October 27
The October 27 is the 300th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 301st in leap years ), thus remain 65 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 97 : With the adoption of 44-year-old Trajan by the childless emperor Nerva , the time of the adoptive emperors begins in the Roman Empire .
- 939 : With the death of his half-brother Æthelstan , Edmund I becomes the new Anglo-Saxon King of England .
- 1075 : The Saxon War of King Henry IV ends with the barefoot submission of the Saxon princes to the king.
- 1635 : In the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , Catholic France takes over the financing of Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar's army that fought on the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War ; After the defeat in the Battle of Nördlingen, he lost his duchy and was unable to pay any more mercenaries.
- 1662 : Charles II of England sells Dunkirk to France for £ 40,000 .
- 1682 : The city of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania is founded.
- 1795 : The USA concludes the Pinckney Treaty with Spain in Madrid , which defines the border with the Spanish colonies of East and West Florida on the Mississippi and the 31st parallel. Both sides allow each other free shipping on the Mississippi, US merchants are also allowed to store goods in New Orleans .
- 1806 : In the course of the Fourth Coalition War, Napoleon moves into the Prussian capital Berlin after winning the Battle of Jena and Auerstedt .
- 1807 : In the secret Treaty of Fontainebleau , Spain and France agree on the conquest and subsequent partition of Portugal . Napoleon Bonaparte wants to fully enforce the continental block against Great Britain , which Portugal refuses.
- 1810 : The Spanish colony of West Florida is annexed by the United States , considering it part of the territory of the Louisiana colony acquired by France in the Louisiana Purchase .
- 1870 : During the Franco-Prussian War , under Marshal François-Achille Bazaine, the army and fortress surrender in besieged Metz .
- 1871 : Griqualand West in southern Africa, where the diamond fields of today's Kimberley are located, becomes a British colony .
- 1881 : In the Reichstag election , the German Center Party receives the highest percentage of votes and has around a quarter of the members of the new Reichstag .
- 1907 : Royal Hungarian gendarmes shoot 15 Slovak demonstrators at the Černová massacre .
- 1917 : At the Battle of Good Freit , the twelfth and last Battle of the Isonzo in World War I , the Italian front collapses completely. The Central Powers advance to the Piave and take the Italian headquarters in Udine.
- 1922 : Italian fascists begin the " March on Rome " announced by Benito Mussolini in order to seize power in Italy .
- 1934 : During the Chinese Civil War , the Long March of 90,000 Communists through China under Mao Zedong's leadership to free themselves from the clutches of Chiang Kai-shek's troops .
- 1938 : The Foreign Office of the German Reich orders the “complete expulsion of all Jews of Polish citizenship”. The same evening the Gestapo began the arrests in public. Thousands of people are deported to Poland the following night .
- 1942 : The US aircraft carrier USS Hornet is sunk by Japanese dive bombers and torpedo bombers during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands .
- 1944 : With the capture of Banská Bystrica by the German armed forces , the Slovak national uprising collapses.
- 1947 : The First Indo-Pakistani War begins with the deployment of Indian airborne troops in Kashmir's capital Srinagar .
- 1956 : With the signing of the Saar Treaty , Saarland becomes the tenth federal state to join the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1957 : The Federation of Expellees is the umbrella organization of German expellees' associations founded.
- 1958 : General Muhammad Ayub Khan declares a state of siege on Pakistan and establishes a military dictatorship.
- 1961 : Soviet and American tanks face each other at Checkpoint Charlie after East German border guards prevented Western Allies from entering the Soviet sector. On October 28, both sides withdraw again.
- 1962 : During the Cuban Missile Crisis, a Soviet nuclear submarine comes under fire from US destroyers. One of the officers, Vasily Alexandrovich Archipov , refuses to allow nuclear torpedoes to be fired without further orders from Moscow, presumably preventing a nuclear war.
- 1962 : In a reconnaissance flight with a Lockheed U-2 is Cuba the US pilot Rudolf Anderson by a Soviet 75 S- - air missile fired. He remains the only one dead in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1966 : The United Nations revoke South Africa 's mandate over Namibia .
- 1966 : Federal Republic of Germany : The Bonn government coalition between the CDU / CSU and FDP breaks up because of various views on the improvement of the federal government's financial situation.
- 1971 : The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaïre .
- 1979 : The island nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines becomes independent in the Caribbean .
- 1981 : The Soviet submarine U 137 of the Whiskey class runs aground in the Swedish archipelago of Blekinge off Karlskrona and is seized by the Swedish Navy. The incident is part of the Swedish submarine affair .
