9th October

The October 9 is the 282nd day of the Gregorian calendar (the 283rd in leap years ), thus remain 83 days by year end.

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Events

Politics and world events

768: Franconian Empire (marked in blue)

• 0768 : After the death of Pippin the Younger , an assembly elects his sons Karl and Karlmann to be kings in the Franconian Empire . Karlmann ruled in the south-eastern half of the empire, Karl ruled the other part.
• 1531 : The five Catholic inner cities (Lucerne, Schwyz, Unterwalden, Uri and train) of the Old Confederacy explain Zurich as a result of the Second Müsserkrieges the war .
• 1600 : During the Nine Years' War , the English troops give up a loss-making attempt to capture the Moyry Pass, which was defended by Irish rebels under Hugh O'Neill .
• 1651 : The English parliament under Oliver Cromwell passes the navigation act , according to which goods can only be imported into England on English ships or those of the countries of origin. The strict implementation of the acts led to the outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch naval war a few years later .
• 1683 : After the initial successes of the Ottoman army in the three-day battle at Párkány during the Great Turkish War , the tide finally turned in favor of the troops of Charles of Lorraine and John III. Sobieskis .

1708: Battle of Lesnaya

• 1708 : The Russian Tsar Peter I the Great defeated the Swedes under General Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt in the Battle of Lesnaja in the course of the Great Northern War , thereby weakening the army of Charles XII. crucial.
• 1760 : During the Seven Years' War , Russian and Austrian troops occupy and plunder the Prussian capital Berlin .
• 1776 : The first European settlement in San Francisco is founded.
• 1806 : Prussia declares war on France after an ultimatum has expired . The fourth coalition war begins.
• 1807 : In Prussia is serfdom of peasants to November 11, 1810 through repealed.
• 1818 : During the Aachen Congress , a treaty is signed with France which includes an immediate withdrawal of the occupation troops and reduces the payment of reparations from 700 to 265 million francs.

1831: Ioannis Kapodistrias

• 1831 : The first Greek head of state Ioannis Kapodistrias is shot dead by two assassins while going to church in Nauplia .
• 1870 : With the arrival of the messages sent by pigeon mail in besieged Paris during the Franco-Prussian War, the Paris balloon mail is created .
• 1895 : During the Italo -Ethiopian War , Italian colonial troops defeat Tigrin troops at the Battle of Debra Ailà
• 1918 : With the exclusion of the Social Democrats, the Finnish parliament elects the German Prince Friedrich Karl von Hessen as king.
• 1934 : One in the Macedonian interior Revolutionary Organization ( VMRO ) planned and from the Croatian right-wing Ustashe supported attack on the Yugoslav King Alexander I to this and the French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou during a state visit in Marseille "by the chauffeur Vlada killed." The identity of the assassin remains unclear.
• 1943 : During the heaviest air raid on Hanover during the Second World War, 540 Royal Air Force aircraft drop a total of around 260,000 incendiary and 3,000 high-explosive bombs and destroy large parts of the city center and the southern part of the city. 1245 people die and around a quarter of a million people become homeless.
• 1945 : The Argentine State Secretary in the War Ministry Juan Perón is forced to resign by opponents within the military and arrested a little later.
• 1949 : With Federal Chancellor Figl, the ÖVP becomes the party with the largest number of votes in the national elections in Austria .
• 1949 : The Greek civil war ends with an armistice between the conservative Greek government and the left-wing Democratic Army of Greece ( DSE ), which emerged from ELAS .
• 1950 : The German Federal Minister of the Interior, Gustav Heinemann , resigns because of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's efforts to rearm .
• 1953 : For the first time in three years, a large number of late returnees from the Soviet Union arrive at the Friedland reception center in Lower Saxony .
• 1962 : Uganda becomes independent from Great Britain . Milton Obote becomes first prime minister.
• 1967 : After his capture the day before, the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara is shot in a school building in La Higuera , Bolivia . On the same day, his body was laid out in a wash house in a hospital in Vallegrande and presented to the press, with Freddy Alborta's famous photograph being taken .
• 1969 : The National Guard intervenes because of the demonstrations against the Chicago Seven trial in the wake of the wave of protests against the Vietnam War .
• 1970 : Cambodia is declared a republic. This ends the almost millennial monarchy in Cambodia.
• 1989 : The first large Monday demonstration with around 70,000 participants takes place in Leipzig, making it the second (after the Plauen demonstration on October 7) in the GDR since 1953. The feared armed countermeasures do not take place; thus the turning point and peaceful revolution is initiated.

1989: Building of the Norwegian Sameting

• 1989 : King Olav V opens the first session of the Norwegian Sameting , a parliamentary representation of the Sami , in Karasjok .
• 1994 : In the National Council election in Austria , the SPÖ remains the party with the strongest vote under Chancellor Franz Vranitzky , but for the first time since the National Council election in 1949 it sinks below the 40 percent mark. The ÖVP under Erhard Busek also suffered losses and fell below 30 percent of the vote. The FPÖ under Jörg Haider continues to fly high and for the first time skips the 20 percent mark. With the Greens and the Liberal Forum (LIF), five parties are elected to the National Council for the first time in Austria's history .
• 2004 : In the first free presidential election in Afghanistan is Hamid Karzai the winner.
• 2005 : In the state elections in Burgenland , 16 and 17 year olds are also entitled to vote for the first time. In the election the SPÖ defends its absolute majority in the state parliament.
• 2006 : North Korea successfully detonates its first atomic bomb .

economy

• 1806 : In Switzerland , in Brig , the new road over after several years of construction Simplon Pass opened. The impetus was provided by Napoleon Bonaparte , who wanted better alpine crossings for his troops.

