27th of March

The March 27 is the 86th day of the Gregorian calendar (87th in leap years ), thus remaining 279 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1351 : During the Breton War of Succession which will combat of the thirty discharged. After the death of nine knights of the Montfort faction in a tournament , the knights of the Châtillon faction are declared winners.

1513: Juan Ponce de León

• 1513 : The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León is the first European to see Florida , which he considers an island.

1528: Little Venice

• 1528 : In the Treaty of Madrid, Emperor Charles V leaves Little Venice , today's Venezuela , to the Welsers as pledge for loans granted to him. Bartholomäus V. Welser sent an expedition to the colony that same year .
• 1625 : With the death of Jacob I , his son Charles I becomes the new king in England, Scotland and Ireland.
• 1641 : Troops of the Catholic League under Franz von Mercy defeat the Swedish rearguard at Neunburg vorm Wald in the Thirty Years' War .
• 1794 : The US Congress approves the construction of six frigates and establishes a naval force with the United States Navy .
• 1802 : Great Britain on the one hand and Napoleonic France, Spain and the Batavian Republic on the other, sign the Peace of Amiens to end the Second Coalition War . Britain must surrender all colonial conquests while France vacates Egypt, Naples and the Papal States.
• 1808 : The Bavarian King Maximilian I founds the Bavarian War Ministry to concentrate all military affairs.
• 1813 : King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia , France declares war in the Wars of Liberation . It is the second declaration of war on Napoleon Bonaparte .

1814: Jackson after the battle

• 1814 : US troops under General Andrew Jackson defeat the rebellious Creek Indians under Chief Menawa in the battle of Horseshoe Bend on the Tallapoosa River in Alabama.
• 1836 : In the Texan War of Independence , Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Goliad massacre, in which an estimated 342 captured Texans are killed.

1849: Frankfurt National Assembly

• 1849 : During the German Revolution, the Frankfurt National Assembly passes the Paulskirche constitution, Germany's first democratic constitution . It comes into force when it is promulgated the next day, but it can never be enforced.
• 1852 : A decree by Napoleon III. lifts the prison labor in Bagnos in France . Convicted prisoners are instead deported to work in penal colonies .
• 1854 : Duke Charles III. , hated by the population because of its arbitrary regime, is stabbed to death on the street in Parma by an unknown person.
• 1879 : During the Saltpeter War, Chile conquered the city of Cobija and has since cut off Bolivia from access to the Pacific.
• 1884 : The Dreikaiserbund , a secret neutrality agreement concluded on June 18, 1881 between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Russia, is extended regardless of the tensions between Vienna and St. Petersburg.
• 1891 : The Bulgarian Finance Minister Christo Beltschew is shot dead by Bulgarian nationalists from Macedonia.
• 1917 : In Picardy, despite numerous protests by historians on both sides, German soldiers blow up the Donjon of Coucy Castle , one of the most important medieval feudal castles in Europe.

1920: Hermann Müller

• 1920 : The Bauer cabinet is forced to resign as a result of the Kapp putsch . Gustav Bauer's successor as Chancellor of the Weimar Republic is the previous Foreign Minister, Hermann Müller . The Müller I cabinet will only remain in office until June 21.
• 1933 : Japan declares its withdrawal from the League of Nations . This was preceded by the Lytton Report's report on the Mukden incident , according to which Japan had occupied Chinese territory in Manchuria without declaring war . The recognition of the created Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo is thus opposed to an obstacle.
• 1933 : The " Stahlhelm Putsch " takes place in Braunschweig : The Nazi regime of the Free State tries to eliminate the Stahlhelm, the Bund der Frontsoldaten .
• 1941 : Two days after Yugoslavia acceded to the Tripartite Pact , the government of Prince Regent Paul was overthrown. The new ruler Dušan Simović cancels his accession to the Axis powers of the Second World War and declares Prince Peter II to be of legal age and thus able to rule.

1943: Battle of the Komandorski Islands

• 1943 : During the Battle of the Aleutians in the Pacific War , the naval battle of the Komandorsky Islands takes place . Although it ends in a tactical draw, the USA succeeds in preventing supplies to the Japanese-occupied Attu .
• 1943 : The Axis Powers in Tunisia are forced to abandon the Mareth Line and retreat north.
• 1952 : An attack by the right-wing Zionist underground group Irgun Tzwaʾi Leʾumi on the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer fails in Munich with the presumed goal of stopping the reparation negotiations with Israel. In the explosion of the letter bomb, the officer Karl Reichert is killed.

1955: Nikita Khrushchev

• 1955 : The first state youth consecration takes place in East Berlin - an alternative to church confirmation or confirmation .
• 1958 : Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Nikolai Bulganin as head of government of the Soviet Union . He believes in peaceful coexistence , but the Cold War persists.
• 1968 : General Hadji Mohamed Suharto is elected President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces in Indonesia .
• 1993 : Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China .

1993: Logo of the RAF

• 1993 : The Red Army Faction carries out an explosive attack against the Weiterstadt prison . The modern penal institution was not yet occupied at this time, so there are no fatalities. It is the last major attack by the RAF before it was dissolved in 1998.
• 1993 : In the second ballot of Niger's first free presidential election since independence in 1960, Mahamane Ousmane , who was still behind his rival Tandja Mamadou in the first ballot on February 27, wins and thus succeeds Ali Saibou .
• 1994 : In the general elections in Italy , the Forza Italia party of media entrepreneur Silvio Berlusconi becomes a dominant force and enables him to form a center-right government.
• 1996 : The Tel Aviv District Court sentences Jigal Amir to life imprisonment for the murder of Yitzchak Rabin .

