December 14th

The December 14 is the 348th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 349th in leap years ), thus remain 17 days by year end.

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Politics and world events

• 1417: John Oldcastle , a leader of the Lollards is, as in England heretics executed. Presumably he was immortalized by William Shakespeare in the figure of Falstaff .
• 1482: The Münsinger contract between Eberhard V. von Württemberg-Urach and Eberhard VI. von Württemberg-Stuttgart abolishes the division of the county of Württemberg after the Nürtingen Treaty of 1442. Eberhard V. becomes as Eberhard I. ruler of the united Württemberg and promises Eberhard VI. the right of succession.
• 1542: Six day old Mary Queen of Scots becomes Queen of Scotland. James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran , takes over the reign for them.
• 1697: At the age of 15, Charles XII. crowned King of Sweden .

1751: Leopold Joseph Count Daun

• 1751: One of the first military academies in the world, the Theresian Military Academy , is founded in Austria . Archduchess Maria Theresa appoints Field Marshal Leopold Josef Graf Daun as first commandant.
• 1788: Charles IV. Becomes Charles III after the death of his father . King of Spain .
• 1791: King Louis XVI. founds the French Rhine Army during the Revolution , which was deployed in the subsequent coalition wars.
• 1800: In the two-day battle on the Walserfeld in the Second Coalition War, the defeated Austrian troops manage to evade encirclement by French units. Jean-Victor Moreau then quartered his soldiers in Salzburg.
• 1819: Alabama becomes the 22nd state in the USA .
• 1822: The Verona Congress ends in Verona , the last meeting of the monarchs of the great European powers within the framework of the Holy Alliance .
• 1900: Max Planck gives a lecture at the German Physical Meeting in Berlin: Birth of the Quantum Theory .
• 1902: The Reichstag resolves to increase customs tariffs .
• 1903: Bavaria sets up the Ministry of Transport .

• 1906: U 1 , the first German submarine , is put into service by the Imperial Navy in Kiel .
• 1909: In Belgium is compulsory military service introduced.
• 1911: Roald Amundsen and his team are the first people to reach the geographic South Pole as part of the Fram expedition and set up the first Polheim camp there .
• 1916: In the first referendum in Denmark , the majority approves the sale of Danish West India to the United States.
• 1918: Friedrich Karl von Hessen , only elected King of Finland on October 9th , abdicates after the defeat of the German Empire in the First World War . Finland becomes a republic.
• 1918: On the Rossio Station in Lisbon is Portuguese dictator Sidónio Pais in an assassination shot. Pai's "New Republic" ( República Nova ) then collapses. João do Canto e Castro will initially take power on a provisional basis.
• 1920: The British Parliament passes the Government of Ireland Act , which divides Ireland into the two autonomous regions of Northern and Southern Ireland , each with its own administration and parliament .
• 1931: The fascist National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands is founded in Utrecht .
• 1933: The new German government concludes the much-noticed Feder-Bosch Agreement with IG Farben , thereby providing economic guarantees for the production of synthetic gasoline .
• 1939: The USSR is expelled from the League of Nations because of the attack on Finland .
• 1946: The General Assembly of the United Nations in London chooses New York City as the permanent seat of the organization.
• 1950: Under the name United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees orients the UN General Assembly a successor organization for a corresponding institution of the now defunct League of Nations a.
• 1954: In Bavaria, a coalition of four , consisting of the SPD , BP , FDP and GB / BHE , takes over the government under Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner .
• 1959: During the transition phase from the British Crown Colony to the Independent Republic on the basis of the Zurich and London Agreements , presidential elections are held in Cyprus . Archbishop Makarios III. is elected the first President of the Republic of Cyprus , which becomes independent on August 16 of the following year.
• 1960: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) is founded in Paris .

Władysław Gomułka

• 1962: Welthungerhilfe is founded in Bonn under the name of the German Committee for the Fight against Hunger on the initiative of the German Federal President Heinrich Lübke .
• 1966: Willy Brandt becomes Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany in the grand coalition. Heinrich Albertz will be his successor as Governing Mayor of Berlin .
• 1970: In Gdansk and other Polish port cities, protests against Władysław Gomułka's government and clashes between workers and the police broke out over massive price increases .
• 1979: Vera Brühne , sentenced to life imprisonment for double murder on June 4, 1962, is pardoned and released by the Bavarian Prime Minister Franz Josef Strauss .

1981: The Golan Heights

• 1981: Israel annexes the Syrian Golan Heights , which was occupied in the Six Day War .
• 1989: Transition in Chile : In Chile , the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet ends with the election of Patricio Aylwin as president .
• 1990: After 30 years, the first conference of the African National Congress ( ANC ), the oldest civil rights movement on the continent, takes place in Johannesburg . The ANC was banned under the white apartheid regime in South Africa .
• 1995: The heads of state of Serbia , Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina , Slobodan Milošević , Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović , sign the Dayton Treaty to end the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
• 1999: In the second Chechen campaign , Russian troops advance into the Chechen capital Grozny for the first time .
• 2003: British Prime Minister Tony Blair officially confirms the arrest of Saddam Hussein .

business

• 1789: In France , the first to be Assignaten circulated.

