8th August
The August 8 is the 220th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 221st in leap years ), thus remain 145 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 117: The Roman Emperor Trajan , under whose rule the Roman Empire reached its greatest extent, dies. Trajan's death is kept secret by his wife Plotina until August 11th.
- 870: Lotharingia , the northern part of the dominion of Lothar II. , Who died exactly one year earlier, is divided up between eastern and western France in the Treaty of Meerssen .
- 1363: The Cretans ' refusal to pay an extra annual tariff to clean the port and repair the dams in the capital Candia calls the Republic of Venice into action to suppress the rebellion in this colonial property. The uprising of the Venetian settlers on Crete ended after months in 1366 through the use of mercenaries.
- 1570: In the Peace of Saint-Germain , the Huguenots received from the French King Charles IX. four fortified cities where they can practice their religion unhindered.
- 1588: The English fleet defeats the Spanish Armada in the sea battle of Gravelines and ends the Spanish naval rule .
- 1741: With the Swedish declaration of war on Russia , the so-called war of hats begins .
- 1793: French Revolution : The French National Convention bans all royal academies for the advancement of the arts.
- 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte and his companions board the ship that will take them to St. Helena , the place of exile .
- 1832: The Greek National Assembly in Nafplio elects Otto I from Wittelsbach as King of Greece .
- 1863: After the defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg , the Southern General Robert Edward Lee sends a resignation letter to President Jefferson Davis , who, however, immediately refuses.
- 1869: At the instigation of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht , the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) is founded in Eisenach .
- 1918: On the " Black Day of the German Army ", the Allies succeed in breaking through the German front line in the tank battle of Amiens .
- 1919: The Third Anglo-Afghan War ends with the Peace of Rawalpindi . Afghanistan is recognized by Great Britain as a free and independent state.
- 1935: The German Reich Ministry of the Interior dissolves all Masonic lodges and confiscates their assets.
- 1941: The Battle of Uman during the Russian campaign in World War II ends with the surrender of the enclosed Soviet divisions. However, tens of thousands of Red Army soldiers were able to escape leaving behind heavy military equipment.
- 1942: Mohandas Gandhi gives a speech in Bombay in which he calls on the British colonial rulers to leave India. This is what triggers the Quit India movement .
- 1942: Six participants in the German command company Operation Pastorius to commit acts of sabotage in the USA are sentenced to death by a US military tribunal and executed shortly afterwards ; two other people involved received long prison sentences.
- 1945: Second World War : The Soviet Union declares war on Japan and immediately begins Operation August Storm , the invasion of Manchukuo , Japanese-occupied Manchuria .
- 1945: With the London Statute , the Allies agree on the basis of the trial of the major war criminals .
- 1949: Bhutan , which has been formally independent since 1910 , but whose foreign policy is still exercised by Great Britain , signs a friendship treaty with India , according to which India takes over the foreign policy agendas of the neighboring country.
- 1963: In the “ Great Mail Train Robbery ”, Bruce Reynolds , Ronald Biggs and at least 13 other men attacked a mail train from Glasgow to London and stole 2.63 million GBP (equivalent to around 50 million euros today).
- 1967: Thailand , Indonesia , Malaysia , Singapore and the Philippines found ASEAN . The merger of Southeast Asian states is intended to promote economic upswing, social progress and political stability in the region.
- 1973: The South Korean secret service kidnaps the opposition politician Kim Dae-jung , who has fled into exile in Tokyo, to his homeland, where he is placed under house arrest a few days later .
- 1974: US President Richard Nixon announces his resignation over the Watergate affair .
- 1983: In Guatemala , the President is Efrain Rios Montt in a coup by the military because of insanity discontinued. The previous Minister of Defense, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, will take over his post .
- 1988: In Burma , the student-initiated 8888 Uprising calls for democracy. The military warns that demonstrators will be shot at. Nonetheless, the unrest continued until it was put down on September 18.
- 1990: Iraq annexes the territory of Kuwait . In the later Gulf War , the emirate is liberated by international forces under the leadership of the USA .
- 1991: The bodies of Shapur Bakhtiar , the former Prime Minister of Iran , and his secretary are found after both were murdered on August 6, 1991 with other opposition members in French exile by employees of the Iranian secret service.
- 1991: The freighter Vlora reaches the Italian port city of Bari with over 10,000 Albanian refugees on board .
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- 1994: Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin visits Jordan for the first time .
- 1998: In Afghanistan , the Taliban take the last major bastion of the Northern Alliance in the city of Mazar-e Sharif .
- 2003: René Harris becomes President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in one person in Nauru after a vote of no confidence in Ludwig Scotty .
- 2006: The verdict against the justice victim Gustl Mollath falls and instructs him in the closed psychiatry.
business
- 1653: The Paris City Post Office , set up by Jean-Jacques Renouard de Villayer , issues paper strips to be paid for in advance as proof of postage.
- 1703: The Wiener Zeitung , founded as Wiennerisches Diarium , appears with its first edition. The paper prides itself on being the oldest newspaper in the world that is still published .
- 1924: History of the Berlin S-Bahn : The first electric Berlin S-Bahn runs.
- 1929: The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins its circumnavigation.
- 1945: The Badischer Tagblatt in Baden-Baden is the first licensed newspaper in the French occupation zone to be approved.
- 1962: The Germans Gebhard Weigele and Johann Sulzberger's first patent on a car wash for cars to. In this system, two brushes drive around the car parked in a wash bay.
- 1969: The German Wells Cooperative decides to introduce a new reusable bottle for mineral water , the so-called standard well bottle designed by industrial designer Günter Kupetz .
science and technology
- 1576: The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe notes the laying of the foundation stone of his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Ven .
- 1709: The Brazilian Jesuit priest Bartholomeu Lourenco de Gusmao presents a forerunner of the hot air balloon .
- 1769: Charles Messier discovers Comet 1769 Messier .
- 1858: The Frankfurt am Main Zoological Garden is opened.
- 1877: Henry Morton Stanley and a group of companions arrive near starvation in Boma at the mouth of the Congo. This marks the end of the last stage of Stanley's second Africa expedition, which lasted a total of three years. The African explorer explored the Congo River from Nyangwa in just under 9 months, initially with 18 canoes downstream.
- 1884: George Eastman and his assistant William Walker apply for a patent for stripping film , a paper roll film .
- 1900: David Hilbert presents a list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris . These Hilbert problems have a major influence on the development of mathematics in the 20th century .
- 1914: The Endurance Expedition , the last major expedition of the so-called Golden Age of Antarctic research, leaves Plymouth for Buenos Aires under the direction of Ernest Shackleton .
