30th of November
The November 30 is the 334th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 335th in leap years ), thus remain 31 days to the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1601 : The English Queen Elizabeth I directed in the Palace of Whitehall , the Golden speech to the assembled members of parliament who wanted to complain to her because of its distribution of commercial rights.
- 1612 : In the two-day naval battle of Suvali , four galleons of the British East India Company resist a small Portuguese fleet off the coast of Gujarat in India. This heralds the end of the Portuguese naval rule in the western Indian Ocean, which has lasted since the naval battle of Diu on February 3, 1509 .
- 1700 : During the Great Northern War , King Charles XII defeats . of Sweden the Russian Tsar Peter I at the battle of Narva .
- 1717 : By betrayal, the Djungars succeed in penetrating the Tibetan Lhasa and devastating the city. The Tibetans ask China's Emperor Kangxi for assistance against the tribe.
- 1782 : A provisional peace agreement to end the American War of Independence is signed in Paris between the victorious North American colonies and the British crown .
- 1786 : The later Emperor (1790 to 1792) Leopold II of Habsburg-Lothringen abolishes the death penalty and torture in his home country Tuscany as the first country in the world .
- 1807 : As a result of the Treaty of Fontainebleau signed with Spain , French troops under General Andoche Junot occupy the Portuguese capital of Lisbon during the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula .
- 1838 : In the Cake War , Mexico declares war on France after the French fleet attacked Veracruz .
- 1853 : In the sea battle near Sinope during the Crimean War, the Russian Black Sea Fleet under Vice Admiral Pawel Stepanowitsch Nachimow destroys the Ottoman fleet. Immediately afterwards , Great Britain and France decide to support the Ottoman Empire and enter the war a few months later.
- 1918 : In the Tilsit act, about two dozen Lietuvininkai demand the separation of Lithuania Minor from Prussia and its annexation to Lithuania . The act later forms the basis for the occupation of the Memelland by Lithuania.
- 1919 : In the first free referendum in Germany, over 88% of the electorate in the Free State of Coburg vote against the merger with the Thuringian states . As a result, in 1920 it was united with the Free State of Bavaria .
- 1920 : Liberato Ribeiro Pinto becomes Prime Minister of Portugal .
- 1938 : The Czechoslovak politician Emil Hacha is elected President of the Second Czecho-Slovak Republic .
- 1939 : With the attack by Soviet troops on Finland , the winter war begins , which will last until March 13, 1940 and about 127,000 Soviet soldiers and 25,000 Finns are killed.
- 1942 : The Tassafaronga naval battle between the United States and Japan during World War II ends with a victory for the Japanese.
- 1942 : The hunger food decree of the Bavarian State Minister of the Interior legalizes malnutrition and thus leads to the death of many thousands of psychiatric patients in Bavaria.
- 1943 : Winston Churchill , Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin agree at the Tehran Conference during World War II to conduct military operations Overlord and Anvil in June 1944.
- 1945 : In the Allied Control Council , the Soviet Union accepts the establishment of three air corridors between Berlin and the western occupation zones in Germany for Allied aircraft.
- 1948 : One of the SED - Group convened "city council" declared the Berlin municipal deposed and selects Friedrich Ebert as mayor. In the Soviet sector, the occupying power has banned a joint election planned for December 5 for the Berlin city council . The division of the city takes shape.
- 1958 : French Equatorial Africa is dissolved. The four countries of the Republic of the Congo , Gabon , Chad and the Central African Republic , which become independent in 1960, are created.
- 1962 : Sithu U Thant is elected Secretary General of the United Nations .
- 1966 : Barbados gains independence from Great Britain .
- 1967 : The former British colony of South Yemen becomes independent under the name Republic of South Yemen .
- 1970 : The Republic of South Yemen is renamed the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen .
- 1975 : The People's Republic of Benin is proclaimed in West Africa , succeeding the Republic of Dahomey .
- 1984 : At the inner-German border , the last self-firing systems are dismantled by soldiers of the GDR border troops .
- 1989 : The banker Alfred Herrhausen is killed in a bomb attack in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe .
- 1990 : The demolition of the Berlin Wall is officially completed. Six small sections remain as a memorial.
- 1999 : In Seattle , the ministerial conference of economics and trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) planned for December 2nd fails - also on all other days - due to blocking demonstrations by globalization critics .
- 2015 : The UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) begins in Paris .
economy
- 1676 : In Hamburg the world's first is fire insurance , the Hamburger Feuerkasse founded.
- 1854 : Ferdinand de Lesseps receives the concession to build and operate the Suez Canal for 99 years from the Egyptian Viceroy Muhammad Said for the Compagnie universelle du canal maritime de Suez, which is yet to be founded .
