15th December
The December 15 is the 349th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 350th in leap years ), thus remain 16 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 533: The victory of the Eastern Roman troops under Belisarius in the Battle of Tricamarum seals the end of the Vandal Empire in North Africa. The former Western Roman territory falls to the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian I to.
- 1387: After Duke Friedrich of Bavaria had appointed the Archbishop of Salzburg in the course of the city war and thus wanted to force him to leave the Confederation, the Swabian Association of Cities declared war on the Duchy of Bavaria .
- 1467: In the Battle of Baia , the army of the Principality of Moldova , led by Prince Ștefan III, is defeated. cel Mare , the armed forces of the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus .
- 1516: Gaspard I. de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon is appointed Marshal of France by King Francis I of France .
- 1576: The Spanish governor in the Netherlands, Don Juan de Austria , and the States General conclude the Eternal Edict , with which the governor recognizes the Ghent pacification . However, the edict will not last for eight months.
- 1640: Duke John II of Braganza becomes King of Portugal as John IV , ending the personal union with Spain that had existed since 1580 .
- 1745: In the battle of Kesselsdorf in the Second Silesian War , the Prussian troops of the old Dessauer win over Austro-Saxon units under Rutowski's command . The winners move into Dresden two days later.
- 1791: The Bill of Rights is added to the United States Constitution as amendment one through ten .
- 1805: Territorial changes are regulated in the Treaty of Schönbrunn between Prussia and France's ruler Napoleon Bonaparte . Prussia leaves the Principality of Ansbach , Kleve and the Principality of Neuchâtel to France and receives the Electorate of Hanover , which, however, belongs to the British royal family.
- 1806: The Napoleonic army occupies the Prussian Warsaw in the fourth coalition war . From parts removed from Prussia , the Duchy of Warsaw was created in June 1807 .
- 1840: Napoleon Bonaparte 's remains are laid out in the Invalides in Paris .
- 1848: The Hungarian Reichstag under the leadership of Lajos Kossuth declares the abdication of Emperor Ferdinand I invalid and protests against Emperor Franz Joseph I's accession to the throne .
- 1862: The Battle of Fredericksburg in the American Civil War ends with the withdrawal of Union troops, which in the days before had completely devastated the place in Virginia held by the Southern Army .
- 1890: Indian chief Sitting Bull is shot dead by a reservation police officer in North Dakota .
- 1899: Britain suffers its third defeat in a week at the Battle of Colenso in the second Boer War . The week goes down in Great Britain's history as Black Week .
- 1916: After the loss of all previously made land gains, the German attack on the French Verdun , which began on February 21, during the First World War, is canceled by the Supreme Army Command . The Battle of Verdun took the lives of a total of 350,000 French and 335,000 German soldiers.
- 1925: Reza Pahlavi takes the oath of office as Shah in front of the Iranian parliament ( Majles ).
- 1944: The plane with the American bandleader Glenn Miller disappears without a trace over the English Channel on the way from London to Paris during World War II .
- 1945: General Douglas MacArthur , as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, bans State Shinto under the guiding principle of the separation of religion and state in a directive addressed to the Japanese government .
- 1947: The London conference of the foreign ministers of the four victorious powers in World War II is ended because the Allies disagree on the German question and the Soviet Union and the United States break up .
- 1957: The city of Munich reaches one million inhabitants.
- 1961: The former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann , responsible in the Reich Main Security Office for the bureaucratic handling of the “ Final Solution to the Jewish Question ”, is sentenced to death in the Eichmann trial by the Jerusalem District Court after the guilty verdict of December 11th .
- 1964: Canada receives its maple leaf flag .
- 1972: At the Stockholm Conference of the United Nations on the Human Environment , the founding of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is decided
- 1975: Günter Guillaume and his wife Christel Boom are sentenced in the Federal Republic of Germany to 13 and 8 years in prison for treason in the course of the Guillaume affair .
- 1977: The German Federal Constitutional Court stops the abolition of the examination of conscience for conscientious objectors .
- 1981: The Peruvian diplomat Javier Pérez de Cuéllar is elected UN General Assembly by the UN General Assembly and thus succeeds the Austrian Kurt Waldheim .
- 1981: The UN Security Council declares the independence of the Ciskei, claimed in the context of South Africa's homeland policy , null and void.
- 1983: In its census judgment , the German Federal Constitutional Court declares the 1982 census law unconstitutional and establishes the right to informational self-determination as a fundamental right.
- 1983: Argentina's President Raúl Alfonsín appoints the Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas . It is supposed to investigate the fate of disappeared people and violations of human rights during the period of the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 .
- 1989: Around 200 people gather in front of the house of the Hungarian Reformed pastor László Tőkés in Timișoara , Romania to prevent his deportation. This marked the beginning of the Romanian revolution against dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu .
- 1990: Kyrgyzstan proclaims its sovereignty and with it the exit from the Soviet Union .
- 1993: The British Prime Minister John Major and the Irish Prime Minister Albert Reynolds sign the so-called Downing Street Declaration , an agreement that should enable a peaceful solution to the Northern Ireland conflict.
- 1999: In a referendum , the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela adopted the new Bolivarian constitution drawn up by Hugo Chávez with over two thirds of the votes .
- 2002: Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo , who has ruled since 1979, is confirmed as President of Equatorial Guinea for a further seven years .
- 2010: The European Parliament adopts the regulation on the concrete design of the European Citizens' Initiative with 628 votes in favor, 15 against and 24 abstentions .
- 2014: The police evacuation of Causeway Bay marks the outer end of the 2014 Hong Kong protests .
business
- 1858: Following the official opening, the Austrian West Railway goes into operation on the section from Wien Westbahnhof to Linz .
- 1906: The Great Northern, Piccadilly & Brompton Railway , an underground line between Hammersmith and Finsbury Park , opens in London .
- 1908: Melitta Bentz founds the Melitta company together with her husband Hugo , which aims to economically exploit the filter bag , which is protected as a utility model for the inventor .
- 1949: The Federal Republic of Germany joins the Marshall Plan .
- 1996: Boeing and McDonnell-Douglas announce the merger of their groups into an industrial giant with 200,000 employees and annual sales of 48 billion dollars in order to face competition from the European Airbus .
- 2000: The last still in operation reactor block III of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine is decommissioned.
science and technology
- 1654: In Florence the regular measurement and recording of the air temperature is started.
- 1917: The first train passes the newly built Metropolis Bridge over the Ohio .
- 1924: The traffic tower at Potsdamer Platz with the first traffic lights in Germany goes into operation.
- 1939: The chemical company DuPont in Seaford , Delaware, produces nylon threads commercially for the first time.
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- 1965: With Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford on board, the spaceship Gemini 6A takes off into space . A few hours later, the first meeting of two manned spaceships in space with the Gemini 7, which has been in space since December 4th, takes place .
- 1965: The French astronomer Audouin Dollfus discovers Saturn's inner moon Janus .
- 1965: The five kilometer long Zeeland bridge over the Oosterschelde is opened by Queen Juliana . It is the longest bridge in the Netherlands .
- 1970: The Soviet space probe Venera 7 reaches Venus and can send data to Earth for 23 minutes .
- 1984: The Soviet Vega 1 space probe is launched to explore the planet Venus and Comet Halley .
- 1987: The Micoperi 7000 designed by the Dutch company Gusto Engineering , the second most powerful floating crane and one of the largest work boats in the world, is put into service by the Italian service provider Micoperi after a two-year construction period .
- 2006: The US Lockheed Martin F-35 multi- role fighter makes its maiden flight.
- 2009: The Boeing 787 takes off on its maiden flight .
Culture
- 1807: The opera La vestale by Gaspare Spontini is premiered at the Paris Opera .
- 1832: The French satirical magazine Le Charivari prints the first caricature by the artist Honoré Daumier , who is followed by around 3,900 lithographs and wood engravings from his hand over the next forty years .
- 1858: At the premiere of the comic opera The Barber of Baghdad by Peter Cornelius at the Weimar Court Theater , an uproar breaks out when opponents of Franz Liszt , standing at the conductor's desk, disrupt the performance. Liszt then ended his activity as a conductor in Weimar.
- 1860: The Munich Citizens' Singer Guild presented the Bavarian anthem for the first time in Munich , today the anthem of the Free State of Bavaria .
- 1903: The first edition of the weekly newspaper Neue Rundschau is published by S. Fischer Verlag in Berlin.
- 1903: The German Association of Artists is founded by the Berlin Secessionists under the presidency of Count Leopold von Kalckreuth .
- 1913: The opera Parisina by Pietro Mascagni is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan .
- 1939: The four-hour love drama Gone With the Wind, the most expensive film of all time to date, premiered in Atlanta , which subsequently received ten Academy Awards and, adjusted for inflation, became the most commercially successful film of all time.
- 1944: The film Great Freedom No. 7 by Helmut Käutner with Hans Albers , Ilse Werner and Hans Söhnker is premiered in Prague . A performance for Germany was banned 3 days before by the National Socialist inspection agency.
- 1979: During a game of Scrabble , Scott Abbott and Chris Haney in Montreal had the idea of developing their own board game . This is how the basic concept of Trivial Pursuit is born.
- 1984: The piece Last Christmas composed by George Michael for the pop group Wham! , one of the most played pop songs during the Christmas season, is released on Epic Records .
