30th May
The May 30 is the 150th day of the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years ), thus remain 215 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 702 : K'inich K'an Joy Chitam II ascends the throne of the Mayan city of Palenque after the death of his brother K'inich Kan Bahlam II .
- 1431 : Joan of Arc is burned at the stake in Rouen .
- 1434 : The Hussite Wars end with the Battle of Lipan . The more radical Taborites are subject to the troops of the Utraquists and Catholics in Bohemia .
- 1563 : The Swedish admiral Jakob Bagge destroys a Danish squadron in the sea battle off Bornholm ; with this battle the three crown war begins .
- 1574 : The Polish King Heinrich von Valois changes after the death of his brother Charles IX. as Heinrich III. on the throne of France .
- 1635 : The Peace of Prague ends the struggle between Emperor Ferdinand II and the imperial estates with the exception of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar and Landgrave Wilhelm V of Hesse-Kassel in the Thirty Years' War . In the empire, however, there was no peace because France and Sweden continued to fight the emperor in terms of power politics.
- 1784 : The peace treaty in Paris ends the Anglo-Dutch War from 1780 to 1784 . It was the fourth of the Anglo-Dutch naval wars .
- 1813 : French troops under the command of Louis-Nicolas Davout recapture the city of Hamburg , held by the Russians under Friedrich Karl von Tettenborn since March 18th . The second French period in Hamburg lasted until May 29, 1814.
- 1814 : Peace treaties of Paris between France on the one hand and Great Britain , Austria , Prussia and Russia on the other end the wars of liberation .
- 1832 : The Hambach Festival , which is considered the climax of the early liberal opposition in the Restoration and Vormärz period , ends at Hambach Castle .
- 1848 : During the Italian Wars of Independence , the army of Piedmont-Sardinia under King Karl Albert prevails in the Battle of Goito against the Austrian troops under the command of Field Marshal Radetzky .
- 1849 : After the rejection of the emperor's deputation by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV and the departure of a large number of the deputies, the Frankfurt National Assembly decides to move to Stuttgart at the invitation of Friedrich Römer . The German rump parliament only meets from June 6th to 18th in the Württemberg capital.
- 1849 : Prussia introduces three-class voting rights .
- 1854 : When US President Franklin Pierce signs the Kansas-Nebraska Act , which establishes the Kansas Territory and the Nebraska Territory as territories of the United States. At the same time, part of the Missouri Compromise , which banned slavery north of the 36th parallel, will be lifted .
- 1876 : Murad V becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire . Three months later he is replaced by his brother Abdülhamid II .
- 1913 : Albania's independence from the Ottoman Empire , which was proclaimed in 1912 , is recognized with the signing of the London Treaty at the London Ambassadors Conference mediated by the great European powers (Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and Italy) and ends the First Balkan War . The borders of the new state are also determined.
- 1925 : The May 30th Movement sparked a national revolution in China .
- 1926 : After the May 28 coup, the Portuguese Prime Minister António Maria da Silva and his last freely elected government resign. This ends the First Republic .
- 1942 : 1000 bombers of the Royal Air Force attack the city of Cologne on.
- 1949 : With a dissenting vote, the Third German People's Congress adopts the first constitution of the German Democratic Republic . The draft was unanimously approved by the German People's Council and referred to the delegates. The law comes into force on October 7th.
- 1961 : In the Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo killed by conspirators, when he at Santo Domingo in an ambush device.
- 1967 : The Biafra War begins with the Biafra proclamation of independence from Nigeria .
- 1968 : The Leipzig University Church ( Paulinerkirche ) is blown up. In connection with this, between the uprising of June 17, 1953 and the autumn of 1989, the largest protest action by the East German population against the GDR regime takes place.
- 1968 : The German Bundestag passes the emergency laws against the resistance of the extra-parliamentary opposition .
- 1980 : The opera riots develop from a demonstration by young people in front of the Zurich Opera House .
- 1981 : Prime Minister Ziaur Rahman , successor to Mujibur Rahman , is assassinated in Bangladesh .
- 2000 : In Ecuador there is a general amnesty for those involved in the January coup.
- 2002 : The previous Deputy Prime Minister Nikolai Tanajew becomes the new Prime Minister in Kyrgyzstan .
- 2005 : The CDU / CSU names Angela Merkel, for the first time, a woman as a candidate for the office of Federal Chancellor in the 16th German Bundestag .
