March, 15
The March 15 is the 74th day of the Gregorian calendar (75th in leap years ), thus remain 291 days by year end.
By 153 BC The Roman year began on March 15th, as can be seen from the month names September, October, November and December.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 44 BC BC : On the Ides of March , the Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar is murdered in an assassination attempt in the theater of Pompey in Rome . Under the leadership of Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus , around 60 people took part in the conspiracy; about 20 are known by name today. The Senate granted the murderers amnesty on the same day.
- 351 : The Roman emperor Constantius II appoints his cousin Constantius Gallus as Caesar and lets him rule over the east of the empire. On the same day, Gallus marries Constantius' sister Constantina .
- 493 : At a reconciliation meal in Ravenna after the battle of the raven , the Ostrogoth ruler Theodoric kills his rival Odoacer and becomes the sole ruler of Italy as the "representative" of the Eastern Roman emperor.
- 933 : The East Franconian King Heinrich I defeats a Hungarian army in the Battle of Riyade on the Unstrut and thus temporarily ends the Hungarian invasions .
- 1077 : The Swabian Duke Rudolf von Rheinfelden is elected anti-king of Heinrich IV in the course of the investiture dispute in Forchheim .
- 1311 : In the Battle of the Kephissos , the Catalan Company defeats the Duke of Athens, Walter V of Brienne , after having freed the Duchy of his enemies, but having been cheated of their reward by Walter. Walter falls, the company takes control of the Duchy of Athens .
- 1400 : Sophie of Bavaria is crowned Queen of Bohemia . Her husband Wenzel stays away from the coronation.
- 1493 : After their two caravels, Niña and Pinta, were separated by a storm on their way back from their first voyage of discovery, Christopher Columbus and Martín Alonso Pinzón reached the Spanish home port of Palos de la Frontera on the same day .
- 1672 : The English King Charles II issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence , which aims to promote tolerance towards the country's Catholics . Following opposition from Parliament, it is withdrawn the following year.
- 1776 : South Carolina becomes the first North American colony to declare its independence from the British motherland.
- 1781 : In the American War of Independence , the British commanded by Charles Cornwallis defeat the American army, twice its size, commanded by Nathanael Greene at the Battle of Guilford Court House , with great losses .
- 1804 : On the orders of Napoleon Bonaparte , the French Duke Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien from Ettenheim in Baden is kidnapped in a commando to France. To make an example of the Bourbons , the Duke was executed six days later after a show trial for alleged high treason .
- 1820 : Maine , formed after the Missouri Compromise through separation from the Massachusetts area , becomes the 23rd state of the USA .
- 1825 : Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (gymnastics father Jahn), imprisoned since July 1819 on the basis of the Carlsbad resolutions , is acquitted on the condition that he does not live in any university or high school town.
- 1848 : In the course of the March Revolution in the Austrian Empire , Emperor Ferdinand I promised the Austrians the lifting of press censorship and the adoption of a constitution.
- 1848 : The March Revolution in Austria also spreads to Hungary , where the struggle for freedom against Austrian rule begins with revolts of the common people .
- 1867 : Hungary receives its internal autonomy after the negotiated Austro-Hungarian settlement . Prime Minister Count Gyula Andrássy swears allegiance to Emperor Franz Joseph I. With this, the “dual monarchy” Austria-Hungary develops from the Austrian Empire .
- 1890 : On the initiative of Kaiser Wilhelm II , the 1st International Workers Protection Conference begins in Berlin under the direction of Hans Hermann von Berlepsch .
- 1916 : Austria-Hungary declares war on Portugal .
- 1917 : Under the pressure of the February Revolution , the Russian Tsar Nicholas II abdicates and hands over rule to his brother Mikhail Alexandrovich Romanov , who renounces the throne the next day.
- 1920 : The largest general strike to date takes place in the German Reich as a reaction to the Kapp Putsch . 12 million people respond to a call from various organizations and parties. The Ruhr uprising is breaking out in the west .
- 1922 : The Egyptian Sultan calls as Fu'ad I. the king of Egypt made. Because of four serious reservations about the granting of independence for the country on the Nile , a British protectorate has in fact continued to exist for some time.
- 1933 : In Vienna, after the alleged " self-elimination of parliament ", the Austrofascist federal government under Engelbert Dollfuss used police force to prevent the National Council from meeting. The Austrian republic ends up in the Austro-Fascist corporate state .
- 1933 : In Wuerttemberg is Gauleiter Wilhelm Murr for president elected.
- 1939 : Troops of the German Wehrmacht occupy the remaining parts of Bohemia and Moravia, which are declared the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia the next day . The Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- 1943 : The German Wehrmacht succeeds in retaking the city on the Eastern Front in the Battle of Kharkov .
- 1951 : The Federal Criminal Police Office is officially founded in Wiesbaden.
- 1958 : The Military History Institute of the GDR is founded.
- 1969 : After another incident on the common border river Ussuri , there is renewed fighting between Soviet and Chinese soldiers.
- 1991 : The two-plus-four treaty concluded on September 12, 1990 by the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany as well as France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the USA comes into force. This clears the way for the reunification of Germany .
- 1992 : The first members of the UNTAC mission of the United Nations arrive in Cambodia to temporarily take over the administration of the country.
- 1992 : United Nations peacekeeping forces ( UNPROFOR ) are stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the course of the Bosnian War .
