December 28th

The December 28 is the 362nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 363rd in leap years ), so 3 days left until the end of the year.

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Politics and world events

484: Visigoth Empire

• 0484: After the death of King Euric of the Balthen family , his son Alaric II takes over the rule of the Visigoths .
• 1308: The Japanese Tennō Hanazono takes over the reign.
• 1385: The Habsburg city ​​of Rothenburg in what is now Switzerland is conquered by the Lucerne people and the castle is destroyed.
• 1478: As part of the Ennetbirgischen campaigns , the battle of Giornico takes place . A total of around 600 people from Uri and the locals were able to put an army of several thousand men to flight from Milan . The Leventina is then ruled permanently from the Canton of Uri .
• 1767: With the coronation of King Taksin , the Kingdom of Thonburi is founded in Siam .

1797: Leopold Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau

• 1797: After Prince Friedrich August von Anhalt-Zerbst died without male descendants, the Principality of Anhalt-Zerbst was divided into the remaining lines of Anhalt-Dessau , Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg . The city of Zerbst is raffled and won by Leopold Friedrich Franz von Anhalt-Dessau .
• 1811: John Williams, imprisoned as the alleged perpetrator of the Ratcliffe Highway murders , commits suicide.
• 1831: The Grand Duchy of Baden is contrary to the Carlsbad Decrees , the press censorship in the press law abolished. In the following year this law is declared null and void.
• 1832: With John C. Calhoun , a Vice President of the United States steps down for the first time . The cause is its doctrine in the nullification crisis that a federal state may declare federal laws on its territory to be invalid.
• 1836: With the proclamation of the province of South Australia , the colonization of the British colony of Australia begins .
• 1842: The British explorer and navigator James Clark Ross discovers the seven smaller islands of the Danger Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula .

1846: Iowa Territory

• 1846: The southern part of the Iowa Territory becomes the 29th state member of the USA under the name Iowa . The northern part of the territory is added to the Minnesota Territory , founded in 1849 .
• 1857: British and French ships begin in the Second Opium War from the Pearl River from the shelling Canton .

1885: Delegate of the first Indian National Congress

• 1885: The founding assembly of the Indian Congress Party takes place in Bombay .
• 1945: The US Congress passes the War Brides Act . The law allows entry of the wives of members of the US armed forces and assists in family reunification of soldier marriages abroad.
• 1961: Former Chancellor Julius Raab as President of the Federal Chamber of Commerce and Franz Olah , President of the Austrian Federation of Trade Unions , conclude the secret Raab-Olah Agreement and thus lay the foundation for the institutionalization of social partnership in Austria .
• 1972: The remains of Martin Bormann , head of the party chancellery of the NSDAP with the powers of a Reich Minister at the time of National Socialism , are identified in Berlin.
• 1989: Alexander Dubček is elected President of the Czechoslovak Parliament in the course of the Velvet Revolution .
• 1997: In order to stop the further spread of H5N1 , the causative agent of the H5N1 avian flu , the authorities in Hong Kong kill around 1.5 million chickens.
• 1999: Saparmyrat Nyýazow is appointed president for life by the Turkmen parliament.
• 2000: The Ceaușescu supporter and opponent of perestroika Adrian Năstase becomes Prime Minister in Romania .

business

• 1260: The Hildesheim bishop Johann I von Brakel assures the Sankt Johannes Brotherhood for Miners on the Rammelsberg in Goslar support, which wants to take care of sick and the bereaved miners of deceased miners in need. This creates the world's first miner's stock .

1895: Program of the first cinema screenings

• 1895: Ten films by the Lumière brothers are shown in front of a paying audience for the first time in the Salon India du Grand Café in Paris , including the films Workers Leave the Lumière Works and Babies Breakfast . That is considered to be the birth of cinema .
• 1924: The cable car to the Fichtelberg in the Ore Mountains goes into operation. The Fichtelberg suspension railway is the oldest cable car in Germany.
• 2012: On his 75th birthday, Ratan Tata hands over the management of the Indian Tata Group to Cyrus Mistry .

science and technology

1612: Neptune

• 1612: Galileo Galilei is the first astronomer to see the planet Neptune in his telescope , but considers it a fixed star .
• 1895: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen publishes his first communication on the X-rays that were later named after him .

1904: The Comet Borrelly

• 1904: Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly discovered a comet , which was named after him is.
• 1911: The ASB Bridge , which connects North Kansas City with Kansas City across the Missouri River , opens.
• 1981: Elizabeth Carr is born as a test tube baby in the United States . She is the first child to be born through artificial insemination in US history.
• 2005: Giove-A , the first test satellite for the European Galileo navigation system, goes into operation.

