13th February
The February 13 is the 44th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 321 days (in leap years 322 days) by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 106 : Emperor He von Han dies at the age of 26 without a responsible heir. He is succeeded by his one-year-old son Liu Long as Emperor Shang of Han .
- 962 : In the Privilegium Ottonianum , Emperor Otto I confirms Pope John XII. the Pippi niche donation and the existence of the Papal States , but requires the oath of allegiance every pope to the emperor.
- 1021 : The Fatimid - caliph Al-Hākim bi-amr Allāh , deified by the Druze, disappears under unexplained circumstances. It is believed that he was murdered while riding.
- 1465 : Emperor Friedrich III. after 15 months approves the peace of Zeilsheim , which draws a line under the Mainz collegiate feud .
- 1542 : Henry VIII of England has his fifth wife Catherine Howard executed in the Tower for infidelity .
- 1575 : Heinrich III. of France is crowned king in Reims Cathedral and marries Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont two days later .
- 1668 : The Treaty of Lisbon ends the War of Restoration . Charles II of Spain recognizes Portuguese independence under Alfonso VI. at.
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- 1689 : After the Bill of Rights was recognized , Wilhelm III. and his wife Maria II. jointly recognized as regents by the English parliament .
- 1692 : As the head of the family too late to take an oath to the English king William of Orange after the suppression of the Jakobitenaufstandes has appeared, is the Scottish MacDonald - Clan victims Massacre of Glencoe , more than 30 clan members arrive at the immediately killed. 40 women and children subsequently die because their houses were burned down.
- 1706 : The Great Northern War , the victorious Sweden under Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld in the battle of fraustadt about the Saxon - Russian army , that of Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg commanded.
- 1739 : The of Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah emitted in defense army subject in the Battle of Karnal to with Persian king Nadir Shah into at the top Mughal Empire invading troops who outnumber.
- 1820 : Charles Ferdinand d'Artois is stabbed by Pierre Louis Louvel after visiting the Paris Opera . The perpetrator intentionally wants to kill the only living person of the Bourbon family . The victim dies the next day.
- 1849 : The first German ship with emigrants to Australia , the Goddefroy , arrives in Melbourne . Many of the Forty-Eighters were politically persecuted after the German Revolution .
- 1861 : King Francis II of both Sicily surrenders with the fortress Gaeta to King Viktor Emanuel's army in the Italian Risorgimento trial.
- 1919 : The Scheidemann cabinet accepts the date as a national government acting Council of the People's Deputies , the authority in Germany .
- 1939 : In the final days of the Spanish Civil War , Francisco Franco issues a Political Malefactor Proceedings decree that retroactively criminalizes activities that Franco viewed as subversive activity back to 1934 . The persecution of politically dissenters in Franquism costs hundreds of thousands of lives.
- 1945 : On Shrove Tuesday, three-day Allied air raids on Dresden begin . Between 18,000 and 25,000 people were killed in the area bombing and the subsequent firestorm , and Dresden's city center was almost completely destroyed.
- 1945 : With the surrender of the German units encircled by the Red Army in Budapest , the dogged battle for the city in World War II , which had been fought since December 25, ends after an attempt to break out of the city had failed a few hours earlier. The Wehrmacht High Command justified the special effort that cost the lives of around 100,000 Wehrmacht soldiers with the strategic mission of defending Vienna there.
- 1953 : Several former members of the SS are convicted, partly in absentia, by a military tribunal in Bordeaux for the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane . The absent Heinz Lammerding and two other people are sentenced to death - but the sentence is never carried out - the others receive prison sentences of several years .
- 1959 : After the revolutionaries' victory over the Batista regime in Cuba , Fidel Castro takes over the office of Prime Minister.
- 1971 : The discovery of a submachine gun at a police traffic control in Bad Godesberg leads to the discovery of the Hengst military sports group .
- 1975 : The politician Rauf Denktaş , who comes from the ranks of the Cypriot Turks , proclaims the Turkish state of Cyprus on the island of Cyprus . He meets with rejection from the Greek Cypriots and international politics.
- 1976 : Nigeria's ruler Murtala Mohammed is fatally injured in an attempted coup .
- 1984 : The Soviet Union is Konstantin Chernenko to Soviet leader also elected and head of state. He succeeds Yuri Andropov, who died four days earlier .
- 1991 : The Red Army faction shelled the US embassy in Bonn . However, nobody is hurt.
- 1993 : The Human Environment Animal Welfare Party (MUT) is founded in Bonn . Ingeborg Bingener is unanimously elected first federal chairman.
- 2002 : Germany takes a leading role in building up the police force in Afghanistan .
- 2005 : On the 60th anniversary of the bombing raids, tens of thousands of people from Dresden fight against the abuse of the day by marching neo-Nazis with peaceful remembrance .
- 2010 : On the 65th anniversary of the bombing, thousands of people from Dresden and those who had traveled to Dresden-Neustadt blocked a planned “funeral march” by the right-wing extremist scene , which was registered by the Young Landsmannschaft Ostdeutschland and which was to become the largest parade of the right-wing and right-wing extremist scene since the end of the Second World War . On the other side of the Elbe in Dresden's old town , more than 10,000 people took part in various events and church services to commemorate the victims of the Second World War in peace.
economy
- 1881 : The first edition of the radical feminist magazine La Citoyenne by Hubertine Auclert appears in Paris.
- 1883 : The Deutsche Reichsbank sets up clearing houses in the larger cities of Germany to make it easier for the banks to settle their mutual claims.
- 1888 : The Financial Times is first available in London . The London Financial Guide published around a month earlier will be continued under this title .
- 1895 : The Lumière brothers patent their cinematograph in Paris .
