June 30th
The June 30 is the 181st day of the Gregorian calendar (182nd in leap years ), thus remain 184 days by year end. A leap second is added on June 30th if necessary .
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1422: On the retreat from the city of Bellinzona , which it had previously besieged in vain, the contingent of the Old Confederation is defeated by numerically superior troops of the Duchy of Milan in the Battle of Arbedo .
- 1520: The in captivity of the Spaniards located Aztec ruler . Moctezuma II is mortally wounded by the stone throwing an Aztec. Riot forces the Spaniard Hernán Cortés in the following night, the so-called Noche Triste , Tenochtitlan to leave under heavy sacrifices.
- 1651: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a victory for the Polish-Lithuanian army. As a result, the rebellions in the eastern part of Poland-Lithuania slow down, and the Khmelnytskyi uprising is temporarily brought to an end.
- 1764: The beast of Gévaudan kills its first known victim. In the following three years around 100 French people, mostly women and children, lost their lives in this series of attacks.
- 1805: The Michigan Territory Act enters into force in the United States.
- 1810: France hands over the occupied principality of Bayreuth to the Kingdom of Bavaria for the price of 15 million francs .
- 1864: US President Abraham Lincoln signs the Yosemite Grant , with which the Yosemite Valley is ceded to California in the form of a park .
- 1879: Khedive Ismail Pasha , deposed by the Ottoman Sultan for waste, leaves Cairo .
- 1913: The German Reichstag passes a defense bill that provides for a gradual increase in the army .
- 1930: The third Anglo-Iraqi treaty paves the way for Iraq's independence , but still guarantees Great Britain military presence and access to the country's oil .
- 1930: The Allied occupation of the Rhineland ends five years earlier than originally intended. With the withdrawal of troops, the victorious powers of World War I followed agreements in the context of the Young Plan .
- 1934: The night of the long knives begins, in which the entire SA staff is murdered by the National Socialists to prevent an alleged coup . In the action ordered by Adolf Hitler , other unpopular people find their deaths, which is then legally disguised as "state emergency services".
- 1940: With the occupation of the Channel Islands , German troops can take over the only crown possession of the British Crown during World War II .
- 1942: In the German Reich , classes for Jewish students are banned.
- 1945: The Battle of Okinawa in World War II ends with the capture of the Japanese island by the Allies, but isolated battles in the mountains continue for weeks.
- 1946: The four occupying powers in Germany lead to the inter-zone traffic to Interzone pass one.
- 1953: The German UNICEF committee is founded with its headquarters in Cologne.
- 1960: Belgian Congo becomes independent as the Republic of the Congo .
- 1961: The German Federal Social Assistance Act is passed, which regulates the type and scope of social assistance for needy residents of the Federal Republic of Germany until December 31, 2004.
- 1985: The last 39 hostages on TWA Flight 847 are released. A command of an organization close to Hezbollah hijacked the plane on June 14th.
- 1989: Umar al-Bashir becomes President of the Republic of Sudan after a bloodless military coup .
- 1994: Dissolution of the Federal Health Office in connection with problems with HIV-contaminated blood products .
- 1997: With the expiry of the agreed lease period of 99 years, British colonial rule over the New Territories in Hong Kong ends . According to the previously agreed Sino-British joint declaration on Hong Kong , the United Kingdom is handing over sovereignty over the entire area of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China .
- 2000: Japanese archaeologists discover three pharaohs tombs near Giza , Egypt .
- 2005: In Spain , after the Netherlands and Belgium, same-sex marriage is legally made possible as the third country .
- 2006: With the federalism reform, the German Bundestag passes the largest constitutional amendment since 1949.
- 2010: In Berlin, the 14th Federal Assembly elects the former Prime Minister of Lower Saxony , Christian Wulff, as the tenth German Federal President in the third ballot .
- 2012: Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson is re-elected as President of Iceland .
- 2017: The German Bundestag passes a clear majority to introduce same-sex marriage .
economy
- 1848: In Berlin, the regular "number 1" of the Neue Preußische Zeitung (Kreuzzeitung) appears , which for 91 years stands at the interface between politics and journalism.
- 1894: Tower Bridge is opened to traffic in London . The bascule bridge , built in neo-Gothic style , is the easternmost bridge over the Thames in the British capital.
