May 16
The May 16 is the 136th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 137th in leap years ), thus remain still 229 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 16 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1204 : Baldwin I of Flanders and Hainaut is crowned Emperor of the Latin Empire . This was newly created the month before by the division of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade .
- 1527 : In Florence , the Medici are expelled from power and from the city a second time. A republic was established again under the influence of Niccolò Capponi and Filippo Strozzi . Ippolito and Alessandro de 'Medici as well as Cardinal Silvio Passerini as their guardian leave the place the following day.
- 1532 : Thomas More resigns from the office of the English Lord Chancellor to avoid further conflicts with Henry VIII .
- 1771 : Governor William Tryon's victory in the Battle of Alamance ends the so-called Regulators Rebellion, a rebellion in colonial North Carolina against local authorities and their tax collection.
- 1795 : The Batavian Republic , newly created in the Netherlands through French revolutionary exports , concludes a peace treaty with the France of the revolutionary era in The Hague . The French subsidiary republic loses several exclaves to France and has to maintain a French army of 30,000 men on its national territory with high contributions.
- 1811 : An allied army of British, Portuguese and Spanish, commanded by William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford , wins the battle of La Albuera during Napoléon's Spanish campaign over the French troops under Marshal Soult previously in the city of Badajoz .
- 1833 : The elected General Antonio López de Santa Anna rules for the first time as Mexican President, but after a few weeks he leaves the business of state to his Vice President Valentín Gómez Farías .
- 1842 : A first column of covered wagons with 100 settlers set off from Missouri on the Oregon Trail over the Rocky Mountains to the west.
- 1863 : The American Civil War hits northern states -General Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee in the Battle of Champion Hill , the Confederate Army of Mississippi under John C. Pemberton .
- 1868 : In the United States Senate , the impeachment against US President Andrew Johnson fails because one vote for the required two-thirds majority is missing.
- 1907 : With the Cartagena Accords , Spain draws closer to the Entente powers
- 1916 : In the Sykes-Picot Agreement negotiated secretly by the French diplomat François Georges-Picot and the British Mark Sykes , Great Britain and France define their spheres of influence in the Middle East for the period after the First World War.
- 1940 : The General starts AB action of the Nazis . With the targeted killing hidden behind it , possible Polish resistance leaders are executed in the stand trial.
- 1943 : Only when the ghetto is completely burned down can the SS, under the command of Jürgen Stroop , end the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto that has been going on since April 19 . As a conclusion, he has the Great Synagogue blown up.
- 1944 : In the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , the Sinti and Roma revolt against the planned mass gassing. The SS had to interrupt the liquidation (Romanes: Porajmos ) of the so-called Gypsy camp until July.
- 1946 : The German chemist Bruno Tesch , owner of the Tesch & Stabenow company sentenced to death in the Testa trial , which supplied the concentration camps with Zyklon B , is executed in Hameln prison.
- 1946 : The Malmedy trial against 73 German accused, among them Joachim Peiper and Sepp Dietrich , on the Malmedy massacre of US soldiers in December 1944 begins in the Dachau internment camp . It lasts until July 16.
- 1961 : General Park Chung-hee takes power in South Korea with a military coup against the government of the Second Republic under Yun Bo-seon .
- 1974 : The German Bundestag elects Helmut Schmidt to succeed Willy Brandt, who resigned because of the Guillaume affair , as fifth Chancellor .
- 1975 : After the referendum on April 14, the former Kingdom of Sikkim declares its accession to the Indian Union as the 22nd federal state.
- 1995 : Shōkō Asahara , leader of the religious group Ōmu Shinrikyō and main culprit in their poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway , is arrested.
- 1997 : Under the leadership of Laurent-Désiré Kabila , rebels succeed in overthrowing the Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
- 2003 : Five Islamist- motivated suicide attacks in Casablanca on Jewish institutions and places of Western lifestyle cost the lives of more than 40 people and injure over 100 people.
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- 2007 : In France, Nicolas Sarkozy of the Union pour un mouvement populaire ( UMP ) replaces Jacques Chirac, who has been president since 1995 .
- 2009 : In Sri Lanka , President Mahinda Rajapaksa announces victory over the Tamil Tigers . According to the army, their leaders were killed two days later while trying to escape.
economy
- 1946 : The first edition of the business newspaper Handelsblatt appears.
science and technology
- 1810 : The Tübingen Cotta'schen Verlagsbuchhandlung publishes the two volumes of books on the theory of colors by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . It contains, among other things, his essay Contributions to optics .
- 1846 : The association of pupils of the Royal Prussian Trade Institute is founded in Berlin, later the Academic Association Hut , publisher of engineering books.
- 1881 : Siemens & Halske operates the world's first electric tram in a trial run from Lichterfelde station to the main cadet institute in Lichterfelde near Berlin . Werner von Siemens himself, however, does not refer to the railway as a road but as an "electric railway".
- 1887 : The German inventor and industrialist Emil Berliner presents the gramophone he invented and the record to be played with it in Washington, DC .
