2nd of April

The April 2 is the 92nd day of the Gregorian calendar (93rd in leap years ), thus remain 273 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries March · April · May

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0568 : Invasion of the Longobards in northern Italy with probably more than 100,000 people, 20,000 Saxons also take part in the procession. Gisulf becomes the first Lombard Duke of Friuli. The home of the Lombards between the Sava and the Danube is taken over by the Avars . The year 568 is therefore often equated with the end of the migration period .

1453: Map of Constantinople and its walls

• 1453 : The first units of the Ottoman army Mehmed II reach Constantinople . This marks the beginning of the siege of the city , which will end with its capture on May 29th.
• 1513 : Florida is taken over by the conqueror Juan Ponce de León for the Spanish crown .
• 1547 : Count Anton I of Oldenburg incorporates the conquered castle and county of Delmenhorst into his possession . The place held by the Bishop of Münster had previously belonged to Oldenburg.

1801: Naval Battle of Copenhagen

• 1801 : In the naval battle of Copenhagen , the British under Hyde Parker and Horatio Nelson destroy the fleet of Denmark , which was neutral in the Second Coalition War , but sympathized with France, thus preventing an anti-British Nordic coalition between Russia, Sweden and Denmark.
• 1813 : In the battle near Lüneburg , allied Prussians and Russians win over a French corps. The battle is the first major combat operation of the so-called Wars of Liberation after the French defeated in Russia retreated behind the Elbe.
• 1814 : The French Senate declares Napoleon Bonaparte deposed. This marked the beginning of the first restoration of the Bourbons in France , which was required for Louis XVIII's accession to the throne . leads.
• 1848 : In the course of the German Revolution , the German Bundestag repeals the Karlsbad resolutions of 1819 against liberal efforts.
• 1885 : Encouraged by the victory of the Métis at Duck Lake on March 26th, young Indian warriors under Wandering Spirit round up twelve white settlers from the area at Frog Lake in a church. They shoot nine of them and keep the remaining three hostage. The Northwest Rebellion escalates with the Frog Lake massacre .
• 1900 : Puerto Rico , under the control of the USA since 1898 as a result of the Spanish-American War , receives civil government with the Foraker Act named after Senator Joseph B. Foraker .

1917: Woodrow Wilson

• 1917 : President Woodrow Wilson calls on the United States Congress in a special session to resolve the entry of the United States into World War I and thereby end the politics of isolationism .
• 1920 : The German Reichswehr marches into the Ruhr area to put down the uprising of the communist Red Ruhr Army .
• 1922 : Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear wins the presidential election in Argentina over his party colleague and previous incumbent Hipólito Yrigoyen .
• 1943 : The British passenger and cargo ship Melbourne Star is torpedoed by the German submarine U 129 off Bermuda . It explodes and sinks in two minutes. 114 people die.
• 1945 : Sergeant Ferdinand Käs succeeds in establishing contact with the 3rd Ukrainian Front under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbuchin and submits Operation Radetzky , developed by the resistance around Karl Biedermann and Carl Szokoll , for the surrender of the city of Vienna without a fight in World War II .
• 1953 : Despite the defeat of the Austrian People's Party in the National Council election in 1953 , ÖVP politician Julius Raab takes office as the new Chancellor of Austria at the head of a grand coalition as the successor to the resigned Leopold Figl .
• 1968 : Radicalized members of the APO , the later RAF co- founders Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin as well as Horst Söhnlein and Thorwald Proll , set incendiary devices in two Frankfurt department stores . The total property damage caused mainly by the sprinkler systems amounts to around 675,000 DM.

1982: Location of the Falkland Islands

• 1982 : With the occupation of the British- owned Falkland Islands by Argentine troops, ordered by President Leopoldo Galtieri , the Falklands War begins , which will last until June 20.
• 1998 : Maurice Papon , the 87-year-old former budget minister of France, is sentenced to 10 years in prison as a Nazi collaborator in Bordeaux for his complicity in the deportation of nearly 1,700 Jews during the time of the Vichy regime for crimes against humanity .
• 1999 : In the course of the Kosovo war, NATO attacks the building of the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia and Montenegro in Belgrade with cruise missiles .
• 2010 : In one of the fighting with the most losses in the history of the Bundeswehr , the Good Friday battle as part of the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan against the radical Islamic Taliban , three German soldiers are killed.
• 2012 : The Hungarian President Pál Schmitt resigns after his doctorate has been withdrawn as a result of a plagiarism scandal .

economy

• 1792 : With the Coinage Act of 1792 initiated by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton , the United States introduced the US dollar as an official and uniform currency . The United States Mint is founded with the same document .
• 1853 : In Darmstadt , the bank for trade and industry starts business as the second stock corporation in the banking sector after receiving its license .
• 1889 : The US inventor Charles Martin Hall is granted a patent for the production of pure aluminum by means of fused- salt electrolysis , later known as the Hall-Héroult process .

1928: Ondes Martenot

• 1928 : Maurice Martenot patented the Ondes Musicales , a monophonic electronic musical instrument . Of the early electronic music instruments , it is considered to be the one that found the most widespread use.
• 1946 : The German daily newspaper Die Welt , founded by the victorious powers of the Second World War in the British occupation zone , appears in Hamburg with its first edition at a price of 20 pfennigs.
• 1960 : In Sihanoukville , the port built with French help is opened for ocean shipping . This means that Cambodia is less dependent on South Vietnam for foreign trade .

science and technology

1831: Alexis de Tocqueville

• 1831 : Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont board the ship Havre in Le Havre and set off on their voyage to America , which Tocqueville will later process in his famous work On Democracy in America , thus establishing political science .
• 1845 : Hippolyte Fizeau and Léon Foucault take the first photo of our sun . They establish astronomical photography .
• 1905 : A train with guests of honor traverses the Simplon Tunnel between Switzerland and Italy for the first time , at 19.8 km the longest railway tunnel in the world at the time .

