February 26th
The February 26 is the 57th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 308 days (in leap years 309 days) by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 364 : Valentinian I is proclaimed Roman emperor by the troops nine days after Jovian's death .
- 1266 : Charles of Anjou , whom Pope Clement IV secretly endowed with Sicily as a papal fiefdom, wins the battle of Benevento , in which King Manfred of Sicily is killed.
- 1376 : During a carnival tournament on the Münsterplatz in Basel , there is an uprising against the Habsburg Duke Leopold III. von Habsburg , in which several of his followers are killed. The " evil carnival " leads to severe sanctions against the city after the crackdown.
- 1548 : Admiral Piri Reis conquers the Yemeni city of Aden, occupied by the Portuguese , for the Ottoman Empire .
- 1558 : Ferdinand I is granted the imperial dignity by the Frankfurt Electoral Congress. His brother Charles V had already renounced this on August 23, 1556.
- 1631 : The Leipzig Convention meets. On the initiative of the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I , the Protestant imperial estates are to debate the conditions for ending the war in the empire .
- 1790 : France is divided into 80 new administrative units ( départements ) by a law of the French National Assembly .
- 1815 : Napoleon Bonaparte leaves his place of exile on Elba and sets off for France to reign there.
- 1849 : The chambers of the state parliament , newly appointed according to the Prussian constitution of 1848 , the house of representatives and the manor house , come together for their first session.
- 1861 : Emperor Franz Joseph I issues the February patent as a constitution for the entire Austrian monarchy . It replaces the October diploma from the previous year and regulates the legislation between the emperor and the two chambers of the Reichsrat .
- 1871 : Otto von Bismarck for the German Empire and Adolphe Thiers for France conclude the preliminary peace at Versailles . The Franco-German War was finally ended a few weeks later in the Peace of Frankfurt .
- 1885 : The Berlin Africa Conference confirms the Congo Free State as the private property of the Congo Society and thus Leopold II of Belgium and regulates the colonization of Africa . The Niger and Congo rivers are opened to shipping and the slave trade is prohibited internationally.
- 1924 : The treason trial begins in Munich against Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff because of the failed Hitler-Ludendorff putsch .
- 1935 : Despite the ban due to the Versailles Treaty , Adolf Hitler orders his aviation minister Hermann Göring to build an air force for the German Reich .
- 1936 : During a coup attempt in Tokyo by members of the Kōdō-ha party, 1,400 officers occupy parliament, the war ministry and the police headquarters. The uprising is put down by February 29th.
- 1942 : After Josef Römer revealed his name under torture, the resistance fighter Nikolaus Christoph von Halem is arrested on suspicion of planning an assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler .
- 1961 : With the death of his father Mohammed V , Hassan II becomes the new king in Morocco . The ruler ascends the throne on March 3rd.
- 1976 : An assembly of Saharawi tribal chiefs approves a division of Western Sahara in favor of Morocco and Mauritania .
- 1991 : During the Second Gulf War, allied planes bomb the convoy of Iraqi troops withdrawing from Kuwait on the night of February 27th . Numerous civilians are among the fatalities. The road from Kuwait to Basra was later named the Highway of Death .
- 1993 : Islamic terrorists perpetrate a bomb attack on the World Trade Center in New York . Six people are killed and hundreds injured when the explosive charge explodes in the underground car park of the north tower.
- 1997 : Deng Xiaoping's funeral with around 10,000 invited guests is broadcast across the country in the People's Republic of China .
- 2001 : The Treaty of Nice , signed on December 11th of the previous year, which concerns the enlargement of the EU .
- 2004 : President Boris Trajkovski of Macedonia dies in a plane crash.
- 2007 : The United Nations International Court of Justice ( ICJ ) in The Hague ruled in a landmark decision on the Srebrenica massacre that Serbia failed to fulfill its obligation to prevent genocide in the Bosnian war , but was not guilty of genocide itself.
- 2007 : After a general strike lasting several days and violent clashes in Conakry , the capital of Guinea , President Lansana appoints Conté as prime minister under an agreement with the trade union Lansana Kouyaté . For the first time, the new cabinet does not include any confidants of the president, who has been in power since 1984 .
economy
- 1797 : The Bank of England is relieved of its obligation to exchange its banknotes for gold; the bank restriction begins and will last until 1821.
- 1834 : Johann Sebastian Staedtler informs trade and artists in a newspaper that he could offer an invented crayon based on oil crayons , which stands out favorably from conventional red chalk pencils .
- 1870 : Hanseatic merchants, merchant bankers and private bankers, including MMWarburg & CO , found Commerz- und Disconto-Bank , today's Commerzbank , in Hamburg .
- 1974 : Norway announces the discovery of the Statfjord oil field in the North Sea .
- 1995 : Bad speculation and manipulation by your securities dealer Nick Leeson in Singapore lead to the bankruptcy of the renowned investment bank Barings . You can payment obligations of 1.4 billion US dollars of derivative transactions do not meet.
science and technology
- 747 BC BC : According to the Greek scientist Claudius Ptolemy , the reign of the Babylonian king Nabû-naṣir begins under Assyrian rule. The Babylonian mathematics will make the Nabonassarschen era with captured and dominated on clay tablets celestial events to arrange time for her.
