July 23
The July 23 is the 204th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 205th in leap years ), thus remain 161 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1148 : In the Second Crusade , the siege of Damascus by the united armies of the kings Baldwin III begins . , Conrad III. and Louis VII.
- 1215 : Friedrich II. Is crowned Roman-German king for the second time in Aachen .
- 1508 : Spaniards under the command of Pedro Navarro conquer the island of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera , which is defended by Mediterranean pirates . The Spanish exclave on Morocco's coast is now a disputed territory.
- 1532 : Emperor Charles V and the Protestants agree in the Nuremberg Religious Peace for the first time (for a limited period) a mutual legal and peace guarantee for the current "confessional assets".
- 1632 : Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim takes the imperial city of Dortmund in the Thirty Years' War and moves his headquarters there.
- 1711 : The Peace of the Prut ends the Russo-Turkish War of 1710/11. In return for the return of the Azov fortress to the Turks and a large bribe, the Russian army encircled on the Prut is allowed to withdraw freely under the orders of Peter the Great .
- 1757 : In the Seven Years' War the Austrians shoot the city of Zittau to rubble and ashes.
- 1759 : The Prussian Army is defeated by Russian troops in the Battle of Kay during the Seven Years' War .
- 1793 : With the surrender to the Prussian troops, the siege and the Republic of Mainz end .
- 1794 : The renewal of the maximum law for wages leads to the break of the sans-culottes with the Jacobins . The latter now lose their support among workers and petty bourgeoisie during the French Revolution .
- 1803 : Irish insurgents led by Robert Emmet attempt to take Dublin Castle . The ill-prepared uprising is quickly put down.
- 1840 : The British Union Act regulates the creation of the province of Canada in the following year from the merging of Upper and Lower Canada .
- 1847 : The Prussian Jewish Law brings legal standardization and grants this population group freedom of movement and settlement .
- 1849 : Rastatt is captured by Prussian troops. Another attempt after the Hecker uprising to establish a republic in the Grand Duchy of Baden as part of the Baden Revolution failed again.
- 1871 : Austria-Hungary regulates the introduction of the metric system by law , which becomes binding from January 1, 1876.
- 1881 : Chile and Argentina agree on a border treaty over their territories on Tierra del Fuego and in Patagonia .
- 1914 : Three weeks after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary issues an ultimatum of 48 hours to Serbia by Foreign Minister Leopold Graf Berchtold . It contains extensive demands on the neighboring state. Its extensive but incomplete fulfillment triggers the Austrian declaration of war after the deadline and, as a result, the First World War .
- 1920 : The Protectorate of British East Africa is converted into the British Crown Colony of Kenya .
- 1942 : The second phase of the Blau company , the Braunschweig company , begins in the German campaign in Russia during the Second World War . The resulting splitting of forces is one of the central reasons for the later downfall of the 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad .
- 1944 : The Majdanek concentration camp is liberated by the Red Army .
- 1951 : In Poland, Jürgen Stroop , responsible for suppressing the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943 , is sentenced to death for the second time.
- 1952 : The Paris Treaty of April 18, 1951, which creates the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), comes into force.
- 1952 : The Egyptian King Faruq is overthrown in a military coup by Muhammad Nagib and Gamal Abdel Nasser ; this effectively ends the rule of the dynasty of Muhammad Ali .
- 1954 : John affair : The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Otto John announces his defection on GDR radio .
- 1957 : When peat is in Upper Bavaria Peiting a pine box found in the place of a hoped-for treasure later Rosalinde called bog body is built around the 1100th
- 1961 : Carlos Fonseca founds the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) in Nicaragua .
- 1967 : In Detroit ( Michigan ) race riots break out. The result is 43 dead, 342 injured and around 1,400 houses burned down.
- 1970 : Qabus bin Said bin Taimur Al Said overthrows his father Said ibn Taimur with a coup and becomes head of state as Sultan of Oman .
- 1974 : As part of the Cyprus crisis since 1967 ruling breaks military dictatorship in Greece together. Former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is returning from exile to take on government responsibility.
- 1976 : Mário Soares , General Secretary of the PS , becomes the first freely elected Prime Minister of Portugal after the Carnation Revolution .
- 1983 : 13 soldiers are killed in an LTTE attack on a Sri Lankan military base. As a result, several anti-Tamil pogroms begin, in which Sinhala mobs kill several thousand Tamil civilians. The event marked the beginning of the civil war in Sri Lanka , in the course of which 80-100,000 people died and could only be ended in 2009. The date coined the term " Black July ".
- 1988 : Radio Dreyeckland is the first German free radio to be legalized in Freiburg im Breisgau after the pirate radio cannot be prosecuted .
