25th of September
The September 25 is the 268th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 269th in leap years ). 97 days remain at the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 275 : Marcus Claudius Tacitus is appointed Roman Emperor by the Senate .
- 1066 : The Anglo-Saxon King Harald Godwinson defeats Harald Hardraada , the King of Norway, in the Battle of Stamford Bridge and ends the rule of the Scandinavians in England, but has to open the coast of England militarily.
- 1237 : in between England and Scotland closed Treaty of York the border between the two kingdoms is set.
- 1379 : The quarreling brothers Albrecht and Leopold divide the Habsburg lands among themselves in the Treaty of Neuberg . They do this against the Rudolfinian house rules of Duke Rudolf IV , in which in 1364 the indivisibility of the property was agreed with their older brother.
- 1396 : The Ottoman ruler Bayezid I defeats a Franco-Hungarian army under Johann Ohnefurcht and Jean II. Le Maingre in the battle of Nicopolis . 3,000 captured knights are immediately executed.
- 1493 : Christopher Columbus starts his second expedition in Cádiz with 17 ships.
- 1513 : The Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa sees the legendary "South Sea", the Pacific Ocean , with his expedition . Four days later he is standing on the shores of the Pacific.
- 1555 : The Augsburg Religious Peace is concluded between Emperor Charles V and the imperial estates and, as an imperial law, secures the peace and property of the supporters of the Augsburg Confession .
- 1598 : In the conflict over the Swedish krona subject Sigismund III. Wasa , King of Poland and Sweden, his uncle Karl in the battle of Stångebro .
- 1621 : Swedish troops take the city of Riga in the Polish-Swedish War , which subsequently remains in Swedish hands for several decades.
- 1629 : The Altmark Treaty between Poland-Lithuania and Sweden ends the Polish-Swedish War , which has lasted since 1600 .
- 1742 : A regulation by Louis XV. regulates the confidentiality of letters in France . Postal officials who break open letters and parcels and acquire the items they contain face the death penalty.
- 1759 : In the Seven Years' War the Prussian army wins the battle of Hoyerswerda against the Austrian troops.
- 1768 : After the violation of Ottoman territory by a Russian Cossack regiment near Balta , Sultan Mustafa III. Russia the war. The fifth war breaks out between the two empires.
- 1789 : The US Congress passes ten amendments to the constitution . In 1791, after ratification by a sufficient number of states, they gain legal status as Bill of Rights .
- 1799 : In the Second Battle of Zurich in the Second Coalition War , the French under André Masséna manage to cross the Limmat with the help of pontoons , and his army takes a position on the Zurichberg against a Russian-Austrian coalition army.
- 1805 : In the Third Coalition War, Napoleon Bonaparte moves against Austria and crosses the Rhine with his army .
- 1805 : In the Bogenhausen Treaty , the Electorate of Bavaria permits the invasion of French troops, thereby giving up its alliance with the Empire of Austria and Russia . Bavaria supports Napoleon Bonaparte with troops in accordance with the contract.
- 1857 : In Sweden , Crown Prince Karl takes over the reign for his seriously ill father Oskar I.
- 1904 : In the battle of the Pembe ford in southern Angola, Portuguese colonial troops suffer their worst defeat in sub-Saharan Africa to date. Cuamato-Ovambo insurgents put down more than 300 men from a 500-man squad.
- 1944 : Adolf Hitler orders the " Volkssturm " to be set up in World War II . All "men capable of weapons" between 16 and 60 years of age who are not yet fighting should be drafted.
- 1950 : Exactly three months after the start of the Korean War , United Nations troops take Seoul .
- 1959 : A Buddhist monk, who converted to Christianity after the crime, assassinated the Ceylonese Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike , who died of his injuries the following day.
- 1963 : The overthrow of President Juan Bosch Gaviño by the military leads to civil war in the Dominican Republic .
- 1969 : The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is founded in Rabat, Morocco .
- 1972 : The Norwegian people vote in a referendum against their country joining the European Economic Community .
- 1981 : Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to be sworn in as a judge in the United States Supreme Court .
- 1998 : Mikuláš Dzurinda becomes Prime Minister in Slovakia .
