February 5th
February 5 is the 36th day of the Gregorian calendar , so there are 329 days (330 days in leap years ) until the end of the year.
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events
politics and world affairs
- 146 BC BC: The Third Punic War ends with the conquest of Carthage by Roman troops.
- 2 v. BC: The Roman Senate honors Emperor Augustus with the title pater patriae ("Father of the Fatherland").
- 1204: During the siege of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade , Alexios V is proclaimed Byzantine Emperor.
- 1500: Duke Ludovico Sforza recaptures Milan , his earlier possessions, from France with Swiss help .
- 1555: King Ferdinand I opens the Diet of Augsburg , which focuses on finding a political solution to the questions of the parties belonging to different faiths. In September, after tough negotiations, the Augsburg imperial and religious peace is proclaimed.
- 1638: The Swedish-Protestant army under Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar begins to besiege the imperial city of Rheinfelden during the Thirty Years' War . As a result, the Battle of Rheinfelden loomed.
- 1643: Dutch navigator Abel Tasman discovers the Pacific island of Taveuni . The 180th degree of longitude has been running across it since 1884 .
- 1679: France concludes the Peace of Nijmegen with Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire in order to resolve conflicts that had arisen with these contracting parties in connection with the Franco-Dutch War . Among other things, Alsace and Lorraine fall to France.
- 1740: The papal legate Giulio Alberoni , who had invaded the Republic of San Marino with troops in October, had to leave the country on the orders of Pope Clement XII. clear again.
- 1782: A Spanish-French fleet conquers the Balearic island of Menorca from the British during the American War of Independence .
- 1811: The Prince of Wales and later King George IV assumes royal power in Great Britain under the Regency Act after his father George III. due to a long mental illness can no longer conduct official business.
- 1818: After the death of King Charles XIII. the Napoleonic general Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, whom he adopted, ascends the throne of Sweden and Norway in personal union under the name Karl XIV. Johann .
- 1822: Tepedelenli Ali Pasha , who ruled large parts of Albania and Greece , was killed in a meeting with envoys from the Ottoman Empire 's Minister of War after a siege of his fortress for several months . Ali Pasha had colluded with the insurgents in the Greek Revolution and was accused of disloyalty by the Sultan .
- 1878: Russian Marxist revolutionary Vera Ivanovna Zasulich shoots and seriously injures General Fyodor Fyodorovich Trepov for abusing a political prisoner . She was later acquitted of this crime.
- 1899: In the two-day Battle of Manila during the Philippine-American War , the Americans prevail while the native troops are forced to retreat to the rear.
- 1917: The Constitution prepared by the Congress of the Mexican Republic is passed in the wake of the Mexican Revolution under President Venustiano Carranza . The constitution is still in force in Mexico today .
- 1918: The British troop transport Tuscania was sunk by the German submarine UB 77 off Northern Ireland during World War I. 166 people are killed.
- 1937: The six principles of Kemalism , including secularism , are given constitutional status in the Republic of Turkey.
- 1938: The Reich government led by Adolf Hitler meets for the last time for a cabinet meeting.
- 1958: After a mid-air collision with a North American F-86 fighter, the crew of a damaged Boeing B-47 bomber is forced to drop a hydrogen bomb without a nuclear detonator off the coast of Georgia . The Tybee bomb remains uncollected.
- 1975: The United States responds to the Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus the year before with an arms embargo against Turkey .
- 1982: The German Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (SPD) wins the vote of confidence he asked because of differences with the coalition partner FDP about the federal budget for 1982 with 269 to 224 votes.
- 1985: The border with Gibraltar , closed by Spain in May 1969, is fully reopened.
- 1990: The parties Christian-Democratic Union (CDU-Ost), German Social Union (DSU) and Demokratischer Aufbruch (DA) form an electoral alliance for the 1990 Volkskammer elections in the GDR , the Alliance for Germany . On the same day, eight members of the Central Round Table , including Wolfgang Ullmann , Rainer Eppelmann , Matthias Platzeck and Tatjana Böhm , are accepted into the government by Hans Modrow .
- 1994: A grenade attack in front of Sarajevo 's historic market hall kills 68 people and wounds 197, some seriously. The attack is attributed to the Serbian besiegers of the city. Due to the intensive media reporting, the West is being forced to intensify its presence in the ongoing war in Bosnia .
- 1995: Four Roma are killed in an attack with pipe bombs and booby traps in Oberwart , Burgenland, Austria . Years later, the right-wing extremist Franz Fuchs was identified as the perpetrator .
- 2004: Insurgents fighting Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide capture the strategically and morally important city of Gonaïves in northern Haiti .
business
- 1637: The great tulip mania in the Netherlands reaches its peak at an auction in Alkmaar . A little later, the first “ stock market crash ” in history occurs. Trading stops altogether, prices fall by over 95%.
- 1869: At Moliagul in the Central Goldfields Shire of the Australian state of Victoria , two miners find the world's largest gold nugget to date, which they call the Welcome Stranger .
- 1890: With the entry in the commercial register, Allianz Versicherungs-AG in Berlin begins its business operations.
- 1922: The first edition of Reader's Digest magazine appears in the United States .
- 1961: The British weekly newspaper The Sunday Telegraph is founded in London.
- 1982: The British low-cost airline Laker Airways ceases its flight operations.
- 1989: A pure news programme, the English-language Sky News , is broadcast for the first time in Europe via the television satellite Astra 1A . The operating company belongs to the media group of Rupert Murdoch .
science and technology
- 1843: The daylight comet , a member of the Kreutz Group , is discovered. The comet is one of the great comets of the 19th century.
- 1905: The rock tomb of an ancient Egyptian civil servant couple of the 18th dynasty is found with KV46 in the Valley of the Kings .
