3rd of June

The June 3 is the 154th day of the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years ), thus remain 211 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0713 : The Byzantine emperor Philippikos Bardanes is blinded after parts of the army have overthrown him .
• 1353 : In the Regensburg Treaty , Lower Bavaria is divided into the duchies of Bavaria-Landshut and Straubing-Holland .

1653: Battle of Wohlenschwil (historical picture)

• 1653 : In the Swiss Peasants' War , the army of the peasants in a battle near Wohlenschwil is subject to a contingent from Zurich under the command of Konrad Werdmüller . As a result, the uprising collapses.
• 1740 : Prussia's ruler Friedrich the Great forbids torture as a means of criminal proceedings, with the exception of high treason, treason and murder with many victims.
• 1839 : The Chinese special commissioner Lin Zexu had 20,000 boxes of British opium destroyed, thus triggering the 1st opium war . Anti-Smoking Day is celebrated annually in Taiwan as a reminder .
• 1861 : In the battle at Philippi , one of the first battles of the American Civil War in western Virginia, Union forces under General McClellan defeat the Confederates . One of the consequences of the battle is the separation of West Virginia from secessionist Virginia .

1864: Battle of Cold Harbor

• 1864 : During the Battle of Cold Harbor, which lasted several days in the American Civil War , an attack by the Potomac Army under Ulysses S. Grant on positions of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia fails . The Union troops suffer a loss-making defeat.
• 1871 : The German Reichstag approves the incorporation of Alsace and Lorraine into the Reich.
• 1919 : At the Versailles Peace Conference , the Prime Ministers of Great Britain , France and Italy recognize Poland's right to an independent and united republic with free access to the Baltic Sea .
• 1947 : The British Viceroy Mountbatten announces the plan to partition India , which comes to fruition with the establishment of Pakistan two months later.
• 1958 : Singapore proclaims its independence and is no longer a British colony .

1961: Summit in Vienna

• 1961 : Peaceful coexistence : US President John F. Kennedy and Soviet head of state Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna for talks.
• 1972 : The transit agreement between the two German states FRG and GDR comes into force.
• 1989 : In West Berlin , several thousand people demonstrate in a parade of vehicles against the speed limit imposed by Walter Momper (SPD) on the AVUS .
• 1992 : The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development , also known as the Earth Summit , begins in Rio de Janeiro .
• 1993 : France and Spain recognize Andorra's sovereignty .
• 1999 : The G8 peace plan is approved by Serbia .
• 2006 : Montenegro declares its independence from the Confederation of Serbia and Montenegro .

economy

• 1621 : The Dutch West India Company receives the exclusive trade patent for America in its country.

1887: Kiel Canal (map from 1888)

• 1887 : The German Emperor Wilhelm I lays the foundation stone for the Kiel Canal near Kiel-Holtenau .
• 1904 : The Büssing company opens one of the first bus routes in Germany on the Braunschweig - Wendeburg route
• 1950 : The Bayernkurier , the weekly party newspaper of the Christian Social Union (CSU) , launches its first edition. General Secretary Franz Josef Strauss acts as publisher and editor-in-chief .
• 1998 : The globalization-critical organization Attac is founded.

science and technology

• 1683 : The Ashmolean Museum of Oxford University is open to visitors. It is the first university-run facility of its kind in the world.

1769: The appearance of Venus at the edge of the sun observed by Cook

• 1769 : James Cook observes the transit of Venus on his first voyage to the South Seas in Tahiti .
• 1789 : Alexander MacKenzie and his companions set out from Fort Chipewyan to look for a river connection to the Pacific Ocean .
• 1801 : Robert Fulton demonstrates his submarine called Nautilus in Le Havre .
• 1929 : The Zeppelin LZ 126 / ZR-3 USS Los Angeles of the US Navy is the first airship to drop and pick up an aircraft in the air.
• 1948 : The 400-ton Hale Telescope in the Palomar Observatory is inaugurated. At this time it is the largest telescope on earth and is used for astronomical purposes.

1965: First American space exit

• 1965 : As part of the Gemini 4 mission , Edward White becomes the first American astronaut to perform an spacecraft mission .
• 1995 : On Usedom is the Heringsdorf Pier , the longest pier opened in continental Europe.

