the 20th of October
The October 20 is the 293rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 294th in leap years ), thus remain 72 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1314 : The Wittelsbacher Ludwig the Bavarian is elected Roman-German king by the majority of the electors . Armed conflicts soon break out against the Habsburg Frederick the Beautiful , who had been elected king the day before by the other electors , which only ended in 1322 with the battle of Mühldorf in favor of Ludwig.
- 1401 : Dozens of former Vitalien brothers , among them Klaus Störtebeker , are beheaded and their heads impaled as a deterrent on the Grasbrook in Hamburg .
- 1448 : The second battle on the Amselfeld , which began on October 17th, ends with the crushing defeat of the crusader army against the Ottomans under Sultan Murat II.
- 1541 : Emperor Charles V lands with a fleet near Algiers to put an end to the Algerian corsairs . A storm that disperses the ships and heavy losses among the troops that landed lead the expedition to return home.
- 1548 : Alonso de Mendoza founds the city of Nuestra Señora de La Paz on the site of today's Laja . Three days later, a location around 25 km to the east was chosen for the new settlement and some of the village residents were relocated there because it offers better protection from bad weather.
- 1587 : In the Battle of Coutras , the Huguenots under Henry of Navarre defeat an army of the Catholic League in France.
- 1650 : The Swedish Queen Christina , who has held office since 1644 , is crowned.
- 1655 : Lithuanian aristocrats under the leadership of Prince Radziwiłł renounce the Kingdom of Poland and place themselves under the protectorate of Sweden in the Union of Kėdainiai
- 1696 : At the request of Tsar Peter I the Great, the Russian Duma decides to build a navy .
- 1714 : George I , both Duke and Elector in Hanover, is in Westminster Abbey for the King of Great Britain and Ireland crowned.
- 1740 : Maria Theresa is crowned Archduchess of Austria and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. The non-recognition of female succession in the sense of the Pragmatic Sanction by Karl Albrecht von Bayern and other German princes triggered the War of the Austrian Succession .
- 1800 : The General Auditorium of the Prussian Army is established.
- 1803 : The United States Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase . The USA thereby acquires the approximately 2 million km² large colony Louisiana from France .
- 1812 : The Bavarian Supreme Audit Office is established by King Maximilian I Joseph .
- 1818 : In the London Treaty , the USA and Great Britain agree on the 49th parallel as the border between Canada and the United States up to the " Stony Mountains ". The Oregon Country to the west of it is said to be shared by the US and Canada . This leads to further disputes.
- 1820 : The Troppau prince congress begins, at which the European great powers want to find a rule of conduct for the germination of republican ideas in monarchies. Revolutionary developments in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies make this question acute.
- 1822 : The beginning Verona Congress of the Great Powers deals with the political situation in Europe, primarily with an intervention in Spain by the Trienio Liberal .
- 1825 : King Ludwig I decreed that in future his state would be written in Bavaria and no longer in Bavaria .
- 1827 : The Battle of Navarino marks the climax of the Greek Revolution , at the end of which Greece gained independence from the Ottoman Empire .
- 1841 : After disputes with the Mexican central government under Antonio López de Santa Anna , Governor Santiago Mendez has all Mexican flags removed from the Yucatán Peninsula and declares the independence of the Republic of Yucatán .
- 1860 : Emperor Franz Joseph I issues the October diploma with which the constitutional monarchy is introduced in the Austrian Empire .
- 1883 : The Treaty of Ancón ends the saltpeter war between Chile and Peru .
- 1891 : With the Erfurt program , an important party congress of the SPD comes to an end, which creates a dichotomy between social theory under Marxist aspects and realpolitical demands.
- 1899 : In the first battle of the Second Boer War , the Battle of Talana Hill , the British defeat the units of the Boer republics , but suffer heavy losses.
- 1904 : Chile and Bolivia finally end the saltpeter war with a peace treaty . Twenty years earlier, the Valparaíso Treaty had already included the first regulation.
- 1914 : During the First World War , the First Battle of Flanders begins , in which the German army tries to conquer the canal ports of Calais and Dunkirk after the race to the sea . The battle will last until November 18th.
