2.May
The May 2 is the 122nd day of the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years ), thus remaining 243 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1335 : The Habsburg Otto the Fröhliche receives Carinthia and the southern part of Tyrol as fiefs from Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian .
- 1368 : In the Second Waldemark War , a Hanseatic League of 2000 warriors conquers Copenhagen and destroys the city.
- 1568 : Mary Stuart , who had abdicated under pressure as Queen of Scotland the year before , manages to escape from her captivity in Loch Leven Castle .
- 1598 : After the French King Henry IV converted to Catholicism, France and Spain conclude the Treaty of Vervins , thereby ending Philip II's participation in the Eighth Huguenot War .
- 1668 : The war of devolution between France and Spain ends with the First Peace of Aachen . Spain had to cede part of the Spanish Netherlands to Louis XIV , but the latter withdrew from most of the conquered territories.
- 1808 : During the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula , the citizens of Madrid rise up against the French occupation forces. Although the uprising was bloodily suppressed that same day, it sparked further uprisings across the country .
- 1813 : At Großgörschen the first battle of the wars of freedom takes place between the Allied Prussian and Russian armies against the French troops and troops of the Confederation of the Rhine . Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the generals Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and Ludwig Adolph Peter Graf Wittgenstein .
- 1863 : On the second day of the Battle of Chancellorsville in the Civil War , “General Robert Edward Lee's Most Able Subordinate”, Confederate Lieutenant General “Stonewall” Jackson , was wounded so badly by self- fire that he died on May 10th.
- 1866 : In the Spanish-South American War , Spain decides to bombard the Peruvian port city of Callao, which had been blocked since April 14, 1864 . However, the well-fortified city successfully repels the attack.
- 1876 : The April uprising begins in Bulgaria - April 20th according to the Julian calendar valid at the time - against Ottoman rule .
- 1879 : In Spain, which is a political party Partido Socialista del Trabajo ( Socialist Labor Party ), founded from the following renaming in 1888, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( socialist party , PSOE will be).
- 1885 : Cree and Assiniboine Indians defeat Canadian government forces at the Battle of the Cut Knife during the Northwest Rebellion . The complete annihilation of the units under Colonel William Otter prevented Chief Pitikwahanapiwiyin .
- 1889 : Italy and Abyssinia close the Treaty of Uccialli . The different interpretation of Article XVII of the treaty - Italy derives protectorate claims from it, while the Abyssinian Emperor Menelik II denies this with reference to the Amharic version of the text - leads to the Italian-Ethiopian War in 1895 .
- 1919 : The second phase of the revolution after the First World War ends in Munich with the violent suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic by units of the Reichswehr and Freikorps . As a result, Bavaria becomes Germany's right-wing " regulatory cell ".
- 1921 : As a result of the plebiscite of March 20, in which the majority of the population of Upper Silesia voted to remain with Germany, the third Upper Silesian uprising begins under the leadership of Count Mathias von Brudzewo-Mielzynski .
- 1933 : The National Socialists ban the German trade unions after they come to power . The union assets are taken over by the German Labor Front (DAF).
- 1934 : In the National Socialist German Reich, the law to amend the provisions of criminal law and criminal procedure comes into force, which among other things tighten the provisions on high treason and treason and creates a " People's Court " for sentencing .
- 1935 : France and the Soviet Union sign an assistance treaty designed to protect both countries from a German attack.
- 1936 : Three years after the smashing of the trade unions, the National Socialists symbolically lay the foundation stone for the Rügen , Prora , seaside resort to be built by the organization Kraft durch Freude ( KdF ) . The actual start of construction is six months later.
- 1945 : Karl Dönitz acts as Reich President after the death of Adolf Hitler and takes over powers as head of the Dönitz government . He commissioned Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk to form an executive government , the Schwerin von Krosigk cabinet .
- 1945 : General Helmuth Weidling signs the surrender of Berlin to the Red Army during World War II , thereby ending the battle for Berlin .
- 1945 : The surrender of German troops in Italy , signed on April 29 in the Palace of Caserta , comes into force.
- 1945 : On their advance in World War II, British troops find the Neuengamme concentration camp in Hamburg, evacuated by the SS in the previous weeks, empty.
- 1945 : Final phase crime : In Schwerin , the teacher Marianne Grunthal is hanged by members of the SS one hour before the arrival of the US troops after she has expressed her relief over the death of Hitler.
- 1950 : In a statement in the rearmament discussion , the United States' Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend that their government end the policy of disarmament and demilitarization in West Germany. US President Harry S. Truman then waits.
- 1953 : Faisal II reaches the age of majority in Iraq and thus becomes formally sole ruler, but is still dependent on his uncle Abd ul-Ilah .
- 1953 : 17-year-old Hussein I ascends the throne in Jordan after he was proclaimed king on August 11 of the previous year because of a nervous disease in his father Talal .
- 1963 : In a border agreement with the People's Republic of China, Pakistan officially recognizes Chinese sovereignty over the Shaksgam Valley and the territorial ownership structure in Kashmir created by the Indo-Chinese border war of 1962.
- 1974 : The permanent representations of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic are opened in Bonn and East Berlin . Günter Gaus becomes the first head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the GDR .
- 1980 : Extremist Arabs use grenades to attack a group of Jews in Hebron who have just returned from Friday prayers, six of them die and 16 others injured.
- 1982 : The Argentine cruiser General Belgrano is sunk by the British nuclear submarine Conqueror in the Falklands War and goes down with 323 sailors.
- 1989 : Hungary opens its western border and begins demolishing the border fortifications with Austria. This is how the fall of the “ Iron Curtain ” begins .
- 1991 : Serbian militants surround Vukovar in the Croatian War . The battle for the city lasts until November 18th.
- 1995 : Only 31 hours after the operation flash in the Croatian War by the Croatian army , the majority of since 1992 by Serb irregulars occupied western Slavonia in Croatian hands and the flash operation is declared over.
- 1997 : Tony Blair is sworn in as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following his election victory the day before .
