March 16

The March 16 is the 75th day of the Gregorian calendar (76th in leap years ), thus remain 290 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

597 BC Chr .: Nebuchadnezzar II.

• 597 BC Chr . : Jerusalem surrenders to the troops of the Babylonian great king Nabū-kudurrī-uṣur II. The Judean king Jojakim is captured, his uncle Zedekiah installed as a tributary king.
• 0455 : Followers of the army master Flavius ​​Aëtius , murdered the year before, slay the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III. during a troop inspection.
• 1190 : In the English city of York there is a pogrom against local Jews - presumably incited by influential debtors .

1244: Montségur mountain

• 1244 : The Cathars surrender to the Catholic troops after several months of siege at Montségur Castle . 225 Cathars who refuse to submit to the Catholic faith are publicly burned.
• 1521 : The Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan , sailing under the Spanish flag, discovers the Philippines .
• 1660 : After King Charles II ascended the English throne and invoked the rights of parliament, the " Long Parliament " , which had been in session since 1640, was formally dissolved.

Map of the theater of war 1735–1737

• 1737 : With the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the formally undeclared Spanish-Portuguese War ends in South America.
• 1792 : Jacob Johan Anckarström assassinated the Swedish King Gustav III at a masked ball . , who died of the gunshot wound on March 29th. The event is based on Giuseppe Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera .

1802: Coat of arms of the military academy

• 1802 : US President Thomas Jefferson converts the West Point fort into a military academy by law to remedy the shortage of officers in the US Army.
• 1812 : During the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , a Portuguese-British army under Arthur Wellesley begins the siege of the French garrison in Badajoz , which will last until April 6th.
• 1813 : In compliance with the Convention of Tauroggen with Russia declared Prussia the French Empire the war and thus into the tread- liberation wars against Napoleon Bonaparte ( War of the Sixth Coalition on).
• 1815 : William I accepts the title of King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands . His kingdom consists of the Netherlands , Belgium and Luxembourg .
• 1816 : With the Treaty of Turin , the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont cedes several Savoyard communities to the Canton of Geneva .
• 1818 : Cancha Rayada's surprise in the Chilean quest for independence brings the Spaniards a victory over the Andean army commanded by José de San Martín . Because of the higher losses of the victorious colonial troops compared to the rebel army, the battle is considered a Pyrrhic victory .

1861: Sam Houston

• 1861 : Sam Houston refuses to take the oath of office on the Confederate States of America and resigns as governor of Texas . Edward Clark will be his successor two days later .

1916: António José de Almeida

• 1916 : In Portugal , due to the country's entry into the First World War, a grand coalition government, the "Government of Sacred Unity", is formed. António José de Almeida becomes head of government to succeed Afonso Costa , who takes over the finance ministry.
• 1917 : One day after the handover of the reign by his brother Nicholas II in the course of the February Revolution , the Russian Tsar Mikhail II hands over power to the provisional government under Georgi Evgenjewitsch Lwow and Alexander Fjodorowitsch Kerensky , without expressly abdicating.

Free State of Fiume until 1924, (orange: old urban area, yellow: attached in 1920)

• 1924 : In accordance with the agreement with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes set out in the Treaty of Rome , Italy annexes the independent Free State of Fiume .
• 1935 : Following the official annulment of the Treaty of Versailles by the German Reich , Adolf Hitler orders the reintroduction of general conscription . At the same time, the Reichswehr is renamed the Wehrmacht .
• 1936 : The “ Great Socialist Trial ” begins before the Vienna Regional Court , a high treason trial against Karl Hans Sailer , Maria Emhart and other members of the Revolutionary Socialists, who were operating underground after the Austro-Fascist ban on the Social Democratic Party .
• 1939 : The Second Czechoslovak Republic , occupied the day before by the German Wehrmacht in breach of the Munich Agreement of September 1938, is dissolved and declared by Adolf Hitler to be the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia of the Greater German Reich . The Carpathian Ukraine is simultaneously occupied and annexed by Hungary.
• 1945 : By British bombing the city will Würzburg to more than 80 percent destroyed . Around 5000 people are killed.
• 1946 : On for treason sentenced journalist Max Blokzijl is as the first Dutchman after the Second World War, the death penalty enforced. He spread National Socialist propaganda over the radio during the German occupation.
• 1951 : The law on the Federal Border Guard is passed at the time of the rearmament discussion . The federal special police was initially given up on border security.
• 1965 : In protest against the Vietnam War , 82-year-old peace activist Alice Herz sets herself on fire in Detroit. She succumbs to her injuries a few days later.

1968: Murdered people in My Lai

• 1968 : During the Vietnam War , members of the US Army kill over 500 men, women and children who they describe as members of the Viet Cong in the South Vietnamese village of My Lai 4 to improve the military statistics . Only the active intervention of the helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson junior ended the My Lai massacre .

1978: Aldo Moro in captivity

• 1978 : Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Brigate Rosse ( Red Brigades ) terrorist group . He is found murdered 55 days later.
• 1984 : In Beirut, the local CIA chief William F. Buckley is kidnapped by Hezbollah . He dies after 444 days of torture.
• 1986 : The country's accession to the UN is rejected by a clear majority in a Swiss referendum .
• 1988 : Towards the end of the First Gulf War , the Iraqi air force under dictator Saddam Hussein launched a poison gas attack on the mainly Kurdish city of Halabja in northeast Iraq. Around 5,000 people are killed in the attack ordered by Ali Hasan al-Majid , and over 7,000 people suffer permanent damage to their health.

1990: Wilde Lilien student protests

• 1990 : The Wilde Lilien movement , a student movement that calls for democratic reforms, begins in Taipei ( Republic of China in Taiwan ) .
• 1994 : Seven people died in an arson attack on a house in Stuttgart where foreigners lived , and 16 others were injured, some seriously.