- 1901 : Frank Hornby receives a patent in Great Britain for the metal construction kit he had invented . Under the name Meccano is a toy to success.
- 1910 : The Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft mb H. ( DEHOMAG ) is founded.
- 1922 : The private joint-stock company Vinmonopolet , under state supervision, is founded in Oslo . The company receives the Norwegian alcohol monopoly . Norway bought up all private shares in the years up to 1939 and since then has been controlling alcohol consumption in the country via prices.
- 1936 : The London Crystal Palace , a glass exhibition building from 1851, is destroyed by fire.
- 1945 : In Austria , the Reichsmark introduced in 1938 is replaced by the Schilling through a currency reform .
- 1977 : The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded in Rome as a specialized agency of the United Nations .
- 1988 : The investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. suddenly becomes world famous when it acquires the conglomerate RJR Nabisco for 25 billion US dollars .
- 1990 : The Sega Mega Drive game console is released in Europe. It is the first video game console based on a 16-bit architecture .
- 1998 : Deutsche Bank announces the acquisition of Bankers Trust for approximately $ 9 billion. It will thus become the largest financial institution in the world.
- 1999 : nuclear phase : The nuclear reactor Barsebäck I of the nuclear power plant Barsebäck near the Swedish Malmo is shut down.
- 1999 : In the USA, Exxon and Mobil Oil merge to form ExxonMobil Corporation . This creates one of the largest companies on our planet .
- 1999 : The British arms company BAE Systems is founded.
- 2012 : The game console Wii U by Nintendo , the successor to the Wii , will be released in Europe.
science and technology
- 1609 : Galileo Galilei observes the moon with his telescope for the first time and makes drawings of mountains, craters and oceans.
- 2001 : The first person whose heart was completely replaced by a heart implant died on the 152nd day after the artificial organ was implanted in a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky .
Culture
- 1809 : In Paris, the place premiere of the opera Pimmalione of Luigi Cherubini instead.
- 1815 : The world premiere of the opera Der Herr und seine Diener by Conradin Kreutzer takes place in Stuttgart .
- 1848 : The opera Poliuto by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Teatro di S. Carlo in Naples .
- 1861 : The opera The Puritan's Daughter by Michael William Balfe is premiered in Covent Garden in London .
- 1880 : The premiere of the opera Névtelen hősök ( Anonymous Heroes ) by Ferenc Erkel takes place in Budapest .
- 1885 : At the Grand Opéra Paris takes place the premiere of the opera Le Cid by Jules Massenet .
- 1886 : In Paris, the Les Folies Bergère establishment puts on its first revue .
- 1904 : At the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Turin, Franco Alfano's drama Risurrezione ( Resurrection ) is premiered .
- 1910 : The opera Macbeth by Ernest Bloch is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1935 : In Zurich, is operetta Hopsa of Paul Burkhard premiered.
- 1950 : The rebuilt Hanover Opera House opens with the performance of the Rosenkavalier .
- 1964 : The first performance of the comic opera Das Ende einer Welt by Hans Werner Henze takes place in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1965 : The opera Das Wundertheater by Hans Werner Henze is premiered in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1975 : Keith Jarrett's album The Köln Concert is released.
- 1979 : The Wall , an album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, is released in Great Britain. It is considered one of the best-selling albums by a British band.
- 1982 : The album Thriller by Michael Jackson appears. It becomes the best-selling album in music history.
- 2002 : The mortal remains of the French writer Alexandre Dumas are buried 132 years after his death in the Panthéon temple of fame in Paris .
society
- 1846 : The Austrian Empire abolishes the discriminatory oath of Jews in legal disputes between Jews and Christians.
- 1948 : A man appears on Somerton Beach in Adelaide, Australia, who dies the next day of an unknown poison. The Somerton man , whose identity and exact cause of death are never clarified, remains a mystery to this day.
- 1988 : Alois M. Schader founds the Schader Foundation in Darmstadt to promote dialogue between social sciences and practice.
- 2001 : Serial killer Gary Ridgway , later convicted , is arrested in the United States after traces of DNA match his saliva sample in four victims . In the end, 49 people fell victim to the Green River Killer .
religion
- 722 : The Anglo-Saxon monk Bonifatius is appointed mission bishop without a permanent seat in Rome .
- 1215 : The Fourth Lateran Council in Rome holds its final session.
- 1433 : The Bohemian estates agree the Prague compacts with the Council of Basel , which allow certain deviations in matters of faith.
- 1972 : Pope Paul VI. With the Apostolic Constitution Sacram Unctionem Infirmorum, approves the modified rite of the anointing of the sick , known as the Last Unction, to be applied from January 1, 1974 .
