November 4th
The November 4 is the 308th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 309th in leap years ), thus remain 57 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1493 : On his second voyage, Christopher Columbus is the first European to land on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe . He and his crew are offered pineapple fruits that are unknown to them as a welcome gift .
- 1520 : After his victory over the Swedish ruler Sten Sture the Younger , the Danish King Christian II is crowned King of Sweden . A general amnesty is promised to the followers of Sten Sture . Christian II had around a hundred members of the opposition executed in the Stockholm carnage .
- 1549 : As a result of the Burgundian Treaty on the Habsburg Netherlands, Emperor Charles V issues a pragmatic sanction that removes the seventeen provinces from the Holy Roman Empire .
- 1576 : Mercenaries who have not been paid for a long time in the service of King Philip II of Spain begin violence against the population in Antwerp during the Eighty Years' War in order to squeeze out money. The Spanish Fury raged for three days and destroyed the city considerably.
- 1597 : At the Battle of Carrickfergus during the Nine Years War , the Irish rebels under Hugh O'Neill defeat the English troops.
- 1619 : Frederick V of the Palatinate is in Prague's Wenceslas Chapel the King of Bohemia crowned.
- 1706 : A majority of the Scottish Parliament approves the amalgamation of Scotland with the Kingdom of England . The Act of Union comes into force on May 1, 1707.
- 1786 : The French explorer Jean-François de La Perouse discovered the first European one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands , baptizing them - after the French finance minister Jacques Necker - Ile Necker .
- 1791 : In the Battle of the Wabash River , the US Army suffers its greatest defeat in combat with Indians .
- 1794 : At the Battle of Praga , east of Warsaw , Russian troops finally crush the Kościuszko uprising in Poland . After the battle there is a massacre of the civilian population. The uprising gave rise to the final liquidation of Poland in 1795.
- 1797 : After the Treaty of Campo Formio divided France the ceded territory of the Reich on the left bank of the Rhine an administratively. The Treaty of Lunéville later confirmed the annexation .
- 1814 : According to the preliminary drawing in the Peace of Kiel , the Norwegian Storting elects Karl XIII. of Sweden unanimously to his regent.
- 1848 : After the February Revolution , the French National Assembly passes the Constitution of the Second Republic , which provides for the election of a president.
- 1852 : Camillo Benso Graf von Cavour becomes Prime Minister of Sardinia-Piedmont and subsequently promotes the unification of Italy as a nation state.
- 1884 : Democrat Grover Cleveland narrowly wins the US presidential election against Republican James G. Blaine .
- 1901 : Following the ideals of Romanticism , the German Wandervogel is founded as a bourgeois youth movement by Karl Fischer in Steglitz near Berlin.
- 1911 : With the Morocco-Congo Treaty , which ended the Second Morocco Crisis , the German Empire recognized France's dominance in Morocco and in return received New Cameroon as part of the German colonies in Africa.
- 1915 : The Third Isonzo Battle in the Mountain War of the First World War between Italy and Austria-Hungary ends without a military winner.
- 1917 : October 22 according to the Russian calendar In the run-up to the October Revolution , the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet under the leadership of Leon Trotsky takes over command of the garrisons in the Russian capital.
- 1918 : The formation of the first workers' and soldiers' council in Kiel in the wake of the sailors' uprising marks the beginning of the November Revolution .
- 1918 : First World War : The Villa Giusti armistice between Austria-Hungary and Italy / the Entente comes into force; this also ends the battle of Vittorio Veneto .
- 1921 : The " NSDAP- Assemblies Protection" founded by Ernst Röhm receives the official name Sturmabteilung (SA).
- 1921 : A fanatical naval officer stabs the Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi to death in Tokyo Central Station.
- 1923 : The Norwegian Communist Party ( Norges Kommunistiske Parti ) is founded.
- 1924 : Nellie Tayloe Ross is elected governor of Wyoming as the first woman in the United States .
- 1942 : Since the pressure of the Allies in the second battle of El Alamein becomes too great, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel withdraws from El Alamein . In doing so, he is defying an express order from Adolf Hitler .
- 1950 : The European Convention on Human Rights is signed in Rome as part of the Council of Europe .
- 1952 : Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower wins the US presidential election against Democrat Adlai Ewing Stevenson II.
- 1952 : The US foreign secret National Security Agency is formally established.
- 1956 : With the invasion of the Soviet Army , the violent suppression of the Hungarian people's uprising begins, which lasted until November 15th .
