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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Marie and Pierre Curie succeed in isolating the chemical element radium .
- 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 : 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 : 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
- 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 : 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 : 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 : 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 689 : 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1970 : Paul Celan , German-speaking poet
- 1971 : Alberto Magnelli , artist
- 1973 : Robert Armstrong , American actor
- 1973 : Elisabeth Hauptmann , German writer, employee of Bertolt Brecht
- 1974 : Richard Huelsenbeck , German writer
- 1977 : István Déván , Hungarian athlete and winter sportsman
- 1978 : Ferdinand Peroutka , Czech writer, dramaturge and publicist
- 1979 : Giuseppe Accattino , Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
- 1980 : Helmut Käutner , German director
- 1981 : Hans Söhnker , German actor
- 1982 : Friedrich-Wilhelm Goldenbogen , German local politician
- 1983 : Horst Wolfram Geißler , German writer
- 1983 : Walther Nehring , German general, co-founder of the German tank weapon
- 1984 : Otto Arosemena , Ecuadorian politician and lawyer, president
- 1984 : Karl Hipfinger , Austrian weightlifter
- 1985 : Rudolf Gnägi , Swiss politician
- 1986 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow , Russian playwright
- 1990 : Hedda Koppé , Swiss actress
- 1990 : Horst Sindermann , German politician
- 1991 : Don Siegel , American director
- 1991 : Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga , Archbishop of Kampala and Cardinal
- 1991 : Rudolf Heberle , German sociologist
- 1991 : Seán Ó Faoláin , Irish writer
- 1991 : Steve Marriott , British rock musician
- 1992 : Lee Abrams , American jazz drummer
- 1992 : Benny Hill , British comedian
- 1992 : Marjorie Gestring , American water diver
- 1993 : Evelyne Hall , American athlete
- 1993 : Friedrich Opferkuh , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor
- 1993 : Cantinflas , Mexican actor, singer, comedian and producer
- 1994 : Jean Carmet , French actor
- 1995 : Milovan Đilas , Yugoslav politician, writer and dissident
- 1997 : Otto Wilhelm von Vacano , German archaeologist
- 1999 : Ella Auerbach , German lawyer
- 1999 : Rick Rude , American wrestler
- 2000 : Willy Harlander , Bavarian folk and television actor
- 2000 : Eugene Hartzell , American composer
21st century
- 2001 : Irène Joachim , French soprano
- 2001 : Giuseppe Sinopoli , Italian conductor
- 2002 : Vlastimil Brodský , Czech actor
- 2002 : Pierre Rapsat , Belgian singer
- 2003 : Bernard Katz , British biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2003 : Cole Weston , American photographer
- 2003 : Wolle Kriwanek , German singer
- 2003 : Daijirō Katō , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 2006 : Martin Amelung , German lawyer and criminal defense attorney
- 2006 : Kathleen Antonelli , American programmer
- 2006 : Maurice de Gandillac , French philosopher
- 2006 : Wolfgang Unzicker , German chess player
- 2007 : Andrew Hill , American jazz pianist and composer
- 2008 : Rudolf Agsten , German politician
- 2008 : Bebe Barron , American film composer
- 2008 : Frank Michael Beyer , German composer
- 2011 : Tim Hetherington , British photojournalist and documentary filmmaker
- 2011 : Chris Hondros , American photojournalist
- 2011 : Antonio Tauriello , Argentine composer, conductor and pianist
- 2012 : Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke , British politician
- 2012 : Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro Escápite , Mexican Brigadier General
- 2012 : Peter Carsten , German actor
- 2012 : George Cowan , American chemist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur
- 2014 : Forrest Westbrook , American jazz pianist
- 2014 : Mithat Bayrak , Turkish wrestler, two-time Olympic champion
- 2014 : Rubin Carter , American boxer and civil rights activist
- 2015 : Werner Zimmer , German radio and television presenter
- 2016 : Chyna , American wrestler and actress
- 2016 : Guy Hamilton , British film director
- 2017 : Magdalena Abakanowicz , Polish visual artist
- 2018 : Avicii , Swedish DJ, remixer and music producer
- 2019 : Martin Böttcher , German film composer
- 2019 : Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian , Iranian artist
- 2020 : Hein Bollow , German jockey and horse trainer
- 2021 : Willi Herren , actor and singer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johannes Bugenhagen , German reformer (Protestant: EKD and LCMS )
- St. Hildegunde , German novice (Catholic)
- Counterculture
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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