- 1846 : The Dane Theodor Brorsen discovers a comet with a short orbital period in our solar system that is named after it. The comet Brorsen ( 1846 III ) was last observed in 1879.
- 1935 : Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins conduct the first field test with radar based on their report Detecting and Locating Aircraft by Radio near Daventry .
- 1948 : The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science e. V. is founded as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in Göttingen.
- 1966 : Three days later than planned, the unmanned launches Apollo spacecraft of NASA for the first time for a test flight, the mission AS-201 .
- 1981 : TGV unit PSE 16 reached 380 km / h on the Paris – Lyon high-speed line, breaking the French world record of 331 km / h that had been in place since 1955
- 2008 : The global seed bank Svalbard Global Seed Vault is inaugurated on Spitzbergen .
Culture
- 1775 : After he has streamlined it, reduced to four acts, is Pierre Beaumarchais ' play La Precaution inutile ou le Barbier de Séville ( The useless caution or The Barber of Seville ), which has failed on 23 February to a triumphant success.
- 1784 : The first performance of the opera Armida by Joseph Haydn takes place in the theater of Eszterházy Castle in Esterház . The libretto was probably compiled by Nunziato Porta. It is based on Torquato Tasso's epic The Liberated Jerusalem .
- 1794 : At the Opéra-Comique in Paris, the opera Le Congrès des rois by Henri Montan Berton premiered.
- 1806 : Emperor Napoléon I orders the construction of a triumphal arch in Paris . The Arch of Constantine in Rome is the inspiration for the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel .
- 1869 : The opera William Ratcliff by César Cui is premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg .
- 1893 : De Waber , the dialect version of Gerhart Hauptmann's social drama Die Weber , is premiered privately at the New Theater Berlin .
- 1899 : The premiere of the opera Der Pfeifertag by Max von Schillings takes place at the Court Theater in Schwerin .
- 1900 : The Royal Dramatic Theater Stockholm is Comedy noise of August Strindberg premiered.
- 1901 : Thomas Mann's social novel Buddenbrooks is published in two volumes by S. Fischer Verlag .
- 1910 : On Wilhelm Theater in Magdeburg , the operetta The chaste Susanne of Jean Gilbert premiered.
- 1917 : The Original Dixieland Jass Band records jazz music for the first time for the Victor Talking Machine Company
- 1919 : The area around the Grand Canyon , which was declared a National Monument by US President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 , is placed under protection as a national park .
- 1935 : The Symphony in C major by Georges Bizet , composed in 1855, is premiered in Basel under the direction of Felix Weingartner .
- 1948 : Walter Oehmichen opens the Augsburger Puppenkiste with the fairy tale of Puss in Boots .
- 1959 : The painting The Fall of the Damned by Peter Paul Rubens in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich is subjected to an acid attack.
- 1959 : The play Der Schulfreund by Johannes Mario Simmel is premiered at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
- 1969 : The film Z , a political thriller by director Costa-Gavras , is shown for the first time in France.
- 1971 : The literary museum Bibliotheca Bodmeriana in Cologny is created by the Swiss book collector Martin Bodmer with a deed of foundation .
- 1996 : Director Ang Lee is awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlinale for his film Sense and Sensibility based on the novel by Jane Austen .
religion
- 386 : A regulation collected in the Codex Theodosianus prohibits the trade in the bones of martyrs . It received little attention in the following centuries.
- 1870 : In a lecture in London, the religious scholar Friedrich Max Müller defined eight religious communities as book religions from a European perspective .
Disasters
- 1794 : The first Christiansborg Palace burns down in Copenhagen .
- 1852 : The Royal Navy troop transport Birkenhead sinks off South Africa. Only 193 of the 643 people on board survive. In the event of a catastrophe, instead of the usual call, everyone will be for himself! first call women and children first! used.
- 1918 : The sinking of the British hospital ship HMHS Glenart Castle by the German submarine UC 56 kills 153 crew members, nurses and patients in the Bristol Channel.
- 1972 : The Buffalo Creek Dam in West Virginia, USA causes up to 125 deaths.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1917 : By the signature of US President Woodrow Wilson is in Alaska at the initiative of Senator Key Pittman of Mount McKinley National Park , 1980 Denali National Park , established.
- 1929 : Grand Teton National Park in the US state of Wyoming is protected as a national park .
Sports
- 1999 : At the Nordic Home Ski World Championships in Ramsau am Dachstein, the Austrian cross-country relay with Alois Stadlober , Markus Gandler , Michail Botwinow and Christian Hoffmann sensationally wins the gold medal. Final runner Christian Hoffmann beats Norwegian individual world champion Thomas Alsgaard in the finish sprint by two hundredths of a second.
