29th of July
The July 29 is the 210th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 211th in leap years ), thus remain 155 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 626: Beginning of the actual siege of Constantinople by the Avars and Sasanids , after an Avar vanguard had already reached the area around the city on June 29th.
- 1014: In the battle of Kleidion in Macedonia , the Byzantines under Emperor Basil II defeat the Bulgarian army commanded by Tsar Samuil . Bulgaria becomes a Byzantine province again.
- 1018: Dietrich III wins the Battle of Vlaardingen . , Count of Holland , over an imperial army commanded by Gottfried II , Duke of Lower Lorraine .
- 1030: Olav II. Haraldsson defeats the pagan tribal princes in the Battle of Stiklestad and thus saves the Norwegian kingdom , but he himself is killed in the process.
- 1474: A Burgundian army under Charles the Bold , whom Archbishop Ruprecht von der Pfalz called for help in the Cologne collegiate feud , begins the siege of Neuss .
- 1567: After Maria Stuart's forced abdication five days earlier , her one-year-old son is named Jacob VI. crowned King of Scotland.
- 1588: The Spanish Armada appears before the Lizard Point south of Plymouth for the first time before the English coast.
- 1610: As part of the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute , the siege of Jülich by French-Dutch troops begins .
- 1617: In the Oñate Treaty , the Austrian and Spanish lines of the House of Habsburg agree on questions of succession. The Spanish side's waiver of claims to Hungary and Bohemia is compensated for by leaving smaller lands to them.
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- 1693: In the Battle of Neer winds the French defeat an Anglo-Dutch army led by William of Orange .
- 1735: Spanish pirates bring Portuguese ships to Colonia del Sacramento . This marked the beginning of the formally undeclared Spanish-Portuguese War (1735–1737) in South America.
- 1848: The Young Ireland Movement in Ballingarry , County Tipperary, revolt against British rule because of the Great Famine in Ireland is put down.
- 1878: Austria-Hungary occupies Bosnia and Herzegovina according to the peace made at the Berlin Congress .
- 1899: At the first Hague Peace Conference , agreements and declarations on the law of war and the peaceful settlement of international disputes with the first Hague Land Warfare Regulations as an appendix are signed.
- 1900: King Umberto I of Italy is killed in an assassination attempt by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci in Monza .
- 1900: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (later called Lenin ) leaves Russia and goes through Geneva to Munich in a five-year exile.
- 1921: At an extraordinary party meeting, Adolf Hitler disempowered the party leadership of the NSDAP and took over leadership with dictatorial powers.
- 1937: In the Tongzhou incident during the Battle of Peking-Tianjin in the Second Sino- Japanese War , soldiers from the Chinese East Hebei Army attack their Japanese instructors and Chinese officers who are collaborating with the Japanese. The Hebei district commissioner is arrested. Only Japanese reinforcements can put down the uprising and free the commissioner.
- 1938: Due to border disputes, the Battle of Lake Chassan takes place between Japan and the Soviet Union.
- 1945: The British Rhine Army broadcasts its own radio program for the first time for its members, which continues as BFBS Radio Germany .
- 1946: The conference of the 21 nations begins in Paris on which peace conditions for the losers of the war Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland are to be negotiated.
- 1948: After swinging out of the Yugoslav Communists under Josip Broz Tito from the Soviet hegemony , the loyal to Moscow decides Socialist Unity Party of Germany a political purge of degenerate and hostile elements from the party.
- 1966: The dictator Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi is killed in a military coup in Nigeria . The new rulers under General Murtala Mohammed opt for Yakubu Gowon, who was not involved in the coup, as the new president.
- 1975: On the anniversary of the last coup, the Nigerian dictator Yakubu Gowon , who is currently at an OAU summit in Kampala, is overthrown in a bloodless coup by General Murtala Mohammed , which sets in motion a democratization process.
- 1980: Islamic Revolution : Iran receives a modified flag .
- 1988: On the basis of an order from revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini , secret mass executions, mainly of left-wing political opponents , who claim several thousand victims, begin in Iran's prisons .
- 1990: First free elections in Mongolia . This ushered in the end of the Mongolian People's Republic and initiated the transition from a socialist to a democratic state.
- 1992: Former GDR head of state Erich Honecker returns to Berlin from refuge in the Chilean embassy in Moscow and is arrested at the airport on account of an arrest warrant.
