April 28
The April 28 is the 118th day of the Gregorian calendar (119th in leap years ), thus remaining 247 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 224 : The Parthian king Artabanos IV is defeated in a battle by the Sassanid Ardaschir I , who subsequently establishes the rule of the Sassanids over Persia.
- 711 : On behalf of the governor of Ifrīqiya , Mūsā ibn Nusair , the Arab general Tāriq ibn Ziyād crosses to Gibraltar ( Jabal Ṭāriq ). This marked the beginning of the Islamic expansion on the Iberian Peninsula with the founding of Al-Andalus .
- 1192 : Conrad of Montferrat , elected King of Jerusalem only a few days earlier , is stabbed to death by two assassins in Tire on the street .
- 1772 : The previous secret cabinet minister of the Danish King Christian VII , Johann Friedrich Struensee , is executed at the gates of Copenhagen for his alleged affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde . The execution is delayed for several days because craftsmen have only found themselves under threat of torture to build the scaffold for the liberal minister who brought the ideas of the Enlightenment to Denmark .
- 1788 : With the ratification of the United States Constitution , Maryland becomes the seventh state in the United States .
- 1789 : Fletcher Christian mutinies with some other crew members on the Bounty against the commander Lieutenant William Bligh and puts him out at sea with some loyal sailors in a dinghy. This reaches the Dutch trading post in Kupang after 6 weeks , while the Bounty sails back to Tonga .
- 1796 : King Viktor Amadeus III. of Sardinia-Piedmont concludes an armistice with Napoleon Bonaparte during his Italian campaign near Cherasco .
- 1849 : In a letter delivered by Ludolf Camphausen , the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV repeats his rejection of the German imperial crown offered in the Imperial Deputation by the Frankfurt National Assembly and explains this in detail. Thus the goal of the March Revolution , a united Germany and an all-German constitution, has finally failed politically.
- 1855 : A pistol assassination attempt by Giovanni Pianori on France's Emperor Napoleon III fails on the Bois de Boulogne in Paris .
- 1862 : During the American Civil War , Union Admiral David Glasgow Farragut takes the Confederate city of New Orleans with his flotilla .
- 1879 : After breaking away from the Ottoman Empire , the Bulgarian National Assembly in Veliko Tarnovo resolves the Constitution of Tarnovo . The model of the modern and liberal constitution, which is valid until 1947, is the constitution of Belgium.
- 1893 : A bicycle tax is introduced by law in France , which also taxes motorcycles and automobiles. Several other states followed suit with the development of this tax source in the following years.
- 1915 : The First Battle of Krithia in the context of the Battle of Gallipoli brings the British to a defeat in battle with two stubbornly defending Ottoman regiments.
- 1915 : The first International Women's Peace Congress , initiated by German women's rights activists Anita Augspurg and Lida Gustava Heymann and organized by Aletta Jacobs , opens in The Hague , the Netherlands, with 1,100 participants from 12 nations . The two future Nobel Peace Prize winners, Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch, will be attending the congress, among others .
- 1920 : The Russian Red Army invades Azerbaijan and ends the independence of the young country with the establishment of an occupation regime in Baku .
- 1936 : With the death of his father Fu'ad , 16-year-old Faruq becomes king of Egypt .
- 1939 : The German-Polish non-aggression pact is terminated by the German Reich after Poland rejects the demand for an annexation of the Free City of Danzig and a corridor to East Prussia .
- 1939 : With a memorandum , the German Reich terminates the German-British naval agreement due to alleged unfriendly attitude on the part of the contracting party. However, the armament of the fleet in the Z-Plan had already been approved by Adolf Hitler three months beforehand . Great Britain's offers to resume negotiations remain unanswered.
- 1945 : Resistance fighters from the Bavarian Freedom Campaign around Rupprecht Gerngross broadcast the news that the war was over for Bavaria. As Reich Governor Franz Ritter von Epp refuses to support the uprising. The SS unit “Werwolf Oberbayern” under Paul Giesler then committed an end-of-war crime in Penzberg and murdered 16 civilians on the night of the Penzberg murder .
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- 1945 : Benito Mussolini and his lover Clara Petacci , who had been caught by partisans of the Italian Resistance Association the day before while trying to escape , are shot in Mezzegra . The following day the bodies are still hung and put on public display.
- 1945 : Augsburg is handed over to the US troops by the Augsburg freedom movement during World War II.
- 1947 : The Vistula campaign begins in Poland , the forcible mass resettlement of more than 200,000 ethnic Ukrainians from eastern Poland, mostly to formerly German eastern areas under Polish control .
- 1949 : Great Britain, France, the United States and the Benelux countries conclude the Ruhr Statute , an agreement to establish an international Ruhr authority. With this they want to control the coal , coke and steel production in post-war Germany.
- 1952 : With the entry into force of the Peace Treaty of San Francisco , the period of occupation in Japan after the Second World War ends .
