October 26th
The October 26 is the 299th day of the Gregorian calendar (300th in leap years ), thus remain 66 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 362 : The Temple of Apollo at Daphne burns to the ground. The Roman Emperor Julian accuses the Christians of arson and closes numerous churches.
- 1377 : Tvrtko I is crowned the first king of the Serbs, Bosnia, the coastal region and the western countries .
- 1461 : Under Sultan Mehmed II , Ottoman troops conquer the Trapezunt empire in Anatolia, the last remaining Greek state in Asia Minor . The Hagia Sophia in Trebizond is then converted into a mosque .
- 1530 : The Order of St. John takes possession of Malta as an "eternal fief" of Charles V with papal approval .
- 1596 : The three-day battle at Mezökeresztes , the last major battle in the third Turkish war between Austria and the Ottoman Empire , ends with the defeat of the army of Archduke Maximilian of Austria .
- 1597 : At the naval battle of Myongnyang , a Japanese fleet of 133 combat ships and 200 supply ships from 13 Korean warships are devastated.
- 1640 : The second Episcopal War ends with the Treaty of Ripon . The English King Charles I has to grant Scotland concessions that cause him conflicts with the convened Long Parliament .
- 1689 : During the Great Turkish War , the city of Skopje, which had been abandoned by many residents and the Ottoman occupation, was set on fire by Austrian troops on this and the following day and was badly destroyed by the flames.
- 1774 : The First Continental Congress in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania comes to an end.
- 1795 : The French National Convention meets for the last time during the French Revolution . In accordance with the constitution, government affairs will in future be carried out by the directorate .
- 1813 : British-Canadian militia troops defeat an eight-fold superior American army in the Battle of the Chateauguay River during the British-American War and force them to withdraw from Canada .
- 1838 : Honduras leaves the Central American Confederation .
- 1860 : Giuseppe Garibaldi accepts Victor Emanuel II as King of Italy at a meeting in Teano near Naples and renounces power in the conquered Kingdom of the Two Sicilies as part of the Risorgimento .
- 1863 : An international conference begins in Geneva whose resolutions allow the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to flourish.
- 1896 : In the Treaty of Addis Ababa , Italy must recognize its independence from Ethiopia . Italy has previously tried in vain to subjugate the country.
- 1905 : After a referendum on August 13, the union of Norway with Sweden is dissolved and Norway becomes an independent kingdom.
- 1909 : Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito is killed by a Korean nationalist in Harbin .
- 1912 : Liberation of the city of Thessaloniki from the Ottomans by the Greek troops during the Balkan Wars 1912–1913. October 26th is also the name day of the city saint and patron saint of Thessaloniki , Demetrios .
- 1917 : The second Battle of Passchendaele begins as part of the Third Battle of Flanders during the First World War .
- 1918 : General Erich Ludendorff , active in the Supreme Army Command , is dismissed by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II at the urging of Chancellor Max von Baden .
- 1920 : In Austria the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees is established by law .
- 1923 : Reza Khan, who later became Shah Reza Pahlavi , is elected Prime Minister of Iran by the Iranian parliament .
- 1938 : As a result of the " Poland Action " ordered by Heinrich Himmler , 17,000 Polish Jews residing in Germany are driven across the German-Polish border to Poland, including Marcel Reich-Ranicki .
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- 1942 : The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in World War II ends in a Japanese victory. The aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8) is sunk and the USS Enterprise (CV-6) is damaged. However, the US Marines cannot be evicted from Guadalcanal.
- 1944 : In the Philippine Gulf of Leyte , the sea and air battle between Japanese and US-American-Australian units that began on October 23 ends with an overwhelming victory for the allies. The three-day battle is the largest sea battle in history to date.
- 1946 : At the Maximilians University in Munich, the constitution of the Free State of Bavaria is adopted and signed by the state assembly with a large majority.
- 1947 : Kashmir becomes part of India .
- 1950 : With the appointment of Theodor Blank as the “Commissioner of the Federal Chancellor for questions connected with the increase in Allied troops”, the Blank office and thus the nucleus of the Bundeswehr is created.
- 1954 : The handover of the administration in Zone A to Italy by the Allied Military Government brings about the end of the Free Territory of Trieste . In zone B , Yugoslavia is already in control .
- 1955 : Austria's “voluntary, perpetual neutrality ” is passed as a constitutional law by the National Council after the last occupation soldier had to leave the country by the day before. Since 1965 , October 26th has been the Austrian national holiday in memory of this event .
