July 26th
The July 26 is the 207th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 208th in leap years ); thus there are still 158 days until the end of the year.
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Politics and world events
- K'inich Janaab 'Pakal I. is enthroned as ruler of the Maya city of Palenque at the age of twelve . This marked the beginning of a brisk construction activity in the city. 615:
- battle of Siffin on the Euphrates in Syria between caliph ʿAlī ibn Abī Tālib and Muawiya , the Umayyad governor of Syria , begins. It ends three days later without a decision. 657: The
- battle of the Warbiza Pass , the Bulgarians under their Khan Krum inflict one of the worst defeats in its history on the Byzantine Empire under Nikephorus I. As a result, the Bulgarians advance to Constantinople . 811: In the
- Ordoño II is defeated in the Battle of Valdejunquera by the Moors who invaded from the Emirate of Al-Andalus , who were able to continue their raid into the Kingdom of Asturias-León . 920: The Christian army sent by King
- 1184: When the Erfurt latrine falls , 60 people present, including many aristocrats, fell to their death when they fell through the rotten floor into the latrine below.
- 1343: An uprising breaks out in Florence against the dictatorial ruling Duke of Athens , Walter VI. from Brienne . The citizens demand the abdication and lay siege to his palace.
- 1410: The Polish-Lithuanian army, victorious in the Battle of Tannenberg , begins to besiege the Marienburg of the Teutonic Order .
- 1469: In the Battle of Edgecote Moor , the English King Edward IV is defeated and captured by his brother George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence , during the Wars of the Roses . The victor is assisted in the battle by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick .
- 1529: Spanish conquest of Peru : Charles I of Spain allows Francisco Pizarro to campaign against the Inca Empire and appoints him general captain and future viceroy of Peru .
- 1572: The battle of Molodi between Russian troops and Crimean Tatars begins. It lasts until August 2nd.
- 1581: With the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe , the Netherlands declare their independence from Spain .
- 1634: During the Thirty Years War, imperial troops recaptured Regensburg , which was captured on November 14, 1633 by the army of Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar .
- 1703: During the Bavarian hype , the rural population of Tyrol expelled the Bavarian Elector Maximilian II Emanuel from North Tyrol with a victory at the Pontlatzer Bridge and thus also prevented the planned march of the Bavarian Army, allied with France , on Vienna during the War of the Spanish Succession .
- 1757: In the Seven Years' War , French troops under Louis-Charles-César defeat Le Tellier, duc d'Estrées troops of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , which is in personal union with Great Britain, under the command of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland in the Battle of Hastenbeck .
- 1758: The British conquer the French fortress Louisbourg and thus lead to a preliminary decision in the French and Indian wars.
- 1773: In Brazil , José Pinto Fonseca discovered the Ilha do Bananal , the world's second largest inland island, in the Rio Araguaia .
- 1775: Benjamin Franklin is appointed Postmaster General by the American Continental Congress and is supposed to organize the postal system of the 13 English colonies.
- 1788: With the ratification of the Constitution , New York becomes the eleventh state in the United States .
- 1793: In France the Revolution hoarding of food, with the population the monetary loss is Assignaten means to counteract the Jacobins prohibited by law.
- 1847: Liberia , founded by the American Colonization Society , declares its independence ; Joseph Jenkins Roberts becomes the first president of the new state.
- 1866: Prussia and Austria conclude the preliminary peace in Nikolsburg to end the German War . The peace preliminaries negotiated in the process are largely confirmed in the Peace of Prague .
- 1882: The Boer Republic of Stellaland in South Africa is founded on the border with the British protectorate of Bechuanaland .
- 1908: The United States Department of Justice establishes the Bureau of Investigation , which creates the FBI .
- 1945: In the Potsdam Declaration , US President Harry S. Truman , Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the Chinese President Chiang Kai-shek, who agreed by telegram, formulate conditions for Japan's surrender ten days after the successful US atomic bomb test . Tokyo immediately rejects the leaflets distributed on the radio and in Japan.
- 1945: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announces his resignation after losing the general election .
- 1947: The National Security Act comes into force in the USA . This provides for the establishment of the Department of Defense , the Air Force and the CIA .
- 1950: Hundreds of Korean refugees die in the Nogeun-ri massacre in the Korean War and are shot at by the US military.
- 1953: In Cuba , a guerrilla group led by the lawyer Fidel Castro undertakes a (failed) attack on the Moncada barracks in Santiago de Cuba . With this the Cuban Revolution begins (see July 26th Movement ).