- 1913 : During excavation work on the site of a brass works in Finow , a district of Eberswalde , the Eberswalde gold treasure is discovered. It is considered the most important Central European Bronze Age find and is the largest prehistoric gold find from Germany.
- 1919 : In Yerevan , at that time capital of the Democratic Republic of Armenia , which is Yerevan State University founded.
- 1923 : The world's first fully automatic telephone exchange , the Weilheim network group , which initially comprises 22 local networks within a 25 km radius, is put into operation in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria .
- 1933 : By order of the Prussian Prime Minister Hermann Göring , Greifswald University is given the name Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität .
- 1960 : The American physicist Theodore Maiman completes the first laser , a ruby laser .
Culture
- 1792 : The Teatro La Fenice , built by the architect Gian Antonio Selva , opens in Venice . The name is an allusion to the mythological phoenix , as the theater was built on the site of an opera house that burned down in 1773.
- 1829 : The world premiere of the opera Zaira by Vincenzo Bellini takes place at the Teatro Ducale in Parma .
- 1833 : The comic opera Ludovic by Jacques Fromental Halévy premiered at the Paris Opéra-Comique .
- 1868 : On the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone for the National Theater in Prague , the premiere of the opera Dalibor by Bedřich Smetana with the libretto by Josef Wenzig takes place in the Prague Interim Theater .
- 1929 : At a closed dinner in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel , the first 12 Academy Awards are presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , which was founded the previous year . The German actor Emil Jannings is the first man to receive the award for Best Actor for his roles in the two films His last command and The way of all flesh .
- 1946 : The world premiere of the musical Annie Get Your Gun by Irving Berlin about the life of the art protectionist Annie Oakley takes place at the Imperial Theater in New York . The best known number from it is the song There's No Business Like Show Business .
- 1950 : The musical comedy Feuerwerk by Paul Burkhard with the libretto by Erik Charell , Jürg Amstein and Robert Gilbert is premiered at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.
- 1952 : The operetta Bozena by Oscar Straus is premiered in Munich . The libretto is by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald .
- 1959 : At the beginning of his career as a sculptor, Joseph Beuys hands over the memorial to the fallen soldiers of the Second World War to the commissioning municipality of Büderich .
- 1966 : Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde , considered the first double album in rock history, is released.
- 1984 : As part of the third national feature film festival of the GDR , the DEFA youth film appearance is premiered by Helmut Dziuba . Despite an honorable mention, the film was only shown on GDR television after the fall of the Wall in 1990 because of its socially critical content .
- 1996 : The Carnival of Cultures takes place in Berlin for the first time .
society
- 1770 : 14-year-old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste , who later becomes King of France, in Versailles Palace .
- 1836 : The American writer Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia Clemm.
- 1981 : Karlheinz Böhm formulated in the ZDF show Wetten, dass ..? his bet against Frank Elstner , which will lead to the founding of the aid organization Menschen für Menschen .
religion
- 1605 : Camillo Borghese, the youngest member of the College of Cardinals, succeeds Leo XI , who died on April 27th . the Pope elected and takes the name of Paul V. on.
- 1920 : Joan of Arc is appointed by Pope Benedict XV. canonized .
- 1995 : In its crucifix ruling, the Federal Constitutional Court declares parts of the Bavarian elementary school regulations to be unconstitutional, according to which a crucifix or at least a cross must be placed in every classroom in Bavarian elementary schools .
Disasters
- 1702 : A fire rages in Uppsala that largely destroys the city. The castle , cathedral and several university buildings are also affected by the flames. There are no reports of victims, but the material damage and the loss of cultural treasures are considerable.
- 1932 : 54 passengers die when the French luxury steamer Georges Philippar catches fire and burns out on her maiden voyage off Cape Guardafui in the Gulf of Aden . It is the worst accident of the shipping company Messageries Maritimes in peacetime.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1931 : In the Viennese stadium on Hohe Warte , the Austrian national soccer team under association captain Hugo Meisl defeated the Scottish national soccer team, which had been undefeated on the European mainland, 5-0. This is considered to be the hour of birth of the Austrian wonder team .
- 1937 : The " Breslau-Elf " of the German national football team inflicts the highest defeat to date on the Danish team with 8-0 in a friendly match in Breslau .
