February 15th

The February 15 is the 46th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 319 days (in leap years 320 days) by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

590: Chosrau II.

• 0590 : Nine days after the overthrow of his father Hormizd IV , Chosrau II is crowned Great King of the Sassanid Empire . However, he has to flee soon afterwards because rebels under military leader Bahram Chobin are approaching the capital Ctesiphon .

1637: Ferdinand III.

• 1637 : After the death of his father . Ferdinand II is Ferdinand III. , in the middle of the Thirty Years War , Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1763 : Prussia , Austria and Saxony conclude the Treaty of Hubertusburg in the Saxon Hubertusburg Palace to end the Seven Years' War in Europe. The pre-war status quo is restored and Prussia is establishing itself as a major European power .
• 1764 : On the territory of the Louisiana colony , which at that time was under Spanish control , the city of St. Louis is founded by French fur traders from a previous trading post at the confluence of the two rivers Mississippi and Missouri . This developed into a center of the fur trade .

1794: The Tricolore

• 1794 : In the First Republic , the tricolor becomes the national flag of France .
• 1798 : The first Roman Republic is proclaimed in Rome , a French subsidiary republic on the territory of the Papal States .
• 1806 : In the Paris Agreement negotiated between Napoleon Bonaparte and Christian von Haugwitz , Prussia undertakes to block all of its ports to British ships and to occupy Kurhannover . Great Britain then declares war on Prussia.

1819: Greater Colombia

• 1819 : The Congress of Angostura begins on the on 17 December from the previous Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada emerged States Venezuela and Colombia to Gran Colombia will unite.
• 1897 : Based on the Megali Idea, Greek troops land on the island of Crete to support them in their struggle for independence against the Ottoman Empire . This leads to the Turkish-Greek War on April 7th .

1898: USS Maine in Havana Harbor

• 1898 : The battleship sinks in Havana harbor, presumably because of an explosion in the ammunition chamber of the USS Maine caused by a coal fire . 266 crew members are killed. As a result, explain USA , who - incited by a media campaign of competing leaves of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer - claiming a Spanish attack, Spain the war .
• 1922 : The Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague holds its first session , chaired by its President Bernard Loder .
• 1930 : Cairine Wilson is the first woman to be appointed to Canada's Senate just four months after a fundamental decision on admissibility .
• 1933 : The newly elected US President Franklin D. Roosevelt barely escapes an assassination attempt in Miami in which the former mayor of Chicago , Anton Cermak , who sits next to him , is killed. The background to the crime remains unclear.

1942: British prisoners of war

• 1942 : Singapore is captured by Japanese troops after a 16-day battle in the Pacific War . Over 80,000 Allied soldiers under the British Lieutenant General Arthur Ernest Percival are taken prisoner of war.
• 1943 : German schoolchildren aged 15 and over are drafted into military service as air force helpers with immediate effect.

1944: Destruction of the Monte Cassino monastery

• 1944 : The founding monastery of the Benedictines in Montecassino is almost completely destroyed by heavy Allied bombing in World War II, although there are only around 800 civilians in the buildings.
• 1945 : An ordinance issued by the German Reich Minister of Justice Otto Georg Thierack leads to the formation of court martial in “enemy-threatened Reich defense districts”, which are allowed to sentence civil and military personnel.
• 1948 : The “ United State of Saurashtra (Kathiawar) ”, formed by the merger of more than 200 Indian princely states , becomes part of India, which became independent the previous year .

1956: Urho Kekkonen

• 1956 : The Electoral Committee for the Finnish Presidential Election elects Urho Kekkonen as President of the Republic of Finland for the first time . He wins the third ballot against the Social Democrat Karl-August Fagerholm with 151 to 149 votes. Other opponents in previous votes are the Conservatives Sakari Tuomioja and Juho Kusti Paasikivi . Kekkonen will hold the office of President in Finland until 1981.

1965: Old Flag of Canada, Canadian Red Ensign

1965: New flag of Canada, maple leaf flag

• 1965 : Despite massive protests, the maple leaf flag is introduced as the new flag of Canada by Queen Elizabeth II on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in an official ceremony . It replaces the Canadian Red Ensign .
• 1972 : In the Oslo Convention , twelve European countries bordering the Atlantic agree on measures to prevent further marine pollution .
• 1989 : The Soviet government announces that the Soviet Army has completely withdrawn from Afghanistan . The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan is over after nine years.
• 1990 : The hackers Dirk-Otto Brezinski ( DOB ), Hans Heinrich Hübner ( Pengo ) and Markus Hess ( Urmel ) who were involved in the KGB hack along with Karl Koch were sentenced to suspended prison terms of between 14 months and 2 years.

1999: Abdullah Öcalan

• 1999 : The Kurdish leader and chairman of the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party ( PKK ), Abdullah Öcalan , is kidnapped by the Turkish secret service Millî İstihbarat Teşkilâtı and taken to Turkey's prison island İmralı .
• 2000 : The accession negotiations between the EU and Latvia as well as Bulgaria and Slovakia begin.
• 2003 : Around 9 million people worldwide demonstrate in the largest peace demonstration in history against the Iraq war planned by the “ Coalition of the Willing ” , which is the only war in history against which protest demonstrations take place before it broke out .
• 2006 : The Federal Constitutional Court declares a provision of the Federal German Aviation Security Act to be null and void, which should have been a legal basis for the eventual downing of hijacked aircraft in dangerous situations.
• 2012 : In the Indian Ocean , two Tamil fishermen are shot dead by Italian military units from the oil tanker Enrica Lexie because they are mistakenly mistaken for Somali pirates . This maritime incident sparked diplomatic tension between Italy and India .
• 2018 : One day after the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma , the parliament in Pretoria elected the ANC politician Cyril Ramaphosa as the fifth president of the Republic of South Africa , which has existed since 1961 .

economy

• 1712 : Tsar Peter the Great issued a decree to set up a factory in Tula which, as Tulski Oruscheiny Sawod, outlasts the ages with the manufacture of weapons .
• 1864 : The 22-year-old Gerhard Adriaan Heineken buys the Amsterdam-based De Hooiberg brewery and thus founds the Heineken company , now one of the largest breweries in the world.

