August 22nd
The August 22 is the 234th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 235th in leap years ), thus remain 131 days by year end.
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Politics and world events
- Valentinian II in May, his general Arbogast proclaims the rhetor Eugenius as the new emperor. This leads to the renewed intervention of the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius I in the west. 392: After the death of the Western Roman emperor
- Western Roman Emperor Flavius Honorius has the army master Stilicho executed . 408: The
- Odoacer is elected rex italiae (King of Italy) by the Western Roman mercenary troops . 476:
- 1128: Pope Honorius II enfeoffs Roger II in a peace treaty in Benevento with the Duchy of Apulia .
- 1138: In the standard battle at Northallerton between the English and invaded Scots under King David I , 11-12,000 Scots fall.
- 1371: In the decisive battle of the Brabant feud near Baesweiler , the troops of the Duke of Jülich, supported by the Duke of Geldern, remain victorious against the Duke of Brabant.
- 1485: Henry Tudor, later Henry VII , defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field . , King of the House of York , who fell in battle. This ends the Wars of the Roses for the English reign of the throne. The House of Tudor takes power in England.
- 1614: The ongoing dispute between citizens and patriciate in the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main , triggered by displeasure with the mismanagement of the council and the limited ability of the guilds to intervene, culminates in a pogrom against the local Jews and their temporary residents as the “ Fettmilch Uprising ” Expulsion from the city.
- 1639: The Briton Francis Day purchases a piece of land on the Coromandel Coast from the Nayak ruler for the British East India Company . The trading post develops into the city of Madras , today Chennai .
- 1642: The English civil war between royalists and parliamentarians begins.
- 1707: Sweden's King Charles XII. sets out on a campaign against Russia in the Great Northern War . However, the Russian army cleverly evades a decisive battle at first.
- 1711: A large-scale British attack on Québec , the capital of New France , has to be stopped after eight troop transports overturned in the Saint Lawrence River due to bad weather and insufficient knowledge of the fairway and 890 soldiers and seamen drowned.
- 1717: The conquest of the Ottoman- ruled fortress Belgrade by Prince Eugene of Savoy and his army impressed a contemporary so much that he passed it on to later generations in Prince Eugene, the noble knight, which mutated into a folk song .
- 1791: The slave revolt breaks out in the French part of the island of Hispaniola , which will lead to the independence of Haiti.
- 1795: In France, the convention adopts the new directional constitution , which becomes the model for the subsequent directorate systems in other countries.
- 1796: The British colonial administration , which took over the possessions of the Dutch East India Company in South Africa, reintegrated the independent Boer republic Graaff-Reinet into the Cape Colony .
- 1796: In the First Coalition War , an Austrian overwhelming power succeeds in preventing the French from advancing on Regensburg in the Battle of Deining .
- 1818: Baden receives a liberal constitution drawn up by Karl Friedrich Nebenius , which provides for an assembly of estates and turns the Grand Duchy into a constitutional monarchy .
- 1851: A gold find northeast of Melbourne in the state of Victoria causes a gold rush that marks the history of Australia .
- 1864: Twelve states sign the first Geneva Convention , the basis of international humanitarian law .
- 1868: The Bohemian Declaration articulates the demand of 82 Czech members of the Bohemian Landtag that the Bohemian nation in Austria-Hungary should be treated fairly by the Austrian state and emperor.
- 1904: The Japanese Empire and the Korean Empire sign the Japan-Korean Protocol of August 1904 .
- 1910: The Japanese Empire forces the Korean Emperor Sunjong to abdicate and annexes the country as a province .
- 1922: The Chairman of the Provisional Government of the Free State of Ireland and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces during the Irish Civil War , Michael Collins , is shot dead in a gun battle by opponents of the Anglo-Irish Treaty .
- 1930: Peruvian President Augusto B. Leguía y Salcedo is deposed and imprisoned in a coup led by General Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro . The general takes over the de facto presidency.
- 1942: Fritz Sauckel , General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment in the German Reich, orders the 54-hour week for workers in the occupied territories of the German Reich and removes restrictions on working on Sundays and public holidays.
- 1950: The Technische Hilfswerk (THW) is founded in Germany as a civil and disaster protection organization of the federal government .
- 1953: Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi returns to the overthrow of Prime Minister Mossadegh in Iran back.
- 1962: Members of the French nationalist underground organization Organization de l'armée secrète ( OAS ) under Jean Bastien-Thiry carry out an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle in Clamart, near Paris , in order to stop negotiations on ending the Algerian war and the independence of Algeria . The failed assassination later inspired Frederick Forsyth's novel The Jackal .
- 1971: Colonel Hugo Banzer Suárez takes power in Bolivia in a bloody coup .
- 1973: US Secretary of State William P. Rogers resigns; Henry Kissinger will be his successor.
- 1976: The Protestant pastor Oskar Brüsewitz , who set himself on fire in Zeitz on August 18 to protest against human rights violations in the GDR , dies of his injuries.
- 1978: An FSLN commando storms the National Palace in Managua and takes Nicaraguan parliamentarians, several ministers and several family members of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle hostage. With this action during the revolution they succeed in freeing 60 prisoners.
business
- 1902: Henry M. Leland founds the Cadillac Automobile Company in Detroit .
science and technology
- 1870: The Washburn-Langford-Doane Expedition , led by Henry Dana Washburn, leaves Fort Ellis on the way to what is now Yellowstone National Park . You are to explore the area in continuation of last year's Folsom expedition .
