2nd July
The July 2 is the 183rd day of the Gregorian calendar (184th in leap years ), thus remain 182 days by year end.
On July 2nd at 1 p.m. (due to summer time) exactly half of the year is over (in leap years at 1 a.m.).
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Events
Politics and world events
- 936: With the death of King Heinrich I , his son Otto I acquires power in Eastern Franconia .
- 1214: The battle of Roche-aux-Moines between the French Crown Prince Ludwig and the English King Johann Ohneland ends without a direct encounter between the two armies, as Johann fled the battlefield.
- 1234: The German King Heinrich VII submits to his father, Emperor Friedrich II in Wimpfen after a futile rebellion .
- 1266: The Peace of Perth ends the Norwegian-Scottish War from 1263 to 1266 for possession of the West Scottish islands .
- 1298: Albrecht I of Austria defeats the German King Adolf von Nassau in the Battle of Göllheim and thus gains the German royal dignity.
- 1335: Otto the Merry is the first Habsburg to undergo the Carinthian installation ceremony on the Duke's Chair in Karnburg (in Slovene until 1414 ).
- 1500: The Roman-German king and later Emperor Maximilian I divided the empire into imperial circles for better administration .
- 1526: The defeat of the farmer's leader Michael Gaismair in the Battle of Radstadt in the Salzburger Land ends the Peasants' War in Tyrol.
- 1600: In the Battle of Nieuwpoort , the army of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands under Moritz of Orange defeats the Spaniards under Albrecht VII of Habsburg in the Eighty Years' War .
- 1644: At the Battle of Marston Moor in the English Civil War , the parliamentary army under Oliver Cromwell triumphs over the troops of the royalists .
- 1704: After the Battle of Schellenberg against Bavarian troops, the army of the Duke of Marlborough and the Margrave of Baden Ludwig Wilhelm were able to secure the strategically important town of Donauwörth in the War of the Spanish Succession and thus threaten the Electorate of Bavaria with military force.
- 1747: In the Battle of Lauffeldt in the War of the Austrian Succession , the French under Moritz von Sachsen defeat the allied Austrians, British and Dutch, but suffer more than twice as high losses.
- 1749: In Bern , the student Friedrich Ulrich reveals the Henzi conspiracy to the authorities , an attempt to remove the patrician families from the city government.
- 1767: The British explorer Philipp Carteret reaches an island which he names after the midshipman Robert Pitcairn, who first saw it.
- 1798: During the Egyptian expedition , the port city of Alexandria is captured by Napoleon Bonaparte's army .
- 1807: The siege of Kolberg ends with an armistice between the French and the enclosed Prussians. The French begin their retreat three days later.
- 1839: One day after the death of Sultan Mahmud II , his son Abdülmecid I ascends the throne of the Ottoman Empire .
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- 1839: During a revolt on the American slave ship La Amistad , the African slaves under Sengbe Pieh succeed in bringing the ship under their control.
- 1850: The Peace of Berlin ends the Schleswig-Holstein War between the German Confederation and Denmark .
- 1860: The city of Vladivostok is founded as a Russian naval outpost.
- 1881: The American President James A. Garfield is shot by an assassin and dies of the consequences on September 19th.
- 1885: Big Bear surrenders to the Canadian government troops as the last chief of the Cree Indians. This ends the Northwest Rebellion in Saskatchewan .
- 1928: In the UK , women 21 and over are given the right to vote .
- 1937: Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears without a trace off Howland Island while attempting to circumnavigate the world with her navigator Fred Noolan . The event triggers the largest search operation prior to World War II and gives rise to a variety of conspiracy theories.
- 1951: In Babice , Czechoslovakia , a meeting of the local communist national committee is attacked by four gunmen, three committee members are killed. The act is the occasion for the show trials in Jihlava , which are primarily directed against the influence of the church on the rural population and in which eleven people are sentenced to death and 111 to long prison terms.
- 1963: The Élysée Treaty as a Franco-German friendship treaty comes into force.
- 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 comes into effect in the United States through the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson , which repeals the so-called Jim Crow Laws . This strengthens the civil rights of the Afro-American population.
- 1965: The South African police storm the editorial offices of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper over politically explosive coverage of prisons, as a result of which in 1969 the editor-in-chief Laurence Gandar and other defendants are convicted.
- 1965: The journalist and SED politician Albert Norden publishes a brown book with the names of over 1,800 Nazis and war criminals in West German leadership positions.
