3 March
The March 3 is the 62nd day of the Gregorian calendar (63rd in leap years ), thus remain 303 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1284 : The Rhuddlan statute of King Edward I of England comes into force. It regulates law and administration in conquered Wales .
- 1326 : A treaty called herring ends the several months long war of the four lords in the Duchy of Lorraine .
- 1638 : The of France supported Bernard of Saxe-Weimar defeated his army in the Thirty Years' War in the Battle of Rheinfelden Imperial - Bavarian troops under the command of Federigo Savelli and Johann von Werth . Both military leaders and their officer corps were taken prisoner.
- 1813 : The Caribbean island group of Guadeloupe , conquered by France on February 4, 1810 , is given to King Charles XIII by Great Britain . ceded by Sweden . This serves as compensation for the loss of property of Crown Prince Charles XIV , which he suffered as an ally against Napoleon.
- 1814 : Completely surprisingly, the French city of Soissons surrendered on the second day of its siege by a Prussian army corps under Friedrich Wilhelm Bülow von Dennewitz and a Russian corps under Ferdinand von Wintzingerode during the wars of liberation against Napoleon Bonaparte .
- 1845 : Following the expulsion of the Seminoles , the previous Florida territory is incorporated into the United States under the name Florida as the 27th state .
- 1849 : Former areas of the dissolved territories of Iowa and Wisconsin are combined with other areas east of the Missouri River to form the Minnesota Territory .
- 1861 : Under Tsar Alexander II , Russia is the last country in Europe to abolish serfdom . But this only leads to additional financial dependence of the farmers on the nobility .
- 1871 : In the German Empire the election for the 1st German Reichstag takes place, to which about 20% of the population are entitled to vote. The National Liberal Party , which supports Otto von Bismarck's policies , becomes the strongest party.
- 1878 : The Peace of San Stefano ends the Russo-Turkish War and the Balkan Crisis of 1876–1878. Bulgaria regains independence from the Ottoman Empire after almost 500 years , but remains tributary to it.
- 1886 : The Peace of Bucharest ends the Serbian-Bulgarian War in the Balkans. The status quo before the war is restored.
- 1913 : Washington's first national suffragette parade for women's suffrage is attacked by angry mob. Many women in the National Woman's Party are injured in the presence of the police.
- 1918 : The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ended in the First World War on the Eastern Front war on the Central Powers with Russia . Soviet Russia renounces its sovereign rights in Poland , Lithuania and Courland , among other things , while the German Reich extends its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the Baltic States.
- 1919 : The Berlin March Fighting begins in the Lichtenberg district and is associated with executions of more than 1,200 people.
- 1922 : In the Free State of Fiume , fascists take power with a coup d'état . The legal government is taking refuge in the neighboring kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes .
- 1924 : After the founding of the Turkish Republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , the last is Caliph of the Ottoman Empire , Abdülmecid II. , Deposed and the caliphate dissolved.
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- 1931 : Congress elevates The Star-Spangled Banner , written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 , to the United States' national anthem.
- 1933 : A few days after the Reichstag fire , the leader of the KPD , Ernst Thälmann , is arrested and taken into " protective custody " by the National Socialists .
- 1945 : Allied planes accidentally drop bombs on a residential area of The Hague during World War II . Around 500 people are killed in the air strike .
- 1945 : In the Battle of Manila , the US and the Philippine armed forces take part in the last fighting with Japanese troops, culminating in the Allies taking the heavily destroyed city.
- 1961 : The left-wing party German Democratic Union , active in Saarland , joins the German Peace Union as its Saarland regional association .
- 1961 : King Hassan II ascends the throne in Morocco .
- 1962 : The British Antarctic Territory is created.
- 1973 : The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) for the protection of wild fauna and flora is signed in Washington, DC . The agreement drawn up by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources aims above all to prevent the trade in wild animals and the parts extracted from them.
- 1975 : Accompanied by Pastor Heinrich Albertz , five prisoners are flown to Aden in order to free Peter Lorenz . It is the only time that the German government gives in to a terrorist demand.
- 1986 : The Austrian news magazine profil publishes an article entitled Waldheim and the SA about the past of the federal presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim and thus gets the Waldheim affair rolling.
- 1991 : In Los Angeles , the arrest of the colored Rodney King leads to attacks by the police, who are filmed by a passerby. The acquittal of the police a year later led to massive unrest in Los Angeles .
- 1992 : Kyrgyzstan receives its current flag .
- 1992 : The Bosnian President Alija Izetbegović declares independence from Bosnia and Herzegovina after a referendum .
- 1996 : In the elections to the Spanish parliament , the conservative Partido Popular under José María Aznar becomes the strongest party ahead of the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .
- 1999 : German Walter LaGrand is executed in the gas chamber for robbery in Arizona . This is the last execution in the United States to date using this method .
- 2002 : The people of Switzerland decided in a referendum for the accession of their country to the United Nations .
- 2006 : Randy Cunningham , former member of the US House of Representatives, sentenced to eight years and 4 months in prison and a $ 1.8 million fine for corruption. The sentence imposed by the court is one of the highest ever imposed on a Congressman.
economy
- 1849 : The US Congress authorized the United States Mint minting gold coins in denomination of one and twenty dollars .
- 1866 : The Gödecke company is founded in Leipzig, specializing in business with essential oils and essences . Over time, this developed into an internationally known pharmaceutical company.
