May 13th

The May 13 is the 133rd day of the Gregorian calendar (134th in leap years ), thus remain 232 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 460 : The Roman fleet lying in Portus Ilicantus ( Santa Pola ) is destroyed by vandals coming from North Africa ( Battle of Cartagena ).
• 927 : The Thuringian city ​​of Nordhausen is mentioned for the first time in a deed of donation from Heinrich I to his wife Mathilde .

1534: Philip I.

• 1534 : In the battle of Lauffen near Lauffen am Neckar , the Protestant Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and his troops defeated Habsburg forces. In doing so, he brought power and his duchy back to Duke Ulrich von Württemberg, who was expelled in 1519 .
• 1710 : On the orders of King Frederick I , the construction of a quarantine house, later the Charité , begins in front of the Spandow Gate in Berlin .
• 1779 : In the Peace of Teschen on the initiative of Russia, the War of the Bavarian Succession between Prussia and Austria is settled. Austria receives the Innviertel , but in return recognizes Prussia's claims to the two Hohenzollern margravates of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth .

1787: Arthur Phillip

• 1787 : Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth with the British First Fleet , consisting of eleven ships, 756 prisoners and 550 crew members, to set up a penal colony in Australia .
• 1809 : Napoleon Bonaparte enters Vienna victoriously for the second time in the Fifth Coalition War . In contrast to the first occupation, this only succeeds after heavy fire and against the resistance of the population.
• 1830 : Ecuador's independence from Greater Colombia is proclaimed in Riobamba ; and Venezuela leaves the federation.

1846: Mexican-American War

• 1846 : The United States declare Mexico the war , after the first Battle of Palo Alto is already over.
• 1865 : With the two-day battle on the Palmito Ranch, the armed conflicts on land in the American Civil War end . The Confederate forces remain victorious in this final battle.

1888: Lei Áurea

• 1888 : Regent Isabella of Brazil signs the Lei Áurea , with which Brazil is the last state in South America to officially abolish slavery .
• 1912 : With the establishment of the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the forerunner of the Royal Air Force (RAF) is created in the United Kingdom .
• 1933 : Vidkun Quisling founds the fascist political party Nasjonal Samling in Norway .
• 1940 : The German Wehrmacht erects bridgeheads on the French side of the Meuse in the western campaign of World War II , thus beginning the invasion of France .
• 1940 : British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers his famous Blood, Sweat, Tears speech in front of the British Parliament .

1941: Draža Mihailović

• 1941 : The Serbian general Draža Mihailović founds the first resistance group against the German occupation of Yugoslavia , the Ravna Gora movement, with the aim of reestablishing the Kingdom of Yugoslavia .
• 1943 : With the surrender of the German Army Group Africa under Field Marshal Rommel's successor Hans-Jürgen von Arnim in Tunis ends in the Second World War the African campaign of the Axis powers . Around 250,000 German and Italian soldiers become prisoners of war.
• 1944 : As part of the Chinese action , the Hamburg Chinese Quarter is dissolved by the Gestapo .

1956: Result of the National Council election

• 1956 : In the national elections in Austria , the ÖVP with Federal Chancellor Julius Raab becomes the party with the strongest vote, overtaking the SPÖ under Adolf Schärf .
• 1958 : In Algiers , General Jacques Massu is proclaimed president of a “welfare committee” after a coup. The Algerian crisis at the end of the Fourth was settled by President Charles de Gaulle at the beginning of the Fifth French Republic .
• 1965 : The third criminal division of the Federal Court of Justice decides not to open any main proceedings against the Spiegel editors Conrad Ahlers and Rudolf Augstein . This ends the Spiegel affair .
• 1968 : After the police force the barricades of protesting students in Paris to be cleared , the French trade unions call for a general strike .
• 1969 : Malay-Chinese ethnic unrest breaks out in Malaysia , killing at least 196 people.
• 1978 : The President of the Comoros , Ali Soilih , is overthrown by former President Ahmed Abdallah with the help of mercenary leader Bob Denard .

1981: John Paul II

• 1981 : The Turkish right-wing extremist Mehmet Ali Ağca carried out an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II on St. Peter's Square in Rome , which he survived seriously injured. The assassin is found and arrested by the papal bodyguard Camillo Cibin .
• 1989 : The occupation of Tian'anmen Square ("Gate of Heavenly Peace") began in Beijing, which lasted several weeks , when several hundred students went on hunger strike there.
• 2005 : In Uzbekistan , up to 700 peaceful demonstrators are gunned down by the Uzbek army in the city of Andijon , causing unrest to flare up in Uzbekistan .
• 2006 : In São Paulo , it comes from the criminal organization Primeiro Comando da Capital fomented riots the state of emergency . At the same time, inmates are holding 112 prison guards hostage in Brazilian penal institutions.

economy

• 1861 : The “General German Trade Day”, the forerunner of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, meets for the first time in Heidelberg .
• 1923 : The Association of German Flower Shop Owners initiates an advertising campaign for Mother's Day , which is celebrated for the first time in Germany.
• 1927 : Black Friday causes the share index of the Reich Statistical Office on the Berlin Stock Exchange to collapse by 31.9 percent.
• 1935 : The American Carl Magee applies for a patent for a coin-operated parking meter. It is granted to him for the invention of this parking meter on May 24, 1938.

science and technology

1861: The Great Comet C / 1861 J1

• 1861 : The Australian astronomer John Tebbutt discovers Comet C / 1861 J1 , one of the great comets of the 19th century.

