24th of December
The December 24 is the 358th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 359th in leap years ), so stay 7 days until the end of the year.
Christmas Eve : The evening of December 24th is the eve of Christmas , and Christians of many denominations around the world begin the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ with the Vespers service .
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events
Politics and world events
- 805: In the Diedenhofen capital , Charlemagne forbids the cities named therein to trade in arms with the Slavs .
- 1726: The city of Montevideo is founded by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala , the Spanish governor of Buenos Aires.
- 1777: On his third voyage, James Cook discovers an island that he calls Christmas Island .
- 1794: The weavers' revolt against the publishing system in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg is put down by the deployment of Württemberg troops.
- 1794: After the Jacobins are overthrown in the French Revolution , the maximum laws they enacted are repealed.
- 1799: The constitution of year VIII, which came into force, legitimizes the de facto sole rule of Napoleon Bonaparte as first consul. With that the end of the French Revolution is constitutionally understood. The change of power to the consulate took place on November 10th.
- 1800: A " infernal machine " is used in the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Napoleon Bonaparte .
- 1806: The previous Russian occupation of the Danube principalities of Moldova and Wallachia triggers the declaration of war by the Ottoman Empire on the Tsar .
- 1814: The Peace of Ghent ends the British-American War . The status quo before the war between Great Britain and the USA is being restored.
- 1825: In Russia , Nicholas I formally takes over the reign as tsar .
- 1830: A noisy student parade triggers the Munich Christmas riot.
- 1856: The Ibicaba uprising heralds the end of the tenancy system and the decline in immigration of Germans and Swiss into Brazil.
- 1865: General Nathan Bedford Forrest and other returning soldiers from the southern states found the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski , Tennessee , after the civil war was lost .
- 1870: The Battle of the Hallue, which began the day before, during the Franco-Prussian War ends with a Prussian victory and the withdrawal of French units.
- 1914: The German aviator Hans von Prondzynski drops the first aerial bomb on British soil in an aerial warfare . She hits a parish garden in Dover .
- 1914: Around 100,000 soldiers on the western and eastern fronts of World War I lay down their weapons in an unauthorized armistice . This Christmas peace lasts for a few days.
- 1918: The Christmas battles reach their climax in Berlin . Units loyal to the government take action against the People's Navy Division , which has taken up residence in the Berlin City Palace .
- 1942: The French admiral François Darlan is assassinated; on his deathbed he weighs heavily on the future President Charles de Gaulle.
- 1951: The former Italian colony of Libya becomes an independent kingdom under Idris , the religious head of the Senussi order .
- 1954: Laos is declared independent at the Geneva Indochina Conference , subject to neutrality and the withdrawal of all communist and French troops.
- 1971: After an election stretching out over fifteen days, Giovanni Leone finally becomes President of the Italian Republic with a narrow majority .
- 1989: Four days after the US invasion of Panama began , the Panamanian ruler Manuel Noriega was overthrown. Noriega takes refuge in the Vatican embassy.
- 1991: Russia gets as the legal successor of the Soviet Union a permanent seat on the Security Council of the United Nations .
- 1993: Russia's new constitution with more rights for the president enters into force.
- 1995: The Islamic fundamentalist welfare party led by Necmettin Erbakan wins the parliamentary elections in Turkey .
- 2003: The Hartz IV law (“Fourth law for modern services on the labor market”, Federal Law Gazette I p. 2954 ) is promulgated, which merges social welfare and unemployment benefits on January 1, 2005.
- 2006: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declares war on the Somali rebel organization, the Union of Islamic Courts , after it has made claims against the Ethiopian region of Ogaden . Ethiopia is thus intervening on the part of the transitional government in the civil war in Somalia .
- 2013: Queen Elizabeth II posthumously “pardoned” the British mathematician Alan Turing , who was convicted of a homosexual relationship in 1952 and subsequently killed himself in 1954.
business
- 1624: King Christian IV's first Danish postal order appears, which also applies to postal services in Schleswig-Holstein . At the beginning, four businesspeople act as senior postal administrators .
- 1874: The August Göricke machine works is founded in Bielefeld, which over time should become one of the most important German bicycle manufacturers.
- 1913: The US rating agency Fitch Ratings is founded.
- 1953: The Paul trap for storing small charged particles is registered for a patent by the inventors Wolfgang Paul and Helmut Steinwedel .
science and technology
- 1906: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcasts the first radio broadcast at a radio station in Brant Rock , Massachusetts .
- 1930: The physicist Manfred von Ardenne shows the first electronic television picture .
- 1968: With Apollo 8 the first time a human crew of orbiting Frank Borman , Jim Lovell and William Anders the moon . William Anders photographs the Earthrise , a scene that is becoming famous.
- 1979: The first European launch vehicle, Ariane, successfully launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana .
Culture
- 1818: Joseph Mohr , assistant pastor of the Church of St. Nikola in Oberndorf near Salzburg, presents the village teacher and organist Franz Xaver Gruber with a poem with the request that he write a melody. That same night, Silent Night, Holy Night is sung for the first time during Christmas mass .
- 1871: The opera Aida by Giuseppe Verdi with the libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni , based on a scenario by Auguste Mariette , is premiered at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo .
- 1951: The US television station NBC broadcasts the world premiere of the one-act Christmas opera Amahl and the nightly visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti from its studios .
- 2012: The last issue of the US news magazine Newsweek appears.
religion
- December 24th is the feast day of Adam and Eve in Catholic and Lutheran tradition
- as "Christmas Eve" it is the eve of Christmas
- 640: John IV is elected Pope .
- 1046: The Synod of Sutri elects the German Bishop Suitger as Pope, who takes the name Clement II .
- 1294: The cardinals elect Benedetto Caetani as pope, who chooses the name Boniface VIII .
- 1883: In the Apostolic Exhortation Salutaris seine Pope Leo XIII adds . the Lauretanian litany to the Blessed Mother Mary about the invocation Regina sacratissimi Rosarii - ora pro nobis “Queen of the Holy Rosary , pray for us”.
- 1902: Pope Leo XIII. publishes its last encyclical . In Dum multa , he condemns the new marriage legislation in Ecuador and the possibility of divorce it contains .
