3rd of April

The April 3 is the 93rd day of the Gregorian calendar (94th in leap years ), thus remain 272 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0013 : The Roman emperor Augustus completes his will and adds the report Res gestae divi Augusti for desired inscriptions .
• 1043 : The Anglo-Saxon Eduard the Confessors from the House of Wessex , who has been ruling since the previous year, is crowned King of England in the Minster of Winchester .
• 1254 : In the Treaty of Ofen , the Bohemian King Ottokar II Přemysl and the Hungarian King Béla IV agree on the division of the Duchy of Austria and the Duchy of Styria .
• 1367 : In the Battle of Nájera during the Hundred Years War , King Henry II of Castile, who outnumbered his Franco-Castilian army, was defeated by English troops under Sir John Chandos in an open field battle .

1559: Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis

• 1559 : The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis ends the Spanish-French War between Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain for supremacy in Europe. France must forego all of its war aims.

1661: Flag of the British East India Company

• 1661 : The British East India Company receives civil jurisdiction and military authority in India from King Charles II , where it is allowed to wage wars against "infidels" or to negotiate peace agreements.
• 1764 : The Habsburg Joseph II is crowned Roman-German king in Frankfurt am Main .
• 1811 : In the battle of Sabugal , English and Portuguese troops prevail against the French army, forcing the Napoleonic invaders to leave Portugal for good .

1833: Frankfurt Wachensturm

• 1833 : 50 insurgents under Gustav Bunsen , Gustav Körner and Theodor Engelmann attempt to storm the Hauptwache and Konstablerwache in Frankfurt am Main in order to free journalists imprisoned there. With the suppression of the Frankfurt guard storm , the attempt at an all-German revolutionary uprising fails for the time being.

1849: The Imperial Deputation

• 1849 : The Imperial Deputation of the Frankfurt National Assembly offers the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV the German Imperial Crown in pursuit of the Little German solution . With his rejection of the diadem of dirt and Latvians , German unification “from below” fails, as does the German Revolution of 1848/1849 .
• 1865 : Northern troops capture Richmond , Virginia , the capital of the Confederate States of America , in the American Civil War .
• 1913 : The suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst is sentenced to three years imprisonment for a bomb attack on the country house of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George .
• 1919 : The Republic of German Austria abolishes the nobility , secular orders and numerous titles from the time of the monarchy with the Nobility Repeal Act . At the same time, the law on the relocation and the takeover of the property of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen is passed .
• 1922 : Josef Stalin is elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia .
• 1940 : On an order from the Politburo of the CPSU , units of the Soviet Interior Ministry NKVD begin killing thousands of Polish officers and intellectuals after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland . The massacre in Katyn and other cities will last until May 22nd.
• 1945 : Soviet troops under Fyodor Ivanovich Tolbuchin reach the city of Baden during World War II and begin to encircle Vienna in a pincer movement. The battle for Alland opened the battle for Vienna the very next day .
• 1946 : Homma Masaharu , a Japanese commanding officer who ordered the Bataan death march after the conquest of the Philippines in 1942 , is executed.

1948: George C. Marshall

• 1948 : US President Harry S. Truman signs the European Recovery Program developed by Secretary of State George C. Marshall for the reconstruction of Western Europe after the Second World War . The program gets the popular name Marshall Plan after its developer .
• 1948 : An uprising breaks out on the South Korean island of Jeju , which is suppressed by the police and the army. Up to 30,000 people died in this conflict by May 1949.
• 1949 : As the third state after the Kingdom of Egypt and Lebanon, Jordan signs a ceasefire agreement with Israel after the war in Palestine . A peace treaty between these two countries only followed on July 25, 1994 .
• 1982 : 24 hours after Argentine forces landed in the Falkland Islands, the British House of Commons approves military recapture measures .
• 1984 : Just seven days after taking office as interim president of Guinea , Louis Lansana Béavogui is overthrown in a military coup. Colonel Lansana Conté becomes head of state, Colonel Diarra Traoré becomes head of government.

1991: Flag of Sao Tome and Principe

• 1991 : Miguel Trovoada takes office as the first freely elected head of state of the African island state of São Tomé and Príncipe .
• 1992 : Ramiz Alia resigns as the last communist head of state of Albania .
• 2002 : Egypt's President Husni Mubarak partially freezes relations with Israel in response to the targeted killing of Palestinian leaders by the Israeli army .
• 2004 : In the Madrid suburb of Leganés there is an exchange of fire between the Spanish police and the alleged perpetrators of the Madrid train attacks on March 11th. The wanted eventually blow themselves up.

economy

1860: The Pony Express

• 1860 : On the initiative of William Hepburn Russell , the Pony Express for mail delivery starts operating in the USA . The company turns into a financial disaster, but becomes a national myth .

1885: Grandfather clock motor

• 1885 : Gottlieb Daimler receives an imperial patent for the grandfather clock engine he invented . It powers the first petrol-engine motorcycle that was developed , the so-called riding car .
• 1926 : Honduras introduced the Lempira as currency by decree to replace the Peso da Plata . The first coins were put into circulation in 1931.
• 1929 : In Germany the patent for the Hellschreiber becomes valid, a teleprinter invented by Rudolf Hell .

science and technology

• 1913 : The turbine steamer Vaterland is launched in Hamburg as the largest passenger ship in the world.
• 1966 : With the Soviet space probe Luna 10 , a satellite swings into orbit around the moon for the first time . The Soviet Union thus continues to have an advantage over the USA in the “ space race ”.
• 2007 : A converted TGV high-speed train , the V150 , reaches 574.8 km / h on the Strasbourg – Paris route, setting a new speed record for wheeled rail vehicles that was previously held by the TGV Atlantique .