1995: The 13th Amendment

• 1995 : Mississippi becomes the last US state to ratify the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution on the Abolition of Slavery after rejecting ratification in 1865.
• 1997 : The commander of the military forces of Papua New Guinea arrests the personnel of the mercenary group Sandline International , with which he was supposed to work, and thus starts the Sandline affair in the conflict over Bougainville , which ultimately leads to the resignation of Prime Minister Julius Chan .

2001: Location of the Hawar Islands

• 2001 : In the dispute over the Hawar Islands and part of the opposite mainland between Bahrain and Qatar , the International Court of Justice in The Hague awards the islands of Bahrain to mainland Qatar. Both countries submit to arbitration and thus, as the first states of the Arabian Peninsula , to international jurisdiction.
• 2008 : Georg Rosenthal ( SPD ) wins the runoff election for the office of Lord Mayor of the City of Würzburg against the incumbent Pia Beckmann ( CSU ).
• 2018 : After Bavaria's previous Prime Minister and CSU boss Horst Seehofer moved to Berlin as Minister of the Interior , the Landtag in the Maximilianeum elects Markus Söder as the eleventh Prime Minister of Bavaria.

economy

• 1830 : The New York Stock Exchange had the lowest daily turnover in its history. Out of 80 million listed shares, only 31 are traded.
• 1867 : The classification society Germanischer Lloyd is founded in Hamburg.
• 1886 : Kaiser Wilhelm I sanctions the construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Canal as a connection between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea .

1894: Carl Haber

• 1894 : Since the first attempt at founding in April of the previous year is not recognized by the registry court, a formal justifying meeting of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbH, (GEG) , takes place in Hamburg by the authorized representatives Carl Haber and Ewald Fritsch .
• 1922 : The Berdux piano factory is created in Munich as a stock corporation from the transformation of the sole proprietorship .

science and technology

• 1798 : Napoleon Bonaparte sets up the Commission des sciences et es arts on behalf of the board of directors , a multidisciplinary group of experts to accompany him on the campaign to Egypt .
• 1842 : The steamship HMS Driver takes off from England on the first steamship trip around the world . The warship returns after various missions in 1847.

1912: The Terra Nova expedition (blue)

• 1912 : As his health deteriorates rapidly, Lawrence Oates , a member of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition , leaves the tent and declares "it could take a little longer" . He doesn't return anymore.
• 1921 : During an experiment, the German chemist Fritz Winkler discovers another physical state : plasma .
• 1926 : The American rocket pioneer Robert Goddard carries out the first successful launch of a liquid rocket with the support of the Smithsonian Institution .
• 1942 : The first test launch of a V-2 rocket takes place in the Army Research Institute in Peenemünde . The missile explodes when ignited.
• 1962 : The Soviet Union launches the first satellite in the Kosmos series, Kosmos 1 , from the Kapustin Yar missile base .

1966: Start of Gemini 8

• 1966 : The two American astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Randolph Scott create the first docking maneuver with Gemini 8 by docking with an Agena stage previously brought into space by an Atlas rocket .
• 1983 : In Ismaning , the last wooden transmission tower in Germany is blown up because it is dilapidated.

Culture

• 1765 : The first performance of the comic opera Le Tonnelier by François-Joseph Gossec takes place at the Comédie Italienne in Paris.
• 1831 : Victor Hugo publishes his historical novel Notre Dame de Paris ( The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ) in Paris .
• 1833 : The opera Beatrice di Tenda by Vincenzo Bellini is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

1850: First edition of The Scarlet Letter

• 1850 : Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter appears for the first time.
• 1887 : The premiere of the opera Proserpine by Camille Saint-Saëns takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris .
• 1891 : The opera Le Mage by Jules Massenet is premiered at the Grand Opéra Paris.
• 1894 : The world premiere of the opera Thaïs by Jules Massenet with a libretto by Louis Gallet based on the novel of the same name by Anatole France takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris and is received critically.
• 1901 : In Moscow experienced the first symphony by Alexander Scriabin its first complete performance (with choral finale).
• 1904 : In Germany, the book edition of the play Der Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler is banned by the authorities.
• 1904 : The opera La Fille de Roland by Henri Rabaud is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1905 : The tragic opera Amica by Pietro Mascagni based on the libretto by Paul de Choudens is premiered at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte-Carlo .
• 1932 : The world premiere of the opera Maria Egiziaca by Ottorino Respighi takes place at Carnegie Hall in New York.
• 1923 : The incorruptible by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is premiered at the Raimund Theater in Vienna .
• 1967 : The comedy The Anabaptist by Friedrich Dürrenmatt is premiered at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .
• 1969 : The ballet The Taming of the Shrew by John Cranko (libretto, choreography) and Kurt-Heinz Stolze (music) is premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart .
• 1979 : The feature film The China Syndrome, starring Jane Fonda , Jack Lemmon and Michael Douglas , hits cinemas in the United States. The thriller about a reactor accident received massive media coverage only a short time later when a meltdown actually happened on Three Mile Island on March 28th .

1982: First oak planted

• 1982 : In the run-up to documenta 7 , Joseph Beuys plants the first tree of his project 7000 oaks in front of the Kassel Fridericianum - city administration instead of city administration .
• 2013 : Installation Big Air Package of Christ inside the Gasometer Oberhausen starts.

society

• 1914 : Henriette Caillaux shoots the editor-in-chief of Le Figaro , Gaston Calmette , for threatening to publish love letters from her husband, former Prime Minister Joseph Caillaux, to her from a time when he was married to another woman. She is later acquitted for "uncontrollable female emotions".