- 1968 : The battle at Tegeler Weg becomes a significant turning point in the history of the APO of the 68 movement
- 1977 : The UN imposes an arms embargo on the apartheid regime in South Africa .
- 1979 : The 444-day hostage-taking of Tehran begins with the storming of the US embassy by Iranian students as part of a demonstration .
- 1980 : Republican challenger Ronald Reagan wins the US presidential election against incumbent Jimmy Carter .
- 1986 : With the 4th broadcasting judgment, the Federal Constitutional Court underpins the dual broadcasting system in Germany.
- 1989 : For the Alexanderplatz demonstration, the largest non-state demonstration in GDR history , around a million people gather in East Berlin during the peaceful revolution , demanding freedom of expression and assembly and a reformed GDR .
- 1993 : Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada following the Liberal victory in the general election in October .
- 1995 : Middle East peace process : Israeli Prime Minister Jitzhak Rabin is assassinated by Jigal Amir in Tel Aviv .
- 1999 : In Albania , Ilir Meta is confirmed as Prime Minister by parliament .
- 1999 : The CDU donation affair begins with an arrest warrant against Walther Leisler Kiep .
- 1999 : Mexico adopts observer status in the Council of Europe .
- 2001 : In Northern Ireland , the Police Service of Northern Ireland replaces the Royal Ulster Constabulary as police.
- 2006 : Western Europe experiences a power outage , the largest in 30 years: Approx. 10 million people in France , Germany , Belgium , Italy , Austria and Spain are without electricity for up to two hours .
- 2008 : Barack Obama is the first African American to be elected 44th President of the United States by a comfortable margin .
- 2011 : The right-wing extremist terrorists Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt , members of the core trio of the National Socialist Underground, are tracked down by the police after a bank robbery in Eisenach (Thuringia) and found dead in their mobile home .
economy
- 1856 : In Galatz the first Danube Conference of the European powers, which on issues of shipping traffic on the starting Danube advises and the Commission of the Danube riparian States calls into being.
- 1871 : The Hamburg-South American Steamship Company is founded by eleven trading houses.
- 1879 : James Ritty , a saloon owner from Dayton , Ohio , files a patent for the cash register he invented .
- 1889 : On the Vennbahn between Aachen and Luxembourg , operations are fully started.
- 1983 : The IBH-Holding founded by Horst-Dieter Esch , a construction machinery company based in Mainz , collapses under a debt load of around 500 million euros.
- 1984 : The French pay TV transmitters Canal + begins with the broadcast of his nationally to be received program.
science and technology
- 1861 : The University of Washington begins teaching in Seattle .
- 1869 : The first issue of the British science journal Nature is published.
- 1877 : The Maria Pia Bridge in Porto is ceremoniously inaugurated. Gustave Eiffel's railway structure spans the Duero River .
- 1890 : The City and South London Railway opens, a predecessor of today's London Underground .
- 1899 : Sigmund Freud's early major work The Interpretation of Dreams appears - predated to 1900 by the author.
- 1911 : In Copenhagen the place launching of Selandia the first two takes, diesel engines and electric cargo winches equipped, ocean-going cargo motor ship .
- 2003 : The largest solar flare ever observed has a magnitude of X45, as demonstrated by physicists at the University of Otago in Dunedin , New Zealand , using the Earth's upper atmosphere as a giant X-ray detector .
Culture
- 1655 : The world premiere of the musical drama L'Argia by Antonio Cesti takes place in Innsbruck .
- 1717 : The first performance of the opera Trajanus by Reinhard Keizer takes place at the Theater am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg .
- 1718 : The opera Ifigenia in Aulide by Alessandro Scarlatti is premiered in Vienna .
- The following operas by Antonio Caldara will be premiered at the Vienna Court Theater :
- 1737 : The Teatro San Carlo opens in Naples with Domenico Sarro's opera Achille in Sciro , at the time the largest opera house in the world.
- 1774 : The comedy Berthe of François-Joseph Gossec is at the Théâtre de la Monnaie premiered in Brussels.
- 1774 : The world premiere of the opera Lucius Sulla by Johann Christian Bach takes place in Mannheim .
- 1783 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 36th Symphony ( Linz Symphony ) is premiered.
- 1788 : The first painting exhibition takes place in Munich . This is establishing itself as a recurring event with international participation.
- 1792 : The opera Elfrida by Giovanni Pacini is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .
- 1825 : Wilhelm Hauff's fairy tale almanac for the year 1826 appears.
