2. December

The December 2 is the 336th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 337th in leap years ), thus remain 29 days to the year.

Historic anniversaries November · December · January

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Events

Politics and world events

• 990 : The Moorish general Almansor conquers the fortifications of Montemor for the Caliphate of Cordoba .
• 1427 : To finance campaigns against the Hussites, the Reichstag in Frankfurt under the Roman-German King Sigismund approves an imperial war tax, later called the Hussite pfennig.
• 1428 : During the Appenzell Wars , there is a battle at the Letzi , from which Friedrich VII of Toggenburg emerges victorious. The defeated Appenzeller subsequently gave up their expansion efforts and submitted to an arbitration ruling by the Eight Old Places .
• 1462 : Johann Giskra takes the Wallachian prince Vlad III. Drăculea caught by a deception and handed him over to the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus .

1804: Napoléon's coronation in Notre Dame

• 1804 : Napoléon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French in the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris .

1805: Napoléon at the Battle of Austerlitz

• 1805 : Napoleon's victory over Austria and Russia in the Battle of Austerlitz (" Battle of the Three Emperors") decides the Third Coalition War .
• 1811 : The strong man in the Chilean triumvirate , José Miguel Carrera dissolves the Congress. The triumvirate then breaks up when José Gaspar Marín and Bernardo O'Higgins resign . Carrera becomes a dictator.
• 1813 : The Netherlands proclaim their independence from French rule and William I as their sovereign.
• 1823 : US President James Monroe formulates the Monroe Doctrine in his report to the United States Congress . In it he asserts the existence of two political spheres, emphasizes the non-interference of the USA in European conflicts and calls for an end to all colonization efforts in America.
• 1845 : US President James Knox Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine is to be consistently enforced and that the US will aggressively expand its sphere in the West in order to meet its divine mandate for expansion .
• 1848 : Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire : The Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I abdicates overwhelmed by the events of the March Revolution and the October Uprising . His 18-year-old nephew succeeds him as Franz Joseph I on the imperial throne .
• 1851 : A coup d'état by French President Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte heralds the end of the Second Republic .

1852: Napoléon III.

• 1852 : On the anniversary of the imperial coronation of his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte and his own coup, the French President Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte crowns himself as Napoléon III. to the Emperor of the French .
• 1854 : In the Crimean War include the UK , France and Austria Vienna in December alliance against Russia .
• 1870 : In the battle of Loigny and Poupry in the Franco-Prussian War , a Prussian-Bavarian army group is successful against French units. The battle costs the lives of around 12,000 soldiers.
• 1899 : The US joins the Samoa Treaty . The islands are divided between the German Empire and the USA on the 171th degree of longitude west .
• 1914 : Karl Liebknecht ( SPD ) is the only member of the German Reichstag to vote against the first extension of war credits .
• 1914 : Belgrade is temporarily captured by Austro-Hungarian troops. Nevertheless, this third Austro-Hungarian offensive against Serbia ultimately failed in the First World War .
• 1927 : On the XV. At the CPSU Congress , Leon Trotsky is expelled from the party. With this, Josef Stalin recorded another success in the power struggle for the succession of the late Lenin in the Soviet Union .
• 1946 : The International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) is founded with the signing of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling by 42 nations in Washington DC .
• 1949 : The convention to stop human trafficking and the exploitation of prostitution of others is passed.

1956: Route of the Granma

• 1956 : Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara land with 80 revolutionaries of Movimiento 26 de Julio with the motor yacht Granma in eastern Cuba . This is the beginning of the guerrilla war of the Cuban Revolution against dictator Fulgencio Batista .
• 1961 : Revolutionary leader Fidel Castro declares himself a Marxist-Leninist in a radio address and proclaims the introduction of communism in Cuba .
• 1966 : The UN General Assembly unanimously elects the Burmanese Sithu U Thant as UN Secretary General for another five years .
• 1970 : The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is founded.

1971: The United Arab Emirates

• 1971 : The six emirates of Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm al-Qaiwain and Fujairah , which were previously a British protectorate under the name Trucial States , obtain their independence and merge to form the United Arab Emirates . Ra's al-Khaimah joins the Federation in February 1972.
• 1972 : For the first time since 1945, the Australian Labor Party wins another election. Gough Whitlam replaces the Liberal Conservative William McMahon as Australian Prime Minister.
• 1975 : After the Communist Pathet Lao came to power , the Lao People's Democratic Republic was proclaimed and the monarchy abolished. Prince Souphanouvong becomes the first president .
• 1980 : The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act enters into force.
• 1981 : The former leader of the Polish Communist Party, Edward Gierek , is expelled from the party by decision of the Central Committee.
• 1983 : The immunity of the German Federal Minister of Economics Otto Graf Lambsdorff is lifted at the request of the Bonn public prosecutor. She is investigating the Flick affair .

