May 19
The May 19 is the 139th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 140th in leap years ), thus remain still 226 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know 19 May (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1364 : Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon are crowned and anointed as the French ruling couple in Reims Cathedral .
- 1515 : George the Bearded of Saxony sells Friesland for 200,000 Rhenish guilders to the ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands , the later Emperor Charles V from the House of Habsburg .
- 1536 : Anne Boleyn , the second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth I , is executed in the Tower of London for alleged adultery, incest with her brother George and high treason .
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- 1547 : The Wittenberg surrender ends the Schmalkaldic War . The Saxon Elector Johann Friedrich I , who was defeated in the Battle of Mühlberg on April 24th, renounced his land ownership and electoral dignity in favor of the Albertines of the Wettin dynasty , who represented Moritz of Saxony , in order to overturn his death sentence against Emperor Charles V.
- 1568 : With the knowledge of the English Queen Elizabeth I , Maria Stuart , who fled on English soil after her defeat against the Scottish Lords at Langside, is arrested and imprisoned in Carlisle .
- 1635 : France declares war on Spain . After the defeat of the Swedes in the Battle of Nördlingen in September 1634, it opened a new round of fighting in the Thirty Years' War . The Habsburg-French antagonism continues to smolder. France had previously come to terms with the Netherlands in the Paris Agreement .
- 1643 : In the battle of Rocroi , the French under Louis II. De Bourbon, prince de Condé defeat a Spanish army under Francisco de Melo . The victory marks the decline of the Spanish and the beginning of the French hegemonic power. It is the worst defeat in the history of the Spanish army.
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- 1649 : After the victory of the Roundheads in the civil war and the execution of King Charles I , England is given the name of the state of its republic formed under Oliver Cromwell , the Commonwealth of England .
- 1781 : The French King Louis XVI. surprisingly dismisses his general finance director Jacques Necker , who previously reprimanded the waste at the court of the Ancien Régime .
- 1798 : Napoleon Bonaparte sets out from Toulon on his more than three year long Egyptian expedition .
- 1802 : The First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honor , France's highest order of merit , with the aim of rewarding military and civilian merits, excellent talent and great virtues.
- 1804 : Napoleon leads one day after the proclamation of the Empire to 1793 abolished rank " Marshal of France " again and gives him 18 Divisionsgeneräle, among them François-Christophe Kellermann , François Joseph Lefebvre , Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon and Jean Mathieu Philibert Sérurier .
- 1822 : After the disinterest of European royal families, who take the colonial power Spain , which rejects the Treaty of Cordoba , into consideration, Agustín de Iturbide is elected first emperor of Mexico by the Regency Council.
- 1919 : With the arrival of Mustafa Kemal Pasha in Samsun , the Turkish Liberation War of the Kuvayı Milliye resistance group against the occupying powers of the Triple Entente begins .
- 1921 : In the United States is Emergency Quota Act passed a law that the strong immigration after the First World War to Contain.
- 1934 : In a military coup by members of the Sweno group in Bulgaria, the elected Prime Minister Nikola Muschanov is replaced by Colonel Kimon Georgiev .
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- 1935 : In the elections in Czechoslovakia , Konrad Henlein's Sudeten German Party becomes the party with the largest number of votes and receives 44 of 300 seats in parliament.
- 1935 : The National Socialists open the first section of the Reichsautobahn between Frankfurt am Main and Darmstadt with great propaganda efforts . The first section of today's A 555 between Bonn and Cologne, which was opened in 1932 by the then mayor of Cologne, Konrad Adenauer , was downgraded to a country road in 1933 especially for this purpose .
- 1945 : The Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš decreed with Decree No. 5 that “the entire property of persons of German or Magyar nationality in the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic should be placed under state administration”.
- 1969 : After Peter Altmeier resigned the day before, Helmut Kohl ( CDU ) became Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate .
- 1974 : In France , the bourgeois Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is elected president with 50.8% against the socialist François Mitterrand .
- 1983 : At the request of the SPD, the German Bundestag sets up a committee of inquiry into the Flick donation affair , the work of which will take two years. The chairman of the committee is Manfred Langner from the CDU.
- 1983 : In a former slaughterhouse in the northern French village of Anguilcourt-le-Sart, the 41 barrels of dioxin-contaminated sludge from the disaster of July 10, 1976 in Seveso , Italy , that had "disappeared" since September 10, 1982, are found.
- 1993 : The SPD politician Heide Simonis is elected as the successor to Björn Engholm as Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein and thus the first female Prime Minister in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 2000 : Conservative forces led by businessman George Speight carry out a coup against President Kamisese Mara in the Fiji Islands . The entire cabinet under Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry is taken hostage. On May 29, the military intervened under Frank Bainimarama .
- 2007 : Three soldiers of the German Bundeswehr and several civilians die in a suicide attack by the Taliban in Kunduz in northeast Afghanistan .
