May 4th

The May 4 is the 124th day of the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years ), thus remain 241 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

1471: Battle of Tewkesbury

• 1471 : The House of York under Edward IV succeeds in the decisive victory of the Wars of the Roses for the British throne against the House of Lancaster at the Battle of Tewkesbury . Edward of Westminster , only descendant of King Henry VI. , falls, Edmund Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset , and Margaret of Anjou are captured.

1493: the papal line (right)

• 1493 : Pope Alexander VI. defines in the Bull Inter caetera the demarcation line between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the European expansion in the New World .
• 1521 : On his way home from the Reichstag in Worms, Martin Luther was taken prisoner near Altenstein Castle and brought to the Wartburg under the protection of the Saxon Elector Friedrich the Wise .
• 1626 : Peter Minuit , the third governor of the Nieuw Nederlands , arrives on the island of Manhattan by ship. At an undated later date, he acquired the island from Canarsee Indians for goods worth 60 Dutch guilders. Nieuw Amsterdam can expand further with 200 settlers brought with them.
• 1793 : The French Welfare Committee sets a maximum price for grain in the Small Maximum Act in order to counteract a supply crisis.

1799: Tipu Sultan

• 1799 : British armies storm Shrirangapattana , the capital of the southern Indian kingdom of Mysore, in the Fourth Mysore War . Its ruler Tipu Sultan is killed during the attack. Mysore then becomes a British protectorate.

1807: Napoléon with a Persian delegation

• 1807 : Napoleon Bonaparte signs the Treaty of Finckenstein in East Prussia with the representative sent by Fath Ali Shah , which assures Persia of the support of France in the war against Russia and seals the Franco-Persian alliance .

1814: Napoleon in Portoferraio

• 1814 : After his abdication, Napoleon Bonaparte lands on the Mediterranean island of Elba and begins to carry out reforms from Portoferraio .
• 1814 : King Ferdinand VII in Spain repeals the constitution of 1812 by decree and orders a return to absolutism . The inquisition is also reintroduced.

1849: The provisional government in Dresden

• 1849 : The Saxon King . Frederick Augustus II leaves a day after the outbreak of the May Uprising in Dresden with the entire Cabinet Dresden and moves to the Koenigstein fortress back. The revolutionaries around Michail Bakunin , Samuel Erdmann Tzschirner and Otto Leonhard Heubner form a provisional government.
• 1855 : The American adventurer William Walker and 57 followers leave San Francisco by ship despite a ban by the US authorities to usurp power in Nicaragua .

1863: Battle of Chancellorsville

• 1863 : The four-day Battle of Chancellorsville in the Civil War ends with an overwhelming Confederate victory under General Robert Edward Lee against the Union forces of Major General Joseph Hooker . The battle is considered "Lee's perfect battle" because of Lee's risky but successful division of his Northern Virginia Army under the eyes of the Potomac Army, which is more than twice as strong .

1869: Sea Battle of Hakodate

• 1869 : The sea ​​battle of Hakodate, which lasts several days, begins between ships of the Japanese Empire at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration and ships of the split-off Ezo Republic .
• 1886 : The Haymarket Riot escalates after a bomb is dropped at a workers' demonstration in Chicago that claims the dead, causing police to fire into the crowd.
• 1911 : After a heated debate, the German Reichstag rejects the introduction of the Antiqua as an official typeface instead of the Fraktur with a narrow majority. After the votes have been counted, however, it turns out that Parliament has no quorum, which is why the Antiqua-Fraktur dispute will continue until October 17th.

The Italo-Turkish War 1911–1912

• 1912 : Italy conquers Rhodes in the Italo-Turkish War as the first island in the Dodecanese , which will remain under Italian rule until the Second World War.
• 1917 : The former ocean liner Transylvania , which has been converted into a troop transport, is sunk by the German submarine U 63 in the Gulf of Genoa . 412 soldiers and crew members die.

1919: Students in Beijing

• 1919 : After the recognition of the Twenty-One Demands of Japan by the Chinese government under Yuan Shikai and that the victorious powers of World War I wanted to transfer the former German colony of Kiautschou to Japan instead of returning it to the Republic of China , the fourth movement began May lead to the first major student movement in Chinese history with bloody confrontations.
• 1937 : Set in the Spanish Civil War begin in Barcelona the May events , battles Republican units among themselves, which last until May 8

1942: Japanese destroyer after the attack

• 1942 : Prior to the Battle of the Coral Sea reaches the Pacific War , the US Task Force FOX from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) from Japanese units on the previous day on the island of Tulagi landed.
• 1945 : The 2nd French Panzer Division under Major General Leclerc reaches Adolf Hitler's Berghof on the Obersalzberg near Berchtesgaden towards the end of the Second World War .

1945: Signing of the declaration of surrender

• 1945 : Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg signs the surrender of all Germans on the Timeloberg on the outskirts of Wendisch Evern in the presence of the British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery on behalf of the last Reich President Karl Dönitz , who previously resigned with the last Reich government to Flensburg - Mürwik Troops in northwest Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark .
• 1949 : Philip Jessup for the United States and Jakow Alexandrowitsch Malik for the Soviet Union sign the Jessup-Malik Agreement in New York . In it, the lifting of the Berlin blockade by the Soviet Union is agreed upon in return for the lifting of economic sanctions against East Germany by the Western powers .
• 1956 : With Redwing Lacrosse on Runit Island , the United States starts Operation Redwing , a series of nuclear weapons tests on Eniwetok Atoll and Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands , which last until July 21.
• 1970 : The United States National Guard opened fire on unarmed protesters during protests against the Vietnam War on the Kent State University campus in Kent , Ohio . Four students, including Sandra Lee Scheuer , are shot dead in the Kent State massacre , nine of them injured, some seriously.
• 1974 : In the Kurt Schumacher Academy in Bad Münstereifel begins a two-day meeting of the top management of the SPD with union chairmen, in the course of which - presumably on the basis of a one-on-one conversation with parliamentary group leader Herbert Wehner - Willy Brandt makes the decision as a consequence of the affair about his Cabinet employee Günter Guillaume to resign as German Chancellor.
• 1978 : South African armed forces bomb a refugee camp of the South West African people's organization SWAPO near Cassinga on Angolan territory, killing nearly 1,000 civilians. Cassinga Day has been a national celebration and memorial day in Namibia since independence in 1990 .

