15th October
The October 15 is the 288th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 289th in leap years ), thus remain 77 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1080 : In the Battle of Hohenmölsen , the German King Heinrich IV is defeated by the opposing king Rudolf von Rheinfelden and his general Otto von Northeim ; Heinrich has to flee. However, Rudolf dies the following day from the wounds he suffered in the battle.
- 1210 : The Archbishop of Cologne, Dietrich I von Hengebach , lays the foundation stone for the Godesburg, which is intended as a refuge .
- 1582 : With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar on October 4th (Thursday), the next 10 days are omitted. October 15th (Friday) is thus the first day of the new era , even if most countries will only adopt this calendar later.
- 1597 : After his father Wilhelm V abdicated , Maximilian I became the new Duke of Bavaria .
- 1760 : During the Seven Years' War, French troops defeat Allied units under the command of Duke Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in the battle of Kampen Monastery near Wesel .
- 1793 : Queen Marie Antoinette , known as the "Widow Capet", is sentenced to death by the French Revolutionary Tribunal.
- 1805 : One day after the Battle of Elchingen in the Third Coalition War , surrender negotiations begin between Napoleon Bonaparte and the Austrian Field Marshal Karl Mack von Leiberich , whose army around Ulm is surrounded by French troops under Michel Ney .
- 1815 : Napoléon Bonaparte enters the island of St. Helena , where he will spend his last years in exile.
- 1842 : Karl Marx takes over the editorial management of the Rheinische Zeitung in Cologne.
- 1863 : The Confederate submarine CSS Hunley sinks due to an attempt to dive. Seven men of the crew and the builder Horace Lawson Hunley die on board.
- 1880 : Mexican soldiers kill Victorio , a leader of the Chihenne - Apaches , and 78 tribesmen for war trains to New Mexico and Texas to be fought.
- 1894 : The Dreyfus affair begins with the arrest of the French officer Alfred Dreyfus for alleged espionage .
- 1904 : Friedrich August III. after his father's death I. George King of Saxony .
- 1917 : A firing squad shoots Mata Hari, a dancer found guilty of double espionage and high treason by a military court, in the fortifications of Vincennes Castle .
- 1925 : The European Nationalities Congress is founded in Geneva by representatives of ethnic minorities from twelve European countries .
- 1944 : In order to prevent Hungary from reaching an armistice with the Allies and thus leaving the Axis powers , a German SS special unit runs the Panzerfaust operation in Budapest . Imperial administrator Miklós Horthy is arrested and replaced by Ferenc Szálasi .
- 1944 : In the early morning hours the No. 5 bomber group of the Royal Air Force carried out a heavy bombing raid on Braunschweig on the basis of the Area Bombing Directive of the British Air Ministry in the air war in World War II . The city center of Braunschweig was 90% destroyed by the attack and the two-day firestorm that followed, and around 1,000 people were killed.
- 1945 : Pierre Laval , the former Prime Minister of the Vichy regime in France, is shot dead by an execution squad after being sentenced to death for high treason .
- 1946 : The in Nuremberg Trials sentenced to death Hermann Goering commits the night before his scheduled execution with a poison capsule suicide .
- 1950 : The first election to the People's Chamber of the GDR takes place. The National Front's unified list, dominated by the SED , received 99.7 percent of the vote, according to official figures.
- 1962 : The most previous day photos taken with espionage flights provide in the Cuban missile crisis, the United States proof of stationed in Cuba Soviet SS-4 medium-range missiles.
- 1963 : Konrad Adenauer resigns as Federal Chancellor.
- 1969 : 250,000 people protest the Vietnam War in Washington, DC .
- 1970 : After Gamal Abdel Nasser's death on September 28, 1970, Anwar as-Sadat is confirmed as the new President of Egypt by referendum .
- 1979 : After the overthrow of President Carlos Humberto Romero , a military junta takes power in El Salvador .
- 1982 : First day of the new calendar period: In the Gregorian calendar , the sequence of the leap days and thus the day and month counting as well as the associated weekdays are repeated every 400 years.
- 1985 : The European Charter of Local Self-Government is signed in Strasbourg .
- 1987 : Thomas Sankara , head of state and government of Burkina Faso , is murdered in a military coup. Blaise Compaoré , the leader of the coup plotters, becomes the new head of state.
- 1990 : The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Mikhail Gorbachev is announced.
- 1999 : The United Nations Security Council decides to set up a liaison office in Angola .
- 2001 : Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologizes in South Korea by laying a wreath for the atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese during the occupation of Korea between 1910 and 1945.
- 2003 : İlham Əliyev is elected President of Azerbaijan to succeed his father Heydər Əliyev .
economy
- 1835 : The Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank , a forerunner of today's Unicredit Bank , begins its business activities in Munich.
