6th of August
The August 6 is the 218th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 219th in leap years ), thus remain 147 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 1223: In the cathedral of Reims , Louis VIII and Blanka of Castile are crowned and anointed as the French ruling couple.
- 1284: The naval battle at Meloria between the " maritime republics " Genoa and Pisa turns into the largest maritime conflict in the Middle Ages. The Genoese win and become a strong sea power in the Mediterranean for decades .
- 1538: Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada re- founds the city of Bogotá at the location of the Chibcha city of Bacatá ('high-altitude field') under the name of Santa Fe .
- 1566: The Ottomans under Suleyman the Magnificent begin the siege of Szigetvár in Hungary.
- 1605: The expansion of the Persians under Abbas I leads to a victory over the Ottomans at Tabriz .
- 1623: Thirty Years' War : At Stadtlohn , Duke Christian von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, who invaded Westphalia from the Netherlands with mercenaries, is defeated by the army of the Catholic League under the general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly . For this victory, Tilly was raised to the rank of count by Emperor Ferdinand II .
- 1628: The mayor of Bamberg , Johannes Junius , is burned at the stake under torture as a sorcerer after a confession .
- 1644: With the Battle of Freiburg im Breisgau , three-day fighting ends in what was one of the most costly battles in the Thirty Years' War . The Bavarian troops under Franz von Mercy and the French army under Marshal Condé split in a draw.
- 1648: The Fronde rebellion begins in France in order to obtain the release of previously arrested judges critical of the government .
- 1661: In the Treaty of The Hague , Portugal and the Netherlands end their dispute over the return of Dutch Brazil . The Portuguese remain in possession of 63 tons of gold and leave their possessions in Ceylon and India .
- 1777: In the Battle of Oriskany during the Saratoga campaign in the American Revolutionary War, a British expeditionary force destroys an American militia unit.
- 1793: During the French Revolution , the looting of the royal tombs of Saint-Denis in the Saint-Denis basilica in Paris begins . Over a period of several weeks, the corpses are removed from the coffins and buried in a mass grave.
- 1806: Franz II resigns the title of Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and at the same time declares the empire to be extinguished in order to rule out a possible election of Napoleon as his successor. The empire ceases to exist after 844 years.
- 1813: Simón Bolívar conquered the city of Caracas from the Spanish during the Wars of Independence in Venezuela and proclaimed the Second Venezuelan Republic , which only existed for a short time.
- 1819: In Carlsbad begins Carlsbad conference to combat liberal and national tendencies in Germany .
- 1824: Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre defeat the superior Spanish forces in the Battle of Junín .
- 1825: After the expulsion of the Spaniards, the province of Alto Perú (Upper Peru) declares itself to be independent under the name of Bolivia . Revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar becomes first president.
- 1838: Chile breaks the Paucarpata peace treaty with Peru and opens new battles in the Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation War . His troops land in the city of Ancón , the Chilean fleet blocks the port of Callao .
- 1849: In the peace treaty of Milan between Austria and Sardinia-Piedmont , Austria regains control over Lombardy-Veneto .
- 1861: Lagos is annexed by Great Britain and becomes a British crown colony .
- 1870: Prussia defeats France in the Battle of Wörth in the Franco-German War . The battle left over 20,000 dead and wounded on both sides. In the Battle of Spichern on the same day, Prussian units prevailed with heavy losses against French defenders who retreat in the evening.
- 1875: Four conspirators kill the re-elected Ecuadorian President Gabriel García Moreno in Quito on the way from the cathedral to the presidential palace when Moreno is about to take up his third term in office.
- 1896: The French protectorate of Madagascar is converted into a colony .
- 1901: In the United States, land of the Kiowa in Oklahoma is released for white colonization and their Indian reservation is de facto dissolved.
- 1914: First World War : The Austro-Hungarian government declares war on Russia . At the same time, Serbia declares war on the German Reich .
- 1940: After Latvia and Lithuania , Estonia is now also occupied by the Soviet Union .
- 1943: The Battle of Vella Gulf meet before midnight in the Pacific War six destroyers of the US Navy on four Japanese destroyers. In the following torpedo duel , three Japanese ships are sunk, the fourth escapes destruction.
- 1945: The American bomber Enola Gay with the pilot Paul Tibbets drops Little Boy , the first atomic bomb ever used in a war , over the Japanese city of Hiroshima . 90,000 to 200,000 people die instantly. The survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known as Hibakusha in Japan .
1945: Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay, before take-off
1945: The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima
1945: View of the destroyed city
1945: Hibakusha with a branded kimono pattern
- 1950: The charter of German expellees signed the day before by representatives of the expellees' associations is solemnly proclaimed in Stuttgart .
- 1962: Jamaica becomes independent from Great Britain and has been a member of the Commonwealth of Nations ever since .
- 1965: In the United States discriminatory practices nationwide during the registration of voters against the law .
- 1990: With Resolution 661 of the UN Security Council , economic sanctions are imposed on Iraq because of the invasion of Kuwait .
- 2008: The President of Mauritania , Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi , is overthrown and placed under house arrest in a military coup . General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz becomes the new ruler .
- 2011 The riots in England started in 2011 that killed five people.
business
- 1791: Prussia's King Friedrich Wilhelm II inaugurates the not quite finished Brandenburg Gate in Berlin . It will be released for general traffic by him.
- 1919: The State Committee approves the draft law for the establishment of the Reich Finance Administration . It is the first of 16 laws with which the most extensive reform work in German tax and financial history is introduced.
- 1932: The Lord Mayor of Cologne Konrad Adenauer inaugurates Germany's first public motorway , today's A 555 , between Cologne and Bonn. It was built from 1929 to 1932.
science and technology
- 1868: The later University of Venice is founded as the Scuola Superiore di Commercio (School of Commerce) .
- 1893: The Corinth Canal is opened to shipping. It saves ships with a draft of up to 8 meters from having to travel by sea around the Peloponnese .
- 1932: The Welland Canal between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario is opened.
- 1961: German Stepanowitsch Titow starts the second orbital space flight in the spaceship Vostok 2 .
