April 22

The April 22 is the 112th day of the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years ), thus remain still 253 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1370 : In the French capital Paris , under King Charles V, the foundation stone is laid for the construction of the Bastille as part of the fortifications against the attacks by the English in the Hundred Years War .

1401: Victory over Störtebeker

• 1401 : A fleet of the Hanseatic League under the command of the Hamburg resident Simon von Utrecht succeeds in confronting the Vitalienbrüder and defeating them in a sea battle off Heligoland . Klaus Störtebeker , the leader of the pirates , is taken as a prisoner on the flagship Bunte Kuh .

1500: Brazil

• 1500 : The Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the coast of today's Brazil north of today's Porto Seguro with his expedition . It is uncertain whether he will be the first European in the country.
• 1513 : On the expedition of the Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de León in the waters around Florida , his navigator Antón de Alaminos noticed a strong ocean current that decades later was named the Gulf Stream .
• 1529 : In the Treaty of Saragossa , Spain and Portugal delimit their spheres of interest in the Pacific to 297.5 leguas east of the Moluccas .
• 1676 : During the Dutch War , a Dutch-Spanish fleet fights against a French fleet in the naval battle of Augusta . In it, the Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter is so badly injured that he dies seven days later.
• 1745 : By the Peace of Füssen Bavaria separates under Elector Maximilian III. Joseph left the War of the Austrian Succession .
• 1796 : In the Battle of Mondovi , French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat the army from Piedmont . According to Napoléon, General Jean Mathieu Philibert Sérurier played a key role in the French victory .

1809: Battle of Eggmühl

• 1809 : Napoleon Bonaparte defeated the Austrians under Archduke Karl von Österreich-Teschen in the Battle of Eggmühl in the Fifth Coalition War with his generals Jean Lannes and Louis-Nicolas Davout . Davout was subsequently raised to the rank of Prince of Eggmühl .
• 1821 : After the start of the Greek War of Independence , the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregorios V is hung from a church door in Constantinople on the orders of Sultan Mahmud II .
• 1836 : One day after the Battle of San Jacinto , the Texas revolutionaries capture Mexican President Antonio López de Santa Anna and force him to recognize the independence of the Republic of Texas in the Velasco Treaties on May 14th .
• 1875 : The so-called Bread Basket Act intensifies the culture war with the Roman Catholic Church in the German Empire . The law drafted by Otto von Bismarck blocks all church bodies that refuse to recognize the empire from state services.

1889: Oklahoma Land Run

• 1889 : With the Oklahoma Land Run in what is now Kingfisher County , the last Indian territory on the territory of the United States in Oklahoma is opened to white people for settlement.
• 1900 : In the battle of Kousséri between three French colonial armies under the command of Amédée-François Lamy on the one hand and the troops of the Bornu empire under the usurper Rabih az-Zubayr ibn Fadl Allah on the other hand, both military leaders are killed. The Central African Empire defeated by the French in this battle is later divided among the colonial powers Great Britain, France and Germany.
• 1915 : Germany is in the Second Battle of Ypres the First World War at Ypres in Belgium became the first country in the history of poison gas on a large scale one. 5,000 French soldiers are killed instantly by chlorine gas , twice as many seriously injured.
• 1933 : The ordinance on the admission of doctors to work with the health insurance companies revokes “non-Aryan” doctors and those “who were active in the communist sense” in the Third Reich.

1945: Memorial to the victims of the Jasenovac concentration camp

• 1945 : 600 prisoners from the Jasenovac concentration camp , built by the Ustasha in Croatia based on the model of the extermination camps in Germany, attempt to break out. Only 80 prisoners can escape, all others are killed.
• 1946 : Under pressure from the Soviet occupation is in East Berlin on the Unity Congress of the merger of the KPD under Wilhelm Pieck and SPD under Otto Grotewohl to the Socialist Unity Party ( SED completed). Pieck and Grotewohl become the first chairmen.
• 1967 : The 7th party congress of the SED , which is coming to an end, decides to introduce the five-day week in the GDR . On the other hand, five public holidays will be deleted.
• 1971 : The son of the late dictator François Duvalier , Jean-Claude Duvalier , known as Baby Doc , is sworn in as President of Haiti for life .
• 1980 : In Liberia , 13 representatives of the government , which was overthrown by Samuel K. Doe in a coup on April 12, are shot dead.
• 1997 : Peruvian troops storm the Japanese embassy in Lima on the orders of President Alberto Fujimori and free the hostages held there since December 17th. All 14 hostage-takers of the Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru and two soldiers are killed, one hostage dies of a heart attack.
• 2000 : Tamil rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , conquer the Elephant Pass , a strategically important military base in Sri Lanka .
• 2000 : US federal authorities storm the home of a Cuban immigrant family in Miami, Florida to reunite five-year-old Elián González , whose mother drowned while fleeing Cuba, with his father in Cuba.
• 2018 : On her special party conference in Wiesbaden chooses the SPD with Andrea Nahles first time in its history a woman to the party chairman.

economy

• 1864 : The US Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 . The law provides for the future issue of two-cent coins with the inscription In God we trust instead of the previous E pluribus unum . The motto is now on all coins and sparkles of the United States stated.
• 1899 : The Association for German Shepherds is founded in Karlsruhe, which over time develops into the world's largest pedigree dog breeding association .

