June 7th
The June 7 is the 158th day of the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years ), thus remaining 207 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1002 : The Bavarian Duke Heinrich IV is crowned King of Eastern Franconia ; he went down in the annals as the later Emperor Heinrich II .
- 1063 : The " Goslar rank dispute " escalates to a bloodbath in the Goslar monastery of St. Simon and Judas .
- 1099 : The army of the First Crusade begins the siege of Jerusalem .
- 1424 : In the Battle of Maleschau in Bohemia during the Hussite Wars , the radical Orebites under Jan Žižka have the upper hand over an army of moderate Prague Utraquists , which also has the support of Catholic nobles.
- 1457 : The Polish King Casimir IV. Andrew moves into the Marienburg Order Castle acquired through purchase . The Grand Master of the enemy Teutonic Order flees to Koenigsberg .
- 1494 : In the Treaty of Tordesillas , the two sea powers Portugal and Spain divide the New World into zones of interest.
- 1576 : The English explorer Martin Frobisher sets off with three ships from London on his first voyage of discovery in search of the Northwest Passage , during which he will discover Frobisher Bay , among other things .
- 1639 : In the Battle of Diedenhofen in the Thirty Years' War, the imperial troops under Octavio Piccolomini defeat the French commanded by Manassès de Pas .
- 1654 : Louis XIV is crowned King of France .
- 1673 : In the Third Anglo-Dutch War, the first sea battle of Schooneveld takes place in front of the Scheldt estuary . The English fleet, disordered in battle, abandons the landing plan and cruises off the Dutch coast to lure the enemy out of its shallow waters.
- 1832 : In the United Kingdom which is Reform Act of 1832 passed.
- 1840 : Friedrich Wilhelm IV. After the death of his father Friedrich Wilhelm III. new King of Prussia .
- 1863 : The French intervention in Mexico leads to the capture of Mexico City by French troops under the command of François-Achille Bazaine .
- 1880 : The fortress on El Morro mountain in the Peruvian port city of Arica is conquered by the Chileans during the saltpeter war.
- 1896 : An Anglo-Egyptian army under Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, wins the Battle of Firket in the course of the suppression of the Mahdi uprising .
- 1905 : The Norwegian Storting declares the personal union with Sweden , which has been in force since 1814, to be null and void.
- 1915 : With the conclusion of the Treaty of Kyakhta , Outer Mongolia de jure becomes part of the Republic of China again, de facto a protectorate of Russia.
- 1917 : The Battle of Messines is initiated by blowing up a series of mines , killing around 10,000 German soldiers in one fell swoop and making it the loudest human-made sound to date.
- 1919 : Several hundred Armenians are killed in the Chaibalikend massacre in Nagorno-Karabakh .
- 1929 : The Vatican becomes a sovereign state.
- 1942 : In the course of the battle for Sevastopol in the war against the Soviet Union , after days of bombardment by artillery and from the air in the Störfang company , the German Wehrmacht began a second major attack on the Soviet port city of Sevastopol, which had been declared a fortress .
- 1942 : The Battle of Midway ends. The United States Navy prevails against the Japanese Navy in the Pacific War . The Japanese forfeit four out of six large aircraft carriers in the fighting, which leads to an equilibrium of forces between the two fleets.
- 1945 : King Haakon VII returns to Oslo with his family from five years of British exile , where he headed the Norwegian government in exile .
- 1951 : The last death sentences from the Nuremberg trials are carried out in the war crimes prison in Landsberg am Lech .
- 1955 : Establishment of the Bundeswehr : the previous " Blank Office " becomes the Federal Ministry of Defense .
- 1958 : Helicopter incident in 1958 : A helicopter manned by nine US Army soldiers flies into the airspace of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and has to make an emergency landing in Vogtland. The soldiers interned by the GDR authorities were released about six weeks later on July 19, 1958.
- 1959 : The Viqueque rebellion of the locals against the colonial power begins in Portuguese Timor .
- 1965 : The Supreme Court of the United States declared in the landmark judgment v Griswold. Connecticut has an unconstitutional law in the state of Connecticut that prohibits the use of contraception .
- 1967 : Israeli paratroopers take during the Six Day War the Jerusalem Temple Mount one.
