September 19th
The September 19 is the 262nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 263rd in leap years ), thus remain 103 days by year end.
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Politics and world events
- Dalmatius is appointed Caesar by his uncle Constantine the Great . 335:
- 1188: With the Barbarossa privilege from Emperor Friedrich I, Lübeck receives a guarantee of its rights and its territory.
- 1356: In the Battle of Maupertuis (also Battle of Poitiers ) during the Hundred Years War , the English under Edward of Woodstock celebrate a great victory over the French . The French King John II is taken prisoner by the English.
- 1370: Edward of Woodstock , the Black Prince , sacked the opposed city of Limoges in the Duchy of Guyenne with his soldiers . Approximately 3,000 residents are killed in the six-day punitive action.
- 1410: The siege of the Marienburg of the Teutonic Order by the united Polish-Lithuanian army under the Polish King Władysław II Jagiełło and the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas is ended without result.
- 1471: The troops of the Ottoman Empire conquer the Počitelj fortress in the Neretva valley and fight for access to central Bosnia .
- 1532: The majority of the Turkish patrol troops who penetrated deep into southern Lower Austria under Kasim Bey are destroyed on the retreat at Steinfeld .
- 1657: In the Treaty of Wehlau , Elector Friedrich Wilhelm receives sovereignty over Prussia from Poland's King John II Casimir .
- 1734: During the War of the Polish Succession , French-Piedmontese troops withstand an attack by an Austrian army in the Battle of Guastalla near the River Po .
- 1777: The Battle of Saratoga begins with the Battle of Freeman's Farm , marking the turning point in the American War of Independence .
- 1835: The Farrapen Revolution begins in the southern Brazilian province of Rio Grande do Sul .
- 1863: The Battle of Chickamauga begins during the American Civil War .
- 1870: The siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War begins.
- 1893: In New Zealand get women active suffrage .
- 1900: After the occupation of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State , the British declare the Second Boer War to have ended - prematurely - as victorious.
- 1918: With the end of the Palestine battle near Megiddo , the entire front of the Ottoman Empire that runs there collapses . The British troops under Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby defeat the Ottoman army commanded by Otto Liman von Sanders in the last great battle of the First World War in the Middle East .
- 1939: In the ten-day battle of the Bzura , the Wehrmacht defeats the Polish troops . 170,000 soldiers become German prisoners of war .
- 1940: The resistance fighter Witold Pilecki allows himself to be picked up by the German occupiers in Warsaw in order to get to the Auschwitz concentration camp .
- 1941: During the war against the Soviet Union , German troops conquer the Ukrainian capital Kiev .
- 1941: The Police Ordinance of September 1st of that year comes into force. All Jews in the German Reich are forced to wear the Star of David. From now on, a change of residence is also subject to approval for them.
- 1944: An armistice agreement between Finland and the Soviet Union ends the so-called Continuation War . Finland is obliged to drive the previously allied German troops from its territory, which leads to the Lapland War .
- 1945: In Germany's US occupation zone , the military government announces the founding of Greater Hesse , Württemberg-Baden and Bavaria with Proclamation No. 2 .
- 1946: Winston Churchill gives his "Europe Speech" to the Academic Youth in Zurich .
- 1950: The Adenauer decree is supposed to keep the administration of the Federal Republic free from constitutional enemies. Members of anti-constitutional organizations are dismissed from public service .
- 1955: The last Soviet occupation soldier leaves Austria .
- 1965: In the fifth general election in Germany, the Union parties gain 47.6% of the votes cast.
- 1972: In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Weapons Act replaces the weapons legislation of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 .
- 1976: The election to the Swedish Reichstag results in a defeat for the Social Democrats, who have ruled since 1932 . Only 42.75 percent of the votes for Olof Palme's party allow the bourgeois camp to form a coalition government under Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin .
- 1983: St. Kitts and Nevis become independent from Great Britain .
- 1986: The Conference on Security, Confidence-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (KVAE) comes to an end in Stockholm with the final document. After this CSCE follow-up conference, announcements of military maneuvers and inviting observers from the other side will become the duty of the contracting parties.
- 1986: With great political participation in the Federal Republic of Germany, an agreement on the first German-German town twinning with Eisenhüttenstadt is signed in Saarlouis .
- 1989: At the time of reunification in the GDR, the New Forum applies for approval as a political association.
- 1989: A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 of the French UTA exploded by a bomb in the airspace over Niger . All 171 people on board die.
- 1993: In Poland the “left” (reform communists: PSL and SLD) win the second free parliamentary elections.
- 1994: The United States intervene to the stationing of soldiers - after 1915 for the second time in the history of the country - in Haiti to later Jean-Bertrand Aristide to reinstate the presidency.
- 1995: The New York Times and Washington Post publish the Unabomber's Manifesto .