1964: New York World's Fair

• 1964 : The biennial New York World's Fair opens in Flushing Meadows Park , New York . The city planner Robert Moses is responsible for the urban planning measures of the world exhibition .
• 1998 : Luxembourg regulates the establishment of the Central Bank of Luxembourg by law .

1998: The entrance to the Animal Kingdom

• 1998 : Disney's Animal Kingdom , over two square kilometers at Walt Disney World Resort's theme park dedicated to wildlife conservation, opens in Florida.

science and technology

• 1856 : The Government Bridge opens the first bridge over the Mississippi River between Rock Island , Illinois and Davenport , Iowa .
• 2008 : The United States Air Force , the stealth aircraft Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk decommissioned. They are multi-functional fighter aircraft of the type Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor replaced.

Culture

• 1841 : The Dommusikverein und Mozarteum is founded in Salzburg , the roots of today's Mozarteum and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra .

1863: Napoleon III.

• 1863 : After criticism of the rigid selection of works by the jurors of the Salon de Paris has become loud, Emperor Napoleon III. perform some of the rejected works. He then decides that the rejected works should be shown in a separate Salon des Refusés .
• 1939 : In New York City Opera is The Old Maid and the Thief of Gian Carlo Menotti premiered.
• 1953 : The film Le Salaire de la peur ( Wages of Fear ) by Henri-Georges Clouzot with Yves Montand , Véra Clouzot and Peter van Eyck premieres at the Cannes International Film Festival .
• 1978 : Danton and Robespierre , an opera by John Eaton , premieres at Indiana University Bloomington .

society

1769: Madame du Barry

• 1769 : Marie-Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry , who comes from a poor family, is introduced to the French court by her husband with a forged birth certificate. As Madame du Barry , she will soon be King Louis XV's mistress .
• 1994 : With the arrest of Arno Funke , who previously made headlines as an anonymous department store blackmailer, Dagobert , one of the longest-running cases of extortion in Germany ends .

religion

967: The inner area of ​​the temple area of ​​Banteay Srei

• 0967 : In Angkor , the Banteay Srei , one of the most ornate temples in the region, is dedicated in honor of the god Shiva .

1073: Gregory VII.

• 1073 : At the funeral of Pope Alexander II, tumultuous conditions break out in Rome due to the question of the succession, which lead to the proclamation of Hildebrand from the Aldobrandeschi dynasty as Pope by the people and the clergy. He takes the name Gregory VII and will begin the investiture controversy two years later with the Dictatus Papae .
• 1121 : The antipope Gregory VIII is captured and handed over to Pope Calixt II . He remains in prison until his death.
• 1164 : After the death of antipope Viktor IV , Cardinal Guido von Crema is appointed by the imperial party as the new antipope to Alexander III at the instigation of Chancellor Rainald von Dassel in Lucca . elected. He practices takes the name of Paschal III. at.

1418: Commemorative plaque for the Council of Constance

• 1418 : That of antipope John XXIII. and Emperor Sigismund convened Council of Constance , at which Jan Hus was burned and with the election of Martin V the western schism ended, is coming to an end.

Disasters

• 1709 : In the second big city ​​fire in Bautzen's history , the city is largely destroyed.
• 1906 : The worst eruption of Vesuvius since 1631, which has been ongoing since April 4, comes to an end. It cost the lives of over 100 people.
• 1974 : A Boeing 707 of Pan American Airways rebounds km on landing about 60 northwest of the airport of Tinga Tinga in Bali, Indonesia, against a mountain. All 107 people on board are killed.
• 1980 : The Filipino ferry Don Juan sinks after colliding with a tanker, killing 313 people.
• 1992 : In Guadalajara , Mexico, a spark causes a series of severe explosions in the city's sewer system , destroying or seriously damaging the streets above the affected canals and adjacent buildings . Over 200 people are killed and thousands homeless. In the weeks before, an extremely flammable gasoline-air mixture was found in the sewer system, which, however, was not taken seriously by those responsible.
• 2004 : A serious train accident occurs in the station in the North Korean city of Ryongchŏn . The explosion of a train loaded with ammonium nitrate kills over 160 people, injures around 1,300 and destroys around 40 percent of the city.

2010: The Deepwater Horizon on fire

• 2010 : Two days after an explosion, the BP- operated Deepwater Horizon drilling platform sinks in the Gulf of Mexico . Until July 16, around 5000 barrels of crude oil will flow into the sea every day . On September 19, the US government officially declared the source "dead".

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

Sports

• 1903 : Jack Root is a victory over Charles "Kid" McCoy in Detroit, Michigan, the first world boxing champion in the light heavyweight division .

