August 16

The August 16 is the 228th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 229th in leap years ): thus remain 137 days by year end.

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events

Politics and world events

• 1284: Philip the Handsome of France marries Joan I of Navarre .
• 1456: Failure to pay the Teutonic Order in the Thirteen Years' War led mercenary captains to sell six castles pledged to them, including the Marienburg Castle , to the Prussian Confederation and Poland's King Casimir IV Jagiello .
• 1513: As part of the Holy League against France and its King Louis XII. is directed, Emperor Maximilian I and King Henry VIII defeat a French force under the command of Longueville with their troops in the Battle of Guinegate .

1632: Battle of Wiesloch

• 1632: In the Battle of Wiesloch in the Thirty Years' War the Swedish troops under Gustav II Adolf win against the Catholic League .

1685: Siege of Gran

• 1685: During the Great Turkish War , the imperial troops defeat an Ottoman army in the Battle of Gran .
• 1705: The French general Louis II Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme inflicts his only defeat on the Austrian prince Eugene of Savoy in the battle of Cassano .
• 1731: Emperor Karl VI. forbids the construction works to have their own jurisdiction regulated in the stonemasonry regulations .
• 1731: The Perpetual Reichstag passes the Reich Trade Law , which restricts the powers of the guilds and facilitates access to the trade .
• 1762: In the Seven Years' War the Prussians under Frederick the Great defeat the Austrians under Leopold Joseph Daun in the battle of Reichenbach .
• 1777: At the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War , the American militia defeat units of the English troops, including soldiers from Hesse.
• 1780: The Battle of Camden during the American Revolutionary War ends with a complete victory for British forces under Charles Cornwallis over a numerically outnumbered American army under Horatio Gates .

1801: Nelson's failure at Boulogne-sur-mer

• 1801: Admiral Horatio Nelson undertakes a futile attack on French ships with the English Canal Fleet at Boulogne-sur-Mer .
• 1812: During the British-American War , the American Fort Detroit surrendered under William Hull, despite great superiority, without significant resistance to the British troops under Sir Isaac Brock and Chief Tecumseh .
• 1819: In the Peterloo massacre , a cavalry attack at a protest rally against the Corn Laws at St. Peter's Field near Manchester , eleven people are killed and over 400 injured.
• 1855: With the Russian defeat under Prince Michael Gorchakov in the Battle of the Chernaya , the attempt to relieve Sevastopol , which was besieged in the Crimean War, fails .
• 1870: In the Battle of Mars-la-Tour in the Franco-German War, two Prussian corps force the French Army on the Rhine to retreat to the fortress of Metz .
• 1884: The Nieuwe Republiek , proclaimed by mercenaries, is added to the Boer republics in South Africa .
• 1888: The treaty between the German-East African Society and the Sultan of Zanzibar on the granting of sovereign rights in what is now Tanzania comes into force and leads to the uprising of the East African coastal population .

Statue of the Captain von Koepenick (→ 1908) in front of the town hall Berlin-Koepenick

• 1908: After being pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm II , Wilhelm Voigt, known as " Captain von Köpenick ", is released from prison.
• 1914: An Austro-Hungarian army invading Serbian territory triggers the Battle of Cer in the First World War .
• 1919: In the run-up to the referendum scheduled for 1921, an uprising begins in Upper Silesia under the leadership of Alfons Zgrzebniok with the aim of joining the newly created Polish state .
• 1921: After the death of King Peter I , his son Alexander I becomes the new ruler in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .
• 1924: The Dawes Plan is signed in London, which is supposed to put the reparations payments of the German Reich on a new basis.
• 1936: Republican troops land on Mallorca during the Spanish Civil War to retake the Balearic Island. The battle for Mallorca begins.
• 1945: Poland cedes around 46 percent of its former territory to the Soviet Union in Moscow .
• 1946: The Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) is founded by representatives of the “Kurdish intelligentsia” and the urban petty bourgeoisie . Molla Mustafa Barzani was elected chairman in absentia.
• 1951: The first unit of the Bavarian riot police is set up in the Rebdorf monastery near Eichstätt .
• 1953: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi leaves Iran . Mohammad Mossadegh refuses to acknowledge his dismissal from the post of prime minister.

1960: Flag of the Republic of Cyprus

• 1960: Cyprus gains independence from Great Britain as the Republic of Cyprus on the basis of the Zurich and London Agreement between Great Britain, Greece and Turkey .
• 1962: The French Parliament ratifies the Treaty on the cession of French India to the Indian Union . The de facto annexation of Puducherry , Karaikal , Mahe and Yanam to India, which was already completed in 1954 , also comes into force de jure .
• 1964: In a bloodless coup in South Vietnam , President Dương Văn Minh is ousted by General Nguyễn Khánh , who accuses him of “neutralist tendencies”.
• 1969: VV Giri , Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's candidate, wins the presidential election in India by a narrow margin. The election had largely presented itself as a power struggle between Indira Gandhi and the old power elite of the Congress Party .
• 1972: Officers put a coup against King Hassan II in Rabat and proclaim the Republic of Morocco . The uprising fails, Interior Minister Mohammed Oufkir commits suicide according to official reports .
• 2021: Re-establishment of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan , after 20 years of unsuccessful NATO war , with other allies (30 countries in total) under the leadership of the USA . Participations in ISAF (marked with * NATO member):

