the 14th of March
The March 14 is the 73rd day of the Gregorian calendar (74th in leap years ), thus remain 292 days by year end. The day is celebrated as Pi day , since the Anglo-American spelling of its date 3/14 represents the most famous and first three digits of the circle number .
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1440 : 53 nobles and 19 Prussian cities, including Danzig , Elbing and Thorn , the close up against the arbitrariness of the Teutonic Order to fret against violence and injustice together.
- 1590 : During the Eighth Huguenot War, Henry of Navarra and his troops prevailed against the units of the Catholic League under the command of Duke Charles de Lorraine in the Battle of Ivry near Ivry-la-Bataille in Normandy . The victory enables the future king to advance on Paris.
- 1647 : At the instigation of the Bavarian Elector Maximilian I , the Ulm Armistice between Bavaria , Kurköln , France and Sweden is concluded in Ulm during the Thirty Years' War .
- 1653 : In the naval battle near Livorno, the Dutch under Johan van Galen defeat an English squadron in the Anglo-Dutch War and gain supremacy in the Mediterranean.
- 1744 : The Emden Convention regulates the annexation of East Friesland by Prussia after the extinction of Cirksenas - dynasty . This ends in the same year with the death of Prince Carl Edzard .
- 1757 : In Portsmouth the British Admiral John Byng is shot dead by a peloton on board the HMS Monarch after a death sentence . The court-martial's decision that he failed to comply with the applicable fighting instructions is controversial.
- 1808 : With the handover of the declaration of war in Stockholm to King Gustav IV Adolf , the Danish-Swedish war begins , from which Denmark expects to recapture earlier territorial losses. Sweden is already at war with Russia and Napoleonic France .
- 1831 : The British House of Commons gives the first reading of the Great Reform Act . The legislative proposal for constituency reform has become necessary primarily due to the problem of “ rotten boroughs ” (“rotten electoral districts”), in which the MPs are only elected by a handful of voters.
- 1862 : During the American Civil War , the port city of New Bern is captured by the Army of the Northern States.
- 1880 : The Austrian Society of Rothen Kreuze is created through the merger of several local aid associations . Emperor Franz Joseph I signs the charter and, together with his wife Elisabeth, takes over the patronage of the new organization.
- 1915 : The SMS Dresden , the only German ship that was able to escape the devastating defeat in the naval battle on the Falkland Islands on December 8, 1914, is attacked by the British in the First World War on Robinson Crusoe Island , disregarding Chilean neutrality . With the self-sinking of the ship by the crew, the German East Asia Squadron ends .
- 1916 : In response to the attack on the American garrison city of Columbus in New Mexico by units of the Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa , the USA sends a punitive expedition to Mexico under General John J. Pershing .
- 1917 : As a result of the February Revolution , Order No. 1 of the Petrograd Soviet is issued, giving legal force to the soldiers' committees that were spontaneously formed in the Russian army.
- 1920 : In the referendum in Schleswig in the second zone (Middle Schleswig), 80% vote in favor of remaining with Germany. Since the population in the first zone (North Schleswig) decided in favor of Denmark in the vote that took place on February 10, 1920, Schleswig (also Sønderjylland ) is thus divided into a Danish northern part and a German southern part.
- 1937 : Pope Pius XI. attacks in the encyclical With Burning Concern the politics of the National Socialists .
- 1939 : At the instigation of the German Reich under Adolf Hitler , Slovakia declares itself independent from Czecho-Slovakia . Jozef Tiso becomes Prime Minister of the Slovak State .
- 1944 : The secret corruption process begins in Berlin against the publisher and bookseller Matthias Lackas and leading department head of the Wehrmacht. The investigations, which include 50 companies in the publishing industry, go down in the course of the year in the military collapse.
- 1945 : More than 80% of the city of Zweibrücken is destroyed by a bomber squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. This makes it one of the cities in the German Reich hardest hit by bombings during World War II.
- 1945 : In an air raid on the Schildesche railway viaduct near Bielefeld, the British use the Grand Slam, the heaviest conventional bomb for the first time .
- 1950 : In the United States, the FBI publishes the first list of the top ten most wanted fugitives .
- 1951 : During the Korean War , the South Korean capital Seoul is retaken by UN troops.
- 1953 : After only eight days, Nikita Khrushchev replaces Georgi Malenkov as General Secretary of the CPSU . Malenkov becomes head of government.
- 1964 : Jack Ruby is found guilty by a criminal court in Dallas of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald . The judgment is later overturned by the appellate authority.
- 1971 : In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives , the SPD under Mayor Klaus Schütz can narrowly maintain its absolute majority.
- 1974 : In Bonn, the two German states agree in a Protocol to the Basic Treaty , permanent missions of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic to set up.
- 1978 : Three days after an attack by Palestinian terrorists on buses in Israel marched the Israeli army under the code name Operation Litani in Lebanon one.
- 1991 : The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe declares the current naming law , according to which the woman has to take the man's surname when they marry, if both do not agree on a name, to be unconstitutional.
