German - Notable Historical Events
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German - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
476-08-28 |
German ruler Flavius Odoacer captures Pavia |
842-02-14 |
Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty |
843-08-10 |
Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France |
860-08-01 |
Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II |
911-11-08 |
Duke Koenraad I chosen German king |
911-11-10 |
Conrad I elecect German King |
933-03-15 |
Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren |
936-08-08 |
German king Otto I the Great crowned |
961-05-26 |
German King Otto II crowned |
962-02-02 |
Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor |
967-12-25 |
John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor |
996-06-21 |
Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas |
1002-06-06 |
German King Henry II the Saint crowned |
1014-02-14 |
Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II Roman German Emperor |
1024-09-08 |
Duke Koenraad II chosen German king |
1028-04-14 |
German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king |
1037-05-28 |
German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis" |
1046-12-20 |
Synod of Sutri: German King Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI |
1064-04-30 |
German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland |
1075-06-09 |
Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German King Henry IV beats Saksen |
1076-01-24 |
Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII |
1077-01-21 |
German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness |
1077-01-28 |
German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman Emperor Pope Gregory VII after his penitent Walk to Canossa. |
1077-01-30 |
Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV |
1084-03-31 |
Anti-pope Clemens crowns German King Hendrik IV as Holy Roman Emperor |
1087-05-30 |
German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad |
1090-07-03 |
Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II |
1099-01-06 |
Henry V crowned German king |
1111-02-12 |
German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome |
1111-04-13 |
Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II |
1125-09-13 |
Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III |
1133-06-04 |
Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor |
1138-03-07 |
Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king |
1138-03-13 |
German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned |
1147-10-25 |
Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum. |
1155-06-18 |
Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor |
1205-03-06 |
Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King |
1208-11-11 |
Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king |
1209-10-04 |
Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach |
1220-04-26 |
German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights |
1227-09-29 |
Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II |
1247-10-03 |
Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor |
1248-11-01 |
Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor |
1273-10-01 |
Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholic-German king |
1298-07-02 |
Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I |
1307-01-18 |
German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia |
1310-08-31 |
German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia |
1338-06-16 |
German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant |
1338-07-16 |
German monarch signs Treaty of Rense |
1346-04-13 |
Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy |
1347-07-11 |
Heir to the Bohemian throne elected German anti-king Charles IV |
1349-01-30 |
Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king |
1356-01-10 |
German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree |
1362-01-16 |
A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt. |
1436-07-05 |
German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten |
1488-02-05 |
Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium |
1492-05-15 |
Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kill 232 residents of Alkmaar, Netherlands |
1493-12-23 |
Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published. |
1507-04-25 |
German cartographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st to use the name America on his world map Universalis Cosmographia |
1520-10-23 |
King Carlos I crowned German emperor Charles V |
1521-11-19 |
Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan |
1522-03-09 |
-16] Marten Luther begins preaching his Invocavit Sermons in German city of Wittenberg |
1524-07-15 |
Emperor Karel I bans German national synode |
1525-02-20 |
Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army |
1525-05-15 |
The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded, 5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising |
1525-07-19 |
Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau |
1526-05-02 |
German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League |
1527-05-06 |
Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance |
1530-06-20 |
German Parliament joins to Augsburg together |
1531-02-27 |
Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union |
1534-01-24 |
Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy |
1534-05-12 |
German Duchy of Wurttemberg becomes Lutheran under Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg |
1538-06-10 |
Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neuremberg |
1539-04-19 |
Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt |
1545-03-24 |
German Parliament opens in Worms |
1547-05-16 |
Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg |
1547-09-01 |
Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state) |
1552-01-15 |
France signs secret treaty with German Protestants |
1558-12-29 |
Charles V, German Emperor, buried |
1577-07-24 |
Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur |
1591-02-03 |
German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau |
1609-07-10 |
Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League |
1610-01-01 |
German astronomer Simon Marius first discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610 |
1612-12-15 |
German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope |
1625-04-07 |
Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander |
1630-07-03 |
Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament |
1631-01-23 |
France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald |
1633-04-23 |
Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn |
1634-08-26 |
Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants |
1634-09-05 |
-6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants |
1634-09-06 |
Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat |
1653-05-24 |
German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria |
1671-11-01 |
French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
1674-05-28 |
German Parliament declares war on France |
1679-02-05 |
German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France |
1689-02-15 |
German Parliament declares war on France |
1704-08-13 |
French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany |
1709-09-03 |
1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC |
1717-01-14 |
German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam |
1733-09-26 |
France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant |
1742-01-24 |
German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor |
1745-09-12 |
Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus |
1757-01-17 |
German Diet declares war on Prussia |
1761-12-16 |
Seven Years' War: After four-month siege, Russian army under Pyotr Rumyantsev takes Prussian fortress of Kolobrzeg (German: Kolberg). |
1796-03-30 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the heptadecagon |
1796-04-08 |
Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, proves the quadratic reciprocity law (the ability to determine the solvability of any quadratic equation in modular arithmetic) |
1803-02-25 |
1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states |
1804-09-01 |
Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding. |
1811-01-08 |
Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast |
1813-10-20 |
German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished |
1814-11-28 |
The Times of London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience. |
1815-06-08 |
39 German states unite under Act of Confederation |
1829-10-17 |
1st supposed attack on abandoned German teenager Kaspar Hauser |
1834-01-01 |
German Tolunie goes into effect |
1835-12-07 |
Bavarian Ludwig railway opens - first German steam railway |
1844-10-01 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt departs Jimbour, the farthest outpost of settlement on the Queensland Darling Downs, to begin his exploration of Australia's Northern Territory from Moreton Bay to Port Essington |
1845-12-17 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Port Essington after a nearly 4,800 km (3,000 mi) overland journey to explore Australia's Northern Territory |
1846-03-25 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt arrives in Sydney to a hero's welcome after completing his exploration of Australia's Northern Territory |
1847-05-24 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, London in recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey |
1847-07-20 |
German astronomer Theodor discovers Comet Brorsen-Metcalf |
1847-10-01 |
German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. |
1848-04-03 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is seen for the last time at McPherson's Station, Coogoon, before he disappears on the same expedition to reach the Swan River |
1848-05-18 |
Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany. |
1848-07-19 |
German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg |
1848-11-09 |
Robert Blum, a German revolutionary and MP (Liberal), is executed in Vienna. |
1849-05-03 |
The May Uprising in Dresden begins - the last of the German revolutions of 1848. |
1850-01-26 |
1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC |
1850-11-29 |
The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation. |
1854-03-01 |
German psychologist Friedrich Eduard Beneke disappears; two years later his remains are found in a canal near Charlottenburg. |
1860-05-17 |
German football club TSV 1860 München is founded |
1862-10-08 |
Otto Von Bismarck becomes chancellor of the German Empire |
1864-02-01 |
2nd German-Danish war begins |
1866-05-07 |
German premier Otto Von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassination attempt |
1868-04-10 |
1st performance of John Brahms' "A German Requiem" |
1871-01-18 |
2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck |
1871-04-16 |
German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions |
1873-09-15 |
Last German troops leave France |
1873-09-16 |
German troops leave France |
1875-05-07 |
German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed |
1877-09-22 |
Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he spoke against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools |
1878-05-31 |
German battleship SMS Grosser Kurfürst sinks, 284 killed |
1878-07-30 |
German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election |
1878-10-21 |
German republic chancellor Bismarck delegates end of "Socialism" |
1882-03-24 |
German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB |
1884-07-05 |
German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of Cameroon |
1884-11-08 |
German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
1885-02-12 |
Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society |
1885-05-19 |
