January 23
January 23 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 23 ) is the 23rd day of the Gregorian calendar , leaving 342 days (343 days in leap years) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 393: After his elder son Arcadius , the Roman Emperor Theodosius I also elevates his nine-year-old younger son Flavius Honorius to Augustus and co-emperor.
- 1517: After the defeat by the Ottomans at Giza and the capture of their Sultan Tuman Bay , the Mamluk rule over Egypt ends and becomes part of the Ottoman Empire .
- 1570: At Linlithgow , James Hamilton of Bothwellhaugh assassinated Scottish regent James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray . It is the world's first assassination attempt with a firearm . The regent is so badly injured that he dies the same day. The Scottish Civil War receives new impetus from the incident.
- 1579: In response to the formation of the Union of Arras by the southern provinces, which have reverted to Catholic Spain , the seven northern provinces of the Spanish Netherlands establish the Union of Utrecht . This forms the nucleus for the Republic of the Seven United Provinces .
- 1631: France and Sweden sign the Treaty of Bärwalde in the Thirty Years' War . In it, Sweden undertakes to lead an army to Germany, while France shares the costs to restore the status quo before the outbreak of war .
- 1668: England , the Republic of the Seven United Provinces and Sweden form a triple alliance to put France under Louis XIV in its place in the War of Devolution that has begun , whose soldiers have invaded the Spanish Netherlands .
- 1719: Emperor Charles VI. elevates the two counties of Vaduz and Schellenberg of Count Anton Florian von Liechtenstein to a principality under the name of Liechtenstein .
- 1772: French navigator Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and his second in command Jules Crozet discover the Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean .
- 1790: A few days after the Bounty mutineers arrived on Pitcairn , they set the ship on fire.
- 1793: Prussia and Russia sign the Treaty of the Second Partition of Poland , again reducing the Kingdom of Poland by more than half of its territory .
- 1799: A French army under Jean-Étienne Championnet conquers Naples , the capital of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies , after hard fighting during the Second Coalition War .
- 1874: The Prussian Landtag passed the Compulsory Civil Marriage Act . Divorce is now also possible in Prussia .
- 1885: The company Robertson & Hernsheim asks the German government for Reich protection for the Caroline Islands , triggering the Caroline Controversy .
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- 1899: The First Philippine Republic is proclaimed by the Katipunan revolutionary movement in Malolos . The revolutionary leader Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President. Apolinario Mabini becomes prime minister.
- 1900: Near the Boer -held town of Ladysmith in British Cape Colony , South Africa , the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War begins with an attack by the British under Charles Warren .
- 1913: A military putsch by the Young Turks led by Enver Pasha takes place in the Ottoman Empire .
- 1915: John Chilembwe starts an anti-colonial uprising with 200 supporters in Nyasaland (now Malawi ), which fails after two days.
- 1919: The Polish-Czechoslovak border war over the Olsa region begins.
- 1928: The social democratic party Javnaðarflokkurin ("Equality Party") is founded in the Faroe Islands .
- 1930: In Thuringia , the Baum-Frick government saw the NSDAP participate in government for the first time in a German federal state.
- 1937: The second of the Moscow Trials of Karl Radek and other 16 leading communists accused of plotting with Leon Trotsky against Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin begins in Moscow as part of Stalin's Great Terror .
- 1942: Rabaul on the north-eastern tip of New Britain is taken by the Japanese and expanded over the following years as the most important fortification base of the Pacific War
- 1943: The last German plane leaves Stalingrad, which is encircled by the Red Army , during World War II .
- 1943: During the Second World War , British units take the Libyan city of Tripoli , which can no longer be held by the troops of the German-Italian Axis powers .
- 1958: Venezuela 's dictatorial President Marcos Pérez Jiménez is overthrown by a two-day general strike .
- 1968: The US spy ship USS Pueblo is boarded by the North Korean Navy for allegedly being in North Korean territorial waters. The crew members are arrested.
- 1977: In New Delhi , four opposition parties join forces to form the Janata Party in order to jointly oppose the Congress Party under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the forthcoming parliamentary elections .
- 1981: South Korea 's ruler Chun Doo-hwan pardons Kim Dae-jung , who was sentenced to death in connection with the Gwangju uprising .
- 1981: The Berlin House of Representatives elects Federal Minister of Justice Hans-Jochen Vogel as Governing Mayor in place of the resigned Dietrich Stobbe . Vogel announces early elections .
- 1993: In Vienna, as a reaction to the Austrian referendum initiated by the FPÖ , the “ Sea of Lights” organized by the human rights organization SOS Mitmensch took place.
- 1996: With the election of Waltraud Klasnics by the Styrian state parliament, a woman becomes governor of an Austrian federal state for the first time .
- 1997: Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman Secretary of State in the cabinet of Democratic US President Bill Clinton .
- 2000: Wreckage of the Star Dust plane, which had been missing over the Andes for more than 50 years , was found, the last radio message of which was puzzling.
- 2002: The US journalist Daniel Pearl , who works for the Wall Street Journal , is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, and later murdered.
- 2005: Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as President of Ukraine after months of crisis in the course of the presidential elections .