- 1991 : The Emir of Kuwait , Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah , who fled from Iraqi invasion troops , returns to his country from his exile in Saudi Arabia after the Second Gulf War .
- 1993 : In a referendum, the people of Andorra decide to adopt a new democratic constitution. The constitution, which abolishes the feudal system that has existed since 1278 and, among other things, introduces the separation of powers , comes into force on May 4th.
- 1997 : Chongqing is directly subordinated to the Chinese government. From now on, it is the largest city in the world in terms of area.
- 2004 : In the presidential elections in Russia , the incumbent Vladimir Putin is re-elected with over 70% of the vote. The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe describes the elections as only partially democratic.
- 2004 : In the parliamentary elections in Spain , the ruling Partido Popular under José María Aznar loses a majority because of the government's handling of the Madrid train attacks three days ago. The winner is the Partido Socialista Obrero Español under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero .
- 2005 : Taiwan conflict : As part of its one-China policy , the People's Republic of China passed the anti-secession law , which threatens the breakaway province of Taiwan with military means if it continues to pursue formal independence efforts.
- 2018 : The 24th German Federal Government has been in place since September 1949. The Bundestag selected by a majority of CDU / CSU and SPD Angela Merkel for the fourth time to the Chancellor .
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- 1794 : Eli Whitney receives in the US, the patent on his invention of gin for ginning of cotton . This makes the large-scale cultivation of the plant in the southern states lucrative. Slaves are needed and used for harvesting .
- 1857 : The Copenhagen Convention abolishes the Sund tariff , a main source of income in Denmark for more than four centuries, in exchange for monetary compensation.
- 1875 : The banking law is passed in the German Reich , which among other things provides for the creation of the Reichsbank from January 1, 1876.
- 1907 : Share sales occur on the New York Stock Exchange , which are reflected in the Dow Jones index with a minus of 8.29 percent. The uncertainty among investors led to the panic of 1907 in the autumn .
- 1908 : A trade agreement between Austria-Hungary and Serbia was signed in Vienna and at least ends the during the Bosnian annexation crisis resulting trade war .
- 1949 : In its official gazette, the Deutsche Bundespost informs about the establishment of the Posttechnisches Zentralamt in Darmstadt . The new authority has a major impact on developments in the German postal system, such as the later introduction of postcodes .
- 1968 : Massive gold purchases by market participants on the London Bullion Market lead to the suspension of trading after the close of the day. The amount bought forces you to touch gold reserves . Central bank currency experts will be in Washington, DC over the next two days to discuss the impact.
- 1970 : Expo '70 , the first world exhibition in Asia, is opened in the city of Suita in Osaka by the Japanese Emperor Hirohito under the motto "Progress and Harmony".
- 1996 : Four German trading companies announce their merger to form Metro AG , which today u. a. Galeria Kaufhof , real , extra , Media Markt and Saturn .
- 2002 : The XBox game console developed by Microsoft is released in Europe.
- 2003 : The toll Westerschelden tunnel is opened. It is the longest road tunnel in the Netherlands .
science and technology
- 1784 : In the Virgo galaxy cluster , Wilhelm Herschel finds a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Haar der Berenike . It is later cataloged as NGC 4394 .
- 1899 : After 377 days in pack ice , the Belgian research vessel Belgica under Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery can continue the Belgica expedition in the Antarctic under its own steam for the first time .
- 1946 : The reconstruction of the Old Bridge in Heidelberg , which was blown up by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, begins
- 1950 : The Rover Jet 1 makes its first journeys. It is the world's first racing car with a gas turbine drive .
- 1986 : The ESA Giotto space probe passes Halley's Comet at a distance of almost 600 km .
- 1995 : Norman Thagard is the first American astronaut to be taken to the Mir space station on board a Russian spaceship on the Soyuz TM-21 mission .
- 2002 : The Council of Elders of the German Bundestag decides that in future Linux will be used as the server operating system in parliament's electronic system.
- 2016 : The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter space probe , a joint project of the European Space Agency and the Russian space agency Roskosmos , is launched.
Culture
- 1787 : The world premiere of the opera Andromeda e Perseo by Michael Haydn takes place in Salzburg.
- 1847 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth has its world premiere at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence . The libretto by Francesco Maria Piave is based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare . The opera is enthusiastically received by the audience, while the critics react rather cautiously and criticize the lack of a love scene.
- 1864 : The Petite Messe solennelle by Gioachino Rossini is premiered in Paris for the inauguration of the private chapel of a nobleman friend of the composer.
- 1885 : The opera István király ( King Stephen ) by Ferenc Erkel is premiered in Budapest .
- 1889 : The tragedy Miss Julie by August Strindberg is premiered in Copenhagen. Strindberg's wife Siri von Essen plays the title role.
- 1944 : The comedy Jacobowsky und der Oberst , made during the emigration, is premiered in an English version by Franz Werfel at the Martin Beck Theater in New York City .
- 1973 : The musical film Lost Horizon (German: The lost horizon ), which is one of the biggest flops in cinema history, starts in the USA .