- 2012 : The blind Chinese civil rights activist Chen Guangcheng is allowed to travel to the United States with his family.
economy
- 1849 : The Neue Rheinische Zeitung , published by Karl Marx in Cologne, ceases to appear after the failure of the March Revolution in the Prussian Rhine Province .
- 1872 : The tram Frankfurt takes a horse-drawn tram line her on operation . The route leads from Schönhof in the northwestern neighboring town of Bockenheim via Bockenheimer Warte and Bockenheimer Landstrasse to the Hauptwache in Frankfurt . The operating company is the private Belgian Frankfurt tram company .
- 1889 : The German physicist and mathematician Ernst Abbe establishes the Carl Zeiss Foundation , which is approved by the state two days later. The aim of the foundation is to promote scientific and mathematical science in research and teaching.
- 1901 : The Association of German Food Manufacturers and Traders , the forerunner of today's Food Association Germany , is founded in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1903 : The American engineer and inventor David Dunbar Buick founds the Buick Motor Company in Michigan .
- 1912 : The German Reichspost conducts its first official mail flight between Mannheim and Heidelberg .
- 1929 : Spain's King Alfonso XIII. opens the world exhibition Exposició Internacional de Barcelona . The most famous exhibits include the Palau Nacional and the German Pavilion designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe .
- 2004 : The District Court of Munich I is the first court in the world to confirm the legal validity of the GNU General Public License .
science and technology
- 1607 : Since the neighboring Marburg University became Calvinist with the division of the Landgraviate of Hesse , Landgrave Ludwig V of Hesse-Darmstadt founds the Protestant State University in Gießen , which on this day received Rudolf II's imperial patent.
- 1845 : The British explorer John Franklin sets sail with the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror and a supply ship on his last expedition in search of the Northwest Passage . Only the supply ship will return from the Franklin expedition .
- 1906 : The Simplon Tunnel , built by the successor company of the Jura-Simplon Railway , the Swiss Federal Railways by the engineers Karl Brandau and Alfred Brandt , is inaugurated in Brig .
- 2009 : A research team led by the Norwegian paleontologist Jørn H. Hurum publishes the first description of the extinct primate genus Darwinius recently discovered in the Messel pit near Darmstadt . The individual "Ida" described is considered to be the best preserved fossil of a primate .
Culture
- 1518 : In the Venetian church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari , the high altar is adorned with the Titian painting Assunta , a canvas painting of more than 22 m² previously unknown.
- 1792 : The first performance of the comedy Les Deux Sous-lieutenants ou Le Concert interrompu by Henri Montan Berton takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 1842 : The opera Linda di Chamounix by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered with great success with Eugenia Tadolini in the leading role at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
- 1883 : William Frederick Cody, known as Buffalo Bill , first performed his Wild West show in Omaha , Nebraska, USA, and then went on tour.
- 1909 : The ballet Polowetz Dances by Michel Fokine based on music by Alexander Borodin is premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris . The Ballets Russes of the impresario Sergei Pawlowitsch Djagilew appear for the first time .
- 1911 : The one-act play The Spanish Hour by Maurice Ravel based on a libretto by Franc-Nohain is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris . The “musical comedy” was rejected by the audience and critics.
- 1926 : After a large demonstration by the Filmbund , a film quota law comes into force in Austria, which provides for import restrictions on foreign film productions in order to counteract the inundation of American films and the feared decline of Austrian films.
- 1962 : At a birthday gala for the US President John F. Kennedy in Madison Square Garden in New York has Marilyn Monroe her last public appearance. On the occasion of his birthday, the actress sings a self-written song entitled Happy Birthday, Mr. President .
- 1967 : The premiere of the opera Bomarzo by Alberto Ginastera takes place at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington .
society
- 1051 : Henry I of France marries his third wife Anna of Kiev in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Reims .
- 1322 : After long reluctance, Pope John XXII leaves . At the request of the French king, the marriage between Charles IV and Blanka of Burgundy . She has been incarcerated at Château Gaillard since the Tour de Nesle scandal .
- 1359 : John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster marries his first wife, Blanche of Lancaster, at Reading Abbey .
- 1685 : After 22 years imprisonment in the Blue Tower , the political prisoner Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is released in Copenhagen . She was charged with participating in the political intrigues of her husband Corfitz Ulfeldt .
- 1919 : The German pediatrician Marie Elise Kayser sets up Germany's first breast milk collection point in the infant department of the Magdeburg- Altstadt Hospital .
- 1919 : The British Eglantyne Jebb announces the founding of the children's charity Save the Children at the Royal Albert Hall in London . She and her sister collect donations to help children in Germany and Austria who are suffering from the aftermath of the World War .
religion
- 715 : Emerging from the noble Savelli family, Gregory II becomes a Roman pope again after a long time . He is the successor to Constantine I , who died on April 9th.
