8th October
The October 8 is the 281st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 282nd in leap years ), thus still remain 84 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 314 : In the battle of Cibalae , the forces of Constantine the Great defeated the army of the Eastern Roman emperor Licinius in Pannonia .
- 705 : Al-Walid I , under whose reign the Umayyad empire reaches its greatest extent , becomes caliph.
- 1075 : Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned King of Croatia by an envoy from Pope Gregory VII in Solin .
- 1480 : The so-called standing on the Ugra river between the Russian army of Ivan III. and the golden horde begins. This military conflict lasted until November 11th and ended without a fight.
- 1498 : The Portuguese Vasco da Gama , who found the sea route to India, starts the return journey from Calicut .
- 1518 : France's King Francis I signs the founding charter for a naval port called Franciscopolis , from which the port city of Le Havre on the Atlantic emerges.
- 1573 : During the Eighty Years' War the Spaniards have to break off the siege of the Dutch city of Alkmaar and withdraw.
- 1600 : San Marino receives a constitution, the main features of which are still in force today and which makes the country one of the first republics in the world.
- 1619 : Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria undertakes in the Munich Treaty to support Emperor Ferdinand II with an army to fend off the Bohemian uprising . The emperor promised him the Palatinate electoral dignity and the incorporation of the Upper Palatinate into Bavaria.
- 1652 : In the First Anglo-Dutch Sea War, the British repel an attack by the Dutch in the sea battle at Kentish Knock near the Thames estuary . The heavy enemy losses caused the English parliament to send a squadron of 20 ships into the Mediterranean, which would prove fatal in the further course of the war.
- 1804 : The Haitian revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines has himself proclaimed Emperor James I of Haiti on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola .
- 1805 : The first battle of the Third Coalition War between the French Empire and the Austrian Empire takes place near Wertingen .
- 1809 : In Vienna, Emperor Franz I entrusts the former envoy in Paris, Count Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich , with the management of the Austrian Foreign Ministry.
- 1813 : The Kingdom of Bavaria , until then an ally of France , joins the coalition against Napoleon against the preservation of its territorial possessions as promised in the Ried Treaty .
- 1814 : The Norwegians elect their parliament, the Storting , for the first time .
- 1843 : Great Britain imposes the Humen Treaty on China as a supplement to the Nanking Treaty and allows itself the most-favored nation clause in this unequal treaty .
- 1848 : The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV rejects the resignation of Prime Minister Ernst von Pfuel despite his opposition to the draft constitution.
- 1856 : Chinese officials board the Arrow lying in Hong Kong harbor and arrest the crew of the ship sailing under the British flag on suspicion of piracy, smuggling and the opium trade. After Great Britain unsuccessfully demanded the release of the captured occupation, the Second Opium War ensues .
- 1862 : Otto von Bismarck is appointed Prussian Foreign Minister.
- 1862 : The Battle of Perryville in the American Civil War ends without a winner.
- 1879 : In the naval battle of Angamos , the Chilean navy succeeds in capturing the Peruvian ironclad Huáscar and thus gaining naval supremacy off the Pacific coast in the saltpeter war.
- 1895 : The Korean ruler's wife Myeongseong , called Queen Min , is murdered together with two ladies-in-waiting in the palace in Seoul on Japanese instigation.
- 1895 : In Trabzon , locals carry out a massacre of the Armenians that kills several hundred.
- 1912 : After the Ottoman Empire has rejected the ultimate demand of the Balkan Federation consisting of Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Greece for autonomy for Albania and Old Serbia , the First Balkan War begins with the declaration of war by Montenegro .
- 1918 : The retreat of the Germans begins on the entire western front .
- 1919 : In Berlin, the chairman of the USPD , Hugo Haase , is seriously injured by gunfire in an assassination attempt. He dies on November 7th.
- 1938 : In response to the Rosary demonstration the day before, members of the Hitler Youth storm the Archbishop's Palace in Vienna and devastate it.
- 1939 : In World War II, after the conquest of Poland, Adolf Hitler orders its territorial reorganization: The western area is annexed by the German Reich , the rest of the general government is occupied by Germany . The regulations come into effect on October 26th.
- 1945 : The founding congress of the World Trade Union Confederation ends in Paris .
- 1951 : In the GDR , the rationing of all food, except for meat, fat and sugar, is lifted.
