20th June
The June 20 is the 171st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 172nd in leap years ), thus remain 194 days by year end. 21 (or 20) in June the sun is at noon at the Tropic of Cancer in the zenith and is at the northern Arctic Circle at night no longer, this day is thus in the northern hemisphere, the longest of the year, the summer solstice .
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Events
Politics and world events
- 451 : In the battle of the Catalaunian fields , the Roman army master Aëtius fights back the Huns under Attila .
- 840 : Ludwig the German becomes the first Roman-German ruler after the death of his father Ludwig the Pious . However, he first had to assert this position in the inner-dynastic battles of the Carolingians .
- 1236 : In the Treaty of Kremmen , Duke Wartislaw III recognizes. von Pomerania opposite the margraves Johann I and Otto III. the Brandenburg feudal sovereignty and cedes areas to the Mark Brandenburg .
- 1347 : After the lost battle of La Roche-Derrien, Duke Karl von Blois is captured by English troops under Thomas Dagworth in the War of the Breton Succession .
- 1530 : Emperor Charles V opens a Reichstag in Augsburg , from which he hopes to help against the Turks and a solution to the denominational problems that burden imperial politics. Theologians are asked to present their positions on the Reformation .
- 1622 : In the battle of Höchst , Catholic troops under General Tilly defeat Protestant mercenaries of Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . Many of the Duke's soldiers drown in a panic escape in the Main when they were supposed to retreat over a ship bridge.
- 1631 : Corsairs from North Africa attack the southern Irish port of Baltimore and kidnap over 100 residents into slavery .
- 1636 : Martin Aichinger , leader of the Marchland peasant movement , is executed with some of his followers on Linz's main square after his capture in the Battle of Frankenberg .
- 1685 : James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, declares himself the illegitimate son of the late ruler Charles II to be King of England , who is ruled by the already crowned king brother James II . The instigated Monmouth Rebellion fails in the Battle of Sedgemoor on July 6 with troops loyal to the king. The captured duke will be executed on July 15th.
- 1789 : The French Revolution occurs in the Palace of Versailles to the Tennis Court Oath of the Third Estate . The MPs ignore the king's dissolution order and undertake not to split up before a constitution is passed.
- 1791 : France's King Louis XVI. sets off for Metz with his family . However, the attempt to escape fails a day later.
- 1800 : The Napoleonic army conquers the city of Turin after their victory in the Battle of Marengo during the Second Coalition War . After their fall, the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont is dissolved a second time by the French and the king is declared deposed. The country is not being restored as a Piedmontese Republic , but as a Sub-Alpine Republic , which exists under French military administration.
- 1810 : During the funeral march for Prince Christian August , the Swedish statesman Hans Axel von Fersen is trampled to death by angry residents in Stockholm. The population sees him as one of the alleged murderers of the popular heir to the throne. The soldiers present do nothing to protect their riksmarskale from popular anger.
- 1837 : With the death of the British King Wilhelm IV , his niece Victoria becomes Queen. At the same time, the 123-year personal union with the Kingdom of Hanover , which will be ruled by Ernst August I.
- 1862 : The Romanian Prime Minister Barbu Catargiu is murdered around four months after he took office.
- 1863 : West Virginia becomes the 35th state in the United States .
- 1866 : Prussia receives support in the German War : Italy declares war on the Austrian Empire .
- 1870 : The Triple Alliance War ends with the signing of a peace treaty, the bloodiest conflict in the history of Latin America , especially for Paraguay .
- 1885 : Emil Nagel signs a treaty with the rulers of Pondoland in South Africa to make it a German colony. The colonization attempt later fails.
- 1900 : The German ambassador in Beijing , Clemens von Ketteler , is shot dead by a soldier in the street during the rampant boxer uprising .
- 1919 : Since the members of the government cannot reach an agreement on the acceptance or rejection of the Versailles Peace Treaty , Philipp Scheidemann resigns from the office of German Prime Minister .
- 1931 : US President Herbert Hoover proposed in the Great Depression in the Hoover moratorium to suspend the international financial obligations of States for a year.
- 1932 : The Benelux countries agree to dismantle customs barriers ( Benelux Agreement ).
- 1941 : The predecessor organization of the United States Air Force, the United States Army Air Forces , is founded.
- 1942 : Kazimierz Piechowski escapes from Auschwitz concentration camp as one of four Polish prisoners disguised as an SS man .
- 1960 : Mali and Senegal become independent from France and form the Mali Federation .
- 1974 : The permanent representations of the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic begin their work.
- 1977 : Menachem Begin becomes Israel's new Prime Minister .
- 1982 : The British government declares the Falklands War over after the Argentine armed forces in the Falkland Islands ceased and surrendered their fighting on June 14 (local time) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are again in British hands.