2008: ATV-1 "Jules Verne" approaching the ISS

• 2008 : The ATV -1 "Jules Verne" successfully carries out a fully automatic rendezvous and docking maneuver at the ISS for the first time .

Culture

• 1831 : The tragedy of the sea ​​and the waves of love by Franz Grillparzer has its world premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna .
• 1867 : The opera La Grand 'Tante by Jules Massenet is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .

1897: motto of the Vienna Secessionists

• 1897 : Gustav Klimt , Koloman Moser , Josef Hoffmann , Joseph Maria Olbrich , Max Kurzweil , Josef Engelhart , Ernst Stöhr , Wilhelm List and other artists found the Vienna Secession as a spin-off from the Wiener Künstlerhaus . You are turning against the conservatism and traditional concept of art that prevail there .
• 1925 : The Opera At the Boars' Head of Gustav Holst will be premiered in Manchester.
• 1929 : The play Die Schwärmer , long considered unplayable , for which the author Robert Musil was honored with the Kleist Prize in 1923 , is premiered in Berlin. The director shortens the piece in such a way that Musil distances himself from it.

1937: Poster for the premiere of the Polish Wedding

• 1937 : The world premiere of the operetta Polish Wedding by Joseph Beer based on the libretto by Fritz Löhner-Beda and Alfred Grünwald takes place at the Zurich Opera House . The critics were unanimously enthusiastic, the work became the high point of Beer's career.
• 1957 : Samuel Beckett's play Fin de partie ( Endgame ) premieres in its original French version at the Royal Court Theater in London.
• 1968 : The operetta Drottningen av Golconda ( The Queen of Golconda ) by Franz Berwald has its world premiere at the Royal Theater in Stockholm.
• 1976 : The Palais des congrès de Paris , the first award of the French finds Film Award César place
• 2001 : The ZDF radiates the first episode of the magazine Frontal21 from, the successor of frontal and registration D .

society

1882: Jesse James' house where he was shot

• 1882 : Former head of the James Younger Gang , Jesse James , was shot from behind by Robert Ford , a member of his gang, for a $ 5,000 reward while hanging a picture in his home in St. Joseph, Missouri .
• 1936 : Bruno Hauptmann , convicted of the kidnapping and murder of the almost two-year-old Charles Lindbergh III , is executed on the electric chair . To this day there are doubts about his guilt.
• 1996 : The as Unabomber known letter bombs -Attentäter Theodore Kaczynski is in Montana from the FBI arrested.

religion

• 1212 : 16 days after Clare of Assisi took her vow, Agnes of Assisi follows the example of her sister and lives as a nun according to the rules of the Poor Clares in the convent of San Damiano .

Disasters

• 1881 : The earthquake in Chios in 1881 shakes the island of Chios and almost completely destroys the island capital of the same name. The island was not repopulated until 1911.
• 1884 : At the entrance to the port of Halifax , the Belgian passenger ship Daniel Steinmann is thrown against the rocks of a reef three times in a storm and sinks (121 dead).
• 1944 : A firedamp explosion in the Sachsen colliery kills 169 miners in Heessen, Westphalia .

1974: Super Outbreak

• 1974 : During the Super Outbreak , a total of 148 tornadoes raged in 13 US states in the South and Midwest today and on the following day . The disaster claims 315 lives and approximately $ 600 million in property damage.

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

nature and environment

• 257 BC BC : Solar eclipse in southern Gaul and Tuscany
• 1916 : The Treysa meteorite hits northern Hesse. It is one of the largest meteorites that fell in Germany .

Sports

• 1896 : 3 days before the beginning of the first modern Olympic Games, La Gazzetta dello Sport , edited by Eugenio Camillo Costamagna, appears in Italy for the first time . It is the oldest sports newspaper in the world.
• 1905 : In the Argentinean port of La Boca , a poor district of Buenos Aires , immigrants from Italy found the soccer club Boca Juniors .
• 1938 : The " follow-up game " between a German and an Austrian football team takes place in the Prater Stadium in Vienna .
• 1949 : In his first car race in Europe, the Argentine Juan Manuel Fangio makes people sit up and take notice by winning the Grand Prix in Sanremo .
• 1971 : At the Bundesliga match Borussia Mönchengladbach against Werder Bremen , the goal case collapses. Since no replacement can be found, the game is abandoned and rated as a victory for Bremen.
• 1975 : World chess champion Bobby Fischer refuses to play against Anatoli Karpov . The world chess federation FIDE then awarded him the world championship title .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1236 : Chungnyeol Wang , 25th king of the Korean Goryeo Empire

Philip III of France (* 1245)

• 1245 : Philip III. , French king
• 1437 : Pierre de Blarru , French canon, humanist
• 1439 : Ludwig II , Count of Württemberg-Urach
• 1542 : Othmar Reiner , Mayor of St. Gallen
• 1565 : Anna III. zu Stolberg , 30th abbess of the Imperial Monastery of Quedlinburg
• 1593 : George Herbert , English poet
• 1604 : Bodo von Hodenberg , German administrative officer and poet
• 1617 : Antimo Liberati , Italian music theorist, singer, organist, conductor and composer
• 1639 : Alessandro Stradella , Italian violinist, singer and composer
• 1642 : Johann Balthasar Burckhardt , Mayor of Basel
• 1643 : Charles V , Duke of Lorraine
• 1675 : Guillem Mesquida i Munar , Mallorcan painter
• 1682 : Valentin Rathgeber , German composer, organist and choir director of the Baroque era
• 1683 : Mark Catesby , English natural historian
• 1693 : John Harrison , British watchmaker and inventor

