June 19
The June 19 is the 170th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 171st in leap years ), thus remain still 195 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 936 : In Laon, Archbishop Artold of Reims crowns Ludwig IV as King of West Franconia .
- 1097 : The Byzantines conquer during the First Crusade after about one month siege of Nicaea , the capital of the Rum - Seljuks .
- 1306 : The Battle of Methven as part of the Scottish War of Independence is won by the English. The Scottish King Robert I , who arrived at Perth on June 18, agrees not to fight the battle on the battlefield until the following day. During the night the English attack the camp of the Scottish army and defeat their opponents.
- 1518 : Juan de Grijalva is the first European to set foot on Aztec territory. The explorer explores unknown regions in the New World on behalf of the Spanish governor of Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar .
- 1522 : The Treaty of Windsor the English king agreed Henry VIII. And Emperor Charles V a common plan of attack against the by I. Franz ruled France .
- 1631 : The Peace of Cherasco ends the Mantuan War of Succession between France and the House of Habsburg over northern Italian possessions.
- 1646 : The Trier Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern enters into a secret alliance with France and leaves the Philippsburg Fortress to the French for permanent occupation in the ongoing Thirty Years' War . In doing so, he breaks the contract with the emperor, to whom he had promised in April of the previous year, in return for his release from ten years of captivity, to bring the fortress, which had been under French occupation since 1644, back into imperial control.
- 1667 : During the Anglo-Dutch War , which had been going on since 1665 , the Dutch fleet began raiding the Medway, which lasted until June 24th . Under the command of Admiral Michiel de Ruyter , they invade the River Medway from the mouth of the Thames and attack the Royal Navy directly in England.
- 1756 : The nawab of Murshidabad , Siraj-ud-Daula, conquers Calcutta in India from the British East India Company .
- 1789 : At the beginning of the French Revolution, the clergy joins the French National Assembly, which had recently been founded by the Third Estate under the leadership of Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès , with a narrow majority .
- 1790 : The French National Assembly abolishes the hereditary nobility and forbids titles of nobility.
- 1796 : In the Battle of Kircheib in the First Coalition War , the Austrians under Karl von Österreich-Teschen repel an attack by the French under Jean-Baptiste Kléber .
- 1799 : In the Battle of Trebbia in the Second Coalition War , Austrian units under Michael von Melas, together with Russian troops under Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow , who is in command, defeat the French army under Jacques MacDonald . The French lost Northern Italy militarily.
- 1800 : The French Rhine Army under Jean-Victor Moreau succeeds in the Second Coalition War in the battle of Höchstädt after crossing the Danube over Austrian troops and allied Württemberg-Bavarian troops. The opposing general Paul Kray von Krajowa sees himself compelled to withdraw from Ulm .
- 1815 : One day after the Battle of Waterloo , the last battle of the Napoleonic Wars ends with the Battle of Wavre . Although the French won a tactical victory, the defeated Prussian units strategically prevented a possible intervention by the French in Waterloo.
- 1822 : During the Greek War of Independence , Konstantin Kanaris destroyed part of the Ottoman fleet in the Chios Canal with two fires . The Kapudan Pasha Kara-Ali and 3000 of his people are killed in this enterprise.
- 1865 : Two years after the official end of slavery in the United States, Galveston, Texas , informs slaves of their freedom. The day is an official holiday in Texas and 41 states other than Juneteenth . In 2021 the day was declared a national holiday.
- 1867 : With the execution of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico , brother of Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I , the short-lived ends Second Mexican Empire .
- 1867 : An American punitive expedition to Formosa takes place due to the killing of American castaways by Formosian natives .
- 1917 : In Great Britain the right to vote for women is introduced on February 6, 1918 with the amendment of the electoral law .
- 1933 : The NSDAP is banned in Austria .
- 1944 : In the Pacific War , the Japanese lose three aircraft carriers and 476 fighter planes during the Battle of the Philippine Sea .
- 1945 : In the Prerau massacre , Czechoslovak soldiers murder 265 civilians on a refugee transport.
- 1953 : Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , accused of espionage for the Soviet Union , are executed in New York .
- 1961 : Kuwait becomes independent from Great Britain .
- 1962 : When a formation of 4 Lockheed F-104s (Starfighter) crashes over Nörvenich , all four pilots are killed.
- 1965 : Ahmed Ben Bella , Algeria's president , is overthrown in a coup; a revolutionary council under Houari Boumedienne takes power.
