May 15
The May 15 is the 135th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 136th in leap years ), thus remain still 230 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 15 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 392 : The Roman Emperor Valentinian II is found hanged in his palace. It has not yet been clarified whether he was murdered at the instigation of the Franconian army master Arbogast or whether he committed suicide because of his de facto powerlessness.
- 756 : Abd ar-Rahman I prevails in a battle on the Guadalquivir during a campaign against his adversary Yusuf ibn Abd ar-Rahman al-Fihri , the governor of Al-Andalus in Spain . Soon after the success he established the emirate of Córdoba , the exiled empire of the Umayyads .
- 1403 : In the first battle of the Appenzell Wars , the Battle of Vögelinsegg , the Appenzell defeat the troops of the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen from Abbot Kuno von Stoffeln , whom they refuse to pay taxes.
- 1423 : Troops from the Swabian imperial cities and from Henriette von Württemberg conquer Hohenzollern Castle after several months of siege and destroy it completely. So that they carry out the imperial ban on the insolvent Zoller Count Friedrich XII.
- 1464 : At the Battle of Hexham , the ruling House of York prevailed with its armed forces against those of the House of Lancaster , thus causing the resistance of the rebels in the War of the Roses to weaken in the north of England .
- 1525 : Thomas Müntzer , a Protestant theologian and one of the leading figures in the German Peasants' War , is captured after the battle of Frankenhausen , which ends in the complete defeat of the peasants who were summoned by Müntzer, and beheaded on May 27th in Mühlhausen.
- 1536 : Anne Boleyn , second wife of King Henry VIII of England , is sentenced to death with her brother George for high treason and incest.
- 1567 : After the murder of her husband Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , Scotland's Queen Maria Stuart marries the recently divorced James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell , thus triggering a change of opinion to her disadvantage among the nobility.
- 1602 : An English expedition under Bartholomew Gosnold first sighted the Cape Cod peninsula off present-day Massachusetts and gave it this name under the impression of the huge swarm of cod off the coast.
- 1625 : The Bavarian governor in the land above the Enns , Adam von Herberstorff , lets 36 suspected ringleaders of an uprising that broke out a few days ago roll for their lives in pairs near Frankenburg and execute the defeated immediately. The " Frankenburger dice game " is the prelude to the Upper Austrian Peasants' War in the following year.
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- 1648 : The solemn evocation of the Peace of Münster as part of the Peace of Westphalia ends the Eighty Years War and seals the independence of the Netherlands .
- 1768 : The Treaty of Versailles changes the island of Corsica , which has belonged to the Republic of Genoa since 1284, to the suzerainty of France.
- 1796 : In the Treaty of Paris , the House of Savoy accepts the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy and the County of Nice by France during Napoleon's Italian campaign . The Duchy of Savoy leaves the first coalition war .
- 1800 : In London's Theater Royal Drury Lane perpetrated James Hadfield an assassination with a gun at the British king George III. The ruler remains unharmed, the assassin is arrested.
- 1820 : The discussions on the foundations of the German Confederation , which are summarized in the Vienna Final Act, end in Vienna . This comes into force on June 8th.
- 1851 : Mongkut (Rama IV.), Who lived as a wandering monk and abbot of the Thammayut order he founded during the reign of his predecessor , is solemnly crowned King of Siam under the name Phrabaht Somdet Phra Chom Klao Chaoyuhua .
- 1860 : In the battle of Calatafimi , Giuseppe Garibaldi's “red shirts” triumph over the army of the Kingdom of Naples during the procession of a thousand . The battle at Calatafimi Segesta in Sicily was of crucial importance for the unification of Italy .
- 1862 : In the first battle at Drewrys Bluff , during the Peninsular Campaign in the American Civil War , Confederate forces drive the Union's first two ironclad ships, the USS Monitor and USS Galena, from the James River .
- 1871 : The penal code of the German Empire is re-promulgated after some editorial changes. It comes into force on January 1, 1872. The German penal code is still based today on the principles of this code.
- 1882 : The May Laws in the Russian Empire restrict the freedom of movement of Jews in the country . Among other things, they are forbidden to settle outside of cities or to trade on Sundays and public holidays .
- 1886 : The colonial powers Portugal and France contractually regulate their course of ownership along the Portuguese Guineas and Cabindas .
- 1905 : 44½ hectares of land, divided into 1200 plots, are auctioned off to speculators and investors in the US state of Nevada in an open-air auction. This is considered to be the hour of birth of the city of Las Vegas .
- 1919 : Greek troops occupy Smyrna , today's İzmir, with which the military conflict over Asia Minor with Turkey begins.
- 1920 : The Constituent Assembly of the State of Lithuania , founded in 1918, meets for the first time in Kaunas and confirms the restoration of Lithuania's independence. The Provisional Legislative Assembly dissolves at the same time.
- 1926 : The May Coup in Poland ends after three days of fighting with the victory of the rebels led by Marshal Jozef Pilsudski against Prime Minister Wincenty Witos and justification of Sanacja -Regimes.
- 1932 : Incident on May 15 : In Tokyo, Japan's Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi is shot dead by eleven young naval officers in a revolt.
- 1934 : In a coup , Latvia's Prime Minister Kārlis Ulmanis dissolves the Saeima parliament and establishes another authoritarian regime in Europe.
- 1943 : On the initiative of Josef Stalin , the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) resolves to dissolve it on June 10, a development that comes as a complete surprise even for Comintern functionaries.
- 1945 : The two-day Battle of Prevalje , the last military conflict of the Second World War on European soil, ends in Slovenia .
- 1946 : In order to take the wind out of the sails of separatist tendencies in Sicily , King Umberto II signs a special statute with which the island becomes an autonomous region within Italy .
- 1948 : Israel , founded the day before the failure of the UN partition plan for Palestine , is recognized by the USA, the Soviet Union and the United Nations, while the Arab-Israeli attack by the armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq War begins.
- 1955 : With the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in Vienna's Belvedere Palace , Austria regains its sovereignty and undertakes to remain neutral .
- 1957 : Before belonging to the Kiribati atoll islands Malden and Kiritimati UK leads with the operation Grapple the first ignition of a hydrogen bomb by.
