September 2nd
The Sept. 2 is the 245th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 246th in leap years ), thus remain for another 120 days until the end of the year.
The Second World War ends with the official surrender of Japan on September 2, 1945 .
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events
Politics and world events
- 44 BC Chr .: Marcus Tullius Cicero gives his first of 14 Philippine speeches against Marcus Antonius , who after Caesar's death strives for sole rule in the Roman Empire .
- 31 BC Chr .: In the battle of Actium the fleet of Octavian, the later emperor Augustus , and Marcus Agrippas wins over those of Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra , with which Octavian secures the sole rule in the Roman Empire .
- 1192: The Third Crusade ends with the Treaty of Ramla between Sultan Saladin and Richard the Lionheart .
- 1628: In the battle of Wolgast , the imperial troops of Wallenstein prevail against the Danish defenders of the recently conquered Pomeranian city. Denmark's King Christian IV flees to his kingdom after the defeat.
- 1649: The capital of the Duchy of Castro surrenders to the troops of Pope Innocent X after Duke Ranuccio II Farnese fled to Parma . The city is completely destroyed according to the orders.
- 1686: Charles V of Lorraine and his troops recaptured the city of Buda , now part of Budapest , for the House of Habsburg after 145 years of Ottoman rule .
- 1715: Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , guardian of the new French king Louis XV. , has the Paris Parliament annul the will of King Louis XIV, who died the day before, to a large extent. This has curtailed its powers by setting up a Regency Council. In return, Philippe lifts the restrictions on Parliament's right of remonstration .
- 1792: During the French Revolution , the September massacres organized by Jean Paul Marat and Georges Jacques Danton begin in Paris .
- 1796: The imperial city of Nuremberg concludes a treaty under pressure from its citizens after the French occupation in the First Coalition War , which is supposed to subordinate the city to Prussian sovereignty. The confirmation by the Prussian government is later due to foreign policy considerations and the necessary assumption of the Nuremberg debt burden.
- 1850: The German emigrant and pharmacist Hermann Blumenau founds the town of Blumenau named after him in Brazil . The city developed into a center of German colonization in the country.
- 1856: The Swiss canton of Neuchâtel experiences a coup attempt by royalists who want to reinstate the Prussian king as sovereign.
- 1864: During the Atlanta Campaign during the American Civil War , General William T. Sherman and his troops take Atlanta , Georgia .
- 1870: After the surrender in the Battle of Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War , France's Emperor Napoléon III leaves. together with his army in German captivity.
- 1898: Herbert Kitchener wins the decisive victory over the Mahdists in the Battle of Omdurman (in what is now Sudan ) .
- 1920: After Soviet troops march into the Emirate of Bukhara , Emir Alim Khan fled to Afghanistan.
- 1930: Adolf Hitler takes command of the Sturmabteilung (SA) .
- 1939: France and Great Britain give Germany an ultimatum to withdraw from Poland immediately , true to the British-French guarantee given to Poland in the event of an attack.
- 1944: The American Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau draws up a 14-point plan for how to deal with defeated Germany after the end of the Second World War .
- 1945: The document of the surrender of Japan is signed on the USS Missouri .
- 1945: Ho Chi Minh proclaims Vietnam's independence from Japan and France after the August Revolution in Hanoi .
- 1946: The Socialist German Student Union is founded.
- 1957: In Little Rock , Arkansas, the governor dispatches National Guardsmen to deny access to the local school for reasons of racial segregation for nine black students ( Little Rock Nine ) .
- 1958: An American spy plane is shot down over Armenia in Soviet airspace . All 17 crew members die.
- 1963: Alabama Governor George Wallace mobilizes state police to prevent black children from entering integrated schools. The racial segregation should continue to exist.
- 1967: The Principality of Sealand declares its independence from Great Britain .
- 1973: France withdraws its forces from Madagascar .
- 1987: The trial against the German sports pilot Mathias Rust begins before the Supreme Court in Moscow .
- 1990: from 20 November last year the UN General Assembly adopted the CRC comes into force.
- 1998: With the Akayesu judgment of the International Criminal Court for Rwanda , for the first time in legal history, a conviction takes place on the basis of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide .
- 2003: The highly indebted state of Berlin files a lawsuit against the federal government for financial aid amounting to billions at the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe .
- 2004: With Resolution 1559 , the UN Security Council demands the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon and the disarmament and dissolution of all militias located there.
business
- 1811: Karl August von Hardenberg , as State Chancellor, revokes the compulsory guild by edict and thus introduces freedom of trade in Prussia .
- 1850: The Berlin Landwehr Canal is inaugurated. Neither the press nor the population take much notice of it, because the technical structure is located far outside the city walls.
