5. March

The March 5 is the 64th day of the Gregorian calendar (65th in leap years ), thus remain 301 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

363: Julian's campaign in the Sassanid Empire

• 0363 : The Roman emperor Julian sets out from Antioch on a campaign against the Sassanids .
• 0493 : Archbishop Johannes, after the conclusion of the contract on February 27 between the Rex Italiae Odoacer and the Ostrogothic king Theoderic, opens the city gates that were previously closed on Odoacer's instructions. Theodoric moves into Ravenna .

1460: Christian I.

• 1460 : With the signing of the Treaty of Ripen , the Danish King Christian I also becomes ruler of Schleswig and Holstein .
• 1684 : Through the mediation of Pope Innocent XI. the Holy League is founded between the Holy Roman Empire , Poland-Lithuania and Venice as a fighting alliance against the Ottomans .
• 1689 : Mannheim is burned down by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession .
• 1768 : A silent Sejm , the Repnin-Sejm , chooses Russia as the protective power for certain rights in Poland . Critics of the anti-Russian Bar Confederation are kept away from the deliberations.

1770: Boston Massacre

• 1770 : In the Boston massacre, five civilians are killed in a street battle by a provoked British guard. The incident is fueling further discontent in the North American colonies .

1798: Battle of the Grauholz

• 1798 : Under the command of Johann Rudolf von Graffenried , the Bernese win the battle near Neuenegg over numerically superior French troops, but can no longer prevent the collapse of the Ancien Régime after being defeated on the same day in the Battle of Grauholz . The old Swiss Confederation ends and is replaced by the Helvetic Republic.

1848: Carl Theodor Welcker

• 1848 : During the March Revolution, at the suggestion of Carl Theodor Welcker, the Heidelberg Assembly resolves to set up a committee of seven and invites to a preliminary parliament , an important preliminary decision for the establishment of the Frankfurt National Assembly .
• 1884 : The German Liberal Party is founded from the merger of the German Progressive Party and the Liberal Association , a left-liberal split from the National Liberal Party , under the leadership of Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg .
• 1918 : The troops of the Central Powers , commanded by August von Mackensen , force the preliminary peace of Buftea in Romania , thereby ending their fighting in the east. The German influence on the reign of Poland is growing.
• 1933 : In the Reichstag election , the NSDAP won the most votes with a share of 43.9 percent. It is the last parliamentary election in the multi-party system .
• 1940 : Josef Stalin and other members of the Politburo of the CPSU sign the order to execute “nationalists and counterrevolutionary activists” in the areas of Poland occupied by the Soviet Union . In the Katyn massacre that followed, around 20,000 Polish intellectuals and officials were murdered.
• 1945 : A bomb attack on Chemnitz during World War II destroys most of the city and kills numerous people. Chemnitz is then declared a "dead city" by the Ministry of Aviation.
• 1946 : In a speech at Westminster College in Fulton , Missouri , the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill uses the term Iron Curtain , behind which the Soviet sphere of activity exists in Europe .
• 1969 : The SPD politician Gustav Heinemann is elected third German Federal President by the Federal Assembly in the third ballot .
• 1970 : The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , which deals with the possession and proliferation of nuclear weapons and the peaceful use of nuclear energy, comes into force.
• 1981 : In Nuremberg the will allocate mass arrest of Nuremberg arrested 141 people after a demonstration in the city center.
• 1987 : On the initiative of the publisher Gerhard Frey , editor of the national newspaper , is in Munich by the Protection of the Constitution later than extreme right -rated party German People's Union - List D established.

1999: Nunavut

• 1999 : Paul Okalik is elected the first Prime Minister of the Inuit autonomously administered Canadian territory of Nunavut .

economy

• 1661 : Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau-Lichtenberg grants a privilege to manufacture faience . The first faience factory on German soil is then built in Hanau .
• 1836 : Samuel Colt produces the first drum revolver in his factory , the Texas model with caliber 34.
• 1853 : Heinrich Steinweg founds the piano manufacturing company Steinway & Sons in New York . Today it has production facilities in New York City and Hamburg.
• 1872 : George Westinghouse receives a patent in the USA for the air brake he developed for railroad operations .
• 1876 : Eugenio Torelli Viollier founds the daily Corriere della Sera in Milan .
• 1903 : The Ottoman Empire grants the Anatolian Railway the concession to build the Baghdad Railway .
• 1911 : Emperor Franz Joseph I opens the House of Industry in Vienna .
• 1937 : US Airways is founded under the name All American Aviation .
• 1998 : The law on control and transparency in the corporate sector allows German stock corporations to acquire their own shares under certain conditions, which they were previously unauthorized .

science and technology

1616: De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium

• 1616 : The Holy Office of the Roman Inquisition forbids the book by Nicolaus Copernicus , De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , with its heliocentric worldview .
• 1850 : The Britannia Bridge over Menai Strait is opened. The railway bridge connects the island of Anglesey in the Irish Sea with Wales .

1888: Rudolfsee

• 1888 : The Austro-Hungarian Africa explorers Sámuel Teleki and Ludwig von Höhnel discover a body of water in East Africa, which they initially baptize Rudolfsee in honor of the Austrian heir to the throne, Crown Prince Rudolf , today's Lake Turkana .
• 1926 : The First Congress of Turkologists ends in Baku , at which the introduction of a uniform writing system for Turkic languages ​​was decided.
• 1936 : The prototype of the single-seat supermarine Spitfire interceptor makes its maiden flight.
• 1943 : The first British jet-powered fighter , the Gloster Meteor , makes its maiden flight.

