March 29

The March 29 is the 88th day of the Gregorian calendar (89th in leap years ), thus remain 277 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1166 : The Staufer Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa holds a court day in Laufen (Salzach) .
• 1430 : The city ​​of Thessaloniki , which has belonged to Venice since 1423, becomes part of the Ottoman Empire after its conquest by Sultan Murad II .
• 1461 : During the Wars of the Roses , Edward of York wins the Battle of Towton against the Lancastrians under Henry Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, and is crowned King Edward IV of England three months later .
• 1516 : Doge Cristoforo Moro assigns the Jews living in the Republic of Venice the Gheto novo in Cannaregio as their place of residence.
• 1549 : Salvador da Bahia is founded by the Portuguese as the first capital of their possession in South America .

1632: Map of New France to Champlain

• 1632 : England and France sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye , with which England returns the colony of New France , conquered in 1629 , which is now Québec .

1638: Map of New Sweden (red borders of today's US states)

• 1638 : Swedish settlers establish the first settlement on the Delaware and call it New Sweden .
• 1644 : In the Battle of Cheriton, the parliamentary troops achieve an important victory in the English Civil War . As a result, the royalists under King Charles I are on the defensive for the rest of the year.
• 1707 : Wilhelm Hyacinth , Prince of Orange and Regent of Nassau-Siegen , is chased out of the city and the office by the population of Siegen .
• 1809 : The Russian Tsar Alexander I declared in his Throneid in Porvoo that the Swedish-Russian Third War conquered Finland as a Grand Duchy forever Russia belong.
• 1823 : The monarchist General Joaquín de Oreamuno y Muñoz de la Trinidad puts in a coup against the Republican Diputación de Costa Rica under Rafael Francisco Osejo , which has been in office for eight days, and acts as head of state under the self-chosen title Comandante General de las Armas . It can only last until April 5th.
• 1848 : In Prussia , a March government is set up under Ludolf Camphausen and David Hansemann to accommodate the citizens protesting in the March Revolution . However, this cannot prevail against the aristocracy and the military until its dissolution on June 20.
• 1849 : Great Britain annexes the Punjab . A few years later, the former Sikh empire became part of British India .
• 1857 : Dissatisfaction flares up in British auxiliaries in British India . Sepoy Mangal Pandey shoots a British officer in his regiment. Pandey's comrades refuse to give orders to help British officers. The event is one of the harbingers of the Sepoy uprising that began on May 10th .
• 1864 : In a treaty, the great powers Great Britain , Russia and Austria agree with Greece on the annexation of the Republic of the Ionian Islands to Greece, as wanted by the population .
• 1865 : The American Civil War begins Appomattox Campaign of the Northern States Army , of the actions of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia to restrict.
• 1867 : The British Parliament approved the constitutional law , the first of many British North America Acts , the basis of the Constitution of Canada forms.

1879: The Zulu at Kambula

• 1879 : In the battle of kambula the British defeat at Evelyn Henry Wood the Zulu under Ntshingwayo Khoza in the Zulu War and thus can the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana make up.
• 1894 : The founding assembly of the Federation of German Women's Associations (BDF) , which took place at the suggestion of Anna Simson , ends in Berlin . The first chairman is Auguste Schmidt .
• 1909 : The German Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow reads a speech in front of the Reichstag in which the German Reich demonstratively supports Austria-Hungary and its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina . The Bosnian annexation crisis is thus settled in terms of foreign policy, but the speech in which the term " loyalty to the Nibelung " is used for the first time annoys Great Britain and Russia, who did not want to recognize the annexation.

1925: election result

• 1925 : In the first presidential elections of the Weimar Republic , Karl Jarres ( DVP ) received the most votes, but missed an absolute majority. In the necessary second ballot, which takes place around a month later, Paul von Hindenburg wins against Wilhelm Marx and Ernst Thälmann .
• 1933 : After the Reichstag fire , the German Reichstag passes the Lex van der Lubbe , a retroactive law to sentence the alleged arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe to death .
• 1936 : A Reichstag election takes place in the German Reich , in which the National Socialists receive 98.8 percent of the vote according to the official result.

1942: Memorial in the Marienkirche

• 1942 : During the night, one fifth of Lübeck city ​​center is destroyed by an air raid by the Royal Air Force (RAF) ; the Marienkirche , the cathedral and the Petrikirche burn out completely. Irreplaceable art treasures such as the Lübeck Dance of Death and the Gregory Mass by Bernt Notke are completely destroyed. It is the first successful test of the area bombing of a historic German city center on the basis of the Area Bombing Directive in the aerial warfare of the Second World War .
• 1945 : The Red Army invades formerly Austrian territory for the first time near Klostermarienberg .
• 1945 : The Battle of Heiligenbeil ends in East Prussia . Around 50,000 German soldiers are taken prisoner by the Soviets.
• 1945 : In the massacre of German riflemen in southern Burgenland, around 60 Hungarian Jews who were used as forced laborers are murdered in one of the numerous final phase crimes .
• 1945 : US troops occupy the city of Mannheim during World War II .
• 1955 : Germany and Denmark publish the Bonn-Copenhagen Declarations agreed the previous day for the protection of the respective minorities in the two states.
• 1971 : In the trial of the Mỹ Lai massacre before a US military tribunal , after 13 days of deliberation, the jury found the officer in charge, William Calley, guilty of killing 22 civilians.
• 1973 : The last US troops withdraw from South Vietnam during the Vietnam War on the basis of the Paris Treaty .