- 1955: In East Berlin , the Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev proclaims the two-state theory . According to this, two sovereign states emerged on the territory of the German Empire after the Second World War . The German policy of the Soviet Union changes under this aspect.
- 1956: Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal , twelve years before the concession for the canal company expires. This leads to the Suez crisis .
- 1957: The publisher and Mexico emigrant Walter Janka is sentenced to five years in prison with intensified solitary confinement in the GDR for “ counterrevolutionary conspiracies ”.
- 1965: The Maldives gain full independence from Great Britain and become a member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
- 1994: Lennart Meri , Estonia , and Boris Jelzin , Russia , sign the agreement in Moscow on the withdrawal of Russian troops from Estonia.
- 1994: Hessen is the first German federal state to trigger an ozone alarm .
- 1998: The first free elections since the second independence in 1998 take place in Cambodia .
- 2006: The Lebanon conference on the settlement of the Lebanon war begins in Rome . It lacks the direct conflicting parties Israel , Hezbollah and Hamas as well as neighboring Syria .
- 2016: Islamist terrorist attack in Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray with murder of a priest.
business
- 1957: By the Bundesbank Act which is German Bundesbank furnished.
- 1994: With the Second Financial Market Promotion Act , the German Bundestag decides, among other things, to set up the Federal Supervisory Office for Securities Trading and to include a criminal offense for insider trading in the Criminal Code .
science and technology
- 1845: Great Britain, constructed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , starts its maiden voyage to New York City in Liverpool . It is the first propeller-driven steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean . The approximately fourteen-day travel time for an Atlantic crossing had not previously been reached.
- 1887: Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof publishes the textbook on his “International Language” under the pseudonym Doktoro Esperanto, first in Russian . Further brochures in other languages will follow soon. The pseudonym remains as the name of the language: Esperanto .
- 1910: The railway tunnel under the Detroit River , connecting Detroit in the US state of Michigan with the city of Windsor in the Canadian province of Ontario , is opened.
- 1971: From the Kennedy Space Center launches off Apollo 15 with the astronauts David Scott , James Irwin and Alfred Worden to the moon.
- 2005: For the first time, two and a half years after the Columbia accident , a manned space shuttle takes off again into space with the STS-114 mission of Discovery .
Culture
- 1656: The painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares his insolvency.
- 1709: The world premiere of the opera Desiderius, King of the Lombards by Reinhard Keizer takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
- 1710: The shepherd's play Aurora by Reinhard Keizer is premiered at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
- 1755: The writer and adventurer Giacomo Casanova is imprisoned in the Doge's Palace in Venice . Fifteen months later, he succeeds in the spectacular escape from the lead chambers .
- 1773: The premiere of the opera L'infedeltà delusa ( The foiled infidelity ) by Joseph Haydn takes place in Esterház .
- 1830: The premiere of the opera Les Trois Cathérine by Adolphe Adam takes place at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris .
- 1882: The last music-dramatic work by Richard Wagner , the "Bühnenweihfestspiel" Parsifal has its successful world premiere at the Bayreuth Festival Theater . The conductor is Hermann Levi . The stage design is by Paul von Joukowsky .
- 1899: The operetta Die Landstreicher by Carl Michael Ziehrer is premiered at the Venice Summer Theater in Vienna . The libretto is by Leopold Krenn and Karl Lindau .
- 1960: The New Festspielhaus opens in Salzburg with a performance of Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier under the direction of Herbert von Karajan .
- 1986: The fifth Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival in Burglengenfeld to support the protests against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant opens. With 100,000 visitors over two days, it will be the largest rock concert in Germany to date .
company
- 1978: The District Court of Hamburg , the sexism lawsuit of Alice Schwarzer against the Gruner und Jahr publishing house and editor of the Star Henri Nannen from.
- 1998: In Lassing , Styria , the buried miner Georg Hainzl is rescued 9 days after the Lassing mine accident .
- 2005: Aktion Tagwerk organizes the “Your Day for Africa” campaign for the first time in Baden-Württemberg . 13,500 pupils from 81 schools get involved and support their peers in Africa.
religion
- 1417: The Council of Constance appoints the antipope Benedict XIII. off and excommunicate him. Regardless of this, he insists on his office and retires to the Peñíscola fortress .
- 1429: Antipope Clement VIII declares in Aragon before his cardinals and the envoy of the Roman Pope Martin V his resignation from the papacy and calls on them to elect Martin V as Pope. With this, the western schism also ends formally for good .
