April 5th

The April 5 is the 95th day of the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years ), thus remain 270 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 56 BC BC : In the Lucca Agreement , Gaius Iulius Caesar , Marcus Licinius Crassus and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, on the initiative of Caesar , affirm the triumvirate that had been concluded four years earlier .

823: Lothar I.

• 0823 : Pope Paschal I crowned Lothar I. the Roman co-emperor alongside his father Louis the Pious .
• 1167 : After Emperor Frederick Barbarossa because of being beaten without investiture reign of Archbishop . Konrad II of Babenberg the imperial ban over the city of Salzburg has imposed, it is the loyal to the emperor Counts of Plain burned.

1242: Memorial in memory of the battle

• 1242 : In the battle on Lake Peipus , a Russian army under the leadership of Novgorod Prince Alexander Yaroslawitsch Newski defeats a contingent of the Teutonic Order and the Order of the Brothers of the Sword , thereby putting an end to its eastward expansion.

1355: Charles IV at the coronation meal

• 1355 : Charles IV is crowned Roman-German Emperor in Rome . At the same time, his wife Anna von Schweidnitz was crowned Empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation .
• 1453 : The main force of the Ottoman army arrives with Sultan Mehmed II in front of Constantinople . The siege of Constantinople lasted until the fall of the city on May 29th.
• 1534 : Jan Matthys , "prophet" and leader of the Münster Anabaptist empire , is killed in a failure from the city ​​besieged by Franz von Waldeck .
• 1566 : Heinrich von Brederode , at the head of 300 Dutch nobles, hands over a petition to the governor Margarethe von Parma , in which he calls for the abolition of the Inquisition for the Netherlands . The nickname beggar ( gueux ) was adopted as a name of honor in the freedom struggle that began soon thereafter .

1705: Charlottenburg Palace

• 1705 : Friedrich I , King in Prussia , had Lietzenburg Palace and the adjacent settlement renamed Charlottenburg and gave it city ​​rights .

1722: Moai statue on Easter Island

• 1722 : The Dutch navigator Jakob Roggeveen is the first European to discover the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui and gives it the name Easter Island . The travel description of the German Carl Friedrich Behrens , who traveled with him, made the island and the statues on it known in Europe.
• 1794 : The Indulgents , a moderate group of the Club des Cordeliers under the leadership of Georges Danton and Camille Desmoulins, are executed after only three days of trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal for their efforts to end the reign of terror in the course of the French Revolution .
• 1795 : In the First Coalition War, Prussia concludes the separate peace treaty of Basel with France . In it, it ceded its areas on the left bank of the Rhine to France, but received the secret promise to be compensated for it in a possible final peace treaty on the right bank of the Rhine.
• 1815 : With two royal Prussian occupation patents , the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III takes over . at the Congress of Vienna the rule over the areas of the later Rhine Province as part of the Kingdom of Prussia .

1818: Battle of Maipú

• 1818 : With the defeat in the Battle of Maipú against Creole patriots under the leadership of José de San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins , the Spanish rule in Chile ends .
• 1823 : Republican troops under Gregorio José Ramírez y Castro defeat the monarchists on the Laguna de Ochomogo under Joaquín de Oreamuno y Muñoz de la Trinidad , who took power in Costa Rica in a coup on March 29 , and occupy the capital Cartago. Castro rules as Comandante General de las Armas until April 16 .
• 1831 : Pope Gregory XVI. In the encyclical Quel Dio expresses satisfaction at the suppression of unrest in the Papal States by Austrian troops and praises Austria's Emperor Franz I as liberator and savior.

1848: Ludwig Leichhardt

• 1848 : The German explorer and natural scientist Ludwig Leichhardt sets out from Brisbane with six companions on his last expedition to Australia in search of an overland route to Perth from which he will not return.
• 1874 : The founding congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party in Austria begins in Neudörfl , given as a confidential meeting . Struggles for direction, however, did not give rise to the party until Viktor Adler's work at the Hainfeld party congress from 1889 onwards.
• 1879 : Chile reacts to an alliance between Peru and Bolivia by declaring war. It comes to the saltpeter war over the nitrate deposits in the Región de Atacama .
• 1886 : In the Tophane-contract which is union of Eastern Rumelia with Bulgaria accepted internationally. In return, the Ottoman Empire received small parts of Eastern Rumelia and financial compensation.

1930: Gandhi extracting salt

• 1930 : Mahatma Gandhi reaches the coast near Dandi on his salt march and begins the extraction of sea salt, which is forbidden by the British salt monopoly.
• 1933 : The Norwegian occupation of Tunu is declared illegal by the Permanent International Court of Justice in The Hague. Norway accepts the award. Greenland thus remains entirely under Danish rule.
• 1941 : British troops take Addis Ababa , the capital of annexed Abyssinia , which is assigned to Italian East Africa .
• 1945 : American units liberate the Nazi forced labor camp in Ohrdruf during World War II . It is the first liberated camp with surviving prisoners who can provide information about their fate.
• 1946 : The Soviet troops evacuate the Danish Baltic island of Bornholm , which they had occupied for eleven months after the German occupation .

1951: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

• 1951 : At the height of the McCarthy era , the Jewish couple Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for allegedly betraying nuclear secrets to the USSR. The main reason for the verdict is the allegedly unfair interrogation of Ethel's brother David Greenglass by the public prosecutor Roy Cohn .
• 1955 : Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of Great Britain due to health problems .
• 1960 : The Badge Act in Austria prohibits the wearing and display of badges, emblems and symbols of forbidden organizations. The main purpose of the law is to prevent National Socialist propaganda in public.
• 1963 : The ARD begins broadcasting the report from Bonn , a description of political issues from the German capital that is broadcast every Friday. In the first broadcast, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer explains in a television interview: "I'm going in autumn."
• 1972 : North Vietnamese armed forces invade Binh Long province and form a second front in the Nguyen Hue offensive during the Vietnam War .
• 1976 : A funeral service for the late Chinese head of state Zhou Enlai on Tian'anmen Square in Beijing turns into a rally against the political rulers. The last protesters of the Tian'anmen incident were not arrested by the police until late in the evening .
• 1986 : An attack on the LaBelle discotheque in the West Berlin district of Friedenau , popular with US soldiers, kills three. The government of Libya under Muammar al-Gaddafi is later identified as the commissioner of the attack .
• 1989 : The Solidarność trade union, which was banned with the imposition of martial law in 1981, is re-approved in Poland after talks at the round table .

