November 5th
The November 5 is the 309th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 310th in leap years ), thus remain 56 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1370 : Casimir the Great , King of Poland since 1333, dies in Cracow . His successor is his nephew Ludwig the Great .
- 1494 : Tsar Ivan III. has the Peterhof , the Hanse office in Novgorod , closed and destroyed.
- 1556 : In the Mughal Empire near Panipat, Akbar's troops and his guardian Bairam Khan defeat the army of Hemu , who had taken power as a usurper in Delhi, in the Second Battle of Panipat .
- 1605 : Gunpowder plot . Guy Fawkes , an English Catholic, and his co-conspirators are arrested while trying to blow up the English Parliament to kill the Protestant King James I , his family, the government and all parliamentarians.
- 1688 : The landing of William of Orange at Brixham marks the beginning of the Glorious Revolution against James II in England .
- 1712 : Spain's regent Philip V renounces claims to the throne in France for himself and his descendants. This enables an armistice with Great Britain and the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands in the War of the Spanish Succession .
- 1757 : In the Seven Years' War Prussia under Frederick the Great defeats the French under Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise and the Imperial Execution Army in the Battle of Roßbach .
- 1816 : The Bundestag of the German Confederation is opened in the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt am Main .
- 1840 : The Ruswil Declaration is adopted by conservative Catholic citizens in Switzerland. The manifesto aimed at maintaining the old order is one of the roots of the Christian Democratic People's Party in the country.
- 1854 : The trapped Russians attempt a sortie from the city of Sevastopol , besieged in the Crimean War , which is prevented by the British and French in the Battle of Inkerman .
- 1879 : The social democratic satirical magazine Der Wahre Jacob appears with its first edition in Hamburg.
- 1883 : At the Battle of Sheican during the Mahdi uprising in Sudan, a Mahdist army destroys a British-Egyptian army under William Hicks .
- 1885 : The town of Finschhafen in New Guinea is founded as the administrative center of the German colony Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land .
- 1911 : Italy annexes the North African provinces of Tripolitania and Kyrenaica, which belong to the Ottoman Empire , in the Italo-Turkish War .
- 1912 : In the US presidential election , the Democrat Woodrow Wilson wins against the Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and the former President Theodore Roosevelt, who is standing for the Progressive Party .
- 1913 : Ludwig III. is proclaimed King of Bavaria after a constitutional amendment . The country temporarily has two kings, because his mentally ill predecessor Otto I of Bavaria also nominally remains ruler until his death.
- 1914 : Great Britain annexed the island of Cyprus, which until then belonged to the Ottoman Empire , during the First World War and declares war on the central power on the same day.
- 1916 : The decision of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary to establish a kingdom of Poland under their control is announced.
- 1937 : Adolf Hitler puts in several hours of monologue the most important representatives of the German Wehrmacht, the main features of his violently expansion . Aligned foreign policy is the hossbach memorandum , one of Colonel Friedrich Hossbach without order-made record of the "Meeting", is the prosecution in the Nuremberg trials later as evidence.
- 1940 : In the US presidential election , Democratic incumbent Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and is the only US president to be elected for a third term.
- 1949 : The GDR Council of Ministers decides in favor of the text Resurrected from Ruins by Johannes R. Becher with the melody by Hanns Eisler as the national anthem .
- 1956 : British and French paratroopers land at Gamil Airport in Egypt and establish an air base for the invasion of Egypt during the Suez Crisis .
- 1957 : The General Consequences of War Act regulates legal and compensation problems that arose as a result of war and post-war events as well as the defeat of the German Reich with immediate effect .
- 1967 : In Antarctica , the hitherto unknown ice-covered Lyddan Island and the Stancomb-Wills and Hayes glaciers are discovered by plane .
- 1968 : In the US presidential elections , the Republican Richard Nixon is elected as US president with a 0.7% lead over his Democratic rival Hubert H. Humphrey .