- 1994: The old town of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt and the ironworks of Völklingen in Saarland are included on the UNESCO World Heritage List .
- 1995: The US film Heat by director Michael Mann is released in the US.
- 2000: The opera El Niño by John Adams is premiered in Paris .
- 2001: After more than eleven years of work to secure the structure , the Leaning Tower of Pisa is reopened to the public for ascent.
society
- 1809: Napoleon announces divorce from Empress Joséphine . It was carried out on January 10, 1810.
- 1960: The Belgian King Baudouin I marries the Spanish noblewoman Fabiola de Mora y Aragón .
religion
- 687: Sergius I , elected by the people of Rome and by the simple clergy, becomes Pope .
- 1124: Celestine II is elected as the antipope to Honorius II in Rome , but renounces the office the next day, whereupon Honorius II can be finally confirmed in his office in a new canonical election.
- 1433: With the bull Dudum sacrum , Pope Eugene IV , under pressure from Emperor Sigismund, recognizes the Council of Basel as legal, which he had tried to prohibit with his bull Quoniam alto in 1431. The main features of the text of the bull are based on the proposal of Cardinal Giuliano Cesarini .
Disasters
- 1881: The El Habra dam in Algeria breaks. The masses of water cause up to 250 deaths.
- 1970: The sinking of the South Korean ferry Namyong Ho in the Korea Strait will cost 308 lives.
- 1999: In Venezuela , weeks of unusually intense rainfall in the coastal region lead to catastrophic landslides. In the state of Vargas in front of Caracas in particular , several localities are partially completely buried by mud. Across Venezuela, the persistent storms claim 15,000 to 50,000 deaths and at least 150,000 are left homeless.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1895: BTSV Eintracht Braunschweig is founded as a cricket and football club Eintracht Braunschweig .
- 1935: The Dutchman Max Euwe becomes fifth world champion in chess . He beats his predecessor, the Russian exiled Alexander Alekhine , in the 1935 World Chess Championship with 15.5 to 14.5.
- 1990: When the German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB) of the GDR joined the German Sports Association (DSB), an all-German sports umbrella organization was created with around 24 million members at the time.
- 1995: The European Court of Justice pronounces the so-called Bosman decision , in which the previous transfer system in European professional football is declared illegal. The ruling prohibits transfer fees after the end of the contract for professional athletes within the EU and declares restrictions on foreigners to be invalid.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 37: Nero , Roman emperor
- 130: Lucius Verus , Roman co-emperor
- 1242: Munetaka , sixth Shogun of Japan
- 1250: al-ʿAllāma al-Hillī , Shiite theologian
- 1273: Aymon (Savoy) , Count of Savoy
- 1447: Albrecht IV (“the wise”), Duke of Bavaria
- 1488: Ferdinand , Duke of Calabria
- 1515: Maria of Saxony , Duchess of Pomerania-Wolgast
- 1517: Giacomo Gaggini , Sicilian sculptor
- 1531: Bernardo Buontalenti , Italian painter, architect and theater machinist
- 1567: Christoph Demantius , German composer
- 1582: Arnold Engelbrecht , Chancellor of the Principality of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1588: Adolf Friedrich I , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1613: Georg Hess , German educator
- 1624: Valerio Castello , Italian painter and fresco artist
- 1654: Johann Theodor Jablonski , German pedagogue and lexicographer
- 1657: Michel-Richard Delalande , French composer
- 1667: Ernst Ludwig , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1675: Georges Polier de Bottens , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
18th century
- 1716: Sabine Elisabeth Oelgard von Bassewitz , German writer
- 1719: Louis IX. , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1721: Johann Samuel Diterich , German hymn poet
- 1732: Carl Gotthard Langhans , German architect
- 1734: George Romney , British painter
- 1742: Francisco Antonio García Carrasco , Spanish officer and governor of Chile
- 1744: Eberhard von der Recke , German lawyer and politician
- 1752: André da Silva Gomes , Brazilian composer
- 1775: Sir Phineas Riall , British general
- 1777: Agostino Aglio , Italian painter, engraver and lithographer
- 1778: Godert Alexander Gerard Philip van der Capellen , Dutch politician
- 1783: Ahmad ibn Said , Imam Oman and founder of the Said dynasty
- 1784: Ludwig Devrient , German actor
- 1793: Jakob von Albertini , Swiss politician
- 1793: Henry Charles Carey , American economist
- 1796: Johann Franz Ahn , German teacher
- 1797: Johann Konrad Irmischer , German Protestant theologian and librarian
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Friedrich Christian Wilhelm Karl Sell , German Protestant theologian
- 1802: János Bolyai , Hungarian mathematician
- 1804: Viktor Jakowlewitsch Bunjakowski , Russian mathematician
- 1804: Ernst Rietschel , German sculptor of late classicism
