January 27th
January 27 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 27 ) is the 27th day of the Gregorian calendar , so there are 338 days (339 days in leap years) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 1080: The Battle of Flachheim between the armies of knights of King Heinrich IV and anti-king Rudolf von Rheinfelden ends without a clear winner due to poor weather conditions.
- 1186: Henry VI marries in Milan Constance of Sicily , Norman heiress to the Kingdom of Sicily .
- 1451: In the Saxon war between brothers , Elector Friedrich II. and Duke Wilhelm III. Peace. The Altenburg division of the Wettin land has now been accepted by both.
- 1521: Emperor Charles V opens the Diet of Worms , which lasts until May 26th and which, in addition to problems of imperial administration such as the imperial regiment and the imperial registers, also deals with the Causa Lutheri as the last point .
- 1656: A Dutch force finally conquers the Portuguese-held city of Kupang on the island of Timor , over which there have been repeated battles between armed units of both colonial powers for many years.
- 1763: Rio de Janeiro replaces Salvador da Bahia as the capital of the Portuguese Viceroyalty of Brazil .
- 1834: Representatives of the liberal Swiss cantons of Lucerne , Bern , Zug , Solothurn , Basel-Landschaft , St. Gallen , Aargau and Thurgau pass the Articles of Baden in Baden . The regulations trigger violent protests from the Catholic Church and are a germ for the Sonderbund War in 1847.
- 1865: Spain and Peru make peace in the Spanish–South American War , but this is opposed by the Peruvian people and Congress.
- 1877: The Courts Constitution Act is passed in the German Empire . It serves the purpose of standardizing the regulations on ordinary jurisdiction .
- 1917: In Costa Rica , Minister of War and Navy Federico Alberto Tinoco Granados , with the help of the military, staged a coup against President Alfredo González Flores .
- 1918: The Finnish Civil War begins in newly independent Finland and will last until May 5th. The Red Guards took control of Helsinki overnight , while the White Guards met little resistance to the north.
- 1919: A demonstration by German-speaking citizens of the city of Marburg an der Drau is violently broken up by soldiers of the SHS army on Bloody Sunday .
- 1924: The Free State of Fiume is dissolved with the Treaty of Rome between Italy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . The town of Fiume becomes Italian, while the neighboring town of Sušak goes to Yugoslavia . Fiume's government in exile does not recognize the contract.
- 1939: Adolf Hitler enacts Plan Z , a naval armament plan developed by the German Navy under Commander-in-Chief Erich Raeder , which goes beyond the Anglo-German Naval Agreement .
- 1943: With an air raid on Wilhelmshaven flown by 55 bombers as part of the Combined Bomber Offensive , the American Air Force began bombing during the day. From now until the end of the war, Germany will be attacked by planes almost every day.
- 1944: The 900-day siege of the city during World War II ends with the expulsion of the last German soldiers from the southern part of Leningrad . The encirclement by the German Wehrmacht during the Russian campaign claimed around one million lives.
- 1945: During the Second World War , the Red Army liberated the remaining approximately 7,500 prisoners from the largely evacuated Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp . In 1996, the date of this event was declared a national day of remembrance in the Federal Republic of Germany as a day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism, and in 2005 it was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly to be the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust .
- 1951: The Nevada National Security Site conducts the first of 119 surface nuclear weapons tests under the name Able as part of Operation Ranger .
- 1967: The United States , Great Britain and the Soviet Union conclude the Treaty on the Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies , or Outer Space Treaty for short , to regulate their activities in outer space .
- 1973: The USA and North Vietnam sign the Treaty of Paris , according to which a ceasefire in the Vietnam War should come into force the following day and the USA should gradually withdraw from Vietnam .
- 1989: The last incarcerated World War II war criminals imprisoned immediately after the war are released in Breda , Netherlands .
- 1996: Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara staged a coup against the first freely elected President of the Republic of Niger , Mahamane Ousmane , and Prime Minister Hama Amadou , who had blocked each other for the past few months.
- 2018: At the Green party conference in Hanover , Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck are elected as the leading duo.
business
- 1880: Thomas Alva Edison receives US patent number 223898 for his invention of a better incandescent lamp .
- 1891: The developer liquid Rodinal for black and white films is patented. Inventor of the product sold by Agfa since then is Momme Andresen .
- 1904: The German Empire, as a colonial power, inaugurates the jetty in Lomé , with which the treacherous surf near the shore can be bridged. Up until 1914, most of the shipping traffic to and from Togoland was routed here .
- 1980: Kuwait established a state-owned company, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation , to market its petroleum . The manufactured products are sold under the brand name Q8 in a number of countries.
science and technology
- 1785: Abraham Baldwin founds the University of Georgia in Athens , the first state-sponsored university in the United States. Lectures only start years later.
- 1829: On the initiative of Hans Christian Ørsted , Denmark's Technical University is founded under the name Den Polytekniske Læreanstalt .