- 1991 : After a long and controversial debate, the German Bundestag decides to move the seat of government from Bonn to Berlin .
- 1994 : In the Iranian city of Mashhad , 26 people are killed and around 80 injured in the bomb attack on the mosque with the Imam Reza shrine .
- 1995 : The Safina party is founded in Kenya by Richard Leakey and a critic of the regime.
- 2001 : Pervez Musharraf , who has ruled since a military coup in 1999 , formally becomes head of state of Pakistan .
- 2012 : After the agreement to form a government with the socialist PASOK and the Democratic Left , the chairman of the conservative Nea Dimokratia , Andonis Samaras , is sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Greece.
economy
- 1840 : Samuel FB Morse receives United States Patent Office , the patent for his invention, the writing telegraph .
- 1893 : In Aachen Franz Zentis founded a grocery store from which the jams , confectionery and other food manufacturing companies Zentis seen.
- 1908 : The Imperial Patent Office grants Melitta Bentz utility model protection for her invention of a coffee filter system .
- 1931 : The Schneefernerhaus on the Zugspitze is opened as a mountain station for the Bavarian Zugspitzbahn .
- 1948 : The currency reform in the western zones of occupied Germany deepens the Cold War . On the following day, the Deutsche Mark replaces the Reichsmark .
- 1977 : In Valdez , the first oil flows through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline .
- 1990 : The EEC and EFTA begin negotiations on the creation of the European Economic Area (EEA) .
- 1992 : The national currency " kroon " is introduced in Estonia .
- 1995 : The oil company Royal Dutch Shell renounces the sinking of the floating oil tank Brent Spar in the North Sea.
- 2003 : The non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation is founded in Saint Petersburg , Florida . It receives all rights to names, domains and servers associated with Wikipedia or its sister projects.
science and technology
- 1894 : In Hong Kong , the doctor and bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin discovered the causative agent of the plague , a bacterium that was later named Yersinia pestis in honor of Yersin .
- 1909 : In Vienna, Emperor Franz Joseph I laid the foundation stone for the Technical Museum for Industry and Commerce .
- 1912 : The Japanese sailing ship Kainan Maru under the command of Shirase Nobu , which set out for Antarctica on December 1, 1910 , reaches the port of Yokohama. All participants of the first Japanese Antarctic expedition arrive safely at their home.
- 1939 : The Heinkel He 176 completes its maiden flight as the first functional rocket aircraft .
- 1944 : The unit 4 is the first man-made object to break through the boundary to space .
- 2009 : The new Acropolis Museum designed by Bernard Tschumi opens in Athens , presenting exhibits from the Archaic , Classical and Late Antiquity periods .
Culture
- 1729 : The world premiere of the opera The contrivances of Henry Carey takes place in London.
- 1767 : The comic opera Toinon et Toinette by François-Joseph Gossec is premiered at the Comédie Italienne in Paris.
- 1894 : The opera La Navarraise by Jules Massenet is premiered at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London.
- 1969 : The opera Die Teufel von Loudun by Krzysztof Penderecki is premiered at the Hamburg State Opera.
- 1947 : The opera Albert Herring by Benjamin Britten is premiered at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera .
- 1952 : The new version of the opera Cardillac by Paul Hindemith - expanded from three to four acts and redesigned in terms of the text by the composer - is premiered at the Stadttheater in Zurich .
- 1977 : The actor and singer Manfred Krug leaves the German Democratic Republic after applying to leave the country on April 19, 1977.
religion
- 1667 : After an 18-day conclave , Cardinal Giuglio Rospigliosi is named Clement IX. elected to succeed Pope Alexander VII .
- 1888 : As a supplement to the encyclical Immortale Dei published on November 1, 1885 , Pope Leo XIII publishes. the encyclical Libertas praestantissimum donum . In it he rejects human and civil rights , but recognizes freedom of conscience as justified, turning away from the previous Catholic teaching .
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1928 : The Spanish football club Real Valladolid is created from the merger of two local clubs.
- 1968 : In the two semifinals of the US Athletics Championships in Sacramento , athletes Jim Hines , Charles Green and Ronnie Ray Smith run less than 10 seconds on the 100-meter course for the first time . Your times are hand-stopped at 9.9 seconds each .
- 1976 : At the European Football Championship in Yugoslavia , the German national team loses the final on penalties against the Czechoslovak national team on the night of Belgrade .
- 1982 : The Belgian Jacky Ickx wins the Le Mans 24-hour race for the sixth time .
- 1987 : New Zealand wins the final of the Rugby Union World Cup in Auckland 29-9 against France .
