May 27th
The May 27 is the 147th day of the Gregorian calendar (148th in leap years ), thus remain 218 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1234 : During the Stedinger War , the battle of Altenesch takes place between Bremen's Archbishop Gerhard II and rebellious Frisian families .
- 1525 : Twelve days after the defeat in the Battle of Frankenhausen , Thomas Müntzer , one of the peasant leaders in the German Peasants' War , is executed in Mühlhausen , Thuringia .
- 1595 : The Irish rebels win against English troops at the Battle of Clontibret .
- 1643 : François de Bourbon-Vendôme, duc de Beaufort and Marie de Rohan-Montbazon, duchesse de Chevreuse organize together with several French nobles, among them Claude de Bourdeille , Charles de L'Aubespine and Henri II. De Lorraine, duc de Guise , the Cabale des Importants , a conspiracy against Minister Jules Mazarin . However, the plot is exposed.
- 1679 : King Charles II of England signs the Habeas Corpus Amendment Act , which puts an end to the royal right to have people arrested arbitrarily and which continues to have an impact in the laws of numerous states up to and including the European Convention on Human Rights .
- 1703 : The foundation stone for the Peter and Paul Fortress - and with it the city of Saint Petersburg - is laid on the Neva .
- 1717 : In South America the existing parts is from Spanish viceroyalties New Spain and Peru the Viceroy of New Granada established.
- 1738 : With the Gottorf Treaty , a three-century dispute over the imperial immediacy of Hamburg , which the Duchy of Holstein had questioned, ended.
- 1797 : During the French Revolution , the agitator François Noël Babeuf and the revolutionary Augustin Alexandre Darthé are executed in Vendôme . The day before, a newly formed court found both critics of the Board of Directors guilty of conspiracy and preparation for a rebellion and sentenced them to death.
- 1832 : The Hambach Festival begins. Because the Bavarian authorities have banned political rallies in the Palatinate, a "folk festival" is organized. Around 30,000 people come to the event and claim freedom and civil rights. The desire for national unity is also signaled with black, red and gold tricolors.
- 1875 : The Gotha Congress ends with the merger of the General German Workers' Association and the Social Democratic Workers' Party to form the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany .
- 1883 : In Moscow, the Russian ruler Alexander III. Emperor crowned .
- 1905 : During the Russo-Japanese War , the decisive and militarily significant naval battle at Tsushima takes place in the Korea Strait .
- 1914 : The Kreuzzeitung recognizes an inevitable two- front war as a fact in advance and publishes an appeal not to negligently bring about such a conflict.
- 1915 : Talât Pascha , Minister of the Interior of the Ottoman Empire , announces a provisional law on the deportation of suspicious persons , which forms the legal basis for the Armenian genocide .
- 1926 : French-Spanish troops smash the Rif Republic after several months of fighting .
- 1932 : In Hötting , today part of the Tyrolean capital Innsbruck, the Höttinger Saalschlacht claims the first dead National Socialist in Austria.
- 1933 : The German Reich government under Adolf Hitler wants to force the overthrow of the government under Engelbert Dollfuss with the thousand-mark block in Austria . A fee of 1,000 Reichsmarks is required from tourists for each trip to the neighboring country .
- 1940 : 97 British prisoners of war are executed by Germans in the Le Paradis massacre .
- 1941 : The maneuverability of the German battleship Bismarck , which had been severely impaired in its maneuverability by a hit in the steering gear since the day before, is attacked and sunk by two battleships and two heavy cruisers of the Royal Navy during the Rhine exercise operation . 2104 crew members are killed, 116 are rescued.
- 1942 : Reinhard Heydrich is assassinated by Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile . The deputy Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia dies a few days later of his injuries. The Operation Anthropoid is the only successful attack on a member of the leadership of the National Socialist State.
- 1943 The secret founding meeting of the Conseil national de la Résistance takes place in Paris . Since 2014, May 27 has been a national day of remembrance in France as the Journée nationale de la Résistance .
- 1952 : By order of the SED , the telephone lines between West Berlin and the GDR are cut.
- 1952 : The treaty establishing the European Defense Community (EDC) is signed. It later fails in the ratification process due to French rejection.
- 1956 : With Redwing Zuni, the USA detonates a three-stage hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll for the first time .
- 1960 : In Turkey , the military, led by General Cemal Gürsel, puts a coup against the government of Adnan Menderes .
- 1974 : Valéry Giscard d'Estaing becomes French President, Jacques Chirac becomes Prime Minister.