- 1992 : Abkhazia declares itself independent from Georgia .
- 1993 : In the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict , Armenian forces capture and destroy the Azerbaijani city of Aghdam .
- 1999 : Mohammed VI. ascends the Moroccan throne after the death of his father Hassan II .
- 2001 : Abdurrahman Wahid is removed from office as president by the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly because of a financial scandal. Megawati Sukarnoputri is elected as her successor .
- 2004 : The Mostar bridge, destroyed by Croatian nationalists in 1993 , is reopened with a ceremony.
- 2005 : At least 88 people die in attacks by the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda in Sharm el-Sheikh / Egypt .
- 2009 : In the presidential election in Kyrgyzstan , the incumbent Kurmanbek Bakiyev is re-elected with 76.1% of the vote. Second place went to the social democrat Almasbek Atambayev with 8.4%.
economy
- 1697 : A class lottery is held for the first time in Germany in Leipzig .
- 1866 : The US entrepreneur Oliver Winchester begins series production of Winchester rifles .
- 1903 : Ford Motor Company launches Model A on the US market.
- 1945 : Private banks and insurance companies are closed in the SBZ by SMAD order number 10. Further processing is to be carried out a short time later by public institutes, such as the Saxon Landesbank . The measure is a first step towards reshaping the economic system according to socialist ideology .
- 1985 : Commodore introduces the Amiga (later renamed Amiga 1000 ) at Lincoln Center in New York , USA . Also included are u. a. the artists Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry ( Blondie ). In terms of graphics performance, the Amiga surpasses everything that has been seen before.
- 1998 : The first Mandrake Linux distribution is published.
science and technology

The skull of Gibraltar 1
- 1847 : In Berlin, Hermann von Helmholtz lectures on the constancy of force and underpins the law of conservation of energy .
- 1851 : In the Austrian Empire, Emperor Franz Joseph I authorizes the establishment of a central institute for meteorological and magnetic observations . This creates the world's first state weather service , today's Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG).
- 1864 : In the London magazine The Reader , the skull Gibraltar 1 is described for the first time , which proves that the anatomical features of the Neanderthals discovered in 1856 near Düsseldorf were not individual features, but features of a human species that was once widespread in Europe.

1985: Occupation of Soyuz 37
- 1980 : Along with Viktor Gorbatko as commander also starts the first space travelers from Vietnam to the space station Salyut 6 in the space . The Vietnamese Phạm Tuân is a flight engineer for the Soviet Soyuz 37 mission.
- 1992 : The ESA Giotto space probe is finally deactivated due to a lack of fuel.
- 1995 : The US-American astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp independently discover the comet C / 1995 O1 , which is given the name Hale-Bopp .
- 1999 : The NASA X-ray satellite Chandra is launched.
- 2005 : The wiki page of the Mozilla Developer Network is started under the name Mozilla Developer Center .
Culture
- 1957 : World premiere of the melodrama A Tale of Two Cities by Arthur Benjamin based on the novel by Charles Dickens at Sadler's Wells in London .
- 1960 : The Gorongosa National Park , the first national park in present-day Mozambique , is established by the colonial power Portugal.
society
- 1984 : Former boxer Gustav "Bubi" Scholz is arrested on suspicion of having shot his wife while intoxicated during the night .
- 1986 : Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson marry in Westminster Abbey .
religion
- 685 : John V becomes Pope; he succeeds Benedict II.
- 1164 : The alleged bones of the Three Wise Men arrive in Cologne amid great cheers by the population .
- 1431 : The Council of Basel is opened.
Disasters
- 1930 : An earthquake of magnitude 6.7 in Italy caused 1,425 deaths.
- 1964 : The Egyptian freighter Star of Alexandria , loaded with ammunition, explodes in the port of the Algerian city of Bône . The serious accident claims over 100 dead and around 160 injured. The damage is estimated at $ 20 million.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1881 : With the European Gymnastics Federation ( Fédération Européenne de Gymnastique - FEG), one of the oldest international associations at sport level is established, after renaming in 1921 through the inclusion of non-European members today: Internationaler Turner-Bund ( Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique - FIG).