German chancellor Bismarck takes possession of Cameroon & Togoland |
1885-08-07 |
5 German warships anchor at Zanzibar |
1885-08-29 |
Gottlieb Daimler receives German patent for a motorcycle |
1885-09-24 |
Five German warships depart to Zanzibar |
1889-03-14 |
German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon" |
1889-03-15 |
6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die |
1889-09-05 |
German Christine Hardt patents the first modern brassiere |
1890-03-20 |
German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck |
1893-04-12 |
Battle at Hoornkrans Southwest-Africa: German Schutztruppen chases away Hottentotten under Hendrik Witbooi |
1894-10-28 |
German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi & premier Botho zu Eulenburg |
1895-11-08 |
German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays |
1899-03-06 |
"Asprin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer |
1899-12-23 |
Tentative Turkish & German treaty on construction of Baghdad railway |
1899-12-29 |
English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up |
1900-01-16 |
The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. |
1900-06-12 |
In Germany, the Reichstag pass the second Navy Bill, which calls for doubling the German Navy within 20 years |
1900-06-13 |
In China, Baron von Kettler, the German minister to China, beats two young Boxers with his walking stick; when word of this circulates, rioting and arson spread throughout Peking during the night. |
1900-06-14 |
The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy. |
1900-06-20 |
Baron Von Ketteler, German Minister, decides to go to the Chinese authorities to demand more guards for European protection from Boxers and is killed by Boxers en route |
1900-06-30 |
4 German liners burn at Hobokon Docks NJ, 326 die |
1900-10-16 |
Great Britain and Germany sign the Anglo-German Treaty, in which they agree to maintain the territorial integrity of China and support the 'open door' policy called for by US secretary of State |
1900-11-30 |
A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles |
1900-12-01 |
Exiled South African president Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser |
1901-10-25 |
In Great Britain, Joseph Chamberlain, Colonial Affairs Secretary, makes an anti-German speech in Edinburgh; when word reaches Germany it leads to widespread agitation against the British and eventual breakdown of negotiations for an Anglo-German alliance |
1902-01-10 |
Although it has professed neutrality in the Boer War, German Chancellor von Bulow joins others in attacking British actions in South Africa |
1902-06-05 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II responds to growing demands from Polish and other Slavic peoples living within German territory by calling for more 'Germanization' of the slavs |
1902-12-13 |
British and German ships begin to bombard the Venezuelan forts after President Castro refuses to comply with an ultimatum demanding that he claims for damages caused during his takeover of the government in 1899; Castro asks US President Roosevelt to arbitrate |
1904-01-12 |
Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garison |
1904-04-13 |
Battle at Oviumbo Africa: Herero's chase away German army |
1904-06-11 |
German Lt-Gen Lothar von Trotha lands in Swapokmund, SW-Africa |
1904-08-11 |
German-ltalian General Von Trotha defeats Herero in SW Africa |
1904-12-24 |
German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children |
1905-04-01 |
SOS first adopted as a morse distress signal ( · · · — — — · · · ) by German government |
1905-06-06 |
French Foreign minister Delcasse resigns on German request |
1905-07-31 |
Matumbi rebellion at Samanga German East Africa |
1905-08-14 |
Ngindo-rebellion killed 5 RC German clergymen in East-Africa |
1905-08-16 |
Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa |
1905-08-30 |
Pogoro/Ngindo attack Fort Mahenge German East-Africa |
1905-08-31 |
Mbunga-rebellion takes German Fort Mahenge East-Africa |
1905-09-23 |
Mbunga-siege of Fort Mahenge German East-Africa broken |
1906-03-31 |
GB Shaw's German version of "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in Berlin |
1906-06-05 |
Determined to keep pace with Britain as a major naval power, the German Reichstag passes new navy legislation, increasing the total tonnage in Germany's fleet |
1906-12-13 |
German chancellor Bernhard von Bulow disbands the Parliament |
1907-12-13 |
German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam |
1908-06-14 |
Fourth German Navy Bill is passed authorising the financing the building of another four major warships. |
1908-10-28 |
The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries |
1908-12-09 |
The German Reichstag adopts a progressive social law restricting hours of factory work by young people and women |
1909-03-12 |
Alarmed over increasing German naval strength, Parliament passes a new naval appropriations bill |
1910-04-24 |
German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms |
1910-11-04 |
Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East |
1911-07-01 |
The German gunboat 'Panther' arrives off Agadir allegedly to protect German interests and nationals in Morocco |
1911-07-31 |
Hungarian education is only taught in German |
1912-02-08 |
British Emissary journeys to Berlin to suggest that Britain might support German colonial aspirations in Africa if Germany agrees to hold her current naval strength |
1912-07-22 |
In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recall British warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea |
1913-04-21 |
German passenger ship Imperator runs aground |
1913-06-30 |
To increase the peacetime strength of the German Army, the Reichstag pass the Army and Finance Bills, a massive defense buildup |
1913-08-13 |
Otto Witte, a German acrobat and fantasist, is purportedly crowned King of Albania. |
1914-07-25 |
Germany Socialist-Democrat Party declares: "No German blood for Austrian tyrant" in response to German support of Austria-Hungary |
1914-07-30 |
French troops withdraw 10 km from German border |
1914-07-31 |
German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize |
1914-08-01 |
Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enters Luxembourg on outbreak of WWI |
1914-08-02 |
Belgian government receives German ultimatum |
1914-08-02 |
German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg |
1914-08-02 |
German troops overthrows Luxembourg |
1914-08-03 |
Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army |
1914-08-03 |
German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: German army shoots Belgian priests and burns down village of Battice |
1914-08-04 |
German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast |
1914-08-04 |
WWI: King Albert I becomes Supreme Commander of Belgian army after German declaration of war |
1914-08-05 |
Massive German assault on forts around Liège |
1914-08-05 |
Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium |
1914-08-06 |
WWI: German Zeppelin bombs Liege, 9 killed |
1914-08-07 |
Engagement between British cruiser HMS Gloucester and German cruisers SMS Breslau and SMS Goeben off Greece |
1914-08-07 |
German army occupies city of Liege, Belgium |
1914-08-09 |
German U-15 was sunk by the British cruiser, H.M.S. Birmingham |
1914-08-10 |
At Liege, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary |
1914-08-10 |
German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany |
1914-08-10 |
German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas |
1914-08-12 |
German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Liege |
1914-08-13 |
-14] German army occupies forts at Liege |
1914-08-15 |
Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs |
1914-08-15 |
German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured |
1914-08-16 |
German army occupies last fort at Liege, Belgian general Leman caught |
1914-08-19 |
German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad |
1914-08-19 |
German fleet bombs English coast |
1914-08-20 |
German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians |
1914-08-20 |
Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing thousands |
1914-08-20 |
German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp |
1914-08-21 |
Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines |
1914-08-22 |
1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium) |
1914-08-22 |
German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium |
1914-08-23 |
-24] German troops plunder Belgium |
1914-08-24 |
German troops occupy Namur, Belgium |
1914-08-25 |
Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven, Belgium |
1914-08-25 |
German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp, Belgium, 10 die |
1914-08-25 |
German troops march into France and push French army to the Sedan |
1914-08-26 |
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army |
1914-08-28 |
Third day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): violent German/Russian battles |
1914-08-28 |
Battle of Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1,100 killed |
1914-08-29 |
New Zealand force capture German Samoa |
1914-08-30 |
1st German plane bombs Paris, 2 killed |
1914-08-31 |
German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia |
1914-09-04 |
General von Moltke ceases German advance in France |
1914-09-05 |
US President Wilson orders the US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; this will lead to the interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping to bring the US into the war |
1914-09-05 |
- till the 12th Sept Battle of Marne (WWI) begins French and British forces prevent German forces advancing on Paris |
1914-09-11 |
Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there. |
1914-09-14 |
German staff-of-chief Helmut von Moltke replaced by Erich von Falkenhayn |
1914-09-14 |
German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches |
1914-09-18 |
Gen Paul von Hindenburg named commander of German armies on Eastern Front |
1914-09-18 |
South African troops land in German South West Africa |
1914-09-22 |
1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die |
1914-09-28 |
German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
1914-10-09 |
German troops take Antwerp in World War I |
1914-10-10 |
German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I) |
1914-10-11 |
German troops occupy Gent |
1914-10-13 |
Pro-German Boers begin opposition to British authority in South Africa |
1914-10-14 |
German troops occupy Brug |
1914-10-21 |
Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat |
1914-10-28 |
German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea |
1914-11-01 |
German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile |
1914-11-07 |
Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai |
1914-11-07 |
The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces. |
1914-11-09 |
Off Cocos Island, near Sumatra, the Australian cruiser 'Sydney' sinks German cruiser 'Emden', which has been attacking ships in the Pacific |
1914-11-12 |
Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war |
1914-11-22 |
Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing |
1914-12-06 |
German troops over run Lodz |
1914-12-08 |
British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island |
1914-12-15 |
British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
1914-12-16 |
World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough. |
1914-12-24 |
German plane drops bombs on Dover England |
1914-12-26 |
The US Government protests British interference with American merchant ships at sea, but this same day the German announce they will treat food as contraband, subject to seizure; this will weaken America's protest |
1915-01-19 |
1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die |
1915-01-24 |
German-British sea battle at Dogger Bank & Helgoland |
1915-01-30 |
German submarine attack on Le Havre |
