March 24th

The March 24 is the 83rd day of the Gregorian calendar (84th in leap years ), thus remain 282 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1078 : Nikephorus III. Botaneiates is crowned Emperor of the Byzantine Empire .

1401: Damascus Citadel

• 1401 : The Mongols under Timur take the Mameluke city ​​of Damascus , but fail with the siege of the citadel .

1603: Jacob I.

• 1603 : With the death of the childless English Queen Elizabeth I , the Scottish King James VI. in personal union as James I also King of England and Ireland . This began the rule of the Stuarts in the British Isles.
• 1663 : The English King Charles II hands over eight Lord Proprietors , who helped him to the accession to the throne, territories in North America named after his father Charles I Carolina .
• 1765 : The British Parliament passes the Quartering Act , according to which the settlers of the American colonies are obliged to house British soldiers.

1794: Poland during the Kościuszko uprising

• 1794 : Under the leadership of Tadeusz Kościuszko , the Polish uprising named after him begins , which will provide Russia, Prussia and Austria with the pretext for the third partition and thus the liquidation of Poland .
• 1794 : Jacques-René Hébert and his followers fall victim to their own call for the intensification of the reign of terror in the French Revolution . Nineteen of them were guillotined after just four days.
• 1816 : Representatives of all Argentine provinces come to the Congress of Tucumán , which subsequently brings about the independence of Argentina .
• 1839 : The Chinese top official Lin Zexu bans in Canton by performing an imperial edict foreigners the opium trade in China and makes 350 merchants in their factories intern . The action conjured up the First Opium War .
• 1843 : With the capture of Hyderabad on the Indus , British troops under General Charles James Napier gain control of the area of Sindh .
• 1848 : The surprise of the garrison in Rendsburg by soldiers from Kiel under the command of Friedrich von Noer marks the beginning of fighting with Denmark in the war for Schleswig and Holstein .

1860: Assassination attempt at the Sakurada Gate

• 1860 : Ii Naosuke , the driving force behind the Ansei purges in Tokugawa shogunate Japan, is killed by a samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle during the Sakuradamon Incident .

1902: Flag of New Zealand

• 1902 : After much controversy, the flag of New Zealand in its current form is adopted by law as the country's official national flag .
• 1921 : During the March fighting, the German Reich President Friedrich Ebert imposes a state of emergency for the Prussian province of Saxony and the Greater Hamburg district based on Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution .

1933: The Enabling Act

• 1933 : With its promulgation, the law passed the day before to remedy the needs of the people and the Reich , the so-called Enabling Act , comes into force. This means that imperial laws passed by the imperial government can deviate from the imperial constitution , whereby this is de facto suspended in the course of the National Socialist seizure of power.
• 1938 : During the Second Sino-Japanese War , the Battle of Tai'erzhuang, which lasts until April 7, begins as part of the Battle of Xuzhou . Japanese troops attempt to capture the Chinese garrison town of Tai'erzhuang near Xuzhou .
• 1940 : The All India Muslim League passes the Lahore resolution at the end of a three-day conference in Lahore under the leadership of Ali Jinnah . It calls for a separate state for Indian Muslims based on the two-nation theory .

1944: The scene of the massacre

• 1944 : During the massacre in the Ardeatine Caves , 335 Italian civilians are shot on the orders of the SS Police Chief of Rome, Herbert Kappler . The massacre is a “retaliatory measure” for the deaths of 33 German soldiers who were killed in a bomb attack by partisans.
• 1944 : 76 Allied prisoners of war manage to escape through a tunnel from the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III near the Silesian Żagań . The escape is 20 years later under the title The Great Escape (The Great Escape) filmed.
• 1945 : In a massacre in Rechnitz , Burgenland , around 180 Hungarian Jews who were used for forced labor are murdered by the National Socialists in a so-called final phase crime.
• 1945 : The Allies start the largest airborne operation in history to cross the Rhine between Emmerich and Wesel with Operation Varsity .
• 1962 : The military appoints General Park Chung-hee as President of the Republic of Korea .

1965: The March from Selma to Montgomery

• 1965 : Martin Luther King achieved his civil rights movement after three days march from Selma from Montgomery to recording Schwarzer be reached in the voters lists. Several people were killed trying to get to the Alabama capital during the Selma to Montgomery marches .
• 1972 : The Northern Irish Parliament is dissolved during the Northern Ireland Conflict and Northern Ireland is placed under the direct control of the government in London.
• 1976 : Argentina's President Isabel Perón is placed under house arrest in a military coup led by Jorge Rafael Videla - the beginning of a six-year military dictatorship during which several thousand people “disappear”.
• 1980 : Óscar Romero , Archbishop of El Salvador and liberation theologian , is murdered by state death squads during a mass - a civil war that has lasted more than ten years begins.

1996: Taiwan Strait

• 1996 : The Kuomintang politician Lee Teng-hui , who openly advocates the secession of Taiwan , is confirmed as head of state in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan , despite the openly threatening military maneuvers by the People's Republic of China on the Taiwan Strait .
• 1999 : The war in Kosovo begins as part of the wars in Yugoslavia with NATO air strikes ( Operation Allied Force ) against Serbian military targets . The attacks ordered by NATO Secretary General Javier Solana are strongly condemned by Russia and the People's Republic of China.
• 1999 : The Council of the European Union agrees on Romano Prodi to succeed Jacques Santer as the new President of the European Commission . The Prodi Commission is sworn in on September 13th.
• 2005 : Angry about the fraud in the parliamentary elections, demonstrators storm the government building in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek . The tulip revolution forces President Askar Akayev and Prime Minister Nikolai Tanajew to resign on the same day. Ischenbai Kadyrbekow is appointed interim president in an urgent meeting.
• 2006 : In Minsk, the Belarusian police break up the camp of demonstrators against the results of the presidential elections on March 19 and against President Aljaksandr Lukashenka .
• 2008 : A national assembly is elected in Bhutan for the first time in the country's history . In the parliamentary elections , the royalists are the clear winner.

2016: The rejected alternate draft flag of New Zealand

• 2016 : The second referendum on the future flag of New Zealand ends in New Zealand . The majority of those who voted are in favor of keeping the old flag.
• 2018 : Under the motto March for Our Lives , hundreds of thousands of schoolchildren demonstrate in Washington, DC for tougher gun laws in the United States after the Parkland School Massacre on February 14th.

economy

1756: King Friedrich II examines potato cultivation

• 1756 : King Friedrich II of Prussia issues a circular order to his officials , with the order "to make the lords and subjects understand the benefits of planting this soil and to advise them that they should plant the potatoes this early year as a very nutritious food. "
• 1908 : Prince Heinrich of Prussia , the brother of Kaiser Wilhelm II , receives a German patent for the hand-operated windshield wiper he invented for the windshields of the motor vehicles of the time . However, his invention is not widely used.
• 1959 : For the first time, German citizens can participate in the privatization of state assets. The people's shares of the Preußische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG (Preussag) are clearly oversubscribed above the volume offered . The federal government is therefore making more of its capital shares available to private individuals than originally intended.
• 2000 : The S&P 500 share index , which includes 500 of the largest US companies, reaches a high of 1527.46 points, which will not be reached again until May 2007 due to the bursting of the dot-com bubble .

science and technology

• 1765 : On the orders of Archduchess Maria Theresa, the training school for the cure of cattle diseases is founded in Vienna . This makes it the third oldest institution of its kind worldwide, after Lyon and Alfort , and the oldest in the German-speaking area.
• 1781 : The galaxy Messier 105 in the constellation Leo is the first to notice the astronomer Pierre Méchain . According to knowledge gained in the meantime, it contains a black hole of around 50 million solar masses .
• 1802 : Richard Trevithick receives a patent for the high-pressure steam engine he developed .
• 1866 : The Scottish missionary and Africa explorer David Livingstone begins his last expedition in Mikindani in search of the source of the Nile.

