May 3

The May 3 is the 123rd day of the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years ), thus remain 242 days by year end. Even the Roman and the Julian calendar to know May 3 (or Maius ). Dates prior to the Gregorian calendar reform are usually given in the Julian calendar.

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Events

Politics and world events

1328 : The English Parliament ratifies the agreement concluded on March 17th by Queen Isabella and Roger Mortimer in Edinburgh with the Scottish King Robert the Bruce , in which the independence of Scotland from England is guaranteed "forever".

1494: The second voyage of Christopher Columbus

1494 : On his second voyage, Christopher Columbus is the first European to discover the Caribbean island of Jamaica , which the Spaniards baptized Santiago .

1660: Treaty of Oliva

1660 : The Treaty of Oliva , which ends the First Northern War , consolidates Sweden's status under Charles XI. as a great power. The Polish King John II Casimir confirms the independence of the Duchy of Prussia from Poland-Lithuania .

1720 : Friedrich I is crowned King of Sweden after the resignation of his wife Ulrike Eleonore .

1791: Adoption of the May constitution

1791 : The four-year-old Sejm passes the constitution of May 3rd, the first democratic constitution in Europe. The aristocratic republic of Poland-Lithuania is thus also becoming a unitary state that is perceived as a threat by its absolutist neighbors Prussia, Russia and Austria.

1808: The insurgents are shot

1808 : The French occupying forces had 40 people involved in the Madrid uprising shot the day before in public. The event is captured six years later in Francisco de Goya's well-known picture The shooting of the insurgents .

1811 : The French army begins the siege of Tarragona during the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula .

1815 : Austrian troops under Count Vinzenz Ferrerius von Bianchi defeat the army of King Joachim Murat of Naples , Napoleon's brother-in-law , in the Battle of Tolentino during the Austro-Neapolitan War , part of the Wars of Liberation in Europe . Murat has to flee, the expelled Bourbons return to Naples.

1815: Map of the Free City of Krakow

1815 : Austria , Prussia and Russia contractually establish the Republic of Krakow at the Congress of Vienna , which is administered by the three great powers in the condominium .

1849 : The Dresden May uprising , aimed at the overthrow of King Friedrich August II of Saxony and the establishment of a republic, begins. The Russian anarchist Michail Bakunin , who arrived on May 4th, took the lead among the revolutionaries, including Gottfried Semper and Richard Wagner . The uprising lasted until May 9th.

1909 : With the law on motor vehicle traffic , a driving license valid throughout Germany is introduced.

1916 : The first leaders of the Easter Rising in Ireland , including Patrick Pearse , are shot dead at Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin. The executions lasted until May 12th.

1933 : After the workers' welfare was banned, the National Socialist People's Welfare was elevated to the rank of an NSDAP party organization in the German Reich .

1934 : The French Navy puts the Surcouf , the world's largest submarine of its time, into service.

1942 : Japanese units land on Tulagi Island during the Pacific War to set up a supply post. Four days later, US units fight in the Coral Sea .

1945: The sinking point of the Cap Arcona

1945 : An estimated 7,000 concentration camp prisoners and a crew of 380 men and guards died as British fighter-bombers in the Second World War , probably without knowledge of the cargo, sinking the ships Cap Arcona and Thielbek in Neustädter Bucht . During the same attack, the hospital ship Deutschland was also shot down in the Bay of Lübeck .

1945 : British forces occupy the Second World War without a fight Hamburg after battle commander Alwin Wolz after authorization by Karl Doenitz earlier the same day in the Villa Möllering in Lüneburg has signed the conditions for handing over the city.

1945 : The Schwerin von Krosigk cabinet begins work in Flensburg - Mürwik as the executive government of the German Reich until its members are arrested by Allied soldiers on May 23.

1946: International Military Tribunal for the Far East

1946 : After the indictment is brought on April 29, oral hearings begin in the Tokyo trials against members of the Imperial Japanese Army and former members of the government.

1947: Tennō Hirohito

1947 : In Japan , a new constitution drawn up by the Allied occupying powers based on proposals from Japan comes into force. Tennō Hirohito , who has already renounced his divinity with the surrender , only has representative tasks.

1957 : 14 well-known nuclear physicists from the GDR, among them Professors Max Volmer , Walter Friedrich , Hans Ertel , Gustav Hertz , Robert Rompe , Max Steenbeck , Peter Adolf Thiessen and Hans Falkenhagen , draft a declaration of solidarity with the Göttingen eighteen . April have spoken out against the armament of the Bundeswehr with nuclear weapons.

1968 : Students occupy the premises of the Sorbonne University in Paris . After these were forcibly evacuated by the police on the same day, the May riots began in the Latin Quarter .

1971: Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev

1971 : Walter Ulbricht occurs in the GDR under pressure from the Soviet Union "for health reasons" as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED back, his successor is Erich Honecker .

1977 : After an exchange of fire, the police in Singen am Hohentwiel succeed in arresting the terrorists of the Red Army faction Verena Becker and Günter Sonnenberg . The arrested persons were suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Federal Public Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and two companions on the basis of a weapon that was seized in the process.