- 2012 : The war crimes guilty spoken former president of Liberia , Charles Taylor , is from the Special Court for Sierra Leone sentenced to 50 years in prison.
economy
- 1631 : Théophraste Renaudot , the royal personal physician , publishes the first French newspaper, La Gazette . The weekly paper existed until 1915, from 1762 under the title Gazette de France .
- 1814 : In the Paris Peace Treaty , among other things, Article 5 regulates freedom of navigation on the Rhine for everyone.
- 1991 : The Finnish Suomen Pankki binds the Finnish mark to the European monetary system .
- 1995 : Bulgaria signs a financial aid agreement with the IMF to prevent its national bankruptcy.
science and technology
- 1898 : William Ramsay and Morris William Travers find krypton , one of the noble gases , in the “residue” of evaporated liquid air .
- 1966 : The first US spacecraft in the Surveyor series, Surveyor 1 , begins its flight to the moon, where it lands softly in Oceanus Procellarum three days later and delivers images.
- 1971 : NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft takes off for the planet Mars .
- 1975 : The European Space Agency (ESA) is founded.
- 2020 : First manned space flight by a private space company : SpaceX sends Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley to the ISS with a Dragon 2 capsule as part of the SpX-DM2 .
Culture
- 1723 : With the performance of his cantata Die Elenden shall eat in the Nikolaikirche , Johann Sebastian Bach begins his service as Thomaskantor in Leipzig .
- 1770 : The premiere of the opera The Abandoned Armida by Niccolò Jommelli takes place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
- 1799 : After being banned from gambling for more than five years during the French Revolution , the reunited ensemble of the Comédie-Française is allowed to perform again in the Richelieu Hall in Paris .
- 1818 : The world premiere of the opera Die Rosenmädchen by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner takes place at the Theater an der Wien near Vienna.
- 1826 : The first version of the opera Bianca e Fernando by Vincenzo Bellini premiered in the presence of Gaetano Donizetti at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and was well received. The libretto of the first version is by Domenico Gilardoni . It sing among other things. Henriette Méric-Lalande , Giovanni Battista Rubini and Luigi Lablache .
- 1866 : The comic opera Prodaná nevěsta ( The Bartered Bride ) by Bedřich Smetana based on a libretto by Karel Sabina is premiered at the České Prozatímní Divadlo in Prague.
- 1931 : The world premiere of the operetta La Belle de Moudon by Arthur Honegger takes place at the Théâtre du Jorat in Mézières .
- 1962 : On the occasion of the inauguration of the new Coventry Cathedral is Benjamin Britten's War Requiem premiered.
- 1980 : Bob Marley gives his only concert in Switzerland in the Zurich Hallenstadion .
- 1992 : The Franco-German television broadcaster Arte starts broadcasting.
- 2003 : The full-length animated film Finding Nemo from Pixar Animation Studios is released in cinemas in the United States .
society
- 1536 : England's King . Henry VIII is married eleven days after the execution of Anne Boleyn with Jane Seymour ; she is his third wife.
- 1806 : In a duel , the later US President Andrew Jackson kills the regionally known duel shooter Charles Dickinson, who slandered Jackson's wife . Dickinson's ball, which is close to the heart, remains in Jackson's body for life.
- 1868 : The robbery murderer Georg Ratkay is hanged at the last public execution in Vienna . A grandstand built for the spectators collapses at the festival-like event.
religion
- 1232 : Less than a year after his death, Antony of Padua was taken over by Pope Gregory IX. canonized .
- 1416 : Hieronymus of Prague is burned as a heretic in Constance after he has distanced himself from revoking his statements.
- 1548 : In the imperial farewell , Emperor Charles V sets the Augsburg Interim . It is an attempt to establish a religious order with the Protestants after his victory over the Schmalkaldic League . The interim solution should apply until the decision of the Council of Trent . It does not prevail in practice.
Disasters
- 1815 : The British ship Arniston sails near the town of Waenhuiskrans in a strong storm on a reef near Cape Agulhas in South Africa . Six people manage to reach the shore, 372 die when the ship goes down.
- 1896 : In a mass panic on the Chodynka field in Moscow during the coronation celebrations for the Russian Tsar Nicholas II , 1,389 people are killed.
- 1935 : An earthquake of intensity 7.5 destroyed the city of Quetta in the province of Baluchistan , Pakistan , about 50,000 deaths.