- 1890 : Three years after the death of Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin , his opera Prince Igor is premiered in Saint Petersburg.
- 1908 : The first performance of the opera Versiegel by Leo Blech takes place at the Hamburg City Theater .
- 1922 : Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings .
- 1932 : Benito Mussolini hands over the Mussolini obelisk to the public in the Forum Mussolini near Rome , after holding a celebration in Rome for the 10th anniversary of the fascist takeover of power in Italy. It is the largest monolith made by human hands in the 20th century.
- 1954 : At the Majestic Theater in New York City that is musical Fanny by Harold Rome premiered. The libretto is by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman and Joshua Logan based on a trilogy of drama by Marcel Pagnol .
- 1964 : The first film about Fantomas premieres in France .
- 1978 : The full-length story ballet Kamelliendame by John Neumeier (choreography and libretto) with music by Frédéric Chopin from the Stuttgart Ballet is premiered in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart .
- 1988 : The premiere of Thomas Bernhard's drama Heldenplatz at the Burgtheater in Vienna causes a scandal.
society
- 1677 : The future Queen Maria II and Wilhelm III marry in London . of Orange-Nassau .
- 1970 : The thirteen-year-old wolf child Genie is discovered by an attentive social worker in Los Angeles . The mother has it with her when she visits the authorities. Until then, she spent most of the time tied up at home.
religion
- 1990 : The Catholic priest Simon Jubani celebrates the first public service in Shkodra after 23 years, thus ending the ban on religion in Albania .
- 2012 : The auxiliary bishop of Beheira , Tawadros II , is elected 118th Pope of the Coptic Church .
Disasters
- 1875 : The paddle steamer Pacific collides with the sailing ship Orpheus southwest of Cape Flattery on the coast of the US state of Washington and sinks. 273 passengers and crew die, including all women and children.
- 1966 : The Arno overflows its banks and floods large parts of Florence . Numerous people are killed, works of art worth several million are damaged or destroyed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1900 : The German Rugby Association is founded in Kassel .
- 1905 : The founding of the German Ski Association is decided in Munich.
- 1921 : The German Dance Sports Association is established as the Reich Association for Dance Sports through an entry in the Berlin register of associations .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1435 : Philippe de Lévis , French cardinal
- 1448 : Alfonso II , King of Naples
- 1470 : Edward V , King of England for a few weeks in 1483
- 1501 : Pietro Bertani , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1509 : Johann , Duke of Münsterberg, Oels and Bernstadt
- 1537 : Jacob Flach , German mathematician, physician and botanist
- 1575 : Guido Reni , Italian painter
- 1577 : Père Joseph , French Capuchin
- 1578 : Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg , Duke of Pfalz-Neuburg and Jülich-Berg
- 1592 : Gerrit van Honthorst , Dutch painter
- 1594 : Johann Martin zu Stolberg , Count of Stolberg
- 1615 : İbrahim , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1639 : Andreas Thamasch , Austrian sculptor
- 1652 : Marc René de Voyer de Paulmy, marquis d'Argenson , French statesman
- 1661 : Charles III. Philip , Count Palatine and Elector Palatinate
- 1669 : Johann Balthasar Beyschlag , German Protestant theologian and hymn composer
- 1687 : Catharina Christina von Ahlefeldt , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg
18th century
- 1702 : Jacob Wächtler , German Lutheran theologian
- 1705 : Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne de Tressan , French writer and encyclopaedist
- 1720 : Jean Baptiste Christophe Fusée Aublet , French botanist and pharmacist
- 1723 : Friedrich Wilhelm III. , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, Prussian colonel and governor of Brandenburg an der Havel
- 1729 : William Bradford , American politician
- 1731 : Maria Josepha Carolina of Saxony , Dauphine of France
- 1732 : Thomas Johnson , American lawyer and politician