Culture

• 1720 : The opera Numitore by Giovanni Porta under the direction of George Frideric Handel is premiered at the King's Theater in London for the opening of the Royal Academy of Music .
• 1785 : The opera La finta principessa by Luigi Cherubini is premiered at the King's Theater in London .
• 1800 : The Symphony No. 1 in C major op.21 by Ludwig van Beethoven is premiered with great success at the Vienna Hofburgtheater .

1803: The natural daughter , first print after the world premiere

• 1803 : The tragedy, The Natural Daughter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , which is seldom performed today, has its world premiere in the court theater in Weimar.
• 1842 : At a meeting initiated by Ureli Corelli Hill, the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York is founded in New York . The New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the USA and is now one of the “Big Five” orchestras .

1843: The first Gewandhaus, painted by Mendelssohn Bartholdy

• 1843 : The composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy builds the Conservatorium der Musik in Leipzig, based in the Gewandhaus .
• 1895 : The opera The poor Heinrich by Hans Pfitzner, based on the story by Hartmann von Aue , is premiered at the Stadttheater in Mainz.
• 1910 : The premiere of the operetta The Last Jonas by Rudolf Dellinger takes place at the Residenztheater in Dresden .
• 1922 : Charlie Chaplin's film Payday premieres in New York .
• 1932 : 29 years after the world premiere, Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony is performed for the first time in the original version under conductor Siegmund von Hausegger .
• 1937 : The play Figaro gets a divorce from Odon von Horváth as a continuation of Beaumarchais ' comedy The great day, or The Marriage of Figaro is at the Deutsches Theater premiered in Prague.
• 1963 : The ZDF shows cartoons with the Mainzelmännchen for the first time between the TV commercials .
• 1968 : Stanley Kubrick's 2001 film : A Space Odyssey has its world premiere at the Uptown Theater in Washington DC.
• 1978 : In the USA, the television station CBS broadcasts the first episode of the series Dallas . The soap opera developed into a " street sweeper " and the most successful television series of the 80s, which will be broadcast until 1991.
• 2009 : After 15 years and 331 episodes , the US hospital series Emergency Room , one of the most successful television series of all time, ends .

society

1928: Gustav Hartmann

• 1928 : The Berlin cab driver Gustav Hartmann ( Der Eiserne Gustav ) begins his sensational trip to Paris in protest against the decline of his trade.

religion

• 0999 : After the death of Gregory V , Gerbert von Aurillac is the first French to be elected Pope and takes the name Silvester II .
• 1285 : Just four days after the death of Martin IV , Giacomo Savelli is elected Pope at the conclave in Perugia. He decides on the name Honorius IV.
• 2005 : Pope John Paul II dies in Rome. His death aroused great sympathy and media interest around the world.

Disasters

1991: location of the Pinatubo

• 1979 : Due to a technical defect, anthrax spores from a biological weapons factory in Sverdlovsk (Soviet Union) enter the area. As a result, around 100 people die.
• 1991 : The eruption of the Pinatubo volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon begins with a phreatomagmatic explosion . The eruptions last until August and destroy a total area of ​​150 km² worth 125 million pesos. Global effects are a reduction in sunlight and a temperature drop of 0.4 degrees worldwide. At least 875 people are killed.

2007: The Solomon Islands earthquake

• 2007 : A severe seaquake measuring 8.1 on the moment-magnitude scale triggers a tsunami that devastates the Solomon Islands . The tidal wave, up to five meters high, killed at least 43 people, destroyed 13 villages and made 5000 people homeless.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

nature and environment

• 1979 : The Council of the EEC adopts the Birds Directive . Bird traps of all kinds are prohibited and the establishment of bird sanctuaries is made compulsory for the member states.

Sports

• 1744 : The Gentlemen Golfers of Leith organize the Scottish Leith the tournament for the silver spoon , the first officially tendered golf tournament . The winner will be named "Captain of the Golf" and will be given sovereignty over all golf-related questions, especially the rules, for one year.

1912: Logo of the VfB Stuttgart

• 1912 : By merger of the company founded in 1893 in Stuttgart FV 93 with the football club Crown Club Cannstatt produced in Stuttgart-Cannstatt the association for movement games Stuttgart 1893 e. V. .
• 1974 : The new Dortmund Westfalenstadion built for the 1974 World Cup is opened with a charity match between Borussia Dortmund and FC Schalke 04 . The guests win 0: 3.
• 1995 : After 232 days, the longest players' strike in Major League Baseball history is ended. The strike began on August 12, 1994 and resulted in the 1994 season being canceled, including the post season and, for the first time since 1904 , the World Series . Up to 948 games had to be canceled. Due to the strike, the two seasons 1994 and 1995 were not played in full.
• 2011 : India wins the tenth Cricket World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh by beating Sri Lanka in the final with 6 wickets .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 0748 : Charlemagne , King of the Franks and Emperor

Johann Corvinus 1486

• 1473 : Johann Corvinus , Count of Hunyadi, Ban of Croatia and Slavonia and Duke of Slavonia, Opava, Leobschütz, Glogau and Liptau
• 1502 : Susanna of Bavaria , Princess of Bavaria-Munich and by marriage successively Margravine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Palatine Countess of Neuburg
• 1511 : Ashikaga Yoshiharu , Japanese Shogun
• 1514 : Guidobaldo II della Rovere , Duke of Urbino

