October 19th
The October 19 is the 292nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 293rd in leap years ), thus remain 73 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 202 BC BC : The victory of the Romans under Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus over the Carthaginians under Hannibal in the Battle of Zama near Carthage decides the Second Punic War .
- 439 : The Vandals under King Geiseric who have come from the Iberian Peninsula conquer Carthage , which in place of Hippo Regius becomes the new residence of the Vandals and base of their fleet.
- 1216 : With the death of his father Johann Ohneland , Heinrich III. King of England at the age of nine .
- 1303 : The city of Siegen receives the Soest town charter .
- 1453 : The troops of the French King Charles VII take the English-owned Bordeaux . After the Hundred Years War , Calais remains the only British property on the mainland.
- 1466 : The Second Peace of Thorn ends the Thirteen Years' War between the Teutonic Order on the one hand and the Prussian Confederation and the Kingdom of Poland led by Casimir the Jagiellon on the other. The power of the defeated Teutonic Order is thus finally broken.
- 1765 : With the signing of the Burlo Convention , the previously controversial border between the Duchy of Geldern as a province of the United Netherlands and the Duchy of Münster is regulated in a binding manner.
- 1781 : The surrender of the British under General Charles Cornwallis at the Battle of Yorktown decides the American War of Independence .
- 1805 : In the Third Coalition War , Napoleon's troops under Michel Ney defeat an Austrian army under Karl Mack von Leiberich in the Battle of Elchingen .
- 1810 : The French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte , elected heir to the throne of Sweden , converts from Catholic to Protestant in accordance with the Swedish treaty provisions.
- 1812 : After the failure of the Russian campaign , Napoléon leaves Moscow with the remains of the Grande Armée . An escape-like retreat from Russia begins , which lasts until December.
- 1813 : The Battle of the Nations near Leipzig during the Wars of Liberation ends with the decisive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the invasion of the allied Prussian and Russian troops in Leipzig .
- 1856 : Majid bin Said succeeds Sayyid Said and becomes the first sultan of Zanzibar and thus, after lengthy turmoil about the succession to the throne, establishes the Sultanate of Zanzibar , which is independent of Oman and ruled the entire coast of East Africa .
- 1864 : In the Battle of Cedar Creek in the Civil War , the northern states defeat the southern states with their own heavy losses.
- 1864 : In the St. Albans Incident , Confederate soldiers who entered Canada rob three banks in the US state of Vermont and loot $ 208,000 .
- 1878 : The Reichstag of the German Reich passes the law against the publicly dangerous endeavors of the social democracy and legalizes the persecution of socialists, which Otto von Bismarck elevated to a state doctrine.
- 1913 : The German Life Saving Society e. V. ( DLRG ) is founded in the Hotel de Prusse in Leipzig.
- 1914 : The race to the sea in the First World War ends without a decision, with which the Schlieffen Plan has finally failed and the war of movement becomes a war of positions .
- 1918 : Foundation of the Volga German Republic .
- 1921 : In the Lisbon Blutnacht is Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo murdered when band together in Lisbon troops of the Republican National Guard and naval forces to topple the government. The cause is allegations of corruption against the popular military and politician Liberato Ribeiro Pinto .
- 1922 : At the Carlton Club meeting , the British Conservative Party votes in favor of the upcoming general election as an independent force. The Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George then resigns; he is succeeded by Conservative Andrew Bonar Law .
- 1933 : The German Reich declares its formal withdrawal from the League of Nations .
- 1944 : In Japan, at the suggestion of Vice Admiral Ōnishi Takijirō, the Shimpū Tokkōtai fighter unit , later known abroad as the Kamikaze , is founded as a last resort before surrendering to the Allies in the Pacific War .
- 1948 : The bi-zone economic council adopts the law on an emergency victim in Berlin against the votes of the KPD .
- 1950 : The People's Republic of China intervenes in the Korean War by sending a "volunteer army" on the side of North Korea .
- 1954 : Egypt and Great Britain sign the Suez Agreement , which provides for the withdrawal of deployed British forces within twenty months. The international statute of the Suez Canal Zone recognizes Egypt in the treaty.
- 1955 : The German Bundestag holds its first plenary session in West Berlin in a TU lecture hall .
- 1957 : After the GDR was recognized by Yugoslavia , the Federal Republic of Germany breaks off relations with Yugoslavia with the first application of the Hallstein Doctrine .
- 1974 : Niue becomes independent from the latter in free association with New Zealand .
- 1977 : Hanns Martin Schleyer , kidnapped on September 5, is found dead in Mulhouse (Alsace).
