October 17th
The October 17 is the 290th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 291st in leap years ), thus remain 75 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1346 : England's King Edward III. takes the Scottish King David II prisoner at the Battle of Neville's Cross and has him incarcerated in the Tower of London .
- 1379 : The noble society Löwenbund is founded in Wiesbaden . The supporters of the antipope Clement VII undertake to give each other protection and support against attacks from outsiders.
- 1448 : On the blackbird field in Kosovo the second battle on the blackbird field begins between the Ottomans under Murat II and a crusader army under Johann Hunyadi , which will last until October 20th.
- 1600 : Eight days after the unsuccessful Battle of Moyry Pass during the Nine Years' War , English troops seize the pass without resistance as the Irish defenders have since withdrawn.
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- 1610 : Louis XIII. is crowned King of France in Reims Cathedral. His mother Maria de 'Medici takes over the reign for the nine-year-old.
- 1638 : In the Battle of Vlotho , during the Thirty Years' War, imperial- Saxon troops win over a Swedish- Palatinate army.
- 1676 : In the Treaty of Żurawno , an armistice is concluded between Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire , which ends the state of war that has lasted since 1672 .
- 1777 : American troops defeat the British under John Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga . The Saratoga Convention stipulates that if British troops return to Europe and undertake not to intervene in the American War of Independence, they will be released .
- 1797 : The peace of Campo Formio between France and the Holy Roman Empire , dictated by Napoleon Bonaparte , ends the First Coalition War and regulates the political situation in Northern Italy anew. In a secret additional agreement, Emperor Franz II recognized the Rhine as France's eastern border.
- 1805 : During the Third Coalition War , Karl Mack von Leiberich in Ulm surrenders with the remains of the defeated Austrian army to French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte.
- 1806 : In the Battle of Halle in the Fourth Coalition War, the 1st Dupont Division of the Bernadotte Corps defeated the Prussian reserve army under Duke Eugen von Württemberg and conquered the city of Halle (Saale), which was defended by the Prussians .
- 1806 : Jean-Jacques Dessalines , first Emperor of Haiti , is murdered on behalf of Henri Christophe , who subsequently proclaims himself President of Northern Haiti .
- 1813 : In the Chilean War of Independence , the patriots win the battle of El Roble against a numerically superior royalist force due to the resistance of a crowd around Bernardo O'Higgins .
- 1848 : After the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV has demanded that Berlin be under siege, Prime Minister Ernst von Pfuel resigns from his office for the second time. The resignation is accepted.
- 1854 : During the Crimean War , the siege of the port city of Sevastopol on the Black Sea begins and lasts for eleven months.
- 1868 : The Revised Shipping Act is signed in Mannheim , guaranteeing free navigation on the Rhine. To this day it forms the legal basis for free navigation on the Rhine.
- 1903 : An arbitration tribunal in London determines the definitive border between Alaska and Canada .
- 1911 : In the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute , the German Reichstag decides with three quarters of the votes against the introduction of the Antiqua as an official typeface. The Fraktur remains the official script in the German Empire .
- 1912 : In the early phase of the First Balkan War , Serbia , Bulgaria and Greece jointly declare war on the Ottoman Empire .
- 1917 : The German ships of the line SMS König and SMS Kronprinz damage the Russian ship of the line Slawa so badly that it has to be scuttled during the battle in Moon Sound in the First World War .
- 1919 : The realm of Alsace-Lorraine of the German Empire is dissolved by France.
- 1920 : In the first parliamentary elections in Austria's history , the Christian Social Party under Michael Mayr wins the party with the highest number of votes and seats ahead of the Social Democratic Workers' Party under Chancellor Karl Renner .
- 1930 : In view of the gains made by the NSDAP in the Reichstag election in September, Thomas Mann appeals to the German people in the Beethoven Hall in Berlin . Around a dozen National Socialists tried to disrupt the event, but did not succeed.
- 1944 : The German Wehrmacht starts the decisive offensive against the rebels of the Slovak National Uprising from Hungary .
- 1945 : Union-organized mass protests in Argentina force the release of Juan Perón , who was arrested on October 9th . The gathering of his followers in the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires is considered to be the birth of Peronism .
- 1946 : With the founding of the Union française , France tries to reshape its colonial empire along the lines of the British Commonwealth of Nations .
