October 29th
The October 29 is the 302nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 303rd in leap years ), thus remain 63 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1268 : Charles I of Anjou has the King of Sicily , Konradin von Hohenstaufen , executed in Naples . This means that the Hohenstaufen dynasty dies out.
- 1445 : During the Old Zurich War , the Zurich navy defeats the Schwyz fleet in the sea battle near Männedorf .
- 1618 : Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded by order of the English King James I on the basis of a 15-year-old death sentence when, contrary to his promise, he does not return from his last trip laden with gold treasures.
- 1665 : In the Battle of Ambuila , the Portuguese defeat the troops of the Kingdom of the Congo , which seals its destruction and colonization .
- 1706 : Swedish-Polish troops are defeated by a Saxon-Russian armed force in the Battle of Kalisch during the Great Northern War .
- 1709 : During the War of the Spanish Succession , Great Britain assures the United Netherlands in the first barrier treaty that it will own a number of permanent places in the Spanish Netherlands to secure it against France .
- 1762 : In the Battle of Freiberg in the Electorate of Saxony , the last armed forces in the Seven Years' War , the Prussians under Heinrich von Prussia defeat the Austrians .
- 1836 : Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte , Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew , attempts an unsuccessful coup in Strasbourg .
- 1863 : At an international conference in Geneva , resolutions on the establishment of national aid societies for war wounded and the introduction of a symbol in the form of a white armband with a red cross are passed.
- 1873 : King Albert takes over the reign in the Kingdom of Saxony after the death of his father Johann .
- 1888 : A convention is signed in Constantinople declaring the Suez Canal an international waterway .
- 1888 : For an unexplained cause, the train of Tsar Alexander III derails near Borki, south of Kharkov . on the way back from the Caucasus to St. Petersburg. The imperial family remains unharmed in the railway accident.
- 1894 : Kaiser Wilhelm II appoints the 75-year-old Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst as the successor of Leo von Caprivi, who was overthrown on the coup bill, as Chancellor and Prime Minister of Prussia.
- 1912 : The Battle of Lüleburgaz begins during the First Balkan War .
- 1918 : The split of the southern Slavic countries from Austria-Hungary represents the first step towards the establishment of Yugoslavia .
- 1918 : The sailors of the two German warships SMS Thüringen and SMS Helgoland refuse to obey the naval order of October 24, 1918 and to sail for a final battle against the Royal Navy. The mutiny can be suppressed, but the plan for a decisive battle in World War I is dropped.
- 1923 : Mustafa Kemal Ataturk proclaims the Republic of Turkey and moves its capital to Ankara .
- 1923 : " German October ": Due to the formation of a state government with the participation of communists, Saxony's Prime Minister Erich Zeigner is deposed by Reich execution and Rudolf Heinze is appointed Reich Commissioner .
- 1933 : José Antonio Primo de Rivera founds the anti-liberal and nationalist movement Falange Española in Spain .
- 1937 : 160 representatives of the Belarusian literary and scientific elite are shot by the NKVD .
- 1950 : With the death of King Gustav V , his son Gustav VI. Adolf new head of state in Sweden .
- 1956 : During the Suez Crisis , Israeli troops attack Egyptian positions on the Sinai Peninsula and march towards the Suez Canal .
- 1956 : Tangier , which has had international status since 1923, is once again incorporated into Morocco, which has been independent since March .
- 1976 : Erich Honecker is elected Chairman of the State Council by the People's Chamber of the GDR .
- 1994 : At Potsdamer Platz in Berlin , construction work begins for the Daimler quarter and thus for a new Berlin district.
- 1998 : In South Africa , the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its final report on the apartheid era .
- 2000 : In Kyrgyzstan , Askar Akayev is re-confirmed as president, but the elections are marked by massive irregularities.
- 2002 : Due to difficulties in the 2000 presidential election , the Help America Vote Act is passed in the USA . Among other things, this will introduce a federal electoral roll.
- 2004 : Norodom Sihamoni is crowned King of Cambodia as the successor to his retired father, Norodom Sihanouk .
- 2004 : The European Constitution is signed in Rome.
