23rd of December
The December 23 is the 357th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 358th in leap years ), so eight days remain until the end of the year.
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events
Politics and world events
- 176: The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus celebrate a triumph in Rome, the victorious end of the first Marcomannic war .
- 679: Dagobert II , King of Austrasia from the Merovingian family , is murdered by Ebroin , the house master of Neustria , while hunting near Stenay .
- 1482: In the Peace of Arras , France's King Louis XI. and Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg on the Duchy of Burgundy among themselves.
- 1587: During the Truchsessian War , Bonn is conquered and devastated by Dutch troops under Gebhard I von Waldburg .
- 1588: Heinrich von Guise , leader of the Catholic League in France , is murdered by the royal guard during the Eighth Huguenot War in Blois . His brother Ludwig , Cardinal of Lorraine and Archbishop of Reims, was arrested as a witness and the next day on the orders of King Henry III. killed. This leads to the revolt of Catholic France against its king.
- 1631: After "honorable surrender" by the city commander draws Sweden's King . Gustav II Adolf in the Thirty Years' War without a fight in the city Elector Mainz one. In the following Swedish period until 1636, the existing fortress was heavily reinforced.
- 1705: The Braunau parliament opposes the ransom of rich peasant sons from military service in Bavaria .
- 1714: After a staged scandal , the Spanish Queen Elisabetta Farnese expelled the then almighty Camarera mayor Marie-Anne de La Trémoille of the country.
- 1728: In the secret Berlin treaty between King Friedrich Wilhelm I and Emperor Karl VI. the anti-Austrian policy of Prussia is abandoned, in return the Emperor recognizes Prussian claims to the Duchy of Berg .
- 1793: French Revolution : An army of royalist supporters is destroyed in the Battle of Savenay by the Republican Revolutionary Army under Jean-Baptiste Kléber during the Vendée uprising .
- 1798: King Ferdinand IV , ruler of the Kingdom of Naples , flees to Sicily from advancing French troops . The evacuation of the court and other people takes place on English ships under the command of Horatio Nelson . After a stormy crossing, they arrive in Palermo on December 26th .
- 1847: France declares Algeria a colony after Abd el-Kader was captured the day before .
- 1876: The Ottoman ruler Abdülhamid II proclaims the first Turkish constitution, called Kanûn-ı Esâsî , which is based on liberal principles, but is soon repealed.
- 1918: Following the murder of Sidónio Pais on December 14th, João Tamagnini Barbosa succeeds the interim João do Canto e Castro as the new Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic .
- 1920: In the British Parliament, under the leadership of David Lloyd George, the Government of Ireland Act is passed , the 4th Home Rule Act , which divides the Irish island into Southern Ireland and Northern Ireland , each of which is to have its own government.
- 1926: The Labor Court Act creates the Reich Labor Court in the Weimar Republic and regulates the work of the judiciary in labor matters.
- 1936: The multilateral agreement on the construction of the Panamericana expressway network is signed in Buenos Aires .
- 1944: General Dwight D. Eisenhower upholds the order to execute Eddie Slovik , the only US soldier in World War II to be executed for desertion .
- 1948: The seven death sentences pronounced on November 12 at the Tokyo trials against leading figures in the Japanese army are carried out.
- 1970: The French journalist Régis Debray , a comrade-in-arms of Che Guevara , is released after three years in prison in Bolivia .
- 1975: US President Gerald Ford enacts the Metric Conversion Act . It is supposed to give the metric system better validity.
- 1986: The nuclear physicist, dissident and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and his wife and colleague Jelena Bonner return to Moscow after their exile is lifted.
- 1990: In Slovenia , 95 percent of the voters vote in a referendum to break away from the state of Yugoslavia . The country's independence is subsequently declared on June 25, 1991.
- 1991: Croatia is recognized by Germany as an independent state.
- 2005: The Republic of Chad declares that it is in a " state of war " because of the numerous border raids in the wake of the Darfur conflict with Sudan ; but this is not a declaration of war .
business
- 1507: In a council resolution of the city of Nordhausen on a spirits tax , the Nordhausen spirits are first mentioned in a document.
- 1864: The first edition of the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter appears.
- 1865: France , Belgium , Italy and Switzerland conclude the Latin coinage convention . Your gold and silver coins will be standardized in weight, metal content, shape and rate on the basis of the French system. The Latin Monetary Union is created .
- 1909: The Central German Brown Coal Syndicate is founded in Leipzig .
- 1913: The Federal Reserve System , or Fed for short , the US central banking system , is introduced. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Federal Reserve Act , the law made by the United States Congress .
- 1918: The official Belarusian telegraph agency is founded in Minsk .
- 1923: The Reich Labor Minister Heinrich Brauns ( German Center Party ) introduces the Working Hours Ordinance in Germany .
