October 21

The October 21 is the 294th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 295th in leap years ), thus remain 71 days by year end.

Historic anniversaries September · October · November

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Events

Politics and world events

• 63 BC BC : Consul Marcus Tullius Cicero learns of the Catilinarian conspiracy under the leadership of Lucius Sergius Catilina . The Roman Senate declares the state of emergency with extended powers for the consuls.
• 1096 : After the able-bodied members of the People's Crusade in an attempted attack on the city of Nicaea in an ambush of the Seljuks are advised they flee in panic into their camp. There the Seljuks pursue a massacre ; only about 3,000 crusaders can escape to an abandoned castle.
• 1097 : In the First Crusade , the siege of Antioch by the army of the Crusaders begins . It lasts until June 2nd of the following year.

1520: Magellan's journey

• 1520 : On his circumnavigation of the world , Ferdinand Magellan spotted a cape that he named Cabo Virgenes after the day it was discovered . The Cape of Virgin is located in today's Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena at the entrance to the Strait of Magellan, which was later named after him .

1600: The Battle of Sekigahara

• 1600 : In the Battle of Sekigahara , Tokugawa Ieyasu succeeds in consolidating the supremacy of the Tokugawa house in Japan . The battle marks the transition from the Sengoku period to the Edo period .
• 1792 : French revolutionary troops marching in the War of the First Coalition in Mainz one. As a result, the Republic of Mainz emerged as a subsidiary of the French Republic

1805: The Battle of Trafalgar

• 1805 : With the victory over Napoleon Bonaparte's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar during the Third Coalition War , Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson , who falls in the battle, secures British naval supremacy .
• 1850 : The states of the German Confederation agree on the introduction of the passport card in the Dresden Convention and thus the abolition of the visa requirement for domestic German travel.
• 1854 : Florence Nightingale travels with 38 nurses to Scutari (today Üsküdar in Istanbul , Turkey ) to look after the soldiers of the Crimean War .

1861: Union soldiers flee through the Potomac

• 1861 : The southern states defeat the northern states in the battle at Balls Bluff during the American Civil War .
• 1872 : The German Kaiser Wilhelm I , called on by Great Britain and the USA as arbitrator, decides that the San Juan Islands, located between the Washington Territory and British Columbia , are awarded to the United States and thus ends the pig conflict that has been smoldering for twelve years .

1885: Assassination attempt on the politician Estrup

• 1885 : In Copenhagen, one with a failed gun by-run attack on the Danish Prime Minister Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup . The first bullet fired by Julius Rasmussen ricochets off a button, the second shot misses the politician.
• 1888 : The Swiss Social Democratic Party is founded.
• 1895 : Japan smashes the Republic of Formosa and turns it into a Japanese colony .
• 1899 : The British defeat the Boers during the Second Boer War at the Battle of ElandslaAGEN .

Karl Graf von Stürgkh

• 1916 : The Austrian Prime Minister Karl Graf von Stürgkh is murdered by Friedrich Adler .
• 1918 : The German-speaking members of the House of Representatives meet for the first time as the Provisional National Assembly for German Austria in the Lower Austrian Landhaus in Herrengasse in Vienna .
• 1918 : The German Empire is in the First World War, the Unrestricted submarine warfare one.
• 1919 : The Republic of German Austria is renamed the Republic of Austria .
• 1921 : Charles I , former Emperor of Austria, tries to return to the Hungarian throne for the second time .
• 1923 : Separatists proclaim the Rhenish Republic in Aachen .
• 1923 : The Christian Social Party receives a majority in the National Council election in Austria . Ignaz Seipel remains Federal Chancellor .
• 1928 : Weimar Republic : Alfred Hugenberg becomes chairman of the DNVP .
• 1935 : The German exit from the League of Nations becomes legally effective.
• 1937 : After the occupation of the city of Gijón in the Spanish Civil War , the entire north coast of Spain is under the control of the nationalist troops of General Franco .
• 1938 : Japanese troops capture the southern Chinese city ​​of Canton in the Second Sino-Japanese War .
• 1939 : The German Reich and Italy conclude the Hitler-Mussolini Agreement for the resettlement of the German and Ladin minorities in South Tyrol into the German Reich.
• 1941 : The German Wehrmacht committed in retaliation for a partisan attack in World War II a massacre against the civilian population of Kragujevac .