Elisabeth of Valois (* 1545)

• 1545 : Elisabeth of Valois , Princess of France and Queen of Spain
• 1550 : Wilhelm Zepper , Reformed theologian, court preacher and professor in Herborn
• 1565 : Cornelis de Houtman , Dutch navigator
• 1566 : Maria Magdalena von Pazzi , Carmelite, mystic and saint of the Catholic Church
• 1586 : Pietro della Valle , Italian traveler and travel writer
• 1587 : Virginia Centurione Bracelli , Italian saint
• 1602 : María von Ágreda , Spanish visionary and abbess of the Franciscan convent in Agreda
• 1614 : Jahanara Begum , daughter of the Grand Mughal of India, Shah Jahan
• 1618 : Francesco Maria Grimaldi , Italian theologian, physicist and mathematician
• 1619 : Anna Sophia von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld , abbess of the Quedlinburg monastery
• 1619 : Onofrio Gabrielli , Italian painter
• 1628 : Constantin Christian Dedekind , German composer and poet
• 1638 : John Covel , English clergyman
• 1647 : Maria Sibylla Merian , natural scientist and artist
• 1665 : Christoph I. zu Dohna-Schlodien , Brandenburg-Prussian general
• 1691 : Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , German politician
• 1696 : Francesca Cuzzoni , Italian opera singer
• 1697 : Sauveur François Morand , French surgeon

18th century

Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (* 1719)

• 1717 : Johann Augustin Dietelmair , German Protestant theologian
• 1719 : Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim , German writer
• 1719 : Franz Anton Hillebrandt , Austrian architect
• 1723 : Johann Georg Dirr , German plasterer and Rococo sculptor
• 1725 : Giacomo Casanova , Italian adventurer and writer
• 1728 : Franz Aspelmayr , Austrian composer
• 1731 : Catherine Macaulay , English historian, suffragette and Republican writer
• 1731 : Georg Franz Wiesner , German Catholic theologian and university professor in Würzburg
• 1733 : Giacomo Tritto , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1735 : Ernestine Christine Reiske , German author and private scholar
• 1745 : Richard Bassett , American politician
• 1749 : David Ramsay , American historian and politician
• 1761 : Johann Dominicus Aigner , Mayor of Lienz
• 1764 : Ernst Friedrich von Schlotheim , German geologist and paleontologist
• 1765 : Chrysologus Heimes , German Franciscan priest, organist, organ expert and composer
• 1766 : Franz Paul von Mittermayr , Mayor of Munich
• 1768 : Georg Friedrich Krause , Prussian State Councilor and forest scientist
• 1769 : Georg Walter Vincent von Wiese , Prussian statesman
• 1770 : Alexandre Sabès Pétion , President of Haiti
• 1772 : Sir John Abercrombie , British general
• 1786 : Edward Raczynski , Polish nobleman, founder of the Raczynski Library

Wilhelmine Reichard (* 1788)

• 1788 : Wilhelmine Reichard , first German balloonist
• 1790 : Jacques Lisfranc , French surgeon
• 1791 : David Henshaw , American politician
• 1797 : Franz Emil Lorenz Wimpffen , Austrian general
• 1798 : August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben , German poet

19th century

1801-1850

• 1803 : Franz Lachner , German composer and conductor
• 1804 : Jassuda Bédarride , French lawyer
• 1805 : Hans Christian Andersen , Danish poet and writer
• 1806 : Friedrich Halm , Austrian poet and playwright

Gabriel Riesser (* 1806)

• 1806 : Gabriel Riesser , German lawyer and politician
• 1806 : Giacomo Antonelli , Roman cardinal and secretary of state
• 1810 : Friedrich Wilhelm Schoen , German painter and lithographer
• 1814 : Henry Lewis Benning , American lawyer and Confederate general in the Civil War
• 1814 : Hermann von Dechend , first German Reichsbank president
• 1815 : Esprit Espinasse , French general
• 1816 : Franz Isidor Proschko , Austrian writer
• 1817 : Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin , German entrepreneur, founder of the Märklin toy company
• 1817 : Pierre Zaccone , French writer
• 1819 : Édouard Dubufe , French painter
• 1823 : Julius Ostendorf , German educator and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• 1826 : Georg II. Von Sachsen-Meiningen , German nobleman, reformer and promoter of the theater, theater director, director, stage designer and cultural politician
• 1827 : William Holman Hunt , British painter
• 1827 : Józef Nikorowicz , Polish composer
• 1830 : William Black Anderson , American politician
• 1833 : August Alexander Järnefelt , Finnish general, topographer and governor
• 1838 : Léon Gambetta , French statesman of the Third Republic
• 1838 : Josef Kalousek , Czech historian

Émile Zola (* 1840)

• 1840 : Émile Zola , French writer and journalist
• 1841 : Daniel Draper , American meteorologist
• 1842 : Dominikus Savio , Italian student with Don Bosco
• 1843 : Karl Koester , German pathologist and university professor
• 1850 : Paul von Andreae , German industrialist and landowner

1851-1900

• 1851 : Adolph Brodsky , Russian violinist
• 1858 : Alfons Szczerbiński , Polish composer and music teacher
• 1861 : Eugen Dietschi-Kunz , Swiss printer and castle explorer
• 1861 : Richard Reitzenstein , German classical philologist and historian of religion
• 1862 : Nicholas Murray Butler , American philosopher and publicist
• 1865 : Francis Alexander Anglin , Canadian judge