- 1978 : In Austria, the referendum on the commissioning of the operational Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in Tullnerfeld, Lower Austria, results in a wafer-thin majority of 50.5% against commissioning.
- 1980 : Helmut Schmidt is elected Chancellor for a third term by the German Bundestag .
- 1987 : Govan Mbeki , leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and one of the founders of the African National Congress , is released from prison on Robben Island after 23 years .
- 1995 : In Georgia is Eduard Shevardnadze re-elected president.
- 1996 : Birgit Hogefeld , member of the Red Army Faction (RAF) arrested in 1993 during the GSG-9 mission in Bad Kleinen , is sentenced to life imprisonment, from which she was released on parole in June 2011.
- 1996 : Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton wins the US presidential election against Republican challenger Bob Dole .
- 2006 : Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging in the first instance.
- 2009 : In the USA, 13 people are killed and 30 others injured in the rampage at Fort Hood .
economy
- 1935 : The Parker Brothers company acquires the rights to the Monopoly board game from Charles Darrow .
- 1938 : The Reichsautobahn Berlin – Munich is completed.
- 1982 : The world's largest hydropower plant opens in Itaipú on the border between Brazil and Paraguay .
science and technology
- 1902 : The first floating dock in the port of Dar es Salaam is taken over as usable in the flotilla of German East Africa .
- 1929 : The doctor Werner Forßmann publishes his work About the probing of the right heart , in which he reports on the first cardiac catheter attempts .
- 1930 : The Dornier Do X , the largest aircraft in the world at the time, takes off from Lake Constance on its first representative flight to Amsterdam.
- 1934 : The Soviet airship CCCP-B6 ( USSR-W6 ) built under the direction of Umberto Nobile makes its maiden voyage. It is considered the most successful airship in the Soviet Union.
- 1964 : NASA's Mariner 3 space probe starts with the target Mars , but due to problems during the start it has to remain in Earth orbit.
- 1986 : DENIC has the .de data record created for the Internet ID in the IANA database.
- 2007 : The first Chinese space probe Chang'e-1 reaches its orbit around the moon . In the lunar program of the People's Republic of China , she has the task of first exploring the lunar surface and lunar rocks.
- 2018 : According to NASA, the Voyager 2 space probe reaches the heliopause of the solar system and advances into interstellar space .
Culture
- 1499 : The Catholicon appears as the first dictionary of the Breton and French languages . The incunable is printed in Tréguier by Jehan Calvez.
- 1718 : The first performance of the opera Ifigenia in Aulide by Antonio Caldara takes place at the Court Theater in Vienna .
- 1757 : The world premiere of the opera La clemenza di Tito by Ignaz Holzbauer takes place in Mannheim .
- 1759 : The musical drama Ippolito ed Aricia by Ignaz Holzbauer is premiered in Mannheim
- 1772 : The premiere of the opera Temistocle by Johann Christian Bach takes place in Mannheim .
- 1832 : The historic melodrama The Dark Diamond by Adolphe Adam is premiered in Covent Garden in London .
- 1892 : As the public was shocked by the pictures on display, an exhibition with pictures by Edvard Munch in Berlin was stopped prematurely after only one week .
- 1895 : The symphonic poem Till Eulenspiegel's funny pranks for orchestra, op. 28 by Richard Strauss is premiered in the Gürzenich in Cologne with the Städtisches Gürzenich Orchestra conducted by Franz Wüllner .
- 1898 : Fuhrmann Henschel , a play in five acts by Gerhart Hauptmann , is premiered in the Deutsches Theater in Berlin.
- 1955 : The Vienna State Opera , which was completely destroyed in World War II, reopens with Beethoven's opera Fidelio .
- 1980 : With Bao Bao and Tjen Tjen, the Berlin Zoo becomes the first and so far only zoological garden in Germany to receive two giant pandas .
religion
- 1414 : The Great Western Council to overcome the Great Schism is opened in Constance .
