26th of March
The March 26 is the 85th day of the Gregorian calendar (86th in leap years ), thus remain 280 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1027 : Pope John XIX. crowns Conrad II and his wife Gisela von Schwaben in Rome as Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire .
- 1077 : The March 15 in Forchheim for anti-king . Henry IV elected Rudolf of Rheinfelden is in Mainz anointed what at the Heinrich loyal Mainz citizenship meets with little enthusiasm.
- 1211 : After the death of his father Sancho I , Alfonso II ascends the Portuguese throne as the third Burgundian ruler.
- 1226 : In the gold bull of Rimini , the German Emperor Friedrich II confirms the rule of the Teutonic Order over the Kulmerland east of the lower Vistula .
- 1348 : With the laying of the foundation stone for the city wall by Charles IV , the construction of the New Town of Prague begins , the youngest and largest of the medieval towns, which today form the historical inner city of Prague .
- 1635 : Spanish-Habsburg troops conquer Trier, held by France, in the Thirty Years' War and capture the French-friendly Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern .
- 1862 : The first day of the three-day Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico Campaign of the American Civil War overwhelm Union troops advanced units of the Confederate Army.
- 1872 : After a politically colored negotiation, August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht are found guilty of high treason by the jury in the Leipzig high treason trial because they put forward a peace proposal in the Reichstag debate in 1870 about the granting of further funds for the Franco-German War . The court then imposed two years of imprisonment.
- 1873 : After Great Britain has contractually assured the Netherlands sovereignty over the Dutch East Indies , they declare war on the Sultan of Aceh on Sumatra .
- 1881 : The Principality of Romania , which became independent in 1878, proclaims itself a kingdom. Carol I , ruler of the country since 1866, becomes the first king.
- 1885 : During an attempt to negotiate between a Canadian delegation under Leif Newry Fitzroy Crozier and French-born Métis , who founded a "Provisional Government of Saskatchewan " in the Northwest Territories , two Métis negotiators are shot by Mounties . A skirmish breaks out at Duck Lake and the Canadians are repulsed. The Northwest Rebellion under Louis Riel begins .
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- 1945 : The USA declares the volcanic island of Iwojima , on which they landed on February 19 in combat against Japanese units, to be safe. This ends the Battle of Iwojima , one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War .
- 1970 : The ambassadors of the four occupying powers begin negotiations in Berlin for a Berlin agreement that should clarify the future status of the city. The Berlin question should not disturb the process of détente between East and West.
- 1971 : One day after the breakdown of negotiations between West and East Pakistan on the formation of a government, West Pakistani units under Supreme Commander Yahya Khan arrest the leader of the East Pakistani Awami League , Mujibur Rahman . So that the fighting in the starting Bangladesh Liberation War , the League declared in response under the name of Bangladesh , the independence of East Pakistan from Pakistan .
- 1975 : The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Storage of Bacteriological (biological) Weapons and Toxin Weapons and the Destruction of Such Weapons ( Biological Weapons Convention ), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 16, 1971 , comes into force.
- 1975 : Austria is the first western country to contractually recognize GDR citizenship .
- 1979 : Menachem Begin and Anwar as-Sadat sign the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty in Washington DC . This ends the state of war between the two states that has existed since 1948. Egypt is the first Arab state to recognize Israel , which will return the occupied Sinai Peninsula and be allowed to use the Suez Canal in the future.
- 1989 : For the first time in the Soviet Union, citizens are free to choose their representatives in the People's Deputies Congress.
- 1991 : A military coup ended the 22-year rule of President Moussa Traoré in Mali . Lieutenant Colonel Amadou Toumani Touré then acts as interim president until democratic elections.
- 1995 : The Schengen Agreement comes into force for the first seven EU states , according to which the signatory states waive control of the movement of goods and people at their common borders.
- 1996 : Two days after the Taiwan elections , the People's Republic of China ended its intimidation military maneuvers in the Taiwan Straits to prevent the openly separatist Lee Teng-hui from being elected president.
- 1997 : Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister Julius Chan declares his resignation in the Sandline affair over a contract between the state and the military service provider Sandline International in the conflict over Bougainville .
- 2000 : After the partner states' security concerns have been dispelled, the Schengen Agreement also comes into force for Greece .
- 2000 : In the Russian presidential elections , the provisional incumbent Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is elected president with 52.9 percent of the vote in the first ballot .
- 2006 : In the parliamentary elections in Ukraine , the first after the Orange Revolution , the Party of Regions under Viktor Yanukovych wins a relative majority with 32 percent. The left-liberal blok Juliji Tymoshenko of the former Prime Minister Julija Tymoshenko becomes the second strongest force in the Verkhovna Rada with 22 percent .
economy
- 1980 : For the marketing of European Ariane rocket is with Arianespace , the world's first commercial space company founded.
- 1991 : With the signing of the Treaty of Asunción in Paraguay, the South American economic alliance Mercosur is established to establish a single market .
- 1999 : The Melissa computer virus, which is spread via e-mail, blocks corporate computers and causes around $ 80 million in damage. The author is soon caught and later convicted.
science and technology
- 1636 : The University of Utrecht is founded with a ceremonial act.
- 1791 : At the suggestion of the Académie des Sciences, the French Constituent Assembly decides to introduce a uniform measure of length. The length measure introduced on August 1, 1793 and called the original meter is defined as the ten millionth part of an earth quadrant .