- 1769 : Lorenzo Ganganelli is elected Pope and takes the name Clement XIV . In order to ascend the papal throne on June 4th, he will not be ordained a bishop until May 28th.
nature and environment
- 861 : A meteorite strikes a temple in Nogata on the Japanese island of Kyushu . The fall of the chondrite is observed and the piece is kept in a shrine for posterity.
- 1780 : The " Dark Day " causes uncertainty in New England . The cause of the unusual darkness can never be finally clarified.
- 1910 : The earth crosses the tail of Halley's comet , which scares many people because astronomers recently discovered the poisonous gas dicyan in it.
- 1965 : On Tonga dies radiated tortoise Tu'i Malila . The animal came into the hands of the royal family as a gift from circumnavigator James Cook and is therefore at least 188 years old.
Disasters
- 1314 : The Swedish city of Visby burns down completely.
- 1993 : On its way from Panama City, Panama, to Medellín , Colombia, a Boeing 727 from SAM Colombia hit a mountain 40 km southeast of the airport in bad weather. All 133 people on board die.
- 1997 : A severe cyclone in Bangladesh causes over 500 deaths, thousands injured and around 2.5 million homeless.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1902 : 22 tennis clubs found the German Lawn Tennis Association in Berlin with around 2500 members. Carl August von der Meden from Hamburg is elected the first President of the Federation.
- 1928 : The Stade Roland Garros tennis arena opens in Paris . The French Open , which has existed since 1891, will be held in it.
- 1938 : The Mannheim ice and roller sports club , as Adler Mannheim record champions of the German ice hockey league , is founded.
- 2012 : The 2012 UEFA Champions League final between FC Chelsea and FC Bayern Munich takes place in Munich . Chelsea FC won the game 4: 3 on penalties.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1329 : William de Ros, 3rd Baron de Ros , English nobleman, military man and politician
- 1476 : Helena of Moscow , Grand Duchess of Lithuania and titular queen of Poland
- 1547 : Gustaf Axelsson Banér , Swedish statesman
- 1593 : Jacob Jordaens , Flemish painter
- 1611 : Innocent XI. , Pope
- 1641 : Christoph Egedacher , south German organ builder
- 1669 : Philipp Wilhelm , Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt and governor of Magdeburg
- 1678 : Francesco Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza
- 1683 : Burkhard Christoph von Münnich , Field Marshal General of German descent and politician in Russian service
- 1695 : Johann Ludwig Alefeld , German philosopher and physicist
18th century
- 1701 : Alvise Mocenigo IV , 118th Doge of Venice
- 1716 : Franz Ludwig Pfyffer , Swiss politician and cartographer
- 1722 : Johann Hortzschansky , Sorbian educator, historian and philologist
- 1729 : William Henry , American politician
- 1732 : Johann Christoph von Woellner , Prussian pastor and statesman
- 1740 : Joseph Franz Weigl , Austrian cellist
- 1744 : Sophie Charlotte von Mecklenburg-Strelitz , wife of the British King George III.
- 1746 : Johann Friedrich Peter , American composer
- 1750 : Kaspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff , German forester and statesman, founder of the baths in Bad Driburg
- 1752 : Philipp Ludwig Wittwer , German medic
- 1762 : Johann Gottlieb Fichte , German educator and philosopher, representative of idealism
- 1765 : Johann Nepomuk Amann , Austrian-German architect
- 1767 : George Prevost , British general and Governor of Canada
- 1771 : Rahel Varnhagen von Ense , German writer and salonière, representative of the emancipation of Jews and women
- 1773 : Arthur Aikin , English chemist, mineralogist and author
- 1773 : Tobias Feilner , German pottery manufacturer
- 1785 : Gottfried Duden , German writer
- 1785 : Alois Vock , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman, educator and historian
- 1786 : Johann Melchior Goeze , Protestant theologian
- 1794 : Johann Peter Weyer , Cologne city architect and art collector
- 1795 : Johns Hopkins , American businessman and philanthropist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Robert Todd Lytle , American politician
- 1812 : Charlotte Guest , British translator, educator and entrepreneur
- 1814 : Otto Möllinger , Swiss scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
- 1819 : Nikolai Wladimirowitsch Adlerberg , Russian count, councilor of state, court chamberlain, governor of Taganrog, Simferopol and administrator of Finland
- 1835 : Heinrich Feiten , German auxiliary bishop
- 1841 : Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold , German chemist and physicist
- 1844 : John Edwin Sandys , British classical philologist