- 1999 : In the presidential elections in Panama , Mireya Moscoso of the Partido Arnulfista against Martín Torrijos is the first woman to be elected president of the country.
- 2011 : Terrorist Osama bin Laden is killed during Operation Neptune Spear by members of a US special forces unit in Abbottabad , Pakistan .
economy
- 1670 : King Charles II of England authorizes the Hudson's Bay Company in its charter to trade with Indians on all rivers that flow into Hudson Bay . The fur trading company is one of the oldest still existing companies in the world.
- 1807 : Since the previous location of the Munich city market on Schrannenplatz , today's Marienplatz , has become too small as a trading place for grain and other agricultural products, King Max I Joseph has part of the market in the area between Heilig-Geist-Kirche and Frauenstrasse relocate. The Viktualienmarkt is developing into one of the most famous markets in the world.
- 1843 : The first German immigrants arrive in the Chilean port of Puerto Hambre . They mainly settle around Lake Llanquihue .
- 1843 : Inauguration of the Paris-Orléans rail link .
- 1896 : On the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Hungary , the “Millennium Underground” opens in Budapest , the oldest underground railway in continental Europe.
- 1918 : The Chevrolet Motor Company is bought by General Motors .
- 1924 : Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG), later NDR , starts broadcasting with four hours of broadcasting time.
- 1928 : Louis Marx applies for a patent in the USA for his educational game called Educational Apparatus . As an Electric Questioner , the invention was very much in demand by customers in the 1950s.
- 1952 : The British airline BOAC is the first company to use a jet airliner for scheduled services. A De Havilland DH.106 Comet flies the London – Johannesburg route .
- 1986 : The World Exposition Expo 86 is opened in Vancouver by Prince Charles , Princess Diana and the Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney .
- 1988 : The Ökobank is opened in Frankfurt am Main as part of the burgeoning environmental movement as part of the debate about an alternative economy.
science and technology
- 1800 : Anthony Carlisle and William Nicholson succeed in splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using an electric current . Michael Faraday will refer to this process as electrolysis .
- 1862 : California State Normal School - now San José State University - is founded in California .
- 1963 : Berthold Seliger launches a three-stage rocket in the wadden area of Cuxhaven with a summit height of over 100 kilometers. It is the only rocket developed in post-war Germany that can advance to the edge of space.
- 1969 : The Queen Elizabeth 2 , the flagship of the Cunard Line , sets out on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.
Culture
- 1635 : In Paris will Jardin Royal des Plantes médicinales , the royal herb garden, opened. The garden was designed by the royal personal physicians of Louis XIII. , Jean Hérouard and Guy de La Brosse . It is opened to the public five years later.
- 1750 : La bottega del caffè ( The Coffee House ), a comedy in three acts by Carlo Goldoni , premiered in Mantua.
- 1869 : A musical entertainment establishment opens in Paris under the name Folies Trévise . After its beginnings as Folies Bergère, it developed into an erotic variety theater and cabaret .
- 1898 : 65 artists found the Berlin Secession artist group . They have come to believe that modern art has no support and support from existing organizations.
- 1907 : The St. Poelten with the Styrian pilgrimage site Mariazell connecting Mariazellerbahn is released for passenger traffic.
- 1936 : The musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev is premiered after the composer's return to the Soviet Union, encouraged by Natalija Saz , the artistic director of the Moscow Central Children's Theater, to familiarize children with the instruments of the symphony orchestra .
- 1947 : Paul Celan's poem Death Fugue , which deals with the Nazi extermination of the Jews , is published for the first time.
- 1968 : On the 20th anniversary of the founding of the state , Ha-Televizya Ha-Klalit , the first general television broadcaster in Israel , begins broadcasting.
society
- 1389 : Sophie of Bavaria marries the King of Bohemia , Wenceslaus of Luxembourg .
- 1816 : Leopold von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld marries Charlotte Augusta von Wales .
- 1874 : Karl May is released from Waldheim prison, where he has served a prison sentence for vagrancy .
- 1960 : Caryl Chessman , sentenced to death, is executed in the US state prison in San Quentin .
The execution of the judgment, which was planned in 1952, has already been postponed eight times. The case sparked a worldwide discussion on the death penalty because doubts about the perpetrator remained .
religion
- 1312 : In the bull ad providam Clement V goods of the dissolved are Templerordens the Order of St. John confided. However, the decision does not apply in Portugal, Castile, Aragon and Mallorca, whose regents tend to protect the Templars. In 1319, Portuguese ownership was finally given to the Order of Christ , which had already been founded .
- 1890 : Kaiser Wilhelm II. Establishes the Evangelical Church Building Association as an institution for the creation of new sacred buildings in Germany.
Disasters
- 1656 : Careless use of charcoal in a baker's house triggers the fire in Aachen , in which seven eighths of the city are destroyed. Aachen is later rebuilt as a spa.
- 2008 : Cyclone Nargis , a level 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale , hits the coast of Myanmar and continues inland. In doing so, he claims tens of thousands of lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1906 : The Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens, which began on April 22nd, end with the closing ceremony . The most successful country at the Games is France with 40 medals, the most successful athlete is the Swiss marksman Louis-Marcel Richardet . However, the Games are still not recognized as Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) .
- 1964 : Ten Chinese mountaineers are the first to set foot on the summit of Shishapangma , the last unclimbed eight-thousander to date , as part of an expedition comprising 195 people .
- 1984 : In the DFB Cup semi-final in 1984 , FC Schalke 04 scored 6: 6 after extra time against FC Bayern Munich , the decisive Schalke equalization was achieved in the 120th minute by Olaf Thon . The replay a week later Bayern Munich won 3-2 and later also won the cup .
- 1998 : On the penultimate match day of the 1997/98 season , 1. FC Kaiserslautern won the Bundesliga championship for the first time .
