20th of April

The April 20 is the 110th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 111th in leap years ), thus remain still 255 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

1105 : Crusaders of the Principality of Antioch prevail against a Muslim armed force in the Battle of Artah in their attempt to recapture lost territory.

1499 : The Confederates under Henry Wohlleb stay in the Swabian War in the Battle of Frastanz victor over imperial Habsburg and units of the Swabian League .

1526: Babur

1526 : In the First Battle of Panipat , Babur , a descendant of Genghis Khan and Timur , defeats the Sultan of Delhi , Ibrahim Lodi. The Lodi dynasty ends with his death in the battle , and Babur founds the Mughal empire in northern India .

1534: Jacques Cartier

1534 : The French navigator Jacques Cartier starts a voyage of discovery with the task of looking for fishing grounds near Newfoundland . On this trip, however, he found areas that would later become New France .

1633 : On the night of April 19-20, Swedish troops under General Lennart Torstensson stormed Landsberg am Lech on the orders of Duke Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar during the Thirty Years' War and massacred all the inhabitants.

1653 : In England , Oliver Cromwell with 30 gunmen drives out the 100 or so members of the rump parliament who had refused to resolve the self-dissolution of parliament the days before.

1657 : The English admiral Robert Blake defeats a Spanish war fleet in the Anglo-Spanish War in the sea battle of Santa Cruz , with which the Spanish treasure ships from the New World are at the mercy of the English privateers.

1792 : The French National Assembly declared the monarchies Austria , Prussia and Piedmont -Sardinia the war .

1809 : In the Battle of Abensberg in the Fifth Coalition War , Napoleon Bonaparte and Jean Lannes and the allied forces of Württemberg and Bavaria defeat the Austrian troops under Archduke Karl von Österreich-Teschen and Field Marshal Johann von Hiller near Abensberg .

1828: Sketch of Timbuktu by René Caillié

1828 : The French René Caillié , disguised as an Arab, is the second European after Alexander Gordon Laing to reach Timbuktu on the Niger, which is shrouded in mystery in Europe . The city turns out to be small, insignificant and poor. His reports, disappointing for Europe, still lead to doubts about his presence in Timbuktu.

1848: Battle of Kandern

1848 : The radical democratic Hecker uprising is brought about by Baden troops under Friedrich von Gagern and wiped out in a battle on the Scheideck in the Black Forest. Friedrich Hecker flees into exile in Switzerland. The first major uprising of the Baden Revolution during the German Revolution failed.

1854 : Prussia and Austria form a defensive alliance for the duration of the Crimean War .

1859 : In the Treaty of Lisbon , Portugal and the Netherlands determine their colonial borders on the island of Timor .

1887 : The French customs officer Wilhelm Schnäbele is arrested by German officials. This leads to a diplomatic incident between Germany and France, the Schnäbele affair .

1914 : A miners' strike in Colorado , USA escalates into the Ludlow massacre , in which the National Guard kills 22 strikers, family members and bystanders. Three national guards are also killed.

1917 : The April theses of Lenin , who returned to Russia on April 16, are published in Pravda . In it he criticized, among other things, the Provisional Government after the February Revolution and called for the establishment of a republic on the basis of the Soviets , as well as the unconditional conclusion of peace with the German Reich.

1919 : On the advance to suppress the Munich Soviet Republic, Prussian and Württemberg troops as well as free corps occupy the city of Augsburg .

1968: Enoch Powell

1968 : The British politician Enoch Powell gives his controversial “Rivers of Blood” speech in Birmingham on the consequences of unchecked immigration from the Commonwealth of Nations to Great Britain from his point of view.

1978: Flight plan and actual route flown by Flight 902

1978 : Near Murmansk is Flight 902 of Korean Air , which has strayed into Soviet airspace, fired on by Soviet interceptors. Two people die, the other occupants of the Boeing 707 are rescued after the forced emergency landing of the aircraft.

1990 : Four months after the " Velvet Revolution " which is Czechoslovakia officially in Czech and Slovak Federative Republic renamed .

1998 : In an eight-page letter to the Reuters news agency in Cologne, the Red Army Faction ( RAF ) declares its self-dissolution after 28 years of “ urban guerrilla ”.

2001 : In the Canadian Quebec the third party begins America summit of all 34 leaders in the Americas except Cuba , on the establishment of an American Free Trade Agreement and Inter-American Democracy Charter will be discussed.

2005: Lucio Gutiérrez

2005 : After clashes between demonstrators and national security forces in Ecuador , President Lucio Gutiérrez ( Partido Sociedad Patriótica ) is removed from parliament. The previous Vice President Alfredo Palacio will be his successor.

2017 : A police officer is killed in an attack in Paris . Three other people are injured.

2018 : In Havana, the Cuban National Assembly elects Miguel Díaz-Canel, who was nominated as a candidate by the Communist Party of Cuba, to succeed the previous President Raúl Castro .

economy

1664 : The key bucket is laid out by the parents of the merchants who are in charge of the Bremen buoy and beacon system as a replacement for a buoy that was mentioned in 1642 as the outermost navigation mark of the Weser fairway north of Wangerooge at a depth of 11 fathoms . It is used to approach the Weser.