Country	As of January 2012	As of October 2014
Albania *	286	11
Armenia	126	121
Azerbaijan	94	94
Australia	1,550	271
Belgium *	520	55
Bosnia and Herzegovina	55	8th
Bulgaria *	604	320
Denmark *	750	149
Germany *	4,715	1,707
Estonia *	150	2
Finland *	156	90
France *	3,491	90
Georgia	1,570	755
total	129,895	34,512
Greece *	154	9
Ireland *	7th	7th
Iceland **	4th	3
Italy *	3,956	1,400
Jordan	0	616
Canada *	510	0
South Korea	350	0
Croatia *	312	153
Latvia *	185	18th
Lithuania *	237	72
Luxembourg *	11	1
Mongolia	114	40
Montenegro	39	25th
NATO countries	125.297	32,265
New Zealand	189	1
Non-NATO countries	4,598	2,247
Netherlands *	167	16
North Macedonia	163	152
Norway *	487	58
Austria	3	3
Poland *	2,472	65
Portugal *	117	57
Romania *	1,876	317
Sweden	500	13
Singapore	39	0
Slovakia *	330	12th
Slovenia *	77	2
Spain *	1,502	181
Tonga	55	0
Czech Republic *	626	227
Turkey *	1,846	367
Ukraine	23	14th
Hungary *	412	84
United Arab Emirates	35	35
United States *	90,000	24,050
United Kingdom *	9,500	2,839

business

• 1621: In Nuremberg , a previously established giro bank starts its business activities.
• 1866: The horse-drawn tram goes into operation between Hamburg and Wandsbek .
• 1896: George Carmack finds gold on the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory . The news triggers a gold rush less than a year later .
• 1945: The Aufbau-Verlag is founded in Berlin . It soon grew to become the largest fiction publisher in the GDR . At the beginning he specialized in communist and anti-fascist literature as well as Russian books and classic editions.
• 1954: First edition of Sports Illustrated sports magazine appears in the United States .
• 1984: A labor dispute threatens at the German Lufthansa after the mediation attempt by the former “super minister” Karl Schiller was rejected by 80 percent of the workforce. The situation is considered to be complicated, as the ground staff, represented by the ÖTV , take a diametrical position to the flying staff, represented by the DAG .

science and technology

1784: The General Hospital

• 1784: The General Hospital in Vienna is opened.

1809: Berlin Humboldt University

• 1809: On the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt is Humboldt University of Berlin established.
• 1858: US President James Buchanan and the British Queen Victoria exchange greetings over the first transatlantic telegraph cable .
• 1897: Under the direction of Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , the Belgian steamship Belgica sets off from Antwerp on a three-year expedition , which is still one of the most important expeditions to the Antarctic. On board are the scientists Henryk Arctowski and Emil Racoviță as well as the still completely unknown Roald Amundsen .
• 1935: At the Berlin Radio Exhibition is the tape recorder , a magnetic sound recording and reproducing apparatus is presented.
• 1993: The Debian project is started by Ian Murdock .
• 2004: The Cassini-Huygens space probe discovers two moons of Saturn .

Culture

• 1857: Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aroldo with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave is successfully premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Rimini. It is the reworked and completely redesigned opera Stiffelio , which, under pressure from the censors, may only be performed in a distorted form in Italy.
• 1876: The Bayreuth Festspielhaus is under the direction of Hans Richter , the first performance of the opera Siegfried , the second day of the tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen by Richard Wagner instead.
• 1930: After leaving the Disney studios, Ub Iwerks publishes Fiddlesticks, the first color animated cartoon with sound.
• 1952: Pig or not pig , another novel by PG Wodehouse with the absent-minded Lord Emsworth as protagonist, appears for the first time as a serial in the American magazine Collier's Weekly .
• 1956: The film adaptation of Carl Zuckmayer's drama Der Hauptmann von Köpenick with Heinz Rühmann in the title role is premiered in Cologne.
• 1976: Dancing Queen , number 1 hit in the USA and many other countries and thus probably the world's most successful song by the Swedish pop group ABBA , is released.
• 1977: Pictures of Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora , painted by Lucas Cranach , exhibited in the State Museum in Hanover , are victims of an acid attack.
• 1977: The US-American singer, musician and actor Elvis Presley , who is considered the most successful solo artist in the world, dies in his residence " Graceland " in Memphis, Tennessee .

company

• 1969: Charles Manson and other members of the Manson Family are arrested on suspicion of car theft, but released a few days later.
• 1975: Serial killer Ted Bundy is arrested for the first time in Utah.
• 1988: The Gladbeck hostage drama begins in a branch of Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck , which only ends 54 hours later on the motorway between Cologne and Frankfurt am Main.
• 2017: The Minamata Convention enters into force.

religion

• 1821: The Archdiocese of Freiburg is established by papal decree, the centuries-old Diocese of Constance expires at the same time.
• 2005: In Taizé , the founder of the monastery, Brother Roger, is fatally injured with a knife by a mentally ill woman during evening prayer.
• 2005: The World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne is opened.

Disasters

1906: Earthquake in Valparaiso

• 1899: 99 people are killed in the sinking of the Meikle Ferry in northern Scotland .
• 1906: An earthquake of intensity 8.2 rocked the Chilean city of Valparaiso and calls about 20,000 deaths.
• 1942: The US naval airship L-8 lands as a ghost ship without its crew in Daly City / California. The two pilots remain missing.
• 1942: The German submarine U 507 sinks the three unarmed Brazilian passenger ships Araraquara (131 dead), Annibal Benévolo (150 dead) and Baependy (270 dead) one after the other without warning .
• 1976: A magnitude 7.9 earthquake kills around 8,000 people in Mindanao , Philippines .
• 1987: In Detroit in the US state of Michigan a passenger plane crashes shortly after takeoff on a busy street. 156 people die, one child is saved.
• 1988: The Bagauda Dam in Nigeria breaks; 23 people died as a result of the tidal wave.
• 2005: All 160 passengers in the passenger jet are killed in a plane crash in Venezuela . The airline West Caribbean Airlines alleging that crashed McDonnell Douglas MD-82 around Machiques in westvenezolanischen state Zulia.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

• 1812: Arnold Abbühl, Joseph Bortis and Alois Volker succeed in climbing the Finsteraarhorn , the highest mountain in the Bernese Alps , for the first time .
• 1930: The 1930 British Empire Games , the first edition of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games , opens in Hamilton , Ontario, Canada . Around 400 athletes from 11 countries take part, but women are only allowed to participate in the water sports disciplines.
• 1935: Augustine Cortauld, Jack Longland, Ebbe Munck, HG Wager and Laurence Wager manage the first ascent of Gunnbjørns Fjeld , the highest mountain in Greenland . The next successful ascent of the inaccessible mountain was not possible until 1971.
• 1936: The closing ceremony of the XI takes place in Berlin . Olympic Games take place. The games became a propaganda success for the National Socialists because for the first time it was not the USA that won the most medals, but Germany. 
• 1960: Joseph Kittinger parachutes 31,332 meters from a helium balloon. Kittinger reaches a speed of 988 km / h and falls for four minutes and 36 seconds until the main parachute opens at a height of around 5,500 meters. With this company, Kittinger sets three world records, one of which has not been exceeded to date (four minutes and 36 seconds of free fall).

