9th March

The March 9 is the 68th day of the Gregorian calendar (69th in leap years ), thus remain 297 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

• 0590 : The rebellious Sassanid military leader Bahram Chobin crowns himself under the name of Bahram VI after the capture of the capital Ctesiphon and the expulsion of King Chosrau II . to the king.

1152: Friedrich I.

• 1152 : Only three weeks after the death of his uncle Konrad III. becomes the Duke of Swabia Friedrich III. Crowned from the house of the Hohenstaufen as Friedrich I in Aachen to the Roman-German king .
• 1230 : In the Battle of Klokotnitsa , the Bulgarian Tsar Ivan Assen II defeats the ruler of the Despotate Epirus , Theodoros I Komnenos Dukas , who is captured in the battle. Large parts of his dominion fall to Ivan.
• 1276 : Through a privilege of King Rudolf von Habsburg receives Augsburg the authority of the municipal law , becoming a free imperial city .
• 1409 : The Chartres Treaty drawn up by Jean de Montaigu between Charles, Duke of Orléans , and Johann Ohnefurcht , Duke of Burgundy , temporarily ends hostilities between the houses of Burgundy and Orléans .
• 1422 : The execution of the Hussite priest Jan Želivský causes bloody unrest in Prague. Residents of the Jewish quarter in particular suffer from this, but they bear no responsibility for the death of the executed person.

1500: Pedro Álvares Cabral

• 1500 : Pedro Álvares Cabral sets sail from Lisbon with a fleet of 13 ships . He is supposed to set up a trade route to Kalikut . The south equatorial current in the Atlantic Ocean will, however, drift its ships on shores unknown to it, today's Brazil .

1566: David Rizzio

• 1566 : David Rizzio , private secretary and favorite of Mary Queen of Scots , is assassinated in Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh in front of the Queen by Scottish nobles led by her jealous husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley . The heavily pregnant queen is briefly placed under house arrest.
• 1632 : Imperial mercenaries under the command of Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly win the Thirty Years' War in the Battle of Bamberg over Swedish units under Gustaf Horn .

1741: The West Indian theater of war

• 1741 : In the War of Jenkins' Ear , the British lay siege to the port of Cartagena in the Spanish colony of New Granada . The siege of Cartagena will be abandoned after two months without success.
• 1762 : French Protestant Jean Calas is sentenced to death on wheels for allegedly strangling his son to prevent him from converting to Catholicism. The sentence will be carried out the next day. After a campaign by Voltaire that made the Calas affair known across Europe, Calas was rehabilitated three years later.

1781: Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid

• 1781 : During the American Revolutionary War , the Spanish Infantería de Marina, under the command of Bernardo de Gálvez y Madrid, begin the siege of the British-held city of Pensacola in Florida . The battle for Pensacola lasts until May 8th.
• 1820 : In response to a popular uprising led by Rafael del Riego , the Spanish King Ferdinand VII sets up a liberal transitional government . The Trienio Liberal begins.

1839: Child labor in Germany

• 1839 : The Prussian regulation on the employment of young workers in the factories prohibits child labor before the age of nine. It is considered the first German law on occupational safety .
• 1839 : The cake war between France and Mexico ends under British mediation after the Mexican President Anastasio Bustamante has promised compensation of 600,000 Pesos with the withdrawal of the French armed forces under Admiral Charles Baudin .
• 1847 : In the Mexican-American War penetrate US forces under General Winfield Scott near Veracruz with the hitherto largest amphibious landing action by US forces in Mexico one.

1848: black-red-gold

• 1848 : During the March Revolution, the Bundestag of the German Confederation in Frankfurt am Main , as an organ of the princes' representatives , decides the colors black, red and gold as the federal colors. This is the first time that these colors have the status of national symbols.

1862: Battle of the ironclads

• 1862 : In the American Civil War , the first duel between two armored warships takes place between Virginia and the Monitor on the second day of the Battle of Hampton Roads , which ends in a draw.

1888: Friedrich III.

• 1888 With the death of his father: I. Wilhelm is Friedrich III. to the emperor of the German Empire . After 99 days his reign ends due to death from throat cancer .
• 1889 : At the twin cities of Gallabat and Metemma, the two-day battle of Gallabat / Metemma begins between the Sudanese Mahdists and the Ethiopian army under Emperor Yohannes IV , who falls in the battle.
• 1916 : After in February on the orders of Prime Minister Afonso Costa made seizure German merchant vessels in Portuguese waters that explains German Reich Portugal the war.
• 1932 : With appointment Éamon de Valera , the chairman of the general election victorious Fianna Fáil , as President of the Governing Council takes place in the Irish Free State , the first change of government.
• 1932 : Puyi , before his abdication last ruler in Imperial China , is president in under Japanese control standing puppet state of Manchukuo .
• 1933 : The communist Georgi Dimitroff is arrested in Berlin because of the Reichstag fire . The subsequent trial against him turned into a debacle for the National Socialists and Dimitrov was acquitted.
• 1933 : Franz von Epp is appointed Reich Commissioner for Bavaria on the basis of the Reichstag Fire Ordinance, which means that the National Socialists have also taken power here in the course of the Gleichschaltung .
• 1942 : The Allies on Java capitulate to the Japanese in the Pacific War . All of the Dutch East Indies remained in Japanese hands until the end of the war.