- 1981 : The Australian media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch acquires the traditional London newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times .
- 2001 : Ludwig Georg Braun is elected President of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry .
science and technology
- 1419 : The University of Rostock is founded by Dukes Johann IV and Albrecht V of Mecklenburg and the council of the Hanseatic City of Rostock, which is now the third oldest university in Germany and the oldest university in the Baltic Sea region .
- 1858 : In search of the source of the Nile , the British African explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke are the first Europeans to penetrate Lake Tanganyika .
- 1880 : Thomas Alva Edison observes the thermal emission of electrons from a heated cathode, later called the Edison-Richardson effect .
- 1954 : With the establishment of the Mawson station for research purposes in the Antarctic, Australia underpins its claims to an Australian Antarctic territory .
- 1955 : In the Indian state of Gujarat , the Archaeological Survey of India begins with the excavation of the city of Lothal , which belongs to the ancient Indus culture .
- 1960 : France conducts its first nuclear weapons test in the Algerian part of the Sahara near Reggane .
- 1969 : The first heart transplant in Germany is carried out under the direction of Rudolf Zenker in Munich. Due to the previously damaged donor heart, the patient only survived 27 hours.
- 2007 : The French high-speed train TGV sets a new world speed record for rail vehicles with 553 km / h . On April 3, 2007, the record was raised to 574.8 km / h.
Culture
- 1657 : The world premiere of the musical drama Oronte by Johann Caspar von Kerll takes place in Munich .
- 1876 : The opera Angelo by César Cui is premiered in Moscow .
- 1905 : In Brussels, the opera King Arthur of Isaac Albéniz first performed.
- 1938 : At the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris, the operetta Les Petites Cardinales by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert is premiered .
- 1947 : When it was broadcast as a radio play by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk , Wolfgang Borchert's Outside in front of the door had its world premiere.
- 1970 : Black Sabbath , the debut album of the band of the same name , appears and heralded the age of Heavy Metals a
- 1985 : The faithfully reconstructed Semperoper is reopened with Weber's Der Freischütz - the last opera performed before it closed in 1944.
- 1996 : All Eyez on Me by 2Pac is released in the USA , the first double album in the history of hip-hop .
- 1996 : The British pop group Take That announces their split. Chaos ensues among thousands of female fans around the world, especially in Europe, and emergency phones are set up.
- 2000 : One day after the death of Charles M. Schulz , the last Peanuts comic strip appears in the Sunday papers.
society
- 1866 : The James-Younger Gang to Frank and Jesse James commits to the attack on the Clay County Savings Association in Liberty ( Missouri ) the first bank robbery in the United States after the Civil War .
- 1934 : The Soviet expedition ship Cheliuskin sinks after months of uncontrolled drift while exploring the Northeast Passage in the Chukchi Sea . The event in which 104 of the 105 people on board were able to save themselves on an ice floe led to the foundation of the Hero of the Soviet Union award .
- 1935 : Bruno Richard Hauptmann is found guilty in Flemington , New Jersey, by the jury in the trial of the Lindbergh baby's murder and sentenced to death by the judge .
- 1999 : Asylum seeker Farid Guendoul dies in Guben , Brandenburg, on the run from right-wing extremists.
- 2003 : In connection with fraudulent activities of the Nigeria Connection , a cheated Czech citizen shoots the Nigerian ambassador in Prague.
religion
- 1160 : Alexander III. is excommunicated by the antipope Viktor IV after he refused to appear at the Diet of Pavia convened by Friedrich Barbarossa .
- 1633 : Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome , where he has to face the Inquisition .
- 1827 : In the encyclical Quanta laetitia Pope Leo XII structured. re-established the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland.
Disasters
- 1857 : After casting off in New York, the passenger steamer Tempest of the British Anchor Line disappears without a trace on the North Atlantic with 150 people on board.
- 1918 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in the province of Guangdong , China , calls for about 10,000 deaths.
- 1944 : The Norwegian passenger ship Irma is sunk in the bay of Hustadvika off Kristiansund by two torpedo hits. 61 people are killed. It was only after the war that it was discovered that the ship had been attacked by a torpedo boat belonging to the Norwegian Navy .
- 1979 : Continuation of the snow disaster in Northern Germany in 1978 .
- 2001 : A 6.6 earthquake in El Salvador left 315 people dead.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1931 : The Nordic World Ski Championships begin in Oberhof and will last until February 15 with four events in cross-country skiing , Nordic combined and ski jumping .
- 1948 : The clubs Kölner BC and Köln-Sülz 07 merge to form 1. FC Köln .
- 1980 : US Vice President Walter Mondale opens the XIII in Lake Placid , New York . Winter Olympics . The speed skater Eric Heiden speaks the Olympic oath . The games last until February 24th.
- 1988 : In Calgary the XV. Winter Olympics opened, which will last until February 28th and thus for the first time comprise 16 days and three weekends.