- 1982 : Metallica play their first concert at Anaheim's Radio City Hall .
religion
- 1319 : With the bull Ad ea ex quibus cultus , Pope John XXII. permission to found the Portuguese Order of the Knights of Christ . The Knights Templar's possessions are to be handed over to the new order.
- 1800 : With the support of the influential Cardinal Ercole Consalvi , Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti is elected Pope after several months of conclave in Venice and takes the name of Pius VII .
Disasters
- 1888 : At the end of the three-day great snow storm on the east coast of the USA, around 400 deaths are counted.
- 1910 : In the initiated by the Lakeview Oil Company in California borehole Lakeview Number One there will be a blowout . At the so-called Lakeview Gusher , around 1,400,000 m³ of crude oil pour out over the next 1½ years before the outbreak can be brought under control.
- 1951 : An earthquake of intensity 5.2 on the Richter scale in Euskirchen causes millions in damages, among others in the Old Town . 11 people are injured.
- 1972 : A Caravelle of Sterling Airways Aerospatiale crashes in the United Arab Emirates on Al-Fujairah. All 112 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1898 : High school students from Bern found the BSC Young Boys football club in Bern .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1271 : Stephan I , Duke of Lower Bavaria
- 1415 : Wilhelm II , Count von Henneberg-Schleusingen
- 1473 : Count Reinhard IV von Hanau-Münzenberg , co-regent of the County of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1478 : Anastasia von Brandenburg , Countess von Henneberg
- 1481 : Margarete Peutinger , Memminger / Augsburg citizen, humanist and numismatist
- 1489 : Niccolò Massa , Italian doctor and anatomist
- 1519 : Eustachius von Knobelsdorff , German neo-Latin poet and epic poet
- 1621 : Hildebrand Christoph , ancestor of the von Hardenberg family
- 1639 (baptized March 14th): Jacob Ferdinand Voet , Flemish portrait painter († 1689 )
- 1652 : Benedicta Henriette von der Pfalz , Duchess of Braunschweig-Calenberg
- 1665 : Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck , Hanoverian officer and court cavalier
- 1674 : Johann Anderson , German legal scholar, politician, natural scientist and linguist
- 1687 : Johann Christian Schöttgen , German pedagogue, historian and lexicographer
- 1692 : Pieter van Musschenbroek , Dutch natural scientist
18th century
- 1703 : Johann Andreas Boden , German historian and Lutheran theologian
- 1717 : David Tschanz , Swiss Pietist
- 1727 : Johann Gottlieb Goldberg , German harpsichordist and organist (baptism date)
- 1727 : Adolph Friedrich Hamberger , German medic
- 1752 : Josef Malinský , Czech sculptor and carver
- 1771 : Józef Chłopicki , Polish general
- 1782 : Thomas Hart Benton , American politician
- 1785 : August Wilhelm Francke , Lord Mayor of Magdeburg
- 1788 : Josef Arnold the Elder , Austrian painter
- 1788 : Lulu von Thürheim , Austrian painter and writer
- 1790 : Ludwig Emil Grimm , German painter and graphic artist; Illustrator of Grimm's fairy tales
- 1792 : Friedrich Stapß , German assassin
- 1795 : Józef Bem , Polish general
- 1796 : Anton Haizinger , Austrian opera singer (tenor)
- 1797 : Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk , Dutch physician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Kristian Jaak Peterson , Estonian poet
- 1803 : Joseph Misson , Austrian dialect poet
- 1804 : Johann Strauss , Austrian composer
- 1805 : Eduard Clam-Gallas , Austrian general
- 1805 : August Soller , German architect and Schinkel student
- 1807 : Josephine von Leuchtenberg , Queen of Sweden and Norway
- 1808 : Franz Seraphin Hölzl , Austrian composer, choir director and church musician
- 1810 : Giovanni Antonio Vanoni , Swiss painter
- 1814 : Ferdinand Konrad Bellermann , German landscape painter
- 1815 : Adolf Ellissen , German politician, philologist and literary historian
- 1815 : Josephine Caroline Lang , German song composer and singer
- 1816 : Montgomery Dent Corse , American Confederate general in the Civil War
- 1820 : Victor Emanuel II , King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Italy
- 1822 : Teresa Maria Cristina of Naples-Sicily , Princess of Bourbon and Naples-Sicily
- 1824 : John Robson , Canadian politician and journalist
- 1830 : August von Hergenhahn , German lawyer, district administrator and police chief
- 1834 : Jules-Joseph Lefebvre , French painter
- 1835 : Giovanni Schiaparelli , Italian astronomer
- 1842 : Wilhelm Wilmanns , German Germanist
- 1843 : Alfred Altherr , Swiss Protestant Reformation clergyman and writer
- 1843 : Léon Gustave Dehon , founder of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Priestly Order
- 1843 : Umberto I (Italy) , King of Italy
- 1845 : August Bungert , German composer
- 1846 : Bertha von Brukenthal , Austrian composer
- 1848 : Albert Robida , French writer and caricaturist
1851-1900
