2th of June
The June 2 is the 153rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 154th in leap years ), thus remain 212 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 455 : The vandals under King Geiseric who invaded the crumbling Roman Empire conquer Rome and plunder the city for two weeks.
- 1098 : After several months of siege , the army of the First Crusade under Gottfried von Bouillon , Bohemond of Taranto and Raymond IV of Toulouse conquered the city of Antioch and caused a bloodbath there.
- 1525 : The Neckartaler and Odenwald farmers are defeated in the Peasants' War by the army of the Swabian Federation under Georg Truchseß von Waldburg-Zeil near Königshofen .
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- 1625 : After a twelve-month siege , the Protestant city of Breda in the Netherlands is handed over to the Spaniards under Ambrosio Spinola .
- 1676 : During the Dutch War , the Spanish-Dutch fleet, anchored for repairs, is fought in the sea battle off Palermo by the surprisingly arrived French fleet. France gains naval supremacy in the Mediterranean after the victory.
- 1774 : The British Parliament passes the Second Quartering Act , according to which the settlers of the American colonies are obliged to house British soldiers. The law is seen by them as one of the intolerable acts that lead to the outbreak of the American War of Independence and the convening of the first continental congress.
- 1780 : London witnesses the outbreak of the Gordon Riots . The serious unrest against the emancipation of the Catholics claimed 285 lives.
- 1793 : The Jacobin dictatorship during the French Revolution begins with the siege of the National Convention by the National Guard and the raging against the Girondins .
- 1848 : A Slavic Congress begins in Prague, chaired by the historian František Palacký . Until the outbreak of the Whitsun Uprising in Prague, the assembly deliberates on the desire for a federal transformation of the Danube monarchy .
- 1864 : The Ionian Islands , previously under the British protectorate, are transferred to Greece , which has been independent since 1830 .
- 1878 : The German Kaiser Wilhelm I is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt by a shotgun shot by Karl Eduard Nobiling .
- 1924 : American Indian policy : The Indian Citizenship Act gives Indians full civil rights in the United States .
- 1946 : In Italy, a referendum is held on the country's future form of government.
- 1953 : Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is crowned at Westminster Abbey in London .
- 1967 : During the demonstration against the Shah of Persia in West Berlin on June 2, 1967 , student Benno Ohnesorg is shot by Chief Detective Karl-Heinz Kurras . The name of the left-wing extremist terrorist organization Movement June 2nd, later founded , refers to this event.
- 1974 : In Bhutan is Jigme Singye Wangchuck crowned king.
- 1976 : Former President of Bolivia , Juan José Torres Gonzáles , is kidnapped and murdered in Operation Condor in Buenos Aires. It remains to be seen whether his successor in office Hugo Banzer Suárez is involved.
- 1976 : The third cod war between Iceland and the United Kingdom comes to an interim contractual conclusion. The British government recognizes the 200 nautical mile zone claimed by Iceland - and only later regulated under international law .
- 1979 : The second Uganda-Tanzania war ends with the defeat of the Ugandan troops commanded by dictator Idi Amin .
- 2000 : Japan's Prime Minister Yoshirō Mori dissolves parliament and calls for new elections.
- 2004 : Five employees of the aid organization Doctors Without Borders are murdered in an ambush in Afghanistan .
- 2007 : In Rostock, during a demonstration against the G8 summit in Heiligendamm , serious riots broke out between members of the black bloc and the police.
- 2012 : At the electoral party conference of the Left in Göttingen, the delegates vote for Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger as new party leaders.
- 2012 : A criminal court sentenced former Egyptian President Husni Mubarak to life imprisonment in connection with the deadly violence against demonstrators .
- 2014 : The new state of Telangana is formed in India .
economy
- 1782 : In Madrid , with the permission and under the patronage of King Charles III. founded the Banco Nacional de San Carlos . The central bank Banco de España emerges from it .
science and technology
- 1858 : Comet Donati (C / 1858 L1) , one of the great comets of the 19th century, is discovered by the Italian astronomer Giambattista Donati . In the months that followed, the population was afraid of impending disaster in view of the celestial appearance visible to the naked eye.
