May 20th
The May 20 is the 140th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 141st in leap years ), thus remain still 225 days until the end of the year. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 20 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 685 : In the Battle of Dunnichen Mere, the Picts achieve a decisive victory over the Anglic forces of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria , who falls in the battle. After the battle, Northumbria's influence never extends beyond the Firth of Forth .
- 1217 : In the Battle of Lincoln English barons loyal to the king defeat a knightly band of rebellious barons and French allies under Prince Ludwig of France , who subsequently buries his ambitions for the English throne.
- 1303 : In the Treaty of Paris , King Philip IV of France gives in to King Edward I of England and recognizes the Guyenne as his fiefdom .
- 1347 : Cola di Rienzo , with the help of the people, drives out the city nobility that is hated in Rome and proclaims the republic based on the ancient Roman model.
- 1498 : The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives in India and lands in Calicut . The search for the sea route to India has thus been successfully concluded for Portugal .
- 1503 : The Portuguese navigator Afonso de Albuquerque rediscovered a forgotten island in the South Atlantic, to which he gave the name Assunção because it was sighted on Ascension Day . Later it was given the English name Ascension .
- 1571 : In Rome , the Pope , Spain , the maritime republics of Venice and Genoa join forces to form the Holy League against the Ottoman Empire in order to break its maritime rule in the Mediterranean.
- 1631 : Imperial troops under the general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly and Gottfried Heinrich zu Pappenheim conquer the Protestant Magdeburg after several months of siege in the Thirty Years' War and commit grave war atrocities. Around 20,000 people are killed in the so-called “ Magdeburg Wedding ”.
- 1654 : The Duchy of Courland and Semgallia establishes a colony under Duke Jakob Kettler on the Caribbean island of Tobago . Captain Willem Mollens renames the island New Courland .
- 1667 : In the naval battle of Nevis, English ships repel a planned invasion of the Caribbean island of Nevis by a Dutch-French fleet in the Anglo-Dutch War .
- 1704 : Polish supporters of King August II join forces in the Sandomir Confederation . You are reacting to the formed anti-king confederation of Warsaw and opening a dispute that culminated in a civil war.
- 1795 : During the French Revolution , the Sans-culottes took part in the Prairial Uprising in Paris, but after three days it was militarily suppressed.
- 1802 : Napoleon Bonaparte leaves as First Consul in the French colonies which - in 1794 formally abolished - slavery again.
- 1813 : The two-day battle near Bautzen during the Wars of Liberation between the coalition of Russia and Prussia under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher and Ludwig Adolf Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and the French under Napoléon Bonaparte and Michel Ney begins.
- 1838 : Johannes Niederer founds the Grütliverein in Geneva as a discussion group for journeymen. The association subsequently played an important role in the Swiss labor movement .
- 1858 : During the Second Opium War , British units under Admiral Michael Seymour take the Chinese Taku forts , which are supposed to protect the sea entrance to the city of Tianjin , the closest port to Beijing. Her case leads to the Tianjin Treaty in June.
- 1859 : In the Sardinian War , the Italo-French troops defeat an Austrian army in the Battle of Montebello .
- 1861 : The state of Kentucky declares its neutrality in the Civil War in a proclamation . This lasted until September 3, when Confederate troops invaded and pillaged numerous cities.
- 1862 : US President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act , a law that allows farmers to purchase up to 64 acres of unpopulated land and aims to colonize the west .
- 1875 : The international meter convention is signed by 17 states. Its task is to standardize measures and weights internationally and to create and finance the necessary organizational forms. This also resolves to adopt the original meter and the original kilogram as a unit of measurement.
- 1882 : With the accession of the Kingdom of Italy to the dual alliance between the German Reich and Austria-Hungary , this becomes a triple alliance , a secret defensive alliance between these three countries.
- 1902 : The United States formally granted independence to Cuba , which it had owned since the Spanish-American War , although this was restricted by the Platt Amendment passed in 1901 . Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first president.
- 1927 : In the Jeddah Agreement , Great Britain surrenders the area along the west coast of Arabia, called the British Protectorate of Arabia , which was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in World War I , to the Arab King Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud and guarantees the independence of Arabia .
- 1933 : After the establishment of the Austro-Fascist corporate state in Austria , the Christian-social Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss founds the Fatherland Front as a political organization with monopoly status.
- 1934 : The for possession of the province of Asir guided Saudi Yemeni war ends with the Taif Agreement , the lack of a specific fixed border demarcation often subsequently skirmish causes.
- 1940 : The first prisoners arrive at the newly built Auschwitz concentration camp . The transport consists of Reich German prisoners who, as prisoner functionaries, are supposed to take on supervisory and control functions.
- 1941 : With the bombing of the planned landing zone on Crete by the German Air Force , the Merkur company begins to conquer the Mediterranean island by the Wehrmacht in World War II , which will be completed by June 1st.