- 1888: Gardiner Greene Hubbard becomes the first President of the National Geographic Society . Founded two weeks earlier at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC by 33 men, it aims to bring geographic knowledge to the general public.
- 1908: British astronomer Philibert Jacques Melotte discovers another moon of Jupiter , later named Pasiphae .
- 1911: The last ship mill on the Elbe is demolished in Pistian .
- 1938: Sheets of ice drifting in the Niagara River pressed on the trusses of the Upper Steel Arch Bridge connecting Canada and the United States ; it then collapses.
- 1939: The Vultee A-19 attack aircraft makes its maiden flight .
- 1939: The Lockheed P-38 Lightning , built as an interceptor , takes off on its maiden flight.
- 1967: Fire breaks out during routine plugs-out tests in NASA 's Apollo program . The three Apollo 1 astronauts Gus Grissom , Edward Higgins White , and Roger B. Chaffee incinerate in their capsule.
Culture
- 1893: With Berta Foerster-Lauterer in the title role, the opera Debora by Josef Bohuslav Foerster is premiered at the National Theater in Prague .
- 2003: A cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by Dave Brown appears in British newspaper The Independent , sparking an anti-Semitism controversy.
society
- 1929: The Sass brothers manage a spectacular break-in into the vault of the Berlin Discount Bank.
- 1978: In West Berlin , the meeting in Tunix begins with 15-20,000 participants from the left-wing political spectrum , at which numerous projects of the alternative movement are initiated, including the daily newspaper taz . The congress forms a late high point of the Sponti movement.
religion
- 1343: In the bull Unigenitus Dei filius , Pope Clemens VI shortens the time for the return of a Holy Year with obtaining a plenary indulgence from 100 to 50 years.
- 1546: The Regensburg Colloquy begins in Regensburg , which was convened by Emperor Charles V to distract himself from his war preparations against the Schmalkaldic League . As expected, the conversation ended on March 10th without a result.
disasters
- 447: An earthquake severely damages the Theodosian Walls protecting Constantinople . Some sections are destroyed and 57 towers collapse.
- 1981: The passenger ferry Tampomas II , which caught fire the day before, sank in the Java Sea . Of the presumably more than 1,200 people on the ship, 672 can be rescued, 147 dead are recovered, 373 people known by name remain missing after the marine accident .
- 2002: About 30 explosions occur in a burning ammunition depot of the Nigerian army in Lagos . They destroy adjacent buildings and cause thousands of people to flee in panic, causing more deaths. In total, over a thousand people lose their lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1991: With his victory at the Australian Open , Boris Becker becomes the first German number 1 in the men's tennis world rankings .
- 2005: The Berlin soccer referee Robert Hoyzer admits to having manipulated game encounters through decisions in order to enable betting cheating . The investigation into the 2005 soccer betting scandal is under way.
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1145: ʿUmar as-Suhrawardī , Sunni Sufi
- 1546: Joachim Friedrich , Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia
- 1567: Anna Maria , Princess of Hesse-Kassel and Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken
- 1571: Abbas I , Shah of Persia
- 1614: Anna Katharina Dorothea von Salm-Kyrburg , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1616: Christen Aagaard , Danish poet
- 1657: Johann Heinrich von Berger , German jurist
- 1662: Richard Bentley , English classical philologist and textual critic
- 1663: George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington , British admiral
- 1677: Justina Catharina Steffan von Cronstetten , Frankfurt patrician and benefactress
- 1687: Balthasar Neumann , German architect of the Baroque and Rococo
- 1688: Augustin Simnacher , German organ builder
- 1692: Felizian Hegenauer , Austrian sculptor
- 1717: Marianne Pirker , German chamber singer and soprano
- 1720: Samuel Foote , British actor and playwright
- 1733: Joseph Adam of Arco , auxiliary bishop, bishop and prince-bishop
- 1736: Petrus Abresch , Dutch Reformed theologian
- 1736: John Brown , American politician
- 1738: Robert Yates , American jurist and politician
- 1741: Hester Thrale , English author, salonière and patron of the arts
- 1748: Marie Anne George (Madame Du Titre), French Huguenot in Berlin
- 1749: Franz Karl Alter , German linguist
- 1756: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , composer of the Viennese Classic
- 1757: Gomes Freire de Andrade , Portuguese general
- 1762: Karl Christian Daniel Baurschmidt , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1763: Gottfried Christoph Härtel , German music publisher
