September 26th

The September 26 is the 269th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 270th in leap years ). 96 days remain at the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

1087: Coronation of Wilhelm II.

• 1087 : The Westminster Abbey is Wilhelm II. Crowned King of England.
• 1423 : On the way back from a raid, an English troop in the Hundred Years' War is largely killed by a French force at the Battle of La Brossinière .
• 1580 : Sir Francis Drake returns to England from his three-year circumnavigation .
• 1679 : The Peace of Lund reaffirms the Fontainebleau Treaty on the Scena War . The conclusion of the contract will be repeated in Sweden for reasons of state.
• 1687 : The Parthenon is badly damaged in a Venetian attack on Athens during the Ottoman period .
• 1777 : During the American War of Independence , the British take the city of Philadelphia under General William Howe .

1799: Second Battle of Zurich

• 1799 : After crossing the Limmat with pontoons in the Second Coalition War the day before , the French under André Masséna defeat a Russian-Austrian coalition army in the Second Battle of Zurich .
• 1815 : At the suggestion of Tsar Alexander I , the monarchs of Russia , Austria and Prussia form the Holy Alliance .

1860: Flag of Ecuador

• 1860 : Ecuador receives its flag , which, after an election victory by the Conservatives over the Liberals, is again based on the colors of the former Greater Colombia .
• 1860 : In the Second Opium War , Allied troops reach Beijing and begin to conquer the Chinese capital.
• 1907 : The Australian Confederation and New Zealand receive almost complete independence from Great Britain with Dominion status .
• 1914 : First World War outside Europe : In German South West Africa , the battle of Sandfontein begins, lasting several days , between the German protection force and a numerically superior British-South African army .
• 1915 : The German Niedermayer-Hentig expedition reaches the Afghan capital Kabul . The aim of the expedition, led by Oskar von Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig, is Afghanistan's entry into the First World War on the side of the Central Powers .
• 1918 : The American Meuse-Argonne offensive begins during World War I and will last until November 11th .
• 1923 : Reich Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann breaks off passive resistance in the war against the Ruhr .
• 1941 : A week after the German troops conquered Kiev , the Battle of Kiev on the Eastern Front also ended . The Ukraine is almost completely under the control of the German Reich .

1944: Western Front to Market Garden

• 1944 : Operation Market Garden during the Second World War to land in North Brabant and Gelderland has to be aborted unsuccessfully with the evacuation of the Allied troops.

State coat of arms of the GDR (from 1955)

• 1955 : The People's Chamber passes a law on the flag and national coat of arms of the GDR .

1960: TV debate between Kennedy and Nixon

• 1960 : During the presidential campaign in the United States, two candidates, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon , meet for the first time in a television duel.
• 1969 : In Bolivia , General Alfredo Ovando Candía comes back to the post of President in a coup .
• 1972 : As a result of the attack at the Olympic Games in Munich , Border Guard Group 9 ( GSG 9 ) is founded in Germany as a special unit to fight terrorism .
• 1980 : A bomb attack at the Munich Oktoberfest results in 13 dead and 218 injured, including many seriously injured.
• 1981 : In Cairo, the Al-Jihad terrorist group agrees to pledge the murder of Egyptian President Anwar as-Sadat and a subsequent “popular revolution” in Cairo and Assiut .
• 1983 : Stanislaw Evgrafowitsch Petrov prevents a nuclear war by refusing, contrary to the indications of his electronic early warning system, to consider an apparent US missile attack on the USSR to be real.
• 1986 : William H. Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice of the United States at the US Supreme Court .
• 1989 : The last Vietnamese troops withdraw from Cambodia .

1999: Hosni Mubarak

• 1999 : Egyptian President Muhammad Husni Mubarak is confirmed in office by a referendum for a fourth six-year term.
• 2004 : In Switzerland is the last country in Europe , a maternity insurance by referendum introduced.
• 2005 : The head of the International Disarmament Commission, Canadian General John de Chastelain , announces the complete disarmament of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Great Britain .

2005: Lynndie England in Abu-Ghuraib

• 2005 : American soldier Lynndie England is found guilty of six charges for her involvement in the torture scandal in Abu Ghuraib prison during the post- Iraqi occupation of Iraq . The following day she was sentenced to three years in prison.
• 2014 : The protests in Hong Kong escalate with the occupation of parts of the Admiralty district by demonstrators . The occupations, with which the demonstrators want to force democratic reforms, will last until December 15, 2014.
• 2014 : In the Mexican city of Iguala are 43 students kidnapped and later murdered. The event sparked massive protests across the country.

