27th of February

The February 27 is the 58th day of the Gregorian calendar , so stay 307 days (in leap years 308 days) by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0493 : After the battle of ravens at Ravenna , Odoacer and the Ostrogoth ruler Theodoric agree a peace treaty through the mediation of Archbishop John of Ravenna, which provides for joint rule over Italy by both kings.
• 1458 : Georg von Podiebrad is elected King of Bohemia , whereby the estates ignore other claims to the throne. This led to various uprisings in Bohemia.
• 1531 : As a reaction to the rejection of the Confessio Augustana at the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1530 by Emperor Charles V , the Protestant estates of the Holy Roman Empire merge at the Schmalkalden convent to form the Schmalkaldic League .

1594: Henry IV.

• 1594 : After July 25 last year to Catholicism is converted, is Henry IV. In the Cathedral of Chartres to French crowned king. Although the Catholic aristocrats reluctantly defected to him, the Eighth Huguenot War lasted around four years.

1617: The Swedish territorial gains (red)

• 1617 : The peace treaty of Stolbowo between Russia's Tsar Michael I and the Swedish military leader Jakob De la Gardie ends the Ingermanland War and establishes Sweden's position as a great power in the Baltic region. Russia renounces all claims in Estonia and Livonia, Sweden receives the Schluesselburg fortress and other fortresses in Ingermanland .
• 1700 : The British captain William Dampier discovers the island of New Britain in the Pacific on a research voyage .
• 1812 : Lord Byron expresses sympathy for Luddism in the British House of Lords and defends the machinists of his home constituency.
• 1812 : Near the city of Rosario hoists Manuel Belgrano a light blue and white flag, the precursor of the flag of Argentina .
• 1844 : The Spanish part of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola , Santo Domingo, becomes independent from Haiti under the name Dominican Republic .
• 1848 : The spark of the French February Revolution spills over to the Grand Duchy of Baden and triggers the Baden Revolution : a petition with four demands to the government is passed at the Mannheim People's Assembly .
• 1867 : The Hungarian Reichstag , which was dissolved after the Hungarian Revolution , is restored as part of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise . It replaces the Landtag , which existed twice in between .
• 1881 : The Battle of Majuba Hill decides the First Boer War in favor of the Boers .

1885: Location of German East Africa

• 1885 : The German Emperor Wilhelm I signs a letter of protection for the acquired and future territorial acquisitions of the Society for German Colonization in East Africa .
• 1890 : Carl Peters and Mwanga II of Buganda sign the Uganda Treaty , which, however, is not ratified by the German Empire.
• 1900 : The Labor Representation Committee , from 1906 Labor Party , is founded in London .
• 1921 : Two years after the establishment of the Third International in Moscow, the attempt to reunite the international labor movement resulted in the International Working Group of Socialist Parties ( IASP ) in Vienna on the initiative of Friedrich Adler .
• 1925 : In Munich Bürgerbräukeller will NSDAP refounded and Germany's organized. Adolf Hitler makes his first appearance after his imprisonment.
• 1925 : The Turkish army begins an air and ground offensive to suppress the Kurdish Sheikh Said uprising .

1930: Bouvet Island

• 1930 : The uninhabited Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic becomes an area dependent on Norway after Great Britain surrenders .

1933: The burning Reichstag

• 1933 : The Reichstag building in Berlin burns down due to arson. Despite the lack of evidence, Marinus van der Lubbe and other young communists are arrested as suspects for the Reichstag fire .
• 1939 : The Francoist regime of Francisco Franco is from Britain and France as the government of Spain recognized, although government forces still Madrid and other cities in the Spanish civil war followed.

1942: First day of the Battle of the Java Sea

• 1942 : The two-day battle in the Java Sea between Japan and the allied ABDA fleet begins, which seals the end of the allied command ABDACOM .
• 1943 : The last remaining Jews in Berlin are arrested in the factory action and deported. Over 7,000 come to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . Around 1,700 so-called “ Aryan people ” are being held in Berlin, where they are released by relatives after demonstrations .
• 1945 : After the successful reconquest of the Philippines from Japanese hands in the Pacific War , US General Douglas MacArthur hands over the country to President Sergio Osmeña .
• 1945 : The heaviest bombing raid on Mainz in the Second World War is the city destroyed almost 80%.
• 1947 : A dispute between a cigarette seller and an anti-smuggling officials in Taipei solves the following day the incident of 28 February of that in a very Taiwan detected uprising against the regime Chen Yi opens.
• 1948 : The Finnish President Juho Kusti Paasikivi and the Soviet President Josef Stalin sign a mutual defense treaty. Both countries benefit from each other economically. His opponents, however, accuse Paasikivi of Soviet obedience.
• 1951 : In the USA, the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution comes into force, limiting the presidential term of office to a maximum of two terms.
• 1953 : The Federal Republic of Germany takes over the foreign debts of the Reich since the First World War through the London Debt Agreement .
• 1954 : In Egypt , General Muhammad Nagib returns to the office of President after being dismissed by Gamal Abdel Nasser . However, he can no longer collect any powers and resigns on November 14th
• 1955 : After a long session, the German Bundestag adopts the Paris Treaties , which end the occupation statute of West Germany .
• 1957 : In the People's Republic of China , Mao Zedong gives his speech on the question of the correct handling of contradictions in the people during the Hundred Flower Campaign .
• 1961 : The Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba calls for the return of two French military bases in Tunisia at a meeting with the French President Charles de Gaulle . As a result, hesitant negotiations give rise to the Bizerta crisis .
• 1963 : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi introduces the right to vote for women in Iran by decree as part of the White Revolution .
• 1963 : Juan Bosch takes office as the first freely elected President of the Dominican Republic after the death of dictator Rafael Trujillo .