- 1773: Augustus Frederick , British prince
- 1774: Antoine Monastier , Franco-Swiss evangelical clergyman and historian
- 1775: Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling , German philosopher, main exponent of German idealism
- 1779: Franz Philipp Aull , German politician
- 1789: Alexander von Dusch , Minister of Baden
- 1790: William Davies Evans , British chess player from Wales
- 1790: Petro Hulak-Artemovskyj , Ukrainian writer
- 1793: Johann Friedrich Schulze , German organ builder
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Henry Moule , British vicar and inventor
- 1802: Arnold Duckwitz , German merchant, senator and mayor in Bremen, Minister of the Reich
- 1803: Carl Friedrich Deneke , German Privy Councilor of Commerce, politician and industrialist
- 1805: Sophie Friederike of Bavaria , Archduchess of Austria, daughter of King Maximilian I of Bavaria, mother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria
- 1805: Maria Anna , Queen of Saxony
- 1806: Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga , Spanish violinist and composer
- 1806: Julius Hübner , German painter, director of the Dresden Picture Gallery
- 1807: Ulrik Anton Motzfeldt , Norwegian jurist and politician
- 1808: David Friedrich Strauss , German writer, philosopher and theologian
- 1811: João Crisóstomo de Abreu e Sousa , Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1811: Ernst Dieffenbach , German physician and geologist
- 1813: Heinrich von Friedberg , German jurist and politician, state minister
- 1814: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French architect and art historian
- 1815: Peter Joseph Ruppen , Swiss chronicler of the canton of Valais
- 1818: Richard Baltzer , German mathematician
- 1822: Adam Trabert , German writer and jurist
- 1822: Max Wirth , German political economist
- 1823: Édouard Lalo , French composer
- 1824: Jozef Israëls , Dutch painter
- 1825: Balduin Möllhausen , German traveler and writer
- 1826: Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin , Russian writer and satirist
- 1826: Richard Taylor , American politician and Confederate general in the Civil War
- 1832: Lewis Carroll , British writer, mathematician and photographer
- 1832: Arthur Hughes , British illustrator and painter
- 1835: Johannes Justus Rein , German geographer
- 1836: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer
- 1837: Eduard von Hofmann , Austrian forensic pathologist
- 1844: Numa Droz , Swiss politician
- 1848: Jakob Baechtold , Swiss literary scholar
- 1848: Tōgō Heihachirō , Japanese admiral
- 1850: Marie Fillunger , Austrian singer
- 1850: Samuel Gompers , American labor leader
- 1850: Edward John Smith , British captain of the Titanic
1851-1900
- 1854: Emma Lutteroth , German painter
- 1859: Émery Lavigne , Canadian pianist, organist and music teacher
- 1859: Wilhelm II , German Emperor and King of Prussia
- 1861: Jean-François-Charles Amet , French Vice Admiral and Allied High Commissioner in Constantinople
- 1862: Peter Joseph Früh , German brewer and brewery owner
- 1864: John Walter Gregory , British geologist
- 1866: Heinrich Seufferheld , German draftsman, painter and etcher
- 1867: Katherine Mayo , American journalist and writer
- 1867: Claude Terrasse , French operetta composer
- 1869: Will Marion Cook , American composer
- 1870: Karl Arnsperger , German administrative officer
- 1872: Lipót Aschner , Hungarian industrialist
- 1876: Philipp Stauff , German journalist and writer
- 1876: Karl Stiegler , Austrian horn player and professor
- 1877: Alfred Heuss , German musicologist and music critic
- 1877: Eugène Renaud , French racing driver
- 1880: Arthur Warncke , German rower
- 1881: Rudolf Fischer , German chemist and entrepreneur
- 1883: Bernhard Aschner , Austrian physiologist and physician
- 1883: Gottfried Feder , German engineer, economic theorist and politician, MdR
- 1883: Bok de Korver , Dutch footballer
- 1883: Frantz Rosenberg , Norwegian sport shooter
- 1884: Johannes Antonius James Barge , Dutch anatomist
- 1885: Jerome David Kern , American composer
- 1885: Eduard Künneke , German operetta composer
- 1887: Carl Blegen , American archaeologist
- 1888: Victor Moritz Goldschmidt , Swiss geochemist
- 1888: Otto Schmidt-Hannover , German officer, politician, MdR
- 1891: Wilhelm Morgner , German Expressionist painter and printmaker
- 1893: Song Qingling , Chinese politician
- 1894: Vicente T. Mendoza , Mexican musicologist and folklore researcher
- 1895: Adolf Augustus Berle , American jurist
- 1895: Harry Ruby , American screenwriter, composer, and lyricist
- 1897: Herman Carl Andersen , American politician
- 1898: Leonardo Aramesco , Hungarian tenor
- 1899: Béla Guttmann , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1899: Piet van Mever , Dutch composer