- 1991 : In Poland the first free elections are held after the war.
- 1991 : Turkmenistan declares its independence from the Soviet Union .
- 1996 : With the signing of the relevant contracts in Hainburg , Austria , the Donau-Auen National Park is established.
- 1998 : After the victory of the SPD in the Bundestag election in 1998 , Gerhard Schröder is elected 7th German Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1999 : In a terrorist attack on the national assembly in Armenia , the president of the parliament, the head of government Vasken Zarkissyan , two deputies, a minister and four deputies are shot dead.
- 2002 : The trade unionist Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil in the second ballot .
- 2003 : More than 40 people are killed in a series of attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad .
- 2004 : After the European Parliament lost the vote because of the controversial Italian candidate Rocco Buttiglione , José Manuel Barroso withdrew his first proposal for his EU Commission .
- 2005 : The accidental death of two young people in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois triggers riots lasting several weeks .
economy
- 1873 : Joseph Glidden files a patent for barbed wire .
- 1904 : The subway is officially opened in New York after four years of construction . The first route runs from City Hall via Grand Central Station and Times Square to the corner of Broadway and 145th Street in Harlem .
- 1910 : Robert Victor Neher, together with Edwin Lauber and Alfred Gmür, files a patent application in Switzerland for the process he devised for the production of aluminum foil .
- 1937 : The photocopying process invented by the US physicist Chester Carlson and his assistant Otto Kornei is registered for a patent.
- 2006 : Two years earlier, almost a candidate for bankruptcy, which is Industrial and Commercial Bank of China after its IPO - the largest with nearly 22 billion US dollars of the previous history - at the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shanghai traded for the first time.
science and technology
- 1967 : In Salto di Quirra the first Swiss is sounding rocket of the type Zenit started.
- 1969 : The Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics (Nobel Economic Prize) is awarded for the first time. The announced award winners are Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch and Jan Tinbergen , who developed econometric models.
- 1980 : A failure of the forerunner of today's Internet ( ARPANET ), triggered by the distribution of an incorrect routing update, rendered the network unusable for the few thousand hosts for six hours and a. to develop a secure routing protocol.
- 1984 : The Baikal-Amur Mainline in Siberia is considered to have been opened with the laying of the Golden Link .
- 2005 : The first European student satellite SSETI Express is launched from the Plesetsk spaceport .
Culture
- 1726 : The cantata I want to wear the cross stick by Johann Sebastian Bach is premiered in Leipzig .
- 1827 : The opera Il pirata ( The Pirate ) by Vincenzo Bellini is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan .
- 1900 : The artist house in Leipzig , built by Fritz Drechsler in Art Nouveau style , is opened as a club house for the Leipziger Künstlerverein ; the square in front of the house is renamed Platz am Künstlerhaus .
- 1901 : Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 is premiered in Moscow.
- 1919 : In cinema Dansungsa is to fight for justice (Original title: 의리 적 구투 ), the first Korean film listed. In 1966, October 27th was declared Korean Film Day .
- 1954 : The first West German Culture Film Days , the later Short Film Days , begin in Oberhausen .
- 1960 : The Nouveaux Réalistes group is founded in Paris under the direction of the critic Pierre Restany . Arman , François Dufrêne , Raymond Hains , Yves Klein , Martial Raysse , Daniel Spoerri , Jean Tinguely and Jacques Villeglé sign a manifesto written by Restany.
- 1967 : The new version of the ballet Onegin by John Cranko based on music by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikovsky and adapted by Kurt-Heinz Stolze from the Stuttgart Ballet is premiered in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . This version eliminated all the weaknesses of the first version and completely displaced it from the repertoire.
- 2003 : In Andalusia Málaga , the birthplace of the painter Pablo Picasso , which is Museo Picasso opens.
society
- 1792 : British naval officers Peter Heywood and James Morrison, sentenced to death for the mutiny on the Bounty, are pardoned by royal pardon and released on the same day.
- 1868 : Master mason John Jordan Upchurch founds the first American Masonic fraternity, the Ancient Order of United Workmen , in Meadville , Pennsylvania, as a "fraternal charity for white men".
- 1901 : The first robbery in which a car is used to escape takes place in Paris .
- 1985 : Nine paintings by the impressionist painter Claude Monet are robbed by gunmen from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris during opening hours .
- 1986 : Monika Böttcher , the mother of the children Melanie and Karola Weimar, who were found dead in August, is arrested on suspicion of murder.
religion
- 1553 : The Spanish doctor and scholar Michael Servetus dies at the stake in Geneva after criticizing Calvinism and having been assessed as a heretic by the reformer John Calvin .
