April 13th

The April 13 is the 103rd day of the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years ), thus remain still 262 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1479 BC Chr .: After the death of Thutmose II from the 18th dynasty , his three-year-old son Thutmose III. 4 Pachon of the Egyptian calendar to Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt crowned. His stepmother and aunt Hatshepsut takes over the reign for him .
• 0344 : The climax of the persecution of Christians in the Sassanid Empire : on this Good Friday up to 1000 people (including Simon bar Sabbae ) are executed.
• 1111 : Pope Paschal II, who is held hostage, crowns Henry V as Holy Roman Emperor on the basis of the Treaty of Ponte Mammolo in Rome, which was concluded under duress .
• 1180 : Emperor Friedrich I distributes the possessions of the outlawed Henry the Lion at the court in Gelnhausen . The Duchy of Westphalia -Engern goes to the Cologne archbishop Philip of Heinsberg , the eastern part receives the Askanier Bernhard III. of Saxony .

1204: Conquest of Constantinople

• 1204 : After the escape of Emperor Alexios V , Christian crusaders conquer the Byzantine residence city of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade and kill around 2000 residents in the subsequent pillage and pillage.
• 1436 : Troops under the command of the former governor Jean de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam invade English-occupied Paris during the Hundred Years War and drive the opponents out of the city.
• 1598 : The French King Henry IV signs the Edict of Nantes . After 36 years of conflict he granted the Huguenots in Catholic France the freedom to practice their religion and thus ended the Huguenot Wars .

1640: Charles I.

• 1640 : Because he needed subsidies for a planned war against Scotland , King Charles I of England convenes parliament for the first time in eleven years . Only three weeks later he is released because it does not meet his demands. It goes down in history as the Short Parliament .

1759: Battle of Bergen

• 1759 : In the Battle of Bergen near Frankfurt am Main, Prussian troops attempt three times in vain during the Seven Years' War to conquer French positions commanded by Victor-François de Broglie . Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig finally breaks off the attack.
• 1796 : In the Battle of Millesimo , the French troops defeat a Piedmontese army during the Napoleonic campaign in Italy , trying to protect access to their land .
• 1829 : The Catholic Relief Act passed by the British Parliament on March 24th receives formal royal approval. The law allows Catholics in the United Kingdom to practice their religion freely. Thus, among other things, the test act of 1673 is repealed and the supremacy oath is abolished, with which the Catholic emancipation reaches its conclusion.

1848: Route of the Hecker train

• 1848 : Under the leadership of Friedrich Hecker , Franz Sigel and Gustav Struve , Baden revolutionaries set off from Constance to Karlsruhe against the resistance of Mayor Karl Hüetlin . The Heckerzug has the goal of uniting with units under Georg Herwegh on the way in order to then implement the ideas of the March Revolution in Baden .
• 1861 : After a one-day siege in the Civil War , Commander Robert Anderson hands over Fort Sumter to the Confederation forces under Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard . The attack on Fort Sumter left neither dead nor injured.

1868: The Burning Magdala

• 1868 : In the decisive battle for Magdala of the British punitive expedition in Ethiopia , British troops under Robert Napier and Frederic Thesiger defeat the Ethiopians under Negus Theodor II . The city of Mek'ele is burned down.
• 1873 : Race riots break out in Colfax , Louisiana, USA. Up to 150 people are killed in the Colfax massacre.
• 1876 : The Ottoman Empire declares its national bankruptcy . The financial ruin had already become apparent six months earlier, when on October 6, 1875 the interest payments on his foreign debts were cut by half.

1904: The explosion of Petropavlovsk

• 1904 : The flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet , the Petropavlovsk , hits a Japanese mine and sinks during the Russo-Japanese War . The commanding Admiral Stepan Ossipowitsch Makarow and the famous battle painter Vasily Vereschagin die, among others . Grand Duke Kyrill Vladimirovich Romanov is one of the few survivors .
• 1909 : Reactionary forces attempt a coup against the Young Turkish government in the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople with the support of Sultan Abdülhamid II . Troops deployed by her under the command of Ismail Enver and Cemal Pascha bring the overthrow of the sultans to failure in the following days .
• 1912 : On the basis of a royal order, the British military founds the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), from which the Royal Air Force developed in 1918 .

1918: German soldiers in Helsinki after conquering the city

• 1918 : The German troops under General Rüdiger von der Goltz , allied with the Finnish White Guards, conquer Helsinki after two days of street fighting during the Finnish Civil War .
• 1919 : British soldiers open fire on a crowd of unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar , Punjab, India . According to official figures, around 400 civilians were killed and over 1,000 wounded in the Amritsar massacre .
• 1919 : After the general strike was called in Braunschweig , the Reich government imposed a state of siege on the Free State .

1919: Republic of Baden

• 1919 : The Free State of Baden holds the first referendum in Germany, in which the new Baden constitution passed by the state parliament on March 21 is adopted by a large majority.
• 1919 : Munich: The Palm Sunday coup of the Republican Protection Force against the Munich Soviet Republic fails due to the resistance of the Red Guards under the command of Rudolf Egelhofer . The firefights at Munich Central Station claim 21 deaths.
• 1932 : The German Minister of the Interior and Defense, Wilhelm Groener , with the backing of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning , orders the National Socialist organizations SA and SS to be banned . This costs the Chancellor sympathy with Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and will be repealed in June by the Franz von Papen government .
• 1940 : On the anniversary of the Amritsar massacre, the Sikh Udham Singh , who was an eyewitness, murders the former governor of the Punjab , Michael O'Dwyer .
• 1941 : Japan and the USSR sign the Japanese-Soviet Neutrality Pact , which also includes a non-aggression pact .
• 1943 : The Großdeutsche Rundfunk reports that mass graves with Polish officers have been found in Katyn near Smolensk . In the following years , the Soviet Union denied involvement in the Katyn massacre for decades .

