August 25
The August 25 is the 237th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 238th in leap years ), thus remain 128 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 383: The Roman Emperor Gratian , who fled to Lugdunum with a few companions , is slain by the army master Andragathius. Many of Gratian's troops had previously defected to the usurper Magnus Maximus instead of fighting for the ruler in the western part .
- 1256: In Bologna the abolition of serfdom is announced for about 6000 servants . The owners are compensated once from the city's financial coffers. In the following year, the legal text is documented in Liber Paradisus .
- 1270: The French King Louis IX. dies at the siege of Tunis during the seventh and final crusade . His successor is his son Philip III.
- 1330: During the Reconquista in Spain, a Christian army, supported by Scottish knights, succeeds in defeating a Moorish Nasrid force in the Battle of Teba . The Scottish military leader James Douglas is killed in action.
- 1580: Spain defeats the Portuguese army at the Battle of Alcântara . There is a personal union with Spain .
- 1620: The state parliament of the estates in Neusohl elects the Transylvanian prince Gábor Bethlen as king of Hungary , which marks the beginning of an anti-Habsburg uprising in what is now Slovakia .
- 1758: During the Seven Years' War , Frederick the Great defeated a superior Russian force in the Battle of Zorndorf .
- 1791: On the newly completed Pillnitz in Pillnitz near Dresden each meet Emperor Leopold II. And the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II. During the three-day prince meeting it is all about the " Polish question ", ending the Russo-Austrian Turkish war , and - at the insistence of French emigrants - also about the French Revolution .
- 1805: In the secret Bogenhausen Treaty , the Electorate of Bavaria turns its back on its allies Austria and Russia in the Third Coalition War and goes to France's side . The treaty paves the way for the Kingdom of Bavaria .
- 1825: Uruguay declares its independence from Brazil .
- 1830: In Belgium , after a performance of the romantic-nationalist opera La muette de Portici ( The Mute of Portici ) by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber in the Brussels Opera, an uprising against Dutch rule begins .
- 1839: The Republic of Northern Peru , like the Republic of Southern Peru, is dissolved in reunified Peru . The Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation is ended at the same time.
- 1898: In Heraklion on Crete, the Turks carry out a massacre of the Greek population, which kills several hundred Greeks, the British consul and 17 British soldiers.
- 1912: After the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the last emperor , Pu Yi , in China , the revolutionary Sun Yatsen founds the Kuomintang .
- 1914: In the last two days ending battle of Kraśnik in defeat World War I , the army of Austria-Hungary in Galicia the resources deployed troops of Russia .
- 1919: The Bavarian War Ministry is dissolved, the soldiers of the Bavarian Army are integrated into the Reichswehr . The Weimar Constitution reserves national defense solely for the tasks of the Reich .
- 1920: The Battle of Warsaw in the Polish-Soviet War ends with a crushing defeat for the Red Army . The “miracle on the Vistula” preserved the independence of the young Polish state and turned the war around.
- 1921: The USA , which did not ratify the Versailles Peace Treaty , conclude a separate peace with the German Reich in the Berlin Treaty .
- 1933: The first list appears in the Deutsches Reichsanzeiger with the names of emigrated artists and politicians who are expatriated in accordance with Section 2 of the Law on the Revocation of Naturalizations and the Revocation of German Citizenship of July 1933 (including Lion Feuchtwanger , Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster , Alfred Kerr , Heinrich Mann , Wilhelm Pieck , Philipp Scheidemann , Ernst Toller , Kurt Tucholsky and Otto Wels ).
- 1939: Great Britain and Poland sign a mutual assistance pact.
- 1941: Soviet and British troops invade north and south of neutral Iran as part of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran . The country was fully occupied by September 17 and lasted until the end of World War II .
- 1942: The battle of the East Solomon Islands during World War II ends without a decisive victory.
- 1942: The Battle of Milne Bay begins during the Pacific War and lasts until September 5th. It will be the first battle in which Allied land forces can defeat the Japanese.
- 1944: Allied troops liberate Paris , which was not destroyed after the German city commander Dietrich von Choltitz refused to give orders .
- 1944: Two days after a coup and as a result of the bombing of Bucharest by the German air force , Romania declares war on Germany .
- 1945: After the August Revolution in Vietnam , Emperor Bảo Đại abdicates and leaves power to the Việt Minh under Ho Chi Minh .
- 1955: The Vienna-Schwechat airport is handed over to the Austrian authorities by the British occupiers.
- 1981: Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1983: Johannes Weinrich carried out the attack on the Maison de France cultural center in Berlin.
- 1991: An attack on the Croatian city of Vukovar by planes of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army marks the beginning of the battle for Vukovar , which lasted until November 18. The atrocities subsequently committed by the Yugoslav People's Army and Serbian irregulars (in particular the Vukovar massacre ) promote the international recognition of the Republic of Croatia as an independent state.
- 1991: The parliament of the Belarusian SSR proclaims Belarusian independence with a large majority .
- 1992: During the siege of Sarajevo , the fire of the National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina , triggered by the effects of the war, began and lasted until the next day. Thousands of irreplaceable works are lost.
- 1992: With the use of seven water cannons at 3:00 am end the four-day anti-foreigner riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen .
- 1997: The 27th Large Criminal Chamber of the Berlin Regional Court sentenced the former members of the SED Politburo Krenz , Schabowski and Kleiber to imprisonment. You share responsibility for the killing of refugees on the inner-German border .
- 2002: In the run-up to the federal election , a television duel between the candidates for chancellor of the two major German parties takes place for the first time .