- 1980 : The South Korean army brutally and bloody suppresses the Gwangju uprising , which arose from an escalating demonstration against the military dictatorship, against the imposition of martial law and against the university closings. Depending on the source, between 154 and 2300 students and citizens lost their lives, and countless were injured.
- 1993 : The Bavarian Prime Minister Max Streibl resigns from all offices after the so-called amigo affair that was uncovered in January .
- 1997 : The NATO-Russia Founding Act is signed in Paris.
- 1998 : With the election of his successor Wolfgang Clement (SPD) as Prime Minister, the Johannes Rau era ends in North Rhine-Westphalia .
- 1999 : The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague raises charges against Slobodan Milosevic .
- 2019 : For the first time in Austria, a government is overthrown by a vote of no confidence. In the National Council, the SPÖ and FPÖ expressed their distrust of the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz due to the government crisis that began in mid-May .
economy
- 1847 : The Hamburg-American Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft is founded, a forerunner of HAPAG-Lloyd AG .
- 1903 : The Telefunken company is founded in Berlin at the urging of Kaiser Wilhelm II .
- 1930 : Inventor Richard Gurley Drew receives a US patent on the adhesive tape he invented , which 3M markets.
- 1936 : The maiden voyage of the RMS Queen Mary will take place from Southampton via Cherbourg to New York City instead.
- 1990 : The largest S-Bahn system in Switzerland starts with the Zurich S-Bahn .
science and technology
- 669 BC BC : A royal servant records a solar eclipse observed in the region around Babylon on a cuneiform tablet .
- 1653 : The grave of the Frankish king Childerich I is discovered in Tournai .
- 1931 : The Swiss scientist Auguste Piccard starts with his assistant Paul Kipfer in a stratosphere - balloon in place Gersthofen to explore the upper atmosphere. Both are advancing to the unprecedented height of 15,781 meters. The balloon goes down on the Gurgler Ferner in Obergurgl .
- 1937 : The Golden Gate Bridge is opened to pedestrian traffic in San Francisco .
- 1961 : With the help of the Poly-U experiment, Heinrich Matthaei proves for the first time that a “code word” (the codon UUU) in DNA stands for an amino acid (here: phenylalanine ).
- 1968 : The first ATM in Germany goes into operation in Tübingen .
Culture
- 1741 : In Vienna , a band accompanies a military parade for the first time .
- 1830 : First performance of the comic opera Attendre et courir by Jacques Fromental Halévy at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1837 : First performance of the opera Catherine Gray by Michael William Balfe at the Theater Royal Drury Lane in London .
- 1866 : First performance of the opera Astorga by Johann Joseph Abert in Stuttgart .
- 1906 : The 6th Symphony ("Tragic Symphony") by Gustav Mahler is premiered in the Essen hall as the highlight of the Tonkünstlerfest of the Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein under the direction of the composer.
- 1972 : The first episode of Star Trek with the spaceship Enterprise is shown on ZDF .
- 1989 : The Grand Hotel Waldhaus Vulpera in the Swiss Alps, the model for Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novel Durcheinandertal , burns down like its literary counterpart as a result of arson.
- 1994 : After twenty years of exile in the USA, the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn returns to his homeland.
- 2010 : The MAXXI art museum by the Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid opens in Rome .
- 2012 : Michael Haneke's feature film Love wins the Palme d'Or at the 65th Cannes Film Festival .
society
- 1234 : At the instigation of the French regent Blanka of Castile , Louis IX marries . of France the 13-year-old Margaret of Provence in the Cathedral of Sens . Pope Gregory IX issued the necessary dispensation in January because of the extensive relatives of the bride and groom .
- 1353 : The Roman-German King Charles IV marries in Ofen after a papal dispensation by Innocent VI. 14-year-old Anna von Schweidnitz .
- 1655 : Alfonso IV. D'Este , Duke of Modena , marries by procurationem Laura Martinozzi , a niece of the French minister Jules Mazarin .
- 1668 : Several residents of Henham in Uttlesford , Essex, allegedly sight a "flying serpent" called the Henham Dragon .
religion
- 1235 : The Hungarian Landgrave Elisabeth of Thuringia is four years after her death by Pope Gregory IX. canonized in Perugia .
- 1837 : In the encyclical Summo iugiter studio , Pope Gregory XVI. interferes with mixed marriages and insists on bringing up children from this in the Catholic faith .
- 1908 : Nuur ud-Din is elected first Khalifat ul-Massih , the spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community . The religious community sees itself as the successor to Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , the founder of the Ahmadiyya who died the day before .
