March 22

The March 22 is the 81st day of the Gregorian calendar (82nd in leap years ), thus remain 284 days by year end. If March 22nd falls on a Sunday, this day is the earliest possible Easter date .

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Events

Politics and world events

1499: Battle at the Bruderholz

• 1421 : At the Battle of Baugé , an English army is defeated by the Franco-Scottish allies during the Hundred Years War . This also dies Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence , brother of King Henry V.
• 1499 : During the Swabian War, the first major conflict occurs: In the battle on the Bruderholz near Basel, troops of the Swabian Confederation suffer a crushing defeat against the Old Confederation .
• 1540 : After a feud against the Electorate of Saxony for more than six years because of a judicial misjudgment, the former merchant Hans Kohlhase is sentenced to death in Berlin and executed by wheels on the same day .
• 1595 : Sir Walter Raleigh is the first European to discover the asphalt lake in Trinidad and immediately uses the natural asphalt deposits to seal his ships.
• 1599 : At the behest of Duke Friedrich I of Württemberg , the ideal and planned city of Freudenstadt is founded. Heinrich Schickhardt is entrusted with the construction of the planned residence of the duchy .

1621: Massasoit and Governor John Carver smoke the peace pipe

• 1621 : At the suggestion of the former slave Squanto , Massasoit , the chief sachem of the Wampanoag , visits the Pilgrim Fathers in the colony of Plymouth to ask them for support against the overpowering Narraganset .
• 1622 : Opechancanough leads the Powhatan Tribal Federation to attack the settlements off Jamestown and destroy them. The city itself only escapes the massacre through the warning of the Indian boy Chanco, who has converted to Christianity.
• 1829 : In the first of three London Protocols , the three great powers France , Great Britain and Russia determine the borderline of the future state of Greece .

1848: Adolph Menzel : Laying out the March fallen

• 1848 : Those who fell in March of the barricade uprising in Berlin are laid out in front of the German Cathedral on Gendarmenmarkt . They are then buried in the newly created cemetery of the March fallen . On the way there, the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV bows before them.
• 1848 : As part of the March revolutions in Central Europe, Daniele Manin and several companions occupied the arsenal in Venice , an important safeguard for the proclamation of the Repubblica di San Marco on the following day.
• 1915 : The siege of Przemyśl , the largest in World War I , ends with the surrender of the Austro-Hungarian troops to the Russian armed forces.
• 1920 : The German Reichswehr Minister in the Bauer cabinet , Gustav Noske , has to resign as a result of the Kapp Putsch because he is accused of supporting the counterrevolution.

1939: The Memelland

• 1939 : Due to massive pressure from the Nazis occurs Lithuania the Memelland to the German Reich from. Troops of the German Wehrmacht occupy the capital Memel on the same day .
• 1942 : The second naval battle in the Gulf of Syrte north of Libya during the Second World War between the British and Italian navies is called off without a decision because of the darkness.
• 1943 : In search of partisans in World War II , the SS surrounds the Belarusian town of Chatyn , drives over 150 people into a barn and burns them alive. On this occasion, the Soviet Union established the National Memorial of the Republic of Belarus there in 1969 .

1944: Frankfurt after the attack

• 1944 : The Gothic old town is almost completely destroyed in a bomb attack on Frankfurt am Main , and 1,001 people die.
• 1945 : When Hildesheim is bombed , the cathedral and the historic old town with its half-timbered houses are almost completely destroyed.
• 1945 : The Arab states of Egypt, Iraq, Transjordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria found the Arab League in Cairo for the purpose of foreign policy cooperation and the peaceful settlement of mutual conflicts.
• 1946 : The German Conservative Party - German Right Party ( DKP-DRP ) is founded in the British occupation zone through the merger of the German Reconstruction Party and the German Conservative Party . Four years later it merged with the National Democratic Party to form the right-wing extremist German Reich Party .

1946: The British Mandate Areas in the Middle East

• 1946 : With the Treaty of London , Great Britain releases the previous mandate of Transjordan under Emir Abdallah ibn Husain into independence.
• 1962 : Basic military service in the Bundeswehr is extended to 18 months in the Federal Republic of Germany .
• 1965 : Nicolae Ceaușescu , with his rise to general secretary of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, succeeds his sponsor Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej as ruler in Romania .
• 1968 : Left Students start at the Philosophy Faculty in Nanterre the movement on March 22 and occupied the local administration building for the enforcement of various political demands. Leading speakers for the group are Daniel Bensaïd and Daniel Cohn-Bendit .
• 1974 : The German Bundestag resolves to reduce the age of majority on January 1, 1975 from 21 to 18 years.

