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Calendar overview 2019

January
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
1		1	2	3	4th	5	6th
2	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
3	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
4th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27
5	28	29	30th	31

February
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
5					1	2	3
6th	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
7th	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
8th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
9	25th	26th	27	28

March
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
9					1	2	3
10	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
11	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
12	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
13	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th	31

April
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
14th	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
15th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
16	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
17th	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28
18th	29	30th

May
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
18th			1	2	3	4th	5
19th	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
20th	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
21st	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th
22nd	27	28	29	30th	31

June
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
22nd						1	2
23	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
24	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16
25th	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
26th	24	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th

July
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
27	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
28	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th
29	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
30th	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27	28
31	29	30th	31

August
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
31				1	2	3	4th
32	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
33	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
34	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th
35	26th	27	28	29	30th	31

September
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
35							1
36	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
37	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
38	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
39	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29
40	30th

October
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
40		1	2	3	4th	5	6th
41	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
42	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
43	21st	22nd	23	24	25th	26th	27
44	28	29	30th	31

November
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
44					1	2	3
45	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
46	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
47	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
48	25th	26th	27	28	29	30th

December
Kw	Mon	Tuesday	Wed	do	Fr.	Sat	So
48							1
49	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
50	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
51	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
52	23	24	25th	26th	27	28	29
1	30th	31

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2019
On March 15, in a coming terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch ( New Zealand ) at least 50 people dead.
On the evening of April 15th, the Notre-Dame cathedral burned in Paris .
In Austria the Ibiza affair broke out , which led to a government crisis and new elections.
Crown Prince Naruhito is crowned as the successor of the abdicated Akihitos to the 126th Tennō .
There are protests and mass demonstrations in Hong Kong, and rioting later in the year.
Turkey intervenes militarily in northern Syria.

2019 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2772
Armenian calendar	1467-1468
Ethiopian calendar	2011–2012
Badi calendar	175-176
Bengali calendar	1425-1426
Berber calendar	2969
Buddhist calendar	2563
Burmese calendar	1381
Byzantine calendar	7527-7528
Chinese calendar
- era	4715-4716 or 4655-4656
- 60 year cycle	Earth-Dog ( 戊戌 , 35) - Earth-Pig ( 己亥 , 36)
French revolutionary calendar	000227CCXXVII -000228 CCXXVIII 227-228
Hebrew calendar	5779-5780
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2075-2076
- Shaka Samvat	1941-1942
Iranian calendar	1397-1398
Islamic calendar	1440-1441
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Heisei 31 – Reiwa 1
- Kōki	2679
Coptic calendar	1735-1736
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4352
- Juche era	108
Minguo calendar	108
Modern Olympics	000031XXXI
Seleucid calendar	2330-2331
Thai solar calendar	2562

The year 2019 began on a Tuesday , January 1st and ended on a Tuesday, December 31st . Internationally defining for the year was, among other things, the ongoing discourse on the climate crisis . As in 2018, there were prolonged waves of heat and drought in many countries , which led to new record temperatures , including Australia , India and Europe .

Events

Politics and world events

January 1: Belgium, Germany, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and South Africa become non-permanent members of the UN Security Council for two years .
January 1 to June 30: Romanian EU Council Presidency
January 1: Ueli Maurer takes over the office as Swiss Federal President again
January 18: Constituent session of the 20th Hessian state parliament
22-25 January: 49th World Economic Forum in Davos
1./2. February: The USA and Russia cancel the INF treaty one after the other with effect from July 31st
FEB 12: The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the Republic of Northern Macedonia renamed
15-17 February: 55th Munich Security Conference
19. – 20. February: 22nd European Police Congress in Berlin
February 24: Referendum on a new constitution in Cuba
11-15 March: UN Environment Conference in Nairobi ( Kenya )
March 10th: Municipal council and mayoral elections in Salzburg
March 19: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev resigns.
March 19 - June 12: In Mainz , the frequency blocks for the 5G mobile communications standard in Germany are auctioned by the Federal Network Agency . After 497 rounds, around 6.5 billion euros are achieved.
March 21: Complete shutdown of the German Wikipedia edition in protest against the copyright reform of the European Union for 24 hours.
March 23: The Kazakh capital Astana is renamed Nur-Sultan .
April 1: The friendship treaty between Russia and Ukraine , which has existed since 1999, with the obligation of both sides to preserve territorial integrity and the existing borders, expires and is not renewed by Ukraine due to the Crimean crisis and the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
April 2: Algerian President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika resigns.
April 4: NATO foreign ministers meet in Washington on the 70th anniversary of the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty
April 9: Early parliamentary elections in Israel
April 11: The Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir is deposed from the country's military.
April 21: Volodymyr Selenskyj is elected as the new President of Ukraine in the second round of the Ukrainian presidential election against the previous incumbent Petro Poroshenko .
26.-28. April: FDP federal party conference in the station in Berlin
April 28: Early parliamentary elections in Spain
April 30: Abdication of the Japanese Emperor Akihito
May 1st: Crown Prince Naruhito ascends the Japanese chrysanthemum throne and a new era begins ( Reiwa period )

May: General election in Australia

May 12: Presidential election in Lithuania

May 12th: 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift

13-14 May: 10th Petersberg Climate Dialogue in Berlin

May 16: TV duel between Manfred Weber ( CSU ) and Frans Timmermans ( PvdA / SPE ) in the ZDF - capital city studio

16.-17. May: G7 health ministers meeting in France

May 18: The Vice Chancellor of Austria and FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache resigns after the Ibiza affair . This leads to early elections .

May 20: Inauguration of the new President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi

May 23: 70th anniversary of the Basic Law

23-26 May: Election to the 9th European Parliament

May 24: The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , Theresa May , announces her resignation as Chair of the Conservative Party on June 7, 2019.