- 2006: Due to the security situation in East Timor , the UN Security Council resolves an integrated UN mission in the country with Resolution 1704 .
business
- 1810: The Briton Peter Durand receives a patent on the tin can in Great Britain .
- 1891: Thomas Alva Edison receives the patent for the invention of 35mm film .
- 1923: Reich President Friedrich Ebert ( SPD ) imposes a ban on private gold ownership .
- 2000: The metro is ceremoniously put into operation in the western Turkish city of İzmir . This makes the place the fourth city in the country to have a subway .
- 2006: Germany's largest interim storage facility for nuclear fuels goes into operation at the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant.
science and technology
- 1609: In Venice, Galileo Galilei presents his telescope based on the Dutch model for the first time .
- 1835: The New York Sun publishes the first article on the Great Moon Hoax .
- 1891: With the three-phase transmission Lauffen – Frankfurt , the long-distance transmission of three-phase current over 176 km was achieved for the first time .
- 1927: The USS Los Angeles , anchored to a high mast on the US airship port area of Lakehurst , performs an involuntary "headstand", which leads to the abandonment of the concept of the high mast for airships in favor of lower structures.
- 1956: Underwater archeology : After several years of searching, the wreck of the Vasa, which sank off Stockholm in 1628, is located .
- 1967: The history of television in Germany records the start of color television on the occasion of the International Radio Exhibition in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1989: The US space probe Voyager 2 flies past Neptune and provides many photos of the planet and its moons.
- 1991: Linus Torvalds announces work on a free operating system in a Usenet posting to the newsgroup dedicated to the Minix system . Linux is created .
- 1995: From Hamburg-Finkenwerder from the start Airbus A319 for its first flight.
- 2003: A Delta II rocket carries the Spitzer Space Telescope of Cape Canaveral from the All . During its operation, it provides new knowledge for infrared astronomy and discovers previously unseen celestial objects.
- 2012: Voyager 1 leaves the heliopause , making it the first human-made object to enter interstellar space .
Culture
- 1856: The Teatro Solís , built in the style of historic eclecticism , opens in Montevideo .
- 1867: The foundation stone for the New Town Hall is laid in Munich . The long controversial neo-Gothic design by the only 25-year-old Graz architect Georg von Hauberisser is being realized .
- 1917: Leon Jessel's operetta Schwarzwaldmädel is premiered in Berlin.
- 1938: The Montevideo Obelisk, which commemorates the first constitution, is inaugurated in Uruguay's capital on the national holiday .
- 1950: Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon - The Lustwäldchen hits Japanese cinemas.
society
- 2001: The Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon marries Mette-Marit Tjessem Høiby .
religion
Disasters
- 1861: 23 people die and 176 others are injured in a railway accident in the Clayton Tunnel . At the time, it was the worst railway accident in British history.
- 1927: The Japanese destroyer Warabi sinks off Bungo-Suido after a collision with the light cruiser Jintsū . 102 crew members die.
- 1929: On the morning of August 25, the greatest train accident of the 1920s and 1930s occurs in Germany: the Buir railway accident . 16 people die and more than 50 are seriously injured.
- 1933: The Diexi earthquake with the strength of 7.5 calls in China more than 9,000 deaths.
- 1988: In a major fire in the Chiado district , the old town of Lisbon is almost completely destroyed. The fire rages over an area of two hectares.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1916: In the United States caused the National Park Service . It is his responsibility to make the managed places accessible and to preserve the natural landscape and fauna as well as historical monuments.
Sports
- 1778: The Triglav , highest mountain in the Julian Alps and today's Slovenia, is climbed for the first time by Lovrenc Willomitzer .
- 1875: Matthew Webb reaches Calais in 21 hours and 45 minutes, becoming the first person to swim the English Channel .
- 1946: Under the name Association of German correspondence chess friends , the German Correspondence Chess Federation was founded.
- 1960: The XVII. Summer Olympics open in Rome .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1473: Margarethe von Münsterberg , Silesian princess from the house of Münsterberg, princess of Anhalt
- 1491: Innocenzo Cibo , Italian cardinal
- 1509: Ippolito II. D'Este , Archbishop of Milan, cardinal
- 1528: Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens , steward and tutor of the later Spanish King Philip II.
- 1530: Ivan IV "the terrible" , first crowned Russian tsar
Ivan the Terrible
(* 1530)
Johann Gottfried Herder
(* 1744)
Antoine de Saint-Just
(* 1767)
- 1561: Johan Philip Lansberg , Dutch astronomer
- 1573: Elisabeth of Denmark , Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1585: Giovanni Biliverti , Italian painter
- 1588: Elizabeth Poole , English settler, founder of the city of Taunton, Massachusetts
- 1605: Philipp Moritz von Hanau-Münzenberg , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1609: Sassoferrato , Italian painter
- 1610: Susanna Margarethe von Anhalt-Dessau , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau, Countess of Hanau
- 1611: Magdalene von Hessen-Kassel , former countess of Salm-Reifferscheid
- 1624: François d'Aix de Lachaise , French Jesuit
- 1628: Friedrich Hondorff , German salt count
- 1691: Alessandro Galilei , Italian architect
- 1694: Theodor von Neuhoff , political adventurer and King of Corsica
- 1700: Johann Friedrich Stoy , German Protestant theologian
18th century
- 1702: Johann David Steingruber , German agricultural inspector and master builder
- 1707: Ludwig I , King of Spain in 1724
- 1718: Christianus Carolus Henricus van der Aa , Dutch Lutheran theologian
- 1719: Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo , French portrait painter
- 1724: George Stubbs , British painter
- 1730: Xavier of Saxony , Prince of Saxony and Poland
- 1736: Franz Ludwig Schenk von Castell , German nobleman and criminal prosecutor
- 1741: Karl Friedrich Bahrdt , German Protestant theologian
- 1742: Peter Burckhardt , Swiss politician
- 1744: Johann Gottfried Herder , German poet, philosopher, translator and theologian of the Weimar Classic
- 1752: Louise Diede zum Fürstenstein , German nobleman and pianist
- 1755: Johann Philipp Högl , Austrian city stonemason master of Vienna, head of the Viennese building works
- 1757: Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach , German politician and Lord Mayor of Berlin
- 1762: Anton Wilhelm Möller , German Protestant clergyman
- 1767: Antoine de Saint-Just , French revolutionary
- 1770: Bernhard Wilhelm Toel , German clergyman
- 1775: Andreas Jordan , German politician and winemaker
- 1777: Marcus Warschauer , German banker
- 1779: Karl Emil Adelbert von Herder , Bavarian economist
- 1785: Adam Wilhelm Moltke , Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark
- 1785: Zoé Talon , mistress of the French King Louis XVIII.
