November 6th
The November 6 is the 310th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 311th in leap years ), thus remain 55 days to the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 355 : The future emperor Julian is appointed Caesar by his cousin Constantius II and celebrates military successes in Gaul over the next few years .
- 1136 : The sale of fiefs in the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Lothar III. forbidden.
- 1388 : Count Palatine Ruprecht I defeats the Rhenish towns of the Swabian League of Cities near Worms with his Imperial Army .
- 1429 : Henry VI. At the age of eight, he was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey .
- 1528 : The Spanish Conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca is the first European shipwrecked to reach Texan soil.
- 1576 : King Heinrich III. positions himself at the head of the French Catholic League in Blois and thus triggers the sixth Huguenot War .
- 1657 : In the Treaty of Bromberg , Brandenburg-Prussia receives the Lands Lauenburg and Bütow and, as a pledge for the donation of money, the Starostei Draheim from the Polish King Johann II Casimir .
- 1730 : Hans Hermann von Katte is executed on the orders of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I , allegedly in front of his friend Crown Prince Friedrich , for his involvement in Friedrich's attempt to flee on August 5th.
- 1792 : In the First Coalition War , the French Revolutionary Army under Charles-François Dumouriez defeats the Austrian troops under Duke Albert von Sachsen-Teschen and Count Clerfait at the Battle of Jemappes . As a result, France occupied the Austrian Netherlands .
- 1806 : After Prussian troops had occupied the neutral Lübeck the day before , the battle of Lübeck against Napoleonic troops took place . After their victory, the French occupy and loot the city.
- 1813 : At the Congress of Chilpancingo , José Maria Morelos y Pávon first called for Mexico's independence from Spain by separating from the viceroyalty of New Spain .
- 1846 : The Republic of Krakow , created by the Congress of Vienna , is dissolved in a treaty between the Polish “protecting powers” Russia, Prussia and Austria and its territory is added to the Austrian possession of Galicia .
- 1848 : The first Federal Assembly meets in Switzerland and elects the first Federal Council .
- 1860 : When the Democrats split over the slave issue, Republican Abraham Lincoln wins the US presidential election and becomes the 16th President of the United States .
- 1861 : Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederate States of America .
- 1884 : Papua territory is declared a British protectorate .
- 1888 : Democratic incumbent Grover Cleveland wins the most votes in the US presidential election , but Republican challenger Benjamin Harrison wins more electoral votes and is elected 23rd President of the United States .
- 1900 : Republican incumbent William McKinley defeats Democratic challenger William Jennings Bryan for the second time in the US presidential election .
- 1913 : Zabern affair : After German officers became aware of discriminatory statements against the population in the Alsatian garrison town of Zabern , public protests broke out.
- 1913 : The Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi protests in South Africa with more than 2,200 supporters against the racial discrimination policy against Indian immigrants.
- 1917 : The Third Battle of Flanders in World War I ends with the capture of the village of Passendale by Canadian and British units .
- 1921 : With the dethronement of the Habsburgs on the basis of a parliamentary resolution, Hungary becomes a kingdom without a king. The provisional governor Miklós Horthy , who was provisionally appointed as early as 1920 , finally assumed the role of head of state .
- 1928 : Republican Herbert Hoover clearly beats Democrat Alfred E. Smith in the US presidential election .
- 1932 : The NSDAP loses votes and seats in the early Reichstag elections in the Weimar Republic , but remains the strongest party before the SPD . The election winners are the KPD and the DNVP under Alfred Hugenberg .
- 1936 : The Spanish government leaves Madrid , which is directly in the battle zone of the Spanish Civil War , and retreats to Valencia .
- 1936 : The London submarine protocol regulates internationally that submarines are equal to the provisions for surface vessels compared to merchant ships under international law.
- 1939 : The Special Action Krakow 183 professors and university employees are Krakow arrested by the Nazis and concentration camps Sachsenhausen and Dachau deported.
- 1943 : In the Battle of the Dnepr during the Second World War , the Red Army succeeds in retaking Kiev , which was captured by the Germans in September 1941 .
