6th March
The March 6 is the 65th day of the Gregorian calendar (66th in leap years ), thus remain 300 days by year end.
|
Historic anniversaries February · March · April |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Events
Politics and world events
- 1204 : The fortress garrison of the Château Gaillard in the Seine Valley, belonging to the Angevin Empire , surrenders after seven months to the besiegers under the orders of the French King Philip II. He can subsequently penetrate deeper into Normandy .
- 1353 : With the conclusion of the “Eternal Covenant” by Bern , the Confederation of Eight Old Places is completed.
- 1446 : In the Battle of Ragaz the Confederates defeat an Austrian army under Emperor Friedrich III. von Habsburg and thus decide the Old Zurich War in their favor.
- 1521 : The Portuguese navigator in Spanish service Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Pacific island of Guam on his circumnavigation of the world , which he called the island of thieves because of several misunderstandings with the locals .
- 1525 : In the free imperial city of Memmingen, which sympathizes with the cause of the peasants, representatives of three peasant groups meet during the German Peasants' War to discuss their approach to the Swabian Confederation . The following day, following the example of Switzerland, they found the Upper Swabian Confederation in the hope of being recognized as negotiating partners with equal rights.
- 1629 : At the height of imperial power in the Thirty Years' War , Ferdinand II tried in the Edict of Restitution to enforce the Catholic reading of the Augsburg religious peace. The Protestant imperial estates fight against it bitterly and call Sweden's King Gustav II Adolf for help. An end to the war is now a long way off.
- 1645 : In the Battle of Jankau in the Thirty Years' War , the Swedes under Lennart Torstensson defeat the imperial troops and take their Field Marshal Melchior von Hatzfeldt prisoner.
- 1714 : The Peace of Rastatt ends the War of the Spanish Succession between France and Austria . It is based on the Peace of Utrecht , which Austria under Charles VI. initially did not want to accept.
- 1788 : A part of the First Fleet with British prisoners reaches the Australian Norfolk Island and establishes a settlement there.
- 1820 : US President James Monroe signs the Missouri Compromise and enables the slave state Missouri to join the Union by accepting Maine , which had been ceded by Massachusetts, as a slave-free state and thus maintaining parity in the Senate .
- 1834 : The previous York , capital of the British province of Upper Canada on the north coast of Lake Ontario , is renamed Toronto .
- 1836 : After a 13-day siege, the Fort Alamo in the Texan city of San Antonio is taken by the Mexicans under General Antonio López de Santa Anna . Of the approximately 200 defense attorneys, including William Travis , James Bowie and Davy Crockett , only a few survive.
- 1845 : A rebellion against President Juan José Flores , led by Vicente Rocafuerte , José Joaquín de Olmedo and Vicente Ramón Roca, begins in Ecuador , ending with his flight to Peru in June.
- 1857 : In the decision of Dred Scott v. Sandford , the United States Supreme Court, ruled that blacks, slaves or not, can never become citizens of the United States, and declares the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
- 1882 : The Principality of Serbia is proclaimed the Kingdom of Serbia .
- 1898 : The Chinese bay of Kiautschou is leased from China to the German Empire for 99 years after German enforcement measures . The Chinese government gives up all sovereign rights within the lease area and a 50 km wide security zone. In addition, the Chinese government grants the German Reich concessions to build two railway lines and to mine local coal deposits.
- 1901 : In Bremen, Kaiser Wilhelm II is seriously injured in the head in an assassination attempt by the worker Dietrich Weiland.
- 1925 : After a five-year transition period under High Commissioner Herman Baltia, the Belgian eastern cantons finally become part of Belgium . The loss of German territory was laid down in the Versailles Peace Treaty .
- 1945 : The German Wehrmacht begins the Lake Balaton offensive in World War II . The unsuccessful operation, which will last until March 16, is intended to stop the advance of the Red Army and secure the Hungarian oil wells for the German Reich.
- 1953 : Georgi Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as General Secretary of the CPSU and Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union , but is soon replaced by Nikita Khrushchev .
- 1954 : German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer visits the United States for the first time , an important ally during the Cold War .
- 1957 : The British-West African crown colony of Gold Coast and the protectorate of British Togoland are amalgamated to form Ghana and become the first country in the African tropics to be independent from Great Britain . At the same time, Ghana received its national flag and became the first African country to become a full member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
- 1960 : The canton of Geneva is the third canton in Switzerland to introduce women's suffrage after Neuchâtel and Vaud .
- 1964 : After the death of his father Paul I , Constantine II becomes King of Greece , the last king on the Greek throne.
- 1966 : In the national elections in Austria , the ÖVP under Josef Klaus, with four additional mandates , achieves an absolute majority for the first time since the war.
- 1975 : Iraq under Saddam Hussein and Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi sign the Algiers Agreement on the Shatt al-Arab border and mutual security guarantees.
- 1983 : The elections to the 10th German Bundestag confirm Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who was elected five months earlier by a constructive vote of no confidence , in office. His party, the CDU , wins votes and seats. With 5.6%, the Greens overcome the five percent hurdle for the first time .
- 1999 : In Cambodia is with Ta Mok , the last high-ranking Khmer Rouge arrested.
economy
- 1899 : Bayer AG registers the acetylsalicylic acid developed by Arthur Eichengrün and Felix Hoffmann under the name Aspirin as a trademark .
- 1912 : The railway connection between Arica in Chile and the Bolivian capital La Paz , established in the peace treaty of 1904 , is opened. Bolivia , which has become a landlocked country due to the lost saltpeter war , receives from Chile the right to duty-free transit of goods and free port rights in Arica and thus, in effect, access to the sea again.