Culture

• 1594: The earliest documented performance of William Shakespeare's comedy The Comedy of Errors ( The Comedy of Errors place) in Gray's Inn , a London lawyer school instead.
• 1717: The premiere of the opera Jobates and Bellerophon by Reinhard Keizer takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
• 1827: The first performance of the operetta Le Mal du pays ou La Bâtelière de Brientz by Adolphe Adam takes place at the Théâtre du Gymnase in Paris .
• 1850: The comic opera La Dame de pique by Jacques Fromental Halévy with text by Eugène Scribe is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1858: The world premiere of the opera Satanella or the Power of Love by Michael William Balfe takes place in Covent Garden in London.
• 1867: The opera La jolie fille de Perth ( The beautiful girl from Perth ) by Georges Bizet is premiered at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris .
• 1878: At the Théâtre des Folies Dramatiques in Paris is Jacques Offenbach's Opéra-Comique Madame Favart premiered.
• 1895: The first public film screening by the Lumière brothers takes place in the Grand Café on Boulevard des Capucines in Paris . Among other things, the film The Watered Gardener will be shown.
• 1910: The second version of Engelbert Humperdinck's melodramatic opera Königskinder with the revised libretto by Elsa Bernstein is premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York .
• 1927: At the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, the opera Antigone by Arthur Honegger premiered.
• 1944: Leonard Bernstein 's first musical On the Town is premiered at the Adelphi Theater in New York .
• 1961: Tennessee Williams ' drama Night of the Iguana premieres on Broadway at the Royale Theater, now the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater .
• 1973: Alexander Issajewitsch Solzhenitsyn's work The Archipelago Gulag appears in Russian in a Paris emigrant publisher.

society

• 2000: The photo Kiss by the British photographer Tanya Chalkin appears on an advertising poster for an internet company in London , which later developed into a popular poster motif.

religion

• 0418: Boniface I is elected by the majority of the Roman clergy to succeed Pope Zosimus . Eulalius , who was also elected the day before , is considered the antipope.
• 1065: The consecration of Westminster Abbey , built under Edward the Confessor , takes place in the absence of the king, who is already too sick to attend the festivities.
• 1878: Pope Leo XIII. turns against socialism in his encyclical Quod apostolici muneris .
• 1912: Foundation of the Anthroposophical Society .
• 1951: The Apostolisch Genootschap splits off from the New Apostolic Church in the Netherlands after disagreements over a successor to the Apostles there .

Disasters

• 1248: The Allerkindleinsflut separates the West Frisian islands from the mainland and floods large parts of the Haseldorfer Marsch .

1879: Railway bridge on the Firth-of-Tay (photo taken before it collapsed)

• 1879: The Firth of Tay Bridge over the Tay in Scotland collapses when a train crosses it. 75 people die. Theodor Fontane later wrote the ballad Die Brück 'am Tay .

Map of the Messina earthquake in 1908

• 1908: The southern Italian cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria are destroyed by a severe earthquake that kills over 100,000 people.
• 1974: An earthquake of magnitude 6.2 in Pakistan calls for about 5,300 deaths.

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

Sports

• 1958: In overtime , the Baltimore Colts win the NFL Championship Game in New York City against the New York Giants 23-17. The dramatic closing minutes make the game The Greatest Game Ever Played in American Football History .
• 1965: FC Hansa Rostock is founded.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1047: Sunjong , 12th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
• 1164: Rokujō , 79th Emperor of Japan
• 1434: Antonio Grimani , 76th Doge of Venice
• 1462: Luise of Savoy , French noblewoman and nun, Catholic blessed
• 1510: Nicholas Bacon , English lawyer, judge and Lord Chancellor
• 1526: Anna Maria , Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Duchess of Württemberg
• 1535: Martin Eisengrein , Roman Catholic priest, controversial theologian and university professor
• 1579: Helwig Garth , German Lutheran theologian
• 1592: Marcus Banzer , German medic
• 1599: Gabriel Bucelinus , German Benedictine, humanist and polymath
• 1609: Ernst Ludwig Avemann , German politician and diplomat
• 1618: Catharina Hooft , Dutch patrician at the time of the " Golden Age "
• 1619: Antoine Furetière , French writer, scholar and lexicographer
• 1625: Johann Christoph Arnschwanger , German hymn poet
• 1630: Ludolf Backhuysen , Dutch marine painter
• 1665: George FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Northumberland , English or British military

Heinrich Klausing (* 1675)

• 1675: Heinrich Klausing German Lutheran theologian, mathematician, astronomer and polymath
• 1700: Franz Anton von Dücker , priest and canon in Cologne

