25th March

The March 25 is the 84th day of the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years ), thus remaining 281 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0717 : After a bloodless coup, Leo III becomes in Konstantin Opel to Byzantine crowned emperor. His predecessor Theodosios III. abdicates and retires to a monastery.

1223: Sancho II.

• 1223 : After the death of his father Alfonso II , Sancho II ascends the Portuguese throne. He is the fourth ruler of Portugal from the House of Burgundy .

1306: Palace of Scone

• 1306 : At the height of the Scottish Wars of Independence , Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scots as Robert I in the Palace of Scone .
• 1420 : In the battle of Sudoměř , the first battle of the Hussite Wars , a Hussite army defeats an attacking imperial one and establishes the reputation of invincibility of their general Jan Žižka .
• 1557 : The Second Peace of Novgorod ends the Russo-Swedish War . This war between Tsarist Russia under Ivan IV and Sweden under Gustav I Wasa over access to the Russian Baltic Sea did not result in any change in the course of the border.
• 1609 : The death of Duke Johann Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg leads to the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute over the United Duchies of Jülich-Kleve-Berg between the main heirs Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg and Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg .
• 1634 : The first settlers arrive at the colony of Maryland , founded by Caecilius Calvert, the second baron of Baltimore , on the two ships Ark and Dove . This day is celebrated annually in Maryland with Maryland Day .

1799: Archduke Karl of Austria-Teschen

• 1799 : The Second Coalition War brings the Austrian army units under the leadership of Archduke Karl von Österreich-Teschen another victory over the French Danube Army under General Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in the Battle of Stockach . Jourdan lost his command within four days because of the second defeat.
• 1807 : The British Parliament passes the Slave Trade Act to abolish the slave trade .

1821: Alexander Ypsilantis

• 1821 : The Greek struggle for freedom against the rule of the Ottomans , planned for years by the Greek secret society Filiki Eteria, begins under the leadership of Alexander Ypsilantis .
• 1852 : After a dispute in the Prussian state parliament, a pistol duel occurs between the liberal Georg von Vincke and the conservative Otto von Bismarck , in which both opponents remain unharmed.
• 1907 : In reaction to the peasant uprising , Romania changes government. The new Minister of War, Alexandru Averescu , is bloody suppressing the farmers' protests against their living conditions within a few days.
• 1918 : After German troops marched into Minsk in World War I, the First Belarusian People's Congress declares the separation from Soviet Russia and proclaims the “free and independent Belarusian People's Republic ”, which is recognized neither by the German Reich nor by the Western powers.

1920: Memorial stone near Mechterstädt

• 1920 : Fraternity students from Marburg murder 15 workers near the Thuringian city of Mechterstädt who they had previously arrested for "resisting the Kapp Putsch ". The perpetrators, among them Bogislav von Selchow and Otmar von Verschuer , were acquitted that same year for the Mechterstädt murders .
• 1923 : Great Britain separates Transjordan from Palestine and forms an independent emirate in the Mandate Palestine . Over time, this will give rise to the Kingdom of Jordan .

1924: George II of Greece

• 1924 : In Athens, the Greek National Assembly, under the leadership of Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou, proclaims the republic. This will be confirmed in a referendum on April 13th. King George II has to go into exile, Pavlos Koundouriotis becomes the first president.
• 1939 : In the German Reich the "youth service obligation" is introduced, whereby the membership of children and young people in the Hitler Youth can be enforced against the will of the parents by the police.
• 1941 : Under pressure from Hitler, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis Three-Power Pact of World War II . This leads to anti-German mass demonstrations in the country and two days later to a coup against Prince Regent Paul .
• 1945 : The United States Army Air Forces fly the last and largest air raid on Prague in the last phase of World War II , killing 235 people.

1945: Notice about the murder of Franz Oppenhoff

• 1945 : A Nazi commando murders Franz Oppenhoff , the mayor of the liberated Aachen . The final phase crime later only leads to short prison sentences and acquittals before a German court.
• 1953 : The German Bundestag passes the Federal Expellees Act , according to which displaced persons , displaced persons , Soviet zone refugees and ethnic repatriates as well as their surviving dependents are entitled to benefits.

1957: EEC founding members

• 1957 : The Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands sign the EEC Treaty establishing the European Economic Community and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community in Rome . Together with the ECSC , which was founded five years earlier, the organizations established by the Treaty of Rome form the European Community .
• 1966 : The Supreme Court of the GDR sentenced Horst Fischer, a former camp doctor in Auschwitz, to death. The execution took place a few months later.
• 1970 : Brazil expands its maritime territory from twelve to 200 nautical miles through a decree of its president Emílio Garrastazu Médici .
• 1971 : The West Pakistani military and government head Yahya Khan breaks off all negotiations with the East Pakistani Awami League and leaves East Pakistan . Immediately after his departure, he gave the order for the West Pakistani troops to be deployed and thus opened the Bangladesh war
• 1975 : The Saudi Arabian King Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz is murdered by his nephew Faisal ibn Musa'id. He is succeeded by his half-brother Chalid ibn Abd al-Aziz on the throne.
• 1994 : The first arson attack on a synagogue since 1938 is carried out in Lübeck . Nobody is injured in the anti-Semitic attack . The four perpetrators are caught a little later.
• 2001 : The Schengen Agreement comes into force for Denmark , Finland and Sweden as well as the non-EU states Iceland and Norway and guarantees the free movement of goods and people across borders .