- 1838 : The governor of the US state Missouri orders the expulsion of all Mormons from his state.
- 1991 : Pope . John Paul II speaks Adolph Kolping , the Catholic priest, social reformer and founder of the Kolping Society , blessed .
Disasters
- 1892 : The British passenger steamer Roumania crashes into the rocky shore off Peniche on the Portuguese coast in a storm and fog and goes under, 113 people die.
- 1998 : Hurricane Mitch , one of the strongest tropical storms of the 20th century with wind speeds of up to 285 km / h , sweeps across Central America and costs over 7,000 lives.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1962 : Australian Dawn Fraser swims the 100 m freestyle in 59.9 seconds, becoming the first woman to break the one-minute threshold.
- 1968 : In Mexico City go the Games of the XIX. Olympics over. In the case of the athletes who no longer compete as an all-German team , the GDR team is ahead of the German team in the medal table.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
Catherine de Valois
(* 1401)
Erasmus of Rotterdam
(* 1469)
Melchior Junius
(* 1545)
Mary Sidney
(* 1561)
- 1156 : Raymond VI. , Count of Toulouse
- 1335 : Taejo , King of the Korean Kingdom of Joseon and founder of the Joseon Dynasty
- 1381 : Elisabeth von der Pfalz , wife of the Austrian Duke Friedrich IV.
- 1401 : Catherine de Valois , ancestor of the English Tudor dynasty
- 1469 : Erasmus of Rotterdam , Dutch humanist, theologian, philosopher, philologist and author
- 1483 : Hans Buchner , German organist and composer
- 1545 : Melchior Junius , German rhetorician and humanist
- 1561 : Mary Sidney , English writer, center of a literary circle
- 1594 : Johann Rudolf Wettstein , Swiss politician
- 1615 : Christian I , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
- 1619 : Friedrich Ludwig von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Landsberg , Duke of Pfalz-Landsberg and Pfalz-Zweibrücken
- 1668 : Antonius Jacobus Henckel , German theologian
18th century
- 1709 : Friederike Alexandrine Moszyńska , daughter of Augustus the Strong
- 1710 : Joachim Johann Daniel Zimmermann , German theologian and church poet
- 1736 : James Macpherson , Scottish writer and politician
- 1738 : Hugo Damian Erwein von Schönborn-Wiesentheid , German count
- 1745 : Wolfgang Aigner , Bavarian Benedictine and scholar
- 1745 : Maxim Sosontowitsch Berezovsky , Russian composer
- 1757 : Seerp Gratama , Dutch legal scholar
- 1760 : August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau , Prussian field marshal and army reformer
- 1763 : William Maclure , British geologist, scholar and philanthropist
Friederike Alexandrine Moszyńska
(* 1709)
Mary Moser
(* 1744)
August Neidhardt von Gneisenau (* 1760)
Niccolò Paganini
(* 1782)
- 1771 : Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti , German theologian, archaeologist and orientalist
- 1772 : Franz Peter Nick , German Catholic clergyman and university professor
- 1782 : Niccolò Paganini , Italian composer and violin virtuoso
- 1786 : Johann Ludwig Wilhelm Beck , German lawyer
- 1789 : Joseph Mayseder , Austrian violinist and composer
- 1744 : Mary Moser , English classicist painter, founding member of the Royal Academy of Arts
- 1784 : Johanne Amalie von Elterlein , German homeland song poet ( Heiligohmdlied )
- 1793 : Pierre-Bienvenu Noailles , French priest and founder of the order
19th century
1801 to 1850
- 1807 : Caroline Hartmann , German pianist
- 1811 : Stevens Mason , American politician, first governor of Michigan
- 1811 : Isaac Merritt Singer , American entrepreneur and inventor
- 1813 : Dorothea Trudel , Swiss pastor
- 1817 : Antoni Kątski , Polish composer and pianist
- 1821 : Alexis de Garaudé , French composer
Isaac Merritt Singer
(* 1811)
Rose Chéri
(* 1824)
Julie Hagen-Schwarz
(* 1824)
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
(* 1844)
- 1824 : Rose Chéri , French actress
- 1824 : Julie Wilhelmine Hagen-Schwarz , Baltic German painter
- 1826 : Marie von Olfers , German writer and illustrator
- 1828 : Jacob Dolson Cox , American general and politician, Governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Interior
- 1835 : Simon Jenko , Slovenian poet
- 1836 : Salomon Haberland , German entrepreneur