1841: Coat of arms of Ecuador with the ship Guayas

• 1841 : The first steamship in South America , named after the Río Guayas , goes into operation on the west coast of the continent. The designer Vicente Rocafuerte was President of Ecuador until 1839 . The ship is immortalized in the country's coat of arms .
• 1874 : In Bern , representatives of 22 countries sign the General Postal Union Agreement .

1974: The France

• 1974 : After the French government canceled the shipping company 's subsidies, the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique decommissioned the longest passenger ship in the world, the France .
• 1986 : FOX goes on air in the USA, aiming to establish itself as the fourth national television network .
• 2002 : After the dot-com bubble burst , the S&P 500 share index , which includes 500 of the largest US companies, hits its all-time low at 776.76 points.
• 2006 : Google acquires for 1.65 billion US dollars , the company YouTube . For the time being, the company will continue to operate independently with the founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen .
• 2007 : The Dow Jones Index reaches its previous closing price high of 14,164.53 points.
• 2008 : As a result of the global financial crisis from 2007 onwards , Iceland nationalized the largest Icelandic bank Kaupthing due to financial hardship due to the weakness of the Icelandic krona .

science and technology

The 1604 supernova, photographed in 2000

• 1604 : In the constellation Ophiuchus is Supernova 1604 demonstrably first observed.
• 1701 : The English colony of Connecticut decides to establish a collegiate school , from which Yale University develops.
• 1817 : The University of Ghent is officially opened.
• 1890 : Clément Ader's monoplane Eole flies about 50 m, then the aircraft is destroyed in the crash.
• 2001 : The Suez Canal Bridge over the Suez Canal is ceremoniously opened by the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak .

Culture

• 1826 : The opera Le siège de Corinthe by Gioachino Rossini has its world premiere at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris . The literary model is Maometto II , an earlier unsuccessful opera by the composer. The piece, which hits the zeitgeist of the Greek independence movement, becomes a great success that lasts for years.

Final assembly of the statue in 1850

• 1850 : At the Theresienwiese in Munich , the Bavaria cast by Ludwig Schwanthaler is ceremoniously unveiled in front of the Hall of Fame, which is currently under construction .
• 1888 : The Washington Monument , designed by Robert Mills , opens to the public 33 years after the architect's death.

1895: Theater ticket for the premiere of the Liebelei

• 1895 : At the Vienna Burgtheater is Arthur Schnitzler's play flirtation with Schnitzler's lover Adele Sandrock premiered in the role of Christine.
• 1936 : The Austrian version of the Czech operetta Na tý louce zelený by Jara Beneš is premiered at the Volksoper Vienna under the title Auf dergrün Wiese .
• 1955 : The first public joint drawing of lottery numbers in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany takes place in Hamburg.
• 1964 : The first episode of the quiz show Vergißmeinnicht with the emcee Peter Frankenfeld runs on ZDF . The rate show about postcodes is linked to a charity event in favor of the newly created problem child campaign .

1971: The Karl Marx Monument

• 1971 : In Karl-Marx-Stadt , the over seven meter high Karl Marx Monument created by Lew Kerbel is unveiled.
• 1986 : The Musical The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber after the novel by Gaston Leroux is at London's Her Majesty's Theater premiered.

society

• 1514 : The 52-year-old French King Louis XII marries in Abbeville . and 18-year-old Mary Tudor , the youngest daughter of King Henry VII of England .
• 2003 : In Togliatti , the editor-in-chief Alexei Sidorow of the independent Russian weekly newspaper Tolyattinskoje Obosrenije is attacked and murdered. The paper has previously reported several times on criminal activities in the city.

religion

• 1209 : Under Master Wolbero , construction work begins on the Quirinus Minster in Neuss
• 1524 : Martin Luther gives up his existence as a monk of the Augustinian hermits.
• 1980 : The foundation stone for the Basharat mosque is laid in Pedro Abad , Andalusia . After more than 500 years, an Islamic religious building is being built again in Spain .
• 2005 : Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen is beatified.

Disasters

1799: The HMS Lutine in a storm

• 1799 : The ship Lutine stranded on a sandbank near Terschelling during a strong north-west storm . 240 sailors lost their lives in the sinking, only one could save himself. A cargo of loaded gold and silver worth 1.2 million pounds at the time sinks into the sea.
• 1803 : Due to several days of rainfall, Madeira suffered severe floods, killing around 600 people.
• 1913 : In the middle of the North Atlantic, the British ocean liner Volturno burns down because of a passenger's discarded cigarette and goes under, 136 passengers and crew members die. Ships called by wireless telegraph can save over 400 people and prevent an even greater disaster.

