4th of October
The October 4 is the 277th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 278th in leap years ), thus remain 88 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 610 : Herakleios takes Constantinople and has the Byzantine emperor Phocas, who has ruled since 602 , killed.
- 1209 : In the course of the German throne dispute , Otto IV. Of Braunschweig is succeeded by Pope Innocent III. crowned Roman-German emperor.
- 1440 : The Swedish Diet elects the Danish ruler Christoph von Bayern as King of Sweden .
- 1550 : Elector Moritz von Sachsen begins the siege of the city of Magdeburg , against which the imperial ban was imposed; Magdeburg had refused to accept the Augsburg interim .
- 1568 : The Spaniard Alvaro de Mendaña de Neyra discovers the remote atoll Wake in the Pacific .
- 1582 : In the Catholic countries the Gregorian calendar becomes Pope Gregory XIII. introduced so that October 4th is followed by October 15th the next day.
- 1636 : In the battle of Wittstock during the last phase of the Thirty Years War , the Swedes defeat the Imperial and Saxon armies.
- 1674 : The battle of Enzheim between imperial and French troops in the Dutch War ends without a winner.
- 1693 : In the Palatinate War of Succession , the French win the battle of Marsaglia in the Italian theater of war , where they face allied imperial and Piedmontese troops.
- 1745 : Franz I Stephan , Maria Theresa's husband , is crowned Roman-German Emperor in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1777 : The British Army defeats George Washington's American Continental Army at the Battle of Germantown during the American Revolutionary War .
- 1794 : The French are marching in the War of the First Coalition in Mönchengladbach one.
- 1807 : The reformer Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein is appointed leading minister in Prussia .
- 1816 : After the fall of Emperor Napoleon I , the first parliamentary elections take place in France .
- 1824 : Mexico receives its first republican constitution based on the American model and organizes itself as a federal state .
- 1830 : The provisional government of Belgium proclaims independence from the Netherlands at the time of the Belgian Revolution .
- 1847 : The famous Bordeaux letter is sent in Port Louis , the capital of Mauritius . It contains both the blue and the red Mauritius on the envelope and is now the most expensive philatelic collector's item in the world.
- 1854 : Japan agrees a friendship treaty with Great Britain similar to that which was concluded shortly before with the United States through military pressure.
- 1862 : In the second Battle of Corinth suffered by Confederate troops in the Civil War when the day started earlier attempt to take the city, a defeat to the army of the northern states .
- 1886 : Johannesburg is founded as a place after gold diggers had previously settled in tents.
- 1910 : A military coup breaks out in Portugal against King Manuel II , which grows into a nationwide revolution due to the influx of the population. With the regent's flight into exile in England and the proclamation of the Republic on the following day, the monarchy in Portugal ends.
- 1914 : In Berlin the manifesto An die Kulturwelt! Signed by 93 scientists, artists and writers in Germany is published . published in which every guilt of Germany for the outbreak of war and Allied charges for alleged German war crimes are rejected.
- 1922 : In the Geneva Protocols , the ban on joining Germany is accepted again by Austria. In return, Austria received 650 million gold crowns from a bond from the League of Nations to cope with the hyperinflation after the First World War .
- 1933 : The editors' law in the German Reich defines journalism as a task regulated by the state.
- 1944 : British troops land on the coast of the Peloponnese during World War II and liberate the Greek port city of Patras .
- 1954 : In JHQ Rheindahlen (Joint Headquarters) the handover of command to four different British and NATO headquarters takes place in one place.
- 1958 : France adopts a new constitution ( Fifth French Republic ).
- 1963 : The Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie gives a speech before the United Nations , in which he also addresses the outstanding peace in Africa . A text passage from it is later used by the Jamaican singer and songwriter Bob Marley for the song War .
- 1966 : Basutoland , a British protectorate from 1868 to 1964 and autonomous since then, becomes independent from Great Britain and renamed Lesotho .
- 1989 : The German federal government closes the embassy in Prague to which more than 150 GDR citizens who want to leave the country have fled.
- 1989 : During the transit of GDR refugees from the Prague embassy of the Federal Republic to the FRG, serious clashes broke out between demonstrators and the people's police at Dresden Central Station .
- 1992 : A sixteen-year civil war in Mozambique ends with the signing of a peace treaty in Rome .
- 1993 : In Moscow , troops loyal to the government crush a coup by opponents of reform .