- 1944 : The heaviest air raid by the Royal Air Force in a series of air raids on Koblenz leads to the extensive destruction of the city .
- 1944 : The British Middle East Minister Lord Moyne and his driver are killed in Cairo by two activists of the Zionist underground group Lechi . The minister rejected a Jewish state in Palestine .
- 1956 : Several Royal Marines commandos land on the beaches of Egypt in the Suez Crisis with amphibious vehicles and fire support from battleships and begin the invasion of the country. Port Said is almost completely destroyed by devastating fires.
- 1956 : Republican incumbent Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democratic challenger Adlai Ewing Stevenson for the second time in the US presidential election .
- 1957 : Félix Gaillard becomes the youngest Prime Minister of France to date .
- 1961 : Heinz Felfe , the head of counter-espionage in the Soviet Union at the Federal Intelligence Service , turns out to be a Soviet double agent and is arrested.
- 1962 : The UN passes Resolution 1761 , in which an embargo against South Africa is passed due to apartheid .
- 1975 : 350,000 people, mostly unarmed, respond to the call of the Moroccan King Hassan II to occupy the colony of Western Sahara , which was abandoned by Spain . The Western Sahara conflict developed from the Green March .
- 1978 : Franz Josef Strauss ( CSU ) is elected Bavarian Prime Minister to succeed Alfons Goppel .
- 1988 : In a referendum in France on New Caledonia's self-determination , the so-called “Matignon Agreement” is accepted by the voters.
- 1982 : In Cameroon , Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns as president for health reasons.
- 1982 : The International Telecommunications Treaty is signed in Nairobi , the basis for the International Telecommunications Union , a specialized agency of the United Nations .
- 1984 : In the US presidential election , Republican incumbent Ronald Reagan wins the clearest victory since the 1936 presidential election against Democratic challenger Walter Mondale . Mondale can only win one state with Minnesota.
- 1985 : Members of the guerrilla group Movimiento 19 de Abril occupy the Palace of Justice in the Colombian capital Bogotá , putting an end to the peace negotiations between President Belisario Betancur and the various guerrilla organizations .
- 1985 : Aníbal Cavaco Silva succeeds Mário Soares as Portuguese Prime Minister.
- 1986 : Joaquim Alberto Chissanó becomes President of Mozambique, succeeding Samora Machel, who was killed in a plane crash .
- 1990 : The ninth Additional Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights , which every citizen possible by means of individual complaint in person to the European Court of Human Rights to appeal, will be launched for signature in Rome. It will come into force on October 1, 1994.
- 1991 : Due to its involvement in the August coup in Moscow , the Soviet secret service KGB is dissolved. Its tasks will be transferred to the new authorities FSB and Slushba vneschnei raswedki .
- 1999 : Emomalij Rahmonov is re-elected as President of Tajikistan .
- 2001 : Billionaire Michael Bloomberg is elected by voters to succeed Rudolph Giuliani as Mayor of New York City .
- 2005 : In Myanmar , by order of the military junta, ministries begin to move from Rangoon to Pyinmana Naypyidaw , the new capital.
- 2008 : On the occasion of a visit by the negotiator of the People's Republic of China, Chen Yunlin, the wild strawberry student movement emerges in Taiwan .
- 2012 : Incumbent Barack Obama is in the presidential election in the United States as US president confirmed.
- 2017 : The World Climate Conference begins in Bonn to discuss the implementation of the resolutions of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement.
economy
- 1494 : The Peterhof in Novgorod , an office of the Hanseatic League , is opened by order of Tsar Ivan III. closed, the merchants arrested. The prisoners are only released after the end of the Russo-Swedish War in 1497.
- 1869 : The completed Blackfriars Bridge is officially opened in London by Queen Victoria .
- 1931 : During the German banking crisis , an emergency decree issued by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg gave the savings banks the legal form of an institution under public law . Your assets are to be separated from the - mostly communal - guarantor , the institute is only allowed to grant them limited communal loans.
- 1956 : Construction of the arch dam for the Kariba Dam begins on the Zambezi .
- 1989 : Hit Radio FFH is the first private radio station in Hessen to receive a broadcast license.
