20th of July
The July 20 is the 201st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 202nd in leap years ), thus remain 164 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 802 : Charlemagne receives the elephant Abul Abbas and other gifts as a gift from caliph Hārūn ar-Raschīd in Aachen .
- 1402 : Timur Lang's Mongols defeat the Turks under Sultan Bayezit I in the Battle of Ankara .
- 1546 : A few days after the beginning of the Schmalkaldic war imposed Emperor Charles V , the imperial ban on Elector Johann Friedrich I of Saxony and Landgrave Philipp I of Hesse , the two leaders of the Protestant side.
- 1552 : After the conquest of Temesvar , the Banat becomes part of the Ottoman Empire . The Ottomans spread Islam .
- 1630 : The Swedish king . Gustav II Adolf moves to its intervention in the Thirty Years' War in Szczecin a. Part of the troops are quartered and take care of the fortification of the city.
- 1632 : Before Wiesloch , the first battles between Swedish units under Gustav II Adolf and the Imperial Bavarian cavalry, which the Swedes win. On August 20, the battle of Wiesloch finally takes place .
- 1728 : A French fleet begins bombing Tripoli . The North African corsair town is almost completely destroyed in the six-day bombardment.
- 1808 : Napoléon's brother Joseph Bonaparte enters Madrid as King of Spain .
- 1810 : The viceroyalty of New Granada (today's Colombia ) declares its independence from Spain and becomes the First Republic of Colombia .
- 1853 : Prussia and Oldenburg sign the Jade Treaty , with which the area of the future city of Wilhelmshaven is ceded to Prussia.
- 1866 : The Austrian Navy under Admiral Wilhelm von Tegetthoff defeats the superior Italian Navy in the naval battle of Lissa . Due to the defeat in Königgrätz on July 3rd, this victory no longer has any effect on the outcome of the Austro-Prussian War .
- 1871 : Indebted British Columbia joins the Canadian Federation after it promised to take over the loads and build the Canadian Pacific Railway .
- 1881 : Sioux chief Sitting Bull and his companions capitulate to the United States Army in Buford (North Dakota) . Hunger, homesickness and little chance of success in the further struggle have led the Indians to return from their Canadian exile.
- 1889 : The founding congress of the Second International , the forerunner of today's Socialist International (SI), ends in Paris .
- 1905 : The Maji Maji uprising begins in German East Africa .
- 1906 : Finland is the first European country to introduce active and passive women's suffrage .
- 1917 : The declaration of Corfu paves the way for the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , which is proclaimed in Belgrade on December 1, 1918 after the end of the First World War .
- 1920 : The German government issues an arms embargo in view of the Polish-Soviet war, underscoring its declaration of neutrality for this conflict.
- 1932 : The Prussian government is deposed by an emergency ordinance by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg . Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen provisionally takes over government affairs after the so-called Prussian strike .
- 1933 : Franz von Papen and the Cardinal Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli sign the Reich Concordat between the Holy See and the German Empire .
- 1936 : The Treaty of Montreux gives Turkey back full sovereignty over the Dardanelles , the Sea of Marmara and the Bosphorus , which were placed under international control after the First World War, and regulates the free movement of ships through these waters.
- 1944 : Operation Walküre : Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg carries out an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler , but it fails.
- 1949 : Syria becomes the last opponent of the war in Palestine to sign a ceasefire agreement with Israel .
- 1951 : King Abdallah I of Jordan is murdered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem .
- 1954 : Otto John , President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , leaves for the German Democratic Republic .
- 1960 : In Ceylon , the SLFP under Sirimavo Bandaranaike wins the parliamentary elections; For the first time in the world, a woman will be elected head of government of a country.
- 1963 : The European Economic Community concludes the Yaoundé Agreement with 18 African countries . Economic cooperation and the granting of development aid funds from the European Development Fund are agreed in this.
- 1974 : Cyprus conflict : Turkey occupies the northern part of the island as a result of the military coup of July 15, citing the London Guarantee Treaty in 1959 .