- 1983 : Maurice Bishop , the Prime Minister of Grenada , is assassinated. This is the US's pretext for Operation Urgent Fury on October 25th.
- 1984 : Three officers of the Polish State Security Service kidnap and murder the opposition clergyman Jerzy Popiełuszko .
- 1992 : The two members of the Bundestag Petra Kelly and Gert Bastian ( The Greens ) are found dead in Bonn.
- 2002 : In a referendum , the people of the Republic of Ireland approve the Nice Treaty .
- 2004 : 25,000 people demonstrate in front of the Bochum theater against the threatened closure of the Bochum Opel works . After six days of work stoppages, the group management gives in and refrains from closing the site.
- 2005 : The trial of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein begins in Baghdad .
economy
- 1868 : The peseta is determined by decree as the future currency in Spain . The country is based on the Latin Monetary Union .
- 1872 : Gold prospectors Beyers and Bernhardt Holtermann discovered a gold nugget in the Star of Hope mine in New South Wales . Holtermann's Nugget weighs 214.32 kg and is the largest chunk of quartz gold found in the world to date, containing approximately 3000 ounces of gold.
- 1935 : The German Wine Route is ceremoniously opened in Bad Dürkheim . It should both raise awareness of the local grape juice and promote tourism.
- 1949 : The committee for economic issues of the industrial associations is founded in Cologne, which a few months later changes its name to the Federal Association of German Industry .
- 1958 : The now asphalted Hochrhönstrasse is opened to traffic.
- 1971 : The Munich subway is ceremoniously opened with the start of operations on the first line U6.
- 1987 : Black Monday saw the first stock market crash after World War II.
- 2009 : The judicial insolvency proceedings are opened via the Dutch DSB Bank . Around 400,000 customers are affected with their bank balances .
science and technology
- 1800 : The French Baudin expedition sets sail from Le Havre . Nicolas Baudin and his team are to explore the coast of Australia on two ships .
- 1901 : Alberto Santos Dumont wins the German Prize with the airship Santos-Dumont No. 6 for the first successful sightseeing flight of an airship from the Paris suburb of Saint-Cloud to the Eiffel Tower over 5.5 km in 30 minutes.
- 1943 : Albert Schatz , Selman Abraham Waksman and Elizabeth Bugie succeed in isolating the antibiotic streptomycin , a drug against tuberculosis, for the first time at Rutgers University .
- 1967 : NASA's Mariner 5 space probe completes a successful flyby of the planet Venus and delivers numerous scientific data.
- 2000 : In the British science journal Nature , US researchers report that they have revived a bacteria that is around 250 million years old .
- 2016 : ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter reaches orbit of the planet Mars after a seven-month flight .
- 2017 : The interstellar object Oumuamua is discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii after it had passed Earth at a distance of 15 million kilometers five days earlier.
- 2018 : The small near-Earth asteroid 2018 UA flies past Earth at a distance of less than 20,000 kilometers.
Culture
- 1702 : The world premiere of Reinhard Keizer's opera Victory of the Fertile Pomona takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
- 1811 : In Gransee , the monument to the Prussian Queen Luise , who died on July 19, 1810, is inaugurated.
- 1843 : The Paris daily Le Journal des Débats published the last episode of the serialized novel Mystères de Paris (“The Secrets of Paris”), with which the French writer Eugène Sue founded the genre of the feature- length novel .
- 1845 : The premiere of the opera Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner takes place in the Royal Saxon Court Theater (Semperoper) in Dresden.
- 1879 : Charles-Marie Widor performs his 5th organ symphony in the Parisian Palais du Trocadéro , the F major toccata of which is one of the most famous works of organ music, for the first time as a whole.
- 1913 : The Wiener Konzerthaus opens with a gala concert in the presence of Emperor Franz Joseph I. The Festive Prelude op. 61 and Beethoven's 9th Symphony, composed especially for this purpose by Richard Strauss , will be performed .
- 1919 : The original Gartenbaukino is opened in Vienna .
- 1938 : At the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York, the musical will Knickerbocker Holiday of Kurt Weill premiered.
- 1952 : With a festival performance of William Shakespeare's Hamlet and guest Bernhard Minetti in the title role, the Lower Saxony North State Theater opens in Wilhelmshaven.
- 1959 : The first discotheque in Germany is founded, the Scotch Club .
- 1965 : Peter Weiss ' play The Investigation , which deals with the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, is premiered in a Ring premiere at fifteen West and East German theaters as well as by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
- 1972 : Heinrich Böll receives the Nobel Prize for Literature .
