September 29th
The September 29 is the 272nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 273rd in leap years ), thus still remain 93 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 522 BC Chr . : In a battle near Pasargadae Darius I defeats the high priest Gaumata , who was crowned as Bardiya as great king in the Achaemenid Empire . Subsequently, however, Dareios has to fight back from other lying kings before he can assert himself as Persian ruler.
- 480 BC BC : The Greek fleet under Themistocles defeats the Persians under Xerxes I in the sea battle of Salamis . The exact date of the battle is disputed!
- 1041 : The Bohemian prince Břetislav I from the Přemyslid family surrenders to Emperor Heinrich III in Prague . after his plan for a great Slavic empire failed.
- 1096 : The Rum Seljuks defeat the German contingent of the People's Crusade at the siege of Xerigordon .
- 1267 : The Treaty of Montgomery ends the Anglo-Welsh War , which had been going on since 1262 . It is Gruffydd ap Llywelyn from the English King Henry III. recognized as the Prince of Wales .
- 1364 : In the Battle of Auray , the Breton Duke John V, with the support of English troops under John Chandos, decisively defeats his opponent Karl von Blois and the French and thus ends the War of the Breton Succession .
- 1399 : England's King Richard II is captured by Henry of Bolingbroke, later King Henry IV , with parliamentary approval and forced to abdicate due to arbitrary rule .
- 1568 : The Swedish ruler Erik XIV is overthrown by the aristocratic opposition under the leadership of his half-brothers Johann and Karl . Johann is called Johann III. new Swedish king.
- 1712 : In the sea battle of Rügen, the Danish fleet destroys the majority of a Swedish transport fleet that was supposed to bring supplies to the besieged Stralsund during the Great Northern War .
- 1760 : Fort Detroit , one of the last French fortifications in North America, surrenders without a fight to British troops under Major Robert Rogers .
- 1793 : Economic hardship and the pressure of starving sans culottes cause the National Convention to pass the Great Maximum Law in the French Revolution . It sets maximum prices for daily necessities.
- 1817 : In the Treaty of Fort Meigs, the Indian tribes on the Ohio River leave the rest of their land to the United States , which makes it available to settlers .
- 1818 : The Aachen congress of the great powers Russia, Austria, Prussia, France and Great Britain begins. The rulers and high-ranking representatives of their states advise on measures to combat revolutionary democratic development in Europe.
- 1829 : Metropolitan Police Service officers patrol London for the first time. The police officers in Greater London are called "Bobbies" after their founder, then British Interior Minister Sir Robert Peel . The Metropolitan Police Service itself is best known by the name of its New Scotland Yard headquarters .
- 1833 : With the death of the Spanish king Ferdinand VII , his underage daughter Isabella II becomes the new ruler of the country. Ferdinand's widow Maria Christina of Sicily took over the regency . The change of the throne caused a long conflict with Carlism .
- 1857 : The Stuttgart two-emperors meeting ends.
- 1860 : In the course of the Risorgimento result in Ancona the last troops of the Papal States under the command of French General Lamoricière Louis de Juchault the engaged Sardinian forces King Victor Emmanuel II. ; From now on the Pope only has the old core area of Latium of the Patrimonium Petri as property.
- 1911 : Italy declares the Ottoman Empire the war after this one ultimatum to surrender the city of Tripoli to expire.
- 1913 : The Mexican Revolution leads to the Battle of Torreón . The constitutionalist army under Pancho Villa begins to attack the artillery positions of the government troops around the railway junction in Torreón .
- 1914 : During the First World War , the German 9th Army begins an attack aimed at the capture of Warsaw, which leads to the Battle of the Vistula . In this, the Imperial Russian Army can later assert itself against the German attackers.
- 1914 : In German South West Africa the battle of Sandfontein ends with the surrender of the British-South African unit to the German protection force.
- 1918 : In view of the looming defeat of the German Reich in World War I , the OHL under Ludendorff calls for an armistice.
- 1918 : In the beginning of the battle of the Saint-Quentin Canal , a crowd of American soldiers took the Riqueval Bridge in one stroke during the First World War . This enables the Allied attack on the German Siegfried line with brought in heavy weapons.
- 1922 : With Mayor Haken , the first of the so-called “ philosopher ships ” leaves the port of Petrograd in the direction of Stettin . On board are intellectuals who are critical of the regime, who are forcibly deported abroad in this way by the Soviet Russian government.
- 1938 : As part of the appeasement policy in the run-up to World War II , the heads of government of Great Britain, France and Italy meet with Adolf Hitler in the Führerbau for the Munich conference to resolve the Sudeten crisis .
- 1941 : In the Babi Yar massacre near Kiev, more than 33,000 Jews are murdered by the Wehrmacht , members of the SD , the police, the secret field police and Einsatzgruppe C (under SS Brigadefuhrer Otto Rasch ). The massacre gives rise to a poem by the Russian poet Yevgeny Evtushenko , which is set to music by the composer Dmitri Shostakovich in his 13th symphony .
- 1944 : The German Wehrmacht and the 16th SS Panzer Grenadier Division "Reichsführer SS" begin the Marzabotto massacre of Italian civilians during the Second World War, which will last until October 1st .
