May 7th
The May 7 is the 127th day of the Gregorian calendar (128th in leap years ), thus remain still 238 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 973 : . Otto II , co-emperor since 967, after the death of his father I. Otto sole emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
- 1104 : In the Battle of Harran, the Seljuks defeat a united crusader army from the Principality of Antioch and the County of Edessa . It is the first major battle against the newly established states during the First Crusade .
- 1189 : A settlement on the western bank of the Alster , which was previously owned by Count Adolf III. was founded by Schauenburg and Holstein , receives extensive commercial and city-law privileges through an alleged imperial license from Friedrich Barbarossas. This diploma is considered to be Hamburg's founding document .
- 1190 : In the Third Crusade led by Friedrich Barbarossa , a vanguard of the crusaders defeated under Friedrich VI. from Swabia an army of the Rum Seljuks in the battle of Philomelion .
- 1241 : King Wenceslas of Bohemia signed at the Koenigstein the Oberlausitzer border certificate with which the boundaries between the Kingdom of Bohemia belonging Oberlausitz and the possessions of the Bishop of Meissen are defined. Many of the Upper Lusatian towns, which were founded in the course of the high medieval state development, are mentioned here in writing for the first time.
- 1379 : After the initial successes of the Venetians , the Genoese win the sea battle at Pola . Both maritime republics fight for supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean during the Chioggia War .
- 1429 : During the siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years War , the French under Étienne de Vignolles, in the presence of Joan of Arc, conquer the last fortress, Les Tourelles, held by the English .
- 1520 : With the Neubrandenburg house contract , the division of Mecklenburg into Mecklenburg-Güstrow under Albrecht VII and Mecklenburg-Schwerin under Heinrich V is determined. The Duchy of Mecklenburg is still seen as a unified whole.
- 1525 : In the German Peasants' War , insurgents under the leadership of Götz von Berlichingen take the city of Würzburg , the Marienberg fortress resists the rural people.
- 1621 : Imperial troops under Charles Bonaventure de Longueval take the city of Pressburg, held by units of the Transylvanian Prince Gabriel Bethlen , during the Thirty Years' War .
- 1718 : The French colonist Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville founds a city on the Mississippi and names it in honor of Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , La Nouvelle-Orléans , today's New Orleans .
- 1763 : The Pontiac uprising begins with an unsuccessful attack on Fort Detroit , a major revolt by several Indian tribes under Ottawa chief Pontiac against British colonial rule on the Great Lakes.
- 1800 : US President John Adams signs a bill that creates the Indiana Territory as part of the Northwest Territory as the territory of the United States . The law comes into force on July 4th.
- 1809 : The French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte claims in Vienna that Pope Pius VII has ceased to rule as secular ruler, and thus annexes the Papal State .
- 1832 : At the London Conference , Great Britain, France and Russia agree to shape Greece , which was newly created in February with the London Protocol of 1830 , as an independent kingdom and agree with Otto von Wittelsbach as its future ruler on the condition that it is not closed an association with the Kingdom of Bavaria may come. The Ottoman Empire is financially compensated for its loss of territory .
- 1857 : 85 Indian members ( sepoys ) of the British garrison in Merath , British India , refuse to use the new Enfield rifle , whose cartridges are rumored to have processed beef suet and lard. Her harsh punishment two days later leads to the Sepoy Uprising , which will last until 1858.
- 1866 : Ferdinand Cohen-Blind carried out an assassination attempt on Otto von Bismarck on the street Unter den Linden in Berlin in order to avert the threatened fratricidal war against Austria . Bismarck is hardly injured and then disarms the assassin himself. He commits suicide during the night in police custody.
- 1867 : The second London conference begins in London with the participation of representatives of the great powers Great Britain, France, Prussia and Russia. The aim is to stop the Luxembourg crisis between the French Emperor Napoleon III. and to be enclosed with the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck .
- 1875 : The Japanese envoy Enomoto Takeaki signs the Treaty of Saint Petersburg with the Russian government : the island of Sakhalin becomes completely Russian territory. In return, Japan receives all of the Kuril Islands north of the border negotiated in the Treaty of Shimoda in 1855 .
- 1915 : 1195 people die when the British passenger and cargo ship RMS Lusitania is sunk by the German submarine U-20 off the coast of Ireland. Since 128 US nationals are among the fatalities, a diplomatic crisis arises between the German Reich and the United States.
- 1918 : The Central Powers dictate the peace of Bucharest to Romania under the new Prime Minister Alexandru Marghiloman during the First World War . The country allied with the Triple Entente has to withdraw from the First World War and accept territorial cessions: a large part of the Dobruja goes to Bulgaria and some mountain regions to Austria-Hungary . In return, the German occupation of the country ends.
- 1919 : In Versailles , the German delegation receives the draft of the Allied peace treaty to end the First World War . The virtually unchangeable contractual conditions result in the complete resignation of the Scheidemann cabinet in June .
- 1942 : The two-day battle in the Coral Sea in the Pacific War begins south of the Solomon Islands . It is the first of a series of so-called carrier battles in which Japanese and Allied sea units face each other.
- 1945 : At the operational headquarters of the SHAEF in Reims , Colonel General Jodl , Chief of the Wehrmacht Command Staff , signs the unconditional total surrender of the German Wehrmacht with effect from May 8 at 11:01 p.m. Central European Time.
- 1945 : The disempowered German Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring , fleeing from the Red Army at the end of the Second World War, was taken prisoner by the 7th US Army in Pinzgau in Salzburg .
- 1953 : In the GDR , the Soviet ruler Josef Stalin , who died in March, is honored by naming Stalinstadt . After the de-Stalinization , the place was given the name Eisenhüttenstadt in 1961 .