- 2004: In Italy, conscription is abolished on July 1, 2005. A corresponding law is passed by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome.
business
- 1818: The first French savings bank is established in Paris , Jules Paul Benjamin Delessert founds the Caisse d'Epargne et de Prévoyance .
- 1896: The German-Anatolian Railway Company starts operating the Anatolian Railway between Constantinople and Konya . The route will later be extended by the Baghdad Railway .
- 1941: In Switzerland , sales tax is introduced with tax rates of two and three percent.
- 2015: Microsoft releases the Windows 10 operating system , the successor to Windows 8.1 .
science and technology
- 1851: Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Eunomia in the asteroid belt of our solar system.
- 1925: In the Journal of Physics is about the quantum theoretical interpretation of kinematic and mechanical concepts , Heisenberg's groundbreaking work on quantum mechanics ( matrix mechanics ), a.
- 1957: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is founded.
- 1958: US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act , which provides for the creation of NASA .
- 2000: With 100 tons of TNT , the last tunnel on the former Soviet nuclear weapons test site Semipalatinsk in Kazakhstan is blown up and the former nuclear use is ended.
- 2005: Astronomers Mike Brown , Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz announce the discovery of UB 313 , discovered on January 5, 2003 , later known as the dwarf planet Eris .
Culture
- 1789: World premiere of the opera Claudine von Villa Bella by Johann Friedrich Reichardt at the Schlosstheater Berlin-Charlottenburg .
- 1807: The Napoleonic theater decree limits the number of venues to eight large theaters in Paris, each of which must also specialize in a certain type of performance.
- 1817: The Austrian Emperor Franz I orders the building of the Kaiser Franz Museum in Brno , now the Moravian State Museum , by decree .
- 1836: The Parisian Arc de Triomphe on the Place d'Étoile is inaugurated.
- 1856: Otto Wagner wins the tender for the construction of the Vienna Post Savings Bank building .
- 1884: The Société des Artistes Indépendants association is founded in Paris, with the aim of allowing the public to evaluate works of art themselves.
- 1954: The first part of JRR Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings appears in London .
company
- 1565: Mary Queen of Scots marries her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, in Edinburgh's Holyrood Palace . The hasty marriage covenant soon caused political problems.
- 1976: Serial killer Son of Sam commits his first murder in New York City .
- 1981: Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer are married at St Paul's Cathedral in London. The television broadcast of the event achieved record ratings with more than 750 million viewers worldwide.
- 1986: The contract killer Werner Pinzner shoots a public prosecutor, his wife and finally himself in the Hamburg police headquarters.
- 1993: The death sentence against John Demjanjuk is overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court . It has not been proven beyond any doubt that Demjanjuk is the "Ivan" who operated the gassing plant as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp and sadistically tortured prisoners.
religion
- 1431: Although the calling Pope Martin V has already died and his successor Eugene IV is skeptical of the council, the council of Basel is opened.
Disasters
- 1967: The US Navy is struck by the Forrestal disaster . A fire with explosions on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal , triggered by a misfired missile, kills 134 people.
- 1968: The Arenal volcano in Costa Rica destroys the villages of Pueblo Nuevo and Tabacon in its last major eruption. Around 80 people are killed in the process.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1948: The XIV Summer Olympics opens in London .