1973: The Wounded Knee Cemetery

• 1973 : Members of the Indian resistance organization American Indian Movement occupy the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the US state of South Dakota and proclaim an independent Oglala nation to protest against human rights violations by the US administration in the reservation. The occupation is forcibly ended after 71 days.
• 1975 : Three days before the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives, a command from the urban guerrilla movement kidnapped the top candidate of the CDU, Peter Lorenz, on June 2nd .

1976: The area claimed by DARS

• 1976 : In the Western Sahara conflict , the Polisario Front proclaims the Democratic Arab Republic of the Sahara on the territory of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara and at the same time introduces an official flag .
• 1988 : In the course of the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh , a pogrom of Armenians living there breaks out in the Azerbaijani city ​​of Sumqayıt .
• 1989 : In the vicinity of the Venezuelan capital Caracas , an uprising of the impoverished population breaks out in protest against the neoliberal reforms of President Carlos Andrés Pérez der Caracazo .

1991: Destroyed Iraqi tanks

• 1991 : US President George HW Bush declares a ceasefire in the Gulf War , which began with an invasion of Iraq in Kuwait on August 2 of the previous year.
• 1993 : Niger held the first presidential elections since independence in 1960. Tandja Mamadou got the most votes ahead of Mahamane Ousmane . However, since none of the candidates achieved an absolute majority, a second ballot will take place on March 27th.
• 2004 : Shoko Asahara , founder of Aum Shinrikyo , is because of the poison gas attack in the subway of Tokyo in 1995, in the first instance sentenced to death .
• 2005 : The first round of parliamentary elections takes place in Kyrgyzstan . The second round will be held on March 13th and will subsequently lead to the so-called Tulip Revolution .
• 2006 : Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian declares the National Unification Council, founded in 1990, suspended, which raises fears that the Taiwan conflict with the People's Republic of China will intensify .
• 2019 : Two Indian Air Force aircraft are shot down by Pakistani forces in the Kashmir region .

economy

• 1655 : At the southernmost point of Norway , the first beacon in is Lighthouse lindesnes lighthouse set on fire. The light from thirty candles behind leaded glass windows on a wooden tower should provide orientation for ships.
• 1693 : The world's first women's magazine appears in London under the title The Ladies' Mercury . A few weeks later, the magazine initiated by the bookseller John Dunton ends.
• 1912 : In Sudan which is railway from Khartoum to Al-Ubayyid opened.

science and technology

• 1477 : With a papal bull, Pope Sixtus IV approves the establishment of Uppsala University in Sweden. It is the oldest still existing university in Scandinavia.
• 1826 : The Austrian officer and amateur astronomer Wilhelm von Biela discovers a comet that is later named after him . When it returns about twenty years later, the comet is observed to decay into two parts.

1879: Structural formula of saccharin

• 1879 : Professors Constantin Fahlberg and Ira Remsen from Johns Hopkins University inform about the discovery of the sweetener saccharine in Baltimore .
• 1920 : Major Rudolph William Schroeder is the first to reach a height of over 10,000 meters in an airplane .
• 1932 : The journal Nature publishes an article by James Chadwick describing the existence of the neutron .
• 1940 : During a flight over Antarctica , Richard Evelyn Byrd discovers an unknown island, which he gives the name Thurston Island .

Culture

• 1801 : The first performance of the opera Flaminius à Corinthe by Rodolphe Kreutzer takes place in Paris .
• 1811 : The opera La Victime des arts ou La Fête de famille by Henri Montan Berton is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
• 1833 : The premiere of the opera Gustave III takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris . ou Le bal masqué by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber .
• 1833 : The first performance of the romantic opera Melusina by Conradin Kreutzer with the libretto by Franz Grillparzer takes place at the Königsstädtisches Theater in Berlin.
• 1842 : The violinist Ferdinand Laub gives his first concert.
• 1869 : A version of the opera La forza del destino ( The Power of Fate ) by Giuseppe Verdi , revised with the librettist Antonio Ghislanzoni , is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan , after the first version with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave on November 10th Was premiered in Petersburg in 1862. The revised version is also received with enthusiasm.
• 1875 : The operetta Cagliostro is premiered in Vienna by Johann Strauss (son) . The libretto is by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée . The piece is a huge success at first, but gradually loses the audience's favor.
• 1886 : The opera Edmea by Alfredo Catalani is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan .
• 1910 : The opera The Captain's Daughter by César Cui is premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in Saint Petersburg .
• 1920 : The climax of the expressionist film, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene based on the script by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover is coming to the cinemas. The silent film , which depicts the brutality and madness of authorities, is considered a milestone in film history .
• 1925 : The opera Hassan der Schwärmer by Wilhelm Kienzl is premiered in Chemnitz .
• 1935 : The comedy It Happened in One Night is the first of only three films to be awarded in all five main categories at the Academy Awards .
• 2005 : The Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles . Clint Eastwood and his Million Dollar Baby movie are the big winners.
• 2011 : Anniversary concert for the 25th anniversary of the Vienna Chamber Philharmonic in the Wiener Musikverein with the soloist Till Fellner .

society

• 1866 : Wilhelm Adolf Lette founds the Association for the Promotion of Employment of Women in Berlin , later the Lette Association under the protectorate of Crown Princess Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland .

1881: Wilhelm II and Auguste Victoria

• 1881 : Prince Wilhelm of Prussia wed Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg in Berlin . The two later become the German imperial couple.
• 1992 : The Austrian writer and criminal Jack Unterweger is arrested by FBI officers in Miami . He is wanted on suspicion of having committed multiple murders.

religion

• 1578 : The Emden religious conversation between Reformed and Mennonites begins. The 14 agreed points of discussion include questions of the Trinity , predestination , the excommunication , baptism and the Lord's Supper .
• 1764 : Pope Clement XIII. prohibits reading the book De statu ecclesiae et legitima potestate Romani pontificis liber singularis , published under the pseudonym Justinus Febronius the year before, and puts it on the index Librorum Prohibitorum . The spread of the thoughts of Febronianism through multiple reprints does not stop this. The Auxiliary Bishop of Trier, Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim , was revoked years later after his exposure as an author.
• 1767 : The Spanish King Charles III. issues a Jesuit ban . The Jesuits are then arrested and taken out of the country.

The cathedral around 1900

• 1905 : The new building of the Berlin Cathedral is consecrated - in the presence of the German imperial couple.

Disasters

• 1916 : The British passenger steamer Maloja sinks two miles off Dover when it runs into a mine that had been laid by a German submarine a few days before, drowning 155 passengers and crew. The sinking of the Maloja is one of the greatest losses for the British shipping company P&O .

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

Sports

• 1900 : After a dispute with the management of MTV München 1879 , eleven football players split off and found FC Bayern München .

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

Born

Before the 19th century

• between 270 and 288: Constantine the Great , Roman Emperor
• 1427 : Ruprecht von der Pfalz , Archbishop of Cologne
• 1575 : Johann Adolf , Prince-Bishop of Lübeck and Bishop of Bremen and Hamburg, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
• 1577 : Thomas Lansius , professor at the Collegium Illustre and at the University of Tübingen
• 1591 : Hans Bien , draftsman and stonemason for the city of Nuremberg
• 1607 : Christian Keimann , German educator and poet
• 1667 : Luise Charlotte Radziwill , Lithuanian Calvinist noblewoman
• 1702 : Johann Valentin Görner , German baroque composer
• 1704 : Johann Gottfried Höre , German educator
• 1705 : Peter Artedi , Swedish naturalist
• 1707 : Johann Christian Stock , German medic
• 1711 : Constantin Mavrocordat , Prince of Wallachia and Prince of Moldova

Johann David Michaelis (* 1717)

• 1717 : Johann David Michaelis , German theologian and orientalist
• 1724 : Levin Gideon Friedrich von Apenburg , Prussian cavalry officer
• 1746 : Carl Gottlieb Svarez , Prussian lawyer and judicial reformer
• 1748 : Anders Sparrman , Swedish naturalist
• 1752 : Christian Gottfried Friedrich Assmann , German economist and camera scientist
• 1756 : Johann Jakob Cella , German lawyer
• 1770 : Juan Bautista Arriaza y Superviela , Spanish statesman and poet
• 1791 : Román Antonio Deheza , Argentine general and governor
• 1797 : Wilhelm Meinhold , German writer and pastor
• 1799 : Edward Belcher , British polar explorer
• 1799 : Frederick Catherwood , British architect, painter, archaeologist and explorer

19th century

1801-1850

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (* 1807)

• 1807 : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , American novelist, poet, translator, and playwright
• 1808 : August Giacomo Jochmus , Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and German Reich Minister
• 1812 : Pieter Harting , Dutch medic, geologist, hydrologist and botanist
• 1815 : Franz Pfeiffer , German Germanist
• 1822 : Enno Sander , German revolutionary from 1848 and American pharmacist
• 1823 : Bernhard von Werder , Prussian infantry general
• 1823 : William Buel Franklin , American Union General in the American Civil War
• 1824 : Robert von Keudell , German diplomat
• 1825 : Ludwig Heinrich Grote , German theologian and publicist ( Welfenpastor )
• 1828 : Kanō Hōgai , Japanese painter
• 1831 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Ge , Russian painter
• 1834 : Herman Riegel , art historian and museum director
• 1836 : Russell Alexander Alger , American politician
• 1838 : Josefine Gallmeyer , Austrian actress
• 1839 : Victor Capoul , French opera singer
• 1846 : Simon Bamberger , German-American entrepreneur and politician
• 1846 : Franz Mehring , German publicist, politician and historian
• 1847 : Ellen Terry , British stage actress
• 1848 : Hubert Parry , British composer
• 1849 : Václav Beneš Třebízský , Czech writer and priest

1851-1900

• 1853 : Jules Lemaître , French writer
• 1853 : Josef Holeček , Czech writer, translator and journalist
• 1856 : Mattia Battistini , Italian opera and concert singer

Bertha Pappenheim (* 1859)

• 1859 : Bertha Pappenheim , Austrian-German women's rights activist and social pioneer, founder of the Jewish Women's Association , patient Anna O. von Sigmund Freud
• 1861 : Rudolf Steiner , Austrian esotericist and philosopher, founder of anthroposophy
• 1862 : Sophie Countess Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian writer
• 1863 : George Herbert Mead , American philosopher and psychologist
• 1863 : Otto Reiniger , Swabian Impressionist landscape painter
• 1863 : Joaquín Sorolla , Spanish impressionist painter and graphic artist
• 1865 : Jacques Mieses , German-British chess player
• 1867 : Irving Fisher , American economist
• 1869 : Baldomero Aguinaldo , Filipino revolutionary leader and general
• 1869 : Henry Chandler Cowles , American botanist and vegetation expert
• 1870 : Louis Adolphe Coerne , American composer
• 1872 : Ellery Sedgwick , American writer and editor of The Atlantic Monthly
• 1875 : Julius Asch , German trade unionist and politician
• 1875 : Manuel Ugarte , Argentine writer
• 1877 : Adela Verne , English composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1879 : Wilhelm von Arnim-Lützlow , German author
• 1879 : Mads Nielsen , Danish writer
• 1880 : José Armándola , German composer and pianist
• 1880 : Ernst Otto Oßwald , German architect
• 1881 : Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer , Dutch mathematician
• 1881 : Sveinn Björnsson , first President of Iceland
• 1882 : Edmund Glaise-Horstenau , Austrian Vice Chancellor and General of the Infantry
• 1885 : Helene Croner , German violinist and music teacher
• 1886 : Hugo Black , American politician and lawyer
• 1887 : Pyotr Nikolajewitsch Nesterow , Russian pilot and aircraft designer