- 2001 : The NATO is due to the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 the alliance case firmly.
- 2003 : The first elections take place in Oman , in which everyone over 21, including women, is entitled to vote.
economy
- 1819 : The Erste Österreichische Spar-Casse , secured by an association founded by Pastor Johann Baptist Weber , accepts its first savings deposits in Vienna .
- 1865 : Austria's first horse-drawn tram starts running between the Schottentor in Vienna and the suburb of Hernals .
- 1883 : The official inauguration of the Orient Express - after the first train departure on June 5th - begins at the Gare de l'Est station in Paris . The initiating Belgian travel company Georges Nagelmackers has also invited journalists. As a result, his company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits , which operates sleeping and dining cars , benefits from reports on the trip.
- 1898 : The first Brocken Railway reaches its final destination on the Brocken at an altitude of 1,125 meters on the officially approved remaining route . In the winter half of the year until 1950 the trains of the Harz narrow-gauge railways end because of the snow masses in Schierke station .
- 1927 : Edward Lasker , better known as a chess player , receives a patent for the breast pump he invented .
- 1947 : The Swedish textile trading company H&M is founded.
- 1955 : The Citroën DS 19 is displayed, stands out for its streamlined body and a hydropneumatic in the suspension of cars of competitors is different.
- 1985 : The American activist Richard Stallman founds the Free Software Foundation (FSF) to promote free software .
- 2000 : Production of the small Rover Mini ends in Birmingham . From BMW one series is placed in a modified version of the Acquisition.
- 2001 : The rock outcrop called Chapf on the road over the Grimsel Pass is blown up. The largest blast in Swiss history to date removed 150,000 cubic meters of rock and averted the risk of further rock falls .
science and technology
- 1725 : The Würzburg scholar Johann Beringer announces a publication on novel fossil finds, the " Würzburg Lying Stones ", which were later exposed as forgeries .
- 1957 : As part of the Sputnik program, the Soviet Union puts Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into earth orbit.
- 1959 : The Soviet lunar probe Lunik 3 starts on the way to the moon . It will orbit the moon and, for the first time, will send images from its back.
- 1960 : The USA's first active communications satellite , Courier 1B , is launched into space .
- 1983 : In Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog in Schleswig-Holstein , the Growian wind power plant , which was the world's largest at that time, goes into operation after previous test runs. Technical problems subsequently cause the prototype to frequently come to a standstill .
- 1986 : The Oosterschelde storm surge barrier in Zeeland is handed over to its destination.
- 2004 : Beginning of the private spaceflight age: SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X-Prize with the second flight over 100 km altitude within two weeks. Brian Binnie is the pilot on this flight .
Culture
- 1721 : The world premiere of the opera Il germanico Marte by Antonio Caldara takes place in Salzburg.
- 1803 : The world premiere of the ballet opera Anacréon, ou L'Amour fugitif ( Anakreon or Fleeting Love ) by Luigi Cherubini takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris .
- 1806 : The first performance of the comic opera Philoclès by Victor Dourlen takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 1815 : The world premiere of the opera Elisabetta regina d'Inghilterra by Gioachino Rossini takes place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
- 1834 : The world premiere of the play Der Traum ein Leben by the Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer takes place in Vienna.
- 1888 : Am K. u. K. Hofoperntheater in Vienna, the pantomime divertissement Die Puppenfee will be premiered with music by Josef Bayer based on a joint libretto by Joseph Haßreiter and Franz Gaul.
- 1913 : In the Berliner Theater in Berlin, the operetta Wie once was premiered in May by Walter Kollo with the libretto by Rudolf Bernauer and Rudolph Schanzer .
- 1916 : The second version of the opera Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss with the libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal is premiered at the Hofoper in Vienna.
- 1928 : In the Metropol Theater in Berlin will operetta Friederike of Franz Lehar with Richard Tauber in the role of the young Goethe premiered. The libretto is by Ludwig Herzer and Fritz Löhner-Beda .
- 1944 : Billie Holiday records the song Lover Man .
- 1997 : The world premiere of the musical Tanz der Vampire by Jim Steinman and Michael Kunze , based on Roman Polański 's film of the same name , takes place under his direction at the Raimund Theater in Vienna.
religion
- 1159 : Viktor IV. , Antipope to Alexander III. , receives papal ordinations under the protection of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa .
- 1512 : Martin Luther does his doctorate in Wittenberg as a licentiate in theology.