- 1998 : A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in Tajikistan and Badakhshan kills around 4,000.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1909 : The first Giro d'Italia ends in Milan after 17 days and eight stages . The first overall winner of the Giro is Luigi Ganna . The Giro d'Italia is now the second most important stage cycle race in the world.
- 1911 : Out on the racetrack in Speedway (Indiana) , the first is the 500 mile race at Indianapolis for automobiles held. Ray Harroun wins on a Marmon Wasp.
- 1962 : The men's soccer world championship in Chile begins with four group matches and will go down in history as the toughest and most unfair soccer world championship .
- 1987 : Mike Tyson defends his heavyweight boxing world title against Pinklon Thomas at the Hilton Hotel , Las Vegas by knockout.
- 2005 : The Allianz Arena , the soccer stadium in Munich , is officially opened.
- 2010 : The handball players of THW Kiel win the final of the EHF Champions League 2009/10 in the Lanxess Arena in Cologne against FC Barcelona with 36:34 and thus secure this title for the second time since 2007 .
- 2012 : The Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand successfully defends his world title in Moscow against the Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand .
- 2019 : The twelfth Cricket World Cup begins in England and Wales.
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 18th century
- 936 : Abū l-Hasan al-Qābisī , Malikite hadith and fiqh scholar
- 1201 : Theobald the Singer , Count of Champagne and King of Navarre
- 1423 : Georg von Peuerbach , Austrian astronomer and mathematician
- 1464 : Barbara von Brandenburg , German noblewoman, Margravine of Brandenburg, Duchess of Glogau, Queen of Bohemia
- 1524 : Selim II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1574 : Giulio Cesare Procaccini , Italian painter and sculptor
- 1623 : Wallerant Vaillant , Dutch painter and etcher
- 1653 : Claudia Felizitas of Austria-Tyrol , Roman-German empress
- 1677 : Sigismund Graf von Kollonitz , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and Cardinal
- 1690 : Anton Sturm , German sculptor
18th century
- 1708 : Daniel Gralath the Elder , German physicist and mayor of Danzig right city
- 1720 : Henrik Adam Brockenhuus , Danish nobleman
- 1726 : Johannes Schlottmann , German organ builder
- 1736 : Johann Friedrich Lobstein , German surgeon and anatomist
- 1743 : José Fernando Abascal y Sousa , Marques de la Concordia and Spanish viceroy in Peru
- 1755 : Collin d'Harleville , French playwright
- 1756 : José Custódio de Faria , Portuguese priest
- 1757 : Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth , British statesman and Prime Minister
- 1759 : Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch , German Protestant clergyman and botanist
- 1769 : Friedrich Hansmann , German conductor and choir director
- 1773 : Emmerich Joseph von Dalberg , Baden diplomat and French politician
- 1775 : József Kopácsy , Hungarian Metropolitan and Archbishop of Esztergom, Primate of Hungary
- 1778 : Richard Skinner , American lawyer and politician, congressman and governor of Vermont
- 1782 : Mikhail Semjonowitsch Voronzow , Russian officer and politician
- 1783 : Eugen von Maucler , German politician
- 1785 : Johannes Scharrer , German entrepreneur, founder of the municipal savings bank and several educational institutions in Nuremberg
- 1789 : Peter Karl Thurwieser , Austrian meteorologist, alpinist and theologian
- 1792 : Karl Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , royal Dutch general
- 1797 : Carl Friedrich Naumann , German geologist
- 1799 : Ferdo Livadić , Croatian composer
- 1800 : Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach , German mathematician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1808 : Wilhelm Vischer-Bilfinger , Swiss classical philologist and politician
- 1814 : Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin , Russian revolutionary and anarchist
- 1814 : Eugène Charles Catalan , Belgian mathematician
- 1816 : Robert Eduard Prutz , German writer
- 1817 : Hermann August Hagen , German entomologist
- 1819 : Constant Fornerod , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1823 : Reinhold Johow , German lawyer
- 1826 : André Coindre , French priest and founder of the order