- 1900: Jean Piaubert , French painter
- 1900: Hyman Rickover , American admiral
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Lilly Becher , German writer and publicist
- 1901: Willy Fritsch , German actor
- 1902: Heinrich Lützeler , German philosopher, art historian and literary scholar
- 1902: Ginette Martenot , French pianist, Ondes Martenot player and music teacher
- 1903: John Carew Eccles , Australian physiologist
- 1903: Howard P. Robertson , American mathematician and physicist
- 1905: Burhan Atak , Turkish soccer player and referee
- 1905: Rasim Atala , Turkish football goalkeeper
- 1906: Matthias Auckenthaler , Austrian alpinist
- 1906: Karl Ludwig Gerok , German organist, composer and author
- 1906: Radamés Gnattali , Brazilian musician and composer
- 1908: Trude Eipperle , German soprano
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- 1908: Hot Lips Page , American jazz musician
- 1910: Edvard Kardelj , Yugoslav politician
- 1911: Alfons Dorfner , Austrian canoeist
- 1911: Maria Wimmer , German actress
- 1912: Marc Daniels , American film director, film producer and screenwriter
- 1913: Mary Frizzell , Canadian track and field athlete
- 1915: Ernst Schröder , German actor
- 1915: Friedrich Türcke , German forester and hunting scientist
- 1916: Helle Hirsch , German student and resistance fighter
- 1918: Thies Christophersen , German farmer, special agricultural leader in the Auschwitz concentration camp, Holocaust denier ( The Auschwitz Lie )
- 1918: Skitch Henderson , British-American pianist, conductor and composer
- 1918: Elmore James , American musician
- 1918: Antonín Mrkos , Czech astronomer
- 1919: Alfred Leo Abramowicz , American bishop
- 1919: Ross Bagdasarian , American singer and songwriter
- 1920: Vicente Bianchi , Chilean pianist, composer and conductor
- 1920: Helmut Zacharias , German violinist
- 1921: Georges Mathieu , French painter
- 1921: Kurt Meyer , German soccer player
- 1921: Donna Reed , American actress
- 1923: Waldir Azevedo , Brazilian composer and cavaquinho player
- 1923: Roger Bourdin , French flutist
- 1923: Wolf Donner , German author and development worker
- 1924: Rauf Denktaş , Northern Cyprus President
- 1924: Sabu , Indian actor
- 1925: Sufi Abu Taleb , Egyptian politician
- 1925: Manfred Caspari , German economist
- 1925: Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez , Cuban revolutionary
1926-1950
- 1926: Heinz Aull , German politician
- 1926: Ingrid Thulin , Swedish actress
- 1927: Giovanni Arpino , Italian writer and journalist
- 1927: Gianni De Luca , Italian comic artist
- 1927: Diether Ritzert , German painter and graphic artist
- 1927: Arnold Zellner , American economist
- 1928: Jean-Michel Damase , French composer
- 1928: Hans Modrow , German politician, head of government of the GDR, MP, MEP
- 1929: Mohamed Al-Fayed , Egyptian entrepreneur and billionaire
- 1929: Hans Berliner , American chess player
- 1930: Takao Aeba , Japanese literary scholar
- 1930: Aloysius Ambrozic , Canadian Archbishop of Toronto and Cardinal
- 1930: Bobby Bland , American musician
- 1930: Fernando Gasparian , Armenian-Brazilian industrialist and publisher
- 1931: Manfred Aregger , Swiss politician
- 1931: Mordecai Richler , Canadian writer
- 1932: Hans Rémond , Swiss painter
- 1932: Boris Anfijanovich Shakhlin , Ukrainian gymnast
- 1933: Brigitte Antonius , Austrian actress
- 1934: Raymond Boudon , French sociologist
- 1934: Édith Cresson , French Prime Minister, EU Commissioner
- 1935: Gerhard Hamann , German cellist
- 1936: Wolfgang Böhmer , German physician and politician, MdL, State Minister, Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
- 1936: Troy Donahue , American actor
- 1936: Henri Grandsire , French racing car driver and actor
- 1936: Manfred Molzberger , German athlete
- 1936: Samuel Chao Chung Ting , American physicist
- 1937: Fred Åkerström , Swedish songwriter and singer
- 1937: David Yallop , British author
- 1938: Mary Anne Witchger , American swimmer
- 1939: Róbert Angelusz , Hungarian sociologist and university lecturer
- 1939: Tigran Mansurian , Armenian composer
- 1940: Ahmet Kurtcebe Alptemoçin , Turkish politician and Foreign Minister of Turkey
- 1940: James Cromwell , American actor
- 1940: Édika , French comic artist
- 1940: Bernd Jentzsch , German poet and storyteller, translator and essayist
- 1940: Daniel Gray Quillen , American mathematician
- 1941: Karl Diller , German politician, MdL, MP
- 1941: Bobby Hutcherson , American jazz vibraphonist, xylophone and marimba player
- 1941: Beatrice Tinsley , New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist
- 1942: Maki Asakawa , Japanese singer, songwriter and producer
- 1942: Petr Kotík , Czech composer
- 1942: Stewart Raffill , American film director and screenwriter
- 1942: John Witherspoon , American actor
- 1942: Steve Wynn , American multi-millionaire and casino operator