- 1917 : The Codex Iuris Canonici ( CIC ; Codex of Canon Law ), the code of the Catholic Church in the Latin area , commissioned by Pope Pius X and drawn up by Pietro Gasparri , is approved by Benedict XV. put into effect. It represents the first codification of Latin canon law .
- 1996 : In Constance , the old Catholic bishop Joachim Vobbe, together with Angela Berlis and Regina Pickel-Bossau, ordains the first two women to be priestesses of the Old Catholic Church in Germany .
- 2012 : With a service in Ratzeburg Cathedral is on Pentecost Sunday , the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (North Church) founded solemnly.
Disasters
- 1293 : Over 23,000 people are killed in an earthquake of unknown magnitude in Kamakura , Japan.
- 1896 : An F4 tornado sweeping through downtown St. Louis , Missouri and East St. Louis , Illinois kills at least 255 people.
- 1915 : The explosion of the sea mines on the British mine-layer Princess Irene in the port of Sheerness kills 400, crew and dock workers, and the total loss of the ship. Only the dock worker David Wills survived the disaster.
- 2006 : In an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the moment magnitude scale in Java , almost 5,800 people are killed, up to 57,800 are injured, more than 130,000 houses are destroyed or badly damaged and up to 650,000 people are homeless.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1901 : The Kickers Offenbach football club is founded in Offenbach am Main .
- 1908 : The Belgian sports club RSC Anderlecht is established in a suburb of Brussels.
- 1934 : The second soccer world championship begins in Italy with eight round of 16 matches , the first soccer world championship on European soil.
- 2001 : Roman Šebrle is the first decathlete to exceed 9,000 points at the Hypo-Meeting in Götzis and sets a new world record with 9026 points.
- 2012 : Ryder Hesjedal becomes the first Canadian cyclist to win the Giro d'Italia .
- 2012 : With a 26:21 victory over Atlético Madrid , the handball players of THW Kiel win the final of the Champions League .
- 2019 : After a relegation success via VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Union Berlin is promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time in its 53-year history .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries for World Cup games can be found in the bottoms of the Football World Cup . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1141 : Eisai , Japanese Buddhist priest
- 1220 : Amicia de Clare , English noblewoman and founder of Buckland Abbey
- 1332 : Ibn Chaldūn , Islamic historian and politician
- 1457 : Bernhard Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German humanist
- 1509 : Pasquale Cicogna , 88th Doge of Venice
- 1519 : Girolamo Mei , Italian historian and humanist
- 1564 : Johann Adam von Bicken , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
- 1584 : Michael Altenburg , German theologian and composer
- 1595 : Benedikt Carpzov , criminalist and witch theorist
- 1605 : Konrad Balthasar Pichtel , German lawyer and court official
- 1623 : William Petty , English physicist and economist
- 1626 : William II of Orange , governor of Holland and Zealand
- 1651 : Louis-Antoine de Noailles , Cardinal and Archbishop of Paris
- 1652 : Liselotte von der Pfalz , Duchess of Orléans
- 1662 : Johan II. De Witt , Dutch scholar
- 1684 : Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg , Austrian military leader
- 1699 : Giovanni Antonio Guardi , Italian painter
18th century
- 1706 : Joseph Bernhard , Hereditary Prince of Saxony-Meiningen
- 1707 : Jean Deschamps , Franco-German philosopher, Prussian court preacher, theologian and writer
- 1723 : Manuel Antonio Flórez , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Granada and New Spain
- 1738 : Bonaventura Furlanetto , Italian composer
- 1738 : Nathaniel Gorham , American politician
- 1738 : Moritz August von Thümmel , German writer
- 1739 : François Ignace Ervoil d'Oyré , French general
- 1747 : René Levasseur , French doctor, revolutionary and politician
- 1752 : Adolph Friedrich von Scheve , German lawyer
- 1756 : Maximilian I , King of Bavaria
- 1769 : Gustav Alexander Bielitz , German lawyer
- 1771 : Johann Severin father , German theologian and linguist
- 1772 : Marie Anne Lenormand , French fortune teller
- 1777 : August Ernst Rauschenbusch , German educator and Lutheran clergyman
- 1790 : Johann Ludwig Urban Blesson , German military writer
- 1792 : Blasius Höfel , Austrian engraver
- 1794 : Cornelius Vanderbilt , American entrepreneur
