6th January

The January 6 (in Austria and South Tyrol : January 6 ) is the sixth day of the Gregorian calendar , thus still remain 359 (in leap years 360) day by year end.

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events

Politics and world events

• 0168: With an address to the Praetorians , Emperor Mark Aurel opens the Roman campaign in the First Marcomannic War .
• 0754: In Ponthion , Pope Stephan II throws himself at the Frankish King Pippin III. at his feet and begs him for support against the Lombards under Aistulf .
• 1013: A Polish delegation in Allstedt announces the arrival of the Polish Crown Prince Mieszko II Lambert to the East Franconian-German King Heinrich II , who is to negotiate a peace.
• 1066: Harald II is crowned King of England .
• 1099: In Aachen , Heinrich V is taken over by the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann III. of Hochstaden the German king crowned.
• 1205: The Staufer Philipp von Schwaben , who is in the throne dispute over the German royal crown with the Guelph Otto von Braunschweig , is again crowned German king - this time in Aachen by the Archbishop of Cologne, Adolf von Altena .
• 1286: . Philip IV is in the cathedral of Reims to French king crowned and anointed .

1311: Iron crown

• 1311: The Roman-German King Henry VII is also crowned King of Italy in Milan . For this purpose, the iron crown of the Lombards will be made anew.
• 1314: In the course of the march controversy , Schwyz compatriots attacked and plundered the Einsiedeln monastery .
• 1355: The Roman-German King Charles IV is crowned with the Iron Crown in Milan.
• 1449: In Mystras in the Peloponnese , Constantine XI. crowned byzantine emperor.
• 1453: With the recognition of the Habsburg Duke . Rudolf IV fake 1,359 privilege Maius by the Habsburg Emperor Frederick III. is Austria to Archduchy , and thus practically a Electorate equal.
• 1537: Alessandro de 'Medici is assassinated in Florence by his distantly related cousin Lorenzino de' Medici .
• 1540: England's King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, the German Anna von Kleve . The marriage is annulled later that year.

1579: Union of Arras (yellow)

• 1579: The Catholic southern provinces of the Spanish Netherlands merge to form the Union of Arras and expressly acknowledge the Catholic Spain of King Philip II.

1612: Axel Oxenstierna

• 1612: Axel Oxenstierna is appointed Imperial Chancellor in Sweden . He remained the holder of this office for 42 years, until his death, during which time he modernized the administration and had considerable domestic and foreign political influence.
• 1643: The Dutch navigator Abel Tasman gives the discovered Three Kings Islands their name.
• 1781: The Battle of Jersey takes place in Saint Helier , the so far last attempt by the French to conquer the British Channel Island of Jersey .
• 1810: In the Treaty of Paris , France and Sweden end their state of war as part of the coalition wars . Sweden receives Swedish Pomerania and the island of Rügen , but must in return on against UK -looking continental blockade participate.
• 1848: In a race against a French expeditionary force, Spain conquered the uninhabited Islas Chafarinas , a small group of islands off the coast of Morocco , which today belongs to the Spanish Plaza de Soberanía .
• 1866: The first Epiphany meeting of state representatives of the newly founded Democratic People's Party takes place in Stuttgart .
• 1912: New Mexico , the former New Mexico Territory , is incorporated into the United States as the 47th state .

1929: Kingdom of Yugoslavia

• 1929: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and King Alexander I establishes a royal dictatorship by repealing the constitution and dissolving parliament.
• 1941: In his State of the Union address to the US Congress , US President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulates " the four freedoms ".
• 1978: In France, created Privacy Authoritative Body Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés .

1978: Return of the Stephanskrone

• 1978: A delegation from the US Congress under Foreign Minister Cyrus Vance hands over the Crown of St. Stephen , which has been stored in Fort Knox since 1953 , back to "the Hungarian people" in a solemn ceremony in the Hungarian parliament building .

1986: Samuel K. Doe

• 1986: Under a new constitution, Samuel K. Doe , who had already put himself to power in 1980, is sworn in as President and Prime Minister of Liberia .
• 1991: Jorge Antonio Serrano Elias wins the election as President of Guatemala in the second ballot . He is the first Protestant head of state in a Latin American state.
• 1992: Georgian President Swiad Gamsachurdia is overthrown by parts of the national guard and paramilitary groups under Tengis Kitowani and Jaba Iosseliani . Eduard Shevardnadze is subsequently brought into the country as chairman of the Georgian State Council.
• 2012: The Saarland Prime Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer ends the first coalition of CDU , FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen at state level. The new election will take place in Saarland on March 25th .
• 2021: Supporters of incumbent US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington, DC and block the confirmation of the results of the 2020 presidential election for several hours .

business

• 1863: The inventor James L. Plimpton receives a US patent for the roller skate with four wheels that he had invented.
• 1866: The company for the monitoring and insurance of steam boilers is founded in Mannheim , a forerunner of TÜV Südwest , which in turn has meanwhile been absorbed by TÜV Süd .
• 1892: The first expedition of the private East African Sea Post of the Schülke & Mayr company sets out in Dar es Salaam for Lake Victoria .
• 1904: The Bayer cross is registered as a German trademark with the number 65.777.

1926: Lufthansa logo

• 1926: The airline Deutsche Luft Hansa AG is formed from the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr .
• 2002: Argentina devalues ​​its peso by 40 percent.

science and technology

1389: Seal of the University of Cologne

• 1389: In Cologne , the newly founded University of Cologne is ceremoniously opened on the anniversary of the city's patron saint, the Three Kings, with a service in the cathedral .
• 1838: The inventors Samuel FB Morse and Alfred Vail demonstrate a modified telegraph .
• 1912: Alfred Wegener first presented his thoughts on continental drift to the public during a meeting of the Geological Association in Frankfurt's Senckenberg Museum .
• 1939: Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Straßmann publish the radiochemical evidence of the formation of barium from uranium after exposure to neutrons in the journal The Science of Nature . Hahn had already described the process on December 19, 1938 in a letter to Lise Meitner as a "bursting" of the uranium atomic nucleus. It is about the discovery and verification of nuclear fission .
• 1962: The French shipyard Chantiers de l'Atlantique delivers the longest passenger ship in the world, the France, to the shipping company Compagnie Générale Transatlantique .
• 1998: NASA's Lunar Prospector space probe is launched.
• 2005: The mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun is examined using computer tomography . The scientists determine that the cause of his death was a suspected hunting accident. Tutankhamun suffered death between the ages of 18 and 20.

Culture

• 1735: The sixth cantata of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (on the legend of the wise men from the Orient ) is premiered.
• 1840: The premiere of the opera Le Drapier by Jacques Fromental Halévy takes place in Paris.

Musikverein building 1870, drawing by Vinzenz Katzler

• 1870: The Vienna Musikverein building is opened with a festive concert.
• 1928: The Circus , the last film made by Charlie Chaplin during the silent era , premieres at the Strand Theater in New York.
• 1930: The comic opera Le Roi d'Yvetot by Jacques Ibert is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
• 1939: Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis make their first Blue Note Records record in New York .
• 1975: NBC first broadcasts Merv Griffin's game show Wheel of Fortune in the United States , which is later seen a lot as a wheel of fortune in Germany.
• 1977: After several provocative appearances by the Sex Pistols , EMI terminates the contract with the punk band.
• 1998: Unknown people saw off the head of the sculpture Little Mermaid in Copenhagen harbor a second time. The first vandalism of this kind dates back to 1964.

society

• 1759: George Washington marries Martha Dandridge .
• 1907: Maria Montessori opens her first school and daycare center in Rome, the Casa dei Bambini in the poor district of San Lorenzo.
• 1939: Al Capone is released early because of good leadership.
• 1995: A house fire in Manila leads to the discovery of the planned terrorist operation Bojinka . Al-Qaeda supporters intend to commit plane attacks as well as an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines .

religion

• 1468: Pope Nicholas V permits the veneration of the Augsburg Bishop Simpert as a saint.
• 1485: Pope Innocent VIII raises Margrave Leopold III, who died in 1136 . from Austria to the saint . Leopold is still the patron saint of Austria today.
• 1848: In the encyclical In suprema Petri , Pope Pius IX. a push towards reunification and appeals to the Orthodox churches .
• 1852: Pope Pius IX. creates a Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology . It is intended to ensure the protection of the ancient holy places, especially in Rome and the surrounding area, for the purpose of further research.
• 1886: The encyclical Iampridem on Catholicism in Germany by Pope Leo XIII, addressed to the Prussian episcopate . will be published.
• 1907: In the French encyclical Une fois encore, Pope Pius X castigates state measures to separate church and state in France and compares the situation with that in Germany.
• 1928: The encyclical Mortalium animos by Pope Pius XI. is considered a document of the ecumenical return . Other churches are viewed as apostate and urged by him to return to the true church .

Disasters

• 1853: In a railroad accident in Andover , Massachusetts , the only passenger car on the train in which the newly elected President of the United States , Franklin Pierce , and his family are traveling, crashes down an embankment. The only fatality in the accident is the eleven-year-old son of the president. His parents subsequently struggled with severe depression and Franklin Pierce developed a drinking problem.
• 2018: In the East China Sea, the oil tanker Sanchi , which has 136,000 tons of oil on board, collides with a Chinese bulk carrier, goes up in flames and sinks on January 14th. None of the 32-strong crew survived the accident.