- 1740 : Augustus Montague Toplady , English clergyman and song poet
- 1744 : Johann III Bernoulli , Swiss astronomer
- 1752 : Ildephons Schwarz , German Catholic theologian
- 1757 : Francis de Rottenburg , British general and military writer of German-Polish origin
- 1766 : John Adams , British mutineer on the Bounty , co-founder of the Pitcairn colony
- 1768 : Francesco Maria Appendini , Italian philologist and historian
- 1779 : Gustav Adolf Ferdinand Heinrich Leo , German civil servant
- 1782 : John Branch , American politician
- 1784 : Joseph Bové , Russian-Italian architect and town builder
- 1787 : Edmund Kean , British actor
- 1790 : Carlos Antonio López , President of Paraguay (1844 to 1862)
- 1798 : Henriette Méric-Lalande , French opera singer
19th century
- 1801 : Jacob Ludwig Theodor Reh , German politician
- 1830 : Romain Bussine , French singer, singing teacher and poet
- 1836 : Charles B. Andrews , American politician
- 1844 : Arnold Gaedeke , German historian
- 1844 : Ulrich Kreusler , German agricultural chemist
- 1846 : Gaston Serpette , French composer
- 1847 : Gustav Hirschfeld , German archaeologist
- 1849 : Max Kienitz , German forester, forest scientist and conservationist
- 1853 : Constantin von Monakow , Russian-Swiss neurologist
- 1854 : Simon Angerpointner , German politician
- 1859 : Stanisław Niewiadomski , Polish composer, conductor, music teacher and critic
- 1864 : Robert Lorimer , British architect and furniture designer
- 1868 : Camille Jenatzy , Belgian racing car driver and designer
- 1868 : La Belle Otéro , Spanish revue dancer, singer and mistress
- 1871 : William Hammond Wright American astronomer
- 1873 : Izumi Kyōka , Japanese writer
- 1873 : George Edward Moore , British linguist
- 1873 : Bobby Wallace , American baseball player and manager
- 1875 : Pablo Burchard Eggeling , Chilean painter
- 1877 : Tomasz Stefan Arciszewski , Polish politician
- 1878 : Giuseppe Adami , Italian playwright, librettist, screenwriter and music critic
- 1885 : Felix Braun , Austrian poet, storyteller and dramatist
- 1887 : Smizer Schylunowitsch , Belarusian politician and writer
- 1887 : Carlos López y Valles , Mexican actor
- 1887 : Štefan Lux , Czechoslovak artist and journalist
- 1888 : Richard Queck , German football player
- 1890 : István Déván , Hungarian athlete and winter sports enthusiast
- 1890 : Klabund , German writer
- 1894 : Lloyd Thomas Andrews , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1894 : Varvara Stepanova , Russian artist
- 1894 : Valérie von Martens , Austrian actress
- 1894 : Hermann Conring , German politician, MdL and MdB
- 1896 : JR Ackerley , English writer
- 1897 : Oscar Lorenzo Fernández , Brazilian composer
- 1899 : Nicolas Frantz , Luxembourg cyclist
- 1899 : Blandine Ebinger , German actress and chanson singer
- 1900 : Werner Borchardt , German physiologist and climatologist
- 1900 : Isabelle Delorme , Canadian music teacher and composer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Spyridon Marinatos , Greek archaeologist
- 1902 : Otto Bayer , German chemist
- 1902 : Pierre Verger , Franco-Brazilian photographer
- 1903 : Awerki Borissowitsch Aristow , Soviet politician and diplomat
- 1904 : Werner Henneberger , German architect, social democrat and anarchist
- 1906 : Judith Andrée-Hanslik , Austrian philologist
- 1906 : Siegfried Borris , German composer, musicologist and music teacher
- 1906 : Arnold Cooke , British composer
- 1906 : Bernhard Günther , German politician
- 1907 : Tun Datuk Pengiran Haji Ahmad Raffae , 2nd ceremonial head of state of the Malaysian state of Sabah
- 1907 : Fritz Buri , Swiss pastor and professor of theology
- 1907 : Karin Hahn-Hissink , German ethnologist
- 1907 : Draga Matković , German concert pianist and music teacher
- 1908 : Joseph Rotblat , Polish-British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1911 : Shimizu Osamu , Japanese composer
- 1912 : Enrique González Mántici , Cuban conductor, violinist and composer
- 1915 : Lloyd James Austin , Australian Romance scholar and literary scholar
- 1915 : Alistair Cameron Crombie , Australian historian of science
- 1916 : Walter Cronkite , American journalist
- 1916 : Lo Hartog van Banda , Dutch comics scenarist and author