1945: victim of the massacre

• 1945 : In the Isenschnibber field barn near the town of Gardelegen , concentration camp guards, air force soldiers, members of the Reich Labor Service and concentration camp kapos murder over 1000 concentration camp prisoners in the last days of the Second World War .
• 1945 : The Soviet troops win the battle for Vienna in the last days of the Second World War .
• 1946 : In France, the law initiated by Marthe Richard and named after her is passed, which leads to the closure of all brothels in the country

1953: Allen W. Dulles

• 1953 : CIA director Allen Welsh Dulles orders the start of the secret mind control project MKULTRA , which also includes human experiments. It replaces Operation Artichoke , which was carried out with the help of former National Socialists .
• 1978 : The German Federal Constitutional Court declares the amendment to the conscription law , with which the examination of conscience for conscientious objectors has been abolished, to be unconstitutional.
• 1983 : The Federal Constitutional Court stops the planned census in the Federal Republic of Germany with an injunction until the final judgment. The census judgment will be issued on December 15th.

1987: Map of Macau

• 1987 : Portugal and the People's Republic of China reach an agreement on the return of Macau on December 20, 1999. The principle of “ one country, two systems ” is also agreed for a further 50 years.
• 1990 : The Soviet Union admits the Katyn massacre . President Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev confirms a killing decision by the Soviet leadership under Josef Stalin .
• 1997 : In Tehran up to 100,000 demonstrators demonstrate in front of the German embassy against the Mykonos judgment in Berlin.
• 2002 : In the Armenian capital Yerevan , a large-scale demonstration that has been going on since April 9 against a new media law intended to make critical reporting more difficult is violently suppressed.

economy

• 1889 : The Hörder Bergwerks- und Hütten-Verein founds the ammunition manufacturer Rheinmetall .
• 1956 : The Vienna Stock Exchange burns to the ground during the night.

science and technology

• 1231 : Pope Gregory IX. sets new rules for the Paris Sorbonne University in his bull Parens scientiarum , which will strengthen its self-government .

Upper half of the first page of the Viri Mathematici

• 1514 : Georg Tannstetter publishes the work Viri Mathematici quos inclytum Viennense gymnasium ordine celebres habuit . In this early approach to the history of science , the astronomers and mathematicians who had worked in Vienna up to this point in time are presented in detail.
• 1870 : The Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded in New York City .

1928: The Bremen on Greenly Island

• 1928 : The Germans Hermann Köhl and Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld as well as the Irish copilot James Fitzmaurice make the first Atlantic flight from east to west. 36 hours after taking off from Baldonnel, Ireland, they land with their Junkers W 33 Bremen on the Canadian island of Île Greenly .
• 1956 : The Physics Nobel Prize laureate Erwin Schrödinger gives his inaugural address as professor at the University of Vienna after years of exile in Dublin .
• 1960 : From Cape Canaveral from being Satellite Transit 1B started, the part of the first global satellite navigation system is. It was initially used for military purposes.

1970: Houston radio traffic , we've had a problem! (Audio)

• 1970 : An oxygen tank on the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes two days after takeoff on its way to the moon . The mission is canceled and a rescue operation is initiated to bring the three astronauts Jim Lovell , Jack Swigert and Fred Haise back to Earth unscathed.

Culture

• 1742 : Georg Friedrich Handel's oratorio Messiah is premiered in Dublin.
• 1784 : The world premiere of Friedrich Schiller's tragedy Kabale und Liebe takes place in Frankfurt am Main . The piece receives very mixed reviews.

1841: Interior of the Semperoper

• 1841 : After only three years of construction, the Semperoper in Dresden , built by master builder Gottfried Semper , is inaugurated. Carl Maria von Weber's jubilation overture and Goethe's Torquato Tasso will be performed.

1901: The 11 executioners

• 1901 : Germany's first political cabaret appears for the first time in Munich- Schwabing under the name Die Elf Scharfrichter . The founding members include Otto Falckenberg , Wilhelm Hüsgen and Willy Oertel .
• 1937 : Part of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona, named after the organ pipe cactus , is declared Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument .
• 1940 : The opera Romeo and Juliet by Heinrich Sutermeister based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare is premiered at the State Opera in Dresden.

1943: The Jefferson Memorial before completion

• 1943 : The Jefferson Memorial is inaugurated in Washington, DC to mark the 200th birthday of Thomas Jefferson .
• 1957 : Sidney Lumet movie 12 Angry Men ( Twelve Angry Men ) on the book by Reginald Rose with Henry Fonda as . Juror No. 8 has its premiere in the United States. The film received high critical acclaim, but it didn't turn out to be a box office hit.
• 1961 : The opera Intolleranza by Luigi Nono is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 1960 .

1962: Memorial stone to the Star Club

• 1962 : In House Grosse Freiheit 39 in Hamburg's St. Pauli opened Manfred Weissleder the Star Club . In the seven years of its existence, numerous greats of rock music have performed there. Above all, the performances of the Beatles contribute to the world fame of the club.
• 1964 : Sidney Poitier is the first black actor to receive an Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards . This honors his performance in the comedy Lilien auf dem Felde .
• 1965 : The ballet Onegin by John Cranko based on music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and arranged by Kurt-Heinz Stolze is premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart .
• 1972 : The first ZACK magazine appears with the number 17/1972 by Koralle-Verlag .
• 1982 : A visitor to the Neue Nationalgalerie in West Berlin attacks Barnett Newman's painting Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue .
• 2003 : The National Library of Baghdad is destroyed by arson during the Third Gulf War. Irreplaceable documents are lost.

society

• 1881 : Billy the Kid is sentenced to death by hanging in Mesilla for the murder of Sheriff William J. Brady during the Lincoln Willow War . A few days later, however, he manages to escape.
• 1984 : Christopher Wilder, wanted as a serial killer, is killed during a police check in the US state of New Hampshire . Officially, his death is considered a suicide.

religion

1055: Viktor II.