- 2006 : On his visit to Turkey , Pope Benedict XVI signed a joint declaration with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople , Bartholomew I , a declaration in which the unity of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches is stated as a goal. He then visited the Hagia Sophia and, as the first Catholic church leader, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque .
Disasters
- 2006 : Over 300 people died in a mudslide triggered by Typhoon Durian from the Mayon volcano in the Philippines.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1939 : The Serra dos Órgãos National Park is founded in the state of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil . Its rock formations, which emerged towards the end of the Precambrian , are reminiscent of organ pipes or the fingers of a hand from a distance.
Sports
- 1872 : The world's first international football match is played at the Hamilton Crescent stadium in Partick near Glasgow . Scotland and England split 0-0.
- 1956 : The 21-year-old US American Floyd Patterson becomes the youngest heavyweight boxing champion to date by knocking out his compatriot Archie Moore .
- 1958 : The second World Judo Championships are held in Tokyo .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
Andrea Doria
(* 1466)
Otto von Guericke
(* 1602)
Jonathan Swift
(* 1667)
- 538 : Gregory of Tours , Frankish bishop and historian
- 1301 : Andrea Corsini , bishop of the diocese of Fiesole and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1310 : Friedrich II. , Landgrave of Thuringia and Margrave of Meissen
- 1327 : Andreas , Hungarian prince
- 1340 : Jean de Valois, duc de Berry , Duke of Berry and Auvergne
- 1373 : Andrea Malatesta , Italian nobleman and lord of Cesena Cervia, Bertinoro and Fossombrone, and condottiere and senator from Rome
- 1396 : Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh , English nobleman
- 1426 : Johann IV. Roth , Bishop of Lavant, Prince-Bishop of Breslau
- 1427 : Casimir IV , King of Poland
- 1466 : Andrea Doria , Genoese navigator and statesman
- 1508 : Andrea Palladio , architect of mannerism in Northern Italy
- 1526 : Philip III. von Hanau-Münzenberg , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1549 : Henry Savile , English scholar
- 1554 : Philip Sidney , English poet
- 1579 : Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
- 1589 : Andreas Brunner , Bavarian Jesuit and historian
- 1593 : Johann Dilliger , German theologian and composer
- 1549 : Henry Savile , English scholar
- 1595 : Friedrich Buchmann , Swiss mayor
- 1599 : Andrea Sacchi , Italian painter
- 1602 : Otto von Guericke , German politician, engineer and natural scientist
- 1639 : Ernst Jacob von Audorf , Bohemian captain of the Breslau city garrison, military engineer and novelist
- 1642 : Andrea Pozzo , Italian painter
- 1645 : Andreas Werckmeister , German musician and music theorist
- 1650 : Domenico Martinelli , Italian architect who also worked in Vienna
- 1657 : Johann Adam I. Andreas , Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1667 : Jonathan Swift , Irish-English writer
- 1670 : John Toland , Irish free thinker
- 1690 : Andreas Charitius , German theologian
18th century
François-André Isambert
(* 1792)
- 1715 : Johann Philipp Bethmann , German entrepreneur and banker
- 1719 : Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg , Princess of Wales
- 1736 : Samuel Friedrich Nathanael More , German philologist and theologian
- 1742 : Johann Andreas Sixt , German theologian and philologist
- 1744 : Karl Ludwig von Knebel , German poet and translator
- 1748 : Jakob Josef von Haus , German lawyer and university professor
- 1750 : Andreas Joseph Schnaubert , German legal scholar
- 1760 : Hanaoka Seishū , Japanese surgeon
- 1762 : Johann Christoph Gottlob Weise , German botanist and author
- 1765 : Johann Friedrich Abegg , German theologian
- 1768 : Vinzenz Joseph Deycks , German lawyer and notary
- 1777 : Elard Johannes Kulenkamp , German lawyer
- 1784 : Jacobus Cornelis Swijghuijsen Groenewoud Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist
- 1792 : François-André Isambert , French lawyer and politician
- 1796 : Carl Loewe , German composer
- 1798 : Carl Wilhelm Asher , German lawyer and publicist
- 1800 : Carl Heinrich Edmund von Berg , German forester and teacher
19th century
1801-1850
- 1813 : Louise-Victorine Ackermann , French writer and member of the Parnassian group of poets
- 1813 : Charles-Valentin Alkan , French musician and composer