18th century

• 1708 : Antoine-Gaspard Boucher d'Argis , French lawyer and encyclopedist
• 1708 : Johann Georg Walther , German pedagogue, rhetorician and ethnologist
• 1721 : Franz Anton Knittel , German Protestant clergyman and paleographer
• 1725 : Johann Gottfried Reyger , last mayor of the Free City Republic of Danzig
• 1736 : Arthur St. Clair , British-American general in the Continental Army
• 1741 : Johann August Reichardt , German legal scholar
• 1751 : Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne , French composer
• 1753 : Jean-François Delacroix , French revolutionary
• 1757 : French Laurence , English judge and politician
• 1758 : Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez , Colombian journalist and librarian
• 1764 : John Abernethy , English surgeon and anatomist
• 1769 : Christian Günther von Bernstorff , Danish and Prussian statesman
• 1771 : Hans Nielsen Hauge , Norwegian messenger of faith
• 1771 : Johann Georg Heine , German doctor and orthopedic mechanic
• 1781 : Franz Anton von Neveu , German forest master and landowner
• 1783 : Joseph Ambrosius Geritz , Bishop of Warmia

Washington Irving (* 1783)

• 1783 : Washington Irving , American writer
• 1787 : Franz Reisinger , German surgeon and university professor
• 1795 : Anna Schödl , Bohemian patron
• 1798 : Charles Wilkes , American naval officer and polar explorer

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Ysaak Brons , German politician, businessman and shipowner, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• 1803 : Johann Jacob Weber , German bookseller and publisher
• 1807 : Jane Digby , mistress and wife of Medjuel el Mezrab
• 1808 : Franz Ferdinand Greiner , German inventor of the first industrially manufactured thermometer
• 1811 : Heinrich Sattler , German organist and publicist
• 1812 : Louise of Orléans , Princess of Orléans, Queen of Belgium
• 1814 : Louis Désiré Besozzi , French composer, organist and pianist
• 1814 : Lorenzo Snow , fifth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mathilde Franziska Anneke (* 1817)

• 1817 : Mathilde Franziska Anneke , German-American women's rights activist
• 1818 : Luther Whiting Mason , American music teacher
• 1819 : Jean Louis Borel , French general
• 1821 : Louis Lewandowski , German composer
• 1823 : William Tweed , American politician
• 1826 : Vincent Adler , Hungarian composer
• 1829 : Anton Friedrich von Tröltsch , German doctor and professor of ear medicine
• 1831 : Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg , German princess, wife of King Michael I of Portugal (in exile)
• 1832 : Eugen von Keyserling , Estonian-German explorer and arachnologist
• 1834 : Emil Rittershaus , German poet
• 1839 : Heinrich Nissen , German ancient historian
• 1839 : Carl du Prel , German philosopher, spiritualist and occult writer
• 1841 : Hermann Carl Vogel , German astrophysicist
• 1841 : Julius Ehrentraut , German painter
• 1842 : Gustav Ziller , German builder
• 1843 : Knut Ekvall , 19th century Swedish painter
• 1844 : Georg Ratzinger , German Catholic clergyman, publicist and politician
• 1845 : William James Farrer , Australian agronomist and wheat breeder
• 1846 : Benjamin Daydon Jackson , English botanist

1851-1900

• 1853 : Leopold von Aichelburg-Labia , Austrian politician
• 1854 : Berthold Hatschek , Austrian zoologist
• 1857 : Wilhelm Ritter von Borscht , Bavarian Mayor
• 1859 : Maximilian Attems-Gilleis , Austrian imperial count
• 1859 : Reginald De Koven , American composer
• 1859 : Arthur Salomonsohn , German banker
• 1860 : Frederik van Eeden , Dutch psychologist and writer

Henry van de Velde (* 1863)

• 1863 : Henry van de Velde , Belgian architect and designer
• 1863 : Wilhelm Middelschulte , German organist, composer
• 1866 : Barry Hertzog , South African general and politician
• 1871 : Simon Abram , Austrian politician
• 1874 : Wilhelm Crönert , German classical philologist
• 1876 : Celso Costantini , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1876 : Tomáš Baťa , Czech entrepreneur, founder of the Bata concern
• 1878 : Paul Adler , German writer
• 1878 : François Lecot , French racing car driver
• 1879 : Amandus Kupfer , German publisher
• 1879 : Nagatsuka Takashi , Japanese writer
• 1879 : Rudolf Tischner , German ophthalmologist, occultist and writer

Otto Weininger (* 1880)