1915-01-31 |
1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians |
1915-02-03 |
Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal |
1915-02-07 |
2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army |
1915-02-26 |
Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower |
1915-03-11 |
The British declare a blockade of all German ports |
1915-03-14 |
German cruiser Dresden scuttled off Más a Tierra, Chile, having been pursued by the Royal Navy after the Battle of the Falkland Islands, with her engines worn out and virtually no coal. |
1915-03-25 |
German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea |
1915-04-18 |
French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I. |
1915-04-24 |
German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper |
1915-05-01 |
German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight |
1915-05-05 |
German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom |
1915-05-06 |
German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland |
1915-05-07 |
SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost |
1915-05-09 |
German & French fight Battle of Artois |
1915-06-03 |
The Austro-German forces recapture Przemysl, a crucial city in southeastern Poland, and the entire Russian front begins to collapse |
1915-06-10 |
British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon |
1915-06-20 |
German offensive in Argonnes |
1915-07-02 |
Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, explodes a bomb in the US Senate reception room |
1915-07-03 |
After exploding a bomb in the US Senate reception room the previous day, Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, shoots JP Morgan for representing the British government in war contract negotiations |
1915-07-10 |
British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa |
1915-07-11 |
German cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam |
1915-07-15 |
The head of German propaganda in the US, Dr Heinrich Albert, loses his briefcase on a subway in New York City; an examination of its content reveals an extensive network of German espionage and subversion across the US |
1915-07-15 |
The Austro-German forces launch an offensive along the Eastern Front |
1915-08-14 |
British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000 |
1915-08-17 |
German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana |
1915-08-19 |
British liner 'SS Arabic' sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident |
1915-08-26 |
German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia |
1915-09-01 |
The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sink liners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of the British liner \'Arabic\' |
1915-09-25 |
Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties |
1915-11-09 |
Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 |
1916-01-07 |
German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun |
1916-01-28 |
German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France |
1916-01-29 |
1st bombing of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place |
1916-02-16 |
The German ambassador in Washington announces that Germany will pay an indemnity for American lives lost on the Lusitania |
1916-02-18 |
The last German garrison in the German colony of Cameroons surrenders |
1916-02-25 |
German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun |
1916-03-14 |
Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun |
1916-03-15 |
Dutch merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed by German submarine & sinks in North Sea |
1916-03-24 |
German submarines torpedo the French Channel packet 'Sussex' which is unarmed |
1916-04-02 |
German troops overtake Bois de Caillette |
1916-04-06 |
German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare |
1916-04-20 |
German-British sea battle off Belgian coast |
1916-04-21 |
Sir Roger Casement, an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist, lands on the coast from a German submarine; he attempts to get German aid for an uprising against the British |
1916-05-06 |
Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa |
1916-05-08 |
German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes |
1916-05-18 |
US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft |
1916-05-24 |
US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker |
1916-05-31 |
Battle of Jutland (Skagerrak): naval battle betwwen British Grand Fleet and German High Seas Fleet: 10,000 die in this inconcluisve slaughter |
1916-06-01 |
German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun |
1916-06-02 |
German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux |
1916-07-30 |
German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ |
1916-08-29 |
General Paul Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff |
1916-09-11 |
German troops conquer Kavalla Greece |
1916-09-17 |
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron], a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. |
1916-09-19 |
Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa |
1916-10-07 |
The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters |
1916-11-15 |
William George Barker, flying very low over the Ancre River, spots a large concentration of German troops massing for a counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, and sends an emergency Zone Call brought to bear all available artillery fire in the area onto the specified target. The force of some 4,000 German infantry was effectively broken up, and Barker is awarded the Military Cross |
1916-11-28 |
1st German air attack on London |
1916-12-06 |
German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest |
1917-02-01 |
German Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war |
1917-02-03 |
US liner Housatonic is sunk by German submarine, on the same day that US President Wilson breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany |
1917-02-22 |
German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships |
1917-02-24 |
German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram) |
1917-05-10 |
Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks |
1917-06-13 |
World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries. |
1917-06-14 |
1st German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East London |
1917-07-17 |
Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor |
1917-07-22 |
British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades |
1917-08-06 |
World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins. |
1917-09-03 |
1st night bombing of London by German aircraft |
1917-09-03 |
German troops overrun Riga, Latvia |
1917-09-06 |
French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft |
1917-10-24 |
Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army |
1917-11-20 |
First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI |
1917-12-11 |
German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia |
1918-01-22 |
Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet) |
1918-02-23 |
First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory. |
1918-03-19 |
S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane |
1918-03-23 |
Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed |
1918-04-14 |
Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane) |
1918-04-21 |
World War I: German fighter ace Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France. Canadian pilot Captain Arthur Roy Brown was credited with the kill. |
1918-06-01 |
Canadian ace Billy Bishop downs 6 aircrafts over a three-day span, including German ace Paul Bilik, reclaiming his top scoring title from James McCudden |
1918-06-26 |
The Australian steamer Wimmera is sunk by a mine laid north of Cape Maria van Diemen in 1917 by the German raider Wolf; 26 of its 151 passengers and crew were killed |
1918-07-19 |
German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) |
1918-07-20 |
World War I: German troops cross the Marne. |
1918-09-12 |
During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel |
1918-11-08 |
Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs |
1918-11-09 |
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I |
1918-11-10 |
German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands |
1918-11-21 |
2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die |
1918-11-21 |
The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth. |
1919-01-05 |
National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party |
1919-01-11 |
3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed |
1919-02-21 |
German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria |
1919-05-06 |
Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa |
1919-06-20 |
German government of Scheideman resigns |
1919-06-21 |
Bauer forms German government |
1919-06-21 |
German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet |
1920-02-02 |
France occupies (German) Memel territory |
1920-03-27 |
Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD) |
1920-05-05 |
German-Latvian peace treaty signed |
1921-04-19 |
Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria |
1921-05-02 |
Start of 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper Silesia |
1921-07-29 |
Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. |
1922-01-06 |
-13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments |
1922-01-13 |
Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended |
1922-04-16 |
German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized |
1922-06-12 |
German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich |
1922-09-02 |
President Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem |
1922-10-24 |
German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 |
1922-11-02 |
Allies deliberate over German mark |
1922-11-14 |
German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth's term ends |
1922-11-22 |
Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government |
1923-02-08 |
German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily |
1923-02-23 |
German Republic day with laws against worker |
1923-02-23 |
Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5% |
1923-03-14 |
German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP (Nazi party) |
1923-05-19 |
KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies |
1923-07-25 |
German mark devalued to 600,000 Mark=$1 |
1923-08-13 |
Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of German coalition government |
1923-08-31 |
League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German) |
1923-10-11 |
German Mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $ |
1923-10-29 |
Army move SPD/KPD-government to German part of Saxon |
1923-11-10 |
German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany |
1923-11-22 |
Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death |
1923-11-23 |
German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD |
1923-12-08 |
German-US friendship treaty signed |
1924-03-03 |
German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed |
1924-03-13 |
German Republic day |
1924-05-04 |
German Republic election fascists & communists win |
1924-05-26 |
German government of Marx resigns |
1924-07-16 |
Conference over German recovery payments begins in London |
1924-08-16 |
Conference about German recovery payments opens in London |
1924-08-17 |
French-German trade agreement signed |
1924-08-29 |
German Republic day accepts Dawes plan |
1924-09-30 |
Allies stop checking on German navy |
1924-12-02 |
British-German trade agreement signed |
1924-12-07 |
German election (Social Democrats win, Nazis & Communists lose) |
1925-01-09 |
German Postal Minister A Hofle resigns due to corruption |
1925-01-15 |
Hans Luther forms German government, with DNVP |
1925-02-09 |
German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France |
1925-10-12 |
German-Russian trade agreement signed |