- 1975 : Junko Tabei , a Japanese mountaineer, became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1472 : Juan Pardo de Tavera , Archbishop of Toledo and Spanish Grand Inquisitor
- 1511 : Andreas Hyperius , German theologian and reformer
- 1516 : Guglielmo Gratorolo , Italian alchemist and doctor
- 1540 : Paschalis Baylon , lay brother in the Franciscan order and saint
- 1556 : Matthäus Enzlin , German lawyer
- 1609 : Ferdinand of Spain , cardinal and general
- 1618 : Frans Hals the Younger , Dutch painter
- 1627 : Willem van Aelst , Dutch still life painter
- 1627 : Rudolf August , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1639 : Pietro degli Antonii , Italian composer and conductor
- 1656 : Gustav Gabriel Appelmann , Swedish artillery officer
- 1659 : Campegius Vitringa the Elder , Dutch Reformed theologian
- 1678 : Andreas Silbermann , German organ builder
- 1680 : Christoph Andreas Johann Szembek , Prince-Bishop of Warmia and Samland
- 1681 : Juan Francisco de Güemes y Horcasitas , Spanish officer, colonial administrator, governor of Cuba and viceroy of New Spain
- 1694 : Johann Michael Zink , German painter and musician
- 1696 : Franziska Christine von Pfalz-Sulzbach , abbess of the Essen monastery
18th century
- 1704 : Johann Joachim Gottlob am Ende , German theologian and teacher
- 1718 : Maria Gaetana Agnesi , Italian mathematician and philanthropist
- 1736 : Rupert von Neuenstein , Prince Abbot of Kempten
- 1749 : Nikolai Abramowitsch Putjatin , Russian prince and philosopher
- 1763 : Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin , French pharmacist and chemist
- 1769 : Andreas Rehberger , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet
- 1774 : Johann Baptist von Keller , German bishop
- 1776 : Luigi Lambruschini , Italian cardinal and state secretary of Pope Gregory XVI.
- 1782 : John Sell Cotman , British painter
- 1785 : Johann Nepomuk von Ringseis , doctor and professor in Munich
- 1788 : Friedrich Rückert , German poet, translator and orientalist
- 1789 : Michael Creizenach , German-Jewish educator and theologian
- 1789 : Johann Nepomuk Schelble , German conductor, singer and teacher
- 1797 : August Wissowa , German classical philologist and pedagogue
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : William H. Seward , American politician and secretary of state
- 1802 : Gaetano Nava , Italian music teacher and composer
- 1805 : Alexander Burnes , British traveler and explorer
- 1820 : Bernhard Fries , German landscape painter
- 1821 : Pafnuti Lwowitsch Tschebyschow , Russian mathematician
- 1822 : Karl Alexander von Burchtorff , Franconian politician
- 1823 : Heymann Steinthal , German philologist and philosopher
- 1824 : Levi P. Morton , American politician
- 1824 : Edmund Kirby Smith , Confederate general
- 1827 : Norman Jay Colman , American politician
- 1827 : Pierre Cuypers , Dutch architect
- 1831 : David Edward Hughes , British-American designer and inventor
- 1831 : Daniel Manning , American politician
- 1833 : Bertha Froriep , German painter
- 1834 : Hobart B. Bigelow , American politician
- 1834 : Maria Theresia de Soubiran , founder of the French order
- 1837 : Walter Kyllmann , German architect
- 1841 : Hermann Joseph Schmitz , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1844 : Hermann Boddin , German local politician and mayor
- 1846 : Ottomar Anschütz , German photographer, pioneer of photo technology
- 1849 : Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin , British politician
- 1850 : Ida Baccini , Italian writer and journalist
- 1850 : Robert von Dobschütz , Prussian major general
- 1850 : Otto Kirberg , German painter
- 1850 : Johann von Mikulicz , German surgeon and founder of gastroscopy
1851-1900
- 1851 : Johann Baptist von Anzer , bishop of the German mission to China in Shandong
- 1852 : Eduard Zacharias , German botanist
- 1855 : Leopold von Auersperg , Austrian politician
- 1855 : Victor Augagneur , French doctor and politician
- 1857 : Juan Morel Campos , Puerto Rican composer
- 1857 : Hermann Wette , German doctor and writer
- 1859 : Frida Schanz , German author, editor and teacher
- 1860 : Ossian Aschan , Finnish chemist
- 1861 : Irving Wightman Colburn , American inventor and manufacturer
- 1862 : Margaret Fountaine , British butterfly researcher
- 1864 : Nathan Birnbaum , Austrian philosopher
- 1864 : Nicanor González Méndez , Chilean painter
- 1867 : Jeanne Berta Semmig , German writer and poet
- 1870 : Karel Kašpar , Archbishop of Prague and Cardinal
- 1870 : Antonín Slavíček , Czech painter
- 1872 : Bernhard Pankok , German architect and designer
- 1875 : Vincas Bacevičius , Lithuanian music teacher, pianist, conductor and composer
- 1878 : Eduard Biermann , German economist
- 1881 : Hans Tichi , German expellee politician
- 1882 : Simeon Price , American golfer
- 1883 : Celâl Bayar , Turkish politician and president
- 1884 : Teobaldo Power , Spanish composer
