June 28th

The June 28 is the 179th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 180th in leap years ), thus remain 186 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1098 : In the battle of Antioch , the army of the First Crusade trapped in the city defeats its Seljuk besiegers.
• 1147 : A route to the Holy Land located Crusaders fleet makes in Lisbon a stopover. At the request of the Portuguese King Alfons I , they begin the siege of the city , which is in Moorish hands , which will last until October 24th .
• 1245 : Pope Innocent IV opens the Council of Lyon , which deals with the deposition of Emperor Frederick II .
• 1461 : After the Battle of Towton in the Wars of the Roses , won on March 29, Edward of York is crowned King of England as Edward IV .
• 1519 : Election of the Spanish King Charles I as Roman-German King Charles V by the Electors .

1575: Battle of Nagashino

• 1575 : In front of the Japanese fortress of Nagashino, the army of the warlord Oda Nobunaga defeats the samurai army of the Takeda clan in the battle of Nagashino thanks to the massive use of firearms for the first time.
• 1629 : In the by King Ludwig XIII. announced the edict of grace by Alès , Cardinal Richelieu regulates the relationship between the French crown and the Huguenots who had been finally defeated militarily in the siege of La Rochelle . The special political status granted in the Edict of Nantes is abolished, but the existence of Protestants on French soil is tolerated.
• 1635 : The Caribbean island of Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
• 1651 : The battle of Berestetschko between Poland-Lithuania and an army of advanced Zaporozhian Cossacks and Tatars begins.

1675: Battle of Fehrbellin

• 1675 : In the Swedish-Brandenburg War the battle of Fehrbellin takes place , in which the Swedes , who are considered invincible , are defeated by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm .
• 1778 : The Battle of Monmouth between the American Continental Army under George Washington and a British rearguard under Sir Henry Clinton ends without a clear winner. However, the battle represents a turning point in the American War of Independence , as the military training of the Continental Army by Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben in Valley Forge is showing its effect for the first time .
• 1788 : With a fictitious incident disguised as Russians Swedes in want Puumala a pretext for by King Gustav III. create wanted war with Russia . The appearance of Russian soldiers immediately triggers the desired Russo-Swedish war .
• 1811 : In the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula, the French storm Tarragona, which has been besieged since May 3rd . This leads to a massacre by the invading soldiers of the resilient city population.
• 1848 : The Frankfurt National Assembly declares the Bundestag of the German Confederation to be dissolved.
• 1866 : In the German War , the Prussians win the battles of Trautenau , Skalitz and Münchengrätz against the Austrians .

1914: Assassination attempt in Sarajevo (illustration)

• 1914 : Assassination attempt in Sarajevo : On the anniversary of the Battle of the Amselfeld , the Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip murdered the Austrian heir to the throne, Franz Ferdinand . The result is the July crisis , out of which the First World War grows.

1919: Treaty of Versailles

• 1919 : The German delegation, in protest, signs the Versailles Peace Treaty , which formally ends the First World War . At the same time, the statutes of the emerging League of Nations are accepted in the treaty .
• 1921 : The first constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is passed (Vidovdan constitution).
• 1940 : Two days after an ultimatum by the Soviet Union against Romania , the Red Army occupies Bessarabia, which previously belonged to Romania, without a fight . The German Reich has already approved the Soviet claims to the area in the secret additional protocol to the German-Soviet non-aggression pact .
• 1942 : The company Blau , the summer offensive of the German armed forces in the Russian campaign of the Second World War , begins.
• 1948 : The British Airlift starts under the name Operation Plainfare .
• 1948 : The Cominform resolution leads to a break between Stalin and Tito .
• 1950 : North Korean troops take the South Korean capital Seoul in the Korean War .
• 1956 : Poznan uprising : A strike in Polish Poznań is deposited by the Polish military bloody.
• 1968 : The controversial emergency laws come into force in the Federal Republic of Germany .
• 1981 : A bomb attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party in Tehran kills more than 70.

1989: Slobodan Milošević

• 1989 : Slobodan Milošević gives his Blackbird Field Speech on the occasion of the commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of the Blackbird Field in Gazimestan in Kosovo .
• 1992 : The first democratic elections in Mongolia see the now democratized MRVP , which took power as a communist unity party as early as 1924 , as the winner.
• 1996 : Attack on the Quebec barracks of the British armed forces in Osnabrück by the Provisional Irish Republican Army .
• 2001 : Slobodan Milošević is extradited by the Yugoslav authorities to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague .
• 2004 : The Iraqi interim government , appointed by the head of the US civil administration in Iraq , Paul Bremer , begins its work, while the occupation of the country continues.
• 2009 : The democratically elected President of Honduras , Manuel Zelaya , is overthrown in a military coup and flown to Costa Rica. Roberto Micheletti is appointed as his successor by the parliament , who is to lead the country until the elections on November 29th.
• 2016 : 42 people are killed and 238 injured in a terrorist attack in Ataturk Airport .

economy

• 1810 : Georg Christian Carl Henschel founds a foundry in Kassel from which the Henschel works develop.
• 1859 : The world's first dog show takes place in Newcastle upon Tyne , UK .

