October 24th
The October 24 is the 297th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 298th in leap years ), thus remain 68 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 69 : During the year of the four emperors , the legions of general Vespasian defeat Vitellius' army in the battle of Bedriacum and finally decide the civil war over the succession of Nero in favor of the Flavians .
- 1071 : Michael VII Dukas , known as Parapinakes, is proclaimed emperor of the Byzantine Empire .
- 1147 : The Moorish city of Lisbon surrendered after a four-month siege of a crusading army that loots the city and on the following day King I. Alfonso of Portugal leaves.
- 1273 : The interregnum ends with the coronation and anointing of Habsburg Rudolf I as Roman-German king .
- 1360 : The peace of Brétigny negotiated on May 8th between the French King John II and the English King Edward III. is ratified in Calais. This ends the first phase of the Hundred Years War .
- 1531 : In the Battle of the Gubel , the last battle of the Second Kappel War between the Catholic and Reformed towns of the Old Confederation , the Catholics defeat the overwhelming power of the Protestants due to the surprise effect.
- 1605 : After the death of his father Akbar I , Selim ascends the throne as Jahangir in the Mughal Empire .
- 1648 : The Peace of Westphalia negotiated in the town hall of Münster and in the town hall of Osnabrück to end the Thirty Years' War is signed
- 1795 : Prussia joins the treaty signed by Russia and Austria on January 3rd for the Third Partition of Poland . This ended the existence of the Kingdom of Poland .
- 1812 : The French Grande Armée achieves a tactical victory in the battle of Malojaroslavets during the Russian campaign . She then withdraws, resulting in a strategic success for the Russian army.
- 1813 : Persia loses large parts of the Caucasus to Russia in the peace treaty of Gulistan .
- 1844 : The Treaty of Huangpu between the Empire of China and France lifts Chinese trade restrictions and enforces the toleration of Catholic missions in the Middle Kingdom.
- 1862 : A military coup deposed King Otto I of Greece and forced him out of the country.
- 1896 : The Hamburger Nachrichten reports on the secret reinsurance contract of 1887 between the German Reich and Russia . The contract, which has not been extended in the meantime, nevertheless causes international displeasure.
- 1916 : Fort Douaumont , hotly contested in the Battle of Verdun , is retaken by the French.
- 1917 : The Central Powers go on the offensive for the first time in the Battle of Karfreit , the twelfth and last Battle of the Isonzo in World War I.
- 1918 : The German Admiralty gives the fleet order to prepare the departure of the deep-sea fleet for a decisive battle with the British Grand Fleet in the English Channel. This led to isolated mutinies , five days later to the Kiel sailors' uprising and then to the November Revolution .
- 1918 : The Battle of Vittorio Veneto begins. On November 3rd, this led to the armistice at Villa Giusti and the defeat of Austria-Hungary in the First World War .
- 1930 : After a coup by the Grand Coalition of the Dissatisfied , Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes President of Brazil with dictatorial powers. The current President Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa is arrested and sent into exile.
- 1943 : The soldier's channel Calais broadcasts its first program. The British propaganda broadcaster wants to influence the opinion-forming of German listeners with deliberately interspersed half-truths.
- 1944 : 1,792 American prisoners of war die when the Japanese prisoner-of-war transporter Arisan Maru is sunk by an American submarine.
- 1945 : The United Nations is established when the United Nations Charter comes into force.
- 1945 : The Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling is executed by shooting in Akershus fortress .
- 1950 : French Prime Minister René Pleven submits the Pleven Plan , which provides for a European Defense Community .
- 1964 : The British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia becomes independent as Zambia .
- 1970 : Salvador Allende , candidate of the left-wing Unidad Popular , who received a relative majority of the votes in the presidential election on September 4th, is appointed President of Chile by Congress . The decisive factor behind the Christian Democrats' approval of Allende's election was the CIA-controlled murder attempt two days earlier, in which Army Chief René Schneider was fatally wounded.
- 1973 : The Yom Kippur War ends with the armistice between Israel and Egypt .
- 1975 : In Iceland , around 90% of the female population take part in a national women's strike and paralyze the country.
