28th March

The March 28 is the 87th day of the Gregorian calendar (88th in leap years ), thus remaining 278 days until the end of the year.

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Events

Politics and world events

193: Didius Julianus

• 0193 : The Praetorian Guard slays the Roman Emperor Pertinax . He was succeeded by Didius Julianus , who won the office with the highest bidder. After a few weeks he too dies a violent death.
• 0845 : Vikings led by Ragnar Lodbrok conquer and pillage Paris . They only leave the city after the payment of a ransom by the West Franconian King Charles the Bald .

1193: Trifels Castle

• 1193 : After Emperor Heinrich VI. has contractually obliged to release the captured Richard the Lionheart only against payment of a ransom and after fulfilling other conditions, the Austrian Duke Leopold V hands him over in Speyer; the emperor transfers him to Trifels Castle .
• 1461 : Yorkists and Lancastrians split without decision in the Battle of Ferrybridge during the Wars of the Roses for the English throne . The battle of Towton takes place the very next day .
• 1566 : Jean de la Valette , Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta , lays the foundation for, designed by Francesco Laparelli -scale city Valletta .
• 1703 : During the War of the Spanish Succession , the battle of Schmidmühlen takes place . The Bavarian army can finally prevail against the imperial ones.

1776: Juan Bautista de Anza

• 1776 : The Spaniard Juan Bautista de Anza is the first European to reach the Bay of San Francisco by land with his expedition and hoists the Spanish flag at today's Fort Point to incorporate the area into the viceroyalty of New Spain . As a result, he begins building a military base with a mission station .
• 1814 : During the British-American War, the American frigate Essex was put to battle by a British unit made up of the frigate Phoebe and the sloop cherub after a successful pirate voyage in the Pacific in Chilean territorial waters and had to surrender after a losing battle.

1849: Scheme of the Paulskirche constitution

• 1849 : The Frankfurt National Assembly proclaims the first democratically adopted constitution for all of Germany, the Paulskirche constitution , which was never implemented . On the same day, she elects Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia as " Emperor of the Germans ", who, however, a little later rejects the dignity offered to him by the Imperial Deputation as "Crown from the gutter".
• 1854 : Great Britain and France declare war on Russia under Tsar Nicholas I after they signed a war aid treaty with the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War on March 12th .

1862: Battle of the Glorieta Pass

• 1862 : On the third day of the Battle of Glorieta Pass , the Union troops of the northern states succeed in destroying the supplies of the Confederate army, which is already confident of victory . In doing so, they prevent the Confederates from advancing further into the New Mexico Territory and decide the New Mexico campaign of the American Civil War for the Union.
• 1882 : In France that is compulsory education introduced.

1884: Carl Peters

• 1884 : The Society for German Colonization is founded in Berlin under the leadership of Carl Peters with the aim of establishing German arable and trading colonies in East Africa .
• 1898 : Based on the Tirpitz Plan in the Fleet Act, the German Reichstag resolves to build a battleship fleet , thus triggering the German-British arms race at sea.
• 1930 : Constantinople officially named Istanbul . The new Turkish capital Angora is renamed Ankara , Smyrna is given the name Izmir .
• 1938 : During a conversation, Adolf Hitler instructs the leader of the Sudeten German Party , Konrad Henlein , to make demands on the Czechoslovak government that it cannot meet. The agitated crisis over the Sudetenland ends in the autumn in the Munich Agreement .
• 1939 : Francisco Franco conquers the Spanish capital Madrid with the help of the " fifth column " and ends the Spanish Civil War . Spain is now completely under the control of the Francoist regime.
• 1941 : South of the Greek Cape Tenaro , during the Second World War the battle of Cape Matapan between British and Italian naval forces takes place , which the British win.
• 1942 : After the air raid at 11:18 p.m., the British air raid on Lübeck began an area bombing that continued into the following day.

1974: Nicolae Ceaușescu

• 1974 : Nicolae Ceaușescu takes over the office of President in Romania in addition to his office as Chairman of the Council of State. The constitutional amendment actually required for this will only be made up for in the following year.

1989: Slobodan Milošević

• 1989 : At the request of Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian parliament unanimously revokes the autonomy status of Kosovo and Vojvodina . The Yugoslav Federal Constitution of 1974 is thus de facto repealed.
• 1995 : After the Constitutional Court of Kazakhstan declared the elections of March 7, 1994 invalid, President Nursultan Nazarbayev dissolves the government and parliament.
• 2004 : In the parliamentary elections in Guinea-Bissau , the first after the civil war , the ruling Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde ( PAIGC ) under Carlos Gomes Júnior just missed an absolute majority.
• 2006 : On a national protest day, three million French take to the streets to express their displeasure with the Contrat première embauche . The proposed law in France will allow employees under the age of 26 to be dismissed without justification and without warning during the first two years of employment .

economy

• 1797 : The American Nathaniel Briggs receives the first US patent for a washing machine . His invention resembles a washboard with a crank.
• 1882 : Paul Beiersdorf receives the patent for the production of coated pavement . That is considered to be the founding date of Beiersdorf AG .
• 1964 : Radio Caroline , the UK's first private radio , goes on the air. The pirate station broadcasts from MV Fredericia , a Panamanian-flagged ship anchored three miles from Essex .

science and technology

1802: Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

• 1802 : The German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas , which he initially classifies as a planet.
• 1910 : The French aviation pioneer Henri Fabre is the first to fly in a seaplane in Marseille . On the second attempt, he flies around 600 meters in the Hydravion aircraft .
• 1911 : The battle cruiser SMS Goeben is launched in the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg . From August 1914 she runs under the Turkish flag as Yavuz Sultan Selim .

