30th of October
The October 30 is the 303rd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 304th in leap years ), thus remain 62 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1270 : The siege of Tunis ends in the Seventh Crusade , after the Christians were granted freedom of trade in an agreement between Charles of Anjou and Sultan Muhammad I al-Mustansir . Numerous Christian besiegers, including the French King Louis the Saint , had previously died from spreading diseases .
- 1340 : Castile and Portugal decisively defeat the Merinids in the Battle of the Salado in the province of Cadiz .
- 1485 : Henry VII is crowned King of England in London .
- 1611 : After he has been declared of age prematurely, Gustav II. Adolf becomes after the death of his father Karl IX. King of Sweden .
- 1628 : After the city surrendered two days earlier, Cardinal Richelieu and Louis XIII move out . in La Rochelle .
- 1632 : In Toulouse , Henri II. De Montmorency , together with Gaston von Orléans , the younger brother of King Louis XIII. , Organizer of a noble uprising in Languedoc against Cardinal Richelieu , executed. With him the Montmorencys will die out.
- 1688 : After 32 days of siege , the garrison of Philippsburg fortress surrenders to French troops under General Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban in the Palatinate War of Succession .
- 1697 : After England , Spain and the Netherlands on September 20, the Holy Roman Empire under Leopold I also ended the War of Palatinate Succession with France's King Louis XIV through the Peace of Rijswijk .
- 1816 : With the death of Frederick I , his son Wilhelm becomes King of Württemberg .
- 1831 : Nat Turner , leader of a slave rebellion in the United States , is captured.
- 1864 : With the signing of the Treaty of Vienna quit Austria , Prussia and Denmark the German-Danish war . The defeated Denmark renounced the duchies of Schleswig , Holstein and Lauenburg .
- 1880 : Tegucigalpa becomes the capital of Honduras for good .
- 1883 : Romania joins the Triple Alliance , a defensive alliance between the German Empire , Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy .
- 1905 : With the October Manifesto, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II authorizes the formation of a bicameral parliament, the Duma, in response to the Russian Revolution in 1905 .
- 1917 : As part of the Third Battle of Flanders during World War I , the British conquer Passendale with heavy losses .
- 1918 : The Ottoman Empire concludes with the victors of the First World War, the Armistice of Mudros .
- 1922 : Benito Mussolini arrives on the night train from Milan in Rome, where tens of thousands of fascists have already gathered for the march on Rome , and is led by King Victor Emmanuel III. receive.
- 1941 : During the Russian campaign , a first attempt by the 11th Army to capture the Soviet seaport of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula fails . This advance marks the beginning of the battle for Sevastopol .
- 1956 : During the Hungarian people's uprising, Prime Minister Imre Nagy announces the end of the one-party system and the dissolution of the previously ruling Communist Party of the Hungarian Working People .
- 1961 : The Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey sign the recruitment agreement that forms the legal basis for Turkish immigration to Germany. The model was the agreement concluded between Germany and Italy in 1955 .
- 1973 : The MBFR negotiations between East and West begin in Vienna on a simultaneous reduction in armed forces and armaments , especially in Central Europe.
- 1980 : The GDR abolishes visa-free traffic with its neighbor Poland . The free trade union Solidarność was founded there after the August strikes .
- 1983 : In the first free elections after the military dictatorship in Argentina , the Radical Citizens Union wins with 52% of the vote.
- 1989 : The German television station stops Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler's daily program The Black Channel .
- 1991 : At the first round of the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid , Israelis and Arabs sit down for talks again for the first time after 43 years and five wars.
- 1995 : With a narrow majority of 50.58% with a stake of more than 93% of the population rejects Quebec , the second referendum on independence from Canada from.
- 1996 : In Beijing , human rights activist Wang Dan is sentenced to eleven years in prison in a four-hour trial for attempting to overthrow the “socialist system”.
- 1997 : Mary McAleese by the conservative Fianna Fáil wins presidential election in the Republic of Ireland , succeeding Mary Robinson of the Irish Labor Party in this position after serving as its activity High Commissioner for Human Rights has received.
- 2003 : Gerhard Schröder is the first German Chancellor to visit Croatia since the declaration of independence in 1991
- 2009 : Christine Lieberknecht is elected Prime Minister of the Free State of Thuringia by the Thuringian state parliament. Lieberknecht is thus the first female CDU politician in Germany to become Prime Minister and also the first woman to head a state government in the new federal states.
economy
- 1811 : Friedrich Koenig receives a patent for the high-speed cylinder press .
- 1929 : The funicular in Stuttgart goes into operation.
