2nd March
The March 2 is the 61st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 62nd in leap years ), thus remain 304 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 986 : After the death of Lothar I , Ludwig V was the last Carolingian to ascend the throne of the West Franconian Empire .
- 1476 : The Confederates defeat the Burgundian Duke Charles the Bold in the Battle of Grandson , one of the three great battles of the Burgundian Wars .
- 1689 : The French leaving Heidelberg under the command of the Comte de Mélac set parts of the city and its castle on fire during the War of the Palatinate Succession . The devastation goes back to an order from the War Minister Marquis de Louvois .
- 1796 : During the First Coalition War, Napoleon Bonaparte is entrusted by the French Directory with the supreme command of the Italian Army. The appointment reaches him while he is preparing to marry Joséphine de Beauharnais . On March 11th, he leaves for the upcoming Italian campaign .
- 1798 : The Canton of Thurgau is established in Switzerland , previously a common rule of the Old Confederation .
- 1814 : A Prussian army corps under Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz and a Russian corps under Ferdinand von Wintzingerode begin the siege of Soissons during the wars of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte , which ends the next day with the surrender of the city .
- 1835 : After the death of his father Franz I , Ferdinand I becomes Emperor of Austria .
- 1836 : Texas , relying on the assistance of the United States, declares independence from Mexico . The Mexican President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna immediately leads troops against the insurgents commanded by Sam Houston .
- 1855 : Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia during the Crimean War after his father Nicholas I dies.
- 1861 : From parts of the Minnesota Territory and the Nebraska Territory , the Dakota Territory is combined as the Territory of the United States . The territorial capital of the area, which includes the present-day US states of South and North Dakota as well as large parts of Montana and Wyoming , is Yankton .
- 1877 : The electoral commission formed because of the controversial US presidential election in 1876 to review the counting of votes decides that the voters in three southern states that tip the scales have voted for the Republican candidate. Rutherford B. Hayes is therefore inaugurated as President of the United States three days later .
- 1882 : The presumably mentally confused Roderick Maclean assassinated the British Queen Victoria .
- 1900 : During the Second Boer War, troops of the British Empire regain control of Ladysmith , the third largest city in the British colony of Natal in South Africa , which was previously besieged by the Boers .
- 1901 : After the victory in the Spanish-American War, the United States Congress passes the Platt Amendment , which, under pressure from the USA, later becomes part of the Cuban constitution and restricts Cuban sovereignty.
- 1919 : The founding congress of the Third International begins in Moscow in the midst of the war communism . The main participating parties are the Communist Party of Russia (B) and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD).
- 1935 : King Rama VII abdicates in Thailand . His nine-year-old nephew Rama VIII becomes the new ruler, but mostly stays abroad because of his education in Switzerland.
- 1938 : The third of the Moscow trials of Stalin's Great Terror against 21 supporters of Leon Trotsky begins. Alexei Rykow , Nikolai Bukharin , Genrich Jagoda , Nikolai Krestinski , Christian Rakowski and 16 other functionaries are accused .
- 1943 : The Battle of the Bismarck Sea begins in the Pacific War and lasts until March 4th. US Army Air Forces and Royal Australian Air Force planes fight a Japanese convoy consisting of destroyers and troop carriers .
- 1955 : In Cambodia , King Norodom abdicates Sihanouk. He renounces the Cambodian throne in favor of his father Norodom Suramarit .
- 1956 : Morocco declares its independence from France . Since France is currently in the Algerian war, it accepts the declaration of independence of this part of French North Africa .
- 1962 : General Ne Win carries out a coup d'etat against Prime Minister U Nu in Burma , now Myanmar . After he came to power, he completely isolated the country.
- 1969 : During the Sino-Soviet rift , fighting between Soviet and Chinese border patrols on the Ussuri river , killing soldiers on both sides.
- 1970 : The former British colony of Rhodesia , later Zimbabwe , declares itself a republic five years after the unilateral declaration of independence. However, apart from South Africa , the state is not recognized by any other state.
- 1972 : Thomas Weisbecker , a member of the June 2nd Movement , is shot dead while trying to arrest in Augsburg.
- 1974 : The last execution is carried out in French-speaking Spain . The anarchist Salvador Puig Antich and the German refugee Georg Michael Welzel are killed with the Garrotte for the murder of a Guardia Civil officer .
- 1975 : The Kenyan opposition politician and former Mau Mau fighter Josiah Mwangi Kariuki falls victim to an unresolved murder during the reign of Jomo Kenyatta .
- 1989 : Twelve nations of the European Community decide to ban all chlorofluorocarbons by the end of the 20th century .
- 1989 : After months of shadowing, the German police smashed the hacking group around Karl Koch and Markus Hess, who were responsible for the KGB hack .
- 1999 : An Argentine court decides that Thomas Drach , the Reemtsma kidnapper, may be extradited to Germany.
- 2000 : The Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet is released from house arrest in London.
- 2004 : 270 people are killed in Karbala in the worst attacks during the occupation since the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq .
- 2008 : In the Russian Federation , Dmitri Anatoljewitsch Medvedev is elected to succeed Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin as President of Russia .
- 2009 : The President of Guinea-Bissau , João Bernardo Vieira , is murdered by insurgent troops in an attack.