- 1844 : Klas Pontus Arnoldson , Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1845 : Maria Oakey Dewing , American painter
- 1847 : Angelo Maffucci , Italian pathologist
- 1848 : Clara Schreiber , Austrian salonnière and publicist
1851 to 1900
- 1854 : Leopold Ambronn , German astronomer
- 1855 : Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin , Russian botanist
- 1856 : Amanda Courtaux , French music teacher and composer
- 1856 : Kenyon Cox , American painter and writer
- 1858 : Theodore Roosevelt , American politician, president, Nobel laureate
- 1862 : Arthur Osann , German lawyer and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1862 : Lita zu Putlitz , German writer
- 1864 : Maria Teresa Casini , Italian nun and founder, blessed
- 1866 : Franz Saran , German Germanist
- 1867 : Thomas Walter Scott , Canadian politician
- 1873 : James J. Davis , American politician, Secretary of Labor, Senator from Pennsylvania
- 1873 : Else Otten , Dutch literary translator
- 1873 : Ella Scoble Opperman , American music teacher, organist and pianist
- 1874 : Owen Young , American industrialist, businessman, lawyer, and diplomat
- 1876 : Ferdinand Werner , German teacher and politician, MdR, MdL, Prime Minister of Hesse
Theodore Roosevelt
(* 1858)
Annie Krauss
(* 1879)
Enid Bagnold
(* 1889)
Fanny Durack
(* 1889)
- 1877 : Arnoldus Johannes Petrus van den Broek , Dutch anatomist
- 1877 : Walt Kuhn , American painter, cartoonist, and lithographer
- 1879 : Annie Krauss , German resistance fighter
- 1881 : Gertrud Wronka , German politician, MdL
- 1882 : Dora Lux , German teacher
- 1882 : Wilhelm Stapel , German publicist
- 1882 : Lazare Saminsky , Russian composer
- 1884 : Jane Murfin , American dramaturge and screenwriter
- 1885 : Bruno Dickhoff , German politician and resistance fighter
- 1885 : Sigrid Hjertén , Swedish painter
- 1887 : Mikhayl Assaf , Syrian Archbishop in Jordan
- 1887 : Nico de Wolf , Dutch football player
- 1888 : Wilhelm Bahlburg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1889 : Enid Bagnold , British writer and playwright
- 1889 : Fanny Durack , Australian swimmer, Olympic champion
- 1890 : Maria Blum , German politician, MdR
- 1890 : Olive Hazlett , American mathematician
- 1890 : Max Jungnickel , German writer
- 1894 : Fritz Sauckel , German politician, general agent for labor, war criminal
- 1896 : Otto Dowidat , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1898 : Blanche Sewell , American film editor
- 1899 : Bill Springsteen , American football player
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Aleksandrs Čaks , Latvian poet, playwright and journalist
- 1902 : Emil van Tongel , Austrian politician
- 1903 : Karl Gall , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1907 : Willi Bleicher , German trade unionist
- 1907 : Franz Haupert , Luxembourg artistic gymnast
- 1907 : Helmut Walcha , German organist and harpsichordist
- 1908 : Hermann Glüsing , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1908 : Lee Krasner , American painter
- 1910 : Emerson Meyers , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1911 : Leif Erickson , American actor
- 1912 : Conlon Nancarrow , Mexican composer
- 1913 : Rolf Jahresling , German gallery owner and architect
- 1913 : Luigi Piotti , Italian racing car driver
- 1913 : Otto Wichterle , Czech chemist
- 1914 : Jan Kott , Polish theater scholar
- 1914 : Dylan Thomas , British writer
- 1916 : Kazimierz Brandys , Polish writer
- 1917 : Arne Andersson , Swedish athlete
- 1918 : Gordon Delamont , Canadian composer, trumpeter and music teacher
- 1918 : Edgar Herschler , American politician
- 1918 : Teresa Wright , American actress
- 1919 : Willi Arlt , German national soccer player
- 1919 : Tim M. Babcock , American politician
- 1919 : Douglas Heyes , American screenwriter and director
- 1919 : Michel Schwalbé , Polish violinist
- 1920 : Lothar Domröse , German officer
- 1920 : Kocheril Raman Narayanan , Indian President
- 1921 : José Ádem Chain, Mexican mathematician
- 1922 : Poul Bundgaard , Danish actor
- 1922 : Carlos Andrés Pérez , President of Venezuela
- 1923 : Roy Lichtenstein , American artist
- 1924 : Michael Angelo Avallone Jr. , American writer
- 1924 : Ruby Dee , American actress