- 1885 : The American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation ( AT&T ) is founded to operate the USA's first telephone network.
- 1923 : The first edition of the US news magazine Time , founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden , appears in New York.
- 1940 : The RMS Queen Elizabeth secretly leaves Liverpool on her maiden voyage because of the war. The largest passenger ship in the world by then was heading for New York City.
- 2004 : The world's biggest brewer InBev is created from the merger of companies Interbrew and AmBev .
- 2017 : The Nintendo Switch appears worldwide. The sales figures on the day of publication exceed those of all Nintendo consoles so far.
science and technology
- 1904 : German Kaiser Wilhelm II is the first person to make a sound recording of a political document. These are Tonaufzeichnungszylinder of Thomas Edison used.
- 1905 : Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discovered the syphilis pathogen Spirochaeta pallida during research at the Charité Clinic in Berlin .
- 1915 : The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) is founded in the USA for basic research in aviation. NASA later developed from the organization .
- 1969 : NASA's Apollo 9 mission takes off into space with astronauts James McDivitt , David Randolph Scott and Rusty Schweickart on board a Saturn V rocket. The aim of the mission is a test flight of the lunar module .
- 1969 : The United States Navy Fighter Weapons School , better known as Top Gun , is founded to teach pilots air tactics and thus counter the relatively poor performance of fighter pilots in the Vietnam War .
- 1980 : The USS Nautilus the United States Navy , the first nuclear-powered submarine in the world, is decommissioned. She will then be restored as a museum ship at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California .
- 1995 : US researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory use the Tevatron particle accelerator to provide experimental evidence of the top quark building block .
- 1997 : The Sky Tower , Auckland television tower and, at 328 meters, the tallest building in the southern hemisphere, is opened.
- 2005 : Steve Fossett finishes the first non-stop solo flight around the world in the Global Flyer after a good 70 hours. With the flight he set 10 new records for the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale ( FAI ).
Culture
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- 1585 : The Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza , built according to plans by Andrea Palladio as the first free-standing theater building in Europe since ancient times, is opened. The play King Oedipus is played by Sophocles .
- 1671 : The National Opera (Académie) opens in Paris with the first opera in French , Pomone , by Robert Cambert .
- 1734 : The premiere of the pasticcios Circe by Reinhard Keizer takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
- 1842 : The first performance of the 3rd Symphony ("Scottish Symphony") by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy under the direction of the composer takes place in the Leipzig Gewandhaus .
- 1860 : The 1st Serenade by Johannes Brahms is premiered in Hanover .
- 1870 : The alto rhapsody by Johannes Brahms with the soloist Pauline Viardot-García is premiered in Jena .
- 1875 : The premiere of the Opéra-comique Carmen by Georges Bizet with the libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy based on the novel of the same name by Prosper Mérimée at the Opéra-Comique in Paris is coldly received by the audience. The work's global success only began months later.
- 1899 : Richard Strauss ' symphonic poem Ein Heldenleben is premiered in Frankfurt by the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra under the direction of the composer.
- 1906 : The Leipzig Natural History Museum is founded.
- 1925 : The Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills , South Dakota, carved in stone by John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum , is dedicated. The Lakota see the monument as a desecration of their sacred mountain.
- 1986 : Heavy metal band Metallica releases their album Master of Puppets , which is considered a milestone in Thrash Metal .
religion
- 357 : Relics of the Apostle Andrew and the Evangelist Luke are brought to Constantinople .
- 1219 : Archbishop Siegfried II of Mainz confirms the founding of the Eppenberg Monastery as a subsidiary of the Ahnaberg Monastery and takes it under his protection.
- 1298 : The third part of the medieval canon law collection Corpus Iuris Canonici , called Liber Sextus , is promulgated by Pope Bonifatius VIII .
- 1878 : After his election on February 20, Leo XIII becomes enthroned as Pope in the Sistine Chapel .
Disasters
- 1974 : Shortly after taking off from Paris-Orly Airport in Paris , a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashed on Turkish Airlines flight 981 . 346 people are killed in the crash.
- 2002 : A 7.4 magnitude earthquake in the Hindu Kush kills 166.
- 2009 : The historical archive of the city of Cologne with a collection of u. a. 65,000 documents from the year 922 collapse, probably caused by the directly adjacent shaft of the north-south light rail under construction of the Cologne transport company . Two people die and about 90 percent of the archive material is spilled and some of it is lost or has to be painstakingly restored.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1875 : James Creighton , a student at McGill University , organized the first indoor ice hockey game in Montreal , Canada . A puck is mentioned for the first time in a newspaper report about the game .
- 1999 : The heavyweight boxing world championship fight between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield ends in a draw, leaving each of the two boxing world champions , Lewis for the WBA and Holyfield for the WBC and IBF .