- 2006: Stephen Harper 's Conservative Party wins Canada 's snap general election and becomes the largest party, but falls short of an outright majority against Prime Minister Paul Martin 's Liberals , the New Democratic Party and the separatist Bloc Québécois .
business
- 1571: Queen Elizabeth I opens the Royal Exchange , the first stock exchange in London built with funds from the merchant Thomas Gresham .
- 1710: A decree by Augustus the Strong ordered the establishment of the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen under the direction of Johann Friedrich Böttger .
- 1843: Jacob Christoph Rad receives a five-year Austrian privilege for his invention of the sugar cube press. The sugar cube comes into use.
- 1907: In Berlin, the German Rubber AG (later: Ekona AG ) is founded. The company operates plantations , in particular the cultivation of rubber , in the German colony of Cameroon .
- 1909: The Kuckucksbähnel , a branch line in the Palatinate Forest that runs from Lambrecht to Elmstein , opens. On the maiden voyage there is an accident in which a spectator is said to be killed.
- 1945: All express train traffic in Germany is discontinued because of the Second World War . Only the international trains from Berlin to Copenhagen and Prague will continue to operate until April.
- 2006: The British mobile phone company O₂ plc is taken over by the Spanish Telefónica . The two companies together will become the world's fourth largest mobile communications company .
- 2018: The 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum , which lasts until Friday, begins in Davos , Switzerland , with over 3,000 participants, including 70 heads of state and government, under the motto "For a common future in a fragmented world".
science and technology
- 1803: The French learned society Académie des Beaux-Arts is established as an independent institute.
- 1855: The Hennepin Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis is the first bridge spanning the Mississippi River . It will be opened as a toll building.
- 1860: The first usable gas engine invented by him is demonstrated by Étienne Lenoir .
- 1895: With the Norwegian polar researcher Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink , the first human sets foot on the Antarctic mainland at Cape Adare .
- 1896: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen presented the X-rays he had discovered to the Physical-Medical Society . During the demonstration, Albert von Koelliker 's hand is used as a demonstration object.
- 1909: After colliding with another ship in the fog, the passenger ship Republic is in distress and transmits the first long-distance telegraphic emergency call using the Morse code CQD .
- 1911: The semi-rigid airship Siemens-Schuckert I takes off from the airship hangar in Biesdorf for its first test flight.
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- 1960: Deep -sea explorers Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh use the submarine Trieste to reach the Challenger Deep and the Trieste Deep of the Mariana Trench , later named after the boat , the second deepest known sea depression on earth. With 10,740 meters they set a deep diving record.
- 1970: NASA launches ITOS-1 , the latest third-generation weather observation and forecasting satellite .
Culture
- 1762: The play Much Noise in Chiozza by Carlo Goldoni is premiered in Venetian dialect at the Teatro San Luca in Venice.
- 1835: The first volume of Alexis de Tocqueville 's work De la démocratie en Amérique appears in Paris . With him, comparative politics announces itself .
- 1897: The first performance of the melodramatic opera Königskinder by Engelbert Humperdinck with the libretto by Elsa Bernstein , which he wrote under the pseudonym Ernst Rosmer, takes place with great success at the Hoftheater in Munich.
- 1928: Visitors to the Piscator stage in Berlin experience the world premiere of The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schwejk , based on the novel by Jaroslav Hašek .
- 1934: Ottorino Respighi 's opera La Fiamma premieres at the Teatro Reale in Rome .
- 1941: The musical Lady in the Dark by Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill premieres at New York's Neil Simon Theater .
- 1943: Duke Ellington premieres his orchestral work Black, Brown and Beige at Carnegie Hall in New York. The track is met with mixed reviews, and while many call it a jazz masterpiece , Ellington subsequently cuts it in half.
- 1953: The French Painting Today exhibition opens at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart .
- 1972: The Mouse makes its first appearance in The Funny and Non-Fiction Stories for Beginners TV and subsequently lends its name to the show.
- 1977: Roots , a television series about a black slave and his descendants, begins airing in the United States and is seen by 130 million viewers.
- 1986: With a formal ceremony, Chuck Berry , James Brown , Ray Charles , Sam Cooke , Fats Domino , The Everly Brothers , Buddy Holly , Jerry Lee Lewis , Elvis Presley and Little Richard are the first members to come into existence at the suggestion of Ahmet Ertegun called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame .
- 1988: Nirvana record their first studio-produced songs in Seattle within a few hours.
society
- 1739: Compulsory schooling is introduced in Norway by decree .
- 1777: The poet and regime critic Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart is arrested in a room in the Blaubeuren monastery on the orders of Duke Karl Eugen of Württemberg . Schubart becomes the object of re-education at Hohenasperg Fortress for ten years .
- 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first female physician in the United States after receiving her doctorate .
- 1909: At the Tottenham Outrage , British police arrest two Latvian anarchists who had previously robbed a money transport. However, two people are killed and 27 are injured in the action.
religion
- 1123: Frederick I of Schwarzenburg , the archbishop of Cologne , issues the deed of foundation for the Kamp monastery of the Cistercians .
- 1656: The French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal writes the first of eighteen Lettres provinciales , published under a pseudonym . He humorously criticizes the method of casuistry and the moral decay of the Jesuits .
- 1955: Peter Kuhlen , along with his confreres and thousands of members, is expelled from the New Apostolic Church because of doubts about the “message” of Chief Apostle Johann Gottfried Bischoff , that Jesus will return before the end of his lifetime . The following day he then founds the Apostolic Community .
disasters
- 1556: The Shaanxi earthquake is the most momentous earthquake in human history. The disaster in China claims an estimated 830,000 lives.