1902: The main line of the Berlin subway

• 1902 : The first underground line between the Stralauer Tor and Zoologischer Garten underground stations opens in Berlin .
• 1912 : With the first section of the Ringbahn between the Rathausplatz and Barmbek stations of the U-Bahn, the third U-Bahn service in Germany goes into operation. On June 28th of the year the ring is completed with two more sections.
• 1934 : The German media company Heyne Verlag is founded in Dresden.
• 1936 : IG Farben come up with the first car tire made from the Buna rubber substitute at the International Motor Show in Berlin .
• 1950 : Remington Rand takes over Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation , which develops the UNIVAC I computer.
• 1953 : The physicist Erik Lundblad, employed by the Swedish company ASEA , produces the first synthetic diamonds .
• 1971 : On Decimal Day , the pound sterling is converted to the decimal system in Great Britain and thus divided into 100 pence .
• 1991 : In Visegrád , Hungary , Poland , Hungary and Czechoslovakia conclude an agreement to found the Visegrád Group in order to carry out the transition to a market economy in cooperation.

2005: YouTube logo

• 2005 : The former PayPal employees Chad Hurley , Steve Chen and Jawed Karim found the Internet video portal YouTube , on which video clips can be viewed and uploaded free of charge.

science and technology

1786: Cat's Eye Nebula

• 1786 : The astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers the Cat's Eye Nebula , a planetary nebula in the Dragon constellation .
• 1830 : With a lecture by Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , the Paris academy dispute between him and Georges Cuvier begins , one of the most famous debates in the history of biology .
• 1959 : Between Düsseldorf and Ratingen , a mobile radar device is used for speed control for the first time in Germany .

Culture

• 1665 : At the Théâtre du Palais Royal in Paris which takes place premiere of the comedy Don Juan ou le Festin de pierre of Molière .
• 1823 : The opera Cordelia by Conradin Kreutzer with the libretto by Pius Alexander Wolff is premiered at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
• 1845 : The opera Giovanna d'Arco by Giuseppe Verdi is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan . The libretto by Temistocle Solera is based on the tragedy Die Jungfrau von Orleans by Friedrich Schiller . The audience's reaction is divided.
• 1862 : The world premiere of the opera Die Katakomben by Ferdinand von Hiller takes place in Wiesbaden.

1867: Blue Danube Waltz, title page of the first edition

• 1867 : The waltz On the beautiful blue Danube by Johann Strauss (son) is premiered as a choral waltz by the Vienna Men's Choir Association in the Dianabad hall in Vienna.
• 1884 : The opera Mazeppa by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky based on the poem Poltava by Alexander Pushkin is premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
• 1965 : Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera The Soldiers is premiered in the Cologne Opera House .
• 1987 : The German comedy series Rudi's Tagesshow , shown on ARD , triggers an international scandal when, in one scene, the Iranian head of state Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is associated with lingerie. Moderator Rudi Carrell receives death threats.

society

• 1985 : Udo Proksch is arrested in Vienna on suspicion of fraud in connection with the sinking of the Lucona .

religion

• 1113 : Paschal II places the Order of St. John under papal protection and issues the tithe levy .
• 1145 : The Cistercian Bernardo Paganelli di Montemagno is named Eugene III. elected pope . The pupil of Bernhard von Clairvaux had to flee from Rome a few days later because the Senate was hostile to papal rule.

1621: Gregory XV.

• 1621 : The newly elected Pope Gregory XV. appoints his nephew Ludovico Ludovisi to Kardinalnepoten .

1775: Pius VI.

• 1775 : Giovanni Angelo Graf Braschi is elected Pope almost five months after the death of Clement XIV , after he had promised the conclave not to touch the Jesuit ban. He takes the name of Pius VI. at.
• 1882 : In the encyclical Etsi nos , Pope Leo XIII turns . against Freemasonry , Liberalism and Rationalism as the roots of all evil.

Disasters

• 1760 : The British liner HMS Ramillies ran aground at Bolt Head near Plymouth , England after a navigational error . Around 700 crew members die, only 26 can save themselves. It is one of the worst non-war shipping accidents in English waters.

1855: Map of the Strait of Bonifacio

• 1855 : The French frigate La Sémillante crashes on the reefs of the Lavezzi Islands during a hurricane in the Strait of Bonifacio between Corsica and Sardinia ; none of the 693 sailors and soldiers on board survived.

1970: DC-9-20

• 1970 : A Dominican Douglas DC-9 crashes into the sea near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, immediately after take-off. All 102 people on board die.
• 1978 : Continuation of the snow disaster in Northern Germany in 1978 .
• 1982 : The largest oil rig in the world at the time , Ocean Ranger , sinks on the Newfoundland Bank off Newfoundland after being damaged by a monster wave . All 84 crew members are killed.
• 1994 : An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 in Sumatra, Indonesia, calls for 207 deaths.
• 1996 : The Sea Empress tanker ran aground on a rock near Milford Haven after a pilot error . 71,800 tons of leaking crude oil is causing severe oil spill on the Welsh coast.

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2013: Chelyabinsk meteor explosion

• 2013 : A meteor enters the earth's atmosphere near Chelyabinsk and explodes 30 to 50 kilometers above the ground. The subsequent shock wave damaged around 3,500 buildings. 1491 people are injured by flying glass fragments. It is the largest meteor since the entry of the Tunguska meteorid .