2007: The Berlin armory

• 2007 : During the German EU Council Presidency , the 27 heads of state and government of the EU sign the Berlin Declaration in the Zeughaus in Berlin, which draws attention to the need for a European community of values.

economy

• 1807 : The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, built in 1804, is the first railway in the world to transport paying passengers.
• 1811 : Napoleon Bonaparte orders the cultivation of sugar beets because, due to his continental barrier against England, there are no cane sugar imports from the West Indies . The sugar industry is emerging in Europe .
• 1814 : King Wilhelm I founds De Nederlandsche Bank , which developed into the central bank of the Netherlands.
• 1870 : The Grand Duchy of Baden grants the Badische Bank a license as a private central bank .

science and technology

1566: The Corputius Plan

• 1566 : Johannes Corputius publishes the bird's eye view of Duisburg named after him .

1655: Saturn's moon Titan

• 1655 : The Dutch astronomer Christian Huygens discovered with its self-built telescope the largest moon of Saturn , titanium .
• 1811 : The French astronomer Honoré Flaugergues discovers the comet Flaugergues ( C / 1811 F1 ), the first of the great comets of the 19th century.
• 1843 : The first tunnel to cross a river is opened in London after 18 years of construction. The Thames Tunnel , which was created under the direction of Marc Isambard Brunel and his son Isambard Kingdom Brunel , was only used by pedestrians in the early years.
• 1961 : The Soviet Union starts Sputnik 10 with the dog Svyosdotschka on board as the last test before manned space flight . The flight and return of the landing capsule are successful.
• 1995 : The American programmer Ward Cunningham puts a wiki on the internet for the first time on the website c2.com , the WardsWiki .

1996: Hyakutake

• 1996 : Hyakutake , the " Great Comet of 1996", reaches its closest approach to Earth.

Culture

• 1813 : The first performance of the opera Die Insulanerinnen by Conradin Kreutzer based on the play L'isola disabitata by Pietro Metastasio takes place in Stuttgart.

1875: Scene from Trial by Jury

• 1875 : The comic opera in one act Trial by Jury by Arthur Sullivan with the libretto by William Schwenck Gilbert is premiered at the Royalty Theater in London.
• 1895 : The opera Silvano by Pietro Mascagni is at the Teatro alla Scala first performed in Milan.
• 1911 : The Kaiser-Franz-Josephs-Jubilee-Künstlerhaus is opened in Brno with an exhibition of the Association of German-Moravian Visual Artists .
• 1911 : The world premiere of the operetta Grigri by Paul Lincke takes place at the Metropol Theater in Cologne.
• 1932 : In the film Tarzan, the ape man , the swimming Olympic champion Johnny Weissmüller embodies the jungle man Tarzan for the first time .
• 1937 : The "musical football swank " Roxy and her wonder team by Paul Abraham is premiered in the presence of the Austrian national football team at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
• 1988 : ZDF starts its literary quartet with Marcel Reich-Ranicki as part of the culture magazine aspekte .
• 2007 : The German rock band Tokio Hotel is awarded the Echo for the best music video.

society

• 1996 : In Hamburg the multimillionaire Jan Philipp Reemtsma is overwhelmed by kidnappers and kidnapped. They demand a ransom of 20 million Deutschmarks.

religion

• 0708 : Constantine I is enthroned as successor to Pope Sisinnius .
• 1253 : The chapter of St. Vitus calls Heinrich Břetislav III. as bishop to Prague .
• 1409 : The Council of Pisa is opened. It has set itself the task of overcoming the Great Occidental Schism .

Consecrated in 1436: Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

• 1436 : After Filippo Brunelleschi completed the dome , Eugene IV consecrated the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence . The construction of the cathedral took 140 years.
• 1885 : The Italian priest Filippo Smaldone founds the Order of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Heart . It is dedicated to the education, care and pastoral care of the deaf .
• 1900 : The Order of Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is founded in Hiltrup .
• 1954 : In the encyclical Sacra virginitas , Pope Pius XII praises . those people in the service of God who remain celibate and virgin in their lives . They are indispensable to the honor and glory of the Church .

Disasters

1911: The burning Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

• 1911 : 146 mostly underage workers are killed in the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City. Some of the corpses are found sitting at the workplace, which they did not dare to leave.

1913: The Great Dayton Flood

• 1913 : After four days of storms and rains, the Ohio River overflows and floods Dayton , Ohio. Over 350 people are killed and around 65,000 are made homeless.
• 1941 : The German auxiliary cruiser Thor attacks the British passenger ship Britannia on the West African coast , which is on its way to Bombay without escort . The ocean liner goes up in flames and sinks. 122 crew members and 127 passengers are killed.
• 1960 : The L'Oros dam near Fortaleza in the state of Ceará in Brazil breaks before its completion and causes a tidal wave that kills around 1,000.
• 2002 : An earthquake of intensity 5.9 in the province of Baghlan in Afghanistan calls for about 2,000 deaths and at least as many injured. Around 150,000 people are left homeless.
• 2014 : The first cases of Ebola virus infection are officially reported in Guinea .