1988: Benazir Bhutto

• 1988 : Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of the Islamic world in Pakistan .
• 1990 : In unified Germany , the first all- Berlin election since 1946 takes place parallel to the first all-German election since the end of World War II . Both elections are won by the CDU under the impression of German reunification .
• 1994 : In Frankfurt am Main , a drug consumption room for heroin addicts based on the Narcotics Act is set up for the first time in Germany .
• 1999 : Northern Ireland regains its autonomy for the first time since 1972 .
• 2008 : A ruling by the Constitutional Court forces Thailand's Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to resign for election fraud.

economy

• 1901 : King Camp Gillette files a patent in Boston for its wet razor with a replaceable blade.
• 1905 : Sam Eyde and Kristian Birkeland found Norsk Hydro in Norway, based in Notodden, for the production of nitrogen fertilizers .
• 1925 : BASF merges with five other companies to form IG Farbenindustrie AG , the world's largest chemical company at the time.
• 1945 : In France, the law to nationalize the Banque de France and four other major banks is passed, which comes into force on January 1, 1946.
• 1958 : The regional public service banks in Germany merge to form the union- related bank for public services based in Frankfurt am Main.
• 1974 : A significant block of shares in Daimler-Benz AG in Stuttgart is bought by the Emirate of Kuwait.
• 2001 : The US company Enron files for bankruptcy in the course of an accounting fraud scandal, which results in a worldwide loss of investor confidence (" Enronitis ") and in the USA a reform of corporate reporting through the Sarbanes-Oxley Act .
• 2004 : Four executives of the semiconductor manufacturer Infineon are sentenced to fines and imprisonment in the USA for illegal price fixing .
• 2005 : The XBox 360 game console developed by Microsoft , the successor to the Xbox , is released in Europe.

science and technology

• 1409 : In the presence of the Margraves Friedrich and Wilhelm , the University of Leipzig , created by the emigration of German students from the Charles University in Prague , is ceremoniously opened after the semester had already started on October 24th.
• 1877 : The French physicist Louis Paul Cailletet succeed in his laboratory , the liquefaction of oxygen .
• 1911 : The Australasian Antarctic Expedition leaves for Macquarie Island on the seal-hunting ship Aurora .

1942: Enrico Fermi

• 1942 : At the University of Chicago , the physicist Enrico Fermi triggers the first controlled chain reaction as part of the Manhattan Project . This is how the age of nuclear energy begins .

1946: The USS Sennet during Operation Highjump

• 1946 : Operation Highjump starts from the US Air Force Base in Norfolk under the direction of Richard Evelyn Byrd . It is one of the largest Antarctic research expeditions of all time.
• 1970 : Michel Foucault gives his inaugural lecture The Order of Discourse at the Collège de France .
• 1982 : Barney Clark's first successful artificial heart is implanted at the University Hospital of Utah .
• 1993 : The Space Shuttle Endeavor takes off to have the crew perform the first maintenance on the Hubble space telescope as part of the STS-61 mission . Blurry images from the telescope should be prevented in the future.
• 1995 : The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is the space center Kennedy Space Center from a Atlas rocket sent to his mission.
• 2003 : A chemical element detected for the first time by the Darmstadt GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research (then the Society for Heavy Ion Research) is named Darmstadtium in her honor .

Culture

• 1714 : On the first Sunday of Advent , Johann Sebastian Bach performed his cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland in the castle church in Weimar for the first time.
• 1830 : At the Opéra-Comique in Paris takes place the first performance of the opera Josephine ou Le Retour de Wagram by Adolphe Adam .
• 1837 : The comic opera Le domino noir ( The Black Domino ) by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
• 1840 : The opera Die Favoritin by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Grand Opéra Paris .
• 1843 : The first performance of the operetta Jag går i kloster ( I go to the monastery ) by Franz Berwald takes place at the Royal Theater in Stockholm .
• 1877 : The premiere of the opera Samson et Dalila ( Samson and Dalila ) by Camille Saint-Saëns takes place in Weimar .
• 1896 : Gerhart Hauptmann's fairytale drama The Sunken Glocke premieres in Berlin .
• 1916 : The world premiere of the operetta Die Rose von Stambul by Leo Fall takes place in Vienna .
• 1931 : The film Emil and the Detectives by Gerhard Lamprecht and Billy Wilder based on the novel by Erich Kästner is premiered in Berlin.

