16. August
of the 16. August is the 228. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 229. in leap years): thus still 137 days up to the year end remain.
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Humboldt university to Berlin
- 1809: On initiative William of Humboldts is created the citizens of Berlin Humboldt university
- 1870: In the battle with Vionville Prussian and French troops meet one another.
- 1896: To Klondike River in of Canada Yukon territory is found gold, the message solves a gold fever from
- 1908: After its pardon by emperors Wilhelm II. will as „a captain of Köpenick “admits become William Voigt from the detention to dismiss
- 1924: In London the Dawes plan is signed, to that the reparation payments of the German Reich to a new basis to set should
- 1935: Erstbesteigung of the Gunnbjørn Fjeld
- 1945: Poland retires about 46 per cent of its earlier national territory in Moscow of the Soviet Union
- 1946: The Kurdish democratic party (KDP) is created by representatives „ of Kurdish intelligence “ and the urban small middle class. Molla Mustafa Barzani is selected, despite absence, to the chairman
- 1960: Cyprus attains its independence from Great Britain
- 1984: With the German Lufthansa threatens labor disputes, after the switching attempt of the former „superMinister “ Karl Schiller was rejected by 80 per cent of the staff. The situation is considered as complicated, there the ground personnel, represented by the public workers' union, a diametric position to the flying personnel, representedfrom the Trade Union of German Employees, 1986
- take: Salvador Jorge Blanco becomes a president of the Dominican republic
- 1996: Leonel Fernández Reyna becomes a president of the Dominican republic
- 2000: Hipólito Mejía becomes a president of the Dominican Republic of
disasters
- 1906:An earthquake of the strength 8.2 shakes Valparaíso, Chile approx. 20.000 dead ones
- 1976: An earthquake of the strength 7.9 demands about 8,000 human lives in Mindanao on the Philippines
- 1987: In Detroit in US - Federal State Michigan falls a passenger airline brieflyafter the start on an animated road. 156 humans die, a child are saved
- 1991: Imphal, India. During the approach a Boeing 737 the Indian airlines coming from Calcutta hits against a hill, because the pilot of the localizer pathdeviated. None of 69 humans survives
- 2005: With an aircraft crash in Venezuela all 160 passengers of the passenger jet died. The airline west Caribbean according to airlines smashed the McDonnell Douglas MD-82 in the environment of Machiques inwestvenezolanischen State of Zulia
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crime
- 1988: In Gladbeck a taking of hostages in a branch of the German bank , which is terminated only 54 hours later on the motorway between Cologne and Frankfurt/Main, begins. Two hostages anda policeman die
- 2005: In Taizé the monastery founder Frère Roger of a probably mentally disturbed woman with the evening prayer with a measurer murders
- 2005: The computer worm Zotob strikes the remote very much transmitter CNN. It is transferred „live “
Sport
- 1984: The 4. Skatweltmeisterschaft becomes in the Dortmunder Westphalia-resounds of protector, North-Rhine/Westphalia - Prime Minister Johannes Rau, opens
- 2004: Michael Ballack solves olive punt as a captain of the German national soccer team off
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culture
- 1876: In the Native of Bayreuth Festspielhaus premiere of the opera „Siegfried “of smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Wagner
- 1977: In the federal state museum in Hanover issued pictures of Martin Luther and his Mrs. Katharina von Bora, painted of Lucas Cranach, fall an acid assassination attempt to the victim
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science
- 2004: The space probe Cassini Huygens discovers two Saturnmonde
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born
- 1397: Albrecht II.,Roman-German king, king by Hungary and Böhmen, Herzog of Austria
- 1603: Adam Olearius, diplomat and writer