1990: Sabine Bergmann-Pohl

• 1990 : 18 days after the first free elections to the People's Chamber of the GDR , the GDR is constituted and elects the CDU MP Sabine Bergmann-Pohl as its president.
• 1991 : The Hessian state parliament in Wiesbaden elects the SPD politician Hans Eichel with the votes of the red-green government as Prime Minister of Hesse . He succeeds Walter Wallmann from the CDU.
• 1992 : With the capture of the international airport of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Yugoslav People's Army , the siege of Sarajevo begins , which will last until February 29, 1996. At 1,425 days, it is the longest siege in the 20th century.
• 1992 : Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori dissolves Congress without notice and suspended the constitutional rights of the judiciary. The event is known in Peru as the self- coup ( autogolpe ).
• 1999 : The alleged Lockerbie assassins are extradited to the Netherlands, suspending the Security Council's sanctions against Libya .

economy

• 1764 : The Parliament of England passes the Sugar Act . This tariff law brings the economy in the colonies almost to a standstill and is one of the causes of the American independence movement .
• 1808 : The Lübeck Maritime School is founded to train captains and helmsmen in merchant shipping .

1877: Blohm & Voss shipyard

• 1877 : Hermann Blohm and Ernst Voss found the Blohm & Voss shipyard as a general partnership in Hamburg . It will not receive its first order until a year and a half after the company was founded.
• 1883 : The international court of arbitration, the London Court of International Arbitration, grew out of the established court to arbitrate domestic and transnational disputes within London .
• 1923 : The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company started the production of rubber tires .
• 1933 : US President Franklin D. Roosevelt prohibits the possession of gold , gold coins and certificates in private hands by decree ( Presidential Executive Order 6102 ) . This measure is justified with a national emergency. The measure is intended to serve the stability of the US dollar and prevent a devaluation of the US dollar due to the flight into real assets.
• 1962 : Blaupunkt Werke GmbH receives a patent in Germany for a “method for assembling so-called printed circuits with circuit elements ”. Today this process is called SMD technology.
• 1963 : ARD broadcasts Weltspiegel for the first time with reports from foreign correspondents on German television. Gerd Ruge moderates the show in the first program .

science and technology

• 1958 : The underwater mountain Ripple Rock between Vancouver Island and the Canadian mainland, which has posed a constant threat to shipping, is blown up with 1,375 tons of explosives. It is one of the largest conventional demolitions in history.
• 1959 : The prototype of the L-29 developed by AERO Vodochody , later a standard training aircraft for the Warsaw Pact armed forces, makes its maiden flight.

1991: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

• 1991 : With the STS-37 mission of the Space Shuttle Atlantis , the science satellite Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is put into orbit. One of the tasks of this space telescope for gamma astronomy is a survey of the universe .

1998: Akashi Kaikyō Bridge

• 1998 : The Akashi-Kaikyō Bridge between the Tarumi-ku district in Kobe on the Japanese main island of Honshū and the town of Awaji on the island of Awaji-shima , the suspension bridge with the longest cantilevered central section in the world, is opened to traffic. It took over 10 years to build.

Culture

• 1773 : The first performance of the comic opera Die Jubelhochzeit by Johann Adam Hiller with the text by Christian Felix Weisse takes place in Berlin .
• 1803 : The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 by Ludwig van Beethoven has its world premiere in Vienna.
• 1874 : The operetta Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss with the libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. It is considered the high point of classic Viennese operetta .
• 1885 : The opera Noé by Georges Bizet is premiered in Karlsruhe. With this opera, Bizet completed an unfinished work by his father-in-law Jacques Fromental Halévy .
• 1919 : The Singspiel The Village Without a Bell by Eduard Künneke has its world premiere at the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtisches Theater in Berlin.
• 1941 : The ballet Verklungene Feste by Pia and Pino Mlakar is premiered at the National Theater in Munich .
• 1946 : Some 40 years after its creation, the 3rd Symphony by Charles Ives premiered in New York (and the composer in the following year for the Pulitzer Prize for Music Award).

1980: The Chiang Kai-shek National Memorial Hall

• 1980 : On the fifth anniversary of the death of Taiwan's longtime President Chiang Kai-shek , a National Memorial Hall opens in Taipei .

society

• 2012 : The Russian arms dealer Viktor But , known as the “dealer of death”, is sentenced to 25 years in prison by a US court.

religion

• 1879 : Those accused of fraud and breach of the peace in connection with the Marpingen apparitions of the Virgin Mary are acquitted by the Breeding Police Chamber of Saarbrücken.
• 1906 : Pope Pius X excommunicated the Mariavites Feliksa Kozłowska and Jan Maria Michał Kowalski . Feliksa Kozłowska is the first woman to be excommunicated by the Vatican.

Disasters

1815: Estimated ash precipitation during the eruption

• 1815 : The eruption of the Tambora volcano on Sumbawa in Indonesia, which lasts around 14 days, begins with a first eruption. More, especially on April 10, lead to a total of around 100,000 fatalities due to the outbreak and the subsequent tidal waves. The volcanic winter also leads to famine in Europe.

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

Sports

• 1902 : In the Glasgow football stadium Ibrox Park, the first Ibrox disaster occurs when a wooden stand collapses during the international match between Scotland and England . There are 25 dead and 517 injured spectators. The stadium's capacity will then be temporarily reduced from 75,000 to 25,000 spectators.

