5th October
The October 5 is the 278th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 279th in leap years ), thus remain 87 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 578 : After the death of Justin II , Tiberios I becomes emperor of the East .
- 610 : Heraclius is in Konstantin Opel to Byzantine emperor , crowned after pleading his predecessor Phocas has disposed of.
- 1056 : The Salian Heinrich IV becomes Roman-German king after his father Heinrich III. dies unexpectedly.
- 1143 : In the Treaty of Zamora , King Alfonso VII of Castile and León recognizes the independence of Portugal under his cousin Alfonso I , who is no longer subject to his suzerainty .
- 1338 : After winning a naval battle on the English Channel, a pirate fleet operating with French, Norman, Italian and Castilian sailors raids the city of Southampton , loots it, kills residents and leads prisoners into slavery .
- 1450 : Duke Louis IX. von Bayern has all Jews arrested in its Bavaria-Landshut territory . After a week they have to leave the country with their belongings unless they are baptized .
- 1465 : King Ludwig XI. of France and Charles the Bold as the leader of the rebellious Ligue du Bien public come to an agreement in the Treaty of Conflans to end the uprising of the nobles.
- 1502 : Christopher Columbus names a country he has discovered Costa Rica y Castillo de Oro , because locals give him gold pieces on arrival.
- 1551 : The Narrow Kaldic princes conclude a treaty with France in Friedewald , aimed at the liberation of Landgrave Philip of Hesse from imperial custody.
- 1586 : The seven catholic towns of the Old Confederation found the Golden Covenant .
- 1621 : The Hungarian insurgents under Gábor Bethlen defeat the Imperial Habsburg troops under Rudolf von Tiefenbach in the Thirty Years' War in the battle of Tyrnau .
- 1685 : Kurbrandenburg conquers the West African island of Arguin and makes it a colony.
- 1750 : In the Treaty of Madrid , Spain and Great Britain agree to dissolve the Asiento de Negros, confirmed in the Peace of Aachen , for a fee of 100,000 pounds .
- 1789 : The demonstration of the Poissards moves to Versailles , after a banquet at the court of Louis XVI. the French Revolution has been denigrated.
- 1793 : The French National Convention decides to retroactively change the number of days and months in the existing revolution calendar.
- 1795 : Napoleon Bonaparte suppresses an uprising in Paris in the preparatory phase of the Directory with gunfire. His sponsor Paul de Barras immediately pushed through the appointment of the Corsican as a division general as a reward .
- 1813 : British-American War : The Americans under General William H. Harrison defeat British Indian troops under Major General Henry Procter in the Battle of the Thames River , where the important Shawnee chief Tecumseh is killed.
- 1821 : Greek insurgents under Theodoros Kolokotronis conquer the previously besieged city of Tripoli in the Peloponnese during the Greek Revolution and massacre the population of Muslim faith.
- 1833 : With a riot of Basque provinces breaks in Spain the first Carlist out.
- 1857 : King Maximilian II lays the foundation stone for the Munich Maximilianeum . It has been the seat of the Bavarian State Parliament since 1949 .
- 1863 : The Parliament of the United States of the Ionian Islands decided in Corfu the accession of the island nation to the Kingdom of Greece .
- 1877 : With the surrender of Chief Joseph , another chapter in the subjugation of the indigenous people of North America, the Nez Percé War, ends in the Indian Wars .
- 1908 : Ferdinand von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha declares the independence of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire and is crowned tsar as Ferdinand I.
- 1908 : Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina , which has been occupied since 1878, thus triggering the Bosnian annexation crisis .
- 1910 : With the abdication of King Manuel II , the monarchy in Portugal ends . The first Portuguese Republic is proclaimed. Teófilo Braga becomes the first president of a provisional government in the country.
- 1911 : During the Italo-Turkish War , Italy conquers the city of Tripoli from the Ottoman Empire .
- 1914 : The French pilot Joseph Frantz wins the world's first aerial combat . It can a German aviation - biplane at Reims shoot. The two Germans die in the crash.
- 1937 : US President Franklin D. Roosevelt causes a stir with the quarantine speech that was aimed at Germany, Italy and Japan .
- 1944 : Saarbrücken is the target of the heaviest Allied bombing raid on the city. In just half an hour, 2,500 high-explosive bombs and more than 350,000 stick bombs killed 361 people, destroyed more than 3,800 houses and 18,000 apartments and made 45,000 people homeless.
- 1947 : In the elections for the Constituent Assembly of the Saarland , the CVP under Johannes Hoffmann achieved an absolute majority with 51.2% of the votes cast.
- 1953 : The South African Parliament passes the Bantu Education Act , which serves as a legal basis for the introduction of low-quality schooling for “non-European” (non-white) citizens of the country in line with apartheid policy .