- 1813 : Friedrich Simony , Bohemian-Austrian geographer and alpine explorer
- 1815 : Isaac Newton Arnold , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1817 : Carlo Avanzini , Swiss physician and politician
- 1817 : Theodor Mommsen , German historian and classical scholar, Nobel Prize winner
- 1822 : Wilhelm Kergel , Austrian classical philologist
- 1824 : Benignus von Safferling , Bavarian military man, Minister of War
- 1825 : William Adolphe Bouguereau , French painter
- 1828 : Gustav Zeuner , German engineer
- 1830 : Anna Löhn-Siegel , German suffragette and actress
- 1835 : Mark Twain , American writer
- 1844 : Rudolf Lavant , German writer
1851-1900
- 1858 : Jagadish Chandra Bose , Indian physicist and botanist
- 1859 : Jefferson De Angelis , American actor and singer
- 1863 : Richard Mollier , German-Austrian physicist, physical chemist and mechanical engineer
- 1863 : Hans von Felgenhauer , Prussian officer, military writer and poet
- 1866 : Andrei Lyaptschew , Bulgarian politician, multiple minister, prime minister
- 1867 : Franz Ahlgrimm , German politician, MdHB
- 1869 : Gustaf Dalén , Swedish physicist
- 1869 : James Hamilton , British nobleman and politician, Governor of Northern Ireland
- 1870 : Gertrud Eysoldt , German actress
- 1872 : Morris Fuller Benton , American engineer and typographer
- 1872 : John McCrae , Canadian poet, writer, and medicinarian
- 1874 : Winston Churchill , British statesman and author, Secretary of the Interior and Trade, First Lord of the Admiralty, Prime Minister, Nobel Prize Winner
- 1874 : Clemens Konermann , German Roman Catholic pastor
- 1874 : Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian writer
- 1876 : Bernhard Adelung , German politician, MdL, President of the People's State of Hesse
- 1879 : Laura Clifford Barney , American author
- 1880 : Arthur Laurendeau , Canadian singer, choir director and music teacher
- 1883 : James Garfield Gardiner , Canadian politician, Prime Minister of Saskatchewan, Secretary of Agriculture
- 1884 : Yvan Goor , Belgian cyclist and motorcycle racer
- 1887 : Auguste Distave , Belgian graphic artist
- 1888 : Kenneth Macgowan , American film producer, Oscar winner
- 1889 : Edgar Douglas Adrian , British physiologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1895 : Johann Nepomuk David , Austrian composer, organist and conductor
- 1897 : Quinto Maganini , American composer and conductor
- 1897 : Lilli von Mendelssohn , German violinist
- 1899 : Hans Krása , Czech-German composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1903 : Rudolf Stössel , Swiss teacher, puppeteer and harmonist
- 1904 : Helmuth Naudé , German modern pentathlon
- 1904 : Clyfford Still , American Abstract Expressionism painter
- 1905 : Elfe Schneider , German actress, voice actress and photographer
- 1906 : John Dickson Carr , American crime writer
- 1907 : Anton Biersack , German composer
- 1907 : Fritz Eckhardt , Austrian actor
- 1908 : Arie Aroch , Israeli painter and diplomat
- 1909 : Robert Nighthawk , American blues musician
- 1909 : Fritz Westheider , German handball player, coach and athlete
- 1910 : Heinz Hoene , German firefighter
- 1911 : Tamura Taijirō , Japanese writer
- 1911 : Martin Teich , German meteorologist and weather moderator
- 1912 : Gordon Parks , American film director, photographer, actor, writer, and composer
- 1915 : Edith Anderson , American journalist and writer
- 1915 : Brownie McGhee , American musician
- 1915 : Henry Taube , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1916 : Benny Moten , American jazz bassist
- 1916 : Günter Ortmann , German handball player, Olympic champion, world champion
- 1918 : Efrem Zimbalist Jr. , American actor
- 1919 : Detlef Kraus , German pianist
- 1919 : Rudolf Mühlfenzl , German journalist and media manager
- 1920 : Virginia Mayo , American film actress
- 1921 : Edward Adamczyk , Polish athlete and physical education teacher
- 1922 : Tibor Karny , Austrian politician, Federal Councilor
- 1923 : Ernst Scheidegger , Swiss photographer, painter and publisher
- 1924 : Shirley Chisholm , American politician, member of the House of Representatives, first African American MP
- 1924 : Jacques Dacqmine , French actor and screenwriter
- 1924 : Klaus Huber , Swiss composer and violinist, conductor and composition teacher
- 1924 : Allan Sherman , American comedian and television producer
- 1925 : Thomas Francis Little , Australian Archbishop of Melbourne
