4th of August
The August 4 is the 216th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 217th in leap years ), thus remain 149 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 1060: After the death of Henry I , his 8-year-old son Philip I becomes King of France under the tutelage of his mother Anna of Kiev and his uncle Baldwin V of Flanders .
- 1265: At the Battle of Evesham , the royal troops under Crown Prince Eduard Plantagenet prevail against an army of rebellious English barons headed by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester . The losers have previously claimed more say in politics.
- 1306: Bohemia's King Wenceslaus III. is murdered by an unknown perpetrator on a campaign against Poland in Olomouc . With his death, which ends dynasty of Premyslid .
- 1320: A Scottish parliament convenes in Scone to condemn the conspirators of the Soules conspiracy that was uncovered in the summer .
- 1329: The Treaty of Pavia is Bayern shared. Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian keeps Upper Bavaria and areas north of Regensburg, the heirs of his brother Rudolf get the Rhine Palatinate and the Upper Palatinate .
- 1338: Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian decreed that the election of emperor was to be derived solely from the election of the Roman-German king. It does not require the consent of the Pope .
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1347: Rodin's The Citizens of Calais (sculpture, 1895)
- 1347: During the first phase of the Hundred Years' War , which was favorable for England , six citizens of Calais humiliatingly surrendered to King Edward III on behalf of the city after the siege . of England . Queen Philippa of Hainaut frees the six hostages.
- 1427: The fourth crusade against the Hussites fails in the Battle of Mies . For the first time, crusaders form a wagon castle analogous to the opposing tactics , but inexperience with this contributes to the defeat of the Catholic troops.
- 1578: In the battle of Alcácer-Quibir, the Portuguese troops under King Sebastian I suffer a crushing defeat against Moroccan troops under the command of Sultan Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik . The death of the childless king during the fighting heralds the downfall of the House of Avis .
- 1588: In the first major battle between the Spanish Armada and the English fleet off the Isle of Wight , Francis Drake , who was given a free hand by the nominal commander in chief of the English, Charles Howard of Effingham, Earl of Nottingham , remains victorious . The English attack forces the Spaniards to get to safety in the port of Calais .
- 1627: The siege of La Rochelle by Louis XIII. begins.
- 1646: The siege of the city of Korneuburg , held by Swedish troops, ends with its capture by the imperial army.
- 1666: The St. James's Day Fight , a two-day naval battle during the Second Anglo-Dutch Sea War , begins.
- 1704: During the War of the Spanish Succession , the British fleet under the leadership of Georg von Hessen-Darmstadt surprises the Spanish occupation of Gibraltar during the afternoon siesta and takes over the rock in a flick of the wrist.
- 1789: During the French Revolution , the National Assembly decides to abolish all privileges of the nobility, clergy, cities and provinces. The feudal and serfdom be abolished.
- 1791: The Peace of Swishtow ends the last of the Austrian Turkish Wars .
- 1870: In the first battle of the Franco-Prussian War near Weißenburg in Alsace, the Prussian troops defeat the French army on the Rhine .
- 1914: After a fiery speech by Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Reichstag of the German Empire closes the so-called " Burgfrieden " and votes in favor of war bonds .
- 1914: During the First World War, German troops invade neutral Belgium in violation of international law , causing Great Britain to issue an ultimatum with threats of war against Germany.
- 1919: The Romanian army conquers Budapest , which the council government under Béla Kun left on August 1st. Gyula Peidl is now in charge of official business as Prime Minister.
- 1931: Kurt Tucholsky's famous statement " Soldiers are murderers " appears in the magazine Die Weltbühne .
- 1936: Greece's Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas suspends parliament and constitution and installs an authoritarian regime.
- 1944: Anne Frank and her family are arrested by the National Socialists after a Dutch informer revealed their hiding place in Amsterdam.
- 1944: Second World War , Operation Overlord : At the end of Operation Cobra , Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery announces a general change in the invasion plan in view of the collapse of the German front . Most of the units are now being sent east.
- 1951: The Federal Motor Transport Authority in Flensburg - Mürwik is founded.
- 1953: In Germany, the pulpit paragraph introduced in Bismarck's times in the Kulturkampf is abolished in the penal code , which threatens clergy with punishment for insubordinate political statements.
- 1964: The Tonkin incident , an alleged torpedo attack on the two US military ships USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy in the Gulf of Tonkin through northern Vietnam, later served the US as a pretext for intervention in the Vietnam War .
- 1965: The Cook Islands in the South Pacific achieve political self-government, but remain in "free association" with New Zealand . A new flag was introduced on the same day in 1979 .
- 1983: President Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo is overthrown in a coup d'état organized by Blaise Compaoré and supported by Libya . The "Che Guevara of Black Africa" Thomas Sankara becomes the fifth president of Upper Volta .
- 1984: On the first anniversary of the revolution in Upper Volta , the country is renamed Burkina Faso .
- 1993: The Arusha Agreement to end the civil war in Rwanda is signed in Arusha between the Rwandan Patriotic Front under Paul Kagame and the ruling party Mouvement républicain national pour la démocratie et le développement under President Juvénal Habyarimana . Dissatisfaction with this agreement is one of the causes of the genocide in Rwanda a year later.
- 1995: The military operation Oluja ( thunderstorm ) begins in the Croatian war . Within a few days , Croatian troops recaptured the part of Croatia controlled by Serb insurgents .
- 2006: The US-American President George W. Bush announces to the Cubans the "full and unconditional support of the USA" in the event of democratization in order to prevent the effective transfer of power to his younger brother Raúl after the hospitalization of Fidel Castro .
business
- 1821: In the United States for the first time appears weekly The Saturday Evening Post .
- 1917: French engineer Lucien Lévy reports a patent for an overlay method on. Its circuit principle then prevails over others.
- 1990: For the first time since the end of the Second World War , a Lufthansa aircraft lands at Schönefeld Airport in East Berlin .