- 1957 : GB / BHE and Bayernpartei terminate the Bavarian coalition of four , whereupon Prime Minister Wilhelm Hoegner (SPD) declares his resignation. The change of government to a CSU-led state government under Hanns Seidel takes place on October 16.
- 1967 : Ernesto Che Guevara is arrested by the Bolivian army after a shooting near La Higuera . The next day, he is shot without a trial.
- 1982 : A new trade union law is passed in Poland , according to which Solidarność, which had been suspended since the introduction of martial law in December of the previous year, and other trade unions registered under the previous law are dissolved.
- 1989 : During a demonstration of several thousand people on the Prager Straße in Dresden 20 demonstrators selected, the next day with the Lord Mayor Wolfgang Berghofer are to hold talks, the group of 20 .
- 1991 : Disintegration of Yugoslavia : The Croatian parliament declares the independence of the republic from Yugoslavia.
- 1997 : Kim Jong-il becomes the successor of his father Kim Il-sung, who died in 1994, formally General Secretary of the North Korean state party PdAK .
- 1997 : In Bordeaux the trial begins Maurice Papon , the participation of Jewish deportations during the German occupation is accused. The charge is crimes against humanity.
- 1998 : The US Senate passes the Digital Millennium Copyright Act , which extends the rights of copyright owners.
- 2000 : After his father Jean abdicates , Henri becomes the new Grand Duke of Luxembourg .
- 2000 : Aleksander Kwaśniewski is re-elected President of Poland .
economy
- 1906 : In London, the German hairdresser Karl Ludwig Nessler presents a permanent wave device he had built.
- 1923 : Berlin-Tempelhof Airport receives the provisional concession to operate.
- 1955 : The French car manufacturer Citroën presents the Citroën DS model designed by André Lefèbvre and Flaminio Bertoni at the Paris Motor Show .
- 1998 : Oslo-Gardermoen Airport opens. It is one of the most modern airports in Europe.
- 2008 : In response to the financial crisis from 2007 onwards , seven of the leading central banks , including the Federal Reserve , the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of England and the Swiss National Bank (SNB), are reducing key interest rates in a concerted effort . The Japanese central bank is not cutting interest rates, but expresses its support for the action.
science and technology
- 1958 : In Stockholm, the doctor Åke Senning implanted the first pacemaker in a person .
- 1965 : The Post Office Tower opens in London . The television tower has been the tallest structure in the city for several years.
- 2005 : launch of the satellite CryoSat the ESA , but the crashes shortly after takeoff into the Arctic Ocean.
- 2007 : The molecular biologists Mario Capecchi , Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies are awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on the knockout mouse .
Culture
- 777 : The Hammelburg mark description , the protocol of a border inspection and at the same time one of the oldest documents in Old High German , is created.
- 1903 : In Copenhagen Odd Fellow Palæet is Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture led by Johan Svendsen first performed.
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- 1907 : The Steinhof Church , one of the most important buildings of the Viennese Art Nouveau , is opened.
- 1915 : The premiere of the opera Isabella by Ludolf Nielsen takes place at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen .
- 1965 : The play Die Flucht by Ernst Waldbrunn and Lida Winiewicz is premiered with Waldbrunn and Albert Lieven in the leading roles in Vienna in the Small Theater of Josefstadt in the Konzerthaus . Directed by Hermann Kutscher .
- 1981 : The new Leipzig Gewandhaus is inaugurated.
- 1985 : In London, the musical Les Misérables based on the novel by Victor Hugo by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil is performed for the first time in the popular version.
- 1992 : The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza opens in Madrid.
religion
- 451 : The Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon begins.
- 1991 : The Catholic theologian Eugen Drewermann is withdrawn from teaching by the Archbishop of Paderborn , Johannes Joachim Degenhardt .
Disasters
- 1822 : On the island of Java starting volcanic eruption of Mount Galunggung , the 4,011 people fall prey to the end of its multi-day activity as a whole.
- 1871 : The Great Chicago Fire breaks out and lasts until October 10th. Almost the whole city burned down.
- 1871 : Peshtigo in the US state of Wisconsin becomes a victim of flames along with several surrounding villages. The forest fire, which killed the most in US history, kills at least 1,200 people and destroys an area of approximately 6,000 km² .
