February 17th

The February 17 is the 48th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 317 days (in leap years 318 days) by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1370 : The Grand Master of the Teutonic Knight Order , Winrich von Kniprode , defeated the Lithuanians in the Battle of Rudau together with Western European knights who were on a journey to Prussia .

1500: Memorial to the Battle of Hemmingstedt

• 1500 : The devastating defeat of the attacking army in the battle of Hemmingstedt against a numerically inferior peasant army under Wulf Isebrand ends the Danish conquest of the peasant republic of Dithmarschen .

1568: Emperor Maximilian II.

• 1568 : In Adrian Opel it comes to the peace treaty between Emperor Maximilian II. And the Ottoman Sultan Selim II. Where since summer 1566 led war against the Turks .
• 1642 : After conquering Fort São Antonio, previously held by the Portuguese on the Gold Coast in the west of what is now Ghana , the Dutch conclude a treaty with the local rulers in the region.
• 1753 : Because of Sweden's transition to the Gregorian calendar , February 17th is followed by March 1st.
• 1772 : Russia and Prussia essentially agree to partition Poland and wait for Austria to approve the plan on March 4th. Poland is losing almost a third of its territory.
• 1801 : The House of Representatives elects Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the USA in the 36th ballot . Aaron Burr is elected Vice President.
• 1820 : The United States Senate passes the Missouri Compromise , which regulates slavery primarily in the western territories.
• 1859 : In Cochinchina , French troops take the city of Saigon under the pretext that French missionaries are being persecuted under Emperor Tự Đức .

1864: The Hunley

• 1864 : During the American Civil War, the Confederate submarine Hunley is the first submarine in the world to sink an enemy ship, the Housatonic , with a spar torpedo . In the action, however , the Hunley itself is lost.

1865: William T. Sherman

• 1865 : Union forces under General William T. Sherman capture Columbia , the capital of South Carolina . Since this state is mainly held responsible for the civil war , the soldiers are razing the city to the ground.
• 1867 : Count Gyula Andrássy is by Franz Joseph to Hungarian Prime Minister as part of the Hungarian-Austrian balancing appointed
• 1872 : The Gomburza trio , which campaigned for the modernization of the Spanish colony of the Philippines , is executed in Manila .

1900: The German colonies of German New Guinea and Samoa

• 1900 : Wilhelm II declares the western Samoan Islands a " German protected area ".
• 1905 : The Social Revolutionary Ivan Platonowitsch Kaljajew carried out an attack on the Governor of Moscow, Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov , when the noblewoman approached the Kremlin in his carriage . The Grand Duke dies instantly in the bomb explosion.
• 1914 : The Greek population in southern Albania proclaims its own " Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus " under Prime Minister Georgios Christakis-Zografos , with the aim of uniting the region with Greece . After the Greek occupation of the area during the First World War , it fell back to Albania in 1923.
• 1917 : The Conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party merge to form the Nationalist Party of Australia .
• 1919 : The Freikorps Marine Brigade Ehrhardt is set up in Wilhelmshaven , which later takes part in the Kapp Putsch and the suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic .
• 1933 : The US Senate passes the Blaine Act , which ends alcohol prohibition in the USA . Three days later, the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, which superseded the 18th Amendment that introduced prohibition in 1920.
• 1944 : During the Pacific War , the US-American Operation Catchpole begins to conquer the Eniwetok Atoll, which will last until February 22nd . At the same time, the two-day Hailstone operation to destroy the Japanese base on Chuuk begins . Both operations are attributed to the Battle of the Marshall Islands .
• 1947 : Voice of America , the official US foreign radio station subordinate to the International Broadcasting Bureau , begins broadcasting programs for the Soviet Union.
• 1955 : The Conference of Ministers of Education decides in the Düsseldorf Agreement to standardize the German school system . Among other things, all higher schools are generally given the name Gymnasium and English becomes a compulsory foreign language.
• 1968 : The Socialist German Student Union (SDS) organizes the two-day International Vietnam Congress , which ends with the largest German protest assembly to date against the Vietnam War .
• 1979 : With the invasion of Vietnam by Chinese troops because of their invasion of Cambodia and too close to Moscow, the Sino-Vietnamese war begins .
• 1986 : The Single European Act is signed in Luxembourg . Among other things, it aims to achieve the European internal market and strengthen the European Parliament .

Emblem of the UAM

• 1989 : In Marrakech establish Algeria , Libya , Morocco , Mauritania and Tunisia , the Arab Maghreb Union . The purpose of the merger is to strive for an economic union and a unified policy in matters relating to North Africa .
• 1992 : With the arrest of a socialist politician in Milan, the investigation into corruption and abuse of office, known under the name of Mani pulite , begins , leading to the collapse of the established parties in Italy .
• 1998 : In its 10th radio ruling, the Federal Constitutional Court gives television stations a free short reporting right in order to prevent an information monopoly.
• 2005 : The German Bundestag raises the maximum draft age for reservists from 45 to 60 in the event of a voltage .

The flag of Kosovo

• 2008 : The parliament of the Serbian region of Kosovo unilaterally declares the country as the Republic of Kosovo independent and adopts a new national flag on the same day . Serbia had previously declared the announced declaration of independence null and void, citing Resolution 1244 of the UN Security Council .
• 2012 : The German President Christian Wulff resigns after persistent criticism and allegations of corruption. Federal Council President Horst Seehofer temporarily takes over the official business.

economy

• 1836 : The Sloman shipping company opens a liner service to New York with the Bark Franklin, which is also the first regular transatlantic traffic connection.
• 1907 : Bell & Howell corporation is established in Chicago. It produces film technology devices.
• 1933 : The first edition of the news magazine News-Week appears in the USA .