- 1925 : Alf Önnerfors , Swedish philologist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Richard Crenna , American actor
- 1927 : Martha Chase , American molecular biologist
- 1928 : Huguette Dreyfus , French harpsichordist
- 1928 : Hans Mohl , German television journalist
- 1928 : Rex Reason , American actor
- 1929 : Dick Clark , American television presenter
- 1930 : Henri Greder , French racing car driver
- 1931 : Dick Hutcherson , American racing car driver
- 1931 : Lajos Látó , Hungarian cyclist
- 1931 : Bill Walsh , American football coach
- 1932 : Gérard Lauzier , French filmmaker and cartoonist
- 1932 : Bob Moore , American musician and songwriter
- 1934 : Roberto Cossa , Argentine writer and journalist
- 1934 : Jürgen Kühl , German sprinter
- 1935 : Trevor Blokdyk , South African speedway and car racing driver
- 1935 : Hoyt Johnson , American country and rockabilly musician
- 1935 : Herbert Prikopa , Austrian conductor and opera singer, actor and composer, writer, pianist and cabaret artist
- 1936 : Dmitri Wiktorowitsch Anossow , Russian mathematician
- 1936 : Arndt Bause , German composer
- 1936 : Tsai Chin , British-Chinese actress
- 1936 : Lucha Villa , Mexican singer and actress
- 1937 : Eduard Artemjew , Russian composer
- 1937 : Jimmy Bowen , American manager and musician, record producer, and songwriter
- 1937 : Frank Ifield , British singer
- 1937 : Ridley Scott , British film director and producer
- 1937 : Robert Widlar , American electrical engineer, pioneer in the development of analog integrated circuits (IC)
- 1938 : Tomislav Ivančić , Croatian theologian
- 1939 : Chandra Bahadur Dangi , Nepalese hat maker and smallest person in the world
- 1939 : Stephen Louis Adler , American physicist
- 1940 : Peter Gamper , German athlete
- 1941 : Kees Aarts , Dutch football player
- 1941 : John Burton , British racing car driver
- 1942 : Günter Kirtschig , German football player
- 1942 : Burghart Schmidt , German philosopher
- 1942 : Eduardo Serrano , Venezuelan actor
- 1943 : William Dear , Canadian film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- 1943 : Andreas Grothusen , German actor
- 1943 : Terrence Malick , American film director
- 1944 : Fritz Astl , Austrian politician
- 1944 : George Graham , Scottish football player and coach
- 1945 : Hilary Armstrong , British politician
- 1945 : Roger Glover , British record producer, musician and composer ( Deep Purple )
- 1945 : Radu Lupu , Romanian pianist
- 1946 : Marina Abramović , Serbian performance artist
- 1947 : David Mamet , American writer
- 1947 : Julio Pane , Argentine tango musician
- 1948 : Alain Peltier , Belgian racing car driver
- 1949 : Jean-Claude Justice , French racing car driver
- 1949 : Margaret Whitton , American actress
- 1950 : Wolfgang Niersbach , German sports journalist and football official
- 1950 : Claudia Rieschel , German actress
1951-1975
- 1951 : Peter Reichel , German soccer player
- 1952 : Mandy Patinkin , American singer and actor
- 1953 : Steve James , American director and producer
- 1953 : Shuggie Otis , American musician
- 1954 : Bernhard Arndt , German pianist
- 1954 : Daniel Nivel , French policeman
- 1955 : Billy Idol , British rock musician
- 1956 : Anders Ronny Åslund , Swedish football player
- 1956 : Heinz Rudolf Kunze , German writer, rock singer, musical writer / translator
- 1956 : Claude-Oliver Rudolph , German actor
- 1957 : Tom McElwee , Northern Irish member of the IRA
- 1957 : Margaret Spellings , American politician
- 1959 : Mike Morgan , American guitarist
- 1960 : Hiam Abbass , Israeli-Arab actress and film director
- 1960 : Gary Lineker , English soccer player
- 1961 : Lorenz S. Beckhardt , German author and journalist
- 1962 : Reza Ahadi , Persian soccer player and coach
- 1962 : Søren Steen Jespersen , Danish documentary filmmaker
- 1962 : Herbert Schlink , Australian medic, hospital manager and winter sports enthusiast
- 1962 : Christoph Schmölzer , Austrian rower and dentist
- 1963 : Marc Rostan , French racing car driver
- 1964 : Carlo Gerosa , Italian ski racer
- 1965 : Aldair , Brazilian soccer player
- 1965 : Fumihito of Akishino , Japanese prince
- 1965 : Zeynəddin Bilalov , Azerbaijani athlete in disabled sports
- 1965 : Claudia Geisler-Bading , German actress
- 1965 : Ben Stiller , American actor
- 1967 : Thomas Blubacher , German author and theater director
- 1968 : Des'ree , British singer
- 1968 : Carlos Latuff , Brazilian cartoonist and caricaturist
- 1969 : David Auburn , American playwright and director