- 1969: Beginning of the September strikes in the Ruhr area , a successful wildcat strike .
science and technology
- 1667: Street lighting is introduced in Paris in order to be able to better monitor what is happening at night by the police.
- 1811: King Friedrich VI. founds the University of Oslo .
- 1913: The hydrographic expedition of the Northern Arctic Sea led by Boris Wilkizki discovers the Small Taimyr Island as the first of the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago .
- 1916: The Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig is inaugurated with a ceremony.
- 1990: The Silver Arrow (ET 201) of the Cologne-Bonn Railways has its last day of operation.
- 2006: A Siemens ES64U4 locomotive sets a new world speed record for conventional electric locomotives on the Nuremberg – Ingolstadt high-speed line with 357 km / h .
Culture
- 1773: The world premiere of the puppet opera Philemon and Baucis or Jupiter's Journey on Earth by Joseph Haydn takes place in Esterház .
- 1873: On the newly created Sedanstag , the Berlin Victory Column , built according to a design by Heinrich Strack , is inaugurated.
- 1874: The foundation stone is laid for the parliament building on Ringstrasse in Vienna .
- 1949: The film The Third Man by Carol Reed, based on a screenplay by Graham Greene , premieres. The main roles are played by Joseph Cotten and Alida Valli . The character of Harry Lime is portrayed by Orson Welles . The music, including the Harry Lime theme , comes from Anton Karas
- 1992: Aribert Reimann's opera Das Schloss, based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka , premieres at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
- 1995: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame designed by Ieoh Ming Pei opens its doors in Cleveland .
Disasters
- 1666: The great fire of London breaks out in the bakery of a royal baker, raging for four days and largely destroying the city .
- 1806: The Swiss village of Goldau is destroyed in the Goldau landslide . 457 people are killed.
- 1935: Labor Day hurricane over the Florida Keys kills at least 423 people.
- 1984: Typhoon Ike devastated parts of the Philippine Islands , killing more than 1,400 people.
- 1998: A Swissair MD-11 with flight number SR111 crashes into the sea off Halifax, killing all 215 passengers and 14 crew members.
- 2004: A fire breaks out in the roof of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar . Burn 50,000 volumes in the library , another 62,000 are damaged by fire and extinguishing water.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1859: In the solar storm of 1859 , the strongest registered solar storm to date paralyzes the telegraph network that has just been installed worldwide and leads to the northern lights , which can even be observed in Rome, Havana and Hawaii.
Sports
- 1950: The German Gymnastics Federation is re-established in Tübingen.
- 1995: Frank Bruno wins his boxing match against Oliver McCall at London's Wembley Stadium by winning on points, making him world heavyweight champion.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1054: Sukjong , 15th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
- 1243: Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford , English magnate
- 1471: Ercole Strozzi , Italian courtier and poet
- 1516: François I de Clèves , Count of Nevers and Eu and Count of Beaufort
- 1530: Friedrich Pensold , German philologist and physicist
- 1547: Georg Thurzo , Hungarian-Slovak nobleman, Palatine of Hungary
- 1599: David Auerbach , German theologian
- 1614: Claus von Ahlefeldt , field marshal and commander of all Danish armed forces in Norway
- 1648: Magdalena Sybille , Duchess of Saxe-Gotha and Altenburg
- 1661: Georg Böhm , German organist and composer
- 1661: Heinrich , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
- 1682: Juan Antonio de Vizarrón y Eguiarreta , Spanish bishop and colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain
18th century
- 1712: Max Heinrich von Geyr , German priest and canon in Cologne
- 1725: Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg , Prussian Minister of War under Frederick the Great
- 1726: Gebhard Friedrich Ludolph von Angern , Prussian district administrator and landowner
- 1726: Peter von Hohenthal , electoral district chief
- 1726: Franz Xaver Wagenschön , Czech-Austrian painter of Rococo and Classicism
- 1733: Friedrich Wolfgang Reiz , German classical philologist
- 1734: Marianne Camasse , French dancer, Countess von Forbach
- 1735: Matthias Steevens van Geuns , Dutch medic and botanist
- 1737: Maria Anna von Oeyen , abbess in the Cistercian monastery of St. Ludwig, Dalheim