1972: VW Beetle 1302 S

• 1972 : With a 1302 S in light blue metallic, sold as 15.007.032. Vehicle rolls off the assembly line, the VW Beetle outperforms the Ford Model T as the most built car in the world.
• 2000 : Microsoft launches its Windows 2000 operating system .
• 2004 : Mozilla Europe is founded as a non-profit organization that is independent from the Mozilla Foundation , but is affiliated with it and aims to distribute its products in Europe. With Mozilla Firefox , another competitor is emerging for Internet Explorer in the web browser area .

science and technology

1776: Edward Gibbon

• 1776 : Volume 1 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by the historian Edward Gibbon appears in London . His six-volume work on the decline and fall of the Roman Empire shaped ideas about life in Roman times for many years.
• 1818 : Karl von Drais receives the French patent for the draisine .
• 1897 : After a thorough examination, the Technical University of Munich accepts the 10 hp engine developed by Rudolf Diesel in the Augsburg machine factory, the first test diesel engine .
• 1996 : The US space probe NEAR launches into space at the tip of a Delta II rocket to encounter several asteroids .

Culture

• 1673 : During the performance of his play Le Malade imaginaire ( The Conceited Sick ), the French playwright and actor Molière suffers a fit of weakness and dies a little later.

1776: The old Burgtheater on Michaelerplatz (19th century)

• 1776 : Emperor Joseph II declares the Vienna theater next to the castle to be a German National Theater .
• 1792 : Symphony No. 93 in D major by Joseph Haydn is premiered in London with great success .
• 1802 : The opera Il Cid della Spagna by Giuseppe Farinelli has its world premiere at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
• 1852 : In Saint Petersburg, the collection of paintings in the Hermitage opens to the public as a museum.
• 1855 : The Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major by Franz Liszt is premiered with Hector Berlioz as conductor and Liszt as soloist.
• 1859 : The opera Un ballo in maschera ( A masked ball ) by Giuseppe Verdi is premiered with triumphant success in the Apollo Theater in Rome. VERDI is the abbreviation for the Italians' struggle for freedom.
• 1865 : The world premiere of the opera Der Deserteur by Ferdinand von Hiller takes place in Cologne .
• 1889 : The Symphony in D minor , the only symphony by the Belgian composer César Franck, has its world premiere at the Conservatoire de Paris with Jules Garcin on the conductor's podium.
• 1892 : At the Geneva Grand Theater , the premiere of the opera takes place Winkelried of Louis Lacombe .

1904: Poster for Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly , Adolfo Hohenstein

• 1904 : The original two-act version of the opera Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini, based on the story Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti , premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The libretto is by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica .

1912: poster for Roma

• 1912 : The opera Roma by Jules Massenet is premiered in Monte Carlo.
• 1913 : The Armory Show , organized by the painter Robert Henri among others, opens in New York City. The modern art exhibition can be seen until March 15th.
• 1914 : The drama The bow of Odysseus of Gerhart Hauptmann will be premiered in Berlin.
• 1927 : The premiere of the opera Hanneles Himmelfahrt by Paul Graener takes place in Dresden .
• 1936 : With the comic figure Phantom , a superhero appears for the first time as the main character in a daily strip .
• 1938 : Played by himself, Jehan Alain's organ works Litanies can be heard for the first time in the Église de la Sainte-Trinité in Paris .
• 1952 : The world premiere of the lyrical drama Boulevard Solitude by Hans Werner Henze takes place at the State Theater in Hanover .
• 1958 : Johnny Hart's newspaper comic BC appears for the first time.
• 1969 : The new building of the Royal Library of Belgium is inaugurated as Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I in Brussels .

society

• 2003 : In London is London Congestion Charge , a congestion charge for cars introduced.

religion

• 1448 : The Roman-German King Friedrich III. and the papal envoy Carvajal agree on the Vienna Concordat .

1600: Giordano Bruno

• 1600 : After eight years of imprisonment of 52-year-old philosopher and former is Dominican Giordano Bruno in the Campo de 'Fiori in Rome as a heretic on the pyre burned.
• 1826 : Pope Leo XII. recognizes the regular clerics of the Oblates , which Eugene of Mazenod founded as a missionary community.

1848: Waldensian coat of arms

• 1848 : A patent from the King of Sardinia-Piedmont , Karl Albert I, grants the Waldensians religious and ecclesiastical freedom and civil equality with the Catholic population.

Disasters

• 1164 : During the Julian flood , the first recorded storm surge on the German North Sea coast, a preliminary stage of the Jade Bay forms , with 20,000 deaths.
• 1917 : When the French troop transport Athos is sunk in the eastern Mediterranean, 754 crew members, soldiers and passengers are killed.

1962: Hamburg after the flood

• 1962 : The German North Sea coast and Hamburg are hit by the worst storm surge in more than 100 years.
• 1978 : Continuation of the snow disaster in Northern Germany in 1978 .
• 1993 : When the ferry Neptune sank off the coast of Haiti , an unknown number of people died. It is estimated that there were between 1,500 and 2,000 passengers on board, with only 300 survivors being rescued.
• 1996 : An earthquake of intensity 8.2 in the region Irian Jaya , Indonesia, calls for 166 deaths.

2006: landslide in Southern Leyte

• 2006 : A landslide destroys parts of the Filipino community of Saint Bernard in Southern Leyte province , killing 1,126.