- 2006 : The XX. Olympic Winter Games with a two and a half hour closing ceremony at which Luciano Pavarotti, among others, will perform the aria Nessun dorma from Puccini's Turandot .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1361 : Wenceslaus of Luxemburg , German King, King of Bohemia
- 1416 : Christopher III. , King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- 1535 : Marcantonio Colonna , Admiral and Viceroy of Sicily
- 1537 : Christoph II , Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern
- 1564 : Christopher Marlowe , English poet (date of baptism)
- 1587 : Stefano Landi , Italian singer, conductor and composer
- 1590 : Johann Lauremberg , Low German writer
- 1618 : Francesco Morosini , 108th Doge of Venice
- 1619 : Giulio Cesare Arresti , Italian organist, conductor and composer
- 1637 : Hieronymus Bauhin , Swiss physician, professor of anatomy and botany
- 1644 : Elisabeth Lemmerhirt , mother of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1650 : Tomás Marín González de Poveda , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and governor of Chile
- 1663 : Thomas Newcomen , English inventor
- 1671 : Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury , English politician, philosopher and writer
- 1671 : Johann Arnold Zeitfuchs , German chronicler, theologian and spiritual writer
- 1677 : Nicola Fago , Italian composer
- 1694 : Karl Gottlob Sperbach , German philologist
- 1715 : Claude Adrien Helvétius , French philosopher
- 1718 : Johan Ernst Gunnerus , Norwegian bishop, botanist, ornithologist and zoologist
- 1733 : Christoph Daniel Prätorius , German lawyer and educator
- 1754 : Gebhard Anton von Krosigk , German civil servant and landowner
- 1756 : Christian Frederik Hansen , Danish classicist architect
- 1767 : Joseph Anderwert , Swiss politician
- 1770 : Anton Reicha , Czech composer and professor
- 1774 : Heinrich von Pechmann , German architect and author
- 1775 : Adolf Stieler , German court official, cartographer
- 1780 : August Thieme , German poet
- 1780 : Christian Samuel Weiss , German mineralogist and crystallographer
- 1786 : François Arago , French astronomer, physicist and politician
- 1787 : André Coindre , French priest and founder of the order
- 1789 : Julius von den Brinken , German forester and Polish general forest master
- 1794 : Heinrich August Pierer , German officer, publisher and lexicographer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Victor Hugo , French writer
- 1806 : Abe Masanori , Japanese nobleman
- 1807 : Théophile-Jules Pelouze , French chemist
- 1808 : Honoré Daumier , French painter, sculptor, graphic artist and caricaturist
- 1811 : Heinrich Christian Burckhardt , German forester
- 1813 : Louise von Bose , German patroness
- 1816 : Franz Krenn , Austrian composer
- 1822 : Franz Strauss , German horn player and composer
- 1823 : Gustav Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst , German cardinal bishop
- 1825 : Jan Balatka , American composer
- 1825 : Ludwig Rütimeyer , Swiss zoologist, anatomist and paleontologist
- 1829 : Levi Strauss , German-American industrialist, inventor of jeans
- 1831 : Josef Werndl , Austrian arms manufacturer
- 1832 : Thomas Anderson , Scottish botanist
- 1835 : Richard Andree , German geographer and ethnographer
- 1835 : Adolphe Danhauser , French composer and music teacher
- 1838 : Wendelin Weißheimer , German composer, conductor and music writer
- 1841 : Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer , British Consul General in Egypt
- 1842 : Camille Flammarion , French astronomer and author
- 1842 : Hugo Bußmeyer , German composer
- 1843 : Heinrich Winter , German painter
- 1844 : August Hartel , German architect
- 1844 : Victor von Podbielski , German general
- 1846 : Buffalo Bill , American pioneer
- 1848 : Emil Deckert , German geographer
1851-1900
- 1851 : Carl Albert Purpus , German plant collector
- 1852 : John Harvey Kellogg , American doctor and inventor of corn flakes
- 1857 : Émile Coué , French pharmacist and author, founder of modern, conscious autosuggestion
- 1858 : Heinrich Philippsen , German homeland researcher
- 1859 : Karl Maria Alexander von Auersperg , Austrian landowner and politician
- 1861 : Ferdinand I , Prince and Tsar of Bulgaria
- 1864 : Alfred Bachelet , French composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1864 : Antonín Sova , Czech poet and writer
- 1866 : Aurelio Galli , Italian cardinal
- 1867 : Alexander Kircher , German-Austrian naval and landscape painter and illustrator
- 1869 : Nadezhda Konstantinowna Krupskaja , Russian politician, revolutionary, educator and wife and comrade of Lenin
- 1870 : Georg Schlesinger , German businessman
- 1873 : Rudolf Kanzler , German surveyor and politician
- 1873 : Johann Schütte , German airship pioneer
- 1873 : Yosano Tekkan , Japanese poet and literary critic
- 1874 : Oskar Kiefer , German sculptor
- 1875 : Erich Koch-Weser , German politician
- 1875 : Hans Böckler , German politician and trade union official
- 1875 : Edith Miller , Canadian singer