May 26th: Parliamentary election in Belgium

May 26th: Runoff election for the presidency in Lithuania

May 26th: General election in Bremen

May 26: Local elections in Baden-Württemberg , Brandenburg , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Rhineland-Palatinate , Saarland , Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia

May 27th: Successful vote of no confidence in the Chancellor of Austria , Sebastian Kurz .

May 28: R20 Austrian World Summit in Vienna

June 1: Al-Quds Day with demonstrations

June 2: Announcement of the resignation of Andrea Nahles as party and parliamentary leader of the SPD

5th June: General election 2019 in Denmark

June 7: Theresa May resigns as chairwoman of the Conservative Party. As Prime Minister, she will remain in office until a successor has been appointed.

June 9: Presidential election in Kazakhstan

14.-15. June: Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)

June 22nd: Presidential election in Mauritania

28-29 June: G20 summit in Osaka (Japan)

June 30: Japan withdraws from the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling (IWC)

June 30: Controversial local elections in Albania

June 30th to July 2nd: European Council in Brussels with the proposal of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission

June 30th to July 10th: 43rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Baku Azerbaijan
July 1 to December 31: Finnish EU Council Presidency
4th to 5th July: Western Balkans Summit in Poznan ( Poland )
4th to 5th July: G7 education and development ministers meet in Paris
July 7th: General election in Greece 2019
7th-9th July: Dialogue conference between the Taliban and Afghanistan in Doha ( Qatar )
July 9th: TV duel between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt
July 14: Military Parade for French National Day
July 16: The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen as the first female President of the European Commission .
17.-18. July: G7 finance ministers meeting in France
18. – 19. July: Petersburg Dialogue in Koenigswinter
July 19: Resignation of the Prime Minister of Kosovo , Ramush Haradinaj
July 20: Solemn pledge in honor of those who died in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
July 21: Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine . The party sluha narodu the President Volodymyr Selenskyj won an absolute majority.
23 July: result of the election of a new Prime Minister for the United Kingdom
July 24: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was sworn in as Minister of Defense
July 24: Boris Johnson is appointed by the Queen as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
July 24: Hearing of Robert Mueller in the United States Congress
5th-6th August: Amazon Summit in Leticia , Colombia . As a result, the Leticia Pact is concluded.
17.-18. August: Open day of the federal government in Berlin
August 20: The Prime Minister of Italy , Giuseppe Conte , resigns.
August 21: 1st National Aviation Conference in Leipzig
August 24th: Official introduction of Octavian Ursu as the new Lord Mayor of Görlitz
24.-26. August: G7 summit in Biarritz ( France )
30.-31. August: Open Castle Day at the Federal President in Berlin
September 1st: State elections in Saxony and state elections in Brandenburg
September 4th: 1st regional conference of the SPD in Saarbrücken
SEPTEMBER 7: resignation of the Minister of Labor Amber Rudd in United Kingdom
September 8th: Open day in the German Bundestag in Berlin
September 17, 2019: The 74th General Assembly of the United Nations opens in New York City
September 17th: General election in Israel 2019
21-23 September: UN climate summit 2019 in New York
September 22nd: Presidential election in Afghanistan
September 29: Early National Council election in Austria 2019 The ÖVP under the former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz becomes the strongest force, while the SPÖ and FPÖ have to accept significant losses in some cases.
October 1st: Constitution of the Saxon State Parliament in Dresden
11-13 October: Germany Day of the Junge Union in Saarbrücken
October 12: last regional conference of the SPD in Munich
October 13: Parliamentary election in Poland
October 18: CSU party conference in Munich
October 20: Parliamentary elections in Switzerland
October 22nd: Shinto enthronement ceremony of Emperor Naruhito.
October 27: State election in Thuringia
October 31: The impeachment investigation against Donald Trump starts

November 2nd: State party conference of the FDP Saxony with the election of the new board

15-17 November: Federal delegates' conference / Federal party conference of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in Bielefeld

22-23 November: Federal party conference of the CDU in Germany in Leipzig

November 23–7. December: Independence referendum in Bougainville

November 29: The abolition of the solidarity surcharge for the majority of taxpayers from 2021 is decided.

November 30–1. December: Federal party conference of the Alternative for Germany in Braunschweig

2nd-15th December: 25th UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid ( Spain )

6-8 December: SPD federal party conference at Messe Berlin

December 12th: Early general election in Great Britain

December 31: Shutdown of the Philippsburg 2 nuclear reactor

December 31: New Year's address by the Federal Chancellor in Berlin

Terrorist attacks (selection)

MARCH 15: terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch ( New Zealand )
April 21: At least 253 people were killed and 485 others were injured in a bomb attack on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka .
June 2: Assassination of the CDU politician Walter Lübcke
October 9: Attack in Halle (Saale)

Culture and society

January 6: 76th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles

15-18 January: Berlin Fashion Week

17.-27. January: 43. Circus Festival of Monte Carlo

18.-27. January: International Green Week Berlin

January 25: Bavarian Film Award

February 1st: Dresden Semper Opera Ball

7-17 February: 69th Berlin International Film Festival

February 10: 61st Grammy Awards ceremony at the Staples Center in Los Angeles

February 18: Laureus World Sports Awards 2019 in Monaco

February 24: 91st Academy Awards

February 28: Vienna Opera Ball

6-10 March: 53rd International Tourism Exchange Berlin

7-17 March: Geneva Motor Show

March 8: International Women's Day - in 2019 for the first time a public holiday in the state of Berlin

21.-24. March: Leipzig Book Fair

March 25: German Sports Journalist Award 2019 in Hamburg

March 30th: Awarding of the Golden Camera 2019 by the Funke media group in Berlin