- 1937: The Banque de France leaves the gold standard .
- 1973: In London, which is International Cocoa Organization ( International Cocoa Organization ) established.
- 1982: The Haverlahwiese mine , once the largest iron ore mine in Germany and one of the strongest mines in Europe, is the last mine in the Salzgitter / Peine area to stop mining .
- 1990: The GDR mark loses its validity.
science and technology
- 1905: Albert Einstein's work on the electrodynamics of moving bodies goes to the editorial office of the Annalen der Physik . It establishes the special theory of relativity . It is Einstein's third and most important work in the so-called " Annus mirabilis " of physics.
- 1946: The US launches Operation Crossroads , a series of nuclear weapons tests on Bikini Atoll ; the series of tests run until 1958.
- 1972: For the first time, a leap second is added to the end of the day in order to synchronize the official time with the mean solar time .
- 2003: In the planetary system HD 216770 discovering Michel Mayor and his staff the exoplanet HD 216770 using the radial velocity method .
- 2006: The last of the 10 power plant blocks of the Taichung power plant goes into operation. For more than 10 years, the power plant will remain the most powerful coal-fired power plant in the world and the one with the highest CO 2 emissions in the world .
Culture
- 1377: The foundation stone of Ulm Minster is laid by the mayor Ludwig Krafft and the builder Heinrich II. Parler .
- 1498: Maximilian I founded the Vienna Boys' Choir as part of his musical court orchestra.
- 1643: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who soon called himself Molière , founds the theater company L'Illustre Théâtre by contract with nine other people .
- 1827: Zarafa , the first modern giraffe in Europe, arrives in Paris.
- 1865: The operetta The beautiful Galathée by Franz von Suppè based on the libretto by Leonhard Kohl von Kohlenegg has its world premiere at the Meysels Theater in Berlin. The commission for the piece comes from the Viennese impresario Karl Treumann , the text is an adaptation of Victor Massé's Opéra-comique Galathée from 1852.
- 1878: At the Paris World's Fair , the Exposition Universelle on the Champ de Mars , the recently completed head of the Statue of Liberty can be viewed.
- 1920: In Berlin, the Dr. Otto Burchard opens the First International Dada Fair . It lasts until August 25th.
- 1923: The world's first wallpaper museum opens in Kassel .
- 1936: Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind ( Gone With the Wind ) appears.
- 1956: The Scala Wien has its last performance. The theater, directed by Karl Paryla and Wolfgang Heinz , had to close its doors after a media campaign led by Friedrich Torberg and Hans Weigel because it was the only Viennese theater not to participate in the Vienna Brecht boycott .
- 1981: ARD begins broadcasting the television series Dallas .
religion
- 1652: The relics of Donatus are transferred from Euskirchen to Münstereifel .
- 1741: In the encyclical Quanta Cura , Pope Benedict XIV addresses grievances in the demand for payment for masses and demands proper practice from the clergy.
- 1832: The first edition of the Catholic Swiss church newspaper appears in Lucerne .
Disasters
- 1900: A major fire in the port of Hoboken (New Jersey) affects four German ships of the line. Bales of cotton lying on the wooden pier catch fire. 147 people died on the ships of the North German Lloyd alone , a total of 326 deaths.
- 1908: The Tunguska event occurs in Siberia , an explosion that has not yet been fully clarified, the strength of which is now estimated to be more than a thousand times that of the Hiroshima bomb. The explosion is believed to have been caused by a meteorite impact.
- 1956: In the aircraft collision over the Grand Canyon , a Super Constellation and a DC-7 collide in unsupervised airspace . All 128 occupants in both aircraft die.
- 2000: When the Indonesian ferry Cahaya Bahara sank off Sulawesi , over 500 people died.
- 2009: Yemenia flight 626 crashes en route from Sanaa in Yemen to Moroni (Comoros) on approach to the main island of Grande Comore in the Indian Ocean . There are 153 people on board, one girl can be saved.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1559: The French King Henry II is seriously injured at a knight tournament organized in Paris - at a joust - on the occasion of the celebration of the peace treaty with Habsburg ( Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis ). It marks the beginning of the end of the equestrian sport in France, because Henry II dies due to the serious injury on July 10th and the joust is then banned in France.