2003: Demonstration against the Iraq war

• 2003 : World-wide peace demonstrations against the last two days of the United States and the " coalition of the willing " against Iraq led war in Iraq held.
• 2004 : The founder of the radical Islamic Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmad Yasin , is killed early in the morning by Israeli attack helicopters in Gaza . Nine other people are killed in the attack.
• 2006 : The Basque separatist terrorist organization Euskadi Ta Askatasuna ( ETA ) announces a permanent ceasefire, due to come into force on March 24th.
• 2006 : The founder of the Peruvian underground organization Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru , Victor Polay , is sentenced by a court to 32 years in prison.
• 2016 : In terrorist attacks in Brussels , 32 people are killed and 230 injured by three suicide bombers at the airport and in a metro station in the city center.
• 2017 : In an alleged attack in front of the Palace of Westminster in London , an attacker with a vehicle kills several passers-by, then stabs a police officer and is shot by the emergency services. About 20 other people are injured, some seriously.

economy

• 1765 : The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act . The tax is to be levied in the North American colonies , but paid to London. This triggers considerable protest and boycott actions by the settlers .

1833: Customs Union Treaty

• 1833 : The kingdoms of Bavaria and Württemberg conclude the customs union agreement with Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse . As agreed, the existing Süddeutsche Zollverein becomes part of the German Zollverein on January 1, 1834 .
• 1851 : The Kingdom of Württemberg separates from the private Thurn-und-Taxis-Post and sets up a state enterprise for the postal service .
• 1884 : Ecuador leads the national currency as Sucre one.
• 2000 : The S&P 500 share index , which includes 500 of the largest US companies, breaks the 1,500 point mark for the first time.

science and technology

• 1781 : Pierre Méchain discovers the spiral galaxy known as Messier 94 . Later observations also give it the status of a starburst galaxy .

1895: Auguste and Louis Lumière

• 1895 : The Lumière brothers perform a version of the film Workers Leave the Lumière Works in front of a closed audience in the Société d'Encouragement à l'Industrie Nationale with the Cinématographe .
• 1897 : The topping-out ceremony for the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge takes place near Müngsten , a court on the Wupper between Solingen and Remscheid . The bridge built by Anton von Rieppel is a riveted steel lattice construction and the highest railway bridge in Germany.
• 1906 : The armored cruiser ( large cruiser ) SMS Scharnhorst , later the flagship of the German East Asia Squadron , is launched in Hamburg .
• 1911 : The SMS Kaiser is launched in Kiel as the first turbine- powered German liner.

1935: TV station Paul Nipkow

• 1935 : The world's first regular television program is broadcast from the Berlin radio tower . Reichssendleiter Eugen Hadamovsky opens the broadcast of Paul Nipkow .

1975: Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant

• 1975 : At the Browns Ferry nuclear power plant near Decatur, Alabama , a fire broke out while a technician was handling an open light, which resulted in the nuclear reactor being shut down for decades .
• 1995 : The Russian cosmonaut Valeri Wladimirowitsch Polyakow returns to earth after the longest stay in a space station to date, at 417 days .

Culture

• 1836 : The opera I Briganti by Saverio Mercadante based on the drama Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller is premiered at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris.
• 1854 : The world premiere of the opera Die Nibelungen by Heinrich Dorn takes place in Weimar.

1876: The Old National Gallery

• 1876 : The National Gallery is opened in Berlin in the presence of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The construction according to the plans of Friedrich August Stüler under the direction of Johann Heinrich Strack took nine years to complete.
• 1948 : The Danish spelling reform comes into force. It abolishes the capitalization of nouns and introduces the letter Å .
• 1963 : In Britain, the first appears LP of the Beatles : Please Please Me . It was created on February 11th in a single recording session.
• 1994 : Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama Schindler's List wins seven Academy Awards , including in the Best Picture category .
• 2007 : The Austrian-German feature film Die Fälscher by Stefan Ruzowitzky about the National Socialist action Bernhard in World War II with Karl Markovics in the leading role has its theatrical release.

religion

• 0752 : After the death of Zacharias the oldest is presbyter by the people and clergy of Rome for Pope determined. However, Stephan dies four days later without having received the ordination.
• 1312 : Pope Clement V forbids the Templar order at the Council of Vienne . He fulfills a wish of France's King Philip IV.

1784: The Emerald Buddha

• 1784 : The Emerald Buddha is the Thai King Rama I in a ceremony of Thonburi in the temple Wat Phra Sri Rattana Satsadaram in the new capital Bangkok brought.

Disasters

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

nature and environment

1907: Friedrich von Lindequist

• 1907 : The governor of German South West Africa , Friedrich von Lindequist , puts a quarter of the country under nature protection and thus creates the basis for today's Etosha National Park .

1997: Hale-Bopp

• 1997 : Comet Hale-Bopp , discovered by Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp in 1993 , reaches its closest point. He is considered to be one of the " great comets " of the 20th century.

