July 18th

The July 18 is the 199th day of the Gregorian calendar (200th in leap years ), thus remain 166 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0586 BC Chr .: Jerusalem , the capital of the kingdom of Judah under the apostate vassal king Zedekia , is conquered by the Babylonians under great king Nabū-kudurrī-uṣur II after two and a half years of siege.
• 0387 BC Chr .: The Roman army is defeated in the battle of the Allia by the Celts under their general Brennus . As a result, Rome is captured and sacked.
• 1290: In England an anti-Jewish decree of King Edward I proclaims that all Jews must leave the country by the end of October.
• 1620: The Veltliner murder begins in Graubünden . Between 300 and 600 Protestants are killed in the Catholic uprising in Valtellina .
• 1630: Imperial troops under Johann von Aldringen and Rambold XIII. von Collalto conquer Mantua in the War of the Mantuan Succession .

1658: Leopold I.

• 1658: In Frankfurt am Main , Leopold I is elected Roman-German Emperor.
• 1670: The Treaty of Madrid marks the formal end of the Anglo-Spanish War that had ended around ten years earlier . Jamaica and the Cayman Islands are recognized as English possession of Spain; Both parties want to tolerate the contractual partner's trade in the Caribbean .
• 1808: The Battle of Bailén during the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula begins.
• 1812: The peace treaty of Örebro ends the Swedish-British war declared on November 17, 1810 under pressure from Napoleon Bonaparte , in which there was no exchange of fire between the two sides.

1879: Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

• 1879: The polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld is released from the pack ice with his ship Vega and is able to continue the first crossing of the Northeast Passage .
• 1918: The day after the murder of the royal family in are Alapayevsk the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna , the Grand Prince Vladimir Pavlovich Paley and Sergei Mikhailovich Romanov and the brothers Ivan , Konstantin and Igor Konstantinovich Romanov from the Cheka in a mine shaft encountered.
• 1924: The Red Front Fighters League of the KPD is founded.
• 1925: The Franz-Eher-Verlag publishes the first volume of Hitler's Mein Kampf .
• 1942: The US declares war on Hungary , Bulgaria and Romania .
• 1947: The Exodus is captured by the British Navy off Tel Aviv .
• 1947: The United States received from the United Nations Trusteeship Council , the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands entrusted. They take over an area in the Pacific Ocean that was administered as the Japanese South Seas Mandate from the League of Nations until 1944, when the islands were conquered by the United States in the Pacific War .
• 1969: On the fifth day of the so-called football war between Honduras and El Salvador , the fighting stops.
• 1994: A bomb attack on the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires kills 85 and injures another 500.
• 2000: For the first time a British opened Head of State a message abroad. Queen Elizabeth II officially hands over the British Embassy in Berlin as diplomatic representation .
• 2002: Spanish elite soldiers storm Isla del Perejil and drive out the 12 Moroccan soldiers stationed there . This ends the so-called “ parsley war ” without bloodshed.
• 2005: In its judgment on the European arrest warrant , the German Federal Constitutional Court declares the law on the European arrest warrant null and void.

economy

1905: Lome train station

• 1905: The first railway line of the German Colony of Togo , the Lomé – Aného line , is opened to traffic.
• 1949: The Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry (FSK) receives the first film for assessment under youth protection aspects.
• 1968: The Intel company is founded.

science and technology

• 1796: The writer Alois Senefelder succeed in his Munich studio first series lithographs , a surface printing method , which he developed further in the next two years.
• 1849: The Universidad de la República is founded in Montevideo , the first public university in Uruguay .

1877: Edison with a cylinder phonograph

• 1877: Thomas Alva Edison succeeds in making a sound recording on a steel cylinder ( phonograph ) covered with tinfoil for the first time .
• 1898: Marie and Pierre Curie report the discovery of a new element they call polonium .

Planetarium Jena 1926

• 1926: The Jena Planetarium is opened. At the time the fourth of its kind in the world, it is now the oldest that is still in operation.
• 1938: Due to a "navigation error", the aviation pioneer Douglas Corrigan lands in Ireland instead on his flight from New York to California. He is nicknamed "Wrong Way" for this Atlantic flight.
• 1942: The world's first operational jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262 , completes its maiden flight.
• 1952: The German Fulbright Commission is founded. It allows the Fulbright program on scholarship students and academics to study in the United States and vice versa in Germany.

