April 29th

The April 29 is the 119th day of the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years ), thus remain 246 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1091 : The Pechenegs, who invaded the Byzantine Empire, are repulsed at the Battle of Levounion .

1429: Joan of Arc

• 1429 : During the Hundred Years War , Jeanne d'Arc breaks through the English siege of Orléans together with Étienne de Vignolles and a few other men and arrives in the city with a supply train.
• 1483 : The island of Gran Canaria is subjugated by the Kingdom of Castile after the last resistance from the ranks of the Guanches against the Spanish troops under Pedro de Vera and Alonso Fernández de Lugo . The indigenous people are enslaved.

1624: Louis XIII. with Richelieu

• 1624 : Cardinal Richelieu is taken over by King Louis XIII. Appointed to the Council of State. A few months later, on August 13, he was entrusted with the management of the body; as First Minister he leads now on the business of government in France .

1770: Map of the bay based on Cook's survey data

• 1770 : On his first voyage to the South Seas, the British navigator and explorer James Cook reaches the east coast of Australia and lands at Botany Bay in what is now New South Wales .
• 1799 : Two French diplomats die in the murder of the Rastatt envoy , which has never been resolved . The act prevents an early peace agreement between France and Austria in the Second Coalition War .
• 1827 : Because of his answer to the debt problem, the Algerian ruler Hussein Dey gives the French consul Pierre Deval three blows with a fly whisk at a reception in Algiers . The process leads three years later to the landing of French troops and the occupation of Algeria .
• 1859 : With the invasion of Austrian troops under Ferenc József Gyulay in the Kingdom of Sardinia , the Sardinian War begins , the second Italian war of independence , which paves the way for the unification of Italy .
• 1862 : During the Civil War , the first battle for Corinth begins between the Union Army under Henry Wager Halleck and the Confederate States Army under Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard , which will last until May 30th.

1879: Alexander von Battenberg

• 1879 : With the approval of the great powers, the Bulgarian National Assembly unanimously elects Alexander I of the Battenberg family to be ruler of the Principality of Bulgaria.
• 1916 : After five days of fighting, the rebels of the Easter Rising in Ireland capitulate . The battles of the Irish Volunteers under Patrick Pearse and the Irish Citizen Army of James Connolly against the British Army have cost over 1,000 lives.
• 1916 : On the Mesopotamia front of the First World War , the British-Indian troops trapped in Kut surrender to the Ottoman besiegers.
• 1918 : The Fourth Battle of Flanders ends on the western front of the First World War .
• 1933 : Hermann Göring founds the Reich Air Protection Association, which trains its members in air protection prevention, fire fighting , protection against gas attacks , first aid and reporting.
• 1945 : Shortly after midnight, Adolf Hitler marries his long-time friend Eva Braun in the Berlin bunker . Groomsmen are Joseph Goebbels and Martin Bormann .

1945: Liberated prisoners from the Dachau concentration camp

1945: Execution of SS guards

• 1945 : During the Second World War, the Dachau concentration camp is the penultimate of all concentration camps to be liberated by a battalion of the 7th US Army . This leads to the Dachau massacre by former prisoners and US soldiers against members of the SS .
• 1946 : With the reading of the indictment, the Tokyo trial begins against the former Prime Minister and Chief of Staff Tōjō Hideki and 25 other leading Japanese officers and politicians for conspiracy against world peace, murder, war crimes and crimes against humanity .
• 1970 : Around 20,000 US soldiers invade neighboring Cambodia in the Vietnam War in search of Viet Cong bases . In the United States, this invasion sparked harsh student protests.
• 1972 : The first German gay demonstration takes place in Münster , Westphalia .

1975: Operation Frequent Wind : Vietnamese refugees

• 1975 : During the Vietnam War , the United States begins Operation Frequent Wind , evacuating its soldiers from Saigon . One day later, the city fell to the North Vietnamese .
• 1978 : The Rainbow Warrior trawler is commissioned as the flagship of the environmental organization Greenpeace .
• 1992 : The British Labor MP Betty Boothroyd is elected as the first woman to be the " Madam Speaker " and thus to be elected chairman of the British House of Commons after a 727-year history of British parliamentarism .
• 1992 : Following the live broadcast of the surprise acquittal for the accused policemen in the Rodney King trial in Los Angeles by an all-white jury, there were six days of unrest in Los Angeles in which over 50 people were killed and hundreds of buildings were destroyed become.
• 1997 : Almost five years after it was passed by the General Assembly of the United Nations , the Chemical Weapons Convention comes into force. It prohibits the development, manufacture, possession, transfer and use of chemical weapons .

1999: The television tower before its destruction

• 1999 : The Avala television tower on Mount Avala in the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade is destroyed in a NATO bombing during the Kosovo war.

economy

• 1882 : The German Imperial Court ruled that making books in horse races and betting on the totalizator are games of chance and therefore fall under the ban on gambling that has been in force since the establishment of the Empire in 1872.
• 1913 : The number switch for telephones ("dial") developed by Siemens & Halske and still in isolated use today is registered for a patent.
• 1956 : The publisher Axel Springer AG is the first edition of the Sunday newspaper Bild am Sonntag out.
• 1995 : The first federal horticultural show in the new federal states is opened to visitors in Cottbus .
• 2004 : The last Oldsmobile car , an Oldsmobile Alero Final 500, leaves the assembly line in Lansing , Michigan and is taken straight to the RE Olds Transportation Museum .