- 2006 : In the presidential elections in Brazil , the incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is confirmed in office with over 60% of the votes.
economy
- 1838 : The Berlin-Potsdam railway line is completed and opened as the first railway line in Prussia .
- 1929 : Deutsche Bank and Disconto-Gesellschaft , the two largest credit institutions in Germany, merge.
- 1929 : Five days after the first price drops, panic breaks out on the New York Stock Exchange on Black Tuesday, causing prices to drop even further. The world economic crisis begins.
- 1990 : The Alternative Bank Switzerland (ABS) starts business operations in Olten .
- 2008 : Bank Hypo Real Estate announces that it is negotiating a rescue package of 50 billion euros and that it has applied for 15 billion euros in liquid funds as an interim solution from the financial market stabilization fund .
science and technology
- 1923 : Radio in Germany begins at 8 p.m. with an entertainment broadcast by the radio company Funk-Stunden AG from the Vox-Haus in Berlin-Tiergarten .
- 1929 : The International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (International Association for Bridge and Building Construction) is founded in Vienna .
- 1969 : At the University of California in Los Angeles , the first message is sent via two distant computers, and the Internet is born.
- 1969 : On the island of Seymour is the Marambio Base , the largest Argentine research station in the Antarctic founded.
- 1991 : The Galileo space probe passes the asteroid Gaspra at a distance of 16,200 km and measures and photographs it. It is the first such maneuver of its kind on an asteroid .
- 1998 : At the age of 77, John Glenn flies into space for the second time on the space shuttle Discovery . Space doctors expect the STS-95 mission to provide information about aging, among other things.
- 2005 : The Airbus A380 , the largest passenger aircraft in the world, lands at Frankfurt Airport to conduct handling tests.
Culture
- 1786 : The Italian journey takes Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Rome , 'this capital of the world' for the first time .
- 1787 : The opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is premiered in Prague .
- 1808 : The first performance of the comic opera Jadis et aujourd'hui by Rodolphe Kreutzer takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 1835 : The premiere of the opera The Siege of Rochelle by Michael William Balfe found in the Drury Lane Theater in London.
- 1886 : After the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty the day before, the first confetti parade spontaneously takes place in New York .
- 1887 : The world premiere of the operetta The Seven Swabians by Karl Millöcker takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
- 1920 : The Golem as He Came into the World , Paul Wegener's acclaimed expressionist silent film , premiered in Berlin .
- 1932 : The first performance of the opera Der Schmied von Gent by Franz Schreker takes place at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
- 1946 : La belle et la bête: Once upon a time by Jean Cocteau , a poetic film adaptation of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont , premieres in France.
- 1949 : The opera The Miraculous Shoemaker's Wife by Juan José Castro is premiered in Montevideo .
- 1959 : The first episode of Astérix le Gaulois appears in the first edition of the comic magazine Pilote .
- 1967 : The musical Hair by Galt MacDermot (music), Gerome Ragni and James Rado (both text) premieres in New York City's Public Theater .
- 2000 : The world premiere of the opera Bernarda Albas Haus by Aribert Reimann based on the play of the same name by Federico García Lorca takes place at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
society
- 1901 : Leon Czolgosz , the assassin of US President William McKinley , is executed in the electric chair in Auburn State Prison, New York . In the coffin, the body of the executed person is also doused with sulfuric acid , which dissolves the body within 24 hours.
- 1901 : US police arrest nurse Jane Toppan after the ordered autopsy of four bodies of the Davis family revealed poisonous death . Toppan is subsequently revealed to be a serial killer who has given lethal injections dozen of times .
religion
- 1187 : The papal bull Audita tremendi , addressed to the secular rulers, contains Gregory VIII's call to the Third Crusade . The Pope does not want to accept the loss of Jerusalem after the battle of Hattin .
- 1525 : Martin Luther holds the first mass in German in Wittenberg .
- 1591 : Innocent IX. is elected Pope to succeed Gregory XIV .
Disasters
- 1867 : The British passenger ship RMS Rhone sinks in a severe hurricane off Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands . At least 124 people die. The passengers were tied to their beds in accordance with the customs of the time so as not to fall out in a storm.
- 1894 : The New Zealand passenger steamer Wairarapa hits a reef off Miners Head on Great Barrier Island and sinks, killing 121 passengers and crew. It is one of the biggest shipping disasters in New Zealand.