- 1966: France introduces the first above-ground nuclear weapons testing in the Mururoa - Atoll in the Pacific through.
- 1972: India and Pakistan sign the Shimla Agreement , which establishes the Line of Control in Kashmir .
- 1976: After the US-backed South Vietnam was defeated in the Vietnam War , after 22 years of separation, Vietnam was reunified .
- 1993: More than 30 people die in an attack by Islamists on an Alevi culture festival in Sivas ( Turkey ), including numerous Alevi artists, poets and publishers.
- 2000: Ex-Coca-Cola manager and millionaire Vicente Fox wins the presidential elections in Mexico with 43.23 percent of the vote for the bourgeois National Action Party . This ended the 71-year rule of the PRI in Mexico.
- 2001: After the Kreil decision of the European Court of Justice , the first women in the German Armed Forces begin an officer career .
- 2008: The French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt is freed from the hands of the FARC by the Colombian military after being held hostage for over six years, along with 14 other hostages .
economy
- 1698: Thomas Savery receives a patent for a steam pump he invented for use in mines , a forerunner of the steam engine .
- 1877 John Zeltner registers his process for preparing a red ultramarine color for patent , and it receives the first German Imperial Patent.
- 1890: US President Benjamin Harrison enacts the Sherman Antitrust Act , passed by the Senate and Congress . This gives the government an opportunity to limit the market power of monopolies .
- 1905: Debeka , today one of the ten largest companies in the insurance and building society savings sector in Germany, is founded as a health benefit fund for the municipal officials of the Rhine Province .
- 1962: Sam Walton opens the first Wal-Mart Discount City store in Rogers, Arkansas .
science and technology
- 1779: The Iron Bridge , the world's first cast iron bridge arch, spans a river, the British Severn .
- 1846: Archduke Johann of Austria is appointed by Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria as curator for an Imperial and Royal Academy of Sciences , which is officially founded on May 14, 1847.
- 1900: With the start of the first Zeppelin LZ 1 of the Count von Zeppelin , the first trip of a rigid airship takes place on the shores of Lake Constance .
- 1919: The British R34 rigid airship takes off from East Fortune, Scotland, for the first non-stop flight of an airship across the Atlantic.
- 1985: The European space probe Giotto , named after Giotto di Bondone , is launched from the spaceport in Kourou to research Halley's comet .
Culture
- 1587: Hans Schultes the Younger immortalized the unusual event of a tornado over Augsburg on a pamphlet and thus brought out the oldest known depiction of a tornado .
- 1912: The first 12 hand-set volumes of the Insel-Bücherei , announced on May 23rd, are delivered to the bookstores by Insel Verlag .
- 1944: World premiere of the opera Die Hochzeit des Jobs by Joseph Haas at the State Opera in Dresden .
- 1970: ZDF discontinues the game show Der goldene Schuss , hosted by Vico Torriani , with its fiftieth program. The show was the first color entertainment program on German television and was popularized in the 1960s by Lou van Burg .
- 1983: World premiere of the musical fairy tale Prinz Chocolat by Gottfried von Eine in Bern .
- 1998: Joanne K. Rowling publishes the second book in her Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets .
- 2005: The Live 8 concert, organized by Bob Geldof and Bono , takes place at ten different locations at the same time under the motto Make Poverty History . The name is based on the Live Aid concert from 1985.
society
- 1720: The foundation stone of the Mannheim Palace , the residence of the Palatinate electors , is laid.
- 1955: The Berlin Zoo is opened in East Berlin so that after the division of the city the population can also visit a zoo in the east.
- 1994: The Colombian international Andrés Escobar is shot in front of a bar because he scored an own goal at the World Cup a few days earlier and thus contributed to the elimination of his team .
religion
- 311: Miltiades takes office as Bishop of Rome .
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- 1051: The Archbishop of Cologne Hermann II consecrates the collegiate church of St. Simon and St. Judas in the Palatinate of Goslar .
- 1505: The law student Martin Luther is almost struck by lightning near Erfurt and vows to become a monk.
- 1865: William Booth holds a meeting in Whitechapel that is believed to form what would become the Salvation Army .
- 1894: In the encyclical Litteras a vobis , Pope Leo XIII. Comments on the clergy in Brazil and supports the wish expressed by there to increase the number of bishops .
- 1931: In the Bonn Agreement that provide Old Catholic Churches of the Union of Utrecht and the churches of the Anglican Communion , the Communion of Churches ( Full Communion fixed).