1969: Apollo 9

• 1969 : On the third day of the Apollo 9 mission, the astronauts Rusty Schweickart and James McDivitt transfer through a tunnel from the Apollo command module to the lunar module . This is the first time that people are moving from one spacecraft to another in space.

1979: Jupiter (recorded by Voyager 1 )

• 1979 : The American space probe Voyager 1 flies past Jupiter and provides many photos of the planet and its moons .
• 1982 : The lander of the Soviet space probe Venera 14 lands on Venus and survives for 57 minutes at an outside temperature of 465 ° C and an atmospheric pressure of 94 bar. During this time he transmits data and images to earth.

Culture

• 1838 : The premiere of the opera Guido et Ginèvra ou La Peste de Florence by Jacques Fromental Halévy takes place in Paris .

1856: The second Covent Garden Theater before its destruction

• 1856 : The Royal Theater in Covent Garden , London , falls victim to a major fire for the second time.
• 1868 : In Milan the opera Mefistofele of Arrigo Boito after Goethe Faust I and Faust II first performed and receives harsh reviews. On October 6, 1875, a shortened and revised version was premiered again.
• 1916 : Eugen d'Albert's opera Die toten Augen with the libretto by Hanns Heinz Ewers is premiered with great success at the Dresden Hofoper .
• 1931 : At the Deutsches Theater Berlin is Carl Zuckmayer's play The Captain of Koepenick , directed by Heinz Hilpert with Werner Krauss first performed in the title role.
• 1942 : The 7th symphony by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch , composed in Leningrad during the German siege, is premiered in Kuybyshev by the orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater, which has been outsourced there with great success.
• 1965 : The first spaghetti western , Sergio Leones For a Fistful of Dollars , is shown in German cinemas . The leading actor in the film is Clint Eastwood .

1966: Udo Jürgens

• 1966 : The Austrian Udo Jürgens wins the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in his third appearance with the song Merci, Chérie , which is held in Luxembourg this year.
• 1981 : In cooperation with ARD and Schweizer Fernsehen, ORF broadcasts the first episode of the entertainment program Musikantenstadl , moderated by Karl Moik and Hias , which becomes one of the station's most successful productions.
• 2001 : The one from the album Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Invisible! The decoupled song Yoko Ono der Ärzte appears - the video for this is considered the shortest music video ever published.
• 2013 : The action-adventure video game Tomb Raider is released in Europe. This is the 10th publication in the series of the same name .

society

1836: CStV Uttenruthia Erlangen

• 1836 : The first non-impacting student union in Germany, the CStV Uttenruthia Erlangen , is founded.

religion

• 1604 : Franz von Sales and Johanna Franziska von Chantal meet for the first time in Dijon . From this encounter a spiritual friendship develops, which on June 6th 1610 leads to the foundation of the Order of the Visitation of Mary or Salesian Sisters .

Disasters

1916: Principe de Asturias

• 1916 : The Spanish luxury liner Príncipe de Asturias hits a rock off Santos on the Brazilian coast and sinks in just five minutes. 445 passengers and crew members die. It is one of the greatest tragedies in the history of Spanish steam navigation.
• 1966 : A Boeing 707 of BOAC ( BOAC Flight 911 ) breaks apart in flight and crashed into the mountain Fuji in Japan. All 124 passengers die.

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

nature and environment

1917: Treysa meteorite (main piece)

• 1917 : The Treysa meteorite is found in a forest near Rommershausen .

Sports

• 1878 : The English football club Manchester United is founded as Newton Heath LYR FC .

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1133 : Henry II , English king
• 1324 : David II , Scottish king
• 1326 : Ludwig I , King of Hungary and Poland
• 1340 : Cansignorio della Scala , Lord of Verona
• 1364 : Wilhelm , Duke of Geldern and Jülich and Count of Zutphen
• 1371 : Lambert van Duren , Mayor of Cologne
• 1487 : Raisin of Baden , Margravine of Baden
• 1499 : Michiel Coxcie , Flemish painter
• 1512 : Gerhard Mercator , Flemish-German mathematician, geographer, philosopher, theologian and cartographer

Gerhard Mercator (* 1512)

• 1571 : Thomas Francine , Florentine fountain master in France
• 1574 : Friedrich IV. , Elector Palatinate
• 1574 : William Oughtred , English mathematician
• 1585 : Friedrich I. , founder of the noble family Hessen-Homburg
• 1585 : Johann Georg I , Prince of the Wettin family
• 1606 : Johann Georg Reinhard , German lawyer and administrative officer
• 1626 : Anton Heimreich , German Evangelical-Lutheran pastor, author of the oldest chronicle of North Frisia
• 1637 : Jan van der Heyden , Dutch painter and inventor
• 1674 : Sophie Eleonore von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , Guelph princess and canoness in the Gandersheim monastery
• 1680 : Joseph Munggenast , Austrian baroque master builder
• 1685 : Georg Friedrich Handel , German-British Baroque composer and opera entrepreneur
• 1696 : Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Venetian Baroque and Rococo painter