2006: Member States of the TCP

• 2006 : In Havana, Bolivia , Venezuela and Cuba sign the Trade Treaty of the Peoples ( TCP ), which establishes trade relations based on solidarity between the three states. The Bolivarian Alliance for America is an alternative proposal by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to the American Free Trade Area planned by the United States .

science and technology

• 1833 : At the opening ceremony of the newly founded University of Zurich , Lorenz Oken receives the foundation charter as its first rector .

1835: Schifferstadt's golden hat

• 1835 : During field work near Schifferstadt in the Rhine-Palatinate district, the Schifferstadt Golden Hat , one of four Bronze Age gold hats found in Europe , is discovered.
• 1882 : Werner von Siemens demonstrates an electrically powered carriage on a 540 meter long test track in Halensee near Berlin. The so-called electromote is the world's first trolleybus .

1899: La Jamais Contente with Camille Jenatzy

• 1899 : In a record run, the electrically powered La Jamais Contente by Frenchman Camille Jenatzy is the first land vehicle to reach speeds of over 100 km / h.
• 1929 : The first meeting of the founding committee of the American Society of Rheology marks the birth of modern rheology .
• 2006 : The 6.3 km long submarine Norðoyatunnilin in the Faroe Islands opens. The so-called North Island Tunnel is the longest tunnel in the Faroe Islands . It connects Leirvík on Eysturoy with Klaksvík on Borðoy and runs under the Leirvíksfjørður strait .
• 2013 : The private spaceplane SpaceShip Two , owned by the US company Virgin Galactic , completes its first rocket-based flight.

Culture

• 1741 : The world premiere of the opera Ezio by Niccolò Jommelli with the libretto by Pietro Metastasio takes place in Bologna .
• 1798 : The oratorio The Creation by Joseph Haydn has its world premiere under the direction of the composer in front of a private audience in the Palais Schwarzenberg on the Neuer Markt in Vienna.
• 1827 : The world premiere of the opera The Wedding of Camacho by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy with a libretto based on Miguel de Cervantes takes place in the Schauspielhaus Berlin .
• 1852 : The 15,000-word thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget appears in Great Britain, which is quickly reprinted due to high demand.
• 1921 : The world premiere of the opera Igrok ( The Player ) by Sergei Prokofjew based on the novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostojewski takes place at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
• 1964 : The drama The Persecution and Murder of Jean Paul Marat was performed at the Berlin Schiller Theater by the acting group of the Charenton Hospice under the direction of Mr. de Sade by Peter Weiss and directed by the Polish director Konrad Swinarski . The piece received vehement applause and individual boos and was subsequently a worldwide success.
• 1968 : The musical Hair premieres after an off-Broadway preview at the Biltmore Theater on New York's Broadway . The book and lyrics are by Gerome Ragni and James Rado , the music is by Galt MacDermot .

society

2011: wedding couple

• 2011 : Prince William and Catherine Middleton marry in London's Westminster Abbey , who is given the title of Duchess of Cambridge on the occasion.

religion

1670: Clemens X.

• 1670 : Emilio Altieri is chosen as a compromise candidate at the age of 80 years as pope, taking the name of Clement X in. After the election, he leaves the current affairs of state to an adoptive nephew, Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni .
• 1887 : The ecclesiastical orders that had been excluded from Prussia by the monastery law around twelve years earlier in the Kulturkampf are legally permitted there again, with the exception of Jesuits .
• 2007 : In Magdeburg Cathedral is Magdeburg Declaration signed. This is the first time that a formal agreement is reached on the mutual recognition of baptisms performed in eleven different churches in Germany .

Disasters

• 1991 : A train accident in the Chinese province of Hunan kills over 200 people.

1991: Bangladesh cyclone

• 1991 : The Bangladesh cyclone hits the Chittagong division in southeast Bangladesh with wind speeds of up to 260 km / h . The cyclone caused a 6 meter high tidal wave, 138,000 people died and 10 million became homeless.

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

Sports

• 1946 : The Hartberg gymnastics and sports club is founded. The football division now plays in the highest Austrian class .
• 1978 : 1. FC Köln wins the German football championship and thus the so-called " double " with a 5-0 away win at FC St. Pauli . Borussia Mönchengladbach achieved the highest victory in the history of the German Bundesliga with a 12-0 win against Borussia Dortmund on the same day , but only became runner-up due to the overall worse goal difference.
• 1995 : The wrestling event " Collision in Korea " that has been taking place in North Korea since the day before ends.
• 2007 : German handball clubs win all European cup competitions: SC Magdeburg Gladiators the EHF Cup , THW Kiel the EHF Champions League and HSV Hamburg the European Cup Winners' Cup .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1469 : Wilhelm II , Landgrave of the Landgraviate of Hesse
• 1542 : Heinrich III. , Duke of Münsterberg and Bernstadt
• 1553 : Albrecht Friedrich , ruling prince of the Duchy of Prussia
• 1582 : Albert Friedrich von Brandenburg , Margrave of Brandenburg
• 1613 : Christoph Bach , German council musician and grandfather of Johann Sebastian Bach
• 1620 : Robert Atkyns , English lawyer and statesman
• 1636 : Esaias Reusner , German lutenist and composer
• 1659 : Sophia Brenner , Swedish writer of German descent
• 1662 : Achilles Augustus von Lersner , Frankfurt patrician and chronicler of the Baroque period

James Butler (* 1665)