- 1604: Bernhard von Sachsen-Weimar, field gentleman
- 1645: Jean de La Bruyère, French writer
- 1650: Vincenzo Coronelli, ItalianKartograf and globe farmer
- 1706: Florian Bahr, German Jesuit and China Missionar
- 1761: Jewstignei Ipatowitsch Fomin, Russian composer
- 1763: Friedrich August, Herzog von York and Albany, prince bishop von Osnabrück and British field marshal and army leader
- 1795: Heinrich Marschner, German opera composer
- 1802: Moritz William Drobisch, German mathematician and philosopher
- 1815: Johannes Bosco, Italian priest and medal founder
- 1821: Arthur Cayley, English mathematician
- 1832: William Wundt, German philosopher and psychologist
- 1845: Gabriel Lippmann, of Luxembourg physicist and Nobelpreisträger
- 1852: Adolf Schlatter, Evangelist Swiss theologian
- 1858: Arthur Achleitner, German writer
- 1863: Gabriel Pierné, French composer
- 1865: Ettore Tolomei, Italian nationalist
- 1865: Denis Joseph Dougherty, Erzbischoff of Philadelphia
- 1866: Rudolf Greinz, Austrian writer
- 1871: Special air Paliaschwili, Georgian composer
- 1872: Victory mouth of Hausegger, composer and conductor
- 1877: Augusto Giacometti, Swiss painter
- 1884: Hugo Gernsback, publisher and writer
- 1893: Hans's cook, German lawyer and resistance fighter
- 1895: Albert Cohen, Swiss writer
- 1895: Liane Haid, Austrian actress and singer
- 1896: Tina Modotti, actress and Fotografin
- 1902: Georgette Heyer, British authoress
- 1904: Wendell Meredith Stanley, US-American chemist and Nobelpreisträger
- 1905: Marian Rejewski, Polish mathematician and Kryptologe
- 1906: Franz Josef II., Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1907: Alexander Uriah Boscovich,Israeli composer
- 1911: Ernst Friedrich Schumacher, British economist
- 1913: Menachem Begin, Israeli politician
- 1914: Gudrun Genest, German actress
- 1914: Pawel Stepanowitsch Kutachow, Soviet pilot
- 1915: Aluminium Hibbler, US-American singer
- 1916: Briefly Fichtner, Ministers for ore mining industry and metallurgy in the GDR
- 1920: Charles Bukowski, US-American poet and writer
- 1921: Max Thurian, Swiss theologian
- 1924: Ralf Bendix, German hit singer
- 1927: Fess Parker,US-American actor and singer
- 1927: Harsh ore shepherd, German football player and football coach
- 1928: Era Güler, Turkish photographer
- 1928: Karl-Heinz Vosgerau, German actor
- 1929: Bill Evans, US-American musician
- 1929: Helmut Rahn, GermanFootball player
- 1930: Tony Trabert, former US-American tennis player
- 1930: Wolfgang Völz, German television and Filmschauspieler
- 1931: Eydie Gormé, US-American singer
- 1933: Pure Kunze, German writer
- 1934: Gottfried Mueller, Minister for media guidelinesthe GDR
- 1934: Pierre smelling pool of broadcasting corporations, French actor
- 1938: Rocco Granata, Italian singer
- 1940: Bruce Beresford, Australian film director
- 1942: Barbara George, US-American singer
- 1942: Pure hard Klimmt, German politician, Prime Minister in the Saarlandand Federal Ministers
- 1944: Bernd Zamulo, German musician
- 1944: Karin thrust ore, German politician
- 1944: Kevin Ayers, British musician
- 1944: Shel Shapiro, British musician and Songschreiber
- 1945: Gary Loizzo, US-American musician andSinger
- 1945: Gordon fleet, Australian musician
- 1946: Lesley Ann Warren, US-American actress
- 1948: Annemarie Huber Hotz, Swiss Bundeskanzlerin
- 1948: Barry Hay, Netherlands musician and singer
- 1949: Klaus Ehl, German athlete
- 1950: Wiltrud Drexel, Austrian Skirennläuferin
- 1950: Jack Unterweger, Austrian criminal and writers
- 1954: James Cameron, US-American film director
- 1958: Angela Bassett, US-American actress
- 1958: Madonna, US-American Pop singer, Songschreiberin and actress
- 1959: Laura Innes, US-American actress
- 1960: Franz Welser Möst, Austrian conductor
- 1960: Timothy hat clay/tone, US-American actor
- 1963: Andreas Dresen, German film director
- 1968: Mateja Svet, Slovenian Skirennläuferin
- 1968: Enrique Ortíz de Landázuri,Spanish composer and singer
- 1971: Stefan Klos, German football player (Torwart)
- 1974: Didier Cuche, Swiss ski running runner