- 1962 : The Spiegel affair begins with the police occupying and searching the editorial offices of Spiegel in Hamburg .
- 1967 : On his 48th birthday, the coronation celebrations of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Schahbanu Farah Pahlavi take place.
- 1972 : Major Mathieu Kérékou takes power in Benin with a coup against President Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin . He appoints himself president and plans the establishment of the "African Cuba".
- 1976 : Homeland Transkei is granted “independence” by the apartheid regime in South Africa , but this is not recognized by any other country in the world.
- 1979 : Park Chung-hee , the President of South Korea , is shot dead in a restaurant by the head of the South Korean secret service.
- 1991 : In Slovenia the last Yugoslav soldiers leave the country, which has been de facto independent since June 25th.
- 1993 : For the murder of two policemen in 1931, the former GDR Minister for State Security Erich Mielke is sentenced to six years in prison .
- 1994 : Kurt Beck ( SPD ) is elected to succeed Rudolf Scharping as Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate .
- 1994 : King Hussein I and Yitzhak Rabin sign a peace treaty between Jordan and Israel in Wadi Araba after 46 years of war .
- 1995 : The French nuclear tests are condemned by the European Parliament , which does not prevent France from carrying out a new test on Mururoa the next day .
- 1998 : Four weeks after the election, the SPD politician Wolfgang Thierse is elected as the new President of the Bundestag by a large majority by the newly convened parliament .
- 1998 : After losing the Bundestag election in 1998 , the German President Roman Herzog dismisses Helmut Kohl as Chancellor .
- 1998 : Presidents Jamil Mahuad for Ecuador and Alberto Fujimori for Peru sign a peace treaty in Brasília to end the Peruvian-Ecuadorian border war .
- 2000 : After a spate of protests, the dictator of the Ivory Coast , Robert Guéï , who lost the presidential election on October 22nd, resigns in favor of the winner, Laurent Gbagbo . However, the exclusion of Alassane Ouattara from the elections led to an armed conflict in the African country two years later .
- 2001 : US President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act , making it law.
- 2002 : Russian elite units forcibly end the hostage-taking in Moscow's Dubrovka Theater . In addition to the Chechen rebels, 119 hostages died, most of them from the effects of the narcotic and paralysis gases used.
economy
- 1927 : Gustav Schickedanz founds the Quelle mail order company in Fürth .
- 1929 : The 53-year ignition goods monopoly is established in an agreement between the entrepreneur Ivar Kreuger (Svenska Tändsticks Aktiebolaget) and the Weimar Republic .
- 1934 : With the endeavor to achieve economic self-sufficiency , the Braunkohle-Petrol AG (BRABAG) is founded in Berlin .
- 1936 : The first generator of the built Hoover Dam supplies the first energy to the electricity grid in the United States .
- 1965 : The Postal code is introduced in France . The postcode initially consists of the number of the department and the first three capitalized letters of the place name.
- 2000 : The euro reaches its all-time low against the US dollar with a value of 0.8225 US dollars.
- 2012 : Microsoft releases the Windows 8 operating system .
science and technology
- 1825 : The Erie Canal is opened in the USA between Lake Erie and the Hudson River .
- 1850 : In search of the missing Franklin expedition , the British researcher Robert John Le Mesurier McClure arrives with the HMS Investigator from the east in the Viscount-Melville-Sound . Although he has to give up his ship and cover part of the route on foot, he is considered to be the discoverer of the Northwest Passage . However, due to regular icing, this remains unsavable until the 20th century.
- 1861 : Johann Philipp Reis presents a telephone to the Physikalischer Verein zu Frankfurt am Main as a forerunner of the modern telephone .
- 1909 : The French pilot Marie Marvingt is the first woman to fly a balloon over the North Sea from France to England.
- 1931 : The British biplane De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth Tiger Moth ("Bear Moth ") completes its maiden flight.
- 1940 : The American North American P-51 "Mustang" fighter successfully completes its maiden flight .
- 1958 : The PanAm airline begins regular jet operations across the Atlantic.
- 1973 : The Franco-German military aircraft Alpha Jet makes its maiden flight successfully.
- 1977 : Last regular use of a steam locomotive of the German Federal Railroad
- 1984 : A baboon heart is implanted in an infant at Loma Linda University in California because no human organ is available. The child dies three weeks later.
- 1996 : The Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum , the largest computer museum in the world (as of 2015), opens in Paderborn .
- 2006 : In Austria the conversion from analog to digital television signals DVB-T begins.