society

• 1859 : John Brown , one of the leaders of the anti-slavery guerrillas in the United States , convicted of murder, instigating a slave rebellion, and treason, dies on the gallows in Charles Town, Virginia . The march of John Brown's Body , composed after his execution, became a popular battle song of the Union troops during the Civil War .
• 1874 : In Schwerin the so-called Victory Column is consecrated in memory of the 650 Mecklenburg citizens who died in the Franco-German War in 1870/71 .
• 1973 : On this day, a Sunday driving ban also applies to car traffic in Germany.
• 1993 : A special squad of the Colombian police shoots the head of the Medellín drug cartel , Pablo Escobar .
• 2005 : The 1,000th US execution since 1976 of Kenneth Lee Boyd in Raleigh , North Carolina Prison .

religion

• 1997 : The Principality of Liechtenstein receives its own archbishopric , which is separated from the Swiss diocese of Chur . The Catholics in the country cause heated discussions about the papal decision.

Disasters

• 1879 : The British passenger ship Borussia sinks in the North Atlantic after a storm caused a leak in the hull. 169 people die.
• 1959 : The Malpasset dam collapses in southern France . 423 people died as a result of the tidal wave.
• 2004 : Typhoon Nanmadol races across the Philippines and kills around 1000.

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

Sports

• 1923 : The Uruguayan national soccer team wins the Copa América for the fourth time with a 2-0 win in their last game against the Argentines .
• 1961 : The third World Judo Championships take place in Paris . The Dutch judoka Anton Geesink breaks the Japanese supremacy in judo and becomes the first non-Japanese world champion.
• 1997 : Borussia Dortmund wins the World Cup against Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte .
• 2010 : The 21st and 22nd Men's Football World Cup will be awarded at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich . After completion, it was clear that the World Cup would take place in Russia in 2018 and in Qatar in 2022 .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1066 : Irene Dukaina , the wife of Emperor Alexios I, Empress of Byzantium
• 1083 : Anna Komnena , Byzantine historian
• 1501 : Barnim IX. , Duke of Pomerania-Stettin
• 1501 : Munjeong , Queen of the Joseon Empire
• 1529 : Leonhart Zollikofer , Swiss merchant and policeman
• 1554 : William Paddy , royal physician in England
• 1563 : Mutio Vitelleschi , Roman clergyman, order general of the Societas Jesu
• 1578 : Agostino Agazzari , Italian composer and music theorist
• 1586 : Johann Heinrich von Lindenau , manor owner in the Electorate of Saxony
• 1588 : Leonhard Kern , German sculptor
• 1612 : David Ryckaert , Flemish painter
• 1628 : August Friedrich Mockel , Mayor of Heilbronn
• 1652 : Charlotte von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg
• 1657 : Johann Werner von Veyder , auxiliary bishop and vicar general in Cologne
• 1664 : Johann Gallus Hügel , German master stonemason and sculptor
• 1678 : Nicolaus Samuelis Cruquius , Dutch hydraulic engineer and cartographer
• 1696 : August Wilhelm Reinhart , German Protestant theologian

18th century

• 1702 : Samuel Engel , Swiss librarian, geographer and politician, philanthropist and economist
• 1726 : Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport , British admiral
• 1727 : Caroline von Keyserling , Königsberg aristocrat, artist and socialite
• 1728 : Ferdinando Galiani , Italian diplomat, economist and writer
• 1735 : Athanasius Hettenkofer , German abbot
• 1738 : Richard Montgomery , American general in the American Revolutionary War
• 1743 : Christian Gottlieb von Arndt , German historian and philologist
• 1748 : Johannes Petrus Minckeleers , Dutch scientist and inventor
• 1754 : Francisco Javier Venegas , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
• 1760 : John Breckinridge , American politician
• 1760 : Joseph Graetz , German organist and composer
• 1762 : Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski , Polish writer and translator
• 1762 : Traugott Karl August Vogt , German medic
• 1763 : Claude-Antoine Prieur , French politician, officer and scientist
• 1766 : Johann Gottfried Kneschke , German educator
• 1770 : Ferdinand Heinrich Lachmann , German educator
• 1772 : Johann Christoph von Aretin , German publicist, historian, librarian and lawyer
• 1774 : Laurids Engelstoft , Danish historian
• 1779 : Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov , Russian composer
• 1780 : Otto von Münchhausen , Prussian district administrator