- 1975 : The Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation Germany ( BUND ) is founded.
- 1977 : Libyan artillery units shell the Egyptian border town of as Sallum and the Halfaya Pass after a protest march against Egypt's rapprochement with Israel was stopped by Egyptian soldiers. This marks the beginning of the five-day Libyan-Egyptian border war .
- 1985 : Race riots cause the South African apartheid government to declare a state of emergency in 36 districts in the country .
- 1989 : The military government of Myanmar places opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for the first time .
- 1999 : The systematic persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in the People's Republic of China begins with a wave of arrests.
- 1999 : Russia declares the art treasures looted in Germany in 1945 to be Russian property.
- 1999 : Ernst-Volker Staub and Daniela Klette , members of the RAF , which was officially dissolved in April 1998 , attacked a money transporter in Duisburg with a bazooka .
- 2001 : Italian activist Carlo Giuliani is shot dead by a police officer during a demonstration for the G8 summit in Genoa .
economy
- 1796 : The first sea hospital opens in Margate (Kent) near the Thames estuary . The doctor John Coakley Lettsom hopes that this will improve the recovery of the sick through the stimulating ocean climate .
- 1873 : Adele Spitzeder is sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulent bankruptcy with her Dachauer Volksbank . Due to high interest promises it has a snowballing damaged more than 30,000 depositors.
science and technology
- 1969 : As part of the US Apollo program , the first manned moon landing with Apollo 11 by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin takes place .
- 1976 : The lander of the Viking 1 space probe reaches the surface of Mars and takes the first close-up of the surface of Mars.
Culture
- 1639 : The lace maker Kirsten Svendsdatter discovers the longer of the two gold horns from Gallehus . They are the most famous archaeological finds in Denmark . The shorter one was also found by chance in 1734.
- 1940 : The American music magazine Billboard announces the first top ten in the USA. Tommy Dorsey has the first number one hit .
society
religion
- 514 : The widower and Roman deacon Hormisdas becomes Bishop of Rome .
- 1221 : Construction of Burgos Cathedral begins in Castile .
Disasters
- 1783 : In Iceland , after the beginning on June 8th, lava masses again emerge from the Laki craters . The pastor Jón Steingrímsson gives his famous fire sermon on this day . This is said to have caused the lava to spare Kirkjubæjarklaustur .
- 1944 : The health authorities in Bombay announce that a cholera - epidemic has claimed in the past three months 34,000 lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1842 : The highest mountain in the Pyrenees , the Aneto , is climbed for the first time by the Russian ex-officer Platon de Tchihatcheff and his companions.
- 1904 : The Schwenninger ice and roller sports club , later the SERC Wild Wings , is founded.
- 1924 : In Paris, the World Chess Federation created FIDE .
- 1936 : The first Olympic torch relay starts in Greece .
- 1969 : The first Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the 56th Tour de France .
- 1984 : Uwe Hohn from the GDR sets the world record in javelin throwing to 104.80 m. The IAAF then decides to make technical changes to the sports equipment.