Sports

• 1888 : William McGregor announces the founding of the English Football League in Birmingham .
• 1986 : Trevor Berbick wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Pinklon Thomas in Las Vegas by winning on points.
• 1989 : The Buffalo Sabers ice hockey goalkeeper , Clint Malarchuk , has a neck vein cut open in an unfortunate collision with an opponent . He survived the serious injury and was back on the ice after a week.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 0841 : Bernard Plantevelue , Margrave of Gothien, Count of Autun, Auvergne, Lyon, Toulouse, Rodez, Mâcon and in Berry from the family of the Gellones (Wilhelmiden)
• 1212 : Go-Horikawa , 86th Emperor of Japan
• 1366 : Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk , member of the Lords Appellant
• 1394 : Ulugh Beg , Timurid prince in Samarkand, astronomer and martyr of science
• 1431 : Juan de Castro , Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church
• 1459 : Maximilian I , Duke of Burgundy, German King, Archduke of Austria and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1499 : Johannes Carion , German astrologer, mathematician and historian
• 1504 : Antonio Francesco Grazzini , Italian poet
• 1517 : Gioseffo Zarlino , Italian music theorist and composer
• 1523 : Daniel Brendel von Homburg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
• 1557 : Casimir VI. , non-ruling Duke of Pomerania
• 1581 : Gregoria Maximiliane , Archduchess of Austria

Anthony van Dyck (* 1599)

• 1599 : Anthonis van Dyck , Flemish painter
• 1607 : Paul Gerhardt , German hymn poet
• 1662 : August Christoph von Wackerbarth , Saxon General Field Marshal and Minister of State in the service of Augustus the Strong
• 1663 : August Hermann Francke , German theologian and educator
• 1676 : Friedrich Wilhelm Bierling , German Lutheran theologian and critical historian
• 1677 : Anna Luise Föhse , wife of Prince Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau
• 1688 : Joachim Daniel Jauch , German engineer officer and architect
• 1699 : Johann Georg von Langen , German forest and chief hunter master

18th century

• 1712 : Edward Moore , English playwright and writer
• 1720 : Nicolas-Henri Jardin , French architect
• 1734 : Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Repnin , Russian field marshal and diplomat
• 1735 : Immanuel Johann Gerhard Scheller , German classical philologist and lexicographer
• 1736 : Eva König , German wife of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• 1748 : Sámuel Ambrózy , Hungarian theologian
• 1750 : Gustav von Schlabrendorf , German writer
• 1756 : Caspar Zeller , German entrepreneur
• 1759 : Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Queen of Sweden and Norway
• 1760 : Johann Heinrich Freytag , German lawyer and mayor of Frankfurt (Oder)
• 1765 : František Josef Dusík , Bohemian composer
• 1770 : Jan August Vitásek , Bohemian composer

Heinrich Zschokke (* 1771)

• 1771 : Heinrich Zschokke , German-Swiss writer and politician
• 1781 : Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot , French general
• 1785 : Adam Sedgwick , British founder of modern geology
• 1786 : Joachim Lelewel , Polish historian and freedom fighter
• 1790 : Gottfried Bandhauer , German builder
• 1797 : Ferdinand von Stelzhammer , Austrian lawyer
• 1797 : Wilhelm I , German Emperor
• 1798 : Eduard Gans , German lawyer, legal philosopher and historian
• 1799 : Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander , German astronomer

19th century

• 1802 : Raphael Kühner , German classical philologist
• 1805 : Jurij Mihevec , Slovenian composer
• 1808 : August Reichensperger , German lawyer and politician
• 1814 : Thomas Crawford , American sculptor
• 1815 : Franz Folliot de Crenneville , Austrian general
• 1819 : William Wirt Adams , American Brigadier General in the Confederate Army in the American Civil War
• 1822 : Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte , Dutch statesman
• 1823 : Christoph Ernst Luthardt , German theologian
• 1831 : Adolf von Auer , German lawyer
• 1831 : Hans Lachenberger , German composer
• 1844 : Theodor Gohl , Swiss architect
• 1844 : Franziska Speyer , German donor and patron
• 1846 : Randolph Caldecott , British illustrator
• 1848 : Hermann Sökeland , German museum director
• 1852 : Theodore Davie , Canadian politician
• 1852 : Hector-Irénée Sévin , Archbishop of Lyon and Cardinal
• 1855 : Paul Schreiber , German doctor, secret medical council
• 1857 : Paul Doumer , French President

Louis Baur (* 1858)

• 1858 : Louis Baur , Swiss businessman and commercial agent
• 1858 : Hans Meyer , German geographer and publisher
• 1860 : Otto Barblan , Swiss composer, organist and music teacher
• 1863 : Albertine Assor , co-founder of the Evangelical Free Church Diakonie
• 1863 : Christian von Krogh , German colonial officer
• 1868 : Alfred Fowler , British astronomer
• 1868 : Robert Andrews Millikan , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1869 : Emilio Aguinaldo , Filipino general, politician and independence leader
• 1869 : Julius Keck , German politician
• 1871 : Franz Adam Beyerlein , German lawyer and writer
• 1871 : Paul Gläser , German church musician, composer and church music director
• 1872 : Fritz Stüber-Gunther , Austrian writer
• 1873 : Gertrud Caspari , German children's book illustrator
• 1873 : Ole Hjellemo , Norwegian composer