- 1872: The Port Augusta-Darwin telegraph line in Australia is completed.
- 1976: The Soviet space probe Luna 24 , which landed on the moon on August 18, returns.
- 1981: The Voyager 2 space probe passes the Saturn moon Iapetus and sends its first images to Earth.
- 1999: The GPS week count for the Global Positioning System satellite navigation system reaches GPS week 1023 and thus the maximum utilization. It is set back to 0 and thus dated back to January 6, 1980. There are no expected breakdowns.
- 2000: The Green Bank Observatory goes into operation in the US state of West Virginia . It is currently the largest fully articulated radio telescope in the world.
Culture
- 1777: The world premiere of the opera April Day of Samuel Arnold found in the Little Theater in London.
- 1812: The Swiss Jean Louis Burckhardt , disguised as an Arab, rediscovers the rock city of Petra in the Middle East , which is only rumored in Europe .
- 1914: The Ankeruhr designed by Franz Matsch is erected on a connecting bridge between two buildings in Vienna . It counts as an outstanding work of Art Nouveau .
- 1920: The first Salzburg Festival begins with Max Reinhardt's production of Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on Salzburg's Domplatz .
society
- 1992: With a rally in front of the central reception center for asylum seekers for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (ZASt) in Rostock district Lichtenhagen xenophobic start riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen .
- 2004: During an armed robbery, masked perpetrators steal the two paintings The Scream and Madonna by Edvard Munch from the Munch Museum in Oslo , while at the same time an attack on a money transporter takes place elsewhere in Oslo, in the course of which a policeman is shot.
religion
- 1344: Pope Clement VI. grants Queen Agnes of Hungary the privilege to visit the Königsfelden monastery as often as she wants and to build a house on the monastery.
Disasters
- 1942: The US destroyer Ingraham , used for escort security, sank west of Halifax in the North Atlantic after the collision with the tanker Chemung . 189 of the destroyer's crew of 200 died and the tanker was badly damaged.
- 2002: In Nepal, a DHC-6-300 Twin Otter of the Shangri-La Air, mostly occupied by German passengers, crashes into a mountain range in bad weather. All occupants are killed in the crash.
- 2003: The Brazilian rocket explosion occurs in the Alcântara spaceport , triggered by an unexpectedly firing engine of a VLS-1 rocket. 21 people are killed, the rocket launch table and the assembly structure are destroyed.
- 2005: Rainfalls lasting several days trigger floods in the Alps . On the night of August 22nd to 23rd, Switzerland, especially Bern and the Bernese Oberland , was hit by a major flood. Six people perish in mudslides or in the water. The damage in the country is later determined to be around 2.5 billion Swiss francs .
- 2006: In Donetsk Oblast ( Ukraine ) a Tupolev Tu-154 crashes on Pulkovo Airlines flight 612 while attempting to fly through a thunderstorm. All 170 passengers on the plane die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1851: Prior to the Isle of Wight is 100 Guinea Cup performed. After the first winner of the cup, the schooner America , the event is only called America's Cup in the following .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1412: Frederick II of Saxony , Elector of Saxony
- 1485: Beatus Rhenanus , German humanist and philologist
- 1554: Eleonora von Zimmer , German nobleman
- 1570: Franz Xaver von Dietrichstein , Moravian nobleman, cardinal and bishop of Olomouc
- 1571: Christine von Diez , German noblewoman and landlady
- 1572: Rudolf Goclenius the Younger , German doctor, physicist, medic, mathematician and astronomer
- 1615: Christopher Gibbons , English organist and composer (baptism date)
- 1624: Jean Regnault de Segrais , French poet
- 1638: Georg Christoph Eimmart , Nuremberg astronomer and engraver
- 1646: Thomas von Wickede , Mayor of Lübeck
- 1647: Denis Papin , inventor of the pressure cooker
- 1648: Gerard Hoet , Dutch painter
- 1658: Johann Ernst , Duke of Saxony-Saalfeld
- 1661: Ferdinand von Fürstenberg , Colonel stable master of the Paderborn Monastery
- 1662: Christoph Hochreutiner , Swiss mayor and delegate to the Diet
- 1683: Erdmann II. Von Promnitz , registrar of Sorau and Triebel
18th century
- 1708: Johann David Steinmüller , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
- 1710: Johann August Nahl the Elder , German sculptor and plasterer
- 1711: Heinrich von Bibra , Prince-Bishop of the Fulda Monastery
- 1721: Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder German orientalist and librarian
- 1722: Josef Georg Hörl , Austrian politician and lawyer
- 1741: Charles Clerke , British navigator and explorer
- 1742: Johann Heinrich Ludwig Meierotto , geographer, educator
- 1743: Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger , German Protestant theologian
- 1746: Johan Heinrich Knuth , Danish landowner, chamberlain and privy councilor
- 1746: Anna Katharina Schönkopf , Leipzig host's daughter and childhood sweetheart of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1747: Andreas Stütz , Austrian geologist and mineralogist
- 1752: Johann Gottfried am Ende , Protestant theologian
- 1760: Leo XII. , Pope
- 1764: Josef Abel , Austrian painter