- 1966: The Salazar Bridge over the Tagus is inaugurated in Lisbon . The San Francisco Bay Bridge served as a model for the suspension bridge .
- 1991: Tim Berners-Lee introduces the World Wide Web project as a hypertext service on the Internet in a contribution to the newsgroup alt.hypertext .
- 2002: The Indian scientists Manindra Agrawal , Neeraj Kayal and Nitin Saxena publish the paper PRIMES is in P , in which the AKS prime number test they discovered is presented, which examines whether a number is a prime number or not.
- 2012: as part of the NASA mission Mars Science Laboratory exposed Rover "Curiosity" lands successfully on Mars and sends first pictures of the landscape of the red planet.
Culture
- 1666: The comedy The Doctor Against Will ( French Le médecin malgré lui ) by Molière premieres in the Palais Royal in Paris. The piece combines elements of the Italian commedia dell'arte with the French farce and the medieval fabliau .
- 1932: The Venice Film Festival is held for the first time.
- 1947: World premiere of the opera Dantons Tod by Gottfried von Eine at the Salzburg Festival .
- 1965: Help! , the fifth album of the Beatles and soundtrack for the film of the same name , appears.
- 1966: The opera Die Bassariden by Hans Werner Henze is premiered at the Salzburg Festival .
company
- 1890: The murderer William Kemmler is the first person to be executed on an electric chair in Auburn , New York Prison .
religion
- 70: The temple service in the Jerusalem temple could no longer be carried out as a result of the Jewish War . This ended the approximately thousand-year-old worship of the Jews, which was oriented towards the temple .
- 1457: Pope Callistus III. After the victory over the Turks at the siege of Belgrade (1456), the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord is included in the liturgical calendar of the Latin Church. (“In Transfiguratione Domini Nostri Iesu Christi”).
- 1492: After the death of Pope Innocent VIII , the conclave for the election of a successor begins in the Vatican .
- 1623: The Italian Cardinal Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope by the conclave and takes the name Urban VIII .
- 1964: Innsbruck receives a diocese .
- 2000: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Roman Catholic Church under Cardinal Ratzinger publishes the document Dominus Iesus , On the Uniqueness and the Universality of Salvation of Jesus Christ and the Church , in which the traditional Roman Catholic understanding of the Church is explained and confirmed.
Disasters
- 1997: A Korean Air Boeing 747-300 crashes while approaching Guam . 228 of the 254 inmates are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1874: ER Whitwell and C. and J. Lauener manage the first ascent of the Aiguille de Blaitière in the Mont-Blanc massif.
- 1926: The American Gertrude Ederle is the first woman to swim the English Channel and needs 14 hours and 39 minutes.
- 1958: The Italians Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri are the first mountaineers to stand on the summit of Gasherbrum IV in the Karakorum Mountains .
- 2008: Two days before the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing, the women's Olympic football tournament begins with six preliminary round games.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1180: Go-Toba , 82nd Emperor of Japan
- 1501: Hieronymus Frobenius , Swiss printer and publisher
- 1504: Matthew Parker , English reformer and Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1582: Wolfgang Schaller , German medic
- 1591: Georg Wilhelm von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld , Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
- 1605: Johann Philipp von Schönborn , Archbishop of Mainz, Bishop of Würzburg
Nicolas Malebranche
(* 1638)
Louise de La Vallière
(* 1644)
François Fénelon
(* 1651)
- 1619: Barbara Strozzi , Italian singer and composer (baptism date)
- 1638: Nicolas Malebranche , French philosopher
- 1644: Louise de La Vallière , mistress of Louis XIV.
- 1651: François Fénelon , French clergyman and writer
- 1651: Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld , Swedish general, governor of Skåne, field marshal
- 1664: Froben Ferdinand , Prince of Fürstenberg, Imperial Principal Commissioner at the Reichstag in Regensburg
- 1664: Johann Christoph Schmidt , German composer
Marie Sophie of the Palatinate
(* 1666)
Johann I Bernoulli
(* 1667)
Charles VII Albrecht
(* 1697)
- 1666: Marie Sophie of the Palatinate , Queen of Portugal
- 1667: Johann I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician
- 1673: Henry Fitzjames , illegitimate son of James II of England
- 1682: Louis de Bourbon, duc de Bourgogne , Duke of Burgundy
- 1697: Charles VII , Duke of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor
- 1697: Nicola Salvi , Italian architect
18th century
- 1715: Ernst Martin Chladni , German lawyer
- 1715: Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues , French philosopher and writer
- 1716: Karl Joseph von Firmian , statesman from Trentino
- 1729: Johann Friedrich Münch , Swiss politician
- 1733: Gian Alfonso Oldelli , Swiss Capuchin, university professor and local researcher
- 1735: Carl Christoph von Hoffmann , Prussian privy councilor and chancellor of the University of Halle
- 1738: Hayashi Shihei , Japanese samurai and scholar
- 1739: Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses , governor of Portuguese Timor
- 1741: John Wilson , British mathematician
- 1742: Christian Gottlieb Kluge the Younger , German Protestant theologian and educator
- 1744: Johann Andreas Gärtner , German architect
- 1747: Johann Friedrich Alexander Thiele , Saxon painter and etcher
Karl-Ludwig-Nitzsch
(* 1751)
William H. Wollaston
(* 1766)
Friedrich List
(* 1789)
- 1751: Karl Ludwig Nitzsch , German theologian
