October 31
The October 31 is the 304th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 305th in leap years ), thus remain 61 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 475 : The army master Flavius Orestes has his underage son Romulus Augustulus proclaimed by the troops to be Western Roman emperor.
- 802 : Nikephorus I is elected Emperor of Byzantium and deposes the ruling Empress Irene .
- 1639 : The Battle of the Downs in the English Channel succeeds in Eighty Years' War of the fleet from the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands a victory over Spanish - Portuguese warships.
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- 1756 : During the night Giacomo Casanova managed to escape from the lead chambers of the Doge's Palace in Venice , where he was imprisoned for "abuse of the holy religion".
- 1793 : In Paris 21 Girondins , after a show trial before the revolutionary tribunal previously, a week through the guillotine executed .
- 1795 : Based on the Constitution of Year III, which came into force on October 26, the first Board of Directors is elected in Paris . It consists of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot , Étienne-François Le Tourneur , Paul de Barras , Jean François Reubell and Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux .
- 1807 : After the bombardment of Copenhagen , Denmark declares war on the side of Napoleon Great Britain in the Wasmer-Palais in Glückstadt .
- 1813 : After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig, Napoleon Bonaparte prevails with the remains of his army in the two-day battle near Hanau against a Bavarian - Austrian army that wants to relocate him back to France .
- 1848 : Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire : the Vienna October Revolution ends with the invasion of imperial troops .
- 1864 : Nevada becomes the 36th state in the USA .
- 1918 : Aster Revolution in Austria-Hungary :
The Austro- Hungarian dual monarchy ends when Hungary leaves the Real Union.
The Hungarian Prime Minister István Tisza is shot dead by marauding soldiers in Budapest .
- 1922 : After Benito Mussolini's appointment as Prime Minister of Italy by King Victor Emanuel III. pull the fascists in a triumphal march in Rome one.
- 1925 : The Iranian parliament ( Majles ) decides to oust Ahmad Shah Kajar , the last ruler of the Kajar dynasty .
- 1926 : In Bologna the fifteen-year-old Anteo Zamboni tries to shoot the fascist Prime Minister Benito Mussolini during a commemorative parade for the March on Rome . The assassin is attacked and lynched by nearby fascists . He dies the same day.
- 1931 : The Polish Navy puts the submarine ORP Wilk into service. After the German invasion of Poland , he will be the first submarine to escape to Great Britain.
- 1956 : Great Britain and France launch an air offensive against Egypt in the wake of the Suez Crisis .
- 1960 : In the controversial South Tyrol issue between Austria and Italy , UN resolution 1497 / XV calls on both states to negotiate on the basis of the Gruber-De-Gasperi Agreement .
- 1961 : In the course of the Soviet de-Stalinization in Moscow, the body of Josef Stalin is removed from the Lenin mausoleum and buried at the Kremlin wall .
- 1971 : In the elections to the Swiss National Council and Council of States , women are also entitled to vote and can be elected for the first time .
- 1984 : Two bodyguards murder India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi .
- 1990 : After the deposit of the instrument of ratification on October 1 that occurs United Nations Convention against Torture for Germany in force.
- 1991 : Free presidential and parliamentary elections take place in Zambia for the first time. Frederick Chiluba is elected President.
- 1997 : Letsie III. is crowned as King of Lesotho .
- 1999 : In the second democratic parliamentary elections in Georgia , the Georgian Citizens' Union of Eduard Shevardnadze wins an absolute majority.
- 2000 : The UN Security Council unanimously passes Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
- 2004 : In the presidential elections in Ukraine there is a neck and neck race between Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko , which necessitates a runoff on November 21.
- 2006 : Operation Autumn Clouds : Shortly after midnight, the Israel Defense Forces invade the Gaza Strip in a large-scale offensive . The fighting is mainly concentrated in the Beit Hanun area .
economy
- 1786 : The Swedish King Gustav III. approves the establishment of the Swedish West India Company with the privilege of trading with the island of Saint-Barthélemy and other Caribbean trading centers.
- 1855 : The K. k. priv. Austrian credit institute for trade and commerce is founded.
- 1858 : The Maria Theresa thaler , like other conventional thalers, loses its status as legal tender in the Austrian Empire . From November 1st, the Austrian currency will apply according to the decimal system and on a guilder basis.
- 1872 : The pharmaceutical company Engelhard Arzneimittel was founded by the pharmacist Karl Philipp Engelhard in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1905 : The four-masted barque Pamir of the shipping company F. Laeisz leaves for the first time on a saltpetre voyage to South America.
- 1911 : The May 6, at the suggestion of Odol -Fabrikanten Karl August Lingner opened International Hygiene Exhibition in the Municipal Exhibition Palace , the hitherto most visited exhibition in Dresden , closes its doors.
- 1923 : Wilhelm Kollhoff registers his radio as the first radio participant in Germany . Due to the inflationary period , he pays 350 billion marks for approval.