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same is true for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1301 : Otto the Merry , Duke of Austria
- 1339 : Louis I , Count of Poitou, Count and Duke of Anjou, Count of Maine, Lord of Guise, Count of Provence, Titular King of Naples and Jerusalem, Count of Roucy
- 1370 : Pietro Paolo Vergerio , Italian humanist, medic, lawyer and statesman
- 1401 : Francesco Sforza , Italian duke, founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan
- 1503 : Anna of Bohemia and Hungary , Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, queen of the Holy Roman Empire by marriage
- 1549 : Anna Elisabeth von der Pfalz , Countess of Hesse-Rheinfels, Countess Palatine of Lützelstein
- 1599 : Stephan Hansen Stephanius Danish philologist and historian
- 1607 : Christian Hoburg , German theologian, mystical spiritualist
- 1614 : Bonaventura Peeters , Flemish painter, draftsman, etcher and poet
- 1647 : Luise Marie von der Pfalz , titular Countess Palatine near the Rhine, Princess of Salm
- 1648 : Anna Henriette von Pfalz-Simmern , Countess Palatine near the Rhine, Princess of Condé
- 1649 : Clemens XI. (Giovanni Francesco Albani), Pope
- 1659 : Antonius Schultingh , Dutch legal scholar
18th century
- 1703 : Carl Friedrich von Kraut , Oberhofmarschall of Prince Heinrich of Prussia
- 1721 : Joseph Franz Xaver von Hoppenbichl , German Catholic clergyman and economist
- 1721 : Anna Dorothea Therbusch , German Rococo painter
- 1722 : Anne-Catherine de Ligniville Helvétius , French salonnière of the Enlightenment
- 1725 : Nicolaus Anton Johann Kirchhof , German businessman, politician and scholar
- 1746 : Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid , Spanish military, politician and Viceroy of New Spain
- 1750 : Friedrich Ewald Ernst von Massow , German civil servant
- 1751 : Karl Gottlob Anton , German lawyer, politician and historian
- 1752 : Emanuel von Schimonsky , Prince-Bishop of Breslau
- 1761 : Rudolph von Wrbna , Austrian civil servant
- 1764 : Johann Baptist von Schiber , German lawyer
- 1764 : Franz Seraphicus Schmid , Roman Catholic clergyman and author
- 1769 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Titow , Russian composer
- 1770 : Karl Ferdinand Friese , Prussian State Secretary and President of the Prussian Main Bank
- 1775 : Eugène François Vidocq , French criminal and criminalist
- 1777 : Philipp Otto Runge , German painter of the early Romantic period
- 1783 : Karel Chotek , Czech nobleman, administrator and politician
- 1784 : James W. Gazlay , American attorney and politician, Member of the House of Representatives for Ohio
- 1796 : Franz Berwald , Swedish composer and violinist
- 1797 : Charles Jules Labarte , French art historian
19th century
- 1801 : Robert J. Walker , American politician, Senator for Mississippi, Treasury Secretary, Governor of Kansas
- 1804 : Jane Irwin Harrison , U.S. First Lady
- 1806 : Charles Stoddart , British diplomat
- 1811 : Friedrich Adolph Mackrott , German musician
- 1815 : André-Charles-Victor Reille , French general
- 1816 : Charlotte Saunders Cushman , American actress
- 1819 : Alexis Dumont , German lawyer and local politician
- 1820 : Julia Tyler , American first lady, second wife of President John Tyler
- 1824 : Kuno Fischer , German philosopher
- 1827 : Otto Ribbeck , German classical philologist
- 1828 : Jonathan Hutchinson , British surgeon, dermatologist and pathologist
- 1834 : Johann Jakob Abegg , Swiss politician and entrepreneur
- 1844 : Harriet Williams Russell Strong , American inventor, conservationist and suffragette
- 1838 : Édouard Colonne , French conductor
- 1849 : Géza Zichy , Hungarian pianist and composer
- 1854 : Birt Acres , British photographer and film pioneer
- 1856 : Bal Gangadhar Tilak , Indian author and publisher, politician and independence fighter
- 1857 : Carl Meinhof , German pastor and Africanist
- 1860 : Adolf Schmidt , German geophysicist
- 1861 : Anna Bechler , German writer
- 1861 : Alexander Willem Frederik Idenburg , Governor of Suriname and Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1862 : Franz Ignaz Amann , Liechtenstein politician
- 1865 : Friedrich Aereboe , German agricultural economist
- 1865 : Ludwig Sütterlin , German craftsman, type designer and teacher
- 1866 : Francesco Cilea , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1869 : Susanne Dessoir , German singer
- 1870 : August Jacob Georg Howaldt , German entrepreneur and industrialist in shipbuilding ( Howaldtswerke AG )
- 1872 : Edward Adrian Wilson , British polar explorer, physician and ornithologist