- 1810: Peter Andreas Munch Norwegian historian
- 1815: Garnett Adrain , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1815: David Atwood , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1824: Friedrich Eduard Krichauff , German-Australian botanist and politician
- 1827: Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville , French Celtologist and historian
- 1827: Joseph Halévy , French orientalist and traveler to Africa
- 1830: Rudolph Anton , German lawyer and politician, MdL
- 1832: Alexandre Gustave Eiffel , French engineer
- 1834: Joseph Ignaz von Ah , Swiss Catholic priest, newspaper man and writer
- 1834: Gijsbert Hendrik Lamers , Dutch Reformed theologian
- 1834: Charles A. Young , American astrophysicist
- 1840: Jules Danbé , French conductor and violinist
- 1842: Armes Beaumont , Australian singer
- 1843: Heinrich Josef Maria Abel , Catholic priest and Jesuit
- 1843: Heinrich Schaumberger , German poet and narrator
- 1845: Johann Auderer , German cigar worker and politician, MdL
1851-1875
- 1851: Felix Cardinal von Hartmann , German theologian, Bishop of Münster, Archbishop of Cologne
- 1852: Antoine Henri Becquerel , French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1853: Theodor von Frimmel , Austrian art historian and musicologist
- 1857: Eugeniusz Pankiewicz , Polish composer and pianist
- 1859: Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof , Polish doctor, founder of the planned language Esperanto
- 1860: Elisabeth Aspe , Estonian writer
- 1860: Niels Ryberg Finsen , Danish doctor, Nobel Prize winner
- 1863: Wilhelm Schulze , German classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist
- 1867: Edith Lucy Austin , British tennis player
- 1870: Josef Hoffmann , Austrian architect and designer
- 1870: Alexander Lion , German doctor, co-founder of the German scout movement
- 1870: Richard McBride , Canadian politician
- 1875: Friedrich Niggli , Swiss composer and music teacher
- 1875: Luigi Pigarelli , Italian lawyer and composer
1876-1900
- 1876: Ferdinand Hardekopf , German journalist, writer, poet and translator
- 1878: Hans Carossa , German poet and author
- 1878: Albert Colomb , French racing car driver
- 1879: Rudolf von Laban , Hungarian dancer and choreographer
- 1880: Erwin Ackerknecht , German public librarian
- 1880: Maria Ansorge , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1881: Eugen Bolz , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1883: Gioacchino Armano , Italian football player
- 1883: Leonhard Grebe , German physicist
- 1884: Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund , German chemist
- 1884: Paul Schmitthenner , German architect
- 1885: Hans Wehberg , German teacher of international law
- 1887: Oswald Kroh , German educator and psychologist
- 1888: Maxwell Anderson , American playwright
- 1888: Aloys Heuvers , German mechanical engineer
- 1889: Kurt Adams , German politician
- 1889: Kai Senstius , Danish composer
- 1890: Gerhard Arndt , German farmer and politician
- 1891: Alvin Pleasant Carter , American country singer
- 1891: Karl Wilhelm Meissner , German-American physicist
- 1891: David Wijnveldt , Dutch football player
- 1892: José María Castro , Argentine composer
- 1892: J. Paul Getty , American entrepreneur
- 1894: Albert Siebenmorgen , German photographer, painter, local researcher
- 1894: Jost Trier , German Germanist
- 1894: Ellen Widmann Swiss actress
- 1895: Ottomar Anton , German painter, graphic artist and university professor
- 1895: William Katz , German teacher and theologian of the Jewish faith
- 1897: Theodor Busse , German general
- 1897: Kamura Isota , Japanese writer
- 1897: Zenta Mauriņa , Latvian writer
- 1898: Ernst Goldenbaum , German politician, Minister for Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR
- 1899: Harold Abrahams , British athlete
- 1899: Alfred Ahrens , German politician
- 1900: Arnold Pauli , Swiss singer, choir director and composer
- 1900: Otto Schmirgal , German communist and resistance fighter
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902: Bernard Lige Austin , American Vice Admiral
- 1904: Herbert Blankenhorn , German diplomat
- 1905: Ferenc Farkas , Hungarian composer
- 1906: George Whelan Anderson Jr. , American admiral
- 1906: Gustav Maier , German rower
- 1906: Yamamuro Shizuka , Japanese literary and cultural critic
- 1907: Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect
- 1907: Nikolai Nikitin , Russian architect
- 1908: Karl Ackermann , German journalist and publisher
- 1908: Walter Glöckler , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver and automobile designer
- 1909: Alfred Neumann , German politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, Minister for Materials Management of the GDR
- 1909: Hans Ernst Schneider , German literary scholar
- 1909: Toni Zeller , German cross-country skier and jumper
- 1910: John Hammond , American record producer, musician and music critic
- 1911: Stan Kenton , American pianist and composer
- 1912: Ray Eames , American designer
- 1913: Walt Ader , American racing car driver
- 1914: Gheorghe Dumitrescu , Romanian composer
