November 7th
The November 7 is the 311th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 312th in leap years ), thus remain 54 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 921 : The Treaty of Bonn ends the succession dispute between the Franconian partial empires and seals the end of Carolingian rule in Eastern Franconia .
- 1225 : Engelbert I of Cologne , imperial administrator and Cologne archbishop, is killed by followers of his relative, Count Friedrich von Isenberg .
- 1455 : More than 24 years after her cremation, the trial of Joan of Arc is reopened in the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral .
- 1491 : The Roman-German King Maximilian I , who invaded Hungary but was defeated with his army , concludes the Peace of Pressburg . The Habsburgs recognized the rule of King Vladislav II in Hungary.
- 1619 : Elisabeth Stuart , wife of the Bohemian ruler Frederick I , crowned three days earlier, is crowned Queen of Bohemia in St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague .
- 1659 : The Peace of the Pyrenees between France under King Louis XIV and Spain under King Philip IV, concluded on the Pheasant Island in Bidasoa , ends the conflict between the two states after the Thirty Years' War , establishes the Pyrenees ridge as a border, gains some territories and benefits France Rise to continental supremacy.
- 1806 : Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher capitulates after the Battle of Lübeck in the Fourth Coalition War with his Prussian units in Ratekau to the French under Marshal Bernadotte .
- 1811 : Due to a prophecy by Tecumseh's brother Tenskwatawa , the Indian Federation attacks American troops under William H. Harrison at dawn , but they are able to repel this attack in the Battle of Tippecanoe .
- 1848 : Zachary Taylor in the first US presidential election , on the same day in all US states , as are held US President elected.
- 1893 : In response to the execution of the assassin of General Arsenio Martínez-Campos commit anarchists a bomb attack in the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona costs, of the 23 human lives.
- 1914 : Alfred Meyer-Waldeck surrenders in the First World War on behalf of the German colony Kiautschou and hands over the besieged Tsingtau fortress to Japan .
- 1916 : Democratic incumbent Woodrow Wilson narrowly wins the US presidential election against Republican challenger Charles Evans Hughes . In the same ballot, Republican Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives.
- 1917 : (25 October according to the Julian calendar) The October Revolution begins in Petrograd with a signal shot from the cruiser Aurora . The Winter Palace , the seat of the provisional government, is stormed and all members of the government except for Prime Minister Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky are arrested.
- 1918 : In Munich lead revolutionaries to Kurt Eisner , the end of the Bavarian monarchy brought. King Ludwig III. flees the city. The already decided constitutional reform (parliamentization) of November 2nd will be obsolete.
- 1936 : During the Spanish Civil War , Franco's troops begin attacking Madrid.
- 1938 : The seventeen-year-old Jew Herschel Grynszpan shoots the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath . This assassination take the Nazis as an opportunity during the November pogroms murdering hundreds of people and synagogues , Jewish cemeteries and destroy businesses targeted.
- 1944 : The Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected as US President with his victory in the US presidential election over the Republican challenger Thomas E. Dewey , making him the only one to take up a fourth term.
- 1944 : The Soviet communist Richard Sorge is executed in Tokyo. Shortly before his arrest in 1941 he wrote the well-known and - from a historical point of view - decisive radio message that Japan, which was militarily allied with the Nazi dictatorship by the three-power pact, would not attack the Soviet Union.
- 1961 : Konrad Adenauer is elected Federal Chancellor for the fourth time after the election to the 4th German Bundestag .
- 1963 : In Lengede (Lower Saxony), two weeks after a mining accident, 11 miners are recovered alive. This event goes down in history as the “ miracle of Lengede ”.
- 1968 : After Beate Klarsfeld slapped Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger and insulted her as a " Nazi ", she was sentenced to 12 months in prison that same day .
- 1972 : Republican incumbent Richard Nixon clearly defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in the US presidential election .
- 1982 : Saye Zerbo , who came to power in a coup in Upper Volta ( Burkina Faso ) two years ago , is overthrown in a new coup under Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo .
- 1987 : After Habib Bourguiba was dismissed in October, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali took over the post of President of Tunisia .
- 1989 : Douglas Wilder wins the gubernatorial election in Virginia , becoming the first black governor in the United States.
- 1989 : India's Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh loses a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha and has to leave the office to his internal party opponent Chandra Shekhar .