- 2005 : At the Alpine World Ski Championships in Bormio , the German team becomes world champion in the team competition held for the first time .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 711 BC Chr . : Jimmu , 1st Tennō of Japan
- 1269 : Radu Negru , voivode and ruler of Wallachia
- 1440 : Hartmann Schedel , German chronicler and cartographer
- 1457 : Mary of Burgundy , Duchess of Burgundy, wife of Maximilian von Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1469 : Elijah Levita , German-Jewish poet, humanist and linguist
- 1480 : Hieronymus Aleander , Italian humanist and cardinal
- 1518 : Anton Brus von Müglitz , Bishop of Vienna and Archbishop of Prague
- 1520 : Elisabeth von Pfalz-Simmern , Countess von Erbach
- 1539 : Elisabeth of Hesse , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1561 : Basilius Besler , German doctor, botanist and publisher
- 1569 : Johann Reinhard I , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1584 : Wilhelm Heinrich von Bentheim-Steinfurt , Canon of Strasbourg
- 1586 : Paris von Lodron , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1599 : Alexander VII , Pope
- 1610 : Jean de Labadie , French mystic and separatist
- 1624 : Erik Axelsson Oxenstierna , Swedish statesman and Imperial Chancellor
- 1627 : Caspar Merian , German engraver
- 1633 : Georg Christoph Petri von Hartenfels , German doctor, scientist and university professor
- 1641 : Christian Albrecht , Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- 1643 : Jacobus Sackmann , German Protestant theologian
- 1652 : Anton Domenico Gabbiani , Florentine painter († 1726 )
- 1652 : August , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- 1652 : Johann Philipp von Greiffenclau-Vollraths , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
- 1660 : Johann Sigismund Kusser , German Kapellmeister and composer (baptism date)
- 1664 : Theodor Andreas Potocki , Bishop of Kulm and Warmia, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland-Lithuania
- 1672 : Étienne François Geoffroy (the elder), chemist and physician
- 1682 : Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , Italian painter and etcher
- 1683 : Joseph Schmuzer , German builder and plasterer
- 1695 : Johann Christian Ernesti , German Protestant theologian
- 1695 : Françoise de Graffigny , French writer
- 1699 : Johann Christian Seidel , German Protestant theologian and astronomer
18th century
- 1701 : Vittoria Tesi , Italian opera singer
- 1703 : Otto Gebhard , Bavarian painter
- 1704 : Johann Josef Kittel , Bohemian doctor
- 1707 : Ferdinand Jakob Baier , German medic
- 1713 : Domènech Terradellas , Spanish opera composer
- 1717 : Gideon Ernst von Laudon , Austrian general
- 1728 : John Hunter , British anatomist from Scotland, founder of scientific surgery
- 1732 : Esther Edwards , American diarist, wife of Aaron Burr, Sr.
- 1734 : Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec , French navigator and explorer
- 1743 : Joseph Banks , British naturalist
- 1744 : John Walker , American politician
- 1745 : Gottfried Erich Rosenthal , German meteorologist and measuring instrument manufacturer
- 1746 : Giuseppe Cambini , Italian composer and violinist
- 1750 : Johann Ludwig Ambühl , Swiss administrative officer and writer
- 1752 : Luise von Göchhausen , first lady-in-waiting of the Duchess Anna Amalie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- 1760 : Samuel W. Dana , American politician
- 1760 : Salomon Friedrich Merkel , German lawyer
- 1766 : Thomas Robert Malthus , British economist
- 1768 : Adolphe Édouard Casimir Joseph Mortier , Marshal of France
- 1769 : Ivan Andrejewitsch Krylow , Russian fabulous poet
- 1769 : José Antonio Picasarri , Argentine clergyman and musician
- 1772 : Joachim Leonz Eder , Swiss lawyer and politician
- 1772 : Henriette Hendel-Schütz , German actress
- 1776 : Alexandre Louis Robert de Girardin , French general
- 1786 : David Spleiss , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1787 : Johann Caspar von Orelli , Swiss classical philologist
- 1788 : Hans Conrad Stadler , Swiss architect
- 1793 : Philipp Veit , German painter
- 1794 : Johann Jacob Achelius , German master glazier
- 1796 : Robert Wesselhöft , German fraternity and doctor
- 1798 : Heinrich Alexander von Arnim , Prussian statesman
19th century
1801-1850
- 1805 : Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , German mathematician
- 1807 : August Heinrich von Seckendorff , German lawyer, judge and lawyer
- 1808 : Edouard Millault , French composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1808 : Georg Wigand , German publisher and bookseller
- 1811 : François-Achille Bazaine , Marshal of France
- 1816 : August Rauschenbusch , German Baptist theologian
- 1820 : Adalbert Keler , Hungarian composer
- 1825 : Friedrich Wilhelm Klatt , German botanist
- 1828 : Julius Weizsäcker , German historian
- 1829 : Wilhelm Knaack , Austrian actor
- 1829 : Jakob Løkke , Norwegian philologist and textbook author
- 1832 : Johann Wilhelm Anton Albrecht Müller , German pathologist
- 1834 : Heinrich Caro , German chemist
- 1835 : Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , religious figure in British India, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement
- 1842 : Heinrich Gradl , Sudeten German historian
- 1845 : Ernest Leroux , French bookseller and publisher
- 1845 : Wilhelm Oswald Lohse , German astronomer
- 1846 : Fritz Schider , German painter and etcher
- 1846 : Konrad Koch , German educator and football pioneer
- 1847 : Erich von Kielmansegg , Austrian politician
- 1848 : Hermann von Eichhorn , Prussian military leader
- 1848 : Karel Klostermann , Czech-German writer