1979 : In the general election in Great Britain and Northern Ireland , the opposition Conservative Party under Margaret Thatcher defeats Prime Minister James Callaghan's ruling Labor Party .

1980 : Opponents of nuclear power occupy the site of the repository near Gorleben and, as a symbolic act, found the Free Wendland Republic .

1991 : UNESCO adopts the Windhoek Declaration . She calls for "the creation of an independent, pluralistic and free press " as a "cornerstone for democracy and economic development". The annual International Press Freedom Day commemorates this event.

1993 : As a result of a proven false statement in connection with the Barschel affair, the SPD politician Björn Engholm resigns from his posts as SPD chairman, Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister and SPD candidate for Chancellor in the 1994 federal elections .

2007 : The Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond wins the Scottish parliamentary elections and becomes the strongest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time just ahead of the Scottish Labor Party of then First Minister Jack McConnell .

economy

1913: Map of the exhibition

1913 : The international world special exhibition for building and living in Leipzig opens. Around four million people will visit the exhibition by October, but in the end there is still a debt of half a million marks.

1933: Nellie Tayloe Ross

1933 : Nellie Tayloe Ross is appointed director of the United States Mint by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt . She held this post until 1953.

1960 : The agreement for the establishment of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), signed in Stockholm on January 4th, comes into force. The founding members are Denmark, Norway, Austria, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

1978 : DEC employee Gary Thuerk goes down in computer history as the first spammer by sending 400 advertising messages.

2002 : The game console GameCube from Nintendo will be released in Europe. Due to the strong competition from the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox , however, it is not very successful commercially.

science and technology

Animation of the solar eclipse of 1715

1715 : A solar eclipse takes place over southern England , the shadow orbit of which was predicted by Edmond Halley . The eclipse is thus probably the first for which such a calculation has been attempted.

1746: Messier 3

1746 : Charles Messier discovers the globular cluster Messier 3 in the constellation Jagdhunde . The celestial object is made up of about 500,000 stars and contains 212 variable stars - the largest number in the Milky Way .

1775 : The British watchmaker and inventor Alexander Cumming files a patent for a water closet .

1837: King Otto I.

1837 : King Otto I of Greece founds the Ottonian University with four faculties in Athens .
1971 : In Hamm-Uentrop the new gets nuclear reactor of the type THTR-300 , a first partial permit for the construction.

Culture

1825 : The opera Le maçon ( bricklayer and locksmith ) by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber has its world premiere at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. The libretto is by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne .
1913 : The premiere of Raja Harishchandra by director Dhundiraj Govind Phalke marks the beginning of Indian film .

1915: In Flanders Fields

1915 : The Canadian John McCrae , whose friend Alexis Helmer died the day before, wrote In Flanders Fields, one of the most famous English-language poems on the First World War .

1951 : The Royal Festival Hall in London is officially opened to replace the Queen's Hall, which was destroyed in World War II .

1953 : The German international broadcaster Deutsche Welle starts broadcasting from Cologne on shortwave for the first time.

1979 : The most expensive German feature film of the 1970s, The Tin Drum by Volker Schlöndorff based on the novel of the same name by Günter Grass with David Bennent in the leading role, premieres.

2009: Logo Telewizja Polska

2009 : Several Polish filmmakers, including Agnieszka Holland and Andrzej Wajda , call for a boycott of the public broadcaster Telewizja Polska ( TVP ) on the Polish national holiday because of the extreme right-wing director Piotr Farfał .

society

2000: Geocaching logo

2000 : In Portland (Oregon) Dave Ulmer starts the GPS scavenger hunt geocaching by hiding the first container.
2007 : The Gumball 3000 car race was prematurely terminated by the organizers for the first time since it began in 1999 after one of the participants in Macedonia had caused an accident with two fatalities the day before .
2007 : The British girl Madeleine McCann disappeared from a holiday apartment in Luz, Portugal . The criminal case, which became known worldwide through the search activities of the parents, is unsolved.

religion

996: Otto II and Gregor V.

0996 : Brun von Kärnten succeeds the late Johannes XV. from his cousin, Emperor Otto III. , appointed Pope on his Italian march . He takes the name of Gregory V on. At the age of 24 he is one of the youngest popes in history.

1728 : In Herrnhut , for the first time, a " slogan ", a collection of short Bible texts from the Old and New Testaments , is distributed in the then 32 houses in the village for the following day. As a result, the first Moravian watchword book was published in 1731 and has been published uninterruptedly since then.

1858 : In the encyclical Amantissimi redemptoris , Pope Pius IX turns . against the development observed in some places that the celebration of Mass is no longer practiced by the priest . The Pope exhorts all priests to dutifully exercise their office.

Disasters

1887 : 150 miners die in a mining disaster in Nanaimo , British Columbia , and only seven survive. The Nanaimo mine disaster is the worst man-made explosion in Canada until 1917.
1901 : A fire breaks out in a mattress factory in Jacksonville , Florida, which one believes can be mastered with a few buckets of water. The flames spread faster than expected, an eight-hour fire finally destroyed 2,368 houses in the city and made around 10,000 residents homeless.