18th century

• 1722: Christoph August Bode , German university professor, philologist and orientalist
• 1722: Eliza Lucas Pinckney , American planter
• 1724: Christoph Franz von Buseck , last Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
• 1728: Justus Claproth , German lawyer and inventor
• 1731: Christian Cannabich , German violinist, conductor and composer (baptism date)
• 1736: Jesse Root , American politician
• 1753: Johann Friedrich Hahn , German poet
• 1753: Johan Wikmansson , Swedish composer
• 1754: William Austin , British medic and surgeon
• 1755: Johann Christian Gottlieb Wernsdorf , German university professor and philosopher
• 1757: Johann Evangelist Schmid , German organ builder
• 1757: Reinhard Woltman , German hydraulic engineer
• 1775: João Domingos Bomtempo , Portuguese composer, pianist, conductor and music organizer
• 1781: Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth , German politician and founder of the Prussian Industrial Institute
• 1782: Matthias Joseph de Noël , German businessman, writer and art collector
• 1784: Ernst Wilhelm Gottlieb Wachsmuth , German historian
• 1785: Dorothea von Lieven , Latvian wife of the Russian general Christoph von Lieven
• 1789: Thomas Ewing , American politician
• 1798: Édouard d'Anglemont , French poet

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802: Henry Gray, 3rd Earl Gray , British colonial politician and statesman
• 1811: Ludwig Philippson , German writer and rabbi
• 1812: Ernst Gäbler , German entrepreneur
• 1812: Julius Rietz , German conductor, composition teacher and composer
• 1814: John Bennet Lawes , British agricultural chemist
• 1818: Carl Remigius Fresenius , German chemist
• 1818: Caesarine Kupfer-Gomansky , German actress
• 1823: Thomas Alexander Scott , Assistant Secretary of War in the American Civil War
• 1826: Conrad Busken Huet , Dutch writer and critic
• 1835: William E. Chandler , American politician
• 1837: Benjamin Johnson Lang , American organist and pianist, conductor and composer
• 1843: Wilhelm Clemm , German classical philologist
• 1849: Herbert von Bismarck , German politician, MdR, Minister, eldest son of Otto von Bismarck

1851-1900

• 1851: Joseph Mackey Brown , American politician, governor of Georgia

Woodrow Wilson (* 1856)

• 1856: Woodrow Wilson , American politician, governor of New Jersey, president, initiator of the League of Nations, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1859: Karl Eckstein , forest scientist and entomologist
• 1860: Alexander von Fielitz , German composer
• 1860: Harry B. Smith , American poet and librettist
• 1862: Morris Rosenfeld , Yiddish poet
• 1865: Félix Vallotton , Swiss-French painter, graphic artist and writer
• 1866: Szymon Askenazy , Polish historian, diplomat and politician
• 1867: Charlotte Basté , German actress
• 1870: Charles Bennett , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 1879: Manuel Arteaga y Betancourt , Archbishop of Havana and Cardinal
• 1879: Frank Blachford , Canadian violinist, music educator, conductor and composer
• 1880: Janko Binenbaum , Turkish composer
• 1882: Arthur Stanley Eddington , British astrophysicist
• 1882: Lili Elbe , Danish painter
• 1883: Alfred Wolfenstein , German expressionist poet, playwright and translator
• 1884: Karel Anděl , Czech selenographer and co-founder of the Czech Astronomical Society
• 1884: Hugo Rosendahl , German lawyer and local politician, Lord Mayor of Koblenz and Essen
• 1885: Antonio Farage , Syrian titular archbishop and patriarchal procurator
• 1885: Vladimir Evgrafowitsch Tatlin , Russian sculptor
• 1887: Charles Dingle , American actor
• 1887: Walter Ruttmann , German film director
• 1888: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau , German director
• 1889: Raymond Saladin , French racing car driver
• 1890: Gösta Ekman , Swedish actor
• 1891: Otto Hübener , German resistance fighter
• 1892: Werner Ackermann , German writer, publisher and co-owner of the Monte Verità artists' colony
• 1892: Karl Appel , Austrian politician, member of the National Council
• 1893: Ernst Römer , Austro-Mexican conductor, music teacher and composer
• 1894: Hermanis Matisons , Latvian chess player
• 1895: Traugott Müller , German director
• 1896: Wilhelm Brese , German Heidebauer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1896: Philippe Étancelin , French racing car driver
• 1896: Roger Sessions , American composer
• 1898: Mischa Spoliansky , British-Russian composer
• 1899: Eugeniusz Bodo , Polish actor, film director and producer
• 1900: Natalio Perinetti , Argentine soccer player
• 1900: Kubo Sakae , Japanese playwright