• 1665 : James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde , Anglo-Irish statesman and general
• 1673 : Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier , German philosopher, rhetorician, linguist
• 1686 : Wassili Nikititsch Tatishchev , Russian statesman and ethnographer
• 1688 : Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder , French draftsman, etcher and engraver
• 1688 : Lucas Corthum , German lawyer, councilor and mayor of Hamburg
• 1691 : Ulrich Friedrich von Suhm , diplomat and friend of Frederick the Great
• 1692 : Johann Hermann von L'Estocq , Russian surgeon and favorite of Empress Elisabeth
• 1693 : Asmus Ehrenreich von Bredow , Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Kolberg
• 1700 : Karl Friedrich , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf

18th century

• 1701 : Christian Ludwig Liscow , German satirist
• 1718 : Per Scheffer , Swedish field marshal
• 1723 : Jean-Rodolphe Vautravers , Swiss-English naturalist and art dealer
• 1724 : Pedro António Correia Garção , Portuguese poet
• 1727 : Jean Georges Noverre , French dancer and choreographer
• 1733 : Pedro Melo de Portugal y Villena , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of the Río de la Plata
• 1749 : Heinrich Guttenberg , German engraver
• 1752 : Theodore Foster , American politician
• 1758 : Johann Heinrich Lips , Swiss engraver
• 1760 : Heinrich Ernst von Schönburg-Rochsburg , German farmer and sheep farmer
• 1762 : Jean-Baptiste Jourdan , Marshal of France
• 1763 : Friedrich , Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen and Saxe-Altenburg
• 1766 : Nicholas Vansittart, 1st Baron Bexley , British politician and statesman of German descent
• 1767 : Franz von Minucci , Bavarian major general
• 1767 : Caleb Rodney , American politician, governor of Delaware
• 1767 : Carl Philipp von Wrede , Bavarian officer and later field marshal
• 1774 : Anna Gottlieb , Austrian opera singer
• 1780 : Charles Nodier , French writer
• 1784 : Samuel Armstrong , American politician
• 1785 : Karl von Drais , German forester and inventor
• 1789 : Carl Ludwig Frommel , German landscape painter
• 1791 : Heinrich Ludolph Wendland , German botanist
• 1797 : Petrus Johannes Izaak de Fremery , Dutch medic and chemist

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801 : Joseph von Aschbach , German historian
• 1803 : Carl Gottlob Abela , German musician
• 1803 : James Brooke , English adventurer and traveler
• 1803 : Paul Cullen , Irish cardinal and archbishop
• 1803 : Samuel Hebich , German missionary
• 1806 : Ernst von Feuchtersleben , Austrian popular philosopher, doctor, poet and essayist
• 1810 : Franz Raveaux , German revolutionary
• 1817 : Vincent Benedetti , French diplomat

Alexander II of Russia (* 1818)

• 1818 : Alexander II , Tsar of Russia
• 1820 : Henry Watkins Allen , Louisiana Governor and Confederate General
• 1823 : Daniel Harrwitz , German chess player
• 1824 : Michael Arnold , German sculptor, painter and graphic artist
• 1824 : Albert Emil Brachvogel , German writer
• 1824 : Francisco Pi i Margall , Spanish politician, writer and President of the First Spanish Republic
• 1831 : Friedrich I , Duke of Anhalt
• 1837 : Georges Boulanger , French general
• 1837 : Hermann Tietz , German Jewish merchant, namesake of the Hertie department store chain
• 1840 : Leopold Jacoby , German socialist poet
• 1841 : Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell , British Field Marshal
• 1841 : Sofie von Suppè , wife of Franz von Suppè and, as his estate administrator, founder and patron of the museum
• 1842 : Carl Millöcker , Austrian composer
• 1842 : Paul Soleillet , French traveler to Africa
• 1843 : Pedro Américo , Brazilian painter
• 1843 : Leo Arnoldi , German railway civil engineer and entrepreneur
• 1844 : Hans von Koester , German naval officer, Grand Admiral
• 1846 : Henry Schradieck , German composer, violinist and music teacher
• 1847 : Joachim Andersen , Danish flautist, conductor and composer

1851-1900

Henri Poincaré (* 1854)

• 1854 : Henri Poincaré , French mathematician and theoretical physicist
• 1854 : Paul von Rennenkampff , Russian general of German-Baltic origin
• 1855 : Julius Zeißig , German architect
• 1856 : František Albert , Czech doctor, storyteller, journalist and translator
• 1857 : František Ondříček , Czech violinist and composer
• 1860 : Fritz Beindorff , German entrepreneur
• 1862 : Otto von Falke , German art historian
• 1862 : Carl Friedemann , Swiss composer and conductor
• 1863 : William Randolph Hearst , American publisher and media tsar
• 1863 : Konstantinos Kavafis , Greek writer
• 1865 : Max Fabiani , Austrian-Italian architect
• 1866 : Siegmund Auerbach , German neurologist
• 1867 : Knud Christian Andersen , Danish zoologist
• 1871 : Arie Noordtzij , Dutch Reformed theologian
• 1871 : William Stern , German psychologist, founder of differential psychology and inventor of the intelligence quotient
• 1872 : Eyvind Alnæs , Norwegian composer
• 1875 : Rafael Sabatini , Italian-British writer
• 1876 : Alexander Bittorf , German internal physician and pathologist
• 1876 : Zauditu , Ethiopia's first female monarch
• 1878 : Friedrich Adler , German architect
• 1878 : Peter Dörfler , German priest and local poet
• 1879 : Thomas Beecham , British conductor, founder of several symphony orchestras
• 1880 : Adolf Chybiński , Polish musicologist and teacher
• 1882 : Auguste Herbin , French painter
• 1885 : Frank Jack Fletcher , American admiral

