24th July
The July 24 is the 205th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 206th in leap years ), thus remain 160 days by year end.
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Politics and world events
- 1245: Pope Innocent IV deposes the Portuguese King Sancho II and appoints his brother Alfons III. to the regent .
- 1525: The Spaniard García Jofre de Loaísa sets out on behalf of Charles V from A Coruña with seven ships for the second European circumnavigation of the world . Its chief navigator is Juan Sebastián Elcano . Captain Andrés de Urdaneta will be one of the few to survive the hapless nine-year expedition.
- 1534: The French explorer Jacques Cartier reaches the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River and takes possession of the area on the Gaspésie peninsula for the French crown.
- 1557: In the Edict of Compiègne , the French King Henry II threatens the Huguenots with jurisdiction if they disrupt order.
- 1567: Maria Stuart thanks in favor of her son Jacob VI. leaves as Queen of Scotland and flees to England .
- 1572: The Spaniards conquer the Inca fortress Vilcabamba and take the last Inca Túpac Amaru prisoner.
- 1699: Huguenot religious refugees from France accepted by Johann Philipp von Isenburg-Offenbach found Neu-Isenburg .
- 1701: The French officer Antoine Laumet builds Fort Detroit . The city of Detroit developed from the trading post .
- 1712: In the Battle of Denain in the War of the Spanish Succession, the French army led by Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars wins a great victory over Allied troops under the command of Prince Eugene .
- 1759: In the French and Indian War , the British defeat a French army that had come to the relief of Fort Niagara in the battle of La Belle Famille . The French occupation of the strategically important fort surrendered the following day.
- 1824: The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes the first example of an opinion poll . In the race for the US presidency is Andrew Jackson against John Quincy Adams with 335 169 votes in the opinion forward.
- 1847: Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , a Mormon denomination , establish the city of Salt Lake City and establish their own territory on the Great Salt Lake .
- 1866: After Tennessee ratified the 13th and 14th amendments to the United States Constitution and abolished slavery in its own constitution in 1865 , it rejoins the Union as part of the Reconstruction as the first state of the Confederation after the American Civil War .
- 1868: The first international women's rights organization emerges in Switzerland as part of the women's movement . The Genevan marie goegg-pouchoulin founded the Association internationale des femmes .
- 1908: After a successful uprising by the Young Turks under the leadership of Ismail Enver , Ahmet Cemal and Mehmet Talât , Sultan Abdülhamid II reinstates the constitution of 1876 in the Ottoman Empire , which had been suspended since 1878 .
- 1922: The British mandate over Palestine is confirmed by the League of Nations .
- 1923: In the Treaty of Lausanne after the Turkish War of Liberation , the provisions of the Treaty of Sèvres, concluded after the First World War, are revised and the borders between Turkey and Greece are redefined. " Ethnic cleansing " is also legitimized on both sides.
- 1929: The Briand-Kellogg Pact to outlaw war, named after US Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand , comes into force.
- 1943: Operation Gomorrah , the destruction of Hamburg by Allied air raids, begins.
- 1953: Walter Ulbricht is elected First Secretary General of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany .
- 1959: In front of running television cameras, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and US Vice President Richard Nixon comment on the advantages and disadvantages of communism and capitalism in the kitchen debate in Moscow .
- 1967: On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the State of Canada and the world exhibition in 1967, the French President Charles de Gaulle provoked a speech to 100,000 people in Montreal with the words: Long live free Québec ! The Québec-libre affair leads to a government crisis in Canada under Prime Minister Lester Pearson and to a strengthening of the separation efforts in Québec .
- 1974: US President Richard Nixon is obliged by the US Supreme Court in the Watergate affair to release tapes of conversations from the White House .
- 1974: With the return of the former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis from exile in Paris and his swearing in that night, the seven-year Greek military dictatorship ends and, under Western pressure, the return to a democratically governed Greece begins.
- 1995: In Israel, six civilians are killed by a suicide bomber on a bus in Ramat Gan.
- 2001: Bulgaria's ex-King Simeon II becomes Prime Minister under his real name Simeon Sakskoburggotski .
business
- 2005: The multinational television broadcaster Telesur , created on the initiative of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez , begins broadcasting for Latin America .
science and technology
- 1837: While testing a parachute he had developed , the Briton Robert Cocking had a fatal accident in front of a large crowd near Greenwich. He is the first person to be killed when jumping with a parachute. The failed attempt reduced further interest in this technology over several decades.
