November 24th
The November 24 is the 328th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 329th in leap years ), thus remain 37 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1411 : During the Appenzell Wars , the Appenzellers conclude a protection treaty with the eight old towns of the Old Confederation , in which they have limited rights in the Confederation as an assigned location .
- 1562 : Maximilian II is elected Roman-German king in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1631 : The Dutch occupy Olinda , the capital of Pernambuco , and set the city on fire. They prefer to invest their capital in nearby Recife .
- 1642 : Abel Tasman is the first European to discover Van Diemen's Land island , which is later renamed Tasmania after its discoverer .
- 1643 : Bavarian and imperial troops raid the winter quarters of the French armed forces under Josias Rantzau during the Thirty Years' War . The battle of Tuttlingen sees the opposing military leaders Franz von Mercy , Melchior von Hatzfeldt , Johann von Werth and Duke Karl IV of Lorraine as the victor.
- 1700 : The Bourbone Philip of Anjou is proclaimed King of Spain as Philip V. His grandfather, France's King Louis XIV , thus triggers the War of the Spanish Succession .
- 1758 : Because of their desperate situation, the French leave Fort Duquesne , which has been besieged by the British , set it on fire and save themselves across the Ohio River . This marks a turning point in the French and Indian War.
- 1793 : In France , the revolutionary calendar comes into effect retrospectively from September 22, 1792, the day the monarchy was abolished . Today's date is thus the 4th Frimaire II .
- 1832 : The parliament of South Carolina passes the repeal of the federal tariff laws of 1828 and 1832 in its state territory on February 1 of the following year, thus triggering the nullification crisis .
- 1835 : The Texas government transforms the Texas Rangers, founded by Stephen F. Austin in 1823, into a regular state organization and subordinates them to the Texas Army.
- 1847 : One day after the decisive defeat at Gisikon and Meierskappel in the Sonderbund War , the Catholic canton of Lucerne surrendered as the first member of the Sonderbund in Switzerland .
- 1848 : Revolutionary republican activities in Rome lead to Pope Pius IX. leaves the city and flees to Gaeta .
- 1879 : William Ewart Gladstone begins his seminal Midlothian campaign in which he sharply attacks the policies of his conservative opponent Benjamin Disraeli .
- 1899 : With the defeat of the Mahdists in the battle of Umm Diwaykarat , the Mahdi uprising is finally put down. The British winners under Horatio Herbert Kitchener are not giving Sudan back to Egypt , but are founding the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan condominium .
- 1933 : The first German animal protection law is passed.
- 1933 : The Customs Criminal Law passed by the National Socialists provides for more severe penalties and the compulsory order of preventive detention for dangerous perpetrators. It comes into force at the turn of the year.
- 1940 : The Slovakia joins the Tripartite Pact of the Axis powers in World War II at.
- 1943 : The Battle of the Gilbert Islands in the Pacific War ends with the complete capture of the islands by the Allies.
- 1944 : The USA begins the third phase of a series of heavy air raids on Tokyo during World War II to break the will of the Japanese people to go to war.
- 1946 : A referendum on the state constitution and elections for the first state parliament are held in Württemberg-Baden , in which the CDU becomes the strongest party.
- 1954 : Theodor Blank , Konrad Adenauer's agent for rearmament , is shouted down by protesters in Augsburg.
- 1955 : Walter Ulbricht becomes the first deputy chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers .
- 1963 : In Dallas , nightclub owner Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald , the alleged murderer of US President John F. Kennedy , in front of the television camera , while he is being transferred to prison, adding another riddle to the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy .
- 1965 : In the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Mobutu Sese Seko overthrows President Joseph Kasavubu in a bloodless military coup .
- 1969 : Gustav Heinemann is the first German Federal President to visit the Netherlands . The relationship, strained by the German occupation in World War II, eased.
- 1989 : In Czechoslovakia , the General Secretary of the Communist Party , Miloš Jakeš , resigns because of ongoing mass protests .
- 1989 : In a bomb attack in Peshawar are Abdullah Yusuf Azzam , Palestinian Islamic theologian and ideologist of modern armed jihad , and killed two of his sons.
- 1995 : Estonia applies to join the EU .
economy
- 1874 : The American Joseph Farwall Glidden receives a patent for the barbed wire he invented .
- 1875 : With the help of Baron Lionel Nathan Rothschild , the British government can buy the Suez Canal shares of the bankrupt Egyptian Khedive Ismail Pasha .