- 1960 : In the 1960 referendum , the majority of voters vote in favor of ending the status of the Union of South Africa as the British Dominion and the formation of a republic .
- 1964 : GDR border guard Egon Schultz is accidentally shot by his own comrades when a total of 57 people flee through an escape tunnel from East to West Berlin .
- 1968 : The violent breaking up of a march of Catholic civil rights activists in Derry by the police heralds the decades-long era of bloody clashes in the Northern Ireland conflict ("The Troubles").
- 1970 : James Richard Cross , the British Trade Commissioner in Canada, is kidnapped hostage by terrorists from the Front de liberation du Québec ( FLQ ) in Montreal . The kidnapping triggers the October crisis .
- 1972 : The Front national pour l'unité française is founded in Paris and Jean-Marie Le Pen is elected chairman.
- 1975 : In the national elections in Austria, the SPÖ and Federal Chancellor Kreisky again gain an absolute majority in votes and mandates.
- 1980 : In the elections to the 9th German Bundestag , the Union parties and their candidate for Chancellor Franz Josef Strauss lose votes and mandates, while the SPD and FDP in power under Helmut Schmidt gain.
- 1988 : A popular uprising breaks out in Algeria . The insurgents are demanding reforms.
- 1988 : A referendum is held in Chile , with a majority of 55.99% against Augusto Pinochet's further term in office . This is the beginning of the transition in Chile .
- 1988 : Brazil receives a democratic constitution , the 7th constitution in Brazilian history.
- 1992 : Lennart Meri becomes President of Estonia .
- 1992 : Kuwait holds the first elections to the National Assembly since the Second Gulf War .
- 1993 : The United Nations UNAMIR mission is sent to Rwanda .
- 1995 : The Bob Denard coup on the Comoros is crushed by the French military and a transitional government is formed.
- 2000 : In Belgrade , capital of what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , peaceful mass protests broke out, leading to the overthrow of President Slobodan Milošević .
- 2002 : All military troops from the Congo return to Rwanda .
- 2011 : The Italian-language version of Wikipedia protests with self-censorship against a bill on telephone surveillance . This stipulates that websites have to make any correction to the content within 48 hours without comment that the applicant requests in the interests of his reputation. This is the first time Wikipedia has applied self-censorship.
economy
- 1842 : Josef Groll brews the first Pilsner brew of beer .
- 1989 : A Long Thursday is held for the first time in the Federal Republic of Germany . It is an attempt to loosen the rigid shop opening hours of the shop closing law .
science and technology
- 1665 : The Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , built on the initiative of Duke Christian Albrecht von Gottorf , is inaugurated.
- 1905 : Wilbur Wright manages a flight of 38.6 km in 39.5 minutes with the Wright Flyer III , the longest flight with a motorized airplane up to that point.
- 1936 : The Rügen dam between Stralsund and the island of Rügen is opened.
- 1948 : The IUCN species protection organization is founded in Fontainebleau , France .
- 1957 : The first 380 kV high-voltage line in the Federal Republic of Germany is put into operation between the Hoheneck and Rommerskirchen substations .
- 1991 : Linus Torvalds announces the existence of the Linux kernel version 0.01 on Usenet .
- 1995 : The Swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announce that they have discovered the first exoplanet 51 Pegasi b orbiting a sun-like star in the constellation Pegasus . Seven days later, US scientists confirm this observation.
- 2005 : Yves Chauvin , Robert Grubbs and Richard R. Schrock are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry .
Culture
- 1690 : The Accademia dell'Arcadia is founded in Rome by the poets' circle of Queen Christina of Sweden, who died the previous year .
- 1762 : The world premiere of the opera Orfeo ed Euridice ( Orpheus and Eurydice ) by Christoph Willibald Gluck with the libretto by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi takes place.
- 1817 : The Manneken Pis fountain figure is stolen in Brussels .
- 1901 : The premiere of the operetta Jadwiga by Rudolf Dellinger takes place at the Dresden Residenztheater .
- 1921 : The international writers' association PEN is founded in London .
- 1930 : With the comic Tobias Seicherl by the caricaturist Ladislaus Kmoch , the first European daily strip appears in the Austrian tabloid Das Kleine Blatt of Vorwärts-Verlag . As a petty bourgeois who sympathized with Hitler , Seicherl represents the exact opposite of the newspaper's socialist clientele.
- 1935 : The operetta Drei Walzer by Oscar Straus is premiered at the Stadttheater Zürich . For the first part the composer used music by Johann Strauss (father) and for the second part melodies by Johann Strauss (son) . The libretto is by Paul Knepler and Armin Robinson .
- 1956 : Cecil B. DeMille's epic film The Ten Commandments ( The Ten Commandments ) with Charlton Heston as Moses and Yul Brynner as . Ramses II and many other stars will premiere in US cinemas. The feature film is one of the most expensive Paramount Pictures films and for a long time one of the most successful films in Hollywood.
