April 25th
The April 25 is the 115th day of the Gregorian calendar (116th in leap years ), thus remain still 250 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1457 BC BC : Pharaoh Thutmose III. from the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt defeats the prince of Kadesh in the battle of Megiddo and begins the siege of the city of Megiddo .
- 1058 : Malcolm III. becomes king of Scotland after the death of Macbeth according to the Irish chronicler Marianus Scotus .
- 1185 : In the sea battle of Dan-no-ura , the decisive battle of the Gempei War , the Samurai forces of the Minamoto under Minamoto no Yoshitsune defeat the Taira under the child emperor Antoku in Kammon Street and secure rule over Japan .
- 1459 : Elector Friedrich II. And Duke Wilhelm III. of Saxony agree in Eger with the Bohemian King George of Podebrady the Treaty of Eger , with which the border between Saxony and Bohemia is determined. Most of this border is still valid today, making it one of the oldest existing borders in Europe.
- 1464 : House of York defeated the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor .
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- 1607 : In the Eighty Years War , a fleet of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces defeats the Spaniards in the Battle of Gibraltar . The Dutch admiral Jacob van Heemskerk is killed in the battle.
- 1626 : In the Thirty Years' War , the imperial Habsburg army of General Wallenstein defeats the Protestant military leader Ernst von Mansfeld and his troops in the Battle of Dessau , but fails to decisively weaken him.
- 1644 : Insurgents led by Li Zicheng move into Beijing, whereupon Emperor Chongzhen takes his own life and the rule of the Ming Dynasty in China ends.
- 1707 : During the War of the Spanish Succession , an Anglo-Portuguese army is defeated by French-Spanish troops in the Battle of Almansa .
- 1799 : In the Second Coalition War , a Russian-Austrian army under Alexander Wassiljewitsch Suworow meets a French army under Jean-Victor Moreau in the Battle of the Adda . The battle lasts until April 27th.
- 1837 : In the Second Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly , MP Franz Joseph Buß denounces social problems caused by industrialization in a German parliament for the first time . In his factory speech , he also called for auxiliary funds for sick people and work accident victims fed from employer contributions, notice periods, a maximum of 14 hours of working time, restriction of child labor, factory supervision and professional training for workers. His application will not be pursued.
- 1839 : British troops take the Afghan city of Kandahar without a fight in the First Anglo-Afghan War and thus gain an advantage in the " Great Game " against Russia for supremacy in Central Asia.
- 1848 : In the course of the March Revolution in Austria , the liberal constitution drawn up by Interior Minister Franz von Pillersdorf for the Austrian hereditary lands is enacted, but it never comes into force.
- 1860 : The Spanish-Moroccan War ends with the Peace of Tetuan . The losing Morocco has to pay compensation to Spain , which keeps the city of Tétouan as pledge until payment .
- 1864 : The London Conference begins. The signatory states of the London Protocol of 1852 try to diplomatically end the German-Danish War . The conference ends on June 25 with no results.
- 1898 : The United States Congress declares that the US has been at war with Spain since April 21 . The Spanish-American War lasts until August 12, making the United States an imperialist world power.
- 1915 : Entente troops land at Cape Helles on the Dardanelles during World War I to advance to Constantinople. The battle of Gallipoli , which lasted several months, ended in disaster for the Allies, and the evacuation of the troops lasted until 1916.
- 1917 : After the end of the “government of sacred unity” under António José de Almeida , Afonso Costa becomes Prime Minister of Portugal for the third time .
- 1920 : Mandate areas of the League of Nations are established for parts of the collapsed Ottoman Empire in the Middle East at the Sanremo Conference . A British mandate for Mesopotamia is created alongside its League of Nations mandate for Palestine . The French receive the League of Nations mandate for Syria and Lebanon .
- 1926 : Reza Pahlavi is crowned the new Shah of Iran in Tehran .
- 1933 : In the law against overcrowding in German schools and universities , the German Reich government under Adolf Hitler restricts access to educational institutions for “ non-Aryans ”.
- 1940 : In order to be able to distinguish the ships of the British occupied Faroe Islands from those of the German occupied Denmark in the Second World War , Winston Churchill announces the recognition of the flag of the Faroe Islands .
- 1943 : In the German Reich , the Demjanskschild is donated as a military award in World War II . It is awarded to the German participants in the Demyansk Kettle Battle .
- 1945 : The East Prussian operation comes to an end with the Red Army rubbing up the remnants of the German armed forces in Samland .
- 1945 : In Torgau occurs in the Second World War between the Soviet and American soldiers for the first time meeting its combat forces on German soil. In later years this is celebrated as Elbe Day .
- 1945 : In a coordinated action, the train stations in Freilassing and Bad Reichenhall as well as Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden are bombed. Over 200 people died in the air raid on Bad Reichenhall .
- 1945 : The Italian dictator Benito Mussolini flees from Milan from the Allies with his lover Clara Petacci and a few other people . This is considered to be the end of the Social Republic of Italy and of fascism in Italy .
- 1945 : The last technician leaves the temporary location of the German shortwave transmitter in Königs Wusterhausen .
- 1947 : A forerunner of the German Federation of Trade Unions is founded in the British occupation zone . Hans Böckler becomes the first chairman .
- 1950 : The Christian part of the population of the Moluccas proclaims the independent Republic of Maluku Selatan with the capital Ambon , which, however, is not recognized by Indonesia and is suppressed with armed force within a few weeks.
- 1952 : The federal state of Baden-Württemberg is founded through the unification of the states of Baden , Württemberg-Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern . Reinhold Maier (FDP / DVP) is elected as the first Prime Minister by the State Constituent Assembly .
- 1967 : In place of the Union Jack , the new flag designed by Emily Shongue, the cousin of King Sobhuza II , is hoisted for the first time in Swaziland (since 2018 Eswatini ) .
- 1971 : Franz Jonas of the Social Democratic Party is in the federal presidential elections with 52.8% against Kurt Waldheim for the second time to the Austrian Federal President elected.