- 1916 : Mitropa , the Central European sleeping and dining car stock company , is founded.
- 1956 : With the maiden voyage of an airship built in the Trumpf works , the chocolate manufacturer continues its aerial advertising for Trumpf chocolate in the post-war period.
- 1961 : In the Federal Republic of Germany is the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development established.
- 1979 : The first Media Markt branch opens in Munich.
- 2005 : With the entry into force of the Licensing Act , the previous curfew for pubs in England and Wales is lifted.
science and technology
- 1408 : The old town market fountain in Braunschweig is poured.
- 1859 : Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution with the work On the Origin of Species .
- 1887 : The German edition of the first Esperanto textbook appears in Warsaw . The author is Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof .
- 1955 : The twin-engine Fokker F-27 airliner completes its maiden flight .
- 1969 : Apollo 12, with astronauts Charles Conrad , Alan Bean and Richard Gordon on board, lands safely in the Pacific after its flight to the moon.
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- 1974 : In Hadar in Ethiopia's Afar Depression is with Lucy a well-preserved skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis found that as a result more insights into the history of the Incarnation permits.
- 1995 : NASA receives telemetry data from the Pioneer 11 space probe for the last time , after which radio contact is finally broken off.
- 2000 : The first BSE case in a cattle born in Germany is reported.
- 2002 : A bat bite causes the first human rabies case in the UK in 100 years.
Culture
- 1759 : The world premiere of the opera The New Crooked Devil by Joseph Haydn takes place in Vienna .
- 1812 : The opera L'occasione fa il ladro by Gioachino Rossini is premiered at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice .
- 1841 : The farce with singing Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt by Johann Nestroy has its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien near Vienna. The music comes from Adolf Müller senior . The piece ran successfully until 1862.
- 1858 : The Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka by Johann Strauss has its world premiere in a Viennese inn.
- 1860 : The operetta Das Pensionat by Franz von Suppè has its world premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. The piece based on the model of the Paris operetta is considered to be the first Viennese operetta . The librettist is only indicated with the initials CK and has not yet been identified.
- 1877 : The British writer Anna Sewell publishes her novel Black Beauty. The Autobiography of a Horse , later one of the most famous books for young people of the 20th century.
- 1906 : The drama enemies of Maxim Gorky is directed by Victor Barnowsky premiered at the Little Theater in Berlin. The piece, which is banned from performance in Russia, will also be banned in Germany after the last performance on December 7th .
- 1911 : The operetta Eva by Franz Lehár is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna . The libretto is by Alfred Maria Willner and Robert Bodanzky .
- 1918 : In Basel, the opera will Frutta di mare by Hans Huber premiered
- 1937 : The world premiere of the opera Tobias Wunderlich by Joseph Haas takes place in Kassel . The libretto wrote Ludwig Strecker the Younger under the pseudonym Louis Andersen . A text by the Austrian writer Hermann Heinz Ortner served as a template .
- 1938 : The premiere of the opera Peer Gynt by Werner Egk based on the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen takes place at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin .
- 1951 : The tabloid comedy Gigi, based on a novel by Colette , premieres on Broadway with Audrey Hepburn in the lead role .
- 1967 : The bronze sculpture Der Rufer by Gerhard Marcks is inaugurated on the premises of Radio Bremen .
- 1979 : The premiere of the comedy Leonce and Lena by Paul Dessau takes place in East Berlin .
- 1983 : At the Chamber Theater of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart, the fairy-tale opera is Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen of Kurt Schwertsik premiered.
- 1988 : At the Vienna Albertina Square erected is a monument against war and fascism by sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka to the public.
- 2006 : The Faust Theater Prize of the German Stage Association , the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States and the German Academy of Performing Arts is awarded for the first time in the Aalto Theater in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia .
- 2011 : The first episode of the singing casting show The Voice of Germany is broadcast on ProSieben .
religion
- 496 : . Anastasius II is only three days after the death of Pope Gelasius I as his successor was enthroned .
- 642 : Theodor I follows John IV as Pope.
- 1919 : In the encyclical Paterno iam diu Pope Benedict XV complains . the plight of children in Central Europe. He ordered the collection of monetary donations or donations in kind on December 28, 1919.
- 1985 : Pope John Paul II opens the second extraordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome . You should deal with the creation of a catechism of the Roman Catholic Church .