- 1972 : The USA returns the Ryūkyū and Daitō Islands ( Okinawa Prefecture ) to Japan after almost 30 years of occupation , but still maintains 14 military bases on the island of Okinawa, which take up almost a fifth of the area.
- 1974 : In the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot , members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack a school and take those present hostage. The liberation operation by the special unit Sajeret Matkal of the Aman Army Intelligence Service fails, 21 school children are killed. The new appearance of the suicide bombing leads to a revision of previous tactics in the fight against terrorism and negotiation of hostage-taking.
- 1974 : In the federal presidential election , Walter Scheel is elected German federal president by the FDP with 530 votes . His opponent Richard von Weizsäcker from the CDU received 498 votes.
- 1975 : Three days after the capture of the SS Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand by the Khmer Rouge , troops of the United States Marine Corps recapture the US container ship. At the same time they are flying air strikes against Cambodia .
- 1988 : The Red Army of the Soviet Union begins - in accordance with the Geneva Afghanistan Agreement - with the withdrawal from Afghanistan after the end of the Soviet-Afghan war .
- 1991 : In France President appoints François Mitterrand with Edith Cresson first woman to Prime Minister . She will remain in office for less than 11 months.
- 1997 : The German Bundestag resolves the legal equality of marital and extramarital rape , making marital rape punishable under Section 177 of the Criminal Code.
economy
- 1718 : The London attorney James Puckle receives a patent on the machine gun he invented . There is little interest in the puckle gun .
- 1878 : The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded. Trading starts on June 1st. The Tokyo Stock Exchange is now the only stock exchange in Japan and the second largest in the world.
- 1911 : The Supreme Court of the United States is at the request of the government of Theodore Roosevelt that the company Standard Oil of John D. Rockefeller against the Sherman Antitrust Act in violation, and orders the destruction of the company's.
- 1914 : The big Cologne Werkbund exhibition opens. A performance exhibition on contemporary design will take place on the newly created exhibition grounds across from Cologne's old town .
- 1925 : The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft is founded in Berlin as the umbrella organization for the regional broadcasting companies. It exists until 1945.
- 1928 : The luxury train Rheingold runs along the Rhine for the first time on the Hoek van Holland - Basel route .
- 1935 : The first section of the Moscow Metro opens between the Sokolniki and Park Kultury stations . Around 500 industrial companies were involved in the construction of the subway .
- 1940 : The US chemical company DuPont starts selling the nylon stockings developed by research director Wallace Hume Carothers in selected stores throughout the USA on so-called N-Day .
- 1940 : The first McDonald’s restaurant is opened by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino , California.
- 1997 : Taiwanese telecommunications company HTC Corporation is founded.
science and technology
- 1355 : Emperor Charles IV. Confirms the status of the University of the Pope on September 8, 1308 Clement V founded University of Perugia .
- 1618 : Johannes Kepler discovers the third of the laws of planetary motion named after him . According to this, the ratio of the third power of the semi-major axis of the orbital ellipse of a planet , d , to the square of its orbital period is always invariable: d 3 ⁄ T 2 is the same for all planets.
- 1836 : The English astronomer Francis Baily observes from Roxburghshire for the first time the pearl-string phenomenon caused by the unevenness of the moon's surface during a solar eclipse . Shortly before and after the totality, the sun shines through the valleys between the mountains of the moon, whereby “pearls of light” become visible shortly before and after the total phase.
- 1890 : Electricity works in Reichenhall , operated with hydropower , are the first AC power plant in Germany to go into operation.
- 1958 : The Soviet Union sends Sputnik 3 into orbit for scientific purposes . The capsule is a replacement satellite after a false start on February 3rd.
- 1960 : Sputnik 4 is launched as a prototype for the Vostok spaceship , with which people are supposed to fly into space for the first time .
- 1963 : The launch of the Faith 7 spacecraft as part of the Mercury-Atlas 9 space mission with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board ends the NASA - Mercury program . Cooper was the first to “sleep” in weightlessness.
- 1982 : The German Museum of Technology Berlin , the successor institution of over 100 relevant collections, is founded under the name Museum für Verkehr und Technik . It opens in 1983.
Culture
- 1501 : The printer and publisher Ottaviano dei Petrucci gives book printing in Venice a new impetus: With the Harmonices Musices Odhecaton A, he prints the first collection of music .
- 1804 : The Singspiel Fanchon, the Leyer Girl by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel has its world premiere at the Berlin Court Opera .
- 1846 : The premiere of the opera Le Trompette de M. le Prince by François Bazin takes place at the Paris Opéra-Comique .
- 1858 : With the opera Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer , the Royal Italian Opera opens in its present form in London's Covent Garden after it burned down on March 5, 1856.
- 1863 : The exhibition of the on the initiative of Emperor Napoleon III. The resulting Salon des Refusés is opened. Images rejected by the jury of the Salon de Paris can be seen there, including The Breakfast in the Green by the painter Édouard Manet and The Girl in White by James McNeill Whistler , which the public perceived as scandalous.
- 1890 : Opening of the Volksgarten Nymphenburg , the largest amusement park in Germany at the time.
- 1914 : The opera Mârouf, savetier du Caire by Henri Rabaud is premiered at the Paris Opéra-Comique .
- 1920 : Igor Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella is performed at the Paris Opera; The costumes and sets were designed by Pablo Picasso .
- 1928 : Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse first appear in the film Plane Crazy by Walt Disney .
- 1929 : The premiere of the opera Persée et Andromède ou Le Plus Heureux des trios by Jacques Ibert takes place at the Paris Opera .
- 1969 : The opera The Fairy Tale of the Beautiful Lily by Giselher Klebe is premiered at the Schwetzingen Festival .
- 1975 : The first performance of the comic opera Puss in Boots or How to Play the Game by Günter Bialas takes place at the Schwetzingen Festival.
- 1990 : At a Christie’s auction, a Japanese art lover buys the portrait of Dr. Gachet by Vincent van Gogh for the record price of 82.5 million dollars.
religion
- 719 : Pope Gregory II entrusts priest Wynfreth with Christian missionary work in Germania to "make the secret of faith known to unbelieving peoples". Under the name Bonifatius given to him by the Pope, he then went to the Frisians .
- 1252 : In the decretal Ad extirpanda , Pope Innocent IV allows torture as an instrument for establishing the truth. His certificate becomes the starting point for the Inquisition .