1979: Margaret Thatcher

• 1979 : After the Conservative Party's victory in the parliamentary elections the day before, Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .
• 1980 : The President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Josip Broz Tito , dies in Ljubljana. His successor is an eight-member presidium, which, however , cannot stop the increasing disintegration of Yugoslavia due to the lack of an integrative personality .
• 1982 : An air raid by two Argentine Dassault Super étendards to the HMS Sheffield (D80) during the Falklands War 20 sailors are killed. The Sheffield-class destroyer , which sinks on May 10, marks the Royal Navy's first major loss since World War II and shows its air defense weakness.

1986: THTR-300

• 1986 : An incident occurs in the THTR-300 nuclear power plant in Hamm- Schmehausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, which leads to the closure of the plant three years later.
• 1990 : In the course of the Singing Revolution, Latvia declares its independence from the Soviet Union to be restored after almost 50 years.
• 1993 : The new democratic constitution comes into force in Andorra , abolishing the feudal system that has existed since 1278, introducing the separation of powers and enabling a sovereign principality ( Principat d'Andorra ).
• 2000 : The first direct election of the Mayor of Greater London is decided by the independent candidate Ken Livingstone , who had recently been expelled from the Labor Party , with a large majority. The Labor candidate Frank Dobson is only third.
• 2005 : With the reintroduction of conscription , the development of the Lebanese armed forces, which was marginalized during the Syrian occupation, begins in Lebanon .
• 2009 : 44 people are killed in the Mardin massacre in southeastern Turkey. Another 17 people are seriously injured.
• 2010 : The heads of state and government of the member states of the Union of South American Nations elect Néstor Kirchner as the organization's first general secretary.

economy

1833: The Pfennig magazine

• 1833 : The first edition of the Pfennig magazine , the first German illustrated magazine , appears in Leipzig .
• 1896 : The first edition of the Daily Mail, founded by Alfred Harmsworth , appears in London .
• 1904 : Henry Royce and Charles Rolls meet in a hotel in Manchester to agree to joint automobile sales with a handshake. The automaker Rolls-Royce Motor Cars continued to develop.
• 1933 : With the appointment of a state commissioner of the NSDAP during the seizure of power , the co-ordination of the Großeinkaufs-Gesellschaft Deutscher Consumvereine mbh ( GEG ), Hamburg, begins .
• 1937 : The Heinkel-Werke Oranienburg , an important armaments company in the field of aircraft construction, is inaugurated.
• 1976 : During the transition phase in Spain , the first edition of the Spanish daily El País is published.

science and technology

• 1976 : The LAGEOS  1 laser satellite is launched from Cape Canaveral into orbit. It is used for geodesy purposes and enables the precise determination of higher-level survey points. Its lifespan in satellite orbit is estimated to be eight million years.
• 1989 : NASA's Magellan space probe to explore the planet Venus is launched.

1995: Salvage of the CSS Hunley

• 1995 : The CSS Hunley , the first submarine in the world that sank an enemy ship in 1864 and itself had an accident, is found by a team led by the American writer Clive Cussler and then recovered in 2000 .

2002: Aqua at the start

• 2002 : NASA launches the Aqua research satellite to investigate the role of water in the complex ecosystem of our earth. Aqua is the first satellite of the " A-Train " from the Earth Observing System research program .

Culture

• 1506 : The printer Lucantonio Giunta produces one of the earliest known printed miniature books on parchment in Venice , the Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis secundum consuetudinem romane curie .

1555: Nostradamus
(Book of Lyon 1557)

• 1555 : The first edition of Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus , the prophecies of Nostradamus , appears with the first 353 verses.
• 1864 : The composer Richard Wagner , who was in dire financial straits , settled in Munich at the invitation of King Ludwig II .
• 1891 : Literary death of Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty during the fight at the Reichenbach Falls near Meiringen ( Arthur Conan Doyle : The last problem ).
• 1895 : The musical play Der Evangelimann by Wilhelm Kienzl , inspired by a story from Leopold Florian Meissner's book From the Papers of a Police Inspector , premieres in Berlin.
• 1895 : The Eisenach Luther Monument is ceremoniously inaugurated.

1927: Douglas Fairbanks senior

• 1927 : 36 people found the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Hollywood with the aim of promoting progress in the film industry . Douglas Fairbanks becomes the first president of the non-profit association, which will award the film prizes known as the " Oscars " from 1929 onwards .
• 1948 : Bertolt Brecht's play The Caucasian Chalk Circle premieres at Nourse Little Theater, Carleton College , Northfield, Minnesota .
• 1953 : The world premiere of the opera Irmelin by Frederick Delius takes place at the New Theater in Oxford.
• 1953 : The first recordings of the label Vee-Jay Records, founded in April by Vivian Carter and Jimmy Bracken, are made in the Universal Studios in Chicago with the single Baby It's You / Bounce .
• 1953 : For his story The Old Man and the Sea is Ernest Hemingway the Pulitzer Prize awarded.
• 2010 : At an auction by Christie's auction house , the picture Nude with Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso was knocked down for a record price of 95 million euros.
• 2018 : The Swedish Academy's committee for the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature announces in Stockholm that it will not nominate a winner this year, but will make up for one in 2019. The reason for the decision is a sexual harassment and corruption scandal involving the husband of academy member Katarina Frostenson .

society

1802: Gold horns from Gallehus

• 1802 : The gold horns of Gallehus are stolen from the Royal Chamber of Art in Christiansborg , Denmark . Less than a year later, the goldsmith and watchmaker Niels Heidenreich confesses the deed. He melted both pieces.
• 1932 : Al Capone is transferred to Atlanta, Georgia Federal Prison to serve his 11 year sentence for tax evasion , from where he continues his business.
• 1998 : In Germany, wreath money , a civil law claim to compensation for women, is abolished after 98 years in view of changed morals .

religion

• 0304 : The Roman Christian Florian von Lorch , exiled to Lorch , is drowned in the Enns after a death sentence . The martyr is later venerated as a saint .