Main lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway

• 1886 : The Canadian Pacific Railway's first passenger train leaves Montreal . The journey on the more than 3,000 km long route ends on July 4th in Port Moody .
• 1912 : The ring of the Hamburg subway is closed after the opening of the third section between Millerntor and Rathausplatz and is used every 5 minutes.
• 1926 : The companies Benz & Co Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik Mannheim ( Benz & Cie. From 1899) and Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft , founded by the automobile pioneers , merge to form Daimler-Benz AG , based in Berlin.

1939: Boeing 314

• 1939 : A Boeing 314 of Pan Am brings the first transatlantic scheduled flight 40 passengers from Long Iceland , New York with a stop on the Azores and in Lisbon to Marseille , France . In September 1939 the flights are stopped due to the beginning of the Second World War .
• 1948 : The Union Internationale des Architectes is founded in Lausanne by delegations from 27 countries , now the world's largest association of architects.
• 1991 : The Council for Mutual Economic Aid dissolves with the end of the planned economy system due to the political upheavals in Eastern Europe .
• 2011 : The US social network Google+ is launched.

science and technology

1903: German Museum

• 1903 : The Association of German Engineers founds the German Museum of Natural Sciences and Technology at its general meeting in Munich .
• 1910 : The Zeppelin LZ 7 "Germany" , which had only been put into operation a few days earlier, crashes in a storm on Limberg in the Teutoburg Forest near Bad Iburg after an engine fails. Passengers and crew survive the accident.

1935: Tobacco Mosaic Virus

• 1935 : Wendell Meredith Stanley reports in the US science magazine Science about his discovery that the tobacco mosaic virus is a crystalline protein . Until then, viruses were considered to be very small organisms.
• 1945 : The Cessna 120 sport aircraft makes its maiden flight in the United States.
• 2005 : The French town of Cadarache is selected for the construction of the ITER test reactor , which is to use nuclear fusion to secure the energy supply for a future after the oil reserves have been used up.

Culture

• 1482 : In Munich, the first printed there appears book , of Guides Indulgentiae ecclesiarum principalium Urbis Romae , from the printing office of Johann Schaur.

1841: Carlotta Grisi as Giselle

• 1841 : The romantic ballet Giselle is first performed at the Paris Opera in a choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot . The title role is danced by Carlotta Grisi .
• 1963 : The opera Figaro gets a divorce from Giselher Klebe is at the Hamburg State Opera premiered.
• 1981 : The first crime scene with Götz George alias Horst Schimanski , Duisburg-Ruhrort , is broadcast on ARD .
• 1996 : The Irish dance show Lord of the Dance with Michael Flatley premieres.

society

• 1840 : Friedrich Fröbel founds the first kindergarten in Germany in Bad Blankenburg .
• 1901 : With the military insurance , the first social insurance in Switzerland is founded.

1904: Helen Keller

• 1904 : The deaf-blind American Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College with a Bachelor of Arts .
• 1927 : In the Steglitz school tragedy , the pupil Günther Scheller first shoots the apprentice chef Hans Stephan and then himself. Speculations about Scheller's living environment trigger a major public discussion.

• 1969 : In New York City's Greenwich Village starts in the bar Stonewall Inn the uprising of homosexuals and other sexual minorities against police brutality in New York's Christopher Street . By Christopher Street Day commemorates this event today.

religion

• 1243 : Innocent IV is enthroned as the successor of Celestine IV as Pope .

Disasters

• 1904 : The Danish passenger ship Norge sails on the shallows of Helen's Reef near the rocky island of Rockall in the North Atlantic and sinks within 20 minutes. 625 passengers and crew are killed. The sinking of the Norge is the largest shipwreck in the North Atlantic to date.
• 1948 : An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 in Fukui , Japan , calls for 5,390 deaths.

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

Sports

1865: Piz Roseg

• 1865 : A rope team consisting of Adolphus Warburton Moore , Horace Walker and Jakob Anderegg succeeds in the first ascent of Piz Roseg in the Graubünden Bernina group .
• 1997 : Mike Tyson bites off an ear of his opponent World Champion Evander Holyfield during a boxing championship fight in Las Vegas , whereupon his boxing license is revoked for an indefinite period of time.