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 

  Albrecht II of Habsburg
  (* 1397)

• 

  Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
  (* 1604)

• 

  Jean de La Bruyère
  (* 1645)

• 1355: Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster , English nobleman
• 1378: Hongxi , Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
• 1397: Albrecht II , Roman-German King, King of Hungary and Bohemia, Duke of Austria
• 1557: Agostino Carracci , Italian painter and engraver
• 1565: Christine of Lorraine , Grand Duchess of Tuscany
• 1573: Anna , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Poland, Grand Duchess of Lithuania and Queen of Sweden
• 1587: Khusrau Mirza , eldest son of Mughal Mughal Jahangir and brother of Shah Jahan
• 1599: Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla , Viceroy of New Spain and Viceroy of Navarre
• 1603: Adam Olearius , German writer and diplomat
• 1604: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar , German general during the Thirty Years War
• 1608: Louis Rattuit de Souches , imperial general
• 1625: Hermann Werner von Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht , Prince-Bishop of Paderborn
• 1645: Jean de La Bruyère , French writer
• 1650: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli , Italian cartographer and manufacturer of globes
• 1655: Friedrich Christian zu Schaumburg-Lippe , sovereign of Schaumburg-Lippe
• 1664: Alfons Ambuel , Swiss officer and politician
• 1693: Christian Ernst Endter , doctor and writer in Hamburg and Altona
• 1696: Marc-Pierre d'Argenson , French nobleman and minister
• 1700: Clemens August I of Bavaria , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne

18th century

• 

  Pierre Méchain
  (* 1744)

• 1706: Florian Bahr , German Jesuit and China missionary
• 1711: Johann Ludwig Seekatz , German painter
• 1719: Johann Friedrich Hirt , German theologian and orientalist
• 1724: Marcantonio Colonna , Italian bishop and cardinal
• 1727: Friedrich August Fischer , German legal scholar
• 1736: Valentin Rose the Elder , German pharmacist and assessor
• 1744: Pierre Méchain , French astronomer and geographer
• 1759: Carl Frederik von Breda , Swedish painter
• 1761: Yevstignei Ipatowitsch Fomin , Russian composer
• 1763: Frederick Augustus, Duke of York and Albany , Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, British military leader
• 1767: Reinhold Bernhard Jachmann , German theologian and educator
• 1771: Jonathan Roberts , American politician
• 1772: Anton Bauer , German legal scholar
• 1789: Amos Kendall , American politician
• 1791: Jakob Ihrler , German master stonemason and quarry owner
• 1795: Heinrich Marschner , German opera composer
• 1798: Mirabeau B. Lamar , American politician, ambassador, and President of the Republic of Texas
• 1800: Charles Rogier , Belgian statesman

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802: Isaac Adams , American inventor
• 1802: Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch , German mathematician and philosopher
• 1805: Amancio Alcorta , Argentine composer and politician
• 1808: Ernst von Leutsch , German classical philologist
• 1814: Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner , German classical philologist
• 1815: Johannes Bosco , Italian priest and founder of the order
• 1821: Arthur Cayley , English mathematician
• 1826: Gustav von Diest , German lawyer, Prussian government president and author
• 1827: Ernst Immanuel Bekker , German lawyer and university professor
• 1827: Johann Siegwald Dahl , German painter
• 1827: Hyacinth Holland , German art and literary historian
• 1832: Wilhelm Wundt , German philosopher and psychologist
• 1833: Edwin Nil , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1836: Eugen Petersen , German archaeologist
• 1838: Marina Krebs , German writer
• 1845: Arvid Ahnfelt , Swedish literary historian
• 1845: Gabriel Lippmann , Luxembourg physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1848: Friedrich Bohndorff , German African explorer and ornithologist

• 

  Gabriel Lippmann
  (* 1845)

• 

  Adolf Schlatter
  (* 1852)

• 

  Jules Laforgue
  (* 1860)

1851-1900

• 1852: Adolf Schlatter , Swiss Protestant theologian
• 1852: Hermann von Soden , Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• 1857: John Nixon , British general
• 1858: Arthur Achleitner , German writer
• 1860: Jules Laforgue , French poet
• 1862: Ludwig Plate , German zoologist
• 1863: Gabriel Pierné , French composer
• 1865: Denis Joseph Dougherty , Archbishop of Philadelphia
• 1865: Ettore Tolomei , Italian nationalist
• 1866: Rudolf Greinz , Austrian writer
• 1868: Charles Sanford Skilton , American composer and organist
• 1869: Léon Kauffman , Luxembourg politician
• 1869: Rainer Simons , German singer, director and theater director
• 1871: Adolf Stein , German conservative journalist and writer
• 1871: Sachari Paliashvili , Georgian composer
• 1872: Jane Atché , French painter, graphic artist and poster artist
• 1872: Siegmund von Hausegger , Austrian composer and conductor
• 1876: Ivan Jakowlewitsch Bilibin , Russian painter and book illustrator
• 1877: Augusto Giacometti , Swiss painter
• 1880: Waldemar Kophamel , German submarine commander
• 1881: William Wadsworth Hodkinson , American film entrepreneur
• 1882: Erhard Doebler , German-Baltic clergyman and educator, Protestant martyr
• 1882: Christian Mortensen , Danish-American age record holder
• 1884: Hugo Gernsback , German publisher and writer
• 1884: Hanna Henning , German film director
• 1884: Issaak Masepa , Ukrainian politician
• 1888: Electra Havemeyer Webb , American art collector and museum founder
• 1888: Thomas E. Lawrence , British archaeologist, writer and secret agent
• 1889: Franz Böhner , German politician
• 1889: Franz Reisinger , Austrian theologian, founder of the “Secular Institute of St. Francis of Sales "
• 1889: Hans Steinmeyer , German organ builder
• 1891: Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen , Princess of Sachsen-Meiningen and Princess of Prussia
• 1891: Fritz Wiedemann , German officer
• 1892: Hal Foster , American comic book artist
• 1892: Paul Hatvani , Austrian writer, chemist and translator
• 1893: Hans Koch , German lawyer and resistance fighter
• 1895: Albert Cohen , Swiss writer
• 1895: Jacinto Guerrero , Spanish composer
• 1895: Liane Haid , Austrian actress and singer
• 1896: Tina Modotti , Italian actress, photographer and revolutionary
• 1896: Alfred Rhode , German judoka
• 1896: Fritz Tarbuk , Austrian entrepreneur
• 1896: Kraudn Sepp , Bavarian zither player and folk music singer
• 1897: Roberta Gropper , German politician
• 1898: Josef Henselmann , German sculptor
• 1898: Jerome Irving Rodale , American author and publisher
• 1899: Dewey Scanlon , American football coach
• 1899: Glenn Strange , American actor, singer, and film composer

