October 6th
The October 6 is the 279th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 280th in leap years ), thus remain 86 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 539 BC BC : The capture of Babylon by the army of the Achaemenid King Cyrus II and the capture of King Nabonidus end both the New Babylonian Empire and the political independence of Babylonia .
- 105 BC BC : In the battle of Arausio , the Cimbri and Teutons defeat the Romans .
- 1434 : The exiled Cosimo de 'Medici returns to Florence after the exile of his rival Rinaldo degli Albizzi . He secured the Medici the beginning of a three-century rule in the city on the Arno .
- 1656 : With the withdrawal of the Russian army commanded by Tsar Alexei I , the siege of Riga in the Russo-Swedish War of 1656–1658 ends .
- 1683 : The first closed group of Germans, the " Original 13 ", reaches North America under the leadership of Franz Daniel Pastorius and founds the city of Germantown .
- 1762 : British troops take Manila , the capital of the Spanish-ruled Philippines , in the Seven Years' War .
- 1789 : The procession of Poissards that set out the day before storms the Palace of Versailles and forces King Louis XVI to return . and his family to Paris .
- 1826 : The Treaty of Akkerman , today's Bilhorod-Dnistrowskyj , between Russia and the Ottoman Empire forces the Sublime Porte to regulate the situation in Serbia and the Danube principalities in the Russian sense.
- 1846 : The replacement of the liberal Prime Minister Pedro de Sousa Holstein , Duke of Palmela, with the conservative João Carlos de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun , Duke of Saldanha, in Portugal by Queen Maria II causes the rebellion of Maria da Fonte to flare up again and in result in a civil war .
- 1848 : The October uprising in Vienna in 1848 breaks out when units mutiny because they do not want to go against rebellious Hungary . During the storming of the War Ministry, War Minister Count Theodor Baillet von Latour is lynched.
- 1849 : At the instigation of Count Haynau , Ludwig Batthyány , first Hungarian Prime Minister in the course of the revolution of 1848/49 , is executed in Pest . On the same day, 13 Hungarian generals who led the uprising against Austria are executed in the city of Arad .
- 1860 : Beijing is captured by British and French troops during the Second Opium War . In the days that followed, the Old and New Summer Palaces were systematically looted and destroyed.
- 1870 : A royal decree by Victor Emanuel II proclaims the union of the Papal States with the Kingdom of Italy . The Risorgimento ends with this merger, but the Roman question continues to smolder.
- 1891 : With the death of King Charles , Wilhelm II becomes the new regent in the Kingdom of Württemberg .
- 1938 : The government of Poland decreed that all passports of Poles living abroad will be invalid unless they contain a “verification note”.
- 1939 : In World War II , the last Polish troops surrender to the Wehrmacht , ending the attack on Poland by the German Empire against Poland .
- 1945 : The British occupying power forbids the Mayor of Cologne , Konrad Adenauer, appointed by the Americans, from any party political activities.
- 1947 : The British Army ends the internment of Exodus passengers near Lübeck .
- 1956 : László Rajk , who was executed after a show trial during the Stalinist period under Rákosi , is ceremonially reburied in Budapest . Over 100,000 people take part in the funeral.
- 1973 : On the day of the Jewish festival of reconciliation, Yom Kippur , Egypt and Syria attack the Israeli front on the Golan Heights and on the Suez Canal, opening the Yom Kippur War .
- 1976 : The Chinese head of state Hua Guofeng arrests the " Gang of Four " and heralds the end of the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China .
- 1976 : In Thailand when are Thammasat University massacre killed at least 46 students and democracy activists. Then a military junta takes over power.
- 1981 : In Cairo , Egypt's head of state Anwar as-Sadat is murdered by members of the Islamist group Al-Jihad during a parade . The previous Vice-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak will take power .
- 1981 : At Frankfurt am Main airport , the police clears the huts of the opponents of the runway west .
- 1985 : In the parliamentary elections in Portugal , the conservative Partido Social Democrata becomes the strongest party, but does not win a majority of its own.
- 1989 : On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the GDR , a large FDJ torch parade takes place in Berlin .
- 1991 : The parliamentary elections in Portugal are again won by the Partido Social Democrata under Aníbal Cavaco Silva .