1966: Start of Gemini 10

• 1966: The Gemini 10 mission starts with John Young and Michael Collins on board.
• 1972: In its numerus clausus judgment , the German Federal Constitutional Court calls for a nationwide distribution center for university places with uniform selection criteria - later realized as a central agency for the allocation of university places .
• 1980: India is the sixth country to launch a satellite into space on its own with the SLV-3 rocket .

Culture

• 1668: George Dandin ou le Mari confondu ( George Dandin or shamed / deceived husband ), a ballet comedy of the French poet Molière with music by Jean-Baptiste Lully has its world premiere at a festival in the Palace of Versailles before King Louis XIV. New to the glory of his maîtresse en titre , Madame de Montespan , and to the dishonor of her still rightful husband.
• 1937: The House of German Art is opened in Munich . The Great German Art Exhibition shown therein is designed as a sales exhibition.

society

• 1984: 21 people die in a fast food restaurant in San Diego in the San Ysidro rampage . The perpetrator injured another 19 people with his weapon before he was killed by a sniper from a special police force .

religion

• 1216: The first conclave in church history takes place after the death of Pope Innocent III. held in Perugia , with Camerlengo Cencio Savelli elected within 2 days and on July 24, 1216 as Pope Honorius III. is enthroned.
• 1300: Gerardo Segarelli , the founder of the Church-critical Brothers of the Apostles , is burned at the stake in Parma for heresy .
• 1323: Pope John XXII. canonized the doctor of the church Thomas Aquinas .
• 1870: The First Vatican Council adopts Pastor Aeternus , in which the dogmas of the papal primacy of jurisdiction and the papal infallibility in questions of faith and morals are enshrined .
• 1970: Pope Paul VI. appoints Teresa of Ávila as the first female doctor of the church .

Disasters

1909: The Berlin disaster

• 1909: Nine spectators are killed and over 40 people are seriously injured in the race track disaster in Berlin caused by the fall of the pacemaker Werner Krüger on the Berlin cycling track "Botanischer Garten". This accident is the worst that has ever happened in cycling in Germany .

1976: The Elbe Lateral Canal near Artlenburg

• 1976: The Elbe Lateral Canal runs out near Adendorf . Over 5 million cubic meters of water flood the surrounding area.
• 1995: On the Caribbean island of Montserrat , the Soufrière Hills volcano erupts for the first time in 400 years.
• 2004: A tornado of magnitude F2 to F3 causes damage running into the hundreds of millions , especially in Duisburg , but also in Tönisvorst , Krefeld , Oberhausen and Essen , and injures seven people.
• 2019: The arson attack on Kyōto Animation kills 36 people and injures a further 34, and the animation studio is so badly damaged that it is demolished a few months later. It is one of the most costly attacks in post-war Japanese history.

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

Sports

1897: Henri Desgrange

• 1897: The Parc des Princes in Paris opens as a cycling track . Henri Desgrange becomes the first director.
• 1976: At the Olympic Summer Games in Montreal , 14-year-old Romanian Nadia Comăneci was the first gymnast ever to receive the maximum mark of 10.0 for her exercise on the uneven bars , a mark that she will receive six more times at these games .
• 1995: Fabio Casartelli had a fatal accident in a fall on a descent in the Pyrenees on the 15th stage of the Tour de France .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 17th century

• 1013: Hermann von Reichenau , German monk, historian and writer, musician, mathematician and astronomer
• 1244: John de Vescy , English nobleman, military man and diplomat
• 1357: Jeongjong , King of Korea
• 1439: Johann IV. , Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
• 1459: Wok II. Von Rosenberg , Bohemian nobleman
• 1501: Isabella of Austria , Queen of Denmark
• 1504: Heinrich Bullinger , Swiss church reformer
• 1523: George II of Brieg , Duke of Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau
• 1534: Zacharias Ursinus , German Reformed theologian
• 1552: Rudolf II , German Emperor
• 1634: Johannes Camphuys , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1659: Hyacinthe Rigaud , French portrait painter
• 1670: Giovanni Bononcini , Italian cello player and composer
• 1673: Hedwig Elisabeth Amalia von der Pfalz , crown princess of Poland by marriage

18th century

• 1702: Maria Clementina Sobieska , Polish princess, titular queen of Great Britain, Ireland and France
• 1712: Karl Friedrich , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen

Maria Antonia (* 1724)

• 1724: Maria Antonia of Bavaria , Electress of Saxony and German poet
• 1728: Pietro Arduino , Italian botanist
• 1753: Maria Anna von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Countess Palatine von Birkenfeld-Gelnhausen and Duchess in Bavaria
• 1768: Jean-Robert Argand , bookseller and amateur mathematician
• 1773: Johann Karl Heinrich von Zobel , German theologian
• 1775: Karl von Rotteck , German historian and politician
• 1778: Johann Friedrich Erdmann , German medic
• 1779: Christian Gottlob Hammer , German painter and engraver
• 1779: Gottlob König , German forest scientist
• 1780: Bartolomeo Ferrari , Italian sculptor
• 1783: Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , Austrian officer
• 1793: Franz Dorotheus Gerlach , German classical philologist and ancient historian
• 1793: Maria Caroline Gibert de Lametz , Princess of Monaco
• 1796: Immanuel Hermann Fichte , German theologian and philosopher
• 1797: Eduard Harkort , German mining engineer and officer
• 1800: Georg Heinrich Wolf von Arnim , German ironworks and mining entrepreneur

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801: Daniel Wamosy , Hamburg bookbinder and manufacturer, member of the Hamburg Parliament

Elizabeth Gould (* 1804)

• 1804: Elizabeth Gould , British illustrator
• 1805: Johann Gustav Stickel , German Protestant theologian, orientalist and numismatist
• 1806: Erwin Speckter , German painter
• 1811: William Makepeace Thackeray , British writer
• 1813: Pierre Alphonse Laurent , French mathematician
• 1821: Pauline Viardot-García , French artist
• 1826: Mariano Ignacio Prado , Peruvian President
• 1831: Johann Martin Schleyer , German priest, poet and philanthropist
• 1832: Leopold von Pezold , German-Baltic journalist
• 1837: Wassil Lewski , revolutionary and ideologist of the Bulgarian freedom movement
• 1840: Giovanni Arcangeli , Italian botanist
• 1841: Henriette Johanne Marie Müller , Hamburg original
• 1842: Louis Debierre , French organ builder
• 1845: Tristan Corbière , French poet
• 1849: Hugo Riemann , German music theorist and historian, teacher and lexicographer

1851-1900

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (* 1853)

• 1853: Hendrik Antoon Lorentz , Dutch mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1856: Alfred Wiedemann , German Egyptologist
• 1862: Kadambini Ganguly , Indian medicin
• 1864: Ricarda Huch , German writer, poet and narrator
• 1865: Martin Donndorf , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Weimar
• 1865: Robert Gradmann , German pastor and geographer, botanist and regional scientist
• 1866: Hugo Güldner , German engine builder and technology pioneer
• 1869: Walter Gottfried von Auwers , German lawyer and politician
• 1871: Giacomo Balla , Italian futurist painter
• 1872: Julius Fučík , Czech composer and conductor
• 1874: Otto Hörsing , German politician
• 1874: Jakub Lorenc-Zalěski , Sorbian writer and publicist
• 1883: Hermann Baden , German President of the Association of Jewish Congregations in the GDR
• 1883: Jiang Kanghu , Chinese politician and literary scholar
• 1884: Herman Jurgens , Dutch football player
• 1886: Friedrich Meinzolt , German lawyer

Vidkun Quisling (* 1887)

• 1887: Vidkun Quisling , Norwegian politician and officer
• 1890: Frank Forde , Australian Prime Minister
• 1890: Charles Erwin Wilson , American politician
• 1891: Emil Julius Gumbel , German mathematician and publicist
• 1891: Alexander Popovich , Austrian football player and coach
• 1892: Arthur Friedenreich , Brazilian soccer player
• 1892: Karl Scharrer , Austrian agricultural chemist
• 1894: Armand James Quick , American physician and chemist
• 1894: Bernard Wagenaar , American composer and violinist
• 1895: Fritz Amreich , German politician
• 1895: George R. Kelly , American gangster
• 1896: Franz Eccard von Bentivegni , German general
• 1899: Grete Hinterhofer , Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer
• 1900: Herbert Hennies , German actor, radio play speaker, writer and songwriter
• 1900: Nathalie Sarraute , French writer