- 1979 : The Roman temple treasure of Weißenburg is discovered while gardening .
society
- 1469 : Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile marry. This laid the foundation for a later unification of the two kingdoms of Aragon and Castile to form Spain .
- 1806 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Christiane Vulpius are married in the sacristy of the Weimar Jakobskirche .
- 1989 : A UK court overturns the Guildford Four, who had been in prison for 15 years . Four Northern Irish had been convicted of terrorists for confessing to bomb attacks in 1974. The statements were obtained through torture by the police .
- 1991 : Establishment of the Foundation for the Sorbian People
- 1996 : The police find the corpse of a wealthy Frankfurt citizen with the help of sniffer dogs in the Taunus . After Jakub Fiszman's kidnapping, a ransom of four million DM had been paid. Suspects are in police custody.
religion
- 615 : Pope Adeodatus I is enthroned.
- 1762 : The new St. Michaelis Church (popularly known as "Michel") is inaugurated in Hamburg .
- 1945 : The council members of the Evangelical Church in Germany , Hans Christian Asmussen , Otto Dibelius and Martin Niemöller , read out the Stuttgart confession of guilt . For the first time, the EKD recognizes the complicity of Protestant Christians in the crimes of National Socialism.
- 1997 : Therese of Lisieux will of Pope John Paul II. To church teacher appointed.
- 2003 : Mother Teresa is beatified in Rome by Pope John Paul II . Six years after her death, this is the fastest beatification of modern times to date .
Disasters
- 1870 : The British passenger liner Cambria crashes into a storm off the Irish coast on the rugged rocky shores of the island of Inishtrahull and sinks. 179 people are killed in the accident.
- 1990 : One of the worst traffic accidents in Germany occurs in the Münchberg depression of the BAB 9 near Münchberg . Sudden fog leads to a mass collision of 121 vehicles, killing 10 and injuring 122. The accident leads to the construction of a viaduct.
- 1991 : An earthquake of 7.0 magnitude in India calls for about 2,000 deaths.
- 2001 : The sinking of an Indonesian fishing boat south of Java , which is filled overflowing with 397 people drowned 353 people in stormy seas, 44 have been saved. The passengers wanted to be granted asylum in Australia as Iraqi refugees .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1954 : Herbert Tichy , Sepp Jöchler and Pasang Dawa Lama succeed in the first ascent of the 8188 m high Cho Oyu .
- 1957 : Celtic Glasgow beat arch-rivals Glasgow Rangers 7-1 at Hampden Park in Glasgow . This final of the Scottish League Cup goes down in history as "Hampden in the sun". It was the highest win in an old firm .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1276 : Hisaaki , eighth Shogun of Japan
- 1433 : Bernardo Bembo , Venetian diplomat
- 1433 : Marsilio Ficino , Italian humanist, philosopher and doctor
- 1524 : Thomas Tusser , English poet and author of agricultural works
- 1558 : Giovanni Alberti , Italian painter
- 1562 : George Abbot , English Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1569 : Daniel Engelhardt , German theologian
- 1573 : Peter Finxius , German medic
- 1578 : Enoch Pöckel , council member and council builder in Leipzig, Hammerherr in the Ore Mountains
- 1580 : Heinrich Eckhard , German Lutheran theologian
- 1582 : Dimitri , Tsarevich of Russia
- 1590 : Dorothea Sibylle von Brandenburg , Duchess of Brieg
- 1605 : Thomas Browne , English philosopher
- 1610 : James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde , Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier
- 1625 : Johann Andreas Lucius , German Lutheran theologian
- 1658 : Adolf Friedrich II. , Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1688 : Antonio Corradini , Italian sculptor
- 1718 : Victor-François de Broglie , French military leader and statesman
- 1720 : John Woolman , North American Quaker
- 1726 : Louise of Denmark , Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- 1733 : Johann Friedrich Hennert , German mathematician and astronomer
- 1764 : Johann Christoph Rincklake , German romantic portrait painter
- 1770 : Johann Clarisse , Dutch Reformed theologian
- 1775 : Kamma Rahbek , Danish salonnière