1923 : The National Socialist Julius Streicher founds his anti-Semitic inflammatory pamphlet Der Stürmer in Nuremberg , which, however, had only a very small circulation until the seizure of power in 1933.

1964 : The first glass of Nutella, renamed Supercrema gianduia for trademark reasons, rolls off the production line in Alba , Italy .

1964 : In the United Kingdom , the second television program BBC Two begins broadcasting in the European 625-line standard for the screen . The older program is still based on the television standard of 405 lines.

1992: Expo in Seville

1992 : The world exhibition in Seville , Spain, is ceremoniously opened. The symbolic center of Expo '92 is the Carthusian Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas - La Cartuja .

1997 : In the Taiwanese port of Kaohsiung , after a break of around 48 years in trade , a container ship from Xiamen , located in the People's Republic of China , arrives across Formosa Street .

science and technology

1303: La Sapienza

1303 : The La Sapienza University in Rome is established by Pope Boniface VIII for the formation of priests .

1840 : The French journalist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville publishes the second volume of his main work De la démocratie en Amérique ( On Democracy in America ).

1882 : The 1st Congress for Internal Medicine begins in Wiesbaden , at which the German Society for Internal Medicine is founded.

1899 : The Federal Council of the German Reich decides to officially admit women to the state exams in medicine, dentistry and pharmacy.

1900 : The polar explorer Gunnerius Ingvald Isachsen discovers an unknown island in the polar sea . The Amund Ringnes Iceland gets its name from the brewery owner, this Norwegian expedition under the direction of Otto Sverdrup has is financed.

1902: Pierre and Marie Curie in the laboratory

1902 : Marie and Pierre Curie succeed in isolating the chemical element radium .

1972: Apollo 16 on the moon

1972 : Four days after the launch of Apollo 16 landed the lunar module with Commander John Watts Young and pilot Charles Duke on the Moon .

Culture

1831 : At the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan , Gaetano Donizetti's opera buffa Viva la Mamma ! Premiered.
1836 : The city of Busseto in the Duchy of Parma hires the young Giuseppe Verdi as music director.
1844 : Puss in Boots , a children's fairy tale in three acts with interludes, a prologue and epilogues by Ludwig Tieck , is premiered in Berlin .
1854 : The opera Die Iconsturmer by Johann Friedrich Kittl has its world premiere at the Estates Theater in Prague.

1863: Augustus statue from Prima Porta

1863 : The larger than life statue of Emperor Augustus is found in the Villa di Livia in the Roman district of Prima Porta .

1896 : The first performance of the operetta El Capitan by John Philip Sousa with the libretto by Charles Klein takes place at the Tremont Theater in Boston.

1905 : Richard Strauss completes the composition of the literary opera Salome to a libretto based on Oscar Wilde's play. The world premiere will take place on December 9th.

1925 : The play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel is premiered at the Magdeburg City Theater .

1936 : In a film convention, the Federation of Austrian Film Industries assures the German National Socialists that Jewish people will be excluded from Austrian film and, due to the impending export ban to Germany, the most important customer country, also complies with the National Socialists' wishes in other points. Protests by directors and actors go unnoticed, most of them, including many Germans who fled in 1933, emigrate (again).

1938: Hitler and Riefenstahl at the world premiere at Olympia

1938 : The propaganda film Olympia by Leni Riefenstahl , consisting of the two parts Festival of the Nations and Festival of Beauty about the Olympic Games of 1936, is premiered in Berlin.

1992 : The three musicians of the rock group Queen , who remained after the AIDS death of Freddie Mercury, hold the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for Aids Awareness in front of 72,000 people in London's Wembley Stadium . The concert, which will be broadcast live on television and radio, will feature numerous musicians and Elizabeth Taylor will give a speech. The proceeds are used to set up the Mercury Phoenix Trust .

society

Columbine High School aerial view

1999 : Twelve students between the ages of 14 and 18, a teacher and the two 17- and 18-year-old perpetrators, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, died in the rampage at Columbine High School in Columbine near Littleton , Colorado.
2012 : The Hamburg Regional Court decides that the YouTube Internet portal is no longer allowed to provide videos on music titles for which GEMA has asserted copyright rights of use.

religion

798 : Following the intercession of Charlemagne, the diocese of Salzburg is elevated to the status of an archdiocese , the oldest still existing archdiocese in the German-speaking area, to which the suffragan dioceses Freising , Neuburg , Passau , Regensburg and Säben are subordinate. Bishop Arn of Salzburg is appointed 1st Archbishop and Metropolitan of Salzburg.

1884 : In his encyclical Humanum genus condemned Pope Leo XIII. the Freemasonry . In it he divides humanity into two opposite groups, which are assigned to the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan.

1949 : The Engelwerk is founded in Tyrol at the instigation of Gabriele Bitterlich .

Disasters

1207 : On Good Friday, a fire destroys large parts of Magdeburg , including the Magdeburg Cathedral built under Emperor Otto and the royal palace .