- 1980 : During the First Gulf War , the battle of Khorramshahr , which lasted over a month, ends with the capture of the Iranian city by Iraqi troops.
- 1990 : In Hungary the constitutional court ruled that the death penalty was unconstitutional.
- 1993 : In the elections in Liechtenstein , the Fatherland Union takes back its political primacy from the Progressive Citizens' Party .
- 1995 : The Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest by the military dictatorship .
- 2002 : The first ballot for the first parliamentary elections in almost 30 years takes place in Bahrain . The second ballot will take place on October 31.
- 2003 : Germany increases its engagement in Afghanistan through a resolution of the Bundestag . In autumn 2003, this led to the establishment of two branch offices of the Kabul embassy in Kunduz and Herat .
economy
- 1929 : The long bull market on the New York Stock Exchange ends on " Black Thursday " . The world economic crisis begins.
- 1956 : The strike over sick pay begins in Schleswig-Holstein, which will last 114 days and will be the longest strike in Germany since 1905.
science and technology
- 1824 : At the suggestion of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , a physical association is founded in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1851 : William Lassell discovers the Uranus moons Ariel and Umbriel .
- 1873 : The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I opened in Vienna on the occasion of the World Exhibition , the First Vienna Mountain Spring Water Company , the largest water supply system in Europe. Among other things, the high-jet fountain on Schwarzenbergplatz will also be put into operation.
- 1931 : The George Washington Bridge between New York City and New Jersey opens.
- 1939 : The most successful US rigid airship , the German-built Zeppelin LZ 126 / ZR-3 USS Los Angeles , is decommissioned
- 1998 : From Cape Canaveral , the Deep Space 1 space probe is the first spacecraft to be launched into space with an ion drive .
- 2001 : The NASA -Raumsonde Mars Odyssey reached the orbit of the planet Mars .
- 2003 : Concorde takes off on its last commercial flight from New York to London.
- 2007 : The first World Vision children's study is published.
- 2014 : As part of the “StratEx” project, Alan Eustace jumps from a height of 41 kilometers during a stratospheric jump, breaking the height record set by Felix Baumgartner 2 years earlier .
Culture
- 1828 : In Grossenhain , Saxony , the first German public library is built in the former Latin school with the Vaterländische Bürger-Bibliothek on the initiative of Karl Benjamin Preusker . She wants to address all classes of society with books.
- 1831 : In the Casa del Fauno ( House of the Faun ) in Pompeii , the mosaic for the "Battle of Alexander" is found in the floor.
- 1876 : The first performance of the comic operetta Der Seekadett by Richard Genée takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1885 : The operetta Der Zigeunerbaron is premiered in the Theater an der Wien with music by Johann Strauss and based on Ignaz Schnitzer 's libretto .
- 1929 : Virginia Woolf's feminist essay One Room of Our Own appears.
- 1950 : The Liberty Bell in the tower of the Schöneberg Town Hall , a replica of the Liberty Bell , is inaugurated.
- 1974 : The German-language premiere of the musical Gigi by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner takes place in Vienna .
- 2012 : The memorial designed by Dani Karavan for the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National Socialism is inaugurated in Berlin .
society
- 1931 : Al Capone is fined $ 50,000 and sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
- 1996 : In Saint Petersburg , Florida , a white police officer shot and killed a black driver during a traffic stop. The later acquittal of the policeman will lead to serious racial rioting and looting.
- 2002 : John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo are arrested in Maryland. This is the end of the Beltway Sniper Attacks .
religion
- 1260 : The finished high Gothic cathedral of Chartres is consecrated .
- 1817 : Bavaria's King Maximilian I Joseph accepts the concordat negotiated and improved with the Holy See . Among other things, it regulates questions from the secularization of church property and the mediatization of the imperial estates.
- 1858 : The Baptist prayer house in Jever is opened. Johann Gerhard Oncken and Julius Köbner as well as the missionary August Friedrich Wilhelm Haese are involved in the inauguration celebrations . The prayer house is one of the oldest Baptist churches in continental Europe.
- 1948 : In the encyclical In multiplicibus curis , Pope Pius XII calls out . to prayer for peace in Palestine . He continues to demand international guarantees for free access to the Holy Places in Jerusalem .