1939: Fausia as Queen of Persia

• 1939 : The future Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi marries the Egyptian Princess Fausia .

religion

• 1517 : The fifth Lateran Council ends in Rome . The initiated church reform comes to a halt on some theological issues due to disagreement.

Disasters

• 1906 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 in Chiayi (Kagi), Taiwan, demands about 1300 deaths.
• 1925 : A 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan Province , People's Republic of China, kills around 5,000.
• 1962 : On the Flying Tiger Line flight 7815/13 , a Lockheed Super Constellation with 107 occupants disappears without a trace in the Pacific between Guam and the Philippines .
• 1969 : A Venezuelan Douglas DC-9 with 83 people on board crashes in a suburb of Maracaibo , Venezuela. 155 people die, 100 are injured.

1978: The crashed Amoco Cadiz

• 1978 : The accident of the Amoco Cadiz oil tanker causes a serious oil spill on the Breton coast in the following weeks .

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

Sports

• 1872 : The first FA Cup football cup final takes place in Great Britain . The London football club Wanderers FC beat the Royal Engineers AFC 1-0.
• 1898 : The Italian football association Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio is founded in Turin to organize matches and championships.
• 1905 : The sports club 1. FSV Mainz 05 is founded in Mainz . However, other sources give March 27th as the foundation date.
• 1970 : The German Sports Association starts the exercise with the campaign Exercise - through sport!
• 1996 : Mike Tyson wins his boxing match against Frank Bruno in the MGM Grand Hotel , Las Vegas, o by technical K., becoming. World champion in the heavyweight division .
• 2000 : The Formula 1 racing team Benetton Formula is sold for 120 million US dollars and becomes part of the Renault F1 team after the 2001 racing season .
• 2002 : With the closing ceremony in Salt Lake City, the Winter Paralympics 2002 come to an end , in which Germany provided by far the most successful team with 17 gold medals.

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

Johann Geiler of Kaysersberg (* 1445)

• 1445 : Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg , German preacher and theologian
• 1453 : Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar , Spanish general and statesman
• 1465 : Kunigunde of Austria , Austrian nobleman, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich and Bavaria
• 1473 : Heinrich the Pious , Duke of Saxony
• 1508 : Sebastian von Heusenstamm , Archbishop of Mainz, Imperial Arch Chancellor
• 1581 : Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft , Dutch poet, historian and playwright
• 1585 : Gerbrand Bredero , Dutch writer
• 1596 : Ebba Brahe , Swedish lady-in-waiting and businesswoman
• 1621 : Georg Neumark , German composer of hymns
• 1623 : Andreas Herold , German piece and bell caster
• 1631 : Johann Adolf von Fürstenberg , German Catholic clergyman and diplomat
• 1641 : Philipp Matthäus , Dutch medic
• 1648 : Wolfgang Dientzenhofer , German builder of the baroque
• 1654 : Andreas Acoluthus , German orientalist and linguist
• 1663 : Christoph Hackner , Silesian architect
• 1665 : Giuseppe Maria Crespi , Italian painter and etcher
• 1666 : Taco Hajo van den Honert , German Reformed theologian

Sophie Dorothea of ​​Hanover (* 1687)

• 1687 : Sophie Dorothea von Hannover , wife of the "soldier king" Friedrich Wilhelm I, Queen of Prussia
• 1693 : Johann Engelhard Steuber , German Lutheran theologian

18th century

• 1701 : Daniel Salthenius , Swedish educator and Protestant theologian
• 1716 : Eberhard Heinrich Daniel Stosch , German Reformed theologian
• 1729 : Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg , grandmother of the Prussian Queen Luise
• 1732 : Emanuel Merian , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1741 : Carlo Amoretti , Italian scholar
• 1742 : Georg Johann Ludwig Vogel , German orientalist and Protestant theologian
• 1744 : Nicolas-Germain Léonard , French poet and novelist
• 1745 : Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Königslöw , German organist and composer
• 1750 : Caroline Herschel , German astronomer
• 1751 : James Madison , American politician, 4th President of the USA, Secretary of State, co-author of the constitution, drafted the Bill of Rights
• 1752 : Antoine Joseph Santerre , French national guard
• 1756 : Jean-Baptiste Carrier , French revolutionary
• 1757 : Bengt Lidner , Swedish poet
• 1766 : Johann Friedrich von Waldeck , French antiquarian, cartographer, painter
• 1774 : Matthew Flinders , British explorer
• 1777 : Gottlieb Kiessling , German pedagogue and classical philologist
• 1789 : Francis Rawdon Chesney , British general and explorer
• 1789 : Georg Simon Ohm , German physicist ( Ohm's law ), eponym for electrical resistance
• 1793 : Anton Greven , German publisher
• 1799 : Anna Atkins , British botanist and photography pioneer
• 1800 : Ninkō , 120th Emperor of Japan

19th century

• 1818 : George Paget , British politician and general
• 1820 : Enrico Tamberlik , Italian opera tenor
• 1822 : Rosa Bonheur , French painter
• 1827 : John Baptiste Calkin , British organist, composer and music teacher
• 1834 : Otto Kitzler , German conductor and cellist

Sully Prudhomme (* 1839)