- 1970 : The voters in Baden vote in a referendum to remain in the state of Baden-Württemberg, which was formed in 1952 .
- 1973 : Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt visits - as the first head of government of the Federal Republic of Germany - Israel .
- 1977 : One million people line the route of the procession for the silver jubilee of Elizabeth II ; over 500 million people watch the broadcast on television.
- 1981 : Israeli Air Force carry a bomb attack on the Iraqi nuclear reactor Osirak by.
- 1982 : The rebel leader Hissène Habré , who will have around 40,000 politically motivated murders committed by 1990, seizes power in Chad .
- 1989 : Denmark passed the world's first law on registered partnerships for homosexuals .
- 2001 : In the British general election , the Labor Party celebrated a major victory with a low turnout. Tony Blair becomes the Labor Party's first Prime Minister to be re-elected after a full term in office.
- 2006 : After an air strike two by a US Special Forces requested multi-role combat aircraft of type F-16 is a house in Iraq Baquba destroyed. The action directed against the globally sought-after terrorist Abū Musʿab az-Zarqāwī subsequently cost him his life.
- 2009 : In the European elections , which started on June 4th in some member states, the conservative group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats (EPP-ED) emerged as the strongest group, the European Social Democrats suffer losses.
economy
- 1951 : The federal German coal and steel co-determination law , a milestone in the history of co-determination , comes into force.
- 1968 : The first Legoland opens in Billund , Denmark .
- 2002 : Cargolifter AG , which wanted to construct a transport airship and thus initiate the renaissance of large airship travel, files for bankruptcy .
science and technology
- 1742 : In a letter to Leonhard Euler, the mathematician Christian Goldbach expresses the assumption that was later named after him and has not yet been proven, according to which every even number greater than 2 should be represented as the sum of two prime numbers .
- 1911 : German radio operators in the Togoland colony succeeds in establishing a wireless connection with the major radio station in Nauen near Berlin (over 5000 kilometers). The experiments lead to the construction of the Kamina radio station .
Culture
- 1896 : The comic opera Der Corregidor by Hugo Wolf based on a libretto by Rosa Mayreder is premiered with great success in Mannheim .
- 1903 : First performance of the dramatic symphony Ilsebill. The fairy tale of the fisherman and his wife by Friedrich Klose in Karlsruhe.
- 1905 : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff found the Brücke , an expressionist group of artists, in Dresden .
- 1926 : The Spanish builder Antoni Gaudí is run over by a tram in his hometown of Barcelona . He dies a few days later.
- 1933 : At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris , the ballet with song The Seven Deadly Sins by Bertolt Brecht (libretto), Kurt Weill (music) and George Balanchine (choreography) with Lotte Lenya and Tilly Losch in the leading roles.
- 1969 : The group Blind Faith gives their free debut concert in London's Hyde Park in front of 100,000 visitors
society
- 1917 : The Lions Club International is founded.
- 1958 : Germany's first SOS Children's Village is built in Dießen .
religion
- 948 : The universal synod of Ingelheim is convened by Pope Agapet II to resolve the schism surrounding the archbishopric of Reims . Artold of Reims is confirmed as the rightful archbishop of the assembly.
- 1912 : In the encyclical Lacrimabili statu , Pope Pius X discusses the situation of the Indians in South America and calls on bishops and priests to take the side of the oppressed and protect them.
- 2006 : The Central Council of Jews in Germany elects Charlotte Knobloch, the first woman to head its head.
Disasters
- 1692 : Port Royal (Jamaica) is shaken by an earthquake: 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 seriously injured.
- 1832 : A cholera - epidemic in Quebec (Canada) requires 6,000 deaths.
- 1989 : Paramaribo , Suriname : A Douglas DC-8 of Surinam Airways , coming from the Netherlands on the scheduled flight Surinam Airways flight 764 , crashes into the jungle after the third landing approach in thick fog. 168 people die, only 15 survive.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1913 : The Denali in Alaska, at 6194 m the highest mountain in North America , is climbed for the first time by Hudson Stuck .
- 1934 : Germany finished third straight away when it first took part in a soccer world championship . The game for 3rd place will be decided 3: 2 against neighboring Austria.
