June 26th

The June 26 is the 177th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 178th in leap years ), thus remain 188 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0004 : To arrange his succession, the Roman emperor Augustus adopts his 42-year-old stepson Tiberius Claudius Nero , after his two adoptive sons Lucius and Gaius Caesar had previously died.
• 0363 : The death of the Roman emperor Julian in a battle against the Sassanid Empire leads to the proclamation of his successor Jovian by his troops on the same day .
• 1295 : The coronation of the Piast Przemysł II as the fourth Polish king ends the phase of senior ducal dignity in the country and ensures the strengthening of the central power.

1407: Ulrich von Jungingen

• 1407 : The chapter of the Teutonic Order elects his brother Ulrich to be Grand Master after the death of Konrad von Jungingen . The latter initially defends himself against the election with the argument that he is not worthy of the high office.

1483: Richard III.

• 1483 : Richard III. begins his reign after the English parliament had declared him the rightful heir to the throne the day before .
• 1522 : The Ottomans under Suleyman appear with a huge fleet off Rhodes and begin the siege of the island , which is owned by the Order of St. John .
• 1529 : The first Landfriede of Kappel ends the First Kappel War between Reformed and Catholic places of the Confederation without fighting. He lifts the alliance of the five places of old faith (Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri and Zug) with the Habsburg ruler Ferdinand I and guarantees them freedom of belief.
• 1541 : A group of conspirators murdered the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in Lima .
• 1573 : The siege of La Rochelle by the Duke of Anjou in the French religious dispute between Catholics and Protestants is abandoned.
• 1759 : During the Seven Years' War, British troops land on the Île d'Orléans . Under the command of James Wolfe , the siege of Québec begins , which will last until the battle of the Plains of Abraham in September.
• 1794 : The Battle of Fleurus during the First Coalition War ends the rule of the Habsburgs in Belgium after the victory of the French Revolutionary Army .
• 1803 : Sweden pledges Wismar to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin for 100 years .
• 1830 : After the death of his brother Georg IV , Wilhelm IV becomes British King and King of Hanover .

1833: Map of the Dardanelles

• 1833 : Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign a treaty that obliges the Porte to close the Dardanelles and the Tsars to help in the Sultan's war with Egypt .
• 1843 : After the exchange of the instruments of ratification of the Treaty of Nanking in Hong Kong , Hong Kong is proclaimed a British Crown Colony .
• 1917 : The arrival of the first US soldiers on the coast of France marks the US intervention in the First World War .

1920: António Maria da Silva

• 1920 : António Maria da Silva becomes Portuguese Prime Minister for the first time . He holds the office four times in total.
• 1924 : The US occupation of the Dominican Republic in 1916 ends with democratic elections and leads to the replacement of the military government.
• 1935 : In Germany, men between the ages of 18 and 25 are required to do half-year compulsory national labor .
• 1941 : Four days after the Barbarossa company began , the first major battle of the Second World War began near Bialystok and Minsk .
• 1945 : The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) is founded and goes public with an appeal to the population.
• 1945 : The United Nations is founded with the signing of the United Nations Charter by 50 states in San Francisco .

Berlin-Tempelhof Airlift Memorial

• 1948 : Beginning of the Berlin Airlift . The first planes take off with food and other goods needed to supply the city , which was sealed off by Soviet troops on June 23rd .
• 1950 : The South African Parliament passes the Suppression of Communism Act , which is used as a pretext to take massive action against all domestic anti-apartheid efforts.
• 1960 : Madagascar , a French colony since 1868, gains independence from France.
• 1960 : British Somaliland is given independence. On July 1, it then merges with the UN trusteeship territory of Italian Somaliland to form Somalia .

1963: Kennedy in Berlin

• 1963 : US President John F. Kennedy gives a speech in front of the Schöneberg Town Hall in Berlin in front of 400,000 people, which ends with the sentence I am a Berliner spoken in German .
• 1966 : The Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt introduces women's suffrage .
• 1969 : The decisive World Cup qualifier for the 1970 World Cup between Honduras and El Salvador leads to violent clashes with dead people. Two weeks later , the " football war " breaks out between the two countries.
• 1978 : After 2:00 a.m., Versailles Palace is severely damaged by an explosive attack by Breton separatists .
• 1984 : The German Federal Minister of Economics Otto Graf Lambsdorff resigns because of the Flick donation affair.
• 1995 : In Addis Ababa , Ethiopia , an assassination attempt by presumably Muslim extremists on Egyptian President Husni Mubarak fails .
• 1996 : Former SPD politician Karl Wienand is sentenced to two and a half years in prison for espionage for the GDR .

economy

1860: Natal Railway train

• 1860 : In Durban , the first railway line in southern Africa is opened by the Natal Railway in the British colony of Natal . The train's locomotive is named Natal .
• 1879 : Egypt sells its shares in the Suez Canal to Great Britain .
• 1884 : The Waldhof pulp mill is founded in Mannheim , a forerunner of the Waldhof-Aschaffenburg paper mills .
• 1901 : Stock speculation and a large loan default ruin the Leipziger Bank , the former private central bank of Saxony .
• 1919 : New York publisher Joseph Medill Patterson publishes the Daily News , the first daily newspaper in a small tabloid newspaper format .
• 1974 : The Herstatt Bank in Cologne and Bonn has to close its counters by order of the Federal Supervisory Office for the Credit System after billions in losses in forward exchange transactions .