- 1853 : Ferdinand Hodler , Swiss painter
- 1854 : Robert Beltz , German prehistorian
- 1854 : Paul Ehrlich , German chemist, physician and serologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1854 : Thomas Riley Marshall , American politician, vice president
- 1857 : Alwin Gerisch , German politician and first SPD chairman
- 1858 : Arturo Berutti , Argentine composer
- 1858 : Edmund König , German educator, local politician and philosopher
- 1859 : Adolf Bertram , Bishop of Hildesheim and Archbishop of Breslau
- 1861 : Rudolf Krauss , German Germanist and literary historian
- 1861 : Everett Ellsworth Truette , American organist, composer, music publisher, and author
- 1862 : Emil Beurmann , Swiss writer, poet, draftsman and painter
- 1864 : Alfred Redl , colonel in the Austro-Hungarian army and Russian spy
- 1868 : Ascensión del Corazón de Jesús , Spanish nun and founder of the order
- 1869 : Algernon Blackwood , British writer
- 1870 : Andrés Delgado Pardo , Venezuelan pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1871 : Bernhard Winter , German painter
- 1871 : Walter Stoeckel , German gynecologist
- 1875 : Paul Ilg , Swiss writer
- 1876 : Christian Frederik Beck , Danish painter
- 1876 : Otto Röhm , German entrepreneur
- 1877 : Heinrich Mataja , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1879 : Albert Einstein , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1879 : Thành Thái , tenth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
- 1881 : Eduard Ludwig Alexander , German lawyer and politician, MdR
- 1881 : Paul Köttgen , German soil scientist
- 1882 : Wacław Sierpiński , Polish mathematician
- 1884 : Harald Hansen , Danish football player and coach
- 1886 : Richard Gaettens , German numismatist
- 1886 : Firmin Lambot , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1887 : Julius Außenberg , Austrian film producer, film salesman and film manager
- 1887 : Sylvia Beach , American bookseller and publisher in Paris
- 1887 : Ernst Goll , Austrian poet
- 1887 : Leon Schiller , Polish theater director and theater theorist
- 1888 : Knud Ahlborn , German personalities of the early youth movement
- 1892 : Alexander Abt , German officer
- 1892 : Hans Freundt , German actor, radio play director, radio broadcaster and author
- 1892 : Charles Wheeler , British sculptor, painter and medalist
- 1894 : Alexander von Schelting , German sociologist
- 1894 : Hans Reiffenstuel , German representational painter
- 1896 : Walter Krause , German national soccer player
- 1897 : Anton Aschauer , German politician
- 1897 : Hermann Winkhaus , German industrialist
- 1899 : Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango , President of Panama
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Sidney James Montford Atkinson , South African athlete
- 1901 : János Esterházy , Hungarian nobleman and politician
- 1902 : Shterjo Atanasov , Bulgarian politician, officer and military historian
- 1902 : Franz Wilhelm Kieling , German administrative lawyer and mayor
- 1902 : Herbert Nette , German editor and author
- 1903 : Adolph Gottlieb , American painter
- 1903 : Mustafa Barzani , leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party
- 1903 : Otto Friedrich Bollnow , German philosopher
- 1904 : Armas Äikiä , Finnish author, communist writer and journalist
- 1904 : Doris Eaton Travis , American actress and dancer
- 1905 : Herbert Heinicke , German chess player
- 1905 : Raymond Aron , French political scientist, sociologist, publicist
- 1906 : Rodolfo Biagi , Argentine tango musician
- 1906 : Ulvi Cemal Erkin , Turkish composer
- 1908 : Maurice Merleau-Ponty , French philosopher
- 1908 : Elvira Osirnig , Swiss ski racer
- 1908 : Nikolai Petrovich Rakov , Russian composer
- 1908 : Gustav Zahnke , German locksmith and resistance fighter
- 1910 : Helmut Bone , German commander of the security police in Paris
- 1910 : Ernst Schäfer , German zoologist
- 1911 : Karl Neckermann , German athlete
- 1912 : John Amery , British fascist
- 1912 : Les Brown , American big band leader
- 1912 : Werner-Viktor Toeffling , German painter and set designer
- 1913 : Witold Rudziński , Polish composer
- 1914 : Sári Barabás , Hungarian-German opera and operetta singer
- 1914 : Robert Pete Williams , American blues musician
- 1915 : Alexander Brott , Canadian composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher
- 1915 : Eunice Katunda , Brazilian composer
- 1916 : Ove Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1917 : Gerhard Müller-Menckens , German architect and university professor
- 1918 : Alfons Benedikter , South Tyrolean politician
- 1918 : Vic Sears , American football player
- 1921 : Karl Dietrich Adam , German paleontologist
- 1921 : Ulrich Koch , German violist
- 1922 : Eric Arnlind , Swedish chess player
- 1922 : Les Baxter , American orchestra conductor and arranger
- 1922 : Milton Greene , American photographer
- 1922 : Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Solowjow , Soviet actor
