August 7th
The August 7 is the 219th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 220th in leap years ), thus remain 146 days by year end. The first half of summer is over.
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events
Politics and world events
- 626: After the defeat of the Slavic rowers on the Golden Horn , the siege of Constantinople by the Avars and Sassanids is broken off.
- 936: Otto I the Great is in Aachen for the East Frankish crowned king.
- 1078: In the battle of Mellrichstadt , the rival king Rudolf von Rheinfelden wins a victory over King Heinrich IV .
- 1485: In the fight for the English throne during the Wars of the Roses , Heinrich Tudor , coming from Brittany , ends up in Milford Haven . Shortly after landing, an epidemic known as " English sweat " broke out on the British Isles for the first time .
- 1495: At the Diet of Worms is Eternal Public Peace in the Holy Roman Empire announced. At the same time, the Reich Chamber of Commerce is founded.
- 1588: Shortly after midnight, Francis Drake sends three burning ships into the port of Calais , where the Spanish Armada is at anchor. One part of the fleet burns, while the other flees into the open sea in a panic with no battle order.
- 1631: During the Thirty Years' War , the town was bombarded by troops of the Catholic League under their general Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly, followed by the battle of Werben . The Swedes, under the command of King Gustav II Adolf, win the battle.
- 1714: The Imperial Russian Navy achieves its first important victory in the naval battle of Hanko . During the Great Northern War , the crew of the outnumbered Armada can board the enemy Swedish ships and capture the commander Nils Ehrenskiöld .
- 1720: In the Great Northern War in the sea battle at Grönham, a Russian galley fleet defeats Swedish sailing ships near the Åland Islands .
- 1794: Several thousand armed settlers from the Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania's move to Pittsburgh to face a tax on alcohol to fight. The " Whiskey Rebellion " is quickly put down by the military under the command of US President George Washington .
- 1796: In return for the assurance of a later compensation, Württemberg cedes its Mömpelgard property on the left bank of the Rhine to France in the Peace of Paris .
- 1804: In a secret note , Napoleon Bonaparte calls for Emperor Franz II to be recognized as Emperor of the French and in return offers the prospect of recognition of an Austrian hereditary empire .
- 1815: The now 22 Swiss cantons conjure up a 15-article federal treaty in the Grossmünster in Zurich .
- 1819: Simón Bolívar defeats the Spanish troops in the Battle of Boyacá , brings Bogotá under his rule and thereby consolidates the independence of New Granada .
- 1869: On the initiative of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht, the founding congress of the Social Democratic Workers' Party is opened in Eisenach , which later becomes the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
- 1884: The warships Leipzig and Elisabeth take possession of the colony of South West Africa in the Bay of Angra Pequeña for the German Empire .
- 1925: The Honors Act 1925 is passed by the British House of Commons to prevent the sale of nobility in the future.
- 1934: President Paul von Hindenburg , who died on August 2, is buried in the Tannenberg memorial .
- 1942: Second World War : American troops land at Lunga Point on Guadalcanal . This is the first time that the Allies take over the offensive in the Pacific War .
- 1944: Dietrich von Choltitz is appointed Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief of Paris during the Second World War .
- 1960: The Ivory Coast gains independence from France.
- 1964: The Tonkin resolution of the US Congress in response to the Tonkin incident on August 4th initiates official US participation in the Vietnam War .
- 1965: Due to differences with Malaysia is Singapore from the Federation of Malaya excluded.
- 1974: The French high wire artist Philippe Petit walks eight times over a 417 meter high steel cable between the twin towers of the World Trade Center . The illegal action resulted in his arrest.
- 1988: Eberhard Diepgen speaks as the first governing mayor of Berlin at a public event in the GDR .
- 1995: The Oluja military operation during the Croatian War is officially declared over.
- 1998: More than 200 people die in almost simultaneous bomb attacks on the US embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi .
- 2008: On the border between Georgia and South Ossetia , the Caucasus War officially begins with the deployment of Georgian military units , after battles had repeatedly broken out in the weeks before.
business
- 1888: The inventor Theophilus Van Kannel receives the patent for the revolving door in the United States .
- 1953: Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft is founded in Hamburg.
science and technology
- 1909: After becoming the first woman to cross the United States in an automobile, Alice Ramsey reaches her destination of San Francisco. It took her just under two months for her trip.
- 1912: During an ascent in a balloon , the physicist Victor Franz Hess noticed a change he called cosmic radiation . He thereby becomes the discoverer of cosmic rays .
- 1947: Thor Heyerdahl reaches the Tuamotu archipelago in the South Pacific with the Kon-Tiki wooden raft .
- 1971: The American Apollo 15 flight to the moon ends with a safe landing in the Pacific , although one of the capsule's three parachutes does not open.
- 1976: The Viking 2 spacecraft swings into orbit around Mars.
- 2000: From the European Southern Observatory , a team of astronomers led by Brett Gladman and John J. Kavelaars sighted the previously unknown Saturn moon Ymir .
Culture
- 1861: At a meeting of the second Tonkünstlerversammlung in Weimar, Louis Köhler , Franz Brendel , Franz Liszt and others founded the General German Music Association.
- 1908: During the construction of the Danube Bank in Willendorf (Lower Austria) the limestone figure “ Venus von Willendorf ” is excavated. The sculpture is dated to around 25,000 BC. Dated to the Upper Paleolithic .
- 1956: In the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden , a confused man damaged the painting Resting Venus with Cupid by Guido Reni by breaking through it with a pencil.
- 1962: The Madonna in the Rosary by Tilman Riemenschneider is stolen from the pilgrimage church Maria im Weingarten in Volkach, Lower Franconia . The so-called Madonna robbery is the prelude to one of the most controversial art rescue operations in the German post-war period.