- 1974 : The German Bundestag concludes its parliamentary deliberations on the law on the establishment of a Federal Environment Agency and approves the headquarters in West Berlin . The GDR Foreign Ministry protested against this the following day . The law is nevertheless on July 22 issued .
- 1976 : On Jamaica is a state of emergency imposed after the pre-election bloody clashes between supporters of the Jamaica Labor Party and the People's National Party has come.
- 1985 : An explosives attack occurs in departure hall B of Frankfurt Airport , during which an explosive device explodes in a waste container. Three people die, 42 others are injured, some seriously. Several domestic and foreign organizations have made contradicting calls to confess to this fact .
- 1987 : 18 people are killed in an ETA bomb attack on a department store in Barcelona .
- 1989 : Attack on the Quebec barracks of the British armed forces in Osnabrück by the Provisional Irish Republican Army .
- 1990 : In Schengen , France , Germany , Belgium , the Netherlands and Luxembourg agree to completely abolish border controls between their states on January 1, 1992.
- 1990 : The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in the USSR as a branch of the CPSU in the RSFSR .
- 1991 : The Russian troops withdraw from Hungary .
- 1991 : The siege of Dubrovnik in the Croatian War begins. It lasts a total of six months and permanently destroys the city.
economy
- 1847 : The American paddle steamer Washington is welcomed in Bremerhaven with a gun salute . The Ocean Steam Navigation Company has opened to him the first regular mail steamship line between North America and continental Europe.
- 1858 : The steamer Bremen of Norddeutscher Lloyd starts regular shipping between Bremerhaven and New York City .
- 1862 : The Rösslitram, the first horse tram in Switzerland , runs in Geneva .
- 1934 : In the USA, the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) is established by law as the central authority to regulate telephone, telegraph and radio traffic.
- 1980 : After the Swiss franc was introduced in Liechtenstein in 1924 , a currency treaty is now also concluded with Switzerland .
- 2000 : The Pfizer - Group merged in the pharmaceutical industry for a hostile takeover by Warner-Lambert Corporation, which also the German subsidiary Gödecke new owner receives.
science and technology
- 1910 : The airship LZ 7 "Deutschland" undertakes a successful maiden voyage near Friedrichshafen . It crashes nine days later.
- 1926 : The first gyrocopter and helicopter by the German inventor Engelbert Zaschka is registered for a patent in the German Reich.
- 1964 : The first telephone cable is put into operation between Japan and the USA .
- 1969 : Alfred Gütgemann performs the first liver transplant in Germany .
- 1970 : The cosmonauts Nikolayev and Sevastyanov of the Soyuz 9 mission land in their space capsule with a parachute in the Kazakh steppe west of Karaganda . With a flight duration of more than 17 days, they set a new record for the longest space flight.
- 2002 : Steve Fossett starts his successful circumnavigation of the world in a balloon.
- 2006 : Construction work for the Svalbard Global Seed Vault begins on Spitzbergen .
Culture
- 1565 : The mass Missa papae Marcelli by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is performed in the Sistine Chapel in the presence of Pope Pius IV .
- 1777 : First performance of the opera Polly by Samuel Arnold at the Little Theater in London .
- 1887 : First performance of the comic opera Die Musikanten by Friedrich von Flotow in Mannheim .
- 1901 : Ceremonial unveiling of the Friedrich Franz III monument in Rostock .
- 1962 : The Howard Hawks film Hatari! will premiere in the United States.
- 1976 : World premiere of the opera Das Mädchen aus Domrémy by Giselher Klebe at the Stuttgart State Theater .
- 1978 : The first Garfield - Comic -Strip is published.
- 1999 : The computer game Counter-Strike is published, one of the most popular and most played online action games and the most played game in esports .
- 2006 : The US entrepreneur Ronald Lauder bought the portrait Adele Bloch-Bauer I painted by Gustav Klimt for 135 million US dollars.
society
- 1767 : The innkeeper Jean Chastel shoots a predator in Margeride in the south of France , which is said to have killed around a hundred people as the beast of Gévaudan .
- 1910 : Father's Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane , Washington state . Sonora Smart Dodd actually wants to honor her single father, based on the Mother's Day introduced in the USA , but sets a movement in motion.
- 1976 : King Carl XVI. Gustaf and the German Silvia Sommerlath get married in Stockholm .
