November 16
The November 16 is the 320th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 321st in leap years ), thus remain 45 days to the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 42 BC BC : In the second battle at Philippi , Marcus Junius Brutus is decisively defeated by Octavian and Marcus Antonius . The Second Triumvirate thus gains dominion over the Roman Empire .
- 534 : The Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I publishes the revised version of the Codex Iustinianus .
- 1532 : In the course of the Spanish conquest of Peru , the battle of Cajamarca takes place , in which 4000 unarmed Incas are attacked and massacred by Francisco Pizarro and around 170 conquistadors ; the Inca ruler Atahualpa and his followers are taken prisoner.
- 1542 : An expedition of the Spanish Navy led by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo reaches Monterey Bay in the Pacific .
- 1632 : In the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years' War , the Swedes under Gustav II Adolf defeat the imperial troops of Wallenstein , but the Swedish king falls.
- 1700 : Emperor Leopold I agrees in the so-called contract that the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich III. after fulfilling certain conditions may in future be called King in Prussia and thus increase in rank.
- 1700 : King Louis XIV proclaims his grandson Philip , the Duke of Anjou , King of Spain .
- 1715 : In the Battle of Stresow in the Great Northern War , the Swedes are defeated under their King Charles XII. the allied Prussians, Danes and Saxons, who can subsequently occupy the island of Rügen .
- 1797 : Friedrich Wilhelm III. becomes King of Prussia after the death of his father Friedrich Wilhelm II .
- 1805 : In the battle of Hollabrunn and Schöngrabern, the attempt by the French army under Marshal Joachim Murat to prevent the unification of Russian and Austrian troops in the Third Coalition War fails . In the subsequent Battle of Austerlitz , the allies fight united.
- 1808 : During a revolt against the Turkish Sultan Mahmud II , his brother and predecessor Mustafa IV is murdered in Constantinople .
- 1808 : Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte issues the Code d'instruction criminelle , the French code of criminal procedure. The model of this regulation subsequently leads to the end of the inquisition proceedings in the German states .
- 1846 : The Republic of Krakow is annexed by the Austrian Empire on the basis of contractual agreements with Prussia and Russia.
- 1885 : A trade treaty concluded with France and a dispute between a British company and King Thibaw Min trigger the third Anglo-Burmese War . Colonial troops from British India to march under General Harry Prendergast in Burma one.
- 1907 : The Oklahoma Territory is united with the Indian Territory and incorporated into the United States of America as the 46th state under the name Oklahoma .
- 1914 : The pacifist New Fatherland League is founded in Berlin. Albert Einstein , Stefan Zweig and Clara Zetkin belong to the association, which has set itself the task of working towards an end to the First World War as quickly as possible .
- 1918 : Count Mihály Károlyi proclaims the Republic of Hungary .
- 1919 : Admiral Miklós Horthy and his troops enter Budapest, which left the council government in August as a result of the Hungarian-Romanian War . As a conservative, Horthy enjoys the consent of the occupying power of Romania.
- 1940 : An air raid by the British Royal Air Force on Hamburg during World War II in response to the bombing of Coventry two days earlier kills 233.
- 1940 : The Warsaw Ghetto is completely sealed off from the outside world. Around 350,000 Jews are included.
- 1944 : On the Western Front of World War II , the Allies begin Operation Queen, which is ultimately unsuccessful . The cities of Jülich and Düren were completely destroyed by bombing in connection with the offensive, and Heinsberg was heavily devastated.
- 1945 : The UNESCO constitution is passed by 37 states in London, which defines the promotion of education, science, communication, information and culture as the task of the UN special organization .
- 1951 : A Frisian demonstration is put down in Ljouwert , the event goes down in Frisian history as " Kneppelfreed " ( West Frisian for " Kneppelfreitag ").
- 1954 : The German Bundestag elects Eugen Gerstenmaier as its President . He succeeds the late Hermann Ehlers in office .
- 1970 : Hafiz al-Assad takes power in Syria through a coup .
- 1976 : The songwriter Wolf Biermann is expatriated from the GDR after making critical comments at a concert in Cologne .
- 1977 : Hartmut Gründler , a teacher from Tübingen, burned himself to death on Hamburg's Mönckebergstrasse in front of the Petrikirche in protest against the nuclear policy and especially the disposal.