- 1529 : The Marburg Articles are created as part of the Marburg Religious Discussion . In the Protestant Lord's Supper dispute, however, there was no understanding between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli .
- 1535 : The Coverdale Bible is the first complete translation of the Bible to be written in modern English . It is published by Miles Coverdale and printed abroad.
- 1571 : The Synod of Emden begins. It shapes the self-image and the church order of the Dutch Reformed Church .
- 1897 : The Franciscan order is in the Union bull Felicitate quadam by Pope Leo XIII. provided with new statutes and standardized.
- 1965 : Paul VI. is the first Pope to address the United Nations General Assembly . His appeal for peace is counted among the most remarkable speeches of the 20th century.
Disasters
- 1744 : The British sailing ship Victory is sighted for the last time off the Channel Islands by other ships in its fleet. During the night it goes down with the 1,150-strong crew in a storm.
- 1992 : 43 people die in the crash of El-Al-Flug 1862 in high-rise buildings in the Amsterdam suburb of Bijlmermeer.
- 2001 : A Tupolev Tu-154 of Sibir Air , on a scheduled flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk , is accidentally shot down by a surface-to-air missile of the Ukrainian Navy during a military exercise on the Black Sea . All 78 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1904 : The football club IFK Göteborg is founded.
- 1945 : Partizan Belgrade is founded.
- 1997 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Andrzej Gołota at the Boardwalk Convention Hall , Atlantic City , New Jersey , by knocked out
- 2006 : Due to scheduling reasons, the first sporting events of the Jogos da Lusofonia 2006 , the first games of the Portuguese-speaking countries, take place in Macau already 3 days before the opening ceremony .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 16th century
- 1274 : Rudolf I , Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine near the Rhine
- 1289 : Louis X , King of France and King of Navarre
- 1379 : Heinrich III. , Prince of Asturias and King of Castile and León
- 1437 : Johann IV. , Duke of Bavaria-Munich
16th to 18th century
- 1515 : Lucas Cranach the Younger , German painter and portraitist
- 1534 : Wilhelm I , Count of Schwarzburg-Frankenhausen
- 1542 : Robert Bellarmin , Italian theologian, Jesuit and doctor of the church, representative of Roman Catholicism and the Counter-Reformation
- 1550 : Charles IX. , Swedish king
- 1563 : Dorothea of Saxony , Duchess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1570 : Peter Pázmány , Hungarian philosopher, theologian and protagonist of the Counter Reformation in royal Hungary
- 1579 : Guido Bentivoglio , Italian cardinal, historian and politician
- 1585 : Anna , Empress of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1587 : Raffaello Vanni , Italian painter
- 1600 : Giovanni Paolo Oliva , 11th general of the Societas Jesu
- 1622 : Anna Salome von Salm-Reifferscheidt , abbess of the Essen monastery
- 1625 : Jacqueline Pascal , French writer and nun, sister of Blaise Pascal
- 1626 : Richard Cromwell , English statesman, Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, son of Oliver Cromwell
- 1633 : Anton Ulrich , German nobleman, politician, art patron and writer
- 1634 : Burchard Graf von Ahlefeldt , German district administrator
- 1635 : Gottfried Ulrich de la Margelle , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
- 1655 : Lothar Franz von Schönborn , bishop of the Bamberg diocese and archbishop of the Mainz diocese
- 1657 : Francesco Solimena , Neapolitan painter
- 1665 : Francesco Acquaviva , Italian cardinal
- 1678 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow , Prussian field marshal and statesman
- 1707 : Francesco Fontebasso , Venetian painter
- 1720 : Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Italian engraver, archaeologist, architect and architectural theorist
- 1728 : Friedrich Moritz von Nostitz-Rieneck , Austrian Field Marshal and President of the Court War Council
- 1741 : Franciszek Karpiński , Polish poet and playwright
- 1779 : Pamphile Léopold François Aimon , French composer