- 1895: Sigmund Freud for the first time completely interprets his own dream: the dream of Irma's injection at Bellevue Palace.
- 1911: In the Peruvian Andes, an expedition led by Hiram Bingham discovers the ruined city of Machu Picchu from the Inca period .
- 1931: The rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin takes off from Friedrichshafen on its one-week polar voyage under the direction of Hugo Eckener .
- 1950: From the launch site at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is the Bumper 8 the first missiles launched.
- 1969: Apollo 11 lands in the Pacific Ocean .
Culture
- 1506: The Red Tower in Halle is officially completed.
- 1922: The artist group Die Welle opens the first exhibition of the works of its members in a pavilion in Prien am Chiemsee .
- 1964: World premiere of the opera Don Rodrigo by Alberto Ginastera at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires .
religion
- 1177: In a meeting in Venice , Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa recognizes Pope Alexander III. as lawful and does not hold on to Antipope Calixt III. fixed.
- 2020: The first Friday prayer takes place in Hagia Sophia after it has been rededicated in a mosque.
Disasters
- 1915: The passenger steamer Eastland capsizes on a pier in Chicago , killing 845 people.
- 2010: At the Love Parade in Duisburg there was a mass panic , as a result of which 21 people died and at least 652 were injured.
- 2013: 79 people died in the railway accident in Santiago de Compostela ; over 140 other passengers on the train are injured.
- 2014: On Air Algérie flight 5017 ( flight number : AH5017) from Ouagadougou to Algiers , a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 rented by the Spanish Swiftair crashes on Malian territory: all 116 passengers (6 crew members and 110 passengers) were killed in the accident. about life.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1883: While trying to swim the Whirlpool Rapids of the Niagara River for £ 12,000 prize money , Matthew Webb is dragged down by a whirlpool . His body is found four days later.
- 1908: The Italian Dorando Pietri is the first to enter the stadium in the marathon of the Summer Olympics in London , but is so exhausted that he collapses several times and only crosses the finish line with outside help. The victory is then revoked and the American John Hayes is declared an Olympic champion.
- 1938: The first ascent of the Eiger north face is successfully completed.
- 2005: The VII World Games , which have been running in Duisburg since July 14, end with the closing ceremony. The most successful nation in the games of non-Olympic sports is Russia, ahead of Germany and Italy.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1242: Christina von Stommeln , mystic in the late Middle Ages
- 1462: Johannes Manardus , Italian doctor
- 1468: Catherine of Saxony , second wife of Archduke Siegmund of Tyrol
- 1508: Andreas von Barby , Danish politician and Bishop of Lübeck
- 1561: Anna Maria von der Pfalz , Princess of Sweden and Duchess of Södermanland
- 1574: Thomas Platter , Swiss doctor and writer
- 1576: Hermann Czernin von Chudenitz , Austrian diplomat and soldier
- 1636: Samuel Bachmann , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1654: Michael Förtsch , German Lutheran theologian
- 1660: Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury , British politician
- 1664: Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg , Archbishop of Trier and Mainz
- 1679: Philipp Gerlach , German architect
- 1686: Benedetto Marcello , Italian Baroque composer
18th century
- 1703: Justus Juncker , German painter
- 1714: Michael Morgenbesser , Silesian doctor
- 1717: Matías de Gálvez y Gallardo , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1720: Luise Ulrike of Prussia , Queen of Sweden
- 1725: John Newton , British composer
- 1727: Maria Anna Sagar , German writer
- 1732: Johann Georg Bechtold , German philosopher, literary scholar, rhetorician and Protestant theologian
- 1737: Alexander Dalrymple , British geographer
- 1738: Betje Wolff , Dutch author
- 1742: Giocondo Albertolli , Swiss sculptor and architect
- 1759: Victor Emanuel I , King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Duke of Savoy