- 1993 : After it became known that the Federal Health Office (BGA) had withheld a total of 373 reports of HIV-contaminated blood products in the past few years, Federal Health Minister Horst Seehofer dismissed the President of the BGA Dieter Großklaus and the Head of Department in the Ministry of Health Manfred Steinbach as the main responsible Retirement.
- 1998 : After the right-wing extremist French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen called the gas chambers in the German Reich from 1933 to 1945 a "detail of the story", the European Parliament lifts his immunity so that the Munich public prosecutor can investigate him for sedition .
economy
- 1790 : Jacob Schweppe presents his soda water , the later Schweppes drink , in London . He now uses the bottling process he found in Geneva in 1783 in a factory founded with partners in the British capital.
- 1875 : Due to high debt, Sultan Abd ül-Asis announces the bankruptcy of the Ottoman Empire .
- 1945 : The first edition of the Süddeutsche Zeitung appears.
- 1959 : The later Spanish airline Spantax is founded in Tenerife under the company Spain Air Taxi .
- 2010 : The online service Instagram appears for the first time as a mobile app . Two years later, in November 2012, it was also launched as an independent website.
science and technology
- 1582 : Due to the beginning of the Gregorian calendar , this day does not exist in the Catholic countries of Europe.
- 1808 : The whalers James Lindsay and Thomas Hopper enter data in their ship cards about the long-term doubtful existence of Bouvet Island in the Southern Ocean .
- 1829 : The Rainhill race begins, in which the most suitable locomotive is to be determined for the planned route between Liverpool and Manchester.
- 1904 : The Danzig Technical University is officially founded in Danzig .
- 1961 : The surgeon Heinz-Joachim Sykosch implants the first pacemaker in Germany.
- 1990 : The Ulysses space probe , a joint ESA and NASA project , is launched.
- 1996 : With the publication of the Frankfurt Declaration initiated by Friedrich Denk , the dispute over the spelling reform begins .
Culture
- 1600 : At the wedding of Henry IV of France with Princess Maria de Medici , the " Favola in Musica " L'Euridice favola drammatica by Jacopo Peri is premiered in the Palazzo Pitti as the first surviving opera in musical history .
- 1782 : The first performance of the musical comedy La ballerina amante by Domenico Cimarosa takes place at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples.
- 1860 : Felice Beato , after the capture of Beijing in the Second Opium War by the British and French , photographs the Old and New Summer Palaces up to October 18, thus documenting their cultural treasures for posterity before both buildings were destroyed.
- 1868 : In Paris Théâtre des Variétés is Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Périchole with the libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy premiered. Offenbach's favorite singer Hortense Schneider shines in the title role.
- 1871 : The Tyler Davidson Fountain in Cincinnati , Ohio, is unveiled to around 20,000 people. The founder, Henry Probasco, would like to use this to erect a monument to his business partner Tyler Davidson and at the same time curb alcoholism in his city. The fountain becomes a symbol of Cincinnati and the most visited fountain in the USA.
- 1889 : The Moulin Rouge , which was built by Joseph Oller and is set to become the most famous variety theater in the world, opens in the Montmartre district of Paris in the 18th arrondissement .
- 1902 : The world premiere of the opera That was me! by Leo Blech takes place at the Dresden Court Opera . The libretto was written by Richard Batka using the play of the same name by Johann Hutt .
- 1917 : The operetta Drei alten Schachteln by Walter Kollo with the libretto by Herman Haller is premiered at the Theater am Nollendorfplatz in Berlin . The lyrics are from Rideamus alias Fritz Oliven .
- 1919 : The world premiere of the operetta Apple Blossoms by Fritz Kreisler takes place at the Globe Theater in New York City.
- 1927 : The first full-length sound film in history is premiered in New York with the feature film The Jazz Singer, produced by Warner Bros.
- 1945 : In the alternative quarters of the Vienna State Opera in the Theater an der Wien , an opera performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio takes place in Vienna for the first time since the war.
- 1986 : With hr4 , the fourth radio program of the Hessischer Rundfunk goes on air.
society
- 1760 : The future Emperor Joseph II marries the Spanish princess Isabella of Bourbon-Parma in Vienna .
- 1903 : As a club Association of Teachers of Germany academically trained is German Philologenverband founded.