- 1875 : Richard Wetz , German composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1877 : Rudolph Dirks , German-American comic book pioneer
- 1878 : Gustav Heinrich Angenheister , German geophysicist
- 1879 : Frank Bridge , British composer
- 1880 : Kenneth Essex Edgeworth , Irish astronomer
- 1881 : Hans Strobel , German architect and building advisor
- 1881 : Janus Djurhuus , Faroese lawyer and poet
- 1882 : Husband E. Kimmel , American Admiral, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet
- 1883 : Frederik Muller Jzn. , Dutch classical philologist
- 1884 : Francesco Borgongini Duca , Italian cardinal
- 1885 : Eugen Kipp senior , German soccer player
- 1885 : Aleksandras Stulginskis , Lithuanian President
- 1887 : William Frawley , American actor
- 1888 : Maria Grengg , Austrian storyteller and painter
- 1888 : Maurice Schilles , French cyclist
- 1889 : Otto Riethmüller , German poet
- 1891 : Valerio Abbondio , Swiss teacher and poet
- 1891 : Carlo Carcano , Italian football player and coach
- 1891 : George Hill , New Zealand long distance runner
- 1894 : Wilhelm Bittrich , German general and SS-Obergruppenführer
- 1896 : Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov , Soviet politician
- 1897 : Elizabeth Asquith , British writer and Princess Bibesco de Brancovan
- 1898 : Karl Astel , German "race researcher" and "race hygienist"
- 1898 : Konstantin Biebl , Czech poet
- 1899 : Max Petitpierre , Swiss politician
- 1900 : Fritz Wiessner , German mountaineer
- 1900 : Jean Negulesco , American film director
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Alexandr Hořejší , Czech poet and translator
- 1901 : Leslie Munro , Ambassador to New Zealand
- 1902 : Vercors , French writer and caricaturist
- 1903 : Giulio Natta , Italian chemist
- 1903 : Jan Fethke , German-Polish film director and writer
- 1903 : Orde Wingate , British brigadier
- 1904 : Curth Georg Becker , German painter and graphic artist
- 1904 : Hans-Joachim Fricke , German politician
- 1906 : Hans Bertram , German aviation pioneer, film director and screenwriter
- 1906 : Heinz Gemein , German politician
- 1907 : Luise Ida Aufsberg , German art photographer
- 1908 : Jean-Pierre Wimille , French racing driver
- 1908 : Tex Avery , American cartoon pioneer
- 1908 : Néstor Mesta Chayres , Mexican singer
- 1909 : Gunnar Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1909 : Heinz Seelig , painter and interior designer
- 1909 : Talal , Jordanian king
- 1910 : Rudolf Hillebrecht , German architect and city planner in Hanover
- 1910 : Olav Roots , Estonian conductor and pianist
- 1911 : Fritz Bock , Austrian politician, co-founder of the ÖVP
- 1912 : Hans Sachs , German lawyer
- 1912 : István Vincze , Hungarian mathematician
- 1913 : Hermann Lenz , German writer
- 1915 : Raúl Anguiano , Mexican wall painter
- 1916 : Jackie Gleason , American comedian, actor, composer and big band leader
- 1916 : Mordecai Seter , Israeli composer
- 1917 : Robert La Caze , French racing car driver
- 1917 : Robert Taft Jr. , American politician
- 1918 : Otis R. Bowen , American politician
- 1918 : Theodore Sturgeon , American science fiction writer
- 1919 : Mason Adams , American actor
- 1919 : Kuroda Saburō , Japanese poet
- 1919 : Hendrika Mastenbroek , Dutch swimmer
- 1920 : Max Hermann Archimowitz , German politician
- 1920 : Hilmar Baunsgaard , Danish politician
- 1920 : Tony Randall , American film and television actor
- 1922 : Karl Aage Præst , Danish football player
- 1924 : Erwin Hegemann , German artist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Willem J. Aerts , Dutch Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist
- 1926 : Chris Anderson , American jazz pianist
- 1926 : Günter Asser , German mathematician
- 1926 : Ernst Grabbe , German actor
- 1927 : Hans Heinz Holz , German philosopher
- 1928 : Fats Domino , American rhythm and blues musician
- 1928 : Anatoly Wassiljewitsch Filipschenko , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1928 : Odo Marquard , German philosopher
- 1928 : Ariel Sharon , Israeli general and politician, minister, prime minister
- 1929 : August Lang , German politician
- 1930 : Robert Francis , American actor
- 1930 : Erich Kiesl , German local politician, Mayor of Munich
- 1930 : Lasar Naumowitsch Berman , Russian pianist
- 1930 : Toshitaka Hidaka , Japanese ethologist and author
- 1931 : Ally MacLeod , Scottish football player and coach
- 1931 : Francisco Kröpfl , Argentine composer
- 1931 : Fritz Sack , German sociologist and criminologist
- 1932 : Arthur Auer , German politician
- 1932 : Johnny Cash , American singer
- 1933 : Ljubomyr Husar , German Grand Archbishop
- 1933 : María Victoria , Mexican singer
- 1934 : José Luis Cuevas , Mexican painter, printmaker and sculptor
- 1934 : Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina , Algerian film director and screenwriter
- 1934 : Manfred Poerschke , German athlete
- 1935 : Brigitte Grothum , German actress and director
- 1935 : Ri Kaisei , Japanese writer