economy

• 1832 : The Göta Canal in Sweden opens. It is supposed to help avoid passing the Öresund , as there Sundzoll had to be paid to Denmark.
• 1853 : Victoria insurance is founded in Berlin as a general railway insurance company .
• 1872 : The travel agency Thomas Cook and Son starts the first world tour , which ends 222 days later with the return of the participants.
• 1876 : Friedrich Karl Henkel's detergent factory Henkel & Cie. is entered in the Aachen commercial register.
• 1986 : The US publishing house Doubleday & Co. is bought by Bertelsmann for 475 million US dollars . Bertelsmann temporarily becomes the world's largest media group .
• 2008 : In the course of the financial crisis from 2007 onwards , Bank Washington Mutual collapses due to acute liquidity problems . With total assets of about $ 300 billion, this is the largest bank failure in US history. A collapse with a corresponding overloading of the US deposit insurance fund can be prevented with the takeover by the US bank JP Morgan Chase .

science and technology

• 1839 : The first section of the Taunus Railway over 9 kilometers from Frankfurt Taunusbahnhof to Höchst am Main is opened.
• 1887 : Emil Berliner from Hanover applies for a patent for a gramophone that uses records as a sound carrier .

Albert Einstein around 1905

• 1905 : Albert Einstein publishes his special theory of relativity in the Annalen der Physik .
• 1981 : The Boeing 767 completes its maiden flight.
• 1983 : Just before a Soviet Soyuz rocket launches, a fire breaks out. The cosmonauts are blown off the rocket with a capsule and can save themselves.

1991: Biosphere 2 building (library wing)

• 1991 : The Biosphere 2 experiment begins. In a building hermetically sealed from the outside world, eight residents should try out the possibility of living in a closed ecosystem.

Culture

• 1662 : The first performance of the musical drama Antiopa giustificata by Johann Caspar Kerll takes place in Munich.
• 1782 : The world premiere of the opera Il Barbiere di Siviglia ossia L'inutile precauzione by Giovanni Paisiello takes place at the court theater in Saint Petersburg .
• 1808 : The premiere of the opera Ninon chez Madame de Sévigné by Henri Montan Berton takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1835 : The opera Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. The libretto is by Salvatore Cammarano based on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott . The work is considered to be one of the highlights of the bel canto era . The role of Lucia is one of the most demanding coloratura soprano roles in opera literature.
• 1915 : The opera Mona Lisa by Max von Schillings with the libretto by Beatrice Dovsky is premiered in Stuttgart.
• 1933 : James Hilton's hit novel Lost Horizon , which establishes the legend of Shangri-La , appears in London and New York at the same time .
• 1957 : The musical West Side Story premieres at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City . The music is by Leonard Bernstein , the lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and the book by Arthur Laurents based on an idea by the choreographer Jerome Robbins .
• 1969 : Abbey Road is launched in Great Britain - the last album jointly recorded by the Beatles . The by Iain MacMillan captured photo on the cover of the album heats the Paul is dead - conspiracy theory to grow.
• 1969 : The American television station ABC broadcasts the first episode of the family series The Brady Bunch ( three girls and three boys ).
• 1987 : Thomas Gottschalk moderated the television program Wetten, dass ..? For the first time in Hofer Freiheitshalle .

1991: August Macke House

• 1991 : In the presence of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau, the August-Macke-Haus is opened in Bonn, a museum in a house that the expressionist painter August Macke used to live in.

religion

• 1143 : Guido di Castello is elected Pope and takes up his pontificate as Celestine II .
• 1348 : Pope Clement VI. In a second bull entitled Quamvis perfidiam, declares the Jews innocent as having poisoned a well or causing the plague . Anyone who persecutes Jews must expect excommunication .
• 1943 : in the pastoral letter of 12.9. The Catholic Church in Germany publicly condemns the murder of the disabled and sick people ( euthanasia ) by the Nazi regime in Germany; the reading from the pulpit took place on September 26th

Disasters

• 1509 : The Second Cosmas and Damian Flood, which has been falling over the German Bight since the day before, causes high damage in the Rheiderland and Oldambt . The dollar reaches its greatest expansion.
• 1941 : North of the Azores , the British passenger steamer Avoceta is torpedoed by the German submarine U 203 and sinks within two minutes. 123 passengers and crew are killed.
• 1954 : The sinking of the Japanese ferry Toya Maru claims 1,153 lives.
• 1992 : Shortly after taking off from Lagos, a Nigerian Lockheed C-130 military transport crashed due to an engine failure. All 163 soldiers on board die.
• 1997 : When an Airbus A300 operated by Garuda Indonesia crashes near Medan , Sumatra , Indonesia , all 234 people on board die.
• 1997 : Two earthquakes of intensity 5.4 and 5.6 in Umbria and Marche , Italy , calling for 11 deaths and 150 injured in Assisi and Perugia . 50,000 people become homeless. The Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi is badly damaged.
• 2002 : 1,863 people died when the Senegalese ferry Le Joola went down . Only 60 survivors can be rescued after the totally overloaded ship capsizes.