- 1941 : The National Socialist leadership in Germany introduces a program called Iron Saving for savers in order to tie up excess purchasing power of the population and to open up a source of finance for war expenditures with the incentive of tax advantages.
- 1947 : 23 "founding members" sign the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ), which will come into force on January 1, 1948.
- 1973 : The Bosphorus Bridge , which connects Europe and Asia, is opened in Istanbul by Turkish President Fahri Korutürk .
- 1988 : One of the largest corporate takeovers in the USA is on the horizon: the tobacco company Philip Morris offers the food company Kraft Foods a purchase price of 13.1 billion US dollars . He will acquire it in December for $ 12.9 billion.
- 1991 : The of the namesake . Elizabeth II opened the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge complements the traffic Ensemble Dartford Crossing as part of the ring road around London.
- 2000 : In Tajikistan , the new national currency Somoni replaces the Tajik ruble.
- 2008 : Berlin-Tempelhof Airport is closed at midnight amid the protest of a few hundred supporters of the airport after a Ju-52 and a Douglas DC-3 “ cherry bomber ” are the last aircraft to leave the airport at 11:55 pm to have.
science and technology
- 1909 : Hans Grade wins the Lanz Prize of the Skies with his Libelle monoplane , the first truly airworthy German powered aircraft .
- 1911 : The first Solvay conference on the theory of radiation and quanta , organized by the Belgian industrialist and amateur researcher Ernest Solvay and attended by the world's best experimental and theoretical physicists at the time, opens at the Hotel Metropol in Brussels, chaired by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz .
- 1961 : The Tsar hydrogen bomb is detonated in Novaya Zemlya . To this day, the detonation is considered to be the largest human-made explosion.
- 1967 : The two unmanned Soyuz spaceships Kosmos 186 and 188 carry out the first rendezvous with an automatic coupling in an earth orbit .
- 1985 : As participants in the space shuttle mission STS-61-A , Ernst Messerschmid and Reinhard Furrer fly the Challenger as the second West German spaceman to Ulf Merbold (STS-9; start: November 28, 1983, landing: December 8, 1983) into space.
- 1990 : The first breakthrough is made in the Eurotunnel between France and England .
- 1994 : Thomas Ray Nicely informs the public about the FDIV bug in the Intel Pentium .
- 1996 : Norddeich Radio sends the last official message in Morse code over shortwave . The message consists of the letters CULTR (See You later).
Culture
- 1821 : The opera Elisa e Claudio by Saverio Mercadante is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan
- 1836 : The first performance of the comic opera Sérafine by Friedrich von Flotow takes place in Royaumont .
- 1900 : The Wiener Symphoniker give their opening concert under the name of the Concert Association Orchestra in the Musikverein, under the direction of Ferdinand Löwe .
- 1903 : The tragedy of Elektra by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is in theater kids in Berlin premiered. Richard Strauss is also present at the premiere .
- 1921 : The silent film The Sheikh premiered in Los Angeles . Rudolph Valentino as the main actor becomes famous overnight.
- 1925 : The world premiere of the operetta Paganini by Franz Lehár takes place at the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna .
- 1926 : The "dramatic legend" Paul among the Jews by Franz Werfel is premiered simultaneously in Munich, Cologne, Breslau and Vienna.
- 1938 : The 23-year-old Orson Welles caused irritation among radio listeners in the American eastern states because of his terrifyingly realistic radio play War of the Worlds .
- 1968 : The movie The Lion premiered in the United States in winter .
- 1986 : The movie Down By Law of Jim Jarmusch hits theaters in the US.
- 1990 : The world premiere of the opera Tulifant by Gottfried von Eine takes place in Vienna.
society
- 1454 : Charles the Bold marries Isabelle de Bourbon for the second time in Lille .
- 2004 : Christian Bogner , who escaped from the Lübeck correctional facility on October 26th, is arrested by a mobile task force .
religion
- 701 : John VI. becomes Pope as successor to Sergius I.
- 942 : Marinus II is appointed Pope by the Roman prince Alberich II , on whom he is completely dependent, as the successor to Stephen VIII .
- 1950 : Pope Pius XII. is confronted with the experienced sun miracle for the first time in the Vatican Gardens .
- 2005 : The Frauenkirche in Dresden , which was completely destroyed by the air raids on Dresden during the Second World War and which served as a memorial against the war during the GDR era, is re-consecrated after several years of reconstruction.
- In 2018 a bone was found in the Apostolic Nunciature in Rome , which triggered an investigation into murder .
Disasters
- 1983 : An earthquake near Erzurum and Kars in Turkey kills more than 1,300
- 1998 : In Honduras calling for Hurricane Mitch approximately 5,500 deaths.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1921 : At the Campeonato Sudamericano soccer competition in Buenos Aires, the host Argentina beats Uruguay 1-0 in the last game of the tournament and becomes South American champions for the first time.