- 1849 : Adrien Lachenal , Swiss politician and Federal President
1851-1900
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- 1855 : Karl Gander , German teacher and local researcher
- 1857 : John Jacob Abel , American biochemist and pharmacologist
- 1858 : Roland Bonaparte , French scientist, anthropologist and writer
- 1859 : Stanislaw Eksner , Russian pianist and music teacher
- 1859 : Paul Staudinger , German explorer and private scholar
- 1860 : Vittorio Emanuele Orlando , Italian politician
- 1861 : Nellie Melba , Australian singer (soprano)
- 1862 : João do Canto e Castro , Portuguese admiral and president
- 1864 : Carl Ethan Akeley , American hunter, taxidermist, naturalist, professor, artist, and inventor
- 1866 : Adalbert Hock , German painter
- 1867 : Otto Appel , German phytomedicist
- 1868 : Adolf Anderle , Austrian politician
- 1868 : Karl Bornhäuser , German Protestant theologian
- 1869 : Karl Adolph , Austrian writer
- 1870 : Victor Beigel , English pianist and singing teacher
- 1871 : Max Mendel , German businessman and consumer cooperative, Senator in the Hamburg Senate
- 1873 : Federico Gerdes , Peruvian composer, conductor and pianist
- 1874 : John Esslemont , British Bahai
- 1874 : Max Niedermann , Swiss classical philologist and politician
- 1876 : Saint-Georges de Bouhélier , French writer
- 1879 : Nancy Astor , British politician
- 1879 : Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor , British politician and newspaper publisher
- 1880 : Max Clarenbach , German painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting
- 1881 : Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , founder of the state and first President of the Republic of Turkey (date set later)
- 1885 : Paul Bildt , German actor
- 1885 : Bjørn Rasmussen , Danish football player
- 1890 : Hans Ahrbeck , German educationalist, pedagogue and university professor
- 1890 : Hồ Chí Minh , communist revolutionary and president of North Vietnam
- 1892 : Christian Werner , German automobile racing driver
- 1893 : Władysław Raczkowski , Polish conductor, choir director, organist and pianist
- 1894 : Franz Mühlenberg , German politician, MdL
- 1895 : Albert Hay Malotte , American pianist, organist, composer and educator
- 1895 : Jean Sachot , French racing car driver
- 1896 : Jorge Alessandri , Chilean politician
- 1897 : Waldemar Augustiny , German writer
- 1897 : Herman Kruk , Polish librarian
- 1897 : Enrico Mainardi , Italian cellist, composer and conductor
- 1898 : Julius Evola , Italian cultural philosopher
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Franz Ackerl , Austrian university professor for geodesy and photogrammetry
- 1901 : Otto Ambros , German chemist, convicted war criminal and military economic leader
- 1901 : Kenneth Preston , British regatta sailor
- 1901 : Hans Soenius , German motorcycle racer
- 1905 : Heinz Wohlleben , German politician
- 1906 : Edward F. Arn , American lawyer and politician
- 1906 : Gerd Bucerius , German publisher and politician
- 1907 : Heinrich Eckstein , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1907 : Rudi Knees , German motorcycle racer
- 1908 : Rolf Dahlgrün , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1908 : Gianna Perea-Labia , Italian singer (soprano)
- 1909 : Nicholas Winton , British organizer of the Czech Kindertransport before World War II
- 1910 : Nathuram Godse , Indian murderer of Mahatma Gandhi
- 1912 : Alice Franz , German actress and voice actress
- 1913 : Pierre Boncompagni , French racing car driver
- 1914 : Max Ferdinand Perutz , British chemist, and Nobel Prize winner
- 1918 : Clara Auteri Pepe , Italian actress
- 1918 : Abraham Pais , Dutch physicist
- 1918 : Johnny Hicks , American country musician and presenter
- 1919 : Georgie Auld , American jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and band leader
- 1921 : Daniel Gélin , French actor
- 1921 : Martha Carson , American country gospel musician
- 1922 : Herbert Burdenski , German football player
- 1923 : Georgi Arkadjewitsch Arbatow , Soviet-Russian political scientist
- 1923 : André Kaminski , Swiss writer
1926-1950
- 1926 : Mark Andrews , American politician, House member, Senator
- 1926 : Peter Zadek , German director
- 1927 : Serge Lang , American mathematician
- 1927 : Varkey Vithayathil , Indian cardinal; Grand Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly
- 1927 : Wolfram Heicking , German composer, musicologist and university professor
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- 1928 : Colin Chapman , British racing car designer
- 1928 : Pol Pot , Cambodian leader
- 1930 : Lorraine Hansberry , American playwright
- 1931 : Bob Anderson , British motorcycle and car racer