1999: Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak

1999 : The Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak , a series of more than 70 tornadoes , causes one of the worst natural disasters in the United States. The highest wind speed of all recordings is measured at 511 km / h . Forty-six deaths and $ 1.1 billion in property damage are accounted for after the event.
2006 : When approaching Sochi , an Airbus A320-200 of the Armenian airline Armavia crashes into the Black Sea . All 113 people are killed.

2008: Precipitation from Cyclone Nargis

2008 : Cyclone Nargis is weakening over Myanmar . According to official information, 84,537 people were killed by the cyclone and 53,836 people are missing. Hundreds of thousands are losing their homes. Around 24 million people are affected by the disaster. As a result, the military regime refused entry to foreign disaster relief teams and confiscated relief supplies.

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

nature and environment

2003: The "old man of the mountain" shortly before it collapsed

2003 : The natural rock formation Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire is destroyed by a rock fall .

Sports

1899 : Ferencváros Budapest is established as a gymnastics club , with the football department added the following year.

1905 : In Bielefeld Football Club is the first FC Bielefeld Arminia founded. Emil Schröder becomes the first chairman of the association.

1907 : In Istanbul the football club is Fenerbahce founded.

1919 : A football club is founded in Bratislava , which is renamed ŠK Slovan Bratislava in 1953 .

1956 : The first judo world championships take place in Tokyo .

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

Born

Before the 18th century

0490 : K'an Joy Chitam I , ruler (Ajaw) of the Maya city of Palenque
0612 : Constantine III. , Emperor of Byzantium
1415 : Cecily Neville , English duchess
1428 : Pedro González de Mendoza , Spanish cardinal and statesman
1446 : Friedrich I , Duke of Liegnitz and Brieg
1446 : Margaret of York , Duchess of Burgundy
1455 : John II , King of Portugal

Pedro González de Mendoza (* 1428)
Margaret of York (* 1446)
John II, King of Portugal (* 1455)
Niccolò Machiavelli (* 1469)

1460 : Raffaele Riario , Italian cardinal and patron of the arts
1469 : Niccolò Machiavelli , Italian politician, historian and poet
1479 : Heinrich V , Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1484 : Christoph Kreß von Kressenstein , German mayor and politician
1519 : Konrad Matthäus , German lawyer
1535 : Alessandro Allori , Italian painter
1577 : Johann Günther II. , Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
1580 : Thomas Tusser , English poet
1616 : Heinrich Cosel , Bohemian jurist
1635 : Eugen Moritz von Savoyen-Carignan , French count and general
1654 : Jacques Abbadie , French theologian and writer
1662 : Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , German builder
1678 : Georg Friedrich the Younger , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
1678 : Amaro Pargo , Spanish corsairs of the Golden Age
1680 : Nicolae Mavrocordat , Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia
1687 : Johann Balthasar Bernhold , German Protestant clergyman and university professor
1695 : Henri de Pitot , French hydraulic engineer

18th century

1704 : Johann Gottfried Teske , German physicist
1713 : Alexis-Claude Clairaut , French mathematician, geodesist and physicist
1716 : Franz Anton Zeiller , Austrian painter
1722 : Gerhard Schøning , Norwegian historian
1729 : Florian Leopold Gassmann , Austrian composer
1735 : Caspar Wolf , Swiss painter
1737 : Friedrich Schwindl , Dutch composer
1748 : Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès , French politician
1750 : Johann Goercke , Prussian military doctor, surgeon and university professor
1761 : August von Kotzebue , German playwright

Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (* 1748)
August von Kotzebue (* 1761)
Elisabeth de Bourbon (* 1764)
Maria Sybilla Josepha Zais (* 1768)

1764 : Élisabeth Philippe Marie Hélène de Bourbon , French princess
1764 : Johann Wilhelm Meigen , German entomologist
1765 : August Ludwig Hülsen , German philosopher
1768 : Agustín Eyzaguirre , President of Chile
1770 : Maria Sybilla Josepha Zais , German hotelier
1773 : Giuseppe Acerbi , Italian naturalist
1782 : Pius Alexander Wolff , German actor
1784 : Henry Hubbard , American politician
1786 : Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo , Italian priest and founder of the order
1791 : Henryk Rzewuski , Polish writer
1797 : Heinrich Berghaus , German cartographer
1798 : Thomas Dickens Arnold , American politician
1798 : Carl Sandberg , Swedish historian, archival collector
1800 : Ludwig von Alvensleben , German writer

19th century

1801-1850

1804 : Francisco Armero Peñaranda , Spanish lieutenant general and politician
1810 : Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch , German lawyer, mayor of Leipzig
1813 : Karl Girardet , Swiss painter
1813 : Albert von Rheinbaben , Prussian general of the cavalry
1814 : Adams George Archibald , Canadian lawyer and politician
1814 : Peter Karl von Aretin , German politician
1820 : Vincenzo Vela , Swiss sculptor

Carl Wilhelm Otto Koch (* 1810)
Charles XV, King of Sweden (* 1826)
Bertha Benz (* 1849)
Bernhard von Bülow (* 1849)

