December 8th
The December 8 is the 342nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 343rd in leap years ), thus remain 23 days by year end.
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events
Politics and world events
- 1427: The Mainz-Hessian War ends. With a peace treaty in Frankfurt am Main, a two-century conflict over territorial supremacy in Hesse between Kurmainz and the Landgraves of Hesse is settled.
- 1476: Emperor Friedrich III. allies with Wladyslaw Jagiello of Bohemia and recognizes him as the Bohemian king . The pact is directed against the opposing king Matthias Corvinus and rebelling Austrian nobles.
- 1626: The Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand III. is crowned King of Hungary .
- 1818: After the death of Grand Duke Karl Ludwig Friedrich , his uncle Ludwig I takes over the reign of the Grand Duchy of Baden .
- 1861: After Mexico stopped paying its foreign debts, Spanish troops landed in Veracruz as the first expeditionary force . The European creditor states want to use military means to force payments to continue. Under the allied great powers France, Great Britain and Spain, Emperor Napoleon III persecuted . own plans that include a French intervention in Mexico .
- 1861: Alexandru Ioan Cuza proclaims the formation of the Romanian state from the Danube principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia . However, the country is still under nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire .
- 1907: After the death of King Oskar II , Gustav V becomes the new ruler on the Swedish throne.
- 1912: In the German war council of December 8, 1912 , the war against France, England and Russia, which was seen as inevitable, is postponed for 18 months.
- 1914: In the naval battle near the Falkland Islands , the German East Asian squadron under Maximilian Graf von Spee is almost completely destroyed by the British in the First World War .
- 1917: After the coup on December 5 in Portugal , Prime Minister Afonso Costa leaves the country and goes into exile in France. Sidónio Pais becomes the new head of government.
- 1919: The Curzon Line is created in Paris as a proposal for the Polish-Russian demarcation line .
- 1940: Operation Compass , an Allied campaign against the advancing Italian troops in North Africa during World War II , begins.
- 1941: One day after the attack on Pearl Harbor , the US declares war on Japan . Japan , for its part, opens a large-scale offensive in Southeast Asia in the Pacific War : The invasion of Thailand begins with the battle for Prachuap Khiri Khan and the British crown colony of Hong Kong is also attacked. As a further consequence of the Japanese expansion policy, the battle for the Philippines begins , which will last until June 9, 1942.
- 1941: The murder of European Jews begins in the Kulmhof extermination camp as part of the “ Final Solution to the Jewish Question ” .
- 1955: The Council of Europe adopts its emblem: a blue flag with twelve gold stars .
- 1971: After a "teach-in" on the death of the " urban guerrilla " Georg von Rauch with a concert by Ton Steine Scherben , the Bethanien in Berlin is occupied and renamed the Georg-von-Rauch-Haus by the occupiers . The event can be found in the band's Rauch-Haus song .
- 1974: In a referendum , almost 70 percent of the voters in Greece vote for the abolition of the constitutional monarchy in favor of the form of a republic .
- 1982: In Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo) in Suriname , 15 opposition members are shot at the instigation of the military regime under Desi Bouterse .
- 1984: In Austria , environmental activists begin to occupy the Hainburger Au to prevent it from being destroyed by a planned hydropower plant .
- 1985: The “South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation” SAARC is founded in Dhaka .
- 1986: Australia signs the Treaty of Rarotonga , making the South Pacific a nuclear-weapon-free zone .
- 1987: The first Palestinian intifada against Israel begins with civil disobedience, which is followed by acts of violence.
- 1987: Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan sign the INF treaty for the complete dismantling of all medium-range nuclear weapons .
- 1991: The heads of state of Russia , Belarus and Ukraine conclude the official end of the Soviet Union and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
- 1994: Ethiopia receives a new constitution, which among other things gives the nine regions the right to independence.
- 1994: In Namibia , SWAPO wins 53 out of 72 seats in the parliamentary elections.
- 2003: Zimbabwe leaves the Commonwealth of Nations after international criticism of Robert Mugabe's policies has become too violent.
- 2004: With the Cuzco Declaration , the South American community of states is founded, which aims to bring about unification of the continent along the lines of the EU.
- 2004: Dimebag Darrell , guitarist with the American band Damageplan , and four other people are shot dead by a gunman at a concert in Columbus, Ohio .
- 2005: The red crystal is adopted as the new symbol of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement .
- 2009: A series of attacks on public buildings in Baghdad kills 127 people and injures hundreds.
business
- 1886: Samuel Gompers founds the American Federation of Labor in Columbus, Ohio , one of the first trade union federations in the USA .
- 1921: An advertisement with the slogan "One Look is Worth A Thousand Words" in the trade journal Printers' Ink later developed into a proverb A picture is worth a thousand words .