- 1931 : Alfred Schmidt , German philosopher
- 1932 : Claude Blanchard , Canadian actor and singer
- 1932 : Alma Cogan , English pop singer
- 1933 : Antón García Abril , Spanish composer and music teacher
- 1935 : Fritz Rudolf Fries , German writer and translator
- 1935 : Cecil McBee , American jazz bassist
- 1937 : Sylvia Rickard , Canadian composer
- 1938 : Moisés da Costa Amaral , East Timorese politician
- 1939 : Mariano Agate , Italian criminal
- 1939 : Livio Berruti , Italian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1939 : Willi Kauhsen , German racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1939 : Tomasz Sikorski , Polish composer
- 1939 : Sonny Fortune , American jazz musician
- 1940 : Frank Lorenzo , American manager
- 1940 : Jan Janssen , Dutch cyclist
- 1941 : Heinz Oberhummer , Austrian physicist
- 1942 : Alexandra , German singer
- 1942 : Kornelia Boje , German actress, author, dubbing and radio play speaker and dubbing director
- 1942 : Dieter Enderlein , German athlete
- 1942 : Hans-Jürgen Ewers , German economist, President of the TU Berlin
- 1943 : John Mills-Cockell , Canadian composer
- 1943 : Rafael Rodríguez Díaz , Salvadoran poet, essayist, literary critic and university professor
- 1945 : Pete Townshend , British musician
- 1946 : Michele Placido , Italian director and actor
- 1947 : Barbara Schöne , German actress
- 1947 : David Helfgott , Australian pianist
- 1947 : Zdeněk Juračka , Czech guitarist
- 1948 : Grace Jones , Jamaican actress and singer
- 1948 : Tom Scott , American musician
- 1949 : Uwe Braunschweig , German handball player
- 1949 : Dusty Hill , American blues rock musician
- 1949 : Stephen Varcoe , English singer
- 1950 : Austin Stevens , South African adventurer and documentary filmmaker
1951-1975
- 1951 : Axel Berg , German ambassador
- 1951 : Karl Brunner , Italian luge rider
- 1951 : Victoria Chaplin , American actress
- 1951 : Joey Ramone , American singer
- 1952 : Bert van Marwijk , Dutch football player and coach
- 1953 : Alain Iannetta , French racing car driver
- 1954 : Wolfgang Maderthaner , Austrian historian
- 1954 : Phil Rudd , Australian musician
- 1955 : James Gosling , Canadian computer scientist, one of the creators of the Java programming language
- 1955 : Werner Kuhn , German politician
- 1956 : Martyn Ware , British musician
- 1957 : Danuta Jazłowiecka , Polish politician
- 1957 : Bill Laimbeer , American basketball player
- 1958 : István Bubik , Hungarian actor
- 1959 : Elisabeth Dörler , Austrian theologian, member of a Catholic secular institute
- 1960 : Alex Jacobowitz , American xylophone player
- 1960 : Yazz , British pop musician
- 1960 : Daniel Glattauer , Austrian writer
- 1961 : Andrzej Andrzejewski , Polish Brigadier General
- 1961 : Firdaus Kabirow , Russian marathon rally driver
- 1962 : Uli Borowka , German soccer player
- 1962 : Helmut Riegger , German graduate in administration and politician
- 1962 : Boz Boorer , British musician
- 1963 : Gottfried Angerer , Austrian bass guitarist, music teacher and systems analyst
- 1964 : Beibit Atamqulow , Kazakh politician
- 1964 : Miloslav Mečíř , Slovak tennis player
- 1964 : Sean Whalen , American actor
- 1966 : Felix Otto , German mathematician
- 1968 : Theo de Raadt , Canadian programmer
- 1968 : Rodrigo González , Chilean-German musician
- 1969 : Dan Lee , Canadian animator
- 1969 : Thomas Vinterberg , Danish film director
- 1970 : Vidar Busk , Norwegian blues guitarist
- 1970 : Choi Kyung-ju , South Korean golfer
- 1971 : Uwem Akpan , Nigerian writer and priest
- 1972 : Rohan Marley , Jamaican drummer
- 1972 : Jenny Berggren , Swedish singer
- 1973 : Dario Franchitti , British racing driver
- 1975 : Masanobu Andō , Japanese actor and director
- 1975 : Adnan Masić , Bosnian-German football player
- 1975 : Tobias Skerka , German handball player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Kevin Garnett , American basketball player
- 1976 : Thilo Schmidt , German radio author and journalist
- 1976 : Åsa Westlund , Swedish politician
- 1977 : Ronny Amm , German rally racing driver
- 1977 : Katarina Breznik , Slovenian ski racer
- 1977 : Natalia Oreiro , Uruguayan singer and actress
- 1978 : Koray Avcı , Turkish football player
- 1979 : Denis Michailowitsch Archipow , Russian ice hockey player
- 1979 : Diego Forlán , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1979 : Andrea Pirlo , Italian football player and coach
- 1980 : Drew Fuller , American actor
- 1980 : Dean Heffernan , Australian soccer player
- 1980 : Moeneeb Josephs , South African soccer player
- 1981 : Luciano Figueroa , Argentine soccer player
- 1981 : Sina Schielke , German athlete
- 1981 : Felix Zwayer , German football referee