- 1954 : The shot clock developed by Danny Biasone and adopted by the National Basketball Association (NBA) is officially used for the first time in the Rochester Royals game against the Boston Celtics . The principle of limited attack time introduced thereby accelerates the game enormously and is considered a milestone in the development of basketball.
- 1963 : 1. FC Nürnberg separates from trainer Herbert Widmayer . This is the first coach dismissal in the history of the German Bundesliga .
- 1974 : Muhammad Ali wins the world championship fight known as Rumble in the Jungle against boxing world champion George Foreman at the 20th of May Stadium , Kinshasa , Democratic Republic of the Congo, surprisingly by knockout, becomes world champion and breaks with it, as the second boxer after Floyd Patterson , the unwritten law of boxing: "They never come back"
- 1988 : Ayrton Senna becomes Formula 1 world champion for the first time after the race in Suzuka and before the end of the season with the Australian Grand Prix .
- 2007 : FIFA awards the 2011 Women's World Cup to Germany and the 2014 Men 's World Cup to Brazil.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1218 : Chukyo , 85th Emperor of Japan
- 1447 : Lucas Watzenrode , Prince-Bishop of Warmia
- 1492 : Anne d'Alençon , mistress of La Guerche, Margravine of Montferrat
- 1563 : Sophie von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duchess of Jägerndorf
- 1624 : Paul Pellisson , French writer
- 1632 : Christopher Wren , British astronomer and architect, founding member of the Royal Society
- 1662 : Wilhelm Ernst , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1663 : Johann Ludolph Quenstedt , German bookseller and Lord Mayor of Wittenberg
- 1666 : Nicolaus Vetter , German organist and composer
- 1668 : Sophie Charlotte of Hanover , Prussian queen
- 1678 : Peter von Lacy , Russian Field Marshal General
- 1685 : Gottlob Adolph , German hymn poet
- 1691 : Katharina Iwanowna , Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- 1698 : Paul Troger , Austrian painter
Sophie Charlotte of Hanover (* 1668)
Angelika Kauffmann
(* 1741)
Heinrich Cotta
(* 1763)
Hermann von Pückler-Muskau
(* 1785)
18th century
- 1701 : Anton Gogeisl , German Jesuit and missionary
- 1712 : Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich , Saxon painter and engraver
- 1728 : Marcin Odlanicki Poczobutt , Polish-Lithuanian astronomer, Jesuit and mathematician
- 1735 : John Adams , American politician and president
- 1737 : Johann Christian von Quistorp , Mecklenburg jurist
- 1741 : Angelika Kauffmann , Swiss-Austrian painter
- 1751 : Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Anglo-Irish playwright
- 1754 : Philippe-Antoine Merlin , French politician
- 1758 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Hertling , German lawyer and diplomat
- 1758 : Friedrich Theodor von Schubert , German astronomer
- 1763 : Heinrich Cotta , German forest scientist
- 1763 : Georg Karl von Sutner , German civil servant
- 1772 : Peter Irving , American writer
- 1774 : Johannes Friedrich Ludwig Schröder , German Lutheran theologian and mathematician
- 1775 : Catterino Cavos , Italian-Russian composer
- 1775 : Wilhelm Ludwig Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck , German general
- 1776 : George M. Bibb , American politician
- 1778 : Benjamin Ames , American politician
- 1785 : Hermann von Pückler-Muskau , Prussian landlord, lieutenant general, landscape architect, writer and world traveler
- 1789 : Louise Charlotte of Denmark , Princess of Denmark and, by marriage, Landgrave of Hessen-Kassel
- 1794 : Friedrich von Prussia , Prussian general
- 1796 : Johann Jakob Hürlimann , Swiss entrepreneur and politician
- 1796 : Friederike von Prussia , Duchess of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1797 : Henriette Alexandrine von Nassau-Weilburg , Princess of Nassau-Weilburg, wife of Archduke Karl of Austria
- 1799 : Luise von Anhalt-Bernburg , Princess of Prussia
19th century
1801-1850
- 1812 : Karl Emanuel Klitzsch , German organist, composer and music writer
- 1816 : Henry L. Dawes , American politician
- 1823 : Domenico Chiodo , Italian naval officer, engineer and architect
- 1829 : Suzanne Manet , wife and model of Édouard Manet
- 1835 : Carlotta Patti , Italian soprano
