25. May
The May 25 is the 145th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 146th in leap years ), thus remain 220 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1013 : Heinrich II enfeoffs Boleslaw of Poland with the ( Lower ) Lusatia and the Milzenerland (today's Upper Lusatia ). Through this, and through rich gifts from Boleslaw, the peace of Merseburg is sealed.
- 1085 : Alfonso VI. of Castile and León conquered Toledo and for the first time led the Reconquista in Spain to the core areas of the Moorish Al-Andalus .
- 1420 : The Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator is appointed governor of the Order of Christ by means of a papal bull by Martin V.
- 1521 : The Reichstag in Worms comes to an end after just under four months with the Reichs Farewell . However, some of the imperial estates stayed in Worms to pass the Worms Edict the next day .
- 1659 : Oliver Cromwell's son Richard is asked by Parliament to abdicate as Lord Protector of England , Scotland and Ireland and he does so without hesitation. This clears the way for the Stuart restoration almost a year later.
- 1720 : The plague is brought into Marseille by a ship arriving from Syria . It then spreads in Provence . In the following year, a plague wall was built for reasons of protection , but the epidemic also reached Avignon .
- 1787 : The Philadelphia Convention meets to discuss improvements to the Articles of Confederation . The United States Constitution emerges from the work of the delegates .
- 1810 : Armed citizens of the city of Buenos Aires under Juan José Castelli and Nicolás Rodríguez Peña expel Viceroy Baltasar de Cisneros and proclaim the Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata during the May Revolution in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata . Although the government declaration includes an oath of allegiance to Ferdinand VII of Spain , who was deposed by Napoleon , this is considered to be the beginning of Argentina's independence .
- 1895 : In protest against the Shimonoseki Treaty , in which the defeated China in the First Sino-Japanese War had to cede the island of Taiwan to Japan , forces loyal to China under Tang Jingsong declare the island's independence and proclaim the Republic of Formosa .
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- 1913 : Alfred Redl , deputy head of the Austro-Hungarian intelligence service , takes his own life after discovering his espionage activities for Russia.
- 1914 : The British House of Commons allows Ireland more sovereignty in the Government of Ireland Act 1914 . However, the Home Rule Act will not be implemented because the First World War and the Irish Easter Rising in 1916 changed the political scene.
- 1926 : The Jewish anarchist Scholom Schwartzbard shoots the head of the Ukrainian government-in-exile, Symon Petlyura , in Paris . He is later acquitted by a jury. In the course of the negotiation, the human rights organization Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme was created .
- 1945 : The Yugoslav People's Army of Josip Broz Tito , placed under Soviet command at the urging of the British government, completes its withdrawal from Carinthia , which began on May 19 .
- 1946 : The the United Kingdom on 22 March in the independence dismissed Transjordan becomes kingdom. Abdallah ibn Hussain accepts the title of king as Abdallah I.
- 1948 : The SED instigated the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) in the Soviet occupation zone . She is one of the block parties .
- 1953 : As part of the US nuclear test series Operation Upshot-Knothole , the only nuclear artillery shell Upshot-Knothole-Grable is tested on the Nevada Test Site .
- 1963 : 30 African states, mostly members of the Casablanca Group , found the Organization for African Unity ( OAU ) in Addis Ababa . The aim of the organization is to promote the consistent decolonization and the unity and solidarity of the African states.
- 1981 : Kuwait, Saudi Arabia , Oman , Bahrain , Qatar and the United Arab Emirates found the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Kuwait . The aim of the organization is cooperation in foreign and security policy and the promotion of economic and social relationships.
- 1987 : In the Federal Republic of Germany , this is the key date for the census , which after many public protests about the anonymously collected data later turns out to be the last survey among all adults. The procedure is then switched to a sample survey of part of the population.
- 1993 : United Nations Security Council Resolution 827 establishes the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia . He is responsible for prosecuting serious crimes that have been committed since 1991 in the Yugoslav Wars.
- 1993 : Guatemala's President Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias dissolves parliament and the Supreme Court with the so-called Serranazo . This is followed by a military coup and the president's disempowerment.
- 1997 : President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah is temporarily ousted in a coup in Sierra Leone . Johnny Paul Koroma , who was imprisoned for treason , was freed and declared head of state by the military.
- 2003 : In Argentina , Néstor Kirchner , the provincial governor of Santa Cruz in Patagonia , becomes president after Carlos Menem evades the runoff election .
- 2004 : The AU Security Council is founded at the headquarters of the African Union in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa .
- 2018 : The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) takes effect.
economy
- 1728 : A royal decree from Louis XV. allows the French to transport wine not only in barrels but also in bottles . This decree is the basis for the prosperity of the Ruinart champagne house in Reims .
- 1877 : In the German Empire , the Reichstag passes the patent law drawn up by Wilhelm André on behalf of the recently founded Patent Protection Association , which brings about a legal standardization of the patents previously granted by the federal states .
