October 3
The October 3 is the 276th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 277th in leap years ). This leaves 89 days until the end of the year.
October 3rd is a public holiday in Germany as the Day of German Unity .
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Events
Politics and world events
- 382 : The Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a treaty with the Goths who fled across the Danube , making them Roman Foederati .
- 1157 : Albrecht the Bear calls himself Margrave of Brandenburg for the first time in a document .
- 1552 : Ivan the Terrible's troops conquer the city of Kazan and incorporate the khanate of the same name into the young Russian state . With the fall of Kazan, the way is clear for Russian expansion into Siberia .
- 1569 : In the Battle of Moncontour in the Third Huguenot War, the Huguenots suffered a heavy defeat against the Catholic side under their general Admiral Coligny .
- 1574 : In the Eighty Years' War the Geusen succeed in liberating the city of Leiden , which has been besieged by the Spaniards since May 25th, by flooding the surrounding polders .
- 1691 : The Treaty of Limerick ends the Jacobite war with the troops of King William of Orange .
- 1735 : Austria and France conclude a preliminary peace in Vienna to end the War of the Polish Succession . However, its provisions only come into effect on November 8, 1738 through the Peace of Vienna .
- 1739 : The Treaty of Nissa ends the war between Russia and the Ottoman Empire , which has been going on since 1736 .
- 1762 : In the Moscow Dormition Cathedral is Catherine II. Crowned Empress.
- 1794 : After the Battle of Aldenhoven , Jülich Fortress falls to the French in the First Coalition War .
- 1813 : In the Battle of Wartenburg during the Wars of Liberation , a Prussian corps managed to cross the Elbe and thus threaten the northern flank of Napoleon Bonaparte's French troops in Saxony .
- 1861 : During the American Civil War , a battle breaks out on the Greenbrier River in western Virginia and ends without a decision.
- 1866 : According to the agreements in the Peace of Prague annexed Prussia that the German war occupied Kingdom of Hanover .
- 1866 : The Peace of Vienna between Italy and the Austrian Empire ends the German War and at the same time the Third Italian War of Independence . Austria has to cede Veneto to Italy, so the national unification of Italy comes one step closer.
- 1893 : The attack by 6,000 Rif warriors from surrounding Berber tribes on the Spanish possession of Melilla marks the start of the Rif War .
- 1893 : After the end of the Franco-Siamese War , the two states conclude a treaty in which Siam cedes its areas east of the Mekong (today's Laos ) to French Indochina .
- 1903 : Emperor Franz Joseph I and Tsar Nikolaus II come to an agreement in the Mürzsteg hunting lodge to ensure peace and quiet in the Balkans. The administration of Austria-Hungary in Bosnia and Herzegovina , which was established after the Berlin Congress , aroused the indignation of the population.
- 1904 : Hendrik Witbooi , captain of the colony German South West Africa settled Witbooi , announces the existing protection contract and explained to the German Reich war. The Nama War begins with raids on German settlers .
- 1906 : At the International Radio Conference in Berlin , the SOS is declared an international emergency signal in place of the previous CQD .
- 1910 : Miguel Bombarda , a psychiatrist and thought leader of the republican movement in Portugal , is murdered by a mentally ill former patient. This leads to revolts against King Emanuel II and the Portuguese monarchy and to the establishment of the First Republic on October 5th .
- 1910 : Training starts at the newly established Mürwik Naval School in the north of the German Empire in the Flensburg border region . The official inauguration of the school, which was modeled on the Marienburg , takes place on November 21 by Kaiser Wilhelm II.
- 1918 : Prince Max von Baden becomes Reich Chancellor . This is a step towards the government being directly responsible to the Reichstag and not just to the Kaiser.
- 1918 : After the resignation of his father Ferdinand I due to the defeat in the First World War , Boris III. new tsar in Bulgaria .
- 1929 : The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia by a new constitution and is divided into nine banks .
- 1932 : The British mandate over Iraq ends when the country joins the League of Nations .
- 1935 : The Abyssinian War begins with the invasion of Ethiopia by Italian troops ordered by Benito Mussolini .
- 1940 : The deportation of children and teenagers begins in the German Reich , during which children and young people are evacuated from cities affected by the air war to rural areas.
- 1944 : In preparation for the Allied invasion, the Royal Air Force bombed dikes on the Walcheren peninsula , especially in the area of Westkapelle . Large parts of the peninsula are flooded and 176 people are killed.
- 1957 : Willy Brandt is elected Mayor of Berlin to succeed the late Otto Suhr .
- 1961 : In the GDR , 3,175 people are forcibly evacuated from the restricted area during the Aktion Festigung or Aktion Kornblume (→ Chronicle of the GDR (1961–1970) ).