- 1974 : With the almost bloodless Carnation Revolution by the Movimento das Forças Armadas , the authoritarian Estado Novo in Portugal ends . Dictator Marcelo Caetano has to hand over power to António de Spínola and goes into exile, the Third Republic begins in Portugal . The hitherto banned song Grândola, Vila Morena by José Afonso becomes the hymn of the revolution.
- 1982 : According to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979, Israel forcibly clears the last settlements on the Sinai Peninsula, which has been occupied since the Six Day War , and returns them to Egypt .
- 1982 : In the course of the Falklands War , British troops take the South Georgia archipelago, which had been occupied by Argentina three weeks earlier, without resistance.
- 1983 : The parliamentary elections in Portugal do not produce a clear result. The Partido Socialista under Mário Soares becomes the strongest party, but does not have a parliamentary majority.
- 1986 : After reaching the age of majority, Mswati III becomes . crowned King of Swaziland . He formally rules the last absolute monarchy in Africa together with his mother, the previous regent Ntombi .
- 1988 : A court in Jerusalem sentences the American of Ukrainian descent John Demjanjuk to death. The court regards it as proven that Demjanjuk is identical with the dreaded concentration camp guard "Ivan the Terrible" in the Treblinka extermination camp .
- 1990 : The Saarland Prime Minister Oskar Lafontaine is attacked by the mentally ill Adelheid Streidel with a knife and critically injured at an election campaign event in Cologne-Mülheim .
- 1991 : The Bundestag unanimously approves the Neighborhood Treaty with the Soviet Union, signed on November 9, 1990 and already ratified by the other side .
- 1994 : In a mass horn concert ("Buzinão") in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, the protest against the strict austerity policy of the Aníbal Cavaco Silva government , with which the latter has integrated the escudo into the European monetary system, is articulated .
- 2004 : The SPÖ candidate Heinz Fischer is elected Austrian Federal President with 52.4% of the votes against the conservative candidate Benita Ferrero-Waldner .
- 2007 : Former Russian President Boris Yeltsin , who died on April 23, is buried in Moscow. The Requiem is held in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. It is the first state funeral according to the Russian Orthodox rite for over a hundred years.
- 2007 : In the murder of a police officer in Heilbronn , the law enforcement officer Michèle Kiesewetter is shot in the head on Theresienwiese in Heilbronn , and her colleague Martin A. is critically injured.
- 2009 : In the early parliamentary elections for the Althing of Iceland , the left coalition made up of Allianz under Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and the left-green movement under Steingrímur J. Sigfússon wins an absolute majority for the first time.
- 2010 : The share of the votes of the emerging and developing countries in the World Bank is increased by three percentage points to 47%, which gives the emerging economies and countries of the third world more influence within the organization.
economy
- 1859 : At Port Said , the first groundbreaking for the construction of the Suez Canal according to plans by Alois Negrelli von Moldelbe takes place by Ferdinand de Lesseps .
- 1898 : For the energy supply of the city of Essen will Rhine-Westfalia Electricity Works AG (RWE) founded.
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- 1902 : The Jena-based company Carl Zeiss applies for a patent for the Tessar camera lens developed by Paul Rudolph .
- 1910 : August Horch , founder of the automobile manufacturer Horch , calls the company he founded after leaving the company Audi .
- 1931 : Ferdinand Porsche leaves his design office founded the previous year in Stuttgart under the name of Dr. Ing. H. c. F. Enter Porsche limited liability company, designs and advice for engines and vehicle construction in the register for corporate companies .
- 1948 : The first edition of the German illustrated magazine Quick appears.
- 1973 : The foundation stone is laid in Kalkar for a fast breeder , which, however, is never put into operation due to protests.
- 1983 : Gerd Heidemann , a Stern reporter , presents a sensational find in Hamburg: the " Hitler diaries ", which later turn out to be forgeries.
- 2004 : The associations Ring Deutscher Makler (RDM) and Verband Deutscher Makler (VDM) merge to form the real estate association IVD .
- 2006 : The largest passenger ship in the world at the time, the Freedom of the Seas cruise ship operated by Royal Caribbean International , begins her maiden voyage from Hamburg to Oslo.
science and technology
- 1507 : The German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller publishes a map of the world in Sankt Didel on which the " New World " is named for the first time as " America ", after Amerigo Vespucci .
- 1953 : The English biochemists Francis Crick and James Watson publish the article Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid in the journal Nature about their discovery of the double helix structure of genetic material DNA on February 28th .
- 1983 : The first line of Métro Lille between stations 4 Cantons and République , on which the driverless VAL system is used for the first time, is opened in the presence of President François Mitterrand.
- 1990 : One day after the start of the space shuttle Discovery's STS-31 mission , the team successfully deployed the Hubble space telescope . However, due to a lens defect, it only provides blurred images.
- 2002 : The second space tourist and first African in space , the South African Mark Shuttleworth , founder of Canonical and sponsor of the free Linux distribution Ubuntu , starts the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Culture
- 1719 : The first edition of the novel Robinson Crusoe by the writer Daniel Defoe is published.
- 1779 : The opera La vera costanza ( The Fluttery Lover ) by Joseph Haydn has its world premiere in Esterház .
- 1792 : The French officer Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes the Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin in Strasbourg during the French Revolution on the occasion of the declaration of war on Austria , later France's national anthem under the name of Marseillaise .
- 1856 : The writer Lewis Carroll first meets four-year-old Alice Liddell . Carroll's relationship with Liddell inspired the novels Alice in Wonderland and Alice Behind the Looking Glass . In today's pedophile movement , the anniversary is celebrated as Alice Day .
- 1876 : Penthesilea , a tragedy in 24 appearances by Heinrich von Kleist , which Heinrich von Kleist wrote in 1808, is premiered 65 years after his death at the Schauspielhaus Berlin .
- 1889 : Gyges und seine Ring , a tragedy in five acts by Friedrich Hebbel , who died in 1863, is premiered at the Vienna Burgtheater .
- 1896 : The operetta Die Geisha by Sidney Jones is premiered in London's Daly's Theater .
- 1918 : The world premiere of the opera Die Gezeichen by Franz Schreker takes place at the Opera House in Frankfurt am Main.