- 1924 : The representatives of savings banks from 29 countries decide to introduce the annual World Savings Day on the final day of the first international savings bank congress in Milan .
- 1967 : After 107 years of ongoing hard coal mining operation , the Shamrock colliery in Herne is closed.
- 2000 : Borussia Dortmund goes public as the first German Bundesliga club .
science and technology
- 1886 : The arched bridge Ponte Dom Luís I over the Douro river near Porto is inaugurated by the Portuguese King Ludwig I.
- 1956 : The first plane lands at the South Pole . The US Navy expedition group led by Rear Admiral George J. Dufek has the task of preparing the construction of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station .
- 1957 : The Munich research reactor (called "Atom-Ei") is put into operation in Garching near Munich as the first German research reactor .
- 2000 : The Soyuz TM-31 mission starts its first crew to the International Space Station (ISS) .
- 2005 : NASA announces the discovery of two moons, Nix and Hydra , of the dwarf planet Pluto in our solar system , which had been made some time earlier with the Hubble space telescope .
Culture
- 1821 : The Luther monument in Wittenberg , a work by Johann Gottfried Schadow and Karl Friedrich Schinkel , is unveiled.
- 1857 : At the Carltheater in Vienna the farce with singing Tannhäuser is premiered by Johann Nestroy (text) and Carl Binder (music). It is a parody of the opera of the same name by Richard Wagner .
- 1866 : The operetta Pariser Leben by Jacques Offenbach is premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris , and it becomes one of his most successful works. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy .
- 1879 : At the Theater an der Wien in Vienna which takes place premiere of the operetta Countess Dubarry of Karl Millöcker to the F. Zell and Richard Genée the libretto have written. The work is subsequently revised several times.
- 1884 : The first performance of the operetta Der Feldprediger by Karl Millöcker takes place at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna .
- 1891 : L'amico Fritz , Pietro Mascagni's second opera , is premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
- 1892 : The short stories The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle appear in Great Britain .
- 1903 : Rose Bernd , a play in five acts by Gerhart Hauptmann , is premiered in Berlin.
- 1906 : The world premiere of the opera Ariane by Jules Massenet takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris .
- 1930 : The Rudolf-Oetker-Halle is inaugurated in Bielefeld , for which the Viennese Great Musikvereinssaal was the godfather.
- 1941 : After 14 years of construction, the Mount Rushmore National Memorial is declared completed.
- 1942 : The opera Die Zauberinsel by Heinrich Sutermeister based on the drama Der Sturm by William Shakespeare premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden .
- 1949 : The opera Regina by Marc Blitzstein premieres in New York City.
- 1959 : Eugène Ionesco's grotesque Die Nashörner , a play about opportunism against fanatical ideologies, is premiered in the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus .
- 1985 : A stage cast prevents the German premiere of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1974 play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod in Frankfurt am Main.
society
- 1833 : The 23-year-old Fritz Reuter from Mecklenburg is arrested on his way through Berlin because he belongs to the radical Jena fraternity Germania . The later Low German writer worked on his subsequent experiences in the novel Ut mine Festungstid .
- 2011 : The United Nations proclaimed 7 billion people on earth.
religion
- 1517 : Martin Luther's 95 theses are intended to serve as the basis for disputation on the indulgence trade ; they initiate the Reformation .
- 1731 : Archbishop Firmian issues the Salzburg emigration edict , which forms the basis for the beginning of the evangelical expulsion from the Archdiocese of Salzburg .
- 1971 : Schenuda III. of Alexandria is elected head of the Coptic Church.
- 1992 : Pope John Paul II emphasizes on the occasion of the handover of the final report of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Galileo Galilei that it is the duty of theologians to “regularly inform themselves about the scientific results in order to check whether they are in their Consider reflection or have to formulate their teaching differently ”. On November 2nd, Galileo was formally rehabilitated.
- 1999 : Representatives of the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification in Augsburg , thereby annulling the mutual doctrinal condemnations on this fundamental theological issue.
Disasters
- 1878 : A major fire breaks out in Stockholm at the Eldkvarn grist mill in the Kungsholmen district . The destruction by the fire creates space for the construction of the Stockholm City Hall, which began in 1911, at this location.
- 1961 : Hurricane Hattie destroys the capital of Belize .
- 1996 : A Fokker 100 operated by the Brazilian airline TAM Linhas Aéreas activates thrust reverser in the right engine shortly after taking off from São Paulo-Congonhas Airport . The machine crashes into a residential building, all 95 passengers and 4 people on the ground are killed.
- 1999 : A Boeing 767 operated by Egypt Air crashes about 100 km after taking off from New York City due to a pilot's error. All 217 people on board are killed.
- 2014 : The private airliner VSS Enterprise of the company Virgin Galactic crash during a test flight. One of the two pilots had a fatal accident.