19th century

1801-1850

• 1811 : Xavier Boisselot , French composer and piano maker
• 1813 : Jakob Rosenhain , German-Jewish pianist and composer
• 1817 : Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon , French adventurer
• 1817 : Adolph Schoder , Württemberg politician
• 1817 : Heinrich von Sybel , German historian
• 1818 : Diedrich Wilhelm Andreas Augspurg , German politician
• 1824 : Charles Abel , Franco-German lawyer, MdR

Peter II (* 1825)

• 1825 : Peter II , Emperor of Brazil
• 1828 : Henry Wilson , American composer
• 1836 : Moritz Bräuninger , German missionary, possibly martyr
• 1837 : Joseph Bell , British surgeon, pediatrician and military doctor from Scotland, is considered a forensic pioneer
• 1838 : Thomas Annandale , British surgeon
• 1840 : Franklin Leonard Pope , American inventor and company founder

1851-1900

• 1852 : Tōkai Sanshi , Japanese writer
• 1854 : Isaak Bacharach , German mathematician
• 1854 : Paul Reichard , German Africa explorer
• 1855 : Antonio Knauth , German-American lawyer
• 1859 : Georges Seurat , French painter
• 1861 : Philipp Jakob Manz , German industrial architect
• 1866 : Jean Francis Auburtin , French painter
• 1866 : Harry T. Burleigh , American composer
• 1869 : Johann Jacob Haßlacher , German industrialist, politician, MdR
• 1869 : Willy Pöge , German entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman
• 1870 : Sepp Aman , Austrian politician
• 1873 : Eduardo Schaerer , Paraguayan politician
• 1874 : Adolf Karl Paul Ammon , German industrialist
• 1874 : Johannes Hanssen , Norwegian composer, conductor and military musician
• 1877 : Carl Carey Anderson , American politician
• 1877 : William Montgomery Thomson , British officer, last lieutenant general in World War I.
• 1881 : Heinrich Barkhausen , German physicist
• 1884 : Johannes Popitz , German lawyer, politician, Prussian finance minister, Reich minister and resistance fighter
• 1884 : Paul Schmitthenner , German historian and National Socialist
• 1885 : Jean-Josaphat Gagnier , Canadian conductor and composer
• 1885 : George R. Minot , American medic
• 1885 : Susan Stebbing , British philosopher
• 1885 : Nana de Varennes , Canadian actress
• 1886 : Earl Cooper , American racing car driver
• 1889 : Arvo Ossian Aaltonen , Finnish swimmer
• 1891 : Otto Dix , German painter and graphic artist
• 1893 : Raoul Paquet , Canadian composer, music teacher and organist
• 1893 : Walter Risse , German football player
• 1893 : Robert Talbot , Canadian composer, music educator and violinist
• 1894 : Lucien Desvaux , French racing car driver
• 1895 : Georges Dandelot , French composer
• 1897 : Hovhannes Baghramjan , Soviet military
• 1898 : Peter Keler , German graphic artist, designer and architect
• 1899 : Peter Herman Adler , Bohemian conductor
• 1899 : John Barbirolli , British conductor
• 1900 : Herta Hammerbacher , German landscape architect
• 1900 : Carl Wurster , German chemist and military economist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Ida Friederike Görres , German writer
• 1901 : Raimundo Orsi , Argentine-Italian football player
• 1902 : Horace Hildreth , American politician
• 1902 : Wifredo Lam , Cuban-French painter and printmaker
• 1902 : Milagros Leal , Spanish actress
• 1905 : Francisco Amicarelli , Argentine pianist and music teacher
• 1905 : Moses Asch , American record producer
• 1905 : Osvaldo Pugliese , Argentine pianist and composer
• 1906 : Garland Grange , American football player
• 1909 : Helen Douglas Adam , Scottish-American poet and artist
• 1909 : Pietro Arcari , Italian football player
• 1909 : Arvo Askola , Finnish athlete

Marion Countess Dönhoff (* 1909)