- 1988 : Benazir Bhutto becomes head of government in Pakistan . She is the first woman to be elected to head an Islamic state.
- 1989 : The death squad Atlacatl Battalion of the Army of El Salvador murdered dissident Chancellor Ignacio Ellacuría the Jesuit -University Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" . Seven other people present in the building were also killed to avoid leaving witnesses.
- 1992 : The neo-Nazi organization Nationalist Front is banned by the German Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters .
- 1994 : Emomalij Rahmonow becomes President of Tajikistan .
- 1995 : Oskar Lafontaine solves Rudolf Scharping as national chairman of the SPD from.
- 1997 : The People's Republic of China releases the dissident Wei Jingsheng from prison and deports him to the United States.
- 2001 : The German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wins the vote of confidence associated with the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan in the Bundestag .
economy
- 1866 : The Frankfurter Zeitung and Handelsblatt appear in Frankfurt . The publisher was forbidden to publish the newspaper for three months by the Prussian occupying power.
- 1869 : Shipping traffic in the Suez Canal is opened, the official opening follows one day later.
- 1904 : The naturalized British Carl Anton Larsen founds Grytviken , the capital of South Georgia , with a team of sixty Norwegians. The colony is supposed to be used for whaling .
- 1909 : In Germany, the first is airline in the world founded: the DELAG operates from the air Zeppelin GmbH built transport airships .
- 1914 : The banks in the United States Federal Reserve System , including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York , begin operations.
- 1915 : A US patent is granted for the signature Coca-Cola bottle .
- 1944 : The Swedish tabloid Expressen is founded.
- 1979 : The first section of the metro opens in Bucharest .
- 1981 : The Poullain affair, which has been smoldering in North Rhine-Westphalia since December 1977, comes to an end with the acquittal of the accused former WestLB boss Ludwig Poullain .
- 2005 : At the World Summit on the Information Society which is 100-dollar laptop presented.
science and technology
- 1900 : The Pont de la Manufacture road bridge over the Vienne River, designed by the French civil engineer François Hennebique , opens in Châtellerault as the world's first reinforced concrete bridge .
- 1904 : John Ambrose Fleming files a patent for an oscillation valve .
- 1911 : The philosophers Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein meet for the first time. Russell notes in his diary: "After the lecture, a heated German came to argue with me [...] It's actually a waste of time to talk to him."
- 1928 : Sir Hubert Wilkins and Carl Ben Eielson conduct the first powered flight in Antarctica .
- 1938 : As part of his research on ergot , the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann produces lysergic acid diethylamide ( LSD ) for the first time .
- 1965 : The Soviet space probe Venera 3 starts its flight to the planet Venus
- 1973 : Skylab 4 , the last mission to the Skylab space station , with astronauts Gerald Carr , William Pogue and Edward Gibson on board, takes off from Cape Canaveral.
- 1974 : The Arecibo message to possible extraterrestrials is sent into space in the form of a radio wave signal from the Arecibo observatory .
- 1992 : The largest documented hoard find to date on the British Isles from the late Roman period is made near the English town of Hoxne .
- 2004 : The Boeing X-43A , a supersonic research model with a so-called scramjet engine, flies a new world record at a speed of Mach 9.6.
Culture
- 1802 : The German poet Friedrich Schiller receives his nobility diploma.
- 1846 : The world premiere of the romantic opera Die Hochländerin am Caucasus by Conradin Kreutzer takes place in Hamburg.
- 1850 : The opera Stiffelio by Giuseppe Verdi based on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave has its world premiere at the Teatro Grande in Trieste. After problems with the censorship authorities and falsifying interventions, Piave and Verdi reworked the opera seven years later into Aroldo, which premiered in Rimini .
- 1872 : The first performance of the operetta Sol-si-ré-pif-pan by Georges Bizet takes place in the Château d'Eau in Paris .
- 1873 : King Chulalongkorn founds the Order of Chula Chom Klao of the Kingdom of Siam .
- 1908 : Arturo Toscanini debuts with Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in New York .
- 1924 : The association of Swabian-Alemannic fools' guilds is founded.
- 1959 : The Musical The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein has its Broadway premiere in Lunt-Fontanne Theater .
- 1982 : The Swedish pop group ABBA shot their last music video for Under Attack .