- 1989 : New York City voters choose David Dinkins as their future mayor. He is the first African-American head of the city in the megacity.
- 1990 : Mary Robinson , nominated by the Irish Labor Party for the Irish presidential election , is elected by surprise and is the first woman to hold this post.
- 1995 : As French Prime Minister, Alain Juppé announces the resignation of the entire government because of a financial scandal, but is immediately charged with forming a government again by President Jacques Chirac .
- 1998 : Wolfgang Schäuble is elected as the new party chairman at the CDU party conference in Bonn .
- 2000 : In the presidential elections in the United States defeated Republican candidate George W. Bush , according to first reports the Democratic candidate Al Gore . However, the victory will only be confirmed by a court decision a month later and yet remain controversial.
- 2000 : Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate for New York State. This makes her the first former US First Lady to be elected to public office.
- 2003 : In Germany , the Federalism Commission is constituted as a joint body of the Federal Council and the Bundestag to modernize the federal system.
- 2006 : The ruling Republicans suffer a devastating electoral defeat in the midterm elections to the United States Congress . The Democrats win a majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives .
economy
- 1665 : The London Gazette , the oldest surviving English daily newspaper and the official publication of the United Kingdom, appears.
- 1750 : In the Austrian federal states , the convention thaler replaces the former Reich thaler.
- 1871 : The French politician Léon Gambetta founds the daily newspaper La République française .
- 1885 : With the final nail being set by Donald Smith in Craigellachie , construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway is completed.
- 1910 : A Wright Company aircraft carries the first air cargo on behalf of a department store from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio .
- 1929 : In Casablanca , the Moroccan stock exchange starts operations.
- 1957 : With the start of the pilot series, the first Trabant P 50 rolls off the assembly line at VEB Automobilwerk Zwickau .
- 2001 : After an interruption due to the crash on July 25, 2000, Concorde's scheduled flight between Paris / London and New York is resumed.
science and technology
- 1785 : In Vienna, the Medical and Surgical Academy Josephinum , founded by Emperor Joseph II. , In what is now the Alsergrund district, is handed over to its destination.
- 1801 : Alessandro Volta presents the first battery to the public.
- 1889 : The German plankton expedition returns to Kiel. The completed oceanographic research expedition in the Atlantic was the world's first devoted to plankton .
- 1902 : The Herkulesbahn in Kassel begins transporting goods.
- 1940 : Four months after its opening, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State collapses due to self-excited vibrations . Since this accident, models of the construction have been tested in the wind tunnel before large bridges are built.
- 1996 : NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft to explore Mars from orbit.
Culture
- 1775 : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe meets at the invitation of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Carl August in Weimar a.
- 1829 : The world premiere of the comic opera Le dilettante d'Avignon by Jacques Fromental Halévy takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris .
- 1844 : The first edition of the Fliegende Blätter appears in Munich.
- 1876 : The opera The Kiss by Bedřich Smetana premieres in Prague.
- 1891 : Anton Bruckner is the first American composer from the University of Vienna , the honorary doctorate conferred
- 1892 : The public premiere of the opera Khovanshchina by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky takes place in Kiev .
- 1896 : The opera Jungfruburen ( Girls' Chamber ) by Jean Sibelius is premiered in Helsinki .
- 1908 : The world premiere of the operetta The Funny Wives by Robert Stolz takes place in Brno .
- 1912 : The German Opera House in Berlin, built by Heinrich Seeling , opens with Beethoven's opera Fidelio .
- 1921 : The comedy The Difficult by Hugo von Hofmannsthal premieres in the Residenztheater in Munich .
- 1929 : In New York City , the Museum of Modern Art opens its doors to the public.
- 1932 : Buck Rogers in the 25th Century first broadcast on radio in the United States.
- 1934 : The rhapsody on a theme by Paganini by Sergei Rachmaninoff is premiered in Baltimore with the composer himself on the piano and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski .
- 1945 : In the Wiesbaden Manifesto , US art protection officers oppose the transport of art treasures from German museums to the United States.
- 1946 : John Ford Western My Darling Clementine ( My Darling Clementine ) with Henry Fonda in the lead role has in the United States premiere.