- 2006 : Professional cyclist Jan Ullrich receives an extraordinary dismissal from his T-Mobile team after he was unable to refute doping allegations against him .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same is true for European football championships .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 356 BC BC : Alexander the Great , Macedonian king
- 682 : Taichō , Buddhist monk in Japan during the Nara period
- 1304 : Francesco Petrarca , Italian poet
- 1369 : Peter of Luxembourg , French cardinal and Bishop of Metz
- 1485 : Giovan Battista Ramusio , Italian humanist, historian and geographer
- 1519 : Innocent IX. , Italian lawyer and Pope
- 1574 : Wilhelm Kettler , Duke of Courland
- 1593 : Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg , Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode
- 1620 : Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder , Dutch scholar and poet
- 1656 : Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , Austrian architect
- 1671 : Philip of Hessen-Darmstadt , governor of Mantua
- 1686 : Johann Jacob Schoy , Austrian sculptor
- 1694 : Christian Gottlieb Jöcher , German historian, librarian and lexicographer
- 1721 : Achatz Ferdinand von der Asseburg , German diplomat
- 1721 : Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foix , French writer
- 1738 : Giuseppe Angeluni , Greek Catholic Archbishop
- 1748 : Ferdinand Franz Wallraf , German art collector
- 1754 : Bernhard Christoph d'Arien , German playwright and librettist
- 1754 : Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy , French philosopher
- 1766 : Lord Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin , British diplomat and archaeologist
- 1768 : Franz Anton Schubert , German church composer and instrumentalist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden
- 1774 : Auguste-Frédéric-Louis Viesse de Marmont , French general
- 1774 : Johann Ernst Daniel Bornschein , German playwright and novelist
- 1785 : Mahmud II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1796 : Edward Hodges , American organist and composer
- 1797 : Auguste Stourm , French politician, director general of the Post
19th century
- 1804 : Richard Owen , British surgeon and zoologist, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
- 1810 : Georg Jakob Friedrich Karl Aulenbach , German poet
- 1811 : James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin , British nobleman, colonial administrator and diplomat
- 1812 : Louisa Anne Meredith , Australian illustrator and writer
- 1822 : Gregor Mendel , Austrian priest and natural scientist, father of genetics
- 1828 : Fanny Janauschek , Czech actress
- 1830 : Clements Markham , British explorer, author and geographer
- 1833 : Karl Freiherr von Hasenauer , Austrian architect ( Wiener Ringstrasse )
- 1835 : Adelheid zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , German Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
- 1836 : Thomas Clifford Allbutt , British doctor, inventor of the clinical thermometer
- 1838 : George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet , British historian and statesman in the William Gladstone government
- 1840 : Louis Andrieux , French politician, prefect of police in Paris and ambassador
- 1842 : Aline von Kapff , German painter
- 1847 : Max Liebermann , German painter and graphic artist, important representative of impressionism , president of the Berlin Secession
- 1864 : Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 1864 : Gaston Carraud , French composer and music critic
- 1865 : Hans Steffen , German geographer
- 1870 : Luigi von Kunits , Austrian conductor and composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1871 : Ernest Hutcheson , Australian pianist, music educator and composer
- 1872 : Anna Schuster , German nativity scene carver and local poet
- 1873 : Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aeronaut, aviation pioneer and inventor
- 1876 : Otto Blumenthal , German mathematician