1926: Hercílio Luz Bridge

• 1926 : The largest suspension bridge in Brazil is opened. The Hercílio Luz Bridge in Florianópolis connects the mainland with the island of Santa Catarina .
• 1940 : The Russian-American designer and aviation pioneer Igor Ivanovich Sikorski takes off for the first free flight in his Sikorsky VS-300 helicopter with tail rotor , the design most used to this day.
• 2009 : Venus vom Hohlefels , found in September 2008 in the Hohlen Fels at the southern foot of the Swabian Alb near Schelklingen , probably the oldest known representation of humans at around 35,000 years old, is presented to the public in Tübingen.

Culture

• 1714 : The first performance of the musical drama Pisistrato by Leonardo Leo takes place at the Teatro S. Bartolomeo in Naples.

1833: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

• 1833 : The 4th Symphony in A major op. 90, "Italian", by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is premiered in the London Philharmonic Society under the direction of the composer. Today it is one of Mendelssohn's most frequently performed orchestral works.
• 1890 : The world premiere of the lyric drama Dante by Benjamin Godard made at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1954 : The musical The Pajama Game , directed by George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, premieres at the St. James Theater in New York City , for which Richard Adler and Jerry Ross wrote the music and George Abbott and Richard Bissell the libretto . The choreography is by Bob Fosse . The piece comes to 1063 performances.
• 1971 : The television show Dalli Dalli is broadcast for the first time.

1977: Morton Feldman

• 1977 : The world premiere of the one-act opera Neither for soprano and orchestra by Morton Feldman takes place in Rome. The libretto is by Samuel Beckett .
• 2000 : The Olsen Brothers from Denmark win the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. Stefan Raab lands with Wadde Hadde Dudde Da? in 5th place.

society

1515: Wedding painting of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon

• 1515 : Mary Tudor , the sister of Henry VIII , widowed for four months , secretly marries Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk .

religion

• 0535 : After the death of John II on May 8th, Agapitus I is elected as the new Pope .
• 1239 : 183 people accused and convicted of heresy are burned at the stake in front of the castle on Mont Aimé . Because the fanatical inquisitor Robert the Bulgarian also has some people unlawfully executed, the Dominican subsequently loses his office with the Pope under pressure from the northern French clergy .
• 1497 : Pope Alexander VI. excommunicated the penitential preacher and de facto ruler of Florence, Girolamo Savonarola , as " heretic , schismatic and despiser of the Holy See".

1572: Pope Gregory XIII.

• 1572 : Ugo Buoncompagni is elected Pope to succeed Pius V , who died on May 1st, and takes the name Gregory XIII. at.

Jacinta, Lúcia and Francisco around 1917

• 1917 : The three children Lúcia dos Santos , Jacinta and Francisco Marto allegedly have the first of five apparitions of Mary in Fátima, Portugal .
• 1930 : The Pontifical Bull Pastoralis officii nostri was Prussia Concordat implemented.
• 1942 : Two of the Three Secrets of Fátima are published by the Vatican.

Disasters

• 1647 : Around 12,000 people, around a third of its population, die in Santiago de Chile in a severe earthquake .
• 1972 : 119 people died in a nightclub fire on the upper floor of a department store in Osaka , Japan.
• 1996 : Severe storms and a tornado kill more than 600 people in Bangladesh .
• 1997 : Severe storms in the provinces of Yunnan and Guangdong in the People's Republic of China cause around 290 deaths.

2000: Enschede after the explosion of the fireworks factory

• 2000 : The explosion at the Enschede fireworks factory kills 23 people, injures 947 people and damages or destroys 1,500 houses. The property damage caused is estimated at 454 million euros.

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

Sports

1903: FC Carl Zeiss Jena (logo)

• 1903 : In Jena is football club Carl Zeiss Jena founded the originally employed by the company Carl Zeiss belong.
• 1909 : The first Giro d'Italia starts in Milan, and after eight stages it will end again in Milan on May 30th. The very first stage of the Giro to Bologna wins the Italian Dario Beni . The Giro d'Italia is now the second most important stage cycle race in the world.

1950: Giuseppe Farina

• 1950 : The Grand Prix of Great Britain in Silverstone is held as the first race in the newly designed Formula 1 world championship. The later world champion Giuseppe Farina wins .
• 1960 : A team of six, including Kurt Diemberger , succeeds in making the first ascent of the 8,167 m high Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1024 : Hugo von Cluny , abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny
• 1179 : Theobald III. , Count of Champagne
• 1254 : Mary of Brabant , Queen of France as the wife of Philip III.
• 1333 : Rainald III. , Duke of Geldern and Count of Zutphen
• 1462 : Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
• 1513 : Wolfgang Meurer , Saxon educator, meteorologist and doctor

Johann Stigel (* 1515)