• 1880 : Otto Weininger , Austrian philosopher
• 1881 : Alcide De Gasperi , Italian politician
• 1881 : Hans Kniep , German botanist
• 1882 : Hermann August Korff , German literary historian
• 1883 : Frits Van den Berghe , Belgian painter
• 1884 : Andō Rikichi , Japanese general
• 1885 : Murray Carleton , American golfer
• 1885 : Allan Dwan , American director, producer, screenwriter
• 1885 : Bud Fisher , American cartoonist and comic artist
• 1888 : Georg Alexander , German actor, director and producer
• 1888 : Sibylle Ascheberg von Bamberg , German painter
• 1892 : Emile Aerts , Belgian track cyclist
• 1892 : Gustav Gundlach , German social ethicist, social philosopher and social scientist
• 1892 : Hans Rademacher , German mathematician
• 1893 : Hans Riegel , German entrepreneur and founder of Haribo
• 1893 : Leslie Howard , British actor
• 1895 : Fritz Reinhardt , State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance during the Nazi era
• 1895 : Luigi Traglia , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1895 : Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Italian composer
• 1896 : Wayne N. Aspinall , American politician
• 1897 : John Aalberg , American film and sound engineer
• 1897 : Alfons Simon , German educator and individual psychologist
• 1898 : Henry Luce , American publisher
• 1900 : Edward Caton , American dancer, ballet teacher, and choreographer
• 1900 : Franz Carl Weiskopf , German-speaking writer

20th century

1901-1925

• 1902 : Otto Winzer , Minister for Foreign Affairs of the GDR
• 1902 : Reinhard Gehlen , German general, first president of the Federal Intelligence Service
• 1903 : Peter Huchel , German poet
• 1903 : Bubber Miley , American jazz musician and trumpeter
• 1903 : Josef Mühlberger , German writer
• 1903 : Piero Pastore , Italian football player and actor
• 1903 : Joachim Ritter , German philosopher
• 1904 : Hans Paul Graf von Monts , German impostor
• 1904 : Maria Wiłkomirska , Polish pianist, chamber musician and music teacher
• 1905 : Eugen Luisk , Baltic German painter
• 1906 : Hans Klenk , German entrepreneur
• 1907 : Lola Álvarez Bravo , Mexican photographer
• 1908 : Anna Sipos , Hungarian table tennis player
• 1908 : Bruno Lüdke , German Nazi victim
• 1910 : Kurt Mansfeld , German motorcycle racer
• 1911 : Eugen Eckert , German sculptor and painter
• 1911 : Theo Schuster , German chess player and journalist
• 1911 : Walter Ballhause , German photographer
• 1912 : Rudolf Alexander Agricola , German sculptor
• 1912 : Richard Asher , British medic
• 1913 : Per Borten , Norwegian politician and minister of state
• 1914 : Wilfried Joest , German theologian and professor
• 1914 : Elena Luber , German actress
• 1915 : Hermine Aichenegg , Austrian artist
• 1915 : Hans Bertram , German record producer
• 1915 : Paul Buntrock , German general
• 1915 : Charles Jordan , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
• 1917 : Tibor Andrašovan , Slovak composer and conductor
• 1917 : Fredy Reyna , Venezuelan cuatro player and music teacher
• 1917 : Stanley Solomon , Canadian violist and music manager
• 1917 : Rembert van Delden , German politician
• 1918 : Mary Anderson , American actress

Louis Applebaum (* 1918)

• 1918 : Louis Applebaum , Canadian composer
• 1918 : Sixten Ehrling , Swedish conductor
• 1919 : Reno Nonsens , German satirist and theater director
• 1920 : John Demjanjuk , Ukrainian concentration camp guard
• 1920 : Walter Schock , German motor sportsman
• 1921 : Jan Sterling , American stage and film actress
• 1922 : Ernest W. Adams , English football player
• 1922 : Doris Day , American actress and singer
• 1922 : Georges Layek , Syrian Archbishop
• 1922 : Carlo Lizzani , Italian film director
• 1923 : Eusebio Sempere , Spanish painter
• 1923 : Chuck Weyant , American racing car driver
• 1924 : Ivan Andreadis , Czechoslovak table tennis player

Marlon Brando (* 1924)

• 1924 : Marlon Brando , American actor
• 1925 : Tony Benn , British politician
• 1925 : Josef Kamper , Austrian motorcycle racer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Andrew Keir , British actor
• 1926 : Valentin Michailowitsch Falin , Soviet politician, ambassador and journalist
• 1926 : Gus Grissom , American astronaut
• 1928 : Eva Forest , Spanish writer and publisher
• 1928 : Don Gibson , American country singer and songwriter
• 1928 : Earl Lloyd , American basketball player
• 1928 : Kevin Hagen , American actor
• 1929 : Gerhard Behrendt , German director
• 1929 : Ernest Callenbach , journalist, writer and university teacher
• 1929 : Klaus Hemmerle , German professor of theology and Bishop of Aachen
• 1929 : Ralf Paulsen , German singer of the hit and country music scene
• 1929 : Kurt Rudolph , German researcher on Gnosis and Manichaeism
• 1929 : Poul Schlüter , Danish conservative politician
• 1929 : Deane Stoltz , American philanthropist and entrepreneur
• 1929 : Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese actress

Helmut Kohl (* 1930)

• 1930 : Helmut Kohl , German Chancellor
• 1931 : Jiří Laburda , Czech composer
• 1932 : Heinz Goffarth , German football player
• 1932 : Sepp Neumayr , Austrian composer
• 1933 : Horst-Ludwig Riemer , German politician
• 1934 : Wolf Euba , German reciter, actor, director and author
• 1934 : Jane Goodall , British chimpanzee researcher
• 1934 : Jim Parker , American football player
• 1936 : Moritz Csáky , Austrian historian and cultural scientist
• 1936 : Reginald Hill , British crime novelist
• 1936 : Scott LaFaro , American musician
• 1936 : Jimmy McGriff , American blues, soul and jazz organist