- 1949 : The Bavarian state parliament is the only one of the state parliaments to reject the approval of the Basic Law drawn up by the Parliamentary Council after a night session . But if two thirds of all federal states agree - which happens - he also declares its validity in the Free State of Bavaria .
- 1954 : Chiang Kai-shek is elected President by the National Assembly of the Republic of China in Taiwan . As such, he maintains the right to represent the whole of China.
- 1960 : The coat of arms of Nigeria is awarded by the British Queen Elizabeth II .
- 1969 : After ten days, the Battle of Hamburger Hill in the Vietnam War ends . The US Army pays for the conquest of the strategically practically worthless hill with heavy losses of its own due to the mortar fire by the Vietnamese People's Army .
- 1980 : In a referendum , the voters of Québec reject their government's secession considerations with around 60 percent no votes . It seeks complete sovereignty of the Canadian province.
- 1985 : Radio Martí , a Miami-based radio station funded by the US government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors , launches a special radio program for Cuba to promote the overthrow of Fidel Castro .
- 1989 : The Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng imposed because of april 17, continuing student protests on Tiananmen Square the state of emergency .
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- 1990 : The first post-communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania . The incumbent Ion Iliescu is confirmed in office with 85% of the vote . The election is accompanied by protests on Bucharest University Square.
- 2002 : After 24 years of Indonesian occupation and three years of administration by the United Nations , East Timor is granted independence as the "Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste" .
- 2015 : The so-called Islamic State conquers the ancient ruined city of Palmyra and begins extensive destruction and looting.
economy
- 1873 : The cloth merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis jointly patent riveted denim trousers , known as jeans .
- 1939 : The American airline Pan Am establishes a regular flight connection to Europe. With a luxurious flying boat of the type Boeing 314 to fly from New York City via Lisbon to Marseille.
- 1946 : On the orders of the SMAD , the Central German Brown Coal Syndicate is finally dissolved.
- 2006 : In the province of Hubei in China, the Three Gorges Dam goes into operation, making it one of the largest dams in the world with an accumulation of 39.3 billion m³ of water . The reservoir is created in the area of the famous three gorges Qutang , Wu and Xiling . The project is operated and managed by the Chinese company China Yangtze Power .
science and technology
- 1293 : King Sancho IV creates the Studium generale in the Kingdom of Castile . In 1499 the Studium generale was converted into a university and the Complutense University was founded in Alcalá de Henares .
- 1570 : The Flemish geographer Abraham Ortelius publishes the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum , the first modern atlas , in Antwerp .
- 1915 : Ernest Shackleton , Thomas Crean and Frank Worsley arrive in Stromness and complete the first crossing of South Georgia .
- 1927 : The Sino-Swedish expedition , led by Sven Hedin, sets out from Beijing to the west. The "Wandering University" will investigate the meteorological, topographical and prehistoric conditions in Mongolia , the Gobi Desert and Xinjiang until 1935 .
- 1927 : Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Airfield in New York in his Spirit of St. Louis aircraft for the first solo crossing of the Atlantic .
- 1932 : Amelia Earhart sets out from Newfoundland as the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane alone.
- 1965 : The Academia Færoensis , the national university, is founded in the Faroese capital Tórshavn .
- 1983 : Luc Montagnier and Françoise Barré-Sinoussi from the Pasteur Institute in Paris publish for the first time a description of the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ), the cause of the immune deficiency disease AIDS . In the same issue of the journal Science , the American Robert Gallo , director of the tumor virus laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), also publishes the discovery of a virus that he believes could cause AIDS. In this publication, however, he describes the isolation of human T-cell leukemia viruses type I (HTLV-1).
- 2019 : Following the resolutions of the 26th General Conference on Weights and Measures , a fundamental reform of the International System of Units comes into force. All units of measurement are now defined by seven physical constants to which fixed numerical values have been assigned. There is no longer any fundamental difference between base units and derived units.
Culture
- 1515 : For the first time since the 3rd century, a rhinoceros set foot on European soil in Lisbon . In the same year Albrecht Dürer commemorates the animal with his woodcut Rhinocerus .
- 1721 : The opera L'odio e l'amore , also Ciro , Cyrus or Odio ed amore , by Giovanni Bononcini has its world premiere at the King's Theater in London.
- 1839 : The opera Die Regenbrüder by Ignaz Lachner is premiered in Stuttgart.
- 1874 : The opera Brankovics György by Ferenc Erkel is premiered in Budapest .
- 1913 : In Wroclaw after a design by is Max Berg built Centennial Hall opened.
- 1933 : The opera Merry Mount of Howard Hanson for Nathaniel Hawthorne's work The Maypole of Merry Mount is in Ann Arbor premiered.
- 1960 : The film La Dolce Vita ( The Sweet Life ) by Italian director Federico Fellini receives at the International Film Festival in Cannes , the Palme d'Or . Actress Anita Ekberg becomes popular with the film scene in the Roman Trevi Fountain .
- 1961 : The premiere of the opera Elegy for Young Lovers by Hans Werner Henze takes place at the Schlosstheater in Schwetzingen , Baden.
