August 9

The August 9 is the 221st day of the Gregorian calendar (the 222nd in leap years ), thus remain 144 days by year end.

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48 BC Chr .: Gaius Iulius Caesar

Politics and world events

• 0048 BC Chr .: During the Roman Civil War , Julius Caesar defeated the troops of the Roman Senate , commanded by Pompeius , at the Battle of Pharsalus in Thessaly, thereby consolidating his power in the entire Mediterranean region.
• 0378: In the battle of Adrianople the Roman army is defeated by the Visigoths under Fritigers ; Emperor Valens falls.
• 0907: In the last of three battles near Pressburg , the Hungarians defeat a Bavarian army under Margrave Luitpold of Bavaria . As a result, Eastern Franconia loses control of the Ostmark and is open to future Hungarian invasions . The defeat also causes the fall of the Great Moravian Empire .
• 1157: During negotiations between the three quarreling contenders for the Danish throne in Roskilde , Knut V is killed in an attempted murder by his cousin Sven III. to the victim. Waldemar I escapes the slaughter.
• 1318: The Treaty of Leake aims to eliminate political tensions between the English King Edward II and his powerful cousin Thomas of Lancaster .
• 1514: Duke Ulrich von Württemberg punishes 1,700 farmers of the Bundschuh heap of poor Konrad in his country with fines and prison penalties. All leaders are executed.
• 1588: A heavy storm that lasted five days prevents the renewed attempt to unite the defeated Spanish Armada with the invading army of the Duke of Parma in the Netherlands and drives the ships far north off the Scottish coast.

1680: Louis XIV.

• 1680: Louis XIV , with the help of his Reunionskammer, takes over Alsace with constructed ownership claims for France . Further reunions threaten Palatinate and Trier areas.
• 1792: Francis II is crowned King of Bohemia .
• 1805: Austria , Great Britain , Russia , Sweden and the strongly decimated Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont form the third coalition against France .
• 1814: The Treaty of Fort Jackson between the United States and the Creek ended the Creek War . The Creek must cede more than half of their tribal territory to the United States.
• 1814: The battle at Langnes-Schanze is the last armed conflict between Scandinavian countries.

1830: The "citizen king" Louis-Philippe

• 1830: As Louis-Philippe, the Duke of Orléans accepts the royal crown of France that has been offered to him .
• 1832: Leopold I , King of the Belgians, marries the French Princess Louise d'Orléans , daughter of King Louis-Philippe I , in the chapel of Compiègne Castle .
• 1854: After the accidental death of King Friedrich August II , his brother Johann becomes the new ruler in the Kingdom of Saxony .
• 1862: In the Battle of Cedar Mountain during the Civil War , the Confederates under General "Stonewall" Jackson defeat the Union forces and are able to relocate the hostilities to northern Virginia.
• 1886: Pro-Russian officers put a coup against the Bulgarian Prince Alexander I and force him to abdicate.
• 1890: The island of Helgoland is handed over to German administration by the British .
• 1902: Edward VII is crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland .

1914: German U 15

• 1914: During the First World War , the U 15, the first German submarine and its crew, are lost. British light cruiser HMS Birmingham rams the German warship before it can dive, causing it to sink.
• 1918: Led by the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio , enemy planes appear over the Austro-Hungarian capital for the first time during World War I. During the flight over Vienna , several hundred thousand leaflets were dropped instead of bombs.
• 1919: The Anglo-Iranian treaty is signed by representatives of the British and Iranian governments.
• 1942: After advocating immediate independence for India the day before , Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British colonial powers along with a number of members of Congress . This marks the beginning of the Quit India movement .
• 1942: In the battle of Savo Island in the Pacific War , the Japanese record a success in the Solomon Islands . An allied fleet, consisting of two heavy cruisers and two destroyers , is taken by surprise.

1945: Fat Man explosion over Nagasaki

• 1945: Dropped on Nagasaki : Due to heavy cloud cover, the second atomic bomb of the Second World War , Fat Man , is not dropped over the original target Kokura , but over the Mitsubishi arms factory near Nagasaki . 70,000 people die instantly.
• 1954: Turkey , Greece and Yugoslavia sign the Balkan Pact in Bled, which is limited to 20 years .
• 1956: In South Africa , 20,000 women of all ethnicities and from all parts of the country demonstrate against the Native Urban Areas Act in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria , the seat of government.
• 1960: The first law on the protection of young people at work in the Federal Republic of Germany is published. Among other things, young people under the age of 16 may be employed for a maximum of 40 hours per week, piecework and assembly line work are not permitted for young people under the age of 18.
• 1965: After leaving the Malaya Federation on August 7, Singapore's independence from Malaysia is recognized against the wishes of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew . August 9th then became Singapore's national holiday.
• 1969: The wife of the Polish film director Roman Polański , the American actress Sharon Tate , was murdered in her home with four friends by the sect members of the Charles Manson family, heavily pregnant.
• 1974: Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to step down from office to forestall impending impeachment.
• 1990: The annexation of Kuwait by Iraq is from the UN Security Council for null and void explained. During the Gulf War, he calls for the Iraqi army to withdraw from the country immediately.
• 1993: Albert II swears the oath on the Belgian constitution and thus becomes king of the Belgians.
• 1999: Russian President Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin appoints the head of the domestic intelligence service , Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin , as prime minister.

business

• 1817: Johann Friedrich Gottlob Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer found the world's oldest printing machine factory: Koenig & Bauer .
• 2007: The European Central Bank (ECB) reacts as the first central bank to the financial crisis emanating from the US mortgage market and provides the banks with liquidity to a previously unknown extent ; this after the money trade between banks in the eurozone collapsed due to a lack of trust.

science and technology

• 1803: The American inventor Robert Fulton demonstrates the Clermont steamship on the Seine in Paris . But Napoleon Bonaparte does not believe that the steam drive has a future.

