November 18
The November 18 is the 322nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 323rd in leap years ), thus remain 43 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 794 : The Japanese Emperor Kammu moves his residence from Nagaoka-kyō to the newly founded Heian-kyō , today's Kyōto .
- 1210 : Pope Innocent III. excommunicated Emperor Otto IV , who was already under the ecclesiastical ban.
- 1282 : Because of his support of the Sicilian Vespers and the subsequent occupation of Sicily , King Peter III. excommunicated from Aragón by Pope Martin IV .
- 1705 : The Peace of Warsaw is concluded in the Great Northern War . King August II rejects the contract as only valid between Sweden and Poland-Lithuania , so that the Electorate of Saxony is still in a state of war.
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- 1738 : With the signing of the Peace of Vienna , Austria and France end the War of the Polish Succession . August III. is confirmed as the Polish King and the Pragmatic Sanction is recognized by France. The French candidate Stanislaus I. Leszczyński receives the duchies of Lorraine and Bar, which are to fall to France after his death.
- 1803 : After the reintroduction of slavery in the French colonies by Napoleon Bonaparte , the rebellious blacks in the French part of Hispaniola under Jean-Jacques Dessalines defeat the French decisively at the Battle of Vertières and thus finally fight for the independence of Haiti .
- 1837 : The Göttingen Seven (seven professors) of the University of Göttingen submit a written protest against the withdrawal of the liberal constitution by their sovereign, King Ernst August I of Hanover .
- 1841 : In the Battle of Ingavi , the Bolivians under General José Ballivián Segurola defeat the Peruvian army that had invaded the country, headed by President Agustín Gamarra . This ends the Peruvian-Bolivian War .
- 1849 : The Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia is separated from Hungary and becomes a separate crown land in the Habsburg Monarchy . The loyalty of the Illyrian movement to the Habsburg government in the turmoil of the revolution is thus honored.
- 1851 : After the death of King Ernst August I , his son Georg V takes over the reign of the Kingdom of Hanover .
- 1876 : France and Great Britain take over debt management from Egypt , which announces its bankruptcy .
- 1901 : The second Hay Pauncefote treaty with Great Britain secures the USA sole rights to the Panama Canal . The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty of 1850 is thus null and void.
- 1903 : The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty between the USA and Panama is signed in Washington DC, which gives the USA the Panama Canal Zone and sovereign rights .
- 1905 : After the personal union with Sweden was dissolved , the Norwegian Storting elects Prince Carl of Denmark as Håkon VII .
- 1914 : The First Battle of Flanders in World War I , which began on October 20th, is ended.
- 1916 : The Battle of the Somme , the battle with the greatest losses in World War I , ends in a draw.
- 1916 : The purchase of supposed whale meat from Norway triggers the Haakjöringsköd case , which is considered a prime example of the legal principle of falsa demonstratio non nocet .
- 1918 : The Latvian People's Council proclaims Latvia's independence .
- 1919 : Paul von Hindenburg is with his testimony before the public day exploratory investigation committee of the National Assembly on the causes of the defeat in the First World War the Dolchstoßlegende new food.
- 1926 : The Dominions of the British Empire are recognized as independent states, resulting in the formation of the Commonwealth of Nations .
- 1934 : Richard Evelyn Byrd discovers the extinct shield volcano Mount Sidley in Antarctica from an airplane .
- 1943 : Beginning of the air battle for Berlin .
- 1962 : In the national elections in Austria , the ÖVP with Federal Chancellor Alfons Gorbach becomes the party with the most votes and seats.
- 1974 : 5,000 people come to the funeral of RAF member Holger Meins in Hamburg-Stellingen .
- 1981 : At the end of the second decade of peace in the GDR , swords-to-plowshares patches were distributed, making the symbol popular outside of church circles.
- 1983 : Nine young Georgians try in vain to flee to Turkey in the Tbilisi plane hijacking.
- 1988 : In the GDR the delivery of the Soviet magazine Sputnik is stopped. As part of the Soviet glasnost and perestroika policy, the GDR leadership disseminated undesirable information in the magazine.