- 2006 : A scandal begins in football in Italy when the sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport publishes telephone tapping logs by the Turin public prosecutor. Juventus Turin manager Luciano Moggi is suspected of manipulating the outcome of matches with the help of referees.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1304 : Margaret Mortimer , English noblewoman
- 1360 : Yongle , third Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
- 1437 : Filippo Buonaccorsi , Italian humanist and statesman
- 1451 : René II , Duke of Lorraine
- 1458 : Eleanor of Portugal , the wife of King John II. Queen
- 1515 : Sibylle of Saxony , Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
- 1528 : Samuel von Waldeck , Count von Waldeck-Wildungen
- 1533 : Philip II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen , Prince in the Principality of Grubenhagen.
- 1551 : William Camden , English historian and antiquarian
- 1564 : Johann Domann , German statesman, politician and syndic of the Hanseatic League
- 1588 : Étienne Pascal , French lawyer, administrator and mathematician, father of Blaise Pascal
- 1591 : Franz Karl von Sachsen-Lauenburg , German general and nobleman, Prince of Sachsen-Lauenburg
- 1593 : Caterina de 'Medici , Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat
- 1594 : Franz Karl von Sachsen-Lauenburg , German nobleman, Prince of Sachsen-Lauenburg, general
- 1602 : Athanasius Kircher , German Jesuit, polymath and inventor
- 1614 : Christian zu Rantzau , governor in the royal Danish part of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1622 : Silvius Nimrod I , first Duke of Württemberg-Oels
- 1627 : Philipp Jakob Baudrexel , German theologian, composer and court and cathedral music director
- 1639 : Michael Friedrich Lederer , German legal scholar
- 1640 : Christian Donati , German logician
- 1649 : Engel de Ruyter , Dutch vice admiral
- 1660 : Alessandro Scarlatti , Italian Baroque composer
- 1687 : Christoph Burckhard von Witzleben , Danish chamberlain, district administrator and hunter master
- 1700 : Charlotte von Hanau-Lichtenberg , wife of Landgrave Ludwig VIII of Hesse-Darmstadt
18th century
- 1702 : Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian, representative of Württemberg Pietism
- 1707 : Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer
- 1715 : Philipp Jacob Borel , German physician and university professor
- 1725 : Wilhelm Jeremias Müller , German architect
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- 1729 : Catherine II (the great), Russian empress
- 1730 : Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart , Prince Archbishop of Vienna
- 1737 : William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne , British statesman and Prime Minister
- 1746 : Robert Lindet , French politician
- 1750 : John André , British officer
- 1752 : Ludwig August Lebrun , German oboist and composer
- 1754 : Vicente Martín y Soler , Spanish composer
- 1758 : Camillo Pacetti , Italian sculptor
- 1761 : Richard Anthony Salisbury , British botanist
- 1764 : Friedrich von Gentz , German writer and politician
- 1764 : Karl Adolph Gottlob Schellenberg , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1767 : Jean Baptist Duhamel , professor of mining, director of the Berghochschule in Geislautern
- 1772 : Novalis , German early Romantic poet
- 1773 : Henrich Steffens , philosopher, natural scientist and poet
- 1779 : John Galt , British writer
- 1788 : Atanazy Raczyński , Polish nobleman and Prussian state servant
- 1790 : Carl von Carnap , German Prussian major general and landowner
- 1797 : Heinrich Anz , German civil servant and politician
- 1797 : Abraham Gesner , Canadian physician, physicist and geologist
- 1797 : Albert Dietrich Schadow , German builder and architect
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Emanuel Eduard Fueter , Swiss doctor and professor of medicine
- 1802 : Heinrich Gustav Magnus , German physicist and chemist
- 1802 : Eduard Steinbrück , German painter
- 1803 : Johann Friedrich Christoph Bauer , German politician
- 1803 : Karl August Friedrich Brückner , German educator and historian
- 1806 : Charles Gleyre , Swiss painter
- 1807 : Johann Konrad Zeller , Swiss painter
- 1810 : Hans Christian Lumbye , Danish conductor and composer
- 1812 : Julius Ambrosius Hülße , German mathematician and technician
- 1813 : Julius Kell , Saxon educator and author
- 1817 : Otto Georg Oppenheim , German lawyer and senior tribunal councilor
- 1819 : Gustav Becker , German watchmaker and founder of the Gustav Becker watch brand
- 1820 : Robert Gerwig , German civil engineer
- 1826 : Eleuterio Pagliano , Italian painter
- 1827 : Franz Hermann Reinhold Frank , German theologian
- 1828 : Hermann Friedrich Friedrich , German writer and journalist
- 1829 : Ernst Friedrich Langhans , Reformed theologian in Switzerland
- 1830 : Otto Staudinger , German lepidopterist
- 1830 : Alfred Thieme , German industrialist, consul general and art collector
- 1832 : Santo Siorpaes , Italian-Austrian mountaineer
- 1833 : Rudolf Berlin , German ophthalmologist
- 1834 : Wilhelm Mauser , German weapons designer and manufacturer
- 1838 : Oskar Pank , German-Sorbian Protestant theologian
- 1842 : Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld , German medic
- 1843 : Sigmund von Riezler , German historian
- 1843 : Carl Michael Ziehrer , Austrian composer
- 1846 : Louis Leitz , German inventor and entrepreneur
- 1846 : Zygmunt Noskowski , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
1851-1900
- 1853 : Carl Rabl , Austrian doctor and anatomist
- 1856 : Helene von Druskowitz , Austrian philosopher, literary and music critic
- 1856 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Rosanow , Russian philosopher