- 2001 : During his first state visit to Germany, the Russian President Vladimir Putin impressed with his speech to the Bundestag , which was partly in fluent German .
- 2005 : The right-wing conservative opposition party PiS wins the Polish parliamentary elections. The turnout, however, is only 40 percent. The previous government under the SLD loses the elections particularly significantly and only receives around 11 percent of the vote.
- 2017 : The government of the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in Iraq holds a referendum on independence despite the ban by the Supreme Court .
economy
- 1690 : The press flourished very briefly in the English colonies in North America. The newspaper Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick appears for the first time and for the last time because it is immediately banned by the British authorities in New England .
- 1849 : With the opening of the section Eisenach - Gerstungen is that of the Thuringian railway company built total distance of the Thuringian Railway completed.
- 1877 : In the USA , Henry C. Clark is granted a patent for the adjustable metal ship planer he had invented .
- 1912 : The Exchange Association of German Booksellers announces the establishment of the German Library in Leipzig .
- 2009 : At the third meeting of the G-20 within one year in Pittsburgh , USA , it is determined that the large industrialized nations ( Group of Eight ) are no longer able to secure the development of the world economy on their own, and that the emerging developing countries from now on plays a more important role.
science and technology
- 1820 : The French physicist André-Marie Ampère discovers the law governing the effects of forces between current-carrying conductors.
- 1950 : In Hamburg takes North West German Broadcasting ( NWDR ), the later from the WDR and the NDR will arise, the first television channel in operation
- 1956 : The TAT-1 transatlantic telephone cable goes into service between Europe ( Scotland ) and North America ( Canada ). 36 calls can be transmitted simultaneously over this marine telephone cable.
- 1983 : The 417 km long TGV line from Paris to Lyon is opened in its full length after the trains had been running on a section since 1981.
- 1992 : The Main-Danube Canal is completed after 32 years of construction.
- 1992 : The NASA space probe Mars Observer is launched, whose contact is broken almost a year later.
Culture
- 1722 : The Political Kannengießer , a comedy in five acts by Ludvig Holberg , premieres in Copenhagen.
- 1818 : The world premiere of the opera Il Barone di Dolsheim by Giovanni Pacini takes place at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan.
- 1855 : The Dresden Old Masters Picture Gallery of the builder Gottfried Semper is opened.
- 1894 : At the Deutsches Theater in Berlin after the lifting of the ban on performance is Gerhart Hauptmann's socially critical drama The Weavers on the Weberaufstand premiered 1844th
- 1903 : The new city theater in Bern is inaugurated with a performance of Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner .
- 1961 : The premiere of the opera Alkmene by Giselher Klebe takes place at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
- 1969 : The premiere of the opera Two Hundred Thousand Thaler by Boris Blacher takes place in the Städtisches Opernhaus Berlin .
- 1988 : The Essen opera house, the Aalto Theater , opens with a performance of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg .
society
- 1974 : Initiated by Mildred Scheel , the German Cancer Aid is founded in Bonn .
religion
- 774 : The first Salzburg Cathedral is inaugurated by Abbot Bishop Virgil .
- 1969 : The Ottaviani intervention against the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council is given to Pope Paul VI. transmitted.
- 2000 : The King Fahd Islamic Cultural Center , the largest mosque in Latin America, is inaugurated in Buenos Aires .
Disasters
- 1911 : The French armored cruiser Liberté explodes in the port of Toulon. A total of 204 people were killed, 143 of them crew members of the Liberté . 185 people are injured
- 1978 : Over San Diego pushes a Boeing 727 of Pacific Southwest Airlines with a sport airplane, a Cessna 172 together. A total of 144 people died in the crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 182 .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1890 : With his signature, US President Benjamin Harrison enacts the law establishing the Sequoia National Park in California . Fauna and flora , including giant sequoias , should be protected and preserved for posterity.