1-5 April: Hanover Fair

April 13: Presentation of the Austrian TV and Film Prize Romy 2019

April 17th: Opening of the Federal Horticultural Show 2019 in Heilbronn

April: The Google+ social network of the US company Google LLC is discontinued

May 3: German Film Prize in Berlin

6-8 May: 13th re: publica

May 10th: German Camera Prize in Cologne

May 11–24. November 58th Biennale in Venice

May 12th: Hamburg harbor birthday

14.-18. May: Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv , Israel

14.-19. May: 7th German-Chinese Culture Festival in Berlin

14.-25. May: International Film Festival of Cannes 2019

May 24th: Bavarian TV Prize 2019 in the Munich Prinzregententheater

June 3: CFDA Fashion Awards 2019 in New York

7-10 June: Carnival of Cultures in Berlin

June 8: Life Ball in Vienna (last time in 2019)

June 8th to September 7th: 29th Brandenburg Summer Concerts

20-21 June: Fête de la Musique 2019 in Berlin

22.-30. June: Kiel Week 2019

June 22 to August 31: Rheingau Music Festival

June 27th to August 25th: Film nights on the banks of the Elbe in Dresden

1-6 July: Berlin Fashion Week

July 6th to September 1st: Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival 2019

July 6th to September 21st: Rhine in flames

July 7: Christopher Street Day 2019 in Cologne

July 12: Opening of the James Simon Gallery in Berlin

12-13 July: 22nd Rock in the Green in Berlin

July 13th: Election for Miss Germany in Magdeburg

July 13th: Presentation of the Bavarian Sports Prize in Munich

18.-21. July: Open Beatz Festival 2019

18.-21. July: Deichbrand Festival 2019 in Cuxhaven

July 19 to August 6: Young Euro Classic 2019 in Berlin

July 20 to August 31: Salzburg Festival

July 25th to August 28th: Bayreuth Festival

July 27: Christopher Street Day in Berlin

1st - 3rd August: Wacken Open Air 2019

1st - 3rd August: Pol'and'Rock Festival 2019

August 3: Eurovision Choir 2019

August 3: Christopher Street Day in Hamburg

7-17 August: 72nd Locarno Film Festival

8-11 August: 29th Hanse Sail in Rostock

20th - 24th August: Gamescom 2019 in Cologne

21-25 August: New Horizons Festival 2019

23-27 August: Schützenfest 2019 in Neuss

August 24th concert of the Federal Prize Winners of Jugend musiziert in the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin

August 26: MTV Video Music Awards 2019

August 28 to September 7: 76th Venice International Film Festival 2019

August 29th to September 2nd: Gillamoos festival in Abensberg

August 30th: Concert of the Federal Prize Winners of Jugend musiziert in North Berlin

30.-31. August: Pyronale in Berlin

August 30th to September 1st: Boot & Fun inwater trade fair in Berlin
August 31, opening ceremony of the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin
4-8 September: German-Israeli Literature Days 2019 in Berlin
4th-29th September: 33rd Fantasy Filmfest 2019 in Berlin , Frankfurt , Hamburg , Cologne , Munich , Nuremberg and Stuttgart
5th - 15th September: 44th Toronto International Film Festival 2019
6-8 September: Day of the Saxons 2019 in Riesa
6-11 September IFA at Messe Berlin
7th-8th September: Lollapalooza Festival in Berlin
7th-8th September: Open Monument Day 2019
8-17 September: Jewish Film Festival in Berlin
September 9th: 20th First Steps Awards at the Stage Theater in Berlin
11-15 September: Art Week in Berlin
11-15 September: 26th Film Festival in Oldenburg
11-21 September: 19th International Literature Festival in Berlin
12-22 September: International Motor Show in Frankfurt am Main
September 13: German Acting Award 2019 in Berlin
September 13th: Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival
13-15 September: Cruise Days in Hamburg
September 14th: Long Night of the Churches in Hamburg
17.-23. September: Fashion Week in Milan
18.-21. September: Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg
September 20: Awarding of the Golden Hen in Leipzig
September 21 to October 6: Oktoberfest in Munich
September 22: 71st Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles
September 23 to October 1: Paris Fashion Week 2019
September 25: German Radio Prize in Hamburg
September 26: Golden Camera Digital Award in Berlin
October 2nd: German Comedy Award in Cologne
9-20 October: Festival of Lights in Berlin
October 13: Awarding of Opus Klassik in the Konzerthaus Berlin
October 14: Award ceremony of the German Book Prize
14.-17. October: MIPCOM in Cannes
16. – 20. October: Frankfurt Book Fair (guest country: Norway )
17th to 20th October: 23rd erotic fair Venus Berlin
October 20: Awarding of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in Frankfurt am Main
November 2nd: 26th festive opera gala for the German AIDS Foundation in the Deutsche Oper Berlin
November 9th: German Theater Prize in Kassel
November 11th: People's Choice Awards in Santa Monica
November 13: CMA Awards
November 21: Bambi Awards 2019 in Baden-Baden
21.-24. November: Boot & Fun trade fair in Berlin
November 22nd: International Music Award in the Verti Music Hall in Berlin
November 24: American Music Awards 2019
November 29: Federal Press Ball in the Berlin Hotel Adlon
December 7th: European Film Award in Berlin
December 7th: Gala Ein Herz für Kinder by Axel Springer Verlag in Berlin
December 7th: 1 Live Krone Award in Bochum
December 14th: Gala Champions 2019: Sportsman of the year in Berlin

Sports

December 15, 2018 to July 14: FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19
December 29, 2018 to January 6, 2019: 67th Four Hills Tournament
January 1st: Michael van Gerwen wins the PDC World Darts Championship
January 5 to February 1: 17th Asian Football Championship in the United Arab Emirates ; Qatar becomes Asian champions for the first time

10-27 January: 26th men's handball world championship in Germany and Denmark ; Denmark becomes world champion for the first time .