- 2006 : The STEREO project of the US space agency NASA is started.
Culture
- 1701 : At the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg the premiere of the opera The wonderful Psyche by Reinhard Keizer takes place .
- 1796 : The opera Christophe et Jérôme ou La Femme hospitalière by Henri Montan Berton is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1811 : The opera L'equivoco stravagante ( Through List to the Destination ) by Gioacchino Rossini is premiered at the Teatro dal Corso in Bologna .
- 1899 : Anton Chekhov's drama Uncle Vanya is premiered in the Moscow Art Theater. Konstantin Stanislavsky lead director and plays even the Astrow following the instructions Chekhov. Olga Knipper , Chekhov's future wife, plays Jélena.
- 1899 : The operetta Wiener Blut by Johann Strauss (son) with the libretto by Victor Léon and Leo Stein is premiered at the Vienna Carltheater . The premiere turns into a fiasco.
- 1907 : The opera Die Rote Gred by Julius Bittner is premiered at the Court Opera in Vienna .
- 1931 : The of drama trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill is in Guildhall Theater City premiered in New York.
- 1958 : At a concert by Bill Haley there is a riot in West Berlin : the chairs and windows are broken and the police forcefully clear the hall.
- 1965 : The Beatles are awarded the Order of Member of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London . John Lennon returns his medal a few years later in protest against Britain's participation in the Biafra War .
- 1984 : Amadeus by Miloš Forman , the film adaptation of Sir Peter Shaffer's play , which has been celebrated in London and on Broadway , is released in Germany. The film received eight awards at the 1985 Academy Awards.
- 1984 : In the US, the science fiction film comes Terminator by James Cameron in theaters. The B-movie, which was shot on a relatively modest budget and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton , is developing into a cult film .
society
- 1440 : Gilles de Rais , Marshal of France and one of the most notorious serial killers in criminal history, is executed.
- 1881 : At the O. K. Corral in Tombstone , the most famous shootout in Wild West history takes place between Virgil, Morgan and Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday on one side and the Clanton / McLaury family on the other.
- 2004 : The felon Christian Bogner spectacularly escapes from the correctional facility in Lübeck and presumably kills the landscape gardener Engelbert Danielsen on the same day.
religion
- 1698 : One of the effects of the Peace of Rijswijk is the introduction of the Simultaneum , the right according to which the Protestant and Catholic faith can be freely exercised in the same state .
Disasters
- 1859 : The British clipper Royal Charter gets caught in a heavy storm off Anglesey . The ship is thrown against the rocks, breaks apart and sinks. 449 people die, including all women and children on board. The sinking of the Royal Charter is the worst shipping disaster on the coast of Wales to this day .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1863 : The Football Association is founded in London . As a result, the rules for football will be standardized.
- 1959 : Ex-snooker world champion Joe Davis introduces the snooker plus version of billiards , which he invented , but which cannot prevail against the traditional version of snooker .
- 1997 : The Canadian Jacques Villeneuve becomes world champion in Formula 1 with his Williams-Renault racing car . In the last race of the season , a third place at the Spanish Circuito de Jerez was enough for him .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 968 : Kazan , 65th Tennō of Japan
- 1427 : Siegmund , Austrian Archduke, Regent of Tyrol and Upper Austria
- 1431 : Ercole I. d'Este , Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio
- 1473 : Friedrich von Sachsen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1476 : Yi Gi , Korean politician and philosopher
- 1491 : Zhengde , Chinese emperor
- 1507 : Alvise Mocenigo I , 85th Doge of Venice
- 1512 : Bartholomew VI. Welser , Augsburg patrician
- 1529 : Anna , Princess of Hesse and Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken
- 1556 : Ahmad Bābā , Islamic legal scholar
- 1592 : Wilhelm Leyser I , German theologian
17th and 18th centuries