- 1950: In the northwest of the Japanese city of Kyoto falls in the ji Kinkaku- -Tempelanlage native of the 1397 Golden Pavilion of arson of a Buddhist monk victim, who can not bear the beauty of the temple.
Disasters
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- 1816: The French frigate Méduse runs aground on the Arguin sandbank off West Africa due to incompetence of the commanders . Of the 400 or so people on board, more than half are killed in the next few weeks, most of them on a makeshift raft because there is not enough space in the dinghies.
- 1957: An earthquake of a magnitude of 7.4 in Iran about calls for 1,200 deaths.
- 1990: A mass panic erupting in a pedestrian tunnel near Mecca kills 1,427 Muslim pilgrims on the Hajj .
- 2010: In the Congolese town of Sange (South Kivu) , the explosion of a crashed tanker truck loaded with petrol ultimately kills 271 and injures over 150 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1916: The first South American football championship begins, hosted by Argentina. The opening game ends with Chile beating Uruguay 4-0 .
- 1948: With a 2-0 win over Finland , the Icelandic national football team achieved their first victory in their history.
- 1989: At the European Women's Football Championship , the German women become European champions for the first time with a 4-1 win over Norway .
- 1991: The Moldovan national soccer team plays their first international match. The former Soviet state lost 4-2 to Georgia in Chisinau .
- 2000: France become European champions with a 2-1 win against Italy in Rotterdam .
- 2005: In the longest women's Wimbledon final of all time, Venus Williams defeated Lindsay Davenport 4: 6, 7: 6 (7: 4) and 9: 7.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 419: Valentinian III. , Roman emperor
- 1029: Al-Mustansir , eighth Fatimid caliph
- 1439: Johann II. Von Henneberg-Schleusingen , prince abbot of the Fulda monastery
- 1473: Maria von Baden , abbess of the Lichtenthal monastery
- 1478: Ludwig V , Elector Palatinate
- 1486: Jacopo Sansovino , Italian sculptor and architect
- 1489: Thomas Cranmer , English reformer and archbishop
- 1552: Joachim von Wedel , German landowner and annalist
- 1561: Christoph Grienberger , German Jesuit priest and astronomer
- 1574: Dorothea Maria von Anhalt , Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
- 1579: Janusz Radziwiłł , Lithuanian magnate and rebel
- 1581: Johann Staden , German organist and composer (baptism date)
- 1583: Dodo zu Innhausen and Knyphausen , German general in Swedish service in the Thirty Years' War
- 1623: Christian Arnd , German theologian and logician
- 1630: Marie-Madeleine de Brinvilliers , French poisoner
- 1644: Abraham a Sancta Clara , German Catholic clergyman and writer
- 1648: Arp Schnitger , German organ builder
- 1665: Claude François Bidal, 1st marquis d'Asfeld , Marquis d'Asfeld, Marshal of France
- 1698: Francesco III. d'Este , Duke of Modena
18th century
- 1712: Johann Rudolph von Ahlefeldt , master of the Damp and Saxdorf estates
- 1714: Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer
- 1723: Wenzel Bernard Ambrozy , Bohemian history painter
- 1723: Marianna Franziska von Hornstein , princess abbess of the aristocratic women's monastery in Säckingen on the Upper Rhine
- 1724: Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock , German poet
- 1726: Karl Benjamin Acoluth , German lawyer and writer
- 1739: Matthias Friese , German schoolmaster, organist and organ builder
- 1741: Susanna Jacobina Jungert , German soprano
- 1742: Franz Wenzel von Kaunitz-Rietberg , Imperial-Austrian General and Landkomtur of the Ballei Westphalia of the German Order
- 1747: Rose Bertin , French seamstress, hat maker and milliner
- 1756: Christian Gottfried Körner , German publisher, friend of Friedrich Schiller
- 1757: Ernst Konstantin von Schubert , German lawyer, civil servant in Sweden, Swedish Pomerania and Prussia
- 1763: Peter Ritter , German composer, conductor and cellist
- 1770: Maximilian Joseph Pozzi , German sculptor