- 2002 : The Escher Museum opens in The Hague , dedicated to the oeuvre of the Dutch artist and graphic artist MC Escher .
society
- 1992 : The Erlangen baby dies in a miscarriage. There has been a public debate that has lasted for weeks about carrying the child of a brain-dead pregnant woman to term.
religion
- 367 : The opposing bishop Ursinus is expelled from Rome by the prefect of the city and banished to Gaul .
- 1329 : Pope John XXII. publishes Quia vir reprobus, another papal bull on the poverty struggle with the Franciscans . With this last bull on the poverty dispute, the dispute with the representatives of evangelical poverty ends.
Disasters
- 1911 : One of the historically stronger earthquakes in Germany caused great damage in Ebingen . The Hohenzollerngraben is often wrongly said to have a connection.
- 1937 : Aircraft Accident Oostende - From Frankfurt coming, pulled at an unscheduled landing near Ostend a passenger airplane of Sabena type Junkers Ju 52 / 3m a factory chimney. All eleven inmates were killed in the crash, including almost the entire family of the former Hereditary Grand Duke Georg Donatus of Hesse and the Rhine, as well as the German gliding pioneer Arthur Martens .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1855 : David Livingstone is the first European to reach Victoria Falls .
- 1933 : The bush pilot Jimmie Angel rediscovered the Salto Ángel , the highest free-falling waterfall on earth in Venezuela .
Sports
- 1893 : Dissatisfied athletes from AC Prague found their own club, from which Sparta Prague emerged after a few years .
- 1977 : Klaus Fischer scored the match Germany-Switzerland (4: 1) in Stuttgart Neckarstadion per bicycle kick the chosen in the ARD sports show Goal of the Century .
- 2003 : In Porto , the new opened Estádio do Dragão , home of the games of FC Porto .
- 2005 : The Swiss national soccer team qualifies in Istanbul in the play-off against Turkey for the 2006 World Cup . After the game there was a fight between the players and fans of both teams; as a result, players and coaches for both teams will be banned from UEFA for several games.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 42 BC BC : Tiberius , second Roman emperor
- 1436 : Leonardo Loredan , 75th Doge of Venice
- 1457 : Beatrix of Aragón , Hungarian-Bohemian queen
- 1466 : Francesco Cattani da Diacceto , Italian humanist and philosopher
- 1483 : Elisabeth von der Pfalz , Landgravine of Hessen-Marburg and Margravine of Baden
- 1519 : Willibald Imhoff , Nuremberg patrician, art collector, merchant and banker
- 1531 : Anna d'Este , Italian noblewoman with considerable influence at the court of France
- 1532 : Clara von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Abbess of Gandersheim and Duchess of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen
- 1561 : Andreas Angelus , German pastor, inspector and chronicler
- 1567 : Anna , Duchess of Saxe-Coburg
- 1584 : Barbara Sophia of Brandenburg , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1585 : Reinhold Franckenberger , German historian
- 1611 : Zacharias Kniller , German painter
- 1617 : Friedrich IV. , Margrave of Baden-Durlach
- 1642 : Cornelis Evertsen , Dutch privateer and admiral
- 1651 : Christian father , German medic
- 1653 : Joan van Hoorn , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1655 : Alessandro Gherardini , Italian painter
- 1673 : Alexander Danilowitsch Menshikov , Russian statesman and generalissimo
18th century
- 1715 : Girolamo Abos , Maltese composer
- 1717 : Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician
- 1723 : Anton IV of Montfort , German nobleman
- 1729 : Aegidius Maria of Saint Joseph , Italian Franciscan and saint
- 1730 : Gualtherus van Doeveren , Dutch medic
- 1758 : Peter Andreas Heiberg , Danish satirist
- 1766 : Rodolphe Kreutzer , French violinist, conductor and composer
- 1774 : Jean-Lucq d'Arriule , French general
- 1775 : Friedrich von Klinckowström , Prussian landowner and politician
- 1778 : Maximilian Emanuel von Lerchenfeld , German politician
- 1786 : William Appleton , American politician
- 1786 : Karl Ernst Christoph Schneider , German classical philologist