Disasters
- 1598: A flood of the Tiber largely destroyed the 174 BC. Chr. Originating Pons Aemilius , the oldest stone bridge in Rome .
- 1678: Major fire in Hardegsen . A large part of the city center fell victim to a conflagration .
- 1717: The Christmas flood on the North Sea kills around 11,500 people from the Netherlands to Denmark .
- 1811: The British ships HMS Defense and HMS St. George , stranded in a hurricane off the Danish west coast, break in the surf. The wrecks sink before Thorsminde . About 1,300 sailors die.
- 1851: A fire rages in the Library of Congress . 35,000 books and other furnishings, including an original portrait of Christopher Columbus , are destroyed by flames.
- 1912: 245 miners die in an explosion in a colliery on the Japanese island of Hokkaidō .
- 1929: The west wing of the White House in Washington DC is destroyed by fire.
- 1933: 200 people die in a train accident near Lagny in France.
- 1953: 151 people die when a railway bridge collapses in a mudslide from the Ruapehu volcano near Tangiwai , New Zealand, and a full train crashes into the Whangaehu River .
- 1964: A spring flood kills several thousand people in southern India and Sri Lanka .
- 1966: An American CL-44 military aircraft crashes into the village of Binh Thai in South Vietnam . 129 people die. Most of the victims are local residents.
- 1971: When a Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes over the Peruvian rainforest, 91 occupants are killed. The only survivor is the 17-year-old German passenger Juliane Koepcke , who was only found after walking several days through the Amazon region .
- 1974: Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. It claims 71 lives and leads to a supply shortage in the remote city.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 3 v. Chr .: Galba , Roman emperor
- 1167: Johann Ohneland , King of England, youngest brother of Richard the Lionheart
- 1389: John VI. , Duke of Brittany
- 1475: Thomas Murner , German theologian and writer
- 1516: Märta Eriksdotter Leijonhufvud , Swedish nobleman and landlady
- 1525: Rochus zu Lynar , Italian fortress builder and military
- 1537: Wilhelm IV. Von dem Bergh , Reichsgraf von dem Bergh
- 1548: Caspar Ulenberg , German theologian, Bible translator, poet and composer
- 1594: Otto von Hessen-Kassel , Hereditary Prince of Hessen-Kassel
- 1597: Honoré II , Prince of Monaco
- 1625: Johann Rudolph Ahle , German composer, organist, poet and church musician
- 1631: Bernhard Gustav von Baden-Durlach , cardinal and prince abbot of Fulda and Kempten
- 1637: Wolfgang Gundling , German preacher, deacon, chapter dean and church writer
- 1638: Tomás Antonio de la Cerda y Aragón , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, Viceroy of New Spain
- 1641: Hans Wachtmeister zu Johannishus , Swedish admiral, general and politician
- 1645: Hans Carl von Carlowitz , German forest scientist
- 1654: Andreas Gärtner (Sorbian Handrij Zahrodnik ), electoral Saxon model master, natural scientist and inventor
- 1662: Adam Zrinski , Croatian nobleman and imperial officer
- 1672: John Wanton , Governor of the Colony of Rhode Islands and Providence Plantations
- 1679: Domenico Sarro , Neapolitan composer
- 1694: Christfried Kirch , German astronomer and calendar maker
18th century
- 1704: Pedro Vicente Maldonado , Ecuadorian cartographer and polymath
- 1707: Carl Heinrich von Heineken , art writer and collector, director of the Dresden Kupferstichkabinett
- 1709: Johann Evangelist Holzer , German-Austrian painter of the Augsburg Baroque
- 1719: Felix Adam Joseph von Fugger-Glött , Cologne canon
- 1724: Johann Conrad Ammann , Swiss doctor, natural history and art collector
- 1724: William Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton , British governor of the Province of South Carolina
- 1729: Manuel Abad y Lasierra , Spanish bishop
- 1734: Heinrich Wilhelm von Anhalt , Prussian officer
- 1737: Silas Deane , member of the American Continental Congress and US diplomat
- 1739: Allen Jones , American politician
- 1742: Everard Scheidius , Dutch Reformed theologian, philologist and orientalist
- 1745: William Paterson , American statesman, Supreme Court Justice
- 1749: Karl Gottfried Hagen , German pharmacist and scientific polymath
- 1752: Joan Petit i Aguilar , Spanish Catalan scholar and grammarian
- 1755: Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret , French politician and writer
- 1758: Christian Adam Dann , German pastor and animal welfare pioneer
- 1762: Selim III. , Ottoman Sultan
- 1769: Franz Alexander von Kleist , German poet
- 1770: Karl Wilhelm von Kopp , Hessian finance minister
- 1773: Joseph Woelfl , Austrian pianist and composer
- 1777: Franz Joseph Weinzierl , German Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1781: Georg Jakob Strunz , German musician and composer
- 1783: Luigi Catenazzi , Swiss educator and politician
- 1784: Helena Pawlowna Romanowa , Russian Grand Duchess
- 1791: Eugène Scribe , French playwright
- 1796: Fernán Caballero , Spanish writer
- 1798: Adam Mickiewicz , Polish national poet
- 1800: Ferdinand Keller , Swiss archaeologist and archaeologist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1803: Karl Ludwig Drobisch , German composer
- 1809: Kit Carson , American pioneer and explorer
- 1810: Vilhelm Marstrand , Danish painter
- 1818: James Prescott Joule , British physicist
- 1819: Ludwig Foglár , Austrian lawyer and writer
- 1819: Adalbert Kraetzig , Prussian Ministerial Director and MdR
- 1821: Gabriel García Moreno , Ecuadorian politician
- 1822: Charles Hermite , French mathematician
- 1822: Matthew Arnold , British poet and cultural critic
- 1824: Peter Cornelius , German composer
- 1828: Jacob Achilles Mähly , Swiss classical philologist
- 1829: Benjamin Ipavec , Slovenian composer
- 1833: Jacob Cramer , Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian
- 1834: Albert von Boguslawski , German military writer and general