- 1836 : Édouard Blau , French librettist and writer
- 1839 : Hermann Naftali Adler , Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom
- 1840 : Anton Fischer , Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal
- 1844 : Louis Varney , French operetta composer
- 1846 : Peter Carl Fabergé , Russian goldsmith and jeweler
- 1846 : Paul Ziller , German architect
- 1847 : Ottilie Baader , German women's rights activist and socialist
- 1850 : Anton Paul Heilmann , Austrian painter and illustrator
1850-1900
- 1852 : Joseph Probst , German homeland researcher
- 1855 : Georg Schaumberg , German writer
- 1866 : Fernand Charron , French cyclist and automobile racer
- 1866 : Rudolf Kissinger , German pastor, teacher, local researcher, club and association functionary
- 1871 : Harry Macdonough , Canadian singer
- 1878 : Hermine Körner , German actress
- 1878 : Walter Otto , German ancient historian
- 1878 : Raymond Smith Dugan , American astronomer
- 1879 : Anne Shymer , American chemist
- 1880 : Miel Mundt , Dutch football player
- 1881 : Georg Kohl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1882 : Wyndham Neck Shaft , British athlete, Olympic champion
- 1883 : Riccardo Zandonai , Italian composer and conductor
- 1885 : Arthur Edward Andersen , American entrepreneur
- 1887 : Alexander Archipenko , American sculptor
- 1888 : Hans Arnhold , German-American banker
- 1890 : Paul Czinner , Austrian film director
- 1890 : Roger Salengro , French politician
- 1892 : René Gagnier , Canadian violinist and conductor, composer and euphonium player
- 1896 : Howard Hawks , American film director
- 1899 : Irving Thalberg , American film producer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Walter Felsenstein , Austrian director
- 1903 : Countee Cullen , American writer
- 1903 : Hayashi Fusao , Japanese writer
- 1906 : Bruno Gröning , German spiritual healer
- 1906 : Rudolf Hasse , German racing car driver
- 1907 : Fernando Arbello , Puerto Rican jazz trombonist and composer
- 1907 : Elly Beinhorn , German sports pilot
- 1907 : Germaine Tillion , French ethnologist and resistance fighter
- 1908 : Hannes Alfvén , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1908 : Lucien Martin , Canadian violinist and conductor
- 1909 : Hilde Coppi , German resistance fighter
- 1909 : Freddie Frith , British motorcycle racer
- 1909 : Benny Goodman , American musician
- 1909 : Gustav Kampendonk , German screenwriter
- 1910 : Ralph Metcalfe , American athlete and politician, Olympic champion, member of the House of Representatives
- 1910 : Inge Meysel , German actress
- 1912 : Julius Axelrod , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1912 : Hugh Griffith , British actor
- 1913 : Eduard Goldstücker , Czechoslovak literary historian, journalist, Germanist and diplomat
- 1914 : Paul Benthien , German table tennis player
- 1914 : Jiří Marek , Czech writer
- 1914 : Bobby Sherwood , American jazz guitarist
- 1919 : Rómulo Aguerre , Uruguayan photographer
- 1919 : Benno Hoffmann , German ballet master and actor
- 1920 : Franklin J. Schaffner , American film director
- 1921 : Frank Kilroy , American football player
- 1922 : Hal Clement , American science fiction writer
- 1923 : Walter Reichelt , German actor and voice actor
- 1924 : Kurt Rebmann , German Attorney General
- 1925 : Horst Dohlus , German party functionary, member of the Politburo and secretary of the Central Committee of the GDR
- 1925 : Robert Glasgow , American organist and music teacher
- 1925 : Rolf Illig , German actor
- 1925 : John Cocke , American computer scientist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Chuck Arnold , American racing car driver
- 1926 : James McLamore , American co-founder of the Burger King Corporation
- 1927 : Werner Haas , German motorcycle racer
- 1927 : Tino Schwierzina , German politician, Lord Mayor of East Berlin
- 1927 : Clint Walker , American actor
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- 1928 : Dwight W. Berreman , American physicist
- 1928 : James Lamy , American bobsledder
- 1928 : Gustav Leonhardt , Dutch conductor, harpsichordist and organist
- 1928 : Agnès Varda , French film director
- 1930 : Dave McKenna , American jazz pianist
- 1930 : Robert Ryman , American painter
- 1931 : Vizma Belševica , Latvian poet, prose writer and translator