- 1984: The world premiere of the opera Un re in ascolto ( A King Hears ) by Luciano Berio takes place under the direction of Lorin Maazel at the Kleiner Festspielhaus in Salzburg. The librettist Italo Calvino does not appear for the performance because “only the title remains” of his draft.
company
- 1919: The aviator Charles Godefroy crossed with a Nieuport 11 - biplane the Parisian Arc de Triomphe .
religion
- 768: Stephan III. is elected Pope. At the beginning of his pontificate he has to deal with two opposing popes, Constantine II and Philip .
- 1316: After more than two years, the conclave elects Jakob von Cahors as the new Pope. When John XXII. he is the first Pope to reside permanently in Avignon .
- 1814: Pope Pius VII approves the re-admission of the Jesuit order with the papal bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum .
Disasters
- 1978: As a result of one of the first major toxic waste scandals, US President Jimmy Carter declares the Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York , a disaster area.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1964: The Bristlecone Pine Prometheus , with estimated 4862 years one of the oldest trees in the world, which at the tree line on Wheeler Peak in the State of Nevada grew, is like. Your exceptional age will not be determined until a later examination.
Sports
- 1983: The first World Athletics Championships are opened in Helsinki .
- 1987: The American extreme athlete Lynne Cox swims through the cold waters of the Bering Strait between the Diomedes Islands and crosses the state border between the USA and the former Soviet Union .
- 2007: With his 756th home run breaks Barry Bonds , baseball player of the San Francisco Giants the old home run record of Hank Aaron in AT & T Park against the Washington Nationals .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
Kōgyoku Saimei-tennō
(* 594)
Elisabeth Báthory
(* 1560)
Georg Stiernhielm
(* 1598)
- 317: Constantius II , Roman emperor
- 594: Kōgyoku , 35th and 37th Empress of Japan
- 1165: Muhyī d-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī , Islamic mystic / Sufi
- 1465: Philibert I , Duke of Savoy
- 1488: Caspar Aquila , German theologian
- 1507: Erasmus Schenk von Limpurg , Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1509: Joachim , Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1533: Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga , Spanish soldier and writer
- 1533: Valentin Weigel , German mystical-theosophical writer
- 1560: Elisabeth Báthory , Hungarian countess and serial killer
- 1582: Johann von den Birghden , German postmaster
- 1590: Charles of Austria , Bishop of Brixen, Prince-Bishop of Breslau
- 1598: Georg Stiernhielm , Swedish poet
- 1600: Eleonore Marie von Anhalt-Bernburg , Duchess of Mecklenburg-Güstrow
- 1613: Wilhelm Friedrich , Count of Nassau-Dietz, governor of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe
- 1649: Karl Joseph of Austria , Archduke of Austria, Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Grand Master of the German Order
- 1650: Louis Joseph de Lorraine , Duke of Guise
- 1662: Andreas Dietrich Apel , German merchant and silk manufacturer
- 1676: Friedrich II. , Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
- 1695: Augustin Buddeus , German medic
18th century
- 1702: Ehrenreich Gerhard Coldewey , German scholar, lawyer, poet and expert on East Frisian history
- 1702: Muhammad Shah , Indian Grand Mughal
- 1707: Carl Günther Ludovici , German philosopher and lexicographer
- 1729: Franz von Fürstenberg , German statesman and theologian of the Principality of Münster
Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria (* 1734)
Wilhelmine of Prussia
(* 1751)
Justin von Linde
(* 1797)
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- 1734: Maria Anna Josepha of Bavaria , Margravine of Baden
- 1742: Nathanael Greene , American general
- 1751: Wilhelmine of Prussia , inheritance holder of the Netherlands
- 1757: Abbondio Bernasconi , Swiss politician
- 1760: Anna Margaretha Zwanziger , German serial killer
- 1769: Karl Kajetan von Gaisruck , Archbishop of Milan and Cardinal
- 1769: Johann Christian August Grohmann , German philosopher, psychologist and rhetorician
- 1774: Cayetano Carreño , Venezuelan composer
- 1776: Amalie von Nassau-Weilburg , German noblewoman, Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg
- 1779: Louis de Freycinet , French explorer
- 1779: Carl Ritter , German geographer
- 1783: Georg Friedrich Falcke , German lawyer
- 1783: Amalia of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover , member of the British Royal Family from the House of Hanover
- 1790: Jean-Claude Colin , French priest, founder of the Marist Fathers
- 1791: Adolf Ivar Arwidsson , Finnish journalist, writer and historian
- 1795: Joseph Rodman Drake , American poet
- 1797: Justin von Linde , German lawyer and politician
- 1800: Josef Krasoslav Chmelenský , Czech critic, poet, librettist and educator
19th century
1801-1850
- 1801: Moritz Karl August Axt , German pedagogue and classical philologist
- 1802: Germain Henri Hess , Russian chemist of Swiss origin
- 1810: Karl Johann Formes , German opera singer
- 1811: Elias Loomis , American mathematician, meteorologist, and astronomer
- 1816: Carl Brosbøll , Danish writer
- 1824: Wilhelm von Schöning , Prussian landowner, district administrator and politician
- 1826: August Ahlqvist , Finnish linguist