1882: From Koch's Aetiology of Tuberculosis

• 1882 : Robert Koch reports in his lecture Aetiology of Tuberculosis about his discovery of the causative agent of tuberculosis .
• 1894 : The French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan discovered in the asteroid the asteroid (390) Alma .
• 1998 : First computer-aided bone segment navigation , carried out at the Clinic of the University of Regensburg

Culture

• 1786 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his 24th piano concerto in C minor (KV 491).
• 1881 : The opera Simon Boccanegra by Giuseppe Verdi is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in an extensively revised version after it had failed the audience in 1857.
• 1941 : The drama version of the novel Native Son by Richard Wright is directed by Orson Welles at the St. James Theater premiered in New York.
• 1955 : The play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ( Cat on a Hot Tin Roof ) by Tennessee Williams has its world premiere in the Morosco Theater, New York City, under the direction of Elia Kazan with Barbara Bel Geddes in the lead role. Williams later received the Pulitzer Prize for the piece .
• 1969 : The LP Mothermania by the progressive rock band The Mothers of Invention , which split up in the same year with their original line-up, is released . It contains newly arranged, partly uncut and uncensored versions of previously published pieces and is now a sought-after rarity among collectors.
• 1973 : The British rock group Pink Floyd releases their most successful album The Dark Side of the Moon . It becomes one of the best-selling albums of all time.
• 2002 : At the Academy Awards , two African American actors, Halle Berry and Denzel Washington, received the Oscar for the best leading role for the first time. The big winner is the film A Beautiful Mind - Genius and Madness with four Academy Awards .

society

• 1515 : In the Treaty of Paris , a future engagement between Charles V , then Count of Flanders , and Princess Renée of France is planned. However, the marriage does not come about later.
• 1715 : The widowed General Friedrich von Hessen-Kassel marries the Swedish princess Ulrike Eleonore , the sister of King Karl XII , in Stockholm . Five years later, the couple are the Swedish royal couple.
• 1872 : The first edition of the Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt  , which appeared until 1928 - at times one of the highest-circulation Austrian newspapers - appears in Vienna.
• 1950 : The robbery murderer Johann Trnka was convicted under Austrian law and was the last to be executed in Vienna on the strangling algae.
• 1969 : The newly wed artist couple John Lennon and Yoko Ono invite the public to " bed-in " by giving interviews from the bed of an Amsterdam hotel room in order to use the public interest in their honeymoon in an artistic way for world peace to use.
• 1998 : Two youths, ages 11 and 13, shot dead four students and a teacher and injured 10 others in Jonesboro , Craighead County, Arkansas.

religion

1084: Heinrich IV. (Left) and Clemens III. (Center)

• 1084 : After Emperor Henry IV conquered Rome during the investiture dispute with Pope Gregory VII , Clement III , who was elected on June 25, 1080, becomes . enthroned as antipope .
• 1832 : Joseph Smith , who organized Latter-day Saint Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints months earlier , is tarred and feathered by some Hiram, Ohio residents .
• 1873 : The 8th Bogd Khan sets off from Lhasa with a caravan of over 100 accompanying persons and 1000 camels for Urga , where he arrives safe and sound around 11 months later and is officially enthroned again as head of Buddhism in Mongolia in the Gandan monastery .
• 2005 : After 15 years of litigation, the Berlin Higher Administrative Court ruled that Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany meet the requirements for recognition as a public corporation .

Disasters

• 1878 : The British Royal Navy's training ship HMS Eurydice gets caught in a snowstorm en route from Bermuda to Portsmouth and sinks off the Isle of Wight . Of the more than 350 men on board, only two survive.
• 1923 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in the People's Republic of China about 5000 calls for the dead.

1989: The Exxon Valdez

• 1989 : The oil tanker Exxon Valdez hits a reef off Alaska in Prince William Sound , while the alcoholic Captain Joseph Hazelwood is drunk in his bunk. 40,000 tons of crude oil leak and pollute around 2000 kilometers of coast. Hundreds of thousands of fish, sea birds and other animals are killed in the oil spill . The long-term consequences for the ecosystem cannot be foreseen.
• 1998 : A cyclone destroys several villages in Bangladesh . Over 250 dead and around 3,000 injured are to be mourned.

1999: The Mont Blanc tunnel

• 1999 : A fire breaks out in the cold store of a Belgian truck while driving through the Mont Blanc tunnel , which develops rapidly in the tunnel. 39 people died in the resulting disaster.
• 2015 : When Germanwings flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps, all 150 people on board are killed. The copilot had deliberately steered the aircraft against a mountain range.

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

nature and environment

• 1900 : The last wild passenger pigeon is shot down by the fourteen-year-old son of a farmer in Ohio . Her stuffed hide is kept in a museum in Columbia.
• 1967 : The Chrobry oak is protected as a natural monument in Poland . The tree has existed since around the year 1250 and is the largest pedunculate oak in the country.

2004: Cyclone Catarina

• 2004 : Cyclone Catarina develops in the South Atlantic and moves west towards the Brazilian coast. It is developing into one of the rare storms with hurricane speed there .

Sports

• 1973 : In the German Bundesliga holding shirt advertising their entry. The team from Eintracht Braunschweig is playing for the first time in a game with Jägermeister advertising. The company logo was quickly integrated into the club's coat of arms due to resistance from the DFB .