- 2002: In a coup attempt in Ivory Coast , the rebels bring the northern half of the country under their control.
- 2006: coup in Thailand . The military overthrows the ruling government of Thaksin Shinawatra .
- 2018: During the illegal evacuation of the Hambach Forest in 2018 , the 27-year-old documentary filmmaker and journalist Steffen Meyn fell from a tree house and died in the process.
business
- 1755: The Stralsund faience factory is founded by the businessman Joachim Ulrich Giese.
- 1873: The founder crash hits New York City. Jay Cooke & Company , a railroad and real estate company, goes bankrupt . There is a bank run of investors, the New York Stock Exchange is closed for ten days.
- 1876: Melville Bissell from Grand Rapids (Michigan) is granted the patent for the first functioning vacuum cleaner ( Carpet Sweeper ).
- 1916: In truth, in Leipzig which is Dux automobile works AG founded; the manufacturer of small to medium-sized trucks and passenger cars emerges from the automotive division of Polyphon Musikwerke .
- 1950: The European Payments Union is founded in Paris .
- 2000: The USA normalizes its trade relations with China : The Senate approves China's admission to the World Trade Organization (WTO) with 83 votes to 15 .
- 2008: To curb the exuberant financial crisis , which threatens to pull new big banks into the abyss with unforeseeable consequences, short sales of bank shares are made more difficult or prohibited in the USA, Great Britain and Germany . In addition, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson , Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and the head of the US Securities and Exchange Commission Christopher Cox describe President Bush and then leading members of Congress a comprehensive rescue plan for the banking system. The US taxpayer is threatened with gigantic burdens, the already high national debt of the United States will continue to rise, the rescue measures are sometimes referred to as the bankruptcy of the free market economy . After several days of extraordinary losses, however, stock markets around the world react with sharp price increases. The DAX gains 5.56, the SMI 6.07 and the ATX 11.50 percent.
science and technology
- 1783: The first “manned” Montgolfière starts in Paris . A mutton, a duck and a rooster travel as a crew.
- 1902: The aircraft designer and aeronaut Stanley Spencer is the first to fly over London.
- 1921: The AVUS is inaugurated in Berlin .
- 1982: The computer scientist Scott E. Fahlman suggests using the string made up of three ASCII characters :-) for jokes in e-mail . The emoticons that simulate a smiley will soon spread across the Arpanet .
- 1988: Israel launches the Ofeq 1 satellite with the Shavit rocket .
- 1991: The glacier mummy Ötzi is found in the Ötztal Alps .
Culture
- 1818: The foundation stone is laid for the first memorial for those who fell in the Wars of Liberation in 1813 and 1815 on the Götzeschen Weinberg (later Kreuzberg) in Berlin.
- 1888: The election of the first beauty queen takes place in the Belgian spa Spa . Bertha Soucaret , an 18-year-old Creole from Guadeloupe , is chosen from a total of 350 applicants and receives 5,000 francs .
- 1898: The new Royal Opera House in Stockholm is inaugurated with Adolf Fredrik Lindblad's opera Frondörerna ( The Rebels ).
- 1951: The film adaptation of the play Endstation Sehnsucht by Tennessee Williams , starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh , premieres. The director is Elia Kazan .

1960: Single The Twist
- 1960: Chubby Checker's song interpretation The Twist topped the Billboard Hot 100 for a week for the first time in the USA . The dance of the same name becomes popular all over the world in parallel to the music.
- 1970: The Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival , the forerunner of today's Glastonbury Festival , takes place on Worthy Farm in south-west England .
- 1975: BBC2 airs the first episode of Fawlty Towers .
- 1981: St. Stephen's Church in Mainz celebrates the handover of three windows designed by Marc Chagall .
- 1981: After a long break, Simon & Garfunkel perform together in Central Park , which Mayor Ed Koch and the New York City Council want to close for financial reasons. An estimated 500,000 spectators come to the concert in Central Park .
- 1990: The Berlin Palace of the Republic is closed due to asbestos contamination.
- 1991: Manta - Der Film , a German action comedy by Royal Film , directed by Peter Timm and starring Sebastian Rudolph and Nadeshda Brennicke , opens in cinemas.
- 1994: The pilot for the television series Emergency Room is first broadcast in the USA .
- 1996: The science fiction film Independence Day by Roland Emmerich opens in German cinemas.
- 1998: The world premiere of the opera A Streetcar Named Desire ( Endstation Sehnsucht ) by André Previn takes place at the San Francisco Opera .
society
- 1692: The 80-year-old farmer Giles Corey is cruelly tortured to death in Salem during the witch trials there .
- 1841: Marie Lafarge is sentenced to life hard labor in Tulle, France, for the murder of her husband Charles Lafarge. It is the world's first judgment based on toxicological- chemical evidence.
- 1980: Terry Fox , an activist in the fight against cancer ( Marathon of Hope ) is, with the Order of Canada awarded.