- 1831: Otto Stromer von Reichenbach , Mayor of Nuremberg
- 1832: Julius Epstein , Austro-Hungarian pianist
- 1832: Max Lange , German chess player
- 1835: Allan James Foley , Irish opera singer (bass)
- 1839: Eduard Ebel , German Protestant pastor and poet
- 1840: Edward Henry Palmer , British orientalist
- 1844: Hugo Kauffmann , German painter
- 1846: Hermann Paul , German linguist and Germanist
1851-1875
- 1852: Philipp Forchheimer , Austrian hydrologist
- 1854: Hermione von Preuschen , German painter and writer
- 1856: Eduard Hahn , German agrarian ethnologist, geographer and economic historian
- 1857: Eduard Zarncke , German classical philologist
- 1858: Oskar Ziethen , mayor of the city of Lichtenberg
- 1860: Alan Leo , British author, theosophist and astrologer
- 1862: Viktoria von Baden , Queen of Sweden
- 1862: Jakob Bosshart , Swiss writer
Hermione of Prussia
(* 1854)
Viktoria of Baden
(* 1862)
Emil Nolde
(* 1867)
Amanda Lindner
(* 1868)
- 1863: Scipione Riva-Rocci , Italian doctor
- 1864: Louis Arnould , French Romance studies and French studies
- 1867: Emil Nolde , German-Danish expressionist painter
- 1868: Granville Bantock , British composer
- 1868: Amanda Lindner , German actress
- 1868: Lawton S. Parker , American impressionist painter
- 1870: Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , German entrepreneur
- 1872: Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies and Dutch Foreign Minister
- 1874: Johannes Andreas Jolles , Dutch literary scholar
1876-1900
- 1876: John August Anderson , American astronomer
- 1876: Mata Hari , Dutch dancer and spy
- 1877: Ulrich Salchow , Swedish figure skater
- 1878: Maria Caspar-Filser , German painter
- 1878: Wilhelm Ruhland , German botanist
Mata Hari
(* 1876)
Maria Caspar-Filser
(* 1878)
Joachim Ringelnatz
(* 1883)
- 1880: Polly Koss , Austrian soubrette and actress
- 1880: Walther Lietzmann , German mathematician, pedagogue and mathematics didactician
- 1881: François Darlan , French admiral and politician
- 1882: Hanns FJ Kropff , German economist
- 1883: Arturo Gordon , Chilean painter
- 1883: Joachim Ringelnatz , German writer, cabaret artist and painter
- 1883: Hans-Caspar von Zobeltitz , German writer and editor
- 1884: Franz Auweck , German politician
- 1884: Billie Burke , American actress
- 1884: Marie Décugis , French tennis player
- 1884: Paul Frölich , German politician and author, biographer of Rosa Luxemburg
- 1885: Gene Buck , American illustrator, songwriter, and record producer
- 1885: Vittore Frigerio , Swiss journalist and writer
- 1886: Lothar Budzinski-Kreth , German football player
- 1886: Bill McKechnie , American baseball player
- 1886: Paul Westheim , German art writer and critic
- 1887: Hermann Rauschning , German musicologist and politician
- 1887: Elsbeth Schragmüller , German spy
- 1887: Anna Elisabet Weirauch , German actress and writer
- 1887: Emmi Welter , German politician and women's rights activist, Member of the Bundestag
- 1889: Georg Abesser , German medic
- 1889: Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu , French religious priest and admiral
- 1889: Léon Brillouin , French physicist
- 1890: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , American politician
- 1890: Randolph West , American hematologist
- 1892: Albert Schreiner , German politician and historian
- 1893: Fritz Grantze , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1893: Günther Rittau , German cameraman and director
- 1895: Willy Andreessen , German National Socialist functionary
- 1895: Paul Sievert , German athlete
- 1896: Kaname Akamatsu , Japanese economist
- 1896: Alberto Demicheli , Uruguayan lawyer and politician, minister, president
- 1896: Maja Sacher , Swiss art collector
- 1897: Wulf Emmo Ankel , German zoologist
- 1897: Carl Wery , German actor
- 1898: Patrick von Kalckreuth , German landscape and marine painter
- 1898: Friedrich Stoffels , German Jehovah's Witness and victim of Nazi war justice
- 1899: August Anhalt , German painter, draftsman and graphic artist
- 1900: Alan Helffrich , American athlete, Olympic champion
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901: Konrad Heiden , German journalist and writer
- 1901: August Scholtis , German writer
- 1902: Ann Harding , American actress
- 1902: August Herold , German vine grower ( Kerner and Dornfelder )
- 1902: Boris Gawrilowitsch Schpitalny , Soviet weapons designer
- 1903: Charlotte Eisenblätter , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1903: Fred Kassen , German founder and director of the Cologne cabaret and cabaret theater Senftöpfchen
- 1903: Louis Leakey , Kenyan-British paleoanthropologist
- 1903: Maria Reining , Austrian soprano
- 1903: Moroi Saburō , Japanese composer
- 1904: Ralph Bunche , American diplomat and civil rights activist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1904: Erwin Fischer , German lawyer
- 1904: Johanna Melzer , German resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1904: Gerhard Voigt , German rower
- 1905: Curt Becker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1905: Boris Goldenberg , German politician, journalist and historian
- 1906: Gerhard Frommel , German composer and music teacher
- 1906: Willi Furrer , Swiss electrical engineer
- 1906: Nelson Goodman , American philosopher
- 1906: Max Rostal , German violinist
- 1906: Hans Schaefer , German ancient historian
- 1907: Abby Berlin , American film director