- 2000: DaimlerChrysler announces the sale of its subsidiary Adtranz to the Canadian company Bombardier Transportation . As a result, Adtranz changed hands in 2001, which in some cases led to job losses for employees.
science and technology
- 1851: The missionary and Africa explorer David Livingstone reaches the upper reaches of the Zambezi .
- 1902: The Greenwich pedestrian tunnel under the Thames , which connects the two London boroughs of Greenwich and Tower Hamlets , is opened.
- 1955: The US American reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed U-2 officially completes its maiden flight.
- 2007: NASA's Phoenix space probe to explore the planet Mars is launched.
Culture
- 1609: A hurricane over New England, in which a ship sinks near Bermuda, inspires William Shakespeare to write his final play, The Tempest .
- 1897: In Spain, which is by chance bust Dama de Elche found a sculpture of the Iberians from about the 5th century BC. Chr.
- 1986: The picture The Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso is stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne . A group called the Australian Cultural Terrorists is committed to the theft and wants to protest against Australian cultural policy. The picture is found intact a week later.
company
- 1782: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in Vienna.
- 1881: A temperature of 50 ° C is said to be measured in Seville , Spain . That would be the European peak, but 46.6 ° C is confirmed.
- 1892: The mutilated bodies of Lizzie Borden's parents are found in her Massachusetts home . This leads to one of the most famous murder trials in criminal history.
- 1971: The first bank robbery and hostage-taking in Germany by Dimitri Todorov and an accomplice takes place in Munich . A hostage and a perpetrator are killed in the subsequent rescue operation.
religion
- 1879: The encyclical Aeterni Patris Pope Leos XIII. contrasts the “false” philosophy, which is the origin of private as well as social evils, with the “healthy” philosophy, which prepares faith, proves its assumption to be reasonable, allows it to be grasped more deeply and defends it.
- 1903: Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto is after four days conclave to Pope elected and takes the name Pius X. on.
Disasters
- 1845: 399 passengers and crew died when the British emigrant ship Cataraqui ran aground on the Tasmanian island of King Island , the worst shipping disaster in Australian history . Only nine survivors can save themselves.
- 1906: The Italian passenger steamer Sirio rams a reef off Cabo de Palos on the south coast of Spain and capsizes within a few minutes. 442 passengers and crew drown.
- 1917: When the Tigra Dam breaks in India, there is a tidal wave that kills around 1,000 people.
- 2020: At least 220 people die and more than 6,000 people are injured in an explosion in Beirut .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1956: The central stadium in Leipzig opens with a capacity of 100,000 as the largest stadium in the world to date.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
Margaret of Saxony
(* 1469)
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
(* 1502)
Maria Anna of Bavaria
(* 1696)
- 583: Theodosios (III.) , Eldest son of the Eastern Roman emperor Maurikios and his wife Constantina
- 1222: Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester , English nobleman
- 1279: Antony Bek , Bishop of the English Diocese of Norwich
- 1290: Leopold I , Duke of Austria and Styria
- 1337: Louis II. De Bourbon , Duke of Bourbon, Lord of Mercœur and, by marriage, Count of Forez
- 1463: Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de 'Medici , Florentine banker, politician
- 1469: Margaret of Saxony , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- 1470: Lucrezia di Lorenzo de 'Medici , daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent
- 1502: Pieter Coecke van Aelst , Flemish painter
- 1521: Urban VII. , Actually Giambattista Castagna, Pope of the Catholic Church
- 1586: Dorothea von Ahlefeldt , landlady of Kolmar, Drage, Heiligenstedten and owner of Heiligenstedten Castle
- 1604: François Hédelin , French writer and theater theorist
- 1623: Friedrich Casimir von Hanau , German nobleman
- 1647: Giovanni II. Cornaro , Doge of Venice
- 1666: Franziska Barbara , by marriage Countess von Hohenlohe, mistress of Wilhermsdorf
- 1667: Carl Hildebrand von Canstein , German founder of the Canstein Bible Institute in Halle
- 1687: Johann Wilhelm Friso , Prince of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- 1696: Maria Anna of Bavaria , Bavarian princess
18th century
Percy Bysshe Shelley
(born 1792)
- 1703: Louis I de Bourbon , Duke of Orléans and Duke of Nemours, Grand Master of the Order of Lazarus
- 1706: Friedrich Karl , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön
- 1707: Johann August Ernesti , German theologian and philologist
- 1708: Christian Rudolf Schmidt , Nassau carpenter
- 1719: Johann Gottlob Lehmann , German geologist and mineralogist
- 1720: Samuel Werenfels , Basel architect
- 1742: Alexei Wassiljewitsch Naryschkin , Russian military, diplomat, statesman and author
- 1747: Henrich Becker , East Frisian painter
- 1748: Maximilian Stadler , Austrian composer, music historian and pianist
- 1755: Nicolas-Jacques Conté , French mechanic and painter
- 1756: Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny , French statesman
- 1757: John James Beckley , first director of the Library of Congress
- 1757: Wladimir Lukitsch Borowikowski , Russian portrait painter
- 1765: Evan Evans , British master spinner, mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
- 1765: Claire Lacombe , French revolutionary and women's rights activist
- 1769: Vasily Petrovich Stassow , Russian builder
- 1770: François-Etienne Kellermann , French cavalry general
- 1786: Ernst von Seherr-Thoß , German officer and landowner
- 1788: Richard Clough Anderson , American politician
- 1788: Stéphanie de Tascher de La Pagerie , French princess
- 1789: Roch-Ambroise Auguste Bébian , French, who was the first to hear sign language
- 1792: Edward Irving , co-founder of the Catholic Apostolic Congregations in Great Britain
- 1792: Friedrich Ludwig Mallet , German Reformed pastor in Bremen
- 1792: Percy Bysshe Shelley , British writer
- 1794: Josef Proksch , Czech-German composer
- 1800: Heinrich Graeff , German lawyer and politician
- 1800: Ramón María Narváez , Spanish military and politician, Prime Minister
19th century
1801-1850
- 1803: Carl Friedrich Meyer , German doctor and psychiatrist
- 1804: Karl Friedrich Hermann , German classical philologist and ancient historian:
- 1805: William Rowan Hamilton , British mathematician
- 1809: Samuel Morton Peto , British railway pioneer
- 1811: Jakub Malý , Czech historian, writer and journalist
- 1813: Alexander von Mensdorff-Pouilly , Austrian statesman
- 1813: Franz Wilhelm Schiertz , German painter and architect
- 1815: Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich , German physician
- 1816: Richard Leach Maddox , British physician, amateur photographer, and photography pioneer
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
(* 1817)
Anna Blos
(* 1866)
Martha Goldberg
(* 1873)
Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever
(* 1880)
René Schickele
(* 1883)
Henri Cornet
(* 1884)
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
(* 1900)
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- 1817: Frederick T. Frelinghuysen , US Secretary of State
- 1820: Pellegrino Artusi , Italian literary critic
- 1821: Louis Vuitton , French entrepreneur, founder of the Louis Vuitton suitcase company
- 1821: James Springer White , co-founder of Seventh-day Adventists
- 1823: Oliver Hazard Perry Throck Morton , American politician
- 1825: Domingo Santa María , Chilean President
- 1834: Ottilie Genée , German actress and singer
- 1834: Gaspar Núñez de Arce , Spanish poet, journalist and politician
- 1834: John Venn , British mathematician
- 1837: Peter Dettweiler , German founder of the sanatorium system in Germany
- 1839: Walter Pater , British writer and critic
- 1841: William Henry Hudson , Argentine-British ornithologist and writer
- 1843: Leo Gans , German chemist
- 1847: Caroline Barbey-Boissier , Swiss botanist and writer
- 1847: Ludwig Salvator of Austria-Tuscany , son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Leopold II.