- 1919: For the first time, planes take off twice a day from Berlin-Johannisthal to transport mail to the Constituent National Assembly in Weimar . This marks the beginning of the history of civil airmail in Germany.
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- 1956: Süddeutscher Rundfunk puts the Stuttgart television tower into operation, the first reinforced concrete tower of its kind.
- 1960: The CERN - Proton Synchrotron , a particle accelerator , is ceremonially opened in Geneva in the presence of prominent nuclear physicists .
- 1971: The Apollo 14 Lunar Module , with astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell on board, is the Apollo program 's third shuttle to land safely on the moon , in Fra Mauro Crater .
- 1974: The US space probe Mariner 10 passes Venus and sends over 4,000 images to Earth. After that, it flies further in the direction of Mercury with a swing-by maneuver .
- 1980: Klaus von Klitzing discovers what is known as the quantum Hall effect in the high-field magnet laboratory in Grenoble .
Culture
- 1695: The opera Muzio Scevola by Giovanni Bononcini is premiered at the Tordinona in Rome .
- 1796: The Association of Patriotic Friends of Art founds a picture gallery in Bohemia , which becomes the National Gallery in Prague .
- 1866: Jacques Offenbach 's operetta Bluebeard premieres at the Théâtre des Variétés in Paris. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy .
- 1887: The opera Otello by Giuseppe Verdi , based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare with the libretto by Arrigo Boito , premieres at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan with triumphant success. Only Verdi himself is not satisfied with the performance.
- 1916: Authors Hugo Ball and Emmy Hennings open Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire , the birthplace of Dadaism .
- 1927: Buster Keaton's epic silent comedy The General is released nationally in the United States. The longest and most expensive Buster-Keaton production received mostly negative reviews and ended Keaton's artistic independence.
- 1936: Charlie Chaplin's satirical silent film Modern Times premieres in New York. The film, which is a satire on Taylorism in the workplace, becomes one of Chaplin's most successful works.
- 1941: The premiere of the opera Fürstin Tarakanowa by Boris Blacher takes place in Wuppertal.
- 1967: Vicco von Bülow leads through the first episode of the ARD television series Cartoon , in which he also contributes drawings as Loriot .
- 2004: In Berlin , the feature film Unterwegs nach Cold Mountain by Anthony Minghella starring Jude Law , Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger opens the International Film Festival .
society
- 1924: The BBC broadcasts the time signal for the first time in its programme .
- 1988: Red Nose Day is held for the first time in the UK in aid of the Comic Relief charity . A television show lasting several hours takes place on the British broadcaster BBC , in which celebrities ask the public for donations.
- 1992: The so-called "Needle Park" Platzspitz , meeting point and temporary home for many drug addicts in Zurich , is closed.
- 1994: More than 30 years after the crime, Byron De La Beckwith is found guilty in a Mississippi appeal for the murder of black civil rights activist Medgar Evers and sentenced to life imprisonment.
religion
- 1265: Four months after the death of Urban IV , Guido le Gros is elected head of the Roman Catholic Church in Perugia under the name Clement IV . As Pope he never stays in Rome.
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- 1597: Toyotomi Hideyoshi had three Portuguese Jesuits , six Spanish Franciscans and 17 Japanese Christians executed on the cross in Nagasaki . The proselytizing in the Azuchi-Momoyama period triggered conflicts with the state authorities in Japan .
- 1875: In an encyclical, Pope Pius IX declares the May Laws enacted in the course of the Prussian Kulturkampf are void.
- 1991: In its Baha'i decision , the German Federal Constitutional Court makes important decisions on the relationship between freedom of religion and the right of association .
disasters
- 62: The Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum at the foot of Mount Vesuvius are severely damaged by an earthquake .
- 1783: A series of earthquakes begins, affecting Messina and particularly parts of Calabria . By March 28, 300 villages will be destroyed and around 30,000 people will lose their lives.
- 1805: British East Indiaman Earl of Abergavenny sank off Weymouth , England, having previously been damaged by being stranded on a sandbar. 261 of the 405 people on board die, including Captain John Wordsworth, a brother of poet William Wordsworth .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 2001: An Australian expedition discovers three living specimens of the “ tree lobster ” ( Dryococelus australis ) once endemic to Lord Howe Island , on Ball's Pyramid , an uninhabited pointed rocky island off the coast of Australia.
Sports
- 1884: English football club Derby County is formed as an offshoot of Derbyshire County Cricket Club .
- 1956: The VII Olympic Winter Games , in which Toni Sailer was the most successful athlete with three gold medals, end. On the final day, Harry Glaß , with bronze in ski jumping , was the first German to win an Olympic medal in Nordic skiing and the first East German Olympic medal .
- 1957: The Bundeswehr sports school is opened in Sonthofen .
- 1976: Franz Klammer wins Olympic downhill gold in Innsbruck and becomes an Austrian sports legend.
- 1989: A joint venture between the EBU and Sky Television , Eurosport begins its television programming primarily focused on sports events.