- 1740: Johann Georg Jacobi , German poet and publicist
- 1749: Joseph Allen , American politician
- 1750: Pehr Frigel , Swedish composer
- 1753: Maria Josepha of Savoy , Countess of Provence
- 1756: Carl Englerth , German entrepreneur and local politician
- 1763: Caroline Schelling , German writer and muse
- 1764: Georg Ludwig Hartig , German forest scientist
- 1773: Louis-Auguste-Victor de Ghaisnes de Bourmont , French general, minister of war and Marshal of France
- 1776: Johann Elias Olfermann , German major general
- 1778: Louis Bonaparte , brother of Napoléon Bonaparte, as Ludwig I, King of Holland
- 1780: Goswin de Stassart , Dutch-Belgian politician
- 1786: Karl Wilhelm August Porsche , German lawyer and local politician
- 1791: Theodor Rehbenitz , German painter and draftsman
- 1794: Friedrich August Köttig , German inventor, arcanist at the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen
- 1794: James Marsh , British chemist
- 1798: Thomas Holliday Hicks , American politician, governor of Maryland, senator
- 1799: Heinrich von Helldorff , Prussian landowner and politician
- 1800: Franz Rosner , Austrian tenor of Hungarian origin
19th century
1801-1850
- 1805: Esteban Echeverría , Argentine writer
- 1805: Adolf Schöll , German archaeologist and librarian, philologist and literary historian
- 1811: Gustav Heckenast , Hungarian bookseller, publisher and printer
- 1811: Jacob Christian Jacobsen , Danish industrialist, founder of the Carlsberg brewery
- 1812: Carl Giesecke , German organ builder
- 1814: Ernst Curtius , German archaeologist and historian
- 1815: Georg August Pritzel , German librarian and writer
- 1816: Julius Anton von Poseck , German theologian
- 1816: Robert Warschauer senior , German private banker
- 1818: Hans Christopher Müller , Faroese politician and civil servant
- 1829: Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum , German medic
- 1834: Josef Zemp , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1835: Carl Heinrich Auspitz , Austrian dermatologist
- 1836: Anton Braith , German animal and landscape painter
- 1838: Liliʻuokalani , Hawaiian queen
- 1839: Bernhard Naunyn , German doctor
- 1839: Henry George , American political economist
- 1840: Giovanni Verga , Italian writer
- 1841: Hermann Laurent , French mathematician
- 1841: Julius Payer , Austro-Hungarian polar and alpine researcher, cartographer and professor
- 1844: Heinrich Hess , German civil servant, local researcher and politician
- 1846: Paul Déroulède , French author and politician
- 1847: George Sims , British writer, journalist and social reformer
- 1847: Heinrich Kielhorn , German pedagogue, pioneer of special education
- 1850: Alfred Pringsheim , German mathematician and art patron
- 1850: Woldemar Voigt , German physicist and university professor
1851-1900
- 1851: August Freudenthal , German author and journalist
- 1851: Richard Voss , German writer
- 1852: Paul Bourget , French poet and critic
- 1853: Wilhelm Ostwald , German-Baltic chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1854: Hans Jæger , Norwegian writer and anarchist
- 1855: Otto Strützel , German painter
- 1857: Karl Stauffer-Bern , Swiss painter, etcher and sculptor
- 1862: Alphons Diepenbrock , Dutch composer, writer and classical philologist
- 1862: Carl Heicke , German garden architect
- 1863: Isidore Philipp , Hungarian-French pianist and music teacher
- 1863: Willy Rehberg , Swiss pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1864: Séraphine Louis , French painter
- 1866: Hiram Johnson , American politician, Governor of California
- 1870: Marie Ault , British actress
- 1870: Kennerley Rumford , English singer (baritone)
- 1871: Hildegard Wegscheider , German teacher and politician, first German woman with a doctorate
- 1872: Karl Steinacker , German art historian, scholar and museum director
- 1875: Otto Keller , German dialect poet and composer
- 1877: Frederick Soddy , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1878: Maurice René Fréchet , French mathematician
- 1878: Werner von Blomberg , German general, Reichswehr Minister
- 1879: Chung-gun An , Korean Pan-Asianist and nationalist
- 1880: Peter Dohrn , German politician
- 1881: Allen Oldfather Whipple , American surgeon
- 1882: Paul Robien , German conservation activist
- 1883: Rudolf Weigl , Polish biologist and physician
- 1884: André Auffray , French cyclist
- 1884: Erich Kreutz , German politician
- 1884: Robert Kammerzell , Austrian artist and local researcher
- 1884: Willy Schaeffers , German cabaret artist and actor
- 1887: Willem de Mérode , Dutch poet
- 1888: Friedrich Schorr , Hungarian-American singer
