April, 30th

The April 30 is the 120th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 121st in leap years ), thus remain 245 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

313: Coin portrait of Licinius

• 0313 : Licinius makes himself the sole ruler in the east of the Roman Empire after his victory over the co-regent Maximinus Daia at Herakleia Pontike .
• 0642 : Chindaswinth now formally takes over the functions of King of the Visigoths in the Toledan Empire , after having been their ruler for a few days after the overthrow of his predecessor Tulga .
• 1305 : The leader of the Catalan Company , Roger de Flor , and his companions are murdered in Adrianople . This triggers a campaign of revenge by unity against the Byzantine Empire .
• 1309 : Counts Otto, Hermann and Albert von Eberstein grant the town of Naugard town charter according to Luebian law .
• 1315 : The former chamberlain of the late King Philip IV of France, Enguerrand de Marigny , is executed on the gallows at the instigation of Karl von Valois on account of various accusations, including sorcery, and his body is left hanging for two years. In 1317 he was rehabilitated.
• 1415 : King Sigismund gives the Hohenzollern Friedrich I of Nuremberg the hereditary dignity of Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg at the Council of Constance .
• 1635 : The Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna , through a direct conversation with Cardinal Richelieu in France , achieves the conclusion of the Compiègne Treaty and thus improvements to the Paris Treaty of November 1, 1634, which ensures support during the war in Germany .

1671: Zrinski and Frankopan are executed

• 1671 : The participants in the Hungarian-Croatian magnate conspiracy against the Habsburg Leopold I , Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan , are executed in Wiener Neustadt . On the same day, Count Ferenc Nádasdy was also executed in the Old Town Hall in Vienna.
• 1725 : In the Treaty of Vienna , Emperor Karl VI. Support to Spain in regaining Gibraltar from Great Britain . In return, the Pragmatic Sanction is recognized and the Ostend Company is granted trading privileges.

1789: George Washington sworn in

• 1789 : After his election on February 4, George Washington is sworn in as the first President of the United States on the balcony of the Federal Hall in New York .

1803 and 1812: Louisiana Purchase, the Orleans Territory outlined in light blue bold

• 1803 : Robert R. Livingston , James Monroe and François Barbé-Marbois sign the contract in Paris for the US to buy the French colony of Louisiana . The Louisiana Purchase doubles the territory of the United States .
• 1812 : The Orleans Territory , created on October 1, 1804, is incorporated into the Union of the United States as the 18th  state under the name Louisiana . The Louisiana Territory to the north of this will be renamed the Missouri Territory on June 4th to avoid confusion.
• 1815 : Friedrich Wilhelm III. decrees at the Congress of Vienna to divide Prussia into ten provinces, including the provinces of Westphalia , Brandenburg and Posen .
• 1838 : Nicaragua is the first country to break away from the Central American Confederation and declares itself independent.

1863: Capitaine Danjou

• 1863 : In the battle of Camerone near Palo Verde as part of the French intervention in Mexico, a superior force of Mexican troops almost completely destroyed an advance guard of 65 men from the French Foreign Legion under Jean Danjou .
• 1887 : Chancellor Otto von Bismarck orders that the customs officer Wilhelm Schnäbele be released. The Frenchman had been arrested for alleged espionage at a service meeting on German soil. The diplomatic crisis that arose during the Schnäbele affair will thus be resolved.
• 1898 : The German Fleet Association is founded in Berlin, which aims to arouse understanding and interest in the Imperial Navy among the people . The government favors the construction of battleships in the Reichsmarineamt under Alfred von Tirpitz .
• 1916 : The German Reich and Austria-Hungary are the first countries in the world to introduce summer time to increase the number of hours of usable daylight.
• 1925 : Adolf Hitler's application for release from Austrian citizenship is granted by the City of Linz's magistrate . From then on he lived as a stateless person on German soil.
• 1939 : In the German Reich , the “ Law on Tenancy with Jews ” comes into force. It lifts tenant protection for Jews and initiates the ghettoization process. German Jews have to leave their homes and are concentrated in “ Jewish houses ”.
• 1942 : The head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office , Oswald Pohl , formulates the principle of " destruction through work " in an order . The order leads to a huge expansion of the sub-camps, worsens the living conditions of the concentration camp prisoners even further and increases their death rate.
• 1943 : Off the Spanish coast, the crew of the British submarine Seraph throws the body of a man who died of pneumonia overboard with forged secret papers. Operation Mincemeat , developed by Ewen Montagu and others, successfully led the Germans to invade Sardinia and the Balkans during World War II, while at the same time concealing the actual invasion of Sicily .

1945: The Reichstag building

1945: The destroyed Victory Gate in Munich

• 1945 : Eva and Adolf Hitler take their own lives in the Führerbunker . On the same day, the Red Army hoisted the Soviet flag on the Berlin Reichstag building . The US Army takes Munich , the former “ capital of the movement ”, during World War II .
• 1945 : A few days before the surrender of the German Reich in World War II , the last edition of the Völkischer Beobachter is printed, but no longer delivered.
• 1948 : The Organization of American States ( OAS ) is founded in Bogotá on the basis of the Inter-American Treaty on Mutual Assistance , signed in Rio de Janeiro in 1947 , and the American Treaty on Peaceful Dispute Settlement is signed.
• 1972 : US President Richard Nixon announces the resignation of his two advisors, John Ehrlichman and Harry Robbins Haldeman, as a result of the Watergate affair .
• 1975 : The conquest of Sài Gòn by the North Vietnamese People's Army (NVA) marks the end of the Vietnam War . The unconditional surrender of President Dương Văn Minh led to the reunification of North and South Vietnam to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 and to a wave of refugees lasting over a decade , with 1.6 million Vietnamese leaving the now communist country.