- 1893: The endurance bike ride Vienna – Berlin ends with a victory for Bayern Josef Fischer . This most important German and Austrian bike race before the First World War triggered a boom in bicycles .
- 1975: Muhammad Ali defends his world heavyweight boxing title against Joe Bugner at Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur with a win on points.
- 1984: The International Sports Court starts its business operations.
- 1996: In the final of the European Football Championship in England , Germany wins against the Czech Republic with a golden goal from Oliver Bierhoff .
- 2002: The Brazilian national soccer team wins the title for the fifth time with a 2-0 victory over the German team at the 2002 World Cup .
- 2006: One day before the start of the Tour de France , Jan Ullrich , Óscar Sevilla , the sporting director Rudy Pevenage and Ivan Basso as well as six other drivers are excluded from the race in the course of the doping scandal over the medic Eufemiano Fuentes .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1270: Jehuda ben Ascher , German Talmudist and later rabbi
- 1286: John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey , English magnate
- 1470: Charles VIII , King of France
- 1488: Jost III. von Rosenberg , nobleman from the Rosenberg family
- 1498: Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach , Archbishop of Riga
- 1503: Johann Friedrich I , Elector of Saxony
- 1517: Gerhard Ellerborn , aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
- 1540: Elisabeth of the Palatinate , Duchess of Saxony
- 1604: Margarete Elisabeth von Leiningen-Westerburg , Countess von Leiningen and regent of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg
- 1641: Meinhard von Schomberg , German-French-British general and military leader
- 1647: Johann Georg III. , Elector of Saxony
- 1647: Johann Diecmann , German pedagogue and Lutheran theologian
- 1650: Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1681: Johann Christoph Ungewitter , German Reformed theologian
- 1685: John Gay , English poet
- 1685: Dominikus Zimmermann , German plasterer, master builder and mayor
- 1691: Friedrich Albrecht Augusti , German theologian and clergyman
18th century
- 1717: Johann Stamitz , Bohemian violinist, conductor and composer
- 1720: Giovanni Cornaro , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1722: Georg Anton Benda , German composer
- 1723: Christian Ernst Graf , German composer
- 1724: Johann Julius Walbaum , German doctor and naturalist
- 1745: Joseph Freiherr von Aichen , Austrian diplomat and lawyer
- 1748: Jean Dominique Comte de Cassini , French cartographer and astronomer
- 1749: Laurenz Janscha , Austrian-Slovenian painter and etcher
- 1755: Paul de Barras , French politician
- 1755: Grigore IV. Ghica , Prince of Wallachia
- 1758: James Stephen , British MP
- 1760: Johann Georg Heinrich von Ammon , Prussian civil servant
- 1767: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Aderkas , German officer and professor
- 1769: Pierre Derbigny , American politician, governor of Louisiana
- 1771: Manuel Fernandes Tomás , Portuguese lawyer and statesman
- 1779: Adam Müller von Nitterdorf , German philosopher and state theorist
- 1779: Daniel Steinmann , Swiss businessman and politician
- 1783: Louise Sybille von Reventlow , Danish painter
- 1789: Horace Vernet , French military painter and lithographer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Frédéric Bastiat , French economist and journalist
- 1804: Leopold von Orlich , German officer and writer
- 1807: Friedrich Joseph Ark , German architect and construction officer
- 1807: Friedrich Theodor Vischer , German Protestant theologian, writer and politician
- 1814: Franz von Dingelstedt , German poet, journalist and theater director
- 1819: William A. Wheeler , American politician, vice president
- 1823: Selmar Bagge , German composer
- 1824: Antonio Aguilar Correa , Spanish politician