- 1978 : In resolution 435 , the UN Security Council calls for an end to the illegal administration of Namibia by South Africa .
- 1979 : Eight weeks after the violent end of his reign of terror, Francisco Macías Nguema , the first President of Equatorial Guinea , is executed.
- 1990 : The unification treaty between the two German states comes into force.
- 1990 : The World Summit for Children begins at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York .
- 2000 : The German Bundesrat holds its first meeting in the Prussian mansion in Berlin after moving from Bonn.
economy
- 1856 : The Baden - Brugg line , an extension of the previous Zurich-Baden line of the " Spanish-Brötli Railway ", is opened.
- 1950 : The German Democratic Republic joins the Council for Mutual Economic Aid.
- 1956 : The new building of the Vienna Südbahnhof is opened.
- 1956 : The USS Ranger , the third US Forrestal-class aircraft carrier, is launched.
- 2007 : The four cooling towers of the first British nuclear power plant Calder Hall are blown up in a controlled manner. The nuclear facility for commercial power generation itself has been decommissioned since 2003.
- 2008 : After the US Congress rejected the one week long, painstakingly negotiated $ 700 billion rescue plan for the troubled financial industry, the Dow Jones Index lost 6.98 percent on one trading day. With a loss of 777.68 points, it is the highest absolute decline since the stock index was established .
science and technology
- 1954 : The European Organization for Nuclear Research ( CERN ) is founded in Geneva by twelve European countries .
- 1954 : The twin- engine McDonnell F-101 fighter aircraft is first tested in the United States.
- 1962 : The Canadian research satellite Alouette 1 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the USA . Canada's first satellite is set to collect data on the ionosphere .
- 1995 : The PlayStation is launched in Europe.
- 1997 : British scientists confirm the causal relationship between the new variant of the human brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and BSE .
- 2004 : The near-earth asteroid Toutatis passes the earth at a distance of only four times the moon.
- 2004 : The private spacecraft SpaceShipOne reaches an altitude of just over 100 km with the pilot Michael Melvill and thus fulfills the first condition for winning the Ansari X-Prize .
- 2019 : The Cityringen of the metro network opens in Copenhagen .
Culture
- 1867 : The first market hall is opened in Berlin; after several renovations, the building finally housed the Friedrichstadtpalast .
- 1900 : Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria opens the Bavarian National Museum in Munich.
- 1922 : The drama Drummeln in der Nacht is staged as the first play by Bertolt Brecht and premiered under Otto Falckenberg's direction at the Münchner Kammerspiele .
- 1955 : The world premiere of the opera Der fierige Engel by Sergei Prokofjew takes place at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice .
- 1968 : The opera Ulisse by Luigi Dallapiccola is premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
- 1969 : First performance of Symphony No. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich
- 1975 : Hermann Kahler and Heiner Müller receive the Lessing Prize of the GDR .
- 1983 : In Chicago the III. Symphony by Witold Lutosławski premiered.
society
- 1932 : During the construction of the General Electric Building , the photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper is made : eleven men dangling their feet over the streets of New York City from a height of more than 200 m while taking a lunch break on a steel beam.
religion
- 440 : Pope Leo the Great takes office as Patriarch of Rome.
- 855 : After his release from the prison of the antipope Anastasius III. becomes Benedict III. the Pope consecrated.
- 1015 : Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim consecrates the completed Michaeliskirche in Hildesheim . The construction of the church probably started in 1010 .
- 1179 : Lando von Sezze is named Innocent III. Antipope to Pope Alexander III.
- 1227 : Pope Gregory IX. occupied Emperor Frederick II. with excommunication .
- 1850 : In the circumscription bull Universalis Ecclesiae , Pope Pius IX. the restoration of the structure of the Roman Catholic Church in the British Isles and Gibraltar.
- 1907 : In the presence of US President Theodore Roosevelt is foundation for the Washington National Cathedral set.
- 1945 : With the Evangelical Academy Bad Boll , the first church academy in Germany is founded by Regional Bishop Theophil Wurm and Pastor Eberhard Müller .
- 1961 : In the Apostolic Letter Il religioso convegno Pope John XXIII. highlights the importance of the rosary for peace among people.
- 1963 : The second session of the Second Vatican Council is held by Pope Paul VI. opened. It lasts until December 4th .
- 1967 : Pope Paul VI. opens the first Synod of Bishops in Rome . The body had only been established two years earlier during the Second Vatican Council by the Motu Proprio Apostolica sollicitudo .
- 2004 : Kurt Krenn , Bishop of Sankt Pölten criticized for the events in the seminary of his diocese , announces his resignation to the Austrian daily Der Standard at the request of Pope John Paul II .
Disasters
- 1957 : When a tank for radioactive waste explodes in the Soviet Mayak nuclear power plant , large amounts of radioactive substances are released. The Kyshtym accident is one of the worst nuclear accidents in history.
- 2006 : Gol Transportes Aéreos flight collides with a business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso . The latter can make an emergency landing, but the Boeing 737 crashes, killing 154 people.
