October 12th
The October 12 is the 285th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 286th in leap years ), thus remain 80 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 166 : The Roman Emperor Lucius Verus celebrates a triumphal procession in Rome at the end of the Parthian Wars .
- 633 : North of Doncaster , England, the Battle of Hatfield Chase takes place between a Northumbrian army under King Edwin and a combined force of the Kingdom of Gwynedd under Cadwallon ap Cadfan and Mercias under Penda . It ends in a crushing defeat for Northumbria, King Edwin and his son fall.
- 1398 : With the Treaty of Salinwerder , the Teutonic Order and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania conclude a peace and border treaty to end their conflicts.
- 1435 : Duke Ernst of Bavaria-Munich has his son Albrecht's lover , Agnes Bernauer's daughter , arrested and drowned in the Danube near Straubing . He fears that the mesalliance could endanger the succession .
- 1453 : The duchy of Guyenne , ruled by English until now, is taken by France and later part of the Domaine royal .
- 1459 : In the Battle of Ludlow, the Yorkists under Richard Plantagenet suffer their worst defeat in the Wars of the Roses against Henry VI. from the House of Lancaster .
- 1492 : Discovery of America : Christopher Columbus goes ashore on the island of Guanahani in what is now the Bahamas and names the island of San Salvador .
- 1576 : Rudolf II becomes German Emperor.
- 1711 : Charles VI. is elected Roman-German Emperor in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1814 : The Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg explained to the Congress of Vienna itself the Kingdom of Hanover .
- 1822 : Crown Prince Peter of Portugal is proclaimed the first emperor of Brazil .
- 1890 : A congress of the Socialist Workers' Party in Halle (Saale) decides to rename the organization to the Social Democratic Party of Germany .
- 1899 : After the declaration of war, the first fighting takes place in the Boer War .
- 1907 : Karl Liebknecht is sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment for his work Militarism and Antimilitarism .
- 1917 : The first Battle of Passchendaele begins as part of the Third Battle of Flanders during the First World War .
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- 1929 : During the Soviet-Chinese border war , the Red Army launches a major offensive in Manchuria .
- 1930 : The Karl-Marx-Hof in Vienna- Heiligenstadt , the world's longest contiguous residential building, is opened by Mayor Karl Seitz .
- 1932 : The Hispanic flag is adopted at the 7th Pan-American Conference .
- 1946 : The Control Council Directive No. 38 aims at the arrest and punishment of war criminals , National Socialists and militarists as well as the internment , control and surveillance of potentially dangerous Germans.
- 1949 : The German Trade Union Federation (DGB) is founded in Munich.
- 1955 : The International Organization for Legal Metrology is founded in Paris .
- 1960 : The USSR - Premier Nikita Khrushchev makes for an incident in the UN General Assembly : the From the speech Philippine ambassador Lorenzo Sumulong on decolonization and bourgeois and human rights situation in eastern Europe angered, he beats one of his shoes several times on his table.
- 1968 : Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain after a referendum.
- 1971 : Start of the festivities of the 2500th anniversary of the Iranian monarchy , which last until October 16.
- 1973 : The United States launches Operation Nickel Grass to supply Israel with war materials in the Yom Kippur War that had previously broken out .
- 1976 : After the resignation of the Hessian Prime Minister Albert Osswald as a result of the Helaba scandal , Holger Börner is elected as his successor by the state parliament with four votes ahead of Alfred Dregger .
- 1984 : The IRA detonates a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton , where British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet are. Five people are killed and 32 injured.
- 1990 : The CDU politician Wolfgang Schäuble is gunned down during an election campaign. Since then, Schäuble has been paralyzed from the third thoracic vertebra downwards.
- 1993 : The Maastricht Treaty is approved by the Federal Constitutional Court in the Maastricht ruling , but the German legislature must observe requirements with regard to the democratic legitimation of the European Union when implementing it .
- 1997 : In Cameroon , Paul Biya is confirmed as president.
- 1999 : Pervez Musharraf seizes power in Pakistan with a military coup . Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is placed under house arrest.
- 1999 : According to calculations by the United Nations , the world population exceeds the mark of six billion people.
- 2000 : The US destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) , anchored in the port of Aden , Yemen, is badly damaged by an al-Qaida bombing, killing 17 people.
- 2002 : In bomb attacks in Kuta , Bali , 202 people, mostly Australian tourists, are killed and 209 others are injured, some seriously.
- 2012 : In Oslo is the European Union of the Nobel Peace Prize awarded.
economy
- 1808 : The first credit institute in the country is established in Brazil with the establishment of Banco do Brasil . The Portuguese King John VI. wants to use it to finance his court's stay in exile.
- 1847 : Werner von Siemens founds the Telegraphen-Bauanstalt von Siemens & Halske in Berlin together with Johann Georg Halske .
- 1887 : The Japanese company Yamaha Corporation is founded. It is best known for its musical instruments and hi-fi systems.
- 1929 : The Warsaw Convention on International Carriage by Air , forerunner to the Montreal Convention of 1999, is signed.
science and technology
- 1910 : The Vienna Psychoanalytical Association is officially founded in Sigmund Freud's house in Vienna.