- 1611 : Antonio Coello , Spanish writer
- 1615 : Jean Nocret , French painter and portraitist
- 1626 : Ferdinand von Fürstenberg , Prince-Bishop of Münster and Paderborn
- 1645 : Aert de Gelder , Dutch painter
- 1673 : Dimitrie Cantemir , Voivode of Moldova, historian, music theorist, geographer and universal scientist, humanist and encyclopedist
- 1684 : Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin , Prussian field marshal
- 1685 : Domenico Scarlatti , Italian composer
- 1694 : Johan Helmich Roman , Swedish composer
- 1697 : John Peter Zenger , German-American publicist and publisher
- 1704 : Johannes Oosterdijk Schacht , Dutch medic
- 1714 : Maria Viktoria Pauline von Arenberg , Margravine of Baden
- 1725 : Jean-Pierre de Beaulieu , Austrian general
- 1732 : Francesco Sozzi , Sicilian painter
- 1739 : Matthias Jorissen , German pastor and hymn poet
- 1759 : Georges Danton , French revolutionary leader
- 1765 : Jan Šimon Václav Thám , Czech poet, writer and actor
- 1766 : Konrad Heinrich Wolf , German clergyman
- 1768 : Karl Friedrich Franciscus von Steinmetz , German lieutenant general and cartographer
- 1769 : Friedrich Reinhard Ricklefs , German classical philologist and grammar school director
- 1778 : Charles Grant, Baron Glenelg , British politician
- 1788 : Thomas R. Ross , American politician
- 1797 : Giuditta Pasta , Italian opera singer
- 1800 : Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke , Prussian Field Marshal General
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Michael I , King of Portugal
- 1809 : Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn , German naturalist
- 1810 : Carl Ludwig Adolf Gamradt , Prussian District Administrator, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and the Prussian House of Representatives
- 1819 : Emma Wanda von Arbter , Austrian writer
- 1823 : Karl Weinhold , German Germanist
- 1830 : Polibio Fumagalli , Italian organist, composer and music teacher
- 1837 : Carl Koldewey , German polar explorer
- 1839 : Wilhelm Haas , German politician and social reformer
- 1842 : Julius Jacob the Younger , German painter
- 1842 : Vasily Vereschagin , Russian painter
- 1847 : Haydn Keeton , British organist, music teacher and composer
- 1849 : Heinrich Bulthaupt , German author
- 1849 : Ferdinand Georg Frobenius , German mathematician
1851-1900
- 1853 : Paul Homeyer , German organist
- 1858 : Arthur Sifton , Canadian politician and judge
- 1859 : Arthur Friedheim , Russian-German pianist and composer
- 1862 : Georg Wentzel , German classical philologist
- 1872 : Harold Fraser , American golfer
- 1874 : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , US patroness and co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art
- 1874 : Martin Lowry , British chemist
- 1875 : HB Warner , American actor
- 1880 : Andrei Bely , Russian poet and theorist
- 1880 : Dmitri Karbyshev , Russian Soviet general
- 1881 : Paul Röntgen , German metallurgist and rector
- 1882 : Georg Hellmuth Neuendorff , German writer and reform pedagogue
- 1883 : Napoleon Hill , American writer
- 1883 : Paul Pilgrim , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1886 : Hanns Braun , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1886 : Isidore Fattal , Syrian Archbishop
- 1891 : Roy Knapp , American percussionist and music teacher
- 1893 : Andreas Predöhl , German economist
- 1895 : Josef-Ernst Fürst Fugger von Glött , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1895 : Robert Kautsky , Austrian theater painter, stage and costume designer
- 1896 : Antoine Abed , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1897 : James Leonard Brierley Smith , South African zoologist
- 1897 : Henry Vahl , German actor
- 1900 : Ibrahim Abbud , Sudanese President
- 1900 : Karin Boye , Swedish writer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Herman Auerbach , Polish mathematician
- 1902 : Vera Guilaroff , Canadian pianist and composer
- 1902 : Beryl Markham , British aviation pioneer
- 1904 : Virgilio Felice Levratto , Italian football player and coach
- 1907 : Johan Dankmeijer , Dutch anatomist
- 1910 : Eva Hoffmann-Aleith , German pastor and writer
- 1911 : Mogens Brems , Danish actor
- 1911 : Sid Gillman , American football player and coach
- 1911 : Mahalia Jackson , American gospel singer
- 1912 : Hellmut Arnold , German geologist and paleontologist