- 2000 : In the port of Dover , British customs officers discover 58 bodies behind tomato crates while inspecting an arriving truck . The Chinese should in the way of human trafficking are smuggled illegal, but stifled the failure of the ventilation system for the container .
- 2007 : The first nationwide campaign “Your Day for Africa” is organized by Aktion Tagwerk . 180,997 pupils from 854 schools across Germany take part in the campaign and spend a day doing social work for their peers in Africa.
- 2010 : Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling get married in Stockholm .
- 2012 : The Australian Julian Assange , founder of WikiLeaks , fled to the London embassy of Ecuador to avoid extradition to Sweden. He asks for political asylum there .
religion
- 1988 : Andreas Dung-Lac and 116 other Vietnamese martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II .
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1811 : Friedrich Ludwig Jahn opens the first gymnasium in Germany in Berlin's Hasenheide .
- 1895 : The Chilean Football Association is founded.
- 1907 : The Finnish football club HJK Helsinki is established.
- 1924 : In test runs for the Summer Olympics , Finnish long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi set two world records within 50 minutes, namely in the 1,500-meter run and the 5,000-meter run .
- 1927 : At the first automobile race on the newly opened Nürburgring , Rudolf Caracciola wins the Eifel race with an average speed of 96 km / h.
- 1936 : Max Schmeling wins over Joe Louis by knockout.
- 1938 : In the final of the third World Cup , Italy defeated Hungary 4-2 in Paris.
- 1960 : In the Formula 1 race in Spa-Francorchamps , Belgium, two drivers die in racing accidents, and two other drivers suffer serious injuries on this race weekend.
- 1986 : Less than two days after the NBA draft , Len Bias , draft pick of the Boston Celtics , dies of a cocaine overdose .
- 1992 : Evander Holyfield wins the heavyweight world title against Larry Holmes at Caesars Palace , Las Vegas , by winning on points.
- 1999 : Turin is chosen as the venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics at the 119th ICO session in Seoul .
- 2005 : The German women's national soccer team becomes European soccer champions with a 3-1 victory over Norway .
- 2005 : Aitor González Jiménez wins the Tour de Suisse ahead of Michael Rogers and Jan Ullrich .
- 2016 : The Cleveland Cavaliers win their first NBA title in the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors .
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 18th century
- 1373 : Francesco Foscari , 65th Doge of Venice
- 1417 : Sigismondo Malatesta , Italian condottiere and lord of Rimini
- 1507 : Annibale Caro , Italian poet
- 1566 : Jacob I , as Jacob VI. King of Scotland, King of England and Ireland
- 1603 : Melchior Otto Voit of Salzburg , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1606 : James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton , English nobleman and military leader
- 1623 : Blaise Pascal , French mathematician
- 1633 : Heinrich Hiller , Mayor of St. Gallen
- 1700 : Charles de Bourbon , Count of Charolais, libertine
18th century
- 1702 : Friedrich August Rutowski , field marshal of the Electorate of Saxony
- 1717 : Johann Stamitz , German composer and violinist (baptism date)
- 1743 : Íñigo Abbad y Lasierra , Spanish Benedictine, Bishop of Barbastro and author of the first comprehensive account of the history, nationality and culture of Puerto Rico
- 1754 : Jean-Baptiste Meusnier de la Place , French mathematician and general
- 1759 : Pierre Quantin , French general
- 1764 : José Gervasio Artigas , Uruguayan officer and freedom fighter
- 1766 : Edward Tiffin , American politician, governor of Ohio
- 1766 : Edmund von Weber , German composer, singer, actor and theater director
- 1767 : Joseph François Michaud , French historian
- 1782 : Félicité de Lamennais , French priest and religious philosopher
- 1783 : Friedrich Sertürner , German pharmacist and discoverer of morphine
- 1785 : Johann Caspar Harkort V. , German entrepreneur