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901: Stanisław Mikołajczyk , Polish exile premiere
• 1902: Juan Manuel Tato , Argentine medic, university professor and author
• 1903: Victor Gruen , Austrian town planner and architect
• 1903: Zoltán Horusitzky , Hungarian composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1905: Hugh Caulfield Hamilton , Northern Irish racing driver
• 1906: Sidney Darlington , American electrical engineer
• 1906: Clifford Odets , American playwright

Andrei Andrejewitsch Gromyko (* 1909)

• 1907: Yvonne Desportes , French composer
• 1908: Barry Gray , British musician and composer
• 1908: Lupe Vélez , Mexican actress
• 1909: Andrei Andrejewitsch Gromyko , Soviet politician and ambassador, foreign minister, head of state
• 1910: Max Meid , Frankfurt architect
• 1912: Clemens Heselhaus , German Germanist and literary scholar
• 1912: Lilly Stepanek , Austrian actress
• 1913: Eric Pohlmann , Austro-British actor and voice actor
• 1913: Red Skelton , American actor and comedian
• 1914: Gino Bartali , Italian racing cyclist
• 1914: Herbert Collum , German church musician
• 1915: Karl Bednarik , Viennese painter and writer
• 1916: Kenneth Armitage , British sculptor
• 1917: Paco Escribano , Dominican humorist
• 1917: Henri Salvador , French chansonnier, guitarist and television presenter
• 1918: Oscar Arredondo , Cuban paleontologist

Nelson Mandela (* 1918)

• 1918: Nelson Mandela , South African politician and anti-apartheid fighter, president, Nobel laureate
• 1920: Eric Brandon , British racing car driver
• 1921: Aaron T. Beck , American psychiatrist
• 1921: Heinz Bennent , German actor
• 1921: Siegfried Böhm , German camera designer
• 1921: John Glenn , American test pilot and astronaut
• 1921: Richard Leacock , British director and cameraman
• 1921: Hans Leipelt , German member of the White Rose
• 1922: Georg Kreisler , Austrian cabaret artist, composer, satirist and writer
• 1922: Thomas S. Kuhn , American physicist, science theorist and historian
• 1923: Michael Medwin , British actor
• 1923: Héctor Tosar , Uruguayan composer
• 1924: Wolfram Dorn , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1925: François Augiéras , French author
• 1925: Shirley Strickland de la Hunty , Australian athlete, Olympic champion
• 1925: Friedrich Zimmermann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister

1926-1950

• 1926: Elisabeth Müller , Swiss actress
• 1927: Ludwig Harig , German writer
• 1927: Kurt Masur , German conductor
• 1928: Simon Vinkenoog , Dutch writer and poet
• 1929: Screamin 'Jay Hawkins , American singer

Franca Rame (* 1929)

• 1929: Franca Rame , Italian artist and politician
• 1930: Siegfried Kurz , German conductor and composer
• 1930: Franz Pischinger , Austrian mechanical engineer, founder of FEV
• 1932: Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko , Soviet poet and writer
• 1933: Alicia Steimberg , Argentine writer and translator
• 1934: Edward Bond , British playwright
• 1934: Marliese Fuhrmann , German writer
• 1936: Gerd Böttcher , German pop singer
• 1936: Damian Luca , Romanian musician
• 1937: Roald Hoffmann , Polish theoretical chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1937: Hunter S. Thompson , American journalist
• 1938: Buschi Niebergall , German musician
• 1938: Renzo Pasolini , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1938: Ian Stewart , British pianist
• 1938: Paul Verhoeven , Dutch director
• 1939: Brian Auger , British musician
• 1939: Dion DiMucci , American singer and songwriter

James Brolin (* 1940)

• 1940: James Brolin , American actor
• 1941: Frank Farian , German music producer, composer and singer
• 1941: Lonnie Mack , American musician
• 1941: Martha Reeves , American singer
• 1941: Gloster Richardson , American football player
• 1942: Giacinto Facchetti , Italian football player
• 1942: Klaus Göbel , German musician
• 1942: Walter Kreye , German actor
• 1942: Adolf Ogi , Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1942: Gertrud Schmidt , German athlete
• 1943: Willie Green , British racing car driver
• 1943: Reinhard Steege , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
• 1944: Georges Anglade , Haitian-Canadian writer, geographer and politician
• 1944: Daniel Hell , Swiss psychiatrist and author
• 1945: Ugo Ferrante , Italian football player
• 1946: Siegfried Broß , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1946: Karel de Rooij , Dutch musician and cabaret artist
• 1947: Jörg Ziercke , German President of the Federal Criminal Police Office
• 1948: Hartmut Michel , German biochemist
• 1949: Dorothea Meissner , German actress
• 1950: Richard Branson , British entrepreneur
• 1950: Jack Layton , Canadian politician
• 1950: Jakob Tanner , Swiss historian