Eugen Sandow (* 1867)

• 1867 : Eugen Sandow , founder of bodybuilding
• 1868 : Karl Dunkmann , Protestant theologian and sociologist
• 1869 : Hughie Jennings , American baseball player
• 1870 : Josef Moser , Austrian politician and Federal Councilor
• 1872 : Hans Lietzmann , German painter and draftsman
• 1872 : Ludwig Habich , German sculptor
• 1872 : Alois Scheiwiler , Bishop of St. Gallen
• 1874 : Frank Elmore Ross , American astronomer and physicist
• 1874 : Josef Schmitt , German lawyer and politician
• 1875 : Hermann Delago , Austrian alpinist
• 1875 : Theodor Francksen , German art collector
• 1875 : Walter Percy Chrysler , American automobile pioneer
• 1877 : Otto Bruchwitz , German educator and local researcher
• 1878 : Antun Dobronić , Croatian composer
• 1879 : Alexander Moissi , Austrian actor

George of Bavaria (* 1880)

• 1880 : Georg of Bavaria , Prince of Bavaria
• 1881 : Diran Alexanian , Armenian cellist, composer and music teacher
• 1882 : Herbert von Dirksen , German diplomat
• 1884 : Dolf Kessler , Dutch football player
• 1886 : Egon Caesar Conte Corti , Austrian writer
• 1886 : Bruno Karl August Jung , German politician
• 1887 : Louise Schroeder , German politician
• 1888 : Louis Colas , French racing car driver
• 1888 : Marietta Sergejewna Schaginjan , Soviet writer
• 1889 : Julius Andree , German professor
• 1889 : Gregor Rabinowitsch , Russian film producer
• 1890 : Agnes Straub , German actress

Max Ernst (* 1891)

• 1891 : Max Ernst , German painter of Dadaism and Surrealism
• 1892 : Maurice-Yves Sandoz , Swiss writer
• 1894 : Richard Drauz , German NSDAP district leader, war criminal
• 1894 : Walter Mittelholzer , Swiss aviation pioneer
• 1895 : Georg Baur , German CDU politician
• 1896 : Franciszek Raszeja , Polish physician and university professor
• 1897 : Soghomon Tehlirian , Armenian assassin
• 1899 : Heinrich Rau , German politician, MdL, party functionary, chairman of the State Planning Commission and Minister of the GDR
• 1899 : Robert Hill , British biochemist
• 1899 : Vinzenz Platajs , Jehovah's Witness and victim of National Socialism
• 1900 : Roberto Arlt , Argentine storyteller, playwright and journalist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Ernst Hölder , German mathematician
• 1901 : Karl Höll , German food chemist
• 1902 : Eva Guttsman Ostwalt , German contemporary witness and survivor of the Holocaust
• 1902 : Bade Ghulam Ali Khan , Indian singer
• 1902 : Jan Tschichold , German type designer, calligrapher, typographer, author and teacher
• 1903 : Gabriel Cusson , Canadian composer and music teacher

Kurt Adler (* 1905)

• 1905 : Kurt Adler , Austrian-American conductor
• 1905 : Andrea Schorta , Swiss Romance philologist
• 1905 : Herman Walder , American musician
• 1907 : Alfred Ackermann , Swiss politician and entrepreneur
• 1907 : Harald Andersson , Swedish athlete
• 1907 : Lucius Benjamin Appling , American baseball player and manager
• 1909 : Edo Osterloh , Protestant theologian and politician
• 1909 : Osmar White , Australian journalist, correspondent and writer
• 1909 : Jean Kurt Forest , German composer and musician
• 1910 : Carlo Carretto , Italian writer
• 1910 : Theodor Siers , German chess problem composer and author
• 1910 : Walter Prager , Swiss ski racer
• 1911 : Darrell A. Amyx , American classical archaeologist
• 1911 : John Montague , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 1911 : Wanda Wróblewska , Polish theater director
• 1914 : Alfons Deissler , German Catholic theologian

Alec Guinness (* 1914)

• 1914 : Alec Guinness , British actor
• 1914 : David Ouchterlony , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer
• 1915 : Gerhard Hilbrecht , German athlete
• 1916 : Oleg Lundstrem , Russian jazz musician
• 1917 : Iris von Roten , Swiss lawyer, journalist and women's rights activist
• 1917 : Maria Holst , Austrian theater and film actress
• 1919 : Delfo Cabrera , Argentine marathon runner
• 1921 : Natalie de Blois , American architect
• 1921 : Jiří Adamíra , Czech actor
• 1921 : Theodor Herrmann , German football player
• 1922 : Dino Monduzzi , cardinal
• 1922 : Franz Ortner , Austrian journalist
• 1923 : Adãozinho , Brazilian soccer player
• 1923 : George Spencer-Brown , British philosopher and mathematician
• 1924 : Hans Faillard , Professor of Biochemistry and Physiological Chemistry
• 1925 : Hans Rosenthal , German quiz master
• 1925 : Walerian Wróbel , Polish forced laborer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Jack Brabham , Australian racing car driver
• 1926 : Max Greger , German band leader and musician
• 1926 : Edgar Hilsenrath , German writer
• 1926 : Dieter Schaad , German actor.
• 1926 : William Windham , British rower
• 1927 : Rolf Andiel , German painter, graphic artist and draftsman
• 1927 : Rita Gam , American actress
• 1927 : Margret Hölle , German poet and narrator
• 1928 : Alain Vanzo , French opera singer
• 1928 : Gino Munaron , Italian racing driver
• 1928 : Dolly Rathebe , South African jazz and blues singer, actress
• 1928 : Joseph Bernardin , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal
• 1928 : Serge Gainsbourg , French chanson poet, composer and singer
• 1929 : Frans Andriessen , Dutch politician
• 1929 : Heinrich Beck , German philologist
• 1929 : Hans Koschnick , German politician
• 1930 : Trudi Roth , Swiss actress and cabaret artist
• 1931 : Howard Engel , Canadian writer
• 1931 : Jacques Miller , Australian scientist of French origin
• 1932 : Edward Michael Egan , Archbishop Emeritus of New York and Cardinal
• 1932 : Joanna Chmielewska , Polish writer
• 1932 : Siegfried Rauch , German actor

