8th of March

The March 8 is the 67th day of the Gregorian calendar (68th in leap years ), thus remain 298 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 1126 : After the death of his mother Urraca , Alfonso VII takes over the reign of Castile and León .
• 1184 : In the Gempei War , the Battle of Ichi-no-Tani takes place in Japan , in which the Samurai family of the Minamoto prevail over the rival Taira .
• 1198 : Since the son of the late Emperor Heinrich VI. , Friedrich II , was only three years old at this point in time, his uncle Philip of Swabia was elected Roman-German king by the Staufer party.

1658: Sweden after the Peace of Roskilde

• 1658 : In the Peace of Roskilde , Denmark loses its possessions in southern Sweden to Sweden , which thus reaches its greatest extent.
• 1701 : The Hamburg settlement seals the third main division of Mecklenburg into the (partial) duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

1736: Nadir Shah

• 1736 : After Abbas III, who was raised to the throne by him . from the family of the Safavids died in childhood, Nadir crowns himself Shah of Persia . He founded the Afsharid dynasty .
• 1775 : Thomas Paine's treatise African Slavery in America appears in the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser , the first printed plea for the release of slaves in the country.
• 1782 : In the Gnadenhütten massacre in Ohio, American soldiers kill 96 Christian Indians who got caught between the fronts of the American War of Independence .
• 1801 : About 17,000 British soldiers land on the beach of Abukir under the command of Ralph Abercromby and attack the fort of the village , which was occupied by the French as part of the Egyptian expedition .

1844: Oskar I.

• 1844 : With the death of Karl XIV. Johann , his son Oskar I becomes King of Sweden and Norway .

1862: The sinking of the USS Cumberland, which was rammed by the Virginia

• 1862 : In the two-day battle of Hampton Roads at the mouth of the James River , the first Confederate ironclad, Virginia, celebrates its baptism of fire in the Civil War on its maiden voyage .
• 1862 : In the Battle of Pea Ridge in the American Civil War , the southern states under General Earl Van Dorn are defeated by the northern states under General Samuel Ryan Curtis in Arkansas .
• 1864 : In the German-Danish War, Denmark extends the existing sea ​​blockade against the Schleswig-Holstein ports to all Prussian seaports. A naval war is now also looming.

1910: Élise Deroche

• 1910 : In France, Élise Deroche is the first woman in the world to be issued a pilot's license after passing the Aéro Club de France pilot's examination.
• 1917 : From a hunger revolt in Petrograd , the February Revolution develops (Julian date: February 23) against the Tsarist regime under Nicholas II in Russia, weakened by defeats in the First World War .
• 1921 : French troops occupy the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf as pledge to secure reparation payments from the First World War .
• 1921 : The Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato is murdered by Catalan anarchists while leaving the parliament building .
• 1937 : The Spanish Civil War nationalist troops open the Battle of Guadalajara to close the siege ring around Madrid . The battle lasts until March 23rd.

1940: Facsimile of one of the Poland decrees

• 1940 : The National Socialist Poland decrees oblige Polish forced laborers in the German Reich, the so-called “ civil workers ”, to wear a “P” on their clothing, among other things.
• 1943 : Departure of the Allied Convoy HX 229 from New York, which suffers the most casualties of all HX convoys up to its arrival in Liverpool .

1944: Hitler's "Fixed Places"

• 1944 : With the Führer order No. 11 , Adolf Hitler declares 29 cities along the Eastern Front to be “ fixed places ”, which are to be defended with particular stubbornness in the Second World War , even if this results in an enclosure.
• 1947 : The Democratic Women's Union of Germany is founded in Berlin as a government-loyal mass organization for women in the Soviet zone of occupation .
• 1949 : France recognizes the independence of Vietnam under the anti-communist government of Bảo Đại .
• 1950 : Soviet Marshal Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov announces that the Soviet Union has an atomic bomb .
• 1951 : The Federal Law is in the Federal Republic of Germany , the Federal Criminal Police launched. Its task is to coordinate the national fight against crime and to carry out investigations in serious areas of crime with a foreign element, as well as to protect the federal constitutional organs.

1958: State of the United Arab States

• 1958 : The Kingdom of Yemen merges with the United Arab Republic , founded by Egypt and Syria on February 1st, creating the United Arab States .
• 1959 : George Lincoln Rockwell founds the neo-Nazi American Nazi Party in the United States .
• 1963 : In Syria , the socialist Ba'ath party comes to power through a coup d'état.

1965: General Westmoreland

• 1965 : With the landing of the first US combat troops, the United States Marine Corps , in Đà Nẵng in Vietnam at the urging of Commander-in-Chief William Westmoreland , the US enters the Vietnam War .
• 1973 : In a referendum boycotted by many Catholics, the people of Northern Ireland , with 98.9 percent of the vote, decide to remain with the United Kingdom and against unification with the Republic of Ireland .
• 1973 : The GDR refuses any form of reparation payment requested by Israel .
• 1983 : In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, US President Ronald Reagan describes the Soviet Union as the " Empire of Evil ".
• 1985 : Over 80 people die and around 200 people are injured in a car bomb attack in Beirut aimed at the spiritual leader Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah . The Hezbollah leader escapes the attack.
• 1995 : In Kazakhstan , the parliament and the government are dissolved after the Supreme Constitutional Court invalidated the March 7, 1994 elections.
• 2000 : The de facto autonomous Brčko district is established in Bosnia and Herzegovina .
• 2003 : In a referendum, the people of Malta vote with a narrow majority for the country to join the European Union .
• 2005 : The Lebanese March 8 Alliance, dating back to the date , is formed.
• 2011 : The International Anti-Corruption Academy is founded.

economy

• 1817 : The New York Stock Exchange is a stock exchange regulations and establishes a formal business organization.
• 1929 : The mining companies in Prussia are merged into the United Electricity and Mining AG .

1974: Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle

• 1974 : In Paris is Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle inaugurated.
• 1983 : The IBM Personal Computer XT is introduced.

science and technology

1904: Great Salt Lake

• 1904 : Over a part of the Great Salt Lake is away opened a railway line, which on planks resting embankment with 12 Miles (19 km) length has no example worldwide.
• 1929 : In the German history of television , the Witzleben broadcaster transmits the first television images to the Reichspost's Berlin research laboratory for test purposes .

Culture

• 1812 : The first performance of the operetta Feodore by Conradin Kreutzer takes place in Stuttgart .
• 1827 : The premiere of the opera Gli Arabi nelle Gallie ossia Il Trionfo della fede ( The Arabs in Gaul or The Triumph of Loyalty ) by Giovanni Pacini takes place at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
• 1854 : The opera La Punizione by Giovanni Pacini is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
• 1892 : The premiere of the opera Heilmar der Narr by Wilhelm Kienzl takes place in Munich .
• 1898 : The sound poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss is premiered in Gürzenich in Cologne with the conductor Franz Wüllner . It is based on the novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by the Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes and is composed in the form of a Sinfonia concertante , with a solo cello representing the figure of Don Quixote, as well as viola, tenor tube and bass clarinet soloists, the Sancho Pansa represent.
• 1902 : Symphony No. 2 in D major by Jean Sibelius is premiered with the composer at the conductor's desk in Helsinki.
• 1937 : The Roman temple treasure of Mauer an der Url is discovered.
• 1957 : The drama Die Gesichte der Simone Machard by Bertolt Brecht based on the novel Simone by Lion Feuchtwanger is premiered posthumously in Frankfurt am Main.
• 1957 : Wolfgang Staudte's DEFA feature film Der Untertan, based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich Mann with Werner Peters in the leading role, opens in Munich in a shortened version.

1966: Nelson's Column in Dublin (around 1916)

• 1966 : The Nelson's Column in the Irish capital, Dublin, is blown up by IRA extremists during the night. The Spire is then built at this point .
• 1968 : Bill Graham opens the Fillmore East musical theater in New York City , where the elite of the rock scene will perform in the following years.
• 1970 : The only 35-second piece breath of Samuel Beckett is in Oxford premiered.
• 1976 : The German television the first episode of the series will Loriot of humorists same with skits like Studio Interview and The lottery winners broadcast.
• 1978 : The first episode of Douglas Adams ' radio play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 .
• 1979 : The premiere of the chamber opera Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm takes place at the State Opera in Hamburg, based on Georg Büchner's story Lenz .
• 1994 : The Vonderau Museum in Fulda is officially opened.

society

• 1843 : The poet Georg Herwegh married Emma Siegmund , the daughter of the Berlin merchant Johann Gottfried Siegmund , in Baden in Aargau . The Herwegh couple played an important role in the Baden Revolution and the Hecker uprising in 1848.