- 1909 : An earthquake in the Pokupsko region leads to numerous devastations in the Croatian capital Zagreb . Andrija Mohorovičić comes to important findings in geosciences through the analysis of this earthquake.
- 1952 : One of the worst railway accidents in British Rail's history occurs at Harrow & Wealdstone Station, north-west of London . 112 people die and 340 are injured when an express train rams the back of a local train and another express train drives into the scene of the accident in the opposite direction.
- 2001 : In Milan, an MD-87 collides during take-off with a German Cessna , which mistakenly uses the wrong runway in the thick fog . 118 people on board and 4 ground crew members die.
- 2005 : A severe earthquake in Kashmir , an area where the Indian continental plate moves north against the Eurasian , kills around 80,000 people.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1818 : The first prize boxing match with gloves between two Englishmen takes place in Aachen .
- 1927 : The Achilleion is opened in Leipzig as a sports hall with a capacity for 8,000 spectators. The building is also used as an exhibition hall.
- 1965 : The International Olympic Committee approves the admission of two German teams to the 1968 Olympic Games ; at the same time, the GDR's NOK is accepted as a full member of the IOC.
- 1978 : Ken Warby from Australia reaches 511.11 km / h with his boat, the jet-powered Spirit of Australia , and thus sets the world speed record on the water that is still valid today .
- 2000 : With Michael Schumacher , a Ferrari driver becomes Formula 1 world champion for the first time in 21 years .
- 2000 : The Slovenian Davo Karničar is the first person to ski fully down from Mount Everest .
- 2005 : The Braunschweig Lions become German champions of the German Football League for the 4th time after 5 years .
- 2005 : The world fencing championships begin in Leipzig .
Entries of athletics world records can be found under the respective discipline under athletics .
Born
Before the 19th century
- 1515 : Margaret Douglas , Scottish noblewoman
- 1551 : Giulio Caccini , Italian composer, singer, singing teacher and instrumentalist
- 1552 : Cesare d'Este , Margrave of Montecchio
- 1601 : Joachim Betke , German Protestant theologian and spiritualist
- 1619 : Philipp von Zesen , German poet
- 1673 : David Stähelin , Mayor of St. Gallen
- 1676 : Benito Jerónimo Feijoo , Spanish theologian and philosopher
- 1685 : Carl Aigen , Austrian painter
- 1688 : Johann Ulrich König , German writer
- 1693 : Gottfried Anshelm von Lindenau , owner of the manor
- 1724 : Johann Cassar , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor
- 1726 : Christian Friedrich Schwartz , German missionary
- 1732 : Joseph Leutgeb , Austrian horn player
- 1750 : Adam Afzelius , Swedish botanist
- 1753 : Sophie Albertine of Sweden , from 1787 to 1803 the last abbess of the Quedlinburg monastery, which was directly imperial and free-worldly
- 1761 : Anton Hye , Austrian Roman Catholic clergyman, educator and author
19th century
1801 to 1850
- 1802 : Franz Winiewski , German classical philologist
- 1803 : José Güemes , Argentine independence fighter and politician
- 1811 : Moritz von Bethmann , German banker
- 1817 : Eduard Hölzel , Austrian publisher
- 1821 : Friedrich Kiel , German composer
- 1823 : Ivan Sergejewitsch Aksakow , Russian writer and Slavophile
- 1826 : Emily Blackwell , American doctor and suffragette
- 1832 : Pyotr Petrovich Sokalski , Russian composer and musicologist
- 1835 : Christian Otto Mohr , German engineer
- 1836 : Leon Abbett , American politician
- 1837 : Otto Winter-Hjelm , Norwegian composer, conductor, organist, music critic and teacher
- 1838 : Jan Gebauer , Czech linguist and literary historian
- 1838 : John Hay , American politician
- 1838 : Montagu Corry, 1st Baron Rowton , British politician and philanthropist
- 1844 : Paul Lhérie , French singer and music teacher
- 1850 : Henry Le Chatelier , French chemist
1851 to 1900
- 1856 : Johannes Kuhlo , German theologian and composer
- 1860 : Felix Woyrsch , German composer and music director
- 1868 : Coleman Livingston Blease , American politician
- 1868 : Max Slevogt , German artist
- 1869 : Cecil Hamilton Armitage , British governor
- 1869 : Christopher Rawdon Briggs , English violinist and music teacher
- 1870 : Louis Vierne , French organist and composer
- 1873 : Ejnar Hertzsprung , Danish astronomer
- 1874 : Hugo Süchting , German chess player
- 1875 : Laurence Doherty , English tennis player
- 1877 : Oskar Aurich , German sculptor and medalist
- 1877 : Emil Rausch , German officer and colonial official
- 1879 : Joseph Bovet , Swiss composer and priest
- 1880 : Clemens Schmalstich , German composer and conductor
- 1883 : Otto Warburg , German biochemist
- 1884 : Theodor Dombart , German architect and university professor, Munich local researcher
- 1884 : Walter von Reichenau , German field marshal, war criminal
- 1885 : Khải Định , twelfth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty
- 1886 : Karl Gengler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1886 : Wim Groskamp , Dutch football player
- 1886 : Yoshii Isamu , Japanese writer
- 1886 : Pedro Prado , Chilean writer
- 1888 : Adolf Aeschbach , Swiss politician
- 1888 : Friedrich Fromm , German general
- 1890 : Henrich Focke , German entrepreneur
- 1890 : Edward Vernon Rickenbacker , American racing car driver, entrepreneur and fighter pilot in World War I.
