October 7th
The October 7 is the 280th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 281st in leap years ), thus still remain 85 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1370 : The Pfaffenbrief is agreed by six Swiss cantons .
- 1428 : The English begin the siege of Orléans in the Hundred Years War .
- 1506 : Papal troops, supported by French units, conquer Bologna . The city is the Papal States incorporated and obtained until the end of the 18th century their independence.
- 1513 : At the Battle of La Motta , the Spanish troops fighting for the Holy League , under the command of Ramón Folch de Cardona, defeat the forces of the Republic of Venice .
- 1542 : The explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo enters the Santa Catalina Island off the California coast and takes possession of it as San Salvador for Spain .
- 1571 : In the naval battle of Lepanto , the Holy League under Don Juan de Austria defeats the Ottoman Mediterranean fleet under Kılıç Ali Pascha for the first time .
- 1763 : By royal proclamation , the British King George III. the settlement area of the American colonies on the area east of the Appalachians .
- 1769 : James Cook lands on the North Island of New Zealand and takes possession of the land for the British Crown .
- 1777 : The battle of Bemis Heights marks the beginning of the decisive phase of the Battle of Saratoga in the American War of Independence , which will end with the British surrender .
- 1780 : In the American War of Independence , the colonists prevail against a large unit of British troops in the Battle of Kings Mountain .
- 1800 : The French pirate Robert Surcouf and his crew board the Indian sailor Kent of the British East India Company in the Indian Ocean . Of myths entwined conquest of the merchant ship gives him rich booty, but he is a British future bounty of five million francs suspended.
- 1840 : King Wilhelm I abdicates in the Netherlands . His eldest son Wilhelm II becomes the new regent.
- 1870 : The Franco-Prussian War breaks out at Bellevue : The French Rhine Army under Marshal François-Achille Bazaine , trapped near Metz , fails with its attempt to break out of the Prussian armed forces.
- 1870 : Interior Minister Léon Gambetta leaves besieged Paris in a balloon . His plan to liberate the French capital will be unsuccessful.
- 1879 : Bismarck's alliance policy leads to the conclusion of the dual alliance between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire .
- 1918 : The Regency Council in Warsaw proclaims an independent Polish state .
- 1938 : Following the traditional Rosary Festival in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, several thousand young people gather for a spontaneous demonstration against the annexation of Austria by the National Socialists. The rosary demonstration is broken up by the police and the Gestapo, and many people involved are arrested.
- 1941 : Beginning of the double battle near Vyazma and Brjansk , during which the mass of five Soviet armies is encircled by the Wehrmacht and wiped out by October 20. The Soviet losses are so severe that only 90,000 soldiers are left to protect Moscow.
- 1944 : The Jewish special command responsible for operating the gas chambers and crematoria in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp begins an uprising, during which crematorium IV is partially destroyed.
- 1944 : Large parts of the city are destroyed in a bomb attack on the Lower Rhine district town of Kleve by 355 British aircraft, and over 500 residents die.
- 1949 : In East Berlin, which sets Provisional People's Chamber , the Constitution of the German Democratic Republic in force and thus takes the foundation of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Until 1989 this day was celebrated as the GDR's national holiday under the name “Day of the Republic” .
- 1950 : UN troops cross the 38th parallel in the Korean War - one week after the South Koreans .
- 1950 : The Chinese People's Liberation Army invades Tibet . The Tibetan army can not offer much resistance at Chamdo .
- 1951 : Silent help for prisoners of war and internees is founded in Munich . Helene Elisabeth von Isenburg is elected first president . As a result, the association came under fire for its support of Nazi perpetrators.
- 1955 : Due to Konrad Adenauer's efforts (trip to Moscow September 8-14, 1955), the first 600 late returnees of the “last 10,000” from the Soviet Union arrive in Friedland and Herleshausen .
- 1972 : The first Uganda-Tanzania war ends after Somali mediation with a ceasefire .
- 1974 : In the amended constitution of the German Democratic Republic , the goal of the unification of the two German states is abandoned by resolution of the People's Chamber . The terms German nation and Germany are removed from it.
- 1977 : The USSR adopts a new federal constitution .
- 1977 : On the Berlin Alexanderplatz (above all at the TV tower ) there is the largest spontaneous youth protest in the GDR on the Republic's birthday . Sometimes completely inhumane judgments.
- 1979 : The Bremen Green List is the first green party to receive mandates in a state parliament and moves into Bremen's citizenship with four members .