- 1790 : Johann Heinrich Fischer , Swiss politician
- 1792 : Gustav Schwab , German pastor, writer and editor
- 1795 : Joseph Biles Anthony , American politician
- 1797 : Paul Julius Arter , Swiss draftsman and etcher
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Josef Cosack , German entrepreneur and industrial pioneer
- 1808 : Franz Xaver Chwatal , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1808 : Friedrich Specht , German organ builder
- 1821 : Heinrich August Hahn , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1828 : Alfred Trappen , German mechanical engineer
- 1834 : Charles Haddon Spurgeon , British Baptist pastor and revival minister
- 1837 : Philipp Carl , German physicist
- 1838 : Friedrich Hessing , German pioneer in medical and orthopedic technology
- 1842 : Carl Zeller , Austrian lawyer and composer
- 1846 : Antonio Abetti , Italian astronomer
- 1847 : Ernst Justus Haeberlin , German lawyer and numismatist
1851-1900
- 1852 : Richard Kund , German officer and explorer
- 1854 : Alfredo Catalani , Italian opera composer
- 1857 : Arthur Hoffmann , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1858 : Dirk Fock , Governor of Suriname and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1859 : Moltke Moe , Norwegian folklorist
- 1859 : Heinrich Sohnrey , German folk writer and publicist
- 1861 : Ludwig Traube , German classical philologist and medievalist
- 1865 : Alfred Hugenberg , German entrepreneur and politician, Reich Minister, pioneer of National Socialism
- 1865 : May Whitty , British actress
- 1867 : Alexander Cartellieri , German historian
- 1869 : Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison , British physician and politician
- 1870 : Wilibald A. Nagel , German physiologist
- 1871 : Fritz Hofmann , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1872 : Beatrix Farrand , American landscape architect
- 1873 : Friedrich Huch , German poet and writer
- 1876 : Nigel Gresley , British steam locomotive designer
- 1884 : Agnes von Zahn-Harnack , German teacher, writer and women's rights activist
- 1885 : Stevan Hristić , Yugoslav composer
- 1886 : Rudolf Kremlička , Czech painter and graphic artist
- 1889 : Enrico Celio , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1891 : Walter Arnold , German manufacturer
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- 1891 : John Heartfield , German painter and graphic artist, Dadaist, photomontage artist and set designer
- 1891 : Juan Pulido , Spanish singer and actor
- 1891 : Adolfo Costa du Rels , Bolivian writer and diplomat
- 1893 : Pierre Bacqueyrisses , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1893 : Alois Šmolík , Czechoslovak aircraft designer
- 1895 : Ernst Schwarz , German Germanist and historian
- 1896 : Erich Koch , German politician, war criminal
- 1896 : Wallis Simpson , Duchess of Windsor
- 1897 : Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1897 : Elisabeth Walter , German author
- 1898 : Benno Georg Eduard Wilhelm Joachim von Arent , German architect
- 1899 : Rudolf Carl , Austrian actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Piero Gobetti , Italian publicist, politician and resistance fighter
- 1901 : Herbert Krebs , German forester and author
- 1902 : Caspar Joseph Brambach , German composer
- 1902 : Ernst Heimeran , German publicist and writer
- 1902 : Guy Lombardo , Canadian-American musician and band leader
- 1902 : Pierre Tabourin , French racing car driver
- 1903 : Hans Litten , German lawyer
- 1903 : Lou Gehrig , American baseball player
- 1904 : Claus Back , German writer
- 1904 : Balys Dvarionas , Lithuanian composer, pianist and conductor
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- 1905 : Klaus Conrad , German neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1905 : Mildred Natwick , American actress
- 1906 : Heinz Arnold , German opera director and university professor
- 1906 : Ernst Boris Chain , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1907 : Hans-Hellmuth Qualen , German politician, state minister
- 1907 : Georges de Mestral , Swiss engineer, inventor of the Velcro fastener