- 1752: Luise von Sachsen-Meiningen , Landgrave of Hessen-Philippsthal-Barchfeld
- 1758: Johann Ernst von Alvensleben , German statesman
- 1766: William Hyde Wollaston , British physician, physicist and chemist
- 1768: Jean-Baptiste Bessières , Duke of Istria, Marshal of France
- 1768: Josef Derossi , Austrian actor
- 1775: Daniel O'Connell , Irish freedom fighter
- 1775: Louis-Antoine de Bourbon, duc d'Angoulême , eldest son of King Charles X of France
- 1782: Hermann Diedrich Piepenstock , German merchant and manufacturer
- 1784: Heinrich Hössli , Swiss author
- 1784: Ernst Peter Johann Spangenberg , German lawyer
- 1785: Johann Andreas Schmeller , German Germanist and linguist
- 1789: Friedrich List , German economist and politician
- 1795: Heinrich Rose , German mineralogist and analytical chemist
19th century
1801-1850
Alfred Tennyson
(* 1809)
Judah Philip Benjamin
(* 1811)
Arthur Berson
(* 1859)
- 1804: Justinus van der Brugghen , Dutch statesman
- 1804: Christian Friedrich Göthel , German organ builder
- 1808: Carl Hesse , German organ builder in Vienna and Trieste
- 1809: Alfred Tennyson , British poet
- 1811: Judah Philip Benjamin , American politician, justice, war and foreign minister
- 1813: Karl Aulenbach , German poet
- 1816: Thomas Russell Crampton , British mechanical engineer and engineer
- 1819: Preston Brooks , American politician
- 1820: Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal , Canadian businessman, politician and diplomat
- 1820: Louis Christiaan van Goudoever , Dutch medic
- 1824: William Palmer , British serial killer
- 1825: Heinrich von Dehn-Rotfelser , German architect
- 1825: Ludwig Passarge , German travel writer, translator and editor
- 1826: Rolf Boldrewood , Australian author
- 1832: Julius Hennicke , German architect
- 1833: Alexander Achilles , German lawyer and Imperial Judge
- 1833: George Augustus Graham , British officer and cynologist
- 1835: Jewett William Adams , American politician, governor of the state of Nevada
- 1835: Carl Lossow , German history painter
- 1836: Petrus von Hötzl , Bishop of Augsburg
- 1838: José María Justo Cos y Macho , Archbishop of Valladolid and Cardinal
- 1839: Raimund von Stillfried , Austrian officer, painter and photographer
- 1840: Camille Crémer , French general
- 1841: Florence Baker , British African explorer
- 1844: Alfred , German nobleman, Duke of Saxe-Coburg
- 1844: Christian Gottlob Schmidt , German entrepreneur, co-founder of NSU Werke AG
- 1845: Achille D'Orsi , Italian sculptor
- 1848: Franz Arndt , German Protestant theologian
1851-1900
- 1852: Arnold Harris Mathew , British priest and Archbishop of the Old Catholic Church
- 1853: Otto Beutler , German lawyer, politician, Lord Mayor of Dresden
- 1856: Apollinari Michailowitsch Wasnezow , Russian painter
- 1857: Christian Wilhelm Allers , German painter, draftsman and illustrator
- 1857: Carl Bantzer , German impressionist painter and art writer
- 1857: Ludwig von Höhnel , Austrian naval officer, Africa explorer and geographer
- 1859: Arthur Berson , German meteorologist
- 1859: Alfred Hettner , German geographer
- 1859: Carl Schuchhardt , German prehistorian
- 1860: Francesco Paolo Frontini , Italian composer
Annie Horniman
(* 1860)
Edith Roosevelt
(* 1861)
Käthe Schirmacher
(* 1865)
Hans Moser
(* 1880)
Alexander Fleming
(* 1881)
- 1860: Annie Horniman , British theater director and occultist
- 1861: Edith Roosevelt , second wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt
- 1864: Giovanni Anfossi , Italian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1865: Hannah Harriet Chaplin , British dancer and singer
- 1865: Phillips Lee Goldsborough , American politician
- 1865: Fred T. Jane , British naval war historian
- 1865: Käthe Schirmacher , German women's rights activist
- 1866: Allan Lard , American golfer
- 1868: Paul Claudel , French writer and diplomat
- 1869: Karl von Düwell , German royal Bavarian officer
- 1871: Heinrich Bosse , German-Baltic clergyman and evangelical martyr
- 1873: Mary Carr Moore , American composer
- 1875: Edward Cucuel , American painter and illustrator
- 1876: Julius Wallot , German physicist
- 1876: Mortimer Wilson , American composer
- 1880: Hans Moser , Austrian actor
- 1881: Alexander Fleming , British bacteriologist, discoverer of penicillin, Nobel Prize winner
- 1882: Kurt Lilien , German actor
- 1883: Isabel Bolton , American writer
- 1883: Scott Nearing , American environmentalist, educator, and writer
- 1887: Dudley Benjafield , British doctor and racing car driver
- 1887: Oliver Wallace , British-American composer and conductor
- 1888: Arthur Fields , American singer
- 1888: Nagayo Yoshirō , Japanese writer
- 1888: Heinrich Schlusnus , German opera and concert singer
- 1889: Ernest Arend , Luxembourg soccer player
- 1890: Alexander Schapiro , Ukrainian anarchist
- 1891: Hans Mersmann , German music researcher
- 1892: Paul Artaria , Swiss architect and trainer of designers
- 1892: Elma Grohs-Hansen , German sculptor and textile artist
- 1892: Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna , Polish poet and translator
- 1895: Johann Frers , German chemist
- 1895: Ernesto Lecuona , Cuban composer and musician
- 1896: Margarethe Hauschka , German doctor and anthroposophist
- 1896: Cyril J. Mockridge , British-American film music composer
- 1897: Uno Åhrén , Swedish architect and town planner
- 1897: William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim , British Field Marshal, Governor General of Australia
20th century
1901-1925
- 1900: Willie Brown , American blues musician
- 1900: Jiří Weil , Czech writer and literary critic
- 1901: Claude Autant-Lara , French film director
- 1901: Paula Banholzer , Bertolt Brecht's childhood sweetheart
- 1902: Sylvain Arend , Belgian astronomer