- 1991 : The Yugoslav People's Army and Serbian Freischärlerverbände conquer since 2 May besieged town of Vukovar in Croatia war and begin immediately following the Battle of Vukovar with ethnic cleansing in the city.
- 1996 : On Nauru , the smallest republic in the world, Bernard Dowiyogo wins the parliamentary elections against Lagumot Harris . Due to continued French He finished nuclear tests on the Mururoa - Atoll also equal diplomatic relations with France .
- 2001 : Georgi Parvanov wins the elections and becomes President of Bulgaria for the first time
- 2002 : The demolition of the first high-rise from GDR times, which was built in the 1970s, begins in Europe's largest prefabricated housing estate, Berlin-Marzahn .
- 2004 : The reorganized EU Commission of Commission President Barroso is approved by a majority by the European Parliament .
economy
- 1996 : The first IPO of Deutsche Telekom AG pursues the goal of improving the company's equity base on the one hand and demonstrating the efficiency and importance of Germany as a financial center on the other . Through the sale of around 713.7 million shares , Telekom will receive around 10 billion euros in “fresh funds”.
science and technology
- 1865 : Pneumatic post systems : A first line of the Berlin pneumatic dispatching system is put into operation.
- 1978 : The US F-18 Hornet fighter aircraft completes its maiden flight.
- 1994 : The European Patent Office in Munich grants a patent for a genetically modified " anti-slush tomato " developed in the USA .
- 2013 : The MAVEN space probe to explore the atmosphere of the planet Mars is launched.
Culture
- 1659 : The comedy The Ridiculous Precious by Molière premieres.
- 1662 : The first performance of the drama La Zenobia di Radamisto by Antonio Bertali takes place at the Hofburg in Vienna .
- 1752 : The first performance of the opera Le Jaloux corrigé by Michel Blavet takes place in the Château de Berny .
- 1867 : The opera Helden (orig .: Bogatyri ) by Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin is premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
- 1898 : The world premiere of the musical tragedy Don Quixote by Wilhelm Kienzl takes place in Berlin .
- 1905 : The premiere of the operetta Prinzess Rosine by Paul Lincke takes place at the Apollo Theater in Berlin .
- 1908 : The first edition of the Franco-German daily Ottomanischer Lloyd appears in Constantinople .
- 1916 ; PG Wodehouse : The American newspaper The Saturday Evening Post appears for the first time. Jeeves takes the helm , the short story that describes the first meeting of Bertie and Jeeves .
- 1927 : The opera La Campana sommersa ( The Sunken Bell ) by Ottorino Respighi is premiered at the Hamburg State Opera .
- 1928 : Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse made his first big appearance in the animated film Steamboat Willie , one of the first with sound .
- 1932 : At the Leipzig Schauspielhaus is Odon von Horvath's socially critical popular play Kasimir and Karoline premiered.
- 1943 : The novel Das Glasperlenspiel by Hermann Hesse is published.
- 1959 : The film Ben Hur, directed by William Wyler, premieres in New York City .
- 1985 : In the United States, the first is a comic strip about Calvin and Hobbes published. He made his illustrator Bill Watterson known to a wide audience.
- 1993 : The grunge band Nirvana plays an unplugged concert in New York , which is later released on CD.
religion
- 1095 : The Synod of Clermont begins, which Pope Urban II convened to promote stricter observance of moral values, but also a crusade to liberate the Holy Land .
- 1105 : The Archpriest Maginus, elected by the Roman nobility as antipope to the incumbent Paschal II , is consecrated and enthroned as Pope on New Year's Eve IV .
- 1302 : The bull Unam Sanctam of Pope Boniface VIII , which was created not least because of the dispute with Philip the Beautiful of France and which tries to prove the Pope's claim to absolute authority in all questions of faith and worldly, is dated, but possibly only in the following Year published.
- 1626 : St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is inaugurated by Pope Urban VIII after a construction period of 120 years.
- 1893 : In the published encyclical Providentissimus Deus , Leo XIII. for the first time a Pope position on biblical studies .
- 1907 : In the Motu Proprio Praestantia Scripturae , Pope Pius X imposes the penalty of excommunication against modernists .
- 1926 : Pope Pius XI is outraged by the persecution of the Church in Mexico . in the encyclical Iniquis afflictisque .