Hans Grimm (* 1875)

• 1875 : Hans Grimm , German writer and publicist
• 1875 : Anton Hanak , Austrian sculptor
• 1875 : Friedrich von Huene , German vertebrate paleontologist
• 1875 : Franz Joseph Koch , German teacher and author
• 1876 : João Teixeira Pinto , Portuguese colonial officer
• 1877 : Waldemar Mitscherlich , German political scientist
• 1878 : Jean Strauwen , Belgian composer and conductor
• 1878 : Michel Théato , Luxembourg athlete
• 1879 : Léon Deubel , French poet
• 1879 : Josef Heinrich Grebing , German businessman and painter
• 1884 : Arthur H. Vandenberg , American politician
• 1885 : Wilhelm Beyer , German politician
• 1885 : Adriano Lualdi , Italian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic
• 1885 : Eugen Fürst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein , German politician
• 1887 : Chico Marx , American actor and comedian
• 1887 : Giacomo Rimini , American opera singer and music teacher of Italian origin
• 1890 : Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin , German member of the resistance against Hitler
• 1891: Giovanni Bianconi , Swiss teacher, wood carver and local researcher
• 1891 : Roland-Manuel , French composer and music critic
• 1892 : Karel Poláček , Czech writer and journalist
• 1893 : Abbas Mirsa Sharifsade , Azerbaijani actor
• 1894 : Germaine Lebel , Canadian singer
• 1894 : Osvaldo Licini , Italian painter
• 1896 : Pierre Jeanneret , Swiss architect
• 1896 : He Long , Chinese army leader and politician
• 1897 : Ferruccio Novo , Italian football coach and official
• 1898 : Franz Hoffmeister , German Catholic priest and founder of the Sauerland Heimatbund and the Balver Höhle Festival
• 1898 : Dora Puelma , Chilean painter

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Oliver Strunk , American musicologist and teacher
• 1903 : Hans Hessling , German actor
• 1903 : Jochen Klepper , German journalist, writer and song poet
• 1904 : Jack Z. Anderson , American politician
• 1905 : Carlo Alberto Pizzini , Italian composer and conductor
• 1907 : Roger Blin , French actor and theater director

James M. Gavin (* 1907)

• 1907 : James M. Gavin , American Lieutenant General
• 1907 : Lúcia dos Santos , witness of an alleged apparition of Mary
• 1907 : Oskar Rudolf Schlag , German medium, psychotherapist, writer
• 1908 : Friedrich Aichberger , German lawyer
• 1908 : Jack Crawford , Australian tennis player
• 1908 : Albrecht Goes , German writer and Protestant theologian
• 1909 : Nathan Rosen , US-Israeli physicist
• 1909 : Bienvenido Troncoso , Dominican singer, guitarist and composer
• 1910 : Heinz Heyne , German doctor and politician
• 1910 : Johannes Ferdinand Keiter , German handball player
• 1910 : Herbert Rudley , American actor

Karl Malden (* 1912)

• 1912 : Karl Malden , American actor
• 1912 : Agnes Martin , American artist
• 1912 : Martha Mödl , German opera singer (soprano)
• 1913 : Sabiha Gökçen , first female fighter pilot in the world
• 1913 : George Svendsen , American football player
• 1918 : Cheddi Jagan , politician from Guyana
• 1918 : Gotfrid Köchert , Austrian racing car driver
• 1918 : Tauno Pylkkänen , Finnish composer
• 1920 : Rudolf Bohren , Swiss theologian
• 1920 : Werner Klemperer , German-American actor and musician
• 1920 : Ludvík Kundera , Czech writer
• 1920 : Helmut Winschermann , German oboist, university professor and conductor
• 1921 : Johnny Bruck , German draftsman and photolithographer
• 1921 : Nino Manfredi , Italian actor
• 1921 : Wolfgang Schwenke , German zoologist, entomologist and forest scientist
• 1922 : Farrochru Parsa , Iranian minister, educator and doctor
• 1923 : David L. Hoggan , American historian and history reviser
• 1923 : Käte Jaenicke , German actress
• 1923 : Marcel Marceau , French pantomime
• 1924 : Paul Fussell , American cultural historian and literary critic
• 1924 : Al Neuharth , American manager
• 1925 : Wolfgang Bächler , German writer

1926-1950

• 1927 : Henning Rischbieter , German theater critic

William Reynolds Archer (* 1928)