- 1916: Kenshiro Abe , Japanese law teacher
- 1916: Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins , New Zealand physicist
- 1917: Karl-Günther von Hase , German officer, diplomat and director
- 1917: Hilde Zadek , German-Austrian soprano and vocal teacher
- 1918: Jeff Chandler , American actor
- 1919: Gustav Niermann , German farmer and politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1920: Vlastimil Brodský , Czech actor
- 1920: Howard Cable , Canadian conductor, arranger, and composer
- 1920: Albert Memmi , Tunisian writer and sociologist
- 1921: Alan Freed , American disc jockey
- 1921: Evelyn Künneke , German singer and actress
- 1922: Angelika Hauff , Austrian actress
- 1922: Kurt Weidemann , German author and graphic designer, teacher and typographer
- 1923: Uzi Gal , Israeli weapons technician
- 1923: Inge Keller , German actress
- 1923: Leon Niemczyk , Polish actor
- 1923: Harri Parschau , German cartoonist
- 1924: Quido Adamec , Czech ice hockey referee
- 1924: Esther Béjarano , last German survivor of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra
- 1925: Bert Hellinger , German family therapist and author
- 1925: Günther Ungeheuer , German actor
1926-1950
- 1926: Emmanuel Wamala , Ugandan priest, Archbishop of Kampala and Cardinal
- 1926: Karl Wienand , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, agent of the GDR State Security
- 1927: William MacKey , American racing car driver
- 1928: Ernie Ashworth , American country musician
- 1928: Friedensreich Hundertwasser , Austrian painter and architect
- 1928: Jerry Wallace , American pop and country singer
- 1929: Herfried Apel , German economic manager
- 1930: Ueli Beck , Swiss actor and radio host
- 1930: Erich Hauser , German sculptor
- 1930: Henri Kagan , French chemist
- 1930: Antonietta Meo , Italian girl, venerable servant of God
- 1930: Edna O'Brien , Irish writer
- 1931: Klaus Rifbjerg , Danish writer
- 1931: Peter Schmidhuber , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the State Minister, Member of the EU Commission
- 1932: Jesse Belvin , American singer and pianist
- 1933: Donald Woods , South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist
- 1934: Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed , Somali politician
- 1934: Mohamed Farah Aidid , Somali leader
- 1934: Curtis Fuller , American jazz trombonist
- 1934: Oleg Golovanov , Soviet rower and Russian rowing coach, Olympic champion
- 1934: Raina Kabaivanska , Bulgarian singer
- 1934: Stanislau Schuschkewitsch , Belarusian scientist and politician, president
- 1936: Joe D'Amato , Italian film director
- 1936: Christine Ostermayer , Austrian actress
- 1936: Eddie Palmieri , American pianist and orchestra conductor
- 1937: Sotìr Ferrara , Italian bishop of the Piana degli Albanesi eparchy
- 1937: Andreas Klaus , German motorcycle racer
- 1938: Michael Bogdanov , British director
- 1938: Manfred Lautenschläger , German entrepreneur and patron
- 1938: Billy Shaw , American football player
- 1938: Juan Carlos Wasmosy , Paraguayan entrepreneur and President
- 1939: Cindy Birdsong , American soul singer
- 1939: Nicolaus A. Huber , German composer
- 1940: Irmgard Karwatzki , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary
- 1940: Barbara Valentin , German actress
- 1940: Nikol Voigtländer , German actor and director
- 1942: Dave Clark , British musician and songwriter
- 1943: Volker Lange , German politician
- 1943: Edmundo Luis Flavio Abastoflor Montero , Bolivian Archbishop
- 1944: Chico Mendes , Brazilian rubber tapper, founder of the rubber tapping union
- 1946: Carmine Appice , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1946: Comunardo Niccolai , Italian football player and coach
- 1946: Žarko Puhovski , Croatian philosopher, co-founder of the first independent political organization in Yugoslavia
- 1947: Erwin Ortner , Austrian choir director and conductor
- 1947: Wahei Tatematsu , Japanese writer
- 1947: George Tucker , Puerto Rican luge and physicist
- 1948: Patricia Cowings , American space psychophysiologist
- 1948: Cassandra Harris , Australian film actress
- 1948: Ammante Jalmaani , Filipino swimmer
- 1949: Irineu Andreassa , Brazilian Bishop of Lages
- 1949: Don Johnson , American singer and actor
- 1950: Alain Flotard , French racing car driver
- 1950: Jerry Grossman , American cellist
- 1950: Boris Gryzlov , Russian politician, interior minister, chairman of the Duma
- 1950: Stjepko Gut , Serbian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
- 1950: Sophy , Puerto Rican singer
1951-1975
- 1952: Lee Aronsohn , American television producer and screenwriter
- 1952: Allan Simonsen , Danish football player
- 1952: Julie Taymor , American director
- 1954: Jürgen Reinholz , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1954: Mark R. Warner , American politician, governor of Virginia, senator
- 1955: Norbert Ballhaus , German local politician, Mayor of Moers
- 1955: Renate Künast , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1955: Paul Simonon , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1956: Mark Hummel , American harmonica player