18th century

• 1702 : Johann Friedrich Gühling , German theologian
• 1711 : Carl Gustaf Pilo , Swedish-Danish portrait painter
• 1716 : Nikolaus von Pacassi , Austrian architect
• 1716 : Catherine Théot , French mystic
• 1723 : Maria von Hannover , Landgraveess of Hessen-Kassel
• 1728 : Friedrich Immanuel Schwarz , German theologian and educator
• 1733 : Sakugawa Kanga , Japanese master of the early Okinawan tōde, a martial art
• 1750 : Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison , French classical philologist
• 1751 : Jan Křtitel Kuchař , Czech organist and composer
• 1756 : Nathaniel Alexander , American politician
• 1760 : Urs Jakob Tschan , Swiss Jesuit and aviation pioneer
• 1770 : Hans Ernst Karl von Zieten , Prussian Field Marshal General
• 1771 : Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch , German botanist
• 1772 : Friedrich Pfluger , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman
• 1774 : Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , Danish composer
• 1784 : Johan Gunder Adler , Danish-Norwegian civil servant
• 1789 : William S. Archer , American politician
• 1789 : Michael Woolston Ash , American politician
• 1792 : Christoph Karl Julius Asschenfeldt , German hymn poet
• 1794 : Jacques Babinet , French physicist
• 1800 : Georg Friedrich Daumer , German religious philosopher and poet, educator of Kaspar Hauser

19th century

1801-1850

• 1803 : August Friedrich Gfrörer , German historian and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
• 1805 : Théodore Labarre , French virtuoso harp and composer

August Kahlert (* 1807)

• 1807 : August Kahlert , German poet and literary historian
• 1810 : Hermann Schmidt , German composer
• 1812 : Bernhard Gugler , German mathematician and musicologist
• 1814 : Wilhelm von Giesebrecht , German historian
• 1817 : Moriz Carrière , German writer and philosopher ( Hegelianism, theism )
• 1817 : Austen Henry Layard , British diplomat and archaeologist
• 1820 : August Siegert , German painter
• 1821 : Otto Delitsch , German geographer
• 1826 : Heinrich Ludwig Banck , German banker and businessman
• 1827 : Charles Antoine Gidel , French literary historian
• 1827 : Émile Jonas , French composer and cantor

Étienne-Jules Marey (* 1830)

• 1830 : Étienne-Jules Marey , French physiologist and photography pioneer
• 1830 : Charles Wyville Thomson , British professor of zoology
• 1832 : Isaac Israel Hayes , American physician and polar explorer
• 1832 : Alfred Jaëll , Austrian pianist and composer
• 1835 : Otto Schwerdgeburth , German painter
• 1843 : Eduard Fiechtner , German local politician, mayor and honorary citizen of Untertürkheim

1851-1900

• 1851 : Hunold von Ahlefeld , German Vice Admiral in the Imperial Navy
• 1851 : Václav Brožík , Czech painter
• 1852 : Isabella Augusta Gregory , Irish writer
• 1853 : Arthur Foote , American composer
• 1854 : Philip Hale , American organist and music critic
• 1855 : Friedrich J. Pajeken , German businessman and writer
• 1855 : Sophie Friederike of Austria , Archduchess of Austria
• 1858 : Anton Elter , German classical philologist
• 1858 : José Carlos de Mascarenhas Relvas , Portuguese politician and Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1862 : Siegbert Tarrasch , German chess grandmaster, theorist and chess author
• 1864 : Johann Baptist Laßleben , German homeland researcher and publisher
• 1867 : Theodor Zöckler , German Protestant pastor from Pomerania
• 1869 : Michael von Faulhaber , German priest and theologian, Bishop of Speyer, Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Cardinal
• 1870 : Frank Norris , American writer

Rosa Luxemburg (* 1871)

• 1871 : Rosa Luxemburg , Polish-German politician, revolutionary, theoretician of Marxism, representative of the international labor movement
• 1873 : Richard Benno Adam , German portrait and horse painter
• 1876 : Elisabeth Moore , American tennis player
• 1879 : William Henry Beveridge , British economist
• 1880 : Sergei Natanowitsch Bernstein , Russian mathematician
• 1881 : Hildegard Maria von Bayern , Bavarian princess
• 1882 : Pauline Donalda , Canadian singer and singing teacher
• 1882 : Arthur Hussey , American golfer
• 1883 : Hans Adam , German naval officer
• 1883 : Marius Barbeau , Canadian anthropologist, ethnologist and folklore researcher
• 1883 : Otto Schmitz , German lawyer and politician
• 1886 : Paul Radmilovic , British water polo player and swimmer
• 1886 : Wladimir Juljewitsch Wiese , Russian-Soviet oceanographer and polar explorer

Heitor Villa-Lobos (* 1887)

• 1887 : Heitor Villa-Lobos , Brazilian composer
• 1888 : Friedrich Schnack , German poet
• 1888 : Franz Schwede , National Socialist politician
• 1890 : Wilhelm Boden , German lawyer and politician, MdL, first Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate
• 1891 : Sultan al-Atrasch , Syrian nationalist and general commander
• 1891 : Gitz Rice , Canadian singer, pianist, composer and entertainer
• 1893 : Guus de Serière , Dutch football player
• 1895 : Franz Richard Behrens , German expressionist poet, screenwriter and columnist
• 1895 : Fritz Usinger , German writer
• 1896 : Kazimieras Viktoras Banaitis , Lithuanian composer
• 1896 : Jan and Joël Martel , French sculptors, designers and interior decorators
• 1897 : Song Meiling , wife of the leader of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek

Gunta Stölzl

• 1897 : Gunta Stölzl , German weaver and textile designer
• 1898 : Zhou Enlai , Leader of the Communist Party of China and Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China
• 1898 : Ben Selvin , American band leader

20th century

1901-1925

• 1900 : Lilli Jahn , German doctor, author of letters, victim of National Socialism
• 1901 : Louis I. Kahn , American architect and city planner
• 1904 : Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin , Soviet Prime Minister
• 1904 : Karl Rahner , Catholic theologian, tried to synthesize theological tradition with modern thinking
• 1905 : William Anstruther-Gray, Baron Kilmany , British politician
• 1905 : Günther Lüders , German actor
• 1905 : Fritz Schwerdtfeger , German forest scientist and zoologist
• 1906 : Jacques Companéez , French screenwriter
• 1907 : Rosemarie Clausen , German theater photographer
• 1907 : Manuel Tato , Argentine theologian
• 1908 : Mario Heil de Brentani , German-Canadian writer and magazine editor
• 1908 : Fritz Fischer , German historian
• 1908 : Ludwig Goldbrunner , German football player

Rex Harrison (born 1908)

• 1908 : Rex Harrison , British actor
• 1909 : Floyd Davis , American racing car driver
• 1909 : Ossip K. Flechtheim , German lawyer, political scientist and co-founder of futurology in Germany
• 1910 : Ennio Flaiano , Italian writer
• 1910 : Franz Schnyder , Swiss film director
• 1911 : Gregor Determann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1911 : Andrés Pardo Tovar , Colombian sociologist, ethnomusicologist and folklorist
• 1912 : David Astor , British journalist and newspaper publisher
• 1913 : Karl Ewald Böhm , German writer and head of the GDR censorship authority
• 1913 : Josef Stroh , German-Austrian football player
• 1914 : Philip Farkas , American horn player, co-founder of the International Horn Society
• 1915 : Friedrich Meyer , German composer, arranger and band leader
• 1915 : Laurent Schwartz , French mathematician, Fields Medalist
• 1918 : Nakamura Shin'ichirō , Japanese writer

James Tobin (* 1918)

• 1918 : James Tobin , American economist
• 1920 : Walter Ried , German chemist
• 1921 : Ken Adam , German-British production designer
• 1921 : Günther Neutze , German actor
• 1922 : Pier Paolo Pasolini , Italian film director and poet
• 1923 : Andrea Aureli , Italian actor
• 1924 : Otto Frei , Swiss journalist and writer
• 1924 : Roger Marche , French football player
• 1925 : Jimmy Bryant American country musician and guitarist
• 1925 : Jacques Vergès , French lawyer

1926-1950

• 1926 : Hans-Jürgen Wende , German handball player

Jack Cassidy (born 1927)

• 1927 : Jack Cassidy , American actor and singer
• 1929 : Clemens August Andreae , Austrian economist
• 1929 : Erik Carlsson , Swedish rally driver
• 1929 : JB Lenoir , American blues guitarist
• 1930 : Toni Hiebeler , Austrian photographer, mountaineer and publicist
• 1930 : Artyom Sarkissowitsch Terjan , Soviet wrestler
• 1931 : Fred Othon Aristidès , French comic artist
• 1931 : Barry Tuckwell , Australian horn player and conductor
• 1932 : Valentin Argirov , German doctor and novelist
• 1933 : Don L. Anderson , American geophysicist
• 1933 : Walter Kasper , German priest and theologian, Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, cardinal
• 1933 : Tom Louderback , American football player and entrepreneur

Daniel Kahneman (* 1934)

• 1934 : Daniel Kahneman , Israeli-American psychologist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1935 : Christoph Zülch , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
• 1936 : Max Asam , German general
• 1936 : Canaan Banana , Zimbabwean president and priest
• 1937 : Olusegun Obasanjo , Nigerian President
• 1937 : Heinz Rennhack , German actor
• 1938 : Wulf Arlt , German musicologist
• 1938 : Hayden Thompson , American rockabilly and country musician
• 1939 : Wolf Bauer , German pharmacist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1940 : John W. Carlin , American politician, governor of Kansas

Josef Piontek (* 1940)

• 1940 : Josef Piontek , German football player and coach
• 1942 : Felipe González , Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister
• 1942 : George Pieterson , Dutch clarinetist
• 1943 : Raimund Apfelbach , German biologist and professor of neurobiology
• 1943 : Christian Führer , Protestant parish priest in the Nikolaikirche Leipzig (peace prayers on Monday)
• 1943 : Heidi Knake-Werner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Senator
• 1943 : Thomas Prinzhorn , Austrian industrialist and politician, President of the National Council
• 1944 : Élisabeth Badinter , French philosopher
• 1944 : Peter Weibel , Austrian artist
• 1945 : Friedrich Bohl , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
• 1946 : Murray Head , British actor and singer
• 1947 : Nobuhiko Hasegawa , Japanese table tennis player

John Kitzhaber (* 1947)

