17th July
The July 17 is the 198th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 199th in leap years ), thus remain 167 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1134: At the Battle of Fraga at the time of the Reconquista, an Almoravid army defeats the Christian army led by King Alfonso I of Aragon .
- 1203: The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade invade part of Constantinople, which they besieged . Emperor Alexios III flees to Thrace in a panic , which leads to the cessation of further fighting by the Byzantines .
- 1210: King Sverker II, expelled two years earlier, returns to Sweden with a Danish army . In the Battle of Gestilren , his plans to return to the throne in the army of the new regent Erik X are unsuccessful , and Sverker is killed in this battle.
- 1245: Pope Innocent IV deposes Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon for several reasons. The emperor refuses to recognize his impeachment.
- 1253: On the Lippebrücke in Werne establish Dortmund , Soest , Munster and Lippstadt the so-called " Werner Bund ". This Westphalian city federation becomes a forerunner of the Städtehanse .
- 1402: In China the Ming Dynasty is Zhu Di new emperor. He prevailed in a military power struggle with Emperor Jianwen .
- 1453: The Hundred Years War ends with the Battle of Castillon , in which the French are victorious. With the exception of Calais, England lost her property in France .
- 1610: After the defeat of a superior Russian army in the war with Poland-Lithuania , Tsar Vasily IV is overthrown by domestic political opponents, shorn to a simple monk and banished to a monastery.
- 1762: Peter III. Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov is believed to have been strangled by Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov .
- 1791: After a shot at the Commander-in-Chief of the French National Guard , Lafayette , his soldiers respond with counterfire in a crowd in Paris. They trigger the massacre on the Marsfeld and a mass panic . People have come to sign a Republican petition .
- 1793: The day after the national funeral for her victim Jean Paul Marat , Charlotte Corday is executed on the scaffold.
- 1821: Florida is under US administration as a result of the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 .
- 1861: The government of Mexico declares its inability to pay foreign creditors. The national bankruptcy calls France , Great Britain and Spain on the scene.
- 1866: The aid association for Swiss military men and their families , the Swiss Red Cross , is founded in Bern .
- 1878: Child labor in Germany is limited to home work and agriculture.
- 1897: By unloading a ship cargo of two tons of gold breaks in Seattle a gold rush to the Klondike River from. Two days earlier, prospectors had spread the news about nugget finds in San Francisco as well.
- 1911: An international socialist congress with 8,000 participants begins in Arbon (Thurgau), Switzerland .
- 1915: The Second Isonzo Battle of the First World War begins.
- 1917: The British King George V renames the royal house of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor due to domestic political pressure due to the war with Germany .
- 1918: The Russian Tsar Nicholas II is murdered in Yekaterinburg together with his wife, his four daughters and his son, the Russian heir to the throne Alexei .
- 1919: The Finnish Constitution of 1919 comes into force.
- 1932: Blood Sunday in Altona claims 18 dead and numerous injured.
- 1936: The Spanish Civil War , which lasted until 1939, begins with a military coup of the national right under General Franco in Spanish Morocco .
- 1941: Alfred Rosenberg is appointed " Reich Minister for the occupied countries of Eastern Europe " by Fuehrer's decree .
- 1945: The Potsdam Conference begins in Cecilienhof Palace , a summit meeting of the three main allies of the Second World War to discuss how to proceed.
- 1946: In Berlin the amalgamation of the northern Rhineland with Westphalia to form North Rhine-Westphalia is announced.
- 1951: Baudouin I takes the oath on the Belgian constitution and becomes king of the Belgians.
- 1968: Military coup in Iraq , President Abd ar-Rahman Arif is ousted, establishment of the Revolutionary Command Council of the Ba'ath Party (within which purges already take place on July 30th), the anniversary was Iraq's national holiday until 2003.
- 1973: Mohammed Daoud Khan deposed his brother-in-law, the Afghan King Mohammed Zahir Shah, during his stay abroad at a health resort. He himself becomes the first President of the newly established Republic of Afghanistan .
- 1979: Nicaraguan Revolution : Nicaragua's previous dictator Somoza flees to the USA.
- 1987: The death penalty is abolished in the GDR .
- 1989: In Brussels , Foreign Minister Alois Mock hands over Austria's application to join what was then the European Community .
- 1998: In Rome , 120 states decide to establish the International Criminal Court to punish genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
- 2000: Bashar al-Assad becomes President of Syria .
- 2004: Pedro Santana Lopes succeeds José Manuel Barroso as Portuguese Prime Minister.
economy
- 1695: The Bank of Scotland is created by a law of the Scottish Parliament .
- 1830: Barthélemy Thimonnier receives a patent for his Couseuse sewing machine .
- 1856: In Wroclaw is Silesian Bank Corporation founded.
- 1899: Opening of the first sales point of the consumer, building and savings association "Produktion" eGmbH, Hamburg
- 1955: Disneyland opens its doors in Anaheim , California .
- 1974: Iran acquires 25.04 percent of the shares in Friedrich Krupp Hüttenwerke AG .
- 1995: The NASDAQ share index closes at 1,005.89 and thus for the first time above 1,000 points.
science and technology
- 1621: The University of Rinteln is inaugurated and its statutes are drawn up.
- 1840: Five days before the official opening of the Köthen –Halle section of the Magdeburg – Leipzig railway line , the first steam locomotive reaches Halle (Saale) .
- 1841: The first voluntary fire brigade in Germany is founded in Meißen .
- 1850: William Cranch Bond and John Adams Whipple succeed in making the first daguerreotype of a star at the Harvard College Observatory . You photograph Vega in the constellation Lyra .
- 1854: With the Semmering Railway , built by Carl von Ghega , the world's first mountain railway is opened for passenger traffic.
- 1871: Zénobe Gramme demonstrates a Gramme machine , a dynamo-electric motor with continuous induction , to scientists in Paris .
- 1904: The floating dock of the Woermann Line in Duala is delivered by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg and begins the journey to Cameroon in a tug.
- 1910: A group led by Georg Lahner managed to penetrate deeper into the Dachstein giant ice cave for the first time by overcoming the Great Ice Abyss .
- 1933: After successfully crossing the Atlantic, Darius and Girėnas crash with their Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica near Soldin .
- 1959: Mary Leakey finds the remains of an ancient skull in the Tanzanian Olduvai Gorge . As Paranthropus boisei designated primate is so far the oldest known ancestor of humans .
- 1975: As part of the Apollo Soyuz test project , the first and only docking of a US Apollo spacecraft with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft .
- 1981: The British Queen . Elizabeth II opened the over the Humber leading Humber Bridge , one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
- 1989: The Northrop B-2 Spirit heavy strategic bomber makes its maiden flight.
- 1991: The European Space Agency (ESA) launches its first earth observation satellite ERS-1 with an Ariane 4 rocket .
- 1995: NAVSTAR GPS , the satellite-based navigation system for global positioning, officially receives the status of full operational readiness .
Culture
- 1717: The second Suite of Water Music by George Frideric Handel is performed for the first time on a pleasure trip by the British King George I on the Thames . The king is so enthusiastic about the music that he has some parts played several times.
- 1841: The satirical magazine Punch appears in London .
- 1927: The song game Mahagonny is premiered in Baden-Baden . The composer is Kurt Weill , the lyrics are by Bertolt Brecht . The later opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny draws on elements of the song play, which received good reviews.
- 1956: The film High Society (German title: The upper ten thousand ) is premiered in the USA . Grace Kelly and Bing Crosby sing about True Love .
- 1968: The Beatles film Yellow Submarine premieres in London .
society
- 1530: The Bohemian nobleman Jost III. von Rosenberg marries Anna von Roggendorf during the imperial assembly in Augsburg .
religion
- Scilitan martyrs die in Carthage . They will be executed for their Christian faith. The traditional report of the martyrs is the oldest Christian document in Latin . 180: The six
- John III. begins his tenure as Bishop of Rome . 561:
- 1048: Pope Damasus II begins his pontificate, which lasts only 24 days.
- 1505: Martin Luther enters the monastery of the Augustinian hermits in Erfurt and thus fulfills his vows .
Disasters
- 1944: The two transport ships E. A. Bryan and S. S. Quinault Victory ( USA ) explode while taking over ammunition in Port Chicago in the north of the Bay of San Francisco ; 320 dead. Then breaks a Marine - mutiny from.
- 1981: The hotel Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City ( Missouri ) is the scene of a disaster. During a dance competition, two connecting corridors full of people tumble down into the crowded hotel lobby. 114 people die and over 200 are injured. The cause is a lack of construction.
- 1996: The Boeing 747 of the Trans-World Airlines flight 800 exploded shortly after takeoff in New York City. All 230 people on board die.
- 1998: 10 miners are killed in the biggest mining accident in Austria after the war in Lassing ( Styria ); miraculously, a man can be saved after 9 days.
- 1998: In an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 in Papua New Guinea , there are 2,183 deaths.
- 2001: In the People's Republic of China , illegally stored explosives explode in Shaanxi province , killing 150 people
- 2006: Over 300 people are killed in a tsunami on the south coast of Java and around 30,000 are left homeless.
- 2007: TAM Linhas Aéreas flight 3054 slips over the runway after landing at São Paulo-Congonhas Airport and catches fire. All 187 people on board die; twelve more people perish on the ground.
- 2014: A Boeing 777 on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 , with 298 people on board, crashes over Ukraine, presumably when it was shot down with an anti-aircraft missile .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1976: The XXI. Summer Olympics open in Montreal , Canada .
- 1994: In the final of the World Cup in the United States , Brazil defeated Italy 3-2 on penalties, becoming the first team to secure the title for the fourth time . It is the first World Cup final to be decided by a penalty shoot-out .
- 2009: The 13th Swimming World Championships, which will last until August 2nd, will open in the Italian capital Rome. The venues are the Foro Italico and the Lido di Ostia .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1487: Ismail I , Shah of Iran and founder of the Safavid dynasty
- 1499: Maria Salviati , Florentine patrician, member of the Medici family
- 1512: Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg , eldest daughter of Duke Johann III.
- 1557: Georg Huber , Mayor of St. Gallen
- 1584: Agnes , Princess of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania and Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
- 1626: Henriette Marie von der Pfalz , titular Countess Palatine and Countess of Mongatsch
- 1674: Isaac Watts , British songwriter
18th century
- 1707: Johann Joseph von Trautson , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and Cardinal
- 1708: Friedrich Christian , Margrave of Bayreuth
- 1714: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , German philosopher
- 1723: Johann Georg von Lori , Bavarian civil servant
- 1724: Paulus Mako , Hungarian Jesuit and university professor
- 1729: Friedrich Gisbert Wilhelm von Romberg , German officer, Prussian lieutenant general
- 1736: Marc Guillaume Alexis Vadier , French revolutionary
- 1744: Elbridge Gerry , American politician
- 1745: Timothy Pickering , US Secretary of State
- 1763: Johann Jakob Astor , German emigrant, richest man of his time in America
- 1778: Esma Sultan , Ottoman princess, sister of Mustafa IV. And Mahmud II.
- 1779: José Bernardo de Tagle Portocarrero , President of Peru
- 1787: Friedrich Krupp , German industrialist
- 1788: Philipp August von Amsberg , German railway director
- 1789: Johann Friedrich Bahrdt , German writer
- 1790: William Gardner Angel , American politician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804: Henry Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley , British diplomat
- 1805: Guido von Usedom , Prussian diplomat
- 1809: Hermann Plüddemann , German history painter
- 1817: Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach , French composer and organist
- 1823: Ferdinand Genähr , German missionary
- 1827: Frederick Augustus Abel , English chemist
- 1831: Jean-Philippe Dardier , Franco-Swiss evangelist
- 1831: Xianfeng , Chinese emperor
- 1840: Édouard François André , French gardener, garden designer and botanist
- 1840: Franz Huebner , German missionary and bishop
- 1842: Georg von Schönerer , Austrian landowner and politician
- 1843: Julio Argentino Roca , Argentine President
- 1846: Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Miklucho-Maklai , Russian anthropologist and explorer of New Guinea
- 1846: Tokugawa Iemochi , 14th Shogun of the Edo period in Japan
1851-1900
- 1859: Karl Asal , German lawyer
- 1859: Emanuel Hugo Eugen Ottokar von Aderkas , Russian administrative lawyer, privy councilor and landowner
- 1859: Jakob Christoph Heer , Swiss writer
- 1860: Otto Lummer , German physicist
- 1860: Clara Viebig , German writer
- 1862: Oscar Levertin , Swedish writer
- 1862: Franz Servaes , German journalist, critic and writer
- 1866: Gaston Thierry , German officer and colonial official
- 1867: Leo Jogiches , German politician
- 1868: Thorvald Otterstrom , American composer
- 1870: Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský , Czech conductor and composer
- 1871: John Miller Andrews , Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
- 1871: Lyonel Feininger , German-American painter
- 1875: Donald Francis Tovey , British composer, pianist and musicologist
- 1883: James Abbe , American photojournalist and radio host
- 1883: Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann , German painter
- 1883: Friedel Hoefer , German portrait and landscape painter
- 1883: Bart de Ligt , Dutch theologian, author and anarchist
- 1883: Mauritz Stiller , Swedish silent film director
- 1884: Umberto Malvano , Italian engineer, soccer player, referee and official
- 1885: Benjamin Dale , English organist and composer
- 1888: Samuel Agnon , Israeli writer, representative of modern Hebrew literature, Nobel Prize winner
- 1888: Johannes Brockmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1890: Robin Christian Andersen , Austrian painter
- 1890: Paul Gros , French racing car driver
- 1892: Edwin Harris Dunning , British pilot
- 1892: Elsa Nöbbe , German painter
- 1893: Andor Ákos , Hungarian-German architect, interior designer, painter and graphic artist
- 1893: Justin Löwenthal , German-American grain wholesaler and victim of Nazi persecution
- 1894: Georges Lemaître , Belgian priest and physicist (Big Bang theory)
- 1897: Max Knoll , German electrical engineer (electron microscope)
- 1898: Berenice Abbott , American photographer
- 1898: Lena Ohnesorge , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1899: James Cagney , American film actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Luigi Chinetti , Italian-American racing driver
- 1901: Henri Germond , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1903: Helena Cortesina , Spanish dancer, actress and director
- 1903: Takeyama Michio , Japanese writer
- 1904: Charlotte Prinz , German painter
- 1905: Araken , Brazilian soccer player
- 1907: Paolo Enrico Arias , Italian Classical Archaeologist
- 1909: Ignace Strasfogel , Polish composer
- 1910: Helmut Bonnet , German decathlete
- 1910: Friedrich Bundtzen , German glass designer
- 1912: Fikret Arıcan , Turkish football player, coach and official
- 1912: Erwin Bauer , German racing car driver
- 1913: Herman Felhoelter , American Franciscan priest and military chaplain
- 1913: Roger Garaudy , French writer, philosopher and communist
- 1914: Antonia Magdalena Arté , Dominican musician and music teacher
- 1916: Ed Arno , Romanian cartoonist and illustrator
- 1916: Aleksander Gieysztor , Polish medieval historian
- 1917: Phyllis Diller , American comedian and actress
- 1917: Kenan Evren , Turkish general
- 1917: Margarete Mitscherlich , German psychoanalyst
- 1918: Hotta Yoshie , Japanese writer
- 1918: Carlos Arana Osorio , Guatemalan politician
- 1919: Erich Peter , German colonel general, head of the border troops
- 1920: Gordon Gould , American physicist
- 1920: Juan Antonio Samaranch , Spanish sports official, President of the IOC
- 1921: Acquanetta , American actress
- 1921: Bernard Morel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1921: Lito Peña , Puerto Rican saxophonist, band leader, composer and arranger
- 1922: Josef Lammers , German soccer player and coach
- 1923: John Cooper , British engineer
- 1924: Françoise Adnet , French pianist and painter
- 1925: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch , German-British cellist, one of the last known survivors of the Auschwitz Girls' Orchestra
- 1925: Jimmy Scott , American jazz singer
1926-1950
- 1928: Johannes Arnold , German writer
- 1930: Ryōhei Hirose , Japanese composer
- 1931: Walter Odersky , German President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 1932: Walter Hedemann , German songwriter
- 1932: Wojciech Kilar , Polish film composer
- 1932: Hal Riney , American copywriter, art director, director, and film producer
- 1933: Ben Riley , American jazz drummer
- 1934: Philippe Capdenat , French composer and music teacher
- 1934: Rainer Kirsch , German writer and poet
- 1935: Diahann Carroll , American actress and singer
- 1935: Benjamin R. Civiletti , American politician
- 1935: Donald Sutherland , Canadian actor
- 1936: Klaus Francke , German politician
- 1937: Andreas von Bülow , German Federal Minister
- 1937: Maury Schleicher , American football player
- 1938: Franz Alt , German journalist and book author
- 1938: Hartmut Bagger , German officer, inspector general of the Bundeswehr
- 1939: Milva , Italian singer
- 1939: Ali Khamenei , religious leader of Iran
- 1940: Otmar Alt , German painter and graphic artist, designer and sculptor
- 1940: Mickey Hawks , American rock and roll musician
- 1941: Jürgen Flimm , German director, director of the RuhrTriennale
- 1941: Achim Warmbold , German rally driver
- 1942: Spencer Davis , British musician ( Spencer Davis Group )
- 1942: Rainer Marr , German economist
- 1943: Ahmed Issa , Chadian athlete
- 1943: Robin Smith , British racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1944: Carlos Alberto , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 1945: Antony Anandarayar , Indian Archbishop of Pondicherry and Cuddalore
- 1946: Alun Armstrong , British film and stage actor
- 1946: David Young , Canadian writer
- 1947: Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns , British politician
- 1947: Walther L. Bernecker , German publicist on Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American history
- 1947: Phil Cordell , British musician
- 1947: Wolfgang Flür , German musician
- 1947: Dorthe Kollo , Danish singer
- 1947: Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall , wife of Charles, heir to the British throne
- 1948: Irene Andres-Suárez , Spanish Hispanist
- 1948: Ron Asheton , American musician
- 1948: Luc Bondy , Swiss theater director
- 1948: Paula Szkody , American astronomer
- 1948: Mick Tucker , British musician
- 1949: Geezer Butler , British bass player
- 1949: Chico Freeman , American jazz musician
- 1949: Andrei Alexandrovich Fursenko , Russian politician
- 1950: Anthony Ríos , Dominican singer and composer
- 1950: Andreas Troge , German economist, President of the Federal Environment Agency
1951-1975
- 1951: Lucie Arnaz , American actress
- 1951: Frank Castorf , German director
- 1952: David Hasselhoff , American actor and singer
- 1952: Phoebe Snow , American songwriter, pop and jazz singer
- 1953: Robin Merrill , British singer and television presenter
- 1954: Frank Otfried July , German regional bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
- 1954: Angela Merkel , German Chancellor
- 1954: Holger Rogall , German university professor and founder of sustainable economics
- 1955: Martin R. Dean , Swiss writer
- 1955: Marie-Luise Neunecker , German horn player
- 1956: Erica Maria Bruhn , German pop singer ( Gitti and Erika )
- 1957: Angelika Overath , German writer and journalist
- 1958: Robert Kaller , German freelance visual artist and art educator
- 1959: Jörg Knör , German comedian and parodist
- 1960: Britta Böhler , German-Dutch lawyer and politician
- 1960: Andrea Mandorlini , Italian football player and coach
- 1960: Wolfgang Rathert , German musicologist
- 1960: Jan Wouters , Dutch football player
- 1961: Guru , American rapper
- 1961: Henning Lohner , German filmmaker and composer
- 1961: Zbigniew Zamachowski , Polish actor
- 1962: Ivan , Spanish pop singer
- 1963: Regina Belle , American soul singer
- 1963: Letsie III. , Lesothic king
- 1963: Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper
- 1964: Norbert Dobeleit , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1965: Bastian Sick , German journalist, editor, translator and non-fiction author
- 1966: Sten Tolgfors , Swedish politician
- 1969: Jaan Kirsipuu , Estonian racing cyclist
- 1969: Ulrich Schubert , German scientist
- 1970: Altin Rraklli , Albanian football player
- 1971: Manuela Derr , German athlete
- 1971: Cory Doctorow , Canadian science fiction writer
- 1972: Erik Wudtke , German handball player and coach
- 1973: Marc Bauch , German high school teacher and author
- 1973: Halina Wawzyniak , German politician
- 1974: Hassan Annouri , Moroccan musician and producer
- 1974: Boris Collardi , Swiss-Italian bank manager
- 1975: Elena Anaya , Spanish actress
- 1975: Yevgenia Viktorovna Artamonova-Estes , Russian volleyball player
- 1975: Darude , Finnish DJ
- 1975: Vincent Vittoz , French cross-country skier
1976-2000
- 1976: Wenke Kujala , German triathlete
- 1976: Anders Svensson , Swedish football player
- 1977: Mario Stecher , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- 1978: Émilie Simon , French singer and composer
- 1979: Michael Riegler , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1979: Rudolf Skácel , Czech football player
- 1980: Emil Angelow , Bulgarian football player
- 1980: José Sand , Argentine soccer player
- 1981: Stefan Schröder , German handball player and trainer
- 1981: Mélanie Thierry , French actress and model
- 1981: Anthony West , Australian motorcycle racer
- 1982: Natasha Hamilton , British singer, songwriter and dancer
- 1982: René Herms , German athlete
- 1982: Bobby Reynolds , American tennis player
- 1983: Sarah Jones , American actress
- 1984: Samyr Lainé , Haitian athlete
- 1984: Katie Pflegehar , German actress
- 1985: Francis Banecki , German soccer player
- 1985: Krisztina Triscsuk , Russian-Hungarian handball player
- 1987: Gesine Agena , German politician
- 1987: Daniel Brands , German tennis player
- 1987: Jan Charouz , Czech racing driver
- 1987: Ivan Strinić , Croatian football player
- 1988: Daniel Brosinski , German soccer player
- 1989: Marie Hacke , German actress
- 1989: Lisa Hrdina , German actress
- 1990: Heinz Lindner , Austrian soccer player
- 1990: Mattie Stepanek , American poet
- 1991: Abdulsamed Akin , German soccer player
- 1991: Morten Michelsen , German handball player
- 1992: Konrad Forenc , Polish football player
- 1993: Hadnet Kidane Asmelash , Ethiopian cyclist
- 1995: Raffaele Buzzi , Italian Nordic combined skier
- 1995: Kiveli Dörken , German-Greek pianist
- 1998: Riikka Honkanen , Finnish ski racer
- 1998: Lilli Schweiger , German actress
- 2000: Nico Liersch , German actor
Died
Before the 16th century
- Magnus Felix Ennodius , Bishop of Pavia 521:
- Leo IV , Pope 855:
- Edward the Elder , King of Wessex 924:
- 1012: Koloman , allegedly an Irish prince who is venerated as a saint in Austria
- 1070: Baldwin VI. , Count of Flanders
- 1085: Robert Guiskard , Norman prince, Duke of Apulia and Calabria and Duke of Benevento
- 1134: Centulle VI. , Vice Count of Béarn
- 1141: Adalbert II of Saarbrücken , Archbishop of Mainz
- 1172: Eberhard II. Von Otelingen , Bishop of Bamberg
- 1172: Conrad I von Riddagshausen , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1177: Fujiwara no Kiyosuke , Japanese poet
- 1198: Nerses of Lambron , Archbishop of Tarsus
- 1210: Folke Birgersson , Swedish Jarl
- 1210: Sverker II , King of Sweden
- 1270: Marguerite , Margravine of Namur
- 1368: Otto II von Wettin , Bishop of Minden
- 1395: Imer von Ramstein , Bishop of Basel
- 1399: Hedwig of Anjou , ruler ("King") of Poland, Catholic saint ( Saint Hedwig of Poland )
- 1399: Lamprecht von Brunn , Bishop of Brixen, Speyer, Strasbourg and Bamberg
15th to 17th century
- 1416: Günther XXX. , Count of Schwarzburg
- 1453: John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , English commander of the Hundred Years War
- 1512: Pallas Spangel , Catholic priest, theologian and rector of the University of Heidelberg, also advisor to the Elector and Vice Chancellor of the Palatinate
- 1517: Johann Badendorp , Council Secretary of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- 1531: Hosokawa Takakuni , Japanese military commander
- 1558: Georg I , Count of Württemberg-Mömpelgard
- 1571: Georg Fabricius , Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist
- 1583: Mette Fliß , victim of the witch hunt in Wernigerode
- 1602: Friedrich Wilhelm I , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1627: Lieven de Key , Dutch architect
- 1651: Wilhelm Biener , German-Austrian lawyer and Tyrolean chancellor
- 1676: Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers , French poisoner
- 1691: Heinrich Ammersbach , German pastor and writer
18th century
- 1701: Giulio Cesare Arresti , Italian organist, conductor and composer
- 1709: Pascal Collasse , French composer
- 1748: Franz Karl Conradi , German legal scholar
- 1749: Samuel Henzi , Swiss revolutionary
- 1752: Daniel Juslenius , Finnish historian, philosopher and theologian and Bishop of Porvoo and Skara
- 1755: Marie Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , abbess of the empire-direct and free-worldly Abbey of Quedlinburg
- 1756: Johann Friedrich Starck , Prussian Lutheran theologian, pietist writer of edification
- 1762: Peter III. , Russian tsar
- 1766: Giuseppe Castiglione , Italian Jesuit, missionary and painter in China
- 1766: Barthold Fritze , German inventor, keyboard instrument maker and music theorist
- 1767: Norbert Grund , Czech painter
- 1785: Margaret Cavendish Bentinck , British botanist
- 1787: Johann Ernst Döring , German organ builder
- 1787: Hannikel , robber from Württemberg
- 1790: Adam Smith , British philosopher and economist
- 1793: Joseph Chalier , French Jacobin
- 1793: Charlotte Corday , French nobleman and assassin
- 1794: Charlotte Thouret , French nun
19th century
- 1801: Thérèse Levasseur , partner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- 1803: Adolf , Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
- 1803: James T. Callender , Scottish-American novelist and satirist
- 1804: Christian Ernst Graf , German composer
- 1821: Fulgencio Yegros , first President of Paraguay
- 1826: Joseph Graetz , German organist, composer and music teacher
- 1834: Friedrich Theodor Kühne , German university professor and linguist
- 1844: Christoph Arnold , German architect
- 1845: Charles Gray, 2nd Earl Gray , British statesman
- 1849: Alojz Ipavec , Slovenian composer
- 1851: Béni Egressy , Hungarian composer, librettist, translator and actor
- 1858: Johann Georg Wilhelm Wilhelmy , German organ builder
- 1859: Stephanie von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Queen of Portugal
- 1873: Moritz von Todesco , Austrian banker, entrepreneur and patron of the arts
- 1875: Leopold Copeland Parker Cowper , American politician and lawyer
- 1881: Jim Bridger , American trapper, scout, and explorer
- 1894: Gisle Johnson , Norwegian theologian
- 1894: Joseph Hyrtl , Austrian anatomist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903: James McNeill Whistler , American painter
- 1904: Wilhelm Marr , German political journalist
- 1906: Carlos Pellegrini , President of Argentina
- 1906: Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker , German violinist and music director
- 1907: Ludwig Arnsperger , Baden ministerial official
- 1912: Henri Poincaré , French mathematician and theoretical physicist
- 1913: Armes Beaumont , Australian singer
- 1917: Gustav Denhardt , German Africa explorer
- 1918: Alexandra Feodorovna , the wife of Nicholas II, the last Empress of Russia
- 1918: Nicholas II , Tsar of Russia
- 1918: Alexei Nikolajewitsch Romanow , Tsarevich of Russia
- 1918: Anastasia Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1918: Maria Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1918: Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1918: Tatjana Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.