- 1873 : Marie Janson , Belgian politician and women's rights activist
- 1876 : Aino Ackté , Finnish soprano
- 1878 : James Thomas Milton Anderson , Canadian politician and teacher
- 1882 : Hans Kyser , German author and film director
- 1884 : Emil Jannings , German actor
- 1884 : Apolinary Szeluto , Polish composer
- 1886 : Theodor Frings , German Germanist and linguist
- 1886 : Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish diplomat and author
- 1886 : Walter Schottky , German physicist and electrical engineer
- 1886 : Anna Maria Schulte , German social democrat and social activist
- 1888 : Raymond Thornton Chandler , American crime writer
- 1889 : Yuri Pavlovich Annenkow , Russian artist
- 1889 : Georges Bonnet , French Foreign Minister
- 1890 : Joan Amades i Gelats , Catalan ethnologist and folklorist
- 1890 : Bruno Asch , German politician
- 1892 : Erik Willam "Loppan" Adlerz , Swedish diver
- 1892 : Bruno Brehm , Austrian writer
- 1892 : Joseph Seiden , American director and producer of Yiddish films
- 1892 : Haile Selassie , Ethiopian Emperor and British Field Marshal
- 1893 : Heinrich Imig , German trade unionist and politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1894 : Hektor Ammann , Swiss historian and archivist
- 1894 : Edi Linser , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1895 : Aileen Pringle , American actress
- 1895 : Florence Vidor , American actress
- 1896 : Gaston Duval , French racing car driver
- 1896 : Reinhold Frank , German lawyer and resistance fighter
- 1896 : Adrienne Gessner , Austrian actress
- 1896 : Dale Van Every , American novelist and screenwriter
- 1899 : Gustav Heinemann , German politician, Federal President, State Minister, Federal Minister, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1899 : Lou Seitz , German actress
- 1900 : Helen Ferguson , American actress and press agent
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Doc Walsh , American country musician
- 1902 : Walter Burle Marx , Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1904 : Georges Hugon , French composer
- 1905 : Richard Angst , Swiss cameraman
- 1906 : Walter Artelt , German doctor, dentist and medical historian
- 1906 : Walter Blume , German lawyer and SS standard leader
- 1906 : Wolfgang Gentner , German physicist
- 1906 : Vladimir Prelog , Bosnian-Swiss chemist
- 1907 : Käte Strobel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1908 : Elio Vittorini , Italian writer
- 1909 : Lisa Gelius , German athlete
- 1909 : Rudolf Pfister , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1910 : Karl Adamek , Austrian football player and coach
- 1911 : Hildegard Emmel , German Germanist
- 1912 : Rafael Artzy , Israeli mathematician
- 1912 : Mozaffar Baqai , Iranian politician
- 1913 : Coral Browne , Australian-American theater and film actress
- 1913 : Ernest van der Eyken , Belgian composer, conductor and violist
- 1913 : Michael Foot , British politician
- 1914 : Alice Jean Arden-Hodge , American high jumper
- 1917 : Gisela Voss , German athlete
- 1918 : Ann Ayars , American actress and opera singer (soprano)
- 1918 : Raissa Dawydowna Orlowa-Kopelewa , Russian writer
- 1920 : Amália Rodrigues , Portuguese fado singer
- 1922 : Damiano Damiani , Italian director
- 1923 : Thea Beckman , Dutch writer
- 1924 : Gazanfer Bilge , Turkish wrestler, Olympic champion
- 1924 : Wilfried Hasselmann , German farmer and politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1925 : Gloria DeHaven , American actress
- 1925 : Quett Masire , President of Botswana
- 1925 : Oliver Smithies , British-American geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
1926-1950
- 1926 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew , Russian editor and fairy tale researcher
- 1926 : Cedella Marley Booker , Jamaican writer and singer, mother of Bob Marley
- 1926 : Margret Rettich , German illustrator and children's book author
- 1927 : Gérard Brach , French screenwriter
- 1927 : Jürgen Driehaus , German prehistorian
- 1928 : Leon Fleisher , American pianist
- 1928 : Inge Kazamel , German politician, MdL
- 1928 : Vera Rubin , American astronomer
- 1928 : Don Scott , British boxer
- 1928 : Hubert Selby , American writer
- 1929 : Pierre Aubenque , French historian of philosophy
- 1929 : Gertraud Middelhauve , German publisher
- 1930 : Johan Albert Ankum , Dutch legal scholar and historian
- 1930 : Pierre Vidal-Naquet , French historian
- 1931 : Jan Troell , Swedish film director
- 1932 : Leopoldo Billings , Venezuelan composer
- 1933 : Raimund Abraham , Austrian-American architect and professor of architecture
- 1933 : Richard Rogers , English architect