- 1848 : The Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft takes up the regular service between Hamburg and New York with the sailing ship Deutschland .
- 1851 : The Disconto-Gesellschaft founded by David Hansemann , subsequently Germany's most important credit institution , starts business operations.
- 1856 : The Norddeutsche Bank is founded in Hamburg after its shareholders abandon their original plans to also issue banknotes . 1929 goes bonds begebende credit institution in the Deutsche Bank on.
- 1926 : The large GeSoLei exhibition ends in Düsseldorf , with around 7.5 million visitors the largest in the Weimar Republic .
- 1939 : LaGuardia Airport in New York City opens.
- 1996 : In Japan the financial institution goes Nichei Finance in bankruptcy . It is the largest corporate bankruptcy in Japanese history to date.
- 2008 : The Dow Jones share index slipped by 7.87 percent, the steepest price slump to date since Black Monday in 1987.
- 2012 : The Americans Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley are awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics .
science and technology
- 1576 : The Duke Julius of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel founded University of Helmstedt that develops during the period of its existence to a significant Protestant university is opened.
- 1612 : The Juleum lecture hall and library building of the university is inaugurated in Helmstedt .
- 1669 : The University of Innsbruck is by Emperor Leopold I founded.
- 1783 : The first person goes into the air on board a hot air balloon with royal approval . The Montgolfière with Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier , secured by a rope, rises 26 meters in Paris.
- 1810 : Under Gerhard von Scharnhorst , in the course of the Prussian army reform in Prussia, teaching begins at the new academy for young officers , which changes name to become the General War School and then the Prussian War Academy . It is designed as a military college for staff officers.
- 1924 : After successfully crossing the Atlantic, the airship LZ 126 , part of German reparations payments , lands on the US naval airfield at Lakehurst .
- 1947 : The Wilhelm Foerster Institute is founded in Berlin with the aim of operating a public observatory .
- 1997 : The Englishman Andy Green sets the speed record for cars with his jet-powered car ThrustSSC .
- 1997 : The American-European partner space probe Cassini-Huygens takes off for Saturn .
- 2003 : The People's Republic of China launches the Shenzhou 5 spaceship with the " Taikonaut " Yang Liwei on board. It is the third country with a successful manned space flight.
- 2004 : On the Mount Graham takes in Arizona , the Large Binocular Telescope on the operation. It could sense candlelight 2.5 million km away.
- 2010 : After almost 11 years of construction, the first tube of the Gotthard Base Tunnel is pierced .
Culture
- 1730 : The world premiere of the opera Dialogo tra la vera disciplina e il Genio by Antonio Caldara takes place at the Teatro della Favorita in Vienna.
- 1828 : The premiere of the opera Die Räuberbraut by Ferdinand Ries takes place in Frankfurt am Main.
- 1880 : 38 years after the founding of the Zentral-Dombau-Verein zu Cologne , the completion of the Cologne Cathedral , begun in 1248 , is celebrated.
- 1905 : The Little Nemo comic series begins in the New York Herald newspaper , invented and drawn by Winsor McCay .
- 1916 : The world premiere of the opera Das Höllisch Gold by Julius Bittner takes place in Darmstadt.
- 1933 : In Munich, Adolf Hitler lays the foundation stone for the Haus der Deutschen Kunst , the first monumental building of the National Socialist regime .
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- 1940 : Charlie Chaplin's famous satire on Adolf Hitler, The Great Dictator , premieres in the United States.
- 1946 : The first German post-war film is premiered with Wolfgang Staudte's The Murderers Are Among Us .
- 1961 : The premiere of the opera Leonce and Lena by Kurt Schwaen takes place at the Berlin State Opera.
- 1963 : The Berlin Philharmonic is handed over to the artistic director Wolfgang Stresemann in a ceremony .
- 1981 : The award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Elias Canetti is announced.
- 2017 : Margaret Atwood receives the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt .
religion
- 1890 : With the encyclical Dall'alto dell'Apostolico Seggio , Pope Leo XIII turns . against Freemasonry in Italy.
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1966 : In western Texas is Guadalupe Mountains National Park created.