- 1931 : Harald Winkel , German economist, historian and publisher
- 1932 : Solomon W. Golomb , American mathematician
- 1932 : Pauline Oliveros , American composer
- 1934 : Kurt Arentz , German sculptor
- 1934 : Dieter Süverkrüp , German painter and songwriter
- 1934 : Alexei Archipowitsch Leonow , Soviet cosmonaut, first free-floating human in space
- 1935 : Dietrich Kittner , German cabaret artist
- 1936 : Peter Dehoust , German publicist
- 1936 : Keir Dullea , American actor
- 1937 : Claes Andersson , Finnish-Swedish writer, doctor, politician and jazz musician
- 1938 : Konrad Krauss , German actor
- 1938 : Peter Riebensahm , German athlete
- 1941 : Detlev Blanke , German lecturer in interlinguistics
- 1941 : Heribert Faßbender , German sports journalist
- 1943 : Gale Sayers , American football player
- 1945 : Gladys Horton , American singer ( The Marvelettes )
- 1945 : John Jellinek , American racing car driver
- 1946 : Dragan Džajić , Yugoslav football player
- 1946 : Karl Grob , Swiss football player
- 1947 : Karl-Josef Assenmacher , German football referee
- 1947 : Erik Spiekermann , German typographic and type designer
- 1948 : Dieter Kosslick , German director of the Berlin International Film Festival ( Berlinale )
- 1948 : Michael Krone , German actor
- 1949 : Hans Baumgartner , German athlete
- 1949 : Rüdiger Joswig , German actor and voice actor
- 1950 : Bertrand Delanoë , French politician, Mayor of Paris
1951-1975
- 1951 : René Staar , Austrian composer and violinist
- 1953 : Colm Meaney , Irish actor
- 1953 : Eduard Stapel , German spokesman for the Lesbian and Gay Association in Germany (LSVD)
- 1955 : Topper Headon , British drummer
- 1956 : Allen Timpany , British racing car driver
- 1957 : Oksana Bilosir , Ukrainian singer and minister of culture
- 1957 : Peter Niklas Wilson , German jazz bassist and musicologist
- 1958 : Klaus-Jürgen Bremm , German military historian and officer
- 1958 : Marie Fredriksson , Swedish musician (Roxette)
- 1959 : Georg-Christof Bertsch , German designer
- 1959 : Pietro Tonolo , Italian jazz saxophonist
- 1960 : Stephen Duffy , British songwriter, singer and guitarist
- 1960 : Christoph Leisten , German teacher and writer
- 1961 : Sabine Vitua , German actress
- 1962 : Arianne Borbach , German actress
- 1962 : Bernd Glemser , German pianist
- 1964 : Andrea Montermini , Italian racing car driver
- 1964 : Tom Morello , American guitarist
- 1964 : Corinne Schmidhauser , Swiss ski racer and politician
- 1965 : Harald Glööckler , German fashion designer
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- 1966 : Thomas Häßler , German soccer player
- 1966 : Stephen Malkmus , American musician
- 1967 : Anton Leichtfried , Austrian auxiliary bishop and theologian
- 1967 : Jean-Jacques Aeschlimann , Swiss ice hockey player
- 1967 : Thomas Beimel , German composer, musicologist and violist
- 1967 : Therese Lohner , Austrian actress
- 1971 : John Ross Bowie , American actor
- 1971 : Idina Menzel , American actress
- 1972 : Zoran Lerchbacher , Austrian dart player
- 1973 : Oliver Gies , German singer, composer and arranger
- 1974 : Big L , American rapper
- 1974 : Konstantinos Chalkias , Greek football player
- 1974 : Marco Jakobs , German athlete and bobsleigh driver, Olympic champion
- 1975 : Cee-Lo Green , American hip hop, funk, soul, and R&B musician
1976-2000
- 1976 : Susu Padotzke , German actress
- 1977 : Akwá , Angolan football player
- 1977 : Rachael Stirling , British actress
- 1978 : Martin Rother , German actor
- 1980 : Steven Gerrard , English soccer player
- 1980 : Remy Ma , American rapper
- 1981 : Devendra Banhart , American psychedelic folk singer and songwriter
- 1981 : Lars Møller Madsen , Danish handball player
- 1982 : Stamatis Katsimis , Greek racing driver
- 1983 : Roger Lee Hayden , American motorcycle racer
- 1983 : Dennis Tretow , German handball player
- 1983 : Matej Uram , Slovak ski jumper
- 1984 : Martin Kohlmaier , Austrian basketball player
- 1984 : Kostja Ullmann , German actor
- 1985 : Miriam Cani , Albanian singer and presenter
- 1985 : Maria Amelie , Russian author
- 1986 : Foxi Kéthévoama , Central African football player
- 1988 : Stephanie Beckert , German speed skater, Olympic champion
- 1989 : Mikel San José , Spanish soccer player