The burning of Wyclif's bones 1428

• 1415 : The Council of Constance declares the English church reformer John Wyclif, who died in 1384, a heretic and orders his bones to be cremated, which happens in 1428.

Disasters

• 1201 : The first recorded strong earthquake in Austria occurs in the Liesertal . Two castles and some churches are destroyed by him.
• 1897 : The Bazar de la Charité in Paris is destroyed when the heat generated by a cinematograph in an annex sets off a fire in combustible material. 129 people die, among them Princess Sophie in Bavaria .
• 1949 : In thick fog, an airplane crashes a few meters below the basilica of Superga on the hill of the same name above Turin . All players of the team of AC Turin arrive at the Superga air disaster killed as officers of the association and three accompanying journalists. There is only one player left of the famous “ Grande Torino ” team who stayed away from the trip to Lisbon due to an injury.
• 1988 : The chemical accident at PEPCON near Henderson , Nevada kills two people, injures 372 others and causes approximately $ 100 million in damage.

2007: Greensburg after the tornado

• 2007 : An EF-5 class tornado on the Fujita scale destroys over ninety percent of Greensburg , Kansas city.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

Sports

• 1780 : The first equestrian derby is held in Epsom , England .
• 1900 : 18 high school students start in Nuremberg the 1. FC Nuremberg as Rugby -Verein.
• 1904 : One year after the mining town of Schalke was incorporated into Gelsenkirchen , the Westfalia Schalke football club , later known as FC Schalke 04 , was founded there.

1924: Stade Olympique de Colombes

• 1924 : The French President Gaston Doumergue opens the eighth Summer Olympic Games in Paris , which will last until July 27th. The war-losing nations Bulgaria, Austria, Turkey and Hungary are participating in the Olympic Games again for the first time , while Germany is still excluded.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1313 : John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave , English nobleman
• 1539 : Hans Wolf von Schönberg , electoral Saxon politician
• 1587 : Reinhard Bake , German Lutheran theologian
• 1622 : Juan de Valdés Leal , Spanish painter and sculptor
• 1654 : Kangxi , Emperor of China
• 1655 : Bartolomeo Cristofori , Italian musical instrument maker
• 1671 : Michael I. Esterházy de Galantha , Hungarian statesman
• 1677 : Françoise Marie de Bourbon , Duchess of Chartres and Duchess of Orléans
• 1678 : Nureddin al-Jerrahi , Turkish mystic and founder of the Jerrahi Dervish order in Istanbul
• 1679 : Johann Georg Mozart , German bookbinder
• 1695 : Ami Lullin , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor

18th century

• 1705 : Justin Gerhard Duising , German physician and university professor
• 1718 : Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux , Swiss astronomer

Jean-Charles de Borda (* 1733)

• 1733 : Jean-Charles de Borda , French surveyor
• 1735 : Jacob Baden , Danish classical philologist
• 1738 : Josef Kohaut , Bohemian composer
• 1744 : Marianna von Martines , Austrian composer, harpsichordist and singer
• 1747 : Philippe Jean Pelletan , French surgeon
• 1749 : Charlotte Turner Smith , English writer, poet and translator of French prose
• 1752 : John Brooks , American politician
• 1757 : Benjamin Ferdinand Herrmann , German Protestant clergyman
• 1762 : Johann Heinrich Abicht , German philosopher
• 1766 : Henriette-Félicité Tassaert , Franco-German pastel painter and mezzotint artist
• 1772 : Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus , German publisher
• 1776 : Johann Friedrich Herbart , German philosopher and educator

Louis Jacques Thénard (* 1777)

• 1777 : Louis Jacques Thénard , French chemist
• 1779 : John Adam , British civil servant and interim Governor General of Fort William
• 1783 : Joseph Wanton Morrison , British general
• 1791 : Sebastian Scharnagel , German painter
• 1794 : Heinrich Boie , German zoologist
• 1796 : William Hickling Prescott , American historian
• 1800 : Eduard Wunder , German philologist and educator

19th century

1801-1850

• 1803 : Johann Jakob Rychner , Swiss veterinarian
• 1806 : William Fothergill Cooke , British inventor, co-developer of electrical telegraphy
• 1807 : Friedrich Hundt , German photographer
• 1808 : Agustín Fernando Muñoz y Sánchez , morganatic husband of Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily, Queen Mother and Regent of Spain
• 1810 : Alexandre Colonna-Walewski , illegitimate son of Napoleon I and his Polish lover Maria Walewska
• 1811 : Heinrich Heerwagen , German rector of the Nuremberg grammar school and local historian
• 1813 : Johann Florian Heller , Austrian doctor and chemist
• 1815 : Franz Adam , German battle and horse painter
• 1817 : Florian Ceynowa , German-Polish farmer, writer, practiced as a doctor without permission
• 1819 : Jean-Baptiste Campenon , French general and minister of war
• 1825 : Thomas Henry Huxley , British biologist, educational organizer and chief proponent of agnosticism

Frederic Edwin Church (* 1826)