- 1965 : The Second Vatican Council adopts the Document Dei Verbum , which was published by Pope Paul VI. is then solemnly promulgated .
- 1965 : Appeal of the Polish bishops to their German colleagues for reconciliation .
- 1978 : In the Guyanese jungle occurs in the northwest of the country to the mass suicide of over 900 followers of the Peoples Temple Christian Church of Jim Jones .
- 1988 : Rita Waschbüsch, a woman , becomes chairwoman of the Central Committee of German Catholics for the first time .
Disasters
- 1421 : The Elisabeth flood causes great damage in the area around Dordrecht and Rotterdam. Thousands of people - estimates range as high as 10,000 - drown. The Biesbosch nature reserve is created by the flood.
- 1905 : On the Breton coast, the British steamship Hilda rams a reef in a snow storm off the island of Cézembre and sinks. 125 people die.
- 1939 : The Dutch ocean liner Simon Bolivar runs into a German minefield near Harwich and sinks after two serious explosions. 102 people die.
- 1987 : In King's Cross St. Pancras Underground Station, London , a match sets a major fire in which 31 people die and over 60 people are injured.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1892 : William Heffelfinger becomes the first American football player to receive a salary for playing for the Allegheny Athletic Association against the rival Pittsburg Athletic Association team . He receives $ 500 and travel expenses, making him the first American football professional .
- 1970 : Joe Frazier defends his heavyweight boxing title against Bob Foster at Cobo Arena , Detroit , by knocking out.
- 1994 : Roy Jones Jr. wins the World Super Middleweight Boxing Championship by beating James Toney .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 709 : Konin , 49th Emperor of Japan
- 1301 : Catherine de Valois-Courtenay , titular empress of Constantinople and regent of the Principality of Achaia
- 1417 : Gallus Kemli , Benedictine monk in the monastery of St. Gallen
- 1425 : Kunigunde von Sternberg , wife of the future King of Bohemia, Georg von Podebrady
- 1522 : Lamoral Count von Egmont , Dutch freedom fighter
- 1527 : Luca Cambiaso , Italian painter
- 1576 : Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1584 : Caspar de Crayer , Flemish painter
- 1586 : Michail Wassiljewitsch Skopin-Schuiski , Russian military leader and statesman
- 1611 : Andreas Tscherning , German writer
- 1630 : Eleonora Magdalena of Mantua-Nevers-Gonzaga , third wife of Emperor Ferdinand III.
- 1640 : Willem de Vlamingh , Dutch navigator and explorer
- 1647 : Pierre Bayle , French philosopher
- 1652 : Christfried Wächtler , German lawyer and polyhistor
- 1677 : Just Wiedewelt , Danish sculptor
- 1699 : Leonard Offerhaus , German historian in the Netherlands
- 1711 : Franz Töpsl , German theologian
- 1716 : Andreas Rehberger , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet
- 1724 : Johannes Daniël van Lennep , Dutch philologist
- 1724 : Johann Georg Schulthess , Swiss clergyman
- 1725 : Martin Knoller , fresco painter in southern Germany and Austria
- 1736 : Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch , Prussian musician, composer, music teacher and choir director
- 1736 : George Fordyce , Scottish physician and chemist
- 1736 : Anton Graff , Swiss portrait painter
- 1746 : Maria Leopoldine von Anhalt-Dessau , Princess of Lippe-Detmold
- 1768 : Zacharias Werner , German poet and playwright
- 1769 : August Christian Friedrich , Duke of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1771 : Friedrich Christian Heylmann , Holstein architect
- 1785 : David Wilkie , British painter
- 1787 : Louis Daguerre , French painter and photography pioneer
- 1796 : Karl Arnold-Obrist , Swiss bishop
Pierre Bayle
(* 1647)
Anton Graff
(* 1736)
Louis Daguerre
(* 1787)
19th century
- 1803 : Lars Anton Anjou , Swedish church historian, politician and clergyman
- 1804 : Karl Weigand , German Germanist
- 1805 : Carl Alexander Simon , German painter and poet
- 1812 : Hermann Albert Daniel , German writer
- 1820 : James W. Abert , American engineer officer and cartographer
- 1828 : John Langdon Down , British neurologist
- 1831 : Johannes Bosscha , Dutch physicist
- 1831 : Karl Rudolf Seyerlen , German Protestant theologian