• 1947 : John Kitzhaber , American politician
• 1948 : Eddy Grant , Guyanese pop musician and singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 : Leslie Marmon Silko , American writer
• 1949 : Bernard Arnault , French entrepreneur (LVMH) and art collector
• 1949 : Franz Josef Jung , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and State Minister, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister
• 1949 : Günter Karbowiak , German football player
• 1950 : Bernward Müller , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, State Minister
• 1950 : Tom Russell , American singer and songwriter

1951-1975

• 1951 : Yuri Kravchenko , Ukrainian politician, Minister of the Interior
• 1951 : Burkhard Segler , German soccer player
• 1952 : Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos , Angolan politician, Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament
• 1952 : Robin Hobb , American fantasy and science fiction writer
• 1952 : Isatou Njie Saidy , Gambian politician, Vice-President
• 1953 : Gardi Hutter , Swiss actress and author
• 1953 : Richard Sanderson , British singer
• 1954 : Jack Stamp , American composer, conductor and music educator
• 1955 : Heinz-Günter Bongartz , German auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Hildesheim

Adriana Barraza (* 1956)

• 1956 : Adriana Barraza , Mexican actress
• 1956 : Ruedi Baur , Swiss designer
• 1957 : Dietmar Wischmeyer , German comedian, author and columnist
• 1957 : Mark E. Smith , British singer ( The Fall )
• 1957 : Henning Krautmacher , German singer ( Höhner )
• 1958 : Andy Gibb , British-Australian singer
• 1958 : Franz Scharl , Austrian priest, auxiliary bishop in Vienna
• 1959 : Wasken Zarkissjan , Armenian politician, minister, prime minister
• 1959 : Roland Steuk , German athlete
• 1960 : Karl-Erivan Haub , German entrepreneur
• 1960 : David Tibet , British singer, painter, author and label owner
• 1961 : Dirk Schäfer , German director and documentary filmmaker
• 1962 : Simon Abkarian , Armenian-French actor
• 1962 : Amina Annabi , French-Tunisian singer and actress

Thomas Hermanns (* 1963)

• 1963 : Thomas Hermanns , German television presenter, comedian, screenwriter and director
• 1963 : René Obermann , German manager
• 1964 : Bertrand Cantat , French singer ( Noir Désir )
• 1964 : Brad Warner , American Zen master and author
• 1965 : Nadja Abd el Farrag , German television presenter and singer
• 1965 : Johnny Ekström , Swedish football player
• 1966 : Stefan Franz , German actor
• 1967 : Antje Boetius , German marine biologist and professor at the University of Bremen
• 1968 : Theresa Villiers , British politician, MEP, Member of the House of Commons
• 1969 : MC Solaar , French rap and hip hop musician
• 1970 : Mike Brown , American basketball coach
• 1970 : John Frusciante , American guitarist ( Red Hot Chili Peppers )
• 1970 : Aleksandar Vučić , Serbian politician and President of Serbia since 2017

Yuri Lowenthal (* 1971)

• 1971 : Yuri Lowenthal , American actor and voice actor
• 1971 : Janna Striebeck , German actress
• 1972 : Luca Turilli , Italian composer and musician
• 1973 : Nelly Arcan , Canadian writer
• 1973 : Jörg Bausch , German pop singer
• 1973 : Juan Esnáider , Argentine soccer player
• 1973 : Davide Nicola , Italian football player and coach
• 1973 : Špela Pretnar , Slovenian ski racer
• 1974 : Matt Lucas , British actor
• 1974 : Martin A. Hainz , Austrian Germanist, literary and translation theorist
• 1974 : Jens Jeremies , German soccer player

Eva Mendes (* 1974)

• 1974 : Eva Mendes , American actress
• 1974 : Barbara Schöneberger , German TV presenter, actress and singer
• 1975 : Anthony Gobert , Australian motorcycle racer
• 1975 : Sergei Valeryevich Ivanov , Russian racing cyclist
• 1975 : Sasho Petrovski , Australian soccer player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Lithuanian basketball player
• 1976 : Tomáš Martinec , German ice hockey player
• 1978 : Andre Gurode , American football player
• 1978 : Papoose , American rapper

Philip Giebler (* 1979)

• 1979 : Philip Giebler , American racing car driver
• 1979 : Lars Krogh Jeppesen , Danish handball player
• 1979 : Riki Lindhome , American actress and musician
• 1979 : Youssef Mokhtari , Moroccan football player
• 1980 : Jessica Boehrs , German dance singer, television presenter and actress
• 1980 : Renan Luce , French singer, composer and author
• 1981 : Chris Arreola , American heavyweight boxer
• 1981 : Christian Knees , German racing cyclist

Daniel Carter (* 1982)

• 1982 : Daniel Carter , New Zealand rugby union player
• 1982 : Tim Jerat , German soccer player
• 1983 : Pablo Brandán , Argentine soccer player
• 1983 : Patrick Wunderbaldinger , Austrian football player
• 1985 : Mesfin Adimasu , Ethiopian marathon runner
• 1986 : Eugen Bauder , German actor and model
• 1986 : Constantin von Jascheroff , German actor
• 1986 : Mika Newton , Ukrainian singer
• 1986 : Florian Schöbinger , German handball player
• 1986 : Shikabala , Egyptian national soccer player
• 1987 : Blaž Kavčič , Slovenian tennis player
• 1987 : Yūki Kawauchi , Japanese long-distance runner
• 1987 : Ishmael Miller , English soccer player