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

Sports

• 1924 : In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmüller swims a new world record in the 100 m freestyle with 57.4 seconds .
• 1996 : The chess competition that has been running since February 10th between world chess champion Garry Kasparov and the supercomputer Deep Blue ends in Philadelphia with a 4-2 victory in favor of Kasparov.
• 2019 : At the Alpine World Ski Championships 2019 in Åre , Sweden , Austrian Marcel Hirscher wins gold in slalom ahead of fellow countrymen Michael Matt and Marco Schwarz . For Hirscher, this is the seventh gold medal and the eleventh overall at the Alpine World Ski Championships, which makes him the most successful skier at World Championships.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1028 : al-Juwainī , Shafiite legal scholar and Ashʿarite theologian
• 1192 : Minamoto no Sanetomo , Japanese poet and third shogun of the Kamakura shogunate
• 1444 : Rudolf Agricola , early Dutch humanist
• 1451 : Raffaello Maffei , Italian theologian and humanist
• 1490 : Charles III. de Bourbon-Montpensier , French military leader, Duke of Bourbon-Montpensier
• 1519 : François de Lorraine , Duke of Guise, French military leader and statesman
• 1524 : Charles de Lorraine-Guise , French diplomat under the kings Henry II and Francis II.
• 1571 : Albert Hein the Elder , German legal scholar and diplomat
• 1577 : August , Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
• 1582 : Georg von Braunschweig and Lüneburg-Calenberg , duke of the principalities of Calenberg and Göttingen
• 1605 : Luca Ferrari , Italian painter
• 1616 : Matthias Abele von und zu Lilienberg , Austrian lawyer and writer
• 1643 : Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt , German lawyer, court official and statesman
• 1647 : Johann Alexander Böner , Nuremberg engraver, etcher, draftsman and art dealer
• 1653 : Arcangelo Corelli , Italian violinist and composer
• 1685 : Johann Gottfried Gregorii alias Melissantes , German geographer and polymath
• 1699 : Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff , German builder, painter and architect in Prussia

18th century

• 1702 : Hermann Werner von der Asseburg , Prime Minister of the Electorate of Cologne
• 1704 : Johann August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg , German nobleman and field marshal of the Reich
• 1717 : Adam Friedrich Oeser , German painter and sculptor
• 1723 : François Louis de Bons , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1723 : Tobias Mayer , German cartographer, geographer, mathematician and astronomer
• 1728 : Pietro Bardellino , Italian Baroque painter
• 1734 : Johann Balthasar Hundeshagen , German lawyer and historian
• 1738 : Philipp von Gemmingen , princely government councilor of Nassau-Usen and Saxon-Gotha legation councilor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar
• 1740 : Horace-Bénédict de Saussure , Swiss naturalist
• 1740 : John Sullivan , American general and politician

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (* 1752)

• 1752 : Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , German poet and playwright ( Sturm und Drang )
• 1754 : Nicolas Baudin , French explorer
• 1756 : Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann , German doctor
• 1769 : Carl Joseph Pratobevera , Austrian lawyer
• 1781 : René Laënnec , French doctor, inventor of the stethoscope
• 1782 : Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy , Russian army officer, adventurer and duelist
• 1791 : Karl Philipp Friedrich Arnsperger , Baden forest clerk
• 1794 : Heinrich Eduard Schmieder , German theologian and honorary citizen of Wittenberg
• 1796 : Frederick William Beechey , British naval officer, polar explorer, politician and geographer
• 1796 : Philipp Franz von Siebold , German doctor, Japanese and natural scientist, ethnologist, plant collector and botanist
• 1799 : Carl Julian von Graba , Royal Danish Counselor
• 1800 : Franz Peter Adams , German lawyer

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801 : August von Voit , German architect
• 1803 : Lockroy , French librettist and actor
• 1803 : Edgar Quinet , French writer and historian
• 1804 : Samuel Read Anderson , American brigadier general
• 1807 : Ignatius Brjantschaninow , Russian engineer, priest monk, Bishop of Stavropol
• 1807 : William L. Dayton , American politician
• 1809 : Adolphe Claire Le Carpentier , French music teacher and composer
• 1810 : Alois Hörbiger , Austrian organ builder
• 1814 : Hermann Koch , German secret mountain ridge and father of Robert Koch
• 1817 : Christoph Moufang , German priest, theologian, politician, MdR, diocesan administrator of the diocese of Mainz
• 1819 : Philipp Jaffé , German medievalist and philologist
• 1819 : Max Schneckenburger , German poet ( Die Wacht am Rhein )
• 1820 : Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau , Canadian priest, Archbishop of Québec, first Canadian cardinal
• 1820 : Henri Vieuxtemps , Belgian composer and violinist

Lola Montez (* 1821)

• 1821 : Lola Montez , Irish dancer and lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
• 1822 : Srpuhi Nschan Kalfayan , founder of the Armenian order
• 1822 : Georg Weerth , German businessman and writer
• 1825 : Albrecht Weber , German Indologist and historian
• 1826 : Adam Krolczyk , German Protestant missionary in China
• 1826 : Carl Stölzel , German chemist
• 1827 : Georg von Liebig , German physician and climatologist
• 1830 : Gerard Krefft , German zoologist and paleontologist in Australia
• 1833 : Johann Hinrich Angelbeck , German politician
• 1836 : Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer , Spanish writer
• 1837 : Wilhelm Asmus , German writer
• 1838 : Friedrich Konrad Beilstein , German-Russian chemist
• 1838 : Emerich von Stadion , Austrian writer
• 1845 : Antonia Maria of Portugal , Infanta of Portugal and Princess of Braganza, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• 1847 : Otto Albert Blehr , Norwegian politician
• 1847 : Charles Webster Leadbeater , British priest, theosophist and occultist

Mathilde Mallinger (* 1847)

• 1847 : Mathilde Mallinger , Austrian opera singer and singing teacher
• 1847 : Alice von Rothschild , German botanist
• 1848 : Albert Gustaf Dahlman , Swedish executioner
• 1848 : Louisa Lawson , Australian writer, editor, suffragette, and feminist
• 1850 : Alexander Mell , German teacher for the blind

1851-1900

• 1854 : Friedrich Alfred Krupp , German industrialist and politician, MdR
• 1855 : Beauchamp Duff , British general
• 1855 : Otto Liman von Sanders , Prussian general and Ottoman marshal
• 1855 : Dmitri Seliwanow , Russian mathematician
• 1857 : Johannes Abromeit , German botanist
• 1858 : Vincenzo Ferroni , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1859 : Peter Dybwad , German architect of Norwegian origin
• 1861 : Karl Adrian , Austrian homeland researcher
• 1862 : Mori Ōgai , Japanese doctor, novelist and translator
• 1864 : Andrew Barton Paterson , Australian lawyer, writer and journalist
• 1864 : Georg Wassilko von Serecki , Austrian-Romanian politician, governor of the Duchy of Bukovina
• 1865 : Karl Schilling , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
• 1865 : Ernst Troeltsch , German theologian, cultural philosopher and politician
• 1866 : Henry Hollis Horton , American attorney and politician, governor of Tennessee
• 1872 : Wilhelm Kaufmann , German gymnast
• 1875 : Adolph Weber , German gymnast
• 1876 : Hans Bernoulli , Swiss architect and professor
• 1877 : Isabelle Eberhardt , Swiss explorer and travel writer
• 1877 : André Maginot , French politician
• 1880 : Tellos Agras , Greek officer
• 1880 : Gustav Wilhelm Berringer , German architect
• 1882 : Kurt Schindler , German-American conductor and composer
• 1884 : Reinier Beeuwkes , Dutch football player