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

Sports

• 1903 : The Racing Club Avellaneda is founded in Avellaneda in the province of Buenos Aires . He then becomes one of the most successful football clubs in Argentina.
• 1966 : The Scottish extreme mountaineer Dougal Haston , together with four Germans, succeeds in the first ascent of the Eiger north face in the Direttissima . The route is named after Dougal's friend John Harlin , who died on the climb.
• 1992 : The Yugoslav national football team plays their last official international match as a unitary state - but already without Croatia and Slovenia , as both republics announced their independence in 1991. In Amsterdam, the team lost 2-0 in a friendly against the Netherlands .

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

Born

Before the 17th century

• 1157 : Alfonso II of Aragon , King of Aragon
• 1252 : Konradin , Duke of Swabia and last Staufer
• 1259 : Andronikos II , Emperor of Byzantium
• 1273 : Henry Percy, 1st Baron Percy , English nobleman and military man
• 1297 : Andronikos III. , Emperor of Byzantium
• 1299 : Pierre Bertrand de Colombier , French cardinal and diplomat
• 1309 : Robert de Ferrers, 3rd Baron Ferrers of Chartley , English nobleman
• 1342 : Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford , English nobleman
• 1347 : Catherine of Siena , Italian mystic, doctor of the church and saint
• 1408 : Agnes von Baden , Margravine of Baden, Duchess of Schleswig, Countess of Holstein
• 1453 : Giuliano di Piero de 'Medici , co-regent of his brother Lorenzo il Magnifico , victim of the Pazzi conspiracy
• 1479 : Vasily III. , Grand Duke of Moscow
• 1491 : Marie d'Albret , Countess von Rethel and Countess von Nevers
• 1528 : Jakob Andreae , German Lutheran theologian
• 1538 : Francesco Maria I della Rovere , Duke of Urbino

Francesco I de 'Medici (* 1541)

• 1541 : Francesco I de 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany
• 1545 : Johann , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
• 1567 : Anna Margarete , Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Harburg and provost in the Quedlinburg Abbey
• 1593 : Jean de Brébeuf , French Jesuit
• 1594 : Maria Tesselschade Visscher , Dutch painter and engraver
• 1600 : Johann Heinrich Waser , Mayor of Zurich

17th century

• 1611 : Evliya Çelebi , Ottoman-Turkish writer and traveler
• 1614 : Juan Carreño de Miranda , Spanish painter
• 1621 : Matthäus Merian the Younger , German painter, engraver and publisher
• 1622 : Isidoro Affaitati , Italian military engineer and architect
• 1643 : Louis Moréri , French encyclopedist
• 1657 : Johann Baptist Adolph , German Jesuit and stage poet
• 1660 : Samuel Crell , German preacher
• 1661 : Evliya Çelebi , Ottoman traveler
• 1688 : Johann Gotthilf Ziegler , German composer and organist
• 1699 : Johann Adolph Hasse , German composer (baptism date)
• 1700 : Abraham Kyburz , Swiss Protestant clergyman

18th century

• 1714 : Friedrich Christian Glume , German sculptor
• 1714 : Matthew Griswold , American politician
• 1716 : Alexei Petrovich Antropow , Russian painter
• 1725 : Gaetano Besozzi , Italian oboist and composer
• 1739 : Eduard August, Duke of York and Albany , Duke of York
• 1741 : Daniel Schiebeler , German writer
• 1745 : Nicolas-Étienne Framéry , French writer and composer
• 1745 : Georg Ernst Waldau , German Protestant theologian and church historian
• 1747 : Nivard Schlimbach , German Cistercian abbot
• 1749 : Johanne Friederike Lohmann , German writer
• 1767 : Joachim Murat , King of Naples and Marshal of France
• 1782 : Caroline Bonaparte , sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, Queen of Naples
• 1786 : Giovanni Battista Amici , Italian astronomer
• 1786 : Peter Heinrich August von Salviati , Prussian diplomat
• 1795 : Jacques-Louis Randon , French general, Marshal of France
• 1798 : Christoph Gudermann , German mathematician

19th century

1801-1850

• 1807 : James Howard Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury , British statesman
• 1808 : Vincent Delacour , French composer

Max von Gagern (* 1810)