- 1996 : In Sierra Leone , Ahmad Tejan Kabbah wins the first free presidential election after 23 years in the middle of the civil war in the second ballot with almost 60 percent of the vote.
- 1999 : The members of the European Commission headed by Commission President Jacques Santer resign after allegations of corruption against Commissioner Édith Cresson . Vice-President Manuel Marín is given the task of forming a new commission.
- 2006 : The UN General Assembly decided in the context of the reform of the United Nations at the initiative of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan with a large majority the establishment of the UN Human Rights Council , the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to replace.
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- 2009 : In the presidential elections in El Salvador , Mauricio Funes was the first candidate for the left-wing ex-guerrilla Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional ( FMLN ) to prevail against Rodrigo Ávila from the long-standing ruling party Alianza Republicana Nacionalista ( ARENA ).
- 2019 : At least 1.7 million schoolchildren worldwide stay away from class to demonstrate for better climate protection under the motto “ Fridays for Future ” .
economy
- 1867 : The postal order is introduced in Austria for payment transactions .
- 1892 : Jesse Reno receives the patent in the USA for his inclined conveyor belt, the predecessor of the escalator .
- 1906 : Business partners Henry Royce and Charles Rolls , who are determined to build automobiles, register their newly founded company Rolls-Royce Limited in Manchester .
- 1909 : Harry Gordon Selfridge opens his first Selfridges department store on Oxford Street, London .
- 1924 : The last paper marks with a face value of five billion marks are printed in Germany. After the currency reform of the same year, they correspond to five Rentenmarks .
- 1940 : The first edition of the weekly newspaper Das Reich appears, which by 1945 developed into one of the most widely read publications in Germany .
- 1951 : Under Prime Minister Hossein Ala , the Iranian parliament decides to nationalize the Anglo-Persian Oil Company .
- 1961 : Kassel is the first major German city to introduce parking with parking discs in the city center.
- 1965 : TGI Friday’s first restaurant opens in New York City.
- 1985 : The computer company Symbolics leaves with symbolics.com the first .com domain in the history of the Internet register .
- 1993 : Foron Hausgeräte GmbH goes into series production with the Greenfreeze , developed together with Greenpeace and Harry Rosin , the first CFC and HFC- free refrigerator .
- 1996 : The Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker files for bankruptcy . The German parent company Daimler-Benz separated from the company in January.
science and technology
- 1506 : Pope Julius II approves the establishment of the Viadrina University in Frankfurt an der Oder .
- 1781 : The French astronomer Pierre Méchain discovered the three spiral galaxies Messier 98 , Messier 99 and Messier 100 .
- 1827 : On the initiative of the Anglican Bishop of Toronto , John Strachan, the University of Toronto is founded under the name King's College at York .
- 1950 : The 1948 Copenhagen Wave Plan for the distribution of transmission frequencies for broadcasters in the long and medium wave range comes into force.
- 1952 : The largest amount of precipitation recorded in one day falls on the island of Réunion : 1870 mm.
- 2004 : The discovery of the asteroid Sedna , a trans-Neptunian object that may be a dwarf planet , made on November 14, 2003 by Michael E. Brown , Chad Trujillo and David Lincoln Rabinowitz , is announced.
Culture
- 1797 : At the Opéra-Comique in Paris which takes place premiere of the opera Ponce de Leon of Henri Montan Berton .
- 1843 : The opera Charles VI. by Jacques Fromental Halévy will be premiered in Paris.
- 1900 : About 150 German politicians, artists and scholars under the leadership of the writer Hermann Sudermann found the Goethe Bund . This is directed against the Lex Heinze , which censors the public representation of "immoral" acts in works of art, literature and theater performances .
- 1912 : The world premiere of the two-act opera Das Spielwerk und die Princess by Franz Schreker takes place at the Court Opera in Vienna.
- 1950 : The opera The Consul by Gian Carlo Menotti is premiered in Philadelphia , for which the composer later received the Pulitzer Prize in the music category .
- 1956 : The musical My Fair Lady by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, based on the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw , premieres at the Mark Hellinger Theater on Broadway in New York with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison in the lead roles . The piece was received with enthusiasm by the audience and subsequently brought it to 2,717 performances.
- 1972 : Francis Ford Coppola's feature film The Godfather based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo with Marlon Brando in the leading role and Al Pacino , James Caan , Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton in other roles has its world premiere in the USA.
- 1973 : With the premiere of the erotic strip Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose , the genre of Lederhosen films is established.
- 1978 : Janosch's illustrated children's book Oh, how beautiful is Panama appears. In 1979 the author received the German Youth Literature Prize for this .
religion
- 1000 : Emperor Otto III. establishes the Archdiocese of Gniezno and the Diocese of Breslau .
- 1513 : Since the March 11, the pope elected Leo X. While Cardinal , but no clergyman is carried before his coronation the priesthood .
- 1840 : Jakob Lorber says he hears a voice within himself that asks him to write. As God's clerk, the visionary transmits new revelations .
Disasters
- 2001 : At least ten people are killed in explosions on the Petrobras 36 drilling platform of the Brazilian company Petrobras off Brazil. The platform sinks in a row and leads to an oil slick , which, however, drifts out to sea.
- 2008 : A series of serious explosions occur in an Albanian army camp with old ammunition to be disposed of in the village of Gërdec . 26 people die, hundreds are injured. Several hundred buildings are completely destroyed, 1,500 buildings are damaged in a wide area.