- 1947 : The Romanian army founds a sports club, which in 1961 became Steaua Bucharest after being renamed .
- 1975 : The first Cricket World Cup begins in England.
- 2008 : The European Football Championship 2008 in Austria and Switzerland begins.
- 2009 : Swiss tennis player Roger Federer wins the French Open for the first time in his career - setting Pete Sampras' record with a total of 14 Grand Slam titles. The success made Federer the sixth player in tennis history (after Fred Perry , Don Budge , Rod Laver , Roy Emerson and Andre Agassi ), who could win all four tournaments of the highest category at least once.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field . Entries on football world championship games can be found in the sub-pages of football world championships . The same goes for European football championships .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1422 : Federico da Montefeltro , Duke of Urbino
- 1561 : Johann VII. , Count of Nassau-Siegen
- 1606 : Francesco Gonzaga , Duke of Rethel
- 1660 : George I , Elector of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and archbanner of the Holy Roman Empire, King of Great Britain
- 1662 : Celia Fiennes , English travel writer
- 1686 : Adolf Friedrich III. , Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1693 : Siegmund Jakob Apinus , German philologist and educator
- 1698 : Benjamin Gottlieb Gerlach , German educator and author
- 1702 : Ludwig Georg Simpert , Margrave of Baden-Baden
- 1721 : Barbara Campanini , Italian ballet dancer
- 1724 : Franz Anton Maulbertsch , also Maulpertsch, Austrian painter
- 1728 : Karl Daniel Freyberg , German historian and physicist
- 1736 : Friedrich Karl , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt and natural history collector
- 1736 : Pedro Mendinueta y Múzquiz , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, Viceroy of New Granada
- 1740 : Ferdinand Kobell , German painter, engraver and etcher
- 1744 : Gottlieb Hünerwadel , Swiss industrialist, politician and officer
- 1754 : Maria Ernestine Esterházy Starhemberg , Hungarian-Austrian noblewoman
- 1757 : Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , English noblewoman
- 1761 : John Rennie , Scottish civil engineer
- 1764 : Karl Heinrich von Lang , German historian and publicist
- 1770 : Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , British statesman
- 1778 : George Bryan Brummell , British dandy
- 1779 : Franz Joseph von Arens , German lawyer and politician
- 1787 : William Daniel Conybeare , English geologist and paleontologist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1810 : Anton Dreher , Austrian brewer, inventor of the lager beer
- 1811 : James Young Simpson , British physician
- 1815 : Gerhard Ahlhorn , German farmer and politician
- 1817 : Carl Gottlieb Elsässer , Australian composer and music teacher
- 1828 : Adrien Barthe , French composer
- 1831 : Eugène Lacheurié , French composer
- 1837 : Alois Hitler , Austrian customs officer, father of Adolf Hitler
- 1840 : Charlotte of Belgium , Princess of Belgium, Empress of Mexico
- 1843 : Alfred Rabuteau , French composer
- 1845 : Leopold von Auer , Hungarian violinist, violin teacher and conductor
- 1848 : Paul Gauguin , French painter
1851-1900
- 1852 : Alfred Amschl , Austrian lawyer and writer
- 1854 : Max Kretzer , German writer
- 1854 : Charlotte Niese , German writer
- 1856 : Victor Attinger , Swiss photographer and publisher
- 1860 : Fritz Herbert , German publisher, trade unionist and consumer cooperative, SPD member of the Reichstag for Pomerania
- 1862 : Felix von Arnim , Prussian officer and chamberlain
- 1862 : Kauppis-Heikki , Finnish writer
- 1862 : Philipp Lenard , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1863 : Albert S. Burleson , American politician
- 1865 : Paula Müller-Otfried , German women's rights activist
- 1868 : Hubert Franz Maria von Andlau-Homburg , Alsatian nobleman, landowner and politician