Culture

1842: Otto Nicolai

• 1842 : On Easter Monday, Hofkapellmeister Otto Nicolai and the Vienna Court Opera Orchestra established the tradition of philharmonic concerts.
• 1846 : The world premiere of the opera Ljubav i zloba ( Love and Malice ) by Vatroslav Lisinski takes place in Zagreb .
• 1879 : The opera Iwein by August Klughardt has its world premiere in Neustrelitz, without success.
• 1885 : The first performance of the operetta Don Cesar by Rudolf Dellinger takes place at the Carl-Schultze-Theater in Hamburg .
• 1911 : Modest Mussorgski's unfinished opera The Sorochintsy Fair is performed on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death in an instrumentation by Vyacheslav Karatygin in Saint Petersburg.

1916: Erich Wolfgang Korngold

• 1916 : The two operas Der Ring des Polykrates and Violanta by Erich Wolfgang Korngold are premiered at the Court Opera in Munich. They are so successful that Korngold will become one of the most frequently performed opera composers in Germany and Austria over the next few years.
• 1927 : The musical Rufus LeMaire's Affairs opens one of the largest theaters on Broadway to date in New York City , the Majestic Theater .
• 1935 : The propaganda film Triumph des Wills by Leni Riefenstahl about the Nazi party rally of the previous year celebrates its premiere in Berlin.
• 1963 : Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds opens in US cinemas .
• 1990 : In France, Bergerac's film Cyrano is shown for the first time , which gives rise to many awards.

religion

681: Pope Honorius I.

• 0681 : The third council of Constantinople imposes the anathema on Pope Honorius I, who died in 638 , because he tolerated the doctrine of monotheletism, which was now regarded as heresy .

Disasters

• 1915 : The British passenger steamer Falaba is sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Wales , 104 passengers and crew drown. This incident caused the first US death to be mourned in World War I.
• 1964 : On Good Friday, an earthquake off Alaska triggers a tsunami on the entire west coast of the USA . 107 people died in Alaska, four in Oregon and 11 in California.
• 1965 : After an earthquake, the dam breaks at El Cobre , Chile. When the dam breaks , the city is buried and at least 200 people are killed.
• 1970 : The earthquake of Gediz of a magnitude of 7.4 in the province of Kutahya in western Turkey destroyed the city Gediz and calls about 1,100 deaths. Around 80,000 people become homeless.

1979: Three Mile Island

• 1979 : A level 5 reactor accident on the International Nuclear Events Rating Scale ( INES ) on Three Mile Island near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania results in a partial meltdown . The repair of the damage takes around 12 years and costs more than one billion US dollars. According to a medical study, there are no long-term health effects.
• 1997 : A stone avalanche kills around 380 people in Afghanistan.
• 1999 : An earthquake of 6.6-magnitude in the region of Xizang , China , and India calls for about 100 deaths.
• 2005 : An earthquake off North Sumatra with a magnitude of 8.6 on the Richter scale kills more than 1,300 people. It is an aftershock of the severe earthquake in the Indian Ocean on December 26th of the previous year.

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

Sports

• 1998 : Lennox Lewis defends his boxing world heavyweight title against Shannon Briggs at the Boardwalk Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey, through technical knockout.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1222 : Hermann II , Landgrave of Thuringia
• 1422 : Angelus Geraldini , diplomat, bishop of Sessa Aurunca and Cammin
• 1472 : Fra Bartolommeo , Italian painter

Teresa of Avila (* 1515)

• 1515 : Teresa of Ávila , Spanish Carmelite, founder of the order and mystic
• 1522 : Albrecht II. Alcibiades , Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
• 1554 : Ivan Ivanovich , heir to the Russian throne
• 1569 : Ranuccio I Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza
• 1589 : Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset , English nobleman and statesman
• 1592 : Johann Amos Comenius , Czech scholar, philosopher and theologian
• 1619 : Moritz , Duke of Saxony-Zeitz
• 1630 : Silvestro Valier , 109th Doge of Venice
• 1652 : Samuel Sewall , New England merchant and judge
• 1653 : Jacob Züblin , Mayor of St. Gallen
• 1654 : Sophie Amalie Moth , mistress of the Danish-Norwegian king Christian V, countess of Samsø
• 1660 : Arnold Houbraken , Dutch painter and art writer
• 1671 : Jodokus Bernhard von Aufseß , German canon
• 1675 : Friedrich Wilhelm I , Duke of Mecklenburg in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin region
• 1675 : Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Jena
• 1688 : Julius Bernhard von Rohr , Saxon cinematographer, scientist and writer
• 1688 : Rudolf Anton von Alvensleben , Hanoverian Minister

18th century

• 1709 : Alexei Grigorjewitsch Rasumowski , Russian field marshal and lover of the empress

Maximilian III Joseph (* 1727)