- 1999 : Australia wins the seventh Cricket World Cup in England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland and Wales by beating Pakistan with 8 wickets in the final.
- 2007 : Sammy Sosa hits his 600th home run against the Chicago Cubs and becomes the fifth MLB player to score at least 600 home runs. Previously this reached Babe Ruth , Willie Mays , Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1005 : Az-Zāhir li-iʿzāz dīn Allāh , Caliph of the Fatimids
- 1271 : John de Ferrers, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley , English nobleman
- 1389 : John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford , brother of King Henry IV, Regent of France
- 1469 : Gian Galeazzo Sforza , Duke of Milan
- 1558 : Markus Welser , German humanist, historian, publisher and mayor
- 1566 : Sigismund III. Wasa , King of Sweden and Poland
- 1583 : Jakob De la Gardie , Swedish military leader
- 1603 : Margareta Brahe , Swedish countess and princess of Hessen-Homburg
- 1620 : Sibylle Margarethe von Brieg , Princess of Brieg
- 1634 : Charles Emanuel II , Duke of Savoy
- 1687 : Giovanni Battista Pittoni , Venetian painter and draftsman
- 1699 : Wilhelm Gustav von Anhalt-Dessau , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1700 : Peter Faneuil , American colonial merchant
18th century
- 1715 : Frederik Bernard Albinus , Dutch medic
- 1717 : Jacques Saly , French sculptor
- 1723 : Adam Ferguson , British Enlightenment historian and social ethicist from Scotland
- 1726 : Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti , Duchess of Chartres and Duchess of Orléans
- 1730 : Theodor de Croix , Knight of the Teutonic Order, Commander-in-Chief in California and Texas and Spanish Viceroy of Peru
- 1733 : Betty Washington , British-American colonist, sister of George Washington
- 1737 : Tokugawa Ieharu , Japanese shogun
- 1743 : Anna Laetitia Barbauld , English poet
- 1754 : Julius Georg Paul du Roi , German lawyer and director of the Brunswick poor institution
- 1754 : Amalie von Hessen-Darmstadt , daughter of Ludwig IX. from Hessen-Darmstadt
- 1756 : William Richardson Davie , American politician
- 1756 : Joseph Martin Kraus , German composer at the Swedish court
- 1760 : Richard Colley-Wellesley, 1st Marquess Wellesley , British statesman
- 1761 : Jacob Hübner , German entomologist
- 1762 : Anton Aloys , Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1763 : Gabriel Lory the Elder , Swiss landscape painter, etcher and watercolorist
- 1763 : Theobald Wolfe Tone , Irish lawyer, leader of the Irish independence movement
- 1768 : William Findlay , American politician
- 1771 : Heinrich Friedrich Isenflamm , German medic
- 1773 : Peter Early , American politician
- 1778 : Jean-Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac , French politician
- 1786 : Marceline Desbordes-Valmore , French poet
- 1786 : Antonia Laucher , German soprano
- 1793 : Aleksander Fredro , Polish playwright
- 1796 : Luigi Amat di San Filippo e Sorso , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1797 : Karolina Gerhardinger , founder of the German order
19th century
1801-1850
- 1808 : Samson Raphael Hirsch , German rabbi and writer
- 1813 : Joseph Autran , French lyric poet
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- 1819 : Jacques Offenbach , Franco-German composer
- 1826 : Stefano Jacini , Italian politician and economist
- 1830 : Friedrich Nobbe , German agricultural chemist, botanist and seed researcher
- 1832 : Benjamin Bristow , American politician
- 1833 : Léon Bonnat , French painter
- 1839 : Traugott Hermann von Arnim-Muskau , German diplomat and member of parliament
- 1844 : Martha Asmus , German writer
- 1847 : Gina Krog , Norwegian women's rights activist
1851-1900
- 1852 : Georg Abel , German-Guatemalan diplomat
- 1853 : Erich Schmidt , German literary historian
- 1859 : Christian von Ehrenfels , Austrian philosopher
- 1861 : Frederick Gowland Hopkins , British biochemist, physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1861 : Arthur Whiting , American composer, organist, and pianist
- 1868 : Walter Bloem , German writer
- 1868 : Richard Riemerschmid , German architect and designer of Art Nouveau
- 1870 : Georges Dufrénoy , French painter