20th century

1901-1925

Wendell Meredith Stanley (* 1904)

Marian Rejewski (* 1905)

Menachem Begin (* 1913)

• 1902: Georgette Heyer , British writer
• 1902: Stefan Bolesław Poradowski , Polish composer
• 1903: Ernst Assmann , German forest scientist
• 1903: Eduard Hermann , German actor and radio play director
• 1904: Ernst Wilhelm Eschmann , German writer
• 1904: Robert Dorsay , German singer, dancer and actor
• 1904: Genda Minoru , Japanese Air Force general and politician
• 1904: Wendell Meredith Stanley , American chemist, biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1905: Hans Fiebrandt , German actor
• 1905: Marian Rejewski , Polish mathematician and cryptologist
• 1905: Germaine Rouault , French racing car driver
• 1906: George Connor , American racing car driver
• 1906: Pedro Galindo , Mexican singer, composer, actor and film producer
• 1906: Franz Josef II , Prince of Liechtenstein
• 1906: Walter Kühlthau , German politician
• 1906: Edward Ochab , Polish politician and general
• 1907: Alexander Uriah Boskovitch , Israeli music teacher and composer
• 1907: Mae Clarke , actress
• 1907: Edward James , English art collector and writer
• 1909: Kurt Lischka , German Gestapo chief in Paris
• 1911: Ernst Friedrich Schumacher , British economist
• 1911: Evelyn Furtsch , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1912: Ted Drake , English cricketer, soccer player and coach
• 1913: Menachem Begin , Israeli politician, minister, prime minister, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1914: Gudrun Genest , German actress
• 1914: Pawel Stepanowitsch Kutachow , Soviet pilot
• 1915: Al Hibbler , American singer
• 1916: Kurt Fichtner , German politician, Minister for Ore Mining and Metallurgy of the GDR, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
• 1917: Roque Cordero , Panamanian composer
• 1918: Jan van Beekum , Dutch composer and conductor
• 1919: Horst Gerlach , German politician
• 1920: Günther Abendroth , German politician
• 1920: Charles Bukowski , American poet and writer
• 1920: Elias Nijmé , Syrian Archbishop
• 1920: José Tamayo , Spanish theater director and director
• 1921: Hans Asplund , Swedish architect
• 1921: Avrahm Galper , Canadian clarinetist and music teacher
• 1921: Max Thurian , Swiss theologian
• 1921: Kurt Weiler , GDR animation director
• 1921: Dick Wildung , American football player
• 1922: Zdeněk Matějček , Czech child psychologist
• 1923: Gerhard Scholten , Austrian author
• 1923: Rudolf Schulten , German nuclear technologist, developer of the pebble bed reactor
• 1924: Ralf Bendix , German pop singer
• 1925: Mal Waldron , American jazz pianist

1926-1950

• 1926: Helmut Gerstenberg , German engineer and inventor
• 1927: John Henry Barnes , American founder of the Christian Scouting Society Royal Rangers
• 1927: Herbert Schäfer , German soccer player and coach
• 1927: Karl-Heinz Vosgerau , German actor
• 1928: Ann Blyth , American actress
• 1928: Ara Guler , Turkish photographer
• 1928: Gerd Lausen , German politician
• 1929: Bill Evans , American musician
• 1929: Ina-Maria Greverus , German folklorist and cultural anthropologist
• 1929: Fritz Nachmann , German luge rider
• 1929: Helmut Rahn , German soccer player
• 1930: Simha Arom , French-Israeli ethnomusicologist
• 1930: Robert Culp , American actor
• 1930: Frank Gifford , American football player
• 1930: Manfred Schulte , German lawyer and politician
• 1930: Tony Trabert , American tennis player

Wolfgang Völz (* 1930)

• 1930: Wolfgang Völz , German television and film actor
• 1932: Willi Gierlich , German soccer player
• 1932: Christopher Okigbo , Nigerian lyric poet
• 1933: Reiner Kunze , German writer and GDR dissident
• 1933: Witold Leszczyński , Polish film director, photographer and screenwriter
• 1933: Julie Newmar , American actress
• 1933: Stuart Roosa , US astronaut
• 1933: Reiulf Steen , Norwegian politician
• 1934: Diana Wynne Jones , British author
• 1934: Jean Löring , German entrepreneur
• 1934: Gottfried Müller , German theologian and politician, Minister for Media Policy of the GDR, President of the Landtag
• 1934: Andrew J. Offutt , American writer
• 1934: Pierre Richard , French actor
• 1934: Hermann Selbherr , game director of the DFB club cup
• 1934: John Standing , British actor
• 1935: Cyril Mar Baselios Malancharuvil , Grand Archbishop of Trivandrum
• 1935: Pam Seaborne , British hurdler
• 1935: Jörg Wischmeier , German triple jumper
• 1936: Carolyn Jennings , American composer and music teacher
• 1936: Horst Wessel , German philosopher
• 1936: Robert G. Wetzel , American limnologist
• 1937: David Behrman , American composer, sound and installation artist, music teacher and pioneer of computer music
• 1937: Gerhard Pohl , German politician
• 1937: Rudi Thurow , GDR border soldier and escape helper

Rocco Granata (* 1938)

