25. November

The November 25 is the 329th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 330th in leap years ), thus remain 36 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

1177: Battle of Montgisard (history painting)

• 1177 : At the Battle of Montgisard , an outnumbered force of the Kingdom of Jerusalem under King Baldwin IV defeats the Ayyubid troops under Sultan Saladin .
• 1317 : The Peace of Templin ends the North German Margrave War . The Mark Brandenburg , which triggered it, under Waldemar the Great, loses its position in the Baltic Sea .
• 1491 : The Treaty of Granada seals the end of the Emirate of Granada , the last Muslim-controlled region on the Iberian Peninsula .
• 1500 : Christopher Columbus ' third journey ends with his transport in chains to Spain . Francisco de Bobadilla , his successor as governor, had him arrested in Santo Domingo on allegations of mismanagement.
• 1758 : During the French and Indian War, the British take Fort Duquesne, which the French had abandoned and destroyed the day before, and begin rebuilding under the name of Fort Pitt .
• 1783 : After the American War of Independence , the last British troops left the United States in New York City .

1795: Stanislaus II August of Poland

• 1795 : After Poland ceased to exist with the third partition between Russia , Austria and Prussia , the last King Stanislaus August Poniatowski is forced to abdicate.
• 1809 : The British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst disappears in Perleberg , where he has taken a rest on his incognito guided return journey, in an unexplained manner in the evening.
• 1853 : The American captain John Heard discovers the island named after him in the southern Indian Ocean .

1863: Battle of Chattanooga

• 1863 : Union forces under General Ulysses Simpson Grant defeat the Confederates under General Braxton Bragg at the Battle of Chattanooga during the American Civil War . You gain control of Tennessee and can advance further south.
• 1870 : The reservation rights treaty with the Kingdom of Württemberg during the siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War completes the round of November treaties before the establishment of the German Empire .
• 1870 : With the signing of a military convention with Prussia, the Grand Duchy of Baden relinquishes its military sovereignty, the Baden Army becomes part of the Prussian army.
• 1885 : After the death of the Spanish king Alfonso XII. changes the reign to his pregnant wife Maria Christina of Austria . The Queen remains in office until their son Alfonso can take over power in 1902 .
• 1915 : The Ku Klux Klan is re-established on Stone Mountain in the US state of Georgia .
• 1917 : The Bolsheviks under Lenin suffer a heavy defeat in the election for the constituent assembly after the October Revolution in Russia . The Social Revolutionaries get an absolute majority.
• 1918 : First World War outside Europe : Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck surrenders two weeks after the official armistice in Europe with the German protection troops in German East Africa .
• 1918 : Günther Victor von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt abdicates in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen . The last monarchy in Germany ends 16 days after the emperor and most of the other German princes abdicated.
• 1936 : Prehistory of the Second World War in Europe : The Anti-Comintern Pact between the German Empire and the Japanese Empire is signed in Berlin .

1944: Japanese bunker on Peleliu

• 1944 : The Battle of Peleliu during World War II ends with the Americans taking the island with heavy losses. Of the 10,000 or so Japanese defenders, only around 150 survive.
• 1944 : The Brazilian expeditionary force Força Expedicionária Brasileira in the ranks of the Allies in the Second World War opens the battle of Monte Castello with an attack on positions of the Wehrmacht near Bologna .
• 1945 : The ÖVP under Leopold Figl wins the absolute majority in the first democratic national council election in Austria after the Second World War.
• 1947 : With the approval of the Statute of Westminster (1931) by Parliament, New Zealand gains complete legislative independence from Great Britain through the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act 1947 and thus also becomes a member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
• 1956 : Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara leave Mexico with 81 revolutionaries of Movimiento 26 de Julio on the motor yacht Granma with the destination Cuba , where they arrive on December 2nd.
• 1960 : The three Mirabal sisters are murdered by the military secret service in the Dominican Republic .
• 1961 : Willy Brandt is elected Chancellor candidate of the SPD .

1963: John F. Kennedy's family at the funeral

• 1963 : At the funeral of the assassinated on November 22, John F. Kennedy at the Arlington National Cemetery, take an estimate of the New York Times a million people participated.
• 1964 : The GDR announces that from December 1st it will require visitors from the non-socialist economic area to exchange freely convertible currencies for domestic marks from the German central bank . Pensioners and children are exempt from the compulsory exchange.
• 1970 : The writer Mishima Yukio invades the headquarters of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces with members of his private army Tatenokai , takes the commandant hostage and calls on the soldiers to occupy the parliament. When the attempted coup failed, he and one of his supporters committed seppuku .
• 1973 : The head of the military dictatorship in Greece , Georgios Papadopoulos , is overthrown in a military coup and replaced by General Phaidon Gizikis .
• 1975 : General António Ramalho Eanes disempowered the faction around Captain Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho in the Movimento das Forças Armadas in directional battles in the wake of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal .

1975: Suriname flag

• 1975 : Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands , with a new flag . Johan Ferrier , the current governor, becomes the first president.

1975: States participating in Operation Condor.

• 1975 : The secret services of the South American dictatorships Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Paraguay and Uruguay decide on the cross-border Operation Condor with the aim of pursuing left-wing political and opposition forces worldwide. The CIA and FBI provide logistical support for the operation and France provides tried and tested suppression mechanisms.
• 1980 : In Upper Volta , Saye Zerbo overthrew President Sangoulé Lamizana in a bloodless military coup , thereby ending his democratization efforts.
• 1986 : US Attorney General Edwin Meese officially announces the involvement of senior National Security Council officials in the Iran-Contra affair . John Poindexter resigns as US security advisor.
• 1988 : Rita Süssmuth is elected President of the German Bundestag to succeed Philipp Jenninger .
• 1990 : In the first round of the first free presidential election in Poland , the Polish-Canadian businessman Stanisław Tymiński surprisingly achieved second place behind Lech Wałęsa and thus the runoff election.
• 1992 : The Czechoslovak Parliament approves the dissolution of Czechoslovakia on January 1, 1993 into the states of the Czech Republic and Slovakia .
• 2001 : 600 people are killed in a revolt of imprisoned Taliban fighters in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif .
• 2002 : As a measure of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 is in the United States , the United States Department of Homeland Security established. It is developing into the third largest federal agency in the USA.
• 2005 : Susanne Osthoff is the first German to be kidnapped in Iraq after the war in Iraq .

economy

• 1973 : The first Sunday driving ban for private traffic in Germany and Switzerland is intended to help alleviate the effects of the first oil crisis .
• 1986 : The King Fahd Causeway opens. The combined bridge and dam connection connects Saudi Arabia with the island state of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf over a length of 26 kilometers .

science and technology

1610: Orion Nebula

• 1610 : Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc discovers the Orion Nebula .
• 1898 : The German Valdivia expedition for deep-sea exploration succeeds in rediscovering Bouvet Island .
• 1915 : Albert Einstein presents his general theory of relativity at the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
• 1940 : The British multipurpose aircraft de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is tested in its first flight .
• 1940 : The medium-range bomber Martin B-26 takes off on its maiden flight in the USA.

Culture

Architecture and fine arts

• 1920 : The painter Paul Klee is initially appointed by Walter Gropius as master of form at the Bauhaus in Weimar .

2000: Front view of the Hundertwasser train station

• 2000 : The train station in Uelzen , designed by Viennese artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser , opens.
• 2003 : The published January 27, Sharon cartoon by Dave Brown is from the British Political Cartoon Society as a Political Cartoon of the Year Award.

Film and photography

• 1940 : Woody Woodpecker appears for the first time in the cartoon Knock Knock , in which he also plays a minor character.
• 2005 : An exhibition on Thomas Höpker's work is opened in the Munich City Museum , in which the photo View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to Manhattan, September 11, 2001 is shown for the first time.

Music and theater

• 1722 : The world premiere of the opera The betrayed and subsequently adored Ariadne by Reinhard Keizer takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
• 1731 : The choral cantata Wachet up, the voice of Johann Sebastian Bach calls us , based on the well-known chorale of the same name by Philipp Nicolai from 1599, is premiered.
• 1766 : The romantic and comic opera Lisuart and Dariolette or The Question and Answer by Johann Adam Hiller is premiered in Leipzig .
• 1847 : Martha or Der Markt zu Richmond , a romantic-comic opera in 4 acts by Friedrich von Flotow and Friedrich Wilhelm Riese , is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
• 1881 : The Vienna Theater an der Wien is Johann Strauss ' operetta The funny war premiered. The libretto comes from the tried and tested team of F. Zell and Richard Genée .
• 1952 : The first performance of the play Die Mausefalle (orig. The Mousetrap ) by Agatha Christie takes place at the Ambassadors Theater in London, which subsequently becomes the longest running play in the world.
• 1976 : The Band gives their 5-hour farewell concert, which is filmed by Martin Scorsese under the title The Last Waltz and is seen as the end of a musical era.
• 1984 : On the initiative of Bob Geldof and Midge Ure , band Aid Do They Know It's Christmas? to raise money against the famine in Ethiopia .

society

• 1615 : King Philip IV of Spain , known as Philip III, marries in Bordeaux Cathedral . at the same time Portugal ruled, the French princess Élisabeth de Bourbon .
• 1993 : The LWL Roman Museum in Haltern am See opens directly at the Roman camp.

religion

• 0858 : The Synod of Quierzy affirmed in a letter to the East Franconian ruler Ludwig the Germans the loyal attitude of the bishops to the West Franconian King Charles the Bald .
• 1185 : Urban III. is in Verona as the successor to Pope Lucius III, who died on the same day . elected, but he retained his office as Archbishop of Milan .
• 1277 : The pontificate of Pope Nicholas III. begins; he succeeds Pope John XXI.