Lotte Lehmann (* 1888)

• 1888 : Roberto Assagioli , Italian doctor, psychiatrist and psychotherapist
• 1888 : Lotte Lehmann , German-American opera singer (soprano), writer and poet
• 1889 : Willie Jahn , German middle-distance runner
• 1890 : Freddie Keppard , American cornet player
• 1891 : Arie Bijvoet , Dutch football player
• 1891 : Issay Dobrowen , Russian-Norwegian composer, conductor and pianist
• 1891 : Flérida de Nolasco , Dominican literary and musicologist
• 1893 : Jóse Artes de Arcos , Spanish inventor and entrepreneur
• 1894 : Traugott Vogel , Swiss writer
• 1897 : Edmond Romulus Amateis , American sculptor and teacher
• 1897 : Bernard Ferdinand Lyot , French astronomer
• 1897 : Marian Anderson , American opera singer (alto)
• 1898 : Oskar Audörsch , German major general
• 1898 : Bronisław Rutkowski , Polish organist, musicologist and teacher
• 1899 : Charles Best , American physiologist and biochemist
• 1899 : Ian Keith , American theater and film actor
• 1900 : Luiz Americano , Brazilian clarinetist, saxophonist and composer
• 1900 : Niels Clemmensen , Danish pianist and composer
• 1900 : Valentin Tomberg , Russian legal scholar and mystic

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Elizabeth Hill , American screenwriter
• 1901 : Marino Marini , Italian sculptor and graphic artist
• 1901 : Goffredo Zehender , Italian racing driver

John Steinbeck (* 1902)

• 1902 : John Steinbeck , American writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1902 : Lúcio Costa , Brazilian architect and city planner
• 1902 : Alexander Iwanowitsch Uspenski , Soviet head of state security and secret services ( Cheka, GPU, NKVD )
• 1902 : Michał Wiłkomirski , Polish violinist, violist and music teacher
• 1903 : Henry Deyglun , Canadian actor, director and writer of French origin
• 1903 : Fred Oelßner , German economist and party functionary in the GDR
• 1903 : Grethe Weiser , German actress
• 1904 : Josef Maria Camenzind , Swiss clergyman and writer
• 1904 : André Leducq , French cyclist
• 1904 : Theodor Ritterspach , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1905 : Franchot Tone , American film actor
• 1906 : Milo Barus , German strength athlete ("strongest man in the world")
• 1906 : Erwin Damerow , German sculptor
• 1906 : Erich Kern , Austrian writer and publicist
• 1906 : Ludwig Zirner , American-Austrian musician (concert pianist) and opera director

Mildred Bailey (born 1907)

• 1907 : Mildred Bailey , American singer
• 1907 : Egon von Tresckow , German illustrator, comic artist and caricaturist
• 1907 : Walter Wolf , German politician
• 1910 : Joan Bennett , American film actress
• 1910 : Genrich Gasparjan , Soviet chess master and composer of endgame studies
• 1910 : Wolfgang Preiss , German actor
• 1910 : Alois Schnabel , Austrian field handball player
• 1911 : Heinz Starke , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 1912 : Lawrence Durrell , British writer and diplomat
• 1912 : Eliška Kleinová , Czech piano teacher
• 1913 : Paul Ricœur , French philosopher
• 1913 : Kazimierz Sabbat , Polish lawyer, entrepreneur and politician
• 1913 : Irwin Shaw , American novelist and screenwriter
• 1914 : Winifred Atwell , pianist from Trinidad
• 1914 : Ási í Bæ , Icelandic writer
• 1915 : Hans Bambey , German general
• 1915 : Erich Schellow , German actor

John Connally (born 1917)

• 1917 : John Connally , American politician, governor of Texas
• 1919 : Denis Matthews , British pianist, music educator and scholar
• 1919 : Roman Haubenstock-Ramati , Polish-Austrian composer of new music
• 1920 : Julian Jaynes , American psychologist
• 1920 : Helmuth Johannsen , German soccer coach
• 1922 : Tilemann Grimm , German sinologist
• 1922 : Erna Roth-Oberth , Transylvanian-German lawyer, founder of the Hermann Oberth Space Museum
• 1923 : Bienvenido Bustamante López , Dominican composer and clarinetist
• 1923 : Dexter Gordon , American tenor saxophonist
• 1924 : Heimo Erbse , German composer and opera director
• 1925 : Guy Amouretti , French table tennis player
• 1925 : Egidius Braun , German sports official, President of the German Football Association
• 1925 : Hans Fauser , German football player
• 1925 : Hard rock Gunter , American country and rockabilly singer
• 1925 : Erich Schmidt , German wrestler
• 1925 : Pía Sebastiani , Argentine pianist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Elisabeth Borchers , German writer
• 1926 : David H. Hubel , Canadian biologist
• 1926 : Martha Mercader , Argentine writer and journalist, playwright, filmmaker and politician
  

