6th of June
The June 6 is the 157th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 158th in leap years ), thus remaining 208 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1513 : In the Battle of Novara , the Confederates defeat a French force under the general Louis II. De La Trémoille . The Duke Massimiliano Sforza , who fled from Milan, can return, the French lose the Duchy of Milan and all other possessions in Italy.
- 1523 : Gustav Wasa is elected King of Sweden . The Kalmar Union is now finally dissolved.
- 1617 : The Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand is elected King of Bohemia . His measures to re-Catholicize Bohemia and the restriction of the rights of the estates , which he initiated soon after, caused displeasure and a revolt of the estates was on the way.
- 1654 : Karl X. Gustav von Pfalz-Zweibrücken succeeds his cousin Christina I on the Swedish throne after her abdication as king.
- 1660 : The Peace of Copenhagen marks the end of the war between Sweden and Denmark .
- 1795 : Luxembourg , besieged for seven months, surrenders to French revolutionary troops in the First Coalition War.
- 1801 : The Peace of Badajoz ends the short Orange War that Spain and France waged against Portugal . It must now close its ports to British ships, cede some property to the victors, and pay war indemnity.
- 1808 : Joseph Bonaparte , the brother of the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte , is proclaimed King of Spain in Bayonne . After riots broke out in May, resistance spreads after his proclamation. This culminates in a permanent guerrilla war that will overshadow Joseph's entire reign.
- 1809 : The Swedish Reichstag adopts a new constitution that will remain in force until 1974. It replaces the absolutist constitution of 1772 .
- 1813 : 700 British defeat more than 3000 Americans in the British-American War in the Battle of Stoney Creek near Lake Ontario in Canada.
- 1835 : The Australian businessman and farmer John Batman signs the Batman's Treaty for land around Port Phillip Bay with tribal elders of the Aboriginal people . The treaty is the only document used by European settlers to negotiate Aboriginal land, but is later invalidated by the Governor of New South Wales , Richard Bourke .
- 1836 : After the death of King Anton , his nephew Friedrich August II becomes the new King of Saxony .
- 1838 : US-American troops under General Winfield Scott begin on the basis of the Indian Removal Act with the expulsion of the Cherokee from their ancestral territories and the relocation to an Indian reservation in the Indian territory , today's Oklahoma . The path of tears costs the lives of around 4,000 of the 10,000 relocated Indians.
- 1862 : In the American Civil War , the troops of the northern states take Memphis , Tennessee.
- 1920 : In the Reichstag election in 1920 , the first regular election of the Reichstag in the Weimar Republic , the SPD becomes the strongest party, but the so-called Weimar coalition of the republic-supporting parties loses its majority.
- 1920 : After Prime Minister António Maria Baptista dies unexpectedly of a stroke after a cabinet meeting, José Ramos Preto becomes Portugal's new head of government .
- 1942 : 500 Japanese marines go ashore on the US island of Kiska in the Pacific War and open the battle for the Aleutians .
- 1944 : Allied troops land on the Atlantic coast of Normandy on what is known as D-Day .
- 1961 : In Stuttgart the prime ministers of the federal states sign the state treaty establishing the ZDF .
- 1964 : With a preliminary injunction, all rocket attempts in the Cuxhaven wadden area are prohibited.
- 1968 : The younger brother of the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy , Robert F. Kennedy , who himself aspired to the US presidency after a career as a Senate lawyer, attorney general and senator, is also assassinated in Los Angeles - as a promising candidate Victim.
- 1971 : Initiated by Alice Schwarzer , 374 women publicly confess in the Stern in an action for the abolition of § 218 StGB .
- 1982 : Israeli troops invade Lebanon with the aim of destroying the infrastructure of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
- 1985 : Wolfgang Gerhard's grave is opened in Embu , Brazil . The exhumed remains are those of later sought as a concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele identified .
- 1986 : A few weeks after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , the German Federal Environment Ministry is established.
- 1989 : Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamene'i becomes head of state in Iran for an indefinite period.
- 1990 : Susanne Albrecht is arrested in East Berlin - as the first of the RAF terrorists who left the GDR and lived with a new identity .
- 2001 : Former President Carlos Saúl Menem is arrested in Argentina . He is suspected of trading arms with Croatia and Ecuador during his tenure.