1944: German prisoners of war train through the ruins of Aachen

• 1944 : After three weeks of battle , the Allies win World War II, the city of Aachen is the first German city.
• 1944 : Soviet soldiers perpetrate the Second World War in the East Prussian village Nemmersdorf a massacre of civilians. This is the first violent attack on German residents by members of the Red Army when they marched into what was then Reich territory .
• 1945 : In France that is women's suffrage introduced.
• 1948 : The UN rejects the Soviet application for the destruction of all nuclear weapons .
• 1951 : The Bharatiya Jana Sangh ("Jan Sangh"), the forerunner of the later ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is founded in Delhi .
• 1956 : Władysław Gomułka is elected chairman of the Polish United Workers' Party and takes power in Poland .
• 1969 : Willy Brandt is elected Federal Chancellor in West Germany . The first social-liberal federal government begins its work.
• 1971 : The Congo state is renamed Zaire .
• 1974 : President Siad Barre acknowledges drought and famine problems in northeast Somalia .
• 1976 : The UN General Assembly elects the Federal Republic of Germany to the Security Council for two years .
• 1984 : In the state of Vorarlberg , the Greens move into an Austrian parliament for the first time.

1986: Marshall Islands

• 1986 : The Marshall Islands in Micronesia become independent from the USA .
• 1993 : The assassination of President Melchior Ndadaye in an attempted coup sparked civil war in Burundi .
• 2004 : In the newspapers, the ambiguous headline causes Fidel Castro to be overthrown! for a sensation: The President sustains several broken bones when he falls down a flight of stairs after a public appearance.
• 2012 : The Green politician Fritz Kuhn is elected Lord Mayor of Stuttgart .

economy

• 1824 : The British Joseph Aspdin receives a patent on Portland cement .
• 1907 : The New York National Bank of Commerce makes no other changes to the Bank Knickerbocker Trust Company at more. The bank's insecure investors are making the bank illiquid . The panic that broke out in 1907 spreads wider circles.
• 2002 : The summit meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation APEC begins in Mexico .
• 2011 : Opening of the new runway 07L / 25R at Frankfurt Airport

science and technology

• 1638 : The church in Widecombe-in-the-Moor is destroyed by ball lightning during the afternoon service . Four people die and 60 are injured. The unusual weather event leads to a documented representation of a ball lightning.
• 1803 : The British naturalist John Dalton submits a statement to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in which the first table of relative atomic weights can be found.
• 1879 : Thomas Alva Edison's first commercial incandescent lamp passes an endurance test of over 40 hours in the Menlo Park laboratory in New Jersey .

1907: lower jaw of Mauer (replica)

• 1907 : The day laborer Daniel Hartmann finds the lower jaw of Mauer , the type specimen of Homo heidelbergensis, near Heidelberg . It is the oldest fossil of the genus Homo that has been recovered in Germany.
• 1923 : The German Museum presents the world's first projection planetarium in Munich , which Walther Bauersfeld developed with the Jena company Zeiss .

1970: Ny Lillebæltsbro

• 1970 : Ny Lillebæltsbro , the motorway bridge over the Little Belt in Denmark, is opened to traffic after a five-year construction period.
• 1981 : With the signing of the three-country agreement by the three governors of Carinthia , Salzburg and Tyrol in Heiligenblut , the Hohe Tauern is declared the first Austrian national park.
• 1997 : A new model of the Mercedes-Benz A-Class tips over in the “ moose test ” in Sweden. As a consequence, Daimler-Benz installed the Electronic Stability Program (ESP) as standard - a novelty outside of the luxury class at the time.

Image of Eris from 2003 (with moon Dysnomia)

• 2003 : The Mount Palomar Observatory takes pictures of the Kuiper Belt , on which Michael E. Brown , Chad Trujillo and David Lincoln Rabinowitz discovered the dwarf planet Eris in July 2005 .

Culture

• 1680 : The Comédie-Française comes into being through a decree of King Louis XIV , which regulates the amalgamation of the two Parisian drama troops of the Hôtel de Bourgogne and the Théâtre de Guénégaud .
• 1727 : The first performance of the melodrama Teuzzone by Attilio Ariosti takes place at the King's Theater in London.