- 1778 : Gustav Vorherr , architect, Royal Bavarian building officer and board member of the Bavarian State Beautification Association
- 1784 : Leigh Hunt , English writer
- 1792 : Hans Adolf Erdmann von Auerswald , Prussian major general
19th century
1801-1850
- 1811 : Andreas Munch , Norwegian poet
- 1816 : Simon Aichner , Austrian Prince-Bishop of Brixen
- 1821 : Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq , French colonel
- 1826 : Colomba Antonietti , Italian patriot
- 1828 : Adolfo Fumagalli , Italian pianist and composer
- 1833 : Adam Lindsay Gordon , Australian poet
- 1836 : Heinrich Ludwig Oskar Ackermann , German theologian
- 1839 : Adolf Ritter von Guttenberg , Austrian professor of forestry
- 1838 : Philippine von Edelsberg , Austrian opera singer
- 1848 : Paul Werner , German politician
- 1850 : Annie Smith Peck , American mountaineer
1851-1900
- 1853 : Conrad Brüne , Saxon master brewer
- 1858 : George Albert Boulenger , British zoologist
- 1861 : Richard Seifert , German chemist
- 1862 : Auguste Lumière , French chemist and entrepreneur
- 1863 : Gustav Frenssen , German writer
- 1864 : Alexander MacMillan , Canadian Presbyterian pastor and hymnologist
- 1866 : Clarence Lucas , Canadian composer, conductor and music educator
- 1871 : Karol Adwentowicz , Polish theater and film actor, director and theater director
- 1871 : Luigi Albertini , Italian politician and publicist
- 1872 : Jacques E. Brandenberger , Swiss chemist and textile engineer, inventor of the cellophane
- 1877 : Käte Schaller-Härlin , German portrait painter
- 1878 : Hermann Claudius , German poet
- 1880 : Ichikawa Sadanji II , Japanese Kabuki actor
- 1881 : Kurt von Priesdorff , German officer, Privy Councilor, military historian and author
- 1882 : Umberto Boccioni , Italian painter and sculptor of Futurism
- 1882 : Norbert Wallez , Belgian priest and journalist
- 1886 : Engelbert Lap , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1886 : Bella Ouellette , Canadian actress
- 1888 : Arnold Brügger , Swiss painter
- 1889 : Fannie Hurst , American writer and journalist
- 1891 : George Habib Antonius , Lebanese writer
- 1892 : Wolf Durian , German journalist and author of books for young people
- 1892 : Ilmari Hannikainen , Finnish composer
- 1892 : Hermann Knaus , Austrian surgeon and gynecologist
- 1895 : Alexander Lasarewitsch Abramow-Mirow , Soviet Comintern and secret service functionary
- 1895 : Lewis Mumford , American architecture critic and scientist
- 1896 : Pedro Luna , Chilean painter
- 1899 : Miguel Ángel Asturias , Guatemalan writer and diplomat, Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1899 : Sidonie Goossens , British harpist
- 1900 : Erna Berger , German soprano
20th century
1901-1925
- 1903 : Vittorio Giannini , American composer
- 1905 : Wolfgang Lukschy , German actor and voice actor
- 1905 : Richard Zöller , German judge
- 1906 : Cozy Cole , American musician
- 1907 : Leopold Atlas , American playwright and screenwriter
- 1908 : Herbert Steinmetz , German actor
- 1908 : Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer and pianist
- 1909 : Marguerite Perey , French chemist and physicist
- 1910 : Elsa Calcagno , Argentine pianist and composer
- 1910 : Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar , American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1911 : Willie Perryman , American blues pianist and singer
- 1911 : Hilde Spiel , Austrian writer
- 1911 : Ludwig Vörg , German alpinist
- 1911 : Eberhard Werdin , German composer
- 1912 : Fritz Arens , German art historian and preservationist
- 1913 : Haxhi Lleshi , Albanian military and politician
- 1913 : Vinícius de Moraes , Brazilian poet and songwriter
- 1914 : Gerd Sannemüller , German composer and musicologist
- 1915 : Farid el Atrache , Syrian-Egyptian singer, composer and actor
- 1916 : Jean Dausset , French medic, Nobel Prize winner
- 1916 : Emil Gilels , Soviet pianist
- 1917 : Kalcidon Agius , Maltese writer, playwright and politician
- 1917 : Yevgenia Petrovna Antipowa , Soviet-Russian painter and art teacher
- 1920 : Franz Muxeneder , German-Austrian actor
- 1921 : George Nader , American film actor
- 1921 : Gunnar Nordahl , Swedish football player
- 1922 : Jack Anderson , American journalist
- 1922 : Juanita Moore , American actress
