21st of February

The February 21 is the 52nd day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 313 days (in leap years 314 days) by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0004 : Gaius Caesar , designated successor to Emperor Augustus , dies of the effects of an injury he received last year during the siege of the Armenian fortress Artagira in the Lycian port city of Limyra .
• 1322 : Charles IV the Handsome is crowned king in France .
• 1388 : With the sending of the feud letter by Kurköln to Dortmund , the great Dortmund feud begins . In addition to the Archbishop of Cologne and the Count of the Mark, more than 40 other territorial lords of the imperial city subsequently declare the feud.
• 1519 : At the urging of Christian craftsmen, the Regensburg city ​​council orders the expulsion of the city's Jews . During the pogrom that followed, the then largest Jewish community in the Holy Roman Empire was destroyed.

1613: Tsar Mikhail I.

• 1613 : In Russia is Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov was elected tsar. He becomes the founder of the Romanov dynasty .
• 1808 : Russian troops cross the Swedish border in what is now Finland without prior declaration of war . At the beginning of the war, Tsar Alexander I fulfilled an agreement made with Napoleon Bonaparte in the Peace of Tilsit . An attack was planned in the event that the Swedish King Gustav IV Adolf adhered to the alliance with Great Britain, which he did.

1848: Title page of the Communist Manifesto

• 1848 : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish on behalf of the League of Communists , the Communist Manifesto , in which they already large parts of the later than Marxism develop social theory designated.
• 1848 : In Paris , the ban on a banquet to reform the electoral law by the citizen king Louis Philippe of Orléans leads to public protests, which escalate into the February Revolution .
• 1887 : In the Reichstag election , the conservative-liberal so-called "cartel parties", who support Bismarck's position on the issue of the army budget, win.

1916: Map at the beginning of the battle

• 1916 : The Battle of Verdun in World War I , which lasts until December 18, begins. The German side used twelve tethered balloons in a coordinated manner during the attack. The field airmen provide information for battlefield reconnaissance .
• 1919 : The student Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley assassinated the Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner . The murder of the socialist statesman is one of the reasons for the proclamation of the Munich Soviet Republic on April 7th.
• 1921 : The journalist Seyyed Zia al Din Tabatabai and Reza Khan , commander of a unit of the Persian Cossack Brigade , together with the officers Masoud Keyhan and Ahmad Amir-Ahmadi overthrow the Iranian Prime Minister Fathollah Akbar Sepahdar with the coup of February 21, 1921 .
• 1931 : Peruvian revolutionaries carry out the earliest known airplane hijacking in Arequipa , but it ends peacefully.
• 1952 : Bengali language movement : During a demonstration by students from Dhaka University ( East Pakistan ) against the introduction of Urdu as the sole state language, several protesters are killed as a result of police actions. February 21 is later declared International Mother Language Day by UNESCO .
• 1958 : Otto von Habsburg , the eldest son of Emperor Karl I , who lives abroad , declares that he has waived claims against the Republic of Austria and is loyalty to its constitution. A possible entry triggers internal political quarrels that do not resolve even after an officially written waiver.

1965: Malcolm X

• 1965 : In a speech in Harlem , New York , which is civil Malcolm X shot. The three assassins probably come from the environment of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam .
• 1971 : The Convention on Psychotropic Substances comes into being in Vienna , an international agreement with the aim of curbing private drug consumption and regulating its use for scientific and medical purposes.
• 1972 : US President Richard Nixon visits the People's Republic of China and holds talks with Mao Zedong in Beijing .

1989: Václav Havel

• 1989 : The writer and critic of the regime Václav Havel is sentenced to nine months of increased imprisonment for "hooliganism". In the same year, after the " Velvet Revolution ", he was elected President of Czechoslovakia .
• 1992 : The UN Security Council decides to send a peacekeeping force to Yugoslavia .
• 1995 : After his own party lost the parliamentary elections on January 12, the Nigerien President Mahamane Ousmane appoints the previous opposition leader Hama Amadou as prime minister. The two subsequently block each other.
• 2003 : Croatia applies for membership in the EU in Athens .

2004: European Green logo

• 2004 : The European Green Party is founded in Rome as the first pan-European party . It has 35 parties from 32 European countries.
• 2007 : After a vote defeat, the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi offers to resign, which, however, is not accepted by President Giorgio Napolitano .

economy

• 1828 : Cherokee Phoenix , the first newspaper published by Indians , appears in New Echota , the capital of the Cherokee nation. The place is now in the US state of Georgia .
• 1842 : In the United States, John James Greenough receives the first US patent for a sewing machine . It is also intended for leather processing.
• 1878 : New Haven , Connecticut has the world's first directory of telephone subscribers . It includes 50 entries.
• 1925 : The first issue of the US magazine The New Yorker , founded by Harold Ross , appears.
• 1935 : The French perfumer Armand Petitjean founds the Lancôme company in Paris , which quickly became known for its perfumes . The luxury brand is the 1964 L'Oreal - Group sold.

1946: Die Zeit logo

• 1946 : The first edition of the national German weekly newspaper Die Zeit appears as a licensed newspaper with a circulation of 25,000 copies.
• 1996 : The Bremer Vulkan shipyard, steeped in tradition, files a settlement application; bankruptcy follows a few months later.

2000: FTD logo

• 2000 : The first edition of the Financial Times Deutschland , sister paper of the Financial Times , appears under the supervision of the British founding editor Andrew Gowers and under the management of Michael Rzesnitzek.

science and technology

• 1811 : The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society document a contribution by Humphry Davy about experiments in the previous year. He then comes to the realization that chlorine is its own chemical element .
• 1832 : An English Antarctic expedition under John Biscoe discovers the islands off Grahamland on the Antarctic Peninsula .
• 1902 : Harvey Cushing performs his first brain surgery.
• 1946 : Foundation of the working group for contemporary building e. V. , Building Research Institute of the Federal Republic of Germany , in Kiel .

