15. January
The January 15 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 15 ) is the 15th day of the Gregorian calendar , thus still remain 350 (351 in leap years) days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 588 BC BC : The Babylonian great king Nabū-kudurrī-uṣur II begins the two and a half year siege of Jerusalem , the capital of the kingdom of Judah under the renegade vassal king Zedekiah .
- 69 : Otho is proclaimed Emperor in Rome and instigates the Praetorian Guard to murder Emperor Galba and his heir Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus . His status as the second emperor of the four-emperor year is weak from the start, since Vitellius had himself proclaimed emperor on January 2nd .
- 532 : During the Nika uprising of the circus parties against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, insurgents set fire to several buildings, including the Great Palace and Hagia Sophia . For the first time there are calls for a new emperor.
- 1552 : The one against Emperor Karl. V. directed Treaty of Chambord is signed. In return for high monetary payments, the Protestant princes around Moritz of Saxony promise France's King Henry II the imperial vicariate of four cities in Lorraine .
- 1559 : Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England and Ireland in Westminster Abbey . Under her reign , England became a world power .
- 1582 : The Jam Zapolski armistice ends the Livonian War . The Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible leaves Livonia to the Polish-Lithuanian crown under Stephan Báthory .
- 1776 : In the subsidy contracts , Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel leaves his own soldiers to Great Britain for deployment in North America .
- 1815 : The British-American War manages four British warships the capture of the USS President , a heavy frigate of the United States Navy .
- 1835 : The Federal Assembly in Frankfurt am Main forbids journeyman craftsmen to organize.
- 1871 : In the Franco-Prussian War , Prussia and its allies defeat a French army commanded by General Charles Denis Bourbaki in the Battle of the Lisaine near the beleaguered Belfort . The former, exhausted from the persistent cold and insufficient food, as well as the resistance of the enemy, had to retreat.
- 1877 : In the Budapest Treaty , the great powers Russia and Austria-Hungary come to an agreement on the Balkans. For neutrality in an armed conflict between Russia and the Ottoman Empire , Bosnia and Herzegovina are left to the Danube Monarchy for occupation. In addition, Austria-Hungary is assured that no large Slavic state will emerge in the Balkans .
- 1895 : With the defeat of the Ethiopian governor of Tigray at the Battle of Senafe , the way is clear for the Italian invasion of Tigray, from which an Italian-Ethiopian war develops.
1919
Rosa Luxemburg
(1915)
(1915)
Karl Liebknecht
(around 1911)
(around 1911)
- 1919 : In Berlin , Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are murdered by Reichswehr soldiers after the Spartacus uprising was put down . Against the principal officer Waldemar Pabst no charges are brought, the other accomplices are never held accountable. The involvement of Reichswehr Minister Gustav Noske and Reich Chancellor Friedrich Ebert in the murders has not yet been clarified. Both victims are up to the present day i.a. honored by the Liebknecht-Luxemburg-Demonstration .
- 1933 : The NSDAP wins the state elections in Lippe , which paves the way for Hitler to take power in the German Reich .
- 1941 : King Alfonso XIII. renounced the Spanish throne in Roman exile during Franco's dictatorship in favor of his son Juan de Borbón y Battenberg .
- 1943 : One of the largest office buildings in the world, the Pentagon , built by Leslie R. Groves , is inaugurated in Arlington , Virginia .
- 1951 : The Augsburg jury court sentenced Ilse Koch , the wife of the first camp commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp , to life imprisonment for inciting murder and severe physical abuse.
- 1958 : With the Lüth judgment , the German Federal Constitutional Court reaches a landmark decision on freedom of expression .
- 1970 : Three days after the defeat of Biafra in the Biafran war against Nigeria , the successor to the exiled president must Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu the surrender of Biafra announce on the radio again.
- 1972 : Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid is born one day after the death of her father Frederik IX. as Margrethe II proclaimed Queen of Denmark .
- 1976 : Lower Saxony's 8th state parliament elects opposition leader Ernst Albrecht as prime minister with votes from the government coalition .
- 1985 : In the first free election after the military dictatorship in Brazil , Tancredo Neves is elected as the country's new president. However, he will never take office as he dies shortly before the inauguration.
- 1990 : Several thousand demonstrators storm and devastate the former headquarters of the East German Ministry for State Security .
- 1991 : The Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein lets the deadline set by Resolution 678 of the UN Security Council to withdraw from Kuwait pass by unused. The member states of the UN are authorized to “use all necessary means to liberate Kuwait from Iraq ”. Operation Desert Storm begins the following day .
- 1992 : Croatia and Slovenia are recognized as independent states by the then 12 states of the EC .
- 2005 : Mahmoud Abbas is sworn in as Palestinian president as the successor to the late Yasser Arafat after the January 9 election.
- 2006 : The socialist Michelle Bachelet is elected as the first head of state of Chile in a runoff election against the right-wing liberal Sebastián Piñera .
- 2009 : US Airways flight 1549 lands in a ditch on the Hudson River in New York City. Flight captain Chesley B. Sullenberger has to make an emergency landing shortly after take-off due to a bird strike . All 155 people on board the machine are rescued.
- 2011 : A referendum ends in South Sudan in which 99 percent of the population speak out in favor of the country's independence.
- 2018 : The Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose resigns after only seven months in office due to internal party disputes within the Social Democrats . Defense Minister Mihai Fifor will take over his post .
economy
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- 1609 : The first edition of the Aviso Relation or newspaper appears in Wolfenbüttel . It is one of the first newspapers in Germany.
- 1826 : The first edition of Le Figaro appears in Paris . Forty years later, the paper became a daily newspaper .
- 1859 : The first gold vein is discovered in the Nebraska Territory in what will later be the US state of Colorado . The Gold Hill region is becoming attractive for miners to settle .
- 1876 : Die Afrikaansche Patriot , published by the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners in the South African city of Paarl, appears as the first Afrikaans magazine .
- 1885 : The Imperial Patent Office publishes the retrospective patent granted to Paul Nipkow on the Nipkow disc named after the inventor . The emerging mechanical television is based on it .
- 1895 : David Stempel founds a company in Frankfurt am Main , which soon after became the leader as the D. Stempel type foundry .
- 1896 : The first car rental company is founded in Paris .
- 1945 : The Italian news and press agency ANSA is founded in Rome.
- 1948 : In Saarland , the Saar franc becomes the sole legal tender . It replaces the Saar mark , which was a few months old , and is linked to the French franc .