- 1766: Julie von Voss , morganatic wife of King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia
- 1783: Simón Bolívar , South American politician and president
- 1798: John Adams Dix , American politician
- 1800: Friedrich Georg Wieck , German writer and industrialist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802: Alexandre Dumas the Elder , French writer
- 1803: Adolphe Adam , French opera composer
- 1807: Wilhelm Seyfferth , Leipzig banker, entrepreneur and railroad pioneer
- 1813: Georg Friedrich Walz , German pharmacologist
- 1815: Arnaud-Michel d'Abbadie , French geographer
- 1817: Adolf I , Duke of Nassau and as Adolphe Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- 1817: Bernhard Höfling , German draftsman, painter, lithographer and author
- 1822: Adolf Overweg , German astronomer, geologist and Africa explorer
- 1823: Arthur I. Boreman , American politician
- 1823: Johann Friedrich Minssen , German linguist
- 1825: Anna de La Grange , French opera singer
- 1827: Francisco Solano López , President of Paraguay
- 1828: Nikolai Gavrilowitsch Tschernyschewski , Russian publicist
- 1830: Nikolaus Dumba , Austrian industrialist and politician
- 1832: John J. Bagley , American politician
- 1836: Johannes C. Achelis , German businessman and entrepreneur
- 1836: Evelyn Ashley , British writer and politician
- 1840: Abraham Goldfaden , Ukrainian composer, Yiddish folk poet and founder of modern Yiddish theater
- 1840: Karl Christoph Heinebuch , royal music director, church musician and organist
- 1841: Francisco António da Veiga Beirão , Portuguese politician and head of government
- 1842: Antonina Ivanovna Abarinova , Russian opera singer
- 1843: William de Wiveleslie Abney , British chemist and photographer
- 1846: Rudolf Hirth du Frênes , German painter
- 1847: Margarete Steiff , German entrepreneur, founder of the Steiff toy factory
1851-1900
- 1852: Leonardo Fea , Italian explorer, zoologist, draftsman and animal collector
- 1857: Juan Vicente Gómez , Venezuelan dictator
- 1857: Henrik Pontoppidan , Danish writer
- 1857: Gotō Shimpei , Japanese medic and statesman
- 1858: Wolfgang Kapp , German administrative officer and putschist
- 1860: Charlotte of Prussia , Duchess of Saxony-Meiningen
- 1860: Alfons Mucha , Czech poster artist
- 1861: Benno von Achenbach , German founder of the art of carriage driving
- 1861: Maurice Renaud , French singer
- 1864: Frank Wedekind , German writer, playwright and actor
- 1868: Max Buri , Swiss painter
- 1872: Orpha-F. Deveaux , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer
- 1872: Gabriela de Hinojosa , Spanish nun, one of the seven martyrs of Madrid
- 1873: Bernard Arens , Luxembourg theologian and writer
- 1874: Irene Alföldi , Hungarian opera singer
- 1876: Herbert Douglas Austin , American Romanist and Italianist
- 1876: Jean Webster , American writer
- 1877: Henriette Schrott-Pelzel , Austrian writer
- 1878: Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany , Irish writer
- 1878: Sophie Rogge-Börner , German writer
- 1878: Basil Ruysdael , American actor
- 1880: Ernest Bloch , Swiss-American composer
- 1880: Anna Müller , Austrian gardener and Righteous Among the Nations
- 1881: Emma Lautenschlager , German politician
- 1883: Christian Börger , German organ builder
- 1883: Katia Mann , wife of Thomas Mann
- 1883: Klaus Pringsheim senior , German conductor, composer, music teacher and music critic
- 1884: Jakob Sprenger , German National Socialist politician
- 1885: Hermann Clausen , politician of the Danish minority in Schleswig-Holstein
- 1885: Paul von Hase , German professional soldier and resistance fighter
- 1886: Else von Schaubert , German English scholar and philologist
- 1888: Grace Hayle , American actress
- 1888: Charlotte Leubuscher , German social and economic scientist
- 1889: Agnes Meyer Driscoll , American cryptanalyst
- 1889: Hertha Pohl , German writer
- 1890: Leo Santifaller , Austrian historian
- 1890: Selma Stern , German historian
- 1892: Alice Ball , American chemist
- 1892: Rina De Liguoro , Italian pianist and actress
- 1894: Magda Julin , Swedish figure skater
- 1894: Alma Rogge , German writer
- 1895: Robert Graves , British novelist and poet
- 1896: Hermann Kasack , German writer