- 2009 : A severe earthquake in the Pacific with a moment magnitude of 8.0 M w leads to a tsunami on the Samoan islands that kills over 100 people in Samoa and American Samoa .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1874 : The first soccer game in Germany is played by students from the Martino-Katharineum grammar school in Braunschweig under the direction of Konrad Koch and August Hermann on the grounds of the "small parade ground". This game marked the birth of football on mainland Europe.
- 1887 : Foundation of SC Germania from 1887 , a predecessor of Hamburger SV . This date is given by the HSV as the official founding date of the club.
- 1908 : The German Emanuel Lasker defends the world title in chess with a victory with 10.5–5.5 points against his compatriot Siegbert Tarrasch .
- 1963 : Helga Steudel is the first woman to win the motorway spider race in the 125 cm³ class on an RT 125 .
- 1977 : Muhammad Ali defends his world heavyweight boxing title against Earnie Shavers in New York's Madison Square Garden by winning on points.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 17th century
Pompey Magnus
(* 106 BC)
Joan of Kent
(* 1328)
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (* 1571)
- 106 BC BC : Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , Roman general and politician
- 1227 : Gertrud von Altenberg , Catholic Blessed and Premonstratensian
- 1276 : Christopher II , King of Denmark
- 1305 : Heinrich XIV. , Duke of Lower Bavaria
- 1328 : Joan of Kent , British nobleman, wife of Edward of Woodstock, mother of King Richard II.
- 1374 : Heinrich II. , Count of Nassau-Beilstein
- 1388 : Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence , prince of the English royal family
- 1402 : Ferdinand von Avis , Prince (Infante) of Portugal
- 1420 : Michael Beheim , German master singer
- 1455 : Gabriel von Eyb , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1463 : Ludwig I. von Löwenstein , German nobleman, imperial count, progenitor of the house Löwenstein-Wertheim
- 1518 : Jacopo Tintoretto , Italian painter
- 1547 : Miguel de Cervantes , Spanish author ( Don Quixote )
- 1548 : Wilhelm V , Duke of Bavaria
- 1559 : Balthasar von Ahlefeldt , royal councilor and magistrate of Flensburg and Rendsburg, master of Kollmar, Drage and Heiligenstedten
- 1571 : Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio , Italian painter
- 1574 : Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of Lennox , Scottish nobleman
- 1583 : Johann VIII. , Count of Nassau-Siegen
17th century
- 1602 : Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland , English peer and politician
- 1611 : Johann Heinrich Hummel , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1612 : Michael Behm , German Protestant theologian
- 1617 : Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
- 1624 : Anna Persauter , victim of the witch hunt in Saulgau
- 1631 : Johann Heinrich Roos , German painter
- 1632 : George III. , paraged Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1637 : Joachim Ernst von Grumbkow , Brandenburg politician
- 1640 : Antoine Coysevox , French sculptor
- 1644 : Wilhelm von Brandt , lieutenant general in Brandenburg-Prussia
- 1655 : Johann Ferdinand von Auersperg , Prince of Auersperg and Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
- 1658 : Detlev Siegfried von Ahlefeldt , Lord of Brodau and Royal District Administrator
- 1659 : Johann Jänichen , German educator and poet
- 1660 : Georg Wilhelm I of Liegnitz-Brieg-Wohlau , the last legitimate male descendant of the Silesian Piast family
- 1674 : Jacques-Martin Hotteterre , French composer and flautist
- 1676 : Pietro Maria Pieri , Italian cardinal
- 1678 : Adrien-Maurice de Noailles , Marshal of France
- 1680 : Luise Dorothea Sophie von Brandenburg , Margravine of Brandenburg
- 1680 : Christian Friedrich Hunold , German author
- 1700 : Caroline von Erbach-Fürstenau , Duchess and Regent of Saxony-Hildburghausen
18th century
Horatio Nelson
(* 1758)
Charlotte Auguste of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
(* 1766)
- 1703 : François Boucher , French painter
- 1710 : Johann Andreas Michael Nagel , German Hebrew and Orientalist
- 1714 : Johann Joachim Schwabe , German scholar, librarian, philosopher and translator
- 1718 : Nikita Ivanovich Panin , Russian Foreign Minister
- 1725 : Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive , British politician
- 1735 : James Keir , Scottish chemist and industrialist
- 1743 : Antonio Cagnoli , Italian astronomer
- 1746 : Ernst Ludwig Gerber , German composer
- 1753 : Johann Gottfriedschicht , German composer, Gewandhauskapellmeister and Thomaskantor
- 1754 : Giuseppe Antonio Mainoni , French general
- 1754 : Theodor Gotthold Thienemann , German Lutheran theologian
- 1758 : Horatio Nelson , British admiral
- 1765 : Karl Ludwig Harding , German astronomer
- 1766 : Charlotte Auguste of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover , Queen of Württemberg