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

Sports

1891: AIK Solna logo

• 1891 : AIK Solna is founded as a general sports club in Stockholm, which over time has grown into one of the largest sports clubs in Sweden.
• 1978 : Leon Spinks wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Muhammad Ali at the Hilton Hotel, Las Vegas, by winning on points.
• 1985 : An unusually long competition to determine a world chess champion between Anatoli Karpov and Garry Kasparov is broken off illegally by FIDE President Florencio Campomanes after 48 games. Karpov was leading at the 1984 World Chess Championship with 5: 3 points, Kasparov was catching up. The two title contenders meet again on the board at the newly scheduled 1985 World Chess Championship .
• 2015 : The Norwegian ski jumper Anders Fannemel jumps a world record with 251.5 meters in Vikersund .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1368 : Sigismund of Luxemburg , German King and Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary
• 1458 : Ivan Ivanovich the Young , Russian Grand Duke
• 1472 : Piero di Lorenzo de 'Medici , ruler of Florence
• 1487 : Heinrich von der Pfalz , Prince-Bishop of Worms, Utrecht and Freising
• 1506 : Juliana zu Stolberg , ancestor of the House of Orange
• 1549 : Barnim X , Duke of Pomerania
• 1557 : Vittoria Accoramboni , Italian nobleman

Galileo Galilei (* 1564)

• 1564 : Galileo Galilei , Italian philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer
• 1571 : Michael Praetorius , actually Michael Schultheiß, German composer and music theorist
• 1612 : Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve , French officer and founder of Montreal
• 1655 : August , Duke of Sachsen-Merseburg-Zörbig
• 1687 : Theodor Ankarcrona , Swedish admiral
• 1688 : Nicolas Fréret , French scholar
• 1695 : Johann Elias Ridinger , German animal painter and etcher

18th century

• 1705 : Charles André van Loo , French painter
• 1710 : Louis XV. , King of France
• 1715 : Johann Gottlieb Frenzel , German lawyer, historian and philosopher
• 1719 : Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling , Prussian hussar general
• 1725 : Abraham Clark , American politician
• 1731 : Jean-Louis Aubert , French secular clergyman, fabulous poet, journalist and literary critic
• 1734 : Johann Gerhard Gruner , German lawyer and historian
• 1736 : Gottlieb Jacob Weizsäcker , German cook and progenitor of the Weizsäcker family
• 1739 : Charles Henri Sanson , French executioner
• 1740 : Carl Michael Bellman , Swedish poet and composer
• 1745 : Johann Ferdinand Albert , German civil servant

Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse (* 1746)

• 1746 : Wilhelm Heinse , German poet and librarian
• 1748 : Jeremy Bentham , British lawyer, philosopher and social reformer
• 1750 : Valentin Stephan Still , master brewer in Munich
• 1751 : Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , German painter
• 1754 : Pierre-Louis Roederer , French statesman and publicist, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
• 1755 : Ferdinand von Lüninck , German Prince-Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Münster
• 1755 : Jean-Nicolas Corvisart , French medic and personal physician to Napoléon Bonaparte
• 1759 : Friedrich August Wolf , German classical philologist and classical scholar
• 1760 : Jean-François Lesueur , French church musician and composer
• 1764 : Jens Immanuel Baggesen , Danish writer, translator and supporter of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
• 1770 : Ferdinand von Wintzingerode , Russian general
• 1774 : Wilhelm Georg Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau , second son of Wilhelm V of the Netherlands
• 1783 : Johann Nepomuk von Poißl , German composer and artistic director
• 1784 : Herenäus Haid , German theologian, author and translator
• 1786 : Ferdinand Gotthelf Hand , German classical philologist
• 1789 : Friedrich Ernst Fesca , German composer
• 1791 : Friedrich Ludwig Weidig , German Protestant theologian, pedagogue, journalist and gymnastics pioneer, protagonist of the Vormärz
• 1796 : Pyotr Fjodorowitsch Anjou , Russian polar explorer and admiral

19th century

1801-1850

• 1803 : Karl Friedrich Schimper , German natural scientist, botanist and geologist

Ludwig Persius (* 1803)

• 1803 : Ludwig Persius , Prussian architect
• 1805 : Louise Bertin , French composer
• 1806 : Franz Xaver Haimerl , Austrian lawyer and university professor
• 1807 : Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński , Polish pianist and composer
• 1808 : Carl Friedrich Lessing , German romantic painter
• 1809 : Owen Jones , British architect and designer
• 1810 : Mary SB Dana , American writer
• 1811 : Domingo Faustino Sarmiento , Argentine President
• 1813 : Frederick Holbrook , American politician
• 1817 : Charles-François Daubigny , French painter
• 1818 : Jan Pětr Jordan , Sorbian scientist and philosopher
• 1820 : Susan B. Anthony , American pioneer of the women's rights movement
• 1821 : Camille Rousset , French historian and War Department librarian
• 1823 : Li Hongzhang , Chinese general
• 1826 : George Johnstone Stoney , Irish physicist
• 1830 : Marcos Segundo Maturana , Chilean general
• 1831 : Adolf Deucher , Swiss politician
• 1831 : Josef Hlávka , Czech builder, architect and patron
• 1832 : Nicolás Ruiz Espadero , Cuban pianist and composer

Dimitrios Vikelas (* 1835)

• 1835 : Dimitrios Vikelas , Greek sports official, first president of the IOC
• 1837 : Wilhelm Jensen , German writer
• 1837 : Adolph Kießling , German classical philologist
• 1839 : Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen , Danish professor of mathematics
• 1845 : Elihu Root , American author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1847 : Robert Fuchs , Austrian Romantic composer
• 1850 : Ion Andreescu , Romanian painter