  Martha Mercader (* 1926)
• 1927 : Jarl Kulle , Swedish actor
• 1927 : Guy Mitchell , American pop singer and actor
• 1927 : Fredi Pankonin , German handball goalkeeper
• 1928 : Klaus Dick , German priest, Cologne auxiliary bishop
• 1928 : Wolfgang Fischer , German athlete
• 1928 : Vera Friedländer , German writer
• 1928 : Alexander Götz , Austrian politician
• 1928 : Fred Gebhardt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1928 : Heinrich Heß , German canoeist
• 1928 : Alfred Hrdlicka , Austrian sculptor and draftsman, painter and graphic artist
• 1928 : Klaus Hugo , German composer
• 1929 : Philip Arp , German actor, cabaret artist, author and director
• 1929 : Sonny Gandee , American football player
• 1929 : Djalma Santos , Brazilian soccer player
• 1929 : Kurt Schier , German philologist
• 1930 : Berndt Heydemann , German biologist and politician, Environment Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
• 1930 : Joanne Woodward , American actress
• 1931 : Ekkehard Fluck , German chemist
• 1931 : Hans Staub , Swiss Romance scholar, comparativeist, literary scholar and translator
• 1931 : Walter Santesso , Italian actor, director and screenwriter
• 1932 : Roger Boutry , French composer and professor
• 1932 : Gerhard Braun , German musician
• 1932 : Ernst Hinterseer , Austrian ski racer
• 1932 : Elizabeth Taylor , American-British actress
  

  Elizabeth Taylor (* 1932)
• 1932 : László Sárosi , Hungarian football player and coach
• 1933 : Stan Anderson , English football player and coach
• 1933 : Raymond Berry , American football player and coach
• 1933 : Albert Caspers , German manager in automobile manufacture ( Ford ), football official
• 1933 : Edward Lucie-Smith , British poet, journalist and art historian from Jamaica
• 1933 : Marek Mietelski , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 1933 : Hans Hermann Reschke , German manager and politician
• 1934 : N. Scott Momaday , American writer, literary scholar, and painter
• 1934 : Ralph Nader , American consumer advocate and politician
• 1935 : Eleanor Antin , American artist
• 1935 : Mirella Freni , Italian soprano
• 1935 : Theodor Hoffmann , German admiral, head of the People's Navy and the NVA, Minister for National Defense of the GDR
• 1935 : Margarete Jehn , German writer and songwriter
• 1936 : Johannes Kaiser , German athlete
• 1936 : Peter Krause , German jurist and judge
• 1936 : Roger Michael Mahony , American Cardinal and Archbishop of Los Angeles
• 1938 : Jennifer Lash , British writer
• 1939 : Franco Sbarro , Italian designer and developer of motor vehicles
• 1939 : Kenzō Takada , Japanese fashion designer
• 1940 : Troels Andersen , Danish art historian
• 1940 : Vartán Waldir Boghossian , Armenian-Brazilian bishop
• 1940 : Barbara Collier , Canadian soprano
• 1940 : Friedel Rausch , German football player and coach
• 1941 : Charlotte Stewart , American actress
• 1941 : Gabriel Zubeir Wako , Sudanese priest, Archbishop of Khartoum and cardinal
• 1941 : Paddy Ashdown , British politician and UN diplomat
• 1941 : Rudolf Kraus , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1942 : Robert Grubbs , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
  

  Robert Grubbs (* 1942)
• 1942 : Klaus-Dieter Sieloff , German football player
• 1943 : Luiz Aquila , Brazilian painter
• 1943 : Tom Astor , German singer and composer, lyricist and producer
• 1943 : Morten Lauridsen , American composer
• 1943 : Costin Miereanu , Romanian-French composer
• 1943 : Manfred Müller , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1943 : Carlos Alberto Parreira , Brazilian soccer coach
• 1945 : Carl Anderson , American singer and actor
• 1945 : Ulrich Gressieker , German actor
• 1945 : Daniel Olbrychski , Polish actor
• 1945 : Jean-Claude Olivier , French motorcycle racer and motorsport official
• 1945 : Danny Rivera , Puerto Rican singer
• 1946 : Nippy Noya , Indonesian percussionist
• 1947 : Giuseppe Bertolucci , Italian screenwriter and director
• 1947 : Alan Guth , American physicist
• 1947 : Gidon Kremer , Latvian violinist
• 1947 : Mike Montgomery , American basketball coach
• 1948 : Féodor Atkine , French actor
• 1948 : Helmut Nerlinger , German football player
• 1948 : Reinhard Tramontana , Austrian journalist
• 1949 : Kostas Arvasevičius , Lithuanian politician
• 1949 : Debra Monk , American actress and singer
• 1950 : Gilla , Austrian singer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Steve Harley , British singer and songwriter
• 1951 : Susanne Sievers , German archaeologist

Yolande Moreau (* 1953)

• 1953 : Yolande Moreau , Belgian comedian and actress, director and screenwriter
• 1954 : Monika Heubaum , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1954 : Neal Schon , American blues and rock guitarist
• 1955 : Aloun Assamba , Jamaican politician
• 1955 : Peter Christopherson , British musician, music video director and photographer
• 1955 : Rainhard Fendrich , Austrian singer and songwriter
• 1955 : Peter Martell , Austrian singer and composer
• 1956 : Brigitte Ederer , Austrian politician
• 1957 : Adrian Smith , British rock musician, guitarist ( Iron Maiden )
• 1957 : Viktor Fyodorowitsch Markin , Soviet athlete, Olympic champion
• 1958 : Charlotte Britz , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Saarbrücken
• 1958 : Christoph Güsken , German crime writer
• 1958 : Nancy Spungen , American groupie, partner of Sid Vicious
• 1959 : Niklaus Helbling , Swiss theater director, dramaturge and author