1947: Instant camera (1957 model)

• 1947 : The physicist Edwin Herbert Land presents the first instant camera in New York together with the Polaroid company .

Culture

• 1822 : At the Opéra-Comique in Paris takes place the premiere of the comic opera Le Petit souper of Victor Dourlen .
• 1826 : The opera Caritea, Regina di Spagna by Saverio Mercadante is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice .
• 1852 : The comic opera La poupée de Nuremberg ( The Nuremberg Doll ) by Adolphe Adam is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1880 : At the Carl Theater in Vienna, the operetta is Donna Juanita by Franz von Suppè premiered.

1885: Washington Monument

• 1885 : The Washington Monument designed by Robert Mills , a marble obelisk between the Capitol State Building and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC , is inaugurated.
• 1886 : Almost five years after the death of Modest Petrowitsch Mussorgsky , his opera Khovanshchina in the version by Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov is premiered in the music-dramatic club in Saint Petersburg.
• 1907 : The opera A Village Romeo and Juliet by Frederick Delius based on Gottfried Keller's novella Romeo and Juliet in the village is premiered at the Komische Oper Berlin .
• 1919 : The opera Absalom da Et'eri by Sakaria Paliaschwili is premiered in Tbilisi.
• 1927 : The first performance of the operetta Der Zarewitsch, written by Franz Lehár for the tenor Richard Tauber , takes place at the Deutsches Künstlertheater in Berlin .
• 1930 : The world premiere of the operetta Viktoria und ihr Hussar by Paul Abraham takes place in Budapest.

1958: Peace sign ( CND symbol )

• 1958 : The British artist Gerald Holtom designs the CND symbol as a peace sign . It is intended to visually support the London Easter March with the aim of achieving nuclear disarmament as soon as possible .
• 1962 : In the Schauspielhaus Zurich is Friedrich Dürrenmatt's grotesque comedy Physicists with Therese Giehse premiered in the role of the institution head.
• 1962 : Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcasts "Spuk in der Werkstatt", the first episode of the radio play series Meister Eder und seine Pumuckl . The typical Pumuckl voice comes from Hans Clarin .
• 1978 : During construction work in Mexico City , a stone is found that carried a relief of the Aztec moon goddess Coyolxauhqui . Further excavations bring to light the remains of the Templo Mayor , which was destroyed by the Spaniards , and is the largest place of worship in Tenochtitlan .
• 1999 : The American director Terrence Malick wins the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival .

society

• 1816 : The Dutch Crown Prince Wilhelm marries the Grand Duchess Anna Pawlowna , a daughter of the late Czar Paul I and his wife Sophie Dorothee von Württemberg in Saint Petersburg .

religion

362: Athanasius

• 0362 : The church father Athanasius , banished from the city , returns to Alexandria as bishop after the edict of restitution by Emperor Julian .
• 1384 : The Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Vienna is founded by Duke Albrecht III. founded and is therefore the first in the German-speaking area.
• 1431 : Joan of Arc is accused of heresy and brought to trial in Rouen .
• 1946 : The German Archbishop Joseph Frings is in Rome by Pope Pius XII. appointed cardinal .

Disasters

1858: Location of ancient Corinth

• 1858 : An earthquake destroys the Greek city of Corinth . It will then be rebuilt six kilometers away.
• 1907 : The British passenger ship Berlin sinks in a storm in the port of Hoek van Holland . 128 people are killed.
• 1970 : Due to a bomb explosion shortly after take-off, a Swissair passenger plane crashes on its way from Zurich to Tel Aviv. 47 people are killed in the attack, which was actually aimed at an El-Al flight. On the same day, a bomb explodes in an Austrian Airlines plane on the way from Frankfurt to Vienna, which can safely land again in Frankfurt.
• 1973 : The Israeli air force shoots down a Libyan Airlines Boeing 727 over the Sinai peninsula because they believe it is an enemy aircraft. Of the 113 people on board, only five survive.
• 2005 : More than 100 people are killed in several avalanches in the Indian part of Kashmir after prolonged snowfalls .

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

nature and environment

1918: Carolina's Parakeet (showpiece)

• 1918 : Incas , the last Caroline Parakeet , dies in the Cincinnati Zoo . Since then, the only parrot species in North America has been considered extinct.

Sports

• 1960 : At the 8th Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, an Olympic biathlon event takes place for the first time . The Swede Klas Lestander becomes the biathlon Olympic champion over the 20 km distance .
• 1967 : The Hohe-Wand-Wiese ski slope in Vienna is the venue for the world's first parallel slalom .
• 1976 : The 1st Winter Paralympics open in the Swedish city ​​of Örnsköldsvik .
• 1995 : The balloonist Steve Fossett is the first to cross the Pacific in a balloon . After a four-day drive, the adventurer and billionaire who started out in South Korea lands in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan .
• 1999 : The German Martin Schmitt from Furtwangen wins the gold medal in ski jumping on the large hill at the Nordic World Ski Championships , silver goes to Sven Hannawald from Hinterzarten.