- 1837: Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie , Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Duchess in Bavaria
- 1837: Carl Stephan , German chronicler
- 1837: Cosima Wagner , German director of the Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner's second wife
- 1838: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele , Danish mathematician and astronomer
- 1841: Julian Treumann , German chemist
- 1844: Wilhelm Spemann , German publisher
- 1845: George I , King of Greece
- 1848: Carl Gotthilf Büttner , German Protestant missionary, pastor and linguist
1851-1900
- 1854: Julius Elster , teacher and physicist
- 1854: Friedrich Körte , German architect
- 1859: Samuel Fischer , German publisher ( S. Fischer Verlag )
- 1859: Ludwig von Estorff , German general
- 1859: Roman Statkowski , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1860: Friedrich Buri , Swiss politician, member of the National Council
- 1860: Johannes Debus X. , German politician
- 1860: Julius Korngold , Austrian composer
- 1863: Enrique Fernández Arbós , Spanish violinist, conductor and composer
- 1864: Stéphan Elmas , Turkish-Armenian composer and pianist
- 1865: Amalie Maria , Countess of Württemberg
- 1866: Maria Silbert , Austrian elementary school teacher who became known as the “Seer of Waltendorf”
- 1867: Tevfik Fikret , Turkish poet
- 1868: Wilhelm Gilbert , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant martyr
- 1868: Emanuel Lasker , German world chess champion
- 1868: Georg Meyer , German sports shooter
- 1869: Henriette Roland Holst , Dutch poet and politician
- 1869: Adam von Au , German educator and politician, MdL
- 1870: Rosario Scalero , Italian violinist, music teacher and composer
- 1871: Timothy Thomas Ansberry , American lawyer and politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1872: Frederick Semple , American golf and tennis player
- 1875: Otto Ender , Austrian politician, Governor of Vorarlberg, Federal Chancellor
- 1878: Gustav von Bergmann , German internist and medicine professor
- 1879: Clemente Micara , Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
- 1879: Edmund Ernst Stengel , German historian and diplomat
- 1880: Hermann Haller , Swiss sculptor
- 1880: Waldemar Pabst , German officer and putschist
- 1881: Charles Wakefield Cadman , American composer
- 1881: Anton Fehr , German agricultural economist and politician, MdR, Reich Minister
- 1881: Juan Ramón Jiménez , Spanish poet and prose writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1881: Otto Lukas , German teacher, poet and writer
- 1886: Peco Bauwens , German football player
- 1886: Michael Curtiz , Hungarian-American film director
- 1887: Heinrich Addicks , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1887: Louis Jouvet , French actor, director and theater manager
- 1888: Willi Schlage , German chess master
- 1889: Osmín Aguirre y Salinas , Sans-Salvadoran military
- 1890: Rosebery d'Arguto , Polish music teacher, composer and conductor
- 1890: Amerigo Bartoli , Italian painter and caricaturist
- 1890: Alfred Neveu , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- 1891: Rudolf Amend , German politician, member of the state assembly of Greater Hesse, which advises the constitution
- 1892: Ewald Aufermann , German professor
- 1893: Ruth Chatterton , American actress
- 1893: Wout Buitenweg , Dutch football player
- 1893: Harry Warren , American musician, composer, and songwriter
- 1894: Willi Auerswald , German SS Oberscharführer
- 1894: Friedrich Ruge , German admiral, inspector of the navy
- 1894: Josef Ständer , German doctor and politician, MdR
- 1895: Josef Uridil , Austrian football player
- 1896: Jens Oliver Lisberg , Faroese law student
- 1898: Hans Böttcher , German radio pioneer, radio play director and speaker
- 1898: Baby Dodds , American jazz drummer
- 1898: Anton Hilbert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1899: Eugeniusz Arct , Polish painter and university professor
- 1899: Käthe Kluth , German philologist and English specialist
- 1899: Carl Troll , German geographer
- 1900: Ion Valentin Anestin , Romanian caricaturist, painter, sculptor, journalist and playwright
- 1900: Joey Smallwood , Canadian politician
- 1900: Carl Voscherau , German actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Otto Basil , Austrian writer, publicist and journalist
- 1901: Alexander Alexandrovich Fadejew , Soviet writer
- 1901: Enrique Mejía Arredondo , Dominican composer and conductor
- 1902: Vinzenz Nohel , Austrian National Socialist, war criminal
- 1902: Jean de Menasce , French theologian and orientalist
- 1902: Ilse Häfner-Mode , German visual artist
- 1903: Joseph Cornell , American sculptor, painter, and experimental filmmaker
- 1903: Ulrich Scheuner , German constitutional lawyer
- 1904: Hugo Friedrich , German Romanist
- 1905: Hans Geiger , German football player
- 1905: Howard Hughes , American entrepreneur and aviation pioneer
- 1906: Paul Bromme , German journalist, politician and resistance fighter, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1906: Joseph Cardinal Höffner , Archbishop of Cologne, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference
- 1906: Wolfgang Kayser , German Germanist and literary scholar
- 1906: Eduard Leuze , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
- 1906: Paul Mehlitz , German field hockey player
- 1906: Franz Waxman , German film composer, conductor and arranger
- 1907: John Cardinal Cody , Archbishop of Chicago
- 1908: Adam Marczyński , Polish painter
- 1909: Georgi Wassiljewitsch Afanassjew , Belarusian chess composer
- 1909: Adam Rapacki , Polish politician, minister
- 1909: Robert Mächler , Swiss writer and journalist
- 1910: Ellen Braumüller , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1910: Fritz Leiber , American actor and science fiction writer
- 1910: Max Miedinger , Swiss graphic artist and typographer
- 1910: Giannis Papaioannou , Greek composer
- 1910: Heinrich Vetter , German entrepreneur