- 1956: William Orbit , British music producer
- 1958: Aziza Jalal , Moroccan singer
- 1958: Stephan Weil , German politician, Lord Mayor of Hanover, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
- 1958: Alfredo Ormando , Italian theologian and grinder
- 1959: Ariel Auslender , German sculptor and painter
- 1959: Hugh Russell , Northern Irish boxer
- 1961: Sylvie Andrieux , French politician, member of the National Assembly
- 1961: Karin Resetarits , Austrian journalist and politician, MEP
- 1962: Ingo Schulze , German writer
- 1963: Lilija Nurutdinova , Russian middle-distance runner, world champion, Olympic medalist
- 1963: Helen Slater , American actress
- 1965: Clayton Nemrow , German actor
- 1966: Katja von Garnier , German film director
- 1968: Garrett Wang , American actor
- 1969: Rick Law , American comic book artist
- 1970: Michael Shanks , Canadian actor
- 1972: Sete Gibernau , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1973: Ryoo Seung-wan , South Korean director and actor
- 1975: Werner Lupberger , South African racing car driver
- 1975: Thomas Schürmann , German television presenter
1976-2000
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- 1977: Mehmet Aurélio , Turkish football player
- 1977: Gong Zhichao , Chinese badminton player, Olympic champion
- 1979: Adam Brody , American actor
- 1980: Annalena Baerbock , German politician, party leader and Chancellor candidate 2021 of the Greens
- 1980: Maxim Birbrajer , Kazakh-Israeli ice hockey player
- 1980: Anne Spiegel , German politician
- 1981: Brendan Fletcher , Canadian actor
- 1981: Hossam Ghaly , Egyptian soccer player
- 1981: Roman Anatolyevich Pavlyuchenko , Russian football player
- 1982: Christina Nimand Hansen , Danish handball player
- 1983: Komlan Amewou , Togolese football player
- 1983: Jamie Heaslip , Irish rugby player
- 1983: Zlatan Ljubijankič , Slovenian football player
- 1983: Viran Morros , Spanish handball player
- 1983: Wolfgang Strobel , German handball player
- 1984: Martin Škrtel , Slovak football player
- 1985: Adi Rocha , Brazilian soccer player
- 1986: Sören Gonther , German soccer player
- 1986: Keylor Navas , Costa Rican soccer player
- 1986: Boris Pandža , Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Croatian football player
- 1987: Júlia Orban-Smidéliusz , Hungarian handball player
- 1988: Alicia Endemann , German actress
- 1989: Aaron Cresswell , English soccer player
- 1989: Edgar Prib , German-Russian soccer player
- 1990: Xenia Georgia Assenza , German actress
- 1990: Juliane Wurm , German sport climber
- 1991: Conor Daly , American racing driver
- 1991: Pierre-Michel Lasogga , German football player
- 1992: Jesse Lingard , English soccer player
- 1994: Jakob Johnson , German American football player
- 1995: Felicia Lu Kürbiß , German singer
- 1997: Manuela Malsiner , Italian ski jumper
- 1997: Lina Larissa Strahl , German actress
- 1998: Somkiat Chantra , Thai motorcycle racer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 855: Folcuin , Bishop of Thérouanne
- 1025: Basil II , Byzantine emperor
- 1038: William VI. , Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou
- 1072: Alp Arslan , second sultan of the Seljuk Turks
- 1112: Gottschalk , Bishop of Minden
- 1158: Friedrich II. Von Berg , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1190: Arnold , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 1191: Welf VI. , Margrave of Tuscany, Duke of Spoleto; Founder of the Steingaden Monastery
- 1213: Gottfried , abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach
- 1230: Ottokar I Přemysl , King of Bohemia
- 1248: Laurentius Hispanus , canonist and bishop of Orense
- 1263: Håkon Håkonsson , King of Norway
- 1317: Maria von Bytom , Queen of Hungary
- 1359: Johann I , Count of Ziegenhain, Count of Nidda and High Bailiff of the Fulda Monastery
- 1379: John Arundel , English military man
- 1423: Michael Küchmeister , 28th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1434: Enrique de Villena , Spanish scholar, author and translator
- 1467: Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna , Archbishop of Uppsala and Imperial Administrator of Sweden
- 1489: Johann III. Beckenschlager , Archbishop of Gran and Salzburg
- 1489: Simon Marmion , Franco-Flemish painter and illuminator
- 1500: Pero Vaz de Caminha , Portuguese navigator and scribe for Pedro Alvares Cabral
16th to 18th centuries
- 1507: Aleidis Raiscop , German Benedictine nun and writer
- 1535: Christoph Kreß von Kressenstein , German mayor and politician
- 1541: Johanna van der Gheynst , Dutch citizen and lover of Emperor Charles V
- 1551: Rudolf Schenk zu Schweinsberg , councilor of the Landgrave of Hesse
- 1570: Friedrich III. , Duke of Haynau and Liegnitz
- 1574: Selim II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1598: Philips van Marnix , Dutch politician, writer and translator
- 1618: Anna , Holy Roman Empress
- 1621: Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes , French statesman and Connétable of France, adviser to King Louis XIII.