- 1971 : The Aswan Dam in Egypt is inaugurated.
- 1983 : The Swedish company Svenska Tändsticks AB's monopoly on ignition goods in Germany ends after 53 years.
- 1999 : The Central Bank of Brazil releases the real exchange rate .
- 2004 : T-Mobile Deutschland activates its UMTS network for all customers.
- 2008 : Nokia announces in Helsinki that it will close the plant in Bochum by the middle of the year for cost reasons. This leads to a wave of violent protests in Germany.
science and technology
- 1885 : The American Wilson Bentley takes the first photograph of a snowflake .
- 1888 : Founding of the Eijkman Institute in Weltevreden , Dutch East Indies .
- 1910 : In the US state of Wyoming is Shoshone Dam completed. The structure on the Shoshone River is 99 meters high, making it the highest dam on earth to date .
- 1915 : The first edition of the American scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , published by the National Academy of Sciences , appears.
- 1916 : The Balkan train starts in Berlin on its first trip to Constantinople .
- 1969 : The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 5 takes off from the Baikonur spaceport with three cosmonauts on board. On the following day, it is supposed to dock with the Soyuz 4 spacecraft .
- 1985 : The 298 meter high transmission mast of WDR - basic power station Teutoburg Forest on the Bielstein in Teutoburg Forest overturns after a by severe icing backstay is torn.
- 2001 : US entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosophy professor Larry Sanger found the free encyclopedia Wikipedia .
- 2006 : The return capsule of the Stardust spacecraft brings captured cometary dust samples to Earth.
- 2012 : The Russian space probe Fobos-Grunt enters the earth's atmosphere after a failed mission objective and burns up over the Pacific.
Culture
- 1513 : Diebold Schilling hands over the Lucerne Chronicle to the City Council of Lucerne . The work, which was created over several years, is one of the richly designed Swiss illustrated chronicles .
- 1759 : The British Museum in London opens.
- 1890 : The ballet Sleeping Beauty by Marius Petipa with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg .
- 1895 : The production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake by the Imperial Ballet , choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanovich Ivanov , is performed at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg.
- 1916 : The Singspiel Das Dreimäderlhaus by Heinrich Berté is premiered at the Raimund Theater in Vienna .
- 1920 : The record producer Homophon offers the first record with jazz in Germany . The recorded title Tiger Rag , performed by the Original Excentric Band , is interpreted in a rather untypical way for jazz.
- 1924 : The BBC transmits with Richard Hughes's A Comedy of Danger (German title: risk ) is the first original radio play in Europe. The German first broadcast on August 24, 1925 comes from NORAG in Hamburg.
- 1957 : Akira Kurosawa 's film Kumonosu-jō ( The Castle in the Spider's Web Forest ) based on Shakespeare's Macbeth premieres in Japan .
- 1958 : The world premiere of the opera Vanessa by Samuel Barber with a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti takes place at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
- 1958 : The German comedy Das Wirtshaus im Spessart by Kurt Hoffmann premieres.
- 1961 : Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson and Diana Ross sign a record deal with Motown Records as the girl group trio The Primettes . The group later became known as The Supremes .
- 1966 : Heinz Schenk and Lia Wöhr act as hosts for the first time in the entertainment show Zum Blauen Bock , which Otto Höpfner previously presented to TV viewers.
- 1972 : Peter Turrini's third stage work Sauschlachten is premiered at the Munich Kammerspiele.
society
- 1790 : Fletcher Christian arrives with other mutineers of the Bounty in search of refuge off the island of Pitcairn .
- 1947 : The mutilated body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short is found in Los Angeles . Because of her black clothing, she is called The Black Dahlia . The high-profile murder case that inspired a novel and several films is never solved.
- 1962 : The Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss reveals the name of the murderer in a newspaper advertisement in the Francis Durbridge multi-part crime series Das Halstuch , two days before the sixth and final episode of the street sweeper was broadcast on German television . The release of the carefully guarded secret causes a scandal.
- 1993 : A special department of the Italian Carabinieri arrests the Cosa Nostra boss Salvatore "Totò" Riina, who had been wanted for decades, in Palermo .
religion
- 1825 : Pope Leo XII. Asks the bishops for donations from the faithful for the reconstruction of the fire-damaged Roman basilica Saint Paul Outside the Walls .
Disasters
- 1362 : The Second Marcellus Flood begins, which will claim many thousands of lives on the North Sea coast by January 17th .
- 1777 : The electoral palace in Bonn burns out completely; the fire claims numerous lives.
- 1822 : When the Chinese junk Tek Sing (“True Star”) sank, at least 1,600 people died, more than when the Titanic sank . Only about 200 people are rescued by another junk and a British merchant ship.
- 1919 : The Boston molasses disaster kills 21 people.
- 1934 : An earthquake of intensity 8.1 in Nepal and India about calls for 10,700 deaths.
- 1944 : A 7.8 magnitude earthquake in San Juan , Argentina kills around 5,000.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1892 : James Naismith publishes the 13 rules of the game he invented, basketball .
- 1908 : The sports club FC Bari is founded.
- 1917 : The French Football Cup ( French Coupe de France de football ) is brought into being on the initiative of Henri Delaunay , who envisions a sporting event similar to that of the English FA Cup in France . The then French football umbrella organization Comité Français Interfédéral decided to put the idea of its general secretary into practice and to announce a cup competition in which all French teams - regardless of their association membership - were allowed to take part. The first games are played on October 7, 1917.
- 1966 : The football club BFC Dynamo is founded in East Berlin . The support from Minister Erich Mielke earned the association the reputation of a Stasi club .
- 1967 : In the first Super Bowl at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum , the Green Bay Packers win the AFL-NFL Championships against the Kansas City Chiefs with 35:10 .