- 1924 : Hugo Eckener takes off with his airship LZ 126 for the first Atlantic crossing of a zeppelin.
- 1928 : An iron lung is used for the first time in the Boston Children's Hospital .
- 1940 : The Ilyushin Il-2 attack aircraft completes its first flight under the designation ZKB-57 after a conversion . The Soviet machine was to develop into one of the most popular aircraft.
- 1964 : The Soviet spaceship Vozhod 1 takes off with the cosmonauts Vladimir Komarow , Boris Jegorow and Konstantin Feoktistow on board. It is the first multi-person space flight.
- 1994 : The main drilling of the continental deep drilling program of the Federal Republic of Germany near Windischeschenbach is completed at a depth of 9101 meters.
- 1994 : The American space probe Magellan burns up in the atmosphere of Venus .
- 2005 : The second manned space flight of China , Shenzhou 6 , starts. The two " Taikonauts " Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng are on board .
Culture
- 1694 : The foundation stone for a new Zurich town hall is laid near the Limmat .
- 1737 : The musical drama Lucio Papirio by Ignaz Holzbauer is premiered.
- 1785 : The world premiere of the opera La grotta di Trofonio by Antonio Salieri takes place at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- 1818 : The National Theater in Munich opens.
- 1872 : At the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, the peasant comedy with singing is the Kreuzelschreiber of Ludwig Anzengruber premiered. The music comes from Adolf Müller senior .
- 1931 : The Christ the Redeemer designed by Heitor Silva Costa on Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro is consecrated.
- 1946 : Il Canto degli Italiani becomes the unofficial national anthem of Italy .
- 1951 : The world premiere of the opera The Condemnation of Lucullus by Paul Dessau with the text by Bertolt Brecht takes place at the Städtische Oper Berlin .
- 1957 : The new version of the operetta Hopsa by Paul Burkhard is premiered in Wiesbaden .
- 1971 : The rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber with the lyrics by Tim Rice premieres in New York.
- 1979 : With “The three ??? und der Super-Parroti ”is the first radio play by Die Drei ??? under the label Europe.
- 1981 : Rudi Carrell satirizes for the first time on ARD with his program Rudis Tagesshow the Tagesschau .
society
- 1810 : Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen and the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig marry in Munich . The wedding celebration on the Theresienwiese ends on October 17th with a horse race , from whose subsequent annual events the Oktoberfest blossoms.
religion
- 1518 : The interrogation of Martin Luther by the papal envoy, Cardinal Thomas Cajetan , which ended on October 14, begins in Augsburg .
- 1932 : The Concordat between the Holy See and Baden is concluded.
Disasters
- 1216 : At the crossing of The Wash goes treasure of King John of England lost .
- 1654 : Up to 1,200 people die and thousands are injured in the explosion of a powder storage facility in Delft , which later became known as the Delft Thunderbolt . The city is devastated, around 500 houses are badly damaged.
- 1979 : With a core pressure of 870 hectopascals and a diameter of 2200 kilometers, the Typhoon Tip develops the greatest intensity of a tropical cyclone ever observed .
- 1992 : In Egypt, 553 people die in a earthquake of measuring 5.9 killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1902 : The Austrian national soccer team played their first official international match against Hungary and won 5-0. It is also the first international match on the European continent.
- 1909 : The football club Coritiba FC is founded.
- 1968 : In Mexico City the XIX. Summer Olympics .
- 2003 : The German women's national soccer team wins the World Cup in Los Angeles with a 2-1 win over the Swedish team after a golden goal . Nia Künzer heads the winning goal in the 98th minute.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1008 : Go-Ichijo , Emperor of Japan
- 1350 : Dmitri Donskoy , Grand Duke of Moscow
- 1537 : Edward VI. of England , English king
- 1551 : Franz Hildesheim , German physician, historian and poet
- 1555 : Peregrinus Bertie , English nobleman, diplomat and general
- 1558 : Maximilian III. , Son of Maximilian II, regent of Inner Austria and Tyrol
- 1576 : Thomas Dudley , English governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1606 : Christoph Bernhard von Galen , Prince-Bishop of Münster
- 1649 : Hans Georg Asam , German church painter
- 1628 : Wilhelm Christoph von Baden , Canon
- 1664 : Praskowja Fyodorovna Saltykowa , Tsarina of Russia
- 1672 : Albrecht Meno Verpoorten German educator and Lutheran theologian
- 1678 : Christoph Pyl , German educator and historian
- 1685 : Ishida Baigan , Japanese scholar and philosopher
- 1687 : Silvius Leopold Weiss , German lutenist and composer
18th century
- 1707 : Johann Gottfried Hermann , German theologian
- 1710 : Jonathan Trumbull Sr. , American politician, Governor of Connecticut
- 1717 : Georg Friedrich Baermann , German mathematician
- 1730 : Hannah Lightfoot , British Quaker, allegedly the legitimate wife of George III.
