July 28th
The July 28 is the 209th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 210th in leap years ), thus remain 156 days by year end.
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Politics and world events
- Pepin the can with his sons Karl Mann and Karl Pope Stephen II. , Of the Frankish kingdom has come to him for help against the Lombards to ask, in the Basilica of Saint-Denis to the King of the Franks crown. 754:
- 1148: The Crusaders break off the siege of Damascus on the fifth day after it is learned that Nur ad-Din is approaching with an army. The disagreement between the three Christian kings about the progress of the Second Crusade lays the seed for its subsequent failure.
- 1330: After the victory over Bulgarian troops in the Battle of Welbaschd , the Serbian Empire gains supremacy in the Balkans until the Ottomans advance .
- 1353: Anna von Schweidnitz is crowned Queen of Bohemia .
- 1420: The Roman-German King Sigismund is crowned King of Bohemia in Prague .
- 1480: In the Otranto campaign , an Ottoman force lands in Apulia and moves in front of Otranto . After the city has been refused to surrender, the siege begins .
- 1540: The English chancellor Thomas Cromwell , who brokered the fourth marriage of Henry VIII to Anna von Kleve , is executed for high treason and heresy. On the same day, Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard .
- 1609: An island in Bermuda is involuntarily settled for ten months by English colonists who want to go to Virginia . Your ship runs aground on a reef in a severe storm , making it unseaworthy.
- 1696: Peter the Great celebrates the first victory in a battle against the Ottomans by conquering the tenaciously defended city and fortress of Azov in the Russo-Turkish War .
- 1742: The Peace of Berlin between Prussia and Austria ends the First Silesian War and confirms the preliminary peace in Breslau .
- 1794: Maximilien de Robespierre and 21 of his followers are executed, including Antoine de Saint-Just and Georges Couthon . This ends the time of terror in France during the revolutionary era .
- 1809: The Napoleonic Wars in the Iberian Peninsula : In the Battle of Talavera prevents Arthur Wellesley , the future Duke of Wellington, the Spanish King Joseph Bonaparte , Portugal to conquer.
- 1821: After the conquest of Lima , José de San Martín declares Peru's independence from Spain.
- 1835: On the anniversary of the July Revolution perpetrated Joseph Fieschi with fellow conspirators one attack on France's King Louis-Philippe by an infernal machine . The regent is slightly injured, but 12 people from his entourage die. There are more dead and injured in the rows of spectators on Paris' Boulevard du Temple .
- 1858: The British colonial official William James Herschel asks a Bengali contract partner for the first time a handprint in addition to the signature. With this the birth of dactyloscopy suddenly strikes . Two years later, he insists on fingerprints in pension payments.
- 1875: Four Italian tunnel workers are shot during the riots in Göschenen after a strike had started the day before during the construction of the Gotthard tunnel .
- 1914: One month after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and begins the First World War .
- 1918: After an uprising in Yaroslavl, the Cheka executes 428 opponents of the Bolsheviks .
- 1920: In response to massive pressure from the victorious powers of World War I, Poland and Czechoslovakia contractually settle the border conflict over the Olsa area that had begun the previous year .
- 1943: In Hamburg , during Operation Gomorrah , the hitherto heaviest air raids in history trigger a devastating firestorm that destroys large parts of the city, kills at least 35,000 people and makes over a million homeless.
- 1951: The Convention on the Status of Refugees , the Geneva Refugee Convention , is passed in Geneva .
- 1967: The German law on political parties , laying down rules for party finan-cation , enters into force.
- 1977: Spain applies to join the EC .
- 2001: Alejandro Toledo Manrique becomes the first indigenous president of Peru after the resignation of Alberto Fujimori .
- 2004: The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders announces the end of its 24 years of activity in Afghanistan after five of its employees were killed in a targeted attack on June 5.
- 2005: The IRA officially declares the end of the armed struggle against British rule in Northern Ireland .
business
- 1892: Limited state funds for the construction of new railway lines lead to the enactment of the Prussian Small Railroad Act . The private railways in Prussia caused an upswing in passenger and freight traffic in the following years .