György Konrád (* 1933)

• 1933 : György Konrád , Hungarian writer
• 1934 : Hans-Jürgen Warnecke , German scientist
• 1934 : Paul Cohen , American mathematician
• 1934 : David Zafer , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
• 1935 : Dieter Schneider , German economist
• 1935 : Ivo Trumbić , Yugoslav water polo player
• 1937 : Waltraud Fischer , German handball player
• 1937 : Alexandra Kluge , German doctor and actress
• 1938 : Martine Franck , photographer
• 1938 : Ralf Petersen , German composer
• 1938 : Hans-Michael Rehberg , German actor and director
• 1938 : Lothar Schünemann , German enduro athlete
• 1938 : Warner Mack , American country musician
• 1939 : Reinhard Bentmann , German art historian and preservationist
• 1939 : Klaus Ender , German photographer and book author

Marvin Gaye (* 1939)

• 1939 : Marvin Gaye , American singer
• 1939 : Jack Wilson , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 : Michael Garleff , German historian
• 1940 : Donald Jackson , Canadian figure skater
• 1940 : Karl-Heinz Thielen , German football player
• 1940 : Mike Hailwood , British motorcycle racer
• 1941 : Hildegunde Piza-Katzer , Austrian surgeon
• 1942 : Neithard Bethke , German church musician
• 1942 : Jean-Noël Jeanneney , French historian and politician
• 1942 : Leon Russell , American musician
• 1942 : Suzanne Baumann , Swiss artist
• 1943 : Heinz Abels , German sociologist
• 1943 : Troels Kløvedal , Danish writer
• 1943 : Jörg König , German politician
• 1943 : Karl-Siegbert Rehberg , German sociologist
• 1943 : Antonio Sabàto , Italian actor
• 1945 : Hans-Wolfgang Arndt , German professor for tax law

Jürgen Drews (* 1945)

• 1945 : Jürgen Drews , German singer
• 1945 : Guy Fréquelin , French motor sportsman
• 1945 : Linda Hunt , American actress
• 1946 : Brigitte Struzyk , German writer
• 1946 : Lajos Koltai , Hungarian cameraman
• 1946 : Sue Townsend , English author
• 1947 : Camille Paglia , art and culture historian
• 1947 : Emmylou Harris , American country singer
• 1948 : Michael Gerhardt , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1948 : Hendrik Snoek , German show jumper
• 1949 : Pamela Reed , American actress
• 1949 : Per Husby , Norwegian jazz pianist and composer
• 1949 : Steve Saleen , American racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 1950 : Klaus Arp , German composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1950 : Alan Balsam , American film editor

1951-1975

• 1951 : Erwin Hadewicz , German soccer player

Alex Conti (born 1952)

• 1952 : Alex Conti , German guitarist
• 1952 : Richard Spénard , Canadian racing car driver
• 1953 : Will Hoy , British racing car driver
• 1953 : Eivind riding , Norwegian politician
• 1953 : Krzysztof Krauze , Polish film director
• 1954 : Gregory Abbott , American musician, singer, composer, and record producer
• 1954 : Vladimir Ilyich Afromejew , Russian businessman, chess player and organizer
• 1955 : Peter Jung , German politician
• 1955 : Etibar Məmmədov , Azerbaijani politician
• 1956 : Johannes Bündgens , German clergyman, auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Aachen
• 1956 : Heidi Lippmann , German politician
• 1957 : Barbara Jordan , American tennis player
• 1958 : Roland Violence , German politician
• 1958 : Franz Nietlispach , Swiss athlete and politician
• 1958 : Olaf Prenzler , German athlete
• 1958 : Dierk Schmäschke , German handball player and manager
• 1959 : Gelindo Bordin , Italian marathon runner
• 1959 : Juha Kankkunen , Finnish rally driver
• 1959 : Rolf Schwanitz , German politician

Linford Christie (* 1960)

• 1960 : Linford Christie , British athlete
• 1960 : Matthias Jacob , German biathlete
• 1961 : Christopher Meloni , American actor
• 1961 : Karina Thayenthal , German actress
• 1962 : Billy Dean , American country musician
• 1963 : Barbara Stöckl , Austrian journalist and television presenter
• 1963 : Martin Schermaier , Austrian lawyer and legal historian
• 1963 : Mike Gascoyne , British Formula 1 designer
• 1963 : Thomas Blachman , Danish jazz drummer
• 1963 : Paul Wehage , American composer and saxophonist
• 1964 : Elke Achleitner , Austrian geodetician and politician
• 1964 : Goran Karan , Croatian singer
• 1965 : Dawit Gamqrelidze , Georgian opposition leader
• 1965 : Rodney King , African American citizen
• 1965 : Ernst Kirchweger , first political casualty in Austria after 1945
• 1966 : Mara Kayser , German folk singer
• 1966 : Teddy Sheringham , English football player
• 1967 : Ajay Devgan , Indian film actor
• 1967 : Frank Geideck , German soccer player and teacher
• 1967 : Renée Estevez , American actress