- 1812: The New Madrid earthquake of 1811 has its second peak after December 16, 1811, with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale .
- 1855: Wellington experiences the 8.2 magnitude Wairarapa earthquake , causing massive land uplift in the city and region.
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- 1904: An overturned kerosene lamp in a margarine factory starts a fire in Ålesund , almost completely destroying the Norwegian city and leaving 10,000 people homeless. Kaiser Wilhelm II sends four ships with relief supplies and supports the Art Nouveau reconstruction .
- 1909: A 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Iran kills around 5,500.
- 1909: The British ocean liner RMS Republic of the White Star Line collided with another ship in the fog off Nantucket and sank, killing 6 people. She is the largest British passenger ship to have crashed to date.
- 1973: Eldfell volcano erupts on the Icelandic island of Heimaey . The entire island has to be evacuated, but there is only one death.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 2001: For the first time, a woman, Germany's Jutta Kleinschmidt , wins the Dakar Rally .
- 2005: Hannover's AWD Arena is inaugurated with the game Hannover 96 – Bayer 04 Leverkusen , which ends 0:3 for the guests.
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 336: Hanzei , Japanese Emperor
- 599: Tang Taizong , Tang Dynasty Chinese Emperor
- 1350: Vincent Ferrer , Valencian Dominican and preacher and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1378: Louis III. , Elector Palatine
- 1522: Georg Kleefeld , Mayor of Danzig
- 1560: Ortolph Fomann the Elder German philosopher and legal scholar
- 1572: Johanna Franziska von Chantal , French founder of the order
- 1579: Marie of Prussia , Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1585: Maria Ward , English founder of an order
- 1591: Friedrich Casimir , German nobleman, imperial count, painter and architect
- 1595: Hermann Fortunate of Baden , Margrave of Baden to Rodemachern
- 1598: François Mansart , French master builder
- 1600: Alexander Keirincx , Flemish painter
- 1629: Adolf von Nassau-Schaumburg , founder of the short-lived Nassau-Schaumburg line
- 1635: Johann Gabriel Löbel , German glassworks owner and hammer master in the Ore Mountains
- 1640: Philip Wilhelm von Hornick , German-Austrian economist and advocate of mercantilism
- 1673: Violante Beatrix of Bavaria , governess of Siena
- 1674: Dorothea Christina von Aichelberg , German noblewoman
- 1683: Christoph Graupner , German composer
- 1690: Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel , German composer and music theorist
- 1693: Georg Bernhard Bilfinger , Württemberg philosopher, master builder, mathematician and theologian
- 1700: Johann Christian Joseph , Hereditary Prince of the Electoral Palatinate
18th century
- 1710: Jacob Langebek , Danish historian
- 1723: Johann Jakob Schalch , Swiss painter
- 1729: Johannes le Francq van Berkhey , Dutch naturalist, poet and painter
- 1730: Joseph Hewes , American politician, signer of the American Declaration of Independence
- 1732: Friedrich Wilhelm Utsch , German hereditary forester to the Elector of Mainz
- 1734: Wolfgang von Kempelen , Austro-Hungarian polymath, inventor, writer and state official
- 1734: François Rozier , French botanist
- 1737: John Hancock , American merchant and President of the Continental Congress
- 1739: Franz Anton Xaver Hauser , German sculptor
- 1751: Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz , German writer of the Sturm und Drang
- 1752: Muzio Clementi , Italian-British composer
- 1761: Friedrich von Matthisson , German poet and prose writer
- 1762: Christian August Vulpius , German writer
- 1767: Jean Lambert Tallien , French revolutionary
- 1768: Franz Antoine , Austrian pomologist
- 1775: Pietro Colletta , Neapolitan Minister of War
- 1778: Alire Raffeneau-Delile , French botanist and physician
- 1783: Stendhal , French writer
- 1785: Carl Adolph Agardh , Swedish botanist
- 1786: Friedrich Arnold , German architect and building official
- 1790: Johann Jakob Heckel , Austrian zoologist
- 1791: Franz Joseph Hugi , Swiss geologist and Alpine explorer
- 1794: Eduard Friedrich Eversmann , German biologist and explorer
- 1795: Ludwig Ferdinand Hesse , German master builder and architect
- 1796: Jean Reboul , French poet and politician
- 1799: Alois Negrelli von Moldelbe , Austrian engineer and pioneer of transport construction
19th century
- 1805: Tommaso Vallauri , Italian philologist and professor of rhetoric
- 1808: Franziska Cornet , German opera singer
- 1813: Camilla Collett , Norwegian writer and suffragette
- 1820: Alexander Nikolayevich Serov , Russian composer
- 1822: Heinrich Brunn , German archaeologist
- 1825: Louis Ehlert , German composer and music critic
- 1828: Saigō Takamori , Japanese samurai
- 1830: Gaston de Galliffet , French general and Minister of War
- 1832: Édouard Manet , French painter