- 1782: Cesare Arici , Italian poet
- 1784: Teresa Belloc , Italian opera singer
- 1784: Karl Ludwig Grave , German clergyman and educator
- 1785: Christian Friedrich Heinrich Sachse , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet
- 1795: Karl Gustav Nieritz , German folk and youth writer
- 1796: Michael Thonet , German master carpenter and industrialist
- 1799: Leopold von Ledebur , German historian
- 1800: Piotr Michałowski , Polish painter
19th century
1801-1850
- 1807: Arthur Conolly , British traveler, military and diplomat
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- 1812: Gustav Flügel , German composer
- 1814: Jean-Louis Ancrenaz , Swiss politician
- 1817: Carl Richard Unger , Norwegian philologist
- 1819: Thomas Anderson , Scottish chemist and medic
- 1819: Charles-Louis Hanon , French pianist and composer
- 1821: Charles Tupper , Prime Minister of Canada
- 1825: Émile Ollivier , French politician
- 1831: Werner Hagedorn , German surgeon
- 1834: Hendrik Peter Godfried Quack , Dutch historian and economist
- 1836: Ernst Carstanjen , German chemist
- 1841: Alexander Mikhailovich Saizew , Russian chemist
- 1842: Albert Ladenburg , German chemist
- 1846: Ferdinand Becker , German painter
- 1849: Marie Therese von Österreich-Este , last Bavarian queen
1851-1900
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- 1855: Jesko von Puttkamer , German colonial official, governor of Cameroon
- 1858: Georg Heinrich Maria Kirstein , Bishop of Mainz
- 1859: Otto Böckel , German librarian, folk song researcher and politician
- 1860: Georg Thieme , German publisher
- 1862: William Henry Bragg , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1862: Christopher Cradock , British Rear Admiral
- 1864: Albert Armitage , British polar explorer
- 1865: Lily Braun , German writer and politician
- 1865: Heinrich Waderé , German sculptor and medalist
- 1874: Maximilian von der Asseburg-Neindorf , German manor owner, administrative officer and parliamentarian
- 1876: Harriet Brooks , Canadian nuclear physicist
- 1876: Wilhelm Cuno , German Chancellor
- 1877: Hermann Hesse , German-speaking writer and painter, Nobel Prize winner
- 1880: Anton Breinl , Austrian zoologist and physician
- 1881: Egenolf von Berckheim , German submarine commander
- 1881: Eduard von Steiger , Swiss politician
- 1882: Marie Bonaparte , French psychoanalyst
- 1883: Próspero López Buchardo , Argentine composer
- 1884: Alfons Maria Jakob , German neurologist
- 1887: Elisabeth Baumann-Schlachter , Swiss writer
- 1893: Johann-Volkmar Fisser , German general
- 1898: Heinrich Schulte , German psychiatrist
- 1900: Muhammad Asad , Austrian scholar, diplomat and correspondent
- 1900: Fritz Neumeyer , German harpsichordist and pianist, musicologist and composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902: Gian Andreossi , Swiss ice hockey player
- 1903: Olav V , King of Norway
- 1903: Alec Douglas-Home , British politician, Prime Minister
- 1904: René Lacoste , French tennis player and fashion designer
- 1904: Waluliso , Austrian peace activist
- 1905: Ishikawa Tatsuzō , Japanese writer
- 1906: Hans Bethe , German-American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1906: Carmen Mory , Gestapo agent, block elder in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 1906: Jan Petersen , German writer
- 1907: Kurt Birrenbach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1908: Samuel Hersenhoren , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1909: Hermann Bengtson , German ancient historian
- 1910: HG Adler , Czechoslovak-English writer
- 1910: CC Bergius , German writer
- 1911: Reg Parnell , English Formula 1 and sports car racing driver and team boss
- 1911: Bohdan Wodiczko , Polish conductor and music teacher
- 1912: Øystein Gaukstad , Norwegian musicologist and librarian
- 1914: Alois Andritzki , German-Sorbian Catholic priest, martyr
- 1914: Erich Topp , German submarine commander in World War II, officer in the German Navy
- 1915: Friedrich Hachenberg , German forester and historian