- 1970 : The musical film Let It Be with the British band The Beatles has its world premiere in Great Britain.
- 2006 : The Finnish hard rock band Lordi is the first Finnish band to win the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens .
- 2012 : Michael Haneke's feature film Love premieres at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.
society
- 1992 : After the trial was resumed , the perpetrator of the crossword puzzle murder was once again sentenced to the legally possible maximum sentence - this time, under German law, ten years of youth imprisonment with subsequent psychiatric induction. The act was clarified after the world's most comprehensive comparative literature in the GDR in the 1980s.
- 2010 : A total of five paintings by the painters Georges Braque , Pablo Picasso , Amedeo Modigliani , Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger with a total value of at least 50 million euros are stolen from the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris by an unknown burglar . Their whereabouts are unclear.
religion
- 325 : Convened by Emperor Constantine I to resolve the Arian dispute , the First Council of Nicaea officially begins its work.
- 1859 : The laying of the foundation stone for the New Synagogue is celebrated in Berlin .
- 1934 : Konrad von Parzham , bourgeois Johann Birndorfer, lay brother of the Capuchin Order, is appointed by Pope Pius XI. canonized.
- 1955 : In Argentina , the Roman Catholic denomination is abolished as the state religion .
Disasters
- 526 : According to the historian Johannes Malalas, up to 250,000 people are killed in an earthquake in Antioch and Syria .
- 1202 : An earthquake that struck the entire Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East kills over 100,000 people.
- 1515 : The after landslide Buzza de Biasca resulting debris dam breaks under the pressure of water masses from a Brenno lake formed. The flood reaches the Magadino plain and Lake Maggiore and permanently destroys the infrastructure in the Valle di Blenio .
- 1883 : After centuries of standstill, the volcanic island of Krakatau , located between Sumatra and Java, experiences the first small eruption . In the following months there were repeated eruptions until one of the most catastrophic volcanic eruptions in history occurs on August 27th.
- 1928 : In the Stoltzenberg chemical factory founded by Hugo Stoltzenberg in Hamburg, there is a poison gas accident caused by phosgene escaping from a tank car. 10 people are killed, around 300 fall ill as a result.
- 1965 : A Pakistani Boeing 720B crashes while approaching Cairo. 121 of the 127 people on board are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 635 : K'inich Kan Bahlam II , ruler (Ajaw) of the Maya city of Palenque
- 1177 : Thomas I , Count of Savoy
- 1315 : Jutta von Luxemburg , wife of the French king Johann II.
- 1470 : Pietro Bembo , Italian humanist
- 1537 : Girolamo Fabrizio (also: Hieronymus Fabricius), Italian anatomist and founder of modern embryology
- 1582 : Georg von der Wense , German administrative officer
- 1593 : Salomo Glassius , German Lutheran theologian
- 1659 : Andreas Schlüter , Prussian architect and sculptor
- 1671 : Emanuel Lebrecht , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1677 : Johann Joachim Kretzschmar , German sculptor
- 1696 : Johann Michael Beer von Bildstein , Austrian architect
18th century
- 1706 : Seth Pomeroy , British / American armourer and general
- 1715 : Franz Huberti , German clergyman, educator and astronomer
- 1722 : Bernardo Bellotto , Italian painter
- 1726 : Gabriel François Doyen , French painter
- 1743 : Toussaint Louverture , Haitian revolutionary, politician and national hero
- 1746 : Andreas Berlin , Swedish botanist
- 1754 : Elisa von der Recke , German-Polish poet
- 1759 : William Thornton , architect of the Capitol in Washington, D. C.