- 1987: The report of the ARD - television magazine Monitor about worms in fish cans triggers a rapid decline in demand for the purchase of canned fish from. The German fishing industry subsequently falls into a crisis.
- 1996: The Pay TV transmitter DF1 of the Kirch Group in Germany began with the broadcast of digital television , first locally in the region around Munich.
science and technology
- 1955: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces through White House spokesman James Hagerty that he will commission an earth satellite as the US national contribution to the International Geophysical Year .
- 1996: The remains of the Kennewick man are found on the banks of the Columbia River in Washington State .
- 2000: The Munich research reactor (called "Atomei"), which went into operation in 1957 as the first German research reactor in Garching , is shut down.
Culture
- 1929: The world premiere of the opera Lehrstück by Paul Hindemith takes place in Baden-Baden.
- 1844: The Wang Stave Church , a medieval Norwegian stave wood church acquired by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV , is ceremonially opened after reconstruction at its new location in the Giant Mountains.
- 1951: The Disney film Alice in Wonderland, based on the novel of the same name by Lewis Carroll, has its world premiere in the USA.
- 1957: In northern Italy Cosio d'Arroscia is Situationist International , an association of avant-garde artists founded.
- 1994: The first CzechTek festival begins in Hostomice pod Brdy in front of around 300 visitors. The Freetekno festival is carried out by 2006 annually on the last weekend in July at various locations in the Czech Republic.
- 1994: Three paintings by William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich , on loan for the exhibition Goethe and Art , are stolen from the Frankfurt Kunsthalle Schirn .
company
- 1938: The Brazilian police shoot the famous gang leader Virgulino Ferreira da Silva , known as "Lampeão", his wife Maria Bonita and nine other followers in a firefight with Cangaceiros in the northeastern state of Sergipe . The last member of these gangs of outlaws killed in 1940, bringing the time of the later heroised Cangaços ends.
religion
- 1906: In the encyclical Pieni l'animo , written in Italian , Pope Pius X speaks about the spirit of obedience and addresses the clergy in Italy.
Disasters
- 1566: Numerous ships of the Danish - Lübeck fleet off Gotland sink due to a storm . According to unofficial information, around 6,000 sailors and soldiers are killed.
- 1883: Around 2,300 people are killed in an earthquake on Ischia ; the villages of Casamicciola Terme and Lacco Ameno are almost completely destroyed.
- 1912: After the collapse of the Binz pier on Rügen, 17 people drown in the Baltic Sea, and dozens more are injured. In the following year, the incident leads to the establishment of the Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft e. V.
- 1945: In the collision of a B-25 -Bombers with the Empire State Building in New York are 14 people killed, including eleven civilians.
- 1947: The cargo ship Ocean Liberty loaded with ammonium nitrate explodes in the port of Brest . 21 people die and over 100 others are injured. The property damage incurred amounts to two million pounds sterling.
- 1948: 207 people are killed in a tank car explosion on the premises of the BASF nitro paint factory in Ludwigshafen am Rhein .
- 1976: In China Tangshan come at an earthquake of magnitude 7.8 according to official figures 242,000 people dead, unofficially even up to 800,000.
- 1981: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Iran kills around 1,500.
- 1987: A rock fall buries the village of Morignone in the upper Valtellina . 53 people are killed and 1,500 people are made homeless.
- 2010: An Airbus 321 from Pakistani Airblue crashes on approach to Islamabad . 152 people died in the first incident involving this type of aircraft.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1800: The first ascent of the Großglockner , the (today) highest mountain in Austria , succeeds under the direction of Martin and Sepp Klotz.
- 1874: The ascent of the 5,642 m high western summit of Elbrus , the highest mountain in the Caucasus , is achieved by the Englishmen Frederick Gardiner, Florence Crawford Grove, Horace Walker and the Swiss leader of the expedition, Peter Knubel .
- 1952: Pakistan becomes a full member of the Imperial Cricket Conference (now the International Cricket Council, ICC).
- 1962: The DFB Bundestag in Dortmund decides to create a soccer Bundesliga from the 1963/1964 season onwards.
- 1984: The XXIII. Summer Olympics in Los Angeles open.
