December 7th
The Dec. 7 , the 341st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 342nd in leap years ), thus remain 24 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 43 BC Chr .: Marcus Antonius has the speaker and political opponent Cicero, who was on the proscription list, murdered. His body is cruelly mutilated.
- 1631 : Saxon troops under Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg defeat an imperial army under the command of Rudolf von Tiefenbach in the Thirty Years' War near the Bohemian city of Nimburg .
- 1724 : The Thorner Blood Court causes a stir across Europe: The Polish King Augustus the Strong has the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) , Johann Gottfried Rösner , and nine other Protestant citizens executed. The city council must in future have a majority Catholic population.
- 1787 : Delaware becomes the first state in the United States .
- 1807 : The Kingdom of Westphalia is proclaimed by Napoleon Bonaparte on the basis of the Peace of Tilsit , its constitution is made known by royal decree and entry into the Confederation of the Rhine is regulated.
- 1849 : The princes of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen contractually transfer their sovereignty and government rights to Prussia.
- 1852 : In a fortress near Mantua , Enrico Tazzoli , Carlo Poma and three other members of the Liberation Committee operating in Mantua during the Risorgimento are executed by the Austrians after their arrest and conviction.
- 1864 : The Prussian King Wilhelm I founds a new order. The Alsenkreuz commemorates the conquest of Alsen during the German-Danish War .
- 1868 : The areas of the Electorate of Hesse , Duchy of Nassau and the Free City of Frankfurt annexed during the German War are merged into the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau . The provincial capital is the previous residence city of Kassel .
- 1906 : The German liner SMS Schleswig-Holstein is launched. On September 1, 1939, it will open the Second World War in Europe with shots on the Danziger Westerplatte .
- 1917 : More than eight months after the declaration of war against the German Reich explain the United States and Austria-Hungary the war .
- 1939 : During the Winter War , the Battle of Suomussalmi begins between the Red Army and Finland and will last until January 7th.
- 1941 : Adolf Hitler publishes the secret so-called Night and Fog Decree . The Wehrmacht High Command under Wilhelm Keitel then had around 7,000 people suspected of the resistance deported from the occupied territories to Germany and executed there or detained without notification to their relatives.
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- 1941 : The attack by Japan on the US naval base Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu in Hawaii leads to the entry of the United States into the Second World War , which will have a decisive impact on the Pacific War in particular .
- 1943 : Lebanon receives its state flag .
- 1944 : The International Civil Aviation Agreement is signed in Chicago, creating the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ).
- 1948 : In the western part of Berlin , Ernst Reuter is elected mayor by the city council.
- 1970 : In Warsaw is part of the German Ostpolitik of the Warsaw Treaty on the basics of normalization between Germany and Poland signed. On the same day makes Willy Brandt 's genuflection in Warsaw in front of the memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto , which becomes a symbol for reconciliation worldwide.
- 1975 : Units of the Indonesian army occupy East Timor , nine days after its declaration of independence from Portugal.
- 1982 : Lethal injection is used for an execution for the first time in the US state of Texas .
- 1988 : The Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev gives a speech at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York City, in which he offers to reduce the Soviet troop strength by half a million men.
- 1989 : Sajus na Demokratitschnite Sili is founded as an alliance of opposition groups in communist Bulgaria . The first chairman of the union is the philosopher and dissident Schelju Schelew .
- 1989 : In East Berlin , representatives of government and opposition come to an agreement at the " round table " and a. the dissolution of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) and free local elections in the GDR on May 6, 1990.
- 1989 : The Czechoslovak Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec resigns from office due to ongoing unrest in the country.
- 2001: The Afghan Northern Alliance liberates Kandahar from Taliban rule with US help .
- 2005 : For the sake of crimes against humanity in Croatia war sought Croatian General Ante Gotovina was arrested on the Spanish island of Tenerife.
- 2009 : The UN climate conference in Copenhagen begins with around 10,500 delegates.