- 1786: Ludwig I , King of Bavaria
- 1788: Cornelis Jacobus van Assen , Dutch legal scholar
- 1788: Franz Anton Egells , German entrepreneur
- 1791: Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen , Prussian ambassador
- 1793: Nathanael G. Pendleton , American attorney and politician, House member for Ohio
- 1793: Martin Rathke , German anatomist, embryologist and zoologist
- 1796: James Lick , American piano maker, large landowner
- 1798: Joseph von Auffenberg , German playwright and poet
- 1798: Henrik Hertz , Danish writer
- 1800: Joseph Halstead Anderson , American politician
- 1800: Josef Ettenreich , Austrian butcher, foiled a knife attack on Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- 1800: Karl von Hase , German theologian
19th century
1801-1850
- 1803: David T. Disney , American politician
- 1804: Gustav Bunsen , German surgeon and freedom fighter
- 1811: August Gottfried Ritter , German composer and organist
- 1814: Alphonse François , French engraver
- 1815: Maschinka Schneider , German soprano
- 1816: Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz , German publisher and pioneer of paperbacks
- 1817: Alfred F. Russell , tenth President of Liberia
- 1817: Friedrich Wilhelm Stade , German organist, conductor and composer
- 1818: Shiv Dayal Singh , Indian mystic
- 1818: Thomas Wade , British sinologist
- 1819: Allan Pinkerton , American detective, founder of the Pinkerton detective agency
- 1821: Ludwig Pfau , German poet and revolutionary
- 1822: Gardiner Greene Hubbard , American entrepreneur
- 1822: Albrecht Wolters , Prussian theologian
- 1823: Julius Victor Carus , German zoologist
- 1825: Otto von und zu Aufseß , German politician
- 1833: Izrael Poznański , Polish philanthropist and businessman
- 1836: Bret Harte , American writer
- 1836: Enomoto Takeaki , Japanese admiral
- 1841: Emil Theodor Kocher , Swiss surgeon, Nobel Prize winner
- 1842: Gustav von Görtz , Silesian major general and chamberlain
- 1842: Benoit Oppenheim the Elder , German banker
- 1842: Édouard Louis Trouessart , French zoologist
- 1845: Ludwig II , King of Bavaria
- 1845: Cassius McDonald Barnes , governor of Oklahoma
- 1850: Pawel Borissowitsch Axelrod , Russian revolutionary
- 1850: Marie Egner , Austrian painter
1851-1900
- 1851: Marie Kiesel , Austrian singer
- 1855: Patrick McMahon Glynn , Australian politician
- 1855: Hugo von Pohl , German Vice Admiral
- 1856: Louis Aubert , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1860: Leopoldine Kutzel , Austrian folk singer
- 1861: Franz Amecke , German pastor
- 1862: Louis Barthou , French politician, prime minister, multiple minister
- 1865: Arthur Hinsley , Archbishop of Westminster and Cardinal
- 1867: Marcel Schwob , French writer and translator
- 1869: Tom Kiely , Irish athlete
- 1872: Louis Brisset , French composer
- 1876: Victor Conrad , Austrian climatologist and geophysicist
- 1877: Petar Stojanović , Serbian composer
- 1879: John Randolph Bray , American animation pioneer
- 1880: Charlotte Fränkel , German classical archaeologist
- 1880: Ludwig Rochlitzer , Austrian composer
- 1880: Robert Stolz , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1882: Richard Paul Wagner , German Reichsbahnoberrat, head of the construction department in the design office of the DRG
- 1882: Seán Ó Ceallaigh , Irish politician and second President of Ireland
- 1883: Christian Weber , German SS brigade leader and council president
- 1884: Léon Poirier , French film director and screenwriter
- 1885: Édouard Dethier , Belgian-American violinist and music teacher
- 1886: Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese , German pianist, composer and librettist
- 1886: Willi Worpitzky , German football player
- 1887: Friedrich-Wilhelm Lübke , German politician
- 1887: Fartein Valen , Norwegian composer
- 1889: Georg Agde , German chemist
- 1889: Waldo Frank , American writer and sociologist
- 1889: Aslaug Vaa , Norwegian writer
- 1891: Samuel Gardner , American composer and violinist
- 1891: Maria Lauber , Swiss dialect writer
- 1891: Gustaw Morcinek , Polish writer
- 1891: Bruno Rodschinka , German pilot
- 1891: Alberto Savinio , Italian writer and painter
- 1892: Erich Aberger , German racing cyclist
- 1892: Georgi Azagarow , Russian film director and actor
- 1892: Wilhelm Niemann , German navigation officer of the DO-X
- 1892: Bernhard Spetsmann , German politician and trade unionist
- 1894: Alfred Berger , Austrian figure skater
- 1894: Max Gossner , German fighter pilot and flying ace
- 1894: Ernst Hornig , Protestant Bishop of Görlitz
- 1894: Pascalina Lehnert , German nun
- 1894: Nick Winter , Australian triple jumper, Olympic champion