- 1952 : In the Sino-Japanese peace treaty , a separate peace treaty is concluded between Japan and the Republic of China , which abolishes the state of war between the two contracting parties that has existed since the Second World War.
- 1954 : The Prime Ministers of India , Pakistan , Burma , Ceylon and Indonesia meet in Colombo for a conference at which, among other things, the current situation in French Indochina will be discussed, where the battle for Điện Biên Phủ is underway. Among other things, the Bandung Conference in 1955 is being prepared.
- 1958 : Operation Hardtack , a series of nuclear weapons tests by the United States on the Eniwetok Atoll and Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, begins with the Yucca bomb , which will last until October 30 .
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- 1963 : The Austrian Federal President Adolf Schärf of the SPÖ is re-elected by the EFP with 55.4% of the votes in the first round of the federal presidential election against Julius Raab and Josef Kimmel, who were nominated by the ÖVP .
- 1965 : Four days after the coup in favor of the democratically elected President Juan Bosch in the Dominican Republic, the USA intervenes militarily with Operation Power Pack in favor of the overthrown military dictatorship.
- 1969 : After losing the vote in the referendum on Senate and regional reform, Charles de Gaulle announces his resignation from the office of French President a few minutes after midnight .
- 1975 : Just seven days after taking over from Nguyễn Văn Thiu , Trần Văn Hương resigns as President of South Vietnam . Head of state becomes General Dương Văn Minh , who two days later can only announce the unconditional surrender in the Vietnam War .
- 1977 : The Stammheim trial against the terrorists of the Red Army faction in a specially built hall of the Stuttgart-Stammheim correctional facility ends with the conviction of Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe for murder. The defendants who fail to attend the sentencing due to a hunger strike are sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 2001 : Albanian rebels of the paramilitary organization UÇK carry out an attack on Macedonian special forces. The Vejce massacre contributed significantly to the escalation of the Macedonian conflict in 2001 .
- 2020 : Colombia becomes the 37th member state of the OECD .
economy
- 1866 : The " Norddeutsche Affinerie " is founded in Hamburg by the members of the supervisory board of Norddeutsche Bank and the Hamburg merchants Carl Friedrich Ludwig Westenholz and Ferdinand Jacobsen as well as Georg Ferdinand Gorrissen.
- 2005 : The 34.6 km long Lötschberg Base Tunnel as part of the New Alpine Transversal (NEAT) is broken through. At this point in time it is the third longest tunnel in the world.
science and technology
- 1611 : Miguel de Benavidez, later Archbishop of Manila, opens the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario , which later became the Catholic University of Santo Tomas in Manila . It is Asia's first university.
- 1798 : After the professorships under Rector Ferdinand Franz Wallraf refused to take the oath to the French Republic , referring to the independence of the university, the university built in 1388 in French-occupied Cologne is closed and the central school Université de Cologne is opened instead . The re-establishment of the University of Cologne will not take place until 1919.
- 1908 : Hector Hodler founds the Universala Esperanto-Asocio , which in the course of its history has developed into the largest organization of Esperanto speakers.
- 1947 : Thor Heyerdahl and five crew members set out for Polynesia from the Peruvian port of Callao on the Kon-Tiki raft made from balsa tree trunks . Heyerdahl wants to clarify whether colonization of the islands from South America was possible in this way.
- 1958 : The the drinking water supply serving Wahnbachtalsperre is from the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Fritz Steinhoff commissioned.
- 2001 : The Soyuz TM-32 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) starts from Baikonur . In addition to Commander Talghat Mussabaev and flight engineer Juri Michailowitsch Baturin , US multimillionaire Dennis Tito , the first space tourist, is also on board .
Culture
- 1865 : The world premiere of the great opera L'Africaine ( The African Woman ) by Giacomo Meyerbeer takes place at the Paris Opera . Both the composer and the librettist Eugène Scribe have already died in the triumphant success of the opera.
- 1892 : The symphonic poem Kullervo by Jean Sibelius is premiered in Helsinki .
- 1920 : The cheerful opera Schirin und Gertraude by Paul Graener with the libretto by Ernst Hardt is premiered at the Dresden State Opera .
- 1925 : The Exposition internationale des Arts Décoratifs et industriels modern opens in Paris, which gives the Art Deco art movement its name .
- 1926 : The premiere of the opera Kováč Wieland ( Wieland the Blacksmith ) by Ján Levoslav Bella with the libretto by Oskar Schlemm based on Richard Wagner's draft takes place in Bratislava .
- 1937 : Benito Mussolini inaugurates the film city of Cinecittà in Rome .
- 1990 : After 6,237 performances, the series of performances of the musical A Chorus Line is ended on Broadway . It is the longest running Broadway musical of all time at this point in time.
society
- 1950 : Sirikit and Bhumibol Adulyadej marry in Bangkok , who is crowned King of Thailand a few days later .
- 1956 : ARD broadcasts a drawing of the television lottery for the first time under the motto Holiday Places for Berlin Children .