Disasters
- 1248 : In the Chartreuse massif in Savoy , a landslide occurs on Mont Granier on the night of November 25th, which buries several places in the Savoie wine-growing region under 150 million cubic meters of rubble and kills an estimated 5,000 people.
- 1949 : Fires in uranium mines in Johanngeorgenstadt . According to the Telegraaf , over 2000 people died. The GDR news agency General German News Service reported a tunnel fire in which 19 workers suffered light smoke inhalation.
- 1976 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in the Soviet Union and Iran about calls for 5,000 deaths.
- 1992 : Guilin , People's Republic of China : When a Boeing 737 from China Southern Airlines coming from Guangzhou crashes while approaching 20 km from the destination, all 141 people on board are killed.
- 2005 : The poisonous carpet of Songhua Jiang after the chemical accident in Jilin reaches the Chinese city of Harbin .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
1980: Lake Malawi National Park, home to cichlids ( Mbunas )
- 1980 : The Malawi National Park is established. Located on the south bank, it also extends over part of Lake Malawi , which has the world's greatest abundance of fish species.
Sports
- 1876 : The Steiner Rowing Club is founded as one of the first in Austria. It has been based in Krems an der Donau since the incorporation of the founding place .
- 1960 : Basketball : With 55 rebounds in one game for the Philadelphia Warriors , Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA record that has been in effect since then .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1273 : Alphonso, Earl of Chester , English prince and heir to the throne
- 1394 : Charles de Valois, duc d'Orléans , French nobleman and poet
- 1472 : Pietro Torrigiano , Florentine sculptor and medalist
- 1484 : Johann III. von Rosenberg , Bohemian Grand Prior of the Order of St. John and nobleman from the House of Rosenberg
- 1597 : Friedrich Leibnütz , German notary, philosopher and ethicist
- 1603 : Johann , Count of Nassau-Idstein
- 1613 : Adrian Wilhelm von Viermund , Freiherr zu Neersen, German general and diplomat
- 1615 : Philipp Wilhelm , Duke of Pfalz-Neuburg and Jülich-Berg, Elector Palatinate
- 1632 : Baruch Spinoza , Dutch philosopher
- 1642 : Anne Hilarion de Costentin de Tourville , French admiral, Marshal of France
- 1643 : Johann Bernhard Friese , German legal scholar
- 1680 : Jean Baptiste Bassand French medic
- 1680 : Karl Joseph von Lothringen , bishop in Olmütz , Osnabrück and Trier
- 1689 : Gaspare Diziani , Venetian painter, draftsman, engraver, set designer and restorer
- 1693 : Johann Gottfried Lessing , German Lutheran theologian
- 1700 : Johann Bernhard Bach , German composer
18th century
- 1704 : Ebba Margaretha De la Gardie , Swedish countess
- 1710 : Johannes Andreas Paravicini , envoy of the Dutch East India Company to Timor
- 1713 : Philipp Heinrich Kisling , court painter and portraitist at the court of the Margrave of Baden-Durlach in Karlsruhe
- 1713 : Junípero Serra , Spanish Franciscan, is considered the founder of the city of San Francisco
- 1713 : Laurence Sterne , British Enlightenment writer and Anglican pastor
- 1716 : Philipp Ernst Kern , general superintendent in Hildburghausen
- 1730 : Alexander Suvorov , Russian generalissimo and one of the greatest strategists of modern times
- 1740 : John Bacon the Elder Ä. , British sculptor
- 1746 : Christian Heinrich Schmid , German legal scholar, literary scholar and rhetorician
- 1748 : Gottfried August Arndt , German historian, ethnologist and political scientist
- 1748 : Johann Karl Volborth German Lutheran theologian
- 1753 : Christian Gotthold Eschenbach , German medic, chemist and university professor
- 1766 : Friedrich Weinbrenner , German architect, city planner and builder of classicism
- 1773 : Shadrach Bond , American politician
- 1784 : Zachary Taylor , American general and 12th President of the United States of America
- 1785 : August Boeckh , German classical philologist and archaeologist
- 1796 : Stephan Ludwig Roth , Transylvanian-Saxon pastor, teacher, school reformer, writer and politician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Ludwig Bechstein , German writer, librarian and archivist