- 1788 : Joseph Kopp , German classical philologist
- 1789 : Ludwig Roth von Schreckenstein , Prussian Minister of War and General of the Cavalry
- 1791 : Johan Ludvig Heiberg , Danish poet and critic
- 1793 : Francis Danby , Irish painter
19th century
- 1803 : Heinrich Georg August Ewald , German theologian and orientalist
- 1807 : Eduard von Fransecky , Prussian general of the infantry
- 1807 : Jónas Hallgrímsson , Icelandic poet
- 1810 : Karel Hynek Mácha , Czech romantic writer
- 1810 : Gustav Rée , politician from Baden
- 1811 : John Bright , British politician
- 1813 : Josef Martin Knüsel , Swiss politician
- 1816 : Christian August Selmer , Norwegian lawyer and politician
- 1819 : Wilhelm Marr , German journalist
- 1820 : Henri Duvernoy , French music teacher, organist and composer
- 1823 : Henry G. Davis , American businessman and politician, United States Senator for West Virginia
- 1832 : Paul Cérésole , Swiss politician
- 1835 : Eugenio Beltrami , Italian mathematician
- 1837 : Franz Overbeck , German theologian
- 1850 : Federico Errázuriz Echaurren , Chilean politician
- 1851 : Minnie Hauk , American opera singer
- 1852 : Friedrich August , Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- 1854 : Eduard Beyer , German lawyer and politician
- 1857 : Jón Sveinsson , Icelandic writer ( Nonni )
- 1861 : Arvid Järnefelt , Finnish writer
- 1862 : Jacques Rouché , French editor and opera director
- 1863 : Ludwig Sütterlin , German linguist and Germanist
- 1864 : Moritz Wilhelm Paul Schwartz , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
- 1865 : Horatio Thomas Austin , British Vice Admiral
- 1870 : Ambrogio Robecchi , Italian racing cyclist
- 1871 : Hugo Lederer , German sculptor
- 1871 : Friedrich Pincus , German ophthalmologist
- 1873 : WC Handy , American blues composer, trumpeter and band leader, known as the "father of the blues"
- 1874 : Leopold Ziegenbein , German navigator, captain and commodore
- 1877 : Halliwell Hobbes , British actor
- 1877 : Felix Kwieton , Austrian medium and long distance runner
- 1880 : Thomas Harper Ince , American film director and producer
- 1883 : Engelbert Brinker , German resistance fighter
- 1884 : Bruno Arnold , German photographer
- 1885 : Eugène Verpault , French racing car driver
- 1885 : Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , German classical philologist
- 1885 : Josef Kentenich , German Father, founder of the Schoenstatt Movement
- 1886 : Marcel Riesz , Hungarian mathematician
- 1887 : Priska Aich , Hungarian opera singer
- 1887 : Hans Blume , Dutch football player
- 1888 : Winzent Hadleuski , Belarusian Catholic priest and nationalist politician
- 1889 : John Arnold , American cameraman
- 1889 : George Simon Kaufman , American author
- 1890 : Gyula Feldmann , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1891 : Julius Leber , German politician and resistance fighter, MdR
- 1892 : Tazio Nuvolari , Italian racing driver
- 1894 : Richard Nikolaus Coudenhove-Kalergi , Austrian politician
- 1895 : Paul Hindemith , German composer and musician
- 1896 : Oswald Mosley , British politician
- 1896 : Friederike Mulert , German politician, MdL, MdB
- 1898 : Warren McCulloch , American neurophysiologist and cyberneticist
- 1898 : Elisabeth Zaisser , German politician, Minister for Popular Education of the GDR
- 1900 : William E. Barrett , American writer
- 1900 : Eliška Junková , Czechoslovak automobile racing driver
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Fred von Hoerschelmann , German writer and radio play author
- 1903 : Barbara McLean , American film editor, Oscar winner
- 1904 : Joseph Baumgartner , German economist and politician
- 1904 : Renée Saint-Cyr , French actress
- 1905 : Eddie Condon , American jazz guitarist
- 1906 : Henri Charrière , French writer
- 1908 : Emmanuelle Cinquin , Belgian-French religious ( mother of the garbage people of Cairo )
- 1908 : Nicolás Lindley López , Peruvian politician, military man and putschist
- 1909 : Max Zimmering , German writer
- 1910 : Jane Tilden , Austrian actress
- 1912 : Chaim Seeligmann , German-Israeli historian and educator
- 1914 : Bernhard Balkenhol , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1915 : Alphonse Bois Sec Ardoin , American musician
