15th of July
The July 15 is the 196th day of the Gregorian calendar (197th in leap years ), thus still 169 days remain until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1099: During the First Crusade, after a month of siege, the Crusader army conquers Jerusalem and kills almost the entire population of the city.
- 1240: The Russians , led by Alexander Newski , defeat a Swedish army under Birger Jarl in the Battle of the Neva .
- 1410: The defeat of the Army of the Teutonic Order under Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen against the Polish-Lithuanian Army under King Władysław II. Jagiełłos in the Battle of Tannenberg in Masuria marks the temporary end of the Eastern expansion of the Teutonic Order.
- 1435: Denmark grants the German Hanseatic League the right to free trade in the Peace of Vordingborg , ending a nine-year-old conflict.
- 1683: The second Turkish siege of Vienna begins after the city commandant Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg refused to surrender the city.
- 1761: With an attack by the French under Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise and Victor-François de Broglie on Prussian troops under the command of Ferdinand von Braunschweig , the two-day battle at Vellinghausen begins during the Seven Years' War .
- 1806: Under the leadership of Zebulon Pikes , the Pike expedition begins to explore the areas acquired by the USA in the Louisiana Purchase .
- 1840: Austria , Great Britain , Prussia and Russia sign the London Treaty to pacify the Levant . This quadruple alliance is fighting a collapse of the Ottoman Empire through Egyptian separation efforts, which in turn supports France .
- 1870: Georgia is the last of the former Confederate States of America to be accepted back into the Union .
- 1895: The former Prime Minister of Bulgaria , Stefan Stambolow , is assassinated by political opponents. He dies of his injuries three days later.
- 1897: The first news of gold discoveries on the Klondike River on August 16, 1896 reaches San Francisco and triggers a gold rush .
- 1913: Romania and the Ottoman Empire intervene on the side of Serbia and Greece in the Second Balkan War against Bulgaria .
- 1918: The last German offensive begins on the western front of the First World War with the Second Battle of the Marne .
- 1920: Eight months before the referendum in Upper Silesia , the Polish National Constituent Assembly decides to establish the Silesian Voivodeship .
- 1922: The Japanese Communist Party is founded. It is immediately banned and subjected to reprisals and persecution by the police and military of Imperial Japan .
- 1926: The Paris mosque is opened by French President Gaston Doumergue . The first mosque in France was built as a token of thanks to the Muslims who fought with France against Germany in the First World War.
- 1927: Following a scandalous verdict , the Vienna Palace of Justice is stormed and set on fire .
- 1927: The Chinese Kuomintang formally terminates the existing alliance with the communists . This leads to a civil war for power in the Republic of China between the two groups , which is initially determined by Chiang Kai-shek's troops .
- 1937: Buchenwald concentration camp begins operations on Ettersberg near Weimar .
- 1947: The General Trial in Southeastern Europe begins as the seventh of the twelve follow-up trials of the Nuremberg Trial against the main war criminals .
- 1955: In the "Mainau Declaration" at the meeting of Nobel Prize winners in Lindau, 18 Nobel Prize winners speak out against the use of nuclear weapons .
- 1963: Egon Bahr gives his famous speech Change through Approach at the Evangelical Academy in Tutzing .
- 1974: The Cypriot President Makarios is overthrown by a coup by the Cypriot National Guard , with which they want to force the annexation to Greece.
- 1983: The Armenian underground organization Asala carries out a bomb attack in Paris-Orly airport . Eight people died and more than fifty were injured at the check-in counter of a Turkish airline.
- 1997: The resigned Serbian head of state Slobodan Milošević is elected President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia by the Yugoslav federal parliament.
- 1999: China declares that it has the technology to build a neutron bomb .
- 1999: Great Britain resumes scheduled air traffic with Argentina , which had been interrupted since the Falklands War .
- 1999: Hubert Massa, the public prosecutor in charge of the Marc Dutroux case, is found dead in Belgium .
- 2003: A military coup breaks out in São Tomé and Príncipe , but ends bloodlessly eight days later.
- 2008: With the brief arrest of Hannibal al-Gaddafi , the son of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi , in Geneva, the so-called Libya affair begins , a prolonged diplomatic crisis between Libya and Switzerland.
- 2016: Sections of the Turkish military attempt an unsuccessful coup against the Turkish government with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Yıldırım cabinet . According to official information, 249 people are killed and over 2000 injured.
economy
- 1845: In Singapore , the newspaper appears The Straits Times for the first time.