- 1973: British racing driver Roger Williamson had an accident at the Dutch Grand Prix in Zandvoort and burned himself in his vehicle. The tragic event reveals a number of organizational deficiencies.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 19th century
Reinier Pauw (* 1564)
Simon Dach (* 1605)
Maria Gonzaga (* 1609)
Fabre d'Églantine (* 1750)
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- 1166: Henry II , Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem
- 1214: Sturla Þórðarson , Icelandic writer and skald
- 1356: Martin I , King of Aragón, Valencia, Sicily and Sardinia and Count of Barcelona
- 1564: Reinier Pauw , Dutch politician and Amsterdam regent
- 1573: Pier Francesco Morazzone , Italian painter
- 1573: Philip II , Duke of Pomerania-Stettin
- 1580: Francesco Mochi , Italian sculptor and medalist
- 1605: Simon Dach , German poet
- 1609: Maria Gonzaga , princess of Mantua, regent of the duchies of Mantua, Montferrat, Nevers and Rethel (1637–1647)
- 1622: Jacques Bertot , mystic and soul guide of Madame Guyons
- 1643: Henri Jules de Bourbon , Prince of Condé
- 1676: Adam Horatio Casparini , German organ builder
- 1677: Johann August , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
- 1700: Peter Joseph Kofler , Mayor of Vienna
- 1743: Friedrich Karl zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , German prince
- 1750: Fabre d'Églantine , French poet, actor, dramaturge and revolutionary
- 1759: Rosa Dorothea Ritter , Maitresse of the Landgrave and later Elector Wilhelm IX./I. from Hessen-Kassel
- 1765: Jean-Baptiste Drouet d'Erlon , French general and Marshal of France
- 1768: August Tischbein , German painter and lithographer
- 1793: Ján Kollár , Slovak lyric poet, antiquarian and linguist
- 1794: Thomas Corwin , American politician
- 1794: Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean d'Angely , French general and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1798: Carl Blechen , German landscape painter
19th century
1801-1850
- 1805: Alexis de Tocqueville , French publicist and politician
- 1807: Louis Friedrich Daniel von Arentsschildt , Hanoverian officer, poet and translator
- 1808: Max von Neumayr , Bavarian politician
- 1809: Étienne Vacherot , French scholar and philosopher
- 1817: Iwan Konstantinowitsch Aiwasowski , Russian marine painter
- 1817: Wilhelm Griesinger , German psychiatrist
Alexis de Tocqueville (* 1805)
Wilhelm Griesinger (* 1817)
Wilhelm Kress (* 1836)
Sophie Menter (* 1846)
- 1832: Josef Schöffel , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1835: Charles Malo , French orchestra leader and composer
- 1836: Wilhelm Kress , Austrian aviation pioneer and designer
- 1838: Karl zu Isenburg-Birstein , member of the Prussian manor house
- 1838: Sultan Shah Jahan , regent of the princely state of Bhopal
- 1841: Gerhard Armauer Hansen , Norwegian doctor and zoologist
- 1843: Jasper Bisbee , American old-time musician
- 1843: Johannes Schmidt , German linguist
- 1846: Isabella of Brazil , last Crown Princess of Brazil
- 1846: Sophie Menter , German pianist
- 1846: Samuel Oettli , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1847: Theophil Forchhammer , Swiss composer, church musician and organist
- 1849: Edward Theodore Compton , English alpine painter and mountaineer
- 1849: Franz Fischer , German conductor and cellist
- 1849: Max Nordau , doctor, writer and politician, co-founder of the World Zionist Organization
1851-1900
- 1851: Ahmed Kamāl , Egyptian Egyptologist
- 1854: Georg Kerschensteiner , German educator
- 1858: Julius Emil Alfred Appelius , German lawyer and politician
- 1858: Helene Klostermann , German educator
- 1859: Georg Ziegler , German missionary in China
- 1863: Emil Aust , German classical philologist
- 1865: Hans Nirrnheim , German historian and archivist
- 1865: Andrej Scheptyzkyj , Ukrainian Grand Archbishop
- 1865: Nicola Spinelli , Italian composer, pianist and conductor
- 1868: Guida Diehl , German educator and women's rights activist
Metropolitan Andrej Scheptyzkyj (* 1865)
Adeline Rittershaus-Bjarnason (* 1876)
Theda Bara (* 1885)
Ernst Reuter (* 1889)
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- 1870: Auguste Gampert , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1870: Adachi Mineichirō , Japanese lawyer and diplomat