- 1983 : Queen Alia International Airport opens in Jordan south of the capital Amman .
- 1993 : Franz Steinkühler resigns as chairman of the German trade union IG Metall . In the days before, he was suspected of having engaged in insider trading as a member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler Benz AG .
- 2004 : In the Pamir Mountains is Kulma Pass opened, the Tajik province of Gorno-Badakhshan with the Chinese region of Xinjiang connects.
science and technology
- 1842 : The Austrian physicist Christian Doppler gives his treatise on the colored light of the double stars and some other stars in the sky , which predicts the Doppler effect , to the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences in Prague .
- 1928 : On Umberto Nobiles' second trip to the North Pole , the airship Italia, used for research purposes, crashes in bad weather. The driver's gondola is torn off when it hits an ice floe, and a man dies. The now uncontrolled hull of the airship drifts up again with six crew members on board and remains lost. Days later, almost all of the dead were rescued, most of them by the Soviet icebreaker Krasin .
- 1961 : During the space race in the American Congress, the American President John F. Kennedy announces the program of a manned flight to the moon, with which "before the end of the decade a person is to be brought to the moon and safely back to earth" - the later Apollo Program .
- 1969 : The Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl starts with his crew on the papyrus boat Ra from Safi in Morocco to cross the Atlantic . He wants to show a possible settlement of America. The expedition has to be abandoned on July 20th before reaching the destination Barbados because the boat becomes unstable.
- 1973 : The first crew of US astronauts to the space station starts from the Kennedy Space Center ten days late due to the problems with the start of Skylab on May 14th .
- 1998 : The first single telescope of the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory on Cerro Paranal in Chile delivers its first images from space .
- 2008 : The NASA -Raumsonde Phoenix landed successfully on the planet Mars , near the northern polar region.
- 2011 : NASA terminates contact with their Mars rover Spirit , as communication with it cannot be established despite repeated efforts.
- 2011 : The International Bureau of Animal Diseases (OIE) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) formally declare rinderpest eradicated. This was preceded by a global initiative launched in 1994 to eradicate the disease.
Culture
- 1277 : The stonemason and master builder Erwin von Steinbach starts building the facade of the Strasbourg cathedral on behalf of Bishop Konrad von Lichtenberg .
- 1715 : At the King's Theater in the Haymarket in London which takes place premiere of Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Amadigi di Gaula . The title role is sung by the castrato Nicolò Grimaldi .
- 1869 : The new opera house on the Ring is ceremoniously opened in Vienna with a performance of Don Juan by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
- 1878 : The comic opera H.MS Pinafore ; or, The Lass did Loved a Sailor of the composer Arthur Sullivan and librettist W. S. Gilbert , known as Gilbert and Sullivan , has been at the Opera Comique its London premiere . With a total of 571 performances in series, the piece will have the second longest performance time of a musical stage work to date.
- 1908 : The Teatro Colón opera house in Buenos Aires opens with Verdi's Aida .
- 1912 : The large Sonderbund exhibition opens in Cologne .
- 1932 : The Disney character Goofy made her first appearance in the cartoon Mickey’s Revue under the name Dippy Dawg .
- 1953 : The one-act opera The Harpies by Marc Blitzstein premieres in New York City under the direction of Hugh Ross.
- 1973 : The Movie The Grande Bouffe ( La grande bouffe ) by Marco Ferreri caused at the film festival in Cannes a scandal.
- 1973 : Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells' debut album is released.
- 1977 : The first movie in the Star Wars series (German title War of the Stars ) premieres in the United States .
- 1979 : The film Alien premieres in the USA . With its creatures and environments created by HR Giger , it is considered to be one of the most visually impressive films in modern cinema and has ushered in a whole series of alien films.
society
- 1895 : The author Oscar Wilde is sentenced to two years of hard physical labor for " fornication " ( homosexuality ) .
- 1987 : The Laichinger Hunger Chronicle about price increases and famine 1816/17 is exposed as a forgery created at the beginning of the 20th century.
religion
- 1899 : In the encyclical Annum sacrum Pope Leo XIII consecrates . the whole world to the Heart of Jesus Christ and sets the church solemnity to June 11th. The festival is now celebrated on the third Friday after Pentecost .
- 1962 : The new Coventry Cathedral , built on the ruins of the previous church that was completely destroyed in World War II , is inaugurated. It is a symbol of the reconciliation among the peoples.
Disasters
- 1865 : 300 people are killed when an ammunition dump explodes in Mobile , Alabama.
- 1923 : An earthquake of intensity 5.7 in Iran about 2,200 requests lives.
- 1979 : A McDonnell Douglas DC-10 airliner loses an engine and crashes while taking off from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois. All 271 people on board and two on the ground die. The crash of American Airlines Flight 191 is the most serious aviation accident in the United States to date .