- 1838 : George Ainslie , American politician
- 1839 : Adolph Freiherr von Asch zu Asch auf Oberndorff , German general
- 1839 : Alfred Sisley , French impressionist landscape painter
- 1849 : Georg Kaibel , German classical philologist
- 1849 : Takaki Kanehiro , Japanese naval doctor
1851-1875
- 1851 : Carl Josef Alois Bourdet , German painter and watercolorist
- 1852 : Casimir von Arx , Swiss politician
- 1853 : Louise Abbéma , French painter, graphic artist and sculptor of Impressionism and the Belle Époque
- 1854 : Franz Rohr von Denta , Austrian field marshal
- 1855 : Károly Aggházy , Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer
- 1855 : Pauline Klaiber-Gottschau , German literary translator
- 1857 : Gertrude Atherton , American author
- 1859 : Karl Stürgkh , Austrian politician and kk Prime Minister
- 1860 : Mathilde Freiin von Freytag-Loringhoven , German artist
- 1860 : Emmi Walther , German painter
- 1862 : Anton Funtek , Slovenian writer
- 1862 : Friedrich Meinecke , German historian and university professor
- 1863 : Babette Devrient-Reinhold , Austrian theater and film actress
- 1863 : Marianne Plehn , scientist and biologist
- 1864 : Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge , American pianist and patron
- 1864 : Theodor Wiegand , German archaeologist
- 1866 : Charles William Andrews , British vertebrate paleontologist, zoologist and botanist
- 1867 : Ed Delahanty , American baseball player
- 1868 : Albertus Antonie Nijland , Dutch astronomer
- 1869 : Joseph Fugger von Glött , German officer and colonial official
- 1870 : Lawrence Grant , British actor
- 1871 : Paul Valéry , French lyric poet
- 1873 : Francisco Madero , Mexican revolutionary, statesman and president
1876-1900
- 1876 : Marie-Louise Müller-Weiss , German soprano
- 1878 : Emil Röthong , German gymnast
- 1878 : Arthur Scherbius , German inventor and entrepreneur
- 1881 : Lena Christ , German writer
- 1881 : Lukas Christ , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1881 : Elfriede Feudel , German pioneer of rhythm
- 1882 : William F. Halsey , American admiral
- 1882 : Günther von Kluge , German officer, most recently Field Marshal General in World War II
- 1883 : Karel Gleenewinkel Kamperdijk , Dutch football player
- 1884 : Willy Andreas , German historian
- 1884 : Rudolf Forster , Austrian actor
- 1885 : Thea de Haas , German painter and writer
- 1885 : Ezra Pound , American poet
- 1885 : Maximilian Rosenberg , German doctor, writer, music and theater critic
- 1886 : Zoë Akins , American writer
- 1887 : Georg Heym , German writer, poet of early literary expressionism
- 1888 : Marie Ulfers , German writer
- 1889 : Josef Brunner , Austrian major general
- 1890 : Ernst Adams , German politician
- 1890 : Jakow Eschpai , Russian composer
- 1892 : Angelo Siciliano , Italian-American bodybuilder
- 1893 : Roland Freisler , German judge and President of the People's Court
- 1893 : Willy Maertens , German actor, theater director and theater director
- 1894 : Emilio Materassi , Italian racing car driver
- 1895 : Wilhelm Andreae , German entrepreneur
- 1895 : Andrej Andrejewitsch Andrejew , Soviet politician
- 1895 : Gerhard Domagk , German physician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1896 : Roma Bahn , German actress
- 1896 : Ruth Gordon , American actress
- 1896 : Kostas Karyotakis , Greek poet and prose writer
- 1896 : Harry R. Truman , American innkeeper
- 1897 : Agustín Lara , Mexican composer and singer
- 1897 : Ottilie Schellander , Austrian head nurse
- 1899 : Nadeschda Mandelstam , Russian author
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Erika Ewert , German politician
- 1902 : María Izquierdo , Mexican painter
- 1903 : Helene of Austria , Austrian noblewoman, Archduchess of Austria
- 1904 : Sergio Amidei , Italian screenwriter
- 1905 : Christian Darnton , British composer
- 1905 : Bohumír Štědroň , Czech musicologist and pianist
- 1906 : Giuseppe Farina , Italian racing car driver, Formula 1 world champion
- 1906 : Alexander Gode , German-American linguist and translator, founder of the planned language Interlingua
- 1907 : Hirano Ken , Japanese writer and literary critic
- 1907 : György Ránki , Hungarian composer
- 1908 : Rudolf Werner Ackermann , German painter