Romano Guardini (* 1885)

• 1885 : Ernst Altstaedt , German internist
• 1885 : Ignacio Antinori , Italian-American mobster
• 1885 : Romano Guardini , German priest, religious philosopher and theologian
• 1886 : Arnold Hörburger , Dutch football player
• 1886 : Eduard Stadtler , German publicist and politician, MdR, founder of anti-communist organizations, instigator of the murders of Liebknecht and Luxemburg
• 1886 : Erich Zeigner , German politician, Prime Minister of Saxony, Lord Mayor of Leipzig
• 1887 : Willy Bardas , Austrian pianist and music teacher
• 1887 : Joseph Bech , Luxembourgish politician and statesman, Prime Minister, one of the founding fathers of the European Communities
• 1887 : Maurice Cappé , French racing car driver
• 1887 : Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer
• 1888 : Ronald Arbuthnott Knox , British theologian, satirist and detective writer

Otto Stern (* 1888)

• 1888 : Otto Stern , German-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1888 : Ludwig Weinacht , German rower
• 1889 : Aline Bußmann , German actress, radio play speaker and publicist
• 1889 : Haroldson Hunt , American oil billionaire
• 1890 : Ronald Aylmer Fisher , British geneticist, evolutionist and statistician
• 1891 : Georg Britting , German writer
• 1891 : Willi Fick , German football player
• 1891 : Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel , German-Israeli mathematician
• 1892 : Hans Beckers , German pacifist
• 1892 : Jossyf Slipyj , Ukrainian Archbishop of Lemberg, Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1893 : Theobald Schrems , German clergyman, church musician and founder of the Regensburger Domspatzen music high school
• 1898 : Bruno Leddin , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1899 : Karl Adam , German lawyer and district chief

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Kajii Motojirō , Japanese writer
• 1904 : Fritz Behn , German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1904 : Philippe de Gunzburg , French resistance fighter and racing car driver
• 1904 : Hans Morgenthau , German lawyer and political scientist
• 1905 : Eric Fernihough , British motorcycle racer
• 1905 : Rózsa Péter , Hungarian mathematician
• 1907 : Yevgeny Michailowitsch Abalakow , Soviet mountaineer
• 1907 : Gerhard Hirschfelder , German Roman Catholic priest, resistance fighter against National Socialism and martyr
• 1907 : Eduard Mückenhausen , German soil scientist
• 1907 : Julián Soler , Mexican actor and director
• 1908 : Georges Dancigers , Russian-French film producer

Gertrude Abercrombie (* 1909)

• 1909 : Gertrude Abercrombie , American artist
• 1910 : Mike Austin , American golfer and teacher
• 1910 : Dallas Bixler , American gymnast, Olympic champion
• 1910 : Gerd Hornberger , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1910 : Victor Maag , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1910 : Alfred Mendelsohn , Romanian composer
• 1912 : Peter Mosbacher , German actor
• 1912 : Andre Norton , American writer
• 1913 : René Leibowitz , French conductor and music teacher, writer and composer
• 1914 : Julia de Burgos , Puerto Rican poet and poet
• 1914 : Arthur Kennedy , American actor
• 1914 : Johannes Christiaan Mari Hattinga Verschure , Dutch physician and chemist
• 1914 : René Vietto , French cyclist
• 1915 : Karl Herbolzheimer , German handball goalkeeper
• 1915 : Homer Keller , American composer and music teacher
• 1916 : Raf Vallone , Italian actor
• 1918 : Paul Huber , Swiss composer
• 1918 : Leila Mourad , Egyptian film actress and singer
• 1919 : Kathleen Freeman , American actress
• 1919 : Joseph Hunt , American tennis player

Herbert Köfer (* 1921)

• 1921 : Herbert Köfer , German actor
• 1921 : Schnuckenack Reinhardt , German jazz musician
• 1922 : Tommy Edwards , American singer
• 1922 : Franz Fedier , German-Swiss painter
• 1923 : Buddy DeFranco , American jazz clarinetist
• 1923 : Kihachi Okamoto , Japanese film director
• 1924 : Buddy Jones , American jazz bassist
• 1925 : Ron Goodwin , British film composer
• 1925 : Hal Holbrook , American actor

1926-1950

• 1926 : Friedrich Cerha , Austrian composer and conductor
• 1926 : John Meyendorff , Russian theologian

Juan Almeida (* 1927)

• 1927 : Juan Almeida , Cuban revolutionary and politician
• 1927 : Ernesto Garzón Valdés , Argentine-German legal philosopher
• 1928 : Trevor Kaine , Australian politician
• 1928 : Walther Busse von Colbe , German business economist
• 1929 : Jean-Marie Dumazer , French racing car driver
• 1929 : Chaim Potok , American writer and rabbi
• 1930 : Ruth Rendell , British writer
• 1931 : Erich Sauer , German sculptor
• 1932 : Alexander Jakowlewitsch Askoldow , Russian film director and writer
• 1933 : Karl S. Guthke , German-American studies in German
• 1934 : Alfred Aichinger , Austrian social security employee and politician
• 1934 : Alan Bates , British actor
• 1934 : Frederik Hetmann , German writer
• 1935 : Gene Gossage , American football player
• 1935 : Friedrich Kambartel , German philosopher
• 1935 : Wolf-Dietrich Speck von Sternburg , German hotelier and art patron
• 1936 : Jim Brown , American football player and actor
• 1936 : Johann Attenberger , German motorcycle racer
• 1936 : José Luis Serna Alzate IMC , former Colombian bishop
• 1937 : Willi Koslowski , German soccer player