- 2001 : The Belgian state airline Sabena declares its bankruptcy .
science and technology
- 1815 : The kk polytechnic institute , today's Vienna University of Technology , is opened in Austria's capital .
- 1874 : In Adelaide , the third Australian university is founded, the University of Adelaide .
- 1880 : The French military doctor Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran discovered the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum in a blood sample .
- 1919 : The Dutch engineer Hanso Schotanus à Steringa Idzerda broadcasts the first radio broadcast from his private apartment .
Culture
- 1667 : The first performance of the musical drama Le pretensioni del sole by Johann Caspar Kerll takes place in Munich .
- 1837 : The Drury Lane Theater in London premieres the opera Caractacus by Michael William Balfe .
- 1902 : The drama Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea is premiered at the Teatro Lirico in Milan.
- 1902 : A statue of Prince Otto von Bismarck, the unification of the Reich and former German Chancellor, is ceremoniously unveiled in the Grimmen cemetery . The monument was cast in bronze in the art foundry of the Lauchhammerwerke based on a design by the sculptor Cuno von Uechtritz-Steinkirch . The statue fell victim to the metal donation during World War II.
- 1906 : Ole Olsen founded in Copenhagen with Nordisk Film A / S , the oldest existing film company in the world.
- 1982 : The premiere of the opera Wuthering Heights by Bernard Herrmann takes place in Portland .
- 1999 : In Berlin, the American Bryan Berg builds a 7.71 meter high house of cards made up of 91,800 playing cards with 131 floors.
- 2001 : The TV series 24 first broadcasts in the USA .
society
- 1817 : The Portuguese Crown Prince Dom Pedro and the Habsburg Maria Leopoldine of Austria marry in Rio de Janeiro .
religion
- 1789 : Baltimore becomes the first diocese in the USA. John Carroll is led by Pope Pius VI. appointed first bishop of the new diocese .
Disasters
- 1942 : The German submarine U 68 sinks the British passenger ship City of Cairo . The lifeboats get lost in the Atlantic, the last is not found until 51 days later. 104 passengers and crew members are killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1981 : Larry Holmes defeats Renaldo Snipes in the Civic Arena , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , by technical knockout and becomes world heavyweight boxing champion.
- 2007 : With an 8-0 win against Beşiktaş Istanbul , Liverpool have their biggest win in the UEFA Champions League to date .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 15 : Julia Aggripina , Roman empress, fourth wife of Claudius
- 1391 : Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March , English nobleman
- 1479 : Joan of Castile , Queen of Castile, León and Aragón
- 1479 : Philip I , Margrave of Baden
- 1510 : Leonhard Badehorn , German lawyer
- 1510 : John Caius , English court physician
- 1534 : Joachim Camerarius the Younger , German doctor, botanist and natural scientist
- 1537 : Elisabeth Magdalene , German noblewoman, Margravine of Brandenburg and Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- 1540 : Cäcilie Wasa , Swedish princess and margravine of Baden-Rodemachern
- 1566 : Julien Perrichon , French lutenist and composer
- 1576 : Karl Günther , Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- 1578 : Maximilian von Liechtenstein , imperial field marshal and imperial prince
- 1607 : Achilles Kern , German sculptor
- 1617 : Leopoldo de 'Medici , Italian cardinal
- 1636 : Adelheid von Savoyen , wife of the Bavarian Elector Ferdinand Maria
- 1661 : Charles II , King of Spain
- 1665 : Johann Heinrich Ulrich , Swiss Reformed theologian
- 1671 : Colley Cibber , British theater director, impresario, playwright and poet