Sports
- 2005 : The Spaniard Fernando Alonso secures his first world title with third place in the Brazilian GP . Up until then he was the youngest Formula 1 world champion.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1358 : Ashikaga Yoshimitsu , Japanese shogun
- 1403 : Ludwig III. , Titular King of Naples, Duke of Anjou and Touraine, Count of Provence and Maine
- 1449 : Niccolò Machiavelli , Florentine politician and cousin of the author of the same name
- 1525 : Stephen Borough , English navigator and explorer
- 1529 : Günther XLI. von Schwarzburg-Arnstadt , German nobleman
- 1548 : Benedikt Wurzelbauer , German sculptor and ore caster
- 1584 : Georg Rodolf Weckherlin , German poet
- 1590 : David Blondel , French Reformed theologian
- 1599 : Francesco Borromini , Italian builder
- 1645 : Georg Wartmann , Mayor of St. Gallen
- 1663 : Johann Nicolaus Hanff , German organist and composer
- 1680 : Adam Franz Prince von Schwarzenberg , Austrian high court marshal
- 1683 : Jean-Philippe Rameau , French composer and music theorist (baptism date)
- 1693 : Johann Caspar Delius , founder of the entrepreneurial dynasty of the same name in Bielefeld
18th century
- 1710 : Johann Adam Löw , German Protestant clergyman
- 1711 : Qianlong , Chinese emperor
- 1718 : Martin Johann Schmidt , Austrian painter
- 1728 : Francesco Bartolozzi , Italian engraver
- 1729 : Christian Gottlob Heyne , German philologist and archaeologist
- 1735 : Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné , last Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg and protagonist of the collar affair
- 1744 : Friedrich Wilhelm II. , Prussian King
- 1749 : Abraham Gottlob Werner , German mineralogist and founder of geognosy
- 1752 : Carl Stenborg , Swedish composer
- 1753 : Georg Wilhelm Sigismund Beigel , German diplomat, librarian, natural scientist and mathematician
- 1758 : Josepha Barbara Auernhammer , Austrian pianist and composer
- 1758 : Franz Michael Vierthaler , Austrian pedagogue and school reformer, writer and journalist
- 1764 : Fletcher Christian , British seaman, leader of the mutiny on the Bounty
- 1766 : Armand Emmanuel du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu , French and Russian statesman
- 1773 : Gaspard de Chabrol , French administrator
- 1775 : Ernst Georg Julius Hecht , German lawyer
- 1784 : Karl Friedrich Friesen , German gymnastics teacher and freedom fighter
- 1798 : Henry Scheffer , French painter
- 1799 : Luisa Caceres Díaz de Arismendi , Venezuelan national heroine
19th century
- 1807 : Alfred Vail , American engineer and inventor
- 1812 : Karl Biedermann , German politician, publicist and professor of philosophy
- 1824 : Adolf Aich , German clergyman
- 1825 : Victor Delannoy , French composer and music teacher
- 1825 : Joachim Heer , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1830 : Karl Klindworth , German composer and conductor
- 1851 : Carl Jatho , German Protestant pastor
- 1853 : Juan Francisco González , Chilean painter
- 1854 : Roberto Hazon , Italian conductor and music teacher
- 1855 : Aeba Kōson , Japanese writer and theater critic
- 1858 : Albrecht Penck , German geographer and geologist, father of Walther Penck
- 1859 : Johannes Kirchner , German classical philologist
- 1862 : Léon Boëllmann , French organist and composer
- 1862 : Max Dreyer , German writer and playwright
- 1866 : Thomas Hunt Morgan , American geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1867 : Augusto de Vasconcelos , Portuguese doctor, diplomat and politician, foreign minister, prime minister
- 1869 : Rudolf Otto , German theologian
- 1870 : Paul Arndt , German economist
- 1875 : Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor , Spanish painter
- 1877 : Plutarco Elías Calles , Mexican politician and officer
- 1886 : Charles Armstrong , American medic
- 1886 : Émile Lamarre , Canadian singer
- 1886 : Kondō Nobutake , Japanese admiral
- 1887 : Jacques Margueritte , French racing car driver