1951-1975

• 1951: Elio Di Rupo , Belgian politician
• 1952: Klaus Moegling , German teacher, political didactic and sports scientist
• 1953: Neil Stubenhaus , American musician
• 1954: Takashi Amano , Japanese photographer, designer, author and aquarist
• 1954: Ricky Skaggs , American country musician
• 1954: Johann-Dietrich Wörner , German civil engineer and university professor, chairman of the board of the German Aerospace Center (DLR)
• 1955: Bernd Fasching , Austrian painter and sculptor
• 1955: Luis Borda , Argentine tango guitarist
• 1956: Meral Akşener , Turkish politician
• 1956: Audrey Landers , American actress and singer
• 1957: José Pedro Aguiar Branco , Portuguese lawyer and politician
• 1958: Thomas Ashton, 4th Baron Ashton of Hyde , British politician
• 1958: Bent Sørensen , Danish composer
• 1960: Michael Gundlach , German musician and arranger

Anne-Marie Johnson (* 1960)

• 1960: Anne-Marie Johnson , American actress
• 1961: Conny Kissling , Swiss freestyle skier
• 1961: Elizabeth McGovern , American actress
• 1961: Eberhard Wagner , Austrian actor and writer
• 1962: Lee Arenberg , American actor
• 1962: Jack Irons , American drummer
• 1963: Marc Girardelli , Austrian skier
• 1963: Allen Sarven , American wrestler
• 1964: Iris Gleicke , German politician
• 1964: Joachim Llambi , German banker and stockbroker, tournament dancer and judge
• 1965: Petra Schersing , German sprinter
• 1966: Kathrin Neimke , German shot putter
• 1966: Sabine Richter , German sprinter
• 1967: Miriam Meckel , German communication scientist
• 1967: Joachim Meyerhoff , German actor, director and writer

Vin Diesel (* 1967)

• 1967: Vin Diesel , American actor
• 1968: Oliver Goetzl , German animal filmmaker and musician
• 1969: Hege Riise , Norwegian soccer player
• 1969: Andy Sneap , British musician and producer
• 1971: Penny Hardaway , American basketball player
• 1971: Heiko Karrer , German handball player and trainer
• 1972: Michael Wobbe , German undercover agent
• 1974: Derek Anderson , American basketball player
• 1975: Daron Malakian , Armenian singer and guitarist ( System Of A Down )
• 1975: MIA , British singer

1976-2000

Melbeatz (* 1977)

• 1977: Melbeatz , German hip-hop producer
• 1977: Alexander Sergejewitsch Morosewitsch , Russian chess player
• 1977: Kelly Reilly , British actress
• 1978: Robert Besta , German actor and director
• 1978: Tomas Danilevičius , Lithuanian football player
• 1979: Karl Angerer , German bobsleigh pilot
• 1980: Tom Arthurs , British jazz musician
• 1980: Gareth Emery , British trance DJ and music producer
• 1983: Jan Schlaudraff , German soccer player
• 1983: Hadia Tajik , Norwegian politician
• 1984: Kathrin Hölzl , German ski racer
• 1984: Veli Lampi , Finnish football player
• 1984: Ayumi Watase , Japanese ski jumper
• 1985: Chace Crawford , American actor

Anna Fischer (* 1986)

• 1986: Anna Fischer , German actress and singer
• 1986: Hitomi Tanaka , Japanese porn actress
• 1987: Carlos Eduardo , Brazilian soccer player
• 1987: Chloé Graftiaux , Belgian sport climber
• 1988: Hakan Arslan , Turkish soccer player
• 1988: Änis Ben-Hatira , German soccer player
• 1989: Semyon Sergeevich Antonov , Russian basketball player
• 1990: Oliver Schöpf , Austrian soccer player
• 1991: Florian Wünsche , German actor
• 1992: Bishop Briggs , British musician
• 1992: Matthias Musche , German handball player
• 1993: Nabil Fekir , French-Algerian football player
• 1993: Mats Rits , Belgian football player
• 1994: Christine Scheyer , Austrian ski racer
• 1998: Sivert Guttorm Bakken , Norwegian biathlete