- 1897: Amelia Earhart , American aviation pioneer and suffragette
- 1897: Gertrud Schäfer , German Protestant pastor in Thuringia
- 1898: Roman Chwalek , German politician, Minister for Labor in the GDR
- 1898: Rosa von Waldeck , German-American writer and journalist
- 1899: Dan George , Canadian actor and chief of the Salish Indian tribe
- 1899: Elisabeth Groß , German housewife and a victim of the Nazi justice system
- 1900: Zelda Fitzgerald , American author
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Mabel Albertson , American actress
- 1901: Sophie Nostitz-Rieneck , daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este
- 1902: Hans Chemin-Petit , German composer
- 1902: Senta Geißler , German painter
- 1904: Léo Arnaud , American musician
- 1904: Rosemarie Reichwein , German reform pedagogue
- 1905: Omobono Tenni , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1906: Gianfranco Comotti , Italian racing driver
- 1906: Clemens Wilmenrod , Germany's first TV chef
- 1907: Julija Pavlovna Awerkijewa , Soviet ethnologist
- 1907: William Chalmers , Scottish football player and coach
- 1909: Werner Ansel , German administrative officer
- 1909: Sydney Bromley , British actor
- 1910: Trude Fontana , Austrian writer
- 1910: Harry Horner , Austrian production designer and director
- 1911: Kazys Ambrozaitis , Lithuanian radiologist and professor
- 1911: Rudolf Liechtenhan the Younger , Swiss dramaturge and ballet specialist
- 1912: Kurt Hager , German politician, member of the Central Committee and the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR, was considered the SED's chief ideologist
- 1912: Essie Summers , New Zealand writer
- 1913: Hermann Scheipers , German Roman Catholic priest and concentration camp survivor
- 1914: Frances Oldham Kelsey , Canadian-American pharmacologist
- 1914: Riccardo Malipiero , Italian composer
- 1915: Zoltán Kádár , Hungarian archaeologist and art historian
- 1915: Johanna Lenz , German art historian
- 1916: Elly Koch , Swiss embroiderer and author
- 1917: Tetjana Jablonska , Ukrainian painter
- 1918: Humaira Begum , Afghan wife of Mohammed Sahir Shah
- 1919: Ferdy Kübler , Swiss cyclist, first Swiss Tour de France winner
- 1920: Bella Abzug , American politician and suffragette
- 1920: Constance Dowling , American actress
- 1921: Bertl von Massow , German chess official
- 1921: Clementine von Schuch , German concert and opera singer
- 1922: Babs Englaender , German painter and draftsman
- 1922: Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP, Federal Minister
- 1923: Warren E. Hearnes , American politician
- 1923: Albert Vanhoye , French Jesuit, theologian and cardinal
- 1924: Sigrid Abel-Struth , German music teacher and music writer
- 1924: Jakob Mayr , Austrian auxiliary bishop of Salzburg
- 1925: Ignacio Aldecoa , Spanish writer
- 1925: Mikhail Jakowlewitsch Zwilling , Russian translator, interpreter, linguist and translation scholar
1926-1950
- 1926: Hans Günter Winkler , German show jumper
- 1927: Inge Lange , German functionary of the FDJ, member of the Central Committee of the SED, candidate for the Politburo
- 1928: Antanas Rekašius , Lithuanian composer
- 1928: Rosemarie Schuder , German writer
- 1929 Albert Rueprecht , Austrian actor
- 1930: Madonna Buder , American nun and triathlete
- 1930: Margrit Twellmann , German scientist, lecturer and pioneer of German women's history research
- 1931: Ruth Greuner , German writer, editor, editor and journalist
- 1932: Sandra Giles , American actress and model
- 1932: Ruth Ryste , Norwegian politician and minister
- 1933: John Aniston , Greek-American film and stage actor
- 1934: Willie Davis , American football player and entrepreneur
- 1935: Luisella Boni , Italian actress
- 1935: Gerd Deutschmann , German actor
- 1936: Arthur Brauss , German actor and voice actor
- 1936: Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer , German director and politician
- 1937: Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch , British politician
- 1937: Jürgen Rochlitz , German scientist and politician
- 1938: José Altafini , Italian-Brazilian soccer player
- 1938: Barbara Grobien , German patron, golf athlete and honorary citizen of Bremen
- 1939: Walt Bellamy , American basketball player
- 1939: Susanna Hönig-Sorg , Austrian writer
