17th of September
The September 17 is the 260th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 261st in leap years ), thus remain 105 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 1156: With the privilege minus , Emperor Friedrich I elevates Austria under Margrave Heinrich II Jasomirgott to the hereditary duchy for the House of Babenberg .
- 1176: The Seljuks defeat the Byzantine Empire in the Battle of Myriokephalon .
- 1630: The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , John Winthrop , amalgamates the two North American settlements Trimountaine and Shawmut in the northeastern part of today's USA , which were settled by Puritans a few months earlier, into a place called Boston and thus founds the city.
- 1631: The armies of the Swedes and Electorates of Saxony under Gustav II Adolf defeat the general Tilly , who heads the Catholic League, in the Battle of Breitenfeld during the Thirty Years' War .
- 1678: The peace treaty between France and Spain is concluded in Nijmegen . France is receiving territorial gains, such as the Free County of Burgundy , while Spain is eliminated from the Dutch War .
- 1787: The Philadelphia Convention adopts the federal constitution of the United States .
- 1793: In France, the Jacobin dictatorship approves the law on suspects , which becomes the legal basis for the reign of terror under Maximilien de Robespierre .
- 1809: The Russo-Swedish War ends with the Peace of Frederikshamn : Sweden loses a third of its territory . Among other things, Finland must be ceded to Russia .
- 1862: In the American Civil War , the troops of the northern states defeat the army of the Confederate southern states in the battle of Antietam . The southern states must withdraw from Maryland .
- 1882: During a visit to Trieste, Emperor Franz Joseph I escapes a bomb attack carried out by the irredentist Donato Ragosa , which he planned together with Guglielmo Oberdan . Two spectators die.
- 1885: The Ottoman Governor General of Eastern Rumelia , Gavril Pasha , is overthrown in an officer coup. The province declares the immediate union with the Principality of Bulgaria under Prince Alexander von Battenberg .
- 1894: The Battle of the Yalu River during the First Sino-Japanese War , the defeat Japanese the Chinese .
- 1908: When the two-seater Flyer A plane crashed with the pilot Orville Wright , the passenger Thomas E. Selfridge is killed; he is the first to be killed in an airplane accident.
- 1911: In Vienna there is an inflationary revolt among workers, which is violently suppressed by the military. For the first time since 1848, fire is opened again on demonstrators in Vienna. Three people are killed and 149 injured.
- 1916: Manfred von Richthofen , later called The Red Baron , wins his first aerial battle in the First World War over Cambrai .
- 1923: In Lörrach there are violent clashes between proletarian hundreds and the police .
- 1938: On the orders of Hitler is Sudeten German Free Corps established that in the following weeks at the height of the Sudeten crisis state institutions coat of Czechoslovakia.
- 1939: Second World War :
- After the German attack on Poland , two Soviet army groups ( fronts ) march into eastern Poland in accordance with the secret additional protocol of the Hitler-Stalin Pact .
- 1939: The German submarine U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous with two torpedo hits . When the warship sank, 518 crew members died and 741 were rescued by a passenger ship.
- 1940: The planned invasion of England (code name Company Sea Lion ) by German troops during World War II is postponed indefinitely due to massive resistance from the Royal Air Force .
- 1941: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi takes the oath on the constitution in front of the Iranian parliament and is thus Shah of Iran. The operation Countenance is complete.
- 1941: The first death sentences are passed in the German Reich for listening to enemy broadcasters .
- 1944: Second World War :
- On the western front the start allies in the Dutch provinces of Noord-Brabant and Gelderland the Operation Market Garden to the German Siegfried Line to get around and a rapid advance into the German Reich to achieve.
- 1944: Partisans of the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army liberate the Bosnian city of Tuzla for the second time .
- 1945: In the Wanfried Agreement , areas are exchanged between the American and Soviet occupation zones so that the Göttingen – Bebra railway line can run undisturbed.
- 1945: The Bergen-Belsen trial begins in Lüneburg , the first war crimes trial in Germany in which a British military court hears the guards at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . The main defendant is Josef Kramer , the last commandant of the concentration camp .
- 1948: The Swedish diplomat Count Folke Bernadotte is murdered by Jewish extremists in Jerusalem .
- 1957: Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat takes power in Thailand after a coup .
- 1961: The Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes , who was overthrown in a military coup, is executed.
- 1970: In Jordan , the army begins to crush the Black September uprising of the Palestinian fedayeen that broke out in the country .
- 1978: The Egyptian President Muhammad Anwar as Sadat and the Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Treaty in Washington, DC on the basis of Resolution 242 of the UN Security Council .
- 1980: In a speech to the Iraqi National Assembly, President Saddam Hussein tears up the Algiers agreement that he himself had signed five and a half years earlier , which defines the border with Iran . Five days later he starts the Gulf War .
- 1980: The independent trade union Solidarność is founded as an amalgamation of various strike committees in Poland . Chairman is Lech Walesa elected.
- 1980: Anastasio Somoza , ex-President of Nicaragua , is murdered with bazookas and machine guns in Asunción , Paraguay .
- 1982: The 13-year coalition between the SPD and FDP in Germany fails due to disagreements over the draft budget . The SPD forms a minority government.
- 1991: During the riots in Hoyerswerda , neo-Nazis terrorize street vendors from Vietnam . A wave of violent and xenophobic acts of violence across Germany is triggered
- 1991: North and South Korea become member states of the United Nations .
- 1992: On behalf of the government of Iran , assassins shoot four members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in an attack in the Mykonos restaurant in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.
- 2006: In the election for the Swedish Reichstag , the bourgeois parties united in the Alliance for Sweden win with seven seats . They replace the Social Democrats in government, who have been the prime minister since 1994.
business
- 1861: The Strasbourg bookseller Oscar Berger-Levrault publishes the world's first stamp catalog with an edition of a few dozen .
- 1904: The chemist Max Riese registers the Penaten cream he invented with the Reich Patent Office in Berlin.