1999: F-117 Nighthawk

• 1999 : The Yugoslav People's Army succeeds in shooting down a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk equipped with stealth technology during the NATO attacks in the Kosovo war .
• 2006 : Friedrich Verzetnitsch resigns as head of the ÖGB in the course of the BAWAG affair because of risky BAWAG business and also resigns from his national council mandate.
• 2020 : North Macedonia becomes a member of NATO .

economy

• 1896 : The first cinema screening in Austria is given to an invited audience in Vienna .

1899: Brocken Railway

• 1899 : The second section of the Brocken Railway , the narrow-gauge railway line on the Brocken , is opened by the Nordhausen-Wernigeroder Railway Company .
• 1907 : The businessman Adolf Jandorf opens the Kaufhaus des Westens, designed by the architect Johann Emil Schaudt , on Tauentzienstrasse / Wittenbergplatz in Berlin-Schöneberg as part of the urban New West of Berlin. It is the largest department store in continental Europe.
• 1933 : Reginald Oswald Gibson and Eric Fawcett succeed in the industrial production of polyethylene , but the process only becomes economically interesting seven years later.
• 1952 : The record label Sun Records , founded by Sam Phillips , starts business in Memphis , Tennessee . The record company signs later world stars like Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins , Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash .
• 1975 : Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline begins. This will exploit the oil field in Prudhoe Bay and transport the crude oil to the ice-free port of Valdez (Alaska) in the south of the US state.
• 1998 : The sexual enhancer Viagra is launched in the United States .

science and technology

• 1862 : The foundation stone is laid in Zurich for the Swiss Federal Observatory built by Gottfried Semper , which is known for its research into sunspots .
• 1899 : Guglielmo Marconi creates the first wireless telegraphic connection across the English Channel .
• 1968 : The West German Rectors' Conference resolves a performance-related numerus clausus to stop the “flood of students” at universities.

1969: Mariner 7

• 1969 : NASA launches the Mariner 7 space probe towards Mars .
• 1990 : The American television station TV Martí , named after the Cuban freedom fighter José Martí , begins operations. He is supposed to break the news blackout of the Castro regime and to be received in Cuban households, but this hardly succeeds.
• 1994 : The multi-purpose fighter Eurofighter EF 2000 completes its maiden flight in Manching .

Culture

• 1791 : At the Opéra-Comique in Paris takes place the first performance of the opera Les Deux Sentinels of Henri Montan Berton .

1850: Charles Dickens

• 1850 : The first issue of Household Words , a weekly magazine published by Charles Dickens , appears in London.
• 1874 : The premiere of Bedřich Smetana's opera Two Widows takes place in Prague with little success , which is why he decides to revise it.
• 1924 : In Cologne, the opera will Irrelohe of Franz Schreker premiered.
• 1926 : The opera Der Protagonist by Kurt Weill with the libretto by Georg Kaiser is premiered in the Dresden State Opera. The composer received good reviews and initial public attention with the work.
• 1936 : At the City Theater Zurich the premiere of the comic opera is performed Rossini in Naples by Bernhard Paumgartner .
• 1940 : Alfred Hitchcock's first Hollywood film, Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier with Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine in the leading roles, premieres in Los Angeles . It was received with enthusiasm by critics and audiences alike and was subsequently the only Hitchcock film to receive an Oscar for Best Picture.

1951: The destroyed Kroll Opera House before being blown up

• 1951 : In Berlin the ruins of the Kroll Opera House , which was badly damaged by a bombing on November 22, 1943, is blown up.
• 1961 : In Vienna the IX. World Congress of the ITI ( International Theater Institute ) on March 27th for World Theater Day .
• 1969 : The in the city of Dresden location Dresden Heath is declared a conservation area. It is one of the largest urban forests in Germany.
• 1984 : The musical Starlight Express premieres at the Apollo Victoria Theater in London.
• 1990 : The Sherlock Holmes Museum opens in London .
• 1995 : The American feature film Forrest Gump by Robert Zemeckis with Tom Hanks in the title role becomes the big winner of the event at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles with a total of six Academy Awards .
• 2010 : Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen opens the newly designed Haithabu Viking Museum not far from Schleswig .

religion

• 1272 : After he was ordained a priest on March 19th, Pope Gregory X is enthroned.
• 1329 : In the bull In agro dominico , Pope John XXII condemns . 28 theorems of Meister Eckhart as heretical or as partly suspect of heresy (erroneous, not compatible with orthodoxy). This ends the inquisition proceedings against Eckhart, who died before the bull was published.

Disasters

1964: Anchorage after the quake

• 1964 : The so-called Good Friday quake with the epicenter in Prince William Sound in Alaska is one of the strongest earthquakes in the USA with 9.2 points on the moment magnitude scale . The quake kills 125 people, and tsunamis hit Hawaii and California.
• 1977 : On Tenerife , Tenerife North Airport , the occurred devastating plane crash of civil aviation , as a jumbo jet of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is racing when starting in dense fog in a second Jumbo rolling on the runway to the start position and no more time can turn after the other pilot accelerates too early to takeoff due to a communication problem. Of the 644 people on board both machines, 583 people die, only 61 can save themselves or be saved.
• 1980 : The Norwegian drilling platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the Ekofisk oil field in the North Sea and capsizes. 123 of the 212 crew members are killed.