Zurich railway station 1847

• 1847: The Swiss Northern Railway opens the first section of the Zurich-Basel line between Zurich and Baden AG . This first railway line in Switzerland was soon to be called the Spanish Brötli Railway .
• 1884: The first steerable airship , the La France , circles the town of Chalais-Mendon in France. The airship was developed by Charles Renard , his brother Paul and Captain Arthur HC Krebs.

1896: Lilienthal's destroyed glider

• 1896: The aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal crashes on a flight in Stölln am Gollenberg in Havelland and dies the following day of his injuries.
• 1910: With the departure of the polar ship Fram from the Norwegian capital Kristiania in the direction of the Bay of Whales , Roald Amundsen begins his south polar expedition , which is still kept secret from the public .
• 2003: A model airplane of the type TAM 5 is launched for the first non-stop Atlantic crossing of an airplane in the weight class up to 5 kg.
• 2005: The Space Shuttle Discovery returns from its mission from space . It is the first landing of the space shuttle after the disaster of the space shuttle Columbia two and a half years earlier.

company

• 1981: The Tuwat Congress is announced in Berlin in August .

Culture

• 1173: The foundation stone for the campanile next to the cathedral of Pisa is laid. The tower is later known as the " Leaning Tower of Pisa ".

1862: Auditorium of the Baden-Baden Theater

• 1862: On the occasion of the opening of the Baden-Baden theater , the two-act opera Béatrice et Bénédict by Hector Berlioz is premiered. The libretto , loosely based on William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, comes from the composer himself.
• 1949: As part of the Salzburg Festival , Carl Orff's setting of the tragedy Antigonae des Sophocles in the German translation by Friedrich Hölderlin is premiered in the Felsenreitschule .

religion

• 1471: Francesco della Rovere becomes Pope under the name Sixtus IV .
• 1903: Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto is crowned Pope as Pius X.

Disasters

• 1912: An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 killed about 5,500 people in Iran.
• 1970: A Lockheed L-188 Electra transport plane crashes near Cuzco in Peru because of a defect in the third engine . 99 of the 100 occupants on board and two people on the ground die.
• 1974: The accident of the Dutch oil tanker Metula in the Strait of Magellan leads to the leakage of 53,000 tons of crude oil. The oil slick washed up on the coast of Tierra del Fuego cost the lives of around 40,000 animals.
• 2009: A flood and mud wave in the village of Xiaolin in the rural community of Jiaxian (Taiwan) killed 400 people or went missing. The accident was caused by a landslide after massive rainfall as a result of Typhoon Morakot .
• 2018: A school bus in Dahjan is hit in an air strike by the Saudi-led military alliance in Yemen . According to the International Committee of the Red Cross , 46 people died, most of them children.

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

Sports

Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1441: Danjong , King of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea
• 1477: Laurentius Zoch , German lawyer and jurist
• 1515: William Pole , English politician
• 1544: Bogislaw XIII. , Duke of Pomerania-Barth-Rügen
• 1565: Ludwig II of Nassau-Weilburg , Count of Nassau-Weilburg
• 1580: Peter Theodoricus , German legal scholar
• 1593: Izaak Walton , English writer
• 1603: Johannes Coccejus , German Protestant theologian
• 1605: Marquard II. Schenk von Castell , Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
• 1611: Heinrich von Nassau , Count of Nassau-Siegen
• 1648: Johann Michael Bach , German composer
• 1657: Pierre-Étienne Monnot , French sculptor
• 1663: Ferdinando de 'Medici , Hereditary Prince of Tuscany and patron
• 1667: David Hoyer , German painter
• 1669: Yevdokia Fyodorovna Lopuchina , first wife of Peter I.
• 1674: Franz Maximilian Kaňka , Czech architect
• 1685: Claude-Joseph Geoffroy , French botanist, mycologist and pharmacist
• 1693: Sophie Wilhelmine von Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld , Princess of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

18th century

JCF GutsMuths
(* 1759)

Amedeo Avogadro
(* 1776)

• 1718: Placidus von Camerloher , German composer
• 1722: August Wilhelm Prince of Prussia , Prussian Prince and General
• 1732: Eberhard Ludwig Becht , German archivist, mayor of Heilbronn
• 1736: Louis V Joseph , Prince of Condé and general in the French army
• 1737: John Wentworth , British colonial governor of New Hampshire and Nova Scotia
• 1738: Anna Pestalozzi , wife of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzis
• 1745: Wolfgang Schlichtinger , Austrian Catholic clergyman
• 1748: Bernhard Schott , German musician and music publisher
• 1750: Helwig Bernhard Jaup , German lawyer and university professor
• 1757: Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton , American philanthropist
• 1757: Thomas Telford , British builder
• 1759: Ernst Christoph Helle , German manufacturer and local politician
• 1759: Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths , German educator
• 1764: Caroline Auguste Fischer , German writer and women's rights activist
• 1767: Ludwig Friedrich II. , Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• 1772: Christian Jakob von Schneider . German writer and publisher
• 1776: Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro , Italian physicist and chemist
• 1785: Carl August Schwerdgeburth , German engraver and painter
• 1789: Robert Nicolas-Charles Bochsa , French composer and harp virtuoso
• 1794: Achille Valenciennes , French zoologist
• 1796: Eduard von Rabenau , provost of Naumburg and Prussian politician