• 1938: Rocco Granata , Italian singer
• 1938: Werner Hansch , German sports journalist
• 1938: Bill Masterton , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1939: Seán Brady , Irish Archbishop
• 1939: Valeri Viktorovich Ryumin , Soviet or Russian cosmonaut
• 1939: Billy Joe Shaver , Texas writer, songwriter, and singer
• 1940: Bruce Beresford , Australian film director, writer, producer and actor
• 1940: Jan Eik , German writer and non-fiction author
• 1940: Alexander Mandziara , Polish football player and coach
• 1941: Ahmad al-Mirghani , Sudanese President
• 1941: Théoneste Bagosora , Rwandan officer
• 1941: Kōjin Karatani , Japanese literary scholar and philosopher
• 1941: Helga Schultz , German historian
• 1942: Hartmut Bietz , German composer
• 1942: Christian Fenner , German political scientist
• 1942: Dietrich Hollinderbäumer , German-Swedish actor
• 1942: Reinhard Klektiven , German politician, Prime Minister of the Saarland, Federal Minister
• 1942: Lesley Turner , Australian tennis player
• 1944: Kevin Ayers , British musician
• 1944: Friederike de Haas , German politician
• 1944: Karin Schubert , German politician
• 1945: Bob Balaban , actor, director, film producer
• 1945: Manfred Clauss , German ancient historian
• 1945: Suzanne Farrell , American dancer
• 1945: Joachim Rückert , German legal scholar
• 1946: Masud Barzani , Kurdish politician
• 1946: Sheila B. Devotion , French pop singer
• 1946: Friedhelm Loh , German entrepreneur
• 1946: Alexander Stephan , German-American Germanist and university professor

Lesley Ann Warren (born 1946)

• 1946: Lesley Ann Warren , American actress
• 1947: Carol Moseley Braun , American politician
• 1947: Reinhard Buchholz , German diplomat
• 1947: Ephraim Inoni , Prime Minister of Cameroon
• 1947: Giancarlo Martini , Italian racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 1947: Dan Yuhas , Israeli composer
• 1948: Angela Stachowa , German politician
• 1948: Barry Hay , Indian-Dutch rock musician
• 1948: Gisela Hilbrecht , German politician
• 1948: Annemarie Huber-Hotz , Swiss Federal Chancellor
• 1949: Klaus Ehl , German athlete
• 1949: Rolf Knie , Swiss painter and artist
• 1950: Hasely Crawford , athlete from Trinidad and Tobago
• 1950: Wiltrud Drexel , Austrian ski racer
• 1950: Josef Göppel , German politician
• 1950: Jack Unterweger , Austrian criminal and writer

1951-1975

• 1951: Mats Olof Aronsson , Swedish football player
• 1951: Waltraut Borchmann , German actress
• 1951: Alois Lüönd , Swiss composer and Schwyzerörgeler
• 1952: Isa Jank , German actress
• 1952: Walter Olivera , Uruguayan football player
• 1952: Sonia Silvestre , Dominican singer
• 1952: Reginald VelJohnson , American actor
• 1953: Georg Friedrich Haas , Austrian composer
• 1954: James Cameron , Canadian film director
• 1954: George Galloway , British politician
• 1954: Christel Klinzmann , German soccer player
• 1954: Charbel Nahas , Lebanese politician
• 1955: Jeff Perry , American actor

Madonna
(* 1958)

• 1956: Mirella D'Angelo , Italian actress
• 1956: Beate Wilding , Lord Mayor of Remscheid
• 1957: Matthias Haase , German voice actor
• 1957: Laura Innes , American actress
• 1957: Christian Taschen , German actor
• 1958: Angela Bassett , American actress
• 1958: Madonna , American singer, film actress and author
• 1958: Reiner Marz , German politician
• 1959: Friedrich Aumayr , Austrian physicist
• 1959: Dennis Koslowski , American wrestler
• 1960: Susanne Fischer , German writer and journalist
• 1960: Egon Hirt , German ski racer
• 1960: Timothy Hutton , American actor
• 1960: Franz Welser-Möst , Austrian conductor
• 1961: Robert Ameerali , Vice President of Suriname
• 1962: Steve Carell , American actor and comedian
• 1963: Andreas Dresen , German film director
• 1963: Larry Nassar , American doctor and serial sex offender
• 1964: Eckart Breitschuh , German comic artist and author
• 1964: Kimmo Pohjonen , Finnish musician
• 1964: Jimmy Arias , American tennis player
• 1965: Ercan Durmaz , German actor of Turkish descent
• 1966: DJ Kayslay , American DJ and graffiti artist
• 1966: Ed Olczyk , Polish-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1967: Jason Everman , American guitarist
• 1967: Moritz Rinke , German playwright
• 1968: Mateja Svet , Slovenian ski racer
• 1968: Wolfgang Tillmans , German photographer
• 1969: Joaquim Andrade , Portuguese cyclist
• 1969: Yvan Muller , French racing car driver
• 1970: Caron Bernstein , South African-American actress, singer and model
• 1970: Fabio Casartelli , Italian racing cyclist
• 1970: Manisha Koirala , film actress in India
• 1970: Saif Ali Khan , Indian actor
• 1971: Dirk Lehmann , German soccer player
• 1971: Mathias Rusterholz , Swiss athlete
• 1971: Stefan Klos , German soccer player
• 1971: Rulon Gardner , American wrestler, Olympic champion
• 1972: Stan Lazaridis , Australian soccer player
• 1972: Nicole Werner , German soccer player and coach
• 1973: Mirko Puglioli , Italian racing cyclist
• 1973: Ana Galindo Santolaria , Spanish ski racer
• 1974: Didier Cuche , Swiss ski racer
• 1974: Iván Hurtado , Ecuadorian football player
• 1974: Krisztina Egerszegi , Hungarian swimmer
• 1974: Tomasz Frankowski , Polish football player
• 1974: Elton Julian , American racing car driver and racing team owner
• 1975: George Stults , American film actor and model
• 1975: Imants Bleidelis , Latvian football player
• 1975: Katalina Verdin , Mexican photo model