- 1965 : With US President Lyndon B. Johnson's signature under the Immigration and Naturalization Services Act of 1965 , United States immigration law becomes more liberal.
- 1969 : With its Leipziger Volkszeitung decision , the German Federal Constitutional Court passed a landmark judgment on the freedom of recipients .
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- 1976 : In the elections to the German Bundestag , the SPD under Chancellor Helmut Schmidt loses its position as the strongest parliamentary group in the Bundestag , but can defend its government majority together with the FDP . The CDU / CSU under Helmut Kohl remains in the opposition . On the same day, the Hessian Prime Minister Albert Osswald (SPD) resigns because of his role in the Helaba scandal .
- 1981 : The hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Belfast , Northern Ireland is declared over after seven months. Ten members of the IRA and INLA captured by the British died in the course of the strike for refusing to eat.
- 1985 : In the Granada Convention , the Council of Europe agrees on the protection of the architectural heritage.
- 1990 : German reunification : the new states on the territory of the former GDR join the Federal Republic of Germany . This means that October 3rd as the Day of German Unity replaces June 17th as the German national holiday, which had previously been in effect in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1993 : In the Somali civil war , the battle of Mogadishu takes place between US Army rangers and UN troops on the one hand and Somali militiamen on the other. The events later inspired Ridley Scott to make the film Black Hawk Down .
- 1993 : Heydär Äliyev becomes President of Azerbaijan .
- 1994 : Fernando Henrique Cardoso is elected President of Brazil by a large majority
- 1998 : In Denmark , tightening of the treatment of the unemployed is enforced.
- 1999 : In the national elections in Austria , the FPÖ becomes the second largest political force after the SPÖ .
- 2005 : Start of EU accession negotiations with Croatia and Turkey . The concerns raised in the EU Parliament and by Austria against Turkey's accession are reflected in the framework text that at the end of the negotiations it will also be examined whether the EU can cope with the accession economically and politically. The talks with Croatia will only start now instead of 2004 because, in the opinion of the EU Commission , Croatia has only poorly cooperated with the Hague War Crimes Tribunal .
- 2010 : The last installment of the German reparations after the First World War is paid.
economy
- 1835 : The confectioner Wilhelm Felsche opens the Café Français with an adjoining sales room on Augustusplatz in Leipzig .
- 1835 : Johann Sebastian Staedtler founds a factory in Nuremberg to manufacture pencils .
- 1905 : The Frenchman Léon Creux patented an air compressor with a high degree of efficiency, which was successful as a G-charger in Volkswagen models in the 1980s .
- 1931 : Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Merkez Bankası is founded as the central bank of Turkey .
- 1953 : The petroleum company Petrobras, with monopoly rights , is established in Brazil .
- 1969 : The Berlin TV tower opens.
- 1969 : The Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund decides to introduce special drawing rights as an artificial currency into the international financial system.
- 2008 : The short and medium-term supply of liquidity to Hypo Real Estate is secured by a 35 billion euro guarantee from the state and German financial institutions after a twelve-hour marathon of negotiations . This avoids an impending collapse of the DAX company.
- 2008 : The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act enters into force in the United States . According to the Paulson Plan, the financial market is to be protected from the severe effects of the financial crisis from 2007 onwards with state funds of up to 700 billion US dollars .
science and technology
- 1622 : Emperor Ferdinand II elevates the Altdorf Academy in Altdorf near Nuremberg to the University of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg .
- 1901 : Wilhelm Kress tries to fly with a water plane on the Wienerwaldsee .
- 1942 : With the first successful launch of the A4 / V2 rocket in Peenemünde with a summit height of 84.5 kilometers and a range of 190 kilometers, it is considered the first man-made device to advance into space.
- 1952 : The first British atomic bomb is detonated off Australia .
- 1962 : As part of the US Mercury program , a manned space flight with the astronaut Walter Schirra is carried out. After six orbits of the earth, the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission ends with the capsule submerging in the Pacific.
- 1967 : The largest lock in the world until 2016 , the Berendrecht lock , is put into operation near Antwerp .
- 1985 : The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight . The associated mission STS-51-J has the task of deploying two military DSCS III communication satellites.
- 1993 : From the union of three colleges that goes Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg forth.
- 1997 : The first cloned rodent , the Cumulina mouse , is born in Honolulu .
- 2011 : The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), the largest radio telescope in the world, has its first light .
Culture
- 1857 : The premiere of the opera Maître Griffard by Léo Delibes takes place at the Théâtre-Lyrique in Paris.
- 1883 : One night in Venice by Johann Strauss (son) is premiered at the New Friedrich Wilhelmstadt Theater in Berlin . The operetta with the texts by Friedrich Zell and Richard Genée fails with audiences and critics alike. Only a revised version, which premieres in the Theater an der Wien on October 9, has been successful.