- 1833: Richard Brenner , German explorer of Africa
- 1833: Manuel Amador Guerrero , first President of Panama
- 1842: William Smithe , Canadian politician
- 1843: Herbert Stewart , British major general
- 1843: Karolina Utriainen , Finnish lay preacher
- 1845: Italo Campanini , Italian opera tenor
1851-1900
- 1853: Adolf Furtwängler , German archaeologist
- 1856: Gerrit Kalff , Dutch Dutch artist
- 1857: Friedrich von Ingenohl , German admiral
- 1858: Robert Browne Hall , American composer, conductor, and cornetist
- 1858: Julius von Waldthausen , German diplomat
- 1859: Paul Cinquevalli , German juggler
- 1860: Gyula Andrássy the Younger , Austro-Hungarian politician
- 1869: Kurt Sethe , German Egyptologist
- 1872: Hugo Frederik Nierstrasz , Dutch zoologist
- 1873: Johannes Meisenheimer , German zoologist
- 1874: Paul Pierné , French composer
- 1879: Heinrich Ambrosius , German businessman and politician
- 1880: Rosa Bloch-Bollag , Swiss labor movement politician and women's rights activist
- 1880: Rabod von Kröcher , German show jumper, Olympic medalist
- 1881: Friedrich Zucker , German classical philologist and papyrologist
- 1882: Sven Lidman , Swedish writer
- 1882: Hans Mierendorff , German actor
- 1884: Karl Aderhold , German politician
- 1884: Heinrich Aschenbrandt , German officer
- 1884: Georges Duhamel , French writer
- 1884: Franz Halder , German General, Chief of the Army General Staff
- 1885: Viktor Schauberger , Austrian forester, researcher and inventor
- 1888: Rudolf Amelunxen , German politician
- 1892: Oswald Pohl , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS, head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, war criminal
- 1893: Horst Wolfram Geißler , German writer
- 1893: Harold Laski , British political scientist, economist, author and lecturer
- 1893: Walter Ulbricht , German politician, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR
- 1895: Juan Armet , Spanish football player and coach
- 1895: Enrique Bertrix , Chilean painter
- 1897: Mezzi Andreossi , Swiss ice hockey player
- 1899: Jean-Marie Plum , Belgian composer and organist.
- 1899: František Tomášek , Archbishop of Prague
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Niklot Beste , German bishop
- 1901: Rex Waite , British Air Force officer
- 1903: Robert E. Hannegan , American politician, Minister of Post
- 1904: Glenda Farrell , American actress
- 1904: Josef Wicki , Swiss Jesuit and missionary historian
- 1906: Anthony Mann , American film director
- 1907: Erwin Bootz , German pianist
- 1907: Nicolas Hajj , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1908: Eunice Norton , American pianist
- 1909: Juan Bosch , Dominican politician and writer, president
- 1909: Paul Constantinescu , Romanian composer
- 1911: Heinz Abraham , German architect, university professor and politician
- 1911: Fritz Lamm , German socialist
- 1911: Czesław Miłosz , Polish poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912: Ludwig Bölkow , German engineer and entrepreneur
- 1912: Avigdor Dagan , Czech poet and Israeli diplomat
- 1913: Herta Heuwer , German snack bar operator, is considered to be the inventor of the currywurst
- 1915: Kurt Angstmann , German politician
- 1915: Gardner Ackley , American economist and diplomat
- 1916: Karl Neumann , German writer for children and young people
- 1916: Manuel Simó , Dominican composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1917: Lena Horne , American singer
- 1917: Susan Hayward , American film actress
- 1919: Charles Smith , American percussionist
- 1922: Gilles Lefebvre , Canadian violinist
- 1923: Gad Beck , German-Jewish resistance fighter against National Socialism and author
- 1924: Maino Neri , Italian football player and coach
- 1925: Micheline Lannoy , Belgian figure skater
1926-1950
- 1926: Peter Alexander , Austrian singer and actor
- 1926: Paul Berg , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1927: Frank McCabe , American basketball player
