December 22
The December 22 is the 356th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 357th in leap years ), so stay 9 days to the year.
22 (or 21) in December, the sun is at noon at the Tropic of Capricorn in the zenith and is at the northern Arctic Circle during the day no longer occurs. This day is the shortest of the year in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice .
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events
Politics and world events
- 1481: The Eight Old Places of the Confederates seal the Stans agreement to settle a conflict between the town and country towns .
- 1522: The Johanniter on Rhodes surrender to the Ottoman besiegers on condition of free withdrawal .
- 1530: In Schmalkalden , the convention convened by Elector Johann von Sachsen begins in Schmalkalden , where the Protestant imperial princes discuss how to proceed after the rejection of the Confessio Augustana at the Reichstag in Augsburg . The convention finally culminates in the founding of the Schmalkaldic Confederation on February 27 of the following year.
- 1603: With Ahmed I , Mehmed III takes over after the death of his father . for the first time a minor sultan took power in the Ottoman Empire .
- 1711: Charles VI. is crowned Roman-German Emperor in Frankfurt .
- 1789: In France during the revolutionary era, the départements are introduced in place of the historical provinces .
- 1790: General Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow and his Russian troops conquered the strong fortress Ismajil of the Ottoman Empire in later Bessarabia in the Russo-Turkish War .
- 1793: The artillery captain Napoleon Bonaparte , who was involved in the reconquest of the English-occupied city of Toulon , is promoted to brigadier general.
- 1845: During the First Sikh War , the Battle of Ferozeshah ends in a British victory .
- 1847: The Algerian rebel leader Abd el-Kader surrenders to the French army and is soon brought to France. In French North Africa the situation for the colonial power has calmed down significantly.
- 1849: A pardon from Tsar Nicholas I saves the Russian writer Fyodor Michailowitsch Dostoyewski from the firing squad .
- 1851: Foreign Secretary Palmerston leaves Prime Minister John Russell's British Cabinet . The unauthorized official approval of the coup of Napoleon III. of December 2 in France leads to involuntary resignation.
- 1885: Itō Hirobumi abolishes the Dajokan as the governing body of government in Japan and instead, influenced by ideas he got to know while studying in Berlin and Vienna, establishes a cabinet of ministers, of which he becomes the first prime minister .
- 1894: A French military court sentenced the Jewish artillery captain Alfred Dreyfus to lifelong banishment on Devil's Island for alleged espionage . Years later, the anti-Semitic verdict triggers the Dreyfus affair .
- 1929: In Khabarovsk , the German government negotiates the armistice in the Soviet-Chinese border war .
- 1942: Harro Schulze-Boysen , Hans Coppi , Arvid Harnack , Libertas Schulze-Boysen , Kurt Schumacher and other members of the Rote Kapelle resistance group are executed in Berlin-Plötzensee .
- 1956: The last British troops leave Egypt after the diplomatic settlement of the Suez Crisis .
- 1971: The Austrian Kurt Waldheim is elected UN Secretary General .
- 1971: Members of the Red Army Fraction raid the Bayerische Hypotheken- und Wechselbank in Kaiserslautern . The police officer Herbert Schoner is shot dead. He is the second victim of the RAF.
- 1974: In a referendum, the islands of Grande Comore , Anjouan and Mohéli decide for the independence of the Comoros . Only Mayotte voted to stay with France .
- 1979: The Spanish region of Catalonia receives autonomous status .
- 1979: With the granting of far-reaching autonomy to the Basque provinces by the Spanish government, the more than ten-year civil war in the Basque Country officially ends .
- 1984: In Austria , the federal government under Federal Chancellor Fred Sinowatz resolves a “Christmas peace” with the occupiers of the Hainburger Au after two weeks .
- 1984: Bernhard Goetz (later called "Subway Vigilante" because of the crime) shoots four Afro-Americans in the New York subway who he believes are trying to rob him. The incident divides public opinion in New York , which at the time was characterized by high crime.
- 1988: The founder of the Brazilian rubber tapping union, Chico Mendes , is shot dead in his home by the son of a large landowner.
- 1989: The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin is reopened 28 years after the Wall was built.
- 1989: The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown during the Romanian Revolution and arrested by the army together with his wife Elena while trying to leave the country .
- 1991: The former Soviet Republic of Kyrgyzstan joins the Commonwealth of Independent States .
- 1992: The International Telecommunications Treaty is replaced by the Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunications Union signed in Geneva .
- 1999: In an article published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , CDU Secretary General Angela Merkel reckons with the attitude of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl to the donation affair .
- 1999: The Nigerien head of state Daouda Malam Wanké hands over his office to the newly elected President Mamadou Tandja . This appoints his party friend Hama Amadou as prime minister.