- 1930 : In Springfield , Massachusetts , the Birdseye company sells frozen foods worldwide for the first time.
- 1995 : The Dutch ING Bank takes over the insolvent British Barings Bank for a symbolic price of one pound sterling .
- 2006 : The New York Stock Exchange goes public after 213 years .
science and technology
- 1665 : The first edition of Philosophical Transactions , the journal still published by the Royal Society in London, is published.
- 1869 : Dmitri Mendeleev presents his periodic table of the elements under the title The dependence of the chemical properties of the elements on the atomic weight . This enables him to predict the properties of previously unknown elements .
- 2015 : The NASA -Raumsonde Dawn reaches the orbit of the dwarf planet Ceres .
Culture
- 1710 : The stele of the Nautae Parisiaci from the Gallo-Roman Lutetia (today's Paris) is discovered.
- 1801 : The writer Donatien Alphonse François de Sade is arrested on suspicion of being the author of the anonymously published novel The New Justine or The Unhappiness of Virtue .
- 1831 : The opera La sonnambula ( The Sleepwalker ) by Vincenzo Bellini is premiered at the Teatro Carcano in Milan . The libretto is by Felice Romani based on a ballet pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer .
- 1838 : The piece woe to him who lies! by Franz Grillparzer will be premiered at the Vienna Burgtheater . The comedy , the subject of which the poet drew from the Historia Francorum by Gregory of Tours , led to a scandal that caused Grillparzer to withdraw from the public.
- 1841 : The first performance of the opera Les diamants de la couronne ( The Crown Diamonds ) by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- 1852 : The opera The Sicilian Bride by Michael William Balfe is premiered at the Drury Lane Theater in London .
- 1853 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the novel La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas the Younger is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and initially fails the audience. Only a revised new version later becomes one of the most successful operas in music history.
- 1980 : The author Marguerite Yourcenar is the first woman admitted to the Académie française .
society
- 1951 : The criminal case against Ethel and Julius Rosenberg opens in New York City . The indictment accuses them of nuclear espionage for the Soviet Union .
- 1967 : Svetlana Allilueva , the only daughter of the former Soviet head of state and party leader Josef Stalin , travels to the USA and settles there.
- 1981 : Marianne Bachmeier shoots Klaus Grabowski, the alleged murderer of her daughter Anna, in the dock in the courtroom of the Lübeck court house .
- 2005 : Several perpetrators steal three works by Edvard Munch from a hotel in Moss, Norway . The police can arrest the thieves a day later.
religion
- 1447 : Nicholas V is elected Pope as the successor to the late Eugene IV .
- 1642 : With the bull In eminenti , Pope Urban VIII turns against the spread of Jansenism and censors the work Augustine by the Dutch theologian Cornelius Jansen , published in 1640 . He accuses the followers of the doctrine of heresy .
Disasters
- 1987 : The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes off the port of Zeebrugge , killing 193 people.
- 2003 : A Boeing 737 of Air Algérie went off the runway at the start of Tamanrasset. Of the 103 people on board, 102 died.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1902 : With the entry in the club register, the Real Madrid football club, which has existed since 1897, is officially founded.
- 1976 : Austrian Anton Innauer is the first ski jumper to receive the top mark of 20 for a jump in Oberstdorf five times .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1340 : John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster , English prince of the Anjou-Plantagenet family
- 1405 : John II of Castile , King of Castile and León
- 1459 : Jakob Fugger the Rich , German businessman, coal and steel entrepreneur and banker
- 1475 : Michelangelo , Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet
- 1483 : Francesco Guicciardini , Italian politician and historian ( History of Italy ), friend of Niccolò Machiavelli
- 1486 : Francysk Skaryna , Belarusian book printer ( first printer in Belarus )
- 1492 : Juan Luis Vives , Spanish humanist, philosopher and teacher
- 1508 : Humayun , Mughal Mughal of India
- 1585 : Francesco Cornaro , 101st Doge of Venice
- 1586 : Lucas Cranach III. , German painter
- 1618 : Philipp Ernst Förster , court and judiciary and office director of the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode
- 1619 : Cyrano de Bergerac , French writer
- 1649 : Johann Philipp Krieger , German composer, organist and Kapellmeister
- 1657 : Auguste Magdalene von Hessen-Darmstadt , German poet
- 1660 : Francesco II d'Este , Duke of Modena and Reggio
- 1663 : Francis Atterbury , English Bishop of Rochester
- 1669 : Georg Theodor Barthold , German medic
- 1694 : Antal Grassalkovich I , Hungarian statesman
- 1696 : Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer , important plasterer and sculptor of the Rococo
18th century
- 1701 : Louis-René de Caradeuc de La Chalotais , French lawyer
- 1719 : John Tarleton , British merchant and Mayor of Liverpool
- 1724 : Henry Laurens , American merchant and political leader in the American War of Independence