- 1872 : Hermann Bergengruen , German-Baltic theologian and Protestant martyr
- 1875 : Othenio Abel , Austrian paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
- 1875 : Reginald Punnett , British geneticist
- 1876 : Victor Klemperer von Klemenau , German banker
- 1876 : Ladislaus Tuszyński , Austrian illustrator, caricaturist and animator
- 1877 : Julius Kaliski , German social democrat, writer and politician
- 1878 : Georg Göhler , German composer
- 1879 : Jim Delahanty , American baseball player
- 1879 : Vladko Maček , Croatian politician
- 1880 : Friedrich Karl Dühring , German colonial officer
- 1880 : Friedrich Gundolf , German literary historian
- 1883 : Hermann Rützler , Austrian photographer and racing car driver
- 1884 : Johannes Heinrich Schultz , German neurologist
- 1887 : Bernhard Deermann , German politician and educator
- 1887 : Adolf Jutz , German painter and draftsman
- 1887 : Kurt Schwitters , German painter, poet, commercial artist and artist
- 1889 : John Stefanos Paraskevopoulos , Greek-South African astronomer
- 1890 : Eugène Deloncle , French politician
- 1891 : John A. Costello , Irish politician
- 1892 : Marcellus Schiffer , German graphic artist, painter, chanson writer and librettist
- 1893 : Wilhelm Zaisser , German politician and party official, minister in the GDR
- 1896 : Vincent Korda , Hungarian production designer
- 1896 : Wilfrid Pelletier , Canadian conductor and pianist
- 1897 : George Eyston , British engineer, record-breaking racing car driver
- 1897 : Elisabeth Hauptmann , German writer
- 1898 : Kaspar Aßhoff , German association official
- 1899 : Jean Moulin , French resistance fighter and a leader of the Resistance, victim of National Socialism
- 1900 : Hans Walter Aust , German journalist
- 1900 : Boris Pash , American officer, head of the Alsos mission in World War II
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Willy Gebhardt , German editor and politician
- 1901 : Ernest White , Canadian organist and organ builder, choir director and music teacher
- 1902 : Juan Evaristo , Argentine football player
- 1904 : Heinrich von Brentano , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, MEP, Federal Minister
- 1905 : Lillian Hellman , American writer
- 1907 : Eugen Andergassen , Austrian writer
- 1907 : James Corbitt Morris , American songwriter and musician
- 1908 : Erik Asklund , Swedish writer and screenwriter
- 1909 : Errol Flynn , American actor
- 1911 : Paul Pietsch , German racing car driver and publisher
- 1913 : Juan de Borbón y Battenberg , Infante of Spain and Count of Barcelona
- 1913 : Laure Wyss , Swiss journalist and writer
- 1914 : Albrecht Brandi , German submarine commander and architect
- 1915 : Paul Castellano , American mafia boss
- 1915 : Terence Young , British director
- 1917 : Felice Filippini , Swiss writer and painter
- 1919 : Dub Adams , American western swing musician and rancher
- 1920 : Man Mohan Adhikari , Nepalese politician, Prime Minister
- 1920 : Eduardo Mondlane , President of the Mozambican Liberation Front ( FRELIMO )
- 1922 : Hans Ulrich Graf , Swiss politician and publisher
- 1923 : Peter Gay , American historian and psychoanalyst
- 1923 : Sepp Tezak , Austrian railway painter, historian and journalist
- 1923 : Wolfgang Ullrich , German zoologist, animal filmmaker, author of animal books and director of the Dresden Zoo
- 1924 : Chet Atkins , American country musician
- 1924 : Rainer Barzel , German politician, Federal Minister
- 1924 : Fritz Koenig , German sculptor
- 1925 : Franco Castellano , Italian screenwriter and director
- 1925 : Audie Murphy , highest decorated US soldier in World War II and film actor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Giovanni Viola , Italian football player
- 1927 : Karl-Heinz Adler , German sculptor and concept artist
- 1927 : Georg Arfmann , German sculptor
- 1927 : Friedrich Beck , German archivist and historian
- 1927 : Josef Posipal , German football player
- 1928 : Eric Dolphy , American musician
- 1928 : Martin Landau , American actor
- 1928 : Jean-Marie Le Pen , French politician
- 1929 : Ingrid Haebler , Austrian pianist
- 1929 : Francis Santana , Dominican singer
- 1929 : Eugen von der Wiesche , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1930 : Magdalena Abakanowicz , Polish textile artist