- 1892 : Marcel Michelot , French racing car driver
- 1892 : Marina Tsvetaeva , Russian poet
- 1893 : Jaime Torrent , Chilean painter
- 1894 : Carl Bailey , American politician
- 1894 : Heinz Kindermann , Austrian literary and theater scholar
- 1894 : Vicente Rojo Lluch , Spanish general
- 1895 : Lautaro García , Chilean painter, singer and playwright
- 1895 : Juan Perón , Argentine politician
- 1895 : Ahmet Zogu , President and King of Albania
- 1896 : Richard Suchwirth , Austrian historian and politician
- 1897 : Joseph Calvet , French violinist
- 1897 : Rouben Mamoulian , American film director
- 1897 : Marcel Herrand , French actor
- 1898 : Hal B. Wallis , American film producer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Eivind Groven , Norwegian composer
- 1903 : René Guillou , French composer
- 1904 : Yves Giraud-Cabantous , French racing driver
- 1905 : Eugen Bodart , German composer and conductor
- 1907 : Pierre Bertaux , French Germanist
- 1908 : Paul Van Buskirk Yoder , American composer and professor, conductor and drummer
- 1909 : Bill Hewitt , American football player
- 1910 : Rudolf Abderhalden , Swiss physiologist and pathologist
- 1910 : Gus Hall , American politician
- 1910 : Winston Hibler , American screenwriter, film producer and director, actor and voiceover actor
- 1910 : Travis Webb , American racing car driver
- 1912 : Anton Benya , Austrian politician
- 1913 : Franz Stadler , German association official, President of the ADAC
- 1914 : Robert Pierce , American journalist and evangelist
- 1917 : Rodney Robert Porter , British biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1917 : Hans Poser , German composer
- 1917 : Franz Schädler , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1918 : Karin Andersson , Swedish politician
- 1918 : Kurt Redel , German conductor
- 1918 : Jens C. Skou , Danish chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1919 : Jack McGrath , American racing car driver
- 1920 : Maxi Baier , German figure skater, Olympic champion
- 1920 : Maria Beig , German writer
- 1920 : Frank Herbert , American science fiction and fantasy writer
- 1920 : Alfredo Rossi y Rossi , Argentine composer
- 1921 : Al Russell , American R&B musician and songwriter
- 1922 : Katharina Focke , German Federal Minister
- 1922 : Nils Liedholm , Swedish bandy player, soccer coach and player
- 1922 : Stefania Woytowicz , Polish singer
- 1923 : Severo Aparicio Quispe , Peruvian theologian, church historian and auxiliary bishop
- 1923 : Wilhelm Knabe , German forest scientist and politician
- 1924 : Maximilian Arbesser von Rastburg , Austrian entrepreneur and business lawyer
- 1924 : Alphons Egli , Swiss politician
- 1924 : Aloísio Lorscheider , Archbishop of Aparecida and Cardinal
- 1924 : Zenon Płoszaj , Polish violinist and music teacher
- 1925 : Iradsch Afshār , Iranian library scholar and historian
- 1925 : Olle Hellbom , Swedish director and screenwriter
- 1925 : Paul Van Hoeydonck , Belgian artist
1926-1950
- 1926 : Günter Mittag , GDR politician, member of the SED Central Committee
- 1926 : Ruth Mönch , German actress, singer and presenter
- 1927 : Abraham Nehmé , Syrian Archbishop
- 1927 : César Milstein , British molecular biologist, Nobel Prize winner
- 1928 : Didi , Brazilian soccer player
- 1928 : Helmut Qualtinger , Austrian actor, writer and cabaret artist
- 1930 : Pepper Adams , American baritone saxophonist
- 1930 : Tōru Takemitsu , Japanese composer
- 1931 : Bill Brown , Scottish goalkeeper
- 1932 : Abel Gesevich Aganbegjan , Russian economist
- 1932 : Kenneth Appel , American mathematician
- 1934 : Dietrich Höffler , German physician and professor
- 1935 : Badi Panahi , German social scientist