Disasters

• 1120 : When the White Ship sank, England's Crown Prince William Ætheling , son of Henry I of England, dies . The ship's collision with a reef on the Normandy coast near Barfleur kills almost three hundred people.
• 1343 : An earthquake-triggered tsunami devastated Amalfi and other coastal towns on the Tyrrhenian Sea .
• 1839 : About India raging cyclone , the tidal waves brings. The disaster claims an estimated 300,000 deaths. The port city of Coringa is totally destroyed and no longer rebuilt afterwards.
• 2005 : Within 24 hours, 30 to 50 centimeters of snow fell in the Münsterland , whereupon many electricity pylons buckled under the snow loads. 250,000 people are without electricity for one to several days.
• 2009 : Heavy rain caused floods in Jeddah within four hours, killing more than 100 people. The floods happen at the time of Hajj , when many pilgrims are in the Saudi Arabian city.

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

nature and environment

• 1885 : In the province of Alberta , the Banff National Park is the first such reserve in Canada .

Sports

• 1953 : The English national soccer team loses a home game against a continental European team for the first time. Hungary lost the English 6-3 at Wembley .
• 1983 : American boxer Larry Holmes defends his world heavyweight title against Marvis Frazier at Caesars Palace , Las Vegas , with a technical knockout in the first round.
• 2012 : The German Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel becomes world champion for the third time in a row.

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

Born

Before the 17th century

• 1253 : Katharina , English king's daughter
• 1386 : Elisabeth Achler , German nun and mystic
• 1454 : Caterina Cornaro , Queen of Cyprus
• 1481 : Melchior Pfintzing , German clergyman and high-ranking member of the imperial court
• 1491 : Martin Cleß , German theologian and reformer
• 1547 : Samuel Fischer , German theologian
• 1562 : Lope de Vega , Spanish poet
• 1572 : Daniel Sennert , German doctor
• 1588 : Johann Affelmann , German theologian
• 1595 : Johann Praetorius , German composer and organist
• 1595 : Johann Konrad Varnbuler , Württemberg diplomat

17th and 18th centuries

• 1607 : Andreas Heinrich Bucholtz , German Lutheran theologian
• 1607 : Christoph Joachim Bucholtz , German legal scholar and mayor of Hameln
• 1607 : Kanō Naonobu , Japanese painter
• 1628 : Andreas Concius , German mathematician
• 1658 : Andreas Austen , German Reformed theologian, Graecist and Orientalist
• 1663 : Jean Frédéric Ostervald , Swiss Reformed theologian
• 1666 : Giuseppe Giovanni Guarneri , Italian violin maker
• 1680 : Katharina von Altenbockum , mistress of August the Strong
• 1696 : Georg von Pfronten-Kreuzegg , Bavarian Capuchin in Kreuzegg (Pfronten parish)
• 1697 : Gerhard Tersteegen , German theologian, preacher and poet of hymns
• 1712 : Charles-Michel de l'Epée , French educator, founder of the world's first school for the deaf
• 1728 : Johann August Urlsperger , German Lutheran theologian
• 1738 : Thomas Abbt , German writer and philosopher
• 1739 : Philipp Matthäus Hahn , German pastor and engineer
• 1743 : William Heinrich , Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
• 1744 : Felix de Silva Avellar Brotero , Portuguese botanist
• 1752 : Johann Friedrich Reichardt , German composer and music writer
• 1758 : John Armstrong Jr. , American general, US Senator from New York, diplomat, Secretary of War
• 1758 : Ludwig Philipp Aschoff , German pharmacist
• 1759 : Rudolf Rebmann , Swiss farmer and politician
• 1760 : Antal Amadé de Várkonyi , Hungarian count
• 1787 : Franz Xaver Gruber , Austrian organist

19th century

1801-1850

• 1809 : Adolph E. Borie , American politician, diplomat, Secretary of the Navy
• 1814 : Julius Robert von Mayer , German doctor and physicist
• 1835 : Andrew Carnegie , American entrepreneur
• 1837 : Carl Abel , German linguist
• 1838 : Elisabeth Bürstenbinder , German writer
• 1841 : Ernst Schröder , German mathematician and logician
• 1842 : Carl Aldenhoven , German art historian

Carl Benz (* 1844)