- 1916 : Herbert C. Abramson , American music producer
- 1917 : Giovanni Alberti , Italian racing car driver
- 1918 : Joseph Emmanuel Appiah , Ghanaian lawyer, diplomat and politician
- 1918 : Ellen Albertini Dow , American film and stage actress
- 1920 : Nerses The Nersessian , Armenian archbishop
- 1920 : Colin Thiele , Australian children's author
- 1921 : Edmondo Fabbri , Italian football player and coach
- 1922 : Gene Myron Amdahl , American computer architect and IT entrepreneur
- 1922 : Salvatore Giuliano , Sicilian bandit and separatist
- 1922 : José Saramago , Portuguese novelist, poet, essayist, storyteller, playwright and diary author, Nobel Prize winner
- 1924 : Adam Keel , Swiss painter
- 1924 : Lajos Kada , Roman Catholic Archbishop and Vatican diplomat
- 1924 : Chaim Bar-Lev , Israeli Chief of Staff
- 1924 : Mel Patton , American sprinter, Olympic champion
1926-1950
- 1926 : Ton de Leeuw , Dutch composer and music teacher
- 1927 : Giovan Battista Carpi , Italian comic artist
- 1927 : Emile Wafflard , Belgian carom player, world champion
- 1929 : Wolfgang Hilger , German chemist and company manager
- 1930 : Tuğrul Ansay , German legal scholar
- 1930 : Chinua Achebe , Nigerian writer
- 1930 : Salvatore Riina , Italian mafia boss
- 1931 : Bob Gibson , American folk musician
- 1935 : France-Albert René , President of the Seychelles
- 1935 : Kurt Schindler , German-American conductor and composer
- 1936 : Skip Barber , American racing car driver
- 1936 : Adrian Doyle , Australian bishop
- 1936 : Antonio Gades , Spanish dancer and choreographer
- 1936 : Joaquín Navarro-Valls , Spanish director of the Vatican press office
- 1937 : Jan Balstad , Norwegian politician and trade unionist
- 1937 : Lothar Späth , German politician and manager, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg
- 1938 : Robert Nozick , American philosopher
- 1939 : Robert Amirchanjan , Armenian composer and educator
- 1939 : Hans Herbert von Arnim , German constitutional lawyer and party critic
- 1939 : Henrik Otto Donner , Finnish composer and jazz musician
- 1939 : Jürgen Moll , German football player
- 1939 : Peter Schäffler , German soccer player
- 1940 : Manfred Heise , German politician, MdL
- 1942 : Chi Coltrane , American musician, singer and songwriter
- 1944 : Hugo Dittberner , German writer
- 1946 : Halil Haxhosaj , Albanian writer
- 1946 : Wolfgang Kleff , German soccer player
- 1946 : Ole Olsen , Danish speedway driver
- 1947 : Hannelore Burosch , German handball player
- 1947 : Ebby Thust , German boxing promoter
- 1947 : Siegmar Wätzlich , German soccer player
- 1948 : Anne André-Léonard , Belgian politician, MEP
- 1948 : Birgitta Arens , German writer
- 1948 : Arie Haan , Dutch football player
- 1948 : Norbert Lammert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag
- 1950 : Harvey Martin , American football player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Denis Gougeon , Canadian composer
- 1951 : Charly Graf , German professional boxer and book author
- 1951 : Miguel Sandoval , American actor
- 1952 : Karl-Heinz Ach , German soccer player and coach
- 1952 : Lawrence Rush Atkinson IV , American journalist, military historian, and non-fiction author
- 1952 : Shigeru Miyamoto , Japanese video game designer
- 1952 : Lauren Newton , American singer and composer
- 1952 : Klaus Zeh , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1953 : Brigitte Zypries , German politician, MdL Federal Minister of Justice
- 1954 : Allison Anders , American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1954 : Tommy Archer , American racing car driver
- 1954 : Donald Runnicles , British conductor
- 1954 : Thomas Schütte , German sculptor and draftsman
- 1955 : Marie-Hélène Aubert , French politician
- 1955 : Héctor Cúper , Argentine soccer player and soccer coach
- 1957 : Rafael Amador Flores , Mexican soccer player
- 1957 : Tom Bayer , German sports reporter
- 1957 : Jorge Liderman , American composer
- 1958 : Roberto Guerrero , Colombian racing car driver
- 1958 : Marg Helgenberger , American actress
- 1958 : Neil Geoffrey Turok , South African physicist and astrophysicist.