- 2015 : A Russian charter aircraft of the airline Kolavia of the type Airbus A321 crashes on the Kogalymavia flight 9268 from Sharm El-Sheikh to Saint Petersburg over the Sinai Peninsula . All occupants - 217 passengers and 7 crew members - die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1970 : The German Football Association ( DFB ) lifts its 1955 ban on women's football .
- 1985 : The Betzenberg Stadium in Kaiserslautern is renamed the Fritz Walter Stadium on the occasion of Fritz Walter's 65th birthday .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1291 : Philippe de Vitry , French composer, music theorist, poet and Bishop of Meaux
- 1345 : Ferdinand I , King of Portugal
- 1391 : Eduard , Portuguese king
- 1424 : Władysław III. , King of Poland and King of Hungary and Croatia
- 1445 : Hedwig von Sachsen , 26th abbess of the Imperial Monastery of Quedlinburg
- 1458 : Wolfgang von Polheim , Austrian nobleman, captain and regent in the Lower Austrian lands
- 1494 : Wolfgang , Count Palatine of Neumarkt and governor of the Upper Palatinate
- 1499 : Günther XL. , Count of Schwarzburg
- 1506 : Niklaus Zurkinden , Swiss politician
- 1542 : Henriette de Clèves , Duchess of Nevers and Rethel
- 1548 : Johannes Zölner , German rhetorician
- 1598 : Franz Albert von Sachsen-Lauenburg , general in the Thirty Years War
- 1618 : Mariana de Jesús de Paredes y Flores , religious, mystic and saint
- 1620 : John Evelyn , English author, architect and horticulturist
- 1629 : Carlo III. Gonzaga , Duke of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel
- 1632 : Jan Vermeer , Dutch painter (date of baptism)
- 1636 : Ferdinand Maria , Elector of Bavaria
- 1638 : Meindest Hobbema , Dutch landscape painter
- 1646 : Lorenz Werder , Swiss mayor
- 1686 : Senesino , Italian castrato and opera singer, Handel interpreter († 1758 )
- 1696 : Maria Celeste Crostarosa , founder of the order, mystic and blessed
Ferdinand I of Portugal (* 1345)
Clement XIV
(* 1705)
Laura Bassi
(* 1711)
18th century
- 1701 : William Ellery , British trader, lawyer, and politician, Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
- 1705 : Clemens XIV. , Papal Pope
- 1710 : Johann Ulrich Tresenreuter , German pedagogue and philologist, philosopher and theologian
- 1711 : Laura Bassi , Italian philosopher, Europe's first professor of physics
- 1712 : Moritz von Anhalt-Dessau , Prussian military leader
- 1729 : Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta , Spanish bishop, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1736 : Nikolai Ivanovich Saltykov , Russian statesman and field marshal
- 1737 : James Lovell , American politician, tax collector, and naval officer
- 1740 : Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg the Younger , British-French painter, etcher and aquatint engraver
- 1750 : Alcipe , Portuguese noblewoman, poet and translator
- 1761 : Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck , Dutch diplomat and statesman
- 1762 : Traugott August Seyffarth , German theologian
- 1763 : Wilhelm Arnold Günther , German auxiliary bishop
- 1765 : Anne Bannerman , British romantic poet
- 1768 : Simon Moritz von Bethmann , German banker
- 1772 : Carl Borromäus Egger , German Roman Catholic clergyman and politician
- 1775 : Antonín Machek , Czech painter
- 1781 : Georg Friedrich von Kall , Prussian officer
- 1795 : John Keats , British poet
- 1796 : Ottilie von Goethe , German nobleman, publisher and salonnière
- 1796 : Gustav Wilhelm Struckmann , German lawyer and author
- 1799 : Michael Anthony Anfossi , Indian Titular Bishop and Apostolic Vicar
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff , Prussian diplomat
- 1802 : Benoît Fourneyron , French engineer
- 1809 : John Stenhouse , British chemist
- 1815 : Karl Weierstrass , German mathematician
- 1821 : Karel Havlíček Borovský , Czech poet and literary critic, translator, journalist and politician
- 1823 : Karl Roth von Schreckenstein , German historian, writer and archivist
- 1824 : Michael Loris-Melikow , Russian general and interior minister
- 1826 : Joseph Roswell Hawley , American politician, governor of Connecticut
- 1828 : Richard Morris Hunt , American architect
- 1830 : Carl Eduard Schubert , German organ builder
- 1835 : Adelbert Ames , American general
- 1835 : Adolf von Baeyer , German chemist
- 1835 : Michele Saladino , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1836 : Jørgen Malling , Danish composer
- 1838 : Heinrich Ernst Göring , German lawyer and diplomat
- 1838 : Ludwig I , King of Portugal
- 1840 : Margarethe von Alvensleben , German abbess
- 1847 : Galileo Ferraris , Italian engineer and physicist
1851-1875
- 1851 : Louise of Sweden-Norway , Swedish princess and queen of Denmark
- 1852 : Robert von Pöhlmann , German ancient historian