1935: Hachikō

• 1935 : Hachikō, known nationwide as the epitome of a loyal dog, is found dead in Tokyo .

religion

• 1118 : Since Pope Gelasius II was elected on January 24th without informing the banned Emperor Heinrich V , he has an antipope elected as a further highlight of the investiture controversy after he has expelled Gelasius from Rome. The elected Maurice Bourdin adopts the name Gregory VIII .

Disasters

1669: Mount Etna erupted

• 1669 : The Etna volcano erupts. The eruption will last until July 11th and is considered the largest historically. The city of Catania is partially destroyed, some villages are completely destroyed by lava masses .
• 1968 : The Soviet submarine K-129 sinks under unexplained circumstances in the Pacific . All 86 men of the crew die. The US Navy will start after the failed Russian efforts to find the lost ship, in consequence, the secret project azorian to salvage the wrecks.
• 2014 : A Boeing 777 on Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared without a trace and has been missing since then.

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .

Sports

• 1899 : In Frankfurt is Frankfurt football club Victoria 1899 founded, from the later merger with various Frankfurt clubs that Eintracht Frankfurt will develop.
• 1971 : The Boxer Joe Frazier defended his world title in the heavyweight division "of the century struggle" in two undefeated world champions against Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden , with a victory on points.
• 2005 : The only replace the ill Martina Glagow the World Cup in Hochfilzen driven biathlete Andrea Henkel celebrates after her Olympic victory in 2002 their second big win and become world champion in the 15 km race.

Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .

Born

Before the 18th century

Sidonie of Saxony (* 1518)

Elisabeth Angélique de Montmorency (* 1627)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (* 1714)

Johann Amadeus Franz von Thugut (* 1736)

• 0974 : Lý Thái Tổ , ruler of the empire Đại Cồ Việt
• 1286 : Johann III. , Duke of Brittany
• 1293 : Kitabatake Chikafusa , Japanese statesman, general and historian
• 1422 : Jacopo Ammannati Piccolomini , Italian bishop and cardinal
• 1495 : Rosso Fiorentino , Italian painter
• 1495 : John of God , founder of the Spanish order
• 1518 : Sidonie von Sachsen , Duchess of Braunschweig-Calenberg
• 1527 : Martin von Gerstmann , Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Governor of Silesia
• 1542 : Wolfgang Amling , German theologian
• 1549 : Anton , Count of Holstein-Schaumburg and Bishop of Minden
• 1566 : Carlo Gesualdo , Italian prince and composer
• 1607 : Johann Rist , German poet and preacher
• 1611 : Johann Duve , German merchant and banker
• 1622 : Friedrich Ulrich Calixt , German theologian
• 1627 : Elisabeth Angélique de Montmorency , Duchess of Châtillon and Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• 1629 : János Kájoni , Romanian composer
• 1649 : Johann Philipp Krieger , German composer, organist and Kapellmeister
• 1650 : Hans von Assig , German poet lawyer
• 1662 : August Wilhelm , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg
• 1679 : Charlotte Amalie von Hessen-Wanfried , noblewoman
• 1681 : Balthasar Geyder , German theologian and author

18th century

• 1701 : Moritz Casimir I of Bentheim-Tecklenburg , reg. Count of Tecklenburg and Limburg, Lord of Rheda
• 1714 : Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German composer
• 1724 : Ernst Friedrich , Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
• 1728 : Johann Friedrich von Tröltsch , German lawyer
• 1736 : Johann Amadeus Franz von Thugut , Austrian statesman and minister
• 1743 : Jakob Mauvillon , German military writer
• 1747 : Johann Peter Melchior , German sculptor
• 1748 : Daniel Klugkist , German lawyer and local politician, senator and mayor of Bremen
• 1748 : Wilhelm V , Dutch governor
• 1753 : William Roscoe , English lawyer, biologist and historian
• 1761 : Jan Potocki , Polish novelist, historian and ethnologist
• 1777 : David Christoph Huber , Swiss clergyman
• 1778 : Jean Toussaint Arrighi de Casanova , Duke of Padua, French general and politician
• 1780 : Thomas Carr , American music publisher, composer and organist
• 1782 : Anna Maria Lasinsky , German romantic poet
• 1783 : Gottfried Wilhelm Fink , German composer
• 1788 : Antoine César Becquerel , French physicist
• 1797 : Maximilien Simon , French composer and civil servant
• 1799 : Simon Cameron , US Secretary of War

19th century

1801-1850

Jean-Delphin Alard (* 1815)

Josephine Cochrane (* 1839)

Carl von Bach (* 1847)

• 1807 : Alphonse Thys , French composer
• 1808 : Charles Merivale , British historian and Dean of Ely Cathedral
• 1809 : Vinzenz Kreuzer , Austrian draftsman and landscape painter
• 1815 : Hermann Wagener , German lawyer, editor-in-chief, Prussian ministerial official and politician
• 1815 : Jean-Delphin Alard , French violinist and composer
• 1818 : Heinrich Albert Hofmann , German bookseller, publisher and theater manager
• 1818 : Mary Frances Sherwood Hopkins Searles , American millionaire and patron
• 1822 : Ignacy Łukasiewicz , Polish chemist, pharmacist and inventor
• 1823 : Gyula Andrássy , Austro-Hungarian politician
• 1824 : Friedrich Wilhelm Dörpfeld , German educator ( Herbartianer )
• 1827 : Wilhelm Bleek , German linguist
• 1827 : Ernst Schalck , German painter, draftsman and caricaturist
• 1829 : Marie Seebach , German actress and opera singer
• 1838 : Adolph L'Arronge , German playwright, theater director, theater critic and conductor
• 1838 : Ernst Meisel , German history painter
• 1838 : Francisco Romero Robledo , Spanish lawyer and politician
• 1838 : Hermann Friedrich Wendt , German physician and university professor
• 1839 : Josephine Cochrane , American inventor
• 1839 : James Mason Crafts , American chemist
• 1840 : Gideon Dael von Köth-Wanscheid , Hessian landowner and politician
• 1840 : Franco Faccio , Italian composer and conductor
• 1840 : Victor Luntz , architect and university professor in Vienna
• 1844 : Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker , German violinist and music director
• 1846 : Anna Magdalena Appel , German ballet dancer and Grand Duchess
• 1847 : Carl von Bach , German mechanical engineer and university professor
• 1848 : Karl von Amira , German legal historian
• 1849 : Rinaldo Simen , Swiss journalist and politician
• 1850 : Carl Robert , German classical philologist and archaeologist

1851-1900

Marie Lang (* 1858)

Henni Forchhammer (* 1863)

Otto Hahn (* 1879)

Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir (* 1887)

Wäinö Aaltonen (* 1894)

Juana de Ibarbourou (* 1895)

Howard Hathaway Aiken (* 1900)

