diff --git a/calendar/inc/class.calendar_so.inc.php b/calendar/inc/class.calendar_so.inc.php
index e70f549a9a..86ec17e8fb 100644
--- a/calendar/inc/class.calendar_so.inc.php
+++ b/calendar/inc/class.calendar_so.inc.php
@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ class calendar_so
 		}
 		$cols .= ',range_end-1 AS recur_enddate';
 
+		// sort deleted to the end, to prefer non-deleted events over deleted ones when querying by uid
+		$group_by .= ' ORDER BY cal_deleted IS NOT NULL,egw_cal.cal_id DESC';
+
 		$events =& $this->get_events($this->db->select($this->cal_table, $cols, $where, __LINE__, __FILE__, false, $group_by, 'calendar', 0, $join), $recur_date);
 
 		// if we wanted to read the real recurrence, but we have eg. only a virtual one, we need to try again without $read_recurrence