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901: Thomas Cooray , Sri Lankan clergyman, Archbishop of Colombo, cardinal
• 1902: Mortimer Adler , American philosopher and writer
• 1902: Otto Andres , German politician, MdL, MdR
• 1902: Carsta Löck , German actress
• 1902: Hans Pulver , Swiss football goalkeeper
• 1903: Mikhail Kalatosow , Georgian-Russian film director
• 1903: John von Neumann , Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist
• 1904: Sergei Iossifowitsch Jutkewitsch , Russian film director
• 1904: Joseph Offenbach , German actor
• 1904: Hori Tatsuo , Japanese writer
• 1905: Oscar Andriani , Italian actor
• 1905: Fulvio Bernardini , Italian football player and coach, Olympic medalist
• 1906: Leni Schmidt , German sprinter, Olympic medalist
• 1907: Heinrich Maria Janssen , German clergyman, Bishop of Hildesheim

Erich Mielke (* 1907)

• 1907: Erich Mielke , German politician, Minister for State Security of the GDR
• 1907: Roman Palester , Polish composer
• 1908: Lew Ayres , American actor
• 1908: Leona Rostenberg , American antiquarian and historian
• 1910: Francis Judd Cooke , American composer, organist, pianist, cellist, conductor and music teacher
• 1910: Tom Hupke , American football player
• 1910: Harold Rhodes , American instrument maker
• 1910: Billy Williams , American singer
• 1912: Teuvo Aura , Finnish politician, Prime Minister
• 1912: Ewa Bonacka , Polish actress and director
• 1912: Georg Klaus , German philosopher, chess player and chess official
• 1912: François Spoerry , French architect
• 1913: Egbert Hayessen , German officer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1913: Paolo Silveri , Italian opera singer (baritone) and singing teacher
• 1917: Mouloud Mammeri , Algerian-Kabyle writer, anthropologist and linguist
• 1919: Inocente Carreño , Venezuelan composer

Stan Lee (born 1922)

• 1920: Steve Van Buren , American football player
• 1920: Al Wistert , American football player
• 1921: Johnny Otis , American band leader, producer and talent scout
• 1922: Ivan Desny , Franco-German actor
• 1922: Otto Eckl , Austrian table tennis player
• 1922: Stan Lee , American comic book writer and editor, actor, and film producer
• 1923: Josef Hassid , Polish violinist
• 1924: Milton Obote , Ugandan politician, Prime Minister, President of the Republic

1926-1950

Hildegard Knef (* 1925)

• 1925: Hildegard Knef , German actress, chanson singer and author
• 1927: Edward Babiuch , Polish politician, Prime Minister
• 1927: Helmut Barbe , German composer
• 1927: Gustave Gosselin , Belgian racing car driver
• 1927: Fritz Peter , Colonel General in the NVA and head of civil defense in the GDR
• 1928: Dariush Forouhar , leading Iranian opposition activist
• 1928: Erich Köhler , German writer
• 1929: Terrance Gordon Sawchuk , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1929: Maarten Schmidt , Dutch astronomer
• 1930: Franzl Lang , German singer, yodeler, guitarist and accordion player
• 1930: Ed Thigpen , American jazz drummer
• 1931: Renato Capriles , Venezuelan musician and orchestra leader
• 1931: Guy Debord , French artist and philosopher
• 1932: Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani , Indian entrepreneur
• 1932: Dorsey Burnette , American musician, guitarist and songwriter
• 1932: Nichelle Nichols , American actress
• 1932: Manuel Puig , Argentine writer and screenwriter
• 1933: Franz Rutzen , German publisher
• 1934: John Fellows Akers , American manager
• 1934: Rudi Faßnacht , German soccer coach
• 1934: Herb Gardner , American cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter
• 1934: Dieter Goltzsche , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• 1934: Maggie Smith , English actress
• 1936: Jim McDermott , American psychiatrist and politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1936: Jacques Mesrine , French violent criminal
• 1936: Engelbert Obernosterer , Austrian writer
• 1937: Bengt Ahlfors , Finnish-Swedish author, director, playwright and composer
• 1938: Hans Werner Aufrecht , German entrepreneur
• 1939: Conny Andersson , Swedish racing car driver
• 1939: Philip F. Anschutz , American entrepreneur
• 1939: Marian Czura , Polish filmmaker and painter, founder of the Frankfurter Filmwerkstatt
• 1939: Michael Hinz , German actor
• 1939: Klaus R. Schubert , German physicist
• 1940: AK Antony , Indian politician, minister
• 1940: Peter Göring , member of the GDR border troops
• 1941: Peter-Christian Fueter , Swiss film producer
• 1941: Teruo Higa , Professor of Horticulture, discoverer of Effective Microorganisms
• 1941: Volker Schmidt-Gertenbach , German musician, conductor and general music director
• 1942: Peter Berlin , German male model, draftsman and photographer
• 1943: Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne , Peruvian clergyman, Archbishop of Lima, cardinal
• 1943: Kurt-Dieter Grill , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1943: Siegfried Helias , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1943: Bernard Maury , French jazz pianist, arranger and music teacher
• 1944: Noel Ahern , Irish politician, minister
• 1944: Kary Banks Mullis , American biochemist
• 1944: Gerhard Schlichting , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1945: Birendra , King of Nepal
• 1945: Red Saunders , British photographer and director
• 1946: Pierre Falardeau , French-Canadian director and political activist
• 1946: Werner Faulstich , German media scientist