- 1967 : The Summer of Love in San Francisco ends with the event Death of a Hippie , with which the hippie movement is symbolically buried .
- 1991 : Actress Elizabeth Taylor marries construction worker Larry Fortensky , whom she met during withdrawal therapy . She will separate from her seventh husband five years later.
- 2007 : Briton Jason Lewis becomes the first person to complete a circumnavigation of the world using only muscle power, including crossing the equator , in Greenwich . He was on the road for over 13 years on the distance of about 74,842 kilometers.
- 2012 : Paolo Gabriele, former valet of Pope Benedict XVI. , is sentenced to 18 months in prison as part of the Vatileaks affair.
religion
- 1689 : Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni is elected Pope and takes the name Alexander VIII .
- 2002 : Josemaría Escrivá , the founder of Opus Dei , is canonized by Pope John Paul II .
Disasters
- 1948 : A 7.3 earthquake in Ashgabat , Turkmenistan kills around 110,000 people.
- 1986 : K-219 , a submarine of the Soviet Yankee I class (Soviet name: Project 667A or Navaga class) sinks in the Atlantic Ocean after it because of the explosion of one of its rockets since October 3 has driven to the surface. Most of the crew can be saved.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1889 : Hans Meyer , Ludwig Purtscheller and Yohani Kinyala Lauwo reach the summit of Kibo and are the first to climb Kilimanjaro .
- 1999 : Jan Ullrich wins the title in the individual time trial at the road cycling world championship in Verona .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 210 BC BC : Ptolemy V Epiphanes , Egyptian pharaoh
- 1289 : Wenceslaus III. , King of Bohemia and Hungary
- 1459 : Martin Behaim , cartographer and cosmographer
- 1510 : John Caius , English court physician, enabled the re-establishment of Gonville Hall
- 1552 : Matteo Ricci , Italian missionary and priest in China
- 1565 : Marie Le Jars de Gournay , French writer, philosopher and suffragette
- 1577 : Ferdinand of Bavaria , Archbishop of Cologne, Bishop of Münster
- 1612 : Claudia of Lorraine , Duchess of Lorraine
- 1634 : Viktor I. Amadeus , Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg
- 1644 : Johann Zacharias Kneller , German painter
- 1675 : Diamante Maria Scarabelli , Italian soprano
- 1682 : Bruno Mauricio de Zabala , Spanish military and colonial administrator, Capitán General del Río de la Plata
18th century
- 1702 : Philipp Ernst Lüders , German Protestant provost, agricultural reformer, educator and agricultural economist
- 1705 : Maximilian Trumler , Italian master stonemason and sculptor
- 1726 : Maria Teresa Felicita d'Este , Duchess of Penthièvre
- 1732 : Joseph Leitgeb , Austrian horn player
- 1738 : Charles-Joseph Mathon de La Cour , French economist, author and philanthropist
- 1747 : Jean François Reubell , French politician and member of the Board of Directors
- 1764 : Friedrich Jacobs , German classical philologist
- 1767 : Henri Christophe , President and King of Haiti
- 1768 : Samuel C. Crafts , American politician
- 1768 : Josef Madersperger , Austrian inventor of the sewing machine
- 1769 : Isaac Brock , British general and Canadian national hero of the war of 1812 against the United States
- 1773 : Ludwig Philipp (Louis Philippe), last king of France
- 1775 : Johann Anton André , German composer and music publisher
- 1779 : Nathan Appleton , American politician
- 1782 : Karl August Weinhold , German medic
- 1785 : Albert Methfessel , German composer and conductor
- 1791 : Johann Theodor Vömel , German classical philologist, Lutheran theologian and grammar school director
- 1796 : August Abendroth , German lawyer, businessman and philanthropist
- 1797 : Joseph Othmar Ritter von Rauscher , Archbishop of Vienna
- 1799 : Franz Xaver von Andlaw-Birseck , Baden diplomat