- 1948 : As part of a school competition on the occasion of the Goethe-year receives Friedhelm Deis , hymn composer of the Apostolic Church , the price of the Minister of Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia five preludes and for a piano sonata, joints .
society
- 1825 : The young lawyer Jereboam O. Beauchamp assassinated the politician Solomon P. Sharp , according to his own statements, in order to defend the honor of his wife Anne Cooke-Beauchamp. The so-called Beauchamp-Sharp tragedy is picked up by the press and in numerous literary adaptations.
- 1921 : The trial of the murderer Henri Désiré Landru begins in Versailles .
- 1938 : After the murder of a taxi driver, the first public manhunt takes place in Berlin with the help of television. It is organized by the legendary detective Ernst Gennat together with Theo Saevecke . The numerous clues actually lead to the perpetrator being caught.
religion
- 335 : The Roman emperor Constantine the Great banishes the blackened Bishop Athanasius from Alexandria to Trier .
- 680 : The sixth ecumenical council meets in Constantinople . It advises on monotheleticism for several months .
- 1638 : The Freising Bishop Veit Adam von Gepeckh inaugurates the Munich Marian Column on Marienplatz .
Disasters
- 1941 : The Soviet hospital ship Armenija with 4700 to 4800 people on board is sunk by a German Heinkel He 111 in an air raid in the Black Sea .
- 1996 : In Lagos, Nigeria, it comes to the crash of a Boeing 727 . All 143 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
nature and environment
- 1492 : The meteorite, known as the Ensisheim meteorite, falls into a wheat field between Ensisheim and Battenheim in Alsace .
- 2000 : The Spanish desert Bardenas Reales in Navarra is declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO .
Sports
- 1869 : The world's first international road bike race takes place on the Paris-Rouen route . James Moore wins .
- 1991 : Basketball star Magic Johnson announces his HIV infection and retires from professional sport.
- 2002 : The Leipzig mountaineers Olaf Rieck , Lydia Schubert and Carsten Schmidt succeed in the first ascent of Num Ri .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 60 : Keikō , 12th Emperor of Japan
- 630 : Konstans II. , Eastern Roman or Byzantine emperor
- 631 : David Tiberios , co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire
- 994 : Ibn Hazm , Arab polymath in Andalusia
- 1456 : Margaret of Bavaria , Electress of the Palatinate
- 1525 : Georg Cracow , German chaplain, university professor and lawyer
- 1547 : Rudolf Hospinian , Swiss Protestant clergyman and theologian
- 1555 : Andreas Cludius , German legal scholar
- 1570 : Cornelius Gobelius , auxiliary bishop of Thuringia
- 1598 : Francisco de Zurbarán , Spanish painter
- 1604 : Christoph Tinctorius , German medic
- 1638 : Adam Christoph Jacobi , German lawyer
- 1674 : Christian III. , Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
- 1680 : Christian III. Moritz , Duke of Saxe-Merseburg
- 1692 : Johann Gottfried Schnabel , German writer
- 1700 : Erdmuthe Dorothea von Zinzendorf , German Pietist and hymn poet
18th century
- 1713 : Johann Martin Bernigeroth , Saxon engraver
- 1717 : Benedikt von Ahlefeldt , commandant of Heligoland and district administrator in Uetersen
- 1720 : Irakli II , Georgian king
- 1728 : James Cook , British explorer and navigator
- 1731 : Robert Rogers , British officer
- 1739 : Ernst Franz von Platen-Hallermund , privy councilor of the Electoral Palatinate and hereditary postmaster general of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- 1744 : Albrecht Heinrich von Arnim , Prussian Minister of Justice
- 1750 : Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , German poet and translator, diplomat and lawyer
- 1759 : Jean Antoine Rossignol , general during the French Revolution
- 1761 : Michael Friedrich Erdmann Heym , German mayor and state elder of Niederlausitz
- 1767 : Christian Gottlieb Konopack , German legal scholar
- 1767 : Johann Christian Jakob Schneider , German medic