- 1900 : The oratorio The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar is premiered in Birmingham .
- 1912 : The Exchange Association of German Booksellers founds the German Library with the City of Leipzig and the Kingdom of Saxony .
- 1930 : The world premiere of the dramatic cantata Vom Fischer und syner Frau by Othmar Schoeck takes place at the State Opera in Dresden .
- 1937 : The world premiere of the operetta Monika by Nico Dostal takes place in Stuttgart.
- 1958 : The world premiere of the comic opera Corinna by Wolfgang Fortner takes place in Berlin.
- 1996 : The Tinguely Museum opens in Basel . The work of Jean Tinguely is considered representative of kinetic art .
- 2003 : The trick artist Roy Horn is attacked and seriously injured by the white tiger Montecore during a show in Las Vegas .
society
- 1789 : US President George Washington propagates the first Thanksgiving Day .
- 1863 : Thanksgiving is designated the fourth Thursday in November as a national holiday by President Abraham Lincoln .
- 1951 : In the Werzeit high school student trial , the district court of Zwickau imposed long-term prison sentences against nineteen schoolchildren in the GDR who issued leaflets calling for resistance to the SED regime.
religion
- 1848 : The general assembly of the Catholic Association of Germany begins in Mainz , the first Catholic day .
- 1937 : The Protestant pastor Paul Schneider is arrested on the way to the afternoon service, taken to Koblenz and later to the Buchenwald concentration camp .
- 1997 : In Germany begin Muslims on German Unity Day of the Open Mosque Day to organize.
- 2004 : The last Austrian Emperor Karl I and Anna Katharina Emmerick , nuns in the Augustinian order and mystic, are beatified by Pope John Paul II .
Disasters
- 1866 : The American liner Evening Star sinks 180 nautical miles east of Tybee Island in a severe hurricane . 262 passengers and crew members die.
- 1884 : The Danish Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen is destroyed by fire.
- 1918 : The British passenger liner Burutu sinks in the Irish Sea after colliding with the cargo liner City of Calcutta . 148 passengers and crew members are killed
- 1974 : 83 people die in an earthquake in Peru and 60,000 are made homeless.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1920 : The Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe is awarded for the first time at the Longchamp racecourse in Paris . From now on it will be awarded to the annual winner of the gallop race over 2,400 meters for at least three-year-old racehorses .
- 1982 : The Dutch mountaineer Johan Taks is the first to stand on the Changtse in Tibet , a mountain north of Mount Everest , without a tour permit from the Chinese authorities .
- 2010 : The 19th Commonwealth Games open in Delhi , India . Over 6,000 athletes from 71 nations that belong to the Commonwealth of Nations will take part in the Commonwealth Games , which will last until October 14th . There are 272 competitions in 17 sports.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
Casimir of Poland
(* 1458)
Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (* 1722)
Isaac von Sinclair
(* 1775)
Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel
(* 1784)
- 1373 : Hedwig of Anjou , Queen of Poland
- 1390 : Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester , English nobleman, regent of England
- 1458 : Casimir of Poland , Polish and Lithuanian national saint
- 1584 : Michael Wolf , German mathematician, physicist, logician and metaphysicist
- 1598 : Laurids Pedersen Thura , Danish orientalist, educator and pastor
- 1608 : Nicole , Duchess of Lorraine
- 1613 : Marion Delorme , French courtesan
- 1631 : Sebastian Anton Scherer , German organist and composer
- 1674 : Giampietro Zanotti , Italian painter, etcher, poet and art historian
- 1680 : Johanna Elisabeth von Baden-Durlach , Duchess of Württemberg
- 1684 : Johann Theodor Roemhildt , German Baroque composer
- 1693 : Hermann Post , German lawyer and the first full-time state archivist in Bremen
- 1697 : George Desmarées , Swedish painter
- 1699 : Moritz Ulrich I. , Count and Lord zu Putbus, Baron zu Einsidelsborg, Kjørup and Boldewitz and President of the Wismar Tribunal
18th century
- 1703 : Franz Christoph Janneck , Austrian painter
- 1713 : Johann Friedrich Flattich , German Protestant pastor and educator
- 1720 : Johann Peter Uz , German poet