1858: poster for the first performance

• 1858 : At the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris, the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach takes place . Offenbach's first full-length work with a libretto by Hector Crémieux was a sensational success.
• 1891 : The first performance of the tragic opera Vendetta by Alexander von Fielitz takes place in Lübeck.
• 1892 : On the central tower of the Vienna City Hall is Rathausmann placed, a 1.8-ton knight figure.
• 1896 : At the Théâtre de la Gaîté in Paris which is Opéra-Comique La poupée of Edmond Audran premiered.
• 1919 : The world premiere of the opera Fennimore and Gerda by Frederick Delius takes place at the Frankfurt Opera in Frankfurt am Main.
• 1925 : The painter Paul Klee shows some of his works for the first time in Paris.
• 1951 : Gottfried Benn receives the Georg Büchner Prize .

1959: The Guggenheim Museum New York

• 1959 : The Guggenheim Museum in New York, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright , opens.
• 1964 : My Fair Lady with Audrey Hepburn comes to German cinemas.
• 1992 : The published illustrated book SEX by the artist Madonna triggers the intended scandal , which drives sales. One of the most successful coffee table books is born.

religion

• 0686 : The priest Konon is elected Pope to succeed John V.
• 1187 : Alberto di Morra is elected Pope Gregory VIII in Ferrara .
• 1526 : Johann Feige opens the Homberg Synod . It should clarify the question of whether the Protestant faith will be introduced in the Landgraviate of Hesse .
• 2012 : Pope Benedict XVI. saints the German Anna Schäffer , the German nun Marianne Cope and the North American Kateri Tekakwitha as part of a solemn ceremony on St. Peter's Square in Rome .

Disasters

• 1907 : An earthquake of intensity 8.1 calls in Central Asia about 12,000 deaths.
• 1930 : A serious mine accident in Alsdorf near Aachen kills 271.
• 1948 : 39 people die in the crash of a Lockheed Constellation in Prestwick , Scotland. The captain of the machine is the Dutch aviation pioneer Koene Dirk Parmentier .
• 1962 : 41 people die in the sinking of the Norwegian mail ship Sanct Svithun . It is the worst accident on the Norwegian mail route Hurtigruten in peacetime.
• 1966 : The Aberfan disaster south of Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales kills 144 people, most of them school children.

2005: Hurricane Wilma off the Yucatán

• 2005 : Hurricane Wilma ravages Mexico's Yucatán peninsula .

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

Sports

• 2007 : In the Formula 1 season , the Finn Kimi Räikkönen wins the last race for the Brazilian Grand Prix and thus becomes Formula 1 world champion.
• 2012 : The Canadian racing driver Bruno Spengler ( BMW ) wins the DTM title in the last race at the Hockenheimring .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1449 : George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence , English nobleman
• 1467 : Giovanni di Pierfrancesco de 'Medici , member of the younger line of the Medici
• 1513 : Adrian Albinus , German legal scholar
• 1527 : Louis I de Lorraine-Guise , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1616 or 1619 : Camillo Astalli , Italian cardinal
• 1638 : Johann Samuel Adami , theologian, writer and linguist
• 1650 : Jean Bart , corsair from Dunkirk in the service of the French King Louis XIV.

Frederick IV (* 1671)

• 1671 : Frederick IV , King of Denmark and Norway
• 1675 : Higashiyama , 113th Tennō of Japan

18th century

• 1702 : Friedrich Benedict Carpzov II , German lawyer and legal scholar
• 1725 : Franz Moritz von Lacy , Austrian general
• 1726 : Bengt Andersson Qvist , Swedish mineralogist, mining and metallurgical expert and chemist
• 1737 : Marie-Louise O'Murphy , French courtesan and mistress of Louis XV.
• 1740 : Robert Abercromby , British general
• 1748 : Johann Michael Afsprung , teacher and journalist from Baden
• 1757 : Pierre-François-Charles Augereau , Marshal of France
• 1762 : Herman Willem Daendels , Dutch general and governor general of the Dutch East Indies
• 1762 : Georg Anton Christoph Scheffler , German educator and philologist
• 1764 : János Bihari , Hungarian composer ("gypsy violinist")
• 1771 : Alexandre-Étienne Choron , French musicologist and pedagogue
• 1772 : Samuel T. Coleridge , English poet
• 1786 : Carl Traugott Kreyssig , German lawyer
• 1786 : Henry Lemoine , French music publisher and music teacher
• 1790 : Alphonse de Lamartine , French poet