- 1806 : William Webb Ellis , British clergyman, supposed inventor of rugby
- 1808 : Alphonse Karr , French journalist, writer and satirist
- 1811 : Ulrich Ochsenbein , Swiss politician
- 1826 : Carlo Collodi , Italian narrator
- 1830 : George Michael Hahn , American politician, Governor of Louisiana, Member of the US House of Representatives
- 1836 : Johan Storm , Norwegian linguist
- 1839 : Wilhelm Ferdinand von Amann , Prussian general
- 1842 : Heinrich Bohner , German Protestant missionary
- 1843 : Eugen von Zimmerer , German governor of Cameroon
- 1844 : Arwed Roßbach , Saxon architect
- 1847 : Alexander Edmund Batson Davie , Canadian politician
- 1848 : Lilli Lehmann , German singer
- 1849 : Frances Eliza Burnett , British-American author
- 1849 : Benedikt Niese , German classical philologist and ancient historian
- 1850 : Antonin Marmontel , French composer, pianist and music teacher
1851-1900
- 1858 : Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Antrick , German industrialist
- 1858 : Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian painter, writer and philosopher
- 1861 : August Bier , German surgeon
- 1861 : Franz Gräßel , German painter
- 1862 : Bernhard Stavenhagen , German composer
- 1864 : Herman Snellen the Younger , Dutch ophthalmologist
- 1864 : Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec , French painter
- 1865 : Adolf Damaschke , German educator, leader of the land reform movement
- 1866 : Swan Hennessy , Irish-American composer
- 1868 : Scott Joplin , American pianist
- 1871 : Alexander Steffen , German horticultural director, plant breeder and author
- 1873 : Julius Martow , Russian politician
- 1875 : Abe Nobuyuki , Japanese general and politician, Prime Minister
- 1876 : Michael Bey , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1877 : Alben W. Barkley , American politician, Vice President, Senator, and Member of the US Congress
- 1884 : Michel de Klerk , Dutch architect
- 1885 : Fritz Arthur Hugo foreigner , German politician
- 1885 : Louis Blondel , Swiss archaeologist
- 1885 : Christian Wirth , German police officer, commander and inspector of extermination camps
- 1886 : Margaret Anderson , American writer
- 1886 : Georges Vantongerloo , Belgian painter, sculptor and architect
- 1887 : Erich von Manstein , German field marshal, war criminal
- 1888 : Dale Carnegie , American writer and motivational speaker
- 1891 : Max Amann , German politician
- 1892 : Aimé Steck , French composer
- 1894 : Fern Edna Andrews , American actress, director, screenwriter, and film producer
- 1895 : André d'Erlanger , French racing car driver
- 1896 : Theodore Fred Abel , American sociologist
- 1897 : Lucky Luciano , American Mafioso
- 1899 : Jan Adam Maklakiewicz , Polish composer
- 1899 : Wen Yiduo , Chinese poet
- 1900 : Stepan Njaga , Moldovan composer
- 1900 : Kurt Richter , German chess player
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Friedrich Heinrichsen , German type artist
- 1906 : Conrad Hansen , German pianist
- 1906 : Alfred Kittner , German poet
- 1907 : František Čech , Czech composer and conductor
- 1908 : Aleksander Ford , Polish film director
- 1909 : Otto Adam , German fencer
- 1909 : Gerhard Gentzen , German mathematician
- 1909 : Jerzy Toeplitz , Polish film historian
- 1910 : Jean Meckert , French writer
- 1911 : Erik Bergman , Finnish composer
- 1912 : Garson Kanin , American screenwriter
- 1913 : Geraldine Fitzgerald , Irish-American film and stage actress
- 1913 : Gisela Mauermayer , German athlete and Olympic champion
- 1914 : Hilde Bussmann , German table tennis player
- 1914 : Agostino Casaroli , Italian priest, Cardinal Vatican Secretary of State
- 1914 : Lynn Chadwick , British sculptor
- 1914 : Chores I. Mesrob Paroyan, Armenian clergyman, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia
- 1915 : Cuto Estévez , Dominican musician and composer
- 1916 : Forrest J Ackerman , American editor, writer, and publisher of science fiction literature
- 1917 : Novella Hamilton Richards , Antiguan writer and politician
- 1918 : Wild Bill Davis , American jazz organist, pianist and arranger
- 1919 : David Kossoff , British actor and author