- 1900 : Nearly 200 people are killed in an explosion in a New York chemical plant.
- 1942 : The German submarine U 575 sinks the British passenger ship Abosso in the North Atlantic . 362 people die.
- 1955 : The Soviet battleship Novorossiysk is shaken in the port of Sevastopol by an explosion, believed to be the result of a WWII sea mine, and sinks. Due to a misjudgment by the Vice Admiral, 608 sailors are killed in the disaster.
- 1999 : A cyclone with wind speeds of 260 km / h hits the mainland in the Indian state of Orissa . As a result, it causes over 10,000 deaths.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1910 : After the entire team left the Vienna Cricket and Football Club and founded a new club, the Wiener Cricketer club is entered in the club register. As early as December, the use of this name was banned and the name of the club was changed to Wiener Amateur SV .
- 1917 : The Berlin Oberturnwart Max Heiser lays down the first rules for the handball sport he developed .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 1300 : John Gray, 1st Baron Gray of Rotherfield , English nobleman, military man and courtier
- 1409 : Alessandro Sforza , ruler of Pesaro
- 1497 : Benedetto Accolti , Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1504 : Shin Saimdang , Korean painter, calligrapher and poet
- 1507 : Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba , Spanish politician
- 1513 : Jacques Amyot , French cleric, humanist, writer and bishop
- 1515 : Vincenzo Borghini , Italian humanist, writer and cleric
- 1560 : Christian I , Elector of Saxony
17th and 18th centuries
- 1606 : Margareta I von Dassel , abbess in the Medingen monastery
- 1633 : Franz Burmeister , Protestant theologian and poet
- 1647 : Amalia von Degenfeld , Baroness von Degenfeld
- 1649 : Johann Baptist von Garelli personal physician to three emperors
- 1674 : Eleonore von Dönhoff , Brandenburg-Prussian nobleman
- 1688 : Amalia Pachelbel , German painter and engraver
- 1690 : Martin Folkes , English mathematician and numismatist
- 1693 : Christian Gottlieb Buder , German lawyer, historian and librarian
- 1697 : George Desmarées , Swedish painter of French origin, is considered one of the most important portraitists of the Rococo
- 1705 : Gerhard Friedrich Müller , German historian and Siberia researcher
- 1706 : Wacław Rzewuski , Polish military leader and statesman
- 1722 : Christian Ernst von Windheim , German Protestant theologian and orientalist
- 1734 : Heinrich Leopold von Seherr-Thoss , German landowner
- 1736 : Johann Karl Zeune , German philologist
- 1738 : Philipp Friedrich Welker , German civil servant
- 1740 : James Boswell , biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson
- 1740 : Friedrich August , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Prussian general
- 1746 : Claus Fasting , Norwegian editor, author and critic
- 1748 : Daniel Smith , American land surveyor and senator
- 1763 : Johann Jakob Meyer , Swiss officer and politician
- 1769 : Georg von Hofmann , Austrian playwright and librettist
- 1753 : Eleonore Sophie Auguste Thon , German writer (date of baptism)
- 1762 : André Chénier , French author and poet
- 1784 : Vincenza Gerosa , founder of the Italian order
- 1790 : Adolph Diesterweg , German educator
- 1792 : Georg Josias Stephan Adler , German provost
- 1798 : Ulrike von Pogwisch , German prioress
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Friedrich Hetzel , German banker and patron
- 1811 : Louis Blanc , French socialist and founder of social democracy
- 1811 : August von Hauner , German pediatrician and university professor
- 1811 : Tito Ricordi , Italian music publisher
- 1813 : Carl Ploug , Danish journalist and politician
- 1815 : Ľudovít Štúr , Austro-Hungarian philologist, writer and politician, founder of the modern Slovak literary language
- 1816 : Ferdinand II , King of Portugal
- 1818 : Catherine Hayes , Irish opera soprano