- 1912 : Don Siegel , American film director
- 1912 : Stojko Stojkow , Bulgarian linguist
- 1913 : Charlie Barnet , American jazz saxophonist
- 1913 : Hans Jönsson , German film, television and radio play composer
- 1913 : Oda Sakunosuke , Japanese writer
- 1913 : Netty Simons , American composer
- 1914 : Raymond Arveiller , French Romance studies and lexicologist
- 1914 : Jackie Coogan , American actor
- 1915 : Gioacchino Attaguile , Italian politician
- 1915 : Raymond Crawford , American racing car driver
- 1915 : Joe Fry , British racing car driver
- 1915 : Paul Ohnsorge , German artist
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- 1916 : François Mitterrand , French President
- 1919 : John A. Gronouski , American politician
- 1919 : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , last Shah in Iran
- 1920 : Howhannes Barseghjan , Armenian linguist
- 1921 : Roel D'Haese , Belgian sculptor and graphic artist
- 1924 : John Campbell Arbuthnott , British peer, businessman and member of the House of Lords
1926-1950
- 1926 : George Crum , Canadian conductor and pianist
- 1926 : Bernhard Klodt , German football player
- 1927 : Hubert Aumüller , German politician
- 1928 : Peter Appleyard , Canadian jazz musician
- 1928 : Albert Brewer , American politician
- 1928 : Jean-Claude Vidilles , French racing car driver
- 1930 : John Arden , British novelist and playwright
- 1930 : Erich Kronauer , German manager and founder
- 1930 : Les Richter , American football player and motorsport official
- 1931 : Hermann von Loewenich , German bishop
- 1932 : Gerhard Konzelmann , German journalist
- 1934 : Jacques Loussier , French pianist and composer
- 1934 : Peter Marginter , Austrian author, essayist and translator
- 1934 : Ulrich Plenzdorf , German writer, screenwriter and dramaturge
- 1935 : Heiko R. Blum , German film critic and author
- 1935 : Julio de Windt , Dominican violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1936 : Hans Hubert Anton , German historian
- 1936 : Al Casey , American guitarist
- 1936 : Christiane Herzog , German first lady
- 1937 : Reinhold Kellenbenz , German football player
- 1937 : Thomas Küttler , German theologian
- 1937 : William Lubtchansky , French cameraman
- 1938 : Wolfgang Behrendt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1938 : Wilfried Scharnagl , German journalist and politician
- 1939 : Karl Stix , Austrian politician, Governor of Burgenland
- 1940 : Domna Adamopoulou , Greek actress
- 1940 : Eddie Henderson , American trumpeter
- 1940 : Tilo Prückner , German actor
- 1941 : Holger Meins , German terrorist ( RAF )
- 1941 : Peter Przygodda , German film editor
- 1942 : Bob Hoskins , British actor
- 1942 : Jonathan Williams , British racing car driver
- 1942 : Milton Nascimento , Brazilian musician
- 1943 : João Casimiro Namorado de Aguiar , Portuguese writer
- 1943 : Toni Gruber , German motorcycle racer
- 1944 : Kenneth Lee Ascher , American pianist and keyboardist
- 1944 : Martin Jellinghaus , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1944 : Leta Semadeni , Swiss writer
- 1944 : Angelika Waller , German actress
- 1945 : Jacob Angadiath , Indian bishop
- 1946 : Maureen Anderman , American actress
- 1947 : Ian Ashley , British racing car driver
- 1947 : Hillary Clinton , American lawyer and politician
- 1947 : Christian Ude , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Munich
- 1948 : John Morrison , British racing car driver
- 1949 : Friedhelm Repnik , German politician, Minister of Social Affairs of Baden-Württemberg
- 1949 : Brodie Greer , American actor
- 1949 : Rafael Pérez Botija , Spanish composer and arranger
- 1950 : Jens Asendorpf , German psychologist
- 1950 : Anne Bärenz , German singer and pianist
- 1950 : Nico Braun , Luxembourg soccer player
- 1950 : Pavel Trávníček , Czech actor and voice actor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Bootsy Collins , American bass player
- 1952 : Andrew Motion , British poet, novelist and biographer
- 1954 : Stephen L. Carter , American writer
- 1954 : Christoph Nix , German legal scholar and theater director
- 1955 : Wolfgang Gansert , German cyclist
- 1957 : Peter Wuffli , Swiss manager
- 1958 : Walter Junghans , German soccer player
- 1958 : Pascale Ogier , French actress
- 1958 : Shaun Woodward , British politician
- 1959 : François Chau , Cambodian-American actor