1980: Beatrix on Coronation Day

• 1980 : Juliana von Oranien-Nassau abdicates as Queen of the Netherlands on her 71st birthday . Her successor is her daughter Beatrix . April 30th will be Koninginnedag .
• 1980 : The hostage-taking begins in London at the Iranian embassy . A terrorist group financed by Iraq under Saddam Hussein is demanding the release of 91 like-minded comrades from Iranian custody and autonomy for the oil-rich Iranian province of Khuzestan .

1995: The location of the Brent oil field

• 1995 : The oil storage and loading platform Brent Spar of the oil company Shell is occupied by Greenpeace activists to prevent it from sinking into the North Sea .
• 2013 : Beatrix von Orange-Nassau abdicates as Queen of the Netherlands . Her successor is her eldest son Willem-Alexander .

2019: Naruhito

• 2019 : Akihito , Tennō of Japan since 1990 , abdicates. He will be succeeded by his eldest son Naruhito . His government motto is called Reiwa ("beautiful harmony").

economy

• 1825 : The Association of German Booksellers , the Börsenverein , is founded in Leipzig by six Leipzig and 95 foreign booksellers and publishers .
• 1899 : The Association of Workers 'Cyclists' Associations is founded in Vienna. The Austrian transport club ARBÖ developed from him .
• 1904 : The German inventor Christian Hülsmeyer registers a patent for his telemobiloscope , a forerunner of the radar .

1904: Map of the exhibition site

• 1904 : In St. Louis is Louisiana Purchase Exposition opened the World Expo , under which from 1 July , the III. Olympic Summer Games of the modern era are being carried out.
• 1939 : The New York World's Fair , the world exhibition in the specially built Flushing Meadows Park in Queens , New York City, is ceremoniously opened.
• 1960 : The new overseas port , built as the central transshipment point for sea trade in the GDR, is opened in Rostock .

1963: Fehmarnsund Bridge

• 1963 : The Fehmarnsund Bridge, architecturally designed by Gerd Lohmer , which connects the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn with the mainland near Großenbrode , is officially opened after three years of construction by Federal President Heinrich Lübke and the Danish King Frederik IX. opened.
• 1972 : The Pullman train Brighton Belle wrong last time between London and Brighton .
• 1991 : After around 33 years and the production of over 3 million cars, Sachsenring closes the Trabant plant in Zwickau .

science and technology

• 1573 : The largest at that time with 150 m high steeple of Europe will collapse, damaging choir and transept of the Cathedral of Beauvais considerably. The rest of the church building remains unfinished for lack of money.
• 1857 : The Novara expedition starts in Trieste under the command of Commodore Bernhard von Wüllerstorf-Urbair , a two-year research trip around the world with the frigate Novara of the Austrian Navy . The research trip prepared by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna and accompanied by scholars under the direction of the geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter and the zoologist Georg von Frauenfeld produces internationally recognized results.

1897: Thomson's experiment arrangement

• 1897 : The British physicist Joseph John Thomson succeeds in experimentally proving the existence of the electron as predicted by George Johnstone Stoney .
• 1927 : The Berlin psychiatrist Johannes Heinrich Schultz first introduces autogenic training , a relaxation technique based on autosuggestion .

1947: Hoover Dam

• 1947 : The Democratic US President Harry S. Truman leaves under his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Boulder Dam renamed dam at Boulder City , Nevada, back to Hoover Dam rename. Construction of the dam began under Republican President Herbert Hoover .
• 1965 : New York Life Magazine publishes embryo images by Swedish photographer and science filmmaker Lennart Nilsson as a cover story for the first time, along with an article by him.
• 1993 : The World Wide Web , today's multimedia part of the Internet based on HTML , is released for general use worldwide.
• 2015 : After the end of its mission, the NASA space probe MESSENGER hits the far side of Mercury due to a lack of fuel .

Culture

1781: Antonio Salieri

• 1781 : The German-language opera The chimney sweep or the indispensable traitors of their dominions from selfishness of Antonio Salieri has its world premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna with Caterina Cavalieri and Ludwig Fischer in the lead roles. The libretto of Leopold Auenbrugger is strongly criticized, but added Salieri's music with enthusiasm.
• 1857 : The operetta Dragonette by Jacques Offenbach is premiered at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
• 1902 : The first performance of the lyrical drama Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy with the libretto by Maurice Maeterlinck takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
• 1917 : The opera Lodoletta by Pietro Mascagni based on the play Two Little Wooden Shoes by Ouida is premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

1927: Interior of the Chinese Theater

• 1927 : Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Sr. are the first film greats to immortalize themselves with their prints in the floor of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood .
• 1938 : In the Porky Pig cartoon short film Porky's Hare Hunt by Warner Bros. , a rabbit appears for the first time, from which Bugs Bunny is subsequently developed.
• 1941 : The operetta Der Reiter der Kaiserin by August Pepöck based on motifs from the novel Der Kerzlmacher by St. Stephan by Alfons von Czibulka is premiered at the Raimund Theater in Vienna.
• 1949 : The world premiere of the opera Il Dottor Antonio by Franco Alfano takes place at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome.
• 1959 : Three years after Bertolt Brecht's death, his epic play, Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe, completed in 1930, premiered in the stage version at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.
• 1969 : The opera Maître Pathelin or The Mutton Comedy by Rainer Kunad is premiered at the State Opera in Dresden.
• 1985 : Claude Lanzmann's documentary Shoah premiered in Paris .
• 1986 : The musical Line 1 is premiered at the Berlin Grips Theater .
• 2001 : The radio station bremen eins goes on air as a merger of Radio Bremen 1 Hansawelle and Radio Bremen Melodie .

society

1895: Oskar Panizza

• 1895 : The author Oskar Panizza is sentenced to one year solitary confinement for blasphemy because of his anti-Catholic grotesque Das Liebeskonzil . It is the hardest punishment ever imposed on a writer in the German Empire .
• 1967 : In Brühl , North Rhine-Westphalia, the Phantasialand amusement park is opened as a fairytale forest in the former Berggeist mine .
• 2006 : The Swiss ex-ski racer Corinne Rey-Bellet is allegedly shot and killed by her own husband together with her brother, who committed suicide a short time later.

religion

311: Galerius

• 0311 : The Edict of Tolerance by Nicomedia Emperor Galerius ends the Diocletian persecution of Christians .
• 1682 : With the approval of the regulations of the Congregation of Our Lady of the Visitation of Ghent , this religious community is considered to be founded under episcopal law. The basis is the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales .

1966: The seal of Baphomet , a symbol of the Church of Satan

• 1966 : Anton Szandor LaVey founds the Church of Satan in San Francisco , making Satanism its own religious system.

Disasters

• 1276 : The third conflagration within a year after March 28 and April 16 means that around two thirds of the city of Vienna are now destroyed.

1802: Puentes dam (after the dam breach)

• 1802 : The dam of Puentes in Spain breaks and causes the greatest disaster in Spanish hydraulic engineering history with 608 deaths.
• 1908 : The Japanese small cruiser Matsushima goes down after an ammunition explosion near Magong on the Pescadores Islands . Of the 347 crew, 206 died.
• 1941 : South-east of the rocky island of Rockall , the British passenger and cargo steamer Nerissa , which is on its way to Liverpool with both military and civilians, is attacked by the German submarine U 552 with three torpedoes without warning and sunk within a few minutes. 207 people are killed.

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

Sports

• 1905 : The Dutch national football team plays their first official international match against Belgium . After ninety minutes the result is 1-1, and in extra time the Dutch win the game 4-1.
• 1906 : The SC Preußen 06 e. V. Münster is founded.
• 1956 : The Boston Celtics basketball team under coach Red Auerbach signs the center player Bill Russell in exchange for Ed Macauley , laying the foundation for winning 11 NBA championships in the following 13 years.
• 1976 : Muhammad Ali defended his box - world champion in the heavyweight division against Jimmy Young at the Capital Center, Landover , United States, due to an extremely controversial win on points.
• 1985 : American entrepreneur Dick Bass reaches the summit of Mount Everest under the leadership of David Breashears . This makes him the first to climb the Seven Summits , the highest peaks on the seven continents. At the age of 55, he also set an age record on Mount Everest.
• 1993 : The tennis player Monica Seles is the victim of an assassination attempt by the mentally disturbed Steffi-Graf - "fan" Günter Parche during the game against Magdalena Maleewa in Hamburg . The knife attack forces her to take a 27-month break.
• 1994 : The San Marino Grand Prix is ​​held in Imola . The training costs the Austrian Roland Ratzenberger his life.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1306 : Andrea Dandolo , Doge of Venice
• 1310 : Casimir III. , last ruler of Poland from the house of the Piasts
• 1331 : Gaston III. , Count of Foix, Vice-Count of Béarn and Co-Prince of Andorra
• 1383 : Anne , Countess of Northampton

William III. (* 1425)

• 1425 : William the Brave , Duke of Saxony
• 1437 : Johann I. Thurzo , patrician, merchant and mining entrepreneur
• 1503 : Johann III. von Henneberg-Schleusingen , Prince Abbot of Fulda
• 1504 : Francesco Primaticcio , French painter, sculptor and architect of Mannerism
• 1512 : George II , Duke of Münsterberg and Oels
• 1539 : Barbara of Austria , Duchess of Ferrara
• 1545 : Cornelis Fransz. de Witt , Dutch politician
• 1551 : Jacopo da Empoli , Italian painter
• 1553 : Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont , Queen of France from 1575 to 1589
• 1587 : Éléonore de Bourbon-Condé , Princess of Orange
• 1595 : Henri II. De Montmorency , French military leader, viceroy of New France and governor of Languedoc
• 1623 : François de Montmorency-Laval , first Catholic bishop in Canada
• 1630 : Ernst Gottlieb von Börstel , Councilor of War in Brandenburg and Governor of Magdeburg
• 1642 : Christian Weise , German writer, playwright and pedagogue
• 1651 : Johannes Baptist de La Salle , French founder and educator
• 1662 : Mary II , Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
• 1664 : François Louis de Bourbon , Prince of Conti
• 1685 : Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer , German medic
• 1687 : Pedro Cebrián y Agustín , Spanish officer, diplomat and colonial administrator, Viceroy of New Spain

18th century

• 1709 : Christian Gottlieb Ludwig , German doctor and botanist
• 1710 : Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée , Bavarian general
• 1723 : Mathurin-Jacques Brisson , French zoologist and natural philosopher
• 1729 : Pierre-Jacques Volaire , French landscape painter
• 1730 : Gustav Ludwig von der Marwitz , Prussian general
• 1738 : Maria Wilhelmina von Auersperg , Austrian nobleman and lady-in-waiting Maria Theresa

Carl Friedrich Gauß (* 1777)

• 1750 : Friedrich Hildebrand von Einsiedel , German lawyer and writer
• 1756 : Philipp Friedrich Theodor Meckel , German physician
• 1760 : Johann Gottlob Nathusius , German merchant and industrialist
• 1767 : Jean Pierre Frédéric Ancillon , Prussian statesman and educator of the future King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia
• 1771 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon , Prussian colonel and military writer
• 1772 : Karl Himly , German ophthalmologist
• 1773 : Johann Karl Burckhardt , German astronomer
• 1774 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Mauvillon , Prussian colonel and military writer
• 1775 : Nicolás Rodríguez Peña , Argentine politician
• 1777 : Carl Friedrich Gauß , German mathematician
• 1790 : Karl Wilhelm von Willisen , Prussian general
• 1798 : Albert , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

19th century

1801-1850

• 1803 : Albrecht von Roon , Prussian general and minister

Kaspar Hauser (* 1812)