1945: bombs dropped over Japan

• 1945 : The US air raid on Tokyo with B-29 bombers in the Pacific War is considered to be the worst conventional bombing of all time. With around 100,000 dead, the number of victims is comparable to that of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy

• 1954 : CBS shines in the news program See It Now from Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly 30-minute report A report on Senator McCarthy from the critical to the decline of McCarthyism contributes.
• 1956 : The Tbilisi massacre kills at least 80 people. The Soviet Army opens fire on anti-Soviet demonstrators who want to storm the telegraph office and radio station. Radical rebellious pro-Stalin students had demanded the independence of Georgia after the de-Stalinization that had been initiated .
• 1972 : In the vote on the law on the interruption of pregnancy there are the first and only votes against in the People's Chamber of the GDR until the fall of the Wall . In addition to 14 religiously motivated no votes from the ranks of the Eastern CDU , eight abstentions are counted.
• 1980 : In the first elections to the regional parliament of the Spanish Basque Country , the Basque National Party becomes the strongest party.
• 1982 : Alois Englander registers the United Greens Austria (VGÖ) as a party, one of the predecessor organizations of the Austrian Greens .
• 1989 : In Vienna, disarmament negotiations begin in Europe, at the end of which the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe will come into effect in 1992 .
• 1991 : Two people are killed in Belgrade during demonstrations against Serbian President Slobodan Milošević organized by Vuk Drašković and his Serbian renewal movement .
• 1994 : The Federal Constitutional Court promulgates the so-called " Cannabis Decision ", according to which a small amount of cannabis is generally exempt from punishment.

2001: Claudia Roth

• 2001 : In Stuttgart, Claudia Roth is elected national chairman of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen at the side of Fritz Kuhn instead of Renate Künast , who has been entrusted with the Federal Ministry for Consumer Protection, Food and Agriculture .

economy

• 1822 : The first patent is granted for dentures . The New Yorker Charles M. Graham received it for the improved structure of artificial teeth that he invented.
• 1920 : Erik Liebreich receives a German patent for a method for the electrolytic deposition of metallic chromium , the basis for the chromium-plating by chrome plating .
• 1959 : The US company Mattel introduces the Barbie doll at the American Toy Fair in New York . The model for the doll is the comic figure Bild-Lilli .
• 1964 : The first Ford Mustangs leave the auto assembly lines in Dearborn , Michigan .

Karl-Heinz Wildmoser 2009

• 2004 : The president of TSV 1860 Munich , Karl-Heinz Wildmoser , is arrested. He is accused of accepting a bribe of 2.8 million euros in connection with the construction of the Allianz Arena in Munich .

science and technology

1776: Title page of Adam Smith's major work

• 1776 : Adam Smith's main work, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, appears in London.
• 1911 : The University of Lisbon is re-established by the Republican government after almost 400 years.
• 1931 : Ernst Ruska tests the first electron microscope he developed together with Max Knoll , i.e. a device that scans the samples with electrons instead of light. For this he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 .
• 1949 : The German Research Council , a forerunner of the German Research Foundation , is established in Göttingen .
• 2006 : NASA announces that there is suspected water on Saturn's moon Enceladus . The assumptions go back to the exploration by the Cassini-Huygens space probe .

Culture

• 1801 : The first performance of the play Frohsinn und Schwärmerey by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel takes place at the Court Opera in Berlin .

The night camp in Granada ; Theater ticket 1837

• 1837 : The second version of Conradin Kreutzer's romantic opera Das Nachtlager in Granada, based on the play of the same name by Johann Friedrich Kind, is premiered at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna . Compared to the first version from 1834, the spoken dialogues have been replaced by recitatives .
• 1839 : The opera Il Bravo by Saverio Mercadante is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan .

1842: "Va, pensiero"

• 1842 : Giuseppe Verdi's opera Nabucco with the libretto by Temistocle Solera is premiered at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan. Verdi's third opera with the prisoner's choir Va, pensiero was a sensational success, and he himself became a hero of Italian opera life.
• 1844 : The lyrical opera Ernani by Giuseppe Verdi with the libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the play Hernani by Victor Hugo is premiered with great success at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.
• 1849 : The comic opera Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor by Otto Nicolai with the libretto by Salomon Hermann Mosenthal based on the comedy of the same name by William Shakespeare has its world premiere at the Royal Opera House in Berlin. The work, which is conducted by the composer himself, immediately celebrated a brilliant success.
• 1855 : Josef Gabriel Rheinberger composes his Abendlied ( Stay with Us ) Opus 69, 3 in Munich , one of his most popular choral works.
• 1861 : The premiere of the opera Bánk-Bán by Ferenc Erkel takes place in Budapest .
• 1868 : The opera Hamlet by Ambroise Thomas experienced in the Salle Le Peletier its world premiere in Paris.

1918: Scene from The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin

• 1918 : The American war propaganda film The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin hits cinemas in New York . Director Rupert Julian also plays the title role.
• 1930 : The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht is premiered in Leipzig . In the auditorium there are tumultuous scenes sponsored by members of the NSDAP and the play can only be played to the end with difficulty.

1945: Scene from Les enfants du Paradis

• 1945 : Marcel Carné's film Children of Olympus ( Les Enfants du Paradis ) had its world premiere in Paris . The film is considered an outstanding example of poetic realism in France.
• 1947 : The NWDR Hamburg broadcasts with Axel Eggebrechts What if ... A look back at the future of the world, the first German-language radio feature .
• 1969 : In the ZDF , the first is Peter-Alexander show to see.
• 1984 : The Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , built according to plans by the Scottish architect James Stirling , opens after four and a half years of construction.