19th century

1801-1850

• 1807 : Napoléon-Henri Reber , French composer
• 1808 : Eberhard Emminger , German lithographer and landscape painter
• 1808 : Doris Esselbach , German restaurateur
• 1812 : David Hartley Armstrong , American politician
• 1817 : Wilhelm Roscher , German economist, founder of the older historical school of economics
• 1823 : Emilio Arrieta , Spanish composer
• 1831 : Hermann Hellriegel , German agricultural chemist
• 1832 : Gustav Langenscheidt , German publisher
• 1832 : Valdemar Tofte , Danish violinist and music teacher

Alfred Nobel (* 1833)

• 1833 : Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor and industrialist
• 1836 : Adolf Schwarz , Austro-Hungarian chess master
• 1837 : James Beaver , American politician
• 1837 : Cäcilie von Brockdorff , German painter and editor
• 1839 : Georg von Siemens , German banker
• 1845 : Marshall Arnold , American politician
• 1845 : Andreas Franz Frühwirth , Austrian clergyman, curia cardinal
• 1847 : Edvard Brandes , Danish cultural politician and writer
• 1849 : Gustav Adolf Arndt , German lawyer and university professor

Hermann Müller (* 1850)

• 1850 : Hermann Müller , Swiss plant physiologist, botanist, oenologist and vine grower

1851-1900

• 1853 : Werner Körte , German surgeon
• 1857 : Alfons Auer , German politician
• 1864 : Gustav von Arthaber , Austrian paleontologist and Triassic stratigraph
• 1869 : Stina Berg , Swedish actress
• 1874 : Albert Aftalion , French economist and business theorist
• 1874 : Henri Guisan , Swiss General, Commander in Chief of the Swiss Army
• 1877 : Oswald Avery , Canadian medic
• 1882 : Hermann Mutschmann , German classical philologist
• 1883 : Fritz Knoll , Austrian botanist, rector of the University of Vienna
• 1883 : Egon Wellesz , Austro-British composer and musicologist

Claire Waldoff (* 1884)

• 1884 : Claire Waldoff , German chanson singer and cabaret artist
• 1886 : Eugene Burton Ely , American aviation pioneer
• 1886 : Karl Polanyi , Hungarian economist and economic historian
• 1892 : Alf Ahlberg , Swedish writer, humanist and philosopher
• 1892 : Otto Nerz , German football player and coach, first Reich coach of the DFB
• 1894 : Klemens Brosch , Austrian graphic artist
• 1895 : Shukichi Mitsukuri , Japanese composer
• 1895 : Edna Purviance , American actress
• 1897 : Georg von Hengl , German SS-Obersturmbannführer and general of the mountain troops
• 1898 : Amadeus , Count of Savoy, Duke of Apulia, 3rd Duke of Aosta, Governor and Viceroy of Italian East Africa
• 1898 : Heinrich Walter , Swiss geobotanist and eco-physiologist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Margarete Buber-Neumann , German Gulag and concentration camp prisoners, publicist and writer
• 1901 : John Strachey , British politician and socialist ideologist
• 1902 : Kurt Scharf , German theologian
• 1904 : Heinz Ludwig Ansbacher , German-American psychologist
• 1905 : Arnold Verhoeven , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1906 : Lillian Gertrud Asplund , third from last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic
• 1906 : Varise Connor , American Cajun musician (fiddle player)
• 1906 : Tomojiro Ikenouchi , Japanese composer and music teacher
• 1907 : August Sundermann , German physician, rector of the Medical Academy in Erfurt
• 1908 : Howard Ferguson , Irish composer
• 1908 : Jorge Oteiza , Spanish sculptor and painter
• 1910 : Panchito Riset , Cuban son and bolero singer
• 1911 : Mary Blair , American artist
• 1912 : Walter Hamelehle , German motorcycle racer
• 1912 : Alfredo Piàn , Argentine racing car driver
• 1912 : Georg Solti , British-Hungarian conductor
• 1914 : Martin Gardner , American science journalist
• 1914 : Johann Houschka , Austrian field handball player
• 1917 : John Dizzy Gillespie , American musician
• 1917 : Heinz Oskar Vetter , German trade unionist and chairman of the DGB
• 1918 : Milton Himmelfarb , American writer
• 1921 : Malcolm Arnold , British composer
• 1921 : Enrique Meneses , Spanish photographer and journalist
• 1922 : Per-Olof Åstrand , Swedish physiologist and sports scientist
• 1922 : Peter Demetz , American literary scholar
• 1923 : Eva Maria Bauer , German actress
• 1923 : Horst Herold , German lawyer and President of the Federal Criminal Police Office
• 1925 : Celia Cruz , Cuban singer
• 1925 : Isaiah Doctor Ross , American musician