- 1868 : Charles Rennie Mackintosh , British architect and interior designer, artisan, printmaker and painter
- 1868 : Peter Nonnenmühlen , German local politician
- 1869 : Samuel John Birch , British painter
- 1872 : Leonid Witaljewitsch Sobinow , Russian opera singer
- 1873 : Landon Ronald , British conductor, music educator and composer
- 1877 : Yevgeny Ottowitsch Gunst , Russian composer
- 1877 : Roelof Klein , Dutch rower
- 1879 : Knud Rasmussen , Greenland-Danish polar researcher and ethnologist
- 1883 : Horst Goeldel-Bronikowen , German marksman
- 1888 : Robert Grosche , German theologian, cathedral chapter
- 1888 : Helen Smith Woodruff , American writer
- 1890 : Fred Endrikat , German writer and cabaret artist
- 1891 : Willy Haas , German publicist, film critic and screenwriter
- 1891 : Athos Palma , Argentine composer and music teacher
- 1893 : Ludovic Feldman , Romanian composer
- 1896 : Christopher Andrewes , British virologist
- 1896 : Robert Mulliken , American physicist and chemist
- 1896 : Imre Nagy , Hungarian politician and agricultural economist, head of government, national hero
- 1896 : Otto Heinrich Schindewolf , German paleontologist
- 1897 : Kirill Afanassjewitsch Merezkow , Marshal of the Soviet Union and military leader in World War II
- 1897 : George Szell , American conductor
- 1898 : Johann Daniel Achelis , German physiologist and medical historian
- 1899 : Elizabeth Bowen , British writer
- 1900 : Werner Krauss , German Romanist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Laura Rodig , Chilean painter and sculptor
- 1902 : Arthur Hugo Göpfert , German politician
- 1902 : Paul Sturzenegger , Swiss football player
- 1904 : Udo Adelsberger , German inventor
- 1907 : Konrad Grebe , German steiger and inventor
- 1907 : Mascha Kaléko , German-Russian poet
- 1908 : Leo Fritz Gruber , German advertising specialist and publicist, co-founder of Photokina
- 1909 : Virginia Apgar , American surgeon and anesthetist
- 1909 : William Dupree , American bobsledder
- 1909 : Jean Laurent , Belgian violinist and music teacher
- 1909 : Jessica Tandy , British actress
- 1910 : Pietro Annigoni , Italian painter
- 1910 : Monika Mann , German writer
- 1910 : Marion Post Wolcott , American photographer
- 1911 : Mario Perazzolo , Italian football player and coach
- 1912 : Jeane Flieser , German painter
- 1913 : Roberto Porta , Uruguayan-Italian football player and coach
- 1914 : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas , Indian film director, screenwriter and journalist
- 1915 : Til Kiwe , German actor
- 1915 : Patricia Roc , British actress
- 1917 : Gwendolyn Brooks , American writer
- 1917 : Alfred Charles Gimson , British phonetician
- 1917 : Dean Martin , American singer and actor
- 1919 : Yohanan Aharoni , German-Israeli archaeologist
- 1920 : Georges Marchais , French politician
- 1921 : Hans Oswald , German football player
- 1922 : Vilhelm Aubert , Norwegian sociologist
- 1922 : Henk Zeevalking , Dutch politician and founder of the Democrats 66 party
- 1923 : Carlos Thompson , Argentine actor and writer
- 1925 : Karl Weschke , German-British painter
1926-1950
- 1928 : James Ivory , American film director
- 1929 : Antonio Carbajal , Mexican soccer player
- 1929 : John Turner , Canadian politician
- 1930 : Leszek Moczulski , Polish historian and politician
- 1931 : Salim Ghazal , Lebanese Curia Bishop
- 1931 : Mike Pratt , British composer, pianist and actor
- 1934 : Wynn Stewart , American country singer
- 1935 : Géza Alföldy , Hungarian ancient historian
- 1935 : Tetsuhiko Asai , Japanese karate master
- 1935 : Dieter Simon , German legal scholar
- 1937 : Roberto Blanco , German pop singer and actor
- 1937 : Almut Eggert , German actress and voice actress
- 1937 : Neeme Järvi , Estonian conductor
- 1937 : Claus Peymann , German director
- 1937 : Teddy Redell , American musician
- 1938 : Wolfram Angerbauer , German archivist
- 1938 : Əbülfəz Elçibəy , Azerbaijani cultural scientist and president