- 1755: Pope Benedict XIV publishes the first compact Eastern Church encyclical with the encyclical Allatae sunt .
- 2000: In Rome, 40 years late, the third secret of Fátima is published.
Disasters
- 1805: An earthquake that struck central Italy from Naples to Campobasso claims over 26,000 deaths.
- 1956: The Andrea Doria sinks off New York after the collision the day before.
- 1963: In an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude in Skopje , Yugoslavia, about 1,100 people are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1969: The Österreichring is inaugurated in Spielberg, Styria, with a touring car race . In the following years, the competitions for the Austrian Grand Prix will be held on the new Formula 1 race track .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1016: Casimir I Karl , Duke of Poland
- 1400: Isabel le Despenser, 5th Baroness Burghersh , English nobleman
- 1439: Siegmund , Duke of Bavaria-Munich
- 1469: Ferdinand II , King of Naples
- 1502: Christian Egenolff , German printer
- 1575: Anna Katharina von Brandenburg , Queen of Denmark and Norway
- 1590: Johannes Crellius , German theologian and educator
- 1608: Christian Lorentz von Adlershelm , German politician
- 1609: Adolph Wilhelm von Krosigk , German politician, diplomat and envoy
- 1622: Christian August , Prince of Wittelsbach, Duke of Palatinate-Sulzbach
- 1663: Peter Hohmann , merchant and councilor in Leipzig
- 1678: Joseph I , Holy Roman Emperor
- 1686: Johann Martin Gumpp the Younger , Austrian architect
- 1689: Maria Anna Josepha Althann , wife of Johann Michael von Althann, patron and confidante of Karl VI.
- 1692: Jakob Wosky von Bärenstamm , Sorbian clergyman, administrator of the Meißen diocese in Lusatia
18th century
- 1721: Samuel von Brukenthal , governor of Transylvania
- 1733: Johann Matthias Schröckh , Austrian historian and literary scholar
- 1739: George Clinton , American politician
- 1739: Karl Friedrich Senf German theologian and hymn poet
- 1744: Maria Elisabeth Ziesenis , German painter
- 1746: Hanns Moritz von Brühl , Prussian director of the highways
- 1756: Maria Fitzherbert , wife of King George IV of England
- 1758: Maximus von Imhof , Augustinian hermit and natural scientist
- 1765: Edmund von Kesselstatt , Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1768: Johann Jakob Aders , German politician, banker and social reformer
- 1770: Charles Willing Byrd , American politician
- 1774: Johann Georg Friedrich Wendell , German printer and newspaper publisher
- 1778: Philipp Ernst Wegmann , German organ builder
- 1782: John Field , Irish composer and pianist
- 1791: Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , Austrian composer
- 1796: George Catlin , American painter
- 1796: Aimée-Zoë de Mirbel , French miniature painter
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802: Mariano Arista , President of Mexico
- 1807: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Büchner , German pedagogue and classical philologist
- 1819: Justin Holland , American guitarist, composer and music teacher
- 1822: Jakob Dubs , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1822: Anna Zerr , German singer
- 1826: John Irvin Gregg , American general in the Civil War
- 1829: Auguste Beernaert , Belgian politician, head of government
- 1835: Moritz Alphons Stübel , German naturalist
- 1836: Marie Geistinger , Austrian actress and singer
- 1839: Max Auzinger , German magician and actor
- 1840: Eduard Pechuel-Loesche , German geographer and Africa explorer
- 1842: Alfred Marshall , British economist
- 1843: Israel Landauer , German banker, manufacturer and benefactor
- 1844: Deodato Arellano , Filipino reformer
- 1846: Hermann Bamberg , German businessman and politician
- 1846: Texas Jack Omohundro , American cowboy, scout, and actor
1851-1900
- 1854: Anna Rogstad , Norwegian women's rights activist and politician
- 1855: Auguste Hertzer , German nurse
- 1855: Ferdinand Tönnies , German sociologist, economist and philosopher
- 1856: Edward Anseele , Belgian politician
- 1856: George Bernard Shaw , Irish playwright, Nobel Prize winner
- 1858: Karl Tappenbeck , German politician
- 1861: Wascha-Pschawela , Georgian writer and natural philosopher
- 1862: George B. Cortelyou , American politician
- 1865: Philipp Scheidemann , German politician and journalist, MdR, Prime Minister of the Reich
- 1866: Militza of Montenegro , Russian Grand Duchess
- 1871: Emil Artmann , Austrian civil engineer, architect and university professor