- 1896 : Guglielmo Marconi applies for British patent number 12.039 for his invention of a device for transmitting electrical impulses and signals , the basis for a radio . A US court later declared Nikola Tesla to be its inventor .
- 1906 : The Teltow Canal , which connects the Havel with the Dahme , is ceremoniously opened. It goes back to an initiative by Ernst von Stubenrauch .
- 1915 : Albert Einstein , who has worked in Berlin since March 1914, gives a public lecture on the relativity of motion and gravity in the Treptower observatory .
- 1966 : The Americans land the first soft moon landing with Surveyor 1 .
- 1991 : With the timetable change, the Deutsche Bundesbahn uses the Intercity Express , the ICE 1 , for the first time .
- 1991 : The Stockholm Djurgårdslinie , a tram line that was closed in 1967, starts operating as a museum railway.
- 2001 : The unmanned experimental aircraft Boeing X-43A from NASA completes its maiden flight. However, this test flight is aborted after 13 seconds, as a malfunction has caused the Pegasus missile to which the aircraft is connected to get out of control.
- 2003 : The space probe Mars-Express takes off from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan .
Culture
- 1771 : The opera Armida by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Marco Coltellini has its first performance at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- 1800 : First performance of the opera Cesare in Farmacusa by Antonio Salieri at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
- 1855 : First performance of the comic opera Jenny Bell by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber at the Paris Opéra-Comique .
- 1911 : The opera Isabeau by Pietro Mascagni is premiered under the direction of the composer at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The libretto of the leggenda drammatica in three acts comes from Luigi Illica . The story of Lady Godiva served as inspiration . The opera quickly became popular and inspired a number of other operas based on legends.
- 1937 : The unfinished opera Lulu by the Austrian composer Alban Berg premiered posthumously at the Zurich Opera House . The literary models for the work are the two tragedies Erdgeist and The Pandora's Box by Frank Wedekind , the wording of which the composer has left almost unchanged. The work also celebrates a success as a fragment.
- 1966 : World premiere of the playful opera Seventeen Days and Four Minutes by Werner Egk at the Stuttgart State Theater .
- 1973 : The Van Gogh Museum opens in Amsterdam .
- 1980 : The sale of Ernő Rubik's Rubik's Cube begins in Germany.
- 1983 : The Senegalese poet and statesman Léopold Sédar Senghor becomes the first African member of the Académie française .
society
- 1420 : The English King Heinrich V and Catherine of Valois , the daughter of the previous French King Charles VI. , marry.
- 1886 : Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House . It is the only wedding so far in the official residence of the US President .
religion
- 575 : Pope Benedict I takes office.
- 1537 : In the bull Sublimis Deus , Pope Paul III forbids the enslavement of Indians and all other people.
- 1979 : Pope John Paul II visits his home country Poland for the first time since his election on a trip abroad . He is the first Pope to travel to a communist- ruled state.
Disasters
- 1965 : A hurricane in eastern Pakistan claims around 30,000 lives.
- 1994 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 on Java , Indonesia, calls for 277 human lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1900 : FC 1900 Kaiserslautern is founded through the merger of two clubs , from which the 1. FC Kaiserslautern emerges after further mergers .
- 2007 : THW Kiel becomes German handball champion for the 13th time. He is the sole record champion. At the same time, the club achieved the triple with winning the Champions League, the DHB Cup and the German championship.