14.-27. January: 107th Australian Open in Melbourne

February 3: Super Bowl LIII at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta

February 7th to May 23rd: 15th Premier League Darts of the PDC 2019

7-17 March: 50th Biathlon World Championships in Östersund

March 10th to November 17th: MotoGP 2019

March 17 to December 1: 2019 Formula 1 World Championship

April 5 to November 9: FIA World Championship in rallycross

April 11: The German NBA basketball professional Dirk Nowitzki ends his career.

April 13th to July 28th: Fortnite World Championship with final in New York

18.-26. April: Final games of the German Ice Hockey League

April 20 to May 6: 2019 World Snooker Championship at the Crucible Theater in Sheffield

April 27 to May 12: Finals of the volleyball Bundesliga

May 1st: Final game in the women's DFB Cup in the Rheinenergiestadion

3rd to 5th May: RoboCup German Open 2019 in Magdeburg

10-26 May: 83rd Men's Ice Hockey World Championship in Slovakia

May 12th: Last matchday of the 2018/19 women's Bundesliga , champions are VfL Wolfsburg

May 18: Last matchday of the Bundesliga 2018/19 , championship Bayern Munich

May 25: DFB Cup final in Berlin's Olympic Stadium

May 25: Copa del Rey final of the 2018/19 season

May 26th to June 9th: 118th French Open in Paris

May 28th to July 16th: World Series of Poker 2019 in Las Vegas

May 29: Europa League final in Baku ( Azerbaijan )

May 30th to July 14th: 12th Cricket World Cup in England and Wales

June 7th to July 7th: 8th Women's World Cup in France ; The USA become world champions

June 9: 2018/19 UEFA Nations League final
June 14th to July 7th: 45th Copa America in Brazil ; South American champions will host Brazil
June 15th: German Show Jumping Championship 2019 in Balve
June 15 to July 7: 25th CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States ; Mexico becomes the North American champion

16.-30. June: U-21 football - European championship 2019

June 21 to July 19: 32nd Africa Cup in Egypt ; Africa champion is Algeria

28-30 June: Mash 2019 in Munich

June 28th to July 7th: Beach volleyball World Cup 2019

1st - 14th July: 133rd Wimbledon Championships in London

2nd-7th July: Archery World Cup Berlin

5th-7th July: ESL One Cologne 2019 in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne

6-28 July: 106th Tour de France , starting in Brussels

July 7th: Triathlon Challenge Roth

8-13 July: Summer Universiade ( Athletics ) Naples 2019

12-13 July: PDC German Darts Masters 2019 in the Lanxess Arena Cologne

12-21 July: CHIO Aachen

12.-28. July: 18th World Swimming Championships in Gwangju

July 15: Award of the basketball championship for 2021 by the German Basketball Association

15-23 July: World Fencing Championships in Budapest ( Hungary )

1st - 4th August: 131st German Swimming Championships in Berlin

2-4 August: German championships in beach handball in Berlin

2-4 August: FIFA eWorld Cup 2019

August 3: DFL Supercup in Dortmund

3rd to 4th August: The Finals - Berlin 2019 - 10 German Championships

3rd to 4th August: German gymnastics championships in Berlin

4th-11th August: International Championship 2019 in snooker in China

4th-11th August: Icelandic horses -WM 2019

9-11 August: 2019 European Team Championships in Athletics in Bydgoszcz

August 16 to May 16, 2020: 57th season of the Bundesliga 2019/2020

19.-28. August: 25th Badminton World Championship in Münchenstein

August 26th to September 8th: 139th US Open in New York

28 August to 1 September: Germany tour from Hanover to Erfurt

August 31 to September 15: 18th Men's Basketball World Cup in the People's Republic of China

September 1st: ISTAF in the Olympiastadion in Berlin

September 20 to November 2: 9th Rugby Union World Cup in Japan

September 23: Vote for FIFA World Player of the Year in Milan

26.-27. September: DFB Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main

September 27 to October 6: 17th World Athletics Championships in Doha

24.-27. October: European Darts Championship 2019 in Göttingen

November 3: Lewis Hamilton with a 2nd place at the US Grand Prix in Austin / Texas, USA, wins his sixth Formula 1 world title ahead of time with Mercedes

November 30 to December 15: 24th Women's Handball World Championship in Japan

religion

22-27 January: XXXIV. World Youth Day in Panama City
14.-16. June: Congress of Jehovah's Witnesses in the Olympiastadion Berlin
19.-23. June: 37th German Evangelical Church Congress in Dortmund

science and technology

astronomy

January 1: The spacecraft New Horizons flies on Kuiper Belt Object (486958) 2014 MU69 over and examined it.
January 6th: Partial solar eclipse - visible in Northeast Asia and the North Pacific
January 21: Total lunar eclipse
April 10: The Event Horizon Telescope project succeeds for the first time in creating a direct image of the accretion disk of a black hole ( Messier 87 ).
July 2nd: Total solar eclipse - visible in the Pacific, Oeno, Chile and Argentina
July 16: Partial lunar eclipse
November 11th: Mercury transit
December 26th: Annular Solar Eclipse - visible in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Mangalore, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Borneo and Guam

Disasters

April 15th: Notre-Dame fire in Paris

Natural disasters

March: After cyclone Idai and subsequent rains, hundreds of thousands in Mozambique and Zimbabwe in East Africa are affected by the cyclone and floods.
June: Hottest June worldwide since the weather was recorded, on average 0.1 ° C hotter than the previous record holder June 2016
Summer: Forest fires in the boreal forests of the northern hemisphere and man-made forest fires in the Amazon rainforest and Southeast Asia
November 26th: Earthquake in Albania

Serious accidents

January 25: Numerous people are killed in the small Brazilian town of Brumadinho when a dam breaks . As of February 21, 171 victims had been recovered while 139 people are still missing.

March 10: All 157 people on board die when a passenger plane crashes in Ethiopia. In response to this, all Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft are grounded worldwide .

Nobel Prizes

The announcement of the Nobel Prize winners for 2019 took place from October 7th to 14th, with two winners being chosen in the literature category . Due to a crisis in the Swedish Academy , the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature was not awarded and was therefore awarded retrospectively in 2019. The awards took place on December 10th, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death , in Stockholm and Oslo (only Nobel Peace Prize ).

Physiology or Medicine : William G. Kaelin , Peter J. Ratcliffe, and Gregg L. Semenza
Physics : James Peebles as well as Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
Chemistry : John B. Goodenough , M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino
Literature :

2018: Olga Tokarczuk
2019: Peter Handke

Commemorations and anniversaries

0January 6: 100th anniversary of the death of Theodore Roosevelt , American politician
January 12th: 500th anniversary of the death of Maximilian I , Holy Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
January 15: 100th anniversary of the murder of Karl Liebknecht , German politician
January 15: 100th anniversary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg , German politician and writer
January 19, 2019: 100 years of women's suffrage in Germany
January 20: 200th anniversary of the death of Charles IV , King of Spain
February 21: 100th anniversary of the murder of Kurt Eisner , German writer and politician
March 31: 500th birthday of Henry II , King of France
April 13: 500th birthday of Caterina de 'Medici , Queen of France
April 26th: 700th birthday of John II, the Good , French King
0May 2: 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci , Italian polymath
May 16: 100th birthday of Liberace , American entertainer
May 24: 200th birthday of Victoria , Queen of England
June 20th: 200th birthday of Jacques Offenbach , Franco-German composer
June 28: 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Rising in New York City
0July 8: 100th birthday of Walter Scheel , German politician
July 15: 100th anniversary of the death of Emil Fischer , German chemist
July 20: 100th birthday of Edmund Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer
August 11: 100th anniversary of the death of Andrew Carnegie , American industrialist
August 24: 100th anniversary of the death of Friedrich Naumann , German Protestant theologian and liberal politician
August 25: 200th anniversary of the death of James Watt , Scottish inventor
August 29: 400th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Colbert , French statesman and the founder of mercantilism (Colbertism)
August 30th: 100th birthday of Wolfgang Wagner , long-time director of the Bayreuth Festival
September 13: 200th birthday of Clara Schumann , German composer
September 14: 250th birthday of Alexander von Humboldt , German naturalist
September 18: 200th birthday of Léon Foucault , French physicist
September 25: 50 years of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
0October 4: 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt , Dutch painter
0October 7th: 70th anniversary of the founding of the GDR
0November 9th / 10th November: 30th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall
November 15: 100th anniversary of the death of Alfred Werner , Swiss chemist
0December 3: 100th anniversary of the death of Pierre-Auguste Renoir , French painter

100 years of adult education in public responsibility (anchoring the municipal adult education institution in the Weimar Constitution )
400th year of death of Hans Lipperhey , German-Dutch inventor of the telescope and glasses maker

Annual dedications

Species protection

The skylark ( Alauda arvensis ) is bird of the year .
The Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ) is fish of the year ( Deutscher Angelfischerverband DAFV).
The mountain newt ( Ichthyosaura alpestris ) is amphibian of the year .
The chessboard ( Melanargia galathea ) is butterfly of the year ( Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland Bund).
The white elm ( Ulmus laevis ) is tree of the year (Kuratorium Tree of the Year).
The heather ( Calluna vulgaris ) is Flower of the Year ( Foundation for Nature and plants ).
The Green Death Cap ( Amanita phalloides ) is Fungus of the Year ( German Society for Mycology ).

Skylark
( Alauda arvensis )

Atlantic salmon
( Salmo salar )

Mountain Newt
( Ichthyosaura alpestris )

Chess board
( Melanargia galathea )

European white elm
( Ulmus laevis )

Common heather
( Calluna vulgaris )
Amanita phalloides
( Amanita phalloides )

science and technology

The United Nations have declared 2019 the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements (IYPT 2019). The dedication coincides with the 150th birthday of the periodic table discoverer Dmitry Mendeleev .

Cultural references

The film Akira is set in 2019.
The film Blade Runner takes place in November 2019.
The film The Island is set in 2019.
The series Dark takes place in early November 2019.
The Dark Angel series is set in 2019.
The storyline of the concept album Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by the band My Chemical Romance takes place in 2019.

Born

May 6 : Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor , son of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan

Died

For the detailed list of the deceased see Nekrolog 2019 .

January

0January 5 : Dragoslav Šekularac , Yugoslav football player and coach (* 1937 )
0January 7th : Moshe Arens , Israeli politician and minister (* 1925 )
January 10 : Theo Adam , German opera singer and director (* 1926 )
January 11 : Michael Francis Atiyah , British mathematician (* 1929 )
January 14 : Paweł Adamowicz , Polish local politician (* 1965 )
January 15 : Carol Channing , American actress (* 1921 )
January 16 : Spartaco Dini , Italian racing driver (* 1943 )
January 16 : Mirjam Pressler , German writer and translator (* 1940 )
January 17 : Horst Stern , German science journalist and writer (* 1922 )
January 18 : Lamia al-Gailani Werr , Iraqi archaeologist (* 1938 )
January 19 : Uwe-Detlev Jessen , German actor and director (* 1931 )
January 19 : Tony Mendez , American intelligence officer (* 1940 )
January 21 : Harris Wofford , American lawyer and politician (* 1926 )
January 21 : Henri d'Orléans , pretender of the House of Orléans to the French throne (* 1933 )
January 23 : Jonas Mekas , Lithuanian-American film director and author (* 1922 )
January 23 : Adel Salameh , Palestinian oud player (* 1966 )
January 25 : Dušan Makavejev , Yugoslav film director (* 1932 )
January 26 : Michel Legrand , French composer (* 1932 )
January 28 : Mir Tahsin Saied Beg , secular head of the Yazidis (* 1933 )
January 29th : James Ingram , American soul musician (* 1952 )

February

0February 1 : Ursula Karusseit , German actress (* 1939 )
0February 3 : Julie Adams , American actress (* 1926 )
0February 3 : Kristoff St. John , American actor (born 1966 )
0February 3 : Libet Werhahn , German politician (* 1928 )
0February 4th : Matti Nykänen , Finnish ski jumper (* 1963 )
0February 4 : Leonie Ossowski , German writer (* 1925 )
0February 6 : Rudi Assauer , German football player and manager (* 1944 )
0February 6 : Manfred Eigen , German chemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1927 )
0February 6 : Rosamunde Pilcher , British writer (* 1924 )
0February 7 : John Dingell , American politician (* 1926 )
0February 7 : Albert Finney , British actor (born 1936 )
0February 7th : Heidi Mohr , German soccer player (* 1967 )
0February 7th : Jan Olszewski , Polish politician, lawyer and publicist (* 1930 )
0February 7 : Frank Robinson , American baseball player and manager (* 1935 )
0February 7 : Jörg Schönbohm , German general and politician (* 1937 )
0February 8 : Sergei Jurski , Soviet or Russian actor and director (* 1935 )
0February 8 : Walter Munk , American oceanographer and geophysicist (* 1917 )
0February 8 : Kurt Sommerlatt , German soccer player and coach (* 1928 )
0February 9 : Maximilian Reinelt , German rower (* 1988 )
0February 9 : Tomi Ungerer , French illustrator and writer (* 1931 )
February 10 : Carmen Argenziano , American actor (* 1943 )
February 10 : Heinz Fütterer , German athlete (* 1931 )
February 10 : Jan-Michael Vincent , American actor (* 1945 )
February 11 : Sibghatullah Modschaddedi , Afghan politician (* 1925 )
February 12 : Gordon Banks , British football goalkeeper (* 1937 )
February 12 : Lyndon LaRouche , American political activist (* 1922 )
February 12 : Pedro Morales , wrestling commentator and former Puerto Rican wrestler (born 1942 )
February 16 : Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor (* 1941 )
February 19 : Karl Lagerfeld , German fashion designer (* 1933 )
February 19 : Don Newcombe , American baseball player (born 1926 )
February 20 : Claude Goretta , Swiss film director (* 1929 )
February 21 : Gus Backus , American pop singer (* 1937 )
February 21 : Stanley Donen , American film director and choreographer (* 1924 )
February 21 : Peter Tork , American musician and actor (* 1942 )
February 21 : Hilde Zadek , German-Austrian opera singer (* 1917 )
February 22 : Morgan Woodward , American actor (born 1925 )
February 23 : Katherine Helmond , American actress (* 1929 )
February 23 : Franziska Pigulla , German actress and voice actress (* 1964 )
February 24 : Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde , German lawyer and legal philosopher (* 1930 )
February 25 : Mark Hollis , British musician (* 1955 )
February 26 : Christian Bach , Argentine actress and television producer (* 1959 )
February 27 : France-Albert René , President of the Seychelles (* 1935 )
February 28 : André Previn , German-American pianist, composer and conductor (* 1929 )

March

0March 2 : Arnulf Baring , German contemporary historian and author (* 1932 )
0March 2 : Werner Schneyder , Austrian cabaret artist and author (* 1937 )
0March 4 : Klaus Kinkel , German politician (FDP) (* 1936 )
0March 4th : Keith Flint , British musician (* 1969 )
0March 4 : Luke Perry , American actor and voice actor (* 1966 )
0March 4 : Jean Starobinski , Swiss literary scholar and historian (* 1920 )
0March 6 : Carolee Schneemann , American artist (* 1939 )
0March 8 : Michael Gielen , German-Austrian conductor and composer (* 1927 )
March 8 : David Martin , British sociologist and Anglican priest (* 1929 )
March 11th : Hal Blaine , American musician (born 1929 )
March 13 : Andrea Pollack , German swimmer (* 1961 ) (date of announcement)
March 14th : Charlie Whiting , British motorsport official (* 1952 )
March 15 : Okwui Enwezor , Nigerian curator (* 1963 )
March 15 : WS Merwin , American writer and translator (* 1927 )
March 16 : Dick Dale , American guitarist (born 1937 )
March 16 : Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly , Mauritanian politician (* 1943 )
March 16 : Richard Erdman , American actor and director (* 1925 )
March 18 : Olaf Böhme , German cabaret artist (* 1953 )
March 22nd : Scott Walker , American singer and composer (* 1943 )
March 23 : Rafi Eitan , Israeli politician and head of the Lakam secret service (* 1926 )
March 25 : Michael Brennicke , German actor and voice actor (* 1949 )
March 27 : Friedrich Achleitner , Austrian writer and architecture critic (* 1930 )
March 27 : Valery Bykowski , Soviet cosmonaut (* 1934 )
March 29th : Agnès Varda , French film director and photographer (* 1928 )
March 30th : Tania Mallet , British film actress and model (* 1941 )

April

0April 1 : Jan Buck , Sorbian painter (* 1922 )
0April 1 : Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio , Spanish writer (* 1927 )
0April 4 : Heinz Brinkmann , German documentary film director (* 1948 )
0April 5 : Sydney Brenner , South African-British biologist (* 1927 )
0April 6 : Nadja Regin , Serbian actress (* 1931 )
0April 6 : David J. Thouless , British physicist (* 1934 )
0April 7 : Seymour Cassel , American actor (born 1935 )
0April 8 : Norbert Heinen , German manager (* 1954 )
0April 9 : Elwyn Berlekamp , American mathematician and computer scientist (* 1940 )
April 10 : Werner Bardenhewer , German Catholic priest (* 1929 )
April 10 : Balduin Sulzer , Austrian composer (* 1932 )
April 12 : Ivor Broadis , British football player (born 1922 )
April 12 : Georgia Engel , American actress (born 1948 )
April 13 : Tony Buzan , British author (born 1942 )
April 13th : Neus Català , Spanish communist and resistance fighter (* 1915 )
April 13 : Paul Greengard , American neurobiologist (* 1925 )
April 13 : Paul Raymond , British musician (* 1945 )
April 14 : Bibi Andersson , Swedish actress (* 1935 )
April 15 : Owen K. Garriott , American astronaut (* 1930 )
April 16 : Ignace Murwanashyaka , Rwandan rebel leader (* 1963 )
April 17th : Alan García , Peruvian politician (* 1949 )
April 20 : Martin Böttcher , German film composer (* 1927 )
April 21 : Hannelore Elsner , German actress (* 1942 )
April 21 : Ken Kercheval , American actor (born 1935 )
April 22nd : Billy McNeill , Scottish football player and coach (* 1940 )
April 22 : Lê Đức Anh , Vietnamese general and politician (* 1920 )
April 23 : Jean von Nassau , Grand Duke of Luxembourg (* 1921 )
April 24th : Jean-Pierre Marielle , French actor (* 1932 )
April 25 : John Havlicek , American basketball player (* 1940 )
April 26 : Ellen Schwiers , German actress (* 1930 )
April 27 : Negasso Gidada , Ethiopian politician (* 1943 )
April 28 : Sylvia Bretschneider , German politician (* 1960 )
April 28 : Richard Lugar , American politician (* 1932 )
April 28 : John Singleton , American film director (* 1968 )
April 30th : Anémone , French actress (* 1950 )
April 30th : Beth Carvalho , Brazilian samba singer and composer (* 1946 )
April 30 : Peter Mayhew , British-American actor (born 1944 )

May

0May 1 : Elisabeth Gössmann , German theologian (* 1928 )
0May 1 : Beatrix Philipp , German politician (* 1945 )
0May 2 : Red Kelly , Canadian ice hockey player, coach (* 1927 )
0May 3 : Margret Birkenfeld , German musician and composer (* 1926 )
0May 3 : Gorō Shimura , Japanese-American mathematician (* 1930 )
0May 6 : Max Azria , Tunisian-American fashion designer (* 1949 )
0May 7 : Jean Vanier , Canadian Catholic theologian and philosopher (* 1928 )
0May 8 : Jens Beutel , German lawyer and politician (* 1946 )
0May 8 : Sprent Dabwido , Nauruan politician (* 1972 )
0May 9 : Freddie Starr , British comedian (* 1943 )
May 10 : Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba , Spanish politician (* 1951 )
May 11 : Peggy Lipton , American actress (* 1946 )
May 12 : Machiko Kyō , Japanese actress (* 1924 )
May 12 : Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir , Lebanese clergyman and patriarch (* 1920 )
May 13 : Doris Day , American singer and actress (* 1922 )
May 14 : Tim Conway , American comedian and actor (born 1933 )
May 14 : Grumpy Cat , American internet phenomenon (* 2012 )
May 14 : Sven Lindqvist , Swedish writer and literary historian (* 1932 )
May 16 : Bob Hawke , Australian politician (* 1929 )
May 16 : Ashley Massaro , American wrestler and model (* 1979 )
May 16 : Ieoh Ming Pei , Chinese-American architect (* 1917 )
May 17 : Herman Wouk , American writer (* 1915 )
May 18 : Manfred Burgsmüller , German soccer player (* 1949 )
May 20 : Niki Lauda , Austrian racing car driver (* 1949 )
May 20 : John Moore , British politician (* 1937 )
May 22 : Ahmad Shah , Malaysian Sultan (* 1930 )
May 22 : Judith Kerr , British writer and illustrator (* 1923 )
May 24 : Murray Gell-Mann , American physicist (* 1929 )
May 25 : Claus von Bülow , Briton of German-Danish origin (* 1926 )
May 26 : Bart Starr , American football player and coach (born 1934 )
May 26 : Prem Tinsulanonda , Thai politician (* 1920 )
May 27 : Bill Buckner , American baseball player (born 1949 )
May 28 : Apolo Nsibambi , Ugandan politician (* 1940 )
May 28 : Edward Seaga , Jamaican politician (* 1930 )
May 29 : Michael Spicer, Baron Spicer , British politician and author (* 1943 )
May 30th : Thad Cochran , American politician (* 1937 )
May 30th : Frank Lucas , American gang boss and drug dealer (* 1930 )
May 30th : Leon Redbone , Canadian singer and guitarist (born 1949 )
May 31 : Roky Erickson , American singer and guitarist (* 1947 )

June

0June 1 : José Antonio Reyes , Spanish football player (* 1983 )
0June 1 : Michel Serres , French philosopher (* 1930 )
0June 2 : Walter Lübcke , German politician (* 1953 )
0June 3 : Woizlawa-Feodora Princess Reuss , German noblewoman (* 1918 )
0June 4th : Lennart Johansson , Swedish football official (* 1929 )
0June 5 : Elio Sgreccia , Roman Catholic theologian and bioethicist (* 1928 )
0June 6 : Dr. John , American musician (* 1941 )
0June 9 : Erich Iltgen , German politician (* 1940 )
June 11 : Billy McKee , Northern Irish political activist (* 1921 )
June 12 : Sylvia Miles , American actress (* 1924 )
June 12 : Elfriede Ott , Austrian actress (* 1925 )
June 13 : Edith González , Mexican actress and dancer (* 1964 )
June 13 : Wilhelm Wieben , German television presenter, actor and author (* 1935 )
June 15 : Franco Zeffirelli , Italian film and opera director (* 1923 )
June 16 : Rolf von Sydow , German director and author (* 1924 )
June 17th : Mohammed Mursi , Egyptian politician (* 1951 )
June 17 : Gloria Vanderbilt , American artist (* 1924 )
June 20 : Wibke Bruhns , German journalist and author (* 1938 )
June 21 : Dimitris Christofias , Cypriot politician (* 1946 )
June 21 : Peter Selz , American art historian (* 1919 )
June 23 : George Rosenkranz , Mexican chemist and entrepreneur (* 1916 )
June 23 : Dave Bartholomew , American jazz musician (* 1918 )
June 24th : Henriette Cohen , French Holocaust survivor (* 1917 )
June 24 : Billy Drago , American actor (* 1945 )
June 24th : Jörg Stübner , German soccer player (* 1965 )
June 25 : Kevin McKenna , Northern Irish paramilitary (* 1945 )
June 25 : Isabel Sarli , Argentine actress (* 1929 )
June 26 : Ivan Cooper , Northern Irish politician (* 1944 )
June 26 : Édith Scob , French actress (* 1937 )
June 26 : Max Wright , American actor (born 1943 )
June 28 : Lisa Martinek , German actress (* 1972 )
June 28 : Elisabeth Jäger , Austrian-German journalist (* 1924 )
June 29 : Guillermo Mordillo , Argentine draftsman (* 1932 )
June 30 : Momir Bulatović , Yugoslav or Montenegrin politician (* 1956 )
June 30 : Mitchell Feigenbaum , American physicist (* 1944 )

July

0July 1 : Sid Ramin , American composer and arranger (* 1919 )
0July 1 : Hans Wall , German entrepreneur (* 1942 )
0July 2nd : Costa Cordalis , German pop singer (* 1944 )
0July 2 : Lee Iacocca , American manager (* 1924 )
0July 4 : Eva Mozes Kor , American Holocaust survivor and activist (* 1934 )
0July 4th : Hagen Mueller-Stahl , German director and actor (* 1926 )
0July 5 : Eberhard Havekost , German painter (* 1967 )
0July 6 : João Gilberto , Brazilian musician (* 1931 )
0July 6 : Cameron Boyce , American actor (* 1999 )
0July 7th : Artur Brauner , German film producer (* 1918 )
0July 9 : Rip Torn , American actor (born 1931 )
0July 9 : Fernando de la Rúa , Argentine politician (* 1937 )
July 11 : Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat , Turkish politician (* 1943 )
July 12 : Fernando José Corbató , American computer scientist (* 1926 )
July 14th : Frieder Burda , German art collector (* 1936 )
July 14 : Hossain Mohammad Ershad , Bangladeshi military and politician (* 1930 )
July 14th : Pernell Whitaker , American boxer (born 1964 )
July 15 : Werner Müller , German politician and manager (* 1946 )
July 17 : Andrea Camilleri , Italian writer (* 1925 )
July 18 : Yukiya Amano , Japanese diplomat (* 1947 )
July 19 : Rutger Hauer , Dutch actor (* 1944 )
July 19 : Ágnes Heller , Hungarian philosopher (* 1929 )
July 19 : César Pelli , Argentine-American architect (* 1926 )
July 20 : Sheila Dikshit , Indian politician (* 1938 )
July 21 : Robert M. Morgenthau , American lawyer (* 1919 )
July 22nd : Li Peng , Chinese politician (* 1928 )
July 22 : Brigitte Kronauer , German writer (* 1940 )
July 22nd : Christopher C. Kraft , American aerospace engineer (* 1924 )
July 23 : Ferdinand von Bismarck , German lawyer (* 1930 )
July 24th : Manfred Uhlig , German entertainer (* 1927 )
July 25 : Beji Caid Essebsi , Tunisian politician (* 1926 )
July 25 : Jesper Juul , Danish family therapist (* 1948 )
July 26 : Christian Stadelmann , German violinist (* 1959 )
July 27 : John Robert Schrieffer , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1931 )
July 29 : Tuvia Rübner , Israeli writer (* 1924 )

August

0August 1 : Annemarie Huber-Hotz , Swiss Federal Chancellor (* 1948 )
0August 2 : Vahakn N. Dadrian , Armenian genocide researcher and sociologist (* 1926 )
0August 4th : Nuon Chea , Cambodian politician and genocide (* 1926 )
0August 5 : Toni Morrison , American writer and Nobel Prize winner (* 1931 )
0August 7 : Kary Mullis , American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1944 )
August 10 : Jeffrey Epstein , American investment banker and sex offender (born 1953 )
August 16 : Peter Fonda , American actor and film director (* 1940 )
August 16 : Christina von Oranien-Nassau , Dutch princess (* 1947 )
August 16 : Felice Gimondi , Italian cyclist (* 1942 )
August 16 : Richard Williams , Canadian animator, director and film producer (* 1933 )
August 17 : Walter Buser , Swiss Federal Chancellor (* 1926 )
August 19 : Stefan Hecker , German handball goalkeeper (* 1959 )
August 20 : Rudolf Hundstorfer , Austrian politician (* 1951 )
August 23 : David H. Koch , American entrepreneur and politician (* 1940 )
August 23 : Egon Zimmermann , Austrian ski racer and Olympic champion (* 1939 )
August 25 : Ferdinand Piëch , Austrian automobile manager (* 1937 )
August 26 : Helmut Krauss , German actor (* 1941 )
August 27 : Dawda Kairaba Jawara , Gambian President (* 1924 )
August 30th : Valerie Harper , American actress (* 1939 )
August 31 : Immanuel Wallerstein , American sociologist (* 1930 )
August 31 : Marita Lorenz , German lover of Fidel Castro (* 1939 )