- 1908 : Alfred Gleisner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1908 : Ottmar Kohler , German doctor
- 1908 : Hippolyt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau , German entrepreneur, forest manager and politician
- 1909 : Dazai Osamu , Japanese writer
- 1910 : Sydney Allard , British racing driver, founder of the Allard Motor Company
- 1910 : Paul John Flory , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912 : Karl-Heinz Becker , German long-distance runner
- 1912 : Alfred Jensch , German astronomer and designer
- 1914 : Anthony von Sourozh , Russian bishop
- 1914 : Lester Flatt , American musician
- 1917 : Dave Lambert , American jazz singer
- 1917 : Rolf Hachmann , German prehistorian
- 1918 : Morris B. Abram , American lawyer
- 1919 : Anneliese Rothenberger , German soprano
- 1920 : Keith Andrews , American racing car driver
- 1920 : Thulukhanam Shunmugham , Indian soccer player
- 1921 : Louis Jourdan , French actor
- 1922 : Aage Niels Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1923 : Donald Bell , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
- 1923 : Andrés Rodríguez , Paraguayan general, president
- 1924 : Wassil Bykau , Belarusian writer
- 1924 : Leo Nomellini , American football player
1926-1950
- 1926 : Elisabeth Axmann , German writer
- 1926 : Arno J. Mayer , American historian
- 1926 : Josef Nesvadba , Czech writer
- 1928 : Hasegawa Ryūsei , Japanese poet
- 1928 : Karl-Herbert Scheer , German author
- 1930 : Gena Rowlands , American actress
- 1931 : Martin Assmann , German civil engineer and entrepreneur
- 1932 : Pier Angeli , Italian actress
- 1932 : Zózimo , Brazilian soccer player
- 1932 : Ernest Ranglin , Jamaican musician
- 1934 : Franz Josef Bogner , German cabaret artist and writer
- 1934 : Thomas Dieterich , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, President of the Federal Labor Court
- 1936 : Peter Corterier , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1936 : Shirley Goodman , American R&B singer
- 1937 : André Glucksmann , French philosopher
- 1937 : Gerhard Zech , German physicist and politician
- 1938 : Karl Moik , Austrian television presenter and entertainer
- 1939 : Al Wilson , American musician
- 1939 : Horst Haitzinger , Austrian-German graphic artist and caricaturist
- 1940 : Rainer Langhans , German author, filmmaker and actor
- 1941 : Václav Klaus , Czech politician and economist, president
- 1942 : Muammar al-Gaddafi , Libyan officer and putschist, head of state, dictatorial revolutionary leader
- 1944 : Peter Bardens , British musician
- 1945 : Aung San Suu Kyi , Burmese politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1945 : Radovan Karadžić , Bosnian-Serb politician, President of the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, war criminal
- 1945 : Marion Speer , American racing car driver
- 1946 : Arnjolt Beer , French athlete from New Caledonia
- 1946 : András Haán , Hungarian basketball player, sailor and cardiac surgeon
- 1946 : Werner Reinke , German radio presenter
- 1947 : Paula Koivuniemi , Finnish singer
- 1947 : Salman Rushdie , Indo-British writer
- 1948 : Nick Drake , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1948 : Phylicia Rashād , American actress and singer
- 1948 : Erik Schinegger , Austrian skier
- 1949 : John Duigan , Australian film director and screenwriter
- 1949 : Hassan Shehata , Egyptian football coach
- 1950 : Ann Wilson , American singer, composer and guitarist ( Heart )
1951-1975
- 1951 : Francesco Moser , Italian racing cyclist
- 1952 : Bob Ainsworth , British politician
- 1952 : Philippe Manoury , French composer
- 1953 : Jean-Michel Martin , Belgian racing car driver
- 1953 : Harald Wehmeier , German journalist and author
- 1954 : Kathleen Turner , American actress
- 1956 : Doug Stone , American country musician
- 1957 : Susanne Bredehöft , German actress
- 1957 : Anna Lindh , Swedish politician
- 1958 : Sergei Michailowitsch Makarow , first Soviet ice hockey player in the NHL ( Makarow rule )
- 1959 : Linda Rocco , American singer
- 1959 : Christian Wulff , German Federal President