- 1850: Eugenio Gignous , Italian painter
1851-1900
- 1853: John Henry Twachtman , American impressionist painter
- 1858: Josef Armin , Austrian comedian, couplet singer and playwright
- 1859: Knut Hamsun , Norwegian writer
- 1860: Willem Henri Julius , Dutch physicist
- 1861: Josef Andergassen , Austrian cabinet maker, altar builder and sculptor
- 1861: Henry Head , British neurologist
- 1861: Daniel E. Howard , Liberian President
- 1861: Willy Kükenthal , German zoologist
- 1861: Jesse Reno , American engineer
- 1861: Helene Richter , Austrian English scholar
- 1862: Ludwig Aub , German bookseller, writer, graphologist and clairvoyant
- 1866: Anna Blos , German politician, member of the Weimar National Assembly
- 1867: Jake Beckley , American baseball player
- 1868: Joseph Oppenhoff , German lawyer
- 1870: Oskar Ameringer , German-American carpenter, musician, editor and politician
- 1872: Carl Anton Baumstark , German orientalist and liturgical scholar
- 1872: Otto Erler , German playwright
- 1872: Benedikt Schmittmann , German social scientist
- 1873: Martha Goldberg , German, socially committed woman and Jewish Nazi victim of the Reichspogromnacht
- 1874: Patrick Philbin , British tug of war
- 1876: Otto Gröger , Swiss linguist
- 1878: Robert Aumüller , German manager
- 1880: Werner von Fritsch , German officer
- 1880: Eleonore Noll-Hasenclever , German alpinist
- 1881: Wenzel Hablik , German painter, graphic artist and artisan
- 1882: Leonhard Maria Adler , Austro-German engineer, politician and worker priest
- 1882: Munkepunke , German writer
- 1883: Sofie Christmann , German politician
- 1883: René Schickele , German-French writer, essayist and translator
- 1884: Béla Balázs , Hungarian film critic and esthete, writer and poet
- 1884: Henri Cornet , French cyclist
- 1887: Ernst Rattenhuber , German politician
- 1888: Heinrich Pellenz , German entrepreneur
- 1889: Ludwig Anschütz , German chemist and professor
- 1889: William Keighley , American director
- 1890: Erich Weinert , German writer
- 1890: Albert Wigand , German draftsman, collagist and painter
- 1891: Otto Haupt , German architect, craftsman and university professor
- 1891: Max Thomas , German doctor, SS general, general of the police, task force leader
- 1892: Martha Schmidtmann , German medic
- 1893: Herman Andrew Affel , American electrical engineer, co-inventor of the coaxial cable
- 1897: Adolf Heusinger , German general
- 1898: Edith Dettmann , German painter
- 1898: Ernesto Maserati , Italian racing car driver, engineer and entrepreneur
- 1899: Walter Rafelsberger , Austrian SS leader and state commissioner
- 1900: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon , British Queen Mother
- 1900: Ermin Hohlwegler , German trade unionist and politician
- 1900: Anneliese Würtz , German actress and voice actress
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Renato Angiolillo , Italian journalist, politician and film director
- 1901: Louis Armstrong , American jazz musician and singer
- 1901: Willy Krause , German actor
- 1902: Hela Gruel , German actress
- 1903: Bruno Gleitze , German economist, university professor and politician
- 1903: Hans-Christoph Seebohm , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1904: Christian-Jaque , French director
- 1904: Witold Gombrowicz , Polish writer
- 1904: Otto Tschumi , Swiss painter
- 1905: Martin Gauger , German lawyer and pacifist, refused to take the oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler
- 1906: Hans Max von Aufseß , German writer
- 1906: Marie José of Belgium , daughter of the Belgian King Albert I.