- 1907: Frank Fitzsimmons , American union leader
- 1908: Robert Bernardis , Austrian officer, resistance fighter, participant in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944
- 1909: Dorothy Walton , Canadian badminton player
- 1911: Nicholas Ray , American film director
- 1912: Wiltraut Rupp-von Brünneck , German judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1913: Hedwig Meermann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1913: Alicia Penalba , Argentine-French sculptor
- 1913: Carmen Velasquez , Filipino parasitologist
- 1914: Vojtěch Cach , Czech author and playwright
- 1914: Fernando Cerchio , Italian director, screenwriter and film producer
- 1914: June Travis , American actress
- 1916: Lawrence Trevor Picachy , Indian Jesuit, Archbishop of Calcutta and Cardinal
- 1916: Anton Eric Scotoni , Swiss entrepreneur
- 1919: Gerhard Becker , German composer
- 1919: Kim Borg , Finnish bass player and vocal teacher
- 1920: Mario Astorri , Italian football player and coach
- 1920: Harry Arnold Persson , Swedish tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and band leader
- 1920: Tsukamoto Kunio , Japanese poet
- 1921: René Alain , Canadian accordionist
- 1921: Susanne Hirzel , German resistance fighter against National Socialism ( White Rose )
- 1921: Karel Husa , American composer and professor
- 1921: Manitas de Plata , French guitarist
- 1922: Josef W. Janker , German writer
- 1922: Boy Lornsen , German sculptor and writer
- 1923: Liane Berkowitz , German resistance fighter against National Socialism ( Rote Kapelle )
- 1923: Douglas Bodle , Canadian organist, pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher
- 1923: Shiba Ryōtarō , Japanese writer
- 1923: Curth Anatol Tichy , Austrian actor
- 1924: Wilhelm Vorndran , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, President of the Bavarian State Parliament
- 1925: Felice Bryant , American songwriter
- 1925: Julián Orbón , Cuban composer
- 1925: Armand Gaétan Razafindratandra , Malagasy priest, Archbishop of Antananarivo and Cardinal
1926-1950
- 1926: Sue Kaufman , American writer
- 1926: Jean-Claude Touche , French organist and composer
- 1927: Alfredo Angeli , Italian documentary filmmaker and film director
- 1927: George Busbee , American politician
- 1927: Edwin Edwards , American politician
- 1927: Adolfo Mexiac , Mexican artist
- 1927: Paul Röhner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1928: James Randi , Canadian magician, skeptic of pseudoscience
- 1928: Sigrid Schneider , German politician, MdL
- 1928: Helen Vita , Swiss chansonnière, actress and cabaret artist
- 1929: Jo Baer , American painter and graphic artist
- 1929: František Čech , Czech geochemist and mineralogist
- 1929: Don Larsen , American baseball player
- 1930: Luisa Famos , Swiss writer
- 1931: Nils R. Århammar , Swedish linguist
- 1931: FRC Clarke , Canadian organist, choir director, composer and music educator
- 1931: Jack Good , British television producer and music manager
- 1931: Gottfried Kiesow , German conservationist
- 1932: Abebe Bikila , Ethiopian marathon runner
- 1932: Edward Hardwicke , British actor
- 1932: Rien Poortvliet , Dutch painter and draftsman
- 1933: Elinor Ostrom , American political scientist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1933: Friedhelm Ptok , German actor
- 1934: Steve Ihnat , American actor, screenwriter and director
- 1934: Richard Levinson , American producer and screenwriter
- 1934: Dieter Schlesak , German writer, member of the German PEN center
- 1935: Moritz Amherd , Swiss theologian and economist
- 1936: Rahsaan Roland Kirk , American saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist
- 1937: Magic Slim , American blues musician
- 1938: Ludwig Valentin Angerer , German architect, painter, sculptor and author
- 1938: Lutz-Werner Brandt , German artist
- 1938: Thomas M. Cover , American statistician
- 1938: Giorgio Giugiaro , Italian industrial designer
- 1938: Heinz Rudolf Unger , Austrian writer
- 1939: Ron Holden , American R&B singer and television presenter
- 1940: Jean-Luc Dehaene , Belgian lawyer, economist and politician, Prime Minister, MEP
- 1940: Hans Eisele , German soccer player
- 1940: Martin Heisenberg , German neurobiologist and geneticist
- 1940: Uwe Nettelbeck , German writer and journalist
- 1941: Franco Columbu , Italian-American bodybuilder, chiropractor, writer, and film actor
- 1941: Howard Lewis Johnson , American baritone saxophonist, tuba player, composer and arranger
- 1941: Volkert Kraeft , German actor
- 1941: Volkmar W. Kübler , German manager
- 1941: Klaus Brand , German handball player and coach
- 1942: Niels Andersen , Danish actor and theater director
- 1942: Tobin Bell , American actor
- 1942: Sigfried Held , German soccer player and coach
- 1942: Garrison Keillor , American writer and radio host
- 1942: Carlos Monzón , Argentine boxer
- 1942: BJ Thomas , American pop and country singer
- 1942: Caetano Veloso , Brazilian singer, composer and songwriter
- 1943: Lana Cantrell , Australian-American pop singer
- 1943: Alain Corneau , French film director and screenwriter
- 1943: Luz Leskowitz , Austrian violinist and lecturer
- 1943: Franz Josef Wagner , German tabloid journalist
- 1944: John Glover , American actor
- 1944: Harald Lastovka , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Stralsund
- 1944: Dave Morgan , British racing car driver
- 1944: David Rasche , American actor