- 1923 : Diane Arbus , American photographer
- 1924 : Jacques Antoine , French television and radio journalist
- 1924 : Georges Haddad , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1925 : Bert Even , German politician, President of the Federal Administration Office
- 1925 : Kurt Ruchholz , German geologist and university professor
- 1925 : Bernhard Vossebein , German table tennis player
- 1925 : John Wain , English poet, writer and journalist
1926-1950
- 1926 : François Morel , Canadian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1927 : Wilhelm Burgard , Saarland athlete
- 1927 : Wolfgang Grönebaum , German actor
- 1928 : Frank Borman , American astronaut
- 1930 : Irma Glicman Adelman , American economist and university professor
- 1930 : Dieter Schnebel , German composer
- 1930 : Helga Feddersen , German actress
- 1930 : Henk Angenent , Dutch football player
- 1930 : Horst Gentzen , German actor
- 1930 : Yegor Vladimirovich Jakowlew , Russian journalist and writer
- 1931 : Saïd Brahimi , Algerian-French football player and coach
- 1933 : Charlotte Schmidt , German athlete
- 1933 : Cornelius Weiss , German scientist and politician
- 1933 : Michael Caine , British actor
- 1933 : Quincy Jones , American music, television, and film producer
- 1933 : René Felber , Swiss politician
- 1933 : Helmut Leherbauer , Austrian painter
- 1934 : Dionigi Tettamanzi , Italian Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1934 : Eugene Cernan , American astronaut
- 1934 : Shirley Scott , American jazz organist
- 1934 : Volker von Törne , German poet and writer
- 1935 : Bärbel Mayer , German athlete
- 1935 : Jan van Nerijnen , Dutch composer and conductor
- 1935 : Jo van den Booren , Dutch composer and musician
- 1937 : Jerzy Adamski , Polish featherweight boxer
- 1937 : Nadka Karadschowa , Bulgarian folklore singer
- 1937 : Igor Alexandrovich Menjailov , Russian volcanologist
- 1937 : Paul Tholey , German psychologist
- 1938 : Anar , Azerbaijani writer
- 1938 : Pierluigi Angeli , Italian politician
- 1938 : Glauber Rocha , Brazilian film director
- 1938 : Günter Harder , German mathematician
- 1938 : Takehisa Kosugi , Japanese violinist, composer, sound, multimedia and installation artist
- 1938 : Angus MacLise , American drummer, composer, poet, and visual artist
- 1938 : Karl Schnabel , German politician, MdL
- 1939 : Yves Boisset , French director and screenwriter
- 1939 : Wulf-Dieter Geyer , German mathematician
- 1939 : Keiji Nakazawa , Japanese comic artist
- 1939 : Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum , German ancient historian
- 1940 : Adolf Dallapozza , Austrian opera, operetta and musical singer
- 1940 : Hans-Olaf Henkel , President of the Federation of German Industries BDI
- 1940 : Julian Hunte , President of the 58th UN General Assembly
- 1940 : Armin A. Steinkamm , legal scholar
- 1940 : Rita Tushingham , British actress
- 1941 : Gerhard Botz , Austrian historian
- 1941 : Wolfgang Petersen , German film director and producer
- 1942 : Klaus Schamberger , Franconian humorist, journalist and writer
- 1943 : Brigitt Petry , German singer and composer
- 1943 : Marie Hüllenkremer , German journalist and politician
- 1944 : Alan Stephen Hopes , Roman Catholic Bishop in Great Britain
- 1944 : Peter-Paul Zahl , German writer
- 1945 : Berko Acker , German film and theater actor
- 1945 : Werner Andler , German pediatrician
- 1945 : Herman van Veen , Dutch songwriter and actor
- 1945 : Marcel Muggensturm , staff officer in the Swiss Army
- 1945 : Michael Martin Murphey , American country singer and songwriter
- 1945 : Bethuel Pakalitha Mosisili , Lesothic politician
- 1946 : Zygmunt Anczok , Polish football player
- 1946 : Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen , Guatemalan politician
- 1946 : Gianni Bella , Italian singer
- 1946 : Leonti Pawlowitsch Schewzow , General in the Soviet Union and Russia
- 1946 : Mieke Bal , Dutch literary scholar and art historian
- 1946 : Wes Unseld , American basketball player
- 1947 : Jona Lewie , British pop singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
- 1948 : Billy Crystal , American comedian, actor, and director
- 1948 : Bernd Stange , German soccer coach
- 1948 : Hans Georg Faust , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948 : Jochen Schimmang , German writer
- 1949 : Dennis Báthory-Kitsz , American composer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Gottfried Ackermann , German violinist
- 1951 : Otto Hünnerkopf , German politician
- 1952 : Martin E. Dempsey , General in the US Army
- 1955 : Brigitte Bastgen , German news anchor
- 1955 : Daniel Ricardo Bertoni , Argentine soccer player
- 1955 : Margaret Jobson , Jamaican diplomat
- 1956 : Johannes Fiebag , German writer
- 1956 : Peter Fischer , German sports official
- 1956 : Tessa Sanderson , British javelin thrower, Olympic champion
- 1957 : Franco Frattini , Italian politician and EU commissioner