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

Sports

Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze

• Every year the Epiphany, the last competition of the International Four Hills Tournament in ski jumping, takes place on the Paul-Ausserleitner-Schanze in Bischofshofen , Salzburg, Austria . Special events during this jumping :
  • 1953: The Austrian Josef Bradl wins the first edition of the International Four Hills Tournament.
  • 1958: Helmut Recknagel (GDR) wins the International Four Hills Tournament as the first German ski jumper .
  • 1960: Max Bolkart becomes the first West German ski jumper to win the International Four Hills Tournament.
  • 1996: With his fourth overall victory at the Four Hills Tournament, Jens Weißflog succeeds in an achievement that has only been repeated by Janne Ahonen .
  • 2002: Sven Hannawald wins the last ski jumping of the Four Hills Tournament and is the first ski jumper to win all four competitions in a row.
  • 2006: Jakub Janda and Janne Ahonen win the 54th Four Hills Tournament together. This is the first time in the history of the event that there is a double victory. Ahonen sets Jens Weißflog's record with his fourth tour win . With his fifth tour victory in 2008, he becomes the sole record holder.
  • 2018: The Polish ski jumper Kamil Stoch is the second overall winner after Sven Hannawald, who wins all four competitions.

1994: Nancy Kerrigan

• 1994: In the run-up to the US figure skating championships , the favorite Nancy Kerrigan is injured in the knee by an assassin on behalf of the husband of her competitor Tonya Harding , so that she cannot take part in the championships.

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 17th century

• 1256: Gertrud von Helfta , Cistercian in the Helfta monastery near Eisleben
• 1329: Ulman Stromer , German merchant in the Middle Ages
• 1367: Richard II , King of England
• 1418: Hans III. zu Rodenstein , German nobleman
• 1449: Christoph the Strong , Wittelsbach nobleman, brother of Duke Albrecht the Wise of Bavaria
• 1485: Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer , German historian and lawyer
• 1486: Martin Agricola , German music theorist and composer
• 1488: Helius Eobanus Hessus , German Protestant humanist, is considered a great neo-Latin poet
• 1493: Valentin Curtius , German theologian and reformer
• 1493: Olaus Petri , Swedish theologian and reformer
• 1495: Augustin Schurff , German physicist and medic
• 1496: Jan Hodějovský z Hodějova , Czech nobleman and humanist and patron
• 1509: Melchior Cano , Spanish Dominican and theologian
• 1525: Caspar Peucer , German humanist
• 1533: Timotheus Kirchner , Lutheran theologian, professor of theology
• 1534: Balthasar Sartorius , German Lutheran theologian
• 1555: Melchior von Redern , imperial military leader in the Turkish wars
• 1561: Thomas Finck , German mathematician and physician
• 1578: Melchior Goldast , humanist
• 1582: Jaroslav Borsita von Martinic , imperial governor
• 1587: Gaspar de Guzmán, Conde de Olivares , Spanish Prime Minister at the time of Philip IV.

17th century

• 1607: Konrad Barthels , German Lutheran theologian.
• 1614: Leopold Wilhelm of Austria , governor of the Spanish Netherlands, general and patron of the arts

Christoffer von Gabel (* 1617)

• 1617: Christoffer von Gabel , merchant and governor of King Frederik III. from Denmark
• 1619: Gebhard XXV. von Alvensleben , German historian (date of baptism)
• 1621: Moritz von der Pfalz , troop commander in English and Swedish service
• 1629: Vincenzo Amato , Italian composer
• 1638: Anton Günther Heshusius , German philosopher
• 1647: Christian Wilhelm , Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• 1653: Christian , Duke of Saxony-Eisenberg
• 1655: Eleonore Magdalene von Pfalz-Neuburg , wife of Emperor Leopold I and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
• 1655: Jakob I Bernoulli , Swiss mathematician and physicist
• 1663: Heinrich Anselm von Ziegler and Kliphausen , German writers
• 1673: James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos , British nobleman, builder and patron
• 1679: Johann Georg Glume , German sculptor
• 1688: Immanuel Ignaz von Nassau-Siegen , officer in Spanish and imperial services
• 1688: Johann Conrad Wirz , Swiss Antistes from Zurich
• 1695: Melchior Buchner , German painter and plasterer
• 1695: Giuseppe Sammartini , Italian oboist and composer
• 1696: Friedrich Karl von Hardenberg , German diplomat and garden architect
• 1696: Johann Georg Oldekop , German Protestant clergyman
• 1699: Philipp Friedrich Hiller , German pastor and hymn poet

18th century

Johann Adam of Ickstatt (* 1702)

Sarah Trimmer (* 1741)

Melchior von Diepenbrock (* 1798)

Anna Maria Hall (* 1800)

• 1701: Georg Ludwig von Bar , German canon, writer and translator
• 1701: Johannes Caprez , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1702: Johann Adam von Ickstatt , director of the University of Ingolstadt
• 1702: José de Nebra , Spanish composer
• 1707: Johann Friedrich Crell , German anatomist and physiologist
• 1714: Percivall Pott , British surgeon
• 1722: Andrea Gioannetti , Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Bologna
• 1723: Sophie Eleonore Walther , German writer
• 1727: Juan de Velasco , Spanish Jesuit priest
• 1730: Thomas Chittenden , American politician and 1st governor of Vermont
• 1731: Ludwig Eugen , Duke of Württemberg
• 1732: Matija Antun Relković , Croatian scout
• 1741: Sarah Trimmer , English author
• 1745: Jacques Étienne Montgolfier , French co-inventor of the hot air balloon
• 1748: Jean-Melchior d'Abadie , French military
• 1753: Helena Radziwiłłowa , Lithuanian noblewoman
• 1756: Gaspare Landi , Italian painter
• 1757: Albrecht Wilhelm Roth , German botanist
• 1759: Wilhelm Ludwig Steinbrenner , German theologian
• 1761: Kaspar Maria von Sternberg , Bohemian theologian, politician, author and scientist, founder of the National Museum in Prague
• 1765: Friedrich Meisner , German educator and naturalist
• 1766: José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia , dictator of Paraguay from 1814 to 1840
• 1771: Conrad Geiß , German iron art caster and iron casting manufacturer
• 1773: Bonifaz Kaspar von Urban , Archbishop of Bamberg
• 1776: Ferdinand von Schill , Prussian officer
• 1781: Gottlieb Mohnike , German translator, theologian and philologist
• 1783: Giuseppe Ugolini , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1783: Philaret Drosdow , Russian metropolitan
• 1784: Carl Friedrich Mosch , German mineralogist, draftsman and writer
• 1785: Carl Friedrich von Rumohr , German art historian, writer and gastrosoph
• 1786: Gaspare del Bufalo , founder of the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood
• 1787: Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine , Luxembourg politician
• 1792: Moritz Ferdinand Gustav von Rockhausen , Saxon commandant of the Königstein Fortress
• 1794: Gašpar Mašek , Czech composer
• 1795: Barthélemy Bouvier , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1797: Edward Turner Bennett , British zoologist and writer
• 1798: Melchior von Diepenbrock , cardinal and prince-bishop of Breslau
• 1798: Gaspar Hernández , Peruvian priest, educator and politician in the Dominican Republic
• 1799: Robert Hay , Scottish traveler, antique dealer and Egyptologist
• 1800: Anna Maria Hall , Irish-British writer

19th century

1801-1825

Marija Nikolajewna Volkonskaya (* 1806)

Ludwig Erk (* 1807)

Karoline Pierson (* 1811)

Melchora Aquino (* 1812)

Hipolit Cegielski (* 1813)

Marija Antonowna Corsini (* 1815)

Heinrich Schliemann (* 1822)

Christo Botew (* 1848)

• 1801: Ewelina Hańska , estate administrator for Honoré de Balzac's work
• 1801: Daniel Haines , American politician
• 1801: Georg Kaspar Nagler , German art historian and art writer
• 1801: Adolph von Randow , Prussian officer and orphanage director
• 1802: Carl Heinrich Hermann , German fresco painter
• 1802: Johannes Gabriel Perboyre , French religious priest and martyr
• 1802: Ion Heliade-Rădulescu , Romanian writer, philosopher, linguist, translator
• 1803: Henri Herz , Austro-French pianist, composer and piano teacher
• 1804: Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Duncker , German lawyer
• 1804: Anna Plochl , Austrian countess of Meran
• 1805: August Geffers , German classical philologist and grammar school director
• 1805: Alexandra Ossipowna Ischimowa , Russian author and translator for children and young people
• 1805: Charles J. Jenkins , American politician, governor of Georgia
• 1805: Eduard von Michael , German forester
• 1806: László Bíró de Kezdi-Polany , Hungarian bishop
• 1806: Christian Eduard Langethal , German crop scientist , botanist and agricultural historian
• 1806: Charles Martins , French botanist and medicin
• 1806: Marija Nikolajewna Volkonskaja , is considered to be the founder of the social system in Siberia
• 1807: Josef Maximilian Petzval , Slovak mathematician and physicist
• 1807: Ludwig Erk , German folk song researcher and collector
• 1807: Rickmer Clasen Rickmers , German shipyard owner
• 1811: Karoline Pierson , German improvisation artist and writer
• 1812: Melchora Aquino , Filipino revolutionary
• 1812: Karl Etzel , German railway engineer and architect
• 1813: Hipolit Cegielski , philologist, entrepreneur, journalist and politician
• 1813: Marie Louise von Dalberg , princess from the Dalberg family
• 1813: Ludwig Kolbe , Hessian button manufacturer and politician
• 1813: Paulus Melchers , Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal
• 1814: Konstantin Cretius , German painter
• 1814: Reinhard Moritz Horstig , German philologist and high school teacher
• 1815: Florus Conrad Auffarth , Prussian administrative officer
• 1815: Marija Antonowna Corsini , Russian writer and translator
• 1815: Caroline von Moro , Austrian painter
• 1815: Julius Pintsch , German entrepreneur
• 1815: Karl August Schapper , Protestant theologian and seminary director
• 1817: James Joseph McCarthy , Irish architect
• 1818: Charlotte von Cosel , German writer
• 1818: Rudolph von Hertzberg , German music director and singing teacher
• 1818: Theodor Kotsch , German painter and draftsman
• 1819: Alajos Degré , Hungarian writer
• 1821: Jakob Frohschammer , free-spirited Catholic theologian and philosopher
• 1822: Heinrich Schliemann , German businessman, pioneer of field archeology