- 1998 : Lucian Pulvermacher declares himself Pope Pius XIII. He is the head of the True Catholic Church , a sedevacantist religious group in the northern United States.
- 2010 : Otto Schaude the episcopate is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Urals, Siberia and Far East introduced
Disasters
- 1902 : The Santa María volcano erupts in Guatemala . The eruption lasting several days with the volcanic explosion index 6 is the second most severe volcanic eruption of the 20th century and almost completely destroys the city of Quetzaltenango .
- 1919 : Over a million combat gas grenades explode on the Breloh gas field near Munster , the total number of victims is not known.
- 1960 : During the testing of a military ICBM of the type R-16 at the Soviet missile center Baikonur , the Nedelin disaster occurs , in which at least 126 people are killed.
- 1963 : The Lengede mine disaster : 129 miners are buried at a depth of 60 m in a tunnel in the Lengede-Broistedt iron ore mine in Lengede near Peine in Lower Saxony .
- 2001 : When two trucks collide in the Gotthard road tunnel , a fire is triggered in which eleven people die. The tunnel will then remain closed for two months for renovation work.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1857 : The world's first football club is founded with the English Sheffield FC .
- 1901 : The 63-year-old teacher Annie Taylor is the first person to successfully descend Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel.
- 1909 : The Stade de Paris opens in the French capital .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 51 : Domitian , Roman emperor
- 1378 : David Stewart, 1st Duke of Rothesay , Scottish heir to the throne
- 1489 : Raymund Fugger , Augsburg patrician, imperial prince and art collector
- 1503 : Isabella of Portugal , Roman-German Empress and Queen of Spain
- 1558 : Szymon Szymonowic , Polish poet and playwright
- 1561 : Anthony Babington , chief suspect of the Babington conspiracy
- 1575 : Pierre de Conty d'Argencour , French fortress builder
- 1601 : Alvise Contarini , 106th Doge of Venice
- 1607 : Jan Lievens , Dutch painter
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- 1632 : Antoni van Leeuwenhoek , Dutch naturalist and microscope maker
- 1641 : Christian Röhrensee , German ethicist and political scientist
- 1669 : Johann Joseph Seyler , German educator and theologian
- 1679 : Johann Adolph von Ahlefeldt , lord of the Buckhagen, Giffelfeldt, Raskenberg and Priesholz estates
- 1685 : Charles Alston , Scottish medic and botanist
- 1693 : Hans Moritz von Brühl , Real Privy Councilor, General of the Cavalry and Governor of the Deutschordensballei Thuringia
18th century
- 1712 : Johanna Elisabeth von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, mother of Tsarina Katharina II.
- 1733 : Georg Friedrich Seiler , German theologian and university professor
- 1734 : Anna Göldi , Swiss maid, executed as the last witch in Europe
- 1739 : Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , German composer
- 1746 : Edmond Dubois-Crancé , French politician and general
- 1756 : Hartwig Johann Christoph von Hedemann , German major general
- 1771 : Johannes Weitzel , German writer, publisher and librarian
- 1774 : Karl Ernst Schmid , German legal scholar
- 1775 : Peter Heinrich Althöfer , German clergyman
- 1784 : Marco Berra , Italian music publisher in Prague
- 1794 : Friedrich von Gagern , German general
- 1796 : August Graf von Platen , German poet
- 1798 : Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen , Württemberg teacher, musician and composer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Wilhelm Weber , German physicist
- 1808 : Bernhard von Cotta , German geologist
- 1811 : Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel , German botanist
- 1815 : Jules Moinaux , French librettist
- 1821 : Philipp Ludwig von Seidel , German mathematician and astronomer