- 1683 : Christian Friedrich Börner , German theologian
18th century
- 1701 : Melchior Eberhard , South German sculptor
- 1713 : Thomas Osborne, 4th Duke of Leeds , British aristocrat (peer)
- 1723 : Johann Christian Wernsdorf I , German writer, poet and rhetorician
- 1730 : Leonardo Antonelli , Italian cardinal to the curia
- 1736 : Johann Kasimir von Auer , Prussian major general
- 1753 : Mikhail Ivanovich Koslowski , Russian sculptor and university professor
- 1754 : Léonard Bourdon , French politician
- 1754 : Friedrich I , King of Württemberg
- 1758 : Carl Anton von Barth , Mayor of Munich and Landscape Chancellor
- 1771 : Alois Senefelder , Austrian actor and writer, inventor of lithography
- 1775 : Joseph Leonhard Knoll , Bohemian pedagogue
- 1784 : Laure-Adelaide Abrantès , French writer
- 1784 : Antonio Fontana , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
- 1787 : Vuk Stefanović Karadžić , Serbian philologist
- 1790 : Johann Jacob Wehrli , Swiss educator
- 1794 : Aimable Pélissier , French general and statesman, Marshal of France
- 1794 : Konstantin Andrejewitsch Thon , Russian architect of German origin
- 1797 : Gabriel Andral , French medic
- 1800 : Eduard Grell , German composer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Nuno José Severo de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto , Portuguese politician
- 1807 : Karol Bołoz Antoniewicz , Polish theologian and missionary
- 1809 : Christoph Friedrich Ammermüller , doctor from Württemberg, teacher, entrepreneur, publicist and politician
- 1814 : Adolphe Sax , Belgian musical instrument maker
- 1818 : Joseph Lajeunesse , Canadian musician and music educator
- 1819 : Jules Rivière , French violinist, bassoonist, conductor and composer
- 1825 : Charles Garnier , French builder
- 1833 : Jonas Lie , Norwegian writer
- 1835 : Albert Bitzius , Swiss theologian and politician
- 1850 : Ernest von Koerber , Austrian politician, multiple minister, Reich minister and prime minister
1851-1900
- 1851 : Charles Dow , American business journalist
- 1854 : John Philip Sousa , American composer and military bandmaster
- 1858 : Nicolaas Prins , Dutch old Catholic bishop
- 1859 : Máximo Arrates Boza , Panamanian composer
- 1861 : Thomas Watt Gregory , American politician
- 1861 : James Naismith , Canadian physician and educator
- 1863 : Louis Waizman , Canadian composer, violist, trombonist, pianist and music teacher
- 1864 : Bálint Kuzsinszky , Hungarian archaeologist
- 1865 : William Boog Leishman , British medic
- 1866 : Johannes Jørgensen , Danish poet
- 1866 : Paul Schreckenbach , German pastor and writer
- 1869 : Gustav Berling , German engineer and inventor
- 1878 : Raymond Asquith , British lawyer
- 1878 : Kurt Goldstein , German doctor and anti-fascist
- 1880 : Yoshisuke Aikawa , Japanese entrepreneur and politician
- 1880 : Robert Musil , Austrian writer
- 1883 : Henri Nibelle , French organist and composer
- 1886 : Gustav Gerson Kahn , American musician, songwriter and lyricist
- 1886 : Bruno Satori-Neumann , German theater scholar and journalist
- 1889 : Alexandra Wassiljewna Artjuchina , Soviet party and state official
- 1890 : Bentley Collingwood Hilliam , English singer, songwriter, composer and actor
- 1891 : Galaktion Tabidze , Georgian poet
- 1893 : Edsel Ford , American entrepreneur
- 1895 : Margit Schenker-Angerer , Hungarian opera and concert singer
- 1896 : Marcelle de Lacour , French harpsichordist
- 1897 : Marcel Mongin , French racing car driver
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker , British algologist
- 1902 : Valter Ever , Estonian athlete
- 1902 : Josef Grohé , Gauleiter of the NSDAP
- 1903 : Kon Hidemi , Japanese writer
- 1903 : Seymour Lipton , American sculptor