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

Sports

1871: The first English rugby team

• 1871 : The first international rugby match between Scotland and England takes place in Edinburgh, and the hosts win 4-1.
• 1905 : The sports club 1. FSV Mainz 05 is founded in Mainz . However, other sources give March 16 as the foundation date.
• 1937 : De Kuip (officially Stadion Feijenoord ) is officially inaugurated in Rotterdam . Feyenoord Rotterdam plays against Belgian club Beerschot AC and wins 5-2.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 0972 : Robert II , King of France
• 1347 : Ruprecht I of Liegnitz , Duke of Liegnitz
• 1401 : Albrecht III. Duke of Bavaria-Munich

Franz von Paola (* 1416)

• 1416 : Franz von Paola , Italian founder of the Paulaner Order
• 1509 : Wolrad II , Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
• 1510 : Katharina von Pfalz-Simmern , abbess in the Kumbd monastery
• 1546 : Johannes Piscator , Alsatian professor and Reformed theologian
• 1576 : Caspar von Teutleben , German poet and court master
• 1592 : Jiří Třanovský , Slovak hymn poet and composer
• 1621 : Karl Magnus von Baden-Durlach , Margrave of Baden-Durlach
• 1651 : Georg Abraham von Arnim , Prussian Field Marshal General
• 1659 : Thomas Bartholin the Elder J. Royal archivist in Copenhagen
• 1662 : Marie Louise d'Orléans , Queen of Spain
• 1663 : Johann Andreas Eisenbarth , German craft surgeon, surgeon and star engraver
• 1665 : Benjamin Neukirch , German poet
• 1676 : Franz II. Rákóczi , Hungarian freedom fighter
• 1696 : Antoine Court , French preacher and witness of faith
• 1699 : Wigand Kahler , German Protestant theologian and mathematician

18th century

• 1702 : Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer and organist
• 1710 : Joseph Dall'Abaco , Italian musician and composer
• 1712 : Claude Bourgelat , French author and founder of the first veterinary school
• 1718 : Andreas Weber , German philosopher and Lutheran theologian
• 1723 : Philipp von Westphalen , confidante of Duke Ferdinand of Braunschweig (date of baptism)
• 1740 : Niklaus Franz von Bachmann , Swiss military leader

Niklaus Franz von Bachmann (* 1747)

• 1744 : Alexei Ivanovich Mussin-Pushkin , Russian civil servant, historian, book and art collector
• 1747 : Johann Bernhard Crespel , German lawyer and childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• 1748 : Joseph Anton Gall , German-Austrian priest and educator, Bishop of Linz
• 1761 : James Sykes , Governor of Delaware
• 1765 : Franz von Baader , German doctor, mining engineer and philosopher
• 1768 : Arnold Mallinckrodt , German writer, publisher and publicist in the Prussian Westphalia
• 1768 : Joseph Schreyvogel , Austrian writer
• 1770 : Sophie Mereau , German writer
• 1776 : Charles François Brisseau de Mirbel , French botanist
• 1780 : Vincenz von Augustin , Austrian Feldzeugmeister
• 1781 : Johann Claudius von Lassaulx , German architect
• 1784 : Sándor Csoma , Hungarian explorer, founder of Tibetology

Louis Charles de Bourbon (* 1785)

• 1785 : Louis Charles de Bourbon , French crown prince
• 1786 : August Ferdinand von Arnauld de la Perière , Prussian lieutenant general
• 1787 : Heinrich Adam , German etcher and landscape painter
• 1796 : Julius Abegg , German criminal lawyer
• 1797 : Alfred de Vigny , French writer
• 1799 : Alessandro La Marmora , Italian general

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Christoph Eberhard Finckh , German classical philologist
• 1802 : Francesco Maria Travella , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and writer
• 1809 : Georges-Eugène Haussmann , French town planner

Adolf Glaßbrenner (* 1810)

• 1810 : Adolf Glaßbrenner , German humorist and satirist
• 1811 : Baptista de Andrade , Portuguese admiral
• 1817 : Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli , Swiss botanist
• 1818 : Erminia Frezzolini , Italian opera singer (soprano)
• 1818 : Heinrich Geyer , German apostolic clergyman, prophet of the Catholic-Apostolic Congregations ( KAG )
• 1818 : Jacob Axel Josephson , Swedish composer
• 1820 : Edward Inglefield , British admiral and polar explorer
• 1820 : Elias David Sassoon , British-Chinese merchant, philanthropist and opium dealer
• 1822 : Wilhelm von Beetz , German physicist
• 1824 : Johann Wilhelm Hittorf , German chemist and physicist
• 1826 : Ernst Andolt , German writer, lawyer and politician
• 1826 : Johannes Overbeck , German classical archaeologist
• 1837 : Carl Aubel , German engineer
• 1838 : Hubert Stier , German architect
• 1839 : Gottlieb Viehe , German Protestant missionary

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (* 1845)

• 1845 : Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1846 : Otto Wendt , German legal scholar
• 1847 : Otto Wallach , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1849 : Carlo Dossi , Italian writer and diplomat

1851-1900

• 1851 : Ruperto Chapí y Lorente , Spanish composer and professor

Vincent d'Indy (* 1851)

• 1851 : Vincent d'Indy , French composer and music teacher
• 1855 : James Alfred Ewing , British physicist and engineer
• 1857 : Karl Pearson , British mathematician
• 1857 : Karl Rieker , German legal scholar and legal historian
• 1860 : Frank Frost Abbott , American classical philologist
• 1863 : Henry Royce , British technician and industrialist, co-founder of Rolls-Royce
• 1865 : Alessandro Verde , Italian priest and theologian, cardinal
• 1866 : Oskar Bidder , German-Baltic pastor and confessor
• 1866 : Andon Zako Çajupi , Albanian writer

Heinrich Mann (* 1871)