1976: Flag of the Maldives

• 1976 : The last British troops leave the Maldives .
• 1983 : The Greens move into the German Bundestag for the first time as a Bundestag group . On the same day, Helmut Kohl was re-elected as Federal Chancellor and formed his Kohl II cabinet the following day .
• 1984 : A submarine built by HDW for Chile gets caught in the nets of the Danish fishing trawler Ane Kathrine during a shipyard test drive in the Skagerrak . The cutter is pulled under water; the three-man crew died in this accident.
• 1996 : Ahmad Tejan Kabbah , the winner of the first free elections after 23 years in the middle of the civil war, succeeds Julius Maada Bio as President of Sierra Leone .

2004: Second NATO expansion to the east

• 2004 : In a second phase of NATO's eastward expansion occurred after Poland , the Czech Republic and Hungary , the former on 12 March Warsaw Pact -Staaten Bulgaria , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , Romania , the Slovak Republic and Slovenia of NATO in.
• 2004 : Ireland becomes the world's first state-issued smoking ban . It applies to all workplaces including pubs and restaurants.
• 2017 : Great Britain officially applies to the EU for the UK to leave the EU.

economy

• 1810 : Friedrich Koenig receives a patent for his platen printing machine . A few months later, he developed the model into a high-speed press .
• 1859 : The first edition of the national daily newspaper The Irish Times appears in Dublin as the mouthpiece of the Irish Unionists .
• 1920 : Croydon Aerodrome opens as London's main airport.
• 1970 : TV viewers can now broadcast news from evening news of ARD and today the ZDF received in color.
• 1988 : The Spanish charter airline Spantax , which has a bad image in Germany due to several accidents and breakdowns, goes bankrupt .
• 1999 : The US stock index Dow Jones crosses the 10,000 point mark for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange .
• 2001 : Incheon Airport , South Korea's largest airport, opens.

science and technology

• 1807 : The German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers discovers a fourth asteroid , later called Vesta . Vesta, like all known asteroids, is considered a planet at this point in time.
• 1902 : During the German expedition to the south polar , Erich von Drygalski was the first person to see the extinct volcano Gaußberg in Antarctica in a tethered balloon .
• 1910 : The construction work for the Wendelsteinbahn in the Upper Bavarian Limestone Alps begins.
• 1956 : The special signal systems commonly used in Germany today , consisting of blue light and siren , are stipulated in the Road Traffic Licensing Ordinance.
• 1960 : Europe's first drive-in cinema opens its doors with the Gravenbruch drive-in cinema near Frankfurt am Main .

Mercury from: 1974 Mariner 10 saw from

• 1974 : The American space probe Mariner 10 is the first earthly missile to pass the planet Mercury and transmits over 2000 images of the planet.

1998: Ponte Vasco da Gama

• 1998 : The Ponte Vasco da Gama is opened to road traffic in Lisbon . The structure spans the Tagus River and, at over 17 kilometers in length, is the longest bridge in Europe.
• 2006 : A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Africa, Europe and Asia .

Culture

• 1795 : The world premiere of the Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 19 by Ludwig van Beethoven, with the composer as the soloist. Beethoven will subsequently rework the work more often.
• 1806 : The second, revised version of Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. This second version was not a success with the public either.
• 1828 : The romantic opera Der Vampyr by Heinrich Marschner is premiered at the Stadttheater in Leipzig.

1871: Royal Albert Hall inside

• 1871 : The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria in the London borough of Kensington . In the future, major events will be presented here.
• 1879 : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Lyrical Scenes" Eugene Onegin, based on the verse novel of the same name by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , is premiered in Moscow's Maly Theater .
• 1882 : The 1st Symphony by Alexander Glasunow , the work of a 16-year-old, is successfully premiered in St. Petersburg.

1890: Dropping the Pilot

• 1890 : In the edition of Punch dated this day, the cartoon Dropping the Pilot appears , known in Germany as The pilot goes overboard .
• 1930 : At the Berlin Comedy House is the musical comedy My sister and I by Ralph Benatzky premiered.
• 1933 : The premiere of the film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse by Fritz Lang based on a novel by Norbert Jacques is banned by the Berlin Film Inspectorate because of “endangering public order and security”. The film premieres on April 21st in Budapest.
• 1952 : Doktor Eisenbart , a powerful spectaculum in seven pictures by Nico Dostal based on a libretto by Hermann Hermecke, is premiered in Nuremberg .
• 1958 : The theater plays Biedermann and the Arsonists and The Great Fury of Philipp Hotz are premiered by Max Frisch at the Schauspielhaus Zürich .
• 1972 : The four Swedish musicians Agnetha Fältskog , Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus record their first piece of music as a group with People Need Love and thus found the later globally successful pop group ABBA .
• 1976 / 1989 : In Los Angeles by the find Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted Oscar -Verleihungen of each year instead. The big winners are:
  • Ceremony 1976 : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Milos Forman with Jack Nicholson in the lead role with five Academy Awards.
  • 1989 : Rain Man by Barry Levinson with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise in the lead roles with four Academy Awards.
• 1989 : French President François Mitterrand opens the glass pyramid designed by the architect Ieoh Ming Pei in the inner courtyard of the Louvre . It is the prelude to the further expansion of the museum grounds.

society

1971: Charles Manson

• 1971 : A jury in Los Angeles, California, sentenced Charles Manson and three of his "Family" to death in the gas chamber for the murder of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca . The verdict is confirmed, but never carried out.

religion

• 0537 : Vigilius becomes bishop of Rome under Byzantine pressure , although Bishop Silverius is in office in Rome . After his death in November, Vigilius is generally recognized.
• 1139 : The Knights Templar is confirmed by the papal bull Omne datum optimum of Innocent II and the order is directly subordinate to the Pope .
• 1924 : The Holy See and Bavaria include Concordat .

Disasters

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

nature and environment

• 1848 : Niagara Falls dry out for 30 hours due to an ice jam upstream.