- 1852 : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman , American writer
- 1854 : Claude Augé , French publisher, Romanist and lexicographer
- 1854 : Adolf Erman , German Egyptologist
- 1854 : Hermann Hendrich , German painter
- 1854 : Geraldine Moodie , Canadian photographer
- 1854 : Otto Sverdrup , Norwegian polar explorer
- 1856 : Carlos Antonio Mendoza , Panamanian President
- 1857 : Arthur Green , Australian bishop
- 1857 : Axel Munthe , Swedish medic
- 1858 : Franz Ahrens , German architect
- 1860 : Juliette Gordon Low , founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA
- 1861 : Fridolin Dietsche , German sculptor
- 1861 : Christoph Drollinger , German evangelical clergyman and founder of the Swiss community for early Christianity
- 1866 : Eva von Tiele-Winckler , German deaconess
- 1867 : Ludwig Radermacher , German classical philologist
Chiang Kai-shek (* 1887)
Ethel Waters (* 1896)
- 1871 : Otto Aichel , German embryologist, anatomist, anthropologist and university professor
- 1871 : Gábor Finály , Hungarian classical philologist and archaeologist
- 1874 : Heinrich Arzt , German entrepreneur
1876-1900
- 1876 : Natalie Clifford Barney , American author and salonnière
- 1876 : Georges Barrère , French flautist
- 1876 : Heinrich Leuchtgens , German teacher and politician, MdL, MdB
- 1879 : Sara Allgood , American actress
- 1883 : Anthony Wilding , New Zealand tennis player
- 1885 : Marie Laurencin , French artist
- 1885 : Karl Radek , Russian politician and journalist
- 1886 : William John Adie , Australian neurologist
- 1886 : Marian Chace , American dance therapist
- 1887 : Chiang Kai-shek , Chinese military and politician
- 1887 : Hector Pellerin , Canadian singer, actor and entertainer
- 1889 : Mona Bates , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1892 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Alekhine , French-Russian world chess champion
- 1892 : Eugène Van den Bossche , Belgian racing driver
- 1896 : Ralph Erwin , Austrian pop and film music composer
- 1896 : Ethel Waters , American actress and singer
- 1897 : Pete Henry , American football player and coach
- 1898 : Max Reimann , German communist
- 1899 : Busso Thoma , German merchant, confidant of the assassination plans of July 20
- 1900 : Cal Hubbard , American football player and coach, and baseball official
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Claude Perry , American football player
- 1901 : Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis , Dutch botanist
- 1902 : Carlos Drummond de Andrade , Brazilian writer
- 1902 : Liselotte Dieckmann , German Germanist and comparativeist
- 1902 : Sophie Ehrhardt , Russian-German anthropologist
- 1903 : Soo Yong , Chinese-American film actress
- 1903 : Joan Robinson , British economist
- 1905 : Harry Harlow , American behavioral scientist
- 1905 : Elizabeth Jenkins , British writer
- 1905 : Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg , German economist
- 1906 : Emil Bettgenhäuser , German politician
- 1906 : Lilo Linke , German writer and reporter
- 1909 : Arnold Sundgaard , American writer and librettist
- 1910 : Luise Ullrich , Austrian actress
- 1911 : Alexander Ilyich Achijeser , Russian-Ukrainian theoretical physicist
- 1912 : Jean Améry , Austrian writer
- 1912 : Dale Evans , American singer and actress
- 1912 : Hermann Hansen , German field handball player
- 1912 : Ollie Johnston , American animator
- 1914 : Gerda Rodel , Swiss journalist and socialist
- 1916 : Olly Holzmann , Austrian film actress
- 1916 : Earl Songer , American country musician
- 1917 : Heinz Musculus , German caricaturist and illustrator
- 1918 : Griffin B. Bell , American politician
- 1918 : Ian Stevenson , American reincarnation researcher
- 1920 : Eduard Adorno , German politician
- 1920 : Joseph Gelineau , French Jesuit and composer
- 1920 : Gunnar Gren , Swedish football player
- 1920 : Helmut Jedele , German film producer
- 1920 : Helmut Newton , German photographer
- 1920 : Fritz Walter , German soccer player
- 1922 : Barbara Bel Geddes , American actress
- 1922 : Illinois Jacquet , American jazz musician
- 1922 : Norodom Sihanouk , Cambodian king
- 1924 : Jehuda Amital , Israeli rabbi and politician
- 1924 : Enrico Baj , Italian painter, sculptor and art theorist
- 1924 : Greta Wehner , German social democrat
- 1925 : Heinrich Hannover , German lawyer and writer
- 1925 : John Anthony Pople , British mathematician, Nobel Prize winner
1926-1950
- 1926 : Rudolf Agsten , German politician
- 1926 : Hans Auenmüller , German conductor and composer
- 1927 : Ernst Augustin , German writer
- 1927 : Lee Grant , American actress
- 1928 : Jean-François Deniau , French politician and writer
- 1928 : August Everding , German stage director
- 1929 : Bud Spencer , Italian film actor
- 1930 : Kurt-Werner Seidel , German firefighter, former state fire director. D.