Disasters
- 1450: The shyness of a few horses and mules, the incessant advancement of the crowds and the ruthlessness of a number of traders lead to a total of 172 deaths on the Angel's Bridge in Rome . Pope Nicholas V then has all stands and booths removed from the bridge and orders that unhindered passage must be guaranteed.
- 1981: The Brazilian river passenger ship Sobral Santos capsizes in the Amazon . 300 people die.
- 1985: A quake of the strength 8.1 in Michoacan , Mexico, requested officially over 9,500 dead, unofficially more than 30,000.
- 1988: Hurricane Gilbert disintegrates over Texas . The on September 8, Leeward Islands formed tropical cyclone developed into one of the deadliest (318 deaths), expensive (damage of about 5.5 billion US dollars ) and strongest hurricanes (with the third highest ever measured speed).
- 2017: Over 300 people died in a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Puebla , Mexico.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1961: The Civic Arena in Pittsburgh opens, the first stadium with a retractable dome.
- 2006: The 2006 road cycling world championship begins in Salzburg, Austria .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- Antoninus Pius , Roman emperor 86:
- Leo VI. , Byzantine emperor 866:
- 1245: William de Vescy, 1st Baron Vescy , English nobleman
- 1377: Albrecht IV , Austrian duke
- 1386: Ambrogio Traversari , Tuscan humanist and theologian
- 1426: Maria von Kleve , Duchess of Orléans
- 1526: Martin Crusius , German classical philologist and historian
- 1551: Henry III. , French and Polish king
- 1583: Heinrich Abermann , German historian
- 1600: Johann Friedrich , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1605: Martin Weise , German physician
- 1669: Henriette Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Abbess of the Gandersheim Monastery
- 1676: Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn-Buchheim , Cardinal, Prince-Bishop of Speyer and Constance
- 1683: Lorenz Heister , German anatomist and surgeon
18th century
- 1701: Johann Andreas Buttstedt , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1705: Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin , French harpsichordist
- 1714: Charles Humphreys , American politician
- 1715: Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort , Marshal of France
- 1722: Johann Philipp Burckhard Asbrand , German theologian
- 1727: Renatus von Zinzendorf , German hymn poet
- 1730: Augustin Pajou , French sculptor
- 1737: Charles Carroll , American politician, signatory of the Declaration of Independence
- 1742: Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard , French clergyman and teacher of the deaf and mute
- 1749: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre , French astronomer
- 1754: Johann Christoph Bathe , German legal scholar
- 1754: Louis Claude Marie Richard , French botanist
- 1759: Adriana Ferrarese del Bene , Venetian opera singer
- 1759: William Kirby , British entomologist and priest
- 1770: Johann Georg Repsold , German precision mechanic
- 1772: Johann Philipp Burckhard Asbrand , German theologian
- 1773: Jan Isaac Wolterbeek , Dutch medic
- 1779: Valentin Sibbern , Norwegian officer and politician
- 1782: Karl von Fischer , German architect
- 1783: Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching , German archaeologist, Germanist and folklorist
- 1792: William Backhouse Astor , American millionaire
- 1793: Johan Herman Mankel , Swedish organist, composer and music teacher
- 1797: Bernhard Sökeland , German philologist and historian
- 1798: Alexander Mendelssohn , German banker
- 1799: Samuel Preiswerk , Swiss theologian
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Jean-Valentin Bender , German-Belgian conductor and composer
- 1802: Lajos Kossuth , Hungarian politician and independence fighter
- 1806: Fabre Geffrard , Haitian politician
- 1808: Claude Paris , French composer
- 1813: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters , German astronomer
- 1822: Joseph R. West , American politician, Senator for Louisiana, General of the Union in the Civil War
- 1828: Fridolin Anderwert , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1832: Moses Kimball Armstrong , American politician
- 1836: Karl Merz , American composer
- 1849: Friedrich Seifriz , Austrian landowner and politician
1851-1900
- 1853: Florentino Ameghino , Argentine naturalist and zoologist, paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist
- 1853: Michael of Braganza , Portuguese pretender to the throne
- 1855: William Harris Ashmead , American entomologist
- 1862: Carl Heinrich Apstein , German zoologist
- 1862: Augustin Wibbelt , German Roman Catholic clergyman and Westphalian dialect poet and writer