- 1961 : A demonstration of 30,000 Algerians in Paris against a curfew imposed on them because of the Algerian War leads to the Paris massacre with an unknown number of dead, thousands of injured and 14,000 arrests under the responsibility of then Police Prefect Maurice Papon .
- 1970 : The October crisis in the Canadian province of Québec reaches its sad climax: Pierre Laporte , deputy prime minister and labor minister of the provincial government kidnapped on October 10 by the Front de liberation du Québec ( FLQ ), is found dead.
- 2001 : The Israeli tourism minister Rechaw'am Ze'ewi dies in an assassination attempt . It is carried out by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine during the Second Intifada .
- 2003 : The German Bundestag and Bundesrat set up the Federalism Commission . Its task is to develop proposals for a comprehensive reform of federalism in Germany .
- 2017 : The battle for ar-Raqqa ends with the victory of the anti-IS coalition.
economy
- 1855 : The by Henry Bessemer invented Bessemer process , which facilitates the steel production is patented .
- 1919 : Spain's King Alfonso XIII. opens the first line of the Madrid Metro .
- 1956 : The Calder Hall nuclear power plant in England is officially opened as the first commercially used plant by Queen Elizabeth II .
- 1973 : With a price increase from three to five US dollars per barrel of crude oil and production limits, some OPEC countries trigger the first oil crisis .
- 1989 : In Lausanne, 91 countries decide to stop the ivory trade at the 7th CITES conference .
- 2003 : The zero point seven campaign is started in Austria to get more money for development cooperation.
science and technology
- 1456 : The University of Greifswald is founded. It is the fourth oldest continuously existing university in the Federal Republic of Germany and at the same time the second oldest in the Baltic Sea region .
- 1604 : The astronomer Johannes Kepler observes the supernova 1604 ("Kepler's Star") in the constellation Serpent Bearer, the last supernova to be discovered in our Milky Way so far . He later published his findings in the work De Stella nova in pede Serpentarii .
- 1906 : Arthur Korn succeeds in transmitting an image by telegraph over a distance of 1,800 kilometers using a method of image telegraphy that he devised .
- 1911 : The airship SL I designed by Johann Schütte takes off for the first test flight in Mannheim -Rheinau.
- 1985 : Intel introduces the 80386, the first 32-bit CPU of the x86 family .
- 1995 : Radio Melody (predecessor of Antenne Salzburg ) starts as the second private radio in Austria.
- 2005 : Shenzhou 6 , the second manned space flight of the People's Republic of China with the two " Taikonauts " Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng on board, lands safely in the designated landing area in Inner Mongolia after five days in space .
- 2005 : A locomotive shed at the Nuremberg Transport Museum burns out almost completely, several historic locomotives are destroyed or seriously damaged.
Culture
- 1761 : The widely acclaimed world premiere of the ballet Don Juan by Christoph Willibald Gluck takes place, for which the dancer and choreographer Gasparo Angiolini created the choreography .
- 1771 : The opera Ascanio in Alba by the 15-year-old composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is premiered in Milan .
- 1825 : Franz Liszt's only opera Don Sanche ou Le château d'amour based on a literary model by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian premiered at the Paris Opera under the direction of Rodolphe Kreutzer . Although the work of the only 13-year-old was received with enthusiasm, after three more performances it disappears from the program and is forgotten.
- 1888 : The first edition of National Geographic Magazine appears in the USA , whose monthly editions of its pictures, reports and essays soon have a steady customer base.
- 1891 : The Vienna Art History Museum is opened.
- 1967 : The musical Hair is premiered in New York .
- 1990 : The first version of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is published.
society
- 1810 : At the end of the wedding celebrations between Crown Prince Ludwig (later King Ludwig I ) and Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen, a folk festival with horse races takes place on Theresienwiese in Munich , which is regarded as the first Oktoberfest .
- 1868 : The first dog race takes place in Roehampton , England .
- 1931 : Al Capone is found guilty of tax evasion by the jury. The sentence is announced a week later .
- 1933 : Albert Einstein emigrates from the Third Reich to the USA .
- 1978 : Hertha-Maria Haselmann and Sr. Christa Steffens found the Lebenswende e. V. Drug Aid in Frankfurt am Main.