- 1766 : Louise Humann , friend of the founder of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Sion
- 1779 : Frederik Meltzer , Norwegian businessman and politician
- 1782 : Heinrich Ernst von Hoff , German officer and civil servant
- 1784 : Karl Friedrich Nebenius , Baden statesman
- 1786 : Guadalupe Victoria , Mexican statesman
- 1787 : Johanna Neumann , German author
- 1789 : Peter Joseph Lenné , German gardener and landscape architect
- 1794 : Rose de Freycinet , wife of the French explorer Louis de Freycinet
- 1797 : Melchior Schlumpf , Swiss Jesuit and educator
19th century
- 1801 : Heinrich Leonhard von Arnim-Heinrichsdorf , German politician
- 1806 : Friedrich Feuerbach , German philosopher
- 1810 : Hugh Allan , Scottish-Canadian banker, shipowner and railroad magnate
- 1810 : Elizabeth Gaskell , British writer
- 1815 : Andreas Achenbach , German landscape painter
- 1818 : Nathaniel B. Baker , American politician
- 1820 : Henry V , legitimist pretender to the throne of France
- 1820 : Johan Andersson , Swedish bishop
- 1832 : Antonio Smith , Chilean landscape painter
- 1837 : Michał Bałucki , Polish writer
- 1843 : Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Skobelew , Russian general
- 1844 : Miguel Juárez Celman , Argentine President
- 1849 : Franz von Arenberg , German diplomat and politician
- 1851 : Auguste Eichhorn , German women's rights activist and socialist
- 1852 : Lewis Dewart Apsley , American politician
- 1853 : Thyra of Denmark , Princess of Denmark, Crown Princess of Hanover
- 1858 : Leopoldo Mugnone , Italian conductor and composer
- 1860 : Michael Haberlandt , Austrian folklorist
- 1861 : Carl Duisberg , German chemist and industrialist
- 1863 : Hugo Haase , German lawyer, politician and pacifist
- 1863 : Lennart Arvid Lundberg , Swedish pianist, composer and music teacher
- 1866 : Georg von Arnswaldt , German forester and conservationist
- 1866 : JE Casely Hayford , Ghanaian politician and writer
- 1867 : Walther Rathenau , German politician
- 1868 : Theodor von Hassel , German officer and farmer
- 1869 : Bertram Armytage , Australian cavalry officer and polar explorer
- 1869 : Miguel Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican composer
- 1869 : Edward Theodore England , American politician
- 1869 : Gustav Mie , German physicist
- 1870 : Anna Christina Witmond-Berkhout , Dutch writer
- 1871 : Georg Dittmann , German classical philologist
- 1873 : František Balej , Czech lawyer, translator and humanistic philosopher
- 1874 : Margarethe Steinhäuser , member of the state parliament of Hessen
- 1879 : Willem Willeke , Dutch-American cellist, pianist and music teacher
- 1880 : Liberato Ribeiro Pinto , Portuguese military and politician, Prime Minister
- 1881 : Ludwig von Mises , Austrian-American economist
- 1882 : Julius Adler , German lawyer
- 1882 : Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland , last Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- 1882 : Suzuki Miekichi , Japanese novelist and children's book author
- 1883 : Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven , Austrian art historian and state librarian
- 1884 : Wilhelm Bendow , German actor and comedian
- 1887 : Rosalie Zull , Austrian politician
- 1889 : Matilde Hidalgo , Ecuadorian doctor, politician and women's rights activist
- 1890 : Ahmad Kasravi , Iranian linguist, historian and philosopher
- 1892 : Georg Dewald , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1893 : Harald Abatz , German politician
- 1893 : Charlotte Woerner , German writer
- 1894 : Ernesto Ambrosini , Italian athlete
- 1894 : Franco Capuana , Italian conductor and composer
- 1894 : Elizabeth of Romania , Queen of Greece
- 1895 : Clarence Ashley , American old-time and folk singer
- 1899 : László József Bíró , Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen
- 1900 : Karl Fitzkow , German writer, monument protector and local researcher
- 1900 : Auguste van Pels , German-Dutch victim of the Holocaust
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Enrico Fermi , Italian nuclear physicist
- 1902 : Mikel Koliqi , Albanian Roman Catholic Cardinal
- 1904 : Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz , German diplomat
- 1904 : Egon Eiermann , German modernist architect and furniture designer
- 1904 : Greer Garson , British film actress
- 1905 : Josef Konrad Scheuber , Swiss clergyman and youth and folk writer
- 1906 : Charles Wolcott , American music director, composer, and film composer
- 1907 : Gene Autry , American country musician and actor
- 1907 : Helmut Lemke , German politician, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1908 : Marin Goleminov , Bulgarian composer
- 1908 : Eddie Tolan , American sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1909 : Bernhard Timm , German industrial manager (BASF)
- 1910 : Virginia Bruce , American actress and singer
- 1910 : Aldo Donati , Italian football player
- 1910 : Paule Maurice , French composer
