March 13th
The March 13 is the 72nd day of the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years ), thus remain 293 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1534 : After he has not been awarded in a process despite clear evidence of his right against the Junker Günther von Zaschwitz, the merchant says Hans Kohlhase the Electorate of Saxony the feud .
- 1567 : A Spanish army defeats Dutch rebels at the Battle of Oosterweel leading up to the Eighty Years' War .
- 1569 : In the Third Huguenot War, the Catholic troops win the Battle of Jarnac. They are the later Marshal de Tavannes and the Duke of Anjou , who later became King Henry III. , led into battle. They have their captured opponent Louis I. de Bourbon, prince de Condé , shot without further ado.
- 1697 : Spanish troops take on an island in Lake Petén Itzá town in Tayasal , today Flores , one. The last retreat of Itzá - Mayas is then destroyed.
- 1707 : The military strength of Prince Eugene of Savoy's troops leads to the general capitulation of France in the War of the Spanish Succession after the Battle of Turin . King Louis XIV waived all ownership claims in Italy with the exception of Naples .
- 1794 : The welfare committee under Maximilien Robespierre arrests the leading Hébertists under Jacques-René Hébert , the radical arm of the Cordeliers , on the night of March 14 . The terror of the French Revolution , decided last year, thus reached its first climax.
- 1809 : After the loss of Finland in the Russo-Swedish War and the occupation of Pomerania by French troops in the Fourth Coalition War , the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf is dethroned by an officers' conspiracy and imprisoned at Gripsholm Castle .
- 1813 : To cover the retreat of the Grande Armée after the disastrous Russian campaign , the French Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout had the bridge over the Elbe in Meißen burned down.
- 1821 : King Victor Emanuel I abdicates in the Kingdom of Sardinia , but remains Duke of Savoy . His brother Karl-Felix succeeds him on the throne.
- 1846 : Because the landowner Mrs. Gerrard wants to raise cattle in Ballinlass, County Galway , Ireland , she has around 300 tenants evicted from the town and their houses torn down. The Ballinlass Incident is not an isolated incident during the Great Famine in Ireland .
- 1848 : With the storming of the Ständehaus, the March Revolution begins in Vienna and in the following days spread to the entire Austrian Empire . On the same evening, the Austrian State Chancellor, Prince von Metternich , resigns and flees to London.
- 1852 : Danilo I founds the hereditary principality in Montenegro .
- 1865 : The American Civil War that allow Southern with a federal law reluctantly use of African-American soldiers in their armies .
- 1871 : The Pontus Conference in London abolishes the neutrality and demilitarization of the Black Sea under joint pressure from Russia and the German Empire .
- 1881 : The Russian Tsar Alexander II is killed by an explosives attack by the underground organization Narodnaya Volja . He is succeeded by his son Alexander III.
- 1894 : In Korea , government forces crush the first peasant Donghak uprising .
- 1900 : During the Second Boer War , British forces take Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State .
- 1912 : Serbia and Bulgaria form a secret defensive alliance from which the Balkan League , which is directed against the Ottoman Empire , grows.
- 1920 : Wolfgang Kapp declares the democratically elected German Reich government under Gustav Bauer to be deposed, the National Assembly dissolved and himself Reich Chancellor after the military occupation of the Berlin government district . Four days later, the Kapp Putsch collapses.
- 1921 : An independent monarchy is proclaimed in Mongolia . The Baltic German baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg becomes sole ruler under the nominal head Bogd Khan . A six-month dictatorship begins.
- 1925 : The Butler Act in Tennessee forbids teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in state or state-sponsored schools if that teaching relates to the descent of humans from "lower" living things.
- 1932 : In the first round of the presidential election , incumbent Paul von Hindenburg wins ahead of Adolf Hitler , but just misses an absolute majority.
- 1933 : In the course of the " seizure of power " in Germany by the NSDAP, the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda is founded by decree by Reich President Hindenburg , of which Joseph Goebbels becomes Minister .
- 1940 : The winter war between Finland and the Soviet Union ends with the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty . Finland maintains its independence, but has to cede parts of its national territory to the Soviet Union and lease the city of Hanko as a naval base.
- 1940 : The revolutionary Sikh Udham Singh shoots Sir Michael O'Dwyer , the former governor of Punjab and responsible for the Amritsar massacre committed by the British military on April 13, 1919 , in London .
- 1954 : In the Indochina War , the Việt Minh under General Võ Nguyên Giáp surprisingly attack the French troops at Điện Biên Phủ with Chinese booty from the Korean War . In the battle that lasted until May 7th, the French suffer a decisive defeat that leads to the loss of their colonial empire in Southeast Asia.
- 1954 : The Soviet foreign intelligence service KGB is officially founded.
- 1955 : A change of throne takes place in Nepal after the death of King Tribhuvan . His son Mahendra rules the country.
- 1962 : The General Staff of the US armed forces puts US President John F. Kennedy the secret plan Operation Northwoods ago, has been written with the intention of a general agreement and support for a military invasion of Cuba to win. President Kennedy rejects the plan, which includes bogus attacks on US citizens.
- 1978 : In Assen , the Ambonese take 70 people hostage and demand the release of 21 Moluccan prisoners. The next day, Dutch elite forces put an end to the hostage situation , with one person later dying from wounds sustained in the operation.