Monte Carlo Casino (founded 1856)

• 1856: The Monte Carlo casino opens in Monaco in a villa by the harbor.
• 1899: As purpose association to channel and regulate the Emscher in is Bochum the Emschergenossenschaft , Germany's first water sunternehmen its kind, was founded.
• 1962: The permit for the construction of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant is granted, the first German nuclear power plant to generate electricity .
• 1962: The state trade organization Intershop is established in the GDR . Its customers are said to be foreigners, to whom goods are sold in exchange for convertible currencies.
• 1993: Representatives of the GATT member states sign a new world trade agreement .
• 1996: As a so-called stability pact for the monetary union , the heads of state and government of the EU decide on the EU convergence criteria at their summit in Dublin, Ireland .
• 2004: With a contract between Cuba and Venezuela on the delivery of Venezuelan oil by Hugo Chávez against the posting of Cuban doctors by Fidel Castro , the Bolivarian Alternative for America ( ALBA ) is founded as an alternative to the planned US-dominated American free trade zone .

science and technology

• 1826: During a lecture in Berlin, the scientist Carl Ritter first used the words orography (height description) and hypsometry (height measurement), both of which were established as technical terms .
• 1896: The Glasgow Underground Railway , today's Glasgow Subway , is opened as the third underground railway in the world .

Max Planck

• 1900: Max Planck presented to the Physical Society in Berlin the theoretical interpretation of his radiation law using Ludwig Boltzmann's previously rejected statistical mechanics . He assumes that the radiation energy can only be emitted in certain portions (energy quanta). This casual assumption of Planck's quantum of action is regarded today as his greatest scientific achievement and the hour of birth of quantum physics .
• 1903: Wilbur Wright's first unsuccessful attempt to fly .
• 1906: The Royal Building and Transport Museum opens in the disused Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin , and is later replaced by today's Museum of Contemporary Art .
• 1930: In a laboratory test, the physicist Manfred von Ardenne succeeds in the world's first fully electronic television transmission with a cathode ray tube .
• 1958: As part of the International Geophysical Year, a Soviet Antarctic expedition was the first to reach the South Pole of Inaccessibility and set up a research station there, which was operated until December 26th.
• 1962: NASA's Mariner 2 space probe passes Venus and transmits important data to Earth.
• 1972: The commander of Apollo 17 , Eugene Cernan , is the last person to leave the moon for the time being .
• 1995: The Apache 1.0 web server is released after intensive beta tests.
• 2004: Close to Millau , Aveyron in southern France, is by French President Jacques Chirac of de Millau Viaduct , the highest with 343 meters cable-stayed bridge in the world dedicated.

2004: The Mars Rover Spirit ( MER-A )

• 2004: When evaluating the data from the US Mars robot Spirit, there is evidence of the presence of goethite on Mars , a mineral that only forms in the presence of water.
• 2006: The US spy satellite USA 193 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base .
• 2007: The 5000th aircraft from the European manufacturer Airbus is delivered. The recipient of the A330-200 is the Australian airline Qantas , which will receive it during a ceremony in Toulouse.

Culture

1898: The anniversary city theater at the time of opening

• 1898: The Vienna Volksoper is opened on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the throne of Franz Joseph I under the name Kaiser-Jubiläums-Stadttheater . The emperor stayed away from the opening because of the murder of his wife .
• 1918: The three one-act operas Il tabarro (The Coat), Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) and Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini are premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .
• 1918: The first edition of the magazine The syndicalist , one of the major press organs of the anarcho-syndikali-stischen movement in Germany, appears.
• 1925: The world premiere of the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg takes place at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin .
• 1928: DH Lawrence publishes his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover ( Lady Chatterley ) .
• 1946: Carl Zuckmayer's drama Des Teufels General , an argument about resistance and fellow travelers in World War II , premieres in Zurich.
• 1962: The treasure in Silbersee is premiered in the Mathäser-Filmpalast in Munich. Pierre Brice plays it first time to Winnetou , Lex Barker the Old Shatterhand , the film music of Martin Böttcher , especially the Old Shatterhand Melodie , is pointing the way for later Karl May movies .
• 1977: Saturday Night Fever, starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City .
• 1991: The Rave Mayday takes place for the first time in Berlin . The Dortmund Westfalenhallen has been the regular venue for this techno event since 1993 .