- 1851 : The scientist Léon Foucault carries out a third experiment with the pendulum named after him, this time in the Panthéon in Paris . With the help of a 67 meter hanging rope, he proves the earth's rotation with the experiment .
- 1899 : The German Orient Society begins excavations in Babylon , led by the archaeologist Robert Koldewey .
- 1949 : The Fraunhofer Society for the Promotion of Applied Research is founded in Munich . The aim of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is to carry out application-oriented research for the direct benefit of companies and for the benefit of society.
- 1997 : In Graubünden, Switzerland, the breakthrough of the Vereina tunnel takes place , a railway tunnel that is supposed to provide a safe winter connection between the Engadine and the Prättigau and is considered to be the world's longest railway tunnel for a meter- gauge railway .
- 2006 : In Berlin, the Tiergarten Spreebogen tunnel is opened to traffic.
- 2009 : The building under construction at Ground Zero New York is renamed from Freedom Tower to One World Trade Center .
Culture
- 1810 : The world premiere of the opera Mathilde de Guise by Johann Nepomuk Hummel takes place at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
- 1821 : The trilogy Das goldene Vlies , the most extensive work by Franz Grillparzer , is premiered in Vienna. The Argonauts epic by Apollonios of Rhodes and Medea by Euripides serve as models .
- 1828 : The Austrian composer Franz Schubert gives his first and only public concert in the pub of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna .
- 1845 : The world premiere of the operetta Modehandlerskan ( Die Putzmacherin ) by Franz Berwald takes place at the Royal Theater in Stockholm.
- 1915 : Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, is published. It is received warmly by the critics, but sells poorly.
- 1922 : The opera Sancta Susanna by Paul Hindemith is premiered in Frankfurt am Main.
- 1932 : Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda , which will become Federico Moreno Torroba's most famous work, is premiered at the Teatro Calderón in Madrid .
- 1945 : Yvonne Loriod gave the world premiere of her husband Olivier Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus in the Salle Gaveau in Paris .
- 1952 : The Opera semiseria Leonore 40/45 by Rolf Liebermann with the libretto by Heinrich Strobel is premiered in Basel.
- 1990 : The German animated film Balance by Wolfgang and Christoph Lauenstein wins an Oscar for best animated short film.
- 1999 : After more than 60 years, the German-language service of the BBC World Service is discontinued.
- 2010 : The new Nibelungen (h) ort Museum opens in Xanten on the Lower Rhine, and is dedicated to the history and reception of the Nibelungen saga.
society
- 1982 : The foundation stone for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is laid in Washington, DC .
- 1997 : 39 members of the UFO sect Heaven's Gate around Marshall Herff Applewhite are found dead in San Diego after a mass suicide in the wake of the appearance of the comet Hale-Bopp .
religion
- 752 : Stephan II is elected Pope after his predecessor Stephan died four days after his election without having received the ordinations.
- 1322 : With the papal bull Quia nonnunquam , Pope John XXII. that of his predecessor Nicholas III. Ordered a ban on discussion and thus opened a new dispute about the ideal of poverty of the Franciscans . He also opposes the " heresy of the spiritual ".
- 1824 : In the circumscription bull Impensa Romanorum Pontificum , Pope Leo XII. for the relations of the Church with the Kingdom of Hanover, legal bases that extend to the present day.
- 1830 : The Book of Mormon , translated by Joseph Smith , appears in Palmyra, New York.
- 1939 : German Christians and the Confessing Church , these through individual members, submit the "Godesberg Declaration" through Theodor Ellwein , Robert Kauer , Theodor Odenwald , Helmuth Kittel , Hanns Kerrl and others on a correspondence between Christianity and National Socialism and against Judaism .
- 1957 : The Federal Constitutional Court confirmed the continued validity of 1933 between the Holy See and the German Reich closed the Reich Concordat .
- 1984 : In Düsseldorf, Prime Minister Johannes Rau and the Apostolic Nuncio Guido del Mestri sign the Concordat between the Holy See and North Rhine-Westphalia.
- 1992 : The Paderborn theologian Eugen Drewermann is suspended from the priesthood .
Disasters
- 1511 : A strong earthquake shakes the Balkans and affects northern Italy . There are an estimated 6,000 fatalities.
- 1812 : An earthquake destroys Caracas , Venezuela. Around 12,000 people are killed in the disaster, which Alexander von Humboldt also reports.
- 1913 : During the Great Flood in Dayton , Ohio, open gas pipes also cause gas explosions that destroy other blocks. In total, over 360 people were killed in the flood disaster and around 65,000 were left homeless.
- 1979 : The Main-Danube Canal breaks in the Nuremberg district of Katzwang . 120 houses are affected by the masses of water, a girl dies, property damage of twelve million DM occurs.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1898 : In the Transvaal , Paul Kruger and the Sabie Game Reserve create the first sanctuary for animals on the African continent . The game reserve was renamed Kruger National Park in 1926 .
Sports
- 1839 : It is decided to hold a rowing regatta in the town hall of Henley-on-Thames . The statutes of the Henley Royal Regatta , which has taken place annually on the Thames since then, allegedly later serve Pierre de Coubertin as the basis for the organization of the International Olympic Committee .
- 1924 : The Brazilian football club Athletico Paranaense is founded
- 1926 : The Real Oviedo football club in Asturias is created through the merger of two clubs .
- 1927 : The first car race called the Mille Miglia on northern Italian roads is started in Brescia .