- 2018 : The International Football Association Board decides at a meeting in Zurich to include the video assistant in the football rules ("Laws of the Game"). The decision is made unanimously. It is up to the national associations whether they also use the technically and financially expensive video evidence.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1217 : Henry I , King of Cyprus
- 1416 : Sigismund of Saxony , Bishop of Würzburg
- 1453 : Philip II , Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg
- 1455 : Ascanio Sforza , Archbishop of Eger and Cardinal
- 1500 : Reginald Pole , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1574 : Jacob Studer , Swiss bibliophile and librarian
- 1577 : Nicolas Trigault , member of the Societas Jesu and French missionary
- 1589 : Gisbert Voetius , Reformed theologian
- 1606 : Edmund Waller , English poet and politician
- 1620 : August Augspurger , German poet, translator and epigrammatist
- 1638 : Michael Walther the Younger , German mathematician and Lutheran theologian
- 1650 : Johann Daniel Arcularius , German logician and Lutheran theologian
- 1667 : Jacob Heinrich von Flemming , Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon General Field Marshal, statesman
- 1674 : Friedrich Karl von Schönborn-Buchheim , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg and Imperial Vice Chancellor
- 1693 : James Bradley , British astronomer and Anglican theologian
- 1695 : Niklaus von Wattenwyl , Swiss banker and pietist
- 1700 : Charles-Joseph Natoire , French painter
18th century
- 1709 : Andreas Sigismund Marggraf , German chemist
- 1710 : Johann Siegmund Mörl , German Protestant clergyman
- 1728 : Joseph Anton Steiner , German Catholic theologian
- 1748 : Heinrich Johann Otto König , German law scholar and university professor
- 1749 : Françoise Eléonore Dejean de Manville, Comtesse de Sabran , French salon lady
- 1751 : Pierre Prévost , French-Swiss philosopher and physicist
- 1756 : William Godwin , British writer
- 1758 : Carl Gottlob Cramer , German writer
- 1763 : Georg Christian Benedikt Ackermann , German theologian, educator, pastor and court preacher
- 1771 : Gerhard Philipp von Closter , Prussian officer
- 1772 : Engelbert Schue , German Catholic clergyman and university professor
- 1788 : William Carroll , American politician
- 1790 : John Austin , English lawyer and legal philosopher
- 1791 : Johannes Bach , German lawyer and politician
- 1793 : Charles Sealsfield , Moravian writer
- 1794 : Friedrich Busse , German company director and inventor
- 1795 : Gustav Harkort , German entrepreneur, banker and railway pioneer in Leipzig
- 1797 : Gotthilf Hagen , German engineer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Johann Philipp Abresch , German democrat
- 1805 : Jonas Furrer , Swiss politician, first Federal President of Switzerland
- 1806 : Karl Theodor Albert Liebner , German Lutheran theologian, philologist and historian
- 1806 : Emil Adolf Roßäßler , German naturalist and folk writer
- 1807 : Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki , Polish writer
- 1811 : Hugo von Ritgen , German architect
- 1811 : Bernhard Wolff , founder of the Berliner National-Zeitung
- 1812 : Ernst Friedrich Apelt , philosophical writer
- 1816 : Jan Arnošt Smoler , Sorbian philologist, writer and publisher
- 1822 : Bernhard Hammer , Swiss politician
- 1824 : Adalbert von Dobschütz , Prussian colonel
- 1825 : William Evans Arthur , American politician
- 1829 : Carl Heinrich von Siemens , German industrialist
- 1832 : Pieter de Jong , Dutch orientalist
- 1837 : Jacques Charles René Duchesne , French general
- 1838 : George William Hill , American astronomer and mathematician
- 1840 : Friedrich Achelis , German businessman and politician
- 1840 : Chief Joseph , chief of the Nez Percé Indians
- 1841 : John Murray , British oceanographer
- 1842 : Frederick Gustavus Burnaby , British military man, traveler and writer
- 1842 : James Sully , English psychologist
- 1844 : Aoki Shūzō , Japanese diplomat and politician
- 1845 : Georg Cantor , German mathematician
- 1847 : Alexander Graham Bell , British speech therapist, inventor and large entrepreneur
- 1848 : Joseph Peter Audebert , German naturalist and ethnologist
- 1848 : Gustav Adolf Fischer , German Africa explorer
- 1849 : Leonhard Tietz , German businessman
1851-1900
- 1852 : Friedrich Hahn , German geographer
- 1855 : Ludwig Döderlein , German zoologist
- 1855 : Alois Mayer , German sculptor
- 1855 : George Henry Wilson , American dentist and professor
- 1856 : Gustav Davis , Austrian journalist and newspaper editor
- 1857 : Alfred Bruneau , French composer and music critic
- 1858 : Heinrich Brockhaus , German art historian
- 1863 : Arthur Make , Welsh fantasy writer
- 1867 : Gustav Strube , American composer
- 1868 : Émile Chartier , French philosopher, writer and journalist
- 1868 : Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz , German officer and explorer
- 1869 : Friedrich Bothe , German teacher and historian
- 1869 : Henry Wood , British conductor
- 1870 : Géza Maróczy , Hungarian chess player