- 1836: Gustav von Oertzen , German colonial official
- 1840: Ernst Abbe , German astronomer and mathematician, physicist and optician
- 1846: Theodor Alt , German painter
- 1851: Ludwig Schupmann , German professor of architecture
- 1855: John Moses Browning , American inventor
- 1857: Andrija Mohorovičić , Croatian geophysicist, discoverer of the Mohorovičić discontinuity separating Earth's crust and mantle
- 1862: Anton Delbrück , German psychiatrist
- 1862: David Hilbert , German mathematician, considered one of the most important mathematicians of modern times ( List of 23 mathematical problems )
- 1870: William G. Morgan , American salesman and sportsman, inventor of volleyball
- 1871: Salvator Issaurel , French singer and music teacher
- 1872: Paul Langevin , French physicist
- 1872: Jože Plečnik , Slovenian architect
- 1876: Otto Adler , German union official
- 1876: Otto Diels , German chemist
- 1876: Rupert Mayer , German Jesuit priest and resistance fighter
- 1878: Edwin Plimpton Adams , physicist
- 1878: Rutland Boughton , British composer
- 1878: Harry Steier , German opera singer
- 1878: Oton Župančič , Slovenian writer
- 1879: Walther Bauersfeld , German engineer and physicist
- 1879: Harry A. Pollard , American actor and director
- 1880: Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama , Mexican legal scholar, revolutionary
- 1882: Martin Steinke , German Buddhist and writer
- 1883: Karl Stanka , German painter, draftsman and chronicler
- 1884: George McManus , American cartoonist and comic book artist
- 1885: Heinrich Oskar Marzell , German botanist
- 1885: Bolesław Wallek-Walewski , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1887: József Reményi , Hungarian sculptor and medalist
- 1888: Paul Peter Ewald , German physicist
- 1888: Jerzy Gablenz , Polish composer
- 1888: Bianca Stagno Bellincioni , Italian singer and actress
- 1889: Rikard Long , Faroese poet and literary critic
- 1892: Michel Doré , French racing driver
- 1893: Fritz Baade , German-Turkish farmer, economist and politician, MdR, MP
- 1894: Julius Adler , German politician
- 1894: Frédéric Théllusson , Belgian racing driver
- 1895: Lorenzo Raimundo Parodi , Argentine agricultural engineer and botanist
- 1896: Charlotte , Luxembourgish noblewoman, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- 1897: Subhash Chandra Bose , Indian politician and resistance fighter
- 1897: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky , Austrian architect
- 1897: Welby Toomey , American old-time musician
- 1897: Ernst Zindel , German engineer and designer of the JU 52
- 1898: Hermann Arendt , German politician
- 1898: Randolph Scott , American film actor
- 1899: Alfred Denning , British Judge of the House of Lords and Court of Appeal, Master of the Rolls
- 1899: Glen Kidston , British racing driver
- 1899: Karl Panzenbeck , Austrian humorist
- 1900: David Hand , American animator, film director and producer
- 1900: Bruno Marek , Austrian editor and politician, Mayor of Vienna
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Richard Bevan Austin , American jurist
- 1902: Clare Schimmel , German radio play director, actress and opera singer
- 1903: Grigory Vasilyevich Alexandrov , Soviet filmmaker
- 1903: Ivan Galamian , Persian-American violin teacher
- 1904: Karl Schlechta , German-Austrian Nietzsche researcher
- 1905: Erich Borchmeyer , German track and field athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1905: Irmgard Mastaglio-Behrendt , German painter
- 1905: Erich Neumann , German-Israeli psychologist and psychoanalyst
- 1905: Jesse Thoor , German writer
- 1905: Wilhelm Senftleben , German politician and resistance fighter, mayor of Görlitz
- 1907 Dan Duryea , American actor
- 1907: Yukawa Hideki , Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1909: Tatiana Avenirovna Proskouriakoff , American ancient American scholar and illustrator
- 1910: Paul-Marcel Gauthier , Canadian singer and composer
- 1910: Werner Kamenik , German actor
- 1910: Django Reinhardt , Belgian-French jazz musician
- 1910: Irene Sharaff , American costume designer
- 1911: Renzo Avanzo , Italian documentary filmmaker
- 1911: Anna Maria Jokl , Austrian-Israeli writer
- 1913: Jean-Michel Atlan , French philosopher, painter and illustrator
- 1915: Herma Bauma , Austrian athlete and handball player
- 1916: David Douglas Duncan , American photographer
- 1915: W. Arthur Lewis , British economist, Nobel laureate
- 1917: Lotte Buschan , German opera singer
- 1918: Gertrude Belle Elion , US biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
- 1919: Hans Hass , Austrian biologist and documentary filmmaker
- 1919: Bob Paisley , English football player and coach
- 1920: Ray Abrams , American jazz tenor saxophonist
- 1920: Gottfried Böhm , German architect
- 1920: Karl Delorme , German politician, MP
- 1920: Henry Eriksson , Swedish athlete, Olympic champion
- 1920: Philippa Pearce , British children's author
- 1921: Marija Gimbutas , Lithuanian-American prehistorian and anthropologist