21st century

• 2001: Enzo Fittipaldi , Brazilian racing car driver

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0640: Arnulf von Metz , progenitor and house saint of the Carolingians
• 0715: Muhammad ibn al-Qasim , Umayyad general
• 0838: Frederick I , Bishop of Utrecht
• 0969: Folcmar , Archbishop of Cologne
• 0984: Dietrich I , Bishop of Metz and writer
• 1038: Gunhild of Denmark , first wife of Henry III.
• 1046: Elias of Nisibis , Metropolitan of the East Syrian Church of the East
• 1100: Gottfried von Bouillon , Lorraine leader in the First Crusade
• 1180: Heinrich Raspe III. , Count von Gudensberg, younger son of Landgrave Ludwig II of Thuringia
• 1185: Stefan von Uppsala , Swedish clergyman and first archbishop of Old Uppsala
• 1228: Heinrich , Margrave of Istria-Carniola and Count von Stein
• 1300: Gerardo Segarelli , Italian sect leader, founder of the Apostle Brothers, burned as a heretic
• 1328: Engelbert II von der Mark , Count of Aremberg
• 1345: Adam Orleton , English clergyman, politician and diplomat
• 1346: Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Bishop of Minden
• 1361: William Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre , English military man and politician
• 1365: Lorenzo Celsi , 58th Doge of Venice
• 1384: Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabò Visconti and mistress of Reggio nell'Emilia
• 1389: Otto II , Count von Rietberg
• 1397: Heinrich III. , Count of Saar Werden
• 1427: Stefan Lazarević , Serbian despot and man of letters
• 1450: Francis I , Duke of Brittany
• 1474: Mahmud Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1478: Michael Apostolios , Greek scholar
• 1488: Alvise Cadamosto , Italian navigator and explorer

16th and 17th centuries

• 1516: Marco Vigerio della Rovere , Bishop of Senigallia and Ventimiglia, Cardinal Priest of S. Maria in Trastevere, Archbishop of Trani and Cardinal Bishop of Palestrina
• 1544: Renatus , first Prince of Orange from the House of Nassau
• 1550: Johannes Blasius , Swiss Protestant pastor and reformer
• 1556: Seraphin I von Taxis , Augsburg postmaster

Bartolomé de Las Casas († 1566)

• 1566: Bartolomé de Las Casas , Dominican and lawyer in the Spanish colonies in America
• 1569: Anton Lauterbach , German Lutheran theologian, superintendent in Pirna
• 1583: Johann Thal , German doctor and botanist
• 1591: Jacobus Gallus , Slovenian-Austrian composer
• 1592: Sibylle of Saxony , Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
• 1594: Lorenz Dürnhofer , German Protestant theologian
• 1595: Sibylle of Saxony , Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
• 1608: Marquard von Ahlefeldt , lord of Gut Haselau and Kaden
• 1608: Joachim Friedrich , Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia
• 1610: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , Italian painter of the early Baroque
• 1617: Dorothea Maria von Anhalt , Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
• 1620: Eva Hohenschildin , victim of the persecution of witches in Eichstätt
• 1620: Kunigunde Sterzl , victim of the witch persecution in Eichstätt
• 1628: Johann Friedrich , Duke of Württemberg
• 1639: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar , German general in the Thirty Years' War
• 1642: Wilhelm von Nassau-Siegen , Count of Nassau in Hilchenbach, Dutch general
• 1650: Christoph Scheiner , German Jesuit, optician and astronomer
• 1695: Johannes Camphuys , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1697: António Vieira , Portuguese Jesuit, theologian and missionary

18th century

• 1704: Benjamin Keach , English Baptist evangelist, pastor, song poet, and author
• 1709: Antonio Franchi , Italian painter and art theorist
• 1718: Friedrich Adolf , Count of Lippe-Detmold

Antoine Watteau († 1721)