- 1872: Ludwig Anton , Austrian writer and doctor
- 1872: Albert Bertelin , French composer
- 1872: Maria Dahl , German zoologist
- 1873: Julius Nicolaus Weisfert , German journalist and editor
- 1874: Sergei Alexandrowitsch Kussewizki , Russian-American conductor and double bass player
- 1875: Carl Gustav Jung , Swiss psychoanalyst
- 1875: Antonio Machado , Spanish lyric poet
- 1876: Georges André , French winter sports enthusiast
- 1876: Rosina Anselmi , Italian actress
- 1879: Otto Hieronimus , German-Austrian automobile designer and racing driver
- 1880: Bror Abelli , Swedish director, actor, singer, writer and cinema owner
- 1881: Bernhard Bleeker , German sculptor
- 1881: Jean Chassagne , French racing car driver
- 1881: Osanai Kaoru , Japanese playwright, translator and theater director
- 1882: Dixie Bibb Graves , American politician
- 1883: Eberhard Arnold , German theologian, philosopher, educator and publicist
- 1884: Elie Redon , French racing car driver
- 1885: Alfred Wickenburg , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 1887: Karl Ansén , Swedish football player
- 1889: Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen , German general
- 1890: Itō Seiichi , Japanese admiral
- 1891: Dora Boerner-Patzelt , Bohemian-Austrian university professor for histology
- 1891: Sydney Hayes , British lacrosse player
- 1891: Uno Kōji , Japanese writer
- 1892: Philipp Jarnach , German composer and music teacher
- 1892: Luise Mössinger-Schiffgens , German politician and women's rights activist
- 1893: George Grosz , German-American painter, printmaker and caricaturist
- 1893: Margarete Seemann , Austrian children's book author
- 1894: Aldous Huxley , British writer
- 1895: Jankel Adler , Polish painter and engraver
- 1895: Gracie Allen , American actress
- 1896: Tim Birkin , British racing car driver
- 1897: Paul Gallico , American author
- 1897: Jakob Gapp , Austrian priest and resistance fighter
- 1899: Hermann Josef Wehrle , German Catholic priest and resistance fighter
- 1900: Karl Berbuer , German pop singer
- 1900: Gustav Hilbert , German painter, graphic artist and metal and enamel artist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Umberto Caligaris , Italian football player and coach
- 1902: Augustus Aiken , American jazz trumpeter and cornet player
- 1902: Roger Branigin , American politician
- 1902: Albert Forster , German Gauleiter and Reich Governor in Danzig, war criminal
- 1902: Hugo Schrader , German actor
- 1903: Alice Brasse-Forstmann , Baltic German painter and graphic artist
- 1903: Gérard Favere , Belgian composer and conductor
- 1905: Horst Hacker , German lawyer and politician
- 1907: Nachman Aronszajn , Polish-American mathematician
- 1907: André Frénaud , French poet and essayist
- 1907: Donal McLaughlin , American graphic artist and architect
- 1908: Heinz Auerswald , German lawyer
- 1908: Børge Ralov , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1909: Vivian Vance , American actress
- 1910: Ernie Archer , British art director and production designer
- 1910: Vilma Bekendorf , German dancer, actress and author
- 1910: Kurt Partzsch , German engineer and politician, MdL, State Minister
- 1911: Lia Wöhr , German actress and television producer
- 1913: Karl Heinz Möbius , German naval pastor
- 1914: Raymond Perry Ahlquist , American pharmacist and pharmacologist
- 1915: Arthur Tyler , American bobsledder
- 1917: Alberta Adams , American blues singer
- 1917: Bertil Nordahl , Swedish football player
- 1918: Marjorie Lord , American actress
- 1919: Angelo Felici , Italian cardinal
- 1919: James Lovelock , British chemist, medic and biophysicist
- 1919: Elinborg Lützen , first Faroese graphic artist
- 1920: Walter Laird , British dancer
- 1920: Bob Waterfield , American football player
- 1921: Amedeo Amadei , Italian football player and coach
- 1921: Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1921: Karin Hertz , German sculptor
- 1922: Gilberto Agustoni , Swiss cardinal
- 1922: Chairil Anwar , Indonesian poet
- 1922: Gérard Calvi , French film composer
- 1922: Elfriede Datzig , Austrian film actress
- 1922: Blake Edwards , American film director, actor, and screenwriter
- 1922: Andrzej Koszewski , Polish composer, musicologist and music teacher
- 1922: Jason Robards , American actor
- 1923: Alexander Hegarth , German actor
- 1924: Ruth Weiss , German-South African journalist and writer
- 1925: Hans Bergel , German journalist and writer
- 1925: Ana María Matute , Spanish writer