- 1962 : Love Me Do , the first single of the Beatles , composed by Paul McCartney and John Lennon appears in the UK. It soon reached number 17 in the UK charts and was the beginning of a successful collaboration with producer George Martin .
- 1962 : Dr. No , the first film in the James Bond series based on the novels by Ian Fleming , opens in the UK. The main actor is Sean Connery , the first “Bond girl” Ursula Andress . Director Terence Young designed the Dr.-No-Bikini for the film together with Ursula Andress . The James Bond theme played for the first time by Monty Norman , interpreted by John Barry , becomes the leitmotif of the film hero.
- 1969 : BBC One broadcasts the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus by the British comedian group Monty Python .
- 2017 : The science fiction film Blade Runner 2049 starts in German cinemas. It is the official sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 directorial work Blade Runner .
society
- 1885 : Arnold Bovet founds the first Blue Cross Association in Germany in Hagen in Westphalia .
- 1892 : While trying to rob two banks in Coffeyville , Kansas, the Dalton brothers are caught by a civic contingent and involved in a shootout. Four of the five bandits involved die; the survivor is later sentenced to life imprisonment.
- 1992 : The mother of the Erlangen baby had an accident in a car, which sparked a broad public debate in Germany about the right to die with dignity.
religion
- 1920 : In the encyclical Principi apostolorum Petro , Ephraem the Syrian , who was active in the 4th century, is mentioned by Pope Benedict XV. accepted beyond the Orthodox Churches as Doctors of the Roman Catholic Church .
- 1994 : In Switzerland, near Cheiry and Granges-sur-Salvan, 53 dead, and in Canada, five dead are found who belonged to the sect of the Sun Templars . Law enforcement agencies are investigating the alleged mass suicide .
Disasters
- 1864 : The Indian city of Calcutta , today's Kolkata, is almost completely destroyed by a cyclone that kills around 60,000 people.
- 1930 : During an attempted emergency landing, the British passenger airship R101 catches fire: a total of 48 of the 54 people on board die. After the disaster, Great Britain gave up building more airships.
- 1991 : A Lockheed C-130 of the Indonesian Air Force crashes in Jakarta, Indonesia, due to an engine fire . Only one of the 135 inmates survived, two people died on the ground.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1951 : The first Mediterranean Games begin in Alexandria with participants from the Mediterranean countries.
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
The Marquise de Montespan
(* 1640)
Ole Rømer
(* 1644)
Maria Beatrice d'Este
(* 1658)
Jonathan Edwards
(b.1703)
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- 1240 : Margaret of England , Queen of Scotland
- 1377 : Louis II , Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence, Maine and Roucy, titular king of Naples and Jerusalem and Lord of Guise
- 1609 : Paul Fleming , German doctor and writer
- 1625 : Eduard von der Pfalz , Prince of the Palatinate
- 1628 : Oswald Onghers , Flemish painter
- 1640 : Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart , Marquise de Montespan, mistress of Louis XIV.
- 1644 : Ole Rømer , Danish astronomer
- 1658 : Maria Beatrice d'Este , Queen of England, wife of Jacob II.
- 1677 : Pietro Grimani , 115th Doge of Venice
- 1688 : Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen , Hanover statesman
- 1693 : Johann Christian Buxbaum , German botanist
18th century
- 1702 : Joseph Friedrich von Sachsen-Hildburghausen , Austrian and Reich German field marshal
- 1703 : Jonathan Edwards , North American theologian
- 1703 : Christian Weise , German Lutheran theologian and educator
Francesco Guardi
(* 1712)
Denis Diderot
(* 1713)
Bernard Bolzano
(* 1781)
- 1712 : Francesco Guardi , Italian painter
- 1713 : Denis Diderot , French writer and educator
- 1717 : Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle , French noblewoman, mistress of Louis XV.