- 2010 : The Federal Constitutional Court rejects data retention in its previous form as unconstitutional. It interferes with the basic rights of all users of electronic services without cause and does not contain any security measures for data protection .
economy
- 1619 : The Hamburg bank , founded by the City Council of Hamburg to facilitate trade for merchants, starts business operations.
- 1810 : In London, the first starts gas works with the power supply . By means of a coke oven is coal gasified .
- 1987 : The Chrysler Group takes over the American Motors Corporation , whereby their cooperation with Renault ends.
- 1995 : David Filo and Jerry Yang convert the Internet portal Yahoo , which they founded in 1994, into a public company.
- 2009 : The US insurance company American International Group (AIG) publishes its official figures for the fourth quarter of 2008 in New York - with 61.7 billion US dollars, the highest quarterly loss in US economic history. As a result, the state has to step in with a total of 180 billion dollars in aid.
science and technology
- 1818 : The Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzoni rediscovered the burial chamber in the Chephren pyramid , but found only an empty sarcophagus in it .
- 1949 : After 94 hours in the air that meets Boeing B-50 A Lucky Lady II with the crew to the pilots James G. Gallagher after the first nonstop - circumnavigation on the Texas Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth one. The machine was refueled several times during its flight.
- 1955 : The Dassault Super Mystère , the first Western European supersonic aircraft built by the French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation , makes its maiden flight .
- 1958 : The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition under polar explorer Vivian Fuchs and with Edmund Hillary arrives at Scott Base . She crossed the Antarctic continent and covered 3,440 km in 99 days.
- 1969 : The prototype of the supersonic airliner Concorde has in Toulouse its first flight.
- 1972 : The US Pioneer 10 space probe is launched on board an Atlas Centaur rocket in the direction of the outer planets .
- 1978 : The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 28 takes off from the Baikonur spaceport to the Salyut 6 space station as part of the Soyuz program . In addition to the commander Alexei Alexandrovich Gubarew , the first spaceman, who is neither from the USA nor from the USSR, the Czech flight engineer Vladimír Remek, is on board .
- 2004 : ESA launches the Rosetta probe with an Ariane 5 G + rocket to explore the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet , which it should reach in 2014.
Culture
- 1808 : The comedy The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist is premiered by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in Weimar with little success.
- 1815 : The world premiere of the comic opera The Princess of Cacambo by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner takes place in Munich.
- 1839 : The opera La Sposa di Messina by Nicola Vaccai is performed for the first time at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
- 1852 : La Tradita , a melodramma in four acts by Gualtiero Sanelli, is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
- 1889 : The first performance of the operetta Capitain Fracassa by Rudolf Dellinger takes place at the Carl Schultze Theater in Hamburg .
- 1907 : The operetta A Waltz Dream by Oscar Straus with the libretto by Felix Dörmann is premiered at the Carltheater in Vienna.
- 1923 : The animal story Bambi is published by Ullstein Verlag in Berlin . A life story from the forest by Felix Salten .
- 1933 : The movie King Kong and the white woman of RKO Pictures by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack , with Fay Wray in the lead role, has its premiere in New York City. Edgar Wallace , among others, worked on the script of the first King Kong film .
- 1937 : The opera Massimilla Doni by Othmar Schoeck based on the novella of the same name by Honoré de Balzac is premiered at the State Opera in Dresden.
- 1937 : The world premiere of Frank Capra's classic Lost Horizon takes place in San Francisco , which was later cut and edited several times in the USA for propaganda purposes .
- 1939 : In New York's Radio City Music Hall has John Ford - Western Stagecoach premiere of the movie actor John Wayne helps his career.
- 1981 : The ARD night concert goes on air for the first time with classical music as a contrast to the ARD night express .
society
- 1861 : An association for the rescue of people at sea is founded in Emden , which is incorporated into the newly formed German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People four years later .
- 1998 : Ten year old Natascha Kampusch is kidnapped in Austria. The police investigation did not lead to any tangible result until she managed to escape the perpetrator in 2006.
religion
Disasters
- 1825 : The Algerian city of Blida is almost completely destroyed by an earthquake that kills around 7,000 people.
- 1933 : The Shōwa-Sanriku earthquake with a magnitude of 8.4 on the Richter scale off Sanriku, Japan, including the tsunami, kills 2,990.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1899 : Mount Rainier National Park is established as the third national park in the United States . It is the area around the Mount Rainier volcano in Washington State .
- 1905 : On the Balearic island of Mallorca is limestone cave system Coves dels Hams discovered.