- 1822 : Mieczysław Halka Ledóchowski , Polish Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1827 : Alma von Goethe , daughter of August von Goethe and granddaughter of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1831 : Giulio Cottrau , Italian composer
- 1831 : Leopold Sonnemann , German journalist
- 1834 : Friedrich Lange , German painter
- 1847 : Conrad von Schubert , Prussian general, winery owner and MdR
1851-1900
- 1855 : Jacques Curie , French physicist
- 1855 : Emil Doepler , German painter
- 1855 : Kyrillos IX. Moghabghab , Lebanese clergyman and Patriarch of Antioch
- 1856 : Heinrich Mayr , German botanist and forest scientist
- 1863 : Franz Stuhlmann , German zoologist and Africa explorer
- 1865 : Karl Bernhard Bamler , German meteorologist, teacher and pioneer of free ballooning
- 1866 : Georg Engel , German writer
- 1866 : Gustav Witt , German astronomer
- 1871 : Narcissus Kaspar Ach , German psychologist and university professor
- 1872 : Hermann Haack , German cartographer
- 1873 : Michael Bleive , Russian Orthodox priest and martyr in Estonia
- 1875 : Alva B. Adams , American politician, House of Representatives, and Senator for Colorado
- 1875 : Marie of Edinburgh , Queen of Romania
- 1875 : Otto Wiegand , German gymnast
- 1877 : Hermann Boßdorf , German writer
- 1877 : Salman Schocken , German-Israeli businessman
- 1878 : Alexander von Falkenhausen , German general, military commander of Belgium and northern France, resistance fighter
- 1879 : Franz von Papen , German politician, Reich Chancellor Deputy Reich Chancellor in the Hitler cabinet
- 1880 : Otto Flake , German poet
- 1880 : Abram Fjodorowitsch Joffe , Soviet physicist
- 1880 : Jean Alexandru Steriadi , Romanian painter and graphic artist
- 1880 : Fritz Weege , German archaeologist and Etruscanologist
- 1881 : John DeWitt , American football player and athlete
- 1881 : Charlotte Pfeffer , German rhythmist
- 1882 : Jean Giraudoux , French playwright
- 1885 : Juan Bautista Massa , Argentine composer
- 1887 : Robert Müller , Austrian writer, journalist and publisher
- 1887 : Hans Thuar , German painter
- 1890 : Hans-Valentin Hube , German army officer
- 1890 : Abram Iljitsch Jampolski , Russian violinist and music teacher
- 1890 : Alfredo Ottaviani , Italian cardinal
- 1891 : Heinz Auerswald , German painter and graphic artist
- 1891 : Fanny Brice , American actress
- 1891 : Claire Goll , Franco-German poet
- 1892 : Carlos Bonnet , Venezuelan composer and conductor
- 1892 : Recha Freier , German Zionist, sponsor of the child and youth aliyah
- 1892 : Ottla Kafka , sister of Franz Kafka
- 1893 : Grete Teege , German state politician, MdL
- 1897 : Hope Emerson , American actress
- 1897 : Joseph Goebbels , German NSDAP politician, demagogue, Reich Minister of Propaganda, pioneer of the Holocaust
- 1898 : Eugen Schönhaar , German communist resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1899 : Akim Tamiroff , Russian-American actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Daniil Alexandrovich Amfiteatrow , Russian-American composer, orchestra director and film composer
- 1901 : Emmy Schaumann , German politician
- 1901 : Ré Soupault , French photographer
- 1902 : Kitasono Katue , Japanese lyric poet
- 1903 : Yvonne Georgi , German ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1903 : Erwin Linder , German actor
- 1903 : Sibyl Moholy-Nagy , American-German dramaturge, actress, architecture and art historian
- 1904 : Randi Bakke , Norwegian figure skater
- 1906 : Franziska Bilek , German draftsman and caricaturist
- 1907 : Edwige Feuillère , French actress
- 1909 : Henock Abrahamsson , Swedish football goalkeeper
- 1910 : Alfred Jules Ayer , British philosopher
- 1910 : Aurélie Nemours , French painter
- 1910 : Gerhard Wendland , German painter
- 1912 : Bruno Cassinari , Italian painter
- 1912 : Jakob Scheuring , German athlete
- 1912 : Henryk Trzonek , Polish violist
- 1916 : Slim Aarons , American photographer