- 1728 : Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Thimothée d'Éon de Beaumont , French diplomat, soldier, Freemason, writer and sword fencer
- 1736 : Friedrich Ernst von Bülow , officer from the Electorate of Hanover, landowner and landscape director
- 1737 : Alexei Orlov , Russian admiral, brother of Grigory Orlov
- 1757 : Charles de Lameth , French general
- 1757 : Louise-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Condé , Abbess of Remiremont and Benedictine founder of the monastery
- 1770 : Carl August Alsleben , Prussian politician
- 1775 : Anton Klein , German politician
- 1777 : Guillaume Dupuytren , French medic and surgeon
- 1778 : Ernst Ludwig von Aster , Prussian general
- 1780 : Benedict Arnold , American politician
- 1781 : Bernard Bolzano , Bohemian theologian, mathematician and philosopher
- 1789 : William Scoresby , British navigator and explorer
19th century
Chester A. Arthur
(* 1830)
Wilhelm Blos
(* 1849)
René Cassin
(* 1887)
- 1817 : Gustave Chaudey , French lawyer and politician
- 1817 : Eduard Franck , German composer
- 1821 : Rudolf Haym , German philosopher and literary historian
- 1830 : Chester A. Arthur , American politician, vice president, president
- 1834 : Hermann Wildpret , Swiss gardener and botanist
- 1840 : Johann II , Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1843 : Claudio Rebagliati , composer, violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1848 : Alexander Kisch , Bohemian rabbi
- 1848 : Guido von List , Austrian occult author, founder of ariosophy
- 1849 : Wilhelm Blos , German journalist, writer and politician, MdR, President of Württemberg
- 1850 : Ludwig Wilser , German doctor, ethnic writer and racial historian
- 1856 : Hermann Brandt , German settler and farmer
- 1857 : Fedor von Zobeltitz , German journalist and writer
- 1862 : Wilhelm Solf , German politician and diplomat
- 1863 : Ludwig Borchardt , German Egyptologist
- 1864 : Wilhelm Lattmann , German politician
- 1864 : Louis Jean Lumière , French chemist and entrepreneur
- 1866 : Hans Hausrath , German forest scientist
- 1867 : Frank H. Hitchcock , American politician
- 1871 : Anna Ahrens , Low German local poet
- 1873 : Otto Falckenberg , German director
- 1875 : Cyril Rootham , British composer
- 1876 : Lola Artôt de Padilla , French-Spanish soprano
- 1878 : Erich Kühn , German writer and editor
- 1879 : Halfdan Cleve , Norwegian composer
- 1879 : Francis Peyton Rous , American pathologist and cancer researcher, Nobel Prize winner
- 1882 : Robert Goddard , American rocket builder
- 1882 : Giorgio Abetti , Italian astronomer
- 1885 : Ida Rubinstein , Russian dancer
- 1887 : Max Ackermann , German painter and graphic artist
- 1887 : René Cassin , French lawyer and diplomat, author of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Nobel Prize winner
- 1887 : Nils Middelboe , Danish football player
- 1888 : Takashi Akiba , Japanese sociologist
- 1889 : Dirk Coster , Dutch physicist
- 1890 : Kasimir Edschmid , German expressionist writer
- 1892 : Leyland Hodgson , English actor
- 1893 : Lajos Czeizler , Hungarian football coach
- 1894 : Del Andrews , American film director and screenwriter
- 1894 : Friedrich-Carl Rabe von Pappenheim , German lieutenant general and diplomat
- 1894 : Bevil Rudd , South African athlete, Olympic champion
- 1895 : Edmond Bourlier , French racing car driver
- 1897 : Gaspar Cassadó , Spanish cellist
- 1897 : George Salter , German-American commercial graphic artist and set designer
- 1898 : Ervin Šinko , Hungarian writer and professor
- 1898 : Ewald Balser , German actor
- 1899 : Hans Achinger , German economist and social scientist
- 1900 : Nakayama Gishū , Japanese writer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : John Alton , American cinematographer, Oscar winner
- 1902 : Larry Fine , American comedian (The Three Stooges)
- 1902 : Michał Kondracki , Polish composer
- 1902 : Ray Kroc , founder of the McDonald’s fast food chain
- 1902 : Sergei Juljewitsch Konjus , Russian composer
- 1904 : Harald Lechenperg , German-Austrian photographer, journalist and documentary filmmaker
- 1905 : Karl Gall , Austrian football player
- 1906 : Ciro Versiani dos Anjos , Brazilian lawyer, journalist and writer
- 1907 : Cor de Feijter , Dutch chess composer
- 1908 : Paul-Émile Corbeil , Canadian singer and vocal teacher, radio producer and actor
- 1908 : Joshua Logan , American director
- 1909 : Ilse Abel , German actress
- 1909 : Otto Ackermann , Swiss conductor
- 1909 : Bohdan-Ihor Antonytsch , Ukrainian poet and prose writer
- 1909 : Leopold Kohr , Austrian economist and philosopher