- 1854: In Munich Glass Palace is the first General German Industry Exhibition opened. 6588 exhibitors present themselves and their products.
- 1869: The French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès receives a patent for a butter substitute: margarine .
- 1911: In La Chaux-de-Fonds arising watchmaker Ebel .
- 1916: William Edward Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt found the Pacific Aero Products Company in Seattle , which developed into the aircraft manufacturer The Boeing Company .
- 1937: The Reichswerke AG for ore mining and ironworks "Hermann Göring" is founded as part of the National Socialist four-year plan to achieve war capability .
science and technology
- 1640: The Turku Academy is officially opened as the first Finnish university . The university is relocated to Helsinki in the 19th century.
- 1799: The Rosette Stone is discovered in the Nile Valley near Rosetta by Pierre François Xavier Bouchard , an officer of Napoleon.
- 1830: The Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid is founded as the first music academy in Spain.
- 1913: The first scheduled train runs through the approximately 15-kilometer-long Lötschberg tunnel , which connects the city of Bern with the Simplon Railway and Italy .
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- 1965: The American space probe Mariner 4 flies past Mars and delivers the first close-up images of an alien planet.
- 1975: The first joint space companies of the United States and the Soviet Union , the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), is started.
- 1980: The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is founded in Bremerhaven.
Culture
- 1520: Eight years after a devastating fire, the renovated and gothic church of St. Zeno in Bad Reichenhall is consecrated by Bishop Berthold Pürstinger .
- 1735: The world premiere of the opera The Honest Yorkshireman of Henry Carey takes place in London.
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- 1846: The cholera fountain is ceremoniously handed over to the city of Dresden .
- 1912: The composer Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew presents his first piano concerto as a pianist at the world premiere in Moscow .
- 1955: The first documenta opens in Kassel .
society
- 1235: Emperor Friedrich II marries Isabella of England , sister of King Henry III of England , in Worms in fourth marriage .
- 1848: At the invitation of Friedrich von Klinggräff, delegates from senior citizens' conventions at German universities meet in Jena . The conference is considered to be the foundation of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband , the oldest association of student corporations.
- 1997: Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace is shot dead by wanted serial killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan in front of his home in Miami Beach .
religion
- 1801: The Pope between . Pius VII and France 's First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte that have been made Concordat of 1801 signed by its authorized representatives.
- 1823: In Rome in the evening, a craftsman working on the roof sets the church of Saint Paul on fire in front of the walls . The church, which dates from the fourth century, is badly damaged by the fire.
Disasters
- 1888: The eruption of the stratovolcano Bandai in Japan claims 461 lives; 70 people are injured.
- 1949: A large part of the upper town is destroyed in the explosion in Prüm in the Eifel . Twelve people were killed and 15 injured in the accident, and 965 people were left homeless.
- 1982: The Lawn Lake Dam in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado , USA breaks. The tidal wave that was triggered cost three lives and caused property damage of between $ 21 million and $ 31 million.
- 2009: The crash of flight 7908 of the Caspian Airlines from Tehran to Yerevan shortly after take off all 168 people on board were killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1864: A rope team led by Edward Whymper succeeds in the first ascent of the Aiguille d'Argentière in the Mont-Blanc group .
- 1922: The forerunner of the Eifel race , the Eifel Tour around Nideggen, takes place for the first time.
- 1931: Eligio Sardinias Montalvo, known as Kid Chocolate , becomes the first boxing world champion from Cuba.
- 1997: Jan Ullrich wins the Pyrenees stage to Arcalis ( Andorra ) in the Tour de France and takes the lead in the overall standings. In doing so, he lays the foundation for a German's first tour victory.