- 1926 : The opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini based on the play of the same name by Carlo Gozzi is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. The opera was only completed after the death of Puccini by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.
- 2005 : The last piece of the Axum obelisk, brought to Rome by Benito Mussolini in 1937 after the Abyssinian War , is returned to Ethiopia by Italy .
society
- 1792 : The thief Nicolas Jacques Pelletier is the first person to be executed using the guillotine introduced during the French Revolution . The execution is carried out by the executioner Charles Henri Sanson on the Parisian Place de Grève .
- 1952 : On the first German Arbor Day, Federal President Theodor Heuss and the President of the German Forest Protection Association , Federal Minister Robert Lehr , plant a maple in Bonn's Hofgarten .
religion
- 799 : A group of Roman nobles attacked Pope Leo III on a procession . and arrest him on charges of alleged sexual intercourse. A little later, the Pope managed to escape to Paderborn under the protection of Charlemagne .
Disasters
- 1980 : A Boeing 727 of the British Dan-Air crashes into a mountain during the approach to the Aeropuerto Internacional de los Rodeos on Tenerife , Canary Islands, in fog. All 146 people die.
- 2005 : The Amagasaki railway accident on the Fukuchiyama Line , operated by the West Japan Railway Company , kills 107 people and injures over 500. It is the worst train accident in Japan since 1963.
- 2015 : Numerous people die in Nepal in a severe earthquake measuring 7.9 . Many buildings collapse in Kathmandu , including the 61-meter-high Dharahara Tower , part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1972 : With his flight of 1461 km from Lübeck to Biarritz with a Schleicher ASW 12, Hans-Werner Grosse sets a world record for long- distance gliding that lasts for over 30 years.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1194 : Ezzelino III. da Romano , Italian prince
- 1214 : Louis IX. , French king
- 1228 : Conrad IV , German king
- 1284 : Edward II , English king
- 1287 : Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March , English nobleman and de facto ruler of England
- 1362 : John Charlton, 4th Baron Charlton , Welsh Marcher Lord
- 1372 : William Ferrers, 5th Baron Ferrers of Groby , English nobleman
- 1484 : Endres Dürer , German gold and silversmith
- 1502 : Georg Major , German theologian
- 1517 : Giovanni Bernardino Bonifacio , Italian count, humanist, book collector, librarian and founder of the city library of Gdańsk
- 1529 : Francesco Patrizi da Cherso , Italian philosopher
- 1559 : Sebastian Abesser , electoral and princely Saxon master game and hunter
- 1562 : Friedrich Wilhelm I , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1599 : Oliver Cromwell , Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland
- 1608 : Gaston de Bourbon , Duke of Orléans
- 1614 : Hieronymus van Beverningh , Dutch statesman and diplomat
- 1614 : Marc'Antonio Pasqualini , Italian soprano castrato
- 1621 : Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery , English statesman
- 1625 : Johann Friedrich , son of Duke Georg von Calenberg
- 1626 : Sigmund von Birken , German poet of the Nuremberg poet circle
- 1652 : Giovanni Battista Foggini , Italian sculptor and architect
- 1653 : Johann Christoph von Urbich , Privy Councilor, Danish and Russian ambassador and minister
- 1656 : Giovanni Antonio Burrini , Italian painter
- 1657 : Emmerich Thököly , Prince of Transylvania
- 1669 : Georg von Hessen-Darmstadt , viceroy of Catalonia
- 1670 : Carl von Ahlefeldt , German statesman, liege count of Langeland, governor of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1684 : Marco Benefial , Roman painter
- 1690 : Gottlieb Muffat , Austrian organist and composer
- 1694 : Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington , British nobleman, architect and garden designer
18th century
- 1707 : Leopold Clemens Karl , Hereditary Prince of Lorraine
- 1710 : James Ferguson , Scottish astronomer and mechanic
- 1711 : Marie Antoinette von Ahlefeldt , German Countess and Prioress of the Uetersen Monastery
- 1714 : Emer de Vattel , Swiss international lawyer
- 1725 : Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel , British admiral and politician
- 1725 : Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller , German zoologist
- 1736 : Marcus Anton Wittola , Austrian theologian and pastor
- 1750 : Joanna Southcott , English enthusiast
- 1757 : Johann Tobias Lowitz , German-Russian chemist and pharmacist
- 1763 : Isaac Wilbour , American politician
- 1767 : Charles Nicolas Oudinot , French marshal
- 1770 : Georg Sverdrup , Norwegian philologist, philosopher and politician
- 1772 : James Burrill , American politician
- 1775 : Charlotte Joachime of Spain , Princess of Spain and Queen of Portugal
- 1776 : Edward Solly , English merchant and art collector
- 1780 : Joseph Anton Salzmann , Swiss bishop
- 1781 : Ferdinand Karl of Austria-Este , Field Marshal and Governor General of Galicia and Transylvania
- 1786 : Johann Christian Zimmermann , German upper mountain ridge and planner of the Ernst August tunnel
- 1787 : Jakob Friedrich Binder , First Mayor of Nuremberg
- 1791 : Franz Heinrich von Waldersee , Prussian general of the cavalry
- 1792 : John Keble , Anglican clergyman and poet
- 1794 : Asaf Jah IV. , Prince of Hyderabad
- 1798 : Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann , founder of the first German building trade school
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Victor Scheppers , Belgian priest and founder of the order