- 1896: Friedrich von Kessel , politician in Lower Saxony
- 1896: Wilhelm Kinkelin , German medic, National Socialist, Swabian homeland researcher, SS brigade leader
- 1897: Jaroslav Řídký , Czech composer, conductor, musician and music teacher
- 1898: Helmut Hasse , German mathematician
- 1899: Guy Butler , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 1899: Adolf Rieger , German wrestler
- 1900: Frederick Newton Arvin Jr. , American literary scholar
- 1900: Carl Auböck senior , Austrian painter and designer
- 1900: Kurt von Fritz , German classical philologist
- 1900: Hans Adolf Krebs , German, later British physician and biochemist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Kjeld Abell , Danish writer
- 1901: Charlie Burse , American blues musician
- 1902: Stefan Wolpe , German composer
- 1903: Arpad Elo , American physicist and statistician
- 1903: Gerda Maurus , Austrian film actress, silent film star
- 1903: Wallace O'Connor , American swimmer and water polo player
- 1903: Rose Ouellette , Canadian comedian, actress, and singer
- 1904: Wilhelm Abel , German economic historian
- 1905: Marc Azéma , French racing car driver
- 1905: Wilhelm Ernst , German chess player
- 1905: Maria Faustyna Kowalska , Polish nun, mystic and saint
- 1905: Ivan Alexandrowitsch Serow , Russian politician, chairman of the KGB and the GRU
- 1905: Harold Sumberg , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1906: Eugen Gerstenmaier , German theologian, resistance fighter and politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag, MEP
- 1907: Arthur Apelt , German conductor and general music director
- 1907: Ruben Josefson , Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
- 1907: Heinz Wunderlich , German physician and playwright
- 1908: Bronisław Czech , Polish skier
- 1908: Ray Heindorf , American lyricist, composer and conductor
- 1908: Walburga Wegner , German singer
- 1909: Andrew Aitken , English football player
- 1909: Josef Augstein , German lawyer
- 1909: Kurt Borm , German doctor and member of the SS
- 1909: Eileen Hiscock , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 1909: Ruby Keeler , American actress
- 1909: Michael Rennie , British actor
- 1910: Ethel Stark , Canadian conductor, violinist and music teacher
- 1910: Dorothea Tanning , American painter, sculptor and writer
- 1911: Võ Nguyên Giáp , Vietnamese general and guerrilla fighter
- 1911: Vivi-Anne Hultén , Swedish figure skater
- 1912: Erich Honecker , German politician, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED and Chairman of the State Council of the GDR
- 1913: Alexej von Assaulenko , Russian-Ukrainian painter
- 1913: Walt Kelly , American animator and comic book artist
- 1914: Alexei Hajew , American composer
- 1915: Georg Freiherr von Boeselager , German cavalry officer
- 1915: Graciela Grillo Pérez , Cuban jazz singer
- 1916: Frederick Chapman Robbins , American medic and microbiologist
- 1916: Van Johnson , American actor
- 1916: Ernest Majo , German composer and professor
- 1917: Mel Ferrer , American actor
- 1917: Lisbeth Movin , Danish actress and director
- 1917: Hellmut Neuerburg , German submarine commander
- 1917: Lou van Burg , Dutch-German showmaster and entertainer
- 1918: Leonard Bernstein , American conductor and composer
- 1918: Marlene Neubauer-Woerner , German sculptor
- 1919: Ernst Barkmann , German SS member and local politician
- 1919: Werner Gerich , German engineer
- 1919: George Wallace , American politician, governor of Alabama
- 1920: Agha Shahi , Pakistani diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister
- 1921: Walter Achenbach , German medic
- 1921: Brian Moore , American novelist and screenwriter
- 1922: Hellmut Andics , Austrian journalist and author
- 1922: Kurt Blum , Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker
- 1922: Claude Bridel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1922: Marie Marcks , German cartoonist
- 1923: Dorothy Dunnett , Scottish writer
- 1923: Ayya Khema , German Buddhist nun
- 1923: Fernando Távora , Portuguese architect
- 1924: Allan Edwall , Swedish actor, writer, director and musician
- 1924: Zsuzsa Körmöczy , Hungarian tennis player
- 1924: Yasuzo Masumura , Japanese director
- 1925: Thea Astley , Australian writer
- 1925: Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt , Chilean composer and music teacher
- 1925: Maurice Binder , American filmmaker
- 1925: Hilmar Hoffmann , German cultural politician
- 1925: Gert von Paczensky , German journalist, restaurant critic
- 1925: Juana Reina , Spanish actress and singer
1926-1950
- 1927: Althea Gibson , American tennis player