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 17th century

Georgius Agricola (* 1494)

• 1246 : Heinrich von Mechelen , philosopher, translator and astronomer
• 1257 : Jolanda I of Lusignan , mistress of Lusignan and countess of La Marche
• 1336 : Edward le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser , English nobleman and military man
• 1441 : Ernst of Saxony , Elector of Saxony, Duke of Saxony, Landgrave in Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen
• 1490 : Giovanni Salviati , Cardinal of the Roman Church
• 1494 : Georgius Agricola , German naturalist
• 1529 : Nikolaus Cisnerus , German humanist, lawyer
• 1562 : Ernst VII von Hohnstein , last regent of the County of Hohnstein
• 1565 : Eilhard Lubin , theologian, mathematician, geographer
• 1577 : Franz, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin , Bishop of Cammin

17th century

• 1603 : Johann Conrad Dannhauer , German Protestant theologian, rhetorician, hermeneuticist and poet
• 1607 : Michiel de Ruyter , Dutch admiral
• 1613 : Antonia von Württemberg , founder of the Kabbalistic teaching table in Bad Teinach
• 1621 : Johann von Anhalt-Zerbst , Prince of Anhalt
• 1628 : Sophie Amalie von Braunschweig-Calenberg , Queen of Denmark and Norway
• 1634 : Kurt Christoph Graf von Königsmarck , Swedish military master craftsman and statesman
• 1646 : Marie Elisabeth zu Mecklenburg , abbess of the Gandersheim monastery
• 1653 : Joseph Sauveur , French scientist, founder of scientific acoustics
• 1657 : Arai Hakuseki , Confucian scholar, economist, poet and advisor to the Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu
• 1675 : Friederike von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg , Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst
• 1681 : Georg Philipp Telemann , German baroque composer
• 1684 : Matthias Bel , Hungarian theologian, author, chronicler
• 1684 : Samuel von Schmettau , Prussian Field Marshal General
• 1693 : John Harrison , English clockmaker, inventor of the escapement and temperature compensation, inventor of the ship's chronograph
• 1693 : Campegius Vitringa the Younger , Dutch Reformed theologian
• 1694 : Jacques Dedelley , Swiss Jesuit, theologian and philosopher
• 1697 : Louis César Constantin de Rohan-Guéméné , Bishop of Strasbourg
• 1698 : Christoph Ernst Steinbach , German doctor and lexicographer
• 1699 : Paul Gottlieb Werlhof , German doctor and poet

18th century

• 1701 : Vincent Rumpff , Mayor of Hamburg
• 1720 : Henri-Léonard Bertin , French Minister of Finance
• 1723 : Johann Friedrich Adolf von der Marwitz , Prussian general of the Frederician epoch
• 1724 : Adrian Andreas Pfannenschmidt , German entrepreneur
• 1724 : Wilhelm Heinrich Schultze , German Protestant clergyman
• 1725 : Samuel Ashe , governor of North Carolina
• 1733 : Joseph Priestley , British scientist, philosopher and theologian
• 1739 : Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , German writer, poet, musician, composer, journalist and publicist
• 1752 : Johann Jakob Faesch , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1752 : Johann Peter Petri , German robber and accomplice of the "Schinderhannes"
• 1754 : Joel Barlow , North American poet, statesman, and political writer

Franziska Lebrun (* 1756)

• 1756 : Franziska Lebrun , German soprano and composer
• 1760 : Jesse Franklin , governor of North Carolina
• 1761 : Charles Abbot , British botanist and entomologist
• 1762 : Marcos António Portugal , Portuguese composer of operas and church music
• 1762 : Ferdinand Ernst von Waldstein-Wartenberg , Lieutenant General of the British Army, Commander of the Teutonic Order and supporter of Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1768 : Gabriele von Baumberg , Austrian writer and poet
• 1769 : Christian August Scheller , Privy Councilor of Justice
• 1770 : Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian , French poet
• 1775 : Pauline Auzou , French painter
• 1781 : Anson Green Phelps , American businessman
• 1782 : Georg Wilhelm Keßler , Prussian civil servant and writer
• 1782 : William Owsley , American politician
• 1792 : Friedrich Christian Georg Kapp , German educator
• 1794 : Samuel Weishaupt , Swiss theologian and choir director
• 1795 : Josef von Lipp , Roman Catholic Bishop of Rottenburg
• 1796 : Louis Henry Fontane , German pharmacist
• 1796 : Friedrich Adolph Haage , German gardener and botanist
• 1797 : Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim , Royal Prussian Chamberlain and a patron of the cathedral building

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : George Lance , British painter
• 1802 : Jacob van Lennep , Dutch writer
• 1802 : Alois Joseph Schrenck von Notzing , Archbishop of Prague
• 1802 : Georg Hunaeus , German teacher and geodesist
• 1803 : Wilhelm Scheuchzer , Swiss landscape painter
• 1804 : Emil Lenz , German-Baltic physicist

Maria Malibran (* 1808)

• 1808 : Maria Malibran , French opera singer
• 1808 : Heinrich Otte , German Protestant clergyman, medieval archaeologist and art and church historian
• 1809 : Joseph Liouville , French mathematician
• 1809 : Mariano José de Larra , Spanish writer
• 1811 : Fanny Lewald , German writer
• 1813 : Anton Hansch , Austrian painter
• 1815 : Martin Deutinger , German theologian and philosopher
• 1817 : Fritz von Dardel , Swedish painter and military man
• 1817 : Aimé Maillart , French composer
• 1818 : August Leu , German painter
• 1818 : Ottokar Dörffel , German-Brazilian lawyer, mayors of Glauchau (Saxony) and Joinville (Brazil), editor and publisher
• 1819 : Julius Hoelder , German politician
• 1819 : Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs , German doctor and internist

Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (* 1820)

• 1820 : Alexandre Edmond Becquerel , French physicist
• 1820 : Fanny Crosby , American poet of sacred texts
• 1821 : Mathilde Marchesi , German opera singer and music teacher
• 1829 : George Francis Train , American author
• 1829 : Vicente Barrantes , Spanish poet and politician
• 1829 : Adolf Strodtmann , German writer and translator
• 1829 : Ignacio Zaragoza , Mexican general
• 1829 : Johannes Maria von Renard , German industrialist and politician
• 1830 : Robert Hamerling , Austrian writer, poet and high school teacher
• 1830 : August Höpfner , German poet
• 1830 : Hermann Hüffer , German lawyer and historian
• 1832 : Émile de Kératry , French politician
• 1834 : John Wesley Powell , American explorer
• 1834 : William Morris , British artisan and writer
• 1835 : Josef Stefan , Austrian mathematician and physicist
• 1836 : Ferdinand Heinrich Hermann Strecker , American entomologist and entomologist
• 1837 : George Henry Mackenzie , British-American chess master
• 1837 : Philip of Belgium , Count of Flanders

Georg Ferdinand Howaldt (* 1841)

• 1841 : Georg Howaldt , German entrepreneur and industrialist in shipbuilding ( Howaldtswerke AG ), councilor of commerce
• 1841 : Charles Adolphus Murray, 7th Earl of Dunmore , British nobleman
• 1842 : Gabrielle Krauss , Austrian opera singer
• 1843 : Maria Annunziata of Naples-Sicily , Archduchess of Naples-Sicily and Austria-Hungary
• 1843 : Gabriel von Hackl , German painter
• 1843 : Petko Karawelow , Bulgarian Prime Minister
• 1844 : László Arany , Hungarian poet
• 1845 : Isidor Straus , American businessman and politician
• 1846 : Charles Albert Waltner (or March 23, 1846) French painter
• 1846 : Karl Steiff , German librarian
• 1848 : Achim von Arnim-Bärwalde , German history painter
• 1849 : Franz-Serafin Exner , Austrian physicist