• 1909 : Marion Countess Dönhoff , German publicist
• 1910 : Charles Edward Bennett , American politician
• 1912 : Franz Braumann , Austrian writer
• 1913 : Erwin Förschler , German football player
• 1913 : Eugen Frey , German football player
• 1913 : Léo Rivest , Canadian actor
• 1914 : Pops Staples , American gospel and R&B musician
• 1915 : Franco Andreoli , Swiss football player and coach
• 1915 : Blanche Moerschel , American composer
• 1915 : Nico Richter , Dutch composer
• 1920 : Maximos Salloum , Lebanese Archbishop
• 1921 : Otis Dudley Duncan , American sociologist
• 1923 : Rudolf Aitzetmüller , Austrian Slavist
• 1923 : Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad , Persian writer
• 1923 : Maria Callas , Greek-Italian singer
• 1924 : Alexander Haig , American general and minister
• 1924 : Tada Michitarō , Japanese literary scholar and critic
• 1925 : Julie Harris , American actress
• 1925 : Jacques Lacarrière , French writer

1926-1950

• 1927 : Benjamin Maxwell Acton , Australian ice hockey player
• 1928 : Fred Düren , German actor
• 1928 : Rita Paul , German actress, singer and cabaret artist
• 1928 : Gasisa Akhmetovna Schubanowa , Kazakh composer
• 1930 : Gary Becker , American economist
• 1930 : David Piper , British racing car driver
• 1931 : Edwin Meese , American politician
• 1933 : Mike Larrabee , American sprinter, Olympic champion
• 1934 : Tarcisio Bertone , Italian Archbishop
• 1935 : Ronnie Mathews , American jazz pianist
• 1935 : Pit Schubert , German non-fiction author and mountaineer
• 1936 : Peter Michael Braun , German composer
• 1937 : Chris Bristow , British Formula 1 racing driver
• 1940 : Gunter Schoß , German actor and presenter
• 1941 : Tom McGuinness , English guitarist
• 1941 : Jörg Neumann , German athlete
• 1941 : Dieter Schurr , German football player
• 1942 : Anna Guðrún Jónasdóttir , Icelandic political scientist
• 1942 : Ulrich Wickert , German television journalist
• 1944 : Jacky Ravenel , French racing car driver
• 1944 : Botho Strauss , German writer
• 1944 : Ibrahim Rugova , Kosovar Albanian politician
• 1945 : Lisa Kreuzer , German actress
• 1945 : Penelope Spheeris , American film director, producer and screenwriter
• 1945 : Charles Watson , American serial killer
• 1946 : Gianni Versace , Italian fashion designer
• 1946 : John Sheldon , British racing car driver
• 1947 : Rudolf Scharping , German politician
• 1948 : Haukur Angantýsson , Icelandic chess player
• 1948 : TC Boyle , American writer
• 1948 : Reinhard Höppner , German politician (SPD)
• 1948 : Antonín Panenka , Czechoslovak football player
• 1948 : Christine Westermann , German television presenter
• 1950 : Otto Georgens , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Speyer
• 1950 : Ursela Monn , Swiss actress
• 1950 : Paul Watson , Canadian animal rights activist

1951-1975

• 1951 : Pino Ammendola , Italian actor, playwright and film director
• 1952 : Andreas Mölzer , Austrian politician and publicist
• 1953 : Adrian Amstutz , Swiss entrepreneur and politician
• 1954 : Franz Comploi , Italian organist and music teacher
• 1955 : Ignatios Antoniadis , Greek physicist
• 1960 : Justus von Dohnányi , German film and television actor, author and director
• 1960 : Sydney Youngblood , American soul singer
• 1961 : Gaby Köster , German actress and comedian
• 1961 : Doron Rabinovici , Austrian writer and essayist
• 1962 : Evelyn Kenzler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1962 : Filip Peeters , Belgian actor
• 1962 : Thomas Quast , German judge and musician
• 1963 : Max Gertsch , Swiss actor
• 1964 : Vanessa O'Brien , British-American mountaineer
• 1965 : Edgar Aristizábal Quintero , Colombian auxiliary bishop
• 1967 : Giovanni Parisi , Italian boxer
• 1968 : Rafael Horzon , German entrepreneur and writer

Rafael Horzon (* 1968)