- 1987 A concert by the band Element of Crime in the Zionskirche in Berlin is stormed by neo-Nazis, several people injured, some seriously. The German People's Police present did not intervene.
- 2006 : The United States has a population of over 300 million, according to a calculation .
religion
- 1404 : Cosma dei Migliorati is elected Pope as Innocent VII .
- 1563 : Count Joachim von Ortenburg introduces the Reformation in his small imperial county , which is located in the middle of old Bavaria .
- 2010 : Mary MacKillop is appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. canonized as the first saints of Australia and Oceania .
Disasters
- 1989 : The Loma Prieta earthquake in the Bay of San Francisco, with a magnitude of 7.1 on the magnitude scale, the strongest earthquake in the region since the Great Quake of 1906 causes severe damage in San Francisco and Oakland.
- 1998 : In the Niger Delta a die in an explosion of oil - pipeline approximately 1,200 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1860 : The Open Championship , the oldest golf tournament still played today , is first held in Prestwick , Scotland.
- 1956 : In the game of the century in chess , 13-year-old Bobby Fischer defeated the recognized master Donald Byrne in the eighth round of the Rosenwald Memorial Tournament in New York.
- 1982 : After a riot in the run-up to the DFB-Pokal game between Hamburger SV and Werder Bremen , Bremen fan Adrian Maleika dies . It is the only death so far in connection with rioting at football matches in Germany.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1253 : Ivo Hélory , Breton lawyer and priest
- 1517 : Amalia von Kleve , German princess, younger sister of the English Queen Anna von Kleve
- 1565 : Vincentius Schmuck , German Lutheran theologian and hymn poet
- 1577 : Cristofano Allori , Italian painter
- 1582 : Johann Gerhard , German Lutheran theologian
- 1586 : Nikolaus Elerdt , German theologian and song writer
- 1588 : Matthias Gallas , imperial general in the Thirty Years War
- 1611 : Gottfried Möbius , German medic
- 1623 : François Turrettini , Swiss theologian
- 1634 : Simon Rettenpacher , Austrian neo-Latin writer
- 1662 : Johannes d'Outrein , Dutch preacher, writer and author of evangelical theological works
- 1680 : Anna Constantia Countess von Cosel , mistress of Augustus the Strong
- 1688 : Domenico Zipoli , Italian composer, organist and missionary
- 1689 : Marie-Nicole Horthemels , French engraver and etcher
- 1696 : August III. , Polish King and Saxon Elector
18th century
- 1717 : Franz Anton Ermeltraut , German painter and court painting inspector at the prince-bishop's court in Würzburg
- 1720 : Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini , Italian composer and harpsichordist
- 1720 : Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville , French writer, translator and chemist
- 1724 : Johann Siegfried Hufnagel , German pastor and entomologist
- 1725 : Adolf Friedrich Harper , German painter
- 1728 : Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner , German publicist
- 1734 : Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov , Russian officer and lover of Catherine II.
- 1739 : Johann Carl Friedrich Meyer , German pharmacist and chemist
- 1752 : Sebastian Seemiller , German Catholic theologian
- 1753 : Johann Rudolf Dolder , Swiss politician
- 1755 : Envold de Falsen , Danish-Norwegian poet lawyer
- 1755 : Johann Adam Goez , German writer and educator
- 1760 : Claude Henri de Saint-Simon , French philosopher
- 1762 : Samuel Gottlieb Wald , German Protestant theologian
- 1765 : Henri Clarke d'Hunebourg , French general and statesman
- 1766 : Johannes Adolph Ibach , German piano maker
- 1780 : Ludwig Wilhelm Zimmermann , German chemist, mineralogist and university professor
- 1790 : August Ferdinand Anacker , German composer
- 1796 : Leopold Kupelwieser , Austrian painter
- 1799 : Friedrich Ludwig Keller , Swiss-Prussian lawyer and politician
19th century
1801 to 1850
- 1803 : Ferenc Deák , Hungarian politician
- 1807 : Stephen Adams , American politician
- 1813 : Georg Büchner , German playwright