19th century
1801-1850
- 1803 : Heinrich Wilhelm Dove , German physicist and meteorologist
- 1808 : Frederick VII , King of Denmark from 1848 to 1863
- 1816 : William Batchelder Bradbury , American composer
- 1820 : Jenny Lind , Swedish singer
- 1831 : Richard Dedekind , German mathematician
- 1832 : August Eisenlohr , German Egyptologist
- 1832 : Christian Mali , German painter
- 1838 : Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian writer and freedom fighter
- 1838 : Sophie Wörishöffer , German writer
- 1840 : Eugen Dieterich , chemist and pioneer in the German pharmaceutical industry
- 1840 : Christian August Volquardsen , German ancient historian
- 1846 : George Westinghouse , American inventor
- 1847 : Adolf von Hildebrand , German sculptor
- 1849 : Ludwig Purtscheller , Austrian mountaineer
- 1849 : Basil Zaharoff , British arms dealer and casino owner
1851-1900
- 1851 : Richard Müller , German politician, MdR
- 1853 : Thies Hinrich Engelbrecht , German agricultural geographer
- 1862 : Joseph Weldon Bailey , American politician
- 1866 : Heinrich Federer , Swiss writer
- 1866 : Reginald Fessenden , Canadian inventor and broadcasting pioneer
- 1867 : Václav Radimský , Czech painter
- 1876 : Serafín María Armora y González , Mexican bishop
- 1882 : Karol Szymanowski , Polish composer
- 1884 : Maurice Hewitt , French violinist and conductor
- 1886 : Karl Paul Andrae , German architect and artist
- 1886 : Edwin Fischer , Swiss musician
- 1887 : Le Corbusier , Swiss-French architect, architectural theorist, town planner, painter, draftsman, sculptor and furniture designer
- 1887 : Maria Jeritza , Austrian soprano and chamber singer
- 1888 : Max Butting , German composer
- 1888 : Ásmundur Guðmundsson , Icelandic theologian
- 1888 : John Howard , Canadian athlete
- 1889 : Maria Dąbrowska , Polish writer
- 1891 : Hans Schemm , German teacher, politician, Gauleiter and "Reichswalter" of the National Socialist Teachers' Association (NSLB)
- 1892 : Friedrich Ahlfeld , German-Bolivian mining engineer and geologist
- 1893 : Milton Ager , American composer
- 1897 : Gerhard Lamprecht , German director
- 1898 : Franz Altheim , German ancient historian and classical philologist
- 1898 : Hermann Dortans , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1898 : Mitchell Leisen , American film director
- 1898 : André Marandet , French racing car driver
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Harry Adaskin , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1901 : Leslie John S. Arliss , British screenwriter and film director
- 1902 : Gui Mombaerts , Belgian pianist and music teacher
- 1902 : Hoyt Ming , American old-time musician
- 1903 : Ernest Walton , Irish physicist
- 1904 : Horst Lange , German writer
- 1905 : Helen Wills Moody , American tennis player
- 1905 : Wolfgang Liebeneiner , German director
- 1906 : Janet Gaynor , American actress
- 1907 : Francisco Gabilondo Soler , Mexican author, composer and interpreter of children's songs
- 1907 : Louis Jeannin , French motorcycle racer
- 1908 : François Brassard , Canadian ethnomusicologist and organist
- 1908 : Carole Lombard , American actress
- 1912 : Gordon Wilkins , British journalist and racing car driver
- 1913 : Meret Oppenheim , German-Swiss painter
- 1914 : Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian ethnologist
- 1915 : Edgardo Martín , Cuban composer
- 1916 : Karl Kinzl , Austrian politician and farmer
- 1916 : Vern Sneider , American author
- 1916 : Franz Vit , German politician (SPD)
- 1917 : Fannie Lou Hamer , American civil rights campaigner
- 1917 : Maria von Schmedes , Austrian singer
- 1918 : Max de Terra , Swiss racing car driver
- 1918 : André Pilette , Belgian Formula 1 and sports car racing driver
- 1919 : Max Kohler , Swiss painter and graphic artist
- 1919 : Sawaki Kin'ichi , Japanese writer