1925-10-25 |
Rightist German ministers disavows Treaty of Locarno |
1925-11-09 |
German NSDAP form Schutzstaffel (SS) |
1925-11-11 |
Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD |
1925-11-25 |
KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy |
1925-11-27 |
German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno |
1925-12-05 |
German government of Luther falls |
1926-01-20 |
2nd German government of Luther begins |
1926-02-08 |
German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership |
1926-03-31 |
German Special Court of Justice for state security disbands |
1926-05-13 |
German government of Luther falls |
1926-05-17 |
German government of Marx takes power |
1926-08-05 |
French & German trade agreement signed |
1926-09-10 |
Allies-German treaty of Koblenz drawn |
1926-09-30 |
German/French/Belgian/Luxembourg steel cartel closes |
1926-12-03 |
Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together) |
1926-12-17 |
German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army |
1927-01-29 |
4th German government of Marx forms |
1927-03-26 |
Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA |
1928-04-25 |
Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for a US citizen Morris Frank |
1928-10-15 |
German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ |
1929-03-17 |
General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel |
1929-06-27 |
President Paul Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I |
1929-08-08 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight |
1929-08-29 |
German airship Graf Zeppelin ends a round-the-world flight |
1929-10-03 |
Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister |
1930-03-29 |
Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler. |
1930-09-14 |
Nazis gain 107 seats in German election |
1930-10-13 |
New German Reichstag opens with 107 NSDAP'ers in uniform |
1931-12-16 |
German SPD begins Iron Front against fascism |
1932-02-25 |
Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship |
1932-03-17 |
German police raid Hitler's Nazi headquarter |
1932-04-10 |
Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd) |
1932-04-24 |
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
1932-06-02 |
German Chancellor Franz von Papen forms his "Cabinet of the Barons" |
1932-06-03 |
Paul Von Hindenburg disbands German Parliament |
1932-06-14 |
German government of von Papen forms |
1932-07-31 |
German Election (NSDAP gets 37.3%) |
1932-09-12 |
German government of Papen falls/Reichstag dissolved |
1932-11-01 |
Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
1932-11-06 |
German election - KPD defeats NSDAP |
1932-11-17 |
German government of von Papen resigns |
1932-11-19 |
Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor |
1932-12-05 |
German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa to enter America |
1933-01-27 |
Otto Meisnner (Head of the German President's Office) dines with British ambassador Sir Horace Rumbold |
1933-01-28 |
German government of Von Schleicher falls |
1933-01-29 |
German president Paul von Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor |
1933-01-30 |
Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von Papen |
1933-02-01 |
German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe |
1933-02-03 |
German Minister Hermann Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts |
1933-02-04 |
German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press |
1933-02-05 |
Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary |
1933-02-12 |
German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis |
1933-02-15 |
Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party |
1933-02-24 |
Final demonstration of German communist party in Berlin |
1933-02-27 |
German parliament building, Reichstag, destroyed by fire |
1933-02-27 |
Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists |
1933-02-28 |
German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion |
1933-02-28 |
Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD) |
1933-03-03 |
German presidential candidate Earnest Thalmann (KPD) arrested |
1933-03-23 |
Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers |
1933-03-28 |
German Reichstag confers dictatorial powers on Hitler |
1933-03-31 |
German Republic gives power to Hitler |
1933-06-13 |
German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Göring |
1933-06-22 |
German social-democratic party (SPD) forbidden |
1933-07-01 |
German nazi regime declares that married women shouldn't work |
1933-07-05 |
German party Catholic Center disbands |
1933-07-24 |
German judge Vogt signs deed of accusation against Van der Lubbe |
1934-01-26 |
German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed. |
1934-01-30 |
Hitler proclamation on German unified states |
1934-07-09 |
SS-Reichsfuehrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps |
1934-08-02 |
Adolf Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of German armed forces |
1934-10-01 |
Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles |
1934-11-26 |
German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis |
1934-11-28 |
Winston Churchill tells British Premier Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power |
1935-02-26 |
German Luftwaffe is re-formed under Reichsmarshall Hermann Goering |
1935-03-11 |
Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe |
1935-03-16 |
Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty |
1935-08-11 |
Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews |
1935-09-15 |
Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany |
1935-11-14 |
Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship |
1936-06-19 |
Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl |
1936-06-19 |
German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis |
1936-09-08 |
Princess Juliana of The Netherlands & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld become engaged |
1936-11-16 |
German air force begins bombing of Madrid |
1937-04-26 |
German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain |
1937-05-06 |
German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die) |
1937-05-31 |
German battleships bombard Almeria, Spain |
1937-12-27 |
German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany |
1938-02-04 |
Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts |
1938-02-12 |
German troops entered Austria |
1938-03-11 |
Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country |
1938-06-03 |
German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery |
1938-11-01 |
German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires |
1938-11-08 |
A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris. |
1938-11-11 |
German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi |
1938-11-21 |
Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia & declared them German citizens |
1938-12-06 |
French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact) |
1939-01-30 |
Hitler threatens the Jews during his speech to the German Reichstag (parliament) |
1939-02-15 |
German battleship Bismarck was launched |
1939-03-20 |
7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania |
1939-04-10 |
Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews |
1939-04-18 |
Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey |
1939-04-28 |
Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect |
1939-06-01 |
Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service |
1939-07-06 |
German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises |
1939-08-22 |
Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion |
1939-08-27 |
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands receives German ambassador Grave Zech |
1939-09-03 |
German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans |
1939-09-04 |
German troops move into Danzig |
1939-09-06 |
1st German air attack on Great Britain in WW II |
1939-09-14 |
British fleet attacks German U-39 boat |
1939-09-17 |
German U-29 sinks British aircraft carrier Courageous, 519 die |
1939-09-19 |
Wehrmacht (German regular army) murders 100 Jews in Lukov Poland |
1939-09-20 |
British navy captures German U-27 boat |
1939-09-25 |
German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs |
1939-09-26 |
German seaplane shoots KLM-aircraft (1 killed) |
1939-09-28 |
Soviet-German treaty agree on 4th partition of Poland (WW II) & gives Lithuania to USSR, last Polish troops surrender |
1939-10-14 |
German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed |
1939-10-28 |
Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia |
1939-10-28 |
Spitfire shoots German Heinkel-111 down above Scotland |
1939-10-30 |
German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard |
1939-11-01 |
First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry |
1939-11-09 |
Venlo-incident: German Abwehr kills 2 English agents |
1939-11-15 |
Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia |
1939-11-16 |
German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland |
1939-11-17 |
German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship |
1939-11-18 |
Neth KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die |
1939-12-13 |
Battle of the River Plate - 3 British cruisers vs German pocket battleship Graf Spee |
1939-12-17 |
German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay |
1940-01-09 |
2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium |
1940-01-15 |
German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church) |
1940-02-16 |
British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway |
1940-02-17 |
Crew of the British destroyer Cossack board German Altmark in Jøssingfjord, Norway, and realised 299 British prisoners after hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets and the last recorded Royal Naval action with cutlass. |
1940-02-22 |
German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578 |
1940-03-16 |
German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow |
1940-03-19 |
Failed British air raid on German base at Sylt |
1940-04-08 |
German battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious |
1940-04-09 |
German cruiser Blucher torpedoed and capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die |
1940-04-13 |
2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed |
1940-05-01 |
140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship |
1940-05-10 |
World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent. |
1940-05-12 |
German tanks conquer Moerdijkbrug |
1940-05-13 |
German breakthrough at Grebbelinie |
1940-05-14 |
German breakthrough at Sedan |
1940-05-15 |
German armoured division moves into Northern France |
1940-05-15 |
German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders |
1940-05-18 |
German troops conquer Brussels |
1940-05-20 |
German General Guderian's tanks reach the English Channel (British expeditionary army) |
1940-05-24 |
German tanks reach Atrecht France |
1940-05-25 |
German troops conquer Boulogne |
1940-05-27 |
World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 97 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops. |
1940-06-02 |
Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach |
1940-06-04 |
German forces enter Paris during WWII |
1940-06-05 |
Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme |
1940-06-10 |
German "Dutch" Q-ship Atlantis sinks Norwegian tanker |
1940-06-10 |
German 5th Armoured division occupies Rouen |
1940-06-13 |
Paris evacuates before German advance |
1940-06-14 |
German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral |
1940-06-14 |
German forces occupied Paris during WW II |
1940-06-15 |
France surrenders to Hitler, German troops occupy Paris during WWII |
1940-06-18 |
German occupiers slaughter cattle, pigs & chickens |
1940-06-19 |
German 7th Armoured division under command of Rommel occupies Cherbourg |
1940-06-21 |