- 1815 : Emanuel Geibel , German poet
- 1820 : Édouard Albert Roche , French mathematician
- 1828 : Hermann Friedrich Krummacher , German Protestant theologian
- 1835 : Alexandrine Tinné , Dutch African explorer
- 1844 : Gustave Schlumberger , French historian, Byzantinist and numismatist
- 1847 : Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian composer
- 1848 : Wiktor Gomulicki , Polish writer
- 1848 : Adolf August Winkelmann , German physicist
1851 to 1900
- 1854 : Luis Amigó , Spanish Capuchin, bishop and founder of the order
- 1856 : Yuri Schokalsky , Russian-Soviet oceanographer
- 1857 : Momme Andresen , German chemist
- 1859 : Buck Ewing , American baseball player
- 1859 : Childe Hassam , American painter
- 1859 : Paolo Orsi , Italian archaeologist
- 1861 : Woldemar Lippert , German archivist and historian
- 1865 : James Rudolph Garfield , American politician
- 1868 : Etienne Soukkarie , Syrian clergyman and patriarchal vicar of Alexandria
- 1870 : Adelgunde of Bavaria , Bavarian princess
- 1873 : Alfred Polgar , Austrian writer
- 1874 : Julio Fossa Calderón , Chilean painter
- 1875 : August Abbehusen , German architect
- 1876 : Hippolyte Aucouturier , French cyclist
- 1877 : Kurt Frankenstein , German gynecologist and surgeon
- 1878 : Henri Mulet , French organist and composer
- 1883 : Alexander Sutherland Neill , Scottish educator and representative of anti-authoritarian education
- 1889 : William Charles Aalsmeer , Dutch cardiologist
- 1890 : Magda Bäumken , German actress
- 1890 : Ernst Blass , German poet, critic and writer of early Expressionism
- 1891 : Max Mohr , German playwright and narrator
- 1892 : Otakar Jeremiáš , Czech composer and conductor
- 1893 : Fritz Ascher , German expressionist
- 1894 : Hermann Ehren , German politician, MdL
- 1895 : Doris Humphrey , American dancer
- 1898 : Roger Bourcier , French racing car driver
- 1898 : Shinichi Suzuki , Japanese violinist
- 1898 : Simon Vestdijk , Dutch writer
- 1898 : Paul Weitkus , German major general
- 1899 : Robert Kempner , German attorney, deputy chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
- 1900 : Jean Arthur , American actress
- 1900 : Teodoro Valcárcel , Peruvian composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Irene Ryan , American actress
- 1903 : Julio Perceval , Argentine composer, organist and music teacher
- 1903 : Nathanael West , American writer
- 1905 : Franco Albini , Italian architect
- 1906 : Franz Klafböck , Austrian politician
- 1907 : Herbert Böhme , German poet, writer and publicist
- 1908 : Walter Bäumer , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1910 : Jack Ensley , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1911 : Negrito Chapuseaux , Dominican singer and composer
- 1912 : John Paul I , Pope
- 1914 : Michael Danzinger , Austrian pianist, entertainer and composer
- 1915 : Arthur Miller , American playwright
- 1916 : Knut von Kühlmann-Stumm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1916 : Tadeusz Paciorkiewicz , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1916 : Friedrich Schoenfelder , German actor and voice actor
- 1918 : Rita Hayworth , American actress
- 1919 : Claus Arnold , German draftsman, caricaturist and painter
- 1919 : Irmgard Arnold , German opera singer
- 1919 : Isaak Markowitsch Chalatnikow , Russian physicist
- 1919 : Zhao Ziyang , Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China and General Secretary of the Communist Party
- 1920 : Montgomery Clift , American actor
- 1922 : Luiz Bonfá , Brazilian guitarist and composer
- 1923 : Apostol Karamitew , Bulgarian actor
- 1923 : Henryk Roman Cardinal Gulbinowicz , Lithuanian-Polish clergyman, Archbishop of Breslau
- 1923 : Barney Kessel , American jazz guitarist
- 1924 : Giacomo Mari , Italian football player and coach
- 1924 : Lattie Moore , American country and rockabilly musician
1926-1950
- 1926 : Betty May Adams , American actress
- 1926 : Beverly Garland , American actress
- 1926 : Roberto Lippi , Italian racing car driver
- 1927 : Friedrich Hirzebruch , German mathematician
- 1928 : Bobby Walston , American football player