- 2012 : THW Kiel wins the German handball championship for the 17th time. In the 2011/2012 Bundesliga season , he achieved a unique achievement in German professional sport, winning all games and finishing the season with no loss points after 34 games. In addition to the championship, he again achieved the triple with victory in the Champions League and the DHB Cup.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same is true for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1305 : Abū Saʿīd , Ilchan of Persia
- 1424 : Ferdinand I , King of Naples
- 1448 : Domenico Ghirlandaio , Florentine Renaissance painter
- 1489 : Charles de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme
- 1502 : Guillaume Bigot , French poet, philosopher and doctor
- 1535 : Leo XI. , Italian Pope
- 1587 : Anders Christensen Arrebo , Danish clergyman and writer
- 1593 : Samuel Edel , German theologian
- 1621 : Rutger von Ascheberg , German-Baltic field marshal
- 1693 : Alexei Petrovich Bestuschew-Ryumin , Russian field marshal and imperial chancellor
- 1693 : Johann Ernst Rentzsch (the Younger) , German painter
- 1698 : Jean-Michel Papillon , French artisan, draftsman, wood cutter and encyclopaedist
- 1699 : Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin , French author and Salonnière of the Enlightenment
18th century
- 1702 : Peter Gerwin von Franken-Siersdorf , Vicar General in Cologne
- 1702 : Zenón de Somodevilla y Bengoechea , Spanish statesman and reformer
- 1736 : Albrecht Georg Walch , German educator
- 1740 : Donatien Alphonse François de Sade , French writer, namesake of sadism
- 1748 : José Lidón , Spanish composer
- 1765 : Ferdinand Wurzer , German chemist
- 1780 : Heinrich Leonhard Heubner , German theologian
- 1787 : Nils Gabriel Sefström , Swedish chemist
- 1793 : Jakob Josef Eeckhout , Belgian painter and lithographer
- 1800 : Nicholas Trist , American diplomat
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : August Wilhelm Bullrich , German pharmacist
- 1802 : Carl Hoffmann , German publisher, print shop owner and bookseller
- 1806 : Rudolf Anger , German theologian and philosopher
- 1811 : Carl Hinstorff , German publisher
- 1813 : Tassilo Festetics , Austrian officer
- 1813 : Daniel Pollen , Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1816 : Grace Aguilar , British writer of Sephardic descent
- 1821 : Ion C. Brătianu , Romanian Prime Minister
- 1827 : Bertha Augusti , German writer
- 1828 : James Cutler Dunn Parker , American composer
- 1830 : Olivier Métra , French composer and conductor
- 1831 : Max Abraham , German music publisher
- 1831 : Gustave Lefèvre , French composer and music teacher
- 1832 : Charles Colin , French oboist, organist, music educator and composer
- 1834 : Teresa Stolz , Czech opera singer, Verdi interpreter († 1902 )
- 1835 : Pius X , Pope
- 1840 : Thomas Hardy , British writer
- 1842 : Norbert Hanrieder , Austrian dialect poet
- 1849 : Albert Besnard , French painter
1851-1900
- 1857 : Edward Elgar , British composer
- 1857 : Karl Gjellerup , Danish writer
- 1863 : Felix Weingartner , Austrian conductor and composer
- 1866 : Georg Steinhausen , German librarian and cultural scientist
- 1872 : Carl Ebbinghaus , German sculptor and medalist
- 1875 : Emil Abel , Austrian chemist
- 1876 : Hakon Børresen , Danish composer
- 1877 : Wilhelm Krieger , German sculptor
- 1877 : Gustave Samazeuilh , French composer and music critic
- 1877 : Friedrich Wiegershaus , German national politician
- 1878 : Alfredo Gómez Jaime , Colombian poet
- 1878 : Rudolf Löw , Swiss painter and writer
- 1881 : Heinrich Achenbach , German politician, MdL
- 1882 : Rudolf Bingel , German engineer and industrialist
- 1883 : August Ackermann , Swiss pastor and publicist
- 1883 : Henri Stoffel , French racing car driver
- 1884 : Ferdinando Minoia , Italian racing car driver
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- 1885 : Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt , German neurologist
- 1887 : Karl Anton , German theologian