- 1974 : George Foreman defends his world heavyweight title against Ken Norton in El Poliedro, Venezuela, with a technical knockout.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1277 : Christine Ebner , German Dominican and mystic
- 1478 : Hieronymus Emser , German theologian and opponent of Luther
- 1495 : Michael Anton , Margrave of Saluzzo
- 1516 : Conrad Gessner , Swiss natural scientist and philosopher
- 1554 : Charles II. De Lorraine , Duke of Mayenne and Earl of Maine
- 1559 : Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau , Prince Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1577 : Elisabeth of Orange-Nassau , Duchess of Bouillon and regent of the independent principality of Sedan
- 1584 : Johann II , Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
- 1598 : Johann von Waldburg-Wolfegg , Prince-Bishop of Constance
- 1652 : Valerian Brenner , master builder of the Vorarlberg Baroque
- 1659 : William Wollaston , English moral philosopher
- 1662 : Johann Joseph Öttlinger , maintenance commissioner in Starnberg
- 1684 : Johann Graf , German composer
- 1684 : Paul Friedrich Opitz , German theologian and orientalist
- 1685 : Johann Alexander Thiele , painter and etcher
- 1692 : Gustav Adolf von Gotter , German diplomat and art patron
18th century
- 1709 : Wassili Evdokimowitsch Adodurow , Russian mathematician, philologist and university professor
- 1722 : Johann Daniel Salzmann , Strasbourg lawyer and popular philosopher
- 1724 : Christiana Regina Hetzer , first landlady of the Gohliser Schlösschen in Leipzig
- 1734 : Wilhelm Alexander Schwollmann , German Protestant theologian
- 1740 : Jonathan Trumbull Jr. , American politician
- 1741 : Jean-Michel Moreau , French engraver and etcher
- 1750 : Charles-Gilbert Romme , French mathematician and politician, martyr of the Prairial uprising
- 1753 : Benjamin Thompson , British officer, politician, experimental physicist, and inventor of American descent
- 1773 : Nathaniel Bowditch , American mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- 1774 : Ernst von Hügel , Württemberg General and Minister of State
- 1780 : Julius Eduard Hitzig , German writer and court judge
- 1784 : John W. Taylor , American politician, two-time Speaker of the House of Representatives
- 1788 : Boniface de Castellane , French general and Marshal of France
- 1789 : Wilhelm Hey , German fabulous poet and songwriter
- 1794 : Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , German painter
- 1796 : Bernhard Karl Heinrich von Prittwitz , Prussian general
- 1796 : Bellamy Storer , American politician
- 1799 : Adolf von Zerzog , German politician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1815 : Gustav von Rümelin , German educator and statistician
- 1816 : Alexander Sussmann Adler , German theologian and politician
- 1817 : Christian Wilhelm Kreidel , German publisher
- 1819 : George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge , British Field Marshal
- 1819 : Louise Otto-Peters , German writer and journalist, co-founder of the German women's movement
- 1819 : Edgar von Westphalen , German communist, brother-in-law of Karl Marx
- 1820 : Julius Karl Arndt , German pastor and hymn poet
- 1822 : Ahmed Cevdet Pasha , Ottoman statesman, historian and legal scholar
- 1823 : Johannes Münze , pioneer of the German labor movement
- 1824 : Gustav Adolph Kietz , German sculptor
- 1826 : Carl Kellner , German optician
- 1830 : John Rogers Thomas , American composer
- 1831 : Sophus Ruge , German geographer
- 1831 : Albert Schultz-Lupitz , German agricultural scientist
- 1834 : Hermann Wilhelm Vogel , German photo chemist
- 1836 : Paul Beiersdorf , German pharmacist and company founder
- 1845 : Ernst Anders , German portrait and genre painter
- 1849 : Armand Peugeot , French entrepreneur and founder of Peugeot
- 1850 : Edward Bellamy , American SF author
1851-1900
- 1851 : Julius Langbehn , German writer and cultural critic
- 1854 : Braulio Dueño Colón , Puerto Rican composer
- 1858 : Luis Barros Borgoño , Chilean politician
- 1859 : Adolf Hurwitz , German mathematician
- 1863 : Alexander Schlicke , German politician, MdR, Reich Minister
- 1864 : Emerson Harrington , American politician
- 1864 : Franz Liftl , Austrian musician and composer
- 1865 : Max Neal , Bavarian folk poet
- 1866 : Fred Karno , British theater owner
- 1866 : Carl Christian Mez , German botanist and university professor
- 1867 : Johannes Rudolf Max Adler , German historian, literary scholar and educator
- 1867 : Bernhard Falk , German politician
- 1867 : Pilar Fernández de la Mora , Spanish pianist and music teacher
- 1868 : Fu'ad I , King of Egypt
- 1869 : David Jakowlewitsch Aizman , Russian-Jewish writer
- 1870 : Luigi Sincero , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1872 : Émile Armand , French anarchist and author
- 1873 : Gerald du Maurier , stage actor and artistic director
- 1874 : Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner , German economist and women's rights activist, one of the first university teachers
- 1874 : Raoul Arnauld de la Perière , German actor
- 1874 : Robert Frost , American poet
- 1874 : Oskar Nedbal , Bohemian composer and conductor
- 1875 : Max Abraham , German physicist