- 1905 : Walter Hase , German forester and non-fiction author
- 1904 : Paul Bleiß , German politician (SPD)
- 1908 : Tadeusz Wilczak , Polish conductor
- 1910 : Erik Ode , German director and actor
- 1910 : Albert Viau , Canadian singer, composer and music teacher
- 1911 : Pawel Gerassimowitsch Lisizian , Russian-Armenian baritone
- 1912 : King Kolax , American jazz trumpeter
- 1912 : Leonardo Pedroza , Venezuelan musician and orchestra leader
- 1912 : Marcel Saucier , Canadian violinist, composer and music teacher
- 1913 : Gisela Kühler-Balcke , German sculptor
- 1915 : Marc Mendelson , Belgian painter, printmaker and sculptor
- 1916 : Ray Conniff , American band leader
- 1917 : András Mihály , Hungarian composer
- 1919 : Julius Aßfalg , German orientalist
- 1919 : Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen , Portuguese author
- 1919 : Christoph Probst , German student and resistance fighter ( White Rose )
- 1921 : Julius Hackethal , German medic
- 1921 : James Jones , American writer
- 1923 : Franz Austeda , Austrian civil servant, philosopher and educator
- 1923 : Rudolf Günter Langer , German writer and poet
- 1923 : Rolando Valdés , Cuban band leader
- 1924 : Otto Höpfner , German radio and television presenter
- 1925 : Jean Aurel , French screenwriter and film director
1926-1950
- 1929 : Francy Boland , Belgian jazz pianist and arranger
- 1929 : Kurt Ernsting , German entrepreneur and patron
- 1930 : Douglas Thomas Anakin , Canadian bobsleigh and luge rider
- 1931 : Peter Collins , British racing driver
- 1931 : Mike Nichols , German-American director, screenwriter and producer
- 1932 : François Englert , Belgian theoretical physicist
- 1932 : Stonewall Jackson , American country musician
- 1933 : Else Ackermann , German politician
- 1936 : Leonard Pietraszak , Polish actor
- 1937 : Horst Hano , German television journalist
- 1938 : PJ Proby , American singer
- 1939 : Dieter Nohlen , German political scientist
- 1939 : Brigitte Lange , German politician
- 1939 : Satoko Kizaki , Japanese writer
- 1940 : Volker Jacobs , German journalist
- 1941 : John Carter , American politician and judge
- 1941 : Karl-Heinz Ducke , German priest and civil rights activist
- 1941 : Doug Sahm , American singer and songwriter
- 1942 : Ferenc Gyurcsek , Hungarian sculptor
- 1942 : Tora Aasland , Norwegian politician
- 1943 : Gert J. Hödl , Austrian ice and sand artist
- 1944 : Aksoltan Töreýewna Ataýewa , Turkmen politician and diplomat
- 1944 : Volker Sklenar , German politician
- 1944 : Wild Man Fischer , American musician
- 1946 : Jürgen Bartsch , German serial killer
- 1946 : Sally Field , American actress
- 1946 : Paul Lynch , British-Canadian director
- 1946 : George Young , Australian musician and songwriter
- 1946 : Hannelore Zober , German handball player
- 1948 : Christoph Bayer , German local politician
- 1948 : Glenn Frey , American musician, singer and songwriter
- 1948 : Robert Hübner , German chess grandmaster
- 1948 : Bernd Zimmer , German painter and representative of the Neue Wilden
- 1949 : Josef Angermüller , German motorcycle track racer
- 1949 : Brad Davis , American actor
- 1949 : Arturo Sandoval , American jazz and fusion musician
1951-1975
- 1952 : Michael Cunningham , American author
- 1953 : Althea Flynt , American publisher
- 1953 : Reinhard Hauke , German auxiliary bishop
- 1953 : Godehard Ruppert , German university president
- 1954 : Roger Berbig , Swiss football player
- 1954 : Lothar Mohn , German church musician
- 1954 : Klaus-Günter Pods , German judge at the Federal Labor Court
- 1956 : Leo Clijsters , Belgian football player
- 1956 : Marc Dutroux , Belgian serial killer
- 1957 : Luis Diaz , American percussionist and music teacher
- 1957 : Klaus Kleinfeld , German manager
- 1957 : Lori Singer , American actress