- 1923 : Rudolf Angerer , Austrian illustrator and caricaturist
- 1923 : Serge Chaloff , American jazz saxophonist
- 1925 : Al Cohn , American jazz saxophonist
- 1925 : Simon van der Meer , Dutch physicist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Reinhold Amonat , German politician, member of the Berlin House of Representatives
- 1926 : Tsung-Dao Lee , Chinese physicist
- 1927 : Emma Lou Diemer , American composer and music teacher
- 1927 : Wolfgang Ecke , German writer
- 1928 : Gerhard Bengsch , German writer and screenwriter
- 1929 : John Henry Johnson , American football player
- 1929 : Carlo Peroni , Italian comic book artist and author
- 1929 : Eric Till , British director, producer and screenwriter
- 1931 : Stan Jones , American football player and coach
- 1933 : Jürgen Abeler , German art collector, master watchmaker, goldsmith and gemologist
- 1933 : Milt Minter , American racing car driver
- 1933 : Gerhard Jakob , German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop
- 1934 : Wolfgang Rademann , German television producer
- 1934 : Yvonne Rainer , American choreographer and filmmaker
- 1934 : Alfred Schnittke , Russian-German composer
- 1935 : Chalifa bin Salman Al Chalifa , Bahraini politician
- 1935 : Manlio Argueta , Salvadoran writer, poet, literary scholar and university lecturer
- 1936 : Gisela Fritsch , German actress and voice actress
- 1938 : Oscar Robertson , American basketball player
- 1940 : Hermann Otto Solms , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1941 : Pete Best , British musician, first drummer for the Beatles
- 1941 : Gary Boyle , British guitarist
- 1941 : Donald Dunn , American bassist, record producer and songwriter
- 1943 : Richard Tee , American pianist, organist and arranger
- 1944 : Werner Abelshauser , German economic historian
- 1945 : Carlos Malcolm , Cuban composer and pianist
- 1945 : Rainer Prewo , German politician, MdL
- 1946 : Josef Augusta , Czech ice hockey coach and player
- 1946 : Ted Bundy , American serial killer
- 1946 : Oscar Milani , German-Argentinian harpsichordist
- 1946 : Tom Stincic , American football player
- 1947 : Dwight Schultz , American actor
- 1947 : Dave Sinclair , British musician, singer and composer
- 1947 : Anatoly Vapirov , Ukrainian jazz clarinet and saxophonist, composer
- 1948 : Christoph Bergner , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Member of the Bundestag, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
- 1948 : Uwe Carstens , German sociologist
- 1949 : Renate Rudolph , German handball player
- 1949 : Bruno Weil , German conductor
1951-1975
- 1952 : Rachel Chagall , American actress
- 1952 : Norbert Haug , German journalist and motorsport boss at Mercedes-Benz
- 1952 : Ilja Richter , German actor, voice actor, singer and television presenter
- 1954 : Emir Kusturica , Yugoslav film director
- 1955 : Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth , Swedish politician
- 1955 : Clem Burke , American drummer
- 1955 : Einar Kárason , Icelandic author
- 1955 : Peter Koppes , Australian guitarist and songwriter
- 1956 : Ruben Santiago-Hudson , American actor
- 1958 : Robert Sime Aitken , Scottish football player
- 1958 : Carmel , British singer and songwriter
- 1958 : Jean-François Yvon , French racing car driver
- 1961 : Alejandro Ádem Díaz de León, Mexican-American mathematician
- 1961 : Hartmut Engler , German singer and musician ( PUR )
- 1961 : Arundhati Roy , Indian writer and globalization critic
- 1961 : Kuba Sienkiewicz , Polish rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer, author and neurologist
- 1961 : Anja Tuckermann , German writer
- 1962 : John Squire , British rock musician
- 1963 : Jürgen Milski , German presenter and pop singer
- 1963 : Peker Açıkalın , Turkish theater and film actor
- 1963 : Scott Colley , American jazz musician
- 1963 : Shae D'Lyn , American actress
- 1964 : Heiko Triebener , German tuba player
- 1965 : Rui Barros , Portuguese football player and coach
- 1965 : Patrik Fichte , German actor
- 1965 : Angelika Kirchschlager , Austrian opera singer
- 1965 : Brad Wall , Canadian politician
- 1966 : Manfred Stocker , Austrian chef
- 1968 : Martin Schneider , German soccer player