• 1826 : Frederic Edwin Church , American landscape painter
• 1826 : Augustus Le Plongeon , British photographer and amateur archaeologist
• 1830 : James Henry Mapleson , English opera impresario
• 1830 : Jules Arnous de Rivière , French chess player
• 1842 : Philipp von Nathusius , Prussian politician and editor-in-chief of the Kreuzzeitung
• 1843 : Eugène Revillout , French Egyptologist
• 1845 : William Kingdon Clifford , British philosopher and mathematician
• 1845 : Louis Henry Davies , Canadian politician and judge
• 1846 : Émile Gallé , French artisan and designer
• 1847 : Francesco Uetam , Spanish opera singer
• 1850 : Emanuel Schiffers , Russian chess master

1851-1900

• 1851 : Clément Broutin , French composer
• 1852 : Alice Liddell , British template for the heroine in Alice in Wonderland
• 1854 : Władysław Floriański , Polish singer and opera director
• 1856 : Adolf Fischer , Austrian art collector and donor in Cologne
• 1859 : Albert Grühn , German-Baltic theologian and Protestant martyr
• 1860 : Hans Groß , German balloonist and airship designer

Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek (* 1860)

• 1860 : Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek , Austrian composer
• 1863 : Charles S. Deneen , American politician
• 1870 : Hermann Böse , music teacher, conductor and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1871 : Salomo Friedlaender , German philosopher and writer of the literary avant-garde
• 1871 : Elzéar Hamel , Canadian actor
• 1872 : Alexander Mitchell Palmer , American lawyer and politician
• 1873 : Omer Letorey , French composer and organist
• 1873 : Julius Seyler , German painter and sportsman
• 1874 : Bernhard Hoetger , German sculptor, painter and artisan
• 1875 : John J. Blaine , American politician
• 1879 : Leonid Isaakowitsch Mandelstam , Russian physicist
• 1880 : Bruno Taut , German architect

Alexander Kerensky (* 1881)

• 1881 : Alexander Fyodorowitsch Kerensky , Russian politician
• 1882 : Karel Domin , Czech botanist
• 1882 : Wilhelm Lehmann , German writer
• 1883 : Jan Olieslagers , Belgian pilot
• 1883 : Wang Jingwei , Chinese politician
• 1885 : Paul Barnickel , German lawyer
• 1887 : Hugo Eberlein , German politician
• 1889 : Francis Spellman , American clergyman, Archbishop of New York
• 1889 : Richard Seewald , German painter and writer
• 1890 : Arthur Kolnik , Galician-Jewish illustrator and painter
• 1891 : Frederick Jacobi , American composer
• 1891 : Petko Petkow , Bulgarian politician
• 1892 : Hans Leistikow , German graphic artist
• 1893 : Johannes Hagge , German politician
• 1895 : Cornelius Van Til , Dutch theologian
• 1896 : Werner Kraft , German librarian, literary scholar and writer
• 1896 : Betty Mitchell , Canadian theater director and director
• 1897 : Georg Ackermann , German politician
• 1897 : Fritz Stricker , German politician
• 1899 : Fritz von Opel , German industrialist, rocket pioneer and motor sportsman
• 1900 : Antun Augustinčić , Yugoslav sculptor

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Tominaga Tarō , Japanese writer
• 1903 : Luther Adler , American film and stage actor
• 1904 : Josef Pieper , German philosopher
• 1905 : Al Dexter , American country musician
• 1905 : Mátyás Seiber , Anglo-Hungarian composer
• 1906 : Leopold Arnsperger , German businessman

Gustav Bergmann (* 1906)

• 1906 : Gustav Bergmann , Austrian scientific theorist
• 1907 : Petar Graf Orssich , Austrian automobile racing driver and nobleman
• 1908 : Bernhard Winkelheide , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1908 : Wolrad Eberle , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1909 : Howard Da Silva , American film and stage actor
• 1910 : Matthias Volz , German gymnast
• 1910 : Augustin Farah , Lebanese Archbishop
• 1911 : Walter Adamson , German-Australian writer
• 1911 : Nicole Vedrès , French writer, film director and film theorist
• 1911 : Hans Wittich , German mathematician
• 1913 : Pericle Fazzini , Italian sculptor
• 1913 : Ibram Lassaw , American sculptor and painter
• 1913 : Agnelo Rossi , Archbishop of São Paulo and Cardinal
• 1915 : Keith Birlem , American football player and soldier
• 1918 : Estrongo Nachama , Chief Cantor of the Jewish Community in Berlin
• 1918 : Tanaka Kakuei , Japanese politician, Prime Minister
• 1919 : Carla Henius , German mezzo-soprano
• 1919 : Mary Ann McCall , American jazz singer
• 1920 : Hermann Schreiber , Austrian writer and historian

Elizabeth Shaw (* 1920)

• 1920 : Elizabeth Shaw , Irish artist
• 1921 : Edo Murtić , Croatian painter
• 1921 : Werner Schumacher , German actor
• 1922 : Alex Randolph , American-Italian game inventor
• 1922 : John Paul Hammerschmidt , American politician
• 1923 : Peter Adler , German writer
• 1923 : Karel Berka , Czech philosopher
• 1923 : Guy Warren , Ghanaian jazz musician
• 1924 : Uwe Faerber , German musicologist
• 1924 : Otto Grünmandl , Austrian cabaret artist and writer
• 1925 : Jenő Buzánszky , Hungarian football player
• 1925 : Heinz Eckner , German actor
• 1925 : Luís Herrera Campíns , President of Venezuela

1926-1950

• 1926 : Umberto Masetti , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1926 : Gerlind Reinshagen , German writer

Peter Bachér (* 1927)