- 1914: Alfred Dompert , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1914: Dorothy Hyson , American actress and code breaker
- 1914: Herbert Reinecker , German journalist and author
- 1915: Jean Vallerand , Canadian composer, music critic and conductor
- 1916: Hans Affentranger , Swiss racing car driver
- 1916: Lalo Guerrero , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- 1916: Carlo Rustichelli , Italian film music composer
- 1917: Armin Scheurer , Swiss athlete and soccer player
- 1918: Dave Bartholomew , American jazz musician
- 1919: Werner Arend , German politician, MdL
- 1919: Pierre Soulages , French painter and printmaker
- 1920: Hiroyuki Agawa , Japanese writer
- 1920: Harry de Groot , Dutch composer
- 1920: Franco Lucentini , Italian writer
- 1921: Bill Dudley , American football player
- 1922: Ava Gardner , American actress
- 1922: Jonas Mekas , Lithuanian film director and writer
- 1924: Mohammed Rafi , Indian playback singer for Hindi films
- 1924: Alois Schilliger , Swiss composer, conductor and piano player
- 1925: Claude Frank , German-American pianist
1926-1950
- 1927: Mary Higgins Clark , American crime writer
- 1927: Angelika Schrobsdorff , German writer
- 1928: Siegurd Fitzek , German actor
- 1928: Manfred Rommel , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart
- 1928: Lev Nikolajewitsch W Lassenko , Russian pianist and piano teacher
- 1929: Timothy Brinton , British news anchor and politician
- 1929: Margaret Ponce Israel , American ceramicist and painter
- 1929: Lennart Skoglund , Swedish football player
- 1931: Walter Abish , American writer
- 1931: Ray Bryant , American jazz pianist
- 1931: Christian Enzensberger , German writer
- 1931: Mauricio Kagel , Argentine-German composer and conductor, librettist and director
- 1931: Uwe Lüthje , German-Austrian economist
- 1931: Harald Serafin , Austrian operetta singer
- 1932: Fritz Deppert , German educator and writer
- 1932: Marshall Davidson Hatch , Australian biochemist and plant physiologist
- 1932: Karl Matthäus Winter , German sculptor
- 1934: Beda Vickermann , German missionary
- 1934: Enrique Dussel , Argentine philosopher, historian and theologian
- 1934: Noël Lancien , French composer and conductor
- 1934: Stjepan Mesić , Croatian politician, President
- 1935: Karl-Heinz Bernhardt , German meteorologist
- 1936: Chris McGregor , South African pianist, composer and band leader
- 1937: Elisabeth Fehrenbach , German historian
- 1937: Bernt Rosengren , Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist
- 1938: Hartmuth Arenhövel , German theoretical nuclear physicist
- 1938: Hans Küppers , German football player
- 1938: Mesias Maiguashca , Ecuadorian composer
- 1939: Herty Lewites , Nicaraguan politician
- 1939: Christiane Schmidtmer , German actress and model
- 1940: Anthony Stephen Fauci , American immunologist
- 1940: Erich Maas , German football player
- 1941: Michael Billington , British actor
- 1941: Hans Eichel , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister of Finance
- 1941: Manfred Schurti , Liechtenstein car racing driver
- 1942: Frieder Döring , German doctor and writer
- 1942: Rolf Gaißmaier , German football player
- 1942: Dominique Manotti , French novelist and historian
- 1943: Tarja Halonen , Finnish politician, president
- 1943: Volker Kriegel , German jazz guitarist and cartoonist
- 1943: Robert Kurz , German journalist
- 1943: Godehard Schramm , German writer, storyteller and radio editor
- 1944: Frithjof Bergmann , German philosopher
- 1944: Lothar Ibrügger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1944: Erhard Keller , German speed skater, Olympic champion
- 1944: Dan Miller , Canadian politician
- 1944: Tony Pierce-Roberts , British cameraman
- 1944: Woody Shaw , American jazz trumpeter and composer
- 1945: Peter Houseman , English football player
- 1945: Lemmy Kilmister , British singer, bassist and songwriter ( Motörhead )
- 1945: Nicholas Meyer , American writer, screenwriter, and director
- 1945: Helmut Sauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945: Eva María Zuk , Mexican pianist of Polish origin
- 1946: Jan Akkerman , Dutch musician, rock and jazz guitarist
- 1946: Andrew Yao , Chinese computer scientist
- 1946: Vittorio Giardino , Italian comic book artist and author
- 1946: Erwin Pröll , Austrian politician, governor of Lower Austria
- 1947: Michael Arnal , German screenwriter and director
- 1947: Brigitte Meyer , German politician, MdL
- 1947: Jean Léturgie , French comic book writer
- 1948: Edwige Fenech , Italian film actress
- 1948: Frank Jürgen Krüger , German rock musician
- 1948: Menghisteab Tesfamariam , Eritrean bishop
- 1949: Paul R. Abramson , American psychologist and sexologist
- 1949: Warwick Brown , Australian racing car driver
- 1949: Barbie Millowitsch-Steinhaus , German actress and radio play speaker
- 1949: Willi Reimann , German soccer player and coach
- 1950: Jürgen Achtel , German soccer player
- 1950: Dana Gioia , American poet, essayist, and literary critic
1951-1975
- 1951: Beppo Pohlmann , German singer and songwriter ( Gebrüder Blatt Schuss )
- 1952: Lorne Calvert , Canadian politician and clergyman, Prime Minister of Saskatchewan
- 1952: Helmut Schüller , Austrian priest, President of Caritas Austria
- 1953: Doris Plenert , German actress, theater director, broadcaster, journalist and book author
- 1953: Christina Weiss , German journalist and politician
- 1953: Hans-Jürgen von Bose , German composer
- 1954: Lorenz Caffier , German politician, member of the People's Chamber, MdL, State Minister
- 1954: Christian Ruck , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954: Ulrike Kriener , German actress
- 1954: Peter Ehret , German voice actor
- 1954: Cynthia Folio , American composer, flautist and music teacher
- 1955: Hans Söllner , German singer and songwriter
- 1955: Clarence Gilyard Jr. , American actor
- 1956: Irene Khan , Bangladeshi lawyer, International Secretary General of Amnesty International
- 1956: Stephanie Hodge , American actress