- 1916 : Ruth Handler , American entrepreneur
- 1918 : Art Carney , American film actor
- 1919 : Martin Balsam , American actor
- 1919 : Victor Sparre , Norwegian painter
- 1919 : Eric Thompson , British racing car driver
- 1921 : Kurt Abraham , German jazz musician
- 1921 : Miriam Solovieff , American violinist and music teacher
- 1922 : Benno Besson , German theater director
- 1922 : Ralph Earl Sutton , American musician
- 1923 : Barbara Bartos-Höppner , German writer
- 1923 : Carlos Botto Vallarino , Chilean composer and music teacher
- 1923 : Alfred Heineken , Dutch brewer
- 1923 : Howie Meeker , Canadian sports commentator and ice hockey player, trainer and official
- 1923 : Eugene Sledge , American soldier, author, and professor
- 1923 : Harry Valérien , German television presenter and author
1926-1950
- 1927 : John O'Gorman Arundel , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1928 : Manzoor Hussain Atif , Pakistani hockey player and sports official
- 1928 : Larry Bunker , American jazz drummer
- 1929 : Günter Felke , German entrepreneur
- 1929 : Rudolf Miele , German entrepreneur
- 1930 : Lore Krainer , Austrian cabaret artist ( Der Guglhupf )
- 1930 : Doris Roberts , American actress
- 1930 : Wilhelm Willms , German writer
- 1931 : Bernard Francis Law , Archbishop Emeritus of Boston and Cardinal
- 1932 : Thomas Klestil , Austrian Federal President
- 1932 : Albert Reynolds , Irish Prime Minister
- 1933 : Charles Kuen Kao , American-British physicist of Chinese origin, Nobel Prize winner
- 1933 : Volker Kühn , German cabaret historian
- 1936 : Egon Evertz , German entrepreneur, racing car driver, musician and chess player
- 1937 : Werner Aderhold , German musicologist
- 1939 : Yağmur Atsız , Turkish journalist, columnist, essayist and poet
- 1939 : Günter Bernard , German football player
- 1939 : Achille Bonito Oliva , Italian art historian
- 1940 : Marlène Jobert , French actress
- 1941 : Raúl Emilio Bernao , Argentine soccer player
- 1941 : Klaus Kirschner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1944 : Willem Breuker , Dutch jazz saxophonist and band leader
- 1944 : Wolfgang von Geldern , German politician
- 1946 : Laura Bush , 45th US First Lady
- 1946 : David Garibaldi , American drummer
- 1946 : Robert Mapplethorpe , American photographer
- 1946 : Penny McLean , Austrian singer and author
- 1946 : Luciana Serra , Italian opera singer
- 1947 : Ike Thomas , American football player
- 1947 : Bettina Wegner , German songwriter
- 1948 : Mir Tamim Ansary , Afghan-American writer and historian
- 1948 : Birgit Steinegger , Swiss actress, parodist and entertainer
- 1948 : Amadou Toumani Touré , Malian President
- 1950 : Charles Frazier , American writer
1951-1975
- 1951 : David Arner , American jazz pianist, composer and university professor
- 1951 : Reina Roffé , Argentine writer and journalist
- 1952 : Robin Lautenbach , German journalist
- 1953 : Tina Theune-Meyer , German soccer coach
- 1954 : Alexander Aksinin , Russian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1954 : Klaus Ignatzek , German jazz musician
- 1954 : Hervé Regout , Belgian racing driver
- 1955 : Matti Vanhanen , Finnish politician; Prime Minister of Finland from 2003 to 2010
- 1955 : Andreas Willscher , German church musician and composer
- 1956 : James Honeyman-Scott , British musician ( Pretenders )
- 1956 : Jordan Rudess , American keyboardist
- 1956 : Andreas Schmidt , German politician
- 1957 : Anthony John Abbott , Australian politician
- 1957 : Hansjörg Schertenleib , Swiss writer and translator
- 1958 : Joachim Körber , German writer, editor, publisher and translator
- 1958 : Thomas Roberts , American guitarist and songwriter
- 1959 : Andreas Kieling , German documentary filmmaker, film producer and author
- 1959 : Ken Kirzinger , Canadian stuntman and actor
- 1960 : Beatrice Bilgeri , Austrian actress
- 1960 : Adrián Iaies , Argentine jazz and tango pianist and composer
- 1960 : Miss Menke , German singer
- 1961 : Olaug Bollestad , Norwegian politician
- 1961 : Ralph Macchio , American actor
- 1962 : Ixi , German singer
- 1963 : Hennadij Avdjejenko , Soviet high jumper, Olympic champion
- 1963 : Horacio Elizondo , Argentine football referee