Entries of track and field world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 976: Sanjō , 67th Tennō of Japan
- 1279: Levold von Northof , German clergyman and canon of Liège
- 1438: Marguerite de Bourbon , French noblewoman
- 1438: Philip II , French nobleman, Duke of Savoy
- 1505: Aegidius Tschudi , first Swiss chronicler ( Chronron Helveticum ) and Glarus politician
- 1515: Juraj Drašković of Trakošćan , cardinal and ban of Croatia
- 1519: Renatus , Prince of Orange, Lord of Breda and Count of Vianden
- 1531: Johann Aurpach , German poet and jurist
- 1533: Andreas Dudith , Hungarian humanist and diplomat
- 1558: Heinrich Schickhardt , German master builder of the Renaissance
- 1587: Paul Röber , German Lutheran theologian
- 1600: Johan Picardt , German-Dutch physician, pastor and writer
- 1605: Balthasar Balduin , German Lutheran theologian
- 1608: Caspar Schott , German scientist
- 1612: Antoine Arnauld , French philosopher
- 1622: Christian of Hesse-Kassel , landgrave prince, Swedish colonel
- 1626: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sévigné , French author
- 1639: Sibylla Schuster , German writer and poet
- 1650: Anne-Jules de Noailles , French general, Marshal of France
- 1653: Johann Heinrich May the Elder , German Lutheran theologian, philologist and historian
- 1656: Giacomo Genora , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and local writer
- 1667: Gottfried Reiche , German trumpeter and composer
- 1671: Bartholomæus Deichman , Danish-Norwegian Bishop of Christiania
- 1677: Wilhelm Erasmus Arends , German vicar
- 1688: Moritz Wilhelm , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
- 1689: Christian Franz Dietrich von Fürstenberg , Electoral Cologne politician
18th century
- 1704: Anna Christine Luise , Countess Palatine of Sulzbach, Duchess of Savoy and Crown Princess of Sardinia-Piedmont
- 1708: Pompeo Batoni , Italian painter
- 1714: Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch , German botanist and physician
- 1721: John Fell , American politician
- 1723: John Witherspoon , British Presbyterian, co-signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and Member of the National Congress
- 1725: James Otis , American jurist
- 1734: Johann Georg Gottlob Schwarz , German Protestant theologian
- 1737: Bak Ji-won , Korean politician and economist
- 1737: Maria Elisabeth of Austria , Austrian princess
- 1743: Ferdinand Anton von Krosigk , Prussian district administrator
- 1746: Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , American politician
- 1748: Christian Gottlob Neefe , German organist, composer
- 1752: Anton Walter , Viennese piano maker
- 1756: Mathias von Flurl , founder of Bavarian mineralogy and geology
- 1766: Heinrich Gentz , German architect
- 1784: Karl Friedrich Christian Wenck , German jurist
- 1787: Jonathan Bätz , Dutch organ builder
- 1788: Robert Peel , British politician and head of government
- 1789: Alois Hildwein , Austrian architect of the Biedermeier period
- 1790: Minna Apranzow , German writer
- 1795: Pierre Jean Beckx , General of the Jesuits
- 1795: Wilhelm von Haidinger , Austrian geologist and mineralogist
- 1796: Johannes von Geissel , Archbishop of Cologne
- 1799: Gebhard Adolph Friedrich von Krosigk , German landowner and civil servant
- 1799: John Lindley , English botanist
19th century
- 1805: Friedrich Wilhelm Otto , German philologist
- 1808: Carl Spitzweg , German painter
- 1810: Ole Bull , Norwegian violinist and composer
- 1812: Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès , French officer and politician
- 1814: David Thomas Ansted , English geologist
- 1818: Paul Meurice , French writer
- 1821: Hermann von Mallinckrodt , German politician
- 1823: August Wilhelm Dieckhoff , German theologian
- 1831: Eugène Bersier , French evangelical clergyman
- 1835: Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke , German astronomer
- 1837: Konstantin Konstantinovich Arsenyev , Russian publicist, literary scholar and encyclopaedist
- 1837: Dwight Lyman Moody , American revivalist
- 1840: Simeon Eben Baldwin , American politician, Governor of Connecticut
- 1840: John Boyd Dunlop , Irish-British inventor
- 1840: Hiram Maxim , American-British inventor
- 1840: Richard Schöne , German archaeologist
- 1842: Karl von Wedel , German general and diplomat
- 1843: Franklin Taylor , English pianist and music teacher
- 1844: Lothar Kempter , German-Swiss composer and conductor
- 1844: Ernst Pinkert , German restaurateur and founder of the Leipzig Zoo
- 1844: Aristide Rinaldini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1846: Johann Most , social democrat, later anarchist
- 1846: Julius von Soden , German politician and governor of Cameroon
- 1847: Hugo Oppenheim , German banker
- 1848: Joris-Karl Huysmans , French writer
- 1848: Louis Schmeisser , German arms designer
- 1848: Belle Starr , American robber's bride
- 1849: August Palm , Swedish social democrat and agitator
- 1852: Terauchi Masatake , Prime Minister of Japan
- 1855: Thomas Ashton, 1st Baron Ashton of Hyde , British politician, entrepreneur and peer
- 1856: Otto Brahm , German critic, theater manager and director
- 1859: Georg Baur , German entrepreneur
- 1859: Louis Cheikhô , orientalist and theologian
- 1861: Bjarnat Krawc , Sorbian composer
- 1861: August von Parseval , German engineer
- 1862: Aleksander Kakowski , Archbishop of Warsaw and Cardinal
- 1862: Felipe Villanueva , Mexican composer
- 1864: Carl Teike , German military musician and composer
- 1865: Harvey Worthington Loomis , American composer
- 1866: Rosetter Gleason Cole , American composer