19th century

1801-1850

• 1806: Eugène Giraud , French painter and engraver
• 1808: Richard von Friesen , Saxon politician
• 1808: Hans Larsen Martensen , Danish theologian
• 1810: Louis Ammy Blanc , German painter
• 1811: August von Asbrand-Porbeck , German administrative officer
• 1811: Josephus Laurentius Dyckmans , Belgian painter
• 1812: Victor von Bruns , German surgeon
• 1816: Karl Oppel , German writer
• 1819: William Thomas Green Morton , American physician, pioneer of anesthesia
• 1828: Joseph Eduard Konrad Bischoff , German writer and Catholic priest
• 1832: Alexander von Monts , German naval officer
• 1833: Heinrich Wiethase , German architect and master builder
• 1834: Elias Álvares Lôbo , Brazilian composer
• 1834: Manuel Pardo , President of Peru
• 1837: John Atherton , British explorer
• 1839: Carl Theodor in Bavaria , German ophthalmologist, father-in-law of the Belgian King Albert I.
• 1839: Gaston Paris , French philologist
• 1844: Hugo Blümner , German classical philologist and archaeologist
• 1845: Ludwig August von Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha , imperial Brazilian general
• 1846: Ludwig Darmstaedter , German chemist and science historian
• 1847: Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo , Queen of Spain and Duchess of Aosta
• 1847: Auguste Sprengel , German educator, founder of the German women's school movement
• 1848: Elise Prehn , German flower painter
• 1850: Johann Büttikofer , Swiss zoologist

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  Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo
  (* 1847)

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  Dorothea Klumpke
  (* 1861)

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  Alexander Florstedt
  (* 1863)

1851-1875

• 1861: Paul Arons , German banker and councilor of commerce
• 1861: Wilhelm Berger , German composer and conductor
• 1861: Dorothea Klumpke , American astronomer
• 1861: Ernst von Rebeur-Paschwitz , German astronomer
• 1863: Alexander Florstedt , German hunter and writer
• 1864: Roman Dmowski , Polish politician and anti-Semite
• 1864: Cornelia Paczka-Wagner , German painter and graphic artist
• 1867: Wolf von Gersdorff , German politician, MdL
• 1867: Evelina Haverfield , British suffragette
• 1868: Alice Verne-Bredt , English composer, pianist and music teacher
• 1871: Erich Metzeltin , German railway engineer
• 1872: Joseph August of Austria , Archduke of Austria
• 1874: Andreas Heinrich Blesken , German teacher, Westphalian author and local history researcher
• 1874: Reynaldo Hahn , French composer
• 1875: Emil Beutinger , German architect and local politician, Lord Mayor of Heilbronn
• 1875: Hans Caspar Escher , Swiss architect and industrial pioneer
• 1875: Albert Ketèlbey , British composer and conductor
• 1875: Willem Vogelsang , Dutch art historian

1876-1900

• 1878: Eileen Gray , Irish interior decorator and designer
• 1878: Paul Renner , German typographer and type developer
• 1881: Adele Bloch-Bauer , Austrian entrepreneur's wife and model of Gustav Klimt
• 1881: Franz Exner , Austrian-German criminologist and criminal lawyer
• 1881: Joseph Otto Kolb , German priest, Archbishop of Bamberg
• 1882: Titus Maria Horten , German Dominican and Catholic priest, victim of National Socialism
• 1883: Heinrich Blasius , German fluid mechanic
• 1884: Dora Brandenburg-Polster , German book illustrator, painter and graphic artist
• 1884: John S. McCain Sr. , American admiral

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  Franz Exner
  (* 1881)

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  Hans Oster
  (* 1887)

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  PL Travers
  (* 1899)

• 1885: Hans Lachmann-Mosse , German publisher
• 1885: Otto Ritschl , German artist
• 1885: Hermann von Siemens , German industrialist
• 1885: Philip van Dijk , Dutch football player
• 1886: Heinrich Ehmsen , German painter and graphic artist
• 1886: Jops Reeman , Dutch football player
• 1887: Hans Oster , German general, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1888: Ludwig Schaschek , Austrian cameraman
• 1889: Friedrich Burschell , German writer
• 1889: Anton Fränznick , German Catholic priest, victim of National Socialism
• 1890: Emmy Brode , German painter
• 1890: Sándor Jemnitz , Hungarian conductor, musician and composer
• 1892: SR Ranganathan , Indian mathematician and librarian
• 1893: Heinrich Aschoff , German farmer, Righteous Among the Nations
• 1893: Werner Sylten , Swiss Protestant theologian and educator of Jewish descent, victim of National Socialism
• 1894: Mikhail Michailowitsch Soschtschenko , Russian writer
• 1895: Hellmuth Heye , German admiral and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag
• 1895: Fritz Rümmelein , German soldier in the First World War
• 1895: Franz Schafheitlin , German film actor
• 1896: Erich Hückel , German chemist and physicist
• 1896: Jean Piaget , Swiss developmental psychologist
• 1897: Marta Brunet , Chilean writer
• 1899: PL Travers , Australian writer ( Mary Poppins )
• 1900: Karl Frank , German lawyer, manager and politician, MdL, state minister

20th century

1901-1925

Adam von Trott zu Solz (* 1909)

Tove Jansson (born 1914)