- 1906: Maria Lichtenegger , Austrian Catholic
- 1906: Julius Madritsch , Austrian rescuer of the Jews, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1906: Robert Mazaud , French racing driver
- 1906: Eugen Schuhmacher , German zoologist
- 1907: Erik Amburger , German Eastern European historian
- 1907: Hanna Kobylinski , Danish historian
- 1907: Mary Washburn , American sprinter
- 1908: Kurt Peter Eichhorn , German conductor
- 1908: Gertraud Herzger von Harlessem , German artist and representative of classical modernism
- 1908: Inger Karén , German singer, first contralto at the Dresden State Opera
- 1908: Wilhelm Keilmann , German pianist, conductor and composer
- 1909: Roberto Burle Marx , Brazilian landscape architect, plant collector and painter
- 1909: Eva Kemlein , German photographer
- 1909: Glenn Cunningham , American athlete
- 1909: Otto Steiger , Swiss writer
- 1909: Saunders Mac Lane , American mathematician
- 1910: Selina Chönz , Swiss author
- 1910: Anita Page , American actress
- 1910: William Schuman , American composer
- 1910: Hedda Sterne , Romanian-American painter
- 1911: Siegfried Lauffer , German ancient historian
- 1912: David Raksin , American film music composer
- 1912: Raoul Wallenberg , Swedish diplomat, savior of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust
- 1913: Adrian Quist , Australian tennis player
- 1913: Karl August Bettermann , German lawyer
- 1913: Noboru Nakamura , Japanese director and screenwriter
- 1914: Edward N. Hall , American general, engineer and initiator of the US Minuteman missile program
- 1914: Helly Möslein , Austrian cabaret artist
- 1914: Paul de Roubaix , Belgian film director and producer
- 1915: Poul Bjørndahl Astrup , Danish physiologist and laboratory chemist
- 1915: Gerhild Diesner , Austrian painter
- 1915: Loni Nest , German actress
- 1916: Heinz Lanker , German actor
- 1916: Franz Mandl , Austrian football player
- 1916: Carlos Ramírez , Colombian singer and actor
- 1917: John Fitch , American racing car driver
- 1917: Karl Wlaschek , Austrian entrepreneur
- 1918: Claus Holm , German actor
- 1918: Hans Abich , German film producer and radio journalist
- 1918: Sidney Harman , American entrepreneur
- 1919: Emmy Lopes Dias , Dutch actress
- 1920: Hermann Kükelhaus , German poet
- 1920: Rudolf Rolfs , German satirist and theater director
- 1920: Helen Thomas , American journalist
- 1920: Martha Wölger , Austrian dialect poet
- 1921: Bernhard Huhn , Apostolic Administrator of Görlitz
- 1921: Herb Ellis , American jazz musician
- 1921: Maurice Richard , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1922: Georg Auer , Austrian journalist
- 1922: Luis Aponte Martínez , Puerto Rican Archbishop of San Juan and Cardinal
- 1923: Reginald Roy Grundy , Australian entrepreneur
- 1923: Franz Karl Stanzel , Austrian English and literary scholar
- 1924: Erik Ågren , Finnish-Swedish writer and poet
- 1924: Martin M. Atalla , American engineer and entrepreneur
- 1924: Sigrid Lagemann , German actress and voice actress
- 1924: Dom Um Romão , Brazilian drummer and percussionist
- 1925: Renato Olivieri , Italian crime writer
- 1925: Kurt Vogelsang , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
1926-1950
- 1926: Werner Koch , German writer
- 1926: Catherine Paysan , French writer
- 1927: Brigitte Stoll , German politician, MdL
- 1927: Jess Thomas , American hero tenor
- 1928: Angie E. Brooks , Liberian diplomat and lawyer
- 1928: Christian Goethals , Belgian racing car driver
- 1928: Gerard Damiano , American film director
- 1929: Kishore Kumar , Indian actor and screenwriter, director and producer
- 1930: Ali as-Sistani , Shiite clergyman in Iraq
- 1930: Jeanne Carmen , American actress
- 1930: Carlfriedrich Claus , German graphic artist and poet
- 1930: Götz Friedrich , German director and theater manager
- 1930: Hugo Brandt , German politician, MdB, MdL
- 1931: Paul Avrich , American historian
- 1931: Friedhelm Hinze , German Slavist and Kashubologist
- 1931: Viktor Lukas , German organist and university professor
- 1932: Frances E. Allen , American computer scientist
- 1932: Hans-Jürgen Fröhlich , German writer
- 1932: Joe Leonard , American racing car driver
- 1932: Guillermo Mordillo , Argentine cartoonist
- 1932: Sabine Thalbach , German actress
- 1933: Lothar Knörzer , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1933: Sonny Simmons , American jazz musician
- 1936: Claude Ballot-Léna , French racing car driver
- 1936: Mani Matter , Swiss dialect songwriter and lawyer
- 1937: Richard Lee Armstrong , Canadian geologist and geochemist
- 1937: Yvonne Reynders , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1938: Mapita Cortés , Puerto Rican actress
- 1938: Kurt Jaworski , German manager and author
- 1938: Hayes Jones , American athlete
- 1938: Simon Preston , English organist, conductor and composer
- 1938: Burk Uzzle , American photographer and author
- 1938: Bernd Wiesemann , German composer and pianist, music teacher and conceptual artist
- 1940: Coriún Aharonián , Uruguayan composer and musician
- 1940: Herwig Nachtmann , Austrian publisher
- 1940: Abdurrahman Wahid , Indonesian President
- 1941: Karin Hussing , German politician, MdL
- 1941: Kaija Mustonen , Finnish speed skater