- 1993: The Daimler-Benz group decides to cut around 44,000 jobs worldwide, around 35,000 of them in Germany alone.
- 2001: The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 lead to a severe slump in stock market prices in the country. The Dow Jones index drops to 8920.7 points.
- 2008: As a result of the prevailing panic in the wake of the financial crisis , the gold price in New York trading rose sharply from 784 to 863 US dollars per ounce, while further massive falls on the stock exchanges worldwide , although the central banks worldwide are trying to contain them the crisis. The night before, for example, the US Fed granted American International Group , the world's largest insurance company, a loan of $ 85 billion in return for 79.9 percent of the loan , effectively nationalizing it to save it from bankruptcy .
science and technology
- 525 BC Chr .: The star Antares is covered by Venus for the last time.
- 1737: The Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is opened as a university in the spirit of the Enlightenment .
- 1789: The astronomer William Herschel discovers the Saturn moon that is later referred to as Mimas .
- 1843: The Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile is officially opened.
- 1871: The Mont Cenis tunnel is opened. The railway tunnel ensures faster connections between Paris and Rome and passes under the Mont-Cenis massif in the western Alps.
- 1931: The first long-playing record with 33⅓ revolutions per minute intended for the public is presented in New York .
- 1945: The Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg resumes teaching with the Catholic Theological Faculty.
- 1952: EJ Smith flies 1,958.8 km without stopping in his Bell 47 D helicopter , setting a new world record.
- 1956: The first radio telescope in Germany ( Astropeiler Stockert ) is inaugurated on the Stockert near Bad Münstereifel .
- 1959: The North American X-15 experimental aircraft flies with its own rocket engine for the first time.
- 1976: Roll out of the Space Shuttle Enterprise at Rockwell in Palmdale, California. The Enterprise served as a technology carrier for the study of all problems of shuttle technology, it is now a museum piece in the possession of the Smithsonian Institute.
- 1991: Linus Torvalds released the first version of Linux (Version 0.01) on a public FTP server and thus creates the basis for the worldwide development of this new open source - the operating system .
Culture
- 1870: The world premiere of the tragedy Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin , which Modest Mussorgsky set to music as an opera of the same name four years later , takes place in Saint Petersburg.
- 1904: The new theater in Dortmund is inaugurated with Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg .
- 1922: The first sound film in the world with an integrated optical soundtrack , Der Brandstifter , premieres in Berlin.
- 1925: The first newsreel of Ufa is shown.
- 1945: The information program Echo der Zeit is broadcast for the first time on the radio of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation .
- 1954: The America Memorial Library is opened in Berlin as a gift from the USA to Berlin after the blockade by the Soviet Union has been overcome .
- 1961: The premiere of the play Happy Days by Samuel Beckett takes place in New York.
- 1962: Duke Ellington records the album Money Jungle with Charles Mingus and Max Roach .
- 1964: The world premiere of the opera Der Zerrissene by Gottfried von Eine takes place at the Hamburg State Opera .
- 1964: The newly built National Museum of Anthropology opens in Mexico City , with exhibitions devoted to the pre-Columbian past and the living Indian culture of Mexico .
- 1964: The third James Bond film Goldfinger premieres in Odeon Leicester Square, London .
- 1966: The first episode of the Raumpatrouille series ( spaceship Orion ) is shown on German television .
- 1980: The original version of the musical Les Misérables by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil based on the novel by Victor Hugo is premiered in Paris.
- 1981: The film Das Boot, based on Lothar-Günther Buchheim 's novel of the same name, premiered in Munich .
- 1991: Guns N 'Roses release their two Use Your Illusion albums, triggering a run on record stores.
- 2007: The film The Katyn Massacre by Polish director Andrzej Wajda about the Katyn Massacre premieres in Polish cinemas.
- 2016: The Japanese comic adaptation A Silent Voice by director Naoko Yamada premieres in Japanese cinemas.
society
- 1859: Joshua Norton , a businessman from San Francisco who went bankrupt the previous year, names himself “Emperor of this United States”.
- 1933: The Catholic youth organization Blauring is founded in Switzerland as a female counterpart to the Jungwacht , which has existed since 1932 .
- 1983: Vanessa Williams is voted first African American Miss America .
religion
- 1863: Pope Pius IX. calls in the encyclical Incredibili the Catholics in New Granada, today's Colombia , to resist the government.
- 1882: In his encyclical Auspicato concessum "on St. Francis of Assisi ", Pope Leo XIII. an eulogy for the Franciscan Order and an exhortation to promote the expansion of the “ Third Order ” in every part of the world.
Disasters
- 1928: The Okeechobee hurricane breaks the dyke of Lake Okeechobee . The following flood killed over 2,500 people.
- 1937: The rotunda burns down in the Vienna Prater , one of the landmarks of the 1873 World's Fair in the Danube city.
- 1949: The Canadian passenger steamer SS Noronic burns down overnight in Toronto harbor, killing 122 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1902: In the autonomous community at this time Meiderich is Meidericher Spielverein 1902 e. V. , today's MSV Duisburg was founded.
- 1939: In Helsinki, the Finn Taisto Mäki is the first person to achieve a time below the threshold of 30 minutes in the 10,000 meter run with a time of 29: 52.6 minutes.
- 1988: The XXIV Summer Olympics in Seoul are opened.
- 1990: The International Olympic Committee deletes rule 26 of the admission regulations , so that from now on professionals can also take part in the Olympic Games.
- 2004: The Greek President Konstantinos Stefanopoulos opens the 12th Summer Paralympics in Athens, which will last until September 28th. Around 4,000 athletes from 144 nations take part in the Paralympic Games .
