19. December
The December 19 is the 353rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 354th in leap years ), thus remain 12 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 1154: With the accession to the throne of the Count of Anjou , Henry II , the House of Plantagenet in England comes to power.
- 1475: The King Louis XI. Accused of high treason and sentenced to death, Louis I of Luxembourg , a connétable of France , is beheaded on the Place de Grève in Paris .
- 1562: The troops of the French Protestants under the command of Ludwig I Prince of Condé and Admiral Gaspard of Coligny lose the Battle of Dreux in the First Huguenot War . Ludwig is captured by the Catholic army under François de Lorraine, duc de Guise .
- 1652: France's King Louis XIV. Can Cardinal de Retz because of its interference in the politics of the day and arrested in state prison in the Donjon of Vincennes imprison.
- 1692: Duke Ernst August von Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg becomes the ninth elector in the Holy Roman Empire . The Electorate of Hanover is created by amalgamating its rulers.
- 1741: Charles I Albrecht of Bavaria is in Prague during the Austrian War of Succession to the Czech king crowned.
- 1783: William Pitt the Younger becomes British Prime Minister. At 24 he is the youngest in the history of the office.
- 1793: During the First Coalition War, the French Revolutionary Army recaptured the English- occupied Toulon .
- 1842: The United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii .
- 1924: The German writer Erich Mühsam is released early from the prison to which he was sentenced for participating in the Munich Soviet Republic .
- 1941: Adolf Hitler takes over the supreme command of the German Wehrmacht in World War II in place of the dismissed Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch .
- 1945: In Vienna, the Austrian State Chancellor Karl Renner opens the first National Council and Federal Council meeting after the Second World War .
- 1946: French troops overthrow the government of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam Hanoi . The Việt Minh go after an attack on the city located in the French garrison in the ground and begin the Indochina War led struggle against foreign rule.
- 1958: In Bern, the Swiss parliament passes the Road Traffic Act (SVG) SR no. 741.01.
- 1965: French President Charles de Gaulle wins the runoff election against François Mitterrand .
- 1975: A German-German agreement on the expansion of the transit routes to Berlin is concluded.
- 1980: Great Britain completes the separation of Anguilla from St. Kitts and Nevis - requested by Anguilla .
- 1982: In the early elections for the Hamburg citizenship , the SPD brings back the absolute majority under First Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi .
- 1984: Under the motto One Country, Two Systems , the Sino-British Joint Declaration on Hong Kong between the People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom on Hong Kong's future status is signed in Beijing .
- 1986: The Soviet regime critic Andrei Sakharov is rehabilitated by the Soviet government and is allowed to return to Moscow from exile .
- 1992: The first free and democratic election of the Legislative Yuan of the Republic of China since 1947 takes place. The Kuomintang emerges from this as the strongest party.
- 1993: The first democratic presidential elections take place in Guinea . President Lansana Conté is confirmed in office.
- 1996: The Swiss Federal Council sets the Bergier Commission , which as part of the process to Jewish assets in Swiss banks to investigate the whereabouts of assets during the Second World War in Switzerland have been transferred.
- 1998: The House of Representatives in Washington, DC is right for impeachment against President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of the US Congress .
- 2001: During the Argentina crisis , violence breaks out in Buenos Aires among cacerolazos, who are massively supported by the population, against restricting cash withdrawals. Including the following day, 28 people die. The government only allows a maximum of 250 pesos per week to be withdrawn per account in the so-called Corralito in order to limit the escape into US dollars .
- 2010: The incumbent Lukashenko wins the presidential election in Belarus .
- 2012: The conservative politician Park Geun-hye ( Saenuri party ) becomes the first woman to win the presidential election in South Korea .
- 2016: A truck attacked the Berlin Christmas market at the Memorial Church killed twelve people and injured 57 others.
business
- 1887: The German Colonial Society is founded through the merger of the German Colonial Society and the Society for German Colonization with its headquarters in Berlin. The main activity of the society consists in the propagation of an expansive colonial policy.
- 1932: During a test drive, the Fliegende Hamburger covers the distance between Berlin and Hamburg in the record time of 142 minutes. The express railcar started operating on schedule from May 15, 1933.
- 1968: The extended Zeekanal Gent – Terneuzen , which is also suitable for seagoing vessels , is opened and opened to traffic by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Baudouin I , King of the Belgians .
science and technology
- 1666: Under the government of Sweden's underage King Charles XI. which is Lund University founded.
- 1705: The Dutch hydraulic engineer and cartographer Nicolaus Samuelis Cruquius begins in Delft as one of the first in the world with regular meteorological recordings ( temperature , air pressure , humidity , precipitation ). This means that uninterrupted weather records have existed in the Netherlands since 1706.