- 1957: António André , Portuguese football player
- 1957: Andy Baum , Austrian pop musician
- 1957: Othmar Karas , Austrian politician, MEP
- 1957: Hamid Karzai , Afghan politician, President
- 1957: Martin Trocha , German soccer player
- 1958: Marc Abrams , American bass player
- 1958: Lea Sölkner , Austrian ski racer, world champion
- 1958: Hans Spaan , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 1959: Lee Daniels , American film producer, film director, and actor
- 1959: Irene Fischer , German actress
- 1959: Anil Kapoor , Indian actor and producer
- 1959: Michaela Noll , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1960: Zeeteah , British singer
- 1960: Peter Hauk , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1960: Tshamano Sebe , South African actor
- 1961: İlham Əliyev , Azerbaijani politician, president
- 1961: Thomas Bäppler-Wolf , German entertainer, travesty artist and choreographer
- 1961: François Moutin , French jazz bassist
- 1961: Louis Moutin , French jazz drummer
- 1961: Wade Williams , American actor
- 1962: David Cobb , American lawyer and politician
- 1963: Well Marie Aidt , Danish writer
- 1963: Olaf Berger , German pop singer
- 1963: Myriam Décroze , French painter
- 1964: Bernd Michael Lade , German actor and director
- 1964: Jean-Paul Civeyrac , French film director
- 1965: Bernd Drücke , German sociologist
- 1965: Volker Felgenhauer , German composer
- 1966: Jörg Behrend , German gymnast, world champion
- 1966: Carolin Fink , German-Austrian actress, singer and pianist
- 1966: Karsten Neumann , German politician, MdL
- 1966: Dirk van den Boom , German political scientist and science fiction author
- 1967: Rupert Henning , Austrian author and actor
- 1968: Astrid Strauss , German swimmer, world champion, Olympic medalist
- 1969: Milan Blagojevic , Australian soccer player
- 1969: Pernille Fischer Christensen , Danish director
- 1969: Leavander Johnson , American boxer
- 1969: Andy Liebing , German boxer
- 1969: Ed Miliband , British politician, minister, Labor Party leader
- 1969: Mark Millar , British comic book writer
- 1969: Gintaras Staučė , Lithuanian football player
- 1970: Christian von Boetticher , German politician
- 1970: David Donatien , French musical instrumentalist
- 1970: Amaury Nolasco , Puerto Rican actor
- 1970: Will Oldham , American actor, songwriter and musician ("Bonnie 'Prince' Billy")
- 1971: Giorgos Alkeos , Greek pop musician
- 1971: Christian Baumeister , German animal filmmaker, director and producer
- 1971: Fabrice Borer , Swiss football player
- 1971: Christopher Daniels , American wrestler
- 1971: Sascha Fischer , German rugby player
- 1971: Ricky Martin , Puerto Rican pop singer
- 1971: Eva Inés Obergfell , German lawyer and university professor
- 1972: Álvaro Mesén , Costa Rican soccer player
- 1972: Richard Dutruel , French football player
- 1972: Carmen Moore , Canadian actress
- 1972: Matt Passmore , Australian actor
- 1973: Hans Burkhard , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1973: Shawn Heins , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973: Stephenie Meyer , American author of children's books
- 1973: Eddie Pope , American football player
- 1974: Fary Faye , Senegalese soccer player
- 1974: César García Calvo , Spanish cyclist
- 1974: Paal Nilssen-Love , Norwegian drummer
- 1974: Henny Reents , German actress
- 1974: Marcelo Salas , Chilean football player
- 1974: Ryan Seacrest , American television and radio host
- 1974: JD Walsh , American actor
- 1975: Keith Loach , Canadian skeleton rider
1976-2000
- 1976: Chan Chia Fong , Malaysian badminton player
- 1976: Lynn Chen , American actress and musician
- 1976: Florian Karlheim , German actor
- 1976: Marion Rodewald , German hockey player, Olympic champion
- 1977: Américo , Chilean singer
- 1977: Carlos Meza , Colombian boxer
- 1978: Yıldıray Baştürk , Turkish football player
- 1978: Harald Planer , Austrian soccer player
- 1978: Christian Prokop , German handball player and coach
- 1979: Virginie Arnold , French archer
- 1979: Oğuzhan Bahadır , Turkish football player
- 1979: Henrico Botes , Namibian soccer player
- 1979: Ariane Grundies , German author
- 1979: Chris Hero , American wrestler
- 1979: Bozo Kovacevic , Austrian football player
- 1979: Sanny Lindström , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1979: Svetlana Pospelowa , Russian athlete, world champion
- 1980: José Aguilar , Venezuelan racing cyclist
- 1980: Stephen Appiah , Ghanaian soccer player and coach
- 1980: Anusch Aršakyan , Armenian musician
- 1980: Cassidey , American porn actress and model
- 1980: Maria Götze , German disabled athlete in swimming, Paralympics winner
- 1980: Tomas Kalnoky , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- 1980: Jason Miller , American martial artist
- 1981: Nneka , Nigerian singer
- 1981: Dima Bilan , Russian pop singer
- 1981: Xatar , German rapper and music producer
- 1982: Tetsuya Kakihara , Japanese seiyū and singer
- 1982: Akifumi Okuyama , Japanese ice hockey player
- 1982: Masaki Aiba , Japanese singer and actor
- 1983: Irina Krush , American chess player
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- 1983: Lorielle London , German transsexual entertainer
- 1984: Wallace Spearmon , American athlete
- 1984: Dominik Koll , Austrian swimmer
- 1984: Dickson Wamwiri , Kenyan Taekwondoin
- 1985: David Ragan , American NASCAR racing driver
- 1985: Christina Schwanitz , German shot putter, world champion
- 1986: Hoon Thien How , Malaysian badminton player
- 1986: Christian Rompf , German handball player
- 1986: Theodor Gebre Selassie , Czech football player
- 1988: Sitamadji Allarassem , Chadian football player
- 1988: Alexander Auerbach , German handball player
- 1988: Stefanos Athanasiadis , Greek football player
- 1988: Momodou Ceesay , Gambian soccer player
- 1988: Felix Lobrecht , German comedian and podcaster
- 1988: Nura , Eritrean German-speaking rapper, singer, actress and author
- 1989: Maxine Birker , German soccer player