- 1722 : Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder , German painter and portraitist
- 1734 : Carl von Imhoff , colonial officer of the British East India Company and portrait painter
- 1738 : Jacques Gamelin , French painter, draftsman, engraver and etcher of early classicism
- 1755 : Ildefons von Arx , Swiss monk and historian
- 1757 : Amalie Tischbein , German draftsman, miniature painter and etcher
- 1775 : Isaac von Sinclair , German writer and diplomat, friend of Friedrich Hölderlin
- 1784 : Johann Karl Ehrenfried Kegel , German agronomist and explorer of the Kamchatka Peninsula
- 1789 : Henry Pottinger , British colonial administrator
- 1792 : Francisco Morazán , President of various Central and Central American states
- 1794 : Herman Johan Royaard's Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Allan Kardec , French educator and spiritualist
- 1810 : Johann Bartholome Arpagaus , Swiss politician and doctor
- 1813 : Moritz Wagner , German traveler, geographer and naturalist
- 1815 : Georg Julius Andresen , German author, medic and hydrotherapist
- 1817 : Johannes Scherr , German cultural historian and writer
- 1824 : Harry von Arnim , Prussian diplomat
- 1828 : Woldemar Bargiel , German composer and music teacher
- 1834 : Vilém Blodek , Czech composer
- 1835 : August Reifferscheid , German classical philologist
- 1837 : Nicolás Avellaneda , Argentine President
- 1837 : Max Waechter , British businessman and philanthropist
- 1847 : Eduard Richter , Austrian geographer, historian, glacier researcher and alpinist
1851-1900
- 1854 : Hermann von Struve , German-Baltic astronomer and mathematician
- 1858 : Eleonora Duse , Italian actress
- 1860 : Siro Borrani , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and church historian
- 1860 : Annie Horniman , British theater director and occultist
- 1860 : Clara Southern , Australian painter
- 1867 : Pierre Bonnard , French painter
- 1869 : Alfred Flatow , German athlete
- 1869 : Robert Kraft , German writer
- 1870 : Henri Dulac , French mathematician
- 1872 : Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe , German scientist, inventor of the gyro compass
- 1873 : Ivan Schmeljow , Russian writer
- 1874 : Ludwig Anton Adlon , German hotelier
- 1875 : Louis Sire , French racing car driver
- 1877 : William L. Harding , American lawyer and politician, Governor of Iowa
- 1883 : Fritz Arnold , German painter
- 1883 : Wilhelm Auler , German economist
- 1885 : Wladimir Romanowitsch Bakaleinikoff , American violist, conductor and composer of Russian origin
- 1886 : Alain-Fournier , French writer
- 1886 : Barbara Karinska , American costume designer
- 1888 : Joseph Noyon , French composer and church musician
- 1888 : Roy Webb , American composer
- 1889 : Carl von Ossietzky , German journalist, writer and pacifist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1890 : Hermann Thimig , Austrian actor
- 1891 : Emilio Portes Gil , President of Mexico
- 1894 : Walter Warlimont , German general
- 1895 : Julius Arigi , Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot
- 1895 : Sergei Jessenin , Russian poet
- 1895 : Josef Thomas , German politician, judge and resistance fighter
- 1897 : Louis Aragon , French writer
- 1898 : Adolf Reichwein , German educator, economist and politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1899 : Adrien Arcand , Canadian journalist and fascist
- 1899 : Konstantin Waginow , Russian poet
- 1900 : Friedrich Funk , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1900 : Thomas Wolfe , American author
- 1900 : Hans Nieland , German politician, Lord Mayor of Dresden
20th century
1901-1925
- 1904 : Pacho Galán , Colombian composer
- 1904 : Charles Pedersen , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1906 : Evelyn Holt , German actress
- 1907 : Aldo Pigorini , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1908 : Ferdinand Strobel , Swiss Jesuit and church historian
- 1911 : Ljubiša Broćić , Yugoslav football coach
- 1911 : Michael Hordern , British actor
- 1914 : Sylvio Lacharité , Canadian conductor and composer
- 1916 : Ardyth Alton , American cellist and music teacher
- 1916 : Louise Behrend , American violinist and music teacher
- 1916 : James Herriot , English veterinarian and writer
- 1917 : Erich Apel , German politician and party functionary, chairman of the GDR State Planning Commission
- 1917 : Erwin Sylvanus , German writer
- 1919 : James M. Buchanan , American economist