Michael Hayböck (* 1991)

• 1988 : Romas Kirveliavičius , Lithuanian handball player
• 1988 : Karl Schulze , German rower
• 1988 : Janine Urbannek , German handball player
• 1989 : Jake Lloyd , American actor
• 1990 : Danny Drinkwater , English soccer player
• 1990 : Mason Plumlee , American basketball player
• 1990 : Lum Zhaveli , Kosovar swimmer
• 1991 : Michael Hayböck , Austrian ski jumper
• 1991 : Maxim Matlakov , Russian chess player
• 1992 : Charlott Arndt , German cyclist
• 1992 : Kit Armstrong , American pianist and composer
• 1993 : Silvan Widmer , Swiss football player
• 1994 : Kévin Rodrigues , Franco-Portuguese football player
• 1995 : Sage Karam , American racing car driver
• 1995 : Tobias Trautner , German soccer goalkeeper
• 1998 : Merih Demiral , Turkish soccer player
• 1998 : Leif Torbjørn Næsvold , Norwegian Nordic combined skier

Died

Before the 18th century

• 0254 : Lucius I , Roman bishop
• 1021 : Arnulf , Archbishop of Reims
• 1058 : Theophanu , Abbess of Essen
• 1206 : Thietmar , Bishop of Minden
• 1220 : Roger de Vico Pisano , Bishop of Lausanne
• 1239 : Hermann von Balk , First Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Prussia
• 1283 : Ata al-Mulk Juwaini , Persian historian
• 1319 : Jean II , Dauphin of Viennois
• 1329 : Juditha von Habsburg , Countess of Oettingen
• 1356 : John Darcy , English nobleman and military man
• 1364 : Nikolaus I von Gutenburg , abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Einsiedeln
• 1410 : Matthäus von Krakau , Rector of Heidelberg University, Bishop of Worms
• 1411 : Ulrich II , Bishop of Lavant
• 1412 : Alfonso de Aragón y Foix , Count of Ribagorza, Ampurias and Prades
• 1417 : Manuel III. , Emperor and Grand Commander of Trebizond
• 1417 : Jörg Kazmair , German ratchet writer and mayor of Munich
• 1480 : Peter von Andlau , Alsatian legal scholar
• 1484 : Elisabeth of Bavaria , Princess of Bavaria-Munich and Electress of Saxony
• 1505 : Philipp von Kleve , Bishop of Nevers, Amiens and Autun
• 1514 : Thilo von Trotha , Bishop of Merseburg and Chancellor of the University of Leipzig
• 1534 : Antonio da Correggio , Italian painter
• 1535 : Lorenzo Costa , Italian painter
• 1553 : Augustin Hirschvogel , German geodesist and cartographer
• 1572 : Giulio Campi , Italian painter
• 1574 : Helena of Austria , Austrian archduchess, co-founder and nun of the women's monastery in Hall in Tirol
• 1576 : Luis de Zúñiga y Requesens , Spanish governor in the Netherlands
• 1588 : Henri I de Bourbon , Prince of Condé, French general
• 1598 : Lucas Maius , German Protestant theologian and playwright

Kaspar von Fürstenberg († 1618)

• 1618 : Barbara von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Neuburg , Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen
• 1618 : John of Sweden , Duke of Östergötland and Finland
• 1618 : Kaspar von Fürstenberg , Elector of Cologne Drost and Elector of Mainz bailiff, Landdrost
• 1622 : Ranuccio I Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza
• 1662 : Johann Crüger , German composer
• 1691 : Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer , French lawyer and postal pioneer
• 1694 : Vittoria della Rovere , Grand Duchess of Tuscany

18th century

• 1712 : Jonas Casimir von Auer , Prussian colonel
• 1731 : ʿAbd al-Ghanī an-Nābulusī , Arab Sufi and man of letters
• 1731 : Johann Heinrich Müller , German astronomer
• 1766 : Jean Astruc , French physician, professor of medicine, naturalist and founder of the modern criticism of the Pentateuch
• 1770 : Crispus Attucks , African dock worker
• 1770 : Gaetano Chiaveri , Italian builder and architect
• 1778 : Thomas Arne , British composer
• 1790 : Flora MacDonald , Jacobite from Scotland, revered as a heroine
• 1795 : Joseph Reicha , German cellist and composer
• 1797 : Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi , Prussian major general
• 1797 : Johann Philipp Julius Rudolph , German physician and university professor
• 1798 : Karl Ludwig von Erlach , Swiss general

19th century

• 1814 : Andrei Nikiforowitsch Voronichin , Russian architect, sculptor and painter
• 1815 : Franz Anton Mesmer , German doctor, healer and founder of mesmerism
• 1821 : Gian Alfonso Oldelli , Swiss Capuchin, university professor and local researcher
• 1824 : Franz Anton Schubert , German church composer and instrumentalist at the Catholic Court Church in Dresden

Alessandro Volta († 1827)