- 1795 : Friedrich August Belcke , German trombonist and composer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Gustav Wilhelm Schubert , Saxon commissioner, lawyer and historian
- 1808 : Joseph Ignaz Düntzer , German surgeon and obstetrician
- 1814 : William Guybon Atherstone , South African physician, paleontologist, and geologist
- 1818 : Amelia Bloomer , American suffragette
- 1818 : Frans Cornelis Donders , Dutch physiologist and pioneer in the field of ophthalmology
- 1819 : Georg V , last king of Hanover
- 1822 : Joachim Raff , Swiss-German composer
- 1826 : Marie Helene Aarestrup , Norwegian genre, portrait and animal painter
- 1835 : Charles Francis Adams Jr. , American brigadier general, entrepreneur, and historian
- 1837 : Bill Hickok , American western hero
- 1840 : William Patrick Auld , Australian winemaker, wine merchant and explorer
- 1840 : Lars Fredrik Nilson , Swedish chemist
- 1842 : Amancio Alcorta , Argentine politician and legal scholar
- 1850 : Eduard Ausfeld , German archivist and historian
- 1850 : Ludvig Birkedal-Barfod , Danish organist and composer
1851-1900
- 1858 : Christian Grünig , Swiss farmer, pietist and supporter of the sanctification movement
- 1860 : Margrethe Munthe , Norwegian writer
- 1862 : Feliksa Kozłowska , Polish nun
- 1867 : Arnold Bennett , British writer, journalist, critic and essayist
- 1867 : Hermanus Frederik Roll , Dutch doctor
- 1868 : Feliks Władysław Starczewski , Polish composer
- 1871 : Oskar Picht , German inventor of the typewriter for the blind
- 1871 : Georges Rouault , French painter
- 1874 : Richard von Schaukal , Austrian poet
- 1877 : Isadora Duncan , American dancer
- 1877 : Jussuf Ibrahim , Egyptian-German pediatrician
- 1879 : Hans Heinrich Lammers , German lawyer, civil servant and SS-Oberführer
- 1884 : Max Brod , Czech writer
- 1884 : Emil Pirchan , Austrian set designer and author
- 1889 : Erik Hansen , German general
- 1891 : Claude Champagne , Canadian composer
- 1892 : Artur Berger , Austrian film architect
- 1892 : Willy Reetz , German painter
- 1893 : Hendrik Gerard Bungenberg de Jong , Dutch chemist
- 1893 : Paul Helwig , German psychologist, philosopher and playwright
- 1894 : Louis-Ferdinand Céline , French writer and doctor
- 1894 : Dashiell Hammett , American writer
- 1895 : Paul Bausch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1895 : Otto Katz , Czechoslovak author and agent of the Soviet Union
- 1896 : Lisa Albrecht , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1896 : Olga Wendt , German designer
- 1897 : John Cockcroft , British nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1897 : Karl Höger , German soccer player and coach
- 1897 : Adolf Portmann , Swiss zoologist
- 1899 : Hans Brausewetter , German film and theater actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Georg-August Zinn , German lawyer and politician
- 1903 : Walt Kiesling , American football player and coach
- 1904 : Nambu Chūhei , Japanese athlete, Olympic champion
- 1906 : Guiscardo Améndola , Uruguayan visual artist and painter
- 1906 : Herbert Ernst Groh , Swiss tenor
- 1906 : Charles Moran , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1907 : Rachel Carson , American zoologist and biologist
- 1908 : Hans Gustav Güterbock , German Hittiteologist
- 1908 : Harold Rome , American composer and lyricist
- 1911 : Hubert H. Humphrey , US Vice President
- 1911 : Teddy Kollek , Austrian-Israeli local politician, Mayor of Jerusalem
- 1911 : Vincent Price , American actor
- 1911 : Erich Wasicky , Austrian officer, war criminal
- 1912 : John Cheever , American writer
- 1912 : Sam Snead , American golfer
- 1913 : Wols , German painter and photographer
- 1914 : Franz Reckert , German painter and sculptor
- 1915 : Bohdan Arct , Polish author and fighter pilot
- 1915 : Ester Soré , Chilean singer
- 1915 : Herman Wouk , American writer
- 1918 : Nakasone Yasuhiro , Japanese politician
- 1920 : Georges Auclair , French journalist and writer
- 1920 : Gabrielle Wittkop , French writer, artist, essayist and journalist
- 1922 : Otto Carius , German tank commander
- 1922 : Christopher Lee , British actor
- 1923 : Henry Kissinger , US Secretary of State, Nobel Prize Winner
- 1923 : Danilo Martelli , Italian football player
- 1923 : Inge Morath , Austrian photographer
- 1925 : Jean-Paul Aron , French journalist, writer and philosopher
- 1925 : Fernando Ariztía Ruiz , Chilean bishop
- 1925 : Tony Hillerman , American author
- 1925 : Gustl Weishappel , German-Austrian actor and radio presenter
1926-1950
- 1926 : Bud Shank , American jazz musician