- 1801: The University of South Carolina is founded in Columbia, South Carolina .
- 1912: The Universidade Federal do Paraná is established in Curitiba in the Brazilian state of Paraná .
- 1938: Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann search for transuranium elements in a uranium sample irradiated with neutrons and find traces of the element barium . Hahn wrote to Lise Meitner to inform him of what happened inexplicably when he discovered nuclear fission .
- 1949: In Yogyakarta is the Gadjah Mada University , the first public university in Indonesia founded.
- 1970: Kurt Cannon flies a new world record for helicopters at 355.5 km / h with his Sikorsky S-67 Blackhawk .
- 1972: With Apollo 17 , the last people to set foot on the moon return to earth.
- 1974: The first Western European communications satellite Symphony 1 is launched from Cape Canaveral into geostationary orbit .
- 1981: The BESSY 1 synchrotron radiation system, which cost 130 million Deutschmarks, goes into operation in Berlin .
- 2006: For the first time in 15 years, the Russian Air Force received new combat aircraft. Two Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers are handed over.
- 2013: The European space probe Gaia of the space agency ESA is launched.
- 2020: The Eysturoyartunnilin , at the time of its completion the longest tunnel in the Faroe Islands and the second longest undersea tunnel in the world , is opened.
Culture
- 1843: The Englishman Charles Dickens published the novel A Christmas Carol ( A Christmas Carol ).
- 1874: The Zarzuela El Barberillo de Lavapies by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri is premiered at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid .
- 1878: The premiere of the opera The Son of the Mandarin by César Cui takes place in the Artists' Club in Saint Petersburg .
- 1881: At the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the opera will Hérodiade of Jules Massenet premiered.
- 1918: The premiere of the opera Nepřemožení ( The Unconquered ) by Josef Bohuslav Foerster takes place at the National Theater in Prague .
- 1936: The Philosophical Faculty of the University of Bonn recognizes Thomas Mann 's honorary doctorate after he was expatriated by the German Reich .
- 1945: Jean Giraudoux 's satire La Folle de Chaillot is premiered at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris .
- 1967: The feature film Bonnie and Clyde by Arthur Penn , with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway , is shown for the first time in Germany.
- 1969: The feature film Easy Rider , by and with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda , premieres in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany. The premiere was on May 8th at the Cannes Film Festival .
- 1969: The world premiere of the opera Lanzelot by Paul Dessau takes place at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
society
- 1811: Three more people are murdered in their home in London; the case goes down in history as the Ratcliffe Highway murders .
- 1924: Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death in Hanover for murder of 24 times .
- 1956: British police arrest doctor John Bodkin Adams on suspicion of being a serial killer . As a defendant, he is later acquitted .
- 1973: On the Tonight Show, showmaster Johnny Carson ridiculed his audience by claiming that toilet paper was about to be rationed, triggering the world's first panic-buying of this household product.
- 1984: River Raid , the first video game in Germany to be indexed for "glorifying violence" .
- 2006: The renewed HIV trial in Libya ends with the death sentence for the accused five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor. You are held responsible for infecting 426 children with HIV in a hospital in Benghazi .
religion
- 1187: Paolo Scolai is elected Pope and takes the name Clement III. on.
- 1516: Francis I , King of France, and Pope Leo X. sign the Bologna Concordat .
- 1582: The Archbishop of Cologne , Elector Gebhard I. von Waldburg , who has had a relationship with Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben for years , publicly converts to Calvinism and proclaims freedom of belief in the Archbishopric of Cologne.
Disasters
- 1947: Thousands of tons of explosives explode in the Mitholz disaster on December 19 and 20, 1947 in an ammunition dump of the Swiss Army, causing severe property damage and nine deaths.
- 1982: 150 people are killed in an explosion classified as BLEVE in a fire at a tank farm in Tacoa , Venezuela .
- 1997: The crash of a Boeing 737 of Silk Air in Sumatra, Indonesia, all 104 people die on board.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 2001: In Mongolia , Tosentsengel measured 1,085.7 hectopascal air pressure , the highest value in the world to date.
Sports
- 1863: In Mortlake , a soccer game according to the modern rules of the Football Association takes place for the first time . The game between RFC Barnes and Richmond FC ends goalless.
- 1909: The football club Borussia Dortmund is founded.
- 1917: The first games of the newly created National Hockey League (NHL) are played. The participating ice hockey teams are the Montréal Canadiens , Toronto Arenas , Ottawa Senators and Montreal Wanderers .