- 1939: Rudolf Heß inaugurates the Adolf Hitler Canal near Gleiwitz and breaks the first sod for the planned Danube-Oder Canal .
- 1997: The Union de Banques Suisses and the Swiss Bank Corporation announce their merger , which will result in UBS AG .
- 2005: An exchange trader in Tokyo receives an order to sell a share in the temporary employment agency J-Com for a price of 610,000 yen. Instead, however, he enters an order for 610,000 shares at a price of one yen into his trading system and causes damage of around 300 million euros with the “most expensive typo in the world”.
- 2006: The game console Wii by Nintendo will be released in Europe. Due to the new controller, it is rapidly gaining popularity and has very high sales figures.
science and technology
- 1609: The Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan opens its reading room to the public as the second library in Europe after the Oxford Bodleian Library .
- 1834: John Herschel discovers the barred spiral galaxy NGC 2442, 50 million light-years away in the constellation of the Flying Fish .
- 1864: The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon near Bristol , designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel , is inaugurated.
- 1931: The electrical engineers Lloyd Espenschied and Herman A. Affel received a US patent for the coaxial cable they had invented and which they applied for on May 23, 1929.
- 1938: The only German aircraft carrier is launched in Kiel . However, the Graf Zeppelin will not be completed later.
- 1951: The GDR Building Academy is opened with a state act .
- 1983: The STS-9 space mission ends with the landing of the Columbia space shuttle on Earth. On board are John Watts Young , the first person to complete six space flights, and Ulf Merbold , the first German spaceman.
- 1994: A research team at the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt succeeds in producing the artificial chemical element with the atomic number 111, which is later given the name Roentgenium .
- 1996: The first (English-language) version 2.10 of the Opera web browser appears as a full version.
- 2000: NASA establishes contact with its space probe Pioneer 6 . Almost 35 years after the start, this represents a record in service life.
Culture
- 1813: Ludwig van Beethoven conducts the world premiere of his 7th symphony in Vienna .
- 1849: The opera Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi with the libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based on the tragedy Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
- 1852: The comedy Die Journalisten , by Gustav Freytag , is premiered in Breslau.
- 1877: The world premiere of the opera Heinrich der Löwe by Edmund Kretschmer takes place in Leipzig .
- 1906: The premiere of the opera Moloch by Max von Schillings takes place at the Court Opera in Dresden .
- 1915: In the satirical magazine Punch is John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields the First World War published.
- 1918: The Freemasons , banned in the Austrian monarchy since 1795, found the Grand Lodge of Vienna.
- 1923: The world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play Baal at the Leipzig Old Theater causes a scandal. The drama is canceled at the mayor's insistence.
- 1926: The world premiere of the opera A Witch of Salem by Charles Wakefield Cadman takes place in Chicago .
- 1931: In London, the opera The Christmas Rose by Frank Bridge premiered.
- 1957: Billie Holiday sings - accompanied by Lester Young - the title Fine and Mellow in the TV show The Sound of Jazz .
- 1976: The album Hotel California the Eagles appear in the US. It becomes the rock band's best-selling studio album .
- 1985: The first episode of the German television series Lindenstrasse is broadcast.
- 1995: The Fossil -fundstelle Messel Pit is the first natural heritage site in Germany, in the humanity List of World Cultural and Natural Heritage was added.
society
- 1980: John Lennon returning home is shot dead by Mark David Chapman in front of the Dakota Building in New York .
religion
- 1322: With the papal bull Ad conditorem canonum , Pope John XXII attacks . again in the poverty struggle in the Franciscan order . With it, the regulation of property ownership is transferred from the church to the religious order , which increases the conflict.
- 1661: With the encyclical Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum , Pope Alexander VII initiates the internal church discussion about the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God .
- 1849: In the encyclical Nostis et nobiscum , Pope Pius IX. on developments in Italy and opposes the theories of socialism and communism .
- 1854: Pope Pius IX. proclaims the dogma of the Immaculate Conception with his letter Ineffabilis Deus .
- 1864: Pope Pius IX. publishes the encyclical Quanta Cura , in which he condemns freedom of religion and the separation of church and state . In the appendix Syllabus errorum he enumerates a list of 80 "time errors".
- 1869: The First Vatican Council is ceremoniously opened.
- 1882: Pope Leo XIII expresses himself in his encyclical Cum multa . on the conditions in Spain , criticizes the new constitution and calls for the unity of the Catholic Church in an exhortation .
- 1892: Pope Leo XIII. publishes two encyclicals in one day. In both Custodi di quella fede and Inimica vis he turns against Freemasonry .
- 1897: In the encyclical Affari vos Pope Leo XIII intervenes . in the Canadian education reforms and calls for the continuation of the Catholic schools in Manitoba .