Garrelt Duin (* 1968)

• 1968 : Garrelt Duin , German politician
• 1968 : Sascha Korf , German presenter, comedian, improvisation artist and actor
• 1969 : Hendrik Herzog , German football player
• 1969 : Mariella Ahrens , German actress
• 1970 : Christoph Erdmenger , German politician and environmental scientist
• 1970 : Dag Bjørndalen , Norwegian biathlete
• 1970 : Jamison Newlander , American actor
• 1971 : Francisco Arce , Paraguayan soccer player and coach
• 1971 : Gwenaëlle Aubry , French philosopher and writer
• 1971 : Annabelle Mandeng , German actress, presenter and model
• 1971 : Edmundo , Brazilian soccer player
• 1971 : Elton , German television presenter
• 1971 : Todd Woodbridge , Australian tennis player
• 1972 : Thomas Glavinic , Austrian writer
• 1972 : Samir Kamouna , Egyptian soccer player
• 1972 : Peter Rosenberger , German politician
• 1973 : Roselyn Sánchez , Puerto Rican actress
• 1973 : Jan Vahrenhold , German computer scientist
• 1973 : Tine Wittler , German writer and television presenter
• 1974 : Jesko Friedrich , German author and actor
• 1974 : Harold Hunter , American skater
• 1975 : Adam Rodriguez , American actor

1976-2000

Lucy Diakovska (* 1976)

• 1976 : Lucy Diakovska , Bulgarian pop and musical singer
• 1976 : Samu Haber , Finnish singer and guitarist ( Sunrise Avenue )
• 1976 : Thorsten Schorn , German radio and television presenter
• 1977 : Michael Fassbender , German-Irish actor
• 1977 : Annett Louisan , German singer
• 1977 : Nicki Pedersen , Danish track athlete
• 1978 : Nicholas Berg , American businessman, victim of kidnapping
• 1978 : Julia Dahmen , German actress
• 1978 : Milan Vučićević , Serbian handball player
• 1979 : Tatjana Alexejewna Arjassowa , Russian long-distance runner
• 1979 : Alexander Koke , German handball player and coach
• 1979 : Kleerup , Swedish pop musician and music producer
• 1979 : Thomas Mutsch , German racing driver
• 1980 : Michael Mörz , Austrian soccer player
• 1980 : Carlos Salcido , Mexican soccer player
• 1981 : René Klingbeil , German soccer player
• 1982 : Marco Amelia , Italian soccer player
• 1982 : Jeremy Bloom , American freestyle skier and American football player

David Ferrer (* 1982)

• 1982 : David Ferrer , Spanish tennis player
• 1982 : Milena Karas , German actress and voice actress
• 1983 : Arthur Boka , Ivorian football player
• 1983 : Félix Borja , Ecuadorian football player
• 1983 : Paul Capdeville , Chilean tennis player
• 1984 : Engin Atsür , Turkish basketball player
• 1984 : Meryl Cassie , New Zealand actress and singer
• 1985 : Matthew Antoine , American skeleton rider
• 1985 : James Haskell , English rugby player
• 1985 : Stéphane Lambiel , Swiss figure skater
• 1985 : Nicat Məmmədov , Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
• 1985 : Tobias Schwab , German ice hockey player
• 1986 : Drew Van Acker , American actor
• 1986 : Ibrahim Afellay , Dutch football player
• 1986 : Julian Reister , German tennis player
• 1987 : Nikki Adler , German professional boxer
• 1987 : Matthias Bachinger , German tennis player
• 1987 : Matthias Schlitte , German arm wrestler

Sonja Gerhardt (* 1989)

• 1989 : Sonja Gerhardt , German actress
• 1990 : Georgina Fleur , German reality TV participant
• 1990 : Nikolai Link , German handball player
• 1990 : Miralem Pjanić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1991 : Quavo , American rapper
• 1991 : Saša Živec , Slovenian football player
• 1992 : Giancarlo Vilarinho , Brazilian racing driver
• 1993 : Nils Butzen , German soccer player
• 1993 : Claire Savin , Franco-German soccer player
• 1993 : Simon Scherder , German soccer player
• 1993 : Bruno Zuculini , Argentinian football player
• 1994 : Janik Haberer , German soccer player
• 1994 : Robin Krauße , German soccer player
• 1994 : Anna-Lena Vollmer , German soccer player
• 1995 : Muhammed Akarslan , Turkish soccer player
• 1995 : Cristián Cuevas , Chilean football player
• 1995 : Filip Faletar , Croatian-Austrian football player
• 1995 : Oğuzhan Kayar , Turkish football player
• 1996 : Stefan Babinsky , Austrian ski racer
• 1996 : Jonas Müller , German handball player
• 1999 : Metehan Güçlü , Turkish-French soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0629 : Eustasius , abbot and Bavaria missionary
• 0930 : Adémar , Count of Poitou and Count of Angoulême
• 1075 : al-Qa'im , Abbasid caliph
• 1111 : Euphemia of Hungary , Duchess of Moravia
• 1118 : Baldwin I , Count of Edessa and King of Jerusalem
• 1153 : Ibn as-Sallar , vizier of the Fatimids
• 1160 : Beatrix II of Winzenburg , Abbess of Heerse and Quedlinburg
• 1244 : Henrik Harpestræng , Danish author of botanical and medical writings
• 1272 : Richard of Cornwall , King of the HRR
• 1284 : Werner von Eppstein , Archbishop of Mainz, Imperial Arch Chancellor
• 1305 : Joan I , Queen of France and Navarre, Countess of Champagne
• 1315 : Simon Ghent , Bishop of Salisbury
• 1335 : Heinrich of Carinthia , Duke of Carinthia, Count of Tyrol, King of Bohemia and Poland
• 1373 : Johann Lüneburg , Lübeck councilor
• 1412 : Ruy González de Clavijo , Spanish diplomat and author
• 1416 : Ferdinand I , King of Aragon
• 1427 : Friedrich Krüger , Provost and elected Bishop of Havelberg
• 1479 : Berardo Eroli , Bishop of Spoleto and Cardinal Bishop of Sabina