- 2018: France beat Croatia 4-2 in the final of the World Cup and become world champions for the second time after 1998.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 980: Ichijō , 66th Emperor of Japan
- 1270: Rudolf III. , Count of Habsburg-Laufenburg, Landgrave in Klettgau
- 1369: Antonio Correr , Italian cardinal
- 1401: Jakobäa , daughter of Wilhelm II of Straubing-Holland, Countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zealand
- 1433: Michael Hildebrand , Archbishop of Riga
- 1442: Boček IV of Podebrady , Bohemian nobleman
- 1471: Eskandar , Negus Negest of Ethiopia
- 1478: Barbara of Poland , Duchess of Saxony
- 1488: Juan Álvarez y Alva de Toledo , Spanish Dominican, bishop and cardinal
- 1535: Jacob Ramminger , German cartographer
- 1553: Johann Schweikhard von Cronberg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
- 1573: Inigo Jones , English architect
- 1602: John Bradshaw , English politician and judge
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- 1606: Rembrandt van Rijn , Dutch painter
- 1609: Kazimierz Lew Sapieha , Polish-Lithuanian statesman
- 1613: Gu Yanwu , Chinese polymath
- 1622: Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Worms
- 1638: Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani , Italian composer
- 1643: Henri Arnaud , French pastor and Waldensian leader
- 1646: Friedrich I , Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
- 1661: Johann Christoph Weigel , German engraver, art dealer and publisher
- 1694: Johann Friedrich Nolte , German pedagogue and philologist
18th century
- 1718: Alexander Roslin , Swedish painter
- 1731: Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena von Salm-Reifferscheidt-Bedburg , German nobleman
- 1734: Maria Fortunata d'Este , Italian princess
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- 1737: Louise of France , French princess and Carmelite
- 1740: Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman
- 1740: Johanna Cornelia von Oeyen , abbess of the Gnadental monastery in Neuss
- 1745: Friedrich Benda , German composer
- 1745: Jost Dürler , Swiss officer in French and English services
- 1747: Teresa Margareta Redi , Italian Carmelite and Catholic saint
- 1750: Franz , German nobleman, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- 1757: Marianne Reussing , German novelist
- 1763: Roger Hale Sheaffe , British general
- 1765: Charles Goldsborough , American politician, Congressman, and Governor of Maryland
- 1766: Ferdinand Schazmann , German lawyer
- 1777: Jean Jacques Pelet , French general
- 1797: Eduard Vieweg , German publisher
19th century
1801-1850
- 1805: Johann Heinrich Deinhardt , German educator
- 1808: Henry Edward Manning , British Catholic theologian, Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal
- 1810: Johann Jacob Löwenthal , Hungarian-British chess player
- 1812: Benno Adam , German animal painter
- 1812: Emil von Sydow , German officer, geographer and cartographer
- 1817: John Fowler , British railroad engineer and bridge builder
- 1820: Anton Ascher , German theater actor, director and director
- 1822: Pierre-Victor Galland , French painter
- 1823: Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt , Prince of Hessen and the Rhine, founder of the House of Battenberg
- 1829: Levi Spear Burridge , American dentist
- 1831: Reinhold Begas , German sculptor and painter
- 1837: Stephanie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Queen of Portugal
- 1839: Eduard Köllner , German composer
- 1841: Tjalling Halbertsma , Dutch gynecologist and obstetrician
- 1843: Alfred W. Benson , American politician, Senator from Kansas
- 1845: Marie Theresa of Austria , member of the Austrian ruling house Habsburg-Lothringen
- 1845: Johann Loschek , valet and bodyfiaker of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria
- 1848: Vilfredo Pareto , Italian engineer, economist and sociologist
- 1850: Franziska Xaviera Cabrini , founder of the Italian-American order
1851-1900
- 1851: William Carlile Arnold , American politician
- 1853: Marija Nikolajewna Yermolowa , Russian theater actress
- 1854: Jacek Malczewski , Polish modernist and symbolist painter
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- 1858: Emmeline Pankhurst , British radical feminist theorist, suffragette and philosopher
- 1859: Eduard Lederer , Czech lawyer, politician and writer, victim of the Holocaust
- 1860: Friedrich Andersen , German Protestant theologian
- 1860: Max von Oppenheim , German diplomat and archaeologist