- 2006: At the men's world championship , the German men's national hockey team becomes world champion for the second time . She wins the final in Mönchengladbach with a 4-3 victory over Australia .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 879: Charles III. , King of West Franconia
- 1192: Minamoto no Sanetomo , third Japanese Shogun
- 1216: Robert I , Count of Artois
- 1312: William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster , Irish nobleman
- 1358: Basil Comnenus the Younger , Crown Prince in the Empire of Trebizond
- 1385: Thomas Mowbray, 2nd Earl of Nottingham , English magnate
- 1433: Jaime de Portugal , Portuguese Archbishop of Lisbon, Cardinal
- 1479: Celio Calcagnini , Italian humanist
- 1505: Maria von Habsburg , Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Spain and Queen of Bohemia and Hungary
- 1520: Laurentius Lindemann , German jurist and Saxon statesman
- 1551: Anna Erika von Waldeck , abbess of the Gandersheim monastery
- 1552: Paul V , Pope
- 1565: Eduard Fortunat , Margrave of Baden
- 1580: Charlotte Brabantina of Orange-Nassau , Duchess of Thouars
- 1611: Johannes Olearius II , German theologian and hymn poet
- 1614: Gustaf Otto Stenbock , Swedish Imperial Admiral
- 1619: Herman Fleming , Swedish politician
- 1630: Ranuccio II. Farnese , son of Duke Odoardo I Farnese of Parma and Piacenza
- 1638: Jacob Wächtler , German Lutheran theologian
- 1641: Johann Sigismund Küffner , German merchant and councilor
- 1666: Sigmund Friedrich von Khevenhüller , Governor of Carinthia
- 1671: Samuel Heinrich König , mathematician, orientalist and pietistic theologian
- 1674: Ernst August II of Hanover , son of Ernst August, Elector of Hanover and Sophie of the Palatinate
- 1677: Stephen Hales , English physiologist and physicist
- 1688: Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff , German baroque sculptor
- 1689: Ferdinand Karl Gobert von Aspremont-Lynden , Habsburg military
- 1691: Emanuel Teles de Silva , Austrian politician and architect
18th century
- 1713: Johann Heinrich Waser , German translator
- 1714: Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener , German writer and publicist
- 1730: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , German-American general
- 1731: Jacques-Christophe Valmont de Bomare , French naturalist
- 1734: Jean Baptiste Leprince , French painter
- 1739: John Rutledge , American politician, governor of South Carolina and chief federal judge
- 1743: Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet , French philosopher, mathematician and politician
- 1748: Maria Karolina , Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia and Tuscany
- 1755: William Schaw Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart , British general and diplomat
- 1763: Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Schrader , German physicist and chemist
- 1764: John Goodricke , British astronomer
- 1767: Henri Montan Berton , French composer
- 1771: August Apel , German lawyer and writer
- 1774: Giuseppe Mezzofanti , Italian cardinal, is considered one of the greatest linguistic geniuses in history
- 1775: Ferdinand Kringsteiner , Austrian civil servant and writer
- 1776: Langdon Cheves , American politician
- 1777: Johann Heinrich Kopp , German doctor and natural scientist
- 1788: Karl von Abel , German politician from Bavaria
- 1788: Karl von der Groeben , Prussian general of the cavalry
- 1790: Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach , Prussian general and politician
- 1793: Johann Valentin Adrian , German neophilologist and librarian
- 1793: Carl Heinrich Arnold , German wallpaper manufacturer
- 1795: Saverio Mercadante , Italian opera composer (date of baptism)
- 1797: Heinrich Kuhl , German zoologist
- 1798: Antonio Benedetto Antonucci , Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Edward William Lane , British orientalist
- 1803: Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger , German zoologist and ornithologist
- 1805: Karl Otto von Raumer , Prussian statesman
- 1806: Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne , French physiologist
- 1808: Juan Pedro Esnaola , Argentine composer
- 1811: August Theodor Blanche , Swedish writer
- 1811: John Brough , American politician
- 1813: Victor Franz von Andrian-Werburg , Austrian politician
- 1814: Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort , French politician
- 1814: William Butterfield , English architect
- 1815: Halfdan Kjerulf , Norwegian composer
- 1819: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius , first President of the South African Republic
- 1820: Émile Augier , French playwright
- 1820: Earl Van Dorn , major general of the Confederation in the American Civil War
- 1821: Jules Champfleury , French writer and critic of literature and art
- 1821: Léonard-Léopold Forgemol de Bostquénard , French general
- 1825: Theodor Ackermann , German pathologist
- 1826: Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician
- 1827: Ludwig Siegfried Meinardus , German composer and music writer
- 1829: Karl Hillebrand , German essayist, publicist and literary historian
- 1832: Miroslav Tyrš , Bohemian art critic and art historian
- 1832: Wendelin Boeheim , Austrian weapons technician, officer, journalist and museum operator
- 1833: Heinrich von Buz , German technician and industrialist
- 1839: Johann Eduard Jacobsthal , German architect
- 1841: Josef Kohlschein , German engraver and draftsman
- 1850: Franziskus von Bettinger , German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
1851-1900
- 1851: James Simon , German entrepreneur and art patron
- 1854: David Dunbar Buick , American engineer, inventor, and industrialist