- 1916 : Hadda Brooks , American R&B and jazz pianist, singer and composer
- 1917 : Eddie Constantine , American film actor and chansonnier
- 1919 : Marianne Rousselle , German sculptor and painter
- 1920 : Baruj Benacerraf , American medic
- 1920 : Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak , Polish architect
- 1920 : Ernst Majonica , German lawyer and politician
- 1920 : Liselotte Thoms-Heinrich , German journalist, GDR women's politician
- 1921 : Alois Mertes , German politician (CDU)
- 1922 : Arthur Apfel , British figure skater
- 1922 : Neal Hefti , American jazz musician
- 1922 : Alexander Zinoviev , Russian dissident, philosopher and author
- 1923 : Carl Djerassi , Austrian-American chemist, developer of the first birth control pill
- 1923 : Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs , Dutch athlete
- 1923 : Barney Poole , American football player
- 1924 : Zbigniew Herbert , Polish writer
- 1924 : Danielle Mitterrand , French resistance fighter and author, widow of François Mitterrand
- 1925 : Geraldine Brooks , American actress
- 1925 : Robert Hardy , British actor
- 1925 : Zoot Sims , American jazz musician
1926-1950
- 1926 : Neçmettin Erbakan , Turkish Prime Minister
- 1926 : Margaret Sheridan , American actress
- 1927 : Hanna Wördy , Austrian actress
- 1929 : Marat Iwanawitsch Kasej , Belarusian partisan fighter
- 1929 : Ida Schöpfer , Swiss ski racer
- 1930 : Bertha Brouwer , Dutch sprinter
- 1930 : Omara Portuondo , Cuban musician
- 1930 : Niki de Saint Phalle , French artist
- 1932 : Velma Margie Barfield , American serial killer
- 1932 : Peter Baronsky , German handball player
- 1932 : Charlotte Knobloch , German President of the Israelite Community in Munich and Upper Bavaria
- 1932 : Àlex Soler-Roig , Spanish racing car driver
- 1932 : Věra Suchánková , Czech figure skater
- 1933 : Marliese Alfken , German politician
- 1933 : John Hamilton Andrews , Australian-Canadian architect
- 1934 : Yves Cornière , French church musician and composer
- 1935 : Füruzan , Turkish writer
- 1937 : Christian Anatole , French Romanist and Occitanist
- 1938 : Ralph Bakshi , American film director
- 1938 : Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf , Liberian politician, first elected President of Africa, Nobel Prize winner
- 1938 : Wilbert McClure , American boxer, Olympic champion
- 1938 : Gerhard Neuser , German soccer player
- 1939 : Petru Stoianov , Romanian composer
- 1939 : Barbara Wilk-Mincu , German art historian, librarian and Heinrich von Kleist researcher
- 1940 : Frida Boccara , French singer
- 1940 : Heinrich Mussinghoff , Bishop of Aachen, deputy chairman of the German Bishops' Conference
- 1942 : Lee Clayton , American musician and composer
- 1942 : Bob Ross , American painter
- 1944 : Berta Ambrož , Yugoslav singer
- 1944 : Vita Andersen , Danish author
- 1944 : Denny Laine , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1946 : Oliver Bendt , German singer
- 1946 : Peter Green , British musician ( Fleetwood Mac )
- 1947 : Richard Dreyfuss , American film actor
- 1947 : Kemal Kurt , Turkish writer, translator and photographer
- 1947 : Henri Michel , French football player and coach
- 1948 : Kate Jackson , American actress
- 1948 : Thomas Thieme , German actor
- 1948 : Dick Voorn , Dutch football player and coach
- 1950 : James Dillon , British composer
- 1950 : Abdullah Gül , Turkish politician, President
1951-1975
- 1951 : Fausto Correia , Portuguese politician
- 1951 : Peter Höhne , German handball player and coach
- 1951 : Dirk Kempthorne , American politician
- 1951 : Tiff Needell , British racing car driver and journalist
- 1952 : Ida Kavafian , American violinist, violist and music teacher
- 1952 : Udo Schmuck , German soccer player
- 1954 : Ruslan Sultanovich Auschew , Russian general and politician
- 1954 : Scott Jaeck , American actor
- 1954 : Sigrun Siegl , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1954 : Matthias Zschokke , Swiss writer
- 1955 : Kevin DuBrow , American rock musician ( Quiet Riot )