- 1867: Elsbeth Krukenberg-Conze , German writer and suffragette
- 1868: Henri Hinrichsen , German publisher
- 1875: Gonzalo Queipo de Llano , Spanish general
- 1878: André Citroën , French automobile designer
- 1880: Gabriel Voisin , French aircraft and automobile designer
- 1881: Richard Meister , Austrian classics scholar and educator
- 1882: August Kopff , German astronomer, asteroid discoverer
- 1882: Louis Wagner , French automobile racer
- 1883: Teddy Tetzlaff , American racing car driver
- 1887: Richard Gölz , German church musician and theologian
- 1887: Albert Paris Gütersloh , Austrian painter and writer
- 1888: Hedwig Anneler , Swiss ethnologist and writer
- 1890: Cyril Asquith, Baron Asquith of Bishopstone , British jurist
- 1890: Stanisława Zawadzka , Polish opera singer and singing teacher
- 1891: Marc Amsler , Swiss professor of ophthalmology
- 1891: Monta Bell , American producer, director and screenwriter
- 1892: Tochigiyama Moriya , Japanese sumō wrestler, yokozuna
- 1893: Alsing Andersen , Danish politician
- 1893: Roman Ingarden , Polish philosopher
- 1894: Mario Ajmone Cat , Italian general
- 1894: Henriette Hardenberg , German poet
- 1894: Frederick E Morgan , British general
- 1894: William Wernigk , Austrian opera singer
- 1897: Anton Graf von Arco auf Valley , German nobleman, jurist and assassin
- 1897: Martin Blank , German politician, MP
- 1898: Ozaki Shirō , Japanese writer
- 1898: Will Shade , American jug band musician
- 1900: Karl Blessing , German Bundesbank President
- 1900: Adlai Ewing Stevenson Jr. , American politician
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902: Hilde Benjamin , German lawyer, Minister of Justice of the GDR, presiding judge in show trials
- 1902: Bronisław Kaper , Polish-American composer
- 1902: Paul Nevermann , German lawyer and politician, MdL, Hamburg Mayor, Senator
- 1903: Fritz Everding , German painter and printmaker
- 1903: Walter Linck , Swiss sculptor
- 1903: Maekawa Samio , Japanese lyric poet
- 1903: Friedrich Karl Peltzer , German entrepreneur, founder of Wiking-Modellbau
- 1903: Alfredo Vicente Scherer , Brazilian Archbishop
- 1903: Hans Venatier , German writer
- 1904: Walter Gross , German cabaret artist
- 1904: Ioan Ghyka Cantacuzene , Romanian nobleman, aviator and automobile racer
- 1905: Brigitte von Arnim , German writer
- 1905: Roger Filiatrault , Canadian singer (baritone) and music teacher
- 1905: August Haussleiter , German politician and journalist, MdL
- 1905: Adolfo Mejía , Colombian composer
- 1906: John Carradine , American actor
- 1906: Sara Alexandrovna Levina , Russian composer
- 1907: Hans Bender , German psychologist and professor
- 1907: Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, MEP
- 1908: Ugo Amadoro , Italian film director, assistant director and animator
- 1909: Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish composer
- 1909: Lode Van Dessel , Belgian-American composer and organist
- 1910: Michail Ignátieff , German musician
- 1910: Francisco Varallo , Argentine soccer player
- 1910: Hans Werdehausen , German painter
- 1911: Wilhelm Andersen , German theologian
- 1911: Nakamura Mitsuo , Japanese novelist and literary critic
- 1912: Tex Atchison , American country musician
- 1913: Ilse Arndt , Jewish contemporary witness to the persecution of the Jews
- 1914: William S. Burroughs , American writer, representative of the Beat Generation and postmodernism
- 1914: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin , British biophysicist, Nobel laureate
- 1914: Silvius Magnago , German jurist and politician, governor of South Tyrol
- 1914: Frank Thorolfson , Canadian pianist, conductor, music educator and composer
- 1915: Robert Hofstadter , American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1915: Margaret Millar , American writer
- 1916: Ugo Locatelli , Italian soccer player, world champion and Olympic champion
- 1916: Daniel Santos , Puerto Rican singer and composer
- 1917: Otto Edelmann , Austrian singer
- 1918: Vincenzo Fagiolo , Italian Archbishop
- 1918: Qara Qarayev , Azerbaijani composer
- 1918: Otto Scrinzi , Austrian physician, publicist and politician
- 1919: Red Buttons , American actor and comedian
- 1919: Tim Holt , American film actor
- 1919: Robert R. Merhige Jr. , American lawyer and federal judge
- 1919: Andreas Papandreou , Prime Minister of Greece
- 1920: Gerhard Hoehme , German painter
- 1920: Hans Lipinsky-Gottersdorf , German writer
- 1921: Ken Adam , German-British production designer
- 1922: Alain de Changy , Belgian racing driver
- 1922: Rudolf Lorenzen , German writer
- 1922: Jeanine Rueff , French composer
- 1924: Alexander Matveyevich Matrossow , Soviet soldier, symbolic figure of the Red Army
- 1924: Hilde Sochor , Austrian actress
- 1925: Siegfried Dornbusch , German actor, cabaret artist and voice actor
1926-1950
- 1926: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger , American newspaper editor
- 1926: Christa Williams , German pop singer
- 1927: Jean Hamilius , Luxembourg politician and athlete
- 1927: Hans-Jürgen Imiela , German art historian
- 1927: Gerhard Klarner , German news anchor
- 1927: Ewald Schmeken , German historian and sociologist
- 1928: Ernst Eisenmann , German trade unionist
- 1928: Bruno Krupp , German politician
- 1928: Heddo Schulenburg , German actor
- 1929: Hal Blaine , American musician
- 1929: Luc Ferrari , French composer, sound artist and radio play maker
- 1929: Wieland Schmied , Austrian essayist and literary scholar
- 1929: Fred Sinowatz , Austrian Chancellor
- 1930: Josef Ludwig Holub , Czech botanist
- 1930: Dorothea Kobs-Lehmann , German artist