1908: The German national soccer team in Basel

• 1908 : The first official international match of the German national soccer team takes place in Basel : The German Reich loses 3: 5 against Switzerland .
• 1932 : The racehorse Phar Lap , apostrophized as "Australia's miracle horse", dies - possibly from poisoning - in California.

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

Born

Before the 17th century

Georg Friedrich I (* 1539)

• 1172 : Rostislaw II , Grand Duke of the Kievan Rus
• 1219 : Wonjong , 24th King of the Korean Goryeo Empire
• 1288 : Go-Fushimi , Japanese emperor
• 1315 : Jacob III. of Mallorca , King of Mallorca, Count of Cerdanya and Roussillon, Lord of Montpellier from the House of Barcelona
• 1365 : Wilhelm II , Duke of Straubing-Holland
• 1423 : Endres Tucher , German builder
• 1447 : Catherine of Genoa , Italian nurse and mystic
• 1472 : Bianca Maria Sforza , wife of Emperor Maximilian I.
• 1521 : Francesco Laparelli , Italian engineer and builder
• 1539 : Georg Friedrich the Elder , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Bayreuth, Duke in the Duchy of Prussia
• 1568 : Urban VIII. , Pope
• 1578 : Tobias Hübner , German Baroque poet and literary theorist, Chamber and Justice Councilor of Prince Johann Kasimir
• 1588 : Thomas Hobbes , English mathematician, state theorist and philosopher
• 1591 : Friedrich Ulrich , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Prince of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
• 1598 : Anna Elisabeth , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau and Countess of Bentheim-Steinfurt

17th century

• 1604 : Charles IV , Duke of Lorraine
• 1608 : Zacharias Lund German poet and classical philologist
• 1616 : Friedrich von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
• 1622 : Vincenzo Viviani , mathematician and physicist
• 1641 : Johann Georg Seidenbusch , Bavarian priest and founder of the Oratorian Institute
• 1649 : Elihu Yale , founder of Yale University
• 1653 : Franz Andrä von Orsini-Rosenberg , Governor of Carinthia
• 1656 : Franz Anton von Landsberg , general and governor of the city of Münster
• 1661 : Carl August von Alvensleben , Councilor, Canon of Magdeburg and private scholar
• 1669 : Christian Nicolaus von Linger , Prussian general
• 1673 : Nicolo Grimaldi . Gen Nicolino , Italian singer and neuter
• 1674 : Elisabeth Sophie von Brandenburg , Duchess of Courland, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Duchess of Saxony-Meiningen
• 1691 : Ludwig VIII , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• 1691 : Franz Joseph Spiegler , German painter
• 1692 : Adrienne Lecouvreur , French actress

18th century

• 1701 : Jonathan Krause , German theologian and hymn poet
• 1724 : George Keppel, 3rd Earl of Albemarle , British officer and politician
• 1724 : Maria Amalia , Archduchess of Austria
• 1726 : Benjamin Harrison V , one of the founding fathers of the United States
• 1727 : Pasquale Anfossi , Italian opera composer
• 1727 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen , Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Paderborn
• 1729 : Friedrich Karl Ferdinand , Duke of Braunschweig-Bevern
• 1732 : Jean-Honoré Fragonard , French painter, draftsman and etcher
• 1739 : Philemon Dickinson , American politician

Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra (* 1740)

• 1740 : Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra , Saxon chief miner
• 1741 : Johann Baptist Ambrosi , German theologian
• 1751 : Johann Christian Klengel , German etcher and painter
• 1755 : Vincenc Mašek , Bohemian composer
• 1761 : Gottschalk Mayer , court factor from the Electoral Palatinate, entrepreneur and landowner
• 1763 : Georg Wilhelm Otto von Ries , officer and writer
• 1769 : Thomas Masterman Hardy , British naval officer
• 1770 : Heinrich Behrmann , German-Danish pedagogue, historian and private scholar
• 1770 : Just Friedrich von Seelhorst , German civil servant
• 1784 : Louis Spohr , German composer, conductor and violinist
• 1788 : Franz Pforr , German painter
• 1797 : Carl Devrient , German theater actor
• 1797 : Johann Fischbach , Austrian painter
• 1799 : Constantin Ackermann , German Protestant clergyman

19th century

1801-1850

• 1801 : Vincenzo Gioberti , Italian politician and philosopher
• 1804 : Matthias Jacob Schleiden , German botanist and co-founder of cell theory
• 1805 : Julius Freudenthal , German composer and numismatist
• 1809 : Karl Felix Halm , German classical philologist and librarian
• 1811 : Maria Brignole Sale De Ferrari , Italian aristocrat, salonière and patroness
• 1811 : Jules Dupré , French landscape painter
• 1814 : Felix von Lichnowsky , German politician
• 1815 : Louis Chollet , French organist and composer
• 1819 : Hermann von Görtz-Wrisberg , lawyer, politician and Brunswick State Minister
• 1822 : Paolo Ferrari , Italian comedy poet
• 1823 : Maria Arndts , German writer
• 1826 : Friedrich Schünemann-Pott , American free thinker and German theologian
• 1827 : Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister , British medic
• 1827 : Dionýs Štúr , geologist and paleontologist
• 1827 : Georg Voigt , German historian
• 1831 : Bernhard Danckelmann , German forest official and scientist
• 1832 : Ernst Wagner , German prehistorian
• 1833 : Arthur Gehlert , German industrialist, politician and chess composer
• 1835 : Wilhelmine Fliedner , German school founder
• 1835 : Vítězslav Hálek , Czech poet, prose writer, dramaturge and journalist

Algernon Charles Swinburne (* 1837)