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 18th century

• 1170 : Waldemar II called "the victor", King of Denmark
• 1243 : Go-Fukakusa , 89th Emperor of Japan
• 1425 : Adolf von Kleve , German nobleman
• 1444 : Charlotte , Queen of Cyprus
• 1476 : Paul IV , Pope
• 1478 : John of Aragon and Castile , Prince of Asturias, only son of the Catholic Kings
• 1490 : Albrecht of Brandenburg , Elector of Mainz and Margrave of Brandenburg

Henry VIII of England (* 1491)

• 1491 : Henry VIII , King of England
• 1529 : Bartolomeo Passarotti , Italian painter and etcher
• 1577 : Peter Paul Rubens , Flemish painter
• 1582 : William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele , English nobleman and politician
• 1585 : Baltasar Elisio de Medinilla , Spanish writer and religious poet
• 1586 : Paul Siefert , German organist and composer (baptism date)
• 1588 : Per Banér , Swedish statesman
• 1604 : Heinrich Albert , German song writer and composer
• 1611 : Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick , English nobleman
• 1641 : Marie Casimire Louise de la Grange d'Arquien , French noblewoman, Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania
• 1664 : Nicolas Bernier , French composer
• 1674 : Pier Leone Ghezzi , Italian painter, etcher and draftsman
• 1677 : Christoph Heinrich Zeibich , German Lutheran theologian
• 1692 : Louisa Maria Theresa Stuart , Scottish princess
• 1695 : Christiana Mariana von Ziegler , Saxon writer

18th century

• 1701 : Cölestin Gugger von Staudach , prince abbot of the St. Gallen monastery
• 1703 : John Wesley , British revival preacher, founder of the Methodist tradition

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (* 1712)

• 1712 : Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Swiss-French writer, philosopher, educator, naturalist and composer of the Enlightenment
• 1719 : Étienne-François de Choiseul , French statesman
• 1720 : Johann Christian Hebenstreit , German doctor and botanist
• 1730 : Ivan Petrovich Saltykov , Russian field marshal
• 1736 : Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel , German writer and educator
• 1745 : August Friedrich Oelenhainz , German painter
• 1753 : Anton Stadler , Austrian clarinetist
• 1754 : Claude François de Malet , French general
• 1773 : Frédéric Cuvier , French zoologist and physicist
• 1788 : Heinrich Gottlieb Kühn , German director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory
• 1793 : Georg Friedrich Schömann , German classical philologist
• 1794 : John Biscoe , English explorer
• 1796 : Paul Camille von Denis , German engineer and railway pioneer
• 1796 : Peter Rigler , Austrian re-founder of the Teutonic Order
• 1799 : Amalie von Württemberg , Duchess of Württemberg and Saxe-Altenburg

19th century

1801-1850

• 1804 : Franz Julius Ferdinand Meyen , German medic, botanist and university professor
• 1805 : František Cyril Kampelík , Czech popular educator and founder of self-help cooperatives
• 1807 : Anton Philipp Reclam , German publisher

Thekla von Gumpert (* 1810)

• 1810 : Thekla von Gumpert , German writer for children and young people
• 1811 : Georg von Adelmann , German medic
• 1815 : Robert Franz , German composer
• 1818 : Angelo Secchi , Italian astronomer
• 1819 : Carlotta Grisi , Italian ballerina
• 1819 : Ilya Stepanowitsch Schumow , Russian chess master and composer
• 1821 : Max Maretzek , American opera director, conductor and composer
• 1823 : Jules Adenis , French journalist, writer and librettist
• 1823 : Johann Wilhelm Schwedler , German civil engineer and construction clerk
• 1824 : Paul Broca , French anthropologist and physician
• 1825 : Emil Erlenmeyer , German chemist
• 1831 : Joseph Joachim , Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer
• 1835 : John Young Brown , American lawyer and politician, governor of Kentucky
• 1836 : Lyman J. Gage , American businessman and politician, Secretary of the Treasury
• 1846 : Otto Piltz , German painter
• 1850 : Heinrich Mayer , German entrepreneur

1851-1900

• 1851 : Robert Friedberg , German economist and politician, MdL, MdR
• 1851 : Waldemar Mueller , German banker and politician, MdR
• 1852 : Georg Loeschcke , German classical philologist and archaeologist
• 1865 : Otto Julius Bierbaum , German writer
• 1867 : Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1871 : Peter Rosenberg , Latvian pastor and evangelical confessor
• 1873 : Ludwig Arzt , German entrepreneur

Alexis Carrel (* 1873)