- 1883 : Hans Jauch , German colonel and free corps leader
- 1883 : Christian Jensen , German classical philologist and papyrologist
- 1883 : Siddy Wronsky , Jewish welfare politician
- 1885 : Ulysse Paquin , Canadian singer
- 1885 : Herman Wildenvey , Norwegian poet
- 1886 : Hazel Cuthbert , British pediatrician
- 1887 : Louis Rigal , French racing car driver
- 1888 : Franz Jacobi , German steelworker and football official in Dortmund
- 1888 : Selman Abraham Waksman , American researcher
- 1889 : Elise Augustat , German member of the Reichstag
- 1889 : John Reith , British Founding Father and Director General of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)
- 1890 : Albert Arnheiter , German rower
- 1890 : Richard Billinger , Austrian writer
- 1890 : Verna Felton , American actress and voice actress
- 1890 : Enrico Giaccone , Italian racing car driver
- 1890 : Gonzalo Roig , Cuban composer
- 1890 : Julie Marie Vinter Hansen , Danish astronomer
- 1894 : Odette du Puigaudeau , French writer and explorer
- 1895 : Anton Arland , German crop scientist
- 1895 : László Moholy-Nagy , Hungarian artist from the Bauhaus
- 1896 : Henricus Jacobus Charles Tendeloo , Dutch chemist
- 1897 : Camillo Berneri , Italian author and anarchist
- 1897 : Tadeus Reichstein , Swiss chemist
- 1899 : Fritz Glarner , Swiss-American painter
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Ida Mett , Russian anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist
- 1905 : Harvey Perrin , Canadian violinist, violist, choir conductor and music teacher
- 1906 : Heinz Krekeler , German chemist and politician
- 1907 : Dora Thalmer , German actress
- 1908 : Gunnar de Frumerie , Swedish composer
- 1908 : Walter Strzygowski , German economic geographer
- 1909 : Mireille Balin , French actress
- 1910 : Schlomo Salman Auerbach , Israeli rabbi, Posek and head of the school
- 1910 : Muriel Evans , American actress
- 1910 : Sara Teitelbaum , Estonian athlete
- 1910 : Cicely Veronica Wedgwood , English historian
- 1912 : Heinz Kohlhaas , German boxer
- 1913 : Shalom Ben-Chorin , Israeli writer
- 1914 : Ersilio Tonini , Italian cardinal and archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia
- 1914 : Elias Shaheen , Lebanese Archbishop in Canada
- 1917 : Paul Hubschmid , Swiss film and theater actor
- 1918 : Liselotte Funcke , German politician
- 1918 : Olga Ramos , Spanish chanson singer
- 1918 : Cindy Walker , American country musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1919 : Edmund Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer
- 1919 : Helmut Meyer-Abich , German naval officer and geologist
- 1921 : Mercedes Pardo , Venezuelan painter
- 1922 : Aníbal Arias , Argentinian guitarist
- 1922 : Alan Stephenson Boyd , American politician
- 1922 : Anton Albertus Herman Kassenaar , Dutch biochemist
- 1922 : Ernie Wilkins , American jazz musician
- 1922 : Joachim-Ernst Berendt , German music journalist and critic
- 1923 : Mattityahu Peled , Israeli general, professor of Arabic studies and politician
- 1923 : Giorgio Pellini , Italian fencer
- 1924 : Tatiana Mikhailovna Liosnova , Soviet film director
- 1925 : Lola Albright , American actress
- 1925 : Jacques Delors , French politician
- 1925 : Frantz Fanon , Martinique writer, doctor and politician
- 1925 : Michel Perrault , Canadian composer, conductor, timpanist and music teacher
- 1925 : John Prchlik , American football player
1926-1950
- 1926 : Walter Schumacher , German soccer player
- 1927 : Simin Behbahani , Iranian writer and chairwoman of the Iranian Writers' Union
- 1927 : Michael Gielen , German-Austrian conductor and composer
- 1927 : Lyudmila Michailowna Alexejewa , Russian historian, human rights activist and former Soviet dissident
- 1927 : Dick Stanfel , American football player
- 1928 : Peter Ind , British jazz musician
- 1928 : Pavel Kohout , Czech-Austrian writer
- 1928 : Jan Meyers , American politician
- 1928 : Charlotte Sommer-Landgraf , German sculptor and graphic artist