• 1901: Felix Hurdes , Austrian politician, co-founder of the ÖVP
• 1902: William Christopher Atkinson , British Romanist, historian, Hispanist, and Lusitanist
• 1902: Solomon , British pianist
• 1902: Zino Francescatti , French-Italian violinist and teacher
• 1904: Hasso von Boehmer , German officer in the general staff, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1904: Weston Adams , American sports official
• 1905: Otto Schön , German politician and party functionary, head of the secretariat of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED
• 1906: Ernst Anrich , German historian
• 1906: Franz Jacob , German politician, MdL, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1906: Raynald Martin , Swiss Protestant clergyman
• 1906: Robert Surtees , American cameraman
• 1907: Berta Waterstradt , German radio play and film author
• 1907: Theodor Teriete , German trade unionist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1908: Laurenz Börgel , German entrepreneur, local politician and district administrator
• 1908: Tommaso Landolfi , Italian writer
• 1908: Elli Schmidt , German politician, chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Association of Germany in the GDR
• 1909: Adam von Trott zu Solz , German lawyer and diplomat, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1910: Laryssa Henijusch , Belarusian poet and writer
• 1910: Robert van Gulik , Dutch crime novelist
• 1911: Mario Wandruszka , Austrian Romance studies and linguist
• 1911: William Alfred Fowler , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1912: Bojan Adamič , Slovenian composer and conductor
• 1912: Anne Brown , American soprano
• 1914: Ludwig Aulbach , German journalist and editor-in-chief
• 1914: Ferenc Fricsay , Hungarian conductor
• 1914: Tove Jansson , Finnish-Swedish writer and artist
• 1915: Haim Alexander , Israeli composer
• 1915: Michael Young , British sociologist
• 1917: Egon Lampersbach , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1918: Robert Aldrich , American director
• 1919: Joop den Uyl , Dutch politician
• 1919: Helga von Heintze , Austrian-German classical archaeologist
• 1919: Edmund Hockridge , Canadian singer
• 1919: Ralph Houk , American baseball player and manager
• 1919: Emilio Vedova , Italian painter
• 1920: Hans Brox , German civil law scholar, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• 1920: Willi Heinrich , German writer
• 1920: Irmgard Praetz , German athlete
• 1920: Lia Timmermans , Belgian writer and poet
• 1921: Lola Bobesco , Belgian violinist of Romanian origin
• 1922: Philip Arthur Larkin , British author
• 1922: Klaus Nonnenmann , German writer
• 1924: Alex Quaison-Sackey , Ghanaian politician and diplomat
• 1925: Alfred Antkowiak , German publisher and writer
• 1925: Lenard Sutton , American racing car driver

1926-1950

• 1926: Aglaja Schmid , Austrian actress
• 1927: Daniel Keyes , American writer
• 1927: Marvin Minsky , American AI researcher
• 1927: Robert Shaw , British actor and writer
• 1928: Bob Cousy , American basketball player
• 1928: Gerd Ruge , German journalist
• 1928: Harold Johnson , American boxer
• 1928: Camilla Wicks , American-Norwegian violinist and music teacher
• 1929: Jeff Butterfield , English rugby player
• 1929: Albert Tocco , American Mafia boss
• 1929: Hermann Schreiber , German journalist and publicist
• 1929: Manfred Zimmermann , German diplomat
• 1930: Roman Berger , Slovak composer, music pedagogue and scholar
• 1930: Ingrid Pan , German actress and radio play speaker
• 1930: Jacques Parizeau , Canadian politician and economist
• 1931: Paul Schmidt , German middle-distance runner
• 1931: Sarah Whitmore , British dressage rider
• 1931: Mário Zagallo , Brazilian football player and coach
• 1932: Hermann Giesecke , German educational scientist
• 1932: Anand Panyarachun , Thai Prime Minister
• 1932: Fritz Witzel , German enduro athlete
• 1932: Victor Harold Vroom , Canadian professor of psychology

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (* 1933)

• 1933: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi , Japanese actress and writer
• 1934: Merle Kilgore , American country musician
• 1934: Sara Morrison , British politician and manager, President of WWF
• 1935: Siegfried Liebschner , Baptist theologian
• 1935: Klaus Stürmer , German soccer player
• 1936: Hans-Werner Laubinger , German legal scholar
• 1937: Ron Amess , Australian ice hockey player
• 1937: Bruno Lauzi , Italian singer
• 1937: Hans Nowak , German football player
• 1938: Romeo Borbach , Swiss jazz musician and composer
• 1938: Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux , Canadian composer
• 1938: Michèle Girardon , French actress
• 1938: Leonid Kuchma , Ukrainian politician, head of government, president
• 1938: Rod Laver , Australian tennis player

Romano Prodi (* 1939)

Marie-Luise Marjan (* 1940)

• 1938: Otto Rehhagel , German soccer player and coach
• 1938: Robert Zollitsch , Archbishop of Freiburg, Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference
• 1939: Lee Cheong-jun , South Korean author
• 1939: Siegfried Gräter , German soccer player
• 1939: Flemming Hansen , Danish politician
• 1939: Bulle Ogier , French actress
• 1939: Romano Prodi , Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister, President of the EU Commission
• 1940: Dagmar Blei , German linguist and university professor
• 1940: Volker Hauff , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main
• 1940: Marie-Luise Marjan , German actress
• 1940: Helga Wieser , Austrian politician
• 1941: Alfred Vaino Aho , Canadian computer scientist
• 1941: Hermann Beil , Austrian theater dramaturge
• 1941: José Manuel Calderón , Dominican Bachata singer, composer and guitarist
• 1941: Peter Hartz , German manager
• 1941: Volker Prechtel , German actor
• 1942: Ernst-Günter Afting , German biochemist
• 1942: Jack DeJohnette , American jazz drummer and pianist
• 1942: Giusep Nay , President of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court
• 1942: Karol Sidon , Czech writer and rabbi
• 1942: Frans van Anraat , Dutch businessman
• 1943: Danielle Gaubert , French actress
• 1943: Joe Handley , Canadian politician
• 1943: Lubomir Kavalek , American chess grandmaster
• 1943: Ken Norton , American heavyweight boxer
• 1943: Margrit Schlankardt , German politician, MdL
• 1943: Bernhard C. Wintzek , German publicist
• 1944: Patrick Depailler , French racing car driver
• 1944: Sam Elliott , American actor
• 1944: Astrid Frank , German actress
• 1944: Lars-Erik Rosell , Swedish composer
• 1945: Heinz Gerlach , German publicist and investor advocate
• 1946: Marlies Mosiek-Urbahn , German politician, MEP, state minister
• 1946: Carlos José Ñáñez , Argentine clergyman and theologian, Archbishop of Córdoba (Argentina)
• 1946: Dore O. , German filmmaker, painter and photographer
• 1947: Roy Hodgson , English football player and coach
• 1947: Tokyo Kumagaï , Japanese shoe and fashion designer
• 1948: William M. Daley , American politician
• 1949: Markus Büchel , Swiss bishop
• 1949: Jonathan Kellerman , American child psychologist and novelist
• 1949: Martin Kirchner , German politician and church lawyer
• 1950: Anémone , French actress
• 1950: Ulla Brede-Hoffmann , German politician
• 1950: Sigmar-Peter Schuldt , German politician, MdL
• 1950: Heinz-Helmut Wehling , German wrestler