German occupiers disband Dutch States-General/Council of State |
1940-06-22 |
SS rounds up 31 German/Polish/Dutch Jews in Roermond, Netherlands |
1940-06-30 |
German troops begin the invasion of the undefended Channel Islands. |
1940-07-02 |
Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory) |
1940-07-03 |
German occupiers forbid using Dutch royal names |
1940-07-04 |
German occupiers forbids anti-Nazi speeches |
1940-07-09 |
German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms |
1940-07-11 |
British & German dogfight above Lyme Bay |
1940-07-23 |
"Blitz" all-night air raid by German bombers on London begins |
1940-08-03 |
German occupiers forbid ritual slaughters & English & French movies |
1940-08-08 |
31 German aircraft shot down over England |
1940-08-11 |
38 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-08-11 |
German air raid on British harbors Portland/Weymouth |
1940-08-13 |
Hermann Goering's "Adler Tag" (Eagle day); 45-48 German aircraft shot down over Southern England (Battle of Britain) |
1940-08-15 |
Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircraft damaged |
1940-08-16 |
45 German aircrafts shot down over England |
1940-08-18 |
71 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-08-23 |
German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London |
1940-08-31 |
German occupiers in Netherlands begin soap rationing |
1940-09-07 |
German Luftwaffe blitz London for 1st of 57 consecutive nights |
1940-09-09 |
28 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-09-10 |
Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb |
1940-09-11 |
-12] Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs |
1940-09-13 |
Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs |
1940-09-14 |
German bomb hits shelter in Chelsea; hundreds die |
1940-09-18 |
19 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-09-25 |
German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government |
1940-09-27 |
55 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-09-28 |
Nazi occupiers present "New Dutch Culture" in German |
1940-09-30 |
47 German aircraft shot down above England |
1940-10-02 |
17 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-10-04 |
12 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940-10-08 |
German troops occupies Romania |
1940-10-15 |
-16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed |
1940-10-17 |
German occupiers issue identity cards |
1940-11-14 |
During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England |
1940-11-19 |
German air raid on Birmingham fails |
1940-11-20 |
German air raid on Birmingham fails |
1940-12-06 |
Gestapo arrest German resistance fighter/poster artist Helen Ernst |
1940-12-11 |
Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault |
1941-01-02 |
World War II: German bombing severely damages the Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. |
1941-01-31 |
Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands |
1941-02-11 |
Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments |
1941-02-14 |
German Afrika Korps lands in Tripoli, Libya |
1941-02-22 |
German assault on El Agheila Libya |
1941-03-01 |
German troops invade Bulgaria |
1941-03-02 |
World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joined the Axis Pact. |
1941-03-12 |
German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands |
1941-03-20 |
Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn |
1941-03-24 |
German troops occupy El Agheila Libya |
1941-03-27 |
Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul |
1941-03-30 |
German counter offensive in North-Africa |
1941-04-01 |
Pro-German Rashid Ali al-Ghailani grabs power in Iraq |
1941-04-01 |
The Blockade Runner Badge for German Kriegsmarine is instituted. |
1941-04-02 |
German occupier disallows Dutch scouting association |
1941-04-03 |
Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion |
1941-04-03 |
Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq |
1941-04-04 |
German troops conquer Banghazi |
1941-04-06 |
German bombardment on Piraeus (munitions ship explodes) |
1941-04-10 |
German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica |
1941-04-13 |
Heavy German assault on Tobruk |
1941-04-14 |
1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up |
1941-04-20 |
100 German bombers attack Athens |
1941-04-23 |
Greece Army surrenders to German Nazis RAF brings Greek king George II to Egypt |
1941-04-27 |
German troops occupy Athens Greece |
1941-05-01 |
German assault on Tobruk |
1941-05-03 |
-4] German air raid on Liverpool |
1941-05-08 |
German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean |
1941-05-09 |
British Army breaks German spy codes |
1941-05-16 |
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham) |
1941-05-21 |
German airforce occupies airport at Maleme, Crete |
1941-05-26 |
Aircraft from HMS Ark Royal sights German battleship Bismarck |
1941-05-26 |
German occupiers begin youth labor |
1941-05-27 |
German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force |
1941-05-30 |
British Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government |
1941-05-31 |
German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools |
1941-06-03 |
German occupiers stamp "J" on Jewish passports |
1941-06-08 |
British & French troops overthrow pro-German Syria |
1941-06-20 |
German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas |
1941-06-28 |
German & Romanian soldiers kill 11,000 Jews in Kishinev |
1941-06-28 |
German troops occupy Galicia, Poland |
1941-07-05 |
German occupiers disband political parties |
1941-07-11 |
German troops attack Dnjepr |
1941-07-27 |
German army enters Ukraine |
1941-07-30 |
German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands |
1941-08-01 |
Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division |
1941-08-02 |
German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman |
1941-08-03 |
German troops conquer Roslavl USSR |
1941-08-17 |
German raider attacks Dutch SS Kota Nopan |
1941-08-18 |
German concentration camp Amersfoort opens |
1941-08-25 |
British & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran |
1941-08-25 |
German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad |
1941-08-29 |
German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children |
1941-09-04 |
US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652 |
1941-09-06 |
All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star |
1941-09-11 |
World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats. |
1941-09-12 |
1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko) |
1941-09-16 |
German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine |
1941-09-16 |
Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed |
1941-09-19 |
German army conquerors Kiev |
1941-09-19 |
Nazis force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars |
1941-09-23 |
German air raid on Russian naval base at Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks) |
1941-09-24 |
Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev |
1941-09-30 |
German assault on Moscow, Operation Typhoon, begins |
1941-10-06 |
German army occupies Briansk, USSR |
1941-10-07 |
German army occupies Viarma, USSR |
1941-10-10 |
German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney |
1941-10-10 |
RAF bombs Piraeus to prevent German heavy armor advancement |
1941-10-15 |
1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe |
1941-11-02 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
1941-11-13 |
German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic |
1941-11-14 |
British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before |
1941-11-16 |
German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) |
1941-11-20 |
German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia |
1941-11-22 |
British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis |
1941-11-23 |
German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow |
1941-11-24 |
Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar |
1941-11-25 |
German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality) |
1941-11-28 |
German troops vacate Rostov |
1941-12-01 |
British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python |
1941-12-07 |
German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends |
1941-12-12 |
German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews |
1941-12-13 |
German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union |
1941-12-15 |
German submarine U-127 sinks |
1941-12-17 |
German submarine U-31 sunk |
1941-12-17 |
German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa |
1941-12-18 |
German submarine U-434 sinks |
1941-12-19 |
German submarine U-574 sinks |
1941-12-19 |
Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
1941-12-21 |
German submarine U-567 sinks |
1942-01-02 |
German troops in Bardia surrender |
1942-01-05 |
55 German tanks reach North-Africa |
1942-01-13 |
German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast |
1942-01-13 |
World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter. |
1942-01-19 |
Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers |
1942-01-26 |
Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German Marshal Rommel |
1942-01-28 |
German troops occupy Benghazi Libya |
1942-01-29 |
German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi, Libya |
1942-02-12 |
3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany |
1942-02-15 |
German U-boat shells Antillian oil refinery |
1942-02-16 |
German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery |
1942-02-24 |
Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German) |
1942-02-26 |
German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb |
1942-03-20 |
Major German assault on Malta |
1942-03-21 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1942-03-22 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1942-03-26 |
German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel |
1942-03-27 |
-28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire |
1942-03-29 |
German submarine U-585 sinks |
1942-03-29 |
The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. |
1942-04-07 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1942-04-14 |
Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast |
1942-04-20 |
German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach |
1942-04-20 |
Heavy German assault on Malta |
1942-05-03 |
German Luftwaffe bombs Exeter, UK during WWII |
1942-05-04 |
German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages |
1942-05-08 |
German summer offensive opens in Crimea |
1942-06-09 |
German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe |
1942-06-11 |
German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa |
1942-06-20 |
German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa |
1942-06-26 |
German assault on British at Mersa Matruh |
1942-07-01 |
German troops conquer Sebastopol |
1942-07-03 |
German troops march into Sebastopol, Crimea |
1942-07-13 |
German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages |
1942-07-18 |
Test flight of German Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time. |
1942-07-19 |
German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague |
1942-07-23 |
German troops conquer Rostow |
1942-07-23 |
World War II: Operation Edelweiss (a German plan to gain control over the Caucasus) begins. |
1942-07-25 |
German troops occupy Rostov |
1942-07-25 |
German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja |
1942-07-30 |
German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
1942-07-30 |
German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands |
1942-07-31 |
German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia |
1942-08-01 |
German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers |
1942-08-04 |
German occupier orders all Dutch homing pigeons killed |
1942-08-05 |
German troops cross Kuban River |