- 1832 : Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld , Swedish polar explorer
- 1836 : William S. Gilbert , British playwright
- 1836 : Máximo Gómez , Cuban general of the Wars of Independence from 1868 to 1898
- 1837 : Ferdinand Krukenfellner , Austro-Hungarian stonemason and sculptor
- 1839 : August Kundt , German physicist
- 1844 : Albert Wangerin , German mathematician
- 1847 : Eliška Krásnohorská , Czech writer
- 1847 : Hermann von Tappeiner , Austrian physician and pharmacologist
- 1849 : Matthias Joseph de Noël , German businessman, writer and art collector
- 1860 : Ignacy Jan Paderewski , Polish pianist and politician
- 1863 : Richard Dehmel , German poet and writer
- 1875 : Adela Wilgocka , Polish singer and vocal teacher
- 1876 : Victor Hémery , French racing car driver
- 1877 : Arthur Cecil Pigou , British economist
- 1880 : Paul Maas , German classical philologist
- 1881 : Karl Gösta Åsbrink , Swedish athlete
- 1882 ; Édouard Brisson , French racing car driver
- 1882 : Amelita Galli-Curci , Italian coloratura soprano
- 1882 : Wyndham Lewis , British writer and painter, co-founder of Vorticism
- 1887 : Lucia Apicella , Italian philanthropist
- 1887 : Peter Christel Asmussen , German politician
- 1887 : Luigi Ferraris , Italian football player
- 1888 : Georg Adlmüller , German architect and construction officer
- 1888 : Jakob Ahrer , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1889 : Ernst von Leyser , German general
- 1889 : Hans Reimann , German writer, playwright and screenwriter
- 1895 : Lindley Evans , Australian pianist, music educator and composer
- 1896 : César Pérez Sentenat , Cuban composer
- 1897 : Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1900 : Don Hartman , American composer, film director, film producer and screenwriter
- 1900 : Wanda Wermińska , Polish opera singer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Lillian Fuchs , American violist, music teacher and composer
- 1903 : Roland Anderson , American production designer
- 1904 : Mihai Antonescu , Romanian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs
- 1905 : Lothar von Heinemann , German general
- 1906 : Sait Faik , Turkish writer
- 1906 : Alec Issigonis , British automobile designer ( Austin Mini )
- 1906 : Klaus Mann , German-American writer
- 1906 : Ōta Yōko , Japanese writer
- 1906 : Guido Wieland , Austrian actor, director and operetta buffo
- 1907 : Gustav Nezval , Czech actor
- 1907 : Compay Segundo , Cuban musician ( Buena Vista Social Club )
- 1909 : Johnny Mercer , American singer, composer, and songwriter
- 1909 : Valdemar Söderholm , Swedish composer
- 1910 : Friedrich Weinreb , Hasidic sage, narrator and writer
- 1911 : Alfred Bauer , German lawyer and film historian, first director of the Berlinale
- 1911 : Attilio Bertolucci , Italian poet, literary critic and translator
- 1911 : Pierre Bonnard , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1911 : Herbert Alois Kraus , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1912 : Walter Schulz , German philosopher
- 1914 : Alfred Abegg , Swiss politician
- 1914 : Anatols Imermanis , Latvian writer
- 1915 : Carlos Alberto Débole , Argentine poet
- 1915 : Alfred Nakache , French swimmer
- 1920 : Mustafa Chalil , Egyptian politician
- 1920 : Louis Mennini , American composer and music teacher
- 1921 : Chabua Amiredschibi , Georgian writer
- 1921 : Lia Frank , Russian-German writer
- 1922 : Marjorie Gestring , American water diver
- 1923 : Robert Graf , German actor
- 1923 : Alan Shepard , American astronaut, first American in space
- 1925 : Gerd Bacher , Austrian journalist and ORF general director
1926-1950
- 1927 : Liane Augustin , Austrian singer, Diseuse, actress and voice actress
- 1927 : Hank Ballard , American singer and songwriter
- 1927 : Carmen Delia Dipiní , Puerto Rican singer
- 1927 : Klaus Poche , German writer, screenwriter and illustrator
- 1928 : Sheila Jordan , American jazz singer
- 1928 : Rudolf Spengler , German handball player and handball trainer
- 1930 : Jerzy Artysz , Polish singer
- 1931 : Francis Lacassin , French journalist, writer and screenwriter
- 1931 : Wolfgang Wickler , German behavioral scientist
- 1932 : Nasif Estéfano , Argentine racing car driver