- 1634: Eugenio Cajés , Spanish-Italian painter, fresco artist, plasterer and gilder
- 1651: Virginia Centurione Bracelli , Italian benefactress, founder of the order and mystic
- 1653: Paris von Lodron , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1660: Martino Longhi the Younger , Italian architect
- 1672: Johann Brunnemann , German lawyer
- 1675: Jan Vermeer , Dutch painter
- 1683: Mikołaj Hieronim Sieniawski , field hetman to the Polish crown
- 1683: Izaak Walton , English writer
- 1692: Georg Adam Struve , German lawyer
- 1713: Carlo Maratta , Italian painter
- 1710: Albert Anton , Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1722: Joseph I , German-Bohemian nobleman, Prince von Schwarzenberg
- 1725: Georg Daniel von Buttlar , Knight of the Teutonic Order
- 1732: Johann Baptist von Garelli , personal physician to three emperors
- 1736: Johann Georg Zierenberg , mayor in the Duchy of Bremen
- 1738: Pedro de Arrieta , Spanish builder
- 1747: Anselm Reichlin von Meldegg , Prince Abbot of Kempten
- 1748: Joseph Winkler , Austrian sculptor and stonemason
- 1766: Adam Stanislaus Grabowski , Bishop of Kulm, Kujawien and Warmia
- 1766: Carlo Tessarini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1775: Jelisaweta Alexejewna Tarakanowa , Russian pretender to the throne
- 1783: Ahmad ibn Said , Imam of Oman
- 1784: Friedrich Groschuff , German philologist
- 1792: Joseph Martin Kraus , German-Swedish composer
- 1796: Anthony Wayne , American general and politician
- 1799: Mathias Obermayr , German sculptor and plasterer
19th century
- 1815: Giuseppe Bossi , Italian painter and author
- 1817: Johann von Andrássy , Hungarian military
- 1818: Joseph Ludwig Colmar , Bishop of Mainz
- 1824: Thomas Henderson , American politician
- 1830: Moritz Kellerhoven , German portrait painter and etcher
- 1839: Mathieu Ignace van Brée , Belgian painter, sculptor and architect
- 1848: Franz Sinesius Weissenbach , Swiss lawyer and politician
- 1852: Józef Damse , Polish composer
- 1855: Frederik Meltzer , Norwegian businessman and politician
- 1885: Ferdinand II , King of Portugal
- 1887: Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg , German politician
- 1888: Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt , Prince of Hessen and the Rhine, founder of the House of Battenberg
- 1889: Carl Lampe , Leipzig entrepreneur, patron of the arts and railroad pioneer
- 1890: Sitting Bull , Indian tribal chief and medicine man of the Hunkpapa-Lakota-Sioux
- 1895: Oun Kham , King of Luang Phrabang
- 1898: Wilhelm Franz Speer , German composer, organist and choir conductor
- 1899: Numa Droz , Swiss politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Elias Álvares Lôbo , Brazilian composer
- 1907: Carola von Wasa-Holstein-Gottorp , last Queen of Saxony
- 1909: Emil Strub , Swiss designer, engineer, railway builder and inventor
- 1909: Francisco Tárrega , Spanish guitarist and composer
- 1910: Edmund Friedrich von Autenrieth , German civil engineer and university professor
- 1913: Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach , German painter and social reformer
- 1913: Moltke Moe , Norwegian folklorist
- 1921: John Nixon , British general
- 1924: T. Frank Appleby , American politician
- 1924: Franz Friedrich Kohl , Austrian entomologist and folk song researcher
- 1929: Marie Hankel , first German Esperanto poet
- 1931: Hannah Adams , American writer
- 1931: Gustave Le Bon , French doctor and sociologist
- 1939: Bernd von Arnim , Prussian politician, State and Agriculture Minister
- 1940: Clara Southern , Australian painter
- 1943: Fats Waller , American musician
- 1944: Glenn Miller , American jazz trombonist, band leader, composer and arranger
- 1945: Emerson Harrington , American politician
- 1945: Tobias Matthay , English music teacher, pianist and composer
- 1947: Arthur Make , British fantasy writer
- 1947: Karl Stanka , German painter, draftsman and chronicler