1951-1975

Michaele Schreyer (* 1951)

• 1951: Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis , Lithuanian doctor and politician
• 1951: Michaele Schreyer , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Senator, EU Commissioner
• 1952: Michael Droese , German athlete
• 1952: Jürgen Gehb , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1952: Hubert Haensel , German banker and author
• 1952: Rui Jordão , Portuguese soccer player
• 1952: Prateep Ungsongtham Hata , Thai social activist and senator
• 1953: Carl-Ludwig Thiele , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1953: Walter Smuch , German handball player and coach
• 1953: Jean Tirole , French economist
• 1954: Loïc Amisse , French football player and coach
• 1955: Udo Beyer , German athlete
• 1955: Maud Olofsson , Swedish politician
• 1955: Rüdiger Sagel , German politician, MdL
• 1955: Anton Schrobenhauser , German soccer player and coach

Arnold Vaatz (* 1955)

• 1955: Arnold Vaatz , German civil rights activist and politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag
• 1956: Virgil Moorefield , American composer, drummer, multimedia artist and book author
• 1956: Adam Nimoy , American director
• 1957: Bernard de Roos , Dutch manager
• 1957: Paul Frommelt , Liechtenstein ski racer
• 1957: Melanie Griffith , American film actress
• 1957: David Hart , Dutch entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 1957: Klaus Wunder , German soccer player
• 1958: Amanda Bearse , American actress and director
• 1959: James Kwesi Appiah , Ghanaian soccer player and coach
• 1959: Kurtis Blow , American musician, rap pioneer
• 1959: Michael Kors , American fashion designer
• 1959: Idrissa Seck , Senegalese Prime Minister
• 1960: Barbara De Rossi , Italian actress
• 1961: Brad Gilbert , American tennis player
• 1961: John Key , New Zealand politician
• 1962: Holger Anthes , German soccer player
• 1962: Carmen Butta , German-Italian journalist and director
• 1962: Søren Hyldgaard , Danish film music composer
• 1962: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer , German politician, Prime Minister of the Saarland, Secretary General of the CDU, Federal Minister
• 1963: Boris von Brauchitsch , German photographer, curator and writer

Whitney Houston appearance 1991, (* 1963)

• 1963: Whitney Houston , American singer
• 1963: Jay Leggett , American filmmaker
• 1963: Maria Manuela Machado , Portuguese long distance runner
• 1963: Alain Menu , Swiss racing driver
• 1963: Petra Pau , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1964: Bertram Haid , Austrian cartoonist
• 1964: Brett Hull , Canadian-American ice hockey player
• 1964: Maurizio Vandelli , Italian racing cyclist
• 1965: Aleksandar Abutovic , Serbian football player
• 1965: Konrad Auer , Italian alpinist
• 1965: Sabine Petzl , Austrian actress
• 1965: Happy Rhodes , American singer and songwriter
• 1966: Felix Ahlers , German entrepreneur
• 1966: Linn Ullmann , Norwegian writer and journalist
• 1967: Christian Baldauf , German politician, MdL
• 1967: Marcus Deml , German guitarist and studio musician
• 1967: Deborah Anne Dyer , British singer
• 1967: Ulrich Kirchhoff , German show jumper
• 1967: Deion Sanders , American athlete and television presenter
• 1967: Sven Strüver , German golfer
• 1967: Dana Vávrová , German-Czech actress
• 1968: Gillian Anderson , American actress
• 1968: Andreas Izquierdo , German writer

Eric Bana (* 1968)

• 1968: Eric Bana , Australian actor
• 1968: Andreas Golombek , German soccer player
• 1968: Stefan Pinnow , German television presenter
• 1970: Rod Brind'Amour , Canadian ice hockey player
• 1970: Alexei Voievodin , Russian walker
• 1970: Mirjam Unger , Austrian photographer, radio presenter and director
• 1970: Wim de Vries , Dutch jazz drummer
• 1970: WC , American rapper
• 1971: Mack 10 , American rapper
• 1971: Davide Rebellin , Italian cyclist
• 1971: Nikki Ziering , American model and actress
• 1972: Juanes , Colombian singer, songwriter and guitarist
• 1972: Marcos Serrano , Spanish cyclist
• 1972: Liz Vassey , American actress
• 1973: Isabell Hertel , German actress
• 1973: Filippo Inzaghi , Italian football player
• 1973: Brett Wetterich , American professional golfer
• 1974: Senta Auth , German actress
• 1974: Jason Garfield , American juggler
• 1974: Miriam Lahnstein , German actress
• 1974: Raphaël Poirée , French biathlete
• 1974: Jonathon Power , Canadian squash player
• 1974: Nicola Stapleton , British actress
• 1975: Christian Burkiczak , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
• 1975: Robbie Middleby , Australian soccer player
• 1975: Lars Wackernagel , German racing cyclist