Rita Süssmuth (* 1937)

• 1937 : Rita Süssmuth , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, President of the German Bundestag
• 1940 : Karl Hermann Haack , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1940 : Winfried Hassemer , German criminal law scholar, Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1940 : Willi Holdorf , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1940 : Christopher Newman , American sound engineer
• 1940 : Gene Pitney , American singer and songwriter
• 1940 : Eckart Werthebach , German politician, Interior Senator, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
• 1941 : Heidi Biebl , German ski racer, Olympic champion
• 1942 : Heinrich Breloer , German film director
• 1942 : Dieter Laser , German actor
• 1942 : John Morton , American racing car driver
• 1942 : Klaus Weiss , German jazz drummer
• 1942 : Konrad Weiß , German film director, publicist, GDR civil rights activist, Member of the Bundestag
• 1943 : Raymond Hugh Austin , British-German musician
• 1943 : Hans-Artur Bauckhage , German politician, MdL, State Minister
• 1943 : Gero Erhardt , German director and screenwriter, cameraman and producer
• 1944 : Freddy Ginebra , Dominican cultural manager, writer and journalist
• 1944 : Karl Jenkins , British keyboardist and oboist, saxophonist and composer
• 1945 : Peter Angermann , German painter

Brenda Fricker (* 1945)

• 1945 : Brenda Fricker , Irish actress
• 1945 : Jung Myung-seok , South Korean sect leader
• 1946 : Dodie Stevens , American child star
• 1946 : Wolfgang Wiegard , German professor of economics, chairman of the five economic modes
• 1948 : Anne Lonnberg , American actress
• 1949 : Doyle Bramhall , American blues rock guitarist, singer and drummer
• 1949 : Fred Frith , British composer, improviser and university teacher
• 1949 : Ady Zehnpfennig , German musician
• 1950 : Fritz Amann , Austrian politician
• 1950 : Wolfgang Hofer , Austrian pop singer, composer and songwriter
• 1950 : Ingrid Schubert , Austrian politician

1951-1975

• 1951 : Roland Collombin , Swiss ski racer
• 1951 : Bernd Haunfelder , German historian and publicist
• 1952 : Karin Büttner-Janz , German gymnast and doctor, Olympic champion
• 1952 : Peter Freund , German writer
• 1952 : Ludger Volmer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1953 : Thom Åhlund , Swedish football player
• 1953 : Bernard Chauvin , French racing car driver
• 1953 : Alexandra Dinges-Dierig , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Senator
• 1953 : Alar Kivilo , Canadian cameraman
• 1953 : Steve Millen , New Zealand racing car driver
• 1954 : Lou Ann Barton , American blues singer
• 1954 : Rene Russo , American film actress
• 1954 : Helene Tursten , Swedish writer
• 1955 : Tom Dodd-Noble , British racing car driver

Mo Yan (* 1955)

• 1955 : Mo Yan , Chinese writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1956 : Norberto do Amaral , East Timorese bishop of Maliana
• 1956 : Stephan Hilsberg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1956 : Richard Karn , American actor and show host
• 1956 : Malcolm Wilson , British rally driver and team owner
• 1957 : Loreena McKennitt , Canadian musician and composer
• 1958 : Josefa Andrés Barea , Spanish politician
• 1958 : Guillaume de Posch , Belgian TV manager
• 1960 : Johannes Gees , Swiss artist
• 1960 : Bernard Santal , Swiss racing driver
• 1961 : Olivier Charlier , French violinist
• 1961 : Angela Eagle , British politician
• 1961 : Ariane Ehrat , Swiss ski racer
• 1961 : Andrei Witaljewitsch Korotajew , Russian orientalist, anthropologist, historian and economist
• 1962 : Serge Brammertz , Belgian lawyer
• 1962 : Lou Diamond Phillips , American actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer
• 1963 : Monica Äijä , Swedish ski racer

Michael Jordan (* 1963)

• 1963 : Michael Jordan , American basketball player
• 1964 : Jim Jordan , American politician, member of the US House of Representatives
• 1965 : Michael Bay , American director and producer
• 1965 : Volker Engel , German visual effects supervisor and film producer
• 1965 : Clayton Prince , American actor
• 1966 : Quorthon , Swedish musician
• 1966 : Atle Skårdal , Norwegian ski racer
• 1967 : Yevgeny Valeryevich Grishkovets , Russian writer, actor and director
• 1968 : Ellen Kießling , German athlete
• 1968 : Christian Neander , German guitarist, producer and composer
• 1968 : Giuseppe Signori , Italian football player
• 1969 : Željko Mavrović , Croatian boxer, European champion
• 1970 : Tommy Moe , American ski racer
• 1970 : Hiroaki Samura , Japanese mangaka
• 1971 : Hermann Achmüller , Italian long-distance runner
• 1971 : Ludovic Auger , French cyclist

Denise Richards (* 1971)

• 1971 : Denise Richards , American actress
• 1971 : Ute van der Mâer , German composer, music teacher and artist
• 1972 : Eugenio Amore , Italian beach volleyball player
• 1972 : Billie Joe Armstrong , American singer and guitarist ( Green Day )
• 1972 : Taylor Hawkins , American drummer ( Foo Fighters )
• 1972 : Johnny Jensen , Norwegian handball player
• 1972 : Nani Roma , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1973 : Stefan Kretzschmar , German handball player
• 1974 : Jerry O'Connell , American actor
• 1974 : Bryan White , American country singer
• 1975 : Bülent Arslan , German politician