- 1972 : Joe Frazier wins his boxing match and thus the world heavyweight title against Terry Daniels in the Rivergate Auditorium, New Orleans, by a technical knockout
- 2006 : The German ski jumping team with Michael Neumayer , Georg Späth , Alexander Herr and Michael Uhrmann won the bronze medal at the ski flying world championship on Kulm in Bad Mitterndorf , Austria. Norway wins ahead of Finland.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 5 v. BC : Han Guangwu di , Chinese emperor
- 961 : Seongjong , King of the Korean Kingdom of Goryeo
- 1420 : Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli , Italian banker and assassin
- 1432 : Alfonso V , Portuguese king
- 1449 : Katherina , Margravine of Baden
- 1478 : Ashikaga Yoshizumi , 11th Shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate in Japan
- 1491 : Nicolò da Ponte , Doge of Venice
- 1496 : Heinrich VII. Von Rosenberg , Bohemian nobleman
- 1512 : Robert IV. De La Marck , Duke of Bouillon, Lord of Sedan
- 1566 : Philipp Uffenbach , German painter
- 1568 : Johannes Hartmann , German polymath
- 1591 : Alexandre de Rhodes , French Jesuit and missionary
- 1592 : Shah Jahan , Indian emperor and builder of the Taj Mahal
- 1597 : Wolfgang Bachmeyer , German cartographer, geodesist, astronomer, mathematician and theologian
- 1624 : Rombout Verhulst , Flemish sculptor
- 1646 : Anton Herport , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1650 : Cyriakus Günther , Thuringian hymn poet
- 1671 : Johann Heinrich Müller , German astronomer
18th century
- 1703 : Henriette-Louise de Bourbon , Abbess of Beaumont-lés-Tours
- 1711 : Sidonia Hedwig Zigarunemann , German poet
- 1716 : Philip Livingston , British-American merchant and politician
- 1724 : Friedrich Adam Widder , German mathematician
- 1725 : Pyotr Alexandrowitsch Rumjanzew-Sadunaiski , Russian field marshal
- 1730 : Louis Dutens , French writer
- 1738 : Ludwig Christian Lichtenberg , German civil servant and scientist
- 1742 : Beda Mayr , German Christian scholar
- 1744 : Ebenezer Hazard , American politician, postmaster general
- 1745 : Mattli Conrad , Swiss pastor
- 1754 : Jacques Pierre Brissot , French revolutionary and one of the leaders of the Girondins
- 1754 : Friedrich Gedike , German educator and educational politician
- 1759 : Matsudaira Sadanobu , daimyo of the Japanese principality of Shirakawa
- 1762 : Cécile Stanislas Xavier de Girardin , French politician
- 1763 : François-Joseph Talma , French actor
- 1773 : Antoine-Léonard de Chézy , French orientalist and co-founder of Indology
- 1777 : Christian Krohg , Norwegian lawyer and politician
- 1778 : Joseph Adamy , Nassau mine owner and politician
- 1779 : Jean Coralli , French dancer and choreographer
- 1780 : Cornelius P. Comegys , American politician
- 1782 : Ōkubo Tadazane , daimyō of Odawara and Rōjū
- 1782 : Thomas Wildey , British artisan and founder of the Odd Fellow Order
- 1783 : Ignaz Beidtel , Austrian lawyer
- 1783 : William Colgate , American entrepreneur and patron
- 1785 : William Prout , British medic and chemist
- 1786 : Jean Alaux , French painter
- 1788 : Franz Wilhelm von Barfus-Falkenburg , Prussian major general
- 1789 : Joseph Ignatz Peter , Baden civil servant and governor during the Baden Revolution
- 1791 : Franz Grillparzer , Austrian writer
- 1793 : Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller , Austrian painter and art writer
- 1795 : Louis Burnier , Swiss Protestant clergyman and school reformer
- 1795 : Willem de Clercq , Dutch writer
- 1795 : Alexander Sergejewitsch Gribojedow , Russian diplomat and poet
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Vinzenz Maria Süß , Austrian writer and founder of the Salzburg Museum Carolino Augusteum
- 1803 : Nathan Marcus Adler , German-British rabbi
- 1803 : Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff , German mechanic, instrument maker
- 1803 : William Sullivant , American bryologist
- 1807 : Hermann Burmeister , German naturalist
- 1809 : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , French economist, sociologist and anarchist
- 1811 : Carl Adams , German mathematician and teacher
- 1812 : Wilhelm von Abbema , German painter, engraver and etcher
- 1812 : Peter Christen Asbjørnsen , Norwegian writer and fairy tale collector
- 1814 : Johann Gottlieb Langner , Silesian entrepreneur
- 1814 : Ludwig Schläfli , Swiss mathematician
- 1815 : Bernhard Hirschel , German-Jewish politician and doctor
- 1820 : Johann Ludwig Schneller , Swabian teacher and missionary
- 1821 : Lafayette McLaws , American officer, Confederate general in the Civil War
- 1822 : Hubert Salentin , German painter
- 1823 : Jean-Auguste Margueritte , French division general
- 1823 : Josef Seiler , German poet, composer and organist
- 1824 : Alfred Agricola , German Imperial Judge
- 1824 : Marie Duplessis , French courtesan
- 1825 : Maurice Strakosch , American concert entrepreneur and composer
- 1826 : Clementine Abel , German writer
- 1830 : Edmund Reitlinger , Austrian physicist
- 1831 : Georg Sauerwein , German publicist
- 1833 : Louis Paulsen , German chess player
- 1834 : Frederick DuCane Godman , British insect and ornithologist
- 1839 : Rudolf Schweinitz , German sculptor
- 1840 : Jo Abbott , American politician
- 1840 : Eduard Locher , Swiss engineer, inventor and independent entrepreneur
- 1841 : Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby , Governor General of Canada
- 1842 : Josef Breuer , Viennese doctor, physiologist and philosopher
- 1844 : Robert Gersuny , Austrian doctor
- 1844 : Cole Younger , American gunslinger
- 1845 : Wilhelm Bender , German Protestant theologian
- 1845 : Ella Flagg Young , American school administration reformer
- 1846 : Karl Rudolf Karrasz , Romanian-German composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1848 : Raphael von Koeber , German-Russian philosopher and musician
- 1850 : Mihai Eminescu , Romanian poet
- 1850 : Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja , Russian mathematician
1851-1900
- 1851 : Martinus Theodorus Houtsma , Dutch orientalist
- 1851 : Alexander Moszkowski , Polish-German writer and satirist