1851-1900

• 1853 : Frederick Treves , British surgeon
• 1853 : Max Wilhelm Meyer , German astronomer, naturalist and writer
• 1855 : Hugo Vogel , German painter
• 1856 : Emil Kraepelin , German psychiatrist
• 1858 : William Henry Pickering , American astronomer
• 1859 : Louis-Joseph Maurin , French priest, Archbishop of Lyon and Cardinal
• 1860 : Martin Leo Arons , German physicist and politician
• 1861 : William Herbert Adams , American politician
• 1861 : Alfred North Whitehead , British mathematician and philosopher
• 1861 : Charles Édouard Guillaume , French-Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1861 : Halford Mackinder , British geographer and geopolitician
• 1861 : Julius Wahle , Austrian literary scholar
• 1866 : Paolo Troubetzkoy , Italian-Russian sculptor
• 1869 : Ferdinand Grimm , Austrian finance minister and finance expert
• 1869 : Hans Schrader , German archaeologist
• 1871 : Carlos de Candamo , Peruvian diplomat and sportsman
• 1873 : Gaspar Agüero y Barreras , Cuban composer and pianist

Hans von Euler-Chelpin (* 1873)

• 1873 : Hans von Euler-Chelpin , German-Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1874 : Emilis Jūlis Melngailis , Latvian composer
• 1874 : Ernest Shackleton , British polar explorer
• 1874 : Eduard Schwyzer , Swiss classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist
• 1875 : Vilma von Webenau , Austrian-German composer
• 1876 : Ernest Henry Wilson , British botanist and plant hunter
• 1877 : Louis Renault , French engineer and co-founder of the Renault car brand
• 1878 : Arnold Ræstad , Norwegian historian and foreign minister
• 1879 : Hermann Burte , German poet and painter
• 1879 : Friedrich Franz zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst , German nobleman and husband of the spy Stephanie Richter
• 1882 : Elisabeth Rotten , German reform pedagogue and peace activist
• 1883 : Fritz Gerlich , German journalist and historian
• 1883 : Sax Rohmer , British crime writer and esotericist
• 1884 : Émile Bourdon , French organist and composer
• 1886 : Harold Chapin , English actor and playwright
• 1886 : Augustinus Hieber , German pastor ( blessing pastor from Allgäu )
• 1890 : Klara Marie Faßbinder , German activist of the women's and peace movement

Robert Ley (* 1890)

• 1890 : Robert Ley , German chemist and leading politician under National Socialism, head of the German labor front, accused major war criminal
• 1891 : Dino Borgioli , Italian opera singer
• 1891 : Roy Rene , Australian comedian and actor
• 1891 : Josef Wintrich , German lawyer, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1892 : James V. Forrestal , American politician
• 1893 : Georg Otto Angerer , German politician
• 1895 : Franz Wittmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1896 : Louis Brody , German actor
• 1898 : Totò , Italian actor
• 1898 : Allen Woodring , American athlete
• 1899 : Ernst Biberstein , German Protestant pastor, SS officer, chief of Einsatzkommando 6, mass murderer and war criminal
• 1899 : Iknadios Bedros XVI. Batanian , Patriarch of Cilicia
• 1899 : Georges Auric , French composer
• 1899 : Willi Kobe , Swiss Protestant clergyman and peace activist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Kokomo Arnold , American blues musician
• 1901 : André Parrot , French archaeologist from the Near East
• 1901 : Jupp Schmitz , German entertainer, pop and Krätzchen singer
• 1903 : Heinrich Drake , German sculptor
• 1904 : Antonin Magne , French cyclist
• 1905 : Harold Arlen , American light music composer, Oscar winner

Harold Arlen (* 1905)

• 1905 : François Seydoux de Clausonne , French diplomat
• 1906 : Reinhard Schober , German forest scientist
• 1907 : Jean Langlais , French composer and organist
• 1907 : Cesar Romero , American actor
• 1909 : Josef Frank , Czechoslovak trade unionist
• 1909 : Miep Gies , Austrian-Dutch author, assistant to Anne Frank
• 1909 : HAP Grieshaber , German painter and graphic artist (woodcut)
• 1910 : Jaime Figueroa , Puerto Rican violinist
• 1912 : Pietro Ferraris , Italian football player
• 1912 : Karl Kreutzberg , German handball player
• 1913 : Erich Eliskases , Austrian and Argentine chess master
• 1913 : William Scott , British painter from Scotland
• 1913 : Willy Vandersteen , Belgian comic artist
• 1914 : Hale Boggs , American politician, member of the Warren Commission
• 1915 : Abel Ferreira , Brazilian composer, clarinetist and saxophonist
• 1917 : Gösta Andersson , Swedish wrestler
• 1918 : Allan Arbus , American actor and photographer

Hank Locklin (born 1918)

• 1918 : Hank Locklin , American singer
• 1919 : Stephen Kondaks , Canadian violist and music teacher
• 1920 : Anne-Catharina Vestly , Norwegian writer
• 1921 : Frank Seno , American football player
• 1922 : John B. Anderson , American lawyer and politician
• 1922 : Sleepy Jeffers , American country musician
• 1922 : Herman Kahn , American cyberneticist
• 1922 : Kurt Rapf , Austrian composer, conductor and organist
• 1923 : Jelena Georgijewna Bonner , Soviet dissident, Russian human rights activist
• 1923 : Arno Hamburger , first chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG) in Nuremberg
• 1925 : Odile Caradec , French poet
• 1925 : Kurt Jung , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
• 1925 : Erik Schumann , German actor and voice actor
• 1925 : Harald Vock , German director, screenwriter, radio play author, producer and journalist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Rubén Fuentes , Mexican classical violinist and composer
• 1926 : Dieter Lattmann , German writer and politician, co-initiator of artists ' social insurance and artists' social security contribution
• 1927 : Carlo Maria Martini , Italian priest and Jesuit, Archbishop of Milan and cardinal

Luis Posada Carriles (* 1928)

