April 6th
The April 6 is the 96th day of the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years ), thus remain 269 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 46 BC BC : Caesar and his troops defeat the supporters of the Roman Senate under Cato in the battle of Thapsus .
- 402 : The Romans under Stilicho defeat the Visigoths under Alaric in the battle of Pollentia . Stilicho does not pursue the defeated enemy, which is why the Visigoths can reorganize again.
- 1250 : Crusaders of the Sixth Crusade who landed in Egypt capitulate at Al-Mansura to the troops of the Turan Shah . The French King Louis IX. is captured and later released for a ransom.
- 1320 : Several Scottish nobles sign the Declaration of Arbroath , with which Scotland declares its independence from England . The declaration, which shortly afterwards Pope John XXII. in Avignon with a request for support is the first formal declaration of independence by a country.
- 1326 : Orhan , the son of Sultan Osman I , conquers the city of Bursa in Asia Minor . Subsequently, it temporarily becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire .
- 1385 : Two years after the Burgundy family died out , the Cortes of Coimbra elect John I to be King of Portugal . He founded the Avis dynasty .
- 1489 : The mayor of Zurich , Hans Waldmann , is executed in a fast-track process. He fell victim to intrigues and a riot among the rural population because he had the peasants' dogs killed.
- 1631 : In the Treaty of Cherasco between Emperor Ferdinand II , Louis XIII. of France and Viktor Amadeus I of Savoy to end the War of the Mantuan Succession , the emperor renounces Mantua and Montferrat , with which Carlo I Gonzaga is enfeoffed, but who has to cede large parts of his national territory to Savoy .
- 1652 : The Dutch merchant Jan van Riebeeck goes ashore on behalf of the Dutch East India Company in Table Bay on the southern tip of Africa and builds a fort with some settlers . Cape Town soon developed from this as a supply station for sailing ships on the Cape of Good Hope on their trade route to Southeast Asia.
- 1672 : The French king Louis XIV. Declares Republic of the Seven United Netherlands the war . In the following years he marched into the country with troops. His advance is diplomatically secured with other powers. The Rampjaar of the Dutch began in March with the declaration of war by King Charles II of England .
- 1782 : After the assassination of the Thai king Taksin , his general Chaophraya Chakri, who has been recalled from a campaign, ascends the throne of Siam as Rama I and establishes the Chakri dynasty , which is still ruling today .
- 1793 : During the French Revolution, the National Convention sets up the Welfare Committee , chaired by Georges Danton . The task of the executive body is initially only to control the Convention, but it soon becomes the real center of power in France.
- 1812 : The siege of Badajoz ends during the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula . The Anglo-Portuguese forces under the command of Arthur Wellesley conquer the city of Badajoz, held by a French garrison, after a siege of around three weeks. The capture of the place safeguards Portugal from further invasion.
- 1814 : Napoleon Bonaparte abdicates as Emperor of the French in favor of his son after his defeat in the coalition wars in Fontainebleau . Since this is not enough for the victorious allies, they submit their own ideas on April 11th.
- 1815 : The island of Réunion , under British occupation, is returned to the Kingdom of France with the Treaty of Paris .
- 1815 : Geneva is reunited with Switzerland as the 22nd canton .
- 1841 : After the death of US President William Henry Harrison on April 4, his Vice President John Tyler is sworn in as the 10th President of the United States .
- 1862 : The two-day Battle of Shiloh begins in Tennessee between the Ohio Army of Ulysses S. Grant and the Tennessee Army of Don Carlos Buell on the side of the Union Army and the Army of the Confederate States of America under Albert S. Johnston and Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard . It will be the most costly battle of the American Civil War to date .
- 1865 : As part of the Appomattox campaign, shortly before the end of the Civil War, the Union wins over the Confederates in the battles on Sailor's Creek .
- 1917 : After the severance of diplomatic relations three days previously to explain the United States the German Reich the war . The Zimmermann telegram previously decrypted by the USA plays a role in changing its neutral stance on the war.
- 1941 : Without a declaration of war or an ultimatum , the Balkan campaign of the German Wehrmacht under General Field Marshal Wilhelm List in Yugoslavia and Greece begins in World War II .
- 1944 : 44 Jewish children from Izieu are abducted together with their carers and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
- 1980 : Summer time is introduced in the Federal Republic of Germany , the GDR and Austria .
- 1994 : The genocide in Rwanda begins with the shooting down of an airplane with Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira on board. On the same day, Colonel Théoneste Bagosora headed a “crisis team” made up of high-ranking officers.
- 1994 : Eight people are killed by a car bomb in central Afula in Israel . The Hamas is behind this first terrorist attack after the Declaration of Principles , presumably in retaliation for the massacre in Hebron is on 25 February.
- 1999 : In an intimidation and terror campaign by pro-Indonesian militias in the run-up to the possible independence of East Timor , the church massacre in Liquiçá takes place .
- 2004 : The Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas is removed from office with a three-fifths majority by the parliament, which accuses him of violating the constitution. He is the first European head of state to lose his post through impeachment .
- 2005 : The Kurd Jalal Talabani from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is elected President of the country by the Iraqi parliament . His deputies are the Shiite Adil Abd al-Mahdi and the Sunni Ghazi al-Yawar .
- 2006 : Boni Yayi , elected as the new President of Benin on March 19, takes office. He replaces the former dictator Mathieu Kérékou in this office.
- 2016 : In the referendum in the Netherlands on the Association Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine, 61% of the voters are against the agreement. The turnout is 32.28%, which just exceeds the 30% quorum .
economy
- 1767 : Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden creates the conditions for the German jewelry and watch industry. He gives the French Jean Francois Autran permission to open a pocket watch factory in the orphanage in Pforzheim . The expansion to a jewelry and steel goods factory takes place in the same year. The gold city is still the center of the German jewelry industry.
- 1808 : Johann Jakob Astor founds the American Fur Company in New York for the purpose of the fur trade .
- 1865 : Friedrich Engelhorn , August von Clemm , Carl Clemm , Seligmann Ladenburg , Leopold Ladenburg and others found the Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik as a stock corporation in Mannheim, Baden . As a result, BASF develops into the world's largest chemical company.