- 1985 : Bangladesh is hit by a cyclone and a storm surge . Between 10,000 and 40,000 people die.
- 2002 : A China Airlines Boeing 747-200 breaks apart in the air over Formosa Street, killing 225 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1901 : The Argentine soccer club CA River Plate is founded in Buenos Aires .
- 1935 : Ohio State University athlete Jesse Owens breaks five world records in 45 minutes at a Big Ten Conference meeting in Ann Arbor , Michigan, and sets another.
- 1955 : The British George Band and Joe Brown succeed in the first ascent of the Kangchenjunga , the third highest mountain in the world. Out of respect for the religious feelings of the residents of Sikkim , they stop a few steps before the summit, a tradition that most expeditions still keep to this day.
- 1967 : Celtic Glasgow defeated Inter Milan 2-1 at the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon and became the first British team to win the European Cup .
- 1977 : Liverpool FC defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-1 in the Olympic Stadium in Rome and won the European Cup for the first time .
- 1983 : Hamburger SV under coach Ernst Happel defeated Juventus Turin 1-0 in the Athens Olympic Stadium and won the European Cup for the first time .
- 1995 : The third Rugby Union World Cup begins in South Africa.
- 2001 : The American Erik Weihenmayer is the first blind man to reach the summit of Mount Everest .
- 2005 : After losing 3-0 in the first half, Liverpool beat AC Milan 5-6 on penalties in the 2004/05 UEFA Champions League final at the Ataturk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul .
- 2013 : In the final of the UEFA Champions League in London , for the first time in the history of the competition, Borussia Dortmund and FC Bayern Munich meet two German teams, which FC Bayern Munich can win 2-1.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1048 : Song Shenzong , sixth Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty
- 1334 : Sukō , third Japanese counter-Tennō (north courtyard)
- 1335 : Margaret of Luxembourg , Queen of Hungary and Croatia
- 1416 : Jakob von Lichtenberg , Vogt of the city of Strasbourg and last lord of Lichtenberg
- 1417 : Katharina von Kleve , Duchess of Geldern and Countess of Zutphen
- 1461 : Zanobi Acciaioli , Italian Dominican
- 1550 : Kamillus von Lellis , founder of the Italian order and saint
- 1572 : Moritz the Scholar , Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel
- 1581 : Camillo II Gonzaga di Novellara , Count of Novellara and Bagnolo
- 1602 : Zhu Yujian , Chinese emperor of the southern Min Dynasty
- 1616 : Carlo Dolci , Italian painter
- 1630 : Leopold Wilhelm von Königsegg-Rothenfels , Imperial Vice Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1663 : Johann Dientzenhofer , Bamberg master builder of the baroque period
- 1691 : Johann Thomas Wagner , German sculptor
- 1699 : Anna Leszczyńska , Polish princess
18th century
- 1703 : Christoph Ludwig Crell , German literary and legal scholar
- 1713 : John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , British Prime Minister
- 1715 : Antonio Casali , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1716 : Georg Abbt , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1718 : Johann Christian Blasche , German Lutheran theologian
- 1725 : Samuel Ward , Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- 1730 : Lorenzo Quaglio , Italian painter and architect
- 1753 : Johann Michael Feder , Catholic clergyman and university professor
- 1757 : Louis-Sébastien Lenormand , French physicist, inventor and pioneer of parachuting
- 1759 : Franz Paul von Herbert , Austrian patron of the arts
- 1762 : Walter Leake , American lawyer and politician
- 1768 : Kagawa Kageki , Japanese tanka poet
- 1769 : Friedrich von der Betten , Hanoverian general field master and diplomat
- 1777 : Adolph von Vagedes , German architect and poet
- 1778 : Claus Harms , German Protestant theologian
- 1782 : Johann Gottlieb Lehmann , German educator and philologist
- 1783 : Philip Pendleton Barbour , American lawyer and politician
- 1788 : Ludwig von Wohlgemuth , Austrian general
- 1791 : Minh Mạng , second emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
- 1797 : Hippolyte Auger , French novelist and theater poet
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Johann Friedrich von Brandt , German naturalist and zoologist
- 1803 : Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton , English writer, poet and politician
- 1803 : Ralph Waldo Emerson , American philosopher and poet
- 1807 : Jacob Martin Philippi , German Protestant theologian