- 1874: August Stramm , German poet and playwright of Expressionism
- 1874: Sophie Wencke-Meinken , German painter
- 1876: August Forstner , Austrian politician
- 1876: Maria Ouspenskaya , American stage and film actress of Russian descent
- 1876: Adeline Rittershaus-Bjarnason , German philologist and Germanist
- 1879: Giuseppe Garibaldi the Younger , Italian adventurer and revolutionary
- 1881: Ignacy Dygas , Polish singer (tenor)
- 1883: Benito Mussolini , Italian fascist dictator
- 1884: Boris Vladimirovich Assafjew , Russian musicologist and composer
- 1884: Fritz Neumayer , German politician, Member of the State, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1885: Theda Bara , American actress
- 1885: Helene Berg , Austrian wife of the composer Alban Berg
- 1885: Emil Artur Longen , Czech director, dramaturge, painter, author
- 1886: Katherine Gilbert , American philosopher
- 1886: Emil Phillip , German deacon of the Protestant community in Zossen
- 1886: Georg Stumme , German general of the tank troops
- 1887: Tim Mara , American football official
- 1887: Rudi Stephan , German composer
- 1888: Robert Görlinger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1888: Vladimir Sworykin , Russian engineer, physicist and inventor (kinescope tube)
- 1889: Lajos Asztalos , Hungarian chess player and chess author
- 1889: Else Hirsch , Jewish teacher who organized transports for children during the Nazi era
- 1889: Karl Otten , German writer
- 1889: Ernst Reuter , German politician and local scientist, Lord Mayor of West Berlin
- 1890: Elisabeth von Thadden , German resistance fighter
- 1891: Marianne Pollak , Austrian politician
- 1891: Bernhard Zondek , German gynecologist
- 1892: Maurits Frank , Dutch cellist and music teacher
- 1892: Vilma Mönckeberg-Kollmar , German literary scholar, language teacher and reciter
- 1892: William Powell , American actor
- 1892: Walter Reppe , German chemist
- 1893: Josef Papesch , Austrian writer and cultural politician
- 1895: Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , British nobleman and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1895: Hildegard von Rheden , German politician, MdL
- 1897: Johannes Leopold Martin Arpe , German actor, director and theater manager
- 1898: Anthony John Arkell , British Egyptologist
- 1898: Isidor Isaac Rabi , American physicist
- 1900: Hermann Esser , German journalist, one of the earliest followers of Adolf Hitler, a functionary of the NSDAP
- 1900: Eyvind Johnson , Swedish writer and Nobel Prize for Literature
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Pancho Barnes , first American stunt pilot
- 1901: Mabel Poulton , British film actress
- 1902: David Alfonso Arellano Mayorga , Chilean football player
- 1902: Jacques-André Boiffard , French doctor and photographer
- 1904: Ernestine Roberts , Austrian writer and theater actress
- 1905: Clara Bow , American actress
- 1905: Dag Hammarskjöld , Swedish politician, second UN Secretary General and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1905: Johann Cramer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1906: Thelma Todd , American actress
Clara Bow (* 1905)
Dag Hammarskjöld (* 1905)
Thelma Todd (* 1906)
Mikis Theodorakis (* 1925)
- 1909: Chester Himes , American writer
- 1909: Georgi Alexandrowitsch Muschel , Russian composer
- 1909: Marcel Vandernotte , French rower
- 1911: Ján Cikker , Slovak composer
- 1911: Eduard Claudius , German writer
- 1911: Ilsa Reinhardt , German politician, MdL
- 1913: Hermann Barche , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1913: Gale Page , American actress
- 1913: Erich Priebke , German officer, war criminal
- 1916: Charlie Christian , American jazz guitarist
- 1916: Alice Sapritch , French actress and singer
- 1917: Jean-Jacques von Allmen , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1918: Edith Shain , American nurse
- 1919: Kunigunde Bachl , German politician, MdL
- 1920: Herbert Kegel , German conductor
- 1920: Marianne Simson , German actress
- 1922: Renate Wald , German sociologist
- 1924: Elizabeth Short , American murder victim
- 1924: Kurt Zimmer , German canoeist
- 1925: Mikis Theodorakis , Greek composer
1926-1950
- 1927: Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer , German music producer and label founder