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

Sports

1983: Australia II

• 1983 : The America's Cup is won by the crew of Yacht Australia II after 132 years of US dominance . US skipper Dennis Conner is beaten with his yacht Liberty .
• 1998 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Željko Mavrović at Mohegan Sun Casino , Uncasville , Connecticut , USA , by winning on points.

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 19th century

• 1045 : Nizār ibn al-Mustansir , 19th Imam of the Nizari Ismailites
• 1329 : Anna of the Palatinate , second wife of Emperor Charles IV.
• 1462 : Engelbert von Kleve , German nobleman, Count of Nevers and Eu
• 1526 : Wolfgang , Count Palatinate and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and Duke of Palatinate-Neuburg
• 1552 : Nicolò Contarini , 97th Doge of Venice
• 1582 : Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern , Bishop of Osnabrück
• 1615 : Heinrich Bach , German organist
• 1641 : Nehemiah Grew , English botanist, physicist and physiologist
• 1651 : Franz Daniel Pastorius , German lawyer and writer, founder of the first German settlement in North America
• 1679 : Johann Gottlob Carpzov , German Lutheran theologian
• 1692 : Pietro Antonio Trezzini , Swiss architect in St. Petersburg
• 1708 : Ignaz Sichelbarth , German-Bohemian Jesuit missionary and painter active in China
• 1715 : Niccolò Oddi , Papal Legate and Metropolitan of the Archdiocese of Ravenna
• 1718 : Johann Friedrich Stahl , German forest scientist
• 1743 : Castolus Reichlin von Meldegg , last prince abbot of Kempten
• 1746 : Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe , German architect and engraver
• 1750 : Cuthbert Collingwood , British Vice Admiral
• 1751 : Cornelis Willem de Rhoer , Dutch historian, rhetorician, philologist and legal scholar
• 1754 : Joseph-Louis Proust , French chemist
• 1759 : Johann David Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg , Prussian field marshal
• 1774 : Johnny Appleseed , American ecological pioneer
• 1779 : Abraham Constantin Mouradgea d'Ohsson , French-Armenian Mongolist
• 1791 : Théodore Géricault , French painter and representative of Romanticism
• 1794 : Wilhelm Legrand , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1795 : Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo , Portuguese politician and statesman

19th century

• 1814 : Erneste-Louis-Henri-Hyacinthe Arrighi de Casanova , Duke of Padua and French politician
• 1816 : Paul Gervais , French zoologist and paleontologist
• 1830 : Okubo Toshimichi , Japanese interior minister of the Meiji period
• 1843 : Joseph Furphy , Australian writer, is believed to be the father of the Australian novel
• 1847 : Anna von Lieben , known as Sigmund Freud's Austrian patient Cäcilie M.
• 1849 : Ivan Petrovich Pavlov , Russian physician, physiologist and behavioral scientist, Nobel Prize winner

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• 1856 : Leo Graetz , German physicist
• 1857 : Joachim von Bonin , German politician, MdL
• 1859 : Ernst Anemüller , German philologist, high school professor and librarian
• 1862 : Ernst Kromayer , German dermatologist and university professor
• 1863 : Arthur B. Davies , American symbolism painter
• 1863 : Sergei Fjodorowitsch Oldenburg , Russian orientalist
• 1866 : Aurelio Silva , Chilean violinist and music teacher
• 1868 : Karel Hoffmeister , Czech pianist and musicologist
• 1870 : Christian X , King of Denmark
• 1870 : Erwin Gross , German-Baltic clergyman and evangelical confessor
• 1872 : Ottokar Theobald Count Czernin von und zu Chudenitz , Austrian politician
• 1874 : Oakes Ames , American botanist
• 1876 : Edith Abbott , American social reformer
• 1877 : Alfred Cortot , Swiss pianist
• 1877 : Siegfried Schopflocher , Canadian Bahai
• 1878 : Kurt Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord , German general and resistance member
• 1878 : Feodossi Nikolajewitsch Krassowski , Russian geodesist and mathematician
• 1880 : Marcus Ariowitsch , German entrepreneur
• 1880 : Friedrich Franz Brockmüller , German sculptor
• 1885 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Gerassimow , Russian-Soviet portrait and landscape painter and illustrator
• 1886 : Koizumi Chikashi , Japanese poet
• 1886 : Archibald Vivian Hill , British physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1887 : Giuseppe Milano , Italian football player and coach
• 1887 : Antonio Moreno (actor, 1887) , Spanish-American actor and director
• 1888 : TS Eliot , American-British poet, playwright and critic, Nobel Prize winner
• 1889 : Alfred Edward Bennett , Australian broadcast manager and theosophist
• 1889 : Martin Heidegger , German philosopher
• 1890 : Karl Heinrich Bauer , German surgeon
• 1891 : Charles Münch , French conductor
• 1891 : Hans Reichenbach , German-American physicist, philosopher and logician
• 1894 : Ralph Scott , American football player and coach
• 1895 : Jürgen Stroop , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS, responsible for suppressing the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto
• 1896 : Ernst Kamieth , German railroad worker
• 1897 : Paul VI. , Pope
• 1898 : George Gershwin , American composer, pianist and conductor
• 1899 : Charles Arthur Anderson , American politician
• 1899 : Alfred Johann Maria Anton Rupert Prince Auersperg , Austrian psychiatrist
• 1899 : William L. Dawson , American composer, choir director, and music teacher
• 1899 : Irena Dubiska , Polish violinist and music teacher
• 1900 : Gertrud Luckner , German Christian resistance fighter against National Socialism