- 1936 : Alfons van Gelder , German judge at the Federal Court of Justice
- 1937 : Eduard Ergartowitsch Rossel , Russian governor
- 1937 : Helmut Fielhauer , Austrian folklorist
- 1938 : Bronislovas Lubys , Lithuanian industrialist and entrepreneur
- 1938 : Yukitsuna Sasaki , Japanese poet and literary scholar
- 1939 : Gary Lee Anderson , American marksman
- 1939 : Paul Hogan , Australian actor
- 1939 : Aladár Pege , Hungarian double bass player
- 1940 : Hans-Jürgen Rückborn , German athlete
- 1941 : Hans Arnold , German football player
- 1941 : Jesse Jackson , American politician
- 1941 : Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig , German lawyer, politician and Federal Minister of Justice
- 1943 : Wolfgang Lakenmacher , German handball player and trainer
- 1943 : Wolfgang Ziegler , German rock and pop singer and composer
- 1944 : Reinhold Hemker , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1945 : Franz Xaver Frenzel , Austrian composer
- 1946 : Hanan Ashrawi , Palestinian politician
- 1946 : Giedrius Donatas Ašmys , Lithuanian politician
- 1946 : Wolfgang Ender (* 1946), Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1946 : Roger Horné , German journalist and television presenter
- 1946 : Dennis Kucinich , American politician
- 1947 : Bob van Asperen , Dutch musician
- 1948 : Wilfried Ahnefeld , German soccer player
- 1948 : Jon Ekerold , South African motorcycle racer
- 1948 : Gottfried Helnwein , Austrian painter and photographer
- 1948 : Claude Jade , French actress
- 1948 : Winston Baldwin Spencer , Antiguan politician
- 1948 : Johnny Ramone , American musician ( Ramones )
- 1949 : Hamish Stuart , British musician and singer
- 1949 : Sigourney Weaver , American actress
- 1950 : Johanna Auer , Austrian politician
- 1950 : Miguel Brindisi , Argentine soccer player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Timo Salonen , Finnish rally driver
- 1953 : Nabi Avcı , Turkish politician
- 1954 : Walter Dahn , German painter, photographer and sound artist
- 1954 : Michael Dudikoff , American actor
- 1954 : Brigitte Rohde , German athlete, Olympic champion
- 1954 : Huub Rothengatter , Dutch racing driver
- 1955 : Jeanne Galway , American flautist and music teacher
- 1956 : Janice Elaine Voss , American astronaut
- 1956 : Stephanie Zimbalist , American actress
- 1957 : Joseph Atiyeh , Syrian wrestler
- 1957 : Antonio Cabrini , Italian football player
Ursula von der Leyen (* 1958)
- 1958 : Hector Avalos , American religious scholar
- 1958 : Michael Jarrell , Swiss composer
- 1958 : Ursula von der Leyen , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Federal Minister, President of the EU Commission
- 1958 : Ute Willing , German actress
- 1959 : Gaby Bußmann , German athlete
- 1959 : Christin Cooper , American ski racer
- 1959 : Mayada El Hennawy , Syrian singer
- 1959 : Erik Gundersen , Danish track athlete
- 1960 : Andrea Anastasi , Italian volleyball player and coach
- 1960 : Ralf Minge , German soccer player
- 1962 : Klaus Hubert Auer , Austrian politician
- 1962 : Walter Rauscher , Austrian historian
- 1962 : Jörg Vaihinger , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1964 : Jakob Arjouni , German writer
- 1964 : CeCe Winans , American gospel singer
- 1965 : Birgitt Austermühl , German national soccer player
- 1965 : Matt Biondi , American swimmer
- 1965 : Igor Jijikine , Russian actor and acrobat
- 1965 : Burr Steers , American screenwriter, film director, and actor
- 1965 : CJ Ramone , American bassist, singer, and guitarist ( Ramones )
- 1966 : Philipp Adlung , German musicologist, lawyer and music manager
- 1966 : Joachim Friedmann , German comic and screenwriter
- 1966 : Tabea Zimmermann , German violist
- 1967 : Hendrik Duryn , German actor