• 1810 : Maximilian von Gagern , German politician with freedom of nationality, Vice President of the Constitutional Committee of the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
• 1819 : VU Hammershaimb , Faroese pastor and philologist
• 1824 : Guido Brescius , German railway engineer
• 1825 : Max Johann Sigismund Schultze , German biologist, was the first to recognize the importance of the cytoplasm and nucleus in living cells
• 1828 : Heinrich Konrad Schneider , German educator and founder of a well-known agricultural school with an attached brewing academy
• 1830 : Franz Innozenz Nachbaur , German court chamber singer
• 1832 : Nikolaus Rüdinger , German anatomist
• 1833 : August Wilmanns , German classical philologist and librarian
• 1835 : Adolf Wagner , German economist
• 1836 : Eduard Scheve , Baptist preacher
• 1836 : Julius Weingarten , German mathematician
• 1839 : Marianne Hainisch , Austrian women's rights activist
• 1842 : Jean Marie Charles Abadie , French ophthalmologist
• 1842 : Antonio Fogazzaro , Italian writer and poet
• 1844 : Adolf Engler , German botanist and plant expert
• 1845 : Adolf von Groß , close friend of the Richard Wagner family
• 1846 : Helen Zimmer , English writer
• 1848 : Bertha Drechsler Adamson , English violinist, conductor and music teacher
• 1849 : Sahag II , Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia

1851-1900

• 1854 : Max Grube , German actor, theater director and writer
• 1856 : Max Uhle , German founder of Andean archeology
• 1859 : Johanna Naber , Dutch feminist

Friedrich Naumann (* 1860)

• 1860 : Friedrich Naumann , German Protestant theologian and politician, MdR, social reformer and publicist
• 1862 : Richard Cornelius Kukula , Austrian classical philologist
• 1863 : Marie Soldat-Röger , Austrian violin virtuoso
• 1865 : Alexej von Jawlensky , Russian-German expressionist painter around the Blue Rider
• 1865 : Pierre-Ernest Weiss , French physicist
• 1865 : Luise Zietz , German politician
• 1866 : John Ponsonby , British general and division commander
• 1867 : Arturo Toscanini , Italian conductor
• 1867 : John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum , American sculptor
• 1868 : Agnes Karll , German nursing reformer
• 1870 : Arnold Schwassmann , German astronomer
• 1870 : Gustav Knepper , German entrepreneur
• 1871 : Hermann Abert , German music scholar
• 1873 : Rudolf Rocker , German author, historian and anarcho-syndicalist
• 1878 : Sidney M. Goldin , American director of Yiddish film
• 1880 : Alexander Petrovich Apsit , Latvian artist
• 1881 : Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer
• 1882 : Otto Neururer , Catholic pastor
• 1885 : Siegfried Handloser , head of the Wehrmacht medical services
• 1886 : Athinagoras , Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1887 : Nagumo Chūichi , Vice Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• 1887 : Geoffrey Keynes , British medic, scientist and bibliophile
• 1889 : Menen Asfaw , Empress of Ethiopia
• 1892 : Ferdinand Andergassen , Austrian composer and church musician
• 1898 : Kon Tōkō , Japanese writer and politician
• 1899 : Jacques Audiberti , French writer, playwright and journalist
• 1900 : Hans Luckey , Baptist theologian
• 1900 : Paul Ritterbusch , German lawyer and National Socialist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Raymond Firth , New Zealand ethnologist

Julio Antonio Mella (* 1903)

• 1903 : Julio Antonio Mella , Cuban student leader and co-founder of the Communist Party of Cuba
• 1904 : Johann Baptist Gradl , German Federal Minister
• 1904 : Pete Johnson , American boogie and jazz pianist
• 1905 : Adolf Hennecke , German miner and politician in the GDR
• 1905 : Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim , German officer, resistance fighter
• 1905 : Pote Sarasin , Thai Prime Minister and Secretary General of SEATO
• 1907 : Horst von Waldthausen , German-Swiss racing driver
• 1908 : Helmut Käutner , German film director and actor
• 1908 : David Lean , British film director
• 1909 : Jerry Livingston , American songwriter and composer
• 1909 : Maria Countess von Maltzan , German veterinarian and resistance fighter
• 1910 : David Ludwig Bloch , German painter
• 1911 : Jack Ruby , American night club owner, murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald
• 1912 : Melita Norwood , Soviet spy
• 1912 : Lucien Pailler , French racing car driver
• 1912 : Shimamura Toshimasa , Japanese writer
• 1912 : Peter Surava , Swiss author and journalist
• 1912 : Jean Vilar , French actor, theater director and theater manager
• 1913 : Josef Siedler , German politician, MdL
• 1914 : Norman Borlaug , American agronomist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1914 : Karl Schiess , German politician, Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg
• 1914 : Rolf Schwedler , German politician, Senator for Building and Housing from Berlin
• 1916 : Nikolai Peiko , Russian composer
• 1916 : Jean Rogers , American actress
• 1918 : Horst Sannemüller , German violinist and concert master
• 1920 : Arthur Wint , Jamaican athlete, Olympic champion
• 1921 : Annemarie Clausner , German athlete
• 1921 : Hans Guido Mutke , German fighter pilot and aviation medic
• 1921 : Simone Signoret , French film actress
• 1921 : Josef Staribacher , Austrian Federal Minister for Trade, Commerce and Industry
• 1923 : Reimar Lüst , German astrophysicist and science manager
• 1924 : Machiko Kyō , Japanese actress
• 1924 : József Zakariás , Hungarian football player
• 1925 : Pierre Daignault , Canadian actor, folk singer and writer
• 1925 : Don Freeland , American racing car driver

1926-1950

• 1926 : László Papp , Hungarian boxer
• 1927 : Herbert Fux , Austrian actor and politician