- 1981 : Onkel Zwieback , German rapper and music producer
- 1982 : Thomas Dietz , German juggler
- 1982 : Hiroki Yamada , Japanese ski jumper
- 1983 : Sjarhej Asarau , Belarusian chess master
- 1983 : Eve Angel , Hungarian porn actress and model
- 1983 : Thomas Meyer , German political scientist
- 1983 : Christoph Ullmann , German ice hockey player
- 1984 : Jesús Dátolo , Argentine football player
- 1984 : Manuela Gostner , Italian racing driver
- 1984 : Judith Park , German-Korean manga artist
- 1985 : Aleister Black , Dutch wrestler
- 1986 : Alessandro De Marchi , Italian racing cyclist
- 1986 : Eric Lloyd , American actor
- 1987 : Waldemar Sobota , Polish football player
- 1987 : Jayne Wisener , British actress and singer
- 1989 : Erline Nolte , German bobsleigh driver
- 1990 : Thorsten Schick , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Stefán Rafn Sigurmannsson , Icelandic handball player
- 1990 : Víctor Ibarbo , Colombian football player
- 1991 : Tamás Pál Kiss , Hungarian racing driver
- 1991 : Savannah Marshall , English boxer
- 1991 : Jason Quigley , Irish boxer
- 1992 : Martin Harrer , Austrian football player
- 1992 : Ola John , Dutch football player
- 1992 : Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Kuznetsov , Russian ice hockey player
- 1992 : Sam Smith , British singer-songwriter
- 1992 : Eleanor Tomlinson , British actress
- 1992 : Heather Watson , British tennis player
- 1993 : Tess Wester , Dutch handball player
- 1994 : María Xiao , Portuguese-Spanish table tennis player
- 1996 : Pelle Clement , Dutch football player
- 1996 : Luca Waldschmidt , German soccer player
- 1997 : Leon Jensen , German soccer player
- 1999 : Kaja Norbye , Norwegian ski racer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 804 : Alcuin , scholar and adviser to Charlemagne
- 920 : Stephan von Tongern , Bishop of Liège
- 956 : Ruotbert , Archbishop of Trier
- 988 : Dunstan , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1102 : Stephan II Heinrich , Count of Blois
- 1106 : Gottfried IV. , Hereditary Count of Anjou
- 1125 : Vladimir Vsevolodowitsch Monomakh , Grand Duke of Kiev
- 1132 : Konrad I. von Raitenbuch , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1156 : Heinrich I , Bishop of Minden
- 1162 : Frederick II of Sommerschenburg , Count Palatine of Saxony
- 1205 : Fujiwara no Takanobu , Japanese painter
- 1218 : Otto IV. , King and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
- 1257 : Walter of Suffield , Bishop of Norwich
- 1265 : Guichard V , Lord of Beaujeu and Connétable of France
- 1296 : Celestine V , resigned Pope (July to December 1294) and the only hermit on the papal throne, saint
- 1303 : Ivo Hélory , Breton theologian, legal scholar and lawyer
- 1309 : Augustinus Novellus , Chancellor of King Manfred of Sicily
- 1319 : Louis of France , Count of Évreux
- 1332 : Frederick IV , burgrave of Nuremberg
- 1342 : Albert II of Saxony-Wittenberg , Prince-Bishop of the Diocese of Passau
- 1352 : Elisabeth von Habsburg , Duchess of Lorraine
- 1366 : Friedrich II. Von Truhendingen , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1389 : Dmitri Donskoy , Grand Duke of Moscow
- 1396 : John I , King of Aragon
- 1421 : Albrecht von Wertheim , Prince-Bishop of the Bamberg Monastery
- 1454 : John XIII. Haes , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1480 : Lawrence Booth , Archbishop of York, Prince-Bishop of Durham and English Lord Chancellor
- 1480 : Jan Długosz , Polish diplomat, historian and geographer
16th and 17th centuries
- 1526 : Go-Kashiwabara , 104th Emperor of Japan
- 1531 : Jan Łaski , Polish nobleman, politician and archbishop
- 1532 : Joachim Slüter , Low German reformer
- 1536 : Anne Boleyn , wife of Henry VIII, Queen of England
- 1542 : Abdussamed Diyarbekri , Ottoman historian and translator
- 1554 : Heinrich IV. Von Plauen , Colonel Chancellor of Bohemia, Burgrave of Meißen, Lord of Plauen, Gera, Greiz, Schleiz and Lobenstein
- 1560 : Ortolph Fomann the Elder , German philosopher and legal scholar
- 1587 : Georg Eder , Austrian lawyer and historian
- 1609 : Jacob Lorhard , German educator and philosopher, founder of ontology
- 1620 : Johann Sötefleisch the Elder , German Lutheran theologian
- 1627 : Katharina Henot , Cologne patrician and postmaster, victim of the Cologne witch hunts
- 1634 : Ortolph Fomann the Elder , German philosopher and legal scholar
- 1637 : Isaac Beeckman , Dutch philosopher and scientist
- 1647 : Sebastian Vrancx , Flemish painter
- 1653 : Elisabeth Lukretia , Duchess of Teschen
- 1653 : Carel Reyniersz , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1675 : António Luís de Meneses, 1st Marquês de Marialva , Portuguese general
- 1691 : Jacob Leisler , American colonialist of German descent