Culture

• 1714 : The water features created by the architect Giovanni Francesco Guerniero in Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe are presented for the first time under Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel .

1895: The citizens of Calais

• 1895 : The Monument aux Bourgeois de Calais by Auguste Rodin is in Calais inaugurated.
• 1922 : The opera Mavra by Igor Stravinsky is premiered at the Paris Opera . The libretto by Boris Evgenjewitsch Kochno is based on the narration Das Häuschen in Kolomna by Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin .
• 1941 : The stage play Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller is removed from libraries and school curricula according to Adolf Hitler's “ Führer instruction ”, and its performance is banned in the German Reich.
• 1947 : The premiere of the Opera buffa Les mamelles de Tirésias ( The breasts of Tiresias ) by Francis Poulenc takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. The text refers to the drama of the same name by Guillaume Apollinaire .
• 1968 : The artist Andy Warhol , made famous through Pop Art , is gunned down in New York by the women's rights activist Valerie Solanas .
• 1975 : The musical Chicago by John Kander and Fred Ebb , staged by Bob Fosse, premieres at the 46th Street Theater on New York's Broadway .

society

• 1937 : The Duke of Windsor , the British King Edward VIII until his abdication the year before , marries the American Wallis Simpson .

religion

• 0535 : Agapitus I is enthroned as successor to Pope John II after a sedis vacancy of 47 days .
• 1863 : The Eucharist are established as a congregation by Pope Pius IX. accepted.
• 1933 : In the encyclical Dilectissima nobis , Pope Pius XI complains . the church persecution in Spain.

Disasters

• 1957 : When trying to cross the Iller near Kempten, 15 Bundeswehr recruits are killed in the Iller accident .
• 1962 : When a French Boeing 707 crashes in Paris , all 130 people die on board.
• 1973 : A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes during an air show in Le Bourget (near Paris ) . 14 people (6 on board the aircraft and 8 on the ground) are killed.
• 1979 : The Sedco 135F oil drilling platform at the Ixtoc I exploration well of the Mexican oil company PEMEX explodes and causes the largest oil spill in history to date. The well cannot be closed until March 23 of the following year. By then, an estimated 400,000 to 1.4 million tons of crude oil will leak into the sea.
• 1998 : Railway accident in Eschede : The ICE Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen derails due to a defective tire near Eschede , killing 101 people.
• 2018 : When the volcano Volcán de Fuego erupted in Guatemala , around 4 kilometers southwest of the capital Guatemala City , at least 114 people were killed, more than 300 injured, and more than 3,200 people had to be evacuated from the surrounding areas around the volcano .

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

nature and environment

1844: Eldey, the last refuge of the extinct giant alks

• 1844 : On the Icelandic island of Eldey , the last surviving pair of giant alks is killed by two trophy collectors. The bellows are sold to a Danish collector.

Sports

1858: Mount Augustus

• 1858 : Francis Thomas Gregory is the first European to climb the largest monolith on earth in Western Australia . Shortly thereafter, Gregory names the mountain Mount Augustus , taking his brother Augustus Gregory as his namesake.
• 1892 : The football club formed in Liverpool in March as a spin-off from Everton FC is registered as Liverpool FC .
• 1950 : The French Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal carry out the first ascent of the Himalayan mountain Annapurna . It is also the first time that mountaineers have scaled an eight-thousander .

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1419 : Agostino Barbarigo , 74th Doge of Venice
• 1537 : Johann Manuel , heir to the Portuguese throne
• 1540 : Charles II , Archduke of Inner Austria
• 1576 : Giovanni Diodati , Reformed theologian and Bible translator
• 1579 : Jens Munk , Danish-Norwegian navigator and explorer
• 1591 : Julius Wilhelm Zincgref , German writer
• 1594 : César de Bourbon , Duke of Vendôme, half-brother of Louis XIII.
• 1598 : Ortolph Fomann the Younger German historian and legal scholar
• 1606 : Georg Aribert von Anhalt-Dessau , Anhalt regent
• 1635 : Andrea Malinconico , Italian painter
• 1664 : Rachel Ruysch , Dutch Baroque painter
• 1699 : Benedetto Alfieri , Italian builder

18th century

James Hutton (* 1726)