- 1853 : Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius , Swedish entomologist
- 1853 : Wilhelm Kaspar , Latvian pastor and evangelical confessor
- 1854 : Károly Senyei , Hungarian sculptor
- 1857 : Alexander Fritz , German chess player
- 1858 : Simon Breu , German composer and music teacher
- 1858 : Giovanni Segantini , Italian-Swiss painter of symbolism
- 1859 : Nathaniel Lord Britton , American geologist and botanist
- 1862 : Loïe Fuller , American dancer, pioneer of modern dance and the plays of light on the stage
- 1863 : Wilhelm Marx , German lawyer and politician, MdL, Prime Minister, MdR, Reich Minister, Reich Chancellor
- 1864 : SH Dudley , American singer
- 1866 : Nathan Söderblom , Swedish Lutheran theologian, Archbishop of Sweden and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1867 : Federico Gana , Chilean writer
- 1867 : Eustachius Kugler , German Catholic monk and builder of a hospital
- 1867 : Maria Theresa of Bourbon-Sicily , Countess of Trani and Princess of Bourbon-Sicily
- 1868 : Otto von Lossow , German general
- 1868 : Johanna Müller-Hermann , Austrian composer
- 1869 : Emil Kiemlen , German sculptor
- 1869 : Stanisław Wyspiański , Polish playwright, poet, painter and architect
- 1872 : Arsen Borissowitsch Kozojew , Soviet writer
- 1872 : Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen , Danish Greenland explorer
- 1873 : Max Adler , Austrian sociologist
- 1873 : Betty Hirsch , German teacher for the blind and language
- 1874 : Gottfried de Purucker , American journalist and theosophist
- 1875 : Thomas Burke , American athlete
- 1875 : Maria Forescu , Romanian operetta singer and film actress
- 1875 : Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud , founder and king of the modern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 1876 : Willem van der Woude , Dutch mathematician
- 1877 : Lewis M. Terman , American psychologist
- 1879 : Benedikt Kreutz , second president of the German Caritas Association
- 1880 : Rita Sacchetto , German dancer and actress
- 1882 : Margaret of Connaught , Crown Princess of Sweden
- 1882 : Kawada Jun , Japanese poet and business manager
- 1882 : Rudolf Smend , German constitutional and canon lawyer
- 1882 : Florian Znaniecki , Polish sociologist and philosopher
- 1883 : Heinrich Roman Abt , Swiss politician
- 1883 : Carlo Colombi , Swiss engineer and university professor
- 1884 : Erwin Jacobi , German constitutional and canon lawyer
- 1885 : Lorenz Böhler , Austrian surgeon
- 1886 : Raymond de Tornaco , Belgian racing car driver
- 1886 : Jenő Károly , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1886 : Harrie Kuneman , Dutch football player
- 1887 : Willy Seidel , German writer
- 1889 : Walter Serner , Bohemian essayist, writer and Dadaist
- 1891 : Ray Chapman , American baseball player
- 1891 : Ossip Emiljewitsch Mandelstam , Russian poet
- 1892 : Hobey Baker , American ice hockey player
- 1892 : Frank Hutchens , New Zealand composer
- 1892 : Rex Ingram , Irish-American film director
- 1893 : Erwin Otto Marx , German inventor of the Marx generator
- 1893 : Ivor Novello , British entertainer
- 1893 : Georg of Saxony , last Crown Prince of Saxony, Catholic priest and Jesuit
- 1894 : José Luis Bustamante y Rivero , President of Peru
- 1895 : Henri Anet , Swiss politician
- 1895 : Hugo Hantsch , Austrian Benedictine, university professor and historian, victim of National Socialism
- 1895 : Geo Milew , Bulgarian literary critic and poet
- 1895 : Artturi Ilmari Virtanen , Finnish biochemist, co-founder of nutritional science and food chemistry, Nobel Prize winner
- 1896 : Jacobo Ficher , Argentine composer
- 1897 : Xu Zhimo , Chinese poet
- 1898 : Hans Kippenberger , German politician
- 1898 : Martha Saalfeld , German poet
- 1900 : Karlheinz Arens , German writer and dramaturge
- 1900 : Ella Auerbach , German lawyer
- 1900 : Adolf Blomeyer , German farmer and politician
- 1900 : William Heinesen , poet, visual artist and composer from the Faroe Islands
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Guido Schmidt , Austrian diplomat and politician
- 1902 : Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz , King of Saudi Arabia
- 1902 : Nâzım Hikmet , Turkish poet
- 1904 : Jim Bowdoin , American football player
- 1904 : Ludvík Frejka , Czech politician and publicist
- 1904 : Oscar Fritz Schuh , German theater and opera director
- 1905 : Marian Abramski , Polish victim of National Socialism
- 1905 : Leo Oskarowitsch Arnstam , Soviet film director and author
- 1906 : Alessandro Cicognini , Italian film composer
- 1906 : Alfred Maleta , Austrian politician, President of the National Council
- 1906 : Aristotle Onassis , Greek shipowner
- 1906 : Edna Staebler , Canadian writer
- 1907 : Janusz Kusociński , Polish athlete
- 1908 : Edward Teller , American physicist
- 1909 : Arthur Glenn Andrews , American politician
- 1909 : Enrique Casal Chapí , Spanish composer
- 1909 : Gene Krupa , American jazz and big band drummer
- 1909 : Elie Siegmeister , American composer
- 1910 : Marek Fisz , Polish mathematician
- 1911 : Willi Billmann , German football player
- 1911 : August Blumensaat , German athlete
- 1911 : Nasib Gajasowitsch Schiganow , Russian composer
- 1912 : Michel Debré , French politician
- 1912 : Horace Lindrum , Australian snooker and billiards player
- 1913 : Lloyd Bridges , American actor
- 1913 : Hans Caninenberg , German actor and writer
- 1913 : Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko , Soviet submarine commander
- 1914 : Albrecht Achilles , German submarine commander
- 1914 : Etty Hillesum , Dutch-Jewish teacher, victim of National Socialism
- 1914 : Gyula Kluger , Hungarian chess player
- 1914 : Koyama Kiyoshige , Japanese composer
- 1914 : René Le Bègue , French racing car driver
- 1914 : Harry Mehlhose , German middle-distance runner
- 1914 : Hugh Trevor-Roper , British historian
- 1915 : Mikołaj Antonowicz , son of the Guard Officer Georg Graf Antonowicz Andrault de Buy
- 1916 : Maurice Bavaud , Swiss seminarian, Hitler assassin
- 1916 : Christel Peters , German television and theater actress
- 1916 : Denise Soriano , French violinist
