8th of May
The May 8 is the 128th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 129th in leap years ), thus remain still 237 days until the end of the year.
In many European countries, May 8th is a national celebration or day of remembrance ( Liberation Day ). On this day in 1945 the Second World War ended in Europe.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 1222 : The underage Heinrich , son of Emperor Friedrich II. , Is crowned in Aachen by Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne as Roman-German King and co-regent of his father.
- 1360 : In the Treaty of Brétigny with the French King John II , the English King Edward III renounces . at the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War on the crown of France and receives in return Calais , Poitou and areas in south-west France as property.
- 1429 : One day after the capture of Orléans after seven months of siege by the French troops under Étienne de Vignolles and Jeanne d'Arc , the English leave, which means a turning point in the Hundred Years War and King Charles VII opens the way to the coronation cathedral in Reims .
- 1541 : The Spanish navigator and conquistador Hernando de Soto reaches the Mississippi River with his already heavily decimated expedition from Florida .
- 1654 : The First Anglo-Dutch War ends with the Peace of Westminster . The Netherlands must recognize the English navigation acts, according to which goods from outside Europe can only be imported into England on English ships .
- 1657 : Oliver Cromwell , Lord Protector of England since 1653 , refuses the royal crown offered to him by Parliament .
- 1660 : The members of the Convention Parliament in the Commonwealth of England proclaim Charles II , who was abroad, king, thus ending the republican period in English history.
- 1781 : As the climax of the Spanish recapture of Florida from Great Britain during the American War of Independence , the Spanish troops under the command of Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid succeed in conquering the city of the same name in the Battle of Pensacola .
- 1838 : Britain's first working people stand up, and Democratic Socialists in their People's Charter program call for universal and secret suffrage for men over the age of 21, annual general elections, the elimination of rotten boroughs, and diets for MPs .
- 1846 : In the Battle of Palo Alto in the Mexican-American War , north of the Rio Grande, the US Army under General Zachary Taylor defeats the Mexican forces under Mariano Arista .
- 1852 : In the London Protocol between Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia and Austria as well as the Baltic Sea powers Sweden and Denmark, the integrity of the entire Danish state is affirmed by the great powers. The duchies of Schleswig and Holstein will remain as independent units.
- 1864 : Two days after the Battle of the Wilderness , the Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade and the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert Edward Lee face each other again in the American Civil War . The battle at Spotsylvania Court House between the two exhausted units begins with a brief skirmish on the first day, but continues until May 21st.
- 1871 : In the dispute over after the privateer Alabama named Alabama question , the number of United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the Treaty of Washington to the saying of an international arbitration court.
- 1942 : The battle in the Coral Sea , the first major porter battle between Japanese and Allied units in the Pacific War , which began the day before in the Coral Sea south of the Solomon Islands , ends without a decision .
- 1945 : The Second World War in Europe ends with the ratification of the instrument of unconditional surrender of the Wehrmacht in Berlin-Karlshorst ( Liberation Day , VE-Day ) ). It takes place in the headquarters of the Soviet armed forces, which was occupied after the Battle of Berlin , and is dated May 8th. The German-Russian Museum, founded in 1967 and rebuilt several times, is located in this building . The date also marks the liberation from National Socialism . Due to the delay in the meeting scheduled for the late afternoon of May 8, the signatures will not be given until 11:01 p.m. - due to the time difference to CET in Berlin, this corresponds to May 9, 01:01 a.m. in Moscow.
- 1945 : In the massacre of Sétif , an initially peaceful demonstration with around 10,000 participants, celebrating the victory over Germany and at the same time calling for Algeria's independence , is bloodily suppressed by the French colonial power with numerous deaths. As a result, France intensified the repression in colonized Algeria.
- 1949 : Four years after the German Wehrmacht's total surrender came into force, the Treptower Memorial is inaugurated in Berlin for those who died in the Second World War.
- 1949 : After eight months of deliberations, the Parliamentary Council passes a majority vote against the votes of the CSU and KPD on the German Basic Law (GG) , which, however, only becomes legally valid for the western zone for the time being .
- 1949 : After Costa Rica's accession to the Inter-American Treaty on Mutual Assistance (TIAR) , President José Figueres Ferrer has the country's army abolished by constitution and invests the funds released in the development of the education and health system. Border security tasks are taken over by the police.
- 1973 : After 71 days, the occupation of the village of Wounded Knee in the Pine Ridge Reservation ends ; the members of the American Indian Movement surrender to government forces.
- 1985 : Richard von Weizsäcker gives the much-acclaimed speech in the German Bundestag on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe and the Nazi tyranny . The statement liberation from National Socialism thus becomes the core statement of the national culture of remembrance in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 1988 : After the previous Barschel affair win Socialists in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein , the absolute majority of seats. Björn Engholm , as Prime Minister-designate, can form the government in Kiel.
- 1988 : In the second round of the French election for the office of President , incumbent François Mitterrand from the Parti socialiste prevails with 54 percent of the vote against his competitor, Prime Minister Jacques Chirac from the Rassemblement pour la République party , who holds around 46 percent of the vote united on itself.