- 1887 : Armand Weiser , architect and specialist writer
- 1890 : Grigory Michailowitsch Semjonow , Russian general
- 1895 : Friedrich Gustav Jaeger , German officer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1896 : Jacques Errera , Belgian physical chemist
- 1896 : Robert Gerhard , Catalan composer
- 1896 : Alessandro Pertini , Italian politician
- 1897 : Otto Fürst von Bismarck , German diplomat
- 1897 : William Faulkner , American writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1899 : Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Romanian nationalist, leader of the Iron Guard
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Robert Bresson , French director
- 1901 : Carlos Suffern , Argentine composer
- 1902 : Hanka Ordonówna , Polish singer and actress
- 1902 : Ernst von Salomon , German writer
- 1902 : Jenő Takács , Hungarian-Austrian composer, pianist, teacher and ethnomusicologist
- 1903 : Mark Rothko , American artist
- 1903 : Benno von Wiese , German Germanist
- 1904 : Ernst Zwilling , Austrian travel writer
- 1905 : Mao Zetan , Chinese communist, younger brother of Mao Zedong
- 1906 : Alo Altripp , German painter and graphic artist
- 1906 : Madeleine Bourdouxhe , Belgian writer
- 1906 : José Figueres Ferrer , Costa Rican politician, president
- 1906 : Dmitri Shostakovich , Soviet composer, pianist and teacher
- 1908 : Jacqueline Audry , French film director
- 1910 : Johannes Asdonk , German doctor
- 1911 : Hans Puvogel , German politician, Lower Saxony Minister of Justice
- 1913 : Martin Aku , Togolese-French doctor, author and politician
- 1913 : Josef Bican , Czechoslovak-Austrian football player
- 1915 : Carlo Bandirola , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1916 : Jessica Anderson , Australian writer
- 1916 : Tolia Nikiprowetzky , Russian composer
- 1916 : Friedrich Thielen , German politician
- 1917 : Heimo Kuchling , Austrian art theorist
- 1920 : Sergei Bondarchuk , Russian actor and director
- 1922 : Erik Darling , American singer and musician
- 1922 : Hammer DeRoburt , Nauruan founding president
- 1922 : Roger Etchegaray , Archbishop of Marseilles and Cardinal
- 1923 : Sam Rivers , American jazz musician
- 1924 : Grégoire Haddad , Jordanian Archbishop of Beirut and Jbeil
- 1925 : Hans Matthöfer , German politician, Federal Minister
1926-1950
- 1927 : Ernie Andrews , American blues and jazz singer
- 1927 : Colin Davis , English conductor
- 1927 : Earl Zindars , American jazz composer and percussionist
- 1928 : Ottavio Bugatti , Italian football player
- 1930 : Nino Cerruti , Italian fashion designer
- 1930 : Herbert Heckmann , German writer
- 1930 : Chit Phumisak , Thai intellectual and author
- 1931 : Manouchehr Atashi , Persian poet and translator
- 1932 : Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist, composer, organist and music author
- 1932 : Mitzi Hoag , American actress
- 1933 : Maxl Graf , German actor
- 1933 : Ian Tyson , Canadian country singer
- 1935 : Maj Sjöwall , Swedish writer and translator
- 1936 : August Kühn , German writer
- 1937 : Horacee Arnold , American jazz drummer
- 1938 : Neville Lederle , South African racing car driver
- 1938 : Bill Owens , American photographer and brewer
- 1939 : Gianfranco Leoncini , Italian football player
- 1939 : David S. Mann , American politician
- 1939 : Harald Ringstorff , German politician, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- 1941 : Gerhard Prautzsch , German football player
- 1941 : Takao Sakurai , Japanese boxer, Olympic champion
- 1942 : Óscar Natalio Bonavena , Argentine heavyweight boxer
- 1942 : Volker Rühe , German politician, Federal Minister of Defense
- 1942 : Henri Pescarolo , French racing car driver
- 1942 : John Taylor , British jazz musician
- 1942 : Rainer Trübsbach , German historian
- 1943 : Lee Aaker , American actor
- 1943 : Dieter Dorner , Austrian radio presenter and organic winegrower
- 1943 : Anna Ehrlich , Austrian author, historian and lawyer