- 1959 : Marilyn Jess , French porn actress
- 1959 : Dana Kimmell , American actress
- 1962 : Davo Karničar , Slovenian extreme skier
- 1962 : Christian Minkowitsch , Austrian composer
- 1963 : Theresia Kiesl , Austrian athlete
- 1963 : Natalie Merchant , American singer and songwriter
- 1964 : Sven Väth , German DJ
- 1964 : Irving São Paulo , Brazilian actor
- 1965 : Joachim Paul Assböck , German film and theater actor
- 1965 : Stephen Rosenbaum , American visual effects artist
- 1966 : Lambert Ringlage , German composer and musician
- 1966 : Steve Valentine , Scottish actor
- 1967 : Kelly Rowan , Canadian actress
- 1967 : Keith Urban , New Zealand-Australian singer, songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 : Robert Jarni , Yugoslav-Croatian football player and coach
- 1969 : Robert Maillet , Canadian wrestler and actor
- 1969 : Tetsushi Suwa , Japanese writer
- 1970 : Carlos Arecio Amarilla Demarqui , Paraguayan football referee
- 1970 : Josefine Grosse , German handball player
- 1970 : Lisa Ryder , Canadian actress
- 1972 : Rasmus Larsen , Greenlandic handball player
- 1973 : Seth MacFarlane , American actor, voice actor, and producer
- 1974 : Philipp Neubauer , German actor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Jeremy Wotherspoon , Canadian speed skater
- 1976 : Filipe de Souza , Macau racing car driver
- 1976 : Florence Kasumba , German-Ugandan actress
- 1976 : T-Seven , German singer and presenter
- 1977 : Dominik Burkhardt , German athlete
- 1978 : Phil Brooks , American wrestler
- 1978 : Tetjana Schynkarenko , Ukrainian handball player
- 1980 : Cristian Chivu , Romanian football player
- 1981 : Lorenzo Lanzi , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1982 : Nicola Adams , English boxer
- 1982 : Vera Bommer , Swiss actress
- 1982 : Adam Carroll , British racing car driver
- 1983 : Houston , American singer
- 1984 : Ahn Hyun-suk , South Korean badminton player
- 1984 : Sasha Cohen , American figure skater
- 1984 : Jefferson Farfán , Peruvian soccer player
- 1985 : Labinot Haliti , Albanian-Australian soccer player
- 1985 : Mira Mazumdar , German actress
- 1985 : Katharina Schwarzmaier , German actress and voice actress.
- 1986 : Uwe Gensheimer , German handball player
- 1986 : Erik Jendrišek , Slovak football player
- 1986 : Marco Gastón Rubén , Argentinian football player
- 1986 : Schoolboy Q , American rapper
- 1987 : Rafał Gikiewicz , Polish football player
- 1987 : Melo Imai , Japanese snowboarder and Tarento
- 1989 : Yannick Mettler , Swiss racing driver
- 1989 : Daniel Mullen , Australian soccer player
- 1990 : Felix König , German handball player
- 1990 : Pit Schlechter , Luxembourg cyclist
- 1991 : Mücahit Atalay , Turkish football goalkeeper
- 1992 : Beulah Koale , New Zealand actor
- 1993 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Karassjow , Russian basketball player
- 1997 : Rhenzy Feliz , American actor
- 1998 : Dennis Dressel , German soccer player
21st century
- 2001 : Noah Alibayli , German actor
- 2002 : Emma Schweiger , German actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 31 : Apicata , wife of the Praetorian prefect Lucius Aelius Seianus
- 664 : Cedd , Anglo-Saxon bishop
- 686 : Eata of Hexham , Bishop
- 760 : Cuthbert , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 791 : Angilram , Bishop of Metz
- 899 : Alfred the Great , King of England
- 1104 : Johannes I , Bishop of Speyer
- 1111 : Gómez González , Spanish nobleman, lover of Queen Urraca of León-Castile
- 1129 : Leopold I , Margrave of Styria
- 1133 : Florence the Black , Dutch count and rebel
- 1206 : Henry Marshal , English prelate and Bishop of Exeter
- 1277 : Mastino I della Scala , Lord of Verona
- 1282 : Roger Mortimer, 1st Baron Mortimer , cambro-Norman nobleman
- 1294 : Bogo de Clare , English clergyman
- 1327 : Elizabeth de Burgh , 2nd wife of Robert I, Queen of Scotland
- 1403 : Francesco II Gattilusio , lord of Lesbos
- 1416 : Heinrich VII. , German nobleman, count of the Niedersalm line
- 1440 : Gilles de Rais , French military leader, Marshal of France and serial killer
- 1465 : Isabella of Braganza , Portuguese noblewoman
- 1494 : Amda Seyon II , Emperor of Ethiopia
16th to 18th century
- 1503 : Hans von Trotha , Marshal of the Elector Palatinate
- 1524 : Philip II , Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