• 1812 : Kaspar Hauser , German foundling of unknown origin
• 1813 : Wilhelm Ludwig Abeken , German classical archaeologist
• 1814 : Louis-Constant Henriod , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1823 : Paul Janet , French philosopher
• 1825 : Charles Monselet , French writer and journalist, poet and librettist
• 1826 : Julius von Ficker , German-Austrian historian
• 1829 : Ferdinand von Hochstetter , geologist, natural scientist and explorer
• 1831 : Romolo Gessi , Italian traveler to Africa
• 1833 : August Schaeffer von Wienwald , Austrian painter
• 1835 : Franz Defregger , Austrian genre and history painter
• 1839 : Karl Salvator of Austria-Tuscany , Austrian Archduke and Prince of Tuscany
• 1840 : Eberhard Hillebrand , German architect and building contractor
• 1841 : Karl Klietsch , Bohemian painter and graphic artist
• 1846 : Karl Piutti , German composer
• 1847 : Johan Jacob Ahrenberg , Finnish-Swedish architect and writer
• 1848 : Eugène Simon , French arachnologist
• 1850 : Richard Zeckwer , American composer

1851-1900

• 1852 : Hans Bachmann , Swiss painter
• 1852 : Marcell Driver , German lawyer and politician

Eugen Bleuler (* 1857)

• 1857 : Eugen Bleuler , Swiss psychiatrist
• 1861 : Eduard Adler , German journalist and local politician
• 1863 : Max Skladanowsky , pioneer of film art in Germany
• 1864 : Georges Durand , French journalist and motorsport official
• 1864 : Léonce Girardot , French racing car driver
• 1865 : Anna Ahrens , German writer
• 1865 : Max Nettlau , German historian
• 1866 : Alexander Tille , German philosopher
• 1869 : Arthur Letondal , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer
• 1869 : Hans Poelzig , German architect
• 1870 : Homer S. Cummings , American politician
• 1870 : Wilhelm Nicolaus Dannhof , German bank director and entrepreneur

Franz Lehár (* 1870)

• 1870 : Franz Lehár , Hungarian-Austrian composer
• 1870 : Dhundiraj Govind Phalke , Indian film director
• 1873 : Carl Auffenberg , German lawyer and politician
• 1875 : Friedrich Opel , German cyclist, engineer, racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 1877 : Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando , Austrian writer and draftsman
• 1877 : Julius Oetiker , Swiss lawyer and civil servant
• 1877 : Alice B. Toklas , American cookbook author
• 1878 : Fernand Gabriel , French racing car driver
• 1879 : Georg Queri , German writer, Bavarian homeland poet
• 1879 : Thea Schleusner , German painter and writer
• 1881 : Julian F. Abele , American architect
• 1881 : Leopold Ziegler , German philosopher
• 1882 : Else Wenz-Viëtor , German children's book illustrator
• 1883 : Hans Breuer , German doctor and folk song collector
• 1883 : Jaroslav Hašek , Czech writer

Indalecio Prieto (* 1883)

• 1883 : Indalecio Prieto , Spanish politician
• 1884 : Arthur Erich Haas , Austrian physicist
• 1884 : Walter Schröder , German writer
• 1885 : Harold Craxton , British pianist, composer and music teacher
• 1885 : Hans Lembke , German painter and drawing teacher
• 1885 : Luigi Russolo , Italian futuristic painter and composer
• 1887 : Lawrence Duhé , American clarinetist and band leader
• 1888 : David Jacobs , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 1888 : Hans Reingruber , Minister for Transport in the GDR
• 1888 : Antonio Sant'Elia , Italian architect
• 1889 : Fritz Pfeffer , German victim of the National Socialists
• 1890 : Ludwig Adamovich sen. , Austrian lawyer
• 1893 : Gyula Breyer , Hungarian chess master
• 1893 : Geigerfränzje , German musician and solo entertainer

Joachim von Ribbentrop (* 1893)

• 1893 : Jérôme Marcadanti , French racing car driver
• 1893 : Joachim von Ribbentrop , German Nazi politician, Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs, war criminal
• 1894 : Herbert Vere Evatt , Australian politician
• 1895 : Wilhelm Vischer , Swiss pastor and theologian
• 1896 : Anandamayi Ma , Indian spiritual master
• 1896 : Gary Davis , blues guitarist
• 1896 : Hans List , Austrian entrepreneur
• 1899 : Lucie Mannheim , German-British actress
• 1899 : Olaf Wieghorst , Danish-American painter
• 1900 : Carl Hinrichs , German archivist and historian

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Simon Smith Kuznets , American economist of Russian-Jewish origin, Nobel Prize winner
• 1901 : György Orth , Hungarian football player and coach
• 1902 : Juan Peregrino Anselmo , Uruguayan football player
• 1902 : Theodore W. Schultz , American economist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1903 : Günter Raphael , German composer
• 1906 : Herbert Ferber , American sculptor
• 1907 : Ludwig Rödl , German chess player
• 1908 : Eve Arden , American actress

Queen Juliana (* 1909)

• 1909 : Juliana , Queen of the Netherlands
• 1909 : René Deltgen , Luxembourg actor
• 1910 : Herbert Adamski , German rower
• 1910 : Pierre Lantier , French composer
• 1911 : Peter Blachstein , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1911 : Roger Hilton , British painter
• 1911 : Werner S. Landecker , German legal scholar and sociologist
• 1911 : Luise Rinser , German writer
• 1912 : Julius Axelrod , American physician and neurochemist
• 1912 : Rudolf Pörtner , German writer and historian
• 1913 : Américo Belloto Varoni , Argentine violinist and conductor
• 1913 : Christian Maurer , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1913 : Willy Schäfer , Swiss handball player
• 1913 : Ferdinand Thomas , German resistance fighter
• 1914 : Franz Kessler , German musicologist and university professor
• 1915 : Hermann Aumer , German politician
• 1916 : Claude Shannon , American mathematician
• 1916 : Otto Bertram , German officer
• 1916 : Phil Brown , American actor