• 1928 : William Reynolds Archer Jr. , American politician
• 1928 : Ed Macauley , American basketball player
• 1929 : Fred Anderson , American jazz musician
• 1929 : Sergio Cervato , Italian football player
• 1930 : Lynden O. Pindling , Prime Minister of the Bahamas
• 1930 : Pat Robertson , American television preacher
• 1930 : Stephen Sondheim , American musical composer and lyricist
• 1931 : Burton Richter , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1931 : William Shatner , Canadian actor and author
• 1932 : Billy Hagan , entrepreneur, racing car driver and racing team owner
• 1933 : Abolhassan Banisadr , Iranian President
• 1933 : Eveline Hasler , Swiss writer
• 1933 : Michel Hidalgo , French football player and coach
• 1933 : Florian Kuntner , Austrian priest, auxiliary bishop of Vienna
• 1934 : Bola Ajibola , Nigerian lawyer
• 1934 : Ekkehart Krippendorff , German political scientist
• 1936 : Hans Burghart , German doctor
• 1936 : Roger Whittaker , British singer and songwriter
• 1937 : Angelo Badalamenti , Italian composer
• 1937 : Winfried Böhm , German professor for education
• 1937 : Armin Hary , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1937 : Jon Hassell , American trumpeter and composer
• 1937 : Emerich Jenei , Romanian football player and coach
• 1937 : Peter Tonger , German music publisher, choir director and reciter
• 1937 : Peter Vogel , German actor
• 1939 : Alice Miller , American politician
• 1939 : Dietz-Rüdiger Moser , German folklorist
• 1939 : Klaus Prüsse , German handball goalkeeper

Fausto Bertinotti (* 1940)

• 1940 : Fausto Bertinotti , Italian politician
• 1940 : Hans Geisler , German politician
• 1940 : Gayle Griffith , American country and rockabilly musician
• 1940 : Fritz Indra , Austrian graduate engineer and honorary professor for combustion engines
• 1940 : Jim Simon , American football player
• 1940 : Masahiko Togashi , Japanese jazz drummer
• 1941 : Bruno Ganz , Swiss actor
• 1942 : Bernd Herzsprung , German actor
• 1942 : Gerhard Stratthaus , German politician
• 1943 : George Benson , American jazz guitarist and singer
• 1943 : Keith Relf , British musician
• 1943 : Joseph Schwantner , American composer
• 1944 : Tony McPhee , British blues guitarist and singer
• 1945 : Jorge Ben Jor , Brazilian pop musician
• 1945 : Manfred Frank , German philosopher and professor
• 1945 : Paul Schockemöhle , German show jumper
• 1945 : Pedro Warnke , German graphic designer

Rudy Rucker (born 1946)

• 1946 : Rudy Rucker , American writer and computer scientist
• 1946 : Harry Vanda , Australian music producer
• 1947 : Aleida Assmann , English studies, Egyptologist and literary and cultural scientist
• 1947 : André Heller , Austrian songwriter and poet
• 1947 : Jelena Hoffmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1947 : Wolfgang Mayrhuber , German CEO of Deutsche Lufthansa AG
• 1948 : Wolf Blitzer , American journalist
• 1948 : Bernard Dietz , German football player
• 1948 : Andrew Lloyd Webber , British musician and composer
• 1948 : Per Stureson , Swedish racing driver
• 1949 : Fanny Ardant , French actress
• 1949 : John Toshack , Welsh football player and coach
• 1950 : Hugo Egon Balder , German actor and cabaret artist
• 1950 : Pieke Biermann , German crime novelist and translator
• 1950 : Goran Bregović , Bosnian musician
• 1950 : Herman Weigel , German film producer and screenwriter

1951-1975

• 1953 : Thomas Hiram Andrews , American politician
• 1953 : Dagmar Veškrnová-Havlová , Czech actress
• 1953 : Susan Morton Blaustein , American composer and music teacher
• 1953 : Vladimir Trofimenko , Russian athlete

Ute Schäfer (* 1954)

• 1954 : Ute Schäfer , German politician, MdL, State Minister
• 1955 : Martin Hoffmann , German soccer player and coach
• 1955 : Doris Kresimon , German soccer player
• 1955 : Lena Olin , Swedish actress
• 1955 : Andreas Rudolph , German entrepreneur, handball official and handball player
• 1955 : Pete Sessions , American politician
• 1956 : Maria Teresa , Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
• 1957 : Jean-Luc Blanchemain , French racing car driver
• 1957 : Jacek Kaczmarski , Polish songwriter
• 1958 : Werner Gregoritsch , Austrian football player and coach
• 1958 : Janez Potočnik , Slovenian politician and EU commissioner
• 1958 : Claudia Sprenger , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
• 1959 : Bernd Asmus , German composer and university lecturer
• 1959 : Stefan Maskiewicz , German artist
• 1959 : Matthew Modine , American actor
• 1960 : Annette Ramelsberger , German journalist
• 1961 : Ingolf Roßberg , German politician, Lord Mayor of Dresden
• 1962 : Juan Aguilera , Spanish tennis player
• 1962 : Katarzyna Figura , Polish actress

Dagmar Freist (* 1962)