• 1968 : Lucy Liu , American actress
• 1968 : Steve Martin , Australian motorcycle racer
• 1968 : Nate Mendel , American musician
• 1969 : Peggy Sander , German voice actress
• 1970 : Alexander Cejka , Czechoslovak-German golfer
• 1970 : Sergei Alexandrowitsch Krylow , Russian violinist
• 1972 : Roman Rossa , German actor
• 1972 : Sergej Scholtok , Latvian ice hockey player
• 1973 : Jan Ullrich , German racing cyclist
• 1973 : Monica Seles , American tennis player
• 1974 : Martyn Ashton , British trial bike rider
• 1975 : Jean-Michel Arcucci , French squash player

1976-2000

• 1977 : Salar Aghili , Iranian singer
• 1977 : Olivier Caillas , Franco-German soccer player
• 1977 : Karsten Klein , German politician, MdL
• 1977 : Siyabonga Nomvethe , South African football player
• 1978 : Muisi Ajao , Nigerian soccer player
• 1978 : Nelly Furtado , Canadian-Portuguese singer
• 1978 : Fonsi Nieto , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1978 : Louisa Walter , German hockey player
• 1979 : Yvonne Catterfeld , German singer, actress, musician and presenter
• 1979 : Angelina Grün , German volleyball player

Britney Spears (born 1981)

• 1980 : Marco Engelhardt , German soccer player
• 1980 : Patrick Neumann , German soccer player
• 1980 : Michael Stocklasa , Liechtenstein soccer player
• 1981 : Vladimir Yefimkin , Russian cyclist
• 1981 : Thomas Pöck , Austrian ice hockey player
• 1981 : Danijel Pranjić , Croatian football player
• 1981 : Britney Spears , American singer
• 1982 : Leif Anton , German handball player
• 1983 : Chris Burke , Scottish soccer player
• 1983 : Daniela Ruah , Portuguese-American actress
• 1984 : Iliesa Delana , Fijian athlete
• 1984 : Pamela Tajonar , Mexican soccer player
• 1985 : Tatyana Azarova , Kazakh hurdler
• 1985 : Kathrin Müller , German show jumper
• 1986 : Claudiu Keşerü , Romanian football player
• 1986 : Sandra von Ruffin , German actress
• 1986 : Tal Wilkenfeld , Australian musician
• 1987 : Fabian Klos , German soccer player
• 1988 : Kim Adolfsson , Swedish biathlete
• 1988 : Kim Ojo , Nigerian soccer player
• 1990 : Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1991 : Brandon Knight , American basketball player
• 1992 : Viktor Passitschnyk , Ukrainian Nordic combined skier
• 1993 : Tiffany Gauthier , French ski racer
• 1993 : Dylan McLaughlin , American actor
• 1995 : Lukas T. Sperber , German actor and speaker
• 1997 : Selen Altunkulak , French-Turkish soccer player
• 1998 : Jarad Higgings , American rapper, singer, and songwriter. Better known as Juice Wrld
• 1998 : Amber Montana , American actress

21st century

• 2001 : Luis Foege , German handball player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0537 : Silverius , Pope
• 0735 : Toneri-shinnō , Japanese prince and editor of Nihonshoki
• 1060 : Gebhard III. , Bishop of Regensburg
• 1079 : Mabile de Bellême , wife of the Norman Baron Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

Gerhard Mercator († 1594)

• 1302 : Audun Hugleiksson , Norwegian baron, stable master and royal treasurer
• 1344 : Konrad von Salmansweiler , Bishop of Gurk
• 1348 : Hanazono , last Japanese emperor from the Kamakura period
• 1360 : John de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp de Warwick , English nobleman and admiral
• 1381 : Jan van Ruysbroek , Flemish medieval theologian and mystic
• 1452 : John III. Grünwalder , Prince-Bishop of Freising
• 1455 : Isabel of Portugal , Queen of Portugal
• 1463 : Albrecht VI. , Duke of Austria
• 1469 : Piero di Cosimo de 'Medici , lord of Florence