- 1944: Peter Akinola , Nigerian primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria and Archbishop
- 1944: Mairead Corrigan , Northern Ireland peace activist, Nobel laureate
- 1944: Kevin Coyne , British rock musician, painter and author
- 1944: Nick Mason , British drummer ( Pink Floyd )
- 1945: Adam Krzemiński , Polish journalist and publicist
- 1946: Andrija Hebrang , Croatian politician and physician
- 1946: Lech Raczak , Polish actor, director and theater scholar
- 1946: Dirk Wippermann , German discus thrower
- 1947: Heinz Bonn , German soccer player
- 1947: André Reuter , Luxembourg scientist and university rector
- 1948: Mikhail Baryshnikov , American ballet dancer, choreographer and actor
- 1948: Valeri Brainin , Russian-German music functionary, music educator and music theorist
- 1949: Per Røntved , Danish national football player
- 1950: Ulrich Deppendorf , German journalist and TV presenter
- 1950: Günter Gloser , German politician, MP
- 1950: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez , Cuban writer, painter, sculptor, poet and journalist
1951-1975
- 1951: Anders Dahl-Nielsen , Danish handball player, coach and official
- 1951: Brian Downey , Irish rock musician
- 1951: Nancy Galbraith , American composer, organist and music teacher
- 1952: Billy Johnson , American football player
- 1953: Shizuo Akira , Japanese immunologist
- 1953: Frank Joseph Augustyn , Canadian ballet dancer
- 1953: Celso Machado , Brazilian guitarist and composer
- 1953: Bob Mintzer , American clarinetist and saxophonist
- 1955: Pheeroan akLaff , American jazz drummer
- 1955: Martin Jehne , German ancient historian
- 1955: John Roberts , American jurist and judge, Chief Justice of the United States
- 1955: Peter Urie , German bishop in Kazakhstan
- 1956: Gerhard Hanke , German politician
- 1956: Sean O'Keefe , US head of NASA
- 1956: Mimi Rogers , American actress
- 1957: Janick Gers , British musician
- 1957: Klaus Heuser , German musician ( BAP )
- 1957: Frank Miller , American comics writer
- 1958: Mohammed Ali Abtahi , Persian cleric and politician
- 1958: Nora von Collande , German actress
- 1958: Jethro D. Gründer , German theater director
- 1958: Susanna Thompson , American actress
- 1959: Jörg Becker , German business information scientist
- 1959: Göran Hägglund , Swedish politician
- 1960: Manfred Born , German jurist
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- 1960: Reinhold Lopatka , Austrian State Secretary
- 1960: Hartmut Schubert , German politician
- 1961: Gillian Gilbert , British musician
- 1962: Roland Bialek , Swiss politician
- 1963: Luigi Ambrosio , Italian mathematician
- 1964: Bridget Fonda , American actress
- 1964: Karen Stemmle , Canadian alpine skier
- 1965: Petra Berndt , German actress
- 1965: Alan Cumming , British-American actor and director
- 1966: Ursula Waßer , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
- 1967: Susan Aglukark , Canadian singer-songwriter
- 1967: Michael Ebling , German local politician
- 1968: Tracy Lawrence , American country music singer
- 1968: Mike Patton , American singer and songwriter
- 1968: Matt Stover , American football player
- 1968: Tricky , British rapper and musician
- 1969: Éliette Abécassis , French writer
- 1969: Patton Oswalt , American actor
- 1970: Natsumi Andō , Japanese manga artist
- 1970: Fabian Harloff , German actor
- 1970: Emmanuel Pahud , Swiss flutist
- 1971: Walter Erlbruch , German miniature golfer
- 1971: Rolando Uríos , Cuban-Spanish handball player
- 1972: Mirjam Ott , Swiss curler
- 1972: Mark Owen , British singer
- 1972: Tobias Steinhauser , German cyclist
- 1973: Daniel Amor , Swiss author
- 1973: José Luis Rubiera , Spanish cyclist
- 1974: Ole Einar Bjørndalen , Norwegian biathlete, Olympic champion
- 1974: Diana Herold , German model, actress and TV presenter
- 1974: Andrei Pavel , Romanian tennis player
- 1975: Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , German writer
- 1975: Nadine Wrietz , German actress
1976-2000
- 1976: Chris Gauthier , Canadian actor
- 1976: Erik Haffner , German director
- 1976: Ahn Jung-hwan , South Korean soccer player
- 1976: Jorres Risse , German actor
- 1976: Karin Roten , Swiss alpine skier
- 1977: Luke Tomlinson , British polo player
- 1978: Jana Adámková , Czech footballer
- 1978: Robert Förster , German cyclist
- 1980: Eva Padberg , German fashion model and mannequin
- 1980: Marat Mikhailovich Safin , Russian tennis player
- 1981: Alicia Molik , Australian tennis player
- 1982: Eva Asderaki , Greek tennis referee
- 1983: Deon Anderson , American football player
- 1984: Monique Angermüller , German speed skater
- 1985: Rúben Amorim , Portuguese footballer
- 1985: Danleigh Borman , South African footballer
- 1987: Andrea Consigli , Italian footballer
- 1987: Denis Borisovich Glushakov , Russian footballer