- 1990 : André Bautzmann , German cabaret artist and singer
- 1990 : Méline Gérard , French soccer player
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- 1990 : Yoona , South Korean singer and actress
- 1992 : Xenija Alexejewna Alopina , Russian ski racer
- 1992 : Harrison Barnes , American basketball player
- 1994 : Annika Meyer , Danish handball player
- 1994 : Nazim Sangaré , German football player
- 1994 : Laurence St-Germain , Canadian ski racer
- 1996 : Erik Jones , American racing driver
- 1997 : Peter Lenz , American motorcycle racer
- 1997 : Justien Odeurs , Belgian football player
- 2000 : Jared S. Gilmore , American actor
Died
Before the 18th century
- 727 : Hubertus of Liège , Bishop of Maastricht and Liège
- 812 : Werdo , abbot in the monastery of St. Gallen
- 1159 : Władysław II , Upper Duke of Poland and Duke of Silesia
- 1169 : Nigel , Bishop of Ely
- 1210 : Roffrid de Insula , abbot of the Monte Cassino monastery
- 1252 : Ferdinand III. , King of Spain and Castile
- 1268 : Thomas I , Bishop of Breslau
- 1327 : Jens Grand , Danish church politician
- 1341 : Siger von Courtrai , scholastic
- 1347 : John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth , English nobleman, politician, military and civil servant
- 1386 : Konrad von Geisenheim , Bishop of Lübeck
- 1416 : Jerome of Prague , Bohemian scholar
- 1431 : Joan of Arc , French national heroine and saint of the Catholic and Anglican Churches
- 1434 : Andreas Prokop , Hussite military leader
- 1443 : Hans Laxmand , Archbishop of Lund
- 1472 : Jacquetta of Luxembourg , Duchess of Bedford and Countess Rivers
- 1512 : Hans Rudolf von Scharnachthal , Schultheiss von Bern
- 1514 : Wolfgang Roritzer , German cathedral builder and sculptor
- 1574 : Charles IX. , King of France
- 1593 : Christopher Marlowe , English poet
- 1594 : Bálint Balassa , Hungarian poet
- 1606 : Arjan Dev , fifth guru of the Sikhs
- 1640 : Peter Paul Rubens , Flemish painter
- 1649 : Jakob Martini , German theologian and philosopher
- 1662 : William Backhouse , English alchemist
- 1666 : Michael Beer , Austrian architect and builder
- 1675 : José Antolínez , Spanish painter
- 1695 : Pierre Mignard , French painter
18th century
- 1704 : Emanuel Lebrecht , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1714 : Gottfried Arnold , German theologian
- 1718 : Arnold van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle , Dutch courtier and officer
- 1718 : Bernard Nieuwentijt , Dutch philosopher and mathematician
- 1730 : Arabella Churchill , mistress of James II of England
- 1731 : Karl Friedrich Petzold , German writer and educator
- 1740 : Wilhelmine Charlotte Nüssler , Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg and Countess of Ballenstedt
- 1744 : Alexander Pope , British poet, translator and writer
- 1749 : Sophie Charlotte of Hessen-Kassel , Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1750 : Samuel Heinrich König , Swiss mathematician, orientalist and pietistic theologian
- 1756 : Christian Ludwig II , Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- 1756 : Gottfried Heinrich Krohne , German architect
- 1758 : Christoph Timotheus Seidel , German theologian
- 1769 : Francesco Fontebasso , Venetian painter
- 1770 : François Boucher , painter, draftsman, engraver
- 1776 : Ike no Taiga , Japanese painter
- 1778 : Juan de Balmaceda , Spanish lawyer, colonial administrator and governor of Chile
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- 1778 : Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French writer and philosopher
- 1779 : Johann Friedrich Hahn , German poet
- 1797 : Johann Christian Lobe , German composer and music theorist
- 1798 : Nikolaus Wilhelm Schröder German orientalist and librarian
19th century
- 1824 : Alojzy Stolpe , Polish pianist, music teacher and composer
- 1829 : Heinrich Ludwig von Hünecken , German officer and civil servant
- 1831 : Daniel Jelensperger , French musicologist
- 1832 : Erdmann Traugott Reichel , Leipzig merchant
- 1832 : Johanna Dorothea Stock , German painter, draftsman and copyist
- 1835 : Augusta Louise zu Stolberg-Stolberg , pen pal and muse of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1836 : Christian Gottlieb Bruch , German Protestant clergyman
- 1837 : Johann Gottlieb Lehmann , German educator and philologist