- 1934: The world's first U-shaped ski lift, developed by the Swiss mechanical engineer Ernst Constam , goes into operation in Davos .
- 1979: With the cable car to the Klein Matterhorn , the highest cable car in Europe opens in Zermatt .
- 1986: The last shift is run at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen in the Ruhr area.
- 1997: The builder Jürgen Schneider is convicted of the bankruptcy of his construction company in the billions, which was caused by embellished credit information at banks.
science and technology
- 1672: Giovanni Domenico Cassini discovers the Saturn moon Rhea .
- 1900: Reginald Fessenden carries out the first wireless voice transmission.
- 1905: Walther Nernst presents his new heat rate at the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Its essential message is that the absolute zero point of the temperature cannot be reached.
- 1947: The bipolar transistor invented by William B. Shockley , John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain is demonstrated at Bell Laboratories .
- 1954: Doctor Joseph Edward Murray and his team perform the first successful kidney transplant in a five and a half hour operation at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston . The identical twin Ronald Herrick donated a kidney to his brother Richard.
- 1958: Tokyo Tower opens to the public in Tokyo . The lattice tower dissolves with 332.6 meters the Paris Eiffel Tower to 1985 as the world's tallest structure of its kind from.
- 1970: In the district of Manhattan in New York City of the North Tower of is the World Trade Center completed. With a height of 417 meters, it is the tallest building in the world at the time .
- 1986: Richard Glenn Rutan and Jeana Yeager complete the first non-stop flight without refueling and stopovers around the world after nine days with the Voyager aircraft designed by Burt Rutan .
Culture
- 1493: Hartmann Schedel publishes his Nürnberger Chronik , better known as Schedelsche Weltchronik , an incunabulum in German.
- 1806: The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major op. 61 by Ludwig van Beethoven has its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. The soloist is concertmaster Franz-Joseph Clement , who commissioned the work from Beethoven.
- 1888: The painter Vincent van Gogh injured his right ear in his home in Arles under unexplained circumstances and later gave part of the ear to a prostitute.
- 1893: The late romantic fairy tale opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is premiered with extraordinary success at the Weimar Court Theater. The libretto for by Humperdinck in an ironic allusion to Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal called "Kinderstubenweihfestspiel" work wrote his sister Adelheid Wette after the eponymous fairy tale from the Grimm's Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm .
- 1908: The world premiere of the operetta The Divorced Woman by Leo Fall takes place at the Carltheater in Vienna .
- 1911: The operetta Alt-Wien based on music by Joseph Lanner , compiled and edited by Emil Stern, premiered at the Carltheater in Vienna . The libretto was written by Gustav Kadelburg , Julius Wilhelm and MA Weikone .
- 1911: The Miracle by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller with music by Engelbert Humperdinck and staged by Max Reinhardt is premiered in the Olympia Hall in London .
- 1920: Arthur Schnitzler's drama Reigen is premiered at the Kleiner Schauspielhaus in Berlin .
- 1932: At the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, the operetta Sissy by Fritz Kreisler premiered.
- 1932: The premiere of the operetta Ball im Savoy by Paul Abraham takes place in the Metropol-Theater in Berlin .
- 1933: The operetta Clivia by Nico Dostal based on the libretto by Charles Amberg is premiered at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin . It is considered to be the composer's most successful work.
- 1937: The world premiere of Paul Abraham's operetta Julia takes place in Budapest .
- 1966: Sergio Leone's film Two Glorious Scoundrels (original title: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo ) hits cinemas in Italy .
- 1980: The ORF broadcasts the first episode of the Merian family television series .
- 1985: The ARD pop music stations broadcast the ARD night rock for the first time , which has been broadcast since January 1, 1990 under the name ARD Popnacht .
society
- 1880: Pat Garrett succeeds in arresting the gunslinger William Bonney, known as Billy the Kid .
- 1932: The Caro-Petschek trial , one of the most complex criminal trials in the final phase of the Weimar Republic, ends in Berlin after 96 days .
- 1987: The two children of the drugstore chain owner Anton Schlecker are kidnapped by three masked men who demand a ransom of 18 million marks.
religion
- 619: Boniface V is enthroned as the successor to Pope Adeodatus I.
- 800: Pope Leo III. takes an oath of cleansing and thereby silences unproven accusations of adultery by his opponents .
- 1119: Pope Calixt II confirms the constitution created by Stephan Harding , the Charter Caritatis of the Cistercians .
- 1572: The theologian Johannes Sylvanus is executed in Heidelberg after a death sentence for Unitarian heresy .
- 1945: The encyclical Orientales omnes ecclesias by Pope Pius XII. deals - on the occasion of the union with the Ruthenian Church 350 years earlier - with the developments in the Eastern Churches .
Disasters
- 1933: The train accident on the Lagny - Pomponne route in France leads to 204 deaths and 120 injuries. The express train Paris – Strasbourg joins the train to Nancy at a signal.