- 1806 : Robert von Prittwitz and Gaffron , Prussian government president in Silesia
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- 1806 : Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig
- 1811 : William Henry Bissell , American politician
- 1811 : Julius Jacob the Elder , German painter
- 1813 : Carl Gerster , German doctor, homeopath
- 1815 : Joseph Behm , Hungarian-German church musician and composer
- 1819 : Moritz von Aberle , German theologian
- 1822 : Max Maria von Weber , Prussian ministerial advisor and railway engineer
- 1823 : Abdülmecid I , Ottoman Sultan
- 1823 : August Dillmann , German orientalist and theologian
- 1824 : Gustave Boulanger , French painter
- 1825 : Federico Errázuriz Zañartu , Chilean politician
- 1828 : Julius Grosse , German writer
- 1839 : Roswell K. Colcord , governor of Nevada
- 1839 : Ernst Faber , German sinologist and missionary
- 1841 : Franz Fauth , German educator
- 1842 : Max Lossen , German historian
- 1843 : Alice of Great Britain and Ireland , German philanthropist, Grand Duchess of Hesse and the Rhine
- 1846 : Max Buchner , German explorer
- 1849 : Haruthiun Abeljanz , Swiss chemist
- 1849 : Felix Klein , German mathematician
- 1849 : Joseph Zimmermann , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1850 : Luise Adolpha Le Beau , German pianist and composer
1851-1900
- 1852 : Leopoldo Alas , Spanish writer
- 1852 : Jules Bovon , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1857 : Giuseppe Gamba , Archbishop of Turin and Cardinal
- 1858 : Raffaele Scapinelli Di Leguigno , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1861 : Marco Enrico Bossi , Italian organist and composer
- 1861 : Rudolf Dittrich , Austrian musician
- 1862 : Friedrich Austerlitz , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1862 : Louis Krauss , German industrialist and bathtub manufacturer
- 1862 : Adolf Miethe , German photo chemist and physicist
- 1869 : Alois Theodor Sonnleitner , Austrian author of young books
- 1871 : August Mittelsten Scheid , German entrepreneur
- 1872 : Albrecht Bethe , German physiologist
- 1872 : Else Falk , German social politician and women's rights activist
- 1873 : Félix Hubert d'Hérelle , British-Canadian biologist
- 1873 : Walter de la Mare , British poet and author
- 1874 : Guglielmo Marconi , Italian radio pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1878 : Theodore Holland , British composer and music teacher
- 1883 : Semyon Mikhailovich Budjonny , Soviet Marshal, three-time Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1886 : Jindřich Hořejší , Czech poet and translator
- 1888 : Miyagi Chōjun , founder of the Gōjū-Ryū karate style
- 1890 : Camilio Mayer , German high wire artist
- 1892 : Jakob Grimminger , German SS member, bearer of the blood flag
- 1892 : Anton Rosen , German teacher and local researcher
- 1893 : Svend Noldan , German painter and documentary film director
- 1893 : Ernst Torgler , German politician and co-defendant in the Reichstag fire trial
- 1895 : Elly Linden , German politician
- 1895 : Fritz Mensing , German politician
- 1895 : Stanley Rous , English football referee and official, FIFA President
- 1897 : Aloys Feldmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1897 : Fletcher Pratt , American writer
- 1897 : Haro Stepanjan , Armenian composer
- 1898 : Edmund Kolbe , German painter
- 1898 : Arthur Mertins , German politician
- 1900 : Gladwyn Jebb, 1st Baron Gladwyn , British politician
- 1900 : Ernst Kris , Austrian-American art historian and psychoanalyst
- 1900 : Wolfgang Pauli , Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Gottfried Amann , German forest scientist and non-fiction author
- 1901 : Wilhelm Hofmann , German teacher and special educator
- 1902 : Kurt Gottschaldt , German representative of Gestalt psychology
- 1902 : Leopold Gutterer , German politician, close confidante of Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels
- 1902 : Werner Heyde , German psychiatrist and neurologist, accomplice in the euthanasia murders during the Nazi era (Action T4)
- 1902 : William H. Wright , American screenwriter, film and television producer
- 1903 : Andrei Nikolajewitsch Kolmogorow , Russian mathematician
- 1903 : Camilla Horn , German actress
- 1903 : Michele Pellegrino , Italian cardinal and archbishop of Turin
- 1904 : Huey Long , American musician
- 1906 : Zoltán Gárdonyi , Hungarian composer, church musician and teacher
- 1907 : Isaac Mamott , Canadian cellist and music teacher
- 1907 : Mykola Trublaini , Russian writer
- 1907 : Wassili Pawlowitsch Solowjow-Sedoi , Russian composer
- 1908 : Erwin Assmann , German historian
- 1908 : Edward R. Murrow , American radio and television journalist (See It Now)
- 1910 : Adolf Metzner , German athlete
- 1911 : Robert Jan Verbelen , Flemish writer
- 1913 : Earl Bostic , American alto saxophonist and composer
- 1913 : Giovanni Battista Piamarta , Italian priest and founder of the order, Blessed
- 1914 : Marcos Pérez Jiménez , Venezuelan President
- 1914 : Bob Russell , American songwriter and songwriter
- 1915 : Max Bach , German publisher
- 1915 : Joseph Abileah , Israeli violinist and peace activist, first convicted Israeli conscientious objector
- 1916 : Luis Herrera de la Fuente , Mexican conductor and composer
- 1916 : Marco Tulio Maristany , Venezuelan singer
- 1917 : Ella Fitzgerald , American jazz singer
- 1917 : Jean Lucas , French racing car driver
- 1918 : Muhammed Said Abdulla , Tanzanian writer
- 1918 : Graham Payn , South African-British entertainer, singer and actor
- 1918 : Alain Savary , French education politician, member of the Forces Françaises Libres
- 1918 : Astrid Varnay , Swedish soprano and mezzo-soprano