1976-2000

• 1976: Christoph Baumann , German producer, director and actor
• 1976: Jessica Capshaw , American film actress
• 1976: Rhona Mitra , British film actress
• 1976: Audrey Tautou , French actress
• 1976: Rogier Wassen , Dutch tennis player
• 1977: Chamique Holdsclaw , American basketball player
• 1977: Mikaël Silvestre , French football player
• 1977: Ravshan Ermatov , Uzbek football referee
• 1978: Daniela Denby-Ashe , British actress
• 1978: Wesley Sonck , Belgian soccer player
• 1978: Ekaterina Volkova , Russian athlete
• 1979: Tore Ruud Hofstad , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1979: Helge Payer , Austrian soccer player
• 1979: Ronnie Quintarelli , Italian racing driver
• 1980: Manuele Mori , Italian racing cyclist
• 1980: Aleksander Polaczek , German ice hockey player
• 1980: Franziska Stawitz , German radio journalist
• 1980: Aleksandr Tadewosjan , Armenian football player
• 1981: Alexandra Uhlig , German handball player
• 1981: Li Jia Wei , Singaporean table tennis player
• 1981: Flávio Pereira Faroni , Brazilian soccer player
• 1981: Roland Linz , Austrian soccer player
• 1982: Natsuko Abe , Japanese biathlete
• 1982: Raja Amasheh , German professional boxer
• 1982: Joel Anthony , Canadian basketball player
• 1982: Simon Kuipers , Dutch speed skater
• 1982: Tyson Gay , American athlete
• 1983: Daniel Assmann , German television presenter
• 1983: Ashley Johnson , American actress
• 1983: Finn Holsing , German footballer
• 1985: Luca Filippi , Italian racing car driver
• 1985: Filipe Luís , Brazilian soccer player

Anna Kendrick (* 1985)

• 1985: Anna Kendrick , American actress
• 1985: Stiven Rivić , Croatian football player
• 1985: Francky Sembolo , Congolese soccer player
• 1986: Robert Adcock , English badminton player
• 1986: Dennis Grote , German soccer player
• 1986: Michael Lerchl , German soccer player
• 1988: AblaZ , German musician
• 1988: Simon Al-Odeh , German composer and trumpeter
• 1988: Quadri Aruna , Nigerian table tennis player
• 1988: Tommy Käßemodel , German soccer player and kit manager
• 1988: Willian , Brazilian soccer player
• 1989: Meredith Deane , American actress
• 1989: Andrea Iannone , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1989: Dener Jaanimaa , Estonian handball player
• 1989: Kusi Kwame , German-Ghanaian soccer player
• 1989: Stefano Okaka , Italian soccer player
• 1990: Bill Skarsgård , Swedish actor
• 1990: Eugenio Alafaci , Italian racing cyclist
• 1992: Burkely Duffield , Canadian actor
• 1992: Leonard Žuta , Macedonian football player
• 1994: Forrest Landis , American actor
• 1997: Leon Bailey , Jamaican soccer player
• 1998: Panagiotis Retsos , Greek football player
• 2000: David Huddleston , Bulgarian gymnast

21st century

• 2002: Elina Nagula , Russian billiards player

Died

Before the 17th century

• 0605 BC Chr .: Nabopolassar , Babylonian king
• 0378: Valens , Roman emperor
• 0456: Ankō , 20th Emperor of Japan
• 0803: Irene , Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire
• 0813: Richulf , Archbishop of Mainz
• 0815: Hathumar , first bishop of Paderborn
• 1048: Damasus II , Pope
• 1107: Horikawa , 73rd Emperor of Japan
• 1122: Kuno , Cardinal Bishop of Praeneste
• 1157: Knut V. Magnusson , Danish rival king
• 1167: Alexander II , Bishop of Liège
• 1167: Daniel I , Bishop of Prague
• 1173: Nadschmuddin Ayyub , Kurdish politician
• 1179: Roger , Anglo- Norman clergyman
• 1202: Jakuren , Japanese poet and Buddhist monk
• 1211: William de Braose, 4th Baron of Bramber , cambro-Norman nobleman
• 1354: Stephan , Prince of Hungary-Croatia, governor of Transylvania, Slavonia, Dalmatia and Croatia
• 1364: Dietrich III. von Limburg , Count of Limburg

Mihai Viteazul
(† 1601)

• 1420: Pierre d'Ailly , French theologian and cardinal
• 1429: Jakob von Mies , Czech priest and writer
• 1447: Konrad von Oels , Prince-Bishop of Breslau and Governor of Silesia
• 1472: Johann Vitez , Croatian humanist, Bishop of Oradea and Archbishop of Gran
• 1496: Pietro di Francesco Orioli , Italian painter
• 1520: Angelina Srpska , saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• 1551: Hieronymus Nopp , Protestant theologian, educator and Regensburg reformer
• 1598: Andreas Angelus , German pastor, inspector and chronicler

17th and 18th centuries

• 1601: Johannes Andreae , German pastor and theologian
• 1601: Mihai Viteazul , Prince of Wallachia, governor of Transylvania and ruler of the Vltava
• 1612: Philipp Ludwig II of Hanau-Münzenberg , Count of Hanau-Münzenberg
• 1623: Georg , Count of Nassau-Dillenburg
• 1632: Hans Bien , draftsman and stonemason for the city of Nuremberg
• 1635: Johann II , Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken
• 1646: Friedrich von Fürstenberg , Electorate of Cologne in the Duchy of Westphalia
• 1652: Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne , Duke of Bouillon, French general
• 1663: Silvester Hiller , Swiss medic and mayor of St. Gallen
• 1668: Jacob Balde , German Jesuit and poet
• 1700: Jean-Baptiste Tuby , French sculptor of Italian origin
• 1721: Wolf Christoph Zorn von Plobsheim , German architect
• 1726: Johann Adam Brandenstein , German organ builder
• 1734: Georg Sigismund Green the Elder , German Lutheran theologian
• 1744: James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos , British nobleman, builder and patron
• 1763: Johann Daniel Hardt , German gambist and composer
• 1775: Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky , Prussian merchant and patriot
• 1788: Carl von Imhoff , colonial officer of the British East India Company and portrait painter

19th century

• 1801: Fedele Tirrito , Sicilian painter, writer, preacher and Capuchin priest
• 1807: Valentin Rose the Younger , German pharmacist
• 1808: Carlo Antonio Giuseppe Bellisomi , Nuncio in Germany and Cardinal
• 1809: Joseph Philipp Vukasović , kk field marshal lieutenant and knight of the Maria Theresa order