- 1959 : Ursula Konzett , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1961 : Frank Bruno , English boxer, world heavyweight champion
- 1961 : Karen Duve , German writer
- 1961 : Corinne Hermès , French singer
- 1962 : Gary "Mani" Mounfield , British musician
- 1962 : Ásbjörn Ottarsson , Icelandic politician
- 1963 : Steve Argüelles , British jazz drummer
- 1963 : Heike Bittner , German screenwriter, director and film producer
- 1963 : René Steinke , German actor
- 1963 : Troy Stetina , American guitar teacher
- 1964 : Paul Christensen , Danish singer and guitarist
- 1964 : Dwight Gooden , American baseball player
- 1964 : Diana Krall , Canadian jazz pianist and singer
- 1965 : Mika Aaltonen , Finnish soccer player
- 1965 : Magnus Bäcklund , Swedish singer
- 1965 : Jeff Pinkner , American film producer and screenwriter
- 1966 : Joey Cape , American singer and guitarist
- 1966 : Dave Kushner , American guitarist
- 1966 : Christian Lorenz , German musician
- 1966 : Dean McDermott , Canadian actor
- 1966 : Ruth Rockenschaub , German actress, voice actress and presenter
- 1967 : Lisa Bonet , American actress
- 1967 : Florian Fitz , German actor
- 1968 : David Casa , Maltese politician
- 1970 : László Keszég , Hungarian actor and director
- 1970 : Peter Moltzen , German actor
- 1971 : Angelika Birck , Austrian psychologist and author
- 1971 : Mercedes Bunz , German cultural scientist and journalist
- 1971 : Tanja Damaske , German athlete
- 1971 : Martin Lingnau , German pianist, theater, musical and television composer
- 1971 : Alexander Wladimirowitsch Popow , Russian swimmer
- 1972 : Michael Irby , American actor
- 1972 : Annette Kahl , German disabled athlete
- 1972 : Steffen Weber , German handball player
- 1973 : Christian Horner , British racing driver and Formula 1 team boss
- 1974 : Rob Barff , British racing car driver
- 1974 : Brooke Elliott , American actress and singer
- 1974 : Thomas Lindner , German composer, lyricist and singer
- 1974 : Paul Scholes , English football player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Pietro Aurino , Italian boxer
- 1976 : Patrick Fölser , Austrian handball player
- 1977 : Oksana Bajul , Ukrainian figure skater, Olympic champion
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- 1977 : Maggie Gyllenhaal , American actress
- 1977 : Stuart Moseley , British racing car driver
- 1978 : Boris Anderson , German film director and screenwriter
- 1978 : Conny Pohlers , German soccer player
- 1980 : Philip Andersen , Danish racing car driver
- 1980 : Timur Işık , German actor
- 1981 : Marcel Heinig , German triathlete
- 1983 : Renos Doweiya , Nauruan weightlifter
- 1983 : Kari Lehtonen , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1983 : Britta Steffen , German swimmer, Olympic champion
- 1984 : Gemma Atkinson , British actress and glamor model
- 1984 : Kimberly J. Brown , American actress
- 1984 : Patrick Jahns , Austrian actor and director
- 1984 : Mariann Knudsen , Danish soccer player
- 1985 : Benjamin Krotz , German handball player
- 1987 : Amelie Kober , German snowboarder, Olympic medalist
- 1988 : Kevin Freiberger , German soccer player
- 1989 : Jamie Arniel , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1991 : Nemanja Gudelj , Serbian-Dutch soccer player
- 1991 : Sandro Zeller , Swiss racing driver
- 1992 : Marcelo Brozović , Croatian football player
- 1993 : Bahrudin Atajić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1995 : Noah Gray-Cabey , American actor and pianist
- 1995 : Kurt Ipekkaya , German actor
- 1996 : Brendan Murray , Irish singer
21st century
- 2001 : Mialitiana Clerc , Malagasy-French ski racer
Died
Before the 17th century
- 759 : Otmar von St. Gallen , founder and first abbot of the St. Gallen monastery
- 825 : Waltger , Saxon nobleman, founder of a monastery and saint of the Catholic Church
- 1093 : Margaret of Scotland , Queen of Scotland
- 1147 : Bernhard von Trixen , Count of Carinthia and Trixen
- 1188 : Usama ibn Munqidh , Arabic writer and poet, politician and diplomat
- 1200 : Hugo of Lincoln , Bishop of Lincoln
- 1207 : Walter de Coutances , Anglo-Norman clergyman, Bishop of Lincoln and Archbishop of Rouen, Royal Justiciar for England