- 1783 : Bernardus Franciscus Suerman , Dutch medic
- 1796 : August Wilhelm Bach , German composer and organist
- 1797 : Jeremias Gotthelf , actually Albert Bitzius , Swiss writer and pastor
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Adolphe Niel , French general, Marshal of France and Minister of War
- 1808 : Giovanni Battista Pioda , Swiss politician, lawyer and diplomat
- 1809 : Albrecht of Prussia , Prussian Prince and General
- 1814 : Jean-François Millet , French painter
- 1822 : Rutherford B. Hayes , American politician, governor of Ohio, 19th President of the USA
- 1828 : Thomas Peter Akers , American politician
- 1833 : John Anderson , Scottish zoologist
- 1836 : Juliette Adam , French writer, polemicist, republican salonnière and suffragette
- 1836 : Konstantin Karlowitsch Albrecht , Russian composer
- 1837 : Auguste-Réal Angers , Canadian politician and judge
- 1837 : Elizabeth Jane Gardner , American-French painter
- 1840 : Charles Lenepveu , French composer and music teacher
- 1841 : Stephen Albert Emery , American composer and music teacher
- 1841 : Marie in Bavaria , last queen of the two Sicilies
- 1844 : Hugo Andresen , German Romanist and Medievalist
- 1847 : Agneta Matthes , Dutch entrepreneur
1851-1900
- 1856 : Hedwig Arendt , German theater actress
- 1857 : Henry Schoenfeld , American composer
- 1858 : Stephan Freiherr Sarkotić von Lovćen , Colonel General of the Austro-Hungarian Army
- 1860 : Homer Albert Norris , American organist, composer, and musicologist
- 1861 : Frederic Remington , American painter, illustrator and sculptor, best known for his depiction of the Wild West
- 1863 : Samuel Prescott Bush , American industrialist
- 1865 : Max Halbe , German writer and poet, representative of German naturalism
- 1865 : Friedrich Lienhard , German writer, spokesman for the local art movement
- 1866 : Evaristo Lucidi , Italian cardinal
- 1868 : Georg Thilenius , German physician and ethnologist
- 1869 : Iwan Rerberg , Russian architect and engineer
- 1871 : Arnaldo Galliera , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1872 : Hans Rudolf Emil Ludwig Arnsperger , German internist
- 1873 : Anne Siberdinus de Blécourt , Dutch lawyer and legal historian
- 1878 : Selmar Samuel Aschheim , German gynecologist
- 1880 : Nicolaas van Wijk , Dutch Germanist, Dutchist and father of Dutch Slavonic Studies
- 1881 : Henry Potter , American golfer
- 1885 : Elisabeth Ahnert , German artist
- 1886 : Erich Fellgiebel , German officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1886 : Nakamura Murao , Japanese literary theorist and critic
- 1888 : Friedrich Olbricht , German general and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1891 : Herbert Kranz , German writer
- 1892 : Engelbert Dollfuß , Austrian politician, Federal Minister, Chancellor and dictator, co-founder of Austrofascism
- 1892 : Luis Trenker , Austrian-Italian mountaineer, actor, director and writer from South Tyrol
- 1894 : Józef Beck , Polish politician
- 1895 : Hildegard Fränzel , German actress
- 1895 : Buster Keaton , American actor, comedian, and director
- 1895 : Petán Trujillo , Venezuelan general and radio director
- 1896 : Edgar WA Maass , German chemist and writer
- 1897 : Margarethe Hedwig Aurin , German kindergarten teacher
- 1898 : Karl Kollmann , Austrian politician
- 1898 : Jan Liwacz , Polish prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1899 : Franz Jonas , Austrian politician and statesman, Mayor of Vienna, Federal President
- 1899 : Hilger van Scherpenberg , German State Secretary in the Foreign Office
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Alfred von Beckerath , German composer and conductor
- 1901 : Tex Hamer , American football player
- 1903 : John Atanasoff , American physicist
- 1903 : Ernst Kaltenbrunner , Austro-German lawyer, war criminal
- 1905 : Wolfgang Franz , German mathematician
- 1906 : Eitel Cantoni , Uruguayan Formula 1 racing driver
- 1909 : Fernando Cortés , Puerto Rican actor, director and screenwriter
- 1909 : Antonius Hofmann , German Roman Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Passau
- 1909 : Marcel Stern , French composer and violinist