1926-1950

• 1926 : Don Elliott , American jazz musician
• 1926 : Eberhard Fechner , German director
• 1926 : Werner Holzer , German journalist and publicist
• 1926 : Leo Kirch , German media mogul
• 1926 : Hubert Luttenberger , German motorcycle racer
• 1927 : Howard Zieff , American director
• 1928 : Józef Kański , Polish music critic
• 1928 : Ardico Magnini , Italian football player
• 1929 : Ramón Francisco , Dominican poet and essayist
• 1929 : Ursula K. Le Guin , American author
• 1931 : William Bradley , British racing car driver
• 1931 : Thomas C. Oden , American theologian
• 1932 : Cesare Perdisa , Italian racing driver
• 1933 : Francisco Gento , Spanish football player
• 1934 : Thomas Lee Judge , American politician, governor of Montana
• 1935 : Derek Bell , Irish musician
• 1935 : Jadwiga Barańska , Polish actress
• 1936 : Mahi Khennane , Algerian-French football player and coach
• 1936 : Joachim Reinelt , German bishop
• 1937 : Édith Scob , French actress
• 1939 : Bernhard Klausnitzer , German entomologist and zoologist
• 1940 : Peter Maurice Arnison , Australian officer and politician
• 1940 : Manfred Mann , South African musician and songwriter
• 1940 : Marita Petersen , Faroese politician and head of government
• 1940 : Roy Woods , American racing car driver and racing team owner
• 1941 : Steve Cropper , American guitarist, producer, and songwriter
• 1942 : Les AuCoin , American politician
• 1942 : Elvin Bishop , American musician
• 1942 : Allan Grice , Australian racing driver and politician
• 1942 : Paula Kelly , American actress and model
• 1942 : Christopher A. Sims , American economist
• 1944 : Martin Roda Becher , Swiss writer
• 1944 : Ene Mihkelson , Estonian writer
• 1945 : Nikita Michalkow , Russian director and actor
  

  Nikita Michalkow (* 1945)
• 1946 : Otto Clemens , Austrian actor
• 1946 : Marek Drewnowski , Polish pianist
• 1947 : Ai , American poet and university professor
• 1947 : Jerry Bergonzi , American jazz saxophonist
• 1948 : Daniel Akerson , American manager
• 1948 : Albert Frick , Liechtenstein politician and President of the State Parliament
• 1949 : Benjamin Netanyahu , Israeli politician and prime minister
  

  Benjamin Netanyahu (* 1949)
• 1949 : Shulamit Ran , Israeli-American composer and music teacher
• 1950 : Riccardo Agusta , Italian entrepreneur and racing car driver

1951-1975

• 1951 : Sigmund Gottlieb , German journalist and editor-in-chief of Bavarian television
• 1951 : Bernd Rohwer , German politician, state minister
• 1952 : Mehdi Charef , Algerian writer, film director and playwright
• 1952 : Brent Mydland , American keyboardist and singer
• 1953 : Eleonora Giorgi , Italian actress
• 1953 : Keith Green , American singer and composer
• 1953 : Peter Mandelson , British politician
• 1953 : Robert Meyer , German actor
• 1954 : Pamela J. Fayle , Australian Ambassador
• 1955 : Natalja Komarowa , Russian politician
• 1956 : Carrie Frances Fisher , American actress and author

Wolfgang Ketterle (* 1957)

• 1957 : Attila the Stockbroker , English songwriter, musician and poet
• 1957 : Wolfgang Ketterle , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1957 : Steve Lukather , American guitarist and singer
• 1957 : Lyle Workman , American musician and film composer
• 1958 : Dieter Amann , Austrian ski racer
• 1958 : Patricia Espinosa Cantellano , Mexican diplomat