1963: The landslide on Monte Toc

• 1963 : The damming of the Vajont reservoir near Longarone , Italy, causes the water to slide Mount Toc . 260 million cubic meters of rock from the Dolomites fall into the reservoir. A huge tidal wave flooded two villages, the dam and then the town of Longarone. Approx. 2,000 people die.

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

nature and environment

• 2006 : Apure , the world's oldest scientifically known Amazon dolphin, dies at the age of forty in Duisburg Zoo .

Sports

• 1829 : A group of mountaineers led by Friedrich Parrot succeeds in the first ascent of Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
• 2011 : Sebastian Vettel becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time.

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

Born

Before the 18th century

Dionysius of Portugal (* 1261)

• 1200 : Isabel Marshal , English noblewoman
• 1201 : Robert von Sorbon , French theologian and court chaplain
• 1221 : Salimbene of Parma , Italian Franciscan and chronicler
• 1261 : Dionysius , sixth King of Portugal from the House of Burgundy
• 1267 : Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby , English nobleman
• 1328 : Peter I , King of Cyprus
• 1417 : John II of Glymes , Dutch nobleman
• 1441 : Ulrich Fugger , German merchant, banker
• 1513 : Detmar Kenckel , Mayor of Bremen
• 1524 : Ottavio Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza
• 1533 : Heinrich V. von Plauen , Burgrave of Meißen and Lord of Plauen
• 1556 : Kunigunde Jakobäa von der Pfalz , Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg
• 1557 : Georg von Schoenaich , important German humanist and promoter of the Reformation
• 1571 : Caspar Cunrad , German medic, historian and poet
• 1574 : Elisabeth Renata of Lorraine , Electress of Bavaria
• 1586 : Leopold V , Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg, Regent of Tyrol
• 1591 : Bengt Bengtsson Oxenstierna , Swedish Governor General of Ingermanland and Livonia
• 1636 : Dorothea Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg , Electress of Brandenburg
• 1666 : Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz , Archbishop von Gran and Imperial Principal Commissioner
• 1693 : Christian Hauschild , German Protestant theologian

18th century

• 1701 : Johann Samuel Agner , German clergyman and writer
• 1702 : Wilhelm von Fermor , Russian general from an originally Scottish-Baltic family
• 1713 : Mikhail Nikititsch Volkonsky , Russian general and envoy
• 1743 : Friedrich Ernst Jester , German forester and author
• 1748 : Jakob Adam , Austrian engraver
• 1755 : Nonnosus Brand , German composer, organist and music teacher from Bavaria
• 1757 : Charles X , French king, last ruler with the title "King of France and Navarre"
• 1766 : Friedrich Dionys Weber , Bohemian composer and music teacher
• 1767 : Theodor Gottfried Nicolai Angelo , Danish engraver and teacher
• 1771 : Friedrich Wilhelm , Duke of Brunswick
• 1772 : Mary Tighe , Irish writer
• 1777 : Anton Joseph Emanuel Kraus , Austrian diplomat and civil servant
• 1782 : Lewis Cass , American officer and politician, governor, senator, ambassador, US Secretary of War and Foreign Affairs
• 1790 : Carl Ludwig Heusler , German entrepreneur and mining official
• 1791 : Amalie Schoppe , German writer
• 1797 : Philippe Suchard , Swiss chocolate producer
• 1798 : Franz Xaver Rewitzer , German politician, participant in the revolution of 1848/49
• 1800 : Justinus de Jacobis , Italian missionary bishop in Abyssinia

19th century

• 1806 : Anton von Stabel , statesman and lawyer from Baden
• 1821 : William Alfred Passavant , American Lutheran clergyman, founder of the American Diakonie
• 1833 : Eugen Langen , German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the gasoline engine and the suspension railway
• 1835 : Camille Saint-Saëns , French pianist, organist, musicologist, music teacher and composer of the Romantic era
• 1837 : William Livingston Alden , American writer

• 

  Eugen Langen
  (* 1833)

• 

  Camille Saint-Saëns
  (* 1835)

• 

  Julius Maggi
  (* 1846)

• 

  Hermann Emil Fischer
  (* 1852)

• 1845 : Ferdinand Joseph Arnodin , French engineer and industrialist
• 1845 : Erwin Rohde , German classical philologist
• 1846 : Holger Drachmann , Danish painter and poet
• 1846 : Julius Maggi , Swiss entrepreneur and inventor ( Maggi wort ), pioneer of industrial food production
• 1852 : Heinrich Leonhard Adolphi , German-Baltic pastor, chess player, Protestant martyr
• 1852 : Emil Fischer , German chemist, Nobel Prize winner, is considered to be the founder of classical organic chemistry
• 1854 : Myron Herrick , American politician, governor of Ohio
• 1858 : Theodor Althoff , German businessman, textile retailer and department store entrepreneur
• 1859 : Alfred Dreyfus , French officer
• 1860 : Karl Elsener , Swiss cutler, businessman and politician
• 1863 : Alexander Siloti , Russian pianist, composer and conductor
• 1873 : Karl Schwarzschild , German astronomer and physicist
• 1874 : Nicholas Roerich , Russian painter, writer, archaeologist, scientist, traveler and philosopher