- 1983: The Jules Rimet Cup is stolen from the Brazilian Football Association in Rio de Janeiro . The thieves presumably melt down the trophy of the football world championships from 1930 to 1970.
- 1984: Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers scored against the Los Angeles Kings as the 18th player in NHL history display the mark of 1000 points . With just 424 games played, he's still the fastest player in NHL history to hit the 1,000-point mark.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1249: Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln , English magnate, diplomat and general
- 1343: Wilhelm I , Margrave of Meissen
- 1498: Andreas Osiander , German theologian
- 1524: Johannes Vischer , German physician and university professor
- 1554: Philipp Wilhelm of Orange-Nassau , Prince of Orange and Count of Nassau
- 1587: Dorothea Sophie von Sachsen-Altenburg , 33rd abbess of the imperial monastery of Quedlinburg
- 1594: Gustav II Adolf , King of Sweden
- 1629: Tomáš Pešina z Čechorodu , Czech historian and writer
- 1671: Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , Electress of Saxony
- 1672: Johann Christian Rindt , German organ builder
- 1675: Johann Ignaz Egedacher , south German organ builder
- 1676: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault , French composer and organist
- 1683: Philip V , King of Spain
- 1700: Julián Manuel de Arriaga y Rivera , Spanish nobleman, officer and minister
18th century
- 1723: Susanne von Klettenberg , German canon and religious writer
- 1726: Isaac Roosevelt , American trader and politician
- 1736: Bartholomäus III. Imperial Baron von Tinti , farmer in Tyrol
- 1737: Johann Nicolaus Anton , German Lutheran theologian
- 1742: Carl Wilhelm Scheele , German-Swedish pharmacist and chemist
- 1743: Daniel Tobenz , Austrian Catholic theologian
- 1744: Karl von Hessen-Kassel , Hessian nobleman
- 1746: Maria Magdalena Keverich , citizen of Trier, mother of Ludwig van Beethoven
- 1747: Natalis Pinot , French priest and martyr
- 1749: Benjamin Geithner , Protestant clergyman
- 1753: John Taylor Gilman , American politician
- 1757: Philippe Guerrier , President of Haiti
- 1768: Aimée du Buc de Rivéry , French nobleman
- 1771: Nicolas-Joseph Maison , French general and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1776: Edward Somerset , British cavalry general
- 1778: Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Bourbon , titular queen of France
- 1790: William Edward Parry , British admiral
- 1792: Andries Hendrik Potgieter , Boer politician and Voortrekker leader
- 1795: Karl Gustav Hesse , German medic and writer
- 1795: Karl Gottlob Prinz , German veterinarian
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802: John Ella , English violinist, music writer and concert organizer
- 1804: Johann Andreas Engelhardt , German organ builder
- 1813: Thomas Andrews , Irish physicist and chemist
- 1814: Edwin M. Stanton , American politician and Secretary of War
- 1816: Franz Sacher , Austrian confectioner
- 1817: James Jay Archer , American brigadier general
- 1817: Charles Dancla , French violinist and composer
- 1819: James Spriggs Payne , President of Liberia
- 1822: Bertha Unzelmann , German actress
- 1825: George Frederick Bristow , American composer
- 1835: Karl Elwin Anker , Prussian major general
- 1840: Giulio Ricordi , Italian music publisher and composer
- 1842: George S. Morison , American lawyer, railroad manager, and civil engineer
- 1843: Mauro Fernández Acuña , Costa Rican Minister for Public Education and Bank Director
- 1843: Albert Steck , co-founder of the Swiss Social Democratic Party
- 1844: Lujo Brentano , German economist and social reformer
- 1844: Joseph Stöckle , German writer and philologist
- 1845: Henri Joseph Perrotin , French astronomer
- 1848: Heinrich Lothar Honor Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German politician
- 1849: Henry Clay Frick , American industrialist
1851-1900
- 1852: Albert A. Michelson , German-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1854: Louis Brillouin , French physicist
- 1855: Carl Schroeter , German-Swiss botanist
- 1857: Siegmund Lustgarten , Austrian doctor
- 1861: Nikolai Ivanovich Andrussow , Russian geologist and paleontologist
- 1861: Italo Svevo , Italian writer
- 1864: Adolf Sandberger , German composer and musicologist
- 1865: Hermann Hirt , German Indo-Europeanist
- 1868: Théodore Steeg , French politician