Sports
- 1962 : Basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in an NBA game for the Philadelphia Warriors in Hershey , Pennsylvania , against the New York Knicks .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1242 : Isabella of France , Queen of Navarre and Countess of Champagne
- 1316 : Robert II , King of Scotland
- 1378 : Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford , English nobleman
- 1409 : John II , Duke of Alençon, Count of Le Perche
- 1432 : Margarethe von Pfalz-Mosbach , Countess of Hanau
- 1459 : Hadrian VI. , (Adriaan Floriszoon Boeyens), Pope
- 1481 : Franz von Sickingen , leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knighthood
- 1522 : Heinrich Salmuth , German Protestant theologian
- 1544 : Thomas Bodley , English statesman and scholar
- 1578 : George Sandys , English traveler, colonist and poet
- 1603 : Pietro Novelli , Sicilian painter
- 1619 : Marcantonio Giustinian , 107th Doge of Venice
- 1621 : Ludwig Günther II von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , German count
- 1624 : Jacob Beutel , Kreuzkantor in Dresden
- 1628 : Cornelis Speelman , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1642 : Claudio Coello , Spanish painter
- 1646 : Johann Kasimir Röls , German Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1657 : Zacharias Steinel , Electoral Saxon Evangelical Lutheran. Theologian and pastor, multiple master's degree
- 1667 : Georg Melchior von Ludolf , German lawyer
- 1670 : Franz Kaspar Ferdinand von Landsberg zu Erwitte , Westphalian landlord, canon and civil servant
- 1683 : Hans Reinhold von Fersen , Swedish lieutenant general and politician of German-Baltic origin
18th century
- 1702 : Henriette Marie von Brandenburg-Schwedt , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1707 : Guillaume Barthez de Marmorières , French engineer and encyclopaedist
- 1707 : Louis-Michel van Loo , French portrait painter
- 1711 : Adam Herold , German educator and Protestant theologian
- 1716 : Itō Jakuchū , Japanese painter
- 1730 : Gottfried Christoph Beireis , German doctor and chemist
- 1751 : Thomas Blaikie , British garden architect from Scotland
- 1752 : Gerhard Anton von Halem , German lawyer and writer of the late Enlightenment
- 1754 : Joseph Albrecht von Ittner , German writer, lawyer and diplomat
- 1759 : Jean Baptiste Audebert , French naturalist and painter
- 1759 : Friedrich Haeffner , Swedish composer
- 1760 : Camille Desmoulins , French lawyer, Enlightenment journalist and one of the leaders of the French Revolution
- 1763 : Joseph von Utzschneider , German technician and entrepreneur
- 1769 : Ferdinand Hasenclever , German Protestant pastor and consistorial councilor
- 1770 : Louis Gabriel Suchet , Marshal of France, Duke of Albufera
- 1773 : August Schumann , German bookseller, publisher and lexicographer
- 1778 : Friederike zu Mecklenburg [-Strelitz], Duchess of Mecklenburg, Princess of Prussia, Princess of Solms-Braunfels and Queen of Hanover
- 1779 : Friedrich Eichhorn , Prussian statesman, Minister of Education
- 1784 : Gustav Adolf von Strantz , Prussian lieutenant general and commandant
- 1778 : William Austin , American lawyer, politician, and writer
- 1793 : Sam Houston , President of the Republic of Texas
- 1794 : Victor von Lepel , Hessian diplomat and politician
- 1800 : Yevgeny Abramowitsch Baratynski , Russian officer, writer and poet
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Andreas Peter Berggreen , Danish composer and organist
- 1802 : Simeon H. Anderson , American politician
- 1802 : Emil Wolff , German sculptor
- 1810 : Leo XIII. , Pope
- 1815 : Jakob Dont , Austrian violinist, violin teacher and composer
- 1816 : Adolf Hillmann , manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
- 1817 : János Arany , Hungarian poet
- 1817 : Georg Pfahler , German Catholic priest and politician
- 1819 : Alois Emanuel Biedermann , Reformed theologian from Switzerland
- 1820 : Multatuli , Dutch writer
- 1821 : Axel Adlercreutz , Swedish statesman
- 1822 : Eduard von Jachmann , German Vice Admiral
- 1824 : Bedřich Smetana , Czech composer
- 1827 : Giovanni Arcioni , Swiss writer
- 1829 : Carl Schurz , German politician and revolutionary, American general, historian and statesman
- 1831 : Gilles van Overbeek de Meijer , Dutch medic
- 1832 : Rudolf Löw , Swiss composer and organist
- 1835 : Hermann Jakob Dingelstad , German Roman Catholic theologian and bishop
- 1836 : John W. Foster , American politician
- 1836 : Theodor Nöldeke , German orientalist
- 1839 : Francis Planté , French pianist
- 1846 : Marie Roze , French opera singer
- 1846 : Teresa Manetti , founder of the Catholic order
- 1847 : Cayetano Arellano , Filipino lawyer
- 1847 : Max O'Rell , actually Léon Paul Blouet, French author and journalist
- 1849 : Anton Krettner , German politician and composer
1851-1900
- 1851 : Franz von Liszt , German criminal and international law expert, legal politician
- 1851 : Adolf Quensen , German court decoration and church painter of historicism