• 

  Alfred Dreyfus
  (* 1859)

• 

  Karl Schwarzschild
  (* 1873)

• 

  Nicholas Roerich
  (* 1874)

• 

  Max von Laue
  (* 1879)

• 1876 : Rose Austerlitz , German writer and editor
• 1879 : Max von Laue , German physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1880 : Arthur Georg Arzt , German politician
• 1881 : Victor Klemperer , German writer and literary scholar
• 1884 : Helene Deutsch , Austrian-American psychoanalyst
• 1887 : Manuel Ortiz de Zárate , Chilean painter
• 1888 : Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , Soviet politician, economist, Marxist theorist and philosopher
• 1888 : Josesito García Vila , Dominican pianist and composer
• 1889 : Richard St. Barbe Baker , British forest scientist, environmental activist and author

• 

  Victor Klemperer
  (* 1881)

• 

  Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
  (* 1888)

• 

  Ivo Andrić
  (* 1892)

• 

  Heinrich George
  (* 1893)

• 1890 : Jānis Mediņš , Latvian composer
• 1891 : Kurt von Tippelskirch , German general and military historian
• 1892 : Ivo Andrić , Yugoslav writer, diplomat, politician and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• 1892 : Maximilian Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz , Austrian ambassador, economist and writer
• 1892 : Johannes Theodor Baargeld , German painter, graphic artist, author and publicist of Dadaism
• 1893 : Mario Raul de Morais Andrade , Brazilian writer
• 1893 : Heinrich George , German actor
• 1894 : Agnes von Krusenstjerna , Swedish author
• 1894 : Nicola Moscardelli , Italian writer, journalist and literary critic
• 1895 : Carl McKinley , American composer
• 1896 : John Robert Armbruster , American composer, conductor and arranger
• 1896 : Joseph Paul , French racing car driver
• 1897 : Osaragi Jirō , Japanese writer
• 1898 : Heinrich Behnke , German mathematician
• 1900 : Elmer Snowden , American banjo player, band leader and music entrepreneur

20th century

1901-1925

• 1903 : Elsa Arnold , German resistance fighter
• 1906 : Tex Irvin , American football player
• 1906 : Saiyid Qutb , Egyptian journalist and theoretician of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
• 1906 : Léopold Sédar Senghor , Senegalese politician
• 1906 : Wolfgang Staudte , German film director
• 1907 : Jacques Tati , French screenwriter, actor and director
• 1907 : Horst Wessel , German SA storm leader, stylized martyr of the National Socialists, author of the Horst Wessel song

Werner von Haeften (* 1908)

• 1908 : Werner von Haeften , German lawyer, resistance fighter of July 20, 1944
• 1909 : Martin Flörchinger , German actor
• 1909 : Lilja Kedrowa , Russian actress
• 1910 : Eckart Hachfeld , German writer, copywriter and screenwriter
• 1912 : Friedrich Beermann , German general and politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1912 : Konrad Siebach , German double bass player and double bass teacher
• 1913 : Karl Waldemar Schütz , German publisher and editor
• 1914 : Edward Andrews , American actor
• 1915 : Peter Escher , Swiss composer
• 1915 : Clifford M. Hardin , American politician, minister
• 1918 : E. Howard Hunt , American secret service official and writer, convicted of the Watergate scandal
• 1919 : Irmgard Seefried , German soprano
• 1920 : Yusef Lateef , American jazz musician
• 1921 : Adrienne Clostre , French composer
• 1921 : María Luisa Landín , Mexican singer
• 1921 : Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish writer
• 1921 : Georg Schreiber , German physician and medical journalist
• 1922 : Dieter Athenstedt , German fencer and fencing trainer
• 1923 : Rupert Stöckl , German painter
• 1924 : Roger Arnold , Australian cyclist
• 1924 : Eduardo André Muaca , Angolan Archbishop
• 1925 : Robert Docking , American politician, governor of Kansas
• 1925 : Robert Finch , American lawyer and politician, minister

1926-1950

• 1926 : Danièle Delorme , French actress and film producer
• 1926 : Shi Jiuyong , Chinese lawyer
• 1926 : Walter Neuhäusser , German architect
• 1926 : Achim Strietzel , German actor and cabaret artist
• 1928 : Hermann W. von der Dunk , Dutch historian
• 1928 : Einojuhani Rautavaara , Finnish composer
• 1929 : Vladimír Menšík , Czechoslovak actor
• 1931 : Alfred Kolodniak , German politician
• 1933 : Joe Ashton , British politician
• 1933 : Johann Auernhammer , German football player
• 1933 : Frithjof Aurich , German physical chemist
• 1933 : Aloys Coppenrath , German businessman and entrepreneur

Peter Mansfield (born 1933)