Egon Erwin Kisch (* 1885)

• 1885 : Egon Erwin Kisch , Bohemian journalist and writer
• 1885 : Wallingford Riegger , American composer
• 1886 : Kurt Kluge , German painter, sculptor and poet
• 1886 : Kurt Pinthus , German writer and journalist
• 1887 : Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk , Dutch biologist, anthropologist, psychologist, physiologist and sports medicine specialist
• 1887 : Otto Dumke , German football player
• 1888 : Dionys Schönecker , Austrian football player and coach
• 1888 : Otto Wagener , German major general
• 1889 : Jan van der Sluis , Dutch football player
• 1890 : Daisy Fellowes , French author and fashion icon
• 1890 : Franz Mueller-Darß , German forester, staff officer of the SS and Waffen-SS
• 1891 : Albert de Jong , Dutch author and anarcho-syndicalist
• 1893 : Johann Reichhart , last executioner in Germany
• 1893 : Harold C. Urey , American chemist
• 1894 : Marietta Blau , Austrian physicist
• 1894 : Joop Boutmy , Dutch football player

Paul Hörbiger (* 1894)

• 1894 : Paul Hörbiger , Austrian actor
• 1894 : Ernst Wolfgang Lewicki , German civil engineer and scientist
• 1895 : Herbert Kühn , German prehistorian, art historian, philosopher and religious scholar
• 1895 : Vladimir Jakowlewitsch Propp , Russian folklorist
• 1895 : Malcolm Sargent , British conductor
• 1896 : Georg Friedrich Ahrens , German politician
• 1896 : Walter Mehring , German writer, important satirical author of the Weimar Republic
• 1898 : Rudolf Dassler , German entrepreneur ( Puma )
• 1898 : Morice Lipsi , French sculptor
• 1899 : Robert Cooley Angell , American sociologist
• 1899 : Duke Ellington , American jazz composer, pianist and bandleader
• 1899 : Yngve Sköld , Swedish composer
• 1899 : Gustav Tauschek , Austrian computer pioneer
• 1900 : Otto Jaag , Swiss hydrobiologist

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Kathrine Aurell , Swedish-Norwegian writer and screenwriter

Hirohito (* 1901)

• 1901 : Hirohito , Japanese emperor
• 1901 : Clodwig Kapferer , German pioneer in market research, export promotion and development aid
• 1901 : Ceslas Spicq , French Roman Catholic clergyman and university professor
• 1902 : Roger Gauthier , French racing car driver
• 1904 : Willi Dickhut , German politician, co-founder of the MLPD
• 1904 : Russ Morgan , American band leader, pianist, trombonist and composer
• 1904 : Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer
• 1905 : Erich Naumann , German general of the SS and police, commander of Einsatzgruppe B , war criminal
• 1905 : Hal Pereira , American set designer
• 1905 : Phillip Smith , American engineer, inventor of the Smith chart
• 1906 : Gustava Kahler , Austrian geologist and paleontologist
• 1906 : Enrico Mattei , Italian industrialist
• 1906 : Akhmet Kuanowitsch Schubanow , Kazakh composer
• 1907 : Nakahara Chūya , Japanese lyric poet
• 1907 : Fred Zinnemann , American film director
• 1909 : Daniel Mayer , French journalist and politician, resistance fighter
• 1910 : Pierre Arraut , French politician
• 1910 : Éva Besnyő , Hungarian-Dutch photographer
• 1910 : Karl Dietrich Erdmann , German historian
• 1910 : Dolly Haas , American actress
• 1910 : Fritz Kühn , German photographer, sculptor and blacksmith
• 1910 : Erwin Seeler , German football player

Erika von Brockdorff (* 1911)

• 1911 : Erika Countess von Brockdorff , German resistance fighter against National Socialism ( Red Orchestra )
• 1911 : Marion von Krafft-Ebing , Austrian author
• 1912 : Margarete Arnhold , German educator and politician
• 1912 : Werner Hahlweg , German military historian and military scientist
• 1912 : Karl Lottes , German motorcycle racer
• 1913 : Edgar Ablowich , American hurdler and sprinter
• 1913 : Hans Lodermeier , German motorcycle racer
• 1914 : Charles Fehrenbach , French astronomer
• 1914 : Walter Janka , German publisher and politician
• 1914 : Reinhard Kolldehoff , German actor
• 1914 : Cal Niday , American racing car driver
• 1915 : Gerhard Hochschild , American mathematician
• 1915 : Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum , German actor
• 1916 : Lars Korvald , Norwegian Minister of State
• 1917 : Urie Bronfenbrenner , American developmental psychologist
• 1917 : Maya Deren , American director

Celeste Holm (* 1917)

• 1917 : Celeste Holm , American actress
• 1919 : Alla Rakha , Indian musician ( tabla )
• 1920 : Harold Shapero , American composer and music teacher
• 1921 : Cornelis de Jager , Dutch astronomer
• 1922 : Helmut Krackowizer , Austrian economist and journalist, motorcycle racer and expert in motorcycle history
• 1922 : Toots Thielemans , Belgian jazz musician
• 1923 : Maxine Audley , British actress
• 1923 : Irvin Kershner , American film director
• 1923 : Hermann Josef Nellessen , German composer
• 1924 : Zizi Jeanmaire , French ballet dancer
• 1924 : Abe Shintarō , Japanese politician, foreign minister, general secretary of the LDP
• 1925 : Colette Marchand , French dancer and actress