- 1736 : Karl Friedrich Paelike , German lawyer and university professor
- 1758 : Theodorus Bailey , American politician
- 1759 : Bruno Franz Leopold Liebermann , German theologian
- 1761 : Aloys Schreiber , German teacher and professor of aesthetics, court historian, writer and travel book author
- 1762 : Jan Willem Janssens , Governor of the Cape Colony and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1770 : James Findlay , American politician
- 1773 : Detlev von Einsiedel , Saxon statesman
- 1775 : Ludovico Micara , Italian cardinal
- 1777 : Hans Heinrich Wilhelm Arendt , author and publisher
- 1782 : Christian Getzner , Austrian entrepreneur
- 1784 : Pietro Anderloni , Italian engraver
- 1787 : Carl Barth , German draftsman and engraver
- 1798 : Peter IV , King of Portugal and (as Peter I) Emperor of Brazil
- 1800 : Eugen von Puttkamer , German lawyer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Friedrich Frey-Herosé , Swiss entrepreneur, officer and politician
- 1801 : Carl August von Steinheil , German physicist, astronomer, optician and entrepreneur
- 1802 : Hermann Anschütz , German painter
- 1809 : Friedrich Ferdinand Löwe , German writer, librarian and translator
- 1809 : Johann Leonhard Appold , German copper and steel engraver
- 1810 : Uno Cygnaeus , Finnish cleric and educator
- 1812 : Otto von Corvin , German writer ( Der Pfaffenspiegel )
- 1812 : Ascanio Sobrero , Italian chemist
- 1813 : Eduard Klischnigg , British-Austrian artist
Marianne Rhodius
(* 1814)
Ersilia Caetani-Lovatelli
(* 1840)
- 1814 : Marianne Rhodius , German founder and philanthropist
- 1817 : Bernhard Maximilian Lersch , German doctor, balneologist and natural scientist
- 1830 : Henry Axel Bueck , German politician
- 1834 : Lotte Mende , German actress
- 1834 : Amalia del Pilar of Spain , Spanish Infanta
- 1835 : Friedrich Julius Neumann , German economist
- 1837 : Preston B. Plumb , American politician
- 1840 : Luigi Bodio , Italian statistician
- 1840 : Ersilia Caetani-Lovatelli , Italian Classical Archaeologist
- 1840 : Helena Modrzejewska , Polish actress
- 1841 : Léon Herpin , French painter
- 1842 : Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein , German politician
- 1844 : George Washington Cable , American writer
- 1849 : Robert Müser , German mining entrepreneur
- 1850 : Pellegrino Matteucci , Italian traveler to Africa
1851-1900
- 1851 : Hermann Fischer , German Germanist
- 1853 : Henry Settegast , German scientist
- 1855 : Arthur Nikisch , Hungarian conductor
- 1855 : August Sauer , Austrian literary scholar
- 1856 : Henry F. Lippitt , American politician
- 1857 : Frieda von Bülow , German writer
- 1857 : Wilhelm Fabricius , German librarian and historian
- 1860 : John G. Sargent , American lawyer and politician
- 1860 : Elmer Ambrose Sperry , American inventor and businessman
- 1861 : Johannes Luther , German Germanist
- 1862 : Theodor Boveri , German zoologist
- 1862 : Ferdinand Pfohl , German music critic and composer
- 1863 : Hedwig Hoffmann , German politician
- 1863 : Charles Hose , British zoologist and ethnologist
- 1864 : Hugo Visscher , Dutch church historian, Reformed theologian and politician
Arthur Harden
(* 1865)
- 1865 : Arthur Harden , British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1865 : Anton Kolm , Austrian film pioneer, director, producer
- 1866 : Ramsay MacDonald , British politician, head of government
- 1866 : Johannes Sassenbach , German trade unionist
- 1867 : Max Kurzweil , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1868 : August Horch , German mechanical engineer, founder of Horch and Audi
- 1872 : Ralph Vaughan Williams , British composer and conductor
- 1873 : Siegfried Guggenheim , German lawyer and art collector
- 1873 : Nadežda Petrović , Serbian painter
- 1873 : Federico Tedeschini , Italian cardinal
- 1874 : Abraham Brill , American psychiatrist
- 1874 : Anna Stemmermann , German pedagogue and physician
- 1875 : Aleister Crowley , British occultist
- 1877 : Howard M. Gore , American politician
- 1878 : Karl Buresch , Austrian politician
- 1878 : Achille Philip , French organist and composer
- 1879 : Friedrich Andreae , German historian
- 1880 : Louis Hémon , French writer
- 1880 : Healey Willan , Canadian composer and organist, choir director and music teacher
- 1881 : Viktor Kafka , Austrian bacteriologist
- 1881 : Carlos López Buchardo , Argentine composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1882 : Harry Liedtke , German actor
- 1883 : Johann Studnicka , Austrian football player
- 1884 : Jock Rutherford , English football player
- 1886 : Wanda Achsel , German opera singer