• 1871 : Heinrich Mann , German writer, brother of Thomas Mann
• 1875 : Cécile Vogt , French neurologist
• 1876 : Johannes Horion , German politician, governor of the Rhine Province
• 1876 : Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti , Italian priest, Vatican diplomat and cardinal
• 1878 : Miller Huggins , American baseball player
• 1879 : Edward Steichen , American photographer
• 1880 : Walther Grosse , German civil servant and regional historian
• 1880 : Robert Pferdmenges , German banker and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1880 : Otto Vitense , German educator and Mecklenburg regional historian
• 1883 : Edgar J. Anzola , Venezuelan film producer, radio pioneer, journalist and cartoonist
• 1883 : Felix Daniel Ascher , German architect
• 1885 : Heinrich Mohn , German publisher
• 1886 : Clemens Holzmeister , Austrian architect

• 1886 : Sergei Mironowitsch Kirow , Soviet state and party functionary, follower of Stalin
• 1886 : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , German-American architect, important representative of the modern and new objectivity
• 1888 : Agnes Windeck , German stage, film and television actress
• 1889 : Fritz Beckhardt , German fighter pilot
• 1891 : Clemens Adams , German politician
• 1891 : Adolphus Peter Elkin , Australian ethnologist, anthropologist and linguist
• 1891 : Kurt Göhrum , German general of the SS police, chief of police in Berlin
• 1891 : Lajos Zilahy , Hungarian writer
• 1892 : Ferde Grofé , American composer, arranger and conductor
• 1893 : Karl Mannheim , German philosopher and sociologist

René Fonck (* 1894)

• 1894 : René Fonck , French fighter pilot in World War I and aviation pioneer
• 1895 : Erich Abraham , German officer
• 1896 : Arthur Piechler , German composer and organist
• 1897 : Ugo Agostoni , Italian racing cyclist
• 1897 : Douglas Rayner Hartree , British mathematician and physicist
• 1897 : Wilhelm Busch , German pastor, evangelist and writer
• 1898 : Josef Müller , German lawyer and politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism, MdL, state minister
• 1898 : Herb Stein , American football player
• 1899 : Carl Aage Hilbert , Danish lawyer and politician, Governor of the Faroe Islands
• 1899 : Karl Lahr , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1899 : Francis Ponge , French lyric poet and essayist
• 1899 : Gloria Swanson , American actress

20th century

1901-1925

• 1900 : Albert Van Coile , Belgian football player
• 1901 : Carl Barks , American comic artist
• 1901 : Enrique Santos Discépolo , Argentine composer
• 1901 : George Dowty , British industrialist and inventor
• 1901 : Erich Ollenhauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, parliamentary group and party chairman
• 1901 : Satō Eisaku , Japanese politician and head of government
• 1901 : Kenneth Slessor , Australian poet and journalist
• 1905 : Leroy Carr , American blues musician

Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff (* 1905)

• 1905 : Rudolf-Christoph von Gersdorff , German general, Hitler bomber and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1906 : Hermann Karoli , German SS economic functionary
• 1906 : Cecil Purdy , Australian chess player
• 1907 : Juan Francisco Giacobbe , Argentine composer, musicologist and teacher
• 1909 : Heinrich Runte , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Ingolstadt
• 1909 : Golo Mann , German-Swiss historian, publicist and writer, son of Thomas Mann
• 1909 : Ben Webster , American jazz musician
• 1910 : Ai Qing , Chinese poet and painter
• 1910 : Rudi Ball , German ice hockey player
• 1911 : Hans Arnhold , Austrian politician
• 1911 : Klaus Piper , German publisher
• 1912 : James Callaghan , British politician, minister, prime minister
• 1913 : Theodor Dannecker , German SS officer, adviser to Jews, one of Adolf Eichmann's closest collaborators
• 1913 : Klaus Mahnert , Austrian politician
• 1913 : Chombo Silva , Cuban violinist and saxophonist
• 1914 : Stanisław Has , Polish composer and conductor
• 1914 : Budd Schulberg , American novelist and screenwriter
• 1915 : Erik Blumenfeld , German businessman and politician, MdL, MdB, MdEP
• 1915 : Robert Lockwood Jr. , American blues guitarist

Cyrus Vance (born 1917)

• 1917 : Cyrus Vance , American politician, US Secretary of State
• 1920 : Max Absmeier , German Roman Catholic prelate
• 1921 : Georges Anderla , French economist and statistician
• 1921 : Toni Berger , German actor
• 1921 : Johanna König , German actress
• 1921 : Moacyr Barbosa , Brazilian soccer player
• 1921 : Ivan Rabuzin , Croatian painter
• 1922 : Dick King-Smith , British children's author
• 1922 : Dan Kurzman , American journalist and non-fiction author
• 1923 : Endō Shūsaku , Japanese writer
• 1924 : Audrey Jones Beck , American art collector and patron
• 1924 : Sarah Vaughan , American jazz singer
• 1924 : Herbert Zangs , German painter
• 1925 : Harold Ashby , American swing tenor saxophonist and clarinetist
• 1925 : Ibrahim Hélou , Lebanese Archbishop

1926-1950

• 1926 : Günter Sosna , German soccer player and coach
• 1926 : Dieter Spethmann , German manager, CEO of Thyssen AG
• 1927 : François Furet , French historian
• 1927 : Mo Ostin , American music producer, director of Warner Bros. Records
• 1927 : Mstislaw Leopoldowitsch Rostropowitsch , Russian cellist and conductor
• 1928 : Douglas Applegate , American politician
• 1928 : Hellmuth Klauhs , Austrian bank director
• 1928 : Seiko Tanabe , Japanese writer
• 1928 : Antonín Tučapský , Czech composer and conductor
• 1929 : Žarko Petan , Slovenian author

Daniel Spoerri (* 1930)