- 1815 : Giovanni Caselli , Italian physicist
- 1818 : Jacob Burckhardt , Swiss cultural historian
- 1821 : Henri Alexis Brialmont , Belgian general and military writer
- 1821 : Wilhelm Rustow , German freedom fighter and revolutionary, military writer and historian
- 1821 : Heinrich Matthias Sengelmann , pastor and founder of the Alsterdorfer Anstalten
- 1822 : Heinrich Keil , German classical philologist
- 1832 : Jules Blanchard , French sculptor
- 1841 : Louis Aronstein , German chemist
- 1846 : Naim Frashëri , Albanian poet
- 1846 : Helena of Great Britain and Ireland , member of the British royal family
- 1848 : Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke , German general in the Prussian and imperial armies
- 1849 : Tom Wiggins , American musician and composer
1851-1900
- 1851 : Johann Peisker , Czech sociologist
- 1852 : Franz Hilarius Ascher , Austrian large land and mine owner, mining consultant, general director, editor-in-chief and publisher
- 1854 : Hugo von Preen , Austrian painter, archaeologist and local researcher
- 1860 : James McKeen Cattell , American psychologist
- 1860 : Henry William Massingham , British journalist
- 1860 : Bruno Louis Schaefer , German lawyer, Senator in Hamburg
- 1863 : Kunigunde Ansion , Austrian writer
- 1863 : Conrad Cichorius , German classical philologist and ancient historian
- 1863 : Camille Erlanger , French composer
- 1863 : Wolfgang Golther , German Germanist and literary historian
- 1863 : Heinrich Rickert , German philosopher and university professor
- 1864 : Anne Löwenstein-Wertheim , British aviation pioneer
- 1865 : Friedrich August III. , last king of Saxony
- 1865 : John Raleigh Mott , American Protestant theologian
- 1865 : Mathilde Verne , English pianist and music teacher
- 1865 : Pieter Zeeman , Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1866 : Johann Auinger , Austrian politician
- 1867 : Wilhelm Langheld , German officer
- 1868 : Charles Hitchcock Adams , American chemist, timber merchant, and amateur astronomer
- 1871 : Otto Dempwolff , German linguist and folklorist
- 1874 : Abraham Oyanedel Urrutia , Chilean politician
- 1876 : Friedrich Ackermann , Bavarian politician and lawyer
- 1877 : Billy Murray , American singer
- 1877 : Bill “Bojangles” Robinson , African American tap dancer
- 1879 : Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook , Canadian-British publisher and politician
- 1879 : William Stickney , American golfer
- 1882 : Maurice Le Boucher , French composer, organist and music teacher
- 1882 : Ernst von Weizsäcker , German naval officer, diplomat, state secretary and SS general
- 1883 : Arthur Catterall , English violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1883 : Marie Oldekop , German painter
- 1884 : Emilio Perea , Italian opera singer
- 1885 : Isaac Anken , Swiss politician
- 1887 : Pio von Pietrelcina , stigmatized Italian Capuchin priest
- 1888 : Anatoly Nikolajewitsch Alexandrov , Russian composer
- 1888 : Max Becker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1889 : Lucien Adrion , French painter
- 1889 : Gilardo Gilardi , Argentine composer and music teacher
- 1889 : Igor Ivanovich Sikorski , American aircraft manufacturer of Ukrainian origin
- 1890 : Alexander Jakowlewitsch Arosew , Russian-Soviet writer, politician and diplomat
- 1891 : Johannes Lange , German psychiatrist
- 1894 : Fritz Gersbach , Swiss choir director and composer
- 1894 : Georg Joos , German physicist
- 1894 : Čeněk Junek , Czechoslovak banker and racing car driver
- 1894 : Josef Wolfgang Steinbeißer , German actor and playwright
- 1896 : Jan Nicolaas Bakhuizen van den Brink , Dutch theologian and church historian
- 1898 : Robert Aron , French historian and essayist
- 1898 : Paul Frischauer , Austrian writer
- 1898 : Mischa Levitzki , American pianist
- 1899 : Boris Artzybasheff , American illustrator
- 1900 : Angel D'Agostino , Argentine tango musician
- 1900 : Alain Grandbois , Canadian poet, novelist and essayist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Emilio Amero , Mexican painter, graphic artist and photographer
- 1901 : Otto Assmann , German politician, Lord Mayor of Zwickau and Gera
- 1903 : Johan Schreiner , Norwegian historian
- 1904 : Kurt Thomas , German composer and choir director
- 1904 : Lizzi Waldmüller , Austrian film actress and singer
- 1905 : Nils Ahrbom , Swedish architect
- 1905 : Wilhelm Apel , German politician, MdL
- 1906 : Cele Abba , Italian theater and film actress
- 1907 : Plácido Domingo Ferrer , Spanish zarzuela singer (baritone)
- 1907 : U Nu , Prime Minister of Myanmar
- 1908 : Theodore Roethke , American poet