- 1849 : Oskar Nast , German city scholar, sole mayor of Cannstatt
- 1849 : Friedrich Wilhelm Voigt , German-Luxembourgish shoemaker and impostor Captain von Köpenick
- 1849 : Randolph Churchill , British politician
- 1850 : Emil Possehl , German businessman, entrepreneur and patron from Lübeck
1851-1900
- 1851 : Paul Chapuis , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1852 : Ion Luca Caragiale , Romanian writer
- 1852 : Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler , German general, politician, head of the military cabinet
- 1852 : Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer , Danish astronomer and science historian
- 1853 : Louis Müller-Unkel , German glass technician, manufacturer of hot cathode tubes, photo cells and X-ray tubes
- 1853 : Pierre de Ségur , French writer
- 1854 : Konstantin von Gebsattel , German Bavarian general and pan-German-ethnic agitator
- 1854 : Arthur Strasser , Austrian sculptor
- 1855 : Heinrich Antoine-Feill , German lawyer
- 1855 : Paul Deschanel , French President
- 1855 : Walter Körte , German hydraulic engineer and founder of German nautical science
- 1855 : Fritz Köster , German editor and anarcho-syndicalist
- 1857 : Friedrich Adler , Austrian writer
- 1863 : Hugo Becker , German cellist, cello teacher and composer
- 1864 : Paul von Hintze , German naval officer, diplomat and politician
- 1865 : Albert Aichele , Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering
- 1866 : Hugo Röhr , German composer
- 1869 : Louis-Edouard Vuillermoz , French horn player and music teacher
- 1870 : Leopold Godowsky , Polish pianist and composer
- 1873 : Fyodor Ivanovich Chalyapin , Russian opera singer (bass)
- 1875 : Traugott Hahn , German-Baltic theologian and pastor, evangelical martyr
- 1877 : Jāzeps Mediņš , Latvian composer
- 1880 : John La Farge , American priest and Jesuit
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- 1881 : Eleanor Farjeon , British children's author, poet and playwright
- 1882 : Ernst Trendelenburg , German lawyer, civil servant, politician and Reich Minister
- 1882 : Ignaz Friedman , Polish pianist and composer
- 1882 : Rudolf Schneider , German naval officer
- 1884 : Franz Max Anderlohr , German electrical engineer
- 1884 : Halfdan Bjølgerud , Norwegian high jumper
- 1886 : Ricardo Güiraldes , Argentine writer
- 1887 : Géza Csáth , Hungarian writer, playwright, music critic and psychiatrist
- 1887 : Max Neufeld , Austrian actor and film director
- 1888 : Georgios Papandreou , Greek politician and Prime Minister
- 1889 : Auguste Lefrancq , French racing car driver
- 1889 : Georg Schrimpf , German painter and graphic artist, representative of the New Objectivity
- 1889 : Leontine Sagan , Austrian stage and film director
- 1890 : Hugo Fischer-Köppe , German actor
- 1890 : René Labouchère , French aviator and racing car driver
- 1891 : Grant Wood , American painter
- 1892 : Robert H. Jackson , United States Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice, Chief Prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials
- 1893 : Edmund Kaufmann , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1893 : Kurt Noack , German composer
- 1893 : Alfréd Schaffer , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1896 : Margarete Adler , Austrian swimmer
- 1898 : Alexander Pavlovich Antonov , Soviet actor
- 1898 : Frank Aiken , Irish politician
- 1898 : Josef Steib , German painter and etcher
- 1900 : Wingy Manone , American jazz trumpeter, singer and bandleader
- 1900 : Roy F. Harrod , British economist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Max Kröckel , German athlete in the Nordic ski disciplines
- 1901 : Paul Felix Lazarsfeld , American sociologist
- 1902 : Waldemar Gurian , Russian-German-American political scientist
- 1902 : Harold Dwight Lasswell , American political scientist and communication theorist
- 1903 : Georgi Michailowitsch Beriev , Soviet aircraft designer
- 1904 : Karaki Junzō , Japanese literary scholar
- 1905 : Fritz Dietrich , German composer
- 1905 : Luise Kraushaar , German resistance fighter against National Socialism and historian
- 1908 : Hans Collani , German officer in the Waffen SS
- 1908 : Kurt Seibt , German politician, Minister for Guidance and Control of the District and District Councils of the GDR
- 1908 : Gerald Strang , American composer
- 1908 : Malvin Russell Goode , first African American television journalist and news correspondent for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
- 1909 : Mario Casariego y Acevedo , Archbishop of Guatemala and Cardinal
- 1909 : Joseph Meurers , German astronomer, astrophysicist and natural philosopher
- 1910 : Elsa Barraine , French composer
- 1910 : William Bradford Shockley , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912 : Antonia Pozzi , Italian poet
- 1914 : Susanne Pastoors , German athlete
- 1915 : Aung San , Burmese national hero
- 1915 : Harriet Bland , American athlete
- 1915 : Ludwig Ratzel , German politician, MdB, MEP
- 1916 : Jagjit Singh Aurora , Indian lieutenant general
- 1919 : Tennessee Ernie Ford , American country and gospel singer
- 1919 : Willi Bars , German soccer player
- 1921 : Markus Bernhard , German handball and basketball player
- 1921 : Jeanne Demessieux , French composer, pianist, organist and teacher
- 1921 : Martin Hirthe , German voice actor and actor
- 1922 : Willi Heeks , German racing car driver
- 1922 : Otto Tausig , Austrian actor, screenwriter and director
- 1923 : James Abdnor , American politician
- 1923 : Chuck Yeager , American Air Force general, test pilot, was the first to break the sound barrier