- 1930 : Heinz Kubsch , German soccer player
- 1930 : Lotte Ingrisch , Austrian writer
- 1931 : Phillip Coles , Australian canoeist, lifeguard and sports official
- 1931 : Tony Marsh , British racing car driver
- 1931 : Horst Prinzbach , German chemist
- 1932 : Nam June Paik , South Korean-American media artist
- 1932 : Otto Schily , German lawyer and Federal Minister of the Interior
- 1933 : José Vicente Asuar , Chilean composer
- 1933 : Buddy Knox , American singer and songwriter
- 1933 : Cormac McCarthy , American novelist
- 1933 : Rex Williams , English snooker player and world champion in English billiards
- 1934 : Uwe Johnson , German writer (Roman Anniversaries ), member of Group 47
- 1934 : Helmut Schmale , German writer
- 1935 : Emil Beck , German fencing trainer
- 1935 : André Isoir , French organist
- 1935 : Sleepy LaBeef , American rockabilly musician
- 1936 : Christian Rode , German actor and voice actor
- 1937 : Mario Arpino , Italian general
- 1938 : Aslan Abashidze , Georgian politician
- 1938 : Roger Hunt , English football player
- 1938 : Diana Rigg , British actress
- 1938 : Heinz Strehl , German soccer player
- 1938 : Natalie Wood , American actress
- 1939 : Judy Chicago , American artist and writer
- 1940 : Karl-Heinz Appelt , German sculptor, sculptor and graphic artist
- 1941 : Björn-Uwe Abels , German archaeologist, chief curator of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- 1941 : Kurt Raab , German actor
- 1943 : Chris Amon , New Zealand racing car driver
- 1945 : Kim Carnes , American musician and composer
- 1946 : Roswitha Aulenkamp , German composer, piano teacher and pianist
- 1946 : Pia Jarvad , Danish linguist
- 1946 : Heorhij Kirpa , Ukrainian minister
- 1947 : Wilhelm Leber , German clergyman, Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
- 1947 : Carlos Santana , Mexican musician and guitarist
- 1947 : Gerd Binnig , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1948 : Bernd Konrad , German jazz saxophonist and composer
- 1950 : Elfriede Kern , Austrian writer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Björn Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1951 : Larry Black , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1951 : Harald Grill , German writer
- 1953 : Dave Evans , British-Australian rock singer
- 1953 : Thomas L. Friedman , American journalist
- 1954 : Knox Chandler , American guitarist
- 1954 : José Antonio Rodríguez , Dominican singer, composer and politician
- 1954 : Keith Scott , Canadian musician
- 1955 : Gerhard Zeiler , Austrian manager
- 1956 : Paul Cook , British musician
- 1956 : Julio Falcioni , Argentine football player and coach
- 1956 : Ivo Medek , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1958 : Pedro Amorim , Brazilian choir musician
- 1958 : Michael MacNeil , British keyboardist
- 1959 : Christian Ankowitsch , Austrian journalist and writer
- 1960 : Kris Nissen , Danish racing car driver
- 1961 : Ria Visser , Dutch speed skater
- 1961 : Jürgen Wolf , German organist and conductor
- 1962 : Giovanna Amati , Italian racing driver
- 1962 : Elías Blanco Mamani , Bolivian journalist, literary scholar and biographer
- 1962 : Primož Ulaga , Slovenian ski jumper
- 1963 : Paula Ivan , Romanian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1964 : Bernd Schneider , German racing car driver
- 1964 : Chris Cornell , American singer
- 1964 : Markus Theinert , German tuba player and conductor
- 1965 : Joe Arlauckas , American basketball player
- 1966 : Thomas Borchert , German musician and actor
- 1966 : Cosima von Borsody , German actress
- 1966 : Andreas Krieger , German athlete
- 1967 : Giorgi Kvirikashvili , Georgian politician
- 1968 : Kool G Rap , American rapper
- 1968 : Rocco Clein , German music journalist
- 1969 : Daniel Aegerter , Swiss financier and entrepreneur
- 1969 : Josh Holloway , American actor
- 1970 : Carmine Gautieri , Italian football player and coach
- 1971 : Christian Ast , German basketball player
- 1973 : Haakon , Crown Prince of Norway