- 1945: Mike Brockman , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1945: Zephania Kameeta , Namibian politician and liberation theologian
- 1945: Alan Page , American football player and lawyer
- 1945: Reinhard Rack , Austrian politician
- 1946: Herbert Lauer , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Bamberg
- 1946: John C. Mather , American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1947: Kerry Reid , Australian tennis player
- 1947: Sofia Mikhailovna Rotaru , Ukrainian-Russian singer and actress
- 1948: Nick Adams , British racing car driver
- 1948: Hans-Jürg Fehr , Swiss politician, member of the National Council
- 1948: Wolfgang Haas , Archbishop of Liechtenstein
- 1948: Astrid Kaiser , German educational scientist, professor of the didactics of subject teaching
- 1948: Walter Schmidt , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1949: Walid Jumblat , Lebanese politician
- 1949: Tim Renwick , British musician
- 1949: Wittus Witt , German magician
- 1950: Rodney Crowell , American country musician
- 1950: Éric Graham , French racing car driver
- 1950: Alan Keyes , American politician and talk show host
- 1950: Michael Stein , German pop singer
- 1950: Dave Wottle , American middle-distance runner, Olympic champion
1951-1975
- 1951: Ajahn Brahm , Buddhist monk
- 1952: Caroline Aaron , American actress
- 1952: Helga Lopez , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1952: Holmes Osborne , American actor
- 1952: Karl Schweitzer , Austrian politician
- 1954: Osman Pepe , Turkish Environment Minister
- 1954: Jonathan Pollard , American spy for Israel
- 1955: Wayne Knight , American actor
- 1956: Kent Vernon Rominger , American astronaut
- 1957: Bertram von Boxberg , German actor, director and screenwriter
- 1957: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ditjatin , Soviet gymnast
- 1957: Harald Effenberg , German actor
- 1957: Andrea Gotzmann , German basketball player and association official
- 1957: Uta Schorn , German gymnast
- 1958: Shannon Cochran , American actress
- 1958: Bruce Dickinson , British rock musician and singer
- 1958: Tilman Rossmy , German songwriter
- 1959: Koenraad Elst , Belgian author, sinologist and indologist
- 1959: Manfred Lefkes , German soccer player
- 1959: Paolo Ravaglia , Italian composer
- 1959: Uwe Schrader , German politician, MdL
- 1959: Edward Simoni , Polish musician
- 1960: David Duchovny , American actor
- 1960: Manfred Perterer , Austrian journalist
- 1960: Michael Roes , German writer
- 1960: Steven Rooks , Dutch cyclist
- 1960: Andreas Schröder , German freestyle wrestler
- 1960: Dirk Sommerfeld , German handball player
- 1961: Gesine Lötzsch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1961: Octavian Morariu , Romanian rugby union player and sports official
- 1961: Alvaro Pascual-Leone , Spanish neurologist and neurophysiologist
- 1961: Carlos Vives , Colombian singer and actor
- 1962: Thomas Frick , German director and screenwriter
- 1962: Sabine Hark , German sociologist
- 1963: Harold Perrineau, Jr. , American actor
- 1963: Bahne Rabe , German rower
- 1965: Jocelyn Gaétan Angloma , French football player
- 1965: Bernhard Pulver , Swiss politician
- 1965: Bernd Truntschka , German ice hockey player
- 1966: Dieter Depping , German rally driver
- 1966: Kristin Hersh , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- 1966: Stefan Heße , Archbishop of Hamburg
- 1966: Jimmy Wales , American entrepreneur and co-founder of Wikipedia
- 1967: Yevgeny Arkadyevich Platov , Russian figure skater
- 1967: Lucas Cordalis , German singer, composer and music producer
- 1968: Martin Max , German soccer player
- 1968: Vicente Potolicchio , Venezuelan racing car driver
- 1969: Todd Brunson , American poker player
- 1969: Domino Harvey , British bounty hunter
- 1969: Günter Krings , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1969: Paul Lambert , Scottish soccer player
- 1970: Marlies Askamp , German basketball player
- 1970: Andy Ludyk , German music producer and music manager
- 1970: Eric Namesnik , American swimmer
- 1971: Sebastian Padotzke , German keyboardist
- 1971: Sydney Penny , American Indian actress
- 1971: Benita Wardrobe , German actress and lawyer
- 1971: Stephan Volkert , German rower, Olympic champion
- 1972: Sorin Anca , Romanian painter and sculptor
- 1972: Anneliese Anglberger , Austrian judoka
- 1972: Xeno Müller , Swiss rower, Olympic medalist
- 1972: Goran Vlaović , Croatian football player
- 1973: Gabriele Ambrosetti , Italian football player
- 1973: Adam Freeland , British Nu-Skool Breaks DJ and music producer
- 1973: Norman Kalle , German actor
- 1973: Colin Lloyd , English dart player
- 1973: Kevin Muscat , Australian soccer player
- 1973: Kimmo Rintanen , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1975: Uta Kühnen , German judoka
- 1975: Hans Matheson , British film and stage actor
- 1975: Charlize Theron , South African actress
- 1975: Andrea Vetsch , Swiss television presenter
1976-2000
- 1976: Hamed Attarbashi , German basketball coach
- 1976: Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos , Greek football goalkeeper
- 1977: Alexandre Jouan Arcady , French director, screenwriter and film producer
- 1977: Hendrik Streeck , German doctor and virologist
- 1978: Michael Holt , English snooker player
- 1978: Cirroc Lofton , American film actor and rapper
- 1978: Linsey Dawn McKenzie , British adult model and porn actress
- 1979: Eric Johnson , Canadian actor