- 1854: Heinrich Pesch , German Catholic theologian, economist and social philosopher
- 1855: Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell , German politician
- 1855: Richard Sahla , Austrian violin virtuoso, conductor and composer
- 1857: Konstantin Eduardowitsch Ziolkowski , Russian space pioneer
- 1858: Rudolf Pajér , admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Navy
- 1859: Frank Dawson Adams , Canadian geologist
- 1861: Wilhelm von Bandemer , Prussian landowner and politician
- 1861: Carlo Minoretti , Italian priest, Archbishop of Genoa and cardinal
- 1863: Eva von Arnim , German writer
- 1863: Wilhelm Trabert , German-Austrian meteorologist
- 1866: Alice Guszalewicz , Hungarian opera singer
- 1868: Carl Brockelmann , German orientalist and Semitist
- 1869: Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1869: Karl Wolfskehl , German-Jewish writer and translator
- 1870: Georges Lakhovsky , Russian inventor
- 1872: Florencio Harmodio Arosemena , Panamanian engineer, president
- 1874: Hubert Ginzel , Austrian cartographer
- 1876: Leonhard Schrickel , German writer of historical novels and local researcher
- 1877: Oliver Peters Heggie , Australian actor
- 1877: Jean Huré , French composer and organist
- 1877: Jutta Sika , Austrian craftsperson
- 1878: Antoine Védrenne , French rower
- 1878: Vincenzo Tommasini , Italian composer
- 1879: Adolf Ahrens , German captain and politician
- 1879: Otto Blendermann , architect in Bremen
- 1880: Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht , French conductor and composer
- 1882: Hans Franke , German composer and conductor
- 1883: Käthe Kruse , German doll maker
- 1883: William Carlos Williams , American writer and doctor
- 1884: Charles Tomlinson Griffes , American composer
- 1885: Josef Escher , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1885: Üzeyir Hacıbəyov , Azerbaijani composer
- 1886: Otto Gmelin , German writer
- 1886: Ramón Emilio Jiménez , Dominican writer
- 1886: Alfred Walther , Swiss professor for business administration
- 1887: Robert Cimera , Austrian football player
- 1889: Helmuth Andreas Koch , German lawyer, civil servant and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1890: France Bevk , Slovenian writer
- 1891: Hans Reese , German soccer player and neurologist
- 1892: Hendrik Andriessen , Dutch composer and professor
- 1894: Erwin Aichinger , Austrian forest scientist
- 1894: James Anderson , Australian tennis player
- 1894: Karl Kaltwasser , German author
- 1896: Denise Gray , French actress
- 1897: John Gordon Aitken , Scottish football player
- 1897: Will Meisel , German dancer, composer and founder of the publishing house
- 1900: Wilhelm von Aulock , German ministerial official
- 1900: John Willard Marriott , American entrepreneur
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Karl Albert Aberle , German publisher and politician, MdL
- 1901: Francis Chichester , British circumnavigator and aviator
- 1901: Gunnar Kalén , Swedish motorcycle racer
- 1902: Hugo Hartung , German writer
- 1903: George Koltanowski , Belgian-American chess player
- 1903: Manfred Mautner Markhof senior , Austrian industrialist
- 1903: Frank O'Connor , Irish writer
- 1903: Gerd Tellenbach , German historian and medievalist
- 1904: Edgar G. Ulmer , American film director
- 1904: Frederick Ashton , British dancer and choreographer
- 1904: Fritz Eiberle , German football player
- 1904: Jürgen Kuczynski , German economic historian and scientist
- 1904: Lisamaria Meirowsky , German doctor and religious
- 1904: Jerry Colonna , American actor, comedian, and musician
- 1904: Wilfrid Schreiber , German economic theorist
- 1905: Hans Freudenthal , German mathematician
- 1905: Vladan Desnica , Croatian writer
- 1906: Adam Falkenstein , German Assyriologist
- 1906: Gerhard Gregor , German organist and pianist
- 1906: Junius Richard Jayawardene , Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister, President
- 1906: Franz Winkler , Austrian composer and musician
- 1907: Carl-Heinz Mahlmann , German football player
- 1907: Fritz von Bergmann , German university professor
- 1907: Warren E. Burger , American lawyer, chief federal judge
- 1908: Franz Grothe , German composer
- 1909: Max Wehrli , Swiss Germanist and literary historian
- 1910: František Hrubín , Czech writer and poet
- 1910: Hilmar Pabel , German journalist, photographer and initiator of the Red Cross child search campaign
- 1911: Otto Daiker , German motorcycle racer
- 1911: Wolfgang von Groote , German officer and military historian
- 1911: Theodor Piffl-Perčević , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1912: Hans Andreas , German medic
- 1912: Fritz Kütemeyer , German sports official
- 1912: Irena Kwiatkowska , Polish actress
- 1912: Glen Stewart Morley , Canadian conductor, composer and cellist
- 1912: Maksim Tank , Belarusian poet and writer
- 1913: Ludwig Acker , German chemist and food chemist
- 1913: Heinz Kapelle , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1913: Mira Lobe , Austrian children's book author
- 1913: Robert Lembke , German journalist and television presenter
- 1915: Günther Lorenz , German figure skater
- 1916: Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal , politician of the Mongolian People's Republic
- 1917: Bernhard Steinberger , German dissident
- 1917: Hermann Eberlein , German athlete
- 1917: Yun I-sang , Korean composer and music teacher
- 1918: Chaim Herzog , Israeli lawyer and officer, president
- 1918: Jorge E. Illueca , Panamanian politician
- 1919: Helmuth Ashley , Austrian director, cameraman and screenwriter
- 1919: Horst Krüger , German writer
- 1921: Virgilio Barco , Colombian politician, President