- 1939: Jürgen Hubbert , German manager, member of the Board of Management of DaimlerChrysler AG
- 1939: Werner Lichtner-Aix , German painter and graphic artist
- 1940: Dieter Bellmann , German actor
- 1940: Cynthia Moss , American researcher, conservationist and author
- 1941: Ernst Elitz , German journalist and university professor
- 1941: Erna Hennicot-Schoepges , Luxembourg pianist and politician
- 1942: Gernot Endemann , German actor and voice actor
- 1942: Elisabeth Erdmann , German history teacher and ancient historian
- 1942: Al Lowe , American game developer
- 1942: Chris Sarandon , American actor
- 1942: Ilse Tschörtner , German translator and post-poet of Russian literature
- 1942: Christine Wieynk , German politician
- 1943: Loni von Friedl , Austrian actress
- 1943: Karin from Siepen , German badminton player
- 1944: Cristina Almeida , Spanish lawyer and politician
- 1944: Jan-Carl Raspe , German terrorist in the Red Army faction
- 1945: Helga van Beuningen , German translator
- 1945: Linda Harrison , American film actress and model
- 1946: Wolfgang Dietrich , German entrepreneur
- 1946: Rosemary Dorothy Moravec , British-Austrian musicologist, author and composer
- 1947: Minou Drouet , French writer
- 1947: Heinz Richter , German cyclist
- 1948: Jürgen Hildebrandt , German handball trainer and handball player
- 1948: Alexander Waechter , Austrian actor, director and general manager
- 1949: Olga Dmitrijewna Karassjowa , Russian-Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion
- 1949: Gabriele Senft , German photographer and photo journalist
- 1949: Marc Yor , French mathematician
- 1950: Ignacio Quereda , Spanish football coach
- 1950: Theodor Rieländer , German football player
- 1950: Walter Schachermayer , Austrian financial mathematician
1951-1975
- 1951: Lynda Carter , American actress, singer, and beauty queen
- 1951: Beatrice Frey , Swiss-Austrian actress
- 1952: Sandy Poulsen , American ski racer
- 1952: Gus Van Sant , American film director and photographer, musician and author
- 1953: Thomas Bürger , German philologist and librarian
- 1953: Claire McCaskill , American politician
- 1954: Erdoğan Arıca , Turkish soccer player, coach and sports manager
- 1954: Jorge Jesus , Portuguese football coach
- 1955: Dagmar Borrmann , German dramaturge and university professor
- 1955: Andy Töfferl , Austrian musician
- 1956: Charlie Crist , American politician
- 1956: Alix Dudel , German singer and actress
- 1956: Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt , German moderator
- 1956: Carmen Nebel , German presenter
- 1956: Marianne Thyssen , Belgian politician
- 1957: Shavkat Mirziyoyev , Uzbek politician
- 1957: Pam Tillis , American country singer
- 1958: Alexandra Schörghuber , German entrepreneur
- 1958: Julie Zickefoose , American nature writer , biologist, bird illustrator, and blogger
- 1959: Giuseppe Abbagnale , Italian rower
- 1959: Tilmann P. Gangloff , German journalist and author
- 1959: Saskia Vester , German actress
- 1960: Elvira Dones , Albanian writer
- 1960: Stefanie Grüssl , Austrian artist
- 1961: Amy Buchwald , American actress, writer, and comedian
- 1961: Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio , Spanish politician
- 1962: Andreas Meurer , German musician
- 1962: Johnny O'Connell , American racing car driver
- 1963: Karl Malone , American basketball player, Olympic champion
- 1963: Lars Nieberg , German show jumper
- 1964: Barry Bonds , American baseball player
- 1964: Barbara Meisner , German artist
- 1964: Banana Yoshimoto , Japanese writer
- 1965: Ludger Keitlinghaus , German chess master
- 1965: Alexander Puzrin , Swiss geoscientist and geotechnician
- 1966: Aminatou Haidar , Saharawi human rights activist
- 1966: Martin Keown , English soccer player
- 1967: Melania Singer , Swiss film editor
- 1968: Christian Beetz , German film producer, director and lecturer
- 1968: Kristin Chenoweth , American musical artist and film actress
- 1968: Klaus Klaffenböck , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1968: Jörg Lemberg , German film composer
- 1969: Burkhard Balz , German politician, MEP
- 1969: Jennifer Lopez , American pop singer and actress
- 1970: Carl-Christian Dressel , German politician and university professor, Member of the Bundestag