• 1727 : Maximilian III. Joseph , Elector of Bavaria
• 1728 : Johann Georg Krünitz , German lexicographer and encyclopaedist
• 1737 : Henri de Franquetot, duc de Coigny , French courtier and general
• 1741 : Johann André , German musician, composer and music publisher
• 1743 : Ekaterina Romanovna Voronzowa-Daschkowa , important figure of the Enlightenment in Russia
• 1749 : Pierre-Simon Laplace , French mathematician, physicist and astronomer
• 1750 : Francisco de Miranda , Venezuelan freedom fighter
• 1760 : Georg Adlersparre , Swedish general, politician and writer
• 1760 : Dietrich Joachim Theodor Cunze , German Protestant clergyman pedagogue and historian
• 1763 : Eberhard Ernst Gotthard von Vegesack , Swedish general
• 1764 : Louis Michel Auguste Thévenet , French general
• 1766 : Joseph Weigl , German composer and conductor
• 1769 : Adolph Wilhelm Schack von Staffeldt , Denmark's first romantic poet
• 1769 : Friedrich Georg von Stein , German officer and landowner
• 1772 : Ignatz Brenner von Felsach , Austrian diplomat and orientalist
• 1773 : Henri-Gatien Bertrand , French general

Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold Pfeil (* 1783)

• 1783 : Wilhelm Pfeil , German forest scientist
• 1783 : Christoph Leonhard Wolbach , first Lord Mayor of Ulm
• 1785 : Ferdinand Georg August von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld-Koháry , German Lieutenant Field Marshal
• 1787 : Wenzel Scholz , Austrian actor
• 1790 : William Henry Hunt , English painter
• 1793 : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft , American explorer and ethnologist
• 1799 : Carl von Basedow , German doctor
• 1800 : Johann Georg Wagler , German zoologist and herpetologist

19th century

1801-1850

• 1806 : Karl Friedrich Nägelsbach , German classical philologist

Victor von Unruh (* 1806)

• 1806 : Hans Victor von Unruh , German politician and councilor
• 1807 : Eduard Baumstark , German economist
• 1808 : Knut Baade , Norwegian painter
• 1810 : Jean Gaberel , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1811 : Johann Nepomuk Neumann , Bishop of Philadelphia
• 1818 : Wade Hampton III. , Confederate General and Governor of South Carolina
• 1819 : André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri , French photographer
• 1819 : Joseph Bazalgette , British civil engineer
• 1819 : Roger Fenton , British photographer
• 1820 : Édouard Batiste , French composer, organist and music teacher
• 1821 : William Howard Russell , Irish journalist
• 1828 : Melchior Anderegg , Swiss mountain guide
• 1831 : Ewald Oskar Aders , German district court director and patron
• 1832 : Henry Dana Washburn , American politician, major general, and explorer
• 1834 : Rufus Bullock , American politician
• 1837 : Wilhelm Kühne , German physiologist
• 1838 : Jean-Paul Laurens , French painter
• 1840 : Emin Pascha , German explorer of Africa
• 1840 : Thyra Sehested , Danish historian
• 1844 : Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , German nobleman, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• 1847 : Gyula Farkas , Hungarian physicist and mathematician
• 1848 : Wilhelm Ellenberger , German anatomist
• 1849 : James Darmesteter , French orientalist

1851-1900

• 1851 : Bernardino Machado , Portuguese politician
• 1853 : Jacob B. Bull , Norwegian author
• 1853 : Rudolf Kittel , German Old Testament scholar
• 1855 : Otto Schrader , German Indo-Europeanist
• 1859 : Edmund Barttelot , British officer and Stanley's companion in Africa
• 1861 : Carl Anton Mense , German tropical medicine specialist and explorer

Aristide Briand (* 1862)

• 1862 : Aristide Briand , French politician, Nobel Prize winner
• 1864 : Henrik Bull , Norwegian architect
• 1864 : Arno Senfft , German colonial official
• 1866 : Max Bendix , American violinist and conductor
• 1867 : Ferruccio Cattelani , Italian composer
• 1868 : Cuno Amiet , Swiss painter
• 1868 : Maxim Gorky , Russian writer
• 1868 : Albert Jaegers , German-American sculptor
• 1871 : Willem Mengelberg , Dutch conductor
• 1872 : Otto Dimroth , German chemist

Gustaf Nagel (* 1874)

• 1874 : Gustaf Nagel , German traveling preacher
• 1876 : Edwin Welte , German entrepreneur and inventor
• 1877 : Liesbet Dill , German writer
• 1877 : Ted Ray , British golfer
• 1878 : Herbert H. Lehman , American politician
• 1878 : Hans Schmithals , German artist
• 1880 : Fritz Klatte , German chemist
• 1881 : Martin Sheridan , American athlete
• 1882 : Michael Amlacher , Austrian politician
• 1882 : Friedrich Andres , German religious scholar
• 1882 : Franz Virnich , German landowner, lawyer and Nazi victim
• 1883 : Herbert Schlink , Australian physician, hospital manager and winter sports enthusiast
• 1884 : Fritz Heckert , German politician, member of the Reichstag
• 1885 : Marc Delmas , French composer
• 1886 : Clara Lemlich , American trade unionist and communist
• 1886 : Katharine Parker , Australian pianist and composer
• 1886 : Leo Scheu , Austrian artist, academic painter and graphic artist, Styrian ice skater
• 1887 : Kurt Magnus , German radio pioneer and administrative lawyer
• 1890 : Erwin Mehl , Austrian sports scientist
• 1890 : Paul Whiteman , American band leader