- 1991: The Spanish cyclist Miguel Induráin wins the Tour de France for the first time .
- 2001: At the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka , the Australian Ian Thorpe was the first swimmer to receive six gold medals at world championships, three in individual competitions and three as a relay swimmer.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1347: Margaret of Durazzo , Queen of Hungary and Naples
- 1458: Jacopo Sannazaro , Italian poet
- 1516: Wilhelm , Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg
- 1609: Judith Leyster , Dutch Baroque painter
- 1610: Leonora Duarte , Dutch-Belgian composer of the Baroque
- 1615: Charles de Noyelle , General of the Jesuits
- 1627: Johann Franz Desideratus , Count or Prince of Nassau, Count of Katzenelnbogen, Vianden and Diez
- 1635: Robert Hooke , English physicist, mathematician and inventor
- 1645: Marguerite Louise d'Orléans , Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1659: Charles Ancillon , Franco-German lawyer and diplomat
- 1761: Karl Joseph von Riccabona , Bishop of Passau
- 1768: Henriette Frölich , German writer
- 1769: Hudson Lowe , British general and governor of St. Helena
- 1770: Gerhard Janssen Schmid , German organ builder
- 1783: Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Bismarck , German lieutenant general and military writer
- 1796: Georg Wilhelm von Wedekind , German forester
- 1800: Claude Montal , French piano maker
19th century
1801 to 1850
- 1804: Ludwig Feuerbach , German philosopher
- 1805: Giuditta Grisi , Italian opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
- 1806: Alexander Andrejewitsch Ivanov , Russian painter
- 1808: Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso , Italian freedom fighter and historian
- 1811: Giulia Grisi , Italian opera singer
- 1812: Józef Ignacy Kraszewski , Polish writer, historian and publicist
- 1813: Alberto Mazzucato , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1814: Immanuel Stockmeyer , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1817: Adolphe Deloffre , French conductor and violinist
- 1818: Kuno von Auer , Prussian major general
- 1832: Bertha Gumprich , German cook and author
- 1835: Karl Moritz von Beurmann , German traveler to Africa
- 1841: Anna Stainer-Knittel , Tyrolean portrait and flower painter
- 1845: Adolf Angst , Swiss entrepreneur
- 1848: Hermann Niehaus , 2nd Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
- 1850: Eduard Adt , German manufacturer and politician, mayor, MdR
- 1850: Therese von Liechtenstein , Princess von und zu Liechtenstein and Princess of Bavaria
1851 to 1900
- 1855: Louisine W. Havemeyer , American art collector, patron and suffragette
- 1856: Karl Heinrich Gisbert Gillhausen , German civil engineer, industrial manager and politician
- 1859: Mary Anderson , American actress
- 1859: Léon César Autonne , French engineer and mathematician
- 1859: Franz Eugen Schlachter , Alsatian evangelist, classical philologist and translator of the Schlachter Bible
- 1860: Elias M. Ammons , American politician
- 1860: Anastasia Michailowna Romanowa , Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1861: Louis Vivin , French painter
- 1862: Curt Agthe , German genre and landscape painter
- 1866: Beatrix Potter , British author
- 1867: Charles Dillon Perrine , American-Argentine astronomer
- 1868: Thomas Peter Krag , Norwegian writer
- 1868: Leonhard Ragaz , Swiss theologian
- 1871: Sergei Nikolajewitsch Bulgakow , Russian economist and Orthodox theologian
- 1872: Percy Moreau Ashburn , American medic and military doctor
- 1873: Louisa Garrett Anderson , British doctor and suffragette
- 1874: Ernst Cassirer , German philosopher
- 1874: Alice Duer Miller , American writer, poet, and feminist
- 1876: Walther Kolbe , German ancient historian
- 1877: Albert David Jordan , Canadian organist, conductor and music teacher
- 1879: Vittorio Ambrosio , Italian general
- 1879: Inocenc Arnošt Bláha , Czech sociologist, philosopher, educator
- 1879: Lucy Burns , American suffragette
- 1881: Günther Quandt , German industrialist
- 1884: Kurt Landauer , German businessman, soccer player and official
- 1887: Marcel Duchamp , French painter and object artist, co-founder of conceptual art, companion of Dadaism and Surrealism
- 1887: Hugo Urban-Emmerich , Czechoslovak entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1888: Adele Schönfeld , German actress
- 1891: István Tóth-Potya , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1892: Hans Behrendt , German lieutenant general
- 1893: Meinrad Inglin , Swiss writer
- 1893: Rued Langgaard , Danish composer and organist
- 1894: Niklaus Senn , Swiss bank manager and politician
- 1894: Freda Dudley Ward , British high society lady, mistress of Edward VIII.