- 1969 : Tomas Axnér , Swedish handball player
- 1969 : Marc Goossens , Belgian racing car driver
- 1969 : Amy Ryan , American actress
- 1970 : Mario Bailey , American football player
- 1970 : Horst Felbermayr junior , Austrian entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1970 : Vigindas Petkevičius , German handball player and coach
- 1971 : Jessalyn Gilsig , Canadian actress
- 1972 : Kriemhild Jahn , German singer
- 1972 : Thomas Schmauser , German actor
- 1973 : Andree Agupyan , German television presenter
- 1973 : Nimród Antal , Hungarian-American director, screenwriter, and actor
- 1973 : Christian , American wrestler
- 1973 : Kate Fischer , Australian actress
- 1973 : Michaël Goossens , Belgian football player
- 1973 : Janette Kliewe , German handball player and trainer
- 1974 : Damián Austin Echemendía , Cuban boxer
- 1974 : Michael Knutson , American composer and music teacher
- 1974 : Arnaud Vincent , French motorcycle racer
- 1975 : Rosey Fletcher , American snowboarder
- 1975 : Mindy McCready , American country singer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Iveta Apkalna , Latvian organist
- 1976 : Guy Allen Kelpin , American composer and trombonist
- 1977 : Steve Aoki , American electro house DJ and music producer
- 1977 : Rachel Howard , New Zealand soccer player
- 1978 : Clay Aiken , American pop / rock singer
- 1978 : Gael García Bernal , Mexican actor
- 1978 : Matthias Hattenberger , Austrian soccer player
- 1978 : Benjamin Lense , German soccer player
- 1978 : Nik Mrdja , Australian soccer player
- 1978 : Heidi Wittlinger , German director
- 1979 : Christopher Atkinson , Australian rally driver
- 1979 : Dennis Hillebrand , German soccer player
- 1980 : Jamie Ashdown , English soccer player
- 1980 : Elsa Sophie Gambard , German actress
- 1980 : Sido , German rapper
- 1981 : Eduardo Gonçalves de Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player
- 1982 : Elisha Cuthbert , Canadian actress
- 1982 : Medina , Danish house singer
- 1983 : David Carney , Australian soccer player
- 1984 : Nigel de Jong , Dutch soccer player
- 1985 : Brigitte Acton , Canadian ski racer
- 1985 : Kaley Cuoco , American actress
- 1985 : Furious Pete , Canadian competitive eater and bodybuilder
- 1987 : Ian Hecox , American YouTuber
- 1988 : Benjamin Lüthi , Swiss football player
- 1988 : Sascha Meiner , German handball player
- 1988 : Rebecca Rittenhouse , American actress
- 1989 : Jonathan Feurich , German actor
- 1989 : Andreas Gawlik , German ice hockey player
- 1989 : Vladimír Weiss , Slovak football player
- 1990 : Miiko Albornoz , Chilean football player
- 1990 : Magnus Carlsen , Norwegian chess player
- 1990 : Jesús Ezquerra , Spanish cyclist
- 1993 : Tom Blomqvist , Swedish-British racing driver
- 1993 : Lost Frequencies , Belgian DJ and producer
- 1993 : Tim Leibold , German soccer player
- 1994 : Marko Daňo , Slovak ice hockey player
- 1994 : William Melling , British actor
- 1994 : Roy Nissany , Israeli racing car driver
- 1995 : Victoria Duval , American tennis player
- 1995 : Denis Myšák , Slovak canoeist
Died
Before the 16th century
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- 912 : Otto I the Illustrious , Duke of Saxony
- 1016 : Edmund II Ironside , King of England
- 1191 : Eberhard von Kumbd , German subdeacon and monastery founder
- 1204 : Emmerich , King of Hungary
- 1304 : Gottfried VI. , Count of Ziegenhain
- 1393 : Matthias von Janov , Bohemian priest, writer, philosopher and reformer
- 1415 : Anna , Princess of the Palatinate and Duchess of Berg
- 1434 : Johann II von Schleinitz , German bishop of Naumburg
- 1498 : Johann I , regent of the County of Hohnstein
16th to 18th century
- 1519 : Michael Wolgemut , German painter and wood cutter
- 1526 : Giovanni dalle Bande Nere , Italian condottieri
- 1543 : Francesco Granacci , Italian painter
- 1549 : Johann VIII von Maltitz , Bishop of Meissen
- 1567 : Wolfgang Schutzbar called Milchling , prince abbot of the imperial abbey of Fulda
- 1577 : Cuthbert Mayne , English Catholic priest and martyr
- 1581 : Simon Bing , Landgrave Hessian administrative officer and politician
- 1611 : Daniel Hofmann , German Lutheran theologian
- 1647 : Francesco Bonaventura Cavalieri , Italian mathematician
- 1647 : Giovanni Lanfranco , Italian painter
- 1654 : John Selden , English polymath
- 1678 : Andries de Graeff , regent and mayor of Amsterdam
- 1680 : Peter Lely , English painter
- 1703 : Nicolas de Grigny , French composer