Mark Washington (* 1947)

• 1947: Mark Washington , American football player
• 1949: Caitlyn Jenner , American athlete, actress, and television personality, Olympic champion
• 1949: Karl-Ernst Schmidt , German local politician
• 1949: Hildegard Wester , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1950: Nikolai Anfimov , Soviet boxer
• 1950: Hugh McDonald , American musician

1951-1975

• 1951: Marianne Graf , Austrian development worker
• 1951: John Gray , American couple and family therapist
• 1951: Jacques Zimako , French football player
• 1953: Richard Clayderman , French pianist
• 1953: Steffen Mauersberger , German enduro athlete

Denzel Washington (* 1954)

• 1954: Denzel Washington , American actor
• 1955: Aleksandras Algirdas Abišala , Lithuanian politician and business consultant, Prime Minister
• 1955: Klaus Barthel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1955: André Herzberg , German musician, singer (Pankow)
• 1955: Liu Xiaobo , Chinese writer, system critic and human rights activist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1956: Birgitt Bender , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1956: Hans-Joachim Dose , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1956: Nigel Kennedy , British violinist
• 1956: Burkhard Spinnen , German writer
• 1957: Petra Weis , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1958: William H. Chapman Nyaho , American pianist and music teacher
• 1958: Joe Diffie , American country singer
• 1959: Hansjörg Kunze , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1959: Dieudonné Ntep , Cameroonian cyclist
• 1960: Ray Bourque , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960: Terri Garber , American television actress
• 1961: Katina Schubert , German politician, MdA
• 1962: Abdi Bile , Somali athlete, world champion
• 1962: Dagmar Hartge , German data protection officer for Brandenburg
• 1962: Michel Petrucciani , French jazz pianist
• 1962: Rachel Z , American jazz pianist
• 1964: Werner Benecke , German historian
• 1964: Martin Fiala , Austrian composer
• 1965: Dany Brillant , French singer
• 1965: Mario Wille , German handball player
• 1966: Rainer Vollath , German writer and editor
• 1968: Lior Ashkenazi , Israeli actor
• 1968: Anastasia Zampounidis , German-Greek television presenter
• 1969: Heike Dederer , German politician, MdL
• 1969: Linus Torvalds , Finnish-American computer scientist, founder of the Linux software project
• 1970: Oleg Germanowitsch Artemjew , Russian cosmonaut
• 1970: Bernd Brümmer , German handball player
• 1970: Francesca Lé , American porn actress
• 1972: Oliver Polzer , Austrian sports commentator
• 1972: Patrick Rafter , Australian tennis player
• 1972: Adam Vinatieri , American football player
• 1973: Marc Blume , German athlete
• 1973: Ids Postma , Dutch speed skater, world champion, Olympic champion
• 1974: Rob Niedermayer , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1974: Spencer Pumpelly , American racing car driver
• 1974: Kay-Sölve Richter , German journalist and presenter

1976-2000

• 1976: Eric Griffin , American bassist ( Murderdolls )
• 1977: Kuami Agboh , Togolese soccer player
• 1977: Derrick Brew , American athlete, world champion, Olympic champion
• 1977: Manfred Pamminger , Austrian footballer
• 1977: Dennis Todorović , German director, screenwriter and film producer
• 1978: Bintia , German pop and soul singer
• 1978: John Legend , American musician
• 1978: Frédéric Page , Swiss football player
• 1979: James Blake , American tennis player
• 1979: B-Tight , German rapper
• 1979: Daniel Forfang , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1979: Senna Gammour , German singer ( Monrose )
• 1979: Daniel Montenegro , Argentinian soccer player
• 1979: Noomi Rapace , Swedish actress
• 1979: Frank Schumann , German handball player
• 1979: Sven Waasner , German actor
• 1980: Diego Junqueira , Argentine tennis player
• 1980: Lomana LuaLua , Congolese soccer player
• 1980: Mircea Pârligras , Romanian chess player
• 1981: Nicolas Antonoff , French ice hockey player
• 1981: Khalid Boulahrouz , Dutch football player

Sienna Miller (born 1981)