- 2017 : On the SPD - party conference in Berlin is Martin Schulz in office as party leader confirmed with 81.9 percent of the vote; In addition, the majority of the delegates vote in favor of starting talks with the CDU / CSU on the formation of a joint government under Chancellor Angela Merkel .
- 2018 : At the 31st party convention of the CDU in Hamburg , Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is elected as party leader in the second ballot for Angela Merkel's successor , who previously held office for 18 years.
economy
- 1904 : Emil von Behring founded with the two million mark , which he in 1901 as the first Nobel Prize winner for Medicine had received in Marburg the Behringwerke .
- 1995 : In the speech known as the Pearl Harbor speech , Bill Gates announces Microsoft's future involvement in Internet software with the words “A sleeping giant has awakened”, thereby signaling the beginning of the browser war against Netscape .
- 2005 : German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened between Tribsees and Greifswald the last sections of the motorway 20 , the so-called Baltic or coastal highway that from the cross Uckermark to cross Luebeck leads. The A 20 is the longest connected new motorway since 1945.
- 2012 : The last edition of the Financial Times Deutschland appears.
science and technology
- 1785 : The German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel discovers the two barred spiral galaxies NGC 3003 and NGC 3395 in the constellation Little Lion .
- 1835 : The Ludwig Railway goes into operation between Nuremberg and the Ludwigsbahnhof in Fürth . The route of the first German railroad is 6.05 km long, for which the 10 hp locomotive named Adler of the British railway pioneer George Stephenson takes about nine minutes.
- 1888 : The pneumatic tire is patented by John Boyd Dunlop .
- 1923 : Edwin Powell Hubble proves the existence of celestial bodies that lie outside our Milky Way .
- 1972 : Apollo 17 is the last time humans make their way to the moon . It is the only night start of the Apollo program .
- 1995 : The daughter probe separates from the mother ship of the Galileo space probe in order to immerse itself in the atmosphere of Jupiter .
- 2001 : The satellite TIMED to study the dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere is from the California Vandenberg Air Force Base from a Delta II - launcher starts.
Culture
- 1732 : The Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden opens with William Congreve's piece The Way of the World .
- 1742 : The State Opera Unter den Linden , built according to plans by Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff in the style of Palladianism , opens as the Royal Court Opera in Berlin with Carl Heinrich Graun's piece Cleopatra e Cesare .
- 1799 : At the Opéra-Comique in Paris takes place the first performance of the opera Le Délire ou une erreur d'Les Suites by Henri Montan Berton .
- 1881 : The first performance of the opera Das Käthchen von Heilbronn by Karl Reinthaler based on a libretto by Heinrich Bulthaupt , based on the play of the same name by Heinrich von Kleist , takes place in Frankfurt am Main.
- 1889 : The operetta The Gondoliers or, The King of Barataria by the composer Arthur Sullivan and the librettist WS Gilbert has its world premiere at the Savoy Theater in London. The operetta is the twelfth in the collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan and their last great mutual success.
- 1909 : When it premiered in Vígszínház in Budapest, the play Liliom by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár was panned by the press and the public. Only after the German premiere at the Theater an der Wien more than three years later did the play become a global success.
- 1912 : In the Old Theater in Leipzig , the fairy tale is Peterchens Mondfahrt by Gerdt von Bassewitz premiered.
- 1926 : Franz Kafka's unfinished novel Das Schloss appears after the author's death.
- 1969 : The German television series is in the eleventh episode cartoon poem advent of Loriot first published.
- 1996 : The Gothic Lonja de la Seda in Valencia is declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO .
society
- 1811 : The first four victims of the later so-called Ratcliffe Highway murders are found in London .
religion
- 1601 : The Regensburg religious discussion between Catholic and Lutheran theologians about the Holy Scriptures , which was held for a few days on the occasion of the Reichstag, fails due to the inability to refrain from mutual degradation.