- 1925 : Warren Christopher , American politician
1926-1950
- 1926 : Tewfik Saleh , Egyptian film director and screenwriter
- 1926 : Kai Warner , German orchestra leader, producer and composer
- 1927 : Dominick Argento , American composer and university professor
- 1927 : Thomas Nipperdey , German historian ( German history 1800–1918 )
- 1927 : Hugo Schiltz , Belgian politician
- 1928 : Hermann Oxfort , German lawyer, Member of the State Parliament, Berlin Mayor and Justice Senator
- 1929 : Bill George , American football player
- 1931 : Sonny Dallas , American jazz bassist and music teacher
- 1931 : Nawal El Saadawi , Egyptian writer and human rights activist
- 1932 : Sylvia Plath , American poet
- 1932 : Jean-Pierre Cassel , French actor
- 1933 : Floyd Cramer , American musician
- 1934 : Lidija Boldyrewa , Russian volleyball player
- 1936 : Dave Charlton , South African racing car driver
- 1937 : Peter Lustig , German television presenter
- 1938 : Maurice Hinchey , American politician
- 1938 : Edda Moser , German singer
- 1939 : John Cleese , British film actor
- 1939 : Dallas Frazier , American country singer and songwriter
- 1939 : Marino Perani , Italian football player and coach
- 1940 : John Gotti , American Mafioso
- 1942 : Philip Catherine , British-Belgian musician
- 1942 : Lee Greenwood , American country singer
- 1943 : Carmen Argenziano , American actor
- 1943 : Roland Schäfer , German actor and director
- 1944 : Georg von Waldenfels , German politician, manager and sports official
- 1945 : Arild Andersen , Norwegian jazz bassist
- 1945 : Waltraud Klasnic , Austrian politician, Governor of Styria
- 1945 : Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , Brazilian President
- 1946 : Ivan Reitman , American director and film producer
- 1946 : Martin-Christian Schmidt , German harpsichord maker and musical instrument restorer
- 1946 : Carrie Snodgress , American actress
- 1947 : Edgar Broughton , British singer and songwriter
- 1947 : Gunter Demnig , German artist
- 1949 : Bodo Staiger , German musician
1951-1975
- 1951 : KK Downing , British rock musician
- 1951 : Franz-Josef Sehr , German businessman and fire department official
- 1952 : Anthony Arndt , German actor, presenter and racing cyclist
- 1952 : Roberto Benigni , Italian actor and film director
- 1952 : Serge Saulnier , French racing car driver, racing team owner and motorsport official
- 1954 : Siegmund Astner , Austrian politician
- 1954 : Mike Kelley , American installation and performance artist
- 1954 : Wookie Mayer , German actress
- 1955 : Jörg Hartmann , youngest German victim of the Berlin Wall
- 1955 : Tetsu Saitoh , Japanese jazz bassist and improvisation musician
- 1956 : Michèle Chardonnet , French athlete
- 1956 : Christiane Wartenberg , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1957 : Axel Freimuth , physicist, rector of the University of Cologne
- 1957 : Glenn Hoddle , English football player and coach
- 1958 : Manu Katché , French drummer
- 1958 : Rudolf Rechsteiner , Swiss politician
- 1958 : Simon Le Bon , British musician, singer and songwriter ( Duran Duran )
- 1959 : Rick Carlisle , American basketball player and coach
- 1961 : Margaret Mazzantini , Italian actress and writer
- 1961 : Ludwig Sebastian Meyer-Stork , German manager
- 1962 : Thomas Balou Martin , German actor, voice actor and television presenter
- 1963 : Farin Urlaub , German musician ( Die Ärzte )
- 1964 : Gerd Gottlob , German football commentator
- 1965 : Stefan Prein , German motorcycle racer
- 1966 : Gudrun Arnitz , Austrian ski racer
- 1966 : Katrin Pollitt , German actress
- 1966 : Marko Perkovic Thompson , Croatian singer
- 1967 : Mart Siimer , Estonian composer
- 1967 : Scott Weiland , American rock musician
- 1969 : Michael Tarnat , German soccer player
- 1971 : Theodoros Zagorakis , Greek football player
- 1972 : Maria de Lurdes Mutola , Mozambican middle-distance runner, Olympic champion
- 1973 : Jessica Andersson , Swedish singer
- 1973 : Kerstin Avemo , Swedish opera singer
- 1974 : Torben Hoffmann , German soccer player
- 1975 : Aron Ralston , American mountaineer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Ariel Miguel Santiago Ibagaza , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player