16th to 18th century

• 1502 : Arthur Tudor , English nobleman and Prince of Wales
• 1507 : Franz von Paola , Italian founder of the Paulaner Order
• 1511 : Bernhard VII Bellicosus , sovereign of the rule Lippe
• 1517 : Pere Miquel Carbonell , Catalan historian, notary, poet and humanist
• 1521 : Erasmus Stella , German doctor, historian and mayor of Zwickau
• 1554 : Gottfried Werner von Zimmer , German nobleman
• 1558 : Wolfgang , Count Palatine of Neumarkt and governor of the Upper Palatinate
• 1567 : Ernst IV , Duke of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen
• 1572 : Elisabeth von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Duchess of Geldern
• 1573 : Otto von Waldburg , Bishop of Augsburg and Cardinal
• 1585 : Andreas Poach , German Lutheran theologian and reformer
• 1590 : Elisabeth of Saxony , Countess Palatine von Simmern
• 1594 : Hermann von Dorne , Lübeck mayor
• 1595 : Pasquale Cicogna , 88th Doge of Venice
• 1606 : Jakob Lindner , German educator
• 1621 : Cristofano Allori , Italian painter
• 1623 : George Keith, 4th Earl Marischal , Marshal of Scotland
• 1623 : Michael Wolf , German mathematician, physicist, logician and metaphysicist
• 1631 : Nicolò Contarini , 97th Doge of Venice
• 1640 : Paul Fleming , German doctor and writer
• 1641 : Georg von Braunschweig and Lüneburg-Calenberg , duke of the principalities of Calenberg and Göttingen
• 1657 : Ferdinand III. , German emperor
• 1665 : Jan Sobiepan Zamoyski , Polish general and voivode of Kiev
• 1705 : Johann Löhner , German composer, organist and singer
• 1707 : Gérard Edelinck , French engraver of Flemish origin
• 1709 : Giovanni Battista Gaulli , called Baciccio, Italian painter
• 1719 : Nikolaus Wilhelm Goddaeus , Landgrave Hessian lawyer, administrative officer and Chancellor of the Landgrave's government
• 1720 : Joseph Dudley , colonial governor of Massachusetts
• 1725 : Henri Simonis , Walloon cloth manufacturer
• 1732 : Joachim Meier , German writer
• 1737 : Antonio Montanari , Italian composer and violinist
• 1738 : Jodokus Bernhard von Aufseß , German canon
• 1741 : Christoph Hackner , Silesian architect
• 1747 : Johann Jacob Dillen , German botanist
• 1763 : Johann Georg Bschorer , German sculptor
• 1773 : Joseph Ignaz Schilling , German painter
• 1777 : Maxim Sosontowitsch Berezovsky , Russian composer
• 1787 : Thomas Gage , British General and Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces

Gabriel de Riqueti Count of Mirabeau († 1791)

• 1791 : Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , French politician, physiocrat, writer, publicist and revolutionary
• 1796 : Ulrika Pasch , Swedish painter

19th century

• 1806 : Werner Marx , Vicar General in Cologne
• 1806 : Karl Heinrich Seibt , German pedagogue and theologian
• 1807 : Christian Hartmann Samuel von Gatzert , German lawyer and politician
• 1811 : Tomás de Figueroa , Spanish officer
• 1817 : Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling , German ophthalmologist and writer
• 1826 : Joseph Leopold Strickner , Austrian painter and engraver
• 1835 : Anton Viktor of Austria , Archduke of Austria

Gustav von Rauch († 1841)

• 1841 : Gustav von Rauch , Prussian general and minister of war
• 1851 : Rama III. , Siamese king
• 1855 : George Bellas Greenough , British geologist
• 1865 : Ambrose Powell Hill , American general
• 1865 : Richard Cobden , British entrepreneur
• 1866 : Simon Leborne , French composer and music teacher
• 1870 : Patrick Gass , American soldier and explorer
• 1872 : Samuel FB Morse , American painter and inventor
• 1891 : Ahmed Vefik Pasha , Turkish statesman
• 1891 : Albert Pike , American attorney and general, author, and Freemason
• 1900 : Gustaf Åkerhielm , Swedish politician

20th century

1901-1950

• 1910 : Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder , German pastor and theologian, employee of the Inner Mission

Paul Heyse († 1914)