Sports

1886: Wilhelm Steinitz

• 1886 : The Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz becomes the first world chess champion by defeating the Poland Johannes Hermann Zukertort (12.5–7.5) .
• 1997 : Christian Vieri makes his debut with the Italian national soccer team at the age of 23 in a 3-0 win against Moldova , in which he scored the 1000th international goal of the Italian national soccer team with his first international goal.
• 2015 : Australia wins the eleventh Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand by beating New Zealand in the final with 7 wickets .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1281 : Castruccio Castracani , Duke of Lucca
• 1395 : John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter , English nobleman
• 1468 : Charles I , Duke of Savoy
• 1484 : Johann Spangenberg , Protestant theologian and reformer
• 1507 : Heinrich II. , Duke of Münsterberg, Oels and Bernstadt and Count of Glatz
• 1517 : Carlo Carafa , Italian cardinal, nephew and cardinal depository of Pope Paul IV.
• 1527 : Zaccaria Dolfin , Italian cardinal and apostolic nuncio in Vienna
• 1561 : Santorio Santorio , Italian medic
• 1577 : Johann Ulrich Pregizer I , German theologian, university professor, Chancellor of the University of Tübingen
• 1590 : Agnes Magdalene , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau and Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel
• 1613 : Franz Jünger , Mayor of Dresden (1679–1680)
• 1616 : Johann Erasmus Kindermann , German organist and composer

Alexei I (* 1629)

• 1629 : Alexei I , Tsar of Russia
• 1641 : Johann Zahn , German optician, inventor, mathematician and author
• 1664 : Bernardo Maria Conti , Italian cardinal

18th century

• 1724 : Friedrich Christoph Schmincke , German librarian and historian
• 1728 : Kirill Grigorjewitsch Rasumowski , Ukrainian hetman and Russian general field marshal
• 1731 : Ludwig Zöschinger , German clergyman, composer and organist
• 1735 : Johann Karl August Musäus , German writer and literary critic
• 1746 : Carlo Buonaparte , father of Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1747 : Johann Wilhelm Häßler , German composer and organist
• 1754 : Adam Joseph Onymus , German Catholic clergyman and university professor
• 1757 : Carl Axel Arrhenius , Swedish artillery officer, amateur geologist and chemist
• 1769 : Friedrich Accum , German chemist
• 1769 : Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult , French general, Marshal of France
• 1770 : Johann Georg von Aretin , Bavarian civil servant, lawyer and economist
• 1779 : Christian Heinrich Zeller , German teacher and hymn poet
• 1780 : Johann Georg Bausback , German lawyer
• 1780 : Jørgen Jürgensen , Danish adventurer
• 1787 : Carl Sprengel , German agricultural scientist
• 1790 : John Tyler , American politician and president of the United States, governor, senator, and congressman for Virginia
• 1790 : Carl Theodor Welcker , German scholar and liberal politician
• 1793 : Louis Frédéric Berger , Swiss Protestant clergyman and politician
• 1799 : Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby , British politician, Prime Minister

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801 : Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch , Mecklenburg archaeologist
• 1802 : Moritz Rugendas , German painter
• 1804 : Nehemiah Abbott , American attorney and politician, member of the US House of Representatives for the state of Maine
• 1804 : Ludwig Clamor Marquart , German pharmacist and entrepreneur
• 1807 : Karoline Bauer , German actress
• 1813 : John Letcher , American attorney and politician, governor and House member for Virginia
• 1816 : Tshälthrim Gyatsho , 10th Dalai Lama
• 1816 : Georg Sibbern , Norwegian politician and diplomat
• 1819 : Isaac Mayer Wise , American rabbi
• 1821 : Karl Knies , German economist
• 1822 : Eduard Hallberger , German publisher and bookseller
• 1824 : Ludwig Büchner , brother of the German revolutionary Georg Büchner
• 1826 : Christian Almer , Swiss mountain guide and mountaineer

Wilhelm Liebknecht (* 1826)

• 1826 : Wilhelm Liebknecht , German teacher, journalist, editor and politician, revolutionary, one of the founding fathers of the SPD , MdR
• 1829 : Nabil-i-Akbar , Iranian Bahai
• 1830 : Victor Müller , German painter
• 1832 : Julius Mařák , Czech-Bohemian landscape painter
• 1834 : Girolamo Maria Gotti , Italian clergyman and cardinal to the Curia
• 1837 : Jakub Husník , Czech painter, drawing teacher and inventor of the improved collotype
• 1838 : Louis Joseph André , French general and minister of war
• 1840 : Désiré André , French mathematician
• 1840 : Carel Herman Aart van der Wijck , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1842 : Friedrich von Hellwald , Austrian popular science writer
• 1843 : Karl Johann Brilmayer , Catholic priest, author and local historian
• 1843 : Paul Ferrier , French librettist and playwright
• 1843 : Georg Treu , Russian-German classical archaeologist
• 1846 : Otto Mayer , German lawyer and administrative law scholar
• 1850 : Richard von Kaufmann , German economist

1851-1900

• 1853 : Hans Bussmeyer , German composer
• 1853 : Elihu Thomson , British-American electrical engineer, inventor, and company founder
• 1854 : Max Oscar Arnold , German entrepreneur and politician
• 1854 : Friedrich Neelsen , German pathologist and scientist
• 1855 : Julius Bredt , German chemist
• 1857 : Eugen Hultzsch , German linguist

Carl Nicolai Starcke (* 1858)

• 1858 : Carl Nikolai Starcke , Danish sociologist, politician, educator and philosopher
• 1859 : Eugen Oberhummer , German geographer
• 1860 : Carl Hering , American engineer
• 1861 : August Nattermann , German pharmacologist and entrepreneur
• 1862 : Carl Busch , American composer
• 1863 : Georg von Ompteda , German writer and translator
• 1864 : Henri Lutz , French composer
• 1866 : Fritz Arnheim , German historian
• 1867 : Cy Young , American baseball player
• 1868 : Selwyn Edge , British racing car driver
• 1868 : Max Lange , German sculptor, painter, draftsman and etcher
• 1869 : Edwin Lutyens , British architect
• 1872 : Alphonse Boog , French composer, educator and historian