- 1987: Michael Marrone , Australian footballer
- 1987: Jamel Saihi , Tunisian footballer
- 1988: Romina Holz , German soccer player
- 1988: Michal Kopčo , Slovak handball player
- 1988: Raphaela Piehler , German swimmer
- 1988: Alexandra Purvis , Canadian actress
- 1989: Jun Jung-lin , South Korean bobsledder
- 1989: Florian Jungwirth , German soccer player
- 1989: Ricky van Wolfswinkel , Dutch footballer
- 1990: Christoph Moritz , German footballer
- 1991: Christian Bickel , German footballer
- 1991: Aleksandar Ignjovski , Serbian footballer
- 1991: Markus Pommer , German racing driver
- 1991: Amber Yobech , Palau swimmer
- 1992: Tio Ellinas , Cypriot auto racer
- 1992: Vivienne Puttins , German actress
- 1994: Rani Khedira , German-Tunisian football player
- 1994: Liliane Zillner , Austrian actress
- 1995: Sascha Hellinger , German web video producer and streamer
- 1996: Istok Rodeš , Croatian alpine skier
- 1997: Lukas Mühl , German soccer player
- 1998: Roman Kašiar , Czech footballer
- 2000: Marte Monsen , Norwegian alpine skier
Died
Before the 19th century
- 98: Nerva , Roman Emperor
- 457: Markian , Eastern Roman Emperor
- 672: Vitalian , Pope
- 847: Sergius II , Pope
- 857: Ziryab , singer, oud player, composer and poet
- 874: Hasan al-ʿAskari , eleventh imam according to the Shia Imami faith
- 894: Agiulf , Bishop of Halberstadt
- 931: Ruotger , Archbishop of Trier
- 1029: Unwan , Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
- 1045: Alruna von Cham , German Benedictine nun and blessed
- 1116: Wiprecht III. , Count von Groitzsch
- 1245: Ralph of Maidstone , Bishop of Hereford
- 1311: Külüq Khan , Emperor of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty of China
- 1318: Konrad I Zobel , abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach
- 1398: Gerard III. , Bishop of Minden
- 1490: Ashikaga Yoshimasa , Japanese shogun
- 1501: Thomas Langton , English bishop
- 1504: Louis II , Margrave of Saluzzo
- 1509: Johann I , Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern
- 1510: Thomas Brandon , English courtier and diplomat
- 1540: Angela Merici , Italian founder of the Ursuline order
- 1544: Erasmus of Manteuffel-Arnhausen , Bishop of Cammin
- 1547: Anna Jagiello , Roman-German queen as well as queen of Bohemia and Hungary
- 1586: Oswald III. von dem Bergh , officer in the Generalstaats and Spanish services during the Eighty Years' War
- 1613: Anna , Duchess of Saxe-Coburg
- 1615: Imagawa Ujizane , Japanese daimyo and general
- 1625: Adrianus Valerius , Dutch poet and collector of Geusenlieder
- 1627: Cäcilie Wasa , Swedish Princess and Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern
- 1629: Hieronymus Praetorius , German organist and composer
- 1642: Theodor Varmeier , German jurist
- 1649: Klaus von Sehested , Danish court official and politician
- 1651: Abraham Bloemaert , Dutch painter
- 1654: Mathias Lorentisch , Italian master stonemason and sculptor
- 1669: Gaspar de Crayer , Flemish painter
- 1715: Caspar Neumann , German Protestant pastor, church inspector and hymn writer, representative of political arithmetic and pioneer of population statistics
- 1728: François Duval , French violinist and composer
- 1731: Bartolomeo Cristofori , Italian musical instrument maker, inventor of the fortepiano
- 1740: Louis IV Henri de Bourbon , Prince of Condé
- 1742: Giovanni Venceslao Piccolomini , Duke of Amalfi, imperial prince and lord of the Nachod dominion
- 1743: Pietro Maria Pieri , Italian cardinal
- 1747: Gottlieb Siegmund Corvinus , German poet and jurist
- 1755: Sámal Pætursson Lamhauge , Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands
- 1759: Senesino , Italian castrato and opera singer
- 1763: Anton Ulrich , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- 1763: Johann Theodor of Bavaria , Bishop of Regensburg, Freising and Liège
- 1764: Petru Pavel Aron , Romanian Greek Catholic religious priest and Bishop of Făgăraș
- 1769: Matthias Amoor , Dutch organ builder in Groningen
- 1786: Hans Joachim von Zieten , Prussian cavalry general, close confidant of King Frederick the Great
- 1788: William Tryon , British governor of the colony of Carolina and the province of New York († 1788)
- 1796: Charles of Amadei , Imperial general
19th century
- 1802: Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , German composer and conductor
- 1814: Philip Astley , founder of the modern circus
- 1816: Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood , British admiral
- 1825: August Ferdinand Ludwig Dörffurt , German pharmacist and local politician
- 1836: Rudolf Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau , Bohemian nobleman
- 1840: Isaac Chauncey , US naval officer
- 1840: Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen , German engraver
- 1842: Adolph von Vagedes , German architect and poet
