April 24th

The April 24 is the 114th day of the Gregorian calendar (115th in leap years ), thus remaining 251 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

1521: Execution of the Comuneros

• 1521 : Juan de Padilla and other leaders of the Comuneros uprising in Spain are executed one day after the defeat against the troops of King Charles at the Battle of Villalar.
• 1530 : The Roman-German Emperor Charles V signs the deed of fief in Bologna , which makes Malta a sovereign territory of the Order of St. John .

1547: Emperor Karl V after the battle of Mühlberg , painting by Titian

• 1547 : The army of Elector Johann Friedrich von Sachsen is surprised and defeated in the Battle of Mühlberg by the troops of Emperor Charles V and the Duke of Alba . The elector is taken prisoner and the Schmalkaldic War is lost for him.

1671: Stenka Razin

• 1671 : The Russian peasant and Cossack leader Stenka Razin , who briefly controlled large parts of southern Russia, is captured by Cossacks from his own retinue.
• 1715 : In the Great Northern War there is a sea ​​battle near Fehmarn between a Danish and a Swedish squadron.

1723: Davel before his execution

• 1723 : The rebel Jean Daniel Abraham Davel , who tried to free the Vaud from the rule of Bern , is executed in Lausanne.
• 1748 : Peace negotiations begin in the free imperial city of Aachen between the warring parties in the War of the Austrian Succession . They lead to the Second Peace of Aachen signed on October 18 .
• 1814 : The brother of King Louis XVI, who was executed in the French Revolution , lands in Calais from exile . , Louis Stanislas Xavier, Count of Provence , with a group of nobles. After Napoleon Bonaparte's exile by the Allies, he took over power on the island of Elba . The restoration phase of the Bourbon monarchy begins in the country .
• 1862 : With the words Damn the Torpedos! Full speed ahead! Union naval officer David Glasgow Farragut overcomes the Confederation forts that guarded the entrance to the Mississippi River during the Civil War and sails with his flotilla towards New Orleans .
• 1877 : With Russia declaring war on the Ottoman Empire , another Russian-Ottoman war begins .
• 1884 : The German Reich puts the Lüderitz Bay and its hinterland , which Adolf Lüderitz bought in the previous year, under its protection . This marks the beginning of the colony of German South West Africa .

1885: Battle of Fish Creek

• 1885 : The Métis defeat Canadian government forces in the Battle of Fish Creek during the Northwest Rebellion in Saskatchewan .
• 1898 : Spain declares war on the United States . The fighting in the Spanish-American War began the very next day .
• 1915 : With the arrest of the first 200–400 members of the Armenian upper class in Istanbul on the orders of Interior Minister Talât Pascha , the genocide of the Armenians begins in the Ottoman Empire .

1916: Easter proclamation

• 1916 : In front of the main post office in Dublin , Patrick Pearse reads out the Easter Proclamation on behalf of a Provisional Irish Government , marking the start of the Easter Rising in Ireland .
• 1921 : In a referendum in Tyrol, 98.5% of the votes cast fall for affiliation with the German Reich . However, the vote has no consequences.
• 1921 : On Bloody Sunday in Bolzano , 400 fascists attack a parade of the South Tyrolean trade union federation. One teacher dies and 45 people are seriously injured.
• 1926 : The Berlin Treaty is signed between Germany and the USSR , a friendship treaty initially limited to five years as a continuation of the Rapallo Treaty .
• 1927 : In the national elections in Austria , Christian-social and German-national parties under Federal Chancellor Prelate Ignaz Seipel compete with a unified list . The Social Democrats win seats, but remain the second strongest force. The German-national Landbund also wins additional mandates.
• 1932 : The municipal council elections held at the same time in Styria and Carinthia as well as the state elections in Lower Austria , Salzburg and Vienna bring the Austrian National Socialists strong votes.
• 1962 : The Vienna International Convention on Diplomatic Relations comes into force. It codifies diplomatic law, which has so far been rooted in customary law .
• 1965 : In the Dominican Republic , military units under Francisco Alberto Caamaño overthrow the ruling military triumvirate in order to reinstate the democratically elected President Juan Bosch . Only four days later the US intervened militarily in favor of the overthrown military dictatorship.
• 1970 : After a successful referendum, Gambia is converted into a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations . The current Prime Minister, Dawda Jawara , will be President of the Republic .
• 1971 : In Washington, DC , 200,000 to 300,000 people take part in the largest demonstration against the Vietnam War to date .

1972/74: Willy Brandt (left), with successor Helmut Schmidt

• 1972 : In the Federal Republic of Germany , the CDU parliamentary group brings in a constructive vote of no confidence in the Federal Council against Willy Brandt with the challenger Rainer Barzel , which is voted on three days later.
• 1974 : Franz Jonas , Austrian Federal President since 1965 , dies in office after a long illness.

1974: Günter Guillaume

• 1974 : Günter Guillaume , personal advisor to Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, and his wife Christel are arrested in Bonn on suspicion of espionage for the GDR . The Guillaume affair becomes the politically most significant espionage case in German history , which ultimately leads to Brandt's resignation.
• 1974 : The Portuguese radio broadcasts the song E depois do adeus ( And after saying goodbye ) by Paulo de Carvalho as an encrypted message that the Carnation Revolution has begun. Shortly after midnight, the song Grândola, Vila Morena by José Afonso , which is forbidden in the Estado Novo and becomes the song of the revolution, follows .
• 1975 : The RAF terrorists Hanna Krabbe , Karl-Heinz Dellwo , Lutz Taufer , Bernhard Rössner , Ulrich Wessel and Siegfried Hausner attack the German embassy in Stockholm , take twelve hostages and murder two diplomats .
• 1980 : The United States' military operation to free the 53 American hostages at the embassy in Tehran fails. When Operation Eagle Claw in Iran eight American soldiers are killed; it will likely cost Jimmy Carter re-election as US President.
• 1981 : US President Ronald Reagan lifts the embargo on grain and other goods imposed on the USSR on January 4, 1980 by his predecessor Jimmy Carter because of the intervention in Afghanistan .
• 1983 : In the national elections in Austria , the SPÖ with Federal Chancellor Bruno Kreisky again becomes the party with the strongest vote, but loses its absolute majority. Kreisky is stepping down on the evening of the election.
• 1990 : The Supreme Soviet , the Kazakh parliament, elects Nursultan Nazarbayev , chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Kazakh Soviet Republic, as president of Kazakhstan , which declares its independence in the same year.