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20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : George Raft , American film actor
• 1901 : Ted Weems , American jazz trombonist, violinist and band leader
• 1902 : Albert Anastasia , American Mafioso
• 1903 : René Hall , American jazz and R&B guitarist
• 1903 : Frédérique Petrides , American conductor of Belgian origin
• 1905 : Max Bulla , Austrian cyclist
• 1905 : Karl Rappan , Austrian football player and coach
• 1907 : Anthony Blunt , British art historian, double agent for Great Britain and the Soviet Union
• 1907 : John Collier , American hurdler
• 1907 : Giuseppe Santomaso , Italian painter
• 1908 : Emil Maier-Dorn , German writer
• 1909 : Ernst Günter Troche , German art historian, art dealer and museum director
• 1910 : Delfín Benítez Cáceres , Paraguayan football player and coach
• 1911 : Bruno Venturini , Italian football goalkeeper
• 1913 : Berthold Beitz , German entrepreneur and manager in the steel industry, member of the IOC , Righteous Among the Nations
• 1913 : Ernst Schnabel , German writer
• 1914 : Werner Albring , German engineer
• 1914 : Achille Compagnoni , Italian mountaineer
• 1914 : Jack LaLanne , American founder of the US fitness movement
• 1916 : Fritz Köthe , German painter and graphic artist, representative of Pop Art and photorealism
• 1917 : Jürgen Thimme , German archaeologist and submarine commander
• 1918 : Ilse Maria Aschner , Austrian journalist
• 1918 : Harold Gramatges , Cuban composer
• 1919 : Matilde Camus , Spanish poet and writer
• 1919 : Ezio Loik , Italian football player
• 1921 : Hellmut Arnold , German officer
• 1921 : Cyprian Ekwensi , Nigerian writer
• 1921 : Tivadar Kardos , Hungarian composer of chess problems
• 1923 : Dev Ānand , Indian actor, director and producer
• 1924 : Kurt Hoffmeister , German author, writer and historian
• 1925 : Marty Robbins , American singer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Sydney Humphreys , Canadian violinist and music teacher
• 1926 : Chucho Sanoja , Venezuelan composer, arranger, orchestra conductor and pianist
• 1927 : Hans J. Bär , Swiss banker
• 1927 : Enzo Bearzot , Italian football player and coach
• 1927 : Wilhelm Gustav Illbruck , German entrepreneur and ocean sailor
• 1927 : Jacques Prigent , French boxer
• 1930 : Frederick Andermann , Canadian neurologist
• 1930 : Michele Giordano , Archbishop of Naples
• 1930 : Peter Steffen , German pop singer
• 1930 : Fritz Wunderlich , German opera singer (lyric tenor)
• 1931 : Gerhard Wehr , German theologian and writer
• 1932 : Giacomo Manzoni , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1932 : Manmohan Singh , Prime Minister of India
• 1932 : Vladimir Nikolayevich Woinowitsch , Russian satirist
• 1933 : Rudolf Scholz , Austrian organist and music teacher
• 1934 : Dick Heckstall-Smith , British blues, rock and jazz saxophonist
• 1935 : Toni Khoury , Lebanese sports official
• 1935 : Viktor Alexandrowitsch Tschischikow , Russian illustrator and designer
• 1936 : Winnie Mandela , South African politician
• 1937 : Joop Admiraal , Dutch actor, author and filmmaker
• 1937 : Gib Guilbeau , American country musician
• 1937 : Ernst A. Schmidt , German classical philologist
• 1937 : Valentin Sergejewitsch Pavlov , Soviet Prime Minister
• 1938 : Egon Eigenhaler , German commercial artist and politician, MdL
• 1938 : Raoul Cauvin , Belgian comic book writer
• 1939 : Maria Gommers , Dutch athlete