2003: La Fenice Theater

• 2003: The Teatro La Fenice in Venice , which burned down completely on January 29, 1996 , is reopened with a concert by the Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice under the direction of Riccardo Muti - for the time being only as a concert hall.
• 2017: The American science fiction film Star Wars: The Last Jedi starts in German cinemas. It is the eighth episode in the Star Wars film series.

society

1702: The attack on the house of Kira Yoshihisa

• 1702: In revenge for the death of their prince Asano, 47 ronin break into the house of the Japanese shogunate official Kira Yoshihisa in Edo and kill him and his male followers.
• 1784: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is accepted into the Masonic lodge Zur Charity .
• 1890: In the German Empire the association for the defense against anti-Semitism is founded.
• 1976: The student Richard Oetker , son of the entrepreneur Rudolf-August Oetker , is kidnapped by Dieter Zlof in Freising with the aim of extorting ransom .
• 2012: 28 people, including 20 school children, are killed in a rampage in the small US town of Newtown .

religion

• 0867: Hadrian II is enthroned as the successor to Nicholas I as Pope .
• 0872: John VIII is enthroned as the new Pope on the anniversary of the death of his predecessor Hadrian II.
• 1431: The Basel Council sets its goals at its first session. With the extermination of heresy, the unification of all Christian peoples in one church, the end of wars between Christian princes and a reform of the church at its head and members, it undertakes a great program.

Disasters

• 1287: The Lucia flood breaks over the German North Sea coast , killing around 50,000 people.
• 1805: During a fire in the Melk Abbey in Lower Austria there are about two to three hundred soldiers of the Imperial Russian Army to death as prisoners of war in the northern bastion of the pin were interned.
• 1907: The largest schooner in the world, the Thomas W. Lawson , the world's only seven- masted gaff schooner , runs aground, capsizes and sinks with 15 sailors and the pilot within the Isles of Scilly in a violent storm after the anchor chain broke. This leads to one of the first oil disasters at sea.

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

Sports

1947: The Nuevo Chamartín Stadium opens in Madrid . Exactly seven years later, it is in honor of former football player and club president of Real Madrid in Santiago Bernabeu Stadium renamed.

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

Born

Before the 16th century

Tycho Brahe (* 1546)

• 1009: Go-Suzaku , 69th Emperor of Japan
• 1332: Friedrich III. , Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen
• 1363: Jean Gerson , French theologian, mystic and chancellor of the Paris Sorbonne
• 1481: Lucas Rem , Augsburg merchant and diary writer

16th to 18th centuries

• 1503: Nostradamus (Michel de Notredame), French astrologer
• 1541: Sophie von Brandenburg , Countess of the Castle of Bohemia
• 1546: Tycho Brahe , Danish astronomer
• 1563: Johann Bacmeister the Elder , German medic
• 1574: Holger Rosenkrantz , Danish nobleman, theologian, educator and member of the Imperial Council
• 1586: Georg Calixt , German Protestant theologian
• 1607: Johann Kemény , Hungarian military leader and Prince of Transylvania
• 1629: Johann Schulte , German lawyer and mayor of Hamburg
• 1654: Danylo Apostol , Ukrainian Cossack hetman
• 1655: Philipp , paraged Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal
• 1678: Daniel Neal , English Reformed clergyman and church historian
• 1720: Justus Möser , German writer and politician
• 1722: Otto Hermann von Vietinghoff , General Director of the All-Russian Medical College
• 1725: Bernhard Friedrich Hummel , German educator
• 1728: Johann Rudolf Ulrich , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1730: James Bruce , British naturalist and traveler
• 1738: Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz , Polish-Lithuanian aristocrat of Ruthenian origin
• 1738: Jan Antonín Koželuh , Bohemian composer
• 1739: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours , French economist
• 1748: William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire , British nobleman
• 1752: Christoph August Tiedge , German poet
• 1775: Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , British politician and freedom fighter
• 1780: Karl Robert von Nesselrode , Russian diplomat, foreign minister and chancellor
• 1784: Heinrich von der Mark , Bavarian Lieutenant General and Minister of War
• 1787: Hans Detlef Friedrich Asschenfeldt , German publisher and member of parliament
• 1789: Johannes Jacob Hegetschweiler , Swiss physician, botanist and politician
• 1795: Elisabetha Grossmann , Swiss skipper
• 1796: Lilburn Boggs , American politician

19th century

1801-1850

• 1806: Ernst Casimir II of Ysenburg and Büdingen , German nobleman, Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen
• 1811: Maximilian von Wächter , German local politician, First Mayor of Nuremberg
• 1812: Isidor Dannström , Swedish composer
• 1814: Ludwig Droste , German architect and city builder
• 1828: Émile de Najac , French librettist
• 1829: John Mercer Langston , American civil rights activist, lawyer, and politician
• 1833: Doris Schnittger , German painter
• 1835: Hubert Theophil Simar , Archbishop of Cologne
• 1837: Arthur Sturgis Hardy , Canadian politician
• 1840: Viktor Madarász , Hungarian painter
• 1841: Louise Héritte-Viardot , French composer, pianist and singer
• 1841: Louis Pio , Danish socialist leader
• 1842: Victor Langer , Hungarian composer
• 1846: Emanuel Friedli , Swiss writer
• 1850: Josef Arbesser von Rastburg , Austrian landscape and architecture painter