- 1976 : David Terrien , French racing car driver
- 1978 : Vanessa-Mae , Thai-British violinist
- 1978 : Toby Petersen , American ice hockey player
- 1980 : Ünsal Mukadder Arik , Turkish boxer
- 1980 : Nora Boeckler , German actress and comedian
- 1981 : Salem Al Fakir , Swedish musician and singer
- 1981 : Volkan Demirel , Turkish football goalkeeper
- 1981 : Marvin Priest , British-Australian pop and R&B singer
- 1982 : Joana Zimmer , German singer
- 1983 : Anna Marciak , German soccer player
- 1984 : Matteo Malucelli , Italian racing car driver
- 1984 : Kelly Osbourne , British musician and actress
- 1984 : Danijel Subašić , Croatian football player
- 1986 : Louis Williams , American basketball player
- 1987 : Thelma Aoyama , Japanese pop and R&B singer
- 1988 : Evan Turner , American basketball player
- 1990 : Farzad Abdollahi , Iranian Taekwondoin
- 1990 : Jana Beller , German-Russian photo model and mannequin
- 1990 : Vinzenz Wagner , Austrian actor and dancer
- 1991 : Hüseyin Atalay , Turkish football player
- 1992 : Stephan El Shaarawy , Italian-Egyptian soccer player
- 1992 : Jella Haase , German actress
- 1992 : Emily Hagins , American director and screenwriter
- 1992 : Marko Vukićević , Serbian ski racer
- 1993 : Artyom Antonevitch , Russian-German handball player
- 1993 : Korbinian Vollmann , German soccer player
- 1994 : Kurt Zouma , French football player
- 1995 : Leon Draisaitl , German ice hockey player
- 1995 : Alina Otto , German handball player
- 1996 : Nadiem Amiri , German soccer player
- 1997 : Lonzo Ball , American basketball player
- 1998 : Youssouf Ndayishimiye , Burundian soccer player
21st century
- 2001 : Teilor Grubbs , American actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 673 : Agatho of Alexandria , Pope of the Coptic Church
- 933 : Adalward , Bishop of Verden
- 939 : Æthelstan , King of England
- 1113 : Nestor of Kiev , monk, chronicler
- 1244 : Adelheid von Wassel , Countess of Ratzeburg
- 1265 : Humphrey V. de Bohun , English nobleman and rebel
- 1269 : Ulrich III. von Spanheim , Duke of Carinthia
- 1272 : Hugo IV , Duke of Burgundy and titular king of the Kingdom of Thessalonica
- 1303 : Beatrix of Castile , Princess of Castile and Queen of Portugal
- 1312 : Johann II Duke of Brabant and Limburg
- 1326 : Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester , English magnate, diplomat and military man
- 1327 : Elizabeth de Burgh , Queen of Scotland and second wife of Robert the Bruce
- 1331 : Abu l-Fida , Arabic chronicler, geographer and Emir of Hama
- 1331 : Heinrich Reiche , provost of Brandenburg Cathedral and curator of Dargun Monastery
- 1333 : Stephen Seagrave , Archbishop of Armagh
- 1348 : Withego I of Ostrau , Bishop of Naumburg
- 1359 : Heinrich von Volkach , auxiliary bishop in Regensburg
- 1361 : Thomas de Berkeley , English nobleman
- 1363 : Matthäus an der Gassen , Prince-Bishop of Brixen
- 1430 : Witold , Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1439 : Albrecht II , King of Hungary and Bohemia, and Roman-German King
- 1441 : Margery Jourdemain , English, victim of the witch hunt
- 1449 : Ulugh Beg , Timurid prince in Samarkand, known as an astronomer and as the founder of the Ulugbek Madrasa
- 1454 : Magdalena of Brandenburg , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- 1459 : Giannozzo Manetti , humanist of the Italian Renaissance
- 1485 : Rudolf Agricola , Dutch humanist, writer and scholar
- 1489 : Albert II. Krummendiek , Bishop of Lübeck
16th to 18th century
- 1505 : Ivan III. , Ruler of Russia, Grand Duke of Moscow
- 1513 : George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros , English nobleman
- 1548 : Johannes Dantiscus , Bishop of Kulm and Bishop of Warmia
- 1553 : Michel Servet , Spanish doctor and theologian
- 1556 : Frederick of Denmark , Bishop of Hildesheim and Schleswig
- 1561 : Lope de Aguirre , Spanish conquistador
- 1586 : Philip Sidney , English prose writer
- 1587 : Michael Beuther , German historian, poet, lawyer and civil servant
- 1597 : Alfonso II d'Este , Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio
- 1605 : Akbar I , Mughal Mughal of India
- 1613 : Gabriel Báthory , Prince of Transylvania
- 1613 : Johann Bauhin , Swiss doctor and botanist