- 1955 : Jürgen Grislawski , German painter and sculptor
- 1955 : Paul Smith , British racing car driver
- 1957 : Raúl Arias , Mexican soccer coach and player
- 1957 : Dan Castellaneta , American actor and voice actor
- 1958 : Daniel , Yugoslav singer
- 1958 : Nicolette Kressl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1960 : Agim Çeku , Kosovar Prime Minister
- 1960 : Finola Hughes , British actress
- 1960 : Dieter Nuhr , German cabaret artist and comedian
- 1961 : Tonči Huljić , Croatian musician, songwriter and music producer
- 1961 : Steven Randall Jackson , American singer
- 1961 : Cornelia Oschkenat , German athlete
- 1961 : Kai-Uwe Ricke , German manager
- 1962 : René Pollesch , German playwright and director
- 1964 : Andreas Wagenhaus , German soccer player
- 1965 : Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1966 : Kersten Flenter , German author, editor and singer
- 1968 : Peter Wynhoff , German soccer player
- 1969 : Mirco Nontschew , German comedian
- 1969 : DJ Sammy , Spanish DJ and music producer
- 1970 : Phillip Cocu , Dutch football player
- 1970 : Jan Plewka , German singer and actor
- 1970 : Dan Ratushny , Canadian ice hockey player and current coach
- 1970 : Edwin van der Sar , Dutch football player
- 1971 : Matthew Hayden , Australian cricketer
- 1971 : Winona Ryder , American film actress
- 1972 : Constanze Blum , German cross-country skier
- 1972 : Thomas Douglas , German-British actor
- 1972 : Narcisse Ewodo , French basketball player
- 1972 : Daniela Radkowa , Bulgarian singer
- 1972 : Gabrielle Union , American actress
- 1973 : Robert Pirès , French football player
- 1974 : Ronald Bahr , German handball player
- 1974 : Albert Nađ , Serbian-Montenegrin football player
- 1975 : Godfried Aduobe , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1975 : Frank Baumann , German soccer player
- 1975 : Aksel Hennie , Norwegian actor, director and screenwriter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Hanna Kanapazkaja , Belarusian politician
- 1977 : Jon Avery Abrahams , American actor
- 1977 : Marek Matiaško , Slovak biathlete
- 1977 : Annemarie Carpendale , German television presenter
- 1979 : Johanna Setzer , Austrian television presenter
- 1979 : Max Tsui , German cameraman
- 1981 : Amanda Beard , American swimmer
- 1981 : Ruslan Rotan , Ukrainian football player
- 1982 : Einar Daðason Ásmundur , Icelandic politician
- 1983 : Malik Fathi , German soccer player
- 1984 : Eric Staal , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 : Cal Crutchlow , British motorcycle racer
- 1986 : Pedro Petiz , Portuguese racing driver
- 1987 : José Francisco Torres , American-Mexican soccer player
- 1987 : Lisa Weiß , German soccer player
- 1988 : Anna-Katharina Fecher , German actress
- 1988 : Florin Gardoș , Romanian football player
- 1989 : Kai-Peter Malina , German actor
- 1989 : Primož Roglič , Slovenian ski jumper and racing cyclist
- 1990 : Adriana Cardoso de Castro , Brazilian handball player
- 1990 : Jascha Rust , German actor
- 1990 : Eric Saade , Swedish singer and presenter
- 1991 : Tom Devriendt , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1991 : Oscar Lindberg , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1991 : Ramón Piñeiro , Spanish racing driver
- 1991 : Nikita Igorevich Saizew , Russian ice hockey player
- 1991 : Danilo Teodoro Soares , Brazilian soccer player
- 1991 : Harry Tincknell , British racing driver
- 1992 : Cornelia Hütter , Austrian ski racer
- 1995 : Emma Drogunova , German actress
- 1995 : Florian Flecker , Austrian soccer player
- 1996 : Richard Neudecker , German soccer player
- 1998 : Lance Stroll , Canadian racing driver
Died
Before the 19th century
- 1202 : Konrad von Hüneburg , Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1241 : Guigues IV , Count of Forez, Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre
- 1266 : Margarethe von Babenberg , wife of the Bohemian King Přemysl Ottokar II.