• 1930 : Daniel Spoerri , Romanian-Swiss visual artist, object artist, dancer and director
• 1931 : Magdalena Ezoe , American composer and music teacher
• 1931 : David Janssen , American actor
• 1931 : Siegfried Künkele , German lawyer and botanist
• 1931 : Yoriaki Matsudaira , Japanese composer
• 1931 : James Q. Wilson , American political scientist
• 1932 : Patrick Newell , British actor
• 1932 : Heinrich E. Weber , German vegetation expert and musicologist
• 1933 : Gino Pivatelli , Italian football player and coach
• 1934 : Georges Amanieu , French football player
• 1934 : István Csurka , Hungarian journalist, writer and politician
• 1934 : Jutta Limbach , German legal scholar and politician, Senator of Justice, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1934 : Peter Schamoni , German film director and producer

Julian Glover (born 1935)

• 1935 : Julian Glover , British actor
• 1935 : Gerhard Gottschalk , German microbiologist and genome researcher
• 1936 : Leonore Ackermann , German politician
• 1936 : Edeltraud Eiberle , German athlete
• 1936 : Otmar Issing , German economist, bank manager, board member of the European Central Bank ( ECB )
• 1936 : Malcolm Goldstein , American composer, violinist and improvisation musician
• 1937 : Genpei Akasegawa , Japanese avant-garde artist and writer
• 1937 : Johnny Copeland , American blues musician
• 1937 : Francesco Janich , Italian football player
• 1937 : Alan Hawkshaw , British musician
• 1937 : Carlo Pietromarchi , Italian racing car driver
• 1938 : Hansjörg Schneider , Swiss writer and playwright
• 1939 : Eugen Brixel , Austrian composer for brass music
• 1939 : Vasilios Makridis , Greek ski racer and biathlete
• 1940 : Silvano Bertini , Italian boxer
• 1940 : Derrick Morgan , Jamaican singer
• 1940 : Sandro Munari , Italian rally driver
• 1940 : Austin Pendleton , American actor
• 1940 : Klaus Peter , German hammer thrower
• 1941 : Kurt Felix , Swiss teacher, writer, director and moderator

Ivan Gašparovič (* 1941)

• 1941 : Ivan Gašparovič , Slovak politician and President
• 1941 : Liese Prokop , Austrian athlete and politician
• 1942 : John E. Sulston , British biologist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1942 : Michael York , British actor
• 1943 : Romedi Arquint , Swiss theologian, teacher and politician
• 1943 : Wolfgang Nowak , German lawyer and politician
• 1944 : Jesse Brown , American politician
• 1944 : Enrique Barón Crespo , Spanish politician and EU politician, President of the European Parliament
• 1945 : Anna Mae Aquash , Native American activist
• 1945 : Harry Rowohlt , German writer, columnist, translator, reciter and actor
• 1946 : Michael Aris , British historian and Tibetologist
• 1946 : Andy Bown , British composer and keyboardist for the rock group Status Quo
• 1946 : Olaf Malolepski , German pop singer
• 1947 : Jochen Aido , German soccer player
• 1947 : Aad de Mos , Dutch football coach
• 1947 : Brian Jones , British aviation pioneer
• 1948 : Jens-Peter Bonde , Danish politician

Edgar Selge (* 1948)

• 1948 : Edgar Selge , German actor
• 1949 : John Lagrand , Dutch musician
• 1949 : Dubravka Ugrešić , Croatian writer
• 1949 : Eberhard Walde , German politician
• 1950 : Tony Banks , British musician and keyboardist ( Genesis )
• 1950 : David Edgar , American swimmer and Olympic champion
• 1950 : Burk Mertens , German radio presenter and carnivalist

1951-1975

• 1951 : Herbert Anderl , Austrian civil servant
• 1951 : Alfried Längle , Austrian doctor
• 1951 : Jürgen Muche , German soccer player and educator
• 1951 : Jürgen Valdeig , German painter and publisher
• 1952 : Astrid Birkhahn , German politician
• 1952 : Felix Haug , Swiss pop musician
• 1952 : Pamela Roylance , American actress
• 1952 : Maria Schneider , French actress

Annemarie Moser-Pröll (* 1953)

• 1953 : Annemarie Moser-Pröll , Austrian skier
• 1953 : Norbert Müller-Everling , German sculptor
• 1953 : Ulrich Grosse , German local transport advisor
• 1954 : Gerard Batten , British politician, MEP
• 1954 : Herbert Hein , German soccer player
• 1954 : Helge Iberg , Norwegian composer and jazz pianist
• 1955 : Rüdiger Geserick , German manager
• 1955 : Patrick McCabe , Irish writer
• 1955 : Bogdan Mizerski , Polish composer, double bass player and author
• 1955 : Susan Neiman , American philosopher

Mariano Rajoy (* 1955)

• 1955 : Mariano Rajoy , Spanish politician
• 1955 : Christian Sarron , French motorcycle racer
• 1955 : Lothar Steinhauer , German soccer player and manager
• 1956 : Mart Opmann , Estonian politician and entrepreneur
• 1956 : Axel Richter , German ice hockey goalkeeper
• 1956 : Thomas Wassberg , Swedish cross-country skier
• 1957 : Clark Ross , Canadian composer, guitarist and music teacher
• 1958 : Didier de Radiguès , Belgian racing driver
• 1959 : Petra Heß , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1960 : Sabine Arnhold , German actress, dubbing and radio play speaker
• 1960 : Vera Kaa , Swiss singer
• 1960 : Hans Pflügler , German football player
• 1960 : Manon Straché , German actress
• 1961 : Giesbert Damaschke , German Germanist and journalist
• 1961 : Takahiro Matsumoto , Japanese guitarist, songwriter and composer
• 1961 : Tony Rominger , Swiss cyclist
• 1962 : Kevin J. Anderson , American science fiction writer
• 1962 : Jann Arden , Canadian singer and musician
• 1962 : Christian Habekost , German cabaret artist
• 1962 : Christoph Langen , German bobsleigh driver and coach, two-time Olympic champion
• 1963 : Dave Koz , American saxophonist and radio presenter
• 1963 : Jörg Michael , German heavy metal drummer
• 1963 : Gary Stevens , English football player