- 1875 : Rhee Syng-man , President of South Korea
- 1876 : Artur Landsberger , German novelist
- 1876 : Wilhelm zu Wied , 1914 Prince of Albania
- 1878 : Henry Somer Gullett , Australian politician
- 1878 : Leo von Prittwitz and Gaffron , Russian major general
- 1879 : Othmar Ammann , Swiss-American engineer
- 1880 : Alfred A. Cohn , American screenwriter
- 1881 : Guccio Gucci , Italian entrepreneur
- 1882 : Hermann Obrecht , Swiss politician
- 1883 : Oskars Dankers , Latvian general
- 1884 : Wilhelm Backhaus , German pianist
- 1884 : Georg Imbert , chemist and inventor
- 1885 : Martha Angerstein , German actress
- 1885 : Robert Blackburn , British aviation pioneer and aircraft designer
- 1886 : Luigi Amoroso , Italian mathematician and economist
- 1886 : Friedrich Kirchner , German general
- 1888 : Elsa Brändström , Swedish philanthropist
- 1888 : Gustav Geierhaas , German composer
- 1888 : Émile Lacharnay , French racing car driver
- 1889 : Václav Kaprál , Czech composer
- 1890 : Harry von Arnim , German officer
- 1890 : Joseph De Luca , Italian-American musician
- 1890 : Franz Schauwecker , German writer
- 1891 : Thomas Roch Agniswami , Bishop of Kottar
- 1893 : James Bryant Conant , American chemist, science politician, and diplomat
- 1893 : William Dunkel , Swiss architect and painter
- 1893 : Dhirendranath Ganguly , Indian film director and actor
- 1893 : Jacques Ledure , Belgian racing car driver
- 1893 : Palmiro Togliatti , Italian politician
- 1894 : Mark Wessel , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1896 : Karl Valentin Müller , German sociologist
- 1896 : Anton Profes , Austrian hit and film composer
- 1898 : Paul Schmidt , German inventor
- 1900 : Angela Maria Autsch , German nun ("Angel of Auschwitz")
- 1900 : Isadore Freed , American composer
- 1900 : Hans Goudefroy , German lawyer, CEO of Allianz AG
- 1900 : Giovanni Urbani , Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal
20th century
1901-1925
- 1903 : Otto Abetz , German art teacher and diplomat
- 1903 : Paul Doyon , Canadian pianist and organist
- 1903 : Arno Vetterling , German conductor and composer
- 1904 : Joseph Campbell , American professor and author
- 1904 : Attilio Ferraris , Italian football player
- 1904 : Willy Fischer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1904 : Alexander Schawinsky , Swiss painter, photographer and set designer
- 1904 : Hermann Schroeder , German composer and Catholic church musician
- 1905 : Václav Černý , Czech writer and translator
- 1905 : Viktor Frankl , Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, founder of logotherapy and existential analysis
- 1905 : Pablo Garrido , Chilean composer and jazz musician
- 1905 : Erich Oberdorfer , German plant biologist
- 1905 : Štěpán Trochta , Bishop of Litomerice and cardinal
- 1906 : Hubert Ebner , German cyclist
- 1906 : Herbert Günther , German writer and poet
- 1906 : Curley Weaver , American blues guitarist and singer
- 1907 : Leigh Harline , American film music composer, Oscar winner
- 1908 : Samuel Bronston , American film producer from Bessarabia
- 1908 : Hilde Sperling , German tennis player
- 1908 : Franz Stangl , Austrian head of the Sobibor and Treblinka concentration camps
- 1909 : Margarete Hütter , German politician
- 1909 : Viktor Hoven , German politician
- 1910 : Hendrik Apetz , German entrepreneur
- 1911 : Lennart Folke Alfons Atterwall , Swedish athlete
- 1911 : John Langshaw Austin , British philosopher
- 1911 : Bernard Katz , British biophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1911 : John Langshaw Austin , English philosopher and linguist
- 1911 : Tennessee Williams , American writer ( Last stop: Sehnsucht , The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof )
- 1913 : Bruce Low , Dutch pop and gospel singer
- 1913 : Paul Erdős , Hungarian mathematician
- 1914 : William Westmoreland , American officer
- 1916 : Christian B. Anfinsen , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1916 : James Gayfer , Canadian military bandmaster , clarinetist, organist and choir director, composer and music teacher
- 1916 : Sterling Hayden , American actor and author
- 1917 : Carl de Nys , Belgian musicologist
- 1917 : Rufus Thomas , American musician
- 1917 : Billy Wallace , American country, rockabilly musician and songwriter
- 1922 : William Milliken , American politician
- 1923 : Rudolf Adametz , German politician
- 1923 : Alois Anzenberger , Austrian politician
- 1923 : Gert Bastian , German general and politician
- 1923 : Clifton Williams , American composer, horn player and music teacher
- 1925 : Pierre Boulez , French composer, conductor and music theorist
- 1925 : James Moody , American jazz musician
- 1925 : Michael Ward , British surgeon and mountaineer
- 1925 : Daniel Abraham Yanofsky , Canadian chess player
1926-1950
- 1926 : Heinz A. Staab , German chemist
- 1929 : Thakar Singh , Indian spiritual master of Sant Mat
- 1929 : Toshio Akiyama , Japanese composer and professor
- 1929 : Ray Scott , American rockabilly musician
- 1930 : Adel Theodor Khoury , theologian
- 1930 : Gregory Corso , American Beat Generation poet
- 1930 : Sandra Day O'Connor , American lawyer, US Supreme Court Justice