- 1548 : Emperor Charles V submits the Augsburg Interim to the Reichstag in Augsburg for a vote. This ordinance, with which he wants to enforce his religious-political goals in the Holy Roman Empire after the victory over the Schmalkaldic League , also contains the approval of priestly marriage and the lay chalice .
- 1891 : Pope Leo XIII. publishes Rerum Novarum , which is considered the first explicit social encyclical . In it he tries to show a "third way" apart from liberalism and socialism .
- 1931 : Pope Pius XI. publishes the social encyclical Quadragesimo anno, largely prepared by Jesuits around Gustav Gundlach and the "Königswinterer Kreis" on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the social encyclical Rerum Novarum.
- 1961 : Pope John XXIII. publishes the social encyclical Mater et magistra . The circular, which unmistakably advocates the co-determination of workers, declares that workers have the right to actively participate in the company that employs them and thus opens up Catholic social teaching to the social reality of working life.
- 2005 : Wilhelm Leber succeeds Richard Fehr as Chief Apostle in the New Apostolic Church . The divine service from the Fellbach congregation near Stuttgart is broadcast to almost 1.5 million New Apostolic Christians worldwide.
Disasters
- 1904 : The protected cruiser Yoshino sinks east of Lüda after the collision with the armored cruiser Kasuga (both Japan) . Of the 338-strong crew, 319 are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1910 : The soccer department of Hamburg-St. Pauli Turnverein 1862 is officially re-established under the name FC St. Pauli . It was not until 1924, however, that the club was entered in the register of associations as an independent club in the course of the clean separation between gymnastics and football clubs .
- 1926 : The New York Rangers ice hockey club is founded in New York .
- 1929 : The English national football team , until then undefeated by teams outside Great Britain, loses an international match for the first time . Spain kept the upper hand in Madrid with 4: 3 goals.
- 1955 : The French Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy succeed in the first ascent of Makalu in the Himalayas , the fifth highest mountain in the world. Your route leads over the Makalu La and is now known as the "French route".
- 1980 : The German National Olympic Committee (NOK) decides on the recommendation of the Federal Government with 59:40 votes to boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow .
- 1980 : With a racing event, in which, among other touring car - and Ford Formula competing vehicles in is Geesthacht the Heidbergring opened. With a length of only 852 m, the facility is still Germany's smallest permanent race track .
- 1996 : FC Bayern Munich beat Girondins Bordeaux 3-1 in the second leg of the 1995/96 UEFA Cup final in Bordeaux after a 2-0 win in the home game on May 1st. This is the only time Bayern have won the UEFA Cup so far .
- 2002 : Bayer 04 Leverkusen lost the 2001/02 UEFA Champions League final at Glasgow's Hampden Park to Real Madrid 2-1.
- 2004 : The FIFA awards the FIFA World Cup of the year 2010 in South Africa .
- 2012 : In the Düsseldorf Merkur Gaming Arena which finds leg of their relegation to the German Bundesliga between Fortuna Dusseldorf and Hertha BSC instead. With a 2-2 draw after a 2-1 win in the first leg, Fortuna Düsseldorf is promoted to the Bundesliga and Hertha BSC is relegated to the second division. Various incidents in the course of and after the game lead to several interruptions and subsequent criminal investigations.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 647 : al-ʿAbbās ibn ʿAlī , Shiite martyr
- 1299 : Henry the Meek , Duke of Austria
- 1337 : Chungmok Wang , 29th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1397 : Sejong , King of the Korean Joseon Dynasty
- 1450 : Cimburga von Baden , Margravine of Baden
- 1459 : Johann I , Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern
- 1463 : Margarethe von Hanau-Lichtenberg , German noblewoman, Countess of Nassau-Wiesbaden
- 1531 : Maria of Austria , Duchess of Jülich, Kleve and Berg
- 1565 : Hendrick de Keyser , Dutch architect and sculptor
- 1565 : Friedrich Taubmann , German philologist and Latin poet
- 1567 : Claudio Monteverdi , Italian composer
- 1594 : Sophie von Solms-Laubach , Margravine and Regent of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- 1626 : Dominique Bouhours , French Jesuit priest, philologist, historian and writer
- 1628 : Carlo Cignani , Italian painter
- 1632 : Adolf Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Eisenach
- 1637 : Valentin Heins , German arithmetic master
- 1645 : George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys , English Lord Chancellor and Lord Chief Justice in England and Wales
- 1659 : Hans Karl von Königsmarck , German-Swedish officer, Knight of Malta and adventurer
- 1665 : Gundacker von Althan , Austrian general, diplomat and court building director
- 1665 : Georg Sandrart , German merchant and tobacco dealer in Magdeburg
- 1677 : Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus , German poet and lawyer
- 1689 : Gebhard Christian Bastineller , German legal scholar
18th century
- 1720 : Maximilian Hell , Austrian Jesuit and astronomer
- 1721 : Dmitri Michailowitsch Golitsyn , Russian diplomat, military and art patron
- 1740 : Johann Georg Heinrich Feder , German philosopher
- 1743 : Christoph Bernhard Verspoell , Catholic priest, publicist and hymn poet
- 1746 : Claus Frimann , Norwegian pastor and poet
- 1749 : Levi Lincoln , American lawyer and politician, governor of Massachusetts and attorney general of the United States
- 1753 : Christian Friedrich Krüger , German Minister of State
- 1756 : Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn , German educator, philologist and Protestant theologian
- 1757 : John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore , British general
- 1759 : Maria Theresia von Paradis , Austrian pianist, singer, composer and music teacher
- 1761 : André Galle , French medalist
- 1763 : Franz Danzi , German composer, conductor and cellist