- 1954 : The surrender of the French garrison Điện Biên Phủ under Christian Marie de Castries seals the defeat of the French troops against the Việt Minh under Võ Nguyên Giáp in the battle of Điện Biên Phủ and ushers in the end of the Indochina War .
- 1984 : Peter-Jürgen Boock , ex-member of the Red Army parliamentary group , is sentenced in Stuttgart-Stammheim - among other things for his involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Hanns Martin Schleyer - to three times life plus 15 years imprisonment.
- 1989 : In the DDR find local elections held. Civil rights activists can prove electoral fraud, and the protest against the rigged elections was an important trigger for the events of autumn 1989 .
- 1995 : In the second round of the elections for the French president , Jacques Chirac from the Rassemblement pour la République ( RPR ) wins against the socialist Lionel Jospin with 52.64% of the votes cast .
- 1998 : In a referendum in London , a majority votes in favor of the establishment of a Greater London Authority consisting of an Assembly of Representatives and a Mayor for the Greater London region .
- 1999 : The German Bundestag decides on “dual citizenship” : Children of foreign parents have to choose one nationality up to their 23rd birthday.
- 1999 : During the Kosovo war , the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was hit by NATO bombs, four people died and around 20 were injured.
- 1999 : After almost a year of civil war , the leader of the rebel army, Ansumané Mané , takes over the office of President of Guinea-Bissau from the ousted João Bernardo Vieira , but hands over the office to Malam Bacai Sanhá just seven days later .
- 2004 : Constitutional amendments adopted surprisingly quickly in Turkey are intended to increase the chances of negotiations regarding future EU accession . Among other things, it abolishes the death penalty in all cases.
- 2009 : At the founding assembly in Prague, the European Union seals an " Eastern Partnership " with the states of Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine and Belarus .
- 2012 : Victor Ponta ( PSD ) is elected Prime Minister of Romania .
economy
- 1259 : The Cologne Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden gives the city of Cologne , the staple right . All goods must now be offered to the city's citizens for three days, including those transported on the Rhine . As a result, the port of Mülheim benefits from circumventing this obligation.
- 1850 : The Swiss Federal Assembly enacts the first Federal Coin Act, according to which the franc , divided into 100 cents, becomes the single currency in Switzerland .
- 1857 : start in Stuttgart Ernst stems and Karl Ziller a cocoa - and chocolate factory , the products under the brand name Eszet manufactures.
- 1927 : The German Otto Ernst Meyer founds the Brazilian airline Varig , which will fly nationally with a Dornier Wal from June 15 and also internationally from August.
- 1946 : Morita Akio and Ibuka Masaru found the communications industry company Tōkyō Tsūshin Kōgyō Kabushiki-gaisha in Tokyo , which became world-famous in 1958 under the name Sony .
- 1998 : Daimler-Benz AG and Chrysler Corporation , represented by Jürgen Schrempp and Robert Eaton , announce their merger to form DaimlerChrysler .
science and technology
- 558 : The very flat dome of Hagia Sophia collapses in an earthquake in Constantinople . It will be rebuilt in the following years.
- 1895 : History of radio : The Russian physicist Alexander Popow demonstrates the possibility of transmitting and receiving electrical vibrations.
- 1925 : The Deutsches Museum is opened with a big party on the Coal Island in Munich , which for this reason is named Museum Island . Gerhart Hauptmann wrote the piece Festaktus for the opening of the Deutsches Museum in Munich especially for the occasion .
- 1963 : The civilian communications satellite Telstar 2 is launched into orbit by a Delta-B launcher . It replaces the decommissioned Telstar 1 spacecraft .
- 1964 : During a rocket demonstration by Gerhard Zucker for the purpose of transporting mail on the Hasselkopf in Braunlage, there is an accident that kills three people. This accident is a welcome opportunity that it independent missile tests of the Hermann Oberth Society of and Berthold Seliger research and development company mbH to ban because of fears that these companies could develop under civilian camouflage military technology.
- 1992 : The US space shuttle Endeavor takes off from the Cape Canaveral spaceport on its maiden flight, the space shuttle mission STS-49 .
Culture
- 1776 : The world premiere of the Singspiel The Barber of Seville by Friedrich Ludwig Benda based on the play Le Barbier de Séville by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais takes place. The libretto is by Gustav Friedrich Großmann .
- 1791 : With August Wilhelm Iffland's play Die Jäger , the Weimar Court Theater , founded by Grand Duke Carl August , opens in the Komödienhaus of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
- 1824 : Ludwig van Beethoven , completely deaf, conducts the world premiere of his 9th symphony together with Michael Umlauf in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna . The vocal parts are performed by Henriette Sontag (soprano), Caroline Unger (alto), Anton Haizinger (tenor) and Joseph Seipelt (baritone). The work provokes frenetic cheers from the audience.
- 1848 : The national satirical magazine Kladderadatsch by Heinrich Albert Hofmann and David Kalisch appears for the first time in Berlin. The print run of 4000 copies is sold out on the same day.
- 1860 : The comic opera Rita ou Le mari battu by Gaetano Donizetti , composed in 1841, is premiered posthumously at the Opéra-Comique in Paris. The original French libretto was written by Gustave Vaëz . The title role will be sung by Caroline Lefèbvre Faure.
- 1907 : Carl Hagenbeck opens a zoo in Hamburg where wild animals are kept outdoors. The Hagenbeck zoo becomes a model for other zoos when it comes to dispensing with cages.