Levi-Civita (* 1873)

• 1873 : Tullio Levi-Civita , Italian mathematician
• 1876 : Ioannis Georgiadis , Greek fencer
• 1876 : Max von Prittwitz and Gaffron , German major general
• 1876 : Paul Schiemann , Baltic German politician
• 1876 : Friedrich Adolf Traun , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1877 : Reginald Goss-Custard , English organist and composer
• 1877 : Alois Kayser , German missionary on Nauru
• 1878 : Albert Von Tilzer , American music producer
• 1879 : Alan Gardiner , British Egyptologist
• 1880 : Eduard Hütter , Austrian architect and set designer
• 1881 : Alexander Moritz Frey , German writer
• 1883 : Memduh Şevket Esendal , Turkish writer and diplomat
• 1883 : Riku Korhonen , Finnish gymnast
• 1884 : Edward Archibald , Canadian pole vaulter
• 1885 : Martha Arendsee , German politician and women's rights activist
• 1885 : Margot Claussen , German painter
• 1885 : Dezső Kosztolányi , Hungarian writer and poet
• 1886 : Gustaf Bengtsson , Swedish composer
• 1886 : Luise Harkort , German ceramist

Bertha Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach (* 1886)

• 1886 : Bertha Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , owner of the Krupp Group
• 1886 : Siegmund Weltlinger , founding member and chairman of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation
• 1887 : Ernst Aebersold , Swiss politician
• 1887 : Phraya Phahon Phonphayuhasena , Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1887 : Alexei Wassiljewitsch Schubnikow , Russian crystallographer and mathematician
• 1889 : Warner Baxter , American actor
• 1890 : Harold Spencer Jones , British astronomer
• 1891 : Yvan Goll , Franco-German writer and poet of Expressionism and Surrealism
• 1891 : Alfred Neubauer , German racing director of the Mercedes Grand Prix team
• 1891 : Aimé Nezeloff , French racing car driver
• 1891 : Erich Schott , German entrepreneur
• 1892 : József Mindszenty , Hungarian Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Primate of Hungary and Cardinal, symbol of resistance against communism
• 1893 : Amílcar Barbuy , Italian-Brazilian football player and coach
• 1893 : Erich Stahl , German general
• 1894 : Georg Kuhlmeyer , German poet
• 1894 : Franz Planer , Austrian cameraman

• 1895 : Ernst Jünger , German writer
• 1895 : Théodore Ribail , French racing car driver
• 1896 : Karl Abetz , German forest scientist and university professor
• 1896 : Wilhelm Ackermann , German mathematician
• 1896 : Philipp Meyer , German politician
• 1898 : Fritz Bache , German football player
• 1898 : Cecil Lewis , British pilot and writer
• 1899 : Lavrenti Beria , Georgian politician in the USSR and head of the Soviet secret service
• 1900 : Edmund Aigner , Austrian politician
• 1900 : Bill Aston , British racing car driver
• 1900 : Charles Sutherland Elton , British ecologist and zoologist
• 1900 : Otto Kaufmann , German homeland researcher
• 1900 : Roman Lampl , German politician
• 1900 : John McEwen , Australian politician, Prime Minister
• 1900 : Johannes Winckelmann , German lawyer

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Sidney Arodin , American jazz clarinetist and composer
• 1901 : Fritz Pümpin , Swiss painter
• 1902 : Ludwig Anschütz , German actor and radio play speaker

William Walton (* 1902)

• 1902 : Marcel Aymé , French storyteller and playwright
• 1902 : Martin Frič , Czech film director
• 1902 : Don Miller , American lawyer, American football player and coach
• 1902 : William Walton , British composer and conductor
• 1903 : Karl Andersen , Norwegian cellist and composer
• 1903 : Paul Kohner , Austrian-American film producer
• 1903 : Eduard Wahl , German politician
• 1905 : Philip Ahn , American actor
• 1905 : Hans Georg Amsel , German entomologist
• 1905 : Jenő Rejtő , Hungarian writer
• 1906 : Peter Janssen , German painter
• 1906 : Roman Schramseis , Austrian football player
• 1907 : Josef Effertz , German politician
• 1908 : Ernő Grünbaum , Transylvanian Cubism and Expressionist painter
• 1908 : Sigfried Uiberreither , German National Socialist, war criminal
• 1908 : Egon Wagenknecht , German forest scientist
• 1909 : Hanada Kiyoteru , Japanese literary critic
• 1910 : Rudolf Tesmann , SS-Obersturmbannführer
• 1911 : Paul Buck , German piano teacher

Brigitte Horney (* 1911)

• 1911 : Brigitte Horney , German actress
• 1911 : Freya von Moltke , resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1912 : Ernst von Delius , German automobile racing driver
• 1912 : Hanna Reitsch , German aviator
• 1914 : Günter Hellwing German politician and policeman, war criminal
• 1915 : Denton Welch , British painter and writer
• 1915 : Gustav Wendelberger , Austrian botanist and university professor
• 1916 : Jack Asher , British cameraman

Eugene Joseph McCarthy (born 1916)

• 1916 : Eugene McCarthy , American politician
• 1918 : Pearl Bailey , American actress and singer
• 1918 : Friedelind Wagner , German writer and opera director
• 1918 : Sam Walton , American entrepreneur
• 1919 : Anne Ancelin Schützenberger , French psychotherapist, psychologist and professor
• 1919 : Eileen Heckart , American actress
• 1919 : Robert Lowry , American publisher
• 1922 : Fritz Swoboda , Austrian Waffen SS member and war criminal
• 1923 : Geoff Duke , British motorcycle racer
• 1923 : Jack D. Dunitz , British chemist
• 1923 : Hans Heinz Hahnl , Austrian journalist, writer and publicist
• 1925 : Hans Plank , Austrian artist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Rudolf Eberle , German economist and politician
• 1927 : Peter Ax , German zoologist
• 1927 : Martin Fleischmann , American chemist
• 1927 : John McLaughlin , American television presenter