- 1973 : Peter Forsberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1973 : Roberto Orci , Mexican screenwriter and film producer
- 1975 : Ray Allen , American basketball player
- 1975 : Judy Greer , American actress
- 1975 : Rodolfo Arruabarrena , Argentinian football player
- 1975 : Michael Pircher , Austrian alpine ski trainer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Alex Yoong , Malaysian racing car driver
- 1977 : Alpaslan Agüzüm , German boxer
- 1978 : Pavel Datsyuk , Russian ice hockey player
- 1978 : Ludwig Hartmann , German local politician
- 1979 : Miklós Fehér , Hungarian football player
- 1980 : Morten Ågheim , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1980 : Éric Akoto , Togolese football player
- 1980 : Gisele Bündchen , Brazilian model
- 1980 : Gary Johnson , British motorcycle racer
- 1982 : Lars Erik Bjørnsen , Norwegian handball player
- 1982 : Andreas Kunz , German handball player
- 1983 : Máximo González , Argentine tennis player
- 1984 : Shūsaku Hosoyama , Japanese ski jumper
- 1984 : Simret Sultan , Eritrean athlete
- 1986 : Lars Bastian , German handball player
- 1986 : Theresa Nielsen , Danish soccer player
- 1988 : Julianne Hough , American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1988 : Anton Rúnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- 1989 : Cristian Pasquato , Italian soccer player
- 1989 : Sarah Joelle Jahnel , German singer, actress and erotic model
- 1989 : Amelie Plaas-Link , German actress
- 1990 : Lars Unnerstall , German soccer player
- 1990 : LPmitKev , German Youtuber
- 1990 : Wendie Renard , French soccer player
- 1991 : Alec Burks , American basketball player
- 1991 : Jonas Erwig-Drüppel , German soccer player
- 1991 : Daley Mathison , British motorcycle racer
- 1992 : Nicki Prian , Mexican-American actress
- 1993 : Måns Grenhagen , Swedish racing car driver
- 1993 : Adam Maher , Dutch football player
- 1993 : Steven Adams , American basketball player
- 1993 : Lucas Digne , French football player
- 1994 : Brogan Crowley , British skeleton skier
- 1994 : Koray Kaçınoğlu , German soccer player
- 1996 : Waldemar Anton , German soccer player
- 1996 : Dominik Baumgartner , Austrian soccer player
- 1996 : Timo Hübers , German football player
- 1996 : Ben Simmons , Australian basketball player
Died
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Before the 16th century
- 935 : Unwan , Bishop of Paderborn
- 940 : Ibn Muqla , Arabic calligrapher
- 1031 : Robert II , King of France
- 1039 : Conrad II , Duke of Carinthia
- 1109 : Adelheid , Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1154 : Bernhard I , Bishop of Hildesheim
- 1156 : Toba , 74th Tennō of Japan
- 1160 : Petrus Lombardus , scholastic and bishop
- 1179 : Wilhelm , Count of Aumale
- 1201 : Agnes of Meran , Queen of France
- 1293 : Heinrich II of Burgau , Margrave of Burgau
- 1296 : Jalal ud din Firoz Khalji , Sultan of Delhi
- 1320 : Oshin of Armenia , King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- 1332 : Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray , important figure in the Scottish Wars of Independence
- 1358 : Albrecht II , Duke of Austria
- 1387 : Johanna , Duchess of Durazzo
- 1398 : Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March , English nobleman
- 1399 : William Dacre, 5th Baron Dacre , English nobleman and politician
- 1433 : Jón Gerreksson , Bishop of Skálholt in southern Iceland
- 1454 : John II of Castile , King of Castile and León
16th to 18th century
- 1502 : Giovanni Battista Ferrari , Bishop of Modena
- 1514 : György Dózsa , leader of the Hungarian peasant uprising
- 1515 : Íñigo López de Mendoza y Quiñones , Spanish politician
- 1524 : Claude de France , Princess of France, wife of King Francis I.
- 1584 : Elisabeth von Regenstein-Blankenburg , 29th abbess of the Reichsstift von Quedlinburg
- 1612 : Marija Fyodorovna Nagaya , Tsarina of Russia
- 1613 : Heinrich Julius , Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel.