- 1908 : Franco Margola , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1908 : Patsy Montana , American country singer
- 1908 : Orlando Spreng , Swiss postal worker and writer
- 1909 : Homi Jehangir Bhabha , Indian physicist
- 1909 : Jean Le Moal , French painter, theater decorator and sculptor, exponent of abstract painting
- 1910 : Thyra Hamann-Hartmann , German textile artist
- 1910 : Hans Raff , German long-distance and obstacle runner
- 1911 : Maxim Hermaniuk , Ukrainian Archbishop
- 1911 : Ernst Feick , German handball official
- 1911 : Ruth Hussey , American actress
- 1913 : Richard Stone , British economist
- 1914 : Marina von Ditmar , German-Baltic actress
- 1914 : Krystana Iwanowa Janewa , Bulgarian resistance fighter
- 1915 : Maria Ewel , German sculptor
- 1915 : Türkan Rado , first Turkish law professor
- 1915 : Jane Randolph , American actress
- 1915 : Pierre Wissmer , Swiss-French composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1916 : Kurt Hübner , German theater director
- 1917 : Anna Marly , Russian-French singer
- 1917 : Minni Nurme , Estonian writer
- 1917 : Maurice Trintignant , French racing car driver
- 1919 : Otto Heinrich Treumann , German-Dutch graphic artist
- 1919 : Rosa Weber , Austrian politician
- 1921 : Abraham Leonardus Appel , Dutch football player and coach
- 1921 : Rudolf Asmus , Czech opera singer
- 1922 : Heinrich Dahlinger , German handball player
- 1923 : Fritz Abromeit , German football player
- 1923 : Horst Astroth , German walker
- 1924 : Ada Brodsky , Israeli radio journalist and translator
- 1924 : Otto Konrad , German painter and graphic artist
- 1924 : Maria Sander , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1925 : Gisela Glende , office manager of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR
- 1925 : Servais-Théodore Pinckaers , Belgian moral theologian
- 1925 : Wolfgang Vogel , German lawyer, negotiator in the GDR release of prisoners
1926-1950
- 1926 : Jacques Swaters , Belgian racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1926 : Lois Wyse , American author and columnist
- 1926 : Dieter Zechlin , German pianist
- 1927 : Weldon Rogers , American musician and producer
- 1928 : Michael James Andrews , British painter
- 1928 : Bobby Jones , American jazz musician
- 1928 : Daniel Nathans , American biologist
- 1928 : Joachim Wattendorff , German biologist
- 1929 : Willie Torres , Puerto Rican singer
- 1930 : Néstor Almendros , Spanish cameraman
- 1930 : Gerti Möller , German pop singer
- 1930 : Stanley Sadie , British musicologist
- 1931 : Ruth Klüger , German literary scholar and writer
- 1931 : Hedi Lang , President of the Swiss National Council
- 1931 : Ann Roth , American costume designer
- 1932 : Georgs Andrejevs , Latvian politician
- 1932 : Louis Malle , French film director
- 1933 : Johanna von Koczian , German actress
- 1934 : Frans Brüggen , Dutch conductor and flautist
- 1935 : Ágota Kristóf , Hungarian-Swiss writer
- 1935 : Jim Perry , American baseball player
- 1936 : Polina Astachowa , Ukrainian gymnast
- 1936 : Dick Vermeil , American football coach
- 1937 : Rudolfo Alfonso Anaya , American writer
- 1937 : Heinrich Augustin , German politician
- 1937 : Cora Diamond , American philosopher
- 1937 : Claude Lelouch , French director
- 1938 : Marina Ratner , American mathematician
- 1939 : Gerhard Schnitter , German composer and choir director
- 1939 : Grace Slick , American model, singer, and songwriter
- 1941 : Theodor Hänsch , German physicist, pioneer of laser spectroscopy and Nobel Prize winner
- 1942 : Sven-David Sandström , Swedish composer
- 1944 : Werner Guballa , German priest, auxiliary bishop in Mainz
- 1945 : Hans-Jakob Schädler , Liechtenstein judoka
- 1945 : Andreas Schmidt-Schaller , German actor
- 1946 : René Jacobs , Belgian countertenor and conductor
- 1946 : Chris Slade , British musician
- 1946 : William Thurston , American mathematician
- 1947 : Glenn Urban Andreotta , American pilot
- 1947 : John Celona , American composer, saxophonist, conductor and music educator
- 1947 : Timothy Schmit , American musician
- 1948 : Günter Schweikardt , German handball player, trainer and manager
- 1948 : Dick Voorn , Dutch football coach
- 1949 : Michal Ajvaz , Czech prose writer and poet, essayist and translator
- 1949 : Achim Amme , German author, actor and musician