- 1764: Charles Percier , French architect
- 1765: Karl Gottlob Sonntag , German clergyman, general superintendent of Livonia
- 1765: Carl Ludwig Willdenow , German botanist
- 1766: Jakob Salat , Catholic theologian and philosopher
- 1768: Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Delbrück , Prussian theologian and educator
- 1770: Hans Conrad von Orelli , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1773: Charles Dominique Joseph Bouligny , American politician
- 1773: Franz Bogislaus Westermeier German Protestant theologian
- 1774: Bartholomä Herder , publisher
- 1776: Carlo Amati , Italian architect
- 1779: Johann Gottlieb Kreyssig , German pedagogue and philologist
- 1781: Juliana Blasius , Johannes Bückler's robber bride
- 1782: Julius August von Bernuth , German civil servant
- 1787: Christian Friedrich Freiherr von Stockmar , German doctor and statesman
- 1794: Friedrich Gotthilf Osann , German classical philologist
- 1795: Gottlieb Freiherr von Ankershofen , Austrian historian and state curator
- 1798: Theodor von Brescius , Prussian district administrator and landowner
- 1799: Ferdinand Johannes Wit von Dörring , German-Danish writer, journalist and politician
- 1800: Johann Rudolf Kölner , Swiss journalist and poet
19th century
1801-1850
- 1810: Caspar Scheuren , German painter and illustrator
- 1811: Franz Xaver Dieringer , Catholic theologian
- 1816: Arnold Otto Aepli , Swiss politician and lawyer
- 1818: Carlo Pisacane , Italian politician, guerrilla fighter and writer
- 1818: Rudolf von Jhering , German legal scholar
- 1819: Johann Nepomuk Brischar , German church historian
- 1821: Thomas Brunner , British surveyor in New Zealand
- 1821: Edouard Plouvier , French playwright and librettist
- 1822: Emil Ladenburg , German entrepreneur and banker
- 1824: Gebhard Nikolaus von Alvensleben , head forester and member of the Prussian manor house
- 1827: Anton Nowotny , Czech author of chess compositions
- 1827: Edouard Silas , Dutch composer and organist
- 1828: Jonas Breitenstein , Swiss pastor poet
- 1829: Sebastian Abratzky , conqueror of Königstein Fortress
- 1831: Arwed Emminghaus , German economist
- 1831: Marie Louise Dustmann-Meyer , German opera singer (soprano)
- 1834: Samuel Pierpont Langley , American astrophysicist and aviation pioneer
- 1837: Leberecht Arendt , German politician
- 1839: Johann Georg Mönckeberg , German politician, First Mayor of Hamburg
- 1840: Thomas Johann Heinrich Mann , Lübeck businessman
- 1846: Amalie Skram , Norwegian-Danish writer and women's rights activist
- 1847: John Forrest , Australian explorer and politician
- 1848: Giuseppe dell'Orefice , Italian composer
1851-1900
- 1851: Richard Andersson , Swedish composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1854: Milan I , Serbian king
- 1855: Carl Funke , German entrepreneur
- 1856: Emanuel von Seidl , German architect and engineer
- 1857: Margarethe Hormuth-Kallmorgen , German painter and graphic artist
- 1860: Alfred Ploetz , German doctor and eugenicist
- 1860: Gustaf Fröding , Swedish poet
- 1860: Paul Nipkow , German technician and inventor
- 1862: Claude Debussy , French composer
- 1863: Otto Roth , German surgeon
- 1866: Paul Aust , German landscape painter, graphic artist and writer
- 1867: Dietlof von Arnim-Boitzenburg , Prussian politician
- 1867: Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner , Swiss doctor and nutritionist
- 1867: Maud Powell , American violinist
- 1868: Edward HR Green , American philatelist and numismatist
- 1869: Arthur Holitscher , writer
- 1870: Daniel Read Anthony junior , American politician
- 1871: Butler Ames , American politician
- 1871: Lydia Rabinowitsch-Kempner , Russian-German microbiologist
- 1871: Onisaburō Deguchi , co-founder of the Ōmoto religion
- 1872: Ferdinand Mirwald , German painter
- 1873: Alexander Alexandrowitsch Bogdanow , Russian philosopher and economist, sociologist and doctor
- 1873: Karl Nef , Swiss musicologist
- 1873: Walter von Nathusius , German entrepreneur
- 1874: Edward Bairstow , British organist and educator, composer, choir director and conductor
- 1874: Max Scheler , German philosopher and sociologist
- 1875: Romain Pelletier , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
- 1878: Edward Johnson , Canadian singer and opera director
- 1878: Ladislav Klíma , Czech prose writer, playwright and poet
- 1879: Josef Roeckerath , President of the Regional Court, member of the Reich Economic Court
- 1879: Karl Schapper , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1880: George Herriman , American comic book artist and caricaturist
- 1880: Gorch Fock , German writer
- 1882: Heinrich User , Romanian journalist, politician and printer
- 1882: Élise Deroche , first woman in the world to obtain a pilot's license
- 1882: Elisabeth de Meuron , aristocratic personality in Bern
- 1884: Max Curt Bille , German puppet player
- 1884: Panait Istrati , Romanian writer
- 1884: Hans Rudolf Theodor Schubert , Prussian state archivist and historian
- 1886: August Geislhöringer , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1887: Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk , German lawyer and politician, Reich Finance Minister
- 1888: Edmund Jacobson , American physician
- 1888: Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach , German general
- 1888: Willi Schur , German actor, singer and director