Johnny Van Zant (born 1959)

• 1959 : Johnny Van Zant , American rock musician
• 1960 : Pär Arvidsson , Swedish swimmer
• 1960 : Simon Critchley , British philosopher
• 1960 : Andrés Gómez , Ecuadorian tennis player
• 1961 : Andreas Fulterer , Italian singer
• 1961 : Hans-Jörg Klindt , German handball trainer , teacher and former handball player
• 1962 : Hou Xuemei , Chinese discus thrower
• 1963 : Martin Auer , German jazz trumpeter
• 1963 : Christine Béchard , Mauritian athlete
• 1963 : Barbara Dare , American porn actress
• 1963 : Pär Nuder , Swedish politician
• 1964 : Christian Lange , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1964 : Thomas Lange , German rower, Olympic champion
• 1965 : Cübbeli Ahmet Hoca , Turkish preacher
• 1965 : Joey Calderazzo , American jazz pianist
• 1965 : Oliver Reck , German football goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach
• 1966 : Barbara Goldstein , German author

Donal Logue (born 1966)

• 1966 : Donal Logue , Canadian actor
• 1966 : Pete Smith , American baseball player
• 1967 : Volkan Konak , Turkish singer
• 1969 : Frank Arens , German handball player
• 1969 : Moisés Carlos Atisha Contreras , Chilean bishop
• 1969 : Gareth Llewellyn , Welsh rugby player
• 1970 : Joachim Haedke , German politician
• 1970 : Jörg Teuchert , German motorcycle racer
• 1971 : Chilli , American singer
• 1971 : Derren Brown , British magician, mentalist and cartoonist
• 1972 : Michaël Paquay , Belgian motorcycle racer
• 1972 : Susan Yeagley , American actress
• 1973 : Peter André , British singer
• 1973 : Trajče Nedev , Macedonian chess grandmaster
• 1974 : Colin Edwards , American motorcycle racer
• 1975 : Aitor González Jiménez , Spanish cyclist
• 1975 : Christopher B. Landon , American screenwriter and film director

1976-2000

• 1976 : Ludovic Capelle , Belgian cyclist
• 1976 : Enrico Fantini , Italian football player
• 1976 : Rhea Harder-Vennewald , German actress

James Wan (born 1977)

• 1977 : James Wan , Australian director and screenwriter
• 1978 : Emelie Öhrstig , Swedish cross-country skier
• 1980 : Chelsea Clinton , daughter of US President Bill Clinton
• 1980 : Mitja Schäfer , German soccer player
• 1980 : Bobby V , American R&B singer
• 1981 : Stefanie Böhler , German cross-country skier
• 1981 : Evi Goffin , Belgian singer
• 1981 : Josh Groban , American singer (baritone)
• 1982 : Bruno Soares , Brazilian tennis player
• 1983 : Laura Moylan , Australian chess player
• 1984 : James Augustine , American basketball player
• 1984 : Akseli Kokkonen , Finnish-Norwegian ski jumper
• 1984 : Sarazar , German Youtuber
• 1985 : Asami Abe , Japanese singer and actress
• 1985 : Otman Bakkal , Dutch football player
• 1985 : Dinijar Biljaletdinow , Russian football player
• 1986 : Franziska Jünger , German actress
• 1987 : Valery Andrijzew , Ukrainian wrestler
• 1987 : Anna Blässer , German soccer player
• 1987 : Maximiliano Moralez , Argentine footballer
• 1988 : Adrian Honkisz , Polish road cyclist
• 1989 : Koo Ja-cheol , South Korean soccer player
• 1990 : Beate Scheffknecht , Austrian handball player
• 1992 : Martina Dubovská , Czech-Slovak ski racer
• 1992 : Meyers Leonard , American basketball player
• 1992 : Jonjo Shelvey , English soccer player
• 1993 : Alphonse Aréola , French football goalkeeper
• 1994 : Henri Battilani , Italian ski racer
• 1997 : Uğur Tezel , German-Turkish soccer player
• 1998 : Lars Bünning , German soccer player
• 1998 : Kristian Lauvik Gjelstad , Norwegian telemarker

Died

Before the 19th century

• 0802 : Egino , Bishop of Verona
• 0906 : Konrad the Elder , father of the future German King Konrad I.
• 0956 : Theophylaktos Lakapenos , Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1026 : Heinrich V , Duke of Bavaria
• 1076 : Gottfried IV , Duke of Lower Lorraine
• 1105 : Emehard , Bishop of Würzburg
• 1167 : Robert von Melun , English theologian and philosopher
• 1251 : Thomas I of Aquino , Count of Acerra and Regent of Sicily
• 1275 : Margaret of England , Queen of Scotland
• 1297 : Heinrich II. , Bishop of Seckau
• 1327 : William Latimer, 2nd Baron Latimer , English nobleman, military man and administrator
• 1337 : Takatsukasa Fuyunori , Japanese nobleman and regent
• 1397 : Stjepan II. Lacković , Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia
• 1547 : Laurentius Zoch , German lawyer and jurist
• 1558 : Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Margravine of Baden
• 1591 : Vespasiano Gonzaga , Italian nobleman, viceroy of Navarre and Valencia
• 1598 : Friedrich Dedekind , German writer and theologian
• 1608 : Henri de Bourbon , Duke of Montpensier
• 1619 : Georg von Schoenaich , German humanist and promoter of the Reformation
• 1653 : Diego López de Pacheco Cabrera y Bobadilla , Viceroy of New Spain and Viceroy of Navarre
• 1655 : Francesco Molin , 99th Doge of Venice
• 1658 : Adolf Friedrich I , Duke of Mecklenburg
• 1662 : Pedro Porter Casanate , Spanish officer and governor of Chile
• 1688 : Anton Herport , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1699 : Franz Ulrich Kinsky , Czech diplomat and statesman
• 1702 : Müneccimbaşı Ahmed Dede , Ottoman scholar, Sufi poet, historian and author