- 1896: Barbara La Marr , American actress
- 1897: Leonid Abramowitsch Anulow , Soviet scout
- 1897: Albert Huber , Swiss diplomat
- 1899: Hans Adler , German business lawyer
- 1900: Hanns Otto Münsterer , German physician, writer and folklorist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Marielies Schleicher , German politician, MdL
- 1902: Karl Popper , Austro-British philosopher
- 1903: Ernst Wilhelm Bohle , German Nazi Gauleiter and head of the NSDAP's foreign organization
- 1903: Silvina Ocampo Aguirre , Argentine writer and translator
- 1903: Lotte Palfi-Andor , German actress
- 1903: Hedwig Voegt , German literary scholar and university professor
- 1904: Pawel Alexejewitsch Cherenkov , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1905: Maria Fink , German politician, MdL and district administrator
- 1905: Eva van Hoboken , German writer
- 1905: Ehrhard Voigt , German geologist and paleontologist, inventor of the lacquer film method
- 1906: Heinz Ludwig , German painter, graphic artist and comic artist
- 1907: Dolf Sternberger , German political scientist and journalist
- 1907: Earl Tupper , American inventor of Tupperware
- 1908: Taso Mathieson , British racing car driver
- 1909: Carl Andresen , German theologian and historian of religion
- 1909: Aenne Burda , German publisher
- 1909: César Concepción , Puerto Rican trumpeter, arranger, orchestra conductor and composer
- 1909: Malcolm Lowry , British writer
- 1910: Heinz Beyer , German rower
- 1911: Ann Doran , American actress
- 1911: Morris Goldenberg , American percussionist and music teacher
- 1911: Gerhard Stöck , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1912: Mário Américo , Brazilian masseur
- 1912: Willy Bandholz , German field handball player
- 1912: Robert Rollwage , German politician, MdL
- 1915: Brenda de Banzie , British actress
- 1915: Lore Hummel , German art designer, children's book author and illustrator
- 1915: Charles Hard Townes , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1916: Werner Andermatt , Swiss painter and graphic artist
- 1916: Tilly Lauenstein , German stage and film actress
- 1917: Brigitte Schröder , German local politician and presbyter
- 1917: Gerhard Wollner , German actor and cabaret artist
- 1920: Andrew V. McLaglen , British film director
- 1920: Lea Padovani , Italian actress
- 1921: Fritzi Schwingl , Austrian canoeist
- 1922: Jacques Piccard , Swiss deep sea researcher and oceanographer
- 1923: Wen-chung Chou , American composer
- 1923: Ingeborg Eichler , Austrian doctor and pharmacologist
- 1924: Luigi Musso , Italian racing driver
- 1925: Baruch S. Blumberg , American medic
- 1925: André Boucourechliev , French composer and music writer
- 1925: Rolf Ludwig , German actor
- 1925: Bruno Pesaola , Argentine-Italian football player and coach
- 1925: Juan Schiaffino , Uruguayan football player
1926-1950
- 1927: John Ashbery , American poet
- 1927: Hans Bauer , German football player
- 1927: Tadeusz Łomnicki , Polish actor
- 1927: Ermes Muccinelli , Italian football player
- 1927: David Viñas , Argentine writer
- 1927: Heini Walter , Swiss automobile racing driver
- 1928: Ray Aghayan , Persian costume designer
- 1928: Griselda Gambaro , Argentine playwright
- 1928: Angélica Gorodischer , Argentine writer
- 1928: Kveta Pacovská , Czech artist and children's book illustrator
- 1928: Guy Verrier , French racing car driver
- 1929: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis , wife of John F. Kennedy
- 1929: Werner Vetterli , Swiss athlete, television presenter and politician
- 1930: Jean Roba , Belgian comic artist
- 1931: Karl-Friedrich Haas , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1936: Olaf Leu , German graphic designer
- 1936: Milan Uhde , Czech writer and politician
- 1937: Kurt Düwell , German historian