- 2001: In Kabul , Hamid Karzai is appointed head of the Afghan transitional government.
- 2001: The German Bundestag approves the deployment of German armed forces to Afghanistan to implement Resolution 1386 of the UN Security Council with a large majority.
- 2002: Janez Drnovšek becomes President of Slovenia .
- 2004: Liese Prokop is sworn in as Austrian Minister of the Interior.
- 2008: Guinea's President Lansana Conté dies after a long illness. The military, led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara , then staged a coup and prevented the constitutional head of state, President Aboubacar Somparé , from taking over the official duties.
- 2012: In a referendum in Egypt , 63.8 percent of voters support Sharia law as the main source of legislation.
business
- 1807: The USA prohibits trade with all foreign countries in the Embargo Act and closes the ports. The background to this is the continental blockade in Europe, which is associated with the risk of shipments being confiscated by Great Britain or France .
- 1809: The US Congress relaxes the Embargo Act due to undesirable effects and limits the trade ban only to Great Britain and France .
- 1917: The standards committee of German industry , a forerunner of DIN , is founded.
- 1937: The Lincoln Tunnel between Manhattan and New Jersey opens to traffic.
- 1953: The first edition of the weekly post appears in the GDR , becoming the weekly newspaper with the highest circulation there .
science and technology
- 1666: Jean-Baptiste Colbert gathers a small group of scholars for the first time in the library of the French King Louis XIV. From then on, they meet for bi-weekly work sessions. The Académie des sciences develops from these informal meetings .
- 1891: Max Wolf , a founder of astrophotography , is the first astronomer to find a minor planet using photographic methods.
- 1920: Regular radio broadcasts begin in Germany through the Königs Wusterhausen broadcaster .
- 1938: On the east coast of South Africa, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer , curator at the Museum of East London , came across a fish caught by a trawler on February 16, 1939, called Comoros coelacanth by James Leonard Brierley Smith , a species that has been known since the end of the Coelacanth , a so-called " living fossil ", is identified as extinct in the Cretaceous period .
- 1939: The Soviet test pilot Pyotr Mikhailovich Stefanowski tested in the first flight of the bomber Petlyakov Pe-2 .
- 1945: The Beechcraft Bonanza , produced as a business jet, makes its maiden flight .
- 1964: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft developed on behalf of the CIA takes off on its maiden flight.
- 1984: Uruguay founds the Base Científica Antártica Artigas research station on King George Island in the Antarctic .
- 2001: The cloned cat CC is born in the USA .
- 2015: The American space company SpaceX succeeded in landing a rocket stage on earth for the first time after an orbital mission.
Culture
- 1808: As part of a four-hour concert at the Theater an der Wien near Vienna, the world premieres of the 5th and 6th symphonies ( pastoral ) as well as the fantasy for piano, choir and orchestra and the 4th piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven take place . The performance, with the composer sitting at the piano, is unpleasant because the musicians in the orchestra have not rehearsed enough and the theater is unheated.
- 1829: The first performance of the opera Der Templer und die Jüdin by Heinrich Marschner takes place at the Stadttheater in Leipzig and the first performance of the lieder play Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes place in the garden hall of the Mendelssohn family estate in Berlin .
- 1837: The comic opera Zar und Zimmermann by Albert Lortzing is premiered at the Leipzig City Theater.
- 1841: The world premiere of Jacques Fromental Halévy's opera La rein de Chypre takes place in Paris .
- 1894: With the orchestral work Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy , the first major work of musical impressionism is premiered in Paris .
- 1904: The world premiere of the operetta Die Juxheirat by Franz Lehár takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .
- 1923: The world premiere of the operetta Marietta by Walter Kollo takes place at the Metropol-Theater in Berlin .
- 1928: Anna Seghers receives the Kleist Prize for her novella Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara .
- 1934: In Berlin , the operetta The Dancer Fanny Elßler is premiered with posthumous music by Johann Strauss (son) based on a libretto by Hans Adler .
- 1937: In the central theater of Leipzig the operetta Balkan love of Rudolf Kattnigg premiered.
- 1965: The film Doctor Zhivago by David Lean and Carlo Ponti is in New York City premiere.
- 2005: In the Dvořák Hall of the Rudolfinum in Prague, the German tenor sings Peter Schreier for the last time the evangelists in the Christmas Oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach .
society
- 1937: The Supreme Court of Canada finally upholds the tenth paragraph of Charles Vance Millar's will , which promised the bulk of his fortune to the Toronto woman who had the most children in ten years. The sales had triggered the Great Stork Derby.
- 2001: Terrorist Richard Reid tries to crash American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with 197 people on board with plastic explosives hidden in his shoes . A flight attendant notices Reid's detonation maneuver and prevents the attack.