1826 to 1850

• 1826: Adolf Kirchhoff , German classical philologist and researcher
• 1827: John C. Brown , American politician, governor of Tennessee, Confederate general
• 1828: Herman Grimm , German art historian and publicist
• 1829: Kanagaki Robun , Japanese writer
• 1830: Alfred Hegar , German doctor and gynecologist
• 1832: Gustave Doré , French painter and graphic artist
• 1832: Lodovico Jacobini , Cardinal and Papal Secretary of State
• 1833: Karl Heinrich von Boetticher , Prussian civil servant and politician, MdL, MdR, German Vice Chancellor
• 1835: Martin Kähler , German Protestant theologian
• 1837: Juan Lindolfo Cuestas , Uruguayan politician, president
• 1838: Max Bruch , German composer and conductor
• 1839: Basilio Haggiar Archbishop of Syria
• 1841: Rudolf Sturm , German mathematician
• 1842: Clarence King , American geologist
• 1843: Roswell P. Bishop , American politician
• 1843: John Coit Spooner , American politician
• 1843: Eduard Thraemer , Baltic German classical philologist and archaeologist
• 1844: Georg Hägemann , German architect
• 1844: Karl Friedrich Steinhardt , German portrait and genre painter
• 1845: William Martin Murphy , Irish entrepreneur
• 1845: Wassil Talasch , Soviet partisan
• 1846: John S. Henderson , American politician
• 1846: Henriette Hertz , German patron and art collector
• 1847: Franz Dibelius , German Protestant theologian
• 1847: Milovan Glišić , Serbian writer and translator
• 1848: Christo Botew , Bulgarian poet and freedom fighter
• 1848: Teobaldo Power , Spanish composer
• 1849: Wilhelm Idel , German homeland researcher and poet
• 1849: José Celestino da Silva , Portuguese officer and colonial administrator
• 1850: Eduard Bernstein , social democratic theorist
• 1850: Andreas Fehlhauer , farmer and member of the German Reichstag
• 1850: Max Kegel , German social democrat and poet
• 1850: Xaver Scharwenka , Polish-Czech composer and pianist
• 1850: Ladislav Stroupežnický , Czech dramaturge
• 1850: Witold Zglenicki , Polish geologist, oil exploiter and philanthropist

1851-1875

Anna Simon (* 1862)

Adolf Paul (* 1863)

Paula Thiede (* 1870)

Walther Schücking (* 1875)

• 1852: Friedrich Heincke , German zoologist and ichthyologist
• 1852: Arthur Searcy , Australian administrator
• 1853: Woodbridge Nathan Ferris , American politician
• 1856: Léon van der Elst , Belgian diplomat
• 1856: Martin von Feuerstein , German painter and art professor
• 1856: Ernst Franke , German ophthalmologist
• 1856: Giuseppe Martucci , Italian composer, pianist and conductor
• 1856: Leslie Rundle , British officer
• 1857: Hugh Mahon , Australian politician and foreign minister
• 1858: Julie Kern , German local poet
• 1859: Samuel Alexander , British philosopher
• 1859: Alfred Baudrillart , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1860: Raoul Gunsbourg , Romanian opera director, writer and composer
• 1861: Victor Horta , Belgian Art Nouveau architect
• 1861: Abbott Lawrence Rotch , American meteorologist
• 1862: August Oetker , German industrialist
• 1862: Anna Simon , German politician
• 1863: Ellsworth Raymond Bathrick , American politician
• 1863: Adolf Paul , German-Swedish-Finnish writer
• 1864: Joseph-Daniel Dussault , Canadian organist and music teacher
• 1864: Kurt Johannes , German officer
• 1864: Margarethe Mittell , German headmistress
• 1865: Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Marr , Georgian-Russian linguist and orientalist
• 1865: Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra , German writer and local researcher
• 1865: Franz Skutsch , German classical philologist
• 1867: Milka Fritsch , German politician
• 1867: Jacques Urlus , Dutch hero tenor
• 1870: Gustav Bauer , German politician, Prime Minister, Reich Chancellor
• 1870: Elise Elizza , Austrian opera singer and vocal teacher
• 1870: Eduard Stemplinger , German writer
• 1870: James Taylor Sr. , Irish-American businessman, leader of the Raven brothers
• 1870: Paula Thiede , first woman to lead a full-time union across Germany
• 1871: Eugen Burg , German actor
• 1871: Hedwig Gutzeit , German silent film actress and author
• 1872: Franz Hoffmann , Austrian military bandmaster and composer
• 1872: Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin , Russian pianist and composer
• 1873: Walter Guernsey Reynolds , American organist and composer
• 1873: Karl Straube , German organist
• 1874: Carlotta Joaquina Maury , American paleontologist
• 1874: Fred Niblo , American film director
• 1875: Elsa von Gutmann , Princess of Liechtenstein
• 1875: Walther Schücking , German politician and international lawyer

1876-1900

Florence Turner (* 1885)

Dennis Murphree (* 1886)

Jane Anderson (* 1888)

Ferenc Szálasi (* 1897)

Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté (* 1899)

Haldor Halderson (* 1900)

• 1878: Adeline Genée , Danish ballet dancer
• 1878: Carl Sandburg , American lyric poet
• 1879: Émile Argand , Swiss geologist and mineralogist
• 1879: Wilhelm Weber , Lord Mayor of Hanover
• 1880: Tom Mix , American film actor, director, and producer
• 1881: Nina de Garis Davies , British painter, copied wall paintings in Egyptian private graves
• 1882: Fan Noli , Albanian bishop and politician
• 1882: Friedrich Lent , German lawyer and politician
• 1882: Ivan Olbracht , Czech writer, publicist, journalist
• 1882: Maria Anna of Austria-Teschen , Archduchess of Austria-Teschen
• 1883: Khalil Gibran , Lebanese artist and poet
• 1883: Friedrich Pfister , German philologist
• 1883: Beatrice Sutter-Kottlar , Austrian opera singer and singing teacher
• 1884: Vilém Kreibich , Czechoslovak artist
• 1885: Florence Turner , American actress and silent film producer
• 1886: Walter Adam , Austrian journalist and politician
• 1886: Klara Caro , German women's rights activist
• 1886: Eugen von Kahler , Czechoslovakian painter
• 1886: Elisabeth Kaerrick , translator from Russian
• 1886: Dennis Murphree , American politician
• 1887: Berthe Bovy , Belgian actress
• 1887: Mara Heinze-Hoferichter , German writer
• 1888: Jane Anderson , American journalist, author and radio propagandist for Großdeutscher Rundfunk
• 1891: Dai Jitao , Chinese politician and publicist
• 1891: Fritz Imhoff , Austrian actor and singer
• 1891: Rochus Gliese , German set designer and film director
• 1891: Tim Buck , Canadian communist politician
• 1892: Stella Benson , English writer
• 1892: Ludwig Berger , German film director
• 1892: Grete Fluss , German singer, humorist and actress
• 1892: Leonid Iwanowitsch Kubbel , Russian chess composer
• 1892: Georg Nerlich , German painter
• 1892: Lisa Rado , Hungarian theater actress and singer
• 1892: Heinz Renner , German politician
• 1894: Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading , British benefactress and member of the House of Lords
• 1894: Ona Šimaitė , Lithuanian librarian and Righteous Among the Nations
• 1894: Käthe Stern , German-American Montessori teacher
• 1895: Josefa Gettke , German theater and film actress
• 1896: Ferdinand Gehr , Swiss painter
• 1896: Erhard Mayke , German speed skater
• 1897: Heinz Meyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1897: Carl Riegel , German soccer player
• 1897: Lydia Schlosser , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1897: Ferenc Szálasi , Hungarian officer and politician, war criminal
• 1898: James Fitzmaurice , Irish pilot
• 1898: Ludolf Haase , German doctor and politician, NSDAP Gauleiter
• 1898: Wilhelm Nieswandt , German entrepreneur and politician
• 1899: Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté , Russian composer
• 1899: Heinrich Nordhoff , General Director of Volkswagen
• 1899: Max Simon , German SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS, war criminal
• 1900: Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie , French politician, member of the Resistance
• 1900: Hede Massing , Austrian actress
• 1900: Mary of Romania , Queen of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia
• 1900: Pierre Octave Ferroud , French composer