- 2019 : In Christchurch , New Zealand , an Islamophobic assassin kills a total of 51 people while visiting two mosques.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1861 : The forerunner of the Norwegian Sports Federation , the Central Association for the Expansion of Physical Exercise and the Use of Arms , is founded.
- 1892 : After the football club Everton FC left the sports field on Anfield Road in Liverpool because of the massively increased rent, the lessor John Houlding founds Liverpool FC .
- 1909 : The first Six Days of cycling in Europe will take place in the Berlin exhibition halls at the zoo instead.
- 1936 : The Austrian Sepp "Bubi" Bradl succeed in the Slovenian Planica with a length of 101 m , the first jump of a man with skis over 100 m.
- 1995 : In basketball , Alba Berlin wins the Korać Cup, the first European club title for a German men's team.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1407 : Jacob I , Margrave of Baden
- 1455 : Pietro Accolti , Italian bishop in France and Italy, bishop of Ancona, archbishop of Ravenna, cardinal
- 1463 : Johannes Virdung , German astrologer and author
- 1493 : Anne de Montmorency , French military leader, pair, Marshal of France
- 1504 : Friedrich von Sachsen , Hereditary Prince of the Duchy of Saxony from the Albertine line of the Wettins
- 1513 : Hedwig Jagiellonica , Polish princess and Electress of Brandenburg
- 1516 : Alqas Mirza , Safavid prince
- 1611 : Jan Fyt , Flemish painter
- 1614 : Franciscus Sylvius , Hessian-Dutch doctor, anatomist and natural scientist
- 1637 : Johann Andreas Hochstetter , Lutheran theologian, professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
- 1638 : Shunzhi , Chinese Emperor (Qing Dynasty)
- 1660 : Olof Rudbeck the Younger , Swedish anatomist
- 1666 : George Bähr , German builder of the Baroque ( Frauenkirche in Dresden )
18th century
- 1713 : Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille , French astronomer
- 1737 : Amarindra , Queen of Thailand
- 1738 : Cesare Beccaria , Italian legal philosopher
- 1763 : Georg Ludwig Collins , German Protestant clergyman
- 1767 : Andrew Jackson , American general and politician, 7th President of the USA
- 1768 : Maria Anna Czartoryska , Polish writer
- 1773 : François René Gebauer , French composer and conductor
- 1779 : William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , British Home Secretary and Prime Minister
- 1790 : Nicola Vaccai , Italian composer
- 1792 : Virginie Ancelot , French writer and painter
- 1794 : Friedrich Christian Diez , German Romanist
- 1794 : Felician Martin von Zaremba , Russian diplomat, preacher and missionary
- 1796 : Carl Christian Ullmann , German Reformed mediation theologian
- 1800 : Hans Kaspar Grob , Swiss Protestant clergyman
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Coenraad J. van Houten , Dutch pharmacist and chemist
- 1806 : Amalie Baader , German writer and founder of the association
- 1809 : William Cannon , American politician
- 1809 : Joseph Jenkins Roberts , first President of Liberia
- 1809 : Karl Joseph von Hefele , German church historian and bishop
- 1810 : Jakob Becker , German painter, etcher and lithographer
- 1812 : James Hopkins Adams , American politician and governor of South Carolina
- 1816 : Wolfgang Müller von Königswinter , German poet and doctor
- 1817 : Franziska Möllinger , Swiss daguerreotypist
- 1821 : Josef Loschmidt , Austrian physicist and chemist
- 1821 : Rudolph Reichmann , German-American newspaper publisher
- 1824 : Jules Chevalier , French priest and author
- 1825 : Aníbal Pinto Garmendia , Chilean politician
- 1830 : Victor Chéri , French composer and conductor
- 1830 : Paul Heyse , German writer and Nobel Prize winner
- 1830 : Élisée Reclus , French geographer and anarchist
- 1831 : Harald Asplund , Swedish engineer
- 1831 : Daniele Comboni , Italian priest and founder of the order
- 1835 : Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer and Kapellmeister
- 1838 : Karl Juljewitsch Dawidow , Russian composer and conductor
- 1838 : Alice Fletcher , American ethnologist
- 1840 : Sophie Friederike Andreae , German writer
- 1841 : Friedrich Krafft von Crailsheim , Bavarian politician
- 1843 : Ernst Buss , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1845 : Chapman Levy Anderson , American politician
- 1848 : Franz Schauerte , German Roman Catholic priest and author
1851-1900
- 1854 : Emil von Behring , German bacteriologist and serologist, first Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine ( serum therapy against diphtheria )
- 1856 : Achille Locatelli , Italian priest, Vatican diplomat, cardinal
- 1857 : Ishbel Maria Hamilton-Gordon , Scottish social reformer and suffragette
- 1864 : Johan Halvorsen , Norwegian composer and conductor
- 1864 : Leslie Stuart , English composer
- 1868 : Lida Gustava Heymann , German-Swiss women's rights activist
- 1869 : John H. Bieling , American singer
- 1869 : Stanisław Wojciechowski , Polish President
- 1871 : Constantin Argetoianu , Romanian diplomat and politician
- 1875 : Henri Ghéon , French writer
- 1875 : Georg Graf , German orientalist