- 1725 : Henry Benedict Stuart , Cardinal and Bishop of Frascati, Cardinal Bishop of Ostia, Velletri
- 1737 : David von Wyss the Elder , Mayor of Zurich
- 1754 : Josepha Duschk , singer, pianist and composer
- 1755 : Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian , French poet
- 1756 : Beda Aschenbrenner , German professor of canon law and abbot
- 1761 : Antoine-François Andréossy , French general and statesman
- 1763 : Jean-Xavier Lefèvre , Swiss composer and music teacher
- 1765 : Jan Kops , Dutch Reformed theologian and agronomist
- 1779 : Antoine-Henri Jomini , Swiss military theorist and general
- 1781 : Ignaz Franz Castelli , Austrian poet and playwright
- 1784 : Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest , French zoologist and writer
- 1785 : Gesche Gottfried , German serial killer
- 1785 : Karol Kurpiński , Polish composer
- 1787 : Joseph von Fraunhofer , German optician and physicist, founder of scientific telescope construction, namesake of the Fraunhofer Society
- 1793 : Wilhelm August Friedrich Genßler , German Protestant clergyman
- 1793 : Bernhard Klein , German composer
- 1795 : Joseph Sprißler , German Roman Catholic priest, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
- 1798 : Jacques Jasmin , French poet
- 1799 : Thomas Witlam Atkinson , English travel writer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1803 : Friedrich Wilhelm von Tigerström , German legal scholar
- 1804 : Louis Stromeyer , German surgeon, professor and general practitioner
- 1806 : Elizabeth Barrett Browning , British poet
- 1808 : Sophie Adlersparre , Swedish painter
- 1810 : George Robert Waterhouse , British zoologist and naturalist
- 1812 : Aaron Lufkin Dennison , American watchmaker and entrepreneur
- 1812 : Bruno Hildebrand , German economist and politician
- 1813 : William FM Arny , American politician
- 1819 : Charles Émile Blanchard , French zoologist and entomologist
- 1823 : Charles I , King of Württemberg
- 1826 : Marietta Alboni , Italian opera singer (alto)
- 1826 : Emil Heinrich Otto Müller , German classical philologist and pedagogue
- 1827 : Wilhelm Carl Heraeus , German pharmacist, chemist and entrepreneur, founder of the family business Heraeus
- 1831 : Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder , German pastor and theologian, employee of the Inner Mission
- 1831 : Philip Sheridan , American General in the Union Army in the American Civil War, Commander in Chief, General of the Army
- 1838 : Szymon Winawer , Polish chess player
- 1839 : Olegario Víctor Andrade , Argentine poet
- 1839 : Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz , German archaeologist
- 1840 : Gustave Ruiz , French composer
- 1841 : Alfred Cornu , French physicist
- 1843 : Tonio Bödiker , Prussian statesman, first President of the Reich Insurance Office
- 1843 : Arthur Napoleão , Brazilian composer
- 1847 : Cesare Arzelà , Italian mathematician
- 1847 : Johann Georg Hagen , Austrian Jesuit and astronomer
- 1848 : Viktor Weißhaupt , German painter
- 1849 : August Luchs , German classical philologist
- 1849 : Georg Luger , Austrian weapons technician, inventor of the Parabellum pistol
- 1850 : Victoria Benedictsson , Swedish writer
1851-1900
- 1851 : Karl Schlau , pastor and martyr from Livonia
- 1852 : Josef Bayer , Austrian composer
- 1852 : Joseph Deniker , French anthropologist and racial theorist
- 1855 : Walter Friedensburg , German archivist and historian
- 1858 : Jiří Polívka , Czech Slavist, literary scholar and folklorist
- 1858 : Gustav Wied , Danish writer
- 1859 : Louis Boutan , French biologist
- 1864 : Karel Buchtela , Czech archaeologist
- 1866 : Hans Christiansen , German painter and artisan
- 1870 : Oscar Straus , Austrian operetta composer
- 1871 : Afonso Costa , Portuguese Finance Minister and Prime Minister
- 1871 : Fritz Ehrler , German trade union official and politician
- 1872 : Johan Bojer , Norwegian writer
- 1872 : Paul Juon , Russian composer
- 1876 : Erna von Dobschütz , German portrait painter
- 1876 : Hedda Eulenberg , German translator
- 1879 : Max Haller , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1880 : Jameson Adams , British polar explorer
- 1882 : Jean-Pierre Lamboray , Luxembourgish draftsman and graphic artist
- 1893 : Walter "Furry" Lewis , American blues guitarist and singer
- 1884 : Paul Amann , Austrian writer and translator
- 1884 : Molla Mallory , Norwegian tennis player
- 1885 : Rosario Bourdon , Canadian cellist, conductor, composer and arranger
- 1885 : Ring Lardner , American sports reporter and writer
- 1889 : Arnold Fanck , German mountain film director
- 1890 : Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff , German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1890 : Adolfo Salazar , Spanish composer, music critic and scholar
- 1894 : Edgar Julius Jung , German lawyer, politician and publicist
- 1894 : Elisabeth Castonier , German writer
- 1895 : Anneliese Umlauf-Lamatsch , Austrian writer
- 1896 : August Werner , German football player
- 1897 : Joseph Berchtold , German SA general, first Reichsführer SS , MdR
- 1897 : Knudåge Riisager , Danish composer
- 1898 : Therese Giehse , German actress
- 1898 : Gus Sonnenberg , American football player and wrestler
- 1900 : Evald Aav , Estonian singer, composer and choir director
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Naum Ilyich Achijeser , Ukrainian mathematician