• 1928 : Luis Posada Carriles , Cuban terrorist in exile
• 1929 : Ibrahim Abu-Lughod , Palestinian-American political scientist and politician
• 1929 : Graham Hill , British racing car driver
• 1929 : James R. Schlesinger , American politician
• 1930 : Georg Zur , German priest, bishop and apostolic nuncio in Austria
• 1931 : Claire Bloom , British actress
• 1932 : Josef Brukner , Czech writer, translator and film scenarist
• 1932 : Leoš Suchařípa , Czech actor, translator and theater theorist
• 1933 : Günter Schluckebier , German politician, trade unionist, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1934 : Niklaus Wirth , Swiss computer scientist
• 1935 : George Alexander Albrecht , German conductor
• 1935 : John Rusling Block , American politician
• 1935 : Roger B. Chaffee , American astronaut
• 1935 : Wallace Sargent , American astronomer
• 1936 : Manfred Bopp , German soccer player
• 1936 : Hansjürgen Verweyen , German fundamental theologian
• 1937 : Gretel Eisch , German artist
• 1938 : Gina Romand , Mexican actress and singer
• 1939 : Isaías Duarte Cancino , Colombian priest and archbishop
• 1939 : William Van Horn , American draftsman ( Disney Comics )
• 1940 : Ursula Krinzinger , Austrian gallery owner and art dealer
• 1940 : Francesco Valle , Italian boxer
• 1941 : Florinda Bolkan , Brazilian actress

Klaus Matthiesen (* 1941)

• 1941 : Klaus Matthiesen , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
• 1941 : Hans Dieter Trayer , German actor
• 1942 : Ronald George Atkey , Canadian lawyer, university professor and politician
• 1942 : Glyn Johns , British sound engineer and music producer
• 1943 : Heinz Josef Algermissen , German priest, Bishop of Fulda
• 1943 : Hervé Dumont , Swiss film scholar
• 1943 : Elke Heidenreich , German author, cabaret artist, presenter and journalist
• 1944 : Paul Vestey, 3rd Baronet , British nobleman and racing car driver
• 1945 : John Helliwell , British musician ( Supertramp )
• 1945 : Douglas R. Hofstadter , American physicist and philosopher
• 1945 : Ricardo Ray , pianist, composer and band leader
• 1945 : Pekka Sarmanto , Finnish jazz bassist
• 1946 : Kim Ry Andersen , Danish politician and music manager
• 1946 : Marisa Berenson , American actress
• 1946 : John Trudell , Indian freedom fighter, musician and actor
• 1947 : John Adams , American composer
• 1947 : Andrew Bagnall , New Zealand racing car driver
• 1947 : Dagmar Käsling , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1947 : Wencke Myhre , Norwegian pop singer
• 1948 : Holger Ellerbrock , German politician, MdL
• 1948 : Laurenz Meyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1948 : Bernd Pischetsrieder , German manager in the automotive industry ( BMW, VW )
• 1948 : Art Spiegelman , American cartoonist, comic book writer, and writer
• 1948 : Not Vital , Swiss-American artist
• 1949 : Christopher Rouse , American composer
• 1949 : Christian Rudolph , German athlete
• 1950 : Berthold Huber , German toolmaker, trade unionist, chairman of IG Metall
• 1950 : Tsui Hark , Chinese director and producer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Mustafa Abu Shagur , Libyan electrical engineer and politician
• 1951 : Markku Alén , Finnish rally driver
• 1951 : Gerald Hüther , German neurobiologist and brain researcher
• 1951 : Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak , Polish actress
• 1951 : Melissa Manchester , American singer-songwriter
  

  Jane Seymour (born 1951)
• 1951 : Jane Seymour , British actress
• 1952 : George Antonysamy , Archbishop of India
• 1952 : Bill T. Jones , American dancer and choreographer
• 1952 : Hans Kruppa , German writer
• 1952 : Tomislav Nikolić , Serbian politician
• 1952 : Nikolai Evgenjewitsch Sorokin , Soviet-Russian actor, director, politician
• 1953 : Tony Adams , American film and theater producer
• 1953 : Henry Glaß , German ski jumper
• 1953 : Miloslav Ransdorf , Czech philosopher, MEP
• 1953 : Friedrich Sauvigny , German mathematician
• 1954 : Matt Groening , American comic book artist
• 1956 : Christian Franke , German pop singer
• 1956 : Hitoshi Ogawa , Japanese racing car driver
• 1956 : Nils Landgren , Swedish trombonist, singer and jazz musician
• 1957 : Heribert Klein , German journalist and organist
• 1957 : Jake E. Lee , American rock guitarist
• 1958 : Christian Lindberg , Swedish composer and trombonist
• 1958 : Rabah Madjer , Algerian football player and coach
• 1959 : Reinhard Loske , German scientist and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator
• 1960 : Enrique Urquijo , Spanish singer and composer
• 1961 : Bernd Wolf , German musician, conductor and music publisher
• 1962 : Michael Roth , German handball player and coach
• 1962 : Ulrich Roth , German handball player
• 1963 : Guildo Horn , German pop singer
• 1963 : Andreas Molino , German percussionist
• 1964 : Chris Farley , American actor
• 1964 : Håkan Hansson , Swedish freestyle skier
• 1964 : David Kato , Ugandan gay activist
• 1966 : Andreas Platthaus , German journalist and author
• 1968 : Daniel Anderson , German director and screenwriter
• 1968 : Angelica Bella , Hungarian porn actress
• 1968 : Kaspar Henny , American paraglider pilot
• 1968 : Tomas Svensson , Swedish handball player

Anja Andersen (* 1969)

• 1969 : Anja Andersen , Danish handball player and trainer
• 1969 : Clemens Aufderklamm , Austrian screenwriter and actor
• 1969 : Birdman , American rapper
• 1969 : Katja Thimm , German journalist
• 1969 : Fulvio Valbusa , Italian cross-country skier
• 1970 : Jens Fiedler , German track cyclist
• 1970 : Mark Warnecke , German swimmer
• 1971 : Heribert Germeshausen , German director
• 1971 : Renée O'Connor , American actress
• 1972 : Stephen Arigbabu , German basketball player
• 1972 : Jaromír Jágr , Czech ice hockey player
• 1972 : Michelle , German pop singer
• 1972 : Clemens Schick , German actor
• 1973 : Mola Adebisi , German television presenter
• 1973 : Anna Dogonadze , German trampoline gymnast
• 1973 : Kateřina Neumannová , Czech cross-country skier
• 1974 : James Anderson , English badminton player
• 1974 : Gina Lynn , American porn actress
• 1974 : Tomi Petteri Putaansuu , Finnish rock singer ( Lordi )
• 1974 : Alexander Wurz , Austrian Formula 1 pilot and test driver
• 1975 : Serge Aubin , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1975 : Thomas Bareiß , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