• 1837 : Algernon Charles Swinburne , British writer
• 1840 : Paul Konewka , silhouette cutter and draftsman
• 1840 : Théodore Ritter , French pianist and composer
• 1845 : Louis Kolitz , German painter
• 1846 : Michael Georg Conrad , German writer
• 1846 : Siegmund Exner-Ewarten , Austrian physiologist
• 1846 : Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington , British officer
• 1848 : Ulrich Wille , General in the Swiss Army during the First World War
• 1850 : Max Meyer-Olbersleben , German composer

1851-1900

• 1852 : Nariakira Arisaka , Japanese military
• 1852 : Franz Eckert , German composer
• 1853 : Lily Alice Lefevre , Canadian poet
• 1853 : Conrad von Seelhorst , German agricultural scientist
• 1854 : Joseph Gagnier , Canadian clarinetist
• 1856 : Maximilian Reichel , German fire brigade officer

Booker T. Washington (* 1856)

• 1856 : Booker T. Washington , American educator, social reformer, and black rights activist
• 1857 : Alexander I , Prince of Bulgaria
• 1858 : Ernst Falkenthal , German colonial official
• 1859 : Anton Aicher , Austrian sculptor
• 1859 : Friedrich Lutzmann , car pioneer, designer and entrepreneur
• 1859 : Bartholomeus van Ommeren , Dutch editor and anarchist
• 1861 : Fritz Encke , garden architect and royal horticultural director
• 1863 : Viktoria von Hessen-Darmstadt , Princess of Hessen-Darmstadt
• 1867 : Friedrich Schwendimann , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and church historian
• 1868 : Leopold Freund , Austrian radiologist
• 1869 : Albert Roussel , French composer
• 1869 : Sergei Alexejewitsch Tschaplygin , Soviet aerodynamicist
• 1872 : Hans Beschorner , German archivist and historian
• 1872 : Emmy von Egidy , German sculptor and writer
• 1873 : Rafael Emilio Arté , Dominican musician and music teacher
• 1874 : Jenny Apolant , German women's rights activist
• 1875 : Blumepeter , Mannheim local legend
• 1875 : Adolph Schönfelder , German politician
• 1877 : Georg Faber , German mathematician
• 1877 : Emil Herz , German publisher
• 1877 : Carl Albert Loosli , Swiss writer and journalist
• 1877 : Walter Sutton , American geneticist
• 1877 : Konstanty Wolny , lawyer, first marshal of the Silesian Parliament
• 1878 : Wolf Dohrn , German reformer
• 1878 : Georg Misch , German philosopher
• 1878 : Paul Weinstein , German athlete
• 1883 : Victor Julius Franz , German zoologist
• 1883 : Tan Cheng Lock , businessman and first president of the Malaysian Chinese Association
• 1884 : Heinrich Angermeier , German politician
• 1885 : Dimitrie Cuclin , Romanian composer
• 1886 : Gotthelf Bergsträßer , German orientalist
• 1887 : Hans Ewers , German politician

František Michálek Bartoš (* 1889)

• 1887 : Hedwig Kohn , German physicist
• 1889 : František Michálek Bartoš , Bohemian-Czechoslovak professor, representative of Bohemian history
• 1889 : Mestre Pastinha , Brazilian martial artist and founder of Capoeira de Angola
• 1890 : Harold Elmer Anthony , American zoologist and paleontologist
• 1890 : Jean Bobescu , Romanian violinist, conductor and music teacher
• 1891 : Eric Gordon England , British engineer and racing car driver
• 1891 : Ernst Fraenkel , German economic and social historian
• 1891 : Arnold Jackson , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 1891 : Laura Vicuña , Blessed of the Salesian Family
• 1892 : Hermann Kemper , German engineer, inventor of the magnetic levitation train
• 1893 : Clas Thunberg , Finnish speed skater
• 1894 : Dmitrij Tschižewskij , German-Ukrainian Slavist
• 1896 : Robert Tillmanns , German politician
• 1897 : Hans Schuberth , German politician
• 1898 : Geer van Velde , Dutch painter
• 1899 : Alfred Blalock , American surgeon
• 1900 : Maria Ammann , German welfare worker
• 1900 : Herbert Bayer , German graphic designer, typographer, painter
• 1900 : Jorge González von Marées , Chilean politician
• 1900 : Spencer Tracy , American film actor

20th century

1901-1925

• 1901 : Curt Bois , German actor
• 1901 : Chester Bowles , American politician
• 1901 : Melvyn Douglas , American actor
• 1901 : Doggie Julian , American basketball coach
• 1901 : Luigi Malipiero , German theater director and director, actor and set designer
• 1902 : Wal Handley , British motorcycle and automobile racer
• 1903 : Paul Bode , German architect
• 1904 : Hermann Bruse , German painter and graphic artist
• 1905 : Sanya Dharmasakti , Thai politician
• 1905 : Jef Maes , Belgian composer and professor
• 1906 : Fernando Germani , Italian organist, composer and organ teacher

Bette Davis (born 1908)

• 1908 : Bette Davis , American actress
• 1908 : Herbert von Karajan , Austrian conductor
• 1908 : Helmut Koch , German conductor and choir director
• 1909 : Albert R. Broccoli , American film producer
• 1909 : Erwin Wegner , German athlete
• 1910 : Sven Olof Morgan Andersson , Swedish politician
• 1910 : Effi Biedrzynski , German editor and publicist
• 1910 : Chaim Grade , Lithuanian-Jewish writer and poet
• 1911 : Erich Kästner , German designer
• 1911 : Jimmy Kinnon , founder of Narcotics Anonymous
• 1911 : Georg Liebsch , German weightlifter
• 1911 : Dieter Oesterlen , German architect and university professor
• 1912 : Ricardo Manuel Arias Espinoza , President of Panama
• 1912 : Carlos Guastavino , Argentine composer
• 1913 : Antoni Clavé , Spanish painter and sculptor
• 1913 : Nicolas Grunitzky , Togolese politician
• 1913 : Ruth Smith , Faroese painter and printmaker
• 1914 : Felice Borel , Italian football player