1926-1950
- 1927: Charles Whittenberg , American composer and music teacher
- 1928: Leo Ågren , Finnish-Swedish writer
- 1928: Tadeusz Baird , Polish composer
- 1928: Don Beauman , British racing car driver
- 1928: Francesco Cossiga , Italian politician
- 1928: Stanley Kubrick , American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1928: Peter Lougheed , Canadian politician
- 1928: Bernice Rubens , British novelist
- 1929: Alexis Weissenberg , French pianist
- 1930: Nicolas Koob , Luxembourg racing driver
- 1931: Tony Curiel , Dominican opera singer
- 1932: James Francis Stafford , American Cardinal and Archbishop of Denver
- 1934: Alpo Aho , Finnish bandy player
- 1934: Anthony Gilbert , British composer and music educator
- 1934: Tommy McDonald , American football player
- 1935: Franz Karl Auersperg , Austrian politician and trade unionist
- 1935: Christian Büttrich , German Germanist and librarian
- 1936: Antonio Mastrogiovanni , Uruguayan composer and music teacher
- 1938: Lothar Böhme , German painter
- 1938: Joanne Brackeen , American pianist and university professor
- 1939: John Howard , Australian politician, Prime Minister
- 1940: Jürgen Kurbjuhn , German football player
- 1941: Colin Austin , British classical philologist and papyrologist
- 1941: Bobby Hebb , American singer and songwriter
- 1942: Hannelore Elsner , German actress
- 1942: Barry Graves , German journalist, author and radio presenter
- 1942: Vladimír Mečiar , Slovak politician
- 1943: Peter Hyams , American film director
- 1943: Mick Jagger , British musician ( Rolling Stones )
- 1943: Andrea True , American porn actress and singer
- 1944: John Hawkins , Canadian composer and pianist
- 1944: Ann-Christine Nyström , Finnish pop singer
- 1945: Antonio Fassina , Italian rally driver
- 1945: Helen Mirren , British actress
- 1946: Erwin Huber , German politician
- 1946: Christian Rudzki , Argentine soccer player
- 1946: Wolfgang Schneiderhan , German General Inspector of the Bundeswehr
- 1947: Thomas Auerbach , German civil rights activist
- 1949: Sharron Angle , American politician
- 1949: Larry Schneider , American jazz musician
- 1949: Thaksin Shinawatra , Thai politician, Prime Minister
- 1949: Roger Taylor , British drummer ( Queen )
1951-1975
- 1951: Günter Dreibrodt , German handball player
- 1951: Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , German politician, Federal Minister
- 1952: Heiner Brand , German handball player and coach
- 1952: Kay Sabban , German actor
- 1952: Mathias Schubert , German politician
- 1953: Kari Astala , Finnish mathematician
- 1953: Felix Magath , German soccer player and coach
- 1954: Mareike Carrière , German actress
- 1955: Asif Ali Zardari , Pakistani politician, President
- 1956: Theodor A. Atlas Jr. , American boxing trainer and television commentator
- 1956: Andy Goldsworthy , English artist
- 1957: Yuen Biao , Chinese actor
- 1957: Alexander Hüther , German guitarist and songwriter, music publisher and producer
- 1957: Eugen Ray , German athlete
- 1957: Nana Visitor , American actress
- 1958: Romy Müller , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1958: Ramona Neubert , German athlete
- 1959: Kevin Spacey , American actor
- 1960: Normand Aubin , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960: Elena Grölz , German handball player
- 1961: Thierry Antinori , French manager
- 1961: Gary Cherone , American rock singer
- 1961: Keiko Matsui , Japanese keyboardist and composer
- 1961: Michael Trischan , German actor
- 1964: Faustin Ambassa Ndjodo , Cameroonian Bishop of Batouri
- 1964: Sandra Bullock , American actress
- 1964: Ralf Metzenmacher , German painter and designer
- 1964: Tatjana Mittermayer , German freestyle skier
- 1964: Anne Provoost , Belgian writer
- 1964: Lars Söderdahl , Swedish actor
- 1965: Heidrun Gärtner , German actress
- 1966: Pascal Breuer , Austrian actor, dubbing and audio book speaker
- 1966: Anna Rita Del Piano , Italian actress
- 1966: Angelo Di Livio , Italian football player
- 1967: Dietmar Koszewski , German athlete
- 1967: Jason Statham , American actor
- 1967: Dai Young , British rugby player and coach
- 1968: Arnd Klawitter , German actor
- 1969: Oliver Krischer , German politician
- 1971: Andrea Fortunato , Italian football player
- 1973: Kate Beckinsale , British actress
- 1974: Daniel Negreanu , Canadian professional poker player
- 1974: Sebastian Sorger , German director
- 1975: Ingo Schultz , German athlete
1976-2000