- 1943 : Robert Walden , American actor
- 1944 : Michael Douglas , American actor
- 1945 : Marie-Luise Apostel , German politician
- 1947 : Ulrich Boom , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Würzburg
- 1947 : John Fiddler , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1947 : Wolfgang Hocquél , German art scholar and monument conservator
- 1948 : Peter Apathy , Austrian lawyer and professor
- 1948 : Colleen Atwood , American costume designer
- 1948 : Carl Axel Aurelius , Swedish bishop
- 1948 : Ștefan Birtalan , Romanian handball player and coach
- 1948 : Alfred Cordes , German writer and teacher
- 1948 : Bill Pierce , American jazz saxophonist
- 1949 : Pedro Almodóvar , Spanish film director
- 1949 : Bertram Fleck , German politician
- 1950 : Helmut Schmiedt , German literary scholar
1951-1975
- 1951 : Jardena Arasi , Israeli singer
- 1951 : Mark Hamill , American actor
- 1951 : Manfred Praeker , German bass player and music producer
- 1952 : Colin Friels , Australian actor
- 1952 : Christopher Reeve , American actor
- 1953 : Jean-Philippe Grand , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1953 : Gregory Meeks , American politician
- 1953 : Liuwe Tamminga , Dutch organist
- 1954 : Antymos Apostolis , Polish blues and fusion guitarist
- 1955 : Zucchero , Italian singer-songwriter
- 1955 : Ludo Coeck , Belgian football player
- 1955 : Peter Müller , German politician, Prime Minister of the Saarland
- 1955 : Steven Severin , British bass guitarist, composer and journalist
- 1955 : Karl-Heinz Rummenigge , German football player
- 1956 : Peter Kwaku Atuahene , Ghanaian bishop
- 1956 : Salvatore Bagni , Italian football player
- 1956 : Purple Schulz , German songwriter and musician
- 1957 : Glenn Hubbard , American baseball player
- 1959 : Eduardo Mario Acevedo , Uruguayan football player and coach
- 1959 : Kai Erik Herlovsen , Norwegian football player
- 1960 : Igor Ivanovich Belanov , Ukrainian football player
- 1960 : Andrzej Stasiuk , Polish writer
- 1960 : Sam Whipple , American actor
- 1961 : Rudolf Krause , Austrian writer
- 1961 : Heather Locklear , American actress
- 1962 : Anita Stocker , German journalist, editor-in-chief of the test magazine of Stiftung Warentest
- 1963 : Tate Donovan , American actor
- 1964 : Michael von Au , German actor
- 1964 : Barbara Dennerlein , German jazz musician
- 1964 : Rebecca Gablé , German writer
- 1964 : Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Spanish writer
- 1965 : Scottie Pippen , American basketball player
- 1965 : Christine Frai , German soccer referee
- 1965 : Giorgis Xylouris , Greek laouto player and singer
- 1966 : Niccolò Ammaniti , Italian writer
- 1966 : Jason Flemyng , British actor
- 1967 : Joost Lijbaart , Dutch jazz drummer
- 1968 : Tanja Dückers , German writer
- 1968 : Mandy Winter , German singer
- 1968 : Will Smith , American actor and rapper
- 1969 : Adalberto Madero , Mexican lawyer and politician
- 1969 : Hal Sparks , American actor, comedian, and singer
- 1969 : Catherine Zeta-Jones , British actress
- 1971 : Rico Lieder , German athlete
- 1972 : Steven Gätjen , German-American moderator
- 1972 : Lars Koltermann , German rowing trainer, sports official and lawyer
- 1973 : Johnny Rodríguez , Andorran football player
- 1974 : Pascal Arimont , Belgian politician
- 1974 : Ebony Browne , American singer-songwriter
- 1974 : Arnim Kahofer , Austrian carom player, European champion
- 1975 : Declan Donnelly , British presenter
- 1975 : Ashley Fisher , Australian tennis player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Chauncey Billups , American basketball player
- 1976 : Petit (Armando Teixeira), Portuguese football player
- 1977 : Clea DuVall , American actress
- 1977 : Rinaldo Nocentini , Italian racing cyclist
- 1978 : Ryan Leslie , American record producer, singer, and songwriter
- 1980 : Brisk Fingaz , German hip-hip producer
- 1980 : TI , American rapper
- 1980 : Nikola Žigić , Serbian football player
- 1982 : Casper , German rapper