Roald Aas (* 1928)

• 1928 : Roald Aas , Norwegian speed skater
• 1928 : Jim Lovell , American astronaut
• 1930 : Ben Wagin , German artist
• 1931 : Vytautas Barkauskas , Lithuanian composer
• 1931 : Jack Chambers , Canadian painter
• 1931 : Paul Motian , American jazz musician
• 1931 : Vassilis Soukas , Greek clarinetist
• 1932 : Wolfgang Helfrich , German physicist
• 1933 : Peter Ehrlich , German actor
• 1934 : Bernard Boyer , French racing car designer and racing driver
• 1934 : Johnny Burnette , American rockabilly musician
• 1934 : Karlheinz Schreiber , German arms dealer
• 1935 : Gottfried Haschke , German politician, State Secretary in the GDR
• 1936 : Giora Feidman , Argentine clarinetist
• 1936 : Carl Kaufmann , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1938 : Hoyt Axton , American country musician
• 1938 : Daniel Buren , French painter and sculptor
• 1938 : Fritz d'Orey , Brazilian racing car driver
• 1938 : Dietrich Stobbe , German politician and political scientist
• 1940 : Luis Lintner , Italian missionary in Brazil
• 1940 : Mina , Italian singer
• 1940 : Rodolfo Mederos , Argentine tango bandoneonist
• 1941 : Erhard Busek , Austrian Vice Chancellor
• 1941 : Mathias Gnädinger , Swiss actor

Gunter Pleuger (* 1941)

• 1941 : Gunter Pleuger , German diplomat
• 1941 : Gerd Poppe , German civil rights activist and minister in the GDR
• 1941 : Dieter Witt , German economist
• 1942 : Aretha Franklin , American singer
• 1942 : Richard O'Brien , British actor, writer and composer
• 1942 : Ulrike Piechota , German writer and church musician
• 1943 : Paul Michael Glaser , American actor
• 1943 : Heinz Flacke , German handball player
• 1943 : Antonio Lockward Artiles , Dominican writer
• 1944 : Hilarion Petzold , German leading figure in modern psychotherapy
• 1944 : Hans-Jürgen Walter , German founder of gestalt theory psychotherapy
• 1945 : Dumitru Antonescu , Romanian football player and coach
• 1945 : Michael Archer , Australian paleontologist
• 1945 : Klaus Armbrüster , German lawyer
• 1945 : Jochen Riebel , German politician, Minister for Federal and European Affairs in Hesse
• 1946 : Mercè Capdevila , Spanish composer
• 1946 : Maurice Krafft , French volcanologist
• 1946 : Firouz Naderi , Iranian-American scientist and director of the Solar System Exploration Program
• 1947 : Gisela Ahlemeyer , German athlete
• 1947 : Elton John , British singer, composer and pianist
• 1948 : Bonnie Bedelia , American actress
• 1948 : Rob Goorhuis , Dutch composer
• 1949 : Kaja Danczowska , Polish violinist and music teacher
• 1949 : Bob Ezrin , Canadian music producer
• 1949 : Sue Klebold , American author and social activist
• 1950 : Wolfgang Laib , German artist

1951-1975

• 1951 : Claus B. Andersen , Danish badminton player
• 1951 : Gabriele Behler , German politician
• 1951 : Maizie Williams , Caribbean-British singer ("Boney M.")
• 1952 : Jung Chang , British writer of Chinese origin
• 1952 : Antanas Mockus , Colombian philosopher and local politician, mayor of Bogotá
  

  Antanas Mockus (* 1952)
• 1953 : Christos Ardizoglou , Greek football player
• 1953 : Dieter Sturma , German philosopher
• 1954 : Bendt Bendtsen , Danish politician
• 1954 : Silvia Schmidt , German politician
• 1955 : Cristóbal Ascencio García , Mexican clergyman and bishop
• 1955 : Wolf Maahn , German musician and composer
• 1957 : Iván Bächer , Hungarian writer and journalist
• 1958 : Enno Aufderheide , German biologist and science manager
• 1958 : Thomas Happe , German handball player
• 1959 : Petra Zieger , German singer
• 1960 : Markus Maria Profitlich , German comedian, actor and voice actor
  

  Markus Maria Profitlich (* 1960)
• 1960 : Peter Seisenbacher , Austrian judoka
• 1960 : Chad Wackerman , American drummer
• 1960 : Brenda Strong , American actress
• 1961 : Kazuhiko Aoki , Japanese politician
• 1961 : Joachim Müller , German soccer player
• 1961 : John Stockwell , American actor and director
• 1961 : Kazuhito Yamashita , Japanese concert guitarist
• 1962 : Andreas Al-Laham , German business economist
• 1962 : Marcia Cross , American actress
• 1964 : Kate DiCamillo , American author
• 1964 : Christine von Grünigen , Swiss ski racer
• 1965 : Avery Johnson , American basketball player and coach
• 1965 : Frank Ordenewitz , German soccer player
• 1965 : Sarah Jessica Parker , American actress
  