- 2012: Pope Benedict XVI. pardons his former valet Paolo Gabriele, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the context of the Vatileaks affair at the beginning of October.
religion
- 1216: Pope Honorius III. confirmed in the Bull religiosam vitam the rule of the order of Dominicans .
- 1885: In his encyclical Quod auctoritate , Pope Leo XIII. an extraordinary holy year and in an exhortation emphatically calls for the rosary to be prayed .
- 1887: Pope Leo XIII expresses himself in the encyclical Officio sanctissimo . about the Church in the Kingdom of Bavaria .
- 1997: The Concordat between the Holy See and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , signed by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo and Prime Minister Berndt Seite , comes into force with the exchange of the ratification documents.
Disasters
- 1939: Shortly after midnight , the collision of two express trains at Genthin train station claims 186 lives. On the same evening, two more trains collide on the Stahringen – Friedrichshafen line between Markdorf and Kluftern . 101 people die there. This makes this day the blackest in German railway history.
- 1963: The British passenger ship Lakonia , registered in Greece, burns down during a Christmas cruise to the Canary Islands north of Madeira . 128 passengers and crew are killed.
- 1992: When approaching Tripoli , a Boeing 727 operated by Libyan Arab Airlines collides with a MiG-23 , killing 157 people.
- 2018: The eruption of the Anak Krakatau volcano between Sumatra and Java leads to a landslide and, as a direct consequence, to a tsunami . At least 400 people die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1857: The Alpine Club, the world's first mountaineering association, is founded in London . It was not until 1974 that the association added alpinists to its ranks.
- 1894: The United States Golf Association is established.
- 1912: The soccer club Calcio Lecco is founded in Lombardy .
- 1965: 1. FC Magdeburg is founded.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1095: Roger II , King of Sicily
- 1178: Antoku , 81st Emperor of Japan
- 1347: Ha Ryun Korean neo-Confucian philosopher and politician
- 1523: Charles I of Bourbon , cardinal, archbishop of Rouen and papal legate of Avignon
- 1573: Ernst Casimir , Count of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- 1597: Friedrich III. , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- 1598: Henri de La Trémoille , Duke of Thouars
- 1605: Balthasar Rösler , German miner
- 1617: Karl I. Ludwig , Elector Palatinate and Duke of Bavaria
- 1639: Jean Racine , French poet
- 1641: Anthonie Heinsius , Dutch statesman
- 1666: Gobind Singh , tenth and last guru of Sikhism
- 1670: Anna Sophie , Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1685: Kaspar Achatius Beck , German lawyer
- 1690: Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé , Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs
- 1694: Hermann Samuel Reimarus , German high school professor, representative of deism and pioneer of biblical criticism
- 1696: James Oglethorpe , British general, philanthropist and founder of the Georgia Colony
18th century
- 1702: Jean-Étienne Liotard , Geneva pastel and enamel painter
- 1707: Johann Amman , Swiss doctor and botanist
- 1723: Carl Friedrich Abel , German composer
- 1727: William Ellery , signatory of the United States' Declaration of Independence
- 1734: Tommaso Conca , Italian painter
- 1735: Ulrich Bräker , Swiss writer
- 1747: Carl Otto von Arnim , Prussian district administrator
- 1750: Nicolaus Sander , German Protestant clergyman
- 1766: Johann Samuel Arnhold , German porcelain painter
- 1769: Franz Abart , South Tyrolean sculptor
- 1769: Johann Philipp Christian Aulenbach , German pastor and poet
- 1789: Alfred von Croÿ , German landlord, entrepreneur and politician
- 1794: James DuPasquier , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1795: Thomas Ainsworth , British-Dutch textile manufacturer
- 1798: George Walker Crawford , American politician
- 1800: Julius Wilhelm Oelsner , German entrepreneur, businessman and politician
19th century
- 1802: Sara Coleridge , English writer and translator
- 1804: Georg Adolf Demmler , German architect
- 1807: Karl Ludwig Grotefend , German historian and numismatist
- 1807: Johan Sebastian Welhaven , Norwegian writer
- 1815: Johann Jakob Bachofen , Swiss lawyer and archaeologist
- 1817: Tuiskon Ziller , German philosopher and educator
- 1819: Franz Abt , German composer and conductor
- 1821: Giovanni Bottesini , Italian composer and double bass player
- 1822: Agnes von Auer , German writer
- 1822: Gerson von Bleichröder , German banker