- 1967 : Teddy Riley , American singer-songwriter and record producer
- 1968 : Zvonimir Boban , Croatian football player
- 1968 : Emily Procter , American actress
- 1969 : Julia Ann , American dancer and porn actress
- 1969 : Dimitri Ashkenazy , American clarinetist
- 1969 : Karin Sonnenmoser , German manager
- 1969 : Hagen Rether , German cabaret artist and pianist
Matt Damon (born 1970)
- 1970 : Matt Damon , American actor
- 1970 : Sadiq Khan , British politician
- 1970 : Tetsuya Nomura , Japanese game designer and director, conceptual artist and character designer
- 1971 : Miran Pavlin , Slovenian football player
- 1973 : Arsen Avetissyan , Armenian football player
- 1973 : Murmel Clausen , German screenwriter
- 1974 : Kevyn W. Adams , American ice hockey player
- 1974 : Didier Angibeaud , Cameroonian football player
- 1974 : Bruno Mantovani , French composer
- 1974 : DJ Q-Ball , American DJ, singer, and rapper ( Bloodhound Gang )
- 1975 : Tatiana Grigorieva , Australian pole vaulter, Olympic medalist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Vera Bolten , German musical artist and singer
- 1976 : Kida Khodr Ramadan , German actor
- 1976 : Seryoga , Belarusian rapper
- 1977 : Amir ElSaffar , American jazz musician
- 1979 : Martin Finnegan , Irish motorcycle racer
Kristanna Loken (* 1979)
- 1979 : Kristanna Loken , American actress
- 1979 : Alexander Shelley , British conductor
- 1980 : Jakob Augustsson , Swedish football player
- 1980 : Christine Deck , German dancer
- 1980 : Marinko Miletić , German-Croatian football player
- 1980 : Mike Scifres , American football player
- 1981 : Anja Gräfenstein , German actress
- 1981 : Chris Killen , New Zealand soccer player
- 1981 : Patrick Pilet , French racing car driver
- 1982 : Sebastian Fischer , German actor
- 1983 : Travis Pastrana , American motocross rider
- 1984 : Joséphine de La Baume , French actress
- 1984 : Sejad Salihović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1985 : Simone Bolelli , Italian tennis player
- 1985 : Bruno Mars , American singer
- 1985 : Felix Menzel , German publicist
- 1986 : Karan Rastogi , Indian tennis player
- 1986 : Mario Sonnleitner , Austrian soccer player
- 1987 : Aya Hirano , Japanese voice actress and singer
- 1987 : Ahmet Kulabas , German-Turkish soccer player
- 1987 : Andrea Lanzl , German ice hockey player
- 1987 : Semir Štilić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1988 : Max Felder , German actor and voice actor
- 1989 : Anusorn Srichaluang , Thai soccer player
- 1989 : Kushtrim Lushtaku , Kosovar soccer player
- 1989 : Armand Traoré , French football player
- 1990 : Vytautas Andriuškevičius , Lithuanian football player
- 1991 : Bakermat , Dutch DJ
- 1991 : Florian Moll , German swimmer
- 1991 : Patric Niederhauser , Swiss racing car driver
- 1991 : David Ostella , Canadian racing car driver
- 1991 : Sebastian Owuya , Swedish ice hockey player
- 1992 : Lucas Alario , Argentinian soccer player
- 1992 : Ramon Tauabo , German handball player
- 1993 : Gabriela Capová , Czech ski racer
Angus T. Jones (* 1993)
- 1993 : Angus T. Jones , American actor
- 1993 : Barbara Palvin , Hungarian model
- 1994 : Luca Hänni , Swiss singer
- 1994 : Leart Paqarada , Kosovar soccer player
- 1997 : Vijona Kryeziu , Kosovar sprinter
- 1997 : Bella Thorne , American actress and model
- 1998 : Ekaterina Koroljowa , Russian handball player
- 1998 : Jonah Osabutey , Ghanaian soccer player
- 1999 : Lennard Maloney , American-German soccer player
Died
Before the 17th century
- 923 : Pilgrim I , Archbishop of Salzburg
- 1060 : Hugo V of Lusignan , French nobleman, lord of Lusignan and lord of Couhé
- 1131 : Hiltebold , Bishop of Gurk
- 1182 : Conrad II , Duke of Dachau
- 1203 : Hiki Yoshikazu , Japanese sword nobleman