- 1919 : Robert James Dvorak , American composer, music teacher and horn player
- 1919 : Jean Lefebvre , French actor
- 1921 : Hermann Arnhold , Russian poet
- 1921 : Maria Schwarz , German architect and university professor
- 1922 : John Craxton , British painter
- 1922 : By Freeman , American jazz saxophonist
- 1922 : Olga Guillot , Cuban singer
- 1923 : Edward Oliver LeBlanc , Dominican politician
- 1925 : George Acquaah , Ghanaian athlete
- 1925 : Gore Vidal , American writer
1926-1950
- 1927 : Hans Edmund Andresen , Danish racing cyclist
- 1927 : Kenojuak Ashevak , Canadian artist
- 1928 : Kåre Willoch , Norwegian politician and economist
- 1930 : Theo Buck , German specialist in German
- 1930 : Wolf Klaußner , German writer and translator
- 1932 : Samuel Ekpe Akpabot , Nigerian composer
- 1933 : Neale Fraser , Australian tennis player
- 1934 : Jerry Apodaca , American politician
- 1934 : Benjamin Boretz , American composer, music educator, theorist and critic
- 1935 : Armen Jigarchanjan , Armenian actor
- 1935 : Wolfgang Schuller , German ancient historian
- 1936 : Jerzy Gajek , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1936 : Steve Reich , American composer
- 1938 : Eddie Cochran , American rock 'n' roll and rockabilly musician
- 1938 : Tereza Kesovija , Croatian singer
- 1939 : Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch , German university professor
- 1940 : Alan O'Day , American singer and songwriter
- 1940 : Barbara Henneberger , German ski racer
- 1941 : Fikret Adanır , Turkish historian
- 1941 : Chubby Checker , American singer
- 1941 : Mike Gallagher , American cross-country skier
- 1941 : Willi Wagner (athlete) , German obstacle runner
- 1942 : John Herbert Atkinson , British civil engineer
- 1942 : Roberto Perfumo , Argentine football player
- 1943 : Jeremiasz Anchimiuk , Polish Archbishop
- 1944 : Daniele Fagarazzi , Italian comic artist
- 1944 : Roy Uwe Ludwig Horn , German magician ( Siegfried and Roy )
- 1945 : Jean-Jacques Kantorow , French violinist and conductor
- 1945 : Udo Thomer , German folk actor
- 1946 : PP Arnold , American soul singer
- 1946 : Sigmar Solbach , German actor
- 1948 : Gisela Schneeberger , German actress and cabaret artist
- 1949 : Andreas Altmann , German reporter and author
- 1949 : Lindsey Buckingham , American musician, singer and songwriter
- 1950 : Dennis Holmes , American actor
- 1950 : Phyllis Nelson , American singer
- 1950 : Siegfried Voigt , German handball player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Hannes Bongartz , German soccer player and coach
- 1951 : Nick Glennie-Smith , British film music composer
- 1951 : Keb 'Mo' , American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
- 1951 : Helmut Schubert , German materials scientist
- 1952 : Wolfgang Burger , German crime novel writer
- 1953 : Cornelia Bürki , Swiss athlete
- 1954 : Monika Griefahn , German politician
- 1954 : Al Sharpton , American civil rights activist and politician
- 1954 : Stevie Ray Vaughan , American blues and blues rock musician
- 1955 : Susanna Bonaséwicz , German actress and voice actress
- 1955 : Francesco Guidolin , Italian football player and coach
- 1956 : John Richard Attlee , British politician
- 1956 : Peter Frechette , American actor
- 1957 : Francisco Casanova , Dominican opera singer (tenor)
- 1959 : Michy Reincke , German pop singer and musician
- 1959 : Jack Wagner , American actor
- 1959 : Martina Willing , German athlete
- 1961 : Walter Hainer , German soccer player
- 1961 : Ludger Stühlmeyer , cantor, composer and musicologist
- 1962 : Tommy Lee , American musician ( Mötley Crüe )
- 1963 : Carl Achleitner , Austrian film and theater actor
- 1963 : Nastja Arcel , Danish actress, documentary film director and book author
- 1963 : Karen Böhne , German actress
- 1963 : Niels Lan Doky , Danish jazz pianist
- 1964 : Thomas Lawinky , German actor
- 1964 : Clive Owen , British actor
- 1964 : Carin C. Tietze , German actress and voice actress
- 1964 : Ute Vogt , German politician
- 1965 : Jan-Ove Waldner , Swedish table tennis player
- 1966 : Beate Maes , German actress
- 1967 : Carsten Dahl , Danish jazz musician
- 1967 : Denis Villeneuve , Canadian film director
- 1968 : Nicki von Tempelhoff , German actor
- 1969 : Massimiliano Papis , Italian racing car driver
- 1969 : Gerhard Schebler , German chess player
- 1969 : Gwen Stefani , American singer
- 1971 : S. Antonius Budi Ariantho , Indonesian badminton player
- 1971 : Kevin Richardson , American singer ( Backstreet Boys )