- 1918 : Gérard-Henri de Vaucouleurs , French-American astronomer
- 1919 : Finn Helgesen , Norwegian speed skater
- 1919 : Heinz Wunderlich , German organist and composer
- 1920 : Helmut Lortz , German graphic artist
- 1920 : Peter Karvaš , Slovak writer, playwright and philosopher
- 1921 : Karel Appel , Dutch painter
- 1922 : Lia Angeleri , Italian actress
- 1922 : Georges Cottier , Swiss cardinal
- 1922 : Miura Ayako , Japanese writer
- 1923 : Anita Björk , Swedish actress
- 1923 : Albert King , American blues musician
- 1923 : Josef Weidinger , Austrian boxer
- 1924 : Peter Abeles , Australian entrepreneur
- 1924 : Joseph Eric D'Arcy , Australian Archbishop of Hobart
- 1924 : Brigitte Freyh , German politician
- 1924 : Sophie Nogler , Austrian ski racer
- 1924 : Erzsébet Szőnyi , Hungarian music teacher and composer
- 1925 : Sammy Drechsel , German journalist
- 1925 : Ilse Künkele , German actress
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1926-1950
- 1926 : Vittorio Gelmetti , Italian composer
- 1926 : Tadeusz Janczar , Polish actor
- 1927 : Rosemarie Fendel , German actress
- 1927 : Frances Hyland , Canadian actress
- 1927 : Werner Jarowinsky , German politician
- 1927 : Ernst-Otto Meyer , German football player
- 1927 : Siegfried Palm , German cellist
- 1927 : Albert Uderzo , French author and draftsman ( Asterix )
- 1927 : Ernst Widmer , Swiss-Brazilian composer
- 1928 : Richard Anders , German writer
- 1928 : Cy Twombly , American painter, photographer, and object artist
- 1929 : Georg Hohenberg , Austrian diplomat
- 1929 : Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , German cantor and choirmaster, tenor and Thomaskantor
- 1930 : Paul Mazursky , American filmmaker
- 1930 : Peter-Emil Rupp , German manager
- 1930 : Peter Schulz , German lawyer and local politician
- 1930 : Violetta Ferrari , Hungarian actress
- 1931 : Hans-Joachim Böhme , German politician, GDR university minister
- 1931 : Hans Georg Pescher , German ice hockey player and coach
- 1931 : Bridget Riley , British painter
- 1932 : Nikolai Semjonowitsch Kardaschow , Russian astrophysicist
- 1932 : Lia Manoliu , Romanian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1932 : Roberto Yanés , Argentine singer
- 1933 : Karl-Wilhelm Lange , German local politician and association official
- 1933 : Jerry Leiber , American songwriter
- 1934 : Kevin Aje , Nigerian minister, Bishop of Sokoto
- 1935 : Bob Gutowski , American pole vaulter
- 1936 : Henck AE Arron , Surinamese Prime Minister
- 1937 : Bucky Adams , Canadian jazz saxophonist and band leader
- 1937 : Wolfgang Zapf , German sociologist
- 1938 : Ton Schulten , Dutch painter
- 1939 : Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield , British photographer
- 1939 : Tarcisio Burgnich , Italian football player
- 1939 : Karin Kessler , German athlete
- 1939 or 1940 : Henrik Arildskov , Danish gardener, vocational school teacher and television presenter
- 1940 : Ethel Afamado , Uruguayan singer and writer
- 1940 : Al Pacino , American actor, director, and producer
- 1940 : Jochen Borchert , German politician
- 1941 : Richard Agreiter , Austrian sculptor
- 1941 : Werner Enke , German actor and author
- 1941 : Markus Lüpertz , German painter
- 1941 : Walter Mixa , German military bishop and bishop of Augsburg
- 1941 : Rudolf Růžička , Czech composer
- 1941 : Peter Skalicky , German rector of the Vienna University of Technology
- 1941 : Bertrand Tavernier , French film director
- 1942 : Josef Dvořák , Czech actor
- 1942 : Volkmar Schubert , German politician
- 1943 : Angelo Anquilletti , Italian football player
- 1943 : Tony Christie , British pop singer
- 1944 : Mete Aslan , Turkish politician
- 1944 : Julio Montero Castillo , Uruguayan football player
- 1945 : Lutz Feldt , German Vice Admiral and Inspector of the Navy
- 1945 : Giacinto Santambrogio , Italian racing cyclist
- 1945 : Geriet Schieske , German director, actor and author
- 1945 : Björn Ulvaeus , Swedish singer and musician ( ABBA )
- 1946 : Andrzej Seweryn , Polish actor
- 1946 : Talia Shire , American actress
- 1946 : Vladimir Wolfowitsch Zhirinovsky , Russian politician, member of the Duma
- 1946 : Strobe Talbott , American diplomat, politician, and political scientist
- 1947 : Johan Cruyff , Dutch football player and coach
- 1948 : Enver Marić , Yugoslav football player
- 1949 : Dominique Strauss-Kahn , French politician
- 1950 : Helmut Draxler , Austrian manager
- 1950 : Steve Ferrone , British drummer
- 1950 : Peter Hintze , German politician
- 1950 : Ulrich Langenbach , German artist
- 1950 : Heribert Rech , German politician, Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
1951-1975
- 1952 : Claus Bernhard Auer , German diplomat
- 1952 : Michael Aufhauser , German animal rights activist
- 1952 : Jacques Santini , French football player and coach
- 1952 : Milena Duchková , Czech water diver, Olympic and world champion
- 1952 : Vladislav Alexandrovich Tretyak , Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion and world champion
- 1953 : Giorgio Battistelli , Italian avant-garde composer
- 1953 : Jakob Paul Gillmann , Swiss writer and surveying engineer
- 1954 : Bob Ross , British bugler and conductor
- 1955 : Benjamin Marc Ramaroson , Malagasy bishop
- 1955 : Eric Drexler , German author and pioneer of molecular nanotechnology and author
- 1955 : Larry Barrett , American songwriter and singer
- 1955 : John Nunn , English chess player and theorist
- 1955 : Michael Denhoff , German composer and cellist
- 1956 : Helge Antoni , Swedish pianist
- 1956 : Dominique Blanc , French actress
- 1956 : Jaroslava Schallerová , Czech actress
- 1956 : Mirko Votava , German soccer player and coach
- 1957 : Joseph Aucoin , American Vice Admiral