- 1923: Horace Ashenfelter , American track and field athlete
- 1923: Alfonsín Quintana , Cuban singer
- 1923: Franz Rieger , Austrian writer
- 1923: Walter M. Miller Jr. , American writer
- 1924: Jacobo Arenas , Colombian politician and guerrilla
- 1924: Eugen Glombig , German politician, MdL, MP
- 1925: Enrique Wirth , Argentine modern pentathlete
1926-1950
- 1927: Ennio Antonelli , Italian boxer and actor
- 1928: Jeanne Moreau , French actress
- 1929: Harald Metzkes , German painter
- 1929: John C. Polanyi , German-Canadian chemist and physicist
- 1929: Hannelore Valencak , Austrian writer
- 1930: Josef Hügi , Swiss footballer
- 1930: Mervyn Rose , Australian tennis player
- 1930: Derek Walcott , Caribbean poet and writer from St. Lucia, Nobel laureate
- 1931: Lorenzo Artale , Italian screenwriter, film director and actor
- 1932: Rajmund Ambroziak , Polish pianist and conductor
- 1933: Bill Hayden , Australian politician
- 1933: Günther Metzger , German jurist and politician
- 1933: Chita Rivera , American actress and dancer
- 1933: Joel Spiegelman , American composer
- 1935: Mike Agostini , sprinter from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1935: James Gordon Farrell , Irish-British writer
- 1935: Jerry Tubbs , American football player
- 1935: Fred Zander , German politician, MP
- 1936: Jerry Kramer , American football player
- 1936: Joachim Pukaß , German actor and voice actor
- 1936: Horst Mahler , German lawyer, co-founder of the RAF, professional ban due to unconstitutional, right-wing extremist activities
- 1937: Erwin Vetter , German politician, MdL and state minister
- 1938: Peter Aniol , German politician
- 1938: Georg Baselitz , German painter and sculptor
- 1938: Theo-Ben Gurirab , Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia
- 1938: Bill Duniven , American rock 'n' roll musician
- 1939: Sonny Chiba , Japanese actor
- 1939: Enrico Fissore , Italian opera singer
- 1939: Fred Wah , Canadian poet, writer, and university lecturer
- 1940: Joe Dowell , American pop and folk singer
- 1940: Jürgen Grasmück , German author of science fiction novels
- 1940: Werner Kramer , German soccer player
- 1940: Armin Maiwald , German journalist, television director and presenter
- 1940: Joanna Miles , American actress
- 1940: Egon Oehri , Liechtenstein middle-distance runner
- 1940: Johnny Russell , American country musician and songwriter
- 1941: Dumeng Giovanoli , Swiss ski racer, hotelier
- 1941: João Ubaldo Ribeiro , Brazilian writer
- 1942: Wolfgang Abraham , German soccer player
- 1942: Hans Alsér , Swedish table tennis player
- 1942: Willy Bogner Jr. , German ski racer, filmmaker, designer and entrepreneur
- 1943: Gary Burton , American jazz vibraphonist
- 1943: Gil Gerard , American actor
- 1944: Hugo Achugar , Uruguayan writer, literary essayist and lecturer
- 1944: Sergei Alexandrovich Belov , Russian basketball player
- 1944: Rutger Hauer , Dutch actor
- 1944: Gerd Nobbe , German jurist, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1945: Renate Kern , German pop singer
- 1946: Arnoldo Alemán , President of Nicaragua
- 1946: Boris Abramovich Berezovsky , Russian entrepreneur
- 1946: Silvia Monti , Italian actress
- 1946: Rob Stolk , Dutch activist
- 1946: Don Whittington , American racing driver
- 1947: Gerhard Bäcker , German sociologist
- 1947: Jürg Frischknecht , Swiss journalist and writer
- 1947: Winfried Stöcker , German physician, scientist, inventor and entrepreneur
- 1947: Megawati Sukarnoputri , President of Indonesia
- 1949: Dave Stahl , American jazz trumpeter
- 1950: Richard Dean Anderson , American actor
- 1950: Danny Federici , American musician
- 1950: Luis Alberto Spinetta , Argentine rock musician
1951-1975
- 1951: Ángela Carrasco , Dominican singer
- 1952: Dorothee Eberhardt , German composer
- 1952: Henrique da Costa Mecking , Brazilian chess champion and clergyman
- 1952: Jaroslav Pouzar , Czech ice hockey player
- 1952: Reinhard Saftig , German football coach
- 1953: John Luther Adams , American composer
- 1953: Raul Arnemann , Soviet rower
- 1953: Alister McGrath , British professor of historical theology
- 1953: James D. Thornton , American composer, euphonium player and music educator
- 1953: Antonio Villaraigosa , American politician, Mayor of Los Angeles
- 1953: Christina Viragh , Hungarian-Swiss writer and translator
- 1954: Erwin Moser , Austrian children's and youth book author
- 1954: Rüdiger Schnuphase , German footballer
- 1955: Bill Miller , American musician
- 1956: Gerald Jatzek , Austrian author and musician
- 1956: Larysa Kuzmenko , Canadian composer and pianist
- 1956: Eva Lohse , German lawyer and local politician
- 1957: Caroline of Hanover , Monegasque princess and heir to the throne
- 1958: Stephan Apel , German doctor and medical officer
- 1957: Paul Steiner , German soccer player
- 1959: Raimund Becker , German lawyer, board member of the Federal Employment Agency