- 1972 : Anna Gourari , Russian-German concert pianist
- 1973 : Keiko Agena , American actress
- 1973 : Hedy Burress , American actress
- 1973 : Neve Campbell , Canadian actress
- 1973 : Ingrid Chauvin , French actress and presenter
- 1973 : Uğur Dağdelen , Turkish football player
- 1973 : Lena Headey , British actress
- 1973 : Notburga Karl , German artist
- 1973 : Ricardo Mayorga , Nicaraguan boxer
- 1973 : Boris Meinzer , German comedian
- 1973 : Torben Miehle , German musician, actor and film director
- 1973 : Florian Mildenberger , German private scholar
- 1973 : Kari Rueslåtten , Norwegian singer
- 1973 : Bernard Schuiteman , Dutch football player
- 1973 : Ljubomir Vranjes , Swedish handball player and coach
- 1974 : Uwe Bossert , German guitarist
- 1974 : Gunther Rost , German concert organist and professor of organ
- 1974 : Martin Scholz , German TV presenter and singer ( Touché )
- 1975 : India.Arie , American musician
- 1975 : Talib Kweli , American rapper
- 1975 : Alanna Ubach , American actress
1976-2000
- 1976 : Seann William Scott , American actor
- 1978 : Gerald Asamoah , German soccer player
- 1978 : Christian Coulson , British actor
- 1978 : Claudio Pizarro , Peruvian football player
- 1978 : Vienna Teng , American pianist, singer and singer-songwriter
- 1979 : Lea Bouwmeester , Dutch politician
- 1979 : Adam Jaskolka , German actor, singer and director
- 1979 : Josh Klinghoffer , American multi-instrumentalist and music producer
- 1981 : Seth Gabel , American actor
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Zlatan Ibrahimović (* 1981)
- 1981 : Zlatan Ibrahimović , Swedish football player
- 1981 : Andreas Isaksson , Swedish football player
- 1981 : Florian Keller , German hockey player
- 1982 : Graeme Smith , Scottish football goalkeeper
- 1983 : Achmed Akkabi , Dutch actor and television presenter
- 1983 : Kim Jae-sung , South Korean soccer player
- 1984 : Bruno Gervais , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984 : Anthony Le Tallec , French football player
- 1984 : Ashlee Simpson , American singer
- 1985 : Anna Kraft , German athlete and sports journalist
- 1986 : Jacob Heinl , German handball player
- 1987 : Johanna Ahlm , Swedish handball player
- 1987 : Philipp Antholzer , Italian natural track toboggan runner
- 1987 : Martin Plowman , British racing driver
- 1987 : Starley Hope , Australian pop musician
- 1988 : Álvaro Maximiliano Arias Invernizzi , Uruguayan football player
- 1988 : A $ AP Rocky , American rapper
- 1988 : Max Giesinger , German singer
- 1988 : Antje Lauenroth , German handball player
- 1989 : Chase Austin , American racing driver
- 1990 : Ana Maria Crnogorčević , Swiss-Croatian soccer player
- 1990 : Maria Fisker , Danish handball player
- 1990 : Sebastian Griesbeck , German soccer player
- 1990 : Darja Shkurichina , Russian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic champion
- 1991 : Berry Angriawan , Indonesian badminton player
- 1991 : Stefan Brennsteiner , Austrian ski racer
- 1994 : Freydís Halla Einarsdóttir , Icelandic ski racer
- 1994 : Fejsal Mulić , Serbian football player
- 1996 : Lena Arnaud , French biathlete
- 1996 : Kelechi Iheanacho , Nigerian soccer player
- 1999 : Aramis Knight , American actor
21st century
- 2003 : Lisa Hirner , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- 2004 : Noah Schnapp , American actor
Died
Before the 16th century
Francis of Assisi
(† 1226)
Margaret of Austria
(† 1611)
- 42 BC BC : Gaius Cassius Longinus , Roman senator, involved in the Caesar assassination
- 818 : Irmingard von Hespengau , Franconian noblewoman, first wife of Louis the Pious
- 954 : Odilo of Stablo , Abbot of Stablo and Malmedy
- 959 : Gérard de Brogne , French abbot, monastery reformer and saint
- 999 : Erpo , Bishop of Worms
- 1078 : Isjaslav I , Grand Duke of Kiev
- 1160 : Adalgott , Bishop of Chur
- 1174 : Heinrich I , Bishop of Gurk
- 1226 : Francis of Assisi , Italian founder of the Friars Minor , co-founder of the Poor Clares and Mystics
- 1270 : Adolf I , Count of Waldeck and Schwalenberg
- 1274 : Hermann III. , Herr zur Lippe
- 1278 : Robert de Chaury , Bishop of Carlisle
- 1341 : Margrethe Eriksdatter of Denmark , Queen of Sweden
- 1359 : Levold von Northof , Canon of Liège and historian
- 1369 : Margaret of Tyrol , Countess of Tyrol
- 1380 : Agapito Colonna , Cardinal of the Catholic Church, Bishop of Lisbon
- 1392 : Yusuf II , Nasrid emir of Granada