- 1888 : Hans Karl Breslauer , Austrian film director and writer
- 1889 : Erik Jan Hanussen , Austrian clairvoyant
- 1890 : Luigi Arrigoni , Italian Archbishop
- 1894 : Wilhelm Abeln , German farmer and politician
- 1895 : Tibor Radó , Hungarian mathematician
- 1899 : Lotte Reiniger , German cutter, silhouette animation filmmaker and book illustrator
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Owen Saunders-Davies , British racing car driver
- 1901 : Paul Smalian , German painter
- 1902 : Giuseppe Lepori , Swiss politician, Federal Councilor
- 1902 : Joachim von Elbe , German lawyer and diplomat
- 1903 : Max Aub , Spanish writer
- 1903 : Sidney Robertson Cowell , American ethnographer and anthropologist
- 1904 : František Plánička , Czech football player
- 1904 : Johnny Weissmüller , American swimmer and film actor, Olympic champion
- 1905 : Max Fürst , German writer
- 1906 : Carlo Scarpa , Italian architect
- 1907 : Richard Lauffen , German actor
- 1908 : Rosa Arnsberg , promoter of understanding between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans
- 1908 : Rudolf Brandt , German administrative lawyer and SS officer, personal assistant to Heinrich Himmler, war criminal
- 1909 : Robin Orr , British composer from Scotland
- 1910 : Walter MacNutt , Canadian organist, composer, choir director and music teacher
- 1911 : Karl Rührschneck , German motorcycle racing driver
- 1913 : Barbara Pym , British writer
- 1914 : Saba Youakim , Lebanese Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia (Jordan)
- 1917 : Heinz Sielmann , German animal filmmaker
- 1918 : Ruth Atkinson , Canadian comic book writer and cartoonist
- 1919 : Pétur Sigurgeirsson , Icelandic theologian and bishop
- 1920 : Gino Cappello , Italian football player
- 1920 : Frank G. Clement , American politician
- 1920 : Marcel Reich-Ranicki , German literary critic of Polish origin
- 1920 : Tex Schramm , American football official
- 1922 : Ruth Bunkenburg , German actress, writer and radio play speaker
- 1922 : Clair Cameron Patterson , American geochemist
- 1923 : Fritz Baier , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1923 : Margot Trooger , German actress
1926-1950
- 1927 : Ladislav Alster , Czechoslovak chess player and journalist
- 1927 : Carl Butler , American country singer
- 1929 : Günter Siefarth , German journalist
- 1929 : Juan Venegas , Puerto Rican boxer
- 1930 : Ija Alexejewna Arepina , Soviet actress
- 1931 : Anders Ehnmark , Swedish journalist and writer
- 1932 : Andor Losonczy , Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist
- 1932 : Makoto Oda , Japanese writer
- 1934 : Josef Ammann , Swiss contemporary artist
- 1934 : Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , German soccer player and coach
- 1935 : Samuel Jones , American composer and conductor
- 1935 : Wilhelm Wieben , German television presenter, actor and author
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- 1936 : Bazon Brock , German professor and art theorist
- 1936 : Volodymyr Holubnytschyj , Ukrainian walker, Olympic champion
- 1937 : Rosalyn Higgins , British lawyer, Member of the International Court of Justice
- 1937 : Jimmy Jones , American singer
- 1937 : Klaus-Michael Kühne , German entrepreneur and manager ( Kuehne + Nagel )
- 1939 : Stuart S. Antman , American mathematician
- 1940 : Bernd Giese , German chemist
- 1940 : Constantine II , last king of the Greeks, sailor and sports official, Olympic champion
- 1941 : Stacy Keach , American actor
- 1941 : Irène Schweizer , Swiss pianist and drummer
- 1941 : Charlie Watts , British drummer ( Rolling Stones )
- 1942 : Stefan Behrens , German actor and voice actor
- 1943 : Crescenzio Sepe , Italian Cardinal Curia, Archbishop of Naples
- 1943 : László Sillai , Hungarian wrestler, world champion
- 1943 : Graham Bonney , British singer
- 1944 : Marvin Hamlisch , American composer
- 1944 : Poul Høj Jensen , Danish regatta sailor and boat builder
- 1944 : Gerd Welz , German handball player and coach