- 1926 : The German Luft Hansa AG takes after its establishment on January 6, the flight operations at the airport Berlin-Tempelhof on.
- 1957 : Aristotle Onassis renames the former Greek national airline Hellenic National Airlines TAE , which he acquired the previous year, to Olympic Airlines .
- 1965 : The first commercial communications satellite , Early Bird , is launched on the tip of a Delta-D rocket .
- 1974 : The Vallorbe caves, opened up for tourism, become accessible to visitors in the Swiss canton of Vaud .
- 1984 : The founding of the English car manufacturer Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. is carried out.
- 1992 : Microsoft releases the Windows 3.1 operating system .
- 1999 : The pharmaceutical group Astra AB from Sweden, in which the Wallenberg dynasty holds a good 20 percent, and Zeneca Group PLC from Great Britain merge under the new name AstraZeneca to become one of the largest pharmaceutical groups in the world.
science and technology
- 1748 : Under the direction of Roque Joaquín de Alcubierre , search excavations begin on the site of the former Pompeii , which Alcubierre believes to be Stabiae .
- 1793 : In the constellation Dragon of the German-British astronomer discovered William Herschel now known as NGC 4236 led barred spiral galaxy .
- 1864 : As part of his investigation of the Coma galaxy cluster , the German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest found the elliptical galaxy NGC 4884 .
- 1909 : Robert Edwin Peary claims to reach the North Pole with Matthew Henson and four Inuit . The accuracy of this information is doubted by many experts.
- 1912 : The Greenland-Danish polar explorer Knud Rasmussen sets out on his first Thule expedition and subsequently crossed the Greenland Ice Sheet twice .
- 1969 : The Scot Wally Herbert is the first person to reach the North Pole on foot, only with the help of dog sleds .
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- 1973 : The US space probe Pioneer 11 starts - still under its project name Pioneer G - with an Atlas Centaur rocket from Launch Complex 36 on the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to explore the planets Jupiter and Saturn .
- 1984 : With the research platform LDEF on board, the NASA space shuttle Challenger takes off for the STS-41-C mission .
- 2000 : The US company Celera announces that it has deciphered the code of human genomes to 99 percent.
- 2004 : The district archaeologist of the Göttingen district announces the discovery of a Roman military camp, the Hedemünden Roman camp .
Culture
- 1327 : The Italian poet Francesco Petrarca claims to see the married Laura for the first time in the church of St. Claire in Avignon . His love for her led him to write 317 sonnets in the years that followed.
- 1763 : The Palais Royal in the Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris, which at that time houses the Paris Opera , is destroyed by flames.
- 1813 : The premiere of the opera Les Abencérages, ou L'etendard de Grenade ( The Moorish dynasty of the Abencerringen or The Campaign of Granada ) by Luigi Cherubini takes place at the Grand Opéra Paris .
- 1837 : The first performance of the romantic opera Die Höhle bei Waverley by Conradin Kreutzer takes place at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.
- 1867 : The opera Dózsa György by Ferenc Erkel has its world premiere in Budapest.
- 1915 : First performance of the drama Der Weibsteufel by Karl Schönherr in Vienna.
- 1943 : The first edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's short story The Little Prince ( Le petit prince , The Little Prince ) is presented in New York City.
- 1947 : The first Tony Awards, named after Antoinette Perry , for plays and musicals that ran on Broadway during the year are held at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City .
- 1956 : The North Carolina Museum of Art opens. It is the only art collection in the United States that is publicly funded.
- 1959 : The musical film Gigi receives awards in all nine categories in which it was nominated at the 31st Academy Awards , making it one of the most successful films at an Academy Awards.
- 1964 : The stage version of the TV version of the ballet The Lesson by Flemming Flindt (choreography) and Georges Delerue is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1974 : The Swedish pop group ABBA , consisting of Agnetha Fältskog , Anni-Frid Lyngstad , Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson , wins the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson with Waterloo and thus lays the foundation for an international career.
- 1990 : Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch is sprayed with sulfuric acid by a confused man in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum .
- 1999 : On London's Prince Edward Theater is jukebox musical Mamma Mia! , which is composed of well-known pieces of music by the Swedish pop group ABBA , officially premiered.
society
- 1958 : The marriage between the Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiary is divorced for reasons of state . The heir to the throne hoped to secure the dynasty did not appear.
- 2018 : After 26 years, the Trebević cable car is reopened in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo .
religion
- 1252 : Peter von Verona , the papal inquisitor for Como and Milan, is murdered because of his harsh actions against the Cathars .
- 1415 : As the antipope John XXIII. the Council of Constance convened by him wants to dissolve, which together with the other Popes of the Western Schism has declared him deposed, this proclaims the sovereignty of the Council over the Pope in its decree Haec sancta .
- 1709 : The areas of the former German dioceses of Minden , Verden , Halberstadt , Magdeburg , Havelberg , Brandenburg , Merseburg and Naumburg are combined as the Apostolic Vicariate of Upper and Lower Saxony , with Hanover as its seat.
- 1830 : Joseph Smith and six others found the Mormon- based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . In it he traces his priesthood directly back to John the Baptist and the Apostles.
- 1893 : Exactly forty years after the official start of construction, the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City is dedicated by its President Wilford Woodruff .
Disasters
- 1667 : A severe earthquake causes almost all buildings to collapse in Dubrovnik , the capital of the republic of the same name , while the city walls withstand the force of nature. The mayor is among the more than 5000 fatalities.
- 2009 : An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.8 to 6.2 on the Richter scale shakes central Italy. Many residents are buried by collapsing houses and 294 people die and 1,000 are injured. 55,000 people are homeless. The epicenter of the quake is near the city of L'Aquila in Abruzzo, northeast of Rome . The hundreds of aftershocks, some of them severe, continue for another eight days.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 2002 : The Neuschwanstein meteorite falls near Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. Three fragments of the enstatite chondrite can be found from simultaneous photographic records.
Sports
- 1893 : The boxing match Andy Bowen against Jack Burke remained without a winner after 110 rounds and 7 hours 19 minutes duration. It is the longest boxing match of all time .