- 1776 : James Abercromby, 1st Baron Dunfermline , British lawyer and politician
- 1770 : Christian Rudolf Wilhelm Wiedemann , German physicist and historian, natural scientist and entomologist
- 1785 : Friedrich von Warnstedt , Danish civil servant
- 1790 : Luigi Rinaldo Legnani , Italian singer, guitarist and composer
- 1795 : Hans Riddervold Norwegian Parliament President and Bishop of Trondheim
19th century
1801-1850
- 1810 : Ferenc Erkel , Hungarian composer
- 1810 : Fritz Reuter , German writer
- 1818 : Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond , German physiologist
- 1820 : Marie Wiegmann , German painter
- 1825 : Eginhard von Barfus , German writer
- 1834 : Lyuben Karawelow , Bulgarian poet and activist of the Bulgarian National Revival
- 1834 : Lucy Lloyd , British-South African linguist and ethnologist
- 1839 : Henry Holmes , English composer, violinist and music educator
- 1845 : Ernst Schwerdtner , director of the royal Saxon teachers' college in Annaberg
- 1846 : Ignaz Brüll , German composer
- 1847 : Volkmar Otto Erdmann von Arnim , German naval officer
- 1849 : Ernesto Rodolfo Hintze Ribeiro , Portuguese politician, Prime Minister
1851-1900
- 1854 : Alexander Wassiljewitsch Adrianow , Russian scholar
- 1855 : Edwin Hall , American physicist
- 1858 : Willibald Hentschel , German writer
- 1858 : Achilles Schlöth , Swiss sculptor
- 1859 : Johannes Mayerhofer , Austrian artist and author
- 1861 : Lesser Ury , German painter
- 1862 : Louis Svećenski , Croatian-American violist, violinist and music teacher
- 1865 : Kosugi Tengai , Japanese writer
- 1866 : Paul Lincke , German operetta composer
- 1867 : Marie Curie , French-Polish chemist and physicist, two-time Nobel Prize winner
- 1875 : Eduard Castle , Austrian literary historian
- 1877 : Arrigo Serato , Italian violinist and music teacher
- 1878 : Lise Meitner , Austrian physicist
- 1879 : Ludwig Adler , Austrian obstetrician and gynecologist
- 1879 : Walter Dix , German crop scientist
- 1879 : Leon Trotsky , Russian revolutionary
- 1880 : Joe May , Austrian film director
- 1885 : Frank Knight , American economist
- 1886 : Charlotte Armbruster , German politician
- 1886 : Aaron Nimzowitsch , Latvian chess player and theorist
- 1887 : Guus van Hecking-Colenbrander , Dutch football player
- 1888 : Nestor Machno , Ukrainian revolutionary
- 1888 : CV Raman , Indian physicist
- 1889 : Wilhelm Friedle , German engineer
- 1890 : Josef Behrens , German engineer and inventor
- 1890 : John B. Hollister , American politician
- 1897 : Dimitrij Andrusov , Czechoslovak geologist
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Cecília Meireles , Brazilian poet and journalist
- 1903 : Robert Cottrell-Hill , British officer
- 1903 : Konrad Lorenz , Austrian biologist, zoologist, behavioral scientist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1903 : Jesús María Sanromá , Puerto Rican pianist and music teacher
- 1904 : Jonas Aistis , Lithuanian poet and essayist
- 1904 : Gino Rossetti , Italian football player
- 1904 : Aaly Tokombayev , Kyrgyz poet
- 1907 : John D. Schiff , German-American photographer
- 1910 : Heinrich Dathe , German zoologist
- 1911 : Hans Pesser , German football player
- 1912 : Ernst Lehner , German football player
- 1913 : Albert Camus , French writer and philosopher, Nobel Prize winner
- 1915 : Philip Morrison , American physicist
- 1916 : Joe Bushkin , American jazz pianist
- 1917 : Ján Arpáš , Slovak football player
- 1917 : Lev Kerbel , Soviet sculptor
- 1918 : Paul Aussaresses , French general
- 1918 : Billy Graham , American Baptist pastor and evangelist
- 1920 : Joan Perucho , Spanish writer
- 1921 : Andrew Athanassoulias Athens , American businessman
- 1921 : Manuel Fernández Álvarez , Spanish historian
- 1922 : Ernesto Duarte Brito , Cuban pianist, composer and band leader
- 1922 : Al Hirt , American musician
- 1925 : Luís Andrés Edo , Spanish activist, resistance fighter
- 1925 : Ernst Mosch , German musician ( original Egerland musicians )
- 1925 : Fritz Peter , Swiss singer (tenor)