- 1960 : Stefano Arquilla , Italian filmmaker
- 1960 : Wolfgang Bischof , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising / Germany
- 1961 : Craig Goldy , American guitarist
- 1962 : Peter Kurz , German politician, Lord Mayor of Mannheim
- 1962 : Georg Uecker , German actor and author
- 1963 : Fitnat Ahrens , German-Turkish author
- 1963 : Katrin Altpeter , German local politician
- 1963 : Barbara Eligmann , German television presenter
- 1963 : Sabine Günther , German athlete
- 1963 : Rainer Sellien , German actor
- 1964 : Arne Duncan , US Secretary of Education
- 1964 : Greg Graffin , American college professor, songwriter, and singer ( Bad Religion )
- 1965 : Michael Boden , German musician, composer and poet
- 1965 : Michael Tritscher , Austrian ski racer
- 1966 : Peter DeLuise , American actor
- 1966 : Anja Steinbeck , German lawyer, university rector
- 1967 : Jun Maeda , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1967 : Peter Westenthaler , Austrian politician
- 1968 : Edward Linskens , Dutch football player
- 1968 : Klaus-Dieter Petersen , German handball player and coach
- 1968 : Kjetil Rekdal , Norwegian football player and coach
- 1969 : Manou Lubowski , German actor
- 1970 : Joyce Chepchumba , Kenyan athlete
- 1970 : Ethan Hawke , American actor
- 1971 : Yuri Vladimirovich Andronow , Russian walker
- 1971 : Laura Flessel-Colovic , French fencer
- 1972 : Rebecca Romijn , American actress
- 1974 : Kamil Susko , Slovak football player
- 1974 : Frank Vandenbroucke , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1975 : Anne Dot Eggers Nielsen , Danish soccer player
1976-2000
- 1977 : Dušan Kecman , Serbian basketball player
- 1978 : Keith Aucoin , American ice hockey player
- 1978 : Sebastian Schlemmer , German actor
- 1982 : Dominique Taboga , Austrian soccer player
- 1983 : Nicole Hosp , Austrian ski racer, world champion
- 1984 : Thomas Springer , German triathlete
- 1985 : Petrunjela Njirić , Croatian soccer player
- 1986 : Katie Leclerc , American actress
- 1986 : Fabian Müller , German soccer player
- 1987 : Ana Ivanović , Serbian tennis player
- 1988 : Emma Stone , American actress
- 1988 : Oliver Wohlmuth , Austrian soccer player
- 1988 : Conchita Wurst , Austrian singer
- 1989 : Jozy Altidore , American football player
- 1989 : Maren Mjelde , Norwegian soccer player
- 1990 : André Schürrle , German soccer player
- 1990 : Kris Wu , Canadian actor and musician
- 1991 : Anna Herrmann , German actress
- 1991 : Doron Lamb , American basketball player
- 1991 : Mike van Duinen , Dutch football player
- 1992 : Sakhar Vadimovich Arsamaszew , Russian ice hockey player
- 1992 : Linus Straßer , German ski racer
- 1992 : Céline Denefleh , German plus-size model
- 1993 : Isaac Viñales , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1994 : Juliane Langgemach , German volleyball player
- 1994 : Felix Monsén , Swedish ski racer
- 1996 : Lorenzo Baldassarri , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1998 : Marco Tumminello , Italian football player
21st century
- 2002 : Mya-Lecia Naylor , British actress
Died
Before the 17th century
- 822 : Agan , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
- 1003 : Giovanni Sicco, under the name of John XVII. Pope
- 1078 : Berthold I von Zähringen , German nobleman, Duke of Carinthia and Margrave of Verona
- 1226 : Guillaume de Joinville , Bishop of Langres and Archbishop of Reims
- 1228 : Lambert von Barmstede , Bishop of Ratzeburg
- 1231 : Tsuchimikado , Japanese emperor
- 1282 : Roger de Clifford , English nobleman and military man
- 1282 : Luke de Tany , English knight and military man
- 1312 : Christina von Stommeln , German mystic in the late Middle Ages
- 1389 : Irmengard von Oettingen , Countess Palatine near the Rhine
- 1406 : Pope Innocent VII.