- 1965: The Second Vatican Council comes to an end.
- 1975: The Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi is published. It deals with evangelizing the world today. Pope Paul VI deliberately dispenses with the form of the encyclical .
Disasters
- 1794: Only six years after the first great fire destroyed a renewed conflagration large parts of New Orleans .
- 1863: The Jesuit church Iglesia de la Compañía in Santiago de Chile is destroyed by fire. A memorial was erected to the more than 2,000 victims of the fire exactly ten years later.
- 1881: The devastating fire of the Ringtheater in Vienna kills several hundred. The event has international effects on preventive fire protection .
- 1896: The passenger ship Salian of the North German Lloyd rebounds before Cabo Corrubedo (northern Spain) in the storm on a reef and sinks, all 279 people on board come.
- 1966: The Heraklion car ferry goes down in heavy seas on its journey from Crete to Piraeus , killing 241 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1906: Montezuma Castle in Arizona and Inscription Rock in New Mexico are declared National Monuments of the USA.
Sports
- 1908: The ice hockey association Koninklijke Belgische IJshockey Federatie is created in Belgium .
- 1935: With the final of the Tschammer Cup, a final of a cup competition for football club teams takes place in Germany for the first time.
- 1949: Fernando Teruzzi and Severine Rigoni win the first six-day race in Berlin since the Second World War.
- 1956: With the closing ceremony the XVI. Summer Olympics in Melbourne , Australia.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 65 BC Chr .: Horace , Roman poet
- 1418: Jeonghui , Queen of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1499: Sebald Heyden , German cantor, headmaster and spiritual poet
- 1506: Veit Dietrich , German author, theologian and reformer
- 1540: Giovanni Vincenzo Gonzaga , Knight of the Order of Malta and Cardinal
- 1542: Mary Queen of Scots, Queen of Scots
- 1576: Johannes Kromayer , German Lutheran theologian and school reformer of Thuringia in the age of Lutheran orthodoxy
- 1621: Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Bishop of Hildesheim, Liège and Munster
- 1623: Ernst I , Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg
- 1642: Johann Christoph Bach , German composer
- 1685: Johann Maria Farina , Italian perfumer
- 1699: Maria Josepha of Austria , Archduchess of Austria, wife of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland
- 1700: Jeremias Friedrich Reuss , German theologian
18th century
- 1708: Franz I Stephan , Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
- 1708: Friedrich von Dönhoff , Prussian colonel, chamberlain and knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- 1711: Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon , mistress at the court of Lunéville
- 1723: Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach , contributor to the Encyclopédie
- 1727: Joseph Maria Schneidt , German lawyer, university professor and historian
- 1728: Johann Georg Zimmermann , Swiss physician, scholar, philosopher and writer
- 1730: Johann Hedwig , German doctor and botanist
- 1730: Jan Ingenhousz , Dutch doctor and botanist
- 1731: Franz Xaver Duschk , Bohemian composer (date of baptism)
- 1736: Johann Heinrich von Günther , Prussian lieutenant general and military governor
- 1738: Isaac Motte , American politician
- 1741: Marie-Elisabeth Colomb , Prussian Huguenot merchant's daughter, mother of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt
- 1742: Jean Mathieu Philibert Sérurier , French Revolutionary General , Marshal and Peer of France
- 1749: Peder Anker , Norwegian statesman and landowner
- 1751: Heinrich Friedrich Füger , German painter
- 1754: Michael Weber , German theologian
- 1756: Jacob Georg Christian Adler , Danish-German Protestant theologian, educator and orientalist
- 1756: François-Antoine Boissy d'Anglas , French politician
- 1756: Maximilian Franz of Austria , Archduke of Austria and Archbishop of Cologne
- 1764: Ignác Held , Bohemian composer
- 1764: Hans zu Rantzau , Danish general war commissioner
- 1765: Friedrich von Schlichtegroll , German Mozart biographer, philologist, numismatist and archaeologist
- 1765: Eli Whitney , American inventor and manufacturer
- 1789: József Hild , Hungarian architect
- 1795: Jacques François Gallay , French horn player