- 1931 : Leonard Nimoy , American actor, director, and film producer
- 1932 : Luke Askew , American actor
- 1932 : Alfredo Ferrari , Italian engineer
- 1932 : Stefan Wigger , German actor
- 1933 : Tinto Brass , Italian director, producer and screenwriter
- 1934 : Alan Arkin , American actor and director
- 1934 : Donald Bailey , American jazz drummer
- 1934 : Masakazu Yamazaki , Japanese playwright, literary critic and philosopher
- 1935 : Mahmoud Abbas , Palestinian politician, President of the State of Palestine
- 1935 : Peret , Spanish singer and guitarist
- 1935 : Stig Pettersson , Swedish high jumper
- 1936 : Luz María Aguilar Torres , Mexican actress
- 1936 : Jürgen Meyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1936 : Erich Urbanner , Austrian composer and music teacher
- 1937 : Ahmad Qurai , Head of Government of the Palestinian Territories
- 1937 : Albert Brülls , German football player
- 1937 : Ernst Burger , German pianist and author
- 1937 : Antonius Höckelmann , German artist
- 1938 : Anthony James Leggett , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1938 : Manuel Sanchís , Spanish football player
- 1939 : David Davies , Australian painter
- 1939 : Elmar Frings , German modern pentathlete
- 1939 : Wolfgang Mittmann , German author
- 1939 : Jens Reich , German scientist
- 1940 : Peter Adler , German politician
- 1940 : James Caan , American actor
- 1940 : Nancy Pelosi , American politician
- 1941 : Richard Dawkins , English zoologist, ethologist and evolutionary biologist
- 1941 : Lella Lombardi , Italian racing car driver
- 1942 : Alfred Kieser , German professor
- 1942 : Erica Jong , American writer
- 1942 : François Léotard , French politician
- 1943 : Bob Woodward , American journalist
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- 1944 : Diana Ross , American singer
- 1944 : Reinhold Andert , German songwriter and author
- 1945 : Heinz-Josef Durstewitz , German priest, representative of the Catholic opposition movement in the GDR
- 1945 : Joachim Hörster , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : Eugenio Lazzarini , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1945 : Mikhail Jakowlewitsch Voronin , Russian gymnast
- 1945 : Paul Bérenger , Prime Minister of Mauritius
- 1945 : Adriano Pappalardo , Italian cantautore and actor
- 1946 : Lyudmila Evgenjewna Titowa , Russian speed skater
- 1947 : Yōjirō Terada , Japanese racing car driver
- 1948 : David Anear , Australian archer
- 1948 : Chung Kyung-wha , South Korean violinist
- 1948 : Peter Neumann , German motorcycle racer
- 1948 : Steven Tyler , American rock singer ( Aerosmith )
- 1949 : Uwe Beckmeyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1949 : Bärbel Dieckmann , German politician, Lord Mayor of Bonn
- 1949 : Giuseppe Sabadini , Italian football player and coach
- 1949 : Patrick Süskind , German writer
- 1949 : Rainer Thiel , German soccer player
- 1950 : Peter Paul Ahrens , German politician
- 1950 : Alan Silvestri , American composer
- 1950 : Martin Short , Canadian actor, screenwriter, and producer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Klaus Hoffmann , German songwriter and actor
- 1951 : Carl Edwin Wieman , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1952 : Yoshitaka Amano , Japanese artist
- 1952 : Peter Augar , German football referee
- 1952 : Bodo Henkel , German presenter and voice actor
- 1952 : Franz Hiesl , Austrian politician, Deputy Governor of Upper Austria
- 1952 : Didier Pironi , French racing driver
- 1953 : Elaine Chao , US Secretary of State
- 1953 : Michele Ferrari , Italian sports doctor
- 1953 : Tatiana Petrovna Prowidochina , Russian athlete
- 1954 : Udo Di Fabio , German lawyer, judge at the German Federal Constitutional Court
- 1954 : Jutta Speidel , German actress
- 1955 : Verena Butalikakis , German politician
- 1955 : Dean Dillon , American country singer
- 1955 : Ale Möller , Swedish multi-instrumentalist, folk and world musician and composer
- 1955 : Ingo Wolf , German politician
- 1956 : Charly McClain , American country singer
- 1956 : Matthias Rüfenacht , Swiss chess player
- 1957 : Aktan Abdykalykow , Kyrgyz director
- 1957 : Oliver Hirschbiegel , German director
- 1957 : Paul Morley , British music journalist
- 1957 : Manfred Wolf , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- 1958 : Elio de Angelis , Italian Formula 1 driver
- 1959 : Axel Berg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1959 : Catherine Keener , American actress
- 1959 : Siegfried Roch , German handball player and coach, Olympic medalist
- 1959 : Michael Peschke , German writer and playwright
- 1960 : Jennifer Gray , American actress
- 1960 : Jon Huntsman Jr. , American politician
- 1960 : Ray Kaczynski , American composer and drummer
- 1960 : Øystein Mæland , Norwegian medic and politician
- 1960 : Allan Peiper , Australian cyclist
- 1960 : Axel Prahl , German film actor
- 1962 : Susanne Daubner , German news anchor
- 1962 : Yuri Pavlovich Gidsenko , Russian cosmonaut
- 1962 : Falko Götz , German soccer coach
- 1962 : John Stockton , American basketball player
- 1963 : Stefan Appelius , German political scientist, university professor and journalist
- 1964 : Michael Frontzeck , German soccer player and coach