- 1937: Bernal Flores , Costa Rican composer
- 1938: Arsen Dedić , Croatian musician and poet
- 1938: Alberto Fujimori , President of Peru
- 1938: Chuan Leekpai , Thai politician, President of the National Assembly, Prime Minister
- 1939: Barry Ashbee , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1940: Gianpaolo Ambrosi , Italian luge rider
- 1941: Colin Higgins , Australian writer, screenwriter and director
- 1941: Riccardo Muti , Italian conductor
- 1941: Pentti Saarman , Finnish boxer
- 1942: Neilia Hunter Biden , American teacher and first wife of Joe Bidens
- 1942: Bolesław Kwiatkowski , Polish basketball player
- 1942: Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi , Japanese cellist and music teacher
- 1943: Michael Bloomfield , American musician
- 1943: Judy Martz , US governor
- 1943: Rick Wright , British musician
- 1944: Udo Walz , German hairdresser
- 1945: Jim Davis , American draftsman (Garfield)
- 1946: Marty Hinze , American automobile racing driver and racing team owner
- 1946: Alexander Saprykin , Soviet volleyball player
- 1947: Barbara Ferrell , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1947: Bill Mockridge , Canadian actor and cabaret artist
- 1950: Isidore Battikha , Syrian Archbishop
1951-1975
- 1951: Santiago Calatrava , Spanish architect, artist and civil engineer
- 1951: Veronika Fischer , German singer
- 1952: Maha Vajiralongkorn , Rama X., King of Thailand
- 1952: Cordt Schnibben , German journalist
- 1952: Eva Wilms , German athlete
- 1953: Krista Sager , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator, Member of the Bundestag
- 1954: Gabi Ashkenazi , Israeli lieutenant general
- 1954: Hugo Chávez , Venezuelan officer and politician, President
- 1954: Gerd Faltings , German physicist and mathematician
- 1954: Steve Morse , American musician
- 1955: Vasile Andrei , Romanian wrestler, Olympic champion
- 1955: Gregg Giuffria , American keyboardist
- 1956: Robert Swan , polar explorer and environmentalist
- 1957: Scott Pelley , American television journalist
- 1957: Judith von Radetzky , German actress
- 1960: Alexandre Czerniatynski , Belgian football player
- 1960: Harald Lesch , German physicist, astronomer, philosopher, author and television presenter
- 1961: Yannick Dalmas , French racing car driver
- 1962: Torsten Gütschow , German soccer player
- 1962: Arne Lorenz , German director
- 1962: Rachel Sweet , American singer
- 1963: Beverley Craven , British singer
- 1963: Marc Marshall , German singer
- 1963: Mark Mersiowsky , German historian and diplomat
- 1964: Lori Loughlin , American actress
- 1965: Delfeayo Marsalis , American jazz trombonist
- 1965: Pedro Troglio , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1966: Marina Klimowa , Russian figure skater
- 1966: Miguel Ángel Nadal , Spanish football player
- 1966: Xaver Zembrod , German soccer player and coach
- 1967: Jakob Augstein , German journalist and publisher
- 1967: Helmut Schleich , German cabaret artist
- 1968: Rachel Blakely , Australian actress
- 1968: José Jaime González , Colombian racing cyclist
- 1969: Alexis Arquette , American singer and actress
- 1969: Nilze Carvalho , Brazilian mandolinist and cavaquinho player, singer and composer
- 1969: Carsten Rocker , German composer, film composer and producer
- 1969: Alexander Schubert , German historian and cultural manager
- 1969: Dana White , American entrepreneur and UFC President
- 1969: Filiz Zeyno , German-Turkish singer
- 1970: Michael Amott , Swedish guitarist
- 1970: Rohini Kuner , Indian-German pain researcher
- 1970: Sergio Pianezzola , Italian racing driver
- 1971: Drew Karpyshyn , Canadian writer
- 1974: Lisandro Abadie , Argentine bass-baritone
- 1974: Afroman , American rapper
- 1974: Alexis Tsipras , Greek politician
- 1975: Imke Duplitzer , German sword fencer