- 1989: Ömer Kanca , Turkish football player
- 1989: Diafra Sakho , Senegalese soccer player
- 1990: Marcel Glauche , German actor and director
- 1990: Lars Hartig , German rower
- 1990: Michael Lewis , American racing car driver
- 1991: Isabel Bongard , German actress
- 1991: Marcel Mathis , Austrian ski racer
- 1991: Maxim Alexejewitsch Kizyn , Russian ice hockey player
- 1991: Louis Tomlinson , British singer ( One Direction )
- 1992: Serge Aurier , Ivorian football player
- 1993: Ririn Amelia , Indonesian badminton player
- 1995: Soleil Borda , American actress
- 1995: Lynden Gooch , American soccer player
- 2000: Maria Ludovica Costa , Italian rower
- 2000: Rusty-Jake Rodriguez , Austrian dart player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 361: George of Cappadocia , Arian bishop
- 978: Hanno , Bishop of Worms
- 1003: Wilhelm II. , Count of Weimar
- 1015: Megingod , Archbishop of Trier
- 1027: Hartwig II , Count Palatine of Bavaria and Count in the lower Salzburggau
- 1089: Burkhard von Oltigen , Bishop of Lausanne
- 1132: Erkenbert von Frankenthal , nobleman, monastery founder and provost
- 1143: Miles de Gloucester, 1st Earl of Hereford , Anglo-Norman nobleman
- 1149: Otto von Machland , Lord of Perg and Machland
- 1193: William d'Aubigny, 2nd Earl of Arundel , English nobleman
- 1193: Roger III. , King of Sicily
- 1198: William de Vere , Lord Chancellor of England
- 1221: Arnold von Matsch , Bishop of Chur
- 1236: Conrad IV von Tann , Bishop of Speyer
- 1257: Johann von Avesnes , Count of Henngau
- 1271: Konrad von Rosdorf , Marshal of the County of Henneberg
- 1281: Henry V , Count of Luxembourg, Count of Laroche and Margrave of Arlon
- 1298: Teodorico Borgognoni , Dominican monk, Bishop of Cervia and doctor of Pope Innocent III.
- 1317: Jean de Joinville , French companion and chronicler of Louis IX.
- 1331: Philip I , Prince of Taranto, Albania and Achaia
- 1344: Heinrich IV. , Count von Bar
- 1380: Johannes von Neumarkt , Chancellor of Emperor Charles IV and writer
- 1383: Hugh Dacre, 4th Baron Dacre , English nobleman and politician
- 1400: Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas , Scottish nobleman
- 1420: Mikuláš z Husi a Pístného , Bohemian nobleman, Hussite politician and military leader
- 1431: Konrad von Vechta , Bishop of Verden and Olmütz and Archbishop of Prague
- 1453: John Dunstable , English composer
- 1456: Đurađ Branković , Serbian despot
- 1462: Peter Zmrzlík von Schweising the Younger , Bohemian nobleman
- 1471: Sigismund of Saxony , Bishop of Würzburg
- 1496: Heinrich XXVII. von Schwarzburg , Archbishop of Bremen and Bishop of Munster
16th to 18th centuries
- 1503: Konrad Loste , Bishop of Schwerin
- 1507: Georg Emmerich , merchant and mayor of Görlitz
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- 1524: Vasco da Gama , Portuguese navigator and explorer
- 1526: Veit Hirschvogel , German glass painter
- 1534: Antoine Augereau , French type cutter, typographer, bookseller and publisher
- 1535: Nils Lykke , Norwegian Imperial Council
- 1538: Anna Reinhart , citizen of Zurich, wife of the reformer Ulrich Zwingli
- 1541: Andreas Bodenstein , called Karlstadt, German theologian, priest, university professor and reformer
- 1568: Heinrich V. von Plauen , Burgrave of Meißen and Lord of Plauen
- 1588: Louis II. De Lorraine-Guise , French cardinal, Archbishop of Reims
- 1601: Johannes Dinckel , German theologian
- 1629: Elisabeth Sophie von Brandenburg , Princess of Radziwiłł and Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
- 1635: Hester Jonas , victim of the witch hunt
- 1635: Georg Silberschlag the Younger , German Lutheran clergyman
- 1647: Albert Burgh , Amsterdam doctor and mayor
- 1658: Friedrich Scultetus , German theologian
- 1660: Maria Henrietta Stuart , Princess of Orange and Countess of Nassau
- 1669: Johann Quistorp the Younger , German professor of theology, rector of the University of Rostock
- 1683: Amalia von Degenfeld , Baroness von Degenfeld
- 1692: Maria Antonia of Austria , Electress of Bavaria
- 1706: Oswald Onghers , Flemish painter
- 1707: Noël Coypel , French painter
- 1707: Charlotte von Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau , Duchess of Liegnitz, Brieg and Wohlau and by marriage Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg
- 1707: Gottlob Friedrich Seligmann , German theologian
- 1708: Otto de la Bourde , Prince-Bishop of Gurk
- 1720: Georg Friedrich Dinglinger , German painter and enamelur
- 1729: Manuel Abad y Lasierra , Spanish bishop
- 1742: Bogislaw Friedrich von Dönhoff , Prussian major general
- 1750: Christian Döring , Leipzig architect and builder
- 1752: Franz Anton von Dücker , priest and canon in Cologne
- 1760: Philipp Jacob Borel , German physician and university professor
- 1762: Johann Friedrich Constabel , East Frisian organ builder
- 1766: Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen , abbess of the imperial monastery Gandersheim
- 1773: Ludwig van Beethoven , German singer, grandfather of the composer of the same name
- 1792: Philipp Ludwig Wittwer , German medic
19th century
- 1803: George I , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- 1804: Martin Vahl , Norwegian-Danish botanist
- 1812: Friedrich , Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
- 1813: Go-Sakuramachi , Japanese empress
- 1823: James Gandon , British architect
- 1824: Johann Christoph von Aretin , German publicist, historian, librarian and lawyer
- 1824: Pushmataha , Choctaw Indian chief
- 1837: David E. Jackson , American trapper and fur trader
- 1837: Johann Christian Stark the Younger , German medic
- 1847: Edmund Tyrell Artis , British pioneer in paleobotany and archeology
- 1847: Karl Gustav Brinckmann , Swedish diplomat and German poet
- 1857: Félix Cazot , French music teacher and composer
- 1861: Carl Gottlieb Bellmann , German musician
- 1863: William Makepeace Thackeray , British writer
- 1865: Paula Elisabeth Cerioli , founder of the Italian order