- 1979 : The New Jewel Movement under Maurice Bishop takes power in Grenada after a coup against Prime Minister Eric Gairy .
- 1990 : Judge Ertha Pascal-Trouillot becomes the first woman to be appointed President of Haiti . She succeeds Hérard Abraham , who, as a previously successful coup against President Prosper Avril, resigns from office after three days.
- 1991 : Margot and Erich Honecker are flown to Moscow from the Soviet military hospital in Beelitz-Heilstätten .
- 1997 : Due to the lottery uprising , the state order in Albania collapses completely for a short time. In Germany, this leads to the launch of Operation Libelle for the evacuation of foreign nationals by the Bundeswehr.
- 2005 : In the second round of the parliamentary elections in Kyrgyzstan , in which OSCE election observers discovered massive irregularities, the opposition received only 6 of the 75 seats. This leads to the tulip revolution and the overthrow of President Askar Akayev and Prime Minister Nikolai Tanajew .
- 2018 : US President Donald Trump dismisses Secretary of State Rex Tillerson via Twitter and names CIA Director Mike Pompeo as his successor.
economy
- 1829 : For the purpose of shipping on the Danube and its tributaries, the First Danube Steamship Company is founded in the Austrian Empire , which will develop into the world's largest inland shipping company.
- 1919 : The German Society for Pest Control (Degesch) is founded in Berlin with the participation of the German Reich as a non-profit business enterprise. The share capital of 1,010,000 marks is provided by ten companies, including Degussa and BASF .
- 1979 : The European Monetary System (EMS) comes into force retrospectively from January 1st as a monetary policy cooperation between the countries of the European Community .
- 2006 : Kia Motors Manufacturing Georgia founded , the first Kia plant in the United States.
- 2008 : The gold price , which is on the rise, exceeds the mark of 1000 US dollars per ounce of fine gold for the first time in trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange .
science and technology
- 1781 : The Hanover-British amateur astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers the planet Uranus .
- 1897 : San Diego State University is founded.
- 1930 : The discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh on February 18, is announced on the 149th anniversary of the discovery of Uranus .
- 1931 : The German engineer Reinhold Tiling and his colleague Karl Poggensee succeeded in launching a solid rocket on European soil for the first time near Berlin .
- 1969 : Apollo 9 with astronauts James McDivitt , David Randolph Scott and Rusty Schweickart on board lands safely on Earth again after the lunar module's rendezvous and docking maneuvers were tested under real conditions in Earth orbit .
- 1986 : The Soyuz T-15 mission to the Mir and Salyut 7 space stations starts from the Soviet Baikonur spaceport .
- 1986 : President François Mitterrand inaugurates the futuristic science and technology museum Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in the Parc de la Villette in Paris .
- 1988 : The 54 km long Seikan tunnel between the islands of Honshū and Hokkaidō is put into operation in Japan . At the time it was the longest railway tunnel in the world.
- 2006 : A clinical study of the antibody TGN1412 developed by the company TeGenero on six people in London's Northwick Park Hospital resulted in a so-called serious adverse event . The subjects hover for days in mortal danger.
Culture
- 1772 : The world premiere of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's bourgeois tragedy Emilia Galotti by Karl Theophil Döbbelin takes place at the Ducal Opera House in Braunschweig on the occasion of the birthday of Duchess Philippine Charlotte . Lessing himself is not present at the world premiere.
- 1797 : The Opéra-comique Médée by Luigi Cherubini based on the libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman is premiered at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris . The literary model is the tragedy Medea by Euripides .
- 1841 : The first performance of the opera Il Proscritto by Otto Nicolai takes place at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The libretto is by Gaetano Rossi based on the literary model by Frédéric Soulié . Together with Siegfried Kapper, the composer will almost completely rework the opera over the next few years.
- 1846 : The tragedy Maria Magdalena by Friedrich Hebbel is premiered at the Königsberg City Theater. The work is considered the last civil tragedy .
- 1847 : The opera Griselda by Federico Ricci is the Teatro La Fenice premiered in Venice.
- 1894 : The first striptease is professionally danced in the Divan Fayounau variety theater in Paris . The artist receives a fine for performing.
- 1900 : The world premiere of the opera Das Stille Dorf by Alexander von Fielitz takes place in Hamburg.
- 1905 : Margareta Geertruida cell appeared at the invitation of the industrialist Émile Guimet in his Museum Guimet in Paris for the first time as a dancer Mata Hari in front of a select audience . Your veil dance will be a great success from the start.
- 1917 : The German Leather Museum , created on Hugo Eberhardt's initiative , opens in Offenbach am Main .
- 1995 : In Copenhagen the Danish directors Lars von Trier , Thomas Vinterberg , Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen sign a manifesto called Dogma 95 for the production of films. It is aimed in particular against the increasing alienation of reality in the cinema and banishes effects and technical refinements, illusions and dramaturgical predictability.
- 2012 : The Encyclopædia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish a printed edition. After 244 years, the 2010 edition should have been the last edition of the encyclopedia. From now on, Britannica will only be distributed in digital form.
society
- 1964 : Young New Yorker Kitty Genovese is stabbed to death by Winston Moseley near her apartment in Queens. The circumstances of her murder, which lasted over half an hour and is observed by 38 people, but who do not intervene, shape the term Genovese syndrome .