- 1840 : Mary Boyle, Countess of Cork and Orrery , British-Irish Salonnière and Bluestock
- 1845 : Gottfried Baumann , German farmer and politician
- 1846 : Étienne Charles de Damas , French Chevalier, later Duke of Damas-Crux
- 1853 : Ernst Gottlob Pienitz , German physician and psychiatry reformer
- 1858 : Ludwig Roth von Schreckenstein , Prussian officer, Minister of War
- 1861 : Mikhail Dmitrijewitsch Gorchakov , Russian field marshal
- 1867 : Ramón Castilla , President of Peru
- 1869 : Franz Xaver Rewitzer , German politician and revolutionary
- 1870 : Charles Duncan Cameron , British officer and consul in Abyssinia
- 1870 : Gustave Vogt , French oboist, music teacher and composer
- 1885 : Jakob Fürchtegott Dielmann , German painter
- 1885 : Abdul Momin , Sultan of Brunei
- 1885 : Paul de Noailles , French statesman and historian
- 1887 : Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff , German sculptor (depictions of animals)
- 1891 : Henri Amat , French politician
- 1892 : Mária Lebstück , freedom fighter in Hungary
- 1895 : John F. Andrew , American politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Victor D'Hondt , Belgian lawyer
- 1904 : Robert Assmus , German landscape painter and illustrator
- 1905 : Albert Ellmenreich , German actor and writer
- 1907 : Ottomar Anschütz , German photographer, pioneer of photo technology
- 1910 : Albert Detto , German teacher, MdR
- 1911 : Milton Bradley , American draftsman, lithographer, patent attorney, inventor, and game maker
- 1912 : Wilbur Wright , American aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer
- 1913 : Samuel Adrianus Naber , Dutch classical philologist
- 1914 : Alfred Agostinelli , French mechanic, chauffeur and secretary
- 1916 : Adolph Frank , German chemist
- 1917 : Bernhard Goldenberg , German manager
- 1919 : Roberto Chery , Uruguayan football player
- 1919 : Gustav Cleemann , German-Baltic pastor, Protestant confessor
- 1920 : Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff , German writer and Catholic priest
- 1923 : Camille Chevillard , French composer and conductor
- 1925 : Arthur Moeller van den Bruck , German cultural historian and writer
- 1927 : Vincenzo Cerulli , Italian astronomer
- 1927 : Arnold Niggli , Swiss music historian and critic
- 1932 : Wilhelm Fischer , Austrian writer
- 1932 : Ioan Ghyka Cantacuzene , Romanian nobleman, aviator and racing car driver
- 1934 : Tōgō Heihachirō , Japanese admiral
- 1935 : Leberecht Migge , German landscape architect
- 1938 : Raden Soetomo , Indonesian doctor
- 1940 : Marie Arnsburg , Austrian painter
- 1940 : Otto Neururer , German pastor
- 1941 : Prajadhipok , King of Siam
- 1941 : Johanna Naber , Dutch feminist
- 1943 : Elisabet Boehm , founder of the rural women movement
- 1944 : Frédéric Pelletier , Canadian music critic, choir director and composer
- 1948 : Matthias Ehrenfried , German priest, Bishop of Würzburg, "Resistance Bishop" against the Nazi regime
- 1949 : Franz von Rintelen , German officer and spy
1951-2000
- 1951 : Hermann Broch , Austrian writer
- 1951 : Dimitrios Levidis , Greek composer
- 1953 : Carl Scarborough , American racing car driver
- 1953 : Pieter Cornelis Tobias van der Hoeven , Dutch gynecologist
- 1955 : Bill Vukovich , American racing car driver
- 1955 : Hermann Aumer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1956 : Tadeusz Wilczak , Polish conductor
- 1960 : Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak , Russian poet and writer ( Doctor Zhivago ), Nobel Prize winner
- 1961 : Werner Richard Heymann , German film and theater composer
- 1961 : Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina , Dominican President
- 1962 : Ludwig Arnold , German politician and party official
- 1962 : Hermann Baden , President of the Association of Jewish Communities in the GDR
- 1964 : Leó Szilárd , Hungarian-German-American physicist and molecular biologist
- 1965 : Louis Hjelmslev , Danish linguist
- 1966 : Wäinö Aaltonen , Finnish sculptor
- 1967 : Claude Rains , British actor
- 1968 : Martin Noth , German theologian
- 1968 : Akhmet Kuanowitsch Schubanow , Kazakh composer
- 1970 : Heinz Ludwig , German painter, graphic artist and comic artist
- 1971 : Marcel Dupré , French composer and organist
- 1975 : Steve Prefontaine , American long-distance runner
- 1975 : Michel Simon , French actor