- 1399 : Eleanor de Bohun , English noblewoman
16th to 18th century
- 1513 : Anton Koberger , German printer, publisher and bookseller of the incunable period
- 1525 : Sebastian Sprenz , Prince-Bishop of Brixen
- 1532 : Alfonso de Valdés , Spanish humanist, secretary and politician
- 1544 : Philipp von Solms-Lich , imperial and electoral council, Count von Solms zu Lich
- 1556 : Bernhard von Hagen , priest and vicar general in Cologne
- 1559 : Ercole II. D'Este , Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, son of Lucrezia Borgia
- 1568 : Elisabeth of Valois , Princess of France and Queen of Spain
- 1569 : Philibert von Baden , Margrave of Baden
- 1591 : Vincenzo Campi , Italian painter, architect and cosmographer
- 1611 : Margaret of Austria , Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily
- 1629 : Paolo Agostini , Italian organist, conductor and composer
- 1631 : Sophie von Mecklenburg , Queen of Denmark
- 1649 : Giovanni Diodati , Reformed theologian and Bible translator
- 1653 : Achatius von Quitzow , member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- 1657 : Moritz von Savoyen , Cardinal of the Roman Church
- 1663 : Susanna Margarethe von Anhalt-Dessau , Countess of Hanau-Lichtenberg
- 1685 : Juan Carreño de Miranda , Spanish painter
- 1685 : Johann Heinrich Roos , German painter
- 1699 : Nikolaus Alard , German Lutheran theologian
- 1703 : Alessandro Melani , Italian composer, singer and conductor
- 1704 : Jean-Baptiste Denis , French physician, court physician to Louis XIV.
- 1737 : Adolf von Dalberg , prince abbot of Fulda
- 1750 : Matthias Georg Monn , Austrian composer, organist and music teacher of the Viennese pre-classical period
- 1757 : Georg Abbt , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1761 : Johann Adolph von Ahlefeldt , lord of the Buckhagen, Giffelfeldt, Raskenberg and Priesholz estates
- 1776 : George Desmarées , Swedish painter of French origin, is considered one of the most important portraitists of the Rococo
19th century
- 1811 : Heinrich Gentz , German architect and Prussian construction officer
- 1812 : Pierre Dallery , French organ builder
- 1820 : Ludovit Václav Lachnit , Czech horn player and composer
- 1823 : Joseph Bloomfield , American politician, governor of New Jersey, member of the US House of Representatives
- 1826 : Jens Immanuel Baggesen , Danish writer, translator and supporter of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution
- 1827 : Franz Michael Vierthaler , Austrian teacher and school reformer, writer and journalist
- 1867 : Elias Howe , American manufacturer and inventor of the double-stitch sewing machine
- 1873 : Captain Jack , chief of the Mohoc Indians and leader of the Mohoc War
- 1883 : Louise von Bose , German benefactress and promoter of art and science
- 1884 : Hans Makart , Austrian painter and decorator
- 1891 : Vincenzo Vela , Swiss sculptor
- 1893 : Edwin Nil , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1895 : Samuel David , French composer
- 1895 : Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers , German explorer and writer
- 1896 : William Morris , one of the founders of the British Arts and Crafts Movement
20th century
1901-1950
- 1906 : Ferdinand Ritter von Attlmayr , Austrian naval tactician and officer
- 1910 : Melchior Treub , Dutch botanist
- 1916 : Vincenz Czerny , German surgeon and cancer researcher
- 1919 : Pieter van Geer , Dutch mathematician
- 1924 : Max Waechter , British businessman and philanthropist
- 1927 : Hermann Weil , German-Argentinian entrepreneur
- 1929 : Carl Wolff , German economist, journalist and politician
- 1929 : Gustav Stresemann , German statesman, Reich Chancellor, Foreign Minister, MdR, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1931 : Carl Nielsen , Danish composer and conductor
- 1932 : Giulio Aristide Sartorio , Italian painter, illustrator, screenwriter and film director
- 1932 : Max Wolf , German astronomer, discoverer of many asteroids, pioneer of galactic astrophotography
- 1933 : Abdolhossein Teymurtash , Iranian minister
- 1937 : Richard Hertwig , German zoologist
- 1937 : Hans Kippenberger , German politician
- 1941 : Wilhelm Kienzl , Austrian composer
- 1941 : Ernest Marland , American politician, governor of the state of Oklahoma
- 1942 : František Čech-Vyšata , Czech travel writer
- 1942 : Willibald von Langermann and Erlencamp , German general
- 1944 : Alfred Andreesen , German reform pedagogue
- 1945 : Bernd von Arnim , Prussian politician