20th century

1901-1925

Franziska Kessel (* 1906)

Menachem Avidom (* 1908)

Edward Gierek (* 1913)

Loretta Young (born 1913)

Ibolya Csák (* 1915)

John Maynard Smith (* 1920)

Kim Dae-jung (* 1925)

• 1901: Patrick Aherne , British actor
• 1901: Heinz Pol , German writer
• 1902: Max Güde , German lawyer, attorney general
• 1902: Petrus Pavlicek , Austrian Franciscan
• 1902: Margaret Woodbridge , American swimmer
• 1903: Maurice Abravanel , American conductor
• 1903: Hermann Gerstner , German librarian and writer
• 1903: Walter Nigg , Swiss theologian
• 1903: Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov , Russian composer
• 1904: Miloš Václav Kratochvíl , Czech writer, screenwriter and dramaturge
• 1905: Henri Godard , French racing car driver
• 1905: Götz Gode , German writer
• 1905: Louise Hartung , German singer and teacher
• 1905: Otto Kuss , German Catholic theologian
• 1905: Leonie Reygers , German art historian and museum director
• 1905: Eric Frank Russell , British writer
• 1906: Hans Berger , German boxer
• 1906: Lyubov Ivanovna Dobrschanskaja , Russian-Ukrainian actress
• 1906: Alexina Duchamp , American art dealer
• 1906: Franziska Kessel , German politician
• 1906: Eberhard Wolfgang Möller , German writer and playwright
• 1906: Arie van der Pluym , Dutch motorcycle racer
• 1906: George Ledyard Stebbins , American biologist, botanist
• 1907: Irmingard von Freyberg , German graphic artist and cutter
• 1907: Roy Hall , old-time American musician
• 1907: Helen Kleeb , American actress
• 1907: Stanley Osborne , Canadian clergyman, music educator, author, hymnologist, and composer
• 1908: Karl Joppich , German football player
• 1908: Menachem Avidom , Israeli composer
• 1908: Michael DiSalle , American politician
• 1909: Martin Jente , German actor and producer
• 1909: Sugimura Haruko , Japanese actress
• 1910: Gerd Ritgen , German farmer and politician
• 1910: Heinrich Krebs , judge at the German Federal Social Court
• 1910: Kid Chocolate , Cuban boxer
• 1910: Kurt Fischer , German politician
• 1911: Friedrich Hendrix , German athlete
• 1911: Hein Thorn Prikker , German motorcycle racer
• 1912: Hans Richter-Haaser , German pianist
• 1912: Jacques Ellul , French sociologist and theologian
• 1912: Marieluise Claudius , German actress
• 1912: Pawoł Nowotny , Sorbian literary historian and folklorist
• 1912: Danny Thomas , American actor
• 1912: Celso Emilio Ferreiro , Spanish writer and journalist
• 1913: Georg Angermaier , German lawyer, political scientist and resistance fighter
• 1913: Marianne Grewe-Partsch , German media scientist and lawyer
• 1913: Edward Gierek , Polish politician and party leader of the PZPR
• 1913: Loretta Young , American actress
• 1913: Martin Hirsch , German politician and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1913: Willi Fricke , German football player
• 1914: Gottfried Eduard Arnold , American medic
• 1914: Heinz Berggruen , German art dealer
• 1915: Alan Watts , Anglican priest, professor and dean
• 1915: Ibolya Csák , Hungarian athlete
• 1915: John Cunningham Lilly , American neurophysiologist
• 1915: Peter Ahrweiler , German actor and theater director
• 1916: Johanna Kuzia , German politician
• 1917: Maeve Brennan , Irish-American journalist and writer
• 1918: Eugen Biser , German Catholic theologian and religious philosopher
• 1918: Donald A. Prater , English writer, Germanist and diplomat
• 1918: Elfriede Rückert , German-Austrian actress
• 1919: Roy Cochran , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1920: Henry Corden , Canadian actor and speaker in cartoons
• 1920: Josep Lluís Facerías , Spanish anarchist and resistance fighter
• 1920: Jean Ipoustéguy , French artist, sculptor
• 1920: Earl Kim , American composer and music educator
• 1920: John Maynard Smith , British geneticist, evolutionary biologist
• 1920: Early Wynn , American baseball player
• 1921: Adriana Facchetti , Italian actress
• 1921: Marianne Grunberg-Manago , French biochemist
• 1921: Wolfgang Lotz , German-Israeli secret agent
• 1921: Hans Winter , German mechanical engineer and university professor
• 1922: Thelma Gracen , American jazz and pop singer
• 1922: Gerhard Maletzke , German communication scientist and psychologist
• 1923: Jacobo Timerman , publisher, journalist and author
• 1923: Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Saksonow , Soviet weightlifter
• 1923: Norman Kirk , New Zealand politician
• 1924: Carl Auböck , Austrian industrial designer and architect
• 1924: Pablo Birger , Argentine racing car driver
• 1924: Katy Jurado , Mexican actress
• 1924: Alfredo Milani , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1924: Earl Scruggs , American musician
• 1924: Erwin Strempel , German soccer goalkeeper
• 1925: Lee Abrams , American jazz drummer
• 1925: Luciano Liggio , Italian mafioso
• 1925: Kim Dae-jung , South Korean politician
• 1925: John DeLorean , American sports car maker
• 1925: Jane Harvey , American jazz singer
• 1925: Regina von Sachsen-Meiningen , wife of Otto von Habsburg

1926-1950

Capucine (* 1928)

EL Doctorow (* 1931)

Kaoru Yachigusa (* 1931)

Julio María Sanguinetti (* 1936)

Murray Rose (* 1939)

Tamara Lund (* 1941)

Barry Altschul (* 1943)

Margrete Auken (* 1945)

Anja Meulenbelt (* 1945)

Lotfi Dziri (* 1946)

Guy Spence Gardner (born 1948)

Sanja Ivekovic (* 1949)

Günter Garbrecht (* 1950)