• 1852 : Anna Gerresheim , German painter, graphic artist and co-founder of the Ahrenshoop artists' colony
• 1852 : Takamura Kōun , Japanese sculptor
• 1853 : Eduard Bertz , German writer, philosopher, librarian and translator
• 1853 : Frank Swett Black , American politician
• 1854 : Alfred von Bake , Prussian civil servant
• 1854 : Gabriel Pierre Deville , French politician, historian, publicist and diplomat
• 1858 : Marie Lang , Austrian women's rights activist and theosophist
• 1861 : Francis Lodowick York , American organist, composer and music teacher
• 1863 : Henni Forchhammer , Danish language teacher and women's rights activist
• 1864 : Robert Sieger , Austrian geographer and university professor
• 1864 : Mathilda Wrede , Swedish-Finnish aristocrat who devoted herself to improving the living conditions of prisoners and the underprivileged
• 1865 : Frederic William Goudy , American typographer
• 1867 : Charles Engelhard , American industrialist
• 1867 : Orus Jones , American golfer
• 1868 : Georges Guiraud , French composer, organist and music teacher
• 1869 : Rudolf Wissell , German politician, MdR, Reich Minister
• 1870 : Erich Schultz-Ewerth , German colonial official and writer
• 1873 : Anna Held , actress
• 1873 : Mathilde Jacob , German socialist, confidante of Rosa Luxemburg
• 1873 : Fritz Wucherer , German painter of Swiss origin
• 1874 : Franz Anderle , Austrian officer
• 1874 : Lina Hilger , German educator
• 1874 : Ethel Tawse Jollie , Rhodesian publicist, writer and first female MP in the British Empire outside of Great Britain
• 1874 : Gabriel Scott , Norwegian writer
• 1875 : Franco Alfano , Italian composer
• 1877 : Albert Dankert , German worker sportsman
• 1877 : Carl Mannich , German chemist
• 1877 : Šatrijos Ragana , Lithuanian writer
• 1879 : Otto Hahn , German chemist, pioneer of radiochemistry, discoverer of nuclear fission of uranium, Nobel Prize winner
• 1879 : Mechtilde Lichnowsky , German writer
• 1880 : Ola Alsen , German writer and editor
• 1882 : Ottilie Wollmann , German sculptor
• 1883 : Adolf Köster , German politician and diplomat, Reich Minister
• 1884 : Uma Nehru , Indian politician and publicist
• 1886 : Edward Calvin Kendall , American biochemist
• 1886 : Richard Charles Mills , Australian economist
• 1886 : Helen Parkhurst , American educational reformist and author
• 1887 : Patrick O'Connell , Irish football player and coach
• 1887 : Elsa Oeltjen-Kasimir , German-Slovenian sculptor, painter and graphic artist
• 1887 : Anuschawan Ter-Gewondjan , Armenian composer
• 1890 : Johannes Albers , German politician, MdL, MdB
• 1890 : Oswald von Nell-Breuning , German theologian, Jesuit, political economist and social philosopher, co-founder of Catholic social teaching
• 1890 : George Froeschel , Austrian-American writer and screenwriter
• 1890 : Thekla Schild , German architect
• 1891 : Sam Jaffe , American actor
• 1891 : Else Ulbrich , German politician
• 1891 : Sophie Reuschle , German writer
• 1892 : Mississippi John Hurt , American blues singer and guitarist
• 1894 : Iwan Wassiljewitsch Obreimow , Russian physicist
• 1894 : Wäinö Aaltonen , Finnish sculptor
• 1895 : Juana de Ibarbourou , poet from Uruguay
• 1896 : Alis Guggenheim , Swiss sculptor and painter
• 1897 : Franziska Fischer , Bavarian farmer and senator
• 1897 : Herbert Otto Gille , German general of the SS and Waffen-SS
• 1898 : Karl Weber , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister
• 1898 : Theophilus E. Dönges , South African politician
• 1899 : Eric Linklater , British writer from Scotland
• 1900 : Henry Abel Smith , British officer and Governor of Queensland
• 1900 : Howard Hathaway Aiken , American computer pioneer, developer of one of the first digital mainframes ( Mark I )
• 1900 : Ray Crist , American chemist
• 1900 : Otto Peltzer , German athlete and trainer

20th century

1901-1925

Viktor de Kowa (* 1904)

Eva Dickson (* 1905)

Mouloud Feraoun (* 1913)

Charlotte Niemann (* 1915)

Tapio Rautavaara (* 1915)

Ralph Baer (* 1922)

Marta Lynch (* 1925)

• 1901 : Karl Abenthum , German pastor and papal house prelate
• 1901 : Wilhelm Pleyer , German journalist and writer from the Sudetenland
• 1902 : Louise Beavers , American actress
• 1902 : Hanna Cauer , German sculptor and painter
• 1903 : Heinrich Troßbach , German athlete
• 1903 : Robert Uhrig , German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1904 : Hedwig Bienkowski-Andersson , German essayist and writer
• 1904 : Viktor de Kowa , German theater and film actor and director
• 1904 : Hans Tschiggfrey , Austrian politician
• 1905 : Eva Dickson , Swedish explorer, rally driver, aviator and travel writer
• 1906 : Victor Hasselblad , Swedish photographer, inventor and entrepreneur
• 1907 : Konstantinos Karamanlis , Greek lawyer and politician, multiple prime minister and president
• 1908 : María Uribe , Mexican javelin thrower
• 1909 : Alberto Echagüe , Argentine singer and songwriter
• 1909 : László Rajk , Hungarian politician
• 1910 : Carl-Axel Acking , Swedish architect and furniture designer
• 1910 : Claire Trevor , American actress
• 1911 : Herbert Abel , German geographer and museum director
• 1911 : Alan Hovhaness , American composer
• 1911 : Wilhelm Sandner , German speed skater
• 1911 : François Stahly , Franco-German sculptor
• 1912 : Aloys Odenthal , German architect and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1913 : Mouloud Feraoun , Algerian writer
• 1914 : Uvo Hölscher , German classical philology
• 1914 : Priscilla Lawson , American actress
• 1914 : Abraham S. Luchins , American Gestalt psychologist
• 1914 : Ivan Romanoff , Canadian conductor, violinist, arranger and composer
• 1914 : Jakow Borissowitsch Seldowitsch , Soviet nuclear physicist
• 1914 : Afonsinho , Brazilian soccer player
• 1914 : Frank Soo , English football player, also known as the first non-white English national player
• 1915 : Charlotte Niemann , German director and composer
• 1915 : Tapio Rautavaara , Finnish athlete, musician and actor
• 1915 : Pelagia Scheffczyk , Polish invoice clerk, employee in the Polish intelligence service and victim of Nazi war justice
• 1916 : Red Callender , American jazz bassist (double bass and tuba)
• 1916 : Peter Gingold , German communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1916 : Yvon Petra , French tennis player
• 1916 : Robert Wolfgang Schnell , German writer
• 1917 : Leslie Fiedler , American literary scholar and critic
• 1917 : Paula Hahn-Weinheimer , German geochemist
• 1918 : Eileen Herlie , British actress
• 1919 : Patrick Vincent Ahern , American clergyman and auxiliary bishop
• 1919 : Mavor Moore , Canadian author, librettist, composer, music critic and educator, director and producer
• 1919 : Erika Rumsfeld , German actress and radio play speaker
• 1920 : George Keith Batchelor , Australian mathematician and physicist
• 1920 : Eva Dahlbeck , Swedish actress and writer
• 1920 : Gertrude Wondrack , Austrian trade unionist and politician
• 1920 : Vera-Maria Ruthenberg , German art historian
• 1921 : Alexei Berest , Soviet officer, hoisted the Soviet flag on the Reichstag in a picture that was recreated
• 1921 : József Romhányi , Hungarian screenwriter, librettist and poet
• 1922 : Ralph Baer , American game developer
• 1922 : Cyd Charisse , American film actress
• 1922 : Heinar Kipphardt , German writer and representative of the documentary theater
• 1922 : Shigeru Mizuki , Japanese manga artist
• 1922 : Chuck Murphy , American country and rockabilly musician
• 1922 : Benedikt Posch , Austrian journalist and publisher
• 1923 : Ruprecht Essberger , German television writer and director
• 1923 : Walter Jens , German classical philologist, literary historian, writer, critic and translator
• 1923 : Kurt Wilhelm , German director and author
• 1924 : Nina Alexejewna Lobkowskaja , served as a sniper for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II
• 1925 : Warren Bennis , American economist
• 1925 : Efim Geller , Ukrainian-Soviet chess grandmaster
• 1925 : Marta Lynch , Argentine writer
• 1925 : Francisco Rabal , Spanish actor

1926-1950

Josefina Rodríguez de Aldecoa (* 1926)

Frank Michael Beyer (* 1928)

Elaine S. Edwards (born 1929)

Zagorka Golubović (* 1930)

Heinz Mack (* 1931)

Patricia Dench (* 1932)

Leif Silbersky (* 1938)

Lidija Pavlovna Skoblikowa (* 1939)

Johnny Ventura (born 1940)

Ina May Gaskin (* 1940)

Valerio Massimo Manfredi (* 1943)

Regina Ziegler (* 1944)

Giedrė Purvaneckienė (* 1945)

Chris Peters (* 1949)

Antonello Venditti (* 1949)