1826 : Charles XV. , King of Sweden
1827 : John Hanning Speke , British explorer of Africa
1827 : Robert Zünd , Swiss painter
1829 : Jimmaku Kyūgorō , Japanese sumo wrestler, twelfth yokozuna
1833 : Samuel Mayes Arnell , American politician
1835 : Friedrich Geselschap , German history painter
1839 : Franz Weineck , German grammar school director and local researcher
1845 : Gustav Adolf Haggenmacher , Swiss explorer of Africa
1848 : Otto Bütschli , German zoologist
1849 : Bertha Benz , German automobile pioneer, wife of Carl Benz
1849 : Bernhard von Bülow , German politician, Reich Chancellor
1850 : Hedwig Heyl , German women's rights activist

1851-1900

1853 : Michael Moser , Austrian photographer
1854 : Otto Behaghel , German Germanist
1854 : Franz von Segesser von Brunegg , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
1858 : Gyula Madarász , Hungarian ornithologist and painter
1859 : Andy Adams , American writer
1859 : José Gallegos y Arnosa , Spanish painter, sculptor and architect
1860 : John Scott Haldane , English physiologist
1860 : Vito Volterra , Italian mathematician and physicist

Michael Moser (* 1853)
Vito Volterra (* 1860)
La Macarrona (* 1870)
Richard von Kühlmann (* 1873)

1866 : Richard von Kehler , German balloonist and military, airship pioneer
1869 : Johann Christian Eberle , German politician and Sparkasse functionary
1870 : Juana la Macarrona , Spanish flamenco dancer
1872 : Símun av Skarði , Faroese teacher of history and languages
1873 : Richard von Kühlmann , German lawyer, industrialist and diplomat
1874 : Vagn Walfrid Ekman , Swedish oceanographer
1874 : Ernst Scholz , German Minister of Economics
1876 : Bertha Hintz , German painter
1876 : Richard Ohnsorg , German theater director
1877 : Karl Abraham , German psychoanalyst
1877 : Heinrich Pössenbacher , German furniture manufacturer
1879 : Clyde L. Herring , American politician
1880 : Martin Luserke , German reform pedagogue and writer
1881 : Wilhelm Ferch , Romanian-German composer and choir director
1882 : Hans Trapp , German soccer player and sports official
1885 : Johnny Aitken , American racing car driver
1885 : Max Volmer , German chemist
1886 : Fritz Baumann , Swiss painter
1886 : Marcel Dupré , French composer, music theorist and publisher
1887 : Wilhelm Ackermann , German journalist
1888 : Beulah Bondi , American actress
1888 : Alfred Braun , German radio pioneer
1889 : Eugen Diesel , German writer
1889 : Gottfried Fuchs , German football player

Richard Ohnsorg (* 1876)
Martin Luserke (* 1880)
George Paget Thomson (* 1892)
Golda Meir (* 1898)

1890 : Soma Morgenstern , Austrian writer
1891 : Katharina Heise , German painter and sculptor
1892 : Elisabeth Kellermann , German drawing teacher and book illustrator
1892 : George Paget Thomson , English physicist
1893 : Konstantine Gamsachurdia , Georgian writer
1894 : Philipp Wüst , German conductor and composer
1895 : Gabriel Chevallier , French journalist and man of letters ( Clochemerle )
1896 : Karl Allmenröder , German pilot, holder of the Pour le Mérite
1896 : Ludwig Schmid-Wildy , Bavarian folk actor, director and inventor
1896 : Dodie Smith , English writer
1898 : Golda Meir , Israeli politician, Prime Minister
1899 : Aline MacMahon , American actress
1900 : Hugo Rahner , German Catholic theologian

20th century

1901-1925

1901 : Gino Cervi , Italian actor
1901 : Hugo Friedhofer , American film composer
1902 : Alfred Kastler , French physicist
1902 : José Nieto , Spanish actor
1903 : Bing Crosby , American singer and actor
1904 : Roberto Agramonte , Cuban philosopher, sociologist and politician
1904 : Bill Brandt , German photographer
1905 : Albrecht von Bayern , German nobleman, head of the House of Wittelsbach
1906 : Kenneth Morgan Abbott , American classical philologist
1906 : Mary Astor , American actress
1906 : Peter Lühr , German actor
1907 : Paul Böhmer , German wrestler
1908 : William Glock , British music promoter, director of BBC Radio 3
1909 : Hans Jürgen Abraham , German lawyer
1909 : Karl Gruber , Austrian Foreign Minister
1909 : John A. Notte , American politician, governor of Rhode Island
1909 : Colorado Pete , American radio host, country and cowboy musician
1910 : Akaba Suekichi , Japanese illustrator
1911 : Heinrich Kiefer , German painter and graphic artist
1912 : Virgil Fox , American organist
1912 : Ubaldo Monico , Swiss educator and artist
1912 : Felix Slavik , Austrian mechanic and politician

Bing Crosby (born 1903)
Mary Astor (born 1906)
William Inge (* 1913)
Pete Seeger (born 1919)