- 1861: Hirotsu Ryūrō , Japanese writer
- 1862: Ludwig Fulda , German Germanist, philosopher and author
- 1864: Franklin Knight Lane , American politician
- 1865: Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe , British journalist and publisher
- 1867: Jean-Baptiste Charcot , French scientist and polar explorer
- 1871: Henryk Arctowski , Polish scientist, oceanographer and explorer of the Antarctic
- 1871: Max Bodenstein , German physical chemist, founder of chemical kinetics
- 1871: Kunikida Doppo , Japanese writer
- 1872: Alfred Hertz , German-American conductor
- 1873: Otto Anselmino , German pharmacist and associate professor for pharmaceutical chemistry
- 1873: Henri Buisson , French physicist
- 1874: Enrico Dassetto , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1874: Wilhelm von Scholz , German writer and playwright
- 1875: Helena Oleska , Polish opera singer and vocal teacher
- 1876: Carl Sonnenschein , German theologian
- 1879: Alcides Arguedas , Bolivian writer, politician and historian
- 1883: Käte Stresemann , wife of the German politician Gustav Stresemann
- 1884: Enrique Soro Barriga , Chilean composer
- 1884: Phraya Manopakorn Nititada , first Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1885: Josef Frank , Austrian architect
- 1885: Paul Wieczorek , German marine, first commander of the People's Navy Division during the November Revolution
- 1886: Harry Green , British long-distance runner
- 1886: Jacques Rivière , French writer
- 1888: Hans Avé-Lallemant , German company director
- 1888: Ernst von Harnack , Prussian government president and German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1889: Marco de Gastyne , French film director and screenwriter
- 1891: Adolf Wurmbach , German writer
- 1892: Walter Benjamin , German writer and philosopher
- 1893: Nurul Amin , Pakistani politician
- 1893: William Dieterle , German film director and actor
- 1894: Philip Vian , British naval admiral
- 1897: Sam H. Jones , American politician, governor of the state of Louisiana
- 1899: Hugo Decker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1899: Seán Lemass , Irish politician
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Nicola Abbagnano , Italian philosopher
- 1902: Jean Rey , Belgian politician and President of the European Commission
- 1904: Hildegunde Fritzi Anders , German writer
- 1904: Rudolf Arnheim , German-American art psychologist
- 1906: Karl Golzo , German rower
- 1906: Rudolf Uhlenhaut , German engineer, designer and board member of Mercedes-Benz
- 1908: Albert Volkmann , German chess composer
- 1909: Hendrik Casimir , Dutch physicist
- 1910: Enrique Guaita , Argentine-Italian football player
- 1910: Hilde le Viseur , German hurdler
- 1913: Cowboy Copas , American country musician
- 1913: Hammond Innes , British writer
- 1914: Prince Bira , Thai racing driver
- 1914: Jérôme Rakotomalala , Malagasy archbishop and cardinal
- 1915: Domenico Caloyera , Roman Catholic Archbishop
- 1915: Klaus Miedel , German actor and voice actor
- 1918: Bertram Brockhouse , Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1918: Brenda Milner , British-Canadian psychologist
- 1919: Iris Murdoch , Anglo-Irish writer
- 1920: Joseph Basmadjan , Syrian Archbishop
- 1920: Friedrich Niederl , Austrian lawyer and politician, Governor of Styria
- 1921: Jack Beeson , American composer
- 1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1922: Leon Max Lederman , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1923: Philip Carey , American actor
- 1923: Fred Oberhauser , German literary critic
- 1925: Robert Limpert , German resistance fighter
1926-1950
- 1926: Driss Chraïbi , Moroccan author
- 1926: Leopoldo Galtieri , Argentine general, de facto President
- 1927: Rowland Pack , Canadian cellist, organist and choirmaster
- 1928: Pál Benkő , Hungarian-American chess grandmaster and composer
- 1928: Peter-Klaus Budig , German scientist and minister in the GDR
- 1928: Carl Woese , American biologist
- 1929: Charles Anthony , American opera singer
- 1929: Francis Bebey , French musician and writer
- 1929: Theo Gallehr , German radio play author , filmmaker, journalist, visual artist and university lecturer for visual arts
- 1930: Jacques Derrida , French philosopher
- 1930: Stephen Smale , American mathematician
- 1931: Clive Cussler , American writer
- 1933: Julian Bream , British guitarist
- 1933: Guido Crepax , Italian comic artist
- 1934: Harrison Birtwistle , British composer
- 1935: Donn Clendenon , American baseball player