- 1886 : Albert Chamberland , Canadian violinist and composer
- 1886 : Paula Deppe , German painter and graphic artist
- 1887 : Fritz Eichler , Austrian archaeologist
- 1887 : Betty Fischer , Austrian operetta soprano
- 1887 : Paula von Preradović , Austrian writer
- 1888 : Clara Schulte , German writer
- 1889 : Hans von Arnim , German civil servant, church functionary and author
- 1889 : Perle Mesta , American diplomat
- 1889 : Victor Potel , American actor
- 1891 : Konoe Fumimaro , Japanese head of government
- 1891 : Edith Stein , German philosopher and nun, victim of National Socialism
- 1892 : Hubert Ney , German lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Saarland
- 1893 : Grete Csaki-Copony , German painter, draftsman and poet
- 1893 : George Hodgson , Canadian swimmer
- 1893 : Matthias Joseph Mehs , German politician and local writer
- 1894 : Agnès Humbert , French art historian and member of the Resistance
- 1895 : Henrik Herse , German farmer, worker, officer of the SS and Waffen-SS, dramaturge and writer
- 1896 : Eugenio Montale , Italian writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1897 : Otto Montag , German football player
- 1899 : Buchela , German fortune teller
- 1899 : Josef Eichner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1900 : Júlio Botelho Moniz , Portuguese general
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Felix Edward Hébert , American politician
- 1901 : Hanns Seidel , German politician, MdL, State Minister, Prime Minister of Bavaria
- 1902 : James Archey , American trombonist and band leader
- 1902 : Pavel Reiman , Czech writer and literary historian
- 1902 : Änne Saefkow , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1902 : Max Suhrbier , German politician
- 1902 : Peng Zhen , Chinese politician
- 1903 : Serge Brignoni , Swiss painter
- 1903 : Dutch Holland , American baseball player
- 1903 : Max Huggler , Swiss art historian
- 1903 : Walter Jurmann , Austrian composer
- 1904 : Ding Ling , Chinese writer
- 1905 : Joseph Kosma , Austrian composer
- 1906 : Harry Frommermann , German singer
- 1906 : Anderl Heckmair , German alpinist and mountain guide
- 1906 : Elise Riesel , Austrian linguist
- 1906 : Vieno Sukselainen , Finnish politician
- 1906 : Julio Tahier , Argentine writer and director
- 1906 : Piero Taruffi , Italian Formula 1, sports car and motorcycle racing driver
- 1907 : Wolfgang Fortner , German composer
- 1907 : Rudolf Raschka , German engineer and politician
- 1908 : Ann Petry , American writer
- 1908 : Heinrich Wilper , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1909 : Dorothy Livesay , Canadian poet
- 1910 : Frederick Fyvie Bruce , British theologian and New Testament scholar
- 1910 : Wisa von Westphalen , German painter
- 1911 : Louis de Guiringaud , French politician
- 1911 : Bruno Liebrucks , German philosopher
- 1911 : Maribel Vinson , American figure skater
- 1912 : Edward Hidalgo , American lawyer and politician
- 1912 : Toña la Negra , Mexican singer
- 1913 : Gerda Boenke , German worker and critic of the National Socialist regime
- 1913 : Josefine Hawelka , Austrian restaurateur
- 1916 : Wilhelm Muster , Austrian writer and literary translator
- 1917 : Tage Flisberg , Swedish table tennis player
- 1917 : TG Jones , Welsh football player
- 1917 : Roque Máspoli , Uruguayan football player and coach
- 1917 : Helen Tappan , American micropalaeontologist and foraminifera researcher
- 1918 : Frank Armi , American racing car driver
- 1918 : Sid Avery , American photographer
- 1919 : Gerhard Kienbaum , German company founder and politician, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1919 : Wanda Makuch-Korulska , Polish neurologist
- 1920 : Herbert Beckert , German mathematician
- 1920 : Alice Childress , American playwright, actress, and writer
- 1920 : Nelly Fonseca , Peruvian poet
- 1921 : Jaroslav Drobný , Czechoslovak tennis and ice hockey player
- 1922 : Trude Dothan , Israeli archaeologist
- 1923 : Moritz-Casimir zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , German qualified forest manager and entrepreneur
- 1923 : Fernando Sabino , Brazilian writer and journalist
- 1924 : Doris Grau , American actress
- 1924 : Hubert Trimmel , Austrian geologist and cave explorer
- 1925 : Elmar Hillebrand , German sculptor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Fabio De Agostini , Italian screenwriter and film director
- 1926 : Hidehiko Matsumoto , Japanese jazz musician and actor
- 1926 : Eliška Misáková , Czechoslovak artistic gymnast
- 1926 : César Pelli , Argentine architect
- 1927 : Horst Rudolf Abe , German medical historian
- 1927 : Wolfgang Kullmann , German Graecist