• 1981: Sienna Miller , British-American actress
• 1982: Kakianako Nariki , Kiribati sprinter
• 1982: Lara van Ruijven , Dutch speed skater, Olympic medalist, world champion
• 1982: Unk , American rapper and DJ
• 1982: Karen Zapata , Peruvian chess player
• 1983: Debatik Curri , Albanian football player
• 1984: Martin Kaymer , German golfer
• 1984: Alex Lloyd , British racing driver
• 1984: Sean St. Ledger , Anglo-Irish soccer player
• 1985: Kamani Hill , American football player
• 1986: Tom Huddlestone , English football player
• 1987: Luise Risch , German actress
• 1987: Matthias Schwarz , German soccer player
• 1988: Islambek Said-Zilimowitsch Albijew , Russian wrestler
• 1988: Belal Arezou , Afghan soccer player
• 1988: Abdou Razack Traoré , Ivorian football player
• 1989: George Blagden , British theater and film actor
• 1989: Sandro Foda , German soccer player
• 1989: Mackenzie Rosman , American actress
• 1990: Ayele Abshero , Ethiopian long-distance runner
• 1990: David Archuleta , American pop singer
• 1992: Julia Eichinger , German freestyle skier
• 1993: Lucas Röser , German soccer player
• 1994: Odd Christian Eiking , Norwegian cyclist
• 1994: Vincent zur Linden , German actor
• 1995: Brittany Abercrombie , American volleyball player
• 1998: Malika Auger-Aliassime , Canadian tennis player
• 1998: Jared Gilman , American actor
• 1998: Djibo Idrissa Ousseini , Nigerien athlete

21st century

• 2001: Madison De La Garza , American actress

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0825: Haistulph , Archbishop of Mainz
• 0970: Ansegis , Bishop of Troyes and Chancellor and Grand Almosier of France
• 1119: Widelo , Bishop of Minden
• 1218: Robert II , Count of Dreux and Braine
• 1297: Hugues Aycelin , French theologian and cardinal
• 1342: Bartolomeo Gradenigo , Doge of Venice
• 1367: Ashikaga Yoshiakira , Japanese Shogun
• 1369: Fromhold von Vifhusen , Archbishop of Riga
• 1394: Maria Angelina Dukaina Palaiologina , ruler in the despotate of Epirus
• 1406: Marquard von Randegg , Bishop of Minden and Constance
• 1412: Conrad III. , Duke of Oels
• 1422: Elizabeth Berkeley , English magnate
• 1442: Katharina von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , first Electress of Saxony
• 1446: Heinrich I , Lord of Plauen and Burgrave of Meißen
• 1446: Clemens VIII. , Antipope during the occidental schism
• 1450: Takeda Nobushige , Japanese daimyo of the Muromachi period
• 1465: Wilhelm von Calven , mayor of Lübeck
• 1468: Jean Michel , Bishop of Geneva
• 1482: Hinrich Constin , Lübeck councilor and merchant
• 1491: Bertoldo di Giovanni , Italian sculptor

16th to 18th centuries

• 1503: Piero di Lorenzo de 'Medici , "the unfortunate", ruler of Florence and Italian mercenary
• 1517: Wilhelm von Diesbach , mayor of Bern
• 1524: Johann von Staupitz , German theologian
• 1538: Andrea Gritti , Doge of Venice
• 1539: Agnes Dürer , Nuremberg art dealer, wife of Albrecht Dürer
• 1547: Konrad Peutinger , German politician
• 1558: Jakob Jonas , German philologist, legal scholar, politician and diplomat
• 1568: Christoph , Duke of Württemberg
• 1622: Francis de Sales , Bishop of Geneva / Annecy, founder of an order, doctor of the church, saint
• 1626: Juraj Zrinski , Ban of Croatia
• 1645: Giovanni Battista Carlone , Italian builder and architect
• 1663: Francesco Maria Grimaldi , Italian theologian, physicist and mathematician
• 1671: Johann Friedrich Gronovius , German classical philologist and text critic
• 1679: Johann Friedrich , Duke of the Principality of Calenberg

Maria II. († 1694)

• 1694: Mary II , Queen of England
• 1706: Pierre Bayle , French philosopher and writer
• 1708: Joseph Pitton de Tournefort , French botanist and explorer
• 1718: Johann Brokoff , Bohemian sculptor
• 1718: Benoîte Rencurel , French shepherdess and mystic
• 1720: Johann Christian Neu , German historian and philologist, rector of the University of Tübingen
• 1728: Anna Sophie , Princess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• 1734: Robert Roy MacGregor , Scottish folk hero and outlaw
• 1736: Antonio Caldara , Italian composer
• 1737: Georg Gustav von Rosen , Livonian general
• 1743: August Simon Lindholtz , German lawyer, mayor of Lübeck
• 1747: Gundacker von Althan , Austrian general, diplomat and court building director
• 1751: Erich Philipp Ploennies , German mathematician and cartographer
• 1767: Emer de Vattel , Swiss international lawyer
• 1778: David Macbride , Irish physician and writer
• 1796: Friedrich Ludwig Karl of Prussia , Prussian Prince