1906: The nations participating in the interludes

• 1906 : Crown Prince Constantine of Greece opens the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens , which the International Olympic Committee has not yet recognized as the official Summer Olympic Games . They last until May 2nd.
• 1995 : Axel Schulz loses the fight for the world heavyweight boxing championship in the IBF division against title holder George Foreman on points in Las Vegas .
• 2001 : Hasim Rahman wins the heavyweight boxing world title against the clearly favored title holder Lennox Lewis in Carnival City, South Africa, through knockout.
• 2018 : The French Arsène Wenger announces his departure as coach of Arsenal at the end of the 2017/18 season after almost 22 years .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 0596 : Kōtoku , Japanese emperor
• 1412 : Reinhard III. , Count of Hanau
• 1444 : Elizabeth of York , Duchess of York
• 1451 : Isabella I , Queen of Castile and Aragon
• 1465 : Hieronymus Dungersheim , German theologian, rector of the University of Leipzig
• 1518 : Antony of Bourbon , titular king of Navarre
• 1533 : Georg von Khevenhüller , Governor of Carinthia
• 1535 : Laura Martinozzi , Duchess of Modena
• 1542 : Georg Rollenhagen , German writer, educator and preacher
• 1592 : Wilhelm Schickard , German mathematician
• 1601 : Karl Filip of Sweden , Duke of Södermanland

Pope Alexander VIII (* 1610)

• 1610 : Alexander VIII , Pope
• 1619 : Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg , Austrian baroque poet and translator
• 1628 : Georg Matthäus Vischer , Austrian topographer and clergyman
• 1634 : Wolf von Lindenau , German manor owner and governor
• 1640 : Soror Mariana Alcoforado , Portuguese nun and writer
• 1658 : Giuseppe Torelli , Italian baroque violinist and composer
• 1690 : John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville , British statesman
• 1696 : Antoinette Amalie , Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

18th century

• 1707 : Henry Fielding , British writer
• 1711 : Paul II. Anton Esterházy de Galantha , Austrian Imperial Field Marshal

Immanuel Kant (* 1724)

• 1724 : Immanuel Kant , German philosopher
• 1726 : Johann Ludwig Schmidt German legal scholar
• 1738 : Anna Elisabeth Luise , Princess of Brandenburg-Schwedt and of Prussia
• 1741 : Urban Klieber , Austrian sculptor
• 1744 : Ernst Wilhelm Benjamin von Korckwitz , Prussian civil servant
• 1744 : James Sullivan , American politician, governor of Massachusetts
• 1752 : Georg Joachim Göschen , German publisher
• 1754 : José Antonio Pavón y Jiménez , Spanish botanist
• 1755 : Matthias Stumpf , Swiss painter and engraver
• 1756 : Francisco Javier Castaños , Spanish duke and general
• 1757 : Josef Mathias Grassi , Austrian history and portrait painter
• 1763 : Magdalena Margaretha Tischbein , German flower painter
• 1766 : Obadiah German , American politician
• 1766 : Germaine de Staël , French writer
• 1768 : Friedrich David Gräter , German Germanist, founder of scientific Nordic studies in Germany
• 1772 : George Cockburn , British naval officer
• 1775 : Georg Hermes , German theologian and philosopher
• 1780 : Henriette von Nassau-Weilburg , German nobleman
• 1781 : José de Madrazo y Agudo , Spanish painter
• 1781 : Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber , German composer and Kreuzkantor in Dresden
• 1782 : Karl Henrik Anckarswärd , Swedish colonel and politician
• 1792 : Wilhelm Stern , German educator
• 1795 : Johann Friedrich Böhmer , German historian
• 1796 : Adolphe Crémieux , French lawyer, politician and journalist
• 1798 : Louis Germond the Elder , Swiss Protestant clergyman

19th century

1801-1850

• 1805 : Eugène Devéria , French painter
• 1805 : Johann Philipp Holzmann , German building contractor, founder of the later Philipp Holzmann AG
• 1808 : Joseph Alexandre Martigny , French archaeologist
• 1811 : Otto Hesse , German mathematician
• 1812 : James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie , British politician
• 1813 : Jørgen Moe , Norwegian writer and clergyman

Wilhelm Peters (* 1815)

• 1815 : Wilhelm Peters , German naturalist and zoologist, anatomist and explorer
• 1816 : Philip James Bailey , British poet and author
• 1816 : Charles Denis Bourbaki , French general
• 1817 : Gideon von Krismanic , Austrian major general
• 1818 : Ferdinand Gumbert , German composer, singing teacher and music critic
• 1820 : Karl Twesten , German politician and lawyer
• 1839 : August Wilhelm Eichler , German botanist
• 1840 : Hippolyte Balavoine , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1840 : Odilon Redon , French painter
• 1846 : Ernest Combe , French-Swiss clergyman and university professor

1851-1900

• 1851 : Karl Börgemann , German architect
• 1852 : William IV , Grand Duke of Luxembourg and Duke of Nassau
• 1853 : Alphonse Bertillon , French criminalist and anthropologist
• 1854 : Henri La Fontaine , Belgian lawyer and politician
• 1854 : Georg Froböß , German Protestant clergyman
• 1857 : Johannes Gloël , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1859 : Ferdinand Asmus , German homeland researcher and genealogist
• 1859 : Hermann Bendix , German pedagogue, cantor and composer
• 1859 : Friedrich Marx , German classical philologist

Filip Rězak (* 1859)