1987: The Joshua Tree of the U2 record cover

• 1987 : Irish rock band U2 release their fifth studio album, The Joshua Tree , produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois . In 1988 the album received the Grammy for the best album of the year.

society

• 1796 : Napoleon Bonaparte marries Joséphine de Beauharnais , six years his senior , widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais , who was executed in 1794 .
• 1994 : Seven people are killed in a rampage in the Euskirchen District Court , eight others are injured, some seriously. The assassin, whose appeal against a fine has been denied, shoots at the audience and then detonates a bomb.
• 1994 : The world's first emergency crisis intervention service is set up by the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund in Munich.
• 2004 : John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death in the US state of Virginia for his involvement in the Beltway Sniper Attacks of 2002.

religion

• 1107 : Pope Paschal II consecrates the monastery church Notre-Dame de La Charité in Seyr .
• 1132 : With the formation of a new monastery community by the arrival of Cistercian monks , the Orval Trappist Abbey begins to prosper .
• 1144 : Gerardus Cacciamenici is elected Pope to succeed Celestine and takes the name Lucius II .
• 1410 : The bull of antipope Alexander V becomes known in Prague, which demands the delivery of the writings of John Wyclif and the revocation of his teachings. Jan Hus is not impressed by this and continues to preach in the Bethlehem Chapel about church grievances.

1522: Ulrich Zwingli

• 1522 : The breaking of the law of fasting with a sausage meal in Zurich is considered the original date for the Reformed Church . Huldrych Zwingli defends the action with the argument that fasting is not a divine law.
• 1522 : With the first of his invocavit sermons, Martin Luther reports back to Wittenberg after his stay at the Wartburg and intervenes in the dispute over the Wittenberg movement .

Disasters

• 1965 : An earthquake destroys 85 percent of the buildings on the Sporades island of Alonnisos in the island capital of the same name. The residents move to Patitiri .

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

Sports

• 1902 : The Italian football club Vicenza Calcio is launched.

Football Club Internazionale Milano 1908

• 1908 : Disgruntled members of the Milan Cricket and Football Club , where only Italians are allowed to play, found the Football Club Internazionale Milano in Milan to demonstrate their openness to players of all nationalities.
• 1984 : The US boxer Tim Witherspoon wins the world title in the heavyweight division against Greg Page at the Convention Center, Las Vegas, with a points victory.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

• 1212 : Hugo IV , Duke of Burgundy
• 1285 : Go-Nijō , 94th Emperor of Japan
• 1291 : Cangrande I della Scala , Lord of the City (Signore) of Verona
• 1434 : Ashikaga Yoshikatsu , seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate
• 1451 : Amerigo Vespucci , Italian merchant, seafarer, navigator and explorer (namesake of America)
• 1488 : Girolamo della Robbia , Italian sculptor and architect
• 1498 : Hieronymus Baumgartner , designer of the Reformation in Nuremberg and mayor
• 1506 : Ash-Shahīd ath-Thānī , Twelve Shiite legal scholar and theologian
• 1564 : David Fabricius , East Frisian theologian, amateur astronomer and cartographer
• 1568 : Aloisius von Gonzaga , Italian Jesuit and nurse of plague sufferers
• 1623 : William Byam , English governor of Suriname
• 1627 : Thomas Howard, 5th Duke of Norfolk , English nobleman
• 1658 : Juan de Acuña , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain

Friederike Caroline Neuber (* 1697)

• 1697 : Friederike Caroline Neuber , German actress, theater principal and co-founder of regular German drama

18th century

• 1721 : Karoline von Pfalz-Zweibrücken , daughter of the Count Palatine Christian III.
• 1729 : Anders Chydenius , Finnish pastor, politician and philosopher
• 1729 : Friedrich Gabriel Resewitz , German educator and educational politician
• 1737 : Josef Mysliveček , Czech composer
• 1749 : Honoré Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau , French politician, physiocrat, writer, publicist and revolutionary
• 1750 : Johann Friedrich August Tischbein , German painter
• 1753 : Jean-Baptiste Kléber , French general
• 1758 : Franz Joseph Gall , German physician and anatomist
• 1763 : William Cobbett , British writer
• 1770 : Karl von Einsiedel , German diplomat
• 1779 : Johann Melchior Schuler , Swiss Protestant clergyman and local researcher
• 1789 : Désiré Raoul-Rochette , French archaeologist
• 1796 : Peter von Bohlen , German orientalist
• 1798 : Joseph Kyselak , Austrian alpinist and court chamber official

19th century

1801-1850

• 1802 : Carl Friedrich Koch , German physician and educator
• 1804 : Ludwig Griesselich , German homeopath, physician and editor of a magazine
• 1806 : Wilhelm Lindenschmit the Elder , German painter
• 1809 : Bettino Ricasoli , Italian statesman
• 1809 : Eliza Wille , German novelist
• 1810 : Johann Heinrich Gottlieb Luden , German legal scholar
• 1810 : Johann Georg Kastner , French composer and music writer

Ernst Hähnel (* 1811)

• 1811 : Ernst Hähnel , German sculptor and professor at the Dresden Art Academy
• 1814 : Taras Shevchenko , Ukrainian poet
• 1817 : Francisco del Rosario Sánchez , Dominican politician, one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic
• 1818 : Ferdinand Joachimsthal , German mathematician
• 1818 : Rahmatallāh al-Kairānawī , Indian scholar
• 1835 : Arno von Arndt , Prussian infantry general
• 1838 : Heinrich Lanz , German inventor and manufacturer of agricultural machinery and locomobiles
• 1838 : Ludwig Gumplowicz , Polish-Austrian political scientist, co-founder of European sociology
• 1839 : Maria Zanders , German entrepreneur and benefactor of culture
• 1841 : Hugo Woldemar Hickmann , German pastor and founder of the first children's rest home in Germany
• 1843 : Willem Rooseboom , Governor General of the Dutch East Indies
• 1845 : Wilhelm Pfeffer , German botanist and plant physiologist
• 1846 : Emil Warburg , German physicist