- 1935: Alex Karras , American actor and American football player
- 1935: Ken Kercheval , American actor
- 1935: Gerhard Koch , German racing driver
- 1936: Leo Mazakarini , Austrian writer, publisher and actor
- 1937: Friedhelm Hengsbach , German social ethicist and university professor
- 1937: Robert Wohlleben , German poet and essayist, translator and publisher
- 1938: Enrique Figuerola , Cuban athlete
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- 1939: Aníbal Cavaco Silva , Portuguese politician, President
- 1939: Richard Fehr , Swiss Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
- 1939: Peter Hacker , British philosopher
- 1939: Patrick Wayne , American actor
- 1940: Ian Charles Athfield , New Zealand architect
- 1940: Chris Cord , American racing car driver
- 1941: Anwar Fazal , Malaysian consumer advocate
- 1941: Diethard Finkelmann , German handball player
- 1943: Michael Asher , American concept artist
- 1943: Jocelyn Bell Burnell , British radio astronomer
- 1943: Frank Glaubrecht , German voice actor and actor
- 1943: Billy Truax , American football player and businessman
- 1943: Franz Schuster , German politician
- 1944: Rosemarie Bauer , Austrian politician
- 1944: Iancu Dumitrescu , Romanian composer
- 1944: Bernd-Lutz Lange , German author and cabaret artist
- 1944: Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor
- 1945: Jürgen Möllemann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, Vice Chancellor
- 1946: Hassanal Bolkiah , Sultan of Brunei
- 1946: Dieter Herzog , German football player
- 1946: Achim Mentzel , German musician
- 1946: Linda Ronstadt , American singer and songwriter
- 1947: Peter Banks , British rock guitarist
- 1947: Lydia Davis , American writer and translator
- 1947: Dieter Geerlings , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster
- 1948: Richard Franklin , Australian film director
- 1949: Muhammad bin Raschid Al Maktum , Emir of Dubai
- 1949: Christel Augenstein , German politician
- 1949: Carl Bildt , Swedish politician, Prime Minister
- 1949: Trevor Horn , British musician and record producer
- 1949: Heinrich Peuckmann , German writer
- 1949: Michael Schmitz , German agricultural economist
- 1950: Lam Akol , Sudanese politician
- 1950: Arianna Huffington , American non-fiction author and journalist of Greek origin
1951-1975
- 1951: Ernest Charles Arnason , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1951: Jesse Ventura , American wrestler and politician, governor of Minnesota
- 1952: Celia Imrie , British actress
- 1952: Włodzimierz Kiniorski , Polish composer, jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist
- 1952: Terry O'Quinn , American actor
- 1952: Marky Ramone , American rock musician
- 1953: Jean-Bertrand Aristide , Haitian priest and president
- 1953: Neda Arnerić , Serbian actress
- 1954: Maria Lea Pedini Angelini , San Marinese politician
- 1954: Mario Kempes , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1955: Pål Thowsen , Norwegian jazz musician
- 1956: Ian Curtis , British singer
- 1956: Joe Satriani , American rock guitarist
- 1956: Wayne Taylor , South African racing car driver
- 1958: Jörg Kachelmann , Swiss meteorologist and television presenter
- 1958: Peter Torberg , German editor and translator
- 1959: Michael Boddenberg , German local politician
- 1960: Annichen Kringstad , Swedish orienteer
- 1960: Dennis Storhøi , Norwegian film and theater actor
- 1961: Christoph Matschie , German politician
- 1961: Forest Whitaker , American actor, producer, and director
- 1961: Jean-Christophe Grangé , French writer
- 1962: Jens Bullerjahn , German politician
- 1963: Brigitte Nielsen , Danish actress
- 1963: Monika Forstinger , Austrian politician
- 1964: Rodrigo Amado , Portuguese jazz and improvisation musician, music producer, photographer and author
- 1964: Galyn Görg , American dancer and actress
- 1966: Jason Bonham , British drummer
- 1966: Rolf Dobelli , Swiss writer and entrepreneur
- 1966: Irène Jacob , French film actress
- 1966: Michael Panse , German politician
- 1968: Birgit Roth , German lecturer and politician
- 1968: Stan Kirsch , American actor
- 1970: İlhan Atasoy , German-Turkish cabaret artist, satirist and lecturer
- 1970: Steffen Quasebarth , German television presenter
- 1972: Tonia Maria Zindel , Swiss actress
- 1973: Brian Austin Green , American actor
- 1973: Buju Banton , Jamaican ragga singer
- 1973: Swetlana Timoschinina , Russian water diver
- 1975: Daniel Andrada Jiménez , Spanish sport climber
1976-2000
- 1976: Marco Di Vaio , Italian football player