- 1909 : Walter Markov , German historian
- 1911 : Flann O'Brien , Irish writer
- 1913 : Russ Letlow , American football player
- 1914 : Elfriede Kaun , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1915 : Bob Astor , American composer and band leader
- 1916 : Ronald Leigh-Hunt , British actor
- 1917 : Robert Adams , British sculptor
- 1917 : Allen Ludden , American presenter and actor
- 1919 : Harold Bell , American merchandising agent
- 1919 : Donald Pleasence , British actor
- 1919 : Vojtech Zamarovský , Slovak historian, writer and translator
- 1920 : Gert Westphal , German actor and director
- 1920 : Meliton Kantaria , Soviet soldier who hoisted the victory flag on the Reichstag
- 1921 : Johann Ludwig Atrops , German engineer
- 1921 : Joachim Piefke , German manager
- 1921 : Bill Willis , American football player and coach
- 1922 : José Froilán González , Argentine racing driver
- 1922 : Woodrow Parfrey , American actor
- 1922 : Josef de Ponte , Hungarian-German church painter
- 1922 : Jock Stein , Scottish football coach
- 1923 : Stig Dagerman , Swedish journalist and writer
- 1924 : José Donoso , Chilean writer
- 1925 : Roberto Juarroz , Argentine poet and writer
1926-1950
- 1927 : Rolf Herricht , German actor
- 1928 : Kurt Tschenscher , German football referee
- 1930 : Kurt Adelmann , German politician
- 1930 : Reinhard Selten , German economist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1932 : Charles Neal Ascherson , Scottish journalist and writer
- 1932 : Johanna Matz , Austrian actress
- 1933 : Diane Cilento , Australian actress
- 1933 : Billy Lee Riley , American rock-a-billy, blues and country musician
- 1934 : Robert Theodore Anderson , American organist, composer and music teacher
- 1934 : Nikolai Durakov , Russian bandy player
- 1934 : João Maria Messi , Italian religious, former bishop of Barra do Piraí-Volta Redonda
- 1935 : Takashi Sasagawa , Japanese politician
- 1936 : Václav Havel , Czech writer and president
- 1936 : Annerose Schmidt , German pianist
- 1937 : Abi Ofarim , Israeli singer
- 1937 : Barry Switzer , American football player
- 1938 : Johnny Duncan , American country singer
- 1938 : Horst Heinrich , German local politician
- 1939 : Albrecht Müller , German football player
- 1939 : AR Penck , German painter
- 1940 : Rein Aun , Estonian athlete (decathlon)
- 1940 : Manfred Bissinger , German publicist
- 1940 : Giacomo Caliri , Italian racing car designer and aerodynamicist
- 1941 : Manfred Bofinger , German graphic artist and cartoonist
- 1941 : Eduardo Duhalde , Argentine President
- 1942 : Charles Ansbacher , American conductor
- 1942 : John Seale , Australian cameraman
- 1943 : Steve Miller , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1943 : Maciej Paderewski , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1943 : Inna Tschurikowa , Russian actress
- 1944 : Michael Ande , German actor
- 1944 : Richard Cragun , American dancer
- 1944 : Cesare Nosiglia , Archbishop of Turin
- 1945 : Brian Connolly , British singer (band "The Sweet")
- 1945 : Michael Wurm , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1946 : Victor Monroe Armstrong , British stuntman
- 1946 : Edward Włodarczyk , Polish historian
- 1947 : Johannes Attems , Austrian bank manager
- 1947 : Brian Johnson , British singer (AC / DC)
- 1947 : Michael Keyser , American racing driver, journalist and photographer
- 1948 : Bianca , German singer and composer
- 1949 : Peter Ackroyd , British writer
- 1949 : Christian Brand , German bank manager
- 1949 : Klaus Ludwig , German racing driver
- 1950 : Eddie Clarke , British rock musician ( Motörhead )
- 1950 : Laura Gemser , Indonesian actress
- 1950 : Paola Felix , Swiss singer and television presenter
- 1950 : Hugo Hovenkamp , Dutch football player
- 1950 : James Rizzi , American artist
1951-1975
- 1951 : Karen Allen , American actress
- 1951 : Bob Geldof , Irish musician and songwriter ( Boomtown Rats )
- 1951 : Detlev Jöcker , German children's songwriter
- 1952 : Regine Aeppli Wartmann , Swiss politician
- 1952 : Harold Faltermeyer , German musician, songwriter and music producer
- 1952 : David Lebón , Argentine rock musician
- 1952 : Vladimir Newsorov , Soviet-Russian judoka
- 1953 : Josef Christian Aigner , Austrian psychoanalyst and therapist
- 1953 : Pierre de Thoisy , French racing car driver
- 1954 : Jimmy Hartwig , German football player and theater actor
- 1955 : Michał Lorenc , Polish film composer
- 1955 : Ángela Molina , Spanish actress
- 1957 : Bernie Mac , American film actor and critic
- 1958 : Antonio Di Gennaro , Italian football player