• 1933 : Peter Mansfield , British physicist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1934 : Johnny Jay , American rockabilly musician
• 1935 : Edward Duke of Kent , British nobleman
• 1936 : Agnieszka Osiecka , Polish writer
• 1936 : Jan Voss , German painter
• 1937 : Johann Brait , Austrian politician
• 1937 : Eugen Jegorov , Czech actor and jazz musician
• 1937 : David Prophet , British racing car driver
• 1937 : Peter Zbinden , Swiss racing car driver
• 1938 : Heinz Fischer , Austrian politician
• 1938 : Gunter Kahlert , German conductor and music teacher
• 1940 : John Lennon , British pop singer
• 1941 : Giancarlo Bercellino , Italian football player
• 1941 : Chucho Valdés , Cuban pianist and composer of Latin and modern jazz
• 1943 : Renato Cappellini , Italian football player
• 1944 : John Entwistle , British rock musician
• 1944 : Wolfgang Neugebauer , Austrian historian
• 1945 : Amjad Ali Khan , Indian sarod player, composer and music teacher
• 1946 : Walt Koken , American banjo and fiddle player and singer
• 1946 : Gert Loschütz , German writer
• 1947 : France Gall , French musician, chanson and pop singer
• 1947 : Rita Wilden , German athlete
• 1948 : Jackson Browne , American singer and songwriter
• 1949 : Ottavia Piccolo , Italian actress
• 1950 : Jody Williams , American teacher and human rights activist, Nobel Prize winner

1951-1975

• 1952 : Sharon Osbourne , British television presenter
• 1952 : Dennis Stratton , British musician
• 1953 : Tony Shalhoub , American actor
• 1953 : Lidia Zielińska , Polish composer
• 1954 : Scott Bakula , American actor
• 1954 : Mike Micevski , Australian soccer player
• 1954 : Reinhold Robbe , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Defense Commissioner
• 1955 : Angelika Brunkhorst , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• 1955 : Grazia Di Michele , Italian Cantautrice
• 1955 : Shona Laing , New Zealand singer and songwriter
• 1955 : Sabine von Maydell , German actress
• 1955 : Steve Ovett , British medium and long distance runner, Olympic champion
• 1956 : Ignaz Netzer , German blues musician, singer and songwriter
• 1957 : Kathrin Aehnlich , German writer
• 1959 : Lucio Andrice Muandula , Mozambican bishop
• 1961 : Julian Bailey , British racing car driver
• 1961 : Martial Fesselier , French sports enthusiast
• 1961 : Wolfgang Knaller , Austrian football player
• 1962 : Jorge Burruchaga , Argentine soccer player
• 1962 : Andrian Kreye , German journalist and writer
• 1963 : Martin Adomeit , German table tennis trainer
• 1963 : Anja Jaenicke , German actress
• 1963 : Claus Killing-Günkel , German Esperantologist
• 1964 : Guillermo del Toro , American director
• 1964 : Martín Jaite , Argentine tennis player
• 1965 : Stefan Kohn , German soccer player
• 1966 : Francesco Bearzatti , Italian jazz saxophonist and clarinetist

David Cameron (born 1966)

• 1966 : David Cameron , British politician, Member of the House of Commons, Prime Minister
• 1966 : Thomas Eichin , German soccer player
• 1966 : Tina Ruland , German actress
• 1967 : Maurice Banach , German soccer player
• 1967 : Eddie Guerrero , Mexican wrestler
• 1967 : Thomas Hacker , German businessman, tax advisor and politician, MdL
• 1968 : Gabino Amparán , Mexican soccer player and coach
• 1968 : Deon Hemmings , Jamaican athlete, Olympic champion
• 1968 : Luminita Zaituc , German athlete
• 1969 : PJ Harvey , British singer and songwriter
• 1970 : Steve Jablonsky , American film composer
• 1970 : Annika Sörenstam , Swedish golf player
• 1971 : Wibke Apholt , Swiss paraglider pilot
• 1972 : Thomas Vana , German soccer player
• 1973 : Jennifer Aspen , American actress
• 1973 : Caparezza , Italian hip-hopper
• 1974 : Antonio Arias , Chilean football player
• 1974 : Kristofer Åström , Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1974 : Nicole Brandebusemeyer , German soccer player
• 1975 : Sean Lennon , American musician
• 1975 : Mark Viduka , Australian soccer player

1976-2000

• 1976 : Mia Aegerter , Swiss pop singer and actress
• 1976 : Jyhan Artut , German dart player
• 1976 : Caro Scrimali , German actress
• 1977 : Emanuele Belardi , Italian football player
• 1977 : Mehmet Dragusha , Albanian football player
• 1978 : Nicky Byrne , Irish pop singer ( Westlife )
• 1978 : Kristian Kolby , Danish racing driver
• 1979 : Csézy , Hungarian singer
• 1979 : Tim Reichert , German soccer player
• 1979 : Tawny Roberts , American erotic and porn actress and author
• 1979 : Brandon Routh , American actor
• 1980 : Pāvels Doroševs , Latvian football goalkeeper
• 1980 : Hendrik Westermeyer , German badminton player
• 1980 : Henrik Zetterberg , Swedish ice hockey player
• 1981 : Zachery Ty Bryan , American actor
• 1981 : Manja Kuhl , German actress
• 1981 : Svenja Spriestersbach , German handball player
• 1982 : Alan Gow , Scottish soccer player
• 1982 : Modeste M'Bami , Cameroonian football player
• 1982 : Antonio Manuel Viana Mendonça , Angolan football player
• 1983 : Gethin Anthony , British actor
• 1984 : Djamel Mesbah , French-Algerian football player
• 1987 : Felix Herholc , German handball goalkeeper
• 1988 : Gaëtane Abrial , French singer
• 1988 : Sandra Maren Schneider , German actress
• 1989 : Josef Mattes , German actor
• 1990 : Cedrik-Marcel Stebe , German tennis player
• 1992 : Tyler James Williams , American actor
• 1993 : Robin Quaison , Swedish football player
• 1993 : Wesley So , Philippine chess grandmaster
• 1994 : Jodelle Ferland , Canadian actress
• 1994 : Philipp Riederle , German moderator, speaker and podcaster
• 1995 : Kenny Tete , Dutch soccer player
• 1996 : Bella Hadid , American model