- 1963 : Lena Zavaroni , British singer
- 1965 : Jeffrey Ching , British composer of Chinese origin
- 1965 : Tomoaki Ishizuka , Japanese guitarist
- 1965 : Wayne Static , American singer
- 1967 : Kate Cary , British writer, member of the Erin Hunter writing team
- 1967 : Mino Raiola , Italian football player agent
- 1968 : Matthew Tobin Anderson , American author
- 1968 : Krista Bridges , Canadian actress
- 1968 : Hanne Wolharn , German actress
- 1969 : Jan Apell , Swedish tennis player
- 1969 : Sean Combs , American rap musician ( Puff Daddy, P. Diddy )
- 1969 : Thomas Luther , German grandmaster in chess
- 1969 : Matthew McConaughey , American actor
- 1970 : Lauri Aus , Estonian racing cyclist
- 1970 : Tony Sly , American musician
- 1972 : Luís Figo , Portuguese football player
- 1972 : Myles Pollard , Australian actor
- 1974 : Louise Redknapp , English singer
- 1974 : Markus Kullig , German soccer player
- 1975 : José Ignacio Castillo , Argentinian football player
- 1975 : Goran D. Kleut , Australian actor
- 1975 : Orlando Pace , American football player
- 1975 : Heather Tom , American actress
- 1975 : Riku Rajamaa , Finnish guitarist ( Sunrise Avenue )
- 1975 : Araba Walton , German actress and singer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Daniel Bahr , German politician
- 1976 : Bruno Junqueira , Brazilian racing driver
- 1976 : Alexander Popp , German tennis player
- 1976 : Makoto Tamada , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1977 : Ivo Adam , Swiss world champion chef and book author
- 1978 : Konstantin Airich , German-Kazakh boxer
- 1979 : Audrey Hollander , American porn actress
- 1980 : Alexander Archipenko , Russian skeleton driver
- 1980 : Carsten Lichtlein , German handball goalkeeper
- 1980 : Dominique Ndjeng , German soccer player
- 1981 : Ryad Assani-Razaki , Canadian writer
- 1981 : Nicole Dieker , American composer
- 1981 : Christina Krogshede , Danish handball player
- 1981 : Guy Martin , British motorcycle racer
- 1982 : Travis Van Winkle , American actor
- 1984 : Ayila Yussuf , Nigerian soccer player
- 1985 : Annika Olbrich , German actress
- 1985 : Vanessa Struhler , German singer
- 1985 : Marcell Jansen , German soccer player
- 1986 : Suhas Gopinath , young Indian entrepreneur
- 1986 : Alexz Johnson , Canadian actress and singer
- 1986 : Aboubakar Oumarou , Cameroonian football player
- 1986 : Saër Sène , French football player
- 1986 : Doreen Steinert , German singer
- 1986 : Adrian Zaugg , South African racing driver
- 1988 : Robert Cregan , Irish racing car driver
- 1989 : Saeid Mourad Abdvali , Iranian wrestler
- 1989 : Ju Hui , South Korean handball player
- 1990 : Jean-Luc Bilodeau , Canadian child actor and actor
- 1991 : Alon Day , Israeli racing driver
- 1992 : Jasha Sütterlin , German racing cyclist
- 1992 : Julian Wießmeier , German soccer player
- 1993 : Elisabeth Seitz , German gymnast
- 1998 : Darcy Rose Byrnes , American actress
- 1998 : Achraf Hakimi , Moroccan football player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 604 : Yohl Ik'nal , ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
- 999 : Gregor , Abbot of Burtscheid
- 1004 : Otto I , Duke of Carinthia
- 1025 : Mathilde , Countess Palatine of Lorraine
- 1035 : Jaromír , Prince of Bohemia
- 1039 : Egilbert von Moosburg , Bishop of Freising
- 1069 : Rumold , Bishop of Constance
- 1105 : Reginhard von Siegburg , abbot of Michaelsberg Abbey
- 1157 : Mathilde of Savoy , Queen of Portugal
- 1181 : Dietleb , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1188 : Theobald von Ostia , Benedictine and Cardinal
- 1203 : Dietrich VII , Count of Holland
- 1212 : Felix von Valois , founder of the Trinitarian order and saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1252 : Johannes von Wildeshausen , Master of the Dominican Order
- 1318 : Raschīd ad-Dīn , Persian vizier and writer
- 1329 : Edward , Count of Savoy
- 1360 : Elizabeth de Clare , English noblewoman
- 1428 : Sophie of Bavaria , Queen of Bohemia
- 1439 : Raban von Helmstatt , Bishop of Speyer, Archbishop of Trier, Elector
- 1475 : Bartolomeo Colleoni , Italian condottiere
- 1485 : Françoise d'Amboise , Duchess of Brittany
- 1485 : Giovanni Mocenigo , 72nd Doge of Venice