- 1884 : Piotr Rytel , Polish composer, music teacher and critic
- 1887 : Jakob van Hoddis , German expressionist poet
- 1887 : Fritz Müller , German reform pedagogue
- 1891 : Richard Tauber , Austrian tenor
- 1892 : Manton S. Eddy , American Lieutenant General
- 1892 : Dietrich von Saucken , German general
- 1893 : Paul Amadeus Pisk , Austrian musicologist and composer
- 1894 : Hermann Muhs , German lawyer and politician, State Secretary and Minister for Church Affairs
- 1895 : Emanuel Kaláb , Czech military bandmaster, conductor and composer
- 1896 : Freda Wuesthoff , German physicist, lawyer and pacifist
- 1897 : Hans Jürgen von Arnswaldt , German forester
- 1897 : Walther Geiser , Swiss composer and music teacher
- 1898 : Tamara de Lempicka , Polish painter
- 1900 : Dinah Nelken , German writer and screenwriter
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Birch Monroe , American country musician
- 1901 : Konrad Wachsmann , German architect and engineer
- 1902 : Guy Bouriat , French racing car driver
- 1902 : Jan Kiepura , Polish tenor
- 1902 : Wladimir Lindenberg , Russian-German doctor
- 1903 : Thomas Abernethy , American politician
- 1904 : Placida Laubhardt , German nun and resistance fighter
- 1904 : François Marty , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1905 : Henry Fonda , American actor
- 1905 : Lothar Irle , German homeland researcher and writer
- 1906 : Arturo Uslar Pietri , Venezuelan writer and diplomat
- 1907 : Hans Dichgans , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1908 : Anne Bonnet , Belgian painter
- 1909 : Jan Eilers , German politician
- 1909 : František Kožík , Czech writer
- 1909 : Raúl Rettig , Chilean politician
- 1909 : Margaret Sullavan , American actress
- 1909 : Luigi Villoresi , Italian Formula 1 racing driver
- 1910 : Ernst van Aaken , German sports medicine specialist and trainer
- 1910 : Nikolai Grigoryevich Lyashchenko , Soviet Army General
- 1911 : Walter Hollitscher , Austrian philosopher, psychoanalyst and Marxist
- 1912 : Pyotr Andreevich Abrassimow , Soviet ambassador
- 1912 : Alfred Aston , French football player
- 1912 : Studs Terkel , American writer and radio host
- 1913 : Gheorghe Apostol , Romanian politician and diplomat
- 1913 : Woody Herman , American jazz clarinetist and band leader
- 1913 : Sebastiano Baggio , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1915 : Erwin Iserloh , Catholic church historian
- 1915 : Mario Monicelli , Italian director
- 1915 : Ezra Stoller , American architectural photographer
- 1917 : George Gaynes , American actor
- 1917 : Juan Rulfo , Mexican writer
- 1918 : George Leonard Wallace , Australian actor and comedian
- 1919 : Frank Callaway , New Zealand musician, music educator, and music administrator
- 1919 : Liberace , American entertainer
- 1919 : Albert Osswald , German politician, Prime Minister of Hesse
- 1919 : Gisela Uhlen , German actress
- 1920 : Valda Aveling , Australian harpsichordist and pianist
- 1920 : Martine Carol , French actress
- 1921 : Winnie Markus , German film actress
- 1922 : Otmar Suitner , Austrian conductor
- 1923 : Albert Bühlmann , Swiss physician
- 1923 : Erwin Leiser , German writer and publicist
- 1923 : Merton H. Miller , American economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1923 : Jeanine Salagoïty , French athlete and triathlete
- 1924 : Dawda Jawara , Gambian President
- 1925 : Bobbejaan , Belgian singer and entertainer
- 1925 : Hannes Hegen , German graphic artist and comic artist
- 1925 : Ginette Keller , French composer
- 1925 : Nílton Santos , Brazilian soccer player
1926-1950
- 1926 : Robert Lifton , American psychiatrist and author
- 1926 : Franz Konz , German specialist book author
- 1926 : Gerhard Prause , German literary scholar and historian
- 1927 : Paul Angerer , Austrian conductor and composer
- 1927 : Pavlina Apostolova , Yugoslav opera singer
- 1927 : Hans-Joachim Bormeister , German forester
- 1928 : Ludvík Armbruster , Austro-Czech Jesuit and philosopher, dean and professor in Japan
- 1928 : Billy Martin , American baseball player
- 1928 : Hiroshi Nakajima Japanese medic
- 1928 : Günter Ferdinand Ris , German sculptor
- 1928 : Hermann Schmitz , German philosopher
- 1929 : Betty Carter , American jazz singer
- 1929 : Friedrich Nowottny , German television journalist
- 1929 : Adrienne Rich , American feminist and poet, lecturer and author
- 1930 : Karl Heinz Beckurts , German physicist and manager
- 1930 : Friedrich Gulda , Austrian pianist and conductor
- 1931 : Hana Brady , Czechoslovak Jewish victim of the Nazi regime, original book
- 1931 : Donald Martino , American composer
- 1931 : Wolfango Montanari , Italian athlete
- 1931 : Kanwar Natwar Singh , Indian politician
- 1931 : Thomas Ungar , Austrian conductor and music teacher
- 1934 : Georg Aigner , German engineer and politician, MdL
- 1934 : Jozef Boey , Belgian chess player
- 1934 : Billy Sanders , British singer