• 1926 : Giovan Battista Fabbri , Italian football player and coach
• 1926 : Franco Faggi , Italian rower
• 1926 : Christian von Ferber , German economist and sociologist
• 1926 : Paul Gnaier , German fencer and sports official
• 1926 : Wolfgang Greese , German actor
• 1926 : Grigori Kromanov , Estonian theater and film director
• 1926 : Francisco Rabal , Spanish actor
• 1926 : Josefina Rodríguez de Aldecoa , Spanish writer
• 1926 : Henriette Schmidt-Burkhardt , German entrepreneur and patron
• 1927 : Helmut Becker , German oenologist (viticulture and vine breeding)
• 1927 : Josef Berg , Czech composer
• 1927 : Dick Hyman , American jazz pianist
• 1927 : Simon Jubani , Albanian Catholic clergyman
• 1927 : Stanisław Kania , Polish politician and party official
• 1927 : Harry Thürk , German writer and screenwriter
• 1928 : Frank Michael Beyer , German composer and conductor
• 1928 : Bill Lomas , British motorcycle racer
• 1928 : Jacqueline Richard , Canadian pianist, répétiteur and conductor
• 1929 : Hebe Camargo , Brazilian television presenter, singer, actress and voice actress
• 1929 : Elaine S. Edwards , American politician
• 1929 : Val Gow , New Zealand badminton player
• 1929 : Gotthilf Hempel , German marine biologist
• 1929 : Manfred Jenning , German author, game director and director, speaker of the Augsburger Puppenkiste
• 1929 : Greta Magnusson , Swedish long jumper and sprinter
• 1930 : Franz Gertsch , Swiss painter
• 1930 : Zagorka Golubović , Yugoslav or Serbian sociologist and anthropologist
• 1930 : Douglas Hurd , British politician
• 1930 : Lonny Kellner , German actress and singer
• 1930 : Almuth Lütkenhaus , German visual artist
• 1931 : Heinz Mack , German sculptor, painter and object artist and co-founder of the ZERO group
• 1931 : Neil Postman , American media scholar
• 1932 : Alain Bernaud , French composer
• 1932 : Erling Blöndal Bengtsson , Danish cellist
• 1932 : Patricia Dench , Australian marksman
• 1932 : Heiner Lichtenstein , German journalist and publicist
• 1932 : Franz Müller-Heuser , German concert singer
• 1932 : Mechtild Schröder , German doctor and deaconess
• 1933 : Alfred Bayer , German ministerial official and manager
• 1933 : Gert Hummel , German theologian and bishop
• 1933 : Dieter Mecke , German biochemist
• 1933 : Ronnie Moore , New Zealand-British speedway driver
• 1933 : Karlheinz Pech , German historian
• 1933 : Luca Ronconi , Italian theater director
• 1934 : Kurt Mahr , German writer
• 1934 : Christian Wolff , American composer
• 1935 : George Coleman , American jazz musician
• 1936 : Sue Ane Langdon , American singer and actress
• 1936 : Martin Scharfe , German folklorist
• 1936 : Gabor Szabo , Hungarian jazz guitarist
• 1937 : Richard Fariña , American writer and musician
• 1937 : Klara Ivanovna Gussewa , Russian speed skater and Olympic champion
• 1937 : Juvénal Habyarimana , Rwandan general and politician, minister, president
• 1938 : Hermann Fabini , Romanian architect and politician
• 1938 : Mali Finn , American casting agent
• 1938 : Milan Galić , Yugoslav soccer player
• 1938 : Friedrich Laux , German prehistorian
• 1938 : Gerd Modrow , German track cyclist
• 1938 : Tom Nicholas , American jazz drummer
• 1938 : Karl Hugo Pruys , journalist, communication scientist and writer
• 1938 : Giorgio Puia , Italian football player and coach
• 1938 : Leif Silbersky , Swedish defense attorney and writer
• 1938 : Vreni Spoerry , Swiss politician
• 1939 : Margret Maria Baltes , German psychologist and gerontologist
• 1939 : Evi Kent , German actress
• 1939 : Barbara Probst-Polášek , German concert guitarist and lutenist
• 1939 : Lynn Seymour , Canadian ballerina and actress
• 1939 : Lidija Pavlovna Skoblikowa , Soviet speed skater and Olympic champion
• 1939 : Paride Tumburus , Italian football player and coach
• 1939 : Harry Zörnack , German handball player
• 1940 : Peter Baumbach , German architect and art college professor
• 1940 : Susan Clark , Canadian actress and film producer
• 1940 : Ina May Gaskin , American midwife
• 1940 : Manfred Manglitz , German soccer player
• 1940 : Barry Smith , Australian motorcycle racer
• 1940 : Johnny Ventura , Dominican singer
• 1941 : Neuza Borges , Brazilian actress
• 1941 : Ivana Loudová , Czech composer
• 1941 : Alexei Nikolaevich Mishin , Russian figure skater and figure skating coach
• 1941 : Wilfrid Fox Napier , South African Franciscan, priest, Archbishop of Durban and Cardinal
• 1942 : Reinhold Huhn , German sergeant of the border troops of the GDR, killed by an escape helper
• 1942 : Ann Packer , British athlete, Olympic champion
• 1942 : Pari Ravan , Iranian-German-French painter
• 1942 : Ann-Louise Wiklund , Finnish badminton player
• 1943 : Jürgen Bortz , German psychologist and statistician
• 1943 : Romualdas Deltuvas , Lithuanian forest scientist
• 1943 : Jacques Gilard , French Latin American scholar
• 1943 : Michael Grade , British businessman and broadcaster
• 1943 : Taira Hara , Japanese manga artist
• 1943 : Valerio Massimo Manfredi , Italian writer, archaeologist and philologist
• 1943 : Harry Nestler , German politician
• 1943 : Lynn Redgrave , British actress
• 1943 : Franz Steinegger , Swiss lawyer and politician
• 1943 : Reinhart Zarneckow , German lawyer and politician
• 1944 : Carole Bayer Sager , American songwriter, composer and singer
• 1944 : Paul Derks , German Germanist
• 1944 : Hans-Jürgen Eichhorn , German handball player and referee
• 1944 : Hans Leciejewski , German basketball and handball player and sports official
• 1944 : Pepe Romero , Spanish guitarist
• 1944 : Joachim Schimpke , German badminton player
• 1944 : Renate Winter , Austrian judge and president of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
• 1944 : Alexander Ziegler , German actor, publicist and writer
• 1944 : Regina Ziegler , German film producer
• 1945 : Doldschingiin Adjaatömör , Mongolian wrestler
• 1945 : David Ascalon , US-Israeli artist and sculptor
• 1945 : Bruce Broughton , American film music composer
• 1945 : Anselm Kiefer , German painter and sculptor
• 1945 : Carol Moseke , American discus thrower
• 1945 : Giedrė Purvaneckienė , Lithuanian semiconductor physicist and politician
• 1945 : Janet Wright , Canadian actress
• 1945 : Sylvia Wiegand , American mathematician
• 1946 : Randy Meisner , American musician (Eagles)
• 1946 : Tonicha , Portuguese pop and folklore singer
• 1947 : Christine Heipertz-Hengst , German sports scientist, sports therapist, riding trainer and non-fiction author
• 1947 : Silvia Tortosa , Spanish actress
• 1948 : Peggy March , American singer
• 1948 : Sandy Patton , American modern jazz singer
• 1949 : Teófilo Cubillas , Peruvian football player
• 1949 : Marianne Deml , German politician
• 1949 : Temirchan Dosmuchambetow , Kazakh politician
• 1949 : Edmund Duckwitz , German diplomat
• 1949 : Fumio Itabashi , Japanese jazz pianist
• 1949 : Karel Lismont , Belgian long-distance runner
• 1949 : Chris Peters , Dutch mathematician
• 1949 : Antonello Venditti , Italian songwriter
• 1949 : Barbara Zeizinger , German poet and travel writer
• 1950 : Tilak Agerwala , Indian-American computer engineer
• 1950 : Dietmar Koelzer , German cameraman
• 1950 : Kabiné Komara , politician in Guinea
• 1950 : Claude Malhuret , French doctor and politician
• 1950 : Peter McCauley , New Zealand actor
• 1950 : Rainer Philipp , German ice hockey player
• 1950 : Manfred Roth , German director and actor
• 1950 : Stanisław Rydzoń , Polish politician, legal advisor and member of the Sejm
• 1950 : Marioara Trifan , American pianist, conductor and university teacher