- 1927: Pat McCormick , American actor and comedy writer
- 1927: Patricia Snell , Canadian opera singer
- 1929: Alexander Kelly , Scottish pianist and music teacher
- 1929: David Martin , British sociologist and Anglican priest
- 1930: Tata Güines , Cuban percussionist, band leader, composer and arranger
- 1931: Harry Blanchard , American racing car driver
- 1931: Gerda Herrmann , German composer and poet
- 1931: Brian Muir , Australian racing car driver
- 1932: George Dancis , Australian basketball player
- 1933: John Button , Australian lawyer and politician, minister
- 1934: Claus Anshof , German educator and historian
- 1934: Ildegarda Taffra , Italian cross-country skier
- 1935: Peter Achinstein , American philosopher and historian of science
- 1936: Assia Djebar , Algerian writer and director, historian and university professor
- 1936: Flemming Flindt , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1936: Wiard Popkes , American Baptist theologian
- 1937: Andrew Hill , American jazz pianist
- 1937: Hiltrud Kier , German art historian, Cologne city curator and general director of the museums of the city of Cologne
- 1938: Chris Hinze , Dutch jazz musician
- 1939: Tony Hatch , British composer, songwriter, pianist, record producer and arranger
- 1939: Harry Källström , Swedish rally driver
- 1940: Heinrich Gillis Görtz , German painter and graphic artist
- 1941: Otto Sander , German actor
- 1941: Willem Albert Wagenaar , Dutch legal psychologist
- 1942: Robert Ballard , American writer and deep-sea scientist
- 1942: Alfred Fisher , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1942: Klaus Renft , German musician and band leader ( Klaus Renft Combo )
- 1942: Friedrich von Thun , Austrian actor
- 1943: Florence Ballard , American musician ( Supremes )
- 1943: Hartmann von der Tann , German radio and television journalist
- 1944: Raymond Moody , American psychiatrist and philosopher
- 1944: Michael Repacholi , Australian physicist, biologist and radiation protection expert
- 1945: Hartmuth Hahn , German soccer player and coach
- 1945: Sean Scully , Irish painter and printmaker
- 1946: Günter Eisele , German soccer player
- 1946: Giles Swayne , British composer
- 1947: Khairy Beshara , Egyptian director
- 1947: Jasper van't Hof , Dutch jazz pianist
- 1948: Raymond Leo Burke , American Archbishop and Cardinal to the Curia
- 1949: Alexina Louie , Canadian composer
- 1949: Andy Scott , British rock musician ( The Sweet )
1951-1975
- 1951: Stanley Clarke , American jazz and fusion bass player
- 1951: André Hazes , Dutch singer
- 1952: Stefan Zauner , German singer ( Münchener Freiheit )
- 1953: Adriana Hölszky , German-Romanian composer
- 1953: Hal Lindes , British-American guitarist and composer
- 1956: Volker Beck , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1956: Lothar Höbelt , Austrian historian
- 1957: Hans Vermeersch , Belgian composer and conductor
- 1958: Reinhard Pappenberger , Roman Catholic bishop
- 1959: Daniel Goldhagen , American sociologist and political scientist
- 1959: Brendan Perry , British musician ( Dead Can Dance )
- 1959: Vincent D'Onofrio , American actor
- 1960: Artur Jung , German journalist and film critic
- 1961: Martin Becker , German keyboardist, composer and rock musician
- 1961: Christian Wewerka , German actor and speaker
- 1962: Martin Dörmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1963: Yngwie Malmsteen , Swedish guitarist
- 1963: Olha Bryshina , Ukrainian sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1964: Alexandra von Frederiksborg , economist from Hong Kong,
- 1964: Giancarlo Falappa , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1965: Mitch Richmond , American basketball player
- 1966: Andrei Abduwalijew , Russian hammer thrower, Olympic champion, world champion
- 1966: Marie Theres Relin , German actress, author and journalist
- 1966: Peter Outerbridge , Canadian actor