- 1773 : Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich , Austrian statesman
- 1774 : Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs , German chemist and mineralogist
- 1777 : Johann Ernst Carl Friedrich Avenarius , Prussian district administrator
- 1777 : Johann Christoph Hasse , German pharmacist
- 1779 : Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Weise , German civil servant and politician
- 1780 : Hartwig von Hundt-Radowsky , German author and pioneer of partially eliminatory anti-Semitism
- 1780 : Karl Christoph Gottlieb Zerrenner , German preacher and school director
- 1781 : Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Wardenburg , Major General in Oldenburg
- 1782 : Christoph Bernoulli , Swiss natural scientist and economist
- 1788 : Neil Arnott , Scottish physician
- 1788 : Louis von Heßberg , German officer and religious zealot
- 1791 : Floris Adriaan van Hall , Dutch statesman
- 1792 : Jakob Rothschild , banker and member of the Rothschild family
- 1795 : Adolph Bernhard Marx , German composer and musicologist
- 1799 : Hermann Wilhelm Bödeker , Protestant pastor
- 1800 : Joseph-Frédéric Debacq , French architect
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Joseph Ludwig Raabe , Swiss mathematician
- 1808 : Michael William Balfe , Irish composer, violinist, singer and conductor
- 1809 : Gottschalk Eduard Guhrauer , German literary historian
- 1813 : Franz Napoleon Heigel , French-German painter
- 1813 : Stephen Heller , Hungarian pianist and composer
- 1816 : Alfred Rethel , German history painter
- 1818 : Bogumil Dawison , Polish-German actor
- 1819 : Nicola De Giosa , Italian composer and conductor
- 1821 : Ludwig Knoop , German entrepreneur
- 1821 : Félix Joseph Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers , French physiologist and zoologist
- 1822 : Leopold Kompert , Bohemian writer
- 1826 : Henri Mouhot , French naturalist and explorer
- 1827 : Knud Bergslien , Norwegian painter
- 1828 : Hélène de Gingins , Swiss salonière and women's rights activist
- 1830 : Laurence Simmons Baker , Confederate General
- 1835 : Émile Léonard Mathieu , French mathematician
- 1835 : Heino Schmieden , German architect
- 1838 : Nicolae Grigorescu , Romanian painter
- 1841 : James Henderson Berry , American politician
- 1842 : Ludwig Viktor of Austria , Austrian Archduke
- 1845 : Julio Ituarte , Mexican composer
- 1845 : Ilja Iljitsch Metschnikow , Ukrainian zoologist, anatomist and bacteriologist
- 1848 : Carl Wernicke , German psychiatrist
1851-1900
- 1851 : William Mitchell Ramsay , Scottish ancient historian and archaeologist
- 1855 : Louis Hagen , German banker
- 1855 : Leopold von Kalckreuth , German painter and graphic artist
- 1856 : Lyman Frank Baum , American writer (The Wizard of Oz)
- 1857 : Williamina Fleming , American astronomer
- 1859 : Pierre Curie , French physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1860 : Ernst Wasserzieher , German etymologist
- 1861 : Augustin Savard , French composer and music teacher
- 1862 : Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian storyteller and playwright
- 1863 : Frank Hornby , British inventor, businessman and politician
- 1864 : Vilhelm Hammershøi , Danish painter
- 1865 : Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin , Prussian senior president and German lawyer
- 1866 : Reinhard Süring , German meteorologist
- 1867 : Fredrik Hjalmar Johansen , Norwegian polar explorer
- 1868 : Karl Lautenschlager , honorary citizen and Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- 1870 : Thomas Eßer , German politician
- 1873 : Pavlo Skoropadskyj , Ukrainian politician
- 1873 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Tscherepnin , Russian composer
- 1874 : Adolf Baumbach , German legal scholar
- 1874 : Richard Schirrmann , founder of the German Youth Hostel Association
- 1875 : Otto Vesper , German politician
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- 1879 : Gustaf Aulén , Swedish theologian and bishop
- 1879 : Paul Wachtsmuth , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
- 1880 : Otto Dibelius , Protestant bishop in Berlin-Brandenburg
- 1880 : Joseph Wackerle , German sculptor
- 1881 : Wilhelm Klemm , German poet
- 1881 : Hugo Zuckermann , German writer and Zionist
- 1883 : Maurice Feltin , Archbishop of Paris and Cardinal
- 1883 : Bolesław Fotygo-Folański , Polish actor, opera singer and director
- 1884 : Max Taut , German architect
- 1885 : Theodor Goerlitz , German local politician and historian
- 1889 : Dirk Agena , German lawyer, farmer and politician
- 1890 : Rudolf Kopf , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1890 : Kârale Andreassen , Greenland artist and catechist
- 1891 : Mikhail Afanassjewitsch Bulgakow , Russian writer
- 1891 : Jella Lepman , German writer
- 1891 : Edmund Trinkl , senior Gestapo employee
- 1892 : Charles E. Rosendahl , American Vice Admiral
- 1894 : José Cubiles , Spanish pianist and music teacher
- 1894 : Peter Martin Lampel , German writer
- 1894 : Marion Sunshine , American actress, songwriter and composer
- 1894 : Feliks Wrobel , Polish composer
- 1895 : Prescott Bush , Senator from Connecticut
- 1897 : Josef Hendel , German painter
- 1897 : George Perlman , American violinist, composer and music teacher
- 1897 : Rudolf Schwarz , German architect
- 1898 : Arletty , French actress
- 1898 : Richard W. Leche , American politician
- 1900 : Isidro Benítez , Cuban musician, conductor and composer
- 1900 : Zheng Ji , Chinese biochemist and nutritionist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Dorothy Hansine Andersen , American pediatrician and pathologist
- 1901 : Kurt Meister , German actor, director, author and radio play speaker
- 1901 : Luis Monti , Argentine-Italian football player
- 1902 : Anny Ondra , German-Czech actress, wife of Max Schmeling
- 1903 : Jean Cavaillès , French philosopher, member of the Resistance
- 1903 : Maria Reiche , German researcher
- 1904 : Emmi Haux , German athlete
- 1904 : Georg Knöpfle , German soccer player and coach
- 1904 : Merle Montgomery , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1905 : Joseph Cotten , American actor