- 1924 : Lubomír Štrougal , Czechoslovak politician, head of government
1926-1950
- 1926 : Udo Schaefer , German Baha'i theologian
- 1926 : Edward Lewis Wallant , American writer
- 1927 : Pierre Alechinsky Belgian painter
- 1927 : Hans Schäfer , German football player
- 1928 : Mustapha Zitouni , Algerian-French football player and coach
- 1931 : John le Carré , British writer
- 1932 : Diosdado Aenlle Talamayan , Filipino Archbishop of Tuguegarao
- 1933 : Geraldo Majella Agnelo , Brazilian Archbishop
- 1933 : Alfons Stemmer , German football player
- 1934 : Yakubu Gowon , Nigerian officer and head of state
- 1934 : Eva-Maria Hagen , German actress, singer, painter and author
- 1936 : Willy Knupp , German motorsport journalist
- 1937 : Hans Conrad Zander , Swiss writer
- 1937 : Teresa Ciepły , Polish athlete
- 1938 : Renata Adler , American journalist and writer
- 1940 : Bettina von Arnim , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- 1941 : Jo Bolling , German actor
- 1941 : Eddie Daniels , American jazz clarinet and saxophonist
- 1941 : Pepetela , Angolan writer, politician and freedom fighter
- 1942 : Andrew Vachss , American writer and special investigator
- 1944 : George McCrae , American singer
- 1944 : Dirk Kaesler , German sociologist
- 1944 : Peter Tosh , Jamaican musician, singer and songwriter
- 1945 : Divine , American actor and singer, drag queen
- 1945 : Rozanne Levine , American jazz clarinetist and photographer
- 1945 : Jeannie C. Riley , American country singer
- 1946 : Philip Pullman , British writer
- 1946 : Keith Reid , British songwriter
- 1946 : Jürgen Croy , German soccer player
- 1947 : Rudolf Herfurtner , German writer
- 1948 : Patrick Simmons , American rock singer and guitarist
- 1948 : Pit Weyrich , German television director
- 1949 : Tatiana Anissimowa , Russian hurdler
- 1949 : H. Dieter Neumann , German writer and crime novel writer
- 1950 : George Fenton , British composer
1951-1975
- 1952 : Marie-Christine Arnautu , French politician
- 1952 : Virginio Ferrari , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1952 : Edo Zanki , German musician, singer and producer
- 1953 : Wang Yi , Chinese Foreign Minister
- 1954 : Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir , Bishop of the Icelandic State Church
- 1955 : Petra Fuhrmann , German politician, MdL
- 1956 : Didier Theys , Belgian racing driver
- 1957 : Gilbert von Sohlern , German actor
- 1959 : Ronnie Burrage , American jazz drummer
- 1960 : Mark Davis , American baseball player
- 1960 : Jennifer Holliday , American R&B singer
- 1960 : Jean-Michel Pilc , French jazz pianist
- 1962 : Lou Briel , Puerto Rican singer, composer, actor, television presenter and producer
- 1962 : Tracy Chevalier , American writer
- 1962 : Bendik Hofseth , Norwegian jazz musician
- 1962 : Evander Holyfield , American boxer
- 1962 : Marek Kordowiecki , Polish handball player and coach
- 1963 : Stefan Ulrich , German journalist and writer
- 1964 : Márcio Bittencourt , Brazilian football player and coach
- 1964 : Agnès Jaoui , French actress, writer and director
- 1965 : Barbara Philipp , German actress
- 1966 : Jens Fiedler , German handball player and coach
- 1968 : Herbert Kickl , Austrian politician
- 1969 : Teuta Arifi , Macedonian politician
- 1969 : Trey Parker , American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director
- 1969 : Dieter Thoma , German ski jumper
- 1970 : Nouria Mérah-Benida , Algerian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1971 : David Wagner , American football player
- 1972 : Stephan Hanke , German soccer player
- 1972 : Daniela Knapp , Austrian camerawoman
- 1973 : Linda Andrews , Faroese gospel singer
- 1973 : Marion Pinkpank , German presenter and voice actress
- 1973 : Joaquin Gage , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 : Paulo Sérgio de Oliveira Silva , Brazilian footballer
- 1974 : Silje Torp , Norwegian actress
- 1974 : Wout van Dessel , Belgian DJ, producer, remixer and songwriter
- 1975 : Hilde Gerg , German ski racer
- 1975 : Daniel Wirtz , German rock musician
1976-2000
- 1976 : Leopold van Asten , Dutch show jumper
- 1976 : Desmond Harrington , American actor
- 1977 : Jonathan Crow , Canadian violinist and music educator
- 1977 : Jezabel Ohanian , former German basketball player