- 1996 : Martin Bryant commits a rampage on the Australian island of Tasmania , mainly in Port Arthur , that kills 35 people and injures 21 people. The mentally impaired offender is later sentenced to 35 times life imprisonment.
religion
- 1220 : The foundation stone for Salisbury Cathedral is laid.
- 1253 : According to tradition, the Japanese monk Nichiren recites the mantra Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō for the first time and thus lays the foundation for Nichiren Buddhism .
- 1330 : The Ettal Abbey is founded on the day of Saint Vitalis by Emperor Ludwig IV as part of a pledge. The foundation vow also includes the expansion of the traffic route to the south and the development of the area.
- 1528 : After a disputation between theologians of the Reformation and the Catholic Church, the City Council of Hamburg turns to the Reformation . The new Hamburg church ordinance drawn up by Johannes Bugenhagen comes into force in May.
- 1738 : In the papal bull In eminenti apostolatus specula , Clement XII counts . breaks with Freemasonry and pronounces a ban.
- 1878 : In his second encyclical Quod apostolici muneris , Pope Leo XIII turns . sharply against socialism and describes it as "barbaric".
- 1885 : In Ceylon is Vesakh tag for the first time celebrated as a holiday - this is considered the beginning of the renaissance of Buddhism . For the first time, the international Buddhist flag is hoisted, which will subsequently become one of the symbols of world Buddhism.
- 1994 : The Protestant pastor Gertraud Knoll is elected the first female superintendent in Austria in Burgenland .
Disasters
- 1903 : An earthquake of magnitude 6.3 in Turkey about 2,200 requests deaths.
- 1988 : On Aloha Airlines Flight 243 from Hilo to Honolulu, Hawaii, a piece of the upper fuselage breaks out. The flight attendant Clarabelle Lansing is sucked out of the aircraft by the decompression of the cabin space. Despite the severe damage to the Boeing 737-200 , pilot Robert Schornstheimer and co-pilot Madeline Tompkins were able to land the aircraft safely at Kahului Airport on Maui.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1877 : Stamford Bridge Stadium in the London borough of Fulham is officially opened as an athletics stadium.
- 1902 : The football club Manchester United is renamed after a few businessmen around the new club president John Henry Davies avert the bankruptcy of the existing Newton Heath FC with a financial injection .
- 1921 : In the title fight for the world championship in chess between the German Emanuel Lasker and the Cuban José Raúl Capablanca in Havana, Lasker, title holder since 1894 , gives up after 4 defeats and 10 draws.
- 1923 : Wembley Stadium in London opens with the Cup final between West Ham United and the Bolton Wanderers .
- 1957 : The German Gymnastics and Sports Association (DTSB) is founded in the GDR . He replaces the German Sports Committee .
- 1995 : The two-day wrestling event " Collision in Korea " begins in North Korea .
- 2005 : After the betting scandal in 2005, the German Football Association passed a betting ban for football players , football officials and football referees . At the same time, the referee Robert Hoyzer , who sparked the scandal, is banned for life.
- 2007 : Australia wins the ninth Cricket World Cup by defeating Sri Lanka in the final with 53 runs ( DL method ).
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1402 : Nezahualcóyotl , ruler in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
- 1442 : Edward IV , English king
- 1545 : Yi Sun-sin , Korean military leader and admiral
- 1555 : Karl Friedrich von Jülich-Kleve-Berg , Hereditary Prince of the Duchies of Jülich, Kleve and Berg
- 1566 : Joachim Zehner , clergyman and superintendent in Schleusingen
- 1570 : Ludolf von Münchhausen , German noble landowner, private scholar and librarian with one of the largest libraries of his time
- 1573 : Charles de Valois , Duke of Auvergne and Angoulême
- 1589 : Margaret of Savoy , Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat, Spanish viceroy of Portugal
- 1612 : Odoardo I Farnese , Duke of Parma
- 1618 : Dietrich von Ahlefeldt , bailiff zu Schwabstedt, lord of Osterrade and Kluvensiek and monastery provost of Uetersen
- 1618 : Friedrich von Ahlefeldt , German nobleman, diplomat, district administrator and monastery provost of Uetersen
- 1662 : Aurora von Königsmarck , mistress of August the Strong
- 1673 : Claude Gillot , French painter
- 1697 : Karl Josef Batthyány , Austrian general and field marshal
18th century
- 1701 : Françoise Basseporte , French painter
- 1702 : Karl Maximilian von Dietrichstein Austrian statesman
- 1708 : Johann Rudolph Engau , German legal scholar