- 1930: Ebbe Kops , Danish boxer
- 1930: Horst Schad , German soccer and tennis player
- 1930: Alfred Söllner , German legal scholar, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1930: Ilon Wikland , Swedish children's book illustrator
- 1932: Cesare Maldini , Italian football player and coach
- 1932: Shūji Takashina , Japanese art historian
- 1932: Uwe Timm , German author and publisher
- 1933: Jack Aspinwall , British politician
- 1933: Claude King , American country music singer
- 1933: Miloš Milutinović , Yugoslav football player and coach
- 1934: Henry Louis Aaron , American baseball player
- 1935: Max Deubel , German motorcycle racer
- 1935: Jack Findlay , Australian motorcycle racer
- 1935: Alex Harvey , British singer and songwriter
- 1935: Siegfried Kessler , Franco-German pianist, composer and flautist
- 1935: Peter Knauer , German theologian, Jesuit
- 1935: Sandra Paretti , German writer
- 1936: Horst Fascher , German manager and music promoter, co-founder of the Hamburg Star Club
- 1936: Norma Thrower , Australian track and field athlete
- 1937: Joachim Schmettau , German sculptor
- 1937: Rolf Seelmann-Eggebert , German television journalist and aristocratic expert
- 1938: Ortrud Begin , German actress
- 1938: Ed Doemland , American composer, organist, jazz pianist and percussionist
- 1938: John Guare , American playwright
- 1938: Friedrich Kramer , German politician
- 1939: Robert Antretter , German politician, MP
- 1939: Milton Cruz , Dominican pianist
- 1939: Evžen Zámečník , Czech composer and professor
- 1940: HR Giger , Swiss visual artist and painter, Oscar winner
- 1941: Barrett Strong , American songwriter and singer
- 1941: Kaspar Villiger , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1941: Gareth Wyn Williams , British lord and politician
- 1942: Otto Fraessdorf , German soccer player
- 1943: Nolan Bushnell , American computer pioneer
- 1943: Ernst Hinsken , German politician, MP
- 1943: Charles Janeway , American immunologist and professor
- 1943: Michael Mann , American film director
- 1943: Craig Morton , American football player
- 1943: Ivan Tcherepnin , American composer, conductor and music educator
- 1944: Meinhard Ade , German administrative lawyer
- 1944: Al Kooper , American rock musician, singer, songwriter and producer
- 1944: Bill Mays , American jazz pianist
- 1944: Götz Werner , German entrepreneur, founder of DM-Drogerie Markt
- 1944: Thekla Carola Wied , German actress
- 1945: Mino Denti , Italian cyclist
- 1946: Robert Atkins , British politician
- 1946: Boris Bukowski , Austrian musician
- 1946: Mauro Pagani , Italian cantautore, multi-instrumentalist and composer
- 1946: Charlotte Rampling , British actress
- 1947: Eduardo Antunes Coimbra , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- 1947: Chris Biscoe , British jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist
- 1947: Jenny Gröllmann , German actress
- 1947: Benoît Jacquot , French screenwriter and film director
- 1947: Ricardo Lindo Fuentes , Salvadorian poet, storyteller, playwright and essayist
- 1948: Sven-Göran Eriksson , Swedish football coach
- 1948: Christopher Guest , American actor
- 1948: Barbara Hershey , American actress
- 1948: Heikki Toivanen , Finnish opera singer
- 1949: Igor Achba , Abkhazian politician and diplomat
- 1949: Nuala Ahern , Irish politician
- 1949: Kurt Beck , German politician, MdL, Prime Minister, Party Chairman, Chairman of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- 1949: Heidi Handorf , German film editor
- 1950: Franz Schausberger , Austrian politician
1951-1975
- 1951: Helmut Spanner , German author of children's and picture books
- 1952: Daniel Balavoine , French singer
- 1953: Freddie Aguilar , Filipino folk-rock musician and songwriter
- 1953: Peter Arntz , Dutch footballer
- 1953: Gerhard Oppitz , German pianist
- 1953: Xaver Paul Thoma , German composer of new music
- 1954: Stefan Jedele , German television producer
- 1954: Cliff Martinez , American film composer
- 1954: Hans-Jürgen Orthmann , German athlete
- 1954: Matthias Spindler , German journalist and historian
- 1954: Christian Wulffen , German artist
- 1955: Luigi Archetti , Italian artist and musician
- 1955: Mangetsu Hanamura , Japanese writer
- 1955: Paul Locherer , Baden-Württemberg politician
- 1955: Markus Ryffel , Swiss athlete
- 1956: Vytautas Andriulaitis , Lithuanian correspondence chess player
- 1956: Vinnie Colaiuta , American drummer
- 1956: Hans Forster , German politician
- 1956: Elke Martens , German schlager singer, lyricist, actress and presenter
- 1956: Héctor Rebaque , Mexican automobile racer
- 1957: Silke Hinrichsen , German politician
- 1957: Jüri Tamm , Estonian hammer thrower and politician
- 1958: Rudi Dolezal , Austrian film producer and director
- 1958: Frank Pagelsdorf , German football player and coach
- 1959: Jennifer Granholm , Governor of the US state of Michigan
- 1961: Dietmar Baer , German actor
- 1962: Jennifer Jason Leigh , American actress
- 1962: Axel Krippschock , German track and field athlete
- 1964: David Gilmore , American jazz musician
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- 1964: Laura Linney , American actress
- 1964: Duff McKagan , American musician ( Guns N' Roses )
- 1964: Piotr Trzaskalski , Polish film director
- 1964: Bernhard van Treeck , German book author
- 1965: Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian footballer
- 1965: Lawrence Iquaibom , Nigerian weightlifter
- 1966: Soner Arıca , Turkish pop musician
- 1966: Jonathan Morgan , American adult film director and producer
- 1966: Rok Petrovič , Slovenian alpine skier