Annekathrin Bürger (* 1937)

• 1937 : Annekathrin Bürger , German actress
• 1938 : Jeff Barry , American songwriter and producer
• 1938 : Wolfgang Jansen , German actor
• 1938 : Ayyub Axel Köhler , German local politician and chairman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany
• 1939 : François de Roubaix , French film composer
• 1939 : Henning Venske , German actor and cabaret artist, presenter and writer
• 1939 : Rudolf Vesper , German wrestler
• 1941 : Eric Braeden , American actor
• 1941 : Roland W. , German pop singer
• 1942 : Marsha Mason , American actress
• 1943 : Bernd Richter , German politician and senior teacher
• 1943 : Jean-Louis Tauran , French cardinal
• 1943 : Mario Lavista , Mexican composer
• 1943 : Peter Pumm , Austrian football player

Lamberto Bava (* 1944)

• 1944 : Lamberto Bava , Italian director, screenwriter and film producer
• 1944 : Tony Orlando , American singer
• 1944 : Harry Palmer , American author and founder and CEO of Star's Edge International
• 1945 : Bernie Parent , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 : Petra Kappert , German professor of Turkish studies
• 1945 : Wolfgang Pampel , German theater actor, singer and voice actor
• 1946 : Marisa Paredes , Spanish actress
• 1946 : Hanna Suchocka , Polish politician
• 1947 : Anders Eliasson , Swedish composer
• 1947 : Giuseppe Penone , Italian artist
• 1948 : Boris Berman , Russian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher
• 1948 : Carlos Salinas de Gortari , Mexican politician and president
• 1948 : Georg Schwarzenbeck , German soccer player
• 1948 : Jaap de Hoop Scheffer , Dutch politician

Miguel Herz-Kestranek (* 1948)

• 1948 : Miguel Herz-Kestranek , Austrian actor and book author
• 1948 : Oliver Grimm , German actor
• 1948 : René Bardet , Swiss musician and press spokesman for Swiss television
• 1949 : Thomas Meyer-Fiebig , German composer and concert organist
• 1949 : Max Rüdlinger , Swiss actor and author
• 1949 : Norbert Thiede , German discus thrower
• 1949 : Richard Thompson , British folk rock singer and guitarist
• 1950 : Diether Dehm , German politician, songwriter and author
• 1950 : Georges Christoffel Maria Evers , Dutch nursing scientist
• 1950 : Roswitha Müller-Piepenkötter , German politician

1951-1975

• 1951 : Guillermo Dela Vega Afable , Filipino bishop
• 1952 : Beat Fäh , Swiss director, actor and author
• 1952 : Dieter Krause , German handball player

Kantathi Suphamongkhon (* 1952)

• 1952 : Kantathi Suphamongkhon , Thai politician
• 1953 : Pierre Anna Gaston Aspeslag , Belgian detective writer
• 1953 : Wilhelm Sabri Hoffmann Chairman of the Christian-Islamic Society
• 1954 : Eckhardt Rehberg , German politician
• 1954 : Reinhard Gaier , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1956 : Miguel Bosé , Spanish singer and actor
• 1956 : Rolf Henke , German aeronautical engineer and professor
• 1956 : Rainer Höft , German handball player
• 1956 : Hans-Jakob Mosimann , Swiss legal scholar
• 1956 : Judie Tzuke , British musician
• 1957 : Yves Chaland , French draftsman and comic book author
• 1957 : Johanna Walser , German writer and translator

Alec Baldwin (* 1958)

• 1958 : Alec Baldwin , American actor
• 1958 : Francesca Woodman , American photo artist
• 1959 : Mark Adler , American computer scientist and aerospace engineer
• 1959 : Fermín Vélez , Spanish racing car driver
• 1959 : David Hyde Pierce , American actor
• 1959 : Tadej Slabe , Slovenian geographer and extreme climber
• 1960 : Arjen Lucassen , Dutch musician and composer
• 1961 : Angelo d'Arrigo , Italian paraglider and hang-glider pilot
• 1961 : Eddie Murphy , American actor and comedian
• 1961 : Elizabeth Gracen , American actress and model
• 1961 : Edward Highmore , British film actor
• 1961 : Bastienne Schmidt , German photographer
• 1962 : Salma Agha , British singer and actress
• 1962 : James Black , American actor
• 1962 : James E. Davis , American politician
• 1962 : Carsten Köthe , German radio presenter
• 1962 : Mike Ness , American guitarist and singer ( Social Distortion )
• 1962 : Jennifer Rubin , American actress
• 1962 : Werner Rusche , German soccer player
• 1963 : Criss Oliva , American guitarist
• 1963 : Daniela Hoffmann , German actress and voice actress
• 1963 : Duanne Moeser , German and Canadian ice hockey player
• 1964 : Lincoln Asquith , British sprinter
• 1964 : Marco Ballotta , Italian football player
• 1964 : Christian Heindl , Austrian musicologist and journalist
• 1964 : Bjarne Riis , Danish racing cyclist
• 1966 : Alexei Barsov , Uzbek chess grandmaster

Michael Mittermeier (* 1966)