- 1240 : Muhyī d-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī , Islamic mystic / Sufi and traveler from Moorish Spain
- 1240 : Edmund Rich , Archbishop of Canterbury and saint
- 1253 : Agnes , Clarisse and the sister of St. Clare of Assisi
- 1272 : Henry III. , King of England and Lord of Ireland from the House of Plantagenet
- 1277 : Engelbert I , Count von der Mark
- 1293 : Eberhard von Strahlberg , Bishop of Worms
- 1322 : Nasr , Emir of Granada
- 1323 : Friedrich I , Margrave of Meißen and Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1327 : Walter Reynolds , English clergyman
- 1328 : Hisaaki , Japanese shogun
- 1464 : Johann , Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
- 1494 : Theda Ukena , regent of the imperial county of East Friesland
- 1541 : Elisabeth Silbereisen , German citizen's wife, wife of the reformer Martin Bucer
- 1548 : Caspar Cruciger the Elder , German Protestant theologian and reformer
17th and 18th centuries
- 1625 : Sofonisba Anguissola , Italian painter
- 1628 : Paolo Quagliati , Italian composer
- 1629 : Bartholomäus Reusner , German jurist
- 1632 : Gustav Adolf , King of Sweden
- 1632 : Johann Bernhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg , Prince Abbot of Fulda
- 1667 : Nathanael Schnittelbach , German composer and violinist
- 1672 : Heinrich Schütz , German composer
- 1704 : Friedrich von der Asseburg , Knight of the Teutonic Order
- 1706 : Cornelis Evertsen , Dutch privateer and admiral
- 1706 : Godefridus Schalcken , Dutch painter
- 1714 : Alexander Benedikt Sobieski , Polish prince
- 1720 : Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León , Spanish lawyer and viceroy of Peru
- 1724 : Jack Sheppard , British robber and escape king
- 1745 : Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt , Austrian baroque master builder
- 1745 : James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde , Anglo-Irish statesman and general
- 1768 : Johann von Lehwaldt , Prussian field marshal
- 1770 : Johann Anwander , German rococo painter and fresco artist
- 1779 : Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Farnham , Irish politician and peer
- 1783 : Jan Josef Antonín Eleazar Kittel , Bohemian healer and doctor
- 1785 : Honorius Roth von Schreckenstein , Prince Abbot of Kempten
- 1785 : Johan Gottschalk Wallerius , Swedish chemist and mineralogist
- 1797 : Friedrich Wilhelm II. , Prussian King
19th century
- 1802 : André Michaux , French botanist and explorer
- 1808 : Envold de Falsen , Danish-Norwegian poet lawyer
- 1812 : John Walter , British entrepreneur, founder of the Times
- 1820 : Jean Lambert Tallien , French revolutionary
- 1831 : Carl von Clausewitz , Prussian general, army reformer and military theorist
- 1835 : Louis Jean Jacques Angely , German comedy poet, actor and director
- 1841 : Emmanuel Théaulon , French playwright and librettist
- 1845 : Ludwig Iwanowitsch Charlemagne , Russian architect
- 1850 : Théodore Mozin , French composer and music teacher
- 1857 : Carl Andreas Ancker , founder of the Ancker legate
- 1859 : George Gilmer , American politician
- 1863 : Franz Wilhelm von Barfus-Falkenburg , Prussian major general
- 1875 : Werner Munzinger , Swiss African explorer
- 1876 : Julius Lasker , Prussian medic and writer
- 1877 : Karl Ludwig von Littrow , German astronomer
- 1878 : Johann Adolf Karl van Heusde , Dutch philologist and literary scholar
- 1885 : Louis Riel , Canadian rebel and politician, leader of the Métis
- 1894 : Robert Charles Winthrop , American politician, MP and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator for Massachusetts
- 1896 : Joan Lindsay , Australian writer
- 1897 : Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl , German writer and cultural historian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Martin Traugott Blumner , German composer and music theorist
- 1903 : Elisabeth of Hessen-Darmstadt , Princess of Hesse and the Rhine
- 1906 : Juhana Heikki Erkko , Finnish writer
- 1909 : Francis Thomé , French composer
- 1911 : Engelbert Arnold , Swiss electrical engineer
