After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

* 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Austro-Moravian singer, violinist, composer, conductor and music theoretician ( d. 1789 )

Portrait of Maximilian I of Mexico, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

* 1675 – Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician ( d. 1750 )

* 1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor ( d. 1783 )

* 1789 – Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography ( d. 1849 )

There are two comprehensive editions of Palestrina's works: a 33 volume edition published by Breitkopf and Härtel, in Leipzig Germany between 1862 and 1894 edited by Franz Xaver Haberl, and a 34 volume edition published in the mid twentieth century, by Fratelli Scalera, in Rome, Italy edited by R. Casimiri and others.

* 1663 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist ( d. 1738 )

* 1791 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer ( d. 1844 )

Among these were Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Josef Weigl ( 1766 – 1846 ), Ludwig-Wilhelm Tepper de Ferguson ( 1768after 1824 ), Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.

* 1850 – Franz Xaver Scharwenka, Polish-German pianist and composer ( d. 1924 )

* 1787 – Franz Xaver Gruber, Austrian organist ( d. 1863 )

One of his professors was Franz Xaver Heller ( 1775 – 1840 ), author of the (" Flora of the Grand Duchy of Würzburg ", 1810 – 1811 ).

* Franz Xaver Seppelt, Geschichte der Päpste ( Munich 1955 ) 2: 414 – 417.

Solomon considers his three closest friends to have been Gottfried von Jacquin, Count August Hatzfeld, and Sigmund Barisani ; others included his older colleague Joseph Haydn, singers Franz Xaver Gerl and Benedikt Schack, and the horn player Joseph Leutgeb.

* July 26 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer and pianist ( d. 1844 )

* December 24 – Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr.

** Franz Xaver Kroetz, German dramatist

* March 27 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian ( d. 1841 )

* June 4 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German scientific editor and astronomer ( d. 1832 )

* Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, an astronomer, publishes The Tables of the Sun, an essential early work for navigation.

* May 23 – Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian ( b. 1765 )

* July 29 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Austrian composer ( b. 1791 )

* September 17 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer ( b. 1766 )

* September 2 – Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer ( b. 1754 )

Marie-Louise von Franz tells us the double approach of Western alchemy was set from the start, when Greek philosophy was mixed with Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology.

* 1873 – Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.

* 1819 – Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer ( d. 1895 )

), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).

His circle included the musicians Alexander von Zemlinsky and Franz Schreker, the painter Gustav Klimt, the writer and satirist Karl Kraus, the architect Adolf Loos, and the poet Peter Altenberg.

Franz Schubert is also something of a transitional figure, as are Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Mauro Giuliani, Friedrich Kuhlau, Fernando Sor, Luigi Cherubini, Jan Ladislav Dussek, and Carl Maria von Weber.

* 1914 – World War I: German battleships under Franz von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.

On the night of 15 November, Rear-Admiral Hugo Meurer, the representative of Admiral Franz von Hipper, met Admiral Beatty aboard Beatty's flagship,.

* 1836 – Franz von Lenbach, German painter ( d. 1904 )

He then studied medicine in Berlin and Würzburg, particularly with Albert von Kölliker, Franz Leydig, Rudolf Virchow ( with whom he later worked briefly as assistant ), and with anatomist-physiologist Johannes Peter Müller ( 1801 – 1858 ).

He replaced the ambassador to Vienna with Franz von Papen and prevented the conspirators entering Germany, also expelling them from the Austrian Nazi Party.

The premiere was held in Vienna on 15 June 1938, with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under Oswald Kabasta: the soloists were Rudolf Gerlach ( John ), Erika Rokyta, Enid Szantho, Anton Dermota, Josef von Manowarda and with Franz Schütz at the organ.

# In the summer of 1934 Hitler instructed the SS to kill Ernst Röhm and other leaders of the Nazi party's SA, former Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher and several aides to former Chancellor Franz von Papen in the so-called Night of the Long Knives ( June 30, 1934 / July 1, 1934 ).

In March 1933, Reich Governor of Bavaria Franz Ritter von Epp appointed Himmler chief of the Munich Police.

Such a tack was taken by psychologists Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, who used analytical psychology to interpret the Grail as a series of symbols in their book The Grail Legend.

* 1822 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist ( d. 1899 )

His first campaign against the French marshal Guebriant was uneventful, but his second ( 1643 ) in which Baron Franz von Mercy was his commander-in-chief, ended with the victory of Tuttlingen, a surprise on a large scale, in which Werth naturally played the leading part.