1944 : The Dutch cargo ship Voorbode, loaded with 120 tons of explosives, explodes in the port of Bergen in Norway , which is occupied by the German Reich , opposite the Bergenhus fortress . Parts of the historic city are destroyed in the explosion and 150 people are killed.

1967 : A Bristol Britannia operated by Swiss Globe Air crashes into a mountain near Nicosia , Cyprus . 126 people died in the accident .

1968 : In Windhoek , Namibia, a South African Airways aircraft crashes when taking off from Windhoek Hosea Kutako International Airport . 129 people were killed in the accident.

1986 : The dam of the Kantale Dam in Sri Lanka breaks. The tidal wave flooded dozen of villages, the number of deaths is given as 14 to 178.

2010 : The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico , causing the largest oil leak in history, with unforeseeable consequences for the environment.

2012 : All 127 occupants die in the crash of a passenger plane operated by Pakistani Bhoja Air near Islamabad.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

nature and environment

1535: Vädersolstavlan

1535 : About Stockholm are weather anomalies observed in the image vädersolstavlan posterity have survived. The oldest known pictorial representation of the city shows Sundogs and halo -Erscheinungen.

Sports

1882 : The first European multi-sport club , the Racing Club, is founded in the large station hall of Gare Saint-Lazare in Paris .

1887 : The world's first car race takes place in France. The course leads from Paris to Versailles, the winner, a steam tricycle , reaches an average speed of 26 km / h.

1920 Olympic Games poster

1920 : The VII Olympic Games are opened by King Albert in the Belgian city of Antwerp . Water polo player and epee fencer Victor Boin is the first athlete to swear the Olympic oath written by Pierre de Coubertin .

1986 : Basketball star Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls scored 63 points in the NBA - Play-off game against the Boston Celtics .

2008: Danica Patrick

2008 : The American racing driver Danica Patrick becomes the first woman to win a major car race in the Indy Racing League at the Twin Ring Motegi .

2008 : The Eisbären Berlin defeat the Cologne Sharks in DEL - play-off final , making them the third time all-German Hockey Champion. By winning this championship, the era of the Wellblechpalast as a professional facility in German ice hockey ends .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

Pietro Aretino (* 1492)

1208 : Ibn Wasil , Arab politician, diplomat and historian
1492 : Pietro Aretino , Italian writer
1494 : Johannes Agricola , German theologian
1516 : Sophia von Alvensleben , German abbess of the Cistercian monastery Althaldensleben
1544 : Renata of Lorraine , Hereditary Princess of Bavaria and benefactress
1546 : Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas , Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal
1552 : Friedrich IV. , Duke of Liegnitz
1574 : Gottlieb Aenetius , German physicist
1586 : Rosa von Lima , Peruvian mystic, consecrated virgin, Dominican-Terzian and first saint of America
1590 : Christoph Lüthardt , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
1594 : Matthäus Apelt , German composer and hymn poet
1605 : Christian Carpzov , German lawyer and jurist
1628 : Johann Fink , German painter
1633 : Go-Kōmyō , Japanese emperor
1646 : Giacinto Calandrucci , Sicilian painter
1646 : Charles Plumier , French botanist, explorer and member of the Paulaner order
1677 : Johann Conrad Gottfried Wildermett , Swiss Protestant clergyman

Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt (* 1699)

1699 : Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt , German historian

18th century

1727 : Florimond Claude von Mercy-Argenteau , Austrian diplomat

1731 : Ernest Johann Nepomuk von Herberstein , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman and first bishop of Linz

1733 : Carl Gottlob Beck , German printer, bookseller and founder of the CH Beck publishing house

1734 : Henricus Johannes Arntzenius , Dutch legal scholar

1739 : William Bartram , American naturalist

1739 : Friedrich von Hotze , Austrian general

1742 : Josias von Qualen , Herr auf Damp, Bitter von Itzehoe, Privy Conference Council, Convent Provost von Uetersen

1745 : Philippe Pinel , French psychiatrist

1748 : Georg Michael Telemann , German church musician and composer

1754 : Peter Carl Wilhelm von Hohenthal , German lawyer and Saxon minister

1755 : John Armstrong , American officer, lawyer, and politician

1764 : Rudolph Ackermann , German-British bookseller, lithographer, publisher and entrepreneur

1765 : Mathias Martin , German organ builder

1779 : Gottlob August Krille , German composer and Kreuzkantor

1797 : Heinrich von Wittgenstein , German entrepreneur and politician

1800 : Wilhelm Assmann , German historian, educator, textbook author and politician

19th century

1801-1850

1801 : Diederich Heinrich Schrader , German swimmer
1805 : Franz Xaver Winterhalter , German portrait painter
1807 : Aloysius Bertrand , French poet
1807 : Wincenty Pol , Polish writer, geographer and ethnographer
1808 : Carl Mez , German industrialist, social theologian and politician

Napoleon III (* 1808)