- 1975: David WK Johnson , American composer and trombonist
- 1975: Miriam Pede , German television and radio presenter
- 1975: Leonor Watling , Spanish actress
1976-2000
- 1976: Curumin , Brazilian singer
- 1976: Oliver Köhrmann , German handball player
- 1976: Kai Schumann , German actor
- 1976: Jacoby Shaddix , American singer ( Papa Roach )
- 1977: Pascale Bruderer , Swiss National Councilor
- 1977: Emanuel Ginóbili , Argentine basketball player
- 1977: Ian O'Brien-Docker , German pop-rock musician
- 1980: Heiko Butscher , German soccer player
- 1981: Mathieu Béda , French football player
- 1981: Michael Carrick , English soccer player
- 1981: Patrick Long , American racing car driver
- 1981: Giorgio Sernagiotto , Italian racing car driver
- 1982: Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir , Icelandic singer and actress
- 1982: Carl Godager Kaas , Norwegian orienteer
- 1983: Victor Gangl , Austrian composer and music producer
- 1983: Marcel Schied , German soccer player
- 1983: Vladimir Stojković , Serbian football player
- 1984: Alexandra Krieger , American soccer player
- 1984: Zach Parise , American ice hockey player
- 1985: Tynisha Keli , American singer
- 1986: Tiago Apolónia , Portuguese table tennis player
- 1987: Pedro , Spanish soccer player
- 1988: Emanuel Biancucchi , Argentine soccer player
- 1988: Mélissa Plaza , French soccer player
- 1989: Albin Ekdal , Swedish football player
- 1990: Roberto Rodríguez , Swiss football player
- 1990: Soulja Boy , American rapper
- 1990: Aleksandr Sidorov , Uzbek billiards player
- 1990: Mun Sung-hak , South Korean racing driver
- 1991: Isabelle Jongenelen , Dutch handball player
- 1993: Harry Kane , English soccer player
- 1994: Steffen Brinkmann , German composer
- 1997: Petar Pavlovic , Austrian football player
- 1998: Frank Ntilikina , French basketball player
- 2000: Mero , German rapper
Died
Before the 16th century
- Theodosius II , Eastern Roman emperor 450:
- Thankmar , half-brother of King Otto I. 938:
- 1041: Dietmar II , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1057: Viktor II , Pope
- 1127: Wilhelm II , Duke of Apulia
- 1128: William I Clito , Duke of Normandy and Count of Flanders
- 1227: Bernhard the Good , German knight and diplomat
- 1227: Otto II von Lippe , Bishop of Utrecht
- 1230: Leopold VI. , Austrian nobleman, Duke of Austria and Styria
- 1276: Arnold II. , German abbot
- 1311: Emicho Wildgraf von Kyrburg , Bishop of Freising
- 1330: Michael III. , Bulgarian tsar
- 1333: Guigues VIII. , Dauphin of Viennois
- 1368: Bolko II , Duke of Schweidnitz-Jauer
- 1410: Johanna Sophie von Bayern , youngest daughter of Duke Albrecht I of Straubing-Holland
- 1412: Henry III. von Rosenberg , nobleman from the House of Rosenberg, highest burgrave in Prague
- 1466: Jean de Luxembourg , lord of Haubourdin
- 1473: Niccolò Tron , 68th Doge of Venice
16th and 17th centuries
- 1510: Georg Alt , German translator and historiographer
- 1527: Rodrigo de Bastidas , Spanish conqueror
- 1531: Adolf Arbogast , German theologian
- 1540: Thomas Cromwell , English statesman
- 1544: Ruprecht von Pfalz-Veldenz , Count of Veldenz
- 1614: Felix Platter , Swiss doctor and writer
- 1616: Adrien d'Amboise , French chaplain and Bishop of Tréguier
- 1626: Henning Dedekind , German composer
- 1655: Cyrano de Bergerac , French writer
- 1667: Abraham Cowley , English poet
- 1676: Edward Reynolds , Bishop of Norwich
- 1683: David Khöll , imperial court stonemason and headmaster of the Viennese building works
- 1696: Charles Colbert de Croissy , French diplomat and foreign minister
18th century
- 1718: Étienne Baluze , French historian
- 1721: Pir Nureddin al-Jerrahi , founder of the Jerrahi Dervish Order in Istanbul
- 1723: Soror Mariana Alcoforado , Portuguese nun and writer
- 1738: Heinrich , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