1990: Gruinard Island

• 1990 : The Scottish island of Gruinard Island , on which experiments with anthrax pathogens were carried out during World War II , is declared habitable again after years of decontamination and returned to the heirs of the original owners.
• 1993 : The Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs Bishopsgate, City of London . One person is killed and 44 injured. The property damage is around one million pounds sterling.

2004: Cyprus divided

• 2004 : The reunification of the Cyprus conflict divided Cyprus after the Annan plan fails to separate referendums despite a majority in the Turkish part of the "No" of the majority in the Greek part .

economy

• 1889 : A miners' strike at the Bochum President colliery developed within a few days into the largest strike in the German Reich to date .
• 1934 : Laurens Hammond receives a patent from the US patent office under the name Electrical Musical Instrument for the electronic organ he developed , the Hammond organ .

science and technology

1800: Library of Congress

• 1800 : In Washington, DC , the Library of Congress is established as the research library of the United States Congress after President John Adams moves the seat of government from Philadelphia to Washington.
• 1880 : The Swedish polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld returns to Stockholm with his ship Vega after successfully crossing the Northeast Passage , where he is given a triumphant welcome. 15-year-old Sven Hedin is a deeply impressed viewer .
• 1913 : The Woolworth Building in Manhattan , New York City, which was built by architect Cass Gilbert over a period of three years and at that time the tallest skyscraper in the world , is inaugurated in the presence of US President Woodrow Wilson and 800 other invited guests.

1923: Freud's model of the psyche

• 1923 : Sigmund Freud's work Das Ich und das Es appears in Leipzig , in which he for the first time uses the structural model of the psyche of the “ I ”, the “ It ” and the “ superego ” in psychoanalysis .

1961: The recovered Vasa

• 1961 : The Vasa , which sank on its maiden voyage on August 10, 1628, is lifted in Stockholm and is remarkably well preserved.
• 1967 : During the landing of the first manned Soviet spacecraft of the Soyuz class, Soyuz  1 , which was launched the day before, the parachutes do not open properly. The cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed.
• 1970 : The Chinese space agency CNSA sends its first artificial satellite Dong Fang Hong I , part of the Dong Fang Hong satellite program, into space.

1990: Start of the discovery mission STS-31

• 1990 : The Hubble Space Telescope is brought into orbit by the Space Shuttle Discovery as part of the STS-31 mission . On board are Commander Loren Shriver , Pilot Charles Bolden and Mission Specialists Steven Alan Hawley , Bruce McCandless and Kathryn D. Sullivan .
• 2007 : A research team from the La Silla Observatory in Chile, led by the Swiss Stéphane Udry , announces the discovery of Gliese 581 c , 20.4 light years away , the smallest known exoplanet to date .

Culture

1742: Georg Friedrich Handel

• 1742 : As a benefit concert for several charitable organizations, the world premiere of the oratorio Messiah by Georg Friedrich Handel based on an idea by Charles Jennens takes place in Dublin . The work is enthusiastically received, but voices are heard criticizing the reproduction of Bible words in a profane theater.
• 1767 : The comic opera Lottchen am Hofe by Johann Adam Hiller is premiered at the theater on the Ranstädter Bastei in Leipzig.

1801: Joseph Haydn

• 1801 : Joseph Haydn's oratorio Die Jahreszeiten ( Hob. XXI: 3) is premiered in the Vienna Palais Schwarzenberg . The work is a success, but the libretto by Gottfried van Swieten is criticized as not convincing.
• 1874 : The opera Opritschnik ( The Bodyguard ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is premiered at the St. Petersburg Court Opera.
• 1926 : The operetta Adrienne by Walter Wilhelm Goetze with the libretto by Günther Bibo and Alexander Siegmund Pordes based on the comedy Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé is premiered in Hamburg .
• 1959 : At the 1st Bitterfeld Conference , Walter Ulbricht issues directives for a new socialist cultural policy in the German Democratic Republic .

1964: The Little Mermaid

• 1964 : A landmark of Copenhagen , the Little Mermaid by the sculptor Edvard Eriksen , is badly damaged by vandals . The head that was sawed off by a group of Situationists around Jørgen Nash is never found again.
• 1982 : Nicole , who starts for Germany, wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate with A Little Peace . Until 2010 it is the only German and the second German-language title to win a Grand Prix .
• 1989 : The conductor Herbert von Karajan resigns from his position as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic after a dispute with the Berlin Senate .

society

1558: Francis and Maria of France

• 1558 : The 14-year-old French Dauphin Franz marries the one year older Scottish Queen Maria Stuart in Notre-Dame de Paris .
• 1751 : In Endingen am Kaiserstuhl is Anna Schnidenwind for an alleged devil pact on the pyre burned. She is one of the last women to be condemned as a witch in Germany .

1854: Franz Josef and Elisabeth

• 1854 : The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph marries the 16-year-old daughter of the Bavarian Duke Max Joseph , Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, known as " Sisi " , in Vienna . The wedding ceremony in the Augustinian Church is carried out by Cardinal Joseph Othmar von Rauscher in the presence of 70 bishops and prelates.
• 1912 : The stokers on the Olympic , the sister ship of the Titanic that has just sunk , go on strike because they do not want to serve on a ship that has too few lifeboats.
• 1963 : Princess Alexandra of Kent , second child of George, 1st Duke of Kent and Marina of Kent , marries Angus Ogilvy , the second son of the 12th Earl of Airlie , at Westminster Abbey in the presence of the entire royal family .

religion

• 0858 : Nicholas I is enthroned as Pope shortly after his election . He is the successor of Benedict III , who died in March . whose close advisor he has been.