1976-2000

• 1976 : Brandon Boyd , American singer ( Incubus )
• 1976 : Óscar Freire , Spanish cyclist
• 1976 : Francisco Neri , Brazilian soccer player
• 1977 : Milenko Ačimovič , Slovenian football player
• 1977 : Margus Ader , Estonian biathlete

Gerald Grosz (* 1977)

• 1977 : Gerald Grosz , Austrian politician
• 1977 : Brooks Wackerman , American punk drummer
• 1978 : Kerstin Tzscherlich , German volleyball player
• 1978 : Yiruma , South Korean composer and pianist
• 1979 : Ohenewa Akuffo , Canadian wrestler
• 1980 : Samira Makhmalbaf , Iranian film director and screenwriter
• 1980 : Conor Oberst , American independent musician
• 1981 : Igor Sekić , Croatian-Austrian football player
• 1982 : Merthan Açıl , Turkish soccer player
• 1983 : David Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1983 : Rolando Bianchi , Italian football player
• 1983 : David Degen , Swiss football player
• 1983 : Philipp Degen , Swiss football player
• 1983 : Stefan Kaiser , Austrian ski jumper
• 1984 : Dorota Rabczewska , Polish singer
• 1985 : Gøril Snorroeggen , Norwegian handball player
• 1986 : Valery Boschinov , Bulgarian football player
• 1986 : Marc Hafner , German handball player
• 1986 : Alexandra Kubasta , German handball player
• 1986 : Gabriel Paletta , Argentine soccer player
• 1986 : Amber Riley , American actress

Natalie Hof Ramos (* 1986)

• 1986 : Natalie Hof Ramos , German presenter and poker player
• 1988 : Brooke Abel , American synchronized swimmer
• 1988 : Jessica De Gouw , Australian actress
• 1988 : Stephanie Goddard , German soccer player
• 1989 : Albin Tahiri , Kosovar ski racer
• 1990 : Samuel Atrous , French football goalkeeper
• 1990 : Anja Brandt , German volleyball player
• 1990 : Martin Fuger , Austrian handball player
• 1990 : Draško Nenadić , Serbian handball player
• 1990 : Charles Pic , French racing car driver
• 1991 : Sebastian Hahn , German author
• 1991 : Alexander Langlitz , German soccer player
• 1992 : Julian Autenrieth , German sailor
• 1992 : Dennis Mast , German soccer player
• 1993 : Paul Ehmann , German soccer player
• 1995 : Sara Däbritz , German soccer player
• 1995 : Mike de Decker , Belgian dart player
• 1995 : Carlotta Ferlito , Italian gymnast
• 1995 : Megan Thee Stallion , American rapper
• 1996 : Lukas Zumbrock , German actor
• 1997 : Michaela Specht , German soccer player

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0310 : Ōjin , 15th Emperor of Japan
• 0595 : Berach , Irish monk
• 0670 : Oswiu , king of Northumbria
• 0706 : Leontios , Emperor of Byzantium
• 0706 : Tiberios II. Apsimaros, Emperor of Byzantium
• 1043 : Gisela von Schwaben , German Queen and Empress
• 1046 : Druthmar , Abbot of Corvey
• 1145 : Lucius II , Pope

Conrad III. († 1152)

• 1152 : Conrad III. , Roman-German King, King of Italy and King of Burgundy
• 1204 : Sinjong , 20th king of the Korean Goryeo Empire
• 1241 : Heinrich I , Count of Ortenburg and Murach
• 1245 : Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon , English nobleman and crusader, Lord of the Isle of Wight
• 1288 : Heinrich III. , Margrave of Meissen, Margrave of Lusatia, Landgrave of Thuringia and Palatine of Saxony
• 1347 : Thomas Bek , Bishop of Lincoln
• 1426 : Jean de Brogny , Bishop of Geneva and Viviers, Archbishop of Arles and Cardinal Bishop of Ostia
• 1441 : Heinrich II. Of Verden , Prince-Bishop of Verden
• 1459 : Stephan Bodecker , Bishop of Brandenburg
• 1503 : Henry Deane , Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1508 : Giovanni II Bentivoglio , Italian nobleman and despot
• 1512 : Matthias Scheit , Bishop of Seckau
• 1531 : Johann II von Trautson , Austrian statesman
• 1534 : Barbara of Poland , Duchess of Saxony
• 1549 : Sodoma , Italian painter
• 1557 : Gregor Brück , politician and Saxon chancellor during the Reformation
• 1568 : Heinrich von Brederode , pioneer for the liberation of the Dutch
• 1573 : Matija Gubec , Croatian leader of the peasant uprising "Seljačka buna"
• 1573 : Hans von Ponickau , Saxon politician
• 1576 : Francesco De Marchi , Italian architect, engineer, author and courtier