- 1822: Charles Lebouc , French cellist
- 1823: Thomas Wentworth Higginson , American writer and abolitionist
- 1828: Eduard Schönfeld , German astronomer
- 1833: Paulin Gschwind , Swiss Catholic and later Christian Catholic clergyman
- 1838: Florian Kindle , Liechtenstein composer and priest
- 1839: John Nevil Maskelyne , British stage magician and inventor
- 1841: Otto Piper , German lawyer, local politician, art historian and castle researcher
- 1845: Rudolf Heinrich , German local politician
- 1848: Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , German classical philologist
- 1849: Christian Rohlfs , German expressionist
- 1850: Constantin Fahlberg , German industrialist and chemist, inventor of saccharin
- 1850: Victoriano Huerta , Mexican general, president
- 1852: Bruno Kircheisen , German organ builder
- 1853: Teresa Carreño , Venezuelan pianist and composer
- 1853: Jewgraf Stepanowitsch Fjodorow , Russian crystallographer and mineralogist
- 1853: Édouard de Reszke , French opera singer (bass) of Polish origin
- 1856: Frank Billings Kellogg , American lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner
- 1858: Giacomo Puccini , Italian composer
- 1859: Otto Hölder , German mathematician
- 1860: Richard Hanitsch , German museum curator
- 1861: Eugen Märklin , German entrepreneur
- 1861: Ochiai Naobumi , Japanese poet and literary scholar
- 1862: Connie Mack , American baseball player, manager, and team owner
- 1864: John Alfred McDowell Adair , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1866: Mieczysław Surzyński , Polish organist and composer
- 1867: Joseph Maria Olbrich , Austrian architect
- 1868: Käthe Paulus , German aeronaut and aerialist, inventor of the collapsible parachute
- 1869: Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet
- 1873: Carl Kraemer , German animal rights activist
- 1874: Erhard Auer , German politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1874: Franz Schmidt , Austrian music teacher and composer
- 1876: Janina Korolewicz-Waydowa , Polish opera singer and music teacher
- 1876: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti , Italian poet, founder of Futurism
- 1879: Minna Specht , German educator
- 1880: Dawid Przepiórka , Polish chess player
- 1881: Franz Springer , German composer and conductor
- 1883: Rudolf Kalvach , Austrian graphic artist
- 1883: Edgar Varèse , French-American composer and conductor
- 1887: Edgar Atzler , German physiologist
- 1887: Srinivasa Ramanujan , Indian mathematician
- 1888: J. Arthur Rank , British industrialist and film producer
- 1890: Heinrich Luhmann , German educator and local poet
- 1890: Nol van Berckel , Dutch football player
- 1892: Herman Potočnik , Austrian officer and space theorist
- 1892: Lawrence Sperry , American pilot and inventor
- 1892: Peter Tatsuo Doi , Japanese priest, Archbishop of Tokyo and Cardinal
- 1893: Ulrich Buchholz , German general
- 1893: Philipp Fürchtegott Reemtsma , German cigarette manufacturer and patron of the arts
- 1894: Giulio Masetti , Italian nobleman and racing car driver
- 1897: Max Hansen , Danish cabaret artist, film actor and singer
- 1898: Heartley Anderson , American football player and coach
- 1898: Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Fock , Russian physicist
- 1898: Edouard Probst , Swiss automobile racing driver
- 1898: Paul Schatz , German-Swiss anthroposophist, artist, inventor and technician
- 1899: Gustaf Gründgens , German actor, director and general manager
- 1900: Marc Allégret , French director
- 1900: Erich Frost , German leader of Jehovah's Witnesses and composer
- 1900: John C. Slater , American physicist and chemist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Fritz Gils , German drawing teacher, artist and painter
- 1902: August Neuburger , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1903: Haldan K. Hartline , American physiologist
- 1903: Alfonso de Silva , Peruvian composer
- 1905: Pierre Brasseur , French actor
- 1905: Pierre Levegh , French racing car driver
- 1907: Robert Anasch , German resistance fighter, victim of National Socialism
- 1907: Peggy Ashcroft , British actress
- 1907: Fermin Rocker , British painter and anarchist
- 1907: Irene Britton Smith , American composer
- 1907: Fred M. Wilcox , American film director
- 1908: Max Bill , Swiss architect, artist and designer
- 1908: Giacomo Manzù , Italian sculptor, graphic artist and draftsman
- 1908: Paula Mollenhauer , German athlete and handball player, Olympic medalist
- 1909: Patricia Hayes , British comedian and actress
- 1912: Franz-Leo Andries , German composer, music producer and songwriter