- 1984 : Miran Burgić , Slovenian football player
- 1984 : Moritz Schäpsmeier , German handball player
- 1984 : Matías Silvestre , Argentine footballer
- 1984 : Siphiwe Tshabalala , South African soccer player
- 1984 : Hannes Volk , German handball player
- 1985 : Nicolas eighth , Belgian conductor, singer, lutenist, harpsichordist and harpist
- 1985 : Marvin Matip , German-Cameroonian football player
- 1985 : Tino Semmer , German soccer player
- 1986 : Assan Tachtachunow , Kazakh ski jumper
- 1987 : Franz-Xaver Brückner , German actor
- 1987 : Robert Francis , American singer-songwriter
- 1987 : Nicolai Müller , German soccer player
- 1987 : Evgeni Prasolov , handball player of Uzbek origin
- 1988 : Nemanja Gordić , Bosnian basketball player
- 1989 : Fernanda da Silva , Brazilian handball player
- 1990 : Mao Asada , Japanese figure skater
- 1991 : Stine Bredal Oftedal , Norwegian handball player
- 1991 : Alexander Rossi , American racing driver
- 1992 : Zoël Amberg , Swiss racing driver
- 1992 : Clara Louise , German singer
- 1993 : Arlind Ajeti , Swiss football player
- 1994 : Elliott Cho , American actor
- 1996 : Lina Malin Arndt , German pop singer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 744 : Yazid III. , Umayyad Caliph
- 969 : Burchard , 1st Bishop of Meissen
- 1066 : Harald III. Hardraada , King of Norway
- 1066 : Tostig Godwinson , Earl of Northumbria
- 1086 : William VIII , Duke of Gascogne, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou
- Probably 1087 : Simon I , Lord of Montfort
- 1198 : John de Coutances , Bishop of Worcester
- 1254 : William de Cantilupe , English nobleman
- 1257 : Ulrich von Haus , Bishop of Lavant
- 1259 : Gerhard I. Wildgraf von Dhaun and Kyrburg , Archbishop of Mainz, Imperial Chancellor
- 1286 : Matthew of Vendôme , Abbot of St. Denis and Regent of France
- 1304 : Petrus de Alvernia , French philosopher
- 1334 : Philip I , Lord of Piedmont and Prince of Achaia
- 1392 : Sergius of Radonezh , Muscovite monk, founder of the Trinity Monastery in Sergiev Posad, saint of the Orthodox Church
- 1396 : Leonhard Reichartinger , Bavarian crusader
- 1396 : Jean de Vienne , French knight and admiral
- 1413 : Stephan III. , Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt
- 1420 : Gérard de Montaigu the Younger , Bishop of Poitiers and Paris
- 1444 : Gianfrancesco I. Gonzaga , Margrave of Mantua
- 1460 : Katharina , daughter of the first Count of Hanau, Reinhard II.
- 1465 : Isabelle de Bourbon , French noblewoman, Duchess of Burgundy
- 1466 : Ulrich I , East Frisian prince
- 1491 : John of Burgundy , Count of Étampes, Nevers and Rethel as well as of Eu
16th to 18th century
- 1506 : Philip I of Castile , Castilian king of the House of Habsburg
- 1534 : Giulio de 'Medici , as Clement VII Pope from 1523 to 1534
- 1536 : Janus (Johannes) Secundus , Dutch jurist, poet, painter and sculptor
- 1542 : Thomas Kantzow , German chronicler and historian
- 1544 : Valerius Cordus , German botanist, doctor, pharmacologist and naturalist
- 1550 : Georg von Blumenthal , German bishop
- 1559 : Mircea Ciobanul , voivode of Wallachia
- 1591 : Christian I , Saxon prince from the House of Wettin
- 1617 : Francisco Suárez , Portuguese theologian and philosopher
- 1617 : Go-Yōzei , 107th Emperor of Japan
- 1621 : Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, English writer
- 1626 : Lancelot Andrewes , English scholar, theologian, and preacher
- 1630 : Ambrosio Spinola , Spanish nobleman and military leader in the Thirty Years War
- 1638 : Otto Gereon von Gutmann zu Sobernheim , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1649 : Johann Jakob Irminger , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1666 : Abbas II , Shah of Persia
- 1680 : Samuel Butler , English poet
- 1696 : Joachim Kunkler , Mayor of St. Gallen (Switzerland)
- 1702 : Johann Matthäus Faber , German physician, personal physician to the dukes of Württemberg-Neuenstadt and city physician of Heilbronn