- 1901 : Ernest Gibson, Jr. , American politician
- 1901 : Vladimir Sergeyevich Pyschnow , Soviet aerodynamicist
- 1902 : Rudolf Mandrella , German lawyer and opponent of National Socialism
- 1904 : Andy Aitkenhead , Scottish-Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- 1904 : José Antonio Aguirre , Basque politician
- 1905 : Bob Wills , American musician
- 1906 : Lou Costello , American actor, producer, and comedian
- 1906 : Lucy Hillebrand , German architect
- 1907 : Margaretha Reichardt , German textile designer and graphic artist
- 1908 : Ollie Sansen , American football player
- 1909 : Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish aphorist
- 1909 : Fritz Leese , German puppeteer
- 1909 : Bill Schindler , American racing car driver
- 1909 : Ōoka Shōhei , Japanese writer
- 1910 : Rudolf Palme , Austrian chess master
- 1910 : Walter Wunderlich , Austrian mathematician and geometer
- 1911 : Heinrich Homann , German politician, party functionary in the GDR
- 1915 : Taranath Rao , Indian percussionist
- 1915 : Benny de Weille , German clarinetist, composer, arranger and orchestra leader
- 1916 : Hermann Axen , German politician and party functionary in the GDR, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
- 1916 : Red Callender , American bass and tuba player
- 1916 : Virginia Gregg , American actress
- 1917 : Samael Aun Weor , Colombian occultist
- 1917 : Donald Davidson , American analytical philosopher and student of Willard Van Orman Quine
- 1917 : Will Eisner , American comic artist
- 1917 : Oswald Karch , German racing car driver
- 1918 : Howard McGhee , American jazz trumpeter
- 1920 : Heinz-Herbert Karry , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, victim of assassination
- 1921 : Hans-Hubertus Bühmann , German forester and politician, MdL
- 1923 : Erhard Karkoschka , German composer
- 1923 : Albert Leibenfrost , Austrian politician and economist
- 1923 : Jürgen von Manger , German actor, literary cabaret artist and comedian
- 1924 : Oskar Marczy , German politician, MdL, sports and expellee functionary
- 1924 : Ottmar Walter , German soccer player, 1954 world champion
- 1925 : Roy Etzel , German trumpeter, composer, lyricist and band leader
- 1925 : Richard Kreß , German football player
- 1925 : Eleonore Schoenfeld , German-American cellist and music teacher
- 1925 : Wes Montgomery , American jazz guitarist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Alan Greenspan , American economist, chairman of the US Federal Reserve
- 1926 : Miroslav Klega , Czech composer
- 1926 : Andrzej Wajda , Polish film and theater director
- 1926 : Ken Whyld , British chess journalist and chess historian
- 1927 : Willi Bartels , German racing driver
- 1927 : Gordon Cooper , American astronaut
- 1927 : Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian writer ( Hundred Years of Solitude ), journalist and Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1927 : Otto Maychrzak , German handball player
- 1928 : Georg Eder , Austrian priest, Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1928 : Christa Wehling , German actress
- 1929 : Nicolas Bouvier , French writer, travel writer and journalist
- 1929 : Günter Kunert , German writer
- 1930 : Diego Arenhoevel , German theologian and trade unionist
- 1930 : Lorin Maazel , American conductor
- 1930 : Hermann Rauhe , German musicologist and teacher
- 1931 : Hal Needham , American stuntman, director, actor, and screenwriter
- 1932 : Gisela Bulla née Gisela Gottschalk , German archaeologist, author and politician
- 1932 : Bronisław Geremek , Polish historian and politician, Foreign Minister, winner of the Charlemagne Prize
- 1932 : Hansjörg Häfele , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1932 : Lauri Honko , Finnish folklorist and religious scholar
- 1933 : Willy Schäfer , German actor
- 1935 : Ron Delany , Irish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
- 1935 : Eva Rühmkorf , German psychologist, politician and state minister
- 1936 : Jorge Abbondanza , Uruguayan cultural journalist, critic and artist
- 1936 : Elmar Schloter , German organist and conductor
- 1937 : Daniel Andres , Swiss composer and musician
- 1937 : Doug Dillard , American country musician and composer
- 1937 : Hans-Dieter Grabe , German director
- 1937 : Ivan F. Boesky , American stock market speculator, insider trader
- 1937 : Paul Méfano , French composer and music teacher
- 1937 : Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova , Soviet cosmonaut, first woman in space
- 1938 : Anna Absolon , German politician
- 1938 : Jürgen Gerlach , German politician
- 1938 : Nat Indrapana , Thai sports official
- 1938 : Ernst Helmut Segschneider , German folklorist
- 1939 : Kit Bond , American politician
- 1939 : Canelita Medina , Venezuelan singer
- 1939 : Adam Osborne , British-American book author, software developer, computer designer, company founder, inventor of the laptop
- 1939 : Peter Glotz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Senator, Member of the Bundestag, journalist and communication scientist
- 1940 : Philippe Amaury , French publisher
- 1940 : Miguel Asurmendi , Spanish religious and bishop
- 1940 : Friedhelm Mennekes , German theologian
- 1940 : Billy Adams , American rockabilly musician
- 1941 : Peter Brötzmann , German jazz musician
- 1941 : Baldur Heckel , Austrian technician and chairman of the Styrian Singers Association