Martin Marsick (* 1847)

• 1847 : Martin Marsick , Belgian violin virtuoso and teacher

1851-1900

• 1851 : Paul Vittorelli , Austrian lawyer and judge at the Austrian Constitutional Court
• 1852 : Matthew Arthur, 1st Baron Glenarthur , Scottish businessman and peer
• 1854 : Richard Henrion , German composer and military bandmaster
• 1855 : Theobald Dächsel , German theologian, pastor and superintendent
• 1856 : Edward Goodrich Acheson , American chemist and technician
• 1856 : Hermann Iseke , German poet
• 1857 : Georg von Borries , German government official
• 1859 : Peter Altenberg , Austrian writer
• 1861 : Franz Loewinson-Lessing , Russian geologist and petrologist
• 1865 : Paul Hoeniger , German painter
• 1866 : Theodor Ahlrichs , German theologian
• 1871 : Arthur Fickenscher , American composer
• 1871 : Emil Rosenow , German writer
• 1872 : Tom Delahanty , American baseball player
• 1874 : Karl Foerster , German gardener, perennial grower and writer
• 1875 : Theodor Barth , Swiss painter
• 1877 : Emil Abderhalden , Swiss physiologist
• 1877 : Stuart Stickney , American golfer
• 1879 : Alois Arnegger , Austrian landscape painter
• 1879 : Agnes Miegel , German poet, writer and journalist
• 1879 : Martin Mutschmann , German entrepreneur and politician during the Nazi era, Reich Governor and Prime Minister in Saxony
• 1881 : Ernest Bevin , British trade union leader and politician
• 1881 : Wera Tubandt , German chemist
• 1882 : Adolf Hamm , German organist
• 1882 : Cyril Monk , Australian violinist, music educator and composer
• 1883 : Umberto Saba , Italian poet and writer
• 1886 : Kenneth Edwards , American golfer
• 1887 : Fritz Lenz , German anthropologist, human geneticist and eugenicist, leading racial hygienist during the Weimar Republic and the Nazi era
• 1888 : Willy Westra van Holthe , Dutch football player
• 1888 : Raquel Meller , Spanish singer and film actress
• 1890 : Willibald von Langermann and Erlencamp , German general

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov (* 1890)

• 1890 : Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov , Soviet politician, head of government, foreign minister
• 1891 : Hermann Eris Busse , German writer
• 1891 : Kurt Latte , German philologist
• 1892 : Rudolf Friedrichs , German politician, Prime Minister of Saxony between the Third Reich and the GDR
• 1892 : Mátyás Rákosi , Hungarian politician, Stalinist dictator of Hungary from 1949 to 1956
• 1892 : Rudolf Riege , German artist and graphic designer
• 1892 : Vita Sackville-West , British writer and garden designer
• 1892 : Josef Weinheber , Austrian poet, narrator and essayist
• 1893 : Esko Aaltonen , Finnish sociologist and folklorist
• 1893 : Roland Jacobi , Hungarian table tennis player
• 1894 : Frank Arnau , German writer
• 1894 : Franz Wilhelm Seiwert , German painter and sculptor, avant-garde and member of the Cologne Progressives
• 1895 : Adolf Scheibe , German physicist and developer of the quartz watch in Germany
• 1895 : Isobel Baillie , British soprano
• 1896 : Werner Beinhauer , German Romanist and Hispanicist
• 1899 : Giuseppe Ferretto , Italian priest, Vatican minister, bishop and cardinal
• 1899 : Adolf Katz , German SS officer and politician during the Nazi era
• 1900 : Aimone, 4th Duke of Aosta and Duke of Spoleto , fourth Duke of Aosta and Duke of Spoleto

20th century

1901-1925

• 1902 : Will Geer , American actor
• 1903 : Johan Goslings , Dutch medic
• 1903 : Albert Meyer , American priest and theologian, Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal
• 1903 : Wage Rudolf Soepratman , composer of the Indonesian national anthem
• 1904 : Bobby Kohlrausch , German automobile racing driver
• 1906 : Heinz Rein , German writer
• 1907 : Mircea Eliade , Romanian religious scholar, philosopher and writer
• 1908 : Sep Ruf , German architect

Samuel Barber (* 1910)

• 1910 : Samuel Barber , American composer
• 1910 : Harry Glickman , Russian violinist
• 1910 : S. Sylvan Simon , American director and producer
• 1911 : Raymond Abrashkin , American writer, screenwriter and director
• 1911 : Clara Rockmore , Russian theremin virtuoso
• 1913 : Lotte Koch , German-Belgian actress
• 1916 : Jack Ferrante , American football player
• 1916 : Puey Ungphakorn , Thai economist, administrative specialist and university professor
• 1917 : Ian Watt , British literary critic and literary historian
• 1918 : George Lincoln Rockwell , American officer, founder of the American Nazi Party
• 1918 : Mickey Spillane , American crime novelist
• 1919 : Lola Müthel , German actress
• 1920 : Jerry Byrd , American country singer and musician
• 1922 : Diether Posser , German politician, MdL, multiple state minister
• 1923 : Benito Jacovitti , Italian comic artist
• 1923 : Walter Kohn , American physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1924 : Otto van de Loo , German gallery owner
• 1924 : Peter Scholl-Latour , German journalist
• 1925 : Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona , auxiliary bishop in Santo Domingo
• 1925 : G. William Miller , American politician

1926-1950

• 1926 : Celso Garrido Lecca , Peruvian composer
• 1926 : Jerry Ross , American composer and songwriter
• 1927 : Klaus Dieter Arndt , German politician, MdL, MdB, MEP
• 1927 : Renate Brockpähler , German folklorist
• 1927 : Bezerra da Silva , Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1927 : Johannes Hanselmann , German regional bishop, President of the Lutheran World Federation