1808 : Napoleon III. , French emperor
1812 : Paul Ackermann , French linguist and writer
1813 : Engelbert Seibertz , German portrait and history painter
1813 : Henry Theodore Tuckerman , American writer
1817 : Theodor von Mörner , German historian and archivist
1818 : Heinrich Göbel , German-American inventor
1818 : Albrecht von Stosch , royal Prussian general and admiral, first head of the imperial German admiralty and minister of state
1822 : Joel Funk Asper , American politician
1822 : Auguste Jauch , German philanthropist
1822 : Carl Thiersch , German surgeon
1825 : Ida Seele , German kindergarten teacher at the Froebel kindergarten
1827 : John Gibbon , American general
1832 : Eduard Langhans , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
1833 : Antoine Vollon , French painter
1837 : Louis Victor Antonio Artan de Saint-Martin , Dutch-Belgian painter
1839 : Charles I , King of Romania

Otto Dammer (* 1839)

1839 : Otto Dammer , German writer and publicist
1841 : Emil Welte , German-American manufacturer
1842 : John Murphy Farley , Archbishop of New York and Cardinal
1843 : Friedrich Carl Glaser , German engineer
1844 : Dominikus Willi , Abbot of Marienstatt and Bishop of Limburg
1844 : Robert Diez , German sculptor
1845 : Wolfram von Rotenhan , German diplomat
1846 : Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto , Portuguese explorer of Africa
1847 : Ferdinand Rüegg , Bishop of St. Gallen
1848 : Kurd Laßwitz , German writer and philosopher
1849 : Ulrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss journalist and politician

1851-1900

1851 : Eduardo Acevedo Díaz , Uruguayan writer and politician
1851 : Torakusu Yamaha , founder of the Yamaha Corporation
1851 : Young Tom Morris , British golfer
1852 : Alberto Pedrazzini , Swiss politician and writer
1854 : Alberto Orrego Luco , Chilean painter

Inukai Tsuyoshi (* 1855)

1855 : Inukai Tsuyoshi , Japanese Prime Minister
1856 : Richard Buchmayer , German music historian
1857 : Herman Bang , Danish writer
1858 : Helene Aronheim , German benefactress
1858 : Auguste Chapuis , French composer, organist and music teacher
1858 : Carlos Luis Spegazzini , Italian-Argentine botanist and mycologist
1859 : Ernst August Scherling , the first managing director of the large purchasing company of German consumer associations in Hamburg
1859 : Vincenzo Cerulli , Italian astronomer
1860 : Ludwig Gattermann , German chemist
1860 : Pieter Jelles Troelstra , Dutch politician and poet
1861 : Hermann Muthesius , German architect, author and privy councilor
1862 : Clemens Pfau , German homeland researcher
1866 : Victor Hollaender , German composer and conductor
1868 : August Eckhardt , German-Baltic clergyman and evangelical martyr
1868 : Charles Maurras , French writer and political publicist
1871 : Max Oertz , German yacht designer

Slavoljub Eduard Penkala (* 1871)

1871 : Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , Croatian engineer and inventor
1873 : Wojciech Korfanty , Polish Prime Minister and militant
1874 : Frank Martin Church , American organist, composer and music teacher
1874 : Eduard Euller , Austrian local politician
1875 : Josef Pembaur , Austrian pianist and composer
1879 : Marie Adamczyk , Austrian nurse
1879 : Hans Heinrich Müller , German architect
1879 : Paul Poiret , French fashion designer
1880 : Johann Knief , German teacher, editor and politician
1881 : Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski , Russian composer
1881 : Marc de Ranse , French composer and organist, conductor and music teacher

Leopold Rückert (* 1881)

1881 : Leopold Rückert , German politician, MdL, State Minister
1883 : Hubert Rickelmann , German homeland researcher and author
1883 : Georg Wiegner , German agricultural chemist and soil scientist
1884 : Augusto dos Anjos , Brazilian poet
1884 : Maurice Dumesnil , French pianist
1888 : Charles D. Hall , British-American production designer
1889 : Walter Hahn , German photographer
1889 : Adolf Hitler , Chancellor of the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 and dictator
1889 : Tonny Kessler , Dutch football player

Adolf Schärf (* 1890)

1890 : Adolf Schärf , Austrian Federal President
1891 : Dave Bancroft , American baseball player
1891 : Aldo Finzi , Italian military, politician, sports official and motorcycle racer
1893 : Harold Lloyd , American comedian
1893 : Joan Miró , Spanish surrealist artist
1894 : Ernst Wille , German local politician and resistance fighter
1895 : Henry de Montherlant , French writer
1898 : Benjamin Carrión , Ecuadorian writer
1898 : Emmanuel Bove , French writer
1898 : Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen , Dutch legal scholar
1899 : Margaret Harrison , British violinist
1900 : Georges Kling , French racing car driver
1900 : Emanuel Schäfer , German government and criminal councilor
1900 : Fred Raymond , Austrian composer
1900 : John Jahr senior , German publisher
1900 : Reginald Stewart , Canadian conductor, pianist and music educator

20th century

1901-1925

Adolf Busemann (* 1901)