- 1944 : Garo Yepremian , American football player
- 1945 : David Dundas , British singer
- 1945 : Richard Long , British artist
- 1945 : Hans-Bert Matoul , German football player
- 1946 : Lasse Hallström , Swedish director
- 1946 : Horst Pomplun , German entrepreneur
- 1947 : Heiderose Berroth , German politician, MdL
- 1947 : Eckhard Naumann , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Wittenberg
- 1949 : Szymon Kawalla , Polish composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher
- 1950 : Nicos Apostolidis , German-Greek musician
- 1950 : Rainer Riesner , German theologian
1951-1975
- 1952 : Hildegard Krekel , German actress
- 1952 : Pete Farndon , British rock musician
- 1953 : Vidar Johansen , Norwegian jazz musician
- 1954 : Allen Emerson , American computer scientist
- 1955 : Lobo , Dutch singer
- 1955 : Nickie Antonio , American politician
- 1955 : Michael Steele , American musician
- 1957 : Sara Douglass , Australian author
- 1958 : Andreas KW Meyer , German music dramaturge and journalist
- 1959 : Lydia Lunch , American singer, poet and actress
- 1959 : Michel Aoun , Lebanese priest and bishop
- 1960 : Tony Hadley , British singer
- 1960 : Olga Petrovna Bondarenko , Russian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1961 : Manfred Ahne , German ice hockey player
- 1962 : Sibylle Berg , German-Swiss writer and journalist
- 1962 : Joseph Hannesschläger , German actor
- 1963 : Robert Friedl , Austrian jazz saxophonist
- 1964 : Caroline Link , German director and screenwriter
- 1965 : Werner Boats , Austrian film director and author
- 1965 : Jens-Peter Herold , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1966 : Pedro Guerra , Spanish songwriter
- 1967 : Axel Holst , German actor and director
- 1967 : Andreas Tam , German handball player and coach
- 1968 : Flemming Andersen , Danish comic artist
- 1968 : Talant Dujshebaev , Spanish handball player and coach
- 1969 : Kurt Abbott , American baseball player
- 1969 : Paulo Sérgio , Brazilian soccer player
- 1970 : Dr. Ring-Ding , German ska and reggae artist
- 1970 : B-Real , American rapper
- 1971 : Anthony Montgomery , American comedian and actor
- 1972 : Wayne Brady , American comedian, presenter, and singer
- 1972 : Wentworth Miller , American actor
- 1973 : Carlos Acosta , Cuban ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1973 : Kevin Feige , American film producer
- 1974 : Sergei Valentinovich Pogorelow , Russian handball player
- 1974 : Henning Siemens , German handball player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Earl Boykins , American basketball player
- 1977 : AJ Styles , American wrestler
- 1977 : Bettina Lamprecht , German actress
- 1978 : Nikki Cox , American actress
- 1978 : Yi So-yeon , South Korean astronaut
- 1979 : Morena Baccarin , Brazilian actress
- 1980 : Ane Stangeland Horpestad , Norwegian soccer player
- 1981 : Nikolai Vladimirovich Dawydenko , Russian tennis player
- 1982 : Whitney N. Able , American actress
- 1982 : Nicolai Hansen , Danish handball player
- 1982 : Jewel Staite , Canadian actress
- 1983 : Fredrik Stenman , Swedish football player
- 1983 : Hüsni Tahiri , Albanian football player
- 1983 : Aline Zeler , Belgian soccer player
- 1985 : Christian Aigner , Austrian handball player
- 1985 : Bella Gesser , Israeli chess player
- 1985 : Magomed Ibragimov , Uzbek wrestler
- 1986 : Angelina Probst , German artist
- 1987 : John Anderson , Australian road cyclist
- 1987 : Tobias Arlt , German luge rider
- 1987 : Darin , Swedish singer
- 1987 : Benjamin Kirsten , German soccer player
- 1987 : Nathalie Thiede , German actress
- 1988 : Sergio Agüero , Argentinian football player
- 1988 : Umut Koçin , Turkish football player
- 1989 : Freddy Adu , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1989 : Liviu Antal , Romanian football player
- 1989 : Davide Appollonio , Italian road cyclist
- 1990 : Brittany Curran , American actress
- 1990 : Oliver Baumann , German soccer player
- 1990 : Jonathan Benninghaus , German handball player