- 1980 : Known as the "killer clown", serial killer John Wayne Gacy is sentenced to 21 life imprisonment and 12 death penalty for killing 33 people in Illinois, USA . It is the longest sentence ever imposed in the United States.
- 1996 : The gunman Thomas Hamilton kills 16 first-year students and their teacher with a revolver in revenge in Dunblane, Scotland . Then the perpetrator shoots himself with a gun.
- 2016 : At least 34 people are killed and 125 injured in a bomb attack in the Turkish capital Ankara
religion
- 483 : The married deacon Felix is elected Bishop of Rome with the approval of King Odoacer .
- 1528 : The Interlaken Monastery , the largest landowner in the Oberland , is abolished after the Bern Reformation mandate was issued on February 7, 1528, and its territory is incorporated into the Canton of Bern . Now that Bern is demanding the taxes of the population to the monastery, the riots of the Oberland Reformation soon break out.
- 2013 : The Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected in the fifth ballot of the conclave as the successor to Benedict XVI. elected pope ; he takes the Pope's name Francis .
Disasters
- 1961 : A flood disaster claims 145 lives in Babi Yar .
- 1992 : An earthquake in the Turkish region of Erzincan kills around 650 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 2010 : In the final of the men's field hockey world championship , the Australian team defeated the reigning world champion Germany 2-1 to become world champion.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 963 : Anna Porphyrogenneta , wife of Vladimir the Great, Grand Duke of Kiev
- 1265 : Eberhard I , Count of Württemberg
- 1271 : Guta von Habsburg , Bohemian queen
- 1372 : Louis de Valois, duc d'Orléans , son of the French king Charles V
- 1395 : John Barbour , Scottish national poet
- 1479 : Lazarus Spengler , councilor and supporter of the Reformation in Nuremberg
- 1530 : Jan Rubens , legal scholar and father of Peter Paul Rubens
- 1560 : Wilhelm Ludwig , Count of Nassau-Dillenburg and governor of Friesland
- 1615 : Innocent XII. , Pope
- 1646 : Rupert von Bodman , Prince Abbot of Kempten
- 1667 : José Antonio de Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of Peru
- 1683 : John Theophilus Desaguliers , Franco-British natural philosopher
- 1695 : Aleksander Józef Sułkowski , electoral Polish statesman
- 1696 : Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis , Marshal of France
- 1696 : Johann Tilemann , German university professor
- 1700 : Michel Blavet , French flautist and composer
18th century
- 1716 : Philippine Charlotte of Prussia , Prussian princess
- 1720 : Charles Bonnet , Swiss natural scientist and philosopher
- 1733 : Johann Zoffany , British painter of German origin
- 1741 : Joseph II , Holy Roman Emperor
- 1752 : Joseph Reicha , German cellist and composer
- 1755 : Caterina Cavalieri , Austrian opera singer, Mozart interpreter
- 1763 : Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune , Marshal of France
- 1764 : Charles Gray, 2nd Earl Gray , British statesman
- 1781 : Joseph Johann von Littrow , Austrian astronomer
- 1781 : Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Prussian architect, town planner, painter, graphic artist and set designer, founder of the Schinkel School
- 1800 : Mustafa Reşid Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Friedrich Georg von Bunge , German-Baltic legal historian, founder of Baltic legal history
- 1804 : Joseph Otto Entres , German sculptor
- 1819 : Victor Chauffour , French university professor and politician
- 1820 : Johann Nordmann , Austrian journalist and writer
- 1821 : Hermann Gruson , German inventor, scientist and entrepreneur
- 1821 : Leopold Kaufmann , German lawyer, government official and local politician, Lord Mayor of Bonn
- 1822 : Moritz Graf von Strachwitz , German poet
- 1824 : Rudolf Hildebrand , German Germanist, teacher and linguist
- 1825 : Emmy von Dincklage , German novelist
- 1829 : Richard Coke , American farmer, lawyer, and politician, Governor of Texas
- 1829 : Heinrich Ludwig , German painter and art historian
- 1832 : Olympe Audouard , French suffragette
- 1835 : Arisugawa Taruhito , Japanese prince
- 1841 : Karl Ernst Schrod , German priest, pastoral theologian and liturgist, auxiliary bishop in Trier
- 1842 : Joseph Boussinesq , French mathematician and physicist
- 1847 : Pietro Musone , Italian composer
1851-1900
- 1852 : Oscar Blumenthal , German writer, critic, stage poet and chess composer
- 1853 : James Murray , British general, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- 1854 : Heinrich Tramm , German politician and administrative officer, Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Hanover
- 1854 : Emil von Zelewski , German officer and commander of the protection force for German East Africa
- 1855 : Percival Lowell , American astronomer, founder of the Lowell Observatory
- 1857 : Gotthold Anders , German politician
- 1858 : Gerald Portal , British diplomat
- 1860 : Hugo Wolf , Austrian composer
- 1861 : Gustave Ramaciotti , Australian theater director and soldier