- 1703 : Laurentius Gutzmer , German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
- 1714 : Jakob Engel , master builder from Graubünden
- 1714 : Guillaume Gabriel Nivers , French organist, composer and music theorist
- 1719 : Heinrich Hartard von Rollingen , Prince-Bishop of Speyer and Prince Provost of Weissenburg
- 1719 : Yamamoto Tsunetomo , Japanese samurai and author
- 1728 : Alexander Roussel , French preacher and evangelical martyr
- 1742 : Jean Baptiste Bassand , French medic
- 1748 : Zacharias Longuelune , French architect and architectural draftsman
- 1750 : Moritz von Sachsen , Duke of Courland, Franco-German general, war theorist and Marshal of France
- 1751 : Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux , Swiss astronomer
- 1755 : Johann Elias Bach , German composer
- 1756 : Johann Jakob Zimmermann , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1760 : Friederike Caroline Neuber , German actress and theater director
- 1786 : Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid , Spanish military, politician and Viceroy of New Spain
- 1792 : Johann Heinrich Wepler , German theologian and university professor
19th century
- 1813 : Friedrich August Baumbach , German composer and Freemason
- 1814 : Jean-Michel Moreau , French engraver and etcher
- 1830 : Pius VIII , Pope
- 1837 : Andreas Florian Meilinger , German philosopher and Benedictine monk
- 1840 : Adam von Faßmann , German pharmacist and politician
- 1840 : Joseph Johann von Littrow , Austrian astronomer
- 1846 : Friedrich List , German economist and politician
- 1847 : Ludwig Wilhelm Neumann , Prussian lawyer, honorary citizen of Berlin
- 1851 : Wilhelm Meinhold , German writer and pastor
- 1856 : Charles-Alexandre Fessy , French organist and composer
- 1858 : Friedrich Gotthilf Osann , German classical philologist
- 1859 : Jacobus Cornelis Swijghuijsen Groenewoud , Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist
- 1864 : John Adams , Brigadier General of the Confederate States of America
- 1864 : States Rights Gist , General of the Confederate States of America
- 1866 : John Mercer , British chemist, inventor of mercerization for textile finishing
- 1868 : August Theodor Blanche , Swedish writer
- 1869 : Wilhelm Steigerwald , German industrialist
- 1878 : Julius Krais , German pastor and poet
- 1878 : George Henry Lewes , British writer, literary critic and philosopher
- 1883 : Hiệp Hòa , sixth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
- 1891 : Auguste Cornelius , German writer
- 1892 : Pierre-Victor Galland , French painter
- 1893 : Carl Wilhelm Tölcke , German politician, President of the ADAV
- 1894 : Joseph E. Brown , American politician
- 1897 : Carl Richard Unger , Norwegian philologist
- 1900 : Oscar Wilde , Irish writer and playwright
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Edward John Eyre , British explorer and politician, Governor of Jamaica
- 1905 : Clementine Abel , German writer
- 1911 : Johannes Vahlen , German classical philologist
- 1912 : George Armitstead , Russian engineer and entrepreneur, Mayor of Riga
- 1913 : Kaspar Eisenkolb , Romanian-German composer
- 1916 : Dorrit Weixler , German actress
- 1917 : William E. Chandler , American politician, senator, Secretary of the Navy
- 1921 : Hermann Amandus Schwarz , German mathematician
- 1930 : Michel Vieuchange , French adventurer
- 1931 : Marc Delmas , French composer
- 1933 : Kamura Isota , Japanese writer
- 1934 : Hélène Boucher , French pilot who became the first woman to fly over the Alps
- 1934 : Philip Hale , American organist and music critic
- 1935 : Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese poet
- 1937 : Harry Graf Kessler , German art collector, patron, writer, publicist and diplomat
- 1938 : Corneliu Zelea Codreanu , Romanian politician, founder and leader of the Iron Guard
- 1939 : Béla Kun , Hungarian journalist and politician
- 1939 : Max Skladanowsky , German inventor and film producer
- 1942 : Hans Lewy , German automobile racing driver
- 1943 : Etty Hillesum , Dutch writer
- 1943 : Paul Otto , German actor
- 1944 : Max Halbe , German writer and poet, representative of German naturalism
- 1947 : Ernst Lubitsch , German-American director and actor
- 1950 : Erich Ziegel , German theater director
1951-2000
- 1953 : Ernesto Cortázar , Mexican composer, actor, director and screenwriter
- 1954 : Wilhelm Furtwängler , German conductor and composer
- 1955 : Josip Štolcer-Slavenski , Croatian composer