- 1990 : Eddie Lacy , American football player
- 1990 : Sebastián Saavedra , Colombian racing driver
- 1991 : Pia Hildebrand , German handball player
- 1992 : Þorgerður Anna Atladóttir , Icelandic handball player
- 1992 : Alexander Schwolow , German soccer player
- 1993 : Tjark Müller , German handball player
- 1994 : Antonio Spavone , Italian racing car driver
- 1994 : Kwame Yeboah , Australian soccer player
- 1999 : Madison Leisle , American actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- 193 : Didius Julianus , Roman emperor
- 657 : Eugene I , Pope
- 768 : Waifar , Duke of Aquitaine
- 891 : Al-Muwaffaq , ruling regent under Caliph al-Mutamid
- 910 : Richildis of Provence , wife of Charles II the Bald and Queen of West Franconia
- 959 : Odo of Canterbury , English archbishop
- 995 : Fujiwara no Michitsuna no Haha , Japanese poet
- 1010 : Ermengol I , Count of Urgell
- 1072 : Stephan von Hälsingland , first bishop of Hälsingland
- 1163 : San Juan de Ortega , Spanish saint and bridge builder
- 1209 : Heinrich von Tunna , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1257 : Stephen Bauzan , English knight and military man
- 1258 : Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln , English nobleman
- 1258 : Peter of Portugal , Count of Urgell and Lord of Mallorca
- 1267 : Heinrich I , Prince-Bishop of Utrecht
- 1280 : Jolanthe of Burgundy , Countess of Nevers and Countess of Auxerre and Tonnerre
- 1292 : Rhys ap Maredudd , Prince of Deheubarth
- 1324 : Isabella of Ibelin , Queen of Cyprus and Jerusalem
- 1418 : Catherine of Lancaster , Queen of Castile
- 1438 : Richard d'Étampes , Breton nobleman
- 1453 : Álvaro de Luna , favorite of John II and ruler of Castile
- 1489 : Michael Czacheritz , provost of the Augustinian canons in Glatz, which belongs to the Archdiocese of Prague
- 1519 : Philip of Luxembourg , cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1556 : Francesco Venier , 81st Doge of Venice
- 1562 : Thomas III. Nádasdy , Hungarian magnate and palatine of the king
- 1572 : Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman
- 1581 : James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton , Scottish nobleman
- 1597 : Dietrich Sonoy , Dutch warlord
- 1599 : Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
17th and 18th centuries
- 1609 : Poul Cypræus , Danish lawyer, historian and diplomat
- 1632 : Ernst Casimir , Count of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- 1660 : Gesche Köllers , victim of the witch persecution in Loccum
- 1664 : Henri II. De Lorraine , Duke of Guise
- 1666 : Andreas Koch , Protestant pastor at the Church of St. Nicolai in Lemgo and victim of the witch madness
- 1671 : Sophie Eleonore of Saxony , Landgrave of Hessen-Darmstadt
- 1699 : Heinrich Friedrich , Count of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- 1701 : Madeleine de Scudéry , French Baroque writer
- 1712 : Joseph II , Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Diyarbakir
- 1716 : Ogata Kōrin , Japanese painter and lacquer artist
- 1761 : Jonas Alströmer , Swedish agricultural and industrial pioneer
- 1761 : Joseph Anton Gabaleon von Wackerbarth-Salmour , electoral Saxon politician
- 1768 : Moritz Casimir I of Bentheim-Tecklenburg , reg. Count of Tecklenburg and Limburg, Lord of Rheda
- 1776 : John Thomas , American physician and major general
- 1780 : Józef Baka , Polish Jesuit priest, missionary, preacher and poet
- 1785 : Jean Paul de Gua de Malves , French clergyman and mathematician
- 1785 : Gottfried August Homilius , German composer, cantor and organist
- 1794 : Friedrich von Anhalt , Count of Anhalt
- 1794 : Gottlieb Lebrecht Spohn , German educator, philologist and Protestant theologian
19th century
- 1815 : Friedrich Carl Arndt , German lawyer, city judge and mayor
- 1825 : Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa , German novelist and comedy poet
- 1835 : François-Etienne Kellermann , French cavalry general
- 1837 : Aloys Wagner , German Catholic clergyman