- 1796: Ferdinand Wolf , Austrian Romanist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804: Samson Vuilleumier , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1805: Friedrich von Schlichtegroll , German biographer and philologist, numismatist and archaeologist
- 1808: Thomas Lilbourne Anderson , American politician
- 1810: Conrad Kreuzer , Austrian draftsman and landscape painter
- 1813: Jacob Georg Agardh , Swedish botanist
- 1813: Adolph Kolping , German priest and social politician
- 1815: Adolph Menzel , German painter, draftsman and illustrator
- 1818: Charles III. , Prince of Monaco
- 1820: Rochus von Liliencron , German Germanist and music historian
- 1826: Friedrich Siemens , German industrialist
- 1830: William P. Kellogg , American politician
- 1831: Anton Spitalsky , Austrian industrialist
- 1832: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian storyteller and playwright
- 1832: Wilhelm Anton Riedemann , German businessman and entrepreneur
- 1843: Teodoro Anastasia , Swiss engineer and architect
- 1845: Herbert Allen Gines , British sinologist
- 1847: Carl Weitbrecht , German poet and literary historian
- 1848: Joel Chandler Harris , American journalist and writer
- 1850: Anton Opfergelt , German lawyer and politician, MdR
1851-1900
- 1855: Virginio Arias , Chilean sculptor
- 1855: Vladimir Gilyarovsky , Russian publicist and writer
- 1857: Johann Albrecht zu Mecklenburg , German colonial politician, regent of Braunschweig
- 1861: William Durant , American automobile pioneer
- 1861: Aristide Maillol , French sculptor, painter and printmaker
- 1861: Rosa Krüger , German flower and interior painter
- 1861: Georges Méliès , French film director
- 1862: Georges Feydeau , French playwright
- 1863: Georg Kleemann , German jewelry designer
- 1864: Camille Claudel , French sculptor
- 1865: Jacques Salomon Hadamard , French mathematician
- 1865: Jean Sibelius , Finnish composer
- 1868: Giacomo Setaccioli , Italian composer
- 1873: Anton Afritsch , Austrian journalist and politician
- 1873: Quincas Laranjeiras , Brazilian guitarist and composer
- 1873: John Duncan MacLean , Canadian politician
- 1874: Oscar Louis Auf der Heide , American politician
- 1877: Julius Keyl , German athlete
- 1877: Paul Ladmirault , French composer
- 1878: Hansi Arnstaedt , German theater and film actress
- 1878: Eugene Cook Bingham , American chemist and pioneer of modern rheology
- 1880: Johannes Aavik , Estonian linguist and writer
- 1882: Manuel María Ponce , Mexican composer
- 1886: Diego Rivera , Mexican modern painter , husband of Frida Kahlo
- 1887: Vicente Emilio Sojo , Venezuelan composer
- 1889: Hervey Allen , American writer
- 1890: Bohuslav Martinů , Czech composer
- 1891: John Langenus , Belgian football referee
- 1891: Albert Salomon , German-American sociologist
- 1893: Karl Ausch , Austrian economist, journalist and functionary
- 1894: Charles Amberg , German librettist, songwriter and composer
- 1894: Elzie Segar , American comic artist, inventor of the cartoon character Popeye
- 1894: James Thurber , American writer
- 1896: Christl Mardayn , Austrian actress
- 1897: Paul Aebischer , Swiss Romanist and Medievalist
- 1899: Maria Viktoria von Attems , Austrian restaurateur
- 1900: Irene Lentz , American costume designer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1904: Christopher Addison , British peer
- 1905: Alfred Balthoff , German actor and voice actor
- 1905: Frank Faylen , American actor
- 1905: Leni Junker , German sprinter
- 1905: Ernst Hermann Meyer , German composer, musicologist and music sociologist
- 1906: Philipp Auerbach , German politician and state commissioner for the racially, religiously and politically persecuted
- 1906: Edmond Kramer , Swiss football player
- 1907: Artine Artinian , American romance scholar and philanthropist
- 1907: Tony Aubin , French composer
- 1909: Cleo Patra Brown , American jazz pianist and singer
- 1909: Erich Hornsmann , German lawyer, non-fiction author and environmental activist
- 1909: José Saber Marroquín , Mexican composer and conductor
- 1910: Mario Amendola , Italian screenwriter and film director
- 1910: Karl Born , German seaman, pilot and cinema operator
- 1910: Aleksander Frączkiewicz , Polish musicologist and teacher
- 1911: Lee J. Cobb , American actor
- 1912: Jura Soyfer , Austrian writer, playwright and cabaret writer
- 1912: Will Walls , American football player and coach
- 1913: Rudolf Loh , German entrepreneur
- 1914: Ruth Amiran , Israeli archaeologist
- 1914: Ernst Hermanns , German sculptor
- 1914: Pál Patay , Hungarian archaeologist