- 1870 : August Merges , German politician and revolutionary, MdR, MdL, Prime Minister, victim of the Nazi judiciary
- 1871 : Ada Crossley , Australian singer
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- 1871 : Maurice Garin , French cyclist
- 1871 : Josef Schatz , Austrian Germanist and dialect researcher
- 1872 : Wilhelm Ahrens , German mathematician and writer
- 1873 : Gertrud Arnold , German actress
- 1874 : Karl Scharfenberg , German railway engineer
- 1878 : Leopold Jessner , German theater and film director
- 1880 : Jerónimo Costa , Chilean painter
- 1882 : Elisabeth Abegg , German educator, Quaker and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1886 : RO Morris , English composer and music teacher
- 1887 : Kurt Wolff , German publisher
- 1888 : Olaf Hytten , Scottish actor
- 1893 : Judith Alpi , Chilean painter
- 1883 : Cyril Burt , British psychologist
- 1886 : Ezequiel Fernández Jaén , 18th President of Panama
- 1889 : Carl Vincent Krogmann , Mayor of Hamburg
- 1891 : Arthur Drewry , British football official, FIFA President
- 1892 : Georges Guignard , French racing car driver
- 1892 : Ivan Albertowitsch Puni , Russian painter
- 1894 : Henriette Petit , Chilean painter
- 1895 : Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch , Norwegian economist
- 1895 : Matthew B. Ridgway , American general
- 1898 : Emil Artin , Austrian mathematician
- 1898 : Aenne Biermann , German photographer
- 1898 : Humberto Viscarra Monje , Bolivian composer
- 1899 : Yuri Karlowitsch Olescha , Russian writer
- 1899 : Albert Krebs , Gauleiter of Hamburg in the Third Reich
- 1900 : Fritz Rotter , Austrian author and composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Otto Müller , German publisher
- 1901 : Gwen Wakeling , American costume designer
- 1903 : Gilbert Adrian , American costume designer
- 1903 : Rabbe Enckell , Finnish writer, poet and painter
- 1904 : Unica Bachmann-Calcoen , German-Dutch portrait and animal painter
- 1904 : Horace Lapp , Canadian pianist, organist, conductor and composer
- 1904 : El Duque del Morteruelo , Spanish poet
- 1904 : Rudolf Schwarz , German communist politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1904 : Harry Werner Storz , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1905 : Marie Glory , French actress
- 1906 : Barney Bigard , American jazz clarinetist
- 1907 : Canada Lee , American boxer, actor, and civil rights activist
- 1909 : Otto Dippelhofer , German general
- 1909 : Johnny Barfield , American old-time and country musician
- 1908 : Yvonne Godard , French freestyle swimmer
- 1910 : Gerhard Arlt , German painter, graphic artist and local historian
- 1911 : Jean Harlow , American actress
- 1912 : Lauro Amadò , Swiss football player
- 1912 : Klaus Gysi , German politician and minister of the GDR
- 1913 : Margaret Bonds , American composer and pianist
- 1913 : August Tiedtke , German carom player, world and European champion
- 1914 : Asger Jorn , Danish artist
- 1915 : William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead , British government official and banker
- 1915 : Manning Clark , Australian historian
- 1915 : Herbert Tiede , German actor
- 1916 : Paul Halmos , American mathematician
- 1916 : Hans Samelson , American mathematician
- 1916 : Benno Sterzenbach , German actor
- 1918 : Arthur Kornberg , American biochemist
- 1918 : Fritz Thiedemann , German show jumper, farmer and entrepreneur
- 1919 : Loki Schmidt , German author and teacher
- 1920 : Julius Boros , Hungarian-American golfer
- 1920 : James Doohan , American actor
- 1920 : Tony Gaze , Australian aviator and racing car driver
- 1921 : Diana Barrymore , American actress
- 1921 : Paul Guimard , French writer
- 1921 : Harry Kalenberg , Austrian actor
- 1922 : Nándor Hidegkuti , Hungarian football player
- 1922 : Kazimierz Serocki , Polish composer
- 1922 : Alexandru Vona , Romanian writer and architect
- 1923 : Barney Martin , American actor
- 1924 : Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi , Nigerian President
- 1924 : Lys Assia , Swiss singer and actress
- 1924 : Omero Tognon , Italian football player and coach
- 1924 : Erhard Ueckermann , German hunting and forest scientist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Heinz Knobloch , German writer
- 1926 : James Merrill , American writer
- 1926 : Käthe Reichel , German actress and peace activist
- 1927 : Pierre Aubert , Swiss politician
- 1928 : Pierre Michelot , French jazz musician
- 1928 : Gudrun Pausewang , German writer
- 1929 : Mithat Bayrak , Turkish wrestler, Olympic champion
- 1929 : Siegrid Ernst , German composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1930 : Keiiti Aki , Japanese geophysicist and seismologist
- 1930 : Heiner Geißler , German politician
- 1930 : Ion Iliescu , Romanian politician
- 1931 : Franz Anderrüthi , Swiss mountaineer and mountain guide
- 1931 : Anatoly Stepanowitsch Djatlow , Soviet engineer
- 1932 : Franz von Kutschera , German philosopher
- 1933 : Alfredo Landa , Spanish actor and comedian
- 1933 : Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder , German sports official, President of the German Football Association