- 1439 : When Pope Eugene IV moved the council from Basel to Ferrara in 1437, the council split. The part that remained in Basel deposed Eugene and elected the Savoy Duke Amadeus VIII as Pope in a conclave that lasted only a few hours . He went down in history as the last antipope under the name of Felix V.
- 1855 : The encyclical Optime noscitis judges Pope Pius IX. to the Austrian episcopate . Among other things, it imposes pastoral duties on church representatives on fruitful cooperation with governments.
Disasters
- 1530 : More than 100,000 people are killed in the St. Felix flood on the Dutch North Sea coast in the Westerschelde river basin. It washes over the entire island of Noord-Beveland . The area east of Yerseke with 18 villages and the city of Reimerswaal is also completely flooded.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1880 : The Berlin Ruder Club is established in Treptow on the Spree .
- 1910 : The football club Widzew Łódź is founded in Poland .
- 1994 : George Foreman becomes world boxing champion again 20 years after the Rumble in the Jungle .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1271 : Ghazan Ilchan , Mongolian Ilchan of Persia
- 1444 : John VI. von Saalhausen , Bishop of Meißen († 1518)
- 1494 : Hans Sachs , German lyric poet and mastersinger
- 1516 : Martin Helwig , German cartographer and educator
- 1517 : Johann Streitberger , Protestant theologian
- 1549 : Philippe Duplessis-Mornay , French Reformed theologian and statesman
- 1563 : Anna , Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg
- 1607 : Anna Maria von Schürmann , Dutch-German polymath
- 1665 : Christoph Ludwig Agricola , German landscape painter
- 1666 : Attilio Ariosti , Italian composer
- 1690 : Peter Adolf Boysen German Protestant theologian, philosopher and historian
- 1690 : Friedrich Ludwig von Württemberg-Winnental , electoral Saxon cavalry general and imperial general field master
18th century
- 1701 : Friedrich Groschuff , German philologist
- 1702 : Pietro Longhi , Venetian painter
- 1702 : Martin Speer , Regensburg painter
- 1708 : Josef Bonaventura Pitter , Bohemian monk and historian
- 1711 : Kitty Clive , English actress, soprano and author
- 1715 : Johann Georg Wille , German engraver in France
- 1719 : Jordan Simon , German Catholic theologian
- 1728 : Franz Xaver von Wulfen , Hungarian-Austrian physicist, mathematician, botanist and mineralogist
- 1729 : José Martín de Aldehuela , Spanish architect and builder
- 1733 : Christian Ludwig August von Arnswaldt , electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg politician
- 1733 : Mikhail Cheraskov , Russian poet and writer
- 1754 : Alessandro Malaspina di Mulazzo , Italian nobleman and seafarer in Spanish service
- 1757 : Joseph Inslee Anderson , American politician
- 1770 : Sarah Guppy , British inventor
- 1771 : Michael Traugott Pfeiffer , German-Swiss music teacher
- 1779 : Washington Allston , American painter and poet
- 1782 : Iossif Ivanovich Charlemagne , Russian architect
- 1783 : Caroline Tischbein , German draftsman
- 1798 : Franz Hessenland , German print shop owner, publisher and politician
19th century
- 1804 : Carl Leverkus , German pharmacist and manufacturer
- 1807 : William Francis Ainsworth , British explorer
- 1810 : Leopold Stein , German rabbi
- 1810 : Alphonso Taft , American politician
- 1814 : Alfred de Bougy , French writer
- 1829 : Julius Kautz , Hungarian economist
- 1837 : Arnold Janssen , founder of the Steyler Missionaries
- 1838 : Konrad Furrer , Swiss Protestant clergyman and Palestine researcher
- 1842 : Amelia Bailey , Australian singer