- 1954: A hurricane representing the climax of a series of hurricanes with wind speeds of estimated 200 km / h kills at least 70 people in northwestern Europe and leads to a severe storm surge in which the German North Sea coast barely escapes a flood catastrophe.
- 1972: An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 in Nicaragua calls for about 5,000 deaths.
- 1972: The last survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 , which crashed on October 13, some of whom only survived through cannibalism, are rescued.
- 1973: A Caravelle of Royal Air Maroc crashes in Morocco from. 106 people are killed.
- 1978: A Douglas DC-9 of Alitalia crashes on landing about 6 km outside the airport of Palermo to the Mediterranean . 108 people die, 21 survivors are rescued by crews of fishing boats.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 968: Song Zhenzong , Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty
- 1173: Ludwig the Kelheimer , Duke of Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine
- 1459: Cem Sultan , Ottoman prince and poet
- 1513: Thomas Smith , English diplomat
- 1516: Johann Jakob Fugger , Augsburg merchant
- 1525: Johann Albrecht I , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1527: Hugo Donellus , French lawyer
- 1544: Anna of Saxony , wife of Wilhelm I of Orange
- 1573: Giovanni Battista Crespi , Italian painter, sculptor and architect
- 1597: Martin Opitz , German baroque poet
17th and 18th centuries
- 1605: Tianqi , Emperor of China
- 1623: Matthias Palbitzki , Swedish diplomat
- 1624: Johann Volkmar Bechmann , German legal scholar
- 1644: Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco , Spanish composer and conductor who worked in Peru
- 1646: Jean Hardouin , French Jesuit, philologist and theologian
- 1679: Johann Juncker , German medic
- 1686: Samuel Madden , Irish writer
- 1689: Joseph Bodin de Boismortier , French flautist and harpsichordist
- 1694: Michael Christian Göring , German administrative officer and promoter of industry
- 1713: Maruyama Gondazaemon , Japanese sumo wrestler, yokozuna
- 1714: Ranieri de 'Calzabigi , Italian poet and librettist
- 1722: Axel Frederic Cronstedt , Swedish chemist
- 1725: Ahmad Shah , Mughal Mughal of India
- 1732: Richard Arkwright , British textile manufacturer and inventor
- 1736: Robert Motherby , English merchant in Königsberg, friend of Immanuel Kant
- 1740: Elisabeth Olin , Swedish opera singer
- 1743: Johann Evangelist Haydn , Austrian tenor
- 1750: Friedrich August I , first King of Saxony
- 1753: Josef Amonte , Austrian painter
- 1754: John Habersham , American politician
- 1763: Georg Joseph Beer , German founder of scientifically based ophthalmology
- 1766: Conrad Karl Friedrich von Andlau-Birseck , Baden politician, district president, minister
- 1774: Ludwig von Vincke , Prussian reformer
- 1776: Dominik Epp , Swiss landowner and politician
- 1777: Alexander I , Russian tsar
- 1782: William Armstrong , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1787: Antonio Barezzi , Italian merchant
- 1790: Jean-François Champollion , French Egyptologist
- 1793: Dost Mohammed , ruler of Afghanistan
- 1799: Friedrich Wilhelm August Vetter , German medic and balneologist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804: Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve , French writer
- 1805: Joseph Smith , American Founder of Religions (Mormon)
- 1807: Antonius Maria Claret , Spanish bishop and founder of the order
- 1810: Marie von Augustin , Austrian painter and writer
- 1810: Edward Blyth , British zoologist and ornithologist
- 1810: Karl Richard Lepsius , German Egyptologist and linguist
- 1810: Jakob Friedrich Reiff , German philosopher
- 1815: Ildefons Cerdà , Spanish town planner
- 1815: Émile Félix Fleury , French general and diplomat
- 1819: George N. Barnard , American photographer
- 1821: Johann Jakob Sulzer , Swiss politician
- 1822: Wilhelm Bauer , German engineer and submarine designer
- 1824: Adolf Friedrich , German painter
- 1827: Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , Austro-Hungarian admiral
- 1828: Mathilde Wesendonck , German writer
- 1836: Werner Fritze , German businessman, royal councilor and local politician
- 1839: Otto Kersten , German Africa explorer, chemist and geographer
- 1841: Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz , Cuban politician and revolutionary
- 1844: Ferdinand Mülhens , German landowner and entrepreneur
- 1845: Gustave Ador , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1845: Gustav Fischer , German publisher and bookseller