1951-1975

Rainer Wend (* 1954)

Thomas Bellut (* 1955)

Lisa Witasek (* 1956)

Billy Childs (born 1957)

Kathleen Ferrier (* 1957)

Gary Numan (* 1958)

Maja Haderlap (* 1961)

Grace O'Sullivan (born 1962)

Sasha Waltz (* 1963)

Hermann Mückler (* 1964)

Kang Moon-suk (* 1965)

Anja Feldmann (* 1966)

Aslı Erdoğan (* 1967)

Constantin Alsheimer (* 1969)

Jed Rees (born 1970)

Fergal O'Brien (* 1972)

Jahana Hayes (* 1973)

Cheryl Salisbury (* 1974)

Andreas Glück (* 1975)

• 1951 : Ludwig Cromme , German mathematician
• 1951 : James Williams , American jazz pianist
• 1952 : George Allen , American politician
• 1952 : Sandy King , American film producer
• 1952 : Kira Stein , German mechanical engineer
• 1952 : Pius Segmüller , commander of the Pontifical Swiss Guard
• 1952 : Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Wasjutin , pilot and Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian nationality
• 1953 : Alexander Hemmelrath , German auditor, tax advisor and university professor
• 1953 : Gabriele Jakobi , German theater director
• 1953 : Jochen K. Kübler , German politician
• 1953 : Bernd Mattheus , German writer, translator and essayist
• 1953 : Ann Must , Estonian writer and translator
• 1953 : Elisabeth Neier , doctor and hospital manager in Ngaoubela, Cameroon
• 1953 : Vasundhara Raje , Indian politician
• 1953 : Harald Schmitz-Schmelzer , German painter and object artist
• 1953 : Herbert Schwarz , German speed skater
• 1953 : Kathy Shower , American actress
• 1953 : Michael Wolfgramm , German rower
• 1953 : Ewa Ziętek , Polish theater and film actress
• 1954 : Marie-Theres Nadig , Swiss ski racer
• 1954 : Juan Ramón Rocha , Argentinian football player
• 1954 : Karl Schnabl , Austrian ski jumper
• 1954 : Rainer Wend , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1955 : Donald Allan Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1955 : Thomas Bellut , German journalist
• 1955 : Peter A. Berger , German sociologist
• 1955 : Francisco Millán Mon , Spanish politician
• 1955 : Markus Völlenklee , Austrian actor and theater director
• 1956 : Bertrand Balas , French racing car driver
• 1956 : Biggi Vinkeloe , Swedish musician of creative jazz and new improvisation music
• 1956 : Lisa Witasek , Austrian writer
• 1957 : Clive Burr , British drummer ( Iron Maiden )
• 1957 : Teresa Ceglecka-Zielonka , Polish politician
• 1957 : Billy Childs , American jazz pianist and composer
• 1957 : Helmut Daucher , Austrian photographer
• 1957 : Joris Dudli , Swiss jazz drummer
• 1957 : Kathleen Ferrier , Dutch politician
• 1957 : Zhao Leji , Chinese politician
• 1957 : Nancy Olson , American wheelchair tennis player
• 1957 : Yemi Osinbajo , Nigerian lawyer and legal scholar
• 1957 : Herbert Pöck , Austrian ice hockey player and coach
• 1957 : Cynthia Rothrock , American actress and martial artist
• 1957 : Helga Schauerte-Maubouet , German organist, editor and music author
• 1957 : Axel A. Weber , German economist, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
• 1957 : Marion Winkel-Wergen , German artist and ceramist
• 1957 : Peter Wittmann , Austrian politician
• 1957 : Wolfgang Zwickel , German Protestant theologian
• 1958 : Simon Halsey , British conductor and choir director
• 1958 : Stefan Ineichen , Swiss writer
• 1958 : Andreas Maurer , German tennis player
• 1958 : Gary Numan , British musician and pioneer of electropop
• 1958 : Florian J. Schweigert , German nutritionist and veterinarian
• 1958 : Erwin Skamrahl , German athlete
• 1958 : Rolf Watter , Swiss lawyer and legal scholar
• 1959 : Thomas Valter Åhlén , Swedish ice hockey player
• 1959 : Barbara Eve Harris , Canadian actress
• 1959 : Brian McGee , Scottish drummer and founding member of Simple Minds
• 1959 : Kirsten Niehuus , German manager in film funding and university professor
• 1959 : Patricia Ross , American cross-country skier
• 1960 : Bettina Bäumlisberger , German journalist
• 1960 : Finn Carter , American actress
• 1960 : Jeffrey Eugenides , American writer
• 1960 : Birgit Lechtermann , German television presenter
• 1960 : Martina Roth , German actress
• 1960 : Eva Schlegel , Austrian artist
• 1960 : Ilme Schlichting , German biophysicist
• 1961 : Roland Bless , German musician ( PUR )
• 1961 : José Feghali , Brazilian pianist and music teacher
• 1961 : Ângela Figueiredo , Brazilian actress
• 1961 : Maja Haderlap , Austrian writer
• 1961 : Sigrid Hoth , German veterinarian and politician
• 1961 : Gabriele Lechner , Austrian opera and concert singer
• 1961 : Camryn Manheim , American actress
• 1961 : Larry Murphy , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1961 : Jelena Gennadjewna Matijewskaja , Soviet rower
• 1961 : Waltraud Rohrer , Austrian politician (SPÖ) and works councilor
• 1961 : Anka Schmid , film director, screenwriter and video artist
• 1962 : Kim Ung-yong , South Korean nuclear physicist
• 1962 : Grace O'Sullivan , Irish environmental activist and politician
• 1962 : Richard Stanton , British racing car driver
• 1963 : Júlio César , Brazilian soccer player
• 1963 : Jelena Nikolajewna Baturina , Russian entrepreneur
• 1963 : Gabriele Juen , Austrian politician
• 1963 : Sílvia Marsó , Spanish actress and television presenter
• 1963 : Sasha Waltz , German choreographer and dancer
• 1964 : Thomas Bezucha , American director and screenwriter
• 1964 : Christoph Börner , German business economist and university lecturer
• 1964 : Peter Gill , British drummer ( Frankie Goes To Hollywood )
• 1964 : Bogdan Lalić , Croatian chess player
• 1964 : Hermann Mückler , Austrian ethnologist, historian and political scientist
• 1964 : Alexander Neuhuber , Austrian entrepreneur and politician
• 1964 : Mark Oaten , British politician
• 1964 : Yasuharu Sorimachi , Japanese football player and coach
• 1965 : Satoru Akahori , Japanese writer
• 1965 : Frank Bakke-Jensen , Norwegian politician
• 1965 : Scarlet Cavadenti , German actress and voice actress
• 1965 : Friedrich Forssman , German book designer
• 1965 : Fátima Lopes , Portuguese fashion designer
• 1965 : Kang Moon-suk , South Korean-German soprano, television presenter, actress and poet
• 1966 : Kathrin Beck , Austrian actress and figure skater
• 1966 : Hermine Deurloo , Dutch harmonica player and saxophonist of modern jazz
• 1966 : Anja Feldmann , German computer scientist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science
• 1966 : Khalid Khan , German handball trainer and former handball player
• 1966 : Laura McCabe , American cross-country skier
• 1966 : Anne McLaughlin , Scottish politician
• 1966 : Steffi von Wolff , German author and journalist
• 1967 : Wolfgang Adenberg , German musical writer and translator
• 1967 : Aslı Erdoğan , Turkish physicist, journalist and writer
• 1967 : Mitsuyo Kakuta , Japanese writer
• 1967 : Ruth I. Michler , American mathematician
• 1967 : Natalia E. Woytasik , German photographer, painter and experimental musician
• 1968 : Michael Bartels , German racing driver
• 1968 : Angela Drexl , German ski racer
• 1968 : Wolfram Köhler , German politician, MdL
• 1968 : Marina Köhncke , German eventing rider
• 1968 : Iryna Merkuschina , Ukrainian biathlete
• 1968 : Shawn Mullins , American musician and songwriter
• 1968 : Cristina Pereira , Portuguese volleyball and beach volleyball player
• 1968 : Petra Urban , German opera, operetta and musical singer
• 1968 : Clare Wood , British tennis player
• 1969 : Martina Accola , Swiss ski racer
• 1969 : Constantin Alsheimer , German manager
• 1969 : Georg Behlau , head of the office of the German national soccer team
• 1969 : Christiane Budig , German artist and art therapist
• 1969 : Paola Kaufmann , Argentine writer and biologist
• 1969 : Stefan Zahradnik , German economist
• 1970 : Harry Decheiver , Dutch football player
• 1970 : Baqyt Duissenbayev , Kazakh diplomat
• 1970 : Anat Fort , Israeli modern jazz pianist and composer
• 1970 : Andrea Parker , American actress
• 1970 : Jed Rees , Canadian actor
• 1970 : Pasi Sormunen , Finnish ice hockey player
• 1970 : Ed Podivinsky , Canadian ski racer
• 1970 : Greg Stanton , American politician
• 1970 : Valeriu Streleț , Moldovan politician
• 1971 : Marina Valeryevna Guschtschina , Russian biathlete
• 1971 : Youka Nitta , Japanese manga artist
• 1972 : Ekaterina Alexandrovna Bachwalowa , Russian hurdler
• 1972 : Kara Cooney , American Egyptologist
• 1972 : Klaus Erfort , German chef
• 1972 : Fergal O'Brien , Irish snooker player
• 1972 : Jakob Sveistrup , Danish singer, musician and teacher for autistic children
• 1973 : Tiziana Alagia , Italian marathon runner
• 1973 : Anneke van Giersbergen , Dutch singer and guitarist
• 1973 : Jahana Hayes , American teacher and politician
• 1973 : Amel Larrieux , American singer and singer-songwriter
• 1973 : Stefan Meissner , German soccer player
• 1973 : Holger Stockhaus , German actor
• 1974 : Belem Guerrero , Mexican cyclist
• 1974 : Miho Oki , Japanese cyclist
• 1974 : Giesela Rühl , German legal scholar
• 1974 : Cheryl Salisbury , Australian national soccer player
• 1974 : Annilese Miskimmon , Irish-British opera director and general manager
• 1974 : Stefan Müller , German soccer player
• 1974 : Christiane Paul , German film actress
• 1975 : Ursi Breidenbach , Austrian author
• 1975 : Eva Celbová , Czech beach volleyball player
• 1975 : Mami Donoshiro , Japanese tennis player
• 1975 : Andreas Glück , German politician, MdL
• 1975 : Sultan-Akhmed Magomedsalichowitsch Ibragimow , Russian heavyweight boxer and WBO world champion
• 1975 : Nadine Weckardt , German florist and non-fiction author
• 1975 : Markus Weissenberger , Austrian soccer player