- 1934 : Héctor De Bourgoing , Argentine-French footballer
- 1934 : Steve Lacy , American jazz musician and soprano saxophonist
- 1934 : Veronika Petrovici , plastic surgeon
- 1935 : Edward Acquah , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1935 : John Cordts , Canadian racing car driver
- 1936 : Don Drysdale , American baseball player
- 1938 : Juliet Anderson , American porn actress
- 1938 : Ronny Cox , American actor and singer
- 1938 : Götz George , German actor
- 1940 : Gunter Halm , German politician, Minister for Light Industry in the GDR
- 1940 : Friedrich Graf von Westphalen , German lawyer
- 1941 : Christopher Andrew , British historian
- 1941 : Heinz Anger , Austrian painter
- 1941 : Hartwig Steenken , German show jumper
- 1942 : Madeline Bell , American singer
- 1942 : Myra Hindley , English serial killer
- 1942 : Ulrich Teichler , German university researcher
- 1943 : Irina Liebmann , German writer
- 1943 : Tony Joe White , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1944 : Lisa Alther , American writer
- 1944 : Alex Buzo , Australian playwright and author
- 1944 : Siegfried Funk , German sports official
- 1944 : Walt Garrison , American football player
- 1945 : Roland Ertl , Austrian military, Chief of the General Staff of the Austrian Armed Forces
- 1945 : Herbert Frankenhauser , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : Gregor Morfill , German physicist
- 1946 : Andy Mackay , British musician
- 1946 : Kenper Miller , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1946 : David Noon , American composer and music teacher
- 1947 : Mohan Agashe , Indian actor and psychiatrist
- 1947 : David Essex , British singer
- 1947 : Larry Manetti , American actor
- 1947 : Torsten Palm , Swedish racing car driver
- 1947 : Lakshminarayana Subramaniam , Indian violinist, composer and conductor
- 1947 : Hans-Jürgen Wittkamp , German soccer player
- 1947 : Pierre Yver , French racing car driver
- 1948 : Wilhelm Dietzel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1948 : John Hall , American politician
- 1948 : Wolfgang Schächen , German architectural historian
- 1948 : Ludger Stratmann , German doctor and cabaret artist
- 1949 : Carlos Bonell , English guitarist and music teacher
- 1949 : Sławomir Czarnecki , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1950 : Igor Giorgadze , Georgian State Security Minister
1951-1975
- 1951 : Edie McClurg , American actress
- 1952 : Peter Bleser , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952 : Mark Weiser , American scientist in the field of computer science
- 1953 : Matthias Brücken , German soccer player and coach
- 1953 : Günther Gebhardt , German racing car driver and racing car designer
- 1953 : Michael Kind , German actor
- 1953 : Karl-Heinz Radschinsky , German weightlifter
- 1953 : Najib Razak , Malaysian politician
- 1953 : Axel Tyll , German soccer player
- 1954 : Annie Sprinkle , American prostitute and porn actress
- 1955 : Faustino Armendáriz Jiménez , Mexican bishop
- 1957 : Rufus Beck , German theater and film actor
- 1957 : Theo van Gogh , Dutch filmmaker
- 1958 : Klaus-Dieter Augst , German soccer player
- 1958 : Frank Mill , German soccer player
- 1960 : Peter Puck , German comic artist
- 1961 : Martin Gore , British musician

Woody Harrelson (born 1961)
- 1961 : Woody Harrelson , American actor
- 1962 : Perico Sambeat , Spanish jazz saxophonist
- 1963 : Richard Geppert , German conductor and church musician, Kapellmeister, organist and keyboardist
- 1964 : Uwe Barth , German politician
- 1964 : Manuel Rocheman , French jazz pianist
- 1965 : Saul Hudson , American guitarist
- 1965 : Jörg Stübner , German soccer player
- 1966 : Cheb Bilal , Algerian Raï singer
- 1966 : Michael Esken , German local politician
- 1967 : Philip Seymour Hoffman , American actor
- 1967 : Titiyo , Swedish singer
- 1967 : Noboru Ueda , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1968 : Beth Ehlers , American actress
- 1968 : Gary Payton , American basketball player
- 1968 : Friedrich Prem , Austrian manager
- 1968 : Stephanie Seymour , American model and actress
- 1968 : Susanna Simon , German actress
- 1968 : Axel Titzki , German musician and composer
- 1969 : Kai Abruszat , German politician
- 1969 : Clark Adams , American free thinker and atheist
- 1969 : Marco Bode , German soccer player
- 1969 : Ulrich Drechsler , German jazz musician
- 1969 : Tanja Gönner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
- 1969 : Dirk Klingenberg , German water polo player
- 1969 : Armelle Lesniak , French actress
- 1969 : Kai Meyer , German writer, journalist and screenwriter