• 1839 : Sully Prudhomme , French poet and first Nobel Prize winner for literature
• 1840 : Gaspard André , French architect
• 1840 : Oskar Rauter , German entrepreneur
• 1840 : Georg von der Gabelentz , German sinologist
• 1846 : Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler , Swedish mathematician
• 1851 : Otto Bardenhewer , German theologian
• 1851 : Martinus Willem Beijerinck , Dutch microbiologist
• 1851 : Franz Wärme , German theologian and politician, MdL, MdR
• 1853 : Heinrich Kayser , German physicist
• 1856 : Heinrich Albrecht , German social politician and housing reformer
• 1856 : Jean Antoine Tancrède Auguste , Haitian general, politician and president
• 1859 : Alexander Stepanowitsch Popow , Russian physicist and radio pioneer
• 1860 : Sidney Luxton Loney , British mathematician
• 1860 : Sidonie Werner , German social politician and women's rights activist, co-founder of the Jewish Women's Association ( JFB)
• 1865 : Aspazija , Latvian poet, playwright and women's rights activist
• 1865 : Hans Georg Achelis , German theologian, church historian, Christian archaeologist and university professor
• 1871 : András L. Áchim , Hungarian politician
• 1874 : Christian Eckert , German economist, rector of the University of Cologne
• 1875 : Percy MacKaye , American playwright and poet
• 1877 : Léo-Ernest Ouimet , Canadian cinema director, film distributor and producer
• 1878 : Edward Larrabee Adams , American Romanist and Provençalist

Clemens August Graf von Galen
(* 1878)

• 1878 : Clemens August Graf von Galen , German priest, bishop of Münster and cardinal, critic of National Socialism
• 1878 : Agamemnon Schliemann , son of Heinrich Schliemann and ambassador of Greece to the USA
• 1882 : Josef Aicher , Austrian architect and builder
• 1882 : Paul Lejeune-Jung , German economist, politician, Member of the Bundestag, legal counsel, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1883 : Leopold doctor , Austrian physician
• 1883 : Leo Schwering , German historian, philologist, high school teacher and politician, MdL
• 1884 : Alexander Belyayev , Russian writer
• 1885 : Giacomo Benvenuti , Italian musicologist and editor, composer and organist
• 1885 : Otto-Wilhelm Förster , German general
• 1888 : Lenka von Koerber , German journalist and writer
• 1889 : Friedrich Fehér , Austrian actor and film director
• 1889 : Reggie Walker , South African athlete and Olympic champion
• 1890 : Anton Plankensteiner , Austrian governor of Vorarlberg
• 1891 : Dezyderiusz Danczowski , Polish cellist and music teacher
• 1891 : Zoltán Oroszlán , Hungarian archaeologist, art historian and museologist
• 1891 : Juozas Žilevičius , Lithuanian composer, organist, music teacher and scholar
• 1892 : Hans Androschin , Austrian cameraman
• 1892 : Lucien Daveluy , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
• 1892 : Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kondratjew , Russian economist
• 1892 : Gerda Weneskoski , Finnish pianist and music teacher
• 1893 : Théodore Le Du , French racing car driver
• 1893 : Friedrich von Basse , German government official, confidante of the resistance to the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944
• 1895 : José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla , Mexican bishop of Zamora
• 1897 : Conrad Nagel , American actor
• 1898 : Jakob Haringer , German writer
• 1898 : Alina de Silva , Peruvian singer and actress
• 1899 : Franz Josef Brecht , German professor of philosophy
• 1899 : Ok Formenoy , Dutch football player
• 1900 : Werner Eggerath , German writer, resistance fighter against National Socialism, politician, minister, prime minister in the GDR
• 1900 : Willy Guggenheim , Swiss painter

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Walter Erich Schäfer , German agronomist, dramaturge and general manager of the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1903 : Mike Mansfield , American politician
• 1905 : Elisabeth Flickenschildt , German stage and film actress
• 1906 : Anne Dittmer , German painter and book illustrator
• 1906 : Buddy Starcher , American country musician
• 1906 : Lloyd Waner , American baseball player
• 1907 : Alexander Solomon Wiener , American serologist, co-discoverer of the rhesus factor
• 1908 : René Daumal , French writer
• 1908 : Robert Rossen , American screenwriter, film director, and producer
• 1909 : Fred Adlmüller , German-Austrian fashion designer
• 1910 : Hugo Nünlist , Swiss cave explorer and author
• 1910 : Yank Rachell , American blues musician
• 1911 : Sybille Bedford , German-British journalist and writer
• 1911 : Bob Foster , British motorcycle racer
• 1911 : Pierre Harmel , Belgian legal scholar and politician, multiple minister, prime minister

Josef Mengele (* 1911)

• 1911 : Josef Mengele , German doctor, responsible for selections and human experiments, war criminal (angel of death from Auschwitz)
• 1912 : C. Elmer Anderson , American politician
• 1912 : Jupp Arents , German racing cyclist
• 1913 : Carmelo Arden Quin , Uruguayan artist
• 1913 : Rudi Schuricke German singer and actor
• 1915 : Haldun Taner , Turkish writer
• 1915 : Kodaira Kunihiko , Japanese professor of mathematics
• 1916 : Gerhard Ahnfeldt , German draftsman and painter
• 1916 : Mercedes McCambridge , American actress
• 1918 : Frederick Reines , American physicist
• 1920 : John Addison , British composer
• 1920 : Dorothea Binz , German superintendent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
• 1920 : Tonino Guerra , Italian poet and screenwriter
• 1920 : Traudl Junge , German private secretary to Adolf Hitler
• 1920 : Buster Ramsey , American football player and coach
• 1921 : Josef van Eimern , German forest and agricultural meteorologist
• 1921 : Anne Truitt , American minimalist sculptor
• 1922 : Zdeněk Liška , Czech composer
• 1923 : Bruno Augenstein , German-American mathematician and physicist
• 1923 : Heinz Wallberg , German conductor
• 1924 : Wolfgang Kieling , German actor
• 1924 : Michael Seifert , Ukrainian overseer in a Nazi transit camp, murderer and war criminal
• 1925 : Alessandro Alessandroni , Italian musician
• 1925 : Luis E. Miramontes , Mexican chemist, co-inventor of the first birth control pill
• 1925 : Joachim Raffert , German journalist and politician, Member of the Bundestag