• 1927 : Peter Bachér , German journalist and author
• 1927 : Peter Boenisch , German journalist, editor-in-chief and publisher, government spokesman
• 1927 : Trude Herr , actress, pop singer and theater director
• 1928 : Maynard Ferguson , Canadian jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• 1928 : Renée Franke , German pop singer
• 1928 : Günter Gerlach , German church musician, school musician and composer
• 1928 : Margaret Kohn , American pianist and music teacher
• 1928 : Husni Mubarak , President of Egypt
• 1928 : Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips , German racing driver
• 1929 : Dominic Kodwo Andoh , Ghanaian Archbishop
• 1929 : Ásgeir Eyjólfsson , Icelandic ski racer

Audrey Hepburn (born 1929)

• 1929 : Audrey Hepburn , British-Dutch actress
• 1929 : Eric Wright , Canadian writer and university professor
• 1931 : Arno Klönne , German sociologist and political scientist
• 1931 : Gennadi Nikolajewitsch Roschdestvensky , Russian conductor
• 1933 : Fritz Lampert , German doctor and cancer researcher
• 1935 : Reshat Bardhi , Albanian theologian
• 1935 : Rüdiger Nehberg , German human rights activist and survivor
• 1935 : Luandino Vieira , Angolan writer
• 1937 : Ron Carter , American jazz bassist
• 1937 : Dick Dale , American musician, surf music pioneer
• 1939 : Renate Apitz , German writer
• 1939 : Paul Gleason , American actor
• 1939 : Yaqui Núñez del Risco , Dominican journalist, television presenter and producer

Amos Oz (* 1939)

• 1939 : Amos Oz , Israeli writer
• 1939 : Rolf Schips , German football player
• 1939 : Helga Heinrich-Steudel , German racing driver
• 1940 : José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde , Spanish religious
• 1940 : Peter Gregg , American racing car driver
• 1941 : David LaFlamme , American musician
• 1941 : Kay Nehm , German lawyer and attorney general
• 1941 : Volker Rittberger , German professor of political science
• 1941 : Joachim Wanke , German bishop
• 1942 : Nickolas Ashford , American songwriter and producer
• 1943 : Nasar Albarjan , Soviet wrestler
• 1943 : Georgi Asparukhov , Bulgarian football player

Monica Bleibtreu (* 1944)

• 1944 : Monica Bleibtreu , Austrian actress
• 1944 : Russi Taylor , American voice actress
• 1944 : Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński , Polish-Kashubian sociologist and science fiction writer
• 1944 : Lothar Zechlin , German constitutional lawyer and rector
• 1945 : Richard Albrecht , German social scientist and author
• 1945 : Issam John Darwich , Syrian clergyman, Bishop of the Sydney Eparchy
• 1945 : Michael Jürgs , German author
• 1945 : Jan Mulder , Dutch football player, author and television commentator
• 1946 : Franz Biedermann , Liechtenstein decathlete
• 1946 : John Watson , Irish Formula 1 racing driver
• 1948 : Peter Botschwina , German professor for theoretical chemistry
• 1948 : Richard B. Hays , American theologian
• 1948 : Hurley Haywood , American racing car driver
• 1948 : George Tupou V , King of Tonga
• 1948 : Rolf Verres , German doctor
• 1949 : Norbert Atzler , German politician
• 1949 : Pekka Päivärinta , Finnish athlete
• 1949 : Graham Swift , British writer
• 1950 : Julien Sanchez , French racing car driver

1951-1975

• 1951 : Julio César Arzú , Honduran football player
• 1951 : Rolf de Heer , Australian director, screenwriter and film producer
• 1951 : Jackie Jackson , American musician and singer

Gérard Jugnot (* 1951)

• 1951 : Gérard Jugnot , French actor, director and screenwriter
• 1951 : Mick Mars , American guitarist ( Mötley Crüe )
• 1952 : Johann Affenzeller , Austrian politician
• 1952 : Günter Aumann , German mathematician
• 1952 : Antony Hamilton , British film actor
• 1952 : Bärbel Höhn , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister and Member of the Bundestag
• 1952 : Vera Lengsfeld , German politician
• 1952 : Jacob Miller , Jamaican reggae singer
• 1953 : Dangutė Ambrasienė , Lithuanian lawyer, judge at the Lithuanian Supreme Court and professor
• 1953 : Oleta Adams , American singer and pianist
• 1954 : Ricky Ford , American jazz saxophonist
• 1954 : Pia Zadora , American singer
• 1955 : Mircea Tiberian , Romanian jazz pianist
• 1956 : David Guterson , writer and journalist

Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth (* 1956)

• 1956 : Ulrike Nasse-Meyfarth , German high jumper, Olympic champion
• 1958 : Keith Haring , American artist
• 1959 : Maurizio Cheli , Italian air force officer and astronaut
• 1959 : Inger Nilsson , Swedish actress
• 1959 : Randy Travis , American country singer and songwriter
• 1960 : Werner Faymann , Austrian politician, Federal Chancellor
• 1960 : Werner Fritsch , German writer, documentary filmmaker and theater maker
• 1961 : Luis Herrera , Colombian racing cyclist
• 1962 : Marit Arnstad , Norwegian politician
• 1963 : Martin Schwalb , German handball trainer
• 1964 : Konrad Antoni , Austrian politician
• 1964 : Mónica Bardem , Spanish actress
• 1964 : Terje Isungset , Norwegian jazz percussionist

Gunther Krichbaum (* 1964)

• 1964 : Gunther Krichbaum , German business lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1964 : Rocco Siffredi , Italian actor, producer and director of porn films
• 1965 : Peter Felten , German diplomat
• 1966 : Dirk Becker , German politician
• 1966 : Doris Eisenburger , German children's book illustrator
• 1966 : Harald Tom Nesvik , Norwegian politician
• 1967 : Ana Gasteyer , American actress and comedian
• 1967 : Michael Kauch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1967 : Dominikus Schwaderlapp , Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cologne and Cathedral Chapter
• 1967 : Bion Tsang , American cellist
• 1967 : Haydar Zorlu , German actor
• 1968 : Olaf Bodden , German soccer player
• 1968 : Francesca Bortolozzi , Italian fencer
• 1968 : Jan Holpert , German handball goalkeeper
• 1968 : Patrick Rohr , Swiss television presenter and journalist
• 1970 : Karla Homolka , Canadian serial killer