• 1926: Armando Aste , Italian post-war mountaineer
• 1926: Pat Flaherty , American racing car driver
• 1926: Mickey Hargitay , Hungarian actor
• 1926: Heinz-Georg Klös , German veterinarian
• 1926: Tachihara Masaaki , Japanese writer
• 1926: Dick Rathmann , American racing driver
• 1926: Günter Rössler , German photographer
• 1926: Walter Sedlmayr , German actor
• 1927: Manfred Gebhardt , German journalist and author
• 1927: Richard Meier , President of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
• 1927: Alfred Sirven , French manager
• 1927: Maria Voderholzer , German teacher and writer
• 1928: Giovanni Attanasio , Italian actor
• 1928: Capucine , French film actress
• 1928: Astrid Gehlhoff-Claes , German writer and translator
• 1928: Günter Görlich , German writer
• 1928: Lyli Herse , French cyclist
• 1928: Herta Konrad , Austrian actress
• 1928: Vijay Tendulkar , Indian playwright and screenwriter
• 1929: Wilbert Harrison , American musician
• 1929: Babrak Karmal , Afghan politician
• 1929: Dietrich Knothe , German conductor
• 1929: Florence Mahoney , Gambian historian and university professor
• 1929: Paul Nößler , German miner, representative of expellees and politician
• 1930: Erich Bäumler , German soccer player
• 1930: Renata Hampel , German nun
• 1930: Rafael Velásquez , Venezuelan trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• 1931: Franz Albert , Austrian racing driver
• 1931: Stikkan Anderson , Swedish businessman, producer, music publisher, and lyricist
• 1931: EL Doctorow , American author and editor
• 1931: Kurt Grimm , German film and television director
• 1931: Dave Keon , ice hockey player
• 1931: Lucienne L'Heureux-Arel , Canadian organist and music teacher
• 1931: Dickie Moore , ice hockey player
• 1931: Joachim Specht , German writer
• 1931: Kaoru Yachigusa , Japanese actress
• 1932: José Saraiva Martins , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1932: Max Streibl , Bavarian politician
• 1932: Udo Vioff , German actor
• 1933: Horst Klengel , German ancient orientalist
• 1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarow , Soviet engineer and cosmonaut
• 1933: Emil Steinberger , Swiss cabaret artist, writer, director and actor
• 1934: Edith Nothdorf , German music teacher, author and composer
• 1934: Sylvia Syms , British actress
• 1935: Jerzy Marchwiński , Polish pianist and music teacher
• 1935: Gerald R. Molen , American film producer and film actor
• 1936: Anton Allemann , Swiss football player
• 1936: Darlene Hard , American tennis player
• 1936: Julio María Sanguinetti , journalist and President of Uruguay
• 1937: Luigi Arienti , Italian racing cyclist
• 1937: Marianne Berendsdorf , German actress
• 1937: Paolo Conte , Italian chanson singer, jazz musician and composer
• 1937: Harri Holkeri , Finnish politician
• 1937: Lou Holtz , American football coach
• 1937: Ludvík Daněk , Czech athlete
• 1937: Nino Tempo , American pop musician
• 1937: Doris Troy , American soul singer
• 1938: Adriano Celentano , Italian singer, actor and television presenter
• 1938: Mario Rodríguez Cobos , Argentine writer
• 1938: Erika Richter , German dramaturge
• 1938: Larissa Yefimovna Shepitko , Soviet film director and screenwriter
• 1938: Elizabeth Teissier , French astrologer
• 1938: Jozef Golonka , Slovak ice hockey player and coach
• 1938: Karl-Heinz Kunde , German racing cyclist
• 1938: Renate Meyer , German athlete
• 1939: Katinka Hoffmann , German actress and theater operator
• 1939: Pamela Kurrell , American discus thrower
• 1939: Valery Lobanovsky , Soviet and Ukrainian football coach
• 1939: Helgard Müller-Jensen , German gallery owner for contemporary art
• 1939: Murray Rose , Australian swimmer, Olympic champion
• 1940: Aggrey Klaaste , South African journalist
• 1940: Van McCoy , American musician and producer
• 1940: Olga Georges-Picot , French actress
• 1940: Wolfgang father , German deaf educator and author
• 1940: Sue Wagner , American politician
• 1941: Jean Bethke Elshtain , American representative of political philosophy and feminist
• 1941: Philippe Busquin , Belgian politician, EU commissioner
• 1941: Helga Dostal , Austrian theater scholar and museum director
• 1941: Tamara Lund , Finnish opera singer and actress
• 1941: Rainer Ohlhauser , German soccer player
• 1941: Brigitte Troeger , German teacher and writer
• 1941: Nikola Weisse , German actress
• 1942: Maria Bommer , Austrian politician
• 1942: Hilmar Kabas , Austrian politician
• 1942: Bernd Neumann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1942: Nancy Ruth , Canadian politician
• 1943: Barry Altschul , American jazz musician
• 1943: Michael Harcourt , Canadian politician
• 1943: Willi Kuhweide , German sailor
• 1943: Gudrun Lehmann , German politician
• 1943: Norbert Otto , German politician
• 1943: Osvaldo Soriano , Argentine writer and journalist
• 1943: Terry Venables , English football player and coach
• 1944: Ørnulf Andresen , Norwegian cyclist
• 1944: Regina Bätz , German costume designer
• 1944: Helmut Digel , German handball player, sports scientist and official
• 1944: Jens Johler , German writer
• 1944: Alan Stivell , Breton musician and singer
• 1944: Rolf Zinkernagel , Swiss immunologist, professor, Nobel Prize winner
• 1945: Anja Meulenbelt , Dutch politician
• 1945: Margrete Auken , Danish politician, member of the European Parliament
• 1946: Syd Barrett , British guitarist, singer and songwriter
• 1946: Ahmed el-Tayeb , Rector of Azhar University in Cairo
• 1946: Lotfi Dziri , Tunisian actor, author and theater director
• 1946: Hans Eggert , German journalist
• 1947: Andréa Ferréol , French actress
• 1947: Sandy Denny , British singer
• 1948: Guy Spence Gardner , American astronaut
• 1949: Gerhard Bopp , German soccer player
• 1949: Christine Dacremont , French racing car driver
• 1949: Ulla von Gemmingen , German museum educator and visual artist
• 1949: Joan Hess , American crime writer
• 1949: Sanja Ivekovic , Croatian artist
• 1949: Silke Wenk , German art historian
• 1949: Damaris Wurmdobler , German artist
• 1950: Lynn Deerfield , American actress
• 1950: Constanze Engelbrecht , German actress and voice actress
• 1950: Günter Garbrecht , German politician
• 1950: Karl Röckinger , German district administrator
• 1950: Erika Weinstein , German athlete

1951-1975

Jon Eberson (born 1953)

Martin Hein (* 1954)

Ulla you (* 1956)

Richard C. Schneider (* 1957)

Elżbieta Radziszewska (* 1958)

Tōru Tanabe (* 1961)

Henry Mask (* 1964)

Fátima Báñez (* 1967)

Claudia Grigorescu (* 1968)

Norman Reedus (* 1969)

Chibla Lewarsowna Gersmawa (* 1970)

• 1951: Wolfram Adolphi , German journalist and political scientist
• 1951: Christiane Dénes , German musician, writer and visual artist
• 1951: Kim Wilson , American blues rock singer and harmonica player
• 1951: Ellen Rosenblum , American lawyer and politician
• 1951: Karin Roth , German singer and interpreter of folk music
• 1953: Rajissa Bohatyrjowa , Ukrainian politician and former minister of Ukraine
• 1953: Jon Eberson , Norwegian jazz guitarist
• 1953: Etienne Jornod , Swiss entrepreneur and manager
• 1953: Manfred Kaltz , German soccer player and national player
• 1953: Thomas Mirow , German politician
• 1953: Ayhan Taşkın , Turkish wrestler
• 1953: Jett Williams , American country singer
• 1953: Malcolm Young , Australian musician
• 1954: Torsten Enders , German radio play author and director
• 1954: Hans Robert Hiegel , German architect
• 1954: Martin Hein , German theologian and bishop
• 1954: Norbert Hahn , German luge rider
• 1954: Isabelle McEwen , Franco-Canadian opera and theater director
• 1954: Anthony Minghella , British director
• 1954: Nicolette Scorsese , American actress
• 1954: Ulrich van Suntum , German economist
• 1954: Trudie Styler , British actress and film producer
• 1954: Harumi Takahashi , Japanese politician
• 1955: Ajayi Agbebaku , Nigerian athlete
• 1955: Rowan Atkinson , British comedian and actor
• 1955: Annette Fugmann-Heesing , German politician and MdL
• 1955: Pachito Alonso y sus Kini Kini , Cuban salsa musician
• 1955: Romualdas Boreika , Lithuanian lawyer, police superintendent and director of the Financial Crime Investigation Service
• 1955: Karin Kusterer , German ethnologist and writer
• 1956: Ulla you , German politician
• 1956: Elizabeth Strout , American writer
• 1957: Michael Foale , British astronaut
• 1957: Barbara Hallensleben , German theologian and university professor
• 1957: Nancy Lopez , American professional golfer
• 1957: Armin Romstedt , German soccer player
• 1957: Richard Chaim Schneider , German journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and director of ARD studios abroad
• 1957: Ona Suncovienė , Lithuanian politician
• 1958: Maria Klein-Schmeink , German politician
• 1958: Lyudmila Alexandrovna Putina , Russian linguist
• 1958: Elżbieta Radziszewska , Polish politician
• 1958: Frankie Vázquez , Puerto Rican percussionist and singer
• 1959: April Hailer , German actress
• 1959: Elena Kuschnerova , Russian pianist
• 1959: Fuyumi Sōryō , Japanese manga artist
• 1960: Paul Azinger , American professional golfer
• 1960: Natalja Filimonovna Bestemjanowa , Russian figure skater
• 1960: Nigella Lawson , British television chef and author
• 1960: Ulrike Mai , German actress
• 1961: Harriet van Ettekoven , Dutch rower
• 1961: Linas Antanas Linkevičius , Lithuanian diplomat and defense minister
• 1961: Christiane Rösinger , German musician and journalist
• 1961: Tōru Tanabe , Japanese opera singer and actor
• 1961: Erik Wøllo , Norwegian jazz and rock guitarist and composer
• 1962: Daniel Mahrer , Swiss ski racer
• 1962: Philip Brown , British athlete
• 1962: Ninni Bruschetta (actually Antonio Bruschetta), Italian actor, theater director and screenwriter
• 1962: Ulrich Gäher , German soccer player
• 1963: Thomas Beyer , German politician, MdL
• 1963: Tony Halme , Finnish wrestler from Helsinki and MP
• 1963: Paul Kipkoech , Kenyan long distance runner
• 1963: Yuko Sato , Japanese politician
• 1964: Davide Ballardini , Italian football player and coach
• 1964: Angelika Fehrmann , German soccer player
• 1964: Albrecht Ganskopf , German actor
• 1964: Charles Haley , American football player
• 1964: Henry Maske , German boxer
• 1964: Rafael Vidal , Venezuelan swimmer
• 1964: Yuri , Mexican singer
• 1965: Marco Branca , Italian football player and official
• 1965: Tuija Brax , Finnish politician
• 1965: Lindsay Burns , American rower
• 1965: Inger Lise Hegge , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1965: Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock , American professional fisherman, author and former radio reporter
• 1965: Andrei Andrejewitsch Koslow , Vice-Chairman of the Russian Central Bank
• 1965: Bjørn Lomborg , Danish climate critic
• 1965: Christine Wachtel , German athlete, Olympic medalist
• 1966: Galina Avtajewa , Kazakh biathlete
• 1966: Sharon Cuneta , Filipino actress and television presenter
• 1966: Attilio Lombardo , Italian football player and coach
• 1966: Ana Munoz-Perez , Spanish soccer player
• 1966: AR Rahman , Indian composer and singer
• 1966: Christian K. Schaeffer , German actor
• 1967: Fátima Báñez , Spanish politician and minister
• 1967: Larry Donald , American boxer
• 1967: Tanja Jess , Dutch actress and presenter
• 1967: Thomas Luft , German actor and director
• 1967: Irina Vladimirovna Muschailowa , Russian athlete
• 1967: María Reyes Sobrino , Spanish walker
• 1968: Claudia Grigorescu , Romanian foil fencer
• 1968: Martin Kliehm , German DJ and local politician, Fuckparade initiator
• 1968: John Singleton , American director
• 1968: Heike Tillack , German athlete
• 1968: Madeleine Wehle , German television presenter
• 1969: Nicholas A'Hern , Australian walker
• 1969: Sonia Farke , German actress
• 1969: Eva Högl , German politician
• 1969: Stephan Harlander , German basketball coach
• 1969: Norman Reedus , American actor
• 1970: Susanne Evers , German actress
• 1970: Chibla Lewarsowna Gersmawa , Abkhazian-Russian opera singer
• 1970: Xandra Hag , German singer
• 1970: Doris Hager-Hämmerle , Austrian politician
• 1970: Radoslav Látal , Czech football player
• 1970: Kerrin Petty , American-Swedish cross-country skier
• 1970: Gabrielle Reece , American model, beach volleyball player and golfer
• 1971: Nada Cristofoli , Italian cyclist
• 1971: Rita Ináncsi , Hungarian athlete
• 1971: Karin Slaughter , American writer
• 1972: Mina Agossi , French jazz singer and songwriter
• 1972: Katja Losch , German journalist and television presenter
• 1972: Georgia Mancio , British jazz singer and songwriter
• 1972: Nek , Italian pop singer and musician
• 1972: Pascal Nouma , French soccer player
• 1972: Jörg Reeb , German soccer player
• 1973: Jacqui Cooper , Australian freestyle skier
• 1973: Ilona Danko , Hungarian weightlifter
• 1973: Vassiliki Karadassiou , Greek beach volleyball player
• 1973: Oliver Pink , Austrian journalist
• 1973: Edoardo Ponti , Italian director
• 1974: Markus Hätinen , German ice hockey player
• 1974: Nicole DeHuff , American actress
• 1974: Wolfgang Dimetrik , Austrian accordionist
• 1975: Trond Andersen , Norwegian football player
• 1975: Daniela Krukower , Argentine judoka