- 1930 : Chuck Daly , American basketball coach
- 1931 : Olympia Dukakis , American actress
- 1931 : William Joseph Foley , Australian Archbishop
- 1932 : Mzilikazi Khumalo , South African composer and choir director
- 1932 : Robert Ivanovich Roshdestvensky , Russian writer
- 1933 : Danny Aiello , American actor
- 1933 : Brett Halsey , American actor
- 1933 : Lorenz Niegel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1934 : Theodore M. Andersson , American Medievalist
- 1934 : Cornel Țăranu , Romanian composer
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- 1935 : Len Dawson , American football player
- 1935 : Armando Picchi , Italian football player and coach
- 1936 : Billy Guy , American singer
- 1937 : Piero Heliczer , Italian-American underground filmmaker
- 1937 : Jerry Keller , American singer and songwriter
- 1938 : Leeman Bennett , American football coach
- 1938 : Mickie Most , English producer, record label owner and music publisher
- 1939 : Sepp Auer , Austrian university professor, sculptor and installation artist
- 1939 : Konrad Spindler , German prehistorian, researcher of the Ötzi mummy
- 1939 : Thilo Ulbert , German Christian archaeologist
- 1940 : Kozō Andō , Japanese Kendōka
- 1940 : Eugen Drewermann , German Catholic theologian, psychotherapist and writer
- 1940 : John Mahoney , American actor
- 1941 : Stephen Frears , British film director
- 1941 : Dieter Mann , German theater and film actor
- 1941 : Ulf Merbold , German physicist and astronaut
- 1942 : Santiago Agrelo Martínez , Archbishop of Tangier
- 1942 : Otto Garhofer , German soccer player
- 1942 : Brian Wilson , American musician ( The Beach Boys )
- 1944 : Edmund Czihak , German motorcycle racer
- 1944 : Ilse Ritter , German actress
- 1945 : Jean-Claude Izzo , French writer
- 1945 : Anne Murray , Canadian country and pop singer
- 1945 : Wolfgang Neumann , German-Austrian opera singer (tenor)
- 1945 : Shekhar Mehta , Kenyan rally driver
- 1946 : Joseph Absi , Syrian clergyman, Patriarch of Antioch and head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- 1946 : Tony Aitken , British actor
- 1946 : Ahmed Benbitour , Algerian politician, Prime Minister
- 1946 : Xanana Gusmão , East Timorese politician, Prime Minister, President
- 1947 : Josef Clemens , German Curia Bishop, Secretary of the Papal Lay Council
- 1947 : Michael Kindo , Indian hockey player
- 1948 : Anne-Marie Barat , French organist
- 1948 : Johannes Friedrich , German regional bishop
- 1948 : Ludwig Scotty , President of the Nauruan State
- 1949 : Till Bastian , German physician, publicist and author
- 1949 : Lionel Richie , American singer
- 1950 : Georg Erber , German economist and econometrician
- 1950 : Gudrun Landgrebe , German actress
1951-1975
- 1951 : João Semedo , Portuguese politician
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- 1952 : John Goodman , American comedian and actor
- 1952 : Mabel Rivera , Spanish actress
- 1952 : Vikram Seth , Indian writer
- 1953 : Ulrich Mühe , German film and theater actor
- 1954 : Alexander Frei , Swiss entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1954 : Michael Anthony Sobolewski , American musician
- 1956 : Anton Amann , Austrian chemist
- 1956 : Hermann Josef Hack , German painter and action artist
- 1958 : Kelly Johnson , British musician
- 1959 : Thomas Krüger , German civil rights activist and politician, Lord Mayor of East Berlin, Senator, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
- 1960 : Nigel John Taylor , British musician
- 1961 : Belkis Concepción , Dominican singer
- 1961 : Karin Enke , German speed skater, Olympic champion, world champion
- 1963 : Jeff Beal , American composer and jazz musician
- 1963 : José Basualdo , Argentine football player
- 1963 : Uwe Steimle , German cabaret artist and actor
- 1964 : Pierfrancesco Chili , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1964 : Michael Landon Jr. , American director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1964 : Silke Möller , German athlete, world champion, Olympic medalist
- 1964 : Dirk Schoedon , German actor
- 1965 : Benoît Brière , Canadian actor
- 1967 : Nicole Kidman , Australian actress, Oscar winner
- 1967 : Patxi Xabier Lezama Perier , Spanish sculptor and writer.