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- 1924 : Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber , French journalist and politician
1926-1950
- 1926 : Angkarn Kalayanapong , Thai poet and painter
- 1926 : Fay Ajzenberg-Selove , American experimental nuclear physicist
- 1926 : Knox Ramsey , American football player
- 1926 : Verner Panton , Danish architect and designer
- 1927 : Lieselott Enders , German archivist and historian
- 1929 : Omar Torrijos , Panamanian general, leader of the military junta
- 1930 : Sergio Asteriti , Italian comic artist
- 1930 : Karl Deres , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1930 : Juan Fernández , Spanish racing car driver
- 1930 : Ernst Fuchs , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1932 : David Nikolaus Becker , German Roman Catholic pastor
- 1932 : Héctor Cabrera , Venezuelan singer and actor
- 1933 : Roberto Amadei , Italian church historian and bishop
- 1933 : Kim Novak , American film actress
- 1933 : Paul Biya , President of Cameroon
- 1934 : Alexander Kaul , German biophysicist
- 1934 : George Segal , American actor
- 1935 : Dietrich Arndt , German medic
- 1936 : Hiroshi Sakagami , Japanese writer
- 1937 : Sigmund Jähn , German cosmonaut, fighter pilot and major general of the East German NVA, first German in space
- 1938 : Carmela Corren , Israeli pop singer
- 1938 : Oliver Reed , British actor
- 1939 : Kemal Alemdaroğlu , Turkish professor and doctor of medicine
- 1939 : Knut Amelung , German criminal law scholar
- 1939 : Beate Klarsfeld , German-French journalist and campaigner for the investigation and prosecution of Nazi crimes
- 1939 : Peter D. Groenewegen , Australian economist of Dutch origin
- 1939 : Valery Ilyich Roshdestvensky , Russian cosmonaut
- 1940 : Maximilian Ardelt , German entrepreneur
- 1940 : Werner Pirchner , Austrian composer
- 1940 : Winfried Heurich , German organist, choir director and composer
- 1941 : Sigmar Polke , German painter and photographer of postmodern realism
- 1942 : Otto Bernhardt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1941 : Konrad Gilges , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1941 : Walter Hirche , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
- 1941 : Bo Svenson , American actor
- 1942 : Volker Bigl , German biochemist and brain researcher, rector of the University of Leipzig
- 1943 : Friedrich Christian Delius , German writer
- 1943 : Jürgen Sengera , German bank manager
- 1944 : Stockard Channing , American actress
- 1944 : Gerhard Langemeyer , German art historian, politician and Lord Mayor of Dortmund
- 1944 : Yoram Paporisz , German-Israeli composer
- 1944 : Jerry Springer , American talk show host
- 1944 : Peter Halsten Thorkelson , American bass guitarist
- 1945 : Herbert Hufnagl , Austrian journalist and columnist
- 1946 : György Jakubinyi , Romanian priest and Archbishop of Alba Iulia
- 1946 : Artur Jorge , Portuguese football player and coach
- 1947 : Mohammad Reza Adelkhani , Iranian football player
- 1947 : Julien Cools , Belgian football player
- 1947 : Urs Faes , Swiss writer
- 1947 : Mike Krzyzewski , American basketball coach
- 1947 : Jerzy Montag , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948 : Jim Crawford , British racing car driver
- 1948 : Martin Morgner , German writer and historian
- 1948 : Kitten Natividad , Mexican model and actress
- 1948 : Laura Pollán , Cuban teacher and human rights activist ( women in white )
- 1948 : Hansjörg Schellenberger , German oboist and conductor
- 1949 : Jo Baier , German film director and screenwriter
- 1949 : Judy Dyble , British folk rock singer
- 1949 : Peter Kern , Austrian actor, director, producer and author
- 1950 : Bob Daisley , Australian bass player
- 1950 : Peter Gabriel , British musician and producer, co-founder of Genesis
- 1950 : Keiko Takemiya , Japanese mangaka
1951-1975
- 1951 : Katja Lange-Müller , German writer
- 1951 : Albert Schmidt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952 : Irene Dische , German-American writer
- 1952 : Hans-Joachim Fuchtel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952 : Freddy Maertens , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1953 : Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Antonik , Russian actor
- 1954 : John Wolf Brennan , Irish-Swiss jazz musician and composer
- 1954 : Hannes Steinert , German painter
- 1956 : Liam Brady , Irish football player
- 1956 : Peter Hook , British bass player
- 1957 : Heinz Gründel , German soccer player
- 1958 : Ulrich Adrian , German television journalist
- 1958 : Pernilla August , Swedish actress and film director
- 1958 : Enzo Cosimi , Italian dancer and choreographer
- 1960 : Peter Baartmans , Dutch pianist and composer
- 1960 : Pierluigi Collina , Italian financial advisor and football referee
- 1960 : Artur Jussupow , German chess player
- 1961 : Jürgen Adams , German ice hockey player
- 1961 : Henry Rollins , American musician, writer, and actor
- 1962 : Heikko Deutschmann , Austrian actor
- 1962 : Claudine Emonet , French ski racer
- 1962 : Michael Mair , Italian ski racer from South Tyrol
- 1963 : Götz Schubert , German actor
- 1964 : Leo Andergassen , South Tyrolean art historian
- 1964 : Erik , actually Frank Weißmüller, German comic artist
- 1965 : Sven Demandt , German soccer player and coach
- 1965 : Ida Ladstätter , Austrian ski racer
- 1966 : Neal McDonough , American actor
- 1966 : Jeff Waters , Canadian guitarist
- 1967 : Tadayuki Okada , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1968 : Kelly Hu , American actress
- 1969 : Patrícia Filler Amorim , Brazilian swimmer
- 1969 : Erkan Arıkan , German television presenter