- 1932 : Foundation of the International Youth Hostel Association
- 1934 : The Nazis begin their nationwide persecution of gays and lesbians with a raid on Schwarzfischer , one of the gay bars in the city of Munich, and in the Glockenbachviertel . The pretext is the outrage about the " putschist " Ernst Röhm and his relatively openly lived homosexuality. That evening 145 men were arrested, 39 of them were taken to the Dachau concentration camp for several weeks .
- 1935 : Only 7,000 of the original 90,000 soldiers of the Chinese Red Army under the leadership of Mao Zedong reach Yan'an , the goal of the Long March in the Chinese Civil War .
- 1941 : In the course of the “ Operation Taifun ”, German troops force five Soviet armies in the Vyazma pocket to surrender outside Moscow .
- 1944 : With the landing of the American forces on the island of Leyte , the first phase of the reconquest of the Philippines in the Pacific War begins . The battle for Leyte lasts until December 31st.
- 1944 : Partisan units conquer the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade together with the Red Army in the course of the Belgrade operation in World War II .
- 1946 : The last free state elections take place in the Soviet occupation zone . In Berlin , the last elections until 1990 for the entire city area will take place.
- 1947 : The United Nations officially receives its flag in its current form.
- 1952 : In Kenya , the British Governor declared Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale the state of emergency , established with the Mau Mau uprising .
- 1962 : Chinese troops cross the McMahon Line and advance into Indian territory. This marked the beginning of the month-long Indo-Chinese border war .
- 1971 : Willy Brandt receives the Nobel Peace Prize .
- 1973 : In the wake of the Watergate scandal , the " Saturday Night Massacre " occurs, in which US President Richard Nixon fires two attorneys-at-law because they refuse to fire chief investigator Archibald Cox . Only the third attorney general in a day, Robert Bork , obeys Nixon's order.
- 1995 : The Agusta affair leads to the resignation of the Belgian NATO Secretary General Willy Claes .
- 1999 : Abdurrahman Wahid is elected President of Indonesia .
- 2000 : In Florence, a European landscape agreement is concluded by various states, initiated by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe . The aim of the agreement is to protect the cultural landscape .
economy
- 1831 : The Madrid Stock Exchange , founded by King Ferdinand VII of Spain, experiences its first day of trading.
science and technology
- 1607 : The first students begin their studies at the University of Giessen, founded in May 1607 .
- 1880 : Abraham Kuyper founds the religiously oriented Free University of Amsterdam . It retained its orientation from the time it was founded until the 1970s.
- 1910 : The RMS Olympic , a sister ship of the RMS Titanic and the only Olympic-class ship that does not fall victim to a disaster, is launched.
- 1983 : The meter is redefined in Paris by the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 / 299.792.458 second .
- 2004 : The strongest earthquake in northern Germany since the beginning of the seismic measurements obtained in the morning shortly before nine o'clock the value of 4.5 on the Richter scale . The Hypocenter is located at a depth of 4,500 meters in the Neuenkirchen area near Soltau .
- 2018 : The space probe BepiColombo , a joint project of ESA and JAXA to explore the planet Mercury , is launched.
Culture
- 1704 : The world premiere of the opera Cleopatra by Johann Mattheson takes place in Hamburg.
- 1803 : In Halifax is the clock tower , the landmark of the city, opened.
- 1842 : Richard Wagner's tragic opera Rienzi, the last of the tribunes , is premiered at the Royal Court Theater in Dresden . The composer's breakthrough came with his third completed opera.
- 1874 : The version of the opera Two Widows , revised by the composer Bedřich Smetana because of the poor success of the original , is premiered in Prague with great success.
- 1880 : The first performance takes place in the newly built Salamonsky Circus in Moscow. It was renamed the Nikulin Circus decades later .
- 1880 : The opera in Frankfurt am Main , designed by the Berlin architect Richard Lucae , opens in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm I with Mozart's opera Don Giovanni . At the same time, the square surrounding today's Alte Oper will be renamed Opernplatz .
- 1889 : The first performance of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Before Sunrise on the Free Stage marks the breakthrough of naturalism in German theater and the firm establishment of the until then almost unknown Hauptmann as a playwright.
- 1898 : The musical comedy The Departure of Eugen d'Albert, based on the literary model of the same name by August Ernst von Steigentesch, is premiered in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1953 : The " Bavarian Comedy" Astutuli by Carl Orff is premiered at the Münchner Kammerspiele in a production by Hans Schweikart .