- 1416 : Ha Ryun , neo-Confucian philosopher and politician, thinker of the Korean Goryeo and Joseon dynasties
- 1428 : Guillaume Fillastre , French cardinal
- 1461 : John Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman and Earl Marshal
- 1479 : James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton , Scottish nobleman
- 1480 : Ichijō Norifusa , Japanese regent
- 1501 : Giovanni della Rovere , Signore of Senigallia in the Marche
- 1515 : Peter Numagen , federal cleric, scholar and notary
- 1517 : Wiguleus Fröschl von Marzoll , Prince-Bishop of Passau
- 1550 : Ulrich , Duke of Württemberg
- 1568 : Anna of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Princess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Duchess of Pomerania
- 1586 : Wilhelm IV. Von dem Bergh , Reichsgraf von dem Bergh
- 1591 : Martino Longhi the Elder , Italian architect
- 1597 : Katharina Michaela of Spain , Duchess of Savoy
17th and 18th centuries
- 1611 : Peter Wok von Rosenberg , Bohemian nobleman and politician
- 1612 : Henry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales , brother-in-law of Frederick V , son of James I and brother of Charles I.
- 1650 : Wilhelm II , Prince of Orange and governor of Holland and Zealand
- 1656 : John IV , King of Portugal
- 1656 : Jean-Baptiste Morin , French mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
- 1666 : Luisa of Guzmán , Queen of Portugal
- 1713 : Franz Karl von Auersperg , Prince of Auersperg, Duke of Münsterberg and Imperial General
- 1715 : Emetullah , Ottoman princess and favorite consort of Mehmed IV.
- 1720 : Benno Haan , Danish-German art sticker
- 1730 : Hans Hermann von Katte , Prussian officer and childhood friend of Friedrich II.
- 1742 : Martin Frantz , Baltic-Silesian architect
- 1755 : Franz Ulrich Ries , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1769 : Carl Friedrich Kaltschmied , German medic
- 1777 : Jean Marteilhe , French evangelical witness and galley slave
- 1792 : Johann Friedrich Camerer , German lawyer, court officer, folklorist and archaeologist
- 1793 : Louis Philippe II. De Bourbon , Duke of Orléans, known as Philippe Égalité
- 1795 : Georg Anton Benda , German composer
19th century
- 1813 : Claude Charles Aubry de La Boucharderie , French division general
- 1822 : Claude Louis Berthollet , French chemist
- 1825 : Giocondo Albertolli , Swiss sculptor and architect
- 1836 : Charles X , last ruler of France with the title "King of France and Navarre"
- 1855 : Johann Gottfried Abraham Frenzel , German painter, engraver and art writer
- 1872 : George Gordon Meade , American general
- 1876 : Giacomo Antonelli , Italian cardinal and state secretary
- 1880 : Estanislao del Campo , Argentine poet and journalist
- 1892 : Juana Manuela Gorriti , Argentine writer and journalist
- 1893 : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer
- 1897 : Edouard Deldevez , French composer, violinist and conductor
20th century
1901-1950
- 1905 : George Williams , British founder of the Christian Young People's Association (YMCA)
- 1909 : Franziska Speyer , German donor and patron
- 1910 : Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian writer and freedom fighter
- 1917 : Oskar Kohnstamm , German neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1925 : Khải Định , twelfth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
- 1930 : Adolf Wölfli , Swiss artist and writer
- 1931 : Leyla Gülefşan Açba-Ançabadze , princess at the Ottoman court
- 1932 : Ali Rıza Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1933 : Andrei Lyaptschew , Bulgarian Prime Minister
- 1936 : Sir Littleton Ernest Groom , Australian politician
- 1939 : Adolf Brütt , German sculptor and stonemason, founder of the Weimar School of Sculpture
- 1940 : Ivar Frithiof Andresen , Norwegian opera singer
- 1941 : Joachim Gottschalk , German actor
- 1941 : Maurice Leblanc , French writer
- 1941 : Walter Krämer , German politician, concentration camp functional prisoner, resistance fighter, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1943 : Friedrich Pincus , German ophthalmologist