August Apel († 1816)

• 1816: August Apel , German lawyer and writer
• 1817: Leopold III. , Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
• 1820: Anders Sparrman , Swedish naturalist
• 1828: Friedrich Ludewig Bouterweck , German philosopher and writer
• 1830: Nikolaus Christian Heinrich Dornheim , German graphic artist and painter
• 1837: Carl von Brühl , general manager of the theaters and museums in Berlin
• 1843: Maria Clementine Martin , nun and inventor of the nun's melissa spirit
• 1847: Wilhelm von Schütz , German poet
• 1850: Johann Christoph Bauriegel , German educator
• 1851: Karl Gützlaff , German missionary
• 1853: Joseph Marie Wronski , Polish philosopher and mathematician
• 1854: Friedrich August II. , King in Saxony
• 1855: Guglielmo Pepe , Neapolitan general
• 1860: Ignaz Heinrich von Wessenberg , Catholic theologian
• 1861: Vincent Novello , British musician
• 1862: Johann Carl Gottlieb Arning , German lawyer and senator
• 1864: John Brown Francis , American politician
• 1874: Albert von Carlowitz , Saxon politician
• 1876: Julius Gerold , German composer, arranger and army music director
• 1876: Christian Adalbert Kupferberg , German entrepreneur
• 1880: William Bigler , American politician
• 1881: Otto Spiegelberg , German gynecologist
• 1888: Charles Cros , French poet and inventor
• 1890: Eduard von Bauernfeld , Austrian comedy poet
• 1890: Ludwig Adolf Neugebauer , Polish gynecologist
• 1891: Louis Constanz Berger , German industrialist and politician
• 1892: Emil Jakob Schindler , Austrian landscape painter
• 1899: Edward Frankland , British chemist
• 1900: Ahmed Cevad Pasha , general of the Ottoman army and statesman

20th century

1901-1950

• 1901: Henri Philippe Marie d'Orléans , French explorer
• 1902: Moritz Szeps , Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher
• 1903: Onno Klopp , German publicist and historian

• 

  Friedrich Ratzel
  († 1904)

• 

  Ernst Haeckel
  († 1919)

• 

  Ruggero Leoncavallo
  († 1919)

• 1904: Friedrich Ratzel , German zoologist and geographer
• 1913: Wilhelm Albermann , German sculptor
• 1914: Roque Sáenz Peña , Argentine lawyer and politician
• 1915: Frank Bramley , British painter
• 1916: Lily Braun , German writer, social democrat and women's rights activist
• 1916: Guido Gozzano , Italian poet
• 1918: František Plesnivý , Bohemian architect
• 1919: Ralph Albert Blakelock , American painter
• 1919: Ernst Haeckel , German zoologist and philosopher
• 1919: Ruggero Leoncavallo , Italian opera composer
• 1919: Eugen Münch , Swiss politician
• 1925: Christian Bartholomae , German linguist, Iranist and Indologist
• 1928: Friedrich II. , Grand Duke of Baden
• 1929: Heinrich Zille , German painter, draftsman and photographer
• 1933: Simon Breu , German composer and music teacher
• 1934: Arnaldo Galliera , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1935: Walther Freiherr von Holzhausen , German chess player
• 1936: Máximo Arrates Boza , Panamanian composer
• 1938: Leo Frobenius , German ethnologist
• 1940: Rudolf Thurneysen , Swiss linguist, Celtologist
• 1941: Ernst Volkmann , Austrian conscientious objector in World War II
• 1942: Arnold Genthe , German-American photographer
• 1942: Lisamaria Meirowsky , German doctor and religious
• 1942: Edith Stein , German philosopher and nun
• 1942: Rosa Stein , sister of Edith Stein
• 1943: Franz Jägerstätter , Austrian farmer, conscientious objector in World War II
• 1943: Chaim Soutine , French painter of Lithuanian origin
• 1944: Darrell R. Lindsey , American pilot
• 1945: Lloyd Burdick , American football player
• 1945: Harry Hillman , American athlete, Olympic champion
• 1945: Jakow Alexandrowitsch Protasanow , Russian film director
• 1946: Johannes Esser , Dutch doctor, chess master and art collector
• 1947: Reginald Innes Pocock , British zoologist and arachnologist
• 1949: Harry Davenport , American actor
• 1949: Edward Lee Thorndike , American psychologist
• 1950: Ernst Hollstein , German soccer player

1951-2000

• 1952: Bartholomäus Koßmann , German politician, MdL, MdR, resistance fighter against National Socialism
• 1953: Lucien Adrion , French painter
• 1954: Leo Katz , Austrian writer
• 1955: Marion Bauer , American composer
• 1955: Fritz Steuri , Swiss ski racer and mountain guide
• 1956: Rudolf Fettweis , Baden director of hydraulic engineering and road construction
• 1958: Felipe Boero , Argentine composer
• 1959: Emil František Burian , Czech composer
• 1960: Marie Ulfers , German writer

Hermann Hesse
(† 1962)

• 1962: Hermann Hesse , German-Swiss writer, Nobel Prize winner
• 1965: Arnold Krieger , German writer
• 1966: Herbert Berliner , Canadian music producer and inventor
• 1967: Pedro Garfias , Spanish poet
• 1967: Joe Orton , British playwright
• 1967: Rudolf Vogel , German actor
• 1967: Adolf Wohlbrück , Austrian actor
• 1968: Friedrich Christian von Sachsen , head of the Wettin family
• 1969: Abigail Folger , US millionaire heiress
• 1969: Wojciech Frykowski , Polish actor
• 1969: Constantin Ion Parhon , Romanian doctor and researcher

Cecil Powell († 1969)