1851-1875

• 1852: Richard Ritter Schubert von Soldern , Austrian philosopher
• 1853: Errico Malatesta , Italian anarchist, co-founder of the anarchist movement in Italy
• 1856: Julius Ackerknecht , German educator
• 1859: Nikolai Bezhanitsky , Russian Orthodox priest and martyr in Estonia
• 1863: Wyatt Aiken , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1864: Emil Rungwerth , German homeland researcher

Paul Löbe
(* 1875)

• 1868: Théodore Botrel , French chansonnier
• 1870: Karl Renner , Austrian politician and lawyer, State Chancellor, Member of the National Council and President, Federal President
• 1873: Joseph Jongen , Belgian composer and organist
• 1874: Adam Stegerwald , German politician, co-founder of the Christian trade unions and the CSU, MdL, MdR, Prussian Prime Minister, Reich Minister
• 1875: Paul Löbe , German politician, Member of the Reichstag, President of the Reichstag, Member of the Bundestag

1876-1900

• 1877: Elise Kosegarten , German painter
• 1879: Paul Corder , British composer
• 1879: Hermann Dietrich , German politician, Lord Mayor of Konstanz, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Reich Minister
• 1880: Bruno Barilli , Italian composer, journalist and writer
• 1883: Manolis Kalomiris , Greek composer

Morihei Ueshiba (* 1883)

• 1883: Ueshiba Morihei , founder of the Japanese martial art Aikido
• 1884: Mykolay Charnetskyi , Ukrainian bishop and martyr
• 1884: Erich Ponto , German actor
• 1884: Regina Ullmann , Austrian-Swiss poet and storyteller
• 1886: Fred Sauer , Austrian actor, director and screenwriter
• 1887: Xul Solar , Argentine painter
• 1888: Hans Adt , German paper industrialist
• 1888: Harold Hardwick , Australian swimmer, boxer, and rugby union player
• 1889: Ruth Parnitzke , German painter
• 1890: Sigurd Hoel , Norwegian writer
• 1891: Mary Lavater-Sloman , German writer
• 1894: Karl Adler , German gynecologist
• 1895: Paul Éluard , French poet and broker

George VI. (* 1895)

• 1895: George VI. , British King
• 1897: Erich Fascher , German Protestant theologian
• 1897: Kurt Schuschnigg , Austrian politician, Federal Chancellor
• 1897: Georges Thill , French opera singer (tenor)
• 1898: Alfred Au , German soccer player
• 1899: DeFord Bailey , American country musician
• 1899: Walter Hulverscheidt , German forester and author
• 1900: Juan D'Arienzo , Argentine arranger and band leader, composer and musician
• 1900: Benji Asada , Japanese painter and woodcut artist
• 1900: Bojan Ikonomov , Bulgarian composer
• 1900: Erich Schneider , German economic theorist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901: Lore Feininger , German photographer
• 1901: Paul I , King of Greece
• 1901: Rudolf Schaad , German film editor and film director
• 1902: Herbert Feigl , Austrian-American philosopher
• 1904: Gustav Burmester , German director and actor
• 1904: Emmerich Nagy , Austrian motorcycle racer
• 1906: Helmut Bornefeld , German author, graphic artist and church musician, composer and organ expert
• 1907: Edwin Ross Adair , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1907: Georg Frank , German football player
• 1907: Víctor Saume , Venezuelan radio and television presenter
• 1908: Friedrich Joloff , German actor and voice actor

Karl Carstens (* 1914)

Nikolai Bassow (* 1922)

• 1908: Laurence Naismith , British actor
• 1910: Upendranath Ashk , Indian writer, journalist and publisher
• 1910: Budd Johnson , American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger
• 1911: Spike Jones , American comedian
• 1911: Hans von Ohain , German-American physicist and aviation pioneer, one of the fathers of the jet engine
• 1914: Karl Carstens , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag, Federal President
• 1914: Rosalyn Tureck , American concert pianist
• 1914: Lieselotte Wicke , German politician, MdL
• 1915: Magnolia Antonino , Filipino entrepreneur, manager and politician
• 1915: Liebfriede Bernstiel , German ceramist
• 1917: Walter Edwin Arnoldi , American mechanical engineer
• 1918: BKS Iyengar , Indian yoga teacher
• 1919: Bob Drake , American racing car driver
• 1919: Agnes Fink , German actress
• 1919: Alfred Fischer , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Administrative Court
• 1920: Clark Terry , American jazz trumpeter and composer
• 1922: Nikolai Gennadijewitsch Bassow , Russian physicist, founder of quantum electronics, Nobel Prize winner
• 1922: Hans Daniel , German actor and news anchor
• 1922: Wolfgang Müller , German actor and cabaret artist
• 1922: Charley Trippi , American football player and coach
• 1923: Walter Schmithals , German Protestant theologian and New Testament scholar
• 1923: Walter Siegenthaler , Swiss physician
• 1924: Linda Hopkins , American blues and gospel singer
• 1925: Annemie Fontana , Swiss artist