- 2007 : Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party becomes First Minister of Northern Ireland and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin becomes Deputy . Together with the Ulster Unionist Party and the Catholic Social Democratic and Labor Party , they form an all-party government.
- 2012 : The previous Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is elected by the Duma as the new Prime Minister of Russia.
- 2018 : The Armenian opposition politician Nikol Pashinyan was elected as the new prime minister by the parliament in Yerevan in the second ballot . He had previously organized the large-scale demonstrations that had urged Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan to resign.
economy
- 1629 : A slave cash register is set up in Lübeck to buy sailors from Lübeck from the clutches of North African pirates . The cash register lasted until the 19th century.
- 1886 : In Atlanta, for five cents a glass, the druggist John Pemberton sells for the first time a headache and tiredness remedy that he had developed and later became known as Coca-Cola .
- 1946 : The first Leipzig trade fair after the end of the Second World War opens under the name of Friedensmesse .
science and technology
- 1254 : King Alfonso X of León grants the state school in Salamanca , which has existed since 1218, the status of a university in its founding charter .
- 1919 : The engineer Lucien Lévy receives a French patent for the heterodyne receiver he developed , which enables usable radio switching.
- 1971 : NASA suffers the second false start of the otherwise extraordinarily successful Mariner program at Mariner 8 .
- 2007 Israeli: Archaeologists divide journalists discovering the tomb of Herod in the south of Jerusalem located Herodium with.
Culture
- 1821 : The opera La Conquista di Granata by Giuseppe Nicolini is premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
- 1877 : During German excavations in the cella of the Temple of Hera in Olympia , the Hermes is brought to light by Olympia . It is widely believed that it is a sculpture by the ancient sculptor Praxiteles, dating back to 340 BC. Was created.
- 1904 : The world's first sugar museum opens in Berlin . It has been integrated into the German Museum of Technology since 1995 .
- 1907 : Construction work to transform the Wannsee bank into a lido begins. The Great Wannsee develops in the next few years by the Wannsee beach to the "bathtub of Berlin".
- 1926 : With the Great Exhibition for Health Care, Social Care and Physical Exercise ( GeSoLei ), the largest trade fair in the Weimar Republic opens its doors in Düsseldorf and becomes a crowd-puller.
- 1946 : First performance of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Medium at Columbia University's Brander Matthews Theater in New York City
- 1954 : The religious program Das Wort zum Sonntag is broadcast on German television for the first time.
- 1969 : The road movie Easy Rider, directed by Dennis Hopper and starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival . The feature film leads to mixed reactions from critics and audiences.
- 1970 : The last Beatles album Let It Be is released.
- 1976 : The Great American Revolution steel roller coaster from the Swabian amusement facility manufacturer Schwarzkopf GmbH opens in Six Flags Magic Mountain . It is the first roller coaster with a modern loop .
society
- 1921 : During a tumultuous political meeting in the Styrian town of Sankt Lorenzen in Mürz Valley, several politicians - including Governor Anton Rintelen - are thrown out of the inn's window.
- 1980 : The WHO declares smallpox to be eradicated worldwide and recommends discontinuing the appropriate vaccination .
religion
- 1521 : Emperor Charles V imposed on the Diet of Worms in the Edict of Worms , the imperial ban on Martin Luther , who has refused on 17 and 18 April, his theses to revoke.
- 1721 : Michelangelo dei Conti is appointed by the conclave to succeed Clement XI , who died in March . elected Pope after the favorite, Cardinal Secretary of State Fabrizio Paolucci , by the veto of Emperor Charles VI. has been prevented. He takes the name Innocent XIII. at.
- 1844 : In the encyclical Inter praecipuas , Pope Gregory XVI criticizes . the resulting Bible societies . Unauthorized editors and translators of the Bible are heretics and commit sacrilege against the Holy Scriptures.
Disasters
- 1842 : The Hamburg fire can finally be brought under control after four days. Almost a third of Hamburg's old town has been destroyed. 51 people have died and the number of homeless is estimated at 20,000.
- 1842 : The Versailles railway accident occurs near Meudon in France . At least 50 people died after the axle of the first steam locomotive broke on a train occupied by around 770 people. The second locomotive and three passenger cars push themselves into the wreck. The most prominent victims are polar explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville with his wife and son.
- 1902 : The eruption of the volcano Mont Pele on the Antilles -Insel Martinique calls for some 30,000 lives. Among other things, the city of Saint-Pierre is completely destroyed in the most lossy volcanic eruption of the 20th century .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
nature and environment
- 1971 : Portugal's first national park, the Peneda-Gerês National Park, is established in the north-west of the country .
Sports
- 1898 : The first Italian soccer championship takes place in Turin in just one day, which the Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club wins 2-1 after winning against Internazionale Torino .
- 1974 : 1. FC Magdeburg is the first and only football team in the GDR to win a European Cup title : In front of 5000 spectators at the De Kuip stadium in Rotterdam, FCM defeated AC Milan 2-0 and thus won the European Cup Winners' Cup .
- 1978 : Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climb the summit of Mount Everest for the first time without additional oxygen .
- 1984 : The Soviet Union announces the boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. All Eastern Bloc countries except Romania follow this boycott , which is a return carriage for the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow by the USA and other western countries.