- 1964 : Lydia Hüskens , German politician
- 1964 : Jörg Junhold , German veterinarian and director of the Leipzig Zoo since 1997
- 1964 : Staffan Olsson , Swedish handball player and coach
- 1965 : Martin Apeltauer , Austrian politician
- 1965 : Violeta Szekely , Romanian athlete
- 1966 : Michael Imperioli , American actor
- 1966 : Nick Wirth , British designer and aerodynamicist
- 1967 : Andrew Mast , American conductor and music educator
- 1967 : Peter Schöttel , Austrian football player, coach and official
- 1968 : Laurent Brochard , French cyclist
- 1968 : Kenny Chesney , American country singer
- 1968 : Liza da Costa , Portuguese singer and composer
- 1968 : Alessio Galletti , Italian racing cyclist
- 1968 : James Iha , American musician ( Smashing Pumpkins )
- 1968 : Jutta Müller , German windsurfer
- 1969 : Mahsun Kırmızıgül , Turkish singer
- 1971 : Moyoco Anno , Japanese manga artist
- 1972 : Tor Graves , Thai racing car driver
- 1972 : Trevor Kidd , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 : Thilo Michler , German local politician
- 1973 : Sébastien Charpentier , French motorcycle racer
- 1973 : Bård Hoksrud , Norwegian politician
- 1973 : TR Knight , American actor
- 1973 : Larry Page , American computer scientist, co-founder of Google
- 1973 : Gregor Pötscher , Austrian football player
- 1974 : Søren Haagen , Danish handball player and coach
- 1974 : Mike Rietpietsch , German soccer player
- 1974 : Christina Surer , Swiss racing driver, television presenter and model
- 1974 : Taribo West , Nigerian soccer player
- 1975 : Sandra Corzilius , German actress
- 1975 : Yvonne Ransbach , German television presenter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Bettina Galvagni , Italian writer
- 1976 : Amy Smart , American actress
- 1976 : Óscar Sonejee , Andorran football player
- 1976 : Alex Varas , Chilean football player
- 1977 : Bianca Kajlich , American actress
- 1977 : Morgan De Sanctis , Italian football player
- 1978 : Sandra Romain , Romanian porn actress
- 1979 : Martin Kaps , German actor
- 1979 : Nacho Novo , Spanish soccer player
- 1979 : Manuel Rubey , Austrian singer and actor
- 1979 : Hiromi Uehara , Japanese jazz pianist and composer
- 1980 : Khalid Ali Al Thani , Arab road cyclist
- 1980 : Marianne Andersen , Norwegian orienteer
- 1980 : Krys Barch , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 : Eva-Maria Grein von Friedl , German actress and musical artist
- 1980 : Pascal Hens , German handball player
- 1980 : Darryl O'Young , Chinese racing driver
- 1981 : Maximilian Arland , German musician and moderator
- 1981 : Massimo Donati , Italian football player
- 1981 : Floriana Lima , American actress
- 1981 : T-Rock , American rapper
- 1982 : Joe Anderson , British actor
- 1982 : Johannes Bredl , German cross-country skier
- 1982 : Maja Maneiro , German actress
- 1982 : Stanislav Angelovič , Slovak football player
- 1982 : Andreas Hinkel , German soccer player
- 1982 : J-five , American rapper
- 1982 : Marcus Hock , German handball player
- 1982 : Nate Kaeding , American football player
- 1982 : Michael Tschuggnall , Austrian pop singer
- 1983 : Toni Elías , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1984 : Graeme Holmes , Scottish football player
- 1984 : Justice Majabvi , Zimbabwean football player
- 1984 : Felix Neureuther , German ski racer
- 1985 : Keira Knightley , British actress
- 1985 : Jonathan Groff , American actor
- 1985 : Sina Wilke , German actress
- 1986 : Zekiros Adanech , Ethiopian marathon runner
- 1986 : Sinja Dieks , German actress
- 1987 : Robert Åhman-Persson , Swedish football player
- 1987 : Mareen von Römer , German volleyball player
- 1987 : Matteo Ardemagni , Italian football player
- 1987 : Steven Fletcher , Scottish soccer player
- 1988 : Marcel Appiah , German-Ghanaian soccer player
- 1988 : Valentin Bay , Swiss handball player
- 1988 : Friederike Lütz , German handball player
- 1989 : Simon Kjær , Danish football player
- 1990 : Hanno Behrens , German soccer player
- 1990 : Choi Woo-shik , South Korean actor
- 1991 : Victoria Bieneck , German volleyball player
- 1991 : Ryan Cullen , Irish Cypriot racing driver
- 1991 : Thomas Meißner , German soccer player
- 1991 : Andrei Nikolajewitsch Sergejew , Russian ice hockey player
- 1991 : Marcel Sökler , German football player
- 1992 : Christine Aulenbrock , German volleyball and beach volleyball player
- 1992 : Haley Ramm , American actress
- 1993 : Suci Rizky Andini , Indonesian badminton player
- 1993 : Selina Shirin Müller , German singer and actress
- 1993 : Johannes Vetter , German athlete
- 1994 : Mihaela-Veronica Foișor , Romanian chess player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 809 : Liudger , Bishop of Münster
- 877 : Bertha , daughter of Ludwig the German and abbess of Fraumünster
- 903 : Sugawara no Michizane , Japanese scholar, poet and politician of the Heian period
- 922 : Al-Hallādsch , Islamic mystic (executed)
- 983 : Adud ad-Daula , ruler of the Shiite Buyid dynasty
- 1000 : Bardjawan , vizier of the Fatimids
- 1130 : Sigurd I , King of Norway
- 1191 : Agnes von Loon , Duchess of Bavaria and Countess Palatine von Wittelsbach
- 1211 : Sancho I , King of Portugal