1976-2000

Judith Rakers (* 1976)

Andreas Seidl (* 1976)

Maria Chudnovsky (* 1977)

Adrianne Wadewitz (* 1977)

Noah Boeken (* 1981)

Ljudmyla Pekur (* 1981)

Gilbert Arenas (* 1982)

Inge Vermeulen (* 1985)

• 1976: Danny Pintauro , American actor
• 1976: David Di Michele , Italian soccer player
• 1976: Judith Rakers , German journalist and television presenter
• 1976: Jill Sayre , American actress, director and camerawoman
• 1976: Andreas Seidl , German motorsport engineer and manager
• 1976: Isha Sesay , American television journalist
• 1977: Maria Chudnovsky , Israeli mathematician
• 1977: Laura Giordano , Italian triathlete and athlete
• 1977: Arian Nachbar , German short tracker
• 1977: Adrianne Wadewitz , American literary scholar and Wikipedia author
• 1977: Esther Zimmering , German actress
• 1978: Rubén Ramírez Hidalgo , Spanish tennis player
• 1978: Oksana Lyniw , Ukrainian conductor
• 1978: Ayano Tsuji , Japanese J-pop and folk singer
• 1979: Souad Aït Salem , Algerian long-distance runner
• 1979: Christina Chanée , Danish-Thai singer
• 1979: Robert Cvek , Czech chess grandmaster
• 1979: Bernice Jan Liu , Chinese actress and singer
• 1979: Andreas Rill , German soccer player
• 1979: Liu Xia , Chinese judoka
• 1980: Travis Dodd , Australian soccer player
• 1980: Catherine Downing , American wrestler
• 1980: Mihael Mikić , Croatian football player
• 1980: Steed Malbranque , French football player
• 1981: Noah Boeken , professional Dutch poker player
• 1981: Jérémie Renier , Belgian actor
• 1981: Markus Bollmann , German soccer player
• 1981: Mike Jones , American rapper
• 1981: Rinko Kikuchi , Japanese actress
• 1981: Ljudmyla Pekur , Ukrainian soccer player
• 1981: Claudia Hirn , Austrian politician
• 1982: Gilbert Arenas , American basketball player
• 1982: David Breuer , German handball player
• 1982: Moyamu Fujino , Japanese mangaka
• 1982: New York , American actress
• 1983: Artur Augustyn , Polish volleyball player
• 1983: Marcus Cassel , American football player
• 1983: Saul Raisin , American cyclist
• 1983: Sven Krauss , German racing cyclist
• 1983: Volodymyr Djudja , Ukrainian cyclist
• 1984: Belinda Goss , Australian cycling trainer and racing cyclist
• 1984: Swiad Isoria , Georgian chess master
• 1984: Matteo Montaguti , Italian racing cyclist
• 1984: Eric Trump , American entrepreneur
• 1985: Abel Enrique Aguilar , Colombian soccer player
• 1985: Valerio Agnoli , Italian racing cyclist
• 1985: Amalie Bruun , Danish musician and actress
• 1985: Patrick Koslow , German ice hockey player
• 1985: Frauke Rostalski , German law scholar and university professor
• 1985: Inge Vermeulen , Brazilian-Dutch hockey player
• 1986: Christina Arend , German soccer player
• 1986: Alex Turner , British singer and guitarist ( Arctic Monkeys )
• 1986: Irina Shayk , Russian model
• 1986: Serhiy Stachowskyj , Ukrainian tennis player
• 1987: Muna Jabir Adam , Sudanese hurdler
• 1987: Daniel Gramann , Austrian soccer player
• 1987: Bongani Khumalo , South African soccer player
• 1988: Daniel Davari , Iranian-German soccer goalkeeper
• 1988: Jefferson Andrade Siqueira , Brazilian soccer player
• 1989: José Justicia , Spanish darts player
• 1989: Max Pirkis , British film actor
• 1989: Dawid Sigachev , Russian racing driver
• 1990: Sandro Cortese , German motorcycle racer
• 1990: Marlene Zapf , German handball player
• 1991: Jeroen Zoet , Dutch soccer player
• 1992: Julian Lauenroth , German handball player
• 1992: Diona Reasonover , American actress
• 1993: Ikrom Ahmadboyev , Uzbek summer biathlete
• 1993: Sonny Kittel , German-Polish soccer player
• 1993: Mark Redl , German soccer goalkeeper
• 1994: Denis Suárez , Spanish soccer player
• 1995: Christian Bunse , German dart player
• 1995: Niklas Heidemann , German soccer player
• 1996: Sebastian Arnold , German handball player
• 1997: Nathalie Volk , German model
• 2000: Fiete Arp , German soccer player
• 2000: Mohamed Camara , Malian football player
• 2000: Iker Lecuona , Spanish motorcycle racer

21st century

• 2003: MattyB , American child actor and singer

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0786: Subscription from Tbilisi , Christian martyr and patron saint of the Georgian capital Tbilisi
• 0996: Rainald I , Count of Sens
• 1019: Ottwin , Count in Lurngau and in Pustertal
• 1037: Siegfried II of Stade , Count of Stade
• 1088: Berengar von Tours , dialectician of the pre-olastic era
• 1112: Eberhard I. von Hildrizhausen , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
• 1121: Erminold , Benedictine abbot in the convent near Regensburg
• 1148: Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke , Anglo-Norman nobleman
• 1153: Makarius , Benedictine and first abbot of the Schottenkloster St. Jakob in Würzburg
• 1233: Matilda of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon , Anglo-Norman nobleman
• 1258: Konrad I von Wallhausen , Bishop of Meißen
• 1275: Raimund von Penyafort , Dominican and Canon in Spain
• 1284: Heinrich I , Count von Fürstenberg
• 1291: William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose , cambro-Norman nobleman
• 1298: Dominicus Krafft , Chancellor of the Roman-German King Rudolf von Habsburg
• 1366: Peter Thomas , French clergyman, Carmelite, papal legate, crusade preacher, bishop and Latin patriarch of Constantinople; Saint of the Catholic Church
• 1374: Andrea Corsini , Bishop of Fiesole
• 1381: Gilbert de Umfraville, 9th Earl of Angus , English nobleman with a Scottish title
• 1387: Peter IV , King of Aragon, as Peter I also King of Sardinia and Duke of Athens and Neopatria
• 1398: Ruprecht II (Palatinate) , Elector Palatinate
• 1425: Johann III. "Without grace" , Duke of Straubing-Holland
• 1438: Edward Hastings , English knight
• 1459: Thomas Ferrers , English knight
• 1469: Henry Bromflete, 1st Baron Vescy , English nobleman
• 1478: John VIII of Bourbon , Count of Vendôme
• 1478: Uzun Hasan , ruler of the Turkmen
• 1481: Akhmat Khan , Khan of the Golden Horde

16th and 17th centuries

• 1507: Jobst I , Count of Hoya
• 1521: Guillaume III. de Croÿ , Prince-Bishop of Cambrai and Archbishop of Toledo
• 1525: Amalie von der Pfalz , Countess Palatinate of Simmern and Duchess of Pomerania
• 1536: Baldassare Peruzzi , Italian architect and painter

Alessandro de 'Medici († 1537)