Alfred Neven DuMont (* 1927)

• 1927 : Alfred Neven DuMont , German publisher
• 1927 : John Robert Vane , British biochemist
• 1929 : Hans Elsässer , German astronomer
• 1929 : Richard Lewontin , American evolutionary biologist and geneticist
• 1929 : Lennart Meri , Estonian President and historian, director and writer
• 1929 : Gerhard A. Ritter , German historian
• 1930 : Niels Clausnitzer , German actor
• 1930 : Anerood Jugnauth , Mauritian President
• 1930 : Herta Staal , Austrian actress and singer
• 1931 : Alexei Alexandrovich Gubarew , Soviet cosmonaut

Norman Tebbit (born 1931)

• 1931 : Norman Tebbit , British politician
• 1932 : Gerd Baltus , German actor
• 1933 : Bruno Basini , French racing car driver
• 1933 : Hermann von Berg , German publicist and secret diplomat of the GDR
• 1933 : Samora Machel , Mozambican President
• 1935 : Alfred Hertel , Austrian musician, oboist
• 1935 : Sandra Harding , American philosopher and science critic
• 1935 : Renate Holland-Moritz , German writer and journalist
• 1935 : Hans-Ulrich Klose , German politician, MdL
• 1935 : Rosemarie Nave-Herz , German sociologist
• 1935 : Wolfgang Uhlmann , German chess master
• 1936 : Andree Anderson , American figure skater
• 1936 : Renato Arlati , Swiss writer
• 1936 : Richard Rodney Bennett , British composer and pianist
• 1936 : Mogens Camre , Danish politician, MEP
• 1936 : Danny Marino , Italian songwriter, chanson and pop singer
• 1936 : Horst Podlasly , German football goalkeeper
• 1937 : Bruno Mora , Italian football player
• 1939 : Terence Hill , Italian actor
• 1939 : Hanumant Singh , Indian cricketer
• 1940 : Heinz Ludwig Arnold , German publicist
• 1940 : Eden Kane , British singer
• 1940 : Octavian Nemescu , Romanian composer
• 1940 : Godfrey Reggio , American director
• 1941 : Renato Corsetti , Italian linguist, chairman of the World Esperanto Federation (UEA)
• 1941 : Peter Sadler , British racing car driver
• 1941 : Bruno Simma , German international lawyer
• 1941 : Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. , American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1943 : Chad Allan , Canadian rock musician
• 1943 : Eric Idle , British actor and film producer, director, composer and author

John Major (* 1943)

• 1943 : John Major , British politician and Prime Minister, Secretary of State, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• 1943 : Marta Ptaszyńska , Polish composer and music teacher
• 1943 : Vangelis , Greek New Age composer
• 1944 : Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo , Ghanaian lawyer and politician
• 1944 : Terry Jacks , Canadian musician
• 1944 : Gerda Viecenz , German politician
• 1945 : Walt Frazier , American basketball player
• 1946 : Claus Bury , German sculptor
• 1946 : Wolfgang Drexler , German politician, MdL
• 1946 : Blaine Nye , American football player and entrepreneur
• 1947 : Patricia Anthony , American author
• 1947 : Michael Bauer , German journalist
• 1947 : Inge Bödding , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1947 : Bobby Kimball , American musician
• 1947 : Karin Rätzel , German local politician
• 1947 : Alexander Stepanowitsch Viktorenko , Soviet cosmonaut
• 1948 : Anne-Karin , German pop singer

Bud Cort (born 1948)

• 1948 : Bud Cort , American actor
• 1948 : Johnny Dowd , American alternative country musician
• 1948 : Joachim Stünker , German politician
• 1949 : Kayahan Açar , Turkish singer, composer and songwriter
• 1949 : Michael Brecker , American tenor saxophonist
• 1949 : Christoph Leitl , Austrian entrepreneur and politician
• 1949 : Pauline Marois , Canadian politician
• 1949 : Johann Mayrhofer , Austrian handbike athlete
• 1949 : Jakob Schwimmer , German politician, MdL
• 1949 : Hugo Stamm , journalist and author
• 1949 : Yuri Stern , Israeli politician
• 1950 : Werner Fischer , German civil rights activist
• 1950 : Mory Kanté , Guinean griot musician
• 1950 : Hans-Jürgen Misselwitz , German politician

1951-1975

• 1951 : Hardy Åström , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper
• 1951 : Klaus Bachler , Austrian actor
• 1951 : Klaus Herzog , German Mayor

Roger Bruce Myerson (* 1951)

• 1951 : Roger B. Myerson , American economist
• 1951 : Hans-Wilhelm Steinfeld , Norwegian journalist and historian
• 1951 : Lydia Tews , German crime writer
• 1952 : Rainer Bonhof , German soccer player
• 1952 : Teófilo Stevenson , Cuban boxer
• 1953 : David Attard , Maltese lawyer
• 1953 : Jørgen Emborg , Danish jazz pianist and composer
• 1953 : Fritz Hauser , Swiss musician
• 1953 : Georg Klein , German writer
• 1953 : Rudi Lochner , German bobsledder, world champion and sports teacher
• 1953 : Eberhard Schockenhoff , German professor for moral theology in Freiburg
• 1953 : Hans-Eckart Eckhardt , German actor
• 1953 : Margit Chrismert , Saxon politician and graduate agricultural pedagogue
• 1954 : Maritta Böttcher , German politician
• 1954 : Chip Robinson , American racing car driver
• 1954 : Helen Volk , Zimbabwean hockey and softball player
• 1955 : Earl Campbell , American football player
• 1955 : Brendan Gleeson , Irish actor
• 1955 : Rolf Lassgård , Swedish actor
• 1955 : Christopher Lawford , American actor