- 1941: Ted Strickland , American politician
- 1941: Timi Yuro , American singer
- 1942: Hannelore Brüning , German politician, MdL
- 1942: Don S. Davis , American actor
- 1942: David Lange , New Zealand Prime Minister
- 1942: Walter Stürm , Swiss escape king
- 1942: Gunter Thielen , German CEO of Bertelsmann AG
- 1943: Laura Biagiotti , Italian designer
- 1943: Bernd A. Laska , German philosophical writer
- 1943: Margaret Lee , British actress
- 1943: Marlies Pretzlaff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1943: Barbara Saß-Viehweger , German notary, lawyer and politician, MdL
- 1943: Claus-Peter Schnorr , German computer scientist
- 1943: Gerd Tenzer , German manager and association official
- 1943: Bjørn Wirkola , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1944: Gregor Benko , American publicist and editor of historical piano recordings
- 1944: Björn Hellberg , Swedish writer
- 1944: Richard Belzer , American actor and comedian
- 1944: Orhan Gencebay , Turkish musician and producer
- 1944: Barbara Wittig , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945: Martine de Cortanze , French rally, enduro and powerboat driver as well as journalist and author
- 1945: Sabine Kaspereit , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945: Paul McCarthy , American action artist
- 1945: Richard Weize , German record label owner
- 1946: Uri Mayer , Canadian conductor and violinist
- 1947: Hubert Ingraham , Bahamian head of government
- 1947: Klaus Schulze , German musician
- 1948: Klaus Aktories , German physician and pharmacologist
- 1949: Josef Kraus , German teacher, president of the teachers' association
- 1950: Giulia Follina , German actress
- 1950: Danny Williams , Canadian politician
- 1950: István Jónyer , Hungarian table tennis player
1951-1975
- 1951: Ulrich Dopatka , German non-fiction author
- 1952: Daniel Bautista , Mexican athlete, Olympic champion
- 1952: Moya Brennan , Irish singer
- 1952: Gábor Demszky , Hungarian politician
- 1952: Franco Saudelli , Italian comic artist
- 1952: Tadeusz Wojciechowski , conductor and cellist
- 1953: Siegfried Balleis , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Erlangen
- 1953: Hans Borg , Swedish football player
- 1954: Anatoly Kinach , Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister
- 1955: Andrew Michael Allen , American astronaut
- 1955: Alberto R. Gonzales , American lawyer and politician
- 1955: Billy Bob Thornton , American actor
- 1956: Lumumba Carson , American rap musician
- 1956: Frederic Glesser , American composer
- 1956: Hans Hasebos , Dutch jazz vibraphonist
- 1957: Robert Ernest Andrews , American politician
- 1957: Olaf Beyer , German athlete
- 1957: Peter Frey , German journalist
- 1957: Stefan Lübbe , German publisher
- 1957: Alfred Waibel , German motorcycle racer
- 1957: Arto Tunçboyacıyan , Turkish drummer and band leader
- 1958: Paul Evans Aidoo , Ghanaian politician
- 1958: Wolf Bechstein , German medic
- 1958: Ian Broudie , British pop musician and record producer
- 1958: Gerry Cooney , American boxer
- 1958: Andrea Dombois , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Vice-President of the Saxon State Parliament
- 1958: Silvan Schalom , Israeli Foreign Minister
- 1958: Liao Yiwu , Chinese writer, poet and musician
- 1959: Anthony Radziwill , Swiss-American filmmaker and Emmy Prize winner
- 1960: Knut Elstermann , German film critic and presenter
- 1960: Dean Malenko , American wrestler
- 1960: Bernard Rose , British director
- 1960: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero , Spanish lawyer and former Prime Minister
- 1961: Andreas Anter , German soccer player
- 1961: Barack Obama , US President and lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1961: Chris Landreth , American director
- 1961: Bart van Wees , Dutch physicist
- 1962: Salvatore Bonafede , Italian jazz pianist
- 1962: Roger Clemens , American baseball player
- 1962: Wolf Lotter , Austrian journalist and author
- 1962: Klaus Sobolewski , German painter, graphic artist and poet
- 1963: Audilio Aguilar Aguilar , Bishop of Colon-Kuna Yala (Panama)
- 1963: Keith Ellison , American politician
- 1963: Holger Schneider , German handball player and coach
- 1964: Anita Protti , Swiss accordionist and composer
- 1965: Neus Asensi , Spanish actress
- 1965: Terri Lyne Carrington , American jazz drummer, composer and producer
- 1965: Konstantin Graudus , German TV and film actor
- 1965: Fredrik Reinfeldt , Swedish politician
- 1965: Michael Skibbe , German soccer player and coach
- 1965: James Tupper , Canadian actor
- 1966: Luc Leblanc , French racing cyclist
- 1966: Dennis Lehane , American crime writer
- 1967: Michael Marsh , American sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1967: Wilfried Pallhuber , Italian biathlete
- 1967: Jana Sorgers , German rower, Olympic champion
- 1968: Michaël Attias , Israeli jazz saxophonist
- 1968: Daniel Dae Kim , American actor
- 1968: Olga Neuwirth , Austrian composer
- 1968: Marcus Schenkenberg , Swedish model, actor and singer
- 1969: Max Cavalera , Brazilian rock musician
- 1970: John August , American journalist and screenwriter
- 1970: Ángel Edo , Spanish cyclist
- 1970: Christian Fischer , German football referee
- 1970: Orlando Trustfull , Dutch soccer player