- 1905 : Abraham Zapruder , American textile manufacturer
- 1906 : Humberto Delgado , Portuguese general and politician
- 1907 : Sigurd Rascher , German saxophonist
- 1907 : Ruth Werner , Soviet spy
- 1908 : Erich Bielka , Austrian diplomat
- 1908 : Emil Joseph Diemer , German chess player
- 1908 : Joe Grant , American comic book writer
- 1908 : Albert Heinrich Kniest , German composer of chess problems
- 1908 : Lars-Erik Larsson , Swedish composer
- 1909 : Cale Boggs , American politician
- 1909 : James Mason , British actor
- 1910 : Otto Ambros , Austrian actor and director
- 1910 : Johann Baptist Auer , German theologian
- 1910 : Wolfgang Becker , German film director
- 1910 : David Bodian , American medic
- 1910 : Constance Cummings , American-British actress
- 1910 : Theodor Förster , German physical chemist
- 1910 : Hans Kilb , German lawyer
- 1911 : Max Frisch , Swiss architect and writer
- 1911 : Leo Fuchs , Polish-American Yiddish actor, comedian, singer, and dancer
- 1911 : Herta Oberheuser , German doctor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, war criminal
- 1912 : Arthur Victor Berger , American composer, music teacher and critic
- 1912 : Max Kämpf , Swiss painter and draftsman
- 1913 : Heinz Haber , German astrophysicist
- 1913 : Herbert Stockmann , German painter and graphic artist
- 1913 : André De Toth , American film director
- 1914 : Turk Broda , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1914 : Manuel Saber Marroquín , Mexican pianist and composer
- 1915 : Paul A. Samuelson , American economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1916 : Ephraim Katzir , Israeli biophysicist and politician
- 1918 : Eddy Arnold , American singer
- 1918 : John Siegal , American football player
- 1919 : Eckhard Reith , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1920 : Michel Audiard , French screenwriter and director
- 1920 : Carlo Còccioli , Italian writer
- 1920 : Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , Patriarch of the Maronites of Lebanon and Cardinal
- 1921 : Čestmír Vycpálek , Czech football player and coach
- 1922 : Peter Brückner , German social psychologist
- 1923 : Richard Avedon , American photographer
- 1923 : Johanne Autenrieth , German palaeographer and Middle Latin philologist
- 1923 : Adolf Grünbaum , American philosopher and science theorist
- 1923 : Reinhard Raffalt , German writer and journalist
- 1924 : Chargesheimer , German photographer
- 1925 : Andrei Jakowlewitsch Eschpai , Russian composer
- 1925 : Hans Herbert Jöris , German conductor and university professor
- 1925 : Ralph Eugene Meatyard , American photographer
- 1925 : Klaus Meyer-Gasters , German watercolor artist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Richard Hey , German writer
- 1926 : Inoue Mitsuharu , Japanese writer
- 1926 : Clermont Pépin , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1926 : Hans Jürgen Press , German writer and draftsman
- 1926 : Anthony Shaffer , British screenwriter
- 1926 : Peter Shaffer , British playwright
- 1927 : Freddy Rousselle , Belgian racing car driver
- 1928 : Walter Dostal , Austrian ethnologist
- 1928 : Raymond Federman , American writer
- 1929 : Andrew Bertie , British nobleman and Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- 1929 : Peter Broeker , Canadian racing car driver
- 1929 : Dieter Schubert , German writer
- 1930 : Albert Wassiljewitsch Akatow , Soviet rear admiral
- 1930 : Irma Münch , German theater and film actress
- 1930 : Grace Ogot , Kenyan writer and diplomat
- 1930 : Jasper Johns , American artist
- 1931 : Georg Grammer , German entrepreneur
- 1931 : Hellmuth Matiasek , Austrian theater director
- 1931 : Claus Roxin , German criminal law scholar
- 1932 : Nasir Ahmad , Pakistani hockey player
- 1932 : Chavalit Yongchaiyudh , Thai politician
- 1933 : Marianne Hold , German actress
- 1933 : Jūzō Itami , Japanese actor and film director
- 1933 : Ronald Roseman , American oboist, music teacher and composer
- 1935 : Barry Crump , New Zealand writer
- 1935 : Karin Krog , Norwegian jazz singer
- 1935 : René Regenass , Swiss writer
- 1936 : Jean Balissat , Swiss composer and professor
- 1936 : Wally Deane , American rockabilly musician
- 1936 : Wavy Gravy , American hippie, activist, clown, and author
- 1936 : Ralph Steadman , British author, illustrator, cartoonist and caricaturist
- 1937 : Madeleine Albright , US politician, first US Secretary of State
- 1937 : Trini Lopez , American singer
- 1937 : Radoslav Zapletal , Czech violinist and composer
- 1938 : Mireille Darc , French actress
- 1939 : Wataru Asō , Japanese governor
- 1939 : Stanisław Dróżdż , Polish poet
- 1940 : Roger Ailes , American television producer
- 1940 : Carlos Bielicki , Argentine chess master
- 1940 : Yoshimi Katayama , Japanese motorcycle and car racer
- 1940 : Álvaro Mejía , Colombian athlete
- 1940 : Claus Spahn , German author and television editor
- 1941 : Jürgen Gosch , German innkeeper, fishmonger and entrepreneur
- 1941 : Wolfgang Schmidbauer , German psychoanalyst and book author
- 1941 : Hans Weber , German motor sportsman
- 1942 : Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini , Eswatin politician
- 1942 : Dieter Kurrat , German football player
- 1942 : Jürgen Poeschel , German politician
- 1943 : Dieter Spöri , German politician
- 1944 : Ulrich Beck , German sociologist
- 1945 : Jacques Guillot , French racing car driver
- 1945 : Lee Jang-ho , South Korean film director
- 1946 : Hellmuth Eichner , German painter and sculptor
- 1946 : Reggie Jackson , American baseball player
- 1946 : Klaus-Peter Siegloch , German journalist and moderator
- 1946 : L. Neil Smith , American science fiction writer and critic of globalization
- 1947 : Paulo de Carvalho , Portuguese singer
- 1947 : Wolfgang Gunkel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1947 : Dirk Jasper , German publicist, non-fiction author and multimedia producer
- 1948 : Yaakov Amidror , Israeli major general
- 1948 : Brian Eno , British musician
- 1948 : Peter Hussing , German heavyweight boxer
- 1948 : Irmingard Schewe-Gerigk , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948 : Teflon Fonfara , German artist and musician