Sports
- 2006 : The closing ceremony marks the end of the Jogos da Lusofonia 2006 , the first games of the Portuguese-speaking countries in Macau, China . The most successful country in the Games is Brazil.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 70 BC Chr . : Virgil , Roman poet
- 912 : Ryogen , monk of the Japanese Tendai school
- 1176 : Leopold VI. , Duke of Austria and Styria
- 1290 : Anna Přemyslovna , Queen of Bohemia
- 1396 : Jean IV , Count of Armagnac, Fézensac and Rodez
- 1487 : Giovanni da Udine , Italian painter
- 1502 : Nikolaus Medler , German Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1515 : Leone Strozzi , diplomat of the Order of Malta in Constantinople and admiral of the French Navy
- 1537 : Johannes Posthius , German doctor and poet
- 1542 : Akbar I , son of Humayun, Mughal Mughal of India
- 1550 : Heinrich von Nassau-Dillenburg , brother of Wilhelm I of Orange
- 1564 : Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Duke of Braunschweig, playwright
- 1571 : Jakob Matham , Dutch engraver
- 1599 : Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch statesman and diplomat
17th and 18th centuries
- 1607 : Madeleine de Scudéry , French Baroque writer
- 1608 : Evangelista Torricelli , Italian physicist and mathematician
- 1618 : Johan de Witt , Dutch politician
- 1622 : Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie , Swedish count, Reichsmarschall, Reichsdrost and Reich Chancellor
- 1665 : Franz Joachim Beich , German painter (baptism date)
- 1681 : Lukas Kern , German ship master, landlord and benefactor
- 1686 : Alessandro Galli da Bibiena , Italian architect
- 1692 : Cardinal Alessandro Albani , Italian nobleman
- 1701 : Maria Margareta d'Youville , Canadian founder and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1711 : Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine , Queen of Sardinia
- 1731 : Leopold von Apfaltern , Jesuit and mathematician
- 1733 : Christiane Sophie Charlotte von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- 1738 : Wenzel Joseph von Colloredo , Austrian field marshal
- 1745 : Alexander Abercromby , Scottish lawyer and essayist
- 1745 : Jean-Baptiste Huet , French painter
- 1758 : Benedikt Arnstein , writer
- 1763 : Tani Bunchō , Japanese painter and poet
- 1763 : Johann Georg Tralles , mathematician and physicist
- 1771 : Heinrich von Porbeck , Baden general and military writer
- 1778 : Paolo Ghiringhelli , Swiss Benedictine and governor
- 1784 : Thomas-Robert Bugeaud , French general and Marshal of France
- 1785 : José Miguel Carrera , Chilean politician
- 1786 : James Holman , British traveler, adventurer and author
- 1795 : Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , King of Prussia
- 1796 : Carl Wilhelm Traugott von Mayer , German lawyer and member of the Saxon state parliament
- 1797 : Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse , German classical philologist and linguist
- 1800 : Georg Karl von Seuffert , German lawyer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Seabury Ford , American politician
- 1802 : Louis-Eugène Cavaignac , Prime Minister of the Second French Republic
- 1803 : Camille Durutte , French music theorist and composer
- 1804 : Wilhelm von Kaulbach , painter
- 1808 : Ernst Kapp , German educator, geographer and philosopher
- 1808 : Moritz Schreber , German doctor and educator
- 1809 : Khachatur Abovyan , Armenian writer
- 1810 : Henricus Christianus Millies , Dutch Lutheran theologian and orientalist
- 1811 : Maximilian Duncker , German historian and politician
- 1814 : Mikhail Jurjewitsch Lermontow , Russian writer
- 1815 : Moritz Brosig , German composer and organist
- 1818 : Alexander Dreyschock , Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer
- 1818 : Johann Gungl , Hungarian-German violinist, composer and conductor
- 1818 : Franz von Löher , German lawyer, historian and politician
- 1821 : Moritz Hartmann , journalist, writer and politician
- 1822 : Kornél Ábrányi , Hungarian pianist, writer, music theorist, composer and musician
- 1822 : Karl Gayer , German forest scientist
- 1823 : William Adams , English engineer
- 1825 : Georg Friedrich Carl Kölling , German sculptor
- 1825 : Marie Friederike von Prussia , Queen of Bavaria and mother of Ludwig II.