• 1962 : Dagmar Freist , German historian
• 1963 : Giuseppe Galderisi , Italian football player
• 1963 : Anni Kronbichler , Austrian ski racer
• 1964 : Helmut Fleischer , German football referee
• 1964 : Michael Hesemann , German historian, author and documentary filmmaker
• 1964 : Eugene O'Brien , British racing car driver
• 1964 : Tristan Schulze , German musician and film composer
• 1965 : Stefan Glowacz , German mountaineer, extreme climber
• 1966 : Diana Borgwardt , German voice actress
• 1966 : Katharina Gutensohn , Austrian-German ski racer
• 1967 : Bibi Appel , German ice hockey goalkeeper
• 1967 : Mario Cipollini , Italian racing cyclist
• 1967 : Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann , German historian
• 1967 : Jan Udo Holey , German author
• 1968 : Øystein Aarseth , Norwegian black metal guitarist
• 1970 : Andreas Johnson , Swedish pop and rock singer

Anja Kling (* 1970)

• 1970 : Anja Kling , German actress
• 1970 : Hwang Young-cho , Korean marathon runner
• 1970 : Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel , Dutch cyclist, Olympic champion
• 1972 : Beverley Knight , British R&B and soul singer
• 1972 : Cory Lidle , American baseball player
• 1972 : Elvis Stojko , Canadian figure skater
• 1974 : Philippe Clement , Belgian football player
• 1974 : Lucimar Aparecida de Moura , Brazilian sprinter
• 1974 : Elisabeth von Koch , German actress and speaker
• 1974 : Tone , German rapper
• 1975 : Jiří Novák , Czech tennis player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Zoli Ádok , Hungarian singer, actor and dancer
• 1976 : Sven Butenschön , German ice hockey player

Reese Witherspoon (born 1976)

• 1976 : Reese Witherspoon , American actress
• 1977 : Ambrosi Hoffmann , Swiss ski racer
• 1977 : John Otto , American rock musician
• 1978 : Daniel Unger , German triathlete
• 1978 : Heinz Winckler , South African singer
• 1979 : Sandra Ahrabian , German presenter
• 1979 : Silvano Beltrametti , Swiss ski racer
• 1979 : Aldo Duscher , Argentine soccer player
• 1980 : Sebastian Schoof , German soccer player
• 1981 : Michał Bąkiewicz , Polish volleyball player
• 1981 : Stephan Kling , German soccer player
• 1981 : Imre Szabics , Hungarian football player

Michael Janyk (* 1982)

• 1982 : Michael Janyk , Canadian ski racer
• 1982 : Inácio Piá , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
• 1983 : André Pollmächer , German athlete
• 1984 : Laura Laß , German actress
• 1984 : Piotr Trochowski , German soccer player
• 1985 : Mohammad al-Anbar , Saudi Arabian soccer player
• 1985 : Lizzie Brocheré , French actress
• 1985 : Mike Jenkins , American football player
• 1985 : Nadseja Skardsina , Belarusian biathlete
• 1986 : Kamila Lićwinko , Polish athlete
• 1987 : Andreas Haider-Maurer , Austrian tennis player
• 1988 : Tania Raymonde , American actress
• 1988 : Tobias Sippel , German soccer player
• 1989 : Jimmy Durmaz , Swedish football player
• 1989 : Jelle Vossen , Belgian football player
• 1989 : Patrick Wiencek , German handball player
• 1990 : Lisa Mitchell , Australian singer-songwriter
• 1990 : Wang Fei , Chinese soccer player
• 1990 : Daniel Zampieri , Italian racing driver
• 1991 : Michael Edlinger , Austrian actor
• 1991 : Roberto Merhi , Spanish racing driver
• 1991 : Roland Putsche , Austrian soccer player
• 1992 : Jessie Andrews , American porn actress
• 1993 : Andrea Ellenberger , Swiss ski racer
• 1994 : Luise von Finckh , German actress
• 1995 : Lukas Karlsch , German actor
• 1998 : Alexander Donchenko , German chess player
• 1999 : Alec Dixon , British telemarker
• 1999 : Mick Schumacher , German racing driver
• 1999 : Marcus Tavernier , English soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0384 : Lea of ​​Rome , "mother of virgins" or "the patron saint of widows"
• 1018 : Ali ibn Hammud an-Nasir , Caliph of Cordoba
• 1081 : Boleslaw II , King of Poland
• 1085 : Walter de Lacy , Norman nobleman
• 1090 : García , King of Galicia
• 1127 : Heinrich von Alt-Lübeck , Abodritic velvet ruler
• 1144 : William of Norwich , alleged ritual murder victim
• 1201 : Yaroslav , Duke of Opole and Bishop of Breslau
• 1309 : Lukardis von Oberweimar , German Cistercian and mystic
• 1322 : Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster , English magnate and rebel
• 1341 : Friedrich von Pernstein , Archbishop of Riga
• 1418 : Dietrich von Nieheim , German historian
• 1421 : John Gray, Earl of Tancarville , English nobleman, military man and diplomat
• 1421 : Thomas of Lancaster , English nobleman, 1st Duke of Clarence, prince of the English royal family
• 1435 : Nikolaus Magni von Jauer , German theologian and university rector
• 1437 : Johann III. von Diepholz , Bishop of Osnabrück
• 1454 : John Kemp , Lord Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1458 : Antoine , Count of Vaudémont and Lord of Joinville
• 1471 : George of Podiebrad , King of Bohemia