- 1909 : Alfred Kubel , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
- 1912 : Stephen Ailes , American politician, Secretary of the Army
- 1912 : Marshall Wayne , American water diver, Olympic champion
- 1917 : Josef Rudnick , German entrepreneur and politician
- 1918 : Claude Akins , American actor
- 1919 : Trude Lechle , Austrian actress and producer
- 1920 : Rudolf Lenz , Austrian actor
- 1921 : Hal David , American pop music lyricist
- 1921 : Jack Steinberger , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1922 : Enrico Berlinguer , Italian politician, general secretary of the Italian Communist Party
- 1922 : Kitty Kallen , American singer
- 1923 : Eduardo Estéban Tejeda , Argentine composer
- 1924 : Heinrich Aigner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1924 : David Atlas , American meteorologist
- 1924 : Rafael Iglesias , Argentine boxer, Olympic champion
- 1924 : Walter Schultheiß , German actor, author and painter
1926-1950
- 1926 : Curt Engelhorn , co-partner of the pharmaceutical company Boehringer Mannheim
- 1926 : Max von der Grün , German writer
- 1926 : Peter Schulze-Rohr , German director and screenwriter
- 1926 : Bill Sharman , American basketball player and coach
- 1927 : Robert Ludlum , American writer, actor, and producer
- 1929 : Werner Zeyer , German politician, Prime Minister of the Saarland
- 1930 : Hans Georg Anniès , German printmaker and sculptor
- 1930 : Ernst Wilke , German politician, President of the administrative district of Kassel
- 1933 : Amanda Guerreño , Argentine composer
- 1934 : Eldar Asimsade , Soviet football referee
- 1935 : Jim Trueman , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1936 : Tom T. Hall , American singer
- 1936 : Willfried Penner , Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag
- 1937 : Klaus Brunnstein , German computer scientist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1937 : Friedrich Dieckmann , German writer
- 1937 : Hans Poser , German philosopher and university professor
- 1937 : Robert Silverman , Canadian pianist and music educator
- 1938 : Raymond Carver , American writer and poet
- 1938 : John Davies , New Zealand middle distance runner
- 1939 : Mike Harris , Rhodesian racing car driver
- 1939 : Ian McKellen , British film and stage actor
- 1939 : Klaus Naumann , German general and inspector general of the Bundeswehr
- 1940 : Marianne Ahrne , Swedish director, screenwriter and writer
- 1941 : Jürgen Borchert , German writer, publicist and photographer
- 1941 : Vladimir Voronin , President of Moldova
- 1943 : Jessi Colter , American singer
- 1944 : Joachim Brehmer , German radio play author
- 1945 : Klaus Zaczyk , German football player
- 1946 : Bill Adam , Canadian racing car driver
- 1946 : Antonis Antoniadis , Greek football player
- 1946 : Jean-Pierre Danguillaume , French road cyclist
- 1948 : Bülent Arınç , Turkish politician
- 1948 : Klaus Meine , German rock musician ( Scorpions )
- 1949 : Norman Fischer , American cellist and music teacher
- 1949 : Rauno Miettinen , Finnish Nordic combined athlete
- 1949 : Amei Wiegel , German politician
- 1950 : Otomar Kvěch , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1950 : Thomas Osman , Eritrean bishop
1951-1975
- 1951 : Hendrik Auhagen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952 : Vera Wassiljewna Anissimowa , Soviet sprinter
- 1952 : Petar Stojanow , Bulgarian President
- 1953 : Christof Lauer , German jazz saxophonist
- 1953 : Frederic Meisner , German television presenter
- 1953 : Daniel Passarella , Argentine soccer player
- 1953 : Gaetano Scirea , Italian football player
- 1953 : David Torn , American jazz guitarist and composer
- 1954 : Tantely Andrianarivo , Malagasy politician
- 1954 : Christoph Neidhart , Swiss journalist and author
- 1954 : Yann , French comic book writer
- 1956 : Stavros Arnaoutakis , Greek politician
- 1956 : Sugar Minott , Jamaican reggae musician
- 1957 : Éder Aleixo , Brazilian soccer player
- 1957 : Thomas Schmidt , German radio presenter
- 1958 : Paul Weller , British singer
- 1960 : Wallace Roney , American jazz trumpeter
- 1961 : Tite , Brazilian soccer coach
- 1962 : Egyd Gstättner , Austrian writer
- 1962 : Philippe Verellen , Belgian racing driver
- 1963 : Mike Myers , Canadian actor and comedian
- 1965 : Simon Fowler , British singer and guitarist
- 1965 : Yahya Jammeh , Gambian President
- 1965 : Sirka Schwartz-Uppendieck , German church music director, organist and pianist
- 1966 : Laurentien Brinkhorst , Dutch princess, wife of Prince Constantijn of Orange-Nassau
- 1967 : Luc Nilis , Belgian football player