- 1726 : Jean François Clément Morand , French chemist, mineralogist and medicin
- 1733 : Wilhelm Ferdinand Lipper , German architect
- 1735 : Johann Walleshauser , German opera singer
- 1742 : Urban Bruun Aaskow , Danish medic
- 1742 : Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville , Scottish statesman and lawyer
- 1752 : Matsumura Goshun , Japanese painter of the Edo period and founder of the Shijō school
- 1753 : Franz Carl Achard , German chemist, inventor of sugar production from sugar beet
- 1757 : Claus Schall , Danish composer
- 1758 : James Monroe , American politician, fifth US President
- 1761 : Jacques Villeré , American politician
- 1765 : Sylvestre Lacroix , French mathematician
- 1773 : Robert Woodhouse , British professor of mathematics
- 1774 : Francis Baily , British astronomer
- 1785 : Prosper Ludwig , Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen, Count von der Marck
- 1786 : Jean-Bernard Kaupert , Swiss music teacher and composer
- 1788 : Charles Robert Cockerell , British architect and archaeologist
- 1795 : Charles Sturt , British captain and explorer
- 1796 : Johann Nepomuk Zwerger , German sculptor
- 1800 : Friederike Serre , German patron and hostess
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Anthony Ashley-Cooper , British politician
- 1805 : Henri-Auguste Barbier , French writer
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- 1805 : Heinrich Kurz , German literary historian
- 1806 : Hubert Dormagen , German doctor, founder, art collector
- 1808 : Johann Georg Kohl , German travel writer, geographer and historian
- 1809 : Shimazu Nariakira , daimyo of Satsuma Province
- 1815 : Karl von Blaas , Austrian painter
- 1819 : Ezra Abbot , American theologian, Bible critic, and university professor
- 1819 : Ferdinand Henry , senior Prussian military officer
- 1826 : Christian Roos , German Roman Catholic Bishop
- 1828 : François Lamorinière , Belgian painter
- 1830 : Jakob Friedrich Wanner , German-Swiss architect
- 1831 : Peter Guthrie Tait , Scottish physicist
- 1834 : Louis Ruchonnet , Swiss politician
- 1838 : Tobias Asser , Dutch lawyer and politician
- 1841 : Carl Göring , German philosopher and chess player
- 1842 : Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu , Prince of the House of Orléans and Brazilian Marshal
- 1846 : Oskar Backlund , Swedish-Russian astronomer
- 1846 : Frank Hatton , American politician
- 1848 : Ludvig Schytte , Danish composer
1851-1900
- 1863 : Alfredo de Oro , Cuban billiards player and world champion
- 1864 : August Conrady , German sinologist
- 1868 : Hermann Lietz , German reform pedagogue
- 1868 : Georgi Feodosjewitsch Voronoi , Russian mathematician
- 1869 : Bertram Goodhue , American architect and illustrator
- 1870 : Jules Blangenois , Belgian composer and conductor
- 1873 : Fritz Körner , German merchant and dialect poet from the Ore Mountains
- 1874 : Karl Kraus , Austrian writer
- 1876 : Nicola Romeo , Italian engineer and entrepreneur
- 1877 : Karl Indermühle , Swiss architect
- 1877 : Ferdinand Stanislaus Pawlikowski , Austrian Catholic Bishop of Graz-Seckau
- 1878 : Lionel Barrymore , American actor and director
- 1884 : Hubert Giertz , German priest and official in the Archdiocese of Cologne
- 1884 : Emil Ruh , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1886 : Erich Salomon , German photographer
- 1889 : Kurita Takeo , Vice Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War
- 1889 : António de Oliveira Salazar , Portuguese politician, prime minister, president and dictator ( Estado Novo )
- 1891 : Camille Bloch , Swiss chocolate manufacturer
- 1891 : Antonio Drapier , Archbishop and Apostolic Delegate Emeritus for Indochina
- 1891 : Karl-Adolf Hollidt , German officer and colonel general
- 1891 : Friedrich Weißler , German lawyer
- 1892 : Ernst Aeppli , Swiss psychoanalyst
- 1894 : Teodor Regedziński , Polish chess player
- 1894 : Hans Voss , German rear admiral in the Navy
- 1896 : George E. Lee , American singer, band leader, entertainer, and saxophonist
- 1896 : Gérard Ernest Schneider , Swiss painter
- 1897 : Ye Jianying , Chinese field marshal and politician
- 1898 : Grantley Herbert Adams , Prime Minister of Barbados
- 1898 : Ernst Lemmer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1900 : Bruno Apitz , German writer ( naked among wolves )
- 1900 : Germaine Cernay , French mezzo-soprano
- 1900 : Heinrich Müller , Bavarian police officer, head of the Gestapo 1939–1945
- 1900 : Kurt Oberdorffer , Sudeten German, National Socialist historian and archivist
- 1900 : Jan Hendrik Oort , Dutch astronomer
- 1900 : Maurice Thorez , French politician