• 1721: Antoine Watteau , French painter
• 1722: Johann Heinrich Hävecker , German theologian and histographer
• 1725: Franz Xaver Bovius , German Catholic priest and manufacturer of sundials
• 1727: Franz Anton von Harrach , Prince-Bishop of Vienna and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg
• 1729: Joseph Karl , Count Palatine and Hereditary Prince of Pfalz-Sulzbach
• 1730: François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy , French general and Marshal of France
• 1735: Johann Krieger , German organist and composer
• 1753: Johann Dietrich Busch , German organ builder
• 1760: Philippe Mercier , French-German painter
• 1764: Heinrich Giller , Swiss businessman and member of the Moravian Brethren
• 1765: Philip , Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla
• 1769: Christoph Jacob Trew German physician and botanist
• 1771: Alexei Grigoryevich Rasumovsky , Russian field marshal and lover of Empress Elisabeth Petrovna
• 1785: Stanislaw Czerniewicz , Polish order general
• 1792: John Paul Jones , Scottish pirate, naval hero, naval pioneer and freedom fighter
• 1795: Andreas Nitsche , Sorbian traveler and scholar

19th century

Jane Austen († 1817)

• 1817: Jane Austen , British writer
• 1826: Isaac Shelby , American officer and first governor of Kentucky
• 1837: Kasimir von Auer , German officer
• 1845: Giovanni Salucci , Italian architect
• 1849: Jonathan Bätz , Dutch organ builder
• 1868: Emanuel Leutze , American painter
• 1869: Laurent Clerc , American Deaf Teacher
• 1872: Benito Juárez , Mexican President
• 1873: Delos R. Ashley , American politician
• 1873: Ferdinand David , German composer
• 1875: Jane Griffin , British nobleman and adventurer
• 1875: Friedrich Lange , German painter
• 1876: Karl Simrock , German poet and writer
• 1877: Alexander von Frantzius , German medic, zoologist and anthropologist
• 1879: William Farquhar Barry , American general
• 1879: Karl von Weber , German historian
• 1881: Wilhelm Seyfferth , Leipzig banker, entrepreneur and railroad pioneer
• 1882: Carl Hesse , German organ builder in Vienna and Trieste

Ferdinand von Hochstetter († 1884)

• 1884: Ferdinand von Hochstetter , German geologist, natural scientist and explorer
• 1886: Friedrich Haas , German-Swiss organ builder
• 1889: Domingo Santa María González , Chilean President
• 1890: Lydia Becker , British suffragette
• 1890: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters , German astronomer
• 1891: Friedrich Fabri , German Protestant theologian and colonial politician
• 1892: Thomas Cook , British tourism pioneer, founder of the travel company of the same name
• 1894: Charles Leconte de Lisle , French poet
• 1895: Karl Schenk , Swiss Federal Councilor
• 1895: Stefan Stambolow , Bulgarian politician, prime minister, foreign minister
• 1898: Paul Aeby , Swiss politician
• 1898: Emil Hartmann , Danish composer
• 1898: Otto Ribbeck , German classical philologist
• 1899: Horatio Alger , American author

20th century

1901-1950

• 1901: Alfredo Piatti , Italian cello virtuoso and composer
• 1904: Friedrich Jakob Dochnahl , German naturalist and pomologist
• 1907: Hector Malot , French writer
• 1908: Otto Pfleiderer , German Protestant theologian
• 1911: Hermann Naftali Adler , Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom
• 1911: Friedrich Eichlam , German cactus researcher
• 1916: Mite Kremnitz , German writer

Elisabeth († 1918)

• 1918: Elisabeth , Grand Duchess of Russia
• 1918: Vladimir Pawlowitsch Paley , Russian nobleman and poet
• 1919: Élise Deroche , French pilot, first woman with a pilot's license
• 1923: Emanuel Hegenbarth , German painter
• 1931: Hermann Hendrich , German painter
• 1931: Oskar Minkowski , German physician
• 1933: Franz Sedlacek , Austrian football player and coach
• 1936: La Argentina , Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer
• 1937: Robert Fournier-Sarlovèze , French polo player and politician
• 1938: Marie of Edinburgh , Queen of Romania
• 1939: Witold Maliszewski , Polish composer
• 1939: Paul Schneider , German pastor and martyr
• 1942: Alfred Fane , British racing car driver and aviator
• 1942: Otto Schmitz , German lawyer and politician
• 1944: Wim Anderiesen , Dutch football player
• 1946: Draža Mihailović , Yugoslav general staff officer, war minister of the royal Yugoslav government in exile, Chetnik leader
• 1946: Gilbert de Rudder , pseudonym Grizzly , Belgian motorcycle racer
• 1948: Ede Telcs , Hungarian sculptor and medalist
• 1949: Bernhard Hoetger , German sculptor, painter and artisan
• 1949: Vítězslav Novák , Czech composer