- 1876 : Kambara Ariake , Japanese writer
- 1877 : Malcolm Whitman , American tennis player
- 1878 : Reza Shah Pahlavi , Iranian general and politician, minister, prime minister and Shah of Persia
- 1879 : Marie Juchacz , German social reformer and women's rights activist
- 1880 : Pierre Maillon , French racing car driver
- 1880 : José da Costa Nunes , Portuguese priest and missionary, Archbishop of Goa in India and cardinal to the Curia
- 1882 : Gustav Havemann , German violinist
- 1882 : James Lightbody , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1884 : Céliny Chailley-Richez , French pianist and music teacher
- 1884 : Walter Layton, 1st Baron Layton , British newspaper publisher and economist
- 1885 : Sydney Chaplin , British actor, brother of Charlie Chaplin
- 1886 : Vladimir Andreyevich Faworsky , Russian artist
- 1887 : Hermann Schönleiter , German Böttcher, party secretary, member of the Hanover provincial parliament and resistance fighter against the National Socialists
- 1889 : Gerard Anderson , British hurdler
- 1889 : Hattie Carnegie , American jewelry and fashion designer
- 1890 : Ignacio Asúnsolo , Mexican sculptor
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- 1890 : Gertrud Kurz , founder and head of a Swiss refugee aid organization
- 1890 : Joseph Neuhäuser , German composer
- 1890 : Wilhelm Petersen , German composer
- 1891 : Ferruccio Ferrazzi , Italian painter and sculptor
- 1891 : Heinrich Ochsner , German philosopher and publisher's editor
- 1892 : Charles Nungesser , French fighter pilot in the First World War
- 1894 : Vilmos Aba-Novák , Hungarian painter
- 1895 : Albert Finck , German politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1896 : Carl Adloff , German table tennis official
- 1897 : Jackson Scholz , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1899 : Ernst Simon , Israeli religious philosopher, educator and historian
- 1900 : Gilberto Freyre , Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist
- 1900 : Charlotte Kramm , German actress
- 1900 : Colin McPhee , Canadian composer
- 1900 : Ernst Neufert , German architect, Bauhaus teacher, author of the building design theory
- 1900 : Wolfgang Schadewaldt , German classical philologist
- 1900 : Fritz Walter , German football official
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Erich Fiedler , German actor
- 1901 : Theo Uden Masman , Dutch pianist and journalist
- 1901 : Erwin Balzer , German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and bishop under National Socialism
- 1903 : Emmy Damerius-Koenen , German journalist and co-founder of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany ( DFD ) in the GDR
- 1904 : Brunolf Baade , German engineer and aircraft designer ( jet airliner 152 )
- 1904 : Fritz Berendsen , German officer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1904 : George Brent , American film actor
- 1905 : Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , German ancient historian
- 1905 : Berthold Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , German lawyer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1906 : Ferdinand Haberl , German Catholic theologian, composer, musicologist, organist and choir director
- 1906 : Leonid Fjodorowitsch Iljitschow , Soviet diplomat and politician
- 1906 : Henry Tröndle , German cyclist
- 1907 : Zarah Leander , Swedish actress and singer
- 1907 : Jimmy McPartland , American jazz cornetist
- 1908 : Teodoro Fuchs , Argentine conductor and music teacher
- 1908 : Thure von Uexküll , founder of psychosomatic medicine
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- 1910 : To Rutgers , Dutch writer
- 1911 : Wilhelm Mohnke , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS
- 1912 : Louis Paul Boon , Belgian-Flemish writer and journalist
- 1912 : Lightnin 'Hopkins , American country blues guitarist
- 1912 : Leopold Schmidt , Austrian folklorist, cultural scientist and narrative researcher
- 1913 : Jack Fairman , British racing driver
- 1913 : Franz Ronneberger , German communication scientist
- 1914 : Paul Arlt , American cartoonist and painter
- 1914 : Gil Elvgren , American pin-up and advertising artist
- 1915 : Khadr Sayed El Touni , Egyptian weightlifter
- 1915 : Heinrich List , German judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
- 1915 : Walter Peitgen , German local politician
- 1916 : Charley Brock , American football player
- 1916 : Gomikawa Jumpei , Japanese writer
- 1916 : Harry James , American musician
- 1916 : Blas de Otero , Spanish lyric poet
- 1917 : Elfie Mayerhofer , Austrian film actress and singer
- 1918 : Carol Adams , American dancer and actress
- 1919 : George Avakian , American music producer
- 1920 : Edward Donnall Thomas , American medic
- 1921 : Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann , German computer scientist in the GDR
- 1922 : Karl-Otto Apel , German philosopher
- 1922 : Horst Wendlandt , German film producer
- 1923 : Willy Semmelrogge , German actor
- 1924 : Aldo Andreotti , Italian mathematician
- 1924 : Bernhard von Arx , Swiss writer
- 1924 : Walter Gotell , German actor