- 1934 : Ilse Seemann , German actress, radio play speaker, radio presenter and author
- 1936 : Karl Lehmann , Roman Catholic theologian, bishop of Mainz and cardinal
- 1936 : Manfred Stolpe , German church lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister of Brandenburg, Federal Minister
- 1937 : Thomas Gifford , American writer
- 1937 : Antonio Rattín , Argentine football player
- 1938 : Monique Laederach , Swiss writer and literary critic
- 1938 : Albrecht Müller , German economist, publicist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1938 : Ivan Sutherland , American pioneer of computer graphics
- 1940 : Robert Corbett , British officer
- 1941 : Hans-Peter Reinecke , German actor
- 1942 : Lothar Baier , German writer, publicist and translator
- 1942 : Marie-Thérèse Lefebvre , Canadian musicologist
- 1942 : Walter Schiejok , Austrian journalist and television presenter
- 1943 : Kay Andrews, Baroness Andrews , British politician
- 1943 : Dan Coats , American politician, senator
- 1944 : Ulrich Battis , German legal scholar
- 1944 : Achim Bröger , German author of books for children and young people
- 1944 : Billy Cobham , Panamanian-American jazz drummer
- 1944 : Kurt von Figura , German physician and molecular biologist
- 1944 : Friedrich Schorlemmer , German philosopher and theologian
- 1944 : Danny Trejo , American actor
- 1944 : Gert Weisskirchen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : Rob Bron , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 1945 : Nicky Chinn , British songwriter
- 1945 : Sylvester Levay , Hungarian composer
- 1945 : Massimo Moratti , Italian industrialist
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- 1945 : Carlos Osoro Sierra , Archbishop of Valencia
- 1945 : Martha Beatriz Roque , Cuban economist
- 1946 : Anna Asp , Swedish art director and production designer
- 1946 : Robert Fripp , British guitarist and composer
- 1947 : Mats Åhlberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1948 : Klaus Gehrig , German manager
- 1948 : Rainer Stephan , German author, journalist and director
- 1949 : Paul Ackerley , New Zealand field hockey player and coach
- 1949 : Karlheinz Hackl , Austrian actor and director
- 1949 : Haig Oundjian , British figure skater
- 1950 : Georg Bednorz , German physicist
- 1950 : Siemen Rühaak , German actor, singer and director
1951-1975
- 1951 : Emmanuel Todd , French author
- 1951 : Jonathan Richman , American musician
- 1951 : Joachim Rittmeyer , Swiss cabaret artist
- 1952 : James Herndon , American media psychologist
- 1952 : Erich Weishaupt , German ice hockey player
- 1953 : Heinz Affolter , Swiss musician
- 1953 : Pierce Brosnan , Irish actor
- 1953 : Monica Huggett , British violinist
- 1953 : Kitanoumi Toshimitsu , Japanese sumo wrestler, 55th yokozuna
- 1954 : Cindy Lee Van Dover , American marine biologist
- 1954 : Jónína Leósdóttir , Icelandic author
- 1954 : Betty Olivero , Israeli composer
- 1955 : Olga Korbut , Belarusian gymnast
- 1955 : Debra Winger , American actress
- 1956 : Justus Carrière , German actor
- 1956 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Andrejew , Soviet football player and coach
- 1956 : Michael Herczeg , German computer scientist
- 1957 : Joan Benoit , American marathon runner
- 1957 : Thomas Hirschhorn , Swiss installation artist
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- 1957 : Yuri Julianowitsch Shevchuk , Russian rock musician and singer
- 1959 : Gregory Johnston , New Zealand rower
- 1959 : Guy Zerafa , Canadian musician and composer
- 1960 : Francesca Archibugi , Italian film director, screenwriter and actress
- 1960 : Tamme Hanken , German animal health practitioner
- 1960 : Marcel Alexander Niggli , Swiss legal scholar
- 1960 : Nikollë Nikprelaj , Albanian singer
- 1961 : Gerhard Papke , German politician
- 1962 : Georges Bacaouni , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1962 : Helga Radtke , German athlete
- 1963 : Petras Auštrevičius , Lithuanian politician
- 1963 : Mercedes Echerer , Austrian actress and politician
- 1963 : Marina Massironi , Italian actress
- 1965 : Thomas Gill , Norwegian football player
- 1965 : Krist Novoselic , American musician
- 1965 : Kim Schmidt , German comic artist and cartoonist
- 1966 : Janet Jackson , American singer
- 1966 : Thurman Thomas , American football player
- 1967 : Klaas Hübner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1967 : Virgil Widrich , Austrian director, screenwriter and filmmaker
- 1968 : Sandra Nedeleff , German actress, screenwriter and director
- 1969 : Matthias Asche , German historian
- 1969 : David Boreanaz , American actor
- 1969 : Ursula Buschhorn , German actress
- 1969 : Tucker Carlson , American journalist and talk show host
- 1969 : Tracey Gold , American actress
- 1969 : Marco Kurz , German soccer player and coach
- 1969 : Steve Lewis , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1969 : Ari-Pekka Nikkola , Finnish ski jumper