1974: EAN-13 barcode

• 1974 : The barcode system is used for the first time in a supermarket in Ohio (USA) . A pack of Wrigleys brand chewing gum is scanned .

science and technology

• 1472 : The University of Ingolstadt opens in Bavaria .
• 1886 : The Frenchman Henri Moissan produces pure fluorine for the first time .

1896: Heroin bottle

• 1896 : Felix Hoffmann synthesizes heroin according to the method of Charles Romley Wright from 1874. It is offered as a drug by the Bayer company .
• 1897 : During a fleet parade, the Turbinia , the world's first steam turbine ship, spectacularly demonstrates its superiority as the fastest ship of the time.
• 1905 : To 22:38 welcomes Iceland the first telegram . The British Marconi Company sent it via radio of Cornwall from. The submarine cable connection does not follow until a year later.
• 1936 : The world's first helicopter , the FW 61, takes off from Bremen .

1976: CN Tower

• 1976 : The CN Tower opens in Toronto , the tallest free-standing structure in the world until 2007.
• 2001 : The foundation stone for the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv is laid in the presence of Pope John Paul II .
• 2007 : The Hangzhou Wan Daqiao is inaugurated in Zhejiang , with a length of 36 km it was the longest overseas bridge in the world at the time.

Culture

1802: Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt

• 1802 : The Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt is opened in the presence of the poet.
• 1862 : The first performance of the comic opera Sarolta by Ferenc Erkel takes place in Budapest.
• 1870 : The world premiere of the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner takes place in the Royal Court and National Theater in Munich under the direction of Franz Wüllner .
• 1925 : Charlie Chaplin's film Gold Rush premieres in Hollywood.
• 1933 : The educational film is introduced as teaching material in schools by a decree of the National Socialist Prussian Minister of Education, Bernhard Rust .
• 1934 : A Reich Office for Educational Films (RfdU) is created in National Socialist Germany .
• 1977 : Elvis Presley gives his last concert in Indianapolis .
• 1997 : The first Harry Potter book , Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone , appears in the UK with an initial print run of 500 copies.

1998: Marree Man

• 1998 : From a height of about 1000 meters, the bush pilot Trac Smith accidentally discovers the four-kilometer earth drawing of Marree Man in central South Australia .
• 2009 : Both the Dutch parts of the Wadden Sea and those of the federal states of Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein are declared a World Heritage Site .

society

• 1987 : The International Conference on Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking in Vienna adopted a concept for future measures to combat drug abuse .
• 1987 : The UN Convention against Torture comes into force.
• 2003 : In the decision of Lawrence v. Texas raises the Supreme Court of the United States all sodomy laws in the United States because of interference with the right to privacy on.
• 2015 : In the decision of Obergefell v. Hodges of the United States Supreme Court will legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states of the United States.

religion

• 0684 : Benedict II , who successfully sought reconciliation with Emperor Constantine IV of Byzantium after the strain of the monotheletic dispute , is enthroned as Pope .
• 1409 : After the deposition of the two Popes Gregory XII. and Benedict XIII. on June 5, which elects Council of Pisa the Franciscan Pietro Philargi the new pope, the name Alexander V. takes. However, since none of the other popes accepts this decision, the occidental schism is expanded to include a third pope.
• 1533 : The assembled citizens of Hanover take a joint oath on the Lutheran teachings. This is considered to be the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in Hanover.

1667: Clement IX.

• 1667 : Cardinal Giuglio Rospigliosi becomes Clement IX after his election as Pope on June 20 . enthroned.
• 2000 : The third of the Three Mysteries of Fátima is made public in Rome by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger and Tarcisio Bertone , secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .

nature and environment

1492: Mont Aiguille

• 1492 : Antoine de Ville succeeds in climbing Mont Aiguille in the French western Alps, commanded by France's King Charles VIII . When climbing the mountain for the first time, ladders are used in addition to mountaineering equipment.
• 2006 : JJ1 , called Bruno , is shot in Bavaria . It was the first wild bear on German territory after the last predator of its kind in Germany was killed 170 years ago.

Disasters

• 1719 : The Great Christian Fire breaks out in Frankfurt am Main and, within three days, destroys the north-west of the imperial city with around 400 houses.
• 1973 : Nine people died in the explosion of a Kosmos-3M rocket that had been refueled for launch on the Plesetsk rocket launch site .