- 1979: Tobias Thalhammer , German pop singer and politician, MdL
- 1979: Tomislav Zivic , Croatian football player
- 1980: Chetan Anand Buradagunta , Indian badminton player
- 1980: Shane Moody-Orio , Belizean football player
- 1980: Christian Schreiber , German rower
- 1980: Rupert Wagner , German canoeist
- 1981: Tarō Asasekiryū , Mongolian sumo wrestler
- 1981: Hans Dekkers , Dutch cyclist
- 1982: Abbie Cornish , Australian actress
- 1982: Jana Klotschkowa , Ukrainian swimmer
- 1982: Marco Melandri , motorcycle racer
- 1982: Martin Vučić , Macedonian pop singer
- 1982: Vasilios Spanoulis , Greek basketball player
- 1983: Engin Aktürk , Turkish soccer player
- 1983: Danny , Portuguese soccer player
- 1983: Jan Hájek , Czech tennis player
- 1983: Andrij Hrywko , Ukrainian cyclist
- 1984: Ángel Lafita Castillo , Spanish football player
- 1984: Yun Hyon-seok , South Korean activist
- 1984: Benoît Sinner , French racing cyclist
- 1985: Margot Boer , Dutch speed skater
- 1985: Rick Genest , Canadian model and performance artist
- 1985: Daniel Gimeno Traver , Spanish tennis player
- 1985: Loïc Perrin , French football player
- 1986: Paul Biedermann , German swimmer
- 1986: Valter Birsa , Slovenian football player
- 1986: Mahir Savranlıoğlu , Turkish football player
- 1987: Sidney Crosby , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987: Felipe Lopes , Brazilian-Portuguese soccer player
- 1987: Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim , German business journalist and television presenter
- 1988: Erik Pieters , Dutch football player
- 1989: DeMar DeRozan , American basketball player
- 1990: Alex Brundle , British racing driver
- 1991: Robin Frijns , Dutch racing driver
- 1991: Luis Salom , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1992: Adam Yates , British cyclist
- 1992: Simon Yates , British cyclist
- 1996: Tessa Allen , American actress
- 1997: Jordan Torunarigha , German soccer player
- 2000: Lucie-Marie Kretzschmar , German handball player
Died
Before the 17th century
- 461: Majorian , Roman emperor
- 479: Yūryaku , Emperor of Japan
- 1078: Diepold II. Von Vohburg , margrave of the Bavarian Nordgau and von Giengau
- 1078: Werner von Steußlingen , Archbishop of Magdeburg
Grave crown of Henry IV
(† 1106)
Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld
(† 1635)
Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier
(† 1759)
Karl Anton von Martini
(† 1800)
- 1106: Heinrich IV. , King and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
- 1121: Ulrich I of Passau , founder of the monastery and bishop of Passau
- 1179: William VI. , Count of Angoulême
- 1186: Takeda Nobuyoshi , Japanese politician
- 1195: Richard Palmer , Archbishop of Messina
- 1218: Adolf III. , Count von Berg
- 1234: Hugh Foliot , Bishop of Hereford
- 1248: Takeda Nobumitsu , Japanese nobleman, civil servant and general
- 1323: Hervaeus Natalis , Master of the Dominican Order
- 1324: Heinrich von St. Gallen , abbot of Wettingen Abbey
- 1358: Walpurgis II von Rosdorf , German noblewoman
- 1359: Takeda Nobutake , Japanese nobleman
- 1385: Joan of Kent , wife of Edward (the Black Prince) and mother of King Richard II.
- 1391: Ocko I. tom Brok , chief of the Brokmer and Auricherlands in East Frisia
- 1440: Johannes Geuss , German philosopher and theologian, cathedral canon at St. Stephan in Vienna
- 1474: Wilhelm von Blankenfelde , Mayor of Berlin
- 1475: Niklaus von Diesbach , mayor of Bern
- 1477: Laurenz Spenning , master builder and head of the building works of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
- 1479: Wilhelm II , Count and Lord zu Castell
- 1485: Alexander Stewart, 1st Duke of Albany , Scottish nobleman
- 1491: Jacob Barbireau , Belgian composer
- 1502: Ursula von Rammung , founder and lady of the Kraichgau nobility
- 1516: Federico Sanseverino , Cardinal of the Roman Church
- 1547: Kajetan von Thiene , founder of the order, saint
- 1549: Hartmut XII. von Cronberg , German knight, follower of Luther
- 1560: Anastassija Romanovna Sakharjina , first Russian tsarina
- 1580: Lala Kara Mustafa Pascha , Ottoman commander and grand vizier
- 1597: Beat Ludwig von Mülinen , mayor of Bern
- 1598: Johann Latomus , German canon and chronicler
- 1600: Johann Konrad Ulmer , German Protestant theologian and reformer
17th and 18th centuries
- 1609: Eustache du Caurroy , French Renaissance composer
- 1615: Melchior Vulpius , German cantor and church composer
- 1616: Wilhelm von Efferen , Prince-Bishop of Worms
- 1616: Vincenzo Scamozzi , Italian architect
- 1635: Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld , German Jesuit, moral theologian, poet and spiritual writer
- 1641: Gwanghaegun , 15th King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1643: Hendrik Brouwer , navigator and governor general of the Dutch East Indies
- 1643: Margarethe von Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Duchess of Saxe-Coburg
- 1645: Georg Corvin , German professor of philosophy
- 1649: Maria Leopoldine von Tirol , Austrian Duchess, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
- 1652: Markus Friedrich Wendelin , German Protestant theologian
- 1656: Prasat Thong , King of the Siamese Kingdom of Ayutthaya
- 1660: Johann IV. , Count von Rietberg
- 1693: Johann Georg II , German Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1694: August Friedrich Mockel , Mayor of Heilbronn
- 1699: Antoine Legrand , Dutch Catholic monk and missionary, philosopher and theologian