- 1896 : The Greek King George opens the First Modern Summer Olympics in Athens, in which 295 men from 13 nations will take part until April 15. The first winner of an Olympic event is the American Francis Lane in a 100 m heat. The first modern Olympic champion is his compatriot James Connolly in the triple jump on the same day .
- 2005 : Red Bull GmbH takes over 100% of Salzburg Sport AG and thus SV Austria Salzburg .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1420 : George of Podebrady , King of Bohemia
- 1483 : Raphael , Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
- 1498 : Giovanni dalle Bande Nere , Italian condottieri
- 1503 : Jakob Micyllus , German humanist, poet and educator
- 1514 : Joachim Mörlin , German theologian, pastor, reformer and Lutheran bishop of Samland
- 1530 : Joachim Strupp , German doctor of medicine and non-fiction author
- 1539 : Amalia von Neuenahr-Alpen , Countess of Limburg and Electress of the Palatinate
- 1573 : Margarethe von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Duchess of Saxe-Coburg
- 1593 : Michael Walther the Elder , German Lutheran theologian
- 1620 : Joachim Rüdiger von der Goltz , Danish and Electoral Saxon field marshal
- 1632 : Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Tyrol , Roman-German Empress
- 1646 : Marguerite Périer , French nun, niece of Blaise Pascal
- 1646 : Johann Heinrich Schweizer , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1660 : Johann Kuhnau , German composer
- 1664 : Arvid Horn , Chancellery President, Chairman of the Imperial Council of Sweden
- 1671 : Jean-Baptiste Rousseau , French writer
18th century
- 1702 : Philipp Becker , German legal scholar
- 1721 : Friedrich Christian I , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg
- 1723 : Franz Xaver Wolfgang von Orsini-Rosenberg , Austrian diplomat
- 1725 : Pasquale Paoli , Corsican freedom fighter
- 1725 : Johann Hermann Schacht , German Reformed theologian
- 1726 : Gerhard Majella , Italian Catholic saint, lay brother and mystic
- 1740 : Christoph Gottlieb Bogislav von Barnekow , Prussian forest master and landowner
- 1741 : Nicolas Chamfort , French writer
- 1743 : Carl Gottlieb Strauss , German Protestant clergyman and educator
- 1745 : William Dawes , American tanner, patriot in the American War of Independence
- 1750 : James Watson , American politician
- 1754 : Frédéric-César de La Harpe , Swiss politician
- 1756 : Epaphroditus Champion , American politician
- 1761 : Carl Ludwig Giesecke , mineralogist
- 1765 : Karl Felix I , King of Sardinia-Piedmont and Duke of Savoy
- 1765 : Franz Niklaus König , Swiss genre and portrait painter
- 1766 : Wilhelm von Kobell , German painter
- 1767 : Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval , French architect, writer and theater director
- 1773 : James Mill , British historian and economist
- 1785 : Ludwig Snell , Swiss politician, constitutional lawyer, publicist and educator
- 1789 : Isaac Hill , American politician
- 1790 : Félix Cazot , French music teacher and composer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801 : William Hallowes Miller , British mineralogist, crystallographer and physicist
- 1801 : Hugh Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn , British Field Marshal
- 1802 : Thomas Walker Gilmer , American politician
- 1803 : Ralph Abercromby, 2nd Baron Dunfermline , British diplomat
- 1803 : Alexander Slidell Mackenzie , American Navy officer and military historian
- 1806 : Friedrich Ritschl , German philologist
- 1807 : Francesco Saverio Apuzzo , Italian Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1809 : Friedrich zu Schwarzenberg , Archbishop of Prague
- 1812 : Aaron Bernstein , German writer
- 1812 : Alexander Ivanovich hearts , Russian philosopher, writer, publicist
- 1812 : Gawriil Ioakimowitsch Lomakin , Russian composer
- 1813 : Erwin von Neipperg , Austrian general
- 1814 : Miklós Ybl , Hungarian architect
- 1815 : Robert Volkmann , German composer
- 1815 : Alexander Wylie , British missionary and mathematician
- 1816 : Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff , German sculptor (representations of animals), often animal-Wolff called
- 1820 : Nadar , French photographer
- 1824 : George Marsden Waterhouse , Prime Minister of South Australia and New Zealand
- 1825 : Đuro Daničić , Serbian philologist
- 1826 : Gustave Moreau , French painter
- 1832 : Emil von Riedel , German politician in the Bavarian civil service
- 1833 : Alexander Nikolajewitsch Pypin , Russian literary historian and ethnographer
- 1835 : Ferdinand Decker , German engineer
- 1837 : Ignaz von Kolisch , Austro-Hungarian chess player
- 1839 : Antonio Starabba di Rudinì , Italian statesman
- 1840 : Wilhelm Junker , German Africa explorer
- 1842 : Francis Chaponnière , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1846 : James Alexander Porterfield Rynd , Irish chess player
- 1849 : John William Waterhouse , British painter
1851-1900
- 1851 : Guillaume Bigourdan , French astronomer and president of the Académie des sciences († 1932 )
- 1853 : Emil Jellinek , German businessman and consul
- 1856 : Arthur von Gwinner , German banker, politician and patron of the arts
- 1857 : Arthur Wesley Dow , American landscape painter
- 1860 : René Lalique , French goldsmith and glass artist
- 1860 : Carl Miller , German local politician in Magdeburg
- 1861 : Louis Angermann , German architect
- 1865 : Robert Chodat , Swiss botanist and algae researcher
- 1865 : Ernst Brenner von Felsach , Austrian nobleman and fossil collector
- 1865 : Gustav Jäger , Austrian physicist
- 1865 : Ernst Weinschenk , German mineralogist and petrologist
- 1866 : Lincoln Steffens , American journalist