- 1847: Anton Lux , Austrian artillery lieutenant and traveler to Africa
- 1849: Stine Andresen , German writer
1851-1900
- 1851: Eugen Zabel , German journalist, writer, playwright and translator
- 1853: Italo Azzoni , Italian composer, pianist, conductor and music teacher
- 1854: Friedrich Adolf Borsdorf , German horn player
- 1859: Richard Bartmuß , German composer
- 1862: Hans Wessely , Austrian violinist and music teacher
- 1863: Ferenc Szárnovszky , Hungarian sculptor and medalist
- 1864: Alois Amann , Austrian politician
- 1865: Joseph E. Atkinson , Canadian newspaper publisher and activist
- 1865: Albrecht von Württemberg , German military leader
- 1867: Jacob Astor , German politician
- 1868: Hedwig Bleibtreu , Austrian actress
- 1868: Rudolf Schwander , German politician and social reformer
- 1868: Richard Teichmann , German chess master
- 1869: Hugh Allen , British conductor, organist and music teacher
- 1869: James Benjamin Aswell , American politician
- 1870: Jessie Tarbox Beals , American photographer
- 1870: John Marin , American painter
- 1875: Ivan Prijatelj , Slovenian cultural and literary historian
- 1876: Franz Osten , German film director
- 1878: Micheil Tsereteli , Georgian historian and diplomat
- 1883: Adolf Reinach , German philosopher and phenomenologist, philosopher of language and legal theorist
- 1885: Hermann Carl Wilhelm Aubin , German-Austrian historian, science organizer and history politician
- 1885: Hans Gerstinger , Austrian classical philologist
- 1886: Albert Ehrenstein , Austrian poet and narrator
- 1886: Salvador Seguí , Spanish syndicalist and anarchist
- 1887: Thomas Otto Hermannus Achelis , German high school teacher, historian and author
- 1887: John Cromwell , American actor and director
- 1888: Christa Winsloe , German-Hungarian writer, screenwriter and playwright
- 1888: Friedrich Wolf , German doctor, writer and politician
- 1889: Emil Brunner , Swiss theologian
- 1890: Johannes Hoffmann , German politician, Member of the State Parliament and Prime Minister
- 1891: Hans Bohn , German typographer, graphic artist and teacher
- 1893: Hans Schmidt , German soccer player and coach
- 1894: Heinrich Seywald , German major general
- 1895: Adriaan Koonings , Dutch football player
- 1895: Smilo von Lüttwitz , German general
- 1896: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian writer
- 1897: Ernst Krenn-Gjógv , Austrian Scandinavian
- 1899: Andreas Nielsen , German lieutenant general
- 1899: Elisabeth Schnack , Swiss writer
- 1900: Ignacio Aguirre , Mexican artist and printmaker
- 1900: Arnold Bode , German curator, artist and university professor, founder of the documenta
- 1900: Noel Purcell , Irish actor and comedian
- 1900: Karl Schmitt-Walter , German opera and lieder singer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Jakub Berman , Polish politician
- 1902: Choudhary Charan Singh , Prime Minister of India
- 1903: Bolesław Kominek , Archbishop of Wrocław and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1905: Amédée Borsari , French composer
- 1905: Joe Kopcha , American football player and surgeon
- 1906: Ross Lee Finney , American composer
- 1906: Wolfgang Vacano , German-American conductor and music teacher
- 1907: Walter Gericke , German general
- 1907: James Roosevelt , American general and politician
- 1907: Martin S. Svoboda , German news anchor
- 1908: Hermann Mathias Görgen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1908: Yousuf Karsh , Armenian-Canadian photographer
- 1911: Niels Kaj Jerne , British medic, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912: Josef Greindl , German singer
- 1913: Anton Leader , American film director and producer
- 1914: Hans Hermsdorf , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1914: Dezider Kardoš , Slovak composer
- 1916: Dino Risi , Italian director
- 1918: Iván Mándy , Hungarian writer
- 1918: Helmut Schmidt , German politician, State Minister, Federal Minister, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Chancellor
- 1919: Ludwig Poullain , German manager and president of the savings bank
- 1919: Hugo Romani , Argentine singer
- 1920: Georges de Beauregard , French film producer
- 1920: Norman Symonds , Canadian composer, clarinetist, saxophonist and band leader
- 1921: Hans Bausch , German broadcast director
- 1921: Ludwig Deiters , German architect and general curator in the GDR
- 1921: Günther Nenning , Austrian journalist, author and political activist
- 1921: Heinrich Riethmüller , German musician, composer and dubbing director
- 1922: Horst Brasch , German party functionary and deputy minister for culture in the GDR