- 1846 : Julius von den Brinken , German forester and Polish general forest master
- 1860 : Leopold von Orlich , German officer and writer
- 1866 : Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi , Venezuelan national heroine
- 1872 : Karl Bernhard Hundeshagen , German Reformed theologian
- 1875 : Hirsch Aub , German rabbi
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- 1882 : Giuseppe Garibaldi , Italian freedom fighter and politician, main figure in the Italian unification movement ( Risorgimento ), national hero
- 1885 : Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , German nobleman
- 1891 : Josiah Gardner Abbott , American politician, member of the US House of Representatives
- 1896 : Gerhard Rohlfs , German traveler to Africa and writer
20th century
1901 to 1925
- 1901 : Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg , German lawyer, landowner and politician
- 1908 : John DeWitt Clinton Atkins , American politician
- 1909 : Lucien Hillemacher , French composer
- 1910 : Eduard Locher , Swiss engineer, inventor and independent entrepreneur
- 1915 : Louis Tiercelin , French writer
- 1917 : Philipp Friedrich Mader , German theologian and priest
1926 to 1950
- 1926 : William Boog Leishman , British medic
- 1926 : Marie Roze , French opera singer
- 1927 : Friedrich Hegar , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1927 : Hüseyin Avni Lifij , Ottoman-Turkish painter
- 1931 : Alberto Orrego Luco , Chilean painter
- 1932 : Elise Rosalie Aun , Estonian writer
- 1932 : John Walter Gregory , British geologist
- 1933 : Bess Brenck-Kalischer , German poet
- 1933 : Frank Jarvis , American athlete
- 1937 : Louis Victor Jules Vierne , French organist and composer
- 1939 : Enrique Fernández Arbós , Spanish violinist, conductor and composer
- 1941 : Lou Gehrig , American baseball player
- 1942 : Bunny Berigan , American jazz trumpeter
- 1944 : Julius Graumann , German painter
- 1944 : Zikmund Schul , German composer
- 1944 : Fritz Beindorff , German entrepreneur
- 1947 : Jesse Reno , American engineer
- 1948 : Viktor Brack , German SS officer, co-organizer of the Nazi euthanasia murders ( Action T4 ), war criminal
- 1948 : Karl Brandt , German surgical doctor accompanying Adolf Hitler, General of the SS and Waffen-SS, head of Aktion Brandt , war criminal
- 1948 : Rudolf Brandt , German administrative lawyer, SS officer, personal assistant to Heinrich Himmler , war criminal
- 1948 : Georges Casse , French racing car driver
- 1948 : Karl Gebhardt , German free corps fighter and surgeon, general of the SS and Waffen-SS, personal physician of Heinrich Himmler , primarily responsible for human experiments , war criminal
- 1948 : Waldemar Hoven , German camp doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp , officer of the SS and Waffen-SS, responsible for human experiments and selections with fatal consequences, war criminal
- 1948 : Joachim Mrugowsky , German doctor, officer of the SS and Waffen-SS, head of the hygiene institute of the Waffen-SS and head of human experiments, war criminal
- 1948 : Wolfram Sievers , German SS officer, managing director of the National Socialist Research Association for German Ahnenerbe , war criminal
1951 to 1975
- 1956 : Arthur Adolph , German municipal official and politician, MdR
- 1956 : Jean Hersholt , Danish-American actor
- 1958 : Erwin Bauer , German racing car driver
- 1961 : Louis de Wohl , German writer and astrologer
- 1961 : George Simon Kaufman , American author
- 1962 : Vita Sackville-West , British writer and garden designer
- 1962 : William E. Zeuch , American organist
- 1963 : Gustav Abel , Austrian film architect and stage designer
- 1963 : Josef Beyerle , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament and State Minister
- 1966 : François Ayoub , Syrian Archbishop
- 1967 : Clarence Ashley , American old-time and folk singer
- 1967 : Benno Ohnesorg , German student, victim of a police operation, member of the West German student movement
- 1968 : André Mathieu , Canadian pianist and composer