- 1857 : Frederic Cliffe , English composer
- 1857 : Otto Umfrid , German Protestant theologian
- 1859 : Jerome K. Jerome , English author ( Three Men in One Boat )
- 1860 : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson , British mathematician and zoologist
- 1860 : Theodor Herzl , Austrian-Hungarian Jewish writer, publicist and journalist, founder of modern political Zionism
- 1860 : William Bayliss , British physiologist
- 1861 : Johannes Geffcken , German classical philologist
- 1862 : Maurice Emmanuel , French composer
- 1863 : Erich Bethe , German classical philologist
- 1866 : Albrecht Dieterich , German classical philologist
- 1868 : Robert Williams Wood , American experimental physicist
- 1869 : Joseph Kumpfmüller , Bishop of Augsburg
- 1870 : William J. Seymour , American preacher
- 1872 : Karl Ludwig Nessler , German hairdresser, inventor of the permanent wave
- 1874 : Hugo Eberhardt , German architect
- 1876 : Willy Arend , German racing cyclist
- 1876 : Johannes Greber , German priest and author, MdR
- 1879 : James F. Byrnes , American politician and secretary of state
- 1879 : Konrad Schliephacke , German manor owner and politician
- 1879 : Paul Thiersch , German architect and university professor
- 1881 : Ernst Legal , German actor
- 1883 : Alessandro Cagno , Italian racing car driver
- 1883 : Florentine Goswin-Benfer , Westphalian native writer
- 1883 : Otto Weidt , owner of a Berlin workshop for the blind, opponent of the Nazi regime
- 1884 : Heinrich Steinbeck , German-Swiss composer and conductor
- 1886 : Gottfried Benn , German doctor, poet and essayist
- 1890 : Edward E. Smith , American science fiction writer and chemist
- 1891 : Lene Voigt , Saxon writer
- 1891 : Otto Wittenburg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1892 : Trude Hesterberg , German stage and film actress, cabaret artist
- 1892 : Ernst Sigg , Swiss church musician and high school teacher
- 1892 : Manfred von Richthofen , German fighter pilot in the First World War
- 1893 : Georg Heinrich Arcularius , German veterinarian
- 1893 : Ludwig Kasper , Austrian sculptor
- 1983 : Jean de Marguenat , French director, screenwriter and racing car driver
- 1894 : Norma Talmadge , American actress
- 1895 : Lorenz Hart , American text author
- 1895 : Wilm Hosenfeld , Wehrmacht officer in World War II
- 1895 : Alfred Kurella , German writer and translator, cultural functionary of the SED
- 1896 : Elena of Greece , Princess of Greece and Denmark
- 1896 : Árpád Vajda , Hungarian chess player
- 1897 : Willemijn Posthumus-van der Goot , Dutch author and feminist
- 1899 : Kurt Pohle , German politician
- 1899 : Maximilian Steenberghe , Dutch politician
- 1900 : Ellen Daub , German actress
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Edouard Zeckendorf , Belgian amateur mathematician
- 1901 : Willi Bredel , German writer
- 1901 : Lotte Backes , German composer
- 1902 : Brian Aherne , British actor
- 1902 : Georg Kurlbaum , German politician
- 1902 : Werner Finck , German writer, actor and cabaret artist
- 1903 : Øivin Fjeldstad , Norwegian composer and conductor
- 1903 : Alfred Krohn , German helmsman in rowing
- 1905 : Alan Rawsthorne , English composer
- 1905 : Charlotte Armstrong , American crime novelist
- 1906 : Hans-Günther Sohl , German industrial manager
- 1906 : Philippe Halsman , Latvian-French-American photographer
- 1906 : Wolfgang Abendroth , German political scientist
- 1907 : Franz Korinek , Austrian politician and minister
- 1908 : Frank Rowlett , American mathematician and cryptologist
- 1908 : Karl Hartung , German sculptor
- 1909 : Teddy Stauffer , Swiss band leader
- 1910 : Charles Francis Adams IV , American economic manager
- 1910 : Edmund Bacon , American architect and urban planner
- 1911 : Marie Therese Hug , princess from the Hohenzollern family
- 1911 : Elsbeth Juda , British photographer, publicist and art collector
- 1912 : Axel Springer , German publisher
- 1912 : Karl Adam , German rowing coach
- 1912 : Marten Toonder , Dutch comic artist
- 1913 : Florian Dąbrowski , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1913 : Pietro Frua , Italian automobile designer
- 1913 : Nigel Patrick , British actor
- 1914 : Marcelo Mendiharat Pommies , French clergyman
- 1915 : Jan Hanuš , Czech composer
- 1917 : Félix López , Dominican songwriter
- 1920 : Guinn Smith , American athlete
- 1920 : Gerda Daumerlang , German diver
- 1920 : Jacob Gilboa , Israeli composer
- 1920 : Jean-Marie Auberson , Swiss conductor and violinist
- 1920 : Joe Henderson , British piano player
- 1921 : Satyajit Ray , Indian director
- 1921 : Paul Wulf , German anti-fascist, anarchist and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- 1922 : Serge Reggiani , French actor and chansonnier
- 1923 : Albert Nordengen , Norwegian politician, Mayor of Oslo
- 1923 : Fips Fleischer , German musician and composer
- 1923 : Patrick Hillery , Irish politician, minister and president
- 1924 : Kurt E. Ludwig , German actor
- 1924 : Günter Wöhe , German economist
- 1925 : Eva Aeppli , Swiss material artist
- 1925 : Horst Raspe , German actor and voice actor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Aída Bonnelly de Díaz , Dominican musicologist, critic and teacher
- 1926 : Kurt Hertha , German lyricist and composer
- 1926 : Gerhard Paulmann , German engineer and university professor
- 1927 : Horst Abt , German entrepreneur
- 1927 : Michael Broadbent , British wine commentator and critic
- 1927 : Helmut Krauch , German chemist, systems analyst, concept artist and professor
- 1928 : Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt , German-French writer, essayist and translator
- 1928 : Rolf Heyne , German publisher
- 1928 : Horst Stein , German concert and opera conductor