- 1942 : George Kingsley Acquah , Ghanaian lawyer and politician
- 1942 : Ben Murphy , American actor
- 1942 : Charles Tolliver , American jazz musician
- 1942 : Paco Cepero , Spanish flamenco guitarist
- 1942 : Robin Kenyatta , American saxophonist and flautist
- 1942 : Flora Purim , Brazilian singer
- 1943 : Jean-Louis Ravenel , French racing car driver
- 1943 : Gert Sudholt , German publicist and publisher
- 1944 : Wolf Assmus , German experimental physicist
- 1944 : David F. Hendry , British econometrician
- 1944 : Mickey Jupp , British musician
- 1944 : Norbert Steger , Austrian politician and lawyer
- 1944 : Kiri Te Kanawa , New Zealand opera singer (soprano)
- 1944 : Peter Dietrich , German football player
- 1945 : Paul Miller , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1946 : David Gilmour , British guitarist, singer and songwriter ( Pink Floyd )
- 1947 : Kiki Dee , British singer and songwriter
- 1947 : Dick Fosbury , American athlete
- 1947 : Teru Miyamoto , Japanese writer
- 1947 : Rob Reiner , American film director, producer and actor
- 1948 : Zbigniew Górny , Polish composer and conductor
- 1949 : Shaukat Aziz , Pakistani Prime Minister
- 1950 : Felix Genn , German priest, Bishop of Essen, Bishop of Münster
- 1950 : Berthold Tillmann , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Münster
- 1950 : Walter Vesti , Swiss ski racer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Jeannot Ahoussou-Kouadio , Ivorian politician
- 1951 : Wolfgang Hanisch , German athlete
- 1951 : Gerrie Knetemann , Dutch cyclist
- 1951 : Walter Cooper Trout , American composer, guitarist and singer
- 1952 : Marielle Labèque , French pianist
- 1953 : Wolfgang Grams , German terrorist (RAF)
- 1954 : Joey DeMaio , American bass player
- 1954 : Toni Schumacher , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1955 : Horst Appel , German weightlifter
- 1955 : Cyprien Ntaryamira , Burundian President
- 1955 : Jesús Pareja , Spanish racing car driver
- 1955 : Friedbert Pflüger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, university professor and management consultant
- 1955 : Alberta Watson , Canadian actress
- 1955 : Brigitte Wujak , German athlete
- 1956 : Hans-Peter Kirchberg , German conductor
- 1957 : Klaus Kaiser , German politician
- 1958 : Vittorio Agnoletto , Italian politician
- 1958 : Andrea Wicklein , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1958 : Norbert Sternmut , German writer and painter
- 1959 : Tom Arnold , American actor
- 1960 : Patrik Anttonen , Swedish football player
- 1960 : Werner Arndt , German politician
- 1960 : Mike Munchak , American football player and coach
- 1962 : Serra Durugönül , Turkish Classical Archaeologist
- 1962 : Andreas Felder , Austrian ski jumper
- 1962 : Erika Hess , Swiss ski racer
- 1962 : Michael Konsel , Austrian football player
- 1962 : Stephan Schöne , German handball player, coach and manager
- 1963 : Nicole Belstler-Boettcher , German actress
- 1963 : Kathy Kelly , American musician
- 1964 : Franz Abraham , German event manager and producer
- 1964 : Skip Ewing , American country singer and songwriter
- 1966 : Maurice Ashley , American chess player
- 1966 : Henning Sieverts , German jazz musician
- 1967 : Dietmar Haaf , German athlete
- 1968 : Brigitte Annessy , French actress
- 1968 : Jakob Dinesen , Danish jazz saxophonist
- 1968 : Michael Romeo , American guitarist
- 1968 : Smudo , German copywriter and rapper ( Fantastischen Vier ), voice actor and actor
- 1969 : Amy Pietz , American actress
- 1969 : Andrea Elson , American actress
- 1969 : Malahat Nasibova , Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist
- 1970 : Regine Seidler , German actress
- 1971 : Héctor del Ángel , Mexican football player
- 1971 : Servais Knaven , Dutch cyclist
- 1972 : Shaquille O'Neal , American basketball player
- 1972 : Peter Sendel , German biathlete
- 1972 : Chris Taylor , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 : Marianne Thieme , Dutch animal rights activist, publicist and politician
- 1973 : Arnar Gunnlaugsson , Icelandic football player and coach
- 1973 : Juliette Arnaud , French actress and screenwriter
- 1973 : Michael Finley , American basketball player
- 1974 : Guy Garvey , English singer and producer
- 1974 : Beanie Sigel , American rapper
- 1975 : Sébastien Crubilé , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
1976-2000
- 1976 : Kenneth Charles Anderson , American wrestler and actor
- 1977 : Kirsti Huke , Norwegian jazz and rock singer
- 1977 : Giorgos Karagounis , Greek football player
- 1977 : Bubba Sparxxx , American hip hop musician
- 1978 : Thomas Godoj , German rock and pop singer
- 1979 : Tim Howard , American football player
- 1981 : Edgar Fonseca , Colombian racing cyclist
- 1981 : Zlatan Muslimović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1981 : Tobias Schröder , German handball player
- 1982 : Inga Abitowa , Russian long-distance runner
- 1982 : Ayman al-Aatar , Arabic singer
- 1982 : Henrik Knudsen , Danish handball player
- 1983 : Virgil Griffith , American hacker and scientist
- 1983 : Luise Helm , German actress
- 1983 : Andranik Teymourian , Iranian soccer player
- 1984 : Daniël de Ridder , Dutch football player
- 1985 : Florian Grossert , German soccer player
- 1985 : Pretty Yende , South African opera singer
- 1986 : Paul Aguilar , Mexican soccer player