Quentin Tarantino

• 1963 : Quentin Tarantino , American director, actor and screenwriter
• 1963 : Xuxa , Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer
• 1967 : Johannes Jung , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1967 : Talisa Soto , American actress and model
• 1968 : Wolfgang Schwenke , German handball player and coach
• 1969 : Gianluigi Lentini , Italian football player
• 1969 : Pauley Perrette , American actress
• 1970 : Elizabeth Mitchell , American actress
• 1970 : Mariah Carey , American singer
• 1970 : Marianne Kjørstad , Norwegian ski racer
• 1970 : Steffen Rau , German soccer coach
• 1970 : Uwe Rosenberg , German game designer

David Coulthard (* 1971)

• 1971 : David Coulthard , British Formula 1 racing driver
• 1971 : Nathan Fillion , Canadian actor
• 1972 : Aziz Acharki , German Taekwondo trainer
• 1972 : Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink , Dutch football player
• 1973 : Rui Jorge , Portuguese soccer player
• 1974 : Sandra Ahrens , German politician
• 1974 : Joan Horrach , Spanish cyclist
• 1974 : Felicitas von Lovenberg , German journalist
• 1974 : Gaizka Mendieta , Spanish soccer player
• 1974 : Christian Rhoden , German high jumper
• 1975 : Fergie , American singer ( Black Eyed Peas ), songwriter and actress
• 1975 : Christian Fiedler , German soccer player
• 1975 : Paul Pöchhacker , Austrian SPÖ election campaign manager

1976-2000

Roberta Anastase (* 1976)

• 1976 : Roberta Anastase , Romanian politician
• 1976 : Adrian Anca , Romanian football player and coach
• 1977 : Ada Mae Johnson , American porn actress
• 1977 : Kheïreddine Madoui , Algerian football player and coach
• 1977 : Vítor Meira , Brazilian racing driver
• 1977 : Juraj Minčík , Slovak canoeist
• 1977 : Nils Winter , German athlete
• 1978 : Leo Aberer , Austrian pop musician
• 1979 : Ilona Brokowski , German voice actress
• 1980 : Nicolas Duvauchelle , French actor
• 1980 : Stefan Feth , German table tennis player
• 1980 : Bernd Kaintz , Austrian soccer player
• 1981 : Martin Abentung , Austrian luge rider
• 1981 : Cacau , Brazilian-German soccer player
• 1981 : Tobias Schenke , German actor
• 1983 : Kumaran Ganeshan , German actor
• 1984 : Brett Holman , Australian soccer player
• 1985 : Chadschimurat Magomedowitsch Akkajew , Russian weightlifter
• 1985 : Anton Ameltschanka , Belarusian football player
• 1985 : Dario Baldauf , Austrian football player
• 1985 : Alison Carroll , British gymnast and actress
• 1985 : Paul Meijer , Dutch racing driver
• 1985 : David Navara , Czech chess player
• 1986 : Dan Bull , British rapper and songwriter
• 1986 : Baby M , child of a US surrogate mother

Manuel Neuer (* 1986)

• 1986 : Manuel Neuer , German soccer player
• 1988 : Holliday Grainger , British actress
• 1988 : Jessie J , British pop musician and rapper
• 1988 : Brenda Song , American actress and singer
• 1989 : Jaka Ankerst , Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1989 : Nana Attakora-Gyan , Canadian soccer player
• 1989 : Ólafur Gústafsson , Icelandic handball player
• 1989 : Kyra Sophia Kahre , German actress
• 1990 : Amir Abrashi , Kosovar-Swiss football player
• 1990 : Cosima Lehninger , Austrian actress
• 1990 : Mateusz Zachara , Polish football player
• 1993 : Brandon Nimmo , American baseball player
• 1995 : Taylor Atelian , American actress
• 1998 : Haji Wright , American football player
• 2000 : Sophie Nélisse , Canadian actress

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0682 : Zainab bint Ali , granddaughter of the Prophet Mohammed
• 0718 : Rupert of Salzburg , Bishop of Salzburg, messenger of faith in Eastern Bavaria and Salzburg
• 0853 : Haymo , Bishop of Halberstadt
• 0916 : Alduin I , Count of Angoulême
• 0964 : Arnulf I the Great , Count of Flanders
• 0973 : Hermann Billung , Margrave and temporarily deputy of Otto I in the Duchy of Saxony
• 1023 : Gebhard I , Bishop of Regensburg
• 1045 : Adalbero II , Count von Ebersberg
• 1045 : Al-Jardjarai , vizier of the Fatimids
• 1100 : Adelhold , provost of the collegiate church of St. Blasius of Dankwarderode Castle in Braunschweig
• 1113 : Ulrich von Brno , Moravian prince
• 1145 : Albero II of Liège , Bishop of Liège
• 1178 : Frowin , abbot of Engelberg monastery, blessed of the Catholic Church
• 1184 : Giorgi III. , King of Georgia
• 1198 : Hugh de Nonant , Bishop of Coventry
• 1223 : Raimund Roger , Count von Foix and opponent of the Albigensian Crusade
• 1249 : Otto III. of Holland , Bishop of Utrecht
• 1323 : Pierre d'Oron , Bishop of Lausanne
• 1329 : Friedrich III. von Leuchtenberg , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
• 1331 : Guy de Penthièvre , Count of Penthièvre
• 1336 : William Airmyn , Bishop of Norwich and Lord Chancellor
• 1378 : Gregory XI. , Pope
• 1390 : Hedwig von Sagan , Queen of Poland and Duchess of Liegnitz
• 1428 : Johann Hemeling , Mayor of Bremen
• 1428 : Herbord Schene , German canon and chronicler
• 1428 : Otto II , Duke of Pomerania-Stettin
• 1462 : Vasily II , Grand Duke of Moscow
• 1479 : Jorge Manrique , Castilian poet
• 1482 : Mary of Burgundy , Duchess of Burgundy, wife of Maximilian von Habsburg, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
• 1532 : John the Good , Duke of Opole and Ratibor, last male representative of the Silesian Piasts
• 1574 : Takeda Nobutora , Japanese feudal lord
• 1597 : Stanislaus Bornbach , Polish chronicler
• 1613 : Sigismund Báthory , Prince of Transylvania
• 1614 : Christoph Murer , Swiss glass painter, book illustrator and poet