Gerald Bull (* 1928)

• 1928 : Gerald Bull , Canadian engineer and ballistician, assassination victim
• 1928 : Wilhelm Salber , German psychologist and philosopher, director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Cologne
• 1929 : Arnulf Zitelmann , German writer
• 1929 : Hugh Desmond Hoyte , Prime Minister and President of Guyana
• 1930 : Maria Àngels Anglada , Spanish author
• 1930 : Vic Ash , British jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
• 1930 : Taina Elg , Finnish-American dancer and actress
• 1930 : Ota Filip , Czechoslovakian writer
• 1930 : Stephen Fumio Hamao , Japanese priest, Bishop of Yokohama and Cardinal of the Curia
• 1930 : Fritz Rau , German concert and tour organizer
• 1930 : Thomas Schippers , American conductor
• 1930 : Kurt Sobotka , Austrian actor, cabaret artist, director and author
• 1931 : Esther Knorr-Anders , German journalist and writer
• 1931 : Masahiro Shinoda , Japanese director and screenwriter
• 1932 : Gerfried Appelt , German geodesist, administrative officer and university lecturer
• 1932 : Rodolfo Quezada Toruño , Guatemalan priest, Archbishop of Guatemala City and cardinal
• 1933 : Milan Dimić , Serbian-Canadian literary scholar

Reinhard Lettmann (* 1933)

• 1933 : Reinhard Lettmann , German priest and canon lawyer, Bishop of Münster
• 1933 : William Francis McBeth , American composer and professor
• 1933 : Lloyd Price , American rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll singer
• 1934 : Yuri Alexejewitsch Gagarin , Soviet cosmonaut, first person in space
• 1934 : Dietmar Grieser , Austrian writer
• 1934 : Lothar Zysk , German lawyer, judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
• 1936 : Gerhard Ammann , Austrian politician
• 1936 : Mickey Gilley , American country singer and pianist
• 1937 : Azio Corghi , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1938 : Lill-Babs , Swedish pop singer
• 1938 : Ryszard Parulski , Polish fencer

Jean-Pierre Chevènement (* 1939)

• 1939 : Jean-Pierre Chevènement , French politician
• 1939 : Jochen Pützenbacher , German radio presenter
• 1939 : Benjamin Zander , British conductor
• 1940 : Raúl Juliá , American actor
• 1941 : Wolfgang Schröder , Austrian-German forest scientist
• 1942 : John Cale , British art rock musician
• 1942 : Pedro Rivera Toledo , Puerto Rican composer, arranger, saxophonist and conductor
• 1943 : Bobby Fischer , American chess player and world champion
• 1943 : Jef Raskin , American computer scientist
• 1943 : Wolf Singer , German brain researcher
• 1943 : Trish Van Devere , American actress
• 1945 : Robert Calvert , British all-round artist, poet, actor and musician

Katja Ebstein (* 1945)

• 1945 : Katja Ebstein , German singer
• 1945 : Hartmut Haupt , German soccer player
• 1945 : Karl Nolle , German entrepreneur and politician, MdL
• 1945 : Robin Trower , British rock musician
• 1945 : Ron Widby , American football player
• 1946 : Bernd Hölzenbein , German football player and official
• 1947 : Kali Fasteau , American jazz musician
• 1947 : Keri Hulme , New Zealand writer
• 1947 : Emiliano Mondonico , Italian football player and coach
• 1947 : Holger Schmezer , German dressage rider and trainer
• 1948 : Shimon Stein , Israeli diplomat
• 1948 : Chris Thompson , British rock singer, guitarist and composer
• 1948 : Wolfgang Wieland , German lawyer and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Mayor and Senator, Member of the Bundestag
• 1949 : Kalevi Aho , Finnish composer
• 1950 : Danny Sullivan , American racing car driver

1951-1975

• 1951 : Zakir Hussain , Indian tabla player and composer

Helen Zille (* 1951)

• 1951 : Helen Zille , South African journalist and politician
• 1952 : Bill Beaumont , English rugby player
• 1953 : Anna Henkel-Grönemeyer , German actress
• 1953 : Horst Rasch , German politician, MdL, State Minister
• 1954 : Teodor Anghelini , Romanian football player
• 1954 : Christian Eberl , German forest scientist and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1954 : Carlos Ghosn , Brazilian-Lebanese manager ( Renault-Nissan )
• 1954 : Matthias Matussek , German journalist and publicist
• 1954 : Roland Methling , German local politician, Lord Mayor of Rostock
• 1954 : Bobby Sands , Northern Irish member of the IRA , Member of the House of Commons
• 1954 : Jock Taylor , British motorcycle racer
• 1955 : Teo Fabi , Italian ski racer and automobile racing driver

Ornella Muti (* 1955)

• 1955 : Ornella Muti , Italian actress
• 1955 : Franco Uncini , Italian motorcycle racer
• 1956 : Thomas Huther , German photographer, artist and graphic designer
• 1956 : György Nébald , Hungarian saber fencer, Olympic champion
• 1957 : Mauro Bonifacio , Italian composer, conductor and music teacher
• 1957 : Oliver Stritzel , German actor and speaker
• 1958 : Ülkü Akbaba , Austrian actress, dramaturge, director, film and theater writer
• 1958 : Linda Fiorentino , American actress
• 1958 : Corinna Kirchhoff , German actress
• 1959 : Peter Nadig , German ancient historian
• 1959 : Tom Amandes , American actor

Giovanni di Lorenzo (* 1959)