• 1515 : Johann Stigel , German poet and rhetorician
• 1555 : Johann Philipp von Gebsattel , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
• 1588 : Olaus Wormius , imperial antiquarian of Denmark
• 1625 : Carlo Maratta , Italian painter
• 1637 : Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan , Armenian poet, printer, historian, educator, musician, miniaturist and translator
• 1639 : Georg von Berchem , Privy Councilor under Elector Friedrich III. of Brandenburg
• 1642 : Johann Schmuzer , German plasterer
• 1654 : Thomas Lennard, 1st Earl of Sussex , English nobleman and politician
• 1655 : Innocent XIII. , Pope
• 1670 : Giovanni Baratta , Italian sculptor
• 1679 : Siard Frick , Abbot of Schussenried
• 1699 : Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello , Portuguese statesman

18th century

• 1708 : Maximilian Friedrich von Königsegg-Rothenfels , Archbishop of Cologne
• 1711 : Quirin Mickl , abbot of Hohenfurt Monastery
• 1712 : Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , German diplomat and Danish foreign minister
• 1713 : Louis François de Monteynard , French military and statesman
• 1714 : Johann Jakob Kollmann , German city physicist

Maria Theresa (* 1717)

• 1717 : Maria Theresa , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia
• 1718 : Christian Friedrich Exner , German builder
• 1723 : Alexander von Knobelsdorff , Prussian field marshal
• 1727 : Salomon Hirzel , Swiss politician and historian
• 1730 : Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham , British Prime Minister
• 1731 : Thomas Frieberth , Austrian composer
• 1735 : Hōseidō Kisanji , Japanese writer
• 1738 : Ernst Gottfried Baldinger , German medic
• 1738 : Johann Wilhelm Franz von Krohne , German adventurer and author
• 1742 : Manasseh Cutler , American politician
• 1742 : Maria Christina of Austria , Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Saxony-Teschen
• 1750 : Sophia Lee , English writer
• 1750 : Lorenzo Mascheroni , Italian mathematician
• 1753 : Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot , French politician and scientist
• 1754 : Jacob Haafner , German-Dutch travel writer
• 1758 : Elizabeth Hervey , Duchess of Devonshire
• 1761 : Jean Henri Pareau , Dutch orientalist and Reformed theologian
• 1767 : Johann VI. , King of Portugal and Brazil
• 1773 : Jean-Frédéric d'Ostervald , Swiss cartographer
• 1782 : Johan Gustaf Sandberg , Swedish painter

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (* 1785)

• 1785 : Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann , German historian and statesman, one of the Göttingen Seven , co-author of the Paulskirchen constitution
• 1785 : Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski , Imperial Russian Field Marshal
• 1791 : Emilie von Reichenbach-Lessonitz , wife of Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse-Kassel
• 1792 : Pius IX. , Pope
• 1794 : Karl Hoeck , German classical philologist and ancient historian
• 1794 : Louis Léopold Robert , Swiss painter
• 1795 : Gérard Paul Deshayes , French paleontologist and malacologist
• 1795 : Pavel Jozef Šafárik , Slovak scientist and poet

19th century

1801-1850

• 1809 : Karl von Varnbuler , Württemberg politician

John Sullivan Dwight (* 1813)

• 1813 : John Sullivan Dwight , American music critic, Unitarian clergyman, and transcendentalist
• 1818 : Eduard von Engerth , Austrian painter
• 1822 : Francisco de Asís de Borbón , King Consort of Isabella II.
• 1825 : John Lawrence Le Conte , American entomologist
• 1826 : Hermann von Schlagintweit , German naturalist and explorer
• 1827 : Josef Plachutta , German chess player
• 1828 : Alfred von Kremer , German orientalist
• 1828 : Hannes Finsen , Icelandic lawyer and governor of the Faroe Islands
• 1839 : Franz Michael Felder , Austrian writer

Alphonse Daudet (* 1840)

• 1840 : Alphonse Daudet , French writer
• 1840 : Gustav von Hüfner , German chemist
• 1842 : Arthur Sullivan , English composer
• 1842 : Giuseppe Terrabugio , Italian organist, composer and church musician
• 1843 : Giacomo Lepori , Swiss engineer and architect
• 1847 : Johannes Haarklou , Norwegian composer

1851-1900

• 1851 : Bogdan von Hutten-Czapski , Prussian politician
• 1853 : Adolf Hölzel , German painter
• 1854 : Otto Schubert , German architect and builder
• 1856 : Paul Felix Aschrott , German lawyer, criminal law and social reformer
• 1856 : Reinhard Mannesmann , German inventor and entrepreneur
• 1857 : Ronald Ross , English medic and Nobel Prize winner

Kate Marsden (* 1859)

• 1859 : Kate Marsden , British nurse and leprosy researcher
• 1860 : Karl August Tavaststjerna , Finnish writer
• 1860 : Paul Guenther , German industrialist and company founder
• 1861 : Honoré Jackson , Canadian journalist
• 1861 : Clemens Thieme , German architect
• 1862 : Janko Veselinović , Serbian writer
• 1864 : Emil Gött , German writer
• 1865 : Johannes Thiele , German chemist
• 1866 : Ottokar Nováček , Czech composer
• 1867 : Thomas Gann , Anglo-Irish medic and archaeologist
• 1868 : Otto von Dandl , Bavarian lawyer and politician
• 1868 : Sumner Paine , American marksman
• 1874 : Emil Fuchs , German theologian
• 1876 : Raoul Laparra , French composer
• 1878 : Christian Schnabel , German designer and inventor
• 1882 : Franz Aigner , Austrian scientist