16th to 18th century
- 1511 : Francisco de Borja , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1541 : Wolfgang Capito , reformer of Strasbourg
- 1555 : Agnes , Electress of Saxony
- 1562 : Hieronymus Besold , German Lutheran theologian
- 1567 : Gerolamo Priuli , 83rd Doge of Venice
- 1579 : Wenceslaus III. Adam , Duke of Teschen
- 1600 : Calixtus Schein , Syndicus of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- 1646 : Ludwig Günther I , Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1669 : Ferdinand Maximilian von Baden-Baden , potential Margrave of Baden
- 1672 : Lucas van Uden , Flemish painter and etcher
- 1674 : Kanō Tan'yū , Japanese painter
- 1685 : Albrecht Sigismund of Bavaria , Prince-Bishop of Freising
- 1690 : Johann Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Jena
- 1702 : John Benbow , English admiral
- 1702 : Jacob Wächtler , German Lutheran theologian
- 1704 : Andreas Acoluthus , German orientalist and linguist
- 1708 : Henriette Catharina von Oranien-Nassau , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1708 : Johann Heinrich Keller , Swiss carpenter and author of a template
- 1716 : Leopold Johann of Austria , Archduke of Austria, last born male descendant from the House of Habsburg
- 1716 : Giovanni Simonetti , builder and plasterer from Graubünden in Brandenburg
- 1725 : Johann Georg , Count of Ortenburg
- 1731 : Christoph Tausch , Austrian architect and painter
- 1735 : Nikolaus Carstens , German businessman and councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- 1736 : Carl Gustaf Armfelt , Swedish general
- 1738 : Johann Jacob Syrbius , German philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- 1740 : Peter Friedrich Arpe , German lawyer
- 1753 : Johann Nikolaus Bach , German composer
- 1758 : Johann Christian Stock , German medic
- 1764 : Charles Churchill , English poet
- 1778 : Johann Friedrich Frisch , German Protestant theologian
- 1781 : Faustina Bordoni , Italian singer
- 1781 : Johann Nikolaus Götz , German poet
- 1789 : Karl Heinrich Geisler , German legal scholar
- 1791 : Johann Friedrich Scheuchler , German civil servant
- 1793 : Adam Lux , German revolutionary
- 1794 : Levin Gideon Friedrich von Apenburg , Prussian cavalry officer
19th century
- 1832 : Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden , British lawyer
- 1844 : Giuseppe Angelelli , Italian painter
- 1847 : Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , German composer
- 1847 : Thiệu Trị , third emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
- 1849 : George Anson , British politician
- 1850 : Gustav Schwab , German writer
- 1863 : Robert Hay , Scottish traveler, antique dealer, and Egyptologist
- 1886 : Alexander von Münchhausen , Hanoverian statesman
- 1890 : Helene Demuth , Jenny and Karl Marx's housekeeper
- 1891 : Francisco Gomes de Amorim , Portuguese writer
- 1898 : Charles Jerome Hopkins , American composer
20th century
1901-1975
- 1904 : Gaston Serpette , French composer
- 1906 : Ernst Förstemann , German archivist, librarian and historian
- 1907 : Oskar Nast , German city scholar, only Lord Mayor of Cannstatt
- 1910 : Karl Arnau , Austrian actor
- 1914 : Paul Prüssing , German chemist
- 1914 : Tom von Prince , German colonial officer
- 1915 : Erich Köhler , German naval officer
- 1915 : Adolf Schipper , German officer and colonial official
- 1918 : František Balej , Czech lawyer, translator and humanistic philosopher
- 1918 : Wilfred Owen , British poet
- 1919 : Sofja Andrejewna Tolstaja , Russian writer
- 1921 : Oscar Montelius , Swedish archivist and archaeologist
- 1924 : Gabriel Fauré , French composer and organist
- 1926 : Albin Egger-Lienz , Austrian painter
- 1926 : William Wallace Gilchrist , American painter
- 1929 : Karl von den Steinen , German physician, ethnologist and writer
- 1930 : Yoshifuru Akiyama , Japanese general
- 1932 : Belle Bennett , American actress
- 1935 : Miklós Radnai , Hungarian composer
- 1936 : Etkar Josef André , German politician
- 1939 : Emil Wilhelm Artmann , Austrian civil engineer, architect and university professor
- 1939 : Charles Tournemire , French organist and composer
- 1940 : Felix Mach , German agricultural chemist
- 1941 : Amédé Ardoin , American musician