Will Arnett (born 1970)

• 1970 : Will Arnett , Canadian actor
• 1971 : Aleksandar Jovanovic , German film actor
• 1971 : Florian Illies , German journalist and book author
• 1971 : Olia Lialina , Russian author
• 1972 : Mike Dirnt , American bassist ( Green Day )
• 1973 : Malin Andersson , Swedish football player and coach
• 1973 : Katrin Apel , German biathlete
• 1973 : Aslanbek Fidarov , Ukrainian wrestler
• 1973 : Gunther Schepens , Belgian football player
• 1975 : Jim Ronny Andersen , Norwegian badminton player
• 1975 : Louise Hansen , Danish football player
• 1975 : Jang Hun , South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1975 : Alexander Wichert , German writer

1976-2000

• 1976 : Simon Jentzsch , German soccer player

Mariusz Jurasik (* 1976)

• 1976 : Mariusz Jurasik , Polish handball player
• 1977 : Sascha Nathan , German actor
• 1977 : Mariano Pernía , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player
• 1978 : Igor Bišćan , Croatian football player
• 1978 : Sigrid Friedmann , Austrian video and installation artist
• 1979 : Meike Anlauff , German rock and pop singer
• 1979 : Danny Byrd , British DJ
• 1979 : Toby Dawson , American freestyle skier
• 1979 : Mieze Katz , German singer
• 1979 : Mathias Rieck , German sailor
• 1979 : Christoph Wenzel , German writer and editor
• 1980 : Franziska Weisz , Austrian actress
• 1981 : Éric Djemba-Djemba , Cameroonian football player
• 1981 : Benjamin Schüßler , German soccer player
• 1982 : Miriam Audrey Hannah , German-Canadian musician

Markus Rogan (* 1982)

• 1982 : Markus Rogan , Austrian swimmer
• 1983 : Mariona Aubert Torrents , Spanish biathlete and cross-country skier
• 1983 : Carlos Grossmüller , Uruguayan football player
• 1983 : Ane Halsboe-Jørgensen , Danish politician
• 1983 : Edit Lengyel , Hungarian handball player
• 1983 : Rubén Olivera , Uruguayan football player
• 1983 : Michael Rösch , Belgian-German biathlete
• 1984 : Olumuyiwa Aganun , Nigerian soccer player
• 1984 : Sarah Meier , Swiss figure skater
• 1985 : Minik Dahl Høegh , Greenlandic handball player
• 1985 : Daniel Wolf , Austrian soccer player
• 1987 : Cesc Fàbregas , Spanish football player
• 1987 : Nastja Kamenskich , Ukrainian singer

Jorge Lorenzo (* 1987)

• 1987 : Jorge Lorenzo , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1987 : Anjeza Shahini , Albanian pop singer
• 1988 : Nycke Groot , Dutch handball player
• 1988 : Radja Nainggolan , Belgian-Indonesian soccer player
• 1988 : Kyle Singler , American basketball player
• 1988 : Kevin Thonhofer , Austrian soccer player
• 1989 : Dániel Gyurta , Hungarian swimmer
• 1989 : Mario Maloča , Croatian football player
• 1989 : Wladyslaw Wolyk , Ukrainian billiards player
• 1990 : Christoph Kröpfl , Austrian football player
• 1990 : Bram Nuytinck , Dutch football player
• 1992 : Victor Oladipo , American basketball player
• 1992 : Denys Schaforostow , Ukrainian musician
• 1992 : Lisa Schmitz , German soccer goalkeeper
• 1992 : Clay Thompson , American tennis player
• 1992 : Ramon Zenhäusern , Swiss skier
• 1997 : Nathalie Björn , Swedish soccer player
• 1998 : Tijana Bogdanović , Serbian Taekwondoin
• 1998 : Lili Paul-Roncalli , Austrian artist
• 1999 : Nelson Mandela Mbouhom , Cameroonian football player
• 2000 : Agustín Urzi , Argentinian football player

21st century

2001-2025

• 2003 : Lorenz Knöferl , German soccer player

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0304 : Florian von Lorch , Christian martyr
• 0784 : Arbeo , Bishop of Freising
• 0837 : Willerich , Bishop of Bremen
• 1003 : Hermann II , Duke of Swabia
• 1082 : Lothar Udo II. , Count of Stade, Margrave of the Nordmark
• 1090 : Hermann , Bishop of Metz
• 1188 : Humbert III. , Count of Savoy
• 1261 : Engelhard von Dolling , Bishop of Eichstätt
• 1269 : Gerhard I , Bishop of Verden
• 1293 : Volkwin V. von Schwalenberg , Bishop of Minden
• 1298 : Frederick VI. , Count of Zollern
• 1316 : Rainald von Bar , Bishop of Metz
• 1406 : Coluccio Salutati Italian humanist and politician, Chancellor of Florence, discoverer of Cicero's letters
• 1436 : Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson , Swedish people's leader and imperial governor
• 1436 : Johann I , French nobleman, Count of Foix and Birgorre
• 1471 : Humphry Bourchier, 1st Baron Cromwell , English nobleman
• 1471 : John Delves , English knight
• 1471 : William Vaux , English knight
• 1471 : Edward of Westminster , English nobleman, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall

16th and 17th centuries

• 1502 : Berthold II of Landsberg , Bishop of Verden and Hildesheim
• 1505 : Ladislaus von Gielniów , Polish St. Bernard monk and poet
• 1508 : Christoph Mendel von Steinfels , German bishop of Chiemsee

Lorenzo di Piero de 'Medici († 1519)

• 1519 : Lorenzo di Piero de 'Medici , Duke of Urbino and ruler of Florence
• 1527 : Shōhaku , Japanese poet
• 1528 : Bernhard Strigel , German painter
• 1530 : Niklas von Salm , renaissance general
• 1548 : Busso X. von Alvensleben , Bishop of Havelberg and diplomat of the Catholic Church
• 1555 : Gotthard III. von Hoeveln , Mayor of Lübeck
• 1556 : Luca Ghini , Italian doctor and botanist
• 1571 : Friedrich Casimir , Duke of Teschen and Bielitz
• 1571 : Pierre Viret , Swiss reformer in Geneva, Lausanne and France
• 1573 : Lambert Auer , German Jesuit, preacher and theologian
• 1591 : Hugo Donellus , French lawyer
• 1603 : Juraj IV. Zrinski , Croatian nobleman
• 1606 : Hans von Khevenhüller-Frankenburg , imperial envoy in Madrid
• 1629 : Thomas Weinrich , German Lutheran theologian
• 1605 : Ulisse Aldrovandi , Italian doctor and naturalist
• 1630 : Christine Teipel , victim of the witch hunt in Oberkirchen in the Sauerland
• 1649 : Martín de Mujica y Buitrón , Spanish officer and governor of Chile
• 1664 : Marcus Banzer , German medic
• 1664 : Cornelis de Graeff , Dutch statesman and diplomat
• 1673 : Richard Brathwaite , English author
• 1678 : Anna Maria von Schürmann , Dutch-German polymath
• 1681 : Johannes Musaeus , German Protestant theologian
• 1694 : Ludwig Anton von Pfalz-Neuburg , Bishop of Worms
• 1696 : Johann Siricius , Mayor of Lübeck

18th century

• 1709 : Eleonore Klara , Countess of Nassau-Saarbrücken
• 1714 : Charles de Bourbon , Duke of Berry, Count of Ponthieu, Duke of Alençon and Duke of Angoulême, Prince of France (* 1686 )
• 1722 : Johann Balthasar Burckhardt , Mayor of Basel
• 1722 : Claude Gillot , French painter
• 1727 : Louis Armand II. De Bourbon , Prince of Conti and Field Marshal
• 1729 : Louis-Antoine de Noailles , French cardinal and Archbishop of Paris
• 1729 : Giulio Simonetti , Swiss builder and architect
• 1734 : Abel Renz , merchant and mayor of Tübingen
• 1737 : Maria Sophia Bawyr von Frankenberg , abbess in St. Cäcilien in Cologne
• 1737 : Ferdinand Kettler , Duke of Courland
• 1743 : Katharina von Altenbockum , Princess of Teschen, mistress of the Polish King and Saxon Elector Augustus the Strong
• 1746 : Antonio Pollarolo , Italian organist and composer
• 1752 : Augustin Leyser , German lawyer
• 1755 : Ignazio Visconti , 16th general of the Societas Jesu
• 1774 : Anton Ulrich , Prince of Braunschweig, general in Russian service
• 1783 : Franz Andreas Holly , Bohemian composer
• 1795 : Georg Alexander Heinrich Herrmann von Callenberg , landlord of the Free State of Muskau
• 1795 : John Kean , American politician
• 1800 : Christine Boyer , wife of Lucien Bonaparte
• 1800 : Johann Rudolf Fischer , Swiss Protestant clergyman

19th century

• 1802 : Friedrich Ernst von Bülow , Elector of Hanover, landowner and landscape director
• 1807 : Jeremias Benjamin Richter , chemist
• 1809 : Martin Anton Seltenhorn , German church painter
• 1824 : Joseph Joubert , French moralist and essayist
• 1829 : Johann Gustav Gottlieb Büsching , German archaeologist, Germanist and folklorist
• 1831 : Friedrich Philipp Wilmsen , German Reformed theologian and educator
• 1836 : Friedrich Hansmann , honorary citizen of Berlin

Christine Englerth († 1838)

• 1838 : Christine Englerth , German entrepreneur and owner of hard coal mines in the Aachen area
• 1840 : Friedrich August Ludewig , German clergyman, educator and writer
• 1845 : Josef Danhauser , Austrian painter and graphic artist
• 1869 : Heinrich Max Imhof , Swiss sculptor
• 1870 : Carl Lehmann , Palatinate tax officer and mayor of Frankenthal
• 1875 : Heinrich Ewald , German theologian and orientalist
• 1878 : Ferdinand Höfer , Franco-German doctor, lexicographer and writer
• 1879 : William Froude , British naval engineer
• 1897 : Johann Georg Fischer , German poet and playwright
• 1898 : Leo Arnoldi , German railway civil engineer and entrepreneur

20th century

1901-1950

• 1910 : Adolph Woermann , Hamburg merchant, shipowner and politician
• 1919 : Richard Alexander Georg Wühner , Estonian pastor and Protestant martyr
• 1921 : Alfred Hermann Fried , Austrian pacifist and publicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1929 : Vladimir Kenig , Polish composer
• 1932 : José Mardones , Spanish opera singer
• 1933 : Alexander Marshall Mackenzie , Scottish architect
• 1934 : Edmund Edel , German graphic artist, writer and director
• 1935 : August Asmuth , German politician
• 1938 : Kanō Jigorō , founder of the martial arts Judo

Carl von Ossietzky († 1938)