- 1946: The American long-range bomber Convair B-36 Peacemaker makes its maiden flight in Fort Worth.
- 1989: The Esa satellite Hipparcos is launched.
- 2000: The wreck of the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley , which sank in 1864 , is recovered off Charleston, South Carolina .
- 2003: In Perl- Nennig in Saarland , the weather service Meteomedia measured 40.3 ° C, the highest temperature in Germany to date, but this was never recognized by the DWD due to measurement inaccuracies. The previous heat record of 40.2 ° C on July 27, 1983 in Gärmersdorf in Bavaria remains in place.
- 2009: Archaeologists from Tübingen University , see the West Syrian Qatna one spared by robbers 3,500 years old grave chamber from the Bronze Age .
Culture
- 1828: First performance of the opera Gabriella di Vergy by Saverio Mercadante at the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon .
- 1840: First performance of the opera Bátori Mária by Ferenc Erkel in Budapest .
- 1856: First performance of the operetta Deux Vieilles Gardes by Léo Delibes at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris .
- 1942: Walt Disney's fifth full-length animated film Bambi , the production of which took almost five years, has its world premiere in London. The US premiere will follow in New York on August 13th.
- 1969: On this day, the Beatles take the pictures for their famous album cover, which is later often reproduced in the music and art scene, for their last joint studio album " Abbey Road ". The location of the historical session will be the world-famous zebra crossing on the street in front of the building, which has since then often been visited by fans from all over the world, directly in front of the recording studio of the same name in St. John's Wood , City of Westminster , London , England
company
- 1892: The "German Main Association of the Blue Cross" is founded. He is part of the abstinence movement .
religion
- 1499: Pope Alexander VI. appoints his daughter Lucrezia Borgia as ruler in Spoleto , Foligno and their surroundings in the area of the Papal States .
- 1600: After the expulsion of the Protestants, 10,000 Protestant books and writings are burned in the Paulustorvorstadt of Graz . Two days later, the papal nuncio lays the foundation stone for the Antonius Church at this point .
- 1956: In Frankfurt is the seventh German Protestant Church opened. Its motto is "be reconciled with God" ( 2. Cor. 5:20 LUT )
- 1997: The Ibrahim al-Ibrahim Mosque is inaugurated in Gibraltar . The current southernmost mosque in Europe is a gift from the Saudi Arabian King Fahd ibn Abd al-Aziz .
Disasters
- 1956: After a short circuit in the Bois du Cazier coal mine, the worst mining accident in Belgium occurs. 262 miners from different nations, including 136 Italians, die.
- 1975: 62 dams break in the People's Republic of China , including the Banqiao Dam . 231,000 people die. It is the worst dam disaster in history.
- 1975: The fire breaks out in the Lüneburg Heath . In the next few days it will destroy over 8,000 hectares of forest and some buildings and kill 7 people.
- 1991: At 6:00 p.m. CEST, the tallest structure to date, the 648-meter-high Radio Warsaw transmission mast of the long-wave transmitter in Konstantynów, collapsed when the guys were exchanged on the top guy level.
- 2009: Typhoon Morakot reaches the island of Taiwan and kills over 100 people there after causing deaths and severe destruction in Japan and the Philippines in the days before.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 2013: During a heat wave in Bad Deutsch-Altenburg with 40.5 degrees Celsius, the 40 degree mark is exceeded for the first time since weather records began in Austria .
Sports
- 1786: Jacques Balmat and Michel-Gabriel Paccard are the first mountaineers to stand on the summit of Mont Blanc , the highest mountain in the Alps .
- 1842: The 4,042 meter high Lauteraarhorn is climbed for the first time by a group of six mountaineers.
- 1907: In Augsburg is FC Augsburg Allemania established from which the Bundesliga side FC Augsburg emerged.
- 2008: The Chinese President Hu Jintao opens the XXIX in Beijing . Summer Olympics . Former gymnast Li Ning lights the Olympic flame , table tennis player Zhang Yining and referee Huang Liping take the Olympic oath . More than 11,000 athletes take part in the competitions , which will last until August 24th.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 17th century
- 422: Casper II , ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
- 1079: Horikawa , 73rd Emperor of Japan
- 1306: Rudolf II , Count Palatine near the Rhine
- 1518: Conrad Lycosthenes , German humanist and encyclopaedist
- 1558: George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland , English naval commander and courtier
- 1578: Matteo Rosselli , Italian painter
- 1582: Albrecht Günther , Count of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
17th century
- 1606: Achatius von Quitzow , German member of the Fruit Bringing Society
- 1607: Georg Wiegner , German lawyer and mayor of Dresden
- 1619: Francesco Maria Farnese , cardinal and regent of the Duchy of Parma
- 1639: Christina zu Mecklenburg , abbess of the Gandersheim monastery
- 1644: Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg , Prince-Bishop of Münster
- 1646: Godfrey Kneller , German portrait painter and court artist, court painter to several British monarchs
- 1646: Eleanor Charlotte von Sachsen-Lauenburg , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
- 1656: Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena , Italian scenographer, architect and decorative painter
- 1661: Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg , imperial count, heir to Emden and field marshal
- 1687: Johann Henrich von Seelen , German Lutheran theologian and educator
- 1689: Wenzel Lorenz Reiner , Bohemian painter and baroque fresco artist
- 1693: Laurent Belissen , French late Baroque composer
- 1694: Francis Hutcheson , Irish philosopher and economist
- 1698: Moritz Wilhelm von der Asseburg , Prussian major general
Wenzel Lorenz Reiner
(* 1689)
Johann Georg Scheffner
(* 1736)
Johann Friedrich Gmelin
(* 1748)
Hipólito Ruiz López
(* 1754)
18th century
- 1702: Joseph Ignaz Schilling , German painter
- 1705: Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff , Venetian scholar, poet and librettist
- 1709: Ernst Ludwig II , Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- 1709: Tokugawa Ietsugu , Japanese shogun