- 1961: Fausto Gresini , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1962: David Arnold , British film composer
- 1962: Richard Roxburgh , Australian actor
- 1963: Miwa Abiko , Japanese manga artist
- 1963: Thomas Kausch , German journalist and TV presenter
- 1963: Gail O'Grady , American actress
- 1964: Mariska Hargitay , American actress
- 1964: Bharrat Jagdeo , President of Guyana
- 1965: Thomas Adler , German footballer
- 1965: Marcus Calvin , German-American actor
- 1967: Naim Süleymanoğlu , Turkish weightlifter
- 1968: Petr Korda , Czech tennis player
- 1968: Matthias Stührwoldt , German author
- 1969: Thomas Askebrand , Swedish football manager
- 1969: Thomas Kumm , German speed skater
- 1969: Brendan Shanahan , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969: Susen Tiedtke , German athlete
- 1969: Stefano Zanini , Italian cyclist
- 1970: Arijan Komazec , Croatian basketball player
- 1970: Jonathan Meese , German artist of painting, sculpture, installation, performance, collage, video art and theater work
- 1970: Moreno Torricelli , Italian football player and coach
- 1971: Katja Centomo , Italian cartoonist
- 1972: Ewen Bremner , British actor
- 1974: Tiffani Thiessen , American actress
- 1975: Tayfun Baydar , German actor
- 1975: Thomas Brdarić , German footballer
- 1975: Ingeborg Helen Marken , Norwegian alpine skier
1976-2000
- 1976: Carsten Schneider , German politician, MP
- 1976: Alex Wubbels , American nurse and alpine skier
- 1977: Nebojša Golić , Bosnian handball player
- 1978: Markus Dworrak , German footballer
- 1978: Kikuko Tsumura , Japanese writer
- 1979: Nils Jørgen Kaalstad , Norwegian actor and musician
- 1979: Benjamín Noval , Spanish cyclist
- 1980: Kurt Kittner , American football player
- 1981: Julia Jones , American actress
- 1981: Gong Ruina , Chinese badminton player
- 1982: Karol Bielecki , Polish handball player
- 1982: Jonathan Bomarito , American auto racer
- 1982: Oceana , German pop singer
- 1982: Andrew Rock , American track and field athlete
- 1982: Statik Selektah , American hip hop producer
- 1983: Markus Edler , Austrian footballer
- 1983: Katrin Wolter , German actress
- 1984: Dragan Mrđa , Serbian footballer
- 1984: Arjen Robben , Dutch footballer
- 1985: Doutzen Kroes , Dutch supermodel
- 1986: Pablo Andújar , Spanish tennis player
- 1986: Natalia Hryhorenko , Ukrainian chess player
- 1987: Alexander Baumjohann , German footballer
- 1987: Louisa Nécib , French soccer player
- 1988: Arnaud Anastassova , Franco-Bulgarian footballer
- 1988: Marc Sand , Austrian footballer
- 1989: AlexiBexi , German YouTuber and web video producer
- 1989: James Chester , Welsh-English footballer
- 1990: Şener Özbayraklı , Turkish footballer
- 1990: Bianca Schmidt , German soccer player
- 1991: Florian Brügmann , German footballer
- 1991: Adam Hagenbuch , American actor
- 1993: Tobias Schröter , German handball player
- 1994: Yekaterina Larionova , Kazakh wrestler
- 1996: Felix Schröter , German footballer
- 1996: Ruben Loftus-Cheek , English footballer
- 1997: Steven Da Costa , French karateka
- 1997: Toni Kraus , German singer, songwriter and record producer
- 1998: XXXTentacion , American singer and rapper
- 2000: Stina Johannes , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 375: Urban of Langres , Bishop of Langres and Autun
- 667: Ildefons , Archbishop of Toledo
- 989: Adalbero of Reims , Archbishop of Reims
- 1022: Dietrich I , Bishop of Munster
- 1180: Eberhard I of Berg-Altena , Count of Altena
- 1187: Sobiesław I , Samborid, Duke of East Pomerania
- 1218: Wolfger von Erla , Bishop of Passau and Patriarch of Aquileia
- 1220: Bogislaw II , Duke of Pomerania
- 1240: Albert of Pisa , Minister General of the Franciscan Order
- 1297: Florence of Hainaut , prince of Achaia
- 1312: Isabelle de Villehardouin , Princess of Achaia and Morea
- 1324: Fulk Lestrange, 1st Baron Strange of Blackmere , English nobleman
- 1342: Johann I , Count of Saarbrücken
- 1348: Charles of Durazzo , Duke of Durazzo
- 1361: Jacob Nielsen Kyrning , Archbishop of Lund
- 1363: Peter Kröll von Reichenhall , Bishop of Lavant
16th to 18th centuries
- 1516: Ferdinand II of Aragon (“the Catholic”), King of Aragon
- 1541: Gottschalk von Ahlefeldt , last Catholic bishop of Schleswig
- 1549: Johannes Honterus , Transylvanian scholar, reformer and humanist
- 1567: Jiajing , Emperor of China
- 1570: James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray , Scottish peer and regent
- 1572: Johann von Munchausen , Bishop of Courland and Ösel-Wiek
- 1582: Jean Bauhin , French physician
- 1604: Melchior Junius , German rhetorician and humanist
- 1622: William Baffin , English navigator and explorer
- 1625: John III. of East Friesland , Count of Rietberg
- 1628: Shahriyar , son of the Mughal emperor Jahangir and brother of Shah Jahan
- 1644: David Lindner , German legal scholar
- 1647: Dorothea von Ahlefeldt , landlady of Kollmar, Drage and Heiligenstedten
- 1662: Johann Kemény , Hungarian military leader and prince of Transylvania
- 1667: Hieronymus Bauhin , Swiss physician of French descent