• 1055 : Gebhard, Bishop of Eichstätt , who at the instigation of Emperor Heinrich III. was elected Pope in the previous year , will be enthroned in Rome as Victor II .
• 1059 : With the papal bull In nomine Domini, Pope Nicholas II issues the papal election decree , which reserves the right to appoint the head of the Catholic church exclusively to cardinal bishops . The main aim of excluding worldly powers from voting is to prevent simony .
• 1147 : In the bull Divini dispensatione, Pope Eugene III agrees . into the Wendenkreuzzug . Some of the crusaders of the Second Crusade are allowed to fight the pagan turns , for which Bernhard von Clairvaux has campaigned.
• 1248 : In Cologne, with the approval of Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden , the demolition of the Romanesque Hildebold Cathedral is decided.
• 1986 : John Paul II visits the Great Synagogue of Rome . He is the first Pope to enter a synagogue and thus strengthens the interreligious dialogue with the “older siblings of Christians”.

Disasters

• 1749 : The two British liners HMS Pembroke and HMS Namur sink in a cyclone off the coast of southeast India . 850 crew members die, only 14 can save themselves.
• 1934 : When the Saratov railway bridge across the Volga collapsed , around 150 people died.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

• 1924 : Greeks expelled from Asia Minor and Constantinople found the sports club AEK Athens in Athens . Most of the players used to play at AS Pera Constantinople .

1997: Eldrick "Tiger" Woods

• 1997 : The American golfer Tiger Woods wins The Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia with 18 under par and 12 points ahead of the runner-up. He is the youngest player to win the US Masters and the first with African or Asian roots.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

Catherine of Medici (* 1519)

• 0953 : Muhammad al-Karaji , Persian mathematician
• 1187 : Arthur I , Duke of Brittany
• 1229 : Ludwig the Strict , Duke of Bavaria
• 1350 : Margaret III. , Countess of Flanders, Artois, Nevers Rethel and Countess Palatine of Burgundy
• 1442 : Heinrich IV. Von Neuhaus , Bohemian nobleman, Count Castle Count of Prague
• 1458 : Johann II , Duke of Kleve and Count of the Mark
• 1506 : Peter Faber , co-founder of the Jesuits
• 1516 : Willem de Witt , Dordrecht patrician and regent
• 1519 : Caterina de 'Medici , queen of France
• 1549 : Juraj IV. Zrinski , Croatian nobleman
• 1570 : Guy Fawkes , English Catholic assassin
• 1582 : Bernhard von Krosigk , Anhalt officer
• 1592 : Bruno Stisser , German jurist and lawyer
• 1593 : Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford , English politician
• 1600 : Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
• 1618 : Roger de Bussy-Rabutin , French general and writer
• 1648 : Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon , French mystic
• 1665 : Wolf Dietrich von Beichlingen , Saxon Grand Chancellor and Oberhofmarschall
• 1690 : Joachim Wagner , organ builder from Brandenburg
• 1699 : Joseph , Prince of Fürstenberg, Imperial Principal Commissioner at the Reichstag in Regensburg
• 1699 : Alexander Ross , Scottish poet

18th century

Thomas Jefferson (* 1743)

• 1716 : Leopold Johann of Austria , Archduke of Austria, last born male descendant from the House of Habsburg
• 1729 : Thomas Percy , English bishop of Dromore and poet
• 1732 : Frederick North , Prime Minister of Great Britain
• 1734 : Christian Heinrich Reichel , German educator
• 1742 : August Gottlieb Richter , German surgeon
• 1743 : Thomas Jefferson , third President of the USA, chief author of the Declaration of Independence, political theorist
• 1743 : Friedrich Wilhelm Carl von Schmettau , German cartographer
• 1747 : Louis Philippe II. De Bourbon , Duke of Orléans, known as Philippe Égalité
• 1747 : Armand-Louis de Gontaut , Duke of Biron, until 1788 Duke of Lauzun, French general
• 1749 : Jean Trembley , Swiss mathematician and philosopher
• 1756 : Louis VI. Henri Joseph , Prince of Condé
• 1758 : Johann von Klenau , Austrian general
• 1759 : Antoni Angelowicz , Ukrainian theologian
• 1759 : Maximilian of Saxony , Crown Prince of Saxony
• 1764 : Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr , French War and Navy Minister, Marshal and Peer of France
• 1765 : Karl Samuel Wild , Swiss civil servant, archivist and writer
• 1766 : Michael Rosenberger , Viennese piano maker
• 1769 : Thomas Lawrence , British painter
• 1771 : Richard Trevithick , British inventor and mechanical engineer
• 1776 : Wilhelm von Schütz , German poet
• 1778 : Barnabas Huber , Benedictine abbot
• 1784 : Friedrich von Wrangel , Prussian general
• 1789 : Georg Benedikt Winer , German Protestant theologian and philologist
• 1790 : Wilhelm von Rahden , German officer and writer
• 1794 : Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens , French physiologist
• 1799 : Ludwig Rellstab , German journalist, music critic and poet

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Leopold Fitzinger , Austrian zoologist
• 1808 : Antonio Meucci , American inventor
• 1812 : Eduard Feodor Gloeckner , German lawyer
• 1812 : Rudolph Siebeck , German-Austrian horticulturalist
• 1815 : Robert Theodor Heyne , German councilor of appeal
• 1819 : Georg Eberlein , German builder and painter
• 1823 : Oskar Schlömilch , German mathematician

Friedrich Kapp (* 1824)

• 1824 : Iossif Ivanovich Charlemagne , Russian architect
• 1824 : Friedrich Kapp , German lawyer, author and politician, MdR
• 1830 : Ferdinand Pauwels , Belgian history painter
• 1832 : Juan Montalvo , Ecuadorian writer
• 1837 : Nikolai Dmitrijew-Orenburgski , Russian painter
• 1838 : Rudolf Falb , Austrian researcher
• 1838 : Gustav von Goßler , Prussian Minister of State
• 1838 : Wilhelm von Specht , Prussian major general
• 1841 : Louis-Ernest Barrias , French sculptor
• 1843 : Rudolf Goethe , German winemaker
• 1843 : Attilio Simonetti , Italian painter
• 1844 : Jan Hřímalý , Czech violinist and music teacher
• 1845 : Josef Aichbichler , Bavarian politician
• 1845 : Richard Assmann , German meteorologist
• 1846 : Poul la Cour , Danish meteorologist, wind turbine pioneer
• 1847 : Karl Kloß , German trade unionist
• 1847 : Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1847 : Franz Scheiner , German lithographer & publisher
• 1848 : Oskar Lenz , German-Austrian Africa explorer, mineralogist and geologist