- 1709: Heřman Antonín Jelínek , Czech composer and violin virtuoso
- 1717: Gottlieb Wernsdorf I. , German pedagogue, rhetorician and author
- 1721: Ernst August Schulze , German Reformed theologian
- 1731: Johann Ludwig Spörl , German Protestant theologian
- 1732: Johann Christoph Adelung , German librarian and linguist
- 1734: Friedrich August , German sovereign
- 1736: Johann Georg Scheffner , German lawyer, writer and Freemason
- 1736: Johann Gottlob Thierbach , German educator
- 1748: Johann Friedrich Gmelin , German botanist, zoologist and chemist
- 1754: Hipólito Ruiz López , Spanish botanist
- 1754: Luigi Marchesi , Italian opera singer and castrato
- 1762: Giovanni Battista Monteggia , Italian surgeon
- 1763: Charles Bulfinch , American architect
- 1767: John Fabyan Parrott , American politician
- 1767: Friedrich Christian Gottlieb Perlet , German educator and philologist
- 1768: Elisabeth Eleonore Bernhardi , German writer and women's rights activist
- 1770: Charles Marie Auguste de Beaumont d'Autichamp , French general
- 1771: Heinrich Karl Eichstädt , German classical philologist
- 1772: Wilhelm August Lampadius , German metallurgical chemist
- 1772: Franz Paul Scholz , German clergyman, scientist and explorer
- 1791: Carl Weichselbaumer , German writer
- 1794: Alois Fuchs , Roman Catholic priest
- 1797: Joseph Nicolas Robert-Fleury , French painter
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802: Wilhelm Wieprecht , German composer and professor
- 1805: Friedrich Wasmann , German Biedermeier painter
Emilie Flygare-Carlén
(* 1807)
Marie of Hessen-Darmstadt
(* 1824)
Vera Ivanovna Sassulitsch
(* 1849)
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- 1807: Emilie Flygare-Carlén , Swedish writer
- 1811: Carl Otto Dammers , German lawyer and politician
- 1813: Franziska Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau , by marriage Princess of Liechtenstein
- 1817: Eilert Sundt , Norwegian sociologist
- 1820: Winfield Scott Featherston , American politician and general
- 1820: Julius Stern , German music teacher, conductor and composer
- 1821: Wilhelm Albrecht von Montenuovo , Austrian general
- 1823: Augustin Théodule Ribot , French painter
- 1823: Carl Wallau , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Mainz
- 1824: Johann Evangelius Gimpl , German pastor and politician
- 1824: Marie von Hessen-Darmstadt , Russian tsarina
- 1826: Charles Galibert , French composer
- 1828: Bernhard von Poten , royal Prussian colonel and military writer
- 1830: Adolf Holm , German ancient historian
- 1831: Nikolaus Nikolajewitsch Romanow , Russian Grand Duke
- 1832: Georg , Saxon King
- 1833: Karl Klaus von der Betten , German explorer and Africa traveler
- 1836: Rudolf Rüdt von Collenberg-Eberstadt , German lawyer and state commissioner
- 1837: Franz August von Gordon , Prussian landowner and politician
- 1837: Anton Matthias Schön , German entrepreneur and large landowner
- 1837: Victor Sieg , French organist and composer
- 1839: Otto Finsch , German explorer
- 1839: Nelson Appleton Miles , American officer and commander of the United States Army
- 1843: Gustav Oswald Ahnert , German lawyer and politician
- 1845: Thomas Koschat , Austrian composer and choir director
- 1846: Julius Bouché , German garden designer and greenhouse technician
- 1846: Frank Brown , American politician
- 1846: Alfred Mathieu Giard , French biologist
- 1847: Hermann Cardauns , German historian
- 1849: Vera Ivanovna Sassulitsch , Russian author and revolutionary
1851-1900
- 1852: Joseph Emmanuel II. Toma , Iraqi priest, Patriarch of Babylon
- 1852: Paul Leonhardt , German retail merchant and local politician
- 1855: Willibald Wolfsteiner , 33rd abbot of the Ettal Benedictine Abbey
- 1857: Cécile Chaminade , French composer and pianist
- 1857: Maurice Yvon , French architect
- 1859: Kathinka Hedwig Agerskov , Danish genre painter
- 1860: Hans Grässel , German architect
Paul Leonhardt
(* 1852)
Cécile Chaminade
(* 1857)
William Bateson
(* 1861)
Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (* 1863)
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
(* 1896)
- 1861: William Bateson , British geneticist
- 1863: Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey , American ornithologist
- 1863: Hulda von Levetzow , German author
- 1865: Robert Haab , Swiss Federal Councilor
- 1865: Wilhelm Räderscheidt , German teacher and author
- 1866: Matthew Henson , American polar explorer
- 1870: João Itiberê da Cunha , Brazilian composer and music critic
- 1871: Olga de Meyer , British heiress, muse and high society lady
- 1872: Léon Saint-Réquier , French composer, organist and music teacher
- 1874: George A. Banker , American cyclist
- 1874: Tristan Klingsor , French writer and painter, composer and music critic
- 1875: Gustav Müller , German politician, MdL, MdR
- 1875: Vladimir Alexejewitsch Senilow , Russian composer
- 1876: Hans Karl Abel , German writer
- 1877: Alexander Alexejewitsch Chanschonkow , Russian entrepreneur
- 1878: Nathan L. Bachman , American politician
- 1879: Terauchi Hisaichi , Japanese field marshal
- 1879: Robert Holbrook Smith , American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous
- 1879: Emiliano Zapata , Mexican revolutionary
- 1881: Joseph Bernhart , German theologian, religious scholar and writer
- 1881: Ewald von Kleist , German army officer
- 1882: Oscar K. Allen , American politician
- 1882: Władysław Starewicz , Polish puppet animator, pioneer of stop-motion technology
- 1883: Doihara Kenji , Japanese master spy
- 1884: Otmar Schissel von Fleschenberg , Austrian classical philologist and Germanist
- 1884: Sara Teasdale , American poet
- 1885: Conrad Gauthier , Canadian singer and actor
- 1886: Pietro Yon , Italian-American organist and composer
- 1888: Josef Adlmannseder , Austrian politician
- 1891: André Boillot , French racing car driver
- 1891: Adolf Busch , German violinist and composer
- 1891: Charlotte Klinder , German actress
- 1891: Wilhelm Matthießen , German author of books for children and young people
- 1892: Hans Heusser , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1892: Otto Renois , German communist and resistance fighter
- 1893: Ludwig Grote , German art historian
- 1896: Daudi Chwa II. , Kabaka of Buganda
- 1896: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner
- 1897: Wilhelm Gabriel , German composer and music publisher
- 1898: Josef Ecker-Stadlmayr , Austrian politician
- 1898: Mark Lazarevich Levi , Russian author