- 1985 : Palestinian terrorists of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ) hijack the cruise ship Achille Lauro .
- 1989 : In Schwante ( Oranienburg district ), the Social Democratic Party in the GDR (SDP) is constituted in the Protestant parish hall .
- 1989 : During the fall of the Berlin Wall , on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the GDR, an honorary parade of the NVA and the border troops of the GDR takes place for the last time on Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee . On the Alexanderplatz by the world clock , in front of the headquarters of the state news agency ADN , in front of the Palace of the Republic and in front of the Gethsemane Church , there are demonstrations and protests by GDR citizens with around 1200 arrests by the state organs. There are also demonstrations in other cities in the GDR , some of which are violently broken up.
- 1989 : The first Saturday demonstration with around 20,000 participants takes place in Plauen . It is the first mass-supported protest event in the GDR since 1953 and the first large-scale demonstration that cannot be broken up by the security forces.
- 1990 : In the national elections in Austria , the SPÖ again becomes the party with the largest number of votes under Chancellor Vranitzky . The ÖVP under Josef Riegler suffers heavy losses, while the FPÖ under Jörg Haider can almost double its votes again.
- 1991 : During the Croatian War , an aircraft belonging to the Yugoslav People's Army fires an air-to-surface missile at the Croatian government building in Zagreb . Miraculously nobody gets hurt.
- 1991 : The JPEG electronic media format celebrates its “technical” birthday with the release of the libjpeg library , made available by the Independent JPEG Group.
- 1998 : Shortly after midnight in Colorado, US student Matthew Shepard is robbed, beaten, and unconscious on a fence for being gay . He succumbs to his injuries on October 12th .
- 2000 : After his father Jean of Luxembourg abdicates , Henri is sworn in as Grand Duke of Luxembourg .
- 2001 : The US and its allies begin Operation Enduring Freedom , the war against the Taliban ruling in Afghanistan , founded as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the US.
- 2003 : Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger wins recall elections in California against ruling Democrat Gray Davis and is elected Governor of California .
- 2004 : Norodom Sihanouk declares his resignation as King of Cambodia in favor of his son Norodom Sihamoni .
- 2005 : The International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohammed el-Baradei are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 2006 : Anna Politkovskaya , a journalist who works for Novaya Gazeta , is found shot dead in the elevator of her house.
- 2012 : In the presidential elections in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez re-elected as president.
economy
- 1912 : The first trading transactions are carried out on the Helsinki Stock Exchange .
- 1919 : The Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) is founded. It is the oldest existing airline in the world.
- 1928 : With the timetable change, the Deutsche Reichsbahn no longer offers its customers a fourth class of wagons in order to generate higher income.
- 1933 : The of a merger emerged airline Air France is produced in Le Bourget .
- 1948 : Pierre-Jules Boulanger , CEO of the French car manufacturer Citroën , presents the Citroën 2CV model created by designer Flaminio Bertoni and constructor André Lefèbvre at the Paris Motor Show . The "duck" becomes one of the most successful car models of all time, production of which is not finally stopped until 1990.
- 1977 : The European Patent Convention for the creation of the EPO and regulations for the granting of European patents comes into force.
- 1977 : In the Federal Republic of Germany Otto Graf Lambsdorff as the successor of the murdered Juergen Ponto to the board of Dresdner Bank changing Hans Friderichs Federal Minister of Economics.
- 1996 : The Fox News Channel of media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch goes on air for the first time in the USA .
- 2003 : The handheld game console N-Gage by Nokia will be released worldwide.
- 2005 : The employees of Gate Gourmet's Düsseldorf branch go on strike for a wage increase. It will last exactly six months, making it the longest strike in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany
science and technology
- 1806 : The Englishman Ralph Wedgwood receives a patent for an apparatus for duplicating documents , with which an ink-soaked paper in connection with a metal pen was meant. He starts production a few years later.
- 1959 : With the Lunik 3 lunar probe, images of the previously unknown back of the moon were made for the first time .
- 1960 : The University of Nigeria opens in Nsukka as part of the country's independence celebrations .
- 1972 : The German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) is renamed the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW).
Culture
- 1600 : For the wedding of King Henry IV of France with Maria de 'Medici , the opera Il rapimento di Cefalo by Giulio Caccini is premiered in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.
- 1905 : The New City Hall , built according to plans by Hugo Licht , is inaugurated in Leipzig .