- 1874: Adolph Ernst Knoch , American theological writer and Bible editor
- 1875: Mileva Marić , Serbian mathematician and Albert Einstein's first wife
- 1876: Enrique Pla y Deniel , Spanish priest, Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal
- 1877: Durk van Blom , Dutch economist
- 1879: Emilie Gourd , Swiss women's rights activist
- 1879: Beals Wright , American tennis player
- 1880: Abhakara Kiartiwongse , Siamese admiral, prince and medic
- 1882: Walter Braunfels , German composer and pianist
- 1882: Ralph DePalma , American motorcycle and automobile racer
- 1882: Bronisław Huberman , Polish violinist
- 1883: Guido Gozzano , Italian poet
- 1884: Gaston Aumoitte , French croquet player
- 1884: Antonín Zápotocký , Czechoslovak politician
- 1886: Matthias Gelzer , Swiss ancient historian
- 1886: Ángel Herrera Oria , Spanish lawyer, politician and theologian, Bishop of Malaga and Cardinal
- 1887: August Abel , German politician and journalist
- 1888: Gustav Gundelach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1888: Fritz Reiner , American conductor
- 1891: Philipp Keller , German doctor and writer
- 1891: Edward Raczyński , Polish diplomat and politician
- 1891: Carl Schneider , German psychiatrist
- 1894: Paul Dessau , German composer and conductor
- 1896: Enrico Rastelli , Italian juggler
- 1896: Wilhelm Webels , German doctor, painter and sculptor
- 1897: Dajos Béla , Russian violinist and dance band leader
- 1898: Jean Lallemand , Canadian patron
- 1898: Piet van Wijngaarden , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 1899: Barbette , American trapeze artist
- 1900: Johannes Kirschweng , German Catholic priest and writer
- 1900: Géza von Cziffra , Austrian film director
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Kurt Friedrich , German motorcycle racer
- 1901: Rudolf Hell , German inventor
- 1902: Ralph Richardson , British actor
- 1903: George Davis Snell , American medic, Nobel Prize winner
- 1905: Giovanni Lurani , Italian automobile designer and racing driver
- 1906: Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , party leader of the CPSU, head of state and four-time hero of the Soviet Union
- 1907: Vasja Pirc , Slovenian chess player
- 1907: Fried Walter , German composer
- 1908: Gisèle Freund , Franco-German photographer and photo historian
- 1909: Edwin B. Astwood , American endocrinologist
- 1910: Jean Genet , French novelist, playwright and poet
- 1910: José Lezama Lima , Cuban writer
- 1912: Rudolf Meimberg , German economist and university professor
- 1913: Juan Landázuri Ricketts , Colombian clergyman, Archbishop of Lima and Cardinal
- 1913: Annemarie Sörensen , German actress
- 1914: Franz Josef Attems-Petzenstein , Austrian major general
- 1915: Édith Piaf , French chanson singer
- 1916: Jack Charles Stanmore Agazarian , British agent
- 1916: Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , German pollster
- 1917: Chucho Martínez Gil , Mexican singer and composer
- 1918: Professor Longhair , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1919: Edda Seippel , German actress
- 1920: Rudolf Amthauer , German psychologist
- 1920: Trygve Brudevold , Norwegian bobsledder and entrepreneur
- 1920: Little Jimmy Dickens , American country singer
- 1921: Noel George Butlin , Australian economist and historian
- 1921: Anne Golon , French writer ( Angélique )
- 1921: Christian Kipfer , Swiss gymnast
- 1921: Ludvík Podéšt , Czech composer
- 1922: Walter Höllerer , German professor of German studies and writer
- 1923: Gordon Jackson , Scottish actor
- 1924: Victor Fenigstein , Swiss composer and piano teacher
- 1924: Michel Tournier , French writer
- 1925: Rabah Bitat , Algerian President
- 1925: Tankred Dorst , German playwright
- 1925: Jacques Fatton , Swiss football player
- 1925: Papa Molina , Dominican composer
- 1925: Tana Schanzara , German actress
1926-1950
- 1926: Gustavo Arcos , Cuban dissident
- 1926: Abdulwahab Al-Bayyati , Iraqi poet
- 1926: Eckart Dux , German actor and voice actor
- 1926: Bobby Layne , American football player
- 1927: James Booth , British actor
- 1927: Paul Guers , French actor
- 1927: Nikolaj Kocvár , Metropolitan of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
- 1928: Nikolaus Arndt , German architect, historian and local politician
- 1928: Herbert Bötticher , German actor
- 1929: Bob Brookmeyer , American jazz musician
- 1929: Lorenzo Buffon , Italian football player
- 1929: Pentti Hämäläinen , Finnish boxer