Andre Geim (* 1958)

• 1958 : Andre Geim , Dutch-British physicist of Russian-German origin, Nobel Prize winner
• 1958 : Julio Médem , Spanish film director and screenwriter

Udo Wachtveitl (* 1958)

• 1958 : Udo Wachtveitl , German actor
• 1960 : Israel Akopkochjan , Soviet boxer
• 1961 : Marina Krogull , German actress and voice actress
• 1962 : Pat Tiberi , American politician
• 1964 : Klaus Holetschek , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1967 : Alejandro Apud , Uruguayan football player and coach
• 1967 : Paul Ince , English football player
• 1968 : Kerstin Andreae , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1968 : Jeff Chimenti , American musician
• 1969 : Dariusz Edward Adamczuk , Polish football player
• 1969 : Richard Balandras , French racing car driver
• 1969 : Lucio Cecchinello , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1969 : Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Chalifa , Crown Prince of Bahrain
• 1970 : Gerd J. Pohl , German puppeteer
• 1971 : Oliver Paasch , Belgian politician
• 1973 : Lera Auerbach , Russian composer, pianist and author
• 1973 : Oliver Unsöld , German football player
• 1975 : Juan Pablo Ángel Arango, Colombian national soccer player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Andrew Scott , Irish actor
• 1976 : Mélanie Turgeon , Canadian ski racer
• 1977 : Def Cut , Swiss DJ and music producer
• 1977 : Julieta Cardinali , Argentine actress
• 1978 : Olena Resnir , Ukrainian handball player
• 1979 : Katrin Šmigun , Estonian cross-country skier

Kim Kardashian (born 1980)

• 1980 : Kim Kardashian , American model
• 1981 : Nemanja Vidić , Serbian football player
• 1982 : Qairat Aeschirbekow , Kazakh football player
• 1982 : Lee Chong Wei , Malaysian badminton player
• 1983 : Hrvoje Ćustić , Croatian football player
• 1983 : Naiara Egozkue , Spanish handball player
• 1983 : Amber Rose , American model
• 1983 : Aaron Tveit , American actor
• 1984 : Kenny Cooper , American football player
• 1984 : Silvio Heinevetter , German handball player
• 1984 : Felix Lehrmann , German drummer
• 1984 : Arlette van Weersel , Dutch chess player
• 1985 : Tilo Jung , German journalist
• 1985 : Maximillian Roeg , British actor
• 1986 : Almen Abdi , Swiss football player
• 1988 : Nathalie Bock , German soccer player
• 1988 : Hope Hicks , American model and PR consultant
• 1989 : Kristina Dumitru , German actress
• 1989 : Sidonie von Krosigk , German actress
• 1989 : Marcel Lenz , German handball player
• 1989 : Tobias Rivesjö , Swedish handball player
• 1989 : Christin Stark , German pop singer
• 1989 : Christopher Zanella , Swiss racing driver
• 1990 : Raidel Acea , Cuban middle distance runner
• 1990 : Ricky Rubio , Spanish basketball player
• 1990 : Maxime Vachier-Lagrave , French chess player
• 1992 : Marcel Andrijanic , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1992 : Bernard Tomic , Australian tennis player
• 1993 : Rahel Aschwanden , Swiss table tennis player
• 1994 : Aias Aosman , Syrian-German soccer player
• 1994 : Florian Kath , German soccer player
• 1994 : Adrián Solano , Venezuelan cross-country skier
• 1995 : Doja Cat , American rapper and singer
• 1996 : Paola Piazzolla , Italian rower

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0371 : Hilarion of Gaza , ascetic, hermit and saint
• 1096 : Walter Sans-Avoir , a leader of the People's Crusade
• 1125 : Cosmas of Prague , Bohemian chronicler of the Middle Ages
• 1190 : Ranulf de Glanville , Anglo-Norman nobleman and Justiciar of England
• 1210 : Hugo II , provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery
• 1262 : Aymo von Grandson , Bishop of Geneva

Birger Jarl († 1266)