- 1929 : Sven Hotz , Swiss entrepreneur and patron
- 1930 : Ennio Guarnieri , Italian cameraman
- 1930 : Gerd W. Heyse , German aphorist
- 1930 : Jens Martin Knudsen , Danish astrophysicist
- 1930 : Peter Spälti , Swiss politician and manager
- 1930 : Alicia Urreta , Mexican composer
- 1931 : Ole-Johan Dahl , Norwegian computer scientist
- 1931 : Raoul Pleskow , American composer and music teacher
- 1932 : Ned Jarrett , American racing car driver
- 1932 : Witold Krejer , Russian athlete
- 1932 : Heinz Schneider , German table tennis player
- 1932 : Adele Stolte , German soprano
- 1933 : Guido Molinari , Canadian painter and graphic artist
- 1933 : Mike Salmon , British racing car driver
- 1934 : Oğuz Atay , Turkish writer
- 1934 : Richard Meier , American architect
- 1934 : Klaus Offerhaus , German lawyer
- 1934 : Gregorio Perez Companc , Argentine entrepreneur
- 1935 : Pascale Audret , French actress
- 1935 : Luciano Pavarotti , Italian singer
- 1936 : Pascale Audret , French actress
- 1936 : Inge Brück , German singer and actress
- 1936 : Malcolm Haines , British plasma physicist
- 1936 : Peter Lodynski , Austrian actor, cabaret artist and author
- 1936 : Frederick Nnabuenyi Ugonna , Nigerian linguist and literary scholar
- 1937 : Paul Hawkins , Australian racing car driver
- 1937 : Ingeborg Maus , German political scientist
- 1938 : Anne Perry , British writer
- 1938 : Helga Schlack , German actress
- 1938 : Larry Scott , American bodybuilder
- 1939 : Vladimír Körner , Czech screenwriter, dramaturge and writer
- 1939 : Carolee Schneemann , American artist
- 1940 : Anton Fischhaber , German racing car driver
- 1940 : Woldetensaé Ghebreghiorghis , Ethiopian bishop
- 1940 : Fares Maakaroun , Lebanese clergyman and bishop of the Melkites in Brazil
- 1941 : André Gahinet , French racing car driver
- 1942 : Daliah Lavi , Israeli film actress and singer
- 1942 : Magnus Schädler , Liechtenstein luge rider
- 1943 : Elisabeth Altmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1943 : Odd Einar Dørum , Norwegian politician
- 1943 : Jakob Kuhn , Swiss football player and coach
- 1943 : Peter Ostermeyer , German chess master
- 1943 : Heinrich Pachl , German cabaret artist, actor, author and filmmaker
- 1943 : Bertil Roos , Swedish racing car driver
- 1944 : Abdülkadir Aksu , Turkish politician
- 1944 : Ton Koopman , Dutch conductor, organist and harpsichordist
- 1944 : Heide Maria Pfarr , German lawyer and politician
- 1944 : Volker Schumpelick , German medic
- 1945 : Wolfram Berger , Austrian actor
- 1945 : Claude Lemesle , French lyricist
- 1945 : Dusty Rhodes , American wrestler
- 1946 : Christian Debias , French racing car driver
- 1947 : Helmut Losch , German weightlifter
- 1948 : Fritz Behrens , German politician, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1948 : Rick Parfitt , British musician
- 1949 : Roland Mack , German entrepreneur
- 1949 : Ilich Ramírez Sánchez , Venezuelan terrorist ( Carlos )
- 1950 : Susan Anton , American singer and film actress
- 1950 : Roland Asch , German motor sportsman
- 1950 : Horst Friedrich , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1950 : Andrzej Mitan , Polish singer, composer, concept and video artist, poet, art organizer and publisher
- 1950 : Gualberto do Rosário , Cape Verdean politician
1951-1975
- 1952 : Norbert Loh , German journalist and author
- 1952 : Danielle Proulx , Canadian actress
- 1953 : Daniel Louis , Canadian film producer
- 1955 : Jan Einar Aas , Norwegian football player
- 1955 : Ante Gotovina , Croatian general
- 1955 : Brigitte Lahaie , French actress, porn star and writer
- 1956 : Mark Dismore , American racing car driver
- 1956 : Gabriele Frechen , German politician
- 1957 : Annik Honoré , Belgian journalist and concert organizer
- 1958 : Steve Austria , American politician
- 1959 : Beate Peters , German athlete
- 1960 : Jürgen Fleck , German chess player
- 1960 : Karsten Heinz , German handball trainer and handball goalkeeper
Alexei Kudrin
(* 1960)
Hugh Jackman
(* 1968)
Sophie von Kessel
(* 1968)
- 1960 : Alexei Kudrin , Russian politician
- 1961 : Chris Mike , German music producer, composer and guitarist
- 1961 : Marianne Wagner , German athlete
- 1962 : Carlos Bernard , American actor
- 1962 : Chris Botti , American jazz trumpeter
- 1962 : Branko Crvenkovski , Macedonian President
- 1962 : Bashkim Fino , Albanian economist and politician
- 1963 : Raimond Aumann , German soccer player
- 1963 : Martin Klapper , Czech musician and multimedia artist
- 1963 : Satoshi Kon , Japanese screenwriter and film director
- 1964 : Urs Remond , Swiss actor and director