  Sarah Jessica Parker (* 1965)
• 1965 : Stefka Kostadinowa , Bulgarian athlete
• 1965 : Humberto González , Mexican boxer
• 1965 : Jürgen Seeberger , German soccer coach
• 1966 : Tom Glavine , American baseball player
• 1966 : Jeff Healey , Canadian blues and rock guitarist, trumpeter and singer
• 1966 : Tatjana Patitz , German photo model
• 1966 : Remig Stumpf , German racing cyclist
• 1966 : Gerlinde Countess von Westphalen , German gallery owner, publicist and curator
• 1967 : Matthew Barney , American media artist
• 1967 : Marc Hindelang , German sports commentator
• 1967 : Ben Mankiewicz , American film critic
• 1967 : Brigitte McMahon , Swiss triathlete
• 1967 : Tom Van Dyck , Belgian jazz saxophonist
• 1967 : Frits van Eerd , Dutch entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1969 : Cathy Dennis , British singer, songwriter and producer
• 1969 : Gregor Steinbrenner , German television presenter
• 1970 : Shawn Antoski , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970 : Magnus Larsson , Swedish tennis player
• 1971 : Stacy Dragila , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1971 : Bettina Engelhardt , German actress
• 1971 : Werner Kuchar , German clergyman and author
• 1971 : Muriel Rochat Rienth , Swiss recorder player
• 1971 : Sheryl Swoopes , American basketball player
• 1972 : Roberto Acuña , Paraguayan soccer player
• 1972 : Ralf Witzel , German politician
• 1973 : Anders Fridén , Swedish musician
• 1973 : Michaela Dorfmeister , Austrian ski racer
• 1974 : Xenija Alexandrovna Rappoport , Russian actress
• 1974 : Lark Voorhies , American actress
• 1975 : Juvenile , American rapper
• 1975 : Cornelia Osterwald , German harpsichordist and lecturer in early music

1976-2000

• 1976 : Lars Figura , German athlete
• 1976 : Christoph Gruber , Austrian ski racer

Wladimir Klitschko (* 1976)

• 1976 : Wladimir Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer
• 1977 : Natalie Clein , British cellist
• 1977 : Timo Hübsch , German actor
• 1977 : Axel Keller , German soccer goalkeeper
• 1978 : Frank Reckzeh , German handball player
• 1979 : Muriel Hurtis , French sprinter, Olympic medalist
• 1979 : Bekim Kastrati , Albanian football player
• 1979 : S. Vijayalakshmi , Indian chess player
• 1979 : Lee Pace , American actor
• 1980 : Bojan Isailović , Serbian football player
• 1980 : Hanno Koffler , German actor
• 1980 : Katrin Ritt , Austrian actress
• 1981 : Casey Owen Neistat , American filmmaker & Youtuber
• 1981 : José de Armas , Venezuelan tennis player
• 1981 : Philipp Burger , Italian singer
• 1982 : Nadine Krause , German handball player

Danica Patrick (* 1982)

• 1982 : Danica Patrick , American racing driver
• 1983 : Njazi Kuqi , Finnish football player
• 1983 : Martín Silva , Uruguayan football goalkeeper
• 1983 : Tian Tian , Chinese chess player
• 1984 : Radhouène Felhi , Tunisian football player
• 1984 : Yacine Hima , French-Algerian soccer player
• 1984 : Constantin Lupulescu , Romanian chess player
• 1984 : Katharine McPhee , American pop singer and actress
• 1985 : Isak Grimholm , Swedish ski jumper
• 1985 : Claudia van den Heiligenberg , Dutch soccer player
• 1985 : Gustavo Oberman , Argentine soccer player
• 1986 : Adrian Leijer , Australian soccer player
• 1987 : Patrick Ryan Anderson , American actor
• 1987 : Jacob Bagersted , Danish handball player
• 1987 : Bruce Djite , Australian soccer player
• 1987 : Raffaele De Rosa , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1987 : Victor Obinna , Nigerian soccer player
• 1987 : Robbin Ruiter , Dutch football goalkeeper
• 1988 : Ryan Lewis , American musician and record producer
• 1988 : Darrell Arthur , American basketball player
• 1989 : Alyson Michalka , American actress and singer
• 1990 : Alexander Esswein , German soccer player
• 1991 : Jurswailly Luciano , Dutch handball player
• 1992 : Teo Čorić , Croatian handball player
• 1992 : Magdalena Schnurr , German ski jumper
• 1992 : David Jensen , Danish football player
• 1993 : Andreas Hirzel , Swiss football goalkeeper
• 1993 : Kacper Przybyłko , Polish football player
• 1993 : Leonardo Spinazzola , Italian football player
• 1994 : Justine Dufour-Lapointe , Canadian freestyle skier
• 1994 : Marco Pfiffner , Liechtenstein ski racer
• 1995 : Gerrit Holtmann , German soccer player
• 2000 : Jadon Sancho , English soccer player

Died

Before the 19th century

• 1051 : Hugo IV , Earl of Maine
• 1053 : Prokop , Czech saint and priest
• 1189 : Friedrich (Bedřich) , Duke of Bohemia

Alfonso II († 1223)