- 1925 : Claus Weyrosta , German architect and politician, MdL
- 1925 : Werner Wolf , German musicologist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Henry Edmund Olufemi Adefope , Nigerian politician
- 1926 : Wilhelm Noll , German motorcycle racer
- 1927 : Al Herman , American Formula 1 racing driver
- 1927 : Carl Smith , American country singer
- 1927 : Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , German news anchor, TV journalist and presenter ( daily topics )
- 1927 : Rüdiger Klessmann , German art historian
- 1927 : Aaron Rosand , American violinist and music teacher
- 1928 : Manfred Bochmann , German politician and party functionary, Minister for Geology of the GDR
- 1930 : Shores Iwanowitsch Alfjorow , Russian physicist, electrical engineer and energy scientist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1930 : Alba Arnova , Italian ballerina and film actress
- 1930 : Andreas Okopenko , Austrian writer
- 1931 : Dominic Joseph Fontana , American musician
- 1931 : Bernhard Schrader , German chemist, pioneer of experimental molecular spectroscopy for chemical analysis
- 1932 : Alan LaVern Bean , American astronaut
- 1932 : Jerzy Hoffman , Polish film director
- 1933 : Philippe de Broca , French film director
- 1934 : Wolfgang Hufschmidt , German composer and church musician
- 1934 : Wolf Krisch , German politician and MdL
- 1935 : Daithí Mac Aindriú , Irish politician and minister
- 1935 : Doris Abeßer , German actress, radio play and voice actor
- 1936 : Francisco Ibáñez , Spanish comic artist
- 1937 : Niele Toroni , Swiss painter
- 1938 : Dieter Hömig , German judge at the Federal Administrative Court and the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1938 : Charles Lloyd , American free jazz pioneer
- 1938 : Jürgen Schweinbraden , German gallery owner and publicist
- 1940 : Hans Hirschmüller , German author, director and actor
- 1940 : Jacques Hustin , Belgian singer
- 1940 : Phil Lesh , American musician
- 1940 : Roland Schmider , German football official
- 1941 : Jean-Louis Lafosse , French racing car driver
- 1941 : Wilfried Hiller , German composer
- 1941 : Jürgen Knieper , German composer of film music
- 1941 : Mike Love , American singer
- 1942 : Hella Adam , German classical philologist
- 1942 : Klaus Buß , German politician, Member of the State Parliament and State Minister
- 1942 : Jacques Henry , French rally driver
- 1942 : Emöke Pöstenyi , Hungarian dancer and choreographer
- 1943 : David Cronenberg , Canadian director
- 1943 : Brenda Scott , American actress
- 1943 : Sly Stone , American funk rock singer
- 1943 : Frank Wiegand , German swimmer
- 1944 : Günther Bahr , Austrian radio presenter
- 1944 : Chi Cheng , Sino-Taiwanese athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1944 : Elmar Ferber , German filmmaker, author and publisher
- 1944 : Josef Joffe , German journalist, publicist, publisher and lecturer, editor-in-chief and co-editor ( Die Zeit )
- 1944 : Joachim Kühn , German jazz pianist
- 1944 : Klaus-Jürgen Melullis , German legal scholar and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1944 : Elisabeth Plessen , German writer and translator
- 1945 : Volker Kröning , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Senator, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : Walter Adams , German athlete
- 1947 : Rolf Ackermann , German football player
- 1947 : Jean Carn , American singer
- 1947 : Ry Cooder , American guitarist, composer and producer
- 1947 : Federico Peña , American politician, minister of transport and energy
- 1947 : Franz Schuh , Austrian writer and essayist
- 1948 : David Albahari , Yugoslav-Serbian writer
- 1948 : Sérgio Vieira de Mello , Brazilian UN Emergency Aid Coordinator, Special Envoy, High Commissioner for Human Rights
- 1948 : Gerhard Seyfried , German cartoonist and writer
- 1949 : Gholam Reza Aghazadeh , Iranian politician
- 1949 : Thomas Jordan , German athlete
- 1949 : Bernd Nickel , German football player
- 1950 : Kurt Koch , Swiss priest and theologian, Bishop of Basel and cardinal
- 1950 : Manfred Nelting , German doctor and writer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Margarete Jäger , German linguist
- 1951 : Jürgen Mlynek , German physicist, university president, president of the Helmholtz Association
- 1952 : Willy Puchner , Austrian artist
- 1953 : Kumba Ialá , President of Guinea-Bissau
- 1953 : Karl Heinrich Wüthrich , Swiss lawyer
- 1954 : Benjamin Bierman , American composer, music teacher, trumpeter and band leader
- 1954 : Massimo Bubola , Italian cantaurore and music producer
- 1954 : Werner Büttner , German painter
- 1954 : Walter Döring , German politician
- 1955 : Stéphane Clavier , French director
- 1955 : Yanji I , Japanese writer
- 1955 : Dee Snider , American singer
- 1955 : Reiner Witte , German lawyer and handball player
- 1956 : Kurt Drawert , German writer
- 1956 : Frank-Peter Hansen , German writer
- 1956 : Marcus Kuhl , German ice hockey player and manager
- 1956 : Marco Serafini , Luxembourg television director
- 1956 : Waltraud Wolff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1956 : Paramanga Ernest Yonli , Prime Minister of Burkina Faso