• 1959 : Giovanni di Lorenzo , German-Italian journalist, editor-in-chief of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit
• 1962 : Jan Furtok , Polish football player and coach
• 1962 : Richard Quest , British news presenter
• 1963 : Artur Auernhammer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1964 : Juliette Binoche , French actress
• 1964 : Paul Caligiuri , American football player
• 1964 : Herbert Fandel , German football referee and pianist
• 1965 : Uta Bresan , German pop singer and presenter
• 1965 : Christian Rudolf , German actor
• 1965 : Antonio Saca , President of El Salvador
• 1966 : Aljona Asjornaja , Russian painter
• 1967 : Christian W. Schulz , Austrian cellist
• 1967 : Nikolas Vogel , Austrian cameraman
• 1968 : Youri Djorkaeff , French football player
• 1969 : Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf , American basketball player
• 1969 : Izaline Calister , Dutch musician
• 1970 : Shannon Leto , American photographer and drummer
• 1970 : Hilmi Sözer , German-Turkish actor and comedian
• 1970 : Yoon Je-moon , South Korean actor
• 1972 : Jean Louisa Kelly , American actress
• 1973 : AZ , American rapper
• 1973 : Jakob Piil , Danish racing cyclist
• 1973 : David Prinosil , German tennis player
• 1974 : Diana Fehr , Liechtenstein ski racer
• 1974 : Marte Huke , Norwegian poet
• 1974 : Sophie Schütt , German actress
• 1975 : Roy Makaay , Dutch football player
• 1975 : Juan Sebastián Verón , Argentinian football player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Yamila Díaz , Argentine model
• 1976 : Anier García , Cuban athlete
• 1976 : Nicole Kortlüke , German film editor
• 1976 : Francisco Mancebo , Spanish cyclist
• 1976 : Ben Mulroney , Canadian television presenter

Vincent Defrasne (* 1977)

• 1977 : Vincent Defrasne , French biathlete
• 1977 : Ariane Sommer , German author, presenter, columnist, actress and model
• 1978 : Lucas Neill , Australian soccer player
• 1979 : Christian Friedel , German singer and actor
• 1980 : Matt Barnes , American basketball player
• 1980 : Chingy , American musician
• 1980 : Matthew Gray Gubler , American actor
• 1980 : Rohō Yukio , Russian sumo wrestler
• 1981 : Nikky Blond , Hungarian porn actress
• 1983 : Bijan Benjamin , German-Iranian film director
• 1983 : Luke Charteris , Welsh rugby union player
• 1983 : Clint Dempsey , American football player
• 1983 : Ioannis Masmanidis , German soccer player
• 1983 : Marko Šuler , Slovenian football player
• 1984 : Eduard Maratowitsch Absalimow , Russian boxer
• 1984 : Johan Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• 1984 : Artūrs Ansons , Latvian cyclist
• 1984 : Kamel Fathi Ghilas , Algerian football player
• 1984 : Guillaume Gillet , Belgian football player
• 1984 : Julia Mancuso , American ski racer
• 1985 : Zdenko Baotić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Croatian football player
• 1985 : Christian Drecke , German handball player
• 1985 : Pastor Maldonado , Venezuelan racing car driver

Natalja Andrejewna Pogonina (* 1985)

• 1985 : Natalja Andrejewna Pogonina , Russian chess player
• 1985 : Michael Wojtanowicz , Austrian football player
• 1986 : Bernadett Bognár-Bódi , Hungarian handball player
• 1986 : Brittany Snow , American film and television actress
• 1987 : Bow Wow , American rapper and actor
• 1987 : Pirmin Schwegler , Swiss football player
• 1988 : Fabio Onidi , Italian racing driver
• 1989 : Kim Tae-yeon , South Korean singer
• 1990 : Fahri Akyol , German-Turkish soccer player
• 1990 : Daley Blind , Dutch soccer player
• 1990 : Nicolas Höfler , German soccer player
• 1992 : Patrick Dogue , German modern pentathlon
• 1993 : Tom Trybull , German soccer player
• 1993 : Suga , Korean rapper
• 1994 : Okay Yokuşlu , Turkish soccer player
• 1995 : Ángel Correa , Argentinian football player
• 1999 : Fūka Nagano , Japanese soccer player

21st century

• 2001 : Dominik Keim , German handball player
• 2001 : Jeon So-mi , South Korean pop singer
• 2002 : Usman Garuba , Spanish basketball player

Died

Before the 19th century

• 0842 : Hunbert , Bishop of Würzburg
• 1009 : Brun von Querfurt , missionary in Poland and Prussia, martyr
• 1062 : Herbert II , Earl of Maine
• 1098 : Thoros , ruler of Edessa
• 1113 : Siegfried I , Count Palatine of the Rhine and Count of Weimar-Orlamünde
• 1223 : Henry II of Veringen , Bishop of Strasbourg
• 1249 : Siegfried III. von Eppstein , Archbishop of Mainz
• 1302 : Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel , English magnate and military
• 1328 : David Martin , Welsh bishop
• 1344 : Gertrud III. von Everstein , Abbess of Gernrode
• 1361 : Ernst I , Prince of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen
• 1422 : Jan Želivský , Czech priest of the Hussites
• 1440 : Francis of Rome , founder of the Italian order, mystic
• 1444 : Leonardo Bruni , State Chancellor of Florence
• 1463 : Catherine of Bologna , Italian clarissess and founder of a monastery, mystic and painter
• 1466 : Dietrich III. von Bocksdorf , Rector of the University of Leipzig and Bishop of Naumburg
• 1477 : Heinrich IV. , Duke of Mecklenburg
• 1537 : Quirin op dem Veld von Willich , auxiliary bishop in Cologne
• 1551 : Andreas Kritzmann , gunsmith in Magdeburg
• 1560 : Caspar Landsidel , German educator and rhetorician
• 1560 : Katharina von Tecklenburg , abbess of the Essen monastery
• 1566 : David Rizzio , Italian musician, private secretary and favorite of Maria Stuart