- 1911 : Takakichi Asō , Japanese entrepreneur and politician
- 1912 : Lukas Ammann , Swiss actor
- 1912 : Michelangelo Antonioni , Italian film director
- 1913 : Ramón de Garciasol , Spanish writer
- 1913 : Trevor Howard , English theater and film actor
- 1913 : Stanley Kramer , American film director
- 1913 : Silvio Piola , Italian football player
- 1914 : Jean Laroche , French racing car driver
- 1914 : Anna Martina Gottschick , German publisher and church song writer
- 1915 : Barbara Kostrzewska , Polish singer and music teacher
- 1915 : Michaela Krinner , German painter of magical realism
- 1915 : Elfriede Kuzmany , Austrian actress
- 1915 : Brenda Marshall , American actress
- 1916 : Senta Foltin , Austrian actress
- 1916 : Eva Frodl-Kraft , Austrian art historian and monument conservator
- 1916 : Minao Shibata , Japanese composer
- 1916 : Josef Traxel , German tenor
- 1917 : Christoph Barth , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1918 : Nancy Roper , English nursing scientist
- 1919 : Margot Hielscher , German singer and actress
- 1920 : Peter D. Mitchell , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1920 : Václav Neumann , Czech conductor
- 1920 : Nelson Wesley Trout , American Lutheran bishop
- 1921 : Franny Beecher , American musician
- 1921 : Wolfgang Mischnick , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister for Expellees
- 1922 : Karl-Heinz Köpcke , German news anchor
- 1922 : Lizabeth Scott , American actress
- 1923 : Roland Gööck , German writer and editor
- 1923 : Helli Servi , Austrian actress
- 1924 : Marina Berti , Italian actress
- 1924 : Esther Brand , South African high jumper
- 1924 : Helga Raumer , German actress
- 1925 : Oskar Anweiler , German educationalist
- 1925 : John Tower , American politician
1926-1950
- 1926 : Tony Echavarría , Dominican singer and cabaret artist
- 1926 : Alfred Nann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1927 : Sherwood Johnston , American racing car driver
- 1927 : Elizabeth Peters , American crime novelist
- 1927 : Adhemar Ferreira da Silva , Brazilian athlete
- 1928 : Mihály Lantos , Hungarian football player
- 1928 : Stanisław Manturzewski , Polish actor, screenwriter and director
- 1928 : Gerhard Stoltenberg , German politician, Prime Minister, Federal Minister
- 1929 : Rolf Kühn , German musician and jazz clarinetist
- 1929 : Walter Hornstein , German sociologist and educationalist
- 1929 : Hans Wyprächtiger , Swiss actor
- 1930 : Colin Dexter , British crime novel writer
- 1931 : James Cronin , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1931 : Anita Ekberg , Swedish actress
- 1931 : Huschmand Sabet , German-Persian entrepreneur
- 1932 : Robert Benton , American director
- 1932 : Thomas Kenner , Austrian doctor and university professor
- 1932 : Eva Szepesi , Hungarian Holocaust survivor
- 1935 : Mylène Demongeot , French actress
- 1935 : Jerry Lee Lewis , American musician
- 1935 : Gigi Martin , German writer
- 1935 : Ingrid Noll , German writer
- 1936 : Silvio Berlusconi , Italian politician and entrepreneur
- 1937 : Marlo Morgan , American author and doctor
- 1937 : Nina Wang , Chinese entrepreneur
- 1938 : Günther Beelitz , German theater director
- 1938 : Wim Kok , Dutch politician
- 1938 : Doris Langer , German athlete
- 1939 : Fikret Abdić , Bosnian politician
- 1939 : Tommy Boyce , American singer and songwriter
- 1939 : Helga Kneidl , German photographer
- 1939 : Rhodri Morgan , Welsh politician
- 1939 : Werner Pochath , Austrian actor
- 1941 : Georg-Dieter von Holtzbrinck , German publisher
- 1941 : Glenys Linos , Greek opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
- 1941 : Gaston Salvatore , German-speaking Chilean writer
- 1941 : Jutta Stöck , German athlete
- 1942 : Felice Gimondi , Italian racing cyclist
- 1942 : Madeline Kahn , American actress
- 1942 : Jean-Luc Ponty , French musician
- 1943 : Holk Freytag , German theater director
- 1943 : Michaela Geiger , German politician, Vice-President of the Bundestag
- 1943 : Wolfgang Overath , German footballer
- 1943 : Lech Wałęsa , Polish politician
- 1943 : Theo Windges , German artist
- 1944 : Anne Briggs , English folk singer
- 1944 : Lerke Osterloh , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1944 : Doris Schlosser , German marathon runner
- 1945 : Michael Bella , German soccer player
- 1945 : Renato Mastropietro , Italian racing car driver
- 1945 : Marianne Mendt , Austrian singer
- 1945 : Nadezhda Tschischowa , Russian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1946 : Søren Asmussen , Danish mathematician and university professor
- 1946 : Monika Schwalm , German politician
- 1948 : Mark Farner , American guitarist and songwriter
- 1948 : Theo Jörgensmann , German jazz clarinetist
- 1949 : Toni Mang , German motorcycle racer
- 1949 : Sverre Erik Jebens , Norwegian lawyer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Michelle Bachelet , Chilean politician, president