1951-2000

• 1957: Johannes Böhm , German trade unionist and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1958: Henri Farman , French aviation pioneer
• 1960: Paco Escribano , Dominican humorist
• 1961: Wilhelm Appun , German politician
• 1961: Alfréd Deésy , Hungarian film director and actor
• 1964: Anne Dittmer , German painter and book illustrator
• 1966: Bobby Fuller , American musician and singer
• 1966: German Germanowitsch Galynin , Russian composer
• 1967: Humberto Castelo Branco , Brazilian President

Corneille Heymans († 1968)

• 1968: Corneille Heymans , Belgian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1969: Charlotte Armstrong , American author
• 1973: Jack Hawkins , British actor
• 1974: Andreas Predöhl , German economist
• 1976: Lucie Mannheim , German actress
• 1977: Josef Korbel , Czechoslovak diplomat and author
• 1979: Herbert Hennies , German actor, radio play speaker, writer and songwriter
• 1978: Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon , British nobleman and racing car driver
• 1979: Wolfgang Yourgrau , American social psychologist, physicist and journalist
• 1980: Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger , French pianist and music teacher
• 1982: Lionel Daunais , Canadian singer, opera director and composer
• 1982: Roman Ossipowitsch Jakobson , Russian philologist, linguist and semioticist
• 1986: Stanley Rous , British football official, FIFA President
• 1987: Gilberto Freyre , Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist
• 1988: Manfred Näslund , Swedish forest scientist

Nico († 1988)

• 1988: Nico , German model and singer
• 1989: Shmuel Rodensky , Israeli actor
• 1989: Rebecca Schaeffer , American film actress and model
• 1990: Sergio Hualpa , Argentine composer
• 1992: Helmut Schmid , German actor and director
• 1993: Jean Negulesco , American film director
• 1994: Sebastián Piana , Argentine tango composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1994: Jens Scheer , German nuclear physicist and opponent of nuclear power
• 1995: Fabio Casartelli , Italian racing cyclist
• 1996: Donny the Punk , American prisoner rights activist
• 1996: Hans Katzer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 1997: Eugene Shoemaker , American astronomer

21st century

• 2001: Fabio Taglioni , Italian motorcycle designer
• 2002: Hermann Appel , German engineer
• 2002: Hinrich Swieter , German district administrator and finance minister of Lower Saxony
• 2003: Rosalyn Tureck , American pianist
• 2005: Hannsheinz Bauer , German politician
• 2005: Jim Parker , American football player

William Westmoreland († 2005)

• 2005: William Westmoreland , American general
• 2007: Heinrich von Einsiedel , German politician and author
• 2007: Karl Seebach , German mathematician and didactician
• 2008: Rudi Hoffmann , German game designer
• 2008: Heinz Dieter Kittsteiner , German historian and Germanist, writer and philosopher
• 2012: Robert Kurz , German publicist and economist
• 2012: Frances Spence , American programmer
• 2013: Karl Czok , German historian
• 2013: Carline Ray , American jazz musician

Andreas Biermann († 2014)

• 2014: Andreas Biermann , German soccer player
• 2014: Dietmar Schönherr , Austrian actor and presenter
• 2015: George Coe , American actor and film producer
• 2015: Alex Rocco , American actor
• 2016: Sigi Maron , Austrian songwriter
• 2016: Matilda Rapaport , Swedish freeride athlete
• 2017: Max Gallo , French writer and politician
• 2017: Hansjürg Saager , Swiss entrepreneur
• 2018: Wolfgang Hufschmidt , German composer
• 2018: Burton Richter , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2019: Yukiya Amano , Japanese diplomat
• 2019: Luciano De Crescenzo , Italian writer and film director
• 2020: Elize Cawood , South African actress
• 2020: Eberhard Schockenhoff , German moral theologian and ethicist

Holidays and memorial days

• International Nelson Mandela Day
• Church memorial days
  • St. Odilia of Cologne , Cologne martyr (Protestant, Roman Catholic)
  • Paul Schneider (pastor) , German martyr (Protestant)
  • Saint Materno di Milano, Martyr of Milan
• Name days
  • Arnold , Arnulf , Friedrich

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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