- 1890: Floyd Allport , American social psychologist
- 1891: Jacques Lipchitz , French-American sculptor
- 1891: Walter Lutze , German conductor
- 1893: Dorothy Parker , American writer
- 1893: Ernst Waldow , German actor
- 1894: Willem Arondeus , Dutch painter, writer and resistance fighter
- 1894: Walter Rilla , German actor
- 1895: Paul White , American composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher
- 1896: Frank Loomis , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1897: Elisabeth Bergner , Austrian actress
- 1900: Váša Příhoda , Czech violinist
- 1900: Albert Schneider , German motorcycle racer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Dmitri Chechulin , Russian architect
- 1902: Adalbert Seifriz , German politician
- 1902: Erwin Kramer , Minister in the GDR and General Director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn
- 1902: Carl Jacob Jucker , Swiss industrial designer and silversmith
- 1902: Leni Riefenstahl , German dancer, actress and director
- 1902: Otto Kasten , founder of the Dr. Otto box
- 1903: Albert Francis Birch , American geophysicist
- 1903: Jerry Iger , American cartoonist and comic artist
- 1904: Deng Xiaoping , Chinese politician
- 1904: Walter Wiborg , Low German author
- 1905: John Lyng , Norwegian Conservative politician
- 1906: Gerhard Koch , German lawyer, tax officer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1906: Stig Wennerström , Swedish spy
- 1908: Henri Cartier-Bresson , French photographer
- 1908: Erwin Thiesies , German national rugby player and coach
- 1909: Julius J. Epstein , American screenwriter
- 1909: Vladimir Grigoryevich Yermolajew , Soviet aircraft designer
- 1911: Edvard Hambro , Norwegian politician
- 1911: Harry Heltzer , American manager, CEO of 3M
- 1911: Robert Fischer , President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 1912: Simone Schaller , American athlete
- 1912: Mac Zimmermann , German painter and graphic artist
- 1913: Bruno Pontecorvo , Italian-Russian physicist
- 1913: Robert Schollum , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1915: Wilhelm Abb , German geodesist and Bavarian administrative officer
- 1915: Alex Wojciechowicz , American football player
- 1915: José Antonio Zorrilla , Mexican composer, writer, screenwriter and director
- 1916: Anthony Michaelis , English science journalist
- 1917: Kō Arima , Japanese national soccer player and coach
- 1917: Samuel Dolin , Canadian composer and music teacher
- 1917: John Lee Hooker , American blues musician
- 1917: Per Anders Fogelström , Swedish writer
- 1917: Rudolf Frey , German anesthetist, university professor
- 1918: Said Mohamed Djohar , President of the Comoros
- 1919: Alan Cathcart, 6th Earl Cathcart , British peer and officer
- 1920: Sten Olov Åhlund , Swedish football player and coach
- 1920: Ray Bradbury , American novelist and screenwriter
- 1920: Kurt Paupié , Austrian journalist
- 1920: Wolfdietrich Schnurre , German writer
- 1921: Claude Durrens , French postage stamp artist
- 1921: Michael Yeats , Irish politician
- 1922: Miloš Kopecký , Czech actor
- 1922: Kurt Laue , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1924: Herman Toivo ja Toivo , Namibian human and civil rights activist
- 1925: Justus Ahlheim , German politician
- 1925: Honor Blackman , British actress
- 1925: Dietmar Kienast , German ancient historian
- 1925: Lope Balaguer , Dominican singer
- 1925: Ernst Hofbauer , Austrian director and screenwriter
1926-1950
- 1926: Max Georg Freiherr von Twickel , German auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster and official of the Münster diocese
- 1927: Alfred Wellm , German writer
- 1928: Alice Baber , American painter
- 1928: Günther C. Kirchberger , German painter
- 1928: Karlheinz Stockhausen , German composer
- 1929: Karl-Heinz Pollok , German Slavic philologist, founding president of the University of Passau
- 1929: Klaus Gersten , German mathematician, engineer and university professor
- 1929: Pauli Toivonen , Finnish rally driver
- 1929: Ulrich Wegener , German police officer
- 1930: Gilmar , Brazilian soccer player
- 1930: Günter Lüdke , German actor
- 1930: Surat Singh Mathur , Indian marathon runner
- 1931: Stefan Andreae , German pastoral theologian
- 1932: Gerald P. Carr , American astronaut
- 1932: Jutta Neumann , German athlete
- 1933: Irmtraud Morgner , German writer
- 1933: Michael von Albrecht , German classical philologist
- 1933: Sylva Koscina , Italian actress
- 1933: Mike McKee , British racing driver and gallery owner
- 1934: Volker Beuthien , German legal scholar
- 1934: Hartmut Boockmann , German historian
- 1934: John Chowning , American composer and music educator, pioneer of digital music
- 1934: Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr. , American general
- 1935: Annie Proulx , Canadian writer and journalist
- 1935: Hansgünther Heyme , German theater director
- 1936: Dale Hawkins , American rock and roll musician
- 1936: Karl-Heinz Klostermeier , German economist and broadcasting director
- 1936: Werner Stengel , German engineer and roller coaster designer
- 1937: Johan Anthierens , Belgian journalist and writer
- 1937: Enrique García Asensio , Spanish conductor and music teacher
- 1937: Malachi Favors , American jazz bassist
- 1937: Francesco Musso , Italian boxer, Olympic champion
- 1938: Jens-Rainer Ahrens , German politician