- 1939 : Hans-Christian Ströbele , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1940 : Helmut Bieler , German composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1940 : Lambert Hamel , German actor and voice actor
- 1940 : Tom Jones , Welsh singer
- 1941 : Larry Donn , American rockabilly musician
- 1941 : Herbert Herrmann , German-Swiss actor
- 1941 : Mary Kelly , American conceptual artist
- 1942 : Dennis L. Meadows , American economist and author
- 1944 : Miguel Ríos , Spanish singer
- 1944 : Clarence White , American musician
- 1944 : Konrad Zdarsa , Bishop of Augsburg
- 1945 : Lars-Göran Åslund , Swedish cross-country skier
- 1945 : Wolfgang Schüssel , Austrian politician, member of the National Council, Federal Minister, Federal Chancellor
- 1946 : Manfred Ritschel , German soccer player
- 1948 : Nydia Caro , Puerto Rican actress and singer
- 1948 : Raimond Sele , Liechtenstein sport shooter
- 1949 : Kjell-Åke Andersson , Swedish film director, screenwriter and cameraman
- 1949 : Albert Zweifel , Swiss cyclist
- 1950 : Hubert Berenbrinker , auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Paderborn
1951-1975
- 1952 : Hubert Auriol , French rally driver
- 1952 : Liam Neeson , British actor
- 1952 : Orhan Pamuk , Turkish writer and Nobel Prize winner
- 1953 : Johnny Clegg , British guitarist and singer, dancer and composer
- 1953 : Jaromír Nohavica , Czech songwriter
- 1954 : Louise Erdrich , American writer
- 1954 : Günther Platter , Austrian politician, Federal Minister, Governor of Tyrol
- 1954 : Randolph Rose , German singer and actor
- 1955 : Harry Assenmacher , German entrepreneur, journalist and environmentalist
- 1955 : Jon Balke , Norwegian jazz musician
- 1956 : Eugenia León , Mexican singer and actress
- 1957 : Rolf Stöckel , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1957 : Fred Vargas , French crime novelist
- 1958 : Andora , German artist and painter
- 1958 : Francesca Habsburg-Lothringen , Austrian art expert and collector
- 1958 : Prince , American singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist
- 1959 : Tracey Adams , American porn actress
- 1959 : Mike Pence , American Politician, House Member, Indiana Governor, Vice President
- 1959 : Anker Eli Petersen , Faroese graphic artist, postage stamp designer and author
- 1960 : Svetlana Dašić-Kitić , Serbian handball player
- 1960 : Bill Prady , American screenwriter and film producer
- 1962 : Michael Aggelidis , German politician, MdL
- 1962 : Viola Amherd , Swiss politician
- 1963 : Roberto Alagna , French opera singer
- 1963 : Luca Fusi , Italian football player and coach
- 1963 : Christian Lais , German pop singer
- 1964 : Judie Aronson , American actress
- 1964 : Armin Assinger , Austrian ski racer and television presenter
- 1965 : Mick Foley , American wrestler
- 1965 : Damien Hirst , British artist
- 1966 : Alexandra Zazzi , Swedish cook and journalist
- 1967 : Dave Navarro , American guitarist
- 1967 : Günter Singer , Austrian-American filmmaker and military entrepreneur
- 1968 : Macha Grenon , Canadian actress
- 1968 : Gölä , Swiss rock musician
- 1969 : Álex Aguinaga , Ecuadorian football player
- 1969 : Alina Astafei , German athlete
- 1969 : Stefan Lindl , German essayist and publicist
- 1969 : Joachim of Denmark , Danish Prince
- 1970 : Sven Anton , German volleyball player and coach
- 1970 : Alexander Dobrindt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1970 : Andreas Franik , German journalist
- 1970 : Sascha Gluth , German actor
- 1970 : Magnet , Norwegian musician
- 1970 : Mike Modano , American ice hockey player
- 1970 : Cafu , Brazilian soccer player
- 1971 : Ines Koch , Austrian politician, LAbg
- 1972 : Fiona Coors , German actress
- 1972 : Karl Urban , New Zealand actor
- 1972 : Natascha Pfeiffer , German actress
- 1974 : Bear Grylls , British adventurer
- 1974 : Mahesh Bhupathi , Indian tennis player