- 1830 : Marianne North , British painter
- 1837 : Heinrich Christian Horn , German entrepreneur
- 1838 : Emil Frey , Swiss politician
- 1838 : James Maybrick , English cotton merchant, supposedly identical to Jack the Ripper
- 1838 : Annie Taylor , American teacher, successful first-time sailor of Niagara Falls
- 1842 : Josef Nešvera , Czech composer
- 1844 : Karl Lueger , Austrian politician
- 1845 : Melchior Neumayr , Austrian paleontologist
- 1847 : John P. Buchanan , American politician
- 1848 : Oltmann Johann Dietrich Ahlers , German shipping company director
1851-1900
- 1854 : Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom , Dutch chemist
- 1857 : Erich Aron , German lawyer, district court director and university professor
- 1861 : Fritz Drechsler , German architect
- 1862 : Philipp Siesmayer , German garden architect
- 1864 : Franco Leoni , Italian composer
- 1868 : Alexandra David-Néel , French writer
- 1869 : Otto Plasberg , German classical philologist
- 1874 : Robert Zimmermann , Swiss Jesuit, university professor and linguist
- 1875 : Fanny Starhemberg , Austrian politician
- 1877 : Pawel Grigoryevich Tschesnokow , Russian composer and choir director
- 1879 : Friedrich Jähne , German engineer and entrepreneur
- 1881 : Paul Basilius Barth , Swiss painter
- 1882 : Emmerich Kálmán , Hungarian composer
- 1883 : Walter Buch , German Nazi party functionary
- 1883 : Paul Scheurich , German painter, graphic artist and small sculptor
- 1884 : Hertha Koenig , German writer and poet
- 1886 : Delmira Agustini , Uruguayan poet
- 1886 : Grigory Ordzhonikidze , Soviet politician
- 1887 : Giuseppe Armellini , Italian astronomer
- 1887 : Curt Proskauer , German-American dentist and medical historian
- 1888 : Marek Weber , German violinist and orchestra leader
- 1889 : Nils Gustaf Andersson , Swedish swimmer
- 1889 : Clovis Trouille , French painter
- 1890 : Kathleen Lockhart Manning , American composer
- 1891 : Rafael Hernández Marín , Puerto Rican composer
- 1891 : Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina , dictator of the Dominican Republic
- 1893 : Kurt Huber , German musicologist, folk song researcher and psychologist, member of the White Rose resistance group , victim of National Socialism
- 1895 : Josef Pelz von Felinau , German writer, actor, screenplay and radio play author
- 1896 : Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , German psychotherapist
- 1897 : Lazar Weiner , American composer and choir director
- 1900 : Karl Ottó Runólfsson , Icelandic composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1904 : Theodor Eschenburg , German political scientist, journalist and constitutional lawyer
- 1904 : Moss Hart , American writer
- 1904 : Egon Strohm , German journalist, writer and translator
- 1905 : Otto Abel , German hymn composer
- 1907 : Albert Hoffmann (Gauleiter) , German businessman and Nazi Gauleiter
- 1909 : Bill Carr , American sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1911 : Sonny Terry , American musician
- 1912 : Johannes Petzold , German church musician, composer and lecturer
- 1914 : Charles Howard Anderson , American eventing rider, Olympic champion
- 1914 : Karl Kotratschek , Austrian athlete
- 1916 : Pierre Sancan , French composer
- 1918 : Bobby Gimby , Canadian band leader, trumpeter and songwriter
- 1919 : Joseph Khoury , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1920 : Robert Coffy , French Catholic Archbishop of Marseille and Cardinal
- 1920 : Robert Greacen , Irish poet
- 1920 : Anna Maria Praschl , Austrian politician
- 1921 : Ulrich Berger , German trade unionist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1921 : Rafa Galindo , Venezuelan singer
- 1921 : Flor Roffé de Estévez , Venezuelan music teacher and composer
- 1922 : Horst Stern , German journalist and author
- 1924 : Aziz Ab'Sáber , Brazilian physical geographer
- 1924 : George Amick , American racing car driver
- 1924 : Carlos Najurieta , Argentine racing car driver