1926-1950

• 1926: Martin Hengel , German theologian
• 1926: Herbert Roth , German composer and interpreter of popular music
• 1928: Aníbal Abreu , Venezuelan pianist, arranger and composer
• 1928: Hermann Schürrer , Austrian writer
• 1929: Fernando Sebastián Aguilar , Spanish Archbishop
• 1929: Dilarə Əliyeva , Azerbaijani philologist and translator, feminist and politician
• 1929: Hiroshi Tada , Japanese Aikido Grand Master
• 1929: Kurt Wünsche , German politician, Minister of Justice of the GDR
• 1930: Silvius Wodarz , German forest officer, environmental and nature conservationist
• 1931: Phineas Newborn , American jazz pianist and composer
• 1932: Hans Günter Aurich , German chemist
• 1932: Charlie Rich , American country singer
• 1933: Hans Jürgen Sonnenberger , German legal scholar
• 1934: Elín Ortiz , Puerto Rican television producer and actor
• 1935: Franz Adlkofer , German physician and university professor
• 1935: Bill Crofut , American banjo player and folk singer
• 1935: Klaus Klingner , German politician
• 1935: Barbara Leigh-Hunt , British actress
• 1935: Lee Remick , American actress
• 1936: Robert A. Parker , American astronaut
• 1938: Leonardo Boff , Brazilian theologian
  

  Leonardo Boff (* 1938)
• 1939: Josef Abrhám , Czech actor
• 1939: Stephen A. Cook , American computer scientist
• 1939: Daniel Druckman , American political and social scientist
• 1939: Dave Edwards , American football player
• 1940: Paco Camino , Spanish torero
• 1941: Lothar Appler , German racing cyclist
• 1941: Karan Armstrong , American soprano
• 1941: Rainer Probst , German painter, educator and school politician
• 1943: Lydia Huber , German singer, yodeler and radio presenter
• 1943: Monica Pick-Hieronimi , German soprano
• 1944: Michael Glos , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 1944: Linda Jones , American soul singer
• 1945: Roque Alberto Avallay , Argentine soccer player
• 1946: Antony Beevor , British historian
• 1946: Jane Birkin , British actress and singer
• 1946: Leon Botstein , American conductor and musicologist
• 1946: Patty Duke , American singer and actress
• 1946: Julia Edenhofer , German writer and radio presenter
• 1946: Ruth Fuchs , German javelin thrower and politician, Olympic champion, member of the People's Chamber, MdB, MdL
• 1946: Sanjay Gandhi , Indian politician, son of Indira Gandhi
• 1946: Peter Lorimer , Scottish soccer player
• 1946: Stan Smith , American tennis player
• 1946: Michael Vespoli , American rower
• 1947: Christopher Parkening , American guitarist
• 1948: Michel Abrass , Syrian Archbishop
• 1948: Kim Beazley , Australian politician, multiple minister
• 1948: Marianne Fritz , Austrian writer
• 1949: Bill Gregory , American football player
• 1949: Inger Lise Rypdal , Norwegian singer and actress
• 1949: Cliff Williams , British bassist (AC / DC)
• 1950: Christiane Krause , German athlete, Olympic champion

1951-1975

Mike Krüger (* 1951)

• 1951: Christoph Auffarth , German religious scholar and theologian
• 1951: Mike Krüger , German comedian, musician, singer and songwriter
• 1951: Jan Timman , Dutch chess player
• 1952: Tamara Danz , German singer ( Silly )
• 1952: John Lurie , American musician
• 1953: Vijay Amritraj , Indian athlete, actor and entrepreneur
• 1954: Serge Buttet , French swimmer
• 1954: Eva Mattes , German actress
• 1955: Hervé Guibert , French writer and photographer
• 1956: Sandy Adams , American politician
• 1956: Dieter Agatha , German soccer player
• 1956: Béla Réthy , German television presenter
• 1956: Hanni Wenzel , Liechtenstein ski racer, Olympic champion
• 1956: Erhard Wunderlich , German handball player
• 1957: Peter Schell , Swiss actor
• 1959: Paul Frielinghaus , German actor
• 1959: Andreas Mand , German writer
• 1960: Wolf Haas , Austrian writer
• 1960: Ebrahim Raissi , Iranian clergyman and politician
• 1961: Frank Kessler , German actor

Bela B. (* 1962)