- 1948 : Alois Wolfmüller , German inventor, engineer and flight technician
1951-2000
- 1953 : Arnold Bax , British composer
- 1958 : George Kennedy Allen Bell , British theologian
- 1962 : Johannes Leopold Martin Arpe , German actor, director and theater director
- 1962 : Iida Dakotsu , Japanese poet
- 1963 : Pedro Rebolledo , Panamanian composer
- 1964 : Erich Friedrich Schmidt , American archaeologist
- 1966 : Dave Lambert , American jazz singer
- 1966 : Rolf Sievert , Swedish physicist
- 1967 : Pinto Colvig , American actor and author, animator, draftsman and voice actor
- 1967 : Woody Guthrie , American unionist and songwriter
- 1967 : Malcolm Sargent , British conductor
- 1967 : Carlo Hemmerling , Swiss composer, pianist and organist
- 1967 : Walter Müller von Kulm , Swiss composer and music teacher
- 1969 : Richard Hammer , German doctor and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1971 : Edit Angold , German actress
- 1971 : Seán Ó Riada , Irish composer
- 1973 : Otto Mauer , Austrian priest, art collector and patron
- 1974 : Ina Seidel , German author
- 1976 : Hermann Pünder , German politician and legal scholar
- 1977 : Arnold Bode , German educator, curator and artist, founder of the documenta
- 1977 : Tay Garnett , American film director
- 1978 : George Grant Blaisdell , American inventor and engineer
- 1979 : Humberto Teixeira , Brazilian musician and composer
- 1981 : Tadeusz Kotarbiński , Polish philosopher
- 1981 : Walter Mehring , German writer, important satirical author of the Weimar Republic
- 1982 : Roger Claessen , Belgian football player
- 1982 : Adam Kopyciński , Polish conductor, pianist, singer and composer
- 1983 : Kurt Kusenberg , German art critic and author
- 1985 : Heinz Kindermann , Austrian literary and theater scholar
- 1987 : Jean Anouilh , French playwright
- 1988 : Franz Josef Strauss , German politician
- 1989 : Dennis McGee , American fiddle player and accordionist
- 1990 : Stefano Casiraghi , Italian entrepreneur and pleasure boat driver
- 1994 : Heinz Rühmann , German actor
- 1996 : Arturo Gatica , Chilean singer
- 1997 : John Ashley , American actor and singer
- 1999 : Akio Morita , Japanese industrialist
- 1999 : Hilario González , Cuban composer, pianist, musicologist and music teacher
- 2000 : Wojciech Has , Polish director
21st century
- 2002 : Willi Paul Adams , German Americanist and historian
- 2002 : Siegfried F. Erdmann , German engineer and university professor
- 2002 : Felix Kracht , German aircraft manufacturer
- 2002 : Victor Maag , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 2003 : William Steig , American cartoonist
- 2004 : Hans-Joachim Arndt , German political scientist
- 2004 : Jacques Benveniste , French medic
- 2004 : Janet Leigh , American actress ( Psycho )
- 2004 : Miriam Solovieff , American violinist and music teacher
- 2005 : Franco Scoglio , Italian football coach
- 2009 : Jürgen Kellermeier , German journalist
- 2009 : Gert Mattenklott , German literary scholar
- 2009 : Reinhard Mohn , German entrepreneur
- 2009 : Fatima , Libyan queen
- 2010 : Aníbal Arias , Argentinian guitarist
- 2010 : Helga Göring , German actress
- 2010 : Franz Mack , German entrepreneur, co-founder of Europa-Park in Rust
- 2013 : Bill Eppridge , American photojournalist
- 2014 : Peer Augustinski , German actor, voice actor, radio play speaker and audio book interpreter
- 2014 : Werner Hennig , presiding judge at the Federal Social Court
- 2014 : Friedrich Streich , Swiss animation filmmaker
- 2015 : Denis Healey , British politician
- 2016 : Ljupka Dimitrovska , Yugoslav or Croatian-Macedonian pop singer
- 2017 : Jalal Talabani , Iraqi politician and president
- 2018 : Gisela Bulla nee Gisela Gottschalk , German archaeologist, author and politician
- 2018 : Leon Max Lederman , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2019 : Diogo Freitas do Amaral , Portuguese politician
- 2019 : Dieter Salevsky , German enduro athlete
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Francis of Assisi , founder of the Italian order (Protestant, the Roman Catholic Memorial Day is on October 4th )
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Germany : Day of German Unity (since 1990)
- South Korea : Gaecheonjeol , founding day of Korea (2333 BC)
- More information about the day
- Open Mosque Day ( Germany ) (since 1997)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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