- 1965 : Anja Niedringhaus , German photojournalist
- 1965 : Dan Abnett , British author
- 1965 : Henry Akinwande , Nigerian-British heavyweight boxer
- 1965 : Liv-Benedicte Bjørneboe , Norwegian organist, composer and cantor
- 1965 : Klaus Escher , German politician, federal chairman
- 1966 : Amanda Forsyth , Canadian cellist
- 1966 : Rhona Martin , Scottish curler, Olympic champion
- 1966 : Roberto Néstor Sensini , Argentine football player and coach
- 1967 : Susanne Munk Wilbek , Danish handball player
- 1968 : Bill Auberlen , American racing car driver
- 1968 : Peter Gentzel , Swedish handball player
- 1968 : Hugh Jackman , Australian actor
- 1968 : Sophie von Kessel , German actress
- 1969 : Olaf Renn , German soccer player
- 1970 : Kai Agthe , German writer
- 1970 : Julian Andretti , American porn actor
- 1970 : Kirk Cameron , American actor
- 1970 : Sven Nagel , German comedian and author
- 1970 : Charlie Ward , American basketball player
- 1972 : Indika Dodangoda , Sri Lankan snooker player
- 1972 : Sönke Möhring , German actor
- 1972 : Marcus Rhode , American boxer
- 1972 : Gregor A. Rutz , Swiss politician
- 1973 : Martin Corry , English rugby player
- 1973 : Patrick Harzig , German actor
- 1974 : Lascelles Brown , Canadian-Jamaican bobsledder
- 1974 : René Frank , German composer and author
- 1974 : Ebru Gündeş , Turkish musician
- 1974 : Lucas Arnold Ker , Argentine tennis player
- 1974 : Stephen Lee , English snooker player
- 1974 : Marie Wilson , Canadian-Greek actress
- 1975 : Marion Jones , American athlete
- 1975 : Jorane , Canadian musician
1976-2000
- 1976 : Nils Bokelberg , German singer, television and radio presenter
- 1976 : Raúl Guerrón , Ecuadorian football player
- 1976 : Susanne Langhans , German television presenter
- 1977 : Jessica Barker , Canadian actress
- 1977 : Bode Miller , American ski racer
- 1977 : Markus Schmidt , Austrian soccer player
- 1978 : Stefan Binder , German soccer player
- 1978 : Baden Cooke , Australian cyclist
- 1978 : Georg Hettich , German winter sportsman
- 1979 : Jelena Erić , Serbian handball player
- 1980 : Nadseja Astaptschuk , Belarusian athlete
- 1980 : Ledley King , English soccer player
- 1981 : Shola Ameobi , English football player
- 1982 : Alexander Arekejew , Russian cyclist
- 1982 : Andreas Waldmeier , Swiss cross-country skier
- 1983 : Alex Brosque , Australian soccer player
- 1983 : Joyce Ilg , German actress
- 1983 : Paulo Batista Nsimba , Angolan football player
- 1985 : Philipp Schenk , Austrian soccer player
- 1986 : Sebastian Baumgart , German actor and singer
- 1986 : Marian Kindermann , German actor
- 1986 : Erik Mohs , German cyclist
- 1987 : Besian Idrizaj , Austrian football player
- 1988 : Jules Cluzel , French motorcycle racer
- 1988 : Jan Washausen , German soccer player
- 1991 : Thiemo Storz , German racing car driver
- 1992 : Josh Hutcherson , American actor
- 1993 : Luís Felipe Derani , Brazilian racing driver
- 1994 : Ivana Bulatović , Montenegrin ski racer
- 1999 : Marie Hinze , German voice actress
- 2000 : Roberto Massimo , German-Italian soccer player
21st century
- 2001 : Raymond Ochoa , American actor and voice actor
- 2004 : Darci Lynne Farmer , American ventriloquist and singer, 2017 America's Got Talent winner
Died
Before the 16th century
Agnes Bernauer
(† 1435)
Maximilian II
(† 1576)
- 633 : Edwin , King of Northumbria
- 638 : Honorius I , Pope
- 642 : John IV , Pope
- 1095 : Leopold II , Margrave of Austria
- 1161 : Heinrich V , Duke of Carinthia
- 1170 : Adolf II von Berg , Count von Berg
- 1176 : William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel , English nobleman
- 1257 : Mathilde von Courtenay , Countess of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre
- 1296 : Bernhard von Kamenz , Bishop of Meißen
- 1299 : Johann II , Lord of Mecklenburg
- 1320 : Michael IX. , Byzantine co-emperor
- 1343 : Rainald II , Duke of Geldern
- 1365 : Beatrix of Sicily-Aragon , Princess of Sicily-Aragon and Countess Palatine near the Rhine
- 1394 : Johann Sobieslaus of Luxemburg-Moravia , Bishop of Leitomischl and Patriarch of Aquileja
- 1435 : Agnes Bernauer , lover of Duke Albrecht III. from Bavaria
- 1492 : Piero della Francesca , Italian art theorist and mathematician
16th to 18th century
- 1501 : Matteo Civitali , Italian painter, sculptor and military engineer
- 1504 : Johann Corvinus , Count of Hunyadi, Ban of Croatia and Slavonia and Duke of Slavonia, Troppau, Leobschütz, Glogau and Liptau
- 1565 : Jean Ribault , French navigator and Caribbean pirate
- 1576 : Maximilian II , Holy Roman Emperor
- 1579 : Sokollu Mehmed Pasha , Ottoman commander and grand vizier