Bea Wain (born 1917)

• 1917 : Bea Wain , American singer and radio presenter
• 1918 : Don McNeill , American tennis player
• 1920 : Duncan Hamilton , Irish Formula 1 racing driver
• 1921 : Pierre Flahault , French racing car driver
• 1922 : Kurt Herget , German football player
• 1923 : Hans Jürgen Diedrich , German actor and cabaret artist
• 1923 : Percy Heath , American jazz musician
• 1924 : Ilja Prachař , Czech actor
• 1924 : Erhard Heinz , German mathematician
• 1925 : Corinne Calvet , French actress
• 1925 : Johnny Horton , American country singer
• 1925 : Rudolf Radke , German journalist

1926-1950

• 1926 : Wilhelm Bierfelder , German economist

Cloris Leachman (* 1926)

• 1926 : Cloris Leachman , American actress
• 1928 : Peter Carsten , German actor
• 1928 : Georg Gerster , Swiss photographer and aerial photography pioneer
• 1929 : Klausjürgen Wussow , German actor
• 1930 : Julius Adler , American biochemist
• 1930 : Félix Guattari , French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
• 1931 : Adriana Asti , Italian actress
• 1931 : Willy Harlander , German policeman and carpenter, organ builder and Bavarian folk actor
• 1932 : Umar Kayam , Indonesian writer
• 1933 : Karla Erbová , Czech poet
• 1933 : Reinhold Johannes Buhl , German musician
• 1934 : Jerry Lordan , British composer, singer and musician.
• 1934 : Jürgen Schneider , German building contractor and bankrupt
• 1935 : Georg Immelmann , German theater director and general manager
• 1936 : Monika Dahlberg , German singer and actress
• 1938 : Fips Asmussen , German comedian and solo entertainer
• 1938 : Jürgen Schmidt , German actor

Larry Niven (* 1938)

• 1938 : Larry Niven , American science fiction writer
• 1939 : Trautl Brandstaller , Austrian journalist, writer and television editor
• 1939 : William H. Calvin , American neurobiologist and author
• 1940 : John Grew , Canadian organist, harpsichordist and music teacher
• 1940 : Darrell McCall , American musician
• 1940 : Ermindo Angel Onega , Argentine soccer player
• 1940 : Ekkehard Weber , Austrian ancient historian, epigraphist and classical philologist
• 1941 : Sean Arnold , British actor
• 1941 : Luis Antonio García Navarro , Spanish conductor
• 1941 : Heinz Prüller , Austrian journalist
• 1941 : Stavros Dimas , Greek lawyer, minister and EU commissioner
• 1942 : Alexander Wedderburn , British theologian
• 1943 : David Zane Mairowitz , American writer
• 1943 : Frederick Chiluba , President of Zambia
• 1943 : Bobby Vee , American singer
• 1944 : Andy Kulberg , American rock musician

Rudi Assauer (* 1944)

• 1944 : Rudi Assauer , German football manager
• 1945 : Max Cohen-Olivar , Moroccan racing car driver
• 1945 : Ulla Hahn , German writer
• 1945 : Robert McHenry , American author
• 1945 : Hannelore Huber , Austrian psychologist
• 1946 : Bill Plympton , American animator
• 1946 : Carl XVI. Gustaf , King of Sweden
• 1947 : Margene Adkins , American football player
• 1947 : Joe Blasco , American makeup artist
• 1947 : Jaume Cabré , Spanish philologist and writer
• 1947 : Thomas Goppel , German educator, minister and EU minister
• 1947 : Ramiz Guliyev , Azerbaijani tarplayer and music teacher
• 1947 : Wolfgang Rausch , German football player
• 1947 : Karin von Welck , German ethnologist and local politician

Robert Tarjan (* 1948)

• 1948 : John Cooper , British racing car driver
• 1948 : Robert Tarjan , American computer scientist
• 1949 : António Guterres , Portuguese Prime Minister and UN Commissioner for Refugees
• 1949 : Jean-Louis Bousquet , French racing car driver
• 1949 : Karl Meiler , German tennis player
• 1950 : Ursula Auerswald , German doctor and politician
• 1950 : Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt , German university professor, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and politician
• 1950 : Pedro Barceló , Spanish-German ancient historian

1951-1975

• 1951 : Garabed Antranikian , German biologist
• 1951 : Jacek Rostowski , Polish economist and politician

Gitta Trauernicht (* 1951)

• 1951 : Gitta Trauernicht , German politician
• 1952 : Jacques Audiard , French director
• 1952 : Martin Gutzeit , German politician in the GDR
• 1953 : Peter Maulshagen , German soccer player
• 1953 : Merrill Osmond , American singer
• 1954 : Douglas Norman Arnold , American mathematician
• 1954 : Heike Bockmann , German politician
• 1954 : Jane Campion , New Zealand film director
• 1954 : Gunther Tiersch , German meteorologist and rower, Olympic champion
• 1956 : Lars von Trier , Danish film director
• 1957 : Darko Anić , French chess player and teacher
• 1957 : Ivan Atanasov , Bulgarian ice hockey player
• 1957 : Giuseppe Sannino , Italian football player and coach
• 1959 : Elaine Fine , American composer

Stephen Harper (* 1959)

• 1959 : Stephen Harper , Canadian politician
• 1960 : Weert Canzler , German social scientist and mobility researcher
• 1961 : Franky Van Der Elst , Belgian football player
• 1961 : Arnór Guðjohnsen , Icelandic football player
• 1961 : Eva Illouz , Israeli sociologist
• 1961 : Thomas Schaaf , German soccer player and coach
• 1961 : Isiah Thomas , American basketball player
• 1962 : Nikolai Vladimirovich Fomenko , Russian entrepreneur, actor, musician and racing driver
• 1962 : Alexander Osang , German journalist and writer
• 1964 : Barrington Levy , Jamaican musician
• 1964 : Ian Healy , Australian cricketer
• 1964 : Lorenzo Jules Staelens , Belgian football player and coach