- 1899: Frank Hanson , Canadian music educator and composer
- 1900: Lucky Millinder , American R&B and swing musician
- 1900: Robert Siodmak , German film director
- 1900: Victor Young , American composer, violinist and conductor
20th century
1901-1925
Ernest Lawrence
(* 1901)
Paul Dirac
(born 1902)
Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles (* 1914)
- 1901: Nina Nikolajewna Berberowa , Russian prose writer and poet
- 1901: Ernest O. Lawrence , American nuclear physicist, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize winner
- 1902: Paul Dirac , British physicist, co-founder of quantum physics, Nobel Prize winner
- 1904: Mary Kid , German actress
- 1904: István Szelényi , Hungarian pianist and composer
- 1904: Achille Varzi , Italian racing driver
- 1905: Herbert Jankuhn , German prehistorian
- 1905: André Jolivet , French composer
- 1905: Carl Pflüger , German painter
- 1906: Eberhard Brünen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1906: Erich Kräutler , German Catholic missionary bishop in Brazil
- 1907: Franz Abromeit , German SS leader and adviser to Jews
- 1907: Benny Carter , American jazz musician
- 1908: Lloyd Burdick , American football player
- 1908: Irmgard von Kienlin-Moy , German painter, graphic artist and poet
- 1908: August Möbs , German football player
- 1908: Alfredo Núñez de Borbón , Mexican violinist and composer
- 1908: Ford Rainey , American actor
- 1909: Erwin Hinze , German politician
- 1910: Hans Baur , German actor
- 1910: Sylvia Sidney , American actress
- 1911: Frederick Grinke , Canadian violinist and music teacher
- 1911: Johann Anton Hemberger , German civil engineer and mayor
- 1911: Rosetta LeNoire , American actress
- 1911: Anneliese Müller , German opera singer
- 1911: Herwig Walter , German actor
- 1912: Jacques Bergier , French chemist, spy, journalist and writer
- 1912: Fritz Langner , German soccer player and coach
- 1912: Daniel Mann , American director
- 1912: Leopold Ungar , Austrian Catholic clergyman
- 1912: Hermann Zahn , German entrepreneur
- 1913: Boris Ivanovich Afanassjew , Russian football and ice hockey player and ice hockey coach
- 1913: Paula Dworak , Austrian film editor
- 1913: Axel Stordahl , American musician, arranger and band leader
- 1914: Ana Mercedes Asuaje de Rugeles , Venezuelan composer and music teacher
- 1914: Paul Ledoux , Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist
- 1914: Unity Mitford , British National Socialist, personal friend of Hitler
- 1914: Willi Strobl , Sudeten German football player
- 1915: Agnar Mykle , Norwegian writer
- 1916: Rudolf Hoflehner , Austrian sculptor and painter
- 1917: Agnes Gutter , Swiss researcher in fairy tales, children and young people
- 1919: Dino De Laurentiis , Italian film producer
- 1919: George Gerbner , Hungarian-American communication scholar and poet
- 1919: Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr. , American governor of Arizona
- 1919: Mary Martlew , British-Swiss actress
- 1920: Alfred home , German violinist, conductor and Kapellmeister
- 1921: Ursula Braun , German actress and voice actress
- 1921: Roger Nixon , American composer and music teacher
- 1921: Webb Pierce , American country singer
- 1921: Ermanno Pignatti , Italian weightlifter
Esther Williams
(* 1921)
Alija Izetbegović
(* 1925)
Roger Penrose
(born 1931)
Cornelis Vreeswijk
(* 1937)
- 1921: Esther Williams , American swimmer and actress
- 1922: Rory Calhoun , American actor
- 1922: Rudi Gernreich , Austrian-American fashion designer
- 1922: Alberto Granado , Cuban biochemist, Che Guevara's traveling companion
- 1922: Peter Hermes , German diplomat
- 1922: Günter Steffens , German writer
- 1922: Fritz Umgelter , German director, actor and set designer
- 1923: Latifa Al-Zayyat , Arabic writer
- 1923: Ursel Peter , Austrian poet
- 1923: Antonio Quarracino , Argentine Archbishop and Cardinal
- 1923: Jimmy Witherspoon , American blues and jazz singer
- 1924: Eberhard Werner , German artist and landscape painter
- 1925: Ernst Badian , Austrian ancient historian
- 1925: Alija Izetbegović , Bosnian politician, President of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Islamic activist
- 1925: Brigitte Renner , German actress
- 1925: Woodie Wilson , American racing driver
1926-1950
- 1926: Herbert H. Ágústsson , Icelandic composer and musician
- 1926: Silvio Amadio , Italian film director and screenwriter
- 1926: Richard Norman Anderson , American actor
- 1926: James D. Breckenridge , American art historian
- 1926: Piero Drogo , Italian racing car driver and designer
- 1926: Pinchas Erlanger , Israeli farmer of German origin
- 1926: Urbie Green , American jazz trombonist
- 1926: Ernst R. Hauschka , German poet
- 1926: Jiří Levý , Czech literary theorist and historian
- 1927: Arturo García Bustos , Mexican artist
- 1927: Svyatoslaw Nikolajewitsch Fjodorow , Russian ophthalmologist, businessman and politician
- 1927: Bill Gadsby , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1927: Yuri Kazakow , Russian writer
- 1928: Lubor Bárta , Czech composer
- 1928: Don Burrows , Australian jazz musician
- 1928: Simón Díaz , Venezuelan composer and singer, comedian, actor and television presenter
- 1928: Werner Hofmann , German art scholar
- 1928: Vilayat Khan , Indian sitar virtuoso
- 1928: François Remetter , French football player
- 1929: Lionginas Abarius , Lithuanian musician, composer and professor
- 1929: Ronald Biggs , British mail robber
- 1929: José Luis Borau , Spanish film director, producer and actor
- 1929: Gudrun Burwitz , daughter of Heinrich Himmler
- 1929: Sabri Godo , Albanian writer and politician
- 1929: Josef Suk , Czech violinist and violist
- 1930: Johannes Mischo , German parapsychologist at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau
- 1930: Joan Mondale , US art commissioner, wife of US Vice President Walter Mondale
- 1930: Nita Talbot , American actress
- 1930: Jerry Tarkanian , American basketball coach
- 1931: Peter Fitz , German actor
- 1931: Roger Penrose , British mathematician and theoretical physicist
- 1932: Lino Borges , Cuban bolero singer
- 1932: Alfons Nossol , Roman Catholic Archbishop and Polish theologian
- 1932: Mel Tillis , American singer and songwriter
- 1933: Joe Tex , American singer and songwriter
- 1934: Kaplan Burović , Albanian writer and journalist
- 1934: Cláudio Hummes , Brazilian clergyman, Archbishop of Sao Paulo
- 1935: Donald P. Bellisario , American screenwriter, director, and producer
- 1935: Harry Hardenberg , German photographer