• 1873 : Alexis Carrel , French surgeon, Nobel Prize winner
• 1875 : Henri Léon Lebesgue , French mathematician
• 1876 : Robert Guérin , French sports official, first president of the world football association FIFA
• 1876 : Alfred Marxer , Swiss painter and graphic artist
• 1879 : Charles Montier , French racing driver and vehicle designer
• 1882 : Christian Steinmetz , American basketball player
• 1883 : Weiß Ferdl , German humorist
• 1883 : Pierre Laval , French politician, Prime Minister
• 1885 : Berthold Viertel , Austrian director and writer
• 1886 : Aloïse Corbaz , Swiss artist
• 1886 : Walther Veeck , German archaeologist
• 1888 : Alfons von Czibulka , Austrian writer and painter
• 1889 : Abbas el-Akkad , Egyptian writer, historian, poet, philosopher and journalist
• 1893 : Hugo Scharnberg , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1893 : Martha Maas , German photographer
• 1893 : Florence Henri , American painter and photographer
• 1895 : Kazimierz Sikorski , Polish composer
• 1896 : Lazar Wechsler , Swiss film producer, important exponent of early Swiss film
• 1897 : André Dubonnet , French military pilot, sportsman, racing driver, entrepreneur and inventor
• 1899 : Manfred Näslund , Swedish forest scientist
• 1900 : Heinrich Busch , German pianist and composer
• 1900 : Asa Martin , American old-time musician

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Kurt Helbig , German weightlifter, Olympic champion
• 1901 : Alfred Müller-Armack , German economist and cultural sociologist
• 1902 : Richard Rodgers , American musical composer
• 1902 : John C. Raven , British psychologist
• 1904 : Wilbur Schwandt , American composer
• 1905 : Kurt Ulrich , German film producer

Maria Goeppert-Mayer (* 1906)

• 1906 : Maria Goeppert-Mayer , German-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1908 : Heinz Moog , Austrian actor
• 1909 : Eric Ambler , British writer
• 1909 : Hans Leibundgut , Swiss forest scientist
• 1910 : Johannes Frömming , German trotting athlete
• 1910 : Erich Kuby , German journalist and writer
• 1911 : Bernhard zur Lippe-Biesterfeld , German prince and queen consort of the Netherlands
• 1912 : Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , German physicist and philosopher
• 1912 : Karl Seebach , German mathematician and didactician
• 1913 : Franz Antel , Austrian director, producer and author

Paul Tröger (* 1913)

• 1913 : Paul Tröger , German chess master
• 1914 : Aribert Heim , Austrian doctor, war criminal ( butcher of Mauthausen )
• 1915 : Garoto , Brazilian musician and composer
• 1915 : David Honeyboy Edwards , American delta blues musician
• 1916 : Manfred Steffen , German actor
• 1917 : Bert De Cleyn , Belgian football player
• 1918 : Friedrich Falch , Austrian politician, LAbg.
• 1921 : Peter Dubovský , Slovak auxiliary bishop
• 1921 : PV Narasimha Rao , Indian politician, Prime Minister
• 1922 : Ernst Arnds , German politician, MdL
• 1922 : Hans Frauenfelder , Swiss-American physicist
• 1925 : George Morgan , American musician
• 1925 : Giselher Klebe , German composer

1926-1950

Mel Brooks (born 1926)

• 1926 : Mel Brooks , American actor and director
• 1926 : Horst Niendorf , German actor and voice actor
• 1927 : Frank Sherwood Rowland , American chemist
• 1927 : Stefan Sonderegger , Swiss Germanist and linguist
• 1928 : Claus Biederstaedt , German actor
• 1928 : John Stewart Bell , Irish physicist
• 1928 : Hans Blix , Swedish politician, foreign minister, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency
• 1928 : Paul Urmuzescu , Romanian composer
• 1929 : Andrew of Yugoslavia , brother of the last king of Yugoslavia
• 1929 : Gerhard Frank , German lawyer, hunting official and politician, MdL
• 1930 : Ignatius Pierre VIII. Abdel-Ahad , Archbishop of Beirut

Joachim Hansen (* 1930)

• 1930 : Joachim Hansen , German actor
• 1931 : Jürg Federspiel , Swiss writer
• 1931 : Ivan Nagel , German theater scholar and critic, publicist and theater director of Hungarian origin
• 1932 : George M. Anathil , Indian Bishop of Indore
• 1932 : Pat Morita , American actor
• 1934 : Michael Artin , American mathematician
• 1934 : Helmut Hesse , German economist
• 1934 : Georges Wolinski , French caricaturist
• 1935 : Anatoly Petrovich Tarabrin , Soviet rower
• 1935 : Nicola Tempesta , Italian judoka
• 1936 : Kurt Krenn , Austrian bishop
• 1936 : Heiner Müller-Merbach , German business IT specialist
• 1937 : Richard Bright , American actor
• 1937 : Juan José Saer , Argentine writer
• 1938 : Gerhard Dickel , German church music director and cantor, organist and music professor
• 1939 : Hinrich Swieter , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
• 1940 : Eugen Cicero , Romanian musician

Muhammad Yunus (* 1940)