- 1970: Elli Kokkinou , Greek folk-pop and modern laika singer
- 1970: Tim Montgomerie , British activist, blogger and columnist
- 1970: Christer Olsson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1970: Gerald Ressmann , Austrian ice hockey player
- 1971: Dino Baggio , Italian football player
- 1971: Patty Jenkins , American film director
- 1971: André Schubert , German soccer player and coach
- 1972: Luca Cattaneo , Italian ski racer
- 1972: Waltraud Deeg , Italian politician
- 1972: Kaiō Hiroyuki , Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1973: Andreas Bisowski , German actor, radio play speaker , theater director and playwright
- 1973: Daniel Günther , German politician
- 1973: Johan Micoud , French football player
- 1973: Nana Yuriko , German-Japanese director, screenwriter, camerawoman and film producer
- 1974: Ham Bong-sil , North Korean long distance runner
- 1974: Iosif Polterovich , Israeli-Canadian mathematician
- 1975: Konrad Bansa , German handball and beach handball goalkeeper
- 1975: Jamie Langenbrunner , American ice hockey player
- 1975: John O'Shea , Irish darts player
- 1975: Torrie Wilson , American model and professional wrestler
1976-2000
- 1976: Rafer Alston , American basketball player
- 1976: Laura Fraser , British actress
- 1976: Josef Heynert , German actor
- 1976: Tiago Monteiro , Portuguese racing driver
- 1977: Mehdi Mahdavikia , Iranian soccer player
- 1979: Rose Byrne , Australian actress
- 1979: Bo Spellerberg , Danish handball player
- 1981: Nayib Bukele , Salvadoran politician
- 1981: Summer Glau , American dancer and actress
- 1982: Anna Paquin , Canadian-New Zealand actress
- 1982: Adrian Wehner , German handball player
- 1983: Daniele De Rossi , Italian soccer player
- 1984: Elmo , German rapper
- 1984: Juha-Matti Ruuskanen , Finnish ski jumper
- 1985: Pankaj Advani , Indian snooker and English billiards player
- 1985: Felix Danner , German handball player
- 1985: Teagan Presley , American porn actress
- 1986: Fernando Tissone , Argentine soccer player
- 1986: Natalie Tran , Australian actress, writer and vlogger
- 1987: Mara Wilson , American film actress
- 1989: Fredrik Lindström , Swedish biathlete
- 1989: Felix Loch , German luge rider
- 1990: Iso Sluijters , Dutch handball player
- 1990: Dean Stoneman , British racing car driver
- 1991: Emily Bett Rickards , Canadian actress
- 1991: Lucas Scupin , German actor
- 1993: Nina Heglund , Norwegian-British handball player
- 1993: Andreas Linde , Swedish football goalkeeper
- 1994: Alexandra Jurjewna Prokopjewa , Russian ski racer
- 1996: Davide Plebani , Italian cyclist
- 1996: Negative OG , German rapper
- 1998: Tara Fischer , German actress
- 1998: Anton Grammel , German ski racer
Died
Before the 18th century
- Hilduin , Bishop of Liège and Verona, Archbishop of Milan 936:
- 1042: Heribert , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1115: Mathilde von Canossa , Margravine at Canossa Castle in the Tuscan Apennines
- 1129: Shirakawa , 72nd Tennō of Japan
- 1198: Berthold , bishop in Livonia
- 1240: Konrad of Thuringia , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1266: Albrecht II von Mutzschen , Bishop of Meissen
- 1282: Heinrich , Count von Pfannberg
- 1292: Kinga of Poland , Hungarian princess, Polish duchess and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1299: Emich I , Bishop of Worms
- 1313: Ralph Baldock , English clergyman
- 1328: Isabella of Castile , Infanta of Castile, Queen of Aragon and Duchess of Brittany
- 1394: Alexander Stewart, 1st Earl of Buchan , Scottish nobleman
- 1433: Gerhard VII , Count of Holstein and pretender of Schleswig
- 1466: Johann III. von Werder , Bishop of Merseburg
- 1475: Albrecht von Eyb , German lawyer, early humanist writer and translator
- 1503: Luise of Savoy , French nobleman and nun
- 1513: Johannes Reborch , German clergyman, prior of the Augustinian canons in Bordesholm
- 1568: Don Carlos , son of King Philip II of Spain
- 1584: Johann Sagittarius , German Protestant theologian
- 1587: Johann Stucke , Chancellor of the Swedish Government for the Duchy of Bremen-Verden
- 1597: Johannes Posthius , German doctor and poet
- 1655: Friedrich von Logau , German Baroque poet