- 1864: Carl Correns , German botanist
- 1865: Oskar Dressel , German chemist
- 1866: Ambrose Carmichael , Australian politician
- 1867: Arthur Rackham , British illustrator
- 1869: Karl Heldmann , German historian
- 1869: Ben Turpin , American silent film comedian
- 1870: Willem Jan Aalders , Dutch theologian
- 1871: Fritz Schaudinn , German microbiologist
- 1872: Hanna Dauberger , Austrian actress and writer
- 1878: Stefan I , Bulgarian metropolitan and exarch
- 1878: Aurél Stromfeld , Austro-Hungarian officer and chief of staff of the Army of the Hungarian Soviet Republic
- 1880: Zequinha de Abreu , Brazilian composer and instrumentalist
- 1880: Abraham Asscher , Dutch diamond dealer and politician
- 1882: Domingos Leite Pereira , Portuguese politician
- 1882: Robert Storm Petersen , Danish painter, cartoonist, quick draftsman, emcee, cabaret artist and actor
- 1883: Hjalmar Bergman , Swedish writer
- 1884: Jean Rossel , Swiss politician and federal judge
- 1885: Hermann Kupferschmid , German painter and etcher
- 1887: Erwein von Aretin , German journalist
- 1887: Lovie Austin , American blues and jazz pianist, arranger and composer
- 1887: Lynne Overman , American actor
- 1889: Charlotte von Rumohr , German painter and abbess
- 1891: Willy Birgel , German actor
- 1891: Hans Heyck , German poet and writer
- 1893: Wilhelm Arnoul , German politician
- 1893: Robert George Howe , British diplomat
- 1894: Gerhart von Westerman , German composer, artistic director and music writer
- 1895: Homer Ruh , American football player
- 1896: Robert Dussaut , French composer and music theorist
- 1898: Giuseppe Saragat , Italian politician, president
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Ludwig von Bertalanffy , Austrian biologist and systems theorist
- 1901: Joe Pasternak , Hungarian director and film producer
- 1904: Paweł Finder , Polish communist activist and resistance fighter
- 1905: Judith Auer , German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1905: Theodor Blank , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, multiple Federal Minister
- 1905: Giuseppe Cavanna , Italian football player
- 1906: Anna Amalie Abert , German musicologist
- 1906: Dalibor Vačkář , Czech composer
- 1907: Heinz Trettner , German officer, inspector general of the Bundeswehr
- 1908: Mika Waltari , Finnish writer
- 1908: Victor Weisskopf , American nuclear physicist of Austrian origin
- 1909: Georg Dietrich , German lawyer and local politician, Lord Mayor of Offenbach am Main
- 1909: Ferry Porsche , Austrian automotive entrepreneur and engineer
- 1910: Nellie Halstead , British athlete
- 1910: Curt Meyer-Clason , German writer and translator
- 1911: William Golding , British writer, Nobel Prize winner ( Lord of the Flies )
- 1911: Allan Pettersson , Swedish composer
- 1912: Kurt Sanderling , German conductor
- 1913: Anton Donhauser , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1913: Frances Farmer , American actress
- 1913: Manfred Kersch , German athlete
- 1914: Hal Draper , American socialist, Marxism researcher, author and translator
- 1914: Rogers Morton , American politician
- 1915: Jóhann Hafstein , Icelandic politician
- 1915: Germán Valdés , Mexican actor
- 1917: James Bowes-Lyon , British officer
- 1919: Briek Schotte , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1920: Karen Khachaturian , Russian composer
- 1920: Václav Dobiáš , Czech resistance fighter
- 1920: Rudi von der Dovenmühle , German pop composer
- 1920: Hans-Arno Simon , German composer, singer, pianist and producer
- 1921: Paulo Freire , Brazilian educator
- 1922: Damon Knight , American writer
- 1922: Karl-Heinz Weimann , German Germanist, Paracelsus researcher and librarian
- 1922: Emil Zátopek , Czech long-distance runner
- 1922: Dana Zátopková , Czech athlete
- 1923: Rodrigo Riera , Venezuelan guitarist and composer
- 1925: Ōshiro Tatsuhiro , Japanese writer
1926-1950
- 1926: Masatoshi Koshiba , Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1926: James Lipton , American author, actor, and acting teacher
- 1926: Nini Rosso , Italian musician and songwriter
- 1926: Duke Snider , American baseball player
- 1927: Harold Brown , American nuclear physicist and Secretary of Defense
- 1927: Karl Gamma , Swiss ski racer and sports official
- 1927: Rosemary Harris , British actress
- 1928: Wolfram Siebeck , German film and gastronomic critic
- 1928: Will Tremper , German film director
- 1929: Heny Álvarez , Puerto Rican composer, percussionist and singer
- 1929: Heiner Carow , German director
- 1929: Luigi Taveri , Swiss motorcycle racer
- 1930: Muhal Richard Abrams , American jazz musician and composer