- 1935: Harvey Hook , US Virgin Islands bobsledder
- 1935: Jane Dee Hull , American politician
- 1937: Dustin Hoffman , American actor
- 1937: Louis Neefs , Belgian singer and presenter
- 1937: Cornelis Vreeswijk , Dutch-Swedish trobador, composer and poet
- 1938: Jacques Hétu , Canadian composer
- 1938: Connie Stevens , American actress and singer
- 1939: Peter Michael Lingens , Austrian journalist
- 1939: Viorica Viscopoleanu , Romanian long jumper
- 1940: Just Jaeckin , French director and photographer
- 1940: Hans-Georg Specht , Lord Mayor of Mülheim an der Ruhr
- 1940: Dennis Tito , American entrepreneur and first space tourist
- 1941: Renate Blank , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1941: Hubert Schoonbroodt , Belgian conductor and organist
- 1942: James Blanchard , American politician
- 1943: Daniel Börtz , Swedish composer
- 1944: Derib , Swiss comic artist
- 1944: Uli Derickson , German flight attendant
- 1944: John Holmes , American porn actor
- 1944: John Renbourn , British folk rock singer and guitarist
- 1945: Massimo Dapporto , Italian film actor
- 1945: Wolfgang Dreher , German judge at the Federal Social Court
- 1946: Ralph Gonsalves , Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- 1946: Michel Lateste , French racing car driver
- 1946: Heinz Schott , German medical historian, professor and local politician
- 1946: Dragutin Šurbek , Yugoslav-Croatian table tennis player
- 1946: Arno Widmann , German journalist and writer
- 1946: Ekkart Zimmermann , German sociologist and political scientist
- 1947: Franco Biondi , Italian-German writer
- 1947: Ken Dryden , Canadian ice hockey player, author, and politician
- 1947: Tommy Ellis , American racing driver
- 1947: Karl-Friedrich Fischer , German computer scientist
- 1948: Ousainou Darboe , Gambian politician
- 1948: Svetlana Evgenevna Savitskaya , Russian cosmonaut
- 1949: Keith Carradine , American actor, director and singer
- 1949: Werner Weinhold , GDR refugee, who shot two border soldiers
- 1950: Martine Aubry , French politician and Mayor of Lille
- 1950: Ken Kutaragi , Japanese manager
- 1950: Jamie O'Hara , American country singer and songwriter
1951-1975
- 1951: Lothar Alisch , German clergyman and GDR dissident
- 1951: Manfred Bomm , German journalist and writer
- 1951: Martin Brest , American film director, screenwriter and producer
- 1951: Louis van Gaal , Dutch football player and coach
- 1951: Mamoru Oshii , Japanese director
- 1951: Randy Shilts , American author
- 1952: Brigitte Ahrenholz , German rower
- 1952: Anton Fig , American rock and jazz drummer
- 1952: Jostein Gaarder , Norwegian writer
- 1952: Norbert Glante , German politician, MEP
- 1952: Carsten Peter Thiede , German historian and papyrologist
- 1953: Lloyd James Austin III. , American general
- 1953: Rolf Beilschmidt , German athlete
- 1953: Nigel Mansell , British Formula 1 world champion
- 1953: Emilio Mendoza , Venezuelan composer
- 1953: Grégoire Solotareff , French author and illustrator of children's books
- 1953: Roberto Urbay , Cuban pianist and music teacher
- 1954: Ottmar Holdenrieder , German forest scientist and university professor
- 1955: Barbara Petzold , German cross-country skier
- 1955: Herbert Prohaska , Austrian soccer player and coach
- 1956: Leonid Judassin , Israeli chess grandmaster
- 1956: Bernd Pohlenz , German cartoonist
- 1956: Lena Stolze , German actress
- 1956: Birgit Vanderbeke , German writer
- 1956: Nathan Wang , American composer
- 1957: Esmail Ghaani , Iranian major general
- 1958: Valerio Held , Italian comic artist
- 1958: Stephan Klapproth , Swiss television presenter
- 1958: Cecilia Roth , Argentine actress
- 1958: Marino Zerial , Italian biologist and cell scientist
- 1959: Valerio Varesi , Italian journalist and crime novel writer
- 1959: Ronald Weigel , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1960: Ralf König , German comic artist
- 1960: Ulrich Maly , German local politician
- 1960: Anthony Mwamba , Zambian boxer
- 1961: The Edge , Irish guitarist ( U2 )
- 1962: Damian Halata , German soccer player and coach
- 1962: Oliver Stokowski , German actor
- 1963: Jordan K. Hubbard , American computer scientist
- 1963: Jon Turteltaub , American film director and film producer
- 1964: Jens Carlowitz , German athlete
- 1964: Klaus Ebner , Austrian writer
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- 1964: Jan Josef Liefers , German actor, musician, director and producer
- 1964: Uwe Schünemann , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
- 1965: Nika von Altenstadt , German actress and screenwriter
- 1965: Achim Hagemann , German composer and musician
- 1965: Marion Mitterhammer , Austrian actress
- 1965: Andreas Wahl , German jazz musician
- 1965: Jürgen Zäck , German triathlete
- 1966: Mohiro Kitoh , Japanese manga artist
- 1967: Shane Lewis , American racing car driver
- 1967: Gunther Metz , German football player
- 1968: Uwe Heinelt , German illustrator and comic artist
- 1968: Christian Keßler , German film critic, author and film producer
- 1968: Edward Singhatey , Gambian politician
- 1969: Nir Bergman , Israeli screenwriter and film director
- 1969: Boris Büchler , German sports reporter and filmmaker
- 1969: Virginia Heffernan , American journalist and television critic
- 1969: Stefan Krempl , German journalist
- 1969: Pawel Vladimirovich Melnikow , former Russian rower
- 1969: Karsten Nied , former German soccer player
- 1969: Roger Nilsen , Norwegian football player
- 1969: Faye Wong , Chinese singer and actress
- 1969: Polina Zilberman , Moldovan chess player and trainer
- 1970: Pascal Duquenne , Belgian actor and disabled athlete
- 1970: José Francisco Molina , Spanish soccer player
- 1970: Stacy Valentine , American porn actress
- 1971: Rainer Galke , German actor
- 1972: Terje Aune , Norwegian biathlete
- 1972: Yvonne de Bark , German actress
- 1972: Axel Merckx , Belgian racing cyclist
- 1972: Lüpüs Thünder , American guitarist
- 1973: Ilka Agricola , German mathematician
- 1973: François Bouchard , Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973: Scott Stapp , American singer and songwriter
- 1973: Lajos Szűcs , Hungarian football goalkeeper
- 1973: Mark Wills , American country musician
- 1974: Aneela , Danish singer
- 1974: Jan Herzog , German rower
- 1974: David Juříček , Czech handball player
- 1974: Michael Leutert , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1974: Kohl Sudduth , American actor
- 1974: Mikael Torfason , Icelandic writer, journalist and film director