- 1966: Marc Prill , German cinematographer
- 1966: Cheryl Shepard , American actress
- 1966: Vivian Wu , Chinese actress
- 1968: Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu , Turkish politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs
- 1968: Marcus Grönholm , Finnish rally driver
- 1968: Ahne , German writer and stage author
- 1969: Bobby Brown , American musician
- 1969: Karsten Schwanke , German TV presenter
- 1969: Michael Sheen , Welsh actor
- 1970: Astrid Kumbernuss , German track and field athlete, Olympic champion
- 1971: Sara Evans , American country music singer
- 1971: Terézia Mora , Hungarian novelist, screenwriter and translator
- 1972: Marc Bernhard , German lawyer and politician
- 1972: Reto Finger , Swiss playwright
- 1972: Nicole Humbert , German track and field athlete
- 1972: Mary , Crown Princess of Denmark
- 1974: Nadine Ernsting-Krienke , German field hockey player
- 1975: Giovanni van Bronckhorst , Dutch footballer
- 1975: Mathieu Delarive , French actor
- 1975: Annika Walter , German water jumper
1976-2000
- 1976: Altan Aksoy , Turkish footballer
- 1976: John Aloisi , Australian footballer
- 1976: Gökhan Arslan , Turkish kickboxer
- 1976: Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor
- 1976: Andrea Bunjes , German hammer thrower
- 1976: Katrin Filzen , German actress
- 1977: Ben Ainslie , English sailor
- 1977: Dane Šijan , Serbian handball player
- 1979: Mirko Hrgović , Bosnian footballer
- 1980: Meike Droste , German actress
- 1980: Kai Schoppitsch , Austrian footballer
- 1980: Sayed Tahir Shah , Afghan footballer
- 1981: Loukas Vyntra , Greek footballer
- 1981: Nora Zehetner , American actress
- 1982: Deidra Dionne , Canadian freestyle skier
- 1982: Nicolas Gilsoul , Belgian rally co-driver
- 1982: Rodrigo Palacio , Argentine footballer
- 1982: Christoph Schubert , German ice hockey player
- 1983: Flo Ankah , French actress and filmmaker
- 1983: Anja Hammerseng-Edin , Norwegian handball player
- 1984: Edgaras Česnauskis , Lithuanian footballer
- 1984: Michael Nell , Canadian ski jumper
- 1984: Carlos Tévez , Argentine footballer
- 1984: Ji Wei , Chinese hurdler
- 1985: Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese footballer
- 1986: Andreas Beck , German tennis player
- 1986: Vedran Ćorluka , Croatian footballer
- 1986: Macall Harkins , American tennis player
- 1987: Chinedu Ede , German footballer
- 1987: Olli Pekkala , Finnish ski jumper
- 1987: Darren Criss , American actor and singer
- 1988: Natalie Geisenberger , German luger, Olympic champion
- 1989: Joakim Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1989: Kadir Atkın , Turkish footballer
- 1989: Robin Himmelmann , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1989: Christina Klug , Austrian singer
- 1989: Jeremy Sumpter , American actor
- 1990: Dmitri Andreikin , Russian chess champion
- 1990: Ásta Guðrún Helgadóttir , Icelandic politician
- 1990: Anthony Ingruber , Canadian actor
- 1991: Franka Anić , Slovenian Taekwondoin
- 1991: Nabil Bahoui , Swedish footballer
- 1991: Terrence Ross , American basketball player
- 1992: Stefan de Vrij , Dutch footballer
- 1992: Neymar , Brazilian soccer player
- 1992: Elmira Sysdykova , Kazakh wrestler
- 1992: Carina Vogt , German ski jumper, Olympic champion
- 1993: Anastasiya Sergeyevna Voinova , Russian cyclist
- 1994: Moritz Krieter , German handball player
- 1994: Francesco Lamon , Italian cyclist
- 1995: Adnan Januzaj , Belgian footballer
- 1997: Delphine Cascarino , French soccer player
- 1998: Jascha Baum , German actor
- 1999: Ash Kigbu , English footballer
- 1999: Nick Lehmann , German handball player
21st century
2001-2050
- 2001: Oscar Schönfelder , German soccer player
- 2002: Davis Cleveland , American actor
Died
Before the 17th century
- 518: Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus , Bishop of Vienne and saint of the Catholic Church
- 970: Polyeuktos , Patriarch of Constantinople and Orthodox saint
- 985: Hildegard von Stein , Bavarian noblewoman
- 1006: Albuin , saint and bishop of Brixen
- 1015: Adelheid von Vilich , saint and first abbess of Vilich (today in Bonn)
- 1017: Sancho García , Count of Castile
- 1023: Sitt al-Mulk , regent of the Fatimids
- 1085: Frederick III. von Goseck , son of the Count Palatine of Saxony
- 1157: Conrad I , Count of Wettin, Margrave of Meissen and Lusatia
- 1211: Florentius von der Lippe , abbot of Marienfeld
- 1311: Henry de Lacy, 3rd Earl of Lincoln , English magnate, diplomat and general
- 1326: Ralph de Cobham , English nobleman and military
- 1326: Heinrich von Helfenberg , Bishop of Lavant and Gurk
- 1471: Nicolaus Pistoris , German physician and mayor of Leipzig
- 1509: Michael Hildebrand , Archbishop of Riga
- 1578: Giovan Battista Moroni , Italian Renaissance painter
- 1579: Helena of Pfalz-Simmern , Countess of Hanau- Münzenberg
- 1597: Paul Miki , Japanese Catholic missionary and martyr
17th and 18th centuries
- 1622: Martin Behm , German novelist and hymn writer
- 1635: Joos de Momper , Flemish painter
- 1639: Augusta , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- 1643: Johannes Steuber , German Hebrew scholar and theologian
- 1661: Shunzhi , Chinese Emperor (Qing dynasty)
- 1664: Christen Aagaard , Danish poet
- 1679: Joost van den Vondel , Dutch poet and playwright
- 1694: Leopold Wilhelm von Königsegg-Rothenfels , Imperial Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1702: Johann Gotthard Böckel , German legal scholar
- 1705: Olof Bromelius , Swedish botanist and physician
- 1705: Jean Gilles , French composer
- 1705: Philipp Jacob Spener , German Protestant theologian