- 1616 : Johann Richter , German astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker
- 1637 : Ludwig Heidenreich von Callenberg , German court official and officer
- 1642 : Jean Nicolet , French explorer
- 1652 : Heinrich , Count of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch general
- 1675 : Gilles Personne de Roberval , French mathematician
- 1676 : Johan de Witt , Dutch politician
- 1696 : Johann Gabriel Löbel , German glassworks owner
- 1700 : Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé , French theologian and monk
- 1705 : Thyrsus González , Spanish general of the Jesuits
- 1707 : Rudolph , Count of Lippe-Brake
- 1724 : Leonard Goudhaire , Walloon master mason
- 1726 : Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt , German lawyer, court official and statesman
- 1729 : Johann Michael Bretschneider , German painter
- 1734 : Thomas Friedrich Carstens , German lawyer and council secretary of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1750 : August I , Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- 1755 : Johann Michael Breunig , German baroque composer
- 1761 : Carlo Lodoli , Italian architectural theorist , priest, mathematician and teacher
- 1766 : Johann Georg Wolcker , German painter
- 1767 : Burkhard Christoph von Münnich , Field Marshal General of German descent and politician in Russian service
- 1771 : Johann Gottlieb Graun , German violinist and composer
- 1800 : Itō Jakuchū , Japanese painter
19th century
- 1819 : Joseph Carr , American music publisher
- 1830 : Gotthelf Wilhelm Christoph Starke , German Protestant theologian and educator
- 1833 : Ferdinand Fränzl , German violinist, composer and music director
- 1838 : Isaac Anderson , American politician
- 1840 : Machbuba , Ethiopian-German child woman
- 1842 : Georg Friedrich Wiesand , German lawyer and politician
- 1845 : Jean Peltier , French physicist
- 1846 : Louis-Auguste-Victor de Ghaisnes de Bourmont , French general and statesman
- 1848 : Alexander Yegorowitsch Varlamow , Russian composer
- 1858 : Ida Pfeiffer , Austrian explorer and travel writer
- 1858 : Johann Heinrich Leberecht Pistorius , German businessman, farmer and inventor ( Pistorius distillery )
- 1859 : Ernst Friedrich Apelt , German philosopher and entrepreneur
- 1868 : Carl Wilhelm Arldt , German draftsman and lithographer
- 1868 : Carl Abraham Mankell , Swedish composer
- 1874 : Karl Ludwig Grotefend , German historian and numismatist
- 1876 : Alexander von Dusch , German lawyer and diplomat in Baden
- 1887 : Karl Goedeke , German literary historian
- 1888 : Emil Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Annecke , German revolutionary and American journalist and lawyer
- 1891 : Charles Constantin , French conductor and composer
- 1893 : Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld , German educator
- 1894 : Carl Ploug , Danish journalist and politician
- 1899 : Florence Marryat , British writer
- 1899 : Franz Ludwig Fleck , French clergyman, Bishop of Metz
- 1900 : William Anderson , British surgeon
20th century
1901 to 1950
- 1905 : Rudolf Lehmann , German-British painter
- 1907 : Mkrtitsch Chrimjan , Armenian church leader, publicist and writer
- 1908 : Salvador Casañas i Pagès , Spanish Cardinal, Bishop of Urgell and Co-Prince of Andorra, Archbishop of Barcelona
- 1909 : Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma , Chilean painter
- 1917 : August Wilmanns , German classical philologist and librarian
- 1918 : Alexander Pomeranzew , Russian architect
- 1919 : Alfred Philippe Roll , French painter
- 1924 : Abraham Ángel Card Valdés, Mexican artist
- 1931 : Ludvík Vítězslav Čelanský , Czech conductor and composer
- 1933 : Julius Klengel , German cellist
- 1937 : Friedrich Christian Georg Ahlborn , German zoologist and physicist
- 1938 : Lascelles Abercrombie , English writer
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- 1938 : Alma Gluck , American singer
- 1940 : Fini Valdemar Henriques , Danish composer and violinist
- 1941 : Albert Colomb , French racing car driver
- 1941 : Viktor Wassiljewitsch Talalichin , Soviet fighter pilot
- 1942 : Udell Sylvester Andrews , American film director and screenwriter
- 1944 : Judith Auer , German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1944 : Arturo Gordon , Chilean painter