- 1909 : The premiere of the opera Der goldene Hahn (Orig .: Solotoi petuschok ) by Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow takes place at the Zimin Opera in Moscow.
- 1918 : The last edition of the German-language daily newspaper Osmanischer Lloyd appears in Constantinople .
- 1920 : The first Karl May film , the silent film On the Rubble of Paradise , celebrates its world premiere in the Kammer-Lichtspiele in Dresden. The film is now considered lost .
- 1927 : The world premiere of Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera Das Wunder der Heliane takes place in Hamburg.
- 1929 : The German Scout Association Sankt Georg ( DPSG ) is founded in Altenberg .
- 1939 : Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera Die Kathrin is premiered at the Royal Opera in Stockholm .
- 1970 : The Bavarian Forest National Park opens the first national park in Germany.
- 1970 : At the Deutsche Oper Berlin , the ballet is The scarecrows of Grass (libretto) and Marcel Luipart premiered.
- 1982 : Andrew Lloyd Webbers has successfully performed the musical Cats in London since May 1981 and has its Broadway premiere.
- 1991 : With WDR 5 , Westdeutscher Rundfunk goes on air with a pure word program with a focus on North Rhine-Westphalia. In addition, WDR 1 is being expanded into a youth channel.
- 2005 : History and development of Wikipedia: The German-language Wikipedia celebrates the 300,000 article with the article about the common Binsenjungfer .
society
- 1776 : The Russian Crown Prince Paul and Sophie Dorothee von Württemberg, who has converted to the Orthodox faith, marry in Saint Petersburg.
- 1910 : The ban on the thujone-containing drink absinthe comes into force in Switzerland .
religion
- 336 : The death of the Roman bishop Marcus leads to a four-month vacancy in the seat of Peter .
- 1317 : With the papal bull Quorundam exigit , Pope John XXII admonishes . the friars, warns of a renewed poverty struggle and calls for obedience. With this bull the general end of spirituality is ushered in for the Franciscan order.
- 1518 : Martin Luther arrives in Augsburg to answer questions from the papal envoy Thomas Cajetan .
- 1793 : In Reims , the deputy Philippe Rühl publicly destroys the sacred ampoule after a previous decision by the National Convention . With chrism from this glass bottle, French kings have been anointed since 1131 .
- 1954 : The Roman Catholic Church in China is at the center of the encyclical Ad sinarum gentem by Pope Pius XII. He rejects efforts there to establish a state church and denies the compatibility of communist rules with the Catholic faith.
- 1956 : Pope Innocent XI. is beatified.
- 2001 : The Westphalian nun Maria Euthymia and the trade unionist Nikolaus Groß are beatified by Pope John Paul II in Rome .
Disasters
- 1756 : The Markus flood on the North Sea causes around 600 deaths in the area of the Elbe .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 2000 : The last football game before the stadium is demolished takes place in London's Wembley Stadium . With Dietmar Hamann the German 1-0 win against England ends the row of all scorers in the old stadium.
- 2006 : In Macau , the games of the Portuguese-speaking countries based on the Commonwealth Games are played for the first time . 700 athletes from 11 countries take part in the eight-day event .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1471 : Frederick I , King of Denmark and Norway
- 1474 : Bernhard III. , Margrave of Baden-Baden
- 1482 : Ernst , Margrave of Baden
- 1520 : Alessandro Farnese , Italian cardinal
- 1531 : Scipione Ammirato , Italian historian
- 1544 : Georg Besserer , German Protestant theologian
- 1540 : Pantaleon Candidus , German Reformed theologian, historian and author
- 1570 : Volkert Overlander , Mayor of Amsterdam
- 1571 : Anton Heinrich , Count of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- 1571 : Maria von Sachsen-Weimar , 31st abbess of the Imperial Monastery of Quedlinburg
- 1573 : William Laud , Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1576 : John Marston , English playwright and writer
- 1589 : Maria Magdalena of Austria , Grand Duchess of Tuscany