- 1902: Helmut Kraatz , German medic
- 1902: Dutch Schultz , American criminal
- 1903: Eduard Aigner , German painter
- 1904: Henry Iba , American basketball coach
- 1904: Tikhon Alexandrowitsch Rabotnow , Russian geobotanist and university professor
- 1904: Jean Zay , French politician
- 1906: Georg Krug , German farmer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1906: Aarne Reini , Finnish wrestler
- 1908: Necdet Mahfi Ayral , Turkish actor
- 1908: Reinhold F. Bender , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1908: Helen Jacobs , American tennis player
- 1908: Rufino Jiao Santos , Archbishop of Manila and Cardinal
- 1910: Charles Crichton , British film director, editor, screenwriter and producer
- 1910: Erich Schmidt , German church musician
- 1910: Friedrich Schröder , German composer
- 1911: Lucille Ball , American actress
- 1911: Hellmut Federhofer , German musicologist
- 1911: Annibale Frossi , Italian football player and coach
- 1911: Kadidja Wedekind , German actress, critic and illustrator
- 1911: Ji Xianlin , Chinese linguist, palaeographer, Indologist and historian
- 1914: Arthur Dobson , British racing car driver
- 1914: Gordon Freeth , Australian politician
- 1914: Benedict Nicolson , British art historian and editor
- 1914: Sigmund Strecker , German expressionist painter
- 1915: Jacques Abram , American pianist and music teacher
- 1915: Geraldine Apponyi , Queen of Albania
- 1916: Dom Mintoff , Maltese politician
- 1916: Ernst Schwarz , Austrian sinologist and translator
- 1917: Robert Mitchum , American actor
- 1917: Christiane Volger , German forest scientist
- 1918: Otto Wolff von Amerongen , German entrepreneur and association official
- 1919: Pauline Betz , American tennis player
- 1920: Bill Campbell , American football player
- 1920: Anna Castelli Ferrieri , Italian architect and industrial designer
- 1920: Furuyama Komao , Japanese writer
- 1920: Otto B. Roegele , German journalist and communication scientist
- 1921: Buddy Collette , American jazz musician
- 1922: Alberto Granado , founder of the Santiago Medical School in Cuba
- 1922: Freddie Laker , British entrepreneur
- 1923: Hans Aebli , Swiss educator
- 1923: Hans Graf , German football player
- 1923: Hans Jacobus , German journalist
- 1924: Günter Caspar , German editor-in-chief at the Aufbau Verlag
- 1924: Hans Neubert , German painter and graphic artist
- 1924: Erica Reiner , Hungarian-American ancient orientalist
- 1925: Richard Gramlich , German mystic researcher
- 1925: Claus Hinrich Casdorff , German radio and television journalist
- 1925: Leland Smith , American composer, bassoonist and music teacher
1926-1950
- 1926: Janet Asimov , American science fiction writer and psychoanalyst
- 1926: Frank Finlay , British actor
- 1926: Moritz von Hessen , head of the House of Hessen
- 1926: Horst Kasner , German Protestant theologian
- 1926: Harald Leupold-Löwenthal , Austrian psychoanalyst
- 1926: Jackie Presser , American union leader
- 1926: Christa Reinig , German writer
- 1926: János Rózsás , Hungarian writer
- 1927: Manfred Schubert , German cabaret artist
- 1928: Jean Carrière , French writer and essayist
- 1928: Adriena Šimotová , Czech artist
- 1928: Andy Warhol , American graphic designer, artist, filmmaker and publisher, co-founder and main exponent of American Pop Art
- 1928: Felix Weyreuther , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Administrative Court
- 1929: Valter Åhlén , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1929: Ferenc Aszódy , German trumpeter
- 1929: Heinz Cüppers , German archaeologist
- 1929: Reinhold Finkbeiner , German composer and organist
- 1929: Kateb Yacine , Algerian writer
- 1930: Walter Braun , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1930: Martin Duberman , American university professor and historian
- 1930: Abbey Lincoln , American jazz singer
- 1931: Peter Giese , German geophysicist
- 1932: Dorothy Jeanne Ashby , American jazz harpist and composer
- 1932: Ernst-Bernd Blümle , German-Swiss economist
- 1932: Manfred Künne , German writer
- 1932: Edmond Safra , Lebanese-Brazilian banker
- 1932: Gösta Sandberg , Swedish football and ice hockey player
- 1933: Ulrich Biesinger , German football player
- 1933: Suchinda Kraprayoon , Prime Minister of Thailand
- 1934: Piers Anthony , British SF and fantasy writer
- 1934: Rolf Böhme , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Lord Mayor of Freiburg
- 1934: Chris Bonington , British mountaineer
- 1934: Diane DiPrima , American writer
- 1935: Mário Coluna , Portuguese football player
- 1936: Ray Doggett , American rockabilly musician, songwriter, and producer
- 1936: Dražan Jerković , Croatian-Yugoslav soccer player and manager
- 1936: Herbert Schnädelbach , German philosopher
- 1936: Norbert Straumann , German physicist
- 1937: Baden Powell de Aquino , Brazilian musician
- 1937: Charlie Haden , American jazz musician
- 1937: Barbara Windsor , British actress
- 1938: Alain Levié , French racing car driver
- 1940: Peter Ehlebracht , German cabaret artist
- 1940: Egil Kapstad , Norwegian jazz pianist
- 1941: Jürgen Koppers , German sound engineer
- 1941: Yevhen Kucherevskyi , Ukrainian football player and coach
- 1941: Karlheinz Liefers , German director
- 1941: Hubert Wipplinger , Austrian lobbyist
- 1942: Faiz Mohammed Askar , Afghan wrestler
- 1942: Evelyn Hamann , German actress
- 1942: Jean-Marie Jacquemin , Belgian racing car driver
- 1942: Byard Lancaster , American jazz saxophonist and flutist
- 1943: Michael Anderson Jr. , British actor
- 1943: Alfred Kohler , Austrian historian
- 1943: Helmut Pfleger , German chess player
- 1943: Jonathan Postel , American Internet pioneer
- 1943: Johannes Siegrist , Swiss medical sociologist
- 1944: Friedemann Schulz von Thun , German communication scientist
- 1945: Geraldo Flach , Brazilian musician