• 1859 : Filip Rězak , Sorbian pastor, translator and dictionary author
• 1861 : Emil Müller , Austrian mathematician
• 1861 : István Tisza , Austro-Hungarian politician and Prime Minister of Hungary
• 1866 : Otto Gleim , German governor of Cameroon
• 1866 : Hans von Seeckt , German colonel general and military advisor
• 1867 : Sir Littleton Ernest Groom , Australian politician
• 1867 : Palle Rosenkrantz , Danish baron, lawyer, author, translator
• 1868 : Friedrich Münzer , German classical philologist
• 1868 : Marie Valerie of Austria , daughter of the Austrian emperor
• 1868 : Friedrich Seetzen , German local politician and consistorial president of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (* 1870)

• 1870 : Vladimir Ilyich Lenin , Russian communist politician and revolutionary, Marxist theorist, party and government leader
• 1872 : Kurt Klamroth , German entrepreneur
• 1873 : Luigi Lucheni , Italian anarchist
• 1875 : Johann Baptist Umberg , Swiss Jesuit and university professor
• 1876 : Robert Bárány , Austrian neurobiologist and physician, Nobel Prize winner
• 1876 : Ole Edvart Rølvaag , Norwegian-American writer
• 1877 : Hermann Albert Hesse , German Reformed theologian
• 1879 : Otto Krafft , German civil engineer
• 1885 : Isidor Alfred Amreich , Austrian gynecologist
• 1887 : Harald Bohr , Danish mathematician
• 1887 : Paul Rodemann , German journalist, publisher and member of the Weimar National Assembly
• 1888 : Carlo Agostini , Archbishop, Cardinal and Patriarch of Venice
• 1889 : Richard Glücks , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS, chief inspector of the concentration camps
• 1889 : Ludwig Renn , German writer
• 1891 : Belle Bennett , American actress
• 1891 : George Enacovici , Romanian composer
• 1891 : Vittorio Jano , Italian automobile designer
• 1891 : Harold Jeffreys , British mathematician, geophysicist and astronomer
• 1892 : Heinrich Gerns , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1894 : Georg Ulrich Handke , German Minister for Internal German Trade and Foreign Trade of the GDR
• 1894 : Erwin Schloss , German Protestant clergyman
• 1895 : František Korte , Czech composer
• 1896 : Max Ludwig , German bobsleigh driver
• 1898 : Martin Loibl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1899 : Erich Häßler , German pediatrician
• 1899 : Vladimir Nabokov , Russian-American writer, literary scholar and butterfly researcher
• 1900 : Peter von Agris , German entrepreneur, local politician and honorary district administrator

20th century

1901-1925

• 1903 : Daphne Akhurst , Australian tennis player
• 1903 : Margaret Miller Brown , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1903 : Karl Eberhard Schöngarth , German lawyer, general of the SS and the police, Gestapo and SD commander, war criminal
• 1904 : Pino Bernasconi , Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1904 : Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist, father of the atomic bomb
• 1904 : Peter Pewas , German film director and commercial artist
• 1906 : Eddie Albert , American actor
• 1906 : Anna Maria Bieganowski , German politician
• 1907 : Martin Weis , German politician
• 1908 : Károly Aszlányi , Hungarian writer, playwright and journalist

Rita Levi-Montalcini (* 1909)

• 1909 : Gerhard Ausner , German politician
• 1909 : Rita Levi-Montalcini , Italian neurologist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1909 : Benny Thomasson , American fiddle player
• 1911 : Fritz Lamerdin , German forest official
• 1912 : Helmut Artzinger , German politician
• 1912 : Elisabeth Baumeister-Bühler , German sculptor and medalist
• 1912 : Kathleen Ferrier , British opera singer
• 1912 : Shindō Kaneto , Japanese film director and screenwriter
• 1913 : Bruno Tesch , German resistance fighter, victim of National Socialism
• 1914 : Hans Baumann , German poet, songwriter, writer and translator
• 1914 : Baldev Raj Chopra , Indian film director and producer
• 1914 : Michael Wittmann , German SS officer and tank commander
• 1915 : José María Arizmendiarrieta , Spanish priest
• 1916 : Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith , British diplomat and colonial administrator

Yehudi Menuhin (* 1916)

• 1916 : Yehudi Menuhin , American-British violinist and conductor
• 1917 : Leo Abse , British lawyer from Wales, politician, MP, author and activist for gay rights
• 1917 : Åke Magnus Andersson , Swedish football player
• 1917 : Erik Arnberger , Austrian cartographer
• 1917 : Sidney Nolan , Australian painter and printmaker
• 1917 : Erna Steuri , Swiss ski racer
• 1918 : Solomon Aaron Berson , American medic
• 1920 : Ida Kühnel , German athlete
• 1920 : Hal March , American comedian and actor
• 1921 : Cándido Camero , Cuban percussionist
• 1921 : Gabby Pahinui , Hawaiian steel guitarist
• 1922 : Elden C. Bailey , American percussionist and music educator
• 1922 : Angelika Hurwicz , German actress
• 1922 : Charles Mingus , American jazz musician
• 1923 : Vratislav Effenberger , Czech literary theorist
• 1923 : Paula Fox , American writer
• 1923 : Bettie Page , American model
• 1923 : Aaron Spelling , American film and television producer
• 1924 : George Smith , American blues musician
• 1925 : Hans Arnold , Swiss-Swedish animator and illustrator
• 1925 : George Cole , British actor
• 1925 : Amparo Montes , Mexican singer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Harald Leipnitz , German actor
• 1926 : Berthold Nordmann , German football player
• 1926 : James Stirling , British architect
• 1927 : Laurel Aitken , Cuban singer and songwriter
• 1927 : Alfred Struwe , German actor