- 1930: Rolf Arndt , German actor and stage director
- 1930: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , German constitutional and administrative lawyer and legal philosopher, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1931: Brook Benton , American singer
- 1931: Jean-Claude Carrière , French screenwriter and writer
- 1931: Derek Gardner , British automobile designer
- 1931: Márta Mészáros , Hungarian director
- 1932: Bernard Gordon Lennox , British officer
- 1932: Stefanie Zweig , German writer
- 1933: Gilles Archambault , Canadian writer
- 1933: David McCallum , Scottish actor
- 1934: Horst Arndt , German rower
- 1934: Brian Epstein , British businessman, manager of the Beatles
- 1935: Milan Antal , Slovak astronomer
- 1935: Nick Massi , American musician
- 1936: Gene Dinwiddie , American blues saxophonist
- 1936: Al Oerter , American discus thrower, Olympic champion
- 1937: José Pedraza , Mexican athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1938: Alain Serpaggi , French racing car driver
- 1939: Joachim Ansorge , German voice actor and actor
- 1940: Karin Baal , German actress
- 1940: Bill Medley , American singer ( Righteous Brothers )
- 1941: Umberto Bossi , Italian politician
- 1941: Cass Elliot , American singer ( The Mamas and The Papas )
- 1941: Peter Hinnen , Swiss yodeler and pop singer
- 1941: Peter Horton , German musician, singer and television presenter
- 1941: Markus Imhoof , Swiss director
- 1941: Mariangela Melato , Italian actress
- 1942: Danny Kalb , American guitarist
- 1943: Alard von Arnim , German politician
- 1944: Rainer Eisenhardt , German soccer player and coach
- 1945: René Appel , Dutch writer
- 1945: David Bromberg , American multi-instrumentalist and singer
- 1945: Benoît Lamy , Belgian film director and screenwriter
- 1946: Louie Austen , Austrian pianist, accordion player, guitarist, bar and jazz crooner
- 1946: John Coghlan , British drummer
- 1947: Mate Granić , Croatian politician
- 1947: Tanith Lee , British writer
- 1947: Alain Lipietz , French engineer, economist and politician
- 1947: Jozef Móder , Czechoslovak football player
- 1948: Serge Adda , President of the French TV channel TV5Monde
- 1948: Jeremy Irons , British actor
- 1949: Richard Rogler , German cabaret artist
- 1949: Ernie Sabella , American actor and voice actor
- 1949: Twiggy , British model
- 1950: Erkki Liikanen , Finnish politician, EU commissioner, President of the Finnish Central Bank
1951-1975
- 1951: Marianne Adam , German athlete
- 1951: Erwin Steinhauer , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- 1952: Holger Biege , German composer, singer, pianist, arranger and lyricist
- 1952: Bernard de Dryver , Belgian racing driver
- 1952: Nile Rodgers , American musician, songwriter, and record producer
- 1952: Marina Ruperti , German television journalist
- 1953: Burkhardt Seiler , German label owner, concert promoter and publisher
- 1953: Grażyna Szapołowska , Polish actress
- 1954: Catherine David French art historian, art educator and exhibition curator
- 1954: Michael Wolff , American musician, composer and actor
- 1956: Lenny Castro , American percussionist
- 1956: Wolfgang Lackerschmid , German jazz musician
- 1956: Cyrus Nowrasteh , American screenwriter and director
- 1957: Carmen Maria Cârneci , Romanian composer and conductor
- 1957: Parminder Singh Saini , Kenyan hockey player
- 1958: Amina Mama , Nigerian-British psychologist and feminist
- 1958: Lita Ford , British rock singer and guitarist
- 1958: Johanna Schall , German actress
- 1959: Sally Barker , British folk rock singer and songwriter
- 1959: Gwen Hoebig , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1960: Pepe Angelillo , Argentine jazz pianist, arranger and composer
- 1961: Peter Autschbach , German guitarist, composer and music teacher
- 1961: Artur Ekert , Polish-British physicist
- 1961: Reinhard Grindel , German sports official and politician
- 1961: Susanne Holst , German television presenter
- 1962: Rafael Alfaro Kotte , German accordionist and composer
- 1963: Dave Canterbury , American adventurer, boy scout, and author
- 1963: Stefan Schmitt , German lawyer and local politician
- 1963: Sepp Zellweger , Swiss gymnast
- 1964: Enrico Bertaggia , Italian racing car driver
- 1964: Simon Singh , British science journalist and author
- 1965: Helen Duval , former Dutch porn actress
- 1965: Goldie , British artist and musician
- 1965: Gilles Panizzi , French rally driver
- 1965: Alexandra Vandernoot , Belgian actress
- 1966: Heiko Maas , German politician, Federal Minister
- 1966: Claudia Schmutzler , German actress
- 1966: Wassilissa Wassiljewna Sementschuk , Soviet freestyle skier
- 1967: Alexander Karelin , Russian wrestler, Olympic champion