• 1940 : Muhammad Yunus , Bangladeshi economist, founder of the microfinance concept, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1941 : David Johnston , Canadian lawyer and author
• 1942 : Rupert Sheldrake , British author and biologist
• 1942 : Chris Hani , South African politician
• 1942 : Vidosav Stevanović , Serbian writer
• 1943 : Klaus von Klitzing , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1943 : Ryszard Krynicki , Polish poet and publisher
• 1944 : Rudi Lins , Austrian racing car driver
• 1944 : Aleksandar Ristić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Croatian football player and coach
• 1946 : Robert Lynn Asprin , American writer

Peter Abrahams (* 1947)

• 1947 : Peter Abrahams , American writer
• 1947 : John Aston junior , English football player
• 1948 : Kathy Bates , American actress
• 1948 : Ellen Wessinghage , German athlete
• 1949 : Peter Gruss , German biologist
• 1949 : Reinhold Kopp , German politician, lawyer and economic functionary, MdL
• 1950 : Marlene Streeruwitz , Austrian writer
• 1950 : Guttorm Guttormsen , Norwegian jazz musician

1951-1975

• 1951 : Rolf Milser , German weightlifter and sports official, Olympic champion, world champion
• 1952 : Abdo Arbach , Syrian clergyman and exarch of Argentina
• 1952 : Pietro Mennea , Italian athlete, Olympic champion
• 1952 : Alan Pasqua , American jazz and rock pianist
• 1953 : Clemens Appel , German lawyer, politician and management consultant

Gernot Rohr (* 1953)

• 1953 : Gernot Rohr , German soccer player and coach
• 1954 : Bruce Abbott , American actor
• 1955 : Elmira Antonyan , Armenian table tennis player
• 1955 : Karl Fleschen , German athlete
• 1955 : Thomas Hampson , American singer
• 1955 : Klára Kuzmová , Slovak archaeologist
• 1955 : Heribert Weber , Austrian soccer player
• 1956 : Per Bergerud , Norwegian ski jumper
• 1956 : Niki List , Austrian filmmaker
• 1956 : Nadija Prishchepa , Soviet rower
• 1956 : Krystyna Szumilas , Polish politician, minister
• 1957 : Georgi Parvanov , Bulgarian politician, President
• 1958 : Uwe Helmes , German soccer player and coach
• 1959 : Siegfried Grüninger , German soccer player
• 1959 : Frank Wörndl , German ski racer
• 1960 : Andreas Anter , German political scientist and university professor
• 1960 : John Elway , American football player
• 1960 : Heribert C. Ottersbach , German painter
• 1960 : Johannes W. Schäfer , German composer
• 1961 : Irina Wanka , German-Austrian actress
• 1962 : Luc Feit , Luxembourg actor
• 1963 : Tierney Sutton , American jazz singer
• 1964 : Sabrina Ferilli , Italian film and theater actress
• 1965 : John Medeski , American organist, keyboardist and composer
• 1965 : Eric Steiner , German gynecologist and obstetrician

John Cusack (born 1966)

• 1966 : John Cusack , American actor
• 1966 : Mary Stuart Masterson , American actress
• 1967 : Leona Aglukkaq , Canadian politician, minister
• 1967 : Lars Riedel , German athlete, Olympic champion, world champion
• 1968 : Christine Balfa , American Cajun musician
• 1968 : Mike Bezdicek , German handball player
• 1969 : Stéphane Chapuisat , Swiss football player
• 1969 : Phil Masinga , South African soccer player
• 1969 : Ayelet Zurer , Israeli actress
• 1971 : Lorenzo Amoruso , Italian football player
• 1971 : Fabien Barthez , French football player
• 1971 : Fabrice Becker , French freestyle skier

Elon Musk (* 1971)

• 1971 : Elon Musk , American entrepreneur
• 1971 : No ID , American hip hop producer
• 1972 : Jon Heidenreich , American wrestler
• 1973 : Adrián Annus , Hungarian athlete
• 1973 : Elisabeth Kulman , Austrian opera singer
• 1973 : André Lange , German bobsleigh athlete, Olympic champion
• 1974 : Helene Grass , German actress
• 1975 : Mitchell Anderson , Australian triathlete

1976-2000

• 1976 : Shinobu Asagoe , Japanese tennis player

Hans Sarpei (* 1976)

• 1976 : Hans Sarpei , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1977 : Ella Grødem , Greenlandic handball player
• 1978 : Michele Marsching , German politician, MdL
• 1980 : Johntá Austin , American songwriter, arranger, producer and singer
• 1980 : Maurizio Domizzi , Italian football player
• 1982 : Aleš Mušič , Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1983 : Adnan Harmandić , Bosnian handball player
• 1983 : Dmitri Olegowitsch Jakowenko , Russian chess player
• 1983 : Dorge Kouemaha , Cameroonian football player
• 1983 : Jörg Ritzerfeld , German ski jumper
• 1984 : Eric Bouwer , German actor