1926-1950

• 1926 : Jerry Lewis , American actor, director, and producer
• 1927 : Gert Andreae , German actor
• 1927 : Bruno Auderset , Swiss journalist
• 1927 : Ruby Braff , American cornetist
• 1927 : Gerhard Hofmann , German soccer coach
• 1927 : Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarow , Soviet cosmonaut
• 1928 : Christa Ludwig , German opera and concert singer (mezzo-soprano)
• 1928 : Karl Otto Meyer , German-Danish journalist and politician, MdL

Karlheinz Böhm (* 1928)

• 1928 : Karlheinz Böhm , Austrian-Ethiopian actor, founder of the aid organization Menschen für Menschen
• 1928 : Rudolf Sigl , German astronomer and geodesist (satellite geodesy)
• 1928 : Wakanohana Kanji I. , Japanese sumo wrestler and 45th yokozuna
• 1929 : Armand Meffre , French actor and playwright
• 1929 : Harry Schwarzwälder , Bremen homeland researcher
• 1929 : Nadja Tiller , Austrian actress
• 1930 : Tommy Flanagan , American jazz pianist
• 1930 : Lotte Ledl , Austrian actress
• 1930 : Peter Lindner , German racing car driver
• 1931 : Ernst Hilbich , German actor
• 1931 : Theo Altmeyer , German tenor and professor of singing
• 1931 : Augusto Boal , Brazilian director, playwright and theater theorist

Kurt Diemberger (* 1932)

• 1932 : Kurt Diemberger , Austrian mountaineer and filmmaker, photographer and author
• 1933 : Jörg Ewald Dähler , German conductor, harpsichordist and composer
• 1933 : Dieter Wellershoff , German admiral, inspector general of the Bundeswehr
• 1934 : Roger Norrington , British conductor
• 1935 : Teresa Berganza , Spanish opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
• 1936 : Elisabeth Volkmann , German actress
• 1937 : William L. Armstrong , American businessman and politician
• 1937 : Hushang Golschiri , Iranian writer
• 1937 : Attilio Nicora , Italian lawyer and priest, auxiliary bishop, bishop of Verona, cardinal
• 1937 : Amos Tversky , Israeli cognitive psychologist
• 1937 : Dieter Wieland , German documentary filmmaker and author
• 1938 : Gus Anton , German conductor and composer
• 1938 : Ray Pickrell , British motorcycle racer
• 1939 : Carlos Bilardo , Argentine soccer player and coach

Peter Schönlein (* 1939)

• 1939 : Peter Schönlein , German politician
• 1940 : Wolf-Dietrich Arnold , German orthopedist and university professor
• 1940 : Rainer Jork , German mechanical engineer, politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1940 : Claus Offe , German political scientist
• 1940 : Jan Pronk , Dutch politician and diplomat, UN special envoy for Sudan
• 1940 : Keith Rowe , British guitarist and artist
• 1940 : Barbara Stolterfoht , German political scientist and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
• 1941 : Bernardo Bertolucci , Italian film director
• 1941 : Robert Guéï , military leader and President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1941 : Waltraud Neuwirth , Austrian art historian
• 1942 : Franz Annen , Swiss theologian
• 1942 : Gijs van Lennep , Dutch racing driver
• 1942 : Jerry Jeff Walker , American country musician and songwriter
• 1943 : Kirsten Dene , German actress
• 1943 : Jerry Goodman , American violinist

Hans Heyer (* 1943)

• 1943 : Hans Heyer , German racing car driver
• 1943 : Horst Lohse , German composer
• 1943 : Josef Rose , German handball trainer and handball player
• 1945 : Polo Hofer , Swiss rock musician
• 1946 : Bernd Dießner , German athlete
• 1946 : Heribert Müller , German historian (late Middle Ages)
• 1946 : Guesch Patti , French singer and actress
• 1946 : Hubert Soudant , Dutch conductor
• 1947 : Keith Devlin , British mathematician and science journalist
• 1948 : Margaret Weis , American fantasy writer
• 1949 : Michael Aichhorn , Austrian theater maker, actor and artist
• 1949 : Victor Garber , Canadian actor
• 1950 : Joe Bugner , Australian boxer
• 1950 : Andrzej Szewczyk , Polish painter and sculptor

1951-1975

• 1951 : Joe DeLamielleure , American football player
• 1951 : PC Hodgell , American fantasy writer
• 1951 : Hansjörg Vogel , Swiss theologian and priest, Bishop of Basel
• 1952 : Alice Hoffman , American author
• 1953 : Kei Akagi , Japanese-American jazz musician
• 1953 : Thomas Angyan , Austrian cultural manager and artistic director
• 1953 : Isabelle Huppert , French film actress
• 1953 : Rainer Knaak , German chess player

Richard Stallman (* 1953)

• 1953 : Richard Stallman , American free software activist, hacker and program developer, founder of the GNU project
• 1954 : Miklós Csemiczky , Hungarian composer and music teacher
• 1954 : Nancy Wilson , American singer, composer, guitarist, producer, and actress ( Heart )
• 1955 : Rimantas Astrauskas , Lithuanian politician
• 1955 : Linda Lepomme , Belgian singer and actress
• 1956 : Yoriko Shōno , Japanese writer
• 1956 : Martin Umbach , German actor
• 1956 : Enrique P. Lessa , Uruguayan biologist
• 1956 : Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf , Swiss politician
• 1957 : Dirk Rauin , German handball player and coach

Maria Arnholm (* 1958)