- 1970 : Bruce McLaren , New Zealand racing car driver and founder of the McLaren Formula 1 team
- 1970 : Giuseppe Ungaretti , Italian writer
- 1971 : Adolf Hempel , German general
- 1972 : Franz Philipp German church musician and composer
- 1973 : Carl Becker , German classical philologist
- 1974 : Arnold Lunn , British ski pioneer, mountaineer and writer
1976 to 2000
- 1976 : Fred von Hoerschelmann , German writer and radio play author
- 1977 : Henri Gagnebin , Swiss composer
- 1982 : Herbert Quandt , German industrialist
- 1982 : Willie Smith , English snooker and English billiards player
- 1983 : Gerhard Kienle , German anthroposophist, doctor, university founder, scientific theorist
- 1983 : Paul Meissner , Austrian painter
- 1984 : François de Menthon , French lawyer and politician, lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals
- 1986 : Erwin Grochla , German business economist
- 1987 : Sammy Kaye , American orchestra conductor and composer
- 1987 : Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist
- 1988 : Horace Hildreth , American politician, governor of the state of Maine
- 1988 : Nasib Gajasowitsch Schiganow , Russian composer
- 1989 : Guido Agosti , Italian pianist
- 1990 : Rex Harrison , English actor
- 1991 : Ahmed Arif , Turkish poet
- 1992 : Wilfried Dietrich , German wrestler
- 1993 : Tahar Djaout , Algerian journalist, poet and prose writer
- 1995 : Elsa Blöcher , German teacher, historian and book author
- 1996 : John Alton , American cinematographer, Oscar winner
- 1996 : Amos Tversky , Israeli psychologist
- 1997 : Lukas Aurednik , Austrian soccer player
- 1997 : Helen Jacobs , American tennis player
- 1999 : Junior Braithwaite , Jamaican musician, co-founder of The Wailers
- 1999 : Kenny Parchman , American rockabilly musician
- 2000 : Svyatoslaw Nikolajewitsch Fjodorow , Russian eye surgeon, businessman and politician
21st century
- 2000 : Adolph Hofner , American country musician
- 2002 : Boyd Bennett , American songwriter, drummer, and rock 'n' roll singer
- 2002 : Günther Schubert , German football goalkeeper
- 2004 : Nikolaj Gjaurow , Bulgarian-Austrian opera singer
- 2004 : Jonathan D. Kramer , American composer, musicologist and teacher
- 2004 : Dominic Francis Moraes , Indian writer, poet and journalist
- 2005 : Samir Kassir , Lebanese journalist
- 2005 : Stefan Knafl , Austrian politician
- 2005 : Melita Norwood , British secretary and spy for the Soviet Union
- 2006 : Vince Welnick , American keyboardist
- 2007 : Wolfgang Hilbig , German writer
- 2007 : Huang Ju , Chinese politician
- 2008 : Bo Diddley , American rock and blues musician
- 2008 : Mel Ferrer , American actor, film director and producer
- 2009 : Horst Siebert , German economist
- 2009 : Rudolf Springer , German art dealer and gallery owner
- 2010 : Luigi Colturi , Italian ski racer
- 2010 : Giuseppe Taddei , Italian opera singer
- 2011 : Erika Streit , Swiss painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- 2012 : Richard Dawson , American actor
- 2012 : Kathryn Joosten , American actress
- 2013 : Mario Bernardi , Canadian conductor and pianist
- 2014 : Alexander Shulgin , American chemist and pharmacologist
- 2015 : Fernando de Araújo , East Timorese politician
- 2017 : Jeffrey Tate , British conductor
- 2018 : Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt , Austrian behavioral scientist
- 2019 : Walter Lübcke , German politician
- 2020 : Werner Böhm , German musician
- 2020 : Wes Unseld , American basketball player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial day
- St. Blandina , Roman slave, martyr and patron saint (Protestant, Catholic)
- Johann Friedrich Oberlin , Alsatian pastor and benefactor (Protestant)
- St. Moses the Ethiopian , North African hermit, priest and martyr (Armenian)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- More information about the day
- International Whore Day (since 1975)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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