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

Isabella of Portugal (* 1397)

• 1397 : Isabel de Portugal , wife of Duke Philip III. of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy, mother of Charles the Bold
• 1413 : Ludwig , Duke of Savoy
• 1484 : Joachim I , Elector of Brandenburg
• 1490 : Hans Dürer , German painter, draftsman and engraver
• 1499 : Edmund Tudor, 1st Duke of Somerset , third son of Henry VII of England
• 1526 : Abraham Ulrich , German Protestant theologian
• 1541 : Philipp V of Hanau-Lichtenberg , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
• 1556 : Sethus Calvisius , German composer, Thomaskantor in Leipzig, music theorist, astronomer and mathematician
• 1588 : Cassiano dal Pozzo , Italian scholar and patron
• 1591 : Gérard Desargues , French architect and mathematician
• 1594 : Johann Ernst I , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
• 1599 : Giovanni Battista Vanni , Italian painter and etcher
• 1609 : Raimondo Montecuccoli , Austrian general, diplomat and imperial prince
• 1617 : Johann Heinrich von Dünewald , Austrian General Field Marshal of the Cavalry
• 1632 : Aegidius Strauch II , German Lutheran theologian
• 1638 : Bernhard , Duke of Saxony-Jena
• 1675 : Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl , electoral Bavarian secret council chancellor and conference minister
• 1682 : Filippo Balatri , Italian singer, castrato and monk
• 1690 : Christoph Stoltzenberg , German composer

18th century

• 1703 : Shāh Walī Allāh ad-Dihlawī , Indian-Islamic thinker
• 1710 : Willem van Haren , Dutch poet and statesman
• 1725 : Johann Jacob Tischbein , German painter
• 1727 : Christian Just Wiedeburg German lawyer and government official of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
• 1728 : Peter III. , Russian tsar, Duke of Holstein-Gottorf
• 1731 : Anton von Störck , Austrian medic
• 1755 : Carl Heinrich August von Lindenau , Prussian lieutenant general and imperial stable master of King Friedrich Wilhelm II.
• 1759 : Ludovike Simanowiz , German painter
• 1770 : Georges Mouton de Lobau , French general, peer and marshal of France
• 1775 : Karl Johann Jakob Schultheß , Swiss painter
• 1777 : Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius , German businessman, farmer and inventor ( Pistorius distillery )

Friedrich Carl von Savigny (* 1779)

• 1779 : Friedrich Carl von Savigny , German legal scholar and crown syndic, founder of the historical school of law
• 1785 : Karl August Varnhagen von Ense , German writer and biographer
• 1791 : Carl Czerny , Austrian pianist
• 1791 : John Mercer , British chemist, inventor of mercerization for textile finishing
• 1792 : Albert Schiffner , German geographer and lexicographer
• 1794 : Antonio López de Santa Anna , Mexican general and politician
• 1795 : Francisco Manuel da Silva , Brazilian composer
• 1796 : Johann Jakob Aenishänslin , Swiss politician

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801 : Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer , German Arabist
• 1801 : Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda , Bohemian composer, conductor and violinist

John Henry Newman (* 1801)

• 1801 : John Henry Newman , British Catholic theologian and cardinal, previously an Anglican pastor and theologian
• 1805 : Theodor Hartig , German forest scientist, founder of the Arboretum Riddagshausen forest garden
• 1806 : Johann Georg Hiltensperger , German building contractor
• 1808 : Wilhelm Löhe , German Protestant theologian, Frankish deaconess father
• 1809 : Wilhelm Dunker , German geologist, paleontologist and zoologist
• 1812 : Franz Joseph Aufschläger , German clergyman
• 1815 : Joseph Glover Baldwin , American writer, politician, and lawyer
• 1816 : Józef Michał Poniatowski , Polish composer, singer and diplomat
• 1820 : Apollo Korzeniowski , Polish writer and patriot
• 1821 : Rachel , French actress

Rachel (* 1821)

• 1822 : Ludwig Beckmann , German painter
• 1823 : Julius Jolly , German politician, minister of state and head of government in Baden
• 1823 : Eduard Oscar Schmidt , German zoologist
• 1823 : Udo III. von Alvensleben , German manor owner, author and Prussian captain
• 1831 : Henri Meilhac , French playwright
• 1836 : Léo Delibes , French composer
• 1836 : Emil Hartmann , Danish composer
• 1837 : Rosalía de Castro , Spanish poet
• 1841 : Hugo Licht , German architect
• 1841 : Georg Christian Wilhelm Meyer , German legal scholar and politician
• 1842 : Edmund Friedrich von Autenrieth , German civil engineer and university professor
• 1844 : Adam Flasch , German archaeologist
• 1844 : Charles-Marie Widor , French organist, composer and teacher
• 1846 : Svatopluk Čech , Czech journalist, writer and poet
• 1849 : Édouard Gaston Deville , French-Canadian explorer

1851-1900

• 1851 : Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach , German painter and social reformer
• 1851 : Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg , Austrian diplomat and travel writer
• 1858 : Oldfield Thomas , British zoologist
• 1860 : Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod , Czech journalist and writer
• 1861 : Carl Christoph Bernoulli , Swiss librarian
• 1861 : Pierre de Bréville , French composer

Otto Jaekel (* 1863)

• 1863 : Otto Jaekel , German geologist and paleontologist
• 1864 : Alfred Jeremias , German religious historian and Assyriologist
• 1864 : Henrique Maximiano Coelho Neto , Brazilian writer
• 1865 : Walter Boveri , Swiss-German industrialist, co-founder of Brown, Boveri & Cie ( BBC ), later ABB
• 1866 : August von Wassermann , German immunologist and bacteriologist
• 1870 : Víctor Mercante , Argentine educator and writer
• 1871 : Paul Cassirer , German publisher and gallery owner
• 1871 : Wilhelm von Debschitz , German painter, designer and art teacher in Munich
• 1872 : William John Gies , American biochemist and dentist
• 1873 : Fritz Andreae , German banker

Jeanne Calment (* 1875)