- 1862 : Wilhelm Weigand , German poet and writer
- 1863 : Richard Zoozmann , German poet and writer
- 1865 : Josef Schregel , German local poet
- 1870 : Gaston Arman de Caillavet , French playwright and librettist
- 1870 : Albert Meyer , Swiss politician
- 1872 : Josef Rosemeyer , German track cyclist, inventor and entrepreneur
- 1873 : Amédée Gastoué , French musicologist and composer
- 1873 : Georg Demmler , German architect, athlete and sports official
- 1874 : Ellery Clark , American athlete
- 1876 : Konrad Haenisch , German journalist and politician, MdL and state minister
- 1878 : Otto Hönigschmid , Czech-Austrian chemist
- 1879 : Karl Caspar , German painter
- 1880 : Otto Meissner , German civil servant, Reich Minister, head of the office of the Reich President and the Presidential Chancellery of the Führer
- 1881 : Gustav Karl Wilhelm Aubin , German-Austrian economist and economic historian
- 1883 : Takamura Kōtarō , Japanese poet, essayist and sculptor
- 1883 : Eugen Ritter von Schobert , German general
- 1883 : Mehmed Spaho , Yugoslav politician
- 1884 : Hugh Walpole , British writer
- 1884 : Oskar Loerke , German poet of Expressionism and Magical Realism
- 1886 : Henri Gagnebin , Swiss composer
- 1887 : Carlos Isamitt , Chilean composer and painter
- 1888 : Josef Loos , Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- 1888 : Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko , Soviet educator and writer
- 1890 : Frank Thiess , German writer
- 1890 : Fritz Busch , German conductor
- 1891 : Felix Aderca , Romanian poet, author and essayist
- 1891 : Hermann RO Knothe , German landscape and portrait painter
- 1891 : Omer Létourneau , Canadian organist, pianist and composer, music publisher and educator
- 1895 : Luigi Cevenini , Italian football player and coach
- 1895 : Vardis Fisher , American writer
- 1896 : Erich Sichting , German politician, anti-fascist and sports official
- 1897 : Jeghische Charenz , Armenian poet
- 1898 : Henry Hathaway , American film director
- 1899 : Clara Döhring , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1899 : John Hasbrouck Van Vleck , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1899 : Pancho Vladigerov , Bulgarian composer
- 1900 : Heinrich Baaken , German clergyman, auxiliary bishop of the Münster diocese
- 1900 : Hans Bols , German politician, MdL
- 1900 : Giorgos Seferis , Greek writer and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Josef Afritsch , Austrian garden technician and politician
- 1901 : Margaret Craven , American writer
- 1901 : Gebhard Seelos , German diplomat and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1901 : Kurt Wabbel , German trade union official
- 1902 : Hans Bellmer , German photographer, sculptor, painter and author
- 1902 : Marthe Robin , French mystic
- 1904 : Reidar Aulie , Norwegian painter
- 1904 : Erhart Kästner , German writer and librarian
- 1904 : Paul Mattick , German communist and political writer
- 1906 : Fritz Adam , German journalist and poet
- 1906 : Isidor Markowitsch Annenski , Soviet director
- 1906 : Bum Krüger , German actor
- 1907 : Franz Beckert , German gymnast
- 1907 : Mohammed Abdel Wahab , Egyptian singer and composer
- 1907 : Ernst Wilhelm Borchert , German actor
- 1907 : Ludwig Biermann , German physicist
- 1908 : Walter Annenberg , American diplomat, publisher and art patron
- 1909 : Sivar Arnér , Swedish writer, radio play author and playwright
- 1910 : Gerhard von Düsterlho , German rower and doctor
- 1910 : Merlyn Oliver Evans , British painter and printmaker from Wales, a representative of abstract painting
- 1910 : Sammy Kaye , American orchestra conductor and composer
- 1910 : José María Cervera Lloret , Spanish composer and professor
- 1910 : Karl Mommer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1910 : Franz Olah , Austrian politician and trade unionist
- 1911 : José Ardévol , Cuban composer
- 1911 : Willi Göttert , German pastor and peace activist
- 1911 : L. Ron Hubbard , American science fiction and pulp fiction writer, sect founder ( Scientology )
- 1912 : Olga Nikolajewna Anstej , Russian writer, poet and translator
- 1912 : Bill S. Ballinger , American writer
- 1912 : Wilhelm Kweksilber , stateless, later Dutch publicist and politician
- 1912 : Carl Raddatz , German film and theater actor
- 1913 : Paul Grice , English philosopher
- 1913 : Irène Joachim , French soprano
- 1913 : George Maybee , Canadian organist, choir director and music teacher
- 1913 : Sergei Wladimirowitsch Michalkow , Russian poet
- 1913 : Lightnin 'Slim , American blues musician
- 1914 : Friedrich-Wilhelm Goldenbogen , German local politician
- 1914 : Bob Haggart , American jazz musician, bassist, arranger and composer
- 1915 : Melih Cevdet , Turkish writer
- 1915 : Arthur Henkel , German Germanist and literary historian
- 1916 : Jacque Fresco , American author, self-taught social architect, industrial designer and inventor
- 1918 : George McAfee , American football player
- 1919 : Sugai Kumi , Japanese painter and graphic artist
- 1921 : Armando Cabrera , Dominican composer
- 1921 : Al Jaffee , American cartoonist