- 1917 : Anton Hänggi , bishop in Basel
- 1918 : Diana Barnato Walker , British pilot
- 1918 : Edouard Gagnon , Canadian cardinal
- 1918 : David George Kendall , British statistician, authority on applied probability and data analysis
- 1918 : Vicente de la Mata , Argentine football player
- 1918 : Gamal Abdel Nasser , Egyptian officer, Prime Minister, President of the State
- 1919 : Heinz Bethge , German physicist
- 1919 : Maurice Herzog , French mountaineer and politician
- 1920 : Bob Davies , American basketball player
- 1920 : Melvin Lasky , American publicist
- 1920 : John Joseph O'Connor , Archbishop of New York and Cardinal
- 1920 : Gertrude Pritzi , Austrian table tennis player
- 1921 : Edward Statkiewicz , Polish violinist and music teacher
- 1921 : Rudolf Wildenmann , German political scientist
- 1922 : Jake Colhouer , American football player
- 1922 : Franz Fühmann , German writer
- 1922 : Paul Casimir Marcinkus , Catholic Archbishop, President of the Vatican Bank
- 1922 : Hans-Reinhard Müller , German actor, director and general manager
- 1923 : Hans-Joachim Arndt , German political scientist
- 1924 : Jean-Marie Brussin , French racing driver and industrialist
- 1924 : Lothar Krall , German politician
- 1924 : Jean-Bertrand Pontalis , French philosopher and psychoanalyst
- 1924 : Georg Ratzinger , German clergyman and church musician
- 1925 : Ernst Benda , German lawyer, politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1925 : Stefan Langen , German football player
1926-1950
- 1926 : Abdus Samad Azad , Bengali politician
- 1926 : Guido Baumann , Swiss journalist and television presenter
- 1926 : Karl-Alfred Jacobsson , Swedish football player
- 1926 : Maria Schell , Austrian-Swiss actress
- 1927 : Walter Schneider , German motorcycle racer
- 1928 : François Pantillon , Swiss choir director and composer
- 1929 : Paul Fredrik Karl Åström , Swedish archaeologist
- 1929 : Martin Luther King , American Baptist pastor and civil rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1929 : Teizō Matsumura , Japanese composer
- 1929 : Günther Winkler , Austrian lawyer and university professor
- 1930 : Hédi Baccouche , Tunisian politician
- 1930 : Michel Chapuis , French organist
- 1930 : Earl Hooker , American blues musician
- 1930 : John Unnerud , Norwegian rally driver
- 1931 : Günther Grabbert , German theater actor
- 1931 : Derek Meddings , American specialist in special effects and models
- 1931 : Fritz Peter Schäfer , German professor for laser physics
- 1932 : Lou Jones , American sprinter
- 1932 : Kenny Parchman , American rockabilly musician
- 1934 : Mário de Araújo Cabral , Portuguese racing car driver
- 1934 : Hans-Wilhelm Ebeling , Minister for Economic Cooperation of the GDR
- 1935 : Marcos Aguinis , Argentine neurosurgeon and writer
- 1935 : Pablo Ferro , Cuban film title designer and comic book artist
- 1935 : Malcolm Frager , American pianist
- 1935 : Luigi Radice , Italian football player and coach
- 1935 : Artemije Radosavljević , Bishop of the Serbian Orthodox Eparchy Raszien-Prizre
- 1935 : Heinz Siebeneicher , German radio and television presenter
- 1935 : Robert Silverberg , American science fiction writer
- 1935 : Alfons Zschockelt , German jazz musician and judge
- 1937 : Margaret O'Brien , American actress
- 1939 : Per Ahlmark , Swedish writer and politician
- 1939 : Osman Duraliew , Bulgarian wrestler
- 1939 : Hartmut Geerken , German musician, writer, composer, publicist, radio play author and filmmaker
- 1941 : Captain Beefheart , American rock and blues musician
- 1941 : Ekkehard König , German philologist
- 1941 : Henry van Lyck , German actor
- 1941 : Klaus Reinhardt , German general
- 1942 : Jacques Coulon , French racing car driver
- 1942 : Werner Görts , German football player
- 1942 : Gaetano Salvemini , Italian football player and coach
- 1943 : Margaret Beckett , British politician
- 1943 : Michael Hayden , Canadian sculptor
- 1943 : Günter Maschke , German writer and publicist
- 1944 : Lothar Abend , German boxer
- 1944 : Jenny Nimmo , British writer
- 1945 : Christian Anders , Austrian pop singer
- 1945 : Herwig Haase , German politician and scientist
- 1945 : Alis Koekkoek , Dutch politician
- 1946 : Peter Bronkhorst , Dutch activist
- 1947 : Baikida Carroll , American jazz trumpeter and composer
- 1947 : Martin Chalfie , American biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1947 : José Juncadella , Spanish racing car driver and entrepreneur
- 1947 : Jonas Liaučius , Lithuanian lawyer, lawyer and politician
- 1947 : Michael Schanze , German singer, author and television presenter
- 1947 : Veronica Tennant , Canadian dancer and choreographer
- 1948 : Ronnie Van Zant , American musician
- 1949 : Arnold Beck , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1949 : Franz Xaver Bogner , German director
- 1949 : Manuel Cáceres , Spanish football fan
- 1949 : Götz-Werner von Fromberg , German sports official
- 1949 : Götz Kauffmann , Austrian actor, cabaret artist and book author
- 1949 : Peter Terrid , German writer
- 1950 : Uli Frommer , German soccer player
- 1950 : Rudi Rauer , German handball player
- 1950 : Kurt Schulzke , German pop art artist
- 1950 : Marius Trésor , French football player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Biff Byford , English rock musician ( Saxon )
- 1951 : Sharon Doucet , American writer
- 1951 : Rolf-Josef Eibicht , German publicist
- 1951 : Christoph Eymann , Swiss politician
- 1951 : Catherine Trautmann , French politician
- 1951 : Gisela Helmecke , German art historian
- 1952 : Juan Antonio Ahuntchain Alles , Uruguayan soccer coach and soccer player
- 1952 : Boris Blank , Swiss musician
- 1952 : Michail Steinberg , Soviet chess master
- 1952 : Sylvia Kabus , German director, author and journalist
- 1953 : Jürgen Pomorin , German journalist, writer and screenwriter
- 1953 : Ghislaine Royer-Souef , French soccer player
- 1953 : Randy White , American football player
- 1953 : Kent Hovind , American creationist
- 1954 : Nikolaos Sarganis , Greek football player
- 1955 : Felix Abt , Swiss entrepreneur
- 1955 : Mike Baldwin , American motorcycle racer