- 1216 : az-Zahir Ghazi , Emir of Aleppo
- 1286 : Johann I von Dreux , Count of Penthièvre and Duke of Brittany
- 1291 : Heinrich I , Lord of Werle
- 1293 : Friedrich von Fronau , Bishop of Chiemsee
- 1303 : Beatrix von Grafschaft , abbess of Freckenhorst Abbey
- 1317 : Fushimi , 92nd Tennō of Japan
- 1354 : Cola di Rienzo , Roman politician and tribune of the people
- 1508 : Martin von Weißenburg , abbot of the Reichenau monastery
- 1564 : Matthias Gunderam , German theologian
- 1575 : Jan Massys , Flemish painter
- 1580 : Hieronymus Wolf , German humanist and philologist
17th and 18th centuries
- 1606 : John VI. , Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
- 1656 : Johann Georg I , Elector of Saxony
- 1683 : Philipp Friedrich Böddecker , German composer and organist
- 1691 : Daniel Horthemels , Dutch bookseller and publisher
- 1703 : Tomás Marín González de Poveda , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and governor of Chile
- 1704 : Mukai Kyorai , Japanese poet
- 1710 : Georg Benedikt von Ogilvy , Field Marshal General of Electorate Saxony of Scottish descent
- 1715 : Moyse Garrigue the Elder , jeweler and church council of the French Reformed Church in Magdeburg
- 1723 : Euthymios Saifi , founder of the Ottoman order and bishop of Tire and Sidon
- 1727 : Georg Sandrart , German merchant and tobacco dealer in Magdeburg
- 1735 : Yongzheng , Chinese emperor
- 1741 : Charles Campbell , British military man and politician
- 1754 : Henry Fielding , British novelist and satirist, playwright, journalist and lawyer
- 1758 : Christoph Ludwig Crell , German literary and legal scholar
- 1772 : Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville , French violin virtuoso and composer
- 1774 : Ahmad Shah , emperor of the north Indian Mughal empire
- 1793 : John Hancock , American politician
19th century
- 1803 : Vittorio Alfieri , Italian poet and playwright
- 1808 : Dionysius van de Wijnpersse , Dutch Reformed theologian and philosopher
- 1814 : Adalbert von Harstall , last Prince-Bishop of Fulda
- 1820 : Henri Christophe , Haitian President and King
- 1821 : Juan O'Donojú , Spanish Lieutenant General and Viceroy of New Spain
- 1826 : Friedrich Krupp , German industrialist
- 1832 : Julius Mařák , Czech-Bohemian landscape painter
- 1834 : François-Adrien Boïeldieu , French opera composer
- 1840 : John Pratt, 1st Marquess Camden , British politician
- 1842 : Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse , Danish composer
- 1855 : Samuel D. Hubbard , American politician
- 1858 : Luigi Catenazzi , Swiss educator and politician
- 1869 : Franklin Pierce , American president and lawyer
- 1880 : Magnus Brostrup Landstad , Norwegian pastor, editor and hymn writer
- 1886 : Claus Pavels Riis , Norwegian poet
- 1888 : Moritz Schmidt , German classical philologist
- 1889 : Ewald Oskar Aders , German district court director and patron
- 1894 : Kanagaki Robun , Japanese writer
- 1898 : Marie von Sachsen-Altenburg , Princess of Sachsen-Altenburg and by marriage Princess of Prussia
20th century
1901 to 1950
- 1904 : Clemens Alexander Winkler , German chemist
- 1905 : Johann Gottlieb Schoch , German garden architect and garden director for the city of Magdeburg
- 1918 : Károly Aggházy , Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer
- 1927 : Ricardo Güiraldes , Argentine writer
- 1929 : Jacek Malczewski , Polish modernist and symbolist painter
- 1931 : Luigi von Kunits , Austrian conductor, composer, violinist and music teacher
- 1933 : Guido d'Ippolito , Italian racing driver
- 1934 : Krikor Balakian , Armenian bishop
- 1935 : Hans Tropsch , German chemist
- 1936 : Ahmed Tevfik Pasha , last grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- 1940 : Walter Rusk , British motorcycle racer