- 1912 : William Larrabee , American politician, governor of the state of Iowa
- 1914 : Sattar Khan , Iranian revolutionary leader
- 1922 : Max Abraham , German physicist
- 1922 : Kunigunde Ansion , Austrian writer
- 1925 : Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl , German church painter and draftsman
- 1934 : Carl von Linde , German inventor and industrialist
- 1935 : Félix José de Augusta , German surgeon, missionary and linguist
- 1937 : Arthur Martens , German engineer and glider pioneer
- 1937 : Ludwig Plate , German zoologist
- 1938 : Abbas Mirsa Sharifsade , Azerbaijani actor
- 1942 : Joseph Schmidt , German tenor
- 1945 : Sigurður Eggerz , Icelandic Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
- 1946 : Giovanni Anfossi , Italian composer, pianist and music teacher
1951-2000
- 1952 : Charles Maurras , French writer and publicist
- 1955 : Joseph Arneth , German medic
- 1960 : Wilhelm Apel , German politician
- 1960 : Clark Gable , American actor
- 1964 : Albert Hay Malotte , American pianist and organist, composer and educator
- 1965 : William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish head of government
- 1966 : Wassil Boschinow , Bulgarian composer
- 1967 : James Archey , American trombonist and band leader
- 1968 : Augustin Cardinal Bea , German religious and curia cardinal
- 1971 : Bruno Cicognani , Italian writer
- 1971 : Edie Sedgwick , American actress
- 1972 : Ulysse Paquin , Canadian singer
- 1972 : Andrei Pashchenko , Russian composer
- 1979 : Robert Asher , British film director
- 1980 : Frank Luther , American country musician
- 1981 : William Holden , American actor
- 1982 : Arthur Bowden Askey , British comedian and actor
- 1984 : Leonard Rose , American cellist
- 1988 : Wera Engels , German actress
- 1989 : Erling Sivertsen , Norwegian carcinologist and zoologist
- 1993 : Lucia Popp , Slovak coloratura soprano
- 1994 : Jim Poole , American football player
- 1996 : Holger Hagen , German actor and voice actor
- 1997 : José Behra , French racing car driver
- 1997 : KP Brehmer , German painter, graphic artist and filmmaker
- 1997 : Georges Marchais , French politician
- 1999 : Karl Feuerstein , German politician and trade unionist
- 1999 : Daniel Nathans , American biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2000 : Russ Conway , British pianist, composer and singer
- 2000 : Josef Ertl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 2000 : Kåre Fuglesang , Norwegian violinist and music teacher
- 2000 : Ahmet Kaya , Turkish-Kurdish singer
21st century
- 2001 : Mohammed Atef , Egyptian terrorist
- 2003 : Augustine Eugene Hornyak , Serbian Bishop and Exarch of Great Britain
- 2003 : Martin Metz , Romanian-German church musician and composer
- 2003 : Zbigniew Śliwiński , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 2004 : Yves Berger , French writer
- 2004 : Otis Dudley Duncan , American sociologist
- 2004 : Hans Künzi , Swiss politician
- 2005 : Douglas Tate , British specialist author and harmonica player, manufacturer and dealer
- 2005 : Henry Taube , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2006 : Milton Friedman , American economist
- 2007 : Angelo Marcello Anile , Italian physicist and mathematician
- 2007 : Billy Hagan , entrepreneur, racing car driver and racing team owner
- 2008 : Cornelius Aarts , Dutch soccer player
- 2008 : Luisín Landáez , Venezuelan-Chilean singer
- 2008 : Tony Reedus , American musician
- 2011 : René Morel , French-American violin maker
- 2012 : Aliu Mahama , Ghanaian politician
- 2012 : Bob Scott , New Zealand rugby player
- 2013 : Chris Argyris , American administrative scientist
- 2014 : Serge Moscovici , French social psychologist
- 2018 : William Goldman , American novelist and screenwriter
- 2019 : Walter Freiwald , German radio, television presenter and teleshopping salesman
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Amos Comenius , Bishop of the Bohemian Brethren Church and educator (Protestant)
- Saint Roque González de Santa Cruz , Paraguayan martyr and missionary (Roman Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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