George McWhirter (* 1939)

• 1939 : George McWhirter , Canadian writer, translator, and professor of Northern Irish descent
• 1940 : Gary Bartz , American jazz saxophonist
• 1940 : Klaus Grehn , German politician, MdL
• 1940 : Heinz Jacobsen , German handball official
• 1941 : Salvatore Accardo , Italian violinist and conductor
• 1941 : David Frizzell , American country singer
• 1941 : Vadim Glowna , German actor, director, screenwriter and film producer
• 1941 : Karin Gregorek , German actress
• 1941 : Fiede Kay , German singer and songwriter of Low German songs
• 1942 : Ingrid Mickler-Becker , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1943 : Helga Lippelt , German writer
• 1943 : Brigitte Schulte , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1944 : András Adorján , Hungarian flautist
• 1944 : Jan Brewer , American politician
• 1944 : Jean-Pierre Ricard , French theologian, Archbishop of Bordeaux, President of the French Episcopal Conference and Cardinal
• 1944 : Peter Turrini , Austrian playwright
• 1945 : Gal Costa , Brazilian singer
• 1945 : Bryan Ferry , British singer and songwriter ( Roxy Music )
• 1946 : Fyodor Alexejewitsch Bogomolow , Russian-American mathematician
• 1946 : Andrea Dworkin , American feminist, sociologist, and writer
• 1946 : Karl-Heinz Kamp , German soccer player
• 1946 : Detlef Schubert , German engineer and politician
• 1947 : Lynn Anderson , American singer
• 1947 : Josef Jahrmann , Austrian politician
• 1948 : Mitchell Ash , American historian
• 1948 : Patrick J. Geary , American historian
• 1948 : Hans-Heinrich Jordan , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1948 : Svein Munkejord , Norwegian politician
• 1948 : Olivia Newton-John , British-Australian singer and breast cancer activist
• 1948 : Vladimír Remek , Czech astronaut and politician
• 1948 : Erwin Waldschütz , Austrian philosopher
• 1948 : Arnie Zane , American photographer, dancer and choreographer
• 1949 : Eduardo Gatti , Chilean Canto author
• 1949 : Hana Mašková , Czech figure skater
• 1949 : Jane Smiley , American author
• 1949 : Minette Walters , British author
• 1950 : Helmut Ahrens , German biographer and journalist
• 1950 : Martin Frank , Swiss writer
• 1950 : Bärbel Struppert , German athlete
• 1950 : Rolf Töpperwien , German sports reporter

1951-1975

• 1951 : Michael Ambühl , Swiss State Secretary
• 1951 : Dave Casper , American football player

Micha Marah (* 1953)

• 1953 : Micha Marah , Belgian singer

Alice (* 1954)

• 1954 : Alice , Italian pop singer
• 1954 : César Rosas , Mexican rock singer and guitarist
• 1954 : Mauro Sandreani , Italian football player and coach
• 1955 : Carlene Carter , American country singer
• 1955 : Richy Müller , German actor

Linda Hamilton (* 1956)

• 1956 : Linda Hamilton , American actress
• 1956 : Axel Pape , German actor
• 1957 : Klaus Augenthaler , German soccer player and coach
• 1957 : Roger MacBride Allen , American science fiction writer
• 1957 : Luigi De Canio , Italian football player and coach
• 1957 : Joachim Hunger , German regatta sailor and medic
• 1958 : Georg Ager , Austrian ski racer
• 1958 : Rudi Cerne , German figure skater and sports journalist
• 1958 : Darby Crash , American punk rock musician
• 1959 : Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes , Bolivian Archbishop
• 1960 : Uwe Bein , German soccer player
• 1960 : Doug Supernaw , American country singer
• 1962 : Melissa Sue Anderson , American-Canadian actress
• 1962 : Gregory Crewdson , American photographer

Tracey Thorn (born 1962)

• 1962 : Tracey Thorn , British singer
• 1963 : Lysette Anthony , British actress
• 1964 : Brett Climo , Australian actor

Lene Espersen (* 1965)

• 1965 : Lene Espersen , Danish economist and politician

Petro Poroshenko (* 1965)

• 1965 : Petro Poroshenko , Ukrainian politician
• 1966 : Dirk Anders , German soccer player
• 1966 : Frankie Andreu , American cyclist and sports director

Natja Brunckhorst (* 1966)

• 1966 : Natja Brunckhorst , German actress
• 1966 : Thomas Schächl , Austrian actor
• 1967 : Bruno Akrapović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1967 : Shannon Hoon , American singer ( Blind Melon )

James Caviezel (* 1968)