- 1986 : Jacob Joseph Arrieta , American baseball player
- 1986 : Loek Beernink , Dutch actress and singer
- 1987 : Kevin-Prince Boateng , German-Ghanaian soccer player
- 1987 : Chris Grossman , Australian soccer player
- 1987 : Lasse Kohnagel , German handball player
- 1987 : Udo Siebenhandl , Austrian soccer player
- 1987 : Hannah Taylor-Gordon , British film actress
- 1988 : Agnes Carlsson , Swedish singer
- 1988 : Angutimmarik Kreutzmann , Greenlandic handball player
- 1988 : Simon Mignolet , Belgian football player
- 1989 : Jana Burmeister , German soccer player
- 1989 : Kevin Dicklhuber , German soccer player
- 1989 : Lee Seung-ryul , South Korean soccer player
- 1989 : Matt Luzunaris , American football player
- 1989 : Heidi Sevdal , Faroese soccer player
- 1990 : Clara Lago , Spanish actress
- 1990 : Ronja Prinz , German actress
- 1991 : Jonathan Beck , German actor
- 1991 : Aleksandar Dragović , Austrian football player
- 1991 : Thomas Geyer , German soccer player
- 1991 : Björn Krupp , German-American ice hockey player
- 1991 : Fakhri Ismail , Brunei athlete and soccer player
- 1991 : John Jenkins , American basketball player
- 1991 : Lex Luger , American music producer
- 1992 : Kim Astrup Sørensen , Danish badminton player
- 1993 : Azet , Kosovar rapper
- 1994 : Yassin Ayoub , Moroccan-Dutch football player
- 1996 : Lisa Hörnblad , Swedish ski racer
- 1996 : Sabrina Wollweber , German actress
- 1996 : Timo Werner , German soccer player
21st century
- 2001 : Aryana Engineer , Canadian actress
Died
Before the 15th century
- 690 : Julian of Toledo , Metropolitan of Toledo and writer
- 766 : Chrodegang , Bishop of Metz and Archbishop of Austrasia
- 995 : Dietrich , Count Palatine of Saxony
- 1009 : Rethar , Bishop of Paderborn
- 1052 : Emma of Normandy , Norman nobleman and Queen of England
- 1070 : Ulrich I , Margrave of Carniola, Margrave of Istria and Count of Weimar
- 1137 : Oleguer , Bishop of Barcelona and Archbishop of Tarragona
- 1218 : Otto I , Bishop of Münster
- 1233 : Thomas I , Count of Savoy
- 1238 : Al-Kamil , fourth sultan of the Ayyubids in Egypt
- 1252 : Rosa von Viterbo , Catholic mystic
- 1252 : Sigurd Eindridesson Tafse , Norwegian Archbishop
- 1282 : Agnes of Bohemia , Bohemian princess
- 1293 : Withego von Furra , Bishop of Meissen
- 1353 : Roger Gray , English nobleman and military man
15th to 17th centuries
- 1434 : Heinrich Faber , German abbot of Ochsenhausen
- 1447 : Colette von Corbie , French abbess, saint of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1458 : Friedrich Reiser , German Hussite and Waldensian
- 1466 : Francesco I. Sforza , founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan
- 1495 : Johann II , Duke of Liegnitz
- 1505 : Hinrich Boger , German poet, theologian and humanist
- 1513 : Angelus Rumpler , German abbot and historian
- 1531 : Pedro Arias Dávila , Spanish conquistador, governor of Panama and Nicaragua
- 1570 : Johann Agricola , German medic
- 1577 : Rémy Belleau , French writer
- 1583 : Nikolaus Cisnerus , German humanist, lawyer
- 1583 : Zacharias Ursinus , Reformed theologian
- 1606 : Zbynko Berka von Duba and Leipa , Archbishop of Prague
- 1615 : Pieter Both , first Governor General of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Southeast Asia
- 1616 : Francis Beaumont , English playwright
- 1654 : Sebastian Beck , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1675 : Constantin Steingaden , German Franciscan priest and church musician
- 1680 : Henry Frederick Thynne, 1st Baronet , English nobleman
- 1683 : Guarino Guarini , Italian Theatin, philosopher, mathematician and architect
- 1693 : Antonio von Caraffa , Habsburg field marshal
18th century
- 1702 : Giovanni Pietro Tencalla , Italian-Swiss architect
- 1706 : Christian Gryphius , German educator
- 1706 : Gottfried Strauss , German legal scholar
- 1717 : Johann Christoph Bekmann , German university professor, librarian and historian
- 1720 : Samuel Jenner , Swiss architect
- 1730 : Hattori Dohō , Japanese Haikai poet
- 1731 : Johann Melchior Dinglinger , German court goldsmith
- 1739 : Johann Friedrich Schannat , German historian, priest and legal scholar
- 1743 : Samuel Uhlig , German stocking maker
- 1750 : Domenico Montagnana , Venetian violin maker
- 1754 : Henry Pelham , British Prime Minister
- 1755 : Pier Leone Ghezzi , Italian painter
- 1757 : Adolf Friedrich von Langermann , Prussian major general
- 1762 : Antoinette Amalie , Duchess of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
- 1777 : Jeremias Friedrich Reuss , German Lutheran theologian
- 1786 : Friedrich Gotthelf von Falkenhayn , Prussian lieutenant general
- 1792 : Johann Hinrich Klapmeyer , German organ builder
- 1796 : Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French writer
19th century
- 1807 : Andrea Amoretti , Italian engraver and printer
- 1811 : Francisco Javier de Lizana y Beaumont , Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain
- 1834 : Ludwig Gottfried Madihn , German university professor and university rector
- 1836 : James Bowie , Texas revolutionary
- 1836 : Davy Crockett , American politician and war hero
- 1836 : William Travis , Texas national hero
- 1837 : Johann Karl Sigmund Kiefhaber , German civil servant and historian
- 1837 : Yuri Fjodorowitsch Lisjanski , Russian naval officer and explorer
- 1842 : Ludwig Friedrich Heyd , German pastor and author