Michael Francis Atiyah (* 1929)

• 1929 : Michael Francis Atiyah , British mathematician
• 1929 : Guillermo Cabrera Infante , Spanish-speaking writer and film critic
• 1929 : Erkki Junkkarinen , Finnish singer
• 1929 : Otohiko Kaga , Japanese writer
• 1929 : John Nicks , British figure skater and figure skating coach
• 1929 : Kazue Shinkawa , Japanese poet
• 1932 : Roque Ablan Jr. , Filipino politician
• 1932 : Isao Tomita , Japanese musician and composer
• 1933 : Rötger Groß , German politician
• 1935 : Paul Chambers , American jazz bassist
• 1935 : WS Holland , American drummer
• 1935 : Rita Johnston , Canadian politician
• 1936 : CDB Bryan , American author and journalist
• 1936 : Glen Campbell , American country singer
• 1936 : Michael Höltzel , German horn player and music professor
• 1936 : Dieter Kronzucker , German journalist and moderator
• 1937 : Manolo Juárez , Argentine composer
• 1937 : Jack Nicholson , American actor
• 1937 : Jack Nitzsche , American pianist and composer
• 1939 : Jaroslav Krček , Czech composer and conductor
• 1939 : Jason Anthony Miller , American actor and playwright

Theo Waigel (* 1939)

• 1939 : Theo Waigel , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister of Finance
• 1940 : Harro Miller , German football coach
• 1940 : Berndt Seite , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
• 1941 : Hans Robert Hansen , German-Austrian economist and business IT specialist
• 1941 : Amir Pnueli , Israeli computer scientist
• 1941 : Michael Schulte , German writer and literary translator
• 1942 : Giorgio Agamben , Italian philosopher
• 1943 : Janet Evanovich , American writer
• 1943 : Gerhard Prinzing , German ski racer
• 1944 : Steve Fossett , American aviation pioneer and regatta sailor
• 1944 : Jörg Mattheis , German athlete
• 1944 : Joshua Rifkin , American conductor and musicologist
• 1945 : Norbert Irtel , German football player

John Waters (born 1946)

• 1946 : John Waters , American film director
• 1947 : Barry Guy , British double bass player (jazz, early music, improvisational music)
• 1947 : Cornelius Horan , Catholic priest from Ireland
• 1948 : Ġorġ Abela , Maltese politician
• 1948 : Yevgeny Alexandrovich Arshanov , Soviet middle-distance runner
• 1948 : Carol Drinkwater , British actress and author
• 1948 : Jutta Barth , German visual artist
• 1949 : Spencer Haywood , American basketball player
• 1949 : Heinrich Kemper , German politician, MdL
• 1950 : Hans Berger , German manager
• 1950 : Robert Elswit , American cameraman
• 1950 : Peter Frampton , British rock musician

1951-1975

• 1951 : Robin Bartlett , American actress
• 1951 : Paul Carrack , British songwriter, singer, keyboardist and guitarist
• 1951 : Vladimír Špidla , Czech politician

François Berléand (* 1952)

• 1952 : François Berléand , French actor
• 1952 : Marilyn Chambers , American porn actress
• 1952 : Dave Mancini , American percussionist, music educator and composer
• 1952 : Alfons Karl Zwicker , Swiss composer and pianist
• 1953 : Thommie Bayer , German writer, musician and painter
• 1953 : Tom Lysiak , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1953 : Alain Oreille , French rally driver
• 1953 : Wolfgang Scheuring , German soccer player
• 1954 : Ulla Burchardt , German politician
• 1954 : Kamla Persad-Bissessar , Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• 1955 : Carlo Brunner , Swiss composer and conductor
• 1955 : Reinhold Fischer , German soccer player
• 1955 : Bärbel Rust , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1956 : Joseph Kofi Adda , Ghanaian minister
• 1956 : Jukka-Pekka Saraste , Finnish conductor
• 1956 : Bruce A. Young , American actor
• 1957 : Glenn Monroig , Puerto Rican Canto writer

Donald Tusk (* 1957)

• 1957 : Donald Tusk , Polish politician, Prime Minister
• 1958 : Oleh Rybachuk , Ukrainian politician
• 1959 : Peter Druschel , German computer scientist
• 1959 : Susanne Herold , German politician
• 1959 : Ryan Stiles , American actor
• 1960 : Beate Finckh , German actress
• 1960 : Michael Gahler , MEP
• 1960 : Rolf Sethe , German lawyer
• 1961 : Flemming Hansen , Danish handball player
• 1961 : Jeff Hostetler , American football player
• 1963 : Blanca Fernández Ochoa , Spanish ski racer
• 1964 : Massimo Carrera , Italian football player and coach
• 1964 : Frank Kortan , German painter
• 1964 : Konstantin Ritter , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
• 1965 : Clarissa Ahlers , German lawyer, journalist and television presenter
• 1966 : Edi Köhldorfer , Austrian guitarist, composer, arranger and author