- 1967 : Nele Neuhaus , German crime writer
- 1967 : Christian Schmitt-Engelstadt , German organist
- 1968 : Tonya Kinzinger , American actress
- 1968 : Robert Rodriguez , American director
- 1969 : Erkan Aki , Swiss tenor
- 1969 : MaliVai Washington , American tennis player
- 1970 : Jason Robert Brown , American musical composer and writer
- 1970 : Andrea Nahles , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, party leader of the SPD
- 1971 : Jeordie White , American bass player
- 1971 : Josh Lucas , American actor
- 1973 : Osman Per , Turkish soccer player
- 1973 : Silke Andrea Schuemmer , German writer, art historian and freelance journalist
- 1973 : Tom Wlaschiha , German actor
- 1974 : Attila Czene , Hungarian swimmer
- 1974 : Lorenzo Squizzi , Italian football player
- 1975 : Florian Ast , Swiss musician
- 1975 : Daniel Zítka , Czech football player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Juliano Belletti , Brazilian soccer player
- 1978 : Judith Affeld , German soccer player
- 1978 : Frank Lampard , English football player
- 1979 : Charlotte Hatherley , British rock singer and guitarist
- 1979 : Lúcio , Brazilian soccer player
- 1980 : Nina Aigner , Austrian soccer player
- 1980 : Franco Semioli , Italian soccer player
- 1980 : Vignir Svavarsson , Icelandic handball player
- 1980 : Fabian Wegmann , German racing cyclist
- 1981 : Danny Masseling , Dutch gabba DJ
- 1981 : Brede Hangeland , Norwegian football player
- 1982 : Vasily Vladimirovich Beresuzki , Russian football player
- 1982 : Alexei Vladimirovich Berezuzky , Russian football player
- 1982 : Example , British rapper and musician
- 1982 : George Forsyth , Peruvian soccer player
- 1983 : Deonise Cavaleiro , Brazilian handball player
- 1984 : Dennis Malura , German soccer player
- 1984 : Jorge Ortiz , Argentine soccer player
- 1984 : Jarrod Smith , New Zealand soccer player
- 1985 : Jörg Lützelberger , German handball player and coach
- 1985 : Darko Miličić , Serbian basketball player
- 1985 : Halil Savran , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1985 : Sahr Senesie , German soccer player
- 1985 : Katharina Schulze , German politician
- 1986 : Luca Cigarini , Italian football player
- 1986 : Jan Kästner , German handball player
- 1987 : Carsten Ball , Australian tennis player
- 1987 : Itumeleng Khune , South African soccer player
- 1987 : Alexei Korolev , Kazakh ski jumper
- 1987 : Asmir Begović , Bosnian-Canadian football player
- 1989 : Christopher Mintz-Plasse , American actor
- 1989 : Javier Pastore , Argentine soccer player
- 1989 : Gino Windmüller , German soccer player
- 1990 : Haris Handžić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1990 : Fab Melo , Brazilian basketball player
- 1991 : Rasmus Lauge Schmidt , Danish handball player
- 1991 : Alexandre Liess , Swiss swimmer
- 1992 : Alberto Cerqui , Italian racing car driver
- 1992 : Michael Vitzthum , German soccer player
- 1993 : Johannes Brinkies , German soccer player
- 1993 : Sead Kolašinac , German-Bosnian football player
- 1996 : Sigtryggur Daði Rúnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- 1997 : Jost Arens , German skateboarder
- 1998 : Philippe Ernzer , Luxembourg hobby meteorologist
Died
Before the 18th century
- 840 : Ludwig the Pious , King of the Franconian Empire
- 930 : Hucbald , Flemish monk and music theorist
- 941 : Rumhold , Bishop of Münster
- 981 : Adalbert , Archbishop of Magdeburg, saint and historian
- 1088 : Meinhard von Bamberg , cathedral scholaster of Bamberg and bishop of Würzburg
- 1098 : William I , Count of Nevers
- 1119 : Henry de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Warwick , Norman nobleman
- 1137 : John , Bishop of Rochester
- 1172 : Wilhelm III. , Count of Ponthieu
- 1345 : Simon Montagu , Bishop of Worcester and Bishop of Ely
- 1351 : Margareta Ebner , German mystic
- 1373 : Raymond de Canillac , French lawyer, bishop and cardinal
- 1430 : Johann Vasmer , Mayor of Bremen
- 1489 : Georg Golser , Bishop of Brixen
- 1539 : Philip III. , Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
- 1563 : Konrad Braun , Catholic theologian
- 1570 : Friedrich Bernbeck , German mayor and designer of the Reformation in Kitzingen
- 1595 : Magnus Gustavsson Wasa , Swedish Prince and Duke of Östergötland
- 1596 : Johann Ludwig I , Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
- 1597 : Willem Barents , Dutch navigator and explorer
- 1600 : Joachim von Brandenburg , Margrave of Brandenburg
- 1605 : Fyodor II , Tsar of Russia
- 1634 : Nicolas Ager , French botanist
- 1636 : Martin Aichinger , Protestant preacher, mystic and peasant war leader
- 1638 : Ippolita Trivulzio , Princess of Monaco
- 1649 : Maria Tesselschade Visscher , Dutch poet and engraver
- 1668 : Heinrich Roth , German Jesuit, missionary and Indologist
- 1684 : Thomas Armstrong , English officer
18th century
- 1701 : Joachim Rosenow , German mathematician
- 1705 : Michiel van Musscher , Dutch painter and old master
- 1714 : Maria Anna Mancini , Duchess of Bouillon
- 1717 : Anna Leszczyńska , Polish princess
- 1722 : Christoph Dientzenhofer , German builder
- 1726 : Johann Arnold Barckhausen , German legal scholar
- 1730 : Gabriel Grupello , Flemish sculptor
- 1731 : Ned Ward , English satirist, author and innkeeper
- 1734 : Michael Friedrich von Althann , Bishop of Waitzen and Viceroy of the Kingdom of Naples and Sicily
- 1736 : Philipp Joseph Jenisch , German architect and builder
- 1743 : Saif ibn Sultan II , Imam of Oman
- 1744 : Johann Ignaz Egedacher , south German organ builder
- 1747 : Nadir Shah , Shah of Persia and founder of the Afsharid dynasty
- 1751 : Johann Baptist Ferolski , Kurmainzer architect and fortress builder
- 1759 : Moritz Adolf Karl von Sachsen-Zeitz-Neustadt , Bishop of Leitmeritz and Canon in Cologne
- 1766 : Gustav Bogislav von Münchow , royal Prussian general and advisor to Frederick II.