- 1928: Miguel Ángel Álvarez , Puerto Rican actor and director
- 1928: Elie Amsini Kiswaya , Congolese bishop
- 1928: Herbert Kroemer , German physicist
- 1929: Gordon Sherwood , American composer
- 1930: Sean Connery , British actor
- 1930: Graham Jarvis , Canadian film and stage actor
- 1930: Rainer Zepperitz , German double bass player
- 1931: Cecil D. Andrus , American politician
- 1931: Peter Gilmore , British actor
- 1931: Karl Günnemann , German handball player
- 1931: Tchicaya U Tam'si , Congolese writer
- 1932: Alexander Arnz , German television director
- 1932: Daryl Irvine , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1933: Franco Angioni , Italian politician
- 1933: Roberto De Simone , Italian composer, author and opera director
- 1933: Henry Kolowrat , American fencer
- 1933: Diana Norman , British writer and biographer
- 1933: Wayne Shorter , American jazz saxophonist and composer
- 1933: Tom Skerritt , American actor
- 1934: Zilda Arns , Brazilian doctor, president of the Pastoral da Criança
- 1934: Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni , Iranian clergyman and politician
- 1934: Dietrich Unkrodt , German jazz musician
- 1936: Hugh Hudson , British film director
- 1936: Éva Kóczián , Hungarian table tennis player
- 1937: Klaus Wildbolz , Austrian actor
- 1938: Frederick Forsyth , British writer
- 1939: John Badham , British film director
- 1939: Robert Jager , American composer and professor
- 1940: Wolf-Dieter Ebersbach , German television journalist and presenter
- 1940: Norbert Grupe , German professional boxer and actor
- 1940: Thomas Kakuska , Austrian violist
- 1940: José van Dam , Belgian opera singer
- 1941: Carol Bolt , Canadian playwright
- 1941: Mario Corso , Italian football player and coach
- 1941: Angelo Domenghini , Italian football player and coach
- 1941: Carrie Smith , American jazz and blues singer
- 1942: Frances Itani , Canadian writer and poet
- 1942: Hilde Zach , Austrian local politician
- 1943: Gunter Berger , German actor
- 1943: Spartaco Dini , Italian racing car driver
- 1943: Niles Eldredge , American paleontologist
- 1943: Günter Sommer , German drummer and percussionist
- 1944: Jacques Demers , Canadian ice hockey coach and politician
- 1944: Anthony Heald , American actor
- 1944: Erwin Hermandung , German soccer player
- 1944: Pat Martino , American jazz guitarist
- 1944: Louis Ferdinand Jr. , German nobleman, member of the House of Hohenzollern
- 1946: Rollie Fingers , American baseball player
- 1946: Arthur Heyne , German rower
- 1946: Franz Obermeier , German politician
- 1946: Charlie Sanders , American football player
- 1947: Anne Archer , American actress
- 1947: Filip Bajon , Polish director
- 1947: Enriquillo Sánchez Mulet , Dominican writer, journalist and university lecturer
- 1947: Rinaldo Talamonti , Italian actor
- 1947: Keith Tippett , British jazz pianist
- 1948: Jean-Luc Chéreau , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1948: Helga Zepp-LaRouche , German journalist and politician
- 1949: Martin Amis , British writer
- 1949: Salif Keïta , African singer and songwriter
- 1949: Wolfgang Meckelburg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1949: John Savage , American film actor and producer
- 1949: Gene Simmons , American singer and musician ( Kiss )
- 1949: Rosemarie Will , German judge and professor
- 1950: Nugsar Bagration-Grusinski , Georgian theater director and director
- 1950: Willy DeVille , American rock and blues musician
- 1950: Jógvan Isaksen , Faroese writer
1951-1975
- 1951: Michael Batz , German author and dramaturge, director and light artist
- 1951: Rino Fisichella , Italian theologian, Archbishop of the Curia
- 1951: Rob Halford , British singer ( Judas Priest )
- 1952: Geoff Downes , British rock musician
- 1952: Heinrich Timmerevers , German auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Münster
- 1953: Uladsimir Arlou , Belarusian historian and poet
- 1953: Javier Giménez Noble , Argentine composer
- 1954: Elvis Costello , British singer and songwriter
- 1954: Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle , French professional cyclist
- 1954: Bruno Manser , Swiss ethnologist and environmental activist
- 1955: Earl Bell , American athlete
- 1955: John McGeoch , Scottish guitarist
- 1955: Thomas Meinecke , German writer
- 1955: Gerd Müller , German politician
- 1956: Robert Brahm , auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Trier / Germany
- 1956: Stig Strand , Swedish ski racer
- 1956: Henri Toivonen , Finnish rally driver
- 1957: Simon McBurney , British actor, writer and director
- 1957: Kai Taschner , German actor, voice actor and voice director.