- 1966: Mike Tyson , American boxer, world champion
- 1967: Silke Renk , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1968: Phil Anselmo , American musician
- 1968: George Arthur , Ghanaian national soccer player
- 1968: Erik van Leeuwen , Dutch biathlete
- 1968: Ralf Rueff , German soccer player and coach
- 1968: Volker Zerbe , German handball player, Olympic medalist
- 1969: Volker Mudrow , German handball player and coach
- 1969: Uta Rohländer , German athlete, Olympic medalist, world champion
- 1970: Pablo Arias Echeverría , Spanish politician, MEP
- 1970: Antonio Chimenti , Italian football player
- 1973: Merete Pedersen , Danish football player
- 1973: Frank Rost , German soccer player
- 1974: Juli Zeh , German lawyer and writer
- 1975: Tom Keune , German actor
- 1975: Ralf Schumacher , German racing driver
- 1975: Rami Shaaban , Swedish football player
- 1975: Shayne Wright , German ice hockey player
1976-2000
- 1976: Angela Akers , American beach volleyball and volleyball player
- 1976: Ellen Angelina , Indonesian badminton player
- 1977: Elmar Mayer-Baldasseroni , Austrian writer
- 1979: Andy Burrows , British musician
- 1979: Sylvain Chavanel , French racing cyclist
- 1980: Adil Annani , Moroccan marathon runner
- 1980: Seyi Olofinjana , Nigerian soccer player
- 1981: Alissa Jung , German actress
- 1981: Barbora Špotáková , Czech athlete, Olympic champion
- 1982: Lizzy Caplan , American actress
- 1983: Marcus Burghardt , German racing cyclist
- 1983: Cheryl Cole , British singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1984: Miles Austin , American football player
- 1984: Fantasia Barrino , American R&B singer
- 1984: Julie Engelbrecht , German actress
- 1984: Dmitri Gennadjewitsch Ipatow , Russian ski jumper
- 1984: David Ulm , French soccer player
- 1984: René Wilke , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder)
- 1985: Trevor Ariza , American basketball player
- 1985: Cem Atan , Austrian football player
- 1985: Michael Phelps , American swimmer
- 1985: Cody Rhodes , American wrestler
- 1986: Stefan Hundstrup , Danish handball player
- 1986: Steffen Lehle , German handball player
- 1987: Martin Jacobson , Swedish poker player
- 1987: Stefan Matter , Swiss telemarker
- 1988: Mario Leitgeb , Austrian football player
- 1988: Mitja Mežnar , Slovenian ski jumper
- 1989: Damián Lizio , Argentine soccer player
- 1990: Darío Lezcano , Paraguayan soccer player
- 1990: N , South Korean singer, actor and presenter
- 1990: Tim Schwarzmaier , German voice actor
- 1991: Małgorzata Jamroży , Polish pop singer
- 1992: Dirk van Duijvenbode , Dutch darts player
- 1995: Andrea Petagna , Italian football player
- 1996: Matilda Merkel , German actress
- 1998: Houssem Aouar , French-Algerian football player
- 1998: Mark Ferjan , Slovenian handball player
Died
Before the 17th century
- Nepotianus , Roman counter-emperor 350:
- Hypatios , Byzantine abbot, saint 446:
- Erentrudis of Salzburg , German Benedictine, saint 718:
- 1045: Radbot , Count in Klettgau, builder of the Habsburgs
- 1139: Otto von Bamberg , Bishop of Bamberg, saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1181: Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester , English nobleman
- 1191: John I , Count of Ponthieu
- 1224: Adolf von Tecklenburg , Bishop of Osnabrück, saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1278: Pierre de la Brosse , French chamberlain, favorite of King Philip III.
- 1337: Eleanor de Clare , English noblewoman
- 1364: Ernst von Pardubitz , Czech clergyman, Archbishop of Prague
- 1365: Johann II. Senn von Münsingen , Bishop of Basel
- 1374: Siegfried von Blomberg , Archbishop of Riga
- 1388: Johannes Ammann , Bishop of Chur
- 1406: Otto II , Archbishop of Bremen
- 1455: Dorino I. Gattilusio , Archon of Lesbos
- 1466: Peter of Coimbra , Portuguese politician, military man and writer
- 1468: Eleonore Talbot , mistress of the English King Edward IV.