- 1922: Micheline Ostermeyer , French athlete and pianist
- 1923: Rosa Winter , Austrian concentration camp survivor
- 1924: Bob Kurland , American basketball player
- 1924: Hans Bernhard Meyer , German university professor and liturgical scholar
- 1925: Pierre Bérégovoy , French politician
- 1925: Milan Uherek , Czech choir director and composer
1926-1950
- 1926: Helmut Baierl , German writer, Vice President of the Academy of Arts of the GDR
- 1929: Raymond Daveluy , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
- 1926: Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez , Bishop of Valparaíso and Cardinal
- 1926: Allen Forte , American musicologist and theorist
- 1928: Klaus Finck , German writer
- 1928: Buddy Harman , American drummer
- 1928: Hubert Glaser , German historian
- 1929: Chet Baker , American jazz musician, singer and composer
- 1929: Mennato Boffa , Italian racing car driver
- 1929: Clarice Carson , Canadian singer
- 1929: Eckart Rohlfs , German publisher and music journalist
- 1929: Dick Weber , American professional bowler
- 1930: Jean Hurring , New Zealand swimmer
- 1931: Adu Ababio II , Nigerian chief
- 1932: Neil Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey referee
- 1932: Richard Clark Barkley , American diplomat
- 1932: Tito Lara , Puerto Rican singer and actor
- 1933: Akihito , Japanese emperor
- 1934: Chuck Mayfield , American country musician
- 1935: Hans Georg Anscheidt , German motorcycle racer
- 1935: Theophilus Beckford , Jamaican pianist
- 1935: Paul Hornung , American football player
- 1935: Johnny Kidd , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1936: Monika Peitsch , German actress
- 1936: Willie Wood , American football player
- 1937: Maja Komorowska , Polish actress
- 1937: Peter Medak , Hungarian director
- 1938: Robert E. Kahn , American computer scientist
- 1938: Siegfried Rauhut , German enduro athlete
- 1939: Giacomo Aimoni , Italian ski jumper
- 1939: Nancy Graves , American sculptor, painter, and filmmaker
- 1940: Jorma Kaukonen , American blues, folk and rock guitarist
- 1941: Hanns Abele , Austrian economist
- 1941: Tim Hardin , American musician
- 1941: Klaus Reisch , Austrian racing car driver
- 1942: Quentin Bryce , Australian lawyer and politician, Queensland State Governor
- 1943: Gianni Ambrosio , Italian bishop of Piacenza-Bobbio
- 1943: Elizabeth Hartman , American actress
- 1943: Bárður Jákupsson , Faroese painter, graphic artist and author of art books
- 1943: Butler Lampson , American computer scientist
- 1943: Margaret MacMillan , Canadian historian
- 1943: Silvia , Queen of Sweden
- 1944: Wesley Clark , American politician and NATO commander in chief
- 1945: Adli Mansur , Egyptian politician and lawyer
- 1945: Victor Agbanou , Benin Bishop
- 1945: Matti Ahde , Finnish sports official and politician
- 1945: Georges Aperghis , Greek composer
- 1945: Maggi Payne , American composer, flautist and music teacher
- 1946: Luther Grosvenor , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1946: Edita Gruberová , Slovak opera singer
- 1947: Graham Bonnet , British rock singer
- 1947: Ulrich Stiehl , German non-fiction author and programmer
- 1948: Víctor Selvino Arenhart , Argentine clergyman and bishop
- 1948: Jack Ham , American football player
- 1949: Adrian Belew , American guitarist and composer
- 1949: Stefan Dörflinger , Swiss motorcycle racer
- 1950: Cyro Baptista , Brazilian jazz percussionist
- 1950: Vicente del Bosque , Spanish football player and coach
- 1950: Axel Kählert , German handball player
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1951-1975
- 1951: Anthony Phillips , British musician
- 1952: Andreas Martin , German pop singer
- 1952: Helen Schneider , American singer and songwriter
- 1953: Wieland Schmidt , German handball goalkeeper and goalkeeping coach
- 1954: Michael Diekmann , German manager
- 1954: Brian Teacher , American tennis player
- 1956: Michele Alboreto , Italian racing car driver
- 1956: Dave Murray , British musician ( Iron Maiden )
- 1957: Konrad Reiss , German manager
- 1957: Petra Zieser , German actress
- 1958: Achim Tang , German bass player and composer
- 1958: Victoria Williams , American singer and songwriter
- 1962: Christian Schneider , German musician and arranger, composer and music producer
- 1963: Juan Carlos Ares , Argentine auxiliary bishop
- 1963: Jim Harbaugh , American football player and coach
- 1963: Ante Zelck , German entrepreneur and hostel pioneer
- 1964: Amy Dunker , American composer, music teacher and trumpeter