- 1920 : Pietro Consagra , Italian artist
- 1921 : Rinaldo Martino , Argentine-Italian football player
- 1922 : Klaus Dill , German painter
- 1925 : Shana Alexander , American journalist
1926-1950
- 1928 : Jean-Jacques Antier , French writer
- 1928 : Alfred Hans Zoller , German composer, jazz pianist, cantor and organist
- 1929 : Dieter Antritter , German jazz musician
- 1929 : Bruno Cremer , French actor
- 1930 : Hafiz al-Assad , Syrian politician, prime minister, state president, dictator
- 1930 : Shugyō Takahashi , Japanese haiku poet
- 1931 : Riccardo Giacconi , Italian-American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1931 : Lee Man-hee , South Korean director
- 1933 : Louis Begley , American writer
- 1933 : Horst Bingel , German writer, poet and graphic artist
- 1933 : Stanley Myers , British composer
- 1936 : Ephraim Silas Obot , Nigerian bishop
- 1937 : Mario Capecchi , American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1938 : Peter Gosse , German writer
- 1940 : Boris Dmitrijewitsch Andrejew , Soviet cosmonaut
- 1940 : Manfred Bietak , Austrian professor of Egyptology
- 1940 : Eberhard Zeidler , German mathematician
- 1941 : Rolf Krüsmann , German athlete
- 1941 : John Nicholson , New Zealand engine tuner and racing car driver
- 1942 : Britt Ekland , Swedish actress
- 1942 : Ulf Fink , German politician
- 1942 : Anna Wahlgren , Swedish author
- 1943 : Ottavio Bianchi , Italian football player and coach
- 1944 : Carlos Pace , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver
- 1946 : Millie Small , Jamaican pop and ska singer
- 1947 : Thomas R. Fischer , German bank manager
- 1948 : Gerry Adams , Northern Irish politician
- 1949 : Bobby Farrell , Dutch dancer (Boney M.)
- 1950 : Pierre-Yves Asselin , French organist and music teacher
- 1950 : Christian Noyer , French politician
1951-1975
- 1951 : Hans-Jürgen Uhl , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1951 : Manfred Winkelhock , German Formula 1 and sports car racing driver
- 1953 : Peter Bürgel , German politician
- 1954 : David Hidalgo , American singer and musician
- 1954 : Helmut Zierl , German actor
- 1956 : Sadiq al-Ahmar , Yemeni politician and militia leader
- 1956 : Bruno Nöckler , Italian ski racer
- 1958 : Harry Lamott Crowl , Brazilian composer
- 1959 : Brian Higgins , American politician
- 1960 : Sabine Töpperwien , German sports journalist
- 1961 : Katrin Dörre-Heinig , German athlete
- 1961 : Moshe Lion , Israeli entrepreneur, leader and politician
- 1962 : Gesine Walther , German athlete
- 1963 : Sven Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1963 : Elisabeth Shue , American actress, film producer and singer
- 1964 : Thorsten Storm , German handball manager and player
- 1965 : Jürgen Kohler , German soccer player
- 1966 : Thomas Eugene Stinson , American bassist and guitarist
- 1967 : Attila Ambrus , Hungarian-Romanian ice hockey goalkeeper, fur smuggler, bank robber and writer
- 1967 : Kennet Andersson , Swedish football player
- 1968 : Bjarne Goldbæk , Danish football player
- 1970 : Corinna May , German singer
- 1970 : Olga Danilowa , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- 1971 : Phil Bennett , British racing car driver
- 1971 : Alan Stubbs , English football player
- 1972 : Dominic Andres , Swiss curler
- 1972 : Mark Schwarzer , Australian soccer player
- 1973 : Ioan Gruffudd , British actor
- 1974 : Kai Fagaschinski , German jazz clarinetist and improvisation musician
- 1975 : Skerdilaid Curri , Albanian football player
- 1975 : Martin Jørgensen , Danish football player
- 1975 : Peter Pellegrini , Slovak politician
1976-2000
- 1976 : Karen Dochojan , Armenian soccer player
- 1976 : Alexei Dudukalo , Russian racing driver
- 1977 : Wes Ramsey , American film and series actor
- 1978 : Emilija Dschingarowa , Bulgarian chess player