- 1927: Harry Mulisch , Dutch writer
- 1928: Mary Simmons , Canadian singer
- 1929: Charles Richard Anders , American composer and pastor
- 1929: Julinho , Brazilian soccer player
- 1930: Gerhard Bondzin , German painter
- 1930: Lupo Hernández Rueda , Dominican poet, essayist, lawyer and university professor
- 1930: Jim Stewart , American rhythm and blues producer, co-founder and label boss of Stax Records
- 1931: Harold Sanford Kant , American show business lawyer
- 1931: Joachim Leitert , German motorcycle racer
- 1931: Otti Pfeiffer , German poet, author of books for children and young people
- 1932: Rafel Aveleyra , Mexican archer
- 1932: Arsenij von Plovdiv , Bulgarian clergyman
- 1932: Luigi Snozzi , Swiss architect
- 1932: Max Bolkart , German ski jumper
- 1933: Erich Ahrendt , German javelin thrower
- 1933: Osvaldo Cochrane Filho , Brazilian water polo player
- 1934: Geert-Hinrich Ahrens , German lawyer and diplomat
- 1934: Bernard Aubertin , French artist
- 1934: Rainer Maria Gohlke , German manager
- 1934: Albert Speer junior , German architect and town planner
- 1935: Alejandro Enrique Planchart , American musicologist and educator, conductor and composer
- 1935: Peter Schreier , German singer and conductor
Albert Speer junior (* 1934)
Elizabeth Dole (born 1936)
Bernhard Jagoda (* 1940)
Sten Nadolny (* 1942)
- 1936: Jean-Charles Capon , French jazz cellist
- 1936: Elizabeth Dole , American Senator
- 1936: Just Jahn , German rower
- 1937: Daniel McFadden , American economist
- 1938: Walter Gillik , German bobsleigh driver
- 1938: Peter Jennings , American television journalist
- 1938: Klaus Töpfer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
- 1939: Peter Dattel , only Berlin child to survive in Auschwitz
- 1939: Annea Lockwood , New Zealand-American composer and music teacher
- 1939: Gian Piero Reverberi , Italian composer
- 1940: Gernulf Garbe , German sports doctor and orthopedic surgeon, chirotherapist and bodybuilder
- 1940: Bernhard Jagoda , German politician, President of the Federal Labor Office
- 1941: Wolfgang Bittner , German writer
- 1941: Peter Hohl , German writer, publicist and publisher
- 1941: May Spils , German director
- 1942: Günter Klann , German athlete
- 1942: Sten Nadolny , German writer
- 1942: Bernd Weikl , Austrian opera singer
- 1943: Michael Holm , German pop singer
- 1945: Mircea Lucescu , Romanian football player and coach
- 1946: Stig Blomqvist , Swedish rally driver
- 1946: David Geringas , Lithuanian conductor and cellist
- 1946: Enoch zu Guttenberg , German conductor
- 1947: Robert Boubet , French racing car driver
- 1947: Thomas Rosenlöcher , German writer
- 1948: Jürgen Haug , German actor
- 1948: Horst Schroth , German cabaret artist and actor
- 1949: Jamil Mahuad , President of Ecuador
- 1949: Hans Ernst Weidinger , Austrian philologist, theater scholar and art historian and founder of the Don Juan Archive in Vienna
- 1950: Monika Auweter-Kurtz , German physicist
- 1950: Jenny Holzer , American concept artist
- 1950: Maricica Puică , Romanian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1950: Mike Starr , American actor
- 1950: Radu Voina , Romanian handball player and coach
1951-1975
- 1951: Susan Blackmore , British writer, lecturer and broadcaster
- 1952: Christa Nickels , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952: Harold Robinson , American double bass player and music teacher
- 1953: Geddy Lee , Canadian rock musician ( Rush )
- 1953: Teresa Orlowski , Polish porn actress and producer
- 1953: Onofrio Russo , Italian racing car driver
- 1954: Jeannetta Arnette , American actress
- 1955: Martin Adjou Moumouni , Benin Bishop
- 1955: Jean-Hugues Anglade , French actor
- 1955: Félix Carrasco , Mexican conductor
- 1955: Hans Hauner , German nutritionist
- 1955: Klaus Otto Nagorsnik , German quiz player
- 1955: Eduardo Niebla , Spanish guitarist, arranger and composer
- 1956: Vivian Alexander Anderson , English soccer player
- 1956: Micaela Jary , German writer
- 1956: Edita Tahiri , Kosovar politician
- 1957: Hannes Gschwentner , Austrian politician
- 1957: László Kuncz , Hungarian water polo player
- 1957: Ulrich Tukur , German actor
- 1958: Elisabeth Graf-Riemann , German writer
- 1958: Johannes Kirchlechner , German cameraman
- 1959: Klaus-Peter Dehde , German politician, MdL
Jean-Hugues Anglade (* 1955)