- 1993 : Lennox Lewis wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Tony Tucker in Las Vegas by winning on points.
- 2004 : Werder Bremen are early German champions after beating FC Bayern Munich 3-1 in Munich's Olympic Stadium . Three weeks later, Werder also wins the DFB Cup against Alemannia Aachen .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1326 : Joan I , Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne and as wife of John II Queen of France
- 1427 : John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester , English statesman
- 1460 : Friedrich II. , Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach
- 1467 : Adalbert von Sachsen , administrator of Mainz
- 1521 : Petrus Canisius , German Jesuit and counter-reformer
- 1550 : Johann I , German historian, Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
- 1580 : Johann Zechendorf , German philologist and educator
- 1587 : Viktor Amadeus I , Duke of Savoy
- 1592 : Francis Quarles , English poet
- 1604 (baptized May 8): Andrea Vaccaro , Neapolitan painter
- 1629 : Niels Juel , Danish admiral
- 1632 : Heino Heinrich von Flemming , Saxon military leader and field marshal
- 1636 : Caspar Löscher , German Lutheran theologian
- 1639 : Giovanni Battista Gaulli , Italian painter
- 1653 : Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars , General and Marshal of France
- 1654 : Johann von Besser , German poet
- 1657 : Martino Altomonte , Italian painter of Austrian origin in the Baroque period
- 1668 : Alain-René Lesage , French writer
- 1687 : Jean Henri Desmercières , Danish banker
- 1688 : François Robichon de la Guérinière , French riding instructor, inventor of modern horsemanship
- 1699 : Albrecht Wolfgang Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe , military leader, sovereign of Schaumburg-Lippe
18th century
- 1703 : Johann Gottlob Harrer , German composer and Thomaskantor
- 1710 : Peter Anton von Verschaffelt , Flemish sculptor and architect
- 1710 : Joseph Gregor Winck , German painter and plasterer
- 1736 : Ferdinand Denis , German cartographer and engineer officer
- 1737 : Edward Gibbon , British historian
- 1739 : Stanisław Trembecki , Polish poet
- 1744 : Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov , Russian journalist and editor
- 1748 : Johanna Katharina Morgenstern , German writer
- 1753 : Miguel Hidalgo , Mexican priest and revolutionary
- 1758 : Johann Christoph Georg Adler , German lawyer
- 1770 : Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff , German pharmacist and pharmacist
- 1774 : Leonhard Johann Bertholdt , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1778 : Johann Gänsbacher , Austrian composer and conductor
- 1781 : Pedro de Sousa Holstein , Portuguese politician and officer
- 1786 : Jean-Marie Vianney , called the parish priest of Ars , French priest
- 1800 : Armand Carrel , French publicist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1802 : Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Perizonius , German theologian
- 1806 : António José de Ávila , politician from the time of the monarchy in Portugal
- 1806 : Johann Friedrich Kittl , Czech composer
- 1810 : Mathias Auinger , Austrian paleontologist
- 1819 : Christian Heinrich Tramm , German architect
- 1820 : Theodor Mattern , Berlin merchant and dye works owner
- 1821 : Jean-Louis Hamon , French painter
- 1824 : William Walker , American doctor, lawyer, journalist, adventurer, and mercenary
- 1828 : John Henry Cornell , American organist, composer, and textbook author
- 1828 : Henry Dunant , Swiss businessman, humanist and co-founder of the Red Cross, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1829 : Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American pianist and composer
- 1835 : Bertalan Székely , Hungarian painter
- 1835 : Augusta Jane Evans Wilson , American writer
- 1836 : Sophus Schandorph , Danish writer
- 1837 : Albrecht von Prussia , Prussian Field Marshal General, Regent of the Duchy of Braunschweig
- 1837 : Hugo Hanke , Berlin building contractor and member of the city council
- 1837 : Alphonse Legros , French painter
- 1840 : Oskar von Arnstedt , German administrative lawyer
- 1843 : Rudolf Mosse , German businessman and publisher
- 1844 : Hermann Graedener , German composer
- 1844 : William Alexander Hunter , Scottish politician and legal scholar
- 1849 : Ewald Haase , German firefighter, politician and cycling official
1851-1900
- 1852 : Filippo Giustini , Italian Roman Catholic theologian, papal secret chamberlain and cardinal
- 1857 : Heinrich Berté , Austro-Hungarian composer
- 1859 : Johan Ludwig Jensen , Danish mathematician
- 1859 : José de Madrazo y Agudo , Spanish painter
- 1860 : Gregorio Aglipay , Filipino theologian, bishop
- 1863 : Friedrich Kaskeline , Czech-Austrian graphic artist