- 1910 : Adolf Branald , Czech writer
- 1910 : Rudolf Grewe , German chemist
- 1910 : Selina Chönz , Swiss writer
- 1910 : Eugenia Umińska , Polish violinist and music teacher
- 1910 : Rudolf Werlich , German bobsleigh driver
- 1912 : Max Epstein , American klezmer musician
- 1915 : Silvina Bullrich , Argentine writer
- 1916 : Vitaly Ginsburg , Russian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1917 : Luis Carniglia , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1917 : Fairy von Lilienfeld , German theologian
- 1918 : Berti Capellmann , German table tennis player
- 1918 : Giovanni Cheli , Italian Roman Catholic clergyman, cardinal
- 1918 : Fukui Kenichi , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1921 : Pierre Riché , French historian
- 1923 : Charlton Heston , American actor and civil rights activist, chairman of the NRA
- 1923 : Reinhard Ludewig , German pharmacologist, toxicologist and university professor
- 1924 : Josef Anselm Graf Adelmann von Adelmannsfelden , German theologian and writer
1926-1950
- 1927 : Roberto Bussinello , Italian racing driver
- 1928 : Bob Scott , American racing car driver
- 1929 : Leroy Van Dyke , American singer
- 1931 : Thane Baker , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1934 : Sam Huff , American football player
- 1935 : Horst Janson , German actor
- 1936 : Gunther Arzt , German legal scholar
- 1936 : John Albert Knebel , American politician
- 1936 : Cynthia Mc Leod , Surinamese writer
- 1937 : Franz Vranitzky , Austrian politician
- 1938 : Mark Levine , American jazz pianist and trombonist
- 1938 : Willi Schulz , German soccer player
- 1938 : Kurt Wüthrich , Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1939 : Frank Lendor , Dominican opera bassist
- 1939 : Ivan Mauger , New Zealand speedway driver
- 1939 : Siegfried Schubert , German ice hockey player and coach
- 1940 : Barbara Henneberger , German ski racer
- 1940 : Silvio Marzolini , Argentine footballer
- 1940 : Steve Swallow , American jazz musician
- 1941 : Anne Rice , American writer
- 1941 : Jerrel Wilson , American football player
- 1941 : Helmut Kutin , Austrian manager, President of SOS Children's Villages International
- 1942 : Irm Hermann , German actress
- 1943 : Owen Davidson , Australian tennis player
- 1944 : Franz Brandl , German bar master and non-fiction author
- 1944 : Eddie Gomez , American jazz bassist
- 1946 : Regine Kleinau , German athlete
- 1946 : Susan Sarandon , American actress
- 1947 : Rezzo hose , German politician
- 1948 : Linda Bergen , German pop singer
- 1948 : Duke Robillard , American blues singer and guitarist
- 1949 : Mike Adamle , American sports journalist and American football player
- 1949 : Armand Anthony Assante Jr. , American actor
- 1949 : Valery Shalvovich Arshba , Abkhazian politician
- 1949 : Antonello Cuccureddu , Italian football player and coach
- 1950 : Stefan Bajohr , German politician and social scientist
- 1950 : Michael Heubach , German rock musician and composer
- 1950 : Klaus Scheer , German soccer player and coach
1951-1975
- 1953 : Gabriel Loidolt , Austrian writer
- 1953 : Andreas Vollenweider , Swiss musician, composer and arranger
- 1954 : YKA , French comic artist
- 1955 : Jorge Alberto Valdano Castellano , Argentine soccer player, coach, manager and business consultant
- 1955 : Andy Pichler , Austrian soccer player and coach
- 1955 : Hervé Rozoum , French guitarist, composer, arranger and producer
- 1956 : Hans van Breukelen , Dutch football player
- 1956 : Doug Padilla , American athlete
- 1956 : Christoph Waltz , German-Austrian actor
- 1957 : Michael Anthony , Guyanese boxer
- 1957 : Isabelle von Siebenthal , Swiss actress
- 1958 : Ned Luke , American actor
- 1959 : Chris Lowe , British musician ( Pet Shop Boys )
- 1961 : Henry Amike , Nigerian athlete
- 1961 : Jon Secada , American singer and songwriter
- 1962 : Marc Minkowski , French bassoonist and conductor
- 1963 : Fränzi Madörin , Swiss artist
- 1964 : Chris Regn , conceptual artist and activist
- 1966 : Herbert Aspöck , Austrian politician
- 1967 : Alexander Siemon , German journalist and television presenter
- 1968 : Katja Dürkop , German handball player
- 1968 : Alex Holzwarth , German drummer