- 1926 : The premiere of the opera Les Malheurs d'Orphée by Darius Milhaud takes place at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
- 1949 : Hans Werner Henze's opera for actors The wonder theater is premiered in the theater of the city of Heidelberg . The libretto is by Adolf Friedrich von Schack based on a text by Miguel de Cervantes .
- 1953 : The Shubert Theater on Broadway in New York premieres the musical Can-Can by Cole Porter .
- 2005 : In Herford by the architect is Frank Gehry -designed Museum of Contemporary Art and Design Marta Herford opened. The artistic director is the Belgian curator Jan Hoet .
society
- 1664 : The first big multi-day festival of Louis XIV and his court begins in the Palace of Versailles and lasts until May 14th.
- 2001 : Ronald Biggs , who was involved in the 1963 mail train robbery , returns to the UK and surrenders to the authorities.
religion
- 1274 : The Second Council of Lyons convened by Pope Gregory X is opened. It deals with a possible ending of the Eastern Schism through a union of the Roman Catholic with the Eastern Church , another crusade and church reforms. Around 400 churchmen take part in the council .
- 1342 : After a twelve-day vacancy , the conclave elects Pierre Roger to succeed Benedict XII. to the Pope , who took the name Clement VI. gives.
- 1909 : Pope Pius X commissioned the Jesuits to found the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
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- 2003 : Pope John Paul II appoints a woman to head a papal academy for the first time in the history of the Holy See ; Letizia Pani Ermini, specialist in medieval archeology, is to head the Academy of Archeology.
Disasters
- 1840 : The Great Natchez Tornado kills 317 people in Natchez , Mississippi. It is the second worst tornado in the history of the United States.
- 1842 : During the fire in Hamburg , which began on May 5th, the Petrikirche burned down, as did the Gertrudenkapelle . The fire cannot be brought under control until the next day.
- 1902 : The eruption of the Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent claims 1680 lives. The outbreak falls in the middle of the harbingers of the outbreak of the Montagne Pelée on the neighboring island of Martinique .
- 2002 : flight 6136 of China Northern Airlines from Beijing crashes just before the arrival in Dalian , Liaoning , People's Republic of China, into the sea. All 112 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1934 : The pearl of Allah is found by a diver in a giant clam off the Philippine island of Palawan .
Sports
- 1986 : In the final of the European Champions' Cup defeated Steaua Bucharest in Seville to Barcelona with 2: 0 on penalties, making it the first Eastern European winner of this competition; Steaua's goalkeeper Helmuth Duckadam saves all four Barcelona penalties.
- 2006 : In London, the Highbury , home of Arsenal FC , is closed and subsequently demolished.
- 2010 : In front of a record crowd of 77,803 spectators, the German national ice hockey team defeated the USA 2-1 after extra time in the opening game of the 74th men's ice hockey world championship in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1328 : Ludwig VI. , Duke of Upper Bavaria and Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg
- 1429 : Giovanni Pontano , Italian scholar, humanist
- 1480 : Philipp von der Pfalz , Bishop of Freising and Bishop of Naumburg
- 1487 : Galeazzo Flavio Capella , Italian writer and statesman
- 1488 : Johann von der Pfalz , Prince-Bishop of Regensburg
- 1530 : Louis I. de Bourbon , Prince of Condé, French general
- 1586 : Francesco IV Gonzaga , eldest son of Duke Vincenzo I.
- 1641 : Eberhard Anckelmann , German Protestant theologian, linguist and orientalist
- 1651 : Giuseppe Archinto , Italian cardinal
- 1662 : Johann Volkamer , German medic and botanist
- 1688 : Joseph I. Esterházy de Galantha , Hungarian nobleman and Habsburg master councilor
- 1696 : Eleonore Wilhelmine von Anhalt-Köthen , Princess of Saxe-Merseburg and Duchess of Saxe-Weimar
- 1700 : Gerard van Swieten , Austrian medic
18th century
- 1711 : David Hume , British philosopher, economist and historian from Scotland
- 1712 : Frederik Winter , German medic
- 1719 : Gottfried Schütze , German pedagogue, librarian and theologian
- 1724 : Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser , Austrian field marshal
- 1735 : Ludwig Benjamin Ouvrier , German Protestant theologian
- 1742 : Johann Christian Hendel , German printer and publisher
- 1745 : Carl Stamitz , German violinist and composer
- 1748 : Olympe de Gouges , French suffragette and revolutionary
- 1751 : Isabelle de Montolieu , Swiss writer
- 1754 : Joseph Joubert , French essayist and moralist
- 1756 : Philipp Jakob Scheffauer , German sculptor
- 1757 : Ludwig Matthias Nathanael Gottlieb von Brauchitsch , Prussian officer
- 1759 : François-Auguste Parseval-Grandmaison , French writer
- 1760 : Johann Gottlob Worbs , German theologian and historian
- 1763 : Józef Antoni Poniatowski , Polish general, Marshal of France
- 1764 : Therese Huber , German writer
- 1767 : Friederike von Prussia , Duchess of York and Albany
- 1771 : Johann Jakob Humann , Bishop of Mainz
- 1774 : William Bainbridge , American commodore in the US Navy
- 1774 : Francis Beaufort , Irish-British admiral and hydrographer
- 1776 : Dániel Berzsenyi , Hungarian poet