- 1976: Jim Jones , American rapper
- 1976: Diane Kruger , German actress
- 1976: Sebastian Weber , German actor
- 1977: Galina Vladimirovna Likhacheva , Russian speed skater
- 1977: Lana Parrilla , American actress
- 1978: Stephan Schreck , German racing cyclist
- 1979: Laura Benanti , American actress
- 1979: Alexander Frei , Swiss football player and official
- 1980: Jordi Benet , Andorran football player
- 1980: Jonathan Cheechoo , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981: Alou Diarra , French football player
- 1981: Gabriel Raab , German actor
- 1981: Nick Sirianni , American football coach
- 1982: Sinan Sofuoğlu , Turkish motorcycle racer
- 1982: Jasmin Tawil , German actress
- 1983: Olga Borisovna Graf , Russian speed skater
- 1984: Linn Jørum Sulland , Norwegian handball player
- 1984: Veronika Velez-Zuzulová , Slovak ski racer
- 1985: Chris Oliver , American basketball player
- 1985: Sif Atladóttir , Icelandic football player
- 1986: David Ángel Abraham , Argentine soccer player
- 1986: Tina Bachmann , German biathlete
- 1986: Cynthia Uwak , Nigerian soccer player
- 1988: Aimee Carrero , Dominican-American actress
- 1988: Shkelzen Gashi , Albanian-Swiss football player
- 1989: Alissa Mikhailovna Kleibanova , Russian tennis player
- 1990: Alexander Calvert , Canadian actor
- 1990: Damian Lillard , American basketball player
- 1991: Sebastian Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1991: Danilo , Brazilian soccer player
- 1991: Cornelius Maas , German handball player
- 1991: Derrick Favors , American basketball player
- 1992: Steffen Bartscher , German biathlete
- 1992: Hector Hurst , British racing car driver
- 1992: Koharu Kusumi , Japanese musician
- 1992: Wayde van Niekerk , South African athlete
- 1992: Porter Robinson , American music producer
- 1993: Ömer Arslan , Turkish football player
- 1993: Håvard Nielsen , Norwegian football player
- 1996: Carole Bissig , Swiss ski racer
- 1996: Vivianne Miedema , Dutch soccer player
- 2000: Paulinho , Brazilian soccer player
21st century
- 2002: Samed Onur , Turkish-German soccer player
- 2004: Lorenzo Fellon , French motorcycle racer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 756: Yang Guifei , concubine of the Chinese Emperor Xuanzong
- 842: Saga , Japanese Emperor
- 967: Boleslav I , Duke of Bohemia
- 998: Abu l-Wafa al Busdjani, Persian mathematician and astronomer
- 1015: Vladimir I , Prince of Kiev
- 1066: Ansverus , Benedictine monk and saint
- 1117: Anselm von Laon , theologian and early scholastic
- 1120: Egino , German Benedictine abbot in the monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra
- 1147: Anselm von Laon , theologian and early scholastic
- 1190: Martin von Meißen , Bishop of Meißen
- 1212: Johann I , Archbishop and Elector of Trier
- 1249: Heinrich von Hohenlohe , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1262: Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester , English nobleman
- 1274: Bonaventure , Italian doctor of the church
- 1291: Rudolf von Habsburg , Roman-German king
- 1356: Henry III. , Bishop of Lavant
- 1363: Heinrich II. Von Neuhaus , Bohemian nobleman
- 1381: John Ball , English priest and revolutionary
- 1391: Louis III. de Châtillon , Count of Dunois and Lord of the Romorantin
- 1391: Gérard de Montaigu the Elder , adviser and secretary to the French King Charles V
- 1397: Katharina von Henneberg , Margravine of Meißen
15th to 17th century
- 1406: Wilhelm von Habsburg , Austrian duke
- 1410: Ulrich von Jungingen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1410: Kuno von Lichtenstein , Grand Commander of the Teutonic Order
- 1410: Friedrich von Wallenrode , Commander and Supreme Marshal of the Teutonic Order
- 1411: Jean Petit , French lawyer and theologian
- 1417: Willem Eggert , Dutch Count of Purmerend, chief treasurer and governor of Holland
- 1445: Joan Beaufort , Queen of Scotland
- 1458: Bernhard II , Margrave of Baden
- 1470: Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly , Scottish peer
- 1472: Balthasar , Duke of Sagan and mercenary leader
- 1502: Vincenz Lang , German humanist and poet
- 1570: Nicolaus Gallus , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- 1575: Eleonora d'Este , noblewoman from the Duchy of Ferrara
- 1579: Simão Rodrigues , Portuguese Jesuit
- 1588: Georg Israel , Moravian preacher
- 1609: Annibale Carracci , Italian painter
- 1616: Andreas Libavius , German polymath and alchemist
- 1621: Albrecht VII of Habsburg , regent of the Spanish Netherlands