- 1663: Thomas Baltzar , German violinist and composer
- 1677: Ignatius Andreas Akhidjan , Catholic Patriarch
- 1681: Agafja Semjonovna Grushetskaya , as wife of Fjodor III. Tsarina of Russia
18th century
- 1702: François Langlade , French Roman Catholic priest, archpriest in the Cevennes
- 1704: Honorius Aigner , Austrian Benedictine and abbot of the Kremsmünster monastery
- 1705: Christoph Burckhardt , Basel politician
- 1713: Peter Witte , bailiff of Fehmarn
- 1716: Johann Georg Haresleben , Austrian stonemason and baroque sculptor
- 1720: Kilian Stumpf , German Jesuit and priest in the China mission
- 1739: Benedetto Marcello , Italian composer
- 1742: Octavio Broggio , Bohemian architect and builder of the high baroque
- 1747: Kaspar Ignaz von Künigl , Prince-Bishop of Brixen
- 1748: Heinrich XXIV. , Count Reuss von Schleiz zu Köstritz
- 1752: Michael Christian Festing , English violinist and composer
- 1771: Johann George von Lindenau , German nobleman
- 1774: Johann George Schmidt , German builder of the late Baroque and council carpenter in Dresden
- 1790: Johann Friedrich Hiller , German pedagogue, rhetorician and philosopher
- 1791: Ignaz von Born , Austrian mineralogist and geologist
19th century
- 1804: Martin Knoller , German fresco painter
- 1807: Johann Christoph Kunze , German Protestant theologian
- 1812: Joseph Schuster , German opera composer
- 1815: Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz , Austrian medic and botanist
- 1817: Beda Aschenbrenner , German professor of canon law and abbot
- 1821: Johann Timotheus Hermes , German poet and novelist
- 1826: Richard Clough Anderson , American politician
- 1828: Félix María Calleja del Rey , Spanish general and viceroy of New Spain
- 1830: Carl Gustav Jochmann , German publicist
- 1833: Anastasio Mártir Aquino San Carlos , indigenous prince
- 1862: Martin Van Buren , American politician, 8th President of the USA
- 1869: Otto Philipp Braun , Bolivian Minister of War from Kassel
- 1883: Matthew Webb , British swimmer
- 1895: Joseph-Henri Altès , French flautist and composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1904: Fulvio Fulgonio , Italian writer and librettist
- 1904: Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Koenigs , German banker
- 1905: Adolf Cluss , German-American architect
- 1906: Ferdinand von Saar , Austrian writer, playwright and poet
- 1908: Walter Leistikow , German painter
- 1910: Adolf Winkelmann , German physicist
- 1915: Tommaso Villa , Italian MP and Minister
- 1916: Eugène Anthiome , French composer
- 1917: Ernst Bassermann , German politician
- 1920: Ludwig Ganghofer , German writer
- 1920: Hermann Möckel , German senior seminar teacher, head of city council, club and association functionary
- 1921: Cyrus I. Scofield , American lawyer and theologian
- 1925: Paul Asten , German Imperial Judge
- 1925: Ottilie Baader , German women's rights activist and socialist
- 1927: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke , Japanese poet and writer
- 1930: Šatrijos Ragana , Lithuanian writer
- 1931: Theodor Kipp , German legal scholar
- 1933: Alfredo Helsby , Chilean painter
- 1934: Hans Hahn , Austrian mathematician
- 1935: Hugo Asbach , German brandy manufacturer
- 1935: Frits Went , Dutch botanist
- 1936: Georg Michaelis , German lawyer and Reich Chancellor
- 1938: Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt , German ancient orientalist and ancient historian
- 1941: Josef Leopold , Austrian officer and politician, LAbg., National Director of the NSDAP in Austria, MdR
- 1941: Rudolf Ramek , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 1942: Hendrik Bolkestein , Dutch ancient historian
- 1942: Juan Peiró , Spanish economist and anarchist
- 1945: Rosina Storchio , Italian opera singer
- 1948: Bruno Ahrends , German architect
1951-2000
- 1951: Arno Esch , German politician in the Soviet zone of occupation
- 1953: Hendrik Ebo Kaspers , Dutch anti-militarist and anarchist
- 1956: Alessandro Anzani , Italian engineer and racing driver
- 1957: Sacha Guitry , French actor and film director, screenwriter and playwright
- 1959: Hans Behrendt , German officer
- 1959: Alfred Dehlinger , German politician
- 1960: Hans Albers , German actor and singer
- 1965: Constance Bennett , American actress