- 1945 : Eugene Cook Bingham , American chemist and pioneer of modern rheology
- 1949 : Alwin Brandes , German politician, MdR, trade union leader and resistance fighter against National Socialism
1951-1975
- 1951 : Wilhelm Schmid , German classical philologist
- 1954 : Butler Ames , American politician
- 1955 : Jack McGrath , American racing car driver
- 1955 : Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de Vooys , Dutch Dutch artist
- 1959 : Juan Carlos Dávalos , Argentine writer
- 1960 : Erich Raeder , German Grand Admiral
- 1961 : Itō Michio , Japanese ballet dancer and choreographer
- 1964 : Hans Karl August Simon von Euler-Chelpin , German-Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1965 : Edgar Varèse , American composer
- 1970 : Agustín Lara , Mexican composer and singer
- 1975 : Ernst Hanfstaengl , German politician and political activist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Václav Čtvrtek , Czech writer
- 1976 : Alexander Solomon Wiener , American serologist, co-discoverer of the rhesus factor
- 1980 : Erik Asklund , Swedish writer and screenwriter
- 1980 : Jean-François Piot , French rally and circuit racer
- 1980 : Pierre Villon , French architect, member of the Resistance, newspaper founder and politician
- 1986 : Elisabeth Grümmer , German singer
- 1986 : Gotfrid Köchert , Austrian racing car driver
- 1987 : Sohar Argov , Israeli singer
- 1987 : Jean Rivier , French composer
- 1988 : Cor de Feijter , Dutch chess composer
- 1988 : Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz , British fighter pilot, entrepreneur, racing car driver and designer
- 1989 : Margarete Buber-Neumann , German Gulag and concentration camp prisoner, publicist and writer
- 1992 : Jean-Jacques Siegrist , Swiss historian
- 1993 : Torsten Fenslau , German DJ and music producer
- 1994 : Skeeter Bonn , American country musician
- 1994 : Vladimir Pawlowitsch Sagorowski , Soviet historian and correspondence chess world champion
- 1995 : Bill Cheesbourg , American racing car driver
- 1996 : Mario Savio , American civil rights activist
- 1996 : Toni Schmücker , German industrial manager
- 1997 : Anne-Stine Ingstad , Norwegian archaeologist
- 1998 : Mohammed Taki Abdoulkarim , President of the Comoros
- 1998 : Niklas Luhmann , German sociologist and legal scholar
- 1998 : Elias Nijmé , Syrian Archbishop
- 1999 : Alfred Mitterhofer , Austrian organist
21st century
- 2001 : Erik Amburger , German Eastern European historian
- 2001 : Alfred Rieche , German chemist
- 2002 : Michel Majerus , Luxembourg artist
- 2003 : Hallvard Johnsen , Norwegian composer
- 2003 : Pit Krüger , German actor
- 2003 : Hendrika Mastenbroek , Dutch swimmer
- 2004 : Serge Adda , French television president
- 2005 : Dick Hutcherson , American racing car driver
- 2004 : Augusto Aristizábal Ospina , Colombian bishop
- 2006 : Francisco Fernández Ochoa , Spanish ski racer and Olympic champion
- 2007 : Enzo Biagi , Italian journalist, author and television presenter
- 2008 : Heiko Engelkes , German journalist
- 2009 : Günter Naumann , German actor
- 2010 : Ezard Haußmann , German actor
- 2010 : Michael Seifert , Ukrainian Nazi war criminal
- 2011 : Helmut Polensky , German racing car driver and entrepreneur
- 2012 : Clive Dunn , British actor
- 2012 : Rudolf Küster , German weightlifter and strength athlete
- 2014 : Giampiero Biscaldi , Italian racing car driver
- 2015 : Max Asam , German general
- 2015 : Yitzchak Nawon , Israeli politician and president
- 2016 : Zoltán Kocsis , Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer
- 2017 : Karin Dor , German actress
- 2017 : Richard Gordon , American astronaut
- 2017 : Feliciano Rivilla , Spanish soccer player
- 2019 : Jan Stráský , Czech politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Gustav II Adolf (Sweden) , King (Protestant)
- Heinrich Schütz , German church musician and composer (Protestant)
- St. Leonhard of Limoges , Franconian nobleman and patron saint (Catholic)
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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