- 1922: Radu Aldulescu , Romanian cellist
- 1922: Karl Kaufhold , German composer, conductor and organist
- 1922: Agostinho Neto , Angolan doctor and poet, president
- 1922: Frank Spellman , American weightlifter
- 1922: Marianne Cohn , Jewish welfare worker and resistance fighter, victim of the Nazi regime
- 1923: Gisèle Pascal , French actress
- 1923: Hank Williams , American country musician
- 1924: Randi Bratteli , Norwegian writer
- 1925: Vatche Hovsepian , Armenian duduk player
- 1925: Jorge Ardila Serrano , Colombian bishop
- 1925: Hildegard Bienen , German artist
- 1925: Josef Grünbeck , German entrepreneur and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1925: Peter Ladefoged , British phonetician
1926-1950
- 1926: Kurt Anliker , Swiss classical philologist
- 1926: Hermann Bausinger , German folklorist and Germanist
- 1926: William Patton Black Jr. , American musician
- 1926: Curtis Harrington , American film director
- 1926: Jean-Marie Lustiger , senior archbishop of Paris
- 1926: Jack McDuff , American jazz organist
- 1926: Klaus Schütz , German politician, Governing Mayor of Berlin
- 1927: George Blanda , American football player
- 1927: Dorothy Morton , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1927: Hein & Oss , German songwriter and singer
- 1928: Peter Zinkann , German entrepreneur
- 1928: Roddy McDowall , British actor
- 1929: Sylvester Austin , American tenor saxophonist
- 1929: Marion Degler , German actress and voice actress
- 1929: Vincent La Selva , American conductor and music teacher
- 1929: Stirling Moss , British racing driver
- 1929: Rudolf Widmann , German politician
- 1930: William Geoffrey Arnott , British Graecist
- 1930: Edgar Mitchell , American astronaut
- 1930: Tom Stafford , American astronaut
- 1930: Wilfried Pflughaupt , German chess composer
- 1931: Anne Bancroft , American actress
- 1931: Hanns Adrian , German architect and urban planner
- 1931: Jacinto Gimbernard , Dominican violinist and writer
- 1931: Ayako Sono , Japanese writer
- 1932: Peter Kretzschmar , German handball player
- 1932: Robert B. Parker , American writer
- 1933: Chuck Grassley , American politician, Senator from Iowa
- 1934: Maureen Connolly , American tennis player
- 1934: Valda Osborn , British figure skater
- 1934: Aubrey Cagle , American rockabilly musician
- 1935: Ken Kesey , American writer and action artist
- 1935: Serge Klarsfeld , French lawyer and historian
- 1936: Urs Frauchiger , Swiss music theorist, author and cellist
- 1937: Ute Angerhoefer , German educator
- 1937: Albertine Sarrazin , French writer
- 1937: Orlando Cepeda , Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1938: Francisco Aritmendi , Spanish athlete
- 1938: Alec Broers , British nanotechnology researcher
- 1938: Dilip Chitre , Indian writer
- 1938: Perry Robinson , American jazz musician
- 1939: David Souter , American lawyer, Supreme Court judge
- 1939: Günther Fielmann , German optician and entrepreneur
- 1939: Jutta Appelt , German politician
- 1939: Vladimir Valentinovich Menshov , Russian actor and director, producer and screenwriter
- 1940: Heidelinde Weis , Austrian actress
- 1940: Jan Eliasson , Swedish diplomat
- 1940: Cynthia Flood , Canadian writer
- 1940: Karin Reschke , German writer
- 1940: Klaus Küng , Austrian bishop
- 1941: Donald Segretti , American lawyer
- 1941: Peter Weise , German economist
- 1941: Rudolf Lange , German naval officer and politician
- 1942: Anke Brunn , German politician
- 1942: Willi Hausmann , German politician
- 1942: Johannes Heinrichs , German social philosopher
- 1942: Lupe Ontiveros , American actress
- 1942: Walter Wakenhut , German priest and military vicar general
- 1943: Angelo Comastri , Catholic Curia Archbishop
- 1943: Benjamin Mwila , Zambian politician
- 1944: Bertalan Bicskei , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1944: Borusso von Blücher , German diplomat
- 1944: Viktoria Brams , German actor
- 1944: Reinhold Messner , Italian mountaineer
- 1944: Klaus-Jürgen Tillmann , German educationalist
- 1945: Heinz Marecek , Austrian actor, director and cabaret artist
- 1945: Phil Jackson , American basketball coach
- 1945: Bruce Spence , New Zealand-Australian actor
- 1946: Barbara Weiler , German politician, MEP
- 1946: Billy Bonds , English football player and coach
- 1947: Richard James Ashworth , British politician
- 1947: Lol Creme , British musician
- 1948: Hans Kremendahl , German politician
- 1948: Kemal Monteno , Bosnian pop singer and songwriter
- 1948: John Ritter , American actor
- 1948: Jürgen Schön , German politician
- 1949: José Rafael Lantigua , Dominican journalist, writer, literary critic and politician
- 1950: Soledad Alvear , Chilean politician
- 1950: Viktor Lois , Hungarian sculptor, installation and multimedia artist
1951-1975
- 1951: Piet Kleine , Dutch speed skater
- 1951: Kermit Washington , American basketball player
- 1951: Doro Pass-Weingartz , German local politician, mayor of Bonn
- 1952: Barbara Engel , German reality TV actress
- 1952: Ludwig Roman Fleischer , Austrian writer
- 1952: Harold Solomon , American tennis player
- 1952: Norbert Walter-Borjans , German politician
- 1953: Lale Akgün , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1953: Luís Filipe Marques Amado , Portuguese politician
- 1953: Bernd Dürnberger , German soccer player
- 1954: Daniel Anker , Swiss journalist and author
- 1954: Márta Kelemen , Hungarian gymnast
- 1954: František Kunzo , Slovak football player
- 1955: Agnes Dünneisen , Swiss theater and film actress
- 1955: Charles Martinet , American actor and voice actor
- 1956: Almasbek Scharschenowitsch Atambayev , Kyrgyz politician
- 1956: Christian Jung , German plant geneticist and molecular biologist