- 1912: Lady Bird Johnson , American environmentalist, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 1912: Oscar Moret , Swiss composer and professor
- 1913: Rudolf Krämer-Badoni , German writer
- 1914: Klaus Konrad , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1919: Lil Green , American blues singer
- 1919: Gerd Pfeiffer , German lawyer, President of the Federal Court of Justice
- 1919: Irina Vyacheslavovna Rakobolskaja , Russian officer and professor, chief of staff of the "Night Witches"
- 1919: Ernst Strachwitz , Austrian politician, member of the National Council
- 1921: Dimitris Fampas , Greek guitarist and composer
- 1921: Hawkshaw Hawkins , American musician
- 1921: Robert Kurka , American composer
- 1921: Laine Mets , Estonian pianist and music teacher
- 1921: Reinhold Stecher , Austrian theologian, Bishop of Innsbruck
- 1922: Peter Lorenz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary, victim of kidnapping
- 1924: Frank Corsaro , American theater, opera and film director
- 1924: Tonny van Ede , Dutch football player
- 1925: Luciana Angiolillo , Italian actress
- 1925: Walter Womacka , German artist and cultural functionary in the GDR
1926-1950
- 1926: Demetrio Ignacio Aquino Aquino , Paraguayan bishop
- 1926: Alcides Ghiggia , Uruguayan football player
- 1926: James D. Ployhar , American composer and conductor
- 1927: Ferdinand Zechmeister , Austrian football player
- 1929: Hugo Loetscher , Swiss writer
- 1930: Lothar Dombrowski , German journalist and moderator
- 1931: Gisela Birkemeyer , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1936: Hector Elizondo , Puerto Rican actor
- 1937: Christian Speck , Swiss politician, member of the National Council
- 1937: Renate Welsh , Austrian author
- 1938: Lucas Abadamloora , Ghanaian bishop
- 1938: Ursula Apel , German Hermann Hesse researcher
- 1938: Lucien Bouchard , Canadian diplomat and politician, Minister, Prime Minister of Québec
- 1938: Georg Gölter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister, Member of the Landtag
- 1938: Brian Locking , British bass guitarist
- 1939: Fritz Kopperschmidt , German regatta sailor
- 1939: Andy Petery , American racing car driver
- 1940: Eberhard Schöler , German table tennis player
- 1940: Sigrid Semper , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1942: Anju Angelov , Bulgarian general and politician, Minister of Defense
- 1942: Dick Parry , British saxophonist
- 1942: John Casablancas , Spanish-American entrepreneur and model
- 1942: Hans-Dieter Schöne , German organist and church music director
- 1943: Paul Wolfowitz , American politician, President of the World Bank
- 1944: Guido de Angelis , Italian singer and songwriter ( Oliver Onions )
- 1945: Konrad Beikircher , German cabaret artist and musician
- 1945: Theodora Hantos , German ancient historian and professor
- 1945: Ursula Haubner , Austrian politician, LAbg, Federal Minister, member of the National Council
- 1945: Jean-Pierre Kutwa , Ivorian theologian, Archbishop of Abidjan
- 1945: Diane Sawyer , American television journalist and presenter
- 1946: Robert van Ackeren , German cameraman, film director and film producer
- 1946: Karin Oehme , German actress
- 1947: Marcello Semeraro , Italian bishop and cardinal
- 1948: Lana Walter , American music teacher and composer
- 1949: Manfred Burgsmüller , German soccer player
- 1949: Maurice Gibb , British singer and songwriter ( Bee Gees )
- 1949: Robin Gibb , British singer and songwriter ( Bee Gees )
- 1949: Ray Guy , American football player
- 1949: Knut vom Bovert , German lawyer and local politician
- 1950: Nino Holm , Austrian painter and musician ( EAV )
- 1950: Roland Stegmayer , German soccer player
- 1950: Harald Strutz , German football official
1951-1975
- 1951: John Kowalski , Polish-American football coach
- 1951: Adam Wodnicki , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1952: Uri Yehuda Ariel , Israeli politician, minister
- 1952: Sandra Kalniete , Latvian politician, minister, EU commissioner
- 1952: Jochen Wiedemann , German engineer and professor
- 1953: Jann Jakobs , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Potsdam
- 1953: Paolo Mondini , Italian racing car driver
- 1953: Margit Schreiner , Austrian writer
- 1954: Anna Galiena , Italian actress
- 1954: Joseph Kwaku Afrifah-Agyekum , Ghanaian bishop
- 1954: Barbara Lanzinger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954: Christian Liebig , German rock musician
- 1954: Detlef Hübner , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1955: Thomas Südhof , German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1958: Marijam Agischewa , Austrian actress
- 1958: Frank Gambale , Australian guitarist
- 1958: Jerzy Hawrylewicz , Polish football player