• 1726 : James Hutton , Scottish naturalist and geologist
• 1728 : Joseph Anselm Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German politician
• 1736 : Ludwig Gottlieb Scriba , German entomologist and Protestant pastor
• 1743 : Wilhelm I of Hessen-Kassel , Hessian elector
• 1745 : Jean-Joseph d'Apcher , French nobleman
• 1745 : Louis-René Levassor de Latouche Tréville , French admiral
• 1746 : James Hook , English composer and organist
• 1748 : Jean-Joseph d'Apcher , French nobleman
• 1765 : Friederike Brun , Danish writer
• 1770 : Manuel Belgrano , Argentine lawyer, politician and general
• 1773 : Michael Gotthard Fischer , German organist and composer
• 1779 : Marie von Clausewitz , German editor of the military history works of her husband Carl von Clausewitz
• 1791 : Juan Francisco Giró , President of Uruguay
• 1793 : Antoni Malczewski , Polish poet
• 1798 : Nikolaus Ludwig Arnold , German lawyer
• 1799 : Elisabetta Fiorini Mazzanti , Italian botanist

19th century

1801-1850

• 1804 : Jacques-Joseph Moreau , French doctor and psychiatrist

Jefferson Davis (* 1808)

• 1808 : Jefferson Davis , American politician, President of the Confederate States of America
• 1815 : Johann Joseph Oppel , German pedagogue, physicist and linguist
• 1817 : Pauline von Mallinckrodt , founder of the German order
• 1818 : Adolf Theodor Hermann Fritzsche , German classical philologist
• 1819 : Anton Maria Anderledy , Swiss Jesuit
• 1822 : Adelheid of Austria , Queen of Sardinia
• 1828 : Ferdinand Poise , French composer
• 1828 : Otto von Faber du Faur , German painter and officer
• 1829 : Charles Johnson Brooke , second white Raja from Sarawak
• 1829 : Charles Renaud de Vilbac , French organist and composer
• 1837 : Franz Bücheler , German classical philologist
• 1839 : Warren Otis Arnold , American politician
• 1839 : Paul Lindau , German writer, playwright and theater director

Frederick VIII (* 1843)

• 1843 : Frederick VIII , King of Denmark
• 1844 : Hermann Erler , German music publisher, composer and writer
• 1844 : Garret Hobart , American politician, vice president
• 1844 : Detlev von Liliencron , German poet
• 1844 : Émile Paladilhe , French composer and pianist

1851-1900

Flinders Petrie (* 1853)

• 1853 : Flinders Petrie , English Egyptologist
• 1855 : Paul Herfurth , German publisher and politician
• 1857 : Jacques de Morgan , French engineer and Egyptologist
• 1857 : Charles Herman Steinway , American industrialist, piano maker, composer and pianist
• 1862 : Humfrey Anger , Canadian organist, composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1864 : Otto Erich Hartleben , German playwright, poet and narrator
• 1865 : George V , King of Great Britain
• 1868 : Georg Jarno , Hungarian composer
• 1868 : Henning Mankell , Swedish composer
• 1872 : Habibullah Khan , Emir of Afghanistan

Otto Loewi (* 1873)

• 1873 : Otto Loewi , Austrian-American physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1874 : Max Hans Kühne , German architect
• 1876 : Ramón Cabanillas , Spanish-Galician writer
• 1877 : Raoul Dufy , French painter
• 1878 : Lawrence J. Henderson , American chemist, biologist
• 1879 : Alla Nazimova , American actress, director, and producer
• 1879 : Paul Hoffmann , German entrepreneur and politician, MdR
• 1879 : Raymond Pearl , American biologist and geneticist
• 1881 : Marcel Chailley , French violinist and music teacher
• 1881 : Arthur Henney , German automobile racing driver and entrepreneur
• 1882 : Hugo Rudolph Kruyt , Dutch chemist
• 1883 : Josef Ponten , German architect, art historian and writer
• 1885 : Jakow Michailowitsch Sverdlov , Russian revolutionary and politician, head of state of the Soviet Union
• 1886 : Adalbert von Bayern , German writer
• 1886 : Max Salomon , German-American carnivalist
• 1887 : Roland Hayes , American singer

Olga Körner (* 1887)