- 1888: Hugo Spatz , German neuropathologist
- 1888: Leo Wohleb , German politician, President of Baden
- 1891: Karl Palmgren , German frigate captain and knight's cross bearer
- 1893: Ilse Friedleben , German tennis player
- 1894: Bryher , British writer
- 1894: Joseph Roth , Austrian writer and journalist
- 1895: Monique Saint-Hélier , Swiss writer
- 1895: Emil Spiess , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
- 1896: Hinrich Lohse , German politician
- 1898: Pietro Ferrero , Italian pastry chef and entrepreneur, founder of Ferrero
- 1898: Alfons Gorbach , Austrian politician, Federal Chancellor
- 1898: Helen Meyer-Moringen , German painter
- 1900: Georg Diederichs , German politician
- 1900: Wilhelm Strienz , German singer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Franz Karmasin , German State Secretary in Slovakia, leader of the ethnic group
- 1901: Imre König , multinational chess player
- 1901: Else Meidner , German graphic artist and painter
- 1901: Adolph Rupp , American basketball coach
- 1902: Albert Bormann , German party functionary, MdR
- 1903: Martin Heix , German politician, MdL, MdR
- 1904: Set Svanholm , Swedish tenor
- 1906: Arthur E. Arling , American cameraman
- 1906: Karl Steinbauer , German pastor, victim of National Socialism
- 1907: Helmut Hirsch , German historian
- 1907: Evelyn Hooker , American psychologist
- 1907: Fritz Szepan , German football player
- 1909: Paulius Augius , Lithuanian painter and woodcut artist
- 1909: Wilhelm Meyer , German entrepreneur and sports sponsor
- 1909: Harro Schulze-Boysen , German officer, publicist and resistance fighter
- 1910: Gaston Bertrand , Belgian painter
- 1911: René Amengual Astaburuaga , Chilean composer
- 1911: Floyd Council , American blues musician
- 1911: Werner Döring , German physicist
- 1912: Ingeborg Rapoport , German pediatrician who received her doctorate at the age of 102
- 1913: Adolf-Henning Frucht , German doctor and physiologist
- 1913: Agnes-Marie Grisebach , German writer
- 1913: Hans Lietzau , German director
- 1913: Bill Shankly , Scottish football coach
- 1915: Hans-Joachim Koellreutter , German-Brazilian composer, flautist and conductor
- 1915: Dai-Keong Lee , American composer
- 1915: Grachan Moncur II , American jazz bassist
- 1915: Meinhardt Raabe , American actor
- 1915: Martin Rickelt , German actor
- 1916: Liu Baiyu , Chinese writer and cultural politician
- 1917: Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian jazz musician
- 1917: Bodil Kjer , Danish actress
- 1917: Nazaire De Wolf , Belgian composer and band leader
- 1918: Georg Braun , German motorcycle racer
- 1918: Rudolf Cranz , German ski racer
- 1918: Allen Drury , American journalist and writer
- 1919: Anne-Marie Blanc , Swiss actress
- 1919: Marge Champion , American dancer and actress
- 1919: Karl-Ernst Maedel , German journalist and author
- 1919: Lance Macklin , British racing driver
- 1919: William J. McCarthy , American union leader
- 1921: Ernst Balluf , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1922: Arthur Ashkin , American experimental physicist
- 1922: Fania Fénelon , French chanson singer
- 1922: Martin Christoffel , Swiss chess player
- 1923: Hans Stercken , German politician
- 1923: Harry Pross , German journalist and journalist
- 1923: René Thom , French professor of mathematics
- 1923: Walerian Borowczyk , Polish director.
- 1924: Philipp Brucker , German dialect poet and author
- 1924: Ludwig Leo , German architect
- 1924: Daniel arap Moi , Kenyan President
- 1924: Peter von Oertzen , German political scientist and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1924: Wolfgang Zeidler , German lawyer, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1925: Ike Franklin Andrews , American politician
- 1925: Russ Conway , British pianist
- 1925: Hugo Montenegro , American arranger, composer and orchestra leader
1926-1950
- 1926: Erich Selbmann , German journalist
- 1926: Ibrahim Nasir , Maldivian politician and president
- 1927: Trude Jochum-Beiser , Austrian ski racer
- 1927: Tzvi Avni , Israeli composer
- 1928: Hans Ackermann , German football player
- 1928: Horace Silver , American jazz pianist and composer
- 1928: Sebastian Fischer , German actor
- 1928: Miloslav Ištvan , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1929: Charline Arthur , American rockabilly musician
- 1929: Hal Ashby , American film director
- 1930: Andrei Pavlovich Petrov , Russian composer
- 1931: Clifford Jordan , American jazz saxophonist
- 1931: Herwig Görgemanns , German philologist and professor
- 1932: Blagoje Adžić , Yugoslav politician
- 1932: Lia Amanda , Italian actress