Ulrich Tukur (* 1957)
Martina McBride (* 1966)
Viktoria Tolstoy (* 1974)
- 1960: Roland Riese , German politician, MdL
- 1961: Frank Burkhard Bernhard Appel , German manager
- 1962: Kevin Chapman , American actor
- 1962: Carl Cox , British musician
- 1965: Chang-Rae Lee , American writer
- 1966: Sally Gunnell , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 1966: Martina McBride , American country singer
- 1968: Kathrin Lietz , German handball player
- 1969: Joel Fan , American pianist
- 1971: Lisa Ekdahl , Swedish jazz-pop singer
- 1971: Andrea Philipp , German athlete
- 1972: Juichi Wakisaka , Japanese racing car driver
- 1972: Wil Wheaton , American actor and writer
- 1973: Stephen Dorff , American actor
- 1974: Josh Radnor , American actor
- 1974: Maja Sommerlund , Danish handball player
- 1974: Viktoria Tolstoy , Swedish jazz singer
1976-2000
- 1976: Rhymin Simon , German rapper
- 1977: Luiz Carlos Tavares Ferrao Amorim , Brazilian road cyclist
- 1977: Maximilian Ramota , German handball player
- 1979: André Lakos , Austrian ice hockey player
- 1979: Issam Tej , Tunisian handball player
- 1980: Daniel Rakete Siegel , German film director
- 1981: Ahmad Hassan Abdullah , Qatari long-distance runner
- 1981: Fernando Alonso , Spanish Formula 1 driver
- 1981: Mirya Kalmuth , German actress
- 1981: Abdelkader Laïfaoui , Algerian football player
- 1981: Silvana Pacheco Gallardo , Peruvian chess player, referee and trainer
- 1982: Pero Antić , Macedonian basketball player
- 1982: Allison Mack , American actress
- 1982: Andy Reid , Irish football player
- 1982: Carola Söberg , Swedish soccer player
- 1984: Oh Beom-seok , South Korean soccer player
- 1984: Hanna Bessonowa , Ukrainian gymnast
- 1984: Stephanie Ullrich , German soccer player
- 1984: J. Madison Wright , American actress
André Lakos (* 1979)
Fernando Alonso (* 1981)
Ramona Siebenhofer (* 1991)
Jana Shut (* 1997)
- 1985: Besart Berisha , Albanian football player
- 1987: Victor Butler , American football player
- 1987: Yuhki Nakayama , Japanese racing car driver
- 1988: Tarjei Bø , Norwegian biathlete
- 1989: Nick Afanasiev , American actor and filmmaker
- 1989: Kosovare Asllani , Swedish football player
- 1990: Oleg Shatov , Russian football player
- 1991: Ariel Borysiuk , Polish football player
- 1991: Irakli Logua , Russian football player
- 1991: Bruno Palli , Venezuelan racing car driver
- 1991: Ramona Siebenhofer , Austrian ski racer
- 1991: Sung Ji-hyun , South Korean badminton player
- 1992: Paul-Georges Ntep , Cameroonian-French football player
- 1993: Dak Prescott , American football player
- 1994: Daniele Rugani , Italian football player
- 1996: Björn Rother , German soccer player
- 1997: Jana Halliday , Belarusian billiards player
- 1998: Michael Augustin , Austrian soccer player
- 1998: Teresa Zurek , German athlete
Died
Before the 16th century
Balbinus († 238)
Ladislaus I († 1095)
Urban II. († 1099)
Peter of Navarre († 1412)
- 238: Balbinus , Roman emperor
- 1018: Balderich II , Bishop of Liège
- 1030: Arnljot Gelline , Swedish Viking
- 1030: Olav II , "the fat one", Norwegian king
- 1032: Mathilde , Duchess of Carinthia and Upper Lorraine
- 1060: Heinrich I , Count Palatine of Lorraine
- 1095: Ladislaus I , King of Hungary and Catholic saint
- 1099: Urban II , Pope
- 1108: Philip I , King of France
- 1162: Guigues V , Count of Albon and Dauphin of Viennois
- 1218: Ludwig II. , Count of Loon
- 1233: Savary de Mauléon , French knight and baron, lord of Mauléon, Châtelaillon, Fontenay, Talmont and others, Seneschal des Poitou
- 1236: Ingeborg of Denmark , Danish princess and queen of France
- 1328: Gerhard V , Count of Jülich
- 1343: Heinrich von Pirnbrunn , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1347: Ludwig Schenk von Neindorf , Bishop of Brandenburg
- 1394: Ruprecht von Berg , Elect-Prince-Bishop of Passau and Paderborn
- 1412: Peter of Navarre , French nobleman, Count of Mortain
- 1457: Francesco Pesellino , Florentine painter
16th to 18th century
Martin Behaim († 1507)
Urban VIII. († 1644)
Sophie Luise of Prussia († 1732)
Françoise-Louise de Warens († 1762)
- 1504: Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby , English nobleman and ruler of the Isle of Man
- 1507: Martin Behaim , German cartographer, astronomer and cosmographer
- 1519: Wolfgang , Count of Ortenburg