- 1846 : Joaquim Pimenta de Castro , Portuguese general, putschist and head of government
- 1854 : Paul Sabatier , French chemist
- 1855 : Eugene V. Debs , American socialist politician
- 1855 : Léon-Philippe Teisserenc de Bort , French meteorologist
- 1863 : Ernst Markees , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1863 : Fridolin Suter , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman, honorary canon and honorary citizen of Bischofszell
- 1866 : George Milne, 1st Baron Milne , British Field Marshal and Chief of the Imperial General Staff
- 1867 : George Andrew Reisner , American Egyptologist
- 1870 : Johann Peter Arras , German politician
- 1872 : Gustav Casmir , German fencer
- 1873 : Edwin Flack , Australian athlete
- 1875 : Kathleen Atkinson , American tennis player
- 1876 : Raymond Duchamp-Villon , French sculptor
- 1878 : Max Ammermann , German rower
- 1878 : Mikhail Petrovich Arzybaschew , Russian writer
- 1878 : Julius Petersen , German literary scholar
- 1879 : Otto Barsch , German geologist and geophysicist
- 1879 : Otto Wahle , Austrian swimmer
- 1882 : Ludwig Marum , German lawyer, SPD politician and victim of the Nazi regime
- 1883 : Louis Otten , Dutch football player and medic
- 1888 : Jupp Wiertz , German commercial artist and poster artist
- 1891 : Karl Grünberg , German journalist and writer
- 1891 : Greasy Neale , American football coach and baseball player
- 1892 : Sir John Alcock , British pilot
- 1892 : JBS Haldane , Scottish geneticist
- 1894 : Vincenz Müller , German general and first chief of the NVA's main staff
- 1895 : Walter Gieseking , German pianist
- 1896 : Fernand Vallon , French racing car driver
- 1900 : Martin Dies junior , American politician
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Bruno Goller , German painter
- 1901 : Kaionji Chōgorō , Japanese writer
- 1904 : Alfredo Brilhante da Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- 1905 : Joel McCrea , American actor
- 1905 : Louis Rosier , French racing driver
- 1905 : Dmitri Trofimowitsch Shepilov , Soviet Foreign Minister
- 1906 : Rolf von Goth , German actor and radio play director
- 1907 : Michal Wituschka , Belarusian politician and Nazi collaborator
- 1910 : Walter Reisp , Austrian field handball player
- 1911 : Nicola Agnozzi , Italian bishop
- 1911 : Alfred Manessier , French painter
- 1911 : Marie Osborne , American actress
- 1911 : Roy Rogers , American singer and actor
- 1911 : Maria Stader , Swiss soprano
- 1912 : Carl Baumann , German painter and sculptor
- 1913 : Gisela Andersch , German painter
- 1913 : Guy Jonson , British pianist and music educator
- 1913 : Vivien Leigh , British film and theater actress ( Gone with the Wind, end of the line longing )
- 1914 : Emmanuel Kiwanuka Nsubuga , Ugandan Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1914 : Snjolaug Sigurdson , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1915 : Alma Kettig , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, resistance fighter against National Socialism, trade unionist and peace activist
- 1916 : Edmund Hlawka , Austrian mathematician
- 1916 : Franz K. Opitz , Swiss painter and photographer, poet, musician and author
- 1916 : Madeleine Robinson , French actress
- 1917 : Jacqueline Auriol , French pilot
- 1918 : Gisela Arendt , German swimmer
- 1919 : Félix Gaillard , French politician
- 1919 : Horst Wende , German orchestra conductor, arranger and accordionist
- 1920 : Douglass North , American economist
- 1921 : Kurt Adolff , German racing car driver
- 1921 : György Cziffra , Hungarian pianist