- 1868: Adolphe d'Archiac , French geologist and paleontologist
- 1869: Edwin M. Stanton , American politician, Secretary of War
- 1872: William John Macquorn Rankine , British physicist and engineer
- 1873: Johns Hopkins , American businessman and philanthropist
- 1874: Hermann Püttmann , German publicist, editor, journalist and art critic of the Vormärz, co-founder of the German-language press in Australia
- 1878: Lucy Anderson , English pianist
- 1880: Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Luden , German legal scholar
- 1880: Simon Oppenheim , German banker
- 1884: August Otto , Austrian businessman
- 1885: Sanford Christie Barnum , American dentist, inventor of the rubber dam
- 1887: Daniel Manning , American journalist, businessman, and politician, Secretary of the Treasury
- 1888: Michail Tarielowitsch Loris-Melikow , Russian general, interior minister, chief of the secret police
- 1889: Adolf Ignaz Mautner von Markhof , Austrian industrialist
- 1890: Gustav von Duvernoy , Württemberg lawyer, private scholar and politician
- 1890: Edward Thomas Loseby , British chronometer maker
- 1891: Johannes Janssen , German historian
- 1895: Kuno von Auer , Prussian major general
- 1896: Andreas Ascharin , Baltic-Russian chess player, writer, educator and translator
- 1898: Scharbel Machluf , Maronite monk
- 1898: Eugeniusz Pankiewicz , Polish composer and pianist
- 1899: August von Miller zu Aichholz , Austrian industrialist, patron and private scholar
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Takayama Chogyū , Japanese writer
- 1909: Ernst von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy , German private banker
- 1914: John Muir , British-American natural scientist, writer and geologist
- 1922: Emil Frey , Swiss politician, National Councilor, Federal Councilor
- 1930: Eduard David , German politician, MdL, MdR, President of the Weimar National Assembly
- 1930: Oskar Nedbal , Bohemian composer and conductor
- 1932: Eyvind Alnæs , Norwegian composer
- 1932: Chaim Eitingon , Leipzig tobacco merchant and benefactor
- 1932: Bruno Rothschild , German priest
- 1933: Aribert von Anhalt , regent of the Duchy of Anhalt
- 1934: George WP Hunt , American politician, governor of Arizona
- 1935: Alban Berg , Austrian composer
- 1938: Carl Miele , German designer and industrialist
- 1938: Bruno Taut , German architect and urban planner
- 1942: Friedrich Klose , German composer
- 1942: François Darlan , French admiral and politician, minister, head of government of Vichy France
- 1945: Franz Amann , Liechtenstein politician
- 1945: Max Amann , German swimmer and water polo player
- 1945: Ernst Brandis , German lawyer, Reich judge
- 1945: Theodor Edler von Lerch , Austrian officer and ski pioneer
- 1946: Josef Schregel , German local poet
- 1949: Karl von Roques , German officer and military functionary, President of the Reich Air Protection Association, war criminal
- 1949: Wilhelm Schüffner , Dutch microbiologist and immunologist
- 1950: Adolf Attenhofer , Swiss writer and Indologist
1951-1975
- 1953: Carl Cremer , German lawyer and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1955: Hugo Chaim Adler , Belgian composer, cantor and choir director
- 1955: Carl Ramsauer , German physicist
- 1956: Arthur Stellbrink , German racing cyclist
- 1956: Paul Stricker , German educator and mycologist
- 1957: Maurice Schilles , French cyclist, Olympic champion
- 1957: Norma Talmadge , American actress
- 1958: Henry Heinemann , German-Dutch tropical medicine specialist
- 1959: Edmund Goulding , American film director
- 1962: Wilhelm Ackermann , German mathematician
- 1966: Gaspar Cassadó , Spanish cellist
- 1969: Mary Barratt Due , Norwegian pianist and music teacher
- 1971: Maria Koepcke , German-Peruvian ornithologist
- 1972: César Geoffray , French composer and choir director
- 1973: Gerard Peter Kuiper , American astronomer
- 1973: Sergei Stepanowitsch Tschachotin , Russian microbiologist and social visionary
- 1974: Theophil Spoerri , Swiss Romance philologist
- 1975: Bernard Herrmann , American composer
- 1975: Fritz Meyer-Scharffenberg , German writer
- 1975: Jean Welz , Austrian painter and architect
- 1975: Erhard Wetzel , German lawyer and Nazi racial ideologist
- 1975: Franz Wittmann , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
1976-2000
- 1976: Otto Seeger , German politician, trade unionist and resistance fighter
- 1977: Samael Aun Weor , Colombian occultist
- 1977: Peruchín , Cuban pianist, composer and arranger
- 1977: Walter Flemming , German metal designer, goldsmith, sculptor and restorer
- 1977: Edmund Veesenmayer , German constitutional lawyer, party official and diplomat, war criminal
- 1978: Edgar Arro , Estonian composer and organist
- 1978: Wilhelm Knevels , German theologian and university professor
- 1979: Rudi Dutschke , German sociologist and student leader
- 1980: Karl Dönitz , German naval officer, Commander in Chief of the Navy, President of the Reich, war criminal
- 1980: Heikki Liimatainen , Finnish athlete, Olympic champion
- 1981: Hans Krauss , German soccer player and coach
- 1982: Erich Koß , German urban planning officer and economic functionary
- 1982: Louis Aragon , French writer
- 1983: Isobel Baillie , British soprano
- 1983: Alfons Erb , German journalist, founder of the Maximilian Kolbe factory
- 1984: Jupp Arents , German racing cyclist
- 1984: Ian Hendry , British actor
- 1984: Harry Waxman , British cinematographer
- 1984: Peter Lawford , British actor
- 1985: Ramazan Avcı , Turkish terrorist victim
- 1985: Tommy Blake , American rockabilly and country musician
- 1987: Eugen Kogon , German publicist, sociologist and political scientist
- 1987: Fritz Kukuk , German author and poet
- 1987: Joop den Uyl , Dutch politician, minister, prime minister
- 1987: Fritz Wiedemann , German painter and sculptor
- 1987: Roland Peter Litzenburger , German graphic artist, painter and sculptor
- 1989: Heinz Gietz , German composer and music producer
- 1989: Karl Stommel , German teacher and historian