1976-2000

• 1976 : Kelly Carlson , American actress
• 1976 : Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff , German politician, MdL
• 1976 : Almira Scripcenco , French chess player
• 1976 : Marco Seefried , German racing car driver
• 1976 : Dov Zifroni , Israeli chess player
• 1977 : Wong Choong Hann , Malay badminton player
• 1977 : Özgür Özata , German-Turkish actor
• 1977 : Scott Waites , English darts player
• 1978 : Mira Bartuschek , German actress
• 1978 : Yariv Mozer , Israeli screenwriter, film producer and director
• 1979 : Cara Black , Zimbabwean tennis player
• 1979 : Karel Sedláček , Czech dart player

Alexander Naumann (* 1979)

• 1979 : Alexander Naumann , German chess player
• 1980 : Linor Abargil , Israeli model and Miss World
• 1980 : Wolfgang Mair , Austrian football player
• 1980 : Jason Ritter , American actor
• 1981 : Joseph Gordon-Levitt , American actor
• 1981 : Bernhard Eisel , Austrian cyclist
• 1981 : Lea Finn , German singer and songwriter
• 1981 : Paris Hilton , US hotel heiress
• 1982 : Adriano , Brazilian soccer player
• 1982 : Timothée Atouba , Cameroonian football player
• 1982 : Brooke D'Orsay , Canadian actress
• 1982 : Nicolás Medina , Argentine soccer player
• 1982 : Gustavo Sondermann , Brazilian racing driver
• 1983 : Mario Karner , Austrian soccer player
• 1983 : Poppy Morgan , British model and porn actress
• 1984 : Álvaro Barba , Spanish racing driver
• 1984 : Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson , Icelandic handball player
• 1984 : Juliane Gramenz , German volleyball player
• 1984 : Stefan Jarosch , German soccer player
• 1985 : Mario Bolatti , Argentine soccer player
• 1985 : Julia Gronemann , German handball player
• 1985 : Anders Jacobsen , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1986 : Nils-Ole Book , German soccer player
• 1986 : Sandra Nilsson , Swedish model and playmate
• 1986 : Marko Stanković , Austrian football player
• 1987 : Eliran Atar , Israeli soccer player
• 1987 : Jessy Atila , Belgian soccer player
• 1987 : Jan Molsen , German handball player
• 1988 : Natascha Kampusch , Austrian kidnapping victim
• 1988 : Kruttika Nadig , Indian chess player
• 1989 : Rebecca Adlington , British freestyle swimmer
• 1989 : Gökhan Gümüşsu , Turkish-German soccer player
• 1989 : Marina Vladimirovna Sudakova , Russian handball player
• 1989 : David Maneiro , Andorran football player
• 1989 : Miguel Molina , Spanish racing driver

Ed Sheeran (born 1991)

• 1991 : Ed Sheeran , British singer-songwriter
• 1991 : Bonnie Wright , British film actress
• 1992 : Meaghan Jette Martin , American actress
• 1993 : Nicola Leali , Italian soccer player
• 1993 : Marc Márquez , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1993 : Philip Wiegratz , German film actor
• 1994 : Kyle Ebecilio , Dutch soccer player
• 1994 : Traisy Tukiet , Malaysian water diver
• 1994 : Emanuele Zonzini , San Marino racing car driver
• 1995 : Jane Campbell , American soccer goalkeeper
• 1996 : Sasha Pieterse , American actress
• 1997 : Felix Jaeger , German handball player
• 1997 : Simon Martirosjan , Armenian weightlifter

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0306 : Theodor Tiro , Roman soldier and Christian martyr, saint of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches
• 0364 : Jovian , Roman emperor

Mesrop Mashtots († 440)

• 0440 : Mesrop Mashtots , Armenian saint and developer of the Armenian alphabet
• 0889 : Liutbert , Archbishop of Mainz
• 0983 : Volkmar , Bishop of Paderborn
• 1125 : Rupert , abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach
• 1178 : Evermod , Bishop of Ratzeburg
• 1184 : Wartislaw , Prince of Pomerania
• 1228 : Heinrich I , Count of Schwerin
• 1238 : Heinrich von Thun , Bishop of the Principality of Basel and sponsor of the city of Basel
• 1281 : Bruno von Schauenburg , Bishop of Olmütz, advisor and diplomat to the Bohemian king as well as marshal and royal deputy in Styria
• 1285 : Luke of Padua , Italian Franciscan, disciple of St. Francis of Assisi
• 1310 : Alexis Falconieri , Italian saint, founder of the order
• 1339 : Otto the Happy , Duke of Austria
• 1370 : Henning Schindekopf , Marshal of the Teutonic Order
• 1371 : Ivan Alexander , Bulgarian Tsar
• 1382 : Ludwig von Meißen , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, Archbishop of Magdeburg
• 1402 : Diether VIII. , Count von Katzenelnbogen
• 1425 : Johannes von Drändorf , German preacher, supporter of Utraquism, martyr
• 1461 : John Gray of Groby , English knight
• 1493 : Přemysl III. , Duke of Troppau, Canon of Breslau, Olomouc and Vienna
• 1500 : Benedikt von Ahlefeldt , knight, lord of the Lehmkuhlen and lord of Hasselburg
• 1500 : Hans von Ahlefeldt , knight, gentleman on Haseldorf, Haselau, Seegaard near Kliplev and Seestermühe
• 1500 : Thomas Slentz , German Landsknechtsführer
• 1500 : Wilhelm III. , Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg

16th to 18th century

• 1504 : Eberhard II. , As Eberhard VI. von Württemberg-Stuttgart Count and as Eberhard II Duke of Württemberg
• 1549 : Laurentius Autenrieth , Catholic abbot
• 1550 : Marcantonio Flaminio , Italian philosopher, poet and writer
• 1575 : Cesare I. Gonzaga , Count of Guastalla and Duke of Amalfi
• 1600 : Giordano Bruno , Italian philosopher
• 1612 : Ernst of Bavaria , Archbishop of Cologne
• 1647 : Johann Heermann , German hymn poet
• 1652 : Gregorio Allegri , Italian priest, composer and tenor singer
• 1654 : Michael Lohr , German composer
• 1662 : Konrad Barthels , German Lutheran theologian
• 1662 : Johann Zechendorf , German philologist and educator
• 1671 : Menno Hanneken , German Lutheran theologian