- 1935 : Mäni Weber , Swiss television quiz master, presenter and radio reporter
- 1936 : Edward Dickinson Blodgett , Canadian poet and literary scholar
- 1936 : José da Cruz Policarpo , Portuguese Cardinal and Patriarch of Lisbon
- 1936 : Adem Demaçi , Albanian writer and independence fighter
- 1936 : Philippe Farjon , French racing car driver
- 1937 : Eduardo Arroyo , Spanish painter and graphic artist
- 1937 : William Ferris , American composer, organist and choir director
- 1937 : Horst-Dieter Tietz , German rector and professor
- 1938 : Hans Haid , Austrian folklorist, mountain farmer and dialect poet
- 1938 : Monika Lennartz , German actress
- 1938 : Horst Lohr , German enduro athlete
- 1938 : Mark Sopi , Albanian bishop
- 1939 : George Flint , American football player
- 1939 : Ulli Kinalzik , German actor
- 1940 : Whitney Smith , American vexillologist
- 1941 : Wolfram Lindner , German cycling trainer
- 1941 : Jobst Plog , German broadcasting director
- 1941 : Hagen Tschoeltsch , German politician, MdL
- 1942 : Lennart Åberg , Swedish jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer
- 1942 : Jozef Adamec , Slovak football player and coach
- 1942 : Franz Romer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1943 : Michele Carey , American actress
- 1943 : Charles P. Thacker , American computer scientist
- 1943 : Chucrallah-Nabil El-Hage , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1943 : Bob Hite , American rock and blues musician, founder of the band Canned Heat
- 1944 : Wolfgang Braun , German handball player
- 1944 : Maria Creuza , Brazilian singer
- 1944 : Charles Lillard , Canadian poet and historian
- 1945 : Peter Geoffrey Brock , Australian racing driver
- 1945 : Mitch Ryder , American rock musician
- 1946 : Ahmed Zewail , Egyptian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1947 : Sandie Shaw , British pop singer
- 1948 : Mike Richmond , American jazz bassist
- 1948 : Boutros Marayati , Syrian Archbishop
- 1949 : Elizabeth George , American crime novelist
- 1949 : Emma Kirkby , British soprano
- 1949 : Friedrich Kofler , Austrian politician
- 1949 : Bruno Strobl , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1950 : Kym Anderson , Australian economist
- 1950 : Ott Arder , Estonian poet, children's book author and translator
- 1950 : Helen Clark , New Zealand Prime Minister
- 1950 : Don Shanks , American actor and stunt performer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Lee Atwater , American political advisor
- 1951 : Barbara Wieck , German athlete
- 1952 : John Giblin , British bass player
- 1953 : Michael Bolton , American pop musician
- 1953 : Peter Staengle , German Germanist and Kleist researcher
- 1954 : Arndt Ellmer , German science fiction writer
- 1954 : Ernst August Hannover , German nobleman, great-grandson of Wilhelm II.
- 1954 : Leon de Winter , Dutch writer
- 1954 : Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , President of the Republic of Turkey
- 1954 : Wolf-Rüdiger Marunde , German draftsman and cartoonist
- 1955 : Rupert Keegan , British racing car driver
- 1955 : Andreas Maislinger , Austrian historian and political scientist
- 1955 : Udo Corts , German politician
- 1956 : Milan Babić , Serbian politician, president of the internationally unrecognized Republic of Serbian Krajina and war criminal
- 1957 : David Beasley , American politician
- 1957 : Joe Mullen , American ice hockey player and coach
- 1958 : Andreas Ole Ohlendorff , German freelance artist
- 1958 : Michel Houellebecq , French writer and literary scholar
- 1958 : Tim Kaine , American politician
- 1958 : Bernd Liffers , German church musician and organist
- 1958 : Martin Weller , German gemstone setters, guitarist and dialect singer
- 1959 : Ahmet Davutoğlu , Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey
- 1959 : Klaus Riegert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1959 : Bogusław Samol , Polish military
- 1960 : Hannes Jaenicke , German actor
- 1960 : Martin Huber , Austrian manager
- 1960 : Jaz Coleman , British musician
- 1961 : Joachim Philipkowski , German football player
- 1961 : Souleymane Sané , Senegalese soccer player
- 1962 : Axel Balkausky , German sports journalist and television editor
- 1962 : Ahn Cheol-soo , South Korean software developer, businessman and politician
- 1962 : Greg Germann , American actor
- 1963 : Chase Masterson , American actress and singer
- 1963 : Stefan Jürgens , German actor and cabaret artist
- 1964 : Mark Dacascos , American athlete and actor
- 1964 : Uwe Haas , German soccer player
- 1964 : Alfred Kaminski , German soccer coach
- 1965 : Kōsei Akaishi , Japanese wrestler
- 1966 : Marc Fortier , Canadian ice hockey coach and player
- 1966 : Urs Kälin , Swiss ski racer
- 1966 : Stefan Ströbitzer , Austrian journalist
- 1966 : Melanie Pukaß , German actress and voice actress
- 1967 : Currie Graham , Canadian-American actor
- 1967 : Nina Kronjäger , German actress
- 1967 : Kazuyoshi Miura , Japanese soccer player
- 1968 : Robin Ammerlaan , Dutch wheelchair tennis player
- 1968 : Carina Wiese , German actress