- 1520: Moctezuma II , ruler of the Aztec Empire
- 1522: Johannes Reuchlin , German philosopher and humanist
- 1537: Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Darcy , English nobleman and politician
- 1538: Karl von Egmond , Duke of Geldern
- 1540: Thomas Abel , English clergyman
17th and 18th centuries
- 1607: Cesare Baronio , Italian cardinal and church historian
- 1616: Sebastian Abesser , electoral and princely Saxon master game and hunter
- 1630: Oda Nobukatsu , Japanese samurai
- 1649: Simon Vouet , French Baroque painter
- 1651: Tuhaj Bej , political-military leader of the Crimean Tatars
- 1659: Paul Cleritz , Italian stonemason and sculptor
- 1660: William Oughtred , English mathematician
- 1666: Adam Krieger , German composer and church musician
- 1670: Henrietta Anne Stuart , Princess of England and Duchess of Orleans
- 1685: Christoph Arnold , German theologian, hymn poet and poet
- 1693: Christina zu Mecklenburg , abbess of the Gandersheim monastery
- 1706: Jacques Boyvin , French organist and composer
- 1708: Christian Eberhard , Prince of East Frisia
- 1708: Tekle Haymanot I , Ethiopian Negus
- 1728: Otto Friedrich von der Groeben , soldier and explorer in the service of Brandenburg-Prussia and other European countries
- 1736: Johann Jürgen Gundelach , German glassmaker
- 1737: Johann Ortwin Westenberg , German legal scholar
- 1753: Conrad Iken , German Protestant clergyman
- 1760: Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini , Italian opera singer
- 1761: Friedrich Boerner , German medic
- 1780: Karl Paul Ernst von Bentheim-Steinfurt , German nobleman
- 1797: Christian Frederik Hagerup , Norwegian pastor
19th century
- 1801: Caterina Cavalieri , Austrian opera singer, Mozart interpreter
- 1802: Gaetano Gandolfi , Italian painter and engraver
- 1817: Christoph Daniel Ebeling , Hamburg educator, Americanist and librarian
- 1817: Abraham Gottlob Werner , German mineralogist
- 1819: Ernst Ludwig Gerber , German composer
- 1820: Sigismund Anton von Hohenwart , Prince Archbishop of Vienna
- 1821: José Fernando Abascal y Sousa , Marques de la Concordia and Spanish viceroy in Peru
- 1831: William Roscoe , English lawyer, biologist and historian
- 1851: Johann Theobald Held , Czech doctor and composer
- 1861: Robert O'Hara Burke , Irish-Australian police officer, leader of the first south-north crossing of Australia
- 1878: Karl Weigand , German specialist in German
- 1880: George Paget , British politician and general
- 1881: Gustav von Alvensleben , Prussian general
- 1890: Samuel Parkman Tuckerman , American composer
- 1897: Heinrich Ludwig , German painter and art historian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1905: Friedrich Ladegast , German organ builder
- 1919: John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1920: Lena Christ , Bavarian native writer
- 1923: Claude Terrasse , French operetta composer
- 1924: Johannes von Eben , German general
- 1924: Anton Ohorn , German poet and writer
- 1934: Karl Ernst , German politician and SA group leader, MdR
- 1934: Peter von Heydebreck , German Freikorps and SA leader
- 1934: Edgar Julius Jung , German lawyer, politician and publicist
- 1934: Gustav von Kahr , German lawyer and politician, District President of Upper Bavaria, Prime Minister of Bavaria
- 1934: Erich Klausener , leading representative of German political Catholicism
- 1934: Kurt von Schleicher , German general, Reich Chancellor
- 1934: Gregor Strasser , German politician, MdL, MdR
- 1938: Max and Walter Götze , German criminals
- 1939: Johann Peter Arras , German politician, MdL
- 1941: Walter Bäumer , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1941: Hugo Becker , German cellist, cello teacher and composer
- 1942: German Bestelmeyer , German architect
- 1945: Ernst Anding , German astronomer
- 1947: Rudolf Noack , German football player
- 1948: Morris Fuller Benton , American engineer and type designer
- 1948: Achille Varzi , Italian racing driver
1951-2000
- 1953: Elsa Beskow , Swedish children's author, painter and illustrator
- 1953: Vsevolod Illarionowitsch Pudowkin , Soviet filmmaker and theorist
- 1956: Annie Bousquet , French-Austrian racing driver
- 1956: Alfredo Ferrari , Italian engineer
- 1958: Walther Schreiber , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prussian Minister, Governing Mayor of Berlin
- 1959: Gyula Grosz , German doctor
- 1959: Lazare Saminsky , Russian composer
- 1960: Jakob Tiedtke , German actor
- 1960: Clarence Cameron White , American composer
- 1961: Kurt Meister , German actor, director, author and radio play speaker
- 1961: Hubert Rickelmann , German homeland researcher and author
- 1962: Caspar Neher , German-Austrian stage designer
- 1963: Alexander Rustow , German philosopher, social scientist and economist