- 1692 : Elias Ashmole , English scientist, lawyer, alchemist and historian
18th century
- 1701 : Johann Baal , German composer
- 1706 : Simon Rettenpacher , Austrian Latin-speaking playwright, poet and chronicler
- 1718 : Juan Andrés de Ustariz de Vertizberea , Spanish merchant and governor of Chile
- 1734 : Georg Abraham von Arnim , Prussian Field Marshal General
- 1741 : Valentin Ulrich Grotian , East Frisian organ builder
- 1747 : Johann Friedrich Crell , German anatomist and physiologist
- 1751 : Józef Potocki , Polish member of the Szlachta and Grand Hetman of the Polish Crown
- 1752 : Jean Pierre Antoine d`Alençon , German civil servant
- 1753 : Jacques Aubert , French violinist and composer
- 1758 : George Werner , Saxon architect and builder
- 1762 : Christoph II von Dohna-Schlodien , Prussian general
- 1762 : Francesco Loredan , 116th Doge of Venice
- 1778 : Christian Friedrich Schmidt , German philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- 1782 : Isaak Schlösser , Mayor of Elberfeld
- 1786 : John Stanley , English composer and organist
- 1789 : Giuseppe Bonito , Italian painter
- 1795 : James Boswell , Scottish writer and lawyer
- 1795 : Eiler Hagerup , Norwegian lawyer
- 1796 : Beda Angehrn , Swiss prince abbot of St. Gallen
19th century
- 1819 : Casimiro Marcó del Pont , last Spanish governor of Chile
- 1821 : Henri de Franquetot, duc de Coigny , French courtier and general
- 1825 : Henri de Saint-Simon , French aristocrat, officer and journalist
- 1837 : Antonio Rolla , Italian violin virtuoso
- 1838 : Heinrich Gotthelf Schaufuß , porcelain painter from the Meissen manufactory
- 1840 : John Adair , American politician
- 1848 : Heinrich Arnold Wilhelm Winckler , German teacher and writer
- 1849 : Theodor Heinsius , German linguist and lexicographer
- 1860 : Preah Bat Ang Duong , King of Cambodia
- 1864 : John Clare , English nature poet
- 1864 : Nathaniel Hawthorne , American writer
- 1881 : Harry von Arnim , Prussian diplomat
- 1885 : William Huntington Russell , American co-founder of the Yale secret society Skull and Bones
- 1895 : José Martí , Cuban national poet and symbol for the struggle for independence
- 1896 : Karl Ludwig of Austria , Austrian nobleman, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- 1898 : William Ewart Gladstone , British politician
- 1898 : Oran M. Roberts , American politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1907 : Benjamin Baker , British civil engineer
- 1907 : Ludwig Traube , German classical philologist and medievalist
- 1912 : Bolesław Prus , Polish writer
- 1914 : Thomas Koschat , Austrian composer and choir director
- 1918 : Ferdinand Hodler , Swiss painter
- 1920 : Honorio Alarcón , Colombian pianist and music teacher
- 1923 : Abhakorn Kiartiwongse , Siamese admiral, prince and medic
- 1924 : Bernarda Bütler , Catholic missionary and founder of the order
- 1925 : Helma Heynsen-Jahn , German portrait painter
- 1928 : Charlotte Basté , German actress
- 1928 : Henry Franklin Gilbert , American composer
- 1928 : Max Scheler , German philosopher and sociologist
- 1933 : Wilhelm Aron , German trainee lawyer
- 1933 : Rudolf Tarnow , German Low German writer
- 1935 : TE Lawrence , British secret agent and archaeologist
- 1935 : Charles Martin Loeffler , German-American composer, violinist and violist
- 1938 : Adolf Schlatter , Swiss Protestant theologian
- 1939 : Ahmet Ağaoğlu , Azerbaijani-Turkish publicist, journalist and member of parliament
- 1939 : Louis Douglas , American dancer
- 1939 : Karl Radek , Russian politician and journalist
- 1942 : Alfred Baudrillart , French clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Paris
- 1942 : Robert Beltz , German prehistorian
- 1944 : Karl Gerold Goetz , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1947 : John Heijning , Dutch football player
- 1949 : Paul Schultze-Naumburg , German architect and art theorist
- 1950 : Giuseppe Garibaldi the Younger , Italian adventurer and revolutionary
1951-2000
- 1954 : Charles Ives , American classical music composer
- 1955 : Anton Peter Arida , Lebanese Archbishop and Patriarch
- 1955 : Concha Espina , Spanish writer
- 1956 : Ferdinand Andri , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1956 : Otto Pannenbecker , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1958 : Ronald Colman , British actor
- 1958 : Wilhelm Mellies , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1958 : Archie Scott-Brown , British racing car driver
- 1959 : Friedrich Funder , Austrian journalist and Catholic publicist
- 1961 : William Asbury , British politician
- 1961 : Richard Kuöhl , German sculptor
- 1962 : Gabriele Münter , German expressionist painter and partner of Wassily Kandinsky