• 1844 : Carl Benz , German engineer, automobile pioneer
• 1845 : José Maria Eça de Queiroz , Portuguese writer
• 1847 : Philipp Biedert , German pediatrician and university professor
• 1848 : Jacques Normand , French writer
• 1850 : Eduard Sievers , German Germanist

1851-1900

• 1851 : Gottfried Georg Andrä , German manor owner, secret economist and politician
• 1852 : Paul Hillemacher , French composer and pianist
• 1856 : Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev , Russian composer
• 1857 : Heinrich Eduard Burlage , German politician, MdR
• 1858 : Léon Serpollet , French automobile pioneer
• 1857 : Frederick Haultain , Canadian politician and judge
• 1865 : Kate Gleason , American engineer and inventor of the prefabricated house
• 1866 : Franjo Bučar , Croatian writer and sports official; Father of Olympic Sports in Croatia
• 1866 : Rudolf Moos , German-Jewish leather merchant
• 1868 : Ernst Ludwig , Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt
• 1869 : Herbert Greenfield , Canadian politician
• 1872 : Robert de Flers , French playwright and journalist
• 1873 : Myers Cooper , American politician, governor of the state of Ohio
• 1873 : Leo Katzenberger , German businessman of Jewish origin, victim of a Nazi judicial murder
• 1876 : Joseph Anton Schneiderfranken , German writer and painter
• 1877 : Richard Assmann , German actor
• 1878 : Georg Kaiser , German playwright
• 1879 : Maurice Vignerot , French croquet player
• 1881 : Peder Gram , Danish composer
• 1881 : John XXIII. , Pope
• 1882 : Herbert Assmann , German internist and university professor
• 1883 : Franz Aenderl , German politician and writer, MdL
• 1888 : Jan Böhm , Czechoslovak rose grower
• 1889 : Karl Schubert , Austrian curative and Waldorf educator
• 1892 : Otto Harder , German football player
• 1892 : Honoré Vaillancourt , Canadian singer (baritone)
• 1893 : Max de Pourtalès , French racing car driver
• 1894 : Paul Pratt , Canadian composer, clarinetist, conductor and music teacher
• 1895 : Wilhelm Kempff , German pianist and composer
• 1895 : Anastas Hovhannessi Mikojan , Soviet politician
• 1896 : Virgil Thomson , American composer
• 1899 : Fouad Ammoun , Lebanese lawyer and diplomat

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Rudolf Höß , German SS officer, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, war criminal
• 1901 : Adele Kern , German opera and operetta singer
• 1901 : Arthur Liebehenschel , German SS officer, commandant of concentration camps, war criminal
• 1901 : Tibor Serly , Hungarian composer
• 1904 : Lillian Copeland , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1904 : Ba Jin , Chinese writer
• 1904 : Toni Ortelli , Italian alpinist, conductor and composer
• 1906 : Heinz Autenrieth , German lawyer
• 1906 : Karl Waldbrunner , Austrian Minister of Transport
• 1907 : Johnny Hindmarsh , British racing car driver and pilot
• 1908 : Eduard Roschmann , Austrian war criminal in Latvia ( butcher of Riga )
• 1910 : Hanna Lachertowa , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 1911 : Kurt Lütgen , German writer
• 1911 : Robert Trösch , Swiss actor and director
• 1912 : Francis Durbridge , British detective writer
• 1913 : Petro Marko , Albanian writer
• 1914 : Eddie Boyd , American blues musician
• 1914 : Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player

Augusto Pinochet (* 1915)

• 1915 : Augusto Pinochet , Chilean dictator
• 1917 : Asmahan , Syrian-Druze singer and actress
• 1917 : Jean-Pierre Dautel , French conductor and composer
• 1917 : Luigi Poggi , Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
• 1918 : Giuseppe Grezar , Italian football player
• 1918 : Kurt Wafner , German lecturer, author and anti-militarist
• 1919 : Norman Tokar , American film director and actor
• 1920 : Ricardo Montalbán , Mexican actor
• 1920 : Noel Neill , American actress
• 1920 : Hilde Sicks , German folk actress
• 1921 : Vladimír Černušák , Czechoslovak sports functionary
• 1921 : Gottfried Sälzler , German soccer player and sports official
• 1922 : Bob Holbert , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1922 : Ilja Hurník , Czech composer
• 1923 : Mauno Koivisto , Finnish politician, President
• 1924 : Pablo Armitano , Venezuelan trumpeter, military bandmaster and music teacher
• 1924 : Paul Desmond , American musician
• 1924 : Henny Brenner , German-Jewish forced laborer and author
• 1924 : Ante Marković , Yugoslav politician, Prime Minister
• 1924 : Yoshimoto Takaaki , Japanese poet, literary critic and philosopher
• 1925 : María Asquerino , Spanish actress