• 1968 : James Caviezel , American actor
• 1968 : María Díaz , Dominican accordionist and singer
• 1968 : Dominik Klenk , German handball player and journalist
• 1968 : Anja Wilhelm , German gymnast
• 1969 : Peter Asplund , Swedish trumpeter, band leader and composer
• 1969 : Holger Stanislawski , German soccer player and coach
• 1970 : Ralf Becker , German soccer player
• 1971 : Frank Carstens , German handball player and trainer
• 1971 : Anke Feller , German athlete
• 1971 : Markus Lösch , German soccer player
• 1971 : Miguel Ramos , Portuguese racing car driver
• 1971 : Marcus Staiger , German journalist
• 1972 : Maik Stief , German motorcycle racer
• 1973 : Chris Small , Scottish snooker player

Lena Anderssen (* 1973)

• 1974 : Lena Anderssen , Faroese-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1974 : Josh Arieh , American poker player

Watkin Tudor Jones (* 1974)

• 1974 : Watkin Tudor Jones , South African musician
• 1974 : Emerson Newton-John , American racing car driver
• 1974 : Andreas Scheuer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1975 : Marco Cioci , Italian racing car driver
• 1975 : Demetrio Lozano , Spanish handball player
• 1975 : Chiara Schoras , German actress

1976-2000

Michael Ballack (* 1976)

• 1976 : Michael Ballack , German soccer player

Eres Holz (* 1977)

• 1977 : Eres Holz , Israeli composer
• 1977 : Haruki Kurosawa , Japanese racing car driver
• 1977 : Karin Mortensen , Danish handball player

Gashaw Asfaw (* 1978)

• 1978 : Gashaw Asfaw , Ethiopian marathon runner
• 1978 : Pascal Borel , German soccer player
• 1979 : Bruno Besson , French racing car driver
• 1979 : Susanne Wuest , Austrian actress
• 1980 : Patrick Friesacher , Austrian racing driver
• 1980 : Sarah-Lavinia Schmidbauer , German actress
• 1980 : Daniel Sedin , Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 : Henrik Sedin , Swedish ice hockey player
• 1980 : Lars-Uwe Lang , German handball player
• 1981 : Denis Lapaczinski , German soccer player
• 1981 : Christina Milian , American singer

Collien Ulmen-Fernandes (* 1981)

• 1981 : Collien Ulmen-Fernandes , German television presenter and actress

Serena Williams (born 1981)

• 1981 : Serena Williams , American tennis player
• 1982 : Miguel Portillo , Argentine soccer player
• 1983 : Dawid Airapetjan , Russian boxer
• 1983 : Ryūichi Kawai , Japanese ice hockey player
• 1983 : Zoe Perry , American actress
• 1983 : Ricardo Quaresma , Portuguese soccer player
• 1983 : František Raboň , Czech cyclist
• 1983 : Darryl Roberts , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
• 1983 : Michelle Vesterby , Swedish triathlete
• 1984 : Dominik Farnbacher , German racing car driver
• 1984 : Thore Schölermann , German actor and presenter
• 1985 : Senijad Ibričić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player

Kiira Korpi (* 1985)

• 1985 : Lenna Kuurmaa , Estonian musician ( Vanilla Ninja )
• 1985 : Sarah-Jane , Swiss folk musician
• 1985 : Matt Pokora , French pop and R&B singer
• 1986 : Martin Keller , German sprinter

Kiira Korpi (* 1988)

• 1988 : Kiira Korpi , Finnish figure skater
• 1988 : Nelson Panciatici , French racing driver
• 1989 : Vanessa Martini , German soccer player

Regina Baresi (* 1991)

• 1991 : Regina Baresi , Italian soccer player
• 1991 : Niko Gießelmann , German soccer player
• 1991 : Greta Koçi , Albanian pop singer
• 1992 : Cristiano Piccini , Italian football player
• 1993 : Michael Kidd-Gilchrist , American basketball player
• 1998 : Katharina Stark , German actress