Margaret Douglas († 1578)

• 1578 : Margaret Douglas , Scottish noblewoman
• 1583 : Martín Enríquez de Almansa , Spanish officer and viceroy of New Spain and Peru
• 1588 : Pomponio Amalteo , Italian painter
• 1589 : Paul Dolscius , German medic, educator and poet
• 1599 : Detlev von Ahlefeldt , gentleman on Osterrade and Haseldorf
• 1617 : Alonso de Ribera de Pareja , Spanish soldier and governor of Chile
• 1649 : Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham , English nobleman, politician and military man
• 1649 : James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton , English nobleman and military leader
• 1649 : Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland , English peer, politician and officer
• 1654 : Pedro Álvarez de Toledo y Leiva , Spanish officer and colonial administrator, Viceroy of Galicia and Viceroy of Peru
• 1661 : Jules Mazarin , French diplomat and cardinal of Italian descent, ruling minister ( Eminence Gray )
• 1695 : Eberhard Jabach , German banker and art collector
• 1707 : Jean II. D'Estrées , Marshal and Admiral of France
• 1752 : Claude-Joseph Geoffroy , French botanist, mycologist and pharmacist
• 1795 : John Armstrong sr. , American civil engineer, major general, and politician
• 1797 : Wassili Alexejewitsch Paschkewitsch , Russian composer

19th century

• 1801 : Johann Christian Gottlieb Ackermann , German doctor
• 1821 : Christian Adolph Overbeck , German mayor and poet
• 1823 : Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth , Swiss scientist, civil engineer, silk manufacturer, painter, cartographer and politician
• 1829 : Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig von Beulwitz , German lawyer and Chancellor of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger († 1831)

• 1831 : Friedrich Maximilian Klinger , German poet and playwright ( Sturm und Drang )
• 1840 : Georg Scheiblein , Roman Catholic clergyman
• 1847 : Mary Anning , British paleontologist
• 1850 : Francesco Maria Avellino , Italian archaeologist
• 1851 : Hans Christian Ørsted , Danish physicist and chemist
• 1857 : Dominikus Savio , Italian student with Don Bosco
• 1870 : Théodore Labarre , French harp virtuoso and composer
• 1888 : Wilhelm I , German Emperor and King of Prussia
• 1889 : Paolo Ferrari , Italian comedy poet
• 1891 : Amalie Dietrich , German botanist, zoologist
• 1892 : Gustav von Bonstetten , Swiss archaeologist
• 1892 : Heinrich Cordes , German Protestant missionary in South India
• 1893 : Disma Fumagalli , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1895 : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch , Austrian writer
• 1896 : Otto Fridolin Fritzsche , German theologian

20th century

1901-1950

• 1902 : Hermann Allmers , North German local poet
• 1905 : Nikolai Karl Adolf Anderson , German-Baltic philologist
• 1911 : Otto Puchstein , German archaeologist
• 1911 : Adolf von Randow , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, sculptor and banker
• 1917 : Wilhelm Meyer , German classical philologist and medievalist

Frank Wedekind († 1918)

• 1918 : Frank Wedekind , German writer, playwright and actor
• 1923 : Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher , German classical philologist
• 1926 : Usui Mikao , Japanese founder of the alternative medicine Reiki teaching
• 1928 : Julius Goerdeler , German judge and parliamentarian
• 1931 : Charles Galloway , American composer
• 1933 : Aladár Aujeszky , Hungarian veterinary pathologist and microbiologist
• 1936 : Sidney Johnston Catts , American politician
• 1936 : Yukteswar Giri , Indian yogi and guru
• 1936 : Eduard Stucken , German writer
• 1937 : Georg Amft , German composer and music teacher
• 1943 : Otto Freundlich , German painter and sculptor, one of the first representatives of abstract art
• 1944 : Otto von Below , German general in the First World War
• 1946 : John Joseph Glennon , Irish-American priest, Archbishop of St. Louis and Cardinal
• 1947 : Wilhelm Werner , German racing car driver
• 1950 : Felix Buttersack , German military doctor and writer

1951-2000

Alexandra Kollontai († 1952)

• 1952 : Alexandra Michailovna Kollontai , Russian revolutionary, diplomat and writer
• 1952 : Eberhard Wildermuth , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, State Minister, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Minister
• 1954 : Clara Westhoff , German sculptor and painter
• 1954 : Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs , German astronomer
• 1955 : Matthew Henson , American polar explorer
• 1955 : Monique Saint-Hélier , Swiss writer
• 1957 : Kennerley Rumford , British singer (baritone)
• 1960 : Otto Ackermann , Swiss conductor
• 1960 : Bernhard Aschner , Austrian physiologist and doctor
• 1962 : Zdeněk Nejedlý , Czech historian, literary critic and musicologist
• 1963 : Werner Beumelburg , German journalist and writer
• 1963 : Roland Coty , French entrepreneur and racing car driver

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck († 1964)