- 1920: Christopher Bruun , Norwegian clergyman, founder of the Norwegian Adult Education Center
- 1923: Philipp Stauff , German journalist and writer
- 1925: Lovis Corinth , German painter
- 1927: Luise Adolpha Le Beau , German pianist and composer
- 1928: Álvaro Obregón , Mexican general and politician
- 1937: Paul Julius Arndt , German classical archaeologist
- 1937: Harriet Chalmers Adams , American explorer
- 1937: Carl Hosius , German classical philologist
- 1937: Gabriel Pierné , French composer
- 1941: Emil Barth , German politician
- 1943: Sepp Amschl , Austrian teacher and composer
- 1945: Ernst Busch , German Field Marshal General
- 1946: Florence Fuller , Australian painter
- 1949: Miel Mundt , Dutch football player
1951-2000
- 1953: Maude Adams , American stage actress
- 1955: Ludwig Wolker , leading figure in the Catholic youth movement, co-founder of the Association of German Catholic Youth
- 1956: Bodo von Borries , German electrical engineer, co-inventor of the electron microscope
- 1957: Carl Auböck senior , Austrian painter and designer
- 1959: Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa , Spanish painter
- 1959: Billie Holiday , American jazz singer
- 1961: Ty Cobb , American baseball player and manager
- 1965: Eugène Bigot , French conductor and composer
- 1967: Cyril Ring , American actor
- 1967: John Coltrane , American jazz saxophonist
- 1972: Friedrich von Basse , German government official
- 1975: Konstantine Gamsachurdia , Georgian writer
- 1975: Claude Perry , American football player
- 1977: Zózimo , Brazilian soccer player
- 1983: Roosevelt Sykes , American blues musician
- 1985: Susanne K. Langer , American philosopher
- 1985: Wynn Stewart , American country singer
- 1987: Jörg Fauser , German writer and journalist
- 1989: Heinz Risse , German writer
- 1990: Edgar Rabsch , German organist, choir director and composer
- 1991: Werner Hausmann , Swiss actor, television presenter, author, radio play director and speaker
- 1995: Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentine racing driver
- 1995: Rainer Kunad , German composer
- 2000: Pascale Audret , French actress
21st century
- 2001: Timur Avtandilowitsch Apakidze , Russian major general
- 2002: Joseph Luns , Dutch politician
- 2002: Valentina Alexejewna Vinogradowa , Soviet-Russian national volleyball player
- 2003: Hans Abich , German film producer and radio journalist
- 2003: Erland Herkenrath , Swiss handball player
- 2003: David Kelly , British microbiologist and bioweapons expert
- 2003: Walter Zapp , German inventor of the miniature camera (Minox)
- 2004: Johannes Braun , German Roman Catholic Bishop of the Apostolic Administration Magdeburg
- 2005: Geraldine Fitzgerald , Irish-American film and stage actress
- 2005: Edward Heath , British politician
- 2006: Günter Ebert , German writer and journalist
- 2006: Elfriede Kuzmany , Austrian actress
- 2006: Mickey Spillane , American crime novelist and comic book writer
- 2008: Willi Birkelbach , German politician
- 2008: Paul Sorensen , American actor
- 2009: Meir Amit , Israeli general, director of the Mossad
- 2009: Walter Cronkite , American news anchor
- 2009: Leszek Kołakowski , Polish philosopher and essayist
- 2011: Juan Arza , Spanish football player and coach
- 2011: Taiji Sawada , Japanese musician
- 2011: Alex Steinweiss , American graphic designer
- 2012: Ottorino Pietro Alberti , Italian Archbishop
- 2012: Curd Ochwadt , German writer, translator, editor and publisher
- 2013: Peter Appleyard , Canadian jazz musician
- 2013: Manfred Gebhardt , German journalist and author
- 2014: Otto Piene , German visual artist
- 2014: Elaine Stritch , American actress
- 2015: Jules Bianchi , French racing car driver
- 2015: Nova Pilbeam , British actress
- 2016: Dieter Biallas , German mathematician and politician, Hamburg Senator
- 2016: Paul Johnson , American ice hockey player
- 2017: Wolfgang Manecke , German journalist and organologist
- 2017: Karl-Heinz Schulmeister , German politician
- 2018: Yvonne Blake , British-Spanish costume designer
- 2018: Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg , German lawyer and publicist
- 2019: Andrea Camilleri , Italian screenwriter, theater and television director and writer
- 2019: Willy Dirtl , Austrian ballet dancer and choreographer
- 2020: John Lewis , American politician and civil rights activist
- 2020: James Innell Packer , British-Canadian theologian and author
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Alexius of Edessa , Roman hermit and patron saint (Catholic, Orthodox)
- St. Scilitan Martyrs , Algerian Martyrs (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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