Isabell Klein (* 1984)

• 1984 : Isabell Klein , German handball player
• 1984 : Andrij Pyatov , Ukrainian football player
• 1985 : Gloria Aura , Mexican actress and singer
• 1986 : Mathias Beche , Swiss racing car driver
• 1986 : Willemijn Karsten , Dutch handball player
• 1988 : Leon Balogun , German-Nigerian soccer player
• 1988 : Sophie Schmidt , Canadian soccer player
• 1989 : Ronny Fredrik Ansnes , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1989 : Sergio Asenjo , Spanish soccer player
• 1990 : Davy Bulthuis , Dutch football player
• 1990 : Philipp Zeiger , German soccer player
• 1991 : Kevin De Bruyne , Belgian football player
• 1991 : Seohyun , South Korean pop singer

Will Stevens (* 1991)

• 1991 : Will Stevens , British racing car driver
• 1992 : Fikri Atalı , Turkish ice hockey player
• 1992 : Oscar Hiljemark , Swedish football player
• 1992 : Joanne Reid , American biathlete and cross-country skier
• 1993 : Bradley Beal , American basketball player
• 1993 : Maximilian Schüttemeyer , German handball player
• 1994 : Mirco Born , German soccer player
• 1994 : Juan Del Campo , Spanish ski racer
• 1994 : Anish Giri , Dutch chess player
• 1995 : Jason Denayer , Belgian soccer player
• 1995 : Kåre Hedebrant , Swedish actor
• 1995 : Katharina Trost , German athlete
• 1996 : Leon Guwara , German soccer player
• 1998 : Nadine Fest , Austrian ski racer

21st century

• 2004 : Izan Guevara , Spanish motorcycle racer

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0202 : Yuan Shao , Chinese warlord

Theodora I († 548)

• 0548 : Theodora I , wife of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I
• 0767 : Paul I , Pope, saint of the Roman Catholic Church
• 0896 : Rodulfus , Count of Vermandois
• 0976 : Gero of Cologne , archbishop of Cologne, at times worshiped as a cult
• 1019 : Heimerad , German priest and hermit
• 1022 : Notker III. , German Benedictine monk and head of the monastery school in St. Gallen
• 1084 : Ekkehard von Huysburg , Canon of Halberstadt and Benedictine abbot in Huysburg
• 1119 : Roger of Salerno , regent of the Principality of Antioch
• 1142 : Guigues IV , Count of Albon
• 1154 : Ermengol VI. , Earl of Urgell
• 1189 : Mathilde of England , Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria, eldest daughter of King Heinrich II.
• 1241 : Heinrich I von Burgau , Count von Berg and Margrave of Burgau
• 1246 : Friedrich II. Von Parsberg , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
• 1249 : Adolf I , Count of Altena-Mark
• 1250 : Johannes Parenti , Minister General of the Franciscan Order
• 1251 : Luder von Borch , Bishop of Verden
• 1279 : John I , Count of Blois, the Counties of Chartres and the Counties of Dunois
• 1354 : Bernhard IV. , Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
• 1385 : Albrecht , Prince of Lüneburg
• 1385 : Andronikos IV , Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
• 1460 : Johannes Lamside , German theologian and master of the arts
• 1473 : Pierre d'Amboise , French nobleman
• 1473 : Niclas Gerhaert van Leyden , Flemish-German sculptor
• 1473 : John Talbot, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury , English nobleman

16./17. century

• 1510 : Philipp von Hoerde , Provost of the Cathedral in Münster and Landdrost of the Duchy of Westphalia
• 1530 : Margarethe von Münsterberg , Princess of Anhalt

Federico II Gonzaga († 1540)

• 1540 : Federico II Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua
• 1554 : Leone Strozzi , Italian Knight of Malta, diplomat and admiral
• 1567 : Justus Jonas the Younger , German lawyer and diplomat
• 1568 : Thomas Young , Archbishop of York
• 1570 : Fridolin Brunner , Swiss Protestant pastor and reformer in the canton of Glarus
• 1580 : Heinrich Krechting , leader of the Anabaptist movement
• 1586 : Primož Trubar , Protestant preacher, is considered to be the founder of Slovenian literature
• 1604 : Heinrich Albert , German song writer and composer
• 1609 : Agathe , Countess of Tübingen
• 1617 : Steffen von Niederbergheim , victim of the witch hunt in Hirschberg in the Sauerland
• 1645 : Johann Arbogast von Annenberg , governor of the County of Glatz
• 1650 : Gioacchino Assereto , Genoese painter
• 1651 : Christoph Schelhammer , German medic
• 1681 : Marie Angélique de Scoraille de Roussille , mistress of the French king Louis XIV.