- 1869 : Isidore Marie Joseph Dumortier , Roman Catholic Bishop and Apostolic Vicar of Saigon
- 1869 : Anton von Premerstein , Austrian ancient historian and papyrologist
- 1869 : Levon Schant , Armenian playwright, writer, poet, and founder of the "Foundation of National Culture"
- 1870 : Oskar Vogt , German brain researcher
- 1871 : Alfred Montmarquette , Canadian folk composer and accordionist
- 1873 : Franz Dinghofer , Austrian judge and politician
- 1875 : Xenija Alexandrovna Romanowa , Grand Duchess of Russia
- 1875 : Julia Serda , Austrian actress
- 1876 : Theodor von Heigelin , German colonial officer
- 1877 : Karl Tellenbach , city original of the Swiss federal city of Bern
- 1878 : Carl Ehrenberg , German composer
- 1878 : Erich Mühsam , German anarchist writer, publicist and anti-militarist, victim of National Socialism
- 1879 : Jules Mazellier , French composer
- 1880 : Wilhelm Burger , German priest and author, auxiliary bishop in Freiburg
- 1883 : Vernon Dalhart , American singer and country musician
- 1884 : Walter Huston , Canadian actor
- 1885 : Gottfried Gelfort , German rower
- 1885 : Jules Goux , French racing car driver
- 1885 : Carlos Salzedo , French composer
- 1886 : Asaf Jah VII , Prince of Hyderabad
- 1886 : Ferenc Chalupetzky , Hungarian chess author and chess player
- 1887 : Leo Trouet , German lawyer
- 1888 : Dan Andersson , Swedish working-class poet and lyric poet
- 1888 : Hans Richter , German artist
- 1888 : Gerhard Ritter , German historian
- 1890 : André Danjon , French astronomer
- 1890 : Anton Herman Gerard Fokker , Dutch aircraft manufacturer
- 1890 : Frieda Hauke , German politician, MdR
- 1892 : Donald Wills Douglas , American aircraft manufacturer
- 1892 : Hermann Schäfer , German politician
- 1893 : Robert Noorduyn , Dutch-American aircraft developer and manufacturer
- 1894 : Justin Popović , Yugoslav-Serbian theologian of the Orthodox Church
- 1894 : Willy Schmidt-Gentner , German film composer
- 1895 : Erich Abberger , German officer
- 1895 : Dudley Nichols , American screenwriter
- 1895 : Harold Rosson , American cameraman
- 1897 : Fritz Erpenbeck , German writer
- 1899 : Josef Toman , Czech author
- 1899 : Hans Wentorf , German football player
- 1900 : Helene Elisabeth von Isenburg , German Nazi escape helper, 1st president of the Silent Aid Association for POWs and internees
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902 : Werner Abel , German journalist
- 1902 : Hisao Jūran , Japanese writer
- 1903 : Mickey Cochrane , American baseball player and manager
- 1903 : Harold Eugene Edgerton , American electrical engineer, inventor of the strobe
- 1903 : Werner Zschiesche , German rower
- 1904 : Jiří Frejka , Czech director and theater theorist
- 1904 : Erwin Komenda , Austrian automobile designer
- 1904 : Kurt Georg Kiesinger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and Prime Minister, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Chancellor
- 1909 : Estella Agsteribbe , Dutch gymnast
- 1909 : Hermann Lang , German racing driver
- 1909 : Sjur Lindebrække , Norwegian lawyer
- 1909 : Harry Westermann , German lawyer
- 1910 : Barys Kit , Belarusian mathematician, physicist, chemist and rocket researcher
- 1910 : Bernhard Petruschke , German motorcycle racer
- 1911 : Feodor Lynen , German biochemist
- 1911 : Pietro Scarpini , Italian pianist and music teacher
- 1912 : Horst Linde , German architect
- 1912 : David Lloyd , Welsh singer (tenor)
- 1912 : Gerhard Salzer , German politician, MdL
- 1912 : Robert Schollemann , French racing car driver
- 1912 : Endre Székely , Hungarian composer
- 1912 : Oscar Thiffault , Canadian folk singer
- 1913 : Otto Schmitt , American biophysicist, co-founder of biomimetics and inventor
- 1914 : John Caister Bennett , South African astronomer
- 1915 : Gottfried Boesch , Swiss historian
- 1915 : Charles Alan Fraser , South African military and diplomat
- 1915 : Tadeusz Kantor , Polish theater artist
- 1915 : Friedrich Schäfer , German politician
- 1915 : Ernst Schrupp , German free church theology lecturer
- 1915 : Helmut Witte , German naval officer
- 1915 : Kamekura Yūsaku , Japanese graphic artist and graphic designer
- 1917 : Leonora Carrington , British painter and writer
- 1918 : Big Walter Horton , American blues musician
- 1918 : Hans Hürlimann , Swiss politician
- 1918 : Oskar Kusch , German submarine commander
- 1919 : Richard M. Noyes , American chemist
- 1919 : Heinz Schimmelpfennig , German actor
- 1920 : Edmond Henri Fischer , Swiss-American biochemist
- 1920 : Joseíto Mateo , Dominican singer
- 1921 : Andrew Imbrie , American composer
- 1921 : Arnold Marquis , German actor and voice actor
- 1921 : Heinrich Schmid , Swiss linguist and creator of Romansh umbrella languages
- 1921 : Christel Schulz , German athlete
- 1923 : Skeeter Bonn , American country musician
- 1923 : Karl Christ , German ancient historian
- 1924 : Revol Samuilowitsch Bunin , Russian composer
- 1924 : Carmelo Cassati , Archbishop of Trani-Barletti-Bisceglie
- 1924 : Charlie Rouse , American tenor saxophonist
- 1925 : Helga Deen , German Jew and Holocaust victim with a literary estate
1926-1950
- 1926 : Alexander Butterfield , American government official, White House assistant, a key figure in the Watergate affair
- 1926 : Gil Kane , American comic artist
- 1926 : Ian Paisley , British Presbyterian pastor and politician in Northern Ireland
- 1927 : Gerry Mulligan , American jazz musician and composer
- 1928 : Hermann Ebeling , German actor and voice actor
- 1928 : Paul-Werner Scheele , German Roman Catholic theologian and Bishop of Würzburg
- 1928 : James Watson , American biochemist
- 1929 : Edisson Wassiljewitsch Denissow , Russian composer
- 1929 : Nancy Mackay , Canadian sprinter