• 1266 : Birger Jarl , Swedish statesman
• 1275 : Sancho of Aragón , Archbishop of Toledo
• 1278 : Johann III. , Bishop of Prague
• 1284 : Gerhard von Ennstal , Bishop of Lavant
• 1287 : Stephen Bersted , Bishop of Chichester
• 1314 : Geoffrey de Geneville , Anglo-French baron
• 1327 : Guido Tarlati , Italian bishop
• 1355 : Bertrand de Déaulx , French bishop, diplomat and cardinal
• 1363 : Hugues Roger , French bishop
• 1422 : Charles VI. , King of France
• 1425 : Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland , English nobleman and partisan of the House of Lancaster
• 1427 : Raimond Mairose , Roman lawyer and cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1439 : Ambrogio Traversari , Tuscan humanist and theologian
• 1458 : Peter of Savoy , Archbishop of Tarentaise and Bishop of Geneva
• 1494 : Gian Galeazzo Sforza , Duke of Milan
• 1500 : Go-Tsuchimikado , 103rd Emperor of Japan

16th to 18th century

• 1514 : Alexander of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Veldenz
• 1515 : Pleikard von Gemmingen , canon in Wimpfen Abbey
• 1535 : Christian Beyer , German legal scholar
• 1556 : Pietro Aretino , Italian writer
• 1558 : Julius Caesar Scaliger , Italian humanist, poet and naturalist
• 1575 : Kaspar Eberhard , German Lutheran theologian and educator
• 1634 : Otto von Preen , German lawyer and court official
• 1637 : Laurens Reael , Dutch admiral and governor general of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Southeast Asia
• 1687 : Edmund Waller , English poet and politician
• 1708 : Christian Weise , German writer, playwright and pedagogue
• 1734 : Juan Bautista de Orendáin , Spanish politician and Prime Minister
• 1744 : Wilhelmine von Grävenitz , mistress of Duke Eberhard Ludwig from Württemberg
• 1751 : Annibale Albani , Italian cardinal
• 1765 : Giovanni Paolo Pannini , Italian painter and architect
• 1769 : Johann Samuel Agner , German clergyman and writer
• 1773 : Johann Conrad Schlaun , German Baroque builder
• 1775 : Maria Wilhelmina von Auersperg , Austrian nobleman and lady-in-waiting Maria Theresa

19th century

• 1801 : Johann Stapfer , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1803 : Alberto Fortis , Italian scholar

Horatio Nelson († 1805)

• 1805 : Horatio Nelson , British admiral
• 1825 : Friedrich Theodor von Schubert , German astronomer
• 1834 : Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby , British politician and equestrian enthusiast
• 1841 : Aloys Schreiber , German teacher and professor of aesthetics, court historian, writer and travel book author
• 1844 : Nikolos Baratashvili , Georgian poet
• 1851 : Georg Christian von Wangenheim , Hanoverian Oberhofmarschall
• 1861 : Edward Dickinson Baker , American politician
• 1872 : Jacques Babinet , French physicist
• 1873 : Johan Sebastian Welhaven , Norwegian writer
• 1874 : Marià Fortuny , Catalan painter
• 1881 : Eduard Heine , German mathematician
• 1883 : John Nevins Andrews , American travel preacher, Bible theologian, and president of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference
• 1886 : José Hernández , Argentine journalist and poet
• 1892 : Anne Charlotte Leffler , Swedish writer
• 1899 : Romain Bussine , French singer, vocal teacher and poet
• 1900 : Alexander Achilles , German lawyer and Imperial Judge

20th century

1901-1950

• 1904 : Isabelle Eberhardt , Russian-Swiss explorer and travel writer
• 1905 : Hermann Usener , German classical philologist and religious scholar
• 1909 : George Augustus Graham , British officer and cynologist
• 1916 : Karl Stürgkh , Austrian politician and kk Prime Minister
• 1924 : Martin Marsick , Belgian violin virtuoso and teacher
• 1925 : Heinrich von Angeli , Austrian painter
• 1930 : Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner , German economist and women's rights activist, one of the first university teachers
• 1931 : Barbecue Bob , American blues pioneer

Arthur Schnitzler († 1931)