- 1957 : Beniamino Gigli , Italian opera singer and film actor
- 1958 : Hubert Wilkins , Australian polar explorer
- 1961 : Stanisław Kazuro , Polish composer
- 1962 : Johannes Ackermanns , German local politician
- 1962 : Lowell Lee Andrews , American murderer
- 1962 : Karl Kappler , German automobile racing driver
- 1970 : Alfonso Caso y Andrade , Mexican archaeologist, lawyer and politician, minister
- 1972 : Hans Erich Apostel , German-Austrian composer
- 1972 : Johann Josef Demmel , German bishop
- 1974 : Reinhold Ewald , German teacher and painter of expressionism
- 1977 : Miloš Crnjanski , Serbian poet, storyteller, travel writer, stage poet
- 1978 : Eileen Law , Canadian singer and music educator
- 1979 : Arno Assmann , German actor, director and general manager
- 1979 : Mario Astarita , Italian banker and art collector
- 1982 : Adolf Heusinger , German general, first general inspector of the Bundeswehr
- 1986 : Herbert Steinmetz , German actor
- 1987 : Helmut Horten , German department store entrepreneur and patron
- 1988 : Charlie Rouse , American tenor saxophonist
- 1989 : Ahmadou Ahidjo , Cameroonian politician, President
- 1989 : Alfred Herrhausen , German banker, spokesman for the board of directors of Deutsche Bank, victim of the attack
- 1989 : Alexander Malachovsky , German-speaking actor, radio play director and speaker
- 1989 : Gottfried Pohlan , German motorcycle racer
- 1990 : Fritz Barzilauskas , American football player
- 1990 : Hilde Spiel , Austrian journalist and writer
- 1991 : Hans Lietzau , German theater director
- 1992 : Jorge Donn , Argentine ballet dancer
- 1993 : David Houston , country singer and songwriter
- 1994 : Lionel Stander , American actor
- 1995 : Til Kiwe , German actor
- 1995 : Bruno W. Pantel , German actor
- 1996 : Tiny Tim , American pop musician and entertainer
- 1997 : Kathy Acker , American writer
- 1999 : Craig Siebert , American racing car driver
- 1999 : Ulrich Wildgruber , German actor
- 2000 : Poul Bjørndahl Astrup , Danish physiologist and laboratory chemist
- 2000 : Jānis Kalniņš , Latvian-Canadian composer
- 2000 : Gerhard Schedl , Austrian-German composer
21st century
- 2001 : Michael Lentz , German screenwriter, actor and director
- 2002 : Hans Hartz , German musician and songwriter
- 2003 : Jack Brewer , American baseball player
- 2003 : Gertrude Ederle , American swimmer, Olympic champion
- 2003 : Eugenio Monti , Italian bobsledder
- 2003 : Aloys Odenthal , German architect and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 2004 : Blanche Moerschel , American composer, organist, pianist and music teacher
- 2004 : Hildegard Temporini-Countess Vitzthum , German ancient historian
- 2006 : Leonard Freed , American photographer
- 2006 : Shirley Walker , American composer, conductor, pianist and producer
- 2007 : John Lloyd Ackrill , English historian of philosophy
- 2007 : Engin Arık , Turkish physicist
- 2007 : Seymour Benzer , American physicist and biologist
- 2007 : Evel Knievel , American motorcycle stuntman
- 2009 : Christopher Anvil , American science fiction writer
- 2009 : Christoph Budde , German soccer player
- 2009 : Hubert Patthey , Swiss racing driver and entrepreneur
- 2009 : Milorad Pavić , Serbian writer
- 2010 : Salvador Jorge Blanco , Dominican politician, President
- 2011 : Zdeněk Miler , Czech animation film director
- 2012 : Konrad Halver , German actor, radio play maker and voice actor
- 2013 : Peter Graf , German tennis trainer and manager
- 2013 : Paul Walker , American actor
- 2014 : Radua Ashur , Egyptian writer and professor
- 2014 : Muriel Millard , Canadian actress, singer, dancer and painter
- 2014 : Go Seigen , Sino-Japanese Go player
- 2015 : Fatima Mernissi , Moroccan sociologist and author
- 2015 : Eldar Ryazanov , Soviet-Russian film director
- 2016 : Peter Schönlein , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Nuremberg
- 2017 : Colin Groves , British-Australian anthropologist and primatologist
- 2017 : Alfredo Milani , Italian motorcycle racer
- 2018 : George HW Bush , American politician, President
- 2018 : Dagobert Lindlau , German journalist and writer
- 2019 : Mariss Jansons , Latvian conductor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Andrew , apostle, martyr and bishop (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Andrew's Night
- Alexander Roussel , French preacher and martyr (Protestant)
- State holidays and memorial days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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