- 1971: Jeff Gordon , American racing driver
- 1972: Predrag Đorđević , Serbian football player
- 1972: José Vicente García Acosta , Spanish cyclist
- 1972: Michael Grant , American heavyweight boxer
- 1972: Dirk Wolf , German soccer player
- 1973: Eva Amaral , Spanish singer
- 1973: Marek Penksa , Slovak football player
- 1973: Yoelbi Quesada , Cuban triple jumper
- 1974: Corinne Diacre , French soccer player
- 1974: Kily González , Argentine soccer player
- 1975: Ivan Bitzi , Swiss athlete
- 1975: Justin Keen , British racing driver
- 1975: Nikos Liberopoulos , Greek football player
1976-2000
- 1977: Luís Boa Morte , Portuguese football player
- 1977: Marek Heinz , Czech football player
- 1978: Dominic Boeer , German actor
- 1978: Jeremy Adduono , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1978: Ricardo Serrano , Spanish cyclist
- 1979: Astrid Hochstetter , German figure skater
- 1979: Bo Svensson , Danish football player
- 1980: Benjamin Köhler , German soccer player
- 1980: Rony Martias , French cyclist
- 1981: Nelli Aghinjan , Armenian chess player
- 1981: Malchas Assatiani , Georgian football player
- 1981: Gabriel Fernando Atz , Brazilian soccer player
- 1981: Michael Binder , German handball player
- 1981: Benjamin Boukpeti , French-Togolese canoeist
- 1981: Simone Del Nero , Italian football player
- 1981: Marques Houston , American R&B singer and actor
- 1981: Jan Kristiansen , Danish football player
- 1981: Benjamin Lauth , German soccer player
- 1981: Manuel Lloret , Spanish cyclist
- 1981: Meghan Markle , wife of Prince Harry
Florian Silbereisen (* 1981)
- 1981: Florian Silbereisen , German television presenter and singer
- 1981: Abigail Spencer , American actress
- 1982: Luca Antonini , Italian football player
- 1982: Jendrik Meyer , German handball player
- 1982: David Mendes da Silva , Dutch football player
- 1982: Melanie Wichterich , German actress
- 1982: Rubinho , Brazilian soccer player
- 1983: Nathaniel Buzolic , Australian actor
- 1983: Patrick Wolf , German singer
- 1983: Rasmik Vardanyan , Armenian billiards player
- 1983: Ben Zucker , German singer
- 1984: Caroline Wensink , Dutch volleyball player
- 1985: Shannon Michael Cole , Australian soccer player
- 1985: Robbie Findley , American football player
- 1985: Mark Milligan , Australian soccer player
- 1985: Ha Seung-jin , South Korean basketball player
- 1985: Marco Russ , German soccer player
- 1985: Antonio Valencia , Ecuadorian soccer player
- 1986: Oleg Alexandrovich Ivanov , Russian football player
- 1987: James Jakes , British racing driver
- 1987: Marreese Speights , American basketball player
- 1988: Niklas Andersen , German soccer player
- 1988: Aaron Arens , Swiss actor
- 1988: Daniel Carriço , Portuguese football player
- 1988: Sven Grathwohl , German handball player
- 1988: Michael Herck , Romanian-Belgian racing driver
- 1988: Cristóbal Jorquera , Chilean football player
- 1989: Jim-Patrick Müller , German soccer player
- 1990: Tim Hornke , German handball player
- 1991: Christian Clemens , German soccer player
- 1992: Facundo Argüello , Argentine tennis player
- 1992: Romain Arneodo , Monaco tennis player
- 1992: Dylan and Cole Sprouse , American actors
- 1994: Leonid Klishchar , Ukrainian pool player
- 1995: Serena Lo Bue , Italian rower
21st century
- 2004: Anton Korchuk , Ukrainian ski jumper
- 2012: Tinsley Price , American actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 465 BC Chr .: Xerxes I , Achaemenid great king
- 465 BC Chr .: Darius , eldest son of Xerxes' I.
- 966: Berengar II , Margrave of Ivrea and King of Italy
- 1060: Henry I , King of France
- 1113: Gertrud von Sachsen , by marriage Countess of Flanders and Holland
- 1156: Otto V , Count of Scheyern
- 1180: Rainer von Spalato , saint and martyr
- 1239: Frederick III. von Ortenburg , provost of the Reichersberg monastery and provost of the Berchtesgaden monastery
- 1265: Ralph Basset , English knight and rebel
- 1265: Hugh le Despenser, 1st Baron le Despenser , English nobleman and rebel
- 1265: Henry de Montfort , English nobleman and general
- 1265: Peter de Montfort , English magnate
- 1265: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester , English nobleman and revolutionary leader
- 1265: Roger de St John , English nobleman and rebel
- 1266: Odo of Burgundy , Count of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre
- 1274: Robert of Stichill , Bishop of Durham
- 1306: Wenceslaus III. , King of Hungary, Bohemia and Poland
- 1338: Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk , son of Edward I of England
- 1378: Galeazzo II. Visconti , diplomat and founder of the University of Pavia
- 1404: Gerhard VI. , Count of Holstein-Rendsburg
- 1430: Philip of Saint-Pol , Duke of Brabant and Limburg
- 1434: Konrad von Zwole , Moravian nobleman, bishop of Olomouc
- 1477: Jacques d'Armagnac , Count of Pardiac and Duke of Nemours
- 1478: Schwickart the Younger from Sickingen , bailiff of the Electoral Palatinate office of Bretten
16th to 18th century
- 1524: Helene von der Pfalz , Countess Palatine von Simmern and Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1525: Andrea Della Robbia , Renaissance painter from Florence
Juan Sebastián Elcano
(† 1526)
Sebastian I.