- 1915: Arthur Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington , British brigadier general and entrepreneur
- 1916: Hans-Ulrich Rudel , German attack pilot in World War II
- 1916: Ken Curtis , American country singer and actor
- 1918: Franz Marischka , Austrian director
- 1919: Willy Daetwyler , Swiss automobile racing driver and entrepreneur
- 1919: Henri Génès , French actor
- 1920: Andreas Lindt , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1922: Josef Guggenmos , German poet and children's book author
- 1922: Pierre Cardin , French fashion designer and entrepreneur
- 1922: Jacques Pollet , French racing car driver
- 1923: Karl Otmar von Aretin , German historian
- 1923: Wisława Szymborska , Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 1925: María Judith Franco , Puerto Rican actress and voice actress
- 1925: Patrice Lumumba , first Prime Minister of the Congo
1926-1950
- 1926: Clara Walker , American swimmer
- 1927: Ruth Berghaus , German choreographer, opera and theater director
- 1927: Robert F. Schloeth , Swiss zoologist
- 1927: Brock Peters , American actor and singer
- 1929: Adam Silk , German writer and gallery owner
- 1930: Ahmad Jamal , Afro-American jazz pianist and composer
- 1930: Ota Pavel , Czech writer, sports writer, storyteller and journalist
- 1930: Carlos Menem , Argentine lawyer and politician, President
- 1932: Waldemar Matuška , Czechoslovak pop singer and actor
- 1933: David Lewin , American music theorist, musicologist, pianist and composer
- 1933: Helmut Just , East Berlin People's Police
- 1934: Camille Liénard , Belgian bobsledder
- 1935: Kerstin de Ahna , German actress
- 1935: Stefan Hüfner , German solid-state physicist
- 1936: Rex Gildo , German singer and actor
- 1936: Géza Hofi , Hungarian actor and humorist
- 1936: Manfred Kluth , German rower
- 1936: Omar Suleiman , Egyptian politician
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- 1937: Richard Petty , American racing driver
- 1938: Marcel Artelesa , French football player
- 1938: Manfred Sondermann , German cartoonist
- 1939: Leapy Lee , British singer
- 1939: Alekos Panagoulis , Greek politician, poet and resistance fighter
- 1939: Sultan bin Mohamed al-Qasimi , Emir of Sharjah
- 1940: Georgi Ivanov , first Bulgarian cosmonaut
- 1940: Tony Liscio , American football player
- 1941: Wendell Mottley , athlete and politician from Trinidad and Tobago, minister, founder of the institute
- 1941: Wolfgang Schulz , German songwriter (Schobert and Black)
- 1942: Michael Abene , American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and producer
- 1942: Vicente Fox , Mexican President
- 1942: Gert Neumann , German writer
- 1942: Celia Nyamweru , British-Kenyan cultural anthropologist and geoscientist
- 1942: Dieter Zurwehme , German serial killer
- 1943: Walter Godefroot , Belgian racing cyclist and team manager
- 1944: Abdul Rahman Ashraf , German-Afghan geologist
- 1944: Hans-Werner Bertl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1944: Joachim Heider (pseudonym Alfie Khan), German composer and music producer
- 1944: Dieter Salevsky , German enduro athlete
- 1945: Dieter Grasedieck , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1946: Richard Axel , American physician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1946: Jean-Luc Darbellay , Swiss doctor and composer
- 1947: Franco Abussi , Italian cameraman, screenwriter and film director
- 1947: Jürg Amann , Swiss writer
- 1949: Roy Bittan , American keyboardist
1951-1975
- 1952: Ian Affleck , Canadian theoretical physicist
- 1952: Ahmed Ouyahia , Algerian politician, Prime Minister
- 1953: Jean-Claude Borelly , French trumpeter
- 1954: Victor Amaya , American tennis player
- 1954: Gregor Maria Hanke , German clergyman, Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1957: Bret Hart , Canadian wrestler
- 1958: Josephine Compaan , Dutch rower
- 1958: Axel G. Schmidt , German economist and university professor
- 1959: Cristian Diaconescu , Romanian legal scholar and diplomat
- 1961: Jürgen Aring , German geographer and city planner