- 1964: Jens Heppner , German racing cyclist
- 1964: Manuela Kempf , German film editor
- 1964: Eddie Vedder , American rock musician
- 1965: Andreas Kappes , German racing cyclist
- 1966: Badi Assad , Brazilian singer, guitarist and composer
- 1966: Annett Klingner , German-Italian art historian and writer
- 1967: Carla Bruni , Italian-French musician, photo model and wife of the French President
- 1968: Manuel Rivera-Ortiz , Puerto Rican-American photographer
- 1968: Sandra Roelofs , Dutch-Georgian translator and Georgian President's wife
- 1968: Olga Schischigina , Kazakh athlete, Olympic champion
- 1968: René Tretschok , German football player
- 1969: John Bickerton , English golfer
- 1969: Angelika Neuner , Austrian toboggan athlete
- 1970: Kamal Bamadhaj , Malaysian-New Zealand human rights activist
- 1971: Corey Haim , Canadian actor
- 1971: René Harder , German director, author, actor and professor of drama
- 1972: Lukas Hilbert , German composer and lyricist, music producer and singer
- 1972: Wolfgang Sigl , Austrian rowing athlete
- 1974: Agustín Delgado , Ecuadorian football player
- 1974: Mieszko Talarczyk , Swedish musician
- 1975: Robert Bartko , German racing cyclist
- 1975: Peter Gilbert , American composer and music teacher
1976-2000
- 1976: Joanna Hayes , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1976: Torsten Jansen , German handball player
- 1976: Sergej Jakirović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1976: Julija Tschepalowa , Russian cross-country skier
- 1977: Jari Mänenpää , Finnish musician
- 1977: Verneri Pohjola , Finnish jazz trumpeter
- 1978: Jeyz , German rapper
- 1978: Estella Warren , Canadian actress and model
- 1979: Ina Paule Klink , German actress
- 1979: Kenny Miller , Scottish soccer player
- 1981: Angelo Kelly , Irish-American musician
- 1981: Jeannine Michaelsen , German actress and television and radio presenter
- 1982: Chang Han-na , South Korean cellist
- 1982: Beatriz Luengo , Spanish actress, dancer and singer
- 1982: Nikolai Pankratow , Russian cross-country skier
- 1983: Mathias Hafele , Austrian ski jumper
- 1983: Máret Ánne Sara , Sami-Norwegian artist, writer and journalist
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- 1984: A Fine Frenzy , American singer and pianist
- 1985: Bonez MC , German rapper
- 1985: Christian Hildebrand , German handball player
- 1985: Austin Santos , American singer and songwriter
- 1986: Thomas Bourgin , French motorcycle racer
- 1986: Hedwig Drabik , Polish-German architect and master builder of the cathedral
- 1986: Marie Gerbron , Franco-British handball player
- 1986: Jano , Spanish soccer player
- 1986: Noël Wells , American actress and voice actress
- 1987: Daniela Götz , German swimmer
- 1987: Aleksandr Karapetjan , Armenian-Georgian football player
- 1987: Taťána Kuchařová , Czech photo model
- 1988: Devin Lytle , American actress, model, and dancer
- 1989: Julian David , German pop singer
- 1990: Yvette Broch , Dutch handball player
- 1990: Anna Maria Perez de Taglé , American actress, model and singer
- 1991: Immanuel Höhn , German soccer player
- 1991: Rebecca Mir , German model and mannequin
- 1992: Spencer Daniels , American actor
- 1992: Fabian Halbig , German actor and musician
- 1992: Damon Leitch , New Zealand racing car driver
- 1992: Jeffrey Schlupp , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1992: Julia Sporre , Swedish actress
- 1992: Michael Ward , American Nordic combined skier
- 1992: Leon Wessel-Masannek , German actor
- 1993: Felix Großschartner , Austrian cyclist
- 1996: Melvin Twellaar , Dutch rower
- 1998: Andreas Alamommo , Finnish ski jumper
21st century
- 2002: Finn Wolfhard , Canadian actor
Died
Before the 16th century
- 130: Keikō , Japanese emperor
- 253: Victoria of Rome , early Christian martyr
- 484: Hunerich , King of the Vandals
- 558: Childebert I , King of the Franks
- 679: Dagobert II , King of Austrasia
- 761: Gaubald , Franconian bishop
- 856: Hildegard , daughter of Ludwig the German
- 889: Solomon II , Austrasian bishop
- 918: Konrad I , King of East Franconia
- 1094: Hugo I of Le Puiset , Lord of Le Puiset and Vice-Count of Chartres
- 1115: Ivo of Chartres , Bishop of Chartres
- 1142: Fulbert , subdeacon at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
- 1193: Þorlákur þórhallsson , national saint and patron saint of Iceland
- 1195: Heinrich I of Maastricht , Bishop of Worms
- 1203: Otto I. von Brehna , German count
- 1230: Berengaria of Navarre , Queen of England
- 1236: Philip the Chancellor , Parisian poet, philosopher and theologian, Chancellor of the Chapter of Notre-Dame