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Weaver W. Adams , American chess player and writer
- 1901 : Ernst Roth , German politician
- 1902 : Gustav Kurt Beck , Austrian painter
- 1902 : Alexandre Kojève , Russian-French philosopher
- 1902 : Alfred Rieche , German chemist
- 1904 : Irene Ambrus , Hungarian singer and actress
- 1904 : Willi Kollo , German composer and author
- 1906 : Anthony Accardo , American mobster
- 1906 : Nikolai Alexandrovich Astrov , Russian engineer
- 1906 : Kurt Gödel , Austro-Czech mathematician and logician
- 1908 : Oskar Schindler , Sudeten German industrialist
- 1911 : Mario Bauzá , Cuban jazz musician
- 1911 : Nicolás Casimiro , Dominican singer
- 1912 : József Sir , Hungarian sprinter and Olympian
- 1913 : Reginald Cotterell Butler , British sculptor
- 1913 : Ludwig Eckes , German entrepreneur
- 1916 : Hildegard Grube-Loy , German watercolor painter
- 1916 : Ferruccio Lamborghini , Italian engineer, entrepreneur, winemaker and automobile designer
- 1917 : Robert Woodruff Anderson , American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
- 1918 : Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler , German journalist, chief commentator of GDR television and moderator ( The Black Channel )
- 1919 : Werner Nefflen , Swiss photographer
- 1921 : Simin Dāneschwar , Iranian writer
- 1921 : Stana Tomašević , Yugoslav partisan, politician and diplomat
- 1922 : Robert Milson Appleby , British paleontologist
- 1923 : Horst-Eberhard Richter , German psychoanalyst, psychosomatic specialist and social philosopher
- 1924 : Kenneth Kaunda , Zambian head of state
- 1925 : Bruce Kirby , American actor
- 1925 : Otto Šimánek , Czech actor
1926-1950
- 1926 : Bhanu Athaiya , Indian costume designer
- 1926 : Blossom Dearie , American jazz singer
- 1926 : Harper Lee , American author and activist
- 1928 : Alberto Blancafort , Spanish conductor and composer
- 1928 : Yves Klein , French painter, sculptor and performance artist
- 1928 : Georges Kwaïter , Syrian Archbishop
- 1928 : Eugene Shoemaker , American astronomer
- 1929 : Hans Auras , German architect
- 1929 : Guy Duijck , Belgian composer, professor and conductor
- 1930 : Ljupčo Ajdinski , Macedonian special education teacher and Yugoslav politician
- 1930 : James Baker , American politician
- 1930 : Winfried Köhler , German architect
- 1932 : Steven Staryk , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1933 : Helmut Sprunk , German rower
- 1934 : Max Amling , German politician
- 1934 : Lois Duncan , American writer
- 1934 : Horst Hussel , German artist and writer
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- 1937 : Saddam Hussein , Iraqi dictator
- 1938 : Gerlinde Locker , Austrian stage, film and television actress
- 1939 : Burkhard Driest , German author, actor, director and producer
- 1939 : Zsigmond Szathmáry , Hungarian organist and pianist, composer and conductor
- 1940 : Lothar Schämer , German football player
- 1941 : Horst Adler , Austrian prehistoric
- 1941 : Ann-Margret Olsson , Swedish-American singer and actress
- 1941 : Barry Sharpless , American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1942 : Kokou Guy Acolatse , Togolese football player
- 1943 : Bob Siebert , American composer and jazz musician
- 1944 : Edgar Burkart , German football official
- 1944 : Pieter Baas , Dutch botanist
- 1945 : Heidrun Merk , German politician
- 1947 : Christian Jacq , French Egyptologist
- 1947 : Nicola LeFanu , English composer and music teacher
- 1948 : Terry Pratchett , British writer
- 1949 : Jerome Apt , American physicist and astronaut
- 1949 : Didier Bonnet , French racing driver and racing car designer
- 1949 : Alan Chesney , New Zealand hockey player
- 1949 : Paul Guilfoyle , American actor
- 1949 : Bruno Kirby , American actor
- 1949 : Rüdiger Schubert , German politician
- 1950 : Martin Asphaug , Norwegian film director and screenwriter
- 1950 : Brian Brett , Canadian writer and poet
- 1950 : Jay Leno , American show host
1951-1975
- 1951 : Axel Siefer , German actor
- 1951 : Willi Steul , German broadcast manager
- 1953 : Roberto Bolaño , Chilean writer
- 1953 : Kim Gordon , American musician and artist
- 1954 : Michael Daugherty , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1956 : Jimmy Barnes , Australian rock musician
- 1956 : Martin Zeil , German politician
- 1957 : Wilma Landkroon , Dutch singer
- 1957 : Thomas Madl , German politician
- 1957 : Benny Schnier , German pop singer, actor and presenter
- 1958 : Doris De Agostini , Swiss ski racer
- 1958 : Kenny MacAskill , British politician, Minister of Justice in the Scottish Parliament
- 1958 : François Jakubowski , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1958 : Hal Sutton , American professional golfer