- 1626: Isabella Brant , first wife and model of Peter Paul Rubens
- 1635: Luke Fox , English explorer
- 1656: Marco Aurelio Severino , Italian anatomist and surgeon
- 1660: Johann Kasimir von Anhalt-Dessau , German prince
- 1673: Hélène Fourment , second wife and model of Peter Paul Rubens
- 1681: Adrian Wilhelm von Viermund , Freiherr zu Neersen, German general and diplomat
- 1685: James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth , illegitimate son of Charles II of England
- 1695: Yeremia Tschelebi Kömürdjian , Armenian poet, printer, historian, educator, musician, miniaturist and translator
18th century
- 1715: Maria Clara von Berg-s'-Heerenberg , Dutch heiress and princess and regent of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1716: Gaetano Veneziano , Italian composer and conductor
- 1728: Katharina Dorothea von Schlieben , German nobleman
- 1732: Woodes Rogers , British privateer and governor of the Bahamas, template for Robinson Crusoe
- 1737: Christoph Heinrich von Berger , German lawyer
- 1749: Johann Michael Funcke , Erfurt book printer and publisher
- 1758: Ambrosius Stub , Danish poet
- 1764: Rahel Louise von Hoym , landowner in the Electorate of Saxony
- 1765: Charles André van Loo , French painter
- 1767: Catherine-Jeanne Dupré , French actress
- 1777: Antonio Calegari , Italian sculptor
- 1782: Isaak Iselin , Swiss philosopher of history
- 1798: Gaetano Pugnani , Italian violinist and composer
19th century
- 1802: Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron , French politician
- 1810: Jean-Baptiste Rey , French composer, conductor and opera director
- 1813: Gottlieb Bertrand , German author
- 1828: Jean-Antoine Houdon , French sculptor
- 1830: Gottlob Heinrich von Lindenau , German nobleman, royal Saxon chamberlain
- 1844: Claude Fauriel , French historian and Romanist
- 1853: Johann Jakob Hürlimann , Swiss entrepreneur and politician
- 1853: Wilhelm von Kobell , German painter
- 1857: Carl Czerny , Austrian pianist and piano teacher
- 1858: Alexander Andrejewitsch Ivanov , Russian painter
- 1861: Adam Jerzy Czartoryski , Polish politician
- 1867: Rudolph Melchior , German-American artisan
- 1868: William Thomas Green Morton , American physician, pioneer of anesthesia
- 1876: Aleksander Fredro , Polish playwright
- 1879: Johann Friedrich von Brandt German naturalist and zoologist
- 1880: Adolphe Bauty , Swiss Protestant clergyman and politician
- 1881: Friedrich Schey von Koromla , Austrian banker, wholesaler, landowner and patron
- 1885: Rosalía de Castro , Spanish poet
- 1890: Gottfried Keller , Swiss writer and poet
- 1897: William Preyer , English physiologist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1904: Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov , Russian writer, novelist and playwright ( Three Sisters, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard )
- 1905: Eduard Leonhardi , German landscape painter
- 1906: William Painter , American inventor (bottle cap)
- 1907: Qiu Jin , Chinese revolutionary, feminist and author
- 1915: Jakob Person , German athlete
- 1915: Joseph Thyssen , German industrialist
- 1916: Ilya Ilyich Metschnikow , Ukrainian zoologist, anatomist and bacteriologist
- 1919: Emil Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner, is considered the founder of classical organic chemistry
- 1922: Biagio Nazzaro , Italian automobile and motorcycle racing driver
- 1927: Constance Markiewicz , Irish freedom fighter, Minister
- 1928: Čeněk Junek , Czechoslovak banker and racing car driver
- 1929: Hugo von Hofmannsthal , Austrian writer, playwright, lyric poet ( Viennese Modernism ), co-founder of the Salzburg Festival
- 1930: Leopold von Auer , Hungarian violinist, violin teacher and conductor
- 1932: Robert Jecker , German motorcycle racer
- 1933: Freddie Keppard , American cornet player
- 1934: Arie van der Pluym , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 1936: Charles Binet , French Roman Catholic theologian, Archbishop of Besançon, cardinal
- 1938: Robert Wiene , German film director
- 1939: Eugen Bleuler , Swiss psychiatrist
- 1941: Max Kretzer , German writer
- 1941: Walter Ruttmann , German film director
- 1942: Roberto María Ortiz , Argentine politician, minister, president
- 1944: Gian Ferdinando Tomaselli , Italian track cyclist, motorcycle and automobile racer and designer
- 1946: Wen Yiduo , Chinese poet
- 1947: Gertrud Jungnickel , German portrait painter
- 1948: John Pershing , American soldier and general
- 1950: Rudolf Arnold , German politician and resistance fighter