- 1778 : Amalie von Béguelin , German salonnière
- 1779 : Johann Georg Florschütz , German Protestant clergyman
- 1797 : Ludwig Oettinger , German mathematician
19th century
1801-1850
- 1807 : Christian Friedrich Ehrlich , German composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1807 : Ignác Ondříček , Czech violinist and conductor
- 1809 : Josef von Löschner , Austrian medic
- 1812 : Robert Browning , British poet and playwright
- 1815 : Angelo Baroffio , Swiss lawyer and politician
- 1818 : Adolf Widmann , German writer
- 1819 : Otto Wilhelm von Struve , German-Russian astronomer
- 1825 : Henry Squires , American singer
- 1831 : Richard Norman Shaw , British architect
- 1832 : Carl Gottfried Neumann , German mathematician
- 1833 : Johannes Brahms , German composer
- 1834 : John Herbert Turner , Canadian politician
- 1836 : Euphrosyne Parepa-Rosa , British opera singer
- 1837 : Karl Mauch , German Africa explorer
- 1839 : Ludwig Mond , German-British chemist and industrialist
- 1840 : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , Russian composer
- 1841 : Gustave Le Bon , French doctor and sociologist
- 1847 : Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1851-1900
- 1851 : Adolf von Harnack , German Protestant theologian and church historian
- 1855 : Oskar von Miller , German engineer, founder of the Deutsches Museum
- 1857 : Jan Herben , Czech writer and publisher, journalist and politician
- 1861 : Julius von Bernuth , German major general
- 1861 : Rabindranath Tagore , Bengali poet, painter and social reformer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
- 1865 : Alfred Edward Woodley Mason , British novelist
- 1867 : Władysław Reymont , Polish writer, Nobel Prize winner
- 1868 : Stanisław Przybyszewski , Polish writer
- 1870 : Hans Dominik , German officer in the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon
- 1874 : Emil Felden , German Protestant theologian and writer, pacifist politician, MdL, MdR
- 1874 : Heinrich Hoffmann , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1874 : Ilmari Kianto , Finnish writer
- 1875 : William Hoyt , American pole vaulter, Olympic champion
- 1878 : Isabelle d'Orléans, duchesse de Guise , French monarchist
- 1878 : Karl Gustav Vollmoeller , German poet, playwright, automobile and aircraft pioneer, cosmopolitan
- 1880 : Karl Bleyle , Austrian musician and composer
- 1880 : Oskar Perron , German mathematician
- 1880 : Karl von Roques , German general, war criminal
- 1881 : Jonathan Petersen , Greenlandic composer, songwriter, poet, writer, linguist, organist and university professor
- 1882 : Emmerich David , German clergyman, vicar general in Cologne
- 1882 : Willem Elsschot , Belgian writer
- 1883 : Virgilio Ranzato , Italian composer
- 1884 : Hannah von Mettal , Czech literary translator
- 1887 : Jacob Walcher , German communist politician and trade unionist
- 1888 : Hermann Fränkel , German-American classical philologist
- 1890 : Huug de Groot , Dutch football player
- 1892 : Siegfried Bernfeld , Austrian reform pedagogue, Marxist, psychoanalyst, Zionist
- 1892 : Archibald MacLeish , American poet and politician
- 1892 : Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslav partisan leader, politician and head of state
- 1894 : George A. Drew , Canadian politician and diplomat
- 1894 : Riley Puckett , American country singer
- 1896 : Kathleen McKane Godfree , British tennis player
- 1896 : Wilhelm Kohlbach , German general
- 1897 : Walter Claus-Oehler , German football player
- 1899 : Friedrich Wilhelm Heinz , German journalist, writer and intelligence officer
- 1900 : Leon Abbey , American jazz violinist and band leader
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Gary Cooper , American actor
- 1901 : Marcel Poot , Belgian composer and professor
- 1901 : Walther Wüst , German curator of the Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutsches Ahnenerbe e. V.
- 1902 : Gladys Pearl Baker , American film editor
- 1903 : Max Jüngling , German politician, MdL
- 1905 : Bumble Bee Slim , American blues musician
- 1908 : Leo Sternbach , American chemist
- 1908 : Max Grundig , German founder of the electronics company Grundig AG
- 1909 : Edwin Herbert Land , American physicist
- 1909 : Hildegard Joos , Austrian painter
- 1910 : Otto Andersson , Swedish national soccer player
- 1910 : Heinz Winkler , Minister for Development of the GDR
- 1911 : Ishirō Honda , Japanese director
- 1912 : Herbert Agricola , German painter, graphic artist and poster artist
- 1912 : Heinz-Wilhelm Dünhaupt , German chess player
- 1912 : Sitson Ma , Chinese violin virtuoso and composer
- 1913 : Kurt Kauter , German writer
- 1914 : Andreas Kupfer , German football player
- 1914 : Shibaki Yoshiko , Japanese writer
- 1916 : Siegfried F. Erdmann , German engineer (supersonic aerodynamics and sensor technology) and university professor
- 1916 : Alejo Benedicto Gilligan , Argentine bishop
- 1917 : David Tomlinson , British actor
- 1917 : Harald Schaub , German artist, painter
- 1918 : Kurt Anclam , German politician
- 1918 : Claude Farell , Austrian actress
- 1918 : Argeliers León , Cuban musicologist and educator, folklorist and composer
- 1919 : La Esterella , Belgian singer
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- 1919 : Eva Perón , Argentine politician
- 1920 : William Charles Anderson , American science fiction writer