- 1588 : Lampert Distelmeyer , electoral chancellor of the Mark Brandenburg
- 1590 : Kanō Eitoku , Japanese painter
- 1600 : Luis de Molina , Spanish theologian
- 1654 : Carel Fabritius , Dutch painter
- 1657 : Johann Pöpping , Lübeck councilor
- 1670 : James Thynne , English nobleman and politician
- 1678 : Pieter Codde , Dutch painter
- 1682 : Jean Picard , French astronomer and geodesist
- 1685 : Christoph Ignaz Abele , Austrian legal scholar and court official
- 1691 : Hannibal von Degenfeld , Swabian military leader
- 1692 : Giovanni Battista Vitali , Italian violonist, singer and composer
- 1697 : John Ravenscroft , English composer and violinist
- 1704 : Hieronymus von Dorne , mayor of Lübeck
- 1730 : Frederick IV , King of Denmark and Norway
- 1744 : Peter Cornelius Beyweg , auxiliary bishop in Speyer
- 1760 : Johann Friedrich Stoy , German theologian
- 1769 : Johann Christian Ernesti , German theologian
- 1771 : Anton Gogeisl , German Jesuit and China missionary
- 1791 : Anna Luise Karsch , German poet
19th century
Elizabeth Fry
(† 1845)
Robert E. Lee
(† 1870)
- 1825 : Franz Joseph Müller von Reichenstein , Austrian natural scientist
- 1829 : Jean-Baptiste Regnault , French painter
- 1837 : Rosalie Wagner , German theater actress
- 1844 : Claude Tillier , French writer
- 1845 : Elizabeth Fry , British prison reformer
- 1850 : Pedro de Sousa Holstein , Portuguese politician and military man
- 1856 : Richárd Guyon , General
- 1858 : Utagawa Hiroshige , Japanese painter and printmaker
- 1865 : Samuel Marot , German theologian
- 1866 : Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal , German botanist
- 1866 : Karlmann Tangl , Austrian classical philologist and historian
- 1867 : Franz Xaver Haimerl , Austrian lawyer and university professor
- 1869 : Pyotr Fjodorowitsch Anjou , Russian polar explorer and admiral
- 1870 : Robert E. Lee , American officer, Confederate Commander in Chief
- 1882 : Adolf Eybel , German painter
- 1890 : William Young Sellar , British classical scholar
- 1891 : Hobart B. Bigelow , American politician
- 1891 : Friedrich Feustel , German banker, politician and sponsor of the Bayreuth Festival
- 1895 : Isaac Wolffson , German politician and lawyer
- 1899 : Oskar Baumann , Austrian explorer of Africa
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Georg Kaibel , German classical philologist
- 1902 : Otto Schramm , German restaurateur
- 1904 : Engelbert Lanz , Austrian composer and music teacher
- 1909 : Carl Hilty , Swiss constitutional lawyer
- 1912 : Karoline von Arnim , German writer
- 1912 : Otto Krümmel , German geographer
- 1915 : Edith Cavell , British nurse
- 1918 : Pierre Gailhard , French opera bassist
- 1918 : Émile Guimet , French industrialist and explorer
- 1918 : William F. Hooley , American singer
- 1921 : Philander C. Knox , American politician
- 1924 : Anatole France , French writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1926 : Edwin Abbott Abbott , British theologian and writer
- 1927 : Benjamin Daydon Jackson , British botanist
- 1933 : Otto Eggerstedt , German politician
- 1934 : Michael O'Shaughnessy , Irish-born civil engineer and city planner of San Francisco
- 1937 : Georg Wünschmann , German architect
- 1940 : Luis Fontés , British racing car driver and aviator
- 1941 : Harry M. Daugherty , American lawyer and attorney general
- 1942 : Édouard Nanny , French double bass player and composer
Alfred Kerr
(† 1948)
John Denver
(† 1997)
- 1943 : Willi Graf , German student, member of the White Rose resistance group
- 1943 : Max Wertheimer , German gestalt psychologist, co-founder of gestalt theory and gestalt psychology
- 1944 : Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz , German officer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944 : Alexis von Roenne , German officer, resistance fighter
- 1946 : Giuseppe Adami , Italian playwright, librettist, screenwriter and music critic
- 1946 : Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg , German economist
- 1948 : Alfred Kerr , German writer, theater critic and journalist
- 1949 : Oskar Jellinek , Austrian writer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Heinrich Hoffmann , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1953 : Carl Ulitzka , German politician
- 1956 : Otto Bruchwitz , German educator and local researcher
- 1956 : Anton Kern , Austrian library scientist
- 1957 : Michael Horlacher , German politician
- 1959 : Arnolt Bronnen , Austrian writer
- 1959 : Owen Saunders-Davies , British racing car driver
- 1959 : Otto Schlüter , German geographer
- 1960 : Inejirō Asanuma , Japanese politician