- 1929 : Édouard Balladur , French politician, Prime Minister
- 1929 : Jigme Dorje Wangchuck , King of Bhutan
- 1929 : Link Wray , American musician
- 1931 : Martha Grimes , American writer
- 1931 : Helmut Engels , German politician
- 1931 : Werner Titel , German politician, Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management of the GDR
- 1932 : Bruce Glover , American actor
- 1932 : Yoko Tani , Franco-Japanese actress
- 1933 : Harry Woolf , English judge
- 1934 : Manfred Durniok , German film producer and director
- 1935 : Faisal II , King of Iraq
- 1935 : Luis Suárez , Spanish football player
- 1936 : Norma Aleandro , Argentine actress
- 1936 : Tom Andersen , Norwegian psychiatrist and psychotherapist
- 1936 : Joseph Arnaouti , Syrian patriarchal
- 1936 : Helga Brauer , German singer
- 1936 : Engelbert , British-American singer
- 1936 : Michael Rabin , American violinist
- 1937 : Thomas Billhardt , German photographer and publicist
- 1937 : Gisela Elsner , German writer
- 1937 : Klaus Enders , German motorcycle racer
- 1937 : Hagen Keller , German medieval historian
- 1937 : Otto Pfeiffer , German diplomat
- 1938 : Jacques Bienvenue , Canadian racing car driver
- 1938 : Helmuth Egelkraut , German Protestant theologian, missionary, professor, historian and author
- 1938 : Moshoeshoe II , King of Lesotho
- 1939 : Ernesto Castano , Italian football player
- 1939 : Sumio Iijima , Japanese physicist
- 1939 : Hans-Dieter Möller , German organist and music teacher
- 1939 : Günter Stahn , German architect and urban planner
- 1939 : Heinz Troll , German politician
- 1940 : Eugen Strähl , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1941 : Tony Adamowicz , American racing car driver
- 1941 : Eberhard Braun , German philosopher
- 1941 : Elvira Hoffmann , German writer
- 1941 : Eddy Louiss , French jazz pianist and organist
- 1941 : Franco Scoglio , Italian football coach
- 1941 : Jules Albert Wijdenbosch , Surinamese political scientist and politician, Prime Minister, President
- 1942 : Brigitte Berendonk , German discus thrower and shot putter
- 1942 : Udo Ehrbar , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1942 : Bogusław Kaczyński , Polish journalist, music critic and theorist, television presenter and promoter of classical music
- 1942 : Wojciech Pszoniak , Polish actor
- 1942 : Jacques Rogge , Belgian orthopedic surgeon and sports official, President of the IOC
- 1942 : Udo Steinke , German-speaking writer
- 1942 : Peter Urbach , undercover agent for the Berlin office for the protection of the constitution in the German student movement of the 1960s
- 1942 : Rainer Zimmermann , German handball player
- 1942 : Bernd Ziskofen , German motorsport official in rallycross
- 1943 : Mickey Bass , American jazz musician
- 1943 : John Goss , Australian racing car driver
- 1943 : Klaus Konjetzky , German writer
- 1943 : Manfred Schnelldorfer , German figure skater, Olympic champion
- 1944 : Franz Innerhofer , Austrian writer
- 1945 : Judge Dread , British reggae and ska musician
- 1946 : José Alcántara Almánzar , Dominican narrator, essayist, literary critic, sociologist and university professor
- 1946 : Lesley Gore , American singer
- 1946 : Ralf Gothóni , Finnish pianist and conductor
- 1946 : Bruce Robinson , British actor, screenwriter and director
- 1946 : Dany Snobeck , French racing car driver
- 1946 : David Suchet , British actor
- 1947 : Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare , British peer and politician
- 1947 : James Dyson , British inventor and entrepreneur
- 1947 : Manfred Harder , German football referee
- 1947 : Philippe Herreweghe , Belgian conductor
- 1947 : Prashanta Nanda , Indian actor, film director and politician
- 1948 : Larry Gatlin , American country singer
- 1948 : Monika Haas , sympathizer of the RAF
- 1948 : Christian Hartenhauer , German politician
- 1948 : Werner Schulze-Erdel , German presenter and actor
- 1949 : Alfons Schuhbeck , German cook and book author
- 1949 : Marco Vanoli , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1950 : Ulrich Goll , German politician
- 1950 : Lou Gramm , American singer
- 1950 : Bianca Jagger , American human rights activist (AI)
- 1950 : Angela Krauss , German writer
- 1950 : Manfred Maurenbrecher , German songwriter
- 1950 : Madeleine-Rita Mittendorf , German politician
1951-1975
- 1951 : John Glascock , British musician
- 1952 : Christine Baranski , American actress
- 1952 : Pat Cardi , American film actor
- 1952 : Christopher Doyle , Australian cameraman, photographer, director, screenwriter and actor
- 1952 : Lothar Skala , German soccer player
- 1953 : Valeri Abissalowitsch Gergijew , Russian conductor
- 1953 : Domitien Ndayizeye , President of Burundi
- 1954 : Elliot Goldenthal , American composer
- 1954 : Werner Melzer , German football player
- 1954 : Wolfgang Mocker , German aphorist
- 1954 : Modupe Oshikoya , Nigerian athlete
- 1955 : Angelika Birk , German politician
- 1955 : Marita Sehn , German politician
- 1955 : Dave Winer , American software developer
- 1956 : Jorge García , Spanish ski racer
- 1957 : Markus Stockhausen , German composer and trumpeter
- 1958 : Yasushi Akimoto , Japanese television producer, songwriter, music producer and professor
- 1958 : David O'Leary , Irish football player and coach
- 1958 : Elke Reinke , German politician
- 1959 : Marcel van de Beeten , Dutch jazz guitarist and singer-songwriter
- 1959 : Lone Scherfig , Danish screenwriter and director
- 1960 : Christopher Barker , Swiss actor and singer
- 1960 : José Manuel Carrascalão , East Timorese politician
- 1961 : Ronnie Baxter , English darts player
- 1961 : Stephen Daldry , theater and film director
- 1962 : Jean-François Bernard , French cyclist
- 1962 : Ty Herndon , American country singer
- 1962 : Fabio Stassi , Italian writer