• 1964 : Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , German general and writer
• 1966 : Pablo Birger , Argentine racing car driver
• 1967 : Viktor Afritsch , Austrian theater and film actor
• 1968 : Jack Ernst , American football player
• 1968 : Hans Schumann , German motorcycle racer
• 1969 : Charles Brackett , American screenwriter
• 1969 : Walter Christaller , German geographer
• 1971 : Kirellos VI. , Patriarch of Alexandria
• 1971 : Karimuddin Asif , Indian film director
• 1971 : Karl Schulz , German soccer player
• 1974 : Earl Wilbur Sutherland , American physiologist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1975 : Alfred E. Driscoll , American politician
• 1977 : Paul Aebischer , Swiss Romanist and Medievalist
• 1979 : Jean-Marie Villot , French priest, Archbishop of Lyon, Cardinal, Cardinal Secretary and Treasurer
• 1980 : Heinz Linge , German SS officer, head of personal service and valet of Adolf Hitler
• 1980 : Olga Chechowa , German actress of Russian origin
• 1981 : Max Delbrück , German-American biophysicist and geneticist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1983 : Ulf von Euler , Swedish physician and neurochemist
• 1984 : Imogen Holst , British music writer, composer and conductor
• 1985 : Mildgitha Bachleitner , German religious
• 1986 : Blanche Aubry , Swiss actress
• 1986 : Walter Bader , German archaeologist and monument protector

Kurt Georg Kiesinger († 1988)

• 1988 : Kurt Georg Kiesinger , German politician, Member of the State Parliament and Prime Minister, Member of the Bundestag and Federal Chancellor
• 1989 : Robert Mapplethorpe , American photographer
• 1990 : Martial Singher , French opera singer and music teacher
• 1990 : Carlos Alberto Peronace , Argentine composer in chess
• 1991 : Ikenouchi Tomojirō , Japanese composer and music teacher
• 1992 : Franco Margola , Italian composer and music teacher
• 1992 : Menachem Begin , Israeli politician, multiple minister, prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1992 : James Brooks , American painter
• 1992 : Monty Budwig , American jazz bassist
• 1992 : Reinhard von Koenig-Fachsenfeld , German engineer, inventor and racing driver

Cyril Northcote Parkinson († 1993)

• 1993 : Cyril Northcote Parkinson , British historian and publicist
• 1993 : Max August Zorn , American professor of mathematics
• 1994 : Charles Bukowski , American poet and writer of Polish-German descent
• 1994 : Fernando Rey , Spanish actor
• 1994 : Wilhelm Brese , German Heidebauer and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1995 : Edward Bernays , US public relations consultant
• 1996 : George Burns , American actor and singer
• 1997 : Vera Ferra-Mikura , Austrian author for children and young people
• 1997 : The Notorious BIG , actually Christopher Wallace, American rapper, murder victim
• 1998 : Anna Maria Ortese , Italian writer
• 1998 : Ulrich Schamoni , German film director and writer
• 1999 : Éliane Richepin , French pianist, music teacher and composer
• 1999 : Harry Somers , Canadian composer
• 2000 : Jean Coulthard , Canadian composer and music teacher
• 2000 : Ivo Robić , Croatian pop singer

21st century

• 2002 : Normand Lockwood , American composer and music teacher
• 2002 : Winnie Markus , German film actress
• 2003 : Bernard Dowiyogo , Nauruan politician
• 2003 : Stan Brakhage , American film director
• 2003 : Konrad Buchwald , German botanist, conservationist and landscape planner
• 2003 : Dzidra Ritenberga , Latvian actress and director
• 2005 : Benno Hoffmann , German actor and voice actor
• 2005 : Chris LeDoux , American country musician
• 2005 : Kurt Lotz , German manager, chairman of WWF in Germany
• 2005 : István Nyers , Hungarian football player
• 2006 : Péter Halász , Hungarian actor and director
• 2006 : Geir Ivarsøy , Norwegian software developer ( Opera web browser )

Anna Moffo († 2006)

• 2006 : Anna Moffo , American opera singer (lyric soprano) and actress
• 2007 : Rosy Afsari , Bangladeshi actress
• 2007 : Brad Delp , American musician
• 2007 : Ronald B. Evans , Australian football player and official
• 2007 : Kurt Rapf , Austrian composer, conductor and organist
• 2009 : Albrecht Schönherr , German Protestant theologian and bishop
• 2009 : Agnes Hürland-Büning , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 2010 : Josef Rommerskirchen , German publicist, association official and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 2011 : Iradsch Afshār , Iranian library scholar and historian
• 2011 : David S. Broder , American journalist
• 2011 : Adulf Peter Goop , Liechtenstein legal advisor, local historian and patron

Bill Wedderburn († 2012)

• 2012 : Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton , British lawyer and politician
• 2014 : Mohammed Fahim , Vice President of Afghanistan
• 2015 : Florence Arthaud , French sailor and skipper
• 2015 : Peter Dannenberg , German music critic and artistic director
• 2015 : Dick Irish , American racing car driver
• 2015 : Camille Muffat , French swimmer
• 2015 : Alexis Vastine , French boxer
• 2015 : Frei Otto , German architect
• 2015 : Windell Middlebrooks , American actor
• 2015 : Rose-Marie Wörner , German landscape architect and garden conservationist
• 2016 : Naná Vasconcelos , Brazilian jazz musician
• 2016 : Werner Ditzinger , German swimmer
• 2017 : Howard Hodgkin , British painter
• 2017 : Anthony Delhalle , French motorcycle and automobile racer
• 2017 : Karl Korinek , Austrian constitutional lawyer
• 2018 : Oskar Gröning , convicted German SS man
• 2018 : Ion Voinescu , Romanian football player

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Brun von Querfurt , messenger of faith in Poland and Prussia, Archbishop of Magdeburg and martyr (Protestant, Catholic)
  • St. Pusei , Persian Kuropalates and martyr (Protestant, the Catholic memorial day is on April 18 )
  • St. Francis of Rome , Italian founder of the order, mystic and patron saint (Catholic)
• Name days
  • Dominik , Franziska

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

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