• 1969: Cecil Powell , British nuclear physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1969: Jay Sebring , American actor
• 1969: Sharon Tate , American actress
• 1971: Otto Wagener , German major general
• 1972: Warren Paoa Kealoha , American swimmer
• 1972: Ernst von Salomon , German writer
• 1973: William Aitken , Scottish football player and coach
• 1973: Heinrich Fischer , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister
• 1973: Donald Peers , British singer
• 1974: Robert Boehringer , German industrialist and poet
• 1974: Bill Chase , American trumpeter
• 1975: Siegfried Hermelink , German musicologist
• 1975: Dmitri Shostakovich , Soviet composer, pianist and teacher
• 1976: José Lezama Lima , Cuban writer
• 1976: Hermann Sasse , German Lutheran theologian
• 1976: Ernst Schlapper , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Lord Mayor of Baden-Baden
• 1977: Jean Bassoul , Lebanese Archbishop
• 1977: Johanna Decker , German Catholic missionary doctor
• 1978: Dutch Lauer , American football player
• 1978: Hermine Schröder , German athlete
• 1978: Elmer Sleight , American football player
• 1979: Josef Eichner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag

Jacqueline Cochran
(† 1980)

• 1980: Jacqueline Cochran , American aviator
• 1980: Günther Grzimek , German lawyer, notary, politician and art collector
• 1982: Emanuel Kaláb , Czech military bandmaster, conductor and composer
• 1985: Fred Åkerström , Swedish songwriter and singer
• 1985: Horst Gentzen , German actor
• 1987: Jutta Balk , German painter, doll designer
• 1988: Paul Ruegger , Swiss lawyer
• 1988: Giacinto Scelsi , Italian composer
• 1989: Hans Ausserwinkler , Austrian politician
• 1989: Hoyt Johnson , American country and rockabilly musician
• 1990: Marianne Wünscher , German actress
• 1991: Richard Lee Armstrong , Canadian geologist and geochemist
• 1991: Richard Löwenthal , German political scientist and television journalist
• 1992: Friedrich Aichberger , German lawyer
• 1992: Friedrich Wille , German mathematician and university professor
• 1993: Ludwig Gebhard , German church musician, composer and music teacher
• 1993: Reinhard Kamitz , Austrian politician
• 1995: Jerry García , American rock musician and songwriter (Grateful Dead)
• 1996: May Ayim , German poet, educator and activist of the Afro-German movement
• 1996: John W. King , American politician
• 1996: James McLamore , American entrepreneur, co-founder of the Burger King Corporation
• 1996: Frank Whittle , British pilot, inventor and businessman
• 1998: Frankie Ruiz , American salsa singer
• 1999: Georg Marischka , Austrian director, actor and screenwriter
• 1999: Rodrigo Riera , Venezuelan guitarist and composer
• 2000: John Harsanyi , Hungarian-American economist

21st century

• 2001: Albino Milani , Italian motorcycle racer
• 2001: Otti Pfeiffer , German poet, author of books for children and young people
• 2002: Bertold Hummel , German composer
• 2003: Gregory Hines , American tap dancer and actor
• 2003: David Macdonald , Canadian organist
• 2003: Bill Perkins , American jazz saxophonist and flutist
• 2003: Skip Scott , American racing car driver
• 2004: Otto Kranzbühler , German lawyer, defense attorney at the Nuremberg Trials
• 2004: Annemarie Marks-Rocke , German actress
• 2004: Ernst Naumann , German publisher
• 2004: David Raksin , American film music composer

Colette Besson († 2005)

• 2005: Colette Besson , French athlete, Olympic champion
• 2005: Dorris Bowdon , American actress
• 2005: Maria de la Esperanza of Borbón-Sicily and Orleans-Bragança , Spanish nobles
• 2005: Matthew McGrory , American actor
• 2005: Nikolai Georgievich Putschkow , Russian ice hockey player
• 2006: Günter Busch , German soccer player
• 2006: Anga Díaz , Cuban percussionist
• 2006: Jenny Gröllmann , German actress and radio play speaker
• 2006: Arne Heli , Norwegian writer
• 2006: James Van Allen , American physicist
• 2007: Ulrich Plenzdorf , German writer, screenwriter and dramaturge
• 2007: Rudolf Thanner , German national ice hockey player
• 2008: Mahmud Darwisch , Palestinian poet
• 2008: Walter Michael Klepper , Romanian composer
• 2008: Hippolytus Anthony Kunnunkal , Indian Catholic Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar
• 2008: Bernie Mac , American actor
• 2008: Stephan Nitsch , German engineer
• 2009: Jasmine You , Japanese musician ( Versailles )
• 2010: Ted Stevens , American politician, US Senator from Alaska
• 2011: Dietmar Sauermann , German folklorist
• 2011: Werner W. Wallroth , German film director
• 2012: Erol Togay , Turkish soccer player and coach
• 2012: Milan Uherek , Czech choir director and composer
• 2016: Miguel José Asurmendi Aramendia , Spanish religious and bishop
• 2016: Karl Bögelein , German soccer player and coach
• 2016: Ernst Neiswestny , Russian sculptor
• 2016: Gerhard Tötschinger , Austrian actor, artistic director, author and presenter
• 2017: Marián Varga , Slovak musician and composer
• 2018: Klaus Wildenhahn , German documentary filmmaker
• 2020: Fips Asmussen , German comedian and solo entertainer

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Matthias , martyr, scribe and patron saint (orthodox)
  • St. Edith Stein , German philosopher and women's rights activist, nun, martyr and patron saint of Europe (Protestant, Catholic)
  • Adam Reusner , German reformer and song writer (Protestant)

• Name days
  • Edith , Roman

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Singapore , independence from Malaysia (1965)

• United Nations International Days of Action
  • Day of the indigenous peoples

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zeit.de: Yemen: According to Houthi rebels , air attack hits school bus ; accessed on March 31, 2019

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