- 1929 : Wolfgang W. Mickel , German political scientist
- 1929 : André Previn , American conductor and composer
- 1929 : Art Taylor , American jazz drummer
- 1931 : Suchitra Sen , Indian film actress
- 1932 : Helmut Griem , German actor
- 1932 : Günter Herburger , German writer
- 1934 : Anton Geesink , Dutch judoka
- 1934 : Ingo Insterburg , German comedian
- 1934 : Mario Merola , Neapolitan singer
- 1934 : Guy Peellaert , Belgian illustrator and comic book artist
- 1934 : Willie Toweel , South African boxer
- 1934 : Carlo Weber , German architect
- 1935 : John Pepper Clark , Nigerian professor of literature and writer
- 1935 : Pierre Durand , French composer and music teacher
- 1935 : Takashi Ishimoto , Japanese swimmer
- 1935 : Rolf Urs Ringger , Swiss composer and music journalist
- 1935 : Luis del Sol , Spanish football player
- 1936 : Helen Berman , Dutch-Israeli artist
- 1936 : Jean-Pierre Changeux , French molecular neurobiology
- 1936 : Fernando Masone , Italian police chief
- 1936 : Manfred Schoof , German jazz trumpeter
- 1937 : Merle Haggard , American country musician
- 1937 : Richard Heß , German artist
- 1937 : Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt , German politician, MEP
- 1937 : Memo Morales , Venezuelan singer
- 1937 : Billy Dee Williams , American film actor
- 1939 : Heinz Grossekettler , German economist
- 1939 : Cor Veldhoen , Dutch football player
- 1940 : Pedro Armendáriz jr. , Mexican actor
- 1940 : Marie Anne Fliegel , German actress
- 1940 : Gernot Mittler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag and State Minister
- 1941 : Hans W. Geißendörfer , German director, author and producer
- 1941 : Gheorghe Zamfir , Romanian musician
- 1942 : Barry Levinson , American film director
- 1942 : Anita Pallenberg , Italian actress and fashion designer
- 1942 : Kabir Stori , Pashtun poet and writer
- 1942 : Philip Werren , Canadian composer and music teacher
- 1943 : Gerhard Grimmer , German cross-country skier
- 1943 : Eckart Klein , German jurist and judge
- 1943 : Heidi Lück , German politician, MdL
- 1943 : Byron Mallott , American politician
- 1943 : Julie Rogers , British singer
- 1943 : Gerhard Steidele , German judoka
- 1944 : Philippe Carron , Swiss racing car driver
- 1944 : Florin Gheorghiu , Romanian chess player
- 1944 : Viveca Lärn , Swedish children's author and writer
- 1944 : Christine Lucyga , German foreign language teacher and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1944 : Bernd Spier , German pop singer
- 1945 : Celestino Aós Braco , Spanish Archbishop and Cardinal of Santiago de Chile
- 1946 : Wolfgang Ischinger , German ambassador and diplomat
- 1946 : Danny Kortchmar , American rock singer and guitarist
- 1946 : Giorgio Mariani , Italian football player
- 1947 : Oswaldo Piazza , Argentine soccer player and coach
- 1947 : John Ratzenberger , American actor
- 1947 : Christel Riemann-Hanewinckel , German politician
- 1948 : Jean-Jacques Avenel , French jazz bassist
- 1948 : Hubert Bognermayr , Austrian musician
- 1948 : Philippe Garrel , French actor, screenwriter and film director
- 1948 : Petra Kusch-Lück , German presenter, dancer and singer
- 1948 : Jo Leinen , German lawyer and politician, MdL and State Minister, MEP
- 1948 : Eric Robertson , Canadian composer, organist and pianist
- 1948 : Friederike Roth , German writer
- 1948 : Bengt-Arne Wickström , Swedish finance scientist
- 1949 : Janet Ågren , Swedish actress
- 1949 : Anton Bruhin , Swiss musician, poet and artist
- 1949 : Patrick Hernandez , French singer
- 1949 : Josef Jandrisits , Austrian musician and composer
- 1949 : Ng Ser Miang , Singaporean diplomat and member of the IOC
- 1949 : Brigitte Schwaiger , Austrian writer
- 1949 : Horst Ludwig Störmer , German physicist
- 1950 : Nelson Dawidjan , Soviet-Azerbaijani wrestler
1951-1975
- 1951 : Jim Boelsen , American actor
- 1951 : Rainer Stickelberger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1951 : Peter Ustorf , German ice hockey player and coach
- 1951 : Elisabeth Vitouch , Austrian actress and politician
- 1952 : Udo Dirkschneider , German heavy metal singer ( Accept , UDO )
- 1952 : Michael Vesper , German sports official and politician
- 1953 : Marc Berdoll , French football player
- 1953 : Patrick Doyle , British composer
- 1953 : Christopher Franke , German musician ( Tangerine Dream )
- 1953 : Gisbert Piatkowski , German guitarist and rock musician, guitar teacher and author of guitar schools
- 1953 : Thomas Spitzer , Austrian copywriter, composer and musician ( EAV ), graphic artist
- 1954 : Judi Bowker , British film actress
- 1954 : Frieder Butzmann , German composer, radio play author and performance artist
- 1954 : Sepp Ferstl , German ski racer
- 1954 : Aaron Kyle , American football player
- 1955 : Roland Agustoni , Swiss politician
- 1955 : Ulrich Barnickel , German artist
- 1955 : Axel W. Bauer , German medical historian and bioethicist
- 1955 : Rudi Buttas , German guitarist
- 1955 : Karsten Heine , German soccer player and coach
- 1955 : Ralf Knütter , German athlete
- 1955 : Michael Rooker , American actor
- 1956 : Michele Bachmann , American politician
- 1956 : Thomas Koschwitz , German entertainer, actor and radio host
- 1957 : Jesper Bank , Danish sailor
- 1957 : Maurizio Damilano , Italian athlete, Olympic champion
- 1959 : Aljaksandr Karschakewitsch , Belarusian handball player and coach
- 1959 : Pietro Vierchowod , Italian football player
- 1960 : Batem , Belgian comic book artist and author
- 1962 : Tomoyasu Asaoka , Japanese soccer player
- 1962 : Farid Müller , German local politician
- 1962 : Robert Wells , Swedish composer, pianist and entertainer
- 1963 : Ines Adler , German hit and pop musician
- 1963 : Pauline Lafont , French film actress