- 1975: Katharina Dalichau , German actress
- 1975: Stephanie Kellner , German actress
- 1975: Gernot Wolfram , German journalist and writer
1976-2000
- 1976: JC Chasez , American singer and songwriter
- 1976: Urs Eiselin , Swiss snowboarder
- 1976: Andy Priaulx , British racing driver
- 1977: Kunle Adejuyigbe , Nigerian sprinter
- 1977: Marsha Ambrosius , English R&B singer and songwriter
- 1977: Rutger Beke , Belgian triathlete
- 1977: Tommy Ingebrigtsen , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1977: Bianca Kappler , German athlete
- 1977: Szilárd Németh , Slovak football player
- 1977: Nicolas Vogondy , French racing cyclist
- 1978: Alexander Bugera , German soccer player
- 1978: Louis Saha , French football player
- 1979: Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
- 1980: Luca Agamennoni , Italian rower
- 1980: Matthew Kemp , Australian soccer player
- 1980: Ossi Väänänen , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1981: Vanessa Amorosi , Australian pop singer
- 1981: Roger Federer , Swiss tennis player
- 1981: Tony Salmelainen , Finnish ice hockey player
- 1981: Harel Skaat , Israeli singer
- 1982: Enrico Franzoi , Italian racing cyclist
- 1982: Brandon Gay , American basketball player
- 1982: Daven Holly , American football player
- 1982: Yūta Watase , Japanese ski jumper
- 1983: Hitomi Kanehara , Japanese writer
- 1983: Bastian Knittel , German tennis player
- 1983: Qanybek Saghyndyqow , Kyrgyz billiards player
- 1984: Kirk Broadfoot , Scottish soccer player
- 1984: Kang Chil-gu , South Korean ski jumper
- 1984: Norbert Michelisz , Hungarian racing driver
- 1985: Rukayatu Abdulai , Canadian athlete
- 1985: Sascha Ilitsch , German handball player
- 1985: Kai Kovaljeff , Finnish ski jumper
- 1985: Marinko Matosevic , Australian tennis player
- 1986: Neri Raúl Cardozo , Argentine soccer player
- 1986: Kasper Hämäläinen , Finnish football player
- 1986: Peyton List , American actress
- 1986: Jorge Soto , Uruguayan road cyclist
- 1987: Kwame Amoateng , Swedish football player
- 1987: Katie Leung , British film actress
- 1988: Johannes Hinrich von Borstel , German science slammer and non-fiction author
- 1988: Flavia Bujor , French writer
- 1988: Danilo Gallinari , Italian basketball player
- 1988: Mandy Islacker , German soccer player
- 1988: Igor Alexandrovich Smolnikov , Russian football player
- 1988: Jeffrey Weise , American gunman
- 1988: Beatrice of York , English Princess Beatrice, number 8 of the British line of succession
- 1989: Pedro Gutiérrez , Venezuelan cyclist
- 1989: Ken Baumann , American actor
- 1989: Dominique Wassi , Cameroonian football player
- 1990: Mari Molid , Norwegian handball player
- 1991: Joel Matip , German-Cameroonian football player
- 1992: Casey Cott , American actor
- 1992: Kristine Minde , Norwegian soccer player
- 1993: Benjamin Uphoff , German soccer goalkeeper
- 1997: Denika Kassim , Comorian athlete
- 1997: Antonee Robinson , American-English soccer player
- 1998: Shawn Mendes , Canadian singer
- 2000: Félix Auger-Aliassime , Canadian tennis player
Died
Before the 17th century
Marcus Ulpius Trajan
(† 117)
Carl Heinrich Graun
(† 1759)
Julie Bondeli
(† 1778)
Franz Anton Maulbertsch
(† 1796)
- 117: Marcus Ulpius Trajan , Roman emperor
- 498: Ninken , Japanese Emperor
- 612: Ajen Yohl Mat , ruler of the Maya city of Palenque
- 753: Hildegar of Cologne , Bishop of Cologne
- 869: Lothar II , Frankish king
- 1023: Ekkehard , Bishop of Prague
- 1086: Conrad I , Count of Luxembourg
- 1091: Altmann von Passau , founder of the monastery and bishop of the Diocese of Passau
- 1139: John I , Bishop of Prague
- 1150: Famian of Gallese , saint of the Cistercian order
- 1171: Henry of Blois , Bishop of Winchester
- 1202: Simon I , Count of Tecklenburg
- 1205: Savaric FitzGeldewin , Bishop of Bath and Wells
- 1214: Tore Gudmundsson , Archbishop of Nidaros
- 1258: Henry of Lexinton , Bishop of Lincoln
- 1270: Margaretha von Staufen , Countess in Thuringia and Countess Palatine of Saxony
- 1295: Ottone Visconti , Archbishop of Milan, founder of the power of the Visconti family in Milan and Lombardy
- 1296: Hugo von Brienne , Count of Brienne and Lecce
- 1309: John Lestrange, 1st Baron Strange of Knockin , English nobleman and general
- 1326: Konrad , Bishop of Olomouc
- 1356: Giovanni Gradenigo , Doge of Venice
- 1369: Thomas Percy , Bishop of Norwich
- 1394: Marino Bulcani , Neapolitan Cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1504: Peter Schott the Elder , Strasbourg politician
- 1504: Hanns von Wulfestorff , knight, liege lord
- 1505: Niccolò de Rubini , Bishop of Lacedonia
- 1540: Christoph Hegendorf , German humanistic poet, Lutheran theologian and lawyer
- 1543: Herman Rover , German lawyer, council secretary in Lübeck and councilor in Hamburg
- 1545: Injong , King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1551: Tomás de Berlanga , Catholic Bishop of Panama and discoverer of the Galápagos Island
- 1553: Girolamo Fracastoro , Italian doctor, poet and philosopher
- 1554: Theobald Billicanus , theologian, lawyer and reformer
- 1596: Leonhard Thurneysser , Basel goldsmith, metallurgist, metallurgical engineer and scholar
17th and 18th centuries
- 1616: Cornelis Ketel , Dutch architect, sculptor and painter
- 1636: Simon Ludwig , Count of Lippe
- 1648: Hezarpare Ahmed Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1651: Amalie Elisabeth von Hanau-Münzenberg , Landgravine the estate of Hessen-Kassel
- 1656: Chai , 27th King of the Siamese Kingdom of Ayutthaya
- 1656: Salomon Koninck , Dutch painter
- 1694: Antoine Arnauld , French philosopher, linguist and theologian, logician and mathematician
- 1708: Heinrich Arnold Stockfleth , German theologian
- 1724: Christoph Ludwig Agricola , German landscape painter
- 1726: Auguste Marie Johanna von Baden , Baden princess, wife of the Duke of Orléans
- 1736: Kada no Azumamaro , Japanese Shinto philologist and poet
- 1746: Margherita de L'Épine , opera singer (soprano), Handel interpreter
- 1756: Louise of Denmark , Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen
- 1759: Carl Heinrich Graun , German composer and opera singer
- 1761: Albrecht Heinrich von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , Prussian officer and Prince of Braunschweig
- 1764: Johann Philipp Harrach , Austrian field marshal and president of the court war council
- 1778: Julie Bondeli , Swiss salonière
- 1781: Johann Peter Schwartz , German theologian