- 1976: Pável Pardo , Mexican soccer player
- 1977: Frank Ettwein , German handball player
- 1977: Tanja Szewczenko , German figure skater
- 1978: Marcus Fraser , Australian golfer
- 1979: Paul Freier , German soccer player
- 1979: Madeleine West , Australian actress
- 1979: Ronny Ziesmer , German gymnast
- 1980: Jacinda Ardern , New Zealand politician, Prime Minister
- 1981: Vildan Atasever , Turkish actress
- 1981: Liam Talbot , Australian racing car driver
- 1982: Gilad Hochman , Israeli composer
- 1982: Bryce Miller , American racing car driver
- 1983: Kelly Clark , American snowboarder
- 1984: Marco Angelini , Austrian singer
- 1984: Marcos Gomes , Brazilian racing car driver
- 1985: Sayuri Asahara , Japanese badminton player
- 1985: Gaël Clichy , French football player
- 1985: Brice Feillu , French racing cyclist
- 1985: Marinko Kelečević , Bosnian handball player
- 1986: Panagiotis Kone , Greek-Albanian football player
- 1986: Swann Oberson , Swiss swimmer
- 1987: Evelina Sašenko , Polish-Lithuanian jazz and pop singer
- 1988: Diego Perotti , Argentine soccer player
- 1989: Tomáš Zmoray , Slovak ski jumper
- 1990: Jesús Herrada , Spanish cyclist
- 1990: Älichan Qaranejew , Kazakh billiards player
- 1990: Isabell Roch , German handball player
- 1990: Bianca A. Santos , American actress
- 1991: Jóan Símun Edmundsson , Faroese football player
- 1993: Elizabeth Gillies , American actress
- 1993: Taylor Momsen , American actress
- 1993: Stormzy , British musician
- 1993: Caleb Stanko , American football player
- 1993: Borys Tashchy , Ukrainian football player
- 1993: Danny van Poppel , Dutch cyclist
- 1994: Shawn Dingilius-Wallace , Palauan swimmer
- 1996: Carla Sénéchal , French bobsledder
21st century
- 2003: Can Öncü , Turkish motorcycle racer
- 2003: Deniz Öncü , Turkish motorcycle racer
Died
Before the 16th century
- Offa of Mercien , Anglo-Saxon king 796:
- Nikephorus I , Byzantine emperor 811:
- 1158: Gottfried VI. , Count of Anjou
- 1184: Gozmar III. , Count of Ziegenhain
- 1184: Heinrich I , Count of Schwarzburg
- 1216: Kamo no Chōmei , Japanese Buddhist monk and poet
- 1233: Wilbrand von Oldenburg , Bishop of Paderborn and Bishop of Utrecht
- 1296: Heinrich II. Von Rotteneck , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1318: Nicholas I , founder of the Duchy of Opava
- 1323: Aymon de Châtillon , Bishop of Sion
- 1342: Withego II von Colditz , Bishop of Meissen
- 1368: Nicola Capocci , Italian cardinal
- 1368: Ulrich I , Count of Cilli
- 1371: Rudolf von Sachsenhausen , knight, ministerial and city scholar of Frankfurt am Main
- 1380: Kōmyō , Japanese emperor
- 1397: Erich , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1411: Elisabeth von Hohenzollern-Nürnberg , Roman-German queen
- 1426: Adolf II , Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
- 1469: Henry Dwnn , Welsh nobleman and military man
- 1471: Paul II , Pope
- 1492: Heinrich IV. Von Absberg , Bishop of Regensburg
16th to 18th century
- 1506: Anne de Foix-Candale , Queen of Hungary
- 1511: Johann von Limburg-Broich , Count of Limburg and Herr zu Broich
- 1533: Atahualpa , last ruler of the Inca Empire
- 1538: George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury , English nobleman
- 1552: Johannes Gast , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1595: Augustin Cranach , German painter
- 1608: Pablo de Céspedes , Spanish painter, sculptor, architect and writer
- 1625: Johannes Piscator , German professor and Reformed theologian
- 1630: Charles Emanuel I , Duke of Savoy
- 1644: Clas Larsson Fleming , Swedish admiral
- 1684: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia , Italian philosopher and scholar, became the first woman to receive a doctorate
- 1693: Ulrike Eleonore of Denmark and Norway , Queen of Sweden
- 1703: Gérard Audran , French engraver
- 1716: Paolo Alessandro Maffei , Italian writer and antiquarian
- 1719: Hyacinth Petit , German auxiliary bishop
- 1721: Samuel Jacobi , German cantor and composer
- 1728: John Freind , English physician
- 1731: Johann Ernst von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort , Bishop of Tournai
- 1741: Jakob Maximilian von Thun and Hohenstein , Bishop of Gurk
- 1741: Wilhelm Heinrich , Duke of Saxony-Eisenach
- 1746: Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg and Imperial Vice Chancellor
- 1750: Vasily Nikititsch Tatishchev , Russian statesman, historian, geographer and ethnographer
- 1767: Henrietta Howard , English lady-in-waiting and mistress of King George II.