- 1962: Monika Hohlmeier , German politician, MdL, MEP
- 1963: Carlos Kaiser , Brazilian soccer player
- 1963: Jens Riewa , German news anchor
- 1964: Dirk Martens , German actor
- 1965: Norbert Röttgen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1965: Trine-Lise Væring , Danish jazz singer and songwriter
- 1967: JD Walter , American jazz singer
- 1969: Kim Wall , American actress
- 1970: Yancy Butler , American actress
- 1970: Detlef Soost , German dancer and choreographer
- 1971: Joel Otim , Ugandan athlete
- 1972: Clemens Bratzler , German television presenter and journalist
- 1972: Darren Shan , Irish-British fantasy and children's book author
- 1973: Thilo Bock , German writer
- 1975: Mirko Bernau , German handball player and coach
- 1975: Elizabeth Reaser , American actress
- 1975: David Saelens , Belgian racing driver
1976-2000
- 1976: Idalina Borges Mesquita , Brazilian handball player
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- 1976: Inga Marte Thorkildsen , Norwegian politician
- 1978: Kossi Agassa , Togolese football player
- 1978: Darlington Omodiagbe , Nigerian soccer player
- 1979: Roland Audenrieth , German ski jumper
- 1979: Joe Thornton , Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic champion
- 1979: Mario Knögler , Austrian sports shooter
- 1979: Kris Meeke , British rally driver
- 1980: Alexander Petersson , Icelandic handball player
- 1980: Jiří Homola , Czech football player
- 1981: Alex Koroknay-Palicz , American activist
- 1982: Verena Hagedorn , German soccer player
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- 1982: Michael Koch , Swiss actor and director
- 1982: Armin Woschank , Austrian basketball player
- 1983: Michelle Branch , American singer, songwriter and guitarist
- 1983: Johanna Rasmussen , Danish soccer player
- 1984: Maarten Martens , Belgian football player
- 1985: Vlatko Ilievski , Macedonian singer and TV presenter
- 1985: Ashley Tisdale , American actress, singer, and voice actress
- 1986: Denis Epstein , German soccer player
- 1986: Florian Fromlowitz , German soccer player
- 1986: Lindsay Lohan , American actress, singer and model
- 1986: Sam Trickett , English poker player
- 1987: Esteban Granero , Spanish soccer player
- 1988: Ronnie Ash , American hurdler
- 1988: Lee Chung-yong , South Korean soccer player
- 1989: Dev , American singer and rapper
- 1989: Alex Morgan , American soccer player, world champion
- 1989: Sebastian Münzenmaier , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1990: Merritt Mathias , American soccer player
- 1990: Roman Lob , German singer
- 1990: Daichi (beatboxer) , Japanese musician and web video producer
- 1991: Hendrik Pekeler , German handball player
- 1992: Tetsuta Nagashima , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1992: Tatjana Pinto , German athlete
- 1992: Lucas Puhl , German handball player
- 1993: Tony Halbig , German racing driver
- 1993: Ieva Zasimauskaitė , Lithuanian singer
- 1994: Abdul Rahman Baba , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1995: Dominik Kahun , German ice hockey player
- 1995: Paula Kroh , German actress
- 1999: Giulia Gwinn , German soccer player
- 1999: Nicolò Zaniolo , Italian football player
21st century
- 2001: Abraham Attah , Ghanaian actor
Died
Before the 18th century
- 458: Juvenal , bishop and first patriarch of Jerusalem
- 862: Swithin , English saint
- 936: Heinrich I , East Franconian King and Duke of the Saxons
- 1134: Meinhard , Bishop of Prague
- 1215: Eisai , Japanese priest
- 1231: Heinrich I , Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
- 1275: Eudes Rigaud , Archbishop of Rouen
- 1298: Adolf von Nassau , German king
- 1387: Peter of Luxembourg , French cardinal and Bishop of Metz
- 1419: Eberhard IV , Count of Württemberg
- 1429: Philip I , German nobleman, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1431: Johann I , Count of Saar Werden
- 1431: Philipp von Ingelheim , aldermen at the Ingelheimer Oberhof and knight
- 1438: Ernst von Bayern-Munich , son of Duke Johann II.