- 1929: Hans Hubberten , German screenwriter
- 1929: Paul Nizon , Swiss writer
- 1930: Andreas Baltes , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1930: Miloslav Stingl , Czech ethnologist and non-fiction author
- 1930: Georg Stollenwerk , German soccer player and trainer
- 1932: Rainer Bertram , German pop singer
- 1932: Bernhard Vogel , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister
- 1933: Erich Eder de Lastra , Austrian composer
- 1933: Antoni Tołkaczewski , Polish swimmer
- 1934: Rudi Carrell , Dutch showmaster
- 1934: Pratibha Patil , Indian lawyer and president
- 1935: Karl-Hans Arndt , German doctor, surgeon and sports medicine specialist
- 1935: Syd Field , American non-fiction author
- 1936: Friedel Elting , German soccer coach
- 1936: Remy A. Presas , Filipino martial arts trainer
- 1937: Wolfgang Höflinger , German soccer player
- 1937: Barry Mazur , American mathematician
- 1938: Karel Svoboda , Czech composer
- 1938: Heinrich August Winkler , German historian
- 1939: Hubert Knobloch , German sports journalist and reporter
- 1939: Dieter Zimmer , German television journalist and writer
- 1940: Phil Ochs , American singer and songwriter
- 1941: Maurice White , American musician and composer, founder of the band Earth, Wind and Fire
- 1942: Cyril Grandet , French racing car driver
- 1942: Heinz Stangl , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1943: Hans Achatz , Austrian politician and judge
- 1943: Fərəc Qarayev , Azerbaijani composer
- 1944: Rüdiger vom Bruch , German modern historian
- 1944: Josef Gassner , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1944: Richard Leakey , Kenyan paleoanthropologist
- 1944: Alvin Lee , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1944: Heinz-Günter Prager , German sculptor
- 1945: Trevor Manning , New Zealand hockey player
- 1945: Antoine Salamin , Swiss architect and racing car driver
- 1946: Jean-Christophe Mitterrand , French president's son and advisor
- 1946: Werner Pfirter , Swiss motorcycle racer
- 1946: Robert Urich , American actor
- 1947: Jimmy Bain , British bass player
- 1947: Janie Fricke , American country singer
- 1948: Reinhard Rietzke , German soccer player
- 1948: Peter Welnhofer , German politician, MdL
- 1949: Hans-Josef Kapellmann , German soccer player
- 1950: Hans-Jürgen Andexer , German soccer player
- 1950: Walter Frosch , German soccer player
- 1950: Jürgen Fuchs , German writer and civil rights activist in the GDR
- 1950: Imerio Testori , Italian motorcycle racer
1951-1975
- 1951: Celso Dayrit , Filipino fencer and sports official
- 1951: Anette Rückes , German athlete and Olympian
- 1952: Paul-Siméon Ahouanan Djro , Ivorian priest and archbishop
- 1952: Peter Stephan Jungk , American German-speaking writer
- 1954: Oswald Metzger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, publicist
- 1954: Heinz Sichrovsky , Austrian cultural journalist
- 1955: Robin Donovan , British racing car driver
- 1955: Manfred Koch , German literary scholar and author
- 1956: Masami Akita , Japanese Japanoise musician and author
- 1956: Jens Fink-Jensen , Danish author
- 1957: Olaf Bär , German singer
- 1957: Cyril Collard , French director
- 1957: Michael E. Fossum , American astronaut
- 1957: Eric Marienthal , American saxophonist
- 1957: Kevin McHale , American basketball player
- 1957: Burkhard Schröder , German basketball player
- 1958: José Aguilar Pulsán , Cuban boxer
- 1958: Limahl , British singer and songwriter
- 1959: Dirk Schnell , German handball player
- 1961: Eric Allin Cornell , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1961: Claude-Yves Gosselin , French racing car driver and entrepreneur
- 1961: Reggie White , American football professional
- 1962: Markus Weise , German field hockey coach
- 1963: Jennifer Beals , American actress
- 1963: Cristina Marcos , Spanish actress
- 1963: Bettina Redlich , Austrian actress and voice actress
- 1963: Til Schweiger , German actor and producer
- 1963: Manfred Zehender , Austrian dancer
- 1964: Dietmar Arnold , German author
- 1964: Ben Becker , German actor
- 1964: Thomas Brussig , German writer and screenwriter
- 1964: Béatrice Dalle , French actress
- 1964: Randall McDaniel , American football player
- 1964: Arvydas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player
- 1965: Andreas Zaron , German musical actor, singer and lyricist
- 1966: Alberto Tomba , Italian ski racer
- 1967: Criss Angel , American magician and musician
- 1967: Charles Austin , American athlete