Died

Before the 19th century

• 0188 BC BC : Hui von Han , Chinese emperor
• 1004 : Nilus von Rossano , Italian monk and saint
• 1023 : Gottfried II. , Duke in Lower Lorraine
• 1069 : Lantbert von Deutz , hagiographer and poet
• 1107 : Maurice , Lord Chancellor and Bishop of London
• 1234 : Abu Hafs Umar as-Suhrawardi , Persian Sunni Sufi from Khorezmia
• 1241 : Fujiwara no Teika , Japanese poet
• 1290 : Margaret , Queen of Scotland
• 1302 : Barthélemy de Quincy , Marshal of the Templar Order
• 1327 : Cecco d'Ascoli , Italian poet, doctor, astronomer, astrologer and free thinker
• 1328 : Ibn Taimiya , Islamic theologian and legal scholar
• 1343 : Gaston II , Count of Foix
• 1345 : William IV , Count of Holland and Hainaut
• 1350 : Ibn Qaiyim al-Jschauzīya , Hanbali scholar in Syria
• 1386 : Walter Fitzwalter, 4th Baron Fitzwalter , English nobleman and military man
• 1417 : Francesco Zabarella , Italian cardinal
• 1425 : Sophie of Bavaria , German and Bohemian Queen
• 1458 : Pedro Luis de Borja , Aragonese nobleman, member of the Borgia family
• 1466 : Ralph Shirley , English Esquire
• 1468 : Juan de Torquemada , Spanish theologian
• 1517 : Johann III. von Schönberg , Bishop of Naumburg
• 1543 : Francesco Cornaro , Cardinal Bishop of Albano and Palestrina, Bishop of Brescia
• 1568 : Leonor de Cisnere , Spanish evangelical martyr
• 1574 : Elisabeth von Anhalt , Countess von Barby
• 1620 : Taichang , Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty
• 1657 : Olimpia Maidalchini , Roman nobleman
• 1679 : Karl Heinrich von Metternich-Winneburg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz and Prince-Bishop of Worms
• 1689 : August , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• 1689 : Jacob Ferdinand Voet , Flemish portrait painter
• 1700 : David Wyss , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
• 1701 : Joachim Friedrich Carstens , German lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1706 : Onofrio Gabrielli , Italian painter
• 1716 : Antoine Parent , French mathematician
• 1719 : Anton Matthäus IV. , Dutch legal scholar
• 1722 : Guillaume Massieu , French Jesuit, classical philologist and Romanist
• 1728 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz , privy councilor and electoral Braunschweigisch-Lüneburg chamber president
• 1733 : Adolf Lefèvre , lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• 1736 : Louise Diane d'Orléans , Princess of Conti
• 1763 : John Byrom , English writer
• 1765 : Jean-Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe , French explorer and colonist in Louisiana
• 1778 : Christoph Bauer , German Lutheran theologian
• 1792 : Johann Friedrich Knöbel , German architect and master builder active in Dresden and Warsaw
• 1800 : William Billings , American composer

19th century

• 1802 : Jurij Vega , Slovenian mathematician
• 1811 : Christian Friedrich Matthäi , German classical philologist
• 1816 : František Martin Pecháček , Czech composer

Daniel Boone († 1820)

• 1820 : Daniel Boone , American pioneer and border guard
• 1825 : José Bernardo de Tagle Portocarrero , Peruvian President
• 1826 : Alexander Gordon Laing , British explorer of Africa
• 1829 : Philippe-Jean Pelletan , French surgeon
• 1833 : August Maria Raimund zu Arenberg , Austrian officer in French service
• 1839 : Georg Gottlieb Ammon , German horse breeder and author
• 1846 : Franz Theremin , German Protestant theologian
• 1854 : Wilhelm Malte I , German prince, Swedish governor in Pomerania and builder on Rügen
• 1860 : Miloš Obrenović , Prince of Serbia
• 1862 : Hans Christian Petersen , Norwegian lawyer, civil servant and politician
• 1866 : Carl Jonas Love Almqvist , Swedish writer and composer
• 1867 : James Ferguson , British engineer and astronomer
• 1868 : August Ferdinand Möbius , German astronomer and mathematician
• 1873 : Roderich Benedix , German comedy poet, actor and theater director
• 1888 : Emil Baehrens , German classical philologist
• 1895 : Georg Oechsner , German businessman, politician, MdR, Mayor of Mainz
• 1899 : Ernst Faber , German sinologist and missionary

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Levi Strauss , German-American industrialist, inventor of jeans
• 1909 : Felix Anton Dohrn , German zoologist
• 1914 : Hermann Löns , German journalist and writer
• 1914 : Ernst Wilhelm Lotz , German poet
• 1914 : August Macke , German painter
• 1914 : Emil von Rappard , German officer
• 1915 : Harold Chapin , English actor and playwright
• 1918 : Georg Simmel , German sociologist and cultural philosopher, founder of formal sociology
• 1922 : David Aizman , Russian-Jewish writer
• 1927 : Arthur Trebitsch , Austrian writer and philosopher
• 1931 : Harry Macdonough , Canadian singer
• 1933 : Emerich Ambros , Hungarian-German anti-fascist
• 1934 : Inoue Kenkabō , Japanese writer
• 1934 : Hugo Vogel , German painter
• 1935 : Andy Adams , American writer
• 1937 : Bessie Smith , American blues singer
• 1939 : Hermann Aellen , Swiss writer and journalist
• 1940 : Walter Benjamin , German writer, art and literary critic
• 1944 : Seweryn Barbag , Polish-Jewish composer, musicologist and educator
• 1945 : Béla Bartók , Hungarian composer and pianist
• 1945 : Richard Beer-Hofmann , Austrian playwright and poet
• 1945 : Alexander Khanshonkov , Russian pioneer in the film industry
• 1945 : Miki Kiyoshi , Japanese philosopher
• 1946 : Alfons Breska , Czech poet and translator
• 1947 : Hugh Lofting , British author