- 1974: Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
- 1980: Robert Byron Hardy, musician
- 1981: Roque Santa Cruz, football playerfrom Paraguay
- 1982: Julia Schruff, German Tennisspielerin
- 1983: Poom Jensen, grandchild of the Thai king Rama IX
- 1989: Hauke Diekamp, German actor
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died
- 1190: Dedo V. the Feiste, inheritance of severalMark count
- 1291: Friedrich Tuta, regent of the Mark county Meissen
- 1327: Rochus of Montpellier, French holy
- 1339: Azzo Visconti, Italian (Mailändi) prince
- 1358: Albrecht II., Duke of Austria
- 1419: Wenzel, Roman-German king,King of Böhmen, cure prince of Brandenburg
- 1445: Margaret Stuart, daughter by Jakob I. (Scotland), wife by Ludwig XI. (France)
- 1518: Loyset Compère, flämischer composer, singer and cleric
- 1532: Johann of Saxonia, cure prince of Saxonia
- 1678: Andrew Marvell, English poet and politician
- 1689: Dorothea Sophie of Brandenburg, cure princess of Brandenburg
- 1705: Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician and physicist
- 1734: Johann George Carpenter, Postkommissar
- 1743: Matthias's block,Founder of the building of playing the violin in center in the middle of
- 1746: Giuseppe Gonzaga, Spanish duke of Guastalla
- 1748: Jetty Giuseppe Sandoni, Italian composer
- 1765: Tharsander, alias of the minister George William Wegener
- 1781: Charles François de Broglie, French diplomat
- 1837: Christian Ludwig Nitzsch, biologist
- 1846: Sylvain Charles Valée, general and marshal of France
- 1851: Christian Martin Joachim Frähn, German Orientalist and Numismatiker
- 1853: Friedrich Joseph Haass, German optician
- 1867: Joseph AmbrosiusGeritz, bishop von Ermland
- 1888: John Pemberton, inventor by Coca-Cola
- 1893: Jean Martin Charcot, French neurologist
- 1894: Ludwig Knoop, entrepreneur
- 1895: Mathieu Augusts Geffroy, French historical writer
- 1899: Robert William Bunsen,German chemist
- 1900: José Maria Eça de Queiroz, Portuguese writer
- 1910: Pedro Montt Montt, Chilean politician
- 1912: Johann Martin Schleyer, German catholic priest, poet and philanthropist
- 1916: Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter andSculptor
- 1920: Joseph Norman Lockyer, British astrophysicist
- 1925: Alfred Merz, Austrian-German Meereskundler
- 1938: Andrej Hlinka, slowakischer priest and politician
- 1938: Robert Johnson, US-American Bluesmusiker
- 1940: Henri Desgrange, boss franz.Sport newspaper L'Auto and founder of the route de France
- 1942: Rudolf Greinz, Austrian writer
- 1945: Nico judge, Netherlands composer
- 1948: Babe Ruth, ethnic German of American baseball players
- 1949: Margaret Mitchell, US-American lady journalist and authoress
- 1956: Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-US-American actor
- 1957: Irving Langmuir, US-American chemist, physicist and Nobelpreisträger
- 1959: Wanda Landowska, Cembalistin and Pianistin
- 1972: Pierre Brasseur, French actor
- 1973: Selman Abraham Waksman, US-American researcher
- 1975: Friedrich SAE-mix, German chess player
- 1977: Elvis Presley, US-American Rock'n'Roll singer
- 1984: György Kósa, Hungarian composer
- 1987: Arthur Grundmann, German politician (FDP), MdB
- 1993: René Dreyfus, French running driver
- 1993: Stewart Granger, US-American actor
- 1997: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, musician of Pakistan
- 2002: Abu Nidal, palestinensischer terrorist
- 2003: Haroldo de Campos, Brazilian writer
- 2003: Idi amine, ugandischer ex dictator
- 2004: Burnu Acquanetta, US-AmericanActress
- 2004: Carl Mydans, US-American photographer
- 2004: Ivan Hlinka, Czech ice hockey player and national coach
- 2004: Robert Quiroga, US-American Boxer
- 2005: Alexander Gomelski, Russian basketball coach
- 2005: EH Renzi, German actress
- 2005: Frère Roger, founder of the ökumenischen man medal of Taizé
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of celebration and anniversaries
- anniversary holy Stefan of Hungary
- in meals and Hildesheim: Anniversary of holy bishop Altfrid
see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale
