November 17th
The November 17 is the 321st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 322nd in leap years ), thus remain 44 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 474 : Due to the surprising death of his son Leo II , Zeno , who was made co-emperor on February 9 of the same year, becomes sole ruler in the Eastern Roman Empire .
- 1225 : In a peace circuit to the battle of Mölln receives Adolf IV of Holstein. From fallen into captivity Danish Reichsverweser Albrecht II of Orlamünde. The county Holstein back, Adolf the father has been removed by the Danes.
- 1292 : John Balliol becomes King of Scotland after the English King Edward I selected him from 13 candidates for the Scottish throne .
- 1494 : The city of Florence is taken by a French army headed by King Charles VIII .
- 1558 : The attempt at a Catholic restoration in England ends with the death of Maria Tudor . The Elizabethan Age begins.
- 1796 : In the Battle of Arcole in the First Coalition War , the French under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat the Austrians under Joseph Alvinczy von Berberek .
- 1796 : On the anniversary of his mother Catherine the Great's death , her son Paul declares himself the new Russian Emperor.
- 1800 : In Washington, DC the US Congress meets for the first time in the Capitol , which is not yet fully completed.
- 1810 : Sweden explained to pressure Napoleon Bonaparte Britain to war .
- 1820 : The American seal hunter Nathaniel Palmer is the third person to sight the Antarctic in search of new hunting grounds . The Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula is named after him.
- 1856 : In order to secure the areas acquired in the Gadsden purchase , the USA builds Fort Buchanan on Sonoita Creek in Arizona .
- 1878 : The chef Giovanni Passannante committed in Naples an attack on Italy's King Umberto I. in which it is slightly injured.
- 1881 : Reich Chancellor Bismarck reads out an imperial message at the opening of the 5th Reichstag , which introduces German social legislation .
- 1905 : Under pressure from the Japanese Empire , the Japan-Korea Protectorate Treaty is concluded, making Korea a Japanese protectorate.
- 1906 : With an article in which the journalist Maximilian Harden accuses the Liebenberger Kreis of bad influences on German Kaiser Wilhelm II and alludes to homoerotic relationships between his members, the Harden-Eulenburg affair begins , which turns into the greatest scandal in the following years of the German Empire grows.
- 1917 : The second naval battle near Heligoland between the German Empire and Great Britain during the First World War ends in a draw.
- 1939 : In the special action in Prague , the National Socialists close all institutions of the Czech higher education system in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The police shot and killed nine students suspected of being ringleaders during demonstrations.
- 1941 : German and Soviet troops begin offensives in the German-Soviet War in the Battle of Rostov .
- 1969 : The SALT I negotiations between the Soviet Union and the USA begin in Helsinki .
- 1973 : France and Great Britain sign an agreement to build and operate a tunnel under the English Channel .
- 1973 : In Greece , the uprising of the students of the Athens Polytechnic against the ruling military dictatorship is bloodily suppressed.
- 1976 : An open letter initiates the wave of protests by GDR cultural workers against Biermann's expatriation .
- 1983 : The indigenous guerrilla organization Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional ( Zapatista Army of National Liberation ) is founded in Chiapas , Mexico .
- 1989 : The Velvet Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia with a student demonstration in Prague against the policies of Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec .
- 1989 : The Ministry for State Security in the GDR is renamed the Office for National Security (AfNS). Its head will be Erich Mielke's previous deputy , Wolfgang Schwanitz .
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- 1997 : 58 people are killed in a terrorist attack on tourists in front of the Hatshepsut temple in Luxor ( Egypt ).
- 2000 : Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is removed from office by Congress for corruption and violations of human rights .
- 2002 : Italy's ex-Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti is sentenced to 24 years imprisonment in absentia for involvement in murder.
- 2012 : Ernest Koroma is re-elected as President of Sierra Leone .
- 2015 : The European Union is due to the terrorist attacks on 13 November 2015 in Paris the alliance case firmly.
- 2017 : The Iraqi army reports the retaking of the city of Rawa . This was the last city in Iraq still controlled by IS .
economy
- 1846 : Carl Zeiss opens a precision mechanical and optical workshop in Jena , from which the company of the same name grows.
- 1962 : Dulles International Airport is opened in Washington by US President John F. Kennedy .
- 1970 : The American inventor Douglas C. Engelbart receives a patent for the first computer mouse .
- 1970 : The British tabloid The Sun first published the picture of a “ Page Three girls ”. The admission of a lightly or unclothed woman, which then appears daily, leads to an increase in the circulation of the paper by 40 percent.
- 1985 : The first issue of the hacker magazine Phrack appears.
- 1986 : The French urban guerrilla group Action Directe (Commando Pierre Overney ) kills Renault director Georges Besse . She sees in him the main person responsible for mass layoffs by the automobile manufacturer.
- 2004 : In the United States, it is announced that trading companies Kmart and Sears, Roebuck & Company intend to merge to form Sears Holdings Corporation .
science and technology
- 1804 : By a decree of Tsar Alexander I created the Kazan State University in Tatar Kazan .
- 1869 : The opening ceremony of the Suez Canal is carried out by the Egyptian viceroy Ismail Pasha in the presence of numerous European princes.
- 1963 : The world's highest pillar bridge (785 m long, 180 m high) is opened south of Innsbruck in Tyrol as part of the opening of the Brenner motorway and is named Europabrücke .
- 1970 : With the launch of Lunochod 1 by the Soviet Union in the Mare Imbrium as part of the Luna program , the first use of a lunar vehicle begins .
Culture
- 1839 : Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio , Giuseppe Verdi's first opera , premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Although the opera, based on a libretto by Antonio Piazza and Temistocle Solera, was a success at the world premiere , it failed to establish itself in the operatic repertoire in the following years .
- 1840 : The comedy The Glass of Water by Eugène Scribe has its first performance in Paris.
- 1866 : The opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. The libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré is based on a small part from the novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
- 1903 : The opera Mademoiselle Fifi by César Cui is premiered in Moscow .
- 1908 : The silent film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, based on the screenplay by Henri Lavedan , premiered in France. It is considered a milestone in film history because it becomes clear that a film makes new demands on staging and acting and because it is the first film to come up with original music composed by Camille Saint-Saëns .
- 1915 : The operetta Die Csárdásfürstin by Emmerich Kálmán with the libretto by Leo Stein and Bela Jenbach is premiered at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna . It becomes Kálmán's most successful operetta.
- 1923 : The operetta Die Perlen der Cleopatra by Oscar Straus based on a libretto by Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna . Fritzi Massary , Richard Tauber and Max Pallenberg play the leading roles.
- 1959 : Radio Luxemburg organizes - based on the Sanremo Festival - for the first time a German Schlager Festival in the Wiesbaden Rhein-Main-Hallen .
- 1978 : The Star Wars Holiday Special is broadcast for the first and only time on CBS .
- 2000 : Niki de Saint Phalle is made an honorary citizen of the city of Hanover and bequeathed 300 of her works to the local Sprengel Museum on this occasion .
society
- 1957 : Police find body parts of at least 15 women during a search of Ed Gein's Wisconsin farmhouse .
- 1980 : The FBI succeeds in arresting Gerald and Charlene Gallego , who are responsible for the serial murder of a total of ten people in the past few months for sexual reasons.
religion
- 1816 : King Friedrich Wilhelm III. By cabinet order of Prussia , the Sunday before the 1st Advent is designated as the “general church festival in memory of the deceased”.
- 1875 : The history of Anglo-Indian theosophy begins with the establishment of the Theosophical Society at Mott Memorial Hall, 64 Madison Avenue , in New York City by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , Henry Steel Olcott, and William Quan Judge and others .
Disasters
- 1874 : 467 people die in the sinking of the British sailing ship Cospatrick in the South Atlantic caused by a fire on board . Five survivors, two of whom die after being rescued, are rescued ten days after being kept alive by cannibalism .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1891 : The football club Karlsruher FV is founded in Karlsruhe and becomes German champions in 1910 .
- 1905 : In Uerdingen of the football club is FC Uerdingen 05 established.
- 1993 : The German national soccer team wins 2-1 against Brazil in Cologne . It is Lothar Matthäus ' 104th international match , replacing Franz Beckenbauer as the record national team player of the DFB .
- 1993 : With a goal by Davide Gualtieri , the San Marino national soccer team takes a 1-0 lead after just 8 seconds in a World Cup qualifier in Bologna against England . It is the fastest goal in the history of the Football World Cup. The match is lost 7-1 for San Marino .
- 1999 : It becomes known that nandrolone was found in two urine samples from the German long-distance runner Dieter Baumann . The toothpaste affair sets in because the doping athlete proves the presence of the anabolic in his toothpaste tubes .
- 2001 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Hasim Rahman in Mandalay Bay , Las Vegas , by knocking out
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 9 : Vespasian , Roman emperor
- 1293 : Philip V , King of France
- 1492 : Simone Pasqua , Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1503 : Agnolo Bronzino , Italian painter
- 1511 : Jacob Bording , Flemish doctor
- 1575 : Friedrich Balduin , Lutheran theologian
- 1587 : Joost van den Vondel , Dutch poet and playwright
- 1597 : Henry Gellibrand , English astronomer
- 1612 : Dorgon , Chinese regent
- 1627 : Johann Georg II , ruling Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1631 : Ludwig Gebhard von Hoym , Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor
- 1665 : Carlo Colonna , Cardinal of the Roman Church
- 1666 : Francisco Fernández de la Cueva Enríquez , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1666 : Benedetto Luti , Italian painter
- 1690 : Noël-Nicolas Coypel , French painter
18th century
- 1705 : Karl Georg Friedrich von Flemming , Saxon envoy, general of the infantry and secret cabinet minister
- 1715 : Oswald von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , canon in Cologne
- 1719 : Marie Marguerite Bihéron , French artist as well as draftsman and creator of anatomical wax preparations
- 1728 : Nikolaus Ambrosi , Italian sculptor
- 1729 : Gotthilf Traugott Zachariae , German Protestant theologian
- 1731 : Andreas Nitsche , Sorbian traveler and scholar
- 1738 : Alexander Wilhelm von Arnim , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1746 : Ludwig Wilhelm Alexander von Hövel , Baden State Minister
- 1747 : Carsten Anker , Norwegian industrialist and diplomat
- 1747 : Franz Samuel Karpe , philosopher and university professor
- 1749 : Nicolas Appert , French inventor
- 1749 : Johann Erich Biester , German philosopher
- 1751 : Johann Michael Sailer , Catholic theologian and Bishop of Regensburg
- 1752 : Caspar Voght , German businessman and social reformer
- 1753 : Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros , Bishop of Urgell
- 1755 : Louis XVIII. , French king
- 1761 : Albert Friedrich Bach , German local politician
- 1761 : Jacques MacDonald , French Marshal of the Empire
- 1767 : Asa Adgate , American lawyer and politician
- 1771 : Leopold Ackermann , Austrian theologian
- 1773 : Mihály Csokonai Vitéz , Hungarian poet
- 1782 : Conrad Graf , German-Austrian piano maker
- 1788 : Elisa Davidia Margarethe von Ahlefeldt , German-Danish noblewoman
- 1790 : August Ferdinand Möbius , German mathematician and astronomer
- 1790 : João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun , Portuguese statesman and general
- 1800 : Achille Fould , French financier and statesman
- 1800 : Louis Schlösser , German composer and concert virtuoso
- 1800 : Christian Zetlitz Bretteville , Norwegian politician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Sherlock James Andrews , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1801 : Eduard Gurk , Austrian painter
- 1808 : Mustafa IV , Ottoman Sultan
- 1809 : Nicolai-Peter Ahlmann , German politician
- 1812 : Peter Wilhelm Friedrich von Voigtländer , German-Austrian entrepreneur, optician and photography pioneer
- 1816 : Franz Julius Anders , German stenographer
- 1824 : Ernst Leybold , German entrepreneur
- 1825 : Walter Leake , American politician
- 1834 : Hugo Knorr , German painter
- 1835 : William Arnold Anthony , American physicist
- 1835 : Andrew L. Harris , American politician
- 1836 : Franz Brümmer , German teacher and lexicographer
- 1842 : Julius Pohlig , German engineer and pioneer in cable car construction
- 1845 : Alexis zu Bentheim and Steinfurt , German landlord and Prussian lieutenant general
- 1846 : Georg von Schuh , German lawyer and politician
1851-1900
- 1859 : Edmund Hauler , Austrian classical philologist
- 1861 : Archibald Lampman , Canadian poet
- 1862 : Karl Angermayer , Austrian politician
- 1866 : Voltairine de Cleyre , American anarchist
- 1867 : Anna Feldhusen , German painter and etcher
- 1868 : Korbinian Brodmann , German neuroanatomist and psychiatrist
- 1876 : Ernst Pfuhl , German archaeologist
- 1876 : August Sander , German photographer
- 1878 : Grace Abbott , American social reformer, child rights activist and university teacher
- 1878 : Berta Lask , (pseudonym "Gerhard Wieland"), German poet, playwright and journalist
- 1878 : George MacFarlane , American singer and actor
- 1881 : Nazzareno De Angelis , Italian opera singer
- 1881 : Julius Christiaan van Oven , Dutch legal scholar and politician
- 1882 : Germaine Dulac , French film director
- 1882 : Maurice Germot , French tennis player
- 1883 : Henk Robijns , Dutch carambola player, world champion
- 1885 : George Simonis , Romanian composer and music teacher
- 1885 : Otto Trieloff , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1886 : Ferdinand Friedensburg , German politician, Lord Mayor of Berlin, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1886 : Hans Schlange-Schöningen , German politician, MdL, MdR, Reich Minister
- 1886 : Louis Schlösser , German composer and concert virtuoso
- 1887 : Ernst August , last ruling Duke of Braunschweig
- 1887 : Bernard Montgomery , British Field Marshal
- 1888 : Curt Goetz , German-Swiss writer and actor
- 1889 : Murata Shūgyo , Japanese lyric poet
- 1890 : Alfred Hanf , German painter, graphic artist and commercial artist
- 1892 : Max Deutsch , French composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1893 : Max Barthel , German writer
- 1893 : Georg Pahl , German actor and radio play speaker
- 1895 : Mikhail Michailowitsch Bachtin , Russian literary scholar and art theorist
- 1895 : Hermann Gretsch , German designer
- 1896 : Friedrich Middelhauve , German politician and publisher, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag
- 1896 : Lev Semjonowitsch Vygotsky , Soviet psychologist
- 1897 : Wolfgang Abshagen , German officer
- 1899 : Roger Vitrac , French playwright and surrealist
- 1899 : Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart , German painter
- 1900 : Otto Kahn-Freund , German lawyer and resistance fighter
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Walter Hallstein , German lawyer and politician, first chairman of the European Commission
- 1901 : Ivan Pyrjew , Soviet film director
- 1901 : Lee Strasberg , Austro-Hungarian-American actor and drama teacher, co-founder of the Group Theater
- 1902 : Eugene Paul Wigner , Hungarian-American physicist
- 1903 : Willem Gerardus Anderiesen , Dutch football player
- 1903 : Nicolaas Diederichs , South African politician, President
- 1904 : Paul Chaudet , Swiss politician
- 1904 : Isamu Noguchi , American sculptor and designer with Japanese roots
- 1905 : Mischa Auer , American film and theater actor
- 1905 : Astrid of Sweden , Queen of the Belgians
- 1906 : Sōichirō Honda , Japanese entrepreneur
- 1907 : Israel Regardie , occultist, magician, psychoanalyst and Reichian
- 1908 : Pietro Sernagiotto , Brazilian-Italian football player
- 1908 : Günter Stempel , German politician (LDPD)
- 1910 : Jacqueline Lamba , French painter
- 1911 : Heli Finkenzeller , German actress
- 1911 : William Tannen , American film and stage actor
- 1912 : Erhart Krumpholz , German motorcycle racer
- 1913 : Aleksander Bardini , Polish actor and director
- 1913 : Hellmut Kalbitzer , German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1913 : Christiane Desroches Noblecourt , French Egyptologist
- 1914 : Christa Johannsen , German writer
- 1916 : Shelby Foote , American writer and historian
- 1916 : George Silk , New Zealand photographer
- 1920 : Camillo Felgen , Luxembourg singer and actor
- 1920 : Ellis Kaut , German children's book author
- 1920 : Hans Putz , Austrian actor
- 1921 : Albert Bertelsen , Danish painter
- 1921 : Ursula Schultze-Bluhm , German painter
- 1921 : Warren Tallman , American literary scholar
- 1922 : Stanley Cohen , American biochemist
- 1922 : Gert Tiedtke , German carom player and multiple German master in art push
- 1923 : Alexander Adrion , German magician
- 1923 : Hubertus Brandenburg , German bishop
- 1923 : Horst Michael Neutze , German actor
- 1925 : Siluvaimathu Teresanathan Amalnather , Indian bishop of Tuticorin
- 1925 : Rock Hudson , American actor
- 1925 : Charles Mackerras , Australian conductor
- 1925 : Günter Naumann , German actor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Mohamed Diab al-Attar , Egyptian football player and referee
- 1927 : Walter Halbritter , German politician
- 1928 : Armand Pierre Fernandez , French-American object artist
- 1928 : Friedrich Prinz , German historian
- 1929 : Elmer H. Antonsen , American linguist and runologist
- 1929 : Charles Kálmán , Austrian composer
- 1929 : Jimmy Reece , American racing car driver
- 1929 : Werner Schürmann , German sculptor and baritone
- 1930 : David Werner Amram , American jazz musician and composer
- 1930 : Joan Maxwell , Canadian singer and music educator
- 1930 : Karl Merkatz , Austrian actor
- 1930 : Giò Pomodoro , Italian sculptor and architect
- 1931 : Robert Bober , French producer and writer, documentary filmmaker and filmmaker
- 1934 : David Sackett , Canadian medical professional, pioneer of evidence-based medicine
- 1935 : Toni Sailer , Austrian ski racer, multiple Olympic champion, actor
- 1935 : Audrey Thomas , Canadian writer
- 1937 : Peter Cook , British comedian and author
- 1938 : Juan Azúa , Chilean conductor
- 1938 : Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1939 : Chris Craft , British racing car driver
- 1940 : Jurgis Aušra , Lithuanian manager and politician
- 1940 : Rudolf Dreßler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, diplomat
- 1942 : Bob Gaudio , American musician and songwriter
- 1942 : Martin Scorsese , American director
- 1942 : Anna Seniuk , Polish actress
- 1943 : Herbert Adamec , Austrian actor and director
- 1943 : Lauren Hutton , American actress
- 1943 : Axel Schultes , German architect and urban planner
- 1944 : Gene Clark , American musician, singer and songwriter
- 1944 : Danny DeVito , American actor
- 1944 : Rem Koolhaas , Dutch architect
- 1944 : Hagen Müller , German politician, MdL
- 1945 : Roland Joffé , British director
- 1945 : Damien Magee , Northern Irish racing driver
- 1946 : Martin Barre , British rock musician ( Jethro Tull )
- 1946 : Terry E. Branstad , American politician
- 1948 : Eliseo Antonio Ariotti , Italian diplomat
- 1948 : Howard Dean , American politician
- 1948 : Tom Wolf , American politician
- 1949 : Jon Avnet , American director and film producer
- 1949 : Thomas Hill , American hurdle sprinter
- 1950 : Adalbert Durrer , Swiss politician
- 1950 : Roland Matthes , German swimmer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Werner Hoyer , German politician, President of the European Investment Bank
- 1951 : Lucía Huergo , Cuban composer, music producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist
- 1951 : Willi Stächele , German politician
- 1952 : Ernst-Michael von Abercron , German politician
- 1952 : Christopher Butterfield , composer, music teacher, performance artist and rock guitarist
- 1952 : Hubert von Goisern , Austrian musician and singer
- 1952 : Ties Kruize , Dutch hockey player
- 1952 : Cyril Ramaphosa , South African politician and President of the Republic of South Africa since 2018
- 1952 : Marion Tietz , German handball player
- 1953 : Ulrike Bruns , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1955 : Karl Augschöll , Austrian jazz musician
- 1955 : Yolanda King , American civil rights activist and actress, daughter of Martin Luther King
- 1955 : Gerhard Lütkens , German politician
- 1957 : Jan Bucher , American freestyle skier
- 1958 : Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio , American actress
- 1958 : Rodolfo Stroeter , Brazilian bassist and composer
- 1958 : Jean-Louis Tournadre , French motorcycle racer
- 1959 : Thomas Allofs , German soccer player
- 1960 : Uwe Hassbecker , German guitarist
- 1960 : RuPaul , American actor, singer, songwriter and drag queen
- 1960 : Petrik Sander , German soccer player and coach
- 1960 : Frank Spotnitz , American screenwriter, television producer and director, and showrunner
- 1961 : Helmut Bradl , German motorcycle racer
- 1961 : Chanda Kochhar , Indian banker
- 1961 : Wolfram Wuttke , German soccer player
- 1964 : Ralph Garman , American actor
- 1964 : Susan E. Rice , American politician
- 1965 : Stefan Kiefer , German motorcycle racer and team boss
- 1966 : Jeff Buckley , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1966 : Richard Fortus , American guitarist
- 1966 : Daisy Fuentes , American presenter, model, and actress
Sophie Marceau (* 1966)
- 1966 : Sophie Marceau , French actress
- 1967 : Michael Andrews , American musician and film music composer
- 1967 : David Kadel , television presenter, cabaret artist and director
- 1967 : Andreas Rieke , German producer and sound tinkerer ( Die Fantastischen Vier )
- 1967 : Domenico Schiattarella , Italian racing car driver
- 1968 : Vlado Šola , Croatian handball player
- 1970 : Antonino Asta , Italian football player and coach
- 1970 : Silvana Koch-Mehrin , German politician and business consultant, MEP
- 1971 : Tərlan Əhmədov , Azerbaijani football player
- 1971 : Michael Adams , English chess grandmaster
- 1972 : Kimya Dawson , American singer
- 1972 : Julian Gillesberger , Austrian violist
- 1973 : Bernd Schneider , German soccer player
- 1974 : Leslie Bibb , American actress and model
- 1974 : Aldo Gonzalez , American actor
- 1975 : Anders Anundsen , Norwegian politician
- 1975 : Oliver Auspitz , Austrian film producer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano , Venezuelan model
- 1976 : Beate Bille , Danish actress
- 1976 : Brandon Call , American actor
- 1976 : Stefan Lampadius , German actor and filmmaker
- 1976 : Diane Neal , American actress
- 1976 : Ervin Skela , Albanian football player
- 1976 : Mike Terranova , Italian soccer player
- 1977 : Anne Weinknecht , German actress
- 1978 : Echendu Adiele , German football player
- 1978 : Zoë Bell , New Zealand stunt woman and actress
- 1978 : Hadhari Djaffar , Comorian sprinter
Rachel McAdams (* 1978)
- 1978 : Rachel McAdams , Canadian actress
- 1978 : Tobias Schellenberg , German water diver
- 1979 : Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau , Spanish cyclist
- 1980 : Santo Anzà , Italian cyclist
- 1980 : Franky Kubrick , German rapper
- 1981 : Anna Bornhoff , German soccer player
- 1981 : Park Mi-young , South Korean table tennis player
- 1983 : Viva Bianca , Australian actress
- 1983 : Alessio Bolognani , Italian ski jumper
- 1983 : Kateřina Emmons , Czech sports shooter
- 1983 : Jodie Henry , Australian swimmer
- 1983 : Harry Lloyd , British actor
- 1983 : Christopher Paolini , American author
- 1984 : Park Han-byul , South Korean actress
- 1984 : Mattias Sereinig , Austrian soccer player
- 1985 : Fikri El Haj Ali , German soccer player
- 1986 : Florian Klein , Austrian soccer player
- 1986 : Nani , Portuguese-Cape Verdean football player
- 1988 : Eric Lichaj , American football player
- 1988 : Eric Nam , Korean-American singer and actor
- 1988 : Gabriel da Silva , Swiss actor
- 1991 : Gale Agbossoumonde , Togolese-American football player
- 1994 : AJ Ginnis , Greek-American ski racer
- 1994 : Benno Schmitz , German soccer player
- 1995 : Elise Mertens , Belgian tennis player
- 1997 : Dragan Bender , Croatian basketball player
- 1997 : Maximilian Pronitschew , Russian football player
- 1998 : Kara Hayward , American actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- 375 : Valentinian I , Western Roman Emperor
- 474 : Leo II , Eastern Roman Emperor
- 498 : Anastasius II , Pope
- 594 : Gregory of Tours , historian and Christian saint
- 641 : Jomei , Emperor of Japan
- 680 : Hilda of Whitby , saint, abbess and founder of the monastery
- 885 : Liutgard of Saxony , Queen of East Franconia
- 1099 : Udalrich I , Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1104 : Nikephoros Melissenos , Byzantine general, Gegenkaiser and Kaisar
- 1215 : Giles de Braose , Bishop of Hereford
- 1231 : Elisabeth of Thuringia , Landgravine of Thuringia and saint of the Catholic Church
- 1244 : Marjorie of Scotland , Scottish king's daughter and Countess of Pembroke
- 1302 : Gertrud von Helfta , nun and mystic
- 1326 : Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel , English magnate
- 1421 : Gobelin person , German historian and church reformer
- 1481 : Martin Mair , Bavarian humanist and statesman
- 1494 : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola , Italian humanist
- 1525 : Eleanor of Portugal , Queen of Portugal
- 1528 : Jakob Wimpheling , German writer
- 1532 : Tullio Lombardo , Italian sculptor and architect of the early Renaissance
- 1558 : Mary I (Maria Tudor), Queen of England and Ireland (the Catholic , the Bloody Mary )
- 1558 : Reginald Pole , last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1562 : Antony of Bourbon , titular king of Navarre
- 1566 : Raffaellino del Colle , Italian painter
- 1592 : Johann III. , King of Sweden
Maria I
(† 1558)
Reginald Pole
(† 1558)
Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim
(† 1632)
Catherine II the Great
(† 1796)
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17th and 18th centuries
- 1617 : Dorothea of Saxony , Abbess of Quedlinburg
- 1624 : Jakob Böhme , German mystic and theosophist
- 1625 : Jakob Henot , postal organizer and postmaster in Cologne