- 1929 : Ram Da-Oz , Israeli composer
- 1929 : Karl-Hermann Flach , German journalist, book author and politician
- 1929 : Paul-René Martin , Swiss politician
- 1930 : Robert Atkins , American cardiologist
- 1930 : Betty-Jean Hagen , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1931 : Ernst Hinterberger , Austrian writer
- 1931 : Anatoly Pristavkin , Russian writer and politician
- 1931 : Gina Ruck-Pauquèt , German writer
- 1931 : Gerd Seifert , German horn player
- 1932 : Gerhard Ahrens , German football player
- 1933 : William Alison Anders , American astronaut
- 1932 : Paul Anderson , American weightlifter
- 1933 : Sœur Sourire , actually Jeanine Deckers, Belgian Dominican and singer
- 1933 : Campbell Trowsdale , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1934 : Christian Bruhn , German composer
- 1934 : Rico Rodriguez , Jamaican trombonist and composer
- 1934 : Jörg Schlaich , German civil engineer
- 1935 : Dieter W. Angrick , German journalist
- 1937 : Foday Sankoh , Sierra Leonean rebel leader
- 1938 : Norm Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1938 : Evel Knievel , American motorcycle stuntman
- 1940 : Jürgen Abraham , German entrepreneur
- 1940 : Marion Michael , German actress
- 1941 : Earl Thomas Conley , American country singer
- 1942 : Pierre-André Bovey , Swiss composer and flautist
- 1943 : Melchior Bürgin , Swiss rower, world champion
- 1943 : Christian Brückner , German actor
- 1943 : Susan Davenny-Wyner , American singer and conductor
- 1944 : Ulli Arnold , German business economist
- 1944 : Werner Asam , German actor and director
- 1945 : Thomas Kopache , American actor
- 1946 : Enzo Coloni , Italian racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1946 : Cameron Mackintosh , British musical producer
- 1946 : Adam Michnik , Polish publicist
- 1946 : Bob Seagren , American pole vaulter
- 1947 : Hans-Georg Aschoff , German historian
- 1948 : Lutz Dammbeck , German painter and filmmaker
- 1948 : Margot Kidder , Canadian actress
- 1949 : Owen Arthur , Prime Minister of Barbados
- 1949 : Günther Zgubic , Austrian priest and human rights activist in Brazil
- 1950 : Philippe Cardinal Barbarin , French clergyman, Archbishop of Lyon
- 1950 : Erich Kühnhackl , German ice hockey player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Chung Mong-joon , South Korean politician
- 1956 : Norbert Henke , German handball player and coach
- 1957 : Eleftheria Arvanitaki , Greek singer
- 1957 : Uwe Kolbe , German poet and prose writer
- 1957 : Pino Palladino , Italian-British bass player
- 1958 : Alan Jackson , American country singer
- 1958 : Gianmaria Testa , Italian Cantautore
- 1959 : Kornelia Kunisch , German handball player
- 1959 : Francisco Flores Pérez , President of El Salvador
- 1960 : Hartmut Weber , German athlete
- 1961 : Thomas Mohr , German tenor
- 1962 : Paul Neubauer , American violist
- 1963 : Dirk Edelhoff , German jazz and rock guitarist
- 1963 : Christian Jost , German composer and conductor
- 1965 : Jens Kürbis , German handball player and journalist
- 1966 : Jürgen Rollmann , German soccer player and journalist
- 1968 : Rodolfo Cardoso , Argentine soccer player
- 1968 : Ziggy Marley , Jamaican musician
- 1968 : Matthias Matschke , German actor
- 1969 : Wyclef Jean , Haitian musician, songwriter and producer
- 1969 : Alexander Rüdiger , Austrian entertainer
- 1970 : Andreas von Arnauld , German law scholar and university professor
- 1971 : Derrick Plourde , American drummer ( Lagwagon , The Ataris )
- 1972 : Jorge Arreola , Mexican soccer player
- 1972 : Eminem , American rapper and actor
- 1972 : Tarkan , Turkish pop musician
- 1974 : Savatheda Fynes , Bahamian sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1974 : Zora , Swiss rapper and graffiti artist
- 1975 : Thomas Hörl , Austrian artist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Sebastián Abreu , Uruguayan football player
- 1977 : David Aouate , Israeli soccer player
- 1977 : Anna Depenbusch , German songwriter
- 1978 : Erin Karpluk , Canadian actress
- 1979 : Kimi Räikkönen , Finnish Formula 1 racing driver