19th century

• 1813: Christian Ludwig Bachmann , German physician and music writer
• 1825: James Wilkinson , American general
• 1826: Simon Moritz von Bethmann , German banker
• 1827: Robert Woodhouse , British professor of mathematics
• 1829: Elizabeth Freeman , American slave
• 1829: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck , French botanist, zoologist and developmental biologist
• 1830: Therese Krones , Austrian actress
• 1832: Charles de Lameth , French general
• 1835: Johann Arzberger , Austrian technician and scientist
• 1835: James Findlay , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1850: Heinrich Christian Schumacher , German astronomer
• 1857: Heinrich Friedrich Philipp von Bockelberg , Prussian diplomat
• 1859: Thomas Babington Macaulay , British historian
• 1868: Karel Chotek , Czech nobleman, administrator and politician
• 1870: Alexei Fjodorowitsch Lwow , Russian violinist and composer
• 1870: Georg Karl von Seuffert , German lawyer, President of the Bavarian Commercial Court of Appeal
• 1876: Ferdinand von Loehr , German medic, politician and revolutionary
• 1876: Frederik Paludan-Müller , Danish writer
• 1878: José Bernardo Alcedo , Peruvian composer
• 1889: Ferdinand Dinse , German organ builder
• 1892: Gottlieb Leonhard Gaiser , German businessman
• 1893: Richard Spruce , English botanist and naturalist
• 1897: Meinardus Siderius Pols , Dutch legal scholar
• 1899: Dominique Ducharme , Canadian pianist, organist and music teacher
• 1899: Karl Friedrich Rammelsberg , German chemist

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902: Johann Georg Förster , German organ builder
• 1903: George Robert Gissing , English writer
• 1904: Otto Intze , German professor and engineer, pioneer of dam construction
• 1907: Willi Leininger , German composer and music writer
• 1908: Charles Marley Anderson , American politician
• 1913: Ahmed Midhat Efendi , Ottoman journalist, author, translator and publisher
• 1914: Hans von Arnim , Prussian landowner and politician, MdL
• 1914: Ludwig Auer , German educational reformer, writer, publisher and entrepreneur
• 1916: Carl Hintze , German mineralogist and crystallographer
• 1916: Eduard Strauss , Austrian composer and conductor
• 1919: Johannes Rydberg , Swedish physicist
• 1924: Albert Koebele , German-American entomologist
• 1925: Sergei Alexandrovich Jessenin , Russian poet
• 1931: Curt von François , German officer, Africa researcher and colonial politician, governor of German South West Africa, commander of the local protection force
• 1932: Malcolm Whitman , American tennis player
• 1933: Anatoli Wassiljewitsch Lunacharsky , Soviet People's Commissar for Education
• 1934: Pablo Gargallo , Spanish sculptor
• 1934: Adachi Mineichirō , Japanese lawyer and diplomat
• 1934: Georg Moog , German clergyman and theologian, bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany
• 1934: Maggie Smith , British actress

Maurice Ravel († 1937)

• 1937: Maurice Ravel , French composer, main exponent of impressionism in music
• 1937: Georg Thilenius , German physician and ethnologist
• 1938: Florence Lawrence , Canadian-American silent film actress
• 1938: Alfons Loewe , German lawyer and notary
• 1938: Lotte Witt , German theater actress
• 1942: Alfred Flatow , German gymnast, Olympic champion, victim of National Socialism
• 1943: Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg , Austrian classical philologist and Germanist
• 1944: Richard Hesse , German zoologist
• 1944: Frederik Muller Jzn. , Dutch classical philologist
• 1945: Theodore Dreiser , American writer
• 1946: Ada Adler , Danish classical philologist and librarian
• 1947: Viktor Emanuel III. , King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia
• 1948: Hans Bogner , German classical philologist
• 1949: Hervey Allen , American writer
• 1949: Jack Lovelock , New Zealand middle-distance runner, Olympic champion

1951-2000

• 1952: Carlo Agostini , Italian clergyman, Bishop of Padua, Patriarch of Venice
• 1952: Fletcher Henderson , American jazz pianist, band leader and composer
• 1954: Heinrich Uhlendahl , German librarian
• 1956: Ivan Albertowitsch Puni , Russian painter
• 1957: Oscar Matthiesen , Danish painter
• 1959: Ante Pavelić , Croatian politician and nationalist, leader of the Independent State of Croatia

Paul Hindemith († 1963)