- 1951 : Maureen Caird , Australian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1951 : Jutta Ditfurth , German social scientist, journalist and politician
- 1952 : Ross Daly , world musician and multi-instrumentalist of Irish origin
- 1952 : Monika Zehren , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1952 : Lonzo Westphal , German musician
- 1953 : Jean-Claude Lauzon , Canadian director
- 1954 : Joachim Boldt , German anesthesiologist
- 1954 : Mojib Latif , German meteorologist and climate researcher
- 1954 : Debbie Shapiro , American actress and singer
- 1955 : Ann Bancroft , American polar explorer
- 1956 : Sebastian Coe , British athlete and politician
- 1957 : Craig Lefferts , German-American baseball player
- 1957 : Harald Schmid , German athlete
- 1958 : Karen Young , American actress
- 1959 : Carlos Cardús , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1959 : Raf , Italian singer and songwriter
- 1960 : Chris Bauer , American jazz harmonica player
- 1961 : Julia Gillard , Australian politician
- 1961 : Dagmar H. Mueller , German author of children's and youth literature
- 1961 : Tom Sizemore , American actor
- 1962 : Michael Hornstein , German saxophonist and composer
- 1963 : Dave Andreychuk , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 : Arvydas Anušauskas , Lithuanian historian and politician
- 1963 : Les Claypool , American musician
- 1963 : Jaroslav Mostecký , Czech writer of science fiction and fantasy literature
- 1963 : Kathrin Vogler , German politician
- 1964 : Enrique Aguerre , Uruguayan video director and artist
- 1964 : Petros Tabouris , Greek composer, musician and musicologist
- 1965 : Akram Assem , Afghan historian and writer
- 1966 : Jürgen Hartz , German handball player
- 1967 : Yūichi Akasaka , Japanese short tracker
- 1967 : Brett Anderson , English singer and songwriter
- 1968 : Alex Skolnick , American jazz and rock guitarist
- 1969 : Jon Auer , American musician
- 1969 : Nico Brina , Swiss boogie woogie, blues and rock 'n' roll pianist and singer
- 1969 : Erika Eleniak , American actress
- 1969 : Jürgen Oelschläger , German motorcycle racer
- 1969 : Ivica Vastić , Austrian football player
- 1970 : Torsten Abeln , German soccer player
- 1970 : Emily Lloyd , British actress
- 1971 : Torch , German hip-hop musician
- 1971 : Sibel Tüzün , Turkish singer
- 1972 : Arnold Atienza , Filipino athlete, politician and news anchor
- 1972 : Oliver Gavin , British racing car driver
- 1973 : Laila Lamoh , German singer and composer
- 1975 : Abdullah al-Wakid , Saudi Arabian soccer player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Mark Edusei , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1976 : Mandy Kerkossa , German handball player
- 1976 : Andrij Shevchenko , Ukrainian football player
- 1977 : Heath Bell , American baseball player
- 1977 : Marcus Matthias Keupp , Swiss artist
- 1977 : Kerstin Stegemann , German soccer player
- 1978 : Martin Goldenbaum , German musician, singer and songwriter
- 1978 : Jannick Green Krejberg , Danish handball player
- 1978 : Kurt Nilsen , Norwegian singer
- 1979 : Orhan Ak , Turkish soccer player
- 1980 : Zachary Levi , American actor
- 1980 : Emily Lima , Brazilian soccer coach
- 1980 : Josephine Schmidt , German actress and voice actress
- 1981 : Shay Astar , American actress and singer
- 1981 : Siyabonga Sangweni , South African soccer player
- 1981 : Shane Smeltz , New Zealand soccer player
- 1981 : Seth Stammler , American football player
- 1981 : Juliane Ziegler , German television presenter
- 1982 : Giancarlo Adami , Italian ski jumper
- 1982 : Rassul Boqijew , Tajik judoka
- 1983 : Matthias Mangiapane , German reality TV participant
- 1983 : Michael Ohnesorge , German soccer player
- 1983 : Alessio Sestu , Italian football player
- 1984 : Per Mertesacker , German soccer player
- 1984 : Rune Jarstein , Norwegian soccer player
- 1985 : Butterscotch , American musician
- 1985 : Niklas Moisander , Finnish soccer player
- 1985 : Dani Pedrosa , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1986 : Diego Ares , Brazilian road cyclist
- 1986 : İbrahim Koray Arslan , Turkish football player
- 1986 : Stefan Hula , Polish ski jumper
- 1986 : Isabel Mackensen , German politician
- 1986 : Grega Žemlja , Slovenian tennis player
- 1987 : Daniel Abalo Paulos , Spanish soccer player
- 1987 : Anaïs Demoustier , French actress
- 1987 : Jessica Houara , French soccer player
- 1987 : Peter Jungwirth , German handball player
- 1988 : Kevin Durant , American basketball player
- 1989 : Matt Campbell , Canadian darts player
- 1990 : Tierra Abbott , American actress and stunt woman
- 1990 : Doug Brochu , American actor and comedian
- 1990 : Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir , Icelandic football player
- 1990 : JV Horto , Brazilian racing car driver
- 1991 : Rufat Dadashov , Azerbaijani football player
- 1991 : Martin Jensen , Danish DJ and music producer
- 1992 : Leonie Maier , German soccer player
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Halsey (* 1994)