- 1980 : Peter Schyrba , German soccer player
- 1981 : Burcu Dal , German actress
- 1981 : Snorri Guðjónsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
- 1983 : Michelle Ang , New Zealand actress
- 1983 : Wahe Tadewosjan , Armenian football player
- 1983 : Ivan Ivanovich Sajenko , Russian football player
- 1984 : Luise Amtsberg , German politician
- 1984 : Giovanni Marchese , Italian football player
- 1984 : Randall Munroe , American physicist and comic book writer ( xkcd )
- 1984 : Aymeline Valade , French model and actress
- 1985 : Kiril Akalski , Bulgarian football player
- 1985 : Marco Grüttner , German soccer player
- 1986 : Sarah Bouhaddi , French soccer player
- 1986 : Constant Djakpa , Ivorian football player
- 1986 : Franziska Wiese , German violinist and singer
- 1987 : Amelie Kiefer , German actress
- 1987 : Hideto Takahashi , Japanese soccer player
- 1989 : Mikhail Koslowski , Russian automobile racing driver
- 1990 : Marcelo Arévalo , Salvadoran tennis player
- 1990 : Falko Bindrich , German chess grandmaster
- 1990 : Saki Kumagai , Japanese soccer player
- 1991 : Brenda Asnicar , Argentine actress, singer and dancer
- 1991 : Tessa James , Australian actress
- 1991 : Trine Østergaard Jensen , Danish handball player
- 1992 : Jacob Artist , American actor
- 1992 : Louise Burgaard , Danish handball player
- 1992 : Mikaël Grenier , Canadian racing driver
Died
Before the 17th century
- 532 : Boniface II , Pope
- 739 : Nothhelm , Bishop of Canterbury
- 866 : al-Musta'īn bi-llāh , Abbasid caliph
- 1042 : Gezemann , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1240 : Robert of England , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1306 : Richard of Ferings , English clergyman and Archbishop of Dublin
- 1321 : Johann von Konstanz , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1346 : Maurice Moray, Earl of Strathearn , Scottish nobleman
- 1346 : John Randolph , Scottish nobleman and co-regent at times
- 1368 : Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence , English nobleman
- 1409 : Jean de Montaigu , French nobleman, adviser to the kings Charles V and Charles VI.
- 1456 : Nicholas Grenon , Franco-Flemish composer, singer, cleric and music teacher
- 1478 : Ruprecht von Pfalz-Simmern , Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1478 : Wartislaw X. , Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast
- 1510 : Johannes Bonemilch , auxiliary bishop of Mainz
- 1552 : Andreas Osiander , German theologian and reformer
- 1553 : George III. , Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau as well as priest and driving force of the Reformation
- 1558 : Mary of Castile , Queen of Bohemia and Hungary
- 1566 : Paul Neefe , cloth merchant, mayor of Chemnitz
- 1575 : Balthasar Aff , Mayor of Heilbronn
- 1580 : Heinrich Plönnies , Lübeck mayor
- 1584 : Paul Mathesius , German Lutheran theologian
- 1586 : Philip Sidney , English statesman and writer
- 1600 : Cornelis de Jode , Dutch cartographer
17th and 18th centuries
- 1621 : Daniel Chamier , Reformed theologian
- 1628 : Johann Friedrich , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1628 : Jacopo Palma the Younger , Italian painter
- 1637 : Erasmus Sartorius , German composer, organist, music writer and poet
- 1672 : Anna Maria von Baden-Durlach , German poet and painter
- 1690 : Marguerite-Marie Alacoque , Catholic saint, French Salesian and mystic
- 1698 : Franziska von Hohenzollern-Hechingen , Margravine von Bergen op Zoom
- 1702 : Walrad , Prince of Nassau-Usingen and Imperial General
- 1705 : Ninon de Lenclos , French courtesan
- 1709 : François Mauriceau , French physician, surgeon and obstetrician
- 1709 : Gregor Anton Oginski , Polish-Lithuanian hetman and Governor General of the Duchy of Samogitia
- 1713 : Peter Lackmann , German Protestant theologian and sacred song writer
- 1715 : Ernst , Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, as well as first Duke and founder of the Saxe-Hildburghausen line
- 1716 : Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton , Scottish noblewoman
- 1744 : Guarneri del Gesù , Italian violin maker