1926-1950

• 1926 : Maria Pirwitz , German sculptor and painter
• 1926 : Preston Robert Tisch , American entrepreneur
• 1927 : Dorothy Manley , British athlete
• 1927 : Big Jay McNeely , American rhythm and blues saxophonist
• 1927 : Walter Thirring , Austrian physicist
• 1927 : Harro Wödl , Austrian glider pilot
• 1928 : Helmut Anders , German legal scholar and historian
• 1928 : Hanspeter Scherr , German composer and choir director
• 1928 : Antônio Eliseu Zuqueto , Brazilian old bishop of Teixeira de Freitas-Caravelas
• 1929 : Ray Barretto , American jazz musician
• 1929 : Kurt Böwe , German actor

Walter Kempowski (* 1929)

• 1929 : Walter Kempowski , German writer
• 1929 : Halina Łukomska , Polish singer
• 1929 : Peter Sculthorpe , Australian composer
• 1930 : Claus Ogerman , American composer and arranger
• 1930 : Joe Porcaro , American jazz drummer, percussionist and drum teacher
• 1931 : Frank Auerbach , British painter
• 1931 : Lonnie Donegan , British musician
• 1932 : Nana Gualdi , Italian-German singer and actress
• 1933 : Rod McKuen , American singer-songwriter, poet and composer
• 1933 : Willie Nelson , American musician and actor
• 1934 : Erika Fisch , German athlete
• 1934 : Peter Gülke , German conductor, writer and musicologist
• 1934 : Pedro Pires , Cape Verdean President
• 1934 : Jean Wendling , French football player
• 1935 : Gundi Busch , German figure skater
• 1935 : Otis Rush , American blues guitarist
• 1935 : Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem , Angolan singer
• 1935 : Otto M. Zykan , Austrian composer

Zubin Mehta (* 1936)

• 1936 : Zubin Mehta , Indian conductor
• 1936 : Alejandra Pizarnik , Argentine poet
• 1936 : Lane Smith , American actor
• 1936 : April Stevens , American singer
• 1937 : Ramón Abeledo , Argentine football player
• 1937 : Hasil Adkins , American country, rock 'n' roll, and blues musician
• 1937 : Hiromi Akiyama , Japanese sculptor
• 1937 : Donald Arthur , American voice actor
• 1937 : Ralph Kent-Cooke , American racing car driver and racing team owner
• 1937 : Lluís Martínez Sistach , Spanish Archbishop
• 1938 : Bernard L. Madoff , American investment fraud
• 1938 : Alfredo del Mónaco , Venezuelan composer
• 1938 : Klaus Voormann , German musician and graphic artist
• 1940 : George Adams , American jazz musician
• 1940 : Jürgen Schumann , German pilot
• 1941 : Toney Anaya , American politician
• 1943 : Almuth Berger , German pastor and state secretary in the GDR
• 1943 : Klaus Grawe , German psychotherapist
• 1943 : Ian Kershaw , British historian
• 1943 : Hinrich Kuessner , German politician
• 1943 : Margrit Spielmann , German politician
• 1944 : Benedicts of Denmark , Danish noblewoman and imperial administrator
• 1944 : Werner Nekes , German film director

Hermann Scheer (* 1944)

• 1944 : Hermann Scheer , German politician, winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize
• 1945 : Lutz Ackermann , German journalist and radio and television presenter
• 1945 : Hugh Hopper , British bassist and composer
• 1945 : Tammi Terrell , American singer
• 1945 : Zdeněk Tylšar , Czech horn player and professor
• 1945 : Friedrich Wessel , German fencer
• 1946 : Humphrey Carpenter , British writer and biographer
• 1946 : Karl-Heinz Funke , German politician
• 1947 : Jim Ryun , American politician and athlete
• 1948 : John Christensen , New Zealand hockey player
• 1948 : Andrzej Kowalczyk , Polish physicist
• 1949 : Kent-Harry Andersson , Swedish handball coach
• 1949 : Nuno Júdice , Portuguese poet
• 1950 : Phillip Noyce , Australian director
• 1950 : Bjarne Reuter , Danish writer and children's book author
• 1950 : Mari Yonehara , Japanese writer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Dale Earnhardt , American NASCAR driver
• 1952 : Barbara Hendricks , German politician

David Icke (* 1952)

• 1952 : David Icke , British soccer player, sports reporter and publicist
• 1952 : Dietmar Schmidt , German handball player and handball trainer
• 1953 : Nikolai Michailowitsch Budarin , Russian cosmonaut
• 1953 : Karin Jöns , German politician
• 1953 : Jan AP Kaczmarek , Polish composer
• 1954 : Josef Lang , Swiss politician and historian
• 1954 : Heinz Schaden , Austrian local politician
• 1954 : Jerry Seinfeld , American actor and comedian
• 1954 : Tina York , German pop singer
• 1955 : Georg Funke , German entrepreneur, head of Hypo Real Estate
• 1955 : Kate Mulgrew , American actress
• 1955 : Klaus Siebert , German biathlete
• 1956 : David C. Lane , American religious scholar
• 1956 : Ernst Strasser , Austrian Minister of the Interior
• 1957 : Daniel Day-Lewis , British actor
• 1957 : Timothy Treadwell , American environmentalist
• 1958 : Giovanni Galli , Italian football player
• 1958 : Herbert Mertin , German politician