Died

Before the 16th century

• 0680 : Gislenus , Germanic-Frankish clergyman and anchorite
• 0875 : Anno , Bishop of Freising
• 1045 : Gunther , hermit, is venerated as a saint, although not canonized
• 1047 : Clemens II , German Pope, previously Bishop of Bamberg
• 1059 : Aaron of Kraków , first abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of Tyniec and Archbishop of Kraków
• 1137 : Heinrich I , Bishop of Freising
• 1166 : Goswin von Anchin , French abbot
• 1244 : Berthold I von Teck , Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg
• 1249 : Peter Karlotus , Bishop of Noyon
• 1251 : Yolanda of Hungary , Queen of Aragon
• 1253 : Robert Grosseteste , English theologian, Bishop of Lincoln and teacher of Roger Bacon
• 1267 : Otto III. , Margrave of Brandenburg
• 1273 : Elisabeth of Bavaria , Roman-German queen, queen of Sicily and Jerusalem, countess of Gorizia and Tyrol
• 1296 : Ludwig III. , Duke of Lower Bavaria
• 1305 : Robert de Pontigny , cardinal of the Catholic Church
• 1319 : Wilhelm Hase von Waldeck , Bohemian nobleman and politician
• 1326 : Rainald I , Count of Geldern
• 1336 : Heinrich III. von Metz , Cistercian Abbot, Imperial Chancellor and Prince-Bishop of Trento
• 1364 : Heinrich Taube von Selbach , cleric, lawyer and chronicler
• 1390 : John I , King of Castile
• 1430 : Johann von Bucca , bishop of Leitomischl and Olmütz, cardinal
• 1436 : Jakobäa , daughter of Wilhelm II of Straubing-Holland, Countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zealand
• 1461 : Johann von Preen , Bishop of Ratzeburg
• 1468 : Sigismondo Malatesta , Italian condottiere and lord of Rimini

16th to 18th century

• 1523 : Peter IV. Von Rosenberg , Bohemian nobleman from the Rosenbergs
• 1537 : Hans Cranach , German painter and draftsman
• 1555 : Justus Jonas the Elder , German lawyer, humanist, hymn poet, Lutheran theologian and reformer
• 1562 : Gabriele Falloppio , Italian anatomist and surgeon, is considered a co-founder of modern anatomy
• 1581 : Luis Beltrán , Spanish Dominican, saint of the Catholic Church, defender of Indian rights
• 1589 : Friedrich Pensold , German philologist and physicist

• 

  Justus Jonas the Elder
  († 1555)

• 

  Gabriele Falloppio
  († 1562)

• 

  Barbara Villiers
  († 1709)

• 

  Wenzel Lorenz Reiner
  († 1743)

• 1601 : Nikolaus Krell , Chancellor of the Elector of Saxony
• 1608 : Pompeo Leoni , Italian sculptor, medalist and art collector
• 1615 : Juan Fernández de Boán , Spanish lawyer and viceroy of Peru
• 1619 : Markus Sittikus von Hohenems , Prince Archbishop of Salzburg
• 1622 : Johann , Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
• 1628 : Juan Manuel de Mendoza y Luna , Spanish officer, Viceroy of New Spain and Viceroy of Peru
• 1637 : Friedrich von Schilling , German scholar
• 1642 : Benjamin de Rohan , general of the Huguenots
• 1644 : Jan van Brouchoven , statesman of the Spanish Netherlands
• 1647 : Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt , Archbishop and Elector of Mainz
• 1689 : Heinrich Balthasar Roth , German legal scholar
• 1693 : Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg , Prince-Bishop and Canon of Bamberg, Würzburg and Augsburg
• 1705 : Johann Christoph Wagenseil , German polyhistor, legal scholar and orientalist
• 1708 : Olympia Mancini , Countess of Soissons, Mazarinette and mistress of Louis XIV.
• 1709 : Barbara Villiers , Duchess of Cleveland, lover of Charles II of England
• 1742 : Alexander von Dönhoff , Prussian lieutenant general and confidante of King Friedrich Wilhelm I.
• 1743 : Wenzel Lorenz Reiner , Bohemian painter and baroque fresco artist
• 1743 : Mikhail Grigoryevich Semzow , Russian architect
• 1779 : Johann Georg Dirr , German plasterer and Rococo sculptor
• 1789 : Dietrich von Ahlefeldt , Prussian civil servant