- 1957 : Pavel Baran , Czech lecturer
- 1957 : Cor Euser , Dutch racing car driver
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- 1957 : Roch Marc Kaboré , President of Burkina Faso
- 1958 : Fish , British singer
- 1960 : Francesco Romano , Italian soccer player
- 1961 : Agneta Andersson , Swedish canoeist
- 1961 : Markus Büchel , Liechtenstein sprinter
- 1961 : Dinesh D'Souza , Indian-born American author and filmmaker
- 1961 : Frank De Winne , Belgian astronaut
- 1961 : Ralf Forster , German soccer player
- 1961 : Truls Mørk , Norwegian cellist
- 1962 : Joseph Befe Ateba , Cameroonian bishop
- 1962 : Ralf Benschu , German musician
- 1962 : Ole Edvard Antonsen , Norwegian trumpeter
- 1963 : Hitoshi Ashinano , Japanese manga artist
- 1963 : Christopher Campbell , French racing car driver
- 1963 : Peter Meyer , German politician
- 1963 : Andreas Rettig , German football official
- 1964 : Fadela Amara , French politician
- 1964 : Andy Bell , British singer ( Erasure )
- 1964 : Hank Azaria , American actor and voice actor
- 1965 : Jens Adler , German soccer player
- 1966 : Francis Fulton-Smith , British-German actor
- 1966 : Femke Halsema , Dutch politician
- 1966 : Rubén Sosa , Uruguayan football player
- 1967 : Susana Amador , Portuguese administrative lawyer and politician
- 1967 : Joachim Pfeiffer , German politician
- 1968 : Thomas Strunz , German soccer player
- 1969 : Gina Torres , American actress
- 1969 : Kai Hundertmarck , German racing cyclist
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- 1969 : Renée Zellweger , American actress
- 1970 : Joël Abati , French handball player
- 1970 : Maurice Androsch , Austrian politician and police officer
- 1970 : Jason Lee , American actor and producer
- 1970 : Adriana Lisboa , Brazilian writer
- 1970 : Kjersti Stubø , Norwegian jazz singer
- 1970 : Jason Wiles , American actor, director, and producer
- 1970 : Kate Allen , Austrian triathlete
- 1972 : Markus Bütler , Swiss ice hockey player
- 1972 : Thomas Hanreich , German singer and songwriter
- 1972 : Jaak Sooäär , Estonian jazz guitarist
- 1973 : Georg Breinschmid , Austrian double bass player, composer and jazz musician
- 1973 : Amel Karboul , Tunisian entrepreneur, business consultant and politician
- 1973 : Fredrik Larzon , Swedish drummer
- 1973 : Barbara Rittner , German tennis player
- 1973 : Brigitte Traeger , German singer
- 1974 : Grant Achatz , American three-star chef
- 1974 : Sandra Borgmann , German actress
- 1974 : Gabrielle Odinis , German actress
- 1974 : Barbara Romagnan , French politician
- 1975 : Shivani Ghai , English actress
- 1975 : Truls Ove Karlsen , Norwegian ski racer
- 1975 : André Thieme , German show jumper
1976-2000
- 1976 : Gilberto da Silva Melo , Brazilian soccer player
- 1976 : Tim Duncan , American basketball player
- 1976 : Stefan Murr , German actor
- 1976 : Rainer Schüttler , German tennis player
- 1977 : Sylviane Berthod , Swiss ski racer
- 1977 : Christian Dubé , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 : Sebastian Helbig , German soccer player
- 1977 : Marguerite Moreau , American film actress
- 1978 : Yim Bang-eun , South Korean badminton player
- 1978 : Tone Wølner , Norwegian handball player
- 1979 : Giuseppe Andrews , American actor, director and screenwriter
- 1979 : Andreas Küttel , Swiss ski jumper
- 1979 : Aleksandar Radosavljević , Slovenian football player
- 1980 : Hoàng Thanh Trang , Hungarian chess player of Vietnamese origin
- 1980 : Alejandro Valverde , Spanish cyclist
- 1981 : Felipe Massa , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver
- 1981 : Anja Pärson , Swedish skier
- 1983 : Katharina Heyer , German actress
- 1983 : Dušan Kožíšek , Czech cross-country skier
- 1983 : Kōki Saga , Japanese racing driver
- 1984 : Kalle Keituri , Finnish ski jumper
- 1984 : Ulrike Mertesacker , German handball player
- 1984 : Katerina Rohonyan , Ukrainian-American chess player
- 1984 : Nik Tyler , American actor and short film producer
- 1985 : Giedo van der Garde , Dutch racing driver
- 1985 : Wahagn Minasjan , Armenian football player
- 1986 : Ahmad Haidar Anuawar , Malaysian cyclist
- 1986 : Karim Günes , German actor
- 1986 : Raïs M'Bolhi , French-Algerian football player
- 1986 : Jörn Nowak , German soccer player
- 1986 : Daniel Sharman , British actor
- 1987 : Marcel Höttecke , German soccer player
- 1988 : Elif Aşkın , Turkish biathlete
- 1989 : Michael van Gerwen , Dutch darts player
- 1989 : Gendün Chökyi Nyima , Tibetan Panchen Lama
- 1990 : Matias Laine , Finnish racing car driver
- 1990 : Jean-Éric Vergne , French racing car driver
- 1991 : Olivier Lombard , French racing car driver
- 1993 : Raphaël Varane , French football player
- 1994 : Jake Forster-Caskey , English soccer player
- 1994 : Marcel Sobottka , German soccer player
- 1994 : Maggie Rogers , American singer-songwriter
- 1994 : Lucas Woudenberg , Dutch football player
- 1995 : Ellen Benediktson , Swedish singer
- 1995 : Karolina Andrejewna Sevastjanowa , Russian gymnast, Olympic champion
- 1996 : Allisyn Ashley Arm , American actress
- 1997 : Daniel Guttenberger , Austrian pool player
- 1998 : Satou Sabally , German basketball player
21st century
- 2003 : Emrehan Gedikli , German-Turkish soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 487 : Kenzō , 23rd Emperor of Japan
- 737 : Ermin , Abbot Bishop of Lobbes
- 974 : Ratherius , teacher, Abbot of Lobbes, Bishop of Verona and Bishop of Liège
- 1074 : Hermann I of Baden , margrave
- 1077 : Géza I , King of Hungary
- 1112 : Gaudry , Bishop of Laon
- 1116 : Bernhard von Tiron , hermit and monastery founder
- 1124 : Bruno von Bretten , Archbishop of Trier
- 1185 : Antoku , Emperor of Japan