- 1921 : Jacqueline Brumaire , French soprano
- 1921 : Walter Queißner , German long-distance runner and sports official
- 1923 : Rudolf Augstein , German publicist
- 1925 : Egon Matt , Liechtenstein cross-country skier
1926-1950
- 1927 : Hirotsugu Akaike , Japanese statistician
- 1927 : Helmut Aßmann , German racing driver
- 1927 : Armin Weiß , German chemist
- 1929 : Peter Blond , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1930 : John Frank Adams , English mathematician
- 1930 : Lee Lozano , American artist
- 1930 : Hans Mommsen , German historian, contemporary historian
- 1930 : Wolfgang Mommsen , German historian
- 1931 : Charles Taylor , Canadian political scientist and philosopher
- 1931 : Ike Turner , American musician, record producer, and songwriter
- 1933 : Hans Amler , German politician
- 1934 : Simon Achidi Achu , Prime Minister of Cameroon
- 1936 : Klaus Enderlein , German motorcycle racer
- 1936 : Uwe Seeler , German soccer player
- 1936 : Billy Sherrill , American music producer and songwriter
- 1937 : Mihai Moldovan , Romanian composer
- 1937 : Harris Yulin , American actor
- 1938 : Joe Dassin , French singer
- 1938 : César Luis Menotti , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1939 : Kai Rautenberg , German pianist and composer
- 1939 : Marek Jablonski , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1940 : Ivan Angeli , Italian director
- 1940 : Anthony Rolfe Johnson , British tenor
- 1940 : Elke Sommer , German actress
- 1941 : Art Garfunkel , American singer and actor
- 1941 : Axel Zerdick , German economist and journalist
- 1942 : George Bertsch , American theoretical nuclear physicist
- 1943 : Mariano Etkin , Argentine composer and music teacher
- 1943 : Sam Shepard , American playwright and actor
- 1944 : Siegfried Scheffler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : Joseph Aind , Indian bishop of Dibrugarh
- 1946 : Maja Gerber-Hess , Swiss writer
- 1946 : Gram Parsons , American country musician ( Byrds )
- 1947 : Peter Noone , British singer and musician
- 1948 : Ulla Berkéwicz , German writer and publisher
- 1948 : Peter Hammill , British musician
- 1948 : William D. Phillips , American physicist
- 1950 : Manni von Bohr , German musician
- 1950 : Walter Plathe , German actor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Gilbert Achcar , French-Lebanese political scientist and sociologist
- 1951 : Lieselotte Ahnert , German psychologist and professor
- 1951 : Hanns-Josef Ortheil , German writer
- 1952 : Oleg Blochin , Ukrainian football player
- 1952 : Vandana Shiva , Indian physicist and philosopher
- 1953 : Dennis Andries , Guyanese boxer
- 1953 : Fritz Gesztesy , Austrian-American mathematician
- 1957 : Jon-Erik Hexum , American actor
- 1957 : Kellen Winslow , American football player
- 1959 : Bryan Adams , Canadian rock musician
- 1960 : Tilda Swinton , British actress
- 1960 : Alain Geiger , Swiss football player
- 1963 : Tatum O'Neal , American actress
- 1963 : Jean-Pierre Papin , French football player
- 1964 : Hamad Amar , Israeli politician
- 1964 : Stefan Richard Angehrn , Swiss boxer
- 1964 : Eeva Fleig , Swiss camerawoman
- 1964 : Abédi Pelé , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1964 : Famke Janssen , Dutch actress and model
- 1964 : Michael White , Jamaican bobsledder
- 1965 : Rudolf Jeklic , German speed skater
- 1967 : Kayah , Polish singer
- 1967 : Judy Reyes , American actress and screenwriter
- 1967 : Colette Roth-Brand , Swiss freestyle skier (Aerials)
- 1968 : Sam Rockwell , American actor
- 1968 : Ion Vlădoiu , Romanian football player