• 1537: Alessandro de 'Medici , Duca della città di Penna and Duke of Florence
• 1542: Bernard van Orley , Dutch painter
• 1546: Caspar Löner , German reformer and hymn composer
• 1566: Francesco II Gonzaga , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• 1602: Andreas Raselius , German composer
• 1617: Dorothea of ​​Denmark , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
• 1646: Elias Holl , builder of the German early baroque
• 1668: Magdalena Sibylle of Saxony , Duchess of Saxony-Altenburg
• 1693: Mehmed IV , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
• 1694: Francesco Morosini , 108th Doge of Venice
• 1695: Christian Albrecht , Prince-Bishop of Lübeck and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
• 1698: Leopold Philipp Montecuccoli , Austrian general
• 1699: Samuel Andreae , German theologian

18th century

• 1703: Charlotte Marie von Sachsen-Jena , Princess of Sachsen-Jena and Duchess of Sachsen-Weimar
• 1707: Abraham Wenzel Löbel , German mountain master
• 1709: Louise de Prie de La Mothe-Houdancourt , governess of the children and grandson of Louis XIV.
• 1709: Michael Strauch , German mathematician
• 1711: Philipp van Almonde , Dutch vice admiral
• 1711: Johann Hugo von Orsbeck , Bishop of Speyer, Archbishop and Elector of Trier
• 1718: Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina , Italian writer and lawyer and co-founder of the Accademia dell'Arcadia
• 1721: Theodor Dassov , German linguist and Lutheran theologian
• 1722: Andrea Gioannetti , Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Archbishop of Bologna
• 1725: Chikamatsu Monzaemon , Japanese playwright
• 1731: Étienne François Geoffroy (the elder), chemist and physician
• 1734: John Dennis , British playwright and critic
• 1734: Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach , Frankfurt patrician, aldermen and councilor, travel writer and book collector
• 1738: Jean-Baptiste Labat , French missionary and travel writer
• 1738: Franz Xaver Murschhauser , German musician and composer
• 1742: Johann Georg Reinhardt , Austrian composer and organist
• 1750: Georg Lisiewski , German portrait painter
• 1757: Bernhard Friedrich von Ahlimb , Prussian colonel and commander of the garrison in Magdeburg
• 1767: Abraham Mendle , horse dealer and Bavarian court factor
• 1767: Georg Hermann Richerz , German Lutheran clergyman
• 1773: Pyotr Semjonowitsch Saltykow , Russian field marshal
• 1781: Johann Gottlob Werner , German Protestant theologian
• 1786: Peter Nikolaus von Gartenberg , Saxon-Polish politician of Danish origin
• 1788: Johann Ulrich Sponsel , German Protestant theologian
• 1789: Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen , Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim and Paderborn
• 1799: Wilhelm Georg Friedrich von Oranien-Nassau , second son of the inheritance holder Wilhelm V of the Netherlands

19th century

Charlotte von Stein († 1827)

Josef Dobrovský († 1829)

Fanny Burney († 1840)

Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant († 1886)

• 1805: Johann Thomas Lamminger , German soldier in the American War of Independence and court printer
• 1805: Conrad Moench , German pharmacist, chemist and botanist
• 1807: Ahasverus van den Berg , Dutch Reformed theologian and poet
• 1812: Phanuel Bishop , American politician
• 1813: Christian Traugott Fleischmann , German organist and flautist
• 1813: John Tyler Sr. , American politician
• 1814: Henry Glen , American politician
• 1816: Franz Joseph von Albini , German politician and statesman
• 1817: Johann Heinrich Ayrer , German academic riding instructor
• 1827: Charlotte von Stein , friend of Schiller and Goethe
• 1829: Josef Dobrovský , Czech philologist and Slavist
• 1831: Rodolphe Kreutzer , French violinist, conductor and composer
• 1840: Fanny Burney , English writer
• 1840: Johann Baptist Schiedermayr , German composer and church musician
• 1841: Benedikt Arnstein , German writer
• 1841: Tani Bunchō , Japanese painter and poet
• 1846: August Heinrich Andreae , German architect, city architect, painter and etcher
• 1849: Johann Caspar von Orelli , Swiss classical philologist
• 1852: Louis Braille , inventor of Braille
• 1854: Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich , German classical philologist
• 1856: Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa , French composer and harp virtuoso
• 1857: Albert Schwegler , German theologian, philosopher and historian
• 1858: Johannes Nefflen , Swabian writer and satirist
• 1860: William Martin Leake , English archaeologist
• 1866: Louis Antoine Ponchard , French opera singer
• 1875: Friedrich Wilhelm I , last elector and sovereign Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
• 1875: Krastjo Pischurka , Bulgarian theater director and actor
• 1876: Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo , Portuguese politician and leader of the Setembrists
• 1882: Nathan Davis , English explorer of Africa
• 1884: Gregor Mendel , Austrian Augustinian and geneticist
• 1885: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen , Norwegian writer, scientist and collector of Norwegian fairy tales
• 1886: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant , French engineer, mathematician and physicist
• 1890: Józef Nikorowicz , Polish composer
• 1893: Angelo Baroffio , Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1894: Johannes Schmidt , German classical philologist and epigraphist
• 1897: François-Marie Trégaro , French military chaplain and bishop
• 1897: Albert S. Willis , American politician
• 1898: Fridolin Reynold , Swiss politician and state chancellor

20th century

1901-1925

Ann Eliza Smith († 1905)

Theodore Roosevelt († 1919)

• 1902: Lars Hertervig , Norwegian landscape painter
• 1905: Ann Eliza Smith , American author
• 1906: Gabrielle Krauss , Austrian opera singer
• 1906: Friedrich Weigle , German organ builder
• 1908: Josef von Mering , German medic
• 1910: Jeanne Marni , French writer
• 1913: Carl Arp , German landscape painter
• 1913: Ernesto Elorduy , Mexican composer and pianist
• 1913: Dominikus Willi , Abbot of Marienstatt and Bishop of the Diocese of Limburg
• 1917: Carl Leonhard Becker , German painter and engraver
• 1917: Hendrik Peter Godfried Quack , Dutch historian and economist
• 1918: Georg Cantor , German mathematician
• 1919: Theodore Roosevelt , American politician, 26th President of the USA and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1919: Walther Paucker , German-Baltic pastor and evangelical martyr
• 1920: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen , Danish professor of mathematics
• 1923: Adele Esinger , Austrian painter and actress
• 1924: Sophie von Waldburg-Syrgenstein , German poet
• 1925: Rafaela Porras y Ayllón , Spanish nun and founder of the order

1926-1950

Louisine W. Havemeyer († 1929)

Herbert Chapman († 1934)

Louise Bryant († 1936)

Franz Hessel († 1941)

Emma Calvé († 1942)

• 1926: Émile Paladilhe , French composer and pianist
• 1928: Alvin Kraenzlein , American athlete
• 1929: Louisine Waldron Havemeyer , American art collector, patron and suffragette
• 1931: Ethel Gray Terry , American silent film actress
• 1934: Herbert Chapman , English football player and coach
• 1934: Eucarpio Espinosa , Chilean painter
• 1934: Marcelle Sauvageot , French writer and teacher
• 1936: François Beaugendre , French cyclist
• 1936: Louise Bryant , American journalist and author
• 1936: Nicolae Gropeanu , Romanian painter
• 1936: Gerhard Lassar , German legal scholar
• 1936: Hermann H. Zagel , German-speaking American author
• 1937: Han Ryner , French nonviolent anarchist and individualist
• 1938: Arturo Berutti , Argentine composer
• 1939: Ernst Markees , Swiss composer and conductor
• 1939: Emma Streit , German painter
• 1941: Franz Hessel , German writer
• 1941: Georges Truc , French conductor
• 1942: Henri de Baillet-Latour , Belgian aristocrat, third President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC )
• 1942: Emma Calvé , French opera singer
• 1942: Alexander Belyayev , Russian writer
• 1942: Tina Modotti , Italian photographer and actress
• 1943: Laura Alsberg , victim of the Holocaust
• 1943: Claude Friese-Greene , British cameraman, producer and director
• 1943: Leo Hirsch , German journalist and writer
• 1943: Abbott Lawrence Lowell , non-fiction author, President of Harvard University
• 1943: Berthold Oppler , German internist and immunologist
• 1943: Benno Wolf , German cave explorer
• 1943: Wilhelm von Wolf , German lawyer in the financial administration of Bavaria
• 1944: Christian Bærentsen , Governor of the Faroe Islands
• 1944: Fritz Behn , German communist and resistance fighter
• 1944: Henri Buisson , French physicist
• 1944: Hans Hyan , German cabaret artist, court reporter and writer
• 1944: Leo Peukert , German theater and film actor, director
• 1944: Jacques Rosenbaum , Estonian architect
• 1944: Ida Tarbell , American writer and journalist
• 1945: Luciano Albertini , Italian actor
• 1945: Heinz Alt , German composer, victim of the Nazi regime
• 1945: Georg Dimentstein , German artist, communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1945: Edith Frank-Holländer , victim of the Holocaust, mother of Anne Frank
• 1945: Ernest Gaubert , French journalist, author, poet, novelist, Romanist and biographer
• 1945: Ala Gertner , Polish resistance activist in the Birkenau concentration camp
• 1945: Paul Junke , German politician, MdR
• 1945: Robert Kröner , German publisher
• 1945: Herbert Lumsden , British Lieutenant General in World War II
• 1945: Yvonne Mewes , German teacher and Nazi victim
• 1945: Alexander Ritschl , German orthopedist and university professor
• 1945: Rózia Robota , Polish resister in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
• 1945: Regina Safirsztajn , Polish resistance fighter in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
• 1945: Vladimir Ivanovich Wernadski , Russian geologist, geochemist and mineralogist
• 1946: Slim Summerville , American actor and director
• 1948: Raoul Auernheimer , Austrian lawyer and writer
• 1949: Victor Fleming , American film director
• 1950: Minami Kunzō , Japanese painter
• 1950: Josef Pabst , German stonemason, sculptor and sculptor