• 1931 : Arthur Schnitzler , Austrian storyteller and playwright
• 1932 : Anton Funtek , Slovenian writer
• 1933 : Charles Follot , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1937 : Maximilian Beyer , German theologian
• 1944 : Alois Kayser , German missionary
• 1944 : Erich Ziebarth , German ancient historian
• 1945 : Henry Armetta , Italian-American actor
• 1948 : Koene Dirk Parmentier , Dutch aviation pioneer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Willy Fischer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1956 : Ángel Castro Argiz , Spanish-Cuban worker, father of Fidel, Raul and Ramón Castro
• 1956 : Ludwig Arzt , German entrepreneur
• 1957 : Joseph T. Rucker , American cameraman
• 1960 : Paul Fallot , French geologist and paleontologist.
• 1961 : Karl Korsch , German politician and philosopher
• 1962 : Vanni Marcoux , French singer
• 1963 : Heinrich Höfler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1964 : Andrej Afanassowitsch Babajew , Azerbaijani composer
• 1965 : Bill Black , American musician
• 1967 : Ejnar Hertzsprung , Danish astronomer
• 1968 : Andrew Aitkenhead , Scottish-Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
• 1968 : Gertrude Pritzi , Austrian table tennis player

Jack Kerouac († 1969)

• 1969 : Jack Kerouac , American writer, representative of the Beat Generation ( On The Road )
• 1969 : Waclaw Sierpinski , Polish mathematician
• 1970 : Ernest Haller , American cameraman
• 1973 : Nasif Estéfano , Argentine racing car driver
• 1974 : Louis Bonne , French racing car driver
• 1974 : Frederik Buytendijk , Dutch biologist, anthropologist, psychologist, physiologist and sports medicine specialist
• 1974 : Maruyama Kaoru , Japanese writer
• 1975 : Charles Reidpath , American city architect, urban planner and athlete, Olympic champion

1976-2000

• 1976 : Jean Berveiller , French organist and composer
• 1977 : Norman Thomas Cardinal Gilroy , Australian clergyman, Archbishop of Sydney
• 1978 : Anastas Hovhannessi Mikojan , Soviet politician
• 1980 : Hans Asperger , Austrian pediatrician
• 1982 : Hermann Berg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1984 : François Truffaut , French director and film critic, actor and producer
• 1984 : Dalibor Vačkář , Czech composer
• 1990 : Jo Ann Kelly , British blues singer and guitarist
• 1991 : Frank Barufski , German actor, radio play speaker and presenter
• 1991 : William Shea , American attorney
• 1992 : Jim Garrison , American lawyer and prosecutor
• 1994 : Horst Gernhardt , German soccer player
• 1995 : Maxene Angelyn Andrews , American singer
• 1995 : Nancy Graves , American sculptor, painter and filmmaker
• 1995 : Hans Helfritz , German composer, musicologist and writer
• 1995 : Shannon Hoon , American singer ( Blind Melon )
• 1996 : Léon Yehouda Ashkénasi , French rabbi
• 1998 : Walter Schmiele , German writer and translator
• 1999 : Lars Bo , Danish artist and author
• 1999 : John Edward Bromwich , Australian tennis player

21st century

• 2001 : Ernst Anrich , German historian
• 2002 : Manfred Ewald , German politician and sports official in the GDR
• 2002 : Jesse Leonard Greenstein , American astronomer
• 2003 : Elliott Smith , American singer-songwriter
• 2004 : Flor Roffé de Estévez , Venezuelan music teacher and composer
• 2005 : Karin Adelmund , Dutch politician
• 2006 : Arthur Peacocke , British biochemist and theologian
• 2007 : Ronald B. Kitaj , American painter, printmaker and draftsman
• 2007 : Ileana Sonnabend , American gallery owner
• 2008 : Sonja Countess Bernadotte , German nobleman and entrepreneur
• 2009 : Heinz Czechowski , German poet and dramaturge

Loki Schmidt († 2010)

• 2010 : Loki Schmidt , German botanist and conservationist
• 2011 : Drikus Veer , Dutch motorcycle racer
• 2012 : Yash Chopra , Indian film director
• 2012 : George McGovern , American politician
• 2014 : Gough Whitlam , Australian politician
• 2016 : Manfred Krug , German actor, singer and writer
• 2016 : C. Peter Wagner , American theologian, evangelical missionary, missiologist and community building specialist
• 2018 : Robert Faurisson , French Holocaust denier

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Hilarion of Gaza , Roman hermit and monk (Catholic, Orthodox)
  • Elias Schrenk , German revival preacher (Protestant)
  • St John of Bridlington , English clergyman (Catholic)
• Name days
  • Ursula

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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