• 1962: Marcel Aubert , French historian and art historian
• 1963: Paul Hindemith , German composer and musician
• 1964: Kees Bekker , Dutch soccer player
• 1966: Victor Anfuso , American lawyer and politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1971: Max Steiner , Austrian composer
• 1973: Alexander Arturowitsch Rou , Soviet film director
• 1973: Rudi Schuricke , German singer and actor
• 1976: Freddie King , blues musician
• 1976: Franz Seraph Reicheneder , German historian and local researcher
• 1978: Wilhelm Troll , German botanist
• 1978: Gustav Zelibor , Austrian Kapellmeister and composer
• 1979: Walter Hochmuth , German politician, resistance fighter and diplomat of the GDR
• 1981: Demetrio Aguilera Malta , Ecuadorian writer, painter and diplomat
• 1981: Allan Dwan , American director, producer, screenwriter
• 1981: Franco Giongo , Italian athlete
• 1981: Walter Erich Schäfer , German agronomist, dramaturge and general manager of the Stuttgart State Theater
• 1983: Eugène Chaboud , French racing driver
• 1983: Dennis Wilson , American musician and songwriter ( The Beach Boys )
• 1984: Erwin Mehl , Austrian sports scientist
• 1984: Sam Peckinpah , American film director
• 1985: Josef Lense , Austrian mathematician
• 1986: John D. MacDonald , American writer
• 1988: Kurt Abraham , German jazz musician
• 1988: Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen master
• 1989: Hermann Oberth , German physicist and space pioneer
• 1989: William Scott , Scottish painter
• 1989: Walter Seuffert , German lawyer, politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP, Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1991: Cassandra Harris , Australian film actress
• 1991: Hermann Müller , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
• 1992: Eugen Jegorov , Czech actor and jazz musician
• 1992: Elfie Mayerhofer , Austrian film actress and singer
• 1993: William Nelson Austin , American film editor
• 1993: Howard Caine , American actor
• 1993: Rudolph Schulze , German politician, MdL, member of the People's Chamber, State Minister, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Minister of the GDR
• 1996: Hans Baumgartner , Swiss photographer
• 1996: Vasily Ivanovich Rakow , Soviet pilot
• 1998: Herbert Fechner , German politician, Lord Mayor of East Berlin, member of the People's Chamber
• 1998: Werner Müller , German author, composer, conductor, arranger and orchestra leader
• 1999: Franco Castellano , Italian screenwriter and director
• 2000: Eduard Adorno , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary, State Minister
• 2000: Arthur Dürst , Swiss geographer and cartography historian

21st century

Susan Sontag
(† 2004)

• 2002: Maria Carbone , Italian opera singer and vocal teacher
• 2002: Koreyoshi Kurahara , Japanese film director and screenwriter
• 2003: Henning Frederichs , German composer, conductor and music teacher
• 2004: Franz Böhmert , German doctor and sports official
• 2004: Jerry Orbach , American actor
• 2004: Susan Sontag , American writer, essayist and publicist
• 2007: Abdallah ibn Husain al-Ahmar , Yemeni politician and tribal leader
• 2008: Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin , British-American mathematician
• 2009: The Rev , American musician and songwriter ( Avenged Sevenfold )
• 2010: Fred Angerer , German architect
• 2010: Eva Deissen , Austrian journalist and columnist
• 2010: Denis Dutton , New Zealand author, internet entrepreneur and professor
• 2010: Eckart van Hooven , German bank manager and politician
• 2011: Andreas Al-Laham , German business economist
• 2011: Charlotte Kerr , German actress, director and producer
• 2012: Nicholas Neoclis Ambraseys , Greek-British civil engineer, pioneer in soil mechanics and seismology
• 2012: Jon Finch , British actor

Halton Arp
(† 2013)

• 2013: Halton Arp , American astronomer
• 2015: Gottfried Arnold , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 2015: Chris Barnard , South African writer
• 2015: Guru Josh , British musician

Lemmy Kilmister († 2015)

• 2015: Lemmy Kilmister , British musician
• 2015: Ian Murdock , American computer scientist
• 2016: Michel Déon , French writer
• 2016: Knut Kiesewetter , German jazz singer and songwriter
• 2016: Debbie Reynolds , American actress
• 2016: Jean-Christophe Victor , French political scientist and television presenter
• 2017: Sue Grafton , American writer
• 2017: Ulrich Wegener , German Federal Border Guard officer, founder and first commander of GSG 9
• 2018: Amos Oz , Israeli writer
• 2019: Jurij Grós , Sorbian functionary and politician, chairman of Domowina, member of the People's Chamber
• 2020: Csaba Ali , Hungarian swimmer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Day of the Innocent Children (Protestant, Catholic)
  • Johann Reinhard Hedinger , German preacher (Protestant)

Further entries can be found in the list of days of remembrance and action .

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