1976-2000

• 1976: Sandra Weiss , German singer
• 1977: Tamer Hosny , Egyptian singer, actor and composer
• 1977: Markus Palttala , Finnish racing car driver
• 1977: Thomas Rauer , German figure skater
• 1978: Patrick Würll , German soccer player
• 1978: Sylvia Benzinger , German wine queen
• 1980: Julien Absalon , French mountain biker
• 1980: Georgy Arsumanjan , Armenian chess player

Vanessa Carlton (* 1980)

• 1980: Vanessa Carlton , American pop singer and pianist
• 1980: Linda Chang , German actress
• 1980: Florian Gosch , Austrian volleyball player
• 1980: Robert Byron Hardy , British bassist ( Franz Ferdinand )
• 1980: Denise Karbon , Italian ski racer
• 1980: Rob Nguyen , Australian racing driver
• 1980: Benjamin Schöckel , German soccer player
• 1981: Karim Bridji , Algerian footballer
• 1981: Denis Gremelmayr , German tennis player
• 1981: Roque Santa Cruz , Paraguayan soccer player
• 1981: Vlatko Mitkov , Macedonian handball player
• 1981: Taylor Rain , American porn actress
• 1982: Cam Gigandet , American actor
• 1982: Joleon Lescott , English football player
• 1982: Julia Schruff , German tennis player
• 1982: Stefan Maierhofer , Austrian soccer player
• 1983: Dante López , Paraguayan football player
• 1983: Krystyna Guzik , Polish biathlete
• 1983: Nikolaos Zisis , Greek basketball player
• 1983: Poom Jensen , grandson of the Thai King Rama IX.
• 1984: Matteo Anesi , Italian speed skater
• 1984: Martin Morczinietz , German ice hockey player
• 1986: Felicity Abram , Australian triathlete
• 1986: Leslie Clio , German singer
• 1986: Christian Poser , German bobsleigh driver
• 1986: Shawn Pyfrom , American actor
• 1987: Animus , German rapper
• 1987: Martin Walde , German actor
• 1987: Carey Price , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988: Ismaïl Aissati , Dutch-Moroccan football player
• 1988: James Cole , British racing driver
• 1988: Kevin Schmidt , American actor
• 1989: Hauke ​​Diekamp , German film actor
• 1990: Alexander Andreevich Antropov , Russian ice hockey player
• 1990: Tolgay Arslan , German-Turkish soccer player
• 1991: Evanna Lynch , Irish actress
• 1991: Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse , Canadian actress
• 1991: Roeland Pruijssers , Dutch chess player

Victoria Swarovski (* 1993)

• 1993: Victoria Swarovski , German-Austrian pop singer
• 1993: Cameron Monaghan , American actor
• 1993: Karien Robbers , Dutch rower
• 1994: Koray Günter , German-Turkish soccer player
• 1996: Maximilian Lahnsteiner , Austrian ski racer
• 1997: Piper Curda , American actress

21st century

• 2001: Amadou Onana , Belgian-Senegalese football player

Died

Before the 17th century

• 1027: Giorgi I , King of Georgia
• 1031: Wigger , Bishop of Verden
• 1064: Ibn Hazm , Arab polymath in Andalusia
• 1153: Bernard de Tromelai , Grand Master of the Templar Order
• 1157: Ramiro II the monk , King of Aragon
• 1161: Günther von Henneberg , 1146–1161 Bishop of Speyer
• 1190: Dedo V. the Feiste , Margrave of Ostmark and Niederlausitz
• 1225: Hōjō Masako , Japanese noblewoman
• 1236: Thomas de Blundeville , Bishop of Norwich

Azzo Visconti
(† 1339)

John the Steadfast
(† 1532)

• 1291: Friedrich Tuta , regent of the Margraviate of Meissen
• 1297: John II , Emperor of Trebizond
• 1304: Johan II. Van der Leede , Dutch nobleman
• 1327: Vital du Four , French theologian, philosopher and alchemist
• 1327: Rochus of Montpellier , French saint
• 1328: Rinaldo dei Bonacolsi , Italian local ruler
• 1339: Azzo Visconti , imperial vicar and conqueror
• 1358: Albrecht II , Duke of Austria
• 1397: Philip II of Alençon , French cardinal
• 1410: Francesco Datini , merchant, largest dealer archive of the Middle Ages
• 1417: Keno II. Tom Brok , chief of Brokmerlande (East Frisia)
• 1418: Angelo Barbarigo , Italian cardinal
• 1419: Wenzel , Roman-German King, King of Bohemia, Elector of Brandenburg
• 1443: Ashikaga Yoshikatsu , Japanese shogun
• 1445: Margaret of Scotland , wife of Louis XI. from France
• 1449: Christian von Erpel , vicar general in Cologne
• 1466: Winnemar Gruters von Wachtendonk , priest, official and vicar general of the Archdiocese of Cologne
• 1500: Theodericus Brandes , German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1506: Dietrich II. Arndes , Bishop of Lübeck
• 1518: Loyset Compère , Flemish composer, singer and cleric
• 1527: Leonhard Kaiser , Lutheran theologian and reformer
• 1532: Johann the Steadfast , Elector of Saxony
• 1533: Diego Ribero , Spanish cartographer and explorer
• 1545: Johannes Bader , German theologian and reformer
• 1582: Pietro Perna , Italian printer and publisher

17th and 18th centuries

• 1635: Daniel Colonius the Elder , Dutch Reformed theologian
• 1657: Pieter Claesz. Soutman , Dutch painter and engraver
• 1661: Thomas Fuller , English historian
• 1664: Johann Buxtorf the Younger , Reformed theologian and orientalist
• 1678: Andrew Marvell , English poet and politician

• 

  Andrew Marvell
  († 1678)

• 

  Jakob I Bernoulli
  († 1705)

• 

  Johann Georg Zimmermann
  († 1734)