- 1573: John Caius , English court physician, made possible the re-establishment of Gonville Hall
- 1589: Anna Maria , Countess Palatine von Simmern, Princess of the Palatinate and Swedish Crown Princess
- 1616: Christian Friis , Danish statesman
- 1616: Tang Xianzu , Chinese playwright
- 1617: Katharina von Redern , Bohemian nobleman
- 1644: Urban VIII. , Pope
- 1649: David Teniers the Elder , Flemish painter
- 1669: Christopher Simpson , English composer and viol player
- 1670: Vincenzo Amato , Italian composer
- 1674: Maria Ursula Kolb von Wartenberg , educator of Liselotte von der Pfalz
- 1694: Safi II , Shah of Persia
- 1732: Luise von Anhalt-Dessau , Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg
- 1733: Georg Friedrich Pancug , Mayor of Heilbronn
- 1735: Sophie Luise von Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Queen in Prussia
- 1762: Françoise-Louise de Warens , friend and lover of Jean Jacques Rousseau
- 1769: Andreas Elias Büchner , German medic
- 1783: Johann Friedrich Hirt , German Protestant theologian and orientalist
- 1786: Franz Aspelmayr , Austrian composer
- 1792: René-Nicolas-Charles-Augustin de Maupeou , Chancellor of France
- 1797: Christoph Rheineck , German composer
19th century
William Wilberforce († 1833)
Robert Schumann († 1856)
Vincent van Gogh († 1890)
Umberto I, King of Italy († 1900)
- 1827: Karl Gottlob Sonntag , German clergyman, general superintendent of Livonia
- 1827: Johann Martin Usteri , Swiss poet
- 1833: William Wilberforce , British MP and leader in the fight against the slave trade
- 1844: Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , Austrian composer
- 1851: Barnabas Huber , Benedictine abbot
- 1855: Friedrich Daniel Bassermann , entrepreneur from Baden and liberal politician
- 1856: Karel Havlíček Borovský , Czech poet, prose writer, literary critic, translator, politician and journalist
- 1856: Robert Schumann , German composer and romantic pianist , husband of Clara Schumann
- 1857: Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte , Italian ornithologist, zoologist and politician
- 1857: James Holman , British traveler, adventurer and author
- 1866: Moriz Heider , Austrian dentist
- 1868: Albrecht Theodor Middeldorpf , German physician, founder of galvano-caustic
- 1882: Andrew Leith Adams , Scottish medic, naturalist, and geologist
- 1886: Adolf Müller , Austro-Hungarian actor and composer
- 1886: Friedrich von Bothmer , Bavarian infantry general
- 1890: Vincent van Gogh , Dutch painter and draftsman, co-founder of modern painting
- 1894: Richard Buchta , German Africa explorer
- 1900: Sigbjørn Obstfelder , Norwegian writer
- 1900: Umberto I , King of Italy
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Adolf Bleichert , German entrepreneur and pioneer of cable car construction
- 1902: Joseph Kürschner , German writer and lexicographer
- 1913: Tobias Asser , Dutch lawyer and politician
- 1918: İbrahim Hakkı Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1920: Wolfgang zu Ysenburg and Büdingen , Prince of Ysenburg-Büdingen
- 1932: Amelia Bailey , Australian singer
- 1934: Eduard Philipp Arnold , German architect, lecturer and author
- 1938: Pawel Dybenko , Russian revolutionary and officer
- 1944: Hans Collani , German officer in the Waffen SS
- 1948: Ruth Closius , German guard in the Ravensbrück concentration camp
- 1950: Joe Fry , British racing car driver
1951-1975
- 1951: Alewtina Bilinkina , Soviet volcanologist and geologist
- 1951: Walt Brown , American racing car driver
- 1951: Cecil Green , American racing car driver
- 1951: Wilhelm Hamacher , German politician
- 1951: Bernhard Weiß , German Police Vice President of Berlin and Goebbels opponent
- 1952: Georg von Arnswaldt , German forester and conservationist
- 1956: Ludwig Klages , German philosopher and psychologist
- 1957: Franz Anderle , Austrian officer
- 1957: Ricardo Rojas , Argentine writer and essayist, educational politician and educator
- 1960: Robert P. Bass , American politician
- 1960: Max Becker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1962: Gabriel Acacius Coussa , Syrian clergyman, Archbishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Archbishop of the Curia
- 1962: Ronald Aylmer Fisher , British geneticist, evolutionist and statistician