- 1925 : Luciano Berio , Italian composer
- 1925 : Willie Mabon , American R&B singer
- 1925 : Pierre Monichon , French music educator and scholar, inventor of the harmonéon
1926-1950
- 1926 : Corrado Olmi , Italian actor
- 1927 : Domenico Amoroso , Italian religious priest and bishop
- 1927 : Gilbert Bécaud , French chansonnier
- 1927 : Jean-Claude Pascal , French fashion designer, actor and singer
- 1929 : Nuno Krus Abecasis , Portuguese politician
- 1929 : Heinrich Amtmann , Austrian politician
- 1929 : Hubert Aquin , Canadian writer
- 1929 : George Crumb , American composer
- 1930 : Jack Angel , American voice actor
- 1930 : Big Bopper , American singer and songwriter
- 1930 : Johan Galtung , Norwegian peace and conflict researcher
- 1930 : James Scott Douglas , British racing car driver
- 1931 : Sofia Gubaidulina , Russian composer
- 1932 : Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , French physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1932 : Adrian Mitchell , British writer
- 1932 : Robert Mundell , Canadian economist
- 1933 : Earl Anderza , American alto saxophonist
- 1933 : Joram Aridor , Israeli politician
- 1933 : Reginald and Ronald Kray , English criminals
- 1933 : Jun'ichi Watanabe , Japanese writer
- 1934 : Samuel Bonis , American geologist and volcanologist
- 1934 : Jean-Baptiste Gourion , Algerian bishop
- 1935 : Irene Brütting , German athlete
- 1935 : Hermann Matschiner , German chemist and university professor
- 1935 : Marek Piwowski , Polish director
- 1936 : Jüri Arrak , Estonian painter, graphic artist, blacksmith and animation artist
- 1936 : Friedrich Blumenröhr , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1936 : Bill Wyman , British rock musician ( Rolling Stones )
- 1938 : Fernand Goyvaerts , Belgian football player
- 1938 : Klaus Matischak , German football player
- 1938 : Odean Pope , American jazz musician
- 1939 : F. Murray Abraham , American actor
- 1939 : Wilhelm von Sternburg , German publicist and author of biographies
- 1940 : Giacomo Bulgarelli , Italian football player
- 1940 : Martin Campbell , New Zealand film director
- 1940 : Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe , German physician, President of the German Medical Association and the German Medical Association
- 1941 : Sally Daley , American composer, organist and church musician
- 1942 : Fritz Feister , German soccer player
- 1943 : Seppo Paakkunainen , Finnish jazz saxophonist and composer
- 1944 : Ted Templeman , American music producer
- 1946 : Everett Dunklee , American cross-country skier
- 1946 : Raphaël François Minassian , Armenian Archbishop
- 1946 : Kristina Richter , German handball player
- 1946 : Thorkild Thyrring , Danish racing car driver
- 1947 : Gerhard Abraham , Austrian politician
- 1947 : Kevin Kline , American actor
- 1948 : Kurt Aeschbacher , Swiss television presenter
- 1948 : Barry Ryan , British singer and songwriter
- 1948 : Paul Ryan , British singer and songwriter
- 1949 : De Aal , Dutch pop singer
- 1949 : Nick Ainger , British politician
1951-1975
- 1951 : Chris von Rohr , Swiss singer
- 1951 : Hans Summer , Austrian cyclist
- 1952 : Tania Libertad , Peruvian-Mexican singer
- 1953 : Christoph Daum , German soccer coach
- 1955 : Jay Anderson , American double bass player
- 1955 : Karen Austin , American actress
- 1956 : Karl Karst , German radio journalist
- 1957 : Jean-Jacques Martin , French comic artist
- 1955 : Marco Bechis , Italian-Argentinian film director and screenwriter
- 1958 : Vincent K. Brooks , American general
- 1959 : Rowland S. Howard , Australian rock musician, guitarist and songwriter
- 1959 : Jouni Yrjölä , Finnish chess grandmaster
- 1960 : Bernd Andler , German handball referee
- 1960 : Bushra al-Assad , Syrian politician
- 1960 : Wolfgang Güllich , German sport climber
- 1960 : Christoph Schlingensief , German film and stage director, talk show host and politician