1976-2000

Freddie Prinze junior (* 1976)

Jef Neve (born 1977)

Tayo Awosusi (* 1978)

Timo Boll (* 1981)

Kat Von D (* 1981)

Marcus Kehr (* 1983)

Maria Ohisalo (* 1985)

Lena Goeßling (* 1986)

Damian Boeselager (* 1988)

Ming Xi (* 1989)

Dever Orgill (* 1990)

Joon Wolfsberg (* 1992)

Irene Ekelund (* 1997)

Viktor Đerek (* 2000)

• 1976 : Nicole Aish , American long-distance runner
• 1976 : Annika Billstam , Swedish orienteer
• 1976 : Elisabeth Fuchs , Austrian conductor
• 1976 : Daniela Jordanowa , Bulgarian middle and long distance runner
• 1976 : Takae Masumo , Japanese badminton player
• 1976 : Freddie Prinze Jr. , US-American actor
• 1976 : Simon Springer , Canadian geographer
• 1976 : Nadine Steinkamp , German canoeist
• 1977 : Carina Barcos , Argentine biathlete
• 1977 : Alison Becker , American actress
• 1977 : Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield , French politician, MEP
• 1977 : Tatsiana Karatkewitsch , Belarusian politician and psychologist
• 1977 : Jef Neve , Belgian jazz pianist and composer
• 1977 : Reagan Pasternak , Canadian actress
• 1977 : Peter Schep , Dutch cycling trainer and racing cyclist
• 1977 : Fitz van Thom , German actor, director and filmmaker
• 1977 : James Van Der Beek , American actor
• 1977 : Fernando Vicente , Spanish tennis player
• 1977 : Johann Vogel , Swiss football player
• 1978 : Tayo Awosusi , German R'n'B and soul singer, feminist and committed to equal opportunities
• 1978 : Mohammed Bouyeri , Moroccan-Dutch Islamist, murderer of Theo van Gogh
• 1978 : Outi Kettunen , Finnish biathlete
• 1978 : Chris Phillips , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 : Ewout Pierreux , Belgian jazz musician
• 1978 : Samanta Schweblin , Argentine writer
• 1978 : Johanna Sjöberg , Swedish swimmer
• 1978 : Genki Sudō , Japanese K-1 and MMA fighter, author, musician and politician
• 1978 : Manfred Vallazza , Italian politician
• 1979 : Shola Ama , British singer
• 1979 : Apathy , American rapper
• 1979 : Verónica Cuadrado , Spanish handball player
• 1979 : Quincy Detenamo , Nauruan weightlifter
• 1979 : Alex J. Kay , British historian with a focus on National Socialism
• 1979 : Heidi Parviainen , Finnish singer and songwriter
• 1979 : Alina Treiger , German liberal rabbi
• 1979 : Jasmine You , Japanese musician ( Versailles )
• 1980 : DonGURALesko , actually Piotr Górny, Polish rapper and songwriter
• 1980 : Mohamadou Idrissou , Cameroonian football player
• 1981 : Jonas Andersen , Norwegian ice hockey player
• 1981 : Pablo Fernando Aurrecochea Medina , Uruguayan football player
• 1981 : Michael Beauchamp , Australian soccer player
• 1981 : Timo Boll , German table tennis player
• 1981 : David Kreiner , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
• 1981 : Pirjo Muranen , Finnish cross-country skier
• 1981 : Joost Posthuma , Dutch cyclist
• 1981 : Xu Yuanyuan , Chinese chess player
• 1982 : Kat Von D , actually Katherine von Drachenberg, American tattoo artist
• 1982 : Kateryna Kalytko , Ukrainian writer and translator
• 1982 : Matthew Krok , Australian actor
• 1982 : Laura Osswald , German actress
• 1982 : Michelle Rejwan , American film producer
• 1982 : Karim Rouani , French-Moroccan football player
• 1983 : Marcus Kehr , German enduro athlete
• 1983 : Nino Matschaidze , Georgian opera singer
• 1984 : Rafik Djebbour , Algerian football player
• 1984 : György Garics , Austrian football player
• 1985 : Haris Medunjanin , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1985 : Maria Ohisalo , Finnish politician
• 1985 : Ewa Sonnet , Polish photo model and pop singer
• 1986 : Alexander Sergejewitsch Aksjonenko , Russian ice hockey player
• 1986 : Ariane Alter , German television presenter
• 1986 : Jens Brandenburg , German economist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1986 : Chris van der Drift , New Zealand racing driver
• 1986 : Lena Goeßling , German soccer player
• 1986 : Pierre le Beau , German football player
• 1986 : Lauren Lopez , American actress
• 1987 : Bianca Atzei , Italian pop singer
• 1987 : Michael Görlitz , German soccer player
• 1987 : Devon Graye , American actor
• 1987 : Joonas Ikonen , Finnish ski jumper
• 1987 : Mario Kreimer , Austrian soccer player
• 1988 : Fanny Horn Birkeland , Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier
• 1988 : Benny Blanco , American music producer and songwriter
• 1988 : Elierce Barbosa de Souza , Brazilian soccer player
• 1988 : Damian Boeselager , management consultant, journalist and politician, MEP
• 1988 : Reina del Cid , American folk / rock singer and songwriter
• 1988 : Jahmir Hyka , Albanian football player
• 1988 : Miloš Lačný , Slovak football player
• 1988 : Christián Mpaka , Congolese football player
• 1988 : Peta Mullens , Australian cyclist
• 1988 : Johnny Ruffo , Australian pop singer, dancer and actor
• 1988 : Zolani Tete , South African boxer
• 1989 : Radosav Petrović , Serbian football player
• 1989 : Franziska Prade , German swimmer
• 1989 : Ming Xi , Chinese model
• 1990 : Romain Bacon , French road cyclist
• 1990 : Luke Brattan , Australian-English soccer player
• 1990 : Rémy Cabella , French football player
• 1990 : Alan Kazbekowitsch Gogajew , Russian wrestler
• 1990 : Nicolas Görtler , German soccer player
• 1990 : Petra Kvitová , Czech tennis player
• 1990 : Dever Orgill , Jamaican soccer player
• 1990 : Colten Teubert , German-Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 : Miriam Bryant , Swedish soul-pop singer and songwriter
• 1991 : Stefanie Klaunig , German handball player
• 1991 : Róbert Mak , Slovak football player
• 1991 : Krzysztof Miętus , Polish ski jumper
• 1991 : Devon Werkheiser , American actor
• 1992 : Oarabile Babolayi , Botswana hurdler
• 1992 : Joon Wolfsberg , German singer-songwriter
• 1993 : Lars Ove Aunli , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1994 : Marthe Koala , Burkinabe heptathlete and hurdler
• 1994 : Martin Kobylański , Polish football player
• 1994 : Chris Philipps , Luxembourg soccer player
• 1996 : Moussa Niakhaté , French football player
• 1997 : Tijana Bošković , Serbian volleyball player
• 1997 : Irene Ekelund , Swedish sprinter
• 1997 : Amir Hadžiahmetović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1997 : Rodrigo Marte , Dominican boxer
• 1997 : Oriol Rubio , Spanish ice hockey player
• 1998 : Zong Xiao Chen , Chinese dart player
• 2000 : Ufukcan Engin , Turkish soccer player
• 2000 : Jonas David , German soccer player
• 2000 : Viktor Đerek , Croatian photographer
• 2000 : Belmin Jenciragic , Austrian football goalkeeper