- 1969 : Holger Müller , German comedian and actor
- 1969 : Kate Pace , Canadian ski racer
- 1969 : Frédéric Sausset , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1970 : Marlies Kamleitner , German handball player and trainer
- 1970 : Emi Kawabata , Japanese ski racer
- 1970 : Rudi Vata , Albanian football player
- 1971 : Matthias Klimsa , German actor and speaker
- 1971 : Sonia , British singer
- 1971 : Mats Sundin , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1972 : Virgilijus Alekna , Lithuanian athlete
- 1972 : Anne Brendler , German actress
- 1973 : Ronald Maul , German soccer player
- 1974 : Gus Hansen , Danish poker player
- 1974 : Robbie Williams , British musician and entertainer
- 1975 : Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1976-2000
- 1976 : Jörg Bergmeister , German racing driver
- 1976 : Leslie Feist , Canadian pop singer
- 1976 : Thomas Hansen , Norwegian singer
- 1976 : Taryn Reif , American actress
- 1977 : Randy Moss , American football player
- 1978 : Stephan Ebn , German drummer and music producer
- 1978 : Philippe Jaroussky , French countertenor
- 1978 : Edsilia Rombley , Dutch singer
- 1979 : Therese Bengtsson , Swedish handball player
- 1979 : Anders Behring Breivik , Norwegian assassin
- 1979 : Rafael Márquez , Mexican soccer player
- 1979 : Mena Suvari , American actress
- 1980 : Sebastian Kehl , German soccer player
- 1981 : Anna Athanasiadou , Greek weightlifter
- 1981 : Luisão , Brazilian soccer player
- 1981 : Ljubo Miličević , Australian football player
- 1981 : Stefan Nebel , German motorcycle racer
- 1981 : Eifion Roberts , Welsh rugby player
- 1982 : Björn Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1982 : Markus Dau , German handball player
- 1982 : Sophie Herbrecht , French handball player and trainer
- 1982 : Andrea Kaiser , German television presenter
- 1982 : Gabriel Mureșan , Romanian footballer
- 1983 : Mike Nickeas , Canadian baseball player
- 1983 : Viktor Viktorovich Schaitar , Russian racing car driver
- 1985 : Somdev Devvarman , Indian tennis player
- 1985 : Bridget Neval , Australian-Canadian actress
- 1985 : David Ribolleda Bernat , Andorran football player
- 1985 : Alexandros Tziolis , Greek football player
- 1986 : Jamie Murray , British tennis player
- 1987 : Eljero Elia , Dutch football player
- 1988 : Dmitri Yuryevich Sajustow , Russian ice hockey player
- 1988 : Yevgeny Alexandrovich Garanitschew , Russian biathlete
- 1988 : Takuto Iguchi , Japanese racing driver
- 1988 : Maximilian Brandl , German ice hockey player
- 1988 : Daniel Wisgott , German lightweight rower
- 1989 : Julian Schieber , German soccer player
- 1989 : Rafael Acosta , Venezuelan football player
- 1989 : Tahj Minniecon , Australian soccer player
- 1989 : Evgeni Pevnov , German handball player
- 1990 : An Sae-bom , South Korean Taekwondoin
- 1990 : Stephan Gusche , German soccer player
- 1991 : Aljaksej Abromchyk , Belarusian biathlete
- 1992 : Almeda Abazi , Albanian Miss Globe
- 1992 : Birkan Akyol , German professional boxer
- 1992 : Avery Ardovino , American ski jumper
- 1992 : Roxanne Dufter , German speed skater
- 1992 : Nick Foster , Australian racing car driver
- 1993 : Kevin Iannotta , German actor and voice actor
- 1994 : Memphis Depay , Dutch soccer player
- 1994 : Thimo Meitner , German actor
- 1995 : Carolin von der Groeben , German actress
- 1995 : Tibor Linka , Slovak canoeist
Died
Before the 16th century
- 106 : Han Hedi , emperor of the Han dynasty in China
- 858 : Kenneth I , King of Scotland
- 921 : Vratislav I , Duke of Bohemia and the father of St. Wenceslaus
- 988 : Adalbert Atto , Count of Canossa
- 1021 : al-Hākim bi-amr Allāh , caliph of the Egyptian Fatimids
- 1130 : Honorius II , Pope
- 1140 : Wilhelm , Count of Weimar-Orlamünde and Count Palatine near the Rhine
- 1141 : Béla II , King of Hungary
- 1142 : Fujiwara no Mototoshi , Japanese poet
- 1200 : Stefan Nemanja , Serbian major župan
- 1214 : Theobald I , Count of Bar and Luxemburg
- 1219 : Minamoto no Sanetomo , Japanese poet and third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate
- 1293 : Obizzo II. D'Este , Signor of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio nell'Emilia
- 1315 : John I of Chalon-Arlay , Lord of Arlay
- 1332 : Andronikos II , Byzantine emperor
- 1366 : Johann II , Lord of Lichtenberg
- 1417 : Dietrich von Quitzow , German margravial councilor and Vogt zu Wredenhagen, robber baron
- 1421 : Nanni di Banco , Italian sculptor
- 1430 : Otto von Ziegenhain , Archbishop of Trier
- 1468 : Juana Enríquez , Queen of Aragón
16th and 17th centuries
- 1539 : Isabella d'Este , Italian nobleman, regent and patroness of the Renaissance
- 1542 : Catherine Howard , fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
- 1550 : Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere , Italian noblewoman, Duchess of Urbino
- 1571 : Benvenuto Cellini , Italian sculptor and goldsmith
- 1585 : Alfonso Salmerón , Spanish Jesuit, preacher and theologian
- 1587 : Dorothea of Saxony , Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1592 : Jacopo Bassano , Italian painter
- 1636 : Barbara Sophia of Brandenburg , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1660 : Charles X. Gustav , King of Sweden
- 1662 : Elisabeth Stuart , granddaughter of Maria Stuart and titular queen of Bohemia
- 1673 : Joannes Baptista Dolar , Slovenian composer
- 1674 : Jean de Labadie , French mystic and pietist separatist
- 1678 : Cosimo Fanzago , Neapolitan architect, sculptor and decorator
- 1682 : Thomas Thynne , English nobleman and politician
- 1687 : Charles III. de Créquy , French general and diplomat