- 1929 : William Kelley , American novelist and screenwriter
- 1929 : Peter Szondi , Hungarian literary scholar
- 1930 : Guido Brunner , German politician, EC commissioner
- 1930 : Joachim Krause-Wichmann , German rower
- 1930 : Eino Tamberg , Estonian composer
- 1931 : Věroslav Neumann , Czech composer and music teacher
- 1931 : Hans Rudolf Zöbeley , German composer, choir conductor and church musician
- 1932 : Junior Parker , American singer
- 1933 : Erkki Hytönen , Finnish ice hockey player and coach
- 1934 : Uwe Friedrichsen , German actor
- 1934 : Enzo Siciliano , Italian journalist and writer
- 1935 : Ramsey Lewis , American musician
- 1935 : Luud Schimmelpennink , Dutch inventor and politician
- 1936 : Louis Gossett Jr. , American actor
- 1937 : Eva Christian , German actress
- 1938 : Christian von Wernich , German-Argentine priest
- 1939 : Don Williams , American musician
- 1940 : Gillian Barge , British actress
- 1940 : Jan Bruins , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 1940 : Antjekathrin Graßmann , German historian
- 1941 : Gisela Bock , German politician
- 1942 : Piers Courage , British racing car driver
- 1942 : Peter Grottian , German social scientist
- 1942 : Elisabeth Vrba , South African-American paleontologist
- 1942 : Robin Widdows , British bobsledder and racing car driver
- 1943 : Cilla Black , British singer
- 1943 : Jutta Dahl , German pastor and peace activist
- 1943 : Eva , German chanson singer
- 1944 : Rudolf G. Ardelt , Austrian historian
- 1944 : Stephan Rudas , Austrian specialist in psychiatry and neurology
- 1945 : Bruce Cockburn , Canadian musician and songwriter
- 1946 : Alma Adams , American politician
- 1946 : John Williams , British motorcycle racer
- 1947 : Hans-Peter Repnik , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1947 : Said , Iranian writer
- 1948 : Thomas Ahrens , German rowing athlete
- 1948 : Frédéric Dor , French racing car driver
- 1949 : Terry Collins , American baseball manager
- 1949 : Christa Vahlensieck , German athlete
- 1949 : Rosy Wertheim , Dutch composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1950 : Rita Grießhaber , German politician
- 1950 : Edgar Wagner , German lawyer and state data protection officer
- 1950 : Dee Dee Bridgewater , American jazz singer
1951-1975
- 1952 : Hans Peter Stauch , German politician
- 1954 : Josef Anton Achermann , Swiss sculptor
- 1954 : Roy Edwards , American politician
- 1954 : Jackie Slater , American football player
- 1954 : Reiner Wehle , German clarinetist, author and professor
- 1955 : Adolfo Armando Uriona , Argentine bishop
- 1956 : Giuseppe Tornatore , Italian film director
- 1956 : Clemens Tönnies , German entrepreneur and sports official
- 1956 : Ulrich Wenner , German legal scholar and judge
- 1957 : Dag Terje Andersen , Norwegian politician
- 1957 : Wolfgang Augustyn , German art historian and editor
- 1957 : Siouxsie Sioux , British singer
- 1958 : Heike Schulte-Mattler , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1958 : Manfred Spitzer , German psychiatrist, psychologist and university professor
- 1959 : Angelika Bartsch , German actress
- 1959 : Helga Druxes , American literary scholar
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- 1959 : Donna Strickland , Canadian laser physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1960 : Ray Armstead , American athlete and Olympic champion
- 1960 : Emir Mutapčić , Bosnian basketball player and coach
- 1961 : Pierre-Henri Raphanel , French racing car driver
- 1963 : Maria Walliser , Swiss ski racer
- 1964 : Volker Abramczik , German football player
- 1964 : Andreja Schneider , German singer and actress
- 1965 : Pat Cash , Australian tennis player
- 1967 : Paul Gascoigne , British football player
- 1967 : Jörn Leonhard , German historian
- 1967 : Kai Pflaume , German television presenter
- 1968 : Edina Thalhammer , Austrian singer
- 1968 : Jennifer Wexton , American politician
- 1970 : Michele Bartoli , Italian racing cyclist
- 1970 : Joseph Fiennes , British actor
- 1971 : Paul Bettany , British actor
- 1971 : Lisa Lopes ("Left Eye"), American singer and rapper
- 1971 : Beatrix von Storch , German politician
- 1972 : Agueda Amaral , East Timorese marathon runner
- 1973 : Julia Böhm , German journalist and presenter
- 1973 : Jack McBrayer , American actor and comedian
- 1974 : Robert Kolar , Austrian actor
- 1975 : André 3000 , American musician and film actor
- 1975 : Jamie Oliver , English television chef and cookbook author
- 1975 : Jadakiss , American rapper
- 1975 : Andre Savage , Canadian ice hockey player
1976-2000
- 1976 : RJD2 , American musician