• 1938 : Carl von Ossietzky , German journalist, writer and pacifist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1939 : Richard Wossidlo , founder of Mecklenburg folklore
• 1940 : Celine Marier , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
• 1943 : Géo André , French athlete
• 1943 : Wilhelm Middelschulte , German organist and composer
• 1945 : Hans Avé-Lallemant , German company director
• 1945 : Fedor von Bock , German field marshal
• 1945 : Peter Hütgens , German politician and member of the Reichstag
• 1949 : Valerio Bacigalupo , Italian football player
• 1949 : Aldo Ballarin , Italian football player
• 1949 : Émile Bongiorni , French football player
• 1949 : Eusebio Castigliano , Italian football player

Ernő Erbstein († 1949)

• 1949 : Ernő Erbstein , Hungarian football player and coach
• 1949 : Guglielmo Gabetto , Italian football player
• 1949 : Roger Grava , Italian-French football player
• 1949 : Giuseppe Grezar , Italian football player
• 1949 : Ezio Loik , Italian football player
• 1949 : Virgilio Maroso , Italian football player
• 1949 : Danilo Martelli , Italian football player
• 1949 : Valentino Mazzola , Italian football player
• 1949 : Romeo Menti , Italian football player
• 1949 : Piero Operto , Italian football player
• 1949 : Franco Ossola , Italian football player
• 1949 : Mario Rigamonti , Italian football player

1951-2000

George Enescu († 1955)

• 1955 : George Enescu , Romanian composer and violinist
• 1957 : Gé Fortgens , Dutch football player
• 1959 : Cardinal Georges Grente , French clergyman, Bishop of Le Mans
• 1960 : Pedro Arispe , Uruguayan soccer player
• 1961 : Robert Pracht , German school musician and composer
• 1961 : Herbert Westren Turnbull , English mathematician
• 1962 : Cécile Vogt , German brain researcher
• 1964 : André Lefèbvre , French automobile designer and racing driver
• 1970 : Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen , German businessman and Swedish consul for German New Guinea
• 1971 : Klara Blum , German-speaking Chinese writer
• 1972 : Edward Calvin Kendall , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1973 : Anton Ackermann , German communist and party functionary, candidate for the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
• 1973 : Jane Bowles , American writer
• 1973 : César Pérez Sentenat , Cuban composer
• 1974 : Franz Angel , Austrian mineralogist, petrograph and university lecturer
• 1975 : Moe Howard , American comedian ( The Three Stooges )
• 1980 : Joe Henderson , British piano player

Josip Broz Tito († 1980)

• 1980 : Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslav partisan leader and politician, head of state
• 1984 : Diana Dors , British actress
• 1984 : Willie Ormond , Scottish football player and coach
• 1985 : Jan Appel , German revolutionary
• 1987 : Paul Butterfield , American blues musician
• 1994 : Andrei Wassiljewitsch Abramow , Soviet boxer
• 1994 : Heinrich Homann , German politician, party functionary in the GDR
• 1994 : Edwin Rausch , German psychologist
• 1998 : Gerhard Jakob , German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop
• 1998 : Theodor Oberländer , German politician
• 2000 : Alexander Ilyich Achijeser , Russian-Ukrainian theoretical physicist

21st century

• 2001 : Rudi Strahl , German playwright, storyteller and poet
• 2002 : Rolf Friedemann Pauls , German diplomat
• 2003 : Johannes Agnoli , German political scientist and philosopher
• 2003 : Friedrich Steinbauer , German theologian and anthropologist
• 2004 : Coxsone Dodd , Jamaican producer
• 2004 : Carlheinz Hollmann , German television presenter
• 2004 : David Reimer , Canadian who grew up as a girl
• 2005 : Yakovos Bilek , German basketball coach

David Haskell Hackworth († 2005)

• 2005 : David Haskell Hackworth , American military expert
• 2006 : Walter Conrad , German writer
• 2006 : Fritz Schenk , German publicist, journalist and radio presenter
• 2006 : Alma Würth , German entrepreneur
• 2007 : Herbert Schindler , German art historian
• 2007 : Karl Schlögl , Austrian chemist
• 2008 : Richard Holme , British politician
• 2008 : Kishan Maharaj , Indian tabla player
• 2008 : Colin Murdoch , New Zealand pharmacist, veterinarian and inventor
• 2008 : Gerhard Schmidt , German-Danish farmer, main chairman of the Association of German North Schleswig-Holstein
• 2009 : Dom DeLuise , American actor and director
• 2009 : Fritz Muliar , Austrian actor
• 2009 : Gisela Stein , German actress
• 2012 : Freddy Kottulinsky , German-Swedish motor sportsman
• 2010 : Cardinal Luigi Poggi , Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
• 2012 : Haukur Angantýsson , Icelandic chess player
• 2012 : Adam Yauch , American musician, producer and director
• 2012 : Rashidi Yekini , Nigerian soccer player
• 2013 : Christian de Duve , Belgian biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 2013 : Klaus-Peter Stein , German soccer player
• 2014 : Ross Lonsberry , Canadian ice hockey player
• 2014 : Al Pease , Canadian racing car driver
• 2015 : Umberto Arlati , Swiss jazz trumpeter and music teacher
• 2015 : Wolfgang Suppan , Austrian musicologist
• 2016 : Ursula Mamlok , German-American composer
• 2016 : Emma-Maria Lange , German sculptor and doll maker
• 2017 : William J. Baumol , American economist
• 2017 : Bart Carlier , Dutch football player
• 2018 : Abi Ofarim , Israeli dancer, singer, guitarist and choreographer
• 2018 : Hermann Huber , German diplomat
• 2019 : Prospero Nograles Filipino politician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Michael Schirmer , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
  • St. Florian von Lorch , Roman civil servant, martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
  • Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken , German-American pastor and missionary (Protestant: LCMS )
  • Nine Martyrs from England and Wales
• Name days
  • Florian , Guido , Valerie

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Netherlands : National Doden Herdenking

• More information about the day
  • Star Wars Day

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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