- 1678: William of Curti , English diplomat
- 1684: Jan Wijnants , Dutch painter
- 1691: Wilhelm Moritz , Prince of Nassau-Siegen
- 1698: Ernst August , Elector of Hanover and Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück
- 1714: Ernst Detlof von Krassow , Swedish general
- 1729: Ignaz Agricola , German historian, philosopher, theologian and Jesuit
- 1733: Hermann Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Hechingen , Imperial Field Marshal
- 1744: Giambattista Vico , Italian philosopher
- 1746: Peter Zorn , German Lutheran theologian, historian, Greek scholar and Hebrew scholar
- 1750: Michael Lilienthal , German Lutheran theologian and historian
- 1751: Lobsang Trashi , Tibetan steward and insurgent against Chinese rule
- 1753: Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon , French aristocrat, writer and conspirator
- 1757: Joseph III , Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church
- 1760: Giovanni Antonio Guardi , Italian painter
- 1766: William Caslon , British engraver and typeface designer
- 1767: Christian Friedrich Erndel , Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Major General
- 1776: Franz Sebald Unterberger , South Tyrolean painter
- 1789: Frances Brooke , English-Canadian novelist and playwright
- 1789: John Cleland , British writer
- 1789: Jafar Khan , ruler of Persia
- 1791: Carl Heinrich von Heineken , art writer and collector, director of the Dresden Print Room
- 1795: John Sullivan , American politician, general
- 1800: Edward Rutledge , American politician, signer of the Declaration of Independence
- 1800: Johann Gottlieb Stephanie , Austrian actor, playwright and librettist
19th century
- 1803: Arthur Guinness , Irish brewer, founder of the Guinness beer brand
- 1806: William Pitt the Younger , twice Prime Minister of Great Britain
- 1808: Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt , Abbess of Herford
- 1810: Jürgen Hinrichsen Angel , German organ builder
- 1810: John Hoppner , British painter
- 1810: Johann Wilhelm Ritter , German physicist and philosopher
- 1811: Leonardo Antonelli , Italian Curia cardinal
- 1812: Robert Craufurd , British general
- 1813: George Clymer , signer of the US Declaration of Independence
- 1820: Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn , fourth son of King George III.
- 1837: John Field , Irish composer and pianist
- 1837: Georg Karl von Sutner , German civil servant
- 1843: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué , German Romantic poet
- 1844: Franz Pettrich , German sculptor
- 1858: Luigi Lablache , Italian opera singer
- 1862: Willem Hendrik de Vriese Dutch physician and botanist
- 1864: Johann Lukas Schönlein , German physician
- 1865: Josef Leopold Zvonař , Czech composer
- 1866: Peter Joseph Lenné , German gardener and landscape architect in Prussia
- 1866: Wilhelm Wachsmuth , German historian
- 1868: Heinrich von Brandt , Prussian general of infantry
- 1871: Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel , German botanist
- 1878: José María Medina , President of Honduras
- 1879: Adolf Jensen , German composer and music teacher
- 1883: Gustave Doré , French painter and printmaker
- 1885: Karl Volkmar Stoy , German educator
- 1955: Andreas Dumrauf , German wrestler
- 1889: Alexandre Cabanel , French painter
- 1891: Friedrich von Schmidt , German architect
- 1891: János Simor , Hungarian cardinal, Archbishop of Esztergom and Primate of Hungary
- 1893: John W. Hall , American politician
- 1893: José Zorrilla y Moral , Spanish poet and playwright
- 1894: Lobengula , last king of the Matabele Kingdom in southern Africa
20th century
1901-1950
- 1916: Isa Boletini , Albanian politician
- 1916: Wilhelm Riedel , German cloth manufacturer and benefactor
- 1917: Jesko von Puttkamer , German colonial official and governor of Cameroon
- 1918: Johannes Justus Rein , German geographer
- 1921: Hugo Oppenheim , German banker
- 1921: Wilhelm von Waldeyer-Hartz , German anatomist
- 1921: Władysław Żeleński , Polish composer
- 1922: Lorenz Ludwig Auler , German politician
- 1922: René Beeh , German painter and printmaker
- 1922: Arthur Nikisch , Hungarian conductor
- 1927: Hilma Kristina Elisabet Angered-Strandberg , Swedish writer
- 1929: Wilhelm Baehrens , German classical scholar
- 1929: Nicolás León , Mexican physician, archaeologist and anthropologist
- 1931: Anna Pavlovna Pavlova , Russian dancer
- 1934: Hedwig Heyl , German politician and women's rights activist
- 1939: Ernst Blass , German poet, critic and writer of early Expressionism
- 1939: Matthias Sindelar , Austrian footballer
- 1940: Giuseppe Motta , Swiss politician
- 1942: Friedrich von Feilitzsch , German politician, Prime Minister
- 1943: Alexander Woollcott , American literary critic
- 1944: Edvard Munch , Norwegian painter and printmaker
- 1945: Eugen Bolz , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1945: Reinhold Frank , German lawyer and resistance fighter