- 1853 : Ambrosius Hubrecht , Dutch zoologist
- 1856 : Adam Christ , German sculptor
- 1858 : Albert Schmidt , German politician
- 1859 : Scholem Alejchem , Russian-American Yiddish-speaking writer, classic of Yiddish literature
- 1860 : Auguste Fernbach , French biologist
- 1861 : Josef Moser , Austrian priest and entomologist
- 1868 : Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy , German banker and industrialist
- 1868 : Edmund Schulthess , Swiss politician
- 1872 : Rudolf Helm , German classical philologist
- 1874 : Neil Arnott , Scottish physician
- 1874 : Carl Schlechter , old Austrian chess player
- 1876 : Pius XII. , Pope
- 1877 : Luigi Maglione , Vatican diplomat, cardinal state secretary and cardinal to the curia
- 1878 : Wander Johannes de Haas , Dutch physicist and mathematician
- 1879 : Johann Viktor Bredt , German constitutional lawyer and politician
- 1879 : William Wallace Gilchrist , American painter
- 1880 : Ivar Kreuger , Swedish industrialist
- 1880 : Alfred J. Lotka , Austrian-American mathematician, chemist, ecologist and demographer
- 1881 : Jakob Rauch , German clergyman
- 1883 : Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek writer
- 1885 : Otto Lindpaintner , German aviation pioneer
- 1886 : Kurt Grelling , German mathematician, logician and philosopher
- 1886 : Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg , German officer, general of the tank troops
- 1886 : Willis O'Brien , American animation pioneer
- 1888 : Adolf Rading , German architect
- 1889 : Jodokus Kehrer , German police assistant and SA troop leader
- 1891 : Edmund Götz , German painter, graphic artist and educator
- 1892 : Heinrich Zerkaulen , German writer
- 1893 : Helena Makowska , Polish actress
- 1894 : Aloys Rüberg , German syndic of craftsmen's associations, civil servant and politician
- 1895 : Tage Aurell , Swedish writer, screenwriter, journalist and translator
- 1895 : Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta , Mexican media entrepreneur
- 1896 : Clair Bee , American basketball coach
- 1899 : Alessandro Vallebona , Italian radiologist, developer of tomography
- 1900 : Hasso von Etzdorf , German Consul General
- 1900 : Bruno Heusinger , German judge, second President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 1900 : Matilde Muñoz Sampedro , Spanish actress
- 1900 : Kurt Weill , German composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Edward Condon , American physicist
- 1902 : Blind Teddy Darby , American blues guitarist and singer
- 1903 : Fritz Giegold , German chess composer and chess player
- 1903 : Harry Giese , German actor and spokesman for Nazi newsreels
- 1904 : Theodor Seuss Geisel , American children's book author and cartoonist
- 1904 : Kurt Gildisch , German police officer and SS officer
- 1904 : Elsie Wisdom , British racing car driver
- 1905 : Marc Blitzstein , American composer
- 1905 : Leslie Callingham , British racing car driver
- 1905 : Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón , 31st President of Panama
- 1905 : Howard Garns , American Sudoku inventor
- 1905 : Herbert Gerigk , German musicologist and National Socialist ( Lexicon of Jews in Music )
- 1906 : Paul August , German painter and graphic artist
- 1908 : Walter Bruch , German electrical engineer, pioneer of German television, developer of the PAL color television system
- 1908 : Willi Steinhörster , German politician, MdL, MdB
- 1909 : Dante Maggio , Italian actor
- 1910 : Harry Blech , British conductor and violinist
- 1910 : Franz Ott , German expellee politician
- 1911 : Otmar Emminger , German economist and President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
- 1911 : Josef Krejci , Austrian handball player
- 1911 : Olivia Manning , British writer
- 1913 : Herbert Ansbach , German politician
- 1913 : Falk Harnack , German director and screenwriter, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1913 : Duke Nalon , American racing car driver
- 1914 : Edmond Dune , Luxembourgish author, poet and dramaturge
- 1914 : James Robert Knox , Archbishop of Melbourne and Cardinal
- 1914 : Kurt Kretschmann , German conservationist, inventor of the "black long-eared owl on a yellow background" nature protection shield
- 1914 : Martin Ritt , American film director
- 1915 : Lona Andre , American actress
- 1916 : Bernard Stevens , British composer and music teacher
- 1917 : Desi Arnaz , Colombian musician and actor
- 1918 : Helmut Lehmann , German mechanical engineer and President of the German Ceramic Society
- 1919 : Tibor Flórián , Hungarian chess player, chess composer, author and functionary
- 1919 : Jennifer Jones , American actress
- 1921 : Lykke Aresin , German doctor and sexologist
- 1921 : Wilhelm Büsing , German eventing rider
- 1921 : Kazimierz Górski , Polish football player and coach
- 1921 : Ernst Haas , Austrian-American photographer and author
- 1921 : Robert Simpson , British composer
- 1922 : Herbert Ahues , German chess composer and author
- 1922 : Elfriede Mohneke , German guard in the Ravensbrück and Uckermark concentration camps