John Evelyn († 1706)

• 1706 : John Evelyn , English author, architect, and horticulturist
• 1712 : Bahadur Shah I , Indian Grand Mughal
• 1718 : Václav Karel Holan Rovenský , Czech composer
• 1719 : Johann Ernst , Prince Count of Nassau-Weilburg, Imperial Field Marshal General
• 1735 : John Arbuthnot , British physician, mathematician and writer from Scotland
• 1735 : Georg Friedrich Kauffmann , German organist and composer
• 1760 : Anna Magdalena Bach , second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1768 : Johann Caspar Ulrich , Swiss Reformed pastor
• 1779 : Johann Georg Sulzer , Swiss philosopher and professor of mathematics
• 1784 : Count of Saint Germain , alleged son of Prince Franz II.
• 1794 : Vicente de Herrera y Rivero , Spanish lawyer and viceroy of New Spain
• 1795 : Tanikaze kajinosuke , sumo wrestler and fourth yokozuna
• 1798 : Heinrich Ferdinand Möller , German actor and writer

19th century

• 1808 : Namiki Gohei I , Japanese Kabuki actor and author
• 1811 : Joseph Leitgeb , Austrian horn player
• 1814 : Julien Louis Geoffroy , nicknamed le terrible , French author and critic
• 1814 : Jean-Louis-Ebenezer Reynier , French general
• 1829 : Anton Heinrich Dammert , German hydraulic engineer

Wilhelm I († 1821)

• 1821 : Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel , German elector
• 1822 : Shikitei Samba , Japanese writer
• 1827 : Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville, Comtesse de Sabran , French salon lady
• 1829 : Charles-Michel de Salaberry , Canadian soldier and politician
• 1830 : Gaspare Landi , Italian painter
• 1836 : Gustav Bunsen , German surgeon and freedom fighter
• 1846 : Edward Dembowski , Polish philosopher, publicist and revolutionary
• 1850 : Samuel Adams , American politician
• 1852 : Joseph Drechsler , Bohemian-Austrian composer and music teacher
• 1853 : August I , Grand Duke of Oldenburg
• 1854 : Pierre Antoine Poiteau , French botanist
• 1858 : Wilhelm Joseph Imhoff , German sculptor

Prosper Ludwig († 1861)

• 1861 : Prosper Ludwig , Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen, Count von der Marck
• 1864 : Edward Hitchcock , American geologist
• 1864 : Wilhelm Friedrich Christian Gustav Krafft , German politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• 1864 : Christian Sethe , German lawyer
• 1874 : Carlos Manuel de Céspedes , Cuban freedom fighter, founder of the Cuban nation
• 1877 : James Anderson , British-Italian photographer
• 1878 : Mirzə Fətəli Axundov , Azerbaijani enlightener, writer, philosopher and literary critic
• 1881 : Boleslav Jablonský , Czech poet
• 1881 : Peter Joseph Rottmann , German dialect poet from the Hunsrück
• 1881 : George Pomeroy Colley , British major general and commander in chief in the First Boer War
• 1882 : Ludwig Gruner , German engraver and director of the Dresden Royal Copper Engraving Cabinet
• 1882 : Alfred Jaëll , Austrian pianist and composer
• 1883 : Julius Stern , German music teacher, conductor and composer
• 1887 : Alexander Porfirjewitsch Borodin , Russian composer, chemist and medicin
• 1890 : Christoph Moufang , German priest, theologian, politician, MdR, diocesan administrator of the diocese of Mainz
• 1891 : Karl Eduard Heusner , German Vice Admiral
• 1892 : Louis Vuitton , French entrepreneur, founder of the Louis Vuitton suitcase company
• 1893 : Charles Clifford , New Zealand politician
• 1894 : Hilarión Daza , Bolivian President
• 1898 : Leopold Kaufmann , German lawyer, government official, local politician, Lord Mayor of Bonn

20th century

1901-1950

• 1905 : George S. Boutwell , American politician

Samuel Pierpont Langley († 1906)

• 1906 : Samuel Pierpont Langley , American astrophysicist and aviation pioneer
• 1907 : Joseph Lewinsky , Austrian actor
• 1908 : Ernst Hottenroth , German sculptor
• 1908 : Adolf Kirchhoff , German classical philologist and researcher
• 1911 : Gustav von Diest , German lawyer, Prussian government president and author
• 1913 : Oscar Oldberg , American pharmacologist
• 1915 : Rudolf Berger , German singer
• 1915 : Auguste Groß von Trockau , German writer
• 1920 : Peter Fassbands , German-Swiss composer
• 1920 : Ludwig Rubiner , German poet, literary critic and essayist of Expressionism
• 1921 : Carl Menger , Austrian economist
• 1926 : Augusto Silj , Italian lawyer, Prefect of the Apostolic Signature, Cardinal of the Curia
• 1929 : Briton Hadden , American publisher
• 1934 : Berthe Art , Belgian painter
• 1936 : Joshua W. Alexander , American politician

Ivan Pavlov († 1936)