- 1946: Élisabeth Guigou , French politician
- 1946: Allan Holdsworth , British musician
- 1946: Peter Simonischek , Austrian actor
- 1947: Dennis Alcapone , Jamaican musician
- 1947: Rainer Altherr , German mineralogist, geochemist and petrologist
- 1947: Mohammed Najibullah , Afghan politician, President
- 1947: Petr Novotný , Czech presenter, humorist, actor and screenwriter
- 1947: Oliver Tobias , Swiss film and theater actor
- 1948: Mykola Avilov , Ukrainian-Soviet all-rounder, Olympic champion
- 1948: Knut Herschel , German correspondence chess grandmaster
- 1948: Alan Howarth , American sound engineer and film music composer
- 1948: Claudia Hübner , German lawyer and politician, MdL
- 1948: Lars Larsen , Danish businessman and entrepreneur
- 1948: Franz Terdenge , German lawyer, judge at the Federal Social Court
- 1949: Olli Ahvenlahti , Finnish jazz pianist
- 1949: Horst Wohlers , German soccer player and coach
- 1950: Damião António Franklin , Angolan Archbishop of Luanda
- 1950: Dorian Harewood , American actor
- 1950: Günter Hopfinger , German artist
1951-1975
- 1951: Catherine Hicks , American film actress
- 1951: František Kaberle senior , Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- 1951: Jossi Wieler , Swiss theater director
- 1952: Vito Angiuli , Italian bishop
- 1952: Hans-Jörn Arp , German politician, MdL
- 1952: Christoph Biemann , German author, director and television presenter
- 1952: Wojciech Fortuna , Polish ski jumper, Olympic champion
- 1952: Chuck Russell , American director, producer, and writer
- 1953: Karl Ruben Anderson , American ski racer
- 1953: Stella Maessen , Dutch singer
- 1953: Monica Morell , Swiss pop singer
- 1953: Hansruedi Stadler , Swiss Council of States, farmer from Uri
- 1953: Vinnie Vincent , American guitarist
- 1954: Jürgen Owczarzak , German soccer player and coach
- 1955: Heiner Kondschak , German musician, actor, director and author
- 1955: Günther Neureuther , German judoka
- 1955: Tom Sandberg , Norwegian Nordic combined
- 1955: Charles Zwolsman Sr. , Dutch drug dealer and racing car driver
- 1956: Wolfgang Fenske , German pastor, theologian and author
- 1956: Ulrike Mehl , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1957: James McGreevey , American politician, governor of New Jersey
- 1957: Renato Soru , Italian politician and founder of the telecommunications company Tiscali
- 1959: Eija-Liisa Ahtila , Finnish filmmaker and video artist
- 1959: Darwin Rudy Andino Ramírez , Honduran bishop
- 1959: Shinji Tarutoko , Japanese politician
- 1960: Elayne Angel , American piercer
- 1960: Landis Stevens Arnold , American ski jumper
- 1960: Michael Ekwoy Apochi , Nigerian bishop
- 1960: Gero Drnek , German keyboardist ( Fury In The Slaughterhouse )
- 1960: Uwe Hellstern , German politician
- 1961: Reno Achenbach , German soccer player
- 1961: Steffen Dick , German lawyer
- 1961: Terje Næss , Norwegian long-distance runner
- 1961: Kjell Westö , Finnish writer
- 1962: Günter Brandl , German soccer coach
- 1962: Marc Lavoine , French musician
- 1962: Steven Lee , Australian ski racer
- 1962: Michelle Yeoh , Malay actress
- 1963: Charles Ingram , British major and impostor
- 1963: Kevin Mitnick , American hacker and entrepreneur
- 1963: Simone Solga , German cabaret artist, actress and singer
- 1963: Walter Schübler , Austrian biographer and literary scholar
- 1964: Anouschka Renzi , German actress
- 1964: Vom Ritchie , British musician
- 1965: Luc Alphand , French ski racer and motor sportsman
- 1965: Mark Davis , British model, porn actor, dancer and director
- 1965: Cherno Jobatey , German television presenter
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- 1965: Yuki Kajiura , Japanese composer
- 1965: Juliane Köhler , German actress
- 1965: Stéphane Peterhansel , French rally driver
- 1965: David Robinson , American basketball player
- 1965: Thomas Schönlebe , German athlete
- 1966: Billy Mayfair , American golfer
- 1967: Marcel Wüst , German racing cyclist
- 1968: Lisa Boyle , American actress and model
- 1969: Martin Haidinger , Austrian historian, writer and journalist
- 1969: Sören Lausberg , German racing cyclist
- 1969: Alejandro Maclean , Spanish aerobatic pilot and film producer
- 1969: Ole Doll , German actor
- 1969: Elliott Smith , American singer-songwriter
- 1970: M. Night Shyamalan , American screenwriter and director
- 1970: Erwin Thijs , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1970: Arne Zank , German musician
- 1971: Mike Bales , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1971: Merrin Dungey , American actress
- 1971: Federico Giunti , Italian football player
- 1971: Conor McPherson , Irish writer
- 1972: Geri Halliwell , British pop singer
- 1972: Jason O'Mara , American actor
- 1972: Christoph Simon , Swiss writer
- 1973: Asia Carrera , American porn actress
- 1973: Vera Farmiga , American actress
- 1973: Uwe Gospodarek , German football player
- 1973: Donna Lewis , British pop singer
- 1973: Stuart O'Grady , Australian cyclist
- 1973: Sabine Wen-Ching Wang , Swiss-Taiwanese writer
- 1973: Julia Schmidt , German actress
- 1975: Jørgen Aukland , Norwegian cross-country skier
- 1975: Jason Crump , Australian track athlete
- 1975: Renate Götschl , Austrian ski racer
- 1975: Ivica Grlić , Bosnian football player
- 1975: Katja Koren , Slovenian skier
- 1975: Giorgio Rocca , Italian ski racer
1976-2000
- 1976: André Florschütz , German luge rider
- 1976: Soleil Moon Frye , American actress and director
- 1976: Melissa George , Australian actress and athlete
- 1976: Peter Hörnig , German canoeist
- 1976: Josh Schwartz , American television producer and screenwriter
- 1977: Ashlie Atkinson , American actress
- 1977: Nat Friedman , American founder of the Ximian software project
- 1977: Zdenka Podkapová , Czech photo model