- 1941 : Gus Kahn , American musician, songwriter and lyricist
- 1942 : Wilhelm Crönert , German classical philologist
- 1943 : Otto Erler , German playwright
- 1944 : Jean d'Aulan , French bobsledder, aviator and racing car driver
- 1944 : Wendell Willkie , American lawyer, presidential candidate
- 1945 : Felix Salten , Austro-Hungarian writer
- 1946 : Gustav von Zahn , German geographer
- 1948 : Sydney Anderson , American politician
- 1949 : Friedrich Ackermann , Bavarian politician and lawyer
1951 to 2000
- 1953 : Nigel Bruce , British actor
- 1953 : Kathleen Ferrier , British contralto
- 1959 : Bernd Aldenhoff , German hero tenor
- 1962 : Hans Ambs , German politician
- 1963 : Karl Albert Aberle , German publisher and politician
- 1963 : Maria Grengg , Austrian storyteller and painter
- 1966 : Célestin Freinet , French reform pedagogue
- 1967 : Clement Attlee , British politician and Prime Minister
- 1967 : Johan Schreiner , Norwegian historian
- 1968 : Albrecht Saathoff , German Lutheran pastor and historian
- 1968 : Frank Skinner , American composer
- 1969 : Emil Dovifat , German journalist
- 1969 : Hedwig Wachenheim , German social politician and historian, MdL
- 1972 : Prescott Bush , American Senator
- 1975 : Walter Felsenstein , Austrian director
- 1975 : Josef Traxel , German tenor
- 1977 : Uno Åhrén , Swedish architect and city planner
- 1978 : Tibor Serly , Hungarian composer
- 1979 : David Izenzon , American jazz bassist
- 1980 : Maurice Martenot , French musician, inventor of the Ondes Martenot
- 1980 : Roland Schnell , German motorcycle racer
- 1981 : Heinz Kohut , Austrian psychologist
- 1982 : Philip Noel-Baker , British athlete and politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1983 : Robert Docking , American politician, governor of Kansas
- 1983 : Joan Hackett , American actress
- 1984 : Kurt Ferdinand Roesch , German-American painter
- 1985 : Riccardo Bacchelli , Italian writer
- 1986 : Nels Anderson , American sociologist
- 1989 : Pedro Galindo , Mexican singer, composer, actor and film producer
- 1990 : Frank Cope , American football player
- 1990 : BJ Wilson , British rock musician
- 1992 : Willy Brandt , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Foreign Minister and Federal Chancellor, Nobel Prize winner
- 1992 : Lisa Korspeter , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1993 : Bruno Balscheit , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1997 : Nando Barbieri , Italian racing driver
- 1998 : Anatol Vieru , Romanian composer and conductor
- 1998 : Zhang Chongren , Chinese painter and sculptor
- 2000 : Francesco Pennisi , Italian composer
21st century
- 2002 : Joachim Zahn , German industrialist
- 2002 : Philippe Boutros Chebaya , Lebanese Bishop
- 2003 : Kozō Andō , Japanese Kendōka
- 2004 : Jacques Derrida , French philosopher
- 2004 : Reiner Schreiber , German politician
- 2004 : Rico Weber , Swiss artist
- 2005 : Joachim Dalsass , South Tyrolean politician
- 2007 : Constantin Andreou , Greek-French painter and sculptor
- 2008 : Herbert Bötticher , German actor
- 2008 : Hogan Wharton , American football player
- 2014 : Alexandra Andrejewna Antonowa , Sami writer and language activist
- 2015 : Robert Siegfried Dieter Athenstedt , German fencer and fencing trainer
- 2015 : Jim Diamond , British pop singer and songwriter
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Johannes Mathesius , Bohemian teacher and pastor (Protestant)
- St. Reparata , Roman martyr (Catholic)
- St. Thais , Egyptian hetaera (Catholic)
- State holidays and memorial days
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
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