Michelle Pfeiffer (* 1958)

• 1958 : Michelle Pfeiffer , American actress
• 1958 : Peer Schmidt , German historian
• 1959 : Craig Armstrong , Scottish composer
• 1960 : Kuruppu Karunaratne , Sri Lankan athlete
• 1960 : Robert J. Sawyer , Canadian author
• 1960 : Bernhard Setzwein , German author
• 1961 : Kévork Assadourian , Syrian clergyman
• 1961 : Michael Roll , German actor
• 1962 : Rob Druppers , Dutch athlete
• 1962 : Dieter Hegen , German ice hockey player and coach
• 1963 : Barbara Frey , Swiss theater director
• 1963 : Edgar Schmitt , German soccer player
• 1964 : Jürgen Antoni , German politician
• 1964 : Jürgen Evers , German athlete
• 1964 : Markus Majowski , German actor and comedian
• 1965 : Angelo Alessio , Italian football player and coach
• 1965 : Sylvio Kroll , German gymnast
• 1965 : Vincent Ventresca , American actor
• 1966 : Michael Alig , American party organizer
• 1967 : Dan Ariely , American professor of psychology and behavioral economics
• 1967 : Annette Langen , German author for children and young people
• 1967 : Master P , American rapper and producer
• 1967 : Tyron Montgomery , German filmmaker

Michael "Bully" Herbig (* 1968)

• 1968 : Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović , Croatian politician and diplomat
• 1968 : Michael Herbig , German actor, writer, director and producer
• 1968 : Michael Niavarani , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
• 1968 : John Jairo Tréllez , Colombian soccer player
• 1968 : Jürgen Vogel , German actor
• 1969 : Paul Adelstein , American actor
• 1969 : Monika Rinck , German writer
• 1970 : Andre Agassi , American tennis player

Uma Thurman (* 1970)

• 1970 : Uma Thurman , American actress
• 1972 : Derek Mears , American stunt performer and actor
• 1972 : Marko Rehmer , German soccer player
• 1972 : Bettina Zipp , German athlete
• 1973 : David Belle , French actor and founder of the sport of parkour
• 1973 : Fares Fares , Lebanese-Swedish actor
• 1973 : Roland Heintze , German politician
• 1973 : Martin Kesici , German musician
• 1974 : Anggun , Indonesian pop singer
• 1974 : Levente Csik , Romanian football player
• 1974 : Pascal Cygan , French football player
• 1974 : Julian Knowle , Austrian tennis player
• 1974 : Timo Pritzel , German cyclist

1976-2000

• 1976 : Fabio Liverani , Italian football player and coach

Chiyotaikai Ryūji (* 1976)

• 1976 : Chiyotaikai Ryūji , Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1976 : Maja Savić , Montenegrin handball player
• 1977 : Bruno Custos , French football player
• 1977 : Marcel Hacker , German rower
• 1977 : Markus Kreuz , German soccer player
• 1977 : Attila Zsivoczky , Hungarian athlete
• 1978 : Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh , Iranian judoka
• 1978 : Bob Bryan , American tennis player
• 1978 : Mike Bryan , American tennis player
• 1978 : Christian Zander , German politician
• 1979 : Lee Dong-gook , South Korean soccer player
• 1979 : Zsolt Lőw , Hungarian football player
• 1979 : Tim Payne , English rugby player
• 1980 : Mohammad Amin , Saudi Arabian soccer player
• 1980 : Kian Egan , Irish pop singer ( Westlife )
• 1980 : Magdalena Tul , Polish singer
• 1981 : Juliette Ah-Wan , badminton player from the Seychelles
• 1981 : Jay Smith , Swedish singer
• 1982 : Talita Antunes da Rocha , Brazilian beach volleyball player
• 1982 : Aaron Goulding , Australian soccer player
• 1982 : Kate Nauta , American model and film actress
• 1982 : Travis Smith , American drummer
• 1983 : Hedvig Lindahl , Swedish football player
• 1985 : Hasher Al Maktoum , racing car driver from the United Arab Emirates
• 1985 : Vincent Braillard , Swiss motorcycle racer
• 1986 : Michał Adamuszek , Polish handball player

Julia Bonk (* 1986)

• 1986 : Julia Bonk , German politician
• 1986 : Pradeep Sanjaya Uggl Dena Pathirannehelag , Sri Lankan athlete
• 1987 : Alejandro Bedoya , American football player
• 1987 : Sara Errani , Italian tennis player
• 1988 : Eric Schildge , American racing cyclist
• 1990 : Valentine Arrieta , Swiss athlete
• 1990 : Christopher Schindler , German soccer player
• 1991 : Fríðrún Olsen , Faroese soccer player
• 1992 : Christopher Neumayer , Austrian ski racer
• 1992 : Barbara Prakopenka , German actress
• 1993 : Marian Orlowski , German handball player
• 1993 : Katharina Schwabe , German volleyball player
• 1993 : Silvia Szücs , Slovak handball player
• 1994 : Ken Roczen , German motocross rider
• 1994 : Reza Alipour , Iranian sport climber
• 1996 : Michael Augustin , Austrian soccer player
• 1996 : Katherine Langford , Australian actress
• 1997 : Hisaki Nagamine , Japanese Nordic combined skier
• 1998 : Matěj Kopecký , Czech telemarker