1926-1950

• 1926 : Poul Anderson , American writer
• 1926 : Jeffrey Hunter , American actor
• 1927 : Werner Biel , German rower
• 1928 : Giuseppe Agostino , Italian Archbishop

Jan P. Syse (* 1930)

• 1930 : Jan P. Syse , Norwegian politician
• 1931 : Nat Adderley , American musician
• 1933 : Alan Arnell , English football player
• 1933 : Augie Pabst , American racing car driver
• 1933 : George Riashi , Lebanese Archbishop of Tripoli
• 1933 : Jean Vinatier , French racing car driver
• 1934 : Joachim Adamietz , German classical philologist
• 1934 : Erich Zakowski , German entrepreneur and motorsport team boss, founder of Zakspeed
• 1934 : Herrmann Zschoche , German film director
• 1935 : Ana Lucía Frega , Argentinian music teacher
• 1935 : Dietrich Grille , German political scientist and historian
• 1935 : Joseph Zoderer , Austrian-Italian writer
• 1936 : Trisha Brown , American choreographer and dancer
• 1936 : Gisela Henning , German athlete
• 1937 : Kazimieras Antanavičius , Lithuanian economist and politician
• 1937 : Gerhard Sperling , German athlete
• 1938 : Hans Brenner , German actor
• 1939 : Niní Cáffaro , Dominican singer
• 1940 : Reinhard Furrer , German science astronaut
• 1940 : Jan Jongbloed , Dutch football player
• 1940 : María Teresa Luengo , Argentine composer and music teacher
• 1940 : Percy Sledge , American rhythm and blues and soul singer
• 1942 : Bob Lind , American singer
• 1942 : Rosa von Praunheim , German director
• 1943 : Dante M. Caputo , Argentine politician
• 1943 : Jerry Portnoy , American blues musician
• 1944 : Barbara Ambrosius , German lawyer
• 1944 : Maarten 't Hart , Dutch writer
• 1945 : Apichart Sukhagganond , Thai lawyer
• 1945 : Kent Roland Karlsson , Swedish football player and coach
• 1946 : Atiku Abubakar , Nigerian Vice President
• 1946 : Werner Andres , German mechanical engineer and university professor
• 1947 : Silvia Annichiarico , Italian singer, actress and radio presenter
• 1947 : Val Fuentes , American musician
• 1948 : Catana Pérez de Cuello , Dominican pianist and music teacher
• 1948 : Wolfgang Templin , German publicist and civil rights activist in the GDR
• 1949 : Herbert Junck , German drummer
• 1949 : Christel Humme , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1950 : Jocelyn Brown , American singer
• 1950 : Eckhard Cordes , German manager

1951-1975

• 1951 : Johnny Rep , Dutch football player and coach
• 1952 : Stanisław Krupowicz , Polish composer and music teacher
• 1952 : Daniel Marco Kur Adwok , Sudanese auxiliary bishop
• 1953 : Herbert Breiteneder , Austrian racing driver
• 1953 : Wolfgang Stolz , German handball player
• 1955 : Erwin Grosche , German cabaret artist
• 1955 : Connie Palmen , Dutch writer
• 1956 : Gabriel Aeppli , Swiss-American solid-state physicist
• 1957 : Ursula Andermatt , Swiss actress
• 1957 : Robert L. Ehrlich , American politician
• 1957 : Frank Hill , German composer and guitarist
• 1957 : Monte Melkonian , American political activist, Asala terrorist and militant
• 1957 : Torsten Müller , German jazz double bass player
• 1957 : Manfred Stumpf , German draftsman, conceptual artist and computer artist
• 1958 : Olaf Seier , German soccer player
• 1958 : Johannes Werner (politician) , German politician
• 1959 : Marti Epstein , American composer
• 1959 : Steve Rothery , British musician ( Marillion )
• 1960 : Robert Dunlop , British motorcycle racer
• 1960 : Amy Grant , American singer and songwriter
• 1960 : John F. Kennedy, Jr. , American lawyer and publisher, son of John F. Kennedy
• 1961 : Matthias Freihof , German actor and speaker
• 1961 : Cornel Wachter , German artist
• 1963 : Kevin Chamberlin , American actor
• 1964 : Mark Davis , American baseball player
• 1964 : Mark Lanegan , American singer and songwriter
• 1964 : Sophie Ryckeboer-Charrier , French soccer player
• 1964 : Bert van Vlaanderen , Dutch long-distance runner
• 1965 : Timothy Lockwood Armstrong , American musician
• 1965 : Cris Carter , American football player
• 1966 : Billy Burke , American actor
• 1968 : Erick Sermon , American rapper and music producer

Patricia Kelly (* 1969)