- 1827 : Friedrich Adler , German architect and archaeologist
- 1827 : Abdisho V. Khayat , Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
- 1827 : Mihály Zichy , Hungarian painter
- 1829 : Asaph Hall , American astronomer and discoverer of the Martian moons
- 1831 : Horace Austin , American politician
- 1831 : Isabella Bishop , British travel writer
- 1832 : Karl Atz , Italian art historian and priest
- 1836 : James Tissot , French painter
- 1839 : Franz Treller , German director, actor and writer
- 1840 : August Mau , German archaeologist
- 1841 : Sawwa Mamontow , Russian industrialist and patron
- 1844 : Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher
1851-1900
- 1855 : Robert Turner , American Bahai
- 1858 : Frank Van der Stucken , American composer and conductor
- 1861 : Josef Ruederer , German writer
- 1861 : Eduard Schmid , German politician, Lord Mayor of Munich
- 1862 : Conrad Ansorge , German pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1864 : Friedrich Gustav Piffl , Austrian Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1865 : Walter Oskar Ernst Amelung , German classical archaeologist
- 1866 : Laura Lemon , Canadian composer and pianist
- 1867 : Ferdinand Bronner , German writer and playwright
- 1869 : Alfred Andersen-Wingar , Norwegian composer
- 1869 : Francisco Largo Caballero , Spanish politician and Prime Minister
- 1871 : Andreas spokesman von Bernegg , Swiss crop scientist
- 1872 : Wilhelm Miklas , Austrian politician
- 1876 : Edmund Adler , Austrian artist
- 1877 : Karl Augustin , German politician
- 1877 : Wilhelm Stockums , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1879 : Jane Darwell , American actress
- 1881 : José Arce , Argentine politician
- 1881 : Pelham Grenville Wodehouse , English writer
- 1882 : Carl von Schubert , German civil servant and diplomat
- 1883 : Kurt Arnold Findeisen , German writer
- 1884 : Wilhelm Schapp , German philosopher
- 1885 : Metod Doležil , Czech choir director and music teacher
- 1885 : Fridtjof Backer-Grøndahl , Norwegian pianist and composer
- 1885 : James Francis Hurley , Australian photographer and cameraman
- 1885 : Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval , Icelandic painter
- 1885 : Ulrich Leman , German painter
- 1885 : Hans Hasso von Veltheim , German Indologist, anthroposophist and world traveler
- 1886 : Rudolf von Marogna-Redwitz , German officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1887 : Oliver Godfrey , British motorcycle racer and aviator in World War I.
- 1887 : Emil Hegetschweiler , Swiss actor
- 1887 : Chester Ray Longwell , American geologist
- 1887 : Fernán Silva Valdés , Uruguayan writer
- 1890 : Homer Martin Adkins , American politician
- 1892 : József Nagy , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1893 : Carol II , Romanian king
- 1894 : Albert Albin Funk , German politician
- 1895 : Alfred Neumann , German writer
- 1896 : Célestin Freinet , French reform pedagogue and founder of Freinet pedagogy
- 1898 : Boughera El-Ouafi , Algerian athlete
- 1898 : Günther Ramin , German organist
- 1898 : Hertha Vogel-Voll , German book and theater author
- 1899 : Adolf Brudes , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1900 : Fritz Feld , German-American actor
- 1900 : Mervyn LeRoy , American film director and film producer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Hermann Josef Abs , German banker
- 1901 : Bernard von Brentano , German writer
- 1901 : Franz Hartl , Austrian politician
- 1902 : Amparo Poch y Gascón , Spanish medicin and anarchist
- 1902 : Anton Sabel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1903 : George Amy , American film editor
- 1903 : Svend Johannsen , Danish politician in Schleswig-Holstein
- 1904 : Wolfgang Weyrauch , German writer
- 1905 : Ivan Eklind , Swedish football referee
- 1905 : Raymond Klibansky , German-Canadian philosopher
- 1905 : Angelo Schiavio , Italian football player
- 1905 : CP Snow , British scientist and writer
- 1905 : Dag Wirén , Swedish composer
- 1906 : Juan Pablo Miranda , Cuban flautist and composer
- 1906 : Victoria Spivey , American blues singer and pianist
- 1908 : Osborne Anderson , American ice hockey player
- 1908 : John Kenneth Galbraith , American economist
- 1909 : Jesse Leonard Greenstein , American astronomer
- 1909 : Werner Lieven , German actor
- 1910 : Sybille Schloß , German actress
- 1913 : Wolfgang Lüth , German submarine commander
- 1914 : Mohammed Sahir Shah , King of Afghanistan
- 1915 : Yitzhak Shamir , Israeli politician
- 1915 : Carl Szokoll , German officer and resistance fighter
- 1916 : Karl Ebert , auxiliary bishop of the apostolic administrator in Erfurt and Meiningen
- 1916 : Hassan Gouled Aptidon , Djiboutian politician
- 1916 : Karl Marbach , Catholic auxiliary bishop in Strasbourg
- 1917 : Arthur M. Schlesinger , American historian
- 1918 : Joe Vetrano , American football player
- 1919 : Bernhard Hoffmann , German politician
- 1919 : Chuck Stevenson , American racing car driver