- 1922 : Frances Spence , American programmer of the first all-electronic universal computer ( ENIAC )
- 1922 : Antonín Závodný , Czech composer
- 1924 : Wolf In der Maur , Austrian journalist and editor
- 1924 : Günter Waldorf , Austrian painter
1926-1950
- 1926 : Bernard Agré , Ivorian priest, Archbishop of Abidjan and Cardinal
- 1926 : Hermann Eiselen , German entrepreneur and patron
- 1927 : Erich Angermann , German historian
- 1927 : Olivier Larronde , French poet
- 1927 : Witold Szalonek , Polish composer
- 1927 : Roger Walkowiak , French racing cyclist
- 1928 : Kurt Ackermann , German architect
- 1928 : William Reynolds Archer Jr. , American politician
- 1928 : Gert Gütschow , German actor
- 1928 : Margot Kruse , German Romanist
- 1929 : Robert Richardson , British city commander
- 1930 : Sergei Kowaljow , biologist, Soviet dissident, Russian politician
- 1930 : Tom Wolfe , American writer, journalist, art and architecture critic
- 1931 : Mikhail Gorbachev , Russian politician, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the Soviet Union, President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1931 : Ottokar Uhl , Austrian architect
- 1932 : Jacob Austin , Canadian politician
- 1933 : Robert Abbott , American game designer
- 1933 : Anthea Askey , British actress
- 1933 : Peter Schlechtriem , German legal scholar
- 1933 : Nobuyoshi Tamura , Japanese Aikidō Grand Master
- 1933 : Werner Freund , German wolf researcher
- 1934 : Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn , German theologian
- 1935 : Horst Singer , German handball player
- 1936 : Buell Neidlinger , American double bass player, cellist and university professor
- 1937 : Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika , Algerian President
- 1938 : Pierre Aguet , Swiss politician
- 1938 : Ricardo Lagos , Chilean politician and president
- 1938 : Egon Matzner , Austrian economist and finance scientist
- 1938 : Slava Saizew , Russian fashion designer
- 1939 : Marcelle Deschênes , Canadian composer
- 1939 : BarBara Luna , American actress
- 1940 : Juraj Beneš , Slovak composer, teacher and pianist
- 1940 : Joyce Green , American rockabilly musician
- 1940 : Lothar de Maizière , German lawyer and politician, last Prime Minister of the GDR, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1940 : Klaus Rost , German wrestler
- 1942 : John Irving , American novelist
- 1942 : Lou Reed , American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( The Velvet Underground )
- 1943 : Gabriele Gast , German-German double agent
- 1943 : Tony Meehan , British drummer and producer
- 1943 : Peter Straub , American writer
- 1944 : Uschi Glas , German actress
- 1945 : Renato Berta , Swiss cameraman
- 1945 : Peter Lerchbaumer , Austrian actor
- 1945 : Elias Ravian , Papua New Guinea volcanologist
- 1945 : Michel Eustache Vilaire , Venezuelan choir conductor, music teacher and composer
- 1947 : Michael Frenzel , German lawyer and manager ( Preussag / TUI )
- 1947 : Søren Kragh-Jacobsen , Danish director
- 1947 : Yuri Matijassewitsch , Russian mathematician
- 1947 : Nelson Ned , Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1947 : Hans-Hermann Wendhausen , German politician and MdL
- 1947 : Wolfgang Wodarg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948 : Larry Carlton , American jazz / blues / fusion guitarist, singer, and record producer
- 1948 : Rory Gallagher , Irish guitarist
- 1948 : Andrei Linde , Russian cosmologist
- 1948 : Werner Pieper , German publisher
- 1948 : Achim Vandreike , German local politician
- 1948 : Dan Welcher , American musician and composer
- 1949 : Libero Gerosa , Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and canon lawyer
- 1949 : Gates McFadden , American actress
- 1949 : Isabelle Mir , French ski racer
- 1949 : Antonio Vodanovic , Chilean television presenter and journalist
- 1950 : Karen Carpenter , American singer
- 1950 : Nick MacKenzie , Dutch singer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Jan Gmyrek , Polish handball player and coach
- 1951 : Dagmar Mühlenfeld , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr
- 1951 : Erwin Hilbert , German painter, book author and songwriter
- 1952 : Nugsar Ashuba , Abkhazian politician
- 1953 : Petra Wernicke , German politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1955 : Shōkō Asahara , Japanese sect founder
- 1955 : Ute Granold , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1956 : Mark Evans , Australian bassist ( AC / DC )
- 1956 : Karl Freller , German politician, MdL
- 1956 : Eduardo Rodríguez , Bolivian lawyer and politician, President
- 1957 : Heinrich Schafmeister , German actor and singer
- 1958 : Kevin Curren , South African tennis player
- 1959 : Meta Niederkorn , Austrian historian
- 1959 : Michael Quast , German actor, cabaret artist, director and producer
- 1959 : Larry Stewart , American country singer
- 1960 : Lennart Ginman , Danish jazz bassist
- 1960 : Roald Goethe , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1960 : Peter F. Hamilton , British science fiction writer