• 1969 : Patricia Kelly , Irish-American singer, musician and songwriter ( The Kelly Family )
• 1969 : Kim Ofstad , Norwegian pop, rock and jazz drummer
• 1970 : John Godson , Polish politician

Christina Applegate (* 1971)

• 1971 : Christina Applegate , American actress
• 1971 : Magnus Arvedson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1971 : Dedrick Gobert , American actor
• 1971 : Raphael Rubino , German actor
• 1972 : Kenny Håkansson , Swedish rock musician
• 1972 : Petteri Nummelin , Finnish ice hockey player
• 1973 : Roman Sergejewitsch Arkajew , Russian beach volleyball player
• 1973 : Steven de Jongh , Dutch cyclist
• 1973 : Stefanie von Pfetten , Canadian actress
• 1974 : Kenneth Mitchell , Canadian actor
• 1974 : Kaspar Singer , Swiss cellist
• 1975 : Abdelkader Benali , Dutch writer

1976-2000

• 1976 : Donovan McNabb , American football player
• 1977 : Nuno Assis , Portuguese soccer player
• 1977 : Guillermo Cañas , Argentine tennis player
• 1977 : MacBeth Sibaya , South African soccer player
• 1978 : Ángel Martín García , Andorran football player
• 1978 : Sheena Ringo , Japanese musician
• 1979 : Joel Kinnaman , Swedish-American actor
• 1979 : Sandrine Bailly , French biathlete

Valerie Azlynn (* 1980)

• 1980 : Valerie Azlynn , American actress
• 1980 : Aaron Mokoena , South African soccer player
• 1981 : Jenna Bush , daughter of George W. Bush
• 1981 : Xabi Alonso , Spanish soccer player
• 1981 : Marc Lerandy , Franco-German soccer player
• 1982 : Maximilian Nicu , German-Romanian soccer player
• 1982 : Michael Spatz , German handball player
• 1983 : Denis Bajew , Russian ice hockey player
• 1983 : Fernando Henrique , Brazilian soccer player
• 1983 : Teppei Takano , Japanese ski jumper
• 1984 : Dennis Schigiol , German theater and television actor
• 1984 : Gaspard Ulliel , French actor
• 1985 : Marit Malm Frafjord , Norwegian handball player
• 1985 : Remona Fransen , Dutch athlete
• 1985 : Arlan , Brazilian soccer player
• 1985 : Robert Weber , Austrian handball player
• 1986 : Katie Cassidy , American actress and singer
• 1987 : Odil Ahmedov , Uzbek football player
• 1987 : Julian Bayer , German actor
• 1987 : Dolla , American rapper
• 1987 : Sergi Moreno , Andorran football player
• 1987 : El Arbi Hillel Soudani , Algerian football player
• 1990 : Alaaeldin Abouelkassem , Egyptian fencer
• 1991 : Niclas Dombrowski , German handball player
• 1991 : Philipp Grubauer , German ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner
• 1992 : Zack Shada , American actor
• 1993 : Danny Kent , British motorcycle racer
• 2000 : Kaja Juvan , Slovenian tennis player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0630 : Basolus of Verzy , missionary and saint
• 0883 : Ansegis , Archbishop of Sens
• 0996 : Hildeward , Bishop of Halberstadt
• 1034 : Malcolm II , King of Scotland and King of Strathclyde
• 1085 : Johann I von Breunau , monk and first bishop of Olomouc
• 1120 : William Ætheling , English crown prince
• 1120 : Richard d'Avranches , 2nd Earl of Chester
• 1120 : Richard FitzRoy , illegitimate son of Henry I of England
• 1170 : Rainald II , Count von Bar
• 1185 : Lucius III. , Pope from 1181 to 1185
• 1239 : Albrecht IV. , Count in Aargau and Frickgau with the Habsburgs, Brugg, Bremgarten and Muri, Landgrave in Upper Alsace and Field Captain of Strasbourg and Vogt of the Säckingen Monastery
• 1314 : Nikolaus , Lord of Rostock
• 1318 : Philip of Ibelin , Seneschal of Cyprus
• 1321 : Nicholas Seagrave, 1st Baron Seagrave of Barton Segrave and Stowe , English military man and nobleman
• 1324 : Johannes von Thuchem , Bishop of Brandenburg
• 1326 : Koreyasu , Shogun in Japan
• 1351 : Ulrich Pfefferhard , Bishop of Constance
• 1353 : Berthold von Buchegg , Bishop of Speyer and Bishop of Strasbourg
• 1355 : Amelung von Varendorff , Osnabrück knight as well as episcopal feudal and castle man of Iburg
• 1373 : Guy de Boulogne , Archbishop of Lyon
• 1374 : Philip II of Taranto , Prince of Taranto and Titular Emperor of Constantinople
• 1400 : Jean d'Outremeuse , Liège cleric and chronicler
• 1420 : Elisabeth Achler , German nun and mystic
• 1453 : Juan de Cervantes , Spanish cardinal
• 1456 : Jacques Cœur , French merchant, financier of King Charles VII.
• 1495 : Dorothea von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, as well as Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein and Countess of Oldenburg