- 1914: Floyd Tillman , American country singer and songwriter
- 1915: Ernest Lehman , American screenwriter
- 1915: Johnny Lockett , British motorcycle and car racer
- 1916: Richard Fleischer , American director
- 1916: Ernst Maria Lang , German architect and caricaturist
- 1916: Werner Simmann , German politician, MdL
- 1918: Fritz Steinmeyer , German organ builder
- 1918: Gérard Souzay , French singer
- 1919: Mieczysław Weinberg , Russian composer
- 1921: Peter René Körner , German actor, singer and presenter
- 1921: Terence Morgan , British actor
- 1922: Gerhard Löwenthal , German journalist
- 1923: Pio Taofinu'u , Archbishop of Samoa-Apia and Cardinal
- 1925: Sammy Davis Jr. , American entertainer
- 1925: Arnaldo Forlani , Italian politician
- 1925: Jimmy Smith , American musician
1926-1950
- 1926: Joachim Fest , German contemporary historian, publicist and author
- 1927: Niklas Luhmann , German sociologist and systems theorist
- 1927: Leo De Maeyer , Belgian chemist
- 1929: Jakob Deffner , German politician and trade unionist
- 1929: Joachim Goldbach , German Colonel General
- 1929: Arnulf Rainer , Austrian painter
- 1929: Nicolas Wildhaber , Swiss swimmer and sports official
Maximilian Schell (* 1930)
- 1930: Maximilian Schell , actor with Austrian and Swiss citizenship
- 1931: Bob Arum , American boxing promoter
- 1931: Rudolf Komorous , Canadian composer, bassoonist and music teacher
- 1932: Charly Gaul , Luxembourg cyclist
- 1932: Eusébio Scheid , Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro and Cardinal
- 1934: Horst Räcke , German painter
- 1935: Tatjana Jakowlewna Satulowskaja , Russian chess grandmaster
- 1935: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg , German director
- 1936: David Carradine , American actor
- 1936: Marian Leszczyński , Polish rower
- 1936: Helmut Markwort , German journalist
- 1937: James MacArthur , American actor
- 1937: Margot Werner , Austrian ballet artist and chanson singer
- 1938: John Agyekum Kufuor , President of Ghana
- 1939: James Galway , Irish flautist
- 1939: Juana Rosa Pita , Cuban poet, essayist and translator
- 1940: Adolf Antrich , Austrian soccer goalie and national player
- 1941: Martin John Amos , American bishop
- 1941: Bob Brown , American football player
- 1941: Randy Cunningham , American politician
- 1941: Geoff Hurst , English football player
- 1941: Michael Naumann , German politician, journalist, publicist, publisher and Minister of State for Culture
- 1941: Katrin Sello , German art historian
- 1942: Mario Savio , American civil rights activist
- 1943: Jim Morrison , American singer, songwriter and poet ( The Doors )
- 1943: Bodo Tümmler , German athlete and Olympic medalist
- 1943: Mary Woronov , American actress
- 1945: John Banville , Irish writer and literary critic
- 1945: Maryla Rodowicz , Polish singer
- 1945: Natascha Wodin , German writer and translator
- 1945: Abi Wallenstein , German blues musician
- 1946: Jacques Bourboulon , French photographer
- 1946: Bärbel Podeswa , German athlete
- 1946: John Rubinstein , American actor and film music composer
- 1947: Gregg Allman , American musician, singer, and songwriter ( Allman Brothers )
- 1947: Michael Antoni , German lawyer and civil servant
- 1947: Thomas R. Cech , American biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1948: Sofronio Aguirre Bancud , Filipino bishop
- 1948: Titus Dittmann , German entrepreneur
- 1949: Nancy Meyers , American director and screenwriter
- 1949: Ray Shulman , British musician
- 1950: Arthur König , German politician, Member of the State Parliament
- 1950: Dan Hartman , American musician
1951-1975
- 1951: Bill Bryson , American journalist and writer
- 1951: Hans-Ulrich Jörges , German journalist
- 1952: Heinz Prokop , German handball trainer and handball player
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- 1953: Kim Basinger , American actress
- 1953: Norman Finkelstein , American political scientist
- 1953: Władysław Kozakiewicz , Polish-German athlete
- 1953: Peter Preuss , German politician, MdL
- 1954: Louis de Bernières , British writer
- 1954: Graham Cripsey , English snooker player
- 1954: Peter Kotte , German soccer player
- 1954: Heinz-Jürgen Voise , German soccer player and coach
- 1954: Josef Walcher , Austrian ski racer
- 1955: Nathan East , American bass player
- 1955: Martin Semmelrogge , German actor
- 1956: Marietta Meade , German actress and voice actress
- 1956: Pierre Pincemaille , French composer, organist and music teacher
- 1957: Hannelore Anke , German swimmer