- 1616 : Aodh Mór Ó Néill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone , head of the Irish clan
- 1619 : Virgil Pingitzer , German-Austrian legal scholar
- 1620 : Jan Peider Danz , Swiss pastor
- 1627 : Guðbrandur Þorláksson , Icelandic bishop, mathematician and cartographer
- 1650 : Iwasa Matabē , Japanese painter
- 1692 : Heinrich Bach , German organist
- 1707 : Korbinian von Prielmayr , Bavarian statesman
- 1716 : Sigismund Christoph von Herberstein , Bishop of Laibach
- 1716 : Diederik van Veldhuyzen , Utrecht aristocrat and politician
- 1725 : Edward Jeffreys , British politician
- 1726 : Johann Dientzenhofer , Bamberg master builder of the baroque period
- 1735 : Ejima Kiseki , Japanese writer
- 1738 : Gustav Georg Zeltner , German Protestant theologian
- 1762 : Christoph Nichelmann , German composer
- 1762 : Paul Troger , Austrian painter
- 1768 : Francesco Arcangeli , Italian murderer
- 1775 : Anna Maria Strada del Pò, Italian opera singer and Handel interpreter
- 1785 : Johann Bücher , German Protestant theologian
- 1792 : Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb , Islamic scholar, founder of Wahhabism
- 1793 : Joseph Bruny d'Entrecasteaux , French navigator and explorer
- 1796 : John Houstoun , American politician
- 1799 : Karl Friedrich Walch , German legal scholar
19th century
- 1816 : Gawriil Romanowitsch Derschawin , Russian poet
- 1821 : Maurice-Jean-Magdalène de Broglie , French Bishop of Ghent
- 1824 : Joan Melchior Kemper , Dutch politician and legal scholar
- 1831 : Caroline de la Motte Fouqué , German writer
- 1832 : Karl Julius Weber , German writer and satirist
- 1851 : Albert von Schultze , German forest official
- 1854 : Friedrich Heinrich Aschoff , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1861 : Ferdinand Wachter , German historian and university professor
- 1862 : Moritz Karl August Axt , German pedagogue and classical philologist
- 1866 : Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician
- 1868 : Johann Friedrich Kittl , Czech composer
- 1872 : Archibald Hunter Arrington , American politician
- 1876 : Hans Riddervold Norwegian Parliament President and Bishop of Trondheim
- 1877 : Federico Errázuriz Zañartu , Chilean politician
- 1881 : Theodor Bergk , German classical philologist
- 1888 : Paul Langerhans , German pathologist
- 1889 : Anton Ausserer , Austrian natural scientist and arachnologist
- 1891 : Frederick Weld , British sheep farmer, Prime Minister of New Zealand and Governor of Western Australia , Tasmania and Straits Settlements
- 1892 : Friedrich Christian Benedikt Avé-Lallemant , German criminalist and writer
- 1896 : Friedrich Simony , Austrian geographer and alpine researcher
- 1898 : Juri Arnold , Russian composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Leo XIII. , Pope and author of the social encyclical Rerum Novarum
- 1903 : Samuel Mayes Arnell , American politician
- 1904 : Friedrich von Schele , German officer and governor of German East Africa
- 1908 : Demetrius Vikelas , first President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
- 1909 : Johanna Mestorf , Germany's first female museum director
- 1911 : Hermann Schubert , German mathematician
- 1912 : Andrew Lang , British writer from Scotland
- 1917 : Iwan von Müller , German classical philologist
- 1917 : Ignaz Sowinski , Austrian architect
- 1918 : Hermann Mutschmann , German classical philologist
- 1919 : Maria Isabella d'Orléans-Montpensier , Franco-Spanish princess
- 1921 : Franz Wärme , German theologian and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1922 : Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger , German prehistorian, museum man and painter
- 1922 : Andrei Andrejewitsch Markow , Russian mathematician
- 1923 : Pancho Villa , Mexican freedom fighter
- 1926 : Felix Dzerzhinsky , Russian professional revolutionary
- 1927 : Ferdinand I , Romanian king
- 1928 : Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius , Swedish entomologist
- 1929 : Anton Führer , German teacher, headmaster and author
- 1936 : Francisco Ascaso Budría , Spanish anarchist
- 1936 : Arthur Whiting , American composer, organist and pianist
- 1937 : Guglielmo Marconi , Italian radio pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1938 : Alois Scheiwiler , Bishop of St. Gallen