- 1957 : Joaquim de Almeida , Portuguese-American actor
- 1957 : Juan José Ibarretxe , Spanish politician
- 1957 : Kevin Tarte , American singer
- 1957 : Park Overall , American actress
- 1958 : Peter Hertel , German grandmaster in correspondence chess
- 1958 : Klaus-Armin Nave , German molecular and neurobiologist
- 1958 : Ralf Walter , German politician, MdB, MEP
- 1958 : Wolfgang Schuster , German local politician
- 1959 : Peter Ablinger , Austrian composer
- 1959 : Renny Harlin , Finnish film director and producer
- 1959 : Ben Okri , Nigerian writer
- 1960 : Ioan Andone , Romanian football player and coach
- 1960 : Bertram Jesdinsky , German painter and sculptor
- 1961 : Sabine Baeß , German figure skater
- 1961 : Piotr Grella-Możejko , Polish composer
- 1961 : Max Julen , Swiss ski racer, Olympic champion
- 1962 : Sananda Maitreya , American singer ( Terence Trent D'Arby )
- 1962 : Markus Merk , German dentist and soccer referee
- 1963 : Bret Michaels , American singer
- 1963 : Sergio Vargas , Dominican merengue singer
- 1964 : Fernando De Napoli , Italian football player
- 1964 : Rockwell , American R&B singer
- 1965 : Francisco Ribeiro , Portuguese musician
- 1966 : Johannes Steck , German actor and speaker of audio books
- 1967 : Julia Biedermann , German actress
- 1967 : Naoko Takeuchi , Japanese mangaka ( Sailor Moon )
- 1967 : Claudine Wilde , German actress
- 1968 : Sabrina Salerno , Italian disco singer
- 1968 : Jon Ryan Schaffer , American musician
- 1969 : Elvir Laković Laka , Bosnian musician
- 1970 : Jochen Drees , German soccer referee
- 1971 : Ralf Bißdorf , German foil fencer
- 1972 : Elio Aggiano , Italian racing cyclist
- 1972 : Mark Hoppus , American bassist and singer ( Blink 182 )
- 1972 : Holger Stromberg , German master chef, TV chef and author
- 1973 : Heiko Kleibrink , German dance athlete
- 1973 : Lee Jung-jae , South Korean actor
- 1974 : Anders Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1974 : Robert Fick , American baseball player
- 1975 : Eva Longoria , American actress
- 1975 : Vesselin Topalov , Bulgarian chess player
- 1975 : Darcy Tucker , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 : Will.i.am , American rapper
1976-2000
- 1976 : Claudia Uhle , German singer
- 1978 : Anna von Bayern , German journalist and author
- 1978 : Brahim Shirtani , Algerian football player
- 1979 : Celine Amaudruz , Swiss politician
- 1980 : Ola Afolabi , British boxer
- 1980 : Kang Ye-won , South Korean actress
- 1980 : Camilla Renschke , German actress
- 1981 : Gaby Ahrens , Namibian sports shooter
- 1981 : Young Buck , American rapper
- 1981 : Mikael Forssell , Finnish soccer player
- 1981 : Brice Guyart , French foil fencer
- 1981 : Tamás Hajnal , Hungarian football player
- 1981 : Judith Hoersch , German actress
- 1982 : Georg Huber , German author
- 1982 : Björn Wiegers , German handball player
- 1983 : Djelaludin Sharityar , Afghan-German soccer player
- 1984 : Yves Grafenhorst , German handball player
- 1984 : Olivier Jean , Canadian short tracker
- 1984 : Medhi Lacen , Algerian soccer player
- 1985 : Eva Amurri , American actress
- 1985 : Antti-Matias Antero Autti , Finnish snowboarder
- 1985 : Tom Chilton , British racing car driver
- 1985 : Kellan Lutz , American actor
- 1986 : Simone Aresti , Italian football goalkeeper
- 1986 : Jai Courtney , Australian actor
- 1987 : Juliane Höfler , German soccer player
- 1987 : Sameh Sidhom , Egyptian three-cushion player
- 1987 : Ivan Vargić , Croatian football goalkeeper
- 1988 : Alexander Sims , British racing driver
- 1989 : Nicole Schmidhofer , Austrian ski racer
- 1990 : Tavon Wesley Austin , American football player
- 1990 : Dragana Cvijić , Serbian handball player
- 1990 : Thomas Stielner , German actor
- 1991 : Emrecan Afacanoğlu , Turkish football player
- 1991 : Xavier Henry , Belgian basketball player
- 1991 : Kevin Müller , German soccer player
- 1993 : Paul Pogba , French football player
- 1994 : Nijel Amos , Botswana middle-distance runner
- 1996 : Lukas Hasler , Austrian concert organist
- 1997 : Franziska Gritsch , Austrian ski racer
- 1997 : Nima Mirkhoshhal , German pianist
- 1998 : Jana Feldkamp , German soccer player
- 1999 : Andreas Warmbrunn , German actor
Died
Before the 16th century
- 44 BC BC : Gaius Iulius Caesar , Roman statesman, proconsul and consul, dictator, general and author
- 220 : Cao Cao , Chinese warlord and politician
- 405 : Richū , Japanese emperor
- 433 : Odoacer , Rex Italiae
- 539 : Senka , Japanese emperor
- 752 : Zacharias , Pope
- 963 : Romanos II , Emperor of Byzantium
- 990 : Siegfried I , Count of Walbeck and in Möckerngau
- 1040 : Engelbert IV. , Count in the Norital and Pustertal
- 1087 : Richilde , Countess of Hainaut and Regent of Flanders
- 1088 : Bernhard von Konstanz , scholar and publicist
- 1112 : Lutold von Znaim , Duke of Moravia
- 1124 : Ernulf , Bishop of Rochester
- 1130 : Udo IV of Stade , Margrave of the Nordmark
- 1190 : Isabella of Hainaut , Queen of France
- 1206 : Muhammad von Ghur , ruler of the central Afghan Ghurid Empire