1851-1900

William Quan Judge (* 1851)

• 1851 : William Quan Judge , Irish-American lawyer
• 1852 : Winfield Woolworth , American entrepreneur, founder of the Woolworth supermarket chain
• 1853 : Hector Archibald MacDonald , British general
• 1854 : Wilhelm Claudius , German painter, draftsman and illustrator
• 1854 : William Henry Drummond , Canadian lyric poet
• 1855 : Ludwig Edinger , German neurologist and brain researcher
• 1856 : Avedis Bedros XIV. Arpiarian , Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia
• 1856 : Sigmar Mehring , German writer
• 1856 : Franciszek Ludwik Neugebauer , Russian gynecologist
• 1859 : Henry Tureman Allen , American general
• 1860 : James Ensor , Belgian painter and draftsman
• 1861 : José Pierson , Mexican music teacher
• 1862 : Maximilian Modde , German painter
• 1864 : Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps , Austrian writer, journalist and critic
• 1865 : Leon Asher , German physiologist

Butch Cassidy (* 1866)

• 1866 : Butch Cassidy , American outlaw
• 1866 : Alexander Michailowitsch Romanow , Russian Grand Duke
• 1867 : Christoph März , German pastor and church painter
• 1867 : William Arundel Orchard , Australian organist, conductor, composer and music teacher of English origin
• 1869 : Hans Thum , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1870 : Daniel Baud-Bovy , Swiss writer and painter
• 1870 : Ernst Décsey , Austrian writer and music critic
• 1871 : Oskar Kohnstamm , German neurologist and psychiatrist
• 1871 : Jurgis Matulaitis , Lithuanian Catholic Blessed, Archbishop of Vilnius
• 1872 : Alexander Roda Roda , Austrian writer and publicist
• 1877 : Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager , German mechanic and racing car driver

Jan van der Hoeve (* 1878)

• 1878 : Jan van der Hoeve , Dutch ophthalmologist
• 1879 : Johan Petter Åhlén , Swedish entrepreneur and curler
• 1880 : Hans Adler , Austrian poet, writer and librettist
• 1880 : Ludwig von Ficker , German writer and publisher
• 1880 : Greten Handorf , German shipowner
• 1880 : Walther von Knebel , German geologist
• 1880 : Fritz Tarnow , German politician and trade unionist, MdR
• 1881 : Ernst Heilmann , German politician
• 1881 : Hermann Thorade , German oceanographer
• 1881 : Ludwig Binswanger , Swiss psychiatrist
• 1883 : Alexander Wassiljewitsch Alexandrow , Russian composer

Georg Lukács (* 1885)

• 1885 : Georg Lukács , Hungarian philosopher, literary scholar and critic
• 1886 : Ethel Leginska , English pianist, conductor and composer
• 1888 : Karl Bonehauer , German composer
• 1891 : Nella Larsen , American writer
• 1891 : Robert Scholl , German politician, father of the Scholl siblings
• 1892 : Arthur Harris , British Air Force officer, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
• 1893 : Carl Blümel , German archaeologist
• 1893 : Willi Hammelrath , German author and founder of the Burg Vondern Workers' College
• 1893 : Itō Michio , Japanese ballet dancer and choreographer

Arthur William Fadden (* 1894)

• 1894 : Arthur Fadden , politician and Prime Minister of Australia
• 1895 : Maximilian Eugen of Austria , Austrian Archduke
• 1896 : Rudolf Egelhofer , German city commander in Munich
• 1897 : Heinz Matthes , German politician
• 1897 : Udo Illig , Austrian politician
• 1897 : Hermann Veit , German politician

Werner Voss (* 1897)

• 1897 : Werner Voss , German fighter pilot
• 1898 : Maja Berezowska , Polish artist
• 1898 : Kurt Eichner , German politician
• 1898 : Chandulal Shah , Indian film director and founder of Ranjit Studios
• 1899 : Alfred Mosher Butts , American architect and game designer
• 1899 : Theo Kellner , German painter and architect
• 1899 : Alfred Schütz , Austrian sociologist
• 1899 : Friedrich Wilckens , Austrian composer and pianist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Jacques Lacan , French psychoanalyst
• 1901 : Paul Yü Pin , Chinese cardinal, Archbishop of Nanking
• 1902 : Philippe de Rothschild , French entrepreneur and racing car driver, pioneer of French viticulture
• 1903 : Georg Sluyterman von Langeweyde , German graphic artist and painter
• 1904 : Martha Weber , local poet from the Ore Mountains
• 1905 : Bruno Rossi , Italian astrophysicist

Samuel Beckett (* 1906)

• 1906 : Samuel Beckett , Irish writer (Waiting for Godot) , Nobel Prize winner
• 1906 : Bud Freeman , American tenor saxophonist
• 1906 : Gabriel Ramanantsoa , President of Madagascar
• 1907 : Jack Bilbo (pseudonym), German writer, painter, captain and (life) artist
• 1907 : Roderich Menzel , Czech and German tennis player
• 1908 : Clemens Hasse , German actor
• 1908 : Bob Nolan , Canadian country singer ( Sons Of The Pioneers )
• 1908 : Andreas Walser , Swiss painter, poet and photographer
• 1909 : Stanisław Marcin Ulam , Polish mathematician
• 1910 : Walter Bargatzky , German lawyer and President of the DRK
• 1910 : Paul Glowka , German football goalkeeper
• 1910 : Wilhelm Schmied , German painter and graphic artist
• 1911 : Gunter Böhmer , German painter and illustrator
• 1911 : Wolfgang Görg , German photographer
• 1911 : Eric Oliver , British motorcycle racer
• 1912 : Lydia Auster , Estonian composer
• 1912 : Bernhard von Glisczynski , German architect
• 1912 : Morris Sievers , Australian cricketer
• 1914 : Lars Leiro , Norwegian politician and landowner
• 1914 : Orhan Veli Kanık , poet and innovator of Turkish poetry

Stephan Hermlin (* 1915)