1942-08-12 |
German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe |
1942-08-19 |
WWII: General Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad |
1942-08-21 |
Alpine hunters plant German flag on Elbroezgebergte, Kaukasus |
1942-08-31 |
Battle at Alam Halfa: German & Italians assault |
1942-09-01 |
German troops land on Taman peninsula |
1942-09-02 |
German troops enter Stalingrad |
1942-09-07 |
German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle |
1942-09-13 |
German forces attack Stalingrad |
1942-09-14 |
German troops occupy train station Stalingrad-1 |
1942-09-27 |
Heavy German assault in Stalingrad |
1942-10-04 |
German assault on Tractor factory in Stalingrad |
1942-10-07 |
Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth) |
1942-10-14 |
German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed |
1942-10-15 |
German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 Germans die |
1942-10-23 |
German units go through Red October-factory in Stalingrad |
1942-11-09 |
German occupiers put Erik Scavenius as Danish premier |
1942-11-11 |
-12] last German offensive in Stalingrad |
1942-11-19 |
Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" |
1942-11-20 |
Soviet army offensive during WWII, 1 million Russians breach German lines |
1942-11-23 |
German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad |
1942-11-30 |
German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama |
1942-12-10 |
North Africa: 5th German panzer army forms under col-gen von Arnim |
1942-12-12 |
German offensive in South Western Stalingrad |
1942-12-17 |
Allies in London sentence German war criminals |
1942-12-24 |
Red army occupies German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk |
1942-12-25 |
Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad |
1943-01-10 |
Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad |
1943-01-16 |
German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow |
1943-01-20 |
Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian & Croatian |
1943-01-24 |
Hitler orders German troops at Stalingrad to fight to the death |
1943-01-30 |
German assault on French in Tunisia |
1943-01-30 |
German under officers shot down in Haarlem Neth |
1943-02-01 |
German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier |
1943-02-02 |
German 6th Army surrenders after Battle of Stalingrad, turning point in Europe during WW II |
1943-02-09 |
German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes," 1,200 in Vught Camp |
1943-02-13 |
German assault on Sidi Bou Zid Tunisia, Gen Eisenhower visits front |
1943-02-14 |
German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia |
1943-02-19 |
German tanks under brig gen Buelowius attack Kasserine Pass Tunesia |
1943-02-21 |
German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia |
1943-02-23 |
German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia |
1943-02-26 |
German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia |
1943-03-08 |
335 allied bombers attack German city of Nuremberg, a centre for military production |
1943-03-20 |
German U-384 bombed & sinks |
1943-03-21 |
Massacre of the town of Kalavryta, Greece by German Nazi troops. |
1943-03-23 |
German counter attack on US lines in Tunisia |
1943-04-22 |
German counter attack in North-Tunisia |
1943-04-22 |
RAF shoots down 14 German transport planes over Mediterranean Sea |
1943-04-25 |
The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted. |
1943-04-28 |
German-Italian counter offensive in North-Africa |
1943-05-01 |
German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes |
1943-05-01 |
German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta |
1943-05-02 |
German troops vacate Jefna Tunisia |
1943-05-09 |
5th German Pantser army surrenders in Tunisia |
1943-05-12 |
German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender |
1943-05-13 |
German & Italian forces in Africa surrender |
1943-05-13 |
German occupiers confiscate all radios |
1943-05-16 |
German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw |
1943-05-17 |
World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams. |
1943-06-02 |
German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins |
1943-06-05 |
German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor |
1943-06-20 |
German round up Jews in Amsterdam |
1943-07-06 |
2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed |
1943-07-12 |
Pope Pius XII receives German ambassador baron von Weizsacker |
1943-07-12 |
WWII: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russians defeat German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles |
1943-07-28 |
World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. |
1943-08-19 |
US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen |
1943-08-25 |
German occupiers impose 72-hour work week |
1943-09-09 |
15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome |
1943-09-10 |
German troops occupied Rome & took over the protection of Vatican City |
1943-09-11 |
Last German Q/pirate ship sinks near Easter Island |
1943-09-13 |
German counter attack at Salerno |
1943-09-29 |
1st Silbertanne-murder by German occupiers in Meppel |
1943-09-29 |
German riots at Amsterdam Jews |
1943-10-04 |
German occupiers forbid flying of kites (6 month jail sentence) |
1943-11-06 |
Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" |
1943-11-16 |
World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. |
1943-12-26 |
British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst |
1943-12-27 |
German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea |
1944-01-21 |
447 German bombers attack London |
1944-01-29 |
285 German bombers attack London |
1944-02-11 |
German troops reconquer Aprilia, Italy |
1944-02-20 |
World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers. |
1944-04-02 |
Soviet Army marches into pro-German Romania |
1944-04-28 |
Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal after their convoy ships were attacked by German torpedo boats |
1944-05-07 |
German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar Bosnia |
1944-05-14 |
91 German bombers harass Bristol |
1944-05-19 |
German defense line in Italy collapsed |
1944-06-04 |
U505 becomes the first German submarine captured & boarded on high seas |
1944-06-05 |
German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel goes on leave just before WWII D-Day landings by the Allies |
1944-06-10 |
World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. |
1944-06-13 |
German counter attack on Villers-Bocage, Normandy |
1944-06-29 |
German counter attack at Caen |
1944-07-01 |
2500+ killed in London/SE England by German flying bombs |
1944-07-04 |
1,100 US guns fire 4th of July salute at German lines in Normandy |
1944-07-04 |
Gestapo arrests German Social Democrat Julius Leber |
1944-07-18 |
British air raid on German convoy SW of Helgoland |
1944-07-20 |
Fieldmarshal von Kluge consults with German commandant at Caen |
1944-07-24 |
300 allied bombers drop fire bombs on Allied/German positions |
1944-07-25 |
Allied jailbreak at St-Lo (behind German lines) |
1944-07-26 |
The first German V-2 rocket hits Great Britain (nicknamed "gasometer"). |
1944-08-04 |
Anne Frank arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police (Grüne Polizei) following a tip-off from an informer who was never identified |
1944-08-06 |
Anti-German attack at Avranches fails |
1944-08-07 |
German counter attack at Avranches fails |
1944-08-15 |
German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day |
1944-08-17 |
German field marshal Model replaces von Kluge in Normandy |
1944-08-20 |
US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap |
1944-08-26 |
Bulgaria announces withdrawal & German troops are to be disarmed |
1944-08-28 |
Last German troops in Marseille surrendered & Toulon cleared |
1944-08-29 |
Anti German rebellion in Slovakia |
1944-09-17 |
Dutch begin railroad strike against German occupiers |
1944-09-20 |
Nijmegen is liberated from German occupation |
1944-09-30 |
-Oct 1] Failed attack on German officers near Putten Neth |
1944-10-09 |
German occupiers turn off electricity in Amsterdam |
1944-10-12 |
German army retreats from Athens |
1944-10-21 |
During WW II, US troops capture Aachen, 1st large German city to fall |
1944-11-03 |
German troops in Vlissingen surrenders |
1944-11-03 |
Pro-German government of Hungary flees |
1944-11-04 |
German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1944-11-05 |
German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die |
1944-11-08 |
Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders |
1944-11-10 |
German riots in Rotterdam/Schiedam 52,000 men sent to Germany |
1944-11-12 |
RAF sinks German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord, Norway |
1944-11-25 |
World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers. |
1944-12-02 |
German troops seize Betuwse dikes |
1944-12-05 |
German troops steal all the silver coin in Utrecht |
1944-12-10 |
German counter attack at Dillingen bridgehead on the Saar |
1944-12-14 |
German occupiers forbid use of electricity in parts of Holland |
1944-12-16 |
German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill) |
1945-01-01 |
German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels |
1945-01-07 |
Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory in the Ardennes |
1945-01-12 |
German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge |
1945-01-17 |
The devastated city of Warsaw is cleared of German resistance by the Russians and a Polish unit fighting with them |
1945-03-19 |
Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories |
1945-03-27 |
Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken |
1945-03-28 |
Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London |
1945-03-30 |
World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans. |
1945-04-07 |
1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers |
1945-04-10 |
German troops attack Ijsselbrug |
1945-04-16 |
German troops in Groningen surrender |
1945-04-17 |
German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth |
1945-04-18 |
Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops |
1945-04-20 |
German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer |
1945-04-20 |
US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg |
1945-04-21 |
Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory |
1945-04-26 |
World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. |
1945-04-29 |
Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed |
1945-04-30 |
Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin |
1945-05-01 |
Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government |
1945-05-02 |
German Army in Italy surrenders |
1945-05-03 |
Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg |
1945-05-03 |
WWII: German ship "Cap Arcona" laden with prisoners sunk by Royal Air Force in East Sea, 5,800 killed - one of largest maritime losses of life |
1945-05-04 |
German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender |
1945-05-06 |
Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands |
1945-05-07 |
WWII: unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims |
1945-05-08 |
German General Von Keitel formally surrenders to Marshal Zhukov and the Soviets in Berlin |
1945-05-23 |
German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British |
1945-05-23 |
Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 |
1945-09-20 |
German rocket engineers begin work in US |
1946-04-03 |
Netherlands-German postal relations resume |
1946-08-23 |
Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. |
1946-10-28 |
German rocket engineers begin work in USSR |
1946-11-01 |
West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created |
1946-12-10 |
German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style" |
1948-08-12 |