19th century

• 1807 : Mikhail Cheraskov , Russian poet and writer
• 1812 : Jakob Couven , German baroque builder in Aachen
• 1824 : Jonathan Dayton , American politician, member and speaker of the US House of Representatives, and Senator for New Jersey
• 1824 : Viktor Franz Anton Glutz-Rüchti , Swiss Catholic clergyman

• 

  Ioannis Kapodistrias
  († 1831)

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  Karl Friedrich Schinkel
  († 1841)

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  Joseph Ressel
  († 1857)

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  George Mortimer Pullman
  († 1897)

• 1831 : Ioannis Kapodistrias , first head of state of Greece after independence from the Ottoman Empire
• 1841 : Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Prussian architect, town planner, painter, graphic artist and set designer, founder of the Schinkel School
• 1849 : William Townsend Aiton , English botanical gardener
• 1855 : Georg Heinrich Wolf von Arnim , German ironworks and mining entrepreneur
• 1857 : Josef Ressel , Austrian forest officer
• 1858 : Charles Wellesley , British general and politician
• 1863 : Ferdinand Johannes Wit von Dörring , German-Danish writer, journalist and politician
• 1864 : Rudolf Keyser Norwegian historian
• 1867 : Ignacy Feliks Dobrzyński , Polish composer
• 1868 : Howell Cobb , American politician, governor of Georgia, member and speaker of the US House of Representatives
• 1870 : Peregrin Teuschl , Austro-Hungarian master stonemason and sculptor of historicism
• 1887 : Maurice Strakosch , American concert entrepreneur and composer
• 1894 : Henry Gray, 3rd Earl Gray , British colonial politician and statesman
• 1897 : Karl Grillenberger , German politician, Nuremberg workers' leader, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1897 : George Mortimer Pullman , American inventor and industrialist
• 1900 : Heinrich von Herzogenberg , Austrian composer

20th century

1901-1950

• 

  Hans Erlwein
  († 1914)

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  Hussein Kamil
  († 1917)

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  Hugo Preuss
  († 1925)

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  Pieter Zeeman
  († 1943)

• 1907 : Romualdo Marenco , Italian musician and composer
• 1911 : Cornelius Newton Bliss , American politician, Secretary of the Interior
• 1914 : Hans Erlwein , German architect and urban planner
• 1915 : Manuel Tapia , Chilean painter and photographer
• 1917 : Hussein Kamil , Sultan of Egypt and King of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
• 1918 : Raymond Duchamp-Villon , French painter and sculptor
• 1922 : Jorge Montt Álvarez , Chilean officer and politician
• 1925 : Hugo Preuss , German constitutional law teacher and politician, MdL, Reich Minister, is considered the father of the Weimar Reich constitution
• 1926 : Waso Abashidze , Georgian actor
• 1933 : Friedrich Lach , Austrian painter and graphic artist
• 1934 : Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi , Tunisian poet
• 1934 : Louis Barthou , French politician, prime minister, multiple minister
• 1934 : Alexander I , King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, King Dictator of Yugoslavia
• 1936 : Otto Behagel , German Germanist
• 1936 : Emil Artur Longen , Czech director, dramaturge, painter, author
• 1936 : Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski , German writer and cultural historian
• 1937 : Julianus Marie August de Boeck , Belgian composer, organist and music teacher
• 1937 : Ernst Ludwig , Grand Duke of Hesse and the Rhine
• 1942 : Fritz Baumann , Swiss painter
• 1943 : Gerhard Wilhelm Kernkamp , Dutch historian
• 1943 : Pieter Zeeman , Dutch physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1944 : Vinzenz Platajs , Jehovah's Witness and Nazi victim
• 1946 : Israel Aharoni , Israeli zoologist
• 1946 : Ernst Münch , German forest scientist
• 1948 : Alfred Roth , German politician and anti-Semitic agitator
• 1950 : Dimitri Usnadze , Georgian psychologist
• 1950 : Nicolai Hartmann , German philosopher

1951-1975

• 1953 : James Finlayson , British film actor and comedian from Scotland
• 1954 : Olivier Guimond , Canadian actor and comedian

• 

  Robert H. Jackson
  († 1954)

• 

  Pius XII.
  († 1958)

• 

  Ernesto "Che" Guevara
  († 1967)

• 

  Cyril Norman Hinshelwood
  († 1967)

• 1954 : Robert H. Jackson , US Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice, Chief Prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials
• 1955 : Theodor Innitzer , Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Vienna and Cardinal
• 1956 : Lucie Höflich , German actress
• 1956 : Mahmud Barzandschi , Kurdish leader and clergyman of the Qadiriyya from Northern Iraq
• 1958 : Pius XII. , Italian Pope
• 1962 : Milan Vidmar , Slovenian electrical engineer and chess master
• 1965 : Aloys Feldmann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1965 : Ernest Read , English composer and music teacher
• 1966 : Abraham Binder , American composer
• 1967 : Gordon Allport , American psychologist
• 1967 : Ernesto "Che" Guevara , Cuban revolutionary and guerrilla leader, Marxist politician and author
• 1967 : Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , British chemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1967 : Joseph H. Pilates , German-American body trainer
• 1970 : Jean Giono , French writer
• 1972 : Giuseppe Capogrossi , Italian painter