- 1955 : Thierry Breton , French civil servant and politician
- 1955 : Dieter Focke , German politician
- 1955 : Andreas Gursky , German photographer
- 1955 : Eva-Maria Houben , German composer, organist, pianist and musicologist
- 1956 : Johannes Beilharz , German writer, translator, painter
- 1956 : Jorge Fandermole , Argentinian Canto author
- 1956 : Lee Hee-wan , coach of the German national women's volleyball team
- 1957 : Michael Ausserwinkler , Austrian physician and politician
- 1957 : Mario van Peebles , actor and director
- 1958 : Boris Tadić , Serbian politician and former president
- 1959 : Kenny Easley , American football player
- 1959 : Josip Juratovic , German politician
- 1960 : Kelly Adam Asbury , American director and screenwriter
- 1960 : Ralph Herforth , German actor
- 1962 : Margherita Buy , Italian actress
- 1962 : Frédéric Lordon , French sociologist and economist
- 1962 : Christina Schindler , German film director, screenwriter and film producer
- 1962 : Richard Seeber , Austrian politician, MEP
- 1963 : Mathias Döpfner , German manager
- 1963 : Tomasz Gwinciński , Polish guitarist, percussionist and composer
- 1963 : Erling Kagge , Norwegian lawyer and adventurer
- 1963 : Conrad Lant , British bass player and singer
- 1963 : Rick Nasheim , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 : Bruce Schneier , American mathematician, cryptologist, and non-fiction author
- 1963 : Katrin Weber , German singer and musical artist, actress and cabaret artist
- 1963 : Aleksander Wojtkiewicz , Polish-American chess player
- 1965 : Derek B , British rapper and hip hop producer
- 1965 : Markus Ferber , German politician
- 1965 : Maurizio Fondriest , Italian racing cyclist
- 1965 : Bernard Hopkins , American boxer
- 1965 : Adam Jones , guitarist for the progressive rock band Tool
- 1965 : James Nesbitt , British actor
- 1965 : Andreas Schulze , German animal filmmaker, biologist and Germanist
- 1965 : Andrea Wolf , left-wing radical activist
- 1966 : Rommel Fernández , Panamanian soccer player
- 1968 : Martin Schmitt , German pianist, singer, entertainer, composer and lyricist
- 1968 : Iñaki Urdangarin , handball player, Duke of Palma
- 1969 : Meret Becker , German actress and singer
- 1969 : Wita Pavlysch , Ukrainian athlete
- 1969 : Bo Van Der Werf , Belgian musician
- 1970 : Daniel Borimirov , Bulgarian football player
- 1970 : Shane McMahon , American entrepreneur and wrestler
- 1970 : Joachim Stadler , German soccer player
- 1970 : Oktay Urkal , German boxer
- 1971 : Isabel Florido , Swiss actress
- 1971 : Regina King , American actress
- 1972 : Murat Aslanoğlu , German Muslim
- 1972 : Nicolas Burtin , French ski racer
- 1972 : Shelia Burrell , American athlete
- 1972 : Yang Yong-eun , South Korean professional golfer
- 1973 : Tomáš Galásek , Czech football player
- 1974 : Adam Ledwoń , Polish football player
- 1974 : Stefan Rudolf , German actor
- 1975 : Srikerd Anurak , Thai soccer player
- 1975 : Mary Pierce , French tennis player
1976-2000
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- 1976 : Andreas Klier , German racing cyclist
- 1976 : Drago Grubelnik , Slovenian ski racer
- 1977 : Giorgia Meloni , Italian politician and journalist
- 1977 : Marja Vis , Dutch speed skater
- 1977 : Pamela Zoellner , German speed skater
- 1978 : Jerry Ahrlin , Swedish cross-country skier
- 1978 : Pablo Amo , Spanish soccer player
- 1978 : Vanessa Baudzus , German soccer player
- 1978 : Kristian Gjessing , Danish handball player
- 1978 : Franco Pellizotti , Italian racing cyclist
- 1978 : Holger Loew , German cyclist
- 1978 : Katrin Molkentin , German politician
- 1978 : Holger Nikelis , German wheelchair table tennis player
- 1979 : Anthony Šerić , Croatian football player
- 1979 : Fernando Carreño , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1979 : Jonas Ljungblad , Swedish cyclist
- 1979 : Martin Petrov , Bulgarian football player
- 1979 : Michael Neumayer , German ski jumper
- 1979 : Sascha Göpel , German actor
- 1979 : Sylwia von Wildburg , German actress
- 1980 : Tommy Adams , American basketball player
- 1981 : Dylan Armstrong , Canadian shot putter
- 1981 : Howie Day , American singer and songwriter
- 1981 : El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese soccer player
- 1981 : Vanessa Henke , German tennis player
- 1981 : Marcin Matkowski , Polish tennis player
- 1981 : Pitbull , American rapper
- 1982 : Rémi Adiko , Ivorian football player
- 1982 : Benjamin Agosto , American figure skater
- 1982 : Brett Lebda , American ice hockey defender
- 1982 : Michael Schumacher , German actor
- 1983 : Benjamin Balleret , Monaco tennis player
- 1983 : Emmanuel Chedal , French ski jumper
- 1983 : Keith Fahey , Irish football player
- 1983 : Jermaine Pennant , English soccer player
- 1983 : Sebastian Svärd , Danish football player
- 1983 : Hugo Viana , Portuguese football player
- 1984 : Megan Jendrick , American swimmer
- 1984 : Julia Palmer-Stoll , German actress
- 1984 : Jan Werle , Dutch chess master
- 1985 : René Adler , German soccer player
- 1985 : Thilini Jayasinghe , Sri Lankan badminton player
- 1985 : Harri Olli , Finnish ski jumper
- 1986 : Marija Wassiljewna Abakumowa , Russian javelin thrower
- 1987 : Cafercan Aksu , Turkish soccer player
- 1987 : Thierry Audel , French football player
- 1987 : Kelly Kelly , American wrestler, dancer and model
- 1988 : Darwin Atapuma , Colombian road cyclist
- 1988 : Daniel Caligiuri , German-Italian soccer player
- 1988 : Sebastian Langkamp , German soccer player
- 1988 : Skrillex , American singer, DJ and record producer
- 1989 : Ryan Corr , Australian actor
- 1990 : Lucry , German-Cuban musician
- 1990 : Miroslav Štěpánek , Czech football player
- 1991 : Isabelle Linden , German soccer player
- 1991 : Mitch Garver , American baseball player
- 1992 : Joshua King , Norwegian soccer player
- 1992 : Joël Veltman , Dutch football player
- 1992 : Max von der Groeben , German actor and voice actor
- 1994 : Disarstar , German rapper
- 1994 : Eric Dier , English soccer player
- 1995 : Sinan Bytyqi , Austrian-Kosovar soccer player
- 1996 : Romano Fenati , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1996 : Huang Kaixiang , Chinese badminton player