• 1223 : Alfonso II , King of Portugal
• 1249 : Peter , Count of Vendôme
• 1273 : Thomas Bérard , Grand Master of the Templar Order
• 1305 : Otto III. , Count of Ravensberg
• 1323 : Mary of Hungary , Queen of Naples
• 1330 : Elisabeth of Lower Bavaria , Duchess of Austria
• 1355 : Ulrich von Lenzburg , Bishop of Chur
• 1372 : Ulrich von Weißeneck , bishop of Seckau and opposing bishop of Gurk
• 1380 : Augustin Mintmaster of Breisach , Bishop of Seckau
• 1458 : Iñigo López de Mendoza , Marqués de Santillana, Spanish statesman and poet
• 1473 : Jean II. De Croÿ , Burgundian nobleman and Count of Chimay
• 1482 : Lucrezia Tornabuoni , poet, patron and wife of the Florentine politician Piero di Cosimo de 'Medici
• 1515 : Hermann Messmann , Lübeck businessman, councilor and diplomat
• 1537 : Charles de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme
• 1538 : Christoph Clavius , German mathematician and astronomer
• 1541 : Paul Lindenau , German Lutheran theologian
• 1571 : Giovanni Animuccia , Italian church music composer
• 1583 : Nikolaus Jagenteufel , German Lutheran theologian and educator
• 1609 : Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
• 1623 : Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne , Duke of Bouillon, French military leader, diplomat and politician
• 1695 : Ludwika Karolina Charlotte von Radziwiłł-Birze , sole heir of the Calvinian-Lithuanian line of the House of Radziwiłł in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
• 1696 : Heinrich Casimir II , Prince of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
• 1703 : Carl Gustav von Löwenhaupt , Electoral Saxon government official
• 1708 : Jakob Friedrich Rühle , German lawyer, imperial knight and secret council, syndic of the city of Heilbronn and visitor of the University of Tübingen (* 1630 )
• 1712 : Nehemiah Grew , English botanist, physicist and physiologist
• 1732 : Lucia Filippini , founder of the Maestre Pie Filippini Sisters' Congregation
• 1738 : Turlough O'Carolan , Irish composer and harpist
• 1761 : Salomon Kleiner , German architectural draftsman and engraver
• 1789 : Julie von Voss , Countess von Ingenheim
• 1794 : Christian Friedrich Franke , German Protestant theologian

19th century

Novalis († 1801)

• 1801 : Novalis , German poet
• 1816 : Johann Jakob Atzel , German architect
• 1818 : Henry Lee , American cavalry officer, major general, and politician
• 1835 : Friederike Brun , Danish writer
• 1837 : Johann Heinrich Christian Barby , German educator and philologist
• 1840 : Franz Gallus Sündermahler , German lawyer and civil servant
• 1841 : Karl von Einsiedel , German diplomat
• 1848 : Heinrich Ludwig Smalian , German forest master
• 1855 : Franz Joseph Hugi , Swiss geologist and alpine researcher
• 1857 : William Colgate , an American entrepreneur and patron
• 1860 : Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus , Austrian diplomat and civil servant
• 1864 : Ivar Fredrik Bredal , Danish composer
• 1867 : Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge , German chemist
• 1873 : Vilhelm Marstrand , Danish painter
• 1879 : Georg Friedrich Schömann , German classical philologist
• 1880 : Ludmilla Assing , German writer
• 1880 : Marija Auersperg Attems , Austrian flower painter
• 1887 : Jean Désiré Artôt , Belgian horn player
• 1888 : Désiré Nisard , French literary historian
• 1895 : Alfons Szczerbiński , Polish composer and music teacher
• 1900 : Adolf Henning , German painter
• 1900 : Jakob Pallenberg , German furniture manufacturer and art patron

20th century

1901-1950

• 1903 : Hector Archibald MacDonald , British general
• 1904 : Conrad Justus Bredenkamp , German Protestant theologian and university professor
• 1907 : Franz von Arenberg , German diplomat and politician
• 1907 : Ernst von Bergmann , German surgeon and professor of medicine
• 1913 : József Hampel , Hungarian archaeologist and museum curator
• 1913 : Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley , British Field Marshal, Commander in Chief of the British Army

Frédéric Mistral († 1914)

• 1914 : Frédéric Mistral , French poet and linguist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1916 : Ishi , last survivor of the Yahi Indians
• 1918 : Claude Debussy , French composer
• 1919 : Wilhelm Lehmbruck , German sculptor
• 1921 : Karl Ernst Osthaus , German art patron
• 1922 : Ulrich Thieme , German art historian
• 1925 : Flannery O'Connor , American writer
• 1929 : Bruno Möhring , German architect
• 1933 : Erik Jan Hanussen , alleged clairvoyant
• 1935 : Edmond Bourlier , French racing car driver
• 1940 : Édouard Branly , French physicist and pioneer in the early days of radio technology
• 1941 : Nicolaas van Wijk , Dutch Germanist, Dutch scholar and father of Dutch Slavonic Studies
• 1943 : Hans von Tschammer und Osten , Reich Sports Leader and Commissioner in the German Reich
• 1945 : Franz Oppenhoff , German local politician
• 1946 : Ludwig Deubner , German classical philologist and religious scholar
• 1949 : Hanns Albin Rauter , Austrian general of the SS, Waffen-SS and the police, war criminal
• 1949 : August Wilhelm von Prussia , Prussian Prince