- 1768 : The orphanage church is inaugurated in Vienna . However , there is no evidence for the traditional description that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his orphanage mass for this purpose .
- 1965 : The mutual bulls of the Vatican and the Patriarchate of Constantinople that have existed since the schism of 1054, the so-called Oriental Schism , are declared null and void.
- 1965 : The Second Vatican Council adopts the Gaudium et spes document .
- 1990 : In his eighth encyclical Redemptoris missio , Pope John Paul II underlines the ongoing validity of proselytizing .
Disasters
- 1942 : The German submarine U 515 sinks the British passenger ship Ceramic (18,713 GRT) with five torpedoes west of the Azores . Only one of the 656 passengers and crew members is rescued.
- 1944 : An 8.1 magnitude earthquake in Tonankai , Japan kills over 1,000.
- 1988 : Around 25,000 people are killed in the Spitak earthquake in Armenia .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
Henry Stewart Darnley
(* 1545)
Luise Henriette of Orange
(* 1627)
Different Celsius
(* 1701)
Maria Walewska
(* 1786)
- 903 : Abd ar-Rahman as-Sufi , Persian astronomer
- 1302 : Azzo Visconti , Imperial Vicar, Lord of the City of Milan
- 1459 : Diego Ramírez de Villaescusa , Bishop of Málaga and Cuenca, confessor of Joan of Castile
- 1532 : Ludwig I , Count of Wittgenstein
- 1545 : Henry Stuart Darnley , second husband of Mary Stuart
- 1596 : Johann Kasimir , Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1598 : Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Italian baroque architect
- 1603 : Joachim von der Marwitz , court official and soldier
- 1627 : Luise Henriette von Oranien , Electress of Brandenburg
18th century
- 1701 : Anders Celsius , Swedish astronomer
- 1703 : Jan Josef Antonín Eleazar Kittel , Bohemian healer and doctor
- 1706 : Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt , German theologian
- 1716 : Heinrich Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , German politician, canon, provost and poet of numerous hymns
- 1723 : Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil-Duperron , French orientalist
- 1725 : Beda Angehrn (Johann Konrad Angehrn), Prince Abbot of St. Gallen
- 1743 : Johann Joachim Eschenburg , German literary historian
- 1753 : Ignaz Ambros von Amman , German cartographer and national geometer
- 1753 : Samuel Gottlieb Bürde , German poet
- 1756 : Ernst Wilhelm Cuhn , German librarian and historian
- 1767 : Andreas Metz , German clergyman, philosopher, mathematician
- 1782 : Anton Apponyi von Nagy-Apponyi , Austrian diplomat
- 1786 : Maria Walewska , Countess of Ornano, lover of Napoleon I.
- 1792 : Abraham Jacob van der Aa , Dutch lexicographer and man of letters
- 1798 : Lodewijk-Jozef Delebecque , Roman Catholic Bishop of Ghent
19th century
Johann Nepomuk Nestroy
(* 1801)
Pietro Mascagni
(* 1863)
Fay Bainter
(* 1893)
1801-1850
- 1801 : Johann Nepomuk Nestroy , Austrian playwright and actor
- 1803 : Giuseppe Angelelli , Italian painter
- 1807 : Feodora zu Leiningen , Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg
- 1810 : Josef Hyrtl , Austrian anatomist
- 1813 : Christian Tønsberg , Norwegian publisher
- 1821 : Friedrich Schlögl , Austrian writer
- 1823 : Leopold Kronecker , German mathematician
- 1824 : Rudolph Sack , German mechanical engineering entrepreneur
- 1825 : Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld , Portuguese opera singer
- 1826 : Filippo Pagnamenta , Swiss politician and Italian major general
- 1830 : Antonio Luigi Gaudenzio Giuseppe Cremona , Italian mathematician and politician
- 1834 : Ludvig Ludvigsen Daae , Norwegian historian
- 1837 : Baker Creed Russell , British general