- 1969 : Ronny Tekal , Austrian doctor
- 1970 : Charisma Carpenter , American actress
- 1970 : Thea Dorn , German writer and television presenter
- 1971 : Alison Krauss , American singer
- 1971 : Nicola Ransom , German actress
- 1972 : Giovane Élber , Brazilian soccer player
- 1972 : Tamara Countess von Nayhauß , German television presenter
- 1973 : Gunn Margit Andreassen , Norwegian biathlete
- 1973 : Omar Epps , American actor and musician

Monica Lewinsky (* 1973)
- 1973 : Monica Lewinsky , American psychologist
- 1973 : Enrico Ney , German handball player
- 1973 : Nomar Garciaparra , American baseball player of Mexican origin
- 1974 : Martin Amerhauser , Austrian soccer player and coach
- 1974 : Frode Hagen , Norwegian handball player
- 1975 : Alessio Tacchinardi , Italian football player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Judith Arndt , German cyclist
- 1976 : Jörg Jaksche , German cyclist
- 1976 : Judit Polgár , Hungarian chess player
- 1977 : Gail Emms , British badminton player
- 1979 : Pedro Aguayo Ramírez , Mexican wrestler
- 1979 : Sotirios Kyrgiakos , Greek football player
- 1979 : Natasha Yarovenko , Ukrainian actress
- 1980 : Mariana Kautz , German figure skater
- 1980 : Michelle Williams , American singer
- 1981 : Dario Damjanović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1981 : Susan Hoecke , German actress
- 1981 : Jarkko Nieminen , Finnish tennis player
- 1982 : Tom Mison , British actor
- 1982 : Paul Wesley , American actor
- 1983 : Rebecca Cartwright , Australian actress
- 1983 : Bastian Kaltenböck , Austrian ski jumper
- 1983 : Aaron Peirsol , American swimmer, Olympic champion
- 1983 : Josefine Öqvist , Swedish football player
- 1984 : Arnór Atlason , Icelandic handball player
- 1984 : Walter Gargano , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1984 : Brandon Roy , American basketball player
- 1985 : William Dunlop , British motorcycle racer

Anna Maria Mühe (* 1985)
- 1985 : Anna Maria Mühe , German actress
- 1986 : Millane Fernandez , German pop singer
- 1987 : Maximilian Arndt , German bobsleigh athlete
- 1987 : Tobias Hahn , German handball player
- 1987 : Julian Nagelsmann , German soccer coach
- 1988 : Paul Anderson , English soccer player
- 1988 : Benjamin Baier , German soccer player
- 1988 : Daniel Mancinelli , Italian racing driver

Daniel Radcliffe (* 1989)
- 1989 : Daniel Radcliffe , British actor
- 1989 : Donald Young , American tennis player
- 1990 : Nicole Mieth , German actress
- 1992 : Riccardo Brutschin , German racing driver
- 1994 : David Gleirscher , Austrian luge rider
- 1994 : Khaled Narey , German soccer player
- 1996 : Rachel G. Fox , American actress and voice actress
- 1996 : Danielle Bradbery , American country singer
- 1996 : Sinan Kurt , German soccer player
- 1996 : Cedric Sprick , German actor
- 1999 : Vitinho , Brazilian soccer player
- 2000 : Derya Flechtner , German actress and voice actress
21st century
- 2001 : Maximilian Großer , German soccer player
- 2002 : Benjamin Flores, Jr. , American actor and rapper
Died
Before the 16th century
- 428 : Pirrus , Western Roman usurper
- 494 : Sallustius , Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem
- 945 : Richer , Bishop of Liège
- 1065 : Gunther , Bishop of Bamberg
- 1168 : Markward , Abbot of Fulda
- 1213 : Maria von Oignies , Brabant mystic and beguine
- 1298 : Thoros III. , King of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- 1321 : Thomas de Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley , English nobleman
- 1373 : Birgitta of Sweden , Swedish court master, mystic, founder of the Order of the Redeemer, patroness of Europe
- 1377 : Paul von Jägerndorf , Bishop of Gurk and Freising
- 1393 : Konrad von Wallenrode , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1399 : Hugo von Vorteilst , Vicar General in Cologne
- 1403 : Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester , English nobleman, military man and diplomat
- 1427 : Siegmund Albich , Bohemian nobleman, personal physician to Emperor Sigismund, Archbishop of Prague
- 1467 : Paul Stange von Legendorf , Prince-Bishop of Warmia
- 1488 : Albrecht von Baden , Margrave of Baden
- 1497 : Barbara Fugger , Augsburg citizen and businesswoman
16th to 18th century
- 1503 : Anna Jagiello of Bohemia and Hungary , German nobleman
- 1531 : Louis de Brézé , French nobleman
- 1536 : Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset , illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England
- 1548 : Worawongsa , 16th king of the Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya
- 1562 : Götz von Berlichingen , German imperial knight