Gregory Peck (born 1916)

• 1916 : Gregory Peck , American actor
• 1917 : Robert Bloch , American author
• 1917 : Erwin Heinle , German architect
• 1917 : Ludolf Müller , German Slavist
• 1920 : Antoinette Becker , French-German author for children and young people
• 1920 : Chatichai Choonhavan , Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1920 : Arthur Hailey , British-Canadian author, novelist
• 1920 : Feodora zu Solms , German athlete
• 1922 : Tom Finney , English football player
• 1922 : Harry Freedman , Canadian composer, English horn player and music teacher
• 1922 : Alfonso Thiele , Italian racing car driver
• 1923 : Ernest Mandel , Marxist economist, theorist
• 1923 : KRH Sonderborg , German painter
• 1923 : Nguyễn Văn Thiệu , South Vietnamese general and president
• 1924 : Manfred Fuchs , German soccer player and coach
• 1925 : Kieth Engen , American opera singer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Otto Amann , Austrian politician
  

  Otto Amann (* 1926)
• 1926 : Roger Corman , American independent film producer
• 1926 : Stan Levey , American jazz drummer
• 1926 : Ekkehard Schwartz , German forest scientist
• 1927 : Eugene Atkinson , American politician
• 1927 : Thanin Kraivichien , Prime Minister of Thailand
• 1927 : Ida Krottendorf , Austrian actress
• 1928 : Katharina von Arx , Swiss writer and journalist
• 1928 : James Milligan , Canadian singer
• 1928 : Hansrudi Wäscher , German comic artist and author
• 1929 : Hugo Claus , Belgian writer and painter
• 1929 : Ivar Giaever , American physicist
  

  Ivar Giaever (born 1929)
• 1929 : Nigel Hawthorne , British actor
• 1929 : Ismat T. Kittani , Iraqi diplomat
• 1929 : Joe Meek , British music producer
• 1930 : Nabil Totah , jazz bassist of Palestinian origin
• 1931 : Jack Clement , American country music producer
• 1931 : Bill Clifton , American country musician
• 1931 : Philipp Müller , German worker
• 1932 : Bernard Consten , French racing car driver
• 1932 : Bora Ćosić , Serbian writer
• 1932 : Hans-Georg Fritz , German politician
• 1932 : Jochen Ziem , German writer
• 1933 : Frank Gorshin , American actor
• 1934 : Horst Amann , German football player
• 1934 : Waldemar Barth , German football player
• 1934 : Ursula Erber , German actress
• 1934 : Roman Herzog , German lawyer and politician, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court, Federal President
  

  Roman Herzog (* 1934)
• 1935 : Claus Grobecker , German politician
• 1935 : Donald Lynden-Bell , British astronomer and astrophysicist
• 1936 : Ronnie Bucknum , American racing car driver
• 1937 : Colin Powell , American politician
• 1939 : Miguel Angel Aguilar Miranda , Ecuadorian priest and military bishop
• 1939 : Moses Ali , Ugandan politician
• 1939 : Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas , Prime Minister of South Yemen
• 1939 : Roger Davis , American actor
• 1939 : Leka I. , Albanian politician
• 1939 : Crispian St. Peters , British singer
• 1940 : Tommy Cash , American country singer
• 1940 : Klaus Detter , German judge, judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1940 : Manfred Strahl , German journalist, editor and writer
• 1941 : Hans-Werner Bussinger , German voice actor and actor
• 1941 : Albert Krogmann , German television journalist
• 1941 : Dave Swarbrick , British folk singer and fiddler
• 1942 : Pascal Couchepin , Swiss politician
  

  Pascal Couchepin (* 1942)
• 1942 : Peter Greenaway , British experimental artist and filmmaker
• 1942 : Irmgard Schwaetzer , German politician
• 1943 : Reinhold Bocklet , German politician
• 1943 : Werner J. Egli , Swiss writer
• 1944 : Willeke van Ammelrooy , Dutch actress
• 1945 : Cem Karaca , Turkish singer
• 1946 : Jane Asher , English actress
• 1947 : Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo , 14th President of the Philippines
• 1947 : Lothar Vosseler , German author
• 1948 : Klaus Bös , German sports scientist
• 1948 : Karin Gündisch , German writer
• 1948 : Dave Holland , British drummer ( Judas Priest )
• 1948 : Hans Theessink , Dutch blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 1949 : Martin Hellwig , German economist
• 1949 : Judith Resnik , American astronaut
• 1949 : Dominique Rouits , French conductor and music teacher
• 1950 : Bent Åserud , Norwegian composer
• 1950 : Agnetha Fältskog , Swedish singer ( ABBA )
• 1950 : Harpo , Swedish pop singer

1951-1975

• 1951 : Ubol Ratana , Thai princess
• 1951 : Josef Wiesehöfer , German ancient historian

Mitch Pileggi (born 1952)

• 1952 : Mitch Pileggi , American actor
• 1953 : Guillermo Figueroa , Puerto Rican violinist and conductor
• 1953 : Jerome Harris , American jazz bassist and guitarist
• 1954 : Stan Ridgway , American musician
• 1954 : David Shamban , Israeli cellist
• 1955 : Anthony Horowitz , British novelist and screenwriter
• 1955 : Akira Toriyama , Japanese mangaka
• 1955 : Bernard Longley , Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster
• 1956 : Dagmar Enkelmann , German politician
• 1956 : TV Smith , British musician, songwriter and singer-songwriter
• 1957 : Sebastian Adayanthrath , Indian bishop
• 1957 : Katherine Harris , American politician
• 1957 : Karin Roßley , German athlete
• 1957 : Armin Rühl , German drummer
• 1958 : Wilson Luís Angotti Filho , Brazilian auxiliary bishop
• 1958 : Johan Kriek , South African tennis player
• 1958 : Lasantha Wickrematunge , Sri Lankan journalist
• 1959 : Armin Andres , German basketball player and trainer
• 1959 : Co Streiff , Swiss jazz musician
• 1959 : Lars Søndergaard , Danish football coach and player
• 1959 : Martin Verdonk , Dutch jazz percussionist
• 1960 : Michael Ankermann , German politician
• 1960 : From Flores , Filipino-Canadian actor