- 2007 : The G8 summit begins in Heiligendamm .
economy
- 1710 : The first European porcelain manufactory , the Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Porcelain Manufactory , founded by decree of August the Strong on January 23, starts operations in Albrechtsburg in Meißen under the direction of Johann Friedrich Böttger .
- 1907 : The Henkel company offered households the Persil detergent for sale for the first time through an advertisement in the Düsseldorfer Zeitung . However, the brand name can only be registered around ten years later. Right from the start, the product is only sold in the original box and not as a loose item.
- 1925 : Walter Percy Chrysler , director of the Maxwell Motor Company , founds the Chrysler Motor Cooperation . Maxwell- Chalmers' assets will be incorporated into the new organization.
science and technology
- 1971 : The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 is launched. The crew can successfully dock with the Salyut 1 space station , which was not possible with the Soyuz 10 mission.
- 1984 : The first playable version of Tetris was completed.
- 1993 : The 9th World AIDS Conference , which will last until June 11, begins in Berlin with around 14,000 participants.
- 2005 : Apple announces in future Macs no longer PowerPC processors from IBM , but Intel - processors installed to want.
- 2012 : With the landing of the solar aircraft Solar Impulse in Morocco, the first intercontinental flight in the history of solar aircraft construction succeeds .
- 2018 : Successful runs in Kazakhstan from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the 55th launch of a manned Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). The German astronaut Alexander Gerst is also on board .
Culture
- 1700 : The world premiere of the opera L'inganno vinto dalla Costanza by Attilio Ariosti takes place in Berlin.
- 1727 : At the last season performance of the opera Astianatte by Giovanni Bononcini, the two prima donnas Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni verbally abused each other on the stage, an incident that resulted in engagements all over Europe for both singers.
- 1924 : At the New German Theater in Prague is Arnold Schoenberg's musical monodrama Expectation premiered.
- 1924 : In Höchst (now part of Frankfurt am Main) the technical administration building for the Hoechst paintworks designed by architect Peter Behrens is inaugurated, a key work in industrial architecture.
- 1933 : The first drive-in theater opens in Camden, New Jersey . The Camden Drive-In Theater has space for 335 vehicles.
- 1951 : The first Berlin International Film Festival opens with Rebecca , Hitchcock 's first Hollywood film .
- 1954 : The first Eurovision program - a broadcast of the Montreux Narcissus Festival in seven other countries - is broadcast.
- 1994 : The first broadcast of the talk show Arabella on the TV channel ProSieben is broadcast. The format lasts ten years.
society
- 1932 : The Caro-Petschek trial begins in Berlin , one of the most complex criminal trials in the final phase of the Weimar Republic .
- 1998 : On the first “Social Day” organized by Schüler Helfen Leben , 35,000 schoolchildren in Schleswig-Holstein swap their school desk for a paid job and donate the equivalent of around 920,000 euros for charitable purposes.
religion
- 1610 : Franz von Sales and Johanna Franziska von Chantal found the Order of the Visitation of Mary in Annecy .
- 1844 : George Williams founds the first YMCA ( The Young Men's Christian Association, YMCA ) in London .
Disasters
- 1882 : More than 100,000 people die in Bombay when a tropical cyclone over the Arabian Sea pushes huge waves into the harbor basin.
- 1931 : The Munich Glaspalast is burned to death. 3000 paintings including the complete works of the special exhibition German Romantics burn with the exhibition building.
- 1981 : In India, a train derails on a bridge over the Bagmati River. 268 people die, 300 are missing.
- 1994 : An earthquake of 6.8-magnitude in Colombia caused the deaths of 795 people.
- 1994 : A Tupolev Tu-154 operated by China Northwest Airlines crashes 10 minutes after taking off from Xi'an . All 160 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1912 : With the eruption of the Novarupta in Alaska, the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century begins , which lasts until June 8th.
- 2012 : A Venus transit can be observed in many parts of the world.
Sports
- 1894 : The Karlsruhe FC Phönix is founded as a football club. It is the oldest forerunner of the Karlsruher SC .
- 1946 : The Basketball Association of America (BAA), predecessor of the National Basketball Association (NBA), is founded in New York .