- 1217 : Hermann I , Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1245 : Johannes Teutonicus Zemeke , Halberstädter Glossator
- 1264 : Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester , Anglo-Scottish magnate
- 1295 : Sancho IV , King of León and Castile
- 1316 : Frederick the Little , Margrave of Meissen
- 1342 : Benedict XII. , Pope
- 1359 : Albert II of Hohenberg , Bishop of Freising, Constance and Würzburg
- 1362 : Muhammad VI. , Emir of Granada
- 1380 : Margaret of Brabant , Countess of Flanders
- 1397 : Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent , English nobleman, military in the Hundred Years War
- 1399 : Widzeld tom Brok , East Frisian chief of Brokmer and Auricherlands
- 1402 : Jean de la Grange , French cardinal
- 1421 : Weiprecht II. Von Helmstatt , German Imperial Knight, Councilor and Vogt in the Oberamt Bretten
- 1439 : Avigdor Kara , rabbi, scribe and Kabbalist
- 1472 : Leon Battista Alberti , Italian architect and humanist
- 1473 : Albrecht von Hoya , Bishop of Minden and administrator of the Diocese of Osnabrück
- 1499 : Veit Werner von Zimmer , German nobleman
16th to 18th century
- 1505 : Margaretha von Venningen , German noblewoman and abbess
- 1507 : Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Countess von Henneberg
- 1509 : Georg II , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1516 : John Yonge , English diplomat and lawyer
- 1545 : Jobst II. , Count of Hoya
- 1566 : Louise Labé , French poet
- 1579 : John Stewart, 4th Earl of Atholl , Scottish nobleman
- 1587 : Leonhart Zollikofer , Swiss merchant and policeman
- 1591 : Basilius Amerbach , Swiss lawyer and art collector
- 1595 : Torquato Tasso , Italian poet
- 1605 : Naresuan , King of Ayutthaya in Thailand
- 1607 : Jacob van Heemskerk , admiral, captain of the Dutch East India Company
- 1644 : Chongzhen , last emperor of the Ming dynasty in China
- 1647 : Matthias Gallas , imperial general in the Thirty Years War
- 1647 : Andreas Scultetus , German writer
- 1664 : Gottfried Möbius , German medic
- 1680 : Luise von Anhalt-Dessau , through her marriage Duchess of Liegnitz, Brieg, Wohlau and Ohlau
- 1687 : János Kájoni , Romanian composer
- 1687 : Gilberte Périer , sister and biographer of Blaise Pascals
- 1690 : David Teniers the Younger , Flemish painter, draftsman and curator
- 1695 : Johann Heinrich am Ende , German painter
- 1700 : Valentin Veltheim German moral philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- 1712 : Dudleya North , British orientalist
- 1720 : Johann Rodde , German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1725 : António de Albuquerque Coelho de Carvalho , Portuguese colonial administrator in Brazil
- 1725 : Mir Mahmud Hotaki , Shah of Persia from the Hotaki dynasty
- 1728 : John Woodward , English natural historian, geologist and physician
- 1734 : Johann Konrad Dippel , German theologian, alchemist and doctor
- 1739 : Santiago de Murcia , Spanish guitarist, composer and music theorist
- 1740 : Simon Sasslaber , Austrian stonemason and sculptor
- 1743 : Christian Weise , German Lutheran theologian and educator
- 1759 : Georg Karl von Dyherrn , Saxon lieutenant general
- 1773 : Daniele Farlati , Italian church historian and Jesuit
- 1787 : Gerhard Matthäus Friedrich Brawe , German medic and author
19th century
- 1814 : Louis-Sébastien Mercier , French writer
- 1817 : Joseph von Sonnenfels , Austrian writer and professor of political science
- 1818 : George Armistead , American Lieutenant Colonel
- 1820 : Constantin François Volney , French traveler and philosopher of history
- 1820 : Johann Peter Bucher , German legal scholar
- 1830 : Euchar from Adam , head of the vicariate general in the diocese of Eichstätt
- 1837 : Gottfried Konrad Hecht , German civil servant and botanist
- 1840 : Siméon Denis Poisson , French physicist and mathematician
- 1842 : David Assur Assing , German physician, poet and editor
- 1843 : Eduard August Feuerbach , German legal scholar
- 1846 : Magdalena Margaretha Tischbein , German flower painter
- 1850 : Karl von Canitz and Dallwitz , Prussian lieutenant general and statesman
- 1878 : Coles Bashford , American politician
- 1878 : Anna Sewell , British writer
- 1882 : Joseph von Aschbach , German historian
- 1890 : Theodor Möbius , German Nordist
- 1892 : William Backhouse Astor , American entrepreneur
- 1892 : Karl von Ditmar , Estonian explorer and naturalist
- 1895 : Heinrich von Littrow , Austrian cartographer and writer
- 1896 : Hermann Arnold , German painter
- 1898 : August Assmann , German entomologist
- 1898 : Benjamin Vautier , German painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1906 : John Knowles Paine , American composer
- 1911 : Emilio Salgari , Italian writer
- 1912 : Wacław Rolicz songs , Polish poet
- 1921 : Max Jacob , German architect
- 1926 : Ellen Key , Swedish women's rights activist, reform pedagogue and writer
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- 1926 : Giulio Masetti , Italian nobleman and racing car driver
- 1926 : Sunjong , last monarch of the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean Empire
- 1928 : Pyotr Nikolajewitsch Wrangel , Baltic-Russian general of the White Army in the Russian Civil War
- 1929 : Julius Jacob the Younger , German painter
- 1937 : Friedrich Oetker , German criminal lawyer
- 1938 : August Luchs , German classical philologist
- 1940 : Wilhelm Dörpfeld , German architect and archaeologist
- 1942 : Karl Kutzbach , German mechanical engineer and scientist
- 1942 : Georg Singer , German KPD politician and anti-fascist
- 1944 : Humphrey Cobb , American writer
- 1945 : Humbert Achamer-Pifrader , Austrian lawyer and member of the SS, head of Einsatzgruppe A.