- 1788: Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis , Marshal of France
- 1793: Rupert von Neuenstein , Prince Abbot of Kempten
- 1796: Franz Anton Maulbertsch , German-Austrian painter
- 1797: Genki , Japanese painter
- 1797: Franz Alexander von Kleist , German poet
19th century
Friedrich August Wolf
(† 1824)
George Canning
(† 1827)
Jacob Burckhardt
(† 1897)
- 1809: Ueda Akinari , Japanese writer
- 1813: Johann Christian Kayser , German organ builder
- 1824: Friedrich August Wolf , German classical philologist and scholar
- 1827: George Canning , British politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain
- 1828: Nicholas-Louis Robert , French inventor of the paper machine
- 1828: Carl Peter Thunberg , Swedish botanist
- 1828: Johann Friedrich Fuchs , German medic
- 1840: Johann Friedrich Abegg , German businessman and senator in Bremen
- 1842: Carl Schindler , Austrian soldier painter
- 1845: Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes sen. , German royal watchmaker (pocket watches) in Dresden
- 1847: Samuel Bogumił Linde , Polish linguist
- 1848: Gustav Adolf Michaelis , German doctor, professor and obstetrician
- 1866: Candidus Pontz von Engelshofen , pioneer of Austrian prehistoric research
- 1867: Sarah Austin , British writer and translator
- 1867: Maria Theresa Isabella of Austria , wife of King Ferdinand II of Bourbon
- 1868: Laurenz Hannibal Fischer , German politician and district president
- 1869: Roger Fenton , British lawyer and photographer
- 1872: Heinrich Abeken , German theologian and Prussian civil servant
- 1872: Eduard Magnus , German painter
- 1872: Eberhard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode , Prussian politician and civil servant
- 1877: Gustav Wilhelm Schubert , Saxon commissioner, lawyer and historian
- 1879: Immanuel Hermann Fichte , German theologian and philosopher
- 1881: Pellegrino Matteucci , Italian traveler to Africa
- 1882: Governor Kemble Warren , American general
- 1883: August Riedel , German painter
- 1884: Miroslav Tyrš , Czech art critic and art historian
- 1889: Benedetto Cairoli , Italian statesman and Prime Minister
- 1896: Friedrich Helbig , German lawyer and writer
- 1897: Jacob Burckhardt , Swiss art historian
- 1897: Victor Meyer , German chemist
- 1898: Eugène Boudin , French painter
- 1899: William Yates Atkinson , American politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901: Ferdinand Christian Gustav Arnold , German botanist
- 1901: Oreste Baratieri , Italian general
- 1902: James Tissot , French painter
- 1902: John Henry Twachtman , American impressionist painter
- 1904: James Cox Aikins , Canadian politician
- 1908: Alfred Mathieu Giard , French biologist
- 1908: Joseph Maria Olbrich , Austrian architect
- 1908: Christian Schneller , Austrian philologist, poet, epic poet and folklorist
- 1911: Heinrich von Poschinger , German writer and historian
- 1913: Hermann Harry Schmitz , satirical and humorous author and lecturer
- 1916: Benno Berneis , German painter
- 1916: Franz Eckert , German composer
- 1916: Torakusu Yamaha , Japanese founder of the Yamaha Corporation
- 1918: Eusebi Güell , Spanish industrialist, patron and politician
- 1921: Juhani Aho , Finnish writer and journalist
- 1922: Alwin Gerisch , German politician, MdR and first SPD chairman
- 1924: Otto Mayer , German lawyer and administrative law scholar
- 1925: Nikolai von Astudin , Russian landscape painter
- 1926: Frank Boggs , French painter of American descent
- 1926: Saxton Pope , American archer
- 1927: Wilhelm Idel , German homeland researcher and poet
- 1929: Willy Ascherl , German football player
- 1929: Paul Mishel , German landscape painter
- 1930: Launceston Elliot , Scottish weightlifter and Olympic champion
- 1934: Wilbert Robinson , American baseball player and manager
- 1937: Jimmie Guthrie , British motorcycle racer
- 1940: Fritz Büchner , German journalist
- 1940: Johnny Dodds , American jazz clarinetist
- 1940: Wilhelm Hoff , organizer of the Prussian railways and minister
- 1940: Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky , Russian Zionist and writer, founder of the Jewish Legion in the First World War
- 1942: Rudolf Abel , German bacteriologist
- 1943: Leon Asher , German physiologist
- 1944: Aino Ackté , Finnish soprano
- 1944: Joseph Allekotte , German politician, MdR
- 1944: Robert Bernardis , Austrian officer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944: Albrecht von Hagen , German lawyer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
Paul von Hase
(† 1944)
Erich Hoepner
(† 1944)
Erwin von Witzleben
(† 1944)
Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg
(† 1944)
- 1944: Paul von Hase , German general and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944: Erich Hoepner , German general and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944: Friedrich Karl Klausing , German officer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944: Hellmuth Stieff , German general and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944: Michael Wittmann , German officer in the Waffen SS and tank commander
- 1944: Erwin von Witzleben , German field marshal and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1944: Peter Graf Yorck von Wartenburg , German lawyer and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
- 1946: María Barrientos , Spanish opera singer
- 1949: Joaquín Torres García , Uruguayan painter
- 1949: Otto Lauffer , German folklorist and cultural historian
- 1949: Richard Watney , British racing car driver and businessman
- 1950: Nikolai Jakowlewitsch Mjaskowski , Russian composer
1951-1975
- 1951: Charles Hitchcock Adams , American chemist, timber merchant, and amateur astronomer
- 1952: Adolph Alexander Weinman , American sculptor
- 1956: Hermann Meister , German publisher and writer
- 1956: Just Scheu , German composer, film actor, presenter and playwright
- 1957: Hans von Kahlenberg , actually Helene Keßler , German writer
- 1957: André Osterritter , German painter, caricaturist, graphic artist
- 1958: Brendan Bracken , British politician
- 1959: Friedrich Panzinger , German SS officer, head of the Reich Criminal Police Office , employee of the BND
- 1962: Yanagita Kunio , Japanese writer and ethnologist
- 1963: Johann Baptist Aufhauser , German theologian
- 1963: Sándor Jemnitz , Hungarian conductor, musician and composer
Marie Baum
(† 1964)
Hans Kroll
(† 1967)
Nevill Francis Mott
(† 1996)
- 1964: Marie Baum , German social politician, pioneer of social work