- 1207 : Alfonse de Portugal , Grand Master of the Order of St. John
- 1292 : Thomas II , Bishop of Breslau
- 1311 : Walter V , Count of Brienne, Lecce and Conversano and Duke of Athens
- 1331 : John of Cologne , master builder at Cologne Cathedral
- 1387 : Ludwig von Hanau , canon in the dioceses of Speyer and Würzburg
- 1392 : Eberhard II , Count of Württemberg
- 1416 : Jean de Valois, duc de Berry , Duke of Berry and Auvergne
- 1455 : Botho the Elder zu Stolberg , Count of Stolberg and Count of Wernigerode
- 1492 : Dietrich IV. Von Schönberg , Rector of the University of Leipzig and Bishop of Naumburg
- 1494 : Lambert Grimaldi , Lord of Monaco
16th and 17th centuries
- 1511 : Georg von Gemmingen , catholic priest, canon in Worms and Speyer, as well as vicar general of the prince-bishopric of Speyer
- 1535 : Heinrich III. Bockholt , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1536 : Makbul Ibrahim Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1581 : Luís de Ataíde , Portuguese nobleman and military man
- 1582 : Elisabeth of Hesse , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1587 : Caspar Olevian , German reformer
- 1595 : Vincenzo Gaggini , Sicilian sculptor
- 1606 : Balthasar von Dernbach , prince abbot of Fulda
- 1632 : Moritz von Hessen-Kassel , German prince
- 1644 : Luise Juliana von Oranien-Nassau , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1653 : Pietro Maino Maderno , Swiss sculptor, ennobled imperial court sculptor in Austria
- 1659 : Ádám Batthyány , Hungarian nobleman and general
- 1660 : Luise von Marillac , founder of the French order of the Vincentian Sisters
- 1662 : Andreas Kunad , German educator and Lutheran theologian
- 1665 : Christian Ludwig , Duke of Lüneburg
- 1673 : Salvator Rosa , Italian painter
- 1677 : Evaristo Baschenis , Italian painter
- 1691 : Anna Salome von Manderscheid-Blankenheim , abbess of Essen
18th century
- 1701 : Joachim von Ahlefeldt , bailiff and district administrator of Cismar
- 1701 : Jean Regnault de Segrais , French poet
- 1709 : James Thynne , English politician
- 1710 : Gottfried Hammerich , abbot of the Oberzell monastery
- 1713 : Philipp Müller , German Lutheran theologian
- 1716 : Franz Ferdinand von Rummel , Prince-Bishop of Vienna
- 1718 : Ferdinand von Fürstenberg , Colonel stable master of the Prince Diocese of Paderborn as well as hereditary rust of various offices in the Duchy of Westphalia
- 1723 : Johann Christian Günther , German poet
- 1750 : David Schatz , Saxon architect and court builder
- 1752 : Balthasar von Ahlefeldt , lord of the noble estates Lindau and Neudorf as well as lieutenant general and commander of Glückstadt
- 1774 : Johann Ernst Faber , German university professor
- 1789 : Johann Friedrich Rehkopf , German clergyman and university professor
- 1793 : Florian Reichssiegel , Austrian writer
19th century
- 1818 : Karel Postl , Bohemian vedute and landscape painter, draftsman and graphic artist of classicism
- 1820 : Klemens Maria Hofbauer , Austrian baker, priest, preacher and member of the Redemptorist Order , city patron of Vienna
- 1822 : Anton Adner , Bavarian peddler and at the age of 117 the oldest known Bavarian
- 1824 : Carl Poppo Fröbel , German teacher and printer
- 1842 : Luigi Cherubini , Italian composer
- 1846 : Elisabeth von Adlerflycht , German painter and inventor of the Rhine panorama ( relief panorama )
- 1853 : Giovanni Ricordi , Italian music publisher
- 1855 : Joseph von Laßberg , German Germanist and writer
- 1855 : Johann Jacob Wehrli , Swiss educator
- 1859 : Adelaide Tosi , Italian opera singer (* 1800 )
- 1862 : Henry Scheffer , French painter
- 1863 : Adolph von Wrede , German researcher on Arabia
- 1870 : Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz , German poet lawyer, wrote the lyrics for the Schleswig-Holstein song
- 1874 : Felician Martin von Zaremba , Russian diplomat, preacher and missionary
- 1880 : Johan Karel Jakob de Jonge , Dutch historian
- 1884 : Ernst Behm , German writer
- 1886 : George Michael Hahn , American politician, Governor of Louisiana, Member of the US House of Representatives
- 1891 : Josef Chmelíček , Czech Cistercian priest , theologian, organist and composer
- 1897 : James Joseph Sylvester , British mathematician
- 1898 : Henry Bessemer , British engineer and inventor
- 1900 : Elwin Bruno Christoffel , German mathematician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Gustav Radde , German geographer and naturalist
- 1911 : William D. Bloxham , American politician
- 1912 : Cesare Arzelà , Italian mathematician
- 1915 : Placidus Riccardi , Italian monk
- 1917 : Paul Puget , French composer
- 1917 : Kristofer Randers , Norwegian writer
- 1918 : José White Lafitte , Cuban violinist and composer
- 1920 : Rudolf Berthold , German fighter pilot in World War I, Free Corps Leader, participant in the Kapp Putsch
- 1920 : Edmund Reitter , German entomologist, writer and businessman
- 1921 : Talât Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, leader of the Young Turks
- 1926 : Sofie von Suppè , wife of Franz von Suppè and, as his estate administrator, museum founder and patroness.