- 1994 : Halsey , American singer
- 1996 : Victorien Angban , Ivorian football player
- 1998 : Okan Erdoğan , German soccer player
- 1998 : Jordan Lotomba , Swiss football player
- 2000 : Amy Baserga , Swiss biathlete
Died
Before the 16th century
- 716 : Ceolfrid , Abbot of Jarrow, saint
- 791 : Simpert , Bishop of Regensburg
- 794 : Berowelf , Bishop of Würzburg
- 855 : Hartgar , Bishop of Liège
- 855 : Lothar I , Roman emperor
- 866 : Charles the child , West Franconian sub-king
- 1089 : Theobald III. of Blois , Count of Blois
- 1150 : Robert de Sigillo , English Lord Chancellor and Bishop of London
- 1163 : Sigurd Sigurdsson Markusfostre , Norwegian counter-king
- 1186 : William of Tire , Archbishop of Tire
- 1225 : Arnold Amalrich , French monk
- 1268 : John of Burgundy , French nobleman, Count of Charolais and Lord of Bourbon
- 1277 : Balian of Arsuf , lord of Arsuf, constable of Jerusalem, Bailli of Jerusalem
- 1288 : Mathilde of Brabant , Countess of Artois and Saint-Pol
- 1304 : Agnes of Brandenburg , Queen of Denmark
- 1312 : Berthold I von Henneberg , Bishop of Würzburg
- 1312 : Johann I , Lord of Limburg
- 1318 : Imagina of Limburg , Roman-German queen
- 1349 : Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell , English noblewoman
- 1355 : Matteo II Visconti , ruler of Bologna, Lodi, Piacenza and Parma
- 1360 : Jeanne I , Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne and Queen of France
- 1364 : Charles of Blois , Duke of Brittany
- 1366 : Walram II , Count of Zweibrücken and governor in Lorraine
- 1379 : Eberhard von Brandis , Abbot of Reichenau
- 1427 : Augustin , auxiliary bishop in Meißen
- 1432 : Antoine de Toulongeon , French nobleman, governor general of Burgundy
- 1445 : Augustin , auxiliary bishop of Meissen
- 1469 : Humphrey Neville , English knight
- 1492 : Domenico Gagini , Lombard sculptor
- 1494 : Angelo Poliziano , Italian humanist and poet
16th to 18th century
- 1506 : Juan de Castro , Italian cardinal
- 1512 : Johannes Engel , Bavarian physician, astronomer / astrologer, physicist and mathematician
- 1530 : Andrea del Sarto , Italian painter
- 1537 : Jürgen Wullenwever , Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- 1555 : Kara Ahmed Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1560 : Gustav I. Wasa , Swedish king
- 1596 : Margaret Clifford, Countess of Derby , English nobleman
- 1616 : Karl Ludwig zu Sulz , Imperial Feldzeugmeister and President of the Court War Council
- 1627 : Johannes Acronius , East Frisian theologian
- 1642 : William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby , English nobleman
- 1672 : Johannes Müller , German theologian
- 1703 : Charles de Saint-Évremond , French military, writer and moralist
- 1713 : Jakob van Oost the Younger , Flemish painter
- 1735 : Helena Sibylla Moller , German scholar
- 1760 : Johann Heumann von Teutschenbrunn , German legal historian and diplomat
- 1766 : Caspar Bernet , Swiss mayor
- 1785 : Jakob Gujer , Swiss farmer and agricultural reformer
- 1788 : Johann Andreas Michael Nagel , German Hebrew and Orientalist
- 1800 : Michael Denis , Austrian writer, translator and zoologist
19th century
- 1809 : Claude-François Achard , French Romanist and Provençalist
- 1809 : Alexander Wilhelm von Arnim , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1829 : Karl August Weinhold , German medic
- 1833 : Ferdinand VII , King of Spain
- 1834 : Friedrich , Duke of Saxony-Hildburghausen and Saxony-Altenburg
- 1839 : Friedrich Mohs , German mineralogist
- 1847 : Anton Gottfried Claessen , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1853 : Johann Christian Zimmermann , German upper mountain ridge and planner of the Ernst-August-Stollen
- 1854 : Armand-Jacques-Achille Leroy de Saint-Arnaud , French general and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1864 : Carl Wilhelm Asher , German lawyer and publicist
- 1869 : James PT Carter , American politician
- 1874 : Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen , Württemberg teacher, musician and composer
- 1877 : Thomas Jean Arbousset , French missionary
- 1881 : Jakob Løkke , Norwegian philologist and textbook author
- 1887 : Bernhard von Langenbeck , German surgeon, co-founder of the German Society for Surgery
- 1890 : Alphonse Karr , French journalist, writer and satirist
- 1900 : Rudolf Gottfried Arndt , German psychiatrist and university professor
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Émile Zola , French writer and journalist
- 1904 : Hugo Knorr , German painter
- 1904 : Friedrich Eduard Krichauff , German-Australian botanist and politician
- 1908 : Machado de Assis , Brazilian author
- 1908 : Wilhelm Reiss , German explorer and volcanologist
- 1911 : Julius von Michel , German ophthalmologist
- 1912 : Franz Skutsch , German classical philologist
- 1913 : Rudolf Diesel , German engineer and inventor
- 1915 : Luther Orlando Emerson , American composer
- 1915 : Rudi Stephan , German composer