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

Sports

• 1906 : 32 cars compete in the world's first Grand Prix race in Le Mans , France .
• 1954 : Austria defeated in the quarterfinals of the FIFA World Cup to Switzerland with 7: 5; the most scoring game at a World Cup finals went down in history as the heat battle of Lausanne .

1959: Floyd Patterson on the ground after Ingemar Johansson's blow

• 1959 : Swede Ingemar Johansson becomes world heavyweight boxing champion. Defending champion Floyd Patterson goes down seven times in the third round before the referee ends the fight.
• 1992 : Denmark , only ten days before the start of the tournament for Yugoslavia , which was excluded because of the Balkan conflict , won the European Football Championship in Sweden . The Danes sensationally beat reigning world champions Germany 2-0 in the final in Stockholm .
• 1999 : With a knockout over the Briton Herbie Hide in the second round, Vitali Klitschko becomes world heavyweight champion.
• 2011 : The women's soccer world championship in Germany begins.
• 2016 : Chile wins the Copa América Centenario with a 4-2 win on penalties in the final against Argentina .

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

• 0719 : Yang Guifei , concubine of Emperor Xuanzong from the Tang Dynasty

Ernst I. (* 1497)

• 1497 : Ernst I , Prince of Lüneburg
• 1502 : Cristóbal de Rojas y Sandoval , Bishop of Oviedo, Bishop of Badajoz, Bishop of Cordoba and Archbishop of Seville
• 1557 : Leandro Bassano , Italian painter
• 1561 : Erdmuthe von Brandenburg , Duchess of Pomerania
• 1611 : Johann Erich Ostermann , German Graecist
• 1620 : Johann Caspar Schweizer , Swiss Protestant clergyman, philologist and university professor
• 1674 : Johann Jacob Syrbius , German philosopher and Lutheran theologian
• 1681 : Hedwig Sophia of Sweden , Swedish princess and duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
• 1684 : Johann Josef von Waldstein , Czech nobleman and patron

18th century

Charles Messier (* 1730)

• 1712 : Johann Andreas Silbermann , Alsatian organ builder
• 1726 : Viktor Amadeus III. , King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Duke of Savoy
• 1730 : Charles Messier , French astronomer
• 1741 : John Langdon , American politician, Governor of New Hampshire, Senator, first Senate President pro tempore
• 1742 : Arthur Middleton , American politician, signatory of the Declaration of Independence
• 1746 : Jean-Siffrein Maury , French cleric and politician, Archbishop of Paris
• 1747 : Leopold Koželuh , Bohemian composer
• 1753 : Antoine de Rivarol , French writer
• 1760 : Johann I. Josef , Austrian field marshal, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Prince von und zu Liechtenstein
• 1760 : Karl Aloys zu Fürstenberg , imperial field marshal lieutenant
• 1767 : Katharina Kainz , German singer
• 1769 : George Browne, 8th Viscount Montagu , English lord and tourist
• 1770 : Johann Christoph Schreiter , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• 1772 : Johan Lorentz Aschan , Swedish entrepreneur
• 1786 : Sunthon Phu , Thai poet
• 1789 : Heinrich Franz von Bombelles , Austrian diplomat and officer, educator of Franz Joseph I.
• 1796 : Jan Paweł Lelewel , Polish engineer officer, freedom fighter and architect

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Georg Prahl Harbitz , Norwegian pastor and President of the Stortings
• 1804 : Louis Asher , German landscape painter and sculptor
• 1810 : Rageth Christoffel , Swiss pastor and educator
• 1815 : Mariana Grajales , Cuban freedom fighter during the Wars of Independence
• 1816 : George Whiting Flagg , American painter
• 1817 : Bernhard Windscheid , German lawyer, legal scholar and university professor
• 1819 : Juana Manso de Noronha , Argentine writer, feminist and composer, educator and journalist
• 1819 : Eduard Seuffert , Austrian piano maker

William Thomson (* 1824)

• 1824 : William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin , British physicist
• 1826 : Adolf Bastian , German ethnologist
• 1827 : Gaetana Sterni , Italian nun and founder
• 1831 : Julius Rodenberg , German journalist and writer
• 1834 : John Alexander Anderson , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1835 : Ottó Herman , Hungarian naturalist, ethnologist and politician
• 1847 : Conrad Justus Bredenkamp , German theologian and university professor
• 1848 : Henri Lioret , French watchmaker and inventor

1851-1900

• 1854 : Erich Kling , German officer and explorer

Eberhard Fraas (* 1862)