1926-1950
- 1926 : Joan Sutherland , Australian opera singer
- 1927 : Claude Storez , French racing car driver
- 1927 : Hiroshi Yamauchi , Japanese manager ( Nintendo )
- 1928 : Daniel Francis Kweipe Annan , Ghanaian lawyer and politician
- 1929 : Benny Allan Andersen , Danish writer, poet, composer and pianist
- 1929 : Eric Richard Kandel , American neuroscientist
- 1929 : Ray Renfro , American football player
- 1930 : Ruth Lomon , Canadian composer and pianist
- 1932 : Siegfried Herrmann , German athlete
- 1932 : Artur Märchen , member of the Berliner Malerpoeten group
- 1932 : Yrrah , Dutch cartoonist
- 1933 : David Aradeon , Nigerian architect, urban planner and curator
- 1934 : Annemarie Brodhagen , German television presenter
- 1936 : Alvin A. Attles , American basketball player and coach
- 1936 : Gwyneth Jones , British opera singer
- 1937 : Alberto Grau , Venezuelan composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1937 : Konrad Schily , German university president and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1939 : Barbara Liskov , American computer scientist
- 1939 : Daan Manneke , Dutch composer and organist
- 1939 : Lene Mayer-Skumanz , Austrian author of children's books
- 1940 : Antonio Skármeta , Chilean writer
- 1941 : Hughes Kirschoffer , French racing car driver
- 1941 : Trudeliese Schmidt , German opera singer (mezzo-soprano)
- 1941 : Cardinal Angelo Scola , Patriarch of Venice
- 1941 : Gary Windo , British saxophonist
- 1942 : Johnny Rivers , American singer
- 1942 : Jean Shrimpton , British model
- 1942 : André Vingt-Trois , Archbishop of Paris
- 1943 : Michael Byrne , British film and television actor
- 1943 : Stephen Greenblatt , American literary scholar
- 1943 : Joni Mitchell , Canadian singer and songwriter
- 1943 : Bert Rürup , German economist, business expert
- 1943 : Michael Spence , American economist
- 1944 : Luigi Riva , Italian football player
- 1944 : Ingrid Schubert , German terrorist
- 1945 : Hartmut Fladt , German composer and musicologist
- 1946 : Wolfgang Arenhövel , German lawyer
- 1946 : Gilius van Bergeijk , Dutch composer and music teacher
- 1947 : Günter Abel , German philosopher
- 1947 : Bob Anderson , English darts player
- 1947 : Elke Wülfing , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1949 : Peter Anders , German soccer player
- 1950 : Lindsay Duncan , British actress
- 1950 : Robert Redl , German soccer player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Nick Gilder , British singer and songwriter
- 1952 : David Petraeus , American general, director of the CIA
- 1952 : Modibo Sidibé , Malay politician
- 1953 : Ottfried Fischer , German cabaret artist and actor
- 1953 : Alexander Romankow , Soviet foil fencer
- 1954 : Robin Beck , American singer
- 1954 : Philippe Haezebrouck , French racing car driver
- 1955 : Norbert Eder , German soccer player
- 1955 : Wolfram Eicke , German writer and songwriter
- 1955 : Herbert Lauermann , Austrian composer
- 1955 : Detlef Ultsch , German judo world champion
- 1955 : Harald Wohlfahrt , German cook
- 1956 : Anna Ogino , Japanese writer
- 1959 : Ednan Aslan , Austrian-Turkish professor
- 1959 : Petra Platen , German handball player and sports medicine specialist
- 1959 : Klaus Suonsaari , Finnish jazz drummer
- 1960 : Charlie Bell , Australian manager ( McDonald’s )
- 1960 : Tommy Thayer , American rock musician ( KISS )
- 1961 : Edilberta Angelillo , Italian actress and singer
- 1961 : Mark Hateley , English soccer player
- 1962 : Bettina Hoy , German rider
- 1963 : Angelika Werthmann , Austrian politician
- 1964 : Dana Plato , American film actress
- 1964 : Shannon Whirry , American actress
- 1965 : Mike Henry , American voice actor, screenwriter, and actor
- 1965 : Alexander West , Swedish entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1965 : Sigrun Wodars , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1966 : Billy Gallo , American actor
- 1966 : Regula Imboden , Swiss actress
- 1966 : Ursula Lohn , German soccer player
- 1967 : Alexander Henry Arweiler , German classical philologist