- 1963 : Derrick May , American techno producer and DJ, co-founder of Detroit techno
- 1964 : Juliet Cuthbert , Jamaican athlete
- 1964 : Katrin Kunert , German politician
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- 1964 : David Woodard , American conductor and writer
- 1964 : Kōji Yamamura , Japanese animation film director
- 1965 : Alba Luz Arbeláez Álvarez , Colombian botanist
- 1965 : Theresia Bauer , German politician
- 1965 : Frank Black , American musician
- 1965 : Amedeo Carboni , Italian football player
- 1966 : Hossein Amini , Iranian screenwriter and film producer
- 1966 : Jörg Rohde , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1967 : Chantal Bournisse , Swiss ski racer
- 1968 : Jakob Ejersbo , Danish writer
- 1968 : Oliver Korittke , German actor
- 1969 : Peter Boehringer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1969 : Philipp Peter , Austrian racing car driver
- 1969 : Paul Rudd , American film actor
- 1970 : Peter Atherton , English football player
- 1970 : Olaf Kölzig , German ice hockey player
- 1970 : Roy Mayorga , American drummer
- 1971 : Mona Grudt , Norwegian presenter and actress
- 1971 : Martin Hansson , Swedish football referee
- 1972 : Ralf Bucher , German soccer player
- 1972 : Constantinos Stylianou , Greek Cypriot composer
- 1973 : Niels Annen , German politician
- 1973 : Lori Heuring , American actress
- 1973 : Marc Metzger , German comedian
- 1973 : Rie Miyazawa , Japanese actress
- 1974 : Jay Batzner , American composer and music teacher
- 1974 : Robert Kovač , Croatian football player
- 1974 : Joseph Merszei , Macau racing car driver
- 1975 : Zach Braff , American actor and director
- 1975 : Hal Gill , American ice hockey player
- 1975 : Joel West , American actor and model
1976-2000
- 1976 : Jennipher Antoni , German actress and radio play speaker
- 1976 : Candace Cameron Bure , American actress
- 1976 : James Fox , British singer and songwriter, pianist and guitarist
- 1977 : Matthias Schloo , German actor
- 1978 : Imani Coppola , American pop singer and rapper
- 1978 : Hany El Fakharany , Egyptian handball player
- 1979 : Britta Kamrau , German swimmer
- 1979 : Lasse Münstermann , German snooker player
- 1979 : Uljana Wolf , German writer
- 1980 : Tommi Evilä , Finnish athlete
- 1980 : Tanja Poutiainen , Finnish ski racer
- 1980 : Claudio Sprecher , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1981 : Eliza Coupe , American actress
- 1981 : Aidonia , Jamaican dancehall DJ
- 1981 : Dennis Laubenthal , German actor
- 1981 : Lucas Matías Licht , Argentine soccer player
- 1981 : Anastassia Morkovkina , Estonian football player and coach
- 1981 : Jarret Thomas , American snowboarder
- 1982 : Kolja Afriyie , German soccer player
- 1982 : Alana Austin , American actress
- 1982 : Robin Clark , German music producer and hardstyle DJ
- 1982 : Hérculez Gómez , American football player
- 1982 : Bret Harrison , American actor
- 1982 : Alwara Höfels , German actress
- 1982 : Steve O'Dwyer , American-Irish poker player
- 1983 : Thomas Fothen , German racing cyclist
- 1983 : Torge Johannsen , German handball player
- 1983 : Christian Sprenger , German handball player and coach
- 1983 : Bobbi Starr , American porn actress
- 1984 : Takahiro Aō , Japanese professional boxer
- 1984 : Michaël Ciani , French football player
- 1984 : Siboniso Gaxa , South African soccer player
- 1986 : Nikolas Asprogenis , Cypriot football player
- 1987 : Anna Donáth , Hungarian politician
- 1987 : Robin Haase , Dutch tennis player
- 1988 : Maik Georgi , German soccer player
- 1989 : Stefano Coletti , Monaco racing driver
- 1989 : Tom Dillmann , French racing driver
- 1990 : Andreas Angerer , Austrian politician
- 1991 : Kim Naidzinavicius , German handball player
- 1991 : Alexandra Popp , German soccer player
- 1992 : Kathrin Hendrich , German soccer player
- 1993 : Neville Hewitt , American football player
- 1993 : Hanna Klein , German athlete
- 1998 : Linas Banys , Lithuanian biathlete
- 1998 : Lily Jackson , American actress
- 1998 : Peyton List , American actress
- 2000 : CJ Adams , American actor
Died
Before the 16th century
- 885 : Method von Saloniki , Greek Slav apostle
- 912 : Notker I. Swiss poet and scholar
- 1028 : William IV , Count of Angoulême
- 1031 : Aribo , Archbishop of Mainz
- 1052 : Nitker , Bishop of Freising
- 1147 : Frederick II , Duke of Swabia
- 1193 : Guigo II , monk, Carthusian
- 1196 : William Fitz Osbert , English legal scholar and revolutionary
- 1199 : Richard the Lionheart , Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Poitiers, King of England
- 1199 : Pierre Basile , the shooter who mortally wounded Richard the Lionheart
- 1212 : Bertram , Archbishop of Bremen and Hamburg and Bishop of Metz
- 1231 : William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke , English knight of Norman descent
- 1250 : Gaucher de Châtillon , lord of Donzy, Saint-Aignan, Montmirail and Montja and crusaders
- 1250 : Guy de Château-Porcien , Bishop of Soissons
- 1250 : Hugo XI. , Lord of Lusignan, Count of La Marche and Angoulême and Regent of Counties Penthièvre and Porhoët, crusader
- 1252 : Peter of Verona , Italian Dominican preacher, inquisitor and martyr
- 1280 : Jacopo Contarini , 47th Doge of Venice
- 1283 : Peter I , French prince, Count of Alençon and Le Perche, a Count of Blois and Chartres and Lord of Guise
- 1289 : Ludolf von Schladen , Bishop of Halberstadt
- 1308 : Reginald Gray, 1st Baron Gray of Wilton , English nobleman and military man
- 1317 : Guido III. , Count of St. Pol
- 1348 : Laura de Noves , French noblewoman, wife of Count Hugues II. De Sade, possibly Petrarch's muse
- 1362 : Jacques I de Bourbon , Count of La Marche
- 1376 : Preczlaw von Pogarell , Bishop of Breslau