- 1960 : Frank Rohde , German soccer player and coach
- 1961 : Ingeborg Gräßle , German politician, MEP
- 1962 : Peter Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- 1962 : Dirk Aschmoneit , German triathlete and Ironman winner
- 1962 : Jon Bon Jovi , American musician ( Bon Jovi ) and actor
- 1962 : Gabriele Tarquini , Italian racing driver
- 1962 : Federico Valerio Escobedo , Mexican soccer player
- 1964 : Alessandro Benetton , Executive Vice President of the Benetton Group
- 1964 : Marco Schädler , Liechtenstein composer
- 1965 : Wolfgang Muthspiel , Austrian guitarist and composer
- 1966 : Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril , Swedish writer and literary critic
- 1966 : David Gill , German administrative lawyer and head of the office of the Federal President
- 1966 : Frank Steffel , German entrepreneur and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1967 : Dietrich Birk , German politician, MdL
- 1968 : Daniel Craig , British actor
- 1968 : Chris Hülsbeck , German game developer and musician
- 1969 : Ben Oxenbould , Australian actor and comedian
- 1969 : Corinna Schumacher , German reining western riding
- 1970 : Alexander Armstrong , British actor, television presenter and comedian
- 1970 : Gaël Lesoudier , French racing car driver
- 1970 : Ciriaco Sforza , Swiss football player
- 1971 : Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi , Italian actor
- 1971 : Christian Eigner , Austrian drummer
- 1971 : Roman Gregory , Austrian musician and presenter
- 1971 : Method Man , American rapper
- 1972 : Tim Bergmann , German actor
- 1972 : Mauricio Pochettino , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1973 : Dejan Bodiroga , Serbian basketball player
- 1973 : Max van Heeswijk , Dutch cyclist
- 1973 : Trevor Sinclair , English football player
- 1973 : Markus Wittner , Austrian freestyle skier
- 1974 : Marcel Jenni , Swiss ice hockey player
- 1974 : Ante Razov , American football player
- 1975 : Noriyuki Haga , Japanese motorcycle racer
1976-2000
- 1976 : França , Brazilian soccer player
- 1976 : Brigitte Hobmeier , German actress
- 1976 : Florencia de la V , Argentine actor, humorist and travesty artist
- 1977 : Chris Martin , British musician ( Coldplay )
- 1977 : Gjoko Taneski , Macedonian singer
- 1978 : Radoslav Antl , Slovak handball player
- 1979 : Juan Pablo Alfaro , Mexican soccer player
- 1979 : Michael Bakos , German ice hockey player
- 1979 : Damien Duff , Irish football player
- 1979 : Daniela Piedade , Brazilian handball player
- 1979 : Francesco Tavano , Italian football player
- 1980 : Édson de Jesus Nobre , Angolan football player
- 1981 : Bryce Dallas Howard , American actress
- 1982 : Pilou Asbæk , Danish actor
- 1982 : Kevin Kurányi , German soccer player
- 1982 : Kathy Radzuweit , German volleyball player
- 1983 : Igor Antón , Spanish professional cyclist
- 1983 : Lisandro López , Argentine soccer player
- 1983 : Clara Woltering , German handball player
- 1984 : Elizabeth Jagger , British-American model
- 1984 : Stefan Thurnbichler , Austrian ski jumper
- 1986 : Jennifer Oster , German soccer player
- 1987 : Jonas Jerebko , Swedish basketball player
- 1988 : James Arthur , British singer, musician and rapper
- 1988 : Matthew Mitcham , Australian art and high diver
- 1988 : MontanaBlack , German web video producer and live streamer
- 1988 : Dean Smith , British racing driver
- 1988 : Dexter Pittman , American basketball player
- 1988 : Simon Terodde , German soccer player
- 1989 : Toby Alderweireld , Belgian football player
- 1989 : Marcel Hirscher , Austrian ski racer
- 1989 : Niklas Osterloh , German actor
- 1990 : Luis Advíncula , Peruvian soccer player
- 1990 : Soufian Benyamina , German soccer player
- 1990 : Adderly Fong , Hong Kong-Chinese racing driver
- 1990 : Niklas Liepe , German violinist
- 1990 : Marc Rzatkowski , German soccer player
- 1991 : Kofi Danning , Australian soccer player
- 1991 : Marc Hornschuh , German soccer player
- 1993 : Bogdan Radivojević , Serbian handball player
- 1995 : Matthew Di Leo , Canadian racing car driver
- 1995 : Veronica Dunne , American actress
- 1995 : Morgan Klimchuk , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1996 : Alexander Angerer , German basketball player
- 1997 : Becky G , American singer
21st century
- 2016 : Oscar of Sweden , Swedish nobleman
Died
Before the 16th century
- 672 : Chad , Anglo-Saxon Bishop of York and Lichfield
- 968 : Wilhelm , Archbishop of Mainz
- 986 : Lothar , King of France
- 1009 : Mokjong , 7th King of the Goryeo Empire in Korea
- 1104 : Bernhard I. von Scheyern , Vogt von Freising, Weihenstephan and Tegernsee
- 1122 : Florens II , Count of Holland
- 1123 : Reinhard von Blankenburg , Bishop of Halberstadt
- 1127 : Charles I , Count of Flanders
- 1184 : Pilgrim , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1254 : Hermann I von Lobdeburg , Bishop of Würzburg
- 1312 : Albrecht III. von Leisnig , Bishop of Meissen
- 1316 : Marjorie Bruce , daughter of the Scottish King Robert I.