- 1967 : David Guetta , French house DJ and producer
- 1967 : Sharleen Spiteri , British rock singer and songwriter ( Texas )
- 1969 : Hélène Grimaud , French pianist
- 1969 : Carsten Heinze , German educator and university professor
- 1970 : Marc Rosset , Swiss tennis player
- 1970 : Chris Adrian , American doctor and writer
- 1971 : Bernhard Lamel , Austrian mathematician
- 1972 : Christopher Daniel Barnes , American actor and voice actor
- 1973 : Martín Palermo , Argentinian football player
- 1973 : Martin Reichel , German ice hockey player
- 1973 : Vocal hero , German rapper
- 1973 : Kim Yunjin , South Korean actress
- 1975 : Diana Amft , German actress
- 1975 : Anja Backhaus , German presenter
- 1975 : Axel Melzener , German screenwriter
1976-2000
- 1976 : Shani Diluka , French pianist
- 1976 : Alberto Entrerríos , Spanish handball player and coach
- 1976 : Mariusz Kukiełka , Polish football player
- 1976 : Mark Philippoussis , Australian tennis player
- 1977 : Andres Oper , Estonian football player
- 1978 : Mohamed Abo Treka , Egyptian soccer player
- 1978 : Alberto Bona , Italian actor, screenwriter and film director
- 1978 : Rio Ferdinand , English football player
- 1978 : Barry Robson , Scottish football player
- 1978 : Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink , Dutch football player
- 1979 : Celina Bostic , German soul and contemporary R&B singer and songwriter
- 1979 : Verena Bonato , German actress
- 1979 : Marieke van der Wal , Dutch handball player
- 1980 : Irina Abyssowa , Russian marathon swimmer and professional triathlete
- 1980 : Sergio Bernardo Almirón , Argentinian football player
- 1980 : Laryea Kingston , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1980 : Anna Katharina Kränzlein , German violinist
- 1980 : Matias Tosi-Socolov , Argentine opera singer
- 1981 : Gitte Aaen , Danish handball player
- 1981 : Mike Larrison , American racing car driver
- 1982 : Rick Malambri , American actor, dancer, and model
- 1984 : Mihkel Aksalu , Estonian football player
- 1984 : Jonathan Bornstein , American football player
- 1985 : Mark Bridge , Australian soccer player
- 1985 : Tom Croft , English rugby player
- 1985 : Thaíssa Presti , Brazilian sprinter
- 1986 : Caner Arıcı , Turkish football player
- 1986 : Charlie Sjöstrand , Swedish handball player
- 1987 : Rachele Brooke Smith , American actress and dancer
- 1988 : Oleksandr Dolhopolov , Ukrainian tennis player
- 1988 : Elsa Hosk , Swedish model
- 1988 : Tinie Tempah , British grime rapper and MC
- 1988 : Gani Lawal , American basketball player
- 1990 : Matt Corby , Australian singer-songwriter
- 1990 : David de Gea , Spanish soccer player
- 1991 : Marie-Cathérine Arnold , German rower
- 1991 : Felix Rosenqvist , Swedish racing driver
- 1991 : Katharina Wien , German actress
- 1992 : Pawel Sergejewitsch Trichitschew , Russian ski racer
- 1993 : Jürgen Locadia , Dutch football player
- 1994 : Lukas Blohme , German handball player
- 1994 : Algee Smith , American actor and singer
- 1995 : Aleksandra Gaworska , Polish hurdler
- 1996 : Lorde , New Zealand-Croatian pop singer
- 1997 : Christian Rubio Sivodedov , Swedish football player
- 2000 : Callum Hudson-Odoi , English-Ghanaian football player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 198 : Lü Bu , Chinese warlord
- 739 : Willibrord , Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint; Apostle of the Frisians
- 1047 : William I of Strasbourg , Bishop of Strasbourg
- 1051 : Rotho , Abbot of Hersfeld and Bishop of Paderborn
- 1057 : Lothar Udo I , Count of Stade and Margrave of the Nordmark
- 1199 : Michael the Syrian , Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church
- 1225 : Engelbert I of Cologne , imperial administrator and archbishop of Cologne
- 1225 : Nikolas Arnason , Norwegian Bishop of Oslo
- 1373 : Jean de Dormans , bishop, cardinal, chancellor of France and keeper of the seals
- 1449 : Konrad von Erlichshausen , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