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0926 : Burchard II , Duke of Swabia
• 0998 : Crescentius I. Nomentanus , Roman patrician
• 1120 : Theoger von Sankt Georgen , Abbot of St. Georgen, monastery reformer, Bishop of Metz
• 1157 : Robert Gruthuysen , second abbot of the Clairvaux Cistercian monastery
• 1210 : John of Phanijoit , Coptic neo-martyr
• 1260 : Rudolf von Dingelstädt , Archbishop of Magdeburg
• 1338 : Peter Wise , Lübeck merchant and sponsor of Doberan Monastery
• 1380 : Catherine of Siena , Italian mystic, doctor of the church and saint
• 1417 : Ludwig II , Count of Anjou, King of Naples and Duke of Provence
• 1436 : Raimundus Sabundus , Catalan philosopher
• 1441 : Margarethe von Hanau , German noblewoman
• 1487 : Wolfhart VI. von Borsselen , Marshal of France
• 1495 : Rudolf II von Scherenberg , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
• 1541 : Johann Gramann , German reformer and poet of hymns
• 1557 : Lautaro , Mapuche war chief in the Arauco War in Chile

17th and 18th centuries

Maria Anna of Bavaria († 1608)

• 1608 : Maria Anna of Bavaria , Princess of Bavaria and Archduchess of Inner Austria-Styria
• 1642 : Aegidius Hunnius the Younger , German Lutheran theologian
• 1645 : Maximilian von Liechtenstein , imperial field marshal and imperial prince
• 1652 : Balthasar Balduin , German Lutheran theologian
• 1652 : Heinrich von Wuthenau , German administrative officer and occasional poet
• 1676 : Michiel de Ruyter , Dutch admiral
• 1685 : Luc d'Achery , French librarian and historian
• 1699 : Samuel Apostool , Dutch doctor of medicine and Mennonite preacher
• 1707 : George Farquhar , Irish playwright
• 1712 : Juan Cabanilles , Spanish organist and baroque composer
• 1714 : Antonio Riva , master builder from Graubünden
• 1714 : Dietrich Joseph Speckhewer , mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
• 1720 : Erdmuth Dorothea von Sachsen-Zeitz , Duchess of Sachsen-Merseburg
• 1727 : François Coudray , French sculptor in Saxony
• 1740 : Cristoforo Benedetti , Italian sculptor, stonemason and architect
• 1746 : Ewald von Kleist , lieutenant general of the Electorate of Cologne
• 1750 : Egid Quirin Asam , German plasterer and sculptor
• 1762 : Joseph , Prince of Fürstenberg, Imperial Principal Commissioner at the Reichstag in Regensburg
• 1766 : Johann Bernhard Wiedeburg , German mathematician and astronomer
• 1768 : Georg Brandt , Swedish chemist
• 1771 : Louis Petit de Bachaumont , French writer
• 1784 : Agustín de Jáuregui , Spanish officer, governor of Chile and viceroy of Peru
• 1790 : Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Younger , French engraver and etcher
• 1790 : Samuel Heinicke , educator and "inventor" of the German method of deaf education
• 1792 : Theobald Dillon , French military leader
• 1799 : David van Royen , Dutch botanist

19th century

• 1805 : Lorenz Pasch the Younger , Swedish painter
• 1811 : Joseph Anton Pozzi , Swiss plasterer

Isaac von Sinclair († 1815)

• 1815 : Isaac von Sinclair , German writer and diplomat
• 1820 : Otto von Arnim , German government official
• 1821 : Kaspar Cherasian , Armenian politician
• 1825 : José Cienfuegos , Spanish officer, governor of Cuba and minister of war
• 1828 : Ludwig August Struve , German doctor
• 1829 : Ludwig Wilhelm Alexander von Hövel , Baden State Minister
• 1834 : Grigore IV. Ghica , Prince of Wallachia
• 1837 : Karl Wünsch , German lawyer
• 1840 : Edmund von Kesselstatt , Roman Catholic clergyman
• 1840 : Pierre-Jean Robiquet , French chemist
• 1840 : Caleb Rodney , American politician, governor of Delaware
• 1841 : Aloysius Bertrand , French poet
• 1843 : Caroline Tischbein , German draftsman
• 1847 : Tomás Manuel de Anchorena , Argentine lawyer and statesman
• 1848 : Chester Ashley , American politician
• 1868 : Karl Maria von Aretin , Bavarian historian, diplomat and politician
• 1871 : Heinrich Hirzel , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1882 : John Nelson Darby , co-founder of the Brethren Congregation
• 1883 : Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch , founder of the German cooperative system and politician
• 1887 : Friedrich von Klinggräff , German landowner
• 1889 : Ferdinand Löwe , German writer, librarian and translator
• 1889 : Josef Werndl , Austrian arms manufacturer
• 1894 : Giuseppe Battaglini , Italian mathematician
• 1898 : Tjalling Halbertsma , Dutch gynecologist and obstetrician

20th century

1901-1950

• 1903 : Ferenc Szárnovszky , Hungarian sculptor and medalist

Subh-e Azal († 1912)