- 1969 : Robert Andersson , Swedish handball player and handball coach
- 1969 : Benoist Apparu , French politician
- 1969 : Günther Dissertori , Italian physicist
- 1970 : Marlon James , Jamaican writer
- 1971 : Walter Auer , Austrian flautist
- 1973 : Azad , German rapper
- 1975 : Marian Saastad Ottesen , Norwegian actress
1976-2000
- 1976 : Stephanie zu Guttenberg , President of the German section of Innocence in Danger
- 1976 : Sanam Afrashteh , German actress
- 1977 : Leila Aman , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- 1977 : Colin Hanks , American actor
- 1977 : Fernando Troyansky , Argentine soccer player
- 1977 : Danah Boyd , American media and social researcher
Katherine Heigl (* 1978)
- 1978 : Katherine Heigl , American actress
- 1979 : Carmelita Jeter , American athlete
- 1979 : Eva Konrad , Austrian politician
- 1980 : Ronny Arendt , German ice hockey player
- 1980 : Thomas Ziegler , German racing cyclist
- 1981 : Vule Avdalović , Serbian basketball player
- 1981 : Randy Bülau , German handball player
- 1982 : Joey Ansah , British actor and stunt performer
- 1982 : Christian Eichner , German soccer player
- 1982 : Geraldine Haacke-Guillaume , German dubbing and radio play speaker
- 1983 : Gwilym Lee , British actor
- 1983 : Dean Ashton , English football player
- 1983 : Karine Vanasse , Canadian actress
- 1984 : Anna Henkes , German handball player
- 1984 : Kagisho Dikgacoi , South African soccer player
- 1984 : Maria Höfl-Riesch , German ski racer, multiple Olympic champion
- 1985 : Irmak Atuk , Turkish actress, presenter and model
- 1985 : Esther Sedlaczek , German sports presenter
- 1986 : Pedro León Sánchez Gil , Spanish football player
- 1987 : Mehmed Alispahić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1987 : Oliver Konietzny , German actor
- 1987 : Jeremain Lens , Dutch football player
- 1987 : Hristijan Spirovski , Macedonian-Australian pianist and pop singer
- 1988 : Anina Abt-Stein , German actress
- 1988 : Dorian van Rijsselberghe , two-time Olympic champion and two-time world champion in windsurfing
- 1989 : Mario Gavranović , Swiss football player
- 1989 : Lukáš Hrádecký , Finnish-Slovak football goalkeeper
- 1989 : Marco Wittmann , German racing driver
- 1991 : Richie Stanaway , New Zealand racing driver
- 1992 : Gisa Klaunig , German handball player
- 1992 : Carolin Simon , German soccer player
- 1993 : Ivi Adamou , Cypriot singer
- 1993 : Francesca Farago , Canadian influencer and reality TV actress
- 1994 : Nabil Bentaleb , Algerian-French soccer player
- 1994 : Hilal El-Helwe , German-Lebanese soccer player
- 1995 : Kateryna Polovyntschuk , Ukrainian pool player
- 1996 : Maximilian Krauss , German soccer player
- 1997 : Marion Borras , French cyclist
- 1997 : Marco Richter , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 62 : Aulus Persius Flaccus , Roman poet of Etruscan descent
- 654 : Kōtoku , Emperor of Japan
- 1072 : Bagrat IV , King of Georgia
- 1088 : Ekkehard II of Nellenburg , abbot of the island of Reichenau
- 1192 : Albert von Lüttich , bishop and martyr
- 1226 : William Brewer , English nobleman, civil servant and judge
- 1230 : Mathieu II. De Montmorency , Connétable of France
- 1244 : William Briwere , Bishop of Exeter
- 1245 : Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke , English nobleman and Lord Marshal of England
- 1326 : Hugh le Despenser , favorite of Edward II of England
- 1335 : Henry VI. , Duke of Wroclaw
- 1425 : Elizabeth of Lancaster , English noblewoman from the House of Lancaster
- 1440 : William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas , Scottish nobleman
- 1494 : Pál Kinizsi , Hungarian military expert, sovereign
- 1496 : John Radcliffe, 9th Baron FitzWalter , English nobleman and politician
- 1245 : Walter Marshal, 5th Earl of Pembroke , English nobleman and Earl Marshal
- 1326 : Hugh le Despenser , English courtier and politician
- 1425 : Elizabeth of Lancaster , English noblewoman from the House of Lancaster
- 1468 : Jean de Dunois , Grand Chamberlain of France
16th to 18th century
- 1531 : Johannes Oekolampad , Swiss humanist and reformer