- 1967: Melanie Doane , Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1967: Jens Lehmann , German cyclist
- 1967: Rebecca Saunders , British composer
- 1967: Michael Wolf , German film actor
- 1968: Jennifer Dore , former American rower
- 1968: Kristina Keneally , Australian politician
- 1969: Lucilla Andreucci , Italian long-distance runner
- 1969: Ina Justh , German rower
- 1969: Aziza Mustafa Zadeh , Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
- 1969: Kristy Swanson , American actress
- 1970: Tyson Beckford , American model, actor, and television presenter
- 1971: Tristan Egolf , American writer and musician
- 1972: Alyssa Milano , American actress, producer, and singer
- 1972: Corinna Milborn , Austrian journalist
- 1972: Warren Sapp , American football player
- 1973: Takashi Sorimachi , Japanese television actor and singer
- 1974: Evgenia Grekova , Russian-German opera and concert singer
- 1974: Hannes Kopf , German lawyer
- 1974: Jake Plummer , former American football player
- 1974: Alexander Zuckowski , German songwriter and composer
- 1975: Gerhard Anger , German politician
- 1975: Winarni Binti Slamet , Indonesian weightlifter
- 1975: Brandon Sanderson , American fantasy writer
1976-2000
- 1976: Bindu De Stoppani , Indian actress
- 1976: Jörg Bitzigeio , German table tennis player and trainer
- 1977: Arzu Bazman , German actress
- 1977: Samy Deluxe , German rapper
- 1977: Seraina Rohrer , Swiss film scholar and journalist, director of the Solothurn Film Festival
- 1977: Elisa Toffoli , Italian singer and songwriter
- 1978: Víctor Rubén López , Argentine football player
- 1978: Katharina Lorenz , German actress
- 1979: Britta Andersen , Danish badminton player
- 1979: Nikolai Bury , German film actor
- 1979: Gareth Williams , Welsh rugby player
- 1980: Thomas Borenitsch , Austrian soccer player
- 1980: Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor
- 1980: Daniel Pankofer , German handball player
- 1980: Diego Ruiz , Argentine soccer player
- 1981: Hubert Auer , Austrian soccer player
- 1982: Tamilla Raschidowna Abassowa , Russian track cyclist
- 1982: Tero Pitkämäki , Finnish javelin thrower
- 1983: Mario Kienzl , Austrian soccer player
- 1984: Mariko Asabuki , Japanese writer
- 1984: Dominik Reinhardt , German soccer player
- 1985: Neil Kilkenny , Australian football player
- 1985: Stefan Kneer , German handball player
- 1985: Lady Sovereign , British rapper
- 1985: Gary Cahill , English soccer player
- 1986: Dale Appleby , British road cyclist
- 1986: Ryan Babel , Dutch soccer player
- 1986: Zuzana Hejnová , Czech athlete
- 1986: Saskia Lang , German handball player
- 1986: Ken Reichel , German soccer player
- 1987: Shūko Aoyama , Japanese tennis player
- 1987: Karim Benzema , French football player
- 1988: Paulina Gretzky , American-Canadian singer, model and actress
- 1988: Niklas Landin Jacobsen , Danish handball player
- 1988: Alexis Sánchez , Chilean football player
- 1988: Moritz von Treuenfels , German actor
- 1989: Ronald Auderset , Swiss skeleton pilot
- 1989: Kristin Bohm , German actress
- 1989: Aurélie Kaci , French soccer player
- 1989: Christopher Reinhardt , German actor
- 1991: Declan Galbraith , British singer
- 1991: Christ Kasela Mbona , German-Congolese soccer player
- 1992: Bright Christopher Addae , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1992: Iker Muniain , Spanish soccer player
- 1993: Leonardo Bittencourt , German soccer player
- 1994: Estelle Balet , Swiss freeride athlete
- 1994: Axel Esteve , Andorran ski racer
- 1994: M'Baye Niang , Senegalese-French soccer player
- 1995: Mirnes Pepić , German-Montenegrin football player
- 1996: Felix Auböck , Austrian swimmer
- 1996: Mouctar Diakhaby , French football player
- 1996: Diede de Groot , Dutch wheelchair tennis player
- 1997: Matheus Henrique , Brazilian soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 211: Geta , Roman emperor
- 401: Anastasius I , Pope
- 1075: Edith of Wessex . Queen Consort of England
- 1111: al-Ghazālī , Persian Islamic theologian, philosopher and Sufi mystic
- 1111: Agnes , Duchess of Zähringen
- 1200: Roland, Lord of Galloway , Scottish magnate
- 1266: Ruprecht von Querfurt , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1325 or 1327: Agnes , French princess
- 1370: Urban V , Pope
- 1385: Bernabò Visconti , ruler of Milan
- 1442: Elisabeth of Luxemburg , daughter of Emperor Sigismund