1901 : Adolf Busemann , German aerodynamicist
1901 : Karl Schlumprecht , functionary of the Nazi regime, Lord Mayor of Bayreuth
1901 : Michel Leiris , French writer and ethnologist
1901 : Martin Lohmann , German economist
1902 : Ernie Blenkinsop , English football player
1903 : Karl Aichhorn , Austrian politician
1903 : Josef Herrmann , German chamber singer
1903 : Franz Weselik , Austrian football player
1904 : Bruce Cabot , American actor
1905 : Albrecht Unsöld , German astronomer and physicist
1907 : William Dollar , American ballet dancer, ballet master, and choreographer
1907 : Willi Leininger , German composer and music teacher
1908 : Lionel Hampton , band leader, jazz percussionist and vibraphone virtuoso
1909 : Witold Krzemieński , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
1909 : Dorothea Zeemann , Austrian writer
1910 : Brigitte Mira , German actress, cabaret artist and chanson singer
1911 : Reidar Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper
1911 : Barbara Beyenka , American theologian, translator and writer

Kukrit Pramoj (* 1911)

1911 : Kukrit Pramoj , Prime Minister of Thailand
1911 : Hans Studer , Swiss composer, choir director and organist
1913 : Ernest Bour , French conductor
1913 : Willi Hennig , German biologist
1914 : Otto Weiß , German figure skater
1915 : Israel Epstein , Polish-Chinese journalist
1915 : Monique de la Bruchollerie , French pianist
1915 : Alvin M. Weinberg , American physicist and science organizer
1916 : Phil Walters , American racing car driver
1917 : Luigi Griffanti , Italian football player
1918 : Lucian Pulvermacher , antipope and head of the True Catholic Church
1918 : Kai Siegbahn , Swedish physicist
1918 : Manuel d'Almeida Trindade , Portuguese bishop
1919 : Vera Auer , Austrian accordionist and vibraphonist
1920 : Medhat Sheikh el-Ard , Saudi Arabian diplomat
1920 : Ricardo García Perdomo , Cuban guitarist and singer
1920 : Max Leichter , German wrestler

John Paul Stevens (* 1920)

1920 : John Paul Stevens , American lawyer, Supreme Court Justice
1921 : Marianne Hediger , Swiss actress
1923 : Sten Andersson , Swedish politician
1923 : Olivia Ausoni , Swiss ski racer
1923 : Hans Coppel , Austrian politician
1923 : Tito Puente , American jazz, salsa and mambo musician
1924 : Heinrich Besuden , German math teacher
1925 : Italo Acconcia , Italian football player
1925 : Ernie Stautner , American football player and coach

1926-1950

1927 : Karl Alexander Müller , Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize winner
1927 : Phil Hill , American racing driver
1927 : Morisaki Kazue , Japanese writer
1928 : Charles David Keeling , climate researcher
1928 : Gordon Audley , Canadian speed skater
1928 : Hans Werner Kettenbach , German journalist and writer

Heinz Melkus (* 1928)

1928 : Heinz Melkus , German racing driver and designer
1928 : Robert Byrne , American chess player
1929 : Karl-Heinz Jakobs , German writer
1930 : Helmut Quaritsch , German legal scholar
1930 : Carlos Abdala , Uruguayan politician, diplomat and minister
1930 : Stuart Lewis-Evans , British racing driver
1931 : Theodor Sele , Liechtenstein ski racer
1932 : Martin Richard Hoffmann , American politician
1932 : Kurt Singhuber , Minister for Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Potash of the GDR
1933 : Karl Nendel , Deputy Minister for Electrical Engineering / Electronics of the GDR
1935 : Reinhold Würth , German entrepreneur
1936 : Hilmar Ahnert , German football player
1936 : Pat Roberts , American politician
1936 : Heinz Schleußer , German trade unionist and politician

George Takei (* 1937)

1937 : George Takei , American actor
1937 : Jiří Dienstbier , Czech politician and journalist
1937 : Josef Stiegler , Austrian skier
1937 : Nils Claussen , German materials scientist
1937 : Wichart von Roëll , German actor
1938 : Betty Cuthbert , Australian athlete
1938 : Igor Dmitrijewitsch Sergejew , only Marshal of the Russian Federation
1938 : Manfred Kinder , German athlete, Olympic medalist
1938 : René Mazzia , French racing car driver
1938 : Johnny Tillotson , American singer
1939 : Peter S. Beagle , American novelist and songwriter

Gro Harlem Brundtland (* 1939)

1939 : Gro Harlem Brundtland , Norwegian politician
1939 : Katherine V. Forrest , Canadian writer
1939 : Gerhard Heiberg , Norwegian businessman and sports official
1940 : Susy Andersen , Italian actress
1940 : George Andrie , American football player
1940 : Johannes von Buttlar , non-fiction author
1940 : Alberto Vázquez Gurrola , Mexican actor and singer
1941 : Alewtina Viktorovna Aparina , Russian politician
1941 : Friedhelm Prayon , German archaeologist
1941 : Józef Michalik , Archbishop of Przemys'l, chairman of the Polish Bishops' Conference
1941 : Ryan O'Neal , American actor
1942 : Raymond Cousse , French writer and actor
1942 : Arto Paasilinna , writer
1943 : John Eliot Gardiner , British conductor and choirmaster
1943 : Edie Sedgwick , American actress
1944 : Konrad Feilchenfeldt , Swiss-German literary scholar
1944 : Michael Mendl , German actor
1944 : Raúl Vale , Mexican singer, composer and actor
1945 : Helene Auer , Austrian politician