• 1887 : Olga Körner , German women's rights activist, politician and resistance fighter, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, party functionary in the GDR
• 1887 : Carlo Michelstaedter , Italian writer, philosopher and painter
• 1888 : Gustav Petri , Colonel in the Wehrmacht
• 1889 : Germain Lefebrve , Canadian singer, choir director and music teacher
• 1890 : Paul Luchtenberg , German cultural scientist, educator and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
• 1891 : Franz Gruss , Austrian painter and draftsman
• 1892 : Hans Ludwig Rauh , German teacher and dialect researcher
• 1893 : Assen Karastojanow , Bulgarian composer
• 1894 : Herbert Boeckl , German painter, one of the main exponents of Austrian modernism
• 1894 : Nels Nelsen , Canadian-Norwegian ski jumper
• 1895 : Zoltan Korda , American director
• 1897 : Memphis Minnie , American blues musician
• 1899 : Alfred Adam , German theologian and university professor
• 1899 : Georg von Békésy , Hungarian-American biophysicist and physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1899 : Herta Claudia Gabriel , German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
• 1899 : Taco Hajo van den Honert , Dutch botanist
• 1900 : Adelaide Ames , American astronomer
• 1900 : Friedrich von Ledebur , Austrian actor

20th century

1901-1925

• 1902 : Harry Isaacs , English pianist and music teacher
• 1904 : Friedrich Gondolatsch , German astronomer

Josephine Baker (born 1906)

• 1906 : Josephine Baker , American dancer, singer, and actress
• 1906 : Erich Marx , German cross-country skier
• 1907 : Willy Aron , German trainee lawyer
• 1907 : Antonio Emmanuilowitsch Spadawekkia , Russian composer
• 1909 : Karl Bohmann , Austrian motorcycle racer
• 1909 : Ludwig Koch , German trade unionist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1909 : Ernst Eduard vom Rath , German diplomat and embassy secretary in Paris
• 1910 : Paulette Goddard , American actress
• 1912 : Hermann Blazejezak , German athlete
• 1914 : Georg Apfelbeck , German building contractor and table tennis functionary
• 1916 : Harold B. Cousins , American sculptor
• 1916 : Leslie Thorne , British racing car driver
• 1918 : Robert Swink , American film editor
• 1920 : D'Arco Silvio Avalle , Italian Romanist
• 1921 : Charlie Aldrich , American country musician, guitarist and composer
• 1921 : Eberhard Schlotter , German painter and graphic artist
• 1922 : Jochen Diestelmann , German actor
• 1922 : Alain Resnais , French film director
• 1923 : Zenon Brzewski , Polish music teacher and violinist
• 1923 : Werner Danz , German politician, MdB, MdL
• 1924 : Kenneth Armstrong , English football player and coach
• 1924 : Horst Sölle , German economic politician, Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR, member of the Central Committee of the SED

Tony Curtis (born 1925)

• 1925 : Tony Curtis , American theater, film, and television actor
• 1925 : Wilhelm Varnholt , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Mannheim
• 1925 : Gerhard Zwerenz , German writer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Gonzalo Castellanos Yumar , Venezuelan composer
• 1926 : Allen Ginsberg , American poet of the Beat Generation ( Howl )
• 1927 : Manfred Flegel , German politician, minister in the GDR
• 1927 : Oscar Schneider , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 1928 : Fred K. Prieberg , German musicologist
• 1928 : Klaus Rose , German economist
• 1929 : Werner Arber , Swiss microbiologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1930 : Dakota Staton , American jazz singer
• 1930 : Marion Zimmer Bradley , American writer
• 1931 : Françoise Arnoul , French actress

Raúl Castro (* 1931)

• 1931 : Raúl Castro , Cuban freedom fighter and politician, president, brother of Fidel Castro
• 1931 : John Norman , American writer
• 1932 : Gunter Wesener , Austrian lawyer and legal historian
• 1933 : Isa bin Salman Al Chalifa , Emir of Bahrain
• 1933 : Manuel de Anchorena , Argentine diplomat
• 1935 : Ervin Acél , Hungarian conductor
• 1935 : Sigrid Böge , German mathematician
• 1937 : Jean-Pierre Jaussaud , French racing car driver
• 1939 : Antonio Arregui , Spanish clergyman and archbishop
• 1939 : Ian Hunter , British songwriter and singer
• 1940 : Joe Higgs , Jamaican reggae musician