- 1975 : Allen Iverson , American basketball player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Jacqueline Akerman , Canadian biathlete and biathlon coach
- 1976 : Necro , American rapper
- 1978 : Mini Andes , Swedish model and actress
- 1979 : Viktor Kaszjuchonak , Belarusian ice hockey player
- 1979 : Anna Torv , Australian actress
- 1980 : Mika Anjō , Japanese badminton player
- 1981 : Kerstin Dietrich , German voice actress, actress and singer
- 1981 : Anna Kournikova , Russian tennis player
- 1982 : Germán Lux , Argentine soccer player
- 1984 : Adnan Ahmed , English-Pakistani soccer player
- 1985 : Xavi Andorrà , Andorran football player
- 1985 : Dejan Lekić , Serbian football player
- 1985 : Charlie Simpson , British musician
- 1986 : Abbos Atoyev , Uzbek boxer
- 1986 : Goran Blažević , Croatian football player
- 1986 : Natalja Ionowa , Russian pop singer
- 1987 : László Sepsi , Romanian football player
- 1988 : Tobias Arwidson , Swedish biathlete
- 1988 : Michael Cera , Canadian actor
- 1988 : Ekaterina Valeryevna Makarova , Russian tennis player
- 1989 : Opoku Agyemang , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1990 : Iggy Azalea , Australian rapper and songwriter
- 1990 : Dominique Kusche , German actress
- 1990 : María Laura Mederos , Venezuelan model
- 1991 : Emily Ratajkowski , American model and actress
- 1991 : Cenk Tosun , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1993 : Emil Bernstorff , British-Danish racing driver
- 1993 : George Ezra , English singer
- 1993 : Jordan Fry , American actor
- 1996 : Ronja Forcher , Austrian actress
- 1996 : Jasper Harris , British actor
Died
Before the 19th century
- 555 : Vigilius , Pope
- 830 : Erkanbert von Minden , first bishop in Minden
- 1048 : Berno von Reichenau , Abbot of Reichenau
- 1066 : Gottschalk der Wende , Abodritic prince and martyr
- 1159 : Robert of Newminster , founder of Newminster Abbey
- 1213 : Lüthold von Aarburg , Bishop of Basel
- 1232 : Lorenz , Bishop of Breslau
- 1250 : Wizlaw I , Prince of Rügen
- 1283 : Robert of Holy Island , Bishop of Durham
- 1296 : Philippe de Beaumanoir , French jurist
- 1316 : Peter Angeli de Pontecorvo , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1329 : Robert I , Robert the Bruce , King of Scotland
- 1334 : Emich I. Count of Nassau-Hadamar
- 1337 : Gwenllian ferch Llywelyn , daughter of the last ruler of an independent whale
- 1337 : Wilhelm III. , Count of Holland
- 1338 : Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere , English nobleman
- 1358 : Ashikaga Takauji , Japanese Shogun
- 1377 : Conrad IV of Maienfels , abbot of the Murrhardt monastery and abbot of Münsterschwarzach
- 1394 : Anne of Bohemia , first royal wife of Richard II of England
- 1396 : Nikolaus von Wiesbaden , Prince-Bishop of Speyer
- 1438 : Barsbay , Sultan of the Mamluks in Egypt
- 1492 : Casimir IV. Andrew , King of Poland
- 1498 : Pierre von Roubaix , French nobleman, lord of Roubaix
- 1498 : Anđeo Zvizdović , Franciscan in medieval Bosnia
- 1510 : Johannes Fischer , auxiliary bishop in Naumburg
- 1621 : Martin Fruwein , one of the most active participants in the Bohemian uprising
- 1632 : Lavinia della Rovere , Princess of Urbino
- 1653 : Ludwig Jungermann , German botanist and doctor
- 1660 : George II Rákóczi , Prince of Transylvania
- 1673 : Eugen Moritz von Savoyen-Carignan , Count of Soissons and French general
- 1689 : Catherine Bellier , French chambermaid and mistress
- 1697 : John Aubrey , British archaeologist
- 1701 : Ferdinand Wilhelm , Duke of Württemberg, German military leader and field marshal
- 1711 : Andreas Ingolstetter , German merchant and hymn poet
- 1738 : Antoine Crozat, marquis du Châtel , French tax collector, financier, entrepreneur and landowner, founder of the Louisiana colony
- 1740 : Maria Elisabeth of Austria , Habsburg princess
- 1754 : Nicolai Eigtved , Danish court builder, architect and interior designer
- 1764 : Sophie Karoline von Brandenburg-Kulmbach , Princess of East Frisia