• 1680: Jakob Andreas Crusius , German lawyer
• 1705: Jakob I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and physicist
• 1715: Johann Gregor Fuchs , Saxon architect and builder
• 1715: Marie Elisabeth of Hessen-Darmstadt , Duchess of Saxony-Römhild
• 1721: Christian Friedrich Hunold , poet
• 1723: Niels Stromberg , Swedish officer
• 1734: Johann Georg Zimmermann , German post commissioner
• 1743: Matthias Klotz , founder of violin making in Mittenwald
• 1744: Johann Jakob Dachs , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1746: Giuseppe Gonzaga , Spanish Duke of Guastalla
• 1748: Pier Giuseppe Sandoni , Italian composer
• 1748: Heinrich Nicolaus Trebs , court organ builder for the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar
• 1750: Philipp Ludwig Dreyzigermark , German Protestant clergyman
• 1765: Tharsander , pseudonym of the pastor Georg Wilhelm Wegener
• 1775: Jacob Langebek , Danish historian
• 1777: Nicholas Herkimer , militia general in the American War of Independence
• 1781: Charles-François de Broglie , French diplomat
• 1783: Ephraim Schröger , German architect
• 1800: Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle , German botanist
• 1800: Charles Emanuel of Savoy-Carignan , Prince of Carignan

19th century

• 1801: Ralph Earl , American painter
• 1807: Bruno de Heceta , Spanish navigator and explorer
• 1808: Karl Friedrich Häberlin , lawyer
• 1815: Friederike Bethmann-Unzelmann , German actress and singer
• 1820: Johann Georg Scheffner , lawyer, writer and Freemason
• 1822: Johann Adam Freiherr von Aretin , Bavarian politician
• 1824: Charles Thomson , American writer and politician of Irish descent
• 1825: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , American politician
• 1829: Karl Gesenius , German lawyer and collector
• 1829: Carl Gotthelf Glaeser the Younger , German composer and music director
• 1836: Marc-Antoine Parseval , French mathematician
• 1837: Christian Ludwig Nitzsch , German biologist
• 1837: William Daniell , British painter
• 1838: Yohannan VIII. Hormizd , Patriarch of Babylon and Chaldeans
• 1846: Sylvain-Charles Valée , General and Marshal of France
• 1854: Moissei Ivanovich Karpenko , Russian general
• 1860: August Heinrich Simon , German politician
• 1864: John Randolph Chambliss, Jr. , Confederate General in the Civil War
• 1867: Johann Heinrich Deinhardt , German educator
• 1867: Joseph Ambrosius Geritz , Bishop of Warmia
• 1867: Friedrich Haase , German classical philologist
• 1870: Jules Léotard , French artist
• 1871: Charles Dezobry , French historian and archaeologist
• 1872: Philipp Engelhard von Natick , conservative publicist
• 1876: Charles Grandison Finney , American revival minister
• 1877: Johann Caspar Harkort V. , German entrepreneur
• 1878: Max Hödel , an assassin
• 1879: Aloys Pollender , German doctor and discoverer of the anthrax pathogen
• 1880: Herschel Johnson , American politician, governor of Georgia
• 1882: Auguste-Alexandre Ducrot , French general
• 1885: Goode Bryan , Confederate General in the American Civil War
• 1886: Ramakrishna , Indian Hindu mystic
• 1887: Julius von Haast , German geologist, naturalist and explorer

• 

  John Pemberton
  († 1888)

• 

  Jean-Martin Charcot
  († 1893)

• 

  Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
  († 1899)

• 1888: John Pemberton , American pharmacist, officer, inventor of Coca-Cola
• 1893: Jean-Martin Charcot , French neurologist
• 1894: Ludwig Knoop , entrepreneur
• 1895: Mathieu Auguste Geffroy , French historian
• 1899: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen , German chemist ( spectral analysis, Bunsen burner, Bunsen element and Bunsen photometer )
• 1900: José Maria Eça de Queiroz , Portuguese writer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1903: Frederick Edward Raven , English preacher and Bible interpreter
• 1904: Adolf Ausfeld , German classical philologist
• 1906: Ignatius of Senestrey , Bishop of Regensburg
• 1907: Hugo Constantin Cuno Oskar August Appelius , German lawyer
• 1907: Heinrich Spoerry , Swiss industrialist and mountaineer
• 1909: Georges Picot , French lawyer and historian
• 1910: Charles Lenepveu , French composer and music teacher
• 1910: Pedro Montt Montt , Chilean politician
• 1912: Carl Prüssing , German chemist and cement manufacturer
• 1912: Johann Martin Schleyer , German pastor, poet and philanthropist
• 1916: Umberto Boccioni , Italian painter and sculptor
• 1917: Wilhelm Morgner , German expressionist painter
• 1919: Andrew Sockalexis , American long-distance runner
• 1920: Joseph Norman Lockyer , British astrophysicist
• 1921: Peter I , King of Serbs, Croatia-Slavonia and the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
• 1921: Sándor Wekerle , politician and first non-aristocratic Hungarian prime minister
• 1925: Alfred Merz , Austrian-German oceanographer
• 1926: Emanuel Felke , Protestant pastor and naturopath
• 1928: Antonín Sova , Czech poet and writer
• 1932: Karl Fazer , Finnish baker, confectioner, chocolatier and entrepreneur
• 1933: Gotthelf Bergstrasse , German orientalist
• 1936: Ralph Scott , American football player and coach
• 1937: Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau , German large agrarian, lobbyist and MdR
• 1937: Rodolfo Chiari , Prime Minister and President of Panama
• 1938: Andrej Hlinka , Slovak priest and politician
• 1938: Felix Busch , Prussian civil servant
• 1938: Robert Johnson , American blues musician
• 1940: William Anderson , Australian theater director
• 1940: Henri Desgrange , French editor and founder of the Tour de France
• 1941: Felix Mader , German priest, art historian and monument conservator
• 1941: Michael Murach , German boxer
• 1942: Rudolf Greinz , Austrian writer
• 1942: Thorvald Otterstrom , American composer
• 1944: Roman Padlewski , Polish composer, violinist, pianist, musicologist and critic
• 1944: Arthur Weineck , German worker functionary (SPD, KPD) and resistance fighter
• 1944: Kurt Schlosser , German communist and resistance fighter
• 1944: Marie Behncke , German politician of the (SPD) and member of the Weimar National Assembly
• 1945: Nico Richter , Dutch composer
• 1948: Edward Hill Amet , American inventor
• 1948: George Herman Ruth , American baseball player
• 1948: Harry Dexter White , American economist and politician
• 1949: John Lemmoné , Australian flautist, composer and music manager
• 1949: Margaret Mitchell , American journalist and writer
• 1949: Otto Steinbrinck , German naval officer and industrialist, defendant in the Nuremberg Flick Trial