- 1763 : William Wellesley-Pole , Irish-British naval officer, politician, mint master and postmaster general
- 1764 : Johann Gottfried Schadow , Prussian sculptor (Quadriga on the Brandenburg Gate)
- 1770 : Anna Emilie , princess of Anhalt-Köthen and heiress of the estate of Pless
- 1772 : William Congreve , British artilleryman, engineer and rocket technician
- 1780 : Bernardino Rivadavia , Argentine statesman and first president
- 1799 : Honoré de Balzac , French writer
- 1799 : Hippolyte de Fontmichel , French composer
- 1799 : Friedrich Wilhelm Schubert , German historian and political scientist
- 1800 : Adelaide Tosi , Italian opera singer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1805 : Michael Aigner , Austrian engraver
- 1805 : Georg Gottfried Gervinus , German historian and politician
- 1806 : John Stuart Mill , English philosopher and economist
- 1811 : Alfred Domett , New Zealand Prime Minister
- 1811 : Ernst Methfessel , German composer
- 1812 : Gustaf Adolf Mankell , Swedish organist and composer
- 1815 : Alojz Ipavec , Slovenian composer
- 1817 : Edward Armitage , English history painter
- 1818 : Jens Christian Hostrup , Danish writer
- 1822 : Aristide Hignard , French composer
- 1822 : Frédéric Passy , French politician and humanist, known as the Apostle of Peace , first winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1825 : Antoinette Brown Blackwell , first ordained pastor in the United States
- 1829 : Victor Langlois , French orientalist
- 1830 : Amalia , Princess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, Duchess of Saxony and Princess of the Netherlands
- 1830 : Hector Malot , French writer
- 1830 : Iwan von Müller , German classical philologist
- 1832 : Charles Aitchison , British colonial administrator
- 1832 : Garretson W. Gibson , Liberian President
- 1834 : Albert Niemann , German chemist
- 1836 : Henri Ernest Moltzer , Dutch Dutch scholar and literary scholar
- 1838 : Félix Jules Méline , French politician and Prime Minister
- 1843 : Emil Adam , German painter
- 1849 : Georg Bötticher , German graphic artist and writer
- 1850 : Joseph H. Acklen , American politician
- 1850 : Johann Friedrich Bernd von Arnim , Prussian State and Agriculture Minister
1851-1900
- 1851 : Emil Berliner , is considered the inventor of the record and the gramophone
- 1852 : Louis Artaud , French politician
- 1856 : Henri Edmond Cross , French painter
- 1858 : Emma Adler , Austrian journalist and writer
- 1860 : Eduard Buchner , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1872 : Albert Steinrück , German actor
- 1874 : Alfred Dehlinger , Württemberg politician
- 1876 : Fritz Flinte , German painter
- 1882 : Władysław Sikorski , Polish Commander-in-Chief and Prime Minister
- 1882 : Sigrid Undset , Scandinavian writer and Nobel Prize winner
- 1883 : Faisal I , King of Iraq
- 1883 : Jan Kašpar , Czech engineer and first Czech aircraft designer and pilot
- 1883 : Nicolaus Wendelin Schmidt , German sculptor
- 1885 : Alexander Löhr , Austrian officer in the German Air Force, war criminal
- 1886 : John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever , British nobleman
- 1886 : Takamura Chieko , Japanese painter and poet.
- 1886 : Ali Sami Yen , Turkish soccer coach and sports official, founder of the Galatasaray Spor Kulübü sports club
- 1888 : Theodor Ankermann , German trade unionist and politician
- 1888 : Mannes Francken , Dutch football player
- 1890 : Giuseppe Agostini , Canadian conductor and composer
- 1891 : Abel Smeets , French racing car driver
- 1892 : Harry J. Anslinger , American diplomat
- 1893 : Ásmundur Sveinsson , Icelandic sculptor
- 1894 : Ewa Bandrowska-Turska , Polish singer and music teacher
- 1894 : Robert Katscher , Austrian composer and lyricist
- 1894 : Adela Rogers St. Johns , American journalist, writer, and screenwriter
- 1894 : Estelle Taylor , American actress
- 1894 : Bernard Abraham van Groningen , Dutch Graecist and papyrologist
- 1899 : Paul Kemp , German actor and character comedian
- 1900 : Erika Cremer , German physical chemist
- 1900 : Karl Eschenburg , German photographer
- 1900 : Hans Sprung , German motorcycle racer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Max Euwe , Dutch world chess champion
- 1901 : Otto Waldis , Austrian actor
- 1902 : Helmuth Domizlaff , German antiquarian
- 1903 : Jerzy Fitelberg , Polish composer
- 1904 : Margery Allingham , British crime novelist
- 1904 : Nagai Tatsuo , Japanese writer
- 1905 : Gerrit Achterberg , Dutch poet
- 1905 : Manuel Dicenta , Spanish actor
- 1906 : Valentine Ackland , British poet
- 1906 : Ellen Auerbach , German-American photo artist
- 1906 : Giuseppe Siri , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Genoa
- 1907 : El Hajj Muhammad El Anka , Algerian singer and composer
- 1907 : Franz Jägerstätter , Austrian farmer, conscientious objector in World War II
- 1907 : Hedda Zinner , German writer, actress
- 1908 : James Stewart , American film actor
- 1909 : Erich Kunz , Austrian opera singer
- 1909 : Pierre Nicole , Swiss journalist and politician
- 1910 : Margret Hofheinz-Döring , German painter
- 1911 : Norbert Aresin , German medic
- 1911 : Annie MG Schmidt , Dutch writer
- 1912 : Nereo Rocco , Italian football player and coach
- 1912 : Wilfrid Sellars , American philosopher
- 1913 : Heiner Grimm , German painter
- 1913 : Isolde Oschmann , party functionary of the GDR
- 1913 : Isaak Jakowlewitsch Pomerantschuk , Russian physicist
- 1914 : Hans-Gerd Fröhlich , German expellee politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1914 : Hermann Götz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1915 : Moshe Dayan , Israeli general and politician