- 1839 : Redvers Buller , British Commander in Chief in the first phase of the Boer War
- 1839 : Gustav Mützel , German painter
- 1840 : Justus Heer , Swiss Protestant clergyman
- 1842 : Otto Ammon , German anthropologist
- 1845 : Ferdinand Heerdegen , German classical philologist
- 1849 : Pierre-Paulin Andrieu , French Archbishop
1851-1900
- 1853 : Oskar Ludwig Auster , Saxon royal building officer
- 1859 : Octaviano Larrazolo , American politician
- 1859 : Martin Möbius , German botanist
- 1860 : Joseph Cook , Australian Prime Minister
- 1863 : Felix Calonder , Swiss politician
- 1863 : Pietro Mascagni , Italian composer
- 1869 : Albert Wiegel , German glass artist
- 1876 : Heinrich Straumer , German architect
- 1877 : Walter Abbott , English football player
- 1879 : Émile Champion , French athlete
- 1881 : Josef Flegl , Czech composer, cellist and music teacher
- 1885 : Mason Phelps , American golfer
- 1887 : Ernst Toch , Austrian composer
- 1888 : Albert Florath , German actor
- 1889 : Gabriel Marcel , French philosopher and playwright
- 1890 : Rudolf Bella , Hungarian composer
- 1893 : Fay Bainter , American actress
- 1893 : Demetrius Constantine Dounis , Greek violinist and music teacher
- 1894 : Chris Dafeff , Canadian violinist, choir director and music teacher
- 1894 : Stuart Davis , American painter
- 1894 : George Waggner , American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
- 1895 : Auguste Adenauer , second wife of Konrad Adenauer
- 1896 : Hedda Koppé , Swiss actress
- 1897 : Leo Monosson , German pop singer
- 1900 : Johann Friedrich Dändliker , Swiss Pietist and Diakonie head
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Lily Abegg , Swiss journalist and author
- 1901 : Robert Bach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1901 : Annemarie Marks-Rocke , German actress
- 1903 : Brian Lewis, 2nd Baron Essendon , British nobleman and racing car driver
- 1904 : Klara Stoffels , Jehovah's Witness and victim of the National Socialist judiciary
- 1906 : Erika Fuchs , German translator
- 1906 : Elisabeth Höngen , German singer
- 1906 : Eduard Zak , Austrian writer, translator and critic
- 1907 : Werner Haarnagel , German archaeologist
- 1908 : Slim Bryant , American country musician
- 1909 : Hans Paetsch , German actor, director and voice actor
- 1909 : Matthias Wörndle , German cross-country skier and mountaineer
- 1910 : Nora Minor , Austrian actress
- 1910 : Louis Prima , American musician, singer, and songwriter
- 1910 : Edmundo Ros , Trinidadian musician
- 1911 : Max Braithwaite , Canadian writer
- 1911 : Peter Hamel , German director
- 1912 : Marcel Leineweber , Luxembourg artistic gymnast
- 1912 : Henri Thomas , French author
- 1913 : John Davis , American blues pianist and singer
- 1915 : Stabben Ahlner , Swedish sports official
- 1915 : Leigh Brackett , American writer and screenwriter
- 1915 : Franz Josef Tripp , German painter, draftsman and illustrator of children's books
- 1915 : Eli Wallach , American actor
- 1916 : Jean Carignan , Canadian fiddle player
- 1917 : Ottorino Volonterio , Swiss racing driver
- 1918 : Randy Atcher , American country singer and musician
- 1918 : Max Merkel , Austrian football player and coach
- 1919 : Ed Ulinski , American football player and coach
- 1920 : Tatamkhulu Africa , South African author
- 1920 : Frances Gifford , American actress
- 1920 : Walter Nowotny , Austrian fighter pilot
- 1921 : Tilda Thamar , Argentine film actress and painter
- 1922 : Willy Andergassen , Italian artist
- 1923 : Alan Ford , American swimmer
- 1923 : Shinkichi Tajiri , American painter and sculptor
- 1924 : Boyd Bennett , American songwriter, drummer, and rock 'n' roll singer
- 1924 : Bent Fabric , Danish musician