- 1938: Günter Neumann , German opera singer (tenor)
- 1938: Ingo Porges , German soccer player
- 1939: Bodo Theodor Adolphi , German politician
- 1939: Carl Yastrzemski , American baseball player
- 1940: Karl-Ernst Apfelbacher , German theologian
- 1940: Lynne Bowen , Canadian historian
- 1940: Valerie Harper , American actress
- 1941: Bill Parcells , American football coach
- 1941: Klaus-Peter Sattler , Austrian composer
- 1941: Hannspeter Winter , Austrian physicist
- 1942: Carl Mann , American singer
- 1942: Harald Norpoth , German athlete
- 1942: Monika Lundi , German actress
- 1942: Uğur Mumcu , Turkish journalist and writer
- 1943: Dante Spinotti , American cameraman of Italian origin
- 1943: Nahas Angula , Namibian politician
- 1944: Franz Peter Basten , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1944: Peter Hofmann , German opera singer
- 1945: Carter Heyward , American feminist theologian and pastor
- 1945: Donna Godchaux , American singer
- 1945: Ron Dante , American singer, songwriter, and record producer
- 1945: Steve Kroft , American journalist
- 1945: Sylvia Vrethammar , Swedish singer
- 1946: KC Cole , American science journalist and writer
- 1946: Raimund Krone , German actor and voice actor
- 1947: Gerhard Mammen , German economist, professor and president of the Ansbach University of Applied Sciences
- 1947: Alan Sked , British historian and politician
- 1947: Konrad Streiter , Austrian politician, regional councilor
- 1947: Robert E. Cramer , American politician
- 1948: Peter James , English author and film producer
- 1948: Jozef Machálek , Swedish-Slovak medium and long-distance runner
- 1948: Sam Neely , American singer and songwriter
- 1949: Fernando Arias Cabello , Peruvian singer and composer
- 1949: Christoph Schwind , German local politician
- 1950: Lewis Libby , American lawyer and politician
1951-1975
- 1951: Hans-Joachim Flebbe , German entrepreneur, founder of CinemaxX AG
- 1951: Leiko Ikemura , Japanese-Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1952: Hans Otfried Dittmer , German writer and publisher
- 1952: Klaus Gruner , German handball player
- 1952: Hartmut Huhse , German soccer player
- 1952: Andreas Kunze , German actor
- 1952: Oskar Niedermayer , German professor of political science
- 1952: Michael Sziedat , German soccer player
- 1953: Evelyn Thomas , American singer
- 1954: Berhane Asfaw , Ethiopian paleoanthropologist
- 1954: Gary Kulesha , Canadian composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher
- 1954: Willi Rösel , German autocross driver
- 1954: Peter Schaar , German data protection expert
- 1955: Tony Burgess , Canadian racing car driver
- 1955: Thomas Heise , German documentary filmmaker
- 1956: Valery Alexandrovich Abramov , Russian long-distance runner
- 1956: Babette Koblenz , German composer
- 1956: Paul Molitor , American baseball player
- 1956: Charles Slater , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1956: Horst Seidenfaden , German journalist and writer
- 1957: Hiltrud Breyer , German politician, MEP
- 1957: Steve Davis , English snooker player
- 1957: Susanne Feske , German political scientist
- 1958: Colm Feore , American-Canadian actor
- 1958: Christian Haas , German athlete
- 1958: Stevie Ray , American wrestler
- 1958: Vernon Reid , American fusion and crossover guitarist
- 1959: Heike Arnold , German entrepreneur
- 1959: Eric Boeren , Dutch jazz cornet player
- 1959: Pia Gjellerup , Danish lawyer and politician
- 1959: Deborah Sasson , American singer
- 1960: Holger Gehrke , German soccer player and coach
- 1960: Collin Raye , American country singer
- 1960: Daniel Rohr , Swiss actor, director and theater manager
- 1960: Norbert Schwefel , German musician
- 1961: Alexander Dwornikow , Russian Colonel General
- 1961: Thomas Hoeren , German legal scholar
- 1961: Debbi Peterson , American musician
- 1962: Wiktor Bryshin , Ukrainian sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1963: Dirk Bakalorz , German football player
- 1963: Tori Amos , American singer and musician
- 1963: Thomas Sonnenburg , German street worker
- 1964: Andrew Wilson , American actor
- 1964: Martin Lindner , German politician
- 1964: Mats Wilander , Swedish tennis player
- 1965: Jale Arıkan , Turkish actress
- 1965: Franko Bogdan , Croatian football player
- 1965: Nurida Gadirova , Azerbaijani author and prehistorian
- 1965: Yvonne Mai-Graham , German athlete
- 1965: Thaddeus McCotter , American politician
- 1965: David Reimer , Canadian citizen
- 1966: Heike Friedrich , German synchronized swimmer
- 1966: GZA , American rapper ( Wu-Tang Clan )
- 1966: Rob Witschge , Dutch football player and coach
- 1967: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , British actor
- 1967: Zaldy Ampatuan , Filipino politician
- 1967: Layne Staley , American musician ( Alice In Chains )
- 1967: Paul Ereng , Kenyan athlete, Olympic champion
- 1967: Ty Burrell , American actor
- 1967: Yukiko Okada , Japanese singer and actress
- 1968: Endrio Leoni , Italian racing cyclist
- 1968: Alexander Vladimirovich Mostowoi , Russian football player
- 1968: Horst Skoff , Austrian tennis player
- 1968: Michael Curry , American basketball coach
- 1969: Jörg Bode , German soccer player
- 1970: Jeannette Arndt , German actress and director
- 1970: Erik van der Luijt , Dutch jazz musician and band leader
- 1970: Nadir Vassena , Swiss composer of new music