- 1933 : Wolfgang Krebs , German geologist and university professor
- 1933 : Charlotte Moorman , American musician
- 1934 : Vassilis Vassilikos , Greek writer
- 1935 : Rudolf Bahro , German philosopher
- 1935 : Alain Barrière French singer and composer
- 1936 : Ennio Antonelli , Italian theologian, Archbishop of Florence, Cardinal to the Curia
- 1936 : Don Cherry , American musician
- 1937 : Ulrich Wildgruber , German actor
- 1938 : Karl Schranz , Austrian ski racer
- 1939 : Margaret Atwood , Canadian writer
- 1939 : Werner Gräber , German football player
- 1939 : Amanda Lear , singer, painter, presenter, writer and actress
- 1940 : Adriano Aprà , Italian author and film critic
- 1940 : Rainer Funke , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1940 : Qabus ibn Said , Omani Sultan
- 1941 : David Hemmings , British actor
- 1941 : Klaus Hildebrand , German historian
- 1942 : Menno Aden , German legal scholar and lawyer
- 1942 : Héctor Casanova , Cuban singer and composer
- 1942 : Linda Evans , American actress
- 1942 : Fernando Sandoval , Brazilian water polo player
- 1943 : Leonardo Sandri , Argentine Curia Cardinal
- 1944 : Ibrahim Böhme , German politician, co-founder of the SDP / SPD in the GDR
- 1944 : Wolfgang Joop , German fashion designer
- 1945 : Mahinda Rajapaksa , Sri Lankan President
- 1945 : Mark Tushnet , American civil rights activist
- 1946 : Alan Dean Foster , American science fiction writer
- 1948 : Ana Mendieta , American performance artist
- 1948 : Manfred Morgan , German pop singer, composer, lyricist
- 1949 : Carl Sture Mikael Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1949 : Herman Rarebell , German musician
- 1949 : Bonnie St. Claire Dutch singer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Alan Moon , British game designer
- 1951 : Klaus-Peter Schweizer , German musician and pop singer
- 1952 : Harald Konopka , German soccer player
- 1952 : Karl-Georg Wellmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952 : Paul Wengert , German politician, MdL
- 1953 : Alan Moore , British comic book writer
- 1953 : Hartmut Volle , German actor
- 1954 : Christoph Wilhelm Aigner , Austrian writer and translator
- 1954 : John Parr , British singer and songwriter
- 1954 : Renate Franz , German journalist and author
- 1955 : Sandro R. Müller , German organist
- 1957 : Marie Colbin , Austrian actress
- 1957 : Olivia Heussler , Swiss artist, video and photo journalist, agency founder
- 1957 : Andreas Schilling , German composer, film composer and double bass player
- 1958 : Shirley Strong , British athlete
- 1959 : Cindy Blackman , American jazz drummer
- 1959 : Ulrich Noethen , German actor
- 1959 : Karla Faye Tucker , American double murderer
- 1960 : Gabriele Arenberger , Austrian politician
- 1960 : Elizabeth Perkins , American actress
- 1960 : Conny Restle , German musicologist and museum director
- 1960 : Kim Wilde , British singer and songwriter
- 1961 : John Andersen , Danish football player
- 1961 : Betty Legler , Swiss singer and songwriter
- 1962 : Kirk Hammett , American lead guitarist ( Metallica )
- 1963 : Peter Schmeichel , Danish football player
- 1964 : Daniel Aceves Villagran , Mexican wrestler
- 1964 : Jan-Friedrich Conrad , German composer, publicist and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy
- 1964 : Peter Segler , German writer, editor and publisher
- 1965 : Bernd Angerer , Austrian special effects animator
- 1965 : Heinz Gröning , German cabaret artist and musician
- 1965 : Eckart von Klaeden , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1965 : Michael Wagner , German biologist
- 1966 : Charlotte Laurier , Canadian actress
- 1966 : LaVonna Martin , American athlete
- 1966 : Marusha , German-Greek DJ and presenter, music producer and actress
- 1966 : Markos Ghebremedhin , Ethiopian bishop
- 1967 : Steffen Tippach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1968 : Romany Malco , American actor
- 1968 : Alexander Wesselsky , German rock singer ( Eisbrecher ) and television presenter ( Der Checker )
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- 1968 : Owen Wilson , American actor
- 1969 : Duncan Sheik , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1969 : Sam Cassell , American basketball player