- 1564 : Éléonore de Roye , Princess of Condé
- 1581 : Georg von Lalaing , governor of the provinces of Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe and Overijssel
- 1590 : Barbara Lierheimer , German midwife
- 1595 : Thoinot Arbeau , French canon
- 1596 : Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon , English nobleman
- 1645 : Michael I , first Tsar and Grand Duke of Russia from the Romanov dynasty
- 1666 : Katharina Steb , victim of the persecution of witches in Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1667 : Justus Henricus Heidfeldt , German theologian and philologist
- 1673 : Balthasar Rösler , German miner
- 1710 : Michael Hoppenhaupt , Danish sculptor
- 1710 : Samuel Stryk , German lawyer
- 1717 : Enoch Svantenius , German educator and poet
- 1752 : Friedrich Gottlieb Struve , German lawyer and university professor
- 1757 : Domenico Scarlatti , Italian Baroque composer
- 1765 : Köse Bahir Mustafa Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1781 : John Joachim Zubly , Swiss-American priest and politician
- 1794 : Alexandre de Beauharnais , French politician
19th century
- 1802 : Maria del Pilar Teresa Cayetana de Silva y Álvarez de Toledo , Duchess of Alba
- 1811 : Abraham Abramson , German medalist
- 1811 : Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière , Prussian Field Marshal General of French origin, Governor General of West Prussia
- 1822 : Hieronymus von Colloredo , Austrian general
- 1840 : Carl Blechen , German landscape painter
- 1843 : Antonín Mánes , Czech painter and draftsman of the Romantic period
- 1844 : Jonathan August Weichert , German classical philologist and pedagogue
- 1853 : Andries Pretorius , Boer politician and Voortrekker
- 1860 : Moritz Bräuninger , German missionary, possibly martyr (lost, possibly murdered)
- 1871 : Joseph Roesberg , German dialect poet and composer
- 1872 : William Bridges Adams , British publicist, railroad designer and entrepreneur
- 1875 : Isaac Merritt Singer , American entrepreneur and inventor
- 1877 : Florus Conrad Auffarth , Prussian administrative officer
- 1880 : Constantin Hering , German-American doctor, is considered the founder of homeopathy in America
- 1885 : Ulysses S. Grant , Commander in Chief of the US Army in the Civil War, 18th President of the USA
- 1899 : Valentin von Massow , German colonial officer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Elsa Neumann , German physicist
- 1907 : Antonin Marmontel , French composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1909 : Zygmunt Noskowski , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1910 : Henry Harrison Aplin , American politician
- 1916 : William Ramsay , British chemist and Nobel Prize winner from Scotland, discoverer of noble gases
- 1919 : Eduard Franz Adt , German manufacturer and politician, mayor, MdR
- 1924 : Frank Frost Abbott , American classical philologist
- 1925 : Alberto Valenzuela Llanos , Chilean painter
- 1927 : Arthur Hoffmann , Swiss politician
- 1928 : Kasai Zenzō , Japanese writer and journalist
- 1929 : Paul Flechsig , German psychiatrist and brain researcher, is considered one of the "fathers of neuroanatomy"
- 1932 : Alberto Santos-Dumont , Brazilian aeronaut, aviation pioneer and inventor
- 1933 : Louis Abbiate , French composer and cellist
- 1934 : Jean Gaupillat , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1935 : Otto Glöckel , Austrian politician and school reformer
- 1939 : Carl Thiel , German music teacher
- 1944 : Hans von Sponeck , German officer, lieutenant general in the Wehrmacht in World War II
- 1948 : DW Griffith , American actor, director, and film producer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Robert J. Flaherty , American documentary filmmaker
- 1951 : Philippe Pétain , French commander in chief, politician and diplomat, head of state of the Vichy regime
- 1952 : Heinrich Mitteis , German legal historian
- 1952 : Carl Severing , German politician, MdR, MdL, State Minister, Reich Interior Minister
- 1954 : Georg Lippold , German archaeologist
- 1954 : Josef Sellmair , German theologian and educator
- 1955 : Cordell Hull , American lawyer and politician, Secretary of State, Nobel Prize winner
- 1957 : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Italian writer
- 1959 : Franz Miltner , Austrian ancient historian and archaeologist
- 1960 : Elie Spivak , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1964 : Jan de Vries , Dutch Germanist and religious scholar
- 1966 : Georg Adlmüller , German architect and construction officer
- 1966 : Montgomery Clift , American film and stage actor
- 1968 : Luigi Cevenini , Italian football player and coach