- 1978 : Enrique Bernoldi , Brazilian racing car driver
- 1978 : Marco Sneck , Finnish musician
- 1978 : Ruslan Chagayev , Uzbek boxer
- 1979 : Branimir Bajić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1979 : Chikako Ōgushi , former Japanese marathon runner
- 1980 : Benjamin Salisbury , American actor
- 1980 : Martin Stadtfeld , German pianist
- 1981 : Heikki Kovalainen , Finnish Formula 1 driver
- 1981 : Jonathan Santana , Paraguayan-Argentinian soccer player
- 1981 : Karoline Schuch , German actress
- 1981 : Lucas Thwala , South African soccer player
- 1982 : Chantal Groot , Dutch swimmer
- 1982 : Andreas Matt , former Austrian freestyle skier
- 1983 : Vladimir Borisovich Gabulov , Russian football player
- 1983 : Christin Muche , former German track cyclist
- 1984 : Elexis Gillette , American athlete
- 1985 : Ashlyn Harris , American soccer player
- 1985 : Kevin O'Connor , Irish football player
- 1986 : Brandy Aniston , American porn actress
- 1986 : Alexis Contin , French speed skater and inline speed skater
- 1986 : Stefan Nippes , German handball player
- 1986 : Sascha Pfeffer , German soccer player
- 1987 : Ufuk Arslan , Turkish soccer player
- 1987 : Jenny Bach , German theater and television actress
- 1987 : Dot Rotten , British rapper
- 1988 : Maximilian Weiß , German handball player
- 1989 : Noh Seon-yeong , South Korean speed skater
- 1989 : Miroslav Stoch , Slovak football player
- 1990 : Niklas Askmyr , Swedish snowboarder
- 1990 : Emma Coburn , American obstacle runner
- 1991 : Morten Dibbert , German handball player
- 1991 : Jobina Lahr , German soccer player
- 1992 : Jules Schwadorf , German soccer player
- 1992 : Janek Sternberg , German soccer player
- 1992 : David Turpel , Luxembourg soccer player
- 1993 : David Schmidt , German handball player
- 1994 : Eroll Zejnullahu , German-Kosovar soccer player
- 1994 : Cecilia Santiago , Mexican national soccer player
- 1994 : Kenta Suga , Japanese actor
- 1995 : Lukas Wedl , Austrian football goalkeeper
- 1995 : Manuela Zinsberger , Austrian soccer player
- 1996 : Jerry St. Juste , Dutch soccer player
- 1996 : Rebecca Šramková , Slovak tennis player
- 1997 : Patricia Dull , US-Filipino soccer player
- 1997 : José Quiles , Spanish boxer
- 1998 : Manuel Botic , Austrian soccer player
- 1998 : Marija Ovtschinnikowa , Kazakh long and triple jumper
- 1999 : Carlotta Truman , German singer and actress
21st century
- 2004 : Abilass Jeyarajah , Sri Lankan child who was separated from his parents in the 2004 flood disaster
Died
Before the 16th century
- 735 : Frideswide , Anglo-Saxon nun and Catholic saint
- 864 : Laura of Cordoba , saint
- 942 : Gozelo , Count in the Ardennengau
- 993 : Conrad III. , King of Burgundy
- 1072 : Egino , first Bishop of Dalby and Bishop of Lund
- 1175 : Guido von Nevers , Count of Nevers
- 1176 : Hermann I , Count of Weimar-Orlamünde
- 1216 : Johann Ohneland , English king
- 1261 : Raugraf Heinrich I , south-west German nobleman
- 1287 : Bohemond VII , titular count of Antioch, count of Tripoli
- 1335 : Elisabeth Richza of Poland , Queen of Bohemia
- 1354 : Yusuf I , Emir of Granada
- 1356 : Joan de Geneville , English noblewoman
- 1396 : Conrad II of Weinsberg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
- 1401 : John Charlton, 4th Baron Charlton , Welsh Marcher Lord
- 1411 : Kuno von Stoffeln , prince abbot of St. Gallen
- 1416 : Peder Jensen Lodehat , Danish bishop
- 1432 : John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman
16th to 18th century
- 1508 : Hermann IV of Hesse , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1547 : Perino del Vaga , Italian painter and plasterer
- 1553 : Bonifazio Veronese , Italian painter
- 1562 : Eggerik Beninga , Frisian historian
- 1568 : Johann Aurifaber , German theologian
- 1586 : Ignazio Danti , Italian mathematician, astronomer, cosmologist and cartographer
- 1587 : Francis I , Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 1594 : Johann Agricola Eisleben , Mayor of Berlin
- 1597 : Ashikaga Yoshiaki , Japanese Shogun
- 1608 : Martin Anton Delrio , Dutch Jesuit and witch theorist
- 1608 : Geoffrey Fenton , English statesman
- 1609 : Jacob Arminius , Dutch theologian
- 1617 : David Höschel , German humanist
- 1627 : Wei Zhongxian , Chinese chief eunuch in the Forbidden City