- 1591 : Pierre Le Muet , French architect
- 1601 : Florimond de Beaune , French mathematician
- 1618 : Rosina Schnorr , German entrepreneur from the Ore Mountains
- 1619 : Wang Fuzhi , Chinese philosopher, historian and political analyst
- 1630 : Sophie Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , Holstein princess
- 1664 : Samuel Schumacher , Swiss Protestant clergyman and Pietist
- 1672 : Ernst Ludwig I , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- 1675 : Rosalba Carriera , Venetian painter
- 1697 : Giovanni Antonio Canal , called Canaletto , Italian vedute and landscape painter
- 1728 : Caesar Rodney , lawyer, politician, officer and one of the American founding fathers
- 1734 : Ralph Abercromby , British general
- 1737 : Marie Catherine Brignole , Princess of Monaco and Princess of Condé
- 1746 : William Billings , American composer
- 1748 : Charles XIII. , King of Sweden
- 1762 : Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden , British jurist
- 1763 : Erhard Adolf Matthiessen , German lawyer, businessman and councilor
- 1767 : Heinrich Ludwig von Hünecken , German officer and civil servant
- 1770 : Max Keller , German composer and organist
- 1794 : Wilhelm Müller , German poet
- 1798 : Jean Baptiste Vuillaume , French violin maker
19th century
- 1801 : Adolf Müller senior , Austrian composer
- 1802 : Magnus Brostrup Landstad , Norwegian pastor, editor and hymn writer
- 1816 : George Henry Martin Johnson , Mohawk chief
- 1817 : Bushrod Rust Johnson , American officer and teacher
- 1821 : Richard Heron Anderson , American general
- 1827 : Fulgenzio Chicherio , Swiss lawyer and officer in the Swiss army
- 1835 : Felix Draeseke , German composer
- 1842 : Emil Claar , German actor, writer and director
- 1843 : Konrad Gaedeke , German banker and industrialist
- 1845 : Marie Heim-Vögtlin , first Swiss doctor
- 1846 : Wladimir Peter Köppen , German meteorologist, climatologist and botanist
- 1847 : Nathan Zuntz , German medic
- 1847 : Emil Holub , Austrian explorer of Africa
- 1847 : Alexander Franken , German legal scholar
- 1853 : Luis Andreoni , Italian engineer and architect
- 1854 : Georg Frentzen , German architect and university professor
- 1856 : Sietze Douwes van Veen , Dutch church historian
- 1862 : Otto Ernst , German writer
- 1862 : Rudolf Much , Austrian German and Scandinavian Medievalist, classical philologist and religious scholar
- 1866 : Vladimir Ledóchowski , Polish nobleman, general of the Jesuits
- 1867 : Yevgeny Karlowitsch Miller , Russian general
- 1867 : Otto Anthes , German educator and writer
- 1869 : Wilhelm Kroll , German classical philologist
- 1870 : Uncle Dave Macon , American musician
- 1871 : Viola Gillette , American singer
- 1871 : Georg Hermann , German writer
- 1877 : Frank Croxton , American singer
- 1879 : Julius Busch , German-Baltic pastor, Protestant martyr
- 1879 : Herman Nohl , German educator and philosopher
- 1880 : Paul Hausser , German general
- 1885 : Niels Bohr , Danish physicist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1886 : Heinrich Ancker , German naval officer
- 1888 : Cecil Coles , Scottish composer
- 1889 : Heinrich Eduard Jacob , German-American writer
- 1897 : Charles Chauvel , Australian screenwriter, film director and producer
- 1897 : Elijah Muhammad , American founder and head of the Nation of Islam
- 1898 : Johann Anetseder , German politician
- 1898 : Jean Grimaldi , Canadian actor, singer and author
- 1898 : Alfred Wallenstein , American conductor and cellist
- 1899 : Antonia von Luxemburg , Bavarian Crown Princess
- 1900 : Heinrich Himmler , German politician, Reichsführer SS and chief of the German police, war criminal
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Murano Shirō , Japanese lyric poet
- 1902 : Hermann Busch , German general
- 1904 : Armando Castellazzi , Italian football player and coach
- 1904 : Günther Schwab , Austrian writer
- 1906 : Laura Adani , Italian actress
- 1911 : Vaughn Monroe , American musician, singer, and band leader
- 1915 : Roman Padlewski , Polish composer, violinist, pianist, musicologist and critic