• 1875 : Jeanne Calment , French, was 122 years and 164 days old (largest human lifespan)
• 1876 : Sophie von Arnim , German writer
• 1876 : Joseph Meister , French, who was the first to be successfully vaccinated against rabies
• 1877 : Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher , German etymologist
• 1878 : Franz Aubell , Austrian geodesist
• 1880 : Marie Behncke , German politician and member of the Weimar National Assembly
• 1880 : Waldemar Bonsels , German writer
• 1881 : Kenneth J. Alford , British composer
• 1881 : Heinrich Mendelssohn , German building contractor
• 1881 : Walter Scharwenka , German composer and organist
• 1885 : Sacha Guitry , French actor, film director, screenwriter and playwright
• 1885 : Georg Lippold , German archaeologist

Korechika Anami (* 1887)

• 1887 : Anami Korechika , Japanese general and army minister
• 1887 : Savielly Tartakower , Polish-French chess player and author
• 1888 : Albert Förster , German labor leader and resistance fighter
• 1891 : Karl L. King , American composer and conductor
• 1892 : Harry Stack Sullivan , American psychiatrist
• 1893 : Andrés Segovia , Spanish guitarist
• 1893 : Hans Zulliger , Swiss elementary school teacher
• 1895 : Henrik Dam , Danish physiologist, biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1895 : Erich Knauf , German journalist, writer and songwriter
• 1895 : Emil Stepanek , Austrian film architect
• 1896 : Nicolai Dirdal , Norwegian pianist and music teacher
• 1896 : Josef Sellmair , German theologian and educator
• 1897 : Hermann August Eidmann , German zoologist and forest scientist
• 1897 : Paul Torchy , French racing car driver
• 1898 : Irving Cohn , American songwriter
• 1898 : Ernst Meyer , Swiss ancient historian
• 1899 : Bernard William Griffin , British Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster
• 1900 : Erwin Albrecht , German judge in the Third Reich, politician, MdL

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Emilio Comici , Italian alpinist and cave explorer
• 1903 : Scrapper Blackwell , American blues guitarist
• 1903 : William H. Clothier , American cameraman
• 1903 : Dorothea Neff , Austrian actress
• 1903 : Anaïs Nin , American writer
• 1903 : Raymond Queneau , French poet and writer
• 1904 : Charles Frederick Goodeve , Canadian chemist

Friedrich Karl Kaul (* 1906)

• 1906 : Jeanne Aubert , French singer and actress
• 1906 : Friedrich Karl Kaul , German lawyer, university professor and writer
• 1907 : WH Auden , British writer
• 1908 : Hans Ertl , German mountaineer and cameraman, war correspondent and director
• 1909 : Elsie Attenhofer , Swiss cabaret artist and actress, writer and diseuse
• 1909 : Hans Erni , Swiss painter and sculptor
• 1909 : Auguste Jordan , Austro-French soccer player
• 1910 : Willi Oberbeck , German racing cyclist
• 1912 : Sally Kessler , German local politician and survivor of the Holocaust
• 1913 : Glenn M. Anderson , American politician
• 1913 : Benjamin Bloom , American professor of psychology
• 1913 : Roger Laurent , Belgian motorcycle and automobile racer
• 1915 : Godfrey Brown , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 1915 : Roland von Hößlin , German officer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1915 : Yevgeny Michailowitsch Lifschitz , Soviet physicist
• 1915 : Ann Sheridan , American actress
• 1917 : Otto Kittel , German fighter pilot
• 1919 : Kehat Shorr , Israeli marksman
• 1920 : Pyotr Ivanovich Dolgow , Soviet parachutist and space pioneer
• 1920 : Liselotte Rauner , German writer
• 1920 : Ishigaki Rin , Japanese poet
• 1920 : Leo Scheffczyk , German priest, theologian and cardinal
• 1921 : John Armellino , American soldier and politician
• 1921 : Blanche Aubry , Swiss actress
• 1921 : Zdeněk Miler , Czech animated film maker
• 1921 : Antonio María Javierre Ortas , Cardinal of the Spanish Curia
• 1921 : John Rawls , American philosopher
• 1921 : Rolf Sammet , German chemist and manager
• 1922 : Wilhelm Stöck , German journalist and news anchor
• 1923 : Hans Blickensdörfer , German sports journalist and writer
• 1923 : Pat West , American football player
• 1924 : Karl Ferdinand Werner , German historian

Robert Mugabe (* 1924)

• 1924 : Robert Mugabe , Zimbabwean President
• 1924 : Silvano Piovanelli , Italian Archbishop and Cardinal
• 1925 : Henri Chaix , Swiss jazz pianist, orchestra conductor and arranger
• 1925 : Sam Peckinpah , American film director
• 1925 : Jack Ramsay , American basketball coach
• 1925 : Ihor Naumowytsch Schamo , Ukrainian composer
• 1925 : Rudolf Titzck , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, President of the State Parliament
• 1925 : Alarich Weiss , German physical chemist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Karl Otto Conrady , German literary historian
• 1926 : Hans Schwier , German politician, MdL, state minister
• 1926 : Ronnie Verrell , British jazz drummer
• 1927 : Reinhard Appel , German journalist, editor and director
• 1927 : Erma Bombeck , American writer
• 1927 : Walter S. Hartley , American composer
• 1927 : Pierre Mercure , Canadian composer and television producer
• 1927 : Paul Raabe , German literary scholar and library specialist
• 1928 : Cecil Sandford , British motorcycle racer
• 1929 : Heidi Abel , Swiss announcer and presenter
• 1929 : Nestor Assogba , Benin senior archbishop
• 1929 : Horst Brünner , German general, deputy. Minister in the Council of Ministers of the GDR, Head of Polit. Headquarters of the NVA, convicted in the wall rifle trial
• 1929 : Gert Günther Hoffmann , German voice actor
• 1930 : Wilfried Minks , German set designer and theater director
• 1933 : Alice Freeman Palmer , American educator and founder of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
• 1933 : Bob Rafelson , American film director

Nina Simone (* 1933)

• 1933 : Nina Simone , American jazz and blues singer, pianist and songwriter
• 1934 : Rue McClanahan , American actress
• 1935 : Jan Wallgren , Norwegian composer and jazz musician
• 1937 : Ron Clarke , Australian medium and long distance runner
• 1937 : Gary Lockwood , American actor
• 1937 : Harald V , Norwegian King
• 1938 : Beryl Anthony, Jr. , American politician
• 1938 : Lester Bird , Antiguan Prime Minister
• 1938 : Dany Mann , German pop singer, jazz singer and actress
• 1939 : Börje Ahlstedt , Swedish actor and director
• 1939 : Ulrich Briefs , German economist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1940 : Gaston Caperton , American politician
• 1941 : Rainer Postel , German historian
• 1941 : Heinrich Zankl , German human biologist and non-fiction author

Margarethe von Trotta (* 1942)

• 1942 : Paolo Mario Virgilio Atzei , Italian religious and archbishop
• 1942 : Margarethe von Trotta , German actress, director and screenwriter
• 1943 : David Ambrose , British writer
• 1943 : David Geffen , American music and film producer and director
• 1943 : Louis Jauffret , French ski racer
• 1943 : Paul Kirchhof , German constitutional and tax lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1943 : Lyudmila Evgenjewna Ulitskaja , Russian writer
• 1944 : Richard Aeschlimann , Swiss painter, graphic artist, draftsman, object artist and designer
• 1944 : Ronald Barazon , Austrian journalist and editor-in-chief of the Salzburger Nachrichten
• 1944 : Ingomar von Kieseritzky , German writer
• 1944 : Nojim Maiyegun , Nigerian boxer
• 1944 : Kitty Winn , American actress
• 1945 : Hanns-Friedrich Kunz , German choir director

Walter Momper (* 1945)

• 1945 : Walter Momper , German political scientist, politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the House of Representatives, governing mayor
• 1946 : Raúl Argemí , Argentine journalist and writer
• 1946 : Anthony Daniels , British actor
• 1946 : Alan Rickman , British stage and film actor
• 1946 : Ottmar Schreiner , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1947 : Eddy Achterberg , Dutch football player and coach
• 1947 : Stephen Hadley , American National Security Advisor
• 1947 : Olympia Snowe , American politician
• 1948 : Detthold Aden , German manager
• 1948 : Elmar Müller , German soccer coach
• 1948 : Christian Vander , French musician
• 1949 : Ronnie Hellström , Swedish football player
• 1949 : Enrique Wolff , Argentine soccer player
• 1950 : Håkan Nesser , Swedish writer
• 1950 : Richard Tarnas , German professor of philosophy and psychology
• 1950 : Bruce Vogt , Canadian pianist and music teacher

1951-1975

Pino Arlacchi (* 1951)

• 1951 : Pino Arlacchi , Italian sociologist and politician
• 1951 : Wolfgang Frank , German soccer player and coach
• 1951 : Marek Polasik , Polish physicist
• 1951 : Vince Welnick , American keyboardist
• 1952 : Jean-Jacques Burnel , British-French musician
• 1953 : Christine Ebersole , American actress and singer
• 1953 : Dagmar Roth-Behrendt , German politician, MEP
• 1953 : William Petersen , American actor and producer
• 1954 : Gaby Baginsky , German pop singer
• 1954 : Ivo Van Damme , Belgian athlete
• 1955 : Kelsey Grammer , American actor
• 1955 : Gerhard Gundermann , German songwriter
• 1955 : Dick le Mair , Dutch composer and arranger, music producer and percussionist
• 1955 : Rolf Schlierer , German doctor, lawyer and politician, MdL
• 1955 : Charlotte Schubert , German ancient historian and medical historian
• 1956 : Ha Jin , Chinese-American author
• 1956 : Stefan Stoppok , German musician
• 1956 : Jim Simpson , American theater and film director, actor, screenwriter, and film editor
• 1957 : Raymond Roche , French motorcycle racer

Mary Chapin Carpenter (* 1958)

• 1958 : Mary Chapin Carpenter , American country and folk singer
• 1958 : Jack Coleman , American actor
• 1958 : Angela Gehann-Dernbach , German conductor, singer and organist
• 1958 : Klaus Graf , German historian and archivist
• 1958 : Simon Holt , British composer
• 1958 : Jörn-Uwe Lommel , German handball player and coach
• 1958 : Alan Trammell , American baseball player and manager
• 1958 : Martin Weppler , German athlete
• 1959 : Siegbert Schefke , GDR civil rights activist, journalist
• 1959 : Peter Klein , German athlete
• 1960 : Marc Dutreeuw , Belgian chess player
• 1961 : Christopher Atkins , American actor
• 1961 : Martha Hackett , American actress
• 1961 : Andreas Modl , German Federal Advisor for the American Karate System
• 1961 : Olaf Zimmermann , German publicist, art dealer and managing director of the German Cultural Council
• 1962 : Mark Arm , American singer and guitarist

Martin Armknecht (* 1962)

• 1962 : Martin Armknecht , German actor
• 1962 : Chuck Palahniuk , American author
• 1963 : Michael Antwerpes , German sports reporter
• 1963 : William Baldwin , American actor
• 1963 : Karl Lauterbach , German doctor, health economist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1964 : Mark Kelly , American astronaut
• 1965 : Evair Aparecido Paulino , Brazilian soccer player and coach
• 1965 : Thomas Sivertsson , Swedish handball player and coach
• 1965 : Atsushi Yogō , Japanese racing car driver
• 1966 : Katrin Askan , German writer
• 1966 : Axel Bulthaupt , German moderator
• 1966 : Michaela Marzola , Italian ski racer

William David (* 1969)

• 1967 : Leroy Burrell , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1967 : Silke-Beate Knoll , German sprinter
• 1968 : Roy Z , American guitarist, bassist, composer and producer
• 1968 : Artūras Zuokas , Lithuanian politician, entrepreneur and journalist, war reporter
• 1969 : William David , French racing car driver
• 1969 : Corey Harris , American blues musician
• 1969 : Petra Kronberger , Austrian ski racer, Olympic champion
• 1971 : Klaus Müller , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
• 1973 : Paulo Rink , German-Brazilian soccer player
• 1974 : Andreas Abel , German soccer player
• 1974 : Gilbert Agius , Maltese soccer player
• 1974 : Tomáš Votava , Czech football player

1976-2000

• 1977 : Steve Francis , American basketball player
• 1977 : Dina Pomeranz , Swiss economist
• 1978 : Ralf Bartels , German athlete
• 1978 : Jörg Fiedler , German fencer
• 1978 : Kim Ha-neul , South Korean actress
• 1979 : Carlito , American wrestler

Jennifer Love Hewitt (* 1979)

• 1979 : Jennifer Love Hewitt , American actress and singer
• 1979 : Tobias Müller , German voice actor
• 1979 : Zaur Tağızadə , Azerbaijani football player
• 1980 : Tiziano Ferro , Italian pop singer
• 1980 : Parthiva Sureshwaren , Indian racing driver
• 1981 : Maik Hammelmann , German handball player, trainer and manager
• 1981 : Floor Jansen , Dutch singer
• 1982 : Bernhard Auinger , Austrian automobile racing driver
• 1982 : Robert Kampka , German football referee
• 1983 : Braylon Edwards , American football player
• 1984 : Damien Molony , Irish actor
• 1984 : David Odonkor , German soccer player
• 1984 : Andreas Seppi , Italian tennis player
• 1985 : Giorgos Samaras , Greek football player

Ashley Greene (* 1987)

• 1986 : Charlotte Church , British soprano
• 1986 : Garra Dembélé , French-Malian football player
• 1986 : Christoph Kozik , German actor
• 1986 : Marcel Reichwein , German soccer player
• 1987 : Burgess Abernethy , Australian actor
• 1987 : Carlos Carmona , Chilean football player
• 1987 : Techy Fatule , Dominican singer, composer and actress
• 1987 : Ashley Greene , American actress and model
• 1987 : Ellen Page , Canadian actress
• 1988 : Sebastian Zielinsky , German soccer player
• 1988 : Donté Greene , American basketball player
• 1989 : Corbin Bleu , American actor, model, dancer and singer
• 1989 : Federico Fernández , Argentine soccer player
• 1989 : Scout Taylor-Compton , American actress
• 1989 : Kristin Herrera , American actress
• 1990 : David Addy , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1990 : Daniel Didavi , German soccer player
• 1991 : Tatiana Ariza , Colombian soccer player
• 1991 : Riyad Mahrez , Algerian football player
• 1991 : Petar Slišković , Croatian football player
• 1991 : Manfred Starke , Namibian soccer player
• 1995 : Tim Hölscher , German soccer player
• 1996 : ConCrafter , German web video producer
• 1996 : Sophie Turner , British actress

21st century

• 2001 : Isabella Acres , American actress and voice actress
• 2002 : Marcus & Martinus (Marcus and Martinus Gunnarsen), Norwegian musicians

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0004 : Gaius Caesar , adopted son of the Roman emperor Augustus
• 0786 : Peter , abbot of the Reichenau monastery
• 0890 : Henjō , Japanese poet
• 1030 : Otgiva of Luxembourg , Countess of Flanders
• 1267 : Baldwin of Ibelin , Cypriot nobleman and seneschal of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
• 1312 : Hugo de Chalon , Bishop of Liège
• 1371 : Gottfried IV. , Last Count of Arnsberg
• 1437 : James I , King of Scotland
• 1443 : Guidantonio da Montefeltro , Count of Urbino
• 1452 : William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas , Scottish nobleman
• 1467 : Piero Raimondo Zacosta , Aragonese nobleman and Grand Master of the Order of St. John
• 1490 : Ubaidullah Ahrar , Sheikh of the Naqshbandi order

Julius II (* 1513)

• 1513 : Julius II , Pope, diplomat, general, commissioner of the ceiling painting in the Sistine Chapel
• 1515 : Diego Columbus , Spanish navigator, younger brother of Christopher Columbus
• 1537 : Girolamo Accoramboni , Italian medic and philosopher

Copper engraving by Johannes Eck

• 1543 : Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi , Muslim-Ethiopian ruler in the Sultanate of Adal
• 1550 : Francesco III. Gonzaga , eldest son of Duke Federico II.
• 1554 : Hieronymus Bock , German botanist, doctor and Lutheran preacher
• 1554 : Sibylle von Jülich-Kleve-Berg , eldest daughter of Duke Johann III.
• 1565 : Federico Gonzaga , Bishop of Mantua
• 1571 : Melchior Kling , German lawyer and jurist
• 1575 : Claudia von Valois , French princess and Duchess of Lorraine

17th and 18th centuries

• 1616 : Jakob Bording , German legal scholar and mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1628 : Gregor Aichinger , German composer
• 1633 : Karl Hannibal von Dohna , bailiff in Upper Lusatia
• 1649 : George Abbot , English writer
• 1653 : Adriaan Pauw , Dutch politician
• 1655 : Johann von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Prince-Bishop of Lübeck
• 1662 : Domenicus Morelli , Swiss master stonemason and sculptor
• 1666 : Armand de Bourbon , Prince of Conti
• 1668 : John Thurloe , English chief of the secret service under Oliver Cromwell
• 1677 : Baruch de Spinoza , Dutch philosopher
• 1704 : Johann Karl , Count Palatine near Rhine, Duke in Baiern, from Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld to Gelnhausen, Count to Veldenz and to Sponheim
• 1705 : Johann Praetorius , German astronomer, educator and musician
• 1708 : Detlev Clüver , German mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
• 1709 : Ludwig-Ferdinand , Count of Lippe-Brake
• 1711 : Joan van Hoorn , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1713 : Kanō Tsunenobu , Japanese painter
• 1714 : Eugen Alexander , Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Imperial Postmaster General
• 1715 : Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore , Lord Proprietor of the Province of Maryland
• 1721 : Christoph Heinrich Amthor , German poet and translator
• 1728 : Johann Heinrich von Mörs , German priest and official in the Archdiocese of Cologne
• 1730 : Benedict XIII. , Pope
• 1745 : Johann Friedrich Blank , Russian architect
• 1757 : Georg Franz Ebenhech , German sculptor, plasterer and ivory carver
• 1762 : Andreas Georg Wähner , German orientalist
• 1794 : Natalis Pinot , French priest and martyr

19th century

• 1823 : Salomon Friedrich Merkel , German lawyer
• 1824 : Eugène de Beauharnais , stepson of Napoleon
• 1825 : Georg Anton Christoph Scheffler , German educator and philologist
• 1834 : John Breathitt , American politician
• 1838 : Antoine-Isaac Silvestre de Sacy , French orientalist

Dorothea Tieck († 1841)

• 1841 : Dorothea Tieck , German Shakespeare translator
• 1846 : Ninkō , 120th Emperor of Japan
• 1854 : Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe , German mathematician and physicist
• 1856 : Paul von Prittwitz , Russian lieutenant general and senator
• 1857 : Karl Gottlob Boguslav von Zychlinsky , Prussian landowner and politician
• 1861 : Lars Levi Læstadius , Swedish revival preacher in Lapland
• 1861 : Ernst Rietschel , German sculptor of late classicism
• 1862 : Justinus Kerner , German poet, doctor and medical writer
• 1865 : Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere , British Field Marshal
• 1865 : Constant Troyon , French painter
• 1868 : Giuseppe Abbati , Italian painter
• 1871 : Carl Johann Ludwig Dham , German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• 1879 : Shir Ali Chan , Emir of Afghanistan
• 1882 : Gottfried Wilhelm Lehmann , German co-founder of the German Baptist congregations
• 1882 : Hugo Emil Schober , German agricultural scientist
• 1883 : Franz von Rinecker , German doctor
• 1894 : Gustave Caillebotte , French painter and art collector
• 1900 : Charles Piazzi Smyth , British astronomer and esotericist from Scotland

20th century

1901-1950

• 1901 : Emil Hübner , German classical philologist and epigraphist
• 1902 : Emil Holub , Austrian explorer of Africa

Mathias Kneißl († 1902)

• 1902 : Mathias Kneißl , German carpenter and Bavarian robber
• 1902 : Hugo von Ziemssen , German doctor and university professor
• 1903 : Kate Vaughan , British dancer and actress
• 1909 : Xaver Imfeld , Swiss cartographer
• 1911 : Eugène Vast , French organist and composer
• 1912 : Émile Lemoine , French mathematician and engineer
• 1912 : Osborne Reynolds , British physicist
• 1918 : Hedwig Lachmann , German poet, writer and translator
• 1918 : Heinrich Leonhard Adolphi , German-Baltic pastor, chess player, Protestant martyr
• 1918 : Ludwig Johannes Tschischko , Latvian pastor and Protestant martyr

Kurt Eisner († 1919)

• 1919 : Kurt Eisner , German politician, journalist and writer, Prime Minister
• 1919 : Heinrich Osel , German politician and customs inspector, MdL, MdR
• 1919 : Louis Tuaillon , German sculptor
• 1920 : Alfons Heinrich of Portugal , Portuguese nobleman, viceroy of Portuguese India
• 1925 : Josef Lang , Austrian executioner
• 1926 : Heike Kamerlingh Onnes , Dutch physicist
• 1928 : Hans von Koester , German nobleman and admiral
• 1930 : Ahmad Shah Qajar , Persian Shah, last ruler of the Qajar dynasty
• 1930 : George Waring Stebbins , American organist and composer
• 1932 : Wilhelm Robert Nessig , German teacher and geologist
• 1934 : Augusto César Sandino , Nicaraguan resistance fighter
• 1938 : George Ellery Hale , American astronomer
• 1938 : Wilhelm Lütgert , German theologian
• 1939 : Edlef Köppen , German writer and radio editor

Frederick Banting († 1941)

• 1941 : Frederick Banting , British medic, co-discoverer of insulin , Nobel Prize winner
• 1944 : Anton Delbrück , German psychiatrist
• 1944 : Giacinto Ghia , Italian automobile designer
• 1944 : Ferenc Szisz , French-Hungarian racing driver
• 1945 : Leonhard Adelt , German bookseller, writer and journalist
• 1945 : Karl Auer , German football player
• 1945 : Eric Liddell , Scottish rugby player and athlete, Olympic champion

1951-2000

• 1953 : Raymond Glaszmann , French racing car driver
• 1956 : Karl Anton , German theologian
• 1956 : Edwin Franko Goldman , American composer and conductor
• 1957 : Willem Frederik Donath , Dutch physiologist and hygienist
• 1958 : Henryk Arctowski , Polish scientist, oceanographer and explorer of the Antarctic
• 1960 : Edwina Ashley , wife of the last Viceroy of India
• 1960 : Jacques Becker , French film director
• 1963 : Philip Dalton Hepworth , British architect
• 1963 : Émile Lamarre , Canadian singer
• 1964 : Georg Jacoby , German director and author

Malcolm X († 1965)

• 1965 : Malcolm X , American Muslim chaplain, civil rights leader
• 1966 : Willi Trautmann , German table tennis player
• 1967 : Wolf Albach-Retty , Austrian actor
• 1968 : Howard Walter Florey , Australian pathologist, co-discoverer of penicillin , Nobel Prize winner
• 1968 : Robert Jaffé , German engineer, farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1970 : Peter Tatsuo Doi , Japanese Cardinal, Archbishop of Tokyo
• 1971 : Erich Bödeker , German sculptor
• 1971 : Tilla Durieux , Austrian actress
• 1971 : Hanns Hopp , German architect
• 1972 : Eugène Tisserant , French cardinal and bishop
• 1973 : Brigitte Reimann , German writer in the GDR
• 1975 : Jean Georges Baer , Swiss naturalist († 1902 )
• 1976 : Tage Aurell , Swedish writer, screenwriter, journalist and translator
• 1977 : Heinrich Auge , German trade unionist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1977 : John Hubley , American cartoonist
• 1977 : Henry Jordan , American football player and concert promoter
• 1979 : Waldemar de Brito , Brazilian soccer player
• 1979 : Otto Ambros , Austrian actor and director
• 1979 : Leopold Hainisch , Austrian actor and theater, film and television director
• 1980 : Alfred Andersch , German writer and radio editor
• 1980 : Aldo Andreotti , Italian mathematician
• 1980 : Mario Lanzi , Italian athlete
• 1980 : Peter Wiepert , German local researcher and writer
• 1981 : Ron Grainer , Australian composer
• 1982 : Mischel Cherniavsky , Ukrainian-Canadian cellist
• 1982 : Gershom Scholem , German-Israeli university professor and historian of religion

• 1983 : Eberhard Baier , German general
• 1984 : Mikhail Alexandrowitsch Scholokhov , Russian-Soviet writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1986 : Eckhard Hess , American psychologist and ethologist
• 1987 : Leo Adler , Austrian painter and graphic artist
• 1987 : Curt Becker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1989 : Otar Taktakishvili , Georgian composer
• 1989 : Alex Thépot , French football player
• 1991 : Margot Fonteyn , British ballet dancer
• 1991 : Avelina Landín , Mexican singer
• 1992 : Eva Jessye , American choir conductor and composer
• 1993 : Jean Lecanuet , French philosopher and minister
• 1993 : Inge Lehmann , Danish seismologist
• 1993 : Herbert Wahrendorf , German educator, athlete and sports official
• 1996 : Morton Gould , American composer, conductor and pianist
• 1996 : Rudolf Braunburg , German writer
• 1997 : Hans Bambey , German general
• 1997 : Josef Posipal , German soccer player
• 1999 : Gertrude Belle Elion , American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 2000 : Noel Annan, Baron Annan , British intelligence officer
• 2000 : Constance Cummings-John , Sierra Leonean suffragette, politician and teacher

21st century

• 2001 : José Alí Lebrún Moratinos , Venezuelan Cardinal, Archbishop of Caracas
• 2001 : Peter Roggisch , German actor
• 2002 : Hamlet Lima Quintana , Argentine writer and musician
• 2004 : Guido Molinari , Canadian painter and graphic artist
• 2004 : Jürgen Roloff , German theologian
• 2005 : Horst Drinda , German director and actor
• 2005 : Stefi Ákos , Hungarian singer
• 2005 : Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Cuban writer
• 2005 : Gerhard Hecht , German boxer
• 2005 : Josef Metternich , German opera singer
• 2006 : Pierre Amandry , French classical archaeologist
• 2006 : Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Aigi , Chuvash poet

Angelica Rozeanu († 2006)

• 2006 : Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu , Romanian table tennis player
• 2007 : Herbert Thomas Mandl , Czech musician, philosopher and writer
• 2008 : Sufi Abu Taleb , Egyptian politician
• 2008 : Hans Janitschek , Austrian journalist, author and diplomat
• 2008 : Emmanuel Sanon , Haitian soccer player
• 2010 : Stefan Hormuth , German social psychologist
• 2010 : Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , German entrepreneur and politician, MEP
• 2014 : Georg Brack , German engineer
• 2015 : Alexei Alexandrovich Gubarev , Soviet cosmonaut
• 2015 : Luca Ronconi , Italian theater director
• 2015 : Clark Terry , American jazz musician and composer
• 2016 : Sabine Bard , German politician
• 2016 : Andrew Herxheimer , German-British doctor and clinical pharmacologist
• 2017 : Kenneth Arrow , American economist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2017 : Wilhelm G. Niemöller , German painter, sculptor and poet
• 2018 : Billy Graham , American preacher
• 2018 : Ulrich Pleitgen , German actor and speaker
• 2019 : Gus Backus , American pop singer
• 2019 : Ben Hecker , German actor and voice actor
• 2019 : Hilde Zadek , German-Austrian opera singer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Lars Levi Læstadius , Swedish pastor and botanist, "Apostle of the Lapps " (Protestant)
  • St. Irene of Rome (Catholic)
  • St. Peter Damiani , Italian monk, theologian and Doctor of the Church, cardinal and patron saint (Catholic)

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • International Mother Language Day ( UN ) (since 2000)

• regional customs
  • Germany : Biikebrennen

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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