- 1971 : Horst-Gregorio Canellas , President of Offenbacher Kickers , reveals on the last day of the 1970/71 season , his 50th birthday, that games have been influenced by cash payments. This triggers the Bundesliga scandal .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 1243 : Alix of Brittany , French nobleman and crusader
- 1296 : Wladislaus , Duke of Liegnitz
- 1436 : Regiomontanus , German astronomer, mathematician and publisher
- 1470 : Ottilie von Baden , Margravine of Baden
- 1471 : Jacob II of Baden , (titular) margrave of Baden, archbishop and elector of Trier
- 1502 : Johann III. , Portuguese king
- 1511 : Jakob Degen , German lawyer, physician and philosopher
- 1519 : Andrea Cesalpino , Italian philosopher, botanist and physiologist
- 1532 : Giulio Antonio Santorio , Italian cardinal of the Roman Church
- 1539 : Katharina Wasa , Princess of Sweden and Countess of East Frisia
- 1568 : Sophie von Sachsen , daughter of Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg and Electress and Regent of Saxony
- 1598 : Johannes Müller , German Lutheran theologian.
- 1599 : Diego Velázquez , Spanish painter (date of baptism)
17th century
- 1606 : Pierre Corneille , French playwright
- 1616 : François de Bourbon-Vendôme , Duke of Beaufort, Peer of France
- 1621 : Petar Zrinski , Ban of Croatia
- 1634 : Marie Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Countess of Hesse-Darmstadt
- 1636 : Þormóður Torfason , Icelandic historian
- 1646 : Hortensia Mancini , French nobleman, Mazarinette and mistress of the English king Charles II.
- 1661 : Giacomo Antonio Perti , Italian composer
- 1671 : Sebastian Zeidlmayr , German clergyman, organist and music teacher
- 1678 : Louis-Alexandre de Bourbon , Count of Toulouse, illegitimate son of Louis XIV.
- 1680 : Johann Martin Seekatz , German painter
- 1681 : Giovanni Domenico Santorini , Italian anatomist
- 1689 : Antoine Louis Rouillé, Comte de Jouy , French statesman
- 1699 : Friedrich Julius von Schwerin , Prussian major general
- 1700 : Katharina Dorothea von Schlieben , ancestress of European imperial and royal families
18th century
- 1714 : Joseph I , King of Portugal from the House of Braganza
- 1733 : Lorenz Pasch the Younger , Swedish painter
- 1735 : Pierre Dallery , French organ builder
- 1740 : Louis-Sébastien Mercier , French writer
- 1741 : Johann Conrad Eggers , German Lutheran theologian
- 1741 : Michele Spirito Giorna , Italian zoologist and anatomist
- 1749 : Johann Andreas Christian Michelsen , German mathematician
- 1750 : José Correia da Serra , Portuguese clergyman, scholar, diplomat and botanist
- 1756 : John Trumbull , American painter
- 1758 : François-Marie Mayeur , French actor, director, playwright and author of pamphlets
- 1772 : Peter Heywood , British naval officer
- 1772 : Maria Theresa of Naples-Sicily , last Empress of the Holy Roman Empire and first Empress of Austria
- 1778 : Jan Richard de Brueys , Dutch legal scholar
- 1782 : Nicolas Henri Jacob , French draftsman
- 1793 : Peter Friedrich Engstfeld , German organist and hymn poet
- 1797 : Rehuel Lobatto , Dutch mathematician
- 1798 : Wilhelm Bötticher , German educator and historian
Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin (* 1799)
- 1799 : Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , Russian poet
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Hermann von Arnim , manor owner, administrative officer and member of parliament
- 1803 : Eduard Pötzsch , German architect and pioneer of train station architecture
- 1804 : Per Conrad Boman , Swedish composer
- 1804 : Georg Heinrich Crola , German painter
- 1807 : Johann Baptist Schiedermayr the Younger , Austrian clergyman
- 1807 : Adrien-François Servais , Belgian cellist and composer
- 1809 : Heinrich Ludolf Ahrens , German classical philologist
- 1809 : Timothy Shay Arthur , American writer
- 1810 : Giuseppe Pioda , Swiss architect and engineer
- 1810 : Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin , German classical philologist
- 1817 : Alexander Forbes , Scottish bishop
- 1819 : Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke , German physiologist
- 1825 : Friedrich Bayer , German industrialist, founder of the paint factory Friedrich Bayer (today Bayer AG )
- 1825 : Ignaz Vinzenz Zingerle , South Tyrolean literary scholar and writer