1585: Sixtus V.

• 1585 : Cardinal Felice Peretti di Montalto is elected Pope by acclamation . He is called Sixtus V.
• 2005 : Inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI. in St. Peter's Square

Disasters

• 2013 : A building collapsed in Sabhar , Bangladesh, killing 1,127 people and injuring 2,438.

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

nature and environment

• 1935 : The Italian Stelvio National Park is established in the Ortler area .

Sports

• 2004 : Vitali Klitschko wins his boxing match against Corrie Sanders at the Staples Center , Los Angeles, through a technical knockout and thus becomes world heavyweight champion of the World Boxing Council (WBC).

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1417 : Friedrich I , Duke of Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim
• 1453 : Dietrich von Plieningen , German nobleman, lawyer and humanist
• 1492 : Sabina of Bavaria , Duchess of Bavaria and wife of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg

William of Orange (* 1533)

• 1533 : William of Orange , Dutch governor
• 1538 : Guglielmo Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
• 1562 : Xu Guangqi , Chinese scholar and minister of the Ming Dynasty
• 1581 : Vincent de Paul , French priest, founder of modern Caritas
• 1586 : Martin Rinckart , German poet, Protestant theologian and church musician
• 1595 : Georg Szelepcsényi , Archbishop of Gran and representative of the Counter Reformation
• 1614 : Martin Geier , German Lutheran theologian
• 1620 : John Graunt , pioneer of modern statistics
• 1620 : Vollrad Ludolf von Krosigk , German soldier and local politician
• 1649 : Amy Buisson , Swiss general in foreign service
• 1660 : Cornelis Dusart , Dutch painter and etcher
• 1670 : Christian Ludwig Boxberg , German composer and organist
• 1671 : Bogislaw Bodo von Flemming , Brandenburg Lieutenant General
• 1671 : Gian Gastone de 'Medici , last Tuscan Grand Duke from the Medici family
• 1697 : Kamo no Mabuchi , Japanese poet and literary scholar
• 1699 : Friedrich III. , Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg

18th century

• 1703 : José Francisco de Isla , Spanish writer
• 1706 : Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian composer and music theorist
• 1717 : Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes , French nobleman and military man; Governor of Paris
• 1719 : Giuseppe Baretti , Italian writer and translator

Johann Philipp Kirnberger (* 1721)

• 1721 : Johann Philipp Kirnberger , German music theorist and composer
• 1724 : Philipp von Westphalen , confidante and collaborator of Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig
• 1727 : Heinrich XXX. , Count Reuss of Gera
• 1733 : Albert Philipp Frick , German lawyer and university professor
• 1743 : Edmond Cartwright , inventor of the Power Loom mechanical loom
• 1743 : Joachim Friedrich Wilhelm Neander von Petersheiden , Prussian major general
• 1745 : Benedict Christian Vogel , German physician, botanist and university professor
• 1750 : Simon L'Huilier , Swiss mathematician
• 1750 : John Trumbull , American poet
• 1752 : Henry Latimer , American politician
• 1759 : Georg Christian Carl Henschel , German entrepreneur
• 1759 : Anton Joseph Stein , Austrian pedagogue and philologist
• 1761 : Carl Christian Erhard Schmid , German Protestant theologian and philosopher
• 1762 : Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber , German civil servant and historian
• 1764 : Médard Desprez , French banker
• 1765 : Johann Baptist Lingg von Linggenfeld , German general
• 1766 : Ludwig von Hartmann , German industrialist
• 1767 : Jacques-Laurent Agasse , Swiss painter
• 1769 : Wilhelm Aschenberg , German pastor
• 1771 : Alexander Friedrich Karl von Württemberg , Russian politician and general
• 1773 : Karl Lappe , Pomeranian poet
• 1774 : Jean Itard , French doctor and teacher of the deaf and dumb
• 1775 : Jacob Salentin von Zuccalmaglio , German lawyer
• 1777 : Maria Klementine of Austria , Archduchess of Austria
• 1777 : Karl August von Schütz , German civil servant
• 1780 : Georg Amann , German Roman Catholic theologian
• 1781 : Ludwig von Pfnorr , Major General of Baden
• 1788 : Carl Mayer von Rothschild , German banker
• 1788 : Henry Sass , English painter
• 1790 : Rufus K. Goodenow , American politician
• 1792 : Karl von Birago , Austrian military engineer and inventor
• 1793 : Karl Seydelmann , German actor
• 1796 : Karl Immermann , German writer, poet and playwright
• 1799 : Salvatore Fergola , Italian painter
• 1800 : Georg Hellmesberger senior , Austrian violinist
• 1800 : Heinrich Wydler , Swiss botanist

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Hans Nicolai Andreas Jensen , Schleswig-Holstein pastor and local researcher
• 1802 : Melchior Ulrich , Swiss mountaineer and Reformed theologian

Louis Édouard Bouët-Willaumez (* 1808)

• 1808 : Louis Edouard Bouet-Willaumez , French admiral
• 1816 : Adolph Zsigmondy , Austrian dentist
• 1817 : Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac , Swiss chemist
• 1819 : Klaus Groth , Low German poet and writer
• 1828 : Charles Nuitter , French librettist, translator and archivist
• 1829 : James Sheakley , American politician
• 1831 : Friedrich Wilhelm Barkhausen , German lawyer and theologian
• 1831 : George Nares , British admiral and polar explorer
• 1835 : Albert von Holleben , Prussian general and military writer

Louis Canivez (* 1837)