- 1960 : Raúl Vicente Amarilla , Paraguayan football player and coach
- 1961 : Bidhya Devi Bhandari , President of Nepal
- 1962 : Paula Abdul , American singer
- 1963 : Jean-Paul Cottret , French rally co-driver
- 1963 : Laura Ingraham , American television and radio presenter
- 1963 : Christof Kurzmann , Austrian jazz and improvisation musician
- 1963 : Simon Wright , British rock musician ( AC / DC , Dio )
- 1964 : Franz-Josef Overbeck , Bishop of Essen (Ruhrbischof), military bishop of the Catholic Church in Germany
- 1964 : Boris Johnson , British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1964 : Kevin Schwantz , American motorcycle racer
- 1965 : Sabine Braun , German athlete
- 1965 : Edward Pimental , American soldier, RAF murder victim
- 1966 : Silje Nergaard , Norwegian jazz singer
- 1966 : Milena Pires , East Timorese politician
- 1967 : Bjørn Dæhlie , Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1967 : Andrew Tosh , Jamaican reggae musician
- 1968 : John Hollenbeck , American jazz drummer
- 1968 : Ulrich Mählert , German contemporary historian
- 1969 : Thanh Lam , Vietnamese singer
- 1970 : Alberto Angulo , Spanish basketball player, coach and official
- 1970 : Rahul Gandhi , Indian politician, Member of Parliament
- 1970 : Brian Welch , American guitarist ( Korn )
- 1970 : Torsten Knippertz , German actor and presenter
- 1971 : Christopher Peter Armstrong , English soccer player
- 1971 : Jürgen Trimborn , German writer and biographer
- 1972 : Jean Dujardin , French actor, Oscar winner
- 1972 : Christian Kahrmann , German actor and restaurateur
- 1973 : Armen Avanessian , Austrian philosopher, literary scholar and political theorist
- 1974 : Bülent Ataman , Turkish soccer player
- 1975 : Tauno Aints , Estonian composer and musician
- 1975 : Tom Cloet , Belgian racing car driver
- 1975 : Mohammed Gargo , Ghanaian soccer player
1976-2000
- 1977 : Maria Cioncan , Romanian middle distance runner, Olympic medalist
- 1978 : Mía Maestro , Argentine actress and singer
- 1978 : Dirk Nowitzki , German basketball player
- 1979 : Moonika Aava , Estonian javelin thrower
- 1979 : Monika Medek , Austrian opera and concert singer (soprano)
- 1980 : Milka Loff Fernandes , German television presenter and actress
- 1981 : Martin Abadir , Austrian handball player
- 1981 : Răzvan Pădurețu , Romanian football player
- 1982 : Matthias Holst , German soccer player
- 1982 : Chris Vermeulen , Australian motorcycle racer, world champion
- 1983 : Aidan Turner , Irish actor
- 1983 : Macklemore , American rapper
- 1983 : Milan Petržela , Czech football player
- 1984 : Mateus Galiano da Costa , Angolan football player
- 1985 : José Ernesto Sosa , Argentine soccer player
- 1986 : Martin Kobras , Austrian soccer player
- 1986 : Ragnar Sigurðsson , Icelandic football player
- 1986 : Marie Dorin-Habert , French biathlete, Olympic medalist
- 1987 : Joaquín Boghossian , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1987 : Sacha Modolo , Italian road cyclist
- 1988 : Danylo Besuhlow , Ukrainian billiards player
- 1988 : Marcella Deen , Dutch handball player
- 1988 : Jacob deGrom , American baseball player
- 1989 : Stephan Hampel , German handball player
- 1989 : Thomas Thurnbichler , Austrian ski jumper
- 1990 : Brodie Mooy , Australian soccer player
- 1990 : Gerrit Pressel , German soccer player
- 1991 : Katrine Veje , Danish soccer player
- 1992 : Carlos Ascues , Peruvian soccer player
- 1992 : Andrea Pizzitola , French racing car driver
- 1992 : Johannes Wurtz , German soccer player
- 1995 : Blake Woodruff , American actor
- 1996 : Larisa Iordache , Romanian gymnast
- 1996 : Lorenzo Pellegrini , Italian football player
- 1997 : Vitaly Pazura , Ukrainian pool player
- 1997 : Sheyi Ojo , English soccer player
- 1998 : Atticus Shaffer , American actor
- 2000 : Sydney Lohmann , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 1027 : Romuald , Italian founder of the Camaldolese order
- 1054 : Lambert II , Count of Löwen
- 1113 : Odo , Bishop of Cambrai
- 1160 : Sizzo III. , Count of Schwarzburg-Kevernburg
- 1194 : Sigelo , protonotary and chancellor of Heinrich VI.