- 1704: Paul von Fuchs , Brandenburg Minister
- 1712: Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow , Saxon composer
- 1722: Johann Georg Beck , German engraver
- 1725: Jean II Barraband , French Huguenot, religious refugee in Berlin
- 1731: Franz Ferdinand von Kuenburg , Bishop of Laibach and Archbishop of Prague
- 1747: Caspar Otto von Glasenapp , royal Prussian field marshal
- 1749: Daniel Gottlieb Treu , German violinist and composer
- 1753: Markus Gattinger , Bavarian blacksmith
- 1759: Georg Wilhelm Kirchmaier , German philosopher, rhetorician and linguist
- 1770: Johann Caspar Richter , businessman, councilor and council builder in Leipzig
- 1771: Johann Daniel Schöpflin , German professor of history, eloquence and constitutional law, teacher of Goethe
- 1782: Andreas Sigismund Marggraf , German chemist
- 1786: Friedrich Schwindl , Dutch composer and musician
- 1794: Edmund Angerer , Austrian Benedictine priest and church musician
- 1800: Karl Anton von Martini , Austrian lawyer and legal philosopher
19th century
1801 to 1850
- 1809: Jonathan Trumbull Jr. , American politician
- 1820: Elisa Bonaparte , sister of Napoléon Bonaparte
- 1821: Caroline von Braunschweig , Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover
- 1828: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Funck , Saxon general and historian
- 1829: Albert von Sack , Silesian explorer
- 1834: Daniel Erhard Günther , German physician and university professor
Joseph Marie Jacquard
(† 1834)
Jöns Jakob Berzelius
(† 1848)
Johann Gottfried Gruber
(† 1851)
Georg Ebers
(† 1898)
Wilhelm Liebknecht
(† 1900)
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- 1834: Joseph-Marie Jacquard , French inventor of the pattern loom
- 1839: Erasme Louis Surlet de Chokier , Belgian statesman
- 1844: Niels Heidenreich , Danish watchmaker and thief of the gold horns of Gallehus
- 1846: Christian Heinrich Rinck , German composer and organist
- 1847: Johann Georg Rapp , German Pietist leader
- 1848: Jöns Jakob Berzelius , Swedish chemist, is considered the father of modern chemistry
- 1849: Ernst Elsenhans , Baden revolutionary
1851 to 1900
- 1851: Johann Gottfried Gruber , German literary historian and writer
- 1853: Ludwig von Welden , Austrian Feldzeugmeister
- 1855: Mariano Arista , Mexican President
- 1858: Charles Galibert , French composer
- 1858: Ernst Meyer , German botanist and author
- 1867: Ira Aldridge , American actor
- 1869: Gustav Rée , Baden politician
- 1870: Franziska Cornet , German opera singer
- 1871: Edmund Bojanowski , founder of the Polish order
- 1872: Emil Devrient , German actor
- 1872: Friederike Serre , German patroness, hostess
- 1879: Lovrenc Košir , Austrian civil servant
- 1884: Carl August Buchholz , German organ builder
- 1890: Anna Månsdotter , Swedish murderer ( Yngsjö murderer )
- 1891: Samuel Beach Axtell , American politician
- 1893: Alfredo Catalani , Italian opera composer
- 1893: Gustav Godeffroy , German businessman and Senator from Hamburg
- 1896: Elise Krinitz , German writer and Heinrich Heine's last, platonic lover
- 1896: Robert Nobel , Swedish industrialist
- 1897: Jakob Baechtold , Swiss literary scholar
- 1898: Georg Ebers , German Egyptologist and writer
- 1898: Ernst Hardt , pioneer of the Cologne horse-drawn tram
- 1900: Étienne Lenoir , French inventor and businessman
- 1900: Wilhelm Liebknecht , German teacher, journalist, editor and politician, revolutionary, one of the founding fathers of the SPD , MdR
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902: Rudolf von Bennigsen , German politician, MdL, MdR
- 1903: Hermann Ampach , German manor owner and politician
- 1904: William Adams , English engineer
- 1904: Heinrich Hasselhorst , German painter and draftsman
- 1904: Heinrich Eduard von Lade , German banker and amateur astronomer
- 1908: Rudolph Ehlers , German Protestant theologian and pastor
- 1910: Johannes Fusangel , German politician, journalist and newspaper editor, MdR
- 1912: François-Alphonse Forel , Swiss doctor and naturalist
- 1913: Samuel Franklin Cody , American buffalo hunter
- 1913: Josef Ohrwalder , Austrian missionary and author
- 1913: David Popper , Czech cellist and composer
- 1917: Edwin Harris Dunning , British pilot
- 1919: Cesare Maccari , Italian painter and sculptor
- 1921: Alexander Alexandrowitsch Blok , poet of Russian modernism
- 1924: Camille Zeckwer , American composer
1926 to 1950
- 1929: Victor L. Berger , American politician, founding member of the Socialist Party of America
- 1929: Archibald Reiss , German chemist, criminalist and university professor
- 1930: William Langanke , German pilot
- 1933: Felix Fechenbach , German journalist and poet
- 1933: Hans Fraungruber , Austrian writer
- 1938: Johannes Giesberts , German trade unionist and politician, MdR
- 1938: Rochus Schmidt , Prussian officer and colonial pioneer
- 1938: Konstantin Sergejewitsch Stanislawski , Russian actor, director and theater reformer
- 1940: Ernst Pfuhl , German archaeologist
- 1940: Eugenie Schwarzwald , Austrian teacher
- 1941: Rabindranath Thakur , Bengali poet, painter and social reformer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1944: Horst Ademeit , German fighter pilot
- 1944: Agustín Barrios Mangoré , Paraguayan composer and guitarist
- 1945: Anna Schieber , German writer
- 1946: Ferdinand Marian , Austrian actor
- 1947: Hermine von Schönaich-Carolath , wife of Wilhelm II.