- 1773 : Georg Christian Füchsel , German geologist
- 1776 : Benjamin Huntsman , English watchmaker and inventor
- 1780 : Johann Gottlob Böhme , German historian
- 1787 : Carl Friedrich Abel , German Baroque composer
- 1791 : Adam Struensee , German Protestant theologian and general superintendent of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1800 : Abraham Gotthelf Kästner , German mathematician
19th century
- 1807 : Ferdinand Berthoud , Swiss watchmaker
- 1808 : Franciszek Ksawery Dmochowski , Polish writer and translator
- 1810 : Hans Axel von Fersen , Swedish statesman and favorite of Queen Marie Antoinette
- 1817 : Marie-Gabriel-Florent-Auguste de Choiseul-Gouffier , French diplomat and ancient historian
- 1818 : Hedwig von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Queen of Sweden and Norway
- 1820 : Manuel Belgrano , Argentine lawyer, politician and general
- 1823 : Joseph Haslet , American politician
- 1826 : Miguel José de Azanza , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1827 : Karl Philipp Conz , German poet and writer
- 1836 : Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès , French politician
- 1837 : Giovanni Furno , Italian composer
- 1837 : William IV , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and King of Hanover
- 1839 : Amalie Tischbein , German draftsman, miniature painter and etcher
- 1840 : Pierre-Claude Daunou , French politician, archivist and historian
- 1842 : Antal Deák , Hungarian politician
- 1848 : Heinrich Weiss , Swiss politician
- 1854 : Karoline von Hessen-Homburg , regent of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1856 : Florestan I , Prince of Monaco
- 1856 : Hanzo Njepila , Sorbian folk writer
- 1870 : Jules de Goncourt , French writer
- 1872 : Élie-Frédéric Forey , French general and Marshal of France
- 1874 : Carl Heinrich Edmund von Berg , German forester and teacher
- 1875 : Peter Karlowitsch von Uslar , Russian engineer, linguist and officer
- 1876 : Johann Ludwig Anderwert , Swiss politician
- 1883 : Gustave Aimard , French writer
- 1888 : Johannes Hermann Zukertort , Polish chess player
- 1891 : Ferdinand Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin , French lawyer
- 1896 : Alcibiade Béique , Canadian organist and music teacher
- 1898 : Jacob Audorf , functionary of the General German Workers' Education Association (ADAV)
- 1900 : Johan Wolter Arnberg , Swedish economist and bank director
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Alexander Forrest , Australian explorer and explorer
- 1906 : James Mason Crafts , American chemist
- 1911 : Ole Andreas Øverland , Norwegian historian
- 1913 : Sydenham Elnathan Ancona , American politician
- 1915 : Emil Rathenau , German entrepreneur, founder of AEG
- 1918 : Sape Talma , Dutch medic
- 1920 : Robert Friedberg , German economist and politician
- 1921 : Karl Aderhold , German politician
- 1922 : Wilhelm Hallwachs , German physicist
- 1922 : Aeba Kōson , Japanese writer and theater critic
- 1925 : Marius Mestivier , French racing car driver
- 1933 : Richard Assmann , German works council chairman and politician
- 1933 : Clara Zetkin , German politician and women's rights activist
- 1937 : Andreu Nin , Spanish revolutionary from Catalonia
- 1938 : Liselotte Herrmann , German resistance fighter
- 1940 : Jehan Alain , French organist and composer
- 1940 : Mathias Zdarsky , Austrian ski pioneer
- 1944 : Jean Zay , French politician and minister
- 1945 : Bruno Frank , German writer
- 1945 : Stanislav Novák , Czech violinist
- 1946 : Gobulo Wanrong , last Empress of China, Empress of Manchuko
- 1947 : Howard Mason Gore , American politician
- 1947 : Bugsy Siegel , American gangster
- 1948 : George Frederick Boyle , Australian composer
1951-2000
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- 1952 : Luigi Fagioli , Italian racing driver
- 1955 : Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa , Polish opera singer and music teacher
- 1956 : August Hinrichs , German writer
- 1958 : Kurt Alder , German chemist
- 1959 : Ashida Hitoshi , Japanese politician and prime minister