Peter Kurth (* 1960)

• 1960 : Peter Kurth , German politician
• 1960 : Jorma Paavilainen , Finnish chess composer and player
• 1960 : Bernhard Peters , German field hockey coach
• 1961 : Andrea Arnold , British director and actress
• 1961 : Michael Biegler , German handball trainer
• 1962 : Kirsan Nikolajewitsch Ilyumschinow , President of the Autonomous Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation
• 1964 : Marius Lăcătuș , Romanian football player
• 1965 : Florian Scheuba , Austrian actor, cabaret artist, author and presenter
• 1965 : Svyatlana Paramyhina , Belarusian biathlete
• 1966 : Hans Martin Bury , German politician, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery
• 1966 : Bernhard Hess , President of the Swiss Democrats
• 1966 : Mike McCready , American musician

Markus Kronthaler (* 1967)

• 1967 : Markus Kronthaler , Austrian alpinist and extreme mountaineer
• 1967 : Robert Lohr , German actor
• 1968 : Paula Cole , American singer
• 1969 : Gregor Schneider , German artist
• 1969 : Stefan Romberg , German politician
• 1969 : Tomislav Piplica , football player
• 1970 : Jerlan Saghymbayev , Kazakh ice hockey player and coach
• 1971 : Takami Itō , Japanese writer
• 1972 : Nima Arkani-Hamed , American-Canadian theoretical physicist
• 1972 : Tom Coronel , Dutch racing car driver
• 1972 : Paul Okon , Australian soccer player
• 1973 : Élodie Bouchez , French actress
• 1973 : Jennifer Schubert , German politician
• 1973 : Pharrell Williams , musician and producer
• 1974 : Ines Papert , German world champion in ice climbing
• 1974 : Josef Winkler , German politician
• 1975 : John Hartson , British football player
• 1975 : Wolf Henzler , German automobile racing driver
• 1975 : Shammond Williams , American basketball player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Fernando Morientes , Spanish soccer player
• 1976 : Kai Michalke , German soccer player
• 1976 : Kim Collins , athlete from St. Kitts and Nevis
• 1976 : Patrick Dama , German soccer player
• 1977 : Erhan Albayrak , German soccer player
• 1977 : Jonathan Erlich , Israeli tennis player
• 1977 : Håkon Kornstad , Norwegian jazz saxophonist
• 1977 : Jan Korte , German politician
• 1977 : Martin Plüss , Swiss professional ice hockey player
• 1978 : Dwain Chambers , British athlete
• 1978 : Casper Elgaard , Danish racing car driver

Franziska van Almsick (* 1978)

• 1978 : Franziska van Almsick , German swimmer
• 1979 : Timo Hildebrand , German soccer player
• 1979 : Andrius Velička , Lithuanian football player
• 1980 : Damien Abad , French politician
• 1980 : Joris Mathijsen , Dutch football player
• 1981 : Thomas Blaschek , German hurdle sprinter
• 1981 : Tom Riley , British actor
• 1981 : Lucy Scherer , German musical actress
• 1981 : Pieter Weening , Dutch cyclist
• 1982 : Hayley Atwell , British actress
• 1982 : Stefanie Becker , German soccer player

Thomas Hitzlsperger (* 1982)

• 1982 : Thomas Hitzlsperger , German soccer player
• 1983 : Maksim Anissimau , Belarusian ski jumper
• 1983 : Jorge Andrés Martínez , Uruguayan football player
• 1983 : Tino Mewes , German actor
• 1984 : Nicole Hayes , Palauian swimmer
• 1984 : Dejan Kelhar , Slovenian soccer player
• 1984 : Marany Meyer , South African-New Zealand chess player
• 1984 : Samuele Preisig , Swiss football player
• 1984 : Cristian Săpunaru , Romanian football player
• 1985 : Silvia Artola , Nicaraguan weightlifter
• 1986 : David Aaron Carpenter , American violist
• 1986 : Marc Dumitru , German actor
• 1986 : Charlotte Flair , American wrestler
• 1986 : Ri Song-chol , North Korean figure skater and politician
• 1987 : Uğur Uçar , Turkish football player
• 1989 : Kader Amadou Dodo , Nigerien national soccer player
• 1989 : Lily James , British actress
• 1990 : Davy Frick , German soccer player
• 1990 : Sercan Yıldırım , Turkish soccer player
• 1991 : Bono , Moroccan-Canadian football goalkeeper
• 1991 : Adriano Grimaldi , German-Italian soccer player
• 1991 : Lotte Grigel , Danish handball player
• 1991 : Lisa Klinga , Swedish soccer player
• 1991 : Joël Mall , Swiss football player
• 1991 : Nora Mørk , Norwegian handball player
• 1991 : Thea Mørk , Norwegian handball player
• 1993 : Laura Feiersinger , Austrian soccer player
• 1995 : Clara Direz , French ski racer
• 1995 : Nadine Kösters , German actress
• 1997 : Ida Lien , Norwegian biathlete
• 1998 : Thomas Laurent , French racing car driver
• 2000 : Ayush Mahesh Khedekar , Indian actor