• 1966 : Michael Mittermeier , German comedian
• 1967 : Ilya Itin , Russian pianist and music teacher
• 1967 : Mark Skaife , Australian racing car driver
• 1967 : Cristi Puiu , Romanian film director and screenwriter
• 1968 : Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon , British-Pakistani businessman and politician
• 1968 : Sebastian Bach , Canadian rock singer ( Skid Row )
• 1968 : Jamie Hewlett , British comic artist ( Tank Girl , Gorillaz )
• 1968 : Bernd Karbacher , German tennis player
• 1969 : Ben Mendelsohn , Australian actor and musician
• 1971 : Thorstein Aaby , Norwegian guitarist
• 1971 : Picabo Street , American skier
• 1971 : Vitālijs Astafjevs , Latvian football player

Jennie Garth (* 1972)

• 1972 : Jennie Garth , American actress
• 1972 : Catherine McCormack , British actress and film producer
• 1972 : Sandrine Testud , French tennis player
• 1973 : Christopher Reitz , German national hockey player
• 1973 : Marek Kincl , Czech football player
• 1973 : Matthew Ferguson , Canadian actor
• 1973 : Dagur Sigurðsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
• 1974 : Klavs Bruun Jørgensen , Danish handball player and coach
• 1974 : Mounir al-Motassadeq , Moroccan citizen
• 1975 : Ivo Jan , Slovenian ice hockey player
• 1975 : Satoshi Yagisawa , Japanese composer

1976-2000

• 1976 : Ulrika Babiaková , Slovak astronomer and asteroid discoverer
• 1976 : Martina Holzner , German politician
• 1976 : Inka Müller-Schmäh , German lawyer and soccer referee
• 1976 : Ally Storch , German violinist and studio musician
• 1977 : Alen Avdić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player

Birgit Minichmayr (* 1977)

• 1977 : Birgit Minichmayr , Austrian actress
• 1978 : Matthew Goode , British actor
• 1978 : Tommy Haas , German tennis player
• 1978 : John Smit , South African rugby player
• 1978 : Raja Toumi , Tunisian handball player
• 1979 : Aggelis Armenatzoglou , Greek track and road cyclist
• 1979 : Živilė Balčiūnaitė , Lithuanian long-distance runner
• 1979 : Stephan Just , German handball player
• 1979 : Steve Simonsen , English soccer player
• 1980 : Johan Brunström , Swedish tennis player
• 1981 : Gim , German singer
• 1981 : Sebastian Jäger , German actor and model
• 1981 : Felicia Notbom , German soccer player
• 1982 : Karol Beck , Slovak tennis player
• 1982 : Sofia Boutella , Algerian dancer and actress
• 1982 : Fler , German rapper
• 1982 : Kristian Nicht , German soccer player

Cobie Smulders (* 1982)

• 1982 : Cobie Smulders , Canadian actress
• 1982 : Daniel Svensson , Danish handball player
• 1983 : Ludovic Butelle , French football goalkeeper
• 1984 : Maxi López , Argentine soccer player
• 1985 : Osmay Acosta , Cuban boxer
• 1985 : Leona Lewis , British singer
• 1985 : Jari-Matti Latvala , Finnish rally driver
• 1986 : Vahid Asghari , Persian human rights activist
• 1986 : Kristina Bille , Danish handball player
• 1986 : Amanda Bynes , American actress
• 1986 : Sergio Canamasas , Spanish racing driver
• 1986 : Emmanuel Mathias , Togolese football player
• 1987 : Glen Akama-Eseme , Cameroonian football player
• 1987 : Julián Simón , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1989 : Zsuzsanna Jakabos , Hungarian swimmer
• 1989 : Iveta Korešová , Czech handball player
• 1990 : Laura Glaser , German handball goalie
• 1990 : Lovre Kalinić , Croatian football goalkeeper
• 1990 : Sotirios Ninis , Greek football player
• 1991 : Hayley Kiyoko , American actress, singer and dancer
• 1991 : Markus Eisenbichler , German ski jumper
• 1992 : Marike Steinacker , German discus thrower
• 1994 : Renáta Csiki , Hungarian handball player
• 1995 : William de Asevedo Furtado , Brazilian soccer player
• 1995 : Pascal Itter , German soccer player
• 1995 : Florian Kohls , German soccer player
• 1995 : Adrien Rabiot , French soccer player
• 1996 : Fabián , Spanish soccer player
• 1996 : Milena Tscharntke , German actress
• 1997 : Gabriel Jesus , Brazilian soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0963 : Wilhelm III. , Duke of Aquitaine
• 1131 : Stephen II , King of Hungary, King of Croatia and Dalmatia
• 1151 : Arnold I , Archbishop of Cologne since 1137
• 1167 : Roman I , Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Gurk
• 1171 : Philipp von Milly , seventh Grand Master of the Templar Order
• 1194 : Bárðr Guthormsson , Norwegian feudal lord and leader of the Birkebeiner in the Norwegian civil war
• 1194 : Sigurd Magnusson , Norwegian rival king
• 1203 : Arthur I , Duke of Brittany
• 1248 : Simon , abbot in Münsterschwarzach
• 1253 : Richard of Chichester , Bishop of Chichester
• 1264 : William Button , Bishop of Bath and Wells
• 1287 : Honorius IV , Pope
• 1293 : Rudolf II of Habsburg-Laufenburg , Bishop of Constance
• 1348 : Adolf VI. , Count von Berg
• 1348 : John II of Sicily , Duke of Athens and Neopatria
• 1350 : Odo IV , Duke of Burgundy, Count of Burgundy and Count of Artois
• 1367 : John de Ferrers , English nobleman
• 1407 : Ulman Stromer , German merchant in the Middle Ages
• 1447 : Niccolò d'Acciapaccio , cardinal and archbishop of Capua
• 1472 : Leon Battista Alberti , Italian humanist, architect and architectural theorist
• 1473 : Alessandro Sforza , ruler of Pesaro
• 1477 : Guy de Brimeu , Burgundian nobleman and diplomat