- 1333 : Władysław I. Ellenlang , Duke of Cracow and King of Poland
- 1348 : Willekin Pape , Bishop of Schwerin
- 1464 : Dieter VI. von Angelach-Angelach , German nobleman, imperial knight and bailiff
16th and 17th centuries
- 1573 : Johann Wilhelm I , first Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1576 : Georg Kleefeld , Mayor of Danzig
- 1589 : Alessandro Farnese , Italian cardinal
- 1606 : Martin Moller , German mystic, writer of edification and hymn poet
- 1618 : Robert Abbot , English clergyman, Bishop of Salisbury
- 1619 : Anna of Denmark , wife of James I, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
- 1625 : James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton , Scottish nobleman
- 1674 : Johann Heinrich Hummel , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1682 : Hildebrand Christoph , progenitor of the von Hardenberg family
- 1695 : Johann Ambrosius Bach , German musician
18th century
- 1711 : Adam Herold , German educator and Protestant theologian
- 1712 : Lorenzo Magalotti , Italian scholar, poet and diplomat
- 1714 : Philipp Cuno von Bassewitz , Mecklenburg district administrator and provisional officer of the Dobbertin monastery
- 1749 : Johann Friedrich Rock , German pietist and mystic
- 1755 : Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon , French politician and writer
- 1758 : Johann Baptist Zimmermann , German painter and plasterer of the Baroque
- 1761 : Anna Maria Christmann , German soldier
- 1781 : Michael Schüppach , Swiss surgeon and doctor, pharmacist and spa doctor
- 1788 : Salomon Gessner , Swiss idyllic poet, painter and graphic artist
- 1791 : John Wesley , British revival preacher, founder of the Methodist tradition
- 1793 : Carl Gustaf Pilo , Swedish-Danish portrait painter
- 1795 : Johann Nicolaus Schrage , German Protestant theologian
- 1797 : Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford , British writer, politician and artist
19th century
- 1817 : Giacomo Quarenghi , Italian-Russian architect and painter
- 1822 : Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber , German composer and Kreuzkantor in Dresden
- 1824 : Susanna Rowson , American writer and actress
- 1829 : Karl Gottfried Hagen , German pharmacist and universal scientist
- 1830 : Samuel Thomas von Soemmerring , German anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, discoverer of the “yellow spot” in the eye
- 1833 : Anthony New , American politician
- 1835 : Franz II. Joseph Karl , last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Emperor of Austria
- 1838 : Ludwig Abeille , German pianist and composer
- 1839 : Eleazer Wheelock Ripley , American general and politician
- 1840 : Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers , German doctor and astronomer
- 1842 : Robert Potter , American politician
- 1847 : Silas Wood , American professor, lawyer, politician, and writer
- 1852 : Auguste Frédéric Louis Viesse de Marmont , French general
- 1855 : Nicholas I , Russian tsar
- 1856 : George Welshman Owens , American politician
- 1867 : Aaron Ward , American officer, lawyer, and politician
- 1868 : Carl Eberwein , German music director and conductor
- 1874 : Neil Arnott , Scottish physician
- 1874 : Nathan K. Hall , American politician and lawyer
- 1878 : Benjamin Wade , American politician
- 1880 : Moritz Auspitz , Austrian surgeon and surgeon
- 1880 : Robert Latane Montague , American politician and lawyer
- 1882 : Louis Kufferath , German composer
- 1883 : Dudley McIver DuBose , American politician and brigadier general
- 1889 : Friedrich Ludwig Niemann , German industrialist
- 1890 : James E. English , American politician
- 1892 : Otto Glagau , German journalist and writer
- 1894 : Jubal Anderson Early , American officer, Confederate general in the American Civil War, lawyer
- 1895 : Berthe Morisot , French impressionist painter
- 1895 : Ismail Pascha , Wali (governor) and Khedive (viceroy) of the Ottoman province of Egypt
- 1897 : Erwin von Neipperg , Austrian general
- 1899 : Marie Louise Dustmann-Meyer , German opera singer (soprano)
- 1900 : Ludwig Held , Austrian writer and librettist
- 1900 : António de Serpa Pimentel , Portuguese politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1907 : Anton Baumann , German master brewer and founder of the spa and bathing industry in Bad Schwartau
- 1909 : August Overweg , German politician and son of Carl Overweg
- 1911 : Hendrik Jacobus Hamaker , Dutch legal scholar
- 1912 : Vilém Mrštík , Czech writer, dramaturge, translator and literary critic
- 1914 : Luman Hamlin Weller , American politician
- 1916 : Elisabeth zu Wied , Queen of Romania and writer under the pseudonym Carmen Sylva
- 1917 : Michael F. Conry , American lawyer and politician
- 1919 : Melchora Aquino , Filipino revolutionary
- 1921 : Champ Clark , American politician
- 1923 : Joseph Martin , Canadian politician
- 1925 : Luigj Gurakuqi , Albanian writer and politician
- 1925 : Oskar Lenz , German-Austrian Africa explorer, mineralogist and geologist
- 1927 : Jan Kašpar , Czech engineer, first aircraft designer and pilot in the Czech Republic
- 1927 : Marie Lipsius , German writer and music historian
- 1930 : DH Lawrence , British writer
- 1930 : Richard Wilhelm , German sinologist, theologian and missionary
- 1931 : Georg Schaumberg , German writer
- 1932 : Ángela de la Cruz , founder of the Spanish order
- 1933 : Francis Alexander Anglin , Canadian judge
- 1935 : Aennchen Schumacher , German restaurateur, collector of student songs ("Ännchen song book")
- 1937 : Peter Bruckmann , German manufacturer
- 1938 : Joe Crail , American politician
- 1939 : Howard Carter , British archaeologist and Egyptologist
- 1942 : Charlie Christian , American jazz guitarist
- 1944 : Waldemar Geest , German aircraft designer