1913 : William Inge , American playwright
1913 : Heinz Kohut , American psychoanalyst
1913 : Lothar Malskat , German painter and art forger
1915 : Evencio Castellanos , Venezuelan composer, pianist and music teacher
1915 : Stu Hart , Canadian wrestler
1917 : Lamar Boren , underwater cameraman
1917 : Kiro Gligorov , Macedonian politician
1919 : Illa Blaue , German painter
1919 : Traute Lafrenz , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
1919 : John Cullen Murphy , American comic book artist
1919 : Pete Seeger , American folk musician
1920 : John Lewis , American jazz musician
1921 : Vasco Gonçalves , Portuguese officer and politician
1921 : Karl-Heinz Spilker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1922 : Jeanne Landry , Canadian pianist, music teacher and composer
1923 : Norman Thelwell , British cartoonist
1924 : Jehuda Amichai , German-Israeli poet
1924 : Ladislava Bakanic , American gymnast
1924 : Virgilio Expósito , Argentine tango composer and pianist
1924 : Jane Morgan , American singer
1924 : Ken Tyrrell , British racing driver and founder of Formula 1 Team Tyrrell
1925 : Robert Jonquet , French football player
1925 : Gottfried Kramer , German actor

1926-1950

1926 : Jimmy Cleveland , American jazz trombonist
1926 : Georgi Konstantinowitsch Mossolow , Russian pilot
1927 : David Rosenmann-Taub , Chilean poet and pianist
1928 : Richard Arnowitt , American physicist
1928 : Dave Dudley , American country singer
1929 : Hans Stadlmair , German conductor and composer
1930 : Juan Gelman , Argentine poet, journalist and translator
1930 : Horst Völz , German physicist and information scientist

Jimmy Cleveland (born 1926)
Aldo Rossi (* 1931)
James Brown (born 1933)
Georges Moustaki (* 1934)

1931 : Aldo Rossi , Italian architect
1932 : Werner Matschke , German conductor, choir director
1933 : James Brown , African American musician
1933 : Steven Weinberg , American physicist
1934 : Ivan Andonov , Bulgarian actor, director and painter
1934 : Jahn Otto Johansen , Norwegian journalist and writer
1934 : Georges Moustaki , French singer and poet
1934 : Frankie Valli , American pop singer
1935 : Christoph Demke , German theologian and bishop
1936 : Jon Idigoras , founder of the Basque separatist party Herri Batasuna
1937 : Hans Cieslarczyk , German football player
1938 : Umar Abd ar-Rahman , Egyptian cleric
1938 : Fernando Arias-Salgado , Spanish diplomat
1938 : Arístides Incháustegui , Dominican singer
1938 : Lindsay Kemp , British dancer, pantomime and actor

Umar Abd ar-Rahmān (* 1938)
Lindsay Kemp (* 1938)
Helmut Thoma (* 1939)
Věra Čáslavská (* 1942)

1939 : Bernd Leistner , German literary scholar and writer
1939 : Helmut Thoma , Austrian manager
1941 : Dieter Borchmeyer , German literary scholar
1941 : Nona Gaprindashvili , Georgian chess player
1941 : Dave Robinson , American football player
1942 : Věra Čáslavská , Czech gymnast
1942 : Henning Frenzel , German football player
1942 : Karl-Heinz Garnitz , German writer
1942 : Antoni Piechniczek , Polish football player and coach
1943 : Louis Frommelt , Liechtenstein sports shooter
1944 : Renate Blume , German actress
1944 : Gernot Erler , German politician
1945 : Jörg Drehmel , German athlete, Olympic medalist

Henning Frenzel (* 1942)
John Primer (born 1946)
Götz Aly (* 1947)
Leopoldo Luque (* 1949)

1946 : Jean Auclair , French politician

1946 : José Genoíno , Brazilian politician

1946 : John Primer , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter

1946 : Rabah Saâdane , Algerian football player and coach

1947 : Götz Aly , German journalist and political scientist

1948 : Hirotaka Akamatsu , Japanese politician

1949 : Kaoru Abe , Japanese jazz pianist, guitarist and saxophonist

1949 : Leopoldo Luque , Argentine soccer player

1949 : Hans Michelbach , German politician

1949 : Rüdiger Veit , German politician

1950 : Dag Arnesen , Norwegian pianist

1950 : Mary Hopkin , British singer

1950 : Helmuth Pree , Austrian canon lawyer

1951-1975

1951 : Jan Bielecki , Polish Prime Minister
1951 : Christopher Cross , American singer
1951 : Klaus Modick , German writer and literary translator
1951 : Tatjana Nikititschna Tolstaja , Russian writer
1952 : Leonid Gendrichowitsch Chatschijan , Armenian-American mathematician
1952 : Ruth W. Lingenfelser , German poet
1952 : Christine Prinsloo , Zimbabwean hockey player
1952 : Christian Schramm , German local politician and former Lord Mayor of Bautzen
1952 : Allan Wells , British athlete
1953 : Reinhard Karger , German composer and musician
1955 : August Auinger , Austrian motorcycle racer

Christian Schramm (* 1952)
William Clay Ford Jr. (* 1957)
Andrea Spatzek (* 1959)
Margarita Broich (* 1960)