1851-1900

• 1851 : Emil Heuser , German homeland researcher
• 1851 : Jim Hogg , American attorney and governor of Texas
• 1852 : Alexander Schoeller , German banker
• 1853 : Emil Nagel , German officer and traveler to Africa
• 1854 : Agnes Neuhaus , German politician
• 1855 : Josef Jiránek , Czech pianist, composer and music teacher

Olive carpenter (* 1855)

• 1855 : Olive Schreiner , South African writer
• 1856 : Martin Fassbender , German professor, publicist and politician
• 1857 : Joseph Schalk , Austrian pianist
• 1858 : Franz Wieber , German union leader
• 1858 : Samuel Ryder , British seed dealer
• 1858 : Arthur Philipp Flechtner , German artillery officer
• 1859 : Rudolf Jung , German historian and archivist
• 1860 : Julius Goldfeld , German lawyer and politician
• 1861 : Richard Weiskirchner , Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna
• 1863 : William Sherman Jennings , American politician, Governor of Florida
• 1864 : Karel Frederik Wenckebach , German doctor
• 1866 : Franz Josef Wittemann , German politician, President of the Republic of Baden
• 1866 : Jack McAuliffe , Irish-American boxer
• 1866 : Johann Nepomuk Hauser , Austrian prelate and politician
• 1870 : Grigol Tsereteli , Georgian classical philologist
• 1872 : Édouard Nanny , French double bass player and composer, instrumental teacher and pioneer of so-called historical performance practice
• 1872 : Walther Reinhardt , German politician, Prussian Minister of War
• 1873 : Josef Gasser , Austrian composer and church musician
• 1874 : Frieda Fischer-Wieruszowski , German founder, museum director and writer

Harry Houdini (* 1874)

• 1874 : Harry Houdini , Austrian-American escapologist and magician
• 1874 : Luigi Einaudi , Italian politician and financial scientist
• 1875 : John Kern Strecker , American naturalist
• 1875 : Arnold Schultze , German officer and geographer
• 1875 : Johanna Tesch , German politician, MdR, victim of National Socialism
• 1876 : Alfred Berg , German educator and writer
• 1877 : Alexei Silytsch Novikow-Priboi , Russian writer
• 1877 : Georg Axhausen , German dentist
• 1878 : Richard Woldt , German university professor and politician
• 1879 : Fritz Harney , German industrialist and functionary
• 1879 : Wilhelm Laverrenz , German politician
• 1879 : Hela Sander , German writer
• 1880 : Hans Much , German doctor and writer
• 1881 : Wassili Nikolajewitsch Platow , Latvian chess composer
• 1881 : Theodor Blumer , German conductor and composer
• 1882 : Oscar Daumiller , German Protestant pastor
• 1883 : Dorothy Campbell , British golfer

Peter Debye (* 1884)

• 1884 : Peter Debye , Dutch physicist and chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1884 : Eugène Tisserant , French cardinal dean
• 1884 : Paul Trendelenburg , German pharmacologist
• 1884 : Viktor Geramb , Austrian folklorist
• 1885 : Charles Daniels , American swimmer
• 1885 : Otto Hänssgen , German painter
• 1885 : Maria Klemens Philipp Feldmann , German Bishop of the Mariavites
• 1886 : Robert Mallet-Stevens , French architect
• 1886 : Edward Weston , American photographer, founder of "Gruppe f / 64"
• 1887 : Roscoe Arbuckle , American actor and director
• 1887 : Karl Arnstein , Austrian engineer of zeppelin and impact airship construction
• 1887 : Helge Auleb , German officer
• 1887 : Julius Schaxel , German zoologist
• 1887 : Ludwig Schwecht , German officer, landowner and politician
• 1888 : Viktor Kingissepp , Estonian politician
• 1888 : Jameson Thomas , British actor
• 1888 : Friedrich Burmeister , German politician, Minister for Post and Telecommunications in the GDR
• 1889 : Stephen Goosson , American production designer
• 1889 : Albert Hill , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 1889 : Joseph Massolle , German engineer for film sound technology
• 1889 : Gustav Unfried , German football player
• 1891 : Margarete zur Bentlage , German writer
• 1891 : Rudolf Berthold , German fighter pilot in World War I, Free Corps Leader, participant in the Kapp Putsch
• 1891 : Helmut de Boor , German Germanist and literary historian
• 1891 : John Knittel , Swiss writer
• 1891 : Fifi Kreutzer , German painter
• 1891 : Charley Toorop , Dutch painter and lithographer
• 1891 : Sergei Iwanowitsch Wawilow , Russian physicist

Marston Morse (* 1892)

• 1892 : Harold Calvin Marston Morse , American mathematician
• 1892 : Roy Harvey , American country musician
• 1893 : Gastone Brilli-Peri , Italian cyclist, motorcycle and automobile racer
• 1893 : George Sisler , American baseball player and manager
• 1893 : Emmy Göring , German actress
• 1893 : Walter Baade , German astronomer and astrophysicist
• 1893 : Eduard Krüger , German equestrian
• 1894 : Alice Rühle-Gerstel , German writer
• 1894 : Fritz Czermak , German politician
• 1894 : Elsa Respighi , Italian singer and composer
• 1895 : Waldemar Rienäcker , German entrepreneur and military manager

Franz Blücher (* 1896)

• 1896 : Franz Blücher , German Federal Minister
• 1896 : Günther Nebelung , German lawyer, President of the Senate at the People's Court
• 1896 : František Tichý , Czech artist
• 1896 : Gabriele von Magnis , German nobleman, welfare worker and special representative of the Wroclaw Bishop Adolf Bertram for the care of the Catholic “non-Aryans” in Upper Silesia
• 1896 : Curt Reinhard Dietz , German writer
• 1897 : Wilhelm Reich , Austrian psychoanalyst, discoverer of the orgonomist
• 1897 : Carlo Mierendorff , German politician and journalist
• 1897 : Theodora Kroeber , American ethnologist and author
• 1897 : Julius Lorenzen , German civil engineer and local politician
• 1897 : Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg , German district administrator, head of the House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
• 1897 : Marie Howet , Belgian illustrator and painter
• 1898 : Richard Rothe-Roth , German free corps fighter and naval officer
• 1899 : Dorothy C. Stratton , American college professor, Coast Guard member
• 1899 : Albin Fringeli , Swiss poet and author
• 1899 : Karl Geyer , Austrian football player and coach
• 1900 : Hugo Kükelhaus , German writer and educator, philosopher and artist
• 1900 : Iwan Semjonowitsch Koslowski , Russian tenor
• 1900 : Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer , German chief adjutant of the Navy

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Ub Iwerks , American animator and technician
• 1901 : Kim Peacock , British actor, radio play speaker and screenwriter
• 1901 : Josef Pfitzner , Sudeten German historian
• 1903 : Adolf Butenandt , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1903 : Margot Rojas Mendoza , Cuban pianist and music teacher
• 1905 : Willy Bartsch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1905 : Réal Gagnier , Canadian oboist and music teacher
• 1905 : Rudolf Otto Wiemer , German-speaking poet and teacher
• 1906 : Bob Adler , American actor

Birgit Åkesson (* 1908)