- 1550 : Ferdinand , Duke of Calabria
- 1576 : Friedrich III. , Elector Palatinate
- 1580 : Anna of Austria , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Spain and Portugal
- 1608 : Valentin Forster , German lawyer
- 1608 : Philipp Nicolai , German court preacher and song poet
- 1610 : Francesco Vanni , Italian painter
- 1622 : Sebastián de Vivanco , Spanish composer
- 1640 : Pietro Tacca , Italian architect, sculptor and bronze caster
- 1661 : Johann Balthasar Schupp , German satirical writer and spiritual poet
- 1671 : John Gell , English politician and general
- 1676 : Nathaniel Bacon , English tobacco grower and revolutionary in Virginia
- 1693 : Coenraad van Beuningen , regent of Amsterdam
- 1694 : Samuel von Pufendorf , German natural law philosopher and historian
- 1706 : Andreas Werckmeister , German musician and music theorist
- 1717 : Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester , mistress of James II of England
- 1721 : Georg August , Prince of Nassau-Idstein
- 1724 : Johann Siegmund von Heyden , Prussian general of the cavalry, governor of Lippstadt and Drost zu Wetter, heir to Bruch, Rhade, Lichtenwörde, Oedendael, Cliff and Crudenburg
- 1733 : Antonio Veracini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1735 : Philipp Joseph von Toerring-Seefeld , Bavarian nobleman
- 1749 : Louis-Nicolas Clérambault , French composer and organist
- 1751 : Gion Nankai , Japanese painter, poet, and Confucianist
- 1756 : Johann Theodor Roemhildt , German composer
- 1756 : Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière , French naval officer, governor of New France and promoter of scientific research
- 1764 : William Hogarth , English painter and graphic artist
- 1765 : Ludwig Batthyány , Hungarian court chancellor and palatine
- 1790 : Ferdinand von Meggenhofen , Austrian civil servant, member of the Illuminati Order
- 1795 : Carl Conti , Austrian engraver
19th century
- 1806 : John Graves Simcoe , British Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada
- 1815 : Johann Josef Anton Huber , Augsburg fresco painter and Catholic director of the Imperial Art Academy
- 1817 : Yasuaki Aida , Japanese mathematician
- 1817 : Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin , Austrian botanist and chemist
- 1817 : Moritz August von Thümmel , German writer
- 1818 : Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten , German theologian, pastor and writer
- 1819 : Thomas Johnson , American lawyer and politician
- 1823 : Amalie Christiane , Princess of Baden
- 1828 : Albrecht Daniel Thaer , German poly-scientist, founder of agricultural science
- 1842 : Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlob von Bibra , German farmer and politician
- 1854 : Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen , Bavarian Queen
- 1856 : Christian Wilhelm Schweitzer , German lawyer and politician
- 1864 : Bloody Bill Anderson , American pirate
- 1864 : Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn , German naturalist
- 1868 : Wilhelm Griesinger , German psychiatrist and internist
- 1868 : Henricus Christianus Millies , Dutch Lutheran theologian and orientalist
- 1870 : Thomas Anderson , Scottish botanist
- 1871 : Thomas Ewing , American politician
- 1874 : Peter Cornelius , German composer and poet
- 1877 : Michael Arnold , German sculptor, painter and graphic artist
- 1886 : Giovanni Antonio Vanoni , Swiss painter
- 1887 : Victor Delannoy , French composer and music teacher
- 1887 : Johannes Ronge , German theologian
- 1890 : Carlo Collodi , Italian writer ( Pinocchio )
- 1892 : Bernhard Windscheid , German lawyer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Alfred Tysoe , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 1902 : Elizabeth Cady Stanton , American civil and women's rights activist
- 1909 : Itō Hirobumi , Japanese Prime Minister
- 1912 : Christian Horne , Norwegian teacher and politician
- 1915 : August Bungert , German composer
- 1918 : Ella Flagg Young , American teacher and school reformer
- 1919 : Motojirō Akashi , Japanese general
- 1920 : Johan Storm , Norwegian linguist
- 1927 : Yagi Jūkichi , Japanese writer
- 1929 : Swan Hennessy , Irish-American composer
- 1929 : Arno Holz , German writer
- 1931 : Celestino Piaggio , Argentine composer, pianist and conductor
- 1935 : Ákos Buttykay , Hungarian composer
- 1936 : Rodney Heath , Australian tennis player