18th century

• 1706 : Leopold Joseph von Lamberg , Austrian diplomat

Melchor Liñán y Cisneros († 1708)

• 1708 : Melchor Liñán y Cisneros , Spanish bishop and colonial administrator, viceroy of Peru
• 1721 : Isaac Sailmaker , Dutch marine painter in England
• 1729 : Miguel Núñez de Sanabria , Spanish lawyer, Viceroy of Peru
• 1736 : Christian , Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Prince of Saxe-Querfurt
• 1738 : Maximiliane Hiserle von Chodau , lover of the Saxon Elector August the Strong and Prince Alexander Benedikt Sobieski
• 1745 : Antoine Forqueray , French composer, gambist and royal chamber musician
• 1751 : Hieronymus Cristani von Rall , Salzburg court chancellor
• 1752 : Antoine Forqueray , French composer and royal chamber musician
• 1754 : Martin Folkes , English mathematician and numismatist
• 1756 : Armand II. François Auguste de Rohan-Soubise , French prince of the church, Bishop of Strasbourg, Grand Almosier of France
• 1756 : Domingo Ortiz de Rozas , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, governor of Río de la Plata and Chile
• 1757 : Sophie Dorothea von Hannover , as the wife of Friedrich Wilhelm I Queen in Prussia
• 1761 : Johannes Schmidt , German sculptor
• 1767 : Friedrich Gottfried Houck , German legal scholar
• 1768 : George Hadley , British lawyer, amateur physicist and meteorologist
• 1768 : Johann Gottfried Tympe , German oriental philologist and Protestant theologian
• 1797 : Bernhard Rode , German painter

19th century

• 1801 : Martin Johann Schmidt , Austrian baroque painter
• 1802 : Johann Jakob Engel , German writer and philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment
• 1813 : Gerhard von Scharnhorst , Prussian general
• 1828 : Leopold Heinrich Wilhelm Lentze , German clergyman
• 1834 : Joseph Bové , Russian-Italian architect and city builder

James Madison († 1836)

• 1836 : James Madison , American politician, president, secretary of state, co-author of the constitution, drafted the Bill of Rights
• 1838 : Friedrich Accum , German chemist
• 1848 : John Alexander , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1848 : Jean-Baptiste Debret , French painter
• 1850 : Karl Friedrich Schulz , German Protestant hymn composer and music teacher
• 1852 : Karl Ernst Schmid , German legal scholar
• 1855 : Fitzroy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan , British Field Marshal
• 1858 : Jane Marcet , British author of popular science non-fiction
• 1867 : Friedrich Günther , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• 1869 : Thomas R. Ross , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
• 1875 : Joseph Misson , Austrian dialect poet
• 1876 : August Wilhelm Ambros , Austrian music historian, critic and composer
• 1880 : Texas Jack Omohundro , American cowboy, scout, and actor
• 1885 : Franz Umpfenbach , German classical philologist

Maria Mitchell († 1889)

• 1889 : Maria Mitchell , American astronomer and suffragette
• 1892 : Harry Atkinson , New Zealand politician, defense, immigration and prime minister
• 1894 : Carl Faulmann , German typesetter, private scholar and stenographer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1901 : Henry Appia , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1907 : Paul Koechlin , French industrialist and racing car driver
• 1908 : Franz Treller , German actor and writer
• 1909 : Richard Muther , German art historian

Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este († 1914)

• 1914 : Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este , Austro-Hungarian Archduke, heir to the throne
• 1914 : Sophie Chotek, Countess of Hohenberg , Bohemian noblewoman, wife of the Austrian heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand
• 1915 : Guillermo Billinghurst , Peruvian politician, president
• 1919 : Otto Techow , German architect
• 1921 : Charles Joseph Bonaparte , American politician, Secretary of the Navy and Justice
• 1922 : Velimir Khlebnikov , Russian poet
• 1928 : Victor Auburtin , German journalist and writer
• 1928 : Ida Ferenczy , Hungarian lady-in-waiting, servant of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
• 1928 : John Isaac Thornycroft , British engineer
• 1931 : Maximilian zu Hardegg , Austrian nobleman and racing car driver
• 1936 : Alexander Berkman , Lithuanian anarchist and writer
• 1936 : Archibald Hunter , British general

Max Adler († 1937)

• 1937 : Max Adler , Austrian sociologist, representative of Austromarxism
• 1940 : Italo Balbo , Italian politician and aviation pioneer, Minister of Air Force, Governor General of Italian Libya
• 1940 : Ferdinando Minoia , Italian racing car driver
• 1942 : Janka Kupala , Belarusian national poet, playwright, publicist and translator
• 1944 : Anton Breinl , Austrian zoologist and physician
• 1944 : Hermann Hansen , German field handball player, Olympic champion, world champion
• 1944 : Philippe Henriot , French politician
• 1945 : Gustav Angenheister , German geophysicist
• 1947 : Stanislav Kostka Neumann , Czech poet
• 1947 : Per Steenberg , Norwegian organist and composer