- 1922 : Karl Dietrich Bracher , German political scientist and historian
- 1924 : Karl Ahrens , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1924 : Pierre Arpaillange , French lawyer, state official and author
- 1924 : Willi Trautmann German table tennis player
- 1925 : Karl-Eddi Armgort , German politician
- 1925 : Herbert Fleischmann , German film and television actor
- 1925 : Inge Müller , German writer
1926-1950
- 1926 : Ralph Abernathy , American Baptist clergyman and civil rights activist
- 1926 : Walter Werner Ameling , German electrical engineer
- 1926 : Hans Boesch , Swiss author
- 1926 : Roy Haynes , American jazz drummer
- 1927 : Georges Badin , French poet and painter
- 1928 : Ernst Anders , Austrian actor
- 1929 : Gert Haucke , German actor, writer and non-fiction author
- 1929 : Zbigniew Messner , Polish politician, Prime Minister
- 1929 : Paek Nam-sun , North Korean politician, Foreign Minister
- 1929 : Peter Breck , American actor
- 1930 : Blue Mitchell , American jazz trumpeter
- 1930 : Günther Uecker , German painter and object artist ( kinetic art, op art ), member of the artist group Zero
- 1931 : Abderrahmane Boubekeur , Algerian-French football player and coach
- 1931 : Wolfgang Kohlhaase , German screenwriter, director and writer
- 1931 : Álvaro Menéndez Leal , Salvadoran poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist and journalist
- 1933 : Hans Katschthaler , Governor of Salzburg
- 1933 : William Kimberly , American racing car driver
- 1933 : Mike Stoller , American songwriter
- 1933 : Gero von Wilpert , German author and literary scholar
- 1935 : Hans H. Hattemer , German forest scientist and geneticist
- 1935 : Hilmar Kopper , German bank manager ( Deutsche Bank )
- 1936 : Lothar Ahrendt , German general, Minister of the Interior of the GDR
- 1937 : Bernhard Askani , German history teacher and textbook author
- 1937 : Vladimir Semjonowitsch Makanin , Russian writer
- 1937 : Hermann Reichl , Austrian politician
- 1938 : Hans-Joachim Hespos , German composer and publisher
- 1938 : Albrecht Schmidt , German lawyer and bank manager
- 1939 : Gerbert Hübsch , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1939 : Michael Rogowski , German industrial engineer, manager and association official, President of the BDI
- 1939 : Neil Sedaka , American singer and songwriter
- 1939 : Youhanna Fouad El-Hage , Lebanese Maronite Archbishop of Tripoli
- 1940 : Dave Cummings , American porn actor, director and producer
- 1940 : Herbert Schui , German economist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1941 : Heinrich Burger , German correspondence chess grandmaster
- 1942 : David N. Cutler , American software engineer, head of development for RSX-11, VMS and Windows NT
- 1942 : Scatman John , American singer
- 1943 : Mike Fisher , American racing car driver
- 1943 : Giancarlo De Sisti , Italian football player and coach
- 1943 : André Téchiné , French screenwriter and film director
- 1944 : Chris Roberts , German pop singer and actor
- 1945 : Anatoly Timofejewitsch Fomenko , Russian mathematician
- 1946 : Yann Arthus-Bertrand , French photographer and journalist
- 1947 : Jacek Bierezin , Polish poet and opposition activist
- 1947 : Lyn St. James , American racing car driver
- 1947 : Beat Richner , Swiss pediatrician and musician
- 1948 : Lillian Board , British athlete
- 1949 : Julia Migenes , American soprano and actress
- 1949 : Jürgen Banscherus , German writer
- 1949 : Jutta Braband , German civil rights activist in the GDR and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1950 : André Brie , German politician, MEP, MdL
- 1950 : Robert Brandom , American philosopher
- 1950 : Charles Krauthammer , American journalist
- 1950 : William H. Macy , American actor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Gunter Arnold , German sprinter
- 1952 : Joesi Prokopetz , Austrian musician and cabaret artist
- 1952 : Wolfgang Rihm , German composer, musicologist and essayist
- 1953 : Volker Bartsch , German sculptor and painter
- 1953 : Hartmut Grimm , German musicologist
- 1954 : Marika Adam , Austrian actress and theater director
- 1954 : Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos , British Ambassador
- 1954 : Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres , French politician
- 1954 : Sjarhej Sidorski , head of government in Belarus
- 1955 : Bruno Conti , Italian football player
- 1955 : Adam Wood , British diplomat
- 1956 : Dana Delany , American actress
- 1957 : Marcellino Lucchi , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1958 : Guillermo Arriaga , Mexican writer, screenwriter, film director and producer
- 1958 : Ján Kocian , Slovak football player and coach
- 1958 : Khalida Messaoudi , Algerian feminist
- 1959 : Till Backhaus , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1959 : Greg Norton , American bass player and cook
- 1960 : Jurij Andruchowytsch , Ukrainian writer, poet, essayist and translator
- 1960 : Adam Clayton , bass player for Irish rock band U2
- 1960 : John Greyson , Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1960 : Gal Rasché , Austrian conductor
- 1961 : Erich Gamma , Swiss computer scientist