- 1916 : Walt Whitman Rostov , American economist, economic historian, national security advisor
- 1917 : June Allyson , American actress
- 1919 : Zelman Cowen , Australian lawyer and Governor General of Australia
- 1919 : Georges Duby , French historian
- 1919 : Annemarie Renger , German politician
- 1919 : Fred Sagner , German politician and officer
- 1919 : Augustine Eugene Hornyak , Serbian Bishop and Exarch of Great Britain
- 1920 : Miguel Delibes , Spanish writer
- 1920 : Georg Leber , German politician
- 1920 : Josef Wolfsegger , Austrian politician
- 1921 : Dirk Dautzenberg , German actor
- 1921 : Siegfried Spielmann , German billiard player
- 1921 : Georges Wilson , French actor
- 1922 : Tommaso Maestrelli , Italian football player and coach
- 1925 : Fred Bertelmann , German singer
- 1925 : Christy Mathewson , American baseball player
1926-1950
- 1926 : Marcello Abbado , Italian composer and pianist
- 1926 : Paul Gerhard Aring , German theologian
- 1926 : Rolf Reuter , German conductor and university professor
- 1927 : Kazimierz Korybutiak , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1927 : Ronald D. Laing , British psychiatrist
- 1927 : Al Martino , American singer
- 1928 : Sanne Ledermann , friend of Anne Frank and victim of the Holocaust
- 1929 : Hans-Peter Dürr , German physicist and author
- 1929 : Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , Italian organist, harpsichordist and musicologist
- 1930 : Bernard Collomb , French racing car driver
- 1931 : Walter Kubiczeck , German composer
- 1931 : Gordon Terry , American country musician
- 1931 : Desmond Tutu , South African bishop, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- 1931 : Maria Schaumayer , Austrian economist, politician, President of the Austrian National Bank.
- 1932 : Boulos Nassif Borkhoche , Syrian Archbishop
- 1932 : Hans Bellin , German internist
- 1932 : Baligh Hamdi , Egyptian composer
- 1933 : Gilbert Chapron , French boxer
- 1933 : Josef Raulf , German local politician
- 1934 : Feliksas Bajoras , Lithuanian composer
- 1934 : Jean-Claude Briavoine , French racing car driver
- 1934 : Ulrike Meinhof , German journalist and co-founder of the Red Army Faction (RAF)
- 1936 : Karl-Heinz Drescher , German graphic artist
- 1936 : Joanna Glass , Canadian writer
- 1938 : Ann Haydon-Jones , British tennis player
- 1939 : Tony Glover , American harmonica player and singer
- 1939 (or 1940): Raimund Harmstorf , German actor
- 1939 : John E. Hopcroft , American computer scientist
- 1939 : Harold Kroto , British chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1940 : Larry Young , American jazz organist and composer
- 1942 : Wolfgang Heilemann , German photographer
- 1942 : Rico Weber , Swiss artist
- 1943 : Alfred Finz , Austrian politician
- 1943 : Gerd Loßdörfer , German athlete
- 1943 : Oliver North , American officer and member of the CIA secret service
- 1944 : Jean Arthuis , French politician
- 1944 : Simon Mark Arthur , British peer, pilot and businessman
- 1944 : Eduard Geyer , German soccer player and coach
- 1944 : Donald Tsang , Chinese politician
- 1945 : Kevin Godley , British musician and songwriter
- 1945 : Manfred Ruge , German local politician
- 1945 : Jean-Luc Thérier , French racing car driver
- 1946 : Valeria Bufanu , Romanian athlete
- 1946 : Georg Danzer , Austrian songwriter
- 1948 : Diane Ackerman , American writer and poet
- 1949 : Kieran Kane , American country singer and songwriter
- 1949 : Alice Walton , American horse breeder and billionaire
- 1949 : Gabriel Yared , Lebanese composer
1951-1975
- 1951 : Enki Bilal , comic artist and illustrator
- 1951 : Claus Boden , German soccer player
- 1951 : John Cougar Mellencamp , American musician
- 1951 : Marc Storace , Maltese rock singer ( Krokus )
- 1952 : Mary Badham , American actress
- 1952 : Norbert Ebster , Austrian footballer
- 1952 : Vladimir Putin , Russian President
- 1953 : Tico Torres , American drummer ( Bon Jovi )
- 1953 : Ronald Worm , German soccer player
- 1954 : Rainer Will , German actor
- 1955 : Yo-Yo Ma , American cellist
- 1955 : Michael W. Smith , American singer and songwriter
- 1956 : Atanas Atanassow , Bulgarian long jumper