- 1968 : The Prophet , Dutch DJ and music producer
- 1970 : Shaun Murphy , Irish-Australian football player and coach
- 1971 : Sergei Beresin , Russian ice hockey player
- 1971 : Jonny Greenwood , British musician
- 1973 : Johnny Damon , American baseball player
- 1973 : Miloš Orson Štědroň , Czech composer
- 1974 : Ryan Adams , American musician and songwriter
- 1974 : Angela Gossow , German singer ( Arch Enemy )
- 1974 : Dado Pršo , Croatian football player
- 1974 : Jane Saville , Australian athlete
- 1974 : Jerry Stackhouse , American basketball player
- 1974 : Raphael Urweider , Swiss writer, director and musician
- 1975 : Daisuke Itō , Japanese racing car driver
- 1975 : Abid Raja , Norwegian politician
- 1975 : Tayfun Taşdemir , Turkish carambola player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Anasol , Colombian singer
- 1976 : Jörg Michalewicz , German handball player
- 1976 : Eric Schwartz , American composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1977 : Bärbel Stolz , German actress
- 1978 : Sonja Fuss , German soccer player
- 1978 : Elvir Selmanovic , Serbian handball player
- 1979 : Patrick Owomoyela , German soccer player
- 1979 : Heike Warmuth , German actress
- 1980 : Christoph Metzelder , German soccer player
- 1980 : Geneviève Simard , Canadian ski racer
- 1981 : Thomas Müller , German actor and musician
- 1982 : Yusuf-Muri Adewunmi , German soccer player
- 1982 : Thomas Auer , Austrian ice hockey player
- 1982 : Nina Prinz , German motorcycle racer
- 1983 : Iñaki Astiz , Spanish soccer player
- 1983 : Benjamin Kern , German soccer player
- 1983 : Mike Hanke , German soccer player
- 1983 : Johanna Steiner , German radio play author and director
- 1984 : Nick Folk , American football player
- 1984 : Eliud Kipchoge , Kenyan marathon runner
- 1984 : Nick Tandy , British racing car driver
- 1984 : Shiml , German rapper
- 1985 : Johannes Neumann , German swimmer
- 1985 : Tanaka Koki , Japanese singer and actor
- 1986 : Kasper Schmeichel , Danish football player
- 1987 : Kevin Jonas , American musician ( Jonas Brothers )
- 1989 : Sinan Akdağ , German ice hockey player
- 1989 : Luke DeVere , Australian soccer player
- 1990 : Vitus Eicher , German soccer player
- 1992 : Odell Beckham Jr. , American football player
- 1992 : Marco Verratti , Italian football player
- 1993 : Leila Mimmack , British actress
- 1995 : Kadeisha Buchanan , Canadian soccer player
- 1996 : Sebastian Dahlström , Finnish football player
- 1999 : Giulia Mignemi , Italian rower
21st century
2001-2025
- 2003 : Simon Halaski , German voice actor
Died
Before the 19th century
- 692 : Abdallah ibn az-Zubair , counter-caliph to the Umayyads
- 1011 : Mathilde , most important abbess of the Essen monastery
- 1219 : Hugo IX. , Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and crusader
- 1235 : Beatrix of Swabia , Queen of Castile and León
- 1259 : Arnold II of Isenburg , Archbishop of Trier
- 1288 : Jean I. d'Harcourt , French crusader, Vice Count of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, Lord of Harcourt and Elbeuf
- 1309 : Gottfried von Hohenlohe , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1309 : Magister Jordanus , German cleric and librarian
- 1369 : Nicolas de Besse , French bishop and cardinal
- 1370 : Casimir I , King of Poland
- 1383 : Theoderich von Abensberg , Prince-Bishop of Regensburg
- 1450 : Jean IV , Count of Armagnac, Fézensac and Rodez
- 1459 : John Fastolf , English knight and military leader
- 1470 : Antoinette de Maignelais , mistress of the French King Charles VII and the Breton Duke Franz II.