- 1957 : Kai Krause , German software pioneer
- 1957 : Claude Longchamp , Swiss political scientist
- 1957 : Pasquale Passarelli , German wrestler
- 1957 : Tad Williams , American author
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- 1958 : Albert II , Prince of Monaco
- 1958 : Leonhard Stock , Austrian ski racer
- 1958 : Reinhard Wolters , German ancient historian
- 1959 : Tamara Tunie , American actress
- 1961 : Joe Ascione , American jazz drummer
- 1961 : Lutz Grosser , German handball goalkeeper
- 1962 : Ruth Arnet , Swiss lawyer
- 1962 : Harald Kohr , German soccer player and coach
- 1963 : Mahiro Maeda , Japanese director, animator and character designer
- 1965 : Dirk Heinrichs , German actor
- 1965 : Aamir Khan , Indian actor
- 1965 : Kiana Tom , American actress
- 1966 : Gary Anthony Williams , American actor and screenwriter, producer and director
- 1967 : Ralf Brauksiepe , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1967 : Michael Fincke , American astronaut
- 1968 : Stefanie Anhalt , German journalist and radio presenter
- 1968 : Gerd Audehm , German professional cyclist
- 1968 : Stephan Bieker , German actor
- 1968 : Olaf Henning , German pop singer
- 1968 : Jan Sosniok , German film actor
- 1969 : Axel Hager , German volleyball player
- 1970 : Júnior Baiano , Brazilian soccer player
- 1970 : Andree Wiedener , German soccer player
- 1970 : Thomas Fogdö , Swedish ski racer
- 1973 : Helmut Oblinger , Austrian white water canoeist
- 1973 : Johannes Rosenstein , German documentary filmmaker
- 1974 : Ahmad Chalfan al-Ghailani , alleged al-Qaeda member
- 1974 : Grace Park , Canadian actress
- 1975 : Fredrik Ericsson , Swedish mountaineer and extreme skier
- 1975 : Johan Paulik , Slovak porn actor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Daniel Gillies , Canadian actor
- 1976 : Jan-Olaf Immel , German handball player
- 1976 : Sarah Ulmer , New Zealand cyclist
- 1976 : Phil Vickery , English rugby player
- 1977 : Zé António , Portuguese football player
- 1977 : Matthew Booth , South African soccer player
- 1977 : Kim Nam-il , South Korean soccer player
- 1977 : Andrés Silvera , Argentine soccer player
- 1978 : Carl Johan Bergman , Swedish biathlete
- 1978 : Pieter van den Hoogenband , Dutch swimmer
- 1979 : Nicolas Anelka , French football player
- 1979 : Arsenio Cabungula , Angolan football player
- 1979 : Gao Ling , Chinese badminton player, world champion and Olympic champion
- 1979 : Sead Ramović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1980 : Noémi Besedes , Swiss actress and model
- 1980 : Mercedes McNab , Canadian actress
- 1981 : Martina Eisenreich , German violinist, film composer and music producer
- 1982 : Annika Ernst , German actress
- 1982 : Carlos Marinelli , Argentine soccer player
- 1982 : Thomas Paulus , German professional football player
- 1983 : Baqtiyar Artayev , Kazakh boxer
- 1984 : Marcus Mann , German soccer player
- 1984 : Lukas Mössner , Austrian soccer player
- 1985 : Hasan Ali Acar , Turkish soccer player
- 1985 : Eva Angelina , American porn actress and model
- 1985 : Hywel Lloyd , British racing driver
- 1986 : Deamo Baguga , Nauruan athlete
- 1986 : Jamie Bell , British actor
- 1986 : Monika Reithofer , German actress
- 1988 : Lautaro Acosta , Argentine soccer player
- 1988 : Willem de Beer , South African athlete
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- 1988 : Stephen Curry , American basketball player
- 1988 : Sasha Gray , American porn actress, actress, musician and author
- 1989 : Elisabeth Garcia-Almendaris , German handball player
- 1989 : Marwin González , Venezuelan baseball player
- 1989 : Colby O'Donis , American singer
- 1989 : Patrick Patterson , American basketball player
- 1990 : Mario Canedo , Austrian actor, author and speaker
- 1990 : Stefanie Hiekmann , German food journalist and cookbook author
- 1991 : Jimmy Eriksson , Swedish racing driver
- 1991 : Johannes Wasel , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1992 : Alexander Aschauer , Austrian football player
- 1992 : Kevin Packet , Belgian football player
- 1993 : Anthony Bennett , American basketball player
- 1993 : Deborah Nunes , Brazilian handball player
- 1994 : Matteo Agnesod , Italian natural track toboggan runner
- 1994 : Ansel Elgort , American actor
- 1994 : Melanie Eminger , German soccer player
- 1994 : Richard Gonda , Slovak automobile racing driver
- 1998 : Annalena Breitenbach , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 557 : Leobinus of Chartres , bishop and saint
- 840 : Einhard , Franconian historian
- 893 : Aspert , Bishop of Regensburg
- 968 : Mathilde , wife of King Henry I
- 1051 : Gerhard I of Cambrai , Bishop of Arras and Cambrai
- 1101 : Fujiwara no Morozane , regent for the Tennō and head of the Fujiwara
- 1130 : Berthold I von Alvensleben , Bishop of Hildesheim
- 1229 : Pietro Ziani , 42nd Doge of Venice
- 1272 : Enzio of Sardinia , illegitimate son of Emperor Frederick II.