- 1948 : Charles Levadé , French composer
- 1949 : Fritz Linnert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1950 : Ernst Falkner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1951 to 2000
- 1953 : Eduard Künneke , German operetta composer
- 1954 : Franco Alfano , Italian composer
- 1954 : Georg Hartmann , German entrepreneur
- 1956 : Domingos Leite Pereira , Portuguese politician
- 1958 : Walter von Molo , German writer
- 1959 : Alfred Büchi , Swiss engineer and inventor of the turbocharger
- 1962 : Rudolf Anderson , American pilot
- 1962 : Hermann Muckermann , German biologist and Jesuit
- 1963 : Karl Polak , German lawyer and member of the GDR State Council
- 1964 : Willi Bredel , German writer
- 1964 : Rudolph Maté , Polish cameraman
- 1964 : Vicente T. Mendoza , Mexican musicologist and folklore researcher
- 1967 : Marta Brunet , Chilean writer
- 1967 : Theodor Steltzer , German politician, Member of the State Parliament and Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1968 : Lise Meitner , Austrian physicist
- 1974 : Rudolf Dassler , German entrepreneur, founder of the sporting goods company Puma
- 1975 : Juan Peregrino Anselmo , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1975 : Oliver Nelson , American musician
- 1975 : Rolf Nesch , German-Norwegian painter and graphic artist
- 1975 : Rex Stout , American writer
- 1977 : James M. Cain , American journalist and crime writer
- 1980 : John Hasbrouck van Vleck , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1985 : Paul Edwin Roth , German actor
- 1986 : Sherman A. Adams , American politician
- 1986 : Alfred Au , German soccer player
- 1988 : Curt Herzstark , Austrian inventor and office machine mechanic
- 1989 : Heinz Meynhardt , German behavioral scientist, animal filmmaker and non-fiction author
- 1990 : Ugo Tognazzi , Italian actor
- 1991 : Marc Gignoux , French racing car driver
- 1991 : Andrzej Panufnik , Polish composer
- 1991 : Ernst Wimmer , Austrian journalist and Marxist
- 1992 : Ivan Andreadis , Czechoslovak table tennis player
- 1992 : David Bohm , American quantum physicist
- 1995 : Leo Bardischewski , German actor and voice actor
- 1997 : Helmut Hoyer Arndt , German economist
- 1997 : Achim Gercke , German biologist
- 1997 : Wasken Zarkissjan , Armenian politician, minister, prime minister
- 1999 : Rafael Alberti , Spanish poet
- 2000 : Lída Baarová , Czech actress and lover of Joseph Goebbels
- 2000 : Walter Berry , Austrian opera singer
21st century
- 2002 : André De Toth , American film director
- 2003 : John William Atkinson , American psychologist
- 2003 : Johnny Boyd , American racing car driver
- 2003 : Walter Washington , American politician
- 2004 : Martin Flörchinger , German actor
- 2004 : Claude Helffer , French pianist
- 2008 : Heinz Krügel , German soccer coach
- 2009 : Rudolf Anheuser , German basketball referee
- 2010 : Néstor Kirchner , Argentine politician and president
- 2011 : Giancarlo Vitali , Italian football player and coach
- 2012 : Hans Werner Henze , German composer
- 2013 : Lou Reed , American singer-songwriter and guitarist, co-founder of The Velvet Underground
- 2015 : Ralph Richeson , American painter and actor
- 2016 : Prince Mikasa , Japanese prince of the imperial family
- 2016 : Nelson Pinedo , Colombian singer
- 2017 : Jon Kalb , American geologist and paleontologist
- 2017 : Stefan Kiefer , German motorcycle racer and team boss
- 2018 : Ingo Insterburg , German music cabaret artist
- 2018 : Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha , Thai entrepreneur and head of Leicester City
- 2019 : Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , Iraqi terrorist
- 2019 : Wladimir Konstantinowitsch Bukowski , Soviet dissident and Russian publicist
- 2019 : John Conyers , American politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Olaus Petri , Swedish deacon, reformer, pastor and poet (Protestant)
- Laurentius Petri , Archbishop of Uppsala and reformer in Sweden (Protestant)
- St. Agatho of Alexandria , Bishop and Pope (Orthodox)
- St. Wolfhard von Augsburg , hermit and patron saint (catholic)
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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