- 1930 : Michael Collins , American astronaut
- 1930 : Booker Ervin , American jazz saxophonist
- 1931 : David Lumsdaine , Australian composer
- 1932 : Katherine Paterson , American writer
- 1932 : Thomas Rolston , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1933 : Dieter Pröttel , German television show and film director
- 1933 : Nariman Sadiq , Queen of Egypt
- 1934 : Ray Smith , American rockabilly singer
- 1935 : Dieter Dorn , German director
- 1935 : David Harvey , British-American geographer and social theorist
- 1936 : Hildegund Holzheid , German legal scholar
- 1936 : Michael Landon , American film actor
- 1936 : Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov , Russian economic expert, Lord Mayor of Moscow
- 1936 : Rüdiger Rogge , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1936 : Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez , Dominican Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1937 : Tom Paxton , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1938 : Henning Scherf , German politician
- 1939 : Herlinde Koelbl , German photographer and photo journalist
- 1939 : Karl Peters , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Social Court
- 1941 : Peter Aczel , British mathematical logician and computer scientist
- 1941 : Derek Bell , British racing car driver
- 1942 : David Ogden Stiers , American actor and musician
- 1942 : Alí Primera , Venezuelan composer and singer
- 1942 : Daniel François Roth , French composer, organist and teacher
- 1944 : Paul Drechsel , German cultural scientist
- 1944 : Kinky Friedman , American musician
- 1944 : Otto Wiesheu , German politician
- 1945 : Gustavo Álvarez Gardeazábal , Colombian writer, journalist and politician
- 1945 : Russ Ballard , British musician and record producer, singer and songwriter
- 1945 : Brian Doyle-Murray , American actor
- 1946 : Stephen Rea , Irish actor
- 1947 : Alberto Bigon , Italian football player and coach
- 1947 : Claus Harmsen , German author and lawyer
- 1947 : Frank Shorter , American athlete
- 1948 : Asfa-Wossen Asserate , Ethiopian business consultant and author
- 1948 : Angelika Kallwass , German psychoanalyst and television presenter
- 1950 : John Candy , Canadian comedian and actor
- 1950 : Harald Ganzinger , German computer scientist
- 1950 : Moon Martin , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1950 : Roland Neuwirth , Austrian author, singer and composer
- 1950 : Zaha Hadid , Iraqi architect
1951-1975
- 1951 : Volker-Michael Anton , German grandmaster in correspondence chess
- 1952 : Andrea Breth , German director
- 1952 : Bernard Edwards , American musician and record producer
- 1952 : Urs Schwaller , Swiss politician
- 1953 : Michael John Anderson , American actor
- 1953 : Ulrich Giezendanner , Swiss politician
- 1954 : Mario Amizic , Croatian table tennis trainer
- 1955 : Naji Hakim , Lebanese-French organist and composer
- 1956 : Annie Finch , American poet, translator, and editor
- 1956 : Reinhold Gall , German politician and state minister
- 1958 : Yves Loubet , French rally driver
- 1959 : Michael DeLorenzo , American actor
- 1959 : Geoffrey Edwards , American actor and director
- 1960 : Wilfried Aepinus , German soccer player
- 1960 : Cyrus Reza Pahlavi , Iranian prince
- 1961 : Alonzo Babers , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1961 : Peter Jackson , New Zealand film director
- 1961 : Larry Mullen , Irish musician ( U2 )
- 1963 : Mikkey Dee , Swedish drummer
- 1963 : Dunga , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 1963 : Roland Düringer , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
- 1963 : Mogens Jensen , Danish politician
- 1963 : John Martin Maher , British musician
- 1963 : Dermot Mulroney , American actor
- 1963 : Rob Schneider , American actor, screenwriter and director
- 1963 : Jürgen Werner , German screenwriter
- 1964 : Claudia Androsch , Austrian actress
- 1964 : Marco van Basten , Dutch football player
- 1966 : Ernst Aigner , Austrian football player
- 1966 : Jörg Asmussen , German economist and politician