- 1996 : Katharina Truppe , Austrian ski racer
- 1998 : Niklas Dorsch , German soccer player
- 1999 : Samuel Kolega , Croatian ski racer
21st century
- 2004 : Grace VanderWaal , American singer and songwriter
Died
Before the 16th century
- 69 : Galba , Roman emperor
- 69 : Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi Licinianus , Roman heir to the throne
- 69 : Titus Vinius , Roman politician
- 536 : Ankan , Tennō of Japan
- 764 : Ceolwulf , King of Northumbria
- 936 : Rudolf of Burgundy , Duke of Burgundy and King of Western France
- 980 : Berthold von Schweinfurt , margrave in Franconia
- 1065 : Herrand , Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1151 : Elias II , Earl of Maine
- 1152 : Friedrich I , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1208 : Pierre de Castelnau , Cistercian and papal legate
- 1242 : Albert IV , Count von Bogen and Windberg; Vogt of Oberaltaich and Windberg
- 1249 : Archambault IX. , Lord of Bourbon
- 1249 : Ludwig , Count of Ravensberg
- 1277 : Konrad II von Sternberg , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1471 : Antonio Beccadelli , Italian humanist
- 1475 : Gendün Drub , first Dalai Lama
- 1477 : Adriana von Nassau-Dillenburg , Countess von Hanau-Münzenberg
16th to 18th century
- 1550 : Philipp Schenk zu Schweinsberg , prince abbot of Fulda
- 1560 : Franz Burchart , German scholar and politician
- 1568 : Miklós Oláh , Hungarian archbishop, writer, politician and theologian
- 1569 : Catherine Carey , English noblewoman
- 1575 : Barbara Uthmann , German entrepreneur
- 1583 : Matthias Stoius , German mathematician and physician
- 1597 : Juan de Herrera , Spanish architect and scientist
- 1616 : Simeon Bekbulatowitsch , Khan of Kasimow and Grand Duke of Russia
- 1623 : Paolo Sarpi , Italian religious and historian
- 1633 : Polykarp Leyser II , German Lutheran theologian
- 1659 : Georg von Frantzke , German lawyer and court official
- 1659 : Juliane von Hessen-Darmstadt , countess and regent of East Frisia
- 1719 : Robert Erskine , Scottish physician, president of the first medical academy in the Russian Empire
- 1736 : Friedrich Roth-Scholtz , German bookseller, editor and bibliographer of alchemical literature and publisher
- 1738 : Anna Maria Benz , painter from Württemberg
- 1741 : Ramon Despuig , Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- 1742 : Diana Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans , Chief Chamberlain and close confidante of Caroline von Brandenburg-Ansbach, Princess of Wales and Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover
- 1744 : Charles-Hubert Gervais , French conductor and composer
- 1760 : Michael Engler the Younger , German organ builder
- 1775 : Giovanni Battista Sammartini , Italian composer
- 1781 : Maria Anna Viktoria of Spain , Princess of Spain and Queen of Portugal
- 1784 : Jobst Anton von Hinüber , German lawyer, postmaster and monastery leaseholder
- 1788 : Gaetano Latilla , Italian composer
- 1789 : Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl , Czech-Austrian painter
- 1793 : Johann Matthias Menninger , Austrian actor
19th century
- 1802 : Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz , Prussian civil servant
- 1803 : Kirill Rasumowski , Russian count and hetman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- 1814 : Georg Ludwig Collins , German Protestant clergyman
- 1815 : Emma Hamilton , British mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson
- 1818 : Matwei Ivanovich Platov , Russian general
- 1821 : Cornelis Willem de Rhoer , Dutch historian, rhetorician, philologist and legal scholar
- 1822 : Christian Gottlieb Bergmann , German lawyer and local politician, Mayor of Zittau
- 1829 : Heinrich Julius Friedrich von Schrader , German lawyer
- 1831 : Franciscus-Antonius de Méan , Belgian prince-bishop
- 1835 : Thérésia Cabarrus , French courtesan known as Madame Tallien
- 1860 : Ludwig Benjamin Henz , German railway engineer
- 1865 : Edward Everett , US Secretary of State
- 1866 : Massimo d'Azeglio , Italian writer, painter and politician
- 1866 : Rudolf von Auerswald , Prussian civil servant, minister and prime minister
- 1867 : Adolf Lohse , Prussian builder and student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel
- 1874 : Bernhard Hirschel , German-Jewish politician and physician
- 1883 : Karl Reimer , German chemist and industrialist
- 1885 : Antoni Edward Odyniec , Polish poet, playwright and translator
- 1889 : Josef Martin Knüsel , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1895 : Taruhito Arisugawa , Japanese prince
- 1897 : Auguste Löber , German donor
- 1898 : Antoine François Marmontel , French composer
- 1899 : Serafino Dubois , Italian chess master
- 1900 : Heinrich von Rustige , German painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Gottlieb Viehe , German Protestant missionary
- 1904 : Karl Eduard Ferdinand Ascherson , German classical philologist and librarian
- 1904 : Asa S. Bushnell , American politician
- 1905 : James Mason , Irish-American chess player
- 1909 : Arnold Janssen , German missionary and the founder of the Steyler missionaries
- 1909 : Ernst von Wildenbruch , German writer and diplomat
- 1909 : Robert Zünd , Swiss painter
- 1912 : Henry du Pré Labouchère , British politician
- 1914 : Friedrich Leo , German classical philologist
- 1914 : Hermann von Soden , Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- 1915 : Guillaume Couture , Canadian music educator, music critic, conductor, choir director, composer, organist and singer
- 1915 : George Nares , British admiral and polar explorer
- 1917 : Alfredo Lobos , Chilean painter
- 1918 : Georg Bötticher , German graphic artist and writer
- 1918 : Wojciech Kętrzyński , Polish historian
- 1919 : Jérôme-Eugène Coggia , French astronomer
- 1919 : Karl Liebknecht , German lawyer and politician, MdR, internationalist socialist and anti-militarist
- 1919 : Rosa Luxemburg , Polish-German politician, revolutionary, theoretician of Marxism, representative of the international labor movement
- 1927 : David Rowland Francis , American politician, governor of Missouri, US Secretary of the Interior and Ambassador to Russia