- 1448: Roman II , Prince of the Principality of Moldova
- 1504: Ștefan cel Mare , Moldovan voivode
- 1511: Hadim Ali Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1536: John Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany , Scottish nobleman
- 1566: Nostradamus , French doctor and prophet
- 1582: Mitsuhide Akechi , Japanese general
- 1591: Vincenzo Galilei , Italian cloth merchant, musician and music theorist
- 1606: Matthäus Ackermann , civil servant in Saxony
- 1619: Franz II , Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
- 1633: Trijntje Keever , largest woman in the world ever measured
- 1660: Francesco Maffei , Italian painter
- 1674: Eberhard III. , Duke of Württemberg
- 1676: Sophie Elisabeth zu Mecklenburg , German composer
- 1678: Christoph Schlegel , German Lutheran theologian
- 1684: Josefa de Óbidos , Portuguese Baroque painter
- 1691: Marc'Antonio Pasqualini , Italian soprano castrato
- 1700: Lambert Doomer , Dutch painter
- 1700: Johann Trost , German architect
18th century
- 1701: Egid Schor , Austrian painter
- 1704: August Ferdinand von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg
- 1704: Johann Adolf , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
- 1706: Kimpa Vita , Congolese prophetess and founder of the Antonians
- 1709: Jakob Scheiffelhut , German musician and composer
- 1715: Hortensia Gugelberg von Moos , Graubünden doctor, publicist, researcher and writer
- 1733: Christian Petzold , German organist and composer
- 1743: Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington , British politician and Prime Minister
- 1747: Emmanuel-François-Joseph de Bavière , French general and governor
- 1751: François Robichon de la Guérinière , French riding master, inventor of modern horsemanship
- 1757: Johanna Elisabeth von Baden-Durlach , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1766: Sophie Caroline von Camas , German nobleman and confidante of Frederick the Great
- 1767: Christoph Andreas Mangold , German scholar, physician and chemist, professor of anatomy, chemistry and philosophy at the University of Erfurt
- 1772: Johann Georg Krafft , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1778: Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Swiss-French writer, philosopher, educator, naturalist and composer of the Enlightenment
- 1784: Gottfried Schütze , German pedagogue, librarian and theologian
- 1789: Johann Philipp Lorenz Withof , German professor
- 1791: Søren Abildgaard , Danish biologist and illustrator
- 1793: David Klaus , German shepherd and philosopher
- 1798: François-Louis Bourdon , French politician
19th century
- 1820: Peter Dollond , British optician
- 1833: Aoki Mokubei , Japanese painter and potter
- 1836: Cesare Arici , Italian poet
- 1843: Samuel Hahnemann , German doctor
- 1850: Robert Peel , British Prime Minister
- 1861: James Abercrombie , American lawyer and politician
- 1862: François Bertholet , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1866: Francisco Armero Peñaranda , Spanish lieutenant general and politician
- 1869: Rudolf Baxmann , German theologian
- 1876: Ferdinand von Westphalen , Prussian Minister of the Interior
- 1878: François Bazin , French composer
- 1883: Wilhelm Christoph Friedrich Arnold , German lawyer, legal, economic and cultural historian and politician
- 1884: Franz Adler , German politician
- 1886: Justus Heer , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1887: Julie Weber von Webenau , Austrian-German pianist and composer
- 1891: Hugo Türpe , German cornet virtuoso and composer
- 1896: Rudolf Kögel , German theologian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Theodor Arndt , German theologian
- 1901: Heinrich Xaver Sieger , German entrepreneur
- 1902: Émery Lavigne , Canadian pianist, organist and music teacher
- 1903: Ed Delahanty , American baseball player
- 1904: Henri Béconnais , French racing car driver
- 1908: Wilhelm Grube , German sinologist
- 1914: Joseph Chamberlain , British statesman, Member of the House of Commons, Colonial Secretary, Secretary of Commerce
- 1917: William Stevenson Hoyte , English organist, composer and music teacher
- 1917: Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold , German chemist and physicist
- 1918: Georg von Schuh , German lawyer and politician, First Mayor of Erlangen and Nuremberg
- 1919: Friedrich Soennecken , German businessman, entrepreneur, inventor and graphic artist
- 1926: Eduard Beyer , German lawyer and politician, MdL
- 1926: Émile Coué , French pharmacist and author, founder of modern, conscious autosuggestion
- 1927: Joseph Gaudentius Anderson , American auxiliary bishop
- 1928: Willi Henkelmann , German motorcycle racer
- 1931: Peter Kürten , German serial killer
- 1932: Manuel II , King of Portugal
- 1932: Ernst Sachs , German inventor and industrialist
- 1934: Pol Demeuter , Belgian motorcycle racer
- 1934: Henry Hollis Horton , American lawyer and politician, Governor of Tennessee
- 1937: Amelia Earhart , American aviation pioneer and women's rights activist (missing)
- 1940: John William Abercrombie , American lawyer and politician
- 1949: Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgarian politician, Secretary General of the Comintern, Prime Minister
- 1949: Bud Scott , American jazz musician