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born 1966)

• 1966 : Jeffrey Dean Morgan , American actor
• 1966 : Jörgen Persson , Swedish table tennis player
• 1967 : Loreta Asanavičiūtė , killed in demonstrations for the freedom and independence of Lithuania
• 1967 : Bart Bowen , American racing cyclist
• 1967 : Sheryl Lee , American actress
• 1967 : Brian J. Nelson , American composer
• 1967 : Kristi Terzian , American ski racer
• 1968 : Mike Bell , American baseball player
• 1968 : Peter Weber , Swiss writer
• 1968 : Zarley Zalapski , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 : Ina Rudolph , German actress and author

Volker Wissing (* 1970)

• 1970 : Volker Wissing , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1971 : Volker Strübing , German writer, songwriter and animator
• 1971 : Marek Harloff , German actor
• 1971 : Josia Thugwane , South African marathon runner
• 1972 : Sabine Appelmans , Belgian tennis player
• 1972 : Anna Falchi , Italian film actress and photo model
• 1972 : Radwan Yasser , Egyptian soccer player
• 1973 : Pablo Aguilar , Argentine actor and screenwriter
• 1973 : Max Herre , German musician
• 1974 : Chetan Bhagat , Indian writer
• 1974 : Teddy Nordling , Finnish handball player
• 1974 : Shavo Odadjian , American bassist ( System Of A Down )
• 1975 : Raymond Kalla , Cameroonian football player
• 1975 : Greg Moore , Canadian racing driver
• 1975 : Paolo Ruberti , Italian racing car driver
• 1975 : Carlos Sastre , Spanish cyclist

1976-2000

• 1976 : Christian Wilhelmi , German chess player
• 1976 : Michał Żewłakow , Polish football player

Ambra Angiolini (* 1977)

• 1977 : Ambra Angiolini , Italian film actress
• 1977 : Alexei Michailowitsch Bassow , Russian automobile racing driver
• 1977 : Sabine Egger , Austrian ski racer
• 1977 : Robert Hunter , South African racing cyclist
• 1977 : Anthony Lurling , Dutch football player
• 1977 : Mark van Bommel , Dutch football player
• 1978 : Jagoba Arrasate , Spanish football player and coach
• 1978 : Ida Auken , Danish theologian and politician
• 1978 : Manu Intiraymi , American film and stage actor
• 1978 : Marc Pircher , Austrian musician
• 1978 : Daniela Preuß , German actress
• 1978 : Esteban Tuero , Argentine racing car driver
• 1979 : Scott Davis , Australian cyclist
• 1979 : Daniel Johns , Australian musician ( Silverchair )
• 1980 : Alexander Dück , German ice hockey player
• 1980 : Nicole Grimaudo , Italian actress
• 1980 : Andrea Jansen , Swiss television presenter
• 1980 : Nicolas Leblanc , French football player
• 1981 : Attila Hildmann , German cookbook author, conspiracy theorist
• 1981 : Jessica Tatti , German politician ( Die Linke )
• 1981 : Linda Teuteberg , German politician (FDP)

Kaká (* 1982)

• 1982 : Kaká , Brazilian soccer player
• 1982 : Cassidy Freeman , American actress and musician
• 1982 : Christina Rohde , German handball player
• 1983 : Francis Capra , American actor
• 1983 : André Genz , German handball player
• 1983 : Alexander Hübe , German handball goalkeeper
• 1985 : Aytaç Ak , Turkish soccer player
• 1985 : Philipp Danne , German actor
• 1985 : Christopher Lamprecht , German soccer player
• 1986 : Viktor Igorewitsch Faisulin , Russian football player

Amber Heard (* 1986)

• 1986 : Amber Heard , American actress
• 1986 : André Herrmann , German slam poet, blogger, author and columnist
• 1986 : Justin Pogge , Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper

David Luiz (* 1987)

• 1987 : David Luiz , Brazilian soccer player
• 1987 : John Obi Mikel , Nigerian soccer player
• 1988 : Nedim Hasanbegović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1989 : Aron Gunnarsson , Icelandic football player
• 1989 : DeJuan Blair , American basketball player
• 1989 : Jasper Cillessen , Dutch football goalkeeper
• 1989 : James McClean , Irish football player
• 1990 : Nils Dresrüsse , German handball player
• 1991 : Sofía Arreola , Mexican cyclist
• 1991 : André Auras , Senegalese-French football player
• 1991 : La'Vere Corbin-Ong , English-Canadian soccer player
• 1993 : Sonja Frey , Austrian handball player
• 1994 : Nils Quaschner , German soccer player
• 1994 : Xenia Smits , German handball player
• 1995 : Catherine Bott , New Zealand soccer player
• 1996 : Adrian Pertl , Austrian ski racer
• 1997 : Joël Eisenblätter , German actor
• 1997 : Yannick Hölzl , German handball player
• 1997 : Jill Roord , Dutch soccer player