- 1933 : Marco Antonio Muñiz , Mexican singer
- 1933 : Doc Watson , American guitarist and singer
- 1934 : Jimmy Garrison , American jazz bassist
- 1934 : Jacek Kuroń , Polish civil rights activist and publicist, historian and politician
- 1935 : Mal Anderson , Australian tennis player
- 1935 : Dieter Appelt , German photographer, painter, sculptor, video, action and object artist
- 1935 : Hartmut Bossel , German environmental researcher
- 1935 : Shelju Shelev , Bulgarian philosopher, politician and dissident, president
- 1935 : Michael Walzer , American intellectual and social philosopher
- 1937 : Bobby Driscoll , American actor
- 1937 : Alfred Janson , Norwegian composer, pianist and accordionist
- 1938 : Bruno Bozzetto , Italian cartoon animator
- 1938 : Douglas Leedy , American composer, conductor, horn player, harpsichordist, singer and music teacher
- 1939 : Ariane Mnouchkine , French actress
- 1940 : Ghazi al-Gosaibi , Saudi Arabian writer and diplomat
- 1940 : Horst Schmidbauer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1941 : Jutta Hoffmann , German stage and film actress
- 1941 : John Thomas , American athlete
- 1942 : Gretchen Dutschke-Klotz , American author and student activist
- 1943 : Jean-Clément Jeanbart , Syrian Archbishop
- 1943 : Albert A. Stahel , Swiss political scientist
- 1943 : Ivo Vajgl , Slovenian Foreign Minister
- 1944 : Eva Astor , Austrian actress, pop singer and astrologer
- 1944 : Lee Holdridge , American composer
- 1944 : Tatja Seibt , German actress
- 1945 : Patricia Asbæk , Danish gallery owner and curator
- 1945 : Gordon Thomson , Canadian actor
- 1946 : James C. Adamson , American astronaut
- 1946 : Charles Asati , Kenyan sprinter
- 1946 : Jorge Asís , Argentine journalist and writer
- 1946 : Manfred Flügge , German writer
- 1946 : Dunja Rajter , Croatian singer and actress
- 1947 : Takeo Ischi , Japanese singer and yodeler
- 1947 : Óscar Tabárez , Uruguayan football player and coach
- 1947 : Jennifer Warnes , American singer
- 1948 : Snowy White , British blues and rock guitarist
- 1949 : Roberta Alexander , American soprano
- 1950 : Karl Goldammer , Austrian painter
- 1950 : Peter Lovett , British racing car driver
1951-1975
- 1951 : Benny Barnes , American football player
- 1951 : Lindsay Cooper , British bassoonist, saxophonist and composer
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- 1952 : Günter Assenmacher , German clergyman, official of the Archdiocese of Cologne
- 1952 : Wolfgang Kubicki , German politician
- 1953 : Aram Asatryan , Armenian pop singer
- 1953 : Dagmar Freitag , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1953 : Hans-Gerd Jauch , German lawyer and insolvency administrator
- 1953 : Jan Simonsen , Norwegian politician
- 1953 : Josef Winkler , Austrian writer
- 1953 : Zico , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 1954 : Rüdiger Barton , German rock musician, producer and studio musician
- 1954 : Dieter Drabiniok , German politician
- 1954 : Ona Zee , American porn actress, producer and director
- 1956 : Zbigniew Boniek , Polish football player
- 1957 : Atli Eðvaldsson , Icelandic football player and coach
- 1957 : Chris Lewis , New Zealand tennis player
- 1957 : Vasile Oprea , Romanian handball player and coach
- 1958 : Haji Nasrullah Baryalai Arsalai , Afghan politician
- 1958 : Bob Bradley , American football coach
- 1958 : Miranda Richardson , British actress
- 1958 : Marc Silvestri , American comic book artist and publisher
- 1959 : Wilfried Klenk , German politician
- 1959 : Liliana Vitale , Argentine composer, singer and pianist
- 1960 : Chachamaru , Japanese musician
- 1960 : Gerald Höfer , German writer
- 1960 : Andreas Thiel , German handball player
- 1961 : Anita Hegerland , Norwegian singer
- 1962 : Jackie Joyner-Kersee , American athlete
- 1963 : Chaltmaagiin Battulga , Mongolian politician, President of Mongolia since 2017
- 1963 : Benjamin Eberle , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
- 1964 : Laura Harring , American actress
- 1964 : Raymond Narac , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1965 : Eric Da Re , American actor
- 1965 : Boris Steinberg , German chanson singer
- 1965 : Dragan Stojković , Serbian football player
- 1965 : Guylaine St-Onge , Canadian actress
- 1966 : Detlef Altenbeck , German director
- 1966 : Tone Lōc , American hip-hop musician
- 1967 : Isabel Abedi , German children's book author
- 1967 : Jorge Claudio Arbiza Zanuttini , Uruguayan football player
- 1967 : Stephan Attiger , Swiss politician
- 1967 : Spiridon Neven DuMont , German photographer
- 1967 : Alexander Volkov , Russian tennis player
- 1968 : Oli Bigalke , German actor
- 1968 : Brian Leetch , American ice hockey player
- 1968 : Scott Radinsky , American singer and football player
- 1968 : Jörg Stiel , Swiss football player
- 1969 : Horst Steffen , German soccer player and coach
- 1969 : Simon Whitlock , Australian dart player
- 1970 : John Carter Cash , American country singer and record producer
- 1971 : Lothar Leder , German triathlete
- 1972 : Darren Anderton , English football player
- 1972 : Kola Boof , American writer and feminist