- 1933: Mathieu Kérékou , President of Benin
- 1934: Allen Carr , British author
- 1934: Hilla Becher , German photographer and painter
- 1934: Dieter Clauss , German general
- 1934: German Goldenshteyn , Soviet clarinetist
- 1936: Ferdinand Fischer ( Ferdy Fischer, Ferdinand GB Fischer ), German author
- 1936: Andrew Grove , Hungarian-American entrepreneur and founder of Intel
- 1936: Helmut Werner , German manager, swimmer and water polo player
- 1936: Jürgen Heraeus , German manager
- 1936: Klaus Koch , German jazz musician
- 1937: Giampiero Biscaldi , Italian racing driver
- 1937: Erick Arturo del Valle , 40th President of Panama
- 1937: Hans Bols , German carnivalist
- 1937: Jörg Schönbohm , German politician
- 1937: Peter Ueberroth , American sports official,
- 1937: Willi Giesemann , German soccer player
- 1937: Moisés Moleiro , Venezuelan politician and historian
- 1937: Monika Taubitz , German writer and poet
- 1938: Giuliano Gemma , Italian actor
- 1938: Ursula Lillig , German actress
- 1939: Elaine Keillor , Canadian pianist and musicologist
- 1938: Wolfgang Grabow , German theater actor
- 1939: Henry Mintzberg , Canadian professor of business administration and management
- 1939: Ivar Jacobson , Swedish computer scientist
- 1939: Jack Lang , French cultural politician
- 1939: Joachim Bäse , German football player
- 1939: Manfred Matuschewski , German athlete and Olympic participant
- 1939: Nicolino Locche , Argentine boxer
- 1939: Tilman Zülch , German human rights activist
- 1940: Rudolph Angermüller , German musicologist
- 1940: Erich Greipl , German trade manager
- 1940: Jack White , German music producer and composer
- 1942: Rodrigo Lloreda Caicedo , Colombian politician
- 1943: Hans-Ulrich Grapenthin , German football player
- 1943: Herbert Neubauer , German table tennis player
- 1944: Claude Nicollier , Swiss test pilot and astronaut
- 1944: Karl Smolle , Austrian National Council
- 1944: Václav Dušek , Czech writer
- 1944: Pablo Ziegler , Argentine pianist, composer and arranger
- 1945: Frank Baumbauer , German actor and director
- 1945: Henry Arland , German musician
- 1946: Angelika Volquartz , German teacher and politician, Lord Mayor of Kiel
- 1946: Billy Preston , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1947: Louis Michel , Belgian politician
- 1948: Christa McAuliffe , American teacher and astronaut
- 1948: David J. Stevenson , New Zealand planetologist
- 1948: Manfred Böckl , German writer
- 1948: Nate Archibald , American basketball player
- 1948: Terry Bradshaw , American football player
- 1949: Albert West , Dutch pop singer and music producer
- 1949: Frank Ripploh , German actor and director
- 1949: Hans-Hermann Hoppe , German economist
- 1949: Joachim Erwin , German lawyer and politician, Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf
- 1950: Michael Rother , German musician
- 1950: Zvonimir Serdarušić , German handball coach
1951-1975
- 1951: Jim DeMint , American politician
- 1951: Annerose Kirchner , German author
- 1951: Mark Harmon , American actor
- 1952: Jimmy Connors , American professional tennis player
- 1953: Gerhard Thiele , German astronaut
- 1953: John Zorn , American composer and band leader
- 1953: Jürgen Kluge , German management consultant
- 1953: Maurice Colclough , British rugby player
- 1954: Marco Varner , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1955: Claus Kleber , German journalist and television presenter
- 1955: Linda Purl , American actress and singer
- 1955: Natalja Anatoljewna Petrusjowa , Russian speed skater
- 1955: Thomas Phleps , German guitarist and musicologist
- 1956: Zlatan Arnautović , Yugoslav handball player
- 1956: Jamal Karsli , German politician and interpreter
- 1957: Ingrid Auerswald , German athlete and Olympic champion
- 1957: Steve Porcaro , American keyboardist and songwriter (Toto)
- 1958: Michael Müller , German comedian and actor
- 1960: Arnaldo Antunes , Brazilian writer and musician
- 1960: Gottfried Curio , German politician
- 1960: Kristin Halvorsen , Norwegian politician
- 1960: Vetle Lid Larssen , Norwegian writer and journalist
- 1960: Doug Poland , American motorcycle racer
- 1961: Carlos Valderrama , Colombian soccer player
- 1962: Knut Leo Abrahamsen , Norwegian Nordic combined athlete
- 1962: Prachya Pinkaew , Thai director, producer and screenwriter
- 1963: Bruno Adams , Australian singer, songwriter and musician
- 1963: Sam Mitchell , American basketball player and coach
- 1963: Stanislaw Salamowitsch Tschertschessow , Russian football player and coach
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- 1964: Keanu Reeves , Canadian actor
- 1965: Anja Schuess , German actress