• 1837 : Louis Canivez , Belgian composer and conductor
• 1837 : Friedrich August von Holstein , German lawyer
• 1838 : Jules Levy , American composer and cornetist
• 1841 : Johann Rudolf Rahn , Swiss monument conservator and art researcher
• 1841 : Charles Sprague Sargent , American botanist
• 1845 : Carl Spitteler , Swiss poet and writer
• 1846 : Marcus Clarke , Australian writer
• 1847 : Otto Leixner von Grünberg , Austrian writer and literary historian
• 1848 : Amandus Acker , German mission and colonial pioneer
• 1848 : Gebhard Wölfle , Austrian writer
• 1850 : Johannes Schmidt , German classical philologist and epigraphist

1851-1900

• 1851 : Morgan Earp , American gunslinger of the "Wild West"
• 1852 : Ernst Zimmermann , German painter

Philippe Pétain (* 1856)

• 1852 : Emil Rieck , German landscape, genre and theater painter
• 1856 : Philippe Pétain , French commander in chief, politician, diplomat, head of state of the Vichy regime
• 1859 : Hans Bennecke , German legal scholar
• 1860 : Gerhard Janensch , German sculptor and medalist
• 1862 : Makino Tomitarō , Japanese botanist
• 1864 : Alois Wolfmüller , German inventor, engineer and flight technician
• 1865 : Clara Arnheim , German painter
• 1867 : Karel Navrátil , Czech composer
• 1868 : Bernardus Dirks Eerdmans , Dutch Protestant theologian and politician
• 1870 : Friedrich Kühne , German actor
• 1870 : Otto Reutter , German comedian
• 1873 : Theodor Körner , Austrian Federal President
• 1873 : Max Landa , Austrian silent film actor
• 1876 : Erich Raeder , German admiral and chief of the naval command of the Third Reich
• 1879 : Ernst Adam , German writer
• 1880 : Gideon Sundbäck , Swedish inventor
• 1881 : Ernesto Buonaiuti , Italian theologian
• 1881 : Jakob Kneip , German local poet
• 1881 : Paul Merker , German literary historian

Hugh Dowding (* 1882)

• 1882 : Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , British officer, in command of the RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain
• 1884 : Otto Froitzheim , German tennis player
• 1885 : Erna Morena , German film actress, producer and screenwriter
• 1886 : Mabel Garrison , American singer
• 1886 : Georg Haas , German doctor, inventor of blood washing
• 1886 : Hellmuth Hirth , German aviation pioneer
• 1887 : Otto Flöl , German politician
• 1887 : Denys Finch Hatton , English nobleman and big game hunter
• 1888 : Ivan Alexejewitsch Akulow , Soviet trade unionist, party and state functionary
• 1888 : Alfred Rosenthal , German film journalist and film lobbyist

Richard Stafford Cripps (* 1889)

• 1889 : Richard Stafford Cripps , British lawyer and politician
• 1889 : Johanna Kirchner , German resistance fighter in the Resistance , victim of National Socialism
• 1889 : Jury Sabaleuski , Belarusian publicist, politician and activist
• 1892 : Sami Gabra , Egyptian Egyptologist and Coptologist
• 1896 : Maria Grollmuß , Sorbian journalist and resistance fighter
• 1896 : Robert Oelbermann , German bird guide
• 1897 : György Kósa , Hungarian composer
• 1897 : Willy Neuenhofen , German test pilot
• 1897 : Benjamin Whorf , American linguist
• 1899 : Oscar Zariski , American mathematician
• 1900 : Leon Klepper , Romanian composer
• 1900 : Franz Stein , Lord Mayor of the City of Mainz

20th century

1901-1925

• 1902 : Wolfgang Haack , German mathematician
• 1902 : Alfred Loritz , German politician
• 1903 : Mike Michalske , American football player
• 1903 : José Antonio Primo de Rivera , Spanish fascist politician

Willem de Kooning (* 1904)

• 1904 : Willem de Kooning , American painter
• 1904 : Herbert Zipper , Austrian-American composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1905 : Robert Penn Warren , American author
• 1906 : William Joyce , Irish-American fascist politician, spokesman for the Nazi radio program Germany Calling
• 1906 : Hermann Kohlhase , German politician
• 1907 : Mathias Logelin (1907–1999), Luxembourg artistic gymnast
• 1907 : Geo Widengren , Swedish orientalist and religious scholar
• 1908 : Viktor Semjonowitsch Abakumow , Soviet Minister for State Security
• 1908 : Inga Gentzel , Swedish athlete
• 1908 : Józef Gosławski , Polish sculptor and medalist
• 1909 : Bernhard Grzimek , German veterinarian, behavioral scientist, zoo director, television presenter, animal filmmaker and author
• 1910 : Karl Zink , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1911 : Eugen Jebeleanu , Romanian poet
• 1911 : Ethel Reschke , German actress

Karl Schiller (* 1911)

• 1911 : Karl Schiller , German economic politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the State and Federal Minister
• 1912 : Oskar Rohr , German football player
• 1913 : Violet Archer , Canadian composer
• 1913 : Paul Esser , German actor and voice actor
• 1913 : Hermann Gramlich , German football player
• 1913 : Josef Stierli , Swiss Jesuit and church historian
• 1914 : Jonathan Brewster Bingham , American politician
• 1914 : William Castle , American film director and producer
• 1914 : Loe de Jong , Dutch historian and journalist
• 1914 : Jan Karski , Polish officer, courier of the Polish Home Army
• 1915 : William Goyen , American writer
• 1915 : Paul Rinkowski , German bicycle developer
• 1916 : Lou Thesz , American wrestler
• 1918 : Elisabeth Mann Borgese , German-Canadian marine lawyer and ecologist
• 1919 : Edgar Jarratt Applewhite , American writer
• 1919 : Richard Friederich Arens , American mathematician

Axel von dem Bussche (* 1919)