- 1979 : David di Tommaso , French football player
- 1979 : Josephine Touray , Danish handball player
- 1981 : Abdelkarim , German-Moroccan comedian
- 1981 : Lutz Altepost , German canoeist
- 1982 : Levon Aronjan , Armenian chess player
- 1982 : Sandrine Aubert , French ski racer
- 1982 : Michael Frater , Jamaican athlete
- 1982 : Hideki Mutō , Japanese racing car driver
- 1983 : David Limberský , Czech football player
- 1983 : Sunette Viljoen , South African athlete
- 1984 : Valerie Kasanita Adams , New Zealand athlete
- 1986 : Adil Auassar , Dutch football player
- 1986 : Irina Jurjewna Blisnowa , Russian handball player
- 1988 : Gerald Phiri , Zambian athlete
- 1989 : Kim Bo-kyung , South Korean soccer player
- 1989 : Sophia Thomalla , German actress
- 1990 : Nicolas Mayer , French ski jumper
- 1990 : Selina Wagner , German soccer player
- 1990 : Scarlett Byrne , British actress
- 1990 : Jordan Hamilton , American basketball player
- 1992 : Danyelle Helena da Silva Lima , Brazilian soccer player
- 1992 : Linda-Philomène Tsoungui , German drummer
- 1993 : Gil Popilski , Israeli chess player
- 1994 : Lisa Keferloher , German volleyball player
- 1994 : Eric Lichtenstein , Argentine racing car driver
- 1995 : Kirsten Nesse , German soccer player
- 1997 : Kasper Dolberg , Danish football player
- 1998 : Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink , German actress and singer
21st century
- 2002 : Cleopatra Stratan , Moldovan singer
Died
Before the 16th century
- 23 : Wang Mang , Emperor of China
- 404 : Aelia Eudoxia , wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius
- 869 : Irmentrud , Queen of West Franconia
- 877 : Charles the Bald , Frankish Emperor
- 1014 : Samuil , Tsar of the Danube Bulgarians
- 1016 : Wichmann III. , Saxon count from the Billunger clan
- 1019 : Friedrich , Count in Moselgau and Vogt von Stablo and Malmedy
- 1090 : Adalbero von Würzburg , Bishop of Würzburg
- 1101 : Bruno of Cologne , saint, founder of the Carthusian order
- 1173 : Engelbert III. , Margrave of Istria and Count of Kraiburg-Marquartsstein
- 1180 : Amalrich of Nesle , Patriarch of Jerusalem
- 1201 : Johannes V. Bavor , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1206 : Arthold von Belley , Bishop of Belley and Carthusians
- 1208 : Geoffrey de Muschamp , Bishop of Coventry
- 1315 : Weichart von Polheim , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1331 : John II of Bokholt , Bishop of Schleswig
- 1349 : Joan II , Queen of Navarre
- 1397 : Vuk Branković , Serbian nobleman and territorial prince
- 1406 : Henning von Rentelen , Lübeck mayor
- 1436 : Focko Ukena , East Frisian chief
- 1439 : Wilhelm II of Diest , Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1463 : Friedrich III. von Brandenburg , German nobleman, Margrave of Brandenburg, Lord of the Altmark
16th to 18th century
- 1505 : Johannes Adorf , German theologian
- 1519 : Peter Falck , Swiss politician, diplomat and scholar
- 1536 : William Tyndale , English Bible translator
- 1543 : Werner Steiner the Younger , Swiss reformer
- 1546 : Pierre Leclerc and companions, French Protestant martyrs
- 1559 : Wilhelm , Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
- 1565 : Johann Bocerus , German poet and historian
- 1567 : Cristóbal de Oñate , Spanish conquistador
- 1577 : Abraham Ulrich , German Protestant theologian
- 1610 : Hosokawa Fujitaka , Japanese prince and poet
- 1630 : Diego Fernández de Córdoba , Spanish colonial administrator, viceroy of New Spain and Peru
- 1632 : Wilhelm Heinrich von Bentheim-Steinfurt , Canon of Strasbourg
- 1638 : Stefan Gabriel , Swiss Protestant Reformed pastor and founder of the Romansh written language of the Surselvian idiom
- 1638 : Jakob Dircksz de Graeff , Amsterdam regent and mayor
- 1644 : Isabella of Bourbon , Queen of Spain, wife of King Philip IV.