• 1912 : Subh-e Azal , Persian leader of the Babists and Azali
• 1913 : Victor Haderup , Danish dentist
• 1913 : Erich Schmidt , German literary historian
• 1917 : Richard Applin , British fighter pilot
• 1918 : Otto Braun , German writer
• 1918 : Richard Kandt , German doctor and Africa explorer
• 1918 : Arnold von Siemens , German industrialist
• 1921 : Samuel T. Strang , American organist and composer
• 1924 : Anna Astl-Leonhard , Austrian writer
• 1928 : Friedrich von Bezold , German historian
• 1928 : Heinrich Federer , Swiss writer
• 1935 : Leroy Carr , American musician
• 1935 : Vladimir Mollow , Bulgarian politician
• 1937 : Wallace Hume Carothers , American chemist, inventor of nylon
• 1937 : Anton Günther , folk poet and singer of the Ore Mountains

Joseph Achron († 1943)

• 1943 : Joseph Achron , Polish-Lithuanian composer and violinist
• 1943 : Gustav von Arthaber , Austrian paleontologist and Triassic stratigraph
• 1944 : Billy Bitzer , American cameraman
• 1944 : Bernardino Machado , Portuguese politician
• 1944 : Alexei Silytsch Novikow-Priboi , Russian writer
• 1945 : Hans Brausewetter , German film and theater actor
• 1945 : Colin Ross , Austrian journalist and travel writer
• 1947 : Richard Merrill Atkinson , American politician
• 1947 : Irving Fisher , American economist
• 1948 : Bernardus Dirks Eerdmans , Dutch Protestant theologian and politician
• 1949 : Fabian Ware , British major general, founder of the Royal War Graves Commission

1951-2000

Ludwig Wittgenstein († 1951)

• 1951 : Ludwig Wittgenstein , Austrian philosopher
• 1953 : Alice Prin , French singer, actress, model and painter
• 1954 : Joe May , Austrian actor and director
• 1956 : Harold Bride , British radio operator, second radio officer on the Titanic
• 1956 : Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb , German Field Marshal General
• 1957 : William Charles Aalsmeer , Dutch cardiologist
• 1959 : Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson , British general and governor
• 1960 : Adolf Cillien , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1961 : Cisco Houston , American singer
• 1965 : Theodor Abele , German schoolboy
• 1966 : William Henry Eccles , British physicist
• 1967 : JB Lenoir , American musician
• 1967 : Anthony Mann , American film director
• 1967 : Will Meisel , German dancer, composer and founder of the publishing house
• 1969 : Julius Katchen , American pianist
• 1972 : Manfred Gurlitt , German author and composer
• 1972 : Gotthard Neumann , German prehistorian
• 1976 : Ramón Díaz Freeman , Dominican composer, bassoonist and organist
• 1976 : Wilhelm Maler , German composer
• 1977 : Clive Douglas , Australian composer, musician and conductor

Alfred Hitchcock († 1980)

• 1980 : Alfred Hitchcock , English film director and producer
• 1981 : William Alonzo Anderson , American jazz trumpeter
• 1982 : Herbert Collum , German church musician
• 1983 : Hanspeter Scherr , German composer and choir director
• 1984 : Otto Guglia , Austrian historian, geographer and naturalist
• 1986 : Raúl Prebisch , Argentine development economist
• 1988 : Jan Kapr , Czech composer
• 1990 : Max Bense , German philosopher, writer and publicist
• 1992 : Mae Clarke , American actress
• 1993 : Werner Kamenik , German actor
• 1993 : Mick Ronson , British guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer
• 1996 : François Picard , French racing car driver

21st century

• 2002 : Sune Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
• 2002 : Rob Walker , British racing team owner
• 2004 : Adam Silk , German writer and gallery owner
• 2005 : Otto Herbert Hajek , German sculptor and painter

John Kenneth Galbraith († 2006)

• 2006 : John Kenneth Galbraith , American economist
• 2007 : Brigitte Krause , German actress
• 2007 : Ivica Račan , Croatian politician, Prime Minister
• 2008 : Bo Yang , Chinese author
• 2008 : Albert Hofmann , Swiss chemist
• 2008 : Charles Tilly , American historian, political scientist and sociologist
• 2010 : Hannsheinz Porst , German entrepreneur
• 2011 : Teofila Reich-Ranicki , German-Polish artist
• 2012 : Schukri Ghanim , Libyan politician
• 2014 : Albert Feldstein , American comic artist
• 2014 : Bob Hoskins , British actor
• 2015 : Ruth Bunkenburg , German actress, writer and radio play speaker
• 2015 : Vartan Militosjan , Soviet weightlifter
• 2016 : Andreas Hutter , Austrian journalist
• 2017 : Fritz Cron , German motorcycle racer
• 2017 : Adalbert Podlech , German legal scholar
• 2018 : Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn , British politician
• 2018 : Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui Martínez , Peruvian university professor and translator
• 2019 : Les Murray , Australian poet
• 2020 : Giacomo Dalla Torre del Tempio di Sanguinetto , Grand Master of the Order of Malta
• 2020 : Denis Goldberg , South African civil rights activist
• 2020 : Irrfan Khan , Indian actor
• 2020 : Jānis Lūsis , Soviet javelin thrower and Olympic champion
• 2020 : Maj Sjöwall , Swedish writer and translator

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Torpes , early Christian martyr
  • St. Catherine of Siena , Italian nobleman, politician and theologian, mystic, virgin and doctor of the church (Catholic, Anglican, Protestant: EKD and ELCA )

• Name days
  • Katharina , Roswitha

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

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