Peter Suhrkamp (* 1891)

• 1891 : Peter Suhrkamp , German publisher, founder of Suhrkamp Verlag
• 1892 : Corneille Heymans , Belgian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1892 : Max Schroer , German painter and illustrator
• 1893 : Wilhelm Adam , German politician and general
• 1894 : Ernst Lindemann , German naval officer
• 1894 : Sylvia von Harden , German poet
• 1894 : Victor Danielsen , Faroese missionary to the Plymouth Brothers and Bible translator
• 1895 : Christian Herter , US Secretary of State
• 1896 : József Antall , Hungarian lawyer and politician
• 1896 : Max Gebhard , German church musician, composer and music teacher
• 1897 : Arthur Martens , German glider pioneer and engineer

Sepp Herberger (* 1897)

• 1897 : Sepp Herberger , German soccer player and coach
• 1897 : Tillie Voss , American football player
• 1898 : Max zu Schaumburg-Lippe , Austrian automobile racing driver
• 1899 : Georg Weissel , Austrian chemist, resistance fighter and commander of the Republican Protection Association
• 1899 : Karel Konrád , Czech writer and journalist
• 1900 : Ernst Brüche , German physicist
• 1900 : Alfred Jepsen , German Lutheran theologian and historian of religion

20th century

1901-1925

Flora Robson (* 1902)

• 1902 : Flora Robson , British actress
• 1902 : Jaromír Vejvoda , Czech composer
• 1902 : Paul Godwin , German-Dutch violinist and orchestra leader
• 1903 : Rudolf Serkin , Austrian pianist
• 1905 : Marlin Perkins , American zoologist and zoo director
• 1905 : Hans Rahner , Austrian composer and piano virtuoso
• 1906 : Murray Adaskin , Canadian composer and conductor
• 1906 : Boleslaw Barlog , German theater director
• 1908 : Max von Arco-Zinneberg , German automobile racing driver
• 1908 : Grégoire Aslan , Armenian actor
• 1909 : Arthur D. Trendall , New Zealand classical archaeologist
• 1909 : Hannsheinz Bauer , German politician
• 1909 : Margareta zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg , Swedish countess
• 1909 : Nelson Algren , American writer

Ingrid of Sweden (* 1910)

• 1910 : Ingrid of Sweden , Danish co-regent
• 1911 : Therese Angeloff , German cabaret artist and actress
• 1911 : Consalvo Sanesi , Italian racing car driver
• 1911 : William Sears , American author
• 1911 : Heinrich Sonnrein , German football player
• 1911 : Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , German physicist
• 1912 : Léon-Gontran Damas , Guayan writer
• 1912 : Marina Mikhailovna Raskova , Soviet pilot
• 1913 : Kurt Dossin , German handball player
• 1914 : Edward Anhalt , American screenwriter
• 1914 : Guido Carli , Italian economist and politician
• 1914 : Bohumil Hrabal , Czech writer
• 1916 : Jess Willard , American country musician
• 1918 : José Faraoni , Argentine racing car driver

Maurice Edmond Müller (* 1918)

• 1918 : Maurice Edmond Müller , Swiss surgeon
• 1919 : Tatiana Ahlers-Hestermann , German textile, mosaic and glass artist
• 1920 : Gérard Laureau , French racing driver and entrepreneur
• 1920 : Karen Tuttle , American violist and music teacher
• 1921 : Harold M. Agnew , American physicist
• 1921 : Norman Bluhm , American painter
• 1921 : Dirk Bogarde , British actor
• 1921 : Herschel Grynszpan , Polish assassin, victim of National Socialism
• 1921 : Walter Neugebauer , German comic and cartoon artist and cartoonist
• 1922 : Theo Albrecht , German entrepreneur
• 1922 : Neville Bonner , Australian politician
• 1922 : Helge Christian Bronée , Danish football player
• 1922 : Grace Hartigan , American painter
• 1922 : Fred Naumetz , American football player
• 1923 : Thad Jones , American jazz trumpeter
• 1923 : Bill Richards , Canadian violinist and composer
• 1924 : Gerhard Fritsch , Austrian writer
• 1924 : Claire Gagnier , Canadian soprano
• 1924 : Arlie Duff , American country musician
• 1925 : Alberto Grimaldi , Italian film producer

1926-1950

• 1927 : Harry Tisch , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR
• 1927 : Jaromír Bartoš , Czech philosopher
• 1927 : Marianne Fredriksson , Swedish writer

Alexander Grothendieck (* 1928)

• 1928 : Alexander Grothendieck , French mathematician of German descent
• 1928 : Gerd Dicke , auxiliary bishop in the diocese of Aachen
• 1928 : Hans Jochen Boecker , German Protestant theologian
• 1928 : Hans-Georg Wieck , German diplomat
• 1928 : Henk van Lijnschooten , Dutch composer and conductor
• 1928 : Zbigniew Brzeziński , Polish-American political scientist
• 1929 : Paul England , Australian racing car driver
• 1929 : Takehiro Irokawa , Japanese writer
• 1930 : Bill Anthony , American jazz bassist
• 1930 : Robert Ashley , American composer
• 1930 : Joe Fortunato , American football player
• 1930 : Jerome Isaac Friedman , American physicist
• 1931 : Gene Anderson , British actress
• 1933 : Frank Murkowski , Polish-American politician, Governor of Alaska
• 1933 : Juan Sandoval Íñiguez , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Guadalajara (Mexico)
• 1934 : Guenter Ahlers , American physicist
• 1935 : Hubert Hahne , German racing driver
• 1935 : Claus Jurichs , German actor
• 1935 : Józef Szmidt , German-Polish athlete
• 1936 : Veronika Fitz , Bavarian folk actress
• 1936 : Amancio Ortega , Spanish textile entrepreneur