- 1958: Tim Burton , American writer, producer, and film director
- 1958: Pierre Délèze , Swiss athlete
- 1959: Sönke Wortmann , German director
- 1960: Lee Archambault , American astronaut
- 1960: Maxim Biller , German writer
- 1960: Ingrid Deltenre , Dutch-Swiss manager
- 1960: Georg Zellhofer , Austrian soccer player and coach
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- 1961: Billy Ray Cyrus , American country singer
- 1961: Joanne Whalley , British actress
- 1962: Theresa Andrews , American swimmer
- 1962: Vivian Campbell , Northern Irish rock musician ( Def Leppard , Dio )
- 1962: Alexander Graf , German chess player
- 1962: Victor Löw , Dutch actor
- 1962: Taslima Nasrin , writer from Bangladesh
- 1962: Michael Zorc , German soccer player
- 1963: Candida Doyle , British musician ( Pulp )
- 1963: Miro Cerar , Slovenian lawyer and politician
- 1963: Roberto Mussi , Italian football player
- 1963: Avi Ran , Israeli soccer player
- 1963: Carmen von Samson-Himmelstjerna , German literary scholar and translator
- 1963: Peter Schallenberg , German theologian
- 1964: Joseph Arshad , Bishop of Faisalabad
- 1964: Maxim Lwowitsch Konzewitsch , Russian mathematician
- 1965: Holger Aden , German soccer player and coach
- 1965: Tina Riegel , German figure skater
- 1966: Christine Aaftink , Dutch speed skater
- 1966: Agostino Abbagnale , Italian rower
- 1966: Sandra Maischberger , German journalist, producer and author
- 1966: Robert Maschio , American actor and stand-up comedian
- 1966: Derek Sherinian , American keyboardist
- 1967: Eckart von Hirschhausen , German doctor and cabaret artist
- 1967: Carola Reimann , German politician
- 1967: Jeff Tweedy , American songwriter
- 1968: Rolf Aldag , German racing cyclist
- 1968: David Alan Basche , American film and stage actor
- 1968: Kurt Betschart , Swiss track cyclist
- 1969: Jamie Gold , American poker player
- 1969: Almuth Kook , German presenter and writer
- 1969: K7 , American singer, rapper and songwriter
- 1969: Enrico Poitschke , German racing cyclist
- 1969: Rachel Shelley , British actress
- 1970: Romică Andreica , Romanian politician
- 1970: Alexander Bade , German soccer player
- 1970: Robert Horry , American basketball player
- 1970: Aaron Jeffery , New Zealand actor
- 1970: Jo Dee Messina , American country singer
- 1970: Matthias Opdenhövel , German television presenter
- 1970: Claudia Schiffer , German photo model
- 1971: Gilberto Simoni , Italian racing cyclist
- 1972: Nikolaj Arcel , Danish director and screenwriter
- 1972: Johanna Asklöf , Finnish orienteer
- 1972: Marvin Harrison , American football player
- 1972: Isabelle Stoffel , Swiss actress
- 1973: Fatih Akin , German-Turkish film director, screenwriter, actor and producer
- 1974: Mario Jeckle , German computer scientist
- 1974: Tatjana Logwin , Austrian handball player and trainer
- 1974: Eric Millegan , American actor
- 1974: Matteo Nana , Italian ski racer
- 1975: Jan Ammann , German singer and actor
- 1975: Hervé Nzelo-Lembi , Congolese football player
- 1975: Petria Thomas , Australian swimmer
1976-2000
- 1976: Alexander Skarsgård , Swedish actor
- 1977: Diego Corrales , American boxer
- 1977: Andy McDonald , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977: Jonathan Togo , American actor
- 1978: Antoine Bauza , French game designer
- 1978: Chris , Brazilian soccer player
- 1978: Kel Mitchell , American actor and singer
- 1978: Oliver Roggisch , German handball player
- 1979: Nedžad Botonjič , Slovenian football player
- 1979: Sarah Burrini , German-Italian comic artist
- 1979: Marlon Harewood , English football player
- 1979: Philipp Missfelder , German politician, federal chairman of the Junge Union
- 1980: Ève Angeli , French singer
- 1980: TJ Bell , American racing car driver
- 1980: Pieter Mertens , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1981: Rachel Bilson , American actress
- 1981: Sina-Maria Gerhardt , German theater and film actress
- 1981: Shiva Keshavan , Indian luge rider
- 1981: Jean-Julien Rojer , tennis player from Curaçao
- 1982: Emanuel Centurión , Argentine soccer player
- 1982: Enno Hesse , German actor
- 1982: Connor James , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982: Primož Pikl , Slovenian ski jumper
- 1982: Matthias Steiner , German weightlifter, Olympic champion, European and world champion
- 1983: Alexander Abrosimov , Russian volleyball player
- 1983: Mehdi Bennani , Moroccan racing car driver
- 1983: James Rossiter , British racing car driver
- 1983: Siniša Ubiparipović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1984: Florian Mohr , German soccer player
- 1984: Kenan Sofuoğlu , Turkish motorcycle racer
- 1985: Fabio Carciola , German ice hockey player
- 1985: Elvedin Džinič , Slovenian football player
- 1985: Wynter Gordon , American singer and songwriter
- 1987: Zahir Ali , Indonesian racing car driver
- 1987: Raffaele Bianco , Italian soccer player
- 1987: Ollie Hancock , British racing driver
- 1987: Blake Lively , American actress and It girl
- 1987: Amy Macdonald , British singer-songwriter
- 1988: Ange Atsé , Ivorian soccer player
- 1988: Mustafa Hadid , Afghan soccer player
- 1988: Merlin Leonhardt , German actor
- 1989: Bahadir Incilli , German soccer player
- 1990: Scott Andrews , Australian racing car driver
- 1991: Markus Fuchs , German handball player
- 1991: Gershon Koffie , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1992: Angelica Mandy , British actress
- 1992: Ivy Quainoo , German-Ghanaian singer
- 1993: Hannah Stevenson , British skeleton pilot
- 1994: Anne Mette Hansen , Danish handball player
- 1996: Donis Avdijaj , Kosovar-German football player
- 1997: Bryana Salaz , American actress and singer
- 1998: China Anne McClain , American actress and singer
- 1999: Leon Vockensperger , German snowboarder