Died

Before the 18th century

Urraca († 1126)

Celestine II († 1144)

Paul Luther († 1593)

Leopoldine Eleonore of the Palatinate († 1693)

• 0776 : Heddo , Bishop of Strasbourg
• 0865 : Rudolf von Fulda , historian and theologian
• 1030 : Gauzlin of Fleury , Abbot of Fleury and Archbishop of Bourges
• 1054 : Azelin , Bishop of Hildesheim
• 1089 : Chwadscha Abdullah Ansari , Sufi poet of the Persian language
• 1126 : Urraca , Queen of León, Castile and Galicia
• 1138 : Adela von Blois , French nobleman
• 1144 : Celestine II , Pope
• 1202 : Sverre Sigurdsson , King of Norway
• 1205 : Otto I , Count von Lebenau
• 1252 : Wernher II , Augustinian canon and provost of Berchtesgaden
• 1348 : Ulrich von Württemberg , Count of Württemberg and Canon of Speyer
• 1389 : Arnold van Hoorn , Prince-Bishop of Utrecht
• 1391 : Lazarus of Murom , Orthodox saint
• 1407 : Francesco I. Gonzaga , Count of Mantua
• 1464 : Catherine of Podebrady , Queen of Hungary
• 1505 : Friedrich II. Von Zollern , Bishop of Augsburg
• 1539 : Nicholas Carew , English nobleman
• 1552 : Wolfgang zu Stolberg , German politician
• 1578 : Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin , Princess of Brandenburg-Küstrin
• 1590 : Christian Amport , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1593 : Paul Luther , German physician and personal physician to the Duke of Saxony, son of Martin Luther
• 1601 : Jacob Colijn de Nole , Flemish Renaissance sculptor
• 1602 : Joachim vom Berge , German diplomat and statesman
• 1616 : Maria Anna of Bavaria , Princess of Bavaria
• 1617 : Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre , Scottish nobleman and politician
• 1619 : Veit Bach , ancestor of the Bach family
• 1621 : Enevold Kruse , Danish nobleman and Norwegian imperial governor
• 1625 : Caspar Tryller , civil servant from Electoral Saxony and founder of several foundations
• 1626 : Balthasar von Ahlefeldt , royal councilor and magistrate of Flensburg and Rendsburg, lord of Kollmar, Drage and Heiligenstedten
• 1634 : Lorenz Möller , Mayor of Lübeck
• 1646 : Eckard von Usedom , lawyer and court president in the Duchy of Pommern-Wolgast
• 1663 : Hans Christoph von Königsmarck , German military leader in the Swedish service
• 1672 : Daniel von Plessen , German district administrator of Mecklenburg
• 1693 : Leopoldine Eleonore von der Pfalz , Princess of the Electoral Palatinate and Countess Palatinate of Neuburg

18th century

Christopher Wren († 1723)

• 1702 : Giovanni Antonio Dario , Italian architect, stone cutter and master stonemason
• 1708 : Niklaus Bernoulli , Basel spice dealer, ancestor of a mathematician and physicist dynasty
• 1715 : Lips Tullian , leader of a band of robbers from Saxony
• 1723 : Christopher Wren , British astronomer and architect, founding member of the Royal Society
• 1724 : Enrico Zuccalli , Swiss architect, builder
• 1731 : Ferdinand Maximilian Brokoff , German baroque sculptor
• 1747 : Kaspar Wilhelm von Borcke , German statesman in the Prussian service and literary translator
• 1749 : Nicolas Fréret , French scholar
• 1778 : Johann Gottfried Höre , German educator
• 1793 : Johann Wilhelm Schröder , German orientalist
• 1796 : William Chambers , British architect of Scottish descent
• 1799 : Ignaz Ablasser , Austrian painter

19th century

Anna Maria Lenngren († 1817)

Johanna Luise von Werthern († 1818)

Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff († 1837)

Christoph August Tiedge († 1841)

Louise Colet († 1876)

• 1801 : Theodor Christian Eulner , German doctor
• 1803 : Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater , British nobleman, is considered to be the founder of British inland shipping
• 1805 : Matthias Friedrich Watson , German educator
• 1807 : Carl von Massow , Prussian district administrator and regional director
• 1808 : Nathaniel Alexander , American politician
• 1809 : Konrad Grübel , German dialect poet in Nuremberg, city flasher and street captain
• 1811 : Wilhelm Friedrich Schenck von Flechtingen , Prussian lieutenant general
• 1813 : Georg Wilhelm von Hopffgarten , Electoral Saxon Chancellor and Cabinet Minister
• 1813 : Carl Daniel Voigts , German engraver and portrait painter
• 1814 : Alexander Cumming , British watchmaker, mathematician and mechanic
• 1814 : William McCreery , Irish-American politician
• 1815 : Karl Dominik von Reding , Swiss politician
• 1816 : Johann Bernhard von Manstein , Prussian major general
• 1817 : Pierre-Gilles Chanlaire , French lawyer, statistics pioneer and cartographer
• 1817 : Anna Maria Lenngren , Swedish writer
• 1818 : Justus Ehrenreich Sello , royal planner in the Berlin zoo
• 1818 : Johanna Luise von Werthern , German noblewoman
• 1820 : Jean-Melchior d'Abadie , French military
• 1824 : Wilhelm Anton Ficker , German medic
• 1824 : Christian August Günther , German painter, draftsman and engraver
• 1837 : Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff , German pharmacist and pharmacist
• 1839 : Christian Friedrich von Cochenhausen , Hessian lieutenant general and minister of war and library founder
• 1841 : Christoph August Tiedge , German poet
• 1844 : Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte , French general and King of Sweden and Norway
• 1859 : Aaron V. Brown , American politician
• 1862 : Franz Xaver Nippel von Weyerheim , Austrian lawyer
• 1869 : Hector Berlioz , French composer and music critic
• 1870 : Karl August Koberstein , German literary historian
• 1871 : Francesco Scalini , Austrian engineer and politician
• 1872 : Priscilla Susan Bury , British botanical illustrator
• 1874 : Millard Fillmore , American politician, 13th President of the USA
• 1876 : Louise Colet , French poet
• 1877 : Kathinka Zitz-Halein , German writer
• 1878 : Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel , German classical philologist
• 1887 : Henry Ward Beecher , American preacher
• 1887 : Paul Féval , French writer
• 1888 : Therese Braunecker-Schäfer , Austrian theater actress, singer and dancer
• 1888 : Włodzimierz Czacki , Russian-Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop and Vatican diplomat, cardinal
• 1889 : John Ericsson , Swedish engineer
• 1889 : Anton Romako , Austrian painter
• 1890 : Hermann Conradi , German writer
• 1891 : Antonio Ciseri , Italian painter of Swiss origin
• 1892 : Benno Adam , German animal painter
• 1897 : Emil Rittershaus , German poet
• 1900 : Josef Fröstl , Austrian lawyer, politician and mayor
• 1900 : Heinrich-Carl Hedrich , German mill and mechanical engineer and entrepreneur
• 1900 : Maximilian Wilhelm Reichert , businessman, hotelier and member of the German Reichstag