- 1962 : Andreas Steppuhn , German politician
- 1962 : Jimmy White , English snooker player
- 1963 : Philip Collin , American racing car driver
- 1963 : Esther Freud , British writer
- 1964 : Silvia Neid , German soccer player and coach
- 1965 : Ari Lehman , American actor and musician
- 1966 : Iulia Cibișescu-Duran , Romanian composer
- 1966 : Belinda Stronach , Canadian businesswoman and politician
- 1967 : Judith Adlhoch , German television presenter, producer, screenwriter and director
- 1967 : Luigi Apolloni , Italian football player and coach
- 1967 : Thomas Audehm , German soccer player
- 1967 : Masami Kageyama , Japanese racing car driver
- 1967 : Sven Plöger , German meteorologist and moderator
- 1968 : Jeffrey Alan Agoos , American football player and manager
- 1968 : Annette Wille , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1969 : Ahmed Marcouch , Moroccan-Dutch politician
- 1970 : Adnan Kevrić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1971 : Claudia Dreher , German athlete
- 1972 : Alec Empire , German musician
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- 1972 : Dwayne Johnson , American wrestler and film actor
- 1972 : Paultheo von Zezschwitz , German chemist and entrepreneur
- 1972 : Steffen Ziesche , German ice hockey player
- 1973 : Hurl Beechum , American-German basketball player
- 1973 : Jarred Blancard , Canadian actor
- 1973 : Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , German filmmaker, director and screenwriter
- 1973 : Leon Nzama-Nawezhi , Zambian boxer
- 1973 : Mattia Zappa , Swiss cellist
- 1974 : Laura Dünnwald , German journalist and television presenter
- 1974 : Martin Rummel , Austrian cellist
- 1975 : David Beckham , English football player
- 1975 : Ahmed Hassan , Egyptian soccer player
- 1975 : Marco Kutscher , German show jumper
- 1975 : David Morneau , American composer
- 1975 : Nathalie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , German-Danish dressage rider
1976-2000
- 1976 : Wahyu Agung , Indonesian badminton player
- 1976 : Sabina Hank , Austrian singer, pianist and composer
- 1976 : Rikke Hørlykke , Danish handball player
- 1976 : Cordelia Weg , German film and television actress
- 1977 : Jan Fitschen , German long-distance runner
- 1977 : Kalle Palander , Finnish ski racer
- 1977 : Sandra Maria Schlegel , German actress
- 1978 : Sascha Karabey , German standard dancer
- 1979 : Juan Ramón Curbelo , Uruguayan football player
- 1979 : Alessandro Di Martile , Italian football player
- 1979 : Andreas Schranz , Austrian soccer player
- 1980 : Tim Borowski , German soccer player
- 1980 : Martina Majerle , Croatian singer
- 1980 : Nicole Süßmilch , young German singer
- 1981 : Michael Gspurning , Austrian soccer player
- 1981 : Tiago , Portuguese soccer player
- 1982 : Timothy Benjamin , British athlete
- 1982 : Lázaro Bruzón , Cuban chess player
- 1982 : Blythe Hartley , Canadian water diver
- 1982 : Lorie , French singer
- 1983 : José Luis Amezcua Melgoza , Mexican priest
- 1983 : Derek Boateng , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1983 : Elizabeth Ho , American actress
- 1983 : Michael Lejan , Belgian football player
- 1983 : Tina Maze , Slovenian ski racer
- 1983 : Christa Rigozzi , Swiss presenter and beauty queen
- 1983 : Daniel Sordo , Spanish rally driver
- 1983 : Mónica Vergara , Mexican soccer player
- 1984 : Fabian Barbiero , Australian soccer player
- 1984 : Katrin Engel , Austrian handball player
- 1984 : Marie-Luise Schramm , German actress
- 1985 : Lily Allen , British pop singer
- 1985 : Federico Almerares , Argentine-Italian soccer player
- 1985 : Antonios Antoniadis , Belgian politician
- 1985 : Sarah Hughes , American figure skater
- 1985 : Trine Troelsen , Danish handball player
- 1986 : Karim Aouadhi , Tunisian football player
- 1986 : Sani Kaita , Nigerian soccer player
- 1986 : Amandine Leynaud , French handball player
- 1986 : Johannes Müller , German handball player
- 1987 : Johan Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 : Adrian Coriolan Gaspar , Austrian jazz pianist and composer
- 1987 : Tomer Hemed , Israeli soccer player
- 1988 : Jerry Akaminko , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1988 : Fabian Lustenberger , Swiss football player
- 1989 : Shaban Ismaili , Albanian football player
- 1989 : Fwayo Tembo , Zambian football player
- 1990 : Zubayr Amiri , Afghan soccer player
- 1990 : Albert Costa , Spanish racing driver
- 1990 : Annemarie Eilfeld , German singer and songwriter
- 1990 : Erwin Feuchtmann Perez , Chilean handball player
- 1990 : Francesco Friedrich , German bobsleigh driver
- 1990 : Kay Panabaker , American actress
- 1990 : Paul George , American basketball player
- 1990 : Jelle van Dael , Belgian singer
- 1991 : Sebastian Hertner , German soccer player
- 1992 : Samuele Buttarelli , Italian racing driver
- 1992 : Vanessa Mai , German singer
- 1994 : Sven Gielnik , German actor, screenwriter and director
- 1995 : Skye Bennett , British actress
- 1996 : Julian Brandt , German soccer player
- 1996 : Lisa Mayer , German athlete
- 1998 : Mats Köhlert , German soccer player and actor
- 1999 : Marie Borchardt , young German actress
- 1999 : Iwan Sergejewitsch Kakowski , Russian snooker player
21st century
- 2000 : Lena Lattwein , German soccer player
- 2001 : Paula Hartmann , German actress
- 2015 : Charlotte of Cambridge , British princess
Died
Before the 15th century
- 373 : Athanasius the great , bishop and theologian
- 756 : Shōmu , 45th Emperor of Japan
- 907 : Boris I , ruler and first Christian tsar of Bulgaria, saint
- 1109 : Ruthard , Archbishop of Mainz
- 1142 : Konrad von Querfurt , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1149 : Roger III. , Duke of Apulia
- 1196 : Otto VI. , Bishop of Bamberg