16th to 18th century

• 1515 : Bartholomäus von Münsterberg , Duke von Münsterberg and Count von Glatz
• 1525 : Giovanni Rucellai , Italian poet
• 1538 : Elizabeth Boleyn , English nobleman and lady-in-waiting of Katharina von Aragóns, mother of Anne and Mary Boleyn
• 1546 : Mikuláš Konáč z Hodiškova , Czech printer, publisher, translator and writer
• 1547 : Ludger tom Ring the Elder , German painter and printer
• 1582 : Takeda Katsuyori , daimyo of the Japanese Sengoku period
• 1582 : Takeda Nobukatsu , son of Takeda Katsuyori
• 1596 : Koca Sinan Pascha , Ottoman general and politician
• 1606 : Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devonshire , English statesman and Viceroy of Ireland

John Napier († 1617)

• 1617 : John Napier , Scottish mathematician
• 1618 : Jakob Adam , German preacher
• 1622 : Cornelis Fransz. de Witt , Dutch politician
• 1624 : Kemankeş Ali Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
• 1631 : Philipp Dulichius , German composer
• 1650 : Christian Gueintz , German pedagogue and language scholar
• 1654 : Samuel Scheidt , German composer, organist and court conductor
• 1655 : Andrzej Niżankowski , Polish organist and composer
• 1682 : Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , Spanish painter
• 1686 : Baltasar de la Cueva Enríquez , Spanish colonial administrator and viceroy of Peru
• 1691 : Jean Petitot , Swiss miniature painter
• 1695 : Melchior de Hondecoeter , Dutch painter
• 1699 : Georg Götze , German Lutheran theologian
• 1702 : Johann Franz Khuen von Belasi , Prince-Bishop of Brixen
• 1718 : Franziska Barbara , Countess von Hohenlohe, mistress of Wilhermsdorf
• 1733 : Wenzel Render , Olomouc master stonemason and imperial privileged architect
• 1747 : Francesco Solimena , Neapolitan painter
• 1756 : Anton Ospel , Austrian architect and builder
• 1767 : Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Norburg , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön as well as Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, collector and author of religious writings
• 1769 : Gerhard Tersteegen , German theologian and hymn poet
• 1769 : Johann Conrad Wirz , Swiss Antistes from Zurich
• 1773 : Adam Gottlob Schirach , Sorbian pastor, physics theologist and writer

19th century

• 1802 : Georg Friedrich Kordenbusch von Buschenau , German medic and astronomer
• 1804 : Jędrzej Kitowicz , Polish clergyman and historian
• 1811 : Pieter Jozef Verhaghen , Flemish painter
• 1812 : Sebastian Solan Speth von Zwiefalten , Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal
• 1813 : Friederike Brion , muse of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Friedrich Justin Bertuch († 1822)

• 1822 : Friedrich Justin Bertuch , German entrepreneur and patron
• 1825 : Otto von Loeben , German poet
• 1827 : Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni , German natural scientist
• 1833 : Hans Jakob von Auerswald , Prussian general landscape president
• 1838 : Francesco Antommarchi , French doctor
• 1841 : Christian Gottlieb Konopack , German legal scholar
• 1843 : Matthias Joseph Anker , Austrian geologist
• 1849 : Juliusz Słowacki , Polish poet
• 1850 : Wenzel Johann Tomaschek , Bohemian music teacher and composer
• 1853 : Joseph von Armansperg , Bavarian statesman
• 1862 : James Clark Ross , English explorer and navigator

Franz Berwald († 1868)

• 1868 : Franz Berwald , Swedish composer and violinist
• 1870 : Samuel Chappuis , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1870 : Philipp Jaffé , German medievalist and philologist
• 1871 : Pedro Arce y Fagoaga , President of El Salvador
• 1876 : Henriette Davidis , German cook and cookbook author
• 1877 : Thomas Peter Akers , American politician
• 1880 : Theodor Julius Hertel , German lawyer and mayor
• 1882 : Jesse James , American gang leader
• 1887 : Friedrich Wilhelm Grimme , German writer, local poet and botanist
• 1893 : Achille Apolloni , Italian cardinal
• 1897 : Johannes Brahms , German Romantic composer
• 1899 : Adolf Guyer-Zeller , Swiss entrepreneur

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Andreas Reischek , Austrian ethnographer, ornithologist and explorer
• 1907 : Désirée Artôt de Padilla , Belgian opera singer
• 1907 : Theodor Aufrecht , German Indologist and Sanskritist
• 1909 : Benjamin Johnson Lang , American organist, pianist, conductor, and composer

Richard Abegg († 1910)

• 1910 : Richard Abegg , German chemist
• 1910 : Beda Adlhoch , German monk
• 1915 : Jizchok Leib Perez , Polish Yiddish-speaking writer
• 1918 : André Laporte , French composer
• 1919 : Josef Durm , German architect, construction clerk and university professor
• 1930 : Emma Albani , Canadian singer
• 1932 : Friedrich Wilhelm Franke , German organist
• 1932 : Heinrich Limbertz , German politician, MdR
• 1933 : Arno Philippsthal , German doctor, first Jewish victim of the Nazis in Berlin
• 1935 : Hermann Zimmermann , German civil engineer
• 1936 : Bruno Richard Hauptmann , alleged kidnapper and murderer of Charles Lindbergh's son
• 1936 : Armando Quezada Acharán , Chilean politician and economist
• 1940 : Josef Ponten , German architect, art historian and writer
• 1940 : Peter Wust , German Christian existential philosopher
• 1940 : Walter Eisfeld , camp commandant of the Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme concentration camps
• 1941 : Pál Teleki , Hungarian scientist and politician
• 1942 : Albert Siklós , Hungarian composer