- 1949 : Douglas Raymond Acomb , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1949 : Hajo Banzhaf , German author, astrologer and tarot expert
- 1949 : Rüdiger Lainer , Austrian architect and town planner
- 1950 : Ernst Paul Dörfler , German author and environmentalist of the GDR
- 1950 : Bernd Schröder , German politician
1951-1975
- 1951 : Beatrix Schuba , Austrian figure skater
- 1951 : Frank Wilczek , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1952 : Herbert Marxer , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1952 : Chazz Palminteri , American actor and writer
- 1952 : Peter Strieder , German politician
- 1953 : Cleavant Derricks , American actor
- 1953 : Jacques Cornu , Swiss motorcycle road racer
- 1953 : Mike Oldfield , British musician
- 1953 : Franco Selvaggi , Italian football player
- 1954 : Janusz Stokłosa , Polish pianist and composer
- 1954 : Siegfried Tittmann , German politician, MdL
- 1955 : Alexander Pusch , German sword fencer
- 1955 : Claudia Roth , German politician, MEP, Member of the Bundestag, federal chairwoman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
- 1956 : Adílio de Oliveira Gonçalves , Brazilian soccer player
- 1957 : Jürgen Kucharczyk , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1958 : Carl Andersen , Austrian film critic and director
- 1958 : Regina van Dinther , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, President of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1959 : Andrew Eldritch , British singer and producer
- 1959 : Ronald Pofalla , German politician
- 1959 : Thomas Springel , German handball player
- 1959 : Maurizio Angeloni , Italian director
- 1960 : Rob S. Bowman , American director and film producer
- 1961 : Katrin Cartlidge , British actress
- 1961 : Olga Krivoschejewa , Russian volleyball player
- 1961 : Melle Mel , American hip hop musician
- 1962 : Helmut Diese , German Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop of Trier, bishop of Aachen
- 1962 : Rod Lurie , American director
- 1963 : Brenda Bakke , American actress
- 1963 : Jamie Harris , British actor
- 1963 : Grant Heslov , actor, director, screenwriter
- 1963 : Stefan von Holtzbrinck , German publisher
- 1963 : Markus Pieper , German politician, MEP
- 1963 : Simone Tolle , German politician
- 1964 : Michael Lentz , German writer, sound poet and musician
- 1965 : George Fouché , South African racing car driver
- 1965 : Joachim Gehrmann , German soccer player
- 1965 : Carlos Castaño Gil , Colombian paramilitary
- 1965 : Irina Vladimirovna Kirillova , Russian volleyball player
- 1965 : Sabine Küchler , German writer
- 1965 : Axel Miesner , German politician, MdL
- 1965 : Tetsuya Okabe , Japanese skier
- 1965 : Johann Pock , Austrian theologian
- 1965 : Raí , Brazilian soccer player
- 1965 : Martin Sonneborn , German satirist, journalist and politician, MEP
- 1966 : Greg Wise , British actor
- 1967 : Simen Agdestein , Norwegian chess grandmaster
- 1967 : Andreas Czerney , German oratorio singer (bass baritone)
- 1967 : Madhuri Dixit , Indian film actress
- 1967 : Andrea Jürgens , German pop singer
- 1967 : John Smoltz , American baseball player
- 1968 : Kotonowaka Terumasa , Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1969 : Michael Gudo , German biologist and philosopher
- 1969 : Jesper Nielsen , Danish entrepreneur
- 1969 : Emmitt Smith , American football player
- 1970 : Frank de Boer , Dutch football player
- 1970 : Ronald de Boer , Dutch football player
- 1970 : Judith Hermann , German writer
- 1971 : Zoubaier Baya , Tunisian football player
- 1972 : David Charvet , French actor
- 1972 : Isidre Esteve Pujol , Spanish enduro racer
- 1972 : Hiroyuki Takei , Japanese mangaka
- 1972 : Ulrike C. Tscharre , German actress and radio play speaker
- 1973 : Ivan Lunardi , Italian ski jumper
- 1973 : Wolfgang Rottmann , Austrian biathlete
- 1973 : Wang Xiaozhu , Chinese archer
- 1975 : Brigitte Zeh , German actress
- 1975 : Ian Gordon , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975 : Peter Iwers , Swedish bass player
- 1975 : Ray Lewis , American football player
- 1975 : Michael Reufsteck , German journalist and radio presenter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Jacek Krzynówek , Polish football player
- 1977 : Fazlur Rahman Abdul Aziz , Sri Lankan football player
- 1977 : Juan Velasco Damas , Spanish soccer player
- 1977 : Bernd Richard Deutsch , Austrian composer
- 1978 : David Krumholtz , American film actor
- 1978 : Egoi Martínez , Spanish cyclist
- 1979 : Yunus Cumartpay , German actor
- 1979 : Renato Dirnei Florencino , Brazilian soccer player
- 1979 : Adolfo Bautista Herrera , Mexican soccer player
- 1979 : Luke J. Wilkins , Swiss actor
- 1980 : OSTR , Polish rapper
- 1981 : Myriam Abel , French singer
- 1981 : Ben , German singer and presenter
- 1981 : Patrice Evra , French football player
- 1981 : Christian Mikolajczak , German football player
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- 1981 : Zara Phillips , British eventing rider, daughter of Princess Anne
- 1982 : Segundo Castillo , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1982 : Veronica Campbell-Brown , Jamaican sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1982 : Maxim , German musician
- 1982 : Matthias Struck , German handball player
- 1982 : Jessica Sutta , American singer and dancer
- 1982 : Alja Velkaverh , Slovenian flautist
- 1983 : Josh Simpson , Canadian soccer player
- 1984 : Mr. Probz , Dutch rapper
- 1985 : Andreas Buchner , German soccer player
- 1985 : Christian Hefenbrock , German track athlete
- 1985 : Carl Medjani , French-Algerian football player
- 1985 : Cristiane , Brazilian soccer player
- 1986 : Maibritt Kviesgaard , Danish handball player
- 1986 : Josephine Techert , German handball player
- 1986 : Bernadett Temes , Hungarian handball player
- 1987 : Leonardo Mayer , Argentine tennis player
- 1987 : Andy Murray , British tennis player
- 1987 : Linda Sembrant , Swedish soccer player
- 1988 : Camilla Dalby , Danish handball player
- 1988 : Jacob Zurl , Austrian long-distance cyclist