- 1960 : Hans Helmhart Auer von Herrenkirchen , German economist and university professor
- 1962 : Hugo Paul , German politician
- 1963 : Karl Baur , German pilot and engineer
- 1963 : Jolán Földes , Hungarian writer
- 1965 : Merl Lindsay , American country musician
- 1965 : Paul Hermann Müller , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1967 : Günther Blumentritt , German general and military writer
- 1968 : Michael A. Musmanno , American naval officer, judge at the Nuremberg Trials
- 1969 : Sonja Henie , Norwegian figure skater
- 1969 : Serge Poliakoff , Russian painter
- 1969 : Veli Saarinen , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1970 : Noud Stempels , Dutch soccer player
- 1971 : Dean Gooderham Acheson , US Secretary of State
- 1971 : Fritz Karl Walther Achterberg , German actor
- 1971 : Gene Vincent , American singer
- 1973 : Peter Aufschnaiter , Austrian mountaineer and agricultural scientist, development worker and cartographer
- 1974 : Pink Anderson , American blues musician
- 1975 : Philipp Wüst , German conductor and composer
- 1976 : Hertha Koenig , German poet
- 1976 : José Rozo Contreras , Colombian composer
- 1878 : Eugen Leibfried , German farmer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag
- 1978 : Nancy Spungen , American partner of Sid Vicious ( Sex Pistols ) and icon of the punk movement
- 1979 : Katherine Blodgett , American scientist
- 1980 : Alberto Demicheli , Uruguayan lawyer and politician, minister, president
- 1983 : Ove Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1984 : Rudolf Beiswanger , German actor, radio announcer and theater director
- 1984 : Jesús María Sanromá , Puerto Rican pianist and music teacher
- 1985 : John Davis , American blues pianist and singer
- 1985 : Duke Dinsmore , American racing car driver
- 1986 : Eugen Batz , German painter and photographer
- 1987 : Fahri Korutürk , Turkish politician
- 1987 : Russ Letlow , American football player
- 1987 : Heinz Vollmar , German soccer player
- 1989 : Carmen Cavallaro , American musician and film actor
- 1990 : Nagai Tatsuo , Japanese writer
- 1991 : Aline MacMahon , American actress
- 1991 : Taso Mathieson , British racing car driver
- 1993 : Leon Ames , American actor
- 1995 : Pierre Doukan , French violinist, composer and music teacher
- 1996 : René Lacoste , French tennis player and entrepreneur
- 1996 : Roger Lapébie , French cyclist
- 1997 : Raúl Arellano , Mexican soccer player
- 1997 : John Denver , American country and folk singer
- 1998 : Jürgen Aschoff , German biologist and behavioral physiologist
- 1998 : Jan Corazolla , German conductor and cellist
- 1998 : Bernhard Minetti , German actor
- 1998 : Matthew Shepard , American murder victim
- 1999 : Wilt Chamberlain , American basketball player
- 1999 : Miura Ayako , Japanese writer
21st century
- 2001 : Witold Szalonek , Polish composer
- 2002 : Ray Conniff , American musician and composer
- 2002 : Audrey Mestre-Ferreras , French freediver
- 2003 : Daniel Paul Arulswamy , Bishop of Kumbakonam
- 2003 : Clemens Menze , German educational scientist
- 2003 : Erwin Scheuch , German sociologist
- 2005 : Ghazi Kanaan , Syrian politician and general
- 2005 : Peter Chang Bai Ren , Chinese bishop
- 2005 : Jack White , American journalist
- 2006 : Gillo Pontecorvo , Italian film director
- 2007 : Kisho Kurokawa , Japanese architect
- 2009 : Klaus-Peter Nabein , German medium and long distance runner
- 2009 : Frank Vandenbroucke , Belgian racing cyclist
- 2010 : Jorge Ardila Serrano , Colombian bishop
- 2010 : Heinz Draehn , German actor and cabaret artist
- 2011 : Heinz Bennent , German actor
- 2011 : Dennis Ritchie , American computer scientist and programmer
- 2012 : Harry Valérien , German sports journalist
- 2015 : Joan Leslie , American actress
- 2016 : Jaber al-Bakr , Syrian terror suspect
- 2016 : Gudrun Piper , German painter
- 2018 : Pik Botha , South African politician, Foreign Minister
- 2018 : Rudy Horn , German artist, juggler
- 2019 : Sara Danius , Swedish literary scholar
- 2019 : Alphonso Williams , American singer
Holidays, action days and days of remembrance
- Church memorial days
- Elizabeth Fry , English founder of the "Women's Association for the Improvement of Female Convicts" (Protestant, Anglican)
- St. Felix III. , Eastern Gothic bishop of Rome (Roman Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Spain , USA , Argentina and other Latin American countries (sometimes different names): Columbus Day (1492)
- Equatorial Guinea : Independence from Spain (1968)
- Action days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Web links
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