Margaret of Valois († 1615)

• 1615 : Margaret of Valois , Queen of France and Navarre, Duchess of Valois
• 1625 : James I , English king
• 1641 : Heinrich Köhler , Lübeck mayor
• 1667 : Franz Wesselényi , Hungarian palatine and ringleader
• 1682 : Joachim Ernst von Görzke , lieutenant general in Brandenburg

18th century

• 1713 : Giovanni Carlone , Italian painter
• 1714 : Anton Ulrich , Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, patron of the arts and writer
• 1714 : Charlotte Amalie of Hessen-Kassel , Queen of Denmark
• 1715 : August , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig
• 1717 : Margaretha Susanna von Kuntsch , German writer
• 1737 : Wachtang VI. , Georgian king and scientist
• 1739 : Hieronymus Florentinus Quehl , German composer and organist
• 1757 : Johann Stamitz , German violinist and composer
• 1759 : August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof , German naturalist and miniature painter
• 1770 : Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Venetian Baroque and Rococo painter
• 1778 : Claude François Joseph d'Auxiron , French engineer, inventor and pioneer of steam navigation
• 1781 : Eberhard Heinrich Daniel Stosch , German Reformed theologian

19th century

• 1809 : Joseph-Marie Vien , French painter

Gerhard von Kügelgen († 1820)

• 1820 : Gerhard von Kügelgen , German portrait and history painter
• 1824 : Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux , French politician and member of the board of directors
• 1828 : Johann Gottfried Tulla , German engineer in Baden, responsible for straightening the Upper Rhine
• 1837 : Pierre Coudrin , French priest and founder of the order
• 1838 : Ludwig Georg Winter , German politician, Baden civil servant, minister and reformer
• 1840 : Philipp Albert Stapfer , Swiss politician, diplomat and theologian
• 1848 : Wilhelm Heinrich Ackermann , German educator
• 1848 : Röttger von Veltheim , German landlord and private scholar
• 1850 : Wilhelm Beer , German banker and astronomer
• 1853 : Johann Adam Ackermann , German landscape painter
• 1858 : Jean-Guillaume Audinet-Serville , French entomologist

Jean-Jacques Ampère (* 1864)

• 1864 : Jean-Jacques Ampère , French historian, philologist and writer
• 1873 : Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan , French lawyer and writer
• 1875 : Edgar Quinet , French writer and historian
• 1878 : George Gilbert Scott , British architect
• 1880 : Nils Johan Andersson , Swedish botanist
• 1882 : Thomas Jones Barker , English painter
• 1882 : Stephen A. Hurlbut , American politician, diplomat, and commander
• 1882 : Jørgen Moe , Norwegian writer and clergyman
• 1882 : Mütercim Mehmed Rüşdi Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1884 : Richard Böhm , German zoologist and explorer
• 1886 : Julian Schmidt , German literary historian
• 1886 : Henry Taylor , British playwright and colonial administrator
• 1889 : John Bright , British politician
• 1891 : Christo Beltschew , Bulgarian poet and politician
• 1894 : Verney Lovett Cameron , British explorer of Africa

20th century

1901-1950

• 1909 : Julius Kautz , Hungarian economist
• 1910 : Alexander Agassiz , Swiss-American geologist and anatomist

Henry Adams († 1918)

• 1918 : Henry Adams , American historian and cultural philosopher
• 1918 : Martin Sheridan , American athlete
• 1920 : Henriëtte Mayer van den Bergh , Belgian art collector, patron and curator
• 1923 : James Dewar , British physicist and chemist ( Dewar benzene, Dewar jar )
• 1924 : Walter Parratt , British organist, music teacher, church musician and composer
• 1926 : Karl Bernhard Bamler , German meteorologist, teacher and pioneer of free ballooning
• 1928 : Leslie Stuart , English composer
• 1931 : Arnold Bennett , British writer, journalist, critic and essayist
• 1937 : Axel Anderberg , Swedish architect
• 1938 : William Stern , German psychologist, founder of differential psychology and inventor of the intelligence quotient
• 1942 : Heinrich Roman Abt , Swiss politician
• 1942 : Gonzalo Argüelles Bringas , Mexican painter
• 1942 : Paul Gustav Wilhelm Arras , German teacher, archivist and local researcher
• 1943 : Grigori Jakowlewitsch Bakhtschiwandschi , Soviet test pilot
• 1943 : Franz Hoffmeister , German Catholic priest and founder of the Sauerland Heimatbund and the Balver Höhle Festival
• 1945 : Georg Angermaier , German lawyer, political scientist and resistance fighter
• 1945 : Carl Auffenberg , German lawyer and politician
• 1945 : Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil , Turkish writer
• 1946 : Octave Aubry , French historian and writer
• 1946 : Karl Groos , German philosopher and psychologist
• 1947 : Karl Bornhäuser German Protestant theologian
• 1950 : Johann Michael Bossard , Swiss artist