- 1766 : Paul von Colindres , Spanish Capuchin and Minister General (Superior General) of the Order as a whole
- 1771 : Florian Bahr , German Jesuit and China missionary
- 1778 : Johann Georg Zechner , Austrian organist and composer
- 1799 : Barbara Campanini , Italian ballet dancer
19th century
- 1808 : Johann Jacob Schramm , German organ builder
- 1821 : Louis Claude Marie Richard , French botanist
- 1825 : Karl Gottlob Hausius , German Protestant clergyman and writer
- 1826 : Joseph von Fraunhofer , German optician and physicist, founder of scientific telescope construction, namesake of the Fraunhofer Society
- 1837 : Gotthilf August von Maltitz , German writer
- 1838 : Laure-Adelaide Abrantès , French writer
- 1840 : Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte , French politician and general
- 1840 : Emanuel von Bretfeld zu Kronenburg , Bohemian officer
- 1840 : Friedrich Wilhelm III. , King of Prussia
- 1840 : Gottlieb Ernst August Mehmel , German philosopher
- 1842 : James Barbour , American attorney and politician, Senator, Governor of Virginia, Secretary of War
- 1843 : Friedrich Hölderlin , German poet and lyric poet, tutor and librarian
- 1848 : Heinrich Braendlin , Swiss politician and businessman
- 1854 : Charles Baudin , French admiral
- 1863 : Franz Xaver Gruber , Austrian composer (Silent Night, Holy Night)
- 1871 : Immanuel Bekker , German classical philologist
- 1876 : Josephine von Leuchtenberg , Queen of Sweden
- 1879 : Siegfried Kapper , Czech writer, translator and doctor of Jewish origin
- 1886 : Richard March Hoe , American inventor of the rotary printing press
- 1888 : Edmond Lebœuf , French general, Marshal of France
- 1893 : Edwin Booth , American actor
- 1894 : Hermann Grüneberg , German inventor and entrepreneur
- 1894 : Mulai al-Hassan I , Sultan of the Alawids in Morocco
- 1894 : Rodman M. Price , American politician
- 1899 : Heinrich Christian Horn , German entrepreneur
20th century
1901-1950
- 1904 : Otto von Heinemann , German librarian and historian
- 1909 : Fritz Overbeck , German painter
- 1924 : Ernst von Raben , German officer
- 1926 : Nikolos Cheidze , Georgian politician, President of the National Assembly
- 1927 : Archie Birkin , British motorcycle racer
- 1929 : Clemens Denhardt , German Africa explorer
- 1932 : Emil Paur , Austrian conductor and composer
- 1933 : Ludwig Ihmels , Evangelical Lutheran theologian, regional bishop of Saxony
- 1934 : Nicanor González Méndez , Chilean painter
- 1935 : Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin , Russian botanist and plant breeder
- 1935 : Carl Pauen , German modern pentathlon
- 1935 : Heinrich Welsch , German teacher
- 1937 : Jean Harlow , American actress
- 1937 : Hugo Röhr , German composer
- 1939 : August Kirstein , Austrian architect
- 1945 : Mile Budak , Croatian writer, publicist, politician and diplomat, war criminal
- 1946 : Ted Mellors , British motorcycle racer
1951-2000
- 1951 : Paul Blobel , German architect and SS officer, leader of special commandos and task forces, war criminal
- 1951 : Werner Braune , German lawyer and SS officer, leader of a special unit, war criminal
- 1951 : Erich Naumann , German general of the SS and police, Einsatzgruppenführer, war criminal
- 1951 : Oswald Pohl , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS, head of the SS Economic and Administrative Main Office, perpetrator of the Holocaust, war criminal
- 1951 : Otto Ohlendorf , German general of the SS and police, Einsatzgruppenführer, head of the Reich Security Main Office, war criminal
- 1951 : Georg Schallermair , German concrete worker and member of the SS, report leader in a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp, war criminal
- 1951 : Hans-Theodor Schmidt , German businessman and SS officer, adjutant to the camp commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, war criminal
- 1953 : Pierre Boncompagni , French racing car driver
- 1953 : Harry Puddicombe , Canadian music educator and composer