Died
Before the 16th century
- 359: Iunius Bassus Theotecnius , Roman politician
- 383: Gratian , Roman emperor in the west
- 471: Gennadios I , Patriarch of Constantinople
- 591: Aredius of Limoges , French abbot
- 811: Egino von Konstanz , bishop
- 985: Dietrich von Haldensleben , Count in Schwabengau and North Thuringia, Margrave of Nordmark and Count in Derlingau
- 1036: Pilgrim of Cologne , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Arch Chancellor of Italy
- 1148: Adalbero of Bremen , Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg
- 1192: Hugo III. , Duke of Burgundy
- 1192: Wichmann von Seeburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1233: Berthold von Helfenstein , Bishop of Chur
- 1248: Heinrich von Tanne , Prince-Bishop of Constance
- 1251: Gunner , Danish clergyman and bishop of the Viborg diocese, chief author of Jutian law
- 1258: Georg Muzalon , advisor to the Byzantine emperor in exile Theodor II. Laskaris
- 1270: Alfons of Brienne , Count of Eu (* around 1227)
- 1270: Louis IX. , King of France
- 1282: Thomas de Cantilupe , English Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Hereford
- 1298: Albrecht II , Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1330: James Douglas, Lord of Douglas , Scottish military leader and nobleman
- 1330: William Sinclair , Scottish knight
- 1339: Henry de Cobham , English nobleman and politician
- 1346: Rudolf , Duke of Lorraine
- 1368: Engelbert III. von der Mark , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1482: Margarete von Anjou , noblewoman from the Valois-Anjous family, wife of Henry VI, Queen of England, participant in the Wars of the Roses
- 1497: Johann von Tiefen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
16th to 18th century
- 1504: Ludovico Podocathor , Italian cardinal
- 1554: Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English statesman
- 1572: Christoph Lasius , German Protestant theologian
- 1592: Fleurette de Nérac , French mistress
- 1592: Wilhelm IV , Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
- 1610: Johann Debel , German philologist and Lutheran theologian
- 1626: Zacharias Brendel the Elder , German philosopher, physicist, medic and botanist
- 1628: Bernhardine zur Lippe , Countess of Leiningen-Leiningen
- 1632: Thomas Dekker , English playwright
- 1654: Maria Schnökel , victim of the witch hunt in Rinteln
- 1673: John Theyer , English lawyer, writer and antiquarian
- 1685: Francisco de Herrera the Younger , Spanish painter and architect
- 1688: Henry Morgan , English pirate and governor of Jamaica
- 1693: Johann Christoph Bach , twin brother of Johann Ambrosius Bach
- 1699: Christian V , King of Denmark and Norway
Henry Morgan
(† 1688)
Christian V of Denmark
(† 1699)
David Hume
(† 1776)
Thomas Chittenden
(† 1797)
- 1702: Friedrich Nitzsch , German mathematician and legal scholar
- 1742: Carlos Seixas , Portuguese composer
- 1749: Anton Passauer , leader of the Bavarian popular uprising of 1705
- 1751: Christian Friedrich Rolle , German composer and organist
- 1761: Johann Georg Geret , German Protestant theologian and educator
- 1768: Johann Conrad Seekatz , German painter
- 1770: Thomas Chatterton , British poet
- 1774: Niccolò Jommelli , Italian composer
- 1776: David Hume , British philosopher, economist and historian from Scotland
- 1782: Marianne Auenbrugger , Austrian pianist and composer
- 1791: Pietro Domenico Paradies , Italian composer
- 1793: Johann Christian Wernsdorf I , German writer, poet and rhetorician
- 1797: Thomas Chittenden , American politician, 1st governor of Vermont
- 1797: Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray , French politician
- 1799: John Arnold , British watchmaker and inventor
19th century
- 1805: William Henry , Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
- 1805: Joseph Roos , German painter
- 1819: James Watt , British inventor from Scotland, who significantly improved the steam engine
- 1822: Wilhelm Herschel , German-British astronomer, musician and composer
- 1836: Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland , German doctor, social hygienist and public educator
- 1840: Karl Immermann , German writer, poet and playwright
- 1846: Giuseppe Acerbi , Italian traveler and naturalist
- 1846: Gabriel Lory the Younger , Swiss landscape painter, etcher and watercolorist
- 1860: Johan Ludvig Heiberg , Danish poet and critic
- 1864: Johann Peter Weyer , German architect and art collector, city architect of Cologne
- 1867: Michael Faraday , British physicist and chemist
- 1868: Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer , German actress and writer
- 1868: Jacob van Lennep , Dutch writer
James Watt
(† 1819)
Wilhelm Herschel
(† 1822)
Carl Leberecht Immermann († 1840)
Giuseppe Acerbi
(† 1846)
Michael Faraday
(† 1867)
Friedrich Nietzsche
(† 1900)
- 1882: Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian doctor and writer
- 1883: Hermann Müller , German botanist, correspondent of Charles Darwin, discoverer of coevolution
- 1888: Karl Heine , German lawyer, entrepreneur and industrial pioneer
- 1895: Karl Ernst Georges , German classical philologist, teacher and lexicographer
- 1896: Enrico Nencioni , Italian poet and literary critic
- 1900: Friedrich Nietzsche , German philosopher
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Heinrich von Mendel-Steinfels , German economist and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- 1904: Henri Fantin-Latour , French painter and lithographer
- 1904: Marie von Najmájer , Austrian writer
- 1906: Max Eyth , German engineer and writer
- 1906: Stevan Sremac , Serbian writer
- 1908: Henri Becquerel , French physicist, discoverer of radioactivity, Nobel Prize winner
- 1909: Bessarion Dschugashvili , father of Josef Stalin