- 1632 : Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim , German general of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years War , inventor
- 1632 : Henri de Schomberg , French general of Electoral Saxon origin
- 1648 : Thomas Ford , English composer, lutenist, gambist and poet
- 1665 : Johann Lorenz Bausch , German physician, co-founder and first president of the Leopoldina
- 1674 : Isbrand van Diemerbroeck , Dutch medic
- 1713 : Abraham van Riebeeck , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1718 : Philipp Ludwig Probst , Princely Brunswick-Lüneburg Prime Minister, Chancellor and State Syndic as well as hereditary lord of Wendhausen, Schöningen and Riddagshausen
- 1720 : Jack Rackham , English pirate ( Calico Jack )
- 1739 : Maria Amalia von Brandenburg-Schwedt , Duchess of Saxony-Zeitz
- 1747 : Alain Lesage , French writer
- 1750 : Carl Theodorus Pachelbel , German organist and composer
- 1767 : Giovanni Battista Pittoni , Venetian painter and draftsman
- 1768 : Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , British politician and Prime Minister
- 1773 : Laurent Angliviel de La Beaumelle , French writer
- 1777 : Anna Charlotte Amalie von Nassau-Dietz-Oranien , German nobleman
- 1793 : Jean-Nicolas Houchard , French Général de division
- 1795 : Alexander Abercromby , Scottish lawyer and essayist
- 1796 : Catherine II the Great , Russian Tsarina
- 1796 : Johann Gottfried Sammet , German lawyer and university professor
19th century
- 1802 : Johann Uphagen , German shipowner, merchant and bibliophile collector
- 1808 : Mustafa IV. , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1813 : Louis Marie de Narbonne-Lara , French military and politician
- 1815 : Luigi Asioli , Italian singer and composer
- 1815 : Dorothea Viehmann , one of the most important sources for Grimm's fairy tales
- 1818 : Karl Gottlob Anton , German lawyer, politician and historian
- 1818 : Sophie Charlotte von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , wife of the British King George III.
- 1825 : Johann Gottfried Steinhäuser , physicist, mathematician, montanist and lawyer
- 1856 : Carl Uhde , German merchant and collector
- 1858 : Robert Owen , British entrepreneur and social reformer
- 1862 : Ramsay Richard Reinagle , English landscape, portrait and animal painter
- 1862 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Werstowski , Russian composer
- 1875 : Hilario Ascasubi , Argentine writer
- 1875 : Charles Vignoles , British railroad engineer
- 1878 : Adolph Methfessel , German composer
- 1888 : Jakob Dont , Austrian violinist, violin teacher and composer
- 1889 : Ketil Motzfeldt , Norwegian politician
- 1893 : Alexander I , Prince of Bulgaria
- 1898 : Albert Raney Anderson , American politician
- 1898 : Philipp M. Schmutzer , Austrian musician and composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1905 : Adolf I , Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1907 : Francis Leopold McClintock , British naval officer and Arctic explorer
- 1911 : Max Liebermann von Sonnenberg , German officer, MdR and anti-Semitic publicist
- 1912 : Richard Norman Shaw , British architect
- 1917 : Auguste Rodin , French sculptor and graphic artist
- 1920 : John Franklin Fort , American politician
- 1922 : Albert Aichele , Swiss pioneer in electrical engineering
- 1922 : Robert Comtesse , Swiss politician
- 1924 : Eugène Simon , French arachnologist
- 1925 : Fritz Angerstein , German mass murderer
- 1927 : Mulai Yusuf , Sultan of the Alawids in Morocco
- 1929 : Herman Hollerith , American engineer and entrepreneur
- 1931 : Georgi Atanasov , Bulgarian composer and conductor
- 1930 : Hans Kniep , German botanist
- 1933 : Georg Haberland , German entrepreneur
- 1933 : Wilhelm Nölling , German financial scientist and politician
Auguste Rodin
(† 1917)
Mulai Yusuf
(† 1927)
Joachim Ringelnatz
(† 1934)
Ricarda Huch
(† 1947)
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- 1934 : Joachim Ringelnatz , German writer, cabaret artist and painter
- 1936 : Roger Salengro , French politician
- 1936 : Ernestine Schumann-Heink , Austrian opera singer
- 1940 : Eric Gill , British sculptor, printmaker and typographer
- 1940 : Raymond Pearl , American theoretical biologist and geneticist
- 1941 : Edmond Haraucourt , French writer
- 1941 : Ernst Udet , German fighter pilot and general
- 1942 : Max Herrmann (theater scholar) , German literary historian and theater scholar