16th to 18th century

• 1540 : Hans Kohlhase , Brandenburg merchant
• 1550 : Stephan Wild , German medic
• 1551 : Ulrich von Regenstein , regent of the counties Regenstein and Blankenburg
• 1572 : Katharina von Pfalz-Simmern , abbess in the Kumbd monastery
• 1574 : Benedictus Aretius , Swiss theologian, botanist, pedagogue, geographer and reformer
• 1583 : Daniel Brendel von Homburg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
• 1592 : Johann VII. , Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1602 : Agostino Carracci , Italian painter and engraver
• 1627 : Cornelis van Aerssen , Dutch statesman, diplomat and lawyer
• 1638 : Johann , first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
• 1645 : Hans Caspar Lang the Elder , Swiss glass, panel and facade painter and book illustrator
• 1668 : Charlotte de La Trémoille , French noblewoman, Duchess of Derby
• 1676 : Cäcilie Zeitlose Wicht , German pastor's wife, victim of the witch hunt in Idstein
• 1686 : Johann Friedrich , Margrave of the Principality of Ansbach
• 1687 : Jean-Baptiste Lully , Italian composer
• 1698 : Johann Hartmann Misler , German theologian
• 1699 : Peder Schumacher Griffenfeld , Danish statesman and Chancellor of German origin
• 1705 : Christian Heinrich Postel , German lawyer, epic poet and librettist
• 1715 : Raymundus Regondi , abbot of Altenburg Abbey
• 1727 : Francesco Gasparini , Italian composer
• 1727 : Mulai Ismail , Sultan of the Alawid dynasty in Morocco
• 1727 : Johann Leonhard Rost , German writer and astronomer
• 1758 : Jonathan Edwards , American preacher
• 1767 : Johann Peter Süßmilch , German pastor and statistician
• 1772 : John Canton , English physicist
• 1782 : Joachim Martin Falbe , German sculptor, etcher and draftsman
• 1783 : Franz Leopold von Nádasdy , Austrian field marshal and Ban of Croatia

19th century

• 1820 : Stephen Decatur Junior , American naval officer
• 1825 : Jakob Aders , German politician, banker and social reformer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe († 1832)

• 1832 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet and scientist
• 1837 : Karl Christian von Mann called Tiechler , German lawyer and editor
• 1844 : William Carroll , American politician
• 1851 : Isaac Hill , American politician
• 1851 : Göran Wahlenberg , Swedish botanist
• 1852 : Sir John Harvey , British general and colonial administrator
• 1853 : Jean Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova , Duke of Padua, French general and politician
• 1861 : Miguel Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican politician
• 1867 : Dawid Ossipowitsch Bebutow , Russian general
• 1874 : Richard Brenner , German Africa explorer
• 1880 : Anton von Stabel , Baden's head of government, justice and foreign minister
• 1889 : Stanley Matthews , American judge and politician

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Josef Schantl , Austrian musician; Bugler
• 1903 : August Schreiber , German pastor and missionary

Friedrich Amelung († 1909)

• 1909 : Friedrich Amelung , Baltic industrialist, chess player and publicist
• 1916 : Ferdinand Fellner , Austrian architect
• 1919 : Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Arsenjew , Russian journalist, literary scholar and encyclopaedist
• 1920 : Mihael Lendovšek , Slovenian writer and theologian
• 1920 : Nathan Zuntz , German medic
• 1924 : Louis Delluc , French filmmaker, writer and critic
• 1925 : Julian Balthasar Marchlewski , German politician and co-founder of the Spartakusbund
• 1929 : Anton Beer-Walbrunn , German composer
• 1930 : Gastone Brilli-Peri , Italian cyclist, motorcycle and automobile racer
• 1931 : Hermann Kutter , Protestant theologian in Switzerland
• 1931 : Ofelia Nieto , Spanish singer
• 1934 : Gustav H. Wolff , German sculptor
• 1935 : Alexander Moissi , Austrian actor
• 1938 : Hermann Schubert , German politician
• 1942 : Ernst Fabricius , German archaeologist and ancient historian
• 1944 : Georg Gothein , German politician, MdL, MdR
• 1945 : Heinrich Maier , Austrian priest, beheaded on behalf of the Nazi regime

Clemens August Graf von Galen († 1946)

• 1946 : Clemens August Graf von Galen , German priest, Bishop of Münster and cardinal, critic of National Socialism
• 1947 : Wilhelm Ernst Asbeck , German writer
• 1947 : Arturo Martini , Italian sculptor

1951-2000

• 1951 : Werner Emmanuel Bachmann , American chemist

Willem Mengelberg († 1951)