- 1967 : André Tempelmeier , German handball player
- 1968 : Dirk Adams , German politician
- 1968 : Gazmend Freitag , Albanian painter
- 1969 : Mariano Aguerre , Argentine polo player
- 1969 : Anne Heche , American actress
- 1970 : Monica Lierhaus , German journalist and television presenter
- 1970 : Fred Schreiber , German musician and television presenter
- 1971 : Georg Totschnig , Austrian cyclist
- 1973 : As-Saadi al-Gaddafi , Libyan football player, official and film producer
- 1973 : Daz Dillinger , American rapper
- 1974 : Oka Nikolov , Macedonian football player
- 1975 : Claire Castillon , French writer
- 1975 : Isabelle A , Belgian singer
- 1975 : Lauryn Hill , American singer and songwriter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Erinn Hayes , American actress
- 1976 : Stefan Holm , Swedish athlete
- 1976 : Cillian Murphy , Irish actor
- 1976 : Sandra Nasić , German singer
- 1977 : Andre Anis , Estonian football player
- 1978 : Cory Arcangel , American artist
- 1978 : Adam Gontier , Canadian rock singer
- 1978 : Brian Urlacher , American football player
- 1979 : Carlos Bocanegra , Mexican-American soccer player
- 1979 : Elli Erl , German singer
- 1979 : Sayed Moawad , Egyptian soccer player
- 1979 : Jonny Wilkinson , English rugby player
- 1980 : Alex Hofmann , German motorcycle racer
- 1980 : Santiago Saitta , Argentine composer and music teacher
- 1981 : Dirk Werner , German racing car driver
- 1982 : Roger Guerreiro , Polish football player
- 1982 : Ezekiel Kemboi , Kenyan athlete
- 1983 : Daniel Budiman , German television presenter
- 1984 : Markus Brzenska , German soccer player
- 1984 : Carla Cox , Czech porn actress
- 1984 : Emma Marrone , Italian pop singer
- 1984 : Marion Raven , Norwegian pop singer
- 1984 : Mirnel Sadović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Austrian football player
- 1985 : Demba Ba , Franco-Senegalese football player
- 1986 : Kyle Moir , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1986 : Geraint Thomas , Welsh cyclist
- 1986 : Juri Ueno , Japanese actress
- 1987 : Pawel Nikolajewitsch Atman , Russian handball player
- 1987 : Sanja Vujović , Serbian handball player
- 1987 : Jackson Mendy , French soccer player
- 1987 : Kamil Stoch , Polish ski jumper
- 1989 : Esteve Rabat , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1990 : Majda Mehmedović , Montenegrin handball player
- 1991 : Derrick Williams , American basketball player
- 1993 : Nikolai Marzenko , Russian racing car driver
- 1993 : Yanick Brecher , Swiss football player
- 1993 : Timo Letschert , Dutch football player
- 1994 : Batuhan Artarslan , Turkish soccer player
- 1994 : Madita Giehl , German soccer player
- 1994 : Kylee , Japanese-American singer
- 1997 : Sofia Asoumanaki , Greek rower
- 1997 : Tobias Foss , Norwegian cyclist
- 1999 : Giovanni Aleotti , Italian racing cyclist
21st century
- 2004 : Pedro Acosta , Spanish motorcycle racer
Died
Before the 18th century
- 230 : Urban I. , Bishop of Rome
- 615 : Boniface IV , Pope
- 709 : Aldhelm von Sherborne , English scholar and poet
- 803 : Higbald , Bishop of Lindisfarne
- 956 : Hadamar , Abbot of Fulda
- 986 : Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi , Persian astronomer
- 992 : Mieszko I , Prince of the Polans
- 1085 : Gregory VII , Pope
- 1112 : Dawid Igorewitsch , ruler of the Kievan Rus
- 1133 : Aq Sunqur al-Ahmadili , prince of Maragha
- 1183 : Arnold I , Archbishop of Trier
- 1200 : Nicholas I , Prince of Mecklenburg
- 1253 : Petrus de Collemedio , Catholic Bishop and Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen
- 1261 : Alexander IV , Pope
- 1286 : Bernhard I , Duke of Jauer and Duke of Löwenberg
- 1291 : Bengt Birgersson , Bishop of Linköping and Duke of Finland
- 1310 : Otto III. , Duke of Carinthia and Carniola
- 1313 : Konrad I von Berg , Bishop of Münster
- 1326 : Eberhard von Neisse , Bishop of Warmia
- 1343 : Gottfried von Padberg , abbot of the Grafschaft monastery
- 1401 : Eric III. , Duke of Saxony-Lauenburg
- 1401 : Mary of Sicily , Queen of Sicily, Duchess of Athens and Neopatria
- 1417 : Ludwig II , French Duke of Anjou, titular king of Naples and Jerusalem
- 1448 : Danuta Anna , Lithuanian princess
- 1464 : Karl I , Count of Nevers and Rethel
- 1475 : Elisabeth von Hanau , Countess von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
- 1510 : Georges d'Amboise , French cardinal and statesman
- 1525 : Anton Eisenhut , preacher and "captain" in the Peasants' War
- 1558 : Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Margravine, "Reformation Princess"
- 1595 : Valens Acidalius , German humanist
- 1600 : Anna Walburga von Neuenahr , ruling Countess von Moers