- 1753 : Christian Rudolf Schmidt , Nassau carpenter
- 1757 : René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur , French natural and materials researcher, entomologist
- 1768 : Ludwig VIII , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1780 : Bernardo Bellotto , Italian painter ( Canaletto )
- 1784 : Melchior Dittmar von Wittgenstein , Cologne Mayor
- 1786 : Johann Ludwig Aberli , Swiss painter
- 1793 : Charles de Bonchamps , French general, leader of the Vendée uprising
- 1798 : Johann Samuel Göbel , Saxon finance secretary and historian
- 1799 : Johann Georg Schlosser , German lawyer, statesman and translator
19th century
- 1806 : Jean-Jacques Dessalines , Emperor of Haiti
- 1831 : Anton Aloys Meinrad Franz , Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1837 : Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Austrian pianist and composer
- 1844 : David Nelson , American author, clergyman, and abolitionist
- 1849 : Frédéric Chopin , Polish composer and pianist
- 1852 : Anton von Apponyi , Austrian diplomat
- 1857 : Friedrich von Seherr and Thoß , German officer, civil servant and manor owner
- 1868 : Laura Secord , Canadian national heroine
- 1873 : Franz Duschk , Hungarian finance minister
- 1887 : Gustav Robert Kirchhoff , German physicist
- 1891 : Heinrich Sattler , German organist and publicist
- 1892 : Kurt Bernhardi , German educator
- 1893 : Patrice de Mac-Mahon , French military man and President of the Third Republic
- 1897 : Isidor Dannström , Swedish composer
20th century
1901 to 1925
- 1901 : Michał Bałucki , Polish writer
- 1905 : Franz Fauth , German educator
- 1907 : Gustav Zeuner , German engineer
- 1908 : William Harris Ashmead , American entomologist
- 1909 : Nicola Spinelli , Italian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1910 : Kurd Laßwitz , German science fiction author
- 1910 : Carlo Michelstaedter , Italian writer, philosopher and painter
- 1914 : Theodor Lipps , German philosopher
- 1918 : Malak Hifnī Nāsif , Egyptian women's rights activist
- 1919 : Josef Albert Amann junior , German gynecologist
- 1919 : HB Irving , English actor, theater manager and author
- 1919 : James Murray , British General, Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- 1925 : Christian Grünig , Swiss farmer, pietist and supporter of the sanctification movement
1926 to 1950
- 1929 : Ada Crossley , Australian singer
- 1930 : Bernhard Averbeck , German industrialist
- 1931 : Alfons Maria Jakob , German neurologist
- 1932 : Richard Skowronnek , German journalist and writer
- 1934 : Adolf Hölzel , German painter
- 1934 : Santiago Ramón y Cajal , Spanish physician and Nobel Prize winner
- 1936 : Joseph Ambühl , Swiss Bishop of Basel
- 1937 : Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod , Danish organist and composer
- 1937 : Paul Lhérie , French singer and music teacher
- 1938 : Karl Kautsky , German-Czech philosopher and politician
- 1938 : Lily Alice Lefevre , Canadian poet
- 1938 : Aleksander Michałowski , Polish pianist, music teacher and composer
- 1940 : Franz Joseph Dölger , German church historian, religious scholar and archaeologist
- 1941 : Dirk Fock , Governor of Suriname and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1941 : Friedrich Marx , German classical philologist
- 1941 : Guglielmo Zuelli , Italian composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1944 : Hans Krása , Czech-German composer
- 1944 : Adolf Schmidt , German geophysicist
- 1947 : Arthur M. Hyde , American politician
- 1949 : Gustav Schröer , German journalist and writer
1951 to 1975
- 1951 : Johann Becker , German lawyer and politician, MdR, Reich Minister
- 1951 : Bernhard Kellermann , German writer
- 1953 : Jim Delahanty , American baseball player
- 1958 : Cardinal Celso Costantini , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
- 1962 : Natalija Sergejewna Goncharova , Russian-French painter
- 1963 : Jacques Salomon Hadamard , French mathematician
- 1964 : Marius Hiller , German-Argentine soccer player
- 1966 : Wieland Wagner , German director, stage designer and festival director