- 1245: Anselm Marshal, 6th Earl of Pembroke , English nobleman and Earl Marshal
- 1380: Johannes von Neumarkt , German Chancellor and Bishop
- 1383: Beatrice of Bourbon , Queen of Bohemia
- 1392: Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York , Spanish nobleman and wife of Edmund of Langley
- 1435: Anton Galeazzo Bentivoglio , Italian nobleman, lord of Bologna
- 1436: Wulbrand von Hallermund , German Abbot of Corvey, Bishop of Minden
16th to 18th centuries
- 1517: Tjede Peckes , Wurt Frisian flag maiden
- 1556: Nicholas Udall , English playwright, educator and canon in Windsor
- 1568: Friedrich IV. Von Wied , German Archbishop
- 1572: Johannes Sylvanus , German theologian
- 1588: Henri I de Lorraine , Duke of Guise and military leader
- 1591: Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga , Knight of the Order of Malta and Cardinal
- 1598: Martín García Óñez de Loyola , Spanish nobleman and governor of Chile
- 1607: John Fortescue , English Chancellor of the Exchequer
- 1615: Bartolommeo Schidone , Italian painter and etcher
- 1619: Öküz Mehmed Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1629: Giovanni I. Cornaro , 96th Doge of Venice
- 1631: Michael Drayton , English poet
- 1640: Levin von der Schulenburg , District Administrator in the Principality of Anhalt
- 1644: Alexander Carew , English nobleman, politician and military man
- 1683: Johann Adam Schertzer , German theologian
- 1705: Luise Dorothea Sophie von Brandenburg , Hereditary Princess of Hessen-Kassel
- 1709: Alexandros Mavrokordatos , Dragoman (interpreter) in the Ottoman Empire
- 1711: Friedrich Matthias von Syberg , lord of the Kemnade house and court lord of Stiepel
- 1729: Johann Georg Geiling , Mayor of Heilbronn
- 1735: Hermann Korb , German Baroque builder
- 1744: Elisabeth Charlotte de Bourbon-Orléans , Duchess of Lorraine and Princess of Commercy
- 1745: Jan Dismas Zelenka , Czech baroque composer
- 1762: Johanna Gabriele of Austria , daughter of Emperor Franz I and Maria Theresia
- 1767: Johann Georg Aichgasser , organ builder from Upper Swabia
- 1767: Carl Friedrich von Kraut , Oberhofmarschall of Prince Heinrich of Prussia
- 1779: Franciscus Volckland , German organ builder
- 1783: Georges Küttinger , French organ and piano builder
- 1795: Henry Clinton , British general
19th century
- 1805: Geneviève Thiroux d'Arconville , French writer, translator and chemist
- 1815: Franz Xaver von Auffenberg , Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
- 1830: Wolfgang Schlichtinger , Austrian Catholic clergyman
- 1831: Emilia Plater , Lithuanian countess and freedom fighter
- 1835: Albrecht Rengger , Swiss doctor and politician
- 1841: William Macnaghten , British civil servant and diplomat
- 1844: André Galle , French medalist
- 1848: Gerhard Philipp von Closter , Prussian officer
- 1850: Samuel Bell , American politician
- 1855: Carl Heinrich Aster , German military writer
- 1860: Konstantin Aksakow , Russian writer, historian and philologist
- 1860: Ignaz Schwörer , German gynecologist and obstetrician
- 1861: William Clayton Anderson , American politician
- 1863: Theodoor Gerard van Lidth de Jeude , Dutch zoologist
- 1869: Julian Fontana , Polish pianist and composer
- 1872: George Catlin , American painter, author, and Indian expert
- 1875: Johann Maximilian von und zu Arco auf Valley , German landowner and politician
- 1878: Fabio Maria Asquini , Italian priest and bishop, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1878: Johann Jakob Scherer , Swiss politician, Federal Councilor
- 1878: Mathilde Wildauer , Austrian actress and singer
- 1879: Giovanni Cavalli , Italian lieutenant general and inventor
- 1887: Landaff Watson Andrews , American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for the state of Kentucky
- 1887: Leonard Sowiński , Polish poet and literary historian
- 1891: Holger Simon Paulli , Danish conductor and composer
- 1893: Benedict Randhartinger , Austrian composer, singer and kk Hofkapellmeister
- 1896: Eduard Dallmann , German explorer and polar explorer
- 1898: Nikolai Leontjewitsch Benois , Russian architect
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Émile Nagant , Belgian arms manufacturer and designer
- 1903: Sophus Ruge , German geographer
- 1909: Claudio Rebagliati , composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1913: Jules Claretie , French writer
- 1914: Hugo Zuckermann , German writer and Zionist
- 1920: Cayetano L. Arellano , Filipino lawyer
- 1921: Friedrich von Thiersch , German architect
- 1922: Karl Heinrich Barth , German piano teacher and pianist