- 1920 : Jean Bassoul , Lebanese Archbishop
- 1921 : Georges Harris , Belgian racing driver
- 1921 : Gaston Rébuffat , French mountaineer
- 1922 : Dominique Aubier , French writer
- 1923 : Anne Baxter , American actress
- 1924 : Marjorie Boulton , British literary scholar
- 1924 : Arno Lustiger , German historian and writer
- 1924 : KV Varadaraj , Indian football player
- 1925 : Wolf Schneider , German journalist, non-fiction author and language critic
1926-1950
- 1926 : Herbie Steward , American jazz saxophonist
- 1926 : Thomas Bowles , American baritone saxophone player
- 1926 : Curtis Hobock , American country and rockabilly musician
- 1927 : Joseph Agassi , Israeli academic
- 1927 : Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , British writer
- 1927 : Elisabeth Söderström , Swedish opera and concert singer (soprano)
- 1928 : Michael Croissant , German sculptor and artist
- 1929 : Johanna Braun , German writer
- 1929 : Osvaldo Dragún , Argentine playwright
- 1930 : Horst Bienek , German writer
- 1930 : Anatoly Ivanovich Lukyanov , Soviet politician
- 1931 : Teresa Brewer , American singer
- 1932 : Pete Domenici , American Senator
- 1932 : Robert Webster , American virologist
- 1933 : Axel Corti , Austrian director
- 1933 : Martin Metz , Romanian-German church musician and composer
- 1933 : Nexhmije Pagarusha , Albanian singer
- 1933 : Johnny Unitas , American football player
- 1934 : Günter Topmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1935 : Friedrich-Adolf Jahn , German politician
- 1936 : Jürgen Höhne , German amateur actor
- 1936 : Tony O'Reilly , Irish rugby player and entrepreneur
- 1936 : Jimmy Ruffin , American soul singer
- 1936 : Hans Wiesen , German politician
- 1937 : Marco Augusto Quiroa , Guatemalan painter and writer
- 1939 : José Antonio Abreu , Venezuelan composer
- 1939 : Sidney Altman , Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1939 : Rudolf Bayer , German professor
- 1939 : Marita Böhme , German actress
- 1939 : Volker Braun , German writer
- 1939 : Ruud Lubbers , Dutch Prime Minister
- 1939 : WD Valgardson , Canadian writer
- 1940 : Dorit Zinn , German writer
- 1942 : Pietro Farina , Italian bishop
- 1942 : Justin Hinds , Jamaican singer
- 1942 : Gerhard Polt , German cabaret artist
- 1944 : Sonja Bernadotte , German manager, wife of Count Lennart Bernadotte
- 1945 : Christy Moore , Irish singer, musician and songwriter
- 1945 : Max Müller , German handball player
- 1946 : Bill Danoff , American songwriter and singer
- 1946 : Bill Kreutzmann , American rock musician, drummer
- 1946 : Carmen Thomas , German journalist, author and communication expert
- 1946 : Thelma Houston , American R&B and disco singer
- 1947 : Hans Peter Adamski , German painter and graphic artist
- 1947 : Gary R. Herbert , American politician
- 1947 : Emmanuel Krivine , French conductor and violinist
- 1948 : Michel Dubois , French racing car driver
- 1948 : Christian Waber , Swiss politician
- 1948 : Holger Astrup , German politician
- 1948 : Ingrid Pieper-von Heiden , German politician
- 1948 : Jürgen Seidel , German politician
- 1948 : Pete Wingfield , British record producer, keyboard player and journalist
- 1949 : Bernhard von Mutius , German philosopher, social scientist
- 1949 : Florian Gerster , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1949 : Keith , American singer
- 1949 : Lia Roberts , Romanian politician
- 1949 : Pierre Sané , Senegalese international lawyer
- 1950 : Anna Elisabeth Achatz , Austrian farmer and politician
- 1950 : John Coates , Australian lawyer and sports official
- 1950 : Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner , Austrian entrepreneur
- 1950 : Bernd Tauber , German actor
1951-1975
- 1951 : Bernie Marsden , British guitarist
- 1952 : Stanley Dickens , Swedish racing car driver
- 1953 : María de Fátima Geraldes , Dominican pianist
- 1953 : Robert Hunger-Bühler , Swiss actor
- 1954 : Amy Heckerling , American director
- 1954 : Heinzpeter Hempelmann , German theologian and philosopher
- 1955 : Ole Christensen , Danish politician, MEP
- 1955 : Fernando Villalona , Dominican merengue singer
- 1955 : Gabi Zimmer , German politician
- 1955 : Axel Zwingenberger , German jazz pianist
- 1956 : Jan Peter Balkenende , Dutch politician and Prime Minister
- 1956 : Anne Dudley , British composer and pop musician
- 1957 : Karen Lynne Deal , American conductor
- 1957 : Ramona Leiß , German television presenter
- 1958 : Michael Formanek , American jazz bassist and composer
- 1958 : Christine Lieberknecht , German politician
- 1958 : Josef Schlickenrieder , German ice hockey player
- 1958 : Marty Willson-Piper , British songwriter, musician and poet
- 1959 : Horst Eckert , German author
- 1959 : Bruno Ilien , French racing car driver
- 1959 : Tamara E. Jernigan , American astronaut
- 1960 : Almudena Grandes , Spanish writer
- 1960 : Eric Lobron , German chess player
- 1960 : Hisashi Nozawa , Japanese writer
- 1960 : Wolfgang Oswald , German ice hockey player
- 1961 : Phil Campbell , British guitarist and musician
- 1961 : Konstanze Gerhard , German homosexual activist
- 1961 : Hans-Peter Bartels , German politician
- 1961 : Robert Spano , American conductor, pianist and composer
- 1961 : Mihaela Stănculescu-Vosganian , Romanian composer
- 1962 : Piero Liatti , Italian rally driver
- 1962 : Monika Martin , Austrian singer