- 1920 : Heinz Barth , German officer in the Waffen SS, war criminal
- 1920 : Heribert Meisel , Austrian sports journalist
- 1920 : Mario Puzo , American crime novel writer
- 1920 : Henri Verneuil , French film director
- 1921 : Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu , Romanian table tennis player
- 1921 : Seymour Benzer , American physicist and biologist
- 1921 : Hoimar von Ditfurth , German doctor and publicist
- 1921 : Al Pease , Canadian racing car driver
- 1922 : Robert Frederick Froehlke , American politician
- 1922 : Luigi Giussani , Italian priest, papal honorary prelate
- 1923 : Italo Calvino , Italian writer
- 1924 : Lee Iacocca , American manager
- 1925 : Mickey Baker , American singer
- 1925 : Carl Becker , German classical philologist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Genrich Saulowitsch Altschuller , Russian engineer and scientist
- 1926 : Michel Foucault , French philosopher
- 1926 : Ed McBain , American novelist and screenwriter
- 1926 : Karl Richter , choirmaster and conductor, organist and harpsichordist
- 1927 : Hans Wußing , German science historian
- 1928 : Eduard Schütz , Baptist theologian
- 1929 : Werner Hennig , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Social Court
- 1929 : Enno Patalas , German film historian and critic
- 1929 : Teodoro Zeccoli , Italian racing car driver
- 1930 : Christian Wiyghan Tumi , Archbishop of Douala and Cardinal
- 1932 : Hans Röhrs , German mining engineer and mining historian
- 1932 : Therese Zenz , German canoe world champion
- 1935 : Barry McGuire , American singer and songwriter
- 1936 : Michel Aumont , French film actor
- 1936 : Ingo Richter , German professor and local politician
- 1938 : Rafael Aponte-Ledée , Puerto Rican composer
- 1938 : Karyn von Ostholt-Haas , German actress
- 1939 : Carmelo Bossi , Italian world boxing champion
- 1939 : Telesphore Placidus Toppo , Archbishop of Ranchi and Cardinal
- 1940 : Isabella Ackerl , Austrian historian, Germanist and author
- 1940 : Peter Doherty , Australian veterinarian and virologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1940 : Benno Ohnesorg , German student, victim of a police operation
- 1940 : Edwin Skinner , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1942 : Chris Andrews , British singer and songwriter
- 1943 : John Street , American politician
- 1944 : Orlando Antonini , Italian archbishop and diplomat
- 1944 : Jesús Atienza Serna , Spanish ambassador
- 1944 : Sali Berisha , Albanian politician, president
- 1944 : Peter Porsch , German politician, MdL
- 1944 : David Trimble , British politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1945 : Juan José Asenjo Pelegrina , Archbishop of Seville
- 1945 : Antonio Cañizares Llovera , Archbishop of Toledo, cardinal
- 1946 : Victor Banerjee , Indian actor
- 1946 : Richard Carpenter , American musician and composer
- 1946 : Tessa de Loo , Dutch writer
- 1947 : Walter Boudreau , Canadian composer and saxophonist
- 1947 : Jan Niklas , German actor
- 1948 : Andreas Angerstorfer , German theologian and Judaist
- 1948 : Chris de Burgh , Irish pop singer
- 1948 : Konrad Sabrautzky , German director and screenwriter
- 1949 : Mustafa Abubakar , Indonesian politician
- 1949 : Bilal Arular , Turkish football player and coach
- 1949 : Jochen Beyse , German writer
- 1949 : Jürgen Haufe , German graphic artist and painter
- 1949 : Michael Köhlmeier , Austrian writer
- 1949 : Boualem Sansal , Algerian writer
- 1949 : Norbert Schindler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1950 : Horst Stachelhaus , German musician
1951-1975
- 1951 : Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh , Egyptian politician
- 1951 : Heinz Schmitt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1951 : Roscoe Tanner , American tennis player
- 1952 : Manuel Jiménez , Dominican singer and composer
- 1953 : Manfred Angerer , Austrian musicologist
- 1953 : Tito Jackson , American musician ( Jackson Five )
- 1953 : Günther Oettinger , EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, formerly EU Energy Commissioner
- 1953 : Franz Sabo , German Catholic pastor
- 1954 : Gabrio Rosa , Italian racing driver
- 1955 : Tanya Roberts , American actress
- 1956 : Freddie Röckenhaus , German journalist and documentary filmmaker
- 1956 : Claus Vinçon , German actor
- 1957 : Mira Nair , Indian film director
- 1957 : Payao Poontarat , Thai boxer
- 1958 : Michaele Hustedt , German politician
- 1958 : Perlat Musta , Albanian football player
- 1959 : Sarah Ferguson , British author, Duchess of York
- 1960 : Lolita Morena , Italian presenter
- 1961 : Mikael Appelgren , Swedish table tennis player
- 1963 : Claus Kruesken , German radio and television presenter
- 1964 : Olaf Rieck , German mountaineer
- 1965 : Lars Walther , Danish handball player and coach
- 1966 : Eric Benét , American rhythm and blues singer
- 1966 : Jorge Campos , Mexican soccer player
- 1966 : Zoran Đorđić , Serbian handball player
- 1967 : Götz Otto , German actor
- 1967 : Gerlind Scheller , German synchronized swimmer