Mario Vargas Llosa (* 1936)

• 1936 : Mario Vargas Llosa , Peruvian writer and politician
• 1937 : Ad Abi Karam , Lebanese priest and bishop
• 1938 : Jean-François Piot , French automobile racing driver
• 1939 : Carl-Dieter Spranger , German politician
• 1940 : Giuseppe Andrich , Italian bishop
• 1940 : Ben d'Armagnac , Dutch performance artist
• 1940 : Russell Banks , American writer
• 1941 : Alf Clausen , American composer
• 1941 : Detlev Ganten , German specialist in pharmacology and molecular medicine
• 1941 : Holger Bartsch , German politician
• 1941 : Peter Hladik , German actor
• 1941 : Rolf Zacher , German actor
• 1941 : Zsuzsanna Sirokay , Hungarian pianist
• 1942 : Klaus Ahlheim , German educationalist
• 1942 : Luis Felipe Areta Sampériz , Spanish athlete and priest
• 1942 : Bernard Darniche , French racing car driver
• 1942 : Conrad Schumann , first border refugee of the NVA

Daniel Dennett (born 1942)

• 1942 : Daniel Dennett , American philosopher
• 1942 : Hartmut Perschau , German politician
• 1942 : Jerry Sloan , American basketball coach
• 1942 : Mike Newell , British director
• 1942 : Neil Kinnock , Vice President of the EU Commission
• 1942 : Pål Tyldum , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1943 : Philippe de Henning , French designer and racing car driver
• 1943 : Horst Laqua , German medic
• 1944 : Gisela Kallenbach , German MEP
• 1944 : Rick Barry , American basketball player
• 1945 : Rodrigo Duterte , President of the Philippines
• 1945 : Sally Carr , British singer ("Middle of the Road")
• 1945 : Rolf Glasmeier , German artist

Tilman Röhrig (* 1945)

• 1945 : Tilman Röhrig , German writer
• 1946 : Wubbo Ockels , Dutch physicist and spaceman
• 1948 : John Evan , British musician
• 1948 : Dianne Wiest , American film and stage actress
• 1949 : Josephine Chaplin , American actress
• 1949 : Ernst Diehl , German football player
• 1949 : Peter Alltschekow , German politician
• 1949 : Leslie Valiant , British computer scientist, Turing Prize winner
• 1950 : Roland Andersson , Swedish football player and coach

1951-1975

• 1951 : Karen Kain , Canadian ballet dancer
• 1951 : Matti Pellonpää , Finnish actor
• 1951 : David Reese , American poker player
• 1952 : Keith Ashfield , Canadian politician
• 1952 : Tony Brise , English racing car driver
• 1953 : Souhaila Andrawes , Palestinian terrorist
• 1953 : Melchior Ndadaye , Burundian politician
• 1953 : Robert Wiesner , Austrian television journalist and presenter
• 1954 : Donald Ray Brown , American jazz pianist, composer and music teacher

Paweł Szymański (* 1954)

• 1954 : Paweł Szymański , Polish composer
• 1955 : Reba McEntire , American country singer and actress
• 1956 : Amanda Aizpuriete , Latvian writer
• 1956 : Evelin Jahl , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1956 : Gert Winkelmeier , German politician
• 1957 : John Murray Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 : Peter Asmussen , Danish writer, playwright and screenwriter
• 1957 : Holger Meitinger , German ice hockey player
• 1958 : Elisabeth Andreassen , Swedish-Norwegian singer
• 1958 : Curt Hennig , American wrestler
• 1958 : Heinz Hermann , Swiss football player
• 1959 : Jacob de Haan , Dutch composer and musician
• 1959 : Laura Chinchilla , Costa Rican politician
• 1959 : Stephan-Andreas Casdorff , German journalist
• 1959 : Christopher Lamb , American percussionist and music teacher

Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (* 1960)

• 1960 : Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , French writer
• 1960 : Heidi Wiesler , German ski racer
• 1960 : José Maria Neves , Cape Verdean politician, Prime Minister
• 1961 : Michael Wollitz , German soccer player
• 1961 : Orla Brady , Irish actress
• 1961 : Volker Lüdecke , German author
• 1961 : Barbara Wussow , Austrian actress
• 1962 : Jure Franko , Slovenian ski racer
• 1963 : Joe Crawford , German musician ( PUR )
• 1963 : Nino Ananiashvili , Georgian prima ballerina
• 1963 : Perry Bräutigam , German soccer player
• 1963 : Cornelia Scheel , German author
• 1966 : Høgni Hoydal , Faroese politician
• 1967 : Kai Abraham , German-Austrian badminton player
• 1967 : Giacomo Aula , Italian jazz pianist
• 1967 : Ingrid Salvenmoser , Austrian ski racer
• 1969 : Rodney Atkins , American country singer
• 1969 : Brett Ratner , American director
• 1969 : Ingrid Stöckl , Austrian ski racer
• 1969 : Ilke Wyludda , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1970 : Vince Vaughn , American actor