- 1604 : Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld , governor in the Netherlands and Brussels
- 1607 : Maria Magdalena von Pazzi , Italian Carmelite and mystic
- 1648 : Antoine Le Nain , French painter
- 1675 : Gaspard Poussin , Italian painter
- 1681 : Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Spanish playwright
- 1693 : Marie-Madeleine de La Fayette , French writer
18th century
- 1728 : Friedrich Ludwig , Count of Nassau-Ottweiler and of Saarbrücken, Senior of the Nassau House as a whole
- 1738 : Burkhard Gotthelf Struve , German polyhistor, librarian
- 1741 : Adrian Bernhard von Borcke , Prussian Field Marshal General
- 1744 : Carl Edzard , Count of East Frisia
- 1746 : Johann Gottfried Schaumburg , German legal scholar
- 1760 : Engelbert von Syrgenstein , prince abbot of Kempten
- 1767 : Niccolò Oddi , papal legate and metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Ravenna
- 1768 : Siegfried Cäso von Aeminga , German legal scholar
- 1772 : Johann Gottfried Teske , German physicist
- 1776 : Johann Georg von Langen , German forest and chief hunter master
- 1778 : George Keith, 9th Earl Marischal , Scottish nobleman
- 1786 : Peter III. , King of Portugal
- 1794 : David Fels-Zollikofer , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1798 : Asmus Carstens , German classicist painter
19th century
- 1801 : Nicolai Jacob Wilse , Norwegian scientist
- 1826 : Amarindra , Queen of Thailand
- 1837 : Carl Gottfried Theodor Chladenius , German lawyer and mayor
- 1837 : Johann Andreas Matthias , German theologian and educator
- 1839 : Karl Joseph von Riccabona , Bishop of Passau
- 1847 : Ludwig Aurbacher , German writer
- 1856 : Rudolph Bay , Danish composer
- 1862 : Johann Nestroy , Austrian playwright and satirist
- 1863 : Peter Andreas Munch Norwegian historian
- 1867 : Wilhelm von Kügelgen , German writer
- 1868 : Afanassi Grigorjewitsch Grigorjew , Russian architect
- 1890 : Eduard von Wattenwyl , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1891 : Karl Gustav Andresen , German Germanist
- 1897 : Peter Langen , German classical philologist
- 1899 : Emilio Castelar , Spanish historian, publicist and politician
- 1899 : Rosa Bonheur , French painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Max O'Rell , French author and journalist
- 1907 : Franz von Roggenbach , German politician from Baden, Foreign Minister, MdR
- 1907 : Jan Gebauer , Czech linguist and literary historian
- 1911 : Wassili Ossipowitsch Kljutschewski , Russian historian
- 1913 : Alfred Redl , Austrian double spy
- 1914 : Heinrich Vogelsang , German businessman
- 1915 : Enrique Bertrix , Chilean painter
- 1917 : Maksim Bahdanovich , Belarusian poet, writer, translator and publicist
- 1917 : Édouard de Reszke , French opera singer (bass) of Polish origin
- 1918 : Carl Berner , Norwegian politician
- 1924 : Charles William Andrews , British vertebrate paleontologist, zoologist and botanist
- 1924 : Federico Boyd , President of Panama
- 1924 : István Nyers , Hungarian football player
- 1925 : Charles à Court Repington , British war correspondent
- 1929 : Josef Müller , Swiss hospital priest and collector of folk tales
- 1929 : Johann Friedrich Ahlfeld , German gynecologist
- 1934 : Gustav Holst , British composer
- 1936 : Ján Levoslav Bella , Slovak composer
- 1937 : Henry Ossawa Tanner , African American painter
- 1941 : Miguel Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican composer
- 1942 : Emanuel Feuermann , Austrian cellist
- 1945 : Otto Abeles , Austrian journalist, writer and music critic
- 1949 : Wolf von Gersdorff , German politician, MdL
- 1950 : Niels Clemmensen , Danish pianist and composer
- 1950 : Georg Kassenbrock , German tax officer and politician
1951-2000
- 1951 : Friedrich von Esebeck , German general
- 1951 : Paula Preradović , Austrian writer
- 1951 : René Gagnier , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and euphonium player
- 1951 : Franz Klebusch , German actor
- 1952 : Ibrahim Dalliu , Albanian clergyman and publicist
- 1952 : Ettore Tolomei , Italian nationalist
- 1953 : Hermann Bruse , German painter and graphic artist
- 1954 : Robert Capa , Hungarian-French photographer
- 1956 : Johann Radon , Austrian mathematician
- 1957 : Hermann Friedmann , Polish-German philosopher and lawyer
- 1959 : Ferdinand Frantz , German opera singer
- 1959 : Johann Baptist Umberg , Swiss Jesuit and university professor
- 1963 : Eugen Margarétha , Austrian lawyer, politician and President of the National Bank
- 1964 : Wassili Andrejewitsch Solotarjow , Russian composer
- 1964 : Heinz Steguweit , German writer