- 1202 : Fulko von Neuilly , French crusade preacher
- 1230 : William de Braose, 7th Baron of Bramber , cambro-Norman nobleman
- 1250 : Turan Shah , Sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt
- 1292 : Konrad II , Duke of Teck
- 1293 : Meir von Rothenburg , German rabbi and Talmud scholar
- 1302 : Blanche d'Artois , regent of Navarre and Champagne
- 1308 : Berthold II , Abbot of St. Blasien
- 1313 : Ludwig , Count of Arnsberg
- 1359 : Johann I , Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen
- 1398 : Dietrich III. von Limburg-Styrum , German nobleman, Count of Limburg and Lord of Styrum
15th to 18th century
- 1405 : Philippe de Mézières , French soldier, diplomat and writer
- 1430 : Giovanni di Francesco Toscani , Italian painter
- 1437 : Gjon Kastrioti I , Albanian prince
- 1450 : Paul von Miličin and Talmberg , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1450 : William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk , English nobleman and military leader in the Hundred Years War
- 1459 : Antoninus of Florence , Italian theologian, prior and archbishop
- 1491 : Dierick Bouts the Younger , Dutch painter
- 1495 : Georg Altdorfer , Bishop of Chiemsee
- 1506 : Johann Steinwert von Soest , German singer, poet and doctor
- 1519 : Leonardo da Vinci , Italian artist and polymath
- 1547 : Caspar Borner , German Lutheran theologian, humanist and reformer
- 1576 : Bartholomew of Carranza , Archbishop of Toledo
- 1585 : Friedrich Widebrand , German Protestant theologian
- 1605 : Georg Gadner , Württemberg cartographer, chronicler and geographer
- 1635 : Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury , English military leader
- 1655 : Joachim Andreae , Dutch politician, diplomat and judge
- 1689 : Wilhelm Leyser II , German lawyer and jurist
- 1691 : Konstantin Ziegra , German physicist and Lutheran theologian
- 1699 : Wilhelm von Fürstenberg , provost in Münster and Paderborn, cathedral dean in Salzburg
- 1720 : Claude Delisle , French geographer and historian
- 1722 : Gian Carlo Cailò , Italian violinist and composer
- 1723 : Christoph , Prince and Margrave of Baden-Durlach
- 1727 : Giuseppe Maria Jacchini , Italian cellist and composer
- 1743 : Christian August Hausen the Younger , German mathematician, mineralogist, astronomer and physicist
- 1751 : Maria Maddalena Musi , called "la Mignatta", Italian opera singer (soprano)
- 1754 : Wenzel Chotek von Chotkow , Austrian governor in the Kingdom of Bohemia
- 1777 : Johann Joachim Gottlob am Ende , German theologian and teacher
- 1790 : Philipp Matthäus Hahn , German pastor, designer and inventor
19th century
- 1803 : Friedrich Gedike , German pedagogue and education politician
- 1813 : August Ferdinand of Prussia , Prussian major general
- 1817 : Philipp Jacob Piderit , German medic
- 1818 : Alexander Graydon , American lawyer, writer, and military man
- 1818 : Herman Willem Daendels , Dutch general and governor general of the Dutch East Indies
- 1818 : Friedrich von Wendt , German medic
- 1819 : Mary Moser , English classicist painter, founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts
- 1826 : Antoni Malczewski , Polish poet
- 1828 : Raymond de Sèze , French lawyer
- 1829 : Caspar Hilt , German lawyer
- 1835 : Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Autenrieth , doctor from Württemberg
- 1835 : Chrysologus Heimes , German Franciscan priest, organist, organ expert and composer
- 1840 : Ferdinand von Schau , German officer and district administrator
- 1845 : August Friedrich Pauly , German philologist
- 1845 : Guillaume de Vaudoncourt , French general and war historian
- 1854 : Sulpiz Boisserée , German architect
- 1857 : Frederick Scott Archer , British sculptor and photography pioneer
- 1857 : Alfred de Musset , French writer
- 1862 : Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk , Dutch physician
- 1864 : Karl August Auberlen , German theologian
- 1864 : Giacomo Meyerbeer , German composer and conductor
- 1866 : Bernhard Peters , German painter, draftsman and drawing teacher
- 1880 : Eberhard Anheuser , German entrepreneur and brewery owner
- 1886 : Isabella Braun , German author of children's books
- 1892 : Hermann Burmeister , German South American researcher
- 1892 : Wilhelm Rust , German composer and Thomas Cantor
- 1895 : Charles Abel , Franco-German lawyer, MdR
- 1897 : Ernst Anton Zündt , German writer
- 1899 : Eduard von Simson , German lawyer and politician
- 1900 : Lars Oftedal , Norwegian pastor, editor and politician
- 1900 : Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski , Russian marine painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1907 : Rudolf Baier , German museum founder and director
- 1909 : Manuel Amador Guerrero , Panamanian President
- 1909 : Józef Szczepkowski , Polish opera singer
- 1911 : Otto Lueger , professor of hydraulic engineering
- 1915 : Clara Immerwahr , German chemist, women's rights activist and pacifist, one of the first women in Germany to receive a doctorate
- 1916 : Jules Blanchard , French sculptor
- 1918 : Guido von Gillhaußen , German officer and war poet
- 1919 : Felix von Arnim , Prussian officer and chamberlain
- 1919 : Ernst Camerer . German lawyer and association official
- 1919 : Gustav Landauer , German theorist and activist of anarchism
- 1924 : Charles Eugene Lancelot Brown , Swiss machine designer
- 1925 : Johann Palisa , Austrian astronomer
- 1930 : Isidor Gunsberg , Hungarian-British chess player
- 1933 : Léon Saint-Paul , French racing car driver
- 1935 : Philipp Siesmayer , German garden architect
- 1936 : Robert Michels , German sociologist
- 1940 : Jean-François-Charles Amet , French Vice Admiral and Allied High Commissioner in Constantinople
- 1941 : Ignacy Popiel , Polish chess player