- 1962 : Georg Zeitblom , German musician and performance artist
- 1963 : Christian Ahrendt , German politician and lawyer
- 1963 : Utz Claassen , German manager
- 1964 : István Hiller , Hungarian politician and historian
- 1964 : Giuseppe Iachini , Italian football player and coach
- 1965 : Henrik Andersen , Danish football player
- 1965 : Norman Whiteside , Northern Irish football player
- 1965 : Owen Hart , Canadian wrestler
- 1966 : Andrea Tafi , Italian racing cyclist
- 1966 : Jörg Neun , German soccer player
- 1967 : Oliver Anthofer , Austrian disabled athlete
- 1967 : Martin Bryant , Australian mass murderer
- 1967 : Michael H.-J. Lips , Swiss curling player
- 1968 : Florian Schwarthoff , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1968 : Tommy Wosch , German radio presenter
- 1968 : Traci Lords , American actress
- 1969 : Marie Bäumer , German actress
- 1969 : Eagle-Eye Cherry , Swedish singer
- 1970 : Christoph Marzi , German writer
- 1970 : Ignas Staškevičius , Lithuanian entrepreneur
- 1971 : Harald Christian Strand Nilsen , Norwegian ski racer
- 1971 : Ivan Sergei , American actor
- 1973 : Tomas Antonelius , Swedish national soccer player
- 1973 : Jürgen Hasler , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1973 : Kristian Lundin , Swedish music producer and composer
- 1973 : Paolo Savoldelli , Italian racing cyclist
- 1973 : Michael Daub , German moderator and speaker
- 1974 : Ben Bostrom , American motorcycle racer
- 1974 : Lynden David Hall , British singer and songwriter
- 1974 : Breckin Meyer , American actor
- 1975 : Árni Gautur Arason , Icelandic football goalkeeper
- 1975 : Michael Kretschmer , German politician
- 1975 : Nicole Sheridan , American porn actress
- 1975 : Sigfús Sigurðsson , Icelandic handball player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Thomas Biagi , Italian racing car driver
- 1976 : Ajelet Schaked , Israeli politician
- 1976 : Borja Schwember , German comedian and web video producer ( Doktor Allwissend )
- 1976 : Norman Simon , German racing car driver
- 1976 : Jana Voosen , German actress
- 1977 : Roman Týce , Czech football player
- 1978 : Spend Abazi , Danish boxer
- 1978 : James Carter , American athlete
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- 1978 : Shawn Marion , American basketball player
- 1979 : Gareth Cooper , Welsh rugby player
- 1979 : Katie Douglas , American basketball player
- 1980 : Susanna Karawansky , German politician
- 1983 : Matthew Amado , Canadian-Portuguese ice hockey player
- 1983 : Nadja Bobyleva , Russian-German actress
- 1983 : Marco Galiazzo , Italian archer
- 1983 : Arnhild Holmlimo , Norwegian handball player
- 1983 : Garry O'Connor , Scottish soccer player
- 1983 : Tomasz Pochwała , Polish ski jumper and Nordic combined athlete
- 1983 : Julio dos Santos , Paraguayan soccer player
- 1984 : Alexander Biber , German politician (CDU) and mayor
- 1985 : Bartłomiej Niedziela , Polish football player
- 1985 : Tonje Nøstvold , Norwegian handball player
- 1985 : Milan Purović , Serbian football player
- 1986 : Zlatko Janjić , German-Bosnian football player
- 1986 : Yevgeny Sergeyevich Voronov , Russian basketball player
- 1987 : Svyatlana Kudselitsch , Belarusian long-distance and obstacle runner
- 1987 : Jérémy Ménez , French football player
- 1987 : Jörn Neumeister , German soccer player
- 1987 : Stefan Read , Canadian ski jumper
- 1988 : Nathan Burns , Australian soccer player
- 1988 : Eino Puri , Estonian football player
- 1990 : Samira Jakobs , German voice actress
- 1991 : Emir Dilaver , Austrian soccer player
- 1991 : Daniel Juncadella , Spanish racing driver
- 1991 : Élise Pellegrin , French-Maltese ski racer
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- 1992 : Ryan Harrison , American tennis player
- 1992 : Alexander Ludwig , Canadian actor
- 1993 : Hannah Keane , American soccer player
- 1993 : Yoon Sohui , South Korean actress
- 1994 : Kevin Herbst , German handball player
- 1994 : Taylor Wilson , American nuclear researcher
- 1996 : Lee Sang-hyeok , South Korean e-athlete
- 1997 : Darja Sergejewna Kassatkina , Russian tennis player
- 1998 : Katrin Hirtl-Stanggaßinger , German ski racer
- 1999 : Cassidi Hoag , Canadian actress
Died
Before the 16th century
- 685 : Marwan I , Umayyad Caliph
- 721 : John of Beverley , Bishop of York
- 747 : Petronax , abbot in the Monte Cassino monastery
- 973 : Otto I , "the great", East Franconian king and first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1156 : Ratibor I , Duke of Pomerania-Schlawe-Stolp
- 1166 : William I , King of Sicily
- 1202 : Hamelin de Warenne , English nobleman
- 1205 : Ladislaus III. , King of Hungary
- 1231 : Beatrix II , Countess Palatine of Burgundy
- 1234 : Otto VII , Duke of Merania, as Otto II Count Palatine of Burgundy and Margrave of Istria
- 1234 : Cyril of Constantinople , Byzantine Carmelite, possibly Prior of the Carmel on the Carmel Mountains
- 1243 : Hugh d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel , English magnate
- 1244 : Richard von San Germano , Italian public notary, financial administrator and chronicler
- 1297 : Simon d'Armentières , Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1306 : Primislaus , Duke of Ratibor
- 1369 : Simon II. De Bucy , first President of the French Parliament
- 1398 : Hermann von Goch , Bergischer nobleman, cleric and businessman in Cologne, beheaded for robbery