Court of justice sentences General Friedrich Christiansen, commander of the German Wehrmacht in the Netherlands, to 12 years imprisonment |
1949-05-08 |
West German constitution approved |
1949-05-30 |
East German constitution approved |
1949-09-12 |
Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR |
1949-10-07 |
German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier |
1950-06-06 |
German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border |
1950-07-06 |
German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland |
1950-07-12 |
Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death |
1950-09-15 |
East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification |
1950-09-19 |
Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government |
1951-01-13 |
German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison |
1951-02-01 |
Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed |
1952-02-29 |
The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. |
1952-03-27 |
Failed assassination attempt of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer |
1952-04-25 |
German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms |
1952-07-12 |
East German SED decides to form German DR army |
1952-08-28 |
German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments |
1952-09-11 |
West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews |
1952-11-03 |
Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel |
1953-09-06 |
Konrad Adenauer's CDU wins elections in German Federal Republic |
1953-10-09 |
Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor |
1953-10-23 |
German FR applies to NATO |
1954-04-07 |
German government refuses to recognize DDR |
1954-05-24 |
German airline Lufthansa forms |
1954-07-20 |
West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR |
1954-09-03 |
The German U-Boat U-505 began its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. |
1954-10-23 |
German FR joins NATO |
1955-01-15 |
USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic |
1955-04-19 |
The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network. |
1955-04-30 |
West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages |
1955-05-09 |
German Federal Republic joins NATO |
1955-10-25 |
Austria resumed its sovereignty after departure of last Allied occupation forces, for 1st time since German occupation of 1938 |
1955-11-12 |
1st West German officers sworn in |
1956-01-18 |
German DR forms own army (National People's Army) |
1956-04-03 |
German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed |
1956-06-21 |
German DR frees almost 19,000 prisoners |
1957-01-01 |
France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Rep |
1957-03-12 |
German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions |
1957-09-21 |
German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean |
1957-10-13 |
German Democratic Republic recalls OstMark & issues new currency |
1958-03-25 |
West German parliament desires German atomic weapons |
1958-09-14 |
Two rockets designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, the first German post-war rockets, reach the upper atmosphere. |
1959-07-06 |
Saar becomes part of German Federal Republic |
1960-09-08 |
German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners |
1960-12-20 |
Auschwitz commandant Richard Bar arrested in German FR |
1961-08-01 |
German DR limits traffic to West Berlin |
1961-09-10 |
Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators hit by his Ferrari. |
1961-09-16 |
CDU loses West German election |
1962-08-17 |
E German border guards shot & kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector |
1962-09-04 |
French president De Gaulle visits German FR |
1963-10-02 |
W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR |
1963-10-15 |
Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor |
1964-01-29 |
Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand" & "Sie Liebt Dich" |
1964-09-09 |
German DR government allows short visits to West Germany |
1964-09-24 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR |
1965-02-24 |
East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt |
1965-03-25 |
West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
1965-09-19 |
Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections |
1966-05-27 |
55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes |
1966-06-11 |
French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry |
1966-12-01 |
Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor |
1968-04-06 |
94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution |
1968-04-09 |
German DR adopts constitution |
1968-05-30 |
University church in Leipzig, German DR, blown up |
1968-05-30 |
West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law |
1968-06-30 |
East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" |
1969-05-08 |
Cambodia recognizes German DR |
1969-07-07 |
German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal |
1969-09-28 |
SPD wins West German Parliament elections |
1969-11-24 |
West German president Heinemann visits Netherlands |
1970-02-10 |
Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France) |
1970-03-19 |
W German chancellor & E German premier meet |
1971-05-03 |
Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
1971-09-16 |
West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev |
1971-10-20 |
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize |
1971-12-10 |
West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace |
1972-02-16 |
German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed |
1972-06-01 |
West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader |
1972-06-07 |
German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel |
1972-06-15 |
West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof |
1972-08-14 |
East German Aeroflot Illyushin 62 crashes near Moscow, killing 156 |
1972-08-26 |
20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR |
1972-09-10 |
20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR |
1972-11-19 |
Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election |
1972-12-14 |
Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor |
1972-12-27 |
Belgium recognizes German DR |
1973-01-05 |
Netherlands recognizes German DR |
1973-04-17 |
German counter-terrorist unit GSG 9 founded. |
1973-09-18 |
German FR & German DR admitted to UN |
1973-10-03 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
1973-12-11 |
West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech |
1974-05-06 |
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns |
1974-05-16 |
Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor |
1974-09-03 |
US & German Democratic Republic establish diplomatic relations |
1974-10-07 |
German Democratic Republic amends constitution |
1975-04-25 |
West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden |
1976-01-15 |
US-German Helios B solar probe launched into solar orbit |
1976-10-03 |
Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election |
1976-11-01 |
W German Generals Krupinski and Franke admit to having been Nazis |
1976-11-26 |
German DR deprives singer/poet Wolf Biermann citizenship |
1976-12-22 |
German DR banishes singer Nina Hagen |
1977-04-07 |
German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. |
1977-08-23 |
Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR |
1977-09-05 |
RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer |
1977-09-22 |
West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht |
1977-10-17 |
West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers |
1977-10-18 |
W German commandos liberate Boeing 737, 86 hostages at Mogadishu |
1977-10-19 |
Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found |
1978-08-26 |
Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6 |
1979-10-11 |
German DR frees dissidents Rudolf Bahro & Nico Hubner |
1980-06-23 |
West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium) |
1980-06-30 |
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow |
1981-04-22 |
Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike |
1982-10-04 |
Helmut Kohl elected chancellor of German FR |
1983-03-06 |
Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections |
1983-07-27 |
104°F (40.3°C) in Garmersdorf (German record) |
1984-10-25 |
West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption |
1985-04-25 |
West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust |
1985-06-21 |
American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele |
1985-08-23 |
West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR |
1986-02-09 |
West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17) |
1987-01-13 |
West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking |
1987-05-28 |
Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR |
1987-05-30 |
West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square |
1987-09-02 |
West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia |
1988-11-25 |
German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag. |
1989-01-27 |
German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed |
1989-02-27 |
German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland |
1989-09-30 |
Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague. |
1989-10-18 |
East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns |
1990-04-12 |
1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss |
1990-07-01 |
German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency |
1990-09-24 |
West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty |
1990-10-03 |
Reunification of East & West Germany. West German flag raised above Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight |
1990-11-20 |
Saddam Hussein announces plans to release German hostages |
1991-06-20 |
The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. |
1991-09-19 |
Ötzi the Iceman, 3,300 BCE old mummy discovered by German tourists. |
1992-06-26 |
Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship |
1994-07-01 |
Roman Herzog sworn in as German president |
1994-11-06 |
25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21 |
1994-11-15 |
Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes) |
1995-11-12 |
26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00 |
1997-07-28 |
Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion |
1997-08-25 |
Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy. |
1998-04-20 |
German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years. |
1999-02-24 |
The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him. |
1999-04-19 |
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin. |
2000-02-04 |
German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. |
2002-07-01 |
A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71. |
2003-07-02 |
Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament. |
2005-10-10 |
Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year. |
2006-09-22 |
A German maglev train crashes, killing 23. |
2010-02-13 |
A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune, India, kills 10 and injures 60 more. |
2012-04-04 |
German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out Iran |
2012-10-09 |
25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel |
2013-04-06 |
Bayern Munich win their 23rd German Bundesliga title with 6 games to spare |
2013-06-01 |
Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal to become the first German treble-winning team |
2013-09-22 |
Angela Merkel and the Christian Democrats win a third term with their best result since 1990 in German Federal elections |
2015-12-09 |
TIME names German leader Angela Merkel its Person of the Year |
2016-02-17 |
CJ, a German Shorthaired Pointer, Wins Best in Show at Westminster |
2017-03-10 |
7 Injured in Ax Attack at German Station; 1 Arrest |
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German - Notable Birthdays
German - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