- 1957 : Faruk Hadžibegić , Bosnian football player and coach
- 1957 : Jayne Torvill , British figure skater
- 1958 : Sunnyi Melles , Swiss-Austrian actress
- 1959 : Steven Erikson , Canadian writer
- 1959 : Loris Reggiani , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1960 : Viktor Lazlo , Belgian singer
- 1961 : Matthias Brandt , German actor
- 1962 : Albert Koch , German music journalist
- 1962 : Tommy Steiner , German pop singer
- 1964 : Sam Brown , British singer and songwriter
- 1964 : Max Otte , German economist
- 1964 : Mathias Schersing , German sprinter
- 1964 : Markus Zimmer , German musician and singer
- 1965 : Marco Apicella , Italian racing car driver
- 1966 : Tania Aebi , American sailor and author
- 1966 : Marco Beltrami , American composer
- 1966 : Vincenzo Sospiri , Italian racing car driver
- 1967 : Toni Braxton , American soul and R&B singer
- 1967 : Adam Taubitz , German jazz musician
- 1968 : Luminița Anghel , Romanian singer and politician
- 1968 : Thom Yorke , British rock musician ( Radiohead )
- 1969 : Hartmut Abendschein , German-Swiss writer, editor and publisher
- 1970 : Paulo Morello , German jazz guitarist
- 1971 : Jorge Bazan Moros , Andorran football player
- 1971 : Ismael Urzaiz , Spanish soccer player
- 1971 : Bettina Wiegmann , German soccer player
- 1972 : Sidney Polak , Polish rock musician and drummer
- 1972 : Anja Reschke , German television presenter
- 1973 : Dida , Brazilian soccer player
- 1974 : Rune Glifberg , Danish skateboarder
- 1974 : Mocky , Canadian pop musician
- 1974 : Allison Munn , American actress
- 1974 : Charlotte Perrelli , Swedish singer
- 1975 : Artur Siódmiak , Polish handball player
1976-2000
- 1976 : Santiago Solari , Argentine soccer player
- 1976 : Charles Woodson , American football player
- 1977 : Dan Beutler , Swedish handball goalkeeper
- 1977 : Lapo Elkann , Italian entrepreneur and designer
- 1977 : Marwa Ali El-Sherbini , Egyptian handball player and pharmacist
- 1978 : Rony Agustinus , Indonesian badminton player
- 1978 : Guðlaugur Arnarsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
- 1978 : Joe Armstrong , English actor
- 1978 : Omar Benson Miller , American actor
- 1979 : Simi Amânar , Romanian gymnast
- 1979 : Aaron Robert Ashmore , Canadian film actor
- 1979 : Shawn Robert Ashmore , Canadian film actor and film producer
- 1979 : Tang Wei , Chinese actress
- 1980 : Jean-Marc Gaillard , French cross-country skier
- 1981 : Jelena Jensen , American porn actress
- 1982 : Madjid Bougherra , Algerian soccer player
- 1982 : Robby Ginepri , American tennis player
- 1982 : Jermain Defoe , English soccer player
- 1983 : Aaron Parks , American jazz pianist
- 1983 : Flying Lotus , American DJ and producer
- 1984 : Tobias Artmeier , German ice hockey player
- 1984 : Simon Poulsen , Danish football player
- 1986 : Jānis Andersons , Latvian ice hockey player
- 1986 : Selene Kapsaski , German-English writer, film director and producer, actress and camerawoman
- 1986 : Fabian Stenzel , German soccer player
- 1987 : Sarah Ammerman , American volleyball player
- 1987 : Sam Querrey , American tennis player
- 1988 : Abdelrahman Ossama Ahmed , Egyptian Taekwondoin
- 1988 : Diego Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- 1989 : Erik Akkersdijk , Dutch speedcuber
- 1989 : Daniel Drescher , Austrian soccer player
- 1990 : Mason Finley , American discus thrower and shot putter
- 1990 : Glenhis Hernández , Cuban Taekwondoin
- 1990 : Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch , German high jumper
- 1991 : Simon Cho , American short tracker
- 1991 : Eyal Golasa , Israeli soccer player
- 1991 : Stefan Marinovic , New Zealand soccer player
- 1991 : Kevin Mirocha , German racing driver
- 1995 : Slade Pearce , American actor
- 1997 : Kira Kosarin , American actress and singer
- 1997 : Ingibjörg Sigurðardóttir , Icelandic football player
- 1997 : Vanessa Voigt , German biathlete
- 1998 : Trent Alexander-Arnold , English soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 336 : Marcus , Bishop of Rome
- 929 : Charles III. the simple-minded, King of the West Franks
- 981 : Ohtrich , Catholic theologian and philosopher