• 1958 : Maria Arnholm , Swedish politician
• 1959 : Flavor Flav , American rapper ( Public Enemy )
• 1959 : John Lindberg , American double bass player
• 1959 : Arben Minga , Albanian football player
• 1959 : Ludger Pistor , German actor
• 1959 : Jens Stoltenberg , Norwegian Prime Minister
• 1959 : Savina Yannatou , Greek singer
• 1960 : Zurab Asmaiparashvili , Georgian chess master
• 1960 : Craig P. First , American composer and music educator
• 1960 : Steve Noble , British jazz drummer
• 1960 : Sabine Orléans , German actress
• 1961 : Todd McFarlane , Canadian-American comic book artist
• 1962 : Joseph Crowley , American politician

Franck Fréon (* 1962)

• 1962 : Franck Fréon , French racing car driver
• 1962 : Janette Rauch , Swiss-German actress
• 1963 : Eiji Aonuma , Japanese video game developer
• 1963 : Mardjan Arvand , Iranian medic and bacteriologist
• 1963 : Nina Franoszek , German actress
• 1963 : Rüdiger Neitzel , German handball player
• 1963 : Jesús Puras , Spanish rally driver
• 1964 : Patty Griffin , American folk singer and songwriter
• 1964 : Pascal Richard , Swiss cyclist, Olympic champion
• 1964 : Jörg Schmadtke , German football goalkeeper and official
• 1964 : Gore Verbinski , American film director and screenwriter
• 1965 : Utut Adianto , Indonesian chess player, chess official and politician
• 1965 : Belén Rueda , Spanish actress
• 1966 : Ann-Kristin Achleitner , German scientist
• 1964 : HP Baxxter , German singer ( Scooter )
• 1966 : Dirk von Petersdorff , German literary scholar and writer
• 1967 : Dan Dediu , Romanian composer
• 1967 : Angela Wiedl , German singer of popular music
• 1967 : Heidi Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
• 1967 : Lauren Graham , American actress
• 1968 : Adílson Batista , Brazilian soccer player and coach
• 1968 : Johann Schirmbrand , German carom player and three-cushion world champion
• 1969 : Judah Friedlander , American actor and comedian

Markus Lanz (* 1969)

• 1969 : Markus Lanz , Italian-German television presenter and author from South Tyrol
• 1970 : Joakim Berg , Swedish composer, lyricist and singer ( Kent )
• 1970 : Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson , Icelandic pop singer
• 1971 : David Nathan , German voice actor
• 1972 : Uldis Augulis , Latvian politician
• 1972 : Katja Bornschein , German soccer player
• 1972 : Sander Germanus , Dutch saxophonist and composer
• 1972 : Simon Jäger , German dubbing actor, dubbing director and dubbing author, radio play speaker and reciter
• 1973 : Florian Lukas , German actor
• 1974 : Zoë Jenny , Swiss writer
• 1974 : Anthony Tieku , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1975 : Antoni Nadir Cherif , German architect and specialist book author
• 1975 : Sienna Guillory , British actress and model
• 1975 : Ilya Petrovich Vorobyov , German-Russian ice hockey player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Kai Buchmann , German local politician
• 1976 : Zhu Chen , Chinese chess player
• 1976 : Pál Dárdai , Hungarian football player
• 1977 : Mónica Cruz , Spanish dancer and actress
• 1977 : Mike Hairston , German handball player

Brooke Burns (* 1978)

• 1978 : Brooke Burns , American actress and model
• 1978 : Boris Derichebourg , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1978 : Annett Renneberg , German actress and singer
• 1979 : Tyler Arnason , Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1979 : Edison Méndez , Ecuadorian soccer player
• 1979 : Ronny Liesche , German handball trainer and handball player
• 1980 : Julia Schlecht , German volleyball player
• 1981 : Hannes Aigner , Austrian soccer player
• 1983 : Mark Ardelan , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 : Donato , German rapper and producer
• 1984 : Octavian Abrudan , Romanian football player
• 1984 : Beau Busch , Australian soccer player
• 1984 : Wilfried Sanou , Burkinabe soccer player
• 1984 : Sebastian Schwarz , German actor
• 1985 : Andreas Hölzl , Austrian soccer player
• 1985 : Colin O'Brady , American extreme athlete

Alexandra Daddario (* 1986)

• 1986 : Alexandra Daddario , American actress
• 1986 : Kenny Dykstra , American professional wrestler
• 1986 : Bernard Parker , South African soccer player
• 1986 : Nicole Trunfio , Australian model
• 1987 : Valerio Aspromonte , Italian foil fencer
• 1987 : Paul-Max Walther , German soccer player
• 1988 : Barbara Hetmanek , German handball player and trainer
• 1988 : Aleksandro Petrovic , German football player
• 1989 : Blake Griffin , American basketball player
• 1989 : Tobias Jänicke , German soccer player
• 1989 : Jung So-min , South Korean actress
• 1989 : Jasna Boljević , Montenegrin handball player
• 1989 : Theo Walcott , English soccer player
• 1990 : Raphaël Addy , Swiss road cyclist
• 1990 : Fabian Arends , German drummer and composer
• 1990 : James Bulger , British murder victim
• 1991 : Admir Mehmedi , Swiss football player
• 1991 : Reggie Bullock , American basketball player
• 1991 : Wolfgang Van Halen , American rock musician ( Van Halen )
• 1992 : Tim Hardaway, Jr. , American basketball player
• 1993 : Hasan Pepić , German-Montenegrin football player
• 1996 : Ruben Reisig , German-Ghanaian soccer player
• 1997 : Florian Neuhaus , German soccer player

21st century

• 2002 : Isabelle Allen , British actress

Died

Before the 16th century

Tiberius († 37)