- 1976 : Elmer George , American racing car driver
- 1977 : Claire Goll , Franco-German journalist
- 1977 : Paul Desmond , American musician
- 1981 : Don Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1981 : Sven Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
- 1982 : Albert Norden , German journalist and politician, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED, member of the People's Chamber
- 1984 : Walter Smetak , Swiss composer
- 1985 : Olga Nikolajewna Anstej , Russian writer, poet and translator
- 1986 : Boy Gobert , German-Austrian theater and film actor
- 1986 : James Rainwater , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1986 : Luis G. Roldán , Mexican singer
- 1989 : Claude Pepper , American lawyer and politician, Senator, member of the House of Representatives
- 1992 : Karl Carstens , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Bundestag, Federal President
- 1992 : James Lamy , American bobsleigh driver
- 1992 : Inoue Mitsuharu , Japanese writer
- 1992 : Antoni Zygmund , American mathematician
- 1993 : Asō Takeharu , Japanese mountaineer, Nordic skier and athlete
- 1993 : Sun Ra , American jazz composer and musician
- 1994 : Juan Carlos Onetti , Uruguayan writer
- 1994 : Elisabeth Wetzel , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1994 : Gottfried Kramer , German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker
- 1996 : Léon-Étienne Duval , French clergyman, Archbishop of Algiers
- 1996 : John Kahn , American bass player
- 1997 : West Arkeen , American musician
- 1997 : Béla Barényi , Austrian-German automobile designer, co-founder of passive safety in automobile construction
- 1998 : Klaus Hashagen , German composer
- 1998 : Greta Kraus , Canadian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher
- 1999 : Sanja Milenković , civilian victim of a NATO bombing attack during the Kosovo war
- 2000 : Jürgen von Woyski , German sculptor and painter
21st century
- 2002 : Walter Laird , British dancer
- 2003 : Mickie Most , English producer, record label owner and music publisher
- 2003 : Günter Pfitzmann , German cabaret artist and actor
- 2004 : Luciano Minguzzi , Italian sculptor
- 2005 : Takanohana Kenshi , Japanese sumo wrestler
- 2005 : Tomasz Pacyński , Polish author
- 2006 : Boštjan Hladnik , Slovenian film director
- 2006 : Shōhei Imamura , Japanese director, screenwriter and actor
- 2007 : Jean-Claude Brialy , French actor and director
- 2007 : Mark Harris , American writer
- 2008 : Gert Haucke , German actor and writer
- 2008 : Boris Anfijanowitsch Schachlin , Soviet gymnast
- 2009 : Jafar an-Numairi , Sudanese politician, Prime Minister, President
- 2009 : Luís Cabral , Guinea-Bissau politician, President
- 2009 : Ephraim Katzir , Israeli scientist and politician
- 2009 : Michael Müller , German songwriter
- 2010 : Radoslav Zapletal , Czech violinist and composer
- 2011 : Henri Chammartin , Swiss dressage rider
- 2011 : Tillmann Uhrmacher , German music producer
- 2012 : Heinz Eckner , German actor
- 2012 : Andrew Fielding Huxley , British biophysicist and physiologist
- 2013 : Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton , British peer and politician
- 2013 : Andrew Greeley , American writer, sociologist and priest
- 2014 : Henning Carlsen , Danish film director, film producer, screenwriter and film editor
- 2014 : Hanna Maron , Israeli actress
- 2015 : Beau Biden , American lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Delaware
- 2015 : Alfred Neven DuMont , German publisher
- 2016 : Tom Lysiak , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2016 : Ellen Niit , Estonian writer
- 2017 : Harro von Hirschheydt , German-Baltic publisher and bookseller
- 2017 : Molly Peters , British actress
- 2018 : Walter Habersatter , Austrian ski jumper and ski jumping trainer
- 2018 : Herbert Scherer , German philologist
- 2019 : Thad Cochran , American politician, Member of the House of Representatives, Senator
- 2019 : Frank Lucas , American gang boss and drug dealer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Saint Joan of Arc , French military, martyr and patron saint (Anglican, Catholic)
- Gottfried Arnold , German pastor (Protestant)
- Sel. Carlo Liviero , Italian Bishop (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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