- 1967 : Holger Waldenberger , German quiz player
- 1967 : Girma Yifrashewa , Ethiopian composer and pianist
- 1968 : Han-bong An , South Korean wrestler
- 1968 : Didier Deschamps , French football player and coach
- 1969 : Vítor Baía , Portuguese football player
- 1969 : Markus Freiherr von Rotberg , German soccer player
- 1970 : Reid Anderson , American jazz bassist and composer
- 1970 : Zeb Atlas , American porn actor, bodybuilder and model
- 1970 : Ginuwine , American singer
- 1970 : Pernilla Wiberg , Swedish ski racer
- 1971 : Andy Cole , English soccer player
- 1971 : Niko Kovač , Croatian football player and coach
- 1972 : Carlos Checa , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1972 : Axel Geerken , German handball player
- 1972 : Sandra Kim , Belgian singer
- 1972 : Michél Mazingu-Dinzey , German-Congolese football player
- 1973 : Alex Nyarko , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1973 : Meike Schlecker , German entrepreneur
- 1974 : Simon Böer , German actor
- 1974 : Nicolai Borger , German writer, director and actor
- 1975 : Raja Atreya , German immunologist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Elisa Aguilar , Spanish basketball player
- 1976 : Jody Hill , American film director and screenwriter
- 1976 : Duško Pavasovič , Slovenian chess grandmaster
- 1977 : David Trezeguet , French football player
- 1977 : Patricio Urrutia , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1978 : Gregor Kartsios , German computer game journalist and editor
- 1978 : Kirsi Välimaa , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1978 : Katharina Wackernagel , German actress
- 1979 : Absztrakkt , German rapper
- 1980 : Tom Boonen , Belgian cyclist
- 1980 : Heikki Kallio , Finnish chess grandmaster
- 1980 : Alex Rodríguez , Andorran football player
- 1980 : André Wiwerink , German soccer player
- 1981 : Francesco Benussi , Italian football player
- 1981 : Andreas Christ , German actor
- 1981 : Keyshia Cole , American soul and R&B singer
- 1981 : Mohamed Shawky , Egyptian soccer player
- 1983 : Tom Boardman , British racing car driver
- 1983 : Andreas Ivanschitz , Austrian football player
- 1983 : Bruno Senna , Brazilian racing driver
- 1984 : Iwo Angelow , Bulgarian wrestler
- 1984 : Akua Anokyewaa , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1984 : Elize Ryd , Swedish singer
- 1985 : Arron Agustin Afflalo , American basketball player
- 1985 : Marcos Martínez , Spanish racing driver
- 1986 : Manuel Agudo Durán , Spanish football player
- 1986 : Carlo Janka , Swiss ski racer
- 1986 : Janni Arnth Jensen , Danish soccer player
- 1987 : Serge Akakpo , Togolese-Benin-French football player
- 1987 : Ole Kittner , German soccer player
- 1987 : Ott Tänak , Estonian rally driver
- 1988 : Konstantin Frank , German-Russian actor
- 1988 : Dominique Jones , American basketball player
- 1988 : Pia Marxkord , German soccer player
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- 1988 : Mesut Özil , German soccer player
- 1989 : Joeri Adams , Belgian cyclocross and road cyclist
- 1989 : Harrison Kennedy , Liberian soccer player
- 1989 : Dominic Storey , New Zealand racing driver
- 1990 : Johannes Lochner , German bobsleigh driver
- 1992 : Alejandro Fernández Iglesias , Spanish football player
- 1992 : Sarah Lombardi , German singer
- 1993 : Karoline Heinze , German soccer player
- 1994 : Christopher Rudeck , German handball player
- 1995 : Jakob Pöltl , Austrian basketball player
- 1996 : Jerome Müller , German handball player
- 1998 : Giacomo Vrioni , Albanian-Italian football player
- 1999 : Ben Woodburn , Welsh football player
- 2000 : Maren Tellenbröker , German soccer player
21st century
- 2005 : Christian of Denmark , heir to the Danish throne
Died
Before the 16th century
- 892 : al-Mu'tamid , Abbasid caliph
- 898 : Lambert of Spoleto , King of Italy and Roman Emperor
- 912 : Abdallah , Emir of Cordoba
- 950 : Suniario I , Count of Barcelona, Girona, Urgell and Osona
- 961 : Abd ar-Rahman III. , eighth emir and first caliph of Cordoba
- 1002 : Henry the Great , Duke of Burgundy
- 1027 : Aurelia , Roman Catholic saint
- 1080 : Rudolf von Rheinfelden , Duke of Swabia, anti-king in the Holy Roman Empire
- 1094 : Bertha of Holland , Queen of France
- 1167 : Raymond I Trencavel , Vice Count of Béziers and Agde
- 1191 : Rudolf I , Lord of Creil and Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
- 1232 : Albrecht I of Käfernburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1243 : Hedwig von Andechs , Duchess of Silesia and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1283 : Johann I , Lord of Werle
- 1293 : Edelin , abbot of Weißenburg monastery
- 1328 : Robert de Holand, 1st Baron Holand , English nobleman
- 1352 : Gilles Li Muisis , French monk, chronicler and poet
- 1361 : Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford , English magnate
- 1382 : Michele Morosini , 61st Doge of Venice
- 1389 : Bartolomeo Prignano, under the name Urban VI. Pope
- 1434 : Euphemia Stewart , daughter of the Scottish King Robert II.