- 1318 : Wulfing von Stubenberg , Bishop of Lavant and Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1353 : Konrad von der Mark , knight, friar and monastery founder
- 1374 : Konrad von Megenberg , author of numerous works
- 1376 : Andronikos Komnenos , despot in Trebizond
- 1397 : Henry VIII , Duke of Sagan and Glogau and Duke of Freystadt, Grünberg and Sprottau
- 1398 : Dietrich II. , Count von der Mark, Vogt of Werden and Essen
- 1410 : Spinello Aretino , Italian painter
- 1421 : Edward Cherleton, 5th Baron Cherleton , Welsh Marcher Lord
- 1434 : Thomas Chaucer , English nobleman
- 1443 : Johann von Pfalz-Neumarkt , Count Palatine and Duke in Bavaria
- 1457 : Jingtai , Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
- 1466 : Rucker von Lauterburg , Rector of the University of Leipzig, Canon and Vicar General of the Duchy of Speyer
- 1467 : Margarethe von Hanau , German nobleman
16th to 18th century
- 1571 : Johann Sigismund Zápolya , King of Hungary and Prince of Transylvania
- 1590 : Philip von Egmond , Count von Egmond, Prince von Gavere, Baron von Gaesbeek and the army from Purmerend, Purmerland and Ilpendam
- 1636 : David Müller , German publisher
- 1647 : Friedrich Heinrich , governor of the United Netherlands
- 1672 : Johann Wilhelm Simler , Swiss poet
- 1700 : Christoph Haitzmann , Austrian painter and alleged devil bundler
- 1703 : Robert Hooke , English physicist, mathematician and inventor
- 1705 : Nicolaus Wilhelm Beckers , doctor from the Spanish Netherlands, personal doctor to Emperor Leopold I.
- 1705 : James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith , Scottish nobleman
- 1711 : Johann Friedrich Landsberger , German merchant
- 1744 : Johann Ulrich von König , German writer
- 1747 : Matthias Johann von der Schulenburg , Field Marshal in the service of the Republic of Venice
- 1757 : John Byng , British admiral
- 1765 : Johann Andreas Buttstedt , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1770 : Christoph Langhansen , German mathematician and Lutheran theologian
- 1785 : Christian Heinrich Wilhelm von Arnstedt , Prussian colonel and commander
- 1791 : Christoph Carl Kress von Kressenstein , German lawyer and mayor
- 1791 : Johann Salomo Semler , German Protestant theologian
- 1799 : Maurizio Pedetti , Italian architect
19th century
- 1801 : Ignacy Krasicki , Polish clergyman and writer
- 1803 : Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German author and poet
- 1816 : Ernst Karl Friedrich Wunderlich , German classical philologist
- 1821 : Ernst von Schwarzenberg , bishop, composer and canon in Cologne
- 1821 : Heinrich Rathmann , educator, historian and Protestant pastor
- 1823 : John Jervis, 1st Earl of St. Vincent , British Admiral
- 1824 : Antoinette Ernestine Amalie , Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- 1826 : Sebastian Vitus Schlupf , German sculptor
- 1840 : Heinrich Escher , Swiss businessman and politician
- 1851 : Laurids Engelstoft , Danish historian
- 1851 : Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand , German classical philologist
- 1852 : Charles Nicolas d'Anthouard de Vraincourt , French artillery division general
- 1853 : Vincenz Eduard Milde , Archbishop of Vienna
- 1857 : David T. Disney , American politician
- 1860 : Lilburn Boggs , American politician
- 1860 : Carl von Ghega , builder of the Semmering Railway
- 1866 : Jared Sparks , American historian
- 1874 : Johann Heinrich von Mädler , German astronomer
- 1877 : Juan Manuel de Rosas , Argentine dictator
- 1878 : Joseph Audo , Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- 1883 : Karl Marx , German philosopher, economist and journalist
- 1884 : Robert Oettel , businessman, city councilor, founder of the German breed of poultry
- 1891 : Franz Erwein , Austrian politician
- 1891 : Ludwig Windthorst , German politician
- 1895 : John L. O'Sullivan , American journalist
- 1899 : Ludwig Bamberger , German banker and politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1906 : George Coppin , Australian actor, theater entrepreneur and politician
- 1915 : Walter Crane , British painter and illustrator, leading representative of the Pre-Raphaelites
- 1917 : Antonio Vanegas Arroyo , Mexican publisher
- 1919 : Eugen Berg , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
- 1919 : Theodor Scheinpflug , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
- 1919 : Arnold von Rutkowski , German-Baltic pastor and evangelical martyr
- 1928 : Agnes Gosche , German philologist
- 1932 : George Eastman , American entrepreneur and photography pioneer
- 1933 : Anny Ahlers , German singer and actress
- 1933 : Hermann von Hatzfeldt , German politician and civil servant
- 1934 : João do Canto e Castro , Portuguese admiral and president
- 1934 : Luise Koch , German educator, politician and women's rights activist
- 1940 : Heinrich Lübbe , German mechanical engineer and inventor