- 1828 : Andreas Allescher , German mycologist
- 1829 : Hon'inbō Shūsaku , Japanese go player
- 1834 : Annie Adams Fields , American writer
- 1835 : Adolf Heyduk , Czech poet
- 1835 : Peter Langen , German classical philologist
- 1840 : John Stainer , English organist and composer
- 1841 : Heinrich Haukohl , German businessman and commercial judge
- 1841 : Eliza Orzeszkowa , Polish writer
- 1849 : William T. Watson , American politician
- 1850 : Leberecht von Kotze , Prussian chamberlain and master of ceremonies at court
- 1850 : Ferdinand Braun , German physicist, electrical engineer and television pioneer, Nobel Prize winner
1851-1900
- 1857 : Karl Pommerhanz , Austrian comic artist
- 1862 : Leopold Anton Johann Armbruster , German sculptor
- 1865 : Henry Pels , German entrepreneur
- 1866 : Wilhelm Wandschneider , German sculptor
- 1868 : Heinrich Held , German journalist and politician, MdL, State Minister, Prime Minister of Bavaria
- 1868 : Dawid Janowski , Polish chess player
- 1868 : Robert Falcon Scott , British naval officer and polar explorer
- 1869 : Siegfried Wagner , German composer and director of the Bayreuth Festival
- 1872 : Alix von Hessen-Darmstadt , the wife of Tsar Nicholas II, last Empress of Russia
- 1875 : Thomas Mann , German writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1877 : Karl Mras , Austrian classical philologist
- 1879 : Bartolomeo Blanche Espejo , Chilean military and politician, minister, president
- 1880 : William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish politician, head of government
- 1880 : Norbert Jacques , Luxembourgish writer
- 1882 : Ernst Krieck , German educator and writer
- 1885 : Gid Tanner , American musician
- 1886 : Edvard Rusjan , Slovenian aviation pioneer
- 1888 : Valerian Vladimirovich Kuibyshev , Soviet politician
- 1889 : David Teivonen , Finnish gymnast
- 1892 : Johannes Kunze , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1893 : Otto Pankok , German painter, draftsman and sculptor
- 1894 : John Hargrave , British draftsman, author and politician
- 1894 : Walter Kaßner , German politician, mayor of Magdeburg
- 1894 : Violet Trefusis , British writer
- 1898 : Walter Abel , American actor
- 1898 : René Bonneau , French racing car driver
- 1900 : Arthur Askey , British comedian and actor
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Anton Cromme , German pharmacist and local politician, MdL
- 1901 : Sukarno , Indonesian President
- 1902 : Herta Gotthelf , German politician and party official
- 1902 : Axel Ivers , German actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator
- 1902 : Tim Rose-Richards , British racing car driver and naval aviator
- 1903 : Gottlob Auwärter , German coachbuilder and entrepreneur
- 1903 : Aram Chatschaturjan , Russian composer
- 1904 : Hans Pauer , Austrian archivist and librarian
- 1905 : Georges C. Anawati , Egyptian Dominican, priest and Islamic scholar
- 1905 : Arthur Mendel , American choir conductor, musicologist and teacher
- 1906 : Stu Clancy , American football player
- 1906 : Max August Zorn , American professor of mathematics
- 1908 : Giovanni Bracco , Italian racing car driver
- 1908 : Rudolf Gramlich , German football player
- 1910 : Fritzi Burger , Austrian figure skater
- 1910 : Axel Monjé , German actor and voice actor
- 1911 : Jean Cayrol , French poet
- 1912 : Joan Hartigan , Australian tennis player
- 1912 : María Montez , American actress
- 1913 : Herbert Aschmann , German painter
- 1913 : Arno Behrisch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1913 : Francis Preston , British regatta sailor
- 1915 : Vincent Persichetti , American composer
- 1916 : Hamani Diori , Nigerian President
- 1916 : Irene von Meyendorff , German actress
- 1917 : Kirk Kerkorian , American entrepreneur
- 1918 : Mariana Sansón Argüello , Nicaraguan poet and painter
- 1919 : Rudolf am Bach , Swiss pianist and music teacher
- 1919 : Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington , British politician
- 1920 : Serge Lang , French sports journalist
- 1920 : Robert Turner , Canadian composer and music educator
- 1921 : Horst-Gregorio Canellas , German-Spanish entrepreneur and football official
- 1922 : Iain Hamilton , British composer and music educator
- 1923 : VC Andrews , American writer
- 1923 : Ivor Bueb , British racing car driver