• 1862 : Eberhard Fraas , German geologist and paleontologist
• 1863 : Alfred Grenander , Swedish architect
• 1869 : Martin Andersen Nexø , Danish writer
• 1871 : Johan Anker , Norwegian sailor, yacht designer and shipyard owner, Olympic champion
• 1875 : Riccardo Stracciari , Italian opera singer and singing teacher
• 1875 : Camille Zeckwer , American composer
• 1876 : Johannes Paul Aeltermann , German clergyman, victim of National Socialism
• 1876 : Fritz Pferdekämper , German sinologist
• 1878 : Albert Siklós , Hungarian composer
• 1879 : Agrippina Jakowlewna Waganowa , Russian ballet dancer and ballet teacher
• 1881 : Marie Schlieps , German-Baltic deaconess and evangelical martyr
• 1883 : Erich Graf von Bernstorff-Gyldensteen , German marksman
• 1884 : Hermann Bürkle , German football player
• 1884 : Peter Petersen , German school reformer
• 1885 : Billy Jenkins , German archer, lasso thrower and raptor dresser
• 1890 : Jeanne Eagels , American actress
• 1891 : Sidney Howard , American playwright
• 1891 : Peter Hütgens , German politician, MdR

Pearl S. Buck (* 1892)

• 1892 : Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1893 : Big Bill Broonzy , American musician
• 1897 : Viola Dana , American silent film actress
• 1897 : Walter Vesper , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1898 : Willy Messerschmitt , German aircraft designer and entrepreneur
• 1898 : Ernst Nebhut , German writer, librettist and screenwriter
• 1898 : Henri Théodore Pigozzi , Franco-Italian merchant and industrialist
• 1899 : Maria Nikolajewna Romanowa , daughter of Tsar Nicholas II.

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Jean Boyer , French director and screenwriter
• 1902 : Antonia Brico , American conductor
• 1903 : David Granger , American bobsledder
• 1903 : Abe Tomoji , Japanese writer, translator and literary critic
• 1903 : Hans Weisz , Romanian-German church musician and composer

Peter Lorre (* 1904)

• 1904 : Peter Lorre , Hungarian-American film actor, screenwriter, and film director
• 1905 : Rudolf Klupsch , German athlete
• 1905 : August Momberger , German automobile racing driver and engineer
• 1905 : Ruth Seydewitz , German journalist and writer
• 1906 : Stefan Andres , German writer
• 1906 : Edward Akufo-Addo , Ghanaian lawyer and politician, Supreme Court Justice, President of the Republic
• 1906 : Sigfried Asche , German art historian and museum director
• 1907 : Friedrich Asinger , Austrian chemist
• 1907 : Martin Schneeweiss , Austrian motorcycle racer

Salvador Allende (* 1908)

• 1908 : Salvador Allende , Chilean politician, president
• 1908 : William F. Knowland , American politician, senator
• 1908 : Emil Zbinden , Swiss draftsman, xylograph and painter
• 1909 : Max Eisinger , German chess player
• 1909 : Erwin Schopper , German physicist
• 1909 : Colonel Tom Parker , American music manager for Elvis Presley
• 1910 : Don Ashton , British architect, film designer and set designer
• 1910 : Friedrich Rögelein , German officer
• 1911 : Ernst Witt , German mathematician

Mildred Didrikson Zaharias (* 1911)

• 1911 : Mildred Didrikson Zaharias , American athlete and golfer
• 1912 : Roxanne Atkins , Canadian hurdler
• 1913 : Aimé Césaire , Afro-Caribbean-French poet, writer and politician, Member of the French National Assembly
• 1913 : Maurice V. Wilkes , British computer scientist
• 1914 : Antoine Argoud , French officer
• 1914 : Shapur Bakhtiar , Iranian politician, Prime Minister
• 1914 : Wolfgang Windgassen , German opera singer (tenor)
• 1915 : Walter Farley , American writer
• 1916 : Karlrobert Kreiten , German pianist
• 1917 : Karin von Arronet , painter, graphic artist and art teacher
• 1919 : Hans Lamprecht , Swiss-German forest scientist
• 1920 : Stanislav Ledinek , Slovenian actor and voice actor
• 1925 : Pawel Ivanovich Belyayev , Soviet cosmonaut
• 1925 : Ursula Hensel-Krüger , German sculptor
• 1925 : Jürgen Joedicke , German architect, architecture theorist and university professor
• 1925 : Virgilio Maroso , Italian football player
• 1925 : Wolfgang Unzicker , German chess player, grandmaster

1926-1950

• 1926 : Oswald Andrae , German writer
• 1926 : Jérôme Lejeune , French pediatrician and geneticist, discoverer of the cat-cry syndrome
• 1926 : Hamilton Naki , South African surgeon, employee of Christiaan Barnard and victim of apartheid politics

Jacob Druckman (* 1928)

• 1928 : Jacob Druckman , American composer and music teacher
• 1929 : Milton Glaser , American graphic designer, illustrator, and teacher
• 1929 : Rodney Nuckey , British racing car driver
• 1930 : Friedrich Magirius , German Evangelical Lutheran theologian
• 1930 : Sławomir Mrożek , Polish writer and playwright
• 1931 : Colin Wilson , English writer
• 1933 : Claudio Abbado , Italian conductor
• 1933 : Renato Pirocchi , Italian racing car driver
• 1934 : Dave Grusin , American film composer and jazz musician
• 1934 : Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Ivanov , Russian drummer, composer and conductor
• 1934 : Hans-Jürgen Mellentin , German politician, MdL