- 1958: Kevin Kern , American pianist, musician and composer
- 1959: Bernd Schuster , German soccer player and coach
- 1959: Bryan Willman , American racing car driver
- 1960: Jean-Michel Basquiat , American graffiti artist, painter and draftsman
- 1960: Felicitas Hoppe , German writer
- 1960: David Pasquesi , American comedian and actor
- 1961: Helmut Krumminga , German rock guitarist
- 1961: Karl Pronhagl , Austrian major general
- 1961: Angelo Verploegen , Dutch jazz trumpeter
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- 1962: Ralph Fiennes , British actor and film director
- 1962: Jacques Schwarz-Bart , French jazz saxophonist
- 1962: Frank Vockroth , German actor
- 1963: Mathias Ahrens , German field hockey coach
- 1963: Giuseppe Bergomi , Italian football player
- 1963: Christoph Keller , Swiss writer
- 1965: Sergi López , Spanish actor
- 1967: Martina Voss , German soccer player and coach
- 1968: Luis Hernández , Mexican soccer player
- 1968: Dina Meyer , American actress
- 1968: Frank Schäffler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1969: Myriam Bédard , Canadian biathlete, Olympic champion
- 1969: Dagmar Hase , German swimmer, Olympic champion
- 1969: Martin Schmidt , German handball player
- 1970: Mutiu Adepoju , Nigerian soccer player
- 1970: Gary Anderson , Scottish darts player
- 1970: Ted Cruz , American politician, senator
- 1970: Mark Dragunski , German handball player
- 1972: Franck Cammas , French professional sailor
- 1972: Alexandre Moos , Swiss cyclist
- 1972: Steffi Jones , German soccer player
- 1972: Ali Al Badwawi , Emirati football referee
- 1972: Vanessa Paradis , French actress and singer
- 1973: Dagmar Schönleber , German comedy actress
- 1974: Martin Bretschneider , German actor
- 1974: Christian Hoffmann , Austrian cross-country skier
- 1974: Dagmar Mair under the Eggen , Italian snowboarder, world champion
- 1975: Khaled Al Qubaisi , Emirati racing car driver
- 1975: Marvin Andrews , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1975: Sergei Aschwanden , Swiss judoka
- 1975: Crissy Moran , American porn actress
1976-2000
- 1976: Jaap van Lagen , Dutch racing driver
- 1977: Steven Kleynen , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1977: Max Wiedemann , German film producer
- 1980: Chris Carmack , American actor and model
- 1980: Lee Eun-ju , South Korean actress
- 1980: Grzegorz Tkaczyk , Polish handball player
- 1981: Anja Antonowicz , German-Polish actress
- 1981: Cheek , Finnish hip hop musician
- 1981: Karin Hanczewski , German actress
- 1981: Momir Ilić , Serbian handball player and coach
- 1981: Sandra Kuhn , German television presenter
- 1981: Troy Mellanson , Antiguan soccer player
- 1982: Jeffrey Campbell , Jamaican musician
- 1982: Britta Heidemann , German epee fencer, world champion, Olympic champion
- 1982: Teko Modise , South African soccer player
- 1984: Basshunter , Swedish musician and DJ
- 1984: David Müller , German soccer player
- 1985: Enis Alushi , German soccer player
- 1985: José Vicente Toribio , Spanish cyclist
- 1986: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , Nigerian terrorist
- 1987: Lisa Andreas , English-Cypriot singer
- 1987: Éder , Portuguese football player
- 1988: Juventina Napoleão , East Timorese marathon runner
- 1988: Kaja Schmäschke , German handball player
- 1989: Jordin Sparks , American singer
- 1990: Jean-Baptiste Maunier , French singer and actor
- 1990: Josef Newgarden , American racing driver
- 1991: Jonas Langmann , German ice hockey player
- 1992: Achraf Kharroubi , Moroccan boxer
- 1993: Meghan Trainor , American songwriter and pop singer
- 1994: Thibaut Favrot , French ski racer
- 1998: Genevieve Hannelius , American actress
- 1998: Latto , American rapper
- 2000: Joshua Bassett , American actor, singer, and songwriter
Died
Before the 16th century
- 866: Hungerus Frisus , Bishop of Utrecht
- 1100: Břetislav II , Duke of Bohemia
- 1104: Berk-Yaruq , Sultan of the Great Seljuks
- 1115: Olaf Magnusson , King of Norway
- 1136: Jutta von Sponheim , Magistra of the nunnery of the Disibodenberg monastery
- 1204: Fujiwara no Shunzei , Japanese poet
- 1239: John II of Nesle , Lord of Nesle and Burgrave of Bruges
- 1314: Rudolf III. , Count of Habsburg-Laufenburg
- 1316: Aegidius Romanus , Italian Augustinian hermit
- 1366: Konrad I , Duke of Glogau and Lord of Greater Poland
- 1397: Guido II , Count of Blois, Dunois and Soissons, and Lord of Chimay and Avesnes
- 1419: John XXIII. , Antipope 1410-1415
- 1476: Isabella Neville , eldest daughter of Richard Neville
16th to 18th centuries
- 1508: Erich II , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1526: Antonius , Count of Holstein-Pinneberg and Schauenburg