- 1964: Rudolf Kohl , German politician, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag
- 1965: Oskar Wackerzapp , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1965: Shirley Jackson , American writer
- 1967: Hans Kroll , German diplomat, ambassador to Belgrade, Tokyo and Moscow
- 1967: Jaromír Weinberger , Czech-American music teacher and composer
- 1968: Fritz Stiedry , Austrian conductor
- 1969: Harry Hyland , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1969: Elias Avery Lowe , American paleographer
- 1969: Ferry Ohrtmann , German hall manager, organizer and Nazi sports official
- 1969: Steven Parent , American murder victim of the Manson Family
- 1969: Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer , German physician and human geneticist
- 1971: Julien Hasley , French racing car driver
- 1971: Joseph Santley , American director, writer, and producer
- 1973: José Villalonga Llorente , Spanish football coach
- 1973: Vilhelm Moberg , Swedish writer
- 1974: Elisabeth Abegg , German educator, Quaker and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1974: Baldur von Schirach , German politician during National Socialism, Reich youth leader and war criminal
- 1975: Cannonball Adderley , American jazz saxophonist
- 1975: Else Knott , German actress
- 1975: Ruth Stephan , German actress and cabaret artist
1976-2000
- 1976: Hermann Dortans , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1976: Winston Hibler , American screenwriter, film producer and director, actor and voiceover actor
- 1978: Elisabeth Engelhardt , German writer
- 1978: Hans Revenstorff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1979: Emil Belzner , German journalist and writer
- 1979: Emil Lumbeck , German bookseller
- 1981: Tom McElwee , Northern Irish member of the IRA and hunger striker
- 1981: Lazar Wechsler , Swiss film producer of Polish-Austrian origin, an important representative of early Swiss film
- 1982: Eric Brandon , British racing car driver
- 1982: Georg Wurzer , German soccer coach
- 1983: Hanna Bekker vom Rath , German painter, collector and art dealer
- 1983: Hans Tittel , German trade unionist and politician
- 1984: Werner Otto von Hentig , German diplomat
- 1984: Heinz Werner Ketzer , German cathedral provost in Cologne
- 1984: Walter Tevis , American writer
- 1985: Louise Brooks , American film actress
- 1985: Milton Greene , American photographer
- 1985: Edward Pimental , American soldier murdered for an attack by the RAF
- 1987: Hans Milch , German Catholic pastor and founder of actio spes unica
- 1988: Alan Ameche , American football player
- 1988: Kid Chocolate , Cuban boxer
- 1988: Panchito Riset , Cuban son and bolero singer
- 1989: Enrico Lorenzetti , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1989: Brian Naylor , British racing car driver
- 1989: Jiří Šotola , Czech poet, writer and dramaturge
- 1990: Andrzej Dobrowolski , Polish composer and music teacher
- 1991: Werner Holz , German painter
- 1991: James Benson Irwin , American astronaut
- 1991: Ivan Nikitowitsch Koschedub , Soviet pilot, Marshal of the Aviators
- 1991: Eugen Nerdinger , German type and book designer, resistance fighter against National Socialism
- 1991: Walter Zeman , Austrian soccer player
- 1992: Abu l-Qasim al-Choei , Persian Grand Ayatollah
- 1993: Jiří Adamíra , Czech actor
- 1994: Leonid Leonow , Russian writer
- 1995: František Nepil , Czech writer and radio presenter
- 1996: Harry Angelman , British pediatrician and neurologist
- 1996: Walter Brandorff , German-Austrian writer
- 1996: Herbert Huncke , American author, pioneer of the gay movement
- 1996: Nevill Francis Mott , British physicist and Nobel Prize winner
- 1996: Joseph Asajirō Satowaki , Archbishop of Nagasaki and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
- 1996: Michael P. Weingartner , German art and church painter
- 1997: Paul Rudolph , American architect
- 1998: László Szabó , Hungarian chess player
- 1999: Dora Schaul , German anti-fascist and resistance fighter
- 1999: Rupert Stöckl , German painter
- 2000: Günter Goetzendorff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
21st century
- 2001: Paul Vaessen , English soccer player
- 2002: Reiner Geye , German soccer player
- 2003: Martha Chase , American molecular biologist
- 2003: Scotty Marion , American paraglider pilot
- 2003: Hermann Oxfort , German lawyer, Member of the State Parliament, Berlin Mayor and Justice Senator
- 2004: Willibald Hilf , director of the Südwestfunk
- 2004: Eva Kemlein , German photographer
- 2004: Andreas Matthae , German politician
- 2004: Fay Wray , American actress
- 2005: Barbara Bel Geddes , American actress
- 2005: Günter Döding , German trade unionist
- 2005: Ruprecht Essberger , German television writer and director
- 2005: John H. Johnson , American media entrepreneur
- 2005: Ilse Werner , German actress
- 2005: Harald Winkel , German economist, historian and publisher
- 2006: Gustavo Arcos , Cuban dissident
- 2006: Greg Athans , Canadian freestyle skier and water skier
- 2006: Duke Jordan , American jazz pianist
- 2007: Julius Wess , Austrian physicist, co-discoverer of supersymmetry
- 2008: Tom Drake , Canadian singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director
- 2009: Daniel Jarque , Spanish soccer player
- 2009: Jürgen Tippe , German university rector and president
- 2010: Adele Filene , German fashion designer
- 2010: Patricia Neal , American actress
- 2010: Matthew Simmons , American investment banker
- 2010: Massamasso Tchangaï , Togolese football player
- 2011: Joaquín Jiménez Maxwell , Dominican journalist, broadcaster and director
- 2012: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove , American experimental nuclear physicist
- 2012: Sancho Gracia , Spanish actor
- 2012: Kurt Maetzig , German film director
- 2013: Karen Black , American actress
- 2017: Glen Campbell , American country singer
- 2020: Jean Hurring , New Zealand swimmer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Dominic , Spanish theologian, patron saint and founder of the Dominican Order (Anglican, Catholic, Protestant: ELCA ; see also Dominikustag )
- Jean Vallière , French martyr (Protestant)
- St. Cyriacus , deacon and martyr, helper in need and patron saint (Catholic)
- More information about the day
- Germany , Augsburg High Peace Festival (since 1650)
- World Cat Day (since 2002)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Web links
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