Georges Braque (* 1882)

• 1882 : Georges Braque , French cubist painter
• 1883 : George N. Papanicolaou , Greek-American physician and pathologist
• 1886 : Joseph Achron , violinist and composer
• 1886 : Carlo Mense , German painter of Rhenish Expressionism and New Objectivity
• 1886 : Hans Naumann , German ancient Germanist and folklorist
• 1886 : William John Patterson , Canadian politician
• 1888 : Inge Lehmann , Danish geodesist and seismologist
• 1889 : Paul Atzler , German lawyer
• 1889 : Teodósio Clemente de Gouveia , Archbishop of Maputo and Cardinal
• 1890 : Gustav Franz Hüttig , Czech-Austrian chemist
• 1890 : Heinrich Wandt , German author
• 1891 : Fritz Rasp , German film and stage actor
• 1892 : Henriette Arndt , German teacher
• 1893 : Victor Cordero Gonzales , Peruvian singer and composer
• 1894 : Ásgeir Ásgeirsson , second President of Iceland
• 1895 : Hans Falkenhagen , German electrolyte researcher and professor
• 1895 : Traugott Meyer , Swiss poet and writer
• 1896 : Paul Aellen , Swiss botanist
• 1896 : Ugo Giachery , Italian Bahai

Josias zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (* 1896)

• 1896 : Josias zu Waldeck and Pyrmont , SS-Obergruppenführer in the Third Reich
• 1898 : Babe Dye , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1898 : Ernő Erbstein , Hungarian football player and coach
• 1898 : Friedrich Ermler , Soviet film director
• 1898 : Ernst Gaste , German figure skater
• 1899 : Sarah Afonso , Portuguese painter
• 1900 : Evgen Gwaladze , Georgian resistance fighter
• 1900 : Hans Reinerth , German archaeologist
• 1900 : Karl Wolff , Chief of the Personal Staff Reichsführer SS

20th century

1901-1925

Witold Pilecki (* 1901)

• 1901 : William S. Beardsley , American politician
• 1901 : Witold Pilecki , Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor
• 1903 : Reinhold Schneider , German writer
• 1904 : Ernst Duschön , German politician
• 1905 : Wolfgang Abel , Austrian anthropologist
• 1905 : Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed , Indian politician and president
• 1905 : Emmi Bonhoeffer , wife of the resistance fighter Klaus Bonhoeffer
• 1905 : Kurt Diebner , German nuclear physicist

Walter Richter (* 1905)

• 1905 : Walter Richter , German actor
• 1906 : Enid A. Haupt , American philanthropist
• 1907 : Daphne du Maurier , British writer
• 1908 : Beveridge Webster , American pianist and music teacher
• 1910 : Fritz Fröhlich , Austrian painter
• 1910 : Günther Knobloch , German SS-Hauptsturmführer
• 1912 : Gil Evans , Canadian jazz musician
• 1912 : Ernst Hess , Swiss conductor, composer and musicologist
• 1912 : Willy Jürissen , German soccer player
• 1912 : Hans-Werner von Massow , German chess official
• 1913 : Götz von Houwald , German diplomat, ethnologist and historian
• 1913 : William R. Tolbert Jr. , President of Liberia
• 1913 : Helmut Weiß , German writer
• 1914 : Karl Andritz , Austrian football player

Joe Louis (* 1914)

• 1914 : Joe Louis , American boxer
• 1914 : Johnnie Wright , American country musician
• 1914 : Albert Pratz , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher
• 1914 : Gregor von Rezzori , German-Austrian author
• 1915 : Markus Redli , Swiss lawyer and federal civil servant
• 1916 : Jack Anglin , American country singer
• 1916 : Margot Antillano , Venezuelan theater, television and film actress
• 1917 : Marietheres Angerpointner , German actress
• 1918 : Anne Spoerry , French-Kenyan doctor and pilot
• 1919 : Hanns Aderhold , German water diver
• 1919 : Vedat Türkali , Turkish writer
• 1920 : Alfons Bauer , German composer and zither player
• 1920 : Gareth Morris , English flautist
• 1921 : Terry Fell , American country musician
• 1922 : Otl Aicher , sculptor, graphic artist, designer
• 1923 : Beatrice Arthur , American actress
• 1923 : Ikegami Kaneo , Japanese writer and screenwriter
• 1925 : Roger Asselberghs , Belgian jazz musician
• 1925 : Ratmir Dmitrijewitsch Cholmow , Russian chess player
• 1925 : Walter Plata , German typesetter and typographer
• 1925 : Giselle Vesco , German actress

1926-1950

Gernot Duda (* 1927)

• 1927 : Gernot Duda , German theater and folk actor
• 1927 : Rudolf Marić , Serbian chess master and chess author
• 1927 : Herbert Ross , American choreographer and film director
• 1927 : Waldemar Schieber , German horn player
• 1927 : Archie Scott-Brown , British racing car driver
• 1928 : Enrique Bolaños Geyer , President of the Republic of Nicaragua
• 1929 : Johannes Gründel , German Catholic theologian and priest
• 1929 : Ulisses dos Santos , Brazilian athlete
• 1930 : Enzo Andronico , Italian actor
• 1930 : Hartmut Schmidt , German church musician
• 1931 : Jim Jones , American cult leader