• 1827 : Alessandro Volta , Italian physicist, inventor of the battery and the plate capacitor, pioneer of electricity
• 1827 : Pierre-Simon Laplace , French mathematician, physicist and astronomer
• 1829 : John Adams , British mutineer on the Bounty , co-founder of the Pitcairn colony
• 1829 : Joseph-François-Louis-Charles de Damas , French nobleman and colonel
• 1839 : Andreas Kretzschmer , German lawyer and folk song researcher
• 1840 : Reinhard Christian Wilhelm Aurelius Steimmig , German medic
• 1847 : Mathias Aberle , Austrian physician
• 1847 : Sigismund von Reitzenstein , Baden diplomat and politician
• 1852 : Sophie Gay , French writer
• 1853 : August Kestner , German lawyer, diplomat, researcher, author, archaeologist, draftsman and art collector
• 1865 : Heinrich Wilhelm Schott , Austrian botanist
• 1875 : Claude Louis Mathieu , French mathematician and astronomer
• 1876 : Marie d'Agoult , French writer

Ernst Julius Otto († 1877)

• 1877 : Ernst Julius Otto , German composer, choir director and Kreuzkantor
• 1882 : Gustav August von Aichelburg , German politician
• 1885 : Heinrich von Aulock , German medic, landowner and politician
• 1888 : Franz von Sonnenfeld , Swiss writer
• 1888 : Robert Spiske , German priest and founder of the Hedwig Sisters
• 1889 : Johann Georg Eccarius , German workers activist and trade unionist
• 1889 : Karl Emanuel Klitzsch , German organist, composer and music writer
• 1890 : Johann Baptist Arbinger , German politician
• 1893 : Hippolyte Taine , French historian and critic
• 1895 : Henry Creswicke Rawlinson , British Assyriologist and diplomat
• 1895 : Nikolai Semjonowitsch Leskow , Russian writer
• 1896 : Évariste de Valernes , French painter
• 1899 : Joseph von Egle , German architect and Württemberg building officer
• 1899 : Georg Rudolf Koegel , German Germanist

20th century

1901-1950

Karl Biedermann († 1901)

• 1901 : Karl Biedermann , German politician, publicist and professor of philosophy
• 1904 : Alfred von Waldersee , German officer and Prussian field marshal, chief of the general staff
• 1907 : Friedrich Blass , German classical philologist
• 1908 : Hans Glauning , German officer
• 1911 : Gottlob Theuerkauf , German painter and lithographer
• 1912 : Rochus von Liliencron , German Germanist and music historian
• 1914 : Georgi Jakowlewitsch Sedow , Russian naval lieutenant and polar explorer
• 1917 : Manuel José de Arriaga , Portuguese politician
• 1918 : Domenico Serafini , Italian Benedictine, priest, diplomat, Archbishop of Spoleto and Cardinal of the Curia

Ernest von Koerber († 1919)

• 1919 : Ernest von Koerber , Austrian politician, multiple minister, Reich minister and prime minister
• 1922 : Richard Schöne , German archaeologist
• 1923 : Dora Pejačević , Croatian composer
• 1925 : Clément Ader , French aviation pioneer and inventor
• 1925 : Max Bernstein , German lawyer, critic and playwright
• 1925 : Johan Ludwig Jensen , Danish mathematician
• 1925 : Michel Verne , French writer
• 1926 : Otto Ernst , German writer
• 1927 : Franz Mertens , German mathematician
• 1928 : Georges Guiraud , French composer, organist and music teacher
• 1928 : Emil Mayrisch , Luxembourg steel industrialist and president of the board of directors of the Arbed steel group

David Dunbar Buick († 1929)

• 1929 : David Dunbar Buick , American engineer, inventor, and industrialist
• 1932 : Peder Kolstad , Norwegian politician
• 1932 : Jan Thorn Prikker , Dutch artist
• 1935 : Hans Schemm , German teacher, politician, Gauleiter and "Reichswalter" of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB)
• 1939 : Moriz von Kuffner , Austrian brewer ( Ottakringer brewery ), patron and mountaineer
• 1939 : John G. Sargent , American politician
• 1940 : Cai Yuanpei , Chinese educator and rector of Peking University
• 1942 : Kurt Lück , German folklorist and minority activist in Poland, SS officer
• 1943 : Bedřich Václavek , Czech literary critic and theorist
• 1944 : Edward Cooke Armstrong , American Romanist and Medievalist
• 1944 : Hans Großmann-Doerth , German lawyer, representative of ordoliberalism
• 1944 : Rudolf Harbig , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1945 : Ernst von Harnack , Prussian government president, German politician and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1945 : Hasso von Boehmer , German officer in the General Staff, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1945 : Ludwig Landmann , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
• 1947 : Benjamin Markowitsch Blumenfeld , Russian chess player
• 1947 : Alfredo Casella , Italian composer, musician and music critic
• 1947 : Carl Mannich , German chemist
• 1949 : Walter Gresham Andrews , American politician

1951-2000

• 1952 : Georg Arends , German plant breeder and gardener
• 1952 : Vladimir Vladimirovich Shcherbachev , Russian composer
• 1953 : Herman J. Mankiewicz , Polish-American Hollywood screenwriter

Sergei Prokofiev († 1953)