• 1962: Bela B. , German musician, songwriter, actor and voice actor ( Die Ärzte )
• 1962: Ginger Lynn , American actress
• 1963: Diana Gansky , German athlete
• 1963: Cynthia Gibb , American actress
• 1964: Yuriy Lutsenko , Ukrainian politician, Minister of the Interior
• 1966: Susanne Rohrer , German radio presenter
• 1965: Aljoša Asanović , Yugoslav-Croatian football player
• 1965: Karin Beier , German theater director
• 1965: Bärbel Weimar , German soccer player
• 1966: Fabrizio Giovanardi , Italian racing car driver
• 1966: Lucrecia Martel , Argentine film director and screenwriter
• 1966: Tim Skold , Swedish musician
• 1966: Dennenesch Zoudé , German actress
• 1968: King Tee , American rapper

Natascha McElhone (* 1969)

• 1969: Natascha McElhone , British actress
• 1970: Grégory Anquetil , French handball player
• 1970: Anna Maria Jopek , Polish singer
• 1970: Nico Van Kerckhoven , Belgian football player
• 1970: Beth Orton , British musician and singer
• 1970: Thomas Zetzmann , German soccer player
• 1971: Claus Jacobi , German local politician
• 1971: Claudio Urru , German chef
• 1971: Tanja Wedhorn , German actress
• 1971: Zhai Chao , Chinese handball player
• 1971: Verena Scheitz , Austrian presenter and actress
• 1973: Falk Balzer , German athlete
• 1973: Boris Obergföll , German athlete
• 1975: Andrés Scotti , Uruguayan soccer player

1976-2000

Anna-Maria Zimmermann (* 1988)

• 1976: André Couto , Portuguese-Macau racing driver
• 1976: Malte Kaufmann , German politician
• 1978: Patty Schnyder , Swiss tennis player
• 1979: Jean-Alain Boumsong , Cameroonian-French football player
• 1979: Michael Owen , English soccer player
• 1980: Sam Aiken , American football player
• 1980: David Paryla , Austrian actor
• 1982: Koo Kyo-hwan , South Korean actor
• 1982: Steve Sidwell , English soccer player
• 1983: Alexandre Mendy , French football player
• 1983: Dane Richards , Jamaican soccer player
• 1984: Chadli Amri , Algerian soccer player
• 1984: Jackson Rathbone , American actor and musician
• 1985: Sévi Amoussou , Beninese football player
• 1985: Jakub Błaszczykowski , Polish football player
• 1985: Chris Czekaj , Welsh rugby player
• 1985: Juan Zúñiga , Colombian soccer player
• 1987: Netsanet Achamo Abeyo, Ethiopian long distance and obstacle runner
• 1987: Johannes Flum , German soccer player
• 1988: Nicolas Batum , French basketball player

Vanessa Hudgens (* 1988)

• 1988: Vanessa Hudgens , American actress and singer
• 1988: Anna-Maria Zimmermann , German pop singer
• 1989: Amini Fonua , Tongan swimmer
• 1989: Klaus Gjasula , German-Albanian football player
• 1989: Casper Ulrich Mortensen , Danish handball player
• 1990: Bojan Kosić , Montenegrin ski racer
• 1991: Nicolò Agostini , Italian grass skier
• 1991: Stefflon Don , British rapper
• 1991: Tabea Kemme , German soccer player
• 1991: Samantha Peszek , American gymnast
• 1993: Antonio Giovinazzi , Italian racing car driver
• 1993: Sasha Hostyn , Canadian esports athlete
• 1993: Thanawat Tirapongpaiboon , Thai snooker player
• 1996: Dave Gnaase , German soccer player
• 1996: Raphinha , Brazilian soccer player
• 1997: Arianna Noseda , Italian rower
• 1998: Lukas Nmecha , German-English soccer player
• 2000: Jule-Marleen Schuck , German actress
• 2000: Daryna Siranchuk , Ukrainian pool player

Died

Before the 16th century

George Washington
(† 1799)

Heinrich Christian Burckhardt († 1879)

• 0705: Aldfrith , King of Northumbria
• 0872: Hadrian II , Italian Pope
• 1005: Adalbero II , Bishop of Verdun and Metz
• 1015: Arduin of Ivrea , Margrave of Ivrea and King of Italy
• 1052: Aaron , Abbot of St. Martin in Cologne
• 1077: Agnes of Poitou , German Queen and Empress
• 1123: Henry IV , Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona
• 1188: Berthold III. , Margrave of Istria and Carniola
• 1241: Gernand , Bishop of Brandenburg
• 1248: Walter de Chouson , Valais canon and grand cantor
• 1267: Casimir I , Duke of Kuyavia
• 1272: Berthold von Regensburg , German Franciscan and preacher
• 1292: Edmund von Werth , priest of the Teutonic Order and bishop of the Courland diocese
• 1308: Christian of Pomesania , Bishop of Pomesania
• 1311: Margaret of Brabant , Roman-German queen, wife of Henry VII.
• 1313: Andreas von Gundelfingen , Bishop of Würzburg
• 1332: Irinchibal , Emperor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China
• 1334: Otto IV. , Duke of Lower Bavaria-Landshut
• 1337: Heinrich II. , Count von Fürstenberg
• 1359: Cangrande II. Della Scala , Lord of Verona
• 1392: John Gray , English nobleman
• 1417: John Oldcastle , English nobleman and a leader of the Lollards