- 1969 : Hendrik Ochel , German handball player
- 1971 : Erykah Badu , American soul singer
- 1971 : Max Martin , Swedish producer and composer of pop music
- 1972 : Dino Cerimagić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian pool player
- 1973 : Marshall Faulk , American football player
- 1973 : ATB , German musician
- 1973 : Jenny Thompson , American swimmer
- 1973 : Ole Gunnar Solskjær , Norwegian football player
- 1974 : Stefano d'Aste , Italian racing car driver
- 1974 : Mikaela Cojuangco-Jaworski , Filipino show jumper and actress
- 1974 : Martin Dulig , German politician
- 1974 : Martina Seidl , German biathlete
- 1974 : Sébastien Loeb , French rally driver
- 1975 : Frank Busemann , German athlete
- 1975 : Per Johan Axelsson , Swedish ice hockey player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Nalini Anantharaman , French mathematician
- 1976 : Andreas Nauroth , German soccer player
- 1976 : Mauro Lustrinelli , Swiss football player
- 1976 : Patrik Siegl , Czech football player
- 1976 : Ulrike Syha , German playwright
- 1977 : Shane Williams , Welsh rugby union player
- 1978 : Tom Beck , German actor and singer
- 1979 : Corinne Bailey Rae , British soul singer
- 1979 : Ellenie Salvo González , German actress
- 1980 : Aree Wiratthaworn , Thai weightlifter
- 1980 : Steve Blake , American basketball player
- 1981 : Märt Avandi , Estonian actor
- 1981 : Edyta Herbuś , Polish dancer and actress
- 1982 : Emily Aston , British actress
- 1982 : Li Na , Chinese tennis player
- 1983 : Erin McLeod , Canadian soccer goalkeeper
- 1983 : Pepe , Portuguese soccer player
- 1984 : Emmanuel Adebayor , Togolese football player
- 1984 : Alex De Angelis , San Marinese motorcycle racer
- 1985 : George David Atherton , British professional mountain biker
- 1985 : Sanya Richards-Ross , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1985 : Fernando Llorente , Spanish soccer player
- 1986 : Pascal Bieler , German soccer coach
- 1986 : Paul Grischok , German-Polish soccer player
- 1986 : Patricia Hanebeck , German soccer player
- 1986 : Nacho Monreal , Spanish soccer player
- 1986 : Georg Niedermeier , German soccer player
- 1987 : Jauhen Abramenka , Belarusian biathlete
- 1987 : Sebastian Albert , German soccer player
- 1987 : Juraj Kucka , Slovak football player
- 1987 : Johan Plat , Dutch football player
- 1987 : Johan Sjöstrand , Swedish handball player
- 1988 : Demetrius Andrade , American professional boxer
- 1988 : John Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1988 : David Krammer , German handball player
- 1988 : David Williams , Australian soccer player
- 1989 : Sefa Aksoy , Turkish soccer player
- 1989 : Laura Wontorra , German television presenter
- 1990 : Tobias Angerer , Austrian natural track tobogganist
- 1990 : Alexandra Flood , Australian opera singer
- 1991 : Wolha Dabryjan , Belarusian billiards player
- 1991 : Daniel Döringer , German soccer player
- 1991 : Rhyan Grant , Australian soccer player
- 1991 : Kevin Plawecki , American baseball player
- 1993 : Maria Ehrich , German actress
- 1994 : Jordan King , British racing driver
- 1995 : Griedge Mbock Bathy , French soccer player
- 1999 : Elvira Öberg , Swedish biathlete
Died
Before the 16th century
- 1109 : Edigna von Puch , German hermit
- 1154 : At-Tabrisī , Imamitic Koran exegete
- 1154 : Roger II , Count and King of Sicily and Calabria
- 1266 : Manfred , King of Sicily
- 1289 : Primislaus I , Duke of Sprottau and Steinau
- 1329 : Oshin of Korykos , regent of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia
- 1352 : Henry Percy, 2nd Baron Percy , English magnate and military
- 1360 : Roger Mortimer , English nobleman
- 1361 : Wilhelm I , Count of Jülich
- 1438 : Hermann von Gnas , bishop of Lavant and opposing bishop of Gurk
- 1440 : Friedrich III. von Aufseß , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
- 1495 : Siegmund of Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
16th to 18th century
- 1520 : Dietrich von Plieningen , German nobleman, lawyer and humanist
- 1538 : Ursula von Rosenfeld , Margravine of Baden
- 1539 : Friedrich , Hereditary Prince of Saxony
- 1548 : Lorenzino de 'Medici , Italian writer
- 1556 : Friedrich II. , Elector Palatinate
- 1561 : Jorge de Montemayor , Portuguese singer, translator and poet
- 1577 : Erik XIV , King of Sweden
- 1580 : Hieronymus Lüneburg , mayor of Lübeck
- 1587 : Magdalena zur Lippe , Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1625 : Anna Wasa , Swedish princess
- 1630 : William Brade , Danish composer
- 1632 : Cesare II Gonzaga , Duke of Guastalla and Duke of Amalfi
- 1652 : David Kindt , German painter
- 1664 : Anna Sylvia Caretto , wife of Margrave Leopold Wilhelm von Baden
- 1671 : David Gloxin , Mayor of Lübeck
- 1703 : Christian Hirschmentzl , Bohemian monk and writer
- 1710 : Thomas de Choisy , French officer and engineer and governor of Saarlouis
- 1726 : Maximilian II. Emanuel , Elector of Bavaria
- 1732 : Giacomo Serpotta , Sicilian sculptor
- 1763 : Friedrich , Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