- 1967 : Pu Yi , last emperor of China
- 1971 : Willi Eichler , German journalist and politician
- 1971 : Russ Method , American football player
- 1972 : Günter Neumann , German composer, author and cabaret artist
- 1972 : Billy Williams , American singer
- 1973 : Ingeborg Bachmann , Austrian writer
1976 to 2000
- 1976 : Franz Altheim , German ancient historian and classical philologist
- 1976 : Radaslau Astrouski , Belarusian politician and activist
- 1977 : Cal Hubbard , American football player, coach, and baseball official
- 1978 : Franz Varelmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1978 : Jean Améry , Austrian writer
- 1979 : Karel Reiner , Czech composer
- 1980 : Karl Brückel , German actor, theater director, singer and radio play speaker
- 1980 : Richard Gavin Reid , Canadian politician
- 1983 : Herbert Roth , popular composer and interpreter of folk music
- 1983 : Raymond Aron , French sociologist and journalist
- 1984 : Hermann Auf der Heide , German hockey player
- 1984 : Alberta Hunter , American singer
- 1984 : Georges Thill , French opera tenor
- 1985 : Josef Garovi , Swiss composer
- 1986 : Ayukawa Nobuo , Japanese writer and literary critic
- 1991 : Tennessee Ernie Ford , American country and gospel singer
- 1993 : Criss Oliva , American guitarist
- 1993 : Helmut Gollwitzer , German theologian and writer
- 1996 : Berthold Goldschmidt , British composer of German origin
- 1997 : Karl Branner , German politician, Lord Mayor of Kassel
- 1997 : Julius Hackethal , German physician
- 1997 : Antonio Ruiz-Pipó , Spanish composer and pianist
- 1998 : Antonio Agri , Argentine tango violinist
- 1998 : Joan Hickson , English actress
- 1998 : Jürgen Spanuth , German pastor and writer
- 1999 : Franz Peter Wirth , German director
- 2000 : Leo Nomellini , American football player
21st century
- 2001 : Jay Livingston , American composer
- 2001 : Araquem de Melo , Brazilian soccer player
- 2001 : Werner Winter , German-Swiss animal trainer
- 2002 : Derek Bell , Irish musician
- 2004 : Robert-Alexander Bohnke , German pianist and teacher
- 2004 : Celio González , Cuban singer
- 2004 : Georg Kossack , German prehistory researcher
- 2004 : Andreas Sassen , German soccer player
- 2005 : Ba Jin , Chinese writer
- 2006 : Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda , Italian Cardinal Curia
- 2007 : Joey Bishop , American actor and entertainer
- 2008 : Ludger Gerdes , German visual artist
- 2008 : Dieter Stappert , Austrian journalist and team manager in motorsport
- 2010 : Bruno Heinrich Schubert , German entrepreneur, consul and patron
- 2011 : Manfred Gerlach , German politician, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR
- 2012 : Émile Allais , French ski racer
- 2012 : Tadeusz Chmielewski , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 2012 : Sylvia Kristel , Dutch actress
- 2012 : Wolfgang Menge , German screenwriter and journalist
- 2012 : Karin Stoltenberg , Norwegian politician
- 2013 : Günter Willumeit , German humorist, parodist, entertainer and dentist
- 2013 : Rene Simpson , Canadian tennis player
- 2014 : Gero Bisanz , German soccer player and coach
- 2014 : Masaru Emoto , Japanese para-scientist and alternative medicine
- 2015 : Danièle Delorme , French actress and film producer
- 2015 : Howard Kendall , British football player and coach
- 2017 : Danielle Darrieux , French actress
- 2017 : Thomas Albeck , German soccer player and official as well as graduate economist
- 2018 : Valters Frīdenbergs , Latvian singer
- 2018 : Ara Guler , Turkish photographer
- 2019 : Elijah Cummings , American politician
- 2019 : Angelika Werthmann , Austrian politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Ignatius of Antioch , Roman martyr, theologian and bishop (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- Nicholas Ridley , English martyr, Bishop of London (Protestant, Anglican Memorial Day is October 16 )
- Anniversaries of international organizations
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty ( UN ) (since 1992)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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