- 1956: Andreas Starke , German politician
- 1956: Gerhard Waldherr , German ancient historian
- 1957: Christian Loidl , German writer and performer
- 1957: Peter Löscher , Austrian manager
- 1957: Friedrich Neumann , German music teacher and textbook author
- 1957: Andris Piebalgs , Latvian diplomat and EU commissioner
- 1957: Gebran Tueni , Lebanese journalist and politician
- 1958: Andrea Eckert , Austrian actress and documentary filmmaker
- 1958: Janez Janša , Slovenian politician
- 1960: Günter Dworek , German politician, spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany
- 1960: Damon Hill , British Formula 1 racing driver
- 1961: Pamela Ann Melroy , American astronaut
- 1961: Heinrich Kerscher , German football player
- 1962: Baz Luhrmann , Australian director and actor
- 1962: Steffi Martin , German toboggan runner
- 1962: BeBe Winans , American gospel and R&B singer
- 1963: Gian-Carlo Coppola , American actor and producer
- 1963: Barbara Spaniol , German politician
- 1963: Olga Michailowna Tschernjawskaja , Russian athlete
- 1964: Anja Franke , German actress
- 1964: Ursula Karven , German actress
- 1964: Franck Piccard , French ski racer and motor sportsman
- 1965: Kyle Chandler , American actor
- 1965: Christopher Dell , German jazz musician, composer and improvisation theorist
- 1965: Yūji Naka , Japanese game developer ( Sega )
- 1965: Bryan Singer , American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1966: Minna Kaisa Aaltonen , Finnish actress
- 1966: Doug E. Fresh , American rapper and beatboxer
- 1966: Paula Jones , US press secretary and advisor to Bill Clinton
- 1967: Michael Carbajal , American boxer
- 1967: Stefan Krauße , German luge rider
- 1967: Wolfgang Perner , Austrian biathlete
- 1967: Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke , German handball player
- 1967: Malik Yoba , American actor
- 1968: Akhenaton , French rapper
- 1968: Anastacia , American singer
- 1968: Karsten Just , German athlete
- 1968: Marie-Chantal Miller , Greek Crown Princess
- 1969: Heiko Balz , German wrestler
- 1969: Ken Doherty , Irish snooker player
- 1969: Bismarck Barreto Faria , Brazilian soccer player
- 1969: Matthew Settle , American actor
- 1971: Sergej Barbarez , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1971: Floriane Daniel , German actress
- 1971: Slavko Goluža , Croatian handball player and coach
- 1971: Adriana Karembeu , Slovak model
- 1971: Roman Mählich , Austrian football player
- 1971: Klára Pollertová , Czech actress
- 1971: Jan Schaffrath , German racing cyclist
- 1971: Lars Schlecker , German entrepreneur
- 1971: Jens Voigt , German racing cyclist
- 1972: Sunrise Coigney , French-American actress
- 1972: Jochen Kientz , German soccer player
- 1972: Chrissy Schulz , German actress
- 1974: Darío Rodríguez , Uruguayan football player
- 1974: Rasheed Wallace , American basketball player
- 1975: Iradj Alexander , Swiss racing driver
- 1975: Stefan Jänke , German composer, church musician and choir director
- 1975: Tayna Lawrence , Jamaican athlete, Olympic champion
1976-2000
- 1976: Kristian Kiehling , German-Latvian actor
- 1976: Feleknas Uca , German politician, MEP
- 1977: Juan Antonio Flecha , Spanish cyclist
- 1977: Alexander Hennig , German economist
- 1977: Simone Perrotta , Italian soccer player
- 1978: David Langheinrich , German rally driver
- 1979: Nils Antons , German ice hockey player
- 1979: Flo Rida , American rapper
- 1979: Michel Nykjær , Danish racing car driver
- 1980: Markus Krösche , German soccer player
- 1980: Pavel Košťál , Czech football player
- 1981: Julio Alcorsé , Argentinian football player
- 1981: Bakari Koné , Ivorian football player
- 1981: Konstantin Lindhorst , German actor and speaker
- 1982: Nikolas Katsigiannis , German handball player
- 1982: Sergei Stanislawowitsch Strukow , Russian football player
- 1984: Michel Fabrizio , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1984: Alberto Fernández , Spanish cyclist
- 1985: Tomáš Berdych , Czech tennis player
- 1985: Hailey Duke , American ski racer
- 1985: José Gonçalves , Portuguese football player
- 1985: Ümit Korkmaz , Austrian-Turkish soccer player
- 1985: Alexander Ovechkin , Russian ice hockey player
- 1985: Dimitrij Schaad , German actor
- 1986: Sarah Alles , German actress
- 1986: Tomás Néstor Blanco , Argentine handball player and coach
- 1986: Paolo De Ceglie , Italian football player
- 1987: Julia Renner , German handball player
- 1989: Danny Queck , German ski jumper
- 1990: Petar Đorđić , German handball player
- 1990: Lelde Gasūna , Latvian ski racer
- 1990: Felix Handschke , German handball player
- 1990: Rupert Svendsen-Cook , British racing driver
- 1990: Stephan Zwierschitz , Austrian football player
- 1991: Robin Szarka , German soccer player
- 1992: Toghrul Asgarov , Azerbaijani wrestler
- 1992: William Buller , British racing driver
- 1992: Jelena Dmitrijewna Jakowischina , Russian ski racer
- 1992: Ylva Stålnacke , Swedish ski racer
- 1993: Martijn Lakemeier , Dutch actor
- 1993: Alex Lynn , British racing car driver
- 1993: Nikolai Nikolayevich Prokhorkin , Russian ice hockey player
- 1993: Sophie Howard , German-British soccer player
- 1994: Taylor Ware , American singer
- 1995: Patrick Mahomes , American football player
- 1996: Slayyyter , American singer-songwriter
21st century
2001-2050
- 2008: Mia Talerico , American actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- 705: Lambert of Lüttich , Bishop of Maastricht and martyr
- 862: Badurad , second bishop of Paderborn
- 936: Unni , Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg and first missionary in Scandinavia
- 1025: Hugo , French co-king, son of Roberts II.