• 1908 : Birgit Åkesson , Swedish dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance researcher
• 1908 : Ferdinand Metzenauer , German chess problem composer
• 1909 : Clyde Barrow , American criminal ( Bonnie and Clyde )
• 1909 : Richard Wurmbrand , Romanian Lutheran pastor
• 1910 : Jacques Chailley , French composer and musicologist
• 1911 : Edgar Arro , Estonian composer and organist
• 1911 : Joseph Barbera , American animated film maker and producer
• 1911 : Hans Sion , German beer brewer
• 1915 : Paul Lorenzen , German philosopher, founder of Erlangen constructivism
• 1917 : Constantin Andreou , Greco-French painter and sculptor
• 1917 : John Cowdery Kendrew , British biologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1917 : Otto Rösch , Austrian politician and lawyer
• 1918 : Gerd Martienzen , German actor
• 1919 : Lawrence Ferlinghetti , American poet
• 1919 : Robert Heilbroner , American economist
• 1920 : René Acht , Swiss painter and graphic artist
• 1920 : Gene Nelson , American film director and producer

Mieczysław Pemper (* 1920)

• 1920 : Mieczysław Pemper , German contemporary witness in World War II
• 1921 : Ken Rudd , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1921 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Smyslow , Russian chess grandmaster
• 1922 : King Pleasure , American jazz singer
• 1923 : Brian Naylor , British racing car driver
• 1924 : Karl-Heinz Günther , German crime writer
• 1924 : Helmut Nickel , German comic artist and author
• 1925 : Karl Oskar Blase , German graphic artist
• 1925 : Hans Faber , German football player
• 1925 : Gerhard Riedmann , Austrian actor

1926-1950

• 1926 : Willi Bäuerle , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1926 : Desmond Connell , Archbishop of Dublin
• 1926 : Dario Fo , Italian playwright, director, set designer, composer, narrator, satirist and actor, Nobel Prize winner
  

  Dario Fo (* 1926)
• 1926 : Heriberto Herrera , Paraguayan-Spanish soccer player and coach
• 1927 : Gerald D. Aurbach , American physiologist and endocrinologist
• 1927 : Martin Walser , German writer
• 1928 : Horst Jäger , German writer
• 1928 : Byron Janis , American pianist, composer and musicologist
• 1928 : Karl Orthuber , Austrian entrepreneur and racing driver
• 1929 : Johannes Chemnitzer , German SED functionary
• 1929 : Franz Krienbühl , Swiss speed skater
• 1929 : Charlotte Garbe , German Green Party politician
• 1930 : David Dacko , Central African President
• 1930 : Jean Delire , Belgian film director
• 1930 : Cristóbal Halffter , Spanish composer
• 1930 : Klaus Hartenstein , German soccer player
• 1930 : Steve McQueen , American actor
• 1930 : John Sack , American journalist and writer
• 1931 : Connie Hines , American actress
• 1932 : Helmut Lippelt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1932 : Claus Peter Witt , German television director and screenwriter
• 1934 : Richard Leising , German writer
• 1934 : Ryszard Zub , Polish saber fencer and trainer
• 1935 : Peter Bichsel , Swiss writer
  

  Peter Bichsel (* 1935)
• 1935 : Peret , Spanish singer and guitarist
• 1936 : Alex Olmedo , Peruvian tennis player
• 1937 : Elazar Benyoëtz , Israeli aphorist
• 1937 : Benjamin Luxon , English singer
• 1937 : Peter Matić , Austrian actor
• 1937 : Billy Stewart , American singer and keyboardist
• 1938 : Holger Czukay , German musician
• 1938 : David Irving , British historian and Holocaust denier
• 1938 : Steve Kuhn , American jazz pianist
• 1938 : Jimmy Voytek , American country and rockabilly musician
• 1938 : Larry Wilson , American football player
• 1939 : Masaaki Ueki , Japanese karateka, 10th dan holder
• 1940 : Diane Duchess of Württemberg , German painter and artist
• 1941 : Leopold Auburger , German linguist
• 1941 : Karl Blessing , German publisher
• 1941 : Mara Cruz , Spanish actress
• 1941 : Ulrich Parzany , German theologian and evangelist, leader of the CVJM and ProChrist
• 1943 : Marika Kilius , German figure skater
  

  Marika Kilius (* 1943)
• 1944 : R. Lee Ermey , American actor
• 1944 : Walter Hellmich , German football functionary
• 1944 : Rebecca Horn , German sculptor
• 1944 : Vojislav Koštunica , Serbian Prime Minister and President of Yugoslavia
• 1945 : Ax Genrich , German electric guitarist
• 1945 : Robert Bakker , American paleontologist and painter
• 1945 : Curtis Hanson , American director, actor, and film producer
• 1946 : Robert Becker , American director
• 1946 : Klaus Dinger , German drummer and guitarist (Kraftwerk, Neu! And La Düsseldorf)
• 1946 : Su Kramer , German singer, composer and lyricist
• 1946 : Colin Petersen , Australian actor and musician
• 1946 : Jean-Daniel Raulet , French racing car driver
• 1946 : Herbert Wernicke , German opera director, stage and costume designer
• 1947 : Jiří Bartoška , Czech actor
  

  Jiří Bartoška (* 1947)
• 1947 : Pierre Dieudonné , Belgian racing driver
• 1947 : Aurora Lacasa , German pop singer
• 1947 : Paul McCandless , American jazz musician
• 1947 : Alan Sugar, Baron Sugar , British entrepreneur
• 1948 : Günter Bentele , German professor for public relations and public relations
• 1948 : Reinhard Borchert , German sprinter
• 1948 : Volker Finke , German soccer player and coach
• 1948 : Delio Onnis , Argentine soccer player
• 1949 : Erwin Kremers , German football player
• 1949 : Helmut Kremers , German football player
• 1949 : Ruud Krol , Dutch football player
• 1949 : Nick Lowe , British musician
• 1950 : Johanna Arenhövel , German politician
• 1950 : Alfred Lehmann , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Ingolstadt
• 1950 : Claudia Lux , German librarian

1951-1975

• 1951 : Christian Aichinger , Austrian bank manager
• 1951 : Monika Stolz , German politician, MdL
• 1951 : Tommy Hilfiger , American fashion designer
• 1952 : Dioni Fernández , Dominican merengue musician
• 1952 : Reinhard Genzel , German astrophysicist
• 1952 : Allan Guggenbühl , Swiss psychologist and expert on youth violence

Mathias Richling (* 1953)

• 1953 : Mathias Richling , German cabaret artist, author and actor
• 1954 : Steve LaSpina , American jazz bassist
• 1955 : Candy Reynolds , American tennis player
• 1955 : Hank Roberts , American musician and cellist, singer and composer
• 1955 : Celâl Şengör , Turkish geologist
• 1955 : Michael Kutzop , German soccer player
• 1956 : Josef Auer , Austrian politician
• 1956 : Steve Ballmer , American executive, president and CEO of Microsoft
• 1957 : László I. Kish , Swiss actor
• 1957 : Martin Kolbe , German musician
• 1957 : Thomas Krokowski , German handball player
• 1958 : Albert Carnice , Andorran football player
• 1958 : Joachim Paulick , German local politician