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0517 : Timothy I , Patriarch of Constantinople
• 0902 : al-Mu'tadid bi-'llah , Abbasid Caliph
• 1078 : Richard von Capua , Norman prince in southern Italy
• 1118 : Muhammad I. Tapar , Sultan of the Great Seljuks
• 1168 : Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester , English nobleman of French origin
• 1181 : Raimund Berengar IV. , Count of Provence
• 1206 : Ottaviano di Paoli , Italian cardinal
• 1221 : Asukai Masatsune , Japanese waka poet
• 1221 : Oda von Tecklenburg , mistress of the Lippe
• 1253 : Wilbrand von Käfernburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg
• 1258 : Juliana von Lüttich , German choirwoman and mystic
• 1301 : Everhard von Diest , Bishop of Münster
• 1325 : Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer , English knight
• 1335 / 1336 : John of Anjou , duke of Durazzo
• 1361 : Nicolaus Fransoyser , councilor and mayor of the city of Hamburg
• 1378 : Gusai , Japanese monk and poet
• 1396 : Pilgrim II of Puchheim , Archbishop of Salzburg and administrator of the Berchtesgaden Imperial Prelature
• 1406 : Konrad Torer von Törlein , Bishop of Lavant
• 1417 : Jean de Valois , French Duke of Touraine and Berry, Dauphin of Viennois
• 1419 : Vincent Ferrer , Catholic saint, Dominican preacher
• 1421 : Balthasar , German nobleman, Lord of Werle-Güstrow, Prince of Wenden
• 1431 : Bernhard I , Margrave of Baden
• 1448 : Henning Scharpenberg , Archbishop of Riga
• 1483 : Martin Römer , Saxon merchant
• 1525 : Hans Jakob Wehe , German preacher and peasant leader
• 1534 : Jan Matthys , Dutch Baptist
• 1563 : Georg Melhorn , German educator and Protestant theologian
• 1574 : Johann VIII von Hoya , Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, Münster and Paderborn
• 1574 : Catalina Thomás , island saint of Mallorca
• 1593 : John Greenwood , English poet
• 1601 : Wolfgang von Dalberg , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
• 1674 : Georg Friedrich , Count or Prince of Nassau-Siegen
• 1680 : Shivaji , leader of the Marathas
• 1687 : Josua Arnd , German theologian, historian and hymn poet
• 1693 : Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans , La Grande Mademoiselle , niece of Louis XIII, Duchess of Montpensier
• 1693 : Christian Scriver , German theologian and hymn poet

18th century

• 1704 : Christian Ulrich I , Duke of Württemberg-Oels
• 1705 : Itō Jinsai , Japanese Confucian philosopher
• 1706 : Christoph Egedacher , south German organ builder
• 1708 : Christian Heinrich von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , German nobleman
• 1709 : Roger de Piles , French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat
• 1712 : Jan Luyken , Dutch poet, graphic artist and illustrator

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach († 1723)

• 1723 : Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach , Austrian architect
• 1726 : Zacharias Wolf , German military leader
• 1732 : Johann Christian Schieferdecker , German church musician, organist and composer
• 1733 : Johann Heinrich Orth , Mayor of Heilbronn
• 1735 : William Derham , English clergyman and natural philosopher
• 1744 : Maria Crescentia Höss , German Franciscan superior and Catholic saint
• 1751 : Frederick I , King of Sweden
• 1754 : Diamante Maria Scarabelli , Italian opera singer
• 1765 : Edward Young , English poet
• 1767 : Charlotte Wilhelmine von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , Countess von Hanau-Münzenberg
• 1784 : Johann Dietrich Winckler , German Lutheran theologian
• 1794 : François Chabot , French revolutionary
• 1794 : Georges Danton , French revolutionary
• 1794 : Jean-François Delacroix , French revolutionary
• 1794 : Camille Desmoulins , French lawyer, journalist and revolutionary
• 1794 : Fabre d'Églantine , French poet
• 1794 : Junius Frey , French revolutionary
• 1794 : Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles , French lawyer, revolutionary and politician
• 1794 : François-Joseph Westermann , French general

19th century

• 1804 : Jean-Charles Pichegru , French general

Johann Georg Wille († 1808)

• 1808 : Johann Georg Wille , German engraver
• 1811 : Robert Raikes , British social reformer
• 1817 : Samuel Christian Pape , German writer, poet and theologian
• 1824 : Joseph von Frank , German landowner and politician
• 1825 : Sergei Nikolajewitsch Titov , Russian composer
• 1828 : Georg Joachim Göschen , German publisher
• 1829 : Therese von Sternbach , Tyrolean freedom fighter
• 1842 : Shah Shujah , Shah of Afghanistan
• 1845 : Friederike Ellmenreich , German actress and writer
• 1852 : Felix zu Schwarzenberg , Austrian diplomat
• 1859 : Basile Kfoury , Lebanese bishop in Egypt
• 1865 : Johann Nepomuk Kaňka junior , Bohemian lawyer and composer
• 1883 : Louis von Arentsschildt , Hanoverian officer, poet and translator
• 1884 : Johann Heinrich Pallenberg , German furniture manufacturer and art patron
• 1893 : Caesar Albano Kletke , German educator
• 1894 : Friedrich Wilhelm Weber , German epic poet
• 1895 : Ludwig Rotter , Austrian organist and composer
• 1896 : John Rogers Thomas , American composer

20th century

1901-1950

• 1907 : David Lorenz , German painter
• 1911 : Daniil Avraamowitsch Chwolson , Russian orientalist and antiquarian
• 1922 : Ramabai Dongre Medhavi , Indian social reformer

Liborius Gerstenberger († 1925)

• 1925 : Liborius Gerstenberger , German clergyman and politician
• 1928 : Viktor Oliva , Czech graphic artist, illustrator, painter and poster artist of Art Nouveau
• 1929 : Francis Aidan Gasquet , British chaplain, cardinal to the curia
• 1929 : Ludwig von Sybel , German classical philologist, archaeologist and art historian
• 1930 : Anna Lea Merritt , American painter
• 1933 : Earl Derr Biggers , American crime novelist
• 1933 : Harald Friedrich , German painter
• 1933 : Roderich Stintzing , German medic
• 1935 : Achille Locatelli , Italian priest, Vatican diplomat, cardinal
• 1941 : Karl Angermayer , Austrian politician
• 1941 : Elsa Asenijeff , Austrian writer
• 1941 : Nigel Gresley , British steam locomotive designer