- 1391 : Heinrich von Eschenz , abbot in the monastery of St. Blasien
- 1411 : Conrad Letzkau , German councilor and mayor of Danzig right city
- 1489 : Hans Waldmann , Army Commander of the Old Confederation and Mayor of Zurich
- 1490 : Matthias Corvinus , King of Hungary
16th to 18th century
- 1528 : Albrecht Dürer , German painter and graphic artist
- 1551 : Joachim Vadian , Swiss humanist, physician and scholar
- 1555 : Giovanni Angelo Arcimboldi , indulgence commissioner for Northern Germany and Scandinavia, Archbishop of Milan
- 1571 : John Hamilton , Catholic church politician in Scotland
- 1574 : Georg Aff , Mayor of Heilbronn
- 1590 : Francis Walsingham , founder of the British Secret Service
- 1621 : Maria Christina of Austria , Princess of Transylvania
- 1641 : Domenichino , Italian painter
- 1655 : David Blondel , French Reformed theologian
- 1660 : Michelangelo Cerquozzi , Italian painter
- 1670 : Leonora Baroni , famous Italian singer
- 1686 : Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey , Irish nobleman
- 1698 : Mechtilde de Bar , founder of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament
- 1699 : Vincent Placcius , German lawyer, librarian, pedagogue, philosopher and writer
- 1702 : Benedict Annon , Italian stonemason and sculptor
- 1707 : Willem van de Velde the Younger , Dutch painter
- 1715 : Jacobus Perizonius , Dutch classical scholar
- 1716 : Johann Heinrich Hoffmann , German astronomer
- 1720 : Pieter van Bloemen , Flemish painter
- 1748 : David Kellner , German lawyer, poet, organist, music theorist and lutenist
- 1752 : Friedrich Christian Glume , German sculptor
- 1759 : Johann Gottfried Zinn , German medic and botanist
- 1762 : Hermann Werner von Bossart , German priest, diplomat and canon in Cologne
- 1779 : Tommaso Traetta , Italian composer
- 1782 : Johann Tobias Krebs , German philologist and educator
- 1782 : Taksin , King of Siam
- 1785 : Johann Augustin Dietelmair , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1790 : Louis IX. , Husband of Henriette Karoline von Pfalz-Zweibrücken
19th century
- 1803 : Eberhard Ludwig Becht , German archivist, mayor of Heilbronn
- 1806 : Franz Anton von Blanc , Austrian civil servant
- 1817 : Bonaventura Furlanetto , Italian composer
- 1829 : Niels Henrik Abel , Norwegian mathematician
- 1833 : Adamantios Korais , Greek scholar and writer
- 1838 : José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva , Brazilian mineralogist and statesman
- 1838 : Friedrich Lennig , German dialect poet
- 1842 : Johann Anton André , German composer and music publisher
- 1850 : Wilhelm Bötticher , German educator and historian
- 1852 : François-Louis Cailler , Swiss chocolate pioneer
- 1854 : William Strickland , American architect
- 1856 : Adolphe Monod , Swiss Reformed revival preacher
- 1865 : James Tracy Hale , American politician
- 1865 : Hermann von der Schulenburg , Prussian officer and Capuchin
- 1865 : Antonio Pinto Soares , Head of State of Costa Rica
- 1875 : Moses Hess , German-Jewish philosopher and writer, early socialist, forerunner of the Zionists
- 1877 : Hermann Koch , German secret mountain ridge and father of Robert Koch
- 1877 : Alexander Robert Reinagle , English organist and composer
- 1882 : Martin Achleitner , "water supervisor" in Munich
- 1884 : Emanuel Geibel , German poet
- 1886 : Théodore Ritter , French pianist and composer
- 1887 : D. Wyatt Aiken , American politician
- 1889 : Frederick Ouseley , British music scholar, organist and composer
- 1892 : John Irvin Gregg , American general in the Civil War
- 1896 : Bernhard Anemüller , German historian, archivist and librarian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Walther Arnsperger , German philosopher
- 1906 : Friedrich Hultsch , German classical philologist and mathematician
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- 1906 : Alexander Lange Kielland , Norwegian author
- 1907 : Retheos Berberian , Armenian educator and publicist, writer and translator
- 1907 : William Henry Drummond , Canadian lyric poet
- 1907 : Bernhard Hammer , Swiss politician
- 1909 : Franz Wickhoff , Austrian art historian
- 1910 : Michael Rua , second superior general of the Salesians of Don Bosco
- 1912 : Josef Aichbichler , Bavarian politician
- 1912 : Giovanni Pascoli , Italian poet
- 1913 : Adolf Slaby , first professor for electrical engineering at the TH Berlin
- 1915 : Curtis Guild , American politician, governor of the state of Massachusetts and US ambassador to Russia
- 1918 : Sawwa Iwanowitsch Mamontow , Russian industrialist and patron
- 1919 : Johann Knief , German teacher, editor and politician
- 1919 : Richard Cornelius Kukula , Austrian classical philologist
- 1920 : George Madison Adams , American politician
- 1921 : Maximilian Delphinius Berlitz , German-American language teacher and founder of the "Berlitz language schools"
- 1923 : Alice Fletcher , American ethnologist
- 1924 : Otto Plasberg , German classical philologist
- 1925 : Guido Mentasti , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1935 : Edwin Arlington Robinson , American poet
- 1942 : Miguel Alfonseca , Dominican poet, storyteller, playwright and philosopher
- 1943 : Alexandre Millerand , French statesman and politician, multiple minister and president
- 1944 : Erich Ohser , German draftsman
- 1944 : Isolde Kurz , German writer and translator
- 1945 : Heinrich Bulle , German archaeologist
- 1947 : Herbert Backe , German Reich Minister for Nutrition
- 1947 : Václav Kaprál , Czech composer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Halfdan Cleve , Norwegian composer
- 1956 : Walter Rohrbeck , German university professor
- 1958 : Vítězslav Nezval , Czech poet, writer and translator