• 1951 : Willem Mengelberg , Dutch conductor
• 1951 : Peter August Böckstiegel , German painter of Westphalian Expressionism
• 1952 : Uncle Dave Macon , American country musician
• 1955 : Ernst II , last Duke of Saxony-Altenburg
• 1955 : Franz Schütz , German soccer player
• 1960 : José Antonio Aguirre , Basque politician
• 1960 : Agnes Arber , English botanist
• 1962 : Ibrahim Michael Ibrahim , Lebanese Bishop in Canada
• 1963 : Cilly Aussem , German tennis player
• 1965 : Wilhelm Schapp , German philosopher and lawyer
• 1969 : José Dolores Cerón , Dominican composer

Ernst German († 1969)

• 1969 : Ernst Deutsch , German actor
• 1969 : Gerhard Fritsch , Austrian writer
• 1972 : Ernst Leffmann , German-Dutch lawyer and manufacturer
• 1973 : Georg Amlung , German politician
• 1974 : Edward Molyneux , French fashion designer
• 1974 : Roland Rohlfs , American test pilot
• 1975 : Paul Verhoeven , German actor, director and theater director
• 1976 : Hans Thirring , Austrian physicist
• 1977 : Murayama Tomoyoshi , Japanese writer and theater director
• 1978 : Karl Wallenda , German-American tightrope artist
• 1979 : Theo Aaldering , German weightlifter
• 1979 : Paul Nevermann , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, Hamburg Mayor, Senator
• 1982 : Pericle Cardinal Felici , Italian clergyman, cardinal to the Curia
• 1982 : Bob Foster , British motorcycle racer
• 1982 : Buddy Parker , American football player and coach

John W. Bricker († 1986)

• 1986 : John W. Bricker , American politician
• 1986 : Denys Gaith , Syrian Archbishop
• 1986 : Michele Sindona , Italian lawyer and banker
• 1987 : Odysseas Angelis , Greek officer and politician
• 1987 : Olaf Klose , German art historian and librarian
• 1990 : Gerald Bull , Canadian engineer and ballistician, assassination victim
• 1993 : Gret Palucca , German dancer and dance teacher
• 1994 : Dan Hartman , American musician
• 1995 : Henri Xhonneux , Belgian filmmaker
• 1999 : Paul-Marcel Gauthier , Canadian singer and composer
• 1999 : David Strickland , American actor
• 2000 : Mark Lombardi , American artist
• 2000 : Carlo Parola , Italian football player and coach

21st century

• 2001 : Sabiha Gökçen , first Turkish female pilot and fighter pilot worldwide
• 2001 : William Hanna , American animator and producer
• 2002 : Rudolf Baumgartner , Swiss violinist and conductor
• 2002 : Boris Sichkin , Russian-American actor, dancer and choreographer
• 2003 : Harry Fisher , American trade unionist and peace activist
• 2004 : Gerhardt Preuschen , German agricultural scientist
• 2004 : Ahmad Yasin , leading founder and spiritual leader of Hamas

Günter Felke († 2005)

• 2005 : Günter Felke , German entrepreneur
• 2005 : Josefine Hawelka , Viennese coffee house founder and operator
• 2005 : Kenzō Tange , Japanese architect
• 2006 : Pierre Clostermann , French WWII fighter pilot and writer
• 2006 : Pío Leyva , Cuban musician
• 2007 : Marianus Arokiasamy , Archbishop of India
• 2007 : Fritz Kläger , German motorcycle racing driver and designer
• 2008 : Israel "Cachao" López , Cuban musician
• 2009 : Jade Goody , British reality TV star
• 2010 : Fritz Apel , German soccer player
• 2011 : Zoogz Rift , American musician and wrestling promoter
• 2012 : Walter Rosenwald , German ministerial official, military historian and religious scholar
• 2013 : NMZS , German rapper
• 2015 : Horst Buhtz , German soccer player and coach
• 2015 : Gerhard Drees , German civil engineer and university professor
• 2016 : Rob Ford , Canadian politician
• 2016 : Kurt Krolop , German Germanist and literary historian
• 2017 : Sven-Erik Magnusson , Swedish singer
• 2017 : Tomás Milián , Cuban actor
• 2017 : Ronnie Moran , English football player and coach
• 2017 : Helena Štáchová , Czech puppeteer
• 2018 : René Houseman , Argentine soccer player
• 2018 : Johan van Hulst , Dutch teacher, Jewish rescuer and politician
• 2019 : Arturo Sudbrack Jamardo , Brazilian pianist
• 2019 : Scott Walker , American singer and composer
• 2020 : Gabi Delgado-López , German musician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Lea of ​​Rome , Roman virgin and benefactress (Catholic)
  • August Schreiber , German pastor and missionary (Protestant)
  • Jonathan Edwards , American missionary (Protestant: ELCA )

• Name days
  • Elmar , Lea

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • World Water Day ( UN ) (since 1993)

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

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