Monika Maron (* 1941)

• 1941 : Monika Maron , German writer
• 1942 : Michael Bürsch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1942 : Curtis Mayfield , American soul musician
• 1943 : Ron Aspery , British fusion musician
• 1945 : Bjørn Alterhaug , Norwegian jazz double bass player
• 1945 : Gerda Eichhorn , German politician
• 1946 : Michael Clarke , American musician
• 1946 : Kjell Engman , Swedish glass designer and musician

Penelope Wilton (born 1946)

• 1946 : Penelope Wilton , British actress
• 1947 : Mickey Finn , British musician
• 1948 : Rolf Heissler , German terrorist
• 1949 : Philippe Djian , French writer
• 1949 : Ulrich Kiesow , German game designer
• 1950 : Marianne Bachmeier , German innkeeper, shot her daughter's alleged murderer
• 1950 : Suzi Quatro , American rock musician
• 1950 : Deniece Williams , American R&B singer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Jill Biden , American politician's wife
• 1952 : David Richards , British motorsport official
• 1952 : Dominique Laffin , French actress

Martin Bartenstein (* 1953)

• 1953 : Martin Bartenstein , Austrian Federal Minister
• 1953 : Loalwa Braz , Brazilian singer ( Kaoma )
• 1954 : Jiří Georg Dokoupil , German-Czech painter, draftsman and graphic artist
• 1954 : Bajram Rexhepi , Prime Minister of Kosovo
• 1956 : Suren Nalbandjan , Soviet wrestler
• 1957 : Ingrid Eberle , Austrian ski racer
• 1957 : Peter de Villiers , South African rugby coach
• 1958 : Thierry Noir , French painter

Margot Käßmann (* 1958)

• 1958 : Margot Käßmann , German regional bishop
• 1959 : Waltraut Antonov , Austrian politician
• 1961 : Lawrence Lessig , American professor
• 1961 : Norbert Gstrein , Austrian writer
• 1961 : Beat Züger , Swiss chess player
• 1962 : Oliver Augst , German composer, singer, producer and radio play author
• 1962 : Dagmar Neubauer , German athlete
• 1963 : Rudy Demotte , Belgian politician
• 1963 : Anica Dobra , Serbian actress
• 1963 : Dirk Jens Nonnenmacher , German mathematician and manager

Doro Pesch (* 1964)

• 1964 : Doro Pesch , German singer
• 1964 : Kerry King , American guitarist ( Slayer )
• 1964 : Günther Marxer , Liechtenstein ski racer
• 1965 : Helena Fuchsová , Czech athlete
• 1965 : Albrecht Mayer , German oboist
• 1965 : Thomas Ohrner , German television presenter and actor
• 1966 : László Andor , Hungarian economist and politician
• 1966 : Wumpscut , German disc jockey and musician
• 1967 : Sven Ottke , German boxer

Serdar Somuncu (* 1968)

• 1968 : Serdar Somuncu , German actor and satirist
• 1970 : Greg Hancock , American track athlete
• 1971 : Luigi Di Biagio , Italian football player and coach
• 1971 : Gabriel Merz , German actor, director and screenwriter
• 1971 : Peter Thorwarth , German director and screenwriter
• 1974 : Jonne Järvelä , Finnish guitarist, singer, composer and front man of the metal band Korpiklaani
• 1975 : David Zimmering , German film and theater actor

1976-2000

• 1976 : Brian Herrington , American composer and music teacher
• 1976 : Jens Kruppa , German swimmer
• 1977 : Patrik Klüft , Swedish pole vaulter
• 1977 : Claudia von Lanken , German soccer player
• 1978 : Ina Tempel , German actress

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani (* 1980)

• 1980 : Tamīm bin Hamad ath-Thānī , Emir of Qatar
• 1980 : Mette Melgaard , Danish handball player
• 1980 : Amauri , Brazilian soccer player
• 1981 : Mike Adam , Canadian curler
• 1982 : Jelena Gadschijewna Issinbajewa , Russian athlete
• 1982 : Jonas Larholm , Swedish handball player
• 1983 : George Daniel Anghelache , Romanian cyclocross and road cyclist
• 1983 : Florian Danner , Austrian TV presenter
• 1984 : Bahar , German rapper
• 1984 : Adam Jabiri , German soccer player
• 1984 : Félix of Luxembourg , Prince of Luxembourg
• 1985 : Papiss Demba Cissé , Senegalese football player
• 1985 : Łukasz Piszczek , Polish football player
• 1985 : Nela Schmitz , German actress
• 1986 : Eugene Laverty , Irish motorcycle racer