- 1867 : Albert von Thurn und Taxis , eighth and last Prince of Thurn and Taxis
- 1871 : Louis Madelin , French writer and historian
- 1873 : Joseph Delmont , Austrian artist, director and writer
- 1874 : Inessa Armand , French revolutionary
- 1874 : Ernest Marland , American politician, governor of Oklahoma
- 1874 : Cornelis van Vollenhoven , Dutch legal scholar
- 1877 : Maurice Boutmy , French racing car driver
- 1877 : Adolf Meschendörfer , Transylvanian German writer
- 1884 : Harry S. Truman , American politician, senator, vice president, 33rd President of the United States
- 1886 : Eli Kochański , Polish cellist and music teacher
- 1887 : Richard Ambronn , German geophysicist
- 1887 : Otto Maull , German geographer and geopolitician
- 1889 : Louis Van Hege , Belgian football player and bobsleigh driver
- 1890 : Theodor Asholt , German politician
- 1890 : Arthur Winkler-Hermaden , Austrian geologist
- 1890 : John Meehan , American screenwriter
- 1891 : Claire Anderson , American actress
- 1892 : Arnold Hauser , Hungarian-German art historian and art sociologist
- 1892 : Otto Basler , German philologist and Germanist
- 1892 : Stanisław Sosabowski , Polish general
- 1893 : Josef Müller , German football player
- 1895 : Georg Muche , German painter and graphic artist
- 1895 : James Howard Kindelberger , American manager in the aircraft industry
- 1896 : Paweł Lewiecki , Polish pianist and music teacher
- 1898 : František Čech , Czech puppeteer and puppeteer writer
- 1898 : Alojzije Stepinac , Yugoslav-Croatian Roman Catholic clergyman, Archbishop of Zagreb, cardinal
- 1899 : Friedrich August von Hayek , Austrian economist, Nobel Prize winner
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Mihály Székely , Hungarian opera singer (bass)
- 1902 : André Lwoff , French microbiologist and virologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1902 : Ethelbert Stauffer , Protestant theologian
- 1903 : Manuel Anatol , Spanish football player
- 1903 : Fernandel , French actor and singer
- 1903 : Alfons Lhotsky , Austrian historian
- 1905 : Leone Minassian , Italian painter of Armenian descent
- 1905 : Red Nichols , American jazz musician
- 1906 : Adolf Mauk , German politician
- 1906 : Roberto Rossellini , Italian film director
- 1907 : Wolf von Baudissin , German lieutenant general and peace researcher
- 1908 : Helmut Aris , German politician
- 1909 : Lennart Bernadotte , Swedish nobleman
- 1909 : Tommy Duchesne , Canadian accordionist
- 1909 : Paul May , German director and producer
- 1909 : Otto Zierer , German writer
- 1910 : Carl Seemann , German pianist
- 1910 : Mary Lou Williams , American jazz pianist
- 1911 : Robert Johnson , American blues musician
- 1912 : Guillermo Abadía Morales , Colombian folklorist
- 1912 : Gertrud Fussenegger , Austrian writer
- 1912 : Gertrud Wysse Hägg , Swedish-American graphic designer, porcelain painter and illustrator
- 1914 : Romain Gary , French writer
- 1914 : František Smetana , Czech cellist and music teacher
- 1914 : Morris Surdin , Canadian composer and conductor
- 1915 : Arvid Fladmoe , Norwegian violinist, conductor and music teacher
- 1916 : Chinmayananda , teacher of modern Hinduism, founder of the Chinmaya Mission
- 1916 : João Havelange , Brazilian football official
- 1917 : John Anderson , American politician
- 1919 : Stanislav Andreski , Polish sociologist
- 1919 : Lex Barker , American film actor and bodybuilder
- 1919 : Leon Festinger , American social psychologist
- 1919 : Soltan Hacıbəyov , Azerbaijani composer
- 1920 : Saul Bass , American filmmaker, illustrator, and typographer
- 1921 : Marie-Madeleine Duruflé , French organist
- 1922 : Robert Buchet , French racing car driver
- 1922 : Max Mangold , German phonetician
- 1922 : Oswald Paulig , German consumer cooperative and politician
- 1922 : Stephen Kim Sou-hwan , South Korean cardinal
- 1923 : Cheikha Rimitti , Algerian Raï singer
- 1924 : Ute Brinckmann-Schmolling , German graphic artist and painter
- 1925 : Dino Attanasio , Italian comic artist
- 1925 : André-Paul Duchâteau , Belgian comic book writer
- 1925 : Ali Hassan Mwinyi , President of Tanzania
- 1925 : Hanne Wieder , German cabaret artist, diseuse and actress
1926-1950
- 1926 : David Attenborough , British documentary filmmaker and naturalist
- 1926 : Leopold Schädler , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1926 : Morgan Sterne , American actor
- 1926 : Víctor Yturbe , Mexican singer
- 1927 : Otto Meitinger , German architect, university president and monument conservator
- 1927 : László Paskai , retired Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest
- 1928 : Manfred Gerlach , German politician, Chairman of the State Council of the GDR
- 1928 : Shibusawa Tatsuhiko , Japanese writer
- 1928 : William Sydeman , American composer and music teacher
- 1929 : Girija Devi , Indian singer, music teacher and composer