- 1989: Karl Adolphs , German politician and functionary
- 1990: Friedrich Luft , German theater critic
- 1991: Alfons Goppel , German politician, MdL, State Minister, Prime Minister of Bavaria, MEP
- 1992: Peyo , Belgian comic artist, creator of the Smurfs
- 1993: Pierre Auger , French physicist
- 1993: Anita Dorris , German actress
- 1993: Jupp Jost , German painter, graphic artist and sculptor
- 1993: Georges Straka , Czech-French romanist and phonetician
- 1993: Norman Vincent Peale , American pastor and author
- 1993: Wilhelm Neudecker , German entrepreneur and football official, President of FC Bayern Munich
- 1994: Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel , Austrian actress
- 1994: John Boswell , American historian
- 1994: Gordon Cleaver , British fighter pilot
- 1994: John Osborne , British playwright
- 1994: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Uvarow , Russian-Soviet ice hockey player and coach, world champion, Olympic champion
- 1994: Jochem Schindler , Austrian Indo-Europeanist
- 1995: Martin Achter , German priest and prelate
- 1995: Margaret Harrison , British violinist
- 1995: Hans Kössel , German molecular biologist and university professor
- 1996: Gottfried Forck , German theologian and Protestant bishop
- 1996: Nguyễn Hữu Thọ , Vietnamese politician, President
- 1997: Toshirō Mifune , Japanese actor
- 1997: Horst Geipel , German politician, MdL
- 1997: James Komack , American film director, producer, actor and screenwriter
- 1998: Syl Apps , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1998: Peter Janssens , German musician, composer and music publisher
- 1998: Peter Seum , German actor
- 1998: Matt Gillies , Scottish football player and coach
- 1999: Grete Stern , German photographer and designer
- 1999: Maurice Couve de Murville , French politician, minister, prime minister
- 1999: João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo , Brazilian officer and politician, director of intelligence, president
- 2000: Nick Massi , American singer ( The Four Seasons )
- 2000: John Cooper , British automobile designer and racing driver
- 2000: Lothar Krall , German officer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
21st century
- 2001: Max Bignens , Swiss stage and costume designer
- 2001: Harvey Martin , American football player
- 2001: Friedrich Rau , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 2002: Mohammed Al-Fassi , Saudi Arabian-Moroccan businessman
- 2002: Anatol Feid , German clergyman and peace activist
- 2002: Hermann Kochanek , German clergyman and university professor
- 2002: Dolores Viesèr , Austrian writer and narrator
- 2003: Fritz Buchthal , German-Danish neurophysiologist
- 2003: Didier Rimaud , French poet and composer
- 2003: Hans Schickelgruber , Austrian politician, Mayor of St. Pölten, Federal Councilor
- 2003: Wolfgang Wilmanns , German physician and university professor
- 2004: Johnny Oates , American baseball player
- 2004: Helmut Palmer , German civil rights activist and pomologist
- 2004: Lauri Silvennoinen , Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic medalist
- 2004: José R. Somoza , Nicaraguan general
- 2004: Jan van Vlijmen , Dutch composer
- 2005: Jack S. Annon , American psychologist
- 2005: Georg Johannesen , Norwegian writer, translator, painter and politician
- 2005: Constance Keene , American pianist and music teacher
- 2005: Harold Lawton , British French-speaking novelist
- 2005: Michael Vale , American actor
- 2006: Kenneth Sivertsen , Norwegian guitarist and songwriter, jazz singer, composer and humorist
- 2006: Nerses The Nersessian , Armenian Archbishop
- 2007: Jan Daniec , Polish football player
- 2007: Reinhard Heß , German ski jumper and ski jumping trainer
- 2007: Michael B. Klein , American entrepreneur
- 2007: Andreas Matzbacher , Austrian professional cyclist
- 2007: George Warrington , US railroad manager
- 2008: Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist and author
- 2008: Manfred Karnetzki , Protestant theologian, publicist and peace activist
- 2008: Otto Lange , German painter and musician
- 2008: Harold Pinter , British playwright and director, Nobel Prize winner
- 2009: Marcus Bakker , Dutch journalist and politician
- 2009: Giulio Bosetti , Italian actor and theater director
- 2009: Rafael Caldera , Venezuelan politician, President
- 2009: Denis Harbor , Canadian singer
- 2009: Aiga Rasch , German illustrator
- 2009: Günter Straßmeir , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary, Member of the Bundestag
- 2009: Gero von Wilpert , German author and literary scholar
- 2010: Helmut Lenz , German lawyer and politician, MdL
- 2010: Roy Neuberger , American financier and patron of modern art
- 2010: Ingeborg Renner , German politician, MdA
- 2010: Eino Tamberg , Estonian composer
- 2011: Johannes Heesters , Dutch-Austrian singer and actor
- 2011: Al Russell , American musician and songwriter
- 2012: Charles Durning , American actor
- 2012: Jack Klugman , American actor
- 2013: Helga M. Novak , German-Icelandic writer
- 2014: Buddy DeFranco , American jazz clarinetist
- 2014: Herbert Harris , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 2014: Yevgeny Korolkov , Soviet gymnast, Olympic champion, world champion
- 2014: Krzysztof Krauze , Polish film director and screenwriter
- 2014: Paul Röhner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Lord Mayor of Bamberg
- 2016: Richard Adams , British writer
- 2016: Rick Parfitt , British musician
- 2020: Ivry Gitlis , Israeli-French violinist
- 2020: Adramé Ndiaye , Senegalese basketball player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Christmas eve
- Adam and Eve , first parents of mankind (Protestant, Roman Catholic)
- Mathilda Wrede , Finnish benefactress (Protestant)
Further entries can be found in the list of days of remembrance and action .
Web links
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Wiktionary: Christmas Eve - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