- 1500 : Johann , Count of Étampes and Vice Count of Narbonne
- 1511 : Gabriele de 'Gabrielli , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1515 : Mariotto Albertinelli , Italian painter
- 1559 : Kanō Motonobu , Japanese painter
- 1585 : Pontus De la Gardie , Swedish military leader and governor of Livonia
- 1617 : Georg Ridinger , German architect and builder
- 1623 : Adolf von Tecklenburg , Count of Tecklenburg
- 1631 : Johann Liss , German painter
- 1632 : Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland , English nobleman
- 1660 : Alexandre de Rhodes , French Jesuit and missionary
- 1667 : Franz Tunder , German composer and organist
- 1669 : Johannes Coccejus , Protestant theologian, one of the main exponents of federal theology
- 1699 : Thomas Danforth , English politician and magistrate in Massachusetts
- 1707 : Denis Dodart , French physician and botanist
- 1732 : Richard Bradley , English botanist
- 1737 : Juan Guillermo Riperdá , Spanish adventurer and minister
- 1757 : Catharina Elisabeth Heinecken , German painter, craftswoman and alchemist
- 1758 : Hans Egede , Norwegian pastor, apostle of the Greenlanders
19th century
- 1806 : Franz Novotny , Romanian-German church musician and composer
- 1807 : Angelika Kauffmann , Swiss-Austrian painter
- 1828 : Sophie Dorothee Auguste Luise von Württemberg , Russian Tsarina
- 1831 : Christian Gotthold Eschenbach , German physician, chemist and university professor
- 1833 : Jacob Friedrich Friese , German schoolmaster, organist and organ builder
- 1837 : Abraham Ascher , German rabbi
- 1846 : Fyodor Ivanovich Tolstoy , Russian army officer, notorious adventurer and duelist
- 1853 : Heinrich Joseph Wetzer , German orientalist
- 1860 : Julius von Minutoli , Prussian police director, politician, scientist, writer
- 1862 : Andreas Gau , Catholic theologian
- 1872 : Adolf Ellissen , German politician, philologist and literary historian
- 1873 : Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee , wife of American War Confederate General Robert E. Lee
- 1879 : James Clerk Maxwell , Scottish physicist
- 1883 : Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Redern , general manager of the Royal Drama in Berlin
- 1884 : Erminia Frezzolini , Italian opera singer (soprano)
- 1888 : Kanō Hōgai , Japanese painter
- 1891 : Karl von Gravenreuth , German officer and explorer
- 1896 : Karl Verner , Danish linguist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Anthony Eickhoff , German-American journalist, editor, author, lawyer and politician
- 1903 : Heinrich Salomon , German opera singer
- 1904 : Heinrich Bertram , German educator
- 1909 : Ove Christensen , Danish composer, violinist and pianist
- 1914 : August Weismann , German biologist
- 1918 : Shimamura Hōgetsu , Japanese writer, literary critic and scholar
- 1921 : Antoinette Brown Blackwell , American suffragette
- 1923 : Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen , French aristocrat, author and poet
- 1925 : Anton Elter , German classical philologist
- 1928 : Ottokar Kernstock , Austrian poet and priest
- 1930 : Christiaan Eijkman , Dutch doctor, pathologist and hygienist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1931 : Ole Edvart Rølvaag , Norwegian-American writer
- 1936 : Nathan Edward Kendall , American politician
- 1937 : Kinoshita Naoe , Japanese writer and journalist
- 1942 : Théodore Ribail , French racing car driver
- 1943 : Oskar Ameringer , German-American carpenter, musician, editor and politician
- 1943 : Bernhard Lichtenberg , German priest, resistance fighter
- 1943 : Aspazija , Latvian poet and playwright
- 1943 : Walter von Nathusius , German entrepreneur
- 1946 : Arthur Liebert , German philosopher
- 1946 : Sigismond Stojowski , Polish pianist and composer
- 1947 : Simon Janaschia , Georgian historian
- 1947 : Karl Eschenburg , German photographer
- 1948 : Hans Schrader , German archaeologist
- 1950 : Faiyaz Khan , Indian singer of Hindustan classical music and composer
1951-1975