Carlo Facetti (* 1935)

• 1935 : Carlo Facetti , Italian racing car driver
• 1935 : Wilhelm Schraml , German clergyman, Bishop of Passau
• 1936 : Hal Greer , American basketball player
• 1936 : Reinhard Stollreiter , German choir director and university professor
• 1936 : Jean-Claude Turcotte , Archbishop of Montréal and Cardinal
• 1937 : Robert Coleman Richardson , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1938 : Neil Abercrombie , American politician, member of the House of Representatives, Governor of Hawaii
• 1938 : Eric G. Adelberger , American experimental nuclear and gravitational physicist
• 1938 : Bernd Mühleisen , German handball player
• 1940 : Gerhard Widder , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Mannheim
• 1941 : Wayne Dockery , American jazz bassist
• 1943 : Georgie Fame , British singer
• 1943 : Allen Strange , American composer, musicologist and musician
• 1944 : Arthur Doyle , American jazz musician
• 1944 : Wolfgang Weber , German soccer player
• 1945 : Ondřej Neff , Czech writer, journalist and publisher of internet newspapers

Maria von Welser (* 1946)

• 1946 : Maria von Welser , German presenter and journalist
• 1947 : Peter Sloterdijk , German philosopher
• 1947 : Rainer Stinner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1947 : Werner Voigt , German football player and coach
• 1948 : Sergei Vladimirovich Bodrov , Russian film director, screenwriter and producer
• 1949 : Gyula Babos , Hungarian jazz guitarist
• 1949 : Margot Glockshuber , German figure skater
• 1950 : Klaus Schlagheck , German handball player

1951-1975

Jürgen Rüttgers (* 1951)

• 1951 : Jürgen Rüttgers , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
• 1952 : Hansi Kraus , German actor
• 1953 : Magnus F. Andersson , Swedish composer and trombonist
• 1953 : Robert Davi , American actor and opera singer
• 1954 : Luis Arconada , Spanish soccer player
• 1954 : Steve Barton , American actor
• 1954 : Miroslav Nemec , Croatian-German actor
• 1955 : Michael Lederer , German athlete
• 1955 : Fabrizia Pons , Italian rally driver and co-driver
• 1955 : Philippe Streiff , French racing car driver
• 1956 : Amma Darko , Ghanaian writer
• 1956 : Chris Isaak , American singer and actor

Gabriele Pauli (* 1957)

• 1957 : Gabriele Pauli , German politician, MdL
• 1957 : Pietro Paolo Virdis , Italian football player
• 1959 : Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen , Norwegian judge
• 1959 : Leander Haußmann , German film and theater director
• 1959 : Josef Mahlmeister , German author
• 1960 : Rigmor Aasrud , Norwegian politician
• 1960 : Rosie Gaines , American singer
• 1960 : Peter Pysall , German handball player and coach
• 1961 : Peter von Haller , German cameraman
• 1961 : Greg LeMond , American cyclist
• 1963 : Mikhail Borissowitsch Khodorkovsky , Russian entrepreneur, CEO of Yukos
• 1963 : Carolin Fortenbacher , German actress and singer
• 1963 : Jörg Schmidt , German local politician (CDU) and mayor
• 1964 : Harry Ahamer , Austrian musician and composer
• 1964 : Tommi Mäkinen , Finnish rally driver
• 1965 : Emanuele Arciuli , Italian pianist

Ulrich Derad (* 1965)

• 1965 : Ulrich Derad , German handball player
• 1966 : Kenny Achampong , English soccer player
• 1966 : Annette M. Böckler , Jewish biblical scholar
• 1966 : Jirko Malchárek , Slovak car racing driver and politician
• 1967 : Monty Arnold , German actor, comedian and voice actor
• 1968 : Armand de Las Cuevas , French cyclist
• 1968 : Guðni Th. Jóhannesson , Icelandic historian
• 1968 : Paolo Maldini , Italian football player

Sönke Neitzel (* 1968)

• 1968 : Sönke Neitzel , German historian
• 1969 : Elisabeth Büchle , German author
• 1970 : Chris O'Donnell , American actor
• 1970 : Nick Offerman , American actor
• 1971 : Max Biaggi , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1972 : Eva Herzig , Austrian actress
• 1972 : Alexander Marcus , German musician
• 1973 : Andrea Mertens , German film editor
• 1973 : Gretchen Wilson , American country singer and songwriter
• 1974 : Derek Jeter , American baseball player
• 1974 : Dieter Kalt , Austrian ice hockey player
• 1974 : Stephan Zinner , German actor, musician and cabaret artist
• 1975 : Jean-Paul Abalo , Togolese football player
• 1975 : Chris Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Maikel Aerts , Dutch football player
• 1977 : Azər Hacıyev , Azerbaijani billiards player
• 1977 : Florian Kehrmann , German handball player
• 1977 : Nadine Krüger , German TV presenter and actress
• 1978 : Alex Arthur , British boxer and standard boom
• 1978 : Tory Mussett , Australian actress
• 1979 : Ryō Fukuda , Japanese racing driver