- 1844: Cecilia of Sweden , Princess of Sweden
- 1844: Charles Nodier , French writer
- 1847: Jana Wynandina Gertrut d'Aubigny von Engelbrunner , German writer, singer and music teacher
- 1849: Julius August Ludwig Wegscheider , German Protestant theologian, dogmatist of Theological Rationalism
- 1850: Johann Gottfried Schadow , Prussian sculptor and graphic artist
- 1851: John James Audubon , American ornithologist
- 1851: Cornelius P. Comegys , American politician
- 1852: Paavo Ruotsalainen , Finnish revivalist
- 1855: Heinrich Simon Lindemann , German philosopher and university lecturer
- 1857: Preston Brooks , American politician
- 1857: Dorothea von Lieven , Latvian wife of Russian general Christoph von Lieven
- 1860: János Bolyai , Hungarian mathematician
- 1862: Paul Josef Nardini , German priest, founder of an order, social apostle, blessed
- 1864: Leo von Klenze , German architect, painter and writer of classicism
- 1864: Heinrich Rose , German mineralogist, analytical chemist
- 1870: Carl August Müller , German court instrument maker
- 1873: Adam Sedgwick , British founder of modern geology
- 1878: Karl Krazeisen , Bavarian infantry officer and amateur painter
- 1879: John Laird Mair Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence , Irish nobleman and British politician, Governor-General and Viceroy of India
- 1880: Carl Friedrich Flemming , German psychiatrist
- 1881: Johann Rudolf Kutschker , Austrian archbishop and cardinal
- 1887: Wilhelm Henzen , German epigraphist
- 1890: Carl Westphal , German psychiatrist and neurologist
- 1893: James G. Blaine , American politician
- 1893: James Campbell , American politician and Secretary of the Post
- 1896: Simeon Bavier , Swiss politician and Federal President
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Giuseppe Verdi , Italian Romantic composer
- 1904: Heinrich Otto Lehmann , German legal scholar, legal historian and university lecturer
- 1913: Rainer of Austria Archduke of Austria, old Austrian general
- 1916: Cesare De Sanctis , Italian composer, church musician and music teacher
- 1917: Ernst Sars , Norwegian historian
- 1919: Endre Ady , Hungarian poet
- 1922: Nellie Bly , American journalist and world traveler
- 1922: Giovanni Verga , Italian poet
- 1922: Johann Nepomuk Wilczek , Austrian polar explorer and patron of the arts
- 1922: Luise Zietz , German politician
- 1924: Bernhard Schnackenburg , German local politician
- 1925: Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell , British Field Marshal
- 1928: Wallace McCutcheon Jr. , American actor, film director and World War II veteran
- 1930: Konrad Biesalski , German orthopaedist
- 1930: Jean Huré , French composer and organist
- 1932: Mortimer Wilson , American composer
- 1937: Johannes Warns , German Protestant theologian
- 1938: Max Oscar Arnold , German businessman and politician
- 1940: Isaak Emmanuilowitsch Babel , Russian journalist and author
- 1941: Leopold Adametz , Austrian animal breeding and heredity researcher
- 1941: Iver Holter , Norwegian composer
- 1943: Jakob Kraus , resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1944: Anton Fränznick , German Catholic priest, victim of Nazism
- 1945: Gideon Klein , Czech composer and pianist
- 1945: Antal Szerb , Hungarian writer
- 1949: Boris Vladimirovich Assafyev , Russian composer
- 1950: Orlando Spreng , Swiss postal worker and writer
1951-2000
- 1951: Gustaf Mannerheim , Finnish officer and statesman
- 1953: Wilhelm Kattwinkel , German politician, MdR
- 1954: Hinrich Abel , German politician
- 1955: Ernst Penzoldt , German graphic artist and writer
- 1956: Erich Kleiber , Austrian conductor
- 1958: Oskar Prince of Prussia , Royal Prussian Officer, Lord Master of the Order of St. John, 5th Emperor's Son
- 1960: Oswaldo Aranha , Brazilian politician
- 1960: Eugène Daignault , Canadian actor and singer
- 1961: Isa Jechl , Austrian painter
- 1963: Aimé Nezeloff , French auto racer
- 1963: Walter Guernsey Reynolds , American organist and composer
- 1964: Norman Z. McLeod , American film director
- 1964: Alexander Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , German historian
- 1965: C. Douglass Buck , American politician
- 1965: Hassan Ali Mansur , Prime Minister of Iran
- 1965: Theo Uden Masman , Dutch pianist and journalist
- 1966: Ferdinand Roentgen , German painter and graphic artist
- 1966: Ludwig Gies , German painter and sculptor
- 1967: Roger B. Chaffee , American astronaut
- 1967: Gus Grissom , American astronaut
- 1967: Luigi Tenco , Italian singer
- 1967: Edward Higgins White , American astronaut
- 1969: Willi Albrecht , German politician, trade unionist and resistance fighter
- 1969: Hanns Jelinek , Austrian composer and music teacher
- 1970: Marietta Blau , Austrian physicist
- 1970: Erich Heckel , German painter and graphic artist
- 1970: Année Rinzes de Jong , Dutch pastor and anarchist