- 1958 : Neil deGrasse Tyson , American astrophysicist
- 1960 : Toomas Annus , Estonian entrepreneur and investor
- 1960 : Careca , Brazilian soccer player
- 1960 : Max Nagl , Austrian jazz saxophonist and composer
- 1960 : Evangelia Tzampazi , Greek politician
- 1961 : Bernd Arnholdt , German football player
- 1962 : Michael Andretti , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1962 : Johannes Reitmeier , German author, director and general manager
- 1963 : Charlotte Link , German writer
- 1963 : Alexandra Thein , German politician
- 1964 : Damian Conway , Australian computer science professor
- 1964 : Annette Paulmann , German actress
- 1965 : Mario Lemieux , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 : Patrick Roy , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1965 : Sven Hasper , German actor and voice actor
- 1966 : Inessa Krawez , Ukrainian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1967 : Guy Pearce , Australian actor
- 1967 : Tim Carter , English football player
- 1967 : Jenna Russell , British stage actress
- 1968 : Matthias Anklam , German football referee
- 1968 : Julie Ashton , American porn actress
- 1968 : Nana , German rapper and DJ
- 1969 : Sven Dietrich , German local politician
- 1970 : Marcus Wadsak , Austrian meteorologist and radio and television presenter
- 1970 : Mark Ella , German politician
- 1970 : Nicolas Fontaine , Canadian freestyle skier
- 1971 : Marco Antwerp , German football player and coach
- 1971 : Mauricio Pellegrino , Argentine soccer player
- 1971 : Nicola Rizzoli , Italian football referee
- 1972 : Annely Akkermann , Estonian politician
- 1972 : Aljaksej Mjadswedseu , Belarusian wrestler
- 1974 : Robert Mateja , Polish ski jumper and jumping coach
- 1975 : Kate Winslet , British actress
- 1975 : Parminder Nagra , Indo-British actress
1976-2000
- 1976 : Pierre M. Krause , German television presenter
- 1976 : Sven Lintjens , German soccer player
- 1977 : Anja Richter , Austrian water diver
- 1978 : Mirko Lang , German actor
- 1978 : Hamad Ndikumana , Rwandan soccer player
- 1978 : James Valentine , American musician
- 1980 : Damir Doborac , Bosnian handball player
- 1980 : James Toseland , British motorcycle racer
- 1981 : Zhang Yining , Chinese table tennis player
- 1982 : Yasemin Akkar , German-Turkish singer
- 1982 : Victor Moreira , Andorran football player
- 1982 : Simon Schwartz , German comic artist and illustrator
- 1983 : Ees , Namibian musician
- 1983 : Corine Franco , French soccer player
- 1983 : Florian Mayer , German tennis player
- 1984 : Zlatko Dedič , Slovenian football player
- 1984 : Clint Jones , American ski jumper
- 1984 : Kenwyne Jones , soccer player from Trinidad & Tobago
- 1985 : Matteo Marsaglia , Italian ski racer
- 1986 : Sarah Knappik , German model and reality TV participant
- 1987 : Foluke Akinradewo , American volleyball player
- 1987 : Kevin Mirallas , Belgian football player
- 1987 : Morten Skou , Danish handball player
- 1987 : Javier Villa , Spanish racing driver
- 1988 : Sona Ahmadli , Azerbaijani wrestler
- 1988 : Adrián Campos jr. , Spanish racing driver
- 1988 : Bahar Kızıl , German singer ( Monrose )
- 1989 : Žanna Juškāne , Latvian biathlete
- 1989 : Kimiya Satō , Japanese racing driver
- 1990 : Ferdinand Oswald , German football player
- 1991 : Arthur Pic , French racing driver
- 1991 : Tornike Schengelia , Georgian basketball player
- 1991 : Christopher Weber , German bobsleigh driver
- 1992 : Jamiu Alimi , Nigerian soccer player
- 1992 : Aitor Ariño , Spanish handball player
- 1992 : Sven Bärtschi , Swiss ice hockey player
- 1992 : Annika Bruhn , German swimmer
- 1992 : Kevin Magnussen , Danish racing car driver
- 1992 : Hyacinthe Sèwanou , Beninese football player
- 1992 : Lea Wallewein , German ski jumper
- 1992 : Dino Zamparelli , British racing car driver
- 1992 : Cody Zeller , American basketball player
- 1996 : David Bates , Scottish soccer player
- 1996 : Burak Çamoğlu , Turkish football player
- 1996 : Imaan Hammam , Dutch model
- 1998 : Divine Oladipo , British athlete
- 1998 : Exequiel Palacios , Argentine soccer player
21st century
- 2001 : Dalila Bela , Canadian actress
- 2006 : Jacob Tremblay , Canadian actor
Died
Before the 16th century
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- 578 : Justin II , Eastern Roman Emperor
- 610 : Phocas , Eastern Roman emperor
- 785 : Ōtomo no Yakamochi , Japanese poet
- 857 : Meinolf , priest and founder of the Bödekken monastery
- 989 : Henry III. , Duke of Bavaria and Carinthia
- 1056 : Henry III. , Roman-German king and emperor