20th century

1901-1950

• 1903 : William Buel Franklin , American Union General in the American Civil War
• 1906 : Rudolf Auspitz , Austrian industrialist, economist, politician and banker

Suzanne Manet († 1906)

• 1906 : Suzanne Manet , French model and wife of Édouard Manet
• 1907 : Marinos Antypas , Greek journalist
• 1907 : Otto von Scholley , Austrian field marshal lieutenant
• 1909 : Léon Théry , French racing driver
• 1910 : Ronald M. Grant , American organist and church musician
• 1911 : Ernst Falkenthal , German colonial official
• 1917 : Ferdinand von Zeppelin , German general and airship designer
• 1918 : Charles Follen Adams , American poet
• 1918 : Georg Langerhans , German lawyer, mayor of Köpenick
• 1919 : Hans Aronson , German pediatrician and bacteriologist
• 1919 : Auguste Tolbecque , French cellist, conductor, composer, instrument maker and music teacher
• 1923 : Johannes Diderik van der Waals , Dutch physicist
• 1924 : Eduard Mulder , Dutch chemist
• 1924 : Mathilde von Rothschild , German patron
• 1925 : Juliette Wytsman , Belgian impressionist painter
• 1927 : Babette von Bülow , German writer

William Howard Taft († 1930)

• 1930 : William Howard Taft , American lawyer and politician, minister, 27th President of the USA, presiding judge of the Supreme Court
• 1932 : Jan de Louter , Dutch constitutional and international lawyer.
• 1935 : Willibald Adam , German abbot
• 1935 : Gustaw Gwozdecki , Polish-French sculptor, painter, graphic artist and art writer
• 1935 : Ruan Lingyu , Chinese actress of the silent film era
• 1936 : Rudolf Much , Austrian German and Scandinavian Medievalist, classical philologist and religious scholar
• 1937 : Laura Schradin , German politician, one of the first female members of the state parliament
• 1940 : Walter Gottfried von Auwers , German lawyer and politician
• 1941 : Sherwood Anderson , American writer
• 1942 : José Raúl Capablanca , Cuban chess player, world chess champion (1921–1927) and diplomat

1951-2000

• 1953 : Michael Wolfgramm , German rower

János Esterházy († 1957)

• 1957 : János Esterházy , Hungarian nobleman and politician
• 1957 : Othmar Schoeck , Swiss composer and conductor
• 1960 : Marie Janson , Belgian politician
• 1961 : Thomas Beecham , British conductor
• 1963 : Johannes Albers , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1963 : Per Askim , Norwegian naval officer
• 1964 : Próspero López Buchardo , Argentine composer
• 1964 : Ludwig Finckh , German writer
• 1971 : Anne-Dora Arnold , German art and portrait painter
• 1971 : Hans Bruns , German Bible translator
• 1971 : Sonja Gerstner , German painter and writer
• 1971 : Harold Lloyd , American actor
• 1971 : Carlo Maria Pintacuda , Italian racing car driver
• 1972 : Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski , German general of the SS and the police, commander of the suppression of the Warsaw uprising
• 1973 : Benjamin de Arriba y Castro , Spanish Archbishop of Tarragona
• 1973 : Ron McKernan , American musician

Joseph Bech († 1975)

• 1975 : Joseph Bech , Luxembourg politician and statesman, Prime Minister, one of the founding fathers of the European Communities
• 1975 : George Stevens , American film director
• 1979 : Robin JS Cooke , Australian volcanologist
• 1979 : Elias Ravian , Papua New Guinea volcanologist
• 1980 : István Arató , Hungarian composer
• 1980 : Josef Kroll , German classical philologist
• 1980 : Max Miedinger , Swiss graphic artist and typographer
• 1980 : Otto Uhlmann , Swiss composer and conductor
• 1982 : Walter Plunkett , American costume designer
• 1983 : William Walton , British composer and conductor
• 1984 : Helena Cortesina , Spanish dancer, actress and director
• 1984 : Klaus Schmid-Burgk , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1985 : Edward Andrews , American actor
• 1985 : Paul Ramdohr , German mineralogist
• 1986 : Hubert Fichte , German writer
• 1988 : Ken Colyer , British jazz and skiffle musician
• 1989 : Stuart Hamblen , American country musician
• 1990 : Erkki Aaltonen , Finnish composer
• 1992 : Hubert Doppmeier , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1992 : Red Callender , American jazz bassist (double bass and tuba)

Billy Eckstine († 1993)

• 1993 : Billy Eckstine , American jazz singer
• 1993 : Anna Oppermann , German visual artist
• 1993 : Berent Schwineköper , German archivist and historian
• 1995 : Ingo Schwichtenberg , drummer in the band Helloween
• 1995 : Gomikawa Jumpei , Japanese writer
• 1995 : Stephan László , Austrian priest, Bishop of Eisenstadt
• 1996 : Werner Schlichting , German production designer
• 1998 : Ray Nitschke , American football player
• 1999 : Giovan Battista Carpi , Italian cartoonist and author
• 1999 : Peggy Cass , American actress
• 1999 : Adolfo Bioy Casares , Argentine writer
• 1999 : Joe DiMaggio , American baseball player
• 1999 : Conrad Dürr , German motorcycle racer

21st century

• 2001 : Frances Marr Adaskin , Canadian pianist
• 2001 : Ninette de Valois , Irish classical ballet dancer and founder of the Royal Ballet
• 2003 : Erik Sparre Andersen , Danish mathematician
• 2003 : Adam Faith , British pop singer
• 2003 : Karen Morley , American actress
• 2004 : Abu Abbas , founder and leader of the Palestine Liberation Front ( PLF ), is seen as the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Achille Lauro
• 2004 : Rainer Hess , German Romance philologist, Lusitanist and literary scholar
• 2004 : Jan Lichardus , German-Slovak prehistory researcher
• 2004 : Robert Pastorelli , American actor
• 2005 : Larry Bunker , American jazz drummer
• 2005 : Brigitte Mira , German actress, cabaret artist and chansonnière
• 2006 : Carlo Hommel , Luxembourg organist

Otto Wolff von Amerongen († 2007)

• 2007 : Otto Wolff von Amerongen , German entrepreneur and association official
• 2007 : Franz Kessler , German musicologist and university professor
• 2008 : Igor Flach , German blues harp player
• 2009 : Mike Van Audenhove , American comic artist
• 2009 : James Avery , American-German pianist and conductor
• 2009 : Zbigniew Religa , Polish heart surgeon and politician
• 2013 : Hartmut Briesenick , German athlete
• 2013 : Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist , German officer in the Wehrmacht and resistance fighter
• 2014 : Gerard Mortier , Belgian artistic director and festival director
• 2015 : Sam Simon , American television producer and co-inventor of the Simpsons
• 2016 : George Martin , British record producer and musician
• 2017 : George A. Olah , American chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2018 : Kate Wilhelm , American writer
• 2019 : Michael Gielen , German-Austrian conductor and composer
• 2019 : David Martin , British sociologist and Anglican priest
• 2020 : Max von Sydow , Swedish actor

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Thomas Aquinas , Italian nobleman, economist and philosopher, monk and doctor of the church (Protestant memorial day, see Evangelical calendar of names , the Anglican and Roman Catholic memorial day is January 28 )

• Name days
  • John of God (Founder of the Brothers of Mercy), Julian

• Anniversaries of international organizations
  • International Women's Day ( UN ) (since 1926) Public holiday in Berlin since 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Aquinas in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
2. ↑ Women's Day becomes a public holiday on berlin.de

The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .

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