• 

  Miriam Hopkins
  († 1972)

• 

  Jacques Brel
  († 1978)

• 

  Roy Black
  († 1991)

• 1972 : Miriam Hopkins , American actress
• 1972 : Inger Karén , German opera singer (alto)
• 1974 : Karl Gengler , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
• 1974 : Oskar Schindler , German entrepreneur, saved around 1200 Jews, Righteous Among the Nations
• 1975 : Hayashi Fusao , Japanese writer

1976-2000

• 1976 : Walter Warlimont , German artillery general on the command staff of the German Wehrmacht
• 1977 : Hans Gustl Kernmayr , Austrian writer
• 1977 : Lambert Konschegg , Austrian pilot and manager
• 1977 : Peter Mosbacher , German actor
• 1978 : Jacques Brel , Belgian chansonnier and actor
• 1979 : Iknadios Bedros XVI. Batanian , Patriarch of Cilicia
• 1981 : Julio “Matador” Libonatti , Argentine football player
• 1981 : Peter Steinforth , German painter
• 1982 : Anna Freud , Austro-British psychoanalyst
• 1982 : Fernando Lamas , Argentine actor and film producer
• 1983 : Wayne Norviel Aspinall , American politician
• 1983 : Herbert Weichmann , German politician, Member of the State Parliament, Senator, First Mayor of Hamburg
• 1984 : Heinz von Cleve , German actor
• 1985 : Ludo Coeck , Belgian football player
• 1985 : Andreas Lindt , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
• 1986 : Harald Reinl , German film director and screenwriter
• 1987 : William Parry Murphy , American physician
• 1988 : Mousey Alexander , American jazz drummer
• 1988 : Felix Wankel , German engineer and inventor of the rotary engine
• 1989 : Yusuf Atılgan , Turkish writer
• 1990 : Clara Ege , German painter, sculptor and silk weaver
• 1990 : Georges de Rham , Swiss mathematician
• 1991 : Roy Black , German pop singer and actor
• 1994 : Rolf Thiele , Austrian director, screenwriter and film producer
• 1995 : Alec Douglas-Home , British Prime Minister
• 1995 : Kukrit Pramoj , Thai writer and Prime Minister
• 1996 : Joachim Wohlgemuth , German writer
• 1999 : Milt Jackson , American musician
• 1999 : Morris L. West , Australian writer
• 2000 : Ladislav Čepelák , Czech painter, graphic artist and illustrator

21st century

• 2001 : Herbert Ross , American director
• 2002 : Randy Atcher , American country singer and musician
• 2002 : Charles Guggenheim , American film director, producer and screenwriter of documentaries
• 2003 : Justinas Bašinskas , Lithuanian composer
• 2003 : Carolyn Heilbrun , American writer and suffragette
• 2003 : Günter Oppenheimer , German composer, pianist, conductor and arranger
• 2003 : Antanas Rekašius , Lithuanian composer
• 2004 : Maxime A. Faget , American NASA developer
• 2005 : Wayne Booth , American literary scholar
• 2005 : Sergio Cervato , Italian football player
• 2005 : Tom Cheek , American radio announcer for baseball games
• 2006 : Jeff Getty , American AIDS activist
• 2006 : Danièle Huillet , French filmmaker
• 2006 : Paul Hunter , British snooker player
• 2006 : Klaus Renft , German musician and band leader
• 2007 : Fausto Correia , Portuguese politician
• 2007 : Kurt Schwaen , German composer
• 2009 : Jacques Chessex , Swiss writer
• 2009 : Richard W. Sonnenfeldt , American engineer and author, chief interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials
• 2009 : Horst Szymaniak , German soccer player
• 2012 : Walter H. Hitzig , Swiss pediatrician and transplant specialist
• 2013 : Wilfried Martens , Belgian politician
• 2014 : Udo Reiter , German radio journalist and director
• 2015 : Geoffrey Howe , British politician
• 2015 : Andreas Mannkopff , German actor
• 2016 : Andrzej Wajda , Polish film and theater director
• 2017 : Jean Rochefort , French actor
• 2018 : Thomas A. Steitz , American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner
• 2019 : Dorothea Buck , German author and sculptor

Holidays and memorial days

• Church memorial days
  • St. Abraham , ancestor of the people of Israel (Orthodox, Catholic, Protestant: LCMS )
  • St. Dionysius of Paris , Roman martyr and missionary, bishop and patron saint (Anglican, Catholic)
  • Justus Jonas , German lawyer and reformer (Protestant)
  • St. Arnual , Bishop (Catholic)
  • St. James, son of Alphaeus , apostle and martyr (Orthodox)

• Name days
  • Dennis , Günther , Sara , Sibylle

• State holidays and memorial days
  • Uganda : Independence from Great Britain (1962)
  • South Korea : Hangul Day

• International:
  • United Nations World Postal Day (commemorating the founding day of the Universal Postal Union in 1874)

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

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