1951-1975
- 1951: Anna Tumarkin , Russian-Swiss philosopher
- 1954: Wilhelm Dittmann , German politician, MdR, people's representative during the November Revolution
- 1955: Ferdinand Graf Hahn , German editor and politician, MdR
- 1956: John Latouche , American writer and librettist
- 1957: Oliver Hardy , American comedian and film actor
- 1958: Karl Lashley , American psychologist
- 1959: Heinrich Mendelssohn , German building contractor
- 1960: André Bloch , French composer
- 1960: Salvatore Ferragamo , Italian shoe designer
- 1960: Vaino Hannikainen , Finnish composer
- 1961: Frank Buchman , American theologian
- 1963: Paul Helwig , German psychologist, philosopher and playwright
- 1964: Franz Klemmer , German painter
- 1964: Aleksander Zawadzki , Polish communist politician
- 1968: Heinrich Suso Groner , German priest and abbot
- 1968: Erwin Anton Gutkind , German architect, urban planner and architectural theorist
- 1969: Morris Goldenberg , American percussionist and music teacher
- 1969: Joseph Kosma , Austrian composer
- 1969: Russ Morgan , American band leader, pianist, trombonist and composer
- 1970: Ingolf Dahl , American composer and conductor
- 1970: Julia Feininger , German-American painter and publicist
- 1970: Käthe Mitzlaff-Pahlke , German painter
- 1970: Franziskus von Streng , Bishop of Basel
- 1972: Christian Hansen , German artillery general
- 1972: Aspasia Manos , Princess of Greece and Denmark
- 1974: Virginia Apgar , American surgeon and anesthetist
- 1974: Rosario Castellanos , Mexican poet and writer
- 1974: Richard Corts , German athlete, Olympic medalist
1976 to 2000
- 1977: Paul Chaudet , Swiss politician and Federal Councilor
- 1977: Georges Houot , French naval officer and marine researcher
- 1977: Ludwig Schlaich , German Protestant pastor
- 1977: Dino Staffa , Italian cardinal to the curia
- 1978: Eddie Calvert , British trumpeter
- 1979: Adolph Ludwig K Bäumenuss , German trade union official
- 1981: Ernst Finkemeyer , German lawyer and City Director of Essen
- 1982: Georg Picht , German religious philosopher, educator
- 1984: Ann Christy , Belgian singer
- 1984: Harmonica Frank , American blues musician
- 1984: Esther Phillips , American singer
- 1986: Kathrine Aurell , Swedish-Norwegian writer and screenwriter
- 1987: Camille Chamoun , Lebanese President
- 1987: Manfred Schubert , German process engineer
- 1988: David L. Hoggan , American historian and history reviser
- 1990: Gebhard Müller , German lawyer and politician, Member of the State Parliament, Prime Minister, Member of the Bundestag, President of the Federal Constitutional Court
- 1991: Kalina Jędrusik , Polish singer and actress
- 1992: John Anderson , American actor
- 1992: Eberhard Fechner , German director
- 1993: Roy Budd , British film music composer and jazz pianist
- 1993: Gerhard Neuser , German soccer player
- 1996: Anne Kristen , British actress from Scotland
- 1996: Pat West , American football player
- 1997: Volker Prechtel , German actor
- 1998: Víctor Cruz , Cuban singer, bassist and composer; Pioneer of Cuban and Latin American music in Germany
- 1998: Wilhelm Emrich , German literary scholar, Germanist
- 1999: Brion James , American actor
- 1999: Rafael Sánchez Cestero , Dominican singer
- 2000: Samuel Ekpe Akpabot , Nigerian composer
21st century
- 2001: Larry Adler , American harmonica player
- 2002: Dieter Bartke , German handball goalkeeper
- 2003: Sibylle Courvoisier , Swiss actress
- 2004: Paul Neal Adair , American firefighter
- 2004: Adolf Adam , Austrian computer scientist, statistician and professor
- 2004: Hermann Flender , German diplomat and ambassador
- 2005: Peter Jennings , American television journalist
- 2006: Claude Verdan , Swiss surgeon
- 2007: Domenico Caloyera , Greek Archbishop
- 2007: Alfred Schrick , German writer
- 2008: Andrea Pininfarina , Italian entrepreneur
- 2009: José Pardo Llada , Cuban journalist and politician
- 2010: Bruno Cremer , French actor
- 2010: Jürgen Thimme , German classical archaeologist and submarine commander
- 2012: Pete Ariel , German film director and screenwriter
- 2012: David Cameron , English actor
- 2012: Paula Linhart , German film critic
- 2012: Anna Piaggi , Italian fashion journalist
- 2012: Marvin Wilson , American murderer
- 2012: Dušan Zbavitel , Czechoslovak Indologist
- 2014: Johann Max Böttcher , German entrepreneur and philanthropist
- 2015: Manuel Contreras , Chilean general and intelligence officer
- 2018: Gustavo Giagnoni , Italian football player and coach
- 2018: M. Karunanidhi , Indian politician and author
- 2018: Enno Patalas , German film critic and film historian
- 2019: Kary Mullis , American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2020: Adin Steinsaltz , Israeli rabbi
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Afra von Augsburg , martyr, prostitute and patron saint (Protestant, Catholic)
- Saint Donatus of Arezzo , martyr, Bishop of Arezzo and patron saint (Catholic)
- St. Sixtus II , Roman Pope, martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
- St. Kajetan von Thiene , founder of the Italian order and patron saint (Catholic)
- John Mason Neale and Catherine Winkworth , English translators of songs (Anglican: TEC )
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Ivory Coast , independence from France (1960)
- Colombia , independence from Spain (1819)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ralf Hübner: "An undeniable highlight" . In: Saxon newspaper . June 5, 2021 ( paid online [accessed June 5, 2021]).
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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