- 1646 : Zhu Yujian , Chinese emperor of the southern Min Dynasty
- 1651 : Heinrich Albert , song writer and composer
- 1661 : Martin Zeiller , German compilation and travel writer
- 1695 : Gustav Adolf , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1701 : Miguel de Barrios , Spanish-Jewish poet and historian
- 1714 : Matteo Noris , Italian poet and librettist
- 1714 : Adalbert von Schleifras , prince abbot of Fulda
- 1716 : Johann David Feyerabend , mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn
- 1732 : Christian father , German medic
- 1733 : Baldassare Fontana , Ticino sculptor, plasterer and architect
- 1734 : Gottfried Reiche , German trumpeter and composer
- 1758 : Yanagisawa Kien , Japanese painter
- 1762 : Francesco Manfredini , Italian violinist and composer
- 1777 : Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin , French author and Salonnière of the Enlightenment
- 1780 : Ignaz Sichelbarth , German-Bohemian Jesuit missionary and painter active in China
- 1783 : Caspar Wolf , Swiss painter
- 1794 : Friedrich Gottlieb Barth , German pedagogue and linguist
19th century
- 1808 : Johann Gottlieb Lessing , German educator
- 1819 : Johann von Klenau , Austrian general
- 1825 : Bernard Germain Lacépède , French naturalist
- 1835 : Pawel Petrovich Sokolow , Russian sculptor
- 1837 : Jean-François Lesueur , French composer
- 1838 : Pierre Martin Rémi Aucher-Éloy , French botanist and explorer
- 1843 : Carl Amon , Austrian painter
- 1843 : Archibald Campbell , British general
- 1848 : Theodor Baillet von Latour , Austrian Minister of War
- 1848 : Johann Karl Friedrich Ollenroth , German medic
- 1849 : Ludwig Aulich , Hungarian revolutionary general and minister of war
- 1849 : Lajos Batthyány , Hungarian magnate and prime minister
- 1852 : Charles Marie Auguste de Beaumont d'Autichamp , French general
- 1862 : Francisco Acuña de Figueroa , Uruguayan writer
- 1863 : Frances Trollope , British writer
- 1870 : Heinrich Arnold Huyssen , German industrialist and politician
- 1870 : Augustus Matthiessen , British chemist and physicist
- 1870 : Johann Andreas Schubert , German engineer, entrepreneur
- 1872 : George Pollock , British Field Marshal
- 1873 : Paweł Edmund Strzelecki , German explorer
- 1873 : Friedrich Wieck , German musician and music teacher
- 1887 : Hugo Ewald von Kirchbach , Prussian general
- 1889 : Jules Dupré , French landscape painter
- 1891 : Timotheus Attar , Ottoman bishop
- 1891 : Charles Stewart Parnell , Irish politician
- 1891 : Charles I , King of Württemberg
- 1892 : Alfred Tennyson , British poet
- 1893 : Ford Madox Brown , English painter
- 1896 : Sir James Abbott , British general
- 1897 : Ernst Julius Meier , German Protestant theologian
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Wilson S. Bissell , American politician
- 1903 : Franz Misteli , Swiss classical philologist and linguist
- 1905 : Ferdinand von Richthofen , German geographer and explorer
- 1906 : Franz Josef Bucher , Swiss hotelier, railway pioneer and entrepreneur
- 1912 : Auguste Beernaert , Belgian politician and head of government
- 1913 : Hermann Riedel , German composer and conductor
- 1915 : Wolfgang Helbig , German archaeologist
- 1925 : Israel Abrahams , British Judaist
- 1923 : Damad Ferid Pascha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1925 : René Hanriot , French racing car driver and aviation pioneer
- 1932 : Friedrich Karl Paul Gustav von Arnim , Prussian officer
- 1933 : Sachari Paliashvili , Georgian composer
- 1936 : Charles Edward Adams , American politician
- 1936 : Gyula Gömbös , Hungarian general, politician and prime minister
- 1945 : Leonardo Conti , German-Swiss medic, head of the Reich Chamber of Physicians, National Socialist and alleged war criminal
- 1946 : Otto Barsch , German geologist and geophysicist
- 1946 : Per Albin Hansson , Swedish politician and Prime Minister
- 1946 : Morimoto Kaoru , Japanese playwright
- 1947 : Leevi Madetoja , Finnish composer
- 1949 : Robert E. Hannegan , American politician
1951-1975
- 1951 : Otto Fritz Meyerhof , German-American biochemist
- 1952 : Felix Daniel Ascher , German architect
- 1953 : Rahel Hirsch , German doctor
- 1954 : Hakon Børresen , Danish composer
- 1954 : Fred Hall , American musician and conductor