1951-2000

• 1952 : George Santayana , Spanish poet and philosopher
• 1953 : Xu Beihong , Chinese painter
• 1954 : Chajim Jehuda Leib Auerbach , Israeli rabbi
• 1956 : Lucien Febvre , French historian
• 1958 : Zdeňka Baldová , Czech actress
• 1959 : Erna von Abendroth , German nurse
• 1959 : SWRD Bandaranaike , Sri Lankan Prime Minister
• 1961 : Charles Erwin Wilson , American politician
• 1965 : James Fitzmaurice , Irish pilot
• 1966 : Hans Adametz , Austrian ceramist, sculptor and art teacher
• 1966 : Alexander Anufrijew , Soviet athlete
• 1966 : Gus Edson , American cartoonist and comic artist
• 1968 : Władysław Kędra , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 1971 : Ida Schwetz-Lehmann , Austrian ceramist and sculptor
• 1973 : Bernard Etté , German conductor and violinist
• 1973 : Anna Magnani , Italian actress
• 1973 : Anton Schnack , German writer
• 1976 : Lavoslav Růžička , Croatian-Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1977 : Franz Böhm , German lawyer and economist
• 1978 : Karl Manne Siegbahn , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1980 : Pat Hare , American singer, blues and rockabilly guitarist
• 1981 : Ludwig Goldbrunner , German soccer player
• 1987 : Harold Macfarlane Anstey , British film producer
• 1987 : Ethel Catherwood , Canadian athlete
• 1987 : Herbert Tichy , Austrian writer and geologist, journalist and mountaineer
• 1988 : Branko Zebec , Yugoslav soccer player
• 1989 : Fred Adlmüller , German-Austrian fashion designer
• 1989 : Lieselotte Berger , German politician
• 1990 : Lothar Collatz , German mathematician
• 1990 : Alberto Moravia , Italian writer
• 1991 : Billy Vaughn , American musician
• 1992 : Hermann Junack , German forester
• 1992 : Erich Krempel , German marksman
• 1992 : Alexander Voronin , Soviet-Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion
• 1994 : Maurice Percy Ashley , British historian

Geoffrey Wilkinson († 1996)

• 1996 : Geoffrey Wilkinson , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1998 : Betty Carter , American jazz singer
• 2000 : Robert Lax , American author, poet, and publicist
• 2000 : Richard Mulligan , American actor
• 2000 : Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian musician
• 2000 : Max Waldmeier , Swiss astronomer and solar researcher

21st century

• 2002 : Vincenzo Andronico , Italian actor
• 2003 : Augustinus Franz Kropfreiter , Austrian composer and organist
• 2003 : Shawn Lane , American rock and fusion guitarist
• 2003 : Robert Palmer , British musician
• 2004 : Amjad Farooqi , Pakistani terrorist
• 2004 : Einar Førde , Norwegian politician and journalist
• 2004 : Jürgen Oelschläger , German motorcycle racer
• 2006 : Gerhard Behrendt , German director and puppet designer, inventor of the sandman on German television
• 2006 : Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino , Japanese-American radio presenter
• 2006 : Byron Nelson , American golfer
• 2006 : Gerardus Antonius Joseph van Os , Dutch biochemist
• 2007 : Stanisław Andrzejewski , Polish sociologist
• 2008 : Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar , Polish composer
• 2008 : Paul Newman , American actor, racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 2008 : Leopold Wagner , Austrian politician
• 2009 : Geoff Barrowcliffe , English soccer player
• 2010 : Gloria Stuart , American actress
• 2013 : Arno Hamburger , German local politician and sports official
• 2013 : Helmut Simon , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 2017 : Berno Rupp , German pastor
• 2018 : Ignaz Kirchner , German actor
• 2019 : Jacques Chirac , French politician, Prime Minister, President
• 2019 : William Joseph Levada , American cardinal
• 2019 : Malwine Moeller , German opera singer and actress

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Antonio Herrezuelo and Leonor de Cisnere , Spanish couple and martyrs (Protestant)
  • St. Cosmas and Damian , Roman twins, doctors and martyrs (Catholic)
  • St. Nilus von Rossano , hermit, monastery founder and abbot (Catholic and Orthodox)
• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • European Day of Languages ( Council of Europe ) (since 2001)

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

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