Kasia von Szadurska († 1942)

• 1942 : Kasia von Szadurska , German painter and graphic artist of Expressionism and New Objectivity
• 1943 : Conrad Veidt , German film actor
• 1946 : Homma Masaharu , Japanese command officer
• 1946 : Minna Reichert , German women's rights activist and politician, MdL
• 1948 : Jakob Haringer , German writer
• 1950 : Kurt Weill , German composer

1951-2000

• 1952 : Werner Paeckelmann , German geologist and paleontologist
• 1954 : Remzi Oğuz Arık , Turkish archaeologist and politician
• 1955 : Karl Hofer , German painter
• 1957 : Ned Sparks , Canadian actor
• 1958 : Emil Abel , Austrian chemist
• 1958 : Julius Paul Junghanns , German animal painter
• 1958 : Theodor Kramer , Austrian poet
• 1961 : Rudolf Schwarz , German architect
• 1962 : Manolis Kalomiris , Greek composer

Eduard von der Heydt († 1964)

• 1964 : Eduard von der Heydt , German banker, art collector and patron
• 1964 : Aniela Szlemińska , Polish singer and vocal teacher
• 1972 : Ferde Grofé , American composer, arranger and conductor
• 1977 : Benjamin Appel , American writer
• 1978 : Hirano Ken , Japanese writer and literary critic
• 1979 : Alexander Andrae , German officer
• 1979 : Cornelius Ysselstyn , Canadian cellist and music teacher
• 1981 : Stefan Herman , Polish violinist and music teacher
• 1982 : Felix Brodtbeck , Swiss choir director and organist
• 1988 : Milton Caniff , American comic book artist and writer
• 1988 : Dieter Mauritz , German table tennis player
• 1988 : Martin Wagenschein , German pedagogue, didactic scientist, physicist, mathematician
• 1990 : József Ács , Yugoslav painter, art educator and art critic

Sarah Vaughan († 1990)

• 1990 : Fred Schulz , German soccer player and coach
• 1990 : Sarah Vaughan , American jazz singer
• 1991 : Graham Greene , British writer
• 1991 : Robert Veyron-Lacroix , French harpsichordist and pianist
• 1992 : Rodolfo Holzmann , Peruvian composer, musicologist and music teacher
• 1992 : Francisco Simó Damirón , Dominican pianist and composer
• 1993 : Lydia Auster , Estonian composer
• 1993 : Alexandre Mnouchkine , Russian-French film producer
• 1993 : Götz Dieter Plage , German nature filmmaker
• 1994 : Jérôme Lejeune , French medic
• 1994 : Alfred Zemanovský , Czech composer, choir director and music publisher
• 1995 : Ilsemarie Schnering , German actress
• 1996 : Ron Brown , American politician
• 1997 : Lonnie William Austin , American old-time musician
• 1998 : Rob Pilatus , German singer
• 1998 : Wolf Vostell , German painter, sculptor and happening artist
• 1999 : Lionel Bart , British musical composer
• 2000 : Mikołaj Antonowicz , Polish nobleman and military person
• 2000 : Marta Hoepffner , German photographer

21st century

Heinz Drache († 2002)

• 2002 : Heinz Drache , German actor
• 2002 : Frank Tovey , British musician
• 2003 : Edwin Starr , American soul singer
• 2004 : Jamal Ahmidan , suspected Moroccan terrorist
• 2004 : Serhane Ben Abdelmajid , Tunisian terrorist
• 2005 : Aleksy Antkiewicz , Polish boxer
• 2005 : Kader Firoud , French football player and coach
• 2005 : Wolf Klaußner , German writer and translator
• 2007 : Robin Montgomerie-Charrington , British motor sportsman
• 2008 : Hrvoje Ćustić , Croatian football player
• 2008 : Ivan Korade , Croatian general
• 2009 : Eva Evdokimova , American prima ballerina
• 2010 : Ferdinand Simoneit , German journalist, bestselling author and journalist teacher
• 2011 : Calvin Russell , American singer-songwriter
• 2012 : Joe Scarpa , American wrestler
• 2012 : José María Zárraga , Spanish football player, coach and official
• 2013 : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , British writer and screenwriter
• 2013 : Sven Lehmann , German actor
• 2015 : Alfred Bollinger , Swiss physician
• 2015 : Bob Burns , American drummer
• 2015 : Andrew Porter , British music critic and scholar
• 2016 : Joseph Medicine Crow , American Indian chief of the Absarokee tribe
• 2016 : Lars Gustafsson , Swedish writer
• 2016 : Cesare Maldini , Italian football player and coach
• 2017 : Jeannine Davis-Kimball , American archaeologist
• 2017 : Renate Schroeter , German actress
• 2018 : Carl Weiss , German journalist
• 2018 : Lill-Babs , Swedish pop singer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Gerhard Tersteegen , German mystic, poet and pastor (Protestant)
  • St Richard of Chichester , English Chancellor and Bishop (Catholic)

• Name days
  • Richard

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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