- 1770 : Giuseppe Tartini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1784 : Friedrich Adam Widder , German mathematician
- 1789 : August Siegfried von Goué , German writer and Freemason
- 1795 : Christian Friedrich Nürnberger , German medic and botanist
- 1797 : William Cadogan , English physician
19th century
- 1811 : Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta , Spanish governor of Chile and president of the first government junta of Chile
- 1814 : Johan Tobias Sergel , Swedish sculptor and draftsman
- 1815 : Friedrich Josias von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , Austrian-Imperial General and Field Marshal
- 1821 : Joseph de Maistre , French MP in the National Assembly
- 1821 : Gottlob Heinrich Schulz , German lawyer and mayor
- 1827 : Cécile Stanislas Xavier de Girardin , French politician
- 1829 : Friedrich Schamberger , German lawyer
- 1829 : Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein , German painter
- 1830 : Joseph-Denis Odevaere , Flemish painter
- 1834 : Alois Senefelder , Austrian actor and theater writer
- 1843 : Tommaso Rima , Swiss military doctor
- 1845 : Domenico Gilardi , Swiss architect of neoclassicism in Moscow
- 1855 : Emil Ernst Gottfried von Herder , royal Bavarian forestry and government councilor
- 1859 : Ferdinand Schubert , Austrian composer
- 1861 : Jacob Best , German entrepreneur and brewer
- 1869 : Emil André , German forester
- 1869 : Asaf Jah V , Prince of Hyderabad
- 1872 : Harry Maitey , first Hawaiian in Prussia
- 1874 : George Ezekiel , German journalist and writer
- 1878 : Alexandre Antigna , French painter
- 1878 : Angelo Secchi , Italian astronomer and Jesuit priest
- 1879 : Franz Leopold Sonnenschein , German chemist
- 1879 : Otto Blau , German orientalist
- 1880 : Franziska Möllinger , Swiss daguerreotypist
- 1882 : Moritz Daniel Oppenheim , German portrait and history painter
- 1884 : Emanuel Félix de Wimpffen , French general
- 1884 : Johann Daniel Eschenburg , Senator of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- 1889 : Karl Juljewitsch Dawidow , Russian composer and conductor
- 1890 : Wilhelm Gail , German architectural painter
- 1900 : Leopold Grützmacher , German cellist and composer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Lucyna Ćwierczakiewiczowa , Polish writer and cookbook author
- 1901 : Léonce Cohen , French composer
- 1902 : George Washington Anderson , American politician
- 1902 : Baptista de Andrade , Portuguese admiral
- 1903 : Richard Jordan Gatling , American inventor in mechanical engineering and weapons technology
- 1906 : Tomaso Benvenuti , Italian composer
- 1907 : Hodgson Pratt , British pacifist
- 1908 : August Ritter , German professor of mechanics and astrophysicist
- 1909 : Caran d'Ache , French caricaturist and humorous draftsman
- 1909 : Hermann Ebbinghaus , German psychologist
- 1910 : Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville , French Celtologist and historian
- 1911 : Ludwig Gottsleben , Austrian actor and writer
- 1913 : Felix Draeseke , German composer and music teacher
- 1920 : Carl Alexander von Martius , German chemist
- 1926 : Fredrik Pijper , Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian
- 1927 : Hermann Obrist , German sculptor and co-founder of Art Nouveau
- 1928 : Johannes Chrząszcz , Silesian priest
- 1930 : Ahmed Rızâ , Ottoman politician
- 1930 : Rafael Merry del Val , Spanish-British cardinal
- 1931 : Otto Wallach , German chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1932 : Wilhelm Brambach , German classical philologist, music historian and librarian
- 1933 : Spottiswoode Aitken , British-American actor
- 1933 : Felix Auerbach , German physicist
- 1933 : Thomas Watt Gregory , American politician
- 1933 : Berthold Haupt , German printer, fighter against National Socialism
- 1934 : Kârale Andreassen , Greenland artist and catechist
- 1935 : John Victor Bergquist , American composer and organist
- 1936 : Takahashi Korekiyo , Japanese politician and prime minister
- 1936 : Antonio Scotti , Italian singer (baritone)
- 1938 : Wilford Bacon Hoggatt , American politician
- 1939 : Gebhard Fugel , German painter
- 1940 : Michael Hainisch , Austrian politician and Federal President
- 1942 : Tommaso Pio Boggiani , Italian cardinal and Archbishop of Genoa
- 1943 : Theodor Eicke , German National Socialist
- 1945 : József Balassa , Hungarian philologist
- 1945 : Max Geißler , German editor and writer, literary scholar
- 1945 : Louis Ziercke , German painter and graphic artist
- 1947 : Walter Adam , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1947 : Heinrich Häberlin , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1948 : Marion Ashmore , American football player
1951-2000
- 1952 : Theodoros Pangalos , general and politician in Greece
- 1956 : Rudolf Kanzler , German surveyor and politician
- 1960 : William J. Bulow , American politician
- 1961 : William Cohn , German-British art historian and sinologist
- 1961 : Karl Albiker , German sculptor and student of Auguste Rodin