- 1238 : Heinrich I of Cologne , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1276 : Margarete von Henneberg , countess
- 1277 : Albert von Mußbach , aristocratic canon in the prince-bishops of Speyer and Worms
- 1279 : Hildebrand von Möhren , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1290 : John Kirkby , English civil servant and clergyman, and Bishop of Ely
- 1303 : Otto IV , Count Palatine of Burgundy
- 1304 : Wigbold von Holte , Archbishop of Cologne from 1297 to 1304
- 1324 : Mary of Luxembourg , Queen of France
- 1326 : Alessandra Giliani , anatomist or pathologist
- 1350 : Alfonso XI. , King of Castile and León
- 1371 : Nikolaus von Laun , auxiliary bishop in Regensburg
- 1375 : Peter von Oppeln , Bishop of Lebus and Chancellor of the Mark Brandenburg
- 1402 : David Stewart, 1st Duke of Rothesay , Scottish heir to the throne
- 1405 : Antonia Visconti , Countess of Württemberg
- 1410 : Matěj z Knína , Czech representative of the Hussites
- 1437 : Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl , Scottish nobleman and regicide
16th to 18th century
- 1501 : Dietrich Basedow , Lübeck councilor, businessman and member of the circle society
- 1517 : Heinrich Isaac , Franco-Flemish composer and singer
- 1535 : Georg Tannstetter , German humanist, astronomer, astrologer and physician
- 1605 : Jakob Ayrer , German writer
- 1629 : Agnes , Princess of Brandenburg, Duchess of Pomerania and Duchess of Saxony-Lauenburg
- 1649 : John Winthrop , English Puritan and governor
- 1657 : Jacob van Eyck , Dutch musician
- 1665 : Johannes Ardüser , Swiss mathematician and fortress engineer
- 1672 : Anna Persauter , victim of the witch hunt in Saulgau
- 1675 : Ernst I of Saxe-Gotha , son of Duke Johann III. of Saxe-Weimar
- 1685 : Go-Sai , 111th Emperor of Japan
- 1700 : Heinrich Meibom , German medic and scholar
- 1713 : Paul I. Esterházy de Galantha , Hungarian magnate and imperial field marshal
- 1716 : Johann Friedrich Gleditsch , German publisher and bookseller
- 1762 : Johann Peter Ernst Rohrer , master builder
- 1783 : Anna Rosina de Gasc , German portrait painter
- 1784 : Samuel Engel , Swiss librarian, geographer, politician, philanthropist and economist
- 1794 : Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra , Spanish naval officer, navigator and explorer
- 1797 : James Hutton , Scottish naturalist and geologist
19th century
- 1804 : Wolfgang von Kempelen , German writer and inventor
- 1814 : Joseph-Ignace Guillotin , French doctor and politician and inventor of the guillotine
- 1817 : Kaspar Friedrich Lossius , German Protestant clergyman, pedagogue and writer
- 1820 : Charles Blagden , British physician and naturalist
- 1821 : Josef Ignác Buček , Czech university professor, author of economic works
- 1822 : Theodor Grotthuss , Latvian physicist and chemist
- 1827 : Ludwig van Beethoven , German composer, perfecter of the Viennese Classical period and pioneer of Romanticism
- 1829 : Caroline von Humboldt , daughter of the Prussian Chamber President Karl Friedrich von Dacheröden
- 1829 : Ludwig Philipp Christian von Türcke , German lawyer
- 1835 : Karl Heinrich von Lang , German historian and publicist
- 1838 : Andreas Alois Ankwicz von Skarbek-Poslawice , Archbishop of Lemberg and Prague
- 1850 : Samuel Armstrong , American politician
- 1850 : Wilhelm Ernst Weber , German educator and philologist
- 1870 : Pierre Soulé , American politician
- 1880 : Theodor Hartig , German forest scientist, founder of the Arboretum Riddagshausen forest garden
- 1881 : Florian Ceynowa , Kashubian farmer and writer, practiced as a doctor without permission
- 1889 : Wilhelm von Breithaupt , German staff officer
- 1892 : Walt Whitman , American poet, essayist, and journalist ( Leaves of Grass )
- 1895 : Leopold Kölbl , Austrian geologist, rector of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- 1898 : William Guybon Atherstone , South African physician, paleontologist, and geologist
- 1900 : Heinrich Theodor Flathe , German historian
- 1900 : Isaac Mayer Wise , American rabbi
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Cecil Rhodes , founder of the State of Rhodesia
- 1910 : An Chung-gun , Korean Pan-Asianist and nationalist
- 1910 : Auguste Charlois , French astronomer
- 1917 : Georg Froböß , German Protestant clergyman
- 1919 : Karl Schlau , pastor and martyr from Livonia
- 1919 : Edgar Haßmann , Latvian pastor and martyr
- 1923 : Sarah Bernhardt , French theater and film actress
- 1925 : Hugo Bettauer , Austrian writer
- 1926 : Constantin Fehrenbach , German Chancellor
- 1926 : Franz Kneisel , American violist and music teacher of Romanian origin
- 1929 : Aurelio Galli , Italian clergyman, cardinal to the Curia
- 1931 : Otto Keller , German composer and Swabian dialect poet
- 1935 : Yosano Tekkan , Japanese poet and literary critic
- 1936 : Adolf II , Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe
- 1940 : Wilhelm Anderson , German-Baltic astrophysicist
- 1940 : Helene Böhlau , German writer
- 1940 : July Mikhailovich Schokalsky , Russian oceanographer
- 1940 : Spyridon Louis , Greek athlete
- 1942 : Joseph Carlebach , German rabbi, scientist and writer
- 1942 : Alice Haarburger , German painter