1951-2000

• 1951: Eduardo Chibás , Cuban lawyer and politician after attempted suicide on August 5th
• 1952: Philipp Auerbach , German politician and state commissioner for the racially, religiously and politically persecuted
• 1952: Bernard Karfiol , American painter
• 1954: Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze , German writer and women's rights activist
• 1956: Bela Lugosi , Hungarian-American actor
• 1956: Theodor Pallady , Romanian painter
• 1956: Wilhelm Wenker , pastor of St. Hippolytus in Gelsenkirchen-Horst
• 1957: Irving Langmuir , American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1957: Hans Studer , Swiss engineer

Wanda Landowska
(† 1959)

• 1959: Wanda Landowska , harpsichordist and pianist
• 1961: Hugo Hirsch , German operetta and hit composer
• 1967: Dan Pickett , American blues singer and guitarist
• 1967: Erich Preiser , German economist
• 1971: August Oppenberg , German painter
• 1972: John Barnes Chance , American composer
• 1973: Renato Angiolillo , Italian journalist, politician and film director
• 1973: Hans Helmcke , West Berlin half-world size
• 1973: Selman Abraham Waksman , American researcher
• 1974: Hans Egon Engell , German politician
• 1974: Karl Earl Mundt , American politician
• 1975: Volodymyr Kuz , athlete from the Soviet Union
• 1975: Friedrich Sämisch , German chess player
• 1977: Heinz-Eberhardt Andres , German politician
• 1977: Paul Moor , Swiss educator

Elvis Presley
(† 1977)

• 1977: Elvis Presley , American singer, musician and actor
• 1978: Jean Acker , American actress
• 1978: Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1978: Paul Yü Pin , Chinese Cardinal, Archbishop of Nanking
• 1979: John Diefenbaker , Prime Minister of Canada
• 1979: Otto Kahn friend , lawyer and resistance fighter
• 1981: Viktor Achter , German lawyer, university professor and entrepreneur
• 1983: Earl Averill , American baseball player
• 1983: René Duverger , French weightlifter
• 1984: György Kósa , Hungarian composer
• 1985: Erwin Zucker-Schilling , Austrian journalist and writer
• 1987: Arthur Grundmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1988: Otto Bökle , German soccer player
• 1989: Jean-Hilaire Aubame , Gabonese politician
• 1989: Amanda Blake , American actress
• 1989: Ernst Bursche , German painter
• 1989: Helga Haase , speed skater in the GDR
• 1989: Heinz Hohlfeld , German chess player and official
• 1990: Berte Bratt , Norwegian writer
• 1990: Roland Charrière , French racing car driver
• 1990: Ernest Pogosjanz , Russian chess composer
• 1992: Malcolm Atterbury , American actor
• 1993: René Dreyfus , French racing driver
• 1993: Stewart Granger , American actor
• 1993: Héctor Zeoli , Argentine organist, composer and music teacher
• 1995: Ljubiša Broćić , Yugoslav football coach
• 1996: Miles Goodman , American composer
• 1997: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , Pakistani musician
• 1997: Jacques Pollet , French racing car driver
• 1998: Einar Heimisson , Icelandic writer
• 2000: Sally Amato , American singer and actress
• 2000: Arthur West , Austrian writer and journalist

21st century

• 2001: Götz von Houwald , German diplomat, ethnologist and historian
• 2001: Johannes Mischo , parapsychologist at the University of Freiburg
• 2002: Abu Nidal , Palestinian terrorist
• 2003: Idi Amin , Ugandan dictator
• 2004: Burnu Acquanetta , American actress
• 2004: Ivan Hlinka , Czech ice hockey player and national coach
• 2004: Carl Mydans , American photographer
• 2004: Robert Quiroga , American boxer
• 2004: John Unnerud , Norwegian rally driver
• 2005: Tonino Delli Colli , Italian cameraman
• 2005: Alexander Jakowlewitsch Gomelski , Russian basketball player and coach
• 2005: Milorad Pavić , Yugoslav football coach
• 2005: Joe Ranft , American screenwriter
• 2005: Eva Renzi , German actress
• 2005: Brother Roger , founder of the Taizé Men's Ecumenical Order
• 2006: Alex Buzo , Australian playwright and author
• 2006: Rudolf A. Hartmann , German opera singer
• 2006: Alfredo Stroessner , Paraguayan military and politician
• 2006: Krijn Torringa , Dutch television and radio presenter
• 2008: Ronnie Drew , Irish guitarist and singer
• 2010: Günther Wiesinger , Austrian politician and doctor
• 2011: Verena Wiet , German actress and voice actress
• 2012: John Lynch-Staunton , Canadian politician
• 2012: Paulos , Ethiopian Orthodox Patriarch
• 2012: Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent , Spanish filmmaker
• 2012: William Windom , American actor
• 2014: Peter Scholl-Latour , Franco-German journalist and writer
• 2015: Jacob Bekenstein , Israeli physicist
• 2016: João Havelange , Brazilian football official
• 2017: Vera Vitalyevna Glagolewa , Soviet / Russian theater and film actress, screenwriter and director
• 2018: Atal Bihari Vajpayee , Indian politician
• 2018: Aretha Franklin , American soul singer
• 2019: Peter Fonda , American actor and film director
• 2019: Felice Gimondi , Italian cyclist
• 2019: Ingo Kantorek , German amateur actor
• 2019: Christina von Oranien-Nassau , Dutch princess
• 2019: Richard Williams , Canadian animator, director and film producer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Johann the Steadfast , Elector of Saxony (Protestant)
  • Leonhard Kaiser , Austrian vicar and martyr (Protestant)
  • Isaac , ancestor of the people of Israel (Evangelical: LCMS )

• Name days
  • Achim , Joachim , Rochus

• State holidays and memorial days
  • USA (Vermont only): Bennington Battle Day (1777)

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

Web links

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