• 1915 : Stephan Hermlin , German writer
• 1919 : Howard Keel , American actor and musical performer
• 1920 : Jackie Armstrong , British jazz trombonist
• 1920 : Roberto Calvi , Italian banker
• 1920 : Peter Heilbut , German music teacher, composer and pianist
• 1920 : John LaPorta , American jazz clarinetist
• 1920 : Theodore L. Thomas , American science fiction writer, chemist, and patent attorney
• 1921 : Toni Steingass , German composer, publisher and moderator
• 1921 : Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon , Swiss industrialist
• 1922 : John Braine , British author
• 1922 : Hardt-Waltherr Hämer , German architect
• 1922 : Julius Nyerere , Tanzanian politician
• 1923 : Don Adams , American actor
• 1923 : Lothar Quinte , German painter
• 1924 : William Arrowsmith , American philologist and literary scholar
• 1924 : Stanley Donen , American film director
• 1925 : Annie Bousquet , French-Austrian racing driver
• 1925 : Horst Stechbarth , Colonel General of the NVA

1926-1950

• 1926 : Miyao Tomiko , Japanese writer
• 1927 : Walo Lüönd , Swiss actor

Bill Wedderburn (* 1927)

• 1927 : Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton , British lawyer and politician
• 1928 : Doug Bragg , American country and rockabilly musician
• 1928 : Heinz Butin , German phytopathologist and forest scientist
• 1928 : Teddy Charles , American jazz musician, composer and record producer
• 1928 : José Agustín Goytisolo , Spanish poet
• 1928 : Gianni Marzotto , Italian racing driver
• 1929 : Norbert Burger , Austrian politician
• 1931 : Michel Deville , French film director and screenwriter
• 1931 : Dan Gurney , American racing car driver and team owner
• 1931 : Robert Enrico , French film director of Italian descent
• 1932 : Jennifer Nicks , British figure skater
• 1934 : Klaus Beyreiss , German medic
• 1934 : Heinrich Wilhelm Laufhütte , judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1934 : Siegfried Matthus , German composer
• 1936 : José Rosinski , French racing car driver and journalist
• 1937 : Edward Fox , British actor
• 1937 : Berge Furre , Norwegian politician, historian and theologian
• 1938 : Heinz Holecek , Austrian singer, actor, parodist and entertainer
• 1938 : Klaus Lehnertz , German athlete

Seamus Heaney (born 1939)

• 1939 : Seamus Heaney , Irish writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1939 : Alois Kälin , Swiss Nordic combined skier and cross-country skier
• 1939 : Peter Ruckenbauer , Austrian agricultural scientist
• 1939 : Paul Sorvino , American actor
• 1940 : Friedemann Berger , German writer
• 1940 : Vladimir Cosma , Romanian film composer
• 1940 : Umberto Grano , Italian racing car driver
• 1940 : Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio , French-Mauritian writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1940 : Max Mosley , British sports official and lawyer
• 1941 : Margaret Price , Welsh opera singer
• 1941 : Michael Stuart Brown , American medicine and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1941 : Jean-Marc Reiser , French comic artist
• 1942 : Bill Conti , American composer

Bill Conti (born 1942)

• 1942 : Otto Marchi , Swiss writer and historian
• 1943 : Billy Kidd , American skier
• 1943 : Tim Krabbé , Dutch writer and chess master
• 1944 : Francesco Arese , Italian athlete
• 1944 : Jochen Brand , German handball player
• 1944 : Hans Christoph Buch , German writer and journalist
• 1944 : Hans-Jörg Bullinger , German scientist, President of the Fraunhofer Society
• 1944 : Jack Casady , American, bassist, blues and rock musician
• 1944 : Elisabeth Trissenaar , German actress
• 1945 : George Aggudey , Ghanaian politician
• 1945 : Tony Dow , American director and actor, producer and screenwriter
• 1945 : Lowell George , American musician
• 1946 : Josef Ackerl , Austrian politician
• 1946 : Al Green , American singer
• 1947 : Agostina Belli , Italian actress
• 1947 : Reto Hänny , Swiss writer

Tom Krey (* 1947)

• 1947 : Tom Krey , German painter
• 1947 : Holger Schwiers , German actor
• 1948 : Miloslav Gajdoš , Czech double bass player, music teacher and composer
• 1948 : Drago Jančar , Slovenian writer
• 1948 : Michael Hammer , American economist
• 1949 : Marilyn Bowering , Canadian writer, poet, and playwright
• 1949 : Christopher Hitchens , British-American author, publicist and literary critic
• 1949 : Ricardo Zunino , Argentine racing car driver
• 1950 : Ron Perlman , American actor
• 1950 : Dieter Perlowski , German writer and playwright

1951-1975

• 1951 : Ivano Bordon , Italian football player
• 1951 : Peabo Bryson , American soul singer
• 1951 : Kaci Kullmann Five , Norwegian Conservative politician
• 1951 : Joachim Streich , German soccer player
• 1951 : Max Weinberg , American musician

Erick Avari (* 1952)

• 1952 : Erick Avari , Indian actor
• 1952 : Karsten Jasper , German politician
• 1953 : Hans Gansch , Austrian trumpeter and university professor
• 1953 : Rüdiger Kramer , German artist
• 1953 : Konrad Paul Liessmann , Austrian philosopher
• 1955 : Ole von Beust , German local politician, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
• 1955 : Gerhard Naschberger , German painter of the Neue Wilden
• 1955 : Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II , Kabaka from Buganda
• 1955 : Simon Spang-Hanssen , Danish jazz saxophonist
• 1955 : Alfred Wiedensohler , German physicist
• 1956 : François Schuiten , Belgian comic artist
• 1957 : Amy Goodman , American journalist and author
• 1958 : Ingo Holland , German chef
• 1958 : Mechthild Ross-Luttmann , German politician
• 1959 : Zeruya Shalev , Israeli writer

Olaf Ludwig (* 1960)