- 1924 : Serge Nigg , French composer
- 1924 : Radovan Richta , Czechoslovak sociologist and philosopher
- 1924 : Robert Piloty , German engineer and computer scientist
- 1925 : Al Gray , American jazz trombonist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Klaus Tennstedt , German conductor, Bruckner and Mahler specialist
- 1927 : Ursula Böttcher , German trainer
- 1927 : Charles Jarrott , British-Canadian director and screenwriter
- 1929 : Bogusław Schaeffer , Polish composer, musicologist and teacher
- 1932 : Jan Adriaensens , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1933 : Erdmann-Michael Hinz , German sculptor
- 1933 : Heinrich Rohrer , Swiss physicist
- 1934 : Albert II , Belgian king
- 1934 : Taichi Yamada , Japanese writer and screenwriter
- 1935 : Grant Green , American jazz guitarist and composer
- 1935 : Bobby Mitchell , American football player
- 1936 : Dwight Winenger , American composer
- 1939 : Louis Andriessen , Dutch composer
- 1939 : Gary US Bonds , American singer
- 1940 : Willie John McBride , Irish rugby player
- 1940 : Hugo Walser , Liechtenstein athlete
- 1941 : Neal Adams , American draftsman and graphic artist
- 1942 : Klaus Bednarz , German journalist
- 1942 : Norberto Rivera Carrera , Mexican clergyman, Archbishop of Mexico City, cardinal
- 1943 : Klaus Mangold , German manager
- 1943 : Richard E. Smalley , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1944 : Edgar Froese , German composer and musician ( Tangerine Dream ), pioneer of electronic music
- 1944 : Alberto Matos , Portuguese athlete
- 1945 : Allen Boyd , American politician
- 1945 : Theo Zwanziger , German sports official, President of the German Football Association
- 1946 : Tony Levin , American musician
- 1946 : Sherwood Stewart , American tennis player
- 1947 : Robert Englund , American actor and director
- 1948 : Jürgen Marcus , German singer
- 1949 : Linda Barnes , American writer
- 1949 : Albert Frick , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1949 : Paul Lovens , German musician
- 1950 : Chantal Akerman , Belgian film director and professor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Gabriele Auenmüller , German opera singer and prompter
- 1951 : Lorenz Jäger , German sociologist and journalist
- 1952 : Thomas Arndt , German teacher and ornithologist
- 1953 : Marianela Sánchez , Dominican singer
- 1954 : Władysław Żmuda , Polish football player
- 1956 : Björn Borg , Swedish tennis player
- 1956 : Hans-Peter Ferner , German athlete
- 1957 : Fred Arbinger , German soccer player and coach
- 1957 : Christian Rach , German chef
- 1959 : Jürgen Bärsch , German Roman Catholic theologian, diocesan priest and university professor
- 1959 : Neal H. Moritz , American film producer
- 1960 : Steve Vai , American guitarist and composer
- 1961 : Tom Araya , Chilean bass player and singer
- 1961 : Dee C Lee , British singer
- 1961 : Gary Thomas , American jazz musician
- 1962 : Alex Datcher , American actress
- 1963 : Eric Cantor , American politician, member of the House of Representatives
- 1963 : Jason Isaacs , British actor
- 1963 : Andreas Englisch , German journalist
- 1964 : Rainer Kampmann , German media manager
- 1964 : Robert Kauffman , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1965 : Donat Acklin , Swiss bobsledder
- 1966 : Anthony Yeboah , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1966 : Thomas Doss , Austrian composer
- 1967 : Katharina Abt , German actress
- 1967 : Vladimir Anatolyevich Burmakin , Russian chess player
- 1967 : Paul Giamatti , American actor
- 1968 : Nils Lehmann , German handball player
- 1969 : Len Barrie , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1969 : Fernando Redondo , Argentine soccer player
- 1970 : Jens Bogner , German singer
- 1970 : James Shaffer , American rock musician ( KoЯn )
- 1971 : Rob David , American actor
- 1972 : Noriaki Kasai , Japanese ski jumper
- 1972 : Cristina Scabbia , Italian metal singer
- 1973 : Lisa Brokop , Canadian country singer
- 1974 : Dunja Hayali , German journalist and television presenter
- 1974 : Stefan Kaminski , German actor, speaker and author
- 1974 : Peter Ketnath , German actor
- 1974 : Uncle Kracker , American musician
- 1974 : Barbara Niedernhuber , German toboggan runner
- 1974 : Sonya Walger , British actress
- 1975 : Heike Ahlgrimm , German handball player