Nick Frost (* 1972)

• 1972 : Nick Frost , British actor and screenwriter
• 1972 : Devinn Lane , model and porn actress, director and producer
• 1972 : Nathalie Santer , Italian biathlete
• 1972 : Olga Nikolajewna Jegorowa , Russian long-distance runner
• 1974 : Mark King , English snooker player
• 1974 : Matthias Koeberlin , German actor
• 1974 : Johanna Paasikangas-Tella , Finnish chess player
• 1975 : Fabrizio Gollin , Italian racing car driver
• 1975 : Iván Helguera , Spanish football player
• 1975 : Richard Kelly , American director and screenwriter
• 1975 : Salvatore Commesso , Italian racing cyclist
• 1975 : Derek Hill , American racing driver
• 1975 : Nicholas Tzavaras , American cellist and music teacher
• 1975 : Adam Weiner , Polish handball player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Haruchika Aoki , Japanese motorcycle racer

Nils Wiechmann (* 1976)

• 1976 : Tim Mullen , British racing car driver
• 1976 : Nils Wiechmann , German politician, MdL
• 1976 : Fritz Emeran , Rwandan-French soccer player
• 1976 : Dave Keuning , American guitarist ( The Killers )
• 1977 : Devon , American porn actress
• 1977 : Annie Wersching , American actress
• 1977 : Hannes Seidl , German composer
• 1978 : Nafisa Joseph , Indian model
• 1979 : Kim Adler , German television presenter and reporter
• 1979 : Anneke Dürkopp , German television presenter
• 1979 : Dennie Klose , German television presenter
• 1980 : Albert Streit , German soccer player
• 1980 : Luke Walton , American basketball coach and coach

Julia Stiles (* 1981)

• 1981 : Julia Stiles , American actress
• 1982 : Luis Tejada , Panamanian soccer player
• 1983 : Ladji Doucouré , French athlete
• 1984 : Mensur Mujdža , Croatian-Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1984 : Christopher Samba , Congolese-French football player
• 1985 : Raffael , Brazilian soccer player
• 1985 : Julia Jurack , German handball player
• 1985 : Chris Long , American football player
• 1985 : Steve Mandanda , French football goalkeeper
• 1985 : Benjamin Trautvetter , German handball player
• 1985 : Stan Wawrinka , Swiss tennis player
• 1986 : Habib Bellaïd , French-Algerian football player
• 1986 : Adaílson Pereira Coelho , Brazilian soccer player

Lady Gaga (* 1986)

• 1986 : Lady Gaga , American singer, songwriter and entrepreneur
• 1986 : J-Kwon , American rapper
• 1987 : Asier Arranz Martín , Spanish football player
• 1988 : Geno Atkins , American football player
• 1989 : Jon Aberasturi , Spanish road cyclist
• 1989 : Michel Avanzini , Swiss football player
• 1989 : Nicholas Boulle , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1990 : Michail Antonio , English football player
• 1990 : Laura Harrier , American actress and model
• 1990 : Luca Marrone , Italian football player
• 1991 : Julián Cuesta , Spanish football goalkeeper
• 1991 : Lukas Hinterseer , Austrian soccer player
• 1991 : Lisa-Maria Moser , Austrian tennis player
• 1991 : Ryu Hye-young , South Korean actress
• 1992 : Erhan Aslan , Turkish football goalkeeper
• 1992 : Jake Brown , American biathlete
• 1993 : Matija Nastasić , Serbian football player
• 1993 : Julia Behnke , German handball player
• 1994 : Tigist Assefa , Ethiopian middle distance runner
• 1996 : Benjamin Pavard , French football player
• 1999 : Aaron Opoku , German soccer player
• 2000 : Anna Hoffmann , American ski jumper

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0193 : Pertinax , Roman emperor
• 0592 : Guntram I , King of Burgundy and Orléans
• 0966 : Flodoard von Reims , West Franconian chronicler
• 1038 : Hai Gaon , head of the Jewish academy in Pumbedita
• 1072 : Ordulf , Duke of Saxony
• 1084 : Heinrich , Patriarch of Aquileja
• 1100 : Adelheid von Weimar-Orlamünde , Countess Palatine
• 1134 : Stephan Harding , saint and abbot of the Cistercians
• 1192 : Eggehardus , first abbot in the Marienfeld monastery
• 1214 : Daniel Milík , Bishop of Prague
• 1223 : Bernhard III. von Oesede , Bishop of Paderborn

Go-Toba († 1239)

• 1239 : Go-Toba , 82nd Emperor of Japan
• 1241 : Waldemar II called "the victor", King of Denmark
• 1242 : Theodoric II of Wied , Archbishop and Elector of Trier
• 1285 : Martin IV , Pope
• 1312 : Conrad IV of Fohnsdorf-Praitenfurt , Archbishop of Salzburg
• 1317 : Walter Maidstone , Bishop of Worcester
• 1334 : Rudolf III. von Montfort , Bishop of Chur and Constance
• 1342 : Pierre de Faucigny , Bishop of Geneva
• 1421 : Thomas de Camoys, 1st Baron Camoys , English nobleman
• 1461 : John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford , English nobleman and military man