801-09-08 |
Ansgar, German Catholic archbishop (d. 865) |
912-11-23 |
Otto I, the Great, German king, Holy Roman emperor (962-73) |
973-05-06 |
Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24) |
975-07-25 |
Thietmar, bishop of Merseburg, German chronicler |
1017-10-28 |
Henry III, Roman Catholic German emperor (1046-56) |
1051-09-21 |
Bertha of Savoy, German queen and Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1087) |
1081-01-08 |
Henry V, Roman German king/emperor (1098/1111-25) |
1098-09-16 |
Hildegard of Bingen, German magistra and the first composer whose biography is known (d. 1179) |
1211-02-12 |
Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35) |
1352-05-05 |
Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king |
1361-02-26 |
Wenceslas of Bohemia, Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400) |
1367-06-28 |
Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia |
1415-09-21 |
Frederick III, Innsbruck Austria, German Emperor (1440-1493) |
1420-08-24 |
Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt) |
1423-05-30 |
Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) |
1440-02-13 |
Hartmann Schedel, German physician/humanist/historian |
1452-12-10 |
Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531) |
1459-02-01 |
Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508) |
1459-03-06 |
Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant |
1459-03-22 |
Maximilian I of Habsburg, German Emperor/archduke of Austria |
1459-10-06 |
Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507) |
1462-02-01 |
Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516) |
1467-01-14 |
Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, German gov/viceroy of Frisia |
1468-02-14 |
Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522) |
1471-10-15 |
Konrad Mutian, German humanist (d. 1526) |
1475-12-24 |
Thomas Murner, German writer (d.c. 1537) |
1477-01-14 |
Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (d. 1552) |
1477-01-16 |
Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547) |
1477-03-20 |
Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) |
1481-03-02 |
Franz von Sickingen, German knight |
1483-12-03 |
Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist |
1484-01-17 |
George Spalatin, German reformer (d. 1545) |
1485-06-24 |
Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) |
1486-01-06 |
Martin Agricola, [M Sore], German composer/cantor |
1486-09-14 |
Agrippa von Nettesheim, German occultist/alchemist/royal astrologer |
1486-11-13 |
Johann Eck, German theologian (d. 1543) |
1488-01-06 |
Helius Eobanus Hessus, German poet (Silvae) |
1488-04-21 |
Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot |
1489-08-10 |
Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (d. 1553) |
1490-06-28 |
Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal |
1492-04-04 |
Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564) |
1493-06-05 |
Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555) |
1494-04-20 |
John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister |
1494-11-05 |
Hans Sachs, German composer, playwright and shoemaker |
1495-04-16 |
Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557) |
1497-02-15 |
Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant |
1499-06-24 |
Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians) |
1500-04-12 |
Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German humanist |
1501-02-24 |
Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna) |
1501-04-19 |
Erasmus Sarcerius, German Lutheran theologian and reformer (d. 1559) |
1502-01-10 |
Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God) |
1502-04-25 |
Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (d. 1574) |
1503-03-10 |
Ferdinand I, German emperor (1558-64) |
1503-06-01 |
Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col |
1504-01-01 |
Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer |
1515-10-04 |
Lucas Cranach, the Younger, German painter |
1516-04-23 |
Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571) |
1518-08-08 |
Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561) |
1522-11-09 |
Martin Chemnitz, German theologian (d. 1586) |
1524-02-10 |
Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580) |
1525-01-06 |
Caspar Peucer, German reformer (d. 1602) |
1527-07-31 |
Maximilian II, German King/Emperor (1564-76) |
1529-04-03 |
Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581) |
1531-09-14 |
Philipp Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geography/cartographer |
1532-12-26 |
Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (d. 1576) |
1534-07-18 |
Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger Catechism) |
1534-11-05 |
Joachim Camerarius, German botanist/physician (horticulture catalog) |
1539-03-25 |
Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612) |
1539-12-20 |
Paul Melissus [Paul Schede], German poet/composer |
1540-01-28 |
Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) |
1540-07-11 |
Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich/Juliana of Stolberg |
1546-02-14 |
Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian |
1547-03-01 |
Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (d. 1628) |
1547-09-22 |
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (d. 1590) |
1550-09-30 |
Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631) |
1555-12-04 |
Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625) |
1555-12-27 |
Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist |
1560-06-25 |
Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon (d. 1634) |
1561-08-29 |
Bartholomeus Pitiscus, German mathematician (Trigonometry) |
1569-11-11 |
Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611) |
1573-01-10 |
Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624) |
1573-02-28 |
Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg) |
1576-05-27 |
Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649) |
1578-03-18 |
Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized |
1578-07-09 |
Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37) |
1582-10-17 |
Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637) |
1583-09-24 |
Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general |
1586-01-20 |
Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel) |
1586-08-17 |
Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg) |
1587-11-04 |
Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised |
1591-02-25 |
Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635) |
1592-05-01 |
Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer |
1593-05-20 |
Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656) |
1595-05-27 |
Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer |
1597-12-23 |
Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" |
1599-09-20 |
Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623) |
1601-05-02 |
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern) |
1602-01-06 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader |
1604-01-04 |
Jacob Balde, German jesuit/barok conductor (Jephthe) |
1605-07-29 |
Simon Dach, German poet |
1605-09-23 |
Daniel von Czepko, German poet |
1607-03-12 |
Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676) |
1607-11-01 |
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658) |
1608-02-05 |
Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666) |
1608-07-13 |
Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor (1637-57) |
1610-03-01 |
Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian |
1611-09-08 |
Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671) |
1612-06-23 |
Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet |
1615-06-27 |
Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter |
1616-05-19 |
Johann Jakob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer |
1616-10-11 |
Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664) |
1617-08-13 |
Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist |
1619-10-08 |
Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam) |
1620-01-31 |
Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief |
1620-12-18 |
Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668) |
1622-02-24 |
Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665) |
1624-06-15 |
Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704) |
1624-12-25 |
Angelus Silesius, [Johann Scheffler], German mystic (St Seelenlust) |
1626-12-20 |
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692) |
1628-01-01 |
Christoph Bernhard, German composer |
1632-01-08 |
Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist |
1632-01-29 |
Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703) |
1632-05-08 |
Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706) |
1632-08-02 |
Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner) |
1634-01-07 |
Adam Krieger, German composer |
1635-01-13 |
Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705) |
1635-02-01 |
Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689) |
1637-08-16 |
Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706) |
1638-03-14 |
Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710) |
1639-02-06 |
Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691) |
1642-06-20 |
George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology) |
1642-12-06 |
Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703) |
1644-07-02 |
Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar |
1645-02-09 |
Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716) |
1646-07-01 |
G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads |
1646-07-29 |
Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve) |
1646-08-08 |
Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723) |
1647-08-12 |
Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719) |
1651-04-10 |
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708) |
1651-09-16 |
Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716) |
1652-05-27 |
Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans |
1652-12-09 |
Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723) |
1654-03-16 |
Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704) |
1654-11-05 |
Christian Liebe, German composer |
1655-01-01 |
Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728) |
1656-02-20 |
Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised |
1660-02-19 |
Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742) |
1660-05-20 |
Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714) |
1660-10-21 |
Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734) |
1660-11-15 |
Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746) |
1660-11-20 |
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741) |
1660-12-26 |
Peter Schenck, German/Neth engraver/publisher, baptised |
1661-09-02 |
Georg Bohm, German organist/composer |
1662-05-03 |
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736) |
1663-03-22 |
August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727) |
1665-02-12 |
Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant) |
1665-03-27 |
Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau) |
1666-03-15 |
George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden) (d. 1738) |
1666-07-10 |
John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711) |
1666-09-05 |
Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter |
1667-11-05 |
Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719) |
1668-11-11 |
Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736) |
1676-06-06 |
Georg Riedel, German composer |
1676-07-14 |
Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763) |
1677-02-04 |
Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731) |
1678-07-26 |
Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11) |
1679-01-24 |
Christian von Wolff, German philosopher |
1679