- 1741: Antonio Vivaldi , Italian composer
- 1744: Lorenzo De Ferrari , Italian painter and fresco artist
- 1746: John Peter Zenger , German-American publicist and publisher
- 1750: Johann Sebastian Bach , German composer, organ and piano virtuoso of the Baroque
- 1750: Conyers Middleton , English clergyman and author
- 1758: Christian Ludwig Stieglitz , German lawyer, councilor and mayor of Leipzig
- 1783: Martín de Mayorga , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1794: Georges Couthon , French politician and Robespierre supporter
- 1794: François Hanriot , French politician and revolutionary
- 1794: Augustin Robespierre , French politician and revolutionary
- 1794: Maximilien de Robespierre , French politician and revolutionary
- 1794: Antoine de Saint-Just , French politician and revolutionary
- 1799: Johann Georg Distler , Austrian violinist and composer
19th century
- 1808: Selim III. , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1809: Heinrich von Porbeck , Baden general and military writer
- 1811: Heinrich Joseph von Collin , German writer
- 1818: Gaspard Monge , French mathematician and physicist
- 1832: Joseph Schreyvogel , Austrian writer
- 1837: Joseph Schubert , German violinist, violist and composer
- 1839: Philipp Wilhelm van Heusde , Dutch philosopher, historian, philologist, librarian and rhetorician
- 1842: Clemens Brentano , German writer
- 1844: Joseph Bonaparte , brother of Napoleon I, King of Naples and Spain
- 1845: François René Gebauer , French composer, professor and bassoonist
- 1847: John Walter , British owner and editor of The Times
- 1849: Karl Albert , King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Duke of Savoy
- 1849: Gabriel Jean Joseph Molitor , French general, marshal and peer of France
- 1855: Salomon Rothschild , German nobleman, founder of the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family
- 1864: Johann Hermann Kufferath , German composer
- 1866: Frédéric-Auguste Quesnel , Canadian politician
- 1870: Bernhard Dunker , Norwegian lawyer and author
- 1872: Frederik Kaiser , Dutch astronomer
- 1875: Bertha von Redern , German painter
- 1875: Johann Baptist von Schweitzer , German politician, member of the Reichstag
- 1883: Kazimierz Góralczyk , Polish writer, poet and playwright
- 1885: Moses Montefiore , British entrepreneur and philanthropist
- 1887: Ernst von Leutsch , German classical philologist
- 1897: Étienne Vacherot , French scholar and philosopher
- 1899: Antonio Guzmán Blanco , Venezuelan general and President of Venezuela
- 1900: Kham Souk , ruler of the Lao Empire of Champasak
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Hermann Götz , German painter, lithographer, sculptor and craftsman
- 1904: Jules Bovon , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1912: Abdurrahman Nureddin Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1913: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Augst , German politician
- 1917: Alfred Victor Robert Auger , French fighter pilot
- 1917: Ernst Sandberg , German medic
- 1923: August Brinkmann , German classical philologist
- 1923: Otto Vesper , German politician
- 1926: Jenő Károly , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1930: John DeWitt , American football player and hammer thrower
- 1930: Allvar Gullstrand , Swedish medic, Nobel Prize winner
- 1934: Marie Dressler , Canadian actress
- 1939: Francesco Paolo Frontini , Italian composer
- 1942: William Matthew Flinders Petrie , British archaeologist
- 1943: Pierre-Macario Saba Syrian Archbishop of Aleppo
- 1944: Ralph Howard Fowler , British physicist
- 1944: Ernst Lejeune , German businessman and coin collector
- 1945: Margot Asquith , British writer
- 1946: Robert Mazaud , French racing driver
1951-2000