1956 : Natalja Eduardowna Andreitschenko , Russian actress
1956 : Bernd Förster , German football player
1956 : Wolfgang Reinhart , German politician
1957 : William Clay Ford Jr. , American entrepreneur and manager ( Ford Motor Company )
1957 : Claus Hormel , German handball player
1958 : Kevin Kilner , American actor
1959 : Ben Elton , British novelist, playwright and comedian
1959 : Shigeru Kanno , Japanese conductor and composer
1959 : Andrea Spatzek , Austrian actress
1960 : May Ayim , German poet, educator and activist of the Afro-German movement
1960 : Pierre-Olivier Beckers-Vieujant , Belgian businessman and sports official
1960 : Margarita Broich , German actress
1960 : Kathy Cook , British athlete
1960 : Steffen Schleiermacher , German composer, pianist and conductor
1960 : Alan Thomson , Scottish bass guitarist
1960 : Jens Wonneberger , German writer and editor, journalist and critic
1961 : Steve McClaren , English football player and coach
1961 : Leyla Zana , Turkish politician and Kurdish human rights activist
1964 : Raoul Heimrich , German director
1965 : Dirk Helmig , German football player
1965 : Ignatius Ephräm II. Karim , Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church
1965 : John Jensen , Danish football player
1965 : Gaby Schaunig , Austrian politician

Ignatius Ephrem II Karim (* 1965)
Katrin Göring-Eckardt (* 1966)
Rea Garvey (* 1973)
Haya bint al-Hussein (* 1974)

1966 : Torsten Dechert , German musician
1966 : Agnès Desarthe , French writer
1966 : Katrin Göring-Eckardt , German politician
1966 : Jamiri , German comic artist
1966 : Henriette Kjær , Danish politician
1966 : Volker Mai , German athlete
1967 : Slavomír Kňazovický , Slovak canoeist
1969 : Rüdiger Götte , German author
1970 : Bobby Cannavale , American actor
1970 : Stanisław Mucha , Polish documentary film director
1971 : Damon Dash , American entrepreneur
1972 : Reza Aslan , Iranian-American religious scholar
1972 : Kristin Lehman , Canadian actress
1972 : Mark Morrison , British musician
1972 : Josey Scott , American actor and singer ( Saliva )
1973 : Gharib Amzine , Moroccan football player
1973 : Rea Garvey , Irish singer ( Reamonn )
1973 : Michael Reiziger , Dutch football player
1973 : Jennifer Tung , American actress
1974 : Haya bint al-Hussein , Jordanian-Emirati aristocrat and show jumper, President of the International Equestrian Federation
1974 : Jukka Hentunen , Finnish ice hockey player
1975 : Maksim Mrvica , Croatian pianist

1976-2000

1976 : Osamah Al-Shanqiti , Saudi Arabian athlete
1976 : Beto , Portuguese soccer player
1976 : Alexander Gerst , German geophysicist and astronaut
1976 : Tanja Kummer , Swiss writer
1977 : Tyronn Lue , American basketball coach
1977 : Noel Valladares , Honduran soccer player
1978 : Sigrun Arenz , German writer
1978 : Paul Banks , Anglo-American musician
1978 : Franziska Giffey , German politician
1978 : Doris Günther , Austrian snowboarder
1979 : Shpejtim Arifi , Kosovar football player
1979 : Simone Hauswald , German biathlete
1981 : Charlie Brooks , British actress
1982 : Andrew Durante , Australian soccer player
1982 : Sebastian Furchner , German ice hockey player
1982 : Benjamin Gille , French handball player
1982 : Igor Olshansky , American football player
1982 : Tobias Rathgeb , German soccer player
1982 : Konstantin Schubert , German racing cyclist

Alexander Gerst (* 1976)
Simone Hauswald (* 1979)
Fernanda Brandão (* 1983)
Carole da Silva Costa (* 1990)

1983 : Joseph Addai , American football player
1983 : Rosinei Adolfo , Brazilian soccer player
1983 : Fernanda Brandão , Brazilian singer
1983 : Romeo Castelen , Dutch football player
1983 : Thomas Lobben , Norwegian ski jumper
1983 : Franco Parisi , Australian soccer player
1984 : Rahman Ali Nazari , Afghan soccer player
1985 : Ezequiel Lavezzi , Argentine soccer player
1986 : Mads Christiansen , Danish handball player
1986 : Arnel Taci , Bosnian-Herzegovinian actor
1987 : Alexandra Horn , German actress
1988 : Michael Hohnstedt , German soccer player
1988 : Fanuel Kenosi , Botswana sprinter
1988 : Gerald Mair , Austrian conductor
1989 : Isabelle Abran , Canadian biathlete
1989 : Selah Sue , Belgian singer-songwriter
1990 : Jan Antolec , Polish cross-country skier
1990 : Alexandra Cadanțu , Romanian tennis player
1990 : Jesús Noguera , Spanish darts player
1990 : Carole da Silva Costa , Portuguese soccer player
1991 : Wael Jallouz , Tunisian handball player
1991 : Richard Magyar , Swedish football player
1992 : Hervenogi Unzola , German football player
1992 : Ben Zolinski , German soccer player
1993 : Aram Arami , German actor
1995 : Anwar El Ghazi , Dutch soccer player
1996 : Alex Iwobi , Nigerian soccer player
1996 : Philipp Öttl , German motorcycle racer
1996 : Domantas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player
1996 : Annina Walt , Swiss actress
1997 : Designer , American rapper and songwriter
2000 : Meira Durand , German actress