- 1924 : Mário Soares , Portuguese politician, Prime Minister
1926-1950
- 1927 : Jorge Fontenla , Argentine pianist, conductor and composer
- 1927 : José Ivo Lorscheiter , Brazilian priest, Bishop of Santa Maria
- 1928 : Noam Avram Chomsky , American linguist
- 1929 : Albrecht Haupt , German church musician
- 1930 : Lupe Serrano , Chilean ballet dancer
- 1930 : Bob Tullius , American racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1931 : Eric Anderson , English football player
- 1931 : Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk , Archbishop of Seoul and Cardinal
- 1932 : Ellen Burstyn , American actress
- 1934 : Jan Wornar , Sorbian writer
- 1935 : Jean-Claude Casadesus , French conductor
- 1939 : Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf , Swiss film director
- 1940 : Heinfried Birlenbach , German athlete
- 1942 : Harry Chapin , American singer, songwriter and director
- 1942 : Jonathan D. Kramer , American composer, musicologist and educator
- 1943 : Jürgen Walter , German singer
- 1944 : Daniel Chorzempa , American organist
- 1945 : Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok , South Korean bishop
- 1946 : Kirsti Sparboe , Norwegian pop singer and actress
- 1946 : Ernst Uhrlau , German politician and President of the BND
- 1947 : Oliver Dragojević , Croatian singer, musician and multi-instrumentalist
- 1947 : Stephen Mosko , American composer, conductor and music educator
- 1949 : Heino Maulshagen , German football player
- 1949 : Tom Waits , American singer, actor and songwriter
- 1950 : Rimas Andrikis , Lithuanian lawyer
- 1950 : Wiesław Kwaśny , Polish violinist, violist and music teacher
1951-1975
- 1952 : Paco Romero , Spanish racing car driver
- 1952 : Siegfried Wittenburg , German photographer and author
- 1953 : Jocelyne Boisseau , French actress
- 1954 : Uwe Hoppe , German playwright, author, director and actor
- 1954 : Reinhold Zwick , German theologian
- 1955 : Chuck Loeb , American jazz guitarist, composer, arranger and music producer
- 1955 : Klaus Elwardt , German handball player
- 1955 : Władysław Kłosiewicz , Polish harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher
- 1956 : Larry Bird , American basketball player
- 1957 : Jürgen Kaminsky , German soccer player and coach
- 1958 : Rick Rude , American wrestler
- 1960 : Robert Amper , German actor, director, author and voice actor
- 1960 : Holger C. Gotha , German actor, director and screenwriter
- 1960 : Abdellatif Kechiche , French director, screenwriter and actor
- 1960 : Erhard Riedlsperger , Austrian film director and screenwriter
- 1960 : Yasuhide Itō , Japanese composer, conductor and pianist
- 1962 : Ulrike Müller , German politician, MdL
- 1964 : Ilse Aigner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1964 : Vida Anim , Ghanaian sprinter
- 1964 : Vladimir Artyomov , Russian artistic gymnast
- 1964 : Werner Brix , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
- 1965 : Wolfgang Haffner , German jazz drummer
- 1965 : Dirk Stermann , German radio presenter, cabaret artist and author
- 1965 : Sophie Watillon , Belgian viol player
- 1965 : Jeffrey Wright , American actor
- 1966 : Gem Archer , British musician
- 1966 : Kirsten Erl , German TV judge
- 1966 : Shin'ichi Itō , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1968 : Noël Akchoté , French guitarist
- 1968 : Eva Maria Marold , Austrian musical star
- 1970 : Jeon Mi-seon , South Korean actress
- 1970 : Bundit Ungrangsee , Thai conductor
- 1971 : Vladimir Hakobjan , Armenian chess player
- 1971 : Christian Kellner , German motorcycle racer
- 1971 : Massimo Rivola , Italian motorsport official
- 1972 : Roman Bichler , German music producer
- 1972 : Sean Dundee , South African-German soccer player