- 1975 : Francesco Attesti , Italian pianist
- 1975 : Nenê , Brazilian soccer player
- 1975 : Fritzi Haberlandt , German actress
1976-2000
- 1976 : Oxana Viktorovna Romenskaya , Russian handball player
- 1977 : David Connolly , Irish football player
- 1977 : Meike Evers , German rower, Olympic champion
- 1978 : Carl Barât , British musician
- 1978 : D-Bo , German rapper
- 1980 : Lauren Anderson , American model
- 1981 : João Paulo Andrade , Portuguese soccer player
- 1981 : Anja Juliette Laval , German porn actress
- 1982 : Oliver Fink , German soccer player
- 1983 : Lyndie Greenwood , Canadian actress
- 1983 : Gianna Michaels , American porn actress
- 1984 : Glenda Adami , Italian grass skier
- 1984 : Juan Alberto Andreu , Spanish soccer player
- 1985 : Hendrik Großöhmichen , German football player
- 1985 : Sebastian Larsson , Swedish football player
- 1986 : Evgeny Vorontsov , Russian-German handball player
- 1987 : Mohamed Amine Aoudia , Algerian football player
- 1987 : Mohamed Arjaoui , Moroccan amateur boxer
- 1988 : Jerome Assauer , German soccer player
- 1988 : József Varga , Hungarian football player
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- 1988 : Raphael Wolf , German soccer player
- 1989 : Michael White , Scottish soccer player
- 1989 : Robert Sacre , American-Canadian basketball player
- 1989 : Eric Stehfest , actor, author
- 1990 : Gavin Hoyte , English football player
- 1990 : Ellie Kendrick , British actress
- 1990 : Rodri , Spanish soccer player
- 1992 : Paul Schommer , American biathlete
- 1995 : Julian Green , German-American soccer player
- 1995 : Štefan Hadalin , Slovenian ski racer
- 1996 : Alexander Rossipal , German soccer player
- 1998 : Bakery Jatta , Gambian football player
- 1999 : Bigman , South Korean beatboxer, web video producer, singer-songwriter, and composer
- 1999 : Semyon Saizew , Russian billiards player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 810 : Rotrud , daughter of Charlemagne
- 840 : Agobard , Spanish prelate
- 1134 : Norbert von Xanten , German founder of the Premonstratensian Order, Archbishop of Magdeburg
- 1152 : Gilbert von Neuffontaines , saint, participant in the crusade
- 1154 : Abbas ibn Abi l-Futuh , vizier of the Fatimids
- 1217 : Henry I , King of Castile
- 1251 : Wilhelm II , Lord of Dampierre and Count of Flanders
- 1252 : Robert Passelewe , English clergyman
- 1272 : Ratibor , Duke of Pomerania
- 1277 : Simon I , Bishop of Paderborn
- 1326 : David de Moravia , Bishop of Moray
- 1333 : William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster , Irish nobleman
- 1350 : Bertrand de Saint-Geniès , Patriarch of Aquileia and Blessed of the Catholic Church
- 1362 : John Carew , English military man and Justiciar of Ireland
- 1364 : Wenceslas I , Duke of Liegnitz
- 1381 : Melchior von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen , Bishop of Osnabrück and Schwerin
- 1393 : Go-En'yū , Japanese emperor of the north court
- 1397 : Nikolaus von Riesenburg , Bishop of Constance and Olomouc
- 1468 : Adrian von Borsselen , Lord of Brigdamme, Zoutelande and Sint Laurens
16th to 18th century
- 1502 : Heinrich Brömse , Lübeck mayor
- 1503 : Andreas Proles , German theologian
- 1508 : Ercole Strozzi , Italian courtier and poet
- 1513 : Remigius Mans , German Landsknecht
- 1554 : Hieronymus Schurff , German lawyer
- 1558 : Philip I , Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein
- 1560 : João de Castro , Portuguese general and navigator
- 1561 : Katharina von Mecklenburg , Duchess of Saxony
- 1561 : Ridolfo Ghirlandaio , Italian painter
- 1569 : Jost Hoen , German master's degree, educator and statesman
- 1597 : Katharina Bernburg , victim of the witch trials in Wernigerode
- 1608 : Bernardo Buontalenti , Italian painter, architect and theater machinist
- 1618 : James Lancaster , English navigator and politician
- 1625 : Anna Maria von Boskowitz and Černahora , Princess of Liechtenstein, Duchess of Troppau and Duchess of Jägerndorf
- 1639 : Peter Crüger , German philologist, astronomer and mathematician
- 1640 : Ortolph Fomann the Younger , German historian and legal scholar
- 1656 : Charles de Schomberg , French general
- 1676 : Paul Gerhardt , German hymn poet
- 1702 : Andreas Mylius , German legal scholar
- 1710 : Louise de La Vallière , French noblewoman, mistress of Louis XIV.