• 1919 : Axel von dem Bussche , German officer, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1919 : Glafkos Klerides , Greek Cypriot politician
• 1919 : César Manrique , Spanish architect, sculptor and environmentalist
• 1919 : Wolfgang Panofsky , American particle physicist
• 1920 : Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin , Nigerian lawyer
• 1920 : Roswitha Bitterlich , Austrian painter and graphic artist
• 1920 : Luigi Valenzano , Italian racing car driver
• 1921 : Heinz Krügel , German soccer player and coach
• 1922 : Susanna Agnelli , Italian politician
• 1922 : Fred Delmare , German actor
• 1924 : P. Bhaskaran , Indian songwriter and film director
• 1924 : Eric Pleskow , President of the Austrian film studio
• 1925 : Jimmy Dickinson , English football player

1926-1950

• 1926 : Francis Burt , English composer
• 1926 : Thorbjörn Fälldin , Swedish politician, Prime Minister
• 1926 : Kurt Hamer , German politician
• 1927 : Josy Barthel , Luxembourgish athlete, Olympic champion
• 1927 : Fatty George , Austrian jazz musician
• 1927 : Donato Squicciarini , Roman Catholic Archbishop, Diplomat and Apostolic Nuncio
• 1928 : Karlheinz Bauer , German civil engineer and contractor, pioneer of special civil engineering
• 1928 : Johnny Griffin , American jazz musician
• 1928 : Heinz Schröder , German puppeteer
• 1928 : Jerzy Tchórzewski , Polish painter, graphic artist and art teacher
• 1929 : André Darrigade , French racing cyclist
• 1930 : Anneliese Augustin , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1930 : Richard Donner , American director and actor
• 1930 : José Sarney , Brazilian writer and politician, President
• 1930 : Karsten Vilmar , German physician and medical representative
• 1931 : Abdelhamid Kermali , Algerian-French football player and coach
• 1931 : Bridget Riley , British painter
• 1931 : Antonio Attolini Lack , Mexican architect
• 1931 : Meinolf Wewel , German publisher
  

  Meinolf Wewel (* 1931)
• 1932 : Jákup Pauli Gregoriussen , Faroese architect, graphic artist and author
• 1933 : William Garrett , American racing car driver
• 1933 : Helmuth Lohner , Austrian actor and director
• 1933 : Francesco Valdambrini , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1933 : Raúl Velasco , Mexican television presenter and producer
• 1934 : Klaus Goebel , German historian
• 1934 : Shirley MacLaine , American actress
• 1934 : Michael Taylor , British racing car driver
• 1935 : Héctor Barinas , Venezuelan singer and composer
• 1935 : Jerzy Godziszewski , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 1935 : Gerd Hennig , German football referee
• 1936 : Akwasi Afrifa , Head of State of Ghana
• 1936 : Nana von Hugo , German designer and architect
• 1936 : Jill Ireland , actor and producer
• 1936 : Kåre Kolberg , Norwegian composer and organist
• 1937 : Vytautas Andriulis , Lithuanian legal historian and professor of legal history
• 1937 : Joe Henderson , American jazz musician
• 1938 : Michael Koser , German writer
• 1939 : Kurt Andersson , Swedish soccer, bandy and ice hockey player
• 1939 : Christian Breuer , German football player
• 1939 : Ernst Zündel , German revisionist, Holocaust denier
• 1940 : Katharina de Bruyn , German folk actress
• 1940 : Sue Grafton , American crime novelist
  

  Sue Grafton (* 1940)
• 1941 : Richard Holbrooke , American diplomat
• 1941 : John Christopher Williams , Australian guitarist
• 1942 : Barbra Streisand , American actress, singer and director
• 1942 : Werner Teske , captain of the MfS, last victim of the death penalty in Germany
• 1943 : Dick Matena , Dutch comic book artist and author
• 1943 : Shlemon Warduni , Iraqi auxiliary bishop in Baghdad
• 1944 : Thumma Bala , Archbishop of Hyderabad
• 1944 : Sjanon Pasnjak , Belarusian politician and activist
• 1944 : Tony Visconti , British-American music producer
• 1944 : Gustl Wilke , German handball player and coach
• 1945 : Doug Clifford , American drummer
• 1945 : Larry Tesler , American computer scientist
• 1946 : Stafford James , American jazz bassist
• 1946 : Eva Šuranová , Slovak athlete
• 1947 : Josep Borrell , Spanish (Catalan) politician
• 1947 : Ernst Dokupil , Austrian football player and coach
• 1947 : Thomas Jeier , German writer
• 1947 : Roger D. Kornberg , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
  

  Roger D. Kornberg (* 1947)
• 1948 : Tomoko Abe , Japanese politician
• 1948 : Paul Sahli , Swiss artist and record holder
• 1948 : Kōhei Tsuka , Korean-Japanese playwright, director and theater director
• 1949 : Ulrike Andresen , German painter and graphic artist
• 1949 : Véronique Sanson , French chansonnière
• 1949 : Wilfrido Vargas , Dominican band leader, trumpeter and singer
• 1950 : Rob Hyman , American musician
• 1950 : Anita Lochner , American actress and voice actress
• 1950 : Helmut Rau , Baden-Württemberg politician, Member of the State Parliament

1951-1975

• 1951 : André Lara Resende , Brazilian banker and racing car driver

Jean Paul Gaultier (* 1952)

• 1952 : Jean Paul Gaultier , French fashion designer
• 1953 : Edmund Arens , German theologian and professor
• 1953 : Bino , Italian pop singer
• 1953 : Thomas Jentsch , German professor for molecular neuropathology
• 1953 : Naoki Nagasaka , Japanese racing car driver
• 1954 : Captain Sensible , British singer, guitarist and bassist
• 1954 : Mumia Abu-Jamal , American journalist
• 1954 : Wolf-Christian Dullo , German marine biologist
• 1955 : Marion Caspers-Merk , German politician
• 1957 : Bamir Topi , Albanian politician
• 1958 : Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed , British politician
• 1958 : Birte Berg , German actress
• 1958 : Mercedes Stermitz , Austrian beauty queen and racing driver