- 1937 : Avedis Petrus XIV. Arpiarian , Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia
- 1937 : Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki , Polish general
- 1941 : Harry von Arnim , German officer
- 1942 : Clemens Lugowski , German specialist in German
- 1943 : Bernhard Ankermann , German ethnologist and Africa researcher
- 1944 : Beatrice of Great Britain and Ireland , British princess
1951-1975
- 1953 : Zdzisław Jachimecki , Polish musicologist and teacher
- 1956 : Lucien Gagnier , Canadian flautist
- 1956 : Walter Gieseking , German pianist
- 1957 : Gerty Cori , Czech-American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1957 : Nikos Kazantzakis , Greek writer ( Alexis Sorbas )
- 1958 : Javier Rengifo , Chilean composer
- 1958 : Norman Houston , American screenwriter
- 1963 : Arthur Laurendeau , Canadian singer, choir director and music teacher
- 1964 : Edmund Löns , German forester and cynologist
- 1964 : Agnes Miegel , German writer, journalist and ballad poet
- 1965 : Sylvia Likens , American victim of abuse
- 1966 : Alma Cogan , British singer
- 1967 : Fita Benkhoff , German actress
- 1968 : Sergej Natanowitsch Bernstein , Russian mathematician
- 1968 : Rudolf Grewe , German chemist
- 1969 : Gustav Seitz , German sculptor
- 1971 : Yves de la Casinière , French composer and music teacher
- 1972 : Igor Sikorsky , Russian-American aviation pioneer
- 1973 : Semyon Budjonny , Soviet Marshal, three-time Hero of the Soviet Union
- 1973 : Wolfgang Ullrich , German zoologist, animal filmmaker, author of animal books and director of the Dresden Zoo
- 1974 : Werner Golz , German chess player and journalist
1976-2000
- 1977 : Elisabeth Flickenschildt , German actress
- 1977 : Charles Wheeler , New Zealand-Australian painter
- 1979 : Park Chung-hee , South Korean military and president
- 1981 : Francisco Amicarelli , Argentine pianist and music teacher
- 1981 : Charles Glenn Anders , American theater and film actor
- 1982 : Giovanni Benelli , Italian cardinal, Vatican diplomat and Archbishop of Florence
- 1983 : Mike Michalske , American football player
- 1983 : Alfred Tarski , Polish mathematician and logician
- 1989 : Mary Martlew , British-Swiss actress
- 1990 : Robert Antelme , French writer
- 1992 : Kurt Hepperlin , German actor and documentary film director
- 1996 : Miquel Asins Arbó , Spanish composer, conductor and teacher
- 1996 : Angélica Ortiz , Mexican film producer and screenwriter
- 1999 : Rex Gildo , German actor and singer
- 2000 : Muriel Evans , American actress
21st century
- 2002 : Jacques Massu , French general
- 2002 : Siegfried Unseld , German publisher
- 2003 : Elem Klimow , Russian film director
- 2003 : Roberto García Morillo , Argentine composer
- 2003 : Heinz Piontek , German writer
- 2003 : Peter Niklas Wilson , German jazz bassist and musicologist
- 2004 : Robin Kenyatta , American saxophonist
- 2005 : Józef Patkowski , Polish composer, musicologist and music teacher
- 2005 : Rong Yiren , Chinese businessman and politician
- 2006 : Pontus Hultén , Swedish art historian, art collector and museum founder
- 2006 : Marcelo Koc , Argentine composer
- 2007 : Nicolae Dobrin , Romanian football player
- 2007 : Khun Sa , Myanmar politician and rebel leader
- 2007 : Hans Stern , German-Brazilian jeweler
- 2008 : Tony Hillerman , American author
- 2009 : Daniel Acharuparambil , Indian Archbishop of Verapoly
- 2011 : Max Dünki , Swiss politician
- 2012 : Mac Ahlberg , Swedish cameraman, film director and screenwriter
- 2012 : Björn Sieber , Austrian ski racer
- 2013 : Roger Asselberghs , Belgian jazz musician
- 2014 : Senzo Meyiwa , South African soccer player
- 2015 : Leo Kadanoff , American physicist
- 2016 : Andreas Fulterer , Italian singer
- 2019 : Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , Iraqi terrorist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Frumentius , bishop and messenger of faith in Ethiopia (Protestant)
- St. Sigebald , Bishop (Roman Catholic)
- St. Amandus of Strasbourg , Bishop (Roman Catholic)
- St. Amandus von Worms , Bishop (Roman Catholic)
- Name days
- Dmitri (Orthodox)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Nauru : Angam Day
- Austria : National Day (since 1965)
Individual evidence
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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