- 1942 : Bibb Graves , American politician
- 1944 : Pawel Grigoryevich Tschesnokow , Russian composer and choir director
- 1945 : Francisco Braga , Brazilian composer
- 1945 : Alexander Granach , German actor
- 1946 : Werner von Blomberg , German general and minister
- 1946 : José Saldías , Argentine writer and journalist
- 1949 : Georg Hellmuth Neuendorff , German writer and reform pedagogue
1951-2000
- 1951 : Saladin Schmitt , German theater scholar, director and theater director
- 1953 : Klement Gottwald , Czech politician
- 1955 : Schamram Kelleciyan , Armenian chanson singer
- 1957 : Boris Nikolajewitsch Jurjew , Soviet helicopter designer and pioneer
- 1957 : Eugenio Castellotti , Italian racing driver
- 1960 : Ludwig Böck , German skier
- 1961 : Benjamin Willard Adams , American athlete
- 1962 : Jorge González von Marées , Chilean politician
- 1965 : Stanko Premrl , Slovenian composer
- 1967 : Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama , Mexican legal scholar, revolutionary
- 1968 : Erwin Panofsky , German art historian
- 1972 : Linda Jones , American soul singer
- 1973 : Howard Hathaway Aiken , American computer pioneer, developer of one of the first digital mainframes ( Mark I )
- 1973 : Chic Young , American cartoonist and comic artist
- 1975 : Carl Wery , German actor
- 1975 : Susan Hayward , American film actress
- 1976 : Eduard van Arkel , Dutch chemist
- 1976 : Gerhard Mendelson , German music producer in Vienna
- 1976 : Busby Berkeley , American choreographer and director
- 1976 : Martha Saalfeld , German poet
- 1977 : Gyula Dávid , Hungarian composer
- 1980 : Mohammad Hatta , Indonesian head of government
- 1982 : Robert Eberan von Eberhorst , Austrian designer
- 1983 : Florian Mueller , American oboist and composer
- 1984 : Howhannes Schiras , Armenian poet
- 1985 : Josef Spies , German politician
- 1986 : Benno Ammann , Swiss conductor and composer
- 1988 : Willi Apel , American musicologist
- 1988 : Reinhold Ebertin , German astrologer, cosmobiologist and esotericist
- 1988 : Rudolf Gramlich , German soccer player
- 1989 : Edward Abbey , American naturalist, philosopher and writer
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- 1989 : Zita von Bourbon-Parma , Austrian Empress
- 1990 : Wilhelm Baumann , German field handball player
- 1991 : Howard Ashman , American writer and producer
- 1991 : Doc Pomus , American singer and songwriter
- 1991 : Margery Sharp , British writer
- 1992 : Gerhard Arlt , German painter, graphic artist and local historian
- 1993 : John Dembeck , Canadian violinist and violist
- 1995 : William Alfred Fowler , American physicist
- 1997 : Joseph Fuchs , American violinist and music teacher
- 1997 : Fred Zinnemann , American film director
- 1997 : Jurek Becker , German writer
- 1997 : Ivan Romanoff , Canadian conductor, violinist, arranger and composer
- 1999 : Habib Achour , Tunisian trade unionist
21st century
- 2002 : Furuyama Komao , Japanese writer
- 2003 : Jean-Luc Lagardère , French entrepreneur
- 2005 : Robert Zimmerling , German actor
- 2006 : Lennart Meri , Estonian writer, filmmaker and politician
- 2006 : Eugen Oker , German writer and game critic
- 2007 : Lucie Aubrac , French resistance fighter
- 2007 : Lilo Grahn , German actress and voice actress
- 2008 : Clyde Robert Cameron , Australian politician
- 2008 : Wolfgang Kühne , German voice actor, actor, screenwriter, director and lecturer
- 2008 : Chiara Lubich , founder of the Focolare Movement
- 2008 : Pierre Mamie , Swiss Bishop of Lausanne
- 2009 : Robert Hanell , German conductor and composer
- 2010 : Peter Graves , American actor
- 2011 : Joachim Auth , German physicist
- 2012 : Karl Dietrich Adam , German paleontologist
- 2012 : Helmut Schubert , German materials scientist
- 2013 : Andrew Athens , American businessman
- 2014 : Tony Benn , British politician
- 2014 : Werner Rackwitz , German opera director and cultural politician
- 2015 : Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin , Russian writer and environmental activist
- 2016 : Peter Maxwell Davies , British composer
- 2016 : Geoffrey Hartman , German-American literary scholar and Sterling Professor at Yale University
- 2017 : Royal Robbins , American mountaineer
- 2018 : Rubén Galván , Argentine soccer player
- 2018 : Stephen Hawking , British physicist and astrophysicist
- 2018 : Karin Herrmann , German physicist
- 2019 : Charlie Whiting , Formula 1 Race Director
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Mathilde , German queen, benefactress and founder of the monastery (Protestant, Catholic)
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German poet (Protestant)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Albania : Spring Festival Dita e Verës
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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