Ryan Tedder (* 1979)

• 1979 : Ryan Tedder , American musician, song composer, and record producer
• 1980 : Dustin Dollin , Australian skateboarder
• 1980 : Michael Vick , American football player
• 1981 : Natalja Nikolajewna Antjuch , Russian athlete
• 1981 : Paolo Cannavaro , Italian football player
• 1981 : Gábor Gyepes , Hungarian football player
• 1982 : Ursula Holl , German soccer player
• 1982 : Ryō Orime , Japanese racing car driver
• 1982 : Štefan Svitko , Slovak motorcycle racer
• 1983 : Felipe Melo , Brazilian soccer player
• 1983 : Antonio Rosati , Italian football player
• 1984 : Luis Hernández , Venezuelan baseball player
• 1984 : Aljoscha Schmidt , German handball player

Deron Williams (* 1984)

• 1984 : Deron Williams , American basketball player
• 1984 : JJ Barea , Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1984 : Raymond Felton , American basketball player
• 1985 : Katrin Heß , German actress, model and voice actress
• 1985 : Jonathan Kennard , British racing driver
• 1985 : Johannes X. Schachtner , German conductor and composer
• 1986 : Marko Bezjak , Slovenian handball player
• 1986 : Cristian Llama , Argentine soccer player
• 1987 : Samir Nasri , French football player
• 1989 : Elia Soriano , Italian soccer player
• 1990 : Iman Shumpert , American basketball player
• 1991 : Philipp Blaurock , German Nordic combined athlete
• 1992 : Joel Campbell , Costa Rican soccer player
• 1992 : Rudy Gobert , French basketball player

Jennette McCurdy (* 1992)

• 1992 : Jennette McCurdy , American actress and singer
• 1993 : Ariana Grande , American model, actress, and singer
• 1994 : Leonard Carow , German actor
• 1994 : Viktoria Wolffhardt , Austrian canoeist
• 1995 : Paul Kohlhoff , German regatta sailor
• 1997 : Andreas Manfred Gebhard , German-Austrian sailor
• 1997 : Tatsuya Itō , Japanese football player
• 2000 : Alessia Crippa , Italian skeleton skier
• 2000 : Verena Wieder , German soccer player

Died

Before the 19th century

• 116 BC BC : Ptolemy VIII , Egyptian pharaoh
• 0363 : Julian , Roman Emperor
• 0822 : Saichō , Japanese Buddhist monk
• 0891 : Sunderold , Archbishop of Mainz
• 1045 : Gonzalo , King of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza
• 1084 : Hermann I , Bishop of Bamberg
• 1090 : Jaromír-Gebehard , Bishop of Prague
• 1178 : Antelmo di Chignin , Roman Catholic clergyman, Prior of the Carthusian Order, Bishop of Belley
• 1242 : Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick , English magnate
• 1288 : Siegfried IV von Algertshausen , Bishop of Augsburg
• 1291 : Eleanor of Provence , Queen of England
• 1331 : Robert de Cassel , Flemish nobleman
• 1381 : Geoffrey Lister , English rebel
• 1402 : Giovanni I. Bentivoglio , Italian nobleman, lord of Bologna
• 1439 : Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas , Scottish nobleman
• 1451 : Reinhard II of Hanau , Count of Hanau
• 1452 : Georgios Gemistos Plethon , Greek philosopher
• 1480 : William Bourchier, Viscount Bourchier , English nobleman
• 1487 : Johannes Argyropulos , Byzantine humanist

Francisco Pizarro († 1541)

• 1541 : Francisco Pizarro , Spanish conquistador
• 1568 : Thomas Young , Archbishop of York
• 1569 : Viktorin Strigel , German Lutheran theologian
• 1574 : Gabriel de Lorges , French nobleman and Huguenot
• 1592 : Armand de Gontaut , Seigneur de Biron, French statesman and field marshal, mayor of Bordeaux
• 1595 : Hermann Hamelmann , German Lutheran theologian and historian
• 1609 : Johann Philipp von Gebsattel , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
• 1620 : Carlo Saraceni , Italian painter
• 1632 : Alexandru Coconul , voivode of Wallachia
• 1655 : Margaret of Savoy , Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat, Spanish viceroy of Portugal
• 1659 : García Sarmiento de Sotomayor , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain and Peru
• 1662 : Lawrence Rooke , English astronomer and mathematician
• 1667 : Johann Zeisold , German physicist
• 1683 : Ferdinand von Fürstenberg , Prince-Bishop of Münster and Paderborn
• 1701 : Giulia Masotti ("La Dori"), Italian opera singer
• 1719 : Friedrich Wilhelm I , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• 1732 : Anton Detlev Jenner , Braunschweig sculptor and carver
• 1755 : Iyasu II , Negus negest of Ethiopia
• 1757 : Maximilian Ulysses Browne , Austrian field marshal of Irish descent
• 1762 : Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottsched , German writer
• 1778 : Therese von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , abbess of the imperial free secular monastery of Gandersheim
• 1793 : Karl Philipp Moritz , German philosopher and artist