- 1969 : Abraham Benrubi , American actor
- 1969 : Andrea Fischer Schulthess , Swiss writer
- 1969 : Mat Maneri , American jazz violinist
- 1970 : Olga Kusenkowa , Russian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1971 : Friderika Bayer , Hungarian singer
- 1973 : Christopher J. Parks , American football player and wrestler
- 1974 : Mafalda Arnauth , Portuguese singer
- 1974 : Tom Askey , American ice hockey player
- 1975 : Vasilij Žbogar , Slovenian sailor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Mauro Camoranesi , Argentine-Italian soccer player
- 1976 : Alicia Silverstone , American actress
- 1977 : Ana Johnsson , Swedish singer
- 1977 : Jürgen Saler , Austrian football player
- 1978 : Alexander Herr , German ski jumper
- 1979 : Rachael Leigh Cook , American actress
- 1979 : Björn Phau , German tennis player
- 1980 : Ahmed Reda Madouni , French-Algerian soccer player
- 1980 : Giovanni Federico , Italian football player
- 1980 : Tomáš Rosický , Czech football player
- 1981 : Yakubu Adamu , Nigerian soccer player
- 1981 : Angelo Vaccaro , Italian-German soccer player
- 1981 : Birthe Wolter , German actress
- 1982 : Cecilia Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1982 : Martin Prokop , Czech rally driver
- 1983 : Dan Clarke , British racing driver
- 1984 : Jelena Sergejewna Katina , Russian singer (tATu)
- 1984 : Álvaro Parente , Portuguese racing car driver
- 1985 : Minna Meriluoto , Finnish soccer player
- 1985 : Daniel la Rosa , German racing car driver
- 1986 : Bárbara Arenhart , Brazilian handball player
- 1986 : Sara Forestier , French actress
- 1987 : Juan Pablo Garcia , Mexican racing driver
- 1987 : Jan Hochscheidt , German soccer player
- 1987 : Marina Weisband , German politician
- 1988 : Derrick Rose , American basketball player
- 1989 : Lil 'Mama , American rapper
- 1989 : Viktoria Rebensburg , German ski racer
- 1990 : Signy Aarna , Estonian soccer player
- 1990 : Georg Krenn , Austrian soccer player
- 1993 : Marvin Ajani , German-Nigerian soccer player
- 1994 : Sabrina Maier , Austrian ski racer
- 1997 : Sebastian Vasiliadis , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 705 : Abd al-Malik , Ummayyad Caliph
- 816 : Adalwin , Bishop of Regensburg
- 863 : Turpion , Count of Angoulême
- 1052 : Vladimir of Novgorod , Prince of Novgorod and Regent of Kiev
- 1181 : Hermann , Duke of Carinthia
- 1189 : Gérard de Ridefort , Flemish Grand Master of the Templar Order
- 1189 : Andreas von Brienne , Lord of Ramerupt
- 1221 : William IV , Count of Ponthieu
- 1250 : Hermann VI. , Margrave of Verona and Baden, Duke of Austria
- 1280 : Hartmann I , Count of Grüningen
- 1280 : Hartmann III. , Count of Grüningen (disputed)
- 1305 : Dietrich VI./VIII. , Count of Kleve
- 1305 : Kameyama , 90th Tennō of Japan
- 1311 : John VI. von Waldstein , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1353 : Rudolf II , Count Palatine near the Rhine
- 1357 : Angelo Acciaiuoli , Italian bishop
- 1369 : Guillaume d'Aigrefeuille l'Ancien , French cardinal
- 1369 : Walter II von Hochschlitz , Bishop of Augsburg
- 1378 : Agnes von der Vierbecke , person in the history of Dortmund
- 1382 : Luigi II Gonzaga , Count of Mantua
- 1418 : Werner von Falkenstein , Archbishop of Trier
- 1480 : Jakub z Sienna , Polish nobleman, Bishop of Cracow, Bishop of Włocławek, Archbishop of Gniezno and Primate Poloniae
- 1489 : Johann Wessel , Dutch-German Platonist and humanist and pre-Reformation theologian
- 1497 : Benozzo Gozzoli , Italian Renaissance painter
- 1497 : John of Aragon and Castile , Prince of Asturias, only son of the Catholic Kings
16th to 18th century
- 1511 : Pedro Luis de Borja Llançol de Romaní , cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1540 : Eobanus Hessus , German Protestant humanist, is considered a great neo-Latin poet
- 1545 : Johannes Varnbuler , Mayor of Lindau
- 1556 : Johannes Knipstro , German Lutheran theologian and reformer
- 1565 : Pier Paolo Vergerio , Italian Lutheran theologian
- 1582 : Teresa of Ávila , Spanish nun (Carmelite) and mystic
- 1597 : Sarsa Dengel , Emperor of Ethiopia
- 1611 : Charles II. De Lorraine , Duke of Mayenne
- 1612 : Cesare Aretusi , Italian painter