- 1929 : Gillian Dobb , American actress
- 1929 : Fernand Hoffmann , Luxembourg educator, writer and linguist
- 1929 : Jane Roberts , American author, poet, and medium
- 1929 : Günther Wyschofsky , German economic functionary, Minister for the Chemical Industry of the GDR
- 1930 : Doug Atkins , American football player
- 1930 : Hartmut Olejnik , German garden architect, director of the Stralsund zoo
- 1930 : Helmut Palmer , German civil rights activist and pomologist
- 1931 : Walter Rudolf , German lawyer
- 1931 : Charles Wilson , Canadian composer, choir director and music teacher
- 1932 : Arnulf Baring , German political scientist and contemporary historian
- 1932 : Sonny Liston , American boxer
- 1934 : Walther Hadding , German civil law scholar
- 1934 : Jan Paul Nagel , Sorbian composer and Domowina chairman
- 1935 : Jack Charlton , English football player and coach
- 1936 : Henning Frederichs , German composer and conductor
- 1936 : Kazuo Koike , Japanese mangaka
- 1937 : Robert Adams , American photographer
- 1937 : Lolita Aniyar de Castro , Venezuelan lawyer, professor and politician
- 1937 : Thomas Pynchon , American writer
- 1937 : René del Risco Bermúdez , Dominican writer
- 1938 : Jean Giraud , Franco-Belgian comic artist
- 1939 : Paul Drayton , American sprinter, Olympic champion
- 1939 : Hans Eugen Frischknecht , Swiss composer
- 1940 : Peter Benchley , American author
- 1940 : Konrad Köstlin , German folklorist
- 1940 : Ricky Nelson , American actor and singer
- 1941 : Friedrich Seifert , German mineralogist and geophysicist
- 1941 : Joachim von Vietinghoff , German film producer
- 1943 : Pat Barker , English writer and historian
- 1943 : Jon Mark , British musician
- 1943 : Tomas von Brömssen , Swedish actor
- 1944 : Erik Bettermann , German broadcast director
- 1944 : Wilfried Dziallas , German actor
- 1944 : Gary Glitter , British musician
- 1945 : Keith Jarrett , American jazz pianist
- 1947 : Aram I , Lebanese clergyman of the Armenian Apostolic Church, "Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia"
- 1947 : Bernd Heller , German television presenter
- 1947 : H. Robert Horvitz , American biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1947 : Felicity Lott , English opera and concert singer
- 1947 : Susanne Schmidt , German business journalist
- 1948 : Petra Articus , German abbess
- 1948 : Norbert Nigbur , German football player
- 1948 : Pierre-François Rousselot , French racing car driver
- 1948 : Carl Schenkel , Swiss film director and screenwriter
- 1949 : Johanna Lichy , German politician
- 1950 : José Ángel Gurría , Mexican politician and OECD Secretary General
- 1950 : Nancy Telfer , Canadian composer and choir director
- 1950 : Tatjana Ždanoka , Latvian politician
1951-1975
- 1951 : Philip Bailey , American funk, soul and R&B artist
- 1951 : Humberto Brenes , Costa Rican poker player
- 1951 : Mike D'Antoni , American-Italian basketball coach
- 1952 : Charles Camarda , American astronaut
- 1952 : Matti Geschonneck , German director
- 1953 : Antonio Arcari , Italian clergyman, diplomat of the Holy See
- 1953 : Remo Fernandes , Indian singer, guitarist and composer
- 1953 : Hartmut Krüger , German handball player and handball trainer
- 1953 : Alex Van Halen , Dutch-American drummer, percussionist and founding member of the Van Halen band
- 1953 : Wolfgang Warnemünde , German athlete
- 1954 : Anthony Appiah , American philosopher
- 1954 : Alexandru Custov , Romanian football player
- 1954 : David Keith , American actor
- 1954 : Erika Franke , German general doctor, first Bundeswehr general from the new federal states and second female general in German history
- 1955 : Denys Bouliane , Canadian composer
- 1955 : Günter Born , German non-fiction author
- 1955 : Christoph Grohmann , German church musician, organ teacher and concert organist
- 1955 : Ásgeir Sigurvinsson , Icelandic football player
- 1955 : Raoul Trujillo , American actor, dancer and choreographer
- 1955 : Meles Zenawi , Prime Minister of Ethiopia
- 1956 : Sharon Burley , Australian figure skater
- 1957 : Bill Cowher , American football coach
- 1957 : Bernd Krauss , German soccer player and coach
- 1957 : Joseph Michel François , convicted in absentia
- 1957 : Marie Myriam , French singer of Portuguese descent
- 1957 : Simon Ungers , German architect and artist
- 1958 : Dieter Vieweger , German theologian
- 1958 : Roddy Doyle , Irish writer
- 1959 : Ronnie Lott , American football player
- 1960 : Kadir Akbulut , Turkish soccer player
- 1960 : Recep Akdağ , Turkish politician
- 1960 : Franco Baresi , Italian soccer player
- 1961 : Andrea Pollack , German swimming athlete and Olympic champion
- 1962 : Tatjana Alexejewna Rubzowa , Russian chess player
- 1963 : Michel Gondry , French director and screenwriter
- 1963 : Izabela Kloc , Polish politician