- 1926: Heinrich Moritz Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian cavalry general and Austro-Hungarian Privy Councilor
- 1930: Marie Fillunger , Austrian singer
- 1934: Henri Dallier , French composer and organist
- 1936: Karel Navrátil , Czech composer
- 1937: Nils Collett Vogt , Norwegian writer
- 1939: Anthony Fokker , Dutch aircraft manufacturer
- 1942: Konstantin Dmitrijewitsch Balmont , Russian symbolic poet
- 1944: Angela Maria Autsch , German nun
- 1948: Kenji Doihara , Japanese master spy
- 1948: Hideki Tojo , Japanese Prime Minister
- 1950: Vincenzo Tommasini , Italian composer
1951-1975
- 1951: Aram Andonian , Armenian writer and journalist
- 1951: Enrique Santos Discépolo , Argentine composer
- 1951: Alfrēds Kalniņš . Latvian composer
- 1952: Eli Filip Heckscher , Swedish economic historian
- 1953: Lavrenti Beria , Soviet politician and secret service chief of Georgian descent
- 1962: José Giral Pereira , Spanish politician and Prime Minister
- 1964: Nathan Asch , Polish-American writer
- 1964: Jean Bourgknecht , Swiss politician, Federal Councilor
- 1966: Heimito von Doderer , Austrian writer
- 1967: Alfredo Pacini , Vatican diplomat and cardinal
- 1969: Tiburcio Carías Andino , President of Honduras
- 1969: Henri Trébor , French racing car driver
- 1970: Elyesa Bazna , German spy
- 1971: Alberto Ancilotto , Italian short film director
- 1971: Alessandro Cagno , Italian racing car driver
- 1972: Adolf Armbruster , German farmer
- 1972: Charles Atlas , Italian-American bodybuilder
- 1972: Andrej Nikolajewitsch Tupolew , Russian aircraft designer
- 1973: Otto Montag , German soccer player
- 1975: Luděk Drobek , Czech handball player
1976-2000
- 1977: Philipp Etter , Swiss politician, Federal Council
- 1979: Peggy Guggenheim , American collector and gallery owner
- 1980: Alec Wilder , American composer
- 1982: Wilhelm Angerer , Austrian photographer
- 1982: Piți Apolzan , Romanian football player
- 1984: Joan Lindsay , Australian writer
- 1985: Prince Bira , Thai Formula 1 racing driver
- 1985: Artur Gelbrun , Israeli violinist, violist, music teacher, conductor and composer of Polish origin
- 1985: Gina Kaus , Austrian writer, translator and screenwriter
- 1986: Heidi Abel , Swiss announcer and presenter
- 1986: Gerhard Bienert , German actor
- 1988: Hermann Heimpel , German historian
- 1989: Richard Rado , German mathematician
- 1990: Pierre Gripari , French writer
- 1992: Guido Baumann , Swiss journalist and quiz master ( What am I? )
- 1992: Eddie "Smeero" Hazel , American guitarist
- 1993: John Nelson (Major General) , British city commander
- 1996: Clarisse Nicoïdski , French writer
- 1998: Anatoly Naumowitsch Rybakow , Russian writer
- 2000: Victor Borge , Danish pianist and comedian
- 2000: Peter Kafka , German physicist
21st century
- 2001: Jean-Jacques Archambault , Canadian electrical engineer and engineer
- 2002: Tatamkhulu Africa , South African writer and poet
- 2003: Don Lamond , American jazz drummer
- 2003: Curley Money , American country and rockabilly musician
- 2004: John Duarte , English composer, guitarist, music educator and critic
- 2004: Richard Ifor James , British horn player
- 2004: Milt Minter , American racing car driver
- 2004: PV Narasimha Rao , Prime Minister of India
- 2004: Anne Truitt , American minimalist sculptor
- 2005: Lajos Baróti , Hungarian football coach
- 2005: Norman Vaughan , American polar explorer
- 2005: Yao Wenyuan , Chinese politician
- 2006: Myriam von Schrebler , Chilean singer
- 2007: Oscar Emmanuel Peterson , Canadian jazz musician
- 2009: Lucas Abadamloora , Ghanaian bishop
- 2009: Wilhelm Hillek , Austrian officer and editor
- 2009: Robert L. Howard , American soldier
- 2009: Ngapoi Ngawang Jigmê , Tibetan-Chinese politician
- 2009: Edward Schillebeeckx , Belgian theologian
- 2010: Heinrich Adameck , German politician
- 2011: Denise Darcel , American actress
- 2013: Mikhail Kalashnikov , Soviet weapons designer
- 2013: Yusef Lateef , American jazz musician and composer
- 2015: Jutta Freifrau von Droste zu Hülshoff , German donor
- 2015: Alfred Goodman Gilman , American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2015: Manfred Hummitzsch , German MfS officer
- 2019: Werner Wolf , musicologist
- 2020: James Gunn , American writer
Holidays and memorial days
- Festivus
- Church memorial days
- Anne du Bourg , French professor and martyr (Protestant)
- Thorlak Thorhallson , Icelandic teacher and abbot, bishop and patron saint (Catholic)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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