- 1961 : Rick Margitza , American jazz musician
- 1962 : Abel Antón Rodrigo , Spanish long distance runner
- 1964 : Frode Grodås , Norwegian football coach
- 1964 : Frank Mentrup , German politician
- 1965 : József Ács , Hungarian writer
- 1965 : Zsuzsa Bánk , German writer
- 1965 : Bernhard Schadeberg , German entrepreneur
- 1966 : Roman Abramowitsch , Russian entrepreneur
- 1967 : Jacqueline McKenzie , Australian actress
- 1967 : Robert Julien , Canadian racing car driver
- 1968 : Kim Sanders , American singer and composer
- 1969 : Katalin Gödrös , Swiss director, film producer and screenwriter
- 1971 : Caprice Bourret , American model, presenter and actress
- 1972 : Tino Mogensen , Danish handball player
- 1974 : César Aparecido Rodrigues , Brazilian soccer player
- 1974 : Catherine Sutherland , American actress
- 1975 : Max Giermann , German actor and comedian
1976-2000
- 1977 : Stephanie Rupprecht , German lawyer and author
- 1978 : Thimon von Berlepsch , German magician
- 1979 : Amanda Aardsma , American actress
- 1980 : Jan Hartmann , German actor
- 1980 : Matthew Amoah , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1980 : Leandro Grech , Argentine soccer player
- 1980 : Christian Vander , German soccer player
- 1981 : Kemal Aslan , Turkish football player
- 1981 : Natalie Langer , German television presenter
- 1981 : Jemima Rooper , British actress
- 1981 : Tila Tequila , Vietnamese model and singer
- 1982 : Ricardo André , Portuguese soccer player
- 1982 : Fairuz Fauzy , Malaysian racing driver
- 1983 : Mikkel Beckmann , Danish football player
- 1983 : Zoya Douchine , Russian-German figure skater
- 1983 : Katie McGrath , Irish actress
- 1983 : Brian Vickers , American racing car driver
- 1985 : Wayne Rooney , English soccer player
- 1986 : Niko Bungert , German soccer player
- 1986 : Aubrey Drake Graham , Canadian actor, rapper, and R&B singer
- 1987 : Wladlena Eduardowna Bobrownikowa , Russian handball player
- 1988 : Daniel McKenzie , British racing driver
- 1988 : Amissi Tambwe , Burundian soccer player
- 1988 : Hideki Yamauchi , Japanese racing car driver
- 1989 : Carmen Aub , Mexican actress
- 1989 : Cristian Gamboa , Costa Rican soccer player
- 1989 : Shenae Grimes , Canadian actress
- 1989 : Maren Hammerschmidt , German biathlete
- 1989 : PewDiePie , Swedish YouTuber
- 1989 : Eliza Taylor , Australian actress
- 1990 : İlkay Gündoğan , German football player
- 1990 : Florian Niederlechner , German soccer player
- 1990 : Danilo Petrucci , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1990 : Nikola Vučević , Montenegrin basketball player
- 1991 : Brian Behrendt , German soccer player
- 1991 : Fabian Schleusener , German soccer player
- 1992 : Ding Liren , Chinese chess player
- 1993 : Mariafe Artacho , Australian beach volleyball player
- 1994 : Sebastian Bösel , German soccer player
- 1997 : Cristo , Spanish soccer player
- 1997 : Raye , British singer and songwriter
- 1999 : Alexander Kaltner , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 140 : Faustina the Elder , Roman Empress
- 996 : Hugo Capet , French king
- 1167 : Konrad von Hirscheck , Bishop of Augsburg
- 1168 : William IV , Count of Nevers
- 1184 : Siegfried I of Anhalt , Bishop of Brandenburg and Archbishop of Bremen
- 1260 : Jacob of Lorraine , Bishop of Metz
- 1260 : Saif ad-Din Qutuz , Egyptian sultan
- 1327 : Asher ben Jechiel , Talmudist
- 1375 : Waldemar IV , King of Denmark
- 1412 : Johannes von Hohenlohe , German knight
- 1437 : Johann V , German nobleman, Count von Sponheim
- 1441 : Adolf , Duke of Bavaria-Munich
- 1457 : Margarete , Margravine of Baden
16th to 18th century
- 1535 : Francesco II Sforza , Duke of Milan
- 1537 : Jane Seymour , lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England
- 1579 : Albrecht V , Duke of Bavaria
- 1579 : Andreas I. Imhoff , Nuremberg patrician, merchant, banker and politician
- 1594 : François d'O , favorite of the French king Henry III.