- 1963 : Alois Hudal , Austrian bishop and escape helper for various Nazi criminals
- 1963 : Luana Walters , American actress
- 1965 : Erik Abrahamsson , Swedish long jumper and ice hockey player
- 1965 : Maria Dąbrowska , Polish writer
- 1965 : Federico Della Ferrera , cyclist and motorcycle racer, engineer and entrepreneur
- 1965 : Jean Majola , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1966 : Theodore F. Green , American politician
- 1967 : Louis Balart , French racing car driver
- 1968 : Isidor Aschheim , German-Israeli painter and graphic artist
- 1968 : Richard Stoop , British racing car driver and aviator in World War II
- 1969 : FD Andam , German writer, screenwriter and film manager
- 1969 : Coleman Hawkins , American musician
- 1969 : Eberhard von Mackensen , German general
- 1970 : Fritz Schwerdt , German church goldsmith
- 1971 : Tor Johnson , Swedish catcher and actor
- 1971 : Bernard Wagenaar , American composer and violinist
- 1972 : Robert Gehrke , German politician (KPD)
- 1972 : Eftimios Youakim , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1974 : Leontine Sagan , Austrian stage and film director
- 1975 : Smilo von Lüttwitz , German general in the Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr
- 1976 : Wiktor Brégy , Polish singer, opera director and music teacher
- 1976 : Eduard Schüller , German engineer
- 1976 : Jeanette Wolff , German politician
- 1979 : Sami Gabra , Egyptian Egyptologist and Coptologist
- 1981 : Erich Fiedler , German actor and voice actor
- 1982 : Reinhard Karl , German mountaineer, photographer and writer
- 1984 : Otto Rombach , German journalist and writer
- 1985 : Johannes Petzold , German church musician, composer and lecturer
- 1985 : Hilding Rosenberg , Swedish composer and conductor
- 1986 : Jimmy Lyons , American jazz saxophonist
- 1986 : Bernard Naylor , English composer, organist and conductor
- 1988 : Erna Weber , German mathematician
- 1992 : Gerd Knesel , German songwriter
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- 1994 : Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , wife of John F. Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
- 1994 : Luis Ocaña , Spanish cyclist
- 1995 : Irma Brandes , German journalist and writer
- 1995 : Hans Patze , German historian and archivist
- 1996 : Spiros Argiris , Greek conductor
- 1996 : Fernanda Seno , Portuguese poet
- 1997 : Troy Ruttman , American racing driver
- 1998 : Edwin Astley , British film composer
- 1998 : Ernst Leverkus , German motorcycle journalist
21st century
- 2001 : Eliza Hansen , German piano teacher, pianist and harpsichordist
- 2001 : Hans Mayer , German literary scholar and writer
- 2002 : John Gorton , Australian Prime Minister
- 2002 : Werner S. Landecker , German legal scholar and sociologist
- 2002 : Hans Posegga , German composer, pianist and conductor
- 2003 : Erik Zimen , German behavioral scientist
- 2004 : Elvio Romero , Paraguayan poet
- 2004 : Carl Raddatz , German film and theater actor
- 2004 : Egon von Neindorff , German equestrian
- 2005 : John Arthur , South African heavyweight boxer
- 2005 : Paul Schneider-Esleben , German architect
- 2005 : Batya Gur , Israeli writer
- 2007 : Jack Findlay , Australian motorcycle racer
- 2007 : Eva Forest , Spanish writer and publisher
- 2007 : Hans Wollschläger , German educator, writer and translator
- 2008 : Vijay Tendulkar , Indian author
- 2009 : Bill Edwards , American football player
- 2009 : Robert Francis Furchgott , American scientist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2011 : Garret FitzGerald , Irish politician
- 2013 : Eduard Gitsch , Austrian physician
- 2014 : Jack Brabham , Australian racing driver
- 2014 : Lothar Domröse , German officer
- 2014 : Adriena Šimotová , Czech artist
- 2015 : Jack Aspinwall , British politician
- 2015 : Gerald Götting , German politician
- 2016 : Wilhelm Breuning , German theologian
- 2016 : Alan Young , Canadian-British actor
- 2017 : Mário Viegas Carrascalão , East Timorese and Indonesian politician
- 2017 : Stanislaw Evgrafowitsch Petrov , Soviet lieutenant colonel
- 2018 : Robert Indiana , American painter
- 2018 : Bernard Lewis , British-American historian and publicist
- 2019 : Friedgard kurz , German puppeteer and radio play speaker
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Sel. Alcuin , English scholar, deacon and abbot (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Celestine V , Italian hermit, founder of an order and Pope (Catholic)
- St. Pudens , Roman Senator (Catholic)
- St. Pudentiana , Roman Virgin and Martyr (Catholic)
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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