- 1963 : Alexander Jurjewitsch Kowalenko , Russian triple jumper
- 1964 : Melissa Gilbert , American actress
- 1964 : Ralf Gustke , German drummer
- 1965 : Shiny Abraham , Indian athlete
- 1965 : Antonio Ananiew , Bulgarian football player
- 1965 : Mario Frick , head of government of Liechtenstein
- 1966 : Rainer Leng , German medieval historian
- 1966 : Cláudio Taffarel , Brazilian soccer player
- 1967 : Christian Abt , German automobile racing driver
- 1967 : Gabi Roth , German hurdler
- 1968 : Ivan Mikulić , Croatian singer
- 1968 : Omar Camporese , Italian tennis player
- 1968 : Michael Philippen , German handball trainer and handball player
- 1968 : Veronika Šarec , Slovenian ski racer
- 1969 : Akebono Taro , Japanese sumo wrestler
- 1970 : Marko Asell , Finnish wrestler
- 1970 : Meinrad Kneer , German jazz bassist
- 1970 : Carsten Müller , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- 1970 : Luis Enrique , former Spanish soccer player and current coach
- 1971 : Candice Night , American rock singer
- 1971 : Radosław Gilewicz , Polish football player
- 1971 : Nobuteru Taniguchi , Japanese racing car driver
- 1972 : Xavier Amigo , Spanish rally co-driver
- 1972 : Darren Hayes , Australian pop singer
- 1972 : Holger Marks , German tenor
- 1972 : Max Rauffer , German ski racer
- 1973 : Natalja Anissimowa , Russian sprinter
- 1973 : Jesús Arellano , Mexican soccer player
- 1973 : Hendrike Brenninkmeyer , German journalist and television presenter
- 1975 : Enrique Iglesias , Spanish singer and composer
- 1975 : Mehmet Günsür , Turkish film actor
1976-2000
- 1976 : Makoto Yukimura , Japanese mangaka
- 1977 : Joe Bonamassa , American blues guitarist, singer and composer
- 1977 : Jan Rune Grave , Norwegian Nordic combined
- 1977 : Aníbal Matellán , Argentine soccer player
- 1977 : Theodoros Papaloukas , Greek basketball player
- 1978 : Matthew Davis , American film actor
- 1978 : Lúcio , Brazilian soccer player
- 1979 : Bastian Braig , German actor and producer
- 1979 : Gennaro Sardo , Italian football player
- 1980 : Lindsay Johnson , English soccer player
- 1980 : David Loosli , Swiss cyclist
- 1980 : Michelle McManus , British singer
- 1981 : Stephen Amell , Canadian actor
- 1981 : Andrea Barzagli , Italian football player
- 1981 : Björn Dixgård , Swedish musician ( Mando Diao )
- 1981 : Jan Eichhorn , German tobogganist
- 1982 : Buakaw Banchamek , Thai Muay Thai fighter
- 1982 : Christina Cole , British actress
- 1982 : Aarón Galindo , Mexican soccer player
- 1982 : Kevin Stefanski , American football coach
- 1982 : David van Zanten , Irish football player
- 1983 : Michael Andrey , Swiss badminton player
- 1983 : Elyes Gabel , British actor
- 1983 : Bershawn Jackson , American athlete
- 1984 : Mirko Nikolič-Kajič , Slovenian handball player
- 1984 : Václav Procházka , Czech football player
- 1984 : Julia Whelan , American actress
- 1985 : Chris Gebert , German actor
- 1985 : Eva-Maria May , German actress
- 1986 : Laura Spencer , American actress
- 1987 : Felix Jones , American football player
- 1987 : Mark Noble , English soccer player
- 1988 : Carola Rackete , German sea rescue worker
- 1989 : Nora Arnezeder , French actress
- 1989 : Colja Löffler , German handball player
- 1989 : Benoît Paire , French tennis player
- 1990 : Alexander Alexandrovich Andrijenko , Russian ski racer
- 1990 : Kemba Walker , American basketball player
- 1991 : Laurens Vanthoor , Belgian racing driver
- 1993 : Larry Kayode , Nigerian soccer player
- 1996 : Tim Suton , German-Croatian handball player
- 1998 : Johannes Eggestein , German soccer player
- 1998 : Jan Vytrval , Czech Nordic combined skier
- 1999 : Jana Fischer , German snowboarder
- 1999 : Džanan Musa , Bosnian basketball player
- 2000 : Marie Reim , German pop singer
Died
Before the 19th century
- 303 : Victor of Milan , Mauritanian-Roman martyr
- 535 : John II , Pope
- 652 : Iduberga , wife of Pippins the Elder, founder of the Andenne monastery
- 685 : Benedict II , Pope
- 840 : Junna , 53rd Emperor of Japan
- 914 : Sembat I the Martyr , King of Armenia
- 997 : Song Taizong , Chinese emperor of the (Northern) Song Dynasty
- 1063 : Ramiro I , first king of Aragon
- 1157 : Muizz ad-Dunya wa-d-Din Abu l-Harith Ahmad Sandjar , Sultan of the Seljuks
- 1176 : David FitzGerald , Bishop of St Davids
- 1192 : Ottokar IV. , Margrave / Duke of Styria
- 1216 : Ulrich von Adelberg , provost of the Adelberg monastery
- 1220 : Rikissa of Denmark , Queen of Sweden
- 1319 : Håkon V , King of Norway
- 1397 : Nikolaus , Count of Holstein-Rendsburg
- 1402 : Alexander Leslie, 7th Earl of Ross , Scottish nobleman
- 1411 : William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny , English nobleman
- 1449 : Alexander MacDonald, 10th Earl of Ross , Scottish nobleman
- 1454 : Jean I , Seigneur of Monaco