- 1961 : Frank Gersch , German handball player
- 1961 : Sebastiano Nela , Italian football player
- 1961 : Masahiko Shimada , Japanese writer
- 1963 : Fito Páez , Argentine songwriter, singer and composer
- 1964 : Steve Collins , Canadian ski jumper
- 1965 : Nils Aschenbeck , German journalist, book author and publisher
- 1965 : Esther Esche , German actress
- 1965 : David Orth , Australian actor
- 1965 : Alexander Unzicker , German physicist
- 1966 : Markus Karp , German politician
- 1967 : Luigi Colturi , Italian ski racer
- 1967 : Andrés Escobar , Colombian soccer player
- 1969 : Luca Bucci , Italian football goalkeeper
- 1969 : Michael Fischer-Art , German painter and sculptor
- 1970 : Michael Arrington , American entrepreneur
- 1970 : Stéphane Goubert , French cyclist
- 1970 : Tim Story , American director
- 1971 : Berrit Arnold , German actress
- 1971 : Annabeth Gish , American actress
- 1971 : Jens Münchow , German actor
- 1972 : Cleisson Edson Assunção , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 1972 : Common , American rapper and actor
- 1973 : David Draiman , American singer
- 1973 : Edgar Davids , Dutch football player
- 1974 : Thomas Enqvist , Swedish tennis player
- 1974 : Franziska Schenk , German speed skater and television presenter
- 1974 : Dmitri Lykin , Russian sports shooter
1976-2000
- 1978 : Faustine Merret , French windsurfer
- 1978 : Aaron Nguimbat , Cameroonian football player
- 1979 : Jens Filbrich , German cross-country skier, Olympic medalist
- 1979 : Jeannette Götte , German soccer player
- 1979 : Christoph Meineke , German local politician
- 1979 : Johan Santana , Venezuelan baseball player
- 1980 : Lorraine Huber , Austrian freeride athlete
- 1980 : Gabriel Melkam , Nigerian soccer player
- 1981 : Benjamin Chatton , German handball player and manager
- 1981 : Stephen Maguire , Scottish snooker player
- 1982 : Manuel Pasqual , Italian soccer player
- 1983 : Moritz Bürkner , German actor
- 1983 : Alex Cano , Colombian racing cyclist
- 1983 : Mariano Izco , Argentine footballer
- 1983 : Monika Sozanska , German sword fencer
- 1984 : Natalie and Nicole Albino , American pop music duo of identical twins
- 1984 : Pieter Custers , Dutch archer
- 1985 : Karl Bär , German politician
- 1985 : Emile Hirsch , American film actor
- 1985 : Nico Kuhn , German non-fiction author
- 1986 : Gillian Alexy , Australian actress
- 1987 : José Luis Abadín , Spanish racing driver
- 1987 : Marco Andretti , American racing driver
- 1987 : Andreas Beck , German soccer player
- 1987 : Christoph Dübener , German handball player
- 1987 : Mauro Zárate , Argentine soccer player
- 1988 : 4tune , German rapper
- 1989 : Holger Badstuber , German soccer player
- 1989 : Peaches Geldof , British model and it girl
- 1989 : Karsten Kühn , German actor
- 1989 : Marko Marin , German soccer player
- 1989 : Harry Melling , British actor
- 1989 : Sanne van Olphen , Dutch handball player
- 1989 : Robert Wickens , Canadian racing driver
- 1991 : François Affolter , Swiss football player
- 1991 : Wellington Arias , American professional boxer
- 1991 : Malou Ejdesgaard , Danish tennis player
- 1991 : Menasheh Idafar , British racing driver
- 1991 : Lê Quang Liêm , Vietnamese chess player
- 1991 : Tristan Thompson , Canadian basketball player
- 1992 : Lucy Fry , Australian actress
- 1992 : Kaya Scodelario , British actress and model
- 1992 : George MacKay , British actor
- 1995 : Mikaela Shiffrin , American ski racer
- 1995 : Anna Viktorovna Vyachirewa , Russian handball player
- 2000 : Jordyn Jones , American singer, Youtuber and model
21st century
- 2004 : Cori Gauff , American tennis player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 600 : Leander of Seville , Spanish Benedictine and Archbishop of Seville
- 993 : Hodo I. , Margrave of Lusatia
- 1181 : Simon III. of Montfort , Count of Evreux and Rochefort
- 1202 : Mieszko III. , Duke of Greater Poland, Duke of Cracow and Duke Senior of Poland
- 1232 : Agnellus of Pisa , Italian Franciscan
- 1265 : Agnes von Schlesien-Liegnitz , second wife of Ulrich I, the founder, Count of Württemberg
- 1271 : Henry of Almain , English courtier
- 1317 : Burkhard von Serkem , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1332 : Theodoros Metochites , Byzantine diplomat, high government official, theologian, philosopher, historian, astronomer, poet and patron of the arts
- 1395 : John Barbour , Scottish national poet
- 1422 : John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford , English nobleman
- 1447 : Shah Ruch , Timurid prince
- 1489 : Konrad Bitz , Bishop of Turku
- 1491 : Ulrich Rösch , Abbot of St. Gallen
16th to 18th century
- 1503 : Friedrich Jagiello , Bishop of Cracow, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate of Poland-Lithuania
- 1508 : Dietrich Brömse , councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1513 : Korkud , Ottoman prince, governor and imperial administrator, victim of institutionalized fratricide in the Ottoman Empire
- 1516 : Vladislav II , King of Bohemia, Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia
- 1528 : Elsbeth Hügline , wife of Balthasar Hubmaier, martyr of the Anabaptist movement
- 1539 : Thomas Boleyn , English nobleman, father of Anne and Mary Boleyn
- 1559 : Georg von Ghese , Milanese merchant, silk weaver and evangelical martyr
- 1559 : Johannes Gropper , German Catholic theologian, lawyer and church politician
- 1567 : Jan van Marnix , lord of Toulouse, Dutch freedom fighter
- 1569 : Louis I. de Bourbon , Prince of Condé, French general
- 1573 : Michel de L'Hospital , French statesman, lawyer and humanist writer
- 1619 : Richard Burbage , English actor and theater owner
- 1628 : John Bull , English organist and harpsichordist
- 1629 : Basilius Besler , German physician, botanist and publisher
- 1663 : Eduard von der Pfalz , Prince of the Palatinate
- 1676 : Adelheid of Savoy , Italian-German noblewoman, Electress of Bavaria
- 1711 : Nicolas Boileau , French writer
- 1713 : Johann Samuel Adami , German theologian, writer and linguist
- 1718 : Friedrich Nicolaus Bruhns , north German composer
- 1719 : Johann Friedrich Böttger , German naturalist and alchemist, further developer of porcelain in Europe
- 1733 : Charlotte Aïssé , French writer
- 1742 : Alfons Ambuel , Swiss officer and politician
- 1797 : Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg , German diplomat
19th century
- 1808 : Christian VII , King of Denmark and Norway
- 1809 : Ernst Wilhelm Cuhn , German librarian and historian
- 1811 : Franz Paul von Herbert , Austrian art patron
- 1812 : Johannes le Francq van Berkhey Dutch naturalist, poet and painter
- 1813 : Georg Adolf Suckow , German scientist, physicist, chemist, mineralogist and mining expert
- 1814 : Louis François II. De Bourbon , Prince of Conti
- 1824 : Carsten Anker , Norwegian industrialist and diplomat
- 1839 : Johann Schön , Austrian lawyer, political scientist and writer
- 1842 : Emanuel von Friedrichsthal , Austrian travel writer
- 1851 : Karl Lachmann , German philologist
- 1851 : Peter Feddersen Stuhr , German university professor and historian
- 1852 : Georg Moller , German architect and town planner
- 1857 : William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst , British politician and statesman
- 1868 : Albert Geutebrück , German architect
- 1876 : Joseph von Führich , Austrian painter
- 1879 : Adolf Anderssen , German chess master
- 1881 : Alexander II , Tsar of Russia from the house of Romanow-Holstein-Gottorp
- 1883 : Adelbert von Keller , German Germanist and Romanist
- 1884 : Siegfried Heinrich Aronhold , German mathematician and physicist
- 1885 : Wilhelm Dunker , German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist
- 1888 : Carl Hunstein , German colonial official and ornithologist
- 1889 : Enrico Tamberlik , Italian opera tenor
- 1895 : Louise Otto-Peters , German writer and journalist, co-founder of the German women's movement
- 1899 : Julius Schulhoff , Austrian pianist and composer
- 1900 : Jan Ondříček , Czech conductor, violinist and music teacher
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Benjamin Harrison , American politician, 23rd President of the United States
- 1901 : Max Georg Schubert , German industrialist
- 1903 : Alexander Andrae , German farmer and politician
- 1904 : Hugo von François , German officer
- 1905 : Franz Gustav Arndt , German landscape and genre painter
- 1906 : Susan B. Anthony , American suffragette
- 1906 : Heinrich Schwenger , German builder
- 1908 : Raoul Arnauld de la Perière , German actor
- 1911 : Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen , Dutch chemist
- 1913 : Thomas Peter Krag , Norwegian writer
- 1913 : Ernst Ravenstein , German cartographer
- 1918 : César Cui , Russian composer and music critic
- 1919 : Amy Woodforde-Find , British composer
- 1925 : Hedwig Dransfeld , German Catholic women's rights activist and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1930 : Stephen Alfred Forbes , American biologist, co-founder of limnology
- 1932 : John Atkinson, Baron Atkinson , Irish-British lawyer and politician
- 1932 : Rudolf Kalvach , Austrian graphic artist
- 1932 : Heinrich Tramm , German politician and administrative officer, Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Hanover
- 1933 : Tito Ricordi , Italian music publisher
- 1935 : Richard Mollier , German-Austrian physicist, physical chemist and mechanical engineer
- 1938 : Clarence Darrow , American attorney, criminal defense attorney, and civil rights activist
- 1938 : Carlo Minoretti , Italian priest, Archbishop of Genoa and cardinal
- 1939 : Lucien Lévy-Bruhl , French ethnologist
- 1940 : Elise Augustat , German politician
- 1943 : Erich Ludwig Loewenthal , German philologist, teacher and editor, victim of National Socialism
- 1943 : Victor Klemperer von Klemenau , German banker
- 1943 : Stephen Vincent Benét , American writer
- 1945 : Guus van Hecking-Colenbrander , Dutch football player
- 1945 : Johanna Tesch , German politician, MdR, victim of National Socialism
- 1946 : Thomas Dunhill , British composer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Hara Tamiki , Japanese writer
- 1952 : Giovanni Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano , Italian priest, Archbishop of Bologna, cardinal