Marc-Aeilko Aris (* 1959)

• 1959 : Marc-Aeilko Aris , German medievalist, philologist, historian of philosophy and priest
• 1959 : Peter Jahr , German politician
• 1959 : Glenn Morshower , American actor
• 1959 : Johannes Rauch , Austrian politician
• 1960 : Friðrik Karlsson , Icelandic guitarist ( mezzoforte )
• 1961 : Wolfgang Dienelt , German soccer player
• 1962 : Clemens Binninger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1962 : Stuart Pearce , English football player
• 1963 : Lajos Détári , Hungarian football player
• 1963 : Billy Gould , American musician and music producer

Susanna Tausendfreund (* 1963)

• 1963 : Susanna Tausendfreund , German politician
• 1963 : Tõnu Trubetsky , Estonian punk rock singer
• 1963 : Dmitri Yanov-Yanovski , Uzbek composer
• 1964 : Helga Arendt , German athlete
• 1964 : Cedric the Entertainer , American actor and comedian
• 1964 : Djimon Hounsou , Benin-American actor
• 1964 : Augusta Read Thomas , American composer and music teacher
• 1966 : David Usher , Canadian rock singer and songwriter
• 1967 : Robert Nearn , British racing car driver
• 1967 : Dino Rađa , Croatian basketball player
• 1968 : Markus Agosti , German pop singer, songwriter, composer and show host
• 1968 : Roxanna Panufnik , English composer
• 1968 : Rolf Stahlhofen , German singer, musician and songwriter

Hashim Thaçi (* 1968)

• 1968 : Hashim Thaçi , Yugoslav-Kosovar Prime Minister
• 1968 : Jelena Valerjewna Välbe , Russian cross-country skier
• 1969 : Melinda Clarke , American actress
• 1969 : Jan Stankiewicz , Swedish handball player
• 1970 : Jean-Philippe Belloc , French racing car driver
• 1970 : Dida Diafat , Algerian Muay Thai fighter
• 1970 : Christian Sewing , German bank manager
• 1971 : Yves Eigenrauch , German soccer player
• 1971 : Marco Seiffert , German television and radio presenter
• 1972 : Adhemar , Brazilian soccer player
• 1972 : Zuill Bailey , American cellist
• 1972 : Chipper Jones , American baseball player
• 1972 : Jure Košir , Slovenian ski racer
• 1972 : Anne Dorthe Tanderup , Danish handball player
• 1973 : Karsten Bäron , German soccer player

Sachin Tendulkar (* 1973)

• 1973 : Sachin Tendulkar , Indian cricketer
• 1973 : Lars Freudenthal , German journalist and writer
• 1973 : Tomas Oral , German soccer coach
• 1974 : Andy Kainz , Austrian dancer and dance trainer
• 1974 : Markus Langes-Swarovski , Austrian entrepreneur
• 1974 : Stephen Wiltshire , British artist
• 1975 : Anastasia Acosta , Costa Rican actress and model

1976-2000

• 1976 : Juan Manuel Gárate , Spanish cyclist
• 1976 : Michael Schaefer , German author

Eric Balfour (born 1977)

• 1977 : Eric Balfour , American actor
• 1977 : Diego Placente , Argentine soccer player
• 1978 : Beat Arnold , Swiss politician
• 1978 : Jesper Christiansen , Danish football player
• 1978 : Ronny Scholz , German racing cyclist
• 1980 : Fernando Arce , Mexican soccer player
• 1980 : Karen Asrjan , Armenian chess player
• 1980 : Şener Aşkaroğlu , Turkish football player
• 1980 : Julia Hummer , German actress and musician
• 1980 : Klaus Kröll , Austrian ski racer
• 1980 : Jaime Melo , Brazilian racing car driver
• 1981 : Chen Li-ju , Taiwanese archer
• 1981 : Taylor Dent , American tennis player
• 1981 : Thomas Pichlmann , Austrian football player
• 1981 : Marie Friederike Schöder , German soprano

Kelly Clarkson (* 1982)

• 1982 : Kelly Clarkson , American pop singer
• 1982 : Nicole Davis , American volleyball player
• 1982 : Nick Howard , British pop singer
• 1982 : Tobias Funke , Swiss chef
• 1983 : Jenny Adler , German biathlete
• 1983 : Britt Goodwin , British handball player
• 1983 : Lukas Lamla , German politician
• 1984 : Vendula Adlerová , Czech volleyball player
• 1986 : Mohd Nafiizwan Adnan , Malaysian squash player
• 1986 : Tahyna Tozzi , Australian actress, model and singer
• 1986 : Gerald Wambacher , Austrian ski jumper
• 1987 : Simone Corsi , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1987 : Anne Kaiser , German soccer player

Serdar Taşçı (* 1987)

• 1987 : Serdar Taşçı , German soccer player
• 1987 : Jan Vertonghen , Belgian football player
• 1989 : Dennis Habedank , German actor
• 1989 : Sebastian Klussmann , German quiz player
• 1990 : David Harrer , Austrian soccer player
• 1990 : Daniel Morad , Canadian racing driver
• 1990 : Karoline de Souza , Brazilian handball player
• 1990 : Jan Veselý , American basketball player
• 1992 : Doc Shaw , American actor, singer, rapper and model
• 1993 : Dennis Krüger , German athlete
• 1994 : Kira Schnack , German handball player
• 1999 : Palkó Dárdai , German-Hungarian football player

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0624 : Mellitus , missionary and Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1196 : Béla III. , King of Hungary
• 1250 : Simon von Collazzone , Italian Franciscan
• 1313 : Conrad II , Count von Rietberg
• 1367 : Ernst I , Duke of Braunschweig-Göttingen
• 1383 : Heinrich III. , Duke of Mecklenburg
• 1399 : Philip Darcy, 4th Baron Darcy de Knayth , English nobleman, military man and judge
• 1463 : Kaspar von Breitenlandenberg , Prince Abbot of St. Gallen
• 1483 : Marguerite de Bourbon , French noblewoman
• 1512 : Nikolosa Bursa , Benedictine and abbess of the monastery on the Venetian San Servolo
• 1521 : Juan de Padilla , leader of the Comuneros uprising in Spain