1951-2000

• 1952 : Ludwig Radermacher , German classical philologist
• 1958 : Johannes Reinwaldt , Danish racing cyclist
• 1959 : Hermann Leopoldi , Austrian composer, cabaret artist and piano humorist
• 1960 : Juan Jover , Spanish racing car driver
• 1962 : Guido Pedroli , Swiss educator and politician
• 1964 : Norberto Bagnalasta , Italian racing driver

Red Nichols († 1965)

• 1965 : Red Nichols , American jazz musician, cornet player, and trumpeter
• 1966 : Hermann Arendt , German local politician
• 1967 : Oskar Maria Graf , German writer
• 1971 : Franz Stangl , Austrian police officer, head of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps, war criminal
• 1973 : Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz , Iraqi politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister
• 1974 : Vannevar Bush , American scientist and computer scientist
• 1974 : Luisa Famos , Swiss writer
• 1975 : Max Barthel , German writer
• 1975 : Karl Ludwig Gerok , German organist, composer and author
• 1975 : Rod Serling , American screenwriter and producer
• 1978 : Eberhard Arlt , German functionary
• 1979 : Paul Dessau , German composer and conductor
• 1980 : Irino Yoshirō , Japanese composer
• 1980 : José Iturbi , Spanish musician
• 1981 : Mohammad Beheschti , Iranian politician, chairman of the Islamic Revolutionary Council, chief judge, Ayatollah
• 1981 : Peter Kreuder , German-Austrian composer, pianist and conductor
• 1983 : Pietro Frua , Italian automobile designer
• 1984 : Gavin Astor, 2nd Baron Astor of Hever , British nobleman and publisher

Jigael Jadin († 1984)

• 1984 : Jigael Jadin , Israeli archaeologist, politician and 2nd Chief of Staff of the Israeli army
• 1985 : Mischa Spoliansky , German composer
• 1986 : Heinrich Dräger , German manufacturer, economist and social scientist
• 1988 : Kurt Raab , German actor
• 1989 : Alfredo Sadel , Venezuelan singer and actor
• 1991 : Nikolas Vogel , Austrian cameraman
• 1993 : GG Allin , American rock and punk musician
• 1993 : Boris Christow , Bulgarian-Italian opera singer
• 1994 : Alfons Abel , German academic glass painter
• 1994 : Ulrik Neumann , Danish guitarist, singer, composer and film actor
• 1996 : Friedrich Adler , German engineer
• 1996 : Julio Bolbochán , Argentine chess player
• 1999 : Hilde Krahl , Austrian actress
• 2000 : William Glock , British music promoter, director of BBC Radio 3

21st century

Mortimer Adler († 2001)

• 2001 : Mortimer Adler , American philosopher and writer
• 2001 : Arno Reinfrank , German writer, publicist and translator
• 2002 : Johann Auernhammer , German soccer player
• 2003 : Willem Slijkhuis , Dutch middle and long distance runner
• 2004 : Marcel Jullian , French author and publicist, director and television producer
• 2004 : Thomas Zereske , German canoeist
• 2007 : Miyazawa Kiichi , Japanese politician, prime minister, finance minister
• 2008 : Fritz Hahne , German entrepreneur
• 2008 : Ruslana Korschunowa , Kazakh photo model
• 2009 : Billy Mays , American teleshopping presenter
• 2010 : Bill Aucoin , American manager
• 2010 : Nicolas Hayek , Swiss entrepreneur, founder of the Swatch Group
• 2010 : Adolf Storms , German member of the Waffen SS, war criminal
• 2015 : Ludwig Steiner , Austrian diplomat and politician
• 2016 : Dietrich Haugk , German film director and voice actor
• 2016 : Scotty Moore , American musician

Pat Summitt († 2016)

• 2016 : Pat Summitt , American basketball player and coach
• 2017 : Alois Gschwind , Swiss conductor and music teacher
• 2017 : Klaus Grehn , German politician
• 2018 : Harlan Ellison , American writer
• 2018 : Christine Nöstlinger , Austrian writer
• 2019 : Lisa Martinek , German actress
• 2019 : Dietrich Severin , German mechanical engineer
• 2020 : Simon H. Fell , British bassist and composer
• 2020 : Eike Reschke , German sports lawyer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Irenaeus of Lyon , Roman author and theologian, bishop and church father (Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic)
  • St. Heimerad , German priest and missionary (Roman Catholic)

• Name days
  • Diethild , Ekkehard

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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