- 1712 : Henri d'Escoubleau, comte de Montluc , French nobleman and general
- 1721 : Joseph I. Esterházy de Galantha , Hungarian nobleman and third prince and majorate of the Esterházy family
- 1731 : Giovanni Odazzi , Roman painter and printmaker
- 1733 : Martin Bernigeroth , German engraver
- 1737 : Pierre-Joseph Garidel , French physician and botanist
- 1739 : Samuel Dale , English physician and botanist
- 1747 : Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer
- 1751 : Christlieb von Clausberg , German mathematician
- 1756 : Michael Karl von Althann , Count of Goldburg and Murstetten, Archbishop of Bari and Bishop of Waitzen
- 1762 : George Anson , British admiral
- 1765 : Isaak Gottfried Gödtke , German administrative officer and chronicler
- 1783 : Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner , Bavarian publicist
19th century
- 1814 : Antoni Angelowicz , Ukrainian theologian
- 1816 : Christiane von Goethe , wife of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 1828 : Karl Friedrich Christian Wenck , German lawyer
- 1829 : Henry Dearborn , American physician, politician, and officer
- 1832 : Jeremy Bentham , British lawyer, philosopher and social reformer, co-founder of utilitarianism
- 1836 : Anton , King of Saxony
- 1836 : Luman Reed , American entrepreneur and art patron
- 1844 : Francis Johnson , American composer and musician
- 1847 : Bernhard Hirzel , Swiss Reformed theologian and orientalist
- 1861 : Camillo Benso von Cavour , first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy
- 1862 : Turner Ashby , American colonel
- 1865 : William Clark Quantrill , partisan leader in the American Civil War
- 1870 : Anna Schödl , Bohemian patron
- 1873 : Adalbert von Prussia , Prussian Prince
- 1878 : Achille Baraguey d'Hilliers , French general, Marshal of France
- 1878 : Robert Stirling , British priest and engineer from Scotland
- 1880 : Eugen Adam , German battle painter
- 1881 : Henri Vieuxtemps , Belgian composer
- 1883 : Heinrich Schröder , German missionary and Protestant martyr
- 1891 : John Macdonald , Canadian politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1907 : Fulgenzio Chicherio , Swiss lawyer and officer in the Swiss army
- 1912 : Giulio Ricordi , Italian music publisher and composer
- 1916 : Yuan Shikai , Chinese army leader, president and self-proclaimed emperor
- 1919 : Bruno von Schuckmann , German lawyer and consular officer, MdL, governor of German South West Africa
- 1920 : António Maria Baptista , Portuguese military and politician, Prime Minister
- 1920 : James Dunsmuir , Canadian politician and industrialist
- 1929 : Richard Réti , Austro-Hungarian chess player
- 1935 : Hans Bader , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1935 : Jacques Urlus , Dutch opera singer
- 1942 : George Andrew Reisner , American Egyptologist
- 1943 : Guido Fubini , Italian mathematician
- 1944 : Heinrich Langwost , German politician, MdL, MdR
- 1945 : Edith Rebecca Saunders , British geneticist
- 1946 : Gerhart Hauptmann , German writer
- 1947 : SH Dudley , American singer
- 1947 : Alphonse Martin , Canadian organist, pianist and music teacher
- 1948 : Aron Freimann , German historian
- 1948 : Louis Lumière , French film pioneer
1951-2000
- 1954 : Josef Bohatec , Czech philosopher and theologian
- 1954 : Fritz Kasparek , Austrian alpinist
- 1956 : Hiram Bingham , American archaeologist and explorer
- 1956 : Otto Lukas , German teacher, poet and writer
- 1960 : Hermann Rützler , Austrian photographer and racing car driver
- 1961 : Carl Gustav Jung , Swiss psychoanalyst
- 1961 : Anuschawan Ter-Gewondjan , Armenian composer
- 1962 : Yves Klein , French painter, sculptor and performance artist
- 1962 : Tom Phillis , Australian motorcycle racer
- 1965 : Hayunga Carman , Canadian music educator
- 1966 : Friedrich von der Leyen , German Germanist