- 1072 : Sancho II , King of Castile, León and Galicia
- 1130 : Hermann II , Lord in Baden, Count of Breisgau and Margrave of Verona
- 1130 : Al-Amir , Caliph of the Fatimids
- 1242 : Juntoku , Japanese emperor
- 1243 : Heinrich I , Bishop of Seckau
- 1260 : Albrecht I , Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1382 : Johann von Vienne , Bishop of Basel and Metz, Archbishop of Besançon
- 1457 : John of Coimbra , Portuguese nobleman
- 1461 : Jean Poton de Xaintrailles , French nobleman, royal bailiff of Berry, Seneschal and Limousin, Marshal of France
- 1472 : Michelozzo di Bartolommeo , Florentine sculptor and architect
- 1488 : Andrea del Verrocchio , Italian artist
- 1496 : Ferdinand II of Naples , King of Naples
16th to 18th century
- 1510 : Karl von Baden , canon in Strasbourg and Trier
- 1514 : Bernardo Rucellai , Florentine scholar and diplomat
- 1543 : Gertrud von Büchel , German abbess, calligrapher and book illustrator
- 1571 : Ali Pascha , Grand Admiral of the Ottoman fleet in the sea battle at Lepanto
- 1571 : Dorothea von Sachsen-Lauenburg , Queen of Denmark and Norway
- 1577 : George Gascoigne , English poet
- 1581 : Honoré I , Lord of Monaco
- 1581 : William Keith, 3rd Earl Marischal , Marshal of Scotland
- 1602 : Thomas Schweicker , armless art writer
- 1612 : Menso Alting , preacher and theologian of the Reformation period
- 1626 : Paul Bril , Dutch painter
- 1633 : Robert Browne , founder of the English Puritan Separatists
- 1637 : Viktor Amadeus I , Duke of Savoy
- 1660 : Paul Scarron , French writer
- 1663 : Sophie Eleonore von Hessen-Darmstadt , Countess of Hessen-Homburg
- 1681 : Nikolaes Heinsius the Elder , Dutch scholar and poet
- 1689 : Jakob Dietlof von Arnim , colonel in Brandenburg, major general and captain
- 1690 : Jacques Savary , French merchant and co-founder of commercial science
- 1690 : Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton , English nobleman
- 1704 : Cyriakus Günther , hymn poet
- 1708 : Gobind Singh , Indian guru of Sikhism
- 1727 : Jeanne-Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf , Marquise of Plasnes, mistress of the French Prime Minister Louis IV. Henri de Bourbon, prince de Condé
- 1728 : Jean-Baptiste Volumier , Flemish violin virtuoso and composer
- 1753 : Herman Kaau-Boerhaave , Dutch medic
- 1787 : Henry Melchior Mühlenberg , German pastor
- 1792 : George Mason , American politician ( constitutional father )
19th century
- 1810 : Giuseppe Fossati , lawyer and translator from Ticino
- 1823 : Johann Christian Hendel , German printer and publisher
- 1824 : Friedrich Karl Rumpf , German literary scholar and rhetorician, theologian and classical philologist
- 1833 : Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche , German Protestant theologian and classical philologist
- 1845 : Isabella Colbran , Spanish opera singer (* 1785 )
- 1847 : Alexandre Brongniart , French chemist and mineralogist, geologist and zoologist
- 1849 : Edgar Allan Poe , American writer
- 1857 : Louis McLane , US Secretary of State
- 1867 : Mohammed Afzal Khan , Emir of Afghanistan
- 1867 : Henry Timrod , American poet and journalist in the Confederation
- 1870 : Majid bin Said , first sultan of Zanzibar
- 1871 : Michael Phelan , American billiards player and entrepreneur
- 1873 : Knut Jungbohn Clement , German writer
- 1887 : George J. Webb , American organist and composer
- 1890 : John Hill Hewitt , American composer, poet, and newspaper publisher
- 1891 : August Roese , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Eisenach
- 1892 : Friedrich Schlögl , Austrian writer
- 1896 : John Langdon Down , English medic
- 1896 : Louis Jules Trochu , French general, President of the National Defense Council
20th century
1901-1950
- 1904 : Isabella Bishop , British travel writer
- 1905 : Pedro Américo , Brazilian painter
- 1907 : Emmerich Andresen , German sculptor and porcelain designer
- 1912 : Wilhelm Manchot , German architect
- 1912 : Jakob Minor , Austrian literary historian
- 1915 : Friedrich Hasenöhrl , Austrian mathematician and physicist
- 1915 : Samuel Prowse Warren , Canadian organist and composer
- 1919 : Alfred Deakin , Australian politician, Prime Minister