Jiří Petr (* 1931)

• 1931 : Jiří Petr , Czech agronomist and rector emeritus Prague-Suchdol
• 1931 : Werner Stiegler , German enduro athlete
• 1932 : Yuri Michailowitsch Aronowitsch , Israeli conductor
• 1932 : Sara C. Bisel , American archaeologist and anthropologist
• 1932 : Robert Weimar , German lawyer and psychologist
• 1932 : Helga Wischer , German sport angler
• 1933 : Alfonsas Andriuškevičius , Lithuanian mathematician and politician
• 1934 : Paddy Driver , South African motorcycle and car racer
• 1934 : Peter Häberle , German constitutional law teacher
• 1934 : Adolf Muschg , Swiss writer and literary scholar

Hans-Peter Schwarz (* 1934)

• 1934 : Hans-Peter Schwarz , German historian and political scientist
• 1935 : Luciano Benetton , Italian entrepreneur
• 1935 : Wolfgang Friedrich Gutmann , German founder of the Frankfurt evolution theory
• 1935 : Erich Leist , German soccer player
• 1935 : Taku Miki , Japanese writer
• 1935 : Yizhak Sadai , Israeli composer and music teacher
• 1935 : Jan Saudek , Czech photographer
• 1937 : Norbert Faustenhammer , Austrian lawyer and diplomat
• 1937 : Gottfried Jäger , German photographer and photo theorist
• 1937 : Roger Zelazny , American writer
• 1938 : Giuliano Amato , Italian politician
• 1938 : Ludovic Spiess , Romanian singer
• 1938 : Horst Tappe , German photographer
• 1939 : Hildrun Laufer , German athlete and Olympic medalist
• 1939 : Peter Frenkel , German athlete and Olympic champion
• 1939 : Harvey Keitel , American actor
• 1940 : Immo Appenzeller , German astronomer
• 1940 : Bruce Chatwin , British writer
• 1941 : Hademar Bankhofer , Austrian journalist

Senta Berger (* 1941)

• 1941 : Senta Berger , Austrian actress and film producer
• 1941 : Heinrich Bolleter , German bishop of the Methodist Church
• 1941 : Joe Brown , British guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 1941 : Imca Marina , Dutch singer
• 1941 : Ritchie Valens , American rock 'n' roll musician
• 1942 : Jeff Astle , English football player
• 1942 : Walter Rasch , German politician
• 1942 : Pál Schmitt , Hungarian fencer, diplomat and politician
• 1943 : Kurt Trampedach , Danish painter

Anne Pingeot (* 1943)

• 1943 : Anne Pingeot , French art historian
• 1943 : Mary Wells , American singer
• 1944 : Hacıbala Abutalıbov , Azerbaijani politician and physicist
• 1944 : Uwe Barschel , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
• 1944 : Armistead Maupin , American writer
• 1944 : Wilhelm Schmidt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 1945 : Sam Anderson , American actor
• 1945 : Lasse Berghagen , Swedish musician

Jazz Gitti (* 1946)

• 1946 : Jazz Gitti , Austrian singer
• 1946 : Jean Rondeau , French racing car driver and designer
• 1947 : Stephen R. Donaldson , American fantasy and science fiction writer
• 1947 : Irmgard Möller , German terrorist with the RAF
• 1948 : Ivan Klánský , Czech pianist and music teacher
• 1949 : Franklyn Ajaye , American actor and stand-up comedian
• 1949 : Ingeborg Arlt , German writer
• 1949 : Alexander Vilenkin , Russian-American physicist
• 1949 : Zoë Wanamaker , British actress
• 1950 : Danny Kirwan , British musician
• 1950 : Sleiman Hajjar , Lebanese Bishop in Canada
• 1950 : Stevie Wonder , American soul and pop singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Vytautas Arbačiauskas , Lithuanian politician
• 1952 : Olaf Bernstengel , German puppeteer
• 1953 : Hilde Adolf , German politician
• 1953 : Franz Meyer , German politician
• 1953 : Georg Zipfel , German cross-country skier and national trainer
• 1954 : Jean-Louis Costes , French performance artist
• 1954 : Georg Gafron , German journalist

Johnny Logan (born 1954)

• 1954 : Johnny Logan , Irish singer and composer
• 1954 : Josef Loos , Austrian politician
• 1954 : Eckhard Lucius , German biology didactic
• 1955 : Peter Heinrich Brix , German actor
• 1955 : Garry Bushell , British television presenter and columnist
• 1955 : Silvia Hollmann , German athlete
• 1955 : Parviz Meshkatian , Iranian santur player and composer
• 1956 : Vjekoslav Bevanda , Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician
• 1956 : Alexander Jurjewitsch Kaleri , Russian cosmonaut of Latvian origin
• 1956 : Katalin Szili , Hungarian lawyer
• 1957 : Erika Adensamer , Austrian politician

Alan Ball (born 1957)