- 1429 : Friedrich Theis von Thesingen , German bishop of Lavant and of Chiemsee
- 1440 : Frederick the Peaceful , German nobleman, Margrave of Meissen, Landgrave of Thuringia
- 1462 : Pasquale Malipiero , 66th Doge of Venice
- 1482 : Diether von Isenburg , Archbishop of Mainz
- 1491 : Benoît de Montferrand , Bishop of Coutances and Lausanne
16th to 18th century
- 1508 : Nil Sorski , Russian starling
- 1523 : Antonio Grimani , 76th Doge of Venice
- 1523 : Franz von Sickingen , leader of the Rhenish and Swabian knighthood in the Palatinate revolt
- 1539 : María de Salinas , Spanish nobleman and lady-in-waiting of Catherine of Aragón
- 1571 : Anton van den Wyngaerde , Flemish vedute painter and cartographer
- 1586 : George II , Duke of Brieg and Wohlau
- 1605 : Johann Hermann , German medic
- 1617 : David Fabricius , theologian, amateur astronomer and cartographer
- 1640 : Heinrich von Ryssel , Leipzig councilor and trader
- 1650 : Anton von Ditfurth , member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- 1650 : Kanō Naonobu , Japanese painter
- 1674 : Heinrich Wolter von Streversdorf , auxiliary bishop in Cologne and Mainz
- 1682 : Fyodor III. , Tsar of Russia
- 1718 : Maria Beatrice d'Este , Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
- 1719 : Sebastiano Bombelli , Venetian painter
- 1728 : Rosa Venerini , Italian Catholic nun and saint
- 1736 : John Weldon , English composer and organist
- 1746 : Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet , British politician and editor of Shakespeare's works
- 1750 : Gustav Philipp Mörl , German Protestant clergyman and librarian
- 1758 : Caroline von Erbach-Fürstenau , Duchess and Regent of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- 1766 : Thomas Arthur de Lally-Tollendal , French general
- 1769 : Franz Gerhard Wegeler , German medic
- 1776 : Maria Anna of Bavaria , Margravine of Baden
- 1793 : Pietro Nardini , Italian composer and violinist
- 1795 : Antoine Quentin Fouquier-Tinville , French revolutionary
- 1800 : Niccolò Piccinni , Italian classical music composer
19th century
- 1801 : Franz Karl Kressel von Gualtenberg , Bohemian civil servant
- 1803 : Heinrich Beck , German actor and playwright
- 1804 : Lorenzo Quaglio , Italian painter and architect
- 1804 : Johann Georg Schulthess , Swiss clergyman
- 1806 : Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth , Danish general of the artillery
- 1817 : Étienne André François de Paule Fallot de Beaumont de Beaupré , French bishop
- 1818 : Leopold Koželuh , Bohemian composer
- 1822 : Johann Emanuel Samuel Uhlig , stocking weaver and organist
- 1825 : Antonio Salieri , composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1825 : Johann Gabriel von Chasteler , Austrian general
- 1836 : Norbert Burgmüller , German composer
- 1839 : José María Heredia , Cuban poet
- 1840 : Caspar David Friedrich , German Romantic painter
- 1845 : Georg von Hofmann , Austrian playwright and librettist
- 1848 : Konrad Heinrich Wolf , German clergyman
- 1849 : Gutle Rothschild , wife of the banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- 1864 : Simon Karsten , Dutch classical philologist
- 1873 : Salmon P. Chase , American politician
- 1874 : Jacques Adolphe Charles Rovers , Dutch classical philologist and historian
- 1876 : Franz Graf von Pocci , German draftsman, etcher, writer and musician
- 1879 : Charles De Coster , Belgian writer
- 1883 : Gustav Wilhelm Teschner , German composer
- 1886 : Jenny Bürde-Ney , German singer
- 1887 : Adolph Bermpohl , German navigation teacher, DGzRS founder
- 1895 : Alexander von Pape , royal Prussian colonel general of the infantry
- 1897 : Henri d'Orléans, duc d'Aumale , French general, historian and art collector
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Fritze Bollmann , Magdeburg original
- 1903 : Émile Durand , French composer and music teacher
- 1904 : Peter Hille , German writer
- 1908 : Ludovic Halévy , French playwright
- 1909 : Joachim Andersen , Danish flautist, conductor and composer
- 1915 : Anne Shymer , American chemist
- 1917 : Charles Johnson Brooke , second White Raja of Sarawak
- 1921 : Max Buchner , German explorer
- 1924 : Dimityr Blagoew , Bulgarian politician and Marxist theorist
- 1924 : Adolf Germann , Swiss politician
- 1925 : Teuvo Pakkala , Finnish writer
- 1928 : Aleksandr Spendiarjan , Armenian composer
- 1929 : Albert Anselmi , Italian-American hit man
- 1932 : Roméo Beaudry , Canadian composer, music critic, producer and publisher
- 1934 : Charly Jellen , Austrian automobile racing driver and entrepreneur
- 1936 : Emil Kränzlein , German manufacturer and Privy Councilor of Commerce
- 1937 : Ernst A. Lehmann , German airship captain and zeppelin builder
- 1937 : Edward W. Naylor , English organist, composer and music teacher
- 1937 : Alfonso de Silva , Peruvian composer
- 1938 : Octavian Goga , Romanian poet, playwright and politician
- 1941 : James George Frazer , English ethnologist
- 1942 : Felix Weingartner , Austrian conductor, composer and pianist
- 1943 : Keith Birlem , American football player and soldier
- 1943 : Jakob Hausheer , Swiss Protestant theologian, linguist and university professor
- 1943 : Heinrich Lüders , German orientalist and Indologist
- 1945 : Ludwig Anton Adlon , German hotelier
- 1946 : Hans Löscher , German writer and educator
1951-2000
- 1951 : Warner Baxter , American actor