- 1976 : Jiří Štajner , Czech football player
- 1977 : Nadine Beckel , German athlete
- 1978 : Jacques Abardonado , French football player
- 1978 : Hugo Armando , American tennis player
- 1978 : Fabian Del Priore , German composer, arranger and sound designer
- 1979 : Matthias Anton , German saxophonist and university teacher
- 1979 : Capkekz , German-speaking rapper
- 1979 : Mile Sterjovski , Australian soccer player
- 1980 : Andreas Blank , German handball player
- 1980 : Adam Hauser , American ice hockey player
- 1980 : Stephen Miller , British disabled athlete
- 1981 : Alina Cojocaru , Romanian solo dancer with the Royal Ballet
- 1981 : Miloy , Angolan football player
- 1982 : Mariano Pavone , Argentine soccer player
- 1983 : Lucenzo , Portuguese-French singer
- 1988 : Ioannis Athinaiou , Greek basketball player
- 1988 : Tobias Reichmann , German handball player
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- 1988 : João Souza , Brazilian tennis player
- 1989 : Danica Radojčić , Serbian singer
- 1990 : Samuel Armenteros , Swedish football player
- 1990 : Nadine Beiler , Austrian singer
- 1990 : Chris Colfer , American actor
- 1990 : Jonas Hector , German soccer player
- 1990 : Maximilian Lechner , Austrian pool player
- 1990 : Apinya Sakuljaroensuk , Thai actress
- 1991 : Filip Starzyński , Polish football player
- 1993 : Ivar Slik , Dutch cyclist
- 1994 : Maximilian Arnold , German soccer player
- 1994 : João Cancelo , Portuguese soccer player
- 1995 : Marius Wolf , German soccer player
- 1996 : Luise Befort , German actress
- 1996 : Elena Stoffel , Swiss ski racer
- 1997 : Lina von der Ahe , German dubbing and radio play speaker
- 1997 : Soccer Mommy , American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1999 : Matheus Cunha , Brazilian soccer player
- 1999 : Nick Haspinger , German handball player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 366 : Procopius , Roman counter-emperor
- 847 : Hetti , Archbishop of Trier
- 853 : Markward von Prüm , Dept.
- 866 : Ordoño I , King of Asturias
- 927 : Simeon I of Bulgaria
- 1039 : Dietrich III. , Count of Holland
- 1045 : Bruno von Würzburg , Chancellor of Italy, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
- 1088 : Friedrich II. Von Goseck , Count Palatine of Saxony
- 1096 : Kalonymos ben Meschullam , Jewish poet, scholar and rabbi
- 1138 : Hadmar I. von Kuenring , Austrian ministerial nobleman and Burgvogt von Dürnstein
- 1178 : Gottfried von Rhenen , Bishop of Utrecht
- 1178 : Werner II. , Abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien in the southern Black Forest
- 1234 : Henry III. , Count of (Wildeshausen-) Bruchhausen
- 1250 : Raniero Capocci , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1266 : Elisabeth of Braunschweig , Roman-German queen
- 1272 : Erich I , Duke of Schleswig
- 1275 : Fujiwara no Tameie , Japanese poet
- 1289 : Johann III. , Prince of Mecklenburg
- 1369 : Reinhard von Hanau , cleric
- 1444 : John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset , Commander in Chief of the English Forces in France
- 1487 : Tilokarat , king of the Thai kingdom of Lan Na
16th and 17th centuries
- 1508 : Ludovico Sforza , Duke of Milan
- 1516 : Peter Wolkow , Bishop of Schwerin
- 1523 : John VIII. Grimholt , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1525 : Thomas Müntzer , German theologian and revolutionary
- 1525 : Heinrich Pfeiffer , Protestant theologian and fellow campaigner of Thomas Müntzer
- 1564 : Johannes Calvin , Swiss reformer
- 1567 : Fazio Gaggini , Sicilian sculptor
- 1570 : Moses Cordovero , Jewish mystic and Kabbalist
- 1574 : Gabriel de Lorges , Count Montgomery
- 1581 : Christoph Báthory , Voivode of Transylvania and brother of the Polish King Stephan Bathory
- 1602 : Jan Brandt , Polish theologian and composer
- 1606 : the fake Dimitri , Tsar of Russia, according to his opponents in reality Yuri Otrepjew
- 1608 : Alessandro Vittoria , Italian sculptor and medalist
- 1610 : François Ravaillac , murderer of Henry IV of France
- 1650 : Anthony Ascham , English nobleman, parliamentarian and diplomat
- 1662 : Wilhelm , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1672 : Johann Arnold Friderici , German medic and botanist
- 1688 : Anna Elisabeth , Princess of Saxony-Lauenburg and Countess of Hesse-Homburg
- 1690 : Giovanni Lenzei , Italian composer
18th century
- 1702 : Dominique Bouhours , French Jesuit priest, philologist, historian and writer
- 1702 : Hans Kogler , Upper Bavarian bricklayer and master builder
- 1707 : Madame de Montespan , French mistress of Louis XIV.