• 1957 : Alan Ball , American screenwriter
• 1957 : Claudie Haigneré , French astronaut and politician
• 1957 : Mark Heap , British actor
• 1957 : Andrea Klump , German ex-terrorist
• 1957 : Stefano Tacconi , Italian football goalkeeper
• 1957 : Kōji Suzuki , Japanese writer
• 1958 : Jeffrey Gedmin , American political scientist
• 1959 : Eike Hallitzky , German politician, MdL
• 1959 : Roger Muraro , French pianist
• 1960 : Claus Dieter Classen , German legal scholar
• 1960 : Uwe Dreher , German soccer player and coach
• 1960 : Maggie Mae , German pop singer
• 1960 : Elisabeth Niederer , Swiss actress
• 1960 : Benjamin Völz , German voice actor
• 1961 : Ásta Breiðfjörð Gunnlaugsdóttir , Icelandic football player
• 1961 : Manes Meckenstock , German comedian and presenter

Dennis Rodman (born 1961)

• 1961 : Dennis Rodman , American basketball player
• 1961 : Yutaka Sado , Japanese conductor
• 1962 : Aníbal Acevedo Vilá , Puerto Rican politician
• 1963 : Paola Antonelli , Italian architect and museum curator
• 1964 : Stephen Colbert , American comedian
• 1964 : Mari Akasaka , Japanese writer from J-Bungaku
• 1964 : Ronnie Coleman , American bodybuilder
• 1965 : Eberhard Carl , German soccer player
• 1965 : Lari White , American country singer
• 1966 : Alison Goldfrapp , British singer, songwriter and record producer
• 1966 : Peter Zakowski , German racing car driver
• 1967 : Chuck Schuldiner , American guitarist and singer (Death)

Melanie Thornton (* 1967)

• 1967 : Melanie Thornton , German-American pop singer (La Bouche)
• 1968 : Darren Le Tissier , British badminton player
• 1968 : Sonja Zietlow , German television presenter
• 1969 : Buckethead , American guitarist
• 1969 : Natascha Rusnachenko , Austrian handball player
• 1969 : Petri Varis , Finnish ice hockey player
• 1970 : Ian Agol , American mathematician
• 1970 : Mark Beaufait , American ice hockey player
• 1970 : Thomas Bug , German radio and television presenter
• 1970 : Robert Maćkowiak , Polish sprinter
• 1970 : Christian Schmidt , German actor
• 1971 : Sascha Armutat , German officer and economist
• 1971 : Thomas Arnold , German actor
• 1971 : Espen Lind , Norwegian singer, songwriter and producer
• 1972 : Sergio Assisi , Italian film and stage actor
• 1972 : Erika Raum , Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer
• 1973 : Daniel Bärwolf , German soccer player
• 1974 : Birgit Stauber , Austrian actress, screenwriter and director
• 1975 : Andreas Jung , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

1976-2000

• 1976 : Mark Delaney , Welsh football player
• 1976 : Marcelo Pletsch , Brazilian soccer player
• 1976 : Ana Popović , Serbian blues guitarist and singer
• 1976 : Grzegorz Szamotulski , Polish football player
• 1977 : Gitte Krogh , Danish soccer player
• 1977 : Samantha Morton , British actress
• 1977 : Brian Thomas Smith , American actor and comedian
• 1978 : Kim Yong-hyun , South Korean badminton player
• 1979 : Sara Larsson , Swedish football player

Carl Philip of Sweden (* 1979)

• 1979 : Carl Philip of Sweden , Swedish Prince
• 1980 : Preston Callander , German-Canadian ice hockey striker
• 1981 : Greg Amadio , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 : Asmir Avdukić , Bosnian football player
• 1981 : Fabiana Diniz , Brazilian handball player
• 1981 : Nicolás Frutos , Argentine soccer player
• 1981 : Matías Lequi , Italian-Argentine soccer player
• 1981 : Rebecka Liljeberg , Swedish actress
• 1982 : Onyekachi Okonkwo , Nigerian soccer player
• 1982 : Oguchi Onyewu , American football player
• 1982 : Stefan Pries , German handball player
• 1982 : Casey Stoney , English soccer player
• 1983 : Anita Görbicz , Hungarian handball player and trainer
• 1983 : Grégory Lemarchal , French pop singer
• 1984 : Henrike Fehrs , German actress and speaker
• 1984 : Hannah New , British actress and model
• 1985 : Javier Balboa , Spanish-Equatorial Guinean soccer player
• 1985 : Tobias Oriwol , Canadian swimmer
• 1986 : Morgan Arritola , American cross-country skier
• 1986 : Anthony Giacoppo , Australian cyclist

Robert Pattinson (* 1986)

• 1986 : Robert Pattinson , British actor
• 1986 : Alexander Rybak , Belarusian-Norwegian singer and violinist, composer and actor
• 1986 : Scott Sutter , Swiss football player
• 1987 : Candice King , American actress and musician
• 1987 : Antonio Adán , Spanish football goalkeeper
• 1987 : Felix Kossler , German handball player
• 1987 : Hunter Parrish , American actor
• 1987 : Carrie Prejean , American model
• 1988 : Hakan Ateş , Turkish soccer player
• 1988 : Said Husejinović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player

KRNFX (* 1989)

• 1989 : KRNFX , Korean-Canadian beatboxer, web video producer, and singer

Jennifer Beattie (* 1991)