- 1970: Ricco Groß , German biathlete
- 1970: Tanja Karpela , Finnish politician
- 1970: Tímea Nagy , Hungarian sword fencer
- 1971: Valentin Areh , Slovenian war reporter
- 1971: Oswald Haselrieder , Italian luge rider
- 1971: Richard Armitage , British theater and film actor
- 1971: Rick Yune , American actor
- 1972: Marliece Andrada , American model and actress
- 1972: Paul Doucette , American musician
- 1972: Ri Yong-sam , North Korean wrestler
- 1972: Max Wilson , Brazilian automobile athlete and Formula 1 test driver
- 1973: Beenie Man , Jamaican musician
- 1973: Howie Dorough , American singer ( Backstreet Boys )
- 1974: Diego López , Uruguayan football player
- 1974: Marcus Damm , German guidebook author and psychologist
- 1974: Jenna Leigh Green , American actress
- 1974: Peter Tauber , German politician
- 1975: Clint Bolton , Australian soccer player
- 1975: Ali Farahat , Egyptian chess player and coach
- 1975: Myrto Joannidis , Swiss singer and radio presenter
- 1975: Rodrigo Santoro , Brazilian actor
- 1975: Franco Squillari , Argentine tennis player
- 1975: Salvador Carmona , Mexican soccer player
1976-2000
- 1976: György Korsós , Hungarian football player
- 1976: James Dooley , American film composer
- 1976: Marlies Oester , Swiss ski racer
- 1977: Heiðar Helguson , Icelandic football player
- 1978: Malin Crépin , Swedish actress
- 1978: Emir Hüseynov , Azerbaijani billiards player
- 1978: Roberto Pinto , Portuguese football player
- 1979: Brandon Quintin Adams , American actor
- 1979: Mia Audina , Dutch badminton player
- 1979: Jennifer Finnigan , Canadian actress
- 1980: Felix Limo , Kenyan athlete
- 1980: Mario de Sárraga , Spanish cyclist
- 1980: Roland Benschneider , German soccer player
- 1980: Zsófia Boros , Hungarian guitarist
- 1981: Christina Obergföll , German athlete
- 1982: Marco Wölfli , Swiss football player
- 1982: Sebastian Jones , German ice hockey player
- 1982: Janina Flieger , German actress
- 1983: Johan Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1983: Samuel Schwarz , German speed skater
- 1983: Serkan Balcı , Turkish football player
- 1983: Theo Bos , Dutch cyclist
- 1984: Chad Marshall , American football player
- 1984: Katie Stuart , American actress
- 1985: Jens Byggmark , Swedish ski racer
- 1985: Ruth Kolokotronis , German beach volleyball player
- 1985: David Ortega , German scripted reality actor, model and television presenter
- 1986: Keiko Kitagawa , Japanese actress
- 1986: Norman Bröckl , German canoeist
- 1986: Stephen Ireland , Irish football player
- 1986: Cédric Mimbala , Congolese soccer player
- 1986: Augusto Ramos Soares , East Timorese marathon runner
- 1987: Nikola Aistrup , Danish track and road cyclist
- 1987: Hamida Al-Habsi , Omani athlete
- 1987: Dan Weekes-Hannah , New Zealand actor
- 1987: Josip Tadić , Croatian football player
- 1987: Mischa Zverev , German tennis player
- 1988: Mitchell Langerak , Australian soccer player
- 1988: Pedro Nunes , Brazilian racing driver
- 1989: Katharina Heinig , German long-distance runner
- 1989: Tristan Vautier , French racing car driver
- 1990: Rifat Şen , Austrian football player
- 1991: Federico Macheda , Italian football player
- 1995: Sinphet Kruaithong , Thai weightlifter
- 1995: Dua Lipa , British-Albanian singer
- 1995: Nico Rieble , German soccer player
- 1995: Salih Yoluç , Turkish racing car driver
- 1996: Sascha Horvath , Austrian soccer player
- 1996: Jenny Gaugigl , German soccer player
- 1997: Lautaro Martínez , Argentine soccer player
- 1999: Dakota Goyo , Canadian actor
Died
Before the 17th century
- Stilicho , Western Roman general 408:
- Waldrich , Bishop of Passau 804:
- 1040: Werner I , Count of Hesse and Count of Winterthur
- 1155: Konoe , Emperor of Japan
- 1164: Hartwig II of Spanheim , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1241: Gregory IX. , Pope
- 1280: Nicholas III. , Pope
- 1285: Philipp Benizi , Italian superior general of the Servites
- 1304: John II of Avesnes , Count of Hainaut, Count of Holland
- 1313: Jean Lemoine , cardinal, bishop of Arras and papal legate
- 1338: Wilhelm II , Duke of Athens
- 1350: Philip VI. , King of France
- 1350: Tidemann von Güstrow , Lübeck mayor
- 1358: Isabelle de France , Queen of England
- 1359: Elisabeth von Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk , Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1365: Barnim IV. , Duke of Pomerania-Wolgast-Rügen
- 1371: Guido , Count of Ligny and Saint-Pol
- 1450: Andreas von Oberstein , canon, provost and archdeacon in the diocese of Speyer and in the diocese of Worms
- 1468: Charles de Melun , Seigneur of Normanville and Lumigny, Baron of Les Landes and advisor and chamberlain to the French king
- 1482: Mechthild von der Pfalz , princess of the Electorate of the Palatinate , by marriage Countess of Württemberg and Archduchess of Austria
- 1485: William Brandon , English knight
- 1485: Walter Devereux, 1st Baron Ferrers of Chartley , English nobleman and military man
- 1485: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman
- 1485: Richard III. , King of England
- 1502: Frans van Busleyden , Burgundian politician and Archbishop of Besançon
- 1504: Philip II of Hanau-Lichtenberg , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1519: Heinrich III. von Plauen , Burgrave of Meißen, captain of the Bohemian fiefdom and governor of Lower Lusatia