Marina Sirtis (* 1955)

• 1955 : Marina Sirtis , British actress
• 1956 : Kuno Hämisegger , Swiss economist and banker
• 1956 : Dick Jol , Dutch football referee
• 1956 : Kurt Thomas , American gymnastics world champion
• 1957 : Christopher Lambert , American actor
• 1957 : Helmut Zerlett , German musician, composer and producer
• 1958 : Kostas Akrivos , Greek writer, editor of anthologies and teacher
• 1958 : Marliese Arold , German author for children and young people
• 1958 : Denise , German singer, lyricist and guitarist
• 1959 : Johnny Allen , American baseball player
• 1959 : Perry Farrell , American rock musician
• 1960 : Chano Domínguez , Spanish jazz pianist
• 1960 : Roland Merten , German politician and university professor
• 1961 : Matt Letley , British drummer
• 1961 : Michael Winterbottom , British film director
• 1963 : Bernadette Constantin , French soccer player
• 1963 : Elmar Goerden , German theater director

Elle Macpherson (born 1963)

• 1963 : Elle Macpherson , Australian model and actress
• 1963 : Dirk Niebel , German politician
• 1964 : Alberto Di Chiara , Italian football player
• 1964 : Klaus Just , German athlete
• 1964 : Andreas Obering , German comedian and actor
• 1965 : Kai Ambos , German legal scholar
• 1965 : Darius Juozas Mockus , Lithuanian entrepreneur and economist
• 1965 : Paraskevi Patoulidou , Greek athlete, Olympic champion
• 1965 : William Oefelein , American astronaut
• 1965 : Lara Wendel , American actress
• 1966 : Krassimir Balakov , Bulgarian football player
• 1966 : Mirco Gennari , San Marino soccer player
• 1966 : Bernardino González Vázquez , Spanish football referee
• 1966 : Sigrid Kirchmann , Austrian athlete
• 1966 : Carsten Stawitzki , German admiral
• 1966 : Eric Walz , German writer

Michel Hazanavicius (* 1967)

• 1967 : Michel Hazanavicius , French director and screenwriter
• 1967 : John Popper , American blues musician
• 1968 : Dorthe Andersen , Danish singer and TV presenter
• 1968 : Ulrich Kelber , German politician
• 1968 : Lucy Lawless , New Zealand actress
• 1969 : Kim Batten , American athlete
• 1969 : Matthias Groß , German sociologist
• 1969 : Cornelius Obonya , Austrian actor
• 1970 : Andreas Beikirch , German cyclist
• 1971 : Lara Logan , American TV, radio journalist, and war correspondent
• 1971 : Maciej Zieliński , Polish composer
• 1972 : Michel Ancel , French designer
• 1972 : Jörg Auzinger , Austrian media artist
• 1972 : Rui Costa , Portuguese soccer player
• 1972 : Christian Scheffler , German handball player
• 1972 : Andy Schneider , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1973 : Marc Overmars , Dutch football player
• 1973 : Johan Petersson , Swedish handball player
• 1974 : Vragel da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
• 1974 : Iulian Filipescu , Romanian football player
• 1974 : Marc Gené , Spanish racing driver
• 1975 : Jan Bos , Dutch speed skater
• 1975 : Roger Stein , author and musician, representative of literary hip-hop

1976-2000

• 1976 : Igor Astarloa , Spanish cyclist
• 1976 : Jennifer Capriati , American tennis player
• 1977 : Anja Schache , German fencer
• 1977 : Djabir Saïd-Guerni , Algerian athlete

Mattias Andersson (* 1978)

• 1978 : Mattias Andersson , Swedish handball goalkeeper
• 1979 : Pascal Freitag , German actor
• 1979 : Estela Giménez , Spanish gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion
• 1980 : Robert Michael Archibald , British basketball player
• 1980 : Natalia Avelon , German-Polish singer and actress
• 1980 : Kim Tae-hee , South Korean actress
• 1980 : Pablo Urtasun , Spanish cyclist
• 1981 : Nadine Härdter , German handball player
• 1981 : Jlloyd Samuel , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
• 1981 : Jussi Veikkanen , Finnish cyclist
• 1982 : Anna Nagata , Japanese film actress
• 1982 : Mario Carević , Croatian football player
• 1982 : Matthias Flohr , German handball player
• 1983 : Somen Tchoyi , Cameroonian football player
• 1983 : Jamie Woon , British singer
• 1984 : Nate Adams , American motocross rider

Hera Delgado (* 1984)

• 1984 : Hera Delgado , German film producer and director
• 1984 : Chavdar Jankov , Bulgarian football player
• 1984 : Roman Kienast , Austrian soccer player
• 1984 : Juan Mónaco , Argentine tennis player
• 1985 : Fernando Amorebieta , Venezuelan-Spanish soccer player
• 1985 : Christiane Fürst , German volleyball player
• 1985 : Stuart Musialik , Australian soccer player
• 1986 : Sylvan Ebanks-Blake , English soccer player
• 1986 : Luke Eberl , American film actor, producer and director, screenwriter and film editor
• 1986 : Romina Oprandi , Swiss-Italian tennis player
• 1987 : Claudia Andreatti , Italian presenter
• 1987 : Maxime Authom , Belgian tennis player
• 1987 : Lea Marlen Woitack , German actress

Esther Cremer (* 1988)