- 1979: Francesco Bellotti , Italian racing cyclist
- 1979: Aurélien Clerc , Swiss cyclist
- 1980: Sergey Antonyuk , Israeli badminton player
- 1980: Gabriele Bosisio , Italian racing cyclist
- 1980: Björn Brunnemann , German soccer player
- 1980: Roman Weidenfeller , German soccer player
- 1981: Thomas Greilinger , German ice hockey player
- 1981: Abdul Kader Keïta , Ivorian football player
- 1981: Vitantonio Liuzzi , Italian racing driver
- 1981: Travie McCoy , American singer
- 1983: Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen , Lithuanian chess player
- 1982: Adrianne Curry , American model
- 1983: Björn Kircheisen , German Nordic combined athlete
- 1983: Robin van Persie , Dutch football player
- 1983: Travis Rettenmaier , American tennis player
- 1984: Marco Airosa , Angolan football player
- 1984: Selim Akbulut , Turkish soccer player
- 1984: Nicolas Andréani , French vaulting expert
- 1984: Daniel Flottmann , German soccer player
- 1984: Vedad Ibišević , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1985: Michael Andrei , German volleyball player
- 1985: Taiwo Leo Awuonda Atieno , Kenyan soccer player
- 1985: Bafétimbi Gomis , French football player
- 1986: Mehmet Akgün , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1986: Jan-Philipp Kalla , German soccer player
- 1989: Aymen Abdennour , Tunisian football player
- 1989: Elisabeth Anderson , American ski jumper
- 1989: Anton Ladygin , Russian racing car driver
- 1989: James Winchester , American football player
- 1990: Hólmar Örn Eyjólfsson , Icelandic football player
- 1991: Wilmer Flores , Venezuelan baseball player
- 1991: Laura Stahnke , German actress
- 1992: Isak Arvidsson , Swedish tennis player
- 1992: Campbell Flakemore , Australian cyclist
- 1993: David Hugo Schmitz , German actor
- 1994: Andreas Athanasiou , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1994: Won Seon-pil , South Korean handball player
- 1995: Michaela Heider , Austrian ski racer
- 1995: Jasper Smets , German actor
- 1998: Einar Lurås Oftebro , Norwegian Nordic combined skier
21st century
- 2001: Ty Simpkins , American actor
Died
Before the 17th century
- 258: Sixtus II , martyr and pope
- 523: Hormisdas , Pope
- 750: Marwan II , last Umayyad caliph
- 822: Eigil of Fulda , Abbot of Fulda
- 962: Wilhelm III. , Count of Angoulême
- 1027: Richard III. , Duke of Normandy
- 1118: Al-Mustazhir , Abbasid Caliph
- 1152: Gilbert von Laach , Dept.
- 1157: Dietrich VI. , Count of Holland
- 1162: Raimund Berengar IV. , Count of Barcelona
Tomb of Henry the Lion († 1195) and his wife Mathilde
Galeazzo I. Visconti
(† 1328)
Kunigunde of Austria
(† 1520)
- 1195: Henry the Lion , Duke of Saxony and Bavaria
- 1221: Dominic , founder of the Dominican Order of Preachers
- 1235: Jutta von Thuringia , daughter of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia
- 1254: Hugh of Northwold , Bishop of Ely
- 1270: David I of Strathbogie , Scottish nobleman and crusader
- 1272: Stephan V , Hungarian king
- 1273 or 1274: Konrad II , Duke of Silesia and founder of the Glogau ducal line
- 1285: Ludolf von Mihla , Bishop of Naumburg
- 1328: Galeazzo I. Visconti , regent of Milan
- 1332: Wilhelm XII. , Count of Auvergne
- 1374: Johann Ribi von Lenzburg , Chancellor of Archduke Rudolf IV.
- 1380: Konrad Rehlinger , Augsburg city caretaker
- 1384: Francesco I Gattilusio , patrician and archon of Lesbos
- 1412: Margaret of Durazzo , Queen of Hungary and Naples
- 1414: Ladislaus , king of Naples and titular king of Jerusalem
- 1458: Calixt III. , Pope
- 1520: Kunigunde of Austria , wife of the Bavarian Duke Albrecht IV.
- 1526: Johannes Xylotectus , Swiss reformer and hymn poet
- 1530: Jacopo Sannazaro , Italian Renaissance poet
- 1548: Georg Rhau , German printer and Thomas Cantor
- 1551: Henry Holbeach , Bishop of Rochester and Lincoln
- 1553: Girolamo Fracastoro , Italian doctor and poet
- 1578: Rudolf Clenck , German Catholic theologian
- 1585: Yermak Timofejewitsch , Russian explorer and Cossack ataman
17th century
- 1606: Ottaviano Nonni , Italian architect, sculptor and painter
- 1623: Anne Hathaway , wife of William Shakespeare
- 1628: Johannes Junius , Mayor of Bamberg and victim of the witch hunt
- 1629: Margarete Diepolt , victim of the witch hunt in the Electorate of Mainz
- 1637: Ben Jonson , English playwright and poet
- 1657: Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj , Ukrainian Cossack and founder of the state
Diego Velázquez
(† 1660)
Dorothea Sophie of Brandenburg († 1689)
King Christian VI of Denmark
(† 1746)
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- 1660: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez , Spanish painter
- 1661: Angelika Arnauld , French abbess of Port-Royal
- 1682: Ján Sinapius-Horčička , Slovak humanist and theologian
- 1686: Paul Hainlein , German composer
- 1688: Georg Samuel Dörffel , German theologian and astronomer
- 1689: Dorothea Sophie von Brandenburg , Electress of Brandenburg
- 1698: Antonio Zaniboni , Italian poet, librettist and orator
- 1699: Albrecht , Duke of Saxe-Coburg
- 1700: Johann Beer , Austrian writer and composer
18th century
- 1705: Johann Ferdinand von Auersperg , Prince of Auersperg and Duke of Silesia-Münsterberg
- 1706: Jean-Baptiste Du Hamel , French philosopher and theologian
- 1716: Friedrich August , Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt
- 1738: Anton II of Aldenburg , German imperial count
- 1742: Samson Wertheimer , imperial court factor and chief rabbi
- 1746: Christian VI. , King of Denmark and Norway
- 1752: Pedro Cebrián y Agustín , Spanish officer, diplomat and colonial administrator, Viceroy of New Spain
- 1753: Georg Wilhelm Richmann , German physicist
- 1755: August Ludwig , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1755: Johann Kaspar Wetzel , German Protestant theologian, hymnologist and hymn poet