- 1962 : Carl Ehrenberg , German composer
- 1964 : Homer Martin Adkins , American politician
- 1965 : George Adamski , American science fiction writer and ufologist
- 1965 : Kurt Johnen , German pianist, music teacher and music writer
- 1966 : Gino Severini , Italian painter
- 1967 : Max Taut , German architect
- 1968 : Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz , German journalist, writer and intelligence officer
- 1969 : Wladimir Eliasberg , German psychiatrist
- 1969 : Levi Eschkol , Israeli politician and Prime Minister
- 1969 : Karl Jaspers , German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher
- 1969 : Theo Kellner , German painter and architect
- 1969 : Josef Ivar Müller , Swiss composer
- 1970 : Ethel Leginska , British pianist, conductor and composer
- 1970 : Otto Schniewind , German civil servant, ministerial director in the Reich Ministry of Economics and director of the credit institute for reconstruction
- 1971 : Josef Berg , Czech composer
- 1971 : Fernandel , French singer and actor ( Don Camillo )
- 1971 : The Svedberg , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1972 : Margarete Tietz , German-American social welfare worker, patron and teacher
- 1976 : Efrem Forni , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat
- 1976 : Peter Hamel , German director
- 1980 : Hobart Baumann Amstutz , American theologian and bishop
- 1980 : Anthony John Arkell , British Egyptologist
- 1981 : Howard Hanson , American pianist and composer
- 1981 : Tatjana Sais , German actress and cabaret artist
- 1985 : Gerd Böttcher , German pop singer and actor
- 1985 : Tjalling C. Koopmans , American economist
- 1986 : Wolfgang Hedler , German politician
- 1987 : Knut Frydenlund , Norwegian diplomat and politician
- 1989 : Roy Eldridge , American jazz trumpeter
- 1989 : Hans Klüver , German chess player and chess composer
- 1989 : Mouloud Mammeri , Algerian-Kabyle writer, anthropologist and linguist
- 1989 : Jupp Schlaf , German table tennis official and player
- 1991 : Slim Gaillard , American jazz singer
- 1991 : Günther Neutze , German actor
- 1991 : Josef Schoiswohl , Austrian bishop
- 1993 : Katharina de Bruyn , German folk actress
- 1993 : Beaumont Newhall , American author, photo historian, and curator
- 1994 : Leopold Kohr , Austrian philosopher, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize
- 1995 : Jack Clayton , British film director
- 1995 : Willie Johnson , American blues musician
- 1996 : Mieczysław Weinberg , Russian composer
- 1998 : James Algar , American animator and documentary film director
- 1998 : Theodore W. Schultz , American economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1998 : Vico Torriani , Swiss singer, actor and showmaster
- 1999 : Michael Angelo Avallone Jr. , American writer
- 1999 : Annibale Frossi , Italian football player and coach
- 2000 : Franz Fuchs , Austrian letter bomb bomber
- 2000 : Andrzej Hiolski , Polish singer
21st century
- 2001 : Jale İnan , Turkish archaeologist
- 2001 : Duke Nalon , American racing car driver
- 2001 : Arturo Uslar Pietri , Venezuelan writer, diplomat and politician
- 2001 : Georg Brauer , German chemist
- 2002 : Hans Bernhard Meyer , German theologian
- 2003 : Christian Goethals , Belgian racing driver
- 2003 : Willy Kralik , Austrian television presenter
- 2003 : Othar Turner , American Fife musician
- 2004 : Boris Trajkovski , Macedonian politician
- 2005 : Henry Grunwald , American journalist
- 2005 : Jef Raskin , American computer scientist
- 2006 : Ilya Simin , Russian journalist
- 2007 : Günter Ashauer , head of the Deutsche Sparkassenakademie
- 2007 : Roberto Luiz Assumpção de Araújo , Brazilian diplomat
- 2008 : Buddy Miles , American drummer
- 2009 : Ruth Drexel , German actress
- 2009 : Robert Jasper Grootveld , Dutch inventor, happening artist
- 2010 : David Bankier , Israeli historian
- 2010 : Nujabes , Japanese hip hop producer
- 2011 : Hendrik Apetz , German entrepreneur
- 2011 : Arnošt Lustig , Czech writer and publicist
- 2012 : Hazy Osterwald , Swiss musician, singer and orchestra leader
- 2013 : Marie-Claire Alain , French organist and music teacher
- 2013 : Stéphane Hessel , French diplomat and author
- 2015 : Ralf Paulsen , German singer
- 2015 : Fritz J. Raddatz , German columnist and essayist, biographer and writer
- 2016 : Karl Dedecius , German writer and translator of Slavic literature
- 2016 : Stefan Lisewski , German actor
- 2017 : Ludwig Dmitrijewitsch Faddejew , Soviet or Russian physicist and mathematician
- 2017 : Eugene Garfield , American information scientist
- 2018 : Rolf Bauerdick , German photographer and author
- 2018 : Mies Bouwman , Dutch television presenter
- 2020 : Nexhmije Hoxha , Albanian politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Alexander of Alexandria , Roman theologian, bishop and patriarch (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Mechthild von Magdeburg , German Beguines and Mystic (Protestant)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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