• 1988 : Esther Cremer , German athlete
• 1988 : 4tune , German rapper
• 1988 : Julius Reinhardt , German soccer player
• 1988 : Marek Suchý , Czech football player
• 1989 : Juliane Raschke , German playmate
• 1989 : James Tomkins , English football player
• 1989 : Tomáš Vaclík , Czech football player
• 1990 : Timothy Chandler , German-American soccer player
• 1990 : Moritz Lanegger , Austrian basketball player
• 1990 : Teemu Pukki , Finnish soccer player
• 1991 : Fabio Borini , Italian football player
• 1991 : N'Golo Kanté , French football player
• 1991 : Hayley McFarland , American actress and singer
• 1992 : Pål Trøan Aune , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1992 : Antoine Brison , German actor
• 1992 : Tommy Grupe , German soccer player
• 1993 : Marius Bülter , German soccer player
• 1993 : Thorgan Hazard , Belgian football player
• 1994 : Sulli , singer and actress
• 1995 : Paul Seguin , German soccer player
• 1997 : Ezequiel Ponce , Argentine soccer player
• 1999 : Ezequiel Barco , Argentine soccer player
• 1999 : Bartosz Slisz , Polish football player

21st century

• 2002 : Cem Türkmen , Turkish-German soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0087 BC BC : Han Wudi , Chinese emperor
• 0057 : Han Guangwu di , Chinese emperor
• 0362 : Mark of Arethusa , Bishop of Arethusa
• 1058 : Stephan IX. , German Pope
• 1075 : Ottokar I. , Count in Chiemgau
• 1229 : Guido V , Vice Count of Limoges
• 1231 : Gerold von Waldeck , Bishop of Freising
• 1250 : Ludolf I , German bishop
• 1368 : Go-Murakami , Japanese emperor and counter-emperor
• 1382 : Elisabeth of Namur , Electress of the Palatinate
• 1416 : Euthymios II , Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1461 : Ralph Dacre, 1st Baron Dacre of Gilsland , English nobleman
• 1461 : Everard Digby , English squire

16th to 18th century

• 1505 : Sidonie von Bayern , Princess of Bavaria-Munich
• 1508 : Christoph von Baden , titular Margrave of Baden, Canon of Strasbourg and Cologne
• 1512 : Lucas Watzenrode , German prince-bishop
• 1519 : Gianfrancesco II Gonzaga , Italian nobleman and military man
• 1561 : Barbara von Wertheim , Countess von Wertheim
• 1576 : Valentin Erythräus , German educator
• 1578 : Louis I de Lorraine-Guise , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1585 : Johann Brokes , Lübeck Admiral and Mayor
• 1612 : Anna Katharina von Brandenburg , Queen of Denmark and Norway
• 1633 : Johann Georg II. Fuchs von Dornheim , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg, counter-reformer and witch-hunter
• 1650 : Cornelius Galle the Elder , Dutch draftsman and engraver
• 1658 : Bertuccio Valier , 102nd Doge of Venice
• 1659 : Gottfried Suevus the Elder , Polish jurist
• 1667 : Elisabeth Louise Juliane von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Abbess of Herford
• 1678 : Pierre Daret , French painter and engraver
• 1700 : Giovanni Lorenzo Lulier , Italian violonist, cellist, trombonist and composer
• 1703 : Georg Friedrich II. , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
• 1721 : Charles Vane , British pirate in the Caribbean
• 1725 : Nicolaus Wilckens , Hamburg councilor
• 1730 : Simon Straub , German violin maker
• 1737 : Adam Winterhalder , German sculptor
• 1743 : Theresia Benedicte of Bavaria , Wittelsbach princess
• 1772 : Emanuel Swedenborg , Swedish naturalist
• 1777 : Johann Heinrich Pott , German chemist and pharmacist
• 1778 : Johann Friedrich Gruner , German theologian and historian, rhetorician and educator
• 1792 : Gustav III. , King of Sweden

19th century

• 1818 : Alexandre Sabès Pétion , President of Haiti
• 1818 : Thomas Posey , American politician, governor of the Indiana Territory
• 1824 : Hans Nielsen Hauge , Norwegian lay preacher
• 1825 : Johannes Amon , German composer and music publisher
• 1826 : Domenico Pino , Italian general in Napoleonic service

Johann Heinrich Voss († 1826)

• 1826 : Johann Heinrich Voss , German poet and translator
• 1835 : Peter Joseph Glutz-Rüchti , Swiss politician
• 1842 : Kaspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff , German forester and statesman, founder of the baths in Bad Driburg
• 1847 : Emmanuel de Grouchy , Marshal of France
• 1848 : Johann Jakob Astor , American entrepreneur of German descent
• 1848 : Carl Amandus Kühn , German geologist and advocate of Neptunism
• 1855 : Henri Druey , Swiss lawyer, philosopher, politician and Federal Councilor ("Father of the Federal Constitution")
• 1856 : Julius Ambrosch , German classical philologist
• 1861 : Adrianus Catharinus Holtius , Dutch legal scholar
• 1863 : Heinrich Maria von Hess , German painter
• 1864 : August Kahlert , German poet and literary historian
• 1877 : Alexander Braun , German botanist
• 1880 : Jacob Axel Josephson , Swedish composer
• 1880 : Heinrich Bernhard Oppenheim , German liberal, free trader, lawyer, international lawyer, publicist and philosopher
• 1881 : Carl Weyprecht , German naval officer, Arctic explorer and geophysicist in Austro-Hungarian service
• 1888 : Charles Valentin Alkan , French musician and composer
• 1888 : Gustav Jahn , German folk writer, poet and mayor
• 1891 : Georges Seurat , French painter
• 1900 : August Ganghofer , German forest official