- 1958 : Reinhold Schneider , German writer
- 1959 : Anton Diel , German politician
- 1960 : Friedrich Kirchner , German general
- 1961 : Jules Bordet , Belgian biologist and immunologist
- 1962 : Carlo Giorgio Garofalo , Italian composer and organist
- 1962 : Wilhelm Schmidt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1963 : Karl Scharnagl , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Munich
- 1963 : Otto von Struve , Russian-American astronomer
- 1965 : August Adolphi , German local politician
- 1966 : Emil Brunner , Swiss theologian
- 1969 : Gabriel Chevallier , French journalist and man of letters ( Clochemerle )
- 1970 : Samuel Sheppard , American doctor and justice victim
- 1971 : Igor Stravinsky , Russian-French-American composer, representative of new music
- 1972 : August Annist , Estonian literary scholar, translator, folklorist and poet
- 1972 : Heinrich Lübke , German Federal President, State and Federal Minister
- 1974 : Willem Marinus Dudok , Dutch architect
- 1974 : James Charles McGuigan , Archbishop of Toronto and Cardinal
- 1974 : Štěpán Trochta , Salesian of Don Bosco, Bishop of Litomerice and cardinal
- 1976 : Ruth Plumly Thompson , American writer
- 1977 : Guy Dollfuss , French racing car driver
- 1977 : Broadus Erle , American violinist and music teacher
- 1978 : Gerhard Aichinger , Austrian-German writer
- 1978 : Nicolas Nabokov , Russian-American composer
- 1979 : Helmut Berve , German ancient historian, epigraph and prosopographer
- 1979 : Marie von Buddenbrock , German painter and illustrator
- 1979 : Norman Tokar , American film director and actor
- 1981 : Bob Hite , American rock and blues musician ( Canned Heat )
- 1983 : Lutz Heck , German biologist and zoo director
- 1986 : Raimundo Orsi , Argentine-Italian soccer player
- 1987 : Erika Kröger , German politician, MdL
- 1990 : Alfred Sohn-Rethel , German economist and industrial sociologist
- 1991 : Heinrich Draeger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1992 : Isaac Asimov , American biochemist and science fiction writer
- 1993 : Heinrich Junker , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister in Bavaria
- 1993 : Inge von Wangenheim , German writer and actress
- 1994 : Margit Åsberg-Albrechtsson , Swedish cross-country skier
- 1994 : Juvénal Habyarimana , Rwandan general, politician, minister, president
- 1994 : Catherine Lombard , French freestyle skier
- 1994 : Cyprien Ntaryamira , Burundian President
- 1994 : Dieter Oesterlen , German architect and university professor
- 1995 : Vieno Sukselainen , Finnish politician
- 1996 : Greer Garson , American film actress
- 1997 : Stephan Hermlin , German poet
- 1997 : Jesús López Pacheco , Spanish writer
- 1997 : Rosita Serrano , Chilean singer and actress
- 1997 : Gabriel Toubia , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1998 : Edgar Ablowich , American hurdler and sprinter
- 1998 : Wendy O. Williams , American rock musician
- 1998 : Tammy Wynette , American country singer
- 2000 : Bernardino Echeverría Ruiz , Ecuadorian clergyman, Archbishop of Guayaquil
- 2000 : Habib Bourguiba , Tunisian President
- 2000 : Álvaro Menéndez Leal , Salvadoran poet, storyteller, playwright, essayist and journalist
- 2000 : Gerhard Schill , German party functionary and Lord Mayor of Dresden in the GDR
- 2000 : Anton Stingl , German guitar interpreter and teacher
21st century
- 2001 : Yevgeny Wassiljewitsch Malinin , Russian conductor, music teacher and violinist
- 2002 : Martin Sperr , Lower Bavarian playwright and actor
- 2003 : Anita Borg , American computer scientist and women's rights activist
- 2003 : Gerald Emmett Carter , Canadian clergyman, Archbishop of Toronto
- 2003 : Babatunde Olatunji , Nigerian percussionist
- 2004 : Axel Dünnwald-Metzler , German entrepreneur
- 2005 : Rainier III. , Prince of Monaco
- 2005 : Konrad Reiss , German manager
- 2006 : Walter Boehlich , German critic, editor, translator and editor
- 2007 : Luigi Comencini , Italian film director
- 2008 : Georg R. Schroubek , Czech folklorist
- 2009 : Andrzej Stelmachowski , Polish legal scholar and politician
- 2010 : James Aubrey , British actor
- 2011 : Hansjoachim Tiedge , German intelligence officer and defector
- 2012 : Lia Frank , Russian-German writer
- 2012 : Heinz Kahlau , German poet
- 2012 : Meenakshi Thapar , Indian actress
- 2013 : Ottmar Schreiner , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 2014 : Mickey Rooney , American actor
- 2014 : Massimo Tamburini , Italian motorcycle designer
- 2015 : Walter Haubrich , German journalist and novelist
- 2016 : Merle Haggard , American country musician
- 2017 : Armand Gatti , French writer and director
- 2017 : Don Rickles , American comedian and actor
- 2018 : Reinhard Rürup , German modern historian and Nazi researcher
- 2019 : Nadja Regin , Serbian actress
- 2019 : David J. Thouless , British physicist
- 2020 : William R. Polk , American historian and political advisor
- 2021 : Hans Küng , Swiss theologian and author
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Sel. Notker I. , Swiss monk and poet (Protestant and Roman Catholic)
- St. Methodius , Byzantine Bishop and Missionary (Orthodox)
- Albrecht Dürer , German painter (Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- Lucas Cranach the Elder , German painter (Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- Matthias Grünewald , German painter (Protestant: ELCA )
- Michelangelo , Italian painter (Protestant: LCMS )
- State holidays and memorial days
- Thailand : Chakri Day (commemorates the accession to the throne of Rama I , the founder of the Chakri dynasty in 1782)
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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