Rafael Nadal (* 1986)

• 1986 : Rafael Nadal , Spanish tennis player
• 1987 : Daniel Frahn , German soccer player
• 1987 : Lalaine Vergara-Paras , American actress
• 1989 : Imogen Poots , British actress
• 1990 : Fabian Götze , German soccer player
• 1991 : Nico Granatowski , German soccer player
• 1991 : Sepp Schneider , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
• 1991 : Bruno Uvini , Brazilian soccer player
• 1992 : Mario Götze , German soccer player
• 1993 : Otto Porter , American basketball player
• 1994 : Germán Conti , Argentinian soccer player
• 1996 : Lukas Klostermann , German soccer player
• 1999 : Lukas Rieger , German musician
• 1999 : Dan-Axel Zagadou , French football player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0544 : Chrodechild , wife of Clovis I.
• 0618 : Kevin of Glendalough , Irish Catholic saint, Patron of Dublin
• 1098 : Yaghi-Siyan , Seljuk governor of Antioch during the First Crusade
• 1253 : Margaret de Beaumont, 7th Countess of Warwick , English noblewoman
• 1262 : Wok von Rosenberg , Supreme Marshal of the Kingdom of Bohemia, captain and district judge for the district ob der Enns and governor of Styria
• 1290 : Friedrich von Montfort , Bishop of Chur
• 1298 : Pietro de L'Aquila , cardinal of the Catholic Church
• 1351 : Mastino II della Scala , Lord of Verona
• 1367 : Bernhard Oldenborch , Lübeck businessman, councilor and diplomat
• 1376 : Heinrich II, the Iron , Landgrave of Hesse
• 1389 : Pierre d'Orgemont , Lord of Méry and Chantilly, Chancellor of France
• 1394 : Anne of Bohemia , first wife of Richard II of England
• 1395 : Ivan Schischman , Bulgarian tsar
• 1411 : Leopold IV of Habsburg , Duke of Austria
• 1428 : Andrea di Bartolo , Italian painter
• 1429 : Johann II von Heideck , German prince-bishop of Eichstätt

16th to 18th century

• 1568 : Andrés de Urdaneta , Basque Augustinian monk, captain and explorer
• 1592 : Bartolomeo Passarotti , Italian painter and etcher

Jan Zamoyski († 1605)

• 1605 : Jan Zamoyski , Polish magnate, statesman and grand hetman
• 1626 : Juan de Oñate , Spanish conquistador
• 1640 : Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk , English nobleman and politician
• 1657 : William Harvey , English physician and anatomist, pioneer of modern physiology
• 1658 : Johann Merck , German educator
• 1666 : Christian Chemnitz , German Lutheran theologian
• 1675 : Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
• 1686 : Ernest Alexandre Dominique d'Arenberg , Prince of Chimay
• 1688 : François Andréossy , French engineer, topographer and cartographer
• 1697 : Silvius II. Friedrich , Duke of Württemberg-Oels
• 1707 : Pieter de Graeff , Dutch aristocrat
• 1717 : Fernando de Alencastre Noroña y Silva , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
• 1736 : Gerhard von Holy , German organ builder
• 1746 : Hacı Beşir Ağa , head eunuch from Ethiopia at the Sultan's court in Istanbul
• 1752 : Albrecht Meno Verpoorten , German educator and Lutheran theologian
• 1753 : Johann Philipp Anton von und zu Frankenstein , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
• 1766 : Giuseppe Nogari , Venetian painter
• 1773 : Johann Ludwig Konrad Allendorf , German educator, Lutheran pastor and poet of hymns
• 1789 : Johann Achterkirchen , German politician
• 1793 : Johann Ludwig Spörl , German Protestant theologian

19th century

• 1802 : Joseph Adam von Arco , auxiliary bishop, bishop and prince-bishop
• 1818 : Egwala Seyon , Emperor of Ethiopia