16th to 18th centuries

• 1503: Sten Sture the Elder , Imperial Administrator of Sweden
• 1510: Friedrich von Sachsen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• 1514: Guillaume Briçonnet , Archbishop of Narbonne and Reims, Bishop of Nîmes
• 1542: James V , King of Scotland
• 1590: Margarethe Seybold , victim of the witch hunt in the Franconian Weißenburg im Nordgau
• 1591: John of the Cross , Spanish poet, mystic and doctor of the church, saint
• 1621: Jacob Fransz de Witt , Dordrecht patrician and regent
• 1624: Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , English statesman and admiral
• 1634: John Erskine, 19th Earl of Mar , Scottish nobleman
• 1644: Maria Clara von Spaur, Pflaum and Valör , Abbess of Essen, Nottuln and Metelen
• 1677: Christian Albrecht von Dohna , general in Brandenburg
• 1715: Thomas Dongan, 2nd Earl of Limerick , English colonial governor of the province of New York
• 1716: Friedrich Feuerlein , German Lutheran theologian
• 1717: Otto Magnus von Dönhoff , Brandenburg-Prussian lieutenant general and envoy
• 1726: François Dumont , French sculptor
• 1731: Joseph Balthasar Hochreither , Austrian organist and composer
• 1734: Noël-Nicolas Coypel , French painter
• 1740: Johann Amman , Swiss doctor and botanist
• 1746: José Antonio de Mendoza Caamaño y Sotomayor , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of Peru
• 1760: Georg Peter Zenckel , German Protestant theologian and university professor
• 1761: Karl Friedrich II. , Duke of Württemberg-Oels
• 1765: Johann Peter Benkert , court sculptor to Bamberg and innkeeper in Potsdam

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach († 1788)

• 1773: Johann Lorenz Bach , German composer
• 1773: José Joaquín de Viana , Spanish politician and military of Basque origin, governor of Montevideo
• 1780: Ignatius Sancho , English composer and writer of African descent
• 1788: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German composer
• 1791: Johann Franz Christoph Steinmetz , German Protestant theologian
• 1794: Georg Theodor Strobel , German Lutheran theologian and church historian
• 1799: George Washington , first US President, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, founding father of the USA

19th century

Luigi Marchesi († 1829)

• 1806: John Breckinridge , American politician
• 1810: Cyrus Griffin , American politician, President of the Continental Congress
• 1828: Marc Guillaume Alexis Vadier , French revolutionary
• 1829: Luigi Marchesi , Italian opera singer and castrato
• 1843: John Claudius Loudon , British botanist and landscape architect
• 1847: Manuel José Arce y Fagoaga , President of the Central American Confederation
• 1849: Conradin Kreutzer , German composer
• 1858: Michael Woolston Ash , American politician
• 1860: George Hamilton Gordon , British politician
• 1861: Albert von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , husband of the British Queen Victoria
• 1869: Pietro Tenerani , Italian sculptor
• 1873: Louis Agassiz , American zoologist and geologist
• 1874: Johann Georg Ramsauer , Austrian mine official and prehistoric
• 1878: Alice of Great Britain and Ireland , daughter of the British Queen Victoria, Grand Duchess of Hesse
• 1879: Heinrich Christian Burckhardt , German forester, chief forest officer
• 1882: Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick , German lawyer, Lord Mayor of Berlin
• 1889: Celestine Josef Ganglbauer , Archbishop of Vienna
• 1891: Ferdinand von Roemer , German geologist, paleontologist and mineralogist
• 1892: Adams George Archibald , Canadian lawyer and politician
• 1893: Carl Gotthilf Büttner , German Protestant missionary, pastor and linguist
• 1895: Paulus Ludolf Cardinal Melchers , German Jesuit, Bishop of Osnabrück, Archbishop of Cologne
• 1898: Giovanni Arcioni , Swiss writer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1906: John Mercer Brooke , American inventor and military instructor
• 1906: Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans , Dutch astronomer
• 1910: Henri Gonin , Swiss Protestant missionary
• 1916: Norbert von Hellingrath , German Germanist
• 1918: Walter Kern , German architect and government master builder
• 1918: Sidónio Pais , Portuguese military, putschist and president
• 1920: Otto Wilhelm Scharenberg , German architect and city planner
• 1923: Giuseppe Gallignani , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1923: Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen , French painter and printmaker
• 1924: Franciszek Słomkowski , Polish violinist, conductor, music teacher and composer
• 1929: Erich Harbort , German geologist
• 1929: Frieda Jung , German homeland poet from East Prussia
• 1929: Josef Noldin , South Tyrolean lawyer
• 1935: Stanley G. Weinbaum , American science fiction writer
• 1936: Joseph Bloch , Russian-German publicist, editor of the Socialist monthly issue
• 1938: Maurice Emmanuel , French composer
• 1945: Adolf Jutz , German painter and draftsman
• 1947: Stanley Baldwin , British Prime Minister
• 1948: RO Morris , English composer and music teacher