- 1712 : Johann Jacob Gundling , German painter
- 1716 : Johann Christoph Pez , German composer and Kapellmeister
- 1727 : Jacques Abbadie , French theologian and writer
- 1747 : Johann Gotthilf Ziegler , German composer and organist
- 1768 : Simon Troger , ivory carver
- 1773 : Johan Ernst Gunnerus , Norwegian bishop, botanist, ornithologist, mycologist and zoologist
- 1777 : Johann Heinrich Lambert , German mathematician and physicist
- 1788 : Heinrich von Bibra , Prince-Bishop of the Fulda Monastery
- 1794 : Paul Rabaut , French Protestant preacher and pastor
- 1799 : Johann Konrad Friedrich von Hotze , Austrian general
19th century
- 1845 : Heinrich Falckenberg , honorary citizen of Berlin
- 1849 : Johann Strauss , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1854 : John Adams , American lawyer and politician
- 1858 : Antoine Brun-Rollet , French explorer of Africa
- 1858 : Amalie Schoppe , German writer
- 1860 : Georg Leonhard Zili , Swiss businessman and banker
- 1860 : Carl Friedrich Zöllner , German composer
- 1865 : Andrés de Santa Cruz , Bolivian general, President of Peru and President of Bolivia
- 1871 : Arvid August Afzelius , Swedish folk song collector
- 1875 : Tony Franck , German pianist
- 1876 : Ernst von Bandel , painter and sculptor
- 1876 : Adolf Glaßbrenner , German humorist and satirist
- 1878 : August Petermann , geographer and cartographer
- 1881 : Karl Aulenbach , German poet
- 1884 : Karl Appold , German painter, draftsman and engraver
- 1893 : Marie Louise von François , German narrator and writer
- 1893 : Adam Miłaszewski , Polish theater director, director and actor
- 1898 : Theodor Richter , German chemist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Wilhelm Oechelhäuser , German industrialist
- 1913 : Herbert William Garratt , British locomotive designer and inventor
- 1914 : Alfred Lichtenstein , German lawyer and writer of Expressionism
- 1917 : Thomas Ashe , Irish independence fighter
- 1922 : Tōkai Sanshi , Japanese writer
- 1922 : Johannes Petrus Kuenen , Dutch physicist
- 1930 : Abram Yefimowitsch Archipow , Russian painter
- 1931 : Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , German classical philologist
- 1933 : Paul Ehrenfest , Austrian physicist
- 1937 : Johannes Bolte , literary scholar, folklorist and narrative researcher
- 1943 : Josef Albisser , Swiss lawyer and politician (SP)
- 1944 : Walter Breisky , Austrian politician, Vice Chancellor
- 1944 : Jakob Schaffner , Swiss writer
- 1945 : Julius Korngold , Austrian music critic and publicist
- 1945 : Rudolf Krauss , German Germanist and literary historian
- 1946 : Heinrich George , German actor and director
- 1946 : Franz von Hoeßlin , German conductor and composer
- 1947 : Joseph H. August , American cameraman
- 1947 : Fritz Theodor Kuhnen , German politician and member of the Reichstag
1951-1975
- 1951 : Hans Naumann , German ancient Germanist and folklorist
- 1953 : William Brede Kristensen , Norwegian church historian
- 1954 : Vitaliano Brancati , Italian writer
- 1956 : Khadr Sayed El Touni , Egyptian weightlifter
- 1957 : Albertine Morin-Labrecque , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1958 : Ludwig Crüwell , German general
- 1958 : Viktor Schauberger , Austrian forester, researcher and inventor
- 1958 : John B. Watson , American psychologist
- 1959 : Paul Artaria , Swiss architect and trainer of designers
- 1962 : Thomas Ohm , German Benedictine priest, theologian and missiologist
- 1963 : Kurt Zeitzler , German Colonel General and Chief of Staff of the Army during the Second World War
- 1966 : Heinrich Niebes , German politician
- 1967 : Eduardo Aunós Pérez , Spanish diplomat and politician
- 1968 : Hans FK Günther , German eugenicist, co-author of the National Socialist racial ideology (Race Pope)
- 1968 : Cornell Woolrich , American crime writer
- 1969 : Paul Scherrer , Swiss physicist
- 1970 : Erich Maria Remarque , German writer
- 1971 : Hugo Black , American politician and lawyer