- 1663 : Lucius Gabriel , Swiss pastor and Bible translator
- 1677 : Hans-Jerg Brendlin, called Elenhans , rebellious farmer in the Urach office during the Thirty Years' War
- 1678 : Samuel van Hoogstraten , Dutch painter
- 1682 : Thomas Browne , English philosopher
- 1718 : Henri d'Harcourt, Marquis de Beuvron et de Thary-Harcourt , Marshal and Peer of France, Envoy Plenipotentiary to Spain
- 1723 : Johann Christian Bucke , German Lutheran theologian
- 1723 : Godfrey Kneller , German portrait painter and court artist
- 1730 : Paul Anton , German theologian
- 1739 : António José da Silva , Portuguese-Brazilian comedy poet and victim of the Inquisition
- 1745 : Jonathan Swift , Anglo-Irish writer and satirist
- 1755 : Gebhard Christian Bastineller , German legal scholar
- 1768 : Agostino Masucci , Italian painter
- 1788 : Louis Antoine de Gontaut-Biron , Duke of Biron and von Lauzun, Marshal of France
- 1790 : Lyman Hall , American politician and signatory of the Declaration of Independence
- 1796 : Johann Friedrich Tiede , German Protestant theologian
19th century
- 1801 : Wolfgang Aigner , Bavarian Benedictine and scholar
- 1803 : Benedict Strauch , German educator and Catholic theologian
- 1804 : Leopold Westen , German officer and university professor
- 1809 : Johann Kasimir von Auer , Prussian major general
- 1810 : Gabriel de Avilés , Spanish officer, colonial administrator, viceroy of the Rio de la Plata and viceroy of Peru
- 1813 : Josef Anton Poniatowski , Polish-French general, Marshal of France
- 1828 : François-Joseph Talma , French actor
- 1835 : Wilhelm Julius Ludwig von Schubert , German lawyer and government official
- 1843 : Louis-Barthélémy Pradher , French pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1845 : Clemens August Droste zu Vischering , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1846 : Niels Peter Jensen , Danish composer and flute virtuoso
- 1851 : Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Bourbon , French princess and Duchess of Angoulême
- 1856 : Said ibn Sultan , Sultan of Muscat, Oman and Zanzibar
- 1874 : Hippolyte de Fontmichel , French composer
- 1875 : Charles Wheatstone , British physicist
- 1876 : Wendelin Haid , Catholic theologian and librarian
- 1880 : Hermann von Schmid , German writer
- 1881 : Josef Krejčí , Czech composer
- 1885 : Caspar Butz , German-American writer and politician
- 1889 : Ludwig I , King of Portugal
- 1889 : Joseph Amberger , German theologian and clergyman
- 1894 : Felix von Schumacher , Swiss general
- 1896 : Josef Pischna , Bohemian pianist and composer
- 1900 : Carl Wilhelm Julius Appelius , German lawyer
20th century
- 1904 : Kenneth E. Iverson , Canadian mathematician
- 1906 : Karl Pfizer , German chemist
- 1907 : Anton Kisa , German-Bohemian art historian, classical archaeologist and museum director
- 1909 : Cesare Lombroso , Italian doctor
- 1911 : Eugene Burton Ely , American aviation pioneer
- 1912 : Marcell Driver , German lawyer and politician
- 1912 : Julius Maggi , Swiss company founder and inventor of the Maggi wort , pioneer of industrial food production
- 1914 : Julio Argentino Roca , Argentine military and president
- 1918 : Harold Lockwood , American actor
- 1918 : Josef Weßicken , Austrian architect
- 1921 : António Joaquim Granjo , Portuguese Prime Minister
- 1921 : Gotthold Gundermann , German classical philologist
- 1924 : Richard Ritter Schubert von Soldern , Austrian philosopher
- 1924 : Louis Zborowski , British automobile racing driver and engineer
- 1926 : Martti Rautanen , Finnish Protestant missionary
- 1927 : Karl Maria Alexander von Auersperg , Austrian landowner and politician
- 1931 : Georg Engel , German writer
- 1932 : Arthur Friedheim , Russian-German pianist and composer
- 1934 : Johan Joseph Aarts , Dutch painter and printmaker
- 1937 : Ernest Rutherford , British nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1940 : Erich Bethe , German classical philologist
- 1940 : Umberto Caligaris , Italian football player and coach
- 1940 : Emilio Comici , Italian alpinist and cave explorer
- 1940 : Eli Kochański , Polish cellist and music teacher
- 1943 : André Antoine , French theater director
- 1943 : Camille Claudel , French sculptor and muse
- 1944 : Luigi Durante , Italian football player