16th to 18th century

• 1508 : Ursula von Brandenburg , Duchess von Münsterberg and Oels and Countess von Glatz
• 1533 : Philip of Savoy-Nemours , Bishop of Geneva and Duke of Nemours
• 1542 : Heinrich Stromer , Leipzig university professor, doctor and founder of Auerbachs Keller
• 1560 : Andrea Doria , Genoese naval commander and statesman
• 1598 : Petrus Calaminus , German theologian
• 1600 : Johann Major , German theologian, humanist and poet
• 1629 : Hieronymus Praetorius , German composer and organist
• 1642 : Christian Günther I , Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• 1677 : Mukai Genshō , Japanese neo-Confucian, doctor and botanist
• 1686 : Detlev von Ahlefeldt , Danish officer, diplomat and writer
• 1687 : Rajasingha II , King of the Sinhalese Kingdom of Kandy
• 1732 : Johann Heinrich von Berger , German lawyer
• 1748 : Isaac Watts , British songwriter
• 1755 : Johann Georg Pisendel , violin virtuoso and concertmaster of the Dresden court orchestra

Johann Maria Farina († 1766)

• 1766 : Johann Maria Farina , Italian perfumer
• 1786 : Samuel John Atlee , American politician
• 1786 : Nathanael Gottfried Leske , Sorbian-German naturalist
• 1788 : Manuel de Guirior , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Granada and Peru
• 1789 : Jan Michał Budar , Sorbian manor owner, lawyer and founder
• 1791 : Giovanni Battista Ferrandini , Italian composer

19th century

• 1809 : Johann George von Schütz , Prussian civil servant
• 1816 : Izabela Lubomirska , Polish princess and important patron
• 1829 : Therese von Artner , Austrian writer
• 1841 : Francis Leggatt Chantrey , British sculptor, painter and draftsman
• 1844 : Augustus Wall Callcott , British painter
• 1848 : Johann Rudolph von Ahlefeldt , landlord of Ludwigsburg, Sehestedt and Saxtorff
• 1849 : Juan Arolas , Spanish poet
• 1855 : Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse , German classical philologist and linguist
• 1858 : Victor Franz Freiherr von Andrian-Werburg , Austrian politician
• 1865 : Heinrich Barth , German Africa explorer
• 1869 : Friedrich Adolph Roemer , German geologist, botanist and lawyer
• 1881 : Theobald Böhm , German flute maker and inventor
• 1884 : Mathilde F. Anneke , German writer and journalist, publisher of one of the first German women's newspapers
• 1884 : Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe , German chemist
• 1885 : Alfonso XII. , Spanish king
• 1885 : Nicolás Avellaneda , Argentine President
• 1885 : Thomas A. Hendricks , American politician
• 1887 : Johann Jakob Bachofen , Swiss anthropologist
• 1900 : Willibald Beyschlag , German theologian

20th century

1901 to 1950

• 1901 : Josef Gabriel Rheinberger , Liechtenstein composer
• 1903 : Sabino Arana Goiri , Spanish author and politician
• 1912 : Theodor Bumiller , German explorer
• 1915 : Francis of Sales Cardinal Bauer , Czech clergyman, Archbishop of Olomouc
• 1916 : Eduard Züblin , Swiss engineer and entrepreneur
• 1917 : João Teixeira Pinto , Portuguese colonial officer
• 1921 : Etienne Soukkarie , Syrian clergyman and patriarchal vicar of Alexandria
• 1925 : Vajiravudh , Siamese king
• 1926 : Georg Arnhold , German banker and pacifist
• 1926 : Ludwig Aub , German bookseller, writer, graphologist and clairvoyant
• 1927 : Alfred De Sève , Canadian violinist, music teacher and composer
• 1935 : Anastasia Nikolaevna of Montenegro , noblewoman
• 1935 : Iyasu V , uncrowned Emperor of Ethiopia
• 1937 : Alexander Lasarewitsch Abramow-Mirow , Soviet Comintern and secret service functionary
• 1939 : Elbert Lee Trinkle , American politician
• 1941 : Pedro Aguirre Cerda , President of Chile
• 1943 : Carlo Cremonesi , Italian clergyman, cardinal to the Curia
• 1944 : Georg Dascher , German handball player

Bjarnat Krawc († 1948)