- 1711: Wolfgang von Schmettau , Kurbrandenburg minister and envoy
- 1717: Anna Maria Wagemann , victim of the witch hunt in Fürfeld
- 1718: Elisabeth Johanna von Pfalz-Veldenz , Wild and Rhine Countess of Salm-Kyrburg
- 1718: Adrianus Reland , Dutch orientalist
- 1722: Eleonore d'Olbreuse , Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle
- 1722: Christian Michael Stever , German jurist and mayor of Rostock
- 1723: Johann Daniel Herrnschmidt , German Lutheran theologian
- 1724: Mary Cowper , English lady-in-waiting and diarist
- 1725: Georg Haase , German master builder and bricklayer
- 1725: Johannes Sperlette , French philosopher
- 1725: Christoph Weigel the Elder , German engraver, art dealer and publisher
- 1744: Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer , German physician
- 1745: Anna Luise Föhse , Princess of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1750: Adolph Friedrich Hamberger , German physician
- 1754: Nicolaus Samuelis Cruquius , Dutch hydraulic engineer and cartographer
- 1758: Ferdinand Julius von Troyer , Prince-Bishop of Olomouc
- 1760: Agustín Ahumada y Villalón , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
- 1765: Mir Jafar , Nawab of Bengal under the influence of the British East India Company
- 1766: Leopold Joseph von Daun , Austrian general in the Seven Years' War
- 1768: Karl von Arberg , German officer
- 1769: Johann Balthasar Bernhold , German Protestant clergyman and university teacher
- 1775: Eusebius Amort , Catholic theologian
- 1790: William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist
- 1795: Philippe-Auguste de Sainte-Foy , French writer
19th century
- 1804: Christian Joseph Jagemann , German privy councilor and librarian
- 1807: Pasquale Paoli , Corsican revolutionary and resistance fighter
- 1818: Charles XIII. , King of Sweden and King of Norway
- 1818: Alois von Reding , Swiss politician and military
- 1820: Tadeusz Brzozowski , Order General of the Societas Jesu
- 1820: William Ellery , signer of the US Declaration of Independence
- 1822: Joseph Marius von Babo , German writer
- 1822: Tepedelenli Ali Pasha , Ottoman pasha, ruled large parts of Albania and Greece
- 1831: Henry Foster , British naval officer, geoscientist and leader of Arctic and Antarctic expeditions
- 1861: Pierre Bosquet , French general, Marshal of France
- 1862: Ignaz Franz Castelli , Austrian poet and playwright
- 1867: Serafín Estébanez Calderón , Spanish writer
- 1870: Johann Joachim Friedrich Torkuhl , Mayor of Lübeck
- 1871: Jean-Jacques-Caton Chenevière , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university teacher
- 1874: Moriz Haupt , German classical philologist and Germanist
- 1880: Adolph E. Borie , American politician, diplomat, Secretary of the Navy
- 1881: Thomas Carlyle , Scottish essayist and historian
- 1882: Ludwig von Aretin , German politician
- 1889: Ole Jacob Broch , Norwegian mathematician and politician
- 1889: Jean Gaberel , Swiss evangelical clergyman and university teacher
- 1892: Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish writer
- 1897: Wilhelm von Ahlefeldt , squire of the noble estate Treuholz and provost of the Uetersen monastery
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903: Henry L. Dawes , American politician
- 1903: Joseph Fugger von Glött , German officer and colonial official
- 1903: Alberto Giovannini , Italian composer and music teacher
- 1907: Josef Mauracher , Austrian organ builder
- 1907: Ludwig Thuille , Austrian composer
- 1910: Louis Evans Atkinson , American politician
- 1915: Louis Baur , Swiss merchant and commercial agent
- 1917: Friedrich Hahn , German geographer
- 1919: Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov , Russian philosopher
- 1922: Christiaan de Wet , South African politician and Boer general
- 1922: Slavoljub Eduard Penkala , engineer and inventor from Croatia
- 1923: Georg Ahsbahs , German horse breeder
- 1923: Erich von Kielmansegg , politician of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
- 1925: Antti Aarne , Finnish researcher of fairy tales
- 1926: André Gedalge , French music teacher and composer
- 1926: Gustav Eberlein , German sculptor, painter and writer
- 1927: Hazrat Inayat Khan , Sufi mystic
- 1929: Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld , German aviation pioneer
- 1930: Anton Aicher , Austrian sculptor
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- 1930: Friedrich von Duhn , German archaeologist
- 1934: William Morris Davis , American geologist, meteorologist and geographer
- 1935: Max de Pourtalès , French automobile racer
- 1936: Georg Fürst , German composer, Bavarian military musician
- 1937: Lou Andreas-Salomé , German-Baltic psychoanalyst and writer
- 1938: Hans Litten , German lawyer and criminal defense attorney
- 1938: Ernst Theodor Haux , German entrepreneur
- 1939: Teresa Mañé Miravet , Spanish educator and publisher
- 1940: Charles S. Deneen , American politician
- 1941: Andrew Barton Paterson , Australian jurist, writer and journalist
- 1943: Pieter Helbert Damsté , Dutch classical scholar
- 1943: Joseph Turmel , French theologian and historian
- 1943: W.S. Van Dyke , American film director
- 1945: Hermann Danz , German politician and resistance fighter against Nazism
- 1945: Ragnar Östberg , Swedish architect
- 1945: Theodor Neubauer , resistance fighter, operational illegal leadership of the KPD
- 1946: Bernd von Arnim , German Slavist
- 1946: George Arliss , British actor
- 1947: Antonius Hilfrich , Bishop of Limburg
- 1947: Hans Fallada , German socially critical writer