- 1444 : Niccolò Piccinino , Italian condottiere
- 1496 : Gilbert de Bourbon-Montpensier , Count of Montpensier, Duke of Sessa and Viceroy of Naples
16th to 18th century
- 1536 : Germaine de Foix , French nobleman and queen of Aragón and Sicily
- 1539 : Jost III. von Rosenberg , nobleman from the Rosenberg family
- 1542 : William Fitzwilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton , confidante of King Henry VIII of England
- 1564 : Andreas Vesalius , Flemish anatomist
- 1586 : Elisabeth of Denmark and Norway , Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1586 : Filippa Duci , Piedmontese noblewoman and mistress of the French King Henry II.
- 1586 : Johannes Fädminger , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1609 : Joseph Heintz the Elder , Swiss painter
- 1611 : Anna Erika von Waldeck , abbess of the Gandersheim monastery
- 1619 : Anton II , Count of Delmenhorst
- 1648 : Simone Cantarini , Italian painter
- 1651 : James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby , English peer, politician and military man
- 1662 : José de Garro , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and governor in Tucumán, on the Río de la Plata and in Chile
- 1662 : Sophia Henriette von Waldeck , Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- 1678 : Abraham Heidanus , German Reformed theologian
- 1680 : Bedřich Bridel , Bohemian writer and Jesuit missionary Societas Jesu
- 1688 : Anna Salome von Salm-Reifferscheidt , abbess of Essen
- 1690 : Adam Frans van der Meulen , Flemish painter
- 1690 : Juan de Valdés Leal , Spanish painter and sculptor
- 1702 : José de Garro , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and governor in Tucumán, on the Río de la Plata and in Chile
- 1702 : Sophia Henriette von Waldeck , Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- 1711 : Saif ibn Sultan I , Imam of Oman
- 1713 : Johann Michael Feuchtmayer , German painter and engraver
- 1716 : Jakob Gronovius , German-Dutch classical philologist, archaeologist, historian and geographer
- 1737 : Matteo Sassano, called Matteuccio , Italian castrato and opera singer
- 1741 : Anna Maria Franziska , Princess of Saxony-Lauenburg, Countess Palatine of Neuburg and Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1745 : Johann Maximilian von Welsch , German architect, senior building director and fortress builder
- 1761 : Johann Georg Walther , German pedagogue, rhetorician and ethnologist
- 1774 : Dmitri Wassiljewitsch Uchtomski , Russian architect
19th century
- 1804 : Antoine Baumé , French chemist and pharmacist
- 1805 : Johann Georg Bechtold , German philosopher, literary scholar, rhetorician and Protestant theologian
- 1808 : James Anderson of Hermiston , Scottish writer
- 1815 : Eduard von Wattenwyl , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1817 : Jean Louis Burckhardt , Swiss researcher
- 1817 : Tadeusz Kościuszko , Polish nobleman, general and national hero
- 1820 : Prince Karl Philipp zu Schwarzenberg , Austrian general
- 1852 : Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , German gymnastics father
- 1855 : Désiré-Alexandre Batton , French composer
- 1858 : Carl Gustav Mosander , Swedish chemist
- 1869 : Charles Nicolas Aubé , French doctor and entomologist
- 1872 : Handrij Zejler , Sorbian poet and editor
- 1877 : Amalie Baader , German writer
- 1890 : Christian Wilhelm Ludwig von Abeken , German politician
- 1891 : Ludwig Aloys von Arco auf Valley , German diplomat
- 1891 : Friedrich Zarncke , German Germanist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Ida Seele , German kindergarten teacher at the Froebel kindergarten
- 1904 : George I , King of Saxony
- 1908 : Jakob Hermann Bockenheimer , German doctor and surgeon
- 1914 : Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , German classical philologist
- 1915 : Theodor Boveri , German zoologist
- 1915 : Paul Scheerbart , writer of fantastic literature and illustrator
- 1917 : Donald M. Dickinson , American politician
- 1917 : Mata Hari , Dutch dancer, courtesan and spy
- 1918 : Johnny Aitken , American racing car driver
- 1918 : Antonio Cotogni , Italian opera singer
- 1931 : Giuseppe Ernesto Ardizzone , American mobster
- 1932 : Iwan Rerberg , Russian civil engineer
- 1933 : Inazo Nitobe , Japanese scholar