- 1535 : Ulrich Zasius , German lawyer and humanist, town clerk of Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1569 : Celio Secondo Curione , Italian scholar and reformer
- 1571 : Jan Blahoslav , Bohemian writer and humanist
- 1572 : John Knox , Scottish reformer
- 1577 : Ismail II , Safavid Shah of Iran
- 1577 : Erasmus Ebner , German diplomat, scholar and statesman
- 1586 : Johann Leisentrit , dean of the Bautzen collegiate chapter and diocesan administrator of the Meißen diocese
- 1592 : Kanō Shōei , Japanese painter
- 1596 : Adam II , Chancellor Colonel of Bohemia and Castle Count of Prague
- 1606 : Johann von Efferen , lord of the castle of Stolberg
- 1615 : Sethus Calvisius , German composer, Thomaskantor in Leipzig, music theorist, astronomer and mathematician
- 1644 : Deodaat Delmonte , Flemish architect, engineer, astronomer and painter
- 1679 : Paul von Aussem , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1679 : Elisabeth Beling , German donor
- 1713 : Lucas van de Poll , Dutch legal scholar
- 1715 : Hedwig Eleonora of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Queen of Sweden
- 1721 : Gustav Gabriel Appelmann , Swedish artillery officer
- 1722 : Johann Adam Reincken , German composer and organist
- 1722 : Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset , English lady-in-waiting to Mary II of England
- 1741 : Eleonore Batthyány-Strattmann , Viennese court lady
- 1753 : Johann Georg Weber , German Lutheran theologian
- 1766 : Thomas Chilcot , English composer and organist
- 1782 : Stefano Evodio Assemani , Arab orientalist
- 1790 : Robert Henry , Scottish historian
19th century
- 1813 : Johann Bernhard Crespel , German lawyer and childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1824 : Clarke Abel , British physician, naturalist and botanist
- 1831 : Marcus DuMont , German publisher
- 1837 : Joseph Kent , American politician
- 1842 : Pehr Frigel , Swedish composer
- 1848 : William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne , British Home Secretary and Prime Minister
- 1850 : Franz Philipp Aull , German politician
- 1854 : Friedrich Arnold , German architect and construction officer
- 1861 : Ferdinand von Eckstein , Danish writer and French civil servant
- 1870 : Comte de Lautréamont , French poet
- 1875 : William Backhouse Astor , American millionaire
- 1875 : Joseph Othmar Ritter von Rauscher , Archbishop of Vienna
- 1880 : Napoléon-Henri Reber , French composer
- 1895 : Carl Hugo Hahn , German Protestant missionary
- 1899 : Abdallahi ibn Muhammad , caliph, leader of the Mahdists in Sudan
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Heinrich Urban , German composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1903 : Johann Baptist von Anzer , German missionary and bishop
- 1903 : Angelo Maffucci Italian pathologist
- 1911 : Wilhelm Jensen , German writer and poet
- 1912 : Michael Moser , Austrian photographer
- 1914 : Aristide Cavallari , Italian cardinal, Patriarch of Venice
- 1916 : Adelheid Marie von Anhalt-Dessau , Duchess of Nassau and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- 1916 : Hiram Maxim , British-American inventor
- 1921 : Hans Georg von Doering , German officer and colonial official
- 1922 : August Leue , German architect, officer and colonial official
- 1923 : Michel de Klerk , Dutch architect
- 1928 : Richard Schwemer , German teacher and historian
- 1929 : Georges Clemenceau , French journalist, politician and statesman, minister, prime minister
- 1940 : Gustav Neckel , German old Germanist
- 1945 : Bruno Louis Schaefer , German lawyer and senator in Hamburg
- 1946 : Alfonso Broqua , Uruguayan composer
- 1947 : Léon-Paul Fargue , French poet
- 1948 : Anna Jarvis , American founder of Mother's Day
- 1948 : Hans Watzlik , German-Bohemian writer
1951-1975
- 1953 : Romain Pelletier , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
- 1954 : Boris Hambourg , Russian cellist
- 1956 : Ester Kristina Aronson , Swedish writer
- 1957 : Diego Rivera , Mexican modern painter , husband of Frida Kahlo
- 1959 : Boris Eichenbaum , Russian literary scholar
- 1963 : Meyer Grabovsky , Israeli politician
- 1963 : Lee Harvey Oswald , alleged American assassin of John F. Kennedy
- 1964 : Georges-Émile Tanguay , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