17th and 18th centuries

• 1621 : Michael Praetorius , German composer and music writer
• 1628 : Johannes Zölner , German rhetorician
• 1637 : Stefano Bernardi , Italian composer and music theorist
• 1637 : Ferdinand II , Holy Roman Emperor
• 1643 : Juliane von Nassau-Dillenburg , Countess of Hesse-Kassel
• 1676 : Georg Cramer , German educator and rector of the Thomas School in Leipzig
• 1682 : Claude de la Colombière , French Catholic clergyman
• 1682 : Gu Yanwu , Chinese polymath
• 1687 : Matthäus Merian the Younger , German painter, engraver and publisher
• 1693 : Emilie von Hessen-Kassel , Princess of Taranto and Talmont
• 1693 : Christian von Klengel , German university professor and lawyer
• 1701 : Urbain Chevreau , French writer, historian, Romanist and grammarian
• 1701 : François de Clermont-Tonnerre , Bishop and Count of Noyon
• 1701 : Adam Drese , German conductor and composer
• 1707 : Anton Winckler , Mayor of Lübeck
• 1711 : Marco Antonio Canevalle , Italian architect and builder
• 1713 : Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , English politician, philosopher and writer
• 1714 : Hans Wachtmeister zu Johannishus , Swedish admiral, general and politician
• 1730 : Anne-Madeleine Rémusat , French mystic and founder of the Association de l'Adoration perpétuelle du Sacré Cœur de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ
• 1731 : María de León Bello y Delgado , Spanish Dominican and mystic in Tenerife
• 1734 : Franz Jänggl , Austrian master builder
• 1736 : Stephen Gray , British natural scientist
• 1739 : Eustachio Manfredi , Italian astronomer, mathematician and poet
• 1741 : Georg Raphael Donner , Austrian sculptor and medalist
• 1744 : František Vaclav Míča , Czech composer
• 1755 : Eleonore von Schlieben , lady of honor of the Prussian Queen Elisabeth Christine
• 1756 : Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow , Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Kolberg
• 1766 : Jean Hellot , French chemist
• 1767 : Johann Christian Edelmann , German pietist, early enlightener and writer
• 1767 : Michael Larionowitsch Voronzow , Russian nobleman and politician
• 1769 : Johann Balthasar Bernhold , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1781 : Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , German poet of the Enlightenment
• 1798 : Johann Baptist Enderle , German painter

19th century

• 1818 : Prince Friedrich Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen , Prussian general
• 1825 : Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck , Dutch diplomat and statesman
• 1826 : Joseph Wanton Morrison , British general
• 1826 : Scipione Breislak , Italian geologist
• 1829 : Johann August von Veltheim , German officer in British service
• 1832 : Asa Adgate , American lawyer and politician
• 1835 : Manuel de Arzú y Delgado de Nájera , Nicaraguan politician
• 1839 : Thomas Dolliner , Austrian lawyer and university professor
• 1844 : Henry Addington , British politician and Prime Minister

Otto von Kotzebue († 1846)

• 1846 : Otto von Kotzebue , Russian naval officer and explorer
• 1847 : Germinal Pierre Dandelin , Belgian mathematician
• 1847 : José de Palafox y Melci , Spanish nobleman and general
• 1848 : Hermann von Boyen , Prussian general
• 1848 : Kaspar Leonz Bruggisser , Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1849 : Pierre-François Verhulst , Belgian mathematician
• 1851 : Michel Théodore Leclercq , French writer
• 1857 : Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , Russian composer
• 1862 : Heinrich Adam , German etcher and landscape painter
• 1862 : William Appleton , American politician
• 1863 : Daniel Fenner von Fenneberg , Austrian leader of the uprising in the Palatinate in 1849
• 1864 : Adam Wilhelm Moltke , Danish politician and President of the Council (Prime Minister) of Denmark
• 1870 : Johann Philipp Holzmann , German building contractor, founder of the later Philipp Holzmann AG
• 1875 : Friedrich von Uechtritz , German poet, historian and genealogist
• 1883 : Heinrich Friedrich von Itzenplitz , Prussian statesman, scientist and lawyer
• 1885 : Eduard Schulze , German officer and traveler
• 1900 : Karl Theodor Robert Luther , German astronomer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1901 : Karl Gottfried Mäser , German theologian and educator
• 1904 : Mark Hanna , American industrialist and politician, Senator for Ohio
• 1905 : Lew Wallace , American general, politician, and writer
• 1911 : Theodor Escherich , German pediatrician and bacteriologist
• 1917 : Oswald Berkhan , German medic
• 1922 : Ekaterina Mikhailovna Dolgorukova , second wife of Tsar Alexander II.

Clara Wichmann († 1922)

• 1922 : Clara Gertrud Wichmann , German lawyer and publicist
• 1924 : Ernst von Heydebrand and der Lasa , German lawyer, politician, MdL, MdR
• 1925 : Kinoshita Rigen , Japanese poet
• 1926 : Giuseppe Allamano , Italian priest and founder of the order
• 1926 : Piero Gobetti , Italian publicist and politician
• 1927 : Jakob Heilmann , German building contractor
• 1928 : Herbert Henry Asquith , British Prime Minister
• 1928 : Curt von Morgen , German officer and explorer
• 1932 : Heinrich Seeling , German architect
• 1933 : José Dolores Alfonseca , Dominican politician
• 1934 : Ai Xia , Chinese actress
• 1934 : Abraham Hammerschmidt , German lawyer, notary and politician
• 1934 : Ignaz Petschek , Bohemian banker, wholesaler and industrialist
• 1934 : Richard Zoozmann , German author and editor
• 1935 : Pierre-Paulin Andrieu , French clergyman, Archbishop of Bordeaux, cardinal
• 1937 : Vincenzo Lancia , Italian automobile designer
• 1940 : Onofre Jarpa Labra , Chilean painter

Otto Toeplitz († 1940)

• 1940 : Otto Toeplitz , German mathematics professor
• 1941 : Guido Adler , Austrian musicologist
• 1943 : Georg Popp , German chemist, university professor and criminalist
• 1944 : Arthur Wehnelt , German physicist
• 1945 : Lorenz Breunig , German politician, MdR, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1945 : Otto Tetens , German scientist
• 1946 : Hans Woldemar Schack , German botanist
• 1950 : Erich Nehlhans , German chairman of the Jewish community in Berlin