- 1530: Willibald Pirckheimer , German humanist
- 1560: Caspar Voigt von Wierandt , Dresden fortress builder
- 1572: Hermann von Vechtelde , German legal scholar, mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1585: Vittoria Accoramboni , Italian nobleman
- 1612: Francesco IV Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
- 1641: Maximilien de Bethune , French officer and statesman, Minister, Marshal of France
- 1666: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri , Italian Baroque painter ("Il Guercino")
- 1675: Francis Lovelace , English colonial governor of the province of New York
- 1693: Elisabetha Hevelius , Danzig astronomer
- 1703: Vitus Handschuher , German sculptor
- 1704: Paolo Boccone , Italian doctor and botanist
- 1708: Hedwig Sophia of Sweden , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- 1716: Tobias Reimers , German lawyer, mayor of Lüneburg
- 1724: Johann Christoph Ettner , German medic and novelist
- 1732: Johann Peter Münch von Münchenstein-Löwenburg , Swiss civil servant
- 1733: Johann Georg Becht , Mayor of Heilbronn
- 1734: Matthias Pussjäger , Tyrolean painter
- 1737: Luca Antonio Colomba , Swiss painter
- 1748: Johann Nepomuk Karl , Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1750: Georg Friedrich Christian Seekatz , German painter
- 1754: Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle , British officer, politician and diplomat, Governor of Virginia
- 1754: Jakob Oeckhl , Austrian master builder
- 1760: Giuseppe Besozzi , Italian oboist
- 1764: Ladislaus Amade von Várkonyi , Hungarian poet
- 1767: John Newbery , English publisher and bookseller
- 1770: Johann Hinrich Armowitz , German metal and bell caster
- 1785: Jan de Witte , Polish architect and officer, lieutenant general in the Crown Army
- 1788: Robert Goldsborough , Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress
- 1788: Percivall Pott , English surgeon
- 1791: William Bryant , English fisherman and convict
19th century
- 1808: Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger , German painter and engraver
- 1819: Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu , Austrian Feldzeugmeister
- 1824: Georges de Rougemont , Swiss lawyer and politician
- 1828: William Hyde Wollaston , British chemist
- 1835: Franz von Paula cabinet , German Jesuit, botanist and entomologist
- 1837: Lino Gallardo , Venezuelan composer
- 1839: Robert Todd Lytle , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1841: Daniil Kashin , Russian composer
- 1847: Engelbert Schue , German Catholic clergyman and university professor
- 1853: Sophie Anna von Reventlow , Danish painter
- 1856: Maximilian Speck von Sternburg , German businessman, entrepreneur and art collector
- 1864: Ferdinand Anderson , German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1867: Jacob Jacobsen Dampe , Danish theologian and philosopher
- 1867: John W. Dana , American politician, governor of Maine
- 1867: Cornelius S. Hamilton , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1867: Jean-Victor Poncelet , French mathematician, engineer and physicist
- 1867: Théodore Rousseau , French painter and founder of the Barbizon School
- 1872: Jakob Becker , German painter, etcher and lithographer
- 1875: Nikolai Titov , Russian composer
- 1880: George Eliot , actually Mary Ann Evans, British writer
- 1882: Leopold Alexander Friedrich Arends , German stenographer and system inventor
- 1886: Otto Möllinger , Swiss scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
- 1891: Paul de Lagarde , German cultural philosopher and orientalist
- 1898: Wilhelm Dames , German paleontologist and geologist
- 1899: Pascual Ortega Portales , Chilean painter
- 1900: Leonhard von Blumenthal , Prussian Field Marshal General
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Richard von Krafft-Ebing , Austrian psychiatrist
- 1908: Georg Christian von Lobkowitz , Bohemian nobleman and politician
- 1917: Franziska Xaviera Cabrini , founder of the Italian-American order
- 1919: Hermann Weingärtner , German gymnast, Olympic champion
- 1923: Georg Luger , Austrian weapons technician, inventor of the Parabellum pistol
- 1925: Alice Heine , Duchess of Richelieu and Princess of Monaco
- 1925: Ernst von Hessen-Philippsthal , last titular Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal
- 1932: François-Xavier Mercier , Canadian singer, music educator and composer
- 1938: Maximilian Graf von Wiser , German ophthalmologist
- 1939: Ma Rainey , American blues singer
- 1940: Nathanael West , American writer
- 1941: Karel Hašler , Czech actor, singer, cabaret artist, author, director and film producer
- 1941: Leopoldo Mugnone , Italian conductor and composer