- 1965 : Bruno Deserti , Italian racing car driver
- 1965 : Sonny Boy Williamson II , American musician
- 1966 : Ricardo Castillo , Guatemalan composer
- 1968 : Georg von Küchler , German field marshal in World War II
- 1968 : Franzischak Kuschal , Belarusian general and politician
- 1970 : Esra Atja , Israeli rabbi
- 1972 : Asta Nielsen , Danish film and theater actress
- 1974 : Donald Crisp , British actor and director
- 1980 : Josef Giggenbach , German motorcycle racer
- 1980 : Herbert Nachbar , GDR writer
- 1981 : Georg Malmstén , Finnish singer, musician and composer
- 1981 : Roy Brown , American musician
- 1981 : Rosa Ponselle , American opera singer
- 1983 : Elisabet van Randenborgh , German writer
- 1984 : Margaretha Reichardt , German textile designer and graphic artist
- 1985 : Ludwig Anschütz , German actor and radio play speaker
- 1985 : Herta Hammerbacher , German landscape architect
- 1985 : Johannes Holthusen , German Slavist and professor
- 1986 : Heinrich Fraenkel , British writer and chess composer of German origin
- 1987 : Charley Brock , American football player
- 1988 : Daniel Buscarlet , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1988 : Karl August Wittfogel , German sociologist, philosopher and sinologist
- 1989 : Brigid Bazlen , American film actress and television presenter
- 1989 : Paul V. Esterházy de Galantha , Austrian landowner
- 1989 : Hans Pauer , Austrian archivist and librarian
- 1991 : Eberhard Werdin , German composer
- 1992 : Danny Biasone , American entrepreneur
- 1994 : Eric Gale , American guitarist
- 1994 : Robert Planel , French composer
- 1994 : Sonny Sharrock , American jazz guitarist
- 1995 : Élie Bayol , French racing driver
- 1995 : Herbert A. Frenzel , German Scandinavianist, journalist, translator and theater scholar
- 1996 : Keith Ballisat , British racing car driver
- 1996 : John Morrison, 1st Baron Margadale , British politician
- 1996 : Bradley Nowell , American rock musician
- 1999 : Horst Frank , German actor
- 2000 : Nicholas Clay , English actor
21st century
- 2003 : Bill Paschal , American football player
- 2004 : Ernst Haar , chairman of the GdED, member of the DGB federal executive committee, Member of the Bundestag
- 2004 : Mohammed Hamza Ghanayem , Palestinian poet, writer and translator
- 2005 : Dennis Eberhard , American composer
- 2005 : Ismail Merchant , Indo-British film producer
- 2005 : Zoran Mušič , Italian-Slovenian painter
- 2006 : Otto M. Zykan , Austrian composer
- 2006 : Wilfrid Perraudin , French painter
- 2006 : Mari Yonehara , Japanese writer
- 2006 : Desmond Dekker , Jamaican musician and composer
- 2007 : Herbert Kelletat , German musician, musicologist, organist, author and choir director
- 2008 : Ernst Stuhlinger , German-American rocket researcher
- 2009 : Amos Elon , Israeli journalist and writer
- 2010 : Rafa Galindo , Venezuelan singer
- 2010 : Siphiwo Ntshebe , South African opera singer
- 2010 : Silvius Magnago , Italian lawyer and politician
- 2011 : Matthias Achs , Austrian politician
- 2011 : Leonora Carrington , British-Mexican painter and writer
- 2012 : Edoardo Mangiarotti , Italian fencer
- 2013 : Luis Pavón , Cuban politician, journalist and writer
- 2013 : Eva Zippel , German sculptor and draftsman
- 2014 : Wojciech Jaruzelski , Polish military and politician
- 2014 : Hans Jürgen Schmitt , German physicist
- 2015 : Mary Ellen Mark , American photojournalist
- 2015 : Alois Seidl , German agricultural scientist
- 2016 : Mariano Etkin , Argentine composer
- 2016 : Thomas Geßner , German physicist
- 2017 : Willi Fährmann , German writer
- 2017 : Otfried Wagenbreth , German geologist and mining historian
- 2018 : Heinrich Frommknecht , German insurance manager
- 2018 : Max Pagès , French psychologist
- 2019 : Claus von Bülow , Danish-British nobleman
- 2019 : Alice Schoenfeld , German-American violinist, music teacher, patron
- 2020 : George Floyd , American victim of police violence
- 2020 : Renate Krößner , German actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Beda Venerabilis , English priest, monk, historian and doctor of the church (Protestant, Anglican, Catholic)
- St. Sophie Barat , founder of the French order (Catholic)
- St. Black Sarah , missionary (Catholic)
- Urban Day (Catholic)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Argentina : Revolution Day (1810)
- Jordan : Independence from the United Kingdom (1946)
- Africa : Africa Day
- More information about the day
- Missing Children's Day (since 1983)
- Towel Day
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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