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne († 1819)

• 1819 : Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne , French revolutionary
• 1819 : Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez , Colombian journalist and librarian
• 1821 : Joas II , Emperor of Ethiopia
• 1822 : René-Just Haüy , French mineralogist
• 1824 : Christian Gottlieb Friedrich Stöwe , German Protestant clergyman and astronomer
• 1840 : Johann Christian Friedrich Patzig , German lawyer and civil servant
• 1844 : Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême , pretender to the French throne
• 1851 : Wilhelm Ernst Schwabe , German lawyer
• 1855 : Józef Bohdan Dziekoński , Polish writer
• 1858 : Julius Reubke , German composer
• 1860 : Johann Jakob Füssli , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1861 : Stephen A. Douglas , American politician, presidential candidate, senator, and MP for the state of Illinois
• 1864 : William Johnson Fox , British publicist and politician

Georges Bizet († 1875)

• 1875 : Georges Bizet , French composer
• 1877 : Ludwig von Köchel , Austrian lawyer, historian, natural scientist and musicologist, known for the Köchel directory for WA Mozart's compositions
• 1879 : Lionel de Rothschild , British banker and politician
• 1880 : Marie von Hessen-Darmstadt , wife of the Russian Tsar Alexander II.
• 1889 : Bernhard Förster , German high school teacher, political agitator and husband of Elisabeth Nietzsche
• 1894 : William Alfred Passavant , American clergyman, founder of the American Diakonie
• 1898 : Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Afanassjew , Russian composer
• 1899 : Johann Strauss , Austrian composer (Waltz King)
• 1900 : Mary Kingsley , British ethnologist and travel writer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1905 : Hudson Taylor , British Christian missionary in China
• 1910 : Julius Wolff , German poet and writer
• 1915 : Richard Küch , German chemist and physicist
• 1917 : Louis Gathmann , German engineer and inventor
• 1918 : Bruno Adam , German architect and builder
• 1918 : Ramón Maximiliano Valdés , President of Panama

Franz Kafka († 1924)

• 1924 : Franz Kafka , German-speaking writer ( The Judgment, the Trial ) from Prague, then Austria-Hungary
• 1925 : Camille Flammarion , French astronomer and author
• 1929 : Laura von Oelbermann , German patron and founder
• 1929 : Fausto Salvatori , Italian writer and librettist
• 1932 : Rudolf Kremlička , Czech painter and graphic artist
• 1936 : Abram Andrew , American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Massachusetts
• 1942 : Leo Katzenberger , German businessman of Jewish origin, victim of a Nazi judicial murder
• 1943 : Nels Nelsen , Canadian-Norwegian ski jumper
• 1946 : Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin , Soviet politician

1951-2000

• 1953 : Florence Price , American composer
• 1955 : Marcel Wittrisch , German tenor
• 1956 : Emmy Zweybrück , Austrian-American craftsperson
• 1957 : Wilhelm Hausenstein , German writer and diplomat
• 1961 : Albert Stohr , German Roman Catholic theologian, MdL, Bishop of Mainz, opponent of National Socialism
• 1963 : John XXIII. , Pope ("Council Pope" or "the good Pope")
• 1963 : Nâzım Hikmet , Turkish poet and playwright

Frans Eemil Sillanpää († 1964)

• 1964 : Frans Eemil Sillanpää , Finnish writer and Nobel Prize winner
• 1965 : Julius Lorenzen , German civil engineer and local politician
• 1967 : Anton Eberhard , German tax and economic advisor and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1970 : Hjalmar Schacht , German minister, banker and President of the Reichsbank
• 1971 : Heinz Hopf , Swiss mathematician
• 1973 : Walter Bodmer , Swiss painter and sculptor
• 1974 : Klara Marie Faßbinder , German activist of the women's and peace movement
• 1975 : Hermann Busch , German cellist
• 1975 : Satō Eisaku , Japanese Prime Minister

Archibald Vivian Hill († 1977)