- 1965: Lennox Lewis , British boxer
- 1966: Nicola Armaroli , Italian chemist
- 1966: Dino Cazares , Mexican guitarist
- 1966: Jens Steinigen , German biathlete
- 1966: Olivier Panis , French racing driver
- 1966: Salma Hayek , Mexican actress
- 1967: Andreas Möller , German soccer player
- 1967: Oliver Frankenbach , German business economist and football official
- 1967: Anja Charlet , German news anchor
- 1967: Kerstin Behrendt , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1967: Ruggiero Rizzitelli , Italian football player
- 1968: Cynthia Watros , American actress
- 1968: Kristen Cloke , American actress
- 1969: Mikael Löfgren , Swedish biathlete
- 1969: Robert Habeck , German writer and politician
- 1970: Olivier Casadesus , French actor
- 1970: Khalil Ibrahim Al Ghamdi , Saudi Arabian football referee
- 1970: Gerd Schönfelder , German skier and Paralympic gold medalist
- 1970: Lars Teutenberg , German professional cyclist
- 1970: Abdullah Al Hilali , Omani football referee
- 1971: Kjetil André Aamodt , Norwegian ski racer
- 1971: Stephan Grossmann , German actor
- 1971: Julia Haacke , German actress
- 1971: Péter Kőszeghy , Hungarian composer and music teacher
- 1971: Thorsten Schick , German politician
- 1971: Tom Steels , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1972: Søren Colding , Danish football player
- 1972: Nicolette Krebitz , German actress
- 1973: Savo Milošević , Serbian football player
- 1973: Mark Shield , Australian football referee
- 1974: David Pelletier , Canadian figure skater
- 1974: Felix Bohnke , German drummer (Edguy)
- 1974: Inari Vachs , American porn actress
- 1974: Sami Salo , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1974: Radoslav Kunzo , Slovak football player
- 1975: Amadou Diallo , Guinean immigrant, shot by police
- 1975: Jill Janus , American rock singer
- 1975: Alexandre Lacroix , French writer, essayist and journalist
- 1975: Alexandra Schalaudek , German actress
1976-2000
- 1976: Michel Jourdain junior , Mexican racing car driver
- 1976: Marchy Lee , Hong Kong-Chinese racing driver
- 1977: Frédéric Kanouté , French-Malian football player
- 1977: Marek Mintál , Slovak football player
- 1977: Fuminori Nakamura , Japanese writer
- 1977: Sam Rivers , American bassist (Limp Bizkit)
- 1978: Inken Becher , German soccer player
- 1979: Meghan Andrews , American actress
- 1979: Alexander Vladimirovich Powetkin , Russian boxer
- 1979: Fabienne Reuteler , Swiss snowboarder
- 1980: Mohama Zanzan Atte-Oudeyi , Togolese soccer player
- 1980: Simone Kuhn , Swiss beach volleyball player
- 1980: Danny Shittu , Nigerian soccer player
- 1980: Hiroki / Daiki Yoshimoto , Japanese racing car driver and rock singer
- 1981: Elizabeth Amolofo , Ghanaian athlete
- 1981: Bart Dockx , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1982: Joey Barton , English footballer
- 1982: Johannes Bitter , German national handball goalkeeper
- 1982: Dennis Klockmann , German handball goalkeeper
- 1983: José Alfredo Castillo , Bolivian football player
- 1983: Neill Collins , Scottish soccer player
- 1983: Ralph Gunesch , German soccer player
- 1983: Kamilla Kristensen , Danish handball player
- 1983: Aimee Osbourne , American model, actress, and columnist
- 1984: Nick Ingels , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1984: Peter Perchtold , German soccer player and coach
- 1985: Kevin Jahn , German handball player
- 1985: Adam Nemec , Slovak football player
- 1986: Rafik Halliche , Algerian football player
- 1986: Moses Ndiema Kipsiro , Ugandan long-distance runner
- 1986: Hrajr Mkojan , Armenian football player
- 1986: Sebastian Weber , German handball player
- 1987: Andrea Zattoni , Italian cross-country skier
- 1988: Dimitrij Ovtcharov , German table tennis player
- 1988: Javi Martínez , Spanish soccer player
- 1989: Alexandre Pato , Brazilian soccer player
- 1989: Sergio Escudero , Spanish soccer player
- 1989: Markieff Morris , American basketball player
- 1989: Marcus Morris , American basketball player
- 1990: Marcus Ericsson , Swedish racing driver
- 1991: Davy Pröpper , Dutch football player
- 1992: Konrad Abeltshauser , German ice hockey player
- 1992: Jim Gottfridsson , Swedish handball player
- 1994: Linda Dallmann , German soccer player
- 1996: Sungha Jung , South Korean fingerstyle guitarist
- 1997: Brandon Ingram , American basketball player
- 2000: Lisa Grill , Austrian ski racer
Died
Before the 19th century
- 421: Flavius Constantius , emperor in the Western Roman Empire
- 459: Symeon Stylites the Elder , first column saint
- 595: John IV , Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1031: Imre , Hungarian prince, son of King Stephen I.