- 1946 : Josef Mesk , Austrian classical philologist
- 1948 : Helena Zboińska-Ruszkowska , Polish singer and vocal teacher
- 1949 : Otto Arthur Siegfried von Auwers , German physicist
- 1950 : Eliseo Grenet , Cuban pianist and composer
- 1951 : Ernesto Ambrosini , Italian athlete
- 1956 : Luis Rodríguez Arroyo , Spanish actor and director
- 1956 : Freddie Dixon , British motorcycle and car racer
- 1957 : Shoghi Effendi , head of the Baha'i community
- 1959 : Manuel Felipe Rugeles , Venezuelan poet and essayist
- 1963 : Marek Fisz , Polish mathematician
- 1963 : Pascual Ortiz Rubio , politician and President of Mexico
- 1965 : Krsto Odak , Croatian composer
- 1969 : Frank G. Clement , American politician
- 1969 : Ernest Gibson junior , American politician
- 1969 : Ferenc Szabó , Hungarian composer
- 1970 : Lewis Lyne , British officer
- 1970 : Shambhu Maharaj , Indian dancer
- 1970 : Walther Felix Mueller , Mayor of Weimar
- 1973 : Karl Heinrich Waggerl , Austrian writer and poet
1976-2000
- 1976 : Toni Ulmen , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1976 : Grete Popper , German-Czech photographer
- 1977 : Greta Keller , Austrian chanson singer
- 1979 : Jeanne Marie Nancy d'Autremont , French chess player
- 1982 : Alicia Penalba , Argentine-French sculptor
- 1982 : Germaine Rouault , French racing driver
- 1982 : Jacques Tati , French screenwriter, actor and director
- 1985 : Ferdinand Kramer , German architect
- 1985 : Cus D'Amato , American boxing trainer
- 1985 : Rudolf Fernau , German actor
- 1987 : Ekkehard Fritsch , German actor
- 1987 : Danielle Gaubert , French actress
- 1988 : Hermann Graf , German fighter pilot
- 1988 : Alfred Jäger , Czech-German physician
- 1991 : Gerald Donald Aurbach , American physiologist and endocrinologist
- 1992 : Claude Aveline , French writer
- 1992 : Pierre Wissmer , Swiss-French composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1994 : Sam Francis , American painter
- 1994 : Ermes Muccinelli , Italian football player
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- 1995 : Yitzchak Rabin , Israeli chief of staff, politician, minister and prime minister, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1995 : Gilles Deleuze , French philosopher
- 1998 : Marion Donovan , American architect and inventor of the disposable diaper
21st century
- 2003 : Lotte Berk , German-British dancer, gymnastics and dance teacher
- 2004 : Josef Fleckenstein , German historian
- 2004 : Beat Tschümperlin , Swiss politician
- 2005 : Georg Schubert , German painter and graphic artist
- 2006 : Nelson Slade Bond , American writer
- 2006 : Gerhard Goebel , German Bishop of Tromsø
- 2006 : Sergi López Segú , Spanish soccer player
- 2008 : Chertek Amyrbitovna Antschimaa-Toka , Tuvan politician
- 2008 : Michael Crichton , American writer, screenwriter and director
- 2008 : Rosella Hightower , American ballet dancer
- 2008 : Jacques Rossel , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 2009 : Hubertus Brandenburg , German Bishop of Stockholm
- 2010 : George Lee Anderson , American baseball player and manager
- 2010 : Marta Hidy , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 2011 : Ronald William Amess , Australian ice hockey player
- 2011 : Uwe Böhnhardt , German neo-Nazi and terrorist
- 2011 : Uwe Mundlos , German neo-Nazi and terrorist
- 2012 : Pier Cesare Bori , Italian scholar of religion
- 2012 : Ted Curson , American jazz musician
- 2012 : David Resnick Israeli architect and urban planner
- 2012 : Luís Maria Teixeira Pinto , Portuguese economist and politician
- 2012 : Emil Waldmann , German painter
- 2013 : Hans von Borsody , German actor
- 2015 : René Girard , French cultural anthropologist and philosopher
- 2015 : Melissa Mathison , American screenwriter
- 2017 : Savarinathan Michael Augustine , Indian clergyman and archbishop
- 2017 : Isis Krüger , German theater, film and television actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Claude Brousson , French preacher and martyr (Protestant)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Russia : People's Unity Day (since 2005)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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