Roland Koch (* 1958)

• 1958 : Roland Koch , German politician, Prime Minister of Hesse
• 1958 : Josef Zeitler , German sculptor
• 1959 : Terrell Anthony , American actor
• 1959 : Renaldo Nehemiah , American track and field athlete
• 1959 : Uwe Schwenker , German handball player and official
• 1960 : Klaus Kern , German physicist
• 1960 : Kelly LeBrock , American actress
• 1960 : Nena , German pop musician
• 1960 : Ralf Regenbogen , German soccer player
• 1960 : Yasser Seirawan , American chess master
• 1961 : Jörg Baberowski , German historian
• 1961 : Nina Hoger , German actress

Yanis Varoufakis (* 1961)

• 1961 : Yanis Varoufakis , Greek / Australian economist and Greek politician
• 1962 : Irina Meszynski , German athlete
• 1963 : Dave Douglas , American jazz trumpeter and composer
• 1963 : Werner Karle , German actor
• 1963 : Torsten Voss , German athlete and bobsleigh athlete
• 1964 : Giovanni Arvaneh , German actor
• 1964 : Claude Landenbergue , Swiss chess player
• 1964 : Marek Kamiński , Polish world traveler
• 1964 : Liz McColgan , British athlete
• 1965 : The Undertaker , American wrestler
• 1965 : Peter Öttl , German motorcycle racer
• 1965 : Patrick Scales , British-German jazz bassist
• 1967 : Kathy Rinaldi Stunkel , American tennis player
• 1967 : Diann Roffe-Steinrotter , American ski racer
• 1967 : Dietmar Schultke , German author
• 1968 : Michael Masula , German actor
• 1969 : Stephan Eberharter , Austrian ski racer, Olympic champion
• 1969 : Ilir Meta , Albanian politician
• 1969 : Elke Hartmann , German ancient historian
• 1969 : Luís Oliveira , Italian football player
• 1969 : José Luis Oltra , Spanish football coach
• 1969 : Lisa Arrindell Anderson , American actress
• 1969 : Kevin Corrigan , American actor
• 1970 : Judith Draxler , Austrian swimmer
• 1970 : Lara Flynn Boyle , American actress
• 1971 : Masao Azuma , Japanese motorcycle racer

Megyn Price (born 1971)

• 1971 : Megyn Price , American actress
• 1971 : Patrik Ćavar , Croatian handball player
• 1972 : Christophe Dugarry , French football player
• 1972 : Oldřich Pařízek , Czech football player
• 1973 : Jacek Bąk , Polish football player
• 1973 : Philippe Boucher , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 : Steve Corica , Australian soccer player
• 1973 : Mette Jacobsen , Danish swimmer
• 1973 : David Moravec , Czech ice hockey player
• 1973 : Samuli Mikkonen , Finnish jazz pianist and composer

Jim Parsons (* 1973)

• 1973 : Jim Parsons , American actor
• 1974 : Alyson Hannigan , American actress
• 1974 : Sergei Petrovich Kljugin , Russian high jumper
• 1974 : Jacob Lekgetho , South African soccer player
• 1975 : Thomas Johansson , Swedish tennis player
• 1975 : Tracey Hallam , British badminton player
• 1975 : Davor Vugrinec , Croatian football player
• 1975 : Iradj El-Qalqili , German rower
• 1975 : Albin Kurti , political leader of Albanian Kosovars

1976-2000

• 1976 : Serhij Hennadijowytsch Arbusow , Ukrainian businessman, economist and politician
• 1976 : Annette Dasch , German opera singer

Peyton Manning (born 1976)

• 1976 : Peyton Manning , American football player
• 1976 : Aitor Tornavaca Fernández , Spanish football player
• 1977 : Iwan Nikolajewitsch Artejew , Russian cross-country skier
• 1977 : Olivia Burnette , American actress
• 1977 : Jessica Chastain , American actress
• 1977 : Cédric El-Idrissi , Swiss athlete
• 1977 : Corneille Nyungura , Rwandan-Canadian R'n'B singer
• 1978 : Jean-René de Fournoux , French racing car driver
• 1978 : Bertrand Gille , French handball player
• 1978 : Philip Kipkurgat Manyim , Kenyan marathon runner
• 1978 : Nikos Polychronopoulos , Greek carambola player and junior world champion
• 1978 : Monika Soćko , Polish chess player
• 1978 : Tomáš Ujfaluši , Czech football player
• 1979 : Adam Andretti , American racing car driver
• 1979 : Lake Bell , American actress
• 1979 : Bibiana Steinhaus , German soccer referee
• 1979 : Giuseppe Mascara , Italian football player
• 1979 : Periklis Iakovakis , Greek hurdler

Jud Tylor (born 1979)

• 1979 : Jud Tylor , Canadian actress
• 1980 : Gianluca Bollini , San Marinese footballer
• 1980 : Florian Jenni , Swiss chess grandmaster
• 1980 : Akustikrausch , German live act and music producer
• 1980 : Ramzi Abid , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1981 : Orestes Júnior Alves , Brazilian soccer player
• 1981 : Patrick Kisnorbo , Italian-Australian soccer player
• 1981 : Maria Koschny , German voice actress
• 1981 : Gary Paffett , British racing driver
• 1981 : Paweł Szaniawski , Polish cyclist
• 1982 : Mariano Donda , Argentine soccer player
• 1982 : Tom Cavanagh , American ice hockey player
• 1982 : Nivea Nash , American R'n'B singer
• 1982 : Oļegs Meļehs , Latvian racing cyclist

James Napier (* 1982)

• 1982 : James Napier , New Zealand actor
• 1982 : Fourie du Preez , South African rugby player
• 1982 : Richmar Siberie , football player from the Netherlands Antilles
• 1983 : Alexei Eremenko , Finnish football player
• 1983 : TJ Ford , American basketball player
• 1983 : Karim Saidi , Tunisian football player
• 1983 : Jennifer Sieglar , German television presenter and author
• 1983 : Isabel Soares , Portuguese singer
• 1983 : Marie Troillet , Swiss ski mountaineer
• 1984 : Benoît Assou-Ekotto , Cameroonian footballer
• 1984 : Chris Bosh , American basketball player
• 1984 : Kevin Hampf , German soccer player
• 1984 : Kim-Roar Hansen , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1984 : Philipp Petzschner , German tennis player
• 1985 : Nicolae Mitea , Romanian footballer
• 1985 : Arran Brown , South African racing cyclist
• 1985 : Jens Baxmann , German ice hockey player
• 1985 : Frederico Gil , Portuguese tennis player
• 1985 : Yoshihiko Osanai , Japanese ski jumper
• 1986 : Kōhei Hirate , Japanese racing driver
• 1987 : Franziska Hildebrand , German biathlete

María Valverde (* 1987)