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0296 : Cajus , Bishop of Rome
• 0536 : Agapitus I , Pope
• 0835 : Kūkai , Buddhist monk in Japan
• 0849 : Altfried , Bishop of Münster
• 1179 : Humfried II of Toron , vassal and official of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
• 1208 : Philip of Poitou , English prelate
• 1221 : Hermann II , Count of Ravensberg
• 1253 : Elias of Cortona , second general minister of the Franciscans
• 1259 : Adolf IV , Count von Berg
• 1322 : Johann II , Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg
• 1355 : Eleanor of England , daughter of Edward II of England
• 1407 : Olivier V. de Clisson , French feudal lord and military officer, Connétable of France
• 1442 : Roland von Uutkercke , Dutch nobleman, Lord von Heemstede, Hogenbrouck, Heestert and Hemsrode
• 1459 : John IV , Emperor and Grand Commander of Trebizond
• 1467 : Maria von Tver , Grand Duchess of Moscow
• 1500 : Hans III. , Herr zu Rodenstein
• 1501 : Domenico della Rovere , cardinal of the Catholic Church
• 1513 : Pierre I. de Rohan , French nobleman, diplomat and Marshal of France
• 1545 : Ludwig X. , Duke of Bavaria
• 1551 : Christoph I , Count of Ortenburg

Diana of Poitiers († 1566)

• 1566 : Diana of Poitiers , mistress of Henry II of France
• 1587 : Matthias Colerus , German legal scholar
• 1616 : Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish author (Don Quixote)
• 1638 : Johann Jakob Ulrich , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1649 : Marcos de Torres y Rueda , Spanish bishop of the Catholic Church and viceroy of New Spain
• 1650 : Stephan Hansen Stephanius , Danish philologist and historian
• 1669 : Friedrich Wilhelm II. , Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• 1672 : Georg Stiernhielm , Swedish writer
• 1677 : Wenzel Eusebius von Lobkowicz , Bohemian nobleman and politician and Duke of Sagan
• 1678 : Sebastiano Mazzoni , Italian painter
• 1692 : Tomás Antonio de la Cerda y Aragón , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
• 1699 : Hans Assmann Freiherr von Abschatz , German baroque poet

18th century

• 1721 : Karl Friedrich , Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
• 1722 : Heinrich Pipping , German Lutheran theologian and court preacher in Dresden
• 1724 : Theodor Zwinger III. , Basel physician
• 1729 : Louis Pécour , French dancer and choreographer
• 1731 : Johann Josef von Waldstein , Czech nobleman and patron
• 1760 : Agostino Maria Neuroni , Bishop of Como
• 1772 : Marie Duronceray , wife of Charles-Simon Favart
• 1777 : Christiana Büsching , German poet
• 1782 : Josef Seger , Bohemian composer
• 1792 : Michael Leuckart , German printer
• 1794 : Georg Philipp Dohlhoff , pharmacist and mayor of the Palatinate Colony in Magdeburg
• 1794 : Isaac René Guy Le Chapelier , French politician
• 1798 : Sebastian Seemiller , German Catholic theologian
• 1800 : Johann Ludwig Ambühl , Swiss administrative officer and writer
• 1800 : Karl Wilhelm Hennert , German forester

19th century

Richard Trevithick († 1833)

• 1833 : Richard Trevithick , British inventor and mechanical engineer
• 1839 : Joseph Daniel Ohlmüller , German architect
• 1841 : Carl Gottlob Abela , German musician
• 1844 : Henri Montan Berton , French composer
• 1850 : Friedrich Robert Faehlmann , German-Estonian philologist
• 1851 : Friedrich Bröhmer , German civil servant
• 1861 : Johann Heinrich Richartz , German merchant and patron
• 1867 : Jean Elias Benjamin Valz , French astronomer
• 1876 : Édouard d'Anglemont , French poet
• 1876 : Isabella Maria of Portugal , Portuguese princess
• 1884 : Marie Taglioni , Italian dancer
• 1888 : Gustav Kühne , German writer and literary critic
• 1889 : Hermann Wagener , German lawyer, editor-in-chief, Prussian ministerial official and politician
• 1892 : Édouard Lalo , French composer
• 1893 : Franziska Berg , German actress
• 1894 : Emanuel Züngel , Czech poet, playwright, librettist and translator

20th century

1901-1950

• 1907 : Leopold von Pezold , German-Baltic journalist
• 1908 : Henry Campbell-Bannerman , British politician, head of government
• 1910 : Ogiwara Rokuzan , Japanese sculptor
• 1918 : Carl Reuss , German forester
• 1924 : Avni Rustemi , Albanian educator, assassin and politician
• 1926 : G. Adolf Arndt , German lawyer and university professor
• 1926 : Federico Gana , Chilean writer
• 1929 : Ödön Mihalovich , Hungarian composer
• 1930 : Jeppe Aakjær , Danish writer
• 1930 : John Peter Russell , Australian painter, the "lost impressionist"
• 1931 : Franz Saran , German specialist in German
• 1932 : Julius Asch , German trade unionist and politician

Henry Royce († 1933)