1951-2000

• 1952 : Gustaf Nagel , German traveling preacher
• 1955 : Josef Loos , Czechoslovak ice hockey player
• 1956 : Arnošt Bart-Brězynčanski , German-Sorbian politician, first Domowina chairman
• 1959 : Owen Willans Richardson , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1960 : Tonny Kessler , Dutch soccer player
• 1962 : Menen Asfaw , Empress of Ethiopia
• 1962 : Aloysius Muench , US Cardinal Curia, first nuncio in the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1962 : Vladimir Sokoloff , Russian film actor

Nat King Cole († 1965)

• 1963 : Edgardo Donato , Argentine tango musician
• 1965 : Selmar Aschheim , German gynecologist
• 1965 : Nat King Cole , American singer and jazz musician
• 1966 : Camilo Torres , Colombian priest and liberation theologian
• 1967 : Wilhelm Bette , German politician, MdL
• 1967 : William C. Bullitt , American diplomat
• 1967 : Antonio Moreno (actor, 1887) , Spanish-American actor and director
• 1967 : Simeon Radew , Bulgarian journalist, author and diplomat
• 1968 : Little Walter , American blues musician
• 1970 : Frank Clement , British racing car driver
• 1970 : Hugh Dowding , British officer, in command of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
• 1970 : Hans Gollnick , German general in World War II
• 1970 : Margaret Miller Brown , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1971 : Theodor Teriete , German trade unionist, politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1972 : Edgar Snow , American journalist and China expert

Tim Holt († 1973)

• 1973 : Tim Holt , American film actor
• 1973 : Achille Liénart , French cardinal, Bishop of Lille
• 1974 : Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander , Irish chess master
• 1974 : Kurt Atterberg , Swedish composer, conductor and music critic
• 1975 : Hans Kienle , German astronomer and astrophysicist
• 1975 : Eck Robertson , American country musician
• 1976 : Přemysl Pitter , Czech pedagogue and humanist
• 1977 : Isaak Efremowitsch Boleslawski , Soviet chess grandmaster
• 1977 : Lūcija Garūta , Latvian composer, pianist and poet
• 1977 : Herman Johannes Lam , Dutch botanist
• 1978 : Josef Pelz von Felinau , Austrian writer and actor
• 1981 : Michael Bloomfield , American blues guitarist
• 1981 : Esteban Canal , Peruvian chess grandmaster
• 1981 : Karl Richter , German choir director and conductor, organist and harpsichordist
• 1984 : Ethel Merman , American actress and singer
• 1986 : Erik Olson , Swedish painter
• 1988 : Al Cohn , American jazz saxophonist

Richard Feynman († 1988)

• 1988 : Richard Feynman , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1988 : Neil R. Jones , American science fiction writer
• 1989 : Hüseyin Akbaş , Turkish wrestler
• 1990 : Henry Brandon , American actor
• 1990 : Rudolf Schaad , German film editor and film director
• 1991 : Alfred Gleisner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1991 : Alfred F. Havighurst , American historian
• 1992 : Hermann Axen , German politician and party functionary in the GDR, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
• 1992 : William Schuman , American composer
• 1993 : Louis Häfliger , Swiss bank employee and delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross ( Savior of Mauthausen )
• 1994 : Pinuccio Ardia , Italian actor
• 1994 : Horst Meier , German firefighter
• 1995 : Lucio Agostini , Canadian composer, arranger and conductor
• 1995 : Rachid Baba Ali Ahmed , Algerian musician and music producer
• 1995 : Sergio Bertoni , Italian football player and coach
• 1995 : Arna Mer-Chamis , Israeli human rights activist
• 1996 : McLean Stevenson , American actor
• 1998 : Martha Gellhorn , American writer and journalist
• 1999 : Big L , American rapper
• 1999 : William Garrett , American racing car driver
• 1999 : Henry Way Kendall , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1999 : Irene Britton Smith , American composer
• 1999 : Ferenc Vozar , German ice hockey player

21st century

• 2004 : Abbie Neal , American country musician
• 2005 : Emmanuela Aichinger , German abbess of the Tettenweis monastery
• 2005 : Edgar Jarratt Applewhite , American writer
• 2006 : Andrei Pavlovich Petrow , Russian composer
• 2006 : Sun Yun-suan , Taiwanese politician
• 2007 : Robert Adler , American physicist, electronics technician and inventor
• 2009 : Dirk Dautzenberg , German actor
• 2010 : Ian Gray , Australian soccer player
• 2011 : Herbert Ammer , German soccer player
• 2012 : Werner Andres , German mechanical engineer and university professor
• 2012 : Charles Anthony , American opera singer
• 2012 : Joki Freund , German jazz musician
• 2012 : Eberhard Horst , German writer

Dietrich Kittner († 2013)

• 2013 : Dietrich Kittner , German cabaret artist
• 2013 : Hans Georg Emde , German politician
• 2014 : Pete Wyoming Bender , American singer and composer
• 2015 : Barbara Darling , Australian theologian from the Church of England
• 2015 : Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein , Danish Islamist terrorist
• 2016 : George Gaynes , American actor
• 2016 : Vanity , Canadian singer
• 2017 : Sayyd Abdul Al-Khabyyr , Canadian musician
• 2017 : Manfred Kaiser , German soccer player
• 2018 : Pier Paolo Capponi , Italian actor
• 2018 : Christian Rode , German actor and speaker
• 2020 : Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth , German entrepreneur and pioneer in organic food production

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Onesimus , Roman slave, bishop and patron saint (Coptic, Armenian, Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant: LCMS )
  • St. Siegfried , English missionary and bishop (Anglican, Catholic)
  • Georg Maus , German teacher and martyr (Protestant)
  • Saint Claude de la Colombière , French priest (Catholic)
  • St. Philemon, addressee of the eponymous Pauline letter , possibly Bishop of Colossae and Martyrs (Protestant: LCMS , the Catholic, Orthodox and Armenian memorial day is on November 22nd )

• Name days
  • Siegfried , Sigurd

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Serbia : National Day
  • International Children's Cancer Day

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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