- 1968: Dave Clarke , British record producer, radio host, remixer and techno DJ
- 1968: Lila Downs , Mexican-American singer
- 1969: Candy Dulfer , Dutch musician
- 1969: Jan Fegter , German handball player
- 1970: Marc Arnold , German-South African soccer player, coach and official
- 1970: Ingo Steinwart , German mathematician and university professor
- 1970: Victor Williams , American actor
- 1971: Filip Apelstav , Swedish football player
- 1971: Crauss , German author
- 1971: D-Flame , German rapper
- 1971: Sanaa Lathan , American actress
- 1971: Tanja Rastetter , German soccer player and coach
- 1971: Fatmir Vata , Albanian football player
- 1972: Tobias Kluckert , German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker
- 1973: Cristiano da Matta , Brazilian racing car driver
- 1974: André Baeten , German mechanical engineer
- 1974: Victoria Silvstedt , Swedish model
1976-2000
- 1976: Jerden Äbdirachmanow , Kazakh biathlete
- 1976: Alison Sweeney , American actress and presenter
- 1978: Michelle Alves , Brazilian model
- 1978: Amil , American rapper
- 1978: Philipp Klaus , German handball player and architect
- 1978: Mariano Puerta , Argentine tennis player
- 1979: Yvonne Cernota , German bobsleigh driver
- 1979: Noémie Lenoir , French model and actress
- 1980: Ben Calvin Hary , German author and YouTuber
- 1980: Miroslava Knapková , Czech rower
- 1980: Amber Lancaster , American actress and model
- 1980: Tanja Reichert , Canadian actress
- 1981: Damiano Cunego , Italian racing cyclist
- 1981: Marcos Gelabert , Argentine soccer player
- 1981: Christian Gratzei , Austrian football player
- 1983: Bianca Trumpf , German handball player
- 1984: Eamon , American rapper
- 1984: Lydia Hearst , American model, actress, fashion designer, and blogger
- 1984: Michael Müller , German handball player
- 1984: Philipp Müller , German handball player
- 1984: Kevin Zegers , Canadian actor
- 1985: Nathanael Liminski , German ministerial official and politician
- 1985: Doreen Seidel , German playmate and racing driver
- 1986: Gerald Ciolek , German racing cyclist
- 1986: Christopher Kullmann , German soccer player
- 1986: Adul Lahso , Thai soccer player
- 1986: Angelina Valentine , American porn actress
- 1987: Danielle Panabaker , American actress
- 1987: Nadine Thal , German soccer player
- 1988: Thiemo de Bakker , Dutch tennis player
- 1988: Katrina Bowden , American actress
- 1988: Giorgio Brambilla , Italian racing cyclist
- 1988: Faye Reagan , American porn actress
- 1989: Tyreke Evans , American basketball player
- 1990: Kieran Trippier , English soccer player
- 1991: Alexandre Mabboux , French ski jumper
- 1991: CJ McCollum , American basketball player
- 1991: Linda Teodosiu , German singer
- 1992: Emma Mitchell , Scottish soccer player
- 1992: Lasse Petry , Danish football player
- 1992: Admir Terzić , German-Bosnian football player
- 1994: Kazjaryna Vjarbizkaja , Belarusian billiards player
- 1996: Jaxon Evans , New Zealand racing car driver
- 1996: Pia Mia , American singer
- 1997: Erika Karata , Japanese actress
- 1998: Jacob Bruun Larsen , Danish football player
- 1999: Dominik Terzer , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
21st century
- 2001: Taylor Geare , American actress
- 2002: Jason and Kristopher Simmons , American actors
Died
Before the 17th century
- Theodore of Tarsus , Archbishop of Canterbury from Tarsus 690:
- Erchanbald , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt 912:
- Lantpert , Bishop of Freising 957:
- 1090: Lucia vom Berg , hermit and saint
- 1122: Ailbertus von Antoing , priest
- 1125: Rusten , Abbot of St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest
- 1151: Sibylle of Burgundy , Queen of Sicily
- 1339: Go-Daigo , 96th Emperor of Japan
- 1354: Agnes von Weimar-Orlamünde , abbess of the Himmelkron monastery in Upper Franconia
- 1356: Geoffroy de Charny , French knight and author
- 1356: Jean de Clermont , Lord of Chantilly and Marshal of France
- 1356: Peter I , Duke of Bourbon
- 1356: Walter VI. , Count of Brienne, Conversano and Lecce, Titular Duke of Athens and Connétable of France
- 1415: Friedrich IV. Von Oettingen , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1417: Johannes Marienwerder , German theologian
- 1580: Katherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby , English nobleman
- 1581: Frans Pourbus the Elder , Dutch painter
17th century
- 1610: Friedrich IV. , Elector Palatinate
- 1625: Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 1631: Adolf von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , German nobleman
- 1655: Francisco López de Zúñiga y Meneses , Spanish officer and governor of Chile