- 1711 : Franz Alexander , Prince of Nassau-Hadamar
- 1711 : Matthäus Gottfried Purmann , German surgeon and author
- 1712 : Johann Baptist Röschel , Hungarian physicist and theologian
- 1720 : David Hoyer , German painter
- 1721 : Christoph von Hellwig , Stadtphysicus zu Erfurt, publicist and creator of the "Hundred Years Calendar"
- 1739 : Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach , German organist
- 1741 : Christoph Ernst Steinbach , German doctor and lexicographer
- 1749 : Maria Caroline Charlotte von Ingenheim , Bavarian lady-in-waiting and favorite of the later Elector and Emperor Karl Albrecht of Bavaria
- 1751 : Johan III. de Witt , Dutch patrician, President of the Chamber of Accounts of the Austrian Netherlands
- 1753 : Anton Heinrich Walbaum , German pietist and councilor to the Duke of Saxony-Saalfeld
- 1755 : Ulrich von Löwendal , German general and marshal of France
- 1762 : Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten , German philosopher
- 1766 : Ivan Ivanovich Polsunow , Russian inventor
- 1770 : Sophie Magdalene von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Hohenzollern princess and queen of Denmark
- 1793 : Nonnosus Brand , German composer, organist and music teacher from Bavaria
- 1797 : Johann Friedrich Albinus , German civil servant
- 1797 : François Noël Babeuf , French agitator and journalist
- 1797 : Augustin Alexandre Darthé , French revolutionary
19th century
- 1805 : Johann Friedrich Wenthin , German organ builder
- 1818 : Blasius Bernauer , German organ builder
- 1831 : Jedediah Smith , American trapper, fur trader, and explorer
- 1831 : Joseph von Zerboni di Sposetti , Prussian civil servant, publicist, poet and Freemason
- 1840 : Niccolò Paganini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1841 : Ernst-Wilhelm Arnoldi , German businessman
- 1851 : Karl Burkart , German administrative lawyer
- 1852 : Eduard Dohlhoff , German doctor and medical advisor
- 1857 : George Anson , British general
- 1858 : Friedrich Schlemm , German physician and anatomist
- 1868 : Georg Egestorff , German industrialist
- 1876 : Carl Overweg , German politician and industrialist
- 1877 : Gustav Meyer , German landscape designer and municipal gardening director in Berlin
- 1885 : Friedrich zu Schwarzenberg , Archbishop of Prague
- 1893 : Joseph Stöckle , German writer and philologist
- 1897 : Otfried Hans von Meusebach , German-American farmer, botanist and senator
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Johannes Maria Assmann , German priest
- 1906 : Erich Zweigert , German politician
- 1908 : Carl Bruno Tröndlin , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Leipzig
- 1910 : Robert Koch , German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1919 : Simon Schwendener , Swiss botanist and university professor
- 1919 : Eduard Paul Benedict Frese , German-Baltic clergyman and evangelical confessor
- 1921 : Haydn Keeton , British organist, music teacher and composer
- 1922 : Heinrich Antoine-Feill , German lawyer
- 1925 : Seyyit Abdülkadir , Ottoman-Kurdish politician
- 1928 : Arthur Moritz Schoenflies , German mathematician
- 1930 : Ewald Haase , German firefighter, politician and cycling official
- 1930 : Alberto Pedrazzini , Swiss politician and writer
- 1932 : Heinrich-Joachim von Morgen , German automobile racing driver
- 1936 : Anton Schmutzer , Austrian musician and composer
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- 1939 : Joseph Roth , Austrian writer and journalist
- 1941 : Oswald Baer , Austrian painter
- 1941 : Ernst Lindemann , German naval officer
- 1941 : Günther Lütjens , German naval officer
- 1943 : Adolf Urban , German football player
- 1944 : Ernst Wille , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1945 : Pieter van Romburgh , Dutch chemist and university professor
- 1947 : Vinzenz Nohel , Austrian National Socialist, war criminal
1951-2000