Max Eyth
(† 1906)
Henri Becquerel
(† 1908)
- 1915: Amalie Marby , German writer
- 1919: Viktor Knorre , Russian astronomer
- 1924: Ludvík Aust , Austrian politician
- 1925: Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf , Austrian field marshal
- 1925: Kazimierz Morawski , Polish philologist, historian and translator
- 1926: Thomas Moran , American landscape painter ( Hudson River School )
- 1927: Elisabeth Aspe , Estonian writer
- 1928: Alfred Meyer-Waldeck , German naval officer
- 1935: Thomas Alva Edison Jr. , American inventor
- 1935: Frank H. Hitchcock , American politician
- 1935: Mack Swain , American actor
- 1936: Lev Kamenev , Soviet politician
- 1936: Grigory Zinoviev , Soviet politician
- 1937: Jean Paul Richter , German art historian
- 1939: Jan Vos , Dutch football player
- 1941: Gholamali Bayandor , Iranian Rear Admiral
- 1942: Panayot Pipkow , Bulgarian composer
- 1942: Walerian Wróbel , Polish forced laborer
- 1944: Joseph Paul , French racing car driver
- 1945: Pierre Mesnel , French racing car driver
- 1948: Hermann Gieseler , German trade union official
- 1950: Dezyderiusz Danczowski , Polish cellist and music teacher
1951-2000
- 1953: Hans Eduard Fierz , Swiss chemist
- 1955: Albert Ouriou , French racing car driver
- 1955: Heinrich Spoerl , German writer
- 1956: Alfred Charles Kinsey , American sex researcher
- 1956: Robert Oppenheim , German private banker
- 1957: Leo Perutz , Austrian writer
- 1958: Leo Blech , German composer and conductor
- 1958: Leo Scheu , Austrian artist, academic painter and graphic artist, Styrian ice skater
- 1960: Raymond Abrashkin , American writer, screenwriter, and director
- 1964: Josef Afritsch , Austrian garden technician and politician
- 1966: Wolfgang Langhoff , German actor, director and communist
- 1967: Stanley Bruce , Australian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister
- 1967: Paul Muni , American actor
- 1967: George Lincoln Rockwell , American neo-Nazi and politician, founder of the American Nazi Party
- 1970: Max Abegglen , Swiss football player
- 1972: Juan Carlos Paz , Argentine composer
- 1972: Helmut Sündermann , German publicist
- 1973: Karl-Hermann Flach , German journalist and politician
- 1974: Caberto Conelli , Italian nobleman and racing car driver
- 1978: Herbert Kitzel , German artist
- 1979: Stan Kenton , American band leader
- 1982: Kurt Diedrich , German schoolboy and non-fiction author
- 1984: Truman Capote , American writer
- 1984: Rudolf Harms , German writer
- 1985: Ernst Aust , German politician
- 1986: Merle Montgomery , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1987: Erik Arnberger , Austrian cartographer
- 1987: Otto Höfler , Austrian Germanist
- 1987: Tokyo Kumagaï , Japanese shoe and fashion designer
- 1987: Willi Weyer , German sports official
- 1989: Roman Palester , Polish composer
- 1990: Morley Callaghan , Canadian writer
- 1990: David Hampshire , British racing car driver
- 1991: Shibaki Yoshiko , Japanese writer
- 1996: Reinhard Libuda , German soccer player
- 1997: Manolo Monterrey , Venezuelan singer and composer
- 1997: Robert Pinget , Swiss writer
- 1999: Richard Arlt , German resistance fighter against National Socialism, trade unionist and mining engineer
- 1999: Georg Thomalla , German actor
- 2000: Carl Barks , American painter, cartoonist, and copywriter
- 2000: Jack Nitzsche , American pianist and composer
21st century
- 2001: Aaliyah , American R&B singer
- 2002: William Warfield , American singer (bass-baritone)
- 2004: Donald Martin Ashton , British architect, film designer and set designer
- 2004: Otto Anton Eder , Austrian actor and director
- 2004: Cardinal Marcelo González Martín , Spanish clergyman, Archbishop of Toledo
- 2004: Carl Szokoll , Austrian film producer and author
- 2005: Peter Glotz , German politician, journalist and communication scientist, Member of the Bundestag, Senator, Member of the Bundestag
- 2005: Terence Morgan , British actor
- 2006: John Blankenstein , Dutch football referee
- 2006: Noor Hassanali , President of Trinidad and Tobago
- 2006: Vijay Mehra , Indian cricketer
- 2006: Heikki Toivanen , Finnish opera singer
- 2007: Raymond Barre , French politician and economist
- 2007: Richard Cook , British jazz journalist and author
- 2007: Conrad Drzewiecki , Polish ballet dancer and choreographer
- 2007: Edouard Cardinal Gagnon , Canadian chaplain, cardinal to the curia
- 2007: Ray Jones , English soccer player
- 2007: Folker Weißgerber , German manager
- 2008: Peter Bolton , British racing car driver
- 2008: Josef Tal , Israeli composer
- 2009: Edward Kennedy , American politician, Senator from Massachusetts
- 2012: Florencio Amarilla , Paraguayan soccer player and actor
- 2012: Angkarn Kalayanapong , Thai poet and painter
- 2012: Neil Armstrong , American astronaut, first person on the moon
- 2013: Gilmar , Brazilian soccer player
- 2013: Katja Paryla , German actress
- 2015: Peter Arens , Swiss actor and theater director
- 2016: James Cronin , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2016: Sonia Rykiel , French fashion designer
- 2016: Rudy Van Gelder , American jazz sound engineer
- 2018: Lindsay Kemp , British dancer and pantomime
- 2018: John McCain , American politician
- 2019: Ferdinand Piëch , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the VW Group
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Gregory of Utrecht , abbot in Utrecht and messenger of faith among the Frisians (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Geruntius , Bishop of Italica (Catholic)
- Saint Genesius of Rome , martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
- St. Titus , Bishop of Crete (Orthodox)
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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