- 1970 : Martin Gruber , German actor
- 1970 : Gabriela Sabatini , Argentine tennis player, Olympic medalist
- 1971 : Thomas Knorr , German handball player and coach
- 1971 : Roman Pungartnik , Slovenian handball player
- 1971 : Rick Trevino , American country musician
- 1973 : Robert Kratky , Austrian radio presenter
- 1973 : Tori Spelling , American actress
- 1973 : Wee Man , American television actor ( Jackass )
- 1974 : Josef Buchner , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1974 : Laura Pausini , Italian singer
- 1974 : Erol Sabanov , German soccer player
- 1974 : Sonny Sandoval , American singer and rapper
- 1975 : Milan Fukal , Czech football player
- 1975 : Kelly Kainz , British dancer and dance trainer
- 1975 : Tony Kakko , Finnish singer and keyboard player
- 1975 : Melanie Rühmann , German actress
- 1975 : Alexandre Strambini , Swiss tennis player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Christoph von Friedl , Austrian actor
- 1977 : Ronny Ackermann , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1977 : Katrin Bühring , German actress and screenwriter
- 1977 : Jean-Sébastien Giguère , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 : Adam MacDonald , Canadian actor, film director, and screenwriter
- 1977 : Melanie Lynskey , New Zealand actress
- 1977 : Fernando José Silva Garcia , Andorran football player
- 1977 : Emilíana Torrini , Icelandic singer, composer and music producer
- 1978 : Olga Alexejewna Saizewa , Russian biathlete
- 1978 : Lionel Sebastián Scaloni , Argentine soccer player
- 1978 : Jim Sturgess , British actor and musician
- 1979 : Matthias Kessler , German racing cyclist
- 1979 : Barbara Nedeljáková , Slovak actress
- 1979 : Klaus Schrottshammer , Austrian speed skier
- 1980 : Simon Gerrans , Australian cyclist
- 1980 : Jens Spahn , German politician
- 1981 : Ricardo Costa , Portuguese soccer player
- 1981 : Kaká , Brazilian soccer player
- 1981 : Joseph Morgan , British actor
- 1982 : Billy Crawford , Filipino singer, songwriter and actor
- 1982 : Ju Ji-hoon , South Korean actor
- 1982 : Łukasz Kubot , Polish tennis player
- 1983 : Nancy Ajram , Lebanese singer
- 1983 : Fabian Oscar Wien , German actor, speaker and cabaret artist
- 1984 : Julien Antomarchi , French racing cyclist
- 1985 : Stanislaw Janewski , Bulgarian actor
- 1985 : Anja Mittag , German soccer player
- 1986 : Daryna Apanashchenko , Ukrainian soccer player
- 1986 : Eleni Artymata , Cypriot sprinter
- 1986 : Megan Fox , American actress
- 1987 : Olena Khomrowa , Russian saber fencer, Olympic champion
- 1987 : Jana Schölermann , German actress and voice actress
- 1987 : Günther Matzinger , Austrian sprinter and medium-distance runner
- 1989 : Luan Gummich , German-Brazilian actor
- 1990 : Sermet Agartan , German music producer, composer, songwriter and sound engineer
- 1990 : Deniz Akdeniz , Australian actor
- 1990 : Bjarki Már Elísson , Icelandic handball player
- 1990 : Thomas Brodie-Sangster , British actor
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- 1991 : Grigor Dimitrov , Bulgarian tennis player
- 1993 : Johannes Thingnes Bø , Norwegian biathlete
- 1993 : IU , South Korean singer
- 1994 : Selim Gündüz , Turkish-German soccer player
- 1994 : Zeca , Brazilian soccer player
- 1998 : Melanie Hasler , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- 2000 : Tim Georgi , German motorcycle racer
21st century
- 2002 : Ryan Gravenberch , Dutch-Surinamese soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 995 : Fujiwara no Michitaka , Regent of Japan
- 1018 : Lambert von Konstanz , Bishop of Konstanz
- 1101 : Liemar , Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg
- 1127 : Gens Bournarel , French hermit and saint
- 1144 : Bertha von Groitzsch , German monastery donor
- 1160 : Ubald of Gubbio , Bishop of Gubbio and saint
- 1182 : Johannes Komnenos Batatzes , high-ranking Byzantine military
- 1211 : Mieszko I. sacrum , Duke of Silesia
- 1265 : Simon Stock , English clergyman, prior general of the Carmelites and Roman Catholic saint
- 1296 : William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke , Anglo-French nobleman
- 1373 : Jean I , Count of Armagnac and Rodez
- 1395 : Beatrix von Berg , Countess Palatinate of the Palatinate
- 1406 : Walter Fitzwalter, 5th Baron Fitzwalter , English nobleman
- 1412 : Facino Cane de Casale , Italian condottiere
- 1412 : Giovanni Maria Visconti , Duke of Milan
- 1417 : Eberhard III. , Count of Württemberg
- 1427 : Johannes Rimer , Bohemian priest and martyr, saint of the Catholic Church
- 1445 : Nikolaus van Bueren , Dutch-German master builder at Cologne Cathedral
16th to 18th century
- 1514 : Barbara Dürer , citizen of Nuremberg, mother of Albrecht Dürer
- 1543 : Mathias Auctus , humanist and city physician in Breslau
- 1553 : Five martyrs of Lyon , French martyrs of the Reformation