- 1916 : Luise Ermisch , candidate of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
- 1916 : Carl Malsch , German Protestant pastor
- 1916 : Trebisonda Valla , Italian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1918 : Alexandra Illmer Forsythe , American computer scientist
- 1918 : Edward B. Lewis , American geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1919 : Gerhard Barkhorn , German fighter pilot in World War II
- 1920 : Hal Anger , American electrical engineer and biophysicist
- 1920 : Philippe Boutros Chebaya , Lebanese bishop
- 1921 : Erwin Andrä , German designer, university rector and deputy chairman of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR
- 1921 : Wolfgang Borchert , German writer and stage poet
- 1921 : Aldo Gordini , French racing car driver
- 1921 : Hal Newhouser , American baseball player
- 1923 : Peter Steinforth , German painter
- 1924 : Otto Häuser , German writer
- 1924 : Aida Mitsuo , Japanese poet and calligrapher
- 1925 : Horst Alisch , German caricaturist and comic artist
- 1925 : Emy Storm , Swedish actress
1926-1950
- 1926 : Klaus Lindemann , German graphic artist
- 1926 : Bob Sweikert , American racing car driver
- 1927 : Franciszek Macharski , Archbishop of Cracow and Cardinal
- 1928 : Al Aronowitz , American music journalist
- 1928 : Keith Ballisat , British racing car driver
- 1928 : Werner Büdeler , German television journalist and presenter
- 1929 : Werner Heukamp , German Catholic pastor, local history researcher and author
- 1929 : Charles Tilly , American historian, political scientist and sociologist
- 1930 : Theo Peer , Austrian pianist, ORF editor and cabaret artist
- 1932 : Nazyl Báez Finol , Venezuelan composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1935 : Dino Saluzzi , Argentinian bandoneon player and composer
- 1936 : Gerhard Paul , German clergyman, author of hymns
- 1936 : Anthony Zerbe , American actor
- 1937 : Iuri Akobia , Georgian author
- 1937 : Hanna Krall , Polish writer and journalist
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- 1937 : Peter von Matt , Swiss Germanist
- 1937 : Franz Steinkühler , German trade unionist and chairman of IG Metall
- 1938 : Rainer Basedow , German stage and film actor and cabaret artist
- 1938 : Hanna Eigel , Austrian figure skater
- 1939 : Roc LaRue , American rockabilly musician
- 1940 : Moisés Avelino , Brazilian doctor, businessman and politician
- 1940 : Frode Thingnæs , Norwegian jazz musician and composer
- 1940 : Norbert Werbs , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Hamburg and episcopal vicar for Mecklenburg
- 1941 : Goh Chok Tong , Prime Minister of Singapore
- 1941 : Josef Schwarz , German athlete
- 1941 : Peter Sefrin , German doctor and personality in emergency and disaster medicine
- 1942 : Harro Adt , German ambassador
- 1942 : Egon Jüttner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1942 : Leroy Kelly , American football player
- 1943 : Albano Carrisi , Italian singer
- 1944 : Josef Benz , Swiss bobsleigh athlete
- 1944 : Marilyn Black , Australian athlete
- 1944 : Joe Cocker , British rock and blues singer
- 1944 : Martin Onnasch , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian, professor of church history
- 1945 : Gabriela Andersen-Schiess , Swiss medium and long-distance runner
- 1945 : Anton Zeilinger , Austrian quantum physicist
- 1946 : Cher , American singer and actress
- 1946 : Safter Çinar , German-Turkish trade unionist
- 1946 : Mario Guilloti , Argentine boxer
- 1946 : Norbert Hauser , German politician
- 1946 : Michel Longtin , Canadian composer
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- 1947 : Sky du Mont , German actor
- 1947 : Jürgen Oppermann , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1947 : Bernhard Paul , German clown and circus entrepreneur ( Circus Roncalli )
- 1947 : Klaus Schultz , German dramaturge and director
- 1948 : Jon Amiel , British-American director and film producer
- 1948 : Gerd Rubenbauer , German sports reporter and television presenter
- 1950 : Ray Bellm , British racing car driver
- 1950 : Victor Lewis , American jazz drummer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Thomas Dale Akers , American astronaut
- 1952 : Roger Milla , Cameroonian football player
- 1952 : Rick Upchurch , American football player
- 1953 : Roland Gerber , German soccer player
- 1953 : Tato Gomez , German music producer of Chilean origin
- 1953 : Serge Muhmenthaler , Swiss soccer player and FIFA referee
- 1954 : Esko Aho , Finnish politician and head of government
- 1955 : Diego Abatantuono , Italian actor and screenwriter
- 1955 : Christa Reichard , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1955 : Zbigniew Preisner , Polish composer
- 1956 : Boris Akunin , Russian crime novelist
- 1956 : Ingvar Ambjørnsen , writer
- 1956 : Tomáš Šmíd , Czech tennis player
- 1957 : Ernst Palmberger , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1957 : Mike Van Audenhove , comic artist
- 1959 : Marianne Curley , Australian writer for young people
- 1959 : Israel Kamakawiwoʻole , Hawaiian musician
- 1960 : John Billingsley , American actor
- 1960 : Tore Brunborg , Norwegian jazz musician
- 1960 : Carlos Coelho , Portuguese politician
- 1961 : Nick Heyward , British musician
- 1961 : Vaughn Jefferis , New Zealand eventing rider
- 1961 : Nasser Zahedi , German doctor, author, translator, painter and photographer of Persian origin
- 1962 : Roland Schopp , German magician
- 1962 : Christiane Felscherinow , German author, known as Christiane F.