- 1842 : Constanze Mozart , wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- 1844 : Karl Wilhelm von Kopp , Hessian finance minister
- 1850 : Jean Baptiste Girard , Swiss Franciscan and educator
- 1851 : Alexander Alexandrovich Aljabjew , Russian composer
- 1851 : Egid von Löhr , German lawyer and university professor
- 1851 : Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Weise , German civil servant and politician
- 1854 : Kaspar Georg Karl Reinwardt , German naturalist and botanist in the Netherlands
- 1859 : Vincenz von Augustin , Austrian Feldzeugmeister
- 1860 : Gottlieb von Ankershofen , Austrian historian and state curator
- 1860 : Friedrich Dotzauer , German cellist and composer
- 1861 : Conrad Kreuzer , Austrian draftsman and landscape painter
- 1866 : Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler , Swiss doctor, politician and philosopher
- 1866 : William Whewell , British philosopher and economic historian
- 1867 : Peter von Cornelius , German painter
- 1867 : Wiktor Każyński , Polish composer
- 1877 : Joseph Antoine Autran , French poet and writer
- 1877 : Johann Jacoby , Prussian politician
- 1880 : Friedrich Harkort , German entrepreneur, railway pioneer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1885 : Thomas Lilbourne Anderson , American politician
- 1885 : Timothy Shay Arthur , American writer
- 1886 : Fritz Goerdeler , German lawyer
- 1887 : Paul Arnold , Hessian court architect and politician
- 1888 : Louisa May Alcott , American writer
- 1892 : Leopold Schmidt , German classical philologist
- 1893 : Charles Lebouc , French cellist
- 1895 : Camilla Collett , Norwegian writer
- 1897 : Friedrich Gustav Weidauer , German lawyer and politician, MdL
- 1898 : Felice Cavallotti , Italian politician, journalist, writer and translator
- 1900 : Carl Bechstein , German piano maker
- 1900 : Gottlieb Daimler , German engineer, inventor and automobile designer
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Moriz Kaposi , Hungarian-Austrian medic
- 1907 : Karl Heinrich von Boetticher , Prussian civil servant, German vice chancellor and politician, MdL, MdR
- 1907 : Gottfried von Bülow , German archivist and historian
- 1909 : August Mau , German archaeologist
- 1909 : Gustaf af Geijerstam , Swedish writer
- 1910 : Hermann Blankenstein , German architect
- 1911 : Hermann Jakob Dingelstad , German theologian and bishop
- 1911 : William Worrall Mayo , British physician and chemist
- 1912 : Heinrich Kämchen , German writer
- 1912 : August Toepler , German chemist, developer of Schlieren photography
- 1913 : Paul Friedrich August Ascherson , German botanist, historian, ethnographer and linguist
- 1915 : Eberhard Fraas , German geologist and paleontologist
- 1919 : Hilary A. Herbert , American politician
- 1920 : Max Fürbringer , German anatomist, ornithologist and physician
- 1920 : Willem Rooseboom , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1920 : Heinrich von Salisch , German forester
- 1922 : René Bohn , German chemist
- 1924 : Wilhelmina Koch , German composer
- 1925 : Georgi Evgenjewitsch Lwow , Russian politician
- 1929 : Josef Holeček , Czech writer, translator and journalist
- 1929 : Otto Jaekel , German geologist and paleontologist
- 1930 : Alfred von Tirpitz , German Grand Admiral, founder of the German deep sea fleet
- 1931 : Wilhelm Haarmann , German chemist
- 1932 : Alfred Bock , German manufacturer and writer
- 1932 : John Philip Sousa , American composer
- 1937 : Rudolf Otto , German theologian
- 1938 : Joseph Arend , German politician
- 1939 : Ferdinand von Lindemann , German mathematician
- 1941 : John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum , American sculptor
- 1941 : Joseph Weißenberg , German religious and social reformer, builder of the Peace City
- 1944 : Ernst Julius Cohen , Dutch chemist
- 1945 : Rudolf Karel , Czech composer
- 1945 : August Merges , German politician and revolutionary, MdR, MdL, Prime Minister, victim of the Nazi judiciary
- 1945 : Vyacheslav Jakowlewitsch Schischkow , Russian-Soviet writer
- 1947 : Halford Mackinder , British geographer and geopolitician
- 1948 : Rudolf Fehrmann , German lawyer and climber
- 1949 : Al Bernard , American singer
- 1949 : Robert Storm Petersen , Danish painter, cartoonist, quick draftsman, conférencier, cabaret artist and actor
- 1950 : Albert Lebrun , French politician, statesman and last President of the Third Republic
- 1950 : Vladimir Petrovich Wettschinkin , Soviet aerodynamicist
1951-2000
- 1952 : Giacomo Rimini , American opera singer and music teacher of Italian origin
- 1952 : Jürgen Stroop , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS, responsible for suppressing the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto
- 1954 : Carl Eduard von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , German nobleman, Duke of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha, Obergruppenführer of the SA and from 1933 to 1945 President of the German Red Cross
- 1954 : Hermann Dietrich , German politician, Lord Mayor of Konstanz, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Reich Minister
- 1954 : Massimo Cardinal Massimi , Italian clergyman, cardinal to the Curia
- 1958 : Anton Reinthaller , Austrian landowner and politician
- 1958 : Sam Taylor , American film director, screenwriter, and producer
- 1960 : Pedro Reszka , Chilean painter