- 1122: Hermann , Bishop of Prague
- 1134: Muirchertach Mac Domnall , Archbishop of Armagh
- 1148: Conan III. , Duke of Brittany and Count of Nantes
- 1176: Baldwin of Antioch , Prince of Antioch
- 1179: Hildegard von Bingen , Benedictine, representative of German mysticism with works on religion, medicine, music, ethics and cosmology
- 1184: Simon de Toeni , Bishop of Moray
- 1224: Song Ningzong , Emperor of the Song Dynasty in China
- 1225: Wilhelm VI. , Margrave of Montferrat
- 1257: Heinrich I. von Bilversheim , bishop of Bamberg and administrator of Chiemsee
- 1310: Bernhard III. , Imperial Count von Wölpe and Archbishop of Magdeburg and Bremen
- 1360: Rudolf Brun , Mayor of Zurich
- 1376: Jarosław Bogoria , Archbishop of Gniezno
- 1378: Marquard Bermann , Bishop of Schwerin
- 1422: Alamanno Adimari , Italian cardinal
- 1425: Bonne d'Artois , French noblewoman
- 1425: Vinzenz von Wartenberg , Bohemian nobleman, Oberstburggraf of Bohemia
- 1462: Anna , Countess of Hesse
- 1482: William the Brave , Duke of Saxony
- 1503: Giovanni Pontano , Italian poet and humanist
- 1513: Johann V , Duke of Zator
- 1528: Íñigo Fernández de Velasco y Mendoza , Spanish politician
- 1533: Philip I of Baden , Margrave of Baden
- 1542: Dionisio Neagrus Laurerio , Italian cardinal
- 1546: Juan de Carvajal , Spanish conquistador and founder of the city of El Tocuyo
- 1547: Friedrich II. , Duke of Liegnitz and Brieg
- 1566: Hieronymus Tilesius , German Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1574: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés , Spanish admiral, explorer and colonial administrator
- 1575: Heinrich Bullinger , Swiss reformer
17th century
- 1604: Henning Brabandt , German lawyer, mayor and ducal court procurator
- 1604: Lucas Osiander the Elder , German pastor of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
- 1609: Judah Löw , Prague rabbi, Talmudist and philosopher
- 1611: Johannes Corputius , author of the colored Corputius plan
- 1621: Robert Bellarmin , Italian theologian, Jesuit and doctor of the church, representative of Roman Catholicism and the Counter-Reformation
- 1625: Anton von der Streithorst , Brunswick statesman
- 1626: Johann Schweikhard von Cronberg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
- 1627: Wilhelm Ulrich Romanus , German legal scholar
- 1632: Sissinios , Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1636: Stefano Maderno , Italian sculptor
- 1658: Kaspar von Barth , German philologist
- 1658: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , German Baroque poet
- 1665: Philip IV , King of Spain and King of Portugal
- 1666: August the Younger , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1674: Hyeonjong , 18th king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1679: Juan José de Austria , Spanish military leader and statesman
- 1699: August , Duke of Schleswig
18th century
- 1702: Olof Rudbeck the Elder , Swedish polyhistor
- 1721: Marguerite Louise d'Orléans , Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1726: Louis Remy de la Fosse , French architect who worked in Germany
- 1731: Gustav Samuel Leopold , last Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg and Pfalz-Zweibrücken
- 1732: Josef Antonín Planický , Bohemian composer
- 1736: Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell , Prince-Bishop of the Eichstätt Monastery
- 1748: Philipp Gerlach , Prussian architect
- 1748: Maria Karolina , Archduchess of Austria, Princess of Hungary, Bohemia and Tuscany
- 1749: Johann Friedrich Penther , German mathematician and architectural theorist
- 1750: Carl Theodorus Pachelbel , German organist and composer in the American colonies
- 1752: Caspar Nicolaus Overbeck , German Protestant theologian
- 1759: Adalbert II. Von Walderdorff , provost in Blankenau and prince abbot and bishop of Fulda
- 1761: Georg Matthias Bose , German physicist and astronomer
- 1762: Francesco Geminiani , violinist, composer
- 1764: Johann Christoph Struchtmeyer , German Reformed theologian, historian and rhetorician.
- 1767: Edward, Duke of York and Albany , British prince and admiral
- 1770: Johann Rudolph von Ahlefeldt , master of the Damp and Saxdorf estates
- 1771: Tobias Smollett , Scottish writer
- 1778: Ange de Menneville, Marquis de Duquesne , French naval officer and Governor General of New France
- 1779: John Campbell, 1st Baron Campbell , British politician and lawyer
- 1786: Tokugawa Ieharu , Japanese Shogun
- 1800: Nathan ben Simeon ha-Kohen Adler , German Kabbalist and rabbi
19th century
- 1802: Richard Owen Cambridge , English poet, landowner and historian
- 1803: Franz Xaver Süßmayr , Austrian composer
- 1813: Ignaz Kober , Viennese court organ builder
- 1814: Jacques Bernard d'Anselme , French lieutenant general
- 1814: Vicente Salias , Venezuelan revolutionary, journalist and writer
- 1822: Louise Brachmann , German writer
- 1823: Abraham Louis Breguet , Swiss watchmaker and mechanic
- 1831: Joseph Lange , German actor, painter, composer and writer
- 1836: Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu , French botanist
- 1846: Antonio Dall'Occa , Italian double bass player
- 1855: Ernst Christian Gottlieb Jens Reinhold , German philosopher
- 1856: Ninomiya Sontoku , Japanese agrarian reformer
- 1858: Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff , Prussian diplomat
- 1863: Blasius Höfel , Austrian engraver
- 1863: Alfred de Vigny , French writer
- 1864: Walter Savage Landor , English writer
- 1877: William Henry Fox Talbot , English inventor of the negative-positive process
- 1878: Jakob Anderegg , Swiss mountain guide
- 1891: Lorenz Brentano , German lawyer and politician from Baden
- 1891: Josef Maximilian Petzval , Hungarian-German mathematician and physicist
- 1892: Rudolf von Jhering , German legal scholar
- 1892: Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle , South Tyrolean literary scholar and writer