- 1954 : Alan Turing , British mathematician and cryptanalyst
- 1956 : Julien Benda , French philosopher and writer
- 1958 : Walter Freitag , German politician and trade union functionary, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Chairman of IG Metall and the DGB
- 1964 : Meade Lux Lewis , American musician
- 1965 : Richard Billinger , Austrian writer
- 1966 : Hans Arp , German-French painter, sculptor and poet
- 1967 : Dorothy Parker , American writer
- 1968 : Paul Arendt , German engineer
- 1968 : Dan Duryea , American actor
- 1970 : EM Forster , British narrator
- 1970 : Franz Huth , German pastel painter
- 1970 : Ida Kerkovius , German painter and tapestry weaver
- 1972 : Kurt Müller , German archaeologist
- 1973 : Hermann Arnold , German entrepreneur
- 1976 : Eckart Friedrichson , German actor
- 1976 : Bobby Hackett , American white jazz musician
- 1976 : Charles Moran , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1978 : Ronald George Wreyford Norrish , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1980 : Philip Guston , American painter
- 1980 : Henry Miller , American writer
- 1983 : Daniele Amfitheatrof , Russian-American composer, orchestra director and film composer
- 1983 : Daniel Casriel , American doctor, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- 1983 : Josef Rösing , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1984 : Rudolf Stahl , German field handball player
- 1985 : Georgia Hale , American actress
- 1987 : Humberto Costantini , Argentine writer
- 1987 : Clara Döhring , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1989 : Chico Landi , Brazilian racing driver
- 1991 : Rafael Colón , Dominican singer and composer
- 1991 : Lotte Meyer , German actress
- 1993 : Dražen Petrović , Croatian basketball player
- 1994 : Boutros Raï , Syrian Archbishop in Lebanon
- 1995 : Josef Brinkhues , Bishop of the Old Catholic Church in Germany
- 1996 : Ulrich Koch , German violist
- 1996 : Friedrich von Stülpnagel , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1999 : Paul Oskar Kristeller , German humanism researcher
21st century
- 2001 : Víctor Paz Estenssoro , Bolivian politician, President
- 2003 : Héctor Cabrera , Venezuelan singer and actor
- 2003 : Georges Christoffel Maria Evers , Dutch nursing scientist
- 2004 : Roger Matton , Canadian composer and ethnomusicologist
- 2005 : Ulrich Briefs , German economist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 2006 : Hans Georg Anniès , German printmaker and sculptor
- 2006 : Abū Musʿab az-Zarqāwī , Jordanian Islamist extremist and al-Qaeda terrorist
- 2007 : Michael Hamburger , German-British poet, essayist and translator
- 2008 : Jim McKay , American sports reporter
- 2008 : Dino Risi , Italian film director and screenwriter
- 2008 : Horst Skoff , Austrian professional tennis player
- 2011 : Jorge Semprún , Spanish writer
- 2012 : Phillip Tobias , South African paleoanthropologist and author
- 2012 : Bob Welch , American musician
- 2013 : Max Daunderer , German physician
- 2013 : Pierre Mauroy , French politician
- 2014 : Alan Douglas , American music producer
- 2014 : Ida Schöpfer , Swiss ski racer
- 2015 : Roger Asmussen , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 2015 : Christopher Lee , British actor and singer
- 2016 : Harald Wagner , German theologian
- 2016 : Rod Zimmer , Canadian politician and manager
- 2017 : Angela Hartley Brodie , American pharmacologist
- 2017 : Iris Fischlmayr , Austrian economist
- 2018 : Martin Polke , German industrial physicist
- 2018 : Stefan Weber , Austrian musician
- 2019 : Reto Gloor , Swiss comic artist
- 2019 : Max Rüedi , Swiss painter
- 2021 : Norbert Thines , German football official
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Ludwig Ihmels , German bishop (Protestant)
- Seattle (Chief) Native American (Evangelical: ELCA )
- Name days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Web links
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