- 1971: Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán , Guatemalan politician
- 1972: Richard Courant , German mathematician
- 1972: Georg Köhler , German football player and coach
- 1972: Mahalia Jackson , American gospel singer
- 1973 Eddie Kotal , American football player
- 1973: Emil Preetorius , German illustrator, graphic artist and set designer
- 1974: Georgios Grivas , Greek Cypriot resistance fighter
- 1974: Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg , German officer, General der Panzertruppe
- 1975: Heinz Klevenow , German actor
- 1978: Marguerite Canal , French composer
- 1978: Oskar Homolka , Austro-American actor
- 1980: Hans Aeschbacher , Swiss painter and sculptor
- 1980: Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff , German general, Hitler assassin and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1981: Rudolf Attig , German medical officer
- 1981: Helmut Bertram , German politician, MP and MEP
- 1982: Alexander Abusch , German journalist, writer and politician in East Germany
- 1983: Georges Bidault , French Resistance fighter and politician, Minister, Prime Minister
- 1983: Louis de Funès , French actor and comedian
- 1986: Lilli Palmer , German actress
- 1989: Willibald Kress , German soccer player
- 1990: Travis Webb , American auto racer
- 1991: Hans Bertram , German record producer
- 1992: Hans Richtscheid , German writer and philosopher
- 1993: André the Giant , French wrestler and actor
- 1994: Claude Akins , American actor
- 1994: Reuben Mattus , American entrepreneur
- 1995: Jean Tardieu , French poet and playwright
- 1999: Gonzalo Torrente Ballester , Spanish writer
- 2000: Mae Faggs , American track and field athlete, Olympic gold medalist
- 2000: Friedrich Gulda , Austrian pianist
- 2000: Ōhara Tomie , Japanese writer
21st century
- 2001: Marie José of Belgium , last Queen of Italy
- 2001: André Prévost , Canadian composer
- 2002: Franz Meyers , German politician, MP, MdL, Prime Minister
- 2002: Alain Vanzo , French opera singer (tenor)
- 2003: Henryk Jabłoński , Polish historian and politician, Chairman of the State Council
- 2004: Jack Paar , American presenter
- 2004: James Pataki , Canadian violinist and violist of Hungarian descent
- 2005: Franz-Karl Effenberg , Austrian politician
- 2005: Christof Krause , German sculptor
- 2005: Aurélie Nemours , French painter
- 2006: Ernst Arfken , German church musician and theologian
- 2006: Roger Hannay , American composer and music educator
- 2006: Johannes Rau , German politician, MdL, State Minister, Prime Minister, Federal President
- 2007: Marcheline Bertrand , American actress
- 2007: Ebony Browne , American singer-songwriter
- 2007: Herbert Reinecker , German journalist and author
- 2008: Peter Sanderson Ashcroft , UK manager
- 2008: Gordon B. Hinckley , US Church leader ( Mormon )
- 2008: Botho Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein , German politician, MP, President of the DRK
- 2008: Haji Mohamed Suharto , Indonesian politician, general and president
- 2009: Yevgenia Petrovna Antipova , Soviet-Russian painter and art teacher
- 2009: Christian Enzensberger , German writer and translator
- 2009: John Updike , American writer
- 2009: R. Venkataraman , President of India
- 2010: JD Salinger , American writer
- 2010: Howard Zinn , American historian and political scientist
- 2011: Fritz Raff , German journalist and broadcast director
- 2012: István Rózsavölgyi , Hungarian middle-distance runner, Olympic medalist
- 2012: Kazimierz Smoleń , Polish resistance fighter, prisoner at Auschwitz concentration camp and director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
- 2014: Pete Seeger , American folk musician
- 2015: Henk Faanhof , Dutch cyclist
- 2015: Charles Hard Townes , American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 2016: Artur Fischer , German inventor and entrepreneur
- 2017: Emmanuelle Riva , French actress
- 2018: Hilmar Baumann , German actor
- 2018: Ingvar Kamprad , Swedish entrepreneur and founder of IKEA
- 2018: Bruno Schnell , German editor and publisher
- 2020: Olaf Bernstengel , German puppeteer
- 2020: Lina Ben Mhenni , Tunisian university lecturer, blogger and journalist
- 2021: Cloris Leachman , American actress
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- Paavo Ruotsalainen , Finnish revivalist (Evangelical)
- St. Angela Merici , Italian virgin and founder of a religious order (Catholic)
- St. Julianus of Le Mans , Frankish Bishop (Catholic)
- International holidays and commemorations
- United Nations: International Holocaust Remembrance Day (since 2005)
- State holidays and commemorations
- Germany : Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism (since 1996)
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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