Gundula Gause (* 1965)

• 1965 : Gundula Gause , German news anchor
• 1965 : Adrian Pasdar , American actor
• 1965 : Joachim Schultze , German cancer researcher
• 1966 : Roman Hagara , Austrian sailor
• 1966 : Stine Lise Hattestad , Norwegian freestyle skier
• 1966 : Jens Streifling , German musician
• 1967 : Turbo B , American rapper
• 1968 : Carl Brown , American basketball player
• 1968 : Jim Reeves , German singer, songwriter and music producer
• 1968 : Senjanin Maglajlija , Bosnian handball player and coach
• 1968 : Mike Matusow , American poker player
• 1968 : Verona Pooth , German beauty queen and entertainer
• 1969 : Martin-Niels Däfler , German business economist
• 1971 : Boris Pietsch , German theater actor
• 1971 : Carlos Baldomir , Argentine professional boxer
• 1971 : Simone Lang , German figure skater

John Boyne (born 1971)

• 1971 : John Boyne , Irish writer
• 1971 : Edward Piccin , Swiss actor
• 1973 : Domenika Ahlrichs , German journalist
• 1973 : Karsten Dusse , author and editor at Brainpool
• 1974 : Lars Löllmann , German actor
• 1975 : David Moncoutié , French racing cyclist
• 1975 : Ha Tae-kwon , South Korean badminton player
• 1975 : Ilka Minor , Austrian rally co-driver
• 1975 : Johnny Galecki , American actor
• 1975 : Annika Strandhäll , Swedish politician

1976-2000

Daniel Gloger (* 1976)

• 1976 : Daniel Gloger , German countertenor
• 1976 : Victor J. Glover , American astronaut
• 1976 : Davian Clarke , Jamaican athlete
• 1976 : Amanda Palmer , American musician, poet and cabaret artist
• 1977 : Michał Górczyński , Polish bass clarinetist, improvisation musician and composer
• 1978 : Simone Barone , Italian football player and coach
• 1978 : Joachim Boldsen , Danish handball player
• 1978 : Remi Broadway , Australian actor
• 1979 : Tina Amon Amonsen , German actress
• 1979 : Gerardo Torrado , Mexican soccer player
• 1980 : Lidya Tafesse Abebe , Ethiopian football referee
• 1981 : John O'Shea , Irish football player
• 1981 : Kristin Størmer Steira , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1981 : Kunal Nayyar , British actor
• 1982 : Lloyd Banks , American rapper
• 1982 : Christian Bruder , German ski jumper

Kirsten Dunst (* 1982)

• 1982 : Kirsten Dunst , American actress
• 1982 : Max Weinhold , German field hockey player
• 1983 : Tatjana Hüfner , German luge athlete
• 1983 : Nenad Milijaš , Serbian football player
• 1984 : Seimone Augustus , American basketball player
• 1984 : Kasia Borek , German actress
• 1984 : Karin Weigelt , Swiss handball player
• 1985 : Elena Fanchini , Italian ski racer
• 1985 : Gabriela Lindl , German actress and singer
• 1985 : Michael Mørkøv , Danish cyclist
• 1985 : Alexander Pöllhuber , Austrian football player
• 1985 : Gal Gadot , Israeli model and actress
• 1985 : Guillaume Rippert , French football player

Dianna Agron (* 1986)

• 1986 : Dianna Agron , American singer and actress
• 1986 : Lena Düpont , German politician
• 1986 : Martin Hikel , German politician
• 1986 : Björn Ziegenbein , German soccer player
• 1987 : Ian Ashworth , South African ice hockey player
• 1987 : Dax McCarty , American football player
• 1987 : Kazuya Ōshima , Japanese racing driver
• 1989 : Tunay Acar , Turkish soccer player
• 1990 : Thomas Höltschl , Austrian soccer player
• 1990 : Michael Schulte , German singer and songwriter
• 1991 : Zachary Anderson , Australian soccer player
• 1991 : Richard Annang , Ghanaian soccer player
• 1991 : Christos Mylordos , Cypriot singer
• 1992 : Finn Lemke , German handball player

Marc-André ter Stegen (* 1992)

• 1992 : Marc-André ter Stegen , German soccer goalkeeper
• 1992 : Travis Scott , American rapper
• 1992 : Paweł Wszołek , Polish football player
• 1993 : Mërgim Neziri , German-Albanian football player
• 1994 : Robert Tonyan , American football player
• 1996 : Florian Alt , German motorcycle racer
• 1996 : Felicitas Rauch , German soccer player
• 1998 : Olivia DeJonge , Australian actress

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0065 : Marcus Annaeus Lucanus , Roman poet
• 0535 : Amalasuntha , queen of the Ostrogoths
• 0783 : Hildegard , wife of Charlemagne
• 0971 : Adalbert II , co-king of Italy
• 0977 : Sideman , Bishop of Crediton
• 1002 : Ekkehard I. , Margrave of Meissen
• 1030 : Mahmud of Ghazni , ruler of the Ghaznavid dynasty
• 1042 or 1045 : Gottfried II. Ferréol , Count of Gâtinais
• 1047 : Dietrich II of Luxembourg , Bishop of Metz
• 1127 : Wolfhard von Augsburg , Christian hermit
• 1196 : Baldwin II , Bishop of Utrecht
• 1305 : Roger de Flor , military adventurer
• 1315 : Margaret of Burgundy , Queen of France and Navarre

Sarcophagus of Enguerrand de Marigny († 1315)