Gregory Olsen (* 1945)

1945 : Gregory Olsen , American spaceman and entrepreneur
1945 : Mary Hoffman , English children's author
1945 : Naftali Temu , Kenyan athlete and long-distance runner
1946 : Andreas Ackermann , German politician
1946 : Richard P. Brent , Australian mathematician and computer scientist
1946 : Irene Ellenberger , German politician
1946 : Ricardo Maduro , politician from Honduras
1946 : Sabine Bergmann-Pohl , German politician
1946 : Georges Michel Bakar , Egyptian Archbishop
1947 : David Leland , British director, actor and screenwriter
1947 : Luigi Maifredi , Italian football coach
1949 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Malzew , Soviet ice hockey player
1949 : Gilbert Kaiser , Liechtenstein sports shooter
1949 : Jessica Lange , American film actress
1949 : Great Cranston , Canadian figure skater and artist
1950 : Alexander Ivanovich Lebed , Russian general and politician
1950 : Humberto Coelho , Portuguese football player and coach
1950 : Detlef Helling , German politician

1951-1975

1951 : Gabriele Lösekrug-Möller , German politician
1951 : Luther Vandross , American musician
1952 : Peep Aru , Estonian politician
1953 : Serge Aubey , French cyclist

Marie-Luise Dött (* 1953)

1953 : Marie-Luise Dött , German politician
1953 : Bodo Menze , German football official
1954 : Gero von Boehm , German director, journalist and author
1954 : Martin Stratmann , German electrochemist and science manager
1954 : Ralph Pichler , Swiss bobsleigh driver
1955 : Carl Carlton , German rock musician and music producer
1955 : Donald Pettit , American astronaut
1955 : Amnon Wolman , Israeli composer
1956 : Beatrice Ask , Swedish politician
1956 : Kacha Bendukidze , Georgian industrialist and politician
1957 : Richard Attipoe , Togolese politician and minister
1957 : Kristin Clemet , Norwegian politician
1957 : Christian Rätsch , German American scholar and ethnopharmacologist
1958 : Volker Schlott , German jazz musician
1959 : Clint Howard , American actor
1959 : James Wong , American producer, screenwriter, and director
1960 : Thomas Apolte , German economist

Miguel Díaz-Canel (* 1960)

1960 : Miguel Díaz-Canel , Cuban politician
1960 : Debbie Flintoff-King , Australian athlete, Olympic champion
1961 : Don Mattingly , American baseball player
1961 : Paolo Barilla , Italian racing car driver
1961 : Ashley Slater , Canadian trombonist, singer and vocal artist
1962 : Ulrich Klausnitzer , German specialist book author
1962 : Lionel Robert , French racing car driver
1962 : Thomas Rohde , German oboist
1962 : Brian Shimer , American bobsledder
1963 : Aubrey de Gray , British biogerontologist
1963 : Seyran Ateş , Turkish-German lawyer, author and social politician
1963 : Adrián Fernández , Mexican racing car driver
1963 : Maurício Gugelmin , Brazilian racing car driver
1963 : Manuel Herreros , Spanish motorcycle racer
1964 : Crispin Glover , American actor
1964 : Bjarne Madsen , Danish ice hockey player and player agent
1964 : Katherina Matousek , Canadian figure skater
1964 : Andy Serkis , British actor
1964 : Rosalynn Sumners , American figure skater
1966 : David Chalmers , Australian philosopher
1966 : Michaela Christ , German singer
1967 : Ingo Appelt , German comedian and cabaret artist
1967 : Mike Portnoy , American drummer ( Dream Theater )
1967 : Raymond van Barneveld , Dutch darts player
1968 : Yılmaz Arslan , German film director, author and producer
1968 : Daniel Teixeira , Brazilian soccer player
1968 : Jens Weidmann , German economist and President of the Bundesbank

Felix Baumgartner (* 1969)

1969 : Felix Baumgartner , Austrian base jumper and extreme athlete
1969 : Marietta Slomka , German journalist
1972 : Carmen Electra , American model, actress, and singer
1972 : Giga Bokeria , Georgian politician
1972 : Josef Bordat , German philosopher and publicist
1972 : Svetlana Irekowna Ischmuratowa , Russian biathlete
1972 : Stephen Marley , Jamaican roots reggae musician
1973 : Gabry Ponte , Italian DJ and music producer
1973 : Marc Seemann , German football referee
1974 : Katja Danowski , German theater and film actress
1974 : Karl Muggeridge , Australian motorcycle racer
1975 : Atifete Jahjaga , Kosovar politician