- 1457 : Danjong , 6th King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1481 : Barbara von Brandenburg , Margravine of Mantua
- 1493 : Nicol Römer , businessman and councilor in Zwickau
- 1497 : Philip II , Duke of Sayoyen
16th to 18th century
- 1651 : Hans Christoph von Ebeleben , German lawyer and administrative officer
- 1664 : David Cunz , Mayor of St. Gallen
- 1669 : Lebrecht , Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1678 : Erasmus Quellinus II , Flemish painter and engraver
- 1700 : Pietro Santi Bartoli , Italian draftsman, engraver and antiquarian
- 1708 : Ludolf Bakhuizen , German-Dutch painter
- 1713 : Gabriele von Liechtenstein , Princess of Liechtenstein
- 1719 : Johann Joseph Seyler , German educator and Protestant theologian
- 1728 : James Cook , British navigator
- 1737 Johann Rudolf Victor von Pretlack , German cavalry general and Lieutenant General Field Marshal
- 1742 : Johann August , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst
- 1748 : Pedro Vicente Maldonado , Ecuadorian cartographer and polymath
- 1762 : Georg Besenbeck , German Protestant clergyman and teacher
- 1773 : Anna Charlotte , Princess of Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont and Sainte-Waudru and Koadjutrix in the Essen Abbey and the Thorn Imperial Abbey
- 1777 : Jacques Mathon de La Cour , French mathematician and mechanic
- 1793 : Per Krafft the Elder , Swedish painter
19th century
- 1802 : Franz Ludwig Pfyffer , Swiss politician and cartographer
- 1812 : Matwei Fyodorowitsch Kazakow , Russian architect
- 1848 : Josef Karl Amrhyn , Swiss mayor
- 1849 : Christian von Rother , Prussian politician
- 1854 : Peter von Nobile , Austrian architect
- 1859 : Carl Gottlieb Reissiger , German conductor and composer
- 1864 : David Sassoon , Indian-British wholesaler
- 1873 : Johann Christian Friedrich Heyer , German-American missionary
- 1877 : Karel Sabina , Czech radical democrat, publicist, writer and literary critic
- 1886 : Nathaniel Ellis Atwood , American Politics
- 1887 : Heinrich Richard Baltzer , German mathematician
- 1888 : Ludwig Müller-Uri , German glassmaker, artificial eye blower and pioneer of German eye prosthetics
20th century
1901-1950
- 1905 : Florence Dixie , British traveler and writer
- 1906 : Heinrich Seidel , German writer and engineer
- 1910 : Florencio Sánchez , Uruguayan poet and playwright
- 1913 : Alfred Russel Wallace , British naturalist, co-discoverer of the theory of evolution and co-founder of biogeography
- 1914 : Gerard Anderson , British hurdler
- 1916 : Marie Heim-Vögtlin , first Swiss doctor
- 1919 : Hugo Haase , German lawyer and politician
- 1924 : Hans Thoma , German landscape and portrait painter, graphic artist
- 1928 : Mattia Battistini , Italian opera singer
- 1930 : Alexis-Armand Cardinal Charost , French clergyman, Archbishop of Rennes
- 1940 : Julius Wahle , Austrian literary scholar
- 1941 : Albin Zollinger , Swiss writer
- 1944 : Hana Kučerová-Záveská , Czechoslovak architect and designer
- 1945 : Isaac Anken , Swiss politician
- 1946 : Henry Lehrman , Austrian-American film actor, director, producer, production manager and screenwriter
- 1946 : Louis Otten , Dutch football player and medic
- 1950 : Josef Hassid , Polish violinist
1951-1975
- 1951 : Ernst Kamieth , German railway worker
- 1955 : Karl Bodmer , German motorcycle racer
- 1955 : Arthur Frey , Swiss politician
- 1959 : Victor McLaglen , British-American boxer and actor
- 1961 : Michael Keller , Bishop of Münster
- 1961 : Augustin Rösch , German Jesuit priest, provincial, and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1962 : Eleanor Roosevelt , American human rights activist and diplomat, First Lady of the USA, wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1965 : Brigitte von Arnim , German writer
- 1965 : Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad , 2nd Caliphate ul-Massih
- 1965 : Friedrich Wildgans , Austrian composer and clarinetist
- 1967 : John Nance Garner , US Vice President
- 1967 : Ian Raby , British racing car driver
- 1968 : Béla Hamvas , Hungarian writer