- 1963 : Brian Nash , British guitarist
- 1964 : Lebo M , South African composer
- 1964 : Andreas Storm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1965 : Ted Allen , American author and television presenter
- 1965 : Kristina Andersson , Swedish ski racer
- 1965 : Roberta Brunet , Italian athlete
- 1966 : Ahmet Ak , Turkish wrestler
- 1966 : Peter Artner , Austrian football player
- 1968 : Everardo Armenta Jr. , Mexican boxer
- 1968 : Olaf Mast , German handball player and coach
- 1969 : Simon Dolan , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1969 : Alberto Mancini , Argentine tennis player
- 1970 : Andreas Walzer , German racing cyclist
- 1971 : Per Niklas Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1971 : Paweł Mykietyn , Polish composer
- 1971 : Ian Feuer , former American football goalkeeper
- 1972 : Ralph Ruthe , German author, musician and cartoonist
- 1972 : Busta Rhymes , American hip hop artist
- 1973 : Dion Åkerstrøm , Danish track cyclist and trainer
- 1973 : Daya Vaidya , American actress
- 1973 : Kaya Yanar , comedian and presenter
- 1974 : Marko Tratar , Slovenian chess player
- 1974 : Marc Zwinz , German actor
- 1975 : Ralph Firman , British racing driver
- 1975 : Thomas Plischke , German author
- 1975 : Sascha Alexander Geršak , German actor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Louis Bullock , American basketball player
- 1976 : Virpi Kuitunen , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1976 : Mahamadi Sawadogo , Burkinabe road cyclist
- 1977 : Olivier Brassart , French football player
- 1977 : Matt Czuchry , American actor
- 1977 : Vesa Toskala , Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper
- 1978 : Guerlain Chicherit , French extreme skier and rally driver
- 1978 : Nils Schumann , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1979 : Alexandre Aubert , French biathlete
- 1979 : Marija Gabriel , Bulgarian politician
- 1981 : Cécile Bähler , Swiss television presenter
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- 1981 : Iker Casillas , Spanish football goalkeeper
- 1981 : Jana Tucholke , German athlete
- 1982 : Candace Bailey , American actress
- 1982 : Petr Čech , Czech football goalkeeper
- 1983 : Justin Astley , English snooker player
- 1983 : Dan Blackburn , Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- 1983 : Óscar Cardozo , Paraguayan football player
- 1984 : Dilarə Kazımova , Azerbaijani singer
- 1985 : Chris Froome , British cyclist
- 1985 : Alessia Piovan , Italian model and actress
- 1987 : Taku Takeuchi , Japanese ski jumper
- 1988 : Kārlis Auziņš , Latvian musician
- 1988 : Karoline Teska , German actress
- 1989 : Sílvia Rebelo , Portuguese soccer player
- 1990 : Lisa Mößinger , German handball player
- 1990 : Pius Paschke , German ski jumper
- 1992 : Václav Kadlec , Czech football player
- 1992 : Enes Kanter , Turkish basketball player
- 1992 : Gerónimo Rulli , Argentine football player
- 1999 : Julius Kade , German soccer player
- 2000 : Tim Latteier , German soccer player
Died
Before the 18th century
- 685 : Ecgfrith , King of Northumbria
- 774 : Warin , Frankish nobleman
- 965 : Gero , Margrave of the Saxon Ostmark
- 1217 : Thomas , Count of Le Perche
- 1277 : John XXI. , Pope
- 1285 : John I , King of Cyprus, as John II, King of Jerusalem
- 1328 : William de Lamberton , Bishop of St Andrews and Guardian of Scotland
- 1431 : Guillaume de Challant , Bishop of Lausanne
- 1444 : Bernardine of Siena , Italian saint
- 1444 : Margarete von Kleve , Duchess of Bavaria-Munich and Württemberg
- 1449 : Peter of Portugal , Prince of Portugal and first Duke of Coimbra
- 1458 : Leonhard Wismair , Bishop of Chur
- 1478 : Regula von Lichtenthal , nun in the Cistercian convent Lichtenthal
- 1503 : Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de 'Medici , Florentine nobleman and patron
- 1506 : Christopher Columbus , navigator and (re-) discoverer of America
- 1513 : Johann II. Von Henneberg-Schleusingen , prince abbot of the Fulda monastery
- 1525 : Alonso Fernández de Lugo , Andalusian nobleman and the conqueror of some of the Canary Islands
- 1527 : Hans Hergot , German printer, bookseller and Protestant author
- 1541 : Johann III. von Henneberg-Schleusingen , Prince Abbot of Fulda
- 1550 : Ashikaga Yoshiharu , Japanese Shogun
- 1556 : Weigand von Redwitz , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1589 : Anna Maria , Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Duchess of Württemberg
- 1609 : Georg Rollenhagen , German writer, educator and preacher
- 1615 : Johann Heinrich von Lindenau , owner of the manor
- 1618 : Henrik Horn , Swedish diplomat
- 1622 : Osman II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1631 : Dietrich von Falkenberg , Swedish colonel and military commander of Magdeburg
- 1641 : Johan Banér , Swedish field marshal
- 1648 : Władysław IV. Wasa , Polish King / quasi Tsar of Russia
- 1668 : Nicolas Mignard , French painter
- 1671 : Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz , German Lutheran theologian
18th century
- 1701 : Hermann Fock , businessman and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1701 : Raisin Elisabeth Menthe , morganatic wife of Duke Rudolf August zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1701 : Christiana von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , Duchess of Saxony-Merseburg
- 1713 : Thomas Sprat , English bishop and author
- 1728 : Antoine Desgodetz , French architect and archaeologist
- 1738 : André Brue , General Director of the French Senegal Company
- 1751 : Domènech Terradellas , Spanish opera composer
- 1755 : Johann Georg Gmelin , German Siberian researcher and botanist
- 1763 : Georg Sebastian Urlaub , Franconian painter
- 1770 : Paul Christian Zink , German painter
- 1773 : Johann Konrad Spörl , German Protestant theologian
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- 1781 : Christian Gottlob Frege , German banker and merchant
- 1782 : Christoph Gottlieb Schröter , German composer
- 1784 : Alexander Ross , Scottish poet
- 1789 : Jost Erdmann von Arnim , Prussian officer
- 1793 : Charles Bonnet , Swiss scientist, philosopher and lawyer
- 1795 : Ludwig Eugen , 13th Duke of Württemberg
19th century
- 1820 : Karl Ludwig Sand , radical German fraternity; August von Kotzebue's murderer
- 1832 : Johann Michael Sailer , Catholic theologian and Bishop of Regensburg
- 1834 : Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , French general and politician
- 1840 : Johann Heinrich Freytag , German lawyer and mayor of Frankfurt (Oder)
- 1842 : Jules-Maurice Quesnel , Canadian explorer, businessman and politician
- 1845 : Joseph von Hazzi , Bavarian civil servant
- 1847 : Mary Ann Lamb , British writer
- 1849 : Michael Traugott Pfeiffer , German-Swiss music teacher
- 1854 : Karl Ludwig von Haller , Swiss constitutional lawyer
- 1856 : Johan Lorentz Aschan , Swedish entrepreneur
- 1860 : William Butterworth Bayley , British Interim Governor General of Fort William
- 1865 : August Wilhelm von Neumann-Cosel , Prussian infantry general and head of the military cabinet
- 1875 : Amalie , Duchess of Oldenburg, Princess of Bavaria and Queen of Greece
- 1877 : Karl Ziegler , Austrian poet
- 1880 : Axel Adlercreutz , Swedish statesman
- 1880 : Henry S. Foote , American politician
- 1885 : Frederick T. Frelinghuysen , American politician
- 1891 : Jan Pětr Jordan , Sorbian scientist and philosopher
- 1896 : Clara Schumann , German pianist and composer
- 1899 : Carlotta Grisi , Italian ballerina (* 1819 )
- 1900 : André Léo , French writer and journalist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1906 : Claire von Glümer , German writer and translator
- 1909 : Theodor Wilhelm Engelmann , German physiologist, biologist and zoologist
- 1915 : Charles Francis Adams Jr. , American brigadier general, entrepreneur, and historian
- 1915 : Carl Klönne , German banker
- 1916 : Georges Boillot , French racing car driver and fighter pilot in the First World War
- 1917 : Friedrich Achelis , German businessman and politician
- 1917 : Ernest Leroux , French bookseller and publisher
- 1918 : Richard Andersson , Swedish composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1919 : Armand von Ardenne , Prussian lieutenant general and military historian
- 1925 : Elias M. Ammons , American politician
- 1928 : Rupert Karner , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1932 : Bubber Miley , American jazz musician and trumpeter
- 1935 : Wilhelm Friedle , German engineer
- 1936 : Luis Andreoni , Italian engineer and architect
- 1937 : Max von Arco-Zinneberg , German automobile racing driver
- 1940 : Verner von Heidenstam , Swedish poet
- 1941 : Hermann Schöne , German classical philologist
- 1941 : Wilhelm Süssmann , German lieutenant general
- 1942 : Hector Guimard , French architect
- 1945 : Alexander Evgenjewitsch Fersman , Russian-Soviet mineralogist, geochemist and crystallographer
- 1946 : Emil Frey , Swiss composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1946 : Enrico Gasparri , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat, cardinal to the Curia
- 1947 : Philipp Lenard , German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1948 : Bogumił Šwjela , Sorbian clergyman, linguist and publicist
- 1949 : Randolph West , American hematologist
- 1950 : Leopold Andres , Austrian general, cartographer and geodesist
1951-2000
- 1955 : Leopold doctor , Austrian physician
- 1955 : Louvigny de Montigny , Canadian journalist, writer and critic
- 1956 : William John Gies , American biochemist and dentist
- 1956 : Zoltán von Halmay , Hungarian swimmer and swimming coach
- 1956 : Alois Hitler jr. , Half-brother of Adolf Hitler
- 1958 : Varvara Fyodorovna Stepanova , Russian artist
- 1959 : Georg Joos , German physicist
- 1961 : Josef Priller , German fighter pilot in World War II
- 1962 : Wilhelm Andreae , German social economist
- 1962 : Josef Uridil , Austrian football player
- 1965 : Edgar Barth , German racing driver
- 1967 : Leonhard Grebe , German physicist
- 1973 : Renzo Pasolini , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1973 : Jarno Saarinen , Finnish motorcycle racer
- 1974 : Jean Daniélou , French religious
- 1975 : Barbara Hepworth , British sculptor
- 1975 : Raymond Saladin , French racing car driver
- 1978 : Bjarne Brustad , Norwegian violinist, violist and composer
- 1980 : Francesco Severi , Italian racing car driver
- 1981 : Dositej Stojkovski , Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia
- 1981 : Lauri Pihkala , Finnish athlete, inventor of the pesäpallo
- 1982 : Merle Antony Tuve , American physicist and geophysicist
- 1983 : Italo Acconcia , Italian football player
- 1983 : Clair Bee , American basketball coach
- 1983 : André Galoisy , French racing car driver
- 1984 : Bill Holland , American racing car driver
- 1989 : John R. Hicks , British economist
- 1991 : Keith MacMillan , Canadian music producer, publisher and manager
- 1992 : Giovanni Colombo , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Milan
- 1993 : Antje Garden , German announcer and television presenter
- 1994 : Ludwig Volkholz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1995 : Ulysses Kay , American composer
- 1996 : Rajmund Ambroziak , Polish pianist and conductor
- 1996 : Willi Daume , German sports official, NOK President and Vice President of the IOC
- 1997 : Roland Amstutz , Swiss actor
- 1997 : Stanisław Has , Polish composer and conductor
- 1997 : Edwin Kowalik , Polish pianist, publicist and composer
- 1997 : Richard Leising , German poet
- 1998 : Werner Buxa , German officer and author
- 1999 : Horst Stachelhaus , German bass player and journalist
- 1999 : Jan Wornar , Sorbian writer
- 2000 : Charles Antenen , Swiss football player
- 2000 : Jean-Pierre Rampal , French flautist
21st century
- 2002 : Stephen Jay Gould , American paleontologist, geologist and evolutionary researcher
- 2003 : Walter Höllerer , German writer and literary scholar
- 2004 : W. Ross Adey , Australian neuroscientist
- 2005 : Paul Ricœur , French philosopher
- 2005 : Lujo Tončić-Sorinj , Austrian diplomat, Secretary General of the Council of Europe
- 2007 : Wolfgang Gasser , Austrian actor
- 2007 : Stanley Miller , American biologist and chemist
- 2008 : Joachim Erwin , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf
- 2008 : Harald Hein , German fencer
- 2008 : Hamilton Jordan , American Political Advisor
- 2009 : Lucy Gordon , British actress
- 2009 : Oleg Ivanovich Jankowski , Russian actor
- 2010 : Lars Clausen , German sociologist
- 2011 : Randy Savage , American wrestler
- 2012 : Robin Gibb , British musician
- 2012 : Howie Richmond , American music publisher
- 2013 : Anders Eliasson , Swedish composer
- 2013 : Miloslav Kříž , Czech lawyer, basketball player and sports official
- 2013 : Ray Manzarek , American musician ( The Doors )
- 2014 : Ross Brown , New Zealand rugby player
- 2014 : Rupert Ludwig Ferdinand zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , German-British banker and finance manager of the Rolling Stones
- 2015 : Frank Klose , German journalist and non-fiction author
- 2015 : Manfred Müller , Bishop of Regensburg
- 2016 : John David Jackson , Canadian-American physicist
- 2016 : Adi Pinter , Austrian soccer coach
- 2017 : Paul Falk , German figure skater
- 2017 : Waldtraut Lewin , German writer
- 2018 : Manfred Schaub , German politician
- 2018 : Dieter Schnebel , German composer and clergyman
- 2019 : Monika Krause-Fuchs , German-Cuban sexologist
- 2019 : Niki Lauda , Austrian racing car driver, entrepreneur and pilot
- 2020 : Michael Matzke , German numismatist
Holidays and memorial days
- World bee day
- International Day of Measurement (World Metrology Day )
- Church memorial days
- Samuel Hebich , German missionary in India (Protestant)
- Saint Bernard of Siena , Italian Saint (Catholic)
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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