• 0037 : Tiberius , second Roman emperor
• 0455 : Valentinian III. , Roman emperor
• 0620 : Abban of Magheranoidhe , Catholic saint
• 1021 : Heribert of Cologne , Archbishop of Cologne
• 1072 : Adalbert von Bremen , Archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen
• 1173 : Richard von St. Viktor , French Augustinian canon and theologian
• 1181 : Henry I , Count of Champagne
• 1185 : Baldwin IV , king of Jerusalem
• 1241 : Stephan III. , Count of Auxonne and Chalon-sur-Saône
• 1244 : Guillaume de Lahille , Knight, Faydit and Cathar
• 1278 : Wilhelm IV. , Count of Jülich
• 1322 : Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford , English magnate
• 1394 : John Hawkwood , English mercenary leader
• 1405 : Margaret III. , Countess of Flanders, Artois, Nevers, Rethel and the Free County of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy
• 1409 : Ulrich II von Radefeld , Bishop of Naumburg
• 1410 : John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset , English nobleman
• 1416 : Goswin Klingenberg , mayor of Lübeck
• 1457 : Ladislaus Hunyadi , Hungarian statesman and warrior
• 1485 : Anne Neville , Queen Consort of England

16th to 18th century

• 1507 : Balthasar , Duke of Mecklenburg
• 1544 : Ludwig V , Elector Palatinate
• 1547 : François Vatable , French scholar
• 1600 : Johann Major , German Lutheran theologian, humanist and poet
• 1609 : Gotthard V. von Hoeveln , Lübeck mayor
• 1618 : Gottfried Anton , German legal scholar
• 1618 : Giovanni Bembo , 92nd Doge of Venice
• 1649 : Jean de Brébeuf , French Jesuit
• 1650 : Sophie Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Duchess of Saxony-Altenburg

Johann Rudolph Glauber († 1670)

• 1670 : Johann Rudolph Glauber , German pharmacist and chemist
• 1683 : Johann Georg Achbauer the Elder , Upper Austrian master builder
• 1693 : Martin Weise , German physician
• 1698 : Leonora Christina Ulfeldt , Danish princess, countess of Schleswig-Holstein and writer
• 1712 : Johann Georg , Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Prince of Saxe-Querfurt
• 1727 : Francis Nicholson , British colonial governor of various American colonies
• 1734 : Andreas Silbermann , German organ builder
• 1736 : Giovanni Battista Pergolesi , Italian composer
• 1738 : George Bähr , German builder of the Baroque ( Frauenkirche in Dresden )
• 1740 : Christoph Andreas Johann Szembek , Prince-Bishop of Warmia and Samland
• 1741 : Jean-Baptiste Rousseau , French writer
• 1755 : Christian Albrecht von Ahlefeldt , German chamberlain and colonel under Charles XII. of Sweden
• 1764 : Friedrich August Rutowski , field marshal of the Electorate of Saxony
• 1786 : Conrad von Ahlefeldt , Count and Lord at Gut Eschelsmark
• 1790 : Wilhelm Heinrich Schultze , German Protestant clergyman
• 1798 : Aloys Blumauer , Austrian writer, editor and Freemason

19th century

Henrik Gabriel Porthan († 1804)

• 1804 : Henrik Gabriel Porthan , Finnish historian
• 1805 : Franz Xaver von Wulfen , German physicist, mathematician, botanist and mineralogist
• 1806 : Johann Clemens Tode , German-Danish medic, university professor and writer
• 1814 : Friedrich Friesen , German gymnastics teacher and freedom fighter
• 1824 : Henry Smart , English violinist, violist and composer
• 1826 : Johann Severin father , German theologian and linguist
• 1828 : Johann Georg August Galletti , German historian and geographer
• 1838 : Nathaniel Bowditch , American self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
• 1841 : Félix Savart , French doctor and physicist
• 1852 : Maurits Christopher Hansen , Norwegian writer
• 1858 : Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck , German botanist and natural philosopher
• 1858 : Wilhelm von Brockhausen , Prussian general and honorary citizen of Wittenberg
• 1861 : Victoire von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , mother of the British Queen Victoria
• 1862 : Joseph Christian von Zedlitz , Austrian officer and poet
• 1865 : Aspazija , Latvian poet and playwright
• 1867 : Emil Keßler , German entrepreneur and founder of mechanical engineering companies
• 1874 : Heinrich Schaumberger , German poet and narrator

Aubrey Beardsley († 1898)

• 1877 : Johan Fjeldsted Dahl , Norwegian bookseller and publisher
• 1882 : Johann Nepomuk Amberg , Austrian priest and politician
• 1886 : Georg Varrentrapp , German medic
• 1888 : Ludwig Steub , German writer
• 1889 : Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel , German astronomer and lithographer
• 1891 : Jean-Baptiste Campenon , French general and minister of war
• 1892 : Karl Aberle , Austrian medic
• 1892 : Eduard Kullmann , German craftsman, assassin
• 1898 : Aubrey Beardsley , British illustrator, poet, printmaker and caricaturist

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Narcisse Quellien , Breton poet
• 1908 : Jean Jacques David , Swiss African explorer and mining engineer
• 1908 : Friedrich von Erckert , German colonial officer
• 1909 : Adalbert Matkowsky , German actor
• 1912 : Elizabeth Adela Forbes , Canadian late Impressionist painter
• 1913 : Tatyos Efendi , Turkish composer

Albert Cobat († 1914)