- 1944 : Fritz Ehrler , German trade union official and politician
- 1944 : Erich Koch-Weser , German politician
- 1945 : Calles Elías Plutarco , Mexican politician and officer
- 1947 : Ezequiel Plaza , Chilean painter
- 1951 : Gustav Knepper , German industrialist
- 1952 : Jan van der Sluis , Dutch football player
- 1952 : Aleksander Wielhorski , Polish pianist and composer
- 1955 : Carlos Dávila , Chilean politician, diplomat and journalist
- 1955 : John Hodiak , American actor
- 1957 : Vere Gordon Childe , Australian-British archaeologist
- 1958 : Josef Wintrich , German lawyer, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1959 : Stanley Bate , British composer
- 1960 : George Stevenson Wallace , Australian comedian and actor
- 1961 : Werner Jaeger , German classical philologist
- 1970 : Fritz Jöde , German music teacher
- 1970 : Lázaro Cárdenas del Río , Mexican politician, President
- 1973 : Margaret Anderson , American writer
- 1975 : Jossyp Bokschaj , Ukrainian painter
- 1978 : Paul Buchner , German zoologist
- 1979 : Richard Friedenthal , German writer
- 1981 : Wilhelm Auerswald , Austrian physiologist and university professor
- 1983 : Maurice Bishop , Grenada's Prime Minister
- 1983 : Barbara Karinska , American costume designer
- 1984 : Henri Michaux , French writer and painter
- 1984 : Eugene "Buddy" Moss , American blues musician
- 1984 : Jerzy Popiełuszko , Polish clergyman
- 1985 : Jean Mineur , French film producer and director
- 1986 : Moses Asch , American record producer
- 1986 : Alfred Bauer , German lawyer and film historian, director of the Berlinale
- 1986 : Samora Moises Machel , Mozambican politician, President
- 1987 : Hermann Lang , German racing driver
- 1987 : Jacqueline du Pré , British cellist
- 1988 : Wolfgang Kummer , German bobsleigh driver
- 1991 : Aurelius Maria Arkenau , German Dominican priest
- 1991 : Walter Gericke , German officer and army general
- 1991 : Henry Holst , Danish violinist and music teacher
- 1992 : Arthur Wint , Jamaican athlete, Olympic champion
- 1992 : Volkmar Gross , German artist
- 1994 : Ray Birdwhistell , American ethnologist and linguist
- 1995 : George Little , Canadian music teacher, choir conductor and organist
- 1995 : Jürgen Wohlrabe , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Berlin House of Representatives, Member of the Bundestag
- 1996 : Josef Becker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1997 : Francisco Guerrero Marín , Spanish composer
- 1999 : Auður Auðuns , Icelandic lawyer and politician
- 1999 : Ottfried Hennig , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister
- 1999 : Nathalie Sarraute , French writer and lawyer
21st century
- 2002 : Hans Jürgen Press , German writer and draftsman
- 2003 : Guido Bachmann , Swiss writer
- 2003 : Michael Hegstrand , American wrestler
- 2003 : Alija Izetbegović , Bosnian politician and Islamic activist, President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2003 : Nello Pagani , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer
- 2004 : Fritz Leese , German puppeteer and puppet theater director
- 2004 : Paul Nitze , American disarmament expert
- 2007 : Winifred Alice Asprey , American mathematician and computer scientist
- 2008 : Richard Blackwell , American style critic
- 2008 : Harold Sanford Kant , American show business lawyer
- 2009 : Joseph Wiseman , Canadian actor
- 2010 : Heinz Giese , German actor and voice actor
- 2010 : Bino , Italian singer
- 2011 : Jean Jülich , German resistance fighter ( edelweiss pirates ), Righteous Among the Nations
- 2012 : Käthe Reichel , German actress and peace activist
- 2014 : Horst Arndt , German rower
- 2016 : Wolfgang Throll , German politician
- 2017 : Umberto Lenzi , Italian film director and author
- 2018 : Osamu Shimomura , Japanese biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2019 : Erhard Eppler , German politician
- 2019 : Lotte Tobisch , Austrian actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Ludwig Schneller , German missionary and educator (Protestant)
- St. Paul of the Cross , Italian mystic and founder of the order (Catholic)
- St. Laura of Córdoba , Abbess of the Monastery of S. Maria de Cuteclara (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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