- 1638 : Franz Hyazinth , Duke of Savoy
- 1646 : Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel , English nobleman
- 1647 : Arndt Bottermann , victim of the witch hunt in Witten
- 1660 : Francesco Albani , Italian painter
- 1661 : Jacqueline Pascal , French writer and nun, sister of Blaise Pascal
- 1669 : Rembrandt van Rijn , Dutch painter
- 1686 : Cord Jastram , Hamburg shipowner and politician
- 1686 : Hieronymus Snitger , Hamburg merchant and politician
- 1689 : Quirinus Kuhlmann , German writer and mystic
- 1692 : Charles Fleetwood , English soldier and politician
- 1698 : Andrea Malinconico , Italian painter
- 1710 : Iver Hvitfeldt , Norwegian-Danish admiral
- 1712 : Philipp Reinhard von Hanau-Münzenberg , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
- 1713 : Valentin Molitor , Swiss composer and organist
- 1714 : Peter Strudel , Austrian sculptor and painter
- 1721 : Abraham Martijnszoon Alewijn , Dutch lawyer, playwright and poet
- 1743 : John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll , Scottish nobleman and soldier, Commander in Chief of the British Army
- 1749 : Franz von der Trenck , Prussian officer and militant
- 1755 : Samuel von Cocceji , Prussian lawyer
19th century
- 1811 : Rudolf von Hammerstein , Hanoverian general
- 1817 : Joachim Bernhard Nicolaus Hacker , German theologian, poet and writer
- 1818 : Josef Abel , Austrian painter
- 1821 : John Rennie , British civil engineer
- 1830 : Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg , Prussian field marshal
- 1830 : John Parker Boyd , American mercenary and general
- 1835 : Ernst Christian Wilhelm Ackermann , Weimar civil servant and writer
- 1837 : Jean-François Varlet , French politician
- 1844 : Anton Joseph Stein , Austrian pedagogue and philologist
- 1845 : Clemens Wenzeslaus Coudray , German architect and chief construction director
- 1848 : Peter Friedrich Engstfeld , German organist and hymn poet
- 1848 : Ferdinand Heinrich Lachmann , German educator
- 1848 : Christian August Scheller , Privy Councilor of Justice
- 1848 . Franz Theodor Wangenheim , German writer
- 1850 : Christian Gotthard Kettembeil , German businessman and theater manager
- 1851 : Manuel de Godoy , Spanish politician
- 1854 : András Bartay , Hungarian composer
- 1856 : Alfred V. du Pont , American industrialist
- 1859 : Karl Baedeker , German publisher
- 1864 : Theodor Fliedner , German Protestant pastor, founder of the Kaiserswerther Diakonie, co-founder of the deaconess movement
- 1875 : Léon Ehrhart , French composer
- 1890 : Catherine Booth , British suffragette, wife of William Booth
- 1892 : Karl August Deinhard , German naval officer
- 1896 : Heinrich Geyer , German apostolic clergyman, prophet of the Catholic-Apostolic Congregations ( KAG )
- 1896 : Alexander Franken , German legal scholar
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Georg Sibbern , Norwegian politician and diplomat
- 1902 : Peter Soemer , German theologian and poet
- 1903 : Hermann Cremer , German Protestant theologian
- 1903 : Otto Weininger , Austrian philosopher and author
- 1904 : Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi , French sculptor
- 1904 : Adela Florence Nicolson , British poet
- 1904 : Karl Tanera , German officer and writer
- 1911 : Joseph Bell , British surgeon, pediatrician and military doctor, pioneer of forensics
- 1912 : Augustin Mouchot , French high school teacher, pioneer of solar thermal energy
- 1927 : Paul Leonhardt , German businessman and local politician
- 1927 : Eduard Riggenbach , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1928 : Hermann Bamberg , German businessman and politician
- 1930 : Friedrich Carl Andreas , German Iranist and Orientalist
- 1931 : Artur Oppman , Polish writer
- 1935 : Georg Gröne , German sculptor
- 1935 : Marie Gutheil-Schoder , German opera singer (soprano)
- 1941 : Albert Roberval , Canadian singer, conductor, theater director and music teacher
- 1944 : Karl Weinmair , German painter
- 1945 : Geraldine Moodie , Canadian photographer
- 1946 : Gifford Pinchot , American forest scientist, politician, and environmentalist
- 1947 : Max Planck , German theoretical physicist, founder of quantum physics, Nobel Prize winner