- 1111 : Robert of Jerusalem , Count of Flanders and participant in the first crusade
- 1112 : Sigebert von Gembloux , German historiographer, hagiographer, theologian, liturgist, computist and publicist
- 1212 : Philip I , Margrave of Namur
- 1239 : Robert von Courtenay , grand cupbearer of France
- 1285 : Philip III. , King of France from 1270 to 1285
- 1295 : Baidu , ruler of the Ilkhan in Iran
- 1306 : Hermann II , Abbot of Ebrach
- 1308 : Guido II. De la Roche , Duke of Athens
- 1308 : Ludwig von Ravensberg , Bishop of Osnabrück
- 1354 : Giovanni Visconti , city lord and archbishop of Milan and Doge of Genoa
- 1398 : Blanka of Navarre , Queen of France
- 1399 : Raimund von Capua , Italian Dominican and confessor of Catherine of Siena
- 1491 : Jean de La Balue , French cardinal and minister
16th to 18th century
- 1512 : Sofia Jagiellonka , Margravine of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Brandenburg-Ansbach
- 1523 : Bogislaw X , Duke of Pomerania
- 1524 : Joachim Patinir , Flemish painter
- 1528 : Richard Fox , English bishop
- 1546 : Jorge Robledo , Spanish conquistador
- 1557 : Caramuru , Portuguese colonist and liaison between the Brazilian indigenous people and the Portuguese crown
- 1565 : Lodovico Ferrari , Italian mathematician
- 1574 : Felix Lindtmayer the Younger , Swiss glass painter
- 1607 : Matthäus Dresser , German school humanist, educator, philologist and historian
- 1611 : Gregor Bersman , German philologist and Latin poet
- 1637 : Daniel Cramer , German Lutheran theologian; Chronicler and author
- 1653 : Joseph Clauder , German Protestant theologian, hymn composer and poet
- 1689 : Johannes Scheibler , German Protestant clergyman
- 1706 : Elisabeth Albertine von Anhalt-Dessau , Duchess of Saxony-Weißenfels-Barby
- 1707 : Daniel Speer , German writer and composer
- 1711 : Christian Friedrich Richter , German Protestant pastor, hymn poet and doctor
- 1714 : Kaibara Ekiken , Japanese Neo-Confucian and naturalist
- 1725 : Johann Sinapius , Silesian scholar and historian
- 1740 : Friedrich Opfergeldt , German Lutheran theologian and clergyman
- 1744 : Friedrich Benedict Carpzov II , German lawyer and jurist
- 1747 : Paul Friedrich Opitz , German theologian and orientalist
- 1763 : August III. , King of Poland and Elector of Saxony
- 1786 : Johann Gottlieb Gleditsch , German doctor and botanist
- 1790 : Christian David Jani , German philologist and educator
19th century
- 1807 : Luis Née , French botanist
- 1813 : Eleonore Prochaska , German freedom fighter
- 1813 : Tecumseh , Shawnee chief
- 1830 : José Gregorio Argomedo Montero , Chilean lawyer and politician
- 1837 : Hortense de Beauharnais , Queen of Holland and mother of Emperor Napoleon III.
- 1853 : Mahlon Dickerson , American politician
- 1857 : Wenzel Scholz , Austrian actor; long-time stage partner Johann Nestroy
- 1858 : Francisco Solano Antuña , Uruguayan politician
- 1861 : Kinsley Bingham , American politician
- 1865 : Carl August Gadegast , farmer and pioneer of merino sheep breeding in Germany
- 1867 : Achille Fould , French finance and statesman
- 1871 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Afanassjew , Russian editor and fairy tale researcher
- 1877 : Constantin Ackermann , German Protestant clergyman
- 1880 : Jacques Offenbach , German-French composer, founder of modern operetta
- 1885 : Wilhelm Heine , German painter and traveler
- 1891 : Giovanni Caselli , Italian physicist
- 1893 : James Black Groome , American politician
- 1899 : James Harlan , American politician
Eleonore Prochaska
(† 1813)
Tecumseh
(† 1813)
Hortense de Beauharnais
(† 1837)
Jacques Offenbach
(† 1880)
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20th century
1901-1950
- 1905 : Carlos Walker Martínez , Chilean author and politician
- 1909 : Agneta Matthes , Dutch entrepreneur
- 1911 : Charles Théodore Malherbe , French musicologist and composer
- 1912 : Lewis Boss , American astronomer
- 1913 : Heinrich Ludwig Oskar Ackermann , German theologian
- 1915 : Otto Malling , Danish organist and composer
- 1919 : Hugo Kersten , German writer and publicist
- 1926 : Carl Rehfus , German hunting writer and cynologist
- 1927 : Sam Warner , American film producer
- 1930 : Stina Berg , Swedish actress
- 1932 : Christopher Brennan , Australian poet
- 1933 : Renée Adorée , French actress
- 1934 : Jean Vigo , French director
- 1938 : John Alfred McDowell Adair , American politician
- 1938 : Faustyna Kowalska , Polish nun and mystic
- 1940 : Camilla Jellinek , Austrian-German women's rights activist and lawyer
- 1943 : Ludwig von Estorff , German general