• 1987 : María Valverde , Spanish actress
• 1987 : Ramires , Brazilian soccer player
• 1988 : Klaas Lodewyck , Belgian cyclist
• 1989 : Pascal Berger , Swiss ice hockey player
• 1989 : Angelina Fares , Israeli photo model
• 1989 : Maike Timmermann , German soccer player
• 1989 : Kevin Wahr , German motorcycle racer
• 1990 : Benedikt Doll , German biathlete
• 1990 : Keisha Castle-Hughes , New Zealand actress
• 1990 : Libby Clegg , British athlete
• 1990 : Yūki Ōtsu , Japanese soccer player
• 1991 : Tarık Çamdal , German football player
• 1991 : Remo Mally , Austrian soccer player
• 1991 : Benjamin Dollhofer , German volleyball player
• 1992 : Max Dombrowka , German soccer player
• 1992 : Vanessa Hinz , German biathlete
• 1992 : Tobias Schilk , German soccer player
• 1996 : Valentino Lazaro , Austrian soccer player
• 1996 : Marlon Frey , German soccer player
• 1998 : Vitinho , Brazilian soccer player
• 2000 : Stavroula Tsolakidou , Greek chess player

Died

Before the 16th century

Nicholas V († 1455)

Anna von Egmond, Countess von Büren († 1558)

• 1094 : Judith of Flanders , Countess of Northumbria and Duchess of Bavaria
• 1224 : Conrad III. von Scharfenberg , Bishop of Speyer and Metz and Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1254 : William de Ferrers, 5th Earl of Derby , English magnate
• 1258 : Florens the Vogt , Regent of Holland
• 1275 : Beatrix of England , daughter of King Henry III. from England
• 1294 : Irmgard von Berg , daughter and heiress of Count Adolf IV. Von Berg
• 1296 : Odon de Pins , Grand Master of the Order of St. John
• 1317 : Johann V , Margrave of Brandenburg
• 1381 : Catherine of Sweden , abbess of Vadstena
• 1382 : William Zouche, 2nd Baron Zouche of Haryngworth , English nobleman
• 1386 : John I , Count of Auvergne and Bologne
• 1399 : Margaret Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk , English noblewoman
• 1414 : Arnaud de Corbie , Chancellor of France
• 1416 : Johannes Otto von Münsterberg , German theologian, rector of the University of Prague and founding rector of the University of Leipzig
• 1437 : Jean de Rochetaillée , French Patriarch of Constantinople, Bishop of Geneva and Paris, Archbishop of Rouen
• 1443 : James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas , Scottish nobleman
• 1455 : Nicholas V , Pope
• 1463 : Prospero Colonna , Italian nobleman and cardinal
• 1481 : Heinrich II. Von Stammer , Bishop of Naumburg

16th to 18th century

• 1503 : Dorothea von Rieneck , Countess von Leuchtenberg and Countess von Wertheim
• 1526 : Adolf von Anhalt-Zerbst , German bishop
• 1558 : Anna von Egmond , Countess von Büren, Leerdam and Lingen,
• 1597 : Giovanni Bernardino Bonifacio , Italian count, humanist, book collector, librarian and founder of the city library of Danzig
• 1603 : Elizabeth I , Queen of England
• 1613 : Friedrich Taubmann , German scholar and poet
• 1618 : Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick , English nobleman
• 1635 : Jacques Callot , French draftsman and etcher
• 1635 : Heinrich Gutberleth , German educator
• 1653 : Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu , Archbishop of Aix and Lyon
• 1654 : Samuel Scheidt , German composer
• 1727 : Marie-Anne Horthemels , French engraver
• 1732 : Siegmund Jakob Apinus , German philologist and educator
• 1746 : Joseph Franz Valerian von Arco , Prince-Bishop
• 1751 : Johann Pálffy , Imperial Field Marshal and Palatine of Hungary
• 1755 : Theodor Christlieb Reinhold , German composer and Kreuzkantor
• 1762 : Johann Gottfried Zentgrav , German theologian, rhetorician and literary scholar
• 1776 : Johann Georg Achenbach , German politician
• 1776 : John Harrison , British watchmaker and inventor
• 1794 : Anacharsis Cloots , politician and revolutionary in Paris
• 1794 : Jacques-René Hébert , French revolutionary
• 1794 : Antoine-François Momoro , French politician
• 1794 : Charles-Philippe Ronsin , French politician
• 1794 : François-Nicolas Vincent , French politician
• 1796 : Antonio Caballero y Góngora , Spanish priest, colonial administrator, Archbishop of Bogotá and Viceroy of New Granada

19th century

• 1810 : Mary Tighe , Irish writer
• 1816 : Carlo Amoretti , Italian scholar
• 1817 : Peter Burckhardt , Swiss politician
• 1824 : Urs Jakob Tschan , Swiss Jesuit and aviation pioneer
• 1826 : Mathieu de Montmorency-Laval , French general and statesman
• 1826 : Georg Nikolaus Nissen , Danish diplomat and biographer WA Mozart
• 1839 : Christian Gottlob Wild , German pastor and dialect poet
• 1844 : Bertel Thorvaldsen , Danish sculptor
• 1849 : Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner , German chemist
• 1864 : Karl Ernst Claus , German chemist who discovered ruthenium
• 1866 : Ferdinand Heinrich Friedrich , German general, last Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg
• 1869 : Antoine-Henri Jomini , Swiss military theorist and general
• 1869 : Eduard Wunder , German philologist and educator
• 1870 : Ferdinand Stadler , Swiss architect
• 1875 : Amédée Achard , French writer

Friedrich Hecker († 1881)

• 1881 : Friedrich Hecker , German lawyer, politician and radical democratic revolutionary in Baden ( Heckerzug ), emigrant
• 1882 : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American novelist, poet, translator, and playwright
• 1883 : Viriato Figueira , Brazilian composer, flautist and saxophonist
• 1887 : Justin Holland , American guitarist, composer and music teacher
• 1889 : Frans Cornelis Donders , Dutch physiologist and pioneer in the field of ophthalmology
• 1896 : Franz Kuchenbuch , German lawyer and painter between romanticism and realism
• 1899 : Marie Goegg-Pouchoulin , Switzerland's first women's rights activist

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Wilhelm Stade , German organist, conductor and composer
• 1904 : Emma Herwegh , German banker's daughter, revolutionary, champion of the women's rights movement, wife of the poet Georg Herwegh

Jules Verne († 1905)

• 1905 : Jules Verne , French writer, co-founder of science fiction literature ( 20,000 leagues under the sea, trip around the earth in 80 days )
• 1909 : Alfred Messel , German architect
• 1909 : John Millington Synge , Irish writer
• 1910 : Joseph Maria Stowasser , Austrian classical philologist
• 1916 : Enrique Granados , Spanish composer and pianist
• 1921 : James Cardinal Gibbons , American clergyman, Archbishop of Baltimore
• 1929 : Friedrich Messerschmidt , German motorcycle racer
• 1932 : Kajii Motojirō , Japanese writer
• 1933 : Désiré Thomassin , painter, composer
• 1936 : Makino Shin'ichi , Japanese writer
• 1938 : Eduard Ameseder , Austrian painter
• 1939 : Willem Nolen , Dutch medic
• 1939 : Gwyn Nicholls , Welsh rugby player
• 1944 : Aldo Finzi , Italian motorcycle racer, officer, fascist politician of Jewish origin, lawyer, sports politician and resistance fighter
• 1944 : Orde Wingate , British general
• 1946 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Alekhine , Russian world chess champion
• 1948 : Yevgeny Michailowitsch Abalakow , Soviet mountaineer
• 1948 : Konstantin Nikolajewitsch Igumnow , Russian composer and piano virtuoso
• 1950 : James Rudolph Garfield , American politician
• 1950 : Harold Laski , British political scientist, economist, author and lecturer