1951-2000

• 1951 : Bruno Leddin , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1951 : Wilhelm Altmann , German music historian and librarian
• 1951 : Zoltán Mechlovits , Hungarian table tennis player
• 1952 : William Sutherland Maxwell , Canadian Bahai
• 1952 : Egon von Tresckow , German illustrator, comic artist and caricaturist
• 1954 : Gertrud Bäumer , German reform pedagogue, women's rights activist and politician, MdR

Gertrud Bäumer († 1954)

• 1954 : Leon Schiller , Polish theater director
• 1955 : Heinrich Hauser , German writer and photographer
• 1955 : Huang Binhong , Chinese painter
• 1957 : George Townshend , Irish Bahai
• 1958 : Emerson Whithorne , American composer
• 1960 : Anna Ahrens , Low German local poet
• 1961 : Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 9th Earl of Shaftesbury , British nobleman
• 1961 : Lorenzo Calogero , Italian poet
• 1961 : Arthur Drewry , British football official, FIFA President
• 1964 : Willy Arend , German racing cyclist
• 1964 : Eduard Hermann , German actor and radio play director
• 1965 : Viola Gregg Liuzzo , American civil rights activist
• 1965 : Ladislao Vajda , Hungarian film director
• 1969 : Max Eastman , American writer
• 1973 : Stephen Goosson , American production designer
• 1973 : Edward Steichen , American photographer
• 1974 : Otto Waldis , Austrian actor

Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz († 1975)

• 1975 : Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz , King of Saudi Arabia
• 1975 : Pancho Barnes , American stunt pilot
• 1976 : Josef Albers , German painter, art theorist and teacher
• 1977 : Eugen Szenkar , Hungarian conductor
• 1978 : Hanna Ralph , German actress
• 1979 : Georges Antenen , Swiss cyclist
• 1979 : Anton Heiller , Austrian organist and composer
• 1979 : Franco Manzecchi , Italian jazz drummer
• 1980 : Milton H. Erickson , American psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• 1980 : Walter Susskind , English conductor
• 1983 : Wulf Emmo Ankel , German zoologist, marine biologist and university lecturer
• 1983 : Bob Waterfield , American football player
• 1987 : Reginald Godden , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1989 : Reginald Le Borg , Austrian-American director

Marcel Lefebvre († 1991)

• 1991 : Marcel Lefebvre , Catholic clergyman
• 1991 : Gerónimo Pellerano , Dominican singer
• 1992 : William Sears , American author
• 1994 : Max Petitpierre , Swiss politician
• 1995 : James Samuel Coleman , American sociologist
• 1998 : Daniel Massey , British actor
• 1999 : Friedrich Rögelein , German Wehrmacht officer
• 1999 : Mighty Joe Young , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

21st century

• 2000 : Klaus Piper , German publisher
• 2006 : Jacob Admiraal , Dutch actor, writer and filmmaker
• 2006 : Richard Fleischer , American director, Oscar winner
• 2007 : George Kingsley Acquah , Ghanaian lawyer and politician
• 2007 : Pierre Arnold , Swiss manager
• 2007 : Robert Austrian , American bacteriologist, immunologist and physician
• 2007 : Geno Hartlaub , German writer and journalist
• 2007 : Heinz Schiller , Swiss racing car driver
• 2008 : Abby Mann , American screenwriter

Yukio Endō († 2009)

• 2009 : Yukio Endō , Japanese artistic gymnast
• 2009 : John Hope Franklin , American historian
• 2009 : Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu , Turkish politician
• 2010 : Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , German communication scientist
• 2012 : Antonio Tabucchi , Italian writer, literary scholar and translator
• 2014 : Eugen Biser , German Catholic theologian and religious philosopher
• 2015 : Guido Forsting , German politician
• 2015 : Ivo Garrani , Italian actor
• 2016 : Gerhart von Graevenitz , German literary scholar
• 2016 : Freddy Rousselle , Belgian racing car driver
• 2017 : Giorgio Capitani , Italian film director and screenwriter
• 2017 : Teodor Iljitsch Oiserman Soviet or Russian philosopher and historian of philosophy
• 2018 : Anton Jože Gale , Yugoslav ice hockey goalkeeper
• 2018 : Ulrich Schröder , German bank manager
• 2019 : Michael Brennicke , German actor and voice actor
• 2020 : Paul Goma , Romanian writer and dissident
• 2020 : Angelo Moreschi , Italian Roman Catholic religious priest and Apostolic Vicar of Gambella
• 2020 : Leze Qena , Kosovar actress

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Annunciation of the Lord (Anglican, Evangelical, Catholic, Orthodox)
  • St. Dismas , the "good" thief crucified with Jesus (Catholic, Orthodox)
  • Ernst I (Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) , German Duke (Protestant)
• State holidays and memorial days
  • Greece : Greek Revolution (1821)

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

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