- 1601 : Tycho Brahe , Danish astronomer
- 1604 : Za Dengel , Ethiopian emperor
- 1623 : Sebastian von Bergen , German lawyer and statesman
- 1625 : Friedrich , Duke of Saxony-Altenburg and Jülich-Kleve-Berg
- 1626 : Agnes Magdalene , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau and Countess of Hessen-Kassel
- 1645 : Martin Chemnitz , German lawyer and diplomat in the Swedish service, victim of the plague
- 1655 : Pierre Gassendi , French philosopher, theologian and mathematician, astronomer and physicist
- 1660 : William Seymour, 2nd Duke of Somerset , English nobleman
- 1667 : Gabriel Metsu , Dutch painter
- 1669 : Margarethe Rockemann , victim of the witch trials in Minden
- 1684 : Maria Elisabeth of Saxony , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp
- 1687 : Marie Euphrosine of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg , Countess de La Gardie
- 1689 : Stephan Farfler , watchmaker, possibly the first to build a wheelchair
- 1698 : Daniel de Rémy de Courcelle , French colonial administrator and governor of New France
- 1703 : Karl Gustav , Margrave of Baden-Durlach
- 1725 : Alessandro Scarlatti , Italian composer, music teacher
- 1731 : Ludwig Christof Schefer , German Pietist, Reformed pastor and inspector in Berleburg
- 1733 : Henrietta Churchill, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough , British noblewoman
- 1747 : Philipp Becker , German legal scholar
- 1784 : Karl Maximilian von Dietrichstein , Austrian statesman
- 1793 : Carl Eugen , Duke of Württemberg
- 1799 : Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , Austrian composer
19th century
- 1802 : Ludovico Manin , last doge of Venice
- 1813 : Gottlob August Krille , German composer and Kreuzkantor
- 1841 : Starez Leonid , Russian monk and pastor
- 1842 : Georg Carabelli , Hungarian-Austrian dentist
- 1842 : Bernardo O'Higgins , Chilean politician, first head of state
- 1843 : Roman Sołtyk , Polish general
- 1849 : José da Gama Carneiro e Sousa , Portuguese military and politician
- 1860 : Élie, Duke of Decazes and Glücksberg , French statesman
- 1864 : James Jay Archer , American brigadier general
- 1869 : Ludwig von der Asseburg , Prussian court hunter master
- 1870 : Antonius Maria Claret , Spanish bishop and founder of the order
- 1871 : Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg , German zoologist, entomologist and forest scientist
- 1878 : Paul Cullen , Irish cardinal and archbishop
- 1886 : Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust , Austrian politician
- 1886 : Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz , German merchant and founder of the German South West Africa colony
- 1892 : Robert Franz , German composer
- 1896 : Albert Abdullah David Sassoon , British-Indian merchant
20th century
1901-1950
- 1914 : Gustav Wied , Danish writer
- 1918 : Daniel Burley Woolfall , British football official, President of FIFA
- 1925 : Jindřich Šimon Baar , Czech Catholic priest and writer
- 1929 : Petrus Johannes Blok , Dutch historian
- 1929 : Rosa Neuwirth , Austrian ceramist
- 1930 : Paul Appell , French mathematician
- 1933 : Johannes Methöfer , Dutch author and anarchist
- 1935 : Otto Berman , American Mafioso
- 1935 : Dutch Schultz , American Mafioso
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- 1938 : Ernst Barlach , German sculptor
- 1938 : Carl Anton Mense , German tropical medicine specialist and explorer
- 1940 : Victor Hollaender , German composer and conductor
- 1940 : Hans Kyser , German writer and film director
- 1940 : Pierre Ernest Weiß , French physicist
- 1941 : Heinrich Brockhaus , German art historian
- 1942 : Georg Stumme , German general
- 1943 : Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau , Canadian poet and essayist
- 1944 : Otto Schmirgal , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1944 : Werner Seelenbinder , German wrestler and resistance fighter
- 1944 : Franz Wipplinger , German candidate for priesthood, Nazi victim
- 1944 : Louis Renault , French engineer and entrepreneur
- 1945 : Vidkun Quisling , Norwegian politician and officer, Minister of Defense, Prime Minister
- 1945 : Hans Thuar , German painter