- 1893: Michael Rostock , Sorbian botanist and entomologist
- 1896: Auguste Margarethe Feddersen , German painter
20th century
- 1901: Bernhard Poll , German historian
- 1907: Ignaz Brüll , Austrian composer and pianist
- 1908: Thomas E. Selfridge , American aviation pioneer
- 1916: Hermann Krone , German photographer, scientist and publicist
- 1916: Seth Low , American educator and politician
- 1919: Richard Abé , German cast steel foundry
- 1919: August Wilhelm Otto Niemann , German writer
- 1921: Philipp zu Eulenburg , German diplomat
- 1921: Filip Rězak , Sorbian pastor, translator and dictionary author
- 1923: Otto Böckel , German librarian, folk song researcher and anti-Semitic politician
- 1926: Gustav Roethe , German old Germanist
- 1926: August Sauer , Austrian literary scholar
- 1926: Augustus Stephen Vogt , Canadian music teacher, choir director, organist and composer
- 1928: Wakayama Bokusui , Japanese writer
- 1930: Maurice Cappé , French racing car driver
- 1938: Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Kondratjew , Russian economist
- 1938: Murakami Kijō , Japanese poet
- 1939: Georges Pitoëff , French actor, director and theater manager
- 1939: Otto Ruff , German chemist
- 1942: Henri Hinrichsen , German publisher
- 1943: Estella Agsteribbe , Dutch gymnast
- 1945: Charles Spearman , British psychologist
- 1948: Édouard Brisson , French racing car driver
- 1948: Emil Ludwig , German writer
- 1948: Folke Bernadotte , Swedish officer and philanthropist, Vice President of the Swedish Red Cross
- 1948: Ruth Benedict , American anthropologist
- 1951: Jimmy Yancey , American musician
- 1952: Fred Sauer , Austrian actor, director and screenwriter
- 1953: Egon Caesar Conte Corti , Austrian writer
- 1953: Emil Ermatinger , Swiss Germanist
- 1953: Henry Holden Huss , American composer
- 1953: Erdet Wenxiu , concubine of the last emperor of China Puyi
- 1954: Nicolaus Wendelin Schmidt , German sculptor
- 1961: Adnan Menderes , Turkish politician, head of government
- 1963: Eduard Spranger , German philosopher, educator and psychologist
- 1964: Nicolás Casimiro , Dominican singer
- 1965: Alejandro Casona , Spanish writer
- 1965: Moscheh Ya'akov Ben-Gavriêl , Israeli writer
- 1966: Fritz Wunderlich , German opera singer (lyric tenor)
- 1967: Jean Rolland , French racing car driver
- 1967: Hans-Christoph Seebohm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1970: Désiré Keteleer , Belgian cyclist
- 1972: Akim Tamiroff , Russian-American actor
- 1973: Hugo Winterhalter , American band leader
- 1974: René Graetz , German sculptor and graphic artist
- 1974: André Dunoyer de Segonzac , French painter
- 1976: Reine Bibois , Italian poet of the Franco-Provencal language
- 1976: John D. Schiff , German-American photographer
- 1979: Günther Jachmann , German classical philologist
- 1979: Miloslav Kabeláč , Czech composer and conductor
- 1980: Anastasio Somoza Debayle , President of Nicaragua
- 1980: Bianca Stagno Bellincioni , Italian singer and actress
- 1982: Manos Loïzos , Greek composer
- 1984: Richard Basehart , American actor
- 1987: Bradford Tracey , German pianist and harpsichordist
- 1988: Hilde Güden , Austrian coloratura soprano and chamber singer
- 1993: Baligh Hamdi , Egyptian composer
- 1994: Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player
- 1994: Karl Popper , Austrian and British philosopher and science theorist
- 1995: Astrid Krebsbach , German table tennis player
- 1995: Friedrich Schütter , German actor and director
- 1995: Gottfried Bermann Fischer , German publisher
- 1996: Spiro Theodore Agnew , US Vice President, Governor of Maryland
- 1996: Marianne Bachmeier , German innkeeper, shot her daughter's alleged murderer
- 1996: Anton Gigl , German soccer player
- 1996: Arnold Peters , Canadian politician
- 1997: Benjamin Atkins , American serial killer
- 1997: Walter Kremershof , German ice hockey player
- 1997: Jan Peder Syse , Norwegian politician
- 1997: Red Skelton , American actor
- 1998: Gustav Nezval , Czech actor
21st century
- 2002: Dodo Marmarosa , American jazz pianist
- 2003: Erich Hallhuber , German actor
- 2003: Ljubica Marić , Serbian composer
- 2004: Abu Anas ash-Shami , Iraqi terrorist
- 2004: John Ralph Armellino , American soldier and politician
- 2004: Heinz Frehsee , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
- 2005: Donn Clendenon , American baseball player
- 2005: Joel Hirschhorn , American composer and songwriter
- 2005: Jacques Lacarrière , French writer
- 2006: Al Casey , American guitarist
- 2006: Patricia Kennedy Lawford , sister of John F. Kennedy
- 2006: Ed Ulinski , American football player and coach
- 2008: Joachim Koch , German philosopher
- 2008: Christiane Volger , German forest scientist
- 2009: Jürg Hügi , Swiss comedian
- 2009: Josef Isenschmid , Swiss politician
- 2009: Leon Kirchner , American composer
- 2009: Raimund Ochabauer , Austrian clergyman
- 2010: Hannskarl Salger , German judge, Vice President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 2012: Manuel Troncoso , Dominican composer
- 2014: George Hamilton IV , American country singer
- 2014: Wolfgang Held , German writer and screenwriter
- 2015: Dettmar Cramer , German soccer coach
- 2016: Günter-Peter Ploog , German sports journalist and TV producer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Hildegard von Bingen , German monastery founder, abbess near Bingen and mystic (Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic)
- Heinrich Bullinger , Swiss pastor and reformer (Protestant)
- St. Lambertus , Frankish bishop and martyr (Roman Catholic)
- St. Robert Bellarmin , Cardinal and Doctor of the Church (Roman Catholic)
- Saint Satyr of Milan , Roman Prefect and Martyr (Roman Catholic)
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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