1951-2000

• 1963 : Harry Piel , German film actor, film director and film producer
• 1964 : Wilhelm Arnoul , German politician
• 1965 : Dirk Lotsy , Dutch football player
• 1966 : Karl König , Austrian anthroposophist
• 1968 : Yuri Alexejewitsch Gagarin , Soviet cosmonaut, first person in space
• 1968 : Emil Podszus , German physicist, engineer, inventor and designer of high-quality loudspeakers
• 1969 : Kurt Eichner , German politician
• 1969 : David Lloyd , Welsh singer (tenor)
• 1970 : Jacob Walcher , German politician and trade unionist

MC Escher († 1972)

• 1972 : MC Escher , Dutch artist and graphic designer
• 1973 : Bojan Ikonomow , Bulgarian composer
• 1973 : Mikhail Kalatosow , Georgian-Russian film director
• 1975 : Arthur Bliss , British composer
• 1976 : Georg-August Zinn , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister, Prime Minister of Hesse
• 1977 : Benny Moten , American jazz bassist
• 1977 : Gustav Schickedanz , German manufacturer and entrepreneur, founder of the Quelle mail order company
• 1980 : Arnold Agatz , German port construction engineer and director
• 1980 : Philip Warren Anderson , American film editor
• 1981 : Jakob Ackeret , Swiss aerodynamicist
• 1981 : Preben Kaas , Danish actor
• 1983 : Jānis Ivanovs , Latvian composer
• 1983 : Hanna Malewska , Polish writer
• 1985 : Hans Kossatz , German caricaturist, comic artist and illustrator
• 1987 : Max Spangenberg , German party official
• 1988 : Charles Willeford , American crime novelist
• 1989 : Malcolm Cowley , American writer
• 1989 : Cláudio Santoro , Brazilian composer
• 1992 : Lang Hancock , Australian iron ore magnate
• 1993 : Kamal Hasan Ali , Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister
• 1993 : Charles Howard Anderson , American eventing rider, Olympic champion

Clifford Jordan († 1993)

• 1993 : Clifford Jordan , American jazz saxophonist
• 1995 : Albert Drach , Austrian lawyer and writer
• 1997 : Charles Lillard , Canadian poet and historian
• 1997 : Ella Maillart , Swiss athlete and travel writer
• 1998 : Rudolf Bachmann , German politician, MdL
• 1998 : Ferry Porsche , Austrian automotive entrepreneur and engineer
• 1999 : Michael Aris , British historian and Tibetologist
• 2000 : Ian Dury , British musician and songwriter
• 2000 : Frank Strecker , German actor, director and author

21st century

• 2001 : Boris Wiktorowitsch Rauschenbach , Russian physicist
• 2002 : Matthias Beltz , German cabaret artist and freelance writer
• 2002 : Milton Berle , American actor
• 2002 : Dudley Moore , British actor
• 2002 : Lotte Ulbricht , German party functionary in the GDR, wife of Walter Ulbricht
• 2002 : Billy Wilder , American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 2003 : Winfried Holtmann , German cycling manager and journalist
• 2004 : Dirk Reinartz , German photographer and lecturer
• 2006 : Stanisław Lem , Polish philosopher, essayist and science fiction writer
• 2006 : Rudolf Vrba , Slovak-British-Canadian pharmacologist, concentration camp refugee, Slovak resistance fighter
• 2006 : Peter Wells , Australian musician
• 2006 : Ian Hamilton Finlay , British artist
• 2007 : Karl Deres , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 2007 : Stefan Diestelmann , German blues musician
• 2007 : Bernard Henrichs , German priest, provost of the High Cathedral in Cologne
• 2007 : Paul Christian Lauterbur , American chemist and radiologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 2007 : Faustino Oramas , Cuban musician
• 2007 : Joe Sentieri , Italian pop singer
• 2008 : Jean-Marie Balestre , French automobile and automobile sports official ( FIA, FFSA and FISA )
• 2010 : Peter Herbolzheimer , German band leader
• 2010 : Heinz Höhne , German journalist, non-fiction author and historian
• 2010 : Walter Schneider , German motorcycle racer
• 2011 : Jeff Andrus , American screenwriter and writer
• 2011 : Clement Athelston Arrindell , Governor of St. Kitts and Nevis
• 2011 : Heiko R. Blum , German film critic and author
• 2011 : Farley Granger , American actor
• 2012 : Ademilde Fonseca , Brazilian singer
• 2012 : Adrienne Rich , American poet, writer and feminist
• 2013 : Hjalmar Andersen , Norwegian speed skater
• 2013 : Stanko Zečević , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player

James R. Schlesinger († 2014)

• 2014 : James R. Schlesinger , American politician
• 2015 : Rik Battaglia , Italian actor
• 2016 : Abraham Ashkenasi , American political scientist
• 2016 : Vince Boryla , American basketball player, coach, official and scout
• 2017 : Arthur Blythe , American jazz musician
• 2017 : Rainer Kussmaul , German violinist and concert master
• 2017 : David Storey , British playwright, novelist and screenwriter
• 2018 : Stéphane Audran , French actress
• 2018 : Martin Haas , German journalist and television presenter
• 2019 : Valery Bykovsky , Soviet cosmonaut
• 2020 : Hamed Karoui , Tunisian politician
• 2020 : Joseph Lowery , American pastor and civil rights activist

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Rupert's Day (Roman Catholic, the Protestant memorial day of Rupert of Salzburg is on March 28th)
  • Meister Eckhart , German religious and mystic (Protestant)

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • World Day of Theater ( International Theater Institute )

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

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