- 1676: Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve , French officer and founder of Montreal
- 1678: Christoph Bernhard von Galen , Prince-Bishop of Münster
- 1686: Johann Georg I , Duke of Saxony-Eisenach
- 1687: Johannes Colberg , German Lutheran theologian
- 1687: Magdalena Hedwig Röder , German painter
- 1690: Giovanni Stefano Doneda , Italian painter
- 1692: Giles Corey , English-American farmer, victim of the Salem witch trials
- 1693: Johann Weichard von Valvasor , Slovenian topographer and historian
18th century
- 1710: Ole Rømer , Danish astronomer
- 1724: Glikl bas Judah Leib , German-Jewish merchant, also known as Glückel von Hameln
- 1729: Philipp Honorius von Ravensteyn , Dutch architect and court builder in Kurtrier
- 1730: Johann Heinrich Ulrich , Swiss Reformed theologian
- 1732: Ogasawara Nagashige , Japanese daimyo
- 1734: Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg-Winnental , electoral Saxon cavalry general and imperial general field master
- 1735: Ludwig Andreas Gotter , German hymn poet and lawyer
- 1740: Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva , Brazilian bandeirante
- 1745: Ernst Salomon Cyprian , German Lutheran theologian and librarian
- 1751: Franz Xaver Forchner , Swabian painter
- 1754: Johann Peter van Ghelen , Austrian printer and bookseller
- 1756: Josef Antonín Sehling , Bohemian composer
- 1761: Pieter van Musschenbroek , Dutch natural scientist
- 1767: Johann Peter Migendt , German organ builder
- 1772: Henriette-Louise de Bourbon , Abbess of Beaumont-lés-Tours
- 1774: Karl Gottlob Hofmann , German Lutheran theologian and historian
- 1781: Tobias Furneaux , British explorer, was the first to circumnavigate the earth in both directions
- 1785: Maria Antonia of Spain , Queen of Sardinia-Piedmont
- 1797: Lazare Hoche , French general of the revolutionary era
19th century
- 1806: Franz Samuel Karpe , philosopher and university professor
- 1810: Gabriel de Avilés , Spanish officer, colonial administrator, viceroy of the Río de la Plata and viceroy of Peru
- 1812: Mayer Amschel Rothschild , German banker
- 1816: Joseph Alston , American politician
- 1818: Olof Peter Swartz , Swedish botanist
- 1820: Johann Georg Meusel , German historian and lexicographer
- 1826: Johann Konrad Schiede , German pastor and author
- 1827: Morten Thrane Brünnich , Danish zoologist and mineralogist
- 1831: Anton Hye , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, educator and author
- 1836: Louise Humann , friend of the founder of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Sion
- 1837: Seerp Gratama , Dutch legal scholar
- 1843: Gaspard Gustave de Coriolis , French mathematician and physicist
- 1854: George Arthur , Governor of Bombay, British Honduras, Van Diemens Land, and Upper Canada
- 1860: Makari Ivanov , Russian monk
- 1862: Dorothea von Sagan , Duchess von Dino, Duchess von Talleyrand and Duchess von Sagan
- 1866: Christian Hermann Weisse , German Protestant theologian and philosopher
- 1872: Joseph Ignatz Peter , Baden civil servant, participant in the Baden Revolution 1848/49
- 1873: Jean Victor Coste , French naturalist
- 1873: Giambattista Donati , Italian astronomer
- 1881: James A. Garfield , American politician, president
- 1883: August Siemering , German-American writer, journalist and newspaper publisher
- 1886: Eduard Jakob von Steinle , Austrian painter
- 1889: Friedrich Wilhelm Walther von Walderstötten , royal Bavarian infantry general and cartographer
- 1895: Josip Lendovšek , Slovene philologist and pedagogue
- 1896: Fanny Simonsen , Australian singer and music teacher
- 1897: Kornel Ujejski , Polish poet
- 1898: George Edward Gray , British politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1905: Thomas John Barnardo , Irish-British benefactor
- 1907: Jakob Morenga , South West African Nama leader and guerrilla fighter
- 1915: David Friedrich Weinland , German zoologist and writer
- 1918: Liza Lehmann , English composer, singer and pianist
- 1925: Georg Schweinfurth , German Africa explorer
- 1925: Paul Torchy , French racing car driver
- 1927: Michael Ancher , Danish painter
- 1930: Hendrik Zwaardemaker , Dutch physiologist
- 1931: Gerhard Krahmer , German archaeologist
- 1934: Brito Camacho , Portuguese politician
- 1935: Konstantin Ziolkowski , Russian mathematician and physicist
- 1937: Sidney M. Goldin , American director of Yiddish film
- 1943: Alexander Petrovich Apsit , Latvian artist
- 1945: Paul Scheurich , German painter, graphic artist and small sculptor
- 1949: Robert Poirier , French aviator, resistance fighter and racing car driver
- 1949: Nikos Skalkottas , Greek composer
1951-1975
- 1953: Jacob Fleck , Austrian film pioneer, screenwriter, director, producer