- 1957: Phil Collen , British rock musician
- 1957: Mikhail Kasyanov , Russian politician
- 1958: Heilgard Asmus , German theologian
- 1959: Paul Rutherford , British singer ( Frankie goes to Hollywood )
- 1960: Aaron Allston , American novelist and game designer
- 1962: Berry van Aerle , Dutch football player
- 1962: Steve Elkington , Australian professional golfer
- 1962: Marty Friedman , American guitarist
- 1963: Rüdiger Borchardt , German handball player and coach
- 1963: Wayne Frost , American break dancer and actor
- 1963: Holger Wulschner , German show jumper
- 1964: Armin Eck , German soccer player
- 1964: Teri Hatcher , American actress
- 1964: Richard David Precht , German philosopher
- 1966: Sinéad O'Connor , Irish musician
- 1966: Hope Powell , English soccer player and coach
- 1967: Mahir Hafiz al-Assad , Syrian military
- 1968: Doriano Romboni , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1971: Abdullah Ercan , Turkish soccer player
- 1971: Holger Kreymeier , German television critic
- 1973: Markus Klauk , German actor
- 1973: Corey Taylor , American singer
- 1974: Marco Abreu , Angolan football player
- 1974: Golineh Atai , German television correspondent
- 1975: Dragan Jerković , Croatian handball goalkeeper
- 1975: Reto Scherrer , Swiss radio and television presenter
1976-2000
- 1976: Dušan Andrašovský , Slovak ice hockey player
- 1976: Dominic Monaghan , British actor
- 1977: Sébastien Chabal , French rugby player
- 1977: Anita Weyermann , Swiss athlete
- 1978: Antonio Esfandiari , American-Iranian poker player
- 1978: Etienne Gardé , German television presenter and editor
- 1978: Ian Somerhalder , American actor and model
- 1979: Ingrid Michaelson , American singer and songwriter
- 1979: Nick Thune , American actor, comedian and musician
- 1979: Christian Wilhelmsson , Swedish footballer
- 1980: Francis Mourey , French racing cyclist
- 1980: Salomon Olembé , Cameroonian football player
- 1981: Azra Akın , Turkish model and actress
- 1981: Haley Johnson , American biathlete
- 1981: David Martínez , Mexican racing driver
- 1982: Julen Aguinagalde Aquizu , Spanish handball player
- 1982: Halil Altıntop , Turkish soccer player
- 1982: Hamit Altıntop , Turkish soccer player
- 1982: Raquel Atawo , American tennis player
- 1982: Christian Beisel , German soccer player
- 1982: Joscha Kiefer , German actor
- 1982: Nicki Minaj , American rapper
- 1982: DeeDee Trotter , American athlete, Olympic champion
- 1984: Dustin Brown , German-Jamaican tennis player
- 1984: Karolina Kovač , Croatian singer
- 1984: Roland Resch , Austrian motorcycle racer
- 1985: Sören Anders , German chef
- 1985: Ignatas Konovalovas , Lithuanian cyclist
- 1986: Valentina Jewgenjewna Artemjewa , Russian breaststroke swimmer
- 1987: Greg Merson , American poker player
- 1987: Susanne Riesch , German ski racer
- 1988: Carla Amanda Sol Abrahamsen , Swedish actress and singer
- 1988: Philip Major , Canadian racing driver
- 1989: Matthew Jurman , Australian soccer player
- 1989: Maik Kegel , German soccer player
- 1989: Anna Monz , German handball player
- 1992: Moritz Leitner , German-Austrian soccer player
- 1992: Jordan Nobbs , English soccer player
- 1992: Katie Stevens , American actress and singer
- 1993: Kristin Alia Hunold , German actress and speaker
- 1993: Ronny Minkwitz , German soccer player
- 1993: AnnaSophia Robb , American actress and singer
- 1994: Raheem Sterling , English-Jamaican soccer player
- 1995: Álex Rins , Spanish motorcycle racer
- 1995: Rita Zeqiri , Kosovar swimmer
- 1996: Maximilian Eggestein , German soccer player
- 1998: Tanner Buchanan , American actor
Died
Before the 16th century
- 856: Drogo von Metz , bishop
- 861: al-Mutawakkil 'alā' llāh , Abbasid caliph
- 899: Arnulf of Carinthia , East Franconian king and Roman emperor
- 916: Theodoric I , Bishop of Paderborn
- 993: Egbert , Archbishop of Trier
- 1090: Robert de Conteville, comte de Mortain , Norman nobleman
- 1126: Abū l-Walīd ibn Ruschd , Islamic scholar
- 1131: Kutaifat , ruler of Egypt
- 1186: Berthold IV. Von Zähringen , Duke of Burgundy
- 1241: Hugh of Pattishall , English Lord High Treasurer, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield
- 1282: Friedrich von Montalban , Bishop of Freising
- 1283: Richard of Ware , English religious and civil servant
- 1292: Johannes Peckham , English theologian and Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1365: Nicholas II , Duke of Troppau
- 1369: Konrad von Waldhausen , Austrian pre-Reformation preacher