Molière († 1673)

• 1673 : Molière , French actor, theater director, playwright and comedy poet of the French classical period
• 1680 : Jan Swammerdam , Dutch naturalist, founder of the preformation theory
• 1694 : Antoinette Deshoulières , French poet and philosopher
• 1701 : Dorothee Elisabeth Tretschlaff , probably the last victim of the witch hunt in Brandenburg
• 1709 : Erik Benzelius the Elder , Swedish Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala
• 1711 : José de Vaquedano , Spanish composer and conductor
• 1728 : Pyotr Andrejewitsch Tolstoy , Russian politician
• 1732 : Louis Marchand , French organist and harpsichordist
• 1752 : Beinta Broberg , Danish-Faroese woman
• 1773 : Namiki Shōzō I. , Japanese kabuki and bunraku author
• 1786 : Jonas Apelblad , Swedish travel writer
• 1788 : Maurice Quentin de La Tour , French pastel portrait painter
• 1800 : Johann Werner Streithorst , German Protestant theologian

19th century

• 1801 : Philippine Charlotte of Prussia , Prussian princess
• 1803 : Nicolás del Campo , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of the Río de la Plata
• 1803 : Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné , last Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg
• 1805 : Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti , Austrian doctor, natural scientist

Johann Rudolf Dolder († 1807)

• 1807 : Johann Rudolf Dolder , Swiss politician
• 1813 : Anton Carl Ludwig von Tabouillot , Franco-German landowner, royal Prussian captain and mayor
• 1818 : Juan Rodríguez Ballesteros , Spanish judge, colonial administrator and governor of Chile
• 1819 : Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles , French politician
• 1820 : Franz Regis Clet , French missionary in China and martyr
• 1823 : Friedrich von Kleist , Prussian Field Marshal General
• 1828 : Heinrich Gottlieb Tzschirner , German Protestant theologian
• 1827 : Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Swiss educator
• 1836 : Hubert Auer , prince-bishop delegate, provost and cathedral provost
• 1837 : Johann Gottlieb Blümner , German civil servant
• 1837 : Benjamin Ferdinand Herrmann , German Protestant clergyman
• 1841 : Ferdinando Carulli , Italian composer and salon guitarist
• 1848 : George W. Campbell , American politician, US Treasury Secretary
• 1848 : Ignaz zu Hardegg , Austrian cavalry general and President of the Court War Council

Heinrich Heine († 1856)

• 1856 : John Braham , English opera singer
• 1856 : Heinrich Heine , German poet, writer and journalist
• 1867 : Alexander Dallas Bache , American physicist
• 1874 : Adolphe Quetelet , Belgian mathematician, statistician and astronomer
• 1875 : Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander , German astronomer
• 1877 : Salomon Hermann Mosenthal , German playwright and librettist
• 1883 : Napoléon Coste , French guitarist
• 1884 : Heinrich Berghaus , German cartographer
• 1887 : Leopold von Pebal , Austrian chemist
• 1890 : Arvid Ahnfelt , Swedish literary historian
• 1890 : Christopher Latham Sholes , American book printer, journalist, and inventor
• 1891 : Theophil von Hansen , Danish-Austrian master builder and architect of classicism and historicism
• 1892 : Johan Sverdrup , Norwegian liberal politician
• 1892 : Heinrich Feiten , German auxiliary bishop
• 1897 : August Köhler , German Protestant clergyman and university professor

20th century

1901-1950

• 1907 : Wilhelm von Bezold , German physicist and meteorologist
• 1907 : Ferdinand Justi , German orientalist
• 1907 : Henry Steel Olcott , American agronomist, lawyer, co-founder, and first president of the Theosophical Society

Geronimo († 1909)

• 1909 : Geronimo , war chief and shaman of an Apache tribe
• 1912 : Johann Jakob Abegg , Swiss politician and entrepreneur
• 1912 : Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal , Austro-Hungarian politician
• 1913 : Edward Stanley Gibbons , British philatelist, company founder
• 1913 : Joaquin Miller , American writer
• 1915 : Francisco Giner de los Ríos , Spanish philosopher and educator
• 1915 : Stanislaus von Prowazek , Czech-Austrian zoologist and bacteriologist
• 1916 : Miklós Konkoly-Thege , Hungarian astronomer
• 1916 : Maurice Vignaux , French world billiards champion and specialist book author
• 1919 : Wilfrid Laurier , Prime Minister of Canada
• 1924 : Oskar Merikanto , Finnish composer
• 1925 : Ignacio Andrade , Venezuelan officer and politician
• 1928 : Georg L. Sarauw , Danish archaeologist
• 1934 : Albert I , Belgian king
• 1934 : Josef Ahrer , Austrian social democrat and revolutionary
• 1934 : Fernando de Arteaga y Pereira , Spanish poet, Romanist and Hispanist

Siegbert Tarrasch († 1934)

• 1934 : Siegbert Tarrasch , German chess grandmaster
• 1935 : Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas , Lithuanian politician
• 1937 : Hugo Meisl , Austrian football coach
• 1938 : Bill Drews , German lawyer, President of the Prussian Higher Administrative Court
• 1939 : Willy Hess , German violin virtuoso and teacher
• 1939 : Édouard LeBel , Canadian singer
• 1942 : Tony Sarg , German-American puppeteer and illustrator
• 1944 : Jean Cavaillès , French philosopher, member of the Resistance
• 1944 : Franz Kaufmann , German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1945 : Ed Kahn , American football player
• 1947 : Rudolf Gercke , German general in World War II
• 1947 : Gustav Leutelt , German poet and writer
• 1949 : Ellery Clark , American athlete