- 1945 : Boris Michailowitsch Shaposhnikov , Soviet marshal
- 1945 : David Lloyd George , British Prime Minister
- 1946 : Alexandru Zirra , Romanian composer
1951-2000
- 1954 : Ferdinand Hardekopf , German journalist, writer, poet and translator
- 1957 : Édouard Herriot , French head of government
- 1957 : Joseph Chavée , Belgian racing driver
- 1957 : Max Ophüls , German film director
- 1958 : Hans Wacker , German painter
- 1959 : Franz Blücher , German Federal Minister
- 1959 : Raymond Chandler , American crime novelist
- 1963 : Arno Arnold , German doctor, internist and sports medicine specialist
- 1967 : Ervin Šinko , Hungarian writer and professor
- 1969 : B. Traven , German-speaking writer
- 1969 : Günther Weisenborn , German writer
- 1970 : Fritz Ascher , German expressionist
- 1971 : Georgi Wassiljewitsch Afanassjew , Belarusian chess composer
- 1971 : Josef Hermann Dufhues , German politician
- 1973 : Noël Coward , British playwright and composer, director and actor
- 1973 : Hans Kahrmann , German motorcycle racer
- 1974 : Werner Kohlmeyer , German soccer player
- 1975 : Herbert Warnke , German politician, MdR, Chairman of the FDGB, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED of the GDR
- 1976 : Ernst Albrecht , German football player
- 1977 : Frank Thorolfson , Canadian pianist, conductor, music teacher and composer
- 1978 : Otto Schubert , German officer and tribologist
- 1980 : Roland Barthes , French philosopher, writer and literary critic
- 1982 : Sultan al-Atrasch , Syrian nationalist and general commander
- 1982 : Bernhard Deermann , German politician and educator
- 1983 : Anthony Blunt , British art historian, double agent for Great Britain and the Soviet Union
- 1984 : Ahmed Sékou Touré , Guinean President
- 1985 : Anders Cleve , Finnish writer
- 1985 : Sally Kessler , German local politician, Holocaust survivor
- 1987 : Walter Abel , American actor
- 1987 : Eugen Jochum , German conductor
- 1987 : Georg Muche , German painter
- 1989 : Manfred Seipold , German actor
- 1990 : Christian Meyer-Oldenburg , German science fiction author
- 1991 : Herbert Dörner , German soccer player
- 1991 : Jupp Schmitz , German entertainer, pop and Krätzchen singer
- 1992 : Bruno Cassinari , Italian painter
- 1993 : Cale Boggs , American politician
- 1993 : Reuben Fine , American chess player and psychoanalyst
- 1993 : Hans Leibundgut , Swiss forest scientist
- 1994 : Margaret Millar , American writer
- 1995 : Eazy-E , American rap musician
- 1996 : David Packard , co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
- 1996 : Käte Strobel , German politician
- 1997 : Otto John , first President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- 1999 : Hans Geissberger , Swiss painter and sculptor
- 2000 : Alex Comfort , British writer
- 2000 : Len Younce , American football player
- 2000 : Werner Zeyer , German politician, Prime Minister of Saarland
21st century
- 2001 : Fredy Reyna , Venezuelan cuatro player and music teacher
- 2001 : Piotr Sobociński , Polish cameraman
- 2003 : Daniel Patrick Moynihan , American politician
- 2003 : José Tamayo , Spanish theater director and director
- 2003 : Herbert Zangs , German painter and object artist
- 2004 : Heinz Rox-Schulz , German globetrotter, adventurer and travel writer
- 2004 : Jan Sterling , American actress
- 2005 : Gert Augst , German church musician
- 2005 : James Callaghan , British politician, minister, prime minister
- 2005 : Paul Hester , Australian pop musician
- 2005 : Achiam , French-Israeli sculptor
- 2006 : Angelo d'Arrigo , Italian ornithologist, paraglider and hang-glider pilot
- 2006 : Paul Dana , American racing driver
- 2006 : Nikki Sudden , British musician and singer, guitarist and producer
- 2007 : Beniamino Andreatta , Italian economist and politician
- 2008 : Erwin Wickert , German diplomat and author
- 2010 : Carlos Piantini , Dominican violinist and conductor
- 2010 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Smyslow , Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster, world champion
- 2011 : Harry Coover , American chemist
- 2011 : Geraldine Ferraro , US politician
- 2013 : Nikolai Evgenyevich Sorokin , Russian actor, director and politician
- 2014 : Karl Otmar von Aretin , German historian
- 2014 : Gina Pellón , Cuban artist
- 2015 : Karl Moik , Austrian TV presenter and entertainer
- 2015 : Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 2016 : David Baker , American jazz trombonist, cellist and composer
- 2016 : Jim Harrison , American writer
- 2017 : Brian Oldfield , American athlete
- 2017 : Bernd Thiele , German soccer player
- 2018 : Hermann Keller , German pianist and composer
- 2018 : Christian Minkowitsch , Austrian composer
- 2020 : Michel Hidalgo , French football player and coach
- 2020 : Jimmy Wynn , American baseball player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Castulus , Roman martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
- St. Liudger , Franconian nobleman, abbot and missionary, monastery founder and bishop (Protestant, Catholic)
- Karl Schlau , Livonian pastor and martyr (Protestant)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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