- 1970 : Anna Loos , German actress and singer
- 1970 : Peta Wilson , Australian actress
- 1971 : Ilka Bessin , German stand-up comedian ( Cindy from Marzahn )
- 1971 : Tom Reed , American politician
- 1972 : Andrea Zinsli , Swiss ski racer
- 1973 : Sammi Adjei , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1973 : Darko Kovačević , Serbian football player
- 1974 : Sven Felski , German ice hockey player
- 1974 : Chloë Sevigny , American actress
- 1974 : Petter Solberg , Norwegian rally driver
- 1975 : Lucy Akhurst , British actress, director and film producer
- 1975 : Altin Lala , Albanian football player
- 1975 : Anthony McPartlin , British presenter
- 1975 : Kristian Poulsen , Danish racing car driver
- 1975 : Alecs Recher , Swiss politician
1976-2000
- 1976 : Vincent Assmann , German film editor
- 1976 : Sage Francis , American rapper
- 1976 : Patrick Glöckner , German soccer player and coach
- 1976 : Tina Landgraf , German actress
- 1976 : Matt Welsh , Australian swimmer
- 1976 : Stian Tomt Thoresen , Norwegian singer ( Dimmu Borgir )
- 1977 : Fabolous , American rapper
- 1977 : Heiko Grimm , German handball player
- 1977 : Deiniol Jones , Welsh rugby player
- 1978 : Grover Gibson , American football player
- 1978 : Shaham Joyce , American pop singer
- 1978 : Andris Nelsons , Latvian conductor
- 1980 : Christian Zeitz , German handball player
- 1981 : Christina Vidal , American actress
- 1981 : Maggie's stepfather , American author
- 1982 : Gracia Baur , German pop singer
- 1982 : Freyr Alexandersson , Icelandic football player and coach
- 1983 : Michael Dawson , English soccer player
- 1984 : François Bourque , Canadian ski racer
- 1984 : Anna Loerper , German handball player
- 1984 : Sabin Tambrea , German actor
- 1985 : Melanie Behringer , German soccer player
- 1985 : Allyson Felix , American athlete
- 1985 : Max Hemmersdorfer , German actor
- 1986 : Georgia King , Scottish actress
- 1987 : Jacob Allen Abel , American actor
- 1988 : Max Buskohl , German singer
- 1988 : Andreas Niederquell , German soccer player
- 1989 : Nathan Michael Elasi , Australian soccer player
- 1990 : Bálint Bajner , Hungarian football player
- 1990 : Paul Hofer , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Noémie Schmidt , Swiss actress
- 1991 : Nikias Arndt , German track and road cyclist
- 1992 : Apti Khamsatowitsch Auchadow , Russian weightlifter
- 1992 : Emanuel Buchmann , German racing cyclist
- 1992 : Nathan Kress , American actor
- 1992 : Steven Skrzybski , German soccer player
Died
Before the 19th century
Albrecht the Bear
(† 1170)
Abraham father
(† 1751)
Wilhelm Hauff
(† 1827)
August Wilhelm Schynse
(† 1891)
- 901 : Adelheid of Friuli , Queen of West Franconia
- 942 : Odo von Cluny , abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny and monastery reformer
- 993 : Arnulf , Count of Holland
- 1052 : Aaron von St. Martin in Cologne , Benedictine abbot and music theorist
- 1154 : Adelheid of Savoy , Queen of France
- 1170 : Albrecht the Bear , Margrave of Brandenburg
- 1189 : William II , King of Sicily
- 1269 : Widukind von Waldeck , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 1306 : Giselbert von Brunkhorst , Archbishop of Bremen
- 1330 : Werner von Orseln , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1331 : Wilhelm I , Count von Katzenelnbogen
- 1349 : Friedrich the Serious , Margrave of Meißen and Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1427 : Johann Bantzkow , German merchant, mayor of the Hanseatic city of Wismar
- 1439 : Agnes II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen , abbess of the Gandersheim monastery
- 1439 : Anna , Countess of Veldenz
- 1463 : Johann IV. , Duke of Bavaria-Munich
- 1472 : Bessarion , Byzantine humanist
- 1482 : Gedik Ahmed Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1575 : Johannes Aurifaber , German theologian
- 1577 : Sebastian Schertlin von Burtenbach , German Landsknechtsführer
- 1590 : George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury , English nobleman and guardian of Mary Queen of Scots
- 1626 : Georg Erasmus von Tschernembl , Calvinist and spokesman for the estates in Upper Austria above the Enns
- 1630 : Rambold XIII. von Collalto , general under Emperor Ferdinand II.