- 1475: Louis I of Luxembourg , Count of Saint-Pol, Brienne, Conversano and Ligny and Duke of Guise, Connétable of France
- 1494: Matteo Maria Boiardo , Italian poet
16th to 18th centuries
- 1566: Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco , Viceroy of Navarre, Chairman of the Council of India and the Council of Castile
- 1578: Ambrosius Aigen , Swiss merchant and mayor
- 1585: Wenzel Jamnitzer , Nuremberg goldsmith, copperplate engraver and stamp cutter
- 1618: Willem Amsinck , Dutch-German merchant and Hamburg Hanseatic League
- 1623: Heinrich Brockes I , mayor of Lübeck
- 1625: Dorothea Augusta von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Abbess of the Gandersheim Monastery
- 1635: Honor Guard of Isenburg , Countess of Hanau-Munzenberg-Schwarzenfels
- 1636: Christine of Lorraine , Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1649: Federigo Savelli , imperial general and diplomat
- 1658: Johann Bergius , German Reformed theologian
- 1659: Anna Sophia , Princess of Brandenburg, Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1676: Adolf von Nassau-Schaumburg , founder of the short-lived Nassau-Schaumburg line
- 1682: Maria Grießer , victim of the witch hunt in Lauchringen
- 1690: Gustav Düben , Swedish court music director, organist and composer
- 1711: Đorđe Branković , Count and envoy of Transylvania
- 1711: Philipp Wilhelm , Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and governor of Magdeburg
- 1714: Johann von Reutern , councilor in Riga
- 1714: Johann Stridbeck the Younger , German draftsman, engraver and publisher
- 1722: John Covel , English clergyman
- 1737: Jakob Louis Heinrich Sobieski , Crown Prince of Poland
- 1741: Vitus Bering , Danish-Russian naval officer and explorer
- 1742: Johann Michael Senckeisen , Leipzig architect and builder
- 1744: Georg Olivier von Wallis , Austrian general
- 1745: Jean-Baptiste van Loo , French painter
- 1747: Johann Zacharias Platner , Saxon medic
- 1749: Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer
- 1751: Balthasar Gerhard Hanneken , German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman, senior pastor at Lübeck Cathedral and senior
- 1751: Louise of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover , Queen of Denmark and Norway
- 1754: Georg Anton Gumpp , Austrian master builder
- 1764: Johann Zacharias Richter , Leipzig councilor and merchant
- 1785: Gian Pietro Riva , Swiss headmaster and translator
- 1788: Juan Bautista de Anza , Spanish explorer
- 1795: Tyge Rothe , Danish writer
19th century
- 1807: Friedrich Melchior Grimm , German writer and diplomat
- 1810: Roman Anton Boos , German sculptor
- 1812: Konrad Wilhelm Ledderhose , German lawyer
- 1815: Benjamin Smith Barton , American botanist
- 1839: Meinrad Amann , Austrian abbot of St. Paul Abbey
- 1848: Emily Brontë , British writer
- 1851: William Turner , British painter
- 1853: Adolf Heinrich Schletter , German silk goods dealer, consul and founder
- 1857: Johann Daniel Elster , German music professor and choir director
- 1858: Emma Wanda von Arbter , Austrian writer
- 1859: Mirabeau B. Lamar , American politician, ambassador, and President of the Republic of Texas
- 1860: Konstantin Sergejewitsch Aksakow , Russian writer
- 1867: Jean-Georges Kastner , French composer and music writer
- 1878: Bayard Taylor , American author
- 1880: Maximilian Heinrich Rüder , German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1896: Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn , German entrepreneur and city planner
- 1897: Jacobus Isaac Doedes , Dutch Reformed theologian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1908: Hermann Wildpret , Swiss gardener and botanist
- 1910: Hermann Theodor Waldemar Atzpodien , German politician
- 1915: Alois Alzheimer , German psychiatrist and neuropathologist ( Alzheimer's disease )
- 1916: Thibaw Min , King of the Konbaung Dynasty in Burma
- 1917: Anna Magdalena Appel , German ballet dancer and Grand Duchess
- 1922: Georg von Borries , German government official
- 1924: Luis Emilio Recabarren , Chilean communist politician
- 1925: José Ignacio Quintón , Puerto Rican composer and pianist
- 1926: Paul Preuss , German botanist and explorer
- 1930: Conrad Willgerodt , German chemist
- 1934: Françis Planté , French pianist
- 1935: James Buchanan Aurig , German photographer
- 1935: Leopoldine Kutzel , Austrian folk singer
- 1936: Theodor Wiegand , German archaeologist
- 1941: Carl Bantzer , German impressionist painter and art writer