- 1952 : Alfred La Liberté , Canadian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1956 : Josef Hoffmann , Austrian architect and designer, co-founder of the Wiener Werkstätte
- 1957 : Wilhelm Filchner , German geophysicist and explorer
- 1958 : Mihkel Lüdig , Estonian composer
- 1961 : Jakob Kaiser , German politician, resistance fighter against National Socialism, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1962 : Josef Flegl , Czech composer, cellist and music teacher
- 1963 : Theodore von Kármán , Hungarian-American pioneer of modern aerodynamics and aerospace research
- 1965 : Johannes Brüns , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1966 : Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish aphorist
- 1969 : Rudolf Egger , Austrian ancient historian and archaeologist
- 1970 : Wilhelm Andreae , German entrepreneur
- 1970 : Willi Brundert , German resistance fighter and local politician
- 1970 : Carlos Estrada , Uruguayan composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1971 : Leo Schwering , German historian, philologist, high school teacher and politician, MdL
- 1972 : Lino Fayen , Venezuelan entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1972 : Ralph Eugene Meatyard , American photographer
- 1973 : Walter von Keudell , German forester, lawyer and politician
- 1973 : Chris Tuerlinx , Belgian racing car driver
- 1973 : Wolfgang von Welck , German diplomat
- 1974 : Thomas Roch Agniswami , Bishop of Kottar
- 1975 : Rex Waite , British Air Force officer
- 1977 : Hendrik Gerard Bungenberg de Jong , Dutch chemist
- 1980 : Adolf Katz , German SS officer and politician during the Nazi era
- 1981 : Oskar Vivell , German doctor
- 1982 : Claudio Barrientos , Chilean boxer
- 1983 : Peter Edel , German graphic artist and writer
- 1983 : Roger Camuzet , French entrepreneur, politician and racing car driver
- 1983 : József Romhányi , Hungarian screenwriter, librettist and poet
- 1984 : Gerhard Dabel , German writer and head of the Kinderlandverschickung service at the Reich Youth Leadership
- 1985 : Dawn Addams , British actress
- 1985 : Luis Arenal Bastar , Mexican artist
- 1986 : Robert A. Lovett , American politician
- 1987 : Else Meidner , German graphic artist and painter
- 1987 : Miroslav Venhoda , Czech choir conductor
- 1988 : Herbert Arndt , German lawyer and judge
- 1988 : Conny Freundorfer , German table tennis player
- 1988 : Yamamoto Kenkichi , Japanese literary scholar
- 1989 : Werner Hahlweg , German military historian and military scientist
- 1990 : Andrew of Yugoslavia , brother of the last king of Yugoslavia
- 1991 : Hans Bender , German psychologist
- 1991 : Wolfgang Reichmann , German actor
- 1991 : István Zsolt , Hungarian football referee
- 1991 : Kurt Zube , German author, publisher
- 1992 : Hans Oesch , Swiss musicologist
- 1993 : Hap Sharp , American racing car driver
- 1994 : Ataka Eiichi , Japanese entrepreneur
- 1994 : Chaim Bar-Lew , Israeli Chief of Staff
- 1995 : María Luisa Bemberg , Argentine screenwriter, film and theater director
- 1997 : Siegfried Theodor Arndt , German pastor
- 1998 : Allan McLeod Cormack , South African-American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1999 : Shalom Ben-Chorin , Israeli writer
- 2000 : Douglas Fairbanks Junior , American actor
21st century
- 2001 : Elisabeth Reichelt , German chamber singer and coloratura soprano
- 2002 : Horst Waffenschmidt , German politician
- 2004 : Julia Boenisch , German journalist and author
- 2004 : Volker Gwinner , German composer and organist
- 2005 : Tristan Egolf , American writer
- 2005 : Jean Carrière , French writer
- 2006 : Steve Bender , German singer
- 2006 : Jan Simons , Canadian singer and vocal teacher
- 2007 : Isabella Blow , British journalist and patron
- 2007 : Hartwig Ammann , German pastor and homeland researcher
- 2009 : Egmont Lüftner , Austrian music manager
- 2009 : Tony Marsh , British racing car driver
- 2010 : Peter Acht , German diplomat and historian
- 2010 : Francisco Aguabella , Cuban Latin jazz drummer and percussionist
- 2010 : Solomon Konstantinowitsch Apt , Russian translator
- 2011 : Johnny Albino , Puerto Rican bolero singer
- 2011 : Severiano Ballesteros , Spanish professional golfer
- 2011 : Willard Boyle , Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2013 : Ray Harryhausen , American animator and trick technician
- 2013 : Ferruccio Mazzola , Italian football player and coach
- 2014 : Nazım Kıbrısi , Cypriot Sufi teacher
- 2014 : Elaine Sturtevant , American artist
- 2015 : Samuel Edwards , British physicist
- 2015 : Thomas Engel , German director
- 2016 : Fernando Álvarez de Miranda , Spanish politician
- 2016 : Gonzalo López Marañón , Spanish bishop
- 2017 : Beppo Mauhart , Austrian manager and football official
- 2017 : Wu Wenjun , Chinese mathematician
- 2018 : Juliane Korén , German actress
- 2018 : Ermanno Olmi , Italian film director
- 2019 : Friedrich Hänssler junior , German theologian, musicologist and publisher
- 2019 : Fritz Novotny , Austrian musician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Otto I. (HRR) , Roman-German Emperor (Protestant)
- St. Domnius of Split , Syrian martyr and bishop (Catholic)
- Carl Ferdinand Wilhelm Walther , German-American pastor and theologian (Protestant: LCMS )
- Name days
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
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