- 1924 : Florens Christian Rang , German theologian, politician and writer
- 1926 : Emil Kraepelin , German psychiatrist
- 1934 : Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz , German officer and explorer
- 1937 : Renate Müller , German actress and singer
- 1938 : Hermann Köhl , German aviation pioneer, first to cross the Atlantic in an east-west direction
- 1940 : Tim Rose-Richards , British racing car driver and naval aviator
- 1942 : Norman Gale , English lyric poet
- 1944 : Kurt Adams , German politician
- 1946 : Ewald von Demandowsky , German film dramaturge
- 1947 : Martin Schneeweiss , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1949 : Hugo Chanoch Fuchs , German rabbi and Jewish historian
- 1949 : Martin Punitzer , German architect
- 1950 : Louis Halphen , French historian
1951-2000
- 1954 : Joseph Opatoshu , Polish writer
- 1958 : Rex Griffin , American old-time and country musician
- 1959 : Mario Lanza , American singer
- 1962 : Scrapper Blackwell , American blues musician
- 1963 : Gustaf Gründgens , German actor
- 1965 : Jesse Douglas , American mathematician
- 1966 : Johnny Kidd , British singer
- 1966 : Smiley Lewis , American singer
- 1967 : Norman Angell , British writer and politician
- 1969 : Hermann Quistorf , German writer and translator
- 1983 : George Ogden Abell , American astronomer
- 1983 : Howard E. Armstrong , American lawyer and politician
- 1984 : Hermann Schroeder , German composer and church musician
- 1985 : Wolfgang Kieling , German actor
- 1985 : Cemal Reşit Rey , Turkish composer
- 1986 : Cheryl Crawford , American theater director and producer
- 1986 : Ishizaka Yōjirō , Japanese writer
- 1987 : Bobby Walston , American football player
- 1988 : Otto Arnholz , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1988 : Kurt Honolka , German journalist, musicologist and writer, music and theater critic
- 1990 : Raschid bin Said Al Maktum , Emir of Dubai
- 1991 : Natalia Ginzburg , Italian writer
- 1992 : Ed Blackwell , American jazz drummer
- 1993 : Hans Liebherr , Swiss inventor and master builder, company founder of the construction machine group Liebherr
- 1994 : Niels Kaj Jerne , British medic, Nobel Prize winner
- 1995 : Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann , German terrorist
- 1996 : Viktor Reimann , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1997 : Paul Limberg , German crop scientist
- 1998 : Arnold Jacobs , American musician
- 1998 : Andrej Lettrich , Slovak director and screenwriter
- 2000 : Walter Krupinski , German fighter pilot and lieutenant general
21st century
- 2001 : Christopher Adams , English wrestler and judoka
- 2001 : Hans-Jürgen Augstein , German politician
- 2003 : Izzy Asper , Canadian lawyer, media entrepreneur and politician
- 2003 : Arthur Victor Berger , American composer, music educator and critic
- 2003 : Eleanor Lambert , American fashion journalist
- 2006 : Francisco Austregésilo de Mesquita Filho , Brazilian clergyman and bishop
- 2006 : Fernando Gasparian , Armenian-Brazilian industrialist and publisher
- 2006 : Anna Politkovskaya , Russian journalist
- 2007 : Norick Abe , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 2008 : George Emil Palade , Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2009 : Irving Penn , American photographer
- 2009 : Shelby Singleton , American music producer
- 2011 : Ramiz Alia , Albanian politician
- 2012 : Klaus Richrath , German architect, urban planner and university professor
- 2013 : Patrice Chéreau , French director
- 2013 : Ovadja Josef , Israeli rabbi
- 2014 : Siegfried Lenz , German writer
- 2016 : Barbara Kisseler , German politician
- 2017 : Kazys Almenas , Lithuanian author, engineer and physicist
- 2019 : Heinz-Viktor Simon , German politician
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Henry Melchior Mühlenberg , German messenger of faith in North America (Protestant)
- St. Justina of Padua , Roman virgin, martyr and patron saint (Catholic)
- Rosary Festival (catholic)
- former holidays
- GDR : Republic Day (until 1989)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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