- 1953 : Leopold Kunschak , Austrian politician and union leader
- 1954 : Otto Fee , German actor
- 1955 : Karl Müller , German botanist and oenologist
- 1957 : Paul Bildt , German actor
- 1957 : Ernst Nobs , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1959 : Andrés Gaos , Spanish composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1960 : Louis Wagner , French racing car driver
- 1961 : Ruth Fischer , Austrian politician and publicist
- 1965 : Vittorio Jano , Italian automobile designer
- 1965 : Fan Noli , Albanian Orthodox bishop and politician
- 1967 : Andrej Andrejew , Russian film architect, draftsman and set designer
- 1971 : Leopold Hochgatterer , Austrian politician
- 1971 : Rockwell Kent , American painter
- 1973 : Doug Bragg , American country and rockabilly musician
- 1975 : Ivo Andrić , Yugoslav writer, diplomat, politician and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1975 : Ruth Schaumann , German writer and sculptor
- 1976 : Max Tau , German-Norwegian writer, editor and publisher
- 1977 : Jan Patočka , Czech philosopher
- 1978 : John Cazale , American actor
- 1979 : Parviz Nikkhah , Iranian student leader
- 1980 : Tauno Pylkkänen , Finnish composer
- 1983 : Louison Bobet , French racing cyclist
- 1983 : Anton Slodnjak , Slovenian writer, editor, literary scholar and historian
- 1985 : Bob Shad , American music producer
- 1986 : Eugen Gerstenmaier , German theologian, resistance fighter, politician, Member of the Bundestag and President of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1987 : Bernhard Grzimek , German veterinarian, behavioral scientist, zoo director, television presenter, animal filmmaker and author
- 1987 : Fela Sowande , Nigerian composer, organist and music teacher
- 1988 : John Holmes , American porn actor
- 1989 : Carl Dahlhaus , German musicologist
- 1990 : Bruno Bettelheim , American psychoanalyst and child psychologist
- 1990 : Ernst Goldenbaum , German politician, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR
- 1990 : Oskar Hippe , German Trotskyist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1990 : Karl Münchinger , German conductor
- 1991 : Jimmy McPartland , American jazz cornetist
- 1993 : Gene Hartley , American racing car driver
- 1994 : Danny Barker , American banjo player, singer, composer, guitarist, ukulele player and band leader of traditional jazz
- 1994 : Eva Countess Finck von Finckenstein , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1994 : Sandra Paretti , German writer
- 1995 : Juliette Pétrie , Canadian actress, comedian, singer and dancer
- 1996 : Krzysztof Kieślowski , Polish film director and screenwriter
- 1998 : Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain , German-American physicist and aviation pioneer, one of the fathers of the jet engine
- 1999 : Jean-Claude Justice , French racing car driver
- 1999 : Garson Kanin , American screenwriter
- 2000 : Jean-Luis Jorge , Dominican director, screenwriter, film and television producer
21st century
- 2002 : Ivano Blason , Italian soccer player
- 2002 : Hans-Georg Gadamer , German philosopher
- 2002 : Bayliss Levrett , American racing car driver
- 2004 : Franz König , Austrian priest and theologian, military bishop, archbishop of Vienna and cardinal
- 2005 : Yoshihisa Taira , Japanese-French composer
- 2006 : Jimmy Johnstone , Scottish soccer player
- 2007 : Herbert Fux , Austrian actor and politician, co-founder of the Greens
- 2007 : Harald Leupold-Löwenthal , Austrian psychoanalyst
- 2009 : Betsy Blair , American actress
- 2009 : Claude Brinegar , American politician
- 2009 : Andrew Test Martin , Canadian wrestler
- 2010 : Josef Angenfort , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism, MdL
- 2010 : Charlie Ashcroft , English soccer goalkeeper
- 2010 : Ian Axford , astrophysicist
- 2011 : Andreas Franz , German writer
- 2011 : Rick Martin , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2011 : Sascha Wagener , German-Luxembourg politician
- 2013 : Rosemarie Fendel , German actress, dubbing and radio play speaker
- 2013 : Anna Jonas , German writer
- 2013 : Rolf Schult , German actor and voice actor
- 2014 : Reubin Askew , American politician
- 2015 : Daevid Allen , Australian rock musician
- 2015 : Jean-Louis Capette , French racing car driver
- 2016 : Kenneth Broderick , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2016 : Hilary Putnam , American philosopher
- 2017 : Ramesh Mishra , Indian sarang player
- 2017 : Richard zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , German entrepreneur
- 2017 : Ed Whitlock , Canadian medium and long distance runner
- 2018 : T. Berry Brazelton , American pediatrician
- 2018 : Nora Schimming-Chase , Namibian politician and civil rights activist
- 2019 : Andrea Pollack , German swimmer (date to be announced)
- 2020 : Dana Zátopková , Czech javelin thrower and wife of Emil Zátopek
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Georg von Ghese , Italian merchant and martyr (Protestant)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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