• 1960 : Olaf Ludwig , German cyclist
• 1960 : Rudi Völler , German soccer player
• 1961 : Uwe Hübner , German television and radio presenter
• 1962 : Hillel Slovak , American guitarist ( Red Hot Chili Peppers )
• 1962 : Matthias Hönerbach , German soccer player
• 1963 : Garri Kimowitsch Kasparow , Russian chess player
• 1964 : Andy Goram , Scottish soccer player
• 1964 : Caroline Rhea , Canadian comedian and actress
• 1965 : Stefan Baldi , German economist
• 1966 : Ali Boumnijel , Tunisian football player
• 1966 : Mando , Greek pop singer
• 1966 : Fanny Stavjanik , Austrian actress
• 1967 : Olga Tañón , Puerto Rican singer
• 1968 : Marc Schubring , German composer
• 1970 : Esteban Benzecry , Brazilian composer
• 1971 : Alexandra Adi , American actress
• 1972 : Carlos Mortensen , American poker player
• 1972 : Mariusz Czerkawski , Polish ice hockey player
• 1972 : Aaron Lewis , American musician ( Staind )
• 1972 : John van Buskirk , American football player
• 1972 : Qurban Qurbanov , Azerbaijani football player

Kilian Albrecht (* 1973)

• 1973 : Kilian Albrecht , Austrian alpine ski racer
• 1973 : Gustavo López , Argentine football player
• 1973 : Roger Ross Williams , American director
• 1974 : Sergei Abdukarov , Kazakh biathlete
• 1974 : Martin Aufmuth , German teacher
• 1974 : Sergei Viktorovich Gonchar , Russian ice hockey player
• 1974 : Martin Höllwarth , Austrian ski jumper
• 1974 : Marta Jandová , Czech musician
• 1974 : Juliet Tablak , American actress
• 1974 : David Zdrilic , Australian soccer player
• 1975 : Jasey-Jay Anderson , Canadian snowboarder
• 1975 : Lou Bega , German Latin pop singer
• 1975 : Tatiana Alexandrovna Nawka , Russian figure skater
• 1975 : David Philip Hefti , Swiss composer and conductor
• 1975 : Torsten Spanneberg , German swimmer

1976-2000

Jonathan Brandis (* 1976)

• 1976 : Jonathan Brandis , American actor
• 1976 : Patrik Eliáš , Czech ice hockey player in the NHL
• 1976 : Václav Koloušek , Czech football player
• 1977 : Katrine Pedersen , Danish soccer player
• 1977 : Ángel Vicioso , Spanish cyclist
• 1978 : Farruch Amonatow , Tajik chess player
• 1978 : Arron Asham , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 : Carles Puyol , Spanish soccer player
• 1978 : Judith Röder , FDP politician in Saxony-Anhalt
• 1978 : Antoni Sivera , Andorran football player
• 1978 : Alexander Voigt , German soccer player
• 1978 : Šimon Voseček , Austrian composer of Czech origin
• 1978 : Sylvie Meis , Dutch presenter, actress and photo model
• 1979 : Björn Anklev , Swedish football player
• 1979 : Gréta Arn , Hungarian tennis player
• 1979 : Ivica Križanac , Croatian football player
• 1979 : J-Luv , German soul singer
• 1979 : Meghann Shaughnessy , American tennis player
• 1980 : Ryan Carter , American composer
• 1980 : Hanka Kliese , German political scientist and politician (SPD)

Quentin Richardson (* 1980)

• 1980 : Quentin Richardson , American basketball player
• 1981 : Jimmie Augustsson , Swedish football player
• 1981 : Simon Greul , German tennis player
• 1981 : Jennifer Meier , German soccer player
• 1981 : Matjaž Mlakar , Slovenian handball player
• 1981 : Martin Pohl , German soccer player
• 1982 : Rico Göde , German handball player
• 1982 : Jennah Karthes , German actress and pop singer
• 1983 : Schalk Burger , South African rugby player
• 1983 : Nicole Cooke , British cyclist
• 1983 : Philipp Heerwagen , German soccer player
• 1983 : Tian Zhandong , Chinese ski jumper
• 1984 : Jarmo Ahjupera , Estonian football player
• 1984 : Karolina Lodyga , German actress
• 1985 : Gina Lewandowski , American soccer player
• 1987 : Fabián Monzón , Argentinian football player
• 1988 : Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player

Will Bratt (* 1988)

• 1988 : Will Bratt , British racing driver
• 1988 : Máximo Cortés , Spanish racing driver
• 1988 : Michele Rizzi , Italian-German soccer player
• 1988 : Hélder Maurílio da Silva Ferreira , Brazilian soccer player
• 1988 : Jernar Tschimbajew , Kazakh billiards player
• 1989 : Rick Okon , German actor
• 1990 : Finch Asocial , German musician
• 1990 : Lodovica Comello , Italian actress, singer and dancer
• 1991 : David Amoo , English soccer player
• 1991 : Peter Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 : Daniel Ginczek , German soccer player
• 1991 : Dylan Penn , American model and actress
• 1992 : Emma Degerstedt , American actress
• 1993 : Hannah Marks , American actress
• 1993 : Tony Wroten , American basketball player
• 1994 : Kasper Antonsen , Danish badminton player
• 1994 : Laurynas Kulikas , German soccer player
• 1996 : Marko Grujić , Serbian football player
• 1998 : Sabrina Simader , Kenyan ski racer
• 1999 : Alessandro Bastoni , Italian football player

21st century

• 2001 : Noah Katterbach , German soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0585 : Hermenegild , son of a Visigoth king
• 0814 : Krum , Bulgarian Khan
• 0861 : Answin von Camerino , Bishop
• 0949 : Jeongjong , 3rd King of the Goryeo Empire in Korea
• 0989 : Bardas Phokas the Younger , Byzantine general and usurper
• 1093 : Vsevolod I. Yaroslavich , Grand Duke of the Kievan Rus
• 1099 : Konrad , Bishop of Utrecht
• 1113 : Ida of Lorraine , mother of Godfrey of Bouillon, saint
• 1125 : Richwin , Bishop of Naumburg
• 1135 : Friedrich von Stade , Count of Stade
• 1141 : Engelbert , Duke of Carinthia
• 1143 : Chuniza von Giech , Frankish countess
• 1171 : Konrad I , Bishop of Worms
• 1178 : Sebastiano Ziani , 39th Doge of Venice
• 1213 : Guido von Thouars , Duke of Brittany
• 1249 : Leutold I. , Styrian Ministeriale
• 1275 : Eleanor of England , English princess from the House of Plantagenet
• 1340 : Berthold VII , Count von Henneberg-Schleusingen
• 1352 : Apetzko Deyn von Frankenstein , Bishop of Lebus
• 1353 : Hermann IX. , Margrave of Baden zu Eberstein
• 1369 : Heinrich V , Duke of Glogau, Sagan and Steinau
• 1377 : Guillaume de Machaut , French composer and poet
• 1435 : Casimir V , Duke of Pomerania
• 1445 : Ludwig VIII , Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
• 1466 : Albrecht Pfister , German printer and publisher
• 1466 : Burkhard II von Randegg , Bishop of Constance
• 1478 : Günther Zainer , German printer of the incunable period
• 1479 : Niklas von Wyle , German writer and translator