19th century

• 1802 : Friedrich Christian Lorenz Schweigger , German theologian
• 1810 : Louis d'Affry , Swiss politician, Landammann
• 1810 : Joseph Michel Montgolfier , French industrialist and inventor ( Montgolfier brothers )
• 1824 : Johann Gerhard Helmcke , German master baker, grain trader and property speculator, keeper of Herrenhäuser Allee in Hanover
• 1827 : Christian August Vulpius , German writer
• 1827 : Samuel Crompton , British inventor

George IV († 1830)

• 1830 : George IV , King of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
• 1831 : August Wellauer , German classical philologist and pedagogue
• 1836 : Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French poet and officer, composer of the Marseillaise
• 1842 : Carlo Ignazio Pozzi , German architect and builder
• 1842 : Samuel L. Southard , American politician
• 1848 : Stevenson Archer , American lawyer and politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1849 : Joseph Anton Dreher , German organ builder
• 1849 : Johann Georg Florschütz , German Protestant clergyman
• 1858 : Johannes Roth , German zoologist and explorer
• 1863 : Andrew Hull Foote , American Union admiral in the American Civil War
• 1868 : Johann Nepomuk Zwerger , German sculptor
• 1873 : Friedrich Schüler , German lawyer and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, MdL
• 1879 : Richard Heron Anderson , American general
• 1881 : Philipp Schey von Koromla , Hungarian-Austrian wholesaler and patron

Jacques-Joseph Moreau († 1884)

• 1884 : Jacques-Joseph Moreau , French doctor and psychiatrist
• 1889 : Simon Cameron , American politician, senator, Secretary of War
• 1889 : Ludwig Wolf , German doctor and anthropologist
• 1893 : Konstantin Karlowitsch Albrecht , Russian composer
• 1896 : Louis d'Orléans, duc de Nemours , French general
• 1899 : Benjamin Wills Newton , British theologian

20th century

1901-1950

• 1905 : Franz Overbeck , German theologian
• 1910 : Lau Lauritzen Jr. , Danish actor, film director and screenwriter
• 1913 : Jaques Cart , Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher
• 1913 : Jonathan Hutchinson , British surgeon and pathologist

Peter Rosegger († 1918)

• 1918 : Peter Rosegger , Austrian writer
• 1919 : Adolf Anderle , Austrian politician, LAbg.
• 1921 : Alfred Percy Sinnett , British author and theosophist
• 1922 : Albert I , Prince of Monaco
• 1922 : Ciro Luis Urriola , Panamanian President
• 1923 : Karl Scheidemantel , German opera singer (baritone), director and director
• 1925 : Ernesto Drangosch , Argentine composer and pianist
• 1929 : Amandus Adamson , Estonian sculptor
• 1932 : Adelaide Ames , American astronomer
• 1934 : Nathaniel Lord Britton , American geologist and botanist
• 1934 : Max Pallenberg , Austrian singer, actor and comedian
• 1936 : Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje , Dutch Arabist and Islam expert
• 1937 : Adolf Erman , German Egyptologist
• 1939 : Ford Madox Ford , British writer
• 1941 : Andrew Jackson Houston , American attorney and politician, Senator

Karl Landsteiner († 1943)

• 1943 : Karl Landsteiner , Austrian bacteriologist and serologist, discoverer of the AB0 blood group system , Nobel Prize winner
• 1944 : Walther Arndt , German zoologist and physician
• 1945 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Tscherepnin , Russian composer
• 1947 : Richard Bedford Bennett , Canadian politician, Prime Minister
• 1947 : Heinrich Thyssen , German entrepreneur and art patron
• 1947 : Vera Salvequart , Czech employee at the Ravensbrück concentration camp

1951-2000

Frank Ferera († 1951)

• 1951 : Frank Ferera , Hawaiian musician
• 1951 : George Udny Yule , British statistician
• 1953 : Mathias Tantau , German rose breeder
• 1954 : Matthias Heinrich , auxiliary bishop in Berlin
• 1955 : Engelbert Zaschka , German chief engineer, designer, inventor and helicopter pioneer
• 1956 : Clifford Brown , American jazz trumpeter
• 1957 : Alfred Döblin , German doctor and socially critical writer
• 1960 : Fridolin Keidel , German aviation pioneer
• 1962 : Hermann Aichinger , Austrian architect
• 1964 : Tony Sender , German politician and journalist, MdR
• 1967 : Françoise Dorléac , French actress
• 1967 : Peter Horn , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1967 : Romano Perdomi , Italian racing driver
• 1970 : Fernando Arbello , Puerto Rican jazz trombonist and composer
• 1971 : Guillermo Uribe Holguín , Colombian composer