Jacopo Sannazaro († 1530)

• 1579 : Volkwin Weigel , German mathematician
• 1586 : Dietrich IX. von Gemmingen , landlord of Tiefenbronn
• 1613 : Otto von Grünrade , German Protestant Reformed church politician
• 1617 : Concino Concini , French general and Marshal of France
• 1622 : Fidelis von Sigmaringen , German Catholic religious priest and martyr
• 1656 : Thomas Finck , German mathematician and physician
• 1664 : Silvius Nimrod I , first Duke of Württemberg-Oels
• 1678 : Ludwig VI. , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• 1684 : Rudolf Capell , German educator, historian and philologist
• 1684 : Johannes Olearius II , Protestant theologian and lecturer
• 1685 : Georg Szelepcsényi , Archbishop of Gran and representative of the Counter Reformation

18th century

• 1710 : Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau , Spanish diplomat and viceroy of Peru
• 1711 : Johann Werlhof , German legal scholar
• 1723 : Jean Daniel Abraham Davel , Vaudois revolutionary
• 1726 : Christian August von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Protestant prince-bishop of the Lübeck bishopric
• 1732 : Johann Michael Ludwig Rohrer , German builder
• 1739 : Karl-Franz Hannong , Dutch-French ceramist and entrepreneur
• 1747 : Johann Georg Fischer , German builder of the Baroque
• 1751 : Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore , Lord Proprietor of the Colony of Maryland
• 1751 : Anna Schnidenwind , Breisgau farmer, victim of the witch hunt
• 1760 : Michele Mascitti , Italian violinist and composer
• 1763 : Charles-Étienne Pesselier , French author, poet, Fermier général and encyclopedist
• 1767 : Georg Wilhelm von der Goltz , Polish general and diplomat
• 1768 : Johann Valentin Tischbein , painter in Laubach, Maastricht, The Hague, Hildburghausen
• 1769 : Philipp Friedrich Hiller , German pastor and hymn poet
• 1775 : John Rutty , English medic, chemist and naturalist
• 1783 : Grigory Grigoryevich Orlov , Russian officer and lover of Catherine II.
• 1785 : Friedrich , Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1788 : Iyasu III. , Emperor of Ethiopia

19th century

• 1803 : Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , French portrait painter
• 1821 : Johann Peter Frank , German medic
• 1824 : Georg von Stengel , German civil servant
• 1831 : Catherine Pakenham , wife of Arthur Wellesley
• 1832 : Francis de Rottenburg , British general and military writer of German-Polish origin
• 1836 : Firmin Didot , French typographer and writer
• 1836 : Hans zu Rantzau , Danish general war commissioner
• 1846 : Girolamo Crescentini , Italian singer (castrato) and composer
• 1848 : Theobald Fritz , Austrian Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
• 1850 : Louis Alexandre Piccinni , French composer
• 1851 : Johannes Aberli , Swiss medalist, stone and die cutter
• 1852 : Leopold , Grand Duke of Baden
• 1862 : Friedrich Busse , German company director and inventor
• 1862 : Julius Wilhelm Oelsner , member of the Frankfurt National Assembly

Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn († 1864)

• 1864 : Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn , German naturalist
• 1868 : Franz Haniel , German entrepreneur
• 1878 : Albín Mašek , Czech composer
• 1883 : Jules Sandeau , French writer
• 1884 : Isaac N. Arnold , American politician
• 1887 : Peter Karl von Aretin , German politician
• 1891 : Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke , Prussian Field Marshal General
• 1898 : Lucian Müller , German classical scholar

20th century

1901-1950

• 1904 : Friedrich Ecklin , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1904 : Friedrich Siemens , German industrialist
• 1906 : Wilhelm Bogler , German architect
• 1907 : Patápio Silva , Brazilian flautist and composer

Poul la Cour († 1908)

• 1908 : Poul la Cour , Danish pioneer of modern wind turbines, meteorologist
• 1913 : Vsevolod Michailowitsch Abramowitsch , Russian aviation pioneer and flight instructor
• 1917 : Oscar Blumenthal , German writer, critic, stage poet and chess composer
• 1918 : Yevno Fischelewitsch Asef , Russian terrorist and police spy
• 1919 : Camille Erlanger , French composer
• 1920 : Nathan Goff , American lawyer and politician
• 1924 : Ferdinand Arnodin , French engineer and industrialist
• 1924 : Granville Stanley Hall , American psychologist
• 1931 : Francis Xavier Dercum , American neurologist
• 1933 : Felix Adler , German-American philosopher
• 1934 : Émile Chautard , French actor and director
• 1938 : George Gray Barnard , American sculptor
• 1939 : Louis Trousselier , French racing cyclist
• 1941 : Karin Boye , Swedish writer

Lucy Maud Montgomery († 1942)

• 1942 : Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian writer
• 1942 : Fryco Rocha , Lower Sorbian poet and writer
• 1943 : James Adams , Scottish football player and referee
• 1943 : Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord , German general, belonged to the extended circle of military resistance against Adolf Hitler
• 1944 : Kilian Kirchhoff , German priest, translator and dissident
• 1944 : Dewey Scanlon , American football coach
• 1945 : Ernesto de Fiori , Italian sculptor and painter
• 1945 : Hans Koch , German lawyer and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1945 : Anton de Kom , Surinamese nationalist, resistance fighter and anti-colonial author
• 1945 : Hermann Marchand , German lawyer and urban developer
• 1948 : Manuel María Ponce , Mexican composer