- 1966 : Georg Friedrich , Austrian actor
- 1966 : Nick Stone , British writer
- 1966 : Mike O'Malley , American actor, television producer, and writer
- 1967 : Vanilla Ice , American rapper and musician
- 1967 : Jörg Lipinski , German soccer player
- 1970 : Ray Austin , American heavyweight boxer
- 1970 : Joel Frahm , American jazz tenor saxophonist
- 1970 : Malin Berggren , Swedish singer
- 1971 : Patrick Wirbeleit , German illustrator, comic author and cartoonist
- 1972 : Harald Berger , Austrian mountaineer
- 1972 : Eugene Hütz , Ukrainian musician and actor
- 1973 : Beverly Lynne , American actress
- 1974 : David Dencik , Swedish actor
- 1974 : Ruben Fleischer , American writer, producer and director
- 1974 : Muzzy İzzet , Turkish football player
- 1974 : Ingrida Radzevičiūtė , German handball player
- 1975 : Olabisi Afolabi , Nigerian sprinter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Sascha Bertow , German handball player
- 1976 : Piper Perabo , American actress
- 1977 : Sylviane Félix , French athlete
- 1977 : Mike Hedlund , American racing car driver
- 1977 : Sylvio Ney , German handball player
- 1977 : Ramona Pop , German politician
- 1977 : Diana Staehly , German actress
- 1978 : Inka Grings , German soccer player
- 1978 : Dominika Karger , German handball player
- 1978 : Martin Verkerk , Dutch tennis player
- 1979 : Simão , Portuguese soccer player
- 1979 : Nicholas Angell , American ice hockey player
- 1979 : Lilian Klebow , German-Austrian actress and singer
- 1980 : Samaire Armstrong , American actress
- 1980 : Massimo Gobbi , Italian soccer player
- 1981 : Frank Iero , American guitarist
- 1981 : Valezka , German R&B singer
- 1983 : Songphon Anugritayawon , Thai badminton player
- 1983 : Alexander Grishchuk , Russian chess player
- 1983 : Mike Rockenfeller , German racing driver
- 1984 : Keegan de Lancie , American film and stage actor and comedian
- 1984 : Hanna Hilton , American porn actress and model
- 1984 : Evan Kaufmann , German-American ice hockey player
- 1984 : Marco Kistler , Swiss politician
- 1984 : David Netter , American actor
- 1984 : Milena Nikolova , Bulgarian writer
- 1984 : Mads Timm , Danish soccer player
- 1984 : Mathias Wehr , German conductor and clarinetist
- 1985 : Branimir Koloper , Croatian handball player
- 1985 : Aditya Mehta , Indian snooker player
- 1985 : Stephan Stückler , Austrian soccer player
- 1985 : Jens Wemmer , German soccer player
- 1986 : Marios Athanasiades , Cypriot mountain biker and road cyclist
- 1986 : Brent Corrigan , American actor and model
- 1986 : Daniel Mack , German politician
- 1987 : Xabier Etxeita , Spanish soccer player
- 1987 : Troy Hearfield , Australian soccer player
- 1987 : Jean Karl Vernay , French racing driver
- 1988 : Sébastien Buemi , Swiss racing driver
- 1988 : Cole Aldrich , American basketball player
- 1989 : Ryan Phinny , American racing driver
- 1990 : Liv Lisa Fries , German actress
- 1990 : Emiliano Sala , Argentine soccer player
- 1991 : Jordan-Claire Green , American actress
- 1991 : Jelena Nikolić , Serbian football player
- 1992 : Shenia Minevskaja , German handball player
- 1993 : Rikke Hald Andersen , Norwegian biathlete
- 1994 : Spencer Akhtymichuk , Canadian actor
- 1995 : Maksim Anohhin , Estonian ice hockey player
- 1997 : Siobhan Bernadette Haughey , Chinese swimmer
- 1997 : Marcus Rashford , English football player
- 1997 : Holly Taylor , Canadian actress
- 2000 : Willow Smith , American actress
21st century
- 2002 : Ansu Fati , Spanish-Guinea-Bissau football player
- 2005 : Leonor of Spain , Spanish Infanta
Died
Before the 16th century
- 655 : Foillan , Irish wandering monk and missionary bishop
- 819 : Chadaloh , Count of Friuli and in the Baar
- 900 : Roger , Earl of Maine
- 934 : Abu Zaid al-Balchi , Islamic polymath
- 982 : Otto I , Duke of Swabia and Bavaria
- 994 : Wolfgang von Regensburg , German missionary, church reformer and bishop
- 1007 : Heriger von Lobbes , Flemish clergyman and composer, abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Hainaut