- 1966 : Heinz Liepman , German writer and journalist
- 1968 : Theodor Frings , German specialist in German and linguist
- 1968 : Robert F. Kennedy , American politician, attorney general, and senator
- 1969 : Josefa Berens-Totenohl , German writer, painter and teacher
- 1971 : Lauro Amadò , Swiss football player
- 1971 : Edward Andrade , British physicist
- 1973 : Paul Klatt , German lieutenant general
- 1975 : Cyrus Baldridge , American painter and printmaker
- 1975 : Hugo Launicke , German party functionary, resistance fighter against National Socialism and politician
- 1976 : David Jacobs , British athlete
- 1976 : Elisabeth Rethberg , German-American singer
- 1978 : Kitazono Katsue , Japanese lyric poet
- 1979 : André Beaudin , French painter
- 1979 : José Reyes , French flamenco singer
- 1980 : Ruth Hughes Aarons , American table tennis player
- 1983 : Hans Leip , German writer and poet ( Lili Marleen )
- 1984 : Leo Ågren , Finnish-Swedish writer
- 1984 : Ernst Schellenberg , German politician
- 1985 : Kurt Ranke , German Germanist and folklorist
- 1986 : Herbert Eisenreich , Austrian narrator
- 1986 : John Tolan , American racing car driver
- 1987 : Burhan Atak , Turkish soccer player and referee
- 1987 : Mori Mari , Japanese writer
- 1991 : Stan Getz , American tenor saxophonist
- 1991 : Gianni De Luca , Italian comic artist
- 1992 : Werner Kreindl , Austrian actor
- 1992 : Manfred Stengl , Austrian luge, bobsleigh and motorcycle racer
- 1993 : Sylvain Garant , French racing car driver
- 1993 : Gui Mombaerts , Belgian pianist and music teacher
- 1994 : Barry Sullivan , American actor
- 1996 : Harry Andersson , Swedish national soccer player
- 1996 : George Davis Snell , American geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1997 : Eitel Cantoni , Uruguayan Formula 1 racing driver
- 1998 : Maria Reiche , German researcher
- 1998 : Svend S. Schultz , Danish composer and conductor
21st century
- 2001 : Douglas Lilburn , New Zealand composer
- 2001 : Otto Heinrich Treumann , German-Dutch graphic artist
- 2003 : Bernhard Askani , German history teacher and textbook author
- 2003 : Hilda Sour , Chilean actress and singer
- 2004 : Louis Conne , Swiss sculptor and graphic artist
- 2005 : Anne Bancroft , American actress
- 2005 : Dana Elcar , American actor
- 2005 : Siegfried Palm , German cellist
- 2006 : Billy Preston , American soul musician and Hammond organ player
- 2006 : Jun Maeda , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 2006 : Arnold Newman , American portrait photographer
- 2007 : James Halliday , British weightlifter and Olympic medalist
- 2012 : Vladimir Evgenyevich Krutov , Russian ice hockey player
- 2013 : Tom Sharpe , British writer
- 2013 : Esther Williams , American swimmer and actress
- 2014 : Irene Awret , American writer and painter
- 2014 : Sonja Mottl , Austrian opera and operetta singer
- 2015 : Pierre Brice , French actor
- 2015 : Sergei Alexandrovich Sharikov , Russian fencer, Olympic champion
- 2016 : Viktor Korchnoi , Soviet-Swiss chess player
- 2016 : Peter Shaffer , British playwright
- 2017 : Petra Höfer , German journalist and filmmaker
- 2017 : Adnan Khashoggi , Saudi Arabian entrepreneur
- 2018 : Kira Muratova , Soviet and Ukrainian film director
- 2018 : Franz M. Wuketits , Austrian science theorist
- 2019 : Dr. John , American musician
- 2019 : Carl Schell , Swiss actor
- 2020 : John Zook , American football player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Norbert von Xanten , German archbishop and founder of the order (Protestant, Roman Catholic)
- Heinrich Schröder (missionary) , German missionary and martyr (Protestant)
- State holidays and memorial days
- Sweden : National Day (since 2005)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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