- 1949 : Edmund Eysler , Austrian composer
1951-2000
- 1954 : Francesco Borgongini Duca , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and cardinal
- 1955 : Alexandros Papagos , Greek politician and head of government
- 1957 : José Leandro Andrade , Uruguayan footballer, world champion, Olympic champion
- 1958 : Men Rauch , Swiss engineer, politician and poet
- 1958 : Ida Wüst , German actress
- 1966 : Susy Leiva , Argentine tango singer
- 1968 : August Dresbach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1969 : Guilherme Rebelo de Andrade , Portuguese architect
- 1970 : Janis Joplin , American singer
- 1971 : Homer Ruh , American football player
- 1974 : Anne Sexton , American poet
- 1975 : Salvador Sturla , Dominican composer and musician
- 1977 : Peter Blachstein , German politician and ambassador, Member of the Bundestag
- 1980 : Eugène Aisberg , Russian-French science journalist
- 1981 : Franz Amrehn , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1982 : Michael Aures , German music teacher
- 1982 : Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist, composer, organist and music author
- 1982 : Leroy Grumman , American designer and aircraft manufacturer
- 1984 : Gerda Weneskoski , Finnish pianist and music teacher
- 1986 : Raymond Earl Baldwin , American judge and politician, Connecticut Governor, Senator
- 1986 : Pieter Muntendam , Dutch doctor and politician
- 1989 : Graham Chapman , British actor and writer
- 1991 : Heinrich Hellwege , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, State Minister
- 1992 : Denis Hulme , New Zealand racing driver
- 1995 : Else Brems , Danish singer and music teacher
- 1996 : Humphrey Atkins , British politician
- 1996 : Silvio Piola , Italian football player
- 1997 : Romano Amerio , Italian theologian
- 1997 : Henry Holt , American conductor, opera director and music teacher
- 1997 : Max Riccabona , Austrian writer
- 1997 : Gunpei Yokoi , Japanese video game developer, inventor of the Game Boy
- 1998 : Jean-Pascal Delamuraz , Swiss politician
- 1998 : Tony Shelly , New Zealand racing car driver
- 1999 : Bernard Buffet , French graphic artist and painter
- 1999 : Art Farmer , American jazz trumpeter
- 1999 : Emil Schumacher , German painter, representative of the Informel
- 2000 : Egano Righi-Lambertini , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat, cardinal to the Curia
21st century
- 2001 : Les "Carrot Top" Anderson , American country musician
- 2002 : Hans Holmér , Swedish police officer and writer
- 2004 : Helmut Bantz , German gymnast
- 2004 : Gordon Cooper , American astronaut
- 2004 : Michael Grant , British classical scholar
- 2004 : Willy Guhl , Swiss designer
- 2005 : Claudia Christina , German presenter and singer
- 2005 : Stanley K. Hathaway , American politician, Governor of Wyoming, US Secretary of the Interior
- 2005 : Arthur Henkel , German Germanist, literary historian and Goethe researcher
- 2005 : Florian Leis-Bendorff , German musician
- 2005 : Josef Siedler , German politician, MdL
- 2005 : Adrian Yates-Smith , British racing car driver
- 2006 : Oskar Pastior , Romanian-German poet and translator
- 2007 : Leili Andre , Estonian poet and writer
- 2008 : Paul Fredrik Karl Åström , Swedish archaeologist
- 2009 : Shōichi Nakagawa , Japanese politician
- 2009 : Ernő Kolczonay , Hungarian fencer
- 2009 : Mercedes Sosa , Argentinian folklore singer
- 2012 : Erhard Wunderlich , German handball player
- 2013 : Võ Nguyên Giáp , Vietnamese general
- 2014 : Jean-Claude Duvalier , Haitian politician, President
- 2017 : Liam Cosgrave , Irish politician, Prime Minister
- 2018 : Karl Mildenberger , German boxer
- 2019 : Diahann Carroll , American actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Francis of Assisi , Italian mystic and founder of the order (Anglican, Protestant, Catholic)
- Rembrandt van Rijn , Dutch painter (Protestant)
- St. Damaris , Greek biblical figure (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Lesotho : Independence from Great Britain (1966)
- Anniversaries of international organizations
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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