16th to 18th century

• 1515 : Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Aguilar , Spanish general and statesman
• 1519 : Maddalena de 'Medici , Florentine noblewoman
• 1547 : Hernán Cortés , Spanish conquistador and explorer
• 1560 : Georg Sabinus , founding rector of the University of Königsberg in Brandenburg
• 1570 : Matthäus Alber , German reformer
• 1593 : Alfonso Felice d'Avalos d'Aquino d'Aragona , Italian nobleman
• 1594 : Gerhard Mercator , Flemish-German mathematician, geographer, philosopher, theologian and cartographer
• 1632 : Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Saxe-Altenburg and Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
• 1648 : Heinrich Julius von Zerssen , German court official
• 1650 : Charlotte-Marguerite de Montmorency , Princess of Condé
• 1661 : Daniel Seghers , Flemish painter
• 1665 : Catherine de Vivonne, Marquise de Rambouillet , patron of a literary salon in Paris
• 1675 : Franz Hieß , Austrian master stonemason and baroque sculptor, subordinate of the Wiener Bauhütte
• 1689 : Ewald von Kleist , Kurbrandenburg diplomat
• 1694 : Pierre Puget , French painter and sculptor
• 1706 : Johann Georg Ahle , German composer, organist, poet and church musician
• 1710 : Ferdinand Ignaz Hinterleithner , Austrian lutenist and composer
• 1710 : Christian Kelch , German-Baltic pastor and chronicler
• 1723 : Philippe II. De Bourbon, Duke of Orléans , regent of France since 1715
• 1733 : Gerard Hoet , Dutch painter
• 1736 : Johann Gottfried von Berger , German medic
• 1748 : Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset , English peer and civil servant
• 1760 : Giuseppe Besozzi , Italian oboist
• 1782 : Christian Friedrich Polz , German logician and Protestant theologian
• 1794 : Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost , German medic and theologian
• 1796 : Jean Charles Abbatucci , French general
• 1800 : Johann Ludwig von Eckardt , German legal scholar

19th century

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  Philipp Otto Runge
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  Marquis de Sade
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  Jan Potocki
  († 1815)

• 1810 : Philipp Otto Runge , German painter of the early Romantic period
• 1813 : Franz Joseph Konstantin Schömann , German legal scholar
• 1814 : Donatien Alphonse François Marquis de Sade , French writer
• 1815 : Jan Graf Potocki , Polish novelist, historian and ethnologist
• 1816 : Johann Friedrich Städel , German private banker and art collector
• 1820 : Johann Jürgen Busch , German sculptor
• 1828 : Alois Hildwein , Austrian Biedermeier architect
• 1845 : Johann Simon Mayr , Italian composer
• 1848 : Edward Solly , British merchant and art collector
• 1849 : Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen , German princess, queen of Great Britain and Ireland
• 1859 : John Brown , American abolitionist
• 1867 : Philaret Drosdow , Russian metropolitan
• 1872 : Wincenty Pol , Polish writer, geographer and ethnographer
• 1877 : Moritz von Bethmann , German entrepreneur and banker
• 1879 : Ferdinand Lindheimer , German-American botanist, journalist and publisher
• 1881 : Jenny Marx , German socialist
• 1882 : Leopold Stein , German rabbi
• 1886 : Arnold Ipolyi , Hungarian clergyman, historian and art historian
• 1900 : Ludwig Jacobowski , German poet, writer and publicist

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Richard Belcredi , Austrian politician
• 1903 : Otto von und zu Aufseß , German politician
• 1904 : Karl Koester , German pathologist and university professor
• 1908 : Ilse Frapan , German writer
• 1909 : Rudolf Achleitner , Austrian conductor and composer
• 1910 : Gustav Adolf von Götzen , German officer and Africa explorer
• 1912 : Otis Bardwell Boise , American composer
• 1918 : Edmond Rostand , French playwright
• 1919 : Evelyn Henry Wood , British Field Marshal
• 1924 : Hugo von Seeliger , German astronomer
• 1931 : Vincent d'Indy , French composer
• 1932 : Angelo Nessi , Swiss journalist and librettist
• 1933 : Erwin Baur , German geneticist and botanist
• 1934 : Jakob Meisenheimer , German chemist
• 1937 : Joe Smith , American jazz trumpeter
• 1941 : Edward Rydz-Śmigły , Polish marshal and politician
• 1943 : Berthold Maurenbrecher , German classical philologist
• 1944 : Josef Lhévinne , Russian-American pianist
• 1944 : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Italian writer, founder of Futurism
• 1947 : Max Stürcke , German banker
• 1948 : Chano Pozo , Cuban singer, dancer and percussionist
• 1949 : Albert Ammons , American pianist