- 1268 : Konradin , King of Jerusalem, King of Sicily, Duke of Swabia and the last Staufer
- 1271 : Philip Basset , English nobleman
- 1310 : Otto , Count of Kleve
- 1312 : Landolfo Brancaccio , Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1321 : Stefan Uroš II Milutin , King of Serbia
- 1339 : Alexander Michailowitsch , Prince of Tver and Grand Prince of Vladimir
- 1353 : Konrad Münch von Landskron , Mayor of Basel
- 1399 : Gjin Bua Shpata , Albanian prince
- 1437 : Antonio Fluvian de la Riviere , Aragonese nobleman, 35th Grand Master of the Order of St. John in Rhodes
- 1439 : Antoine de Vergy , Count von Dammartin, Lord of Champlitte and Rigney, Chevalier, adviser and chamberlain to the King, and Marshal of France
- 1456 : Wenzel , Duke of Troppau-Ratibor and Jägerndorf
- 1554 : Raisin of Baden , Margravine of Baden
- 1566 : Jacobus de Dacia , Danish Franciscan and missionary in Mexico
- 1618 : Walter Raleigh , English navigator, explorer and writer
- 1626 : Ferdinando Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua and Montferrat
- 1662 : William Pynchon , Assistant Treasurer of Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1675 : Christian Hoburg , German theologian, mystical spiritualist
- 1675 : Andreas Hammerschmidt , German composer and organist
- 1707 : Maria Clara Eimmart , Nuremberg astronomer
- 1724 : William Wollaston , English philosopher
- 1727 : Ioan Giurgiu Patachi , Romanian-Greek-Catholic bishop of Făgăraș
- 1774 : August von Hallerstein , German-Austrian Jesuit and China missionary
- 1783 : Jean Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician, physicist and Enlightenment philosopher
- 1783 : Johann Ludwig Ferdinand Arnoldi , German educator and Protestant theologian
19th century
- 1802 : Charles Alexandre de Calonne , French statesman and finance minister
- 1804 : Sebastian Friedrich Trescho , German Protestant theologian.
- 1824 : Charles Pinckney , American politician
- 1829 : Maria Anna Mozart , Austrian pianist, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and daughter of Leopold Mozart
- 1836 : Johann Georg Friedrich Wendell , German book printer and newspaper publisher
- 1840 : Johann Caspar Rahn , Swiss painter and drawing teacher
- 1853 : Pierre Zimmermann , French piano teacher and composer
- 1854 : Paul Wilhelm Eduard Sprenger , Austrian architect
- 1855 : Gottfried Duden , German writer
- 1867 : Matthias Franz Borgnis , German banker, jeweler and tobacco manufacturer
- 1872 : Pierre Charles Fournier Saint Amant , French chess master
- 1873 : Johann I , King of Saxony
- 1877 : Nathan Bedford Forrest , American plantation owner, Confederate General in the Civil War, Ku Klux Klan leader
- 1884 : Albert Dulk , German socialist, revolutionary and writer
- 1885 : George B. McClellan , American military man and politician
- 1889 : Nikolai Gawrilowitsch Tschernyschewski , Russian publicist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1911 : Joseph Pulitzer , American journalist and editor
- 1914 : Julius Zech auf Neuhofen , German officer and colonial official
- 1915 : Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt , German painter
- 1918 : Maria Gugelberg von Moos , Swiss botanist
- 1918 : Rudolf Tobias , Estonian composer and organist
- 1920 : Ernst Perabo , American pianist and composer
- 1921 : Wilhelm Erb , German neurologist and professor
- 1922 : Fritz Drechsler , German architect
- 1924 : Frances Eliza Burnett , British author
- 1934 : Wilhelm IV. Anthes , German politician
- 1934 : Gustavo E. Campa , Mexican composer
- 1934 : Kurt Floericke , German scientist
- 1936 : Otto Immisch , German classical philologist
- 1941 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afinogenow , Russian writer and playwright
- 1943 : Percy Goetschius , American music theorist and composition teacher
- 1947 : Theodore Holland , British composer and music teacher
- 1948 : Antonio Létourneau , Canadian organist and music teacher