- 1945: Goswin Frenken , German literary scholar and victim of Nazism
- 1945: Nikolaus Groß , German trade unionist and resistance fighter
- 1945: Albert Kuntz , German resistance fighter
- 1945: Helmuth James Graf von Moltke , German jurist and resistance fighter
- 1945: Erwin Planck , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1945: Busso Thoma , German merchant and resistance fighter
- 1946: Heinrich Bongartz , German fighter pilot in World War I
- 1947: Pierre Bonnard , French Symbolist painter
- 1950: Vasil Kolarov , Bulgarian politician
1951-2000
- 1954: Amir Adil Arslan , Syrian politician
- 1955: Andreas Dumrauf , German wrestler
- 1956: Alexander Korda , Hungarian-British film director
- 1956: Kazufumi Matsunaga , Japanese guitarist
- 1960: Wolfgang Kayser , German scholar and literary scholar
- 1963: Józef Gosławski , Polish sculptor and medalist
- 1963: Teresa del Riego , English pianist, violinist and composer
- 1965: Gisela Klingmüller , German painter
- 1966: Jo van Ammers-Küller , Dutch writer
- 1966: Hans Mettel , German sculptor
- 1968: Wilhelm Klemm , German poet
- 1969: Jaroslav Křička , Czech composer
- 1973: Kid Ory , American musician
- 1975: Albert Johannsen , German painter
- 1976: Frederick Hulford , British athlete
- 1976: Paul Robeson , American actor, singer, author and civil rights activist
- 1977: Otto Lüthje , German actor
- 1978: Terry Kath , American musician
- 1980: Lil Dagover , German actress
- 1980: Giovanni Michelotti , Italian automobile designer
- 1980: Ernst Ocwirk , Austrian football player and coach
- 1980: Bobby Sherwood , American jazz guitarist
- 1981: Liselott Baumgarten , German actress
- 1981: Roland Hampe , German archaeologist and translator
- 1981: Samuel Barber , American composer
- 1983: Frank Forde , Australian politician and Prime Minister
- 1984: Samuel Gardner , American composer and violinist
- 1986: Joseph Beuys , German action artist, sculptor, draftsman, art theorist and university lecturer
- 1986: Yvonne Lefébure , French pianist
- 1987: John Coveart , Canadian pianist and music educator
- 1988: Werner Ansel , German administrative officer
- 1989: Salvador Dalí , Spanish painter, printmaker, writer, sculptor and set designer, main exponent of Surrealism
- 1990: Allen Larkin Collins , American musician
- 1993: Helmut Braselmann , German field handball player
- 1993: Thomas A. Dorsey , American blues and gospel singer and pianist
- 1994: Juan Santiago Garrido , Chilean composer and musicologist
- 1994: Klaus Hemmerle , German priest, professor of theology and Bishop of Aachen
- 1994: Anton Jaumann , German politician, MdL and state minister
- 1996: Clifford Griffith , American racing driver
- 1996: Horst Wende , German orchestra leader, arranger and accordionist
- 1998: John Bridges , British motor racing driver
- 1998: Victor Pasmore , British painter
- 1999: Joe D'Amato , Italian film director
21st century
- 2001: Jack McDuff , American jazz organist
- 2002: Pierre Bourdieu , French sociologist
- 2002: Robert Nozick , American philosopher
- 2004: Helmut Newton , German-Australian photographer
- 2005: Johnny Carson , American television entertainer
- 2006: Josef-Severin Ahlmann , German inventor and entrepreneur
- 2006: Savino Guglielmetti , Italian artistic gymnast
- 2007: E. Howard Hunt , US intelligence operative and writer
- 2007: Ryszard Kapuściński , Polish journalist
- 2007: Leopoldo Pirelli , Italian entrepreneur
- 2007: Disco D , American music producer
- 2008: Andrzej Andrzejewski , Polish Brigadier General
- 2008: David Askevold , US-Canadian artist
- 2008: Stein Rønning , Norwegian karateka
- 2008: Felix F. Carlebach , German-British Rabbi
- 2009: René Andrianne , Belgian Romance philologist and literary scholar
- 2010: Fred Metzler , German radio and television presenter and actor
- 2010: Oleg Velyky , German-Ukrainian handball player
- 2010: Earl Wild , American pianist and composer
- 2012: Bingham Ray , American filmmaker, co-founder of film distributor October Films
- 2013: Józef Glemp , Archbishop of Poland
- 2013: Maria Schaumayer , Austrian economist and politician, President of the National Bank
- 2015: Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz , King of Saudi Arabia
- 2016: Jimmy Bain , British bassist
- 2017: Gert Pinkernell , German Romanist and literary scholar
- 2018: Hugh Masekela , South African musician
- 2018: Nicanor Parra , Chilean poet
- 2019: Jonas Mekas , Lithuanian-American film director and writer
- 2019: Adel Salameh , Palestinian oud player
- 2020: Gudrun Pausewang , German writer
- 2021: Emil Bildstein , German water polo player
- 2021: Abukari Gariba , Ghanaian footballer
- 2021: Hal Holbrook , American actor
- 2021: Larry King , American journalist
- 2021: Jack Wilson , Canadian ice hockey player
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- Menno Simons , German bishop of the Anabaptist movement (Protestant)
- name days
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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