- 1678 : Giovanni Maria Bononcini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1683 : Louis de Bourbon , Count of Vermandois, illegitimate son of Louis XIV.
- 1688 : Matthias Wasmuth , German orientalist and Lutheran theologian
- 1711 : Johann Sigmund von Kuenburg , Prince-Bishop of Lavant and Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee
- 1720 : Kaspar Waldmann , Tyrolean painter
- 1724 : Bartolomeu de Gusmão , Portuguese Jesuit priest, scientist and inventor in Brazil
- 1736 : Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes , lover of King Viktor Amadeus I of Sardinia-Piedmont
- 1751 : Abraham father , German physician and philosopher
- 1773 : Johann Caspar Heimburg , German legal scholar
- 1785 : Louis-Philippe I de Bourbon , Duke of Orléans
19th century
- 1821 : Johann Kaspar Gensler , German legal scholar
- 1822 : George K. Jackson , American composer
- 1823 : Jean-Nicolas Pache , French politician
- 1827 : Wilhelm Hauff , German writer and storyteller
- 1828 : Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Perlet , German educator and philologist
- 1830 : Franco Andrea Bonelli , Italian zoologist and ornithologist
- 1830 : Adam Weishaupt , German founder of the Illuminati Order
- 1841 : Agustín Gamarra , President of Peru
- 1843 : Armand Beauvais , American politician
- 1844 : Antonín Machek , Czech painter
- 1844 : José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra , Argentine general
- 1848 : Karl Gottlob Prinz , German veterinarian
- 1852 : Anton Bernhard Fürstenau , German flautist and composer
- 1856 : Mikhail Voronzow , Russian politician
- 1857 : Johann Ludwig von Bernuth , Prussian civil servant
- 1875 : Heinrich Leonhard von Arnim-Heinrichsdorf , German politician
- 1886 : Chester A. Arthur , American politician, President of the USA
- 1887 : Gustav Theodor Fechner , German physicist and philosopher
- 1891 : August Wilhelm Schynse , German missionary, Africa explorer and cartographer
- 1892 : Hannes Finsen , Icelandic lawyer and civil servant in Denmark
- 1900 : Ernst Eckstein , German writer
- 1900 : Anna Vorwerk , German women's rights activist
20th century
1901-1950
Marcel Proust
(† 1922)
Niels Bohr
(† 1962)
Man Ray
(† 1976)
- 1913 : Johannes Christoph Achelis , German businessman and entrepreneur
- 1913 : John Foster McCreight , Canadian politician
- 1919 : Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis , Dutch politician
- 1919 : Adolf Hurwitz , German mathematician
- 1922 : Marcel Proust , French writer and critic ( In search of lost time )
- 1926 : Konrad Agahd , German writer, educator and journalist
- 1926 : Carl Ethan Akeley , American hunter, taxidermist, naturalist, professor, artist, and inventor
- 1928 : Mauritz Stiller , Swedish silent film director
- 1930 : Käthe Schirmacher , German women's rights activist
- 1931 : Charles-Maurice Couyba , French politician and writer
- 1934 : Pietro Gasparri , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
- 1939 : Martha Müller-Grählert , German writer
- 1940 : Hermann Aichele , German administrative officer
- 1940 : Benjamin Auerbach , German doctor
- 1940 : Ivan Jawachishvili , Georgian scientist, founder of the University of Tbilisi
- 1941 : Walther Nernst , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1949 : Elmer Ivan Applegate , American botanist
1951-1975
- 1952 : Paul Éluard , French writer
- 1952 : Dutch Speck , American football player
- 1953 : Ruth Crawford Seeger , American composer
- 1958 : Henry Nielsen , Danish middle and long distance runner