• 1991 : Jennifer Beattie , Scottish soccer player
• 1991 : Anders Fannemel , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1991 : Omar Khir Alanam , author and poetry slammer of Syrian origin living in Austria
• 1992 : Djibril M'Bengue , German handball player
• 1993 : Romelu Lukaku , Belgian football player
• 1993 : Debby Ryan , American actress
• 1993 : Stefan Kraft , Austrian ski jumper
• 1993 : Tones and I , Australian singer-songwriter
• 1994 : Yves Kunkel , German handball player
• 1996 : Max Häfner , German handball player
• 1999 : Roman Lochmann , German singer
• 1999 : Sheldon van der Linde , South African racing car driver

Died

Before the 19th century

• 0384 : Servatius of Tongeren , bishop
• 1029 : García Sánchez , Count of Castile
• 1112 : Ulrich II. , Count of Weimar
• 1176 : Matthew I , Duke of Lorraine
• 1230 : Casimir I , Duke of Opole-Ratibor
• 1296 : Ludwig III. , Duke of Lower Bavaria
• 1312 : Theobald II , Duke of Lorraine
• 1315 : Adolf VI. , Graf in Holstein and in the Schaumburg area
• 1332 : Isaiah of Constantinople , Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1396 : William Zouche, 3rd Baron Zouche of Haryngworth , English nobleman
• 1416 : Petrus de Ancharano , Italian lawyer
• 1508 : Martial d'Auvergne , French writer
• 1519 : Artus Gouffier de Boisy , French statesman, Grand Master of France
• 1553 : Johannes Aepinus , German theologian, writer and linguist
• 1568 : Sophia of Pomerania , Queen of Denmark and Norway
• 1572 : Johann Argentier , Italian medic
• 1573 : Takeda Shingen , Japanese regional ruler and warlord during the Warring States Period
• 1604 : Christine von Hessen , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

Johan van Oldenbarnevelt († 1619)

• 1619 : Johan van Oldenbarnevelt , Dutch statesman and diplomat
• 1646 : Maria Anna of Spain , Infanta of Spain and Portugal, by marriage Queen of Hungary and Bohemia and Roman-German Empress
• 1710 : Heinrich , regent of Saxe-Gotha-Römhild
• 1726 : Francesco Antonio Pistocchi , Italian composer, librettist, former castrato and singing teacher
• 1734 : Christian Albrecht Niemann , lawyer and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1734 : James Thornhill , British painter
• 1739 : Dubislav Gneomar von Natzmer , Prussian general
• 1742 : Nicolas Andry de Boisregard , French doctor and man of letters
• 1745 : Franz Trumler , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor
• 1759 : Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , French sculptor
• 1766 : Martin Hannibal , German coin die cutter and medalist
• 1782 : Friedrich Albrecht Augusti , German theologian and clergyman
• 1782 : Johann August von Hellfeld , German legal scholar

19th century

• 1807 : Georg Friedrich Seiler , German theologian and university professor
• 1812 : Johannes Matthias Sperger Austrian composer
• 1818 : Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly , Russian general and minister of war
• 1818 : Louis V. Joseph , Prince of Condé
• 1818 : Emanuel Merian , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1826 : Christian Kramp , Alsatian doctor, mathematician and physicist

Georges Cuvier († 1832)

• 1832 : Georges Cuvier , French naturalist
• 1840 : Christian Friedrich Krüger , German Minister of State
• 1840 : Karl Ludwig Randhan , German medic
• 1843 : Agnes Franz , German writer
• 1850 : Johann Jakob Bernhardi , German botanist
• 1851 : Auguste of Bavaria , Vice Queen of Italy, Duchess of Leuchtenberg and Princess of Eichstätt
• 1855 : Teresa Belloc , Italian opera singer
• 1855 : Carl Kellner , German optician
• 1856 : Jean Zuléma Amussat , French doctor and surgeon
• 1871 : Anselme Payen , French chemist, physicist and mathematician
• 1872 : Moritz Hartmann , journalist, writer and politician
• 1872 : Georg Friedrich Carl Kölling , German sculptor
• 1873 : Gašpar Mašek , Czech composer
• 1877 : Joseph Höger , Austrian landscape painter, watercolorist, etcher and lithographer

Joseph Henry († 1878)

• 1878 : Joseph Henry , American scientist
• 1880 : David Thomas Ansted , English geologist
• 1886 : Theodor Mattern , Berlin merchant and dye works owner
• 1891 : Wilhelm Büchner , German pedagogue and classical philologist
• 1892 : Ferdinand Poise , French composer
• 1900 : Bou Ahmed , Grand Vizier and Regent in Morocco

20th century

1901-1950

• 1916 : Scholem Alejchem , Russian-American Yiddish-speaking writer, classic of Yiddish literature
• 1921 : Jean Aicard , French poet, novelist and playwright
• 1926 : August Bender , German chemist and entrepreneur
• 1927 : Stine Andresen , German writer

Ida Boy-Ed († 1928)