16th to 18th century

• 1565 : Bernardo Navagero , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1592 : Bartolomeo Ammanati , Italian sculptor and builder
• 1597 : Clas Eriksson Fleming , Swedish admiral
• 1618 : Johann Fladenstein , German lawyer
• 1622 : Katharina Kepler , mother of Johannes Kepler and accused in a witch trial
• 1624 : Ernst Cothmann , German lawyer and jurist
• 1648 : Martin Faber , architect, painter, cartographer and councilor of Emden
• 1665 : Wilhelm Ludwig , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
• 1667 : Carlo Martino Carlone , Italian builder
• 1691 : Thomas Bromley , English mystic
• 1691 : Melchor de Navarra y Rocafull , Spanish colonial administrator and Viceroy of Peru

Jean de La Fontaine († 1695)

• 1695 : Jean de La Fontaine , French poet and writer
• 1705 : Balthasar Ableithner , German sculptor
• 1716 : Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington , English peer and politician
• 1716 : Johann Jakob Müller , German moral philosopher
• 1721 : Johann van Ghelen , Flemish printer in Vienna
• 1726 : Johannetta Antoinetta Juliana von Sachsen-Eisenach , Duchess of Sachsen-Weißenfels
• 1726 : Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco , Spanish painter
• 1728 : Samuel Molyneux , British politician and astronomer
• 1728 : Johann Christoph Schmidt , German composer
• 1742 : Giovanni Veneziano , Neapolitan composer and organist
• 1743 : Eleonore Charlotte von Württemberg-Mömpelgard , Duchess of Württemberg-Oels
• 1758 : Borommakot , King of Siam
• 1759 : Johann Casimir von Isenburg-Birstein , German military leader
• 1763 : Christian Zell , German harpsichord maker
• 1766 : Friedrich Wilhelm Beelen , aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
• 1773 : Giacomo Fontana , Polish architect
• 1793 : Friedrich Karl , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• 1793 : Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg , Margravine of Baden-Baden
• 1794 : Nicolas Chamfort , French writer
• 1794 : Pierre-Gaspard Chaumette , politician during the French Revolution
• 1794 : Lucile Desmoulins , wife of Camille Desmoulins
• 1794 : Arthur Dillon , French general
• 1797 : Jakob von Bernuth , German civil servant

19th century

• 1801 : Antoine de Rivarol , French writer
• 1802 : Johann Joseph Imhoff , German sculptor
• 1805 : Pietro Arduino , Italian botanist
• 1808 : Joseph Maria Schneidt , German lawyer, university professor and historian
• 1825 : Joseph Gelinek , Czech composer and pianist
• 1825 : Christoph Casimir Lerche , General Staff Physician and personal physician to the Russian Emperor Alexander I.
• 1826 : Franz Danzi , German composer, conductor and cellist
• 1827 : Hugh Clapperton , British explorer of Africa
• 1831 : Ferdinand Kauer , Austrian composer and conductor
• 1831 : Traugott August Seyffarth , German theologian
• 1832 : Jacques Augustin , French painter

Elisa von der Recke († 1833)

• 1833 : Elisa von der Recke , German poet and writer
• 1837 : Sebastian Scharnagel , German painter
• 1840 : Ferdinand Otto Vollrath Lawätz , German-Danish lawyer, landowner, author and civil servant
• 1842 : Wilhelm August Lampadius , German metallurgical chemist, chemist and agronomist
• 1849 : Théophile Marion Dumersan , French playwright and poet, librettist and numismatist
• 1853 : Leopold Gmelin , German chemist
• 1857 : François-André Isambert , French lawyer and politician
• 1858 : Carl Hasenpflug , German painter
• 1858 : Ignacij Knoblehar , Slovenian missionary
• 1861 : Felix Mießl , Austrian local politician, mayor of Wiener Neustadt
• 1864 : Johann Gottlob Schneider junior , German composer and organist
• 1867 : Johann Joseph Rosenbaum , German Catholic clergyman and theologian
• 1868 : Theodor II , Emperor of Ethiopia
• 1869 : Barbu Dimitrie Știrbei , Prince of Wallachia
• 1872 : Thomas Vowler Short , British clergyman and writer
• 1880 : Johann Joachim Schlegel , German entrepreneur, founder of Schlegel Brewery AG in Bochum
• 1882 : Bruno Bauer , German philosopher, Bible critic and writer
• 1886 : Károly Thern , Hungarian composer
• 1887 : Edouard Millault , French composer, violinist and music teacher
• 1894 : Joseph Brevard Kershaw , American officer, lawyer, and politician
• 1894 : Philipp Spitta , German musicologist and Bach biographer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1904 : Mikhail Petrovich Wassiljew , commander of the first Russian icebreaker
• 1904 : Stepan Ossipowitsch Makarow , Russian admiral and polar explorer
• 1904 : Saitō Ryokuu , Japanese writer

Vasily Vereshchagin († 1904)