- 1383: Wenceslaus I , Duke of Luxembourg
- 1429: Janusz I. Starszy , Duke of Mazovia in Warsaw
- 1447: Nikolaus von Oldenburg-Delmenhorst , Archbishop of Bremen
16th to 18th centuries
- 1521: Christina of Saxony , Queen of Denmark, Norway and Sweden
- 1536: Diego Méndez , Spanish navigator and conquistador
- 1555: Valentin Tschudi , Swiss reformer
- 1556: Johann Forster , German Lutheran theologian
- 1565: Hieronymus Baumgartner , designer of the Reformation in Nuremberg and mayor
- 1577: Melchor Bravo de Saravia , Spanish viceroy of Peru and governor of Chile
- 1603: Hans Wolf von Schönberg , electoral Saxon politician
- 1620: Lope de Ulloa y Lemos , Spanish soldier and governor of Chile
- 1625: Christine von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf , Queen of Sweden
- 1638: Ivan Gundulić , Croatian writer
- 1643: Antoine de Boësset , French composer
- 1643: John Pym , lawyer and spokesman for the parliamentary party in the English lower house at the time of Charles I of England
- 1680: Cesare Durazzo , Doge of the Republic of Genoa and King of Corsica
- 1695: Barthélemy d'Herbelot de Molainville , French orientalist
- 1709: Thomas Corneille , French writer and playwright
- 1719: Ulrik Christian Gyldenløve , Danish admiral
- 1722: Liselotte von der Pfalz , Duchess of Orléans and sister-in-law of Louis XIV.
- 1727: Joseph Maria Schneidt , German lawyer, university professor and historian
- 1734: James Figg , English heavyweight boxer
- 1735: Andreas Faistenberger , Tyrolean painter and sculptor
- 1738: Domenico d'Angeli , Italian architect and builder
- 1739: William Ramsay, 6th Earl of Dalhousie , Scottish nobleman and soldier
- 1742: Sigmund Friedrich von Khevenhüller , Governor of Carinthia
- 1744: Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle , French noblewoman, mistress of Louis XV.
- 1751: Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels , Imperial Field Marshal and President of the Austrian Court War Council
- 1768: Jean-Denis Attiret , French Jesuit, missionary and painter
- 1769: Joseph Friedrich Ernst , Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- 1788: Mikhail Nikititsch Volkonsky , Russian general and envoy
- 1792: Henry Laurens , American merchant and political leader in the American War of Independence
- 1793: Madame Dubarry , mistress of Louis XV. from France
- 1795: Giovanni Battista Casanova , Italian painter
19th century
- 1807: Carl Friedrich Cramer , German theologian, bookseller, translator, journalist and music writer
- 1813: Gaetano Callido , Italian organ builder
- 1817: Matthias Steevens van Geuns , Dutch medic and botanist
- 1818: Karl Ludwig Friedrich , Grand Duke of Baden
- 1822: Saul Ascher , German writer, translator and bookseller
- 1830: Benjamin Constant , French politician and writer
- 1831: James Hoban , Irish architect
- 1834: Henry Harford , last Lord Proprietor of the English colony of Maryland
- 1841: Johann Heinrich Dannecker , German sculptor
- 1845: Pierre Tobie Yenni , Bishop of Lausanne-Geneva
- 1851: André Jolivard , French landscape painter
- 1859: Thomas de Quincey , British writer
- 1861: Iossif Ivanovich Charlemagne , Russian architect
- 1864: George Boole , British mathematician, founder of Boolean algebra
- 1870: Max Emanuel Ainmiller , German architecture and glass painter
- 1872: Carl Friedrich Theodor Annecke , German revolutionary, Prussian and American officer
- 1881: Paul Theodor von Krusenstern , Russian polar explorer
- 1884: Sigmund Lebert , German music teacher
- 1894: Pafnuti Lwowitsch Tschebyschow , Russian mathematician
- 1900: Max Abraham , German music publisher
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903: Gavriil Musicescu , Romanian composer
- 1903: Herbert Spencer , English philosopher
- 1907: Oskar II , King of Sweden
- 1908: Josef Zemp , Swiss politician
- 1913: Camille Jenatzy , Belgian racing driver and designer
- 1914: Melchior Anderegg , Swiss mountain guide
- 1917: Alexander Kisch , Czech rabbi
- 1924: Xaver Scharwenka , Polish-Czech composer and pianist
- 1924: Yamamura Bochō , Japanese poet
- 1929: Teddy Tetzlaff , American racing car driver
- 1933: Yamamoto Gonnohyōe , Japanese admiral and prime minister
- 1935: Albert Jesionek , German dermatologist and university professor
- 1935: Charlotte Niese , German writer
- 1936: William C. Carl , American organist and music teacher
- 1937: Franz Ahrens , German architect
- 1938: Károly Aszlányi , Hungarian writer, playwright and journalist
- 1938: Friedrich Glauser , Swiss writer