- 1923 : Juan Bautista Espínola Reyes , Dominican musician and composer
- 1923 : Benno Jaffé , German chemist, industrialist and local politician
- 1923 : Walther Penck , German geoscientist
- 1923 : Anton Cyril Stojan , Archbishop of Olomouc
- 1924 : Willy Bardas , Austrian pianist and music teacher
- 1925 : Léon Bourgeois , first President of the League of Nations and Nobel Prize winner
- 1926 : Hans Wessely , Austrian violinist and music teacher
- 1927 : Arthur Achleitner , German writer
- 1928 : Ludwig Pastor , German-Austrian historian
- 1930 : Ilya Repin , Russian painter
- 1937 : Ray Ewry , American athlete and Olympic champion
- 1941 : Felipe Agoncillo , Filipino lawyer and diplomat
- 1941 : Vilmos Aba-Novák , Hungarian painter
- 1941 : Friedrich Engel , German mathematician
- 1942 : Ida Dehmel , German poet and women's rights activist
- 1944 : Wilhelm Leuschner , German trade unionist, politician, MdR and resistance fighter
- 1944 : Wilhelm Graf zu Lynar , German officer, participant in the attempted coup of July 20, 1944
- 1947 : Johannes Oscar Schubert , German mathematician, physicist, geodesist and meteorologist
- 1950 : Duarte Leite Pereira da Silva , Portuguese historian and journalist, diplomat and head of government
1951-2000
- 1951 : William MacKey , American racing car driver
- 1953 : Ernst Eschmann , Swiss writer
- 1953 : Ernst Reuter , German politician and local scientist, Lord Mayor of West Berlin
- 1954 : Alexander Abascheli , Georgian-Soviet poet
- 1955 : Johann Jakob Ammann , Austrian politician
- 1956 : Anastasio Somoza García , President and dictator of Nicaragua
- 1959 : Matthäus Herrmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1960 : Franz Arnold , German playwright
- 1960 : Paul Häberlin , Swiss philosopher, psychologist and educator
- 1967 : Carson McCullers , American writer
- 1968 : Paul Radmilovic , British water polo player and swimmer
- 1970 : Hans Aufricht-Ruda , German-American writer and psychotherapist
- 1971 : Walter Bartram , German politician, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1973 : Wystan Hugh Auden , British writer
- 1976 : Nikolaos Pantelis Andriotis , Greek linguist and neo-Greekist
- 1977 : Hans Habe , German journalist, writer and screenwriter
- 1977 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Tscherepnin , Russian composer
- 1979 : Francisco Macías Nguema , first President of Equatorial Guinea
- 1982 : Franz Seume , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1983 : Pierre Arraut , French politician
- 1986 : Helmut Qualtinger , Austrian actor and writer, cabaret artist and reciter
- 1987 : Henry Ford II , American entrepreneur, President of the Ford Motor Company
- 1988 : Charles Samuel Addams , American cartoonist
- 1990 : Volodymyr Malanczuk , Ukrainian bishop
- 1995 : Gerd Bucerius , German publisher and politician
- 1997 : Roy Lichtenstein , American teacher and pop art artist
- 1997 : Fyodor Sakharovich Sakharov , Russian-Ukrainian painter
- 1998 : Mario Cavagnaro , Peruvian singer-songwriter
- 1999 : Johannes Gross , German journalist and correspondent, editor-in-chief and publisher
21st century
- 2001 : Andrzej Szewczyk , Polish painter and sculptor
- 2002 : Hans-Georg Stümke , historian and publicist, co-founder of the German gay movement after the Second World War
- 2003 : Wesley Tuttle , American country musician
- 2004 : Alberto Camenzind , Swiss architect
- 2004 : August Lang , German politician, Minister of Bavaria
- 2004 : Christer Pettersson , Swedish petty criminal, prime suspect in the murder of Olof Palme
- 2004 : Richard Sainct , three-time winner of the Paris-Dakar rally on a motorcycle
- 2004 : Thure von Uexküll , German doctor
- 2004 : Heinz Wallberg , German conductor
- 2004 : Antje Weisgerber , German actress
- 2005 : Ivar Karl Ugi , German-Estonian chemist
- 2005 : Rolf Winter , German journalist
- 2006 : Jan Werner Danielsen , Norwegian singer
- 2006 : Louis-Albert Vachon , Canadian theologian, Archbishop of Quebec and Cardinal
- 2007 : Lois Maxwell , Canadian actress
- 2007 : Gyula Zsivótzky , Hungarian athlete and Olympic champion
- 2008 : Joachim Goldbach , German Colonel General
- 2009 : Pavel Popovich , Soviet cosmonaut
- 2010 : Tony Curtis , American film actor
- 2011 : Hella Haasse , Dutch writer
- 2011 : Wolfgang Stribrny , German historian
- 2012 : Edgar Külow , German cabaret artist, actor, voice actor and author
- 2012 : Arthur Ochs Sulzberger , American newspaper publisher
- 2013 : LC Greenwood , American football player
- 2013 : Yamasaki Toyoko , Japanese writer
- 2014 : Cláudia Sousa , Portuguese biologist and primatologist
- 2015 : Hellmuth Karasek , German journalist, critic and writer
- 2015 : Phil Woods , American jazz musician
- 2017 : Lorenz Funk senior , German ice hockey player
- 2017 : Horst Schad , German soccer and tennis player
- 2018 : Otis Rush , American blues musician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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