- 1948 : Wesley C. Mitchell , American economist
- 1949 : Georges I. Gurdjieff , Greek-Armenian esotericist, choreographer and composer
- 1950 : Gustav V , Swedish King
1951-1975
- 1951 : Robert Grant Aitken , American astronomer
- 1953 : Arthur Lemisch , Austrian politician
- 1954 : Walter Asmis , German lawyer and agricultural functionary
- 1954 : Hermann Ehlers , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag
- 1956 : Walter Evans Edge , American politician
- 1956 : Louis Rosier , French racing driver
- 1957 : Louis B. Mayer , American film producer
- 1958 : Zoë Akins , American screenwriter and playwright
- 1960 : Johan Gunnar Andersson , Swedish archaeologist, paleontologist and geologist
- 1961 : Zdeněk Folprecht , Bohemian composer
- 1961 : Nagayo Yoshirō , Japanese writer
- 1963 : Michael Holliday , British singer
- 1963 : Adolphe Menjou , American film actor
- 1968 : Marius Ulfrstad , Norwegian composer
- 1971 : Duane Allman , American musician (Allman Brothers)
- 1971 : Maura Böckeler , German Benedictine, writer and researcher on Hildegard von Bingen
- 1971 : Arne Tiselius , Swedish chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1972 : Laura Rodig , Chilean painter and sculptor
- 1975 : Harry Frommermann , German singer
1976-2000
- 1977 : William Dale Archerd , American serial killer
- 1977 : Otto Ley , German motorcycle racer
- 1978 : Komaki Ōmi , Japanese writer
- 1981 : Georges Brassens , French poet, author and writer
- 1981 : Karl Joseph Leiprecht , German bishop
- 1982 : William Lloyd Webber , British church musician and composer
- 1984 : Benji Asada , Japanese painter and woodblock artist
- 1984 : Wolfgang Keilig , German officer
- 1985 : Yevgeny Lifschitz , Soviet physicist
- 1986 : Shimizu Osamu , Japanese composer
- 1987 : Jakob Bräckle , German painter
- 1987 : Woodrow Charles Herman , American jazz musician
- 1988 : Thomas Cardinal Cooray , Sri Lankan religious, Archbishop of Colombo
- 1989 : Roland Rupert Anderson , American production designer
- 1990 : Lis Böhle , German dialect poet
- 1992 : Kenneth MacMillan , British dancer and choreographer
- 1993 : Stanisław Marusarz , Polish skier
- 1997 : Anton Szandor LaVey , American occultist and founder of the Church of Satan
- 1998 : Anthony J. Celebrezze , American politician and lawyer
- 1998 : Reine Flachot , French cellist
- 2000 : Jacqueline Brumaire , French soprano
21st century
- 2001 : Grigory Chuchrai , Soviet film director
- 2002 : Lorenzo Artale , Italian screenwriter, film director and actor
- 2003 : Eduard Buess , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 2003 : Hal Clement , American science fiction writer
- 2003 : Franco Corelli , Italian singer
- 2004 : Washington Castro , Argentine composer and conductor
- 2004 : Alice Duchess of Gloucester , British princess
- 2004 : Edward Oliver LeBlanc , Dominican politician
- 2005 : Robert Gerle , American violinist and music teacher of Hungarian origin
- 2006 : Peter Gingold , German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 2009 : Russell Lincoln Ackoff , American organizational theorist
- 2009 : Jean-François Bergier , Swiss social and economic historian
- 2009 : Olav Hodne , Norwegian missionary and author
- 2009 : Jürgen Rieger , German lawyer and politician
- 2011 : Jimmy Savile , British disc jockey and television presenter for the BBC
- 2012 : J. Bernlef , Dutch writer
- 2012 : Cordelia Edvardson , Swedish journalist, Holocaust survivor
- 2017 : Linda Nochlin , American art historian and essayist
- 2019 : John Witherspoon , American actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Henry Dunant , Swiss founder of the Red Cross (Protestant)
- St. Ferrutius , Roman soldier and martyr (Roman Catholic)
- Berengar von Vornbach , first abbot of the Vornbach monastery
- State holidays and memorial days
- Turkey : Republic Day (1923)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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