- 1959 : Erhard Loretan , Swiss mountaineer
- 1960 : Rui Águas , Portuguese football player and coach
- 1960 : Ian Rankin , British crime novelist
- 1960 : Walter Zenga , Italian soccer player and coach
- 1961 : Anna Oxa , Italian singer
- 1963 : Lloyd Eisler , Canadian figure skater
- 1963 : Paul Nolte , German historian
- 1964 : Stephen Ames , Canadian golfer
- 1964 : Urs Sonderegger , Swiss racing driver
- 1965 : Peter Heidt , German politician
- 1965 : Sam Newsome , American jazz saxophonist
- 1966 : Hartmut Rohde , German violist and professor
- 1966 : Too Short , American rapper
- 1967 : Michel Andrieux , French rower
- 1967 : Dario Huebner , Italian soccer player
- 1967 : Julia-Niharika Sen , German journalist and television presenter
- 1969 : Atha Athanasiadis , Austrian journalist
- 1969 : Carl Rosenblad , Swedish racing car driver
- 1970 : Diego Simeone , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1971 : Leigh Adams , Australian track athlete
- 1972 : Vincent Andreas , German composer and author
- 1973 : Christiane Abenthung , Austrian ski racer
- 1973 : Jorge Garcia , American actor
- 1973 : Big Gipp , American rapper
- 1973 : Pauleta , Portuguese soccer player
- 1974 : Emile Abraham , cyclist from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1974 : Penélope Cruz , Spanish actress
- 1974 : Emanuele Negrini , Italian racing cyclist
- 1975 : Federica Diémoz , Italian-Swiss Romance philologist and dialectologist
1976-2000
- 1977 : Gitte Andersen , Danish soccer player
- 1977 : Ronald Schmidt , German soccer player
- 1978 : Andreas Jancke , German actor
- 1979 : Mirza Čehajić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian handball player
- 1979 : Sofia Vitória , Portuguese singer
- 1981 : Jessica Alba , American actress
- 1981 : Ilary Blasi , Italian actress and model
- 1981 : Michael Ferrante , Australian soccer player
- 1982 : Harry Shum Junior , Costa Rican dancer and actor
- 1985 : Matthias Henn , German soccer player
- 1986 : Guilherme Siqueira , Brazilian soccer player
- 1986 : Junior Strous , Dutch racing driver
- 1986 : Jenna Ushkowitz , American actress
- 1987 : Josip Landeka , Croatian soccer player
- 1987 : Robin Schulz , German DJ and producer
- 1987 : Zoran Tošić , Serbian football player
- 1987 : Frank Ziegler , German actor and singer
- 1988 : Niclas Andersén , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1988 : Spencer Hawes , American basketball player
- 1991 : Katja Schroffenegger , Italian soccer player
- 1992 : Patrick Assenheimer , German automobile racing driver
- 1994 : Jakub Klášterka , Czech racing car driver
- 1994 : Maxim Igorevich Simin , Russian racing driver
- 1994 : Mina Tanaka , Japanese soccer player
- 1995 : Melanie Martinez , American singer
- 1995 : Derk Telnekes , Dutch darts player
- 1996 : Tony Revolori , American actor
- 1997 : Keven Schlotterbeck , German soccer player
- 2000 : Ellie Carpenter , Australian soccer player
Died
Before the 18th century
- 224 : Artabanos IV. , Great King of the Parthian Empire
- 909 : Adalbero of Augsburg , Bishop of Augsburg
- 988 : Adaldag , Archbishop of Bremen-Hamburg
- 1069 : Magnus II , King of Norway
- 1076 : Sven Estridsson , King of Denmark
- 1098 : Meginward , Bishop of Freising
- 1109 : Hugo von Cluny , abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Cluny
- 1140 : Sigward von Minden , Bishop of Minden
- 1192 : Conrad of Montferrat , King of Jerusalem
- 1197 : Lord Rhys , ruler of Deheubarth
- 1227 : Heinrich (V) the Elder of Braunschweig , Count Palatine near the Rhine
- 1374 : Guillaume de La Jugie , French cardinal
- 1400 : Baldus de Ubaldis , Italian legal scholar
- 1405 : Johann Brand , Bremen councilor and mayor
- 1458 : Matthäus Hagen , German Waldensian preacher
- 1462 : Ulrich II. Von Rosenberg , Lord von Rosenberg and governor in Bohemia
- 1503 : Louis d'Armagnac , French nobleman, Count of Guise, Count of Pardiac and Duke of Nemours
- 1503 : Johannes Tolhopf , German humanist, rector at the University of Ingolstadt and Canon of Regensburg
- 1519 : Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne , Countess of Auvergne, mother of Caterina de 'Medici
- 1521 : Suzanne de Bourbon-Beaujeu , Duchess of Bourbon
- 1530 : Niklaus Manuel , Bernese painter, playwright and reformer
- 1551 : Jodokus Hodfilter , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1571 : Anton Lüdinghusen , Mayor of Lübeck
- 1599 : Josias Marcus , German legal scholar and civil servant
- 1641 : Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg , German general, diplomat and politician in the Thirty Years War
- 1648 : Wiebke Kruse , mistress of the Danish King Christian IV.