16th to 18th century

• 1501 : Martin Prenninger , called Martinus Uranius, German humanist and legal scholar
• 1516 : Kunz von Lüchau , Brandenburg-Kulmbacher bailiff in Selb and Rehau and Saxon bailiff in Schleiz
• 1523 : Ludwig I. von Löwenstein , imperial count, progenitor of the house Löwenstein-Wertheim
• 1524 : Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Duchess of Württemberg
• 1524 : Ingrid Persdotter , (fictional) Swedish nun
• 1529 : Philip II of Hanau-Munzenberg , Count of Hanau-Munzenberg
• 1552 : Angad Dev , founder-gurus of Sikhism
• 1560 : Christoph Zobel , German lawyer
• 1561 : Bartholomäus V. Welser , German patrician and wholesale merchant
• 1566 : Siegmund von Herberstein , Austrian imperial councilor and envoy to the Russian court
• 1572 : Annecke Lange , victim of the persecution of witches in Neustadt am Rübenberge
• 1584 : Ivan IV ( the Terrible ) , the first crowned Russian tsar
• 1579 : Juan Fernández de Navarrete , Spanish painter
• 1600 : Salomon Alberti , German medic
• 1620 : Nikolaus Arresdorf , German clergyman and auxiliary bishop
• 1624 : Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset , English nobleman and statesman
• 1638 : Marie Touchet , French nobleman and mistress of the French King Charles IX.
• 1655 : Kaspar Friederich , Mayor of St. Gallen
• 1684 : John Lambert , English military man and politician
• 1687 : Constantijn Huygens , poet from the Netherlands
• 1690 : Emmanuel Tzanes , Cretan painter
• 1691 : Philipp Jakob Baudrexel , German theologian, composer, court and cathedral music director
• 1698 : Franz Andrä von Orsini-Rosenberg , Governor of Carinthia
• 1701 : Domenico Guidi , Italian sculptor
• 1703 : Johann Brunetti , titular bishop of Lacedaemonia and auxiliary bishop in Breslau
• 1703 : Hans Christian Eiffler , Mayor of Altona
• 1712 : Jan van der Heyden , Dutch painter and inventor
• 1719 : Johann Anton Gumpp , Austrian painter
• 1722 : Na'od II , Negus of Ethiopia
• 1736 : Johann Reinhard III. von Hanau , Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg and Hanau-Münzenberg
• 1743 : Karl Friedrich , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• 1746 : Bernhard Walther Marperger , German Lutheran theologian
• 1757 : Robert François Damiens , French assassin
• 1758 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow , Prussian Field Marshal General, Governor of Wesel
• 1760 : Peg Woffington , Irish actress
• 1765 : Arthur Dobbs , Irish politician, governor of the North Carolina royal colony
• 1779 : Woldemar Salomo Hausdorf , German Protestant theologian
• 1794 : Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet , French philosopher, mathematician, politician and communication theorist

19th century

Ralph Abercromby († 1801)

• 1801 : Ralph Abercromby , British general
• 1820 : Josef Speckbacher , Tyrolean freedom fighter
• 1829 : Johann Baptist von Schiber , German lawyer
• 1835 : Christian Günther von Bernstorff , Danish and Prussian statesman
• 1835 : Ernst Konstantin von Schubert , German lawyer and civil servant in Sweden, Swedish Pomerania and Prussia
• 1837 : Benjamin Adams , American politician
• 1838 : Thomas Attwood , English composer and organist
• 1840 : Vincent Delacour , French composer
• 1840 : Simon L'Huilier , Swiss mathematician
• 1840 : Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut , German legal scholar
• 1842 : Wilhelm von Anns , German businessman and politician
• 1843 : Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas , German officer and professor
• 1850 : Johann-Conrad Appenzeller , Swiss pastor and folk writer
• 1850 : Johann Ludwig Bleuler , Swiss painter and publisher
• 1850 : Bernt Michael Holmboe , Norwegian mathematician and didactic
• 1851 : Carl Ludwig Heusler , German entrepreneur and mining official
• 1855 : William S. Archer , American politician
• 1856 : Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov , Russian composer
• 1858 : Willem Alberda van Ekenstein , Dutch chemist
• 1859 : Carl Ackermann , German publisher
• 1868 : James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan , British general
• 1869 : Jules Joseph Gabriel , French theater poet and librettist

Peter Andreas Hansen († 1874)

• 1874 : Peter Andreas Hansen , German astronomer
• 1875 : Engelbert-August von Arenberg , Duke of Arenberg
• 1881 : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky , Russian composer
• 1883 : Lorenz Diefenbach , German writer and linguist
• 1883 : Gustav Langerfeldt , Braunschweig lawyer and politician
• 1884 : Leopold, 1st Duke of Albany , son of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Prince Albert
• 1885 : Ludvig Norman , Swedish conductor and composer
• 1887 : William Smithe , Canadian politician
• 1888 : Louis Arrighi de Casanova , Duke of Padua and French politician
• 1891 : Friedrich Stoltze , German native and dialect poet
• 1893 : Xavier Boisselot , French composer and piano maker
• 1900 : Count Vincent Benedetti , French diplomat

20th century

• 1902 : Conrad Wilhelm Hase , German architect
• 1903 : Émile Baudot , French engineer and inventor
• 1906 : Karl Rudolf Seyerlen , German Protestant theologian
• 1922 : Julius Wieting , German surgeon
• 1927 : Hermann Ernst Ludwig Viktor Ambronn , German botanist and physicist
• 1937 : James B. Frazier , American politician