- 1963: Hans Tschiggfrey , Austrian politician, governor of Tyrol
- 1965: William Dudley Pelley , American anti-Semite
- 1965: Margarete Sommer , German social worker, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1966: Margery Allingham , British writer
- 1966: Giuseppe Farina , Italian automobile racing driver, Formula 1 world champion
- 1968: Rudolf Amend , German politician
- 1968: Howard Crossett , American bobsledder
- 1968: Alexander Georgievich Ivchenko , Soviet aircraft engine designer
- 1969: Roman Richard Atkielski , American Auxiliary Bishop
- 1971: Georgi Asparukhov , Bulgarian football player
- 1971: Georgi Timofejewitsch Dobrowolski , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1971: Viktor Ivanovich Pazajew , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1971: Wladislaw Nikolajewitsch Volkov , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1971: Rosa Young , American educator
- 1972: Erwin Anders , German cameraman
- 1973: Nancy Mitford , British writer and biographer
- 1974: Louis Pichard , French racing car driver
- 1974: Roger Staub , Swiss ski racer
- 1976: Marguerite Roesgen-Champion , Swiss composer and harpsichordist
- 1977: Paul Hartmann , German actor
- 1979: Hugh Garner , Canadian writer
- 1979: Chris Taylor , American wrestler
- 1980: Franz Xaver von Hornstein , Swiss Catholic clergyman, pastoral theologian and university professor
- 1980: Walter Zimmermann , German biologist, botanist and university professor
- 1981: Eduard Marks , German actor, acting teacher and radio play speaker
- 1981: Bud Tingelstad , American racing car driver
- 1983: Igor Dmitrijewitsch Ado , Russian mathematician
- 1983: Christian Aigrinner , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- 1983: Ernst Bettermann , German farmer and politician, MdL
- 1984: Lillian Hellman , American writer
- 1988: Johanna Hofer , German actress
- 1990: Ernst Hölder , German mathematician
- 1992: Joachim Herrmann , German editor, member of the Central Committee of the SED
- 1994: Jim Doran , American football player
- 1995: Gale Gordon , American actor
- 1995: Phyllis Hyman , American R&B, disco and soul singer
- 1999: Édouard Boubat , French photographer
- 1999: Beveridge Webster , American pianist and music teacher
21st century
- 2001: Chet Atkins , American country singer
- 2001: Joe Henderson , American jazz musician
- 2002: Richard Allen , American session musician
- 2003: Buddy Hackett , American comedian and actor
- 2005: Clancy Eccles , Jamaican musician and producer
- 2006: Robert Gernhardt , German writer
- 2007: Georg Staudacher , Austrian theater director, screenwriter and actor
- 2009: Pina Bausch , German dancer and choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director
- 2009: Paquito Cordero , Puerto Rican television producer and actor
- 2010: Lolita , Austrian pop singer, actress and television presenter
- 2011: Emil Petrovics , Hungarian composer
- 2011: Georg Sterzinsky , German clergyman, Archbishop of Berlin
- 2012: Manfred Buchwald , German journalist
- 2012: Yitzchak Shamir , Israeli politician, foreign minister, prime minister
- 2013: Richard Fehr , Swiss clergyman, Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church
- 2013: Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway , British politician
- 2014: Christian Führer , German Protestant pastor
- 2014: Paul Mazursky , American film director
- 2015: Ludwig Doerr , German organist
- 2015: Eddy Louiss , French jazz musician
- 2016: Bengt von zur Mühlen , German film producer
- 2016: Robert Steigerwald , German philosopher
- 2017: Darrall Imhoff , American basketball player
- 2017: Simone Veil , French politician, minister, Member and President of the European Parliament
- 2018: Nika Brettschneider , Austrian actress, director and theater director
- 2018: Fuat Sezgin , Turkish orientalist
- 2019: Momir Bulatović , Yugoslav or Montenegrin politician, President of Montenegro, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
- 2019: Mitchell Feigenbaum , American physicist
- 2020: Ludwig Finscher , German music historian
- 2020: Ida Haendel , British violinist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Holy First Martyr of Rome , Roman Martyr (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Otto von Bamberg , German chaplain, founder of a monastery and bishop (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Erentrudis of Salzburg , Franconian abbess, virgin and patron saint (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Democratic Republic of the Congo : independence from Belgium (1960)
- More information about the day
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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