- 1693 : Johann Caspar von Kerll , German organist, harpsichordist and composer
18th century
- 1716 : Georg Albrecht Hamberger , German mathematician and physicist
- 1722 : Friedrich Wilhelm I. Adolf , Prince of Nassau-Siegen
- 1727 : Adam Schöttl , Bavarian rebel and forester
- 1728 : Cotton Mather , American Puritan
- 1741 : Johann Joseph Fux , Austrian composer
- 1744 : Pierre Gobert , French court painter
- 1756 : Johann Gebhard , Bavarian painter
- 1759 : Christian Hauschild , German Protestant theologian
- 1761 : Justin Gerhard Duising , German physician and university professor
- 1768 : Adolf Gideon Bartholdi , German educator
- 1769 : Johann Hildebrand Withof , German professor of eloquence and history
- 1773 : Pietro Bracci , Italian sculptor
- 1787 : Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes , French statesman, foreign minister
- 1788 : Germain-Jean Drouais , French painter
- 1789 : Ethan Allen , American freedom fighter for Vermont's independence in the American War of Independence
- 1789 : Paolo Renier , 119th and penultimate Doge of Venice
- 1798 : Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder , German lawyer and writer
- 1798 : Christian Friedrich Schwartz , German missionary
19th century
1801-1850
- 1806 : Sámuel Ambrózy , Hungarian theologian
- 1809 : Thomas Osbert Mordaunt , British soldier and poet
- 1817 : Alexei Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin , Russian civil servant, historian, book and art collector
- 1818 : George Rogers Clark , American pioneer, fighter in the American Revolutionary War and Indian expert
- 1820 : Peleg Arnold , American lawyer and politician
- 1830 : Franz Raffl , Austrian farmer, traitor to Andreas Hofer ( traitor of Tyrol )
- 1840 : Nicolas-Joseph Maison , French general and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1841 : Thomas Ainsworth , British-Dutch textile manufacturer
- 1845 : Henrich Steffens , Norwegian-German philosopher, naturalist and poet
1851-1900
- 1858 : Hermann Heinrich Gossen , Prussian economist
- 1859 : Elizabeth Acton , British cook, cookbook author and poet
- 1862 : Leopold Schefer , German poet and composer
- 1870 : Franz Unger , Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist
- 1876 : Gabriel Andral , French medic
- 1883 : Richard Wagner , German composer, writer, theater director, conductor and festival founder
- 1887 : Nicolas Adames , Bishop of Luxembourg
- 1891 : David Dixon Porter , American admiral
- 1892 : Wilhelm Junker , German Africa explorer
- 1892 : Lambert Massart , Belgian violinist
- 1896 : Ludwig Gabillon , German-Austrian castle actor and director
- 1896 : Carl Martin Reinthaler , German composer, conductor and head of the cathedral choir in Bremen
- 1897 : Friedrich Mitterwurzer , Austrian actor
- 1898 : Gustav Kálnoky , Austro-Hungarian statesman and diplomat
20th century
1901-1925
- 1905 : Wilhelm Gurlitt , German archaeologist
- 1906 : Albert Gottschalk , Danish painter
- 1909 : Hugo Egmont Hørring , Danish lawyer and politician, Minister and Prime Minister
- 1913 : Johann Josef Ammann , Austrian ethnographer and educator
- 1913 : Louis Aronstein , German physicist and chemist
- 1914 : Alphonse Bertillon , French criminalist and anthropologist
- 1916 : Carlos Antonio Mendoza , third President of Panama
- 1920 : Otto Gross , Austrian doctor and revolutionary
1926-1950
- 1926 : Edmund Dalbor , Polish priest, Archbishop of Gniezno and Posen and cardinal
- 1926 : Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim , Bavarian politician
- 1926 : Francis Ysidro Edgeworth , Irish economist
- 1927 : Brooks Adams , American historian
- 1927 : Christian Landenberger , German impressionist painter
- 1928 : Franz Christoph Büscher , German lawyer
- 1929 : Franz Oppenheim , German chemist, industrialist and art collector of French impressionists
- 1929 : Heinrich Busch , German pianist and composer
- 1930 : Conrad Ansorge , German pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1930 : Anton Faistauer , Austrian painter
- 1934 : Carl Appel , German Romance studies and university professor
- 1935 : Herbert Giles , British sinologist
- 1937 : Carl Albrecht Bernoulli , Swiss Protestant theologian and writer
- 1938 : Ludwig Schemann , German writer, translator and racial theorist
- 1939 : Søren Sørensen , Danish chemist
- 1939 : Caius Welcker , Dutch football player
- 1941 : Blind Boy Fuller , American blues musician
- 1941 : Marcet Haldeman , American author
- 1942 : Otakar Batlička , Czech radio amateur, globetrotter , writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1942 : Carlos López y Valles , Mexican actor
- 1945 : Karl Paul Andrae , German architect and artist
- 1945 : Ottomar Enking , German writer and professor
- 1945 : Dora Koering , German tennis player
- 1945 : Henrietta Szold , American Zionist
- 1945 : Oswald Hempel , German puppeteer
- 1946 : Harold S. Bucquet , American film director of English origin
- 1947 : Erich Hecke , German mathematician
- 1950 : Rafael Sabatini , Italian-British writer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Lars Gabriel Andersson , Swedish teacher and herpetologist
- 1952 : Alfred Einstein , German-American musicologist
- 1953 : Manfred Curry , German-American doctor, inventor, sailor and author
- 1954 : Paul Heidelbach , German writer, city archivist, editor and librarian
- 1954 : Heinrich Zerkaulen , German writer
- 1956 : Jan Łukasiewicz , Polish philosopher, mathematician and logician
- 1957 : Gustav Mie , German physicist
- 1958 : Anna Jansson , Swedish author
- 1958 : Aymé Kunc , French composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1958 : Christabel Pankhurst , British suffragette