- 1948 : Franz Lehár , Austrian composer
1951-2000
- 1952 : Frederick Jacobi , American composer
- 1954 : José Rodríguez Carballeira , Spanish pianist
- 1955 : Alfred Radcliffe-Brown , British social anthropologist
- 1955 : Herbert Zerna , German-Sorbian theologian, educator, local researcher and director
- 1957 : Christian Dior , French fashion designer
- 1958 : Theodor Kröger , German writer
- 1960 : François Piazzoli , French racing car driver
- 1966 : Hans Dreier , German artist and set designer
- 1969 : Loys Masson , French writer
- 1971 : Jo Siffert , Swiss racing car driver
- 1971 : Carl Ruggles , American composer
- 1974 : David Fjodorowitsch Oistrach , Russian violinist
- 1975 : Alfred Adam , German theologian and university professor
- 1975 : Friedrich Karl Florian , German military, politician and Nazi Gauleiter
- 1979 : Heinz Frommhold , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1983 : Wolfgang Ecke , German writer
- 1985 : László József Bíró , Hungarian inventor and developer (ballpoint pen)
- 1985 : Hermann Teuber , German painter and graphic artist
- 1987 : Leo Hepp , German intelligence officer and general
- 1990 : Hugo Nünlist , Swiss speleologist and author
- 1990 : Ernst Zwilling , Austrian travel writer
- 1991 : Gene Roddenberry , American screenwriter, television and film producer
- 1993 : Heinz Kubsch , German soccer player
- 1994 : Erich Wustmann , German ethnologist and travel writer
- 1995 : Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley , Venezuelan lawyer and diplomat
- 1995 : Hermann Langbein , Austrian historian, writer and resistance fighter
- 1996 : Arthur Axmann , German politician and party functionary, Reich youth leader
- 1996 : Edgar Augustin , German sculptor and draftsman
- 1996 : Gladwyn Jebb , British politician
- 1997 : Luis Aguilar , Mexican actor and singer
- 1999 : Patrick Dankwa Anin , Ghanaian politician
21st century
- 2001 : Wolf Rüdiger Heß , German architect, son of Rudolf Heß
- 2001 : Kim Gardner , American bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
- 2002 : Winton M. Blount , American politician
- 2002 : Scott Plank , American actor
- 2002 : Fee von Reichlin , German actress and operetta singer
- 2003 : Max Appis , German soccer player
- 2003 : Baldur Springmann , German politician and publicist
- 2004 : James Aloysius Cardinal Hickey , American clergyman, Archbishop of Washington
- 2005 : Bernhard Aubin , German legal scholar
- 2005 : José Simon Azcona Hoyo , Honduran President
- 2005 : Rosa Parks , American civil rights activist
- 2005 : Edward R. Roybal , US politician, member of the US House of Representatives
- 2007 : Hermann Benjes , German landscape gardener, nature photographer and writer
- 2007 : Petr Eben , Czech composer and organist
- 2007 : Adolf Oberth , German-Romanian chemist and inventor
- 2008 : Merl Saunders , American organist
- 2008 : Helmut Zilk , Austrian journalist and politician
- 2010 : Walter Siegenthaler , Swiss doctor
- 2010 : Joseph Stein , American playwright
- 2012 : Anita Björk , Swedish actress
- 2013 : Manolo Escobar , Spanish singer
- 2014 : Vic Ash , British jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
- 2015 : Maureen O'Hara , Irish-American actress
- 2015 : Arndt Schmehl , German legal scholar
- 2016 : Reinhard Häfner , German soccer player
- 2017 : Girija Devi , Indian singer, music teacher and composer
- 2017 : Fats Domino , American musician
- 2017 : Robert Guillaume , American actor
- 2018 : Tony Joe White , American musician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Starez Leonid , Russian monk and pastor (Protestant, Orthodox in the modern Orthodox calendar )
- Saint Anthony Maria Claret , Spanish bishop and founder of the order (Catholic)
- St. Everigisil , Bishop and Patron Saint (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Zambia : independence from Great Britain (1964)
- Anniversaries of international organizations
- United Nations Day ( UN ) (1945)
- More information about the day
- Day of the Libraries in Germany (since 1995) and South Tyrol (since 2009)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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