- 1561 : Jan Amor Tarnowski , Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown and Count of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1562 : Adham Khan , politician in the Mughal Empire
- 1567 : Juan Bautista de Toledo , Spanish Renaissance architect
- 1569 : Dirk Willems , Anabaptist martyr
- 1574 : Katharina von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Margravine of Brandenburg-Küstrin
- 1584 : Georg Agricola , Bishop of Lavant and Bishop of Seckau
- 1601 : Carl Henriksson Horn , Swedish field marshal and statesman
- 1618 : Dorothy Wadham , co-founder of Waldham College, Oxford
- 1620 : William Adams , English navigator, believed to be the first European to hold the title of samurai
- 1626 : Christian Baum , German theologian and philologist
- 1662 : Abraham de Fabert , French general and military engineer, Marshal of France
- 1665 : Hermann von Dorne , mayor of Lübeck
- 1669 : Pietro da Cortona , Italian builder and painter of the Roman high baroque
- 1672 : Ernst Christian Hesse , German Kapellmeister, composer and viol player
- 1682 : Andreas Concius , German mathematician
- 1699 : Christine Charlotte von Württemberg , regent of East Frisia
- 1700 : Peter Herold , German organ builder
- 1703 : Charles Perrault , French writer
- 1706 : Christian Röhrensee , German ethicist and political scientist
- 1711 : Narabayashi Chinzan , Japanese interpreter and doctor
- 1713 : Maximilian Thirty Marks , German sculptor
- 1716 : Andreas Rehberger , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet
- 1720 : Jacob Vallan , Dutch medic
- 1721 : Wilhelm Erasmus Arends , German pastor
- 1746 : Johann Adolf II. , Last Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels
- 1757 : Kurt Christoph von Schwerin , Prussian field marshal
- 1762 : Ernst Christian Hesse , German Kapellmeister, composer and viol player
- 1765 : Johann Adam Delsenbach , German engraver
- 1767 : August Franz Friedrich zu Castell-Remlingen , ruler of the county of Castell
- 1779 : Johann Paul Reinhard , German university professor and historian
- 1781 : Giacomo Puccini , Italian composer and organist, great-great-grandfather of the composer of the same name
19th century
- 1816 : Nikolai Ivanovich Saltykov , Russian statesman and field marshal
- 1822 : Bonaventura Andres , German Jesuit priest, pedagogue, university professor and writer
- 1823 : Ōta Nampo , Japanese writer
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- 1826 : Elisabeth Alexejewna , Princess of Baden, Grand Duchess and Empress of Russia
- 1830 : Joseph Fourier , French mathematician and physicist
- 1835 : Elia Interguglielmi , Italian painter
- 1847 : Caspar Ett , German organist and composer
- 1856 : Karl Ernst Christoph Schneider , German classical philologist
- 1857 : Asaf Jah IV. , Prince of Hyderabad
- 1862 : Edward Gibbon Wakefield , British statesman
- 1877 : David Urquhart , British politician and author
- 1897 : Louis Baare , German economic pioneer and industrialist
- 1898 : Barnabé Akscheislian , Bishop of the Armenian Catholic Church
- 1898 : Joseph Pape , German lawyer and writer
- 1899 : Joseph Probst , German homeland researcher
- 1899 : Wilhelm Schwartz , German educator and writer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1908 : Johannes Marinus Simon Baljon , Dutch Reformed theologian
- 1910 : Henri Edmond Cross , French painter
- 1913 : John Atherton , British explorer
- 1913 : Louis Perrier , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1917 : Fernand Halphen , French composer
- 1917 : Rudolph Sohm , German legal scholar
- 1919 : Arthur Walter , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant confessor
- 1920 : Levi P. Morton , American politician
- 1926 : Mehmed VI. , last sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1931 : Emiliano Figueroa Larraín , Chilean politician and president
- 1933 : John Henry Mackay , Scottish-German writer
- 1934 : Auguste Hertzer , German nurse
- 1936 : Julius Schreck , German Nazi functionary, is considered the "father of the SS"
- 1937 : Kurt Frankenstein , German gynecologist
- 1938 : László Hartmann , Hungarian racing car driver
- 1938 : Friedrich Springorum , German manager, board member of Eisen- und Stahlwerk Hoesch AG in Dortmund
- 1939 : Sidney Luxton Loney , British mathematician
- 1940 : Otto Dimroth , German chemist
- 1941 : Johannes Kuhlo , German musician, founder of the Protestant trombone choir
- 1942 : Bronisław Malinowski , British social anthropologist
- 1943 : Alfred Hoche , German psychiatrist
- 1943 : Roy Hall , American old-time musician
- 1944 : George Ade , American writer
- 1946 : Karl Eberhard Schöngarth , German lawyer, general of the SS and the police, Gestapo and SD commander, war criminal
- 1946 : Bruno Tesch , German chemist and entrepreneur, supplier of Zyklon B, war criminal
- 1947 : Frederick Gowland Hopkins , British biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1948 : Ralph Hepburn , American motorcycle and automobile racer