- 1927 : Dawid Janowski , Polish chess player
- 1928 : Ferdinand Mülhens , German landowner and entrepreneur
- 1930 : Theodor von Heigelin , German colonial officer
- 1931 : Leonhard Schrickel , German writer of historical novels and local researcher
- 1932 : Georg Kerschensteiner , German educator, MdR
- 1933 : Otto Meyer-Amden , Swiss painter and graphic artist
- 1934 : Hermann Bahr , German writer, playwright and critic
- 1937 : Josef Steinbach , Austrian weightlifter
- 1939 : Edmund König , German educator, local politician and philosopher
- 1940 : Julius Bergmann , German painter
- 1943 : Friedrich Seetzen , Consistorial President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Saxony
- 1944 : Giuseppe Loretz , Italian racing cyclist
- 1948 : Henri-Alexandre Deslandres , French astronomer
- 1949 : Engelbert-Maria , Duke of Arenberg
- 1950 : Henry H. Arnold , American general
1951-2000
- 1951 : Erwin Voellmy , Swiss chess master and mathematician
- 1953 : Ambrose Carmichael , Australian politician
- 1954 : Hermann Höpker-Aschoff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and President of the Constitutional Court
- 1954 : Erich Stahl , German general
- 1955 : Johannes Baader , German architect, writer, Dadaist and action artist
- 1955 : Yves Tanguy , French surrealism painter
- 1956 : Bartolomé Pérez Casas , Spanish composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1957 : Red Dunn , American football player
- 1958 : Yevgeny Lwowitsch Schwarz , Russian writer and playwright
- 1960 : Friedrich Leibbrandt , German chemist
- 1964 : Jack Teagarden , American jazz musician
- 1965 : Paulina Olga Guszalewicz , German press illustrator
- 1966 : Samuel Ladoke Akintola , Nigerian politician
- 1966 : Abubakar Tafawa Balewa , Prime Minister of Nigeria
- 1966 : Heinz Battke , German painter
- 1966 : Heinrich Keimig , German handball player
- 1967 : Josef Brunner , Austrian major general
- 1969 : Theodor Werner , German painter
- 1970 : Leah Goldberg , Israeli writer, translator and linguist
- 1971 : John Dall , American actor
- 1973 : Gottlob Wieser , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1975 : Friedrich Oertel , German ancient historian
- 1976 : Nina Vladimirovna Makarova , Russian composer
- 1976 : Bohumil Soudský , Czechoslovak prehistorian
- 1977 : Hans Alsér , Swedish table tennis player
- 1977 : Robert Fuchs , German major general
- 1977 : Herbert Ihering , German dramaturge, director, journalist and theater critic
- 1977 : Hermann Schwann , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1979 : Charles W. Morris , American semiotic and linguist
- 1981 : Graham Whitehead , British racing car driver
- 1982 : Rudolf Thaut , German Baptist pastor, President of the European Baptist Federation
- 1983 : Meyer Lansky , American Mafiosi
- 1983 : Ernst Erich Noth , American literary scholar and writer
- 1984 : Kurt Mansfeld , German motorcycle racer
- 1986 : Jim Crowley , American football player, coach, and official
- 1986 : Bruno Liebrucks , German philosopher
- 1987 : Rudolf Carl , Austrian actor
- 1988 : Seán MacBride , Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 1989 : Ernst Neger , German roofer and carnival singer
- 1990 : Gordon Jackson , British actor
- 1990 : Zeno Vancea , Romanian composer and musicologist
- 1991 : Angel D'Agostino , Argentine tango musician
- 1993 : Sammy Cahn , American songwriter
- 1993 : Henry Iba , American basketball coach
- 1994 : György Cziffra , Hungarian pianist
- 1994 : Gabriel-Marie Garrone , French clergyman, Archbishop of Toulouse, Cardinal to the Curia
- 1994 : Herbert Lucy , German trade unionist
- 1994 : Harry Nilsson , American singer
- 1996 : Jack Barkin , Canadian singer
- 1996 : Les Baxter , US orchestra conductor and arranger
- 1996 : Moshoeshoe II , former King of Lesotho
- 1997 : Elisabeth Adler , German director of an Evangelical Academy
- 1998 : Gulzarilal Nanda , Indian politician
- 1998 : Ahmed Oudjani , Algerian-French soccer player
- 1998 : Junior Wells , American blues musician (harmonica)
- 2000 : Tadeusz Wroński , Polish violinist and music teacher
21st century
- 2003 : Milan Machovec , Czech philosopher and dissident
- 2004 : Olivia Goldsmith , American writer
- 2005 : Victoria de los Ángeles , Spanish soprano
- 2005 : Felix Aprahamian , music critic and author
- 2005 : Walter Ernsting , German science fiction writer
- 2005 : Fred Julsing , Dutch cartoonist
- 2005 : Dan Lee , Canadian animator
- 2005 : Werner Lesser , German ski jumper
- 2005 : Henk Molleman , Dutch politician
- 2005 : Ruth Warrick , American actress
- 2006 : Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir al-Sabah , Kuwaiti sheikh and head of state
- 2006 : Inge Merkel , Austrian writer
- 2007 : André Ramseyer , Swiss sculptor
- 2008 : Brad Renfro , American actor
- 2009 : Harri Asi , Estonian writer and poet
- 2009 : Maurice Chappaz , Swiss writer
- 2011 : Patrick Leclercq , German journalist
- 2011 : Pierre Louis-Dreyfus , French banker, resistance fighter and racing car driver
- 2011 : Hilde Zach , Austrian politician
- 2012 : Mika Ahola , Finnish enduro athlete
- 2012 : Carlo Fruttero , Italian writer
- 2013 : Nagisa Ōshima , Japanese film director
- 2013 : Michel Pollien , French bishop
- 2013 : Jean-Bertrand Pontalis , French philosopher and psychoanalyst
- 2014 : John Dobson , American astronomer
- 2014 : Yoshino Hiroshi , Japanese lyric poet
- 2014 : Roger Lloyd-Pack , English actor
- 2016 : Peter Max Atteslander , Swiss sociologist
- 2018 : Dolores O'Riordan , Irish singer ( The Cranberries )
- 2018 : Edwin Hawkins , American gospel singer
- 2019 : Carol Channing , American actress
- 2019 : Gerd Peter Werner , German politician and alternative practitioner
- 2020 : Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow , German actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Traugott Hahn , German-Baltic pastor and martyr (Protestant)
- St. Paul of Thebes , Egyptian hermit, desert father and patron saint (orthodox)
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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