- 1462 : Palla Strozzi , Italian merchant, humanist
- 1482 : Ludwig von Rothenstein , Swabian nobleman
- 1515 : Hans von Hutten , stable master of Duke Ulrich von Württemberg
- 1530 : Stephan Báthory , military leader and palatine of Hungary
- 1551 : Barbara Radziwiłł , Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania
- 1645 : Wilhelm Alard , German pastor, poet and hymn composer
- 1649 : Injo , 16th King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
- 1671 : Sébastien Bourdon , French painter
- 1680 : Anna Maria , Princess of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and Princess of Eggenberg
- 1705 : Otto von Schwerin , Brandenburg-Prussian Privy Councilor and diplomat
- 1712 : Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras , French musketeer and writer
- 1721 : Marc René d'Argenson , French statesman
- 1726 : Catharina Christina von Ahlefeldt , Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Glücksburg
- 1733 : Bernard Picart , French engraver and book illustrator
- 1767 : Johann August von Sachsen-Gotha-Altenburg , German nobleman and field marshal general
- 1782 : Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello , Portuguese statesman
- 1785 : Étienne-François de Choiseul , French statesman
- 1785 : Pietro Longhi , Venetian painter
- 1788 : Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Austrian doctor and naturalist
- 1794 : Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier , co-founder of modern chemistry
19th century
- 1809 : Augustin Pajou , French sculptor
- 1822 : John Stark , American general in the War of Independence
- 1829 : Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester , British politician
- 1829 : Carl Ludwig August Bergius , German civil servant
- 1829 : Mauro Giuliani , Italian guitarist and composer
- 1837 : Robert Heriot Barclay , British naval officer
- 1837 : August von Einsiedel , German philosopher, naturalist and traveler to Africa
- 1840 : Ernst Gottlob Jäkel , German educator and philologist
- 1842 : Jules Dumont d'Urville , French navigator and polar explorer
- 1870 : Iossif Iossifowitsch Charlemagne , Russian architect
- 1873 : Oakes Ames , American politician
- 1873 : John Stuart Mill , British philosopher and economist
- 1878 : Meir Auerbach , Russian scholar, rabbi and chief rabbi
- 1878 : Théophile Tilmant , French violinist and conductor
- 1880 : Gustave Flaubert , French writer
- 1881 : Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Arndt , German preacher
- 1884 : Midhat Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1884 : Michael Stourdza , Prince of the Moldau and honorary citizen of Baden-Baden
- 1885 : Joseph Behm , Hungarian-German church musician and composer
- 1885 : Pavel Křížkovský , Czech composer
- 1887 : Johannes von Kuhn , German theologian
- 1891 : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky , Russian spiritualist and writer
- 1893 : Adolf I. Georg Graf von Schaumburg-Lippe
- 1900 : Ernst Heinrich Lindemann , German politician
20th century
1901-1950
- 1903 : Paul Gauguin , French painter
- 1904 : Eadweard Muybridge , British photographer and pioneer of photographic technology
- 1909 : Friedrich August von Holstein , German diplomat
- 1914 : Walter Körte , German hydraulic engineer and founder of German nautical science
- 1917 : Thomas M. Anderson , American officer
- 1918 : Anton Matosch , Austrian librarian and dialect poet
- 1919 : Vera Ivanovna Sassulitsch , Russian Marxist
- 1919 : Philipp Wolfrum , German composer and organist
- 1922 : Otto Hieronimus , German-Austrian automobile designer and racing driver
- 1922 : Otto Ubbelohde , German illustrator of Grimm's fairy tales
- 1927 : Charles Nungesser , French pilot
- 1927 : François Coli , French aviation pioneer
- 1929 : Georg Andresen , German pedagogue and classical philologist
- 1930 : Henning Mankell , Swedish composer
- 1931 : Hans Otto Löwenstein , Austrian film director and producer
- 1932 : Louis Archinard , French general
- 1933 : Bonaventura Cerretti , Italian clergyman, Vatican diplomat and cardinal to the Curia
- 1933 : Ernst Eckstein , German politician and lawyer
- 1935 : Emil Ertl , Austrian poet and writer
- 1936 : Oswald Spengler , German historical philosopher and cultural historian
- 1939 : Kurt Löwenstein , German politician
- 1943 : Mordechaj Anielewicz , commander of the Jewish fighting organization in the Warsaw ghetto
- 1943 : Erich Aron , German lawyer, district court director and university professor
- 1944 : Alexander Beer , German architect
- 1944 : Ethel Smyth , British composer and conductor, writer and suffragette
- 1944 : Georg Groscurth , German doctor and resistance fighter
- 1944 : Hanns Sassmann , Austrian writer
- 1945 : Sri Ananda Acharya , Indian philosophy professor, yogi, guru and poet
- 1945 : Hansi Arnstaedt , German theater and film actress