- 1948: João Tamagnini de Sousa Barbosa , Portuguese military and politician, Prime Minister
1951-1975
- 1951: Eric Drummond , British politician and diplomat, first Secretary General of the League of Nations
- 1953: Kishio Hirao , Japanese composer
- 1954: Papa Celestin , American band leader and jazz trumpeter, cornet player and singer
- 1955: Otto Braun , German politician, Prime Minister
- 1957: Peter Kintgen , German pedagogue and dialect poet
- 1958: Wolfgang Pauli , Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1960: Véra Clouzot , French-Brazilian actress
- 1962: Charles Laughton , British actor
- 1966: Walt Disney , American animator and director
- 1970: Gaston Duval , French racing car driver
- 1971: Paul Lévy , French mathematician
- 1972: Herbert Eimert , German composer and music theorist
- 1972: Wolfgang Jacobi , German composer
- 1973: Willem Hesselink , Dutch football player
- 1974: Heinz-Joachim Heydorn , German educator
- 1974: Anatole Litvak , Russian-French director
- 1974: Erich Walter Sternberg , Israeli composer
- 1975: Muchtar Aschrafowitsch Aschrafi , Uzbek-Soviet composer
- 1975: Karl Pündter , German actor, director, radio play speaker and, after 1945, head of the school radio department at NWDR in Hamburg
1976-2000
- 1980: Peter Gregg , American racing car driver
- 1981: Max Steenbeck , German physicist
- 1983: Willie Bobo , American jazz percussionist
- 1983: Andrzej Bieżan , Polish composer and pianist
- 1986: Seymour Lipton , American sculptor
- 1987: Elisabeth Zaisser , German politician, Minister for Popular Education of the GDR
- 1988: Leonid Andrussow , German chemical engineer
- 1989: Anders Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1990: Hans Fruck , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism, Deputy Minister for State Security of the GDR
- 1990: Julio Gutiérrez , Cuban composer, conductor and pianist
- 1991: Reidar Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1991: Vasily Saizew , Russian sniper in World War II
- 1992: Ennio Morlotti , Italian painter
- 1995: Mano Dayak , Nigerien politician, entrepreneur and writer of the Tuareg
- 1997: Hans Joachim Ihle , German sculptor
- 1998: Eugen Stadelmann , Austrian teacher and local writer
- 1999: Georges Aeby , Swiss football player
- 1999: Rune Andréasson , Swedish comic artist and animator
- 1999: Gerhard Audorf , German athlete and civil engineer
- 2000: Helen Kotas Hirsch , American horn player
21st century
- 2001: Rufus Thomas , American blues and soul singer
- 2004: Vassal Gadoengin , Nauruan politician
- 2004: Sidonie Goossens , British harpist
- 2005: James Ingo Freed , German-American architect
- 2006: Clay Regazzoni , Swiss racing driver
- 2007: John Berg , American actor
- 2007: St. Clair Bourne , American filmmaker
- 2007: Julia Carson , American politician
- 2007: Diane Middlebrook , American author
- 2007: Giuseppe Rinaldi , Italian actor and voice actor
- 2007: Fernando Romo Gutiérrez , Mexican priest, Bishop of Torreón
- 2008: Carlo Caracciolo , Italian publisher
- 2008: André Greiner-Pol , German rock musician
- 2008: Anne-Catharina Vestly , Norwegian writer
- 2009: CDB Bryan , American author and journalist
- 2010: Peter O. Chotjewitz , German writer, translator and lawyer
- 2010: Blake Edwards , American film director
- 2010: Hans-Joachim Rauschenbach , German sports reporter
- 2011: Walter Giller , German actor
- 2011: Christopher Hitchens , British-American author and critic
- 2013: Joan Fontaine , American film actress
- 2013: Harold Camping , American radio preacher
- 2015: Stella Doufexis , German opera singer
- 2015: Licio Gelli , Italian conspirator
- 2019: Chuck Peddle , American electronics engineer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Gerhard Uhlhorn , German theologian (Protestant)
- St. Nino , healer (Catholic)
- Name days
Further entries can be found in the list of days of remembrance and action .
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