1976-2000

1976 : Joey Lawrence , American film actor
1976 : Katrin Weißensee , German graduate in business administration and performance artist in sand animation
1976 : Shay Given , Irish football player
1977 : Grażyna Prokopek , Polish athlete
1978 : Stefan Wächter , German soccer player
1979 : Annekathrin Bach , German actress
1979 : Tuomas Haapala , Finnish football player
1979 : Jussi Hautamäki , Finnish ski jumper and musician

Fady Maalouf (* 1979)

1979 : Fady Maalouf , German-Lebanese pop singer
1979 : Ludovic Magnin , Swiss football player
1979 : Raphaëlle Tervel , French handball player
1980 : Vibeke Skofterud , Norwegian cross-country skier
1980 : Jasmin Wagner ("Blümchen"), German pop singer and presenter
1980 : Lee Wilkie , Scottish soccer player
1981 : Michel Abdollahi , German-Persian artist
1982 : Dario Knežević , Croatian football player
1982 : Florian Thorwart , German soccer player
1983 : 7inch , German music producer
1983 : Timo Nagy , German soccer player

Miranda Kerr (born 1983)

1983 : Miranda Kerr , Australian model
1983 : Max Neukirchner , German motorcycle racer
1984 : Nelson Évora , Portuguese athlete, Olympic champion
1984 : Steve Schets , Belgian cyclist
1986 : Stefan Frei , Swiss football goalkeeper
1986 : Rikke Poulsen , Danish handball player
1986 : Robin Haller , German handball player
1987 : John Patrick Amedori , American actor
1987 : Hayden Paddon , New Zealand rally driver
1987 : Sebastian Reinert , German soccer player
1987 : Anna Rossinelli , Swiss singer-songwriter
1988 : Heleen Jaques , Belgian football player
1988 : Kevin Schmidt , German handball player
1989 : Pierre Thiriet , French racing car driver
1990 : Randy Edwini-Bonsu , Ghanaian-Canadian soccer player
1991 : Ondřej Kraják , Czech football player
1991 : Francesco Monterosso , Australian soccer player
1992 : Madias Nzesso , Cameroonian weightlifter
1992 : Marcia von Rebay , German voice actress
1993 : Mustafa Amini , Australian soccer player
1994 : Riccardo Agostini , Italian racing car driver
1994 : Celeste Boureille , American soccer player
1994 : Sophie Debattista , Maltese actress
1994 : Line Kjærsfeldt , Danish badminton player
1996 : Emelie Kundrun , German actress
1997 : Florian Burmeister , German handball player
1997 : Alexander Zverev , German tennis player
1999 : Fabio Quartararo , French motorcycle racer

Died

Before the 16th century

0689 : Caedwalla , King of Wessex, monk
1089 : Dmitar Zvonimir , King of Croatia
1099 : Peter Bartholomew , French monk and mystic, participant in the first crusade
1120 : Géraud de Salles , hermit
1164 : Viktor IV. , Antipope to Pope Alexander III.
1176 : Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , English military leader, known as "Strongbow"
1188 : Hildegunde , twin sister of Blessed Anna and is considered a saint
1263 : Johann I , Count of Holstein-Kiel
1284 : Hōjō Tokimune , Japanese regent
1314 : Clement V , Pope
1317 : Agnes of Montepulciano , mystical and visionary Dominican superior
1319 : Irmgard von Kleve , regent of the county of Berg
1328 : Emich von Leiningen , Bishop of Speyer
1344 : Levi ben Gershon , Jewish mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and Talmud scholar
1367 : Gerhard Chorus , Mayor of Aachen
1375 : Eleanor of Sicily , Queen of Aragon
1396 : Hermann von Höxter , German medic
1408 : Miran Shah , son of Tamerlans and governor of the Timurids
1452 : Reinhard III. , Count of Hanau
1468 : Martin Lupáč , Czech theologian and diplomat of the Hussites
1472 : Leon Battista Alberti , Italian humanist, writer, mathematician, cryptologist and architect

16th to 18th century

1510 : Wilwolt von Schaumberg , German mercenary leader and general
1517 : Bogdan III. , Voivode of the Principality of Moldova
1526 : Ibrahim Lodi , last sultan of Delhi

Johannes Bugenhagen († 1558)