- 1954: Miles Franklin , Australian writer
- 1955: Carl Milles , Swedish sculptor
- 1958: Rudolf Rocker , German-born author, historian and anarcho-syndicalist
- 1962: Ludwig Manfred Lommel , German humorist
- 1964: Erich Friderici , German general
- 1964: Levon Madoyan , Armenian duduk player
- 1965: Kurt Goldstein , German doctor and anti-fascist
- 1966: José de Jesús Angulo del Valle y Navarro , Mexican bishop
- 1966: Albert Divo , French racing car driver
- 1966: Jenő Vécsey , Hungarian composer
- 1967: Friedrich Herzfeld , German Kapellmeister, music writer and music critic
- 1968: Chester Carlson , American inventor, physicist and patent attorney
- 1968: Red Foley , American country musician
- 1969: Rex Ingram , American actor
- 1970: Paul Fröhlich , German party functionary, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
- 1970: Johannes Heinrich Schultz , German neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1972: Robert Casadesus , French pianist
- 1973: Gram Parsons , American musician
- 1973: Mary Wigman , German dancer, choreographer and dance teacher
- 1974: Soltan Hacıbəyov , Azerbaijani composer
- 1975: Heinrich Addicks , German politician
- 1975: Wend von Wietersheim , German lieutenant general
1976-2000
- 1977: Kon Tōkō , Japanese writer and politician
- 1978: Clara Blumenfeld , German painter and illustrator
- 1978: Étienne Gilson , French philosopher
- 1982: Samuel Barlow , American composer
- 1983: Yusuf Dadoo , South African politician
- 1983: Bruno Pittermann , Austrian politician
- 1984: Josef Maria Camenzind , Swiss Catholic clergyman and writer
- 1984: Ève Gagnier , Canadian soprano and actress
- 1985: Italo Calvino , Italian writer
- 1987: Einar Gerhardsen , Norwegian politician
- 1992: William Christopher Atkinson , British Romance philologist, historian, Hispanist and Lusitanist
- 1993: Helen Adam , Scottish-American poet and artist
- 1993: András Mihály , Hungarian composer
- 1994: Donald Lash , American middle and long distance runner
- 1994: Carleton Sprague Smith , American music and cultural scientist, librarian, university teacher, and flautist
- 1994: Emile Wafflard , Belgian carom player, world champion
- 1995: Hilda Horak , Slovenian pianist, music teacher and composer
- 1995: Rudolf Peierls , German-British physicist
- 1995: Rodney Turner , British racing car driver
- 1996: Helmut Heißenbüttel , German writer
- 1997: Ludwig Kraus , German engineer
- 1998: Patricia Hayes , British comedian and actress
- 1998: Wolfgang Kraus , Austrian writer
- 2000: Karl Robatsch , Austrian chess grandmaster and botanist
21st century
- 2002: John O'Gorman Arundel , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2002: Robert Guéï , Ivorian military, military leader and president
- 2002: Yohannes Woldegiorgis , Ethiopian bishop
- 2003: Dursun Akçam , Turkish writer
- 2003: Frank Lowe , American jazz saxophonist
- 2003: Slim Dusty , Australian singer and songwriter
- 2004: Eddie Adams , American photojournalist
- 2004: Skeeter Davis , American singer
- 2004: Ruth Deutsch Lechuga , Austrian anthropologist
- 2005: Willie Hutch , American singer and record producer
- 2006: Volrad Deneke , German journalist and sociologist
- 2008: Earl Palmer , American rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll drummer
- 2008: Alois Piňos , Czech composer and music teacher
- 2009: Eva Cassirer , German philosopher and astronomer, "Righteous Among the Nations"
- 2009: Margarete Taudte , German film and theater actress
- 2009: Eduard Zimmermann , German journalist and television presenter
- 2010: Peter Adler , German politician
- 2010: Francesco Adorno , Italian university professor and historian of philosophy
- 2010: László Polgár , Hungarian opera singer
- 2011: Ctirad Kohoutek , Czech composer, music pedagogue and scholar
- 2012: Paul Adderley , Bahamas politician
- 2012: Karl Matthäus Winter , German sculptor
- 2013: Hiroshi Yamauchi , Japanese entrepreneur
- 2014: Guntram Brattia , Austrian actor and theater director
- 2015: Georg Eder , Austrian Archbishop
- 2016: Karl Dietrich Bracher , German political scientist and historian
- 2017: Jake LaMotta , American boxer
- 2018: Arthur Mitchell , American dancer
- 2019: Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali , Tunisian politician
- 2020: Lee Kerslake , British drummer
- 2020: John Turner , Canadian politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days:
- Thomas John Barnardo , Irish-British benefactor (Protestant)
- State holidays and memorial days
- St. Kitts and Nevis : Independence from Great Britain (1983)
- More information about the day
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Web links
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