- 1965: Hans Jauch , German colonel and free corps leader
- 1966: Carl McKinley , American composer
- 1967: Waddy Kuehl , American football player
- 1968: Hans Welker , German soccer player
- 1970: Gerhard Graubner , German architect
- 1971: Ernst Josef Aufricht , German actor and theater director
- 1971: Christl Mardayn , Austrian actress
- 1972: Edvard Frank , German painter
- 1972: Lance Reventlow , Danish-American racing driver and playboy
- 1974: József Antall , Hungarian lawyer and politician
- 1974: James Chadwick , British physicist
- 1975: Charlotte von Kirschbaum , German theologian
- 1975: Nicolas Rossolimo , French-American chess player
- 1976: Julius Döpfner , German clergyman, Bishop of Berlin, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
- 1977: Emil Botta , Romanian actor and poet
- 1980: Peter Sellers , British film actor and comedian
- 1982: Florence Henri , American painter and photographer
- 1984: Richard Angst , Swiss cameraman
- 1984: Theodor Klauser , German Catholic church historian and Christian archaeologist
- 1986: Fritz Albert Lipmann , German-American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1987: Anna-Eva Bergman , Norwegian painter
- 1988: Helmut Schubert , German soccer player
- 1989: Henri de Costier , French racing car driver
- 1991: Isaac Bashevis Singer , Polish-American Yiddish writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1992: Arletty , French actress
- 1992: Artyom Yuryevich Kopot , Russian ice hockey player
- 1993: Joe Osmanski , American football player
- 1994: Heinz Arnold , German opera director and university professor
- 1995: Sadık Ahmet , Greek politician and surgeon
- 1995: Jerry Lordan , British composer, singer and musician
- 1998: Augustin Augustinović , Croatian religious priest, missionary and writer
- 2000: Oscar Shumsky , American violinist and music teacher
21st century
- 2002: Gaynell Tinsley , American football player and coach
- 2003: Ija Alexejewna Arepina , Soviet actress
- 2003: Heinz Knobloch , German writer
- 2003: Kurt Pahlen , Austrian-Argentinian conductor
- 2003: Hans Schaffert , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 2004: Claude Ballif , French composer
- 2005: Richard Doll , British epidemiologist
- 2005: Dom Um Romão , Brazilian drummer and percussionist
- 2006: Heinrich Hollreiser , German conductor
- 2007: Hans-Georg Ambrosius , German visual artist
- 2007: Albert Ellis , American psychologist and psychotherapist
- 2009: Werner Krusche , German Protestant bishop
- 2009: Wolfgang Mocker , German aphorist
- 2010: Jürgen Abeler , German art collector, master watchmaker, goldsmith and gemologist
- 2010: Theo Albrecht , German entrepreneur, co-founder of Aldi
- 2010: Alex Higgins , Northern Irish snooker player
- 2011: Virgilio Noè , Italian priest, bishop and cardinal
- 2012: Armin Abmeier , German bookseller and editor
- 2012: John Atta Mills , Ghanaian politician, President
- 2013: Garry Davis , American activist
- 2013: Hans-Dieter Taubert , German doctor
- 2014: Jerzy Gross , German Holocaust survivor
- 2014: Alois Spichtig , Swiss graphic artist and sculptor
- 2015: Corsino Fortes , Cape Verdean poet and politician
- 2015: Norbert Wiggershaus , German officer and military historian
- 2016: Eva-Maria Bergmann , German painter and graphic artist
- 2016: Franc Zadravec , Slovenian literary scholar
- 2017: Paul Freiburghaus , Swiss painter
- 2017: Theodor Mebs , German ornithologist
- 2018: Mary Ellis , British pilot
- 2018: Isidor Levin , Estonian folklorist, storyteller and theologian
- 2019: Cherito , Dominican singer, songwriter, arranger and composer
- 2019: Manfred Uhlig , German entertainer
- 2020: Benjamin William Mkapa , Tanzanian politician
- 2020: Regis Philbin , American television presenter
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Christina of Bolsena , Roman martyr (Catholic, Orthodox)
- St. Christopher , martyr and patron saint (Protestant, Catholic (only in Europe))
- Johann Heinrich Volkening , German pastor (Protestant)
- St. Scharbel Machluf , Lebanese monk and Maronite (Catholic)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Pioneer Day in the US state of Utah
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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