- 1942: Hans Anetsberger , German portrait and landscape painter
- 1942: Hans Coppi , German resistance fighter
- 1942: Harro Schulze-Boysen , German resistance fighter
- 1942: Libertas Schulze-Boysen , German resistance fighter
- 1942: Elisabeth Schumacher , German resistance fighter
- 1942: Kurt Schumacher , German resistance fighter
- 1942: Gerhard Wartenberg , German author, anarcho-syndicalist
- 1943: Franz Gribel , German shipowner
- 1943: Beatrix Potter , British children's author and illustrator
- 1943: Heinrich Pudor , German publicist and pioneer of nudism in Germany
- 1944: Harry Langdon , American actor
- 1947: Auguste Distave , Belgian graphic artist
- 1949: Wilhelm August Lautenschläger , German composer and pianist
1951-2000
- 1952: Vincas Bacevičius , Lithuanian music teacher, pianist, conductor and composer
- 1961: William Hawley Atwell , American lawyer
- 1965: Herbert Demetz , Italian racing car driver
- 1966: Harry Beaumont , American film director
- 1966: Lucy Burns , American suffragette
- 1969: Eduard Aigner , German painter
- 1969: Olga Körner , German women's rights activist and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, resistance fighter and concentration camp prisoner, party functionary in the GDR
- 1969: August Momberger , German racing car driver and engineer
- 1969: Josef von Sternberg , Austrian film director
- 1974: Heinz Auerswald , German painter and graphic artist
- 1977: Rosette Anday , Hungarian mezzo-soprano
- 1977: Johann Nepomuk David , German composer, conductor and organist
- 1977: Frank Thiess , German writer
- 1977: Ernst Waldbrunn , Austrian actor and cabaret artist
- 1978: Paul Minick , American football player
- 1978: Otto Probst , Austrian Minister of Transport
- 1979: Albin Nikolaus Angerer , German doctor and student historian
- 1987: Gustav Fröhlich , German actor
- 1988: Chico Mendes , Brazilian union leader and campaigner for the rights of threatened workers
- 1989: Samuel Beckett , Irish writer ( Waiting for Godot ), Nobel Prize winner
- 1990: Bernard Addison , American musician
- 1991: Raymond Cousse , French writer and actor
- 1991: Ernst Krenek , Austrian composer
- 1992: Mario Amendola , Italian screenwriter and film director
- 1994: Friedrich Aduatz , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1995: Alois Ammerschläger , German entrepreneur and patron
- 1995: James Edward Meade , British economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1995: Rafael Villanueva , Dominican conductor
- 1998: Eric Alfons Arnlind , Swedish chess player
- 2000: Herman Feshbach , American physicist
21st century
- 2001: Jan Kott , Polish theater scholar
- 2002: Kurt Aepli , Swiss silversmith, jewelry and equipment designer and professional educator
- 2002: Joe Strummer , British rock musician ( The Clash )
- 2002: Hugh Desmond Hoyte , Guyanese politician, minister, prime minister, president
- 2002: Mario Ruiz Armengol , Mexican composer, pianist and conductor
- 2002: Gabrielle Wittkop , French writer and artist, essayist and journalist
- 2003: Dave Dudley , American country singer
- 2003: Doris Shadbolt , Canadian art historian
- 2003: Hans Koller , Austrian jazz musician and painter
- 2004: Otto Kretschmer , German lawyer, politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 2006: Galina Ustvolskaya , Russian composer
- 2006: Manuela Wiesler , Austrian flautist
- 2007: Julien Gracq , French writer
- 2008: Lansana Conté , Guinean officer and politician, President
- 2008: Peter Steiner , German folk actor
- 2009: Milena Dvorská , Czech actress
- 2010: Gerhard Schürer , German politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
- 2013: Diomedes Díaz , Colombian vallenato singer
- 2014: Joe Cocker , British rock / blues singer
- 2014: Joseph Sargent , American film director, producer, and actor
- 2014: Fritz Sdunek , German boxing trainer and former amateur boxer
- 2015: Rolf Bossi , German lawyer and publicist
- 2015: Freda Meissner-Blau , Austrian politician, member of the National Council
- 2018: Paddy Ashdown , British politician
- 2018: Thomas Kenner , Austrian doctor
- 2018: Alfred Mechtersheimer , German officer, politician and publicist, Member of the Bundestag
- 2019: Fritz Künzli Swiss football player
- 2019: Gary Talbot , English soccer player
- 2020: Roman Berger , Slovak composer
- 2020: Claude Brasseur , French actor
- 2020: Edmund M. Clarke , American computer scientist
- 2020: Erkki Hytönen , Finnish ice hockey player and coach
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Dwight Lyman Moody , American revival preacher (Protestant)
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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