• 1914 : Paul Heyse , German writer and Nobel Prize winner
• 1917 : Jindřich Kafka , Czech composer
• 1918 : Carl Grunert , German writer
• 1922 : Hermann Rorschach , Swiss psychiatrist
• 1925 : Eduard von Grützner , German painter
• 1928 : Theodore William Richards , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1930 : Zauditu , Empress of Ethiopia
• 1931 : Fritz Greve , German painter and art professor
• 1932 : August Ansorge , Austrian-Bohemian politician
• 1932 : Alfred Appelius , German lawyer and politician
• 1933 : Gaétan de Knyff , Belgian racing driver
• 1936 : William Louis Abbott , American physician, naturalist, and ornithologist
• 1937 : Nathan Birnbaum , Jewish philosopher and Zionist
• 1945 : Vilmos Apor , Hungarian priest, bishop of the Győr diocese and blessed of the Catholic Church
• 1945 : Chris Lebeau , Dutch artist and anarchist
• 1946 : Friedrich Muckermann , German Catholic publicist and Jesuit, opponent of National Socialism
• 1948 : Sabahattin Ali , Turkish writer and teacher
• 1950 : Friedrich Schönauer , German politician

1951-2000

• 1951 : Simon Barere , Russian pianist

Hugo Sperrle († 1953)

• 1953 : Hugo Sperrle , German field marshal in the Third Reich
• 1953 : Siegfried Bernfeld , reform pedagogue, Marxist, psychoanalyst, Zionist
• 1954 : William Heffelfinger , American football player
• 1956 : Filippo De Pisis , Italian painter
• 1956 : Takamura Kōtarō , Japanese poet, essayist and sculptor
• 1957 : Joseph Massolle , German engineer
• 1958 : Arnold von Salis , Swiss archaeologist
• 1959 : Mykolaj Tscharnezkyj , Ukrainian bishop and martyr
• 1961 : Wallingford Riegger , American composer
• 1962 : Otto Haesler , German architect
• 1962 : Arnold Freiherr von Vietinghoff-Riesch , German forest scientist and ornithologist
• 1963 : Charles Gray, 5th Earl Gray , son of 4th Earl Gray
• 1964 : Franz Auweck , German politician
• 1966 : Cecil Scott Forester , British writer and journalist
• 1972 : Gwen Giabbani , French motorcycle racer
• 1972 : Franz Halder , General of the German Wehrmacht in World War II

Georges Pompidou († 1974)

• 1974 : Georges Pompidou , French President
• 1975 : Arnold Brügger , Swiss painter
• 1975 : Fritz Domina , German pianist, arranger and film composer
• 1976 : Carlo Grano , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat
• 1977 : Eduard Arnold , Swiss politician and federal judge
• 1977 : Cyril Radcliffe , British lawyer and author, best known for the Radcliffe Line as the border between India and Pakistan
• 1980 : George Wallach , British cross and long distance runner
• 1983 : Cliff Carlisle , American country singer
• 1984 : Ernst van Aaken , German sports medicine specialist and trainer

Buddy Rich († 1987)

• 1987 : Buddy Rich , American jazz drummer
• 1990 : Aldo Fabrizi , Italian film actor and director
• 1991 : Noel George Butlin , Australian economist and historian
• 1992 : Jan van Aartsen , Dutch politician
• 1994 : Hans Graß , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1995 : Hannes Alfvén , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1995 : Julius Hemphill , American jazz musician
• 1996 : Karl Gößwald , German zoologist
• 1996 : Pierre Lelong , French racing car driver
• 1997 : Adolf Bender , German painter
• 1997 : Zsolt Durkó , Hungarian composer
• 1999 : Karl Bohmann , Austrian motorcycle racer
• 1999 : Julio Alberto Hernández , Dominican composer and pianist
• 2000 : Fred Kwasi Apaloo , Ghanaian lawyer and politician
• 2000 : Rigobert Günther , German ancient historian

21st century

• 2003 : Terenci Moix , Spanish writer
• 2004 : Erich Ahlers , German horticultural director
• 2004 : John Hadji Argyris , Greek civil engineer
• 2004 : John Taras , choreographer and ballet master
• 2004 : Martin Teich , German television meteorologist
• 2005 : Alois Vogel , Austrian writer
• 2005 : Hermann Nattkämper , German soccer player
• 2005 : Marie Louise Fischer , German writer

John Paul II († 2005)

• 2005 : John Paul II , Polish Pope
• 2006 : Horst Gibner , German politician
• 2007 : Ernst Feick , President of the German Handball Federation
• 2008 : Roger Blachon , French cartoonist
• 2008 : Ray Poole , American football player
• 2009 : Niki List , Austrian filmmaker
• 2009 : Bud Shank , American jazz musician
• 2010 : Roman Bannwart , Swiss theologian, priest and musician
• 2011 : Marc Fischer , German journalist and book author
• 2012 : Anatoly Ivanov , Russian solo timpanist, composer and conductor
• 2012 : Jim Delaney , American athlete
• 2013 : Fred Othon Aristidès , French comic artist
• 2013 : Jess Franco , Spanish film director

Urs Widmer († 2014)

• 2014 : Urs Widmer , Swiss writer
• 2015 : Stefan Born , German soccer player
• 2015 : Manoel de Oliveira , Portuguese film director and screenwriter
• 2015 : Alberto Ricardo da Silva , East Timorese bishop
• 2016 : Gato Barbieri , Argentine jazz musician and film composer
• 2016 : László Sárosi , Hungarian football player and coach
• 2017 : Sam Ard , American racing car driver
• 2017 : Hannes Tkotz , German soccer player
• 2018 : Martin Löwenberg , German Nazi resistance fighter
• 2018 : Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , South African politician
• 2020 : Oskar Fischer , German politician
• 2020 : Astrid N. Heiberg , Norwegian psychiatrist

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder , German pastor (Protestant)
  • St. Eustasius , Frankish abbot, missionary and patron saint (Catholic)

• Name days
  • Franz , Mirjam , Sandra , Theodosia

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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