
- 2008 : Juanito Arteta , Venezuelan trumpeter and arranger
- 2008 : Henri d'Attilio , French politician
- 2008 : Mitch Mitchell , British jazz and rock drummer
- 2010 : Henryk Mikołaj Górecki , Polish composer
- 2011 : Hermann Herder , German publisher
- 2012 : Wolf Gerlach , German draftsman
- 2012 : Arthur Bialas , German soccer player
- 2013 : Alexander Serebrow , Soviet cosmonaut
- 2013 : Giuseppe Casari , Italian football player
- 2013 : John Tavener , British composer
- 2014 : Warren Clarke , British actor
- 2018 : Stan Lee , American comic book writer and editor
- 2018 : Wolfgang Schlueter , German jazz musician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Christian Gottlob Barth , German pastor and writer (Protestant)
- St. Aemilianus of Cogolla , Spanish Hermit (Catholic)
- St. Kunibert of Cologne , Franconian nobleman and bishop (Catholic)
- St. Josaphat Kunzewitsch , Polish martyr and bishop (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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