- 1958 : Georges Rouault , French painter and printmaker
- 1959 : Johannes Degener , German politician, MdL, MdB
- 1959 : Georg Reimer , German homeland researcher
- 1961 : Arthur Ripley , American screenwriter, film director and producer
- 1963 : Oskar Helmer , Austrian politician
- 1963 : Oswald Thomas , Austrian astronomer
- 1964 : Hans Zöberlein , German writer
- 1964 : Paulino Alcántara , Spanish-Filipino football player
- 1964 : Werner Heyde , German psychiatrist and neurologist, accomplice in the euthanasia murders during the Nazi era ( Action T4 )
- 1965 : Wilhelm Fink , German historian and local researcher
- 1965 : Humberto Delgado , Portuguese general and politician
- 1966 : Marguerite Long , French composer
- 1967 : Yoshisuke Aikawa , Japanese entrepreneur and politician
- 1968 : Ildebrando Pizzetti , Italian composer
- 1969 : Georges Jouatte , French tenor and music teacher
- 1969 : Kazimierz Wierzyński , Polish writer
- 1970 : Hans-Jürgen Krahl , German student activist of the 1968 movement
- 1971 : Emil Fuchs , German theologian
- 1973 : Hans Globke , German administrative lawyer, commentator on the Nuremberg race laws , head of the Federal Chancellery
- 1973 : Hans Kmoch , Austrian chess player
- 1974 : Adolf Arndt , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag and Senator, Member of the Bundestag
- 1974 : Leslie Munro , New Zealand politician, New Zealand Ambassador to the USA
1976-2000
- 1976 : Paul Russo , American racing car driver
- 1976 : Anton Tautscher , Austrian professor of economics and finance
- 1977 : Otto Niebergall , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1979 : Franz Jacobi , German smelter and football official in Dortmund
- 1980 : Marian Rejewski , Polish mathematician
- 1981 : Rolf Schwedler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Senator, Member of the Bundestag
- 1982 : Archangelus Löslein , German Capuchin priest
- 1982 : Frank Séchehaye , Swiss football goalkeeper and automobile racing driver
- 1983 : Gerald Strang , American composer
- 1990 : Heinz Haber , German physicist, astronomer and television author
- 1991 : Arno Breker , German sculptor and architect, controversial because of his work for the National Socialists
- 1992 : Gyula Kovács , Hungarian jazz drummer
- 1994 : Edgar Ott , German actor
- 1995 : Alberto Burri , Italian painter
- 1995 : Edward Bury , Polish composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher
- 1996 : Arthur William Hope Adkins , British Classical Philologist
- 1996 : Martin Balsam , American actor
- 1997 : Carl Appel , Austrian architect
- 1997 : Thies Christophersen , German farmer, revisionist and Holocaust denier
- 1998 : Alfred Struwe , German actor
- 2000 : Rüdiger Altmann , German publicist
- 2000 : Rudolf Asmus , Czech opera singer
- 2000 : James Cooke Brown , American sociologist and science fiction writer
21st century
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- 2001 : Manuela , German pop singer
- 2002 : Waylon Jennings , American country musician
- 2002 : Manfred Kuschmann , German athlete
- 2003 : Walt Whitman Rostov , American economist, economic historian, national security advisor
- 2003 : Claude Savard , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 2004 : Selimchan Abdumuslimowitsch Jandarbijew , Chechen poet, literary scholar, children's book author and separatist leader
- 2005 : Saminini Arulappa , Archbishop of Hyderabad
- 2005 : Fritz Deumlich , German geodesist
- 2005 : Lúcia dos Santos , Portuguese nun, alleged witness of an apparition of Mary in Fátima
- 2005 : Sixten Ehrling , Swedish conductor
- 2005 : Maurice Trintignant , French racing car driver
- 2006 : Andreas Katsulas , American actor
- 2006 : Peter Strawson , British philosopher
- 2007 : Paolo Pileri , Italian motorcycle racer
- 2007 : Johanna Sällström , Swedish actress
- 2008 : Franz Hagmann , Swiss local politician
- 2008 : Kon Ichikawa , Japanese film director and screenwriter
- 2008 : Gerhard Neiber , German General, Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR
- 2008 : Peter Orthofer , German-Austrian journalist, author and cabaret writer
- 2008 : Henri Salvador , French chansonnier, guitarist and television presenter
- 2008 : Karl Schnell , German general
- 2011 : Manuel Esperón , Mexican film composer
- 2011 : Günther Jahn , German painter and graphic artist
- 2012 : Frank Braña , Spanish actor
- 2013 : Stefan Wigger , German actor
- 2014 : Ernst-Albert Arndt , German marine biologist
- 2014 : Piero D'Inzeo , Italian show jumper
- 2014 : Richard Møller Nielsen , Danish football player and coach
- 2014 : Ralph Waite , American actor
- 2015 : Geneviève Dormann , French journalist and writer
- 2015 : Bernd Schirrmacher , German professor for communications engineering
- 2016 : Trifon Ivanov , Bulgarian football player
- 2016 : Giorgio Rossano , Italian football player
- 2016 : Antonin Scalia , American lawyer, federal judge
- 2017 : Kim Jong-nam , son of the former North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il
- 2017 : Ernst Schulin , German historian
- 2018 : Henrik of Denmark , Danish Prince Consort
- 2018 : Wilfried Minks , German set designer and theater director
- 2021 : Wilhelm Neuwirth , Austrian religious priest
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Hll. Priscilla and Aquila , messengers of faith in Ephesus and Rome (Orthodox, Protestant: LCMS , the Roman Catholic day of remembrance is on July 8th)
- Christian Friedrich Schwartz , German missionary (Protestant)
- Apollos , biblical person (Evangelical: LCMS )
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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