- 1948 : Jacques Ledure , Belgian racing driver
1951-2000
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- 1953 : Django Reinhardt , French swing and gypsy guitarist
- 1954 : Heinrich Wilhelm Joseph Acker , German politician
- 1954 : Clemens Krauss , Austrian conductor
- 1954 : Werner Bischof , Swiss photographer
- 1955 : James Agee , American writer and journalist
- 1955 : Manuel Ayulo , American racing car driver
- 1957 : Hanna Dauberger , Austrian actress and writer
- 1957 : Eliot Ness , US Treasury Officer and Prohibition Agent
- 1958 : Lisa Albrecht , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1959 : Friedrich Grimm , German international lawyer and criminal defense attorney
- 1962 : Paul Ortwin Rave , German art historian
- 1963 : Luigi Bartolini , Italian writer
- 1963 : Oleg Vladimirovich Penkovsky , Soviet double agent
- 1966 : Hellmut Holthaus , German editor and writer
- 1966 : Alfred Onnen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1969 : Helena Oleska , Polish opera singer and vocal teacher
- 1971 : Krikor Bedros XV. Agagianian , 15th Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholic Church and Cardinal Curia of the Roman Church
- 1971 : Karl Farkas , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- 1973 : Robert Bréard , French composer
- 1973 : Albert Paris Gütersloh , Austrian painter and writer
- 1974 : Götz Briefs , Catholic social ethicist, social philosopher and economist
- 1979 : Robert Florey , French-American director, writer, and actor
- 1982 : Hans Andreas , German physician
- 1983 : Roman Jankowiak , Polish conductor and music teacher
- 1983 : Edouard Zeckendorf , Belgian amateur mathematician
- 1984 : Andy Kaufman , American entertainer and actor
- 1984 : Irwin Shaw , American novelist and screenwriter
- 1986 : Edoardo Anton , Italian screenwriter and film director
- 1986 : Elsa Arnold , German resistance fighter
- 1986 : Friedrich Franz von Unruh , German writer
- 1990 : Jim Henson , American director and television producer
- 1990 : Sammy Davis, Jr. , American singer, dancer, and actor
- 1992 : Marisa Mell , Austrian actress
- 1992 : Gino Rossetti , Italian football player
- 1995 : Red Amick , American racing car driver
- 2000 : William Ferris , American composer, organist and choir director
- 2000 : Andrzej Szczypiorski , Polish writer
21st century
- 2001 : Prince Ital Joe , Dominican reggae musician
- 2002 : Luis Lintner , Italian missionary in Brazil
- 2003 : William Charles Anderson , American science fiction writer
- 2004 : Marie Hüllenkremer , German journalist and politician
- 2004 : Marika Rökk , Hungarian film actress and operetta legend
- 2005 : Rudolf Liechtenhan the Younger , Swiss dramaturge and ballet specialist
- 2005 : Kurt Sontheimer , German political scientist
- 2005 : Katharina Winter , German entrepreneur and supporter of the resistance fighters of July 20, 1944
- 2005 : Rosa Winter , Austrian concentration camp survivor
- 2006 : Karin von Arronet , German-Baltic painter, graphic artist and art teacher
- 2006 : Klaus Dahlen , German actor
- 2006 : Josef de Ponte , Hungarian-German church painter
- 2007 : Bois Sec Ardoin , American musician
- 2008 : Wilfrid Mellers , English music critic, scholar, educator and composer
- 2008 : Robert Mondavi , American winemaker
- 2009 : Max Rüeger , Swiss radio and television journalist
- 2010 : Ronnie James Dio , American hard rock and heavy metal singer
- 2010 : Hank Jones , American jazz pianist
- 2012 : James Abdnor , American politician
- 2012 : Kurt Felix , Swiss TV presenter and TV journalist
- 2012 : Jesse Thomas , American football player
- 2012 : Wolfgang Wiens , German dramaturge and theater director
- 2013 : Richard Andriamanjato , Malagasy pastor and politician
- 2013 : Heinrich Rohrer , Swiss physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2014 : Rolf Boysen , German actor
- 2014 : Jancho Patrikow , Bulgarian wrestler
- 2015 : Stavros Mentzos , Greek neurologist, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- 2015 : Dean Potter , American climber and mountaineer as well as base jumper and highliner
- 2016 : Giovanni Coppa , Italian cardinal
- 2016 : Otto Gerhard Oexle , German historian
- 2017 : Gunnar Möller , German actor
- 2017 : Emil Stehle , German bishop
- 2018 : Joseph Campanella , American actor
- 2018 : Gérard Jouannest , French pianist and composer
- 2019 : Bob Hawke , Australian politician
- 2019 : Ieoh Ming Pei , Chinese-American architect
- 2020 : Henny Brenner , German-Jewish forced laborer and author
- 2021 : Alessandro Talotti , Italian athlete
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Five Martyrs of Lyon , French Martyrs (Protestant)
- St. John Nepomuk , Bohemian priest and martyr (Roman Catholic)
- St. Gemma Galgani , Italian mystic (Roman Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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