- 1946 : Oswald Adolf Erich , German painter and folklorist
- 1949 : Jankel Adler , Polish painter and engraver
1951-2000
- 1951 : Jerzy Fitelberg , Polish composer
- 1953 : Paul Senn , Swiss photographer
- 1955 : Paul Basilius Barth , Swiss painter
- 1956 : Paul Renner , German typographer
- 1958 : Iosif Iser , Romanian painter
- 1958 : Charles-Victor Mauguin , French mineralogist
- 1960 : Inocenc Arnošt Bláha , Czech sociologist, philosopher, educator
- 1960 : Hope Emerson , American actress
- 1960 : Ilmari Krohn , Finnish composer and musicologist
- 1961 : Hans Friedrich Blunck , German writer
- 1964 : Luigi Pigarelli , Italian lawyer and composer
- 1967 : Emile Maret , French racing car driver
- 1968 : Gunnar Andersen , Norwegian soccer player and ski jumper
- 1968 : Bade Ghulam Ali Khan , Indian singer
- 1968 : Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz , German general and tank commander
- 1968 : Walter Tewksbury , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1969 : Richard Asher , British medic
- 1969 : Margarita Xirgu , Catalan actress
- 1970 : Anita Louise , American actress
- 1971 : Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen , Princess of Sachsen-Meiningen and Prussia
- 1971 : Karl Blessing , President of the German Bundesbank
- 1971 : Max Drischner , German composer, organist and harpsichordist
- 1971 : Anneli Granget , German actress
- 1973 : Armand Léon Annet , French colonial administrator, governor of French Somaliland, Dahomey and Madagascar
- 1974 : Guus Lutjens , Dutch football player
- 1975 : Walter Adolph , German priest
- 1975 : Alf Ainsworth , English football player
- 1975 : Mike Brant , French musician
- 1975 : Jacques Duclos , French politician
- 1976 : Aquiles Nazoa , Venezuelan writer, poet and journalist
- 1976 : Carol Reed , British film director
- 1977 : Cayetano Córdova Iturburu , Argentine journalist, art critic and writer
- 1978 : Zenta Mauriņa , Latvian writer and essayist
- 1980 : Albert Tönjes , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
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- 1980 : Katia Mann , wife of Thomas Mann
- 1980 : Mario Bava , Italian film director, cameraman and screenwriter
- 1982 : Boris Fyodorowitsch Andrejew , Soviet film actor
- 1983 : Siegfried Einstein , German writer and essayis
- 1983 : Carroll Glenn , American violinist
- 1984 : Ida Fischer , German clerk, resistance fighter against National Socialism, local and state politician
- 1984 : Peter Schult , German writer and journalist
- 1984 : Hayashi Tatsuo , Japanese philosopher, cultural and literary critic
- 1985 : Zoltán Horusitzky , Hungarian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1989 : Józef Ciechan , Polish sculptor
- 1989 : George Coulouris , British actor
- 1990 : Dexter Gordon , American tenor saxophonist
- 1991 : Léo Arnaud , American musician
- 1991 : Michael Kühnen , leader of the German neo-Nazi movement
- 1992 : Werner Steinberg , German writer
- 1993 : Kurt-Werner Wichmann , German alleged serial killer
- 1995 : Lou Ambers , American boxer
- 1995 : Alexander Knox , Canadian actor
- 1995 : Ginger Rogers , American actress
- 1995 : Andrea Fortunato , Italian football player
- 1996 : Saul Bass , American graphic designer
- 1999 : Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin , President of the IOC
- 2000 : Niels Viggo Bentzon , Danish composer
21st century
- 2001 : Michele Alboreto , Italian racing car driver
- 2001 : Kow Nkensen Arkaah , Ghanaian politician
- 2002 : Lisa Lopes ("Left Eye"), American singer and rapper
- 2003 : Lynn Chadwick , British sculptor
- 2003 : Wolfgang Dehler , German actor
- 2003 : Al Hood , American jazz pianist and composer-
- 2003 : Ted Joans , American writer
- 2004 : Thom Gunn , British lyric poet
- 2004 : Carl Melles , Hungarian conductor
- 2004 : John Runnings , Canadian peace activist
- 2005 : Hermann Egner , German brass music composer
- 2005 : Hasil Adkins , American country, rock and roll, and blues musician
- 2007 : Edward Astley, 22nd Baron Hastings , British nobleman
- 2007 : Alan Ball , English soccer player
- 2007 : Barbara Blida , Polish politician
- 2007 : Razeq Fani , Afghan poet and writer
- 2007 : Bobby Pickett , American singer and actor
- 2007 : Edgar Wisniewski , German architect
- 2008 : Humphrey Lyttelton , British jazz musician and author
- 2009 : Beatrice Arthur , American actress
- 2009 : Kurt Joachim von Bornhaupt , German judge
- 2010 : Dorothy Provine , American actress
- 2010 : Alan Sillitoe , British writer
- 2012 : Louis le Brocquy , Irish painter
- 2012 : Jan Szlaga , Polish bishop
- 2014 : Tito Vilanova , Spanish football player and coach
- 2014 : Stefanie Zweig , German writer
- 2015 : Siegfried Mattl , Austrian historian
- 2016 : Wolfgang Rohde , German musician
- 2017 : Martha Lavey , American theater actress and director
- 2017 : Carl Schirren , German physician
- 2016 : Rudolf Wessely , Austrian actor
- 2018 : Michael Anderson , British film director
- 2018 : Holger Biege , German composer and singer
- 2018 : Paul N. Carlin , American government official
- 2019 : John Havlicek , American basketball player
- 2020 : Per Olov Enquist , Swedish writer and journalist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Mark , evangelist, Roman martyr and bishop, founder of the Coptic Church (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic): main article St. Mark's Day
- Philipp Friedrich Hiller , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Italian National Day Liberation Day of Italy , when the Italian Republic celebrates liberation from fascism in 1945.
- Australia , New Zealand , Tonga : ANZAC Day (since 1916)
- Portugal : Carnation Revolution (1974)
- Commemoration days of international organizations
- Day of the Tree (only in Germany since 1952)
- World Penguin Day
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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