• 1928 : Ida Boy-Ed , German writer and salonnière
• 1928 : Ernst Buss , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1929 : Adolf Braun , Austro-German social democratic politician and journalist
• 1929 : Arthur Scherbius , German inventor and entrepreneur
• 1930 : Helene Lange , German educator and women's rights activist
• 1930 : Fridtjof Nansen , Norwegian zoologist, polar researcher and diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1933 : Paul Ernst , German writer and playwright
• 1933 : Richard von Schubert , Prussian officer
• 1943 : Erika Countess von Brockdorff , German resistance fighter against National Socialism ( Red Orchestra )
• 1943 : Wilhelm Guddorf , German journalist, resistance fighter against National Socialism ( Red Orchestra )
• 1945 : Fritz Amreich , German politician
• 1945 : Albert Jodlbauer , German physician, pharmacologist and toxicologist
• 1948 : Kathleen Cavendish , member of the Kennedy family
• 1949 : Nakamura Murao , Japanese literary theorist and critic

1951-2000

• 1960 : Harry Schell , German racing car driver
• 1960 : Gid Tanner , American musician

Gary Cooper († 1961)

• 1961 : Gary Cooper , American actor
• 1962 : Franz Kline , American painter
• 1963 : Herta Gotthelf , German politician and party official
• 1963 : Georg Pahl , German press photographer
• 1964 : Hamilton Basso , American journalist and writer
• 1966 : Henrik Adam Due , Norwegian violinist and music teacher
• 1968 : Heinrich Benckert , German theologian
• 1968 : Robert Burks , American cinematographer
• 1969 : Paul Merker , German politician in the GDR
• 1971 : Hubert von Meyerinck , German actor
• 1971 : Giuseppe Milano , Italian football player and coach
• 1972 : Dan Blocker , American actor
• 1972 : Werner Burri , Swiss ceramist
• 1975 : Marguerite Perey , French chemist and physicist
• 1975 : Bob Wills , American musician
• 1979 : Louis Debeugny , French racing car driver
• 1980 : Umbo , German photographer
• 1981 : Nathan Abshire , American accordion player
• 1981 : Joseph-Ernst Fugger von Glött , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 1982 : Rudolf Grob , Swiss Protestant clergyman and director of a sanatorium
• 1982 : Qara Qarayev , Azerbaijani composer
• 1983 : Sylvio Lacharité , Canadian conductor and composer
• 1984 : Julie Rösch , German politician

Stanisław Marcin Ulam († 1984)

• 1984 : Stanisław Marcin Ulam , Polish mathematician
• 1985 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Mikulin , Soviet engine designer
• 1985 : Mildred Scheel , German doctor, wife of Walter Scheel and founder of the German Cancer Aid
• 1988 : Chet Baker , American jazz musician, singer and composer
• 1991 : Victor-Emanuel Preusker , German politician
• 1991 : Carl Weinrich , American organist and music teacher
• 1992 : Gisela Elsner , German writer
• 1994 : Vladimir Sergeyevich Antozhin , Soviet chess grandmaster
• 1994 : José Faraoni , Argentine racing car driver
• 1994 : Duncan Hamilton , Irish Formula 1 racing driver
• 1995 : Alan Maley , British painter and special effects artist
• 1995 : Wolfgang von Zeynek , German lawyer
• 1997 : Bernard Brindel , American composer, music teacher and violinist
• 1999 : Motohiko Hino , Japanese jazz drummer

21st century

• 2001 : Rogelio Martínez Díaz , Cuban guitarist and singer and band leader
• 2002 : Morihiro Saitō , Japanese Aikido teacher
• 2004 : Kjell Bækkelund , Norwegian pianist
• 2004 : Muhammad Nawaz , Pakistani javelin thrower
• 2005 : Eddie Barclay , French music producer
• 2005 : Gunnar Nilsson , Swedish heavyweight boxer
• 2006 : Helga Anschütz , German orientalist, geographer and lecturer
• 2006 : Manfred Heindler , Austrian physicist
• 2008 : Georg Mautner Markhof , Austrian industrialist and politician
• 2008 : Colea Răutu , Romanian actor
• 2009 : Hartmut Aschermann , German theologian

Monica Bleibtreu († 2009)

• 2009 : Monica Bleibtreu , Austrian actress
• 2009 : Bernd Mikulin , German nurse and president of the German Angler Association
• 2010 : Eva Guttsman Ostwalt , German contemporary witness and survivor of the Holocaust
• 2010 : Lauro Toneatto , Italian football player and coach
• 2011 : Bernard Greenhouse , American cellist and music teacher
• 2012 : Donald Dunn , American bass player
• 2013 : André Bord , French politician
• 2013 : Lilo Ramdohr , German resistance fighter
• 2014 : David Malet Armstrong , Australian philosopher
• 2014 : Malik Bendjelloul , Swedish documentary filmmaker
• 2015 : Gunter Berger , German actor
• 2015 : Robert Drasnin , American composer
• 2017 : Günter Dietz , German classical philologist, poet and translator
• 2018 : Glenn Branca , American composer and guitarist
• 2018 : Karl-Ernst Herrmann , German set designer and opera director
• 2018 : Margot Kidder , Canadian-American actress
• 2019 : Doris Day , American actress and singer
• 2019 : Jörg Kastendiek , German politician
• 2020 : Rolf Hochhuth , German playwright

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Hans Ernst von Kottwitz , German benefactor (Protestant)
  • St. Servatius von Tongern , bishop, " Ice Saint " (Roman Catholic)

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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