- 1950: Eligio Pometta , Swiss politician and local researcher
1951-2000
- 1951: Ferdinand Sauerbruch , German surgeon
- 1952: Henriëtte Bosmans , Dutch composer
- 1952: Frank Welsman , Canadian conductor, music teacher and pianist
- 1955: Rudolf Appelt , Czechoslovak politician and political functionary, ambassador of the GDR
- 1955: Fritz Freisler , Austrian actor and film director
- 1957: Ladislav Zelenka , Czech cellist
- 1961: Ernest Hemingway , American writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1962: Peter Ryan , Canadian racing car driver
- 1963: Bodo Uhse , German writer
- 1963: Seth Barnes Nicholson , American astronomer
- 1966: Jan Brzechwa , Polish poet
- 1968: Francis Brennan , American clergyman, cardinal to the curia
- 1970: Valerio Arri , Italian athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1970: Adolf Koch , German doctor and socialist
- 1971: Hans Gerstinger , Austrian classical philologist
- 1971: Barnabás von Géczy , Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader
- 1971: Waldemar von Knoeringen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1972: Edmond Apéti , Togolese football player
- 1972: Felipe Pirela , Venezuelan singer
- 1973: Betty Grable , American actress
- 1973: Ferdinand Schörner , German field marshal, war criminal ("bloody Ferdinand")
- 1974: Carlos Isamitt , Chilean composer and painter
- 1975: Werner Schütz , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1976: Heinz Matthes , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1977: Vladimir Nabokov , Russian writer
- 1977: William H. Ziegler , American film editor
- 1980: Sócrates Nolasco , Dominican writer, essayist, historian, politician and diplomat
- 1982: DeFord Bailey , American country musician
- 1982: Jean Hémard , French racing car driver
- 1983: Vladimír Neff , Czech writer, translator and screenwriter
- 1984: Bedřich Fučík , Czech literary critic, editor and translator
- 1985: Josef Mühlberger , German writer
- 1988: Johann Baptist Gradl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1988: Eddie Vinson , American jazz musician
- 1989: Andrei Andrejewitsch Gromyko , Soviet politician, ambassador, foreign minister, head of state
- 1989: Franklin J. Schaffner , American film director
- 1990: Silvina Bullrich , Argentine writer
- 1990: Ludwig Franz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1991: Lee Remick , American actress
- 1992: Viktor Aschenbrenner , German politician and author
- 1992: Charles F. Brannan , US administrative lawyer and politician, Secretary of Agriculture
- 1993: Fred Gwynne , American actor and writer
- 1993: Clarence Melvin Zener , American physicist and electrical engineer
- 1994: Lucio Amelio , Italian art dealer and gallery owner
- 1994: Andrés Escobar , Colombian footballer
- 1994: Giovanni Battista Guidotti , Italian racing driver and motorsport official
- 1997: James Stewart , American film actor
- 1998: Kay Thompson , American actress, singer, and writer
- 1999: Mario Puzo , American crime novel writer
- 2000: Joey Dunlop , British motorcycle racer
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- 2002: Ray Brown , American jazz bassist
- 2002: Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur , French composer and organist
- 2003: Reinhard Baumgart , German writer and literary critic
- 2003: Briggs Cunningham , American racing car driver, designer and sailor
- 2004: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen , Portuguese poet
- 2004: John Cullen Murphy , American comic book artist
- 2005: Ferenc Aszódy , German trumpeter
- 2005: Ernest Lehman , American screenwriter
- 2006: Balázs Horváth , Hungarian politician, Minister of the Interior
- 2007: Beverly Sills , American opera singer
- 2009: Bert Schneider , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 2010: Luis Kalaff , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer
- 2010: Laurent Terzieff , French actor
- 2012: Stephan Pfürtner , German Catholic moral theologian and social ethicist
- 2012: Boris Grigoryevich Tewlin , Soviet or Russian choir director and university teacher
- 2013: Douglas C. Engelbart , American computer technician and inventor
- 2013: Fausia of Egypt , as the wife of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Queen of Iran
- 2014: Manuel Cardona , Spanish physicist
- 2014: Louis Zamperini , American athlete
- 2015: Slavko Avsenik , Slovenian composer and accordionist
- 2015: Inge Lammel , German musicologist
- 2016: Michael Cimino , American film director
- 2016: Michel Rocard , French politician, MEP
- 2016: Elie Wiesel , American writer and publicist
- 2017: Ryke Geerd Hamer , German doctor and esotericist
- 2017: Chris Roberts , German pop singer
- 2018: Reinhard Brühl , German military historian
- 2018: Helmut Schmid , German typographer, creator and designer
- 2019: Costa Cordalis , German pop singer
- 2019: Lee Iacocca , American manager and author
- 2020: Ole Holsti , American political scientist
- 2020: Tilo Prückner , German actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- Georg Daniel Teutsch , Bishop of Transylvania (Protestant)
- St. Processus and Martinianus , martyrs (catholic)
- Feast of the laying down of the robes of Our Lady (orthodox)
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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