Wilhelm Schubert († 1972)

• 1972 : Wilhelm Schubert , German officer
• 1973 : John Cranko , British dancer and choreographer
• 1975 : Basil Cameron , English violinist and conductor
• 1975 : Josemaría Escrivá , Spanish priest
• 1976 : Helmut Hallmeier , German motorcycle racer
• 1977 : Arnold Pauli , Swiss singer, choir director and composer
• 1979 : Fred Akuffo , Ghanaian military and politician, head of state
• 1979 : Franz-Josef Röder , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister, Prime Minister of Saarland
• 1980 : K-Ximbinho , Brazilian clarinetist, composer and arranger
• 1981 : Rosl Mayr , German folk actress
• 1982 : Alexander Mitscherlich , German doctor, psychoanalyst and writer
• 1982 : Alfredo Marceneiro , Portuguese fado singer
• 1984 : Albert Dailey , American jazz pianist
• 1985 : Erwin Albrecht , German judge and politician, MdL
• 1988 : Hans Urs von Balthasar , Swiss theologian and cardinal
• 1988 : Karl Wilhelm Struve , German prehistoric and early historian
• 1991 : Arkadi Grigoryevich Adamov , Soviet writer
• 1993 : Herbert Gruhl , German politician, environmentalist and writer, Member of the Bundestag
• 1996 : Veronica Guerin , Irish journalist
• 1996 : Max Klankermeier , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
• 1996 : Vicentico Valdés , Cuban singer
• 1997 : Don Hutson , American football player and coach
• 1997 : Israel Kamakawiwoʻole , Hawaiian musician
• 1998 : Pierre Angénieux , French engineer and entrepreneur

21st century

• 2002 : Barbara Adams , British Egyptologist
• 2002 : Alfred Lorenzer , German psychoanalyst and sociologist
• 2003 : Marc-Vivien Foé , Cameroonian football player

Denis Thatcher († 2003)

• 2003 : Denis Thatcher , British politician, husband of Margaret Thatcher
• 2003 : Strom Thurmond , American Politician, Governor of South Carolina, Senator
• 2004 : Ott Arder , Estonian poet, children's book author and translator
• 2004 : Adolf Emile Cohen , Dutch historian
• 2004 : Naomi Schemer , Israeli singer
• 2005 : Filip Adwent , Polish politician, MEP
• 2005 : Grete Sultan , German-American pianist
• 2006 : Frederick Mayer , German educator and author
• 2006 : Karl-Heinz Weimann , German Germanist, Paracelsus researcher and librarian

Jupp Derwall († 2007)

• 2007 : Jupp Derwall , German soccer player and coach
• 2007 : Luigi Meneghello , Italian writer
• 2009 : Margot Ebert , German actress and dancer, entertainer and writer
• 2009 : Eduardo Lagos , Argentine pianist, composer and music critic
• 2010 : Algirdas Brazauskas , Lithuanian politician, President, Prime Minister
• 2010 : Adam Zielinski , Polish-Austrian writer
• 2011 : Reinhard Appel , German journalist, editor and director
• 2012 : Sverker Åström , Swedish diplomat
• 2012 : Nora Ephron , American screenwriter and film director
• 2013 : Ole Arntzen , Norwegian ski jumper, ski jumping trainer and official
• 2013 : Marc Rich , Spanish-Israeli investor and commodities trader
• 2013 : Bert Stern , American photographer

Yevgeny Maximowitsch Primakow († 2015)

• 2015 : Yevgeny Maximovich Primakov , Russian politician, foreign minister, prime minister
• 2016 : Austin Clarke , Canadian writer
• 2016 : Walter Herrmann , German activist
• 2017 : Herbert Killian , Austrian forest historian and victim of Stalinism
• 2017 : Siegfried Strasser , Austrian artist
• 2018 : Henri Namphy , Haitian military and politician
• 2018 : Elisabeth Niemann , German doctor and activist
• 2019 : Max Wright , American actor
• 2019 : Ivan Cooper , Northern Irish politician
• 2020 : James DG Dunn , British theologian
• 2020 : Rosemarie Müller-Streisand , German theologian and church historian

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Vigilius of Trient , Bishop of Trient, possibly martyr (Protestant, Roman Catholic)
  • St. Jeremiah , Israelite prophet, possibly martyr (Evangelical: LCMS )
  • St. Josemaría , founder of Opus Dei

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Madagascar : Independence from France (1960)

• Commemoration days of international organizations
  • International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Traffic ( United Nations ) (since 1988)

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

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