- 1963 : Pio Ortelli , Swiss educator and writer
- 1966 : Georges Lemaître , Belgian priest and physicist, founder of the Big Bang theory
- 1966 : Wilhelm Busch , German pastor, evangelist and writer
- 1967 : Willi Ahrem , German soldier
- 1969 : Rudolf Schwarzkogler , Austrian photographer and artist
- 1970 : Franz Königshofer , Austrian-Swiss conductor, composer and musicologist
- 1974 : Ulrich Buchholz , German general
- 1974 : Horace Lindrum , Australian snooker and billiards player
- 1975 : Karel Gleenewinkel Kamperdijk , Dutch football player
- 1975 : Daniel Ayala Pérez , Mexican composer
- 1976 : Karl Ausch , Austrian economist, journalist and functionary
- 1977 : Jules Moriceau , French racing car driver
- 1980 : Allan Pettersson , Swedish composer and violist
- 1981 : Paul Joseph Z'dun , German "funny cyclist"
- 1982 : René Gabriëls , Belgian billiards world champion and billiard table manufacturer
- 1983 : Oskar Farny , German manager and politician, MdR, MdL and State Minister, MdB
- 1983 : Ana María González , Mexican singer
- 1984 : Hans Studer , Swiss composer, choir director and organist
- 1986 : Juan Pablo Miranda , Cuban flautist and composer
- 1986 : Béla Szepes , Hungarian athlete and skier
- 1989 : Otto Kässbohrer , German entrepreneur and vehicle designer
- 1991 : Carlos Argentino , Argentine singer
- 1993 : Hans Sachs , German lawyer and TV notoriety ( What am I? )
- 1993 : György Sárosi , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1994 : John Robert Armbruster , American composer, conductor and arranger
- 1994 : Jay Miner , chip designer, developer of the Amiga computer
- 1995 : Emil Cioran , Romanian-French philosopher
- 1996 : Herbert Gerigk , German musicologist and National Socialist ( Lexicon of Jews in Music )
- 1997 : John Akii-Bua , track and field athlete from Uganda
- 1998 : Ernst Brugger , Swiss politician
- 1998 : Bobby Gimby , Canadian band leader, trumpeter and songwriter
- 2000 : Max Danz , German doctor, chairman of the athletics association
- 2000 : Karl Mickel , German poet, playwright and essayist
- 2000 : Manfred Strahl , German journalist, editor and writer
21st century
- 2002 : Erwin Chargaff , American biochemist and writer
- 2002 : Martinus Osendarp , Dutch athlete
- 2003 : Johannes Duft , Swiss Abbey Librarian
- 2004 : Hanns Cibulka , German writer and poet
- 2005 : Larry Collins , American writer
- 2005 : Charles David Keeling , American climate researcher
- 2005 : Jack Kilby , American engineer, developer of the first integrated circuit
- 2009 : Godfrey Rampling , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 2010 : Helmut Straßburger , German director, actor and theater director
- 2011 : Ryan Dunn , American actor and stunt performer ( Jackass )
- 2012 : Judy Agnew , US Vice President's wife
- 2012 : Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry , British peer
- 2013 : Franz Xaver Eder , German bishop
- 2013 : Per Ung , Norwegian sculptor
- 2014 : María Luisa Landín , Mexican singer
- 2014 : Jaroslav Walter , Czechoslovak or Czech ice hockey player and coach
- 2015 : Angelo Niculescu , Romanian football player and coach
- 2015 : Gerhard A. Ritter , German historian
- 2016 : Benoîte Groult , French writer and journalist
- 2016 : Gertrud Koch , German resistance fighter
- 2017 : Herbert Hriberschek Ágústsson , Icelandic composer and musician
- 2017 : Prodigy , American rapper
- 2018 : Siegfried Jenkner , German political scientist
- 2018 : Heinrich Rodeck , German pediatrician
- 2019 : Wibke Bruhns , German journalist and author
- 2019 : Peter Matić , Austrian actor and voice actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Georg Hamann , German theologian (Protestant)
- St. Adalbert von Magdeburg , German historian, missionary and bishop (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Argentina : National Flag Day
- Germany: Day of Remembrance for Victims of Flight and Displacement (from 2015)
- Commemoration days of international organizations
- World Refugee Day ( UN ) (since 2001)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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