1951-1975

• 1951 : José de Jesús Ravelo , Dominican composer and music teacher
• 1951 : Manuel Ugarte , Argentine writer
• 1953 : Reimmichl , Austrian priest, Tyrolean folk poet
• 1954 : Enrique Soro Barriga , Chilean composer
• 1955 : Theodor Knolle , German Protestant theologian
• 1955 : Otto Soyka , Austrian writer
• 1956 : Franz Osten , German film director
• 1958 : Carl Bilfinger , German constitutional lawyer
• 1958 : Jan Kok , Dutch football player
• 1959 : John August Anderson , American astronomer
• 1959 : Fritz Bache , German soccer player
• 1959 : Josef Hutter , Czech musicologist and teacher
• 1961 : George Simpson , American athlete
• 1963 : Sasaki Nobutsuna , Japanese writer
• 1964 : Roger Bissière , French painter
• 1967 : Max Neufeld , Austrian actor and film director
• 1969 : José María Arguedas , Peruvian writer and ethnologist
• 1969 : Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov , Soviet politician, Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
• 1972 : Wassili Luckhardt , German architect
• 1972 : Yip Man , Grand Master of the Chinese Martial Art Wing Chun
• 1974 : Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté , Russian composer
• 1974 : Max Weber , Swiss politician

1976-2000

• 1976 : Walter Bluhm , German actor and voice actor
• 1976 : Tommaso Maestrelli , Italian football player and coach
• 1976 : William Tannen , American film and stage actor
• 1977 : Otto Adam , German fencer
• 1978 : Max Geiger , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1980 : Takakichi Asō , Japanese entrepreneur and politician
• 1981 : Rudolf Prack , Austrian actor
• 1982 : David Blue , American singer, guitarist and actor
• 1982 : Lindley Evans , Australian pianist, music educator and composer
• 1982 : Marty Feldman , British actor and comedian
• 1982 : Giovanni Ferrari , Italian football player and coach
• 1985 : Philip Larkin , British author
• 1986 : Heinrich Amersdorffer , German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
• 1986 : Desi Arnaz , Colombian musician and actor
• 1987 : Myrta Silva , Puerto Rican singer and composer
• 1988 : Hans Jürgen von Arnswaldt , German forest manager
• 1989 : Georg Krug , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1990 : Aaron Copland , American composer and conductor
• 1990 : Robert Cummings , American actor
• 1990 : Paul Hoffmann , German actor
• 1991 : Ernst Achenbach , German lawyer and politician, MdL, MdB, MdEP
• 1992 : Leo Barkin , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1993 : Pablo Escobar , Colombian drug trafficker, drug smuggler and terrorist
• 1997 : Guido Brunner , German politician, diplomat and EC commissioner
• 1998 : Bob Haggart , American jazz musician, bassist, arranger and composer
• 1999 : Charlie Byrd , American jazz guitarist

21st century

• 2002 : Leslie Elizabeth Bullock Andrews , American politician
• 2002 : Ivan Illich , Austrian theologian
• 2002 : Mehmet Emin Toprak , Turkish actor
• 2002 : Mal Waldron , American jazz pianist
• 2003 : Ignaz Kiechle , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 2004 : Kevin Coyne , British rock musician
• 2004 : Alicia Markowa , British ballerina
• 2005 : Kenneth Boyd , American murderer, 1,000th execution candidate in the United States since 1976
• 2005 : Bertico Sosa , Dominican composer, arranger and pianist
• 2006 : Mariska Veres , Dutch pop singer
• 2007 : Eleonora Rossi Drago , Italian actress
• 2007 : Elizabeth Hardwick , American literary critic and poet
• 2007 : Tada Michitarō , Japanese literary scholar and critic
• 2008 : Odetta , American singer
• 2009 : Eric Woolfson , British musician and producer
• 2010 : Pawoł Nowotny , Sorbian literary historian and folklorist
• 2011 : Anton Amberger , German biologist
• 2013 : Junior Murvin , Jamaican reggae musician
• 2013 : Christopher Evan Welch , American actor
• 2014 : Dominique Aubier , French writer
• 2014 : Jean Béliveau , Canadian ice hockey player
• 2015 : Gabriele Ferzetti , Italian actor
• 2015 : Peter Moosleitner , German journalist and magazine founder
• 2015 : Georg von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg , German entrepreneur
• 2016 : Gisela May , German actress and singer
• 2017 : Ulli Lommel , German actor and film director
• 2019 : Mutaib ibn Abd al-Aziz , Saudi Arabian prince and politician
• 2019 : Johann Baptist Metz , German theologian

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Sel. Jan van Ruysbroek , Belgian priest, mystic and prior (Protestant, Catholic)
  • St. Lucius of Chur , missionary and patron saint (catholic)

• Name days
  • Johannes , Lucius

• State holidays and memorial days
  • United Arab Emirates : Independence from Great Britain (1971)

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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