- 1952 : Joseph James , American racing car driver
- 1953 : Wladimir Romanowitsch Bakaleinikoff , American violist, conductor and composer of Russian origin
- 1954 : Hot Lips Page , American jazz musician
- 1955 : Maurice Utrillo , French painter
- 1956 : Art Tatum , American jazz musician
- 1956 : Freda Wuesthoff , German physicist and peace activist
- 1957 : Otto Stolz , Austrian historian and folklorist
- 1959 : Walther Jansen , founder of the German Boy Scout Association (DPB)
- 1960 : Ward Bond , American actor
- 1960 : Johnny Horton , American singer
- 1960 : Erich Neumann , German-Israeli psychologist and psychoanalyst
- 1960 : Mack Sennett , American film director and film producer
- 1964 : Alexander Uriah Boskovitch , Israeli composer
- 1964 : John S. Robertson , American film director
- 1965 : Marcel Collet , French racing car driver
- 1969 : Brunolf Baade , German engineer and aircraft designer ( jet airliner 152 )
- 1972 : Lubor Bárta , Czech composer
- 1972 : Reginald Owen , British actor
- 1975 : Lionel Trilling , American literary critic
1976-2000
- 1977 : René Goscinny , French comic book writer
- 1977 : Guy Lombardo , Canadian-American musician and band leader
- 1979 : Al Capp , American comic book artist and writer
- 1981 : Jean Eustache , French film director
- 1981 : Herdis McCrary , American football player
- 1984 : Enrique Schmidt , Nicaraguan politician
- 1986 : Adolf Brudes , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1986 : Oskar Wielgos , German chess problem composer
- 1987 : Jan Nicolaas Bakhuizen van den Brink , Dutch theologian and church historian
- 1989 : Vladimir Horowitz , American pianist of Ukrainian origin
- 1991 : Guy Lapchin , French racing car driver
- 1991 : Fred MacMurray , American actor
- 1991 : Robert Maxwell , British media entrepreneur
- 1992 : Jan Hendrik Oort , Danish astronomer
- 1992 : Arpad Elo , American statistician
- 1993 : Mario Cecchi Gori , Italian film producer
- 1997 : Isaiah Berlin , political philosopher
- 1998 : Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer , German actress
- 1999 : Noureddin Kianouri , Iranian politician
- 2000 : Etienne Aigner , Hungarian fashion designer
- 2000 : Helmut Anemüller , German doctor, nutritionist, author and lecturer
- 2000 : Jimmie Davis , American singer and politician
- 2000 : Roger Peyrefitte , French writer
21st century
- 2001 : Gholam Reza Azhari , Iranian general and prime minister
- 2001 : Sawaki Kin'ichi , Japanese writer
- 2002 : Ansley Coale , American demographer
- 2003 : Bobby Hatfield , American singer
- 2003 : Władysław Kruczek , Polish politician
- 2005 : Nadia Anjuman , Afghan poet and journalist
- 2005 : Dennis Armitage , British jazz pianist, saxophonist and painter
- 2005 : John Fowles , British writer
- 2005 : Link Wray , American musician
- 2006 : Bülent Ecevit , Turkish politician
- 2006 : Óscar González , Uruguayan racing car driver
- 2006 : Pietro Rava , Italian soccer player, world champion and Olympic champion
- 2007 : Willi Bartels , German entrepreneur
- 2007 : Nils Liedholm , Swedish football coach, ball and bandy player
- 2010 : Jill Clayburgh , American actress
- 2010 : Waldemar Klein , German entrepreneur and honorary president of the Kickers Offenbach football club
- 2010 : Heinz Siebeneicher , German radio and television presenter
- 2012 : Elliott Carter , American composer
- 2014 : Manitas de Plata , French guitarist
- 2015 : Hans Mommsen , German historian, contemporary historian
- 2016 : Jos Romersa , apparatus gymnast from Luxembourg
- 2017 : Nancy Friday , American writer
- 2017 : Lothar Thoms , German cyclist, Olympic champion
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Elizabeth , the mother of John the Baptist (Evangelical: LCMS , the Roman Catholic Memorial Day is on September 23 )
- Hans Egede , Danish missionary in Greenland (Protestant)
- St. Emmerich , Hungarian nobleman (Roman Catholic, in Germany)
- regional customs
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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