- 1972 : Hermann Maier , Austrian ski racer
- 1972 : Arianna Zukerman , American singer and music teacher
- 1973 : Terrell Owens , American football player
- 1973 : Damien Rice , Irish musician
- 1974 : Gerardo García León , Spanish football player
- 1975 : Marco Borciani , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1975 : Denise Zich , German actress
1976-2000
- 1976 : Sebastian Gerold , German actor
- 1976 : Georges Laraque , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977 : Delron Buckley , South African soccer player
- 1978 : Shiri Appleby , American actress
- 1978 : Kon Artis , American rapper
- 1979 : Jennifer Carpenter , American actress
- 1979 : Sara Bareilles , American singer-songwriter
- 1979 : Laura Torrisi , Italian actress
- 1980 : Clément Beaud , Cameroonian football player
- 1980 : Clemens Fritz , German soccer player
- 1980 : Sarah Spale , Swiss actress
- 1980 : John Terry , English soccer player
- 1981 : Tommy Egeberg , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1981 : Martin Tomczyk , German racing driver
- 1981 : Tuba Ünsal , Turkish actress and photo model
- 1983 : Linda Bresonik , German soccer player
- 1984 : Robert Kubica , Polish Formula 1 racing driver
- 1984 : Emmanuel Muscat , Maltese-Australian soccer player
- 1985 : Dean Ambrose , American wrestler
- 1985 : Floris van Assendelft , Dutch chess player
- 1986 : Tschawdar Arsow , Bulgarian natural track tobogganist
- 1986 : Merle Collet , German actress
- 1986 : Ledian Memushaj , Albanian football player
- 1987 : Aaron Carter , American musician
- 1988 : Nathan Adrian , American freestyle swimmer
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- 1988 : Emily Browning , Australian actress
- 1988 : Jens Schöngarth , German handball player
- 1988 : Andrew Goudelock , American basketball player
- 1989 : Basia A'Hern , Australian actress
- 1989 : Nicholas Hoult , British actor
- 1989 : Danny Latza , German soccer player
- 1989 : Judith Neumann , German actress
- 1989 : Kevin Séraphin , French basketball player
- 1990 : Alexander Menkow , Russian long jumper
- 1992 : Lena Meckel , German actress
- 1993 : Ramon Roselly , German singer
- 1994 : Yuzuru Hanyū , Japanese figure skater
21st century
- 2003 : Catharina-Amalia van Oranje , Princess of the Netherlands
Died
Before the 16th century
- 43 BC BC : Marcus Tullius Cicero , Roman orator, politician and writer
- 283 : Eutychianus , Pope
- 983 : Otto II , Duke of Saxony, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1077 : Gerald von Ostia , Bishop of Ostia and mediator in the investiture dispute
- 1188 : Tammo von Verden , Bishop of Verden
- 1221 : Gisela von Spiegelberg , Abbess of the Fraumünster in Zurich
- 1247 : Theobald von Marly , abbot of the Vaux-de-Cernay monastery and saint of the Catholic Church
- 1254 : Innocent IV , Pope
- 1266 : John of Ibelin , Count of Jaffa, Lord of Ramla and Regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- 1269 : Gruffydd Maelor ap Madog , Prince of Powys Fadog
- 1269 : Madog Fychan , Lord of the North Welsh Principality of Powys Fadog
- 1279 : Bolesław V , Duke of Poland
- 1280 : Hugo I , Count of Werdenberg-Heiligenberg
- 1295 : Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford , English magnate
- 1306 : Teoderico Ranieri , Cardinal of the Catholic Church and Bishop of Palestrina
- 1333 : Gerold von Friesach , Bishop of Gurk
- 1406 : Peter III. von Rosenberg , Bohemian Aliger
- 1441 : Bartolomeo di Fruosino , Italian painter
- 1446 : Bogislaw IX. , Duke of Pomerania-Stolp
- 1495 : Gabriel Biel , German scholastic philosopher
16th to 18th century
- 1517 : Albert Krantz , German historian
- 1528 : Margaret of Saxony , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg
- 1549 : Robert Ket , English peasant leader and insurgent
- 1560 : Ernst von Bayern , administrator of Passau and Salzburg
- 1562 : Adrian Willaert , Flemish composer and the founder of the Venetian School
- 1613 : Simon VI. , Graf zur Lippe
- 1615 : Gerard Reynst , second governor general of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Southeast Asia
- 1618 : Bernardo de Rojas y Sandoval , Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toledo and Cardinal
- 1622 : Sophie of Brandenburg , Electress of Saxony
- 1641 : Albrecht Friedrich von Barby and Mühlingen , owner of the lordship of Rosenburg and Mühlingen, member of the fruit-bearing society
- 1653 : Christoph Carl Fernberger , German world traveler and explorer
- 1709 : Meindest Hobbema , Dutch painter
- 1715 : Dorothea Katharina von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler , Countess of Nassau-Ottweiler
- 1718 : Rudolf Emanuel Passavant , Frankfurt merchant
- 1723 : Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel , Bohemian architect and painter
- 1786 : Friedrich August Fischer , German legal scholar
- 1789 : Johann Friedrich Glaser , German medic
- 1797 : Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet , French politician and general
19th century
- 1804 : Johann Tobias Lowitz , German-Russian chemist and pharmacist
- 1815 : Michel Ney , French Marshal
- 1817 : William Bligh , British naval officer, captain of HMS Bounty
- 1839 : Andreas Metz , German clergyman, philosopher, mathematician
- 1862 : Sylvester Churchill , American journalist and general
- 1865 : Antonio Fontana , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator
- 1872 : Christoph Leonhard Wolbach , first Lord Mayor of Ulm
- 1874 : Konstantin von Tischendorf , German theologian, researcher on the text history of the New Testament
- 1876 : Hermann von Barth , German mountaineer
- 1889 : Antoni Kątski , Polish composer and pianist
- 1894 : Ferdinand Vicomte de Lesseps , French diplomat and engineer
- 1900 : Johann Georg Gerhard Schmitt , German composer and organist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1902 : Thomas Nast , German-American cartoonist
- 1903 : Arthur Milchhoefer , German archaeologist
Élie Ducommun († 1906)
- 1906 : Élie Ducommun , Swiss politician, journalist and businessman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- 1913 : Heinrich Ernst Göring , German lawyer and diplomat
- 1918 : Nicanor Plaza , Chilean sculptor
- 1923 : Emil Dönges , German preacher, Bible interpreter and publisher of the Brethren movement
- 1924 : Rudolph Bergh , Danish composer
- 1930 : Werner Borchardt , German physiologist and climatologist
- 1930 : Noe Ramishvili , Georgian Prime Minister
- 1932 : Amedeo Ruggeri , Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1934 : William W. Brandon , American politician
- 1936 : Alfred Wiedemann , German Egyptologist
- 1938 : Katharine Carl , American portrait painter
- 1941 : Isaac C. Kidd , American admiral
- 1944 : Wilhelm Ahlmann , German banker
- 1944 : Robert Jackson Emerson , British sculptor, painter and medalist
- 1946 : Georges Malfait , French athlete
1951-1975
- 1952 : Helmut Hugo Alfred Augustin , German pastor
- 1954 : Chiang K'ang-Hu , Chinese politician and literary scholar
- 1955 : Mirzl Hofer , Austrian singer and yodeler
- 1956 : Henry Fillmore , American composer, trombonist and conductor
- 1960 : Paulius Augius , Lithuanian painter and woodcut artist
- 1960 : Richard Ermisch , German architect, senior building officer in Berlin
- 1960 : Clara Haskil , Romanian pianist
- 1962 : Kirsten Flagstad , Norwegian singer
- 1963 : Isidore Soucy , Canadian fiddle player and composer
- 1964 : Sepp Kerschbaumer , Italian freedom fighter
- 1969 : Maria Kasterska , Polish writer and literary scholar
- 1970 : Romaine Brooks , American painter and sculptor
- 1971 : Josef Adlmannseder , Austrian politician
- 1972 : Humberto Mariles Cortés , Mexican colonel, show jumping and eventing rider
- 1973 : Gordon Beecher , American composer and vice admiral
- 1973 : Camilo Mori , Chilean painter
- 1974 : Robert Buchet , French racing car driver
- 1975 : Francisco Borja da Costa , East Timorese freedom fighter, poet and journalist
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Thornton Wilder († 1975)
- 1975 : Thornton Wilder , American writer
1976-2000
- 1977 : Georges Grignard , French racing car driver
- 1979 : Nicolas Born , German writer
- 1979 : Edward Gottlieb , Russian-American entrepreneur
- 1979 : Manfred Jenning , German author and director, director and speaker of the Augsburger Puppenkiste puppet theater
- 1980 : Darby Crash , American punk rock musician
- 1981 : Auguste Caralp , French racing car driver
- 1982 : Sam Theard , American singer and songwriter
- 1983 : Antal Molnár , Hungarian composer and musicologist
- 1984 : Wilhelm Schmied , German painter and graphic artist
- 1985 : Robert Graves , British writer
- 1987 : Hermann Meinert , German historian and archivist
- 1988 : Wilhelm Kweksilber , stateless, later Dutch publicist and politician
- 1990 : Reinaldo Arenas , Cuban writer and dissident
- 1990 : Joan Bennett , American film actress
- 1990 : Horst Bienek , German writer
- 1990 : Peter Mieg , Swiss composer, painter and publicist
- 1992 : Richard J. Hughes , American politician
- 1992 : Johannes Leppich , German Jesuit preacher and traveling preacher
Félix Houphouët-Boigny († 1993)
- 1993 : Félix Houphouët-Boigny , doctor and first President of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
- 1993 : Wolfgang Paul , German physicist
- 1993 : Robert Taft junior , American politician
- 1994 : Elga Andersen , German actress and singer
- 1996 : José Donoso , Chilean writer
- 1997 : Günter Bast , German internal medicine specialist
- 1997 : Barry S. Brook , American musicologist and university professor
- 1998 : John Addison , British composer
- 1998 : Paul Tholey , German psychologist
- 2000 : Stanley Osborne , Canadian minister, music educator, author, hymnologist, and composer
21st century
- 2001 : Marie-Thérèse Chailley , French violist and music teacher
- 2003 : Gerhard Höpp , German orientalist and Islamic scholar
- 2003 : Raúl Vale , Mexican singer, composer and actor
- 2004 : Winfried Scharlau , German journalist
- 2006 : Jeane Kirkpatrick , American political scientist
- 2006 : Jay McShann , American blues and swing pianist, band leader and singer
- 2007 : Heinz Angermeier , German historian
- 2010 : Elizabeth Edwards , US lawyer and author
- 2011 : Josip Barković , Croatian writer, screenwriter and film director
- 2011 : Kurt Ernsting , German entrepreneur and patron
- 2011 : Harry Morgan , American actor
- 2013 : Édouard Molinaro , French film director
- 2014 : Marie Marcks , German cartoonist
- 2016 : Hildegard Hamm-Brücher , German politician
- 2016 : Greg Lake , British bassist, guitarist, singer, songwriter
- 2018 : Belisario Betancur , Colombian politician and President
- 2019 : Wolfgang Winkler , German actor
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Ambrose of Milan , Roman politician and church father, bishop and patron saint (Anglican, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant: ELCA , LCMS , the EKD commemoration day is on April 4th )
- Victim of the Thorner Blood Court , Thorner Martyrs (Protestant)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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