- 1968 : Henry Hallett Dale , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1971 : Van Heflin , American actor
- 1971 : Ross Thatcher , Canadian politician
- 1973 : Edward Vernon Rickenbacker , American racing car driver, entrepreneur and fighter pilot
- 1974 : Norm Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974 : Matthias Gelzer , Swiss ancient historian
- 1977 : Arsenio Erico , Paraguayan soccer player
- 1978 : Erich Fascher , German Protestant theologian
- 1979 : Mathieu Ahlersmeyer , German opera singer and actor
- 1979 : Joseph Kessel , French journalist and writer
- 1980 : Olivia Manning , British writer
- 1980 : Mollie Steimer , Russian author, political activist and anarchist
- 1980 : William H. Wright , American screenwriter, film and television producer
- 1981 : Ivan Eklind , Swedish football referee
- 1981 : Franz Solan Schäppi , Swiss Capuchin and missionary scholar
- 1982 : Lucia Apicella , Italian philanthropist
- 1982 : Vic Morrow , American actor
- 1982 : Betty Parsons , American artist and gallery owner, "Mother of Abstract Expressionism"
- 1983 : George Auric , French composer
- 1986 : Adolfo Baloncieri , Italian football player and coach
- 1986 : Kazimierz Sikorski , Polish composer
- 1986 : Gerhard Wendland , German painter
- 1989 : Donald Barthelme , American postmodern writer
- 1989 : Hans-Arno Simon , German composer, singer, pianist and producer
- 1990 : Heinz Adler , German politician, MdL
- 1990 : Otto Ambros , German chemist, military economist, war criminal
- 1992 : Maxine Audley , British actress
- 1992 : Rosemary Sutcliff , British writer
- 1993 : Smokey Smothers , American blues guitarist and singer
- 1993 : Leslie Thorne , American racing car driver
- 1994 : Grete Schickedanz , German entrepreneur, head of the Quelle mail order company
- 1995 : Berta Scharrer , German-American neuroscientist
- 1996 : Milagros Beras Dalmasí , Dominican pianist and music teacher
- 1996 : Heinz Chmill , German politician, MdL
- 1997 : Chuhei Nambu , Japanese athlete, Olympic champion
- 1998 : Jan Beenakker , Dutch physicist
- 1998 : Wilbur Schwandt , American composer
- 1999 : Horst-Gregorio Canellas , German-Spanish entrepreneur and football official
- 1999 : Jean Dewasne , French painter, sculptor and author
- 1999 : Hassan II , King of Morocco
- 1999 : Josef Holub , Czech botanist
- 1999 : Noël Lancien , French composer and conductor
- 2000 : Johannes Dyba , German Roman Catholic theologian and diplomat, Bishop of Fulda
21st century
- 2001 : Eudora Welty , American writer
- 2002 : Dieter Flimm , German theater set designer
- 2002 : William Luther Pierce III. , American physicist, founder and leader of right-wing extremist organizations
- 2002 : Chaim Potok , American writer
- 2004 : Friedrich Haug , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Social Court
- 2004 : Peter Hans Hofschneider , German molecular biologist
- 2004 : Mehmood , Indian actor and film producer
- 2004 : Carlos Paredes , Portuguese composer and guitarist
- 2004 : Serge Reggiani , French actor and chansonnier
- 2004 : Josef Rickenbacher , Swiss sculptor
- 2005 : Ray Crist , American chemist
- 2006 : Rudolf Teschner , German chess player and author
- 2007 : Ernst Otto Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2007 : Mohammed Sahir Shah , Afghan monarch
- 2007 : George Tabori , British playwright, director, screenwriter and actor of Hungarian origin
- 2008 : Friedhelm Busse , German neo-Nazi
- 2008 : Friedel Elting , German soccer player and coach
- 2011 : Robert Ettinger , American university professor
- 2011 : Marinko Kelečević , Bosnian handball player
- 2011 : Nguyễn Cao Kỳ , South Vietnamese Air Force general and politician
- 2011 : Wolfgang Milde , German manuscript scholar and librarian
- 2011 : Amy Winehouse , British singer and songwriter
- 2012 : Maria Emanuel , head of the Wettin house (Albertine line)
- 2012 : Franco Andolfo , Italian-Austrian entertainer, pop singer and composer
- 2012 : Lars Ardelius , Swedish writer
- 2012 : Sally Ride , American astronaut
- 2013 : Rona Anderson , British actress
- 2013 : Emile Griffith , American boxer
- 2013 : Djalma Santos , Brazilian soccer player
- 2016 : Thorbjörn Fälldin , Swedish politician, Prime Minister
- 2019 : Ferdinand von Bismarck , German lawyer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Birgitta of Sweden , Swedish founder of the order and mystic (Protestant, Anglican, Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Egypt , fall of the monarchy (1952)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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