- 1939 : Walter Ackermann , Swiss pilot and writer
- 1939 : Augustin Henninghaus , German missionary and bishop
- 1942 : Moses Louis Annenberg , American publicist
- 1942 : Germaine Dulac , French film director
- 1942 : Julio Salvador Sagreras , Argentine guitarist and composer
- 1944 : Mildred Harris , American actress
- 1945 : Paul Valéry , French lyric poet of Corsican-Italian descent
- 1950 : Albert Riemenschneider , American Bach researcher and music teacher
1951-2000
- 1951 : Abdallah ibn Husain I , Emir and King of Jordan
- 1951 : Wilhelm of Prussia , Crown Prince of the German Empire
- 1955 : Calouste Gulbenkian , Armenian-British engineer, oil researcher, financial expert and art collector
- 1955 : Joaquín Pardavé , Mexican actor, director, screenwriter and composer
- 1959 : Karl Anshelm Ansén , Swedish football player
- 1959 : Bernhard Raestrup , German politician
- 1960 : Hans Schlange-Schöningen , German politician
- 1970 : Horst Muys , German pop singer and Cologne carnivalist
- 1972 : Friedrich Flick , German industrialist in the coal and steel industry, war criminal, richest man in Germany
- 1972 : Geeta Dutt , Indian singer
- 1973 : Bruce Lee , American actor of Chinese descent
- 1977 : Friedrich Georg Jünger , German poet, narrator and essayist
- 1983 : E. Preston Ames , American art director and production designer
- 1983 : Åke Magnus Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1984 : Gail Kubik , American composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1989 : Forrest Howard Anderson , American lawyer and politician
- 1993 : Jacqueline Lamba , French abstract expressionist painter
- 1994 : Günter Fromm , German author
- 1994 : Paul Delvaux , Belgian painter and graphic artist
- 1994 : Suzanne Juyol , French opera singer
- 1994 : Vladimir Lotaryov , Soviet jet engine designer
- 1995 : Ernest Mandel , Belgian Marxist economist, theorist
- 1995 : Alexander Iwanowitsch Pirumow , Armenian-Russian composer and music teacher
- 1996 : František Plánička , Czech football player
- 1997 : Arshi Pipa , Albanian writer
- 1999 : Emil Andres , American racing car driver
- 2000 : Constanze Engelbrecht , German actress and singer
- 2000 : Henning Schlüter , German actor
21st century
- 2001 : Oscar Arredondo , Cuban paleontologist
- 2001 : Carlo Giuliani , Italian activist
- 2003 : Lauri Aus , Estonian cyclist
- 2003 : Nicolas Freeling , English crime novel writer
- 2004 : Antonio Gades , Spanish dancer and choreographer
- 2005 : Horst Aschermann , German sculptor and professor of art
- 2005 : James Doohan , Canadian actor ( Starship Enterprise )
- 2006 : Gérard Oury , French film director and screenwriter
- 2006 : Philipp von Bismarck , German farmer and politician
- 2006 : Charles Bettelheim , French economist
- 2007 : Ollie Bridewell , British motorcycle racer
- 2008 : Uwe Claussen , German physician and human geneticist
- 2009 : Detlef Müller , German screenwriter
- 2010 : Dagmar Altrichter , German actress and voice actress
- 2011 : Lucian Freud , British painter
- 2012 : Karin Elisabet Andersson , Swedish politician
- 2013 : John Casablancas , Spanish-American entrepreneur and model
- 2014 : Victor George Atiyeh , American politician
- 2014 : Klaus Schmidt , German archaeologist
- 2014 : Manfred Sexauer , German moderator
- 2017 : Chester Bennington , American singer ( Linkin Park )
- 2017 : Andrea Jürgens , German pop singer
- 2017 : Bernhard Kempa , German handball player and coach
- 2017 : Claude Rich , French actor
- 2019 : Sheila Dikshit , Indian politician
- 2020 : Viktor Alexandrovich Tschischikow , Russian illustrator
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Margaret of Antioch , Roman virgin, martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Elijah , Israelite prophet (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant: LCMS )
- St. Aurelius of Carthage , theologian, Church Father and Bishop of Carthage (Catholic)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Colombia , independence from Spain (1831)
- Germany: Anniversary of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944
- Others
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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