- 1940: Louis Pinck , Austrian Catholic clergyman
- 1942: Helene Raff , German painter, writer and collector of sagas
- 1945: Giulio Cesare Antamoro , Italian film director
- 1945: Alfred Marxer , Swiss painter and graphic artist
- 1945: Alexander Siloti , Russian pianist and composer
- 1948: Carl Watzinger , German archaeologist
1951-2000
- 1952: Pedro Sinzig , Franciscan, Brazilian writer, journalist and composer
- 1955: Paul van Kempen , Dutch-German conductor
- 1955: Otto Kühne , German commander in the Resistance, functionary in the GDR
- 1955: Hermann Weyl , German mathematician
- 1956: Jimmie Angel , American bush pilot
- 1958: Mads Nielsen , Danish writer
- 1958: Tris Speaker , American baseball player and manager
- 1961: Wilhelm Capelle , German classical philologist
- 1963: Sarit Dhanarajata , Thai general, politician and Prime Minister
- 1964: Gladys Willan , Canadian music teacher and pianist
- 1968: Josef Papesch , Austrian writer and cultural politician
- 1969: Edolf Aasen , Norwegian printer
- 1969: Fritz Arndt , German-Turkish chemist
- 1969: Karl Fiehler , German politician and Mayor of Munich during the Nazi era
- 1973: Willy Reichert , German actor
- 1975: Gary Thain , English rock musician
- 1978: Ferruccio Ferrazzi , Italian painter and sculptor
- 1978: Golda Meïr , Israeli politician, foreign minister, prime minister
- 1980: John Lennon , British musician, composer and author
- 1981: Big Walter Horton , American blues musician
- 1982: Marty Robbins , American singer
- 1982: Ján Smrek , Slovak writer and editor
- 1984: Lutha J. Adler , American film and stage actor
- 1984: Bruno Six , German politician, Member of the State Parliament
- 1985: Ermenegildo Florit , Italian clergyman, Archbishop of Florence, cardinal
- 1986: Ernst Biberstein , German Protestant pastor, SS officer, chief of Einsatzkommando 6, mass murderer and war criminal
- 1986: Bawa Muhaiyaddeen , Sufi saint from Sri Lanka
- 1989: Max Grundig , German industrialist
- 1989: Hans Hartung , German artist
- 1990: Tadeusz Kantor , Polish theater artist and painter
- 1990: Martin Ritt , American director and actor
- 1993: Paul Mebus , German soccer player
- 1994: Antônio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian composer
- 1995: Arthur Birch , Australian chemist
- 1995: Maino Neri , Italian football player and coach
- 1997: Laurean Rugambwa , Tanzanian clergyman, Archbishop of Dar-es-Salaam, Cardinal
- 2000: Rolf Heyne , German publisher
21st century
- 2003: Rubén González , Cuban musician
- 2004: Effi Biedrzynski , German writer
- 2004: Dimebag Darrell , American guitarist
- 2004: José Libertella , Italian-Argentine musician
- 2004: Johnny Lockett , British motorcycle and car racer
- 2004: Carlos Meza , Colombian professional boxer
- 2005: Donald Martino , American composer
- 2005: Leo Cardinal Scheffczyk , German theologian
- 2006: Heinrich Riethmüller , German musician, composer and dubbing director
- 2006: Martha Tilton , American singer
- 2008: Manzoor Hussain Atif , Pakistani hockey player and sports official
- 2008: Xavier Perrot , Swiss racing driver
- 2009: Luis Días , Dominican rock and jazz musician
- 2009: Cecil Steffen , American composer and music teacher
- 2009: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi , American historian
- 2010: Murray Alexander Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 2010: Friedrich Huber , Austrian entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 2010: Jiří Strejc , Czech composer, organist, choir director and music teacher
- 2011: Gilbert Adair , British writer
- 2011: Werner Kofler , Austrian writer
- 2011: Giorgio Mariani , Italian football player
- 2011: Anton Eric Scotoni , Swiss entrepreneur
- 2013: John W. Cornforth , Australian chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2015: Douglas Tompkins , American environmental activist and entrepreneur
- 2016: John Glenn , American astronaut and politician
- 2018: Lyudmila Alexejewa , Soviet and Russian civil rights activist
- 2019: René Auberjonois , American actor
- 2019: Jarad Higgins , American rapper
- 2019: Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer
- 2019: Paul Volcker , American economist
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Conception of Mary (Anglican and Catholic in Austria) / Immaculate Conception (Catholic)
- Martin Rinckart , German pastor and song writer (Protestant)
Further entries can be found in the list of days of remembrance and action .
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