- 1970 : Edward Curtiss , American film editor
- 1971 : Maurice Hewitt , French violinist and conductor
- 1974 : Eric Linklater , British writer from Scotland
- 1974 : Alfonso Leng , Chilean composer and odontologist
- 1975 : Piero Dusio , Italian football player and official, racing car driver and businessman
- 1975 : John Carmel Cardinal Heenan , British clergyman, Archbishop of Westminster
1976-2000
- 1976 : Ottomar Carl Joseph Anton , German painter, graphic artist and university professor
- 1977 : Fred Oelßner , German economist and party functionary in the GDR
- 1978 : Jorge Carrera Andrade , Ecuadorian poet, writer and diplomat
- 1980 : Steve McQueen , American film actor
- 1980 : Wolfgang Weyrauch , German writer and radio play author
- 1982 : Bully Buhlan , German jazz and pop singer, pianist, pop composer and actor
- 1982 : Salvador Contreras , Mexican composer
- 1983 : Germaine Tailleferre , French composer
- 1984 : Hans Herter , German classical philologist
- 1985 : Sid Robin , American lyricist and composer
- 1985 : Friedrich Traugott Wahlen , Swiss politician
- 1986 : Artur London , Czech communist and diplomat
- 1986 : Aenne Michalsky , Austrian opera singer
- 1988 : Hans Baumann , German poet and songwriter, writer and translator
- 1988 : Morris Janowitz , American sociologist and political scientist
- 1989 : Paula Acker , German correspondent, editor and KPD and SED functionary
- 1992 : Alexander Dubček , Czechoslovak politician
- 1992 : Richard Yates , American writer
- 1993 : Charles Aidman , American actor
- 1996 : Dietrich Andernacht , German historian and archivist
- 1996 : Hans Klodt , German football player
- 1997 : Werner Giggenbach , German geochemist, geologist and volcanologist
- 1998 : Luis Carlos Meyer , Colombian singer and composer
- 2000 : Klaus Koch , German jazz musician
- 2000 : Walter Kremser , German forest scientist
21st century
- 2001 : Sachiko Hidari , Japanese actress
- 2002 : Rudolf Augstein , German publicist
- 2004 : Sébastien Briat , French opponent of nuclear power
- 2004 : Howard Keel , American actor and musical star
- 2004 : Michael Kreißl , Austrian politician
- 2004 : Yamashiro Tomoe , Japanese writer
- 2006 : Aram Asatryan , Armenian pop singer
- 2006 : Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber , French journalist and politician
- 2009 : Hans-Busso von Busse , German architect and university professor
- 2010 : Swetlana Geier , German translator
- 2010 : Georg Heuberger , German founding director of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt and representative of the Jewish Claims Conference Germany
- 2011 : Lykke Aresin , German doctor and sexologist
- 2011 : Joe Frazier , American boxer
- 2011 : Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe , German physician and association official
- 2011 : Gottfried Kiesow , German conservationist
- 2011 : Andrea True , American porn actress and singer
- 2012 : Carmen Basilio , American boxer
- 2012 : Andrej Kokot , Austrian writer
- 2013 : Manfred Rommel , German politician
- 2013 : Christian Taschen , German actor
- 2016 : Leonard Cohen , Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and writer
- 2016 : Janet Reno , American politician
- 2017 : Hans-Michael Rehberg , German actor and director
- 2017 : Hans Schäfer , German soccer player
- 2018 : Francis Lai , French composer ( Love Story )
- 2019 : Regine Heinecke , German painter, graphic artist and illustrator
Holidays and memorial days
- Political Remembrance Days
- United States : National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communism
- Church memorial days
- Willibrord , messenger of faith among the Frisians, first Archbishop of Utrecht (Protestant, Anglican, Roman Catholic, Orthodox)
- Johann Christian Friedrich Heyer , missionary (Protestant: ELCA )
- Name days
Individual evidence
- ^ National Day for the Victims of Communism . In: The White House . ( whitehouse.gov [accessed April 16, 2018]).
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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