- 1120 : Otto II , Count von Scheyern
- 1147 : Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester , illegitimate son of Henry I of England
- 1221 : Ulrich II , Prince-Bishop of Passau
- 1228 : Eustace de Fauconberg , English prelate, Treasurer of the Exchequer and Bishop of London
- 1253 : Wilhelm , Bishop of Cammin
- 1320 : Ricoldo da Monte di Croce , Florentine missionary to the Orient
- 1336 : Elisabeth of Hungary , Dominican and Princess of Hungary
- 1339 : Francesco Dandolo , 52nd Doge of Venice
- 1448 : John VIII , Byzantine Emperor
- 1449 : Elisabeth of Brandenburg , Duchess of Liegnitz and Teschen
- 1495 : Wenzeslaus Brack , early German humanist and dictionary author
16th to 18th century
- 1512 : Anna , Electress of Brandenburg
- 1517 : Fra Bartolommeo , Italian painter
- 1534 : Alfonso I d'Este , Duke of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio
- 1537 : Thomas Howard , English nobleman
- 1565 : Johann Friedrich III. , Prince from the Ernestine line of the Wettins, Duke of Saxony
- 1567 : Marie von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1589 : Peter Stump , victim of the witch hunt in Bedburg
- 1599 : Andreas Báthory , Bishop of Warmia and Prince of Transylvania
- 1605 : Johann III. , Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- 1615 : Marcantonio Memmo , 91st Doge of Venice
- 1622 : Ulrich von Pommern , German bishop of Cammin
- 1634 : Erasmus Widmann , German organist and composer
- 1644 : Amador de La Porte , Johanniter, Grand Prior of France
- 1661 : Köprülü Mehmed Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1664 : Wilhelm Friedrich , Count of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- 1673 : Kurt Christoph Graf von Königsmarck , Dutch lieutenant general
- 1713 : Ferdinando de 'Medici , Hereditary Prince of Tuscany
- 1718 : Johanna Ursula von Geusau , German hymn poet
- 1719 : Domenico Piazoll , Austrian plasterer
- 1723 : Cosimo III. de 'Medici , Grand Duke of Tuscany
- 1732 : Viktor Amadeus II , Duke of Savoy, King of Sicily and Sardinia
- 1733 : Eberhard Ludwig , Duke of Württemberg
- 1734 : William North, 6th Baron North , British nobleman, general and politician, leading Jacobite conspirator
- 1742 : Ki no Kaion , Japanese writer
- 1744 : Leonardo Leo , Italian composer
- 1765 : Wilhelm August, Duke of Cumberland , British military leader
- 1768 : Francesco Maria Veracini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1786 : Amelia Sophie Eleonore , British princess
- 1793 : Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud , politician during the French Revolution
19th century
- 1806 : Sophie Mereau , German writer
- 1811 : Christian Gotthilf Salzmann , German pastor and educator
- 1819 : Engelbert Arndts , Westphalian lawyer, imperial postmaster and civil servant
- 1822 : Peter Puget , British navigator
- 1852 : Edward Bransfield , Irish-Scottish navigator and explorer
- 1855 : Johann Jakob Stadler , Swiss landscape painter
- 1858 : Carl Thomas Mozart , Austrian civil servant and son of Wolfgang Amadeus and Constanze Mozart
- 1860 : Joseph Kornhäusel , Austrian architect
- 1860 : Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , British politician and freedom fighter
- 1863 : Joseph Calasanz von Arneth , Austrian archaeologist and numismatist
- 1867 : William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse , Irish astronomer
- 1870 : Mihály Mosonyi , Hungarian composer
- 1876 : Franz Dorotheus Gerlach , German classical philologist and ancient historian
- 1879 : Jacob Abbott , American writer
- 1879 : Joseph Hooker , American general
- 1884 : Marie Bashkirtseff , Russian painter
- 1885 : Topete y Carballo , Spanish admiral and politician
- 1886 : Robert Oswald von Ulrici , German forester and civil servant
- 1898 : Joseph R. West , American politician, Senator for Louisiana, General of the Union in the Civil War
- 1900 : Wilhelm Küchler , German politician, Lord Mayor of Worms and Finance Minister of Hesse
- 1900 : Anna von Lieben , known as Sigmund Freud's Austrian patient Cäcilie M.