1951-1975

• 1951: Hans-Detlef Herhudt von Rohden , German Air Force officer
• 1952: Fartein Valen , Norwegian composer
• 1953: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , American writer
• 1954: Emil Rausch , German swimmer, Olympic champion
• 1954: Willem Vogelsang , Dutch art historian
• 1956: Juho Kusti Paasikivi , Finnish politician, Prime Minister, President of the State
• 1957: Josef Lada , Czech illustrator and children's book author
• 1958: René Guillou , French composer
• 1960: Hermine Körner , German actress
• 1961: Richard Schirrmann , founder of the German Youth Hostel Association
• 1962: Nazzareno De Angelis , Italian opera singer
• 1962: Hugo Auvera , German entrepreneur
• 1963: Hans Abraham , German weightlifter, world champion
• 1963: Marie Marvingt , French pilot and nurse

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  Erich Ollenhauer
  († 1963)

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  Andrei Sakharov
  († 1989)

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  Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  († 1990)

• 1963: Erich Ollenhauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, parliamentary group and party chairman
• 1963: Dinah Washington , American singer
• 1964: William Bendix , American actor
• 1964: Francisco Canaro , Uruguayan-Argentinian musician and arranger, band leader and composer
• 1964: Rolland-Georges Gingras , Canadian organist, music critic and composer
• 1965: Hellmuth Felmy , German Air Force officer, war criminal
• 1966: Emma Dunn , American actress
• 1966: Isaak Pomeranschuk , Russian physicist
• 1973: Josef Magnus Wehner , German writer and playwright
• 1974: Wilhelm Pleyer , Sudeten German writer and journalist
• 1974: Fritz Szepan , German soccer player
• 1974: Carl Wurster , German chemist and military economist
• 1975: Johannes Brockmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1975: Mongezi Feza , South African jazz musician
• 1975: Tillie Voss , American football player

1976-2000

• 1977: Sydney James Butlin , Australian economist and historian
• 1978: Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish diplomat and writer
• 1981: Edgar J. Anzola , Venezuelan film producer, radio pioneer, journalist and cartoonist
• 1981: Paolo Mosconi , Italian Archbishop
• 1983: Basilio Mario Biucchi , Swiss politician and university professor
• 1984: Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet, Nobel Prize winner
• 1987: Raúl Damonte Botana , Argentine cartoonist
• 1987: Georg Knöpfle , German soccer player and coach
• 1988: Otto Hongler , Swiss economist and university professor
• 1989: Andrei Sakharov , Russian physicist, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1990: Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss writer
• 1990: Francisco Gabilondo Soler , Mexican author, composer and interpreter of children's songs
• 1990: Prince Johannes von Thurn und Taxis , German nobleman, large landowner and entrepreneur
• 1993: Myrna Loy , American actress
• 1993: Silvina Ocampo Aguirre, Argentine writer and translator
• 1994: Orval Faubus , American politician
• 1994: Mary Ann McCall , American jazz singer
• 1998: Johann Cilenšek , German composer
• 1998: Will Tremper , German film director
• 1999: Ingo Schubert , German doctor, university professor and politician
• 2000: Yayo el Indio , Puerto Rican singer

21st century

• 2001: Elisabeth Augustin , German-Dutch writer
• 2001: WG Sebald , German writer
• 2004: Candice Daly , American actress
• 2004: Britta Neander , German musician
• 2004: Fernando Poe Jr. , Filipino politician and film star
• 2004: Carsten Peter Thiede , German historian and papyrologist
• 2005: Erhard Ahmann , German soccer player and trainer
• 2005: Ruth Amiran , Israeli archaeologist
• 2006: Juan Azúa , Chilean conductor
• 2006: Ahmet Ertegün , Turkish-American entrepreneur, co-founder of Atlantic Records and New York Cosmos
• 2006: Otmar Mácha , Czech composer
• 2009: Alan A'Court , English football player and coach
• 2010: Elisa Gabbai , Israeli pop singer
• 2011: Gundula Rapsch , German actress
• 2012: Klaus Köste , German gymnast, Olympic champion
• 2012: Hans-Joachim Weimann , German forest scientist
• 2013: Peter O'Toole , Irish actor
• 2018: Horst Herold , German criminalist
• 2019: Anna Karina , Danish-French actress
• 2020: Seppo Vainio , Finnish ice hockey player

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. John of the Cross , Spanish poet, mystic and doctor of the church (Anglican, Catholic, Protestant: ELCA )
  • Sel. Berthold von Regensburg , German religious, priest and popular preacher (Protestant, Catholic)
  • John Oldcastle , English Martyr (Evangelical)

• Name days
  • John

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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