- 1949 : Josef Pühringer , Austrian politician, governor of Upper Austria
- 1949 : Angelo Zadra , Italian racing driver
- 1950 : Adamos Adamou , Cypriot politician
- 1950 : Mona Freiberg , German folk actress and singer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Mehmet Kemal Ağar , Turkish politician
- 1951 : Trilok Gurtu , Indian percussionist and singer
- 1951 : Harry Hamlin , American actor
- 1951 : Poncho Sanchez , American Latin jazz musician, salsa singer, orchestra leader and conga player
- 1952 : Arnold Karibone Amet , Papua New Guinean lawyer and politician
- 1952 : Patrick Pugliese , Canadian water polo player
- 1953 : Vincenzo Guerini , Italian football player, coach and official
- 1954 : Piero Gros , Italian ski racer
- 1954 : Martina Servatius , German actress
- 1955 : Bernd Riexinger , German politician
- 1957 : Susanne Gelhard , German journalist and foreign correspondent
- 1957 : Gerd Püschel , German soccer player
- 1958 : Martin John Lars Adler , Swedish journalist and photographer
- 1958 : Friedhelm Rathjen , German translator, literary scholar and writer
- 1959 : Rachel Ashwell , British interior designer
- 1960 : Andreas Hägele , German soccer player and coach
- 1960 : Diego Maradona , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1962 : Caroline Casadesus , French singer
- 1962 : Stefan Kuntz , German soccer player and coach
- 1963 : Paul Schubert , Swiss classical philologist and papyrologist
- 1963 : Andrea Stolletz , German handball goalkeeper
- 1964 : Steven Andskär , Swedish racing car driver
- 1964 : Jean-Marc Bosman , Belgian football player
- 1964 : Ma Xiangjun , Chinese archer
- 1964 : Abdel latif Moubarak , Egyptian poet
- 1965 : Tomoko Igata , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1966 : Abu Musab az-Zarqawi , Jordanian Islamist extremist and al-Qaeda terrorist
- 1966 : Lyudmila Rogacheva , Russian athlete
- 1966 : Quin Snyder , American basketball coach
- 1967 : Gastón Acurio Jaramillo , Peruvian head chef
- 1968 : Ursula Poznanski , Austrian writer
- 1969 : Jens Büchner , German pop singer
- 1969 : Philipp van Endert , German jazz guitarist and composer
- 1969 : Stanislav Gross , Czech politician
- 1969 : Krisztián Ungváry , Hungarian historian
- 1970 : Xie Jun , Chinese chess player
- 1971 : Fredi Bobič , German football player
- 1971 : Alex Godoy , Andorran football player
- 1972 : Elşən Qəmbərov , Azerbaijani football player
- 1972 : Stefan Haider , Austrian theologian and cabaret artist
- 1973 : Richie Alagich , Australian soccer player
- 1973 : Adam Copeland , Canadian wrestler
- 1973 : Johan Eriksson , Swedish chess player
- 1973 : Ariel Panzer , Argentine handball player
- 1974 : Stipe Erceg , German-Croatian actor
- 1975 : Marco Antonio Arriagada Quinchel , Chilean track and road cyclist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Viacheslav Dinerchtein , Russian-Mexican violist
- 1977 : Takanori Aoki , Japanese badminton player
- 1977 : Pia-Luise Aufrecht , German show jumper
- 1977 : Jesper Jensen , Danish handball player
- 1978 : Matthew Morrison , American musical star and actor
- 1978 : Eigo Satō , Japanese freestyle motocross pilot
- 1979 : Kyriaki Liosi , Greek water polo player
- 1979 : Ulrike Schmetz , German soccer player
- 1981 : Ina-Lena Elwardt , German handball player
- 1981 : Jun Ji-hyun , South Korean actress
- 1981 : Ivanka Trump , US policy advisor
- 1982 : Alin Coțan , Romanian football player
- 1982 : Clémence Poésy , French actress
- 1983 : Tadeusz Tyc , Franco-Polish football player
- 1984 : Lokman Atakol , Turkish football goalkeeper
- 1984 : Mohamed Nagy , Egyptian soccer player
- 1985 : Ragnar Klavan , Estonian football player
- 1985 : Andreas Ulmer , Austrian football player
- 1986 : Margareta Kozuch , German volleyball player
- 1986 : Thomas Morgenstern , Austrian ski jumper
- 1989 : Seth Elijah Adkins , American film actor
- 1989 : Sascha Burchert , German soccer player
- 1990 : Melvin Boskamp , Dutch cyclist
- 1990 : Daniel Schlingmann , German handball goalkeeper
- 1991 : Danell Leyva , American gymnast
- 1992 : Jacob Templar , Australian American football player
- 1996 : Selina Hocke , German swimmer
- 1998 : Tom Lautenschlager , German racing car driver
- 2000 : Jeffery Xiong , American chess grandmaster
21st century
- 2001 : Jaheem Toombs , American actor