- 1948: Johannes Blaskowitz , German Colonel-General, Commander-in-Chief, indicted war criminal
1951-2000
- 1951: Emil Beurmann , Swiss writer, poet, draftsman and painter
- 1951: Enrique Mejía Arredondo , Dominican composer and conductor
- 1952: Elisabeth von Plotho , German model for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest
- 1952: Adela Verne , English composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1958: Arthur Henney , German racing driver and entrepreneur
- 1958: Gian Battista Mantegazzi , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1958: Henry Tomlinson , British novelist and journalist
- 1959: Curt Sachs , German music theorist and teacher
- 1960: Carl Moltmann , German SPD politician
- 1960: Rudolf Nelson , German musician, pianist, composer and theater director
- 1961: Ludwig Meybert , German actor, theater director and radio play announcer
- 1962: Gaetano Cicognani , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat, Cardinal of the Curia
- 1962: Jacques Ibert , French composer
- 1963: Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel , British politician and diplomat
- 1964: Max Sailer , German racing driver and engineer
- 1965: August Adam , German priest and theologian
- 1966: Ludwig Binswanger , Swiss psychiatrist
- 1967: Karl Roth , German medalist, painter and sculptor
- 1967: Violeta Parra , Chilean folk musician
- 1968: Klaus Uebe , German Major General
- 1970: Eduard Fraenkel , German-British classics scholar
- 1971: Mátyás Rákosi , Hungarian politician
- 1972: Marianne Moore , American writer
- 1972: Link Davis , American musician
- 1976: Lilly Ackermann , German actress and drama teacher
- 1976: Emanuel Punčochář , Czech conductor and composer
- 1977: Oskar Klein , Swedish physicist
- 1978: Ghulam Muhammad Ghubar , Afghan politician, poet and writer
- 1978: Joseph Wewel , German Roman Catholic clergyman
- 1980: Nachman Aronszajn , Polish-American mathematician
- 1982: Hans Atmer , German architect
- 1982: Arthur Geiss , German motorcycle racer
- 1983: Judith Alpi , Chilean painter
- 1984: Manès Sperber , Austro-French writer
- 1987: Dub Adams , American western swing musician and rancher
- 1987: Helmut Fielhauer , Austrian folklorist
- 1987: Kōichi Isoda , Japanese literary critic and scholar
- 1988: Ove Arup , British-Danish-Norwegian engineer, structural designer and theorist
- 1988: Stefan Dittrich , German politician and MP
- 1989: Fré Focke , Dutch pianist
- 1989: Ludwig Schwarzer , Austrian painter
- 1989: Adriano Soldini , Swiss educator and writer
- 1990: Edgar Herschler , American politician
- 1991: Arthur Agstner , Austrian Ambassador
- 1991: Pedro Arrupe , Spanish General of the Order
- 1992: Vittorio Gelmetti , Italian composer
- 1992: Hubert Schoonbroodt , Belgian organist, oboist, conductor and choir director
- 1992: Joseph Khoury , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1993: Hans Jonas , German philosopher and religious scholar
- 1993: Joseph L. Mankiewicz , American film director
- 1994: Hermann Josef Abs , German banker
- 1995: Doug McClure , American actor
- 1996: Ludwig Ratzel , German politician (SPD)
- 1997: Roland Adolph , German clergyman
- 1998: Eduardo Francisco Pironio , Argentine cleric, Curial Cardinal
- 1999: Neville Bonner , Australian politician
- 1999: Rembert van Delden , German politician
- 1999: Wassily Leontief , American economist and Nobel laureate
- 2000: Claude Autant-Lara , French film director and politician
- 2000: Geoffrey de Ste Croix , British ancient historian
- 2000: George Koltanowski , Belgian-American chess player
- 2000: Barbara Pentland , Canadian composer
21st century
- 2003: Manfred von Brauchitsch , German racing driver and sports official
- 2003: Josef Steiner , Swiss chess player
- 2004: John Hench , American animator and Disney animator
- 2004: Heinrich Rombach , German Professor of Philosophy
- 2005: Sven Ingvar Agge , Swedish biathlete
- 2005: Gnassingbé Eyadéma , Togolese President
- 2005: Günter Reimann , German economist and journalist
- 2007: Alfred Worm , Austrian journalist
- 2008: Marc Adrian , Austrian artist and filmmaker
- 2008: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi , Indian author and philosopher, founder of Transcendental Meditation
- 2009: Franco Andreoli , Swiss football player and coach
- 2009: Anne-Marie Blanc , Swiss actress
- 2009: Jan Diesselhorst , German cellist with the Berlin Philharmonic
- 2009: Dana Vávrová , German-Czech actress and director
- 2009: Franz Villinger , German aircraft designer
- 2010: Bäiken Aeshimov , Soviet politician
- 2010: Sujit Kumar , Indian film actor
- 2011: Fanizani Akuda , Zimbabwean sculptor
- 2011: Omar Amiralay , Syrian filmmaker
- 2011: John Paul Getty III , American billionaire
- 2011: Donald Peterman , American cinematographer
- 2014: Robert Alan Dahl , American political scientist
- 2015: Harald Augter , German lawyer and association official
- 2015: Val Fitch , American physicist and Nobel laureate
- 2020: Stanley Cohen , American biochemist and Nobel laureate
- 2020: Kirk Douglas , American actor
- 2021: Jake McCoy , American ice hockey player
- 2021: Christopher Plummer , Canadian actor
holidays and commemorations
- Church commemorations
- Saint Agatha of Catania , Roman virgin and martyr (Catholic, Orthodox)
- Jacob , progenitor of the people of Israel (Catholic, Evangelical: LCMS )
- Philipp Jacob Spener , German pastor (Protestant)
- Holy Martyrs of Nagasaki , Japanese Martyrs (Evangelical: ELCA , Anglican and Catholic Memorial Day is February 6)
The list of commemoration and action days contains further entries .
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