• 1977 : Archibald Vivian Hill , British physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1977 : Roberto Rossellini , Italian film director
• 1978 : Billy Wallace , American country, rockabilly musician and songwriter
• 1979 : Arno Schmidt , German writer
• 1980 : Naum Ilyich Achijeser , Ukrainian mathematician
• 1982 : Sergei Artemjewitsch Balasanjan , Soviet composer
• 1982 : Joachim Illies , German biologist, entomologist and non-fiction author
• 1983 : Franz Joachim Behnisch , German writer
• 1984 : Aldo Campatelli , Italian football player and coach
• 1985 : Karl Obermayr , German actor and Bavarian folk actor
• 1987 : Will Sampson , American actor
• 1988 : Anna Mahler , Austrian sculptor
• 1988 : Franz Ortner , Austrian journalist
• 1989 : Jack Belden , American war correspondent and writer

Ruhollah Khomeini († 1989)

• 1989 : Ruhollah Khomeini , Iranian Ayatollah, revolutionary leader and religious head of state
• 1991 : Katia and Maurice Krafft , French volcanologists
• 1991 : Sergiu Samarian , Romanian chess player, chess writer and national coach of the German Chess Federation
• 1992 : William Maxwell Gaines , American comic book series editor, founder of MAD magazine
• 1992 : Robert Morley , British actor and writer
• 1995 : Paul Wandel , German politician, Minister for National Education and Youth of the GDR
• 1997 : Marta Schanzenbach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1998 : Poul Bundgaard , Danish actor and singer
• 1999 : Helge Christian Bronée , Danish football player
• 2000 : Merton H. Miller , American economist, Nobel Prize winner

21st century

• 2001 : Flora Groult , French writer and journalist

Anthony Quinn († 2001)

• 2001 : Anthony Quinn , American film actor
• 2002 : Sam Whipple , American film actor
• 2003 : Antoni Marianowicz , Polish diplomat, journalist and writer
• 2003 : Lore Straßl , German translator and editor
• 2004 : Quorthon , Swedish musician
• 2004 : Frances Shand Kydd , mother of Diana Spencer
• 2005 : Leon Askin , Austrian actor
• 2005 : Jon Idigoras , Spanish politician
• 2007 : Iván Darvas , Hungarian actor
• 2007 : Bedřich Janáček , Czech organist, composer and music teacher
• 2008 : Trevor Kaine , Australian politician
• 2009 : Sam Butera , American saxophonist

David Carradine († 2009)

• 2009 : David Carradine , American actor
• 2009 : Thomas Ponce Gill , American attorney and politician, MP for Hawaii
• 2010 : Vladimir Igorewitsch Arnold , Russian mathematician
• 2010 : Rue McClanahan , American actress
• 2010 : Paul Malliavin , French mathematician
• 2010 : Luigi Padovese , Italian Bishop, Vicar Apostolic of Anatolia
• 2011 : James Arness , American actor
• 2011 : John Henry Johnson , American football player
• 2011 : Jack Kevorkian , American medic
• 2011 : José Rosinski , French racing car driver and journalist
• 2012 : Martin Accola , Swiss clergyman
• 2012 : Roy Salvadori , British racing car driver
• 2013 : Deacon Jones , American football player

Helge Jung † 2013

• 2013 : Helge Jung , German composer
• 2014 : Fritz Schwegler , German artist
• 2015 : Horst Brandstätter , German entrepreneur
• 2015 : Giovan Battista Fabbri , Italian football player and coach
• 2016 : Muhammad Ali , American boxer
• 2016 : Luis Salom , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 2017 : Gerhard Gebauer , German politician
• 2018 : Miguel Obando Bravo , Nicaraguan Archbishop
• 2018 : Georg von Tiesenhausen , German-American rocket scientist
• 2019 : Agustina Bessa-Luís , Portuguese writer
• 2019 : Woizlawa-Feodora Princess Reuss , German noblewoman
• 2020 : Lennardt Krüger , German actor

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Karl Lwanga with companion, Ugandan martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Catholic, Protestant: ELCA )
  • St. John XXIII. , Roman Pope (Protestant: ELCA , Catholic Memorial Day: October 11 )
  • Hudson Taylor , English missionary (Protestant)
  • St Kevin of Glendalough , Irish nobleman, abbot and patron saint (Catholic)

• Name days
  • Archibald , Kevin

• More information about the day
  • European Bicycle Day (founded by Attac 1998)
  • World bicycle day

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

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