1951-2000

• 1952 : Paul Pierné , French composer

Maria von Teck († 1953)

• 1953 : Maria von Teck , British noblewoman
• 1955 : Otto Geßler , German Reich Defense Minister
• 1955 : Thành Thái , tenth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
• 1961 : Antonio Gómezanda , Mexican composer and pianist
• 1962 : Auguste Piccard , Swiss scientist, physicist and inventor
• 1966 : Esko Aaltonen , Finnish sociologist and folklorist
• 1967 : Francesco Bracci , Italian clergyman, cardinal to the curia
• 1967 : Shterjo Atanasov , Bulgarian politician, officer and military historian
• 1968 : Leo Schubert , German Nazi politician from the Sudetenland, SS officer
• 1969 : Joseph Kasavubu , Congolese President
• 1969 : Renato Cesarini , Argentine-Italian soccer player and coach
• 1969 : Abel Smeets , French racing car driver

Arne Jacobsen († 1971)

• 1971 : Arne Jacobsen , Danish designer and architect
• 1971 : Otto Schmidt-Hannover , German politician, MdR
• 1976 : Bernard Montgomery , British Field Marshal
• 1976 : Ernest Shepard , British illustrator ( Winnie the Pooh )
• 1977 : Conrad Felixmüller , German painter
• 1977 : Moroi Saburō , Japanese composer
• 1979 : Tibor Kozma , Hungarian-American conductor
• 1980 : Ernst Albert Altenkirch , German member of the Central Party Control Commission of the GDR
• 1980 : Óscar Romero , Archbishop of El Salvador, representative of liberation theology and martyr
• 1982 : Igor Gorin , American singer, actor, composer and music educator
• 1984 : Jack Groob , Canadian violinist and conductor
• 1984 : Sam Jaffe , American actor
• 1984 : William Voltz , German writer

George London († 1985)

• 1985 : George London , American opera singer
• 1986 : James Earle Ash , American pathologist and officer
• 1988 : Heinrich Aigner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1988 : Roger Loyer , French motorcycle and car racer
• 1989 : Arnett Cobb , American jazz saxophonist
• 1991 : Kurt Gottschaldt , German representative of Gestalt psychology
• 1991 : John Montague , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 1992 : Lutz Mackensen , German philologist and lexicographer
• 1993 : Julián de Ajuriaguerra , Basque neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• 1993 : John Hersey , American writer and journalist
• 1993 : Fritz Lamerdin , German forest official
• 1994 : Hans Jakob , German soccer player
• 1994 : Kojima Masajirō , Japanese writer
• 1995 : Chet Mutryn , American football player
• 1995 : Joseph Needham , British sinologist and biochemist
• 1996 : Étienne Hajdú , French sculptor
• 1997 : Marcelle de Lacour , French harpsichordist
• 1998 : António Ribeiro , Cardinal Priest and Patriarch of Lisbon
• 1999 : Gertrud Scholtz-Klink , German Reichsfrauenführer
• 2000 : Al Gray , American jazz trombonist

21st century

• 2001 : Birgit Åkesson , Swedish dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and dance researcher

Karl Schönböck († 2001)

• 2001 : Karl Schönböck , Austrian actor
• 2002 : Dorothy DeLay , American violin teacher
• 2002 : César Milstein , British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 2002 : Bob Said , American racing car driver and film producer
• 2003 : Hans Hermann Groër , Austrian Archbishop and Cardinal
• 2003 : Heinrich Neuy , German Bauhaus artist and painter
• 2004 : Herbert Beckert , German mathematician
• 2005 : Johann Adamik , German soccer player
• 2005 : Gilles Aillaud , French painter, printmaker, set designer and author
• 2005 : Volker Bigl , German biochemist and brain researcher, rector of the University of Leipzig
• 2005 : Johannes Conrad , German writer and satirist
• 2005 : Mercedes Pardo , Venezuelan painter
• 2006 : John Glenn Beall junior , American politician
• 2006 : Juan Lockward , Dominican singer and composer
• 2006 : Lynne Perrie , British actress
• 2007 : Florentine Rost van Tonningen , Dutch right-wing extremist
• 2008 : Neil Aspinall , British road manager and personal assistant to the Beatles
• 2008 : Rafael Azcona , Spanish screenwriter
• 2008 : Richard Widmark , American actor
• 2008 : Carl Obenland , German painter
• 2008 : Hal Riney , American copywriter, art director, advertising director and Oscar-nominated film producer
• 2009 : Gebhard Glück , German politician
• 2009 : George Kell , American baseball player
• 2009 : Augustin Kubizek , Austrian composer and musicologist
• 2009 : Igor Anatolyevich Stelnov , Russian ice hockey player and coach
• 2009 : Heinz von Cramer , German author and radio play director

Johan Cruyff († 2016)

• 2010 : Robert Culp , American actor
• 2010 : José Antonio Peteiro Freire , Moroccan Archbishop
• 2010 : Erdal Merdan , German-Turkish author, director and actor
• 2013 : Barbara Anderson , New Zealand writer
• 2014 : Felix Anschütz , German internist, cardiologist and university professor
• 2014 : Robert F. Coleman , American mathematician
• 2014 : Jannik Inselkammer , German entrepreneur
• 2015 : Andreas Lubitz , co-pilot at Germanwings
• 2016 : Johan Cruyff , Dutch football player and coach
• 2016 : Garry Shandling , American actor and comedian
• 2016 : Roger Cicero , German pop and jazz musician
• 2017 : Karl Hodina , Austrian painter and musician
• 2017 : Avraham Sharir , Israeli politician
• 2017 : Wolfgang Solz , German soccer player and coach
• 2018 : Arnaud Beltrame , French officer in the gendarmerie
• 2018 : Lys Assia , Swiss singer and actress
• 2018 : José Antonio Abreu , Venezuelan composer and activist
• 2020 : Manu Dibango , Cameroonian jazz musician
• 2020 : Alfred Gomolka , German politician
• 2020 : Terrence McNally , American playwright
• 2020 : Albert Uderzo , French comic artist

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Saint Catherine of Sweden , Swedish noblewoman, abbess and virgin (Catholic)
  • St. Perpetua and Felicitas , Roman martyrs (orthodox)
  • Veit Dietrich , German theologian (Protestant)
  • Óscar Romero , Archbishop of San Salvador, martyr (Anglican, Protestant: ELCA )

• Name days
  • Catherine

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • World Tuberculosis Day ( WHO )

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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