(† 1578)
Marie Sophie of the Palatinate
(† 1699)
- 1526: Juan Sebastián Elcano , Basque-Spanish explorer and circumnavigator
- 1550: Pedro Machuca , Spanish painter and architect
- 1557: Brictius thom Norde , Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1566: Christoph von Oldenburg , Count of Oldenburg, general
- 1566: Girolamo della Robbia , Italian sculptor and architect
- 1578: Sebastian I , King of Portugal from the House of Avis
- 1588: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus , Scottish nobleman
- 1598: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley , English politician and statesman
- 1605: Otto von Blanckenburg , Commander of the German Order Coming Langeln
- 1627: Christina Morhaubt , victim of the persecution of witches in the Bamberg diocese
- 1628: Henrich Stoffregen , victim of the persecution of witches in Westphalia
- 1633: George Abbot , English Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1639: Juan Ruiz de Alarcón , Mexican-Spanish playwright
- 1648: Gottfried Finckelthaus , German lyric poet and song writer of the Baroque era
- 1683: Turhan Sultan , chief wife of the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim
- 1699: Marie Sophie of the Palatinate , Queen of Portugal
- 1705: Kitamura Kigin , Japanese Haikai poet and scholar
- 1708: Vincenzo de Grandis , Italian conductor and composer
- 1709: Elisabeth Amalie of Hessen-Darmstadt , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1712: Johann Jacob de Neufville , German composer and organist
- 1712: Georg Winckler , Leipzig merchant, councilor and mayor
- 1727: Victor-Maurice de Broglie , French military leader
- 1730: Maria Madlener , victim of the witch hunt in Lindau
- 1732: Robert "King" Carter , British colonist and planter in Virginia
- 1737: Rudolf Anton von Alvensleben , Hanover Minister
- 1740: Wilhelm Heinrich von Thulemeyer , royal Prussian minister of justice as well as minister of state and war
- 1744: Philippine Elisabeth Caesar , Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen
- 1749: Johann Elias Greifenhahn , German university professor
- 1752: Georg Ludwig Charbonnier , German horticultural artist
- 1753: Gottfried Silbermann , German organ builder
- 1755: Johann Christoph Thielemann , German organ builder
- 1778: Pierre de Rigaud , French naval officer and governor-general of New France
- 1788: Johann Wilhelm Baumer , German physicist, medic and mineralogist
- 1795: Francisco Bayeu , Spanish painter
- 1799: John Bacon the Elder , British sculptor
19th century
- 1804: Adam Duncan , British admiral and naval hero
- 1806: Johann Gottfried Hagemeister , German actor, poet, publicist and teacher
- 1816: François-André Vincent , French painter and draftsman
- 1818: Bonaventura Brem , last imperial prelate and abbot in Weißenau monastery
- 1821: William Floyd , American founding father co-signer of the Declaration of Independence
- 1822: Kristian Jaak Peterson , Estonian poet
- 1823: Caspar Zeller , German entrepreneur
- 1828: Felix de Silva Avellar Brotero , Portuguese botanist
- 1832: Franz Seraph von Orsini-Rosenberg , Austrian general
- 1844: Jacob Aall , Norwegian politician
- 1846: Mirza Abolhasan Khan Ilchi , Persian writer, ambassador and foreign minister
- 1854: Jakob Bauer , German local politician, Mayor of Munich
- 1857: James C. Dobbin , American politician
- 1859: Jean-Marie Vianney , called the pastor of Ars , French priest, known as a sought-after confessor
- 1864: David Hansemann , Prussian politician and banker
- 1865: Pendleton Murrah , last Texas governor during the Civil War
- 1865: William Edmonstoune Aytoun , British writer from Scotland
- 1867: Emil Cauer the Elder , German sculptor
- 1867: Faustin Soulouque , Emperor of Haiti
- 1870: Abel Douay , French general
- 1870: Charles Hoguet , German painter
- 1872: Ernst Gerhard Wilhelm Keyl , German pastor and co-founder of the Missouri Synod
- 1872: Wilhelm Wieprecht , German composer and professor
- 1873: Viktor Alexandrowitsch Hartmann , Russian architect, sculptor and painter
- 1874: Otto Hesse , German mathematician
- 1875: Hans Christian Andersen , Danish poet and writer
- 1875: Hermann Härtel , German music publisher
- 1877: Gustav of Sweden , Prince of Sweden, Prince of Wasa
- 1877: Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz , Prussian Field Marshal General
- 1883: August Howaldt , German engineer, designer, inventor, entrepreneur
- 1886: Samuel J. Tilden , American politician
- 1889: Carl Amand Mangold , German composer
- 1892: Theodor Engelbrecht , German pomologist
- 1892: Leopold Carl Müller , Austrian painter
- 1900: Jacob Dolson Cox , American Union General in the Civil War, politician, governor of Ohio, Secretary of the Interior
- 1900: Isaak Ilyich Levitan , Russian painter
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Friedrich Wilhelm Helle , German poet
- 1901: Hermann Otto Pflaume , German architect and city councilor in Cologne
- 1903: Barthold Jacob Lintelo de Geer van Jutphaas , Dutch legal scholar, historian, politician and orientalist
- 1904: Arnold Krug , German composer
- 1904: Christoph von Sigwart , German professor of philosophy
- 1905: Paul von Schönthan , Austrian writer
- 1905: Walther Flemming , German biologist
- 1910: Heinrich Holtzmann , German Protestant theologian
- 1912: Daniel Aaron , American historian and Americanist
- 1913: Étienne Laspeyres , German economist and statistician
- 1914: Hubertine Auclert , French women's rights activist
- 1915: Richard Kiepert , German geographer and cartographer
- 1919: Ferdinand Heinrich Thieriot , German composer
- 1920: Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov , Russian composer
- 1922: Enver Pascha , Turkish general and politician, Minister of War of the Ottoman Empire
- 1923: Edward Hutton , British officer
- 1925: Friedrich Auerbach , German chemist
- 1925: Arthur von Gerlach , German film and theater director
- 1927: Eugène Atget , French photographer
- 1929: Franz Matt , German lawyer and politician, Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria
- 1929: Carl Auer von Welsbach , Austrian chemist and entrepreneur
- 1930: Siegfried Wagner , German composer and director of the Bayreuth Festival
- 1931: Daniel Read Anthony junior , American politician
- 1931: Willy Spatz , German historicist painter and lithographer
- 1932: Alfred Henry Maurer , American painter
- 1932: James Oppenheim , American poet, author, and editor
- 1936: Henry Schoenfeld , American composer
- 1938: Rudolf G. Binding , German writer
- 1938: Heinrich Held , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Bavaria
- 1938: Pearl White , American actress
- 1940: Adolf Zauner , Austrian Romance studies and linguist
- 1941: Alfred Leonhard Tietz , German entrepreneur