- 1951: Kurt Bürger , German politician, Prime Minister of Mecklenburg
- 1956: Ernst Walter Andrae , German building researcher and archaeologist
- 1957: Edith Abbott , American social scientist and social reformer
- 1958: Jeanne Berta Semmig , German writer and poet
- 1960: Enrique Amorim , Uruguayan writer
- 1963: Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward , German automobile designer
- 1963: Gerard Gratton , Canadian weightlifter
- 1965: Kurt Hueck , German botanist
- 1966: Karl Saur , German engineer, armaments politician under National Socialism
- 1968: José Arce , Argentine politician
- 1968: Otto Hahn , German chemist, pioneer of radiochemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission of uranium, Nobel Prize winner
- 1968: Ángel Herrera Oria , Spanish lawyer, politician and theologian, Bishop of Málaga and cardinal
- 1969: Frank Loesser , American composer
- 1973: Mary Ellen Chase , American writer
- 1974: Don McCafferty , American football coach
- 1975: Walter Hellman , Swedish checkers, longest reigning world champion
- 1979: Don Miller , American lawyer, American football player and coach
- 1979: Herbert Rehbein , German violinist, orchestra conductor, arranger and composer
- 1982: Keith Green , American singer and composer
- 1982: Herbert Ernst Groh , Swiss tenor
- 1985: Rose Oehmichen , German actress and co-founder of the Augsburger Puppenkiste
- 1986: William Charles Andrews , British film architect
- 1989: Kyriena Siloti , American music teacher
- 1993: Stanley Woods , Irish motorcycle racer
- 1994: Erwin Ringel , Austrian depth psychologist and neurologist
- 1997: Seni Pramoj , Thai Prime Minister
- 1998: Zbigniew Herbert , Polish writer
- 1998: Consalvo Sanesi , Italian racing car driver
- 1999: Alfons Dalma , Croatian-Austrian journalist
- 1999: Trygve Haavelmo , Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1999: Manfred Schmidt , German comic artist and humorous travel writer
- 1999: Puey Ungphakorn , Thai economist, administrative specialist and university professor
- 2000: Abraham Pais , Dutch physicist
21st century
- 2001: Johnny Bernero , American drummer
- 2001: Yamada Fūtarō , Japanese writer
- 2002: Archer John Porter Martin , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2004: Francis Crick , British physicist and biochemist, co-discoverer of the molecular structure of DNA, Nobel Prize winner
- 2004: Eugene Roche , American actor
- 2004: Tiziano Terzani , Italian journalist and writer
- 2004: Curth Anatol Tichy , Austrian actor
- 2006: Rut Brandt , Norwegian-German author, second wife of Willy Brandt
- 2006: David Gemmell , British fantasy writer
- 2010: Antonio Daniloski , German e-athlete
- 2010: Horst F. Pampel , German homeland researcher
- 2010: Karl-Heinz Wildmoser , German entrepreneur and sports official
- 2011: Bernd Clüver , German pop singer
- 2012: Vartan Achkarian , Armenian Catholic auxiliary bishop
- 2012: Ingeborg Westphal , German actress
- 2013: Eileen Brennan , American actress
- 2013: Josef Heinrich Darchinger , German photographer
- 2014: Stanisław Manturzewski , Polish actor, screenwriter and director
- 2014: Axel Stoll , German conspiracy theorist
- 2016: Jacqueline Crevoisier , Swiss writer and translator
- 2016: Renate Schostack , German journalist and writer
- 2017: John Godfrey Morris , American picture editor
- 2018: Barbara Bollwahn , German journalist and writer
- 2020: Gisèle Halimi , French lawyer and politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Sebastian Bach , German church musician (Protestant)
- Georg Friedrich Handel , German church musician (Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- State holidays and memorial days
- Peru , independence from Spain (1821)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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