• 1315 : Enguerrand de Marigny , chamberlain of the French king Philip IV.
• 1341 : Johann III. , Duke of Brittany
• 1361 : Otto , Archbishop of Magdeburg
• 1407 : Margaret of Pomerania , Duchess of Austria, Styria, Carinthia and Carniola
• 1436 : Friedrich VII. , Count of Toggenburg
• 1436 : Ludwig II , Duke of Brieg and Liegnitz
• 1439 : Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick , English nobleman and politician
• 1467 : Jean d'Orléans , Count of Angoulême and Périgord
• 1513 : Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk , English nobleman
• 1562 : Brigitta von Pfalz-Simmern , abbess in Neuburg Abbey
• 1617 : Gesche Meiburg , a Brunswick citizen, helped to save the city from conquest
• 1631 : Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine-Guise , Princess of Conti
• 1632 : Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly , military leader in the Thirty Years War

Sigismund III. († 1632)

• 1632 : Sigismund III. Wasa , King of Poland and Sweden
• 1638 : Jakob Löffler , Württemberg Chancellor and Swedish Vice Chancellor
• 1642 : Dmitri Michailowitsch Poscharski , Russian prince, leader of an uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian occupation during the time of turmoil
• 1655 : Eustache Le Sueur , French painter
• 1671 : Fran Krsto Frankopan , Croatian politician and writer
• 1671 : Franz III. Nádasdy , Hungarian chief judge and general
• 1671 : Petar Zrinski , Ban of Croatia
• 1682 : Auguste Sophie von Pfalz-Sulzbach , Countess Palatine von Sulzbach and Princess von Lobkowicz
• 1687 : Ernst Gottlieb von Börstel , councilor of war in Brandenburg and governor of Magdeburg

18th century

• 1717 : Benedikt Abelzhauser , Bavarian Benedictine monk and scholar
• 1728 : Jacob Heinrich von Flemming , Saxon-Polish statesman and army chief
• 1734 : Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki , Polish composer
• 1735 : Jacob Daniel Bruce , General Feldzeugmeister of Scottish origin in the service of the Russian Army
• 1735 : David Richter the Elder , Swedish-German portrait and landscape painter
• 1736 : Johann Albert Fabricius , German classical philologist
• 1745 : Robert Douglas , Scottish politician and officer
• 1751 : Cajetan Gerstlacher , Bavarian Augustinian canon
• 1751 : Peter von Lacy , Russian Field Marshal General
• 1754 : Maria Teresa Felicita d'Este , Duchess of Penthièvre
• 1755 : Jean-Baptiste Oudry , French painter
• 1757 : Johann Anton II. Von Freyberg , Prince-Bishop of the Eichstätt Monastery
• 1758 : François d'Agincour , French harpsichordist, organist and composer
• 1759 : Bernardo De Dominici , Italian painter and art historian
• 1777 : Francisco Cajigal de la Vega , Spanish officer, colonial administrator, governor of Cuba and viceroy of New Spain
• 1790 : Heinrich Ludwig Manger , German builder and pomologist
• 1792 : John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich , British diplomat and statesman
• 1794 : Johann Daniel Müller , theologian
• 1796 : Franziska von Corvin-Krasińska , Polish-Saxon nobleman

19th century

• 1815 : Jean Joseph Tranchot , French geographer
• 1829 : Johann Georg Otto , German civil servant
• 1837 : Wilhelm Birett , German bookseller
• 1841 : Peter Andreas Heiberg , Danish satirist
• 1842 : Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo , Italian clergyman and founder of the order
• 1843 : Gaspard de Chabrol , French administrator

Karl of Austria-Teschen († 1847)

• 1847 : Karl von Österreich-Teschen , Austrian Archduke and general
• 1851 : Rupert Jäger , German teacher and philologist
• 1852 : Charles Andrews , American politician, House of Representatives for Maine
• 1859 : Johann Melchior Schuler , Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher
• 1860 : Franz Christian Naunyn , lawyer and Lord Mayor of Berlin
• 1864 : Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves , German architect, town planner and civil engineer
• 1865 : Robert FitzRoy , British naval officer and meteorologist
• 1870 : Václav Levý , Czech sculptor
• 1872 : Walpurga Schindl , Tyrolean poet
• 1875 : Johann Friedrich von Waldeck , French antiquarian and cartographer, painter and explorer
• 1881 : Pauline von Mallinckrodt , founder of the German order
• 1883 : Édouard Manet , French painter
• 1885 : Jens Peter Jacobsen , Danish writer
• 1894 : Frank Hatton , American politician
• 1895 : Gustav Freytag , German writer and journalist

20th century

1901-1950

Franz Susemihl († 1901)

• 1901 : Franz Susemihl , German classical philologist
• 1906 : James E. Boyd , American politician
• 1907 : Julius Langbehn , German writer and cultural critic
• 1910 : Jean Moréas , Franco-Greek poet
• 1912 : Cäcilie von Brockdorff , German painter and editor
• 1916 : Paul Schlenther , German theater critic, writer and theater director
• 1916 : Otto von Herff , German doctor and professor
• 1918 : Hermann Winnefeld , German archaeologist
• 1923 : Gottfried Georg Andrä , German manor owner, secret economist and politician

Bessie Coleman († 1926)

• 1926 : Bessie Coleman , American pilot
• 1929 : Friedrich Lienhard , German writer and spokesman for the local art movement
• 1931 : Adolf von Arnim , German sports official
• 1933 : Abraham Aguilera Bravo , Chilean religious priest and bishop
• 1936 : Oran Pape , American football player and police officer
• 1941 : Edgar Aabye , Danish tug of war
• 1942 : Joseph Charles Arthur , American botanist
• 1943 : Leo Smit , Dutch composer and pianist
• 1943 : Otto Jespersen , Danish linguist
• 1944 : Franz Hörner , German automobile racing driver
• 1945 : Eva Braun , long-term partner, most recently the wife of Adolf Hitler
• 1945 : Ede Donáth , Hungarian-Jewish composer

Adolf Hitler († 1945)