21st century

2001 : Finn Hummel , German handball goalkeeper
2003 : Florian Wirtz , German soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

Tang Xuanzong († 762)
Mathilda of Boulogne († 1152)
Béla IV. († 1270)
Mehmed II († 1481)

0115 : Alexander I , Bishop of Rome
0762 : Tang Xuanzong , Emperor of China
0886 : Vulgrin I , Count of Angoulême, Agen and Périgord
1010 : Ansfried , Count in Leuven and Bishop of Utrecht
1122 : Berthold III. von Zähringen , founder of Freiburg im Breisgau
1123 : Felicia de Roucy , queen of Aragon-Navarre
1152 : Mathilda of Boulogne , Queen of England
1190 : William of Northolt , English clergyman
1206 / 1207 / 1209 : Arnold , Count of Altena
1211 : Aimery de Montréal , French nobleman
1270 : Béla IV , King of Hungary and King of Croatia
1282 : Hugo Lippi-Ugoccioni (Ricovero) , Italian saint, founder of the order
1294 : John I , Duke of Brabant
1311 : Siegfried von Feuchtwangen , Grand Master of the German Order
1314 : Emilia Bicchieri , Italian Dominican, prioress, blessed and mystic
1339 : Chungsuk Wang , 27th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
1410 : Alexander V , antipope to Gregory XII. since 1409
1442 : Engelbert I , Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
1481 : Mehmed II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, conqueror of Constantinople

16th and 17th centuries

1511 : Oswald I , Count of the Bergh
1514 : Anna , Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein
1519 : Magnus Hundt , German philosopher, doctor, anatomist and theologian
1528 : Clarice Strozzi , Italian nobleman
1567 : Leonhard Paminger , Austrian composer
1570 : Pietro Loredan , 84th Doge of Venice
1578 : Martin Eisengrein , Roman Catholic priest, controversial theologian and university professor
1580 : Thomas Tusser , English poet
1588 : Joachim Mynsinger von Frundeck , lawyer of the humanist era
1589 : Julius , Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Clarice Strozzi († 1528)
Julius of Braunschweig-Lüneburg († 1589)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shuisky († 1610)
William Shakespeare († 1616)

1591 : Antonio Abondio , Italian medalist and wax boss
1594 : Asche von Holle , German entrepreneur
1601 : August Friedrich , Margrave of Brandenburg
1606 : Henry Garnet , English Jesuit
1610 : Michail Wassiljewitsch Skopin-Shuiski , Russian military leader and statesman
1616 : William Shakespeare , English writer
1617 : Aleixo de Menezes , Archbishop of Goa, Archbishop of Braga and Spanish Viceroy of Portugal
1676 : Ernst Friedrich Schröter , German legal scholar
1678 : Bernhard , Duke of Saxony-Jena

18th century

1703 : Eglon van der Neer , Dutch painter
1704 : Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber , Bohemian violinist and composer
1704 : Estephane Boutros El Douaihy , Maronite patriarch
1707 : Michiel de Swaen , Dutch-speaking French author
1708 : Carlo Antonio Carlone , Italian builder
1718 : Zwi Hirsch Aschkenasi , Bohemian rabbi and Talmud scholar
1718 : Gottfried Suevus the Younger , German legal scholar
1719 : Pierre Le Gros the Younger , French sculptor in Rome
1731 : Werner von Broich , aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
1732 : Christoph Fürer von Haimendorf , councilor of the imperial city of Nuremberg and poet
1734 : Melchior Thomas von Wickede , councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
1737 : Abraham Patras , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
1739 : Marie Anne de Bourbon , illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV, Princess of Conti

Estephane Boutros El Douaihi († 1704)
Marie Anne de Bourbon († 1739)
Pope Benedict XIV († 1758)
Francesco Algarotti († 1764)

1741 : Joseph Munggenast , Austrian baroque master builder
1743 : Johann Anderson , German legal scholar, politician, natural scientist and linguist
1744 : Sophie Eleonore , Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
1754 : Joachim Daniel Jauch , German engineer officer and architect
1758 : Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, under the name Benedict XIV. Pope
1759 : Christian Gottlieb Kluge the Elder , German Protestant theologian
1763 : George Psalmanazar , French impostor
1764 : Francesco Algarotti , Italian writer, art critic and art dealer
1766 : Johann Friedrich Schaevius , lawyer and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
1773 : Ernst Thom , German literary scholar, rhetorician, ethnologist and economist
1774 : Heinrich August de la Motte Fouqué , Prussian general
1774 : Johann Nikolaus Tischer , German organist and composer
1786 : Ernst August Schulze , German Reformed theologian
1790 : Johann Jakob Hemmer , meteorologist, physicist and linguist
1791 : Christian Gottlob Richter , German lawyer, university professor and philologist