- 1681 : Jacques Bertot , mystic and soul guide of Madame Guyons
- 1683 : Daniel Casper von Lohenstein , German writer
18th century
- 1707 : Christian , Duke of Saxony-Eisenberg
- 1710 : Thomas Betterton , English actor of the Restoration period
- 1714 : Vincenzo Gonzaga , Italian duke
- 1716 : Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort , French people's missionary and founder of the order
- 1721 : Mary Read , English pirate and privateer
- 1722 : Adam Gschwend , German pedagogue, deacon, author and rector of the Lyceum in Eisenberg
- 1722 : Johannes Scherer , German instrument maker
- 1731 : Johann Theodor Jablonski , German pedagogue and lexicographer
- 1732 : Heinrich von Brömbsen , Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- 1736 : Luise Elisabeth von Württemberg-Oels , Duchess of Saxony-Merseburg
- 1748 : Lorenzo Mattielli , Italian sculptor
- 1754 : Giovanni Battista Piazzetta , Venetian painter and etcher
- 1767 : Jobst Edmund von Brabeck , Westphalian nobleman
- 1770 : Marie Camargo , French dancer
- 1771 : Valentin Rose the Elder , German pharmacist and assessor
- 1772 : Johann Friedrich Struensee , German doctor and minister at the Danish court
- 1774 : Takebe Ayatari , Japanese poet and painter
- 1794 : Charles Henri d'Estaing , French naval officer and admiral
- 1795 : Leopold Ludwig von Anhalt , Count of Anhalt
- 1796 : Josias Ludwig Ernst Püttmann German legal scholar
- 1799 : Matthew Griswold , American politician
19th century
- 1800 : Yevstignei Ipatowitsch Fomin , Russian composer
- 1802 : Richard Howell , American politician
- 1802 : Jean Antoine Rossignol , general during the French Revolution
- 1805 : Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison , French classical philologist
- 1807 : Jakob Philipp Hackert , German painter
- 1807 : Ludwig Friedrich II. , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1816 : Johann Heinrich Abicht , German philosopher
- 1829 : Carl Ludwig August von Benning , German officer
- 1831 : John Abernethy , English surgeon and anatomist
- 1831 : Samuel Gottlieb Bürde , German poet
- 1832 : Friedrich Gottlob Hayne , German botanist, pharmacist and university professor
- 1834 : Michael Konrad Wankel , German master tanner and member of the first Bavarian state parliament
- 1837 : Wilhelm Schumacher , German writer and newspaper publisher
- 1841 : Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti , German theologian, archaeologist and orientalist
- 1841 : Pierre Chanel , first martyr in Oceania
- 1846 : Friedrich von Schmauß , Bavarian fortress builder
- 1853 : Ludwig Tieck , German poet, writer, editor and translator of the Romantic period
- 1857 : Johann Konrad Irmischer , German Protestant theologian and librarian
- 1858 : Johannes Müller , German physiologist and comparative anatomist
- 1862 : Josef Arnold the Younger , Austrian fresco, portrait and landscape painter
- 1865 : Samuel Cunard , Canadian businessman and shipowner
- 1872 : Moriz Adolph Briegleb , German politician
- 1877 : William Gannaway Brownlow , American politician
- 1879 : Thilo Irmisch , German botanist
- 1880 : Georg Koppitsch , Austro-Hungarian master stonemason
- 1885 : Conrad Baker , American politician, governor of Indiana
- 1896 : Heinrich von Treitschke , German historian and publicist, and MdR
- 1900 : Izrael Poznański , philanthropist, businessman and manufacturer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Josiah Willard Gibbs , American physicist
- 1905 : Andrea Aiuti , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat, cardinal to the Curia
- 1909 : Frederick Holbrook , American politician
- 1909 : Ernst Pinkert , German restaurateur and founder of the Leipzig Zoo
- 1910 : Edward Porter Alexander , American general
- 1912 : Johann Rudolf Rahn , Swiss monument conservator and art researcher
- 1913 : Franz Boluminski , German colonial official
- 1918 : Gavrilo Princip , Bosnian-Serb nationalist and assassin
- 1922 : Joseph Aumer , German orientalist and librarian
- 1924 : Alois Goldbacher , Austrian classical philologist
- 1925 : Konrad Haenisch , German journalist, politician, MdL and state minister
- 1926 : Adolf Ott , German priest and official
- 1927 : Maria Janitschek , Austrian writer
- 1933 : Cornelis van Vollenhoven , Dutch legal scholar
- 1936 : Otto Arendt , German publicist and politician
- 1936 : Fu'ad I , King of Egypt
- 1942 : UV Swaminatha Iyer , Tamil scholar and philologist
- 1943 : Rosa Manus , Dutch feminist
- 1944 : Joseph-Arthur Bernier , Canadian composer, organist, pianist and music teacher
- 1944 : Frank Knox , American politician
- 1944 : Paul Poiret , French fashion designer
- 1945 : Gustav Abb , German librarian
- 1945 : Franz Brantzky , German architect and painter