- 1767: Paul Gottlieb Werlhof , German doctor and poet
- 1776: Benedicta Margareta von Löwendal , German entrepreneur
- 1778: Philipp Ernst Wegmann , German organ builder
- 1779: Friedrich Wilhelm Adolph Biefer , German Pietist
- 1784: Johann Anton Tischbein , German painter
19th century
- 1801: Maximilian Franz of Austria , Archduke of Austria and Archbishop of Cologne
- 1806: Karoline von Günderrode , German romantic poet
- 1816: Johan Nordahl Brun , Norwegian bishop and poet
- 1817: Karadjordje , leader of the First Serbian Uprising from 1804 to 1813
- 1842: Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym , German mayor and state elder of Niederlausitz
- 1846: Paul Ackermann , French linguist and writer
- 1848: Heinrich Schmelen , Namibian founder of the Bethanien mission station in South West Africa
- 1851: Ernst Friedrich Köhler , German Lutheran clergyman
- 1853: Maximilian Thomas von Aicher , Bavarian officer
- 1855: August Ludwig Diemer , German legal scholar
- 1863: John J. Crittenden , American politician
- 1863: Sam Houston , American politician and general
- 1864: Friedrich Ludwig Haarmann , founder of the first German building trade school
- 1866: Ernst Helbig , German resin painter and Wernigerode court painter
- 1867: Otto I , Bavarian Prince and King of Greece
- 1872: Michele Carafa , Italian opera composer
- 1876: Karl Uschner , German translator of ancient poems
- 1877: Nehemiah Abbott , American attorney and politician, member of the US House of Representatives for the state of Maine
- 1881: August Ludwig Viktor , Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Koháry
- 1881: George Borrow , British writer
- 1881: Charles Colin , French oboist, organist, music teacher and composer
- 1883: William Fenwick Williams , British general and governor of Gibraltar
- 1887: Louise Aglaé Massart , French pianist, music teacher and composer
- 1889: Hans Tappenbeck , German officer and Africa explorer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902: Charles Kendall Adams , American historian and university professor
- 1912: Alexander von Bilderling , Russian general
- 1918: Fanny zu Reventlow , German writer
- 1925: Antonio Ascari , Italian racing car driver
- 1925: Théodore Botrel , French chansonnier
- 1925: William Jennings Bryan , American politician, opponent of Darwinism
- 1925: Gottlob Frege , German mathematician, logician and philosopher
- 1925: Bernhard Naunyn , German internist and cancer researcher
- 1926: Ella Adaïewsky , Russian pianist and composer
- 1926: Robert Todd Lincoln , American politician
- 1927: Max Albermann , German local politician
- 1935: Gil Andersen , Norwegian-American engineer, racing car driver and automobile manager
- 1935: Käthe Paulus , first German professional air skipper, aerial acrobat and inventor of the collapsible parachute
- 1937: Ernst von Delius , German automobile racing driver
- 1937: Aldo Pigorini , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1937: Gerda Taro , German photographer
- 1938: Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick , British high society lady and mistress
- 1940: Edmund Bursche , Polish Protestant theologian, church historian and pastor
- 1940: Kurt Kluge , German painter, sculptor and poet
- 1941: Henri Léon Lebesgue , French mathematician
- 1941: Josephine Siebe , German writer
- 1941: Benjamin Whorf , American linguist
- 1942: Roberto Arlt , Argentine storyteller, playwright and journalist
- 1942: Georg Pick , Austrian mathematician
- 1943: Karl Adam , German lawyer and district chief
- 1943: Luis Barros Borgoño , Chilean politician
- 1944: Hubert Materlik , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1944: Reza Shah Pahlavi , Iranian general and politician, Shah of Persia
- 1946: Heinrich Andergassen , Austrian SS officer, war criminal