- 1972 : Thomas M. Held , German-Austrian actor
- 1973 : Rustam Aji , Ukrainian wrestler
- 1973 : Jason Bright , Australian racing car driver
- 1974 : David Faustino , American actor and singer
- 1974 : DJ Noise , Swiss DJ and producer
- 1974 : Tomáš Kraus , Czech skier
- 1974 : Josef Strobl , Austrian ski racer
- 1975 : Johanna Wokalek , German actress
1976-2000
- 1976 : Natalia Kukulska , Polish pop singer
- 1977 : Gabriel Arroyo , Argentine volleyball player
- 1977 : Ronan Keating , Irish musician
- 1977 : Stéphane Robidas , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978 : Britta Carlson , German soccer player
- 1978 : Leonora Jakupi , Yugoslav-Kosovar pop singer
- 1978 : Aarti Mann , American actress
- 1979 : Anton Weste , German novelist and game writer
- 1980 : Anmary , Latvian singer
- 1980 : Pavel Krmaš , Czech football player
- 1980 : Christoph Semmler , German soccer player
- 1981 : Ed Carpenter , American racing car driver
- 1981 : Tobias Forge , Swedish rock musician
- 1981 : Lil 'Flip , American rapper
- 1981 : Ārash Miresmāeli , Iranian judoka
- 1981 : László Nagy , Hungarian handball player
- 1981 : Oliver Rudin , Swiss conductor, singer and composer
- 1981 : Mark-Alexander Solf , German actor, author and doctor
- 1982 : Alejandro Alonso , Argentine soccer player
- 1982 : Jessica Biel , American actress
- 1983 : Sarah Poewe , South African-German swimmer
- 1984 : Javier Arizmendi , Spanish football player
- 1984 : Petra Lammert , German athlete
- 1984 : António Eduardo Pereira dos Santos , Brazilian soccer player
- 1985 : Aljona Igorewna Arshinova , Russian politician
- 1985 : Marc Hohenberg , German handball player
- 1985 : Femi Opabunmi , Nigerian soccer player
- 1985 : Mariel Zagunis , American saber fencer
- 1986 : Gunnar Dietrich , German handball player
- 1986 : Stacie Orrico , American pop singer
- 1986 : Thorsten Salzer , German handball player
- 1989 : Philipp Bargfrede , German soccer player
- 1989 : Robin Carpet , German handball player
- 1990 : Christoph Kobleder , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Livia Matthes , German actress
- 1990 : Emmanuel Rivière , French football player
- 1991 : Deyanira Angulo , Mexican badminton player
- 1991 : Jan Bühn , German motorcycle racer
- 1991 : Andreas Wolff , German handball player
- 1993 : Antonio Rüdiger , German soccer player
- 1994 : Luna Gevitz , Danish soccer player
- 1994 : Patrick Weihrauch , German soccer player
- 1995 : Bryan Cristante , Italian soccer player
- 1997 : David Neres , Brazilian soccer player
- 1997 : Allan , Brazilian soccer player
- 1997 : Camila Cabello , Cuban-American singer
- 1998 : Jayson Tatum , American basketball player
Died
Before the 18th century
- 803 : Anselm von Nonantola , abbot of Nonantola Abbey
- 1009 : Abd ar-Rahman Sanchuelo , imperial administrator in the Caliphate of Cordoba
- 1033 : Kunigunde of Luxembourg , wife of Emperor Heinrich II.
- 1126 : Hartwig I , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1193 : Saladin , Ayyubid ruler
- 1195 : Hugh de Puiset , Bishop of Durham
- 1218 : Dreux IV. De Mello , lord of Saint-Bris and Baulche, later lord of Mello, castellan of Loches and Châtillon-sur-Indre, crusader, connétable of France
- 1218 : Rostislaw II , Grand Duke of the Kievan Rus
- 1223 : Wincenty Kadłubek , Bishop of Cracow
- 1234 : Robert III. , Count of Dreux and Braine
- 1277 : Folke Johansson , Archbishop of Uppsala
- 1303 : Roger Bernard III. , Count of Foix
- 1311 : Antony Bek , Bishop of Durham
- 1323 : Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle , English military man and rebel
- 1356 : Johann Klingenberg , councilor of Lübeck
- 1357 : Bernardus , Abbot of the Marienfeld Monastery
- 1421 : Johann I , Duke of Opole, Bishop of Posen, Leslau, Cammin and Kulm
- 1452 : Friedrich IV. Truchsess von Emmerberg , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1452 : Pietro Geremia , Italian Dominican and diplomat
- 1489 : Stanisław Kazimierczyk , Polish religious priest, pastor and preacher
- 1509 : Melchior von Meckau , Prince-Bishop of Brixen
- 1525 : Thomas de Foix , Bishop of Tarbes, French military and Marshal of France
- 1551 : Thomas Wentworth, 1st Baron Wentworth , English politician
- 1554 : Johann Friedrich I , Elector and Duke of Saxony
- 1573 : Claude de Lorraine , Duke of Aumale
- 1578 : Sebastiano Venier , 86th Doge of Venice
- 1604 : Fausto Sozzini , Unitarian theologian
- 1605 : Clement VIII , Ippolito Aldobrandini, Pope from 1592 to 1605
- 1612 : Joan Thynne , English nobleman
- 1616 : Matthias de L'Obel , botanist and personal physician to James I of England
- 1621 : Rudolf Goclenius the Younger , German physician, physicist, medic, mathematician and astronomer
- 1692 : Eleonore Katharine von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg , Landgravine of Hesse-Eschwege
18th century
- 1706 : Johann Pachelbel , German organist and composer ( canon and gigue in D major )
- 1707 : Aurangzeb , Mughal Mughal of India
- 1708 : Sigmund Carl von Castel-Barco , Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee
- 1711 : Karl , Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried
- 1714 : Hans Carl von Carlowitz , German forest scientist
- 1716 : Liberat Weiß , missionary of the Franciscan order in Ethiopia and catholic martyr
- 1718 : Jean d'Estrées , French politician and Archbishop of Cambrai
- 1732 : Francis Atterbury , British Bishop of Rochester
- 1768 : Nicola Antonio Porpora , Italian composer and singing teacher
- 1779 : Karim Khan , ruler of Persia
- 1780 : Joseph Highmore , British painter
- 1785 : Balthasar Ferdinand Moll , Austrian sculptor
- 1792 : Robert Adam , Scottish architect
- 1793 : Friedrich August von Anhalt-Zerbst , German sovereign
- 1797 : Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec , French navigator and explorer
19th century
- 1804 : Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo , Italian Baroque painter
- 1808 : Johann Christian Fabricius , German zoologist and economist
- 1808 : Anton von Maron , Austrian portrait painter
- 1822 : Franz Anton von Zauner , Austrian sculptor
- 1824 : Giovanni Battista Viotti , Italian violinist and composer, is considered one of the fathers of modern violin technique
- 1829 : Carl Friedrich Ulrich von Ahlefeldt von Dehn , Baron von Dehn in Ludwigsburg
- 1831 : Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch , German Protestant clergyman and botanist
- 1836 : Cayetano Carreño , Venezuelan composer
- 1837 : Viktor Joseph Dewora , German Catholic clergyman and educator
- 1838 : John Stevens , American inventor and engineer
- 1840 : Wilhelm Langbein , German educator
- 1846 : François de Beauharnais , French nobleman
- 1848 : Heinrich Olivier , German painter
- 1849 : Benedict Arnold , American politician
- 1850 : Oliver Cowdery , American co-founder of the Mormon movement
- 1855 : Hüsrev Mehmed Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1855 : Robert Mills , American architect and cartographer
- 1856 : Gebhard Adolph Friedrich von Krosigk , German landowner and civil servant
- 1859 : Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich , German geographer, pastor and educator
- 1861 : Joseph DuMont , German publisher
- 1862 : Auguste Mathilde Wilhelmine , Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1862 : Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach , German theologian
- 1870 : Anton Greven , German publisher
- 1871 : Heinrich Bernhard von Andlaw-Birseck , Baden politician and ultramontanist
- 1871 : Michael Thonet , German master carpenter and industrialist
- 1875 : Adolf Reubke , German organ builder
- 1879 : William Kingdon Clifford , British philosopher and mathematician
- 1882 : Ludwig Kalisch , German writer
- 1886 : Alfred Assolant , French writer
- 1890 : Adalbert von Bredow , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1890 : Innocent of Berzo , blessed of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1895 : Heinrich Gradl , Sudeten German historian
- 1895 : Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby , British admiral
- 1900 : Ludwig Purtscheller , Austrian mountaineer, teacher
- 1900 : Franz Heinrich Reusch , German Catholic theologian and old Catholic church historian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Isaäc Dignus Fransen van de Putte , Dutch statesman
- 1902 : Karl Krause , German entrepreneur
- 1903 : František Ladislav Rieger , Czech publicist and politician
- 1908 : Jakob Geis , Bavarian folk singer
- 1914 : Victor Nováček , Czech violinist and music teacher
- 1917 : Hermine Villinger , German writer
- 1920 : Theodor Philipsen , Danish painter
- 1921 : Pierre Cuypers , Dutch architect
- 1921 : Henry Goudy , British lawyer and university professor
- 1924 : Friedrich Julius Bieber , Austrian Africa researcher and ethnologist
- 1925 : Wilhelm von Seldeneck , German entrepreneur
- 1927 : Mikhail Petrovich Arzybaschew , Russian writer
- 1928 : Jan Toorop , Dutch symbolism painter
- 1930 : Alois Kreiten , German goldsmith
- 1931 : Otto Reutter , German comedian
- 1932 : Eugen d'Albert , German composer and pianist
- 1932 : Joseph Mackey Brown , American politician
- 1932 : Alfieri Maserati , Italian automotive engineer and racing driver
- 1934 : Wolfgang Pauly , German-Romanian chess composer
- 1936 : Theodor Albin Findeisen , German double bass player and teacher
- 1939 : Joe Little Twig , American football player and police officer
- 1942 : Amadeus , Count of Savoy, Duke of Apulia, 3rd Duke of Aosta, Governor and Viceroy
- 1945 : Annemarie von Auerswald , German canon, writer and museum director
- 1945 : René Biolay , French racing car driver
- 1948 : Auguste Adenauer , Konrad Adenauer's second wife
- 1950 : Eugen Klöpfer , German actor
1951-2000
- 1953 : James J. Jeffries , American boxer, world champion
- 1956 : Ernst Loof , German engineer, racing driver, race director and entrepreneur
- 1958 : Wilhelm Zaisser , Minister for State Security in the GDR
- 1959 : Lou Costello , American actor, producer, and comedian
- 1959 : Maurits Frank , Dutch cellist and music teacher
- 1959 : Paul Nicolas , French football player
- 1961 : Paul Wittgenstein , Austrian pianist
- 1963 : Dorothy Hansine Andersen , American pediatrician and pathologist
- 1966 : Alfonso Castaldo , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Naples