• 1948 : Bjarnat Krawc , Sorbian composer and music teacher
• 1949 : Bill Robinson , American tap dancer

1951 to 2000

• 1952 : Julien-Fernand Vaubourgoin , French organist, composer and music teacher
• 1955 : Louis Lachenal , French alpinist
• 1956 : Olexander Dowschenko , Ukrainian film director and screenwriter
• 1959 : Jean Grémillon , French film director and composer
• 1961 : Hubert Van Innis , Belgian archer, Olympic champion
• 1963 : John La Farge , American priest
• 1965 : Alfred Nissle , German doctor and scientist
• 1966 : Arnold Trowell , New Zealand cellist, composer and music teacher
• 1967 : Erich Dunskus , German actor
• 1967 : Heinz Hilpert , German theater director
• 1967 : Ossip Zadkine , Belarusian painter and sculptor

Upton Sinclair († 1968)

• 1968 : Upton Sinclair , American writer and politician, Pulitzer Prize winner
• 1970 : Yukio Mishima , Japanese writer
• 1971 : Jan Engbertus Jonkers , Dutch criminal lawyer
• 1972 : Hans Scharoun , German architect, important representative of organic architecture
• 1973 : Laurence Harvey , British film actor and director
• 1974 : Nick Drake , British musician, singer and songwriter

Sithu U Thant († 1974)

• 1974 : Sithu U Thant , Burmese politician, third UN Secretary General
• 1977 : Manutschehr Eghbal , Iranian Prime Minister
• 1978 : Fritz Feierabend , Swiss bobsleigh athlete
• 1981 : Jack Albertson , American actor
• 1981 : Shimamura Toshimasa , Japanese writer
• 1984 : Sylvan Goldman , American businessman, inventor of the shopping cart
• 1984 : Clara Asscher-Pinkhof , Dutch-Israeli educator and writer
• 1984 : Jimmy Jackson , American racing car driver
• 1986 : Gabdulchaj Achatow , Russian linguist and Turkologist
• 1987 : Hermann Ferdinand Arning , German lawyer and politician
• 1987 : Harold Washington , American politician
• 1988 : Bernhard Winkelheide , German politician, Member of the Bundestag ("father of child benefit")
• 1991 : Eleanor Audley , American actress and voice actress
• 1992 : Sleepy Jeffers , American country musician
• 1993 : Helmuth Sommer , German composer and music teacher
• 1994 : Vladimir Sak , Ukrainian chess player
• 1994 : Max Huggler , Swiss art historian
• 1997 : Richard M. Noyes , American chemist
• 1997 : Marcel Saucier , Canadian violinist, composer and music teacher
• 1998 : Erich Eyermann , German lawyer
• 1998 : Enrico Sabbatini , Italian costume and production designer
• 1999 : Didier Anzieu , French psychoanalyst
• 1999 : Pierre Bézier , French mathematician
• 1999 : Matéo Maximoff , first French Roma writer
• 2000 : Erich Ebert , German actor and dubbing actor, dubbing writer and dialogue director
• 2000 : Mario Giacomelli , Italian photographer

21st century

• 2001 : Erna Steuri , Swiss ski racer
• 2002 : Karel Reisz , British director
• 2003 : Fernando Ariztía Ruiz , Chilean bishop
• 2003 : Anneliese Römer , German actress
• 2004 : Vladimir Rivero Hernández , Portuguese handball player
• 2004 : František Smetana , Czech cellist and music teacher
• 2005 : George Best , Northern Irish soccer player
• 2005 : Richard Burns , British rally driver
• 2007 : Agnethe Davidsen , Greenlandic politician
• 2007 : Kevin DuBrow , American rock musician ( Quiet Riot )
• 2007 : Karlhans Frank , German director and writer
• 2008 : William Gibson , American playwright and writer
• 2008 : Stefan Schörghuber , German entrepreneur
• 2009 : Jean-Pierre Hurteau , Canadian opera singer
• 2009 : Lupita Palomera , Mexican singer and actress
• 2011 : Vasily Alexejew , Soviet weightlifter
• 2013 : Bill Foulkes , British football player and coach
• 2013 : Chico Hamilton , American jazz musician and composer
• 2013 : Elke Neidhardt , Australian actress and opera director
• 2013 : Peter Kurzck , German writer
• 2014 : Aurelio Milani , Italian soccer player
• 2016 : Fidel Castro , Cuban revolutionary leader and politician, head of government and party, president
• 2016 : David Hamilton , British photographer and filmmaker
• 2017 : Rance Howard , American actor

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Catherine of Alexandria , Roman virgin, martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
  • Isaac Watts , English songwriter (Anglican, Protestant: ELCA )

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women ( UN ) (since 1999)

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

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