19th century

1805 : Heinrich Zimmermann , German traveler and travel writer
1817 : Mariano de Urquijo y Muga , Spanish politician and Enlightenment representative
1830 : Karl von Aulock , German titular bishop
1835 : José María Gruesso , Colombian poet
1836 : Franz Aglietti , Italian doctor
1840 : Johann Friedrich Hütter , lawyer and mayor
1843 : Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet , British General and Deputy Governor of Trinidad
1848 : Nikolaus Daniel Hinsche , German mayor and writer
1848 : Hans Ernst Karl von Zieten , Prussian Field Marshal General
1849 : Max Schneckenburger , German poet ( Die Wacht am Rhein )

Mariano de Urquijo y Muga († 1817)
Hans Ernst Karl von Zieten († 1848)
Sara Coleridge († 1852)
Alexander I of Serbia († 1880)

1852 : Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Arnim , police chief of Berlin
1852 : Sara Coleridge , English writer and translator
1856 : Adolphe Adam , French opera and ballet composer
1856 : Adolfo Fumagalli , Italian pianist and composer
1858 : Auguste Brizeux , French writer
1862 : Amancio Alcorta , Argentine composer and politician
1875 : Hermann von Arnim , manor owner, administrative officer and member of parliament
1881 : António José de Ávila , Portuguese politician
1885 : Alexander I , Serbian prince
1893 : Adolph Kießling , German classical philologist

20th century

1901-1950

1907 : Hermann Tietz , German Jewish merchant, namesake of the Hertie department store chain

1908 : Franz Bücheler , German classical philologist

1910 : John Lourie Beveridge , American politician, Congressman, Governor of Illinois

1912 : Rudolf von Bennigsen , German colonial official and governor of German New Guinea

1913 : Tancrède Auguste , Haitian general, politician and president

1916 : Patrick Pearse , Irish teacher and writer

1926 : Knut Wicksell , Swedish economist

1927 : David Arellano , Chilean football player

1931 : Otto Winter-Hjelm , Norwegian composer, conductor, organist, music critic and teacher

1932 : Anton Wildgans , Austrian playwright and poet

Rudolf von Bennigsen († 1912)
Wilhelm Groener († 1939)
Eduard Schwyzer († 1943)
Ernst Lehmann († 1945)

1939 : Wilhelm Groener , German officer and politician
1940 : Rudolf Arndt , German communist and resistance fighter
1940 : Jan de Vries , Dutch mathematician
1941 : Erich Aschenheim , German medical advisor and university professor
1941 : Georges Durand , French journalist and motorsport official
1943 : Harold Arminius Miller , American racing car and engine designer
1943 : Eduard Schwyzer , Swiss classical philologist and Indo-Europeanist
1945 : Dietloff von Arnim , German local politician
1945 : Ernst Lehmann , German politician and resistance fighter
1946 : Heinz Kükelhaus , German travel journalist, novelist and adventurer
1946 : Clara Lichtenstein , English pianist and music teacher
1947 : Gerhard Schiedlausky , German doctor, war criminal

1951-2000

1953 : Orikuchi Shinobu , Japanese writer and literary scholar
1954 : Silvio Dal Cin , Italian racing driver
1955 : Karl Bierwirth , German weightlifter
1955 : Garoto , Brazilian musician and composer
1955 : Philippe de Marne , French racing car driver
1955 : Rudolf Schlichter , German artist
1956 : Albert Kallee , German lawyer
1957 : Ernst Bertram , German Germanist, poet and writer
1959 : Renato Birolli , Italian painter

Philippe de Marne († 1955)
Maurice Merleau-Ponty († 1961)
Samuel Gonard († 1975)
Dalida († 1987)

1960 : Stepan Grigoryevich Pissachow , Russian painter and writer
1961 : Maurice Merleau-Ponty , French philosopher
1961 : Eugen Nesper , German high-frequency technician
1965 : Naka Kansuke , Japanese writer
1966 : Ernst Schönbauer , Austrian legal historian and politician
1967 : Hans Orlowski , painter and wood cutter
1967 : Ernst Wollweber , Minister for State Security of the GDR
1968 : Edmund Aigner , Austrian politician
1968 : Marc Amsler , Swiss professor of ophthalmology
1969 : Darius Paul Dassault , French general and member of the Resistance
1970 : Candelario Huízar , Mexican composer
1971 : Cuno Raabe , German politician and resistance fighter
1971 : Kazumi Takahashi , Japanese writer and sinologist
1972 : Bruce Cabot , American actor
1972 : Leslie Harvey , British rock guitarist
1974 : Karl Frank , German lawyer, manager and politician, MdL, state minister
1975 : Sarah Fischer , Canadian singer and music teacher
1975 : Franz Gessner , Austrian architect
1975 : Richard Gölz , German church musician and theologian
1975 : Samuel Gonard , Swiss officer and ICRC president
1976 : Ernie Nevers , American football player
1979 : Augustus Bertelli , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
1982 : Antoine Dubreil , French racing car driver
1982 : Henri Tajfel , British social psychologist
1984 : Joseph Calvet , French violinist
1985 : Horst Adamietz , German journalist
1987 : Dalida , French singer and actress
1988 : Erich Abberger , German officer
1988 : Franz Ackerl , Austrian university professor for geodesy and photogrammetry
1989 : Bernhard Hartmann , German economist and business economist