- 1934 : Samuel Fischer , German publisher
- 1935 : Werner Abel , German journalist
- 1936 : Benno von Achenbach , founder of the German art of carriage driving
- 1937 : Yevgeny Gwaladze , Georgian resistance fighter
- 1938 : Adolf Hamm , German organist
- 1939 : Robert Haab , Swiss politician
- 1943 : Heinrich Maria von Aretin , German politician
- 1943 : Stasys Šimkus , Lithuanian composer
- 1945 : Karl Alwin , German conductor
- 1945 : Kinoshita Mokutarō , Japanese writer and doctor
- 1946 : Hermann Göring , German politician and Commander in Chief of the Air Force, war criminal
- 1949 : László Rajk , Hungarian politician
1951-2000
- 1951 : Friedrich Wilhelm Andreas , German sculptor, porcelain designer and interior designer
- 1953 : Helene Mayer , German fencer
- 1955 : Serafín María Armora y González , Mexican bishop
- 1958 : Teodoro Gutiérrez Calderón , Colombian poet and writer
- 1959 : Stepan Bandera , Ukrainian politician
- 1959 : Leopold Fejér , Hungarian mathematician
- 1959 : Felix Ortt , Dutch author, philosopher and anarchist
- 1959 : Henk Robijns , Dutch carom player and world champion
- 1960 : Henny Porten , German actress and silent film star
- 1962 : John Ronan , Canadian composer, choir director and music teacher
- 1963 : Edmond Fleg , French writer
- 1964 : Cole Porter , American composer and songwriter
- 1965 : Abraham Fraenkel , German-Israeli mathematician
- 1966 : Lee L. Blair , American jazz guitarist and banjo player
- 1967 : Marcel Aymé , French storyteller and playwright
- 1967 : Gigi Meroni , Italian football player
- 1969 : Karl Saller , German anthropologist and doctor
- 1972 : Joachim Maass , German writer and poet
- 1974 : Arie Aroch , Israeli painter and diplomat
- 1975 : PC Ettighoffer , German writer
- 1976 : Carlo Gambino , American gangster
- 1980 : Bobby Lester , American singer
- 1981 : Philip Fotheringham-Parker , British racing car driver
- 1982 : Johannes Gohl , German officer
- 1983 : Pat O'Brien , American actor
- 1984 : Paolo Marella , Italian Cardinal Curia and Vatican diplomat
- 1985 : Sandro Angiolini , Italian comic artist and cartoonist
- 1987 : Thomas Sankara , President of Burkina Faso
- 1988 : Serafín Aedo , Spanish football player
- 1989 : Danilo Kiš , Serbian writer
- 1994 : Jean Dasté , French actor and theater director
- 1995 : Marco Campos , Brazilian racing driver
- 1996 : Karl-Heinz Ahlheim , German chess composer
- 1997 : Henryk Bista , Polish actor
- 1997 : Walter Fritzsch , German soccer player and coach
- 1998 : Rolf Agop , German conductor and university professor
- 1999 : Torsten Lilliecrona , Swedish actor
- 2000 : Konrad Bloch , German biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2000 : Leo Marini , Argentine singer
21st century
- 2001 : Jean Laurent , Belgian violinist and music teacher
- 2003 : Robert Müller , Swiss sculptor
- 2004 : Per Højholt , Danish writer
- 2004 : Helmut Simon , German hobby alpinist, discoverer of the glacier mummy "Ötzi"
- 2005 : Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
- 2006 : Eddy Blay , Ghanaian boxer
- 2008 : Edie Adams , American film actress
- 2009 : Alfred Aichinger , Austrian social security employee and politician
- 2011 : Ueli Prager , Swiss catering entrepreneur
- 2012 : Askold Baschanow , Russian Sami writer
- 2012 : Claude Cheysson , French diplomat and politician
- 2012 : Patrick Ronald Cooney , American bishop
- 2012 : Fritz Haller , Swiss architect and furniture designer
- 2012 : Norodom Sihanouk , Cambodian king
- 2013 : Hans Riegel jr. , German entrepreneur
- 2014 : Marie Dubois , French actress
- 2014 : Rainer Witt , German journalist, radio reporter, television presenter, writer, cabaret artist and gallery owner
- 2018 : Paul Allen , American entrepreneur
- 2018 : Arto Paasilinna , Finnish writer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Teresa of Ávila , Spanish doctor, mystic and theologian (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Hedwig von Andechs , Duchess of Silesia (Protestant, Catholic memorial day is on October 16)
- Name days
- Anniversaries of international organizations
- International White Cane Day ( UN ) (since 1969)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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