1951-2000

• 1953 : Mahmud Afschartus , Persian general and police chief of Tehran
• 1954 : Mikhail Leonidowitsch Starokadomski , Russian composer
• 1955 : Alfred Polgar , Austrian writer
• 1956 : Albrecht Alt , German Protestant theologian (Old Testament scholar)
• 1956 : Kurt Moosdorf , German politician
• 1956 : Henry Stephenson , British film and stage actor
• 1957 : Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies and Dutch Foreign Minister
• 1957 : Andreas Nielsen , German lieutenant general
• 1959 : Broadus Farmer , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 1960 : Norah de Kresz , English pianist and music teacher

Max von Laue († 1960)

• 1960 : Max von Laue , German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1961 : Rosario Bourdon , Canadian cellist, conductor, composer and arranger
• 1963 : Karla König , German journalist, writer and cultural functionary
• 1964 : Gerhard Domagk , German pathologist and bacteriologist
• 1966 : Melecio Arranz , Filipino politician
• 1966 : Hans Christian Branner , Danish writer
• 1966 : Louis A. Johnson , American politician
• 1967 : Enrico Dante , Italian clergyman, cardinal to the Curia
• 1967 : Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov , Soviet cosmonaut
• 1968 : Yakov Malkiel , American linguist and Romance scholar
• 1970 : Heinrich Blasius , German fluid mechanic
• 1970 : Paul Lehmann-Brauns , German painter
• 1970 : Otis Spann , American musician
• 1972 : Natalie Clifford Barney , American founder of a literary salon
• 1972 : Pem , German-British journalist and writer
• 1972 : Rudolf Sang , German actor, director and theater director
• 1974 : Bud Abbott , American comedian and actor

Franz Jonas († 1974)

• 1974 : Franz Jonas , Austrian politician and statesman, Mayor of Vienna, Federal President
• 1974 : Wilhelm Goldmann , German publisher
• 1975 : Andreas von Mirbach , German officer and diplomat
• 1975 : Carl Schneiders , German painter
• 1976 : Mark Tobey , American painter
• 1977 : Josef Angermüller , German motorcycle track racer
• 1977 : Martin Heix , German politician
• 1978 : Heartley Anderson , American football player and coach
• 1979 : Sabih Arca , Turkish football player and official
• 1979 : Karl Seeburger , Austrian politician
• 1980 : Alejo Carpentier , Cuban-French writer
• 1982 : John M. Ashbrook , American politician
• 1982 : Awalmir , Afghan singer, musician and composer
• 1982 : Ville Ritola , Finnish athlete and Olympic champion
• 1982 : Ernestine von Trott zu Solz , head of a therapeutic community for girls

Rolf Stommelen († 1983)

• 1983 : Rolf Stommelen , German Formula 1 racing driver
• 1985 : Harry Thomson Andrews , South African diplomat
• 1986 : Wallis Simpson , American wife of the Duke of Windsor
• 1988 : Michel Attenoux , French musician
• 1989 : Franz Binder , Austrian soccer player
• 1992 : Ilse Künkele , German actress
• 1993 : Gustl Bayrhammer , German actor
• 1993 : Oliver Tambo , South African anti-apartheid politician
• 1994 : Margot Trooger , German actress
• 1995 : Hideyuki Ashihara , Japanese karateka
• 1996 : Walter Dreizner , German photographer
• 1997 : Robert Erickson , American composer
• 1998 : Axel Jüptner , German soccer player

21st century

• 2001 : Al Hibbler , American singer
• 2002 : Hans-Jürgen Ewers , German economist
• 2002 : Emil Friedman , Czech music teacher, violinist and conductor
• 2003 : Kazuko Saegusa , Japanese writer, essayist and literary critic
• 2004 : José Giovanni , Franco-Swiss writer and filmmaker
• 2004 : Estée Lauder , American entrepreneur

Ezer Weizman († 2005)

• 2005 : Ezer Weizmann , Israeli President
• 2007 : Arno Borst , German historian
• 2008 : Rolf Anschütz , German restaurateur
• 2008 : Tristram Cary , British-Australian composer
• 2008 : Jimmy Giuffre , American jazz musician
• 2010 : Werner Arens , German theologian
• 2010 : Paul Schäfer , German founder of Colonia Dignidad in Chile
• 2010 : Dimitris Tsatsos , Greek legal scholar, Member of the European Parliament
• 2011 : Marie-France Pisier , French actress
• 2012 : Wim Hoddes , Dutch actor and singer
• 2012 : Anke Lautenbach , German singer
• 2012 : Amos Vogel , American film critic
• 2012 : Werner Schürmann , German sculptor and baritone

Hans Hollein († 2014)

• 2014 : Hans Hollein , Austrian architect
• 2014 : Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish poet and playwright
• 2015 : Władysław Bartoszewski , Polish concentration camp survivor, historian, politician and publicist
• 2015 : Hans Krämer , German philosopher and classical philologist
• 2016 : Andreas E. Beurmann , German musicologist and co-founder of the radio play publisher Europa
• 2016 : Klaus Siebert , German biathlete and biathlon trainer
• 2016 : Papa Wemba , Congolese singer and musician
• 2017 : Benjamin R. Barber , American political scientist
• 2017 : Robert M. Pirsig , American author
• 2018 : Henri Michel , French football player and coach
• 2018 : Emma Smith , British writer
• 2019 : Jean-Pierre Marielle , French actor

Holidays and memorial days

• Genocide Remembrance Day in Armenia , Artsakh and the Diaspora

• Church memorial days
  • Johann Walter , German cantor (Protestant: EKD and LCMS )
  • Kagawa Toyohiko , Japanese theologian and social reformer (Protestant, Anglican Memorial Day is April 23)
  • St. Ivo , venerated saint in England, whose remains were discovered in 1001
  • St. Fidelis von Sigmaringen , German lawyer, religious priest and martyr (Catholic)
  • St. Maria Cleophae , Roman disciple (Catholic)
  • St. Salome , Roman disciple (Catholic)

• Name days
  • Helmut , Marian , Wilfried

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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