- 1759: Eugene Aram , British philologist and murderer
- 1759: John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham , Irish politician and peer
- 1767: Georg Ludwig von Bar , German canon, writer and translator
- 1767: Johann Christof Bartenstein , statesman and diplomat in Austrian service
- 1767: Antonio Zaniboni , Italian poet, librettist and orator
- 1797: Johann Matthias von Bernuth , German civil servant
- 1799: Marcus Élieser Bloch , German ichthyologist
- 1799: Franz Georg von Keeß , Austrian lawyer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1803: Asaf Jah II. , Indian nobleman
- 1815: Franz Wilhelm von Spiegel , Westphalian nobleman
- 1816: Antonio Cagnoli , Italian astronomer
- 1817: Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours , French economist
- 1824: Johann Peter von Langer , German painter
- 1828: Konstantin von Benckendorff , Russian general and diplomat
- 1837: Johann Nepomuk Schelble , German conductor, singer and teacher
- 1846: Ludwig Bledow , German chess player
- 1847: Johann Christoph Arnold , Saxon publisher, bookseller and local politician
1851-1900
- 1851: Franz Seraph Bedall , Bavarian general
- 1851: Gottfried Raaff , German landscape architect
- 1853: Amédée Louis Despans de Cubières , French general
- 1854: Alexis de Garaudé , French composer
- 1857: Abe Masahiro , Japanese politician
- 1859: Karl Otto von Raumer , Prussian statesman
- 1859: Ludwig Ross , German archaeologist
- 1862: Valentin Rost , German classical philologist and lexicographer
- 1864: Ferdinand Genähr , German missionary in China
- 1866: Ernst Innozenz Hauschild , German teacher, reform pedagogue
- 1870: Eugène Lepoittevin , French painter
- 1871: Miroslav Vilhar , Slovenian author, composer and politician
- 1875: Gabriel García Moreno , Ecuadorian lawyer and president
- 1879: Johann von Lamont , Scottish-German astronomer and physicist
- 1880: William Orlando Butler , American politician
- 1880: Johannes Hubertus Leonardus de Haas , Dutch painter
- 1881: James Springer White , American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventists
- 1882: Modest Iwanowitsch Bogdanowitsch , Russian lieutenant general and military writer
- 1882: Johann Gabriel Friedrich Poppel , German copper and steel engraver, architectural draftsman and landscape painter
- 1884: William John Codrington , British general, Governor General of Gibraltar
- 1885: Emil Zsigmondy , Austrian mountaineer
- 1886: Wilhelm Scherer , Austrian Germanist
- 1886: Katharina Weißgerber , German war hero
- 1889: Joseph Philippovich von Philippsberg , Austrian Feldzeugmeister
- 1890: William Kemmler , American murderer
- 1891: Henry Litolff , British piano virtuoso, composer and music publisher
- 1893: Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1894: Austin Blair , American politician
- 1894: Auguste-Nicolas Caïn , French animal sculptor and medalist
- 1895: Alwin Münchmeyer the Elder , German merchant and banker
- 1895: George Frederick Root , American composer and music teacher
- 1898: August Freudenthal , German author and journalist
- 1898: Rudolf Löw , Swiss composer and organist
- 1899: Johann Matthäus Adä , German physician and politician
20th century
1901-1925
- 1904: Eduard Hanslick , Austrian music aesthetician and music critic
- 1906: Mathilde of Bavaria , German noblewoman, Princess of Bavaria
- 1906: Caroline Amalie Meldahl , Danish painter
- 1906: Franz Pönninger , German sculptor and medalist
- 1906: George Marsden Waterhouse , Prime Minister of South Australia and New Zealand
- 1908: Antonio Starabba di Rudinì , Italian statesman
- 1909: Adalbert Merx , German theologian and orientalist
- 1911: Florentino Ameghino , Argentine naturalist and zoologist, paleontologist, geologist and anthropologist
- 1911: Hermann von Randow , German general and writer
- 1912: Ernst Becker , German astronomer
- 1913: Reginald Lee , British seaman, lookout on the Titanic
- 1914: Ellen Wilson , American first lady
- 1917: Richard McBride , Canadian politician
- 1920: Remus von Woyrsch , German field marshal
- 1922: Katharina Scheven , German local politician
- 1925: Hans Brendicke , German gymnastics teacher, gymnastics writer and editor
- 1925: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro , Italian mathematician
1926-1950
- 1929: Felix August Helfgott Genzmer , German builder and architect
- 1931: Bix Beiderbecke , American jazz musician and cornet player
- 1931: Armand Leclaire , Canadian actor and author
- 1935: Karl Illner , Austrian pilot
- 1936: Willi Ostermann , German songwriter and carnivalist from Cologne
- 1937: Alfred Wilm , German chemist and metallurgist
- 1938: Joseph Fifer , American politician
- 1938: Warner Oland , Swedish-American film actor
- 1942: Alfonso Castaldi , Italian composer
- 1942: Paul Corder , British composer
- 1943: Hans Gruner , German Africa explorer and colonial official in Togo
- 1943: Arthur Knautz , German field handball player
- 1944: Franciszek Brzeziński , Polish composer
- 1944: Maria Grollmuß , Sorbian journalist, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1944: Dietrich Kraiss , German general
- 1945: Hiram Johnson , American politician, Governor of California
- 1946: Tony Lazzeri , American baseball player
- 1946: Benny Lynch , Scottish flyweight boxer
- 1948: Georg Talbot , German railway engineer and manufacturer
- 1950: Gopinath Bordoloi , Indian politician
1951-1975
- 1952: Richard Charles Mills , Australian economist
- 1955: Dominikus Böhm , German architect
- 1956: Oskar Pfister , Swiss pastor and psychologist
- 1956: Johan Frans van Bemmelen , Dutch paleontologist and zoologist
- 1958: Maurice Germot , French tennis player
- 1959: Salman Schocken , German-Israeli publisher
- 1959: Preston Sturges , American screenwriter and director