- 1966 : William Frawley , American actor
- 1967 : Thomas Walter , German soccer player
- 1967 : Heinrich Wilper , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1969 : Fred Alexander , American tennis player
- 1970 : Wilhelm Corsten , German historian, Canon in Cologne
- 1970 : Dirk Fengler , German soccer player
- 1973 : Nikolai Nikitin , Russian architect
- 1974 : Carl Jacob Burckhardt , Swiss diplomat, essayist and historian
- 1974 : Ludwig Grote , German art historian
- 1974 : Frank Seno , American football player
- 1975 : Karl Fabel , German chess composer
- 1975 : Jean Kurt Forest , German composer and musician
- 1975 : Otto Winzer , German politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the GDR
- 1975 : Therese Giehse , German actress
- 1977 : Franz Lippert , German politician (CSU) and State Secretary
- 1977 : Takeuchi Yoshimi , Japanese sinologist and cultural theorist
- 1978 : Otto Steinert , German photographer
- 1979 : Mustafa Barzani , leader of the Kurdish Democratic Party
- 1979 : Wolf-Dietrich Wittels , Austrian dermatologist
- 1980 : Forrest C. Donnell , American politician
- 1981 : Enid Bagnold , British writer and playwright
- 1982 : Josef Bradl , Austrian ski jumper and jumping coach
- 1982 : Georges Perec , French writer
- 1983 : Hergé , Belgian comic book writer and illustrator
- 1984 : John Bertram Adams , British physicist
- 1984 : Roy Hall , American pianist, country and rockabilly musician
- 1984 : Heinrich Kirchner , German sculptor
- 1985 : Kyril Bonfiglioli , English art dealer and writer
- 1985 : Noel Purcell , Irish actor and comedian
- 1987 : Danny Kaye , American actor, comedian and singer
- 1988 : Sewall Wright , American biologist, geneticist
- 1990 : Bruce Low , Dutch pop and gospel singer
- 1991 : William Penney , British physicist
- 1992 : Lella Lombardi , Italian racing car driver
- 1992 : Dante Maggio , Italian actor
- 1992 : Eux Stocke , German entrepreneur
- 1993 : Albert Sabin , American doctor and virologist of Polish-Jewish origin, developer of the oral polio vaccine
- 1994 : Roman Haubenstock-Ramati , Polish-Austrian composer of new music
- 1996 : Marguerite Duras , French writer, screenwriter and film director
- 1996 : John Joseph Krol , American clergyman, Archbishop of Philadelphia
- 1996 : Léo Malet , French crime novelist and poet
- 1999 : Gerhard Herzberg , German-Canadian chemist and physicist
- 2000 : Hector Duhon , American fiddle player (Cajun music)
- 2000 : Otto Grünmandl , Austrian cabaret artist and writer
- 2000 : Toni Ortelli , Italian alpinist, conductor and composer
21st century
- 2001 : Eugene Sledge , American soldier, author, and professor
- 2002 : Everhardus Ariëns , Dutch pharmacologist
- 2002 : Earl Bernard Murray , American trumpeter and conductor
- 2003 : Horst Buchholz , German actor
- 2003 : Goffredo Petrassi , Italian composer
- 2003 : Peter Smithson , British architect
- 2004 : Cecily Adams , American actress and director
- 2004 : Max Caflisch , Swiss typographer, book designer and font connoisseur
- 2005 : George Atkinson , American stuntman and businessman
- 2005 : Martin Denny , American jazz pianist
- 2005 : Rinus Michels , Dutch football coach
- 2005 : Guylaine St-Onge , Canadian actress
- 2006 : Wysse Feininger , Swedish-American graphic designer, porcelain painter and illustrator
- 2007 : Herbert Asmodi , German writer and playwright, screenplay and television play writer
- 2008 : Giuseppe Di Stefano , Italian opera singer
- 2008 : Annemarie Renger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag
- 2008 : Suzie , Dutch-Swedish singer and artist
- 2009 : Sydney Chaplin , American actor
- 2009 : Sebastian Faißt , German handball player
- 2009 : Flemming Flindt , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
- 2009 : Johanna König , German actress
- 2010 : Keith Alexander , English soccer player
- 2010 : Ursula Böttcher , German trainer
- 2010 : Albert Falke , German politician
- 2010 : Michael Foot , British politician
- 2011 : James Elliot , American astrophysicist
- 2011 : Friedhelm Kemp , German literary scholar, writer and translator
- 2012 : Ralph McQuarrie , American designer
- 2013 : Manfred Kremser , Austrian ethnologist and consciousness researcher
- 2014 : Robert Ashley , American composer
- 2015 : Gilles Cistac , French-Mozambican constitutional lawyer
- 2015 : Otto Kinne , German marine biologist
- 2016 : Thanat Khoman , Thai politician, Foreign Minister
- 2016 : Franz Mußner , German theologian and author
- 2017 : Raymond Kopa , French football player
- 2017 : René Préval , Haitian politician, President
- 2018 : Roger Bannister , British athlete
- 2018 : David Ogden Stiers , American actor
- 2018 : Alfonsín Quintana , Cuban singer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johann Friedrich I , Elector of Saxe-Coburg (Protestant)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Bulgaria : Liberation from the Ottoman Empire (1878)
- regional customs
- Anniversaries of international organizations
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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