1951-2000

• 1951 : Arnold Pressburger , Austrian-German film producer
• 1958 : Wilhelm Bahlburg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1959 : Otfrid von Hanstein , German writer
• 1962 : Peter Mieden , German farmer, agricultural functionary and politician
• 1962 : Arne Oldberg , American composer
• 1962 : Bruno Walter , American conductor, pianist and composer
• 1966 : Hans Hofmann , German painter
• 1967 : Victor Schiøler , Danish pianist
• 1968 : Leo Cella , Italian motorcycle, rally and automobile racing driver
• 1968 : Louis Dollé , French racing car driver
• 1968 : Hertha Sponer , German physicist
• 1970 : Samuel Agnon , Israeli writer, representative of modern Hebrew literature, Nobel Prize winner
• 1970 : Alfred Newman , American film composer
• 1971 : Adolf Augustus Berle , American lawyer
• 1971 : Karl Meitmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1973 : Pixinguinha , Brazilian musician
• 1975 : Margot von Heyden-Linden , German painter
• 1975 : George Marshall , American film director
• 1976 : Edwin B. Astwood , American endocrinologist
• 1976 : Jean Servais , Belgian actor
• 1976 : Walter Zirpins , German lawyer, SS officer, criminal police officer, expert in the Reichstag fire trial in 1933
• 1977 : Blinky Palermo , German painter
• 1979 : Al Stillman , American songwriter
• 1980 : Oskar Paulini , German writer
• 1980 : Graham Sutherland , British painter and graphic artist
• 1982 : Thelonious Monk , American jazz pianist and composer, co-founder of bebop , innovator of modern jazz
• 1982 : Lee Strasberg , Austro-Hungarian-American actor, acting teacher, co-founder of the Group Theater

Jiddu Krishnamurti († 1986)

• 1986 : Jiddu Krishnamurti , Indian philosopher, author, theosophist and spiritual teacher
• 1987 : Leo Anchóriz , Spanish actor
• 1987 : Philip Arp , German actor, cabaret artist, author and director
• 1988 : Alain Savary , French education politician and member of the Resistance
• 1989 : Marguerite Roberts , American screenwriter
• 1989 : Hanne Sobek , German soccer player
• 1991 : Hans Thimig , Austrian actor and director
• 1993 : Josef Wicki , Swiss Jesuit and missionary historian
• 1994 : Gretchen Fraser , American ski racer
• 1994 : Randy Shilts , American writer
• 1995 : Werner Bruschke , German politician, Prime Minister in the GDR
• 1996 : Hervé Bazin , French writer
• 1996 : Michel Pablo , Greek Trotskyist
• 1997 : Bärbel Inhelder , Swiss developmental psychologist
• 1997 : Darcy Ribeiro , Brazilian anthropologist, politician, and writer

Asfa Wossen († 1997)

• 1997 : Amha Selassie I , Crown Prince of Ethiopia
• 1998 : Nicolas Bouvier , French writer, travel writer and journalist
• 1998 : Marie-Louise von Franz , Swiss depth psychologist, employee of CG Jung
• 1998 : Ernst Jünger , German writer and publicist
• 1998 : Ernst Käsemann , German theologian and university professor
• 1999 : Joseph Elias Tawil , Syrian Archbishop of Newton

21st century

• 2001 : Richard Wurmbrand , Romanian Lutheran pastor
• 2002 : Heinz Kaminski , German chemical engineer and space researcher
• 2004 : Karl-Heinz Stienen , German lawyer, politician, Member of the Bundestag, party founder
• 2004 : Claus Josef Riedel , Austrian industrialist
• 2005 : Jens Martin Knudsen , Danish astrophysicist
• 2005 : César Marcelak , French racing cyclist
• 2005 : Dan O'Herlihy , Irish actor
• 2005 : Omar Sívori , Argentine-Italian soccer player and coach
• 2006 : Ray Barretto , American jazz musician
• 2006 : Sybille Bedford , German-British journalist and writer
• 2006 : Harold Hunter , American skater and actor
• 2006 : Ibaragi Noriko , Japanese writer
• 2006 : Pearl Palmason , Canadian violinist
• 2007 : Jurga Ivanauskaitė , Lithuanian writer
• 2007 : Jakov Lind , Austrian-British writer, radio play author, film director and painter
• 2007 : Maurice Papon , French politician, Nazi collaborator and war criminal
• 2008 : Nicola Agnozzi , Italian bishop
• 2008 : Klaus-Dieter Baumgarten , German General, Deputy Minister for National Defense and Head of the GDR's border troops

Curt Letsche († 2010)

• 2010 : Roger-Émile Aubry , Swiss vicar
• 2010 : Curt Letsche , German writer
• 2010 : Wolfram Lindner , German cycling trainer
• 2010 : Ines Paulke , German pop musician
• 2012 : Joachim Salzgeber , Swiss Benedictine monk and educator
• 2013 : Mindy McCready , American country singer
• 2014 : Peter Florin , German politician
• 2015 : Oswald Fuchs (actor) , Austrian actor
• 2015 : George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie , British politician and businessman
• 2015 : Feliks Tych , Polish historian
• 2016 : Boutros Boutros-Ghali , Egyptian diplomat and Secretary General of the United Nations
• 2016 : Charles C. Ryrie , American evangelical theologian
• 2016 : Andrzej Żuławski , Polish film director and author
• 2017 : Bengt Gustavsson , Swedish football player and coach
• 2017 : Jannis Kounellis , Greek artist
• 2017 : Tom Regan , American philosopher and animal rights activist
• 2018 : Mohamed Shahabuddeen , Guyanese lawyer and judge
• 2018 : Rolf Sprandel , German historian
• 2020 : Mário Fernandes da Graça Machungo , Mozambican Prime Minister
• 2020 : Sonja Ziemann , German actress, dancer and singer

Holidays and memorial days

• St. Theodor Tiro , Roman soldier, martyr and patron saint (Orthodox)
• St. Finan von Lindisfarne , Irish monk and bishop of the Roman Catholic Church
• the seven holy founders of the Servite Order , Italian merchants and order founders
• Johann Heermann , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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