- 1961: Jozef-Ernest Van Roey , Archbishop of Mechelen and Cardinal
- 1962: George Duller , British jockey and racing car driver
- 1962: Maria Christina von Österreich-Teschen , Austrian nobleman
- 1963: Sophus Nielsen , Danish football player
- 1964: Cedric Hardwicke , British actor, director and producer
- 1964: Bernhard Winter , German painter
- 1965: Peter Ronnefeld , German composer and conductor
- 1965: Aksel Sandemose , Danish-Norwegian writer
- 1965: Everett Sloane , American actor
- 1966: Paul Linebarger , American psychologist and writer
- 1967: Lajos Áprily , Hungarian poet and translator
- 1968: Giovanni Bracco , Italian racing car driver
- 1969: Theodor W. Adorno , German philosopher, sociologist, music theorist and composer
- 1970: Albert Aereboe , German painter
- 1970: Albin Kitzinger , German soccer player
- 1971: Fausto Cleva , American conductor
- 1971: Günther Rittau , German cameraman and director
- 1972: Hugo Hantsch , Austrian Benedictine, university professor and historian
- 1973: Fulgencio Batista , Cuban President and Dictator
- 1973: Memphis Minnie , American blues musician
- 1974: Gene Ammons , American tenor saxophonist
- 1975: Gérard Favere , Belgian composer and conductor
1976-2000
- 1976: Gregor Piatigorsky , American cellist of Ukrainian origin
- 1976: Andreas Rohracher , Austrian Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1977: Alexander Bustamante , Jamaican Prime Minister
- 1978: Paul VI. , Pope
- 1979: Feodor Lynen , German biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1981: Mario Abbate , Italian singer and actor
- 1983: Klaus Nomi , German countertenor and pop singer
- 1985: William John St. Clair Anstruther-Gray , British politician
- 1985: Forbes Burnham , Guyanese President
- 1985: Johann Kurz , Austrian clergyman, rector of the Archbishop's Seminary in Hollabrunn
- 1986: Theodor Grill , Austrian local politician, Mayor of Linz
- 1986: Manfred Hausmann , German writer
- 1986: Simone Plé-Caussade , French composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1986: Beppe Wolgers , Swedish actor and director, writer and composer
- 1988: Johannes Cornelis Anceaux , Dutch orientalist and philologist
- 1988: Henri Frenay , French politician, member of the Resistance
- 1988: Anatoly Semjonowitsch Levtschenko , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1988: Francis Ponge , French lyric poet and essayist
- 1990: Gordon Bunshaft , American architect
- 1990: Jacques Soustelle , French ethnologist and politician
- 1991: Shapur Bakhtiar , Iranian Prime Minister
- 1991: Harry Reasoner , American journalist
- 1991: Max Rostal , German violinist
- 1992: Heinrich Eckstein , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1992: Kay Sabban , German actor
- 1993: Bob Kiesel , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1994: Harald Hauser , German politician and writer
- 1994: Domenico Modugno , Italian singer and songwriter
- 1995: André Fleury , French composer and pianist, organist and music teacher
- 1995: George Svendsen , American football player
- 1995: Walter Werner , German writer
- 1996: Bud Svendsen , American football player
- 1997: Jürgen Kuczynski , German historian and economist in the GDR
- 1998: Leo Aario , Finnish geographer and geologist
- 1998: André Weil , French mathematician
- 1999: Hermann Blei , German criminal law scholar
21st century
- 2000: Joan Trimble , Irish composer
- 2001: Jorge Amado , Brazilian writer
- 2001: Daniel Eggers , German right-wing extremist songwriter
- 2001: Wilhelm Mohnke , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS
- 2002: Jim Crawford , British racing car driver
- 2002: Edsger W. Dijkstra , Dutch computer pioneer
- 2002: Michail Prodan , Romanian-Austrian-German forest scientist
- 2003: Wilhelm Schneemelcher , German theologian and church historian
- 2004: Rick James , American musician
- 2005: Vizma Belševica , Latvian writer
- 2005: Robin Cook , British politician, Secretary of State
- 2005: Ibrahim Ferrer , Cuban musician
- 2005: Helmut Goldschmidt , German architect
- 2006: Ernst Hiesmayr , Austrian architect
- 2006: Jim Pomeroy , American motocross racer
- 2006: Fritz Rahmann , German artist
- 2006: Dieter Seidenkranz , German strength athlete and actor
- 2007: Heinz Barth , German officer in the Waffen SS, war criminal
- 2007: Teizō Matsumura , Japanese composer
- 2008: Simon Gray , British playwright
- 2009: Willy DeVille , American rock and blues musician
- 2009: John Hughes , American film director, producer and screenwriter
- 2009: Björn Walden , Swedish luge athlete and sports official
- 2010: Fredrik Ericsson , Swedish mountaineer and extreme skier
- 2010: Tony Judt , British historian and author
- 2011: Kuno Klötzer , German soccer player and coach
- 2011: Norbert Pflippen , German sports manager
- 2011: Rudolf Rohlinger , German television journalist and presenter
- 2011: John Wood , British actor
- 2012: Richard Cragun , American dancer
- 2012: Marvin Hamlisch , American composer
- 2012: Bernard Lovell , British astronomer
- 2014: Ralph Bryans , British motorcycle racer
- 2017: David Maslanka , American composer
- 2017: Martin Roth , German cultural scientist
- 2018: Craig Fisher , Canadian racing car driver
- 2018: Christian Habicht , German ancient historian and epigraphist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Transfiguration of the Lord (Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant: ELCA , LCMS )
- Salzburg exiles , Austrian expellees (Protestant)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Bolivia , independence from Spain (1825)
- Jamaica , independence from Great Britain (1962)
- Japan , Hiroshima Peace Ceremony
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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