- 1989 : Maximilian Befort , German actor
- 1989 : Viorel Fotache , Romanian handball player
- 1989 : Kenneth Gangnes , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1989 : James Holland , Australian soccer player
- 1989 : Stephan Palla , Austrian soccer player
- 1989 : Sunny , South Korean singer
- 1990 : Ryō Aono , Japanese snowboarder
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- 1990 : Michael Sollbauer , Austrian soccer player
- 1991 : Jennifer Hof , German mannequin and photo model
- 1993 : Mohamed Gouaida , French-Tunisian football player
- 1994 : Renata Rinatowna Chusina , Russian skeleton pilot
- 1994 : Henrietta Csiszár , Hungarian football player
- 1996 : Shannon-Ogbani Abeda , Eritrean-Canadian ski racer
- 1996 : Birdy , British pop singer
- 1996 : Patrick Kujala , Finnish racing car driver
- 1997 : Ousmane Dembélé , French football player
21st century
- 2002 : Jasurbek Jaloliddinov , Uzbek football player
Died
Before the 17th century
- 392 : Valentinian II , Roman emperor
- 884 : Marinus I , Pope
- 913 : Hatto I , Archbishop of Mainz
- 1036 : Go-Ichijō , 68th Emperor of Japan
- 1122 : Yejong , 16th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1130 : Isidore of Madrid , saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1141 : Aubrey II. De Vere , English nobleman
- 1157 : Yuri Dolgoruki , Prince of Rostov
- 1174 : Nur ad-Din , member of the Zengid dynasty
- 1175 : Mleh , Prince of Lesser Armenia
- 1180 : Hugo von Hasenburg , Bishop of Basel
- 1336 : Arpa Ke'un , ruler of the Ilkhan
- 1346 : Heinrich I , Lord of Fürstenberg and Jauer, Duke of Schweidnitz and Duke of Jauer
- 1381 : Eppelein von Gailingen , Franconian robber baron
- 1388 : Wenzel I , Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1422 : Gerhard II von Goch , Bishop of Naumburg
- 1446 : Siegfried II. Bock , German Roman Catholic theologian, Chancellor of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and Bishop of Cammin
- 1470 : Charles VIII , King of Sweden
- 1506 : Johannes Burckard , master of ceremonies at the Roman Curia
- 1538 : Philip III. von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1591 : Dmitri Ivanovich , the last Rurikid Russian tsarevich
17th and 18th centuries
- 1609 : Giovanni Croce , Italian composer, conductor and priest of the Venetian Renaissance
- 1621 : Hendrick de Keyser , Dutch architect and sculptor
- 1634 : Hendrick Avercamp , Dutch painter
- 1638 : Wolfgang von Mansfeld , field marshal in the Thirty Years' War
- 1639 : Enoch Heiland , German legal scholar
- 1669 : Margareta Brahe , Swedish countess and princess of Hessen-Homburg
- 1682 : Artamon Sergejewitsch Matvejew , Russian politician
- 1683 : Johann Ernst II , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1690 : Eberhard Werner Happel , German novelist
- 1694 : Jacob Beutel , Kreuzkantor in Dresden
- 1713 : George Meister , court gardener and botanist from the Electorate of Saxony, traveler to Asia
- 1714 : Jörg Hofmann , carpenter and wood carver from the Mainland
- 1717 : Georg Christian Lehms , German poet
- 1717 : Gottfried Richter , German organ builder
- 1718 : Stephan Anton Mdzewski , Polish clergyman, titular bishop of Calama and auxiliary bishop in Lutsk and Gniezno
- 1728 : Anna Petrovna , daughter of Tsar Peter the Great
- 1734 : Sebastiano Ricci , Venetian painter
- 1741 : Jakob Christoph Le Blon , German painter, engraver and inventor
- 1743 : Antoine-Tristan Danty d'Isnard , French botanist
- 1746 : Andreas Adam , German architect
- 1767 : Franz Gottlieb Spöckner , Salzburg dancer and court dance master
- 1782 : Philipp Friedrich von Rieger , Württemberg general
- 1782 : Richard Wilson , British painter
- 1783 : Joseph Fratrel , French painter, etcher and engraver
- 1784 : Arsenije Plamenac , Montenegrin Orthodox Metropolitan
- 1785 : Karel Blažej Kopřiva , Czech composer
- 1789 : Michael Angstenberger , Austrian hymn composer
- 1798 : Thomas Jenkins , British painter, art collector, antique dealer and banker
19th century
- 1802 : Lebrecht Bachenschwanz , Saxon general, writer and translator
- 1823 : Antonín František Bečvařovský , Czech composer
- 1825 : Johann Gottfried Kneschke , German educator
- 1825 : Ernst Julius Walch , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1828 : William Congreve , British artilleryman, engineer and rocket technician
- 1830 : Dominique Joseph Vandamme , French general
- 1832 : Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel , Marie-Antoinette's maid of honor and governess of the royal children
- 1832 : Carl Friedrich Zelter , German musician
- 1833 : Edmund Kean , British actor
- 1835 : Pauline Auzou , French painter
- 1845 : Manuel Aguilar Chacón , President of Costa Rica
- 1845 : Christian Krafft , German theologian, representative of federal theology
- 1847 : Daniel O'Connell , Irish freedom fighter
- 1850 : Johann Jakob Wolfensberger , Swiss painter
- 1851 : Johann Traugott Leberecht Danz , German Lutheran church historian and theologian
- 1852 : Louisa Adams , US First Lady
- 1852 : Karl Agricola , miniature painter and engraver
- 1862 : Kurt Alexander Winkler , German chemist and metallurgist
- 1865 : Ignaz Beidtel , Austrian lawyer
- 1868 : Franz Michael d'Aubert , German politician
- 1870 : Harro Harring , revolutionary, poet and painter
- 1873 : Alexandru Ioan Cuza , founder and first prince of Romania
- 1879 : George Fife Angas , English businessman, parliamentarian and philanthropist
- 1879 : Gottfried Semper , German architect (Semper Opera)
- 1879 : Jakob Stämpfli , Swiss politician
- 1881 : Franz von Dingelstedt , German poet, journalist and theater director
- 1884 : Georg Friedrich Kolb , German publisher, publicist and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1886 : Emily Dickinson , American poet
- 1897 : John Naylor , English organist and composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Eugen Lucius , German chemist, industrialist and patron
- 1905 : John Baptiste Calkin , British organist, composer and music teacher
- 1909 : Ernest Besnier , French dermatologist
- 1913 : Adolf Wahrmund , German orientalist and writer
- 1914 : Johann Traugott Sterzel , German paleontologist