- 1943: Otto Barblan , Swiss composer, organist and music teacher
- 1943: Carl Busch , American composer
- 1945: John Amery , British fascist
- 1945: Hermann Andert , German paleontologist, geologist and bank director
- 1945: Paul Christiaan Flu , Surinamese tropical medicine specialist
- 1947: Duncan Campbell Scott , Canadian lyric poet and storyteller
- 1949: Toni Attenberger , German film director, film producer, screenwriter, journalist and writer
1951-2000
- 1953: Robert Andrews Millikan , American physicist and non-fiction author, Nobel Prize winner
- 1954: Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow , Soviet functionary, Minister for State Security
- 1954: Adolf Aisch , German pastor and writer
- 1954: Frans Gunnar Bengtsson , Swedish writer
- 1955: Herbert von Dirksen , German diplomat
- 1958: Felix Kwieton , Austrian middle and long distance runner
- 1962: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart , German painter
- 1963: Alan Gardiner , British Egyptologist
- 1966: Ehm Welk , German writer
- 1967: Harold Holt , Australian politician, Prime Minister
- 1968: Tiberiu Brediceanu , Romanian composer
- 1968: Bentley Collingwood Hilliam , English singer, songwriter, composer and actor
- 1970: Hellmuth von Rabenau , German naval officer and sailing school director
- 1974: Anton Aulke , German writer
- 1976: Giuseppe Caselli , Italian painter
- 1976: Kurt Lieck , German actor and radio play speaker
- 1977: Nellie Tayloe Ross , American politician, first female governor of the USA
- 1977: Jacques Tourneur , American director
- 1979: Nat W. Finston , American composer and conductor
- 1979: Wilhelm Kaisen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Bremen Senator and Mayor
- 1980: Tarzan Cooper , American basketball player
- 1982: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald , French organist, composer and music teacher
- 1986: VC Andrews , American writer
- 1986: Avelar Brandão Vilela , Brazilian clergyman, Archbishop of São Salvador da Bahia, cardinal
- 1986: Frank Sels , Belgian comic book artist and author
- 1987: Bob Adler , American actor
- 1987: André de la Varre , travel filmmaker
- 1988: Kurt Grigoleit , German cameraman
- 1989: Hans Rettenbacher , Austrian jazz bassist and cellist
- 1990: Norbert Dufourcq , French music historian and organist
- 1990: Gabrijel Stupica , Austrian-Yugoslav painter
- 1993: Michael Clarke , American drummer
- 1993: Yvonne Desportes , French composer
- 1994: Bill Douglass , American jazz drummer
- 1996: Marcello Mastroianni , Italian film actor
- 1997: Jimmy Rogers , American blues guitarist
- 1999: Desmond Llewelyn , British actor
- 2000: Pops Staples , American gospel and R&B musician
21st century
- 2002: Henri Arnoldus , Dutch children's author
- 2002: Will Hoy , British racing car driver
- 2003: Hope Lange , American actress
- 2004: Horst Raspe , German actor
- 2004: Renata Tebaldi , Italian opera singer
- 2007: Willy Sommerfeld , German silent film pianist
- 2008: Renate Apitz , German writer
- 2008: Tana Schanzara , German actress
- 2008: Sam Tingle , Rhodesian racing car driver
- 2009: Kurt Adel , Austrian literary and linguist
- 2009: Doris Günther , German entrepreneur and patron
- 2009: Hossein Ali Montazeri , Iranian Grand Ayatollah and critic of the regime
- 2009: Kim Peek , American island talent
- 2009: Peter Sadler , British racing car driver
- 2010: Reinhold Amonat , German politician, Member of the Board
- 2010: Axel G. Schmidt , German economist
- 2011: George Athor Deng Dut , South Sudanese politician
- 2011: Horst-Eberhard Richter , German psychoanalyst, psychosomatic specialist and social philosopher
- 2011: Erwin Wirschaz , German actor and radio play speaker
- 2012: Peter Struck , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 2013: Herb Geller , American jazz musician
- 2013: Hideo Kanaya , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 2014: Arthur Gardner , American actor and film producer
- 2015: Kurt Masur , German conductor
- 2015: Charles Roesch , French table tennis trainer
- 2018: Norman Gimbel , American songwriter
- 2018: Erwin Stein , German engineer
- 2020: Alberto Valdés Lacarra , Mexican show jumper, Olympic medalist
- 2020: Fred Maire , German actor and voice actor
- 2020: Mekere Morauta , Papua New Guinea politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Paul Blau , German pastor (Protestant)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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