- 1213 : Eleanor of Vermandois , Countess of Beaumont-sur-Oise and Saint-Quentin and mistress of Valois
- 1226 : Agnes von Bar , Duchess of Lorraine
- 1248 : Otto VIII. , Duke of Merania and Count Palatine of Burgundy
- 1282 : Eleanor de Montfort , English nobleman
- 1312 : Piers Gaveston , regent of Ireland
- 1340 : Bonagratia of Bergamo , Italian Franciscan, lawyer and politician
- 1341 : Juliana von Falconieri , founder of the Servite Order
- 1500 : Edmund Tudor, 1st Duke of Somerset , third son of Henry VII of England
16th to 18th century
- 1504 : Bernhard Walther , Nuremberg astronomer, humanist and businessman
- 1524 : Niccolò Leoniceno , Italian doctor, medical writer, philosopher, grammarian and humanist
- 1542 : Leo Jud , Swiss reformer
- 1554 : Sixtus Birck , German playwright and hymn poet
- 1554 : Philip II , Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1567 : Anna , Princess of Brandenburg, marriage to the Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1583 : Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1608 : Johannes Pistorius the Younger (Niddanus), German doctor, historian, Catholic theologian and politician
- 1650 : Matthäus Merian , Swiss-German engraver and publisher
- 1656 : Hempo von dem Knesebeck , governor of the Altmark
- 1661 : Christoph Gerdes , mayor of Lübeck
- 1667 : Anton Günther , Count of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst
- 1714 : Christian Juncker , Saxon historiographer and writer
- 1716 : Tokugawa Ietsugu , 7th Shogun of the Edo period in Japan
- 1720 : Robert Knox , English navigator
- 1732 : Adam Franz Prince von Schwarzenberg , Bohemian nobleman and Austrian high court marshal
- 1747 : Jakob Benzelius , Swedish Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala
- 1747 : Alessandro Marcello , Italian poet, composer and philosopher
- 1756 : Erdmuthe Dorothea von Zinzendorf , German countess, pietist and hymn poet
- 1765 : Johann Christoph Rost , Saxon poet
- 1778 : Francesca Cuzzoni , Italian opera singer
- 1780 : Odano Naotake , Japanese painter
- 1794 : Ildephons Schwarz , German Catholic theologian
- 1799 : Sophie Amalie Karoline , Princess of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein zu Oehringen
19th century
- 1808 : Alexander Dalrymple , British geographer
- 1810 : Richard Luke Concanen , first Roman Catholic bishop of New York
- 1811 : Samuel Chase , one of the founding fathers of the USA
- 1813 : Johann Christoph Rincklake , German romantic portrait painter
- 1820 : Joseph Banks , British naturalist
- 1821 : Peter Ochs , Swiss politician
- 1832 : Samuel John Galton , British arms manufacturer and banker
- 1840 : John Cockerill , Belgian industrialist of British origin, one of the pioneers of industrialization in Belgium
- 1840 : Pierre-Joseph Redouté , French painter
- 1857 : Friedrich Krafft , German politician
- 1865 : Evangelos Zappas , Greek merchant and patron
- 1867 : Maximilian I , Austrian Archduke, Emperor of Mexico
- 1884 : Johann Gustav Droysen , German historian, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1890 : Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll , German classical philologist
- 1894 : Karl Roth von Schreckenstein , German historian, writer and archivist
- 1895 : Heinrich Ludwig Banck , German banker and businessman
- 1897 : Charles Cunningham Boycott , British land manager in Ireland
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Albert I , King of Saxony
- 1902 : John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton , British historian, journalist and church critic
- 1903 : Herbert Vaughan , British Archbishop of Westminster, founder of the Order and Cardinal
- 1907 : Georges Edouard Godet , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1915 : Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , Russian composer
- 1918 : Francesco Baracca , Italian fighter pilot
- 1922 : Fritz Arnheim , German historian
- 1931 : Freddie Hicks , British motorcycle racer
- 1932 : Sol Plaatje , South African linguist and journalist, writer and statesman
- 1933 : Walter Friedrich August Arnold , German politician
- 1936 : Toni Babl , German motorcycle racer
- 1937 : JM Barrie , British novelist and playwright from Scotland ( Peter Pan )
- 1939 : Grace Abbott , American social reformer, child rights activist and university teacher
- 1939 : Emilio Villoresi , Italian racing car driver
- 1940 : Pete Henderson , Canadian racing car driver
- 1940 : Attilio Marinoni , Italian racing car driver
- 1944 : Lilli Jahn , German doctor, author of letters, victim of National Socialism
- 1949 : Weiß Ferdl , German folk singer and actor
1951-2000
- 1951 : Albert Bertelin , French composer