- 1929 : Pinetop Smith , American jazz pianist
- 1933 : John Quincy Adams , Austrian painter
- 1936 : John Scott Haldane , British physiologist
- 1937 : HP Lovecraft , American writer
- 1938 : Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Soviet politician, economist, Marxist theorist and philosopher
- 1938 : Fayzulla Xoʻjayev , Uzbek politician
- 1940 : Christian Aigens , Danish artist
- 1940 : Robert Leffler , German singer, actor and director
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- 1941 : Alexej von Jawlensky , Russian-German expressionist painter in the area of the Blue Rider
- 1943 : Konrad Hahm , German folklorist
- 1943 : Karl Schönherr , Austrian playwright
- 1945 : Henry Victor , British-American actor
- 1950 : Josef Andre , German politician
- 1950 : Alice Blackwell , American journalist and suffragette
- 1950 : Luise Fleck , Austrian director
1951-2000
- 1952 : Wilhelm Burger , German priest and author, auxiliary bishop in Freiburg
- 1956 : Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg , Austrian politician
- 1958 : Kubo Sakae , Japanese playwright
- 1958 : Albert Steeger , German polymath
- 1959 : Lester Young , American tenor saxophonist
- 1961 : Akiba Rubinstein , Polish chess player
- 1962 : Arthur Holly Compton , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1962 : Mouloud Feraoun , Algerian writer
- 1962 : Franz Weselik , German soccer player
- 1963 : William Adams , English football player
- 1965 : Willard Motley , American writer
- 1966 : Grete Weiskopf , German children's book author
- 1967 : Manfred Aron , German-American industrialist
- 1968 : Khuang Aphaiwong , Thai Prime Minister
- 1970 : Arthur Adamov , French writer and playwright
- 1970 : Josef Martin Bauer , German writer
- 1970 : Tarjei Vesaas , Norwegian writer
- 1971 : Franz Felbringer , Austrian politician
- 1971 : Bum Krüger , German actor
- 1972 : Philipp Lersch , German psychologist
- 1974 : Paul Grupp , German cameraman
- 1975 : John H. Auer , American director and producer
- 1975 : Aristotle Onassis , Greek shipowner
- 1977 : Hubert Aquin , Canadian writer
- 1977 : Fritz Lamm , German socialist
- 1979 : Lucien N. Andriot , French cameraman
- 1979 : Sheila Henig , Canadian pianist and singer
- 1980 : Gerald Abrahams , British chess player, composer and author of mainly legal and chess-specific books
- 1981 : René Clair , French director
- 1981 : Horiguchi Daigaku , Japanese writer and translator
- 1983 : Rebecca West , British writer and journalist
- 1985 : Emmy Meyer-Laule , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1988 : Peter Lühr , German actor
- 1989 : Manlio Di Rosa , Italian fencer
- 1991 : Bud Freeman , American tenor saxophonist
- 1991 : Robert Hill , British biochemist
- 1993 : Ricardo Manuel Arias Espinoza , 29th President of Panama
- 1993 : Karl Mai , German soccer player
- 1994 : Jürgen von Manger , German actor, literary cabaret artist and comedian
- 1994 : Rino Tami , Swiss architect
- 1995 : Wolfgang Harich , German philosopher and journalist in the GDR
- 1996 : Wolfgang Koeppen , German writer ( Trilogy of Failure )
- 2000 : Idris Abdul Wakil , Tanzanian politician
21st century
- 2004 : Peter Basch , Austrian photographer
- 2004 : John Anthony Pople , British mathematician and chemist
- 2006 : Heinz Sarkowski , German book historian
- 2006 : Dick Wildung , American football player
- 2007 : Fleurette Beauchamp-Huppé , Canadian pianist, music teacher and singer
- 2007 : Karl Herbolzheimer , German handball goalkeeper
- 2009 : Richard Aoki , American civil rights activist
- 2009 : Edmund Hockridge , Canadian singer
- 2009 : Ron Silver , American actor
- 2011 : Nate Dogg , American R&B singer, musician and rapper
- 2011 : Yakov Kreizberg , American conductor
- 2013 : Anton Albertus Herman Kassenaar , Dutch biochemist
- 2012 : Lily Garáfulic , Chilean sculptor
- 2015 : Antonio Betancort , Spanish soccer player
- 2015 : Grzegorz Moryciński , Polish painter
- 2015 : Mike Porcaro , American bass player
- 2016 : Asa Briggs , British historian
- 2016 : Rolf-Gunter Dienst , German painter and publicist
- 2016 : Hans Krollmann , German lawyer and politician, MdL, State Minister
- 2017 : Imre Dimény , Hungarian agronomist and politician
- 2018 : Erwin C. Dietrich , Swiss filmmaker and actor
- 2018 : Franz Oberwinkler , German mycologist and botanist
- 2019 : Okwui Enwezor , Nigerian curator
- 2019 : WS Merwin , American writer and translator
- 2020 : Vittorio Gregotti , Italian architect
Celebration, memorial and action days
- Church memorial days
- St. Klemens Maria Hofbauer , Austrian preacher and patron saint (Catholic)
- Caspar Olevian , German theologian and reformer (Protestant)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Action days
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The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .