21th January
January 21 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 21 ) is the 21st day of the Gregorian calendar , leaving 344 days (345 days in leap years) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 1188: In the Treaty of Gisors , the English king Henry II accepts the loss of the Berry region to the French king Philip II.
- 1482: The Portuguese , commanded by Diogo de Azambuja , who had landed on the African coast , began building the São Jorge da Mina Fort near Elmina in present-day Ghana . The fort becomes the center of the Portuguese colonies in West Africa , it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979 .
- 1577: Heinrich von Reuschenberg is appointed Land Commander of the Ballei Biesen and thus the leader of the largest Teutonic Order in north-western Europe.
- 1596: Charles de Montmorency, duc de Damville is appointed Admiral of France by the French King Henry IV .
- 1643: Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers Tonga in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1771: The Falklands Crisis between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Spain is ended with a settlement. Great Britain gets back the settlement of Port Egmont , which was conquered by Spain in the previous year , but the question of the affiliation of the Falkland Islands is not finally clarified.
- 1775: In Moscow, the Cossack Yemelyan Pugachev is executed as the leader of a popular uprising against the Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great .
- 1788: Arthur Phillip , commander of the First Fleet carrying British convicts for the Australian colony, discovers Manly Bay , having abandoned plans to settle at Botany Bay due to lack of water and sailing north.
- 1793: Citizen Louis Capet , the deposed French King Louis XVI. , is guillotined in Paris after his conviction by the National Convention for conspiracy against public liberty and the overall security of the state in the Place de la Revolution in Paris . The French Revolution thus reached its climax.
- 1824: An army from the Ashanti Empire , located in present-day Ghana , crushes a British force under Governor Sir Charles MacCarthy, preserving its independence in the Gold Coast hinterland .
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- 1911: Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen establishes Camp Framheim in the Ross Ice Shelf near the 80th parallel as a base camp for his Antarctic expedition.
- 1920: Domingos Leite Pereira becomes Prime Minister of Portugal for the second time .
- 1921: The Italian Communist Party is founded at the San Marco Theater in Livorno after the revolutionary faction splits from the Partito Socialista Italiano . Amadeo Bordiga takes over as party chairman, Antonio Gramsci and Umberto Terracini join the central committee.
- 1925: Albania is declared a republic by parliament at the instigation of Ahmet Zogu , who came to power after the overthrow. On January 31, he is elected President.
- 1944: Start of Operation Steinbock , the intensification of air raids on England by the German Luftwaffe .
- 1945: Defeat in the Battle of the Bulge of World War II hastened the collapse of the Wehrmacht on Germany's Western Front .
- 1950: The merger of the DKP-DRP with the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) in Kassel, which is only active in Hesse, creates the extreme right-wing German Reich Party ( DRP ).
- 1968: A mortar attack by North Vietnamese troops begins the Battle of Khe Sanh in the Vietnam War , which will last until April 8.
- 1972: Manipur is granted state status in India .
- 1987: As a result of the premature National Council elections in November 1986 , triggered by Jörg Haider's election as the new FPÖ party chairman , the SPÖ-ÖVP government of Vranitzky/Mock is sworn in.
- 1997: The German-Czech declaration on mutual relations and their future development is signed in Prague.
- 2000: After mass protests by indigenous people in Ecuador , President Jamil Mahuad is overthrown in a coup. Colonel Lucio Gutiérrez , the chairman of the indigenous association CONAIE , Antonio Vargas, and the former supreme judge Carlos Solórzano take power as a triumvirate for one day.
- 2005: In the Belizean capital of Belmopan , a mass demonstration against the government of Prime Minister Said Musa takes place over massive tax increases , which the security forces violently break up. Because of a general strike that has been going on since the previous day, the water supply is collapsing throughout Belize .
- 2017: At the Women's March on Washington , between 500,000 and 700,000 people protest for women's and human rights in Washington, DC on the first day after Donald Trump 's inauguration. Similar demonstrations also take place in other major US American cities and in numerous other countries, around the world 670
business
- 1899: Adam Opel 's sons buy Friedrich Lutzmann 's factory , employ him as director and begin building Opel automobiles .
- 1939: Brazil 's first oil deposits are discovered in the state of Bahia .
- 1976: At the same time, two Concordes take off in Paris and London for the first commercial flights of the supersonic aircraft.
- 2008: The DAX loses 523.98 points or 7.2 percent during the day, also due to the increasing fear of a recession in the USA, which is the largest percentage loss since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 (then with a minus of 8.5 percent).
science and technology
- 1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine , the Nautilus , is launched in the United States.
Culture
- 1801: The opera Le Grand Deuil by Henri Montan Berton is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1841: The first performance of the comic opera Le Guitarréro by Jacques Fromental Halévy takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1880: The opera The May Night by Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov premieres at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg .
- 1904: The opera Jenůfa by Leoš Janáček based on the play Její pastorkyňa ( Her foster daughter ) by Gabriela Preissová is premiered at the National Theater in Brno. It will be modified and re-performed a few more times before it is seen by a wider public.
- 1908: The premiere of the chamber play The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg, based on the sonata of the same name by Ludwig van Beethoven , takes place in Stockholm. The premiere flopped, and the play only became a success four years after the poet's death.
- 1908: The premiere of the operetta The Man with the Three Women by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .
- 1911: The March of Women by Ethel Smyth , which would later become the anthem of the English suffragette movement , premiered at Pall Mall , London.
- 1912: Rainer Maria Rilke sends the first of his Duino Elegies from Duino to Marie Taxis.
- 1920: The premiere of the opera Der Schatzgräber by Franz Schreker takes place at the Frankfurt Opera in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1921: The Charlie Chaplin film The Kid premieres in New York City .
- 1937: In London, Marcel Boulestin becomes the first television chef to appear in front of the camera in the BBC studio on Cook's night out .
- 1980: The Great Wall of China is listed as a historical monument .
- 1983: Posthumous world premiere of the play Bruder Eichmann by Heinar Kipphardt in Munich 's Residenztheater
- 1990: The full-length narrative ballet Medea by John Neumeier (choreography and libretto) is premiered by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Small House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart .
society
- 1915: The first Kiwanis service club is formed in Detroit under the name The Supreme Lodge Benevolent Order Of Brothers .
- 2008: With the death of Marie Smith Jones , the Eyak language dies out.
religion
- 1276: Just one day after the beginning of the conclave , Innocent V is elected pope . Innocent is the first pope to be elected according to Gregory X 's conclave rules, which are still in force today , and the first Dominican on the papal throne.
- 1525: In the conflict over the Zurich Reformation process between Huldrych Zwingli and Konrad Grebel and Felix Manz , the Zurich City Council supports Zwingli. He decrees that children must be baptized by their parents no later than the eighth day after birth and forbids Grebel and Manz from being baptized by believers and from teaching in their Bible schools . On the same evening the two found the first Anabaptist church . The Catholic priest Jörg Blaurock was the first to be baptized.
- 1837: Emperor Ferdinand I decrees that the followers of the Augsburg Confession must leave the Zillertal . In September of that year, the Zillertal inclinants obeyed the order and made their way to the Giant Mountains .
- 1853: The founding of the Jerusalem Association is announced in the Berlin Cathedral . He is to support the evangelical parishes in the Holy Land .
- 1998: Pope John Paul II is the first church leader to visit socialist Cuba and is received by revolutionary leader Fidel Castro .
disasters
- 1851: In the Avenwedde rail accident, a train from Minden to the Rhineland derailed on the main route of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company , killing three people. Among the train passengers is Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, later Emperor Friedrich III, who is slightly injured.
- 1854: The White Star Line's iron clipper RMS Tayleur foundered in the Irish Sea on her maiden voyage after hitting the rocks on the shore of Lambay Island in storm and fog . 362 people die.
- 1917: An earthquake of unknown magnitude in Bali , Indonesia kills about 15,000.
- 1940: An uncontrollable fire broke out after an explosion aboard the Italian passenger ship Orazio off the French Mediterranean coast. The ship burns out and sinks; 106 people are killed, although help is quickly on the spot.
- 1951: Almost 3,000 people die when the Lamington volcano on the island of New Guinea erupts.
- 1968: A US Boeing B - 52 long-range bomber crashes near Thule Air Base in Greenland. He loses four hydrogen bombs in the process . Only three of these can be recovered. The crash triggers radioactive contamination in the area.
- 1969: A partial meltdown , rated Level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale , occurs at the Lucens underground nuclear reactor in Switzerland .
- 1980: 128 people are killed when an Iranian airliner crashes near Tehran in Iran due to a snowstorm.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1888: The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is formed in the United States .
- 1911: The first Monte Carlo Rally , initiated by Albert I , begins. A total of 20 participants set off in Geneva, Paris, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Berlin, Vienna and Brussels towards Monaco .
- 2001: Jutta Kleinschmidt becomes the first woman to win the Dakar Rally .
- 2005: Football referee Robert Hoyzer resigned after allegations that he manipulated the outcome of football matches he was refereeing in order to make a profit on football betting .
- 2012: As the youngest person to sail around the world, 16-year-old Laura Dekker reaches the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with her sailing boat "Guppy" .
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1082: Muhammad I Tapar , Sultan of the Greater Seljuks
- 1338: Charles V the Wise , King of France
- 1516: Georg Sigmund Seld , German jurist and Imperial Vice-Chancellor
- 1532: Ludwig Helmbold , Lutheran hymn writer
- 1537: Antonmaria Salviati , Cardinal of the Roman Church
- 1610: François Collignon , French draftsman, etcher, engraver and publisher
- 1637: Anton Hülse , German Baroque architect
- 1659: Adriaen van der Werff , Dutch painter
- 1662: Franz Ehrenreich von Trauttmannsdorff , Austrian diplomat and politician
- 1666: Christian Müller , German educator
- 1673: Johann Georg Fischer , German master builder of the Baroque
- 1675: Franziska Sibylla Augusta of Saxe-Lauenburg , regent of Baden
18th century
- 1714: Anna Morandi Manzolini , Italian anatomist and wax sculptor
- 1721: James Murray , British soldier, colonial administrator and governor of the province of Quebec and governor of Menorca
- 1723: Louis-Pierre Anquetil , French historian
- 1730: Johann Franz Christoph Steinmetz , German Protestant theologian
- 1732: Friedrich Eugen , Duke of Württemberg
- 1738: Ethan Allen , American freedom fighter for Vermont's independence in the American Revolutionary War
- 1747: Sophie von Coudenhoven , German noblewoman and confidant of the Elector of Mainz, Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal
- 1754: Johann Kaspar Riesbeck , German jurist, writer, actor and Illuminator
- 1756: Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde , French advocate
- 1756: Jean-Antoine Constantin , French painter and draftsman
- 1757: Elijah Paine , American politician
- 1759: Caroline Adelheid Cornelia von Baudissin , German writer
- 1761: Gottlieb Ernst August Mehmel , German philosopher
- 1763: Augustin Robespierre , French politician
- 1766: Vinzenz Hauschka , Bohemian composer
- 1777: Johann Heinrich Fuhr , German merchant
- 1778: Cornelis Adrianus van Enschut , Dutch legal scholar
- 1778: Arnold Friedrich von Mieg , German politician
- 1782: Jakob Cederström , Swedish general and politician
- 1784: Georg Moller , German architect and town planner
- 1784: Andrew Stevenson , American politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives
- 1786: Michael Martin Lienau , German merchant and local politician
- 1791: Carl August Gadegast , farmer and pioneer of Merino sheep farming in Germany
- 1794: Adolf Ludwig Follen , German fraternity member, writer and publisher
- 1800: Theodor Fliedner , German evangelical pastor and founder of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie, co-founder of the deaconess movement
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802: Adolphe Monod , Swiss revivalist
- 1804: Moritz von Schwind , German-Austrian painter
- 1810: Pierre de Failly , French general
- 1811: Roderich Benedix , German actor, theater director and playwright
- 1813: John C. Frémont , American explorer
- 1815: Josephine Koch , German nun and founder of the order
- 1815: Horace Wells , American dentist
- 1816: Sophia Adriana de Bruijn , Dutch art collector and museum founder
- 1820: Egide Walschaerts , Belgian mechanical engineer
- 1824: Friedrich Feustel , German banker, patron of the Bayreuth Festival
- 1824: Thomas Jonathan Jackson , American officer, Confederate general in Civil War
- 1827: Joseph Charlot , French composer
- 1829: Paul Leopold Haffner , German theologian
- 1829: Oscar II , King of Sweden and Norway
- 1829: Kamma Rahbek , Danish Salonnière
- 1832: Jules Assézat , French journalist, publisher and anthropologist
- 1833: Gottlob Theuerkauf , German painter and lithographer
- 1836: Thomas McArthur Anderson , American officer
- 1843: Émile Levassor , French automobile pioneer and racing driver
- 1846: Nathaniel Edwin Harris , American politician, Governor of Georgia
- 1846: Albert Lavignac French musicologist and composer
- 1848: Henri Duparc , French composer
- 1849: Józef Szczepkowski , Polish opera singer
- 1850: Józef Ostrowski , Polish aristocrat, landowner and politician
1851-1900
- 1851: Giuseppe Allamano , Italian priest and founder of the order
- 1854: Karl Julius Beloch , German ancient historian
- 1854: George Musgrove , Australian opera and theater entrepreneur
- 1855: Rudolf Cronau , German journalist and painter
- 1862: Ewald Müller , German teacher, local poet and local researcher
- 1867: Ivan Ivanovich Kryzhanovsky , Russian composer
- 1867: Ludwig Thoma , German writer ( Lasbubengeschichten , Ein Münchner im Himmel )
- 1868: Felix Hoffmann , German chemist
- 1868: Ludwig Jacobowski , German poet, novelist and publicist
- 1869: Grigory Efimovich Rasputin , Russian cleric and itinerant prophet
- 1874: René Louis Baire , French mathematician
- 1874: Johannes Warns , German theologian
- 1876: Dietloff von Arnim , German local politician
- 1878: Egon Friedell , Austrian writer
- 1881: Fritz Freisler , Austrian actor and film director
- 1881: Emil Podszus , German physicist, engineer, inventor and designer of high quality loudspeakers
- 1882: Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky , Russian religious philosopher, theologian, mathematician and art historian
- 1883: Olav Aukrust , Norwegian lyric poet
- 1883: James H. Duff , American politician
- 1885: Duncan Grant , British painter
- 1885: André Lagache , French automobile racer
- 1885: Umberto Nobile , Italian airship pioneer
- 1886: Wilhelm Sante , German Senator and Ministerial Oberinspektor
- 1887: Andrei Andreyev , Russian film set designer, draftsman and set designer
- 1887: Wolfgang Köhler , German-American psychologist, co-founder of Gestalt psychology
- 1887: Georges Vézina , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1888: Ernst Kapp , German classical scholar
- 1889: Hermann Glöckner , German painter and sculptor
- 1889: Giovanni Micheletto , Italian racing cyclist
- 1890: Mauricio Galvao , German hockey player
- 1890: Hertha Spielberg , German painter
- 1891: Ivar Hellman , Swedish composer and conductor
- 1891: Franz Sedlacek , German-Austrian painter
- 1891: Timothy Mather Spelman , American composer
- 1892: Arthur Vollstedt , German speed skater
- 1895: Cristóbal Balenciaga , Spanish fashion designer
- 1895: Hans Carl Nipperdey , German jurist
- 1896: Artur Anders , German politician, MP
- 1896: Paula Hitler , sister of Adolf Hitler
- 1897: Maurice Zundel , Swiss clergyman, theologian and philosopher
- 1898: Rudolph Maté , American cinematographer
- 1899: John Bodkin Adams , British physician and con man
- 1899: Hugo Mayer , German politician, MP
- 1899: Alexander Nikolayevich Cherepnin , Russian composer
- 1900: Bernhard Rensch , German evolutionary biologist
- 1900: Werner Schwarz , German Federal Minister
- 1900: Eguchi Takaya , Japanese dancer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Clarenore Stinnes , German racing driver and world cyclist
- 1901: Ricardo Zamora , Spanish soccer player
- 1902: Hans Andre , Austrian sculptor and painter
- 1905: Eduardo Brito , Dominican opera and zarzuela singer (baritone)
- 1905: Christian Dior , French fashion designer
- 1905: Heinz Kähler , German archaeologist
- 1905: Werner Neumann , German Bach researcher
- 1905: Karl Wallenda , German-American tightrope artist
- 1905: Wanda Wasilewska , Polish and Soviet politician
- 1908: Raymond D. Gary , American politician
- 1908: Bengt Strömgren , Danish astronomer
- 1909: Fritz Polcar , Austrian politician
- 1910: Shantaram Govind Athavale , Indian songwriter, film director, documentary filmmaker, poet and author
- 1910: Rosa Kellner , German track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1910: Albert Rosellini , American politician
- 1911: Erich Angermann , German politician
- 1912: Konrad Bloch , German biochemist, Nobel laureate
- 1912: Petermax Müller , German automobile racer and dealer
- 1915: Josef Oberhauser , German member of the SS Totenkopfverbande
- 1916: Miquel Asins Arbó , Spanish composer, conductor and teacher
- 1916: René Hernández , Cuban pianist and arranger
- 1916: Pietro Rava , Italian soccer player, world champion and Olympic champion
- 1916: Waltrude Schleyer , German physiotherapist, wife of Hanns Martin Schleyer
- 1918: Antonio Janigro , Italian cellist, conductor and university teacher
- 1918: Richard Winters , American officer
- 1920: Jack Groob , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1920: Bert Grund , German film composer
- 1922: Telly Savalas , American actor
- 1922: Paul Scofield , British actor
- 1923: Jud Larson , American racing driver
- 1924: Hermann Aichmair , Austrian university teacher, author, painter, sculptor and collector
- 1924: Şəfiqə Axundova , Azerbaijani composer
- 1924: Benny Hill , British comedian
- 1925: Charles Aidman , American actor
- 1925 George Connor , American football player
1926-1950
- 1926: Truck Branss , German radio and television director
- 1927: Udo Walendy , German political scientist
- 1928: Reynaldo Bignone , Argentine general
- 1928: Carol Beach York , American author of children's literature
- 1929: Bibi Johns , Swedish crooner
- 1929: Denis Sanders , American filmmaker, Academy Award winner
- 1930: John Campbell-Jones , British racing driver
- 1930: Günter Lamprecht , German actor
- 1931: Manon Andreas-Grisebach , German literary scholar, translator and politician
- 1931: Anatol Herzfeld , German sculptor
- 1931: Günther Lüschen , German sociologist
- 1931: Heinz Luthringshauser , German motorcycle racer
- 1933: Habib Thiam , Prime Minister of Senegal
- 1933: Lauro Toneatto , Italian football player and coach
- 1934: Franz Böhmert , German sports official
- 1935: Cheíto González , Puerto Rican singer, guitarist and composer
- 1937: Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi , Hungarian foil fencer
- 1937: Zbigniew Bargielski , Polish composer
- 1938: Jim Anderton , New Zealand politician
- 1938: Romano Fogli , Italian football player and coach
- 1938: Wolfman Jack , American disc jockey
- 1939: Luis Aróstegui , Spanish religious cleric
- 1939: Engelbert Kupka , German politician, MdL
- 1939: Friedel Lutz , German soccer player
- 1939: Anna Polony , Polish actress
- 1940: Peter Lauster , German psychologist
- 1940: Jack Nicklaus , American golfer
- 1940: Peter Stopper , German footballer
- 1941: Plácido Domingo , Spanish opera singer (tenor)
- 1941: Richie Havens , American folk singer
- 1941: Stathis Giallelis , Greek actor
- 1941: Harald Kahl , German politician
- 1941: Elaine Showalter , American medical historian, literary scholar, and feminist
- 1942: Freddy Breck , German pop singer
- 1942: Edwin Starr , American soul singer
- 1943: Arnar Jónsson , Icelandic actor
- 1943: Heinz Magenheimer , Austrian military historian
- 1943: Steve Potts , American jazz saxophonist
- 1944: Jack Henry Abbott , American criminal and writer
- 1944: Neely Bruce , American composer, conductor, pianist, musicologist and educator
- 1944: Hasso Plattner , German entrepreneur and patron
- 1945: Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi , Ghanaian university lecturer and politician
- 1945: Wilm Herlyn , German journalist, editor-in-chief of the dpa
- 1945: Peter Konwitschny , German opera director
- 1945: Kristian Schultze , German composer, arranger, keyboardist and music producer
- 1945: Martin Shaw , British actor
- 1946: Nella Martinetti , Swiss singer, composer and lyricist
- 1946: Johnny Oates , American baseball player
- 1947: Andrzej Bachleda-Curuś , Polish alpine skier
- 1947: Cherith Baldry , British novelist, member of the Erin Hunter writing team
- 1947: Pye Hastings , British musician
- 1947: Michel Jonasz , French singer and songwriter
- 1948: Pete Kircher , British drummer
- 1949: Kristín Marja Baldursdóttir , Icelandic writer
- 1949: Adelquis Remón Gay , Cuban chess player
- 1950: Agnes van Ardenne , Dutch politician
- 1950: Marion Becker , German track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1950: Andrzej Chłopecki , Polish musicologist and critic
- 1950: Patrick Leclercq , German journalist
- 1950: Silke Maier-Witt , German nurse, psychologist, RAF terrorist
- 1950: Billy Ocean , Trinidadian pop singer
1951-1975
- 1951: Eric Holder , American politician
- 1951: Karl Zimmermann , German politician, MdL
- 1952: Werner Grissmann , Austrian alpine skier
- 1952: Karl Timmermann , German singer and lyricist, composer and producer
- 1953: Paul Allen , American entrepreneur, co-founder of the Microsoft company
- 1953: Wolfgang Ludwig Werner , German tropical researcher
- 1954: Paweł Arndt , Polish politician
- 1954: Thomas de Maizière , German politician, federal minister
- 1955: Peter Fleming , American tennis player
- 1955: Jeff Koons , American artist
- 1955: Nikolina Shtereva , Bulgarian track and field athlete
- 1956: Ásmundur Friðriksson , Icelandic politician
- 1956: Geena Davis , American actress
- 1956: Jürgen Kehrer , German writer of crime novels
- 1957: Rainer Laupichler , German actor
- 1958: Klaus Thiele , German track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1958: Frank Ticheli , American composer and music educator
- 1959: Günter Nooke , German politician and East German opposition figure
- 1959: Oskar Roehler , German film director
- 1960: Jacek Wójcicki , Polish singer and actor
- 1961: Manfred Müller , German local politician
- 1961: Cornelia Proell , Austrian alpine skier
- 1962: Miroslav Konôpka , Slovak auto racer
- 1962: Gabriele Pin , Italian football player and coach
- 1962: Marie Trintignant , French actress
- 1963: Jun-San Chen , Taiwanese racing team owner and automobile racer
- 1963: Bernd Hoffmann , German sports official
- 1963: Hakeem Olajuwon , American basketball player
- 1963: Detlef Schrempf , German basketball player
- 1964: Andreas Bauer , German ski jumper
- 1964: Marianne Tritz , German politician and lobbyist
- 1965: Peri Arndt , German musician and politician
- 1965: Robert Del Naja , British musician and artist
- 1965: Jam Master Jay , American hip hop musician
- 1965: Christine Paul , German soccer player
- 1965: Manfred Stücklschwaiger , German actor
- 1967: Konstantin Venyaminovich Astrakhansev , Russian ice hockey player
- 1969: Mike Arnold , German ski jumper
- 1969: Karina Lombard , American actress
- 1969: Birgit Peter , German handball player
- 1970: Alen Bokšić , Croatian footballer
- 1970: Michael Jakosits , German athlete
- 1970: Ken Leung , American actor
- 1970: Marian van de Wal , Dutch-Andorran singer
- 1971: Per-Willy Amundsen , Norwegian politician
- 1971: Alan McManus , British snooker player
- 1971: Auvita Rapilla , Papua New Guinea sports official
- 1972: Michael Ludwig Heryanto Arbi , Indonesian badminton player
- 1972: Sead Kapetanović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
- 1972: Chan Marshall , American songwriter
- 1972: Sabina Valbusa , Italian cross-country skier
- 1972: Javier Yubero , Spanish footballer
- 1974: Malena Alterio , Argentine-Spanish actress
- 1974: Remy-Luc Auberjonois , American actor
- 1974: Kim Dotcom , German hacker and entrepreneur
- 1974: Alexandre Sperafico , Brazilian racing driver
- 1975: Yūji Ide , Japanese Formula One driver
1976-2000
- 1976: Amin Asikainen , Finnish professional boxer
- 1976: Alexander Bommes , German handball player and TV presenter
- 1976: Emma Bunton , British singer
- 1976: Igors Stepanovs , Latvian footballer
- 1977: Ben Birchall , British motorcycle racer
- 1977: Bradley Carnell , South African footballer
- 1977: Scott King , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977: Kirsten Klose , German hammer thrower
- 1977: Phil Neville , English footballer
- 1977: Ralf Schmitt , German footballer
- 1977: Jerry Trainor , American actor
- 1978: Faris Al-Sultan , German triathlete
- 1978: Edita Malovčić , Austrian actress and singer
- 1979: Sebastian Schindzielorz , German footballer
- 1980: Fernando de Moraes , Brazilian-Australian football and futsal player
- 1980: Maria Popistașu , Romanian actress
- 1981: Marko Babić , Croatian footballer
- 1981: Ivan Ergić , Serbian-Australian footballer
- 1981: Roberto Guana , Italian footballer
- 1981: Dany Heatley , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982: Manuel Hobiger , German seismologist, volcano expert and quiz player
- 1982: Nicolas Mahut , French tennis player
- 1982: Simon Rolfes , German footballer
- 1983: Victor Leandro Bagy , Brazilian soccer player
- 1983: Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova , Russian actress
- 1983: Matthias Karbowski , German handball player
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- 1983: Maryse Ouellet , Canadian wrestler and model
- 1983: Rapsody , American rapper
- 1983: Moritz Volz , German footballer
- 1984: Amy Cragg , American long-distance runner
- 1984: Timo Salzer , German handball player
- 1985: Aura Dione , Danish singer-songwriter
- 1986: Mike Taylor , American basketball player
- 1988: Tim Henkel , German handball player
- 1988: Nemanja Tomić , Serbian footballer
- 1988: Merle Wasmuth , German actress
- 1989: Nareh Arghamyan , Armenian pianist
- 1990: Christoph Freitag , Austrian footballer
- 1990: Jacob Smith , American actor
- 1991: Ana Gros , Slovenian handball player
- 1991: Quirin Moll , German soccer player
- 1991: Xavier Quevedo , Venezuelan cyclist
- 1993: Wincent Weiss , German pop singer
- 1993: Jana Petříková , Czech footballer
- 1994: Amin Affane , Swedish footballer
- 1994: Marny Kennedy , Australian actress
- 1994: Laura Robson , British tennis player
- 1994: Daniel Stanese , Canadian-American soccer player
- 1994: Booboo Stewart , American actor, singer and martial artist
- 1995: Patrick Erras , German footballer
- 1995: Andrew Watson , British racing driver
- 1996: Marco Asensio , Spanish footballer
- 1996: Julia Schwaiger , Austrian biathlete
- 1996: Florian Wilmsmann , German freestyle skier
- 1998: Jannes Vollert , German soccer player
- 1999: Erik Kvernberg , Norwegian telemarker
21st century
- 2001: Jackson Brundage , American actor
- 2004: Ingrid Alexandra of Norway , Princess of Norway
Died
Before the 17th century
- 259: Fructuosus , Bishop of Tarraco
- 381: Athanaric , leader of the Terwings
- 496: Epiphanius of Pavia , Bishop of Pavia, saint
- 861: Meinrad von Einsiedeln , East Frankish monk
- 917: Erchanger , Duke of Swabia
- 1048: Poppo of Stablo , canonized abbot of 17 abbeys
- 1059: Michael I , Patriarch of Constantinople
- 1085: Dietrich II of Katlenburg , Count in Liesgau and Rittigau
- 1118: Paschal II , Pope
- 1170: Gunther von Andlau , Abbot of St Blasien
- 1198: Gerhard Unmaze , Cologne merchant and banker
- 1320: Árni Helgason , Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop
- 1329: Henry II , Prince of Mecklenburg
- 1330: Joanna II , Queen of France and Countess Palatine of Burgundy
- 1348: Henry III. , Count of Vaudemont
- 1354: Baldwin of Luxembourg , Archbishop of Trier
- 1356: Johann Windlock , Bishop of Constance
- 1397: Albrecht II , Duke of Straubing-Holland, governor of the Lower Bavarian part of the duchy
- 1398: Frederick V , Burgrave of Nuremberg
- 1416: Jacopo di Pietro Avanzi , Italian painter
- 1495: Madeleine de France , regent of the Kingdom of Navarre
- 1505: Albert von Vechelde , Mayor of Brunswick
- 1506: Johann IV Roth , Bishop of Lavant and Prince Bishop of Breslau
- 1519: Luigi d'Aragona , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1521: Henning Göde , German jurist, clergyman and Electoral Saxon councillor
- 1526: Apollonia von Wiedebach , Saxon noblewoman and benefactor
- 1527: Juan de Grijalva , Spanish explorer
- 1527: Jakob van Hoogstraten , Dominican and papal inquisitor
- 1567: Veit von Fraunberg , Bishop of Regensburg and Prince-Bishop of the Bishopric of Regensburg
- 1573: Joachim Cureus , German theological writer, historian and physician
- 1574: Abu Muhammad Abdallah al-Ghalib ibn Muhammad , second Sultan of the Saadian in Morocco
- 1578: Piyale Pasha , Ottoman admiral and vizier
- 1587: Juraj Drašković of Trakošćan , cardinal and ban of Croatia
- 1596: Johannes Ligarius , German Lutheran theologian, reformer and confessionalist
- 1599: Anton , Count of Holstein-Schaumburg and Bishop of Minden
- 1600: Georg Radziwill , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop of Kraków
17th and 18th centuries
- 1609: Joseph Justus Scaliger , French philosopher and scientist
- 1625: Christoph Neander , Kreuzkantor in Dresden
- 1628: Gregor Aichinger , German composer
- 1630: Lucia Reichmann , victim of the witch hunts in Laasphe
- 1638: Ignazio Donati , Italian organist, conductor and composer
- 1673: Carl Ferdinand Fabritius , German painter
- 1674: Henri de La Trémoille , Duke of Thouars
- 1683: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury , English politician and nobleman
- 1686: François Blondel , French architect and builder
- 1689: Gustaf Persson Banér , Swedish field marshal
- 1692: Michael Walther the Younger , German mathematician and Lutheran theologian
- 1700: Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort , English peer
- 1711: Friedrich Wilhelm Kettler , Duke of Courland and Zemgale
- 1711: Augustin Terwesten , Dutch painter
- 1712: Johann Georg Hocheisen , German orientalist
- 1725: Johann Christopher Jauch , German theologian and Baroque poet
- 1726: Kacper Bażanka , Polish architect
- 1726: Franz Beer , Austrian architect and master builder
- 1730: Marco Ricci , Venetian painter
- 1737: Ignjat Đurđević , Croatian nobleman, poet and translator, Benedictine monk and astronomer
- 1740: Jacques Cassard , French captain and privateer
- 1746: Gottfried Kirchhoff , German organist and composer
- 1765: Christian Braunmann Tullin , Norwegian poet
- 1767: Johann Sigismund Macquire of Inniskillen , Imperial General Feldzeugmeister, defender of Dresden
- 1773: Alexis Piron , French jurist and writer
- 1774: Florian Leopold Gassmann , Austrian composer
- 1774: Mustafa III. , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1775: Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev , Russian Don Cossack and leader of the Peasants' Revolt
- 1775: Johann Jakob Joseph Sinnermahler , German legal scholar and university teacher
- 1779: Christoph Traugott Delius , German mining scientist
- 1780: Johann Gottlieb Frenzel , German jurist, historian and philosopher
- 1788: Antoine Tassaert , Franco-Flemish sculptor
- 1789: Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach , German-born French philosopher
- 1793: Louis XVI , King of France
- 1793: William Austin , British physician and surgeon
- 1793: Jean-Philippe Dutoit-Membrini , Swiss mystic
19th century
- 1801: Friedrich Wilhelm von Arnim-Boitzenburg , Prussian civil servant and Minister of War
- 1804: Ernst Gottfried Baldinger , German physician
- 1806: Henry Ellis , British explorer, author and colonial governor of the Province of Georgia
- 1807: Volkmar Daniel Spörl , German Protestant theologian
- 1814: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , French writer
- 1815: Matthias Claudius , German poet ( The moon has risen )
- 1824: Nicolaus Sander , German evangelical clergyman
- 1825: Sophie Wilhelmine Mosewius , German singer
- 1831: Achim von Arnim , German poet
- 1834: Osei Yaw Akoto , Asantehene of the Ashanti Kingdom
- 1838: Carl Gustav Ludwig von Moltke , German squire, Oberjägermeister and Chamberlain
- 1845: Maria Johanna of Aachen , German writer
- 1848: John Vincent , British general
- 1851: Albert Lortzing , German composer
- 1853: Karl August Friedrich Brückner , German educator and historian
- 1856: Benedictus Gotthelf Teubner , German bookseller, publisher founder
- 1862: Božena Němcová , Czech writer
- 1867: Anders Oldberg , Swedish educator and book author
- 1868: Sándor Asbóth , Hungarian revolutionary and general
- 1871: Jan Jacob Rochussen , governor of the Dutch East Indies
- 1872: Thomas Bragg , American politician
- 1872: Franz Grillparzer , Austrian writer
- 1873: Karl Zell , German classical scholar and politician
- 1874: Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa , British opera singer (soprano)
- 1881: Wilhelm Matthias Naeff , Swiss politician
- 1883: Carl of Prussia , son of Friedrich Wilhelm III. and Queen Louise
- 1885: Friedrich Henning von Arnim , German entrepreneur
- 1886: Adolf Werneburg , German onomastic researcher and forester
- 1888: Jakob Joseph Adam , Swiss politician
- 1888: Adolph Douai , German-American journalist, publisher and educator
- 1890: Nathan Marcus Adler , German-British rabbi
- 1891: Calixa Lavallée , Canadian composer
- 1894: Carl Johann Lüdecke , German architect
- 1896: Johann Gustav Stickel , German Protestant theologian, orientalist and numismatist
- 1899: Mikhail Nikolayevich Annenkov , Russian general
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Elisha Gray , American teacher, inventor, and entrepreneur
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- 1902: Ernst Wichert , German writer and jurist
- 1907: Graziadio Ascoli , Italian linguist
- 1914: Mirza Abu'l-Fadl , Persian Bahai theologian
- 1914: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , Canadian businessman, politician and diplomat
- 1916: George Musgrove , Australian opera and theater entrepreneur
- 1918: Jan Drozdowski , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1918: Emil Jellinek , German businessman and consul
- 1918: Anna Maria Petersen , German painter
- 1919: Ahmed Muhtar Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1919: Alexis , Prince of Bentheim and Steinfurt
- 1919: Gojong , Korean king at the end of the Joseon dynasty
- 1921: Arthur Sifton , Canadian politician and judge
- 1922: Camille Jordan , French mathematician
- 1924: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , Russian communist politician and revolutionary, Marxist theorist, leader of party and government
- 1924: Conrad von Schubert , Prussian general, winery owner and MdR
- 1926: Camillo Golgi , Italian physician and physiologist
- 1928: Nikolai Astrup , Norwegian painter
- 1931: Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld , Russian composer
- 1932: Lytton Strachey , British writer
- 1934: Paul Ludwig Troost , German architect
- 1938: Georges Méliès , French magician and director
- 1942: Christiaan Cornelissen , Dutch author, activist and libertarian socialist
- 1942: Henryk Opieński , Polish composer
- 1942: Woldemar Tranzschel , Russian botanist and mycologist
- 1942: Heinrich Wolf , German writer
- 1945: Karel Poláček , Czech writer and journalist
- 1948: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari , German-Italian composer
- 1948: Ernst Herzfeld , German Near Eastern archaeologist
- 1950: George Orwell , British novelist and essayist
1951-2000
- 1954: Billy Jenkins , German marksman, lasso thrower and bird of prey trainer
- 1955: Archie Hahn , American track and field athlete
- 1957: Adolf Ahrens , German captain and politician, MP
- 1957: Petar Krstić , Serbian composer
- 1958: Josef Brönner , German politician, MP
- 1958: Ernst Ziegler , German entrepreneur and art collector
- 1959: Cecil B. DeMille , American director
- 1961: John J. Becker , American composer
- 1961: Blaise Cendrars , Swiss-French writer
- 1961: Heinrich Studer , Swiss publisher
- 1961: Heinrich Wienken , German clergyman, Bishop of Meissen
- 1963: Franz Jung , German writer, economist and politician
- 1963: Al St. John , American actor
- 1964: Joseph Baumgartner , German economist and politician, state minister, MdL, MP
- 1964: Carlo Chiarlo , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat, Cardinal of the Curia
- 1968: Georg Dertinger , German politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the GDR
- 1968: Ferdinand Lion , Swiss journalist and writer
- 1969: Franz Xaver Arnold , German theologian and religious scholar
- 1969: Giovanni Comisso , Italian writer
- 1972: Wilhelm Armbrecht , German politician, MdL
- 1973: William Wernigk , Austrian opera singer
- 1974: Lewis Strauss , American politician and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Agency
- 1975: Mascha Kaléko , Swiss poet
- 1979: Hermann Gösmann , German football official, President of the DFB
- 1979: Hans-Hilmar Staudte , German chess champion and chess composer
- 1981: Cuth Harrison , British Formula One racing driver
- 1983: Satomi Ton , Japanese writer
- 1984: Roger Blin , French actor and theater director
- 1984: Jackie Wilson , American singer
- 1985: Josef Dahmen , German actor
- 1985: Yusuf Lule , Ugandan politician
- 1985: Luise Ullrich , Austrian actress
- 1986: Günther Pape , German general
- 1986: Baby Ray , American football player
- 1988: Werner Nachmann , German businessman and politician, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
- 1989: Billy Tipton , transgender American jazz musician
- 1989: Harald Zusanek , Austrian writer
- 1990: Wilhelm Flitner , German educator
- 1992: Edmund Collein , German architect
- 1992: Champion Jack Dupree , American blues singer
- 1993: Felice Borel , Italian footballer
- 1993: Leo Löwenthal , German sociologist
- 1994: Basil al-Assad , Syrian politician
- 1995: Liselotte Schramm-Heckmann , German portrait, figure and landscape painter and costume artist
- 1997: Hans Egon Holthusen , German writer
- 1997: Colonel Tom Parker , Dutch-American manager of Elvis Presley
- 1998: Jack Lord , American actor
- 1999: Charles Brown , American blues ballad singer
- 1999: Jacques Chailley , French musicologist and composer
- 1999: Susan Strasberg , American actress
21st century
- 2001: Sandy Baron , American actor
- 2001: John Arthur Love , American politician
- 2002: Peggy Lee , American singer
- 2003: Ulrich Berger , German trade unionist and politician, MP
- 2005: René Bardet , Swiss musician and spokesman for Swiss television
- 2005: Václav Kubička , Czech national coach of German gymnastics
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- 2005: Theun de Vries , Dutch writer
- 2006: Klaus Kahlenberg , German journalist and the radio announcer of the last Wehrmachtbericht
- 2006: Josef Prader , Italian clergyman, author and scholar of canon law
- 2006: Ibrahim Rugova , President of Kosova
- 2007: Maria Cioncan , Romanian track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- 2007: Peer Raben , German composer of film music
- 2007: Erich Schumann , German publisher, managing director of the WAZ media group
- 2008: Reinhold Zundel , German local politician
- 2009: Helmut Hirsch , German historian and author
- 2009: Walter Kubiczeck , German composer
- 2010: Abraham Malamat , Austro-Israelite historian
- 2010: Guillermo Abadía Morales , Colombian folklorist
- 2011: Alfred Ardelt , German politician
- 2011: Charles Zwolsman senior , Dutch drug trafficker and racing driver
- 2012: Margot Schellemann , German puppeteer
- 2013: Robert Piloty , German engineer and computer scientist
- 2014: Manfred Bleskin , German journalist and TV presenter
- 2015: Alfons Lauer , German local politician, mayor of Merzig
- 2016: Anton-Wolfgang Graf von Faber-Castell , German entrepreneur
- 2016: Bogusław Kaczyński , Polish journalist, music critic and theorist, TV presenter and promoter of classical music
- 2016: Johanna Countess of Westphalen zu Fürstenberg , German politician
- 2017: Veljo Tormis , Estonian composer
- 2018: Robert Chancel , French racing driver
- 2019: Harris Wofford , American lawyer and politician
- 2019: Emiliano Sala , Argentine footballer
- 2020: Hédi Baccouche , Tunisian politician
- 2020: Terry Jones , British comedian
- 2020: Tengis Sigua , Georgian politician
- 2021: Rémy Julienne , French stuntman
- 2021: Cecilia Mangini , Italian director, screenwriter and photographer
- 2021: Anthony Mwamba , Zambian boxer
- 2021: Gernot Langes-Swarovski , Austrian entrepreneur
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- St Agnes of Rome , Roman martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Evangelical, Catholic, Orthodox)
- St. Meinrad von Einsiedeln , German hermit and monk, martyr and patron saint (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Matthias Claudius , German poet (Protestant)
- Saint Patroclus of Troyes , martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
- name days
- Other
- More information about church commemorations
- Switzerland , foundation of the first Anabaptist community (1525)
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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