- 1944 : Paul Max Eugen Adloff , German dentist and anthropologist
- 1944 : Erich Knauf , German journalist, writer and songwriter
- 1945 : Martin Bormann , German head of the NSDAP party chancellery, war criminal
- 1945 : Marianne Grunthal , German teacher, victim of National Socialism
- 1945 : Walter Hewel , standard bearer in the Hitler putsch
- 1945 : Karel Hiršl , Czechoslovak resistance fighter
- 1945 : Paul Korff , German builder and architect
- 1945 : Friedo Lampe , German writer
- 1945 : Ludwig Stumpfegger , German attending physician on the staff of the Reich Chancellor
- 1947 : Dorothea Binz , German superintendent in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 1947 : Grete Boesel , German guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 1950 : Abraham Asscher , Dutch diamond dealer and politician
- 1950 : Paul Eugen Sieg , German physicist and writer
1951-2000
- 1952 : Leopold van Itallie , Dutch pharmacologist and toxicologist
- 1953 : Käte Duncker , German politician
- 1957 : Tadeusz Kassern , Polish composer
- 1957 : Otto Lenz , German politician
- 1957 : Joseph McCarthy , American Senator ( communist hunter )
- 1958 : Alfred Weber , German economist, sociologist and cultural philosopher
- 1960 : Hans Joachim Iwand , German theologian
- 1961 : Egon Lustgarten , Austrian conductor and composer
- 1963 : Fritz Horn , German aviation pioneer
- 1963 : Tomáš Vačkář , Czech composer
- 1964 : Nancy Astor , British politician
- 1967 : Ernst Friedrich , anarchist pacifist
- 1967 : Wilhelm Schröder , German soldier and minister in the GDR
- 1969 : Franz von Papen , German politician, Reich Chancellor, Deputy Reich Chancellor in the Hitler cabinet
- 1969 : Robert Arthur , American writer
- 1972 : Hugo Hartung , German writer
- 1972 : J. Edgar Hoover , American founder and director of the FBI
- 1973 : Georg Graf Henckel von Donnersmarck , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1974 : Theo Eble , Swiss painter and graphic artist
- 1975 : Shantaram Athavale , Indian songwriter, film director, documentary filmmaker, poet and author
- 1977 : Isidor Markowitsch Annenski , Soviet director
- 1978 : Jimmy Davidson , Canadian band leader, jazz cornet player and singer
- 1979 : Giulio Natta , Italian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1980 : Théophile Alajouanine , French neurologist and author, pioneer of French psychiatry
- 1981 : David Wechsler , American psychologist
- 1983 : Pridi Phanomyong , Thai Prime Minister
- 1983 : Egon Strohm , German journalist, writer and translator
- 1986 : Chester Bowles , American politician
- 1986 : Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally driver
- 1989 : Meindest Boekel , Dutch composer
- 1989 : Weniamin Alexandrowitsch Kawerin , Russian writer, author of books for young people
- 1989 : Giuseppe Siri , Italian cardinal
- 1990 : William L. Dawson , American composer, choir director and music teacher
- 1992 : Anton Lutz , Austrian painter
- 1993 : Karl-Friedrich Merten , German naval officer and submarine commander
- 1993 : André Moynet , French aviator in World War II, politician and racing car driver
- 1995 : Michael Hordern , British actor
- 1995 : Werner Veigel , German news anchor and radio host
- 1996 : Christopher Bird , American botanist and writer
- 1997 : Heinz Ellenberg , German biologist, botanist and landscape ecology
- 1997 : John Carew Eccles , Australian physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1997 : Paulo Freire , Brazilian educator and lawyer, historian and philosopher
- 1998 : Hideto Matsumoto , Japanese visual kei and J-rock musician
- 1998 : Justin Fashanu , British soccer player
- 1999 : Oliver Reed , British actor
21st century
- 2001 : Wolfgang Greese , German actor
- 2001 : Heinz te Laake , German artist of painting, kinetics and sculpture
- 2002 : Heinz Jankofsky , German cartoonist
- 2002 : Richard Stücklen , German politician, Federal Minister
- 2003 : Mohammed Dib , Algerian writer
- 2004 : Paul Guimard , French writer
- 2005 : Robert Hunter , Canadian journalist and founding member of Greenpeace
- 2008 : Alexander May , German actor, writer, director and producer
- 2009 : George M. Anathil , Indian Bishop of Indore
- 2009 : Augusto Boal , Brazilian playwright and director
- 2009 : Marilyn French , American writer
- 2010 : Heino Aunin , Estonian badminton player
- 2010 : Lynn Redgrave , British actress
- 2011 : Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin , Russian economist
- 2011 : Rolf Jaeger , German handball player and trainer
- 2011 : Osama bin Laden , Saudi Arabian terrorist who has been stateless since 1994
- 2012 : Fernando Lopes , Portuguese film director
- 2013 : Jeff Hanneman , American guitarist ( Slayer )
- 2013 : Ivan Turina , Croatian soccer player
- 2014 : Efrem Zimbalist Jr. US-American actor
- 2014 : Nigel Stepney , British Formula 1 technician
- 2015 : Michael Blake , American writer
- 2015 : Clarice Carson , Canadian singer
- 2015 : Maja Michailowna Plissezkaja , Soviet prima ballerina
- 2015 : Ruth Rendell , British writer
- 2016 : Ulrich Häfelin , Swiss legal scholar
- 2016 : Wulf Hühn , German author and musician
- 2017 : Heinz Keßler , German military and politician
- 2017 : AR Penck , German visual artist
- 2018 : Harald Range , German lawyer
- 2018 : Wolfgang Völz , German stage, television and film actor
- 2019 : Roland Aboujaoudé , Lebanese Bishop
- 2019 : Red Kelly , Canadian ice hockey player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Athanasius the Great , Roman theologian and church father, bishop and patriarch (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Boris I , Bulgarian prince, monk and national saint (Orthodox)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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