- 1945 : Hermann Föttinger , German electrical engineer and inventor
- 1945 : Harry Liedtke , German actor
- 1945 : Benito Mussolini , Italian politician, prime minister, dictator
- 1945 : Clara Petacci , Italian lover of Benito Mussolini
- 1946 : Ricardo Richon Brunet , Chilean painter and art critic
- 1947 : Theodor Arps , German naval officer
- 1948 : Walter Krause , German soccer player
- 1949 : Chairil Anwar , Indonesian poet
- 1950 : Oakes Ames , American botanist
1951-2000
- 1957 : Ferenc Hirzer , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1959 : Franz Grell , German druggist, author and politician
- 1959 : Franz Paul Koch , German cameraman
- 1960 : Carlos Ibáñez del Campo , Chilean officer and politician
- 1960 : Heini Dittmar , German air pioneer and test pilot
- 1960 : Anton Pannekoek , Dutch astronomer and theorist
- 1971 : Otto Lasch , German officer
- 1972 : Paulus af Uhr , Swedish major general and athlete
- 1973 : Piero Drogo , Italian racing driver and designer
- 1973 : Jacques Maritain , French philosopher
- 1973 : Carlos Menditéguy , Argentine Formula 1 racing driver and polo player
- 1973 : Clas Thunberg , Finnish speed skater, Olympic champion
- 1976 : Jürgen Bartsch , German serial killer
- 1976 : Richard Hughes , British writer
- 1976 : Eugen Roth , German lyric poet and poet
- 1977 : Ricardo Cortez , American actor
- 1977 : Sepp Herberger , German soccer coach
- 1978 : Hermann Budzislawski , German journalist
- 1978 : Maurice Dela , Canadian composer and organist
- 1979 : Feliks Łabuński , Polish-American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1979 : Willi Stech , German pianist, band leader and composer
- 1980 : Andrija Anković , Yugoslav football player and coach
- 1981 : Cliff Battles , American football player and coach
- 1983 : Hans Walter Aust , German journalist
- 1984 : Loro Boriçi , Albanian football player and coach
- 1985 : Hans Branig , German archivist and historian
- 1987 : Emil Staiger , Swiss professor
- 1988 : Donald Joyce Borror , American entomologist, bioacoustic specialist, and ornithologist
- 1988 : Gerd Martienzen , German actor
- 1989 : Jack Cummings , American film producer
- 1989 : Géza von Cziffra , German director and screenwriter
- 1991 : Ken Curtis , American country singer and actor
- 1992 : Francis Bacon , Irish painter
- 1992 : Andria Balantschiwadze , Georgian composer
- 1993 : Jim Valvano , American basketball coach
- 1999 : Rory Calhoun , American actor
- 1999 : Alf Ramsey , English football player and coach
- 2000 : Jerzy Einhorn , Polish-Swedish professor and politician
21st century
- 2001 : Evelyn Künneke , German singer, dancer and actress
- 2002 : Alexander Ivanovich Lebed , Russian general and politician
- 2004 : Raymond Arnette , French spy
- 2005 : Ernst Bacher , Austrian art historian and monument conservator
- 2005 : Percy Heath , American jazz bassist
- 2007 : Laine Mets , Estonian pianist and music teacher
- 2007 : Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , German physicist, philosopher and peace researcher
- 2008 : Heinz Droßel , German officer and judge, Righteous Among the Nations
- 2008 : Diana Barnato Walker , British pilot
- 2009 : Ekaterina Sergejewna Maximowa , Russian ballet dancer
- 2011 : Erhard Loretan , Swiss mountaineer
- 2012 : Matilde Camus , Spanish poet and writer
- 2013 : Peter Haber , Swiss historian
- 2015 : Duri Camichel , Swiss ice hockey player
- 2015 : Einar Thorsteinn , Icelandic architect
- 2016 : Peter Brühl , German urologist
- 2016 : Georg Kronawitter , German politician
- 2017 : Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck , Austrian military historian
- 2017 : Hanno Millesi , Austrian physician
- 2018 : Roberto Angleró , Puerto Rican salsa composer, singer and band leader
- 2018 : Judith Leiber , Hungarian-American designer
- 2018 : Hubert Spierling , German glass painter
- 2019 : Richard Lugar , American politician
- 2019 : Sylvia Bretschneider , German politician
- 2019 : Harry Schwarzwälder , Bremen homeland researcher
- 2019 : John Singleton , American film director
- 2020 : Wolfgang Decker , German sports historian and Egyptologist
- 2020 : Bobby Lewis , American musician
- 2021 : Michael Collins , American astronaut
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Gramann (Poliander), German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
- Saint Pierre Chanel , French missionary and martyr (Catholic)
- Saint Valeria of Milan , Roman martyr (Catholic)
- St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort , French writer, missionary and founder of the order (Catholic)
- St. Vitalis , Roman martyr (Catholic)
- International memorial days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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