- 1945 : Friedrich Franz IV. , German nobleman and last Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1947 : Ricarda Huch , German writer, poet, philosopher and historian
1951-2000
- 1954 : Ragnar Sunnqvist , Swedish motorcycle racer
- 1955 : James P. Johnson , American pianist and composer
- 1959 : Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer and conductor
- 1962 : Franklin Thomas Ahearn , Canadian entrepreneur
- 1963 : Peco Bauwens , German football official
- 1964 : Karl Arning , German officer
- 1967 : Aram Merangulyan , Armenian composer and conductor
- 1970 : Walter Kaßner , German SED politician
- 1971 : Walter Möller German local politician
- 1972 : Pierre Apestéguy , French writer
- 1973 : Wilhelm Kling , German KPD and SED functionary
- 1974 : Ursula Herking , German actress
- 1977 : Karl Berbuer , German pop singer
- 1979 : Héctor Barinas , Venezuelan singer and composer
- 1979 : John Glascock , British musician
- 1979 : Immanuel Velikovsky , Russian-American doctor, psychoanalyst, and author
- 1982 : Robert Knight Andras , Canadian entrepreneur and politician
- 1982 : Eduard Tubin , Estonian composer
- 1983 : Eelco van Kleffens , non-party foreign minister of the Netherlands
- 1986 : Georges Besse , French manager in the automotive industry ( Renault )
- 1986 : Peter Kuhlen , German clergyman and co-founder of the Apostolic Community
- 1987 : Hans Arnhold , Austrian National Socialist politician
- 1987 : Mozaffar Baqai , Iranian politician
- 1987 : Jean Lallemand , Canadian patron
- 1987 : Kurt Lindner , German entrepreneur and hunting scientist
- 1988 : Jean-Claude Depince , French racing car driver
Heitor Vila-Lobos
(† 1959)
Robert Hofstadter
(† 1990)
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- 1990 : Erich Fischer , German soccer player
- 1990 : Robert Hofstadter , American Nobel Laureate in Physics
- 1991 : Maurice Banach , German soccer player
- 1992 : John Harris Armstrong , American actor
- 1993 : Otto Knoch , German theologian, priest and professor
- 1995 : Alan Hull , English musician (Lindisfarne)
- 1995 : Jean-Pierre Rivière , French composer
- 1996 : Michele Abbruzzo , Italian actor
- 1997 : John Wimber , American musician
- 1998 : Weeb Ewbank , American football coach
- 1998 : Kurt Plenzat , German officer
- 1999 : Enrique Urquijo , Spanish singer and composer
21st century
- 2001 : Michael Karoli , German musician ( Can )
- 2002 : Abba Eban , Israeli politician and publicist
- 2003 : Zofia Rysiówna , Polish actress
- 2004 : Mikael Ljungberg , Swedish wrestler
- 2004 : Alexander Ragulin , Russian ice hockey player
- 2006 : Ruth Brown , American rhythm and blues singer
- 2006 : Jean Mansour , Lebanese Archbishop
- 2006 : Ferenc Puskás , Hungarian football player
- 2007 : Hans Heigert , German editor-in-chief, television presenter and journalist
- 2008 : Guy Peellaert , Belgian illustrator and comic book artist
- 2008 : Jakob Schulze-Rohr , German architect and urban planner
- 2009 : John Craxton , British painter
- 2009 : Josine van Dalsum , Dutch actress and screenwriter
- 2009 : Egon L. Frauenberger , German author and music producer
- 2010 : Giorgi Arsenishvili , Georgian mathematician and politician
- 2010 : Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann , German composer and horn player
- 2013 : Syd Field , American non-fiction author
- 2013 : Doris Lessing , British writer
- 2017 : Earle Hyman , American actor
- 2017 : Salvatore Riina , Italian mafioso
- 2018 : Jens Büchner , German pop singer
- 2019 : Susan Cernyak-Spatz , American Germanist and historian
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Gertrud von Helfta , German mystic, language artist and theologian (Anglican, Catholic (only in Germany), Orthodox)
- St. Gregory the Wonderworker , Bishop of Asia Minor and theologian (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Jakob Böhme , German mystic and philosopher (Protestant)
- David Zeisberger , Moravian-American missionary (Protestant)
- St. Fergus , Hermit and Bishop (Catholic)
- St. Gregory of Tours , Franconian historian, hagiographer and bishop (Catholic)
- St. Munditia , Roman martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
- Name days
- More information about the day
- International Students 'Day (International Students' Council) (1941)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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