- 1945 : Eduard Stadtler , German publicist, politician, MdR, founder of anti-communist organizations, instigator of the murders of Liebknecht and Luxemburg
- 1950 : Helen Taylor , American composer, pianist and music teacher
1951-2000
- 1952 : Vincentius Eugenio Bossilkoff , Bulgarian bishop
- 1953 : Friedrich Wolf , German doctor, writer and politician
- 1956 : Juan Armet de Castellví , Spanish football player and coach
- 1957 : José Leandro Andrade , Uruguayan football player
- 1959 : Josip Mandić , Croatian composer
- 1961 : Booker Little , American jazz musician
- 1961 : Alexander Willwoll , Swiss Jesuit and psychologist
- 1962 : Sylvia Beach , American bookseller and publisher
- 1962 : Joseph Noyon , French composer and church musician
- 1964 : Egon Schultz , German teacher and NCO of the border troops in the GDR
- 1965 : Georges Vantongerloo , Belgian painter, sculptor and architect
- 1966 : Korbinian Aigner , German pastor and pomologist
- 1973 : Anna Maria Schulte , German local politician
- 1976 : Lars Onsager , American physical chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1976 : Takeda Taijun , Japanese writer
- 1978 : May Warden , British actress ( Dinner for One )
- 1981 : Gloria Grahame , American actress
- 1984 : Hugo Kükelhaus , German educator
- 1985 : Therese Angeloff , German cabaret artist and actress
- 1985 : Serge Jaroff , American choir director of Russian origin
- 1985 : Karl Menger , Austrian mathematician
- 1985 : Peter Paul , German actor
- 1985 : Emil Spiess , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
- 1986 : Alexander Arendt , German physician
- 1986 : Hal B. Wallis , American film producer
- 1986 : James H. Wilkinson , British mathematician
- 1989 : Robert Thomas Ashmore , American politician
- 1993 : Cardinal Francesco Carpino , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Palermo and Cardinal Curia
- 1993 : Dumitru Stăniloae , Romanian clergyman and theologian, writer and professor
- 1994 : Nini Rosso , Italian trumpeter
- 1995 : Leonid Wiktorowitsch Afanassjew , Soviet composer
- 1995 : Walter Edwin Arnoldi , American mechanical engineer
- 1995 : Lillian Fuchs , American violist, music teacher and composer
- 1996 : Richard Kröll , Austrian ski racer
- 1996 : Seymour Cray , American computer scientist
- 1998 : Jacques Abram , American pianist and music teacher
- 1999 : Marie-Madeleine Duruflé , French organist
21st century
- 2001 : Emilie Schindler , wife of Oskar Schindler
- 2001 : Mike Mansfield , American politician
- 2002 : Rick Abao , American jazz musician, composer and entertainer
- 2002 : Jay R. Smith , American child actor
- 2003 : Annalena Tonelli , Italian missionary
- 2003 : Neil Postman , American scholar and cultural critic
- 2003 : Dan Snyder , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2004 : Mildred McDaniel , American high jumper, Olympic champion
- 2004 : Maurice Wilkins , New Zealand physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2004 : Rodney Dangerfield , American comedian
- 2006 : Friedrich Karl Flick , German entrepreneur
- 2007 : Walter Kempowski , German writer
- 2007 : Jeroným Zajíček , American composer and music teacher of Czech origin
- 2009 : Rob Bron , Dutch motorcycle racer
- 2009 : Heidi Oetinger , German publisher
- 2010 : Hans Ulrich Graf , Swiss politician and publisher
- 2010 : Steve Lee , Swiss musician
- 2011 : Bert Jansch , British folk singer and guitarist
- 2011 : Steve Jobs , US IT entrepreneur
- 2011 : Charles Napier , American actor
- 2011 : Gökşin Sipahioğlu , Turkish press photographer and founder of the Sipa Press photo agency
- 2011 : Fred Shuttlesworth , American civil rights activist
- 2013 : Carlo Lizzani , Italian film director
- 2014 : Andrea de Cesaris , Italian racing car driver
- 2015 : Chantal Akerman , Belgian film director
- 2015 : Joker Paz Arroyo , Filipino politician
- 2015 : Henning Mankell , Swedish writer and theater director
- 2017 : Sylke Tempel , German journalist and book author
- 2017 : Anne Wiazemsky , French actress and writer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Theodor Fliedner , German pastor and founder of the Rhenish-Westphalian Deaconess Association (Protestant)
- St. Maria Faustyna Kowalska , Polish mystic (Catholic)
- St. Meinolf , German priest, archdeacon and monastery founder (Catholic)
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Portugal : establishment of the republic (1910)
- Anniversaries of international organizations
- World Teachers Day ( UNESCO ) (since 1994)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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