• 1936 : Ivan Petrovich Pavlov , Russian physician, physiologist, behavioral scientist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1939 : Johanna Ambrosius , German writer
• 1939 : Nadezhda Krupskaja , Russian educator, politician and revolutionary, wife and comrade of Lenin
• 1940 : Peter Behrens , German architect, painter, designer and typographer, representative of modern industrial design
• 1942 : Karel Doorman , Dutch rear admiral
• 1942 : Ernst Pfeiffer , German author and journalist
• 1943 : Karl Gall , Austrian football player
• 1943 : Alexander Matwejewitsch Matrossow , Soviet soldier, symbol of the Red Army
• 1944 : Gustav Amweg , Swiss author and teacher
• 1946 : Marie Villinger , Swiss leader of the workers' movement
• 1949 : Franz Adam Beyerlein , German lawyer and writer
• 1950 : Herbert Assmann , German internist and university professor
• 1950 : Yvan Goll , German-French writer and poet of Expressionism and Surrealism
• 1950 : Heinrich Waderé , German sculptor and medalist

1951-2000

• 1954 : Bobby Ball , American racing car driver

Günther Ramin († 1956)

• 1956 : Günther Ramin , German organist, choir director and composer
• 1957 : Ernst Kris , Austrian-American art historian and psychoanalyst
• 1960 : Oszkár Asbóth , Hungarian engineer and aviation pioneer
• 1960 : Ettore Chimeri , Venezuelan racing car driver
• 1960 : Hermann Lindrath , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister
• 1961 : Platt Adams , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1964 : Carlos Brandt , Venezuelan writer, philosopher and historian
• 1965 : Andrée Bölken , German politician
• 1968 : Ludvík Podéšt , Czech composer
• 1968 : Johannes Tralow , German novelist, storyteller, playwright and publicist
• 1969 : Marius Barbeau , Canadian anthropologist, ethnologist and folklore researcher
• 1971 : Manfred Kluge , German composer, church musician and music theorist
• 1972 : Albrecht Janssen , German writer
• 1974 : Placido Acevedo , Puerto Rican trumpeter, orchestra leader and composer
• 1974 : Anders Brems , Danish singer, clarinetist and music teacher
• 1975 : Muriel Hazel Wright , American historian
• 1976 : André Marandet , French racing car driver
• 1976 : Hans Siburg , German general
• 1977 : John Dickson Carr , American crime writer

Lotte Neumann († 1977)

• 1977 : Lotte Neumann , German actress
• 1978 : Wadim Nikolajewitsch Salmanow , Russian composer
• 1979 : John F. Seitz , American cameraman
• 1984 : Michał Kondracki , Polish composer
• 1985 : Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , American politician and diplomat
• 1986 : Gholam Hossein Banan , Iranian singer
• 1986 : Gedeon Barcza , Hungarian chess player
• 1988 : Ernst Tschernik , Sorbian teacher, scientist and statistician
• 1989 : Paul Oswald Ahnert , German astronomer
• 1989 : Konrad Lorenz , Austrian biologist, zoologist, behavioral scientist and Nobel Prize winner

Abelardo Arias († 1991)

• 1991 : Abelardo Arias , Argentine writer
• 1991 : Robert Widlar , American electrical engineer, pioneer in the development of analog integrated circuits (IC)
• 1991 : Hans Zander , German actor and theater director
• 1993 : Lillian Gish , American actress
• 1993 : Alois Strohmayr , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1993 : Marģeris Zariņš , Latvian composer and writer
• 1994 : Harold Acton , British author
• 1995 : Ann Ayars , American actress and opera singer (soprano)
• 1996 : Sarah Palfrey Cooke , American tennis player
• 1997 : Karl Anders , German politician, journalist and publisher
• 1998 : George Herbert Hitchings , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1998 : Alice Rivaz , Swiss writer
• 1998 : JT Walsh , American actor
• 1999 : Stéphane Sirkis , French musician

21st century

• 2001 : Jean-Louis Ricci , French racing car driver
• 2002 : Oskar Sala , German composer and physicist
• 2002 : Spike Milligan , Irish comedian, writer, poet and jazz musician
• 2003 : Albert Steinberg , Canadian violinist and conductor
• 2004 : Raymund Schwager , Swiss theologian and Jesuit
• 2004 : Paul Sweezy , American economist, Marxist author, and editor of Monthly Review
• 2006 : Horst Rudolf Abe , German medical historian at the Medical Academy in Erfurt
• 2007 : Bobby Rosengarden , American jazz drummer and studio musician
• 2008 : William F. Buckley Jr. , American author
• 2008 : Ernst Hiller , German motorcycle racer

Ivan Rebroff († 2008)

• 2008 : Ivan Rebroff , German singer
• 2010 : Wendy Toye , British actress
• 2011 : Necmettin Erbakan , Turkish politician
• 2011 : Duke Snider , American baseball player
• 2012 : Werner Guballa , German priest, auxiliary bishop in Mainz
• 2012 : Helga Vlahović , Croatian presenter, journalist and television producer
• 2013 : John Annus , Latvian-American painter and photographer
• 2013 : María Asquerino , Spanish actress
• 2013 : Van Cliburn , American pianist
• 2015 : Boris Efimowitsch Nemtsov , Russian politician
• 2015 : Leonard Nimoy , American actor
• 2016 : Claude Parent , French architect
• 2016 : Egon Zimmermann (ski racer, 1933) , Austrian ski racer
• 2017 : Gunther Leupolt , German educator and author
• 2017 : Carlos Humberto Romero , Salvadoran politician
• 2017 : Eva María Zuk , Mexican pianist of Polish origin
• 2018 : Ekkehart Krippendorff , German political scientist
• 2018 : Quini , Spanish soccer player
• 2020 : Burkhard Driest , German actor and author

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Patrick Hamilton , Scottish priest and martyr (Protestant)

• Name days
  • Leander , Marko

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Dominican Republic : independence from Spain (1844)

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

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