- 1947: Wilhelm Lobsien , German writer
- 1949: Otto von Mendelssohn Bartholdy , German banker and industrialist
- 1950: Charlie McCoy , American blues guitarist, singer and mandolin player
1951-2000
- 1952: Eva Perón , Argentine politician
- 1953: Abel Santamaría , Cuban revolutionary
- 1955: Wilhelm Hammann , German resistance fighter
- 1955: Karl-Albrecht Tiemann , German philologist, victim of the GDR justice system
- 1958: Fernand Alfred Désiré Augereau , French racing cyclist
- 1958: Siegfried Passarge , German geographer
- 1960: Cedric Gibbons , American art director, designer of the Oscar sculpture
- 1960: Váša Příhoda , Czech violinist
- 1962: Kurt Assmann , German naval officer
- 1962: Raquel Meller , Spanish singer and film actress
- 1963: Arno Hennig , German politician
- 1964: Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe , British officer, politician and racing car driver
- 1964: William A. Seiter , American film director
- 1969: Léon Dernier , Belgian racing car driver
- 1969: Walter Reppe , German chemist
- 1971: Diane Arbus , American photographer
- 1972: Joop Boutmy , Dutch soccer player
- 1978: Herman Carl Andersen , American politician
- 1978: Mary Blair , American artist
- 1980: Federico Munerati , Italian football player and coach
- 1983: Adolf Exeler , German pastoral theologian and pastor
- 1983: Charlie Rivel , Spanish clown
- 1984: Ed Gein , American serial killer
- 1985: Walter Richter , German actor
- 1990: Hans Aebli , Swiss educator
- 1990: Brent Mydland , American keyboardist and singer
- 1990: Giorgio Scarlatti , Italian racing driver
- 1991: Maria Treben , Austrian herbalist and author
- 1992: Rita Atria , Italian informant for the judiciary
- 1994: Heinrich Drake , German sculptor
- 1994: Ernst Schröder , German actor
- 1994: Yoshiyuki Junnosuke , Japanese writer
- 1995: Laurindo Almeida , Brazilian jazz musician
- 1995: Heinrich Heesch , German mathematician
- 1995: Boy Lornsen , German sculptor and writer
- 1996: Heriberto Herrera , Paraguayan-Spanish soccer player and coach
- 1997: Kunihiko Kodaira , Japanese math professor
- 2000: Günther Hennerici , German entrepreneur and motorsport team boss
21st century
- 2001: Peter von Zahn , German radio and television journalist
- 2002: Anthony Anholt , British actor
- 2002: Jutta Hecker , German writer
- 2003: Hilde Levi , German-Danish physicist
- 2004: Peter Herzog , German actor
- 2005: Ivor David Arbiter , British instrument maker
- 2005: Mario David , Italian football player and coach
- 2006: Vojtech Zamarovský , Slovak historian, writer and translator
- 2009: Traugott Buhre , German actor
- 2009: Merce Cunningham , American dancer and choreographer
- 2010: Brigitte Schwaiger , Austrian writer
- 2011: Joe Arroyo , Colombian singer and composer
- 2011: Jacques Fatton , Swiss football player
- 2011: Otto Schmittner , German wrestler
- 2011: Erika Wagner , German politician, MdL
- 2012: Lupe Ontiveros , American actress
- 2012: Mary Tamm , British actress
- 2012: Franz West , Austrian visual artist
- 2013: Şəfiqə Axundova , Azerbaijani composer
- 2013: JJ Cale , American musician and composer
- 2013: Rolf Haufs , German writer and poet
- 2015: Bobbi Kristina Brown , American singer and actress
- 2016: Gertraude Nath-Krüger , German painter and graphic artist
- 2017: Constantin Freiherr von Heereman , German agricultural politician
- 2017: Leo Kinnunen , Finnish racing car driver
- 2019: Christian Stadelmann , German violinist
- 2020: Olivia de Havilland , British-American film actress, Oscar winner
- 2020: Hans-Jochen Vogel , German politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Louise Scheppler , Alsatian benefactress (Protestant)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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