• 1904 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Vereschtschagin , Russian painter
• 1908 : Emil Gött , German poet and writer
• 1910 : Mary Anne Atwood , English author
• 1910 : Julius Blüthner , German piano maker
• 1911 : Konrad Koch , German educator and football pioneer
• 1914 : Adolf Fischer , Austrian art collector and donor in Cologne
• 1915 : Pauline Arndt , German writer
• 1918 : Lawr Georgievich Kornilov , Russian general
• 1920 : Takaki Kanehiro , Japanese naval doctor
• 1921 : Theodor Leutwein , German governor of German South West Africa
• 1923 : Willem Witsen , Dutch photographer, painter and writer
• 1929 : Joseph Weldon Bailey , American politician
• 1930 : Isidor Mautner , Austrian industrialist
• 1931 : August Hobl , German motorcycle racer
• 1941 : Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer
• 1943 : Oskar Schlemmer , German painter, sculptor and set designer

Cécile Chaminade († 1944)

• 1944 : Cécile Chaminade , French composer and pianist
• 1945 : Ernst Cassirer , German-Swedish philosopher
• 1945 : Carl Moll , Austrian Art Nouveau painter
• 1945 : Aarne Michaël Tallgren , Finnish prehistoric
• 1947 : Jean Chassagne , French racing car driver
• 1949 : Marie-Louise Berneri , Italian author and anarchist

1951-2000

• 1955 : Sybille Schmitz , German actress

Emil Nolde († 1956)

• 1956 : Alfred Birlem , German football referee
• 1956 : Emil Nolde , German-Danish expressionist painter
• 1957 : Richard Riemerschmid , German architect
• 1958 : Raúl Hugo Espoile , Argentine composer
• 1959 : Eduard van Beinum , Dutch conductor
• 1959 : Friedrich Nowack , German politician
• 1959 : Karl Wilhelm Meissner , German-American physicist
• 1961 : Edmond Pichon , French racing car driver
• 1964 : Veit Harlan , German actor and director
• 1965 : Gottlob Schrenk , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1966 : Abd as-Salam Arif , President of Iraq
• 1966 : Carlo Carrà Italian painter
• 1966 : Felix Graf von Luckner , German navigator and writer
• 1966 : Georges Duhamel , French writer

Christian Stock († 1967)

• 1967 : Christian Stock , German politician, Prime Minister of Hesse
• 1967 : Karl Panzenbeck , Austrian humorist
• 1968 : Pericle Patocchi , Swiss writer and teacher
• 1972 : Alina de Silva , Peruvian singer and actress
• 1972 : Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval , Icelandic painter
• 1972 : Elsie Wisdom , British racing car driver
• 1973 : Henry Darger , American outsider artist
• 1973 : Raymond Gaillard , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1975 : Lee Man-hee , South Korean director
• 1976 : Sabri al-Asali , Syrian politician
• 1977 : Hans Kudszus , German aphorist
• 1978 : Jack Chambers , Canadian painter
• 1980 : Fritz Meyer , German politician
• 1983 : Sergo Iskanderowitsch Ambarzumjan , Soviet weightlifter
• 1984 : Ralph Kirkpatrick , American harpsichordist
• 1986 : Dorothy Ashby , American jazz harpist and composer
• 1987 : Fridolin Aichner , German-Moravian teacher and writer
• 1987 : Herbert Blumer , American sociologist
• 1987 : Gholam Hossein Bigjekhani , Iranian tar player

Paul Cheikho († 1989)

• 1989 : Paul Cheikho , Iraqi minister, Patriarch of Babylon
• 1989 : Erich Herrmann , German field handball player
• 1990 : Hans Reinerth , German archaeologist
• 1991 : Ernst Bokon , Austrian footballer
• 1991 : Wilhelm Lanzky-Otto , Danish horn player and professor
• 1993 : Francisc Munteanu , Romanian writer, film director and screenwriter
• 1993 : Henning Schwarz , German politician, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
• 1995 : John Austrheim , Norwegian economic manager and politician
• 1996 : James Burke , Irish-born American gangster
• 1999 : Edith Anderson , American journalist and writer
• 1999 : Ortvin Sarapu , New Zealand chess player
• 1999 : Willi Stoph , German politician, Chairman of the State Council in the GDR
• 2000 : Giorgio Bassani , Italian writer and publicist

21st century

• 2002 : Ivan Desny , Franco-German actor
• 2003 : Carlos Duarte , Venezuelan composer and pianist
• 2003 : Gottfried Schreiber , German veterinarian and professional politician
• 2004 : Elden C. Bailey , American percussionist and music educator
• 2005 : Alessandro Assolari , Italian bishop
• 2005 : Johnnie Johnson , American musician and composer
• 2005 : Robert Kirby , American racing car driver
• 2006 : Anders Andersen , Danish farmer and politician
• 2006 : Muriel Spark , British writer
• 2007 : Peter Beil , German pop singer, trumpeter, composer and band leader
• 2007 : Marion Yorck von Wartenburg , German lawyer and judge, resistance fighter against National Socialism

John Archibald Wheeler († 2008)

• 2008 : John Archibald Wheeler , American physicist
• 2009 : Stefan Brecht , American philosopher and writer
• 2009 : Abel Paz , Spanish resistance fighter and writer
• 2010 : Gerhard Zemann , Austrian actor
• 2012 : Heinz Holecek , Austrian bass-baritone singer (opera, operetta, Wienerlied), actor, parodist and entertainer
• 2013 : József Gémes , Hungarian animator, film director and screenwriter
• 2015 : Eduardo Galeano , Uruguayan journalist and writer
• 2015 : Günter Grass , German writer and visual artist
• 2016 : Pedro de Felipe , Spanish soccer player
• 2016 : Mariano Mores , Argentine tango composer and conductor
• 2017 : Klaus Otto Nass , German politician, administrative officer and lawyer
• 2017 : Gerhard Spiteller , Austrian natural product chemist
• 2018 : Heinrich Ferenczy , Austrian Benedictine abbot
• 2018 : Miloš Forman , Czechoslovak-American film director
• 2019 : Tony Buzan , British author
• 2019 : Paul Raymond , British keyboardist and guitarist

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Konrad Hubert , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
  • St. Martin I , Italian martyr and Pope (Catholic)
  • St. Pusei , Persian Kuropalates and Martyr (Armenian)

• Name days
  • Martin

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Laos , Thailand : Beginning of Songkran

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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