- 1957 : Hisao Jūran , Japanese writer
- 1958 : Ewald Aufermann , business economist
- 1959 : Bernard Berenson , American art historian, art collector and writer
- 1960 : Karl Absolon , Czech archaeologist and speleologist
- 1962 : Tod Browning , American film director
- 1963 : Heinrich Martin Arens , American politician
- 1964 : Richard Scheibe , German sculptor
- 1964 : Pietro Serantoni , Italian football player and coach
- 1973 : François Cevert , French racing car driver
- 1973 : Arnold Walter , Czech-Canadian music teacher and writer
- 1974 : Guillermo Castillo Bustamante , Venezuelan pianist and composer
1976-2000
- 1976 : Herman Geiger-Torel , Canadian opera director and music teacher
- 1976 : Hans Theilig , German handball player
- 1977 : Anton Schütz (later also Anton Schutz ), German-American artist, author and publisher
- 1978 : Johnny O'Keefe , Australian singer
- 1979 : Elizabeth Bishop , American writer
- 1979 : Tatjana Iwanow , German actress and singer
- 1980 : Felix Slavik , Mayor of Vienna
- 1981 : Anwar as-Sadat , Egyptian President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
- 1981 : Werner Zech , German general
- 1983 : John Cardinal Cody , American clergyman, Archbishop of Chicago
- 1983 : Terence Cardinal Cooke , American clergyman, Archbishop of New York
- 1983 : Hans Moeckel , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1983 : Hermann Zorn , German chemist
- 1984 : Herbert Friedrich Andréas , German historian and bibliographer
- 1984 : Ghulam Mohammad Farhad , Afghan politician
- 1984 : George Gaylord Simpson , American zoologist and paleontologist
- 1985 : Nelson Riddle , American band leader
- 1988 : Paul Ledoux , Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist
- 1989 : Bette Davis , American actress
- 1989 : Howard Garns , American Sudoku inventor
- 1990 : Juan José Arévalo Bermejo , Guatemalan President
- 1991 : Ernst-Alfred Jauch , German journalist
- 1991 : Just-Émile Vernet , French racing car driver and designer
- 1994 : Horst Bretthauer , German handball player and lawyer
- 1996 : Harry Glickman , Russian violinist
- 1997 : Orlando Ramón Agosti Echenique , Argentine politician and military man
- 1998 : Alexander Gray , Canadian singer and music educator
- 1998 : Jean-François Jenny-Clark , French double bass player
- 1999 : Amália Rodrigues , fado singer
- 2000 : Richard Farnsworth , American actor
21st century
- 2001 : Alfred Jensch , astronomer and designer
- 2002 : Prince Claus , husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
- 2002 : Wolfgang Mischnick , German politician
- 2002 : Viola Mitchell , American violinist
- 2004 : Brunhilde Baur , German publisher
- 2004 : Yogi Bhajan , Indian Kundalini Yoga master, religious and spiritual leader
- 2004 : Günter Sosna , German soccer player and coach
- 2005 : Warren Benson , American composer, percussionist and music teacher
- 2005 : Reinhard Tramontana , Austrian journalist and columnist
- 2006 : Heinz Sielmann , German cameraman, producer, publicist, behavioral scientist, animal filmmaker and ecologist
- 2009 : Harry Cox , Belgian pianist and composer
- 2009 : Raymond Federman , American writer
- 2009 : Werner Maihofer , German legal scholar and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 2011 : Edward Acquah , Ghanaian soccer player
- 2012 : Chadli Bendjedid , Algerian politician, President
- 2012 : Albert von Sachsen , Saxon historian and author, grandson of the last King of Saxony
- 2014 : Feridun Buğeker , Turkish soccer player and architect
- 2015 : Árpád Göncz , Hungarian writer and politician, President
- 2015 : Billy Joe Royal , American singer
- 2018 : Montserrat Caballé , Spanish opera singer
- 2018 : Reiner Haussherr , German art historian
- 2018 : Viktoria Marinowa , Bulgarian journalist
- 2018 : Scott Wilson , American actor
- 2019 : Ginger Baker , British drummer
- 2019 : Martin Lauer , German athlete and pop singer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- William Tyndale , priest, Bible translator and martyr (Evangelical, Anglican)
- Pierre Leclerc and Companions, Martyrs (Protestant)
- St. Bruno of Cologne , founder of the order and theologian (Catholic)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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