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Joseph Lingens , German politician, MdR
- 1916 : Charles Taze Russell , American Bible Student, founder of the Watchtower Society and Jehovah's Witnesses
- 1916 : Tina Blau , Austrian painter
- 1918 : Egon Schiele , Austrian painter
- 1918 : István Tisza , Austro-Hungarian politician and Prime Minister of Hungary
- 1924 : Robert Gersuny , Austrian surgeon
- 1925 : Max Linder , American-French comedian and director
- 1926 : Harry Houdini , Hungarian-American escapologist and magician
- 1926 : Charles Vance Millar , Canadian lawyer and entrepreneur
- 1927 : Paul Felix Aschrott , German lawyer, criminal law and social reformer
- 1928 : Albert Bartholomé , French painter and sculptor
- 1929 : António José de Almeida , Portuguese politician, multiple minister, head of government, president
- 1929 : José Relvas , Portuguese politician, Prime Minister
- 1929 : Norman Pritchard , Indian athlete and actor
- 1938 : Robert Woolsey , American comedian
- 1939 : Albrecht von Württemberg , German military leader
- 1941 : Herwarth Walden , German writer, publisher, gallery owner, musician and composer, promoter of the German avant-garde of the early 20th century
- 1943 : Albert Armitage , British polar explorer
- 1943 : Max Reinhardt , Austrian-American theater director
- 1948 : Milly Steger , German sculptor
- 1949 : Edouard Dujardin , French writer
- 1949 : Edward Stettinius Jr. , American diplomat and politician, Secretary of State
1951-1975
- 1952 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Andronow , Soviet physicist
- 1952 : Adolf Chybiński , Polish musicologist and teacher
- 1953 : Ewald Banse , German geographer and writer
- 1954 : Pieter Boelmans ter Spill , Dutch football player
- 1955 : Gyula Feldmann , Hungarian football player and coach
- 1958 : Maurice Rost , French racing car driver and aviator
- 1962 : Thomas Holenstein , Swiss politician
- 1966 : Heribert Meisel , Austrian sports journalist
- 1967 : George Salter , German-American commercial graphic artist and set designer
- 1969 : Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río , Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, President
- 1970 : Heinrich Blücher , German author and philosopher
- 1972 : Lee Bartlett , American javelin thrower
- 1973 : Merlyn Oliver Evans , British painter and printmaker, exponent of abstract painting
- 1975 : Wilhelm Werner , German carpenter and art collector
1976-2000
- 1976 : Bruno Uher , Austrian composer
- 1980 : Edelmiro Julián Farrell , Argentine officer, President
- 1981 : Georges Guignard , French racing driver
- 1981 : Bernhard Günther , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1983 : George Halas , American baseball and American football player, coach, and team owner
- 1984 : Scott Clifton , American actor
- 1984 : John Collier , American hurdler
- 1984 : Eduardo De Filippo , Italian writer
- 1984 : Indira Gandhi , Indian politician
- 1984 : Hermann Haake , German politician, MdL
- 1984 : Friedrich Meinzolt , German lawyer
- 1985 : Henri Schaller , Swiss clergyman, journalist and newspaper publisher
- 1986 : Robert S. Mulliken , American physicist and chemist
- 1986 : Bruno Snell , German classical philologist
- 1987 : Natalie Beer , Austrian writer
- 1989 : Conrad Beck , Swiss composer
- 1991 : Eugene Avon Anderson , American wrestler
- 1991 : Ewald Bucher , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, multiple Federal Minister
- 1993 : Federico Fellini , Italian filmmaker and director
- 1993 : River Phoenix , American actor
- 1995 : Joel Mason , American football player and basketball coach
- 1996 : Marcel Carné , French director
- 1996 : Grachan Moncur II , American jazz bassist
- 1997 : Bram Appel , Dutch football player and coach
- 1997 : Hans Bauer , German soccer player
- 1999 : Howard Ferguson , Irish composer
- 1999 : Greg Moore , Canadian racing driver
- 2000 : Thomas Gifford , American writer
21st century
- 2001 : Régine Cavagnoud , French ski racer
- 2002 : Yuri Aronowitsch , Russian-Israeli conductor
- 2002 : Raf Vallone , Italian actor
- 2004 : Eugen Glombig , German politician
- 2005 : Hal Anger , American electrical engineer and biophysicist
- 2005 : William O. Baker , American chemist
- 2005 : Helmut Brennicke , German actor, director, radio play speaker, acting teacher and author
- 2005 : Paul Reynard , French-American painter
- 2006 : Pieter Willem Botha , South African politician, Prime Minister, President
- 2007 : Jacques Heuclin , French politician and racing car driver
- 2008 : Studs Terkel , American author and radio host
- 2009 : Qian Xuesen , Chinese scientist
- 2010 : Michel d'Aillières , French politician
- 2010 : Manfred Bock , German athlete
- 2010 : Heinrich Riebesehl , German photographer
- 2010 : Ted Sorensen , American author and lawyer
- 2011 : Flórián Albert , Hungarian football player
- 2011 : Liz Anderson , American country singer and songwriter
- 2012 : Gae Aulenti , Italian architect, interior designer, designer and architecture theorist
- 2013 : Gérard de Villiers , French writer
- 2015 : Ants Antson , Estonian speed skater, Olympic champion
- 2015 : Hans Teuscher , German actor
- 2018 : Ron Grable , American racing car driver
- 2019 : Thomas Schmidt , German radio presenter
- 2020 : Sean Connery , British actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Wolfgang von Regensburg , German abbot, missionary and bishop (Catholic)
- Reformation Day , only in Germany, Slovenia and Chile (Protestant)
- Wolfgang Day
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Mexico : Day of the Dead (first day)
- More information about the day
- World Savings Day (except in Germany; in Austria only if it is a working day) (since 1925)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The seven billionth person symbolically welcomed. Die Presse , October 31, 2011, accessed on October 31, 2011 : "The UN symbolically declared several newborns worldwide as the seven billionth person, including Danica May Camacho in the Philippines."
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