- 1966 : Kanken Toyama , Japanese karate master
- 1969 : Mirko Basaldella , Italian-American sculptor and painter
- 1969 : Howell Glynne , Welsh opera singer and vocal teacher
- 1969 : Howard Marion-Crawford , British actor
- 1970 : Alice Seeley Harris , British missionary and photographer
- 1972 : Mani Matter , Swiss dialect songwriter and lawyer
- 1974 : Aurelio Arturo Martínez , Colombian writer and poet
- 1975 : Friedrich Beermann , German general and politician, Member of the Bundestag
1976-2000
- 1976 : Hildegard Brodtführer , German politician, MdL
- 1977 : Reidar Aulie , Norwegian painter
- 1978 : Wilhelm Adam , German politician and general
- 1980 : George Raft , American film actor
- 1982 : Benny Friedman , American football player and coach
- 1982 : Bohumír Štědroň , Czech musicologist and pianist
- 1984 : Wilhelm Antrup , German general
- 1984 : Godfrey Ridout , Canadian composer and music educator
- 1985 : George Raynor , English football player and coach
- 1985 : Joe Turner , American musician
- 1987 : Abd ar-Rahman Sharkawi , Egyptian writer
- 1987 : Hans Schubert , German mathematician
- 1988 : Joachim Fernau , German writer
- 1988 : Rudolf Zender , Swiss painter, graphic artist and draftsman
- 1989 : Abdallah Yusuf Azzam , Palestinian Islamist theologian and ideologist
- 1990 : Helga Feddersen , German actress and comedian
- 1990 : Arnold Marquis , German actor and voice actor
- 1990 : Marion Post Wolcott , American photographer
- 1991 : Eric Carr , American drummer ( Kiss )
- 1991 : Freddie Mercury , British musician and singer ( Queen )
- 1992 : Henriette Puig-Roget , French organist, pianist and composer
- 1993 : Albert Collins , American blues musician
- 1995 : Dominic Ignatius Ekandem , Nigerian clergyman, Archbishop of Abuja, cardinal
- 1997 : Barbara , French singer
- 1998 : Hansjörg Oeschger , German forester, activist of the youth movement
- 1999 : Fernando Fernández , Mexican actor, singer, screenwriter and director
21st century
- 2001 : Robert Aulotte , French Romance studies and literary scholar
- 2001 : Melanie Thornton , American-German singer
- 2001 : Erich Wiesner , Austrian industrialist and politician, member of the state parliament
- 2002 : John Rawls , American philosopher
- 2003 : Louai al-Atassi , Syrian general and politician
- 2004 : Hugo Dudli , Swiss composer and conductor
- 2004 : Arthur Hailey , British-Canadian writer
- 2004 : Vladimir Rivero Hernández , Portuguese handball player
- 2005 : Pat Morita , American actor
- 2005 : Harry Thürk , German writer
- 2006 : Klaus Bungert , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf
- 2006 : Jack Ferrante , American football player
- 2007 : Gustav Reiner , German motorcycle racer
- 2008 : Ryōhei Hirose , Japanese composer
- 2008 : Goran Simić , Serbian opera singer (bass)
- 2009 : Ishii Kan , Japanese composer
- 2009 : Hale Smith , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 2009 : Samak Sundaravej , Thai Prime Minister
- 2010 : Peter Christopherson , British musician, music video director and photographer
- 2010 : Molly Luft , German entrepreneur and prostitute
- 2011 : Ludwig Hirsch , Austrian songwriter and actor
- 2012 : Tita Carloni , Swiss architect
- 2012 : Heinz Werner Kraehkamp , German actor
- 2013 : Amedeo Amadei , Italian football player and coach
- 2014 : Viktor Tikhonov , Soviet ice hockey player and coach
- 2015 : Heinz Oberhummer , Austrian astrophysicist and associate university professor ( Science Busters )
- 2017 : Hermann Schwörer , German politician, MdB, MEP
- 2019 : Gu Hara , South Korean pop singer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. John of the Cross , Spanish poet, mystic and Doctor of the Church (Anglican, Catholic)
- Chrysogonus of Aquileia , early Christian martyr (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Johannes Oekolampad , German-Swiss reformer (Protestant)
- John Knox , Scottish priest and reformer (Protestant)
- Justus Falckner , Jehu Jones and William Alfred Passavant , American pastors (Protestant: ELCA )
- Andreas Dung-Lac and Companions ( Martyrs of Vietnam ) (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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