- 1955 : The third part of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings appears in Great Britain with Return of the King .
- 1973 : Queen Elizabeth II opens the Sydney Opera House . The opening, at which Beethoven's 9th Symphony will be performed, will be broadcast live on television and will be celebrated with large fireworks.
- 1974 : ZDF broadcasts the first episode ( Waldweg ) of the crime series Derrick .
- 1995 : A cinema in Mumbai shows the Hindi film First Come, Get the Bride for the first time . It has been shown there continuously ever since.
society
- 1967 : Eduard Zimmermann starts the series Aktenzeichen XY ... unsolved on ZDF .
- 1968 : The Greek shipowner Aristoteles Onassis and the US presidential widow Jacqueline Kennedy get married.
- 1996 : After a series of murders of sexually abused children and the uncovering of investigations into the Marc Dutroux affair , 250,000 Belgians take to the streets in Brussels to denounce the inadequate conduct of the executive branch .
- 2012 : In Luxembourg , the church wedding of done Guillaume of Luxembourg and Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy .
religion
- 1349 : Pope Clement VI. forbids the flagellants' public procession of flagellants .
- 1708 : St Paul's Cathedral in London is completed.
- 1870 : The First Vatican Council is postponed indefinitely and ends.
Disasters
- 1982 : 66 football fans die in a mass panic in the Luzhniki Olympic Stadium in Moscow after the UEFA Cup match between Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1905 : The first Turkish football club Galatasaray Istanbul is founded in Istanbul , which is still unofficial for the time being .
- 1934 : The MacRobertson air race from England to Australia begins. It will last until November 5th.
- 1968 : At the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, the American Richard "Dick" Fosbury wins the gold medal in the high jump competition with a 2.24 m jump with a revolutionary jumping technique, the Fosbury flop that was later named after him .
- 1971 : The football match Borussia Mönchengladbach against Inter Milan in the European Cup ends 7: 1 for the hosts. However, the game was later canceled by UEFA because a fan threw the rifle at Italian striker Roberto Boninsegna .
- 2007 : In the final of the sixth World Cup in rugby in France defeated South Africa world champions England with 15:12 and thus for the second time Rugby Union - World Champion .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1463 : Alessandro Achillini , Italian philosopher and doctor
- 1472 : Johann Ludwig , Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1475 : Giovanni Rucellai , Italian poet
- 1496 : Claude de Lorraine , first Duke of Guise
- 1536 : Joachim Ernst , Prince of Anhalt
- 1552 : Simon Rudnicki , Prince-Bishop of Warmia
- 1553 : Zacharias Brendel the Elder , German philosopher, physicist, physician and botanist
- 1580 : Peter Crüger , German philologist, astronomer and mathematician
- 1586 : Luis Jerónimo de Cabrera , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of Peru
- 1586 : Luke Fox , English explorer
- 1593 : Melchior Count von Hatzfeldt , imperial general
- 1601 : Otto Heinrich von Callenberg , German politician and officer
- 1612 : Wolf Helmhardt von Hohberg , German writer
- 1640 : Gérard Edelinck , French engraver of Flemish origin
- 1656 : Nicolas de Largillière , French painter
- 1669 : Johann Nikolaus Bach , German composer
- 1670 : Jean Daniel Abraham Davel , Vaudois revolutionary
- 1677 : Stanislaus I. Leszczyński , King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine
- 1679 : Samuel von Cocceji , Prussian lawyer
- 1684 : Maria Barbara Bach , first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1714 : Christoph Anton von Migazzi , Catholic Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1719 : Gottfried Achenwall , German historian and lawyer