Virginia Woolf († 1941)

• 1941 : Virginia Woolf , British writer
• 1943 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow , Russian pianist, composer and conductor
• 1944 : Jean-Marie Plum , Belgian composer and organist
• 1947 : Ilse Salberg , German photographer and art patron
• 1948 : John Duncan MacLean , Canadian politician
• 1949 : Theodor Seitz , German colonial politician
• 1950 : Ernst Hellinger , German mathematician
• 1951 : Georg Otto Angerer , German politician
• 1953 : Jim Thorpe , American athlete
• 1956 : Burghard Breitner , Austrian surgeon
• 1957 : Jack Butler Yeats , Irish artist
• 1958 : WC Handy , American blues composer, trumpeter and band leader ("father of the blues")
• 1962 : David Wijnveldt , Dutch football player
• 1962 : Hugo Wast , Argentine writer
• 1965 : Iwan Wassiljewitsch Boldin , head of the Soviet military administration in Thuringia
• 1967 : Berta Lask , German poet

US President Dwight D. Eisenhower († 1969)

• 1969 : Dwight D. Eisenhower , American general and president
• 1970 : Kingsley A. Taft , American politician
• 1971 : Katharine Parker , Australian pianist and composer
• 1974 : Françoise Rosay , French actress
• 1975 : Sophie Dorothea Eckener , German painter, graphic artist and portrait painter
• 1977 : Waldo de los Ríos , Argentine pianist, orchestra conductor, arranger and composer
• 1978 : Kurt Angermann , German administrative lawyer
• 1980 : Dick Haymes , Argentine singer
• 1982 : William Adkins , Canadian theater coordinator and set designer
• 1982 : William Francis Giauque , American chemist
• 1985 : Hannelore Schlaf , German table tennis player and official

Marc Chagall († 1985)

• 1985 : Marc Chagall , Russian-French painter
• 1986 : Friedrich Pruss von Zglinicki , German writer, illustrator and comic artist
• 1987 : Maria Augusta von Trapp , American singer
• 1989 : Joseph Adetunji Adefarasin , Nigerian lawyer
• 1989 : Jacques Lecat , French racing car driver
• 1989 : Madeleine Ozeray , Belgian-French actress
• 1989 : Ruth Seydewitz , German journalist and writer
• 1990 : Gino Cappello , Italian football player
• 1990 : Kurt Scharf , German Protestant bishop
• 1992 : Wendell Mayes , American screenwriter
• 1992 : Nikolaos Platon , Greek archaeologist, excavator of the Minoan palace in Crete
• 1994 : Eugène Ionesco , Franco-Romanian playwright, main exponent of the theater of the absurd
• 1995 : Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , German news anchor, television journalist and presenter ( daily topics )
• 1995 : Albert Pratz , Canadian violinist, conductor, composer and music teacher
• 1996 : Hans Blumenberg , German philosopher
• 1996 : Barbara McLean , American film editor, Oscar winner
• 1999 : Rolf Ludwig , German actor
• 2000 : Pierre Souvairan , Swiss-Canadian pianist and music teacher of French origin

21st century

• 2001 : George Connor , American racing car driver
• 2001 : Helge Ingstad , Norwegian archaeologist, writer and adventurer
• 2001 : Friedrich Schiedel , German entrepreneur and patron
• 2003 : Ludwig Elsbett , German engine developer
• 2003 : Kurt Schmidtchen , German actor
• 2004 : Albert Brülls , German soccer player
• 2004 : Robert Merle , French writer and novelist

Peter Ustinov († 2004)

• 2004 : Juan Manuel Tato , Argentine physician, university professor and author
• 2004 : Peter Ustinov , British actor, director and writer
• 2005 : Hermann Lause , German actor
• 2005 : Moura Lympany , British pianist
• 2006 : Caspar Weinberger , American politician
• 2008 : Karl Christ , German ancient historian
• 2010 : Joachim Kaiser , German artist and cultural politician
• 2010 : Linda William ' , French pop singer
• 2011 : Horst Cotta , German physician
• 2012 : John Arden , British writer
• 2012 : Alexander Arutjunjan , Armenian composer
• 2013 : Richard Griffiths , British actor
• 2015 : Marie Laurent , French racing car driver
• 2015 : Gene Saks , American director and actor
• 2015 : Douglas Leedy , American composer, conductor, horn player, harpsichordist, singer and music teacher
• 2016 : Lanz-Leo , German agricultural machinery collector
• 2017 : Ahmed Kathrada , South African anti-apartheid fighter and politician
• 2017 : Christine Kaufmann , German actress
• 2018 : Erhard Blankenburg , German legal sociologist
• 2018 : Darryl Thomas , American basketball player
• 2019 : Edeltraud Forster , German abbess of the St. Hildegard Eibingen monastery
• 2020 : Barbara Rütting , German actress and politician
• 2020 : Thomas Schäfer , German politician
• 2021 : Didier Ratsiraka , Malagasy politician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Rupert von Salzburg , Bishop of Salzburg, messenger of faith in Eastern Bavaria and Salzburg (Protestant, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Memorial Day is on March 27th)

• Name days
  • Guntram

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

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