- 1962 : Niels Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1963 : Kurt Arnold Findeisen , German writer
- 1964 : Henri Théodore Pigozzi , Franco-Italian merchant and industrialist
- 1966 : Béla Tardos , Hungarian composer
- 1967 : Henri Nibelle , French organist and composer
- 1970 : Arthur Laumann , German officer and fighter pilot
- 1971 : Rudolf Kopf , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1971 : Junior Parker , American singer
- 1972 : Segundo Luis Moreno , Ecuadorian composer
- 1973 : Alois Hába , Czech composer
- 1973 : Thomas Peter McKeefry , New Zealand priest, Archbishop of Wellington, cardinal
- 1974 : Juan Francisco García , Dominican composer
- 1975 : August Anhalt , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- 1975 : Herbert Gute , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Dresden
1976-2000
- 1976 : Christopher Addison , British peer
- 1976 : Man Ray , American photographer, film director, painter and object artist of Dadaism, Surrealism and modernism
- 1977 : Kurt Schuschnigg , Austrian politician, Minister of Justice and Education, Federal Chancellor
- 1978 : Jim Jones , American cult leader of the Peoples Temple
- 1978 : Lennie Tristano , American jazz musician
- 1982 : Anton Biersack , German composer
- 1982 : Heinar Kipphardt , German writer, representative of the documentary theater ( In the case of J. Robert Oppenheimer, brother Eichmann )
- 1983 : Ivan Albright , American painter
- 1983 : Valentin Chorell , Finnish-Swedish writer and screenwriter
- 1984 : Osvaldo Fresedo , Argentinian musician and arranger, band leader, composer and lyricist
- 1984 : Alexander Schläffer , Austrian nativity scene maker
- 1985 : Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due , Norwegian violinist and music teacher
- 1987 : Jacques Anquetil , French professional cyclist
- 1988 : Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht , German politician
- 1989 : Freddie Waits , American jazz drummer
- 1990 : Wolfgang Büttner , German actor
- 1991 : Gustáv Husák , Czechoslovak lawyer and politician, President
- 1991 : Eugen York , German director and screenwriter
- 1993 : Fritz Feld , German-American actor
- 1993 : Arvid Fladmoe , Norwegian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1994 : Maurice Auslander , American mathematician
- 1994 : Cab Calloway , American jazz singer and band leader
- 1999 : Douglas Wayne Sahm , American country, blues and rock musician
- 2000 : Ibo , German singer
21st century
- 2002 : James Coburn , American actor
- 2003 : Michael Kamen , American composer
- 2004 : Juan Carlos Aramburu , Argentine clergyman, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, cardinal
- 2004 : Robert Bacher , American nuclear physicist
- 2004 : Cy Coleman , American composer
- 2006 : Achim Höppner , German actor
- 2006 : Hans-Jürgen Treder , German theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
- 2008 : Wolfgang Scheffler , German political scientist and historian
- 2009 : FRC Clarke , Canadian organist, choir director, composer and music teacher
- 2009 : Jeanne-Claude , French-American artist
- 2010 : Brian Marsden , British astronomer
- 2015 : Jonah Lomu , New Zealand rugby player
- 2015 : Rudolf von Thadden , German historian
- 2017 : Azzedine Alaïa , Tunisian fashion designer
- 2017 : Friedel Rausch , German soccer player and coach
- 2017 : Malcolm Young , British-Australian rock musician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Ludwig Hofacker , German pastor and revival preacher (Protestant)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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