- 1941: Mihály Babits , Hungarian poet, translator and publicist
- 1942: Alberto Franchetti , Italian composer
- 1944: Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński , Polish poet
- 1944: Klaus Riedel , German rocket designer, co-founder of the rocket airfield in Berlin
- 1945: Gerhard Gentzen , German mathematician
- 1946: Raoul Paquet , Canadian organist, music teacher and composer
- 1947: Fritz Mielert , German photographer and writer
- 1948: Lorenz Bock , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Prime Minister of Württemberg-Hohenzollern
- 1948: David Danskin , Scottish soccer player and mechanical engineer
- 1948: Mileva Marić , Austro-Hungarian mathematician, Albert Einstein's first wife
- 1950: Charles Genequand , Swiss Protestant clergyman
1951-2000
- 1951: Ernst von Weizsäcker , German naval officer, diplomat, state secretary and SS general
- 1953: Fritz Koelle , German sculptor
- 1954: Harald Paulsen , German theater and film actor and director
- 1957: Maria Carmi , Italian actress
- 1957: Emil Hadina , Austrian-Sudeten German writer
- 1957: Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa , President of Brazil
- 1959: Hans Lembke , German painter and drawing teacher
- 1960: Frédéric Théllusson , Belgian racing car driver
- 1961: Maurice Tourneur , French screenwriter and director
- 1962: Heinrich Schmiedeknecht , German architect
- 1967: Gustave Samazeuilh , French composer and music critic
- 1969: Wilhelm Apel , German politician
- 1969: Paul Lechler junior , German manufacturer and clergyman
- 1970: Edmond Audemars , Swiss cyclist, aviation pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1971: Georg Maurer , German poet, essayist and translator
- 1973: Richard Fritz Behrendt , German sociologist
- 1973: Rudolf Benkendorff , German meteorologist
- 1973: Eddie Condon , American jazz guitarist
- 1973: Hans Jensen , German linguist
- 1974: Karl Schmid , Swiss literary historian
- 1975: Albrecht Appelhans , German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
- 1976: Enrique Ángel Angelelli , Argentine Bishop of La Rioja
- 1976: Helmut de Boor , German Germanist and literary historian
- 1976: Charlotte Dietrich , German social worker
- 1977: Edgar Douglas Adrian , British anatomist and physiologist
- 1977: Ernst Bloch , German Marxist philosopher
- 1977: Karl Kinzl , Austrian politician and farmer
- 1977: Antonio Machín , Cuban singer
- 1977: Moritz Mitzenheim , bishop of the Protestant regional church of Thuringia
- 1978: Lilja Brik , Soviet film director and sculptor
- 1978: René Challan , French composer
- 1978: Fiddlin 'Doc Roberts , American old-time musician
- 1979: Albert Schreiner , German politician and historian
- 1980: Joseph Ashbrook , American astronomer
- 1980: Georg Aumann , German mathematician
- 1980: Vicente de la Mata , Argentine soccer player
- 1980: Duke Pearson , American jazz pianist, producer and composer
- 1981: Theodor Brün , German painter
- 1981: Melvyn Douglas , American actor
- 1982: Tex Atchison , American country musician
- 1982: Rolf Karlsen , Norwegian composer and organist
- 1983: Karl Tischlinger , Bavarian folk actor
- 1983: Alfred Nakache , French swimmer
- 1985: Zbyněk Vostřák , Czech composer
- 1986: Fritz Schwerdtfeger , German forest scientist, zoologist and entomologist
- 1989: Larry Parnes , British music manager and impresario
- 1990: Heinz Frieler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1991: Yevgeny Dragunov , Soviet weapons designer
- 1992: František Tomášek , Archbishop of Prague and Cardinal
- 1993: Nesmith Cornett Ankeny , American mathematician
- 1994: Ciro Versiani dos Anjos , Brazilian lawyer, journalist and writer
- 1994: Giovanni Spadolini , Italian journalist, historian and politician
- 1994: Jürgen Jürgens , German choir director and conductor
- 1995: Lee Newman , British techno producer
- 1995: Said Ramadan , Islamist fundamentalist
- 1996: Kiyoshi Atsumi , Japanese actor
- 1997: Jeanne Calment , French age record holder, proven to be the oldest person
- 1997: Ray Renfro , American football player
- 1997: Jean-Claude Vidilles , French racing car driver
- 1998: Yuri Artyukhin , Soviet air force officer and cosmonaut
- 1998: Carmen Delia Dipiní , Puerto Rican singer
- 1999: Liselott Linsenhoff , German dressage rider
- 1999: Victor Mature , American film actor
- 1999: Stefan Spernath , German entrepreneur
21st century
- 2001: Claude Bloodgood , American murderer and chess player
- 2002: Robert Noehren , American organist, organ builder and music teacher
- 2003: Anthony von Sourozh , Russian bishop
- 2003: Frederick Chapman Robbins , American bacteriologist and pediatrician
- 2003: Alice Saunier-Seïté , French geographer, historian and politician
- 2004: Wolfgang Caffier , German theologian
- 2004: Cécile Guillame , French engraver and stamp artist
- 2004: Hans-Joachim Grubel , German actor
- 2004: Stella Liebeck , American activist
- 2004: Fumio Watanabe , Japanese actor
- 2005: Sue Gunter , American basketball coach
- 2005: Little Milton , American blues musician
- 2006: Elden Auker , American baseball player
- 2006: Richard Barrett , American music producer
- 2006: Carlos García , Argentine tango pianist, orchestra leader and composer
- 2006: Sylvester Rosegger , German agricultural scientist and agricultural economist
- 2007: Lee Hazlewood , American record producer and singer
- 2007: Raul Hilberg , American historian
- 2007: Anja Lundholm , German writer
- 2007: Ruth Zechlin , German composer
- 2008: Craig Jones , British motorcycle racer
- 2009: Hirotsugu Akaike , Japanese statistician
- 2009: Svend Gunnarsen Auken , Danish politician
- 2011: Hans Barth , German publicist and science author
- 2011: Naoki Matsuda , Japanese soccer player
- 2015: Takashi Amano , Japanese photographer, designer and aquarist
- 2015: Gerd Natschinski , German composer and conductor
- 2015: Siegfried Schnabl , German sexologist (man and woman intimate)
- 2015: Billy Sherrill , American music producer
- 2016: Eugene Vincent Atkinson , American politician
- 2018: Herbert Georg Albert Arz von Straussenburg , German diplomat
- 2019: Johannes Kuhn , German theologian and television pastor
- 2019: Nuon Chea , Cambodian politician and genocide
- 2020: Frances E. Allen , American computer scientist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days:
- St. Aristarchus of Thessalonice , Macedonian bishop and disciple
- St. Jean-Marie Vianney , French priest and patron saint of pastors (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- More information about church memorial days
- St. Walburga , arrival of the bones in Münster (Germany) (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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