Emil Stumpp († 1941)

• 1941 : Emil Stumpp , German teacher, painter and press illustrator
• 1945 : Karl Otto Koch , SS-Standartenführer, camp commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp
• 1946 : Gottlieb Löffler , German painter
• 1946 : Vincent Youmans , American composer
• 1948 : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , US patron and co-founder of the Museum of Modern Art
• 1949 : Ernst Lommatzsch , German classical philologist
• 1949 : Erich Zeigner , German politician, Lord Mayor of Leipzig

1951-2000

• 1954 : Claude Delvincourt , French composer
• 1958 : Ásgrímur Jónsson , Icelandic painter
• 1960 : Rudolf Brunngraber , Austrian writer, journalist, painter
• 1960 : Adela Wilgocka , Polish singer and vocal teacher
• 1964 : Aloïse Corbaz , Swiss visual artist

Douglas MacArthur († 1964)

• 1964 : Douglas MacArthur , American general, most decorated soldier in the US armed forces
• 1964 : Isaac Mamott , Canadian cellist and music teacher
• 1964 : Miyoshi Tatsuji , Japanese poet, translator and essayist
• 1965 : Erwin Jacobi , German constitutional and canon lawyer
• 1965 : Giulio Foresti , Italian racing car driver
• 1965 : Pietro Sernagiotto , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
• 1965 : Hermann Senkowsky , Austrian financial expert
• 1966 : Peter Rohland , German songwriter and singer
• 1966 : Svend Fleuron , Danish writer
• 1967 : Mischa Elman , American violin virtuoso
• 1967 : Hermann Joseph Muller , American biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1967 : Hans Sachtleben , German zoologist and entomologist
• 1967 : Johan Falkberget , Norwegian writer
• 1970 : Karl Graf von Spreti , German politician and diplomat
• 1971 : José Cubiles , Spanish pianist and music teacher
• 1975 : Isabel Bolton , American writer
• 1975 : John Anthony Burns , American politician

Chiang Kai-shek († 1975)

• 1975 : Chiang Kai-shek , Chinese politician, President of the Republic of China
• 1976 : Howard Hughes , American entrepreneur and aviation pioneer
• 1976 : Robert Lord , American screenwriter and film producer
• 1977 : Luperce Miranda , Brazilian mandolinist and composer
• 1981 : Franziska Hamann , German painter and caricaturist
• 1982 : Toni Stadler , German sculptor
• 1983 : Wilhelm Varnholt , German local politician
• 1984 : Robert Adams , British sculptor
• 1984 : Arthur Harris , British Royal Air Force officer, air marshal
• 1984 : Herbert Fleischmann , German film and television actor
• 1986 : Wally Deane , American rockabilly musician
• 1986 : Tommy Duchesne , Canadian accordionist
• 1989 : Karel Zeman , Czech film director
• 1991 : Friederike Mulert , German politician
• 1991 : Jiří Mucha , Czech cosmopolitan, writer, publicist and screenwriter
• 1991 : John Tower , American politician
• 1993 : Miguelito García , Cuban singer
• 1994 : Kurt Cobain , American singer and guitarist ( Nirvana )
• 1995 : Bill Lange , American football player
• 1995 : Claire Pratt , Canadian graphic artist, poet and editor

Allen Ginsberg († 1997)

• 1997 : Allen Ginsberg , American poet of the Beat Generation ( Howl )
• 1997 : František Kožík , Czech writer, representative of Esperanto
• 1998 : Cozy Powell , British drummer ( Rainbow , Black Sabbath )
• 1999 : Werner Bieder , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 2000 : Kiko Mendive , Cuban actor, choreographer, dancer and singer

21st century

• 2001 : Aldo Olivieri , Italian football player and coach
• 2002 : Layne Staley , American musician ( Alice In Chains )
• 2004 : Fernand Goyvaerts , Belgian football player
• 2004 : Siegfried Trotnow , German gynecologist and reproductive medicine specialist
• 2004 : Heiner Zieschang , German mathematician
• 2005 : Saul Bellow , Canadian-American writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 2005 : Wilhelm Weber , Austrian economist
• 2006 : Marianne Laqueur , German-Turkish computer scientist
• 2006 : Gene Pitney , American singer and songwriter
• 2006 : Rolf Recknagel , German writer and editor
• 2006 : Wilhelm Stuellen , German judge and revisionist
• 2006 : Allan Kaprow , American artist and art theorist of action art
• 2007 : Werner Maser , German historian and publicist
• 2007 : Mark St. John , American rock musician
• 2008 : Giuseppe Attardi , Italian-American geneticist

Charlton Heston († 2008)

• 2008 : Charlton Heston , American actor
• 2008 : Herbert Breiteneder , Austrian racing car driver
• 2010 : Gisela Trowe , German actress
• 2011 : Baruch Samuel Blumberg , American medic
• 2012 : Jim Marshall , British entrepreneur
• 2012 : Barney McKenna , Irish musician
• 2012 : Ferdinand Alexander Porsche , German industrial designer
• 2018 : Isao Takahata , Japanese director and producer
• 2018 : Cecil Taylor , American jazz pianist
• 2019 : Sydney Brenner , South African-British biologist
• 2020 : Honor Blackman , British actress
• 2020 : Margaret Burbidge , British-American astrophysicist
• 2020 : Mahmud Jibril , Libyan politician

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Ramabai Dongre Medhavi , Indian messenger of faith and benefactress (Protestant)
  • Christian Scriver , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
  • Saint Vincent Ferrer , Spanish monk and theologian, preacher and patron saint (Catholic)
  • St. Juliana of Liège , choirwoman and prioress and virgin mystic (catholic)

• Name days
  • Enzo

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

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