- 1944 : Lucius Littauer , American politician
- 1945 : Emily Carr , Canadian painter and writer
- 1948 : Abraham Brill , American psychiatrist
- 1948 : Adam Scharrer , German writer
- 1949 : Pietro Ferrero , Italian pastry chef, entrepreneur and founder of Ferrero
- 1949 : Arthur Gütt , German doctor and eugenicist, SS general and main representative of Nazi racial hygiene
- 1950 : George Hively , American screenwriter and film editor
1951-2000
- 1952 : Bernhard Lohmüller , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1953 : Wilhelm Ernst , German geologist, mineralogist and paleontologist
- 1953 : James Lightbody , American athlete and Olympic champion
- 1954 : José Luis Sánchez Besa , Chilean aviation pioneer
- 1959 : Adam McMullen , American politician
- 1962 : Wall Doxey , American politician
- 1962 : Walt Kiesling , American football player and coach
- 1962 : Alexander Lion , German doctor, co-founder of the German scout movement
- 1965 : Micheil Tsereteli , Georgian historian and diplomat
- 1966 : Théodore Le Du , French racing car driver
- 1967 : Jean Fellot , French organist and music teacher
- 1967 : Albert Gladstone , British rower and Olympic champion
- 1967 : Hans Ledwinka , Austrian car designer
- 1968 : Rita Öhquist , German translator
- 1969 : Walter Müller , Austrian actor
- 1972 : Clifford Coffin , American photographer
- 1972 : Robert Meyn , German actor, theater director
- 1972 : Léo-Ernest Ouimet , Canadian cinema director, film distributor and producer
- 1972 : Elmer Raguse , American sound engineer
- 1972 : Erna Sack , German soprano
- 1972 : Thomas Weisbecker , German terrorist and member of the June 2nd Movement
- 1974 : Salvador Puig Antich , Spanish anarchist
- 1974 : Georg Michael Welzel , GDR refugee, one of the last victims of the death penalty in Spain
- 1975 : Milagros Leal , Spanish actress
- 1975 : Murano Shirō , Japanese lyric poet
- 1976 : Adolf Maurer , Swiss theologian and poet
- 1977 : Gerta Overbeck , German painter, representative of the New Objectivity
- 1978 : Heinrich Runte , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Ingolstadt
- 1978 : Hans Schmitt-Rost , German author and administrative officer
- 1980 : Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , Polish writer
- 1980 : Norbert Schlesinger , Austrian architect
- 1981 : George E. Outland , American politician
- 1981 : Fridolin Stier , German Bible translator
- 1982 : Philip K. Dick , American writer
- 1984 : Alexander Brändle , German writer
- 1987 : Randolph Scott , American film actor
- 1989 : Gert Adriani , German art historian
- 1991 : Arthur Attwell , British theologian
- 1991 : Serge Gainsbourg , French chanson poet, composer and singer
- 1992 : Heinz Abraham , German politician
- 1992 : Sandy Dennis , American actress
- 1993 : Ryszard Kwiatkowski , Polish composer
- 1993 : Annemarie Schradiek , German actress
- 1996 : Walter Kaaden , German engineer
- 1997 : J. Carson Mark , American mathematician and physicist
- 1997 : Martin Smith , British drummer
- 1998 : Marcus Adeney , Canadian cellist, composer, music educator and writer
- 1998 : Robert A. Grant , American lawyer and politician
- 1999 : Dusty Springfield , British soul singer
- 1999 : Manfred Vollack , German non-fiction author
- 2000 : Arlene Pach , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 2000 : Sandra Schmirler , Canadian curler, Olympic champion
- 2000 : Franz Stadler , German association official, President of the ADAC
- 2000 : Charles E. Wiggins , American lawyer and politician
21st century
- 2001 : Hans Nicklisch , German writer and translator
- 2001 : William Stratton , American politician
- 2002 : Thomas Owen , Belgian writer
- 2002 : Halfdan Rasmussen , Danish lyric poet
- 2002 : Fritz-Rudolf Schultz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag for the armed forces
- 2003 : Antonio Arellano Durán , Venezuelan Bishop
- 2003 : Hank Ballard , American singer
- 2003 : Malcolm Williamson , Australian composer
- 2004 : Mercedes McCambridge , American actress
- 2005 : Djamel Amrani , Algerian writer and freedom fighter
- 2005 : Ivan Parík , Slovak composer
- 2005 : Richter Roegholt , Dutch historian
- 2006 : Leopold Gratz , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 2006 : Radhamés Reyes Alfau , Dominican musician, composer and arranger
- 2007 : Randolf Kronberg , German actor and voice actor
- 2008 : Jeff Healey , Canadian blues and rock guitarist, trumpeter and singer
- 2009 : Ernst Benda , German lawyer, politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 2009 : Otto von Helversen , German biologist and behavioral scientist
- 2009 : João Bernardo Vieira , President of Guinea-Bissau
- 2010 : Paul Drayton , American track and field athlete
- 2011 : Thor Vilhjálmsson , Icelandic writer
- 2012 : James Q. Wilson , American political scientist
- 2015 : Fred Düren , German actor
- 2015 : Dave Mackay , Scottish football player and coach
- 2016 : Noémia Delgado , Portuguese filmmaker
- 2017 : Anton Krinner , German ice hockey player and coach
- 2017 : Arno Waldschmidt , German draftsman and graphic artist
- 2018 : Jesús López Cobos , Spanish conductor
- 2018 : Gillo Dorfles , Italian painter and art critic
- 2018 : Ota Filip , Czech-German writer
- 2019 : Arnulf Baring , German contemporary historian and author
- 2019 : Werner Schneyder , Austrian cabaret artist and author
- 2020 : Ulay , German artist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days:
- John Wesley , English revival preacher and Methodist benefactor (Evangelical, Anglican Memorial Day is May 24th )
- Charles Wesley , English revival preacher and Methodist founder (Evangelical: ELCA )
- Name days:
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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