- 1920 : Giulio Cardinal Boschi , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Ferrara
- 1925 : Nelson Appleton Miles , American officer and commander of the United States Army
- 1927 : Mario Saetti , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1931 : Thomas Ashby , British Classical Archaeologist
- 1935 : Kazimir Severinovich Malevich , Ukrainian-Russian painter ( Russian avant-garde, constructivism, suprematism )
- 1937 : Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden , British politician
- 1938 : Gheorghe Marinescu , Romanian neurologist and neuropathologist
- 1938 : Eugenio Siena , Italian racing car driver
- 1940 : Bruno Asch , German politician
- 1941 : Lawrence Adam , Dutch football player
- 1942 : Carl Röver , German politician, NSDAP Reich Governor in Bremen and Oldenburg, General of the SA
- 1943 : Ralph Erwin , pop and film music composer
- 1945 : Kenneth J. Alford , British composer
- 1945 : Theodor Heinrich Bongartz , German SS-Oberscharführer and head of the crematorium in the Dachau concentration camp
- 1945 : Carl Küchler , German travel writer
- 1945 : Edoardo Teagno , Italian racing car driver
- 1945 : Hermann Thorade , German oceanographer
- 1946 : Karl Eberhard Schöngarth , German lawyer, SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- 1949 : Mary Antin , American author and activist
1951-2000
- 1952 : Albert Bassermann , German actor
- 1952 : Egbert Reimsfeld , German rower
- 1954 : Norbert Jacques , Luxembourgish writer
- 1955 : Oskar Adler , Austrian musician and astrologer
- 1956 : Jovan Bandur , Croatian composer
- 1956 : Paul Köttgen , German soil scientist
- 1956 : Julius Oetiker , Swiss lawyer and civil servant
- 1956 : Austin Osman Spare , British printmaker, painter and magician
- 1957 : Keith Andrews , American racing car driver
- 1959 : Max d'Ollone , French composer
- 1960 : Heinrich Ancker , German naval officer
- 1963 : Waldemar Koch , German politician
- 1964 : Vladko Maček , Croatian politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
- 1965 : Paul Guignard , French cyclist
- 1967 : Edward Hopper , American painter
- 1968 : Alban Haas , German theologian and historian
- 1971 : Bernward Vesper , German publisher and writer
- 1971 : Ida Friederike Görres , German writer
- 1973 : Hans Barion , German Catholic canon lawyer
- 1974 : Adolf Jobst , German restorer and painter
- 1974 : Fritz Baade , German economist and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1974 : Lothar Irle , German writer and local history researcher
- 1976 : David Munrow , English musician and musicologist
- 1976 : Hans Terofal , German actor
- 1978 : Robert Menzies , Australian Prime Minister
- 1979 : Eduard Zak , Austrian writer, translator and critic
- 1980 : Jóhann Hafstein , Icelandic politician
- 1981 : Roger Crovetto , French racing car driver
- 1982 : Birch Monroe , American country musician
- 1985 : Henri Germond , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1985 : Renato Olmi , Italian football player
- 1989 : Gerhard Salzer , German politician, MdL
- 1991 : Abe Shintarō , Japanese politician, general secretary of the LDP
- 1991 : Hans Andre , Austrian sculptor and painter
- 1991 : Susano Polanco , Dominican tenor
- 1991 : Fritz Riess , German racing car driver
- 1992 : Jovy Marcelo , Filipino racing car driver
- 1994 : Gilbert Roland , American actor
- 1998 : Richard Jaeger , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP, Federal Minister, Vice President of the Bundestag
- 1999 : Ernst Mosch , German folk musician
21st century
- 2003 : June Carter Cash , American singer and songwriter
- 2003 : Dieter Hesselberger , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 2003 : Rik Van Steenbergen , Belgian cyclist
- 2004 : Marius Constant , Romanian-French composer and conductor
- 2005 : Georg Grammer , German entrepreneur
- 2005 : Amadeus Webersinke , German pianist, organist and university lecturer
- 2006 : Eberhard Esche , German actor
- 2007 : Tom Andersen , Norwegian psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- 2007 : Jerry Falwell , American fundamentalist Baptist pastor and television preacher
- 2007 : Yolanda King , American civil rights activist
- 2008 : Henry Austin , Indian politician and ambassador
- 2008 : Tommy Burns , Scottish soccer player
- 2008 : Robert Dunlop , British motorcycle racer
- 2008 : Jürgen Kolbe , German Germanist, writer and local politician
- 2009 : Susanna Agnelli , Italian politician and author
- 2009 : Hubert van Es , Dutch photojournalist
- 2009 : Paul Flora , Austrian draftsman and caricaturist
- 2009 : Wilfried Guth , German bank manager
- 2009 : Jakob Streit , Swiss writer
- 2009 : Charles Tingwell , Australian actor
- 2010 : Olivia Ausoni , Swiss ski racer
- 2010 : Diether de la Motte , German musician, composer, music theorist and university professor
- 2010 : Besian Idrizaj , Austrian football player
- 2010 : Susanne von Paczensky , German journalist and non-fiction author
- 2012 : Carlos Fuentes , Mexican writer
- 2012 : Arno Lustiger , German historian and Holocaust survivor
- 2013 : Alfred Aschauer , German sculptor
- 2013 : Thomas Messer , US museum director
- 2014 : Jean-Luc Dehaene , Belgian politician
- 2014 : Robert Zwanzig , American physicist and chemist
- 2015 : Willy Hagara , Austrian pop singer and actor
- 2015 : Garo Yepremian , American football player
- 2016 : Erika Berger , German TV presenter
- 2016 : Bernard van Beurden , Dutch composer
- 2017 : Karl-Otto Apel , German philosopher
- 2017 : Ian Brady , British serial killer
- 2018 : Jlloyd Samuel , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
- 2018 : Ray Wilson , British football player
- 2019 : Wiglaf Droste , German author and singer
- 2020 : Fred Willard , American actor
Holidays and memorial days
- St. Pachomios , Egyptian abbot (Protestant, Orthodox and for the Trappists, Cistercians and Benedictines)
- St. Rupert von Bingen , German nobleman and patron saint (Roman Catholic)
- St. Sophia of Rome , Roman martyr, " ice saint " (Roman Catholic)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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