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 : On his second voyage, Christopher Columbus is the first European to discover the Caribbean island of Jamaica , which the Spaniards baptized Santiago .
- 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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
- 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 : 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 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : 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 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
- 490 : K'an Joy Chitam I , ruler (Ajaw) of the Maya city of Palenque
- 612 : 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 115 : Alexander I , Bishop of Rome
- 762 : Tang Xuanzong , Emperor of China
- 886 : 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
- 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
- 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 )
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 1990 : Dovima , American model
- 1991 : Mohammed Abdel Wahab , Egyptian singer and composer
- 1991 : Hermann Arnhold , Russian poet
- 1991 : Jerzy Kosiński , Polish writer
- 1992 : Günter Abramzik , German theologian
- 1994 : Hermann Mathias Görgen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1996 : Dimitris Fampas , Greek guitarist and composer
- 1996 : Maxim Hermaniuk , Ukrainian Archbishop
- 1996 : Hermann Kesten , German writer
- 1996 : Gilberto Monroig , Puerto Rican singer
- 1996 : Patsy Montana , American country singer
- 1997 : Narciso Yepes , Spanish guitarist
- 1998 : René Acht , Swiss painter and graphic artist
- 1998 : Erich Bergel , Romanian-German conductor
- 1998 : Raimund Harmstorf , German actor
- 2000 : Richard Friederich Arens , American mathematician
- 2000 : John Joseph O'Connor , Archbishop of New York and Cardinal
- 2000 : Henry Volken , Swiss theologian and sociologist
21st century
- 2001 : Helmuth Herold , German interpreter and teacher of the harmonica
- 2001 : Billy Higgins , American jazz drummer
- 2003 : Paul Gerhard Aring , German theologian
- 2003 : Suzy Parker , American actress
- 2004 : Ken Downing , British racing car driver
- 2005 : Youhanna Fouad El-Hage , Lebanese Maronite Archbishop of Tripoli
- 2005 : Pierre Moerlen , French drummer and composer
- 2005 : Jagjit Singh Aurora , Indian Lieutenant General
- 2006 : Karel Appel , Dutch painter, co-founder of the artist group CoBrA
- 2006 : Siegfried Fink , German drummer and composer
- 2006 : Boris Georgievich Kuznetsov , Soviet boxer and Olympic champion
- 2006 : Wolfgang Schwenke , German zoologist, entomologist and forest scientist
- 2007 : Alemdar Karamanow , Ukrainian-Russian composer
- 2007 : Ellsworth Milburn , American composer, music educator and pianist
- 2008 : Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo , Spanish politician
- 2008 : Martin Finnegan , Irish motorcycle racer
- 2008 : Badi Panahi , German social scientist
- 2010 : José Ignacio Abadal , Spanish actor and voice actor
- 2010 : Luigi Amaducci , Italian Archbishop
- 2011 : Paul Ackerley , New Zealand field hockey player and coach
- 2012 : Jorge E. Illueca , Panamanian politician
- 2013 : Brad Drewett , Australian tennis player
- 2014 : Gary Becker , American economist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2014 : Leslie Carlson , American actor
- 2015 : Ben Aronov , American jazz pianist
- 2015 : Eberhard Lämmert , German literary scholar
- 2016 : Vincas Algirdas Pranckietis , Lithuanian clergyman
- 2016 : Hans-Jürgen Wegener , German forest official
- 2017 : Lukas Ammann , Swiss actor
- 2017 : Daliah Lavi , Israeli actress and singer
- 2018 : Afonso Dhlakama , Mozambican politician
- 2018 : Günter Herburger , German writer
- 2019 : Margret Birkenfeld , German musician and composer
- 2019 : Emilie Lennert , Greenlandic politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. James, son of Alphaeus , Roman martyr, apostle and national saint of Uruguay (Protestant, Catholic)
- Saint James the Just , Roman Martyr (Catholic)
- St. Philip , Roman martyr and apostle (Protestant, Catholic)
- Blessed Ansfried (* around 940; † 1010), Count in Leuven, Bishop of Utrecht and monk
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Commemoration days of international organizations
- International Day of Press Freedom ( UN ) (since 1994)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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