• 1945 : Adolf Hitler , German Chancellor and dictator
• 1945 : Aron Alexandrowitsch Solz , Russian lawyer and revolutionary
• 1948 : Hubert Knackfuß , German building researcher and archaeologist
• 1950 : Palmièri , Canadian actor

1951-2000

• 1954 . Christian Dauvergne , French racing car driver

Albums W. Barkley († 1956)

• 1956 : Alben W. Barkley , American politician, Vice President, Senator and Member of the US Congress
• 1957 : Kathleen Atkinson , American tennis player
• 1957 : Oluf Christensen , German politician
• 1958 : Paul Hans Jaeger , German politician
• 1959 : Armand Marsick , Belgian violin virtuoso and composer
• 1962 : Jameson Adams , British polar explorer
• 1965 : Helen Chandler , American actress
• 1965 : Américo Belloto Varoni , Argentine violinist and conductor
• 1966 : Richard Fariña , American writer and musician

Selli Engler († 1972)

• 1972 : Selli Engler , German activist of the lesbian movement during the Weimar Republic
• 1973 : Hermann A. Eplée , German politician
• 1973 : Osaragi Jirō , Japanese writer
• 1974 : Boris Roubakine , Canadian pianist and music teacher
• 1976 : Michael Gartenschläger , shot by East German border troops
• 1977 : Ludwig Bäte , German writer
• 1978 : Liane Augustin , Austrian singer, Diseuse, actress and voice actress
• 1979 : Hugo Scharnberg , German politician
• 1981 : Jan Filip , Czech prehistorian
• 1981 : Peter Huchel , German poet and editor
• 1983 : George Balanchine , Russian choreographer, founder of the American Ballet
• 1983 : Muddy Waters , American blues musician
• 1986 : Françoise Perret , Swiss journalist and politician
• 1986 : Robert Stevenson , British-American film director, screenwriter and film producer
• 1988 : Wacław Geiger , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1988 : Johanna Haarer , Nazi educational ideologist

Sergio Leone († 1989)

• 1989 : Sergio Leone , Italian film director
• 1989 : Harriet Serr , American pianist and music teacher
• 1990 : Elsbeth von Ameln , German lawyer and defense attorney
• 1990 : Herbert Jankuhn , German prehistorian
• 1990 : Mario Pizziolo , Italian football player
• 1992 : Otto Bräutigam , German lawyer and diplomat
• 1993 : Marino Evaristo , Argentine footballer
• 1994 : Roland Ratzenberger , Austrian Formula 1 driver
• 1998 : Roman Maciejewski , Polish composer, pianist and conductor

21st century

• 2000 : Martin-Christian Schmidt , German harpsichord maker and musical instrument restorer
• 2001 : Nana von Hugo , German designer and architect
• 2001 : Andreas Kupfer , German soccer player
• 2002 : Karel Milota , Czech poet, writer and translator
• 2004 : Jeff Butterfield , English rugby player
• 2004 : Boris Mironowitsch Pergamenschtschikow , Russian cellist
• 2006 : Corinne Rey-Bellet , Swiss ski racer

Paul Spiegel († 2006)

• 2006 : Paul Spiegel , German journalist, entrepreneur and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
• 2006 : Pramoedya Ananta Toer , Indonesian writer
• 2007 : Adu Ababio II , Nigerian chief
• 2007 : Grégory Lemarchal , French pop singer
• 2007 : Curt Linda , German animation filmmaker and film producer
• 2007 : Clemens Ostermann , German voice actor and musician
• 2010 : Maximilian Arbesser von Rastburg , Austrian entrepreneur and business lawyer
• 2010 : Eric Breininger , German terrorist
• 2010 : Paul Augustin Mayer , German Curia Cardinal
• 2010 : Gerry Ryan , Irish radio and television presenter
• 2011 : Ronald D. Asmus , American diplomat and political scientist
• 2011 : Saif al-Arab al-Gaddafi , sixth son of the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi
• 2011 : Harry S. Morgan , German journalist, director and producer
• 2011 : Ernesto Sabato , Argentine writer

Tomás Borge († 2012)

• 2012 : Tomás Borge , Nicaraguan politician and writer
• 2012 : Rob van den Broeck , Dutch musician and painter
• 2012 : Alexander Dale Oen , Norwegian swimmer
• 2013 : Irineos Galanakis , Greek bishop
• 2013 : Andrew J. Offutt , American writer
• 2014 : Peeraphan Palusuk , Thai politician
• 2014 : Mieczysław Wilczek , Polish chemist, entrepreneur and politician
• 2015 : Thilo Götze Regenbogen , German artist, art historian, cultural scientist and author
• 2015 : Ben E. King , American R&B singer
• 2016 : Marisol Escobar , American visual artist
• 2016 : Uwe Friedrichsen , German actor
• 2016 : Harold Kroto , British chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2016 : Walter Schädlich , German handball player and coach
• 2017 : Borys Olijnyk , Ukrainian poet, translator and politician
• 2017 : Ueli Steck , Swiss extreme mountaineer
• 2018 : Rose Laurens , French pop singer
• 2018 : Ruth Merckle , German entrepreneur
• 2019 : Anémone , French actress
• 2019 : Beth Carvalho , Brazilian singer
• 2020 : Tony Allen , Nigerian musician
• 2020 : Sam Lloyd , American actor

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • David Livingstone , Scottish Missionary and Explorer (Evangelical)
  • Saint Pius V , Italian Cardinal and Pope (Catholic)
  • St. James the Elder , Roman martyr, apostle and patron saint (Orthodox)
  • St. Pusei , Persian Kuropalates and martyrs ( Melkites )

• Name days
  • Pius , Quirin

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Netherlands : Koninginnedag (1949-2013)
  • Vietnam : Southern Liberation Day

• regional customs
  • Europe : Beltane
  • Europe : Walpurgis Night

• miscellaneous
  • International Jazz Day (since 2012)

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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