- 1953 : Editha Klipstein , German writer and journalist
- 1953 : Otto Meissner , German civil servant, Reich Minister, head of the office of the Reich President and the presidential chancellery of the Führer
- 1954 : Arthur Koepchen , German manager and technical director of RWE AG
- 1954 : Jacobus Schoemaker , Dutch football player
- 1959 : Hermann Lüdemann , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Minister, Prime Minister
- 1960 : Alfred Wilhelm Arnold , German politician
- 1960 : James Montgomery Flagg , American draftsman and illustrator
- 1960 : George Zucco , American film and stage actor
- 1962 : Egon Petri , Dutch pianist
- 1964 : Jawaharlal Nehru , Prime Minister of India
- 1965 : Arnold Heim , Swiss geologist
- 1967 : Tilly Edinger , German paleontologist and founder of paleoneurology in Germany
- 1967 : Paul Henckels , German actor
- 1967 : Joachim Tiburtius , German cultural politician, Member of the State Parliament, Senator
- 1968 : Philip Vian , British naval admiral
- 1969 : Jeffrey Hunter , American actor
- 1972 : José Garibi y Rivera , Mexican clergyman, Archbishop of Guadalajara
- 1976 : Hilde Hildebrand , German theater and film actress
- 1977 : Hans Augustin , German lawyer
- 1978 : Artur Ebert , German geophysicist
- 1980 : Karaki Junzō , Japanese literary scholar
- 1987 : John Howard Northrop , American chemist
- 1988 : Ernst Ruska , German electrical engineer, inventor of the electron microscope
- 1990 : Hans Bunge , German dramaturge, director and author
- 1992 : Hasegawa Machiko , Japanese manga artist
- 1993 : Werner Stocker , German actor
- 1994 : Klaus Beckmann , German politician
- 1996 : Wilhelm Mayrhofer , Austrian politician
- 1997 : Gerhard Wollner , German actor and cabaret artist
- 1999 : Alice Adams , American author and university professor
- 1999 : Thomas Briccetti , American composer, pianist and conductor
- 2000 : Inga Abel , German actress
- 2000 : Maurice Richard , Canadian ice hockey player
21st century
- 2001 : Gilles Lefebvre , Canadian violinist
- 2003 : François Bondy , German-Swiss writer and journalist
- 2003 : Luciano Berio , Italian composer
- 2004 : Umberto Agnelli , Italian entrepreneur
- 2004 : Franz Klein , German tax law scholar and President of the Federal Fiscal Court
- 2004 : Werner Tübke , German painter and graphic artist from the Leipzig School , an important representative of GDR art
- 2005 : Annamirl Bierbichler , German actress
- 2005 : Piotr Gładki , Polish athlete
- 2006 : Dieter Acker , German composer
- 2006 : Dino 7 Cordas , Brazilian guitarist
- 2007 : Zard , Japanese pop singer
- 2008 : Ed Arno , Romanian cartoonist and illustrator
- 2010 : Manfred Caspari , German economist
- 2011 : Gil Scott-Heron , American musician and poet
- 2012 : Friedrich Hirzebruch , German mathematician
- 2013 : Little Tony , San Marinese singer
- 2013 : Abdoulaye Sékou Sow , Malian politician
- 2014 : Dagfinn Aarskog , Norwegian medic and geneticist
- 2014 : Helma Sanders-Brahms , German film director
- 2015 : Erik Carlsson , Swedish rally driver
- 2015 : Elisabeth Wiedemann , German actress
- 2016 : Gerhard Harpers , German soccer player
- 2016 : Morton White , American philosopher
- 2017 : Gregg Allman , American singer and musician
- 2017 : Michael Frotscher , German anatomist
- 2018 : Gardner Dozois , American science fiction writer and editor
- 2018 : Gerhard Thieme , German sculptor and medalist
- 2019 : Bill Buckner , American baseball player
- 2020 : Larry Kramer , American author and playwright
- 2020 : John D. Gearhart , American stem cell researcher
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johannes Calvin , French-Swiss reformer (Protestant, Anglican memorial day is on May 26th )
- Paul Gerhardt , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
- St Augustine of Canterbury , Anglo-Saxon prior and bishop (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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