1951-2000
- 1953: Erik Nölting , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954: Sadriddin Aini , Tajik poet and writer
- 1957: James M. Cox , American politician, presidential candidate, governor of the state of Ohio
- 1957: Willy de Vos , Dutch football player
- 1958: Giuseppe Armellini , Italian astronomer
- 1959: Ernest Bloch , Swiss-American composer
- 1959: Agostino Gemelli , Italian priest and medic
- 1960: Clemens Schmalstich , German composer and conductor
- 1961: John Edward Brownlee , Canadian politician
- 1962: Edwin Arthur Kraft , American organist and composer
- 1963: John Strachey , British politician and socialist ideologist
- 1964: Rudolf Amon , Austrian zoologist and hunting scientist
- 1964: Paul Maas , German classical philologist
- 1968: Franz Fuchs , Austrian politician and member of the state parliament
- 1969: Peter van Eyck , German actor
- 1970: Eric Berne , Canadian doctor and psychiatrist
- 1971: Petra Schelm , German terrorist ( RAF )
- 1974: Christine Chubbuck , American news anchor
- 1974: Erik Charell , German director and actor
- 1975: Tiny Feather , American football player
- 1976: Paul Gallico , American author
- 1976: Eva Schulze-Knabe , German painter, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1976: Joachim Peiper , German officer of the Waffen SS, adjutant Heinrich Himmler, war criminal
- 1977: Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin , Russian writer and actor
- 1978: Jenő Konrád , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1979: Georges Darrieus , French engineer
- 1979: Gustavo Díaz Ordaz , Mexican politician, President
- 1980: Ben Selvin , American band leader
- 1982: Otto von Rohr , German opera singer (bass)
- 1984: Magdalena Montezuma , German actress
- 1987: Pete King , British musician
- 1989: Dieter Augustin , German actor
- 1989: Josef Bauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1990: Otto Frei , Swiss journalist and writer
- 1990: Margaret Lockwood , British film actress
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- 1992: Hammer DeRoburt , founding president of the Republic of Nauru
- 1992: Çingiz Mustafayev , Azerbaijani journalist
- 1995: Robert Coffy , French Catholic Archbishop of Marseille and Cardinal
- 1996: Erwin Fischer , German lawyer
- 1996: Rabe Perplexum , German painter and performance artist
- 1997: Gianni Versace , Italian designer and couturier
- 2000: Paul Bühlmann , Swiss folk actor
- 2000: Juan Filloy , Argentine writer
21st century
- 2001: Marie-Brigitte Gauthier-Chaufour , French composer
- 2003: Alfred Preißler , German soccer player
- 2003: Roberto Bolaño , Chilean writer
- 2003: Tex Schramm , American football player
- 2004: Charles Sweeney , American general
- 2007: Siegfried Funk , German sports official
- 2007: Otto Häuser , German writer
- 2008: Peter Ala Adjetey , Ghanaian lawyer, university professor and politician
- 2008: Gionata Mingozzi , Italian football player
- 2009: Julius Shulman , American architectural photographer
- 2009: Isa Vermehren , German cabaret artist, film actress and religious sister
- 2011: Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler , German farmer, politician, manager and entrepreneur
- 2012: Konrad Feiereis , German Roman Catholic priest and theologian
- 2012: Celeste Holm , American actress
- 2013: Hans Feddersen , Namibian journalist
- 2014: Peter Grzan , German artist
- 2014: Rudi Rauer , German handball player
- 2015: Hans Barlach , German entrepreneur
- 2015: Mario Sereni , Italian opera singer
- 2016: Qandeel Baloch , Pakistani model and singer
- 2016: Janez Bernik , Slovenian painter and graphic artist
- 2017: Anne Buttimer , Irish geographer
- 2017: Martin Landau , American actor
- 2018: Ray Emery , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2018: Dragutin Šurbek , Yugoslav or Croatian table tennis player
- 2019: Georges Harris , Belgian racing car driver
- 2019: Werner Müller , German politician and manager
- 2020: Anna Demuth , Austrian politician
- 2020: Galyn Görg , American dancer and actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Bonaventure , Order General, Cardinal Bishop of Albano and Doctor of the Church (Protestant, Anglican, Catholic)
- St. Gumbert , German abbot and bishop (Catholic)
- St. Swithin , English bishop
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Turkey : Day of Democracy and National Unity (since 2017)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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