1951-1975

Maila Talvio († 1951)

Wilhelm Sollmann († 1951)

Georg Tischler († 1955)

Josephine of Belgium († 1958)

Nima Youschidsch († 1960)

Margit Slachta († 1974)

• 1951: Maila Talvio , Finnish writer
• 1951: Wilhelm Sollmann , German journalist and politician
• 1952: Alfred Meebold , German botanist, writer and anthroposophist
• 1952: Hermann Stopperich , German politician
• 1953: Hugo ten Hövel , German politician
• 1955: Grigori Abramowitsch Kerin , Russian composer
• 1955: Georg Tischler , German botanist, karyologist and university professor
• 1956: Sonja Schlesin , South African civil rights activist
• 1958: Josephine of Belgium , Princess of Belgium
• 1960: Erik Robert Lindahl , Swedish economist
• 1960: Nima Youschidsch , Persian poet
• 1961: Franz Max Anderlohr , German electrical engineer
• 1961: Regina Ullmann , Swiss poet
• 1962: Carl Domke , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1962: Max Fritsch , German politician
• 1962: Robert Herlth , German production designer
• 1963: Lina Abarbanell , German soprano and actress
• 1963: Weaver Warren Adams , American chess player and writer
• 1963: Lourens Gerhard Marinus Baas Becking , Dutch botanist and microbiologist
• 1963: Heinrich Mühl , German dentist and politician, MdL
• 1963: Frank Tuttle , American film director
• 1964: Wilhelm Büning , German theologian
• 1964: Marga Cella , Italian actress
• 1964: Edgar WA Maass , German chemist and writer
• 1965: Armin Bodechtel , German architect and politician
• 1965: Søren Marinus Jensen , Danish wrestler
• 1965: Kurt Leese , German philosopher
• 1965: Emil Weiss , illustrator and cartoonist
• 1966: Albrecht Brandi , German submarine commander and architect
• 1966: Jean Lurçat , French painter, ceramist and image maker
• 1966: Rudolf Trenz , German politician, MdL
• 1967: Giovanni Lacchini , Italian astronomer
• 1967: Joseph Meiß , German theologian
• 1968: Kurt Baschwitz , German-Dutch journalist, social psychologist and journalist
• 1968: Rolf Ippen , German newspaper publisher
• 1969: Paul Schuh , German church musician
• 1970: Rudolf Bohnstedt , German dermatologist
• 1970: Fredy Budzinski , German cycling journalist
• 1970: Julius Schmidhauser , Swiss philosopher
• 1970: Antonio Taffi , Italian Archbishop Diplomat of the Holy See
• 1971: Jorge Barbosa , Cape Verdean writer and poet
• 1971: David Luce , British naval officer in the Royal Navy
• 1972: Maria Dahl , German zoologist
• 1972: Emil Hauck , Austrian cynologist
• 1972: Walter Neuweiler , Swiss physician
• 1972: Chen Yi , Chinese army leader and politician
• 1973: Maurice Thatcher , American politician
• 1974: Ernst Gabriel , German politician
• 1974: Franz Horr , Austrian politician
• 1974: Pyotr Mikhailovich Nikiforov , Russian-Soviet revolutionary and politician
• 1974: Georg Raederscheidt , German pedagogue and university professor
• 1974: David Alfaro Siqueiros , Mexican painter and printmaker
• 1974: Margit Slachta , Hungarian founder of the order, politician and the first woman elected to the Hungarian parliament
• 1975: Noel Madison , American actor and director
• 1975: George R. Price , American biologist

1976-2000

Archibald Joseph Cronin († 1981)

Pawel Alexejewitsch Cherenkov († 1990)

• 1976: José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla , Mexican Bishop of Zamora
• 1976: Annemarie Korff , German actress
• 1977: Hanns Lilje , German theologian, art historian and regional bishop
• 1977: Gerda Walther , German philosopher and parapsychologist
• 1978: Karl Julius Anselmino , German gynecologist and obstetrician
• 1979: Giorgio Colli , Italian philosopher
• 1980: Piersanti Mattarella , Italian politician
• 1980: Raymond Mays , British racing car driver and entrepreneur
• 1981: Archibald Joseph Cronin , British doctor and writer
• 1981: Gertrude Sandmann , German artist
• 1983: Gisela Kühler-Balcke , German sculptor
• 1983: Bernard Stevens , English composer and music teacher
• 1984: Hermann Engelhard , German athlete
• 1984: Icie Macy Hoobler , American biochemist
• 1984: Ernest Laszlo , Hungarian-American cameraman
• 1984: Paula Lepa , German voice actress and actress
• 1985: OF Weidling , talk show host and conférencier on GDR television
• 1986: Fernand Oubradous , French bassoonist and composer
• 1989: Grete Alt-Lantschner , Austrian ski racer
• 1989: Frieda Goralewski , breathing and body pedagogue and therapist
• 1989: Jim Hurtubise , American racing car driver
• 1989: Edmund Leach , English anthropologist and electrical engineer
• 1989: Rhoda Sutherland , British Romance philologist
• 1990: Hans Jaray , chamber actor, director and author
• 1990: Sophie Piccard , Swiss mathematician
• 1990: Pawel Alexejewitsch Cherenkov , Russian physicist
• 1991: Ahmed Adnan Saygun , Turkish composer
• 1991: Heinrich Dathe , German zoologist
• 1992: Udo Adelsberger , German inventor
• 1993: Dizzy Gillespie , American jazz musician, composer, singer and band leader
• 1993: Charlotte Houtermans , German-American physical chemist and university professor
• 1993: Elke Kast , German TV announcer
• 1993: Richard Mortensen , Danish painter
• 1993: Rudolf Chametowitsch Nurejew , choreographer, ballet dancer
• 1994: Harold Sumberg , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
• 1996: Hildegard Emmel , German Germanist and university professor
• 1996: Kurt Schmücker , German politician, Federal Minister for Economics and Labor
• 1996: Willy Czernik , German operetta and film composer
• 1997: Catherine Scorsese , American actress
• 1998: Thomas Ellwein , German political scientist
• 1998: Otto Schmitt , American biophysicist, co-founder of biomimetics and inventor
• 1999: Michel Petrucciani , French jazz pianist
• 1999: Ntsu Mokhehle , Lesothic politician
• 1999: Ingeborg Wurster , journalist and television presenter

21st century

• 2000: Don Martin , American cartoonist for MAD magazine
• 2000: Horst Seemann , German film director and screenwriter
• 2002: Serge Brignoni , Swiss painter

Sanya Dharmasakti († 2002)

• 2002: Sanya Dharmasakti , Thai politician
• 2002: Fred Taylor , American basketball coach
• 2004: Max Adenauer , German politician
• 2004: Pierre Charles , Dominican politician
• 2005: Friedrich Chlubna , Austrian chess problem composer
• 2005: Ernest Lenart , German actor
• 2005: Tarquinio Provini , Italian motorcycle racer
• 2006: Commander Ramona , Commander of the EZLN
• 2006: Lou Rawls , American jazz and soul singer
• 2007: Frédéric Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi , Archbishop of Kinshasa
• 2007: Sneaky Pete Kleinow , American country musician
• 2007: Georg Tressler , Austrian film director
• 2008: Ken Nelson , American music producer
• 2009: Ron Asheton , American guitarist
• 2010: Virgílio dos Anjos , East Timorese guerrilla
• 2010: Ivan Medek , Czech politician and music critic
• 2011: Gad Granach , Israeli author

Silvana Pampanini († 2016)

• 2012: Eleftherios Katsaitis , Greek bishop
• 2012: William Francis McBeth , American composer and conductor
• 2012: Helmut Friedmann , German-Palestinian philologist, linguist and writer
• 2013: Qazi Hussain Ahmad , Pakistani theologian and politician
• 2013: Enrique Meneses , Spanish journalist and photographer
• 2014: Karel Gut , Czechoslovak ice hockey player and coach
• 2014: Karlheinz Küting , German business economist and university lecturer
• 2015: Rolf Möller , German painter
• 2016: Silvana Pampanini , Italian actress
• 2017: Om Puri , Indian actor
• 2017: Francine York , American actress
• 2018: Elza Brandeisz , Hungarian dancer
• 2021: Wiesław Glos , Polish fencer
• 2021: John Land , English hockey player
• 2021: Mehtab Singh , Indian boxer

Holidays and memorial days

• public holidays
  • Holy Three Kings , a religious holiday in Austria and parts of Germany

• Church memorial days
  • Epiphany , solemn festival (Anglican, Evangelical, Catholic, Orthodox)
  • Walther Paucker , German-Baltic pastor and martyr (Protestant)

• Name days
  • Balthasar , Kaspar , Pia , Wiltrud

• regional customs
  • Epiphany cake

The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .

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