- 1106: Yusuf ibn Tashfin , ruler of the Almoravids
- 1205: Hugo von Coligny , Burgundian crusader and Prince of Coligny
- 1274: Prince Munetaka , Japanese shogun
- 1282: Ingrid Elovsdotter , Swedish Dominican
- 1295: Christian von Mühlhausen , Prince-Bishop of Samland and Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz
- 1332: Toqa Timur , Emperor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China
- 1353: Friedrich III. , Margrave of Baden
- 1375: Margaret de Percy , English nobleman
Landini with laurel wreath and portative (illustration from the Squarcialupi Codex )
- 1397: Francesco Landini , Italian composer, organist, singer, multi-instrumentalist and poet
- 1479: Ulrich von Nußdorf , Prince-Bishop of Passau
- 1486: Guy XIV. De Laval , Count of Laval
- 1587: Walpurga housewife , Bavarian midwife, victim of the Dillingen witch trials
- 1608: Jerónimo Xavierre , Spanish Dominican and cardinal
- 1652: Jusepe de Ribera , Spanish painter
- 1679: Johann Duve , German merchant and banker
- 1688: Franz Wilhelm von Fürstenberg , Landkomtur of the Ballei Westphalia of the Teutonic Order
- 1725: Charles-François Poërson , French painter
- 1726: Eleonore von Dönhoff , Brandenburg-Prussian nobleman
- 1737: Fabian von Wrangel , Imperial Habsburg field marshal
- 1741: Andreas Charitius , German Lutheran theologian
- 1746: Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy , French statesman
- 1750: Burkhard Leberecht Behrisch , German lawyer and mayor of Dresden
- 1755: Marie Zéphyrine , French princess
- 1764: Nathaniel Bliss , English astronomer
- 1765: Henri Bouquet , Swiss traveler in the service of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and the British Crown
- 1790: Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim , German Catholic auxiliary bishop and papal critic
- 1791: František Kočvara , Czech composer
19th century
- 1807: Antonio Casimir Cartellieri , German composer
- 1813: Jean-Victor Moreau , French general
- 1816: Thomas Arnold , English psychiatrist
- 1822: Abbondio Bernasconi , Swiss politician
- 1820: Jiaqing , Chinese emperor of the Qing dynasty
- 1825: Gottfried Tauber , German instrument dealer and optician
- 1832: Franz Xaver von Zach , German-Austrian astronomer
- 1834: Thomas Telford , British builder
- 1845: Bernardino Rivadavia , Argentine statesman and first president
Jean-Victor Moreau
(† 1813)
Jiaqing
(† 1820)
Thomas Telford
(† 1834)
Bernardino Rivadavia
(† 1845)
- 1851: Anton Aloys Buchmayer ; Bishop of St. Pölten
- 1854: Pierre Alphonse Laurent , French mathematician
- 1859: Johann Friedrich Schilling , German court mason
- 1864: Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt , German Protestant missionary
- 1865: William Rowan Hamilton , Irish-English mathematician and physicist
- 1872: Yuri Nikolajewitsch Golitsyn , Russian composer
- 1872: Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , Danish interdisciplinary philologist, theologian and patriot
- 1879: Bernhard Becker , Swiss Protestant clergyman and social politician
- 1884: Henry B. Anthony , American politician
- 1892: Grigore Arghiropol , Romanian politician
- 1895: Charles Anderson , American politician
- 1898: Wilford Woodruff , American clergyman, fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 1899: Ernest Renshaw , British tennis player
William Rowan Hamilton
(† 1865)
Yuri Nikolayevich Golitsyn
(† 1872)
NCCR Grundtvig
(† 1872)
20th century
1901-1950
- 1910: Henri Rousseau , French painter
- 1912: William Patrick Auld , Australian winemaker, wine merchant and explorer
- 1920: Georg Busolt , German ancient historian
- 1920: Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez , Spanish Archbishop of Valencia and Toledo, cardinal
- 1922: Henry Lawson , Australian author and poet
- 1924: Adelbert Düringer , German lawyer, judge at the Reichsgericht and politician, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
- 1924: Dario Resta , Italian-British racing car driver
- 1929: Paul Leni , German set designer and director
- 1933: Hans Freiherr von Berlepsch , German professional officer and ornithologist
- 1935: Marc Augé , French ethnologist and anthropologist
- 1937: Pierre de Coubertin , French educator, historian and sports official
- 1938: Ángel Arocha Guillén , Spanish footballer
- 1942: Wilhelm Letonja , German deserter and Nazi victim
- 1943: Wilhelm Geiger , German Indologist and Iranist
- 1943: Marsden Hartley , American painter
- 1944: Gustav Aschaffenburg , German psychiatrist
- 1946: Chino Masako , Japanese poet