• 1953 : Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew , Russian pianist and composer
• 1953 : Josef Stalin , Soviet politician, communist general secretary, prime minister, marshal of the Soviet Union and dictator
• 1954 : Kishida Kunio , Japanese playwright
• 1956 : Erich Itor Kahn , German musician
• 1961 : Kjeld Abell , Danish writer
• 1961 : Werner Schendell , German writer (pseudonym Roman Quitt )
• 1961 : Ferdinand Werner , German teacher and politician, MdR, MdL, first National Socialist President of Hesse
• 1962 : Otakar Jeremiáš , Bohemian composer
• 1962 : Wendelin Überzwerch , German writer
• 1962 : Libero Liberati , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1963 : Patsy Cline , American country singer
• 1963 : Cowboy Copas , American country musician
• 1963 : Hawkshaw Hawkins , American country singer
• 1964 : Milton Manaki , Ottoman film pioneer
• 1964 : Carl Maria Splett , German priest, Bishop of Danzig, administrator of the Polish diocese of Kulm

Johann von Leers († 1965)

• 1965 : Johann von Leers , German publicist and historian, anti-Semitic propagandist
• 1966 : Anna Andreevna Akhmatova , Russian poet and writer
• 1967 : Mischa Auer , American film and theater actor
• 1967 : Mohammad Mossadegh , Iranian politician, MP, Minister, Prime Minister
• 1968 : Joseph Malouf , Lebanese Archbishop
• 1968 : Ferdinand Metzenauer , German chess composer
• 1969 : Hans Ekstrand , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1970 : Werner Jacobi , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1973 : Helmut Körnig , German athlete
• 1975 : Erwin Balzer , German Evangelical Lutheran pastor and bishop under National Socialism
• 1977 : Isaac Nemiroff , American composer, music teacher and scholar
• 1977 : Tom Pryce , British racing car driver
• 1977 : Geer van Velde , Dutch painter
• 1979 : Dore Jacobs , German educator
• 1980 : Wilhelm Hoegner , German lawyer and politician, MdR, MdB, MdL, State Minister, Prime Minister
• 1980 : Winifred Wagner , German director of the Bayreuth Festival
• 1981 : Brenda de Banzie , British actress

Paul Hörbiger († 1981)

• 1981 : Paul Hörbiger , Austrian actor
• 1981 : Karl Springenschmid , Austrian writer
• 1982 : John Belushi , American singer and film actor
• 1982 : Heinz Heck , German biologist and zoo director in Munich
• 1983 : Otto Zierer , German writer
• 1984 : William Powell , American actor
• 1985 : Oskar Ritter , German soccer player
• 1986 : Franciska Clausen , German-Danish painter
• 1986 : Helmut Thielicke , German theologian
• 1987 : Ludwig Apfelbeck , Austrian engineer and designer of internal combustion engines
• 1987 : Josef Gregor , German philologist and music teacher
• 1989 : Egon Reimers , German theater actor
• 1990 : Edmund Conen , German soccer player
• 1991 : Ramiro Funes Mori , Argentine soccer player
• 1992 : Karin Hardt , German actress
• 1992 : Harry Ristock , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Senator
• 1993 : Hans Christian Blech , German actor
• 1993 : Cyril Collard , French director
• 1993 : Herschel Daugherty , American film director and actor
• 1994 : Gianni Agus , Italian actor
• 1994 : Paul Vincze ( Pál Vincze ), Hungarian-British medalist
• 1996 : Fritz Huschke von Hanstein , German motor sportsman
• 1997 : Josef Ackermann , German politician
• 1999 : Alfred Denning , British Judge in the House of Lords and Court of Appeal, Master of the Rolls
• 1999 : Parker McKenzie , American Kiowa linguist
• 2000 : Hermann Ebeling , German actor
• 2000 : Lolo Ferrari , French porn actress and singer
• 2000 : Daniel Abraham Yanofsky , Canadian chess player

21st century

• 2003 : Gerhard Rosenfeld , German composer
• 2004 : Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroy , Ecuadorian lawyer and politician
• 2005 : Morris Engel , American photographer, cameraman, screenwriter and director
• 2006 : Richard Kuklinski , American felon
• 2006 : Milan Babić , Serbian politician, President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, war criminal
• 2006 : Denise Soriano , French violinist
• 2007 : José Ivo Lorscheiter , Brazilian priest, Bishop of Santa Maria
• 2008 : Joseph Weizenbaum , German-American computer scientist and science critic
• 2010 : Philip Langridge , British opera and oratorio singer, lyric tenor
• 2011 : Alberto Granado , Cuban biochemist, travel companion of Che Guevara
• 2012 : Robert Bernard Sherman , American composer
• 2013 : Hugo Chávez , Venezuelan officer and politician, President

Dieter Pfaff († 2013)

• 2013 : Dieter Pfaff , German actor and director
• 2013 : William A. Moody , American wrestler and wrestling manager
• 2015 : Klaus Basikow , German soccer player
• 2016 : Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Austrian cellist and conductor
• 2016 : Ray Tomlinson , American computer scientist, developer of the email messaging system
• 2017 : Kurt Moll , German opera singer
• 2017 : Georg Schmuttermayr , German theologian
• 2018 : Helmut Maucher , German manager
• 2018 : Hayden White , American literary scholar and historian

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge , Dutch preacher (Protestant)

• Name days
  • Gerda , Olivia

• regional customs
  • China : Lei Feng Day

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • European Surveying and Geoinformation Day

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

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