- 1972 : Alejandra Pizarnik , Argentine poet
- 1973 : Rudolf Bäumer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
1976-2000
- 1976 : Carlo Mattrel , Italian soccer player
- 1977 : Gerhard Winkler , German composer of popular music
- 1978 : Luigi Allemandi , Italian football player
- 1979 : Tapio Rautavaara , Finnish athlete, musician and actor
- 1980 : John Bonham , British musician, drummer for the rock band Led Zeppelin
- 1980 : Charles H. Elston , American politician
- 1980 : Lewis Milestone , American director
- 1981 : Hermann Glüsing , German farmer and politician
- 1983 : Leopold III. , Belgian king from 1934 to 1951
- 1984 : Erich Arendt , German poet and translator
- 1984 : Walter Pidgeon , American actor
- 1986 : Hans Batz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1986 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Semjonow , Russian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1956
- 1987 : Mary Astor , American actress
- 1987 : Hermann Gutmann , German entrepreneur
- 1991 : LeRoy Hagen Anderson , American politician
- 1991 : Klaus Barbie , German National Socialist, war criminal ( butcher of Lyon )
- 1992 : Leslie Denison , British actor
- 1992 : César Manrique , Spanish artist, architect, sculptor and environmentalist
- 1992 : Max Vehar , German entrepreneur and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1993 : Charlotte Prinz , German painter
- 1993 : Manlio Scopigno , Italian football player and coach
- 1994 : Louis Ferdinand of Prussia , Prussian Prince
- 1994 : Charles Van Riper , American speech therapist
- 1996 : Heinz Engelmann , German actor and voice actor
- 1999 : Marion Zimmer Bradley , American fantasy writer
- 2000 : Tommy Reilly , Canadian musician
- 2000 : Ronald Stuart Thomas , Welsh poet
21st century
- 2001 : Robert Floyd , American computer scientist
- 2001 : Herbert Klein , German swimmer
- 2003 : Aqila al-Hashimi , Iraqi politician
- 2003 : Herb Gardner , American cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter
- 2003 : Josef Guggenmos , German poet and children's book author
- 2003 : Franco Modigliani , Italian economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2003 : George Plimpton , American writer
- 2003 : Edward Said , Palestinian literary theorist and critic
- 2004 : Marvin Davis , American multi-billionaire
- 2005 : Don Adams , American actor
- 2005 : George Archer , American golfer
- 2005 : Georges Arvanitas , French jazz pianist and Hammond organ player
- 2005 : Lou Carter , American jazz pianist
- 2005 : Steve Marcus , American saxophonist
- 2006 : John M. Ford , American writer
- 2006 : Safia Hama Dschan , Afghan teacher and women's rights activist
- 2007 : Haidar Abdel-Shafi , Palestinian doctor and politician
- 2008 : Arthur Glenn Andrews , American politician
- 2009 : Liselotte Ebnet , German operetta and musical singer
- 2009 : Pierre Falardeau , French-Canadian director and political activist
- 2009 : Alicia de Larrocha , Spanish pianist
- 2011 : Wangari Maathai , Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 2012 : Neşet Ertaş , Turkish musician
- 2012 : Andy Williams , American singer and entertainer
- 2013 : Elisabeth Borchers , German poet and writer
- 2013 : Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , German singer and choir director
- 2014 : Walter Josef Fischer , German graffiti artist
- 2016 : Hagen Friedrich Liebing , German musician
- 2016 : Arnold Palmer , American professional golfer
- 2018 : Wenceslao Selga Padilla , Filipino religious and apostolic prefect of Ulaanbaatar.
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Paul Rabaut , French preacher and pastor (Protestant)
- St. Niklaus von Flüe , Swiss hermit and ascetic, mystic and patron saint (Roman Catholic in the German-speaking area, otherwise the Roman Catholic and Protestant memorial day is on March 21 )
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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