• 1914 : Albert Gobat , Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1914 : John Murray , British oceanographer
• 1916 : Girolamo Maria Gotti , Italian clergyman and cardinal to the Curia
• 1917 : Karl Heinrich Gisbert Gillhausen , German civil engineer, industrial manager and politician
• 1918 : Friedrich Hessing , German pioneer of medical and orthopedic technology ( Hessing corset, splint sleeve apparatus )
• 1919 : Jakow Michailowitsch Sverdlov , Russian revolutionary and politician, head of state of the Soviet Union
• 1919 : Paul Fromhold-Treu , German-Baltic clergyman and evangelical martyr
• 1921 : Paul Boldt , German expressionist poet
• 1926 : Maggie Moore , American-Australian actress
• 1928 : Hans Morgenthaler , Swiss writer
• 1930 : Miguel Primo de Rivera , Spanish general and dictator
• 1931 : James Benjamin Aswell , American politician
• 1933 : Alfréd Haar , Hungarian mathematician
• 1935 : John James Rickard Macleod , Canadian physiologist
• 1935 : Aaron Nimzowitsch , Latvian chess player and theorist

Marguerite Durand († 1936)

• 1936 : Marguerite Durand , French actress, journalist and suffragette
• 1938 : Egon Friedell , Austrian writer, journalist and actor
• 1938 : Emil Fey , Austrian politician
• 1940 : Selma Lagerlöf , Swedish children's book author
• 1942 : Alexander von Zemlinsky , Austrian composer and conductor
• 1945 : Pierre Drieu la Rochelle , French writer
• 1945 : Börries von Münchhausen , German poet and writer
• 1947 : Anna Ebert , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1948 : Clara Mannes , German-American pianist and music teacher
• 1949 : Leyland Hodgson , English actor
• 1950 : Vilhelm Dybwad , Norwegian lawyer and writer

1951-2000

• 1952 : Stephan Weickert , German expellee politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 1953 : Henrik Herse , German farmer, worker and officer of the SS and Waffen-SS, dramaturge and writer
• 1956 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Evsejew , Russian composer

Constantin Brâncuși († 1957)

• 1957 : Constantin Brâncuși , Romanian sculptor
• 1957 : Johnny Torrio , Italian-American gangster
• 1959 : Jops Reeman , Dutch soccer player
• 1961 : Seymour Felix , American show dancer and choreographer
• 1962 : Zenzl Mühsam , German anarchist and muse of her poet husband Erich Mühsam
• 1963 : William Henry Beveridge , British economist
• 1963 : Julius Christiaan van Oven , Dutch legal scholar and politician
• 1965 : Paul Apel , German resistance fighter
• 1965 : William C. Feazel , American senator and oil and gas producer
• 1970 : Fritz Maenicke , German sculptor and restorer
• 1970 : Tammi Terrell , American singer

Bebe Daniels († 1971)

• 1971 : Bebe Daniels , American actress
• 1972 : Heinz Hanus , Austrian film pioneer
• 1973 : Carl Benton Reid , American actor
• 1975 : T-Bone Walker , American musician
• 1978 : J. Rodolfo Wilcock , Italian writer of Argentine origin
• 1978 : Alfred Müller-Armack , German economist and cultural sociologist
• 1978 : Renny Ottolina , Venezuelan television entertainer and producer
• 1979 : Jean Monnet , French entrepreneur and politician, first President of the European Commission ( ECSC ), "Father of Europe"
• 1980 : Paul Thalmann , Swiss author, editor and resistance fighter in the Spanish civil war
• 1984 : Evencio Castellanos , Venezuelan composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1985 : Roger Sessions , American composer
• 1986 : Anna Maria Bieganowski , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1986 : Hans Kloss , Austrian lawyer and President of the Austrian National Bank
• 1987 : Frederick Grinke , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 1990 : Ernst Bacon , American composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher
• 1990 : Fritz Ewert , German soccer player
• 1991 : Trude Herr , actress, pop singer and theater director
• 1995 : Heinrich Sutermeister , Swiss composer
• 1998 : Eugen Eckert , German sculptor and painter
• 1998 : Wolfgang Grönebaum , German actor
• 1998 : Derek HR Barton , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 2000 : Roy Henderson , British baritone and music teacher
• 2000 : Kurt Lehmann , German sculptor
• 2000 : Victor Serventi , French composer

21st century

Juliette Huot († 2001)

• 2001 : Juliette Huot , Canadian actress
• 2002 : Isaías Duarte Cancino , Colombian priest and archbishop
• 2002 : Ray Doggett , American rockabilly musician, songwriter, and producer
• 2002 : Wolfgang Gruner , German cabaret artist, actor and director
• 2003 : Lothar Koch , German oboist
• 2005 : Arciso Artesiani , Italian motorcycle racer
• 2006 : Jan Eysselt , Czech ice hockey coach
• 2006 : David Feintuch , American author
• 2006 : Susi Lanner , Austrian-American actress
• 2007 : Jean Le Moal , French painter, theater decorator and sculptor, exponent of abstract painting
• 2008 : Ivan Dixon , American actor
• 2008 : Peter von Oertzen , German political scientist and politician, MdL, State Minister
• 2008 : Victor Sparre , Norwegian painter
• 2012 : Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber , Brazilian physical geographer
• 2012 : Yoshimoto Takaaki , Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher

Buddy Elias († 2015)

• 2015 : Buddy Elias , Swiss actor and comedian
• 2015 : Andy Fraser , English musician
• 2015 : Johannes Gründel , German theologian and author
• 2016 : Frank Sinatra junior , American musician
• 2017 : James Cotton , American blues musician
• 2017 : Hans-Jürgen Otto , German forest scientist and civil servant
• 2018 : Louise Slaughter , American politician
• 2018 : F. Starik , Dutch poet
• 2019 : Richard Erdman , American actor and director
• 2020 : Ranveig Frøiland , Norwegian politician

Holidays and memorial days

• Memorial days
  • St. Abban of Magheranoidhe , Irish nobleman, founder of churches and monasteries (Catholic)
  • Heribert von Köln , German Archbishop (Protestant, Catholic)

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

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