• 1933 : Henry Royce , British technician and industrialist, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
• 1934 : Josef Auer , German wood sculptor
• 1938 : Robert Seitz , German writer
• 1939 : Karl Eckstein , forest scientist and entomologist
• 1942 : Carl Dorno , German naturalist
• 1944 : Hippolyte Aucouturier , French cyclist
• 1944 : Edmund Schulthess , Swiss politician
• 1945 : Leandro Arpinati , Italian politician and sports official
• 1945 : Käthe Kollwitz , German graphic artist, painter and sculptor
• 1946 : Lionel Atwill , American film and stage actor
• 1948 : Ili Kronstein , Austrian painter
• 1948 : Alfredo de Oro , Cuban billiards player and world champion
• 1950 : Jean Errecaldé , French racing car driver

1951-2000

• 1954 : Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels , Austrian clergyman, ariosoph and impostor
• 1956 : Walt Faulkner , American racing car driver
• 1959 : Roger Bourcier , French racing car driver
• 1960 : Ephraim Lipson , British economic historian
• 1960 : August Thienemann , German zoologist and ecologist, founder of limnology
• 1963 : Wendelin Morgenthaler , German politician

Renée Sintenis († 1965)

• 1965 : Renée Sintenis , German sculptor and graphic artist
• 1966 : Enrico Glori , Italian actor
• 1966 : Dieter Krumpholz , German motorcycle racer
• 1967 : Leo Monosson , German pop singer
• 1967 : Iona Timofejewitsch Nikittschenko , Soviet judge at the Nuremberg Trials
• 1971 : Anna of Montenegro , Princess of Montenegro
• 1976 : Jeanne Mammen , German painter
• 1977 : Arvo Haavisto , Finnish wrestler
• 1978 : Will Geer , American actor
• 1979 : Amedeo Biavati , Italian football player
• 1980 : Fritz Straßmann , German chemist, co-discoverer of nuclear fission
• 1980 : Jan Liwacz , Polish prisoner of the Auschwitz I concentration camp
• 1981 : Max Aronoff , Canadian violist and music teacher
• 1983 : Pino Bernasconi , Swiss lawyer and politician

Earl Hines († 1983)

• 1983 : Earl Hines , American musician
• 1984 : Ansel Adams , American photographer
• 1985 : José de Lima Siqueira , Brazilian composer and conductor
• 1985 : Basile Khoury , Lebanese Archbishop
• 1985 : Albéric Loqueheux , French racing car driver
• 1986 : Mircea Eliade , Romanian religious historian, essayist and novelist
• 1987 : Irving Ashby , American jazz guitarist
• 1987 : Margaret Ponce Israel , American ceramicist and painter
• 1988 : Tchicaya U Tam'si , Congolese writer
• 1988 : Ulrich Leman , German painter
• 1989 : Emilio Segrè , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1991 : Karl Klasen , President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
• 1992 : Walther Haage , German gardener, botanist and non-fiction author
• 1993 : Bertus Aafjes , Dutch writer

Richard Nixon († 1994)

• 1994 : Richard Nixon , American politician and 37th US President
• 1995 : Carlo Ceresoli , Italian football player and coach
• 1995 : Don Pullen , American jazz pianist
• 1996 : Erma Bombeck , American writer
• 1997 : Isawa Taka , Japanese writer
• 1997 : Heinz Trökes , German painter and graphic artist
• 1998 : Régine Pernoud , French medievalist

21st century

• 2001 : Ludvig Nielsen , Norwegian composer and organist
• 2002 : Linda Lovelace , American porn actress
• 2003 : Felice Bryant , American songwriter
• 2003 : Mike Larrabee , American sprinter and Olympic champion
• 2004 : Richard Reichensperger , Austrian journalist and literary critic
• 2004 : Pat Tillman , American football player
• 2005 : Erika Fuchs , German translator (Donald Duck Comics)

Philip Morrison († 2005)

• 2005 : Philip Morrison , American physicist
• 2007 : Kitaoka Fumio , Japanese woodcut artist
• 2007 : Karl Holzamer , German philosopher, educator and television director
• 2008 : Paul Davis , American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
• 2008 : Jaspar von Oertzen , German actor, author and politician
• 2008 : Heinrich Ratjen , German athlete
• 2009 : Ken Annakin , British film director
• 2009 : Jack Cardiff , British cinematographer and film director
• 2009 : Heinz Schröder , German puppeteer
• 2013 : Vivi Bach , Danish actress, singer, presenter and author
• 2013 : Richie Havens , American singer and musician
• 2014 : Wieland Schmied , Austrian art historian and writer
• 2015 : Lois Lilienstein , American-Canadian actress, singer and pianist
• 2016 : Günter Kallmann , German choir director, singer and composer
• 2017 : Hubert Dreyfus , American philosopher
• 2017 : Götz Heidelberg , German physicist, designer and entrepreneur
• 2018 : Nino Churzidze , Georgian chess player
• 2020 : Hartwig Gauder , German athlete (walker) and Olympic champion

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Friedrich Justus Perels , German martyr and lawyer (Protestant)
  • St. Cajus , Roman Bishop (Catholic)
  • St. Soterus , Roman Martyr and Bishop (Catholic)
  • Day of Creation (Protestant: ELCA )

• Name days
  • Leonidas

• Commemoration days of international organizations
  • Earth Day ( UN ) (since 2009)

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

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