20th century

1901-1950

• 1911 : Alexandre Guilmant , French organist and composer
• 1912 : Robert Falcon Scott , British naval officer and polar explorer
• 1912 : Edward Adrian Wilson , British polar explorer, doctor and ornithologist
• 1918 : Timm Kröger , German writer
• 1921 : Levi Ankeny , American politician
• 1924 : Charles Villiers Stanford , Irish composer
• 1925 : Bajram Curri , Albanian freedom fighter
• 1927 : Besarion Chelaia , Georgian clergyman
• 1928 : Carl Junker , Austrian historian and syndic of the Association of Austro-Hungarian Booksellers

Meta von Salis († 1929)

• 1929 : Willem Andriessen , Dutch composer and musician
• 1929 : Meta von Salis , Switzerland's first female historian, women's rights activist, philosopher and pen pal of Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1932 : Otto Widmer , Roman Catholic clergyman and director of a children's home
• 1934 : Ludwig Marum , German lawyer and politician
• 1936 : Hans Osten , German businessman and astronomer
• 1937 : Karol Szymanowski , Polish composer
• 1939 : Tachihara Michizō , Japanese poet
• 1940 : Johann Schütte , German airship pioneer
• 1943 : Ermenegildo Pellegrinetti , Italian priest, Vatican diplomat and cardinal
• 1944 : John H. Arnold , American politician
• 1945 : Jack Agazarian , Armenian-French-British agent
• 1945 : Oscar L. Auf der Heide , American politician
• 1945 : Ferenc Csik , Hungarian swimmer
• 1949 : Theodor Reismann-Grone , German publisher and politician
• 1950 : Jakub Appenszlak , Polish journalist, literary critic and translator

1951-2000

• 1952 : Katherine Sophie Dreier , American painter and art patron
• 1953 : Arthur Fields , American singer
• 1954 : Rudolf Ahlers , German author
• 1955 : Joseph Otto Kolb , German priest, Archbishop of Bamberg
• 1956 : Hans Hermann Adler , German newspaper scientist
• 1957 : Hedwig Andersen , German speech therapist
• 1958 : Alessandro Verde , Italian priest and theologian, cardinal
• 1960 : Luiz Americano , Brazilian clarinetist, saxophonist and composer
• 1961 : Eva Clare , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1963 : Texas Ruby , American country musician
• 1965 : Ewald Mataré , German painter and sculptor
• 1966 : Jazz Gillum , American blues and hokum musician
• 1967 : Fritz Schäffer , German Federal Minister
• 1970 : Harold Elmer Anthony , American zoologist and paleontologist
• 1971 : Mona Bates , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1971 : Hermann zu Leiningen , German automobile racing driver
• 1972 : J. Arthur Rank , English industrialist and film producer
• 1975 : Lucien Daveluy , Canadian organist, composer and music teacher
• 1976 : Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat , French archivist and paleographer
• 1976 : Richard Arlen , American actor
• 1980 : Annunzio Mantovani , Italian orchestra leader
• 1981 : David Prophet , British racing car driver
• 1982 : Helene Deutsch , Austrian-American psychoanalyst
• 1982 : Walter Hallstein , German lawyer and politician, first chairman of the European Commission

Carl Orff († 1982)

• 1982 : Carl Orff , German composer and music teacher (Carmina Burana)
• 1983 : Alfred Andriola , American comic artist
• 1985 : Hermann Herbold , German rower
• 1985 : Gerhard Stöck , German athlete, Olympic champion
• 1986 : Manfred Strossenreuther , German sports pilot, world and European champion in aerobatics
• 1991 : Lee Atwater , American political advisor
• 1991 : Josef Friedrich Remberg , German general
• 1994 : Paul Grimault , French animator and director
• 1995 : Hans Raspotnik , German film producer and director
• 1997 : Finn Høffding , Danish composer and music teacher
• 1999 : Hermann-Josef Kaltenborn , German local politician
• 1999 : Gyula Zsengellér , Hungarian football player
• 2000 : Hans Gustav Güterbock , German Hittiteologist
• 2000 : Karl-Heinz Lauterjung , German physicist
• 2000 : Anna Sokolow , American dancer and choreographer

21st century

• 2001 : Edward Frederick Anderson , American botanist
• 2001 : John Lewis , American jazz musician
• 2001 : Billy Sanders , British singer
• 2002 : Petermax Müller , German automobile racing driver and dealer
• 2003 : Carlo Urbani , Italian doctor

Johnnie Cochran († 2005)

• 2005 : Johnnie Cochran , American attorney
• 2005 : Miltos Sachtouris , Greek poet
• 2006 : Bob Veith , American racing car driver
• 2007 : Giuseppe Giorgio Englert , Swiss composer of electronic music
• 2008 : Raul Donazar Calvet , Brazilian soccer player
• 2008 : Josef Mikl , Austrian painter and graphic artist
• 2009 : Stanisław Dróżdż , Polish poet
• 2009 : Maurice Jarre , French composer
• 2009 : Helen Levitt , American photographer and filmmaker
• 2010 : Hilde Purwin , German journalist
• 2011 : Hans-Jürgen Ambrosius , German trade union official
• 2011 : Robert Tear , British opera and oratorio singer
• 2012 : Luke Askew , American actor
• 2013 : Pepsi Auer , German jazz musician
• 2015 : Juan Carlos Maccarone , Argentine bishop
• 2016 : Patty Duke , American actress and singer
• 2016 : Jean Lapierre , French-Canadian politician and radio journalist
• 2017 : Alexei Alexejewitsch Abrikossow , Soviet or Russian-American physicist
• 2017 : Juan Bañuelos , Mexican poet, essayist and editor
• 2018 : Emiliano Mondonico , Italian football player and coach
• 2019 : Agnès Varda , French film director and photographer
• 2020 : Krzysztof Penderecki , Polish composer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Hans Nielsen Hauge (Protestant: EKD , ELCA )
  • St. Berthold of Calabria (Catholic)

• Name days
  • Berthold , Ludolf

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

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