- 2002 : Lilly Liefers , German actress
Died
Before the 19th century
- 425 : Theonestus , Christian saint
- 982 : Werinhar , Abbot of Fulda
- 1100 : Baldwin , Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1174 : Frederick of La Roche , Bishop of Acre, Archbishop of Tire and Chancellor of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- 1282 : Ibn Challikān , Arab biographer and Islamic legal scholar
- 1295 : Meinhard II , Count of Tyrol, Count of Gorizia and Duke of Carinthia
- 1334 : Wocho , Bishop of Seckau
- 1459 : Poggio Bracciolini , Italian scholar
- 1466 : Johannes Fust , German printer, publisher and business partner of Gutenberg
- 1505 : Paul Scriptoris , German Franciscan and theologian
- 1522 : Jean Mouton , French composer and singer
- 1536 : Hamman von Holzhausen , patrician and councilor in Frankfurt am Main
- 1583 : Pirro Ligorio , Italian painter, antiquarian, architect and horticultural architect
- 1605 : George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland , English naval commander and courtier
- 1611 : Charles IX. , King of Sweden
- 1626 : Willebrord van Roijen Snell , Dutch astronomer and mathematician
- 1626 : Johann Textor , German historian
- 1632 : Henri II. De Montmorency , French Grand Admiral, Marshal and Viceroy of New France
- 1654 : Go-Kōmyō , 110th Japanese emperor
- 1667 : Johann Jakob Wolleb the Elder , Swiss organist and theologian
- 1685 : Michel Le Tellier , French statesman
- 1690 : Hieronymus van Beverningh , Dutch statesman and diplomat
- 1704 : Friederike Amalie of Denmark , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- 1711 : Wilhelmus à Brakel , Dutch preacher
- 1712 : Daniel Erich , German organist and composer
- 1712 : Johann Philipp von Lamberg , Prince-Bishop of Passau
- 1715 : Juliane Louise , Princess of East Frisia
- 1723 : Johann Werner von Veyder , German auxiliary bishop
- 1724 : Maria of Lorraine , Princess of Monaco
- 1735 : Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby , British nobleman
- 1742 : Magdalena Wilhelmine von Württemberg , Margravine of Baden-Durlach
- 1757 : Sir Edward Vernon , English admiral
- 1760 : Christian Ludwig Liscow , German satirist
- 1773 : Philippe de La Guêpière , French architect
19th century
- 1806 : Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz , German educator and educational politician
- 1816 : Friedrich I , King of Württemberg
- 1817 : Johann Anton Ludwig Seidensticker , German legal scholar
- 1818 : Eberhard Ernst Gotthard von Vegesack , Swedish general
- 1823 : Edmond Cartwright , British inventor
- 1848 : Johann Georg Ferdinand Jacobi , lawyer and mayor of Dresden
- 1854 : Georg Ludwig Dörell , German mountain master and inventor of the art of driving
- 1862 : Gerhard Friederich , German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and writer
- 1866 : Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Muravjow , Russian general
- 1867 : John Albion Andrew , American politician
- 1869 : Leopold Knebelsberger , Austrian composer
- 1882 : Olegario Víctor Andrade , Argentine writer, journalist and politician
- 1883 : Robert Volkmann , German composer
- 1884 : Pasquale Brignoli , Italian opera tenor
- 1885 : Gustav Adolf Merkel , German music teacher and composer
- 1885 : William Thomas Mulvany , Irish industrial pioneer in Germany
- 1892 : Olga Nikolajewna Romanowa , Russian nobleman and Queen of Württemberg
- 1893 : John Abbott , Canadian lawyer, politician and Prime Minister
- 1893 : Karl Bodmer , Swiss painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Ozaki Kōyō , Japanese writer
- 1905 : Jules Danbé , French conductor and violinist
- 1910 : Henry Dunant , Swiss businessman and humanist, co-founder of the Red Cross and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1912 : Jan Gall , Polish composer, choir director and music teacher
- 1914 : Richard Kabisch , German theologian, educator and writer
- 1914 : Ernst Stadler , German writer and poet of Expressionism
- 1915 : Charles Tupper , Prime Minister of Canada
- 1917 : Heinrich Gontermann , German fighter pilot
- 1922 : Pavel Argeyev , Franco-Russian fighter pilot
- 1923 : Andrew Bonar Law , British Prime Minister
- 1927 : Maximilian Harden , German publicist
- 1931 : Guido Holzknecht , Austrian doctor and radiologist
- 1936 : Jafar Pascha al-Askari , Ottoman officer