- 1964: Wanda Wasilewska , Polish and Soviet writer
- 1966: Edward Gordon Craig , British actor and director, set designer and graphic artist
- 1966: Johnson Thomas Umurakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi , Nigerian officer
- 1969: Friedrich Arnold , German politician
Ricardo Rojas († 1957)
Wanda Wasilewska († 1964)
Cass Elliot († 1974)
Erich Kästner († 1974)
- 1970: Johannes Sigfred Andersen , Norwegian smuggler, criminal and resistance fighter
- 1970: John Barbirolli , British conductor
- 1973: Henri Charrière , French writer
- 1973: Roger Williamson , British Formula 1 driver
- 1974: Cass Elliot , American singer ( The Mamas and the Papas )
- 1974: Erich Kästner , German writer, screenwriter and cabaret artist
- 1974: Georg Klaus , German philosopher, chess player and chess official
- 1975: James Blish , American science fiction writer
1976-2000
- 1978: Fritz Burgbacher , German politician
- 1978: Wesley La Violette , American composer
- 1979: Herbert Marcuse , German-American philosopher, political scientist and sociologist
- 1980: Adelbert Mühlschlegel , German Bahai
- 1981: Robert Moses , American city planner
- 1982: Vladimir Kosmich Sworykin , Russian engineer, physicist and inventor
- 1983: Luis Buñuel , Spanish filmmaker and director
- 1983: Burrill Crohn , American physician, first person to describe Crohn's disease
- 1983: Manuel Ferreira , Argentine soccer player
- 1983: Raymond Massey , Canadian-American actor
- 1983: David Niven , British actor
- 1984: Woodrow Parfrey , American actor
- 1986: Joe Kopcha , American football player and surgeon
- 1989: Nancy Andrews , American actress
Herbert Marcuse († 1979)
Luis Buñuel († 1983)
David Niven († 1983)
Bruno Kreisky († 1990)
- 1990: Bruno Kreisky , Austrian politician, Foreign Minister, Federal Chancellor
- 1994: Grigol Abashidze , Georgian poet
- 1994: Dorothy Mary Hodgkin , British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1995: Leo Kofler , German philosopher
- 1995: Gerhard Schumann , German writer
- 1995: Severino Varela , Uruguayan soccer player
- 1997: Alexander Archer , British ice hockey player and coach
- 1997: John Archer , British sprinter
- 1999: Anita Carter , American country and folk singer
- 1999: Ricarda Schwerin , German photographer
- 2000: René Favaloro , Argentine doctor
- 2000: Lothar Quinte , German painter
21st century
- 2001: Edward Gierek , Polish politician
- 2001: Wau Holland , German journalist, co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club
- 2002: Tesfamariam Bedho , Eritrean Bishop
- 2002: Renato Pirocchi , Italian racing car driver
- 2003: Johannes Asdonk , German doctor
- 2003: Foday Sankoh , Sierra Leonean rebel leader
- 2004: Nafisa Joseph , Indian model and television presenter
- 2005: Pat McCormick , American actor and comedy writer
- 2005: Karlheinz Zöller , German flautist
- 2007: Michel Serrault , French actor
- 2008: Michael Graff , Austrian lawyer and politician
- 2008: Fritz Steinmeyer , German organ builder
- 2009: Thomas von Randow , German mathematician, science editor and book author
Edward Gierek († 2001)
Michel Serrault († 2007)
Vibeke Skofterud († 2018)
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- 2012: Chris Marker , French film director
- 2012: Heinz A. Staab , German chemist
- 2013: Ludwig Averkamp , German bishop
- 2013: Peter Minich , Austrian opera, operetta and musical singer
- 2015: Leo Wallner , Austrian manager and IOC sports official
- 2016: Peter Sadlo , German percussionist
- 2018: Vibeke Skofterud , Norwegian cross-country skier
- 2018: Tomasz Stańko , Polish jazz trumpeter
- 2019: Tuvia Rübner , Israeli writer
- 2020: Helmut Rosenvald , Estonian composer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Martha of Bethany , Virgin (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Lazarus of Bethany, raised from the dead, possibly Bishop of Marseille or Kítion and martyr (Anglican, Catholic, Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- St. Mary of Bethanien , disciple of Jesus (Anglican, Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- St. Olav II. Haraldsson , King of Norway and martyr (Protestant, Catholic: outside the German-speaking area)
- State holidays and memorial days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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