- 1961 : Marcello Mimmi , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Naples, cardinal
- 1964 : Paul I , King of Greece
- 1965 : Alexander von Bernus , German writer
- 1965 : Margaret Dumont , American actress
- 1965 : Jules Goux , French racing car driver
- 1965 : Sonja Graf , German chess player
- 1966 : Frederick Chubb , Canadian organist, choir director, music educator and composer
- 1967 : George A. Kelly , American psychologist
- 1967 : Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist
- 1967 : Oscar Shaw , American actor
- 1971 : Thurston Dart , British harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher
- 1973 : Pearl S. Buck , American writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1973 : Alexander Lukitsch Ptuschko , Soviet film director
- 1976 : Pietro Berra , Italian composer and conductor
- 1977 : Friedrich Schnack , German poet
- 1977 : Grațian Sepi , Romanian football player
- 1978 : Werner Lamberz , German politician, party functionary in the GDR, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee
- 1978 : Paul Markowski , German politician, party functionary in the GDR
- 1979 : Charles Wagenheim , American actor
- 1980 : Bobby Jones , American jazz musician
- 1982 : Ayn Rand , American writer
- 1983 : Cathy Berberian , American singer and avant-garde composer
- 1983 : David Alexander , American film director and producer
- 1984 : Pierre Cochereau , French composer, organist and music teacher
.jpg)
- 1984 : Martin Niemöller , German theologian, resistance fighter against National Socialism, representative of the Confessing Church, President of the World Council of Churches
- 1985 : Erwin Aichinger , Austrian forest scientist
- 1985 : Yael Stone , Australian actress
- 1986 : Weldon Kilburn , Canadian pianist, organist and music educator
- 1986 : Georgia O'Keeffe , American painter
- 1986 : Cläre Schimmel , German radio play director, actress and opera singer
- 1988 : Jeanne Aubert , French singer and actress
- 1989 : Harry Fleetwood Andrews , British film and stage actor
- 1989 : Wolfgang Haußmann , German lawyer and notary, politician, Member of the Bundestag and State Minister
- 1992 : Maria Helena Vieira da Silva , Portuguese-French painter and graphic artist
- 1993 : Walther Geiser , Swiss composer and music teacher
- 1994 : Melina Mercouri , Greek actress, singer and minister of culture
- 1994 : Tengis Abuladze , Georgian film director
- 1995 : Barbara Lass , Polish film actress
- 1997 : Cheddi Jagan , Guayan Prime Minister
- 1998 : Adem Jashari , Kosovar co-founder and leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army ( UÇK )
- 1998 : Pierre Villette , French composer
- 1999 : Isa bin Salman Al Chalifa , Emir of Bahrain
- 1999 : Klaus Gysi , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism, Minister for Culture of the GDR
- 1999 : Lowell Fulson , American blues guitarist and singer
- 1999 : Rudolf Hillebrecht , German architect and city planner in Hanover
- 2000 : John Colicos , Canadian actor
21st century
- 2001 : Mario Covas , Brazilian politician
- 2002 : Jockel Fuchs , German journalist and politician, Lord Mayor of Mainz, MdL
- 2002 : Ralph Rumney , British artist
- 2003 : Luděk Pachman , Czech chess player
- 2003 : Saba Youakim , Lebanese Archbishop of Petra and Philadelphia (Jordan)
- 2004 : Rudolf am Bach , Swiss pianist and music teacher
- 2004 : Eugene Kash , Canadian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 2005 : Hans Bethe , German-American nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2005 : Jean Löring , German patron
- 2005 : Gladys Marín , Chilean politician
- 2005 : Thakar Singh , Indian spiritual master of Sant Mat
- 2005 : Herbert Steininger , Austrian lawyer, President of the Supreme Court (OGH)
- 2005 : Tommy Vance , British radio host
- 2005 : Teresa Wright , American actress
- 2006 : Dana Reeve , American actress
- 2006 : Ruth Weiss , Austrian-Chinese journalist
- 2007 : Claus von Aderkas , German theologian
- 2007 : Jean Baudrillard , French philosopher and sociologist
- 2007 : Ernest Gallo , American wine producer
- 2008 : Peter Poreku Dery , Ghanaian clergyman, Archbishop of Tamale
- 2011 : Agnes-Marie Grisebach , German writer
- 2012 : Włodzimierz Smolarek , Polish football player
- 2013 : Alvin Lee , British blues rock guitarist and singer
- 2013 : Sabine Bischoff , German fencer
- 2014 : Jim Jeffords , American racing car driver
- 2015 : Walter Biemel , Romanian-German philosopher
- 2015 : Joe Willenpart , Austrian-American entrepreneur and automobile collector
- 2016 : Marianne Fritzen , German opponent of nuclear power
- 2016 : Nancy Reagan , American actress, wife of Ronald Reagan
- 2017 : Arif Demolli , Kosovar writer and journalist
- 2017 : Robert Osborne , American film historian
- 2018 : Erivan Haub , German entrepreneur
- 2018 : John E. Sulston , British geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2019 : Carolee Schneemann , American artist
- 2020 : Henri Richard , Canadian ice hockey player
- 2020 : McCoy Tyner , American jazz pianist and composer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Chrodegang , Bishop of Metz and Archbishop of Austrasia (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Fridolin von Säckingen , Irish missionary, founder of a monastery and patron saint (Catholic, Orthodox)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : March 6th - Collection of images, videos and audio files