- 1945 : Paul Giesler , German politician, Bavarian Prime Minister
- 1945 : Rudolf von Sebottendorf , German anti-Semitic occultist and publisher
- 1945 : Hugo Küttner , German entrepreneur and rayon producer
- 1947 : Attilio Ferraris , Italian football player
- 1948 : Joseph E. Atkinson , Canadian newspaper publisher and activist
1951-2000
- 1951 : Erich Reiss , German publisher
- 1966 : Erich Pommer , German film producer
- 1967 : LaVerne Sofie Andrews , American singer
- 1967 : Paul Pratt , Canadian composer and clarinetist, conductor and music teacher
- 1967 : Elmer Rice , American playwright
- 1968 : George D. Hay , American founder of the Grand Ole Opry
- 1969 : Hedwig Anneler , Swiss ethnologist and writer
- 1972 : Beatrice Worsley , Canadian computer scientist
- 1974 : Graham Bond , British musician
- 1975 : Avery Brundage , American athlete and official, President of the IOC
- 1978 : Samuel Trask Dana , American forest scientist
- 1978 : Juan Evaristo , Argentine soccer player
- 1979 : Talcott Parsons , American sociologist
- 1980 : Higashiyama Chieko , Japanese actress
- 1980 : Farrochru Parsa , Iranian minister, educator and doctor
- 1981 : Wolfgang Kunkel , German lawyer and legal historian
- 1982 : Neil Bogart , American manager and record producer
- 1982 : Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian Formula 1 racing driver
- 1983 : John Fante , American writer
- 1984 : Gino Bianco , Italian racing car driver
- 1984 : William Ling , English football referee
- 1985 : Ulrich Dübber , German politician
- 1985 : Edmond O'Brien , American actor
- 1985 : Theodore Sturgeon , American science fiction writer
- 1986 : Arndt von Bohlen and Halbach , German bon vivant, last successor to the Krupp dynasty
- 1986 : Ferenc Fülep , Hungarian archaeologist and museum director
- 1988 : Ana Aslan , Romanian doctor and gerontologist
- 1989 : Rudolf Uhlenhaut , German engineer, designer and board member of Mercedes-Benz
- 1990 : Luigi Nono , Italian composer
- 1990 : Walter Peitgen , German local politician
- 1991 : Hans Arnold , German soccer player
- 1991 : Jean Langlais , French composer and organist
- 1991 : Rudolf Serkin , American pianist
- 1992 : Sergei Wladimirowitsch Obraszow , Russian puppeteer
- 1992 : Otto Šimánek , Czech actor
- 1994 : George Peppard , American actor
- 1995 : Arwed Blomeyer , German legal scholar
- 1996 : Ludwig Hoelscher , German cellist
- 1997 : Joachim Angermeyer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1997 : Kai-Uwe von Hassel , German Federal Minister
- 1998 : Reece Shipley , American country musician
- 1999 : Dirk Bogarde , British actor
- 1999 : Marek Jablonski , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1999 : Theodor Puff , German soccer player
21st century
- 2002 : Tilly Lauenstein , German actress
- 2003 : Heimrad Bäcker , Austrian writer and publisher.
- 2005 : Wolfgang Blochwitz , German soccer player
- 2005 : Lloyd Cutler , US attorney and government advisor
- 2005 : Nasrat Parsa , Afghan singer
- 2008 : Luigi Malerba , Italian writer
- 2008 : François Sterchele , Belgian football player
- 2008 : Eddy Arnold , American country and pop singer
- 2008 : Heinz Felfe , former BND employee and Soviet spy
- 2010 : Peer Schmidt , German actor and voice actor
- 2010 : Pit Fischer , German set designer
- 2011 : Cornell Dupree , American musician
- 2012 : Walter Roderer , Swiss folk actor
- 2012 : Maurice Sendak , American children's author and illustrator
- 2013 : Peter Sehr , German film director
- 2013 : Shlomo Shafir , Israeli historian and journalist
- 2014 : Irmgard Lange , German director
- 2014 : Colin Pillinger , British planetary researcher
- 2015 : Zeki Alasya , Turkish actor
- 2015 : Franz Grabmayr , Austrian painter
- 2016 : Rainer Niemeyer , German handball player
- 2016 : William Schallert , American actor
- 2017 : Cécile DeWitt-Morette , French physicist
- 2017 : Curt Lowens , German actor
- 2018 : Anne V. Coates , British film editor
- 2018 : George Deukmejian , American lawyer and politician
- 2019 : Jens Beutel , German politician
- 2019 : Robert J. McEliece , American mathematician and electrical engineer
- 2020 : Roy Horn , German magician and trainer
- 2021 : Ravinder Pal Singh , Indian hockey player
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Gregory of Nazianz , Roman theologian and church father, bishop and patriarch (Protestant)
- Juliana von Norwich , English mystic and writer (Anglican, Protestant: ELCA )
- St. Victor of Milan , African-Roman martyr (Roman Catholic, Protestant: ELCA )
- State holidays and memorial days
- Europe : Liberation Day (1945)
- More information about the day
- World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day (since 1948)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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