- 1953 : Ethel and Julius Rosenberg , American couple convicted and executed for espionage
- 1956 : Vladimir Afanassjewitsch Obruchev , Soviet geologist, geographer and writer
- 1956 : Lulu von Strauss and Torney , German poet and writer
- 1957 : Karl Plagge , German officer and rescuer of the Jews, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1960 : Chris Bristow , English Formula 1 racing driver
- 1960 : Jimmy Bryan , American racing driver
- 1962 : Frank Borzage , American film director
- 1963 : Eleuterio Riccardi , Italian painter and sculptor
- 1964 : Hans Moser , Austrian actor
- 1964 : Heinrich Quiring , German geologist and paleontologist
- 1965 : Franz Kruckenberg , German engineer and designer
- 1966 : Walter Amstalden , Swiss politician and lawyer
- 1969 : Natalie Talmadge , American actress
- 1971 : Heinrich Ritzel , German politician, MdL, MdR, MdB
- 1974 : Friedrich-Wilhelm Krummacher , Bishop of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church
- 1975 : Omar del Carlo , Argentine playwright
- 1977 : Geraldine Brooks , American actress
- 1977 : Ali Schariati , Iranian sociologist and intellectual
- 1980 : Georges Hugon , French composer
- 1981 : Lotte Reiniger , German cutter, silhouette animation filmmaker and book illustrator
- 1984 : Lee Krasner , American painter
- 1984 : Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel , Swiss composer of German-Russian origin
- 1986 : Hellmut Arnold , German geologist and paleontologist
- 1986 : Coluche , French film actor and comedian
- 1986 : Len Bias , American basketball player
- 1988 : Aaly Tokombajew , Kyrgyz poet
- 1989 : Dieter Aderhold , German university professor and politician
- 1989 : Walter Hulverscheidt , German forester and author
- 1990 : Hillevi Svedberg , Swedish architect
- 1991 : Jean Arthur , American actress
- 1991 : Michael Westphal , German tennis player
- 1992 : Kathleen McKane Godfree , English tennis player
- 1993 : Helmut Fath , German motorcycle racing driver and designer
- 1993 : William Golding , British writer, Nobel Prize Winner ( Lord of the Flies )
- 1994 : Varise Connor , American Cajun musician (fiddle player)
- 1994 : Lauro Olmo , Spanish writer
- 1995 : Maria Wiłkomirska , Polish pianist, chamber musician and music teacher
- 1998 : Alci Sánchez , Venezuelan singer
- 1999 : Leslie Holdridge , American botanist and climatologist
- 2000 : Christiane Herzog , German journalist, wife of Roman Herzog
21st century
- 2004 : Else Quecke , German actress
- 2005 : Adalbert Schmitt , German entrepreneur and restaurateur
- 2007 : Antonio Aguilar , Mexican singer and actor
- 2007 : Klausjürgen Wussow , German actor
- 2008 : Horst Brünner , German General, Deputy Minister for National Defense, Head of the Political Central Administration of the NVA
- 2008 : Tim Carter , British soccer player
- 2008 : Hans Hösl , German politician, Lord Mayor of Passau
- 2009 : Jörg Hube , German actor, director and cabaret artist
- 2009 : Ali Akbar Khan , Indian musician and composer
- 2010 : Carlos Monsiváis , Mexican journalist and columnist, essayist, critic and historian
- 2010 : Stephan Rudas , Austrian specialist in psychiatry and neurology
- 2012 : Walter Haefner , Swiss entrepreneur
- 2012 : Silvia Reize , Swiss actress
- 2013 : Eugen Böhringer , German racing car driver
- 2013 : James Gandolfini , American actor
- 2013 : Gyula Horn , Hungarian politician, Prime Minister
- 2014 : Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt , German general and politician
- 2014 : Daniel Nazareth , Indian conductor and composer
- 2015 : Bernhard Jagoda , German federal civil servant and politician
- 2015 : Richard Meier , German lawyer and protection of the constitution
- 2016 : Götz George , German actor
- 2016 : Anton Yelchin , American film actor
- 2017 : Ivan Dias , Indian Curial Cardinal
- 2017 : Otto Warmbier , American student
- 2018 : Stanley Cavell , American philosopher
- 2018 : Elisabeth of Denmark , Danish princess
- 2019 : Lúcio Bellentani , Brazilian trade unionist
- 2019 : Norman Stone , British historian
- 2020 : Ian Holm , British actor
- 2020 : Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Spanish writer
- 2020 : Dieter E. Zimmer , German journalist, author and translator
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Ludwig Richter , German painter (Protestant)
- Hll. Gervasius and Protasius , martyrs and patron saints (catholic)
- St. Romuald , Italian nobleman and founder of an order (Catholic)
- Name days
The Herford Vision , the oldest known Marian apparition north of the Alps, is said to have taken place on this day .
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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