1558 : Johannes Bugenhagen , German reformer from Pomerania and Denmark
1578 : Mary Gray , English noblewoman, sister of the Nine Day Queen Jane Gray
1584 : John Finch , Catholic martyr from England
1584 : Maximilian Mörlin , Protestant theologian and reformer
1602 : Johann Streitberger , Protestant theologian
1604 : Georg Besserer , Protestant theologian
1622 : Petro Konaschewytsch-Sahaidachnyj , ataman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
1643 : Christoph Demantius , German composer
1651 : Franz Ludwig von Erlach , mayor of Bern
1652 : Pietro della Valle , Italian traveler and travel writer
1660 : Anna Elisabeth , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau and Countess of Bentheim-Steinfurt
1674 : Anton von Graffenried , mayor of Bern
1676 : John Clarke , English physician, Baptist minister, and politician
1677 : Mathieu Le Nain , French painter
1690 : Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria , Dauphine of France
1693 : Claudio Coello , Spanish painter
1706 : Hieronim Augustyn Lubomirski , Polish magnate, politician and grand hetman of the Polish crown
1707 : Johann Christoph Denner , German instrument maker, is considered to be the inventor of the clarinet
1709 : Thomas Fredenhagen , Lübeck merchant, councilor and patron
1709 : Johann Ernst von Thun and Hohenstein , Prince Archbishop of Salzburg
1710 : Heinrich Escher , businessman, diplomat and mayor of Zurich
1720 : Johann Wolfgang Jäger , German Protestant theologian and Chancellor of the University of Tübingen
1721 : Louis Laguerre , French painter in England
1722 : Johann Georg Rohr , bell founder in Heilbronn
1725 : Sophia Charlotte von Platen-Hallermund , German-British noblewoman
1728 : Anton Braun , mechanic, optician and court mathematician in Vienna, inventor of one of the first calculating machines
1743 : François Desportes , French painter
1751 : Gisela Agnes von Anhalt-Köthen , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
1769 : Pontiac , (war) chief of the Ottawa tribe
1776 : Friedrich Bernhard Werner , German draftsman and engraver
1786 : John Goodricke , English astronomer

19th century

1812 : George Clinton , American politician
1820 : Alessandro Mattei , Italian cardinal
1821 : Franz Carl Achard , German chemist, physicist and entrepreneur

Johann I Josef († 1836)

1836 : Johann I. Josef , Austrian field marshal, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Prince von und zu Liechtenstein
1836 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt , German lawyer, diplomat and Chancellor von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
1837 : Reinhard Woltman , German hydraulic engineer
1842 : Bon-Adrien-Jeannot de Moncey , French general and Marshal of France
1848 : Friedrich von Gagern , German general
1855 : Franz Reisinger , German surgeon and university professor
1855 : Karl Johann Jakob Schultheß , Swiss painter
1869 : Carl Loewe , German musician and composer
1873 : Henry Bence Jones , English physician
1874 : Gustav Blaeser , German sculptor
1879 : Gawriil Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski , Russian orientalist
1882 : Tuiskon Ziller , German philosopher and educator
1883 : Wilhelm Peters , German naturalist, zoologist, anatomist and explorer
1885 : Gustav Nachtigal , German Africa explorer
1890 : John Henry Gurney , English banker and amateur ornithologist
1893 : Robert Hartmann , German physician and ethnologist
1895 : Gustav Hirschfeld , German archaeologist
1899 : Charles Friedel , French chemist
1900 : Johan Fredrik Åbom , Swedish architect

20th century

1901-1950

1909 : Gustav von Arnim , Prussian general
1910 : Hermann Lenhartz , German medic
1911 : Georg Schleusner , German Protestant clergyman
1912 : Pedro Lira , Chilean painter
1912 : Bram Stoker , Irish writer
1914 : Ivar Wickman , Swedish medic and polio researcher
1918 : Alexander Girardi , Austrian actor

Ferdinand Braun († 1918)

1918 : Ferdinand Braun , German physicist, electrical engineer and television pioneer, Nobel Prize winner
1918 : Hans Breuer , Wandervogel, editor of the Zupfgeigenhansl
1918 : Nadeschda Prokofjewna Suslowa , Russian doctor
1919 : Richard Wilson Austin , American politician
1920 : Tony Jackson , American pianist, singer and composer
1929 : Charles Allan Gilbert , American painter and illustrator
1929 : Heinrich von Prussia , Prussian Prince and Admiral
1932 : Giuseppe Peano , Italian mathematician
1932 : Paul Vittorelli , Austrian lawyer, judge at the Austrian Constitutional Court
1933 : Friedrich Wilhelm zu Ysenburg and Büdingen , German landlord
1935 : Wilhelm Lattmann , German politician
1937 : James Gillett , American politician
1937 : Gus Hill , American vaudeville artist and producer
1944 : Hans Angerer , Austrian high school professor, geologist and politician
1944 : Cabbar Qaryağdıoğlu , Azerbaijani mugham singer
1945 : Erwin Bumke , President of the Imperial Court
1946 : Ernesto Buonaiuti , Italian theologian
1946 : Paul Wirth , Sorbian Slavist and linguist

Christian X. († 1947)

1947 : Christian X , King of Denmark and Iceland
1950 : Warwick Deeping , British writer

1951-2000

1951 : Maeda Yugure , Japanese poet
1953 : Erich Weinert , German writer
1958 : Adolf Scheibe , German physicist, developer of the quartz watch in Germany
1959 : Edward Johnson , Canadian singer and opera director
1961 : Pierre Audiat , French journalist, Romance studies and literary scholar
1964 : August Sander , German photographer
1968 : Rudolph Dirks , German-American comic book pioneer
1969 : Benny Benjamin , American session drummer
1970 : Ludwig Herbert Gustav Emil Arnsperger , German surgeon