- 1725 : Johann Christoph Stockhausen , German educator and Lutheran theologian
- 1733 : Adam Naruszewicz , Polish poet
- 1740 : Carlo Francesco Maria Caselli , Italian cardinal
- 1740 : Isabelle de Charrière , Dutch-Swiss French-speaking writer
- 1760 : Alexandre de Lameth , French soldier and politician
- 1770 : Antoine Jay , French lawyer and writer
- 1772 : Johann Hermann Heinrich Ferdinand von Autenrieth , doctor from Württemberg
- 1780 : Pauline Bonaparte , Duchess of Guastalla, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte
- 1784 : Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston , British politician
- 1792 : Anton Bernhard Fürstenau , German flautist and composer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Melchior Berri , Swiss architect
- 1802 : Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg , German theologian
- 1807 : Grizzly Adams , American animal catcher, tamer and showman
- 1808 : Karl Andree , German geographer and publicist
- 1809 : Eduard Degener , German-American politician
- 1819 : Bab , Iranian religious founder
- 1823 : Edme Armand Gaston duc d'Audiffret-Pasquier , French politician
- 1823 : Arnold Ipolyi , Hungarian clergyman, historian and art historian
- 1832 : Anton Romako , Austrian painter
- 1837 : Frederick Herbert Torrington , Canadian organist, conductor, composer and music teacher
- 1838 : Christian Horne , Norwegian teacher and politician
- 1839 : Florêncio Carlos de Abreu e Silva , Brazilian lawyer, journalist, author and politician
- 1846 : Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden , German explorer, theosophist and writer
- 1847 : Oscar Swahn , Swedish marksman, Olympic champion
- 1847 : Kurt Bernhardi , German educator
- 1847 : Frits Thaulow , Norwegian painter
1851-1900
- 1853 : Teibi Andō , Japanese general
- 1854 : Arthur Rimbaud , French poet
- 1856 : Alcibiade Béique , Canadian organist and music teacher
- 1857 : František Mareš , Czech national democrat and politician, physiologist and philosopher
- 1859 : John Dewey , American philosopher
- 1859 : Guglielmo Zuelli , Italian composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1860 : Carl Abegg , Swiss textile manufacturer
- 1860 : Wilhelm Bode , German pastor ( Heidepastor of the Lüneburg Heath) and pioneer of the cooperative system
- 1861 : Maximilian Harden , German publicist, critic, actor and journalist
- 1863 : William Henry Young , English mathematician
- 1864 : Franz Heinrich Arndts , German politician
- 1866 : Kazimierz Twardowski , Polish philosopher and logician
- 1868 : Gabriel Montoya , French chansonnier and poet
- 1869 : Karl Radinger von Radinghofen , Austrian classical philologist and museum specialist
- 1874 : Charles Ives , American composer
- 1874 : Ed McGivern , American art marksman
- 1881 : Josef Ferdinand Kleindinst , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1882 : Margaret Dumont , American actress
- 1882 : Julius Jacob the Elder , German painter
- 1882 : Bela Lugosi , Hungarian film actor
- 1886 : Leopold Stocker , Austrian publisher
- 1887 : Vic Gonsalves , Dutch football player
- 1889 : Fritz Terhalle , German economist, chairman of the scientific advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Finance
- 1891 : James Chadwick , British physicist
- 1893 : Jomo Kenyatta , Kenyan politician
- 1894 : Heinar Schilling , German poet and writer
- 1895 : Morrie Ryskind , American author
- 1896 : George C. Atcheson Jr. , American diplomat
- 1897 : Peter Bamm , German writer
- 1899 : Gaston Mottet , French racing car driver
- 1900 : Shirō Akabori , Japanese chemist and university professor
- 1900 : Georg Pahl , German press photographer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Frank Churchill , American film music composer
- 1904 : Tommy Douglas , Canadian politician
- 1904 : Mario von Galli , Austrian Catholic priest, Jesuit, editor and publicist
- 1908 : Stuart Hamblen , American country singer
- 1909 : José Farías Ríos , Peruvian athlete
- 1909 : Carla Laemmle , American actress
- 1910 : Sydney James Butlin , Australian economist and historian
- 1911 : Grete Schickedanz , German entrepreneur
- 1912 : Marcel Couraud , French conductor
- 1913 : Grandpa Jones , American country musician
- 1913 : Johann Kurz , Austrian theologian, rector of the Archbishop's Seminary in Hollabrunn
- 1914 : Fayard Nicholas , American dancer, singer, and actor
- 1917 : Jean-Pierre Melville , French film director
- 1917 : Stéphane Hessel , French Resistance fighter, diplomat and political activist
- 1918 : Robert H. Lochner , American journalist and translator
- 1918 : Werner Maihofer , German legal scholar, politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1919 : Ksente Bogoev , Yugoslav-Macedonian economist and politician
- 1919 : Hans Patze , German historian and archivist
- 1920 : Henry Austin , Indian politician and ambassador
- 1921 : Manuel Ayulo , American racing car driver
- 1921 : Heinz Lehmann , German chess player
- 1922 : John Anderson , American actor
- 1923 : Otfried Preußler , German writer
- 1925 : Arthur Buchwald , American publicist and humorist
- 1925 : Herman Roelstraete , Belgian composer, singer and organist, teacher, conductor and music historian
- 1925 : Roger Hanin , French actor and film director
1926-1950
- 1926 : Luigi Di Gianni , Italian documentary filmmaker
- 1927 : Werner Kreindl , Austrian actor
- 1927 : Oskar Pastior , Romanian-German poet and translator
- 1927 : Abel Santamaría , Cuban revolutionary
- 1928 : Zhu Rongji , Chinese politician and head of government
- 1930 : Manfred Abelein , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1930 : Carlos Díaz , Cuban singer
- 1931 : Pak Wanso , Korean author
- 1932 : Roosevelt Brown , American football player
- 1933 : Hilda Herrera , Argentine pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1935 : Fabio Cudicini , Italian football goalkeeper
- 1935 : Eva Choung-Fux , Austrian artist
- 1935 : Jerry Orbach , American actor
- 1937 : Wanda Jackson , American singer
- 1938 : Dolores Hart , American actress and nun
- 1938 : Emilio Maurer , Mexican entrepreneur and football official
- 1939 : Fausto Cepeda , Dominican opera singer
- 1940 : Yossi Mar-Chaim , Israeli composer
- 1942 : Walter Brun , Swiss automobile racing driver and racing team owner
- 1942 : Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard , German biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1943 : Micky , Spanish pop singer and actor
- 1943 : Madeleine Schickedanz , German entrepreneur
- 1943 : Elżbieta Sikora , Polish composer
- 1943 : Carlo von Tiedemann , German actor and television presenter
- 1944 : Hans-Christian Reiche , German officer, last chief of the land forces of the NVA
- 1945 : Romeo Benetti , Italian football player
- 1945 : Thomas Pasatieri , American composer
- 1946 : Elfriede Jelinek , Austrian writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1946 : Lucien Van Impe , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1947 : Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch , German engineer, administrative scientist, administrative officer and politician
- 1947 : Aljoscha Rompe , German punk musician
- 1948 : Helmut Achatz , German football player
- 1950 : Tom Petty , American musician, singer and songwriter
1951-1975
- 1951 : Eliot Pattison , American lawyer and crime writer
- 1951 : Claudio Ranieri , Italian football player and coach
- 1951 : Yann Le Puits , French writer
- 1954 : Lee Roy Selmon , American football player
- 1954 : OP Zier , Austrian writer
- 1955 : Qairat Äbussejitow , Kazakh diplomat
- 1955 : Kurt Aebli , Swiss writer
- 1955 : Thomas Newman , American composer
- 1955 : Sheldon Whitehouse , American politician
- 1956 : Danny Boyle , British director
- 1956 : Peter Zipfel , German cross-country skier
- 1957 : Anouar Brahem , Tunisian musician and composer
- 1957 : Andrzej Dziadek , Polish composer
- 1958 : Rainer Hartmann , German jazz guitarist
- 1958 : Mark King , British musician ( level 42 )
- 1958 : Viggo Mortensen , American actor
- 1958 : Ivo Pogorelich , Serbian pianist
- 1959 : Eriko Asai , Japanese marathon runner
- 1959 : Karl-Heinz Bührer , German soccer player
- 1959 : Andreas Ehrig , German speed skater and sports scientist
- 1959 : Ernst Hannawald , German actor and author
- 1959 : Morten Andreas Meyer , Norwegian politician
- 1959 : Akif Pirinçci , German-Turkish writer
- 1960 : Lepa Brena , Yugoslav singer
- 1961 : Audun Kleive , Norwegian jazz musician
- 1961 : Philippe Olczyk , Belgian journalist and racing car driver
- 1961 : Ian Rush , Welsh football player
- 1964 : Andreas Fischer , German soccer player
- 1964 : Kamala Harris , American lawyer and politician
- 1965 : Stefano Pioli , Italian football player and coach
- 1966 : John von Düffel , German writer
- 1966 : Wolfgang Krewe , German actor
- 1966 : Stefan Raab , German show master and comedy star, entertainer and producer
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- 1967 : Luigi Lo Cascio , Italian actor
- 1967 : Luck Mervil , Haitian-Canadian actor
- 1967 : Theresia Walser , German writer
- 1968 : Jonathan Akpoborie , Nigerian soccer player
- 1969 : Aage Storm Borchgrevink , Norwegian writer and literary critic
- 1969 : Guillermo Pérez Roldán , Argentine tennis player
- 1970 : Sander Boschker , Dutch football player
- 1971 : Snoop Dogg , American rapper and actor
- 1971 : Dannii Minogue , Australian singer
- 1972 : Will Greenwood , English rugby player
- 1974 : Davide Formisano , Italian flautist
- 1975 : Nadine Kleinert , German athlete, Olympic medalist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Petr Dlask , Czech cyclocross rider
- 1976 : Nicola Legrottaglie , Italian football player
- 1977 : Simon Emil Ammitzbøll , Danish politician
- 1977 : Rebecca Siemoneit-Barum , German actress
- 1977 : Sonja Spuhl , German voice actress
- 1978 : Alberto Ammann , Spanish actor
- 1978 : Edward Seward , American basketball player
- 1979 : Markus Kaya , German soccer player
- 1979 : Katharina Schüttler , German actress
- 1980 : Omar El-Saeidi , German actor
- 1980 : Darko Maletić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1981 : Heike Klüver , German political scientist
- 1981 : Maza , Mexican soccer player
- 1982 : José Acasuso , Argentine tennis player
- 1982 : Aki Akao , Japanese badminton player
- 1983 : Flavio Cipolla , Italian tennis player
- 1983 : Stephan Hocke , German ski jumper
- 1983 : Luis Fernando Saritama , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1983 : Michel Vorm , Dutch football player
- 1984 : Cosmina Stratan , Romanian journalist and actress
- 1985 : Jennifer Freeman , American actress
- 1987 : Rafael Andriato , Brazilian cyclist
- 1987 : Marcus Mørk , Danish handball player
- 1987 : Eva Lennartz , German handball player
- 1987 : Anele Ngcongca , South African soccer player
- 1988 : A $ AP Ferg , American rapper
- 1988 : Candice Swanepoel , South African model
- 1988 : Agustín Torassa , Argentinian football player
- 1989 : Patrick Rigobert Amrhein , German soccer player
- 1989 : Michael Aspin , English soccer player
- 1989 : Dennis Diekmeier , German soccer player
- 1989 : Kristina Liščević , Serbian handball player
- 1989 : Yanina Wickmayer , Belgian tennis player
- 1989 : Jess Glynne , British singer
- 1990 : Thomas Helly , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Ben Münchow , German actor and voice actor
- 1992 : Mattia De Sciglio , Italian football player
- 1994 : Alexandra Meyer , German handball player
- 1994 : Yuliya Naiditsch , Ukrainian-Israeli chess player
- 1997 : Ademola Lookman , English soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 460 : Aelia Eudocia , wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II.
- 837 : Hugo , Count of Tours
- 1122 : Ralph d'Escures , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1123 : Theulf , Bishop of Worcester
- 1139 : Heinrich X. , Duke of Bavaria and Saxony
- 1187 : Urban III. , Pope
- 1274 : Engelbert II. Von Falkenburg , 56th Archbishop of Cologne
- 1401 : Klaus Störtebeker , pirate and leader of the Vitalienbrüder and Likedeeler
- 1438 : Jacopo della Quercia , Italian sculptor
- 1446 : Georg Lembucher , Bishop of Seckau
16th to 18th century
- 1502 : Konrad Summenhart , German theologian, canonist and natural philosopher
- 1505 : Henri de Lorraine-Vaudémont , Bishop of Thérouanne and Metz
- 1506 : Adolf von Limburg-Styrum , German nobleman
- 1538 : Francesco Maria I della Rovere , Duke of Urbino
- 1557 : Jean Salmon Macrin , neo-Latin poet of French origin
- 1569 : Abén Humeya , Moorish king in the Andalusian Alpujarras
- 1570 : João de Barros , Portuguese historian
- 1575 : Cornelis Floris II , Flemish sculptor, architect and designer for the ornamental engraving
- 1576 : George Gordon, 5th Earl of Huntly , member of the Scottish aristocracy
- 1579 : Franziskus Joel , Hungarian pharmacologist and physician
- 1587 : Bianca Cappello , Italian mistress and Renaissance princess
- 1587 : Anne de Joyeuse , Admiral of France
- 1631 : Joachim Zollikofer , Mayor of St. Gallen
- 1652 : Antonio Coello , Spanish writer
- 1694 : Christian II , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
- 1702 : Jean Restout the Elder , French painter
- 1713 : Archibald Pitcairne , Scottish doctor and poet
- 1715 : Meinrad II , Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1733 : Pierre Dandrieu , French priest, organist and composer
- 1737 : Caspar Neumann , German chemist and pharmacist
- 1740 : Charles VI. , Holy Roman Emperor and King of Hungary
- 1753 : Georg Dietloff von Arnim-Boitzenburg , Prussian statesman and minister
- 1758 : Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough , British nobleman and politician
19th century
- 1813 : Donatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau , French general
- 1821 : Félix de Azara , Spanish officer, naturalist and land surveyor
- 1826 : François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas , French politician
- 1834 : Fath Ali Shah , Shah of Persia
- 1841 : Manuel Montes de Oca , Spanish military and politician
- 1857 : Ludwig Bernhard Schmid , German clergyman and missionary
- 1864 : Carl Christian Rafn , Danish antiquarian
- 1870 : Michael Balfe , Irish composer
- 1872 : Friedrich Welwitsch , Austrian African explorer and botanist
- 1874 : Carl Gustav Homeyer , German lawyer, legal historian and Germanist
- 1890 : Richard Francis Burton , British consul, researcher and translator
- 1896 : Karl Segebrock and Ewald Ovir , German-Baltic missionaries and Protestant martyrs
- 1896 : François Félix Tisserand , French astronomer
- 1898 : Johannes Seluner , Swiss foundling
- 1900 : Naim Frashëri , Albanian writer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1904 : Henry Hiles , English composer, organist and music teacher
- 1906 : Buck Ewing , American baseball player
- 1910 : Gustav Hartmann , German businessman, entrepreneur and industrial manager
- 1915 : Josef Ruederer , German writer
- 1918 : Roger Boucher , French organist and composer
- 1918 : Joseph Boulnois , French composer and organist
- 1919 : Walter Brack , German swimmer
- 1922 : Stephan Burián , Austro-Hungarian politician
- 1926 : Eugene V. Debs , American socialist politician
- 1929 : José Batlle y Ordóñez , journalist and President of Uruguay
- 1931 : Franziska Ellmenreich , German actress
- 1931 : Emánuel Moór , Hungarian composer
- 1935 : Arthur Henderson , British politician
- 1936 : Anne Sullivan Macy , American teacher of blind children
- 1938 : Herbert Berg , German automobile racing driver
- 1939 : Otto Siffling , German football player
- 1940 : Erik Gunnar Asplund , Swedish architect, professor and designer
- 1941 : Bruno Cassirer , German publisher, gallery owner and horse breeder
- 1941 : Hanuš Bonn , Czech poet, literary critic and translator
- 1941 : Eino Olkinuora , Finnish cross-country skier
- 1942 : Friedrich Münzer , classical philologist
- 1942 : May Robson , American actress
- 1944 : Adolf Reichwein , German educator, economist and cultural politician
- 1944 : Eduard Brücklmeier , German lawyer and diplomat, resistance fighter
- 1944 : Magda Spiegel , German concert and opera singer
- 1949 : Jacques Copeau , French playwright, actor and theater director
- 1950 : Lucien Martin , Canadian violinist and conductor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Franz Xaver Aenderl , German politician, Member of the State Parliament , writer
- 1951 : Karl Jarres , German politician, Reich Minister, Reich Vice Chancellor
- 1959 : Werner Krauss , Austrian actor
- 1959 : Ernst Hannawald , German actor and author
- 1961 : Sylvia Rexach , Puerto Rican singer, composer and songwriter
- 1961 : Julius Franz Schütz , Austrian poet and cultural historian
- 1962 : Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann Aevermann , German educator and politician
- 1962 : Bernard Kälin , Swiss dept
- 1964 : Herbert Hoover , American politician, 31st President of the USA
- 1966 : Ahmed Ateş , Turkish orientalist
- 1966 : Harry F. Byrd Sr. , American politician, governor of Virginia, senator
- 1966 : Otto Pankok , German painter, draftsman and sculptor
- 1968 : August Werner , German national soccer player
- 1970 : Sosthènes de la Rochefoucauld , French racing car driver
- 1971 : Ernst Arnds , German politician
- 1971 : Max Rudolf von Mühlenen , Swiss painter
- 1972 : Harlow Shapley , American astronomer
- 1973 : Walter Arnold , German manufacturer
- 1975 : Josef Thomas , German politician, judge and resistance fighter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Janusz Grabiański , Polish illustrator
- 1977 : Steve Gaines , American musician
- 1977 : Ronald Wayne Van Zant , American singer
- 1981 : Annot , German painter, art teacher, art writer and pacifist
- 1981 : Mary Chase , American writer
- 1983 : Otto Olaussen Aasen , Norwegian ski jumper, Nordic combined and cross-country skier
- 1983 : Merle Travis , American country musician and songwriter
- 1984 : Carl Ferdinand Cori , Austrian-American doctor, physiologist, biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1984 : Paul AM Dirac , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder of quantum physics
- 1984 : Budd Johnson , American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger
- 1986 : Fritz Hochwälder , Austrian writer
- 1987 : Andrei Kolmogorow , Russian mathematician
- 1989 : Katharina Heinroth , German zoologist and director of the Berlin zoo
- 1990 : Colette Audry , French writer, dramaturge and screenwriter
- 1990 : Joel McCrea , American actor
- 1992 : Alexander Camaro , German painter
- 1994 : Sergei Bondarchuk , Russian actor and director
- 1994 : Burt Lancaster , American actor
- 1995 : Riccardo Carapellese , Italian football player and coach
- 1997 : Henry Vestine , American guitarist
- 1998 : Gerhard Jahn , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1998 : Franz Tumler , Austrian writer
- 1999 : Hans Georg Amsel , German entomologist
21st century
- 2001 : Philippe Agostini , French cameraman
- 2003 : Frank Rand , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 2004 : Ursula Auerswald , German doctor and politician
- 2004 : Weranika Tscharkassava , Belarusian journalist
- 2005 : Dan Emil Anca , Romanian football player and coach
- 2005 : Rudi Felgenheier , German motorcycle racer
- 2005 : Jean-Michel Folon , Belgian artist, graphic designer and illustrator
- 2005 : Shirley Horn , American jazz pianist and singer
- 2006 : Ab'Aigre , Swiss comic artist
- 2006 : Maxi Herber , German figure skater, Olympic champion
- 2007 : Jürgen Graf , German radio journalist and television presenter
- 2007 : Siegfried Zoglmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Member of the Bundestag
- 2008 : Emmanuelle Cinquin , Belgian-French religious ( mother of the garbage people of Cairo )
- 2011 : Muammar al-Gaddafi , Libyan head of state, colonel, revolutionary leader and dictator
- 2011 : Mutassim Gaddafi , Libyan security advisor and son of Muammar al-Gaddafi
- 2011 : Peter Uebersax , Swiss journalist
- 2012 : Edward Donnall Thomas , American physician and Nobel Prize winner
- 2013 : Dimiter Gotscheff , Bulgarian theater director
- 2013 : Lawrence Klein , American economist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2014 : René Burri , Swiss photographer
- 2015 : Arno Gruen , German-Swiss psychoanalyst and writer
- 2016 : Manfred Durban , singer from Flippers
- 2016 : Uwe Dreher , German soccer player and coach
- 2016 : Simone Schaller , American athlete
- 2018 : Wim Kok , Dutch politician and Prime Minister
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Karl Segebrock and Ewald Ovir , German-Baltic missionaries and martyrs (Protestant)
- St. Irene of Portugal (Roman Catholic)
- St. Wendelin , abbot and patron saint (Roman Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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