- 1946: Ildefons Herwegen , German monk and historian
- 1947: Hulda von Levetzow , German author
- 1948: Sylvanus Griswold Morley , American archaeologist and Mayan explorer
- 1949: Louis Chenard , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1950: Anton Apold , Austrian metallurgical engineer
- 1950: Hanka Ordonówna , Polish singer and actress
1951-2000
- 1951: Karl Anlauf , German journalist
- 1953: Jonathan Wainwright , American general
- 1955: Albert Clément , French racing car driver
- 1955: Rudolf Kattnigg , Austrian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1958: Nikolai Pavlovich Anziferow , Russian historian, writer and local researcher
- 1958: Betty Humby Beecham , British pianist
- 1958: Alis Guggenheim , Swiss sculptor and painter
- 1960: Max Nathan , German automobile racing driver
- 1964: Alvin C. York , American soldier and war hero
- 1965: Johannes Bobrowski , German lyric poet, narrator, re-poet and essayist
- 1966: Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg , German painter
- 1969: Willy Mairesse , Belgian racing car driver
- 1969: Ho Chi Minh , Vietnamese politician and president
- 1970: Kees van Baaren , Dutch composer and teacher
- 1971: Humberto Viscarra Monje , Bolivian composer
- 1973: Nils Gustaf Andersson , Swedish swimmer
- 1973: Julius Herburger , German painter
- 1973: JRR Tolkien , British writer
- 1976: Hans Schuberth , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister
- 1978: Gerhard Wahrig , German lexicographer
- 1979: Johannes Kleinhappl , Catholic priest and moral theologian
- 1981: Tadeusz Baird , Polish composer
- 1981: Janko Ravnik , Slovenian composer, music teacher and director
- 1982: Werner Schwarz , German politician
- 1985: Abe Lenstra , Dutch football player
- 1987: William Borm , liberal politician and Stasi agent
- 1990: Maria-Christine von Urach , German mechanical engineer
- 1991: Willi Fischer , German politician
- 1992: Barbara McClintock , American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1993: Joana Maria Gorvin , Austrian actress
- 1994: Detlef Macha , German racing cyclist
- 1995: Václav Neumann , Czech conductor
- 1996: Hans Peter Heinzl , Austrian cabaret artist
- 1996: Otto Luening , American composer
- 1997: Viktor Frankl , Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1997: Rudolf Bing , British theater manager
- 1998: Allen Drury , American journalist and writer
- 1998: Charles A. Ferguson , American linguist
- 2000: Vicente Asensi Albentosa , Spanish football player and coach
- 2000: Curt Siodmak , German writer and director
21st century
- 2001: Christiaan Barnard , South African heart surgeon
- 2001: Troy Donahue , American actor
- 2001: Theo Gallehr , German radio play author , filmmaker, journalist, visual artist and university lecturer for visual arts
- 2002: Jerry Boyd , American boxing coach
- 2004: Kieth Engen , American opera singer
- 2004: Elisabeth Kallina , Austrian actress
- 2004: Wilhelm Koch-Hooge , German actor
- 2005: Fiede Kay , German singer and songwriter of Low German songs
- 2005: Robert Krapfenbauer , Austrian structural engineer and civil engineer
- 2006: Gerhard Amanshauser , Austrian writer
- 2006: Clermont Pépin , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 2006: Dewey Redman , American free jazz and bop saxophonist
- 2007: Egon Hölder , German civil servant and President of the Federal Statistical Office
- 2008: Abdullah al-Harari , Ethiopian legal scholar
- 2008: Arne Domnérus , Swedish saxophonist, clarinetist and composer
- 2008: Bill Meléndez , American animator
- 2010: Leo Trepp , German-American rabbi and professor of theology
- 2011: Horst Kasner , German Protestant theologian
- 2011: Herbert Mataré , German physicist and European inventor of the transistor
- 2013: Ronald Coase , British economist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2013: Frederik Pohl , American writer
- 2015: Dick Guldstrand , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 2016: Islom Karimov , Uzbek politician and president
- 2019: Tom Zickler , German film producer
- 2020: David Graeber , American anthropologist
- 2021: Mikis Theodorakis , Greek composer, writer and politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig , Bishop of Denmark (Protestant)
- Name days
- Ingrid (only in Germany)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Vietnam , independence from France (1945)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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