- 1936 : Ferdynand Ruszczyc , Polish painter
- 1936 : Franz von Segesser von Brunegg , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
- 1936 : Hildegard Voigt , German writer
- 1937 : Ivan Alexejewitsch Akulow , Soviet trade unionist, party and state functionary
- 1944 : Paul Ladmirault , French composer
- 1945 : Leopold Jessner , German theater director
- 1947 : Ernest Dainty , Canadian pianist, organist, composer and conductor
1951-2000
- 1951 : Thomas Berry , American politician
- 1953 : Emmerich Kálmán , Hungarian composer
- 1954 : Gustav Dahrendorf , German politician and journalist, co-founder of the Young Socialists
- 1958 : Walter Goetz , German historian and politician
- 1962 : Heinrich Weitz , German politician, Lord Mayor, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, President of the German Red Cross (DRK)
- 1963 : Madame d'Ora , Austrian photographer
- 1967 : Hans Theodor David , German-American musicologist
- 1968 : Ramón Novarro , Mexican actor
- 1969 : Anton Plankensteiner , Austrian politician, governor of Vorarlberg
- 1970 : Alexandr Hořejší , Czech poet and translator
- 1971 : Osvald Chlubna , Czech composer
- 1971 : Ernst Günter Troche , German art historian, art dealer and museum director
- 1972 : Silvio Sganzini , Swiss linguist and cultural historian
- 1974 : Hanns Otto Münsterer , German physician, writer and folklorist
- 1975 : Gustav Hertz , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1975 : Kurt Roth , German painter
- 1977 : Willy Guggenheim , Swiss painter
- 1978 : Wilhelm Sebastian , German automobile racing driver and racing mechanic
- 1982 : Adolf Baier , German trade union official
- 1986 : Abel Meeropol , American songwriter and writer
- 1987 : Erich Frost , German leader of Jehovah's Witnesses and composer
- 1988 : Ernst Fritz Fürbringer , German actor
- 1988 : Leopold Gressenbauer , Austrian politician
- 1989 : Pedro Vargas , Mexican singer
- 1991 : Erwin Lange , German politician
- 1993 : Bob Atcher , American country singer
- 1993 : Cardinal Paul Grégoire , Canadian clergyman, Archbishop of Montréal
- 1995 : Hyman Bress , Canadian violinist and composer
- 1995 : Frank Souffront , Puerto Rican singer
- 1997 : Samuel Fuller , American film director
- 1998 : Bulldog Turner , American football player and coach
- 1998 : Heinz Westphal , German politician
- 2000 : Steve Allen , American entertainer
21st century
- 2001 : Marga Legal , German actress
- 2001 : Matsudaira Yoritsune , Japanese composer
- 2002 : Pierre Aigrain , French physicist and State Secretary for Research
- 2002 : Juan Antonio Bardem , Spanish film director and screenwriter
- 2002 : Jam Master Jay , American DJ
- 2003 : Franco Bonisolli , Italian tenor
- 2003 : Abel Ehrlich , Israeli composer
- 2003 : Steve O'Rourke , British music manager, racing team owner and racing car driver
- 2004 : Ernst Cincera , Swiss politician
- 2004 : Fernando Chueca Goitia , Spanish historian and architect
- 2004 : Billy Jim Layton , American composer
- 2004 : John Warren , Australian soccer player
- 2005 : Gordon A. Craig , American historian and writer of Scottish descent
- 2006 : Iosif Bükössy , Romanian football player and coach
- 2006 : Clifford Geertz , American anthropologist
- 2007 : Robert Goulet , American singer and actor
- 2009 : Juvenal Amarijo , Brazilian soccer player
- 2009 : Claude Lévi-Strauss , French ethnologist and anthropologist
- 2009 : Norton Buffalo , American harmonica player ( Steve Miller Band )
- 2010 : George Hickenlooper , American screenwriter, film director and producer
- 2010 : Harry Mulisch , Dutch writer
- 2011 : Albrecht Feibel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 2012 : Emilis Šlekys , Lithuanian chess player
- 2012 : Lebbeus Woods , American artist and architect
- 2013 : Anca Petrescu , Romanian architect
- 2015 : Sinan Şamil Sam , Turkish boxer
- 2018 : Jin Yong , Chinese writer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Marcellus of Tangier , North African martyr (Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Protestant remembrance day is October 28th )
- Gottschalk von Orbais , old Saxon monk (Protestant)
- Jakob Sturm von Sturmeck , Mayor of Strasbourg (Protestant)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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