- 1523: Lucien Grimaldi , Lord of Monaco
- 1532: William Warham , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1545: Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk , English nobleman
- 1547: Niccolò Ardinghelli , Italian cardinal
- 1553: John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland , English nobleman
- 1554: Francisco Vásquez de Coronado , Spanish conquistador
- 1563: Johann Travers , Swiss lawyer, Graubünden governor, military leader, pioneer and co-founder of the Rhaeto-Romanic language in the Engadine
- 1599: Luca Marenzio , Italian composer
17th and 18th centuries
- 1607: Bartholomew Gosnold , English entrepreneur and explorer
- 1614: Philipp Ludwig , Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg
- 1626: Alessandro Orsini , Italian cardinal
- 1632: Klas Horn , Swedish Imperial Councilor and Governor General of Swedish Pomerania
- 1646: Anna Margarete , Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Harburg and provost in the Quedlinburg Abbey
- 1653: August , Prince of Anhalt-Plötzkau
- 1664: Maria Cunitz , German astronomer
- 1691: Georg Green , German theologian, poet and historian
- 1692: Maria Sofia De la Gardie , Swedish countess, lady-in-waiting, banker and entrepreneur
- 1701: Charles Chevillet , French actor and playwright
- 1712: Sophie Marie of Hessen-Darmstadt , Duchess of Saxony-Eisenberg
- 1722: Josef Georg Hörl , Austrian lawyer, Mayor of Vienna
- 1741: Pedro de Castro y Figueroa , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, Viceroy of New Spain
- 1743: Lieve Geelvinck , regent of Amsterdam
- 1750: Johann Anton Weise , German organ builder
- 1755: Elias Hügel , German sculptor, imperial court stone mason and church builder
- 1761: Emmanuel Thumbé , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1764: Marc-Pierre d'Argenson , French nobleman and minister
- 1770: Johann Gottfried Lessing , German theologian
- 1770: Christian von Loß , German cabinet minister
- 1779: Abol Fath Khan Zand, Shah of the Zand Dynasty
- 1779: Charles Clerke , British navigator
- 1789: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder , German painter and portraitist
- 1791: Johann David Michaelis , German theologian and orientalist
- 1792: Isidorus Keppler , German professor of theology
- 1793: Louis de Noailles , Marshal of France
- 1793: Cäcilia Weber , mother-in-law of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1797: Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , Austrian field marshal
- 1799: Gotthilf Friedemann Löber , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1800: Jacob Albrecht von Sienen , German lawyer and mayor of Hamburg
19th century
- 1801: Pieter Gerardus van Overstraten , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1802: Franz Ulrich Theodor Aepinus , German astronomer, mathematician, physicist and natural philosopher
- 1806: Jean Honoré Fragonard , French painter
- 1818: Warren Hastings , British politician
- 1828: Franz Josef Gall , German physician and anatomist
- 1834: Jakob Georg Christian Adler , German superintendent general
- 1834: Franz Antoine , Austrian pomologist
- 1835: Leopoldo Nobili , Italian physicist
- 1839: Johann Hartmann Bernhard , German organ builder
- 1843: Wilhelm Arnold Günther , German auxiliary bishop
- 1846: Ernst Wilhelm Bernhard Eiselen , German teacher and writer
- 1850: Gottfried Fleischmann , German physician and university professor
- 1850: Nikolaus Lenau , Austrian writer
- 1858: Christoph Merian , Swiss landowner and founder of the foundation
- 1859: John Wesley Davis , American politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Governor of the Oregon Territory
- 1861: Xianfeng , Emperor of China
- 1864: John Appleton , American politician
- 1868: Urban Kreutzbach , German organ builder
- 1891: Livia Frege , German singer, salonière and patron
- 1891: Jan Nepomuk Neruda , Czech journalist, poet and writer
- 1892: Cornelis Willem Opzoomer , Dutch lawyer, philosopher, literary scholar and logician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Franz Sigel , Baden officer, revolutionary, newspaper publisher and politician
- 1904: Kate Chopin , American writer
- 1907: Barnim Grüneberg , German organ builder
- 1907: Josef Mitscha von Märheim , lawyer, banker and politician in the Austrian Empire
- 1911: Theodor Scheimpflug , Austrian geodesist
- 1914: Spencer Wishart American racing car driver
- 1918: Korbinian Brodmann , German neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1922: Michael Collins , Irish freedom fighter and politician
- 1924: Sietze Douwes van Veen , Dutch church historian
- 1926: Charles William Eliot , American chemist
- 1937: Karl Braun , German motorcycle racer
- 1940: Paul Goesch , German architect and painter, victim of the Nazi regime
- 1940: Rudolf Medek , Czech writer and soldier
- 1940: Isidro Gomá y Tomás , Spanish clergyman, Archbishop of Toledo, cardinal
- 1940: Oliver Lodge , British physicist
- 1941: Julius Petersen , German literary scholar
- 1942: Michel Fokine , Russian-American choreographer, founder of modern ballet
- 1942: Clemens von Franckenstein , German opera composer and general manager
- 1944: Luigi Maglione , Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
- 1945: Arnaldo D'Espósito , Argentine composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher
- 1946: Döme Sztójay , Hungarian officer and politician
- 1948: Adolf Behne , German architect, art politician and scientist
- 1950: Ferdinand Herbst , German Protestant theologian
- 1950: Jan Johannes Blanksma , Dutch chemist
1951-1975
- 1951: Johannes Kirschweng , German Catholic priest and writer
- 1954: Wilhelm Tenhagen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1955: Julius Außenberg , Austrian film producer, film salesman and film manager
- 1955: Georg Thumshirn , German motorcycle racer
- 1957: Edward Dent , British musicologist
- 1958: Roger Martin du Gard , French writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1959: Josef Ackermann , German journalist
- 1961: Jonathan Petersen , Greenlandic composer, songwriter, poet, writer, linguist, organist and university professor
- 1962: Guillaume Gagnier , Canadian horn player and double bass player
- 1962: Rudolf Alexander Schröder , German writer
- 1963: William Richard Morris , British entrepreneur, founder of the Morris Motor Company
- 1964: Helena Makowska , Polish actress
- 1966: Erwin Komenda , Austrian-German automobile designer
- 1966: Apolinary Szeluto , Polish composer
- 1967: Junie Astor , French actress
- 1967: Gregory Pincus , American physiologist
- 1967: Johnny Simone , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1970: Richard Donovan , American composer, organist, conductor and music teacher
- 1970: Hermann Knaus , Austrian surgeon and gynecologist
- 1970: Adolf Julius Merkl , Austrian constitutional and administrative lawyer
- 1973: Thomas Ryum Amlie , American politician
- 1974: Charles Wheeler , British sculptor, painter and medalist
- 1974: Alfredo Edmead , Dominican baseball player
1976-2000
- 1976: Oskar Brüsewitz , German Protestant pastor
- 1976: Juscelino Kubitschek , Brazilian doctor and president
- 1976: André Lanskoy , Russian-French painter
- 1976: Anton Profes , Austrian hit and film composer
- 1978: Jomo Kenyatta , President of Kenya
- 1978: Ignazio Silone , Italian writer
- 1979: Snjolaug Sigurdson , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1980: Alfred Neubauer , German automobile racing driver and race director of the Mercedes Grand Prix team
- 1980: Erich Sternberg , German-Russian geriatric psychiatrist
- 1980: Gabriel González Videla , Chilean politician
- 1981: Karl von Appen , German stage designer
- 1981: Ludwig Janda , German soccer player
- 1981: Kuniko Mukōda , Japanese writer
- 1981: Glauber Rocha , Brazilian film director
- 1983: Elsa Chauvel , Australian actress
- 1983: Hans Schalla , German theater director
- 1984: Charles Whittenberg , American composer and music teacher
- 1985: Paul Peter Ewald , German physicist
- 1987: Imre Reiner , Hungarian painter, graphic artist and type designer
- 1988: Karl Ebb , Finnish entrepreneur, athlete and racing car driver
- 1988: Frances James , Canadian soprano and music teacher
- 1989: Alexej von Assaulenko , Russian-Ukrainian painter
- 1989: George Bernard Cardinal Flahiff , Canadian religious, Archbishop of Winnipeg
- 1989: Alexander Jakowlew , Soviet aircraft designer and chief engineer
- 1990: Julius Angerhausen , German auxiliary bishop
- 1990: Cardinal Luigi Dadaglio , Italian clergyman and Vatican diplomat, cardinal to the Curia
- 1991: Fritz Hinderer , German astronomer and astrophysicist
- 1996: Wilhelm Angele , German-American engineer for rocket control technology
- 1996: Erwin Leiser , German writer and journalist
- 2000: Əbülfəz Elçibəy , Azerbaijani cultural scientist and politician, president
21st century
- 2001: Olaf Koch , German conductor and university professor
- 2003: Imperio Argentina , Spanish singer and actress
- 2003: Audrey Jones Beck , American art collector and patron
- 2003: Paula Köhlmeier , Austrian writer and director
- 2003: Jindrich Polák , Czech film director
- 2003: Floyd Tillman , American country singer and songwriter
- 2004: Daniel Petrie , Canadian director
- 2004: Ota Šik , Czech-Swiss painter and economist
- 2005: Henri Génès , French actor
- 2005: Andrónico Luksic Abaroa , Chilean mine owner and billionaire
- 2005: Ulrich Sahm , German ambassador and diplomat
- 2005: Hartmut Stegemann , German theologian
- 2005: Dieter Wolf , German administrative lawyer, President of the Federal Cartel Office
- 2006: Rafael Artzy , Israeli mathematician
- 2007: Grace Paley , American writer
- 2008: Robert Pintenat , French soccer player
- 2010: Michel Montignac , French author
- 2011: Nickolas Ashford , American songwriter and producer
- 2011: John Howard Davies , British actor, television director and producer
- 2011: Jerry Leiber , American music producer and songwriter
- 2011: Loriot , German humorist, caricaturist, actor and director
- 2012: Max Absmeier , German Roman Catholic prelate
- 2015: Jörg Schneider , Swiss actor
- 2016: Per Lønning , Norwegian theologian and politician
- 2016: Sellapan Ramanathan , Singaporean politician, President
- 2016: Toots Thielemans , Belgian jazz musician
- 2017: John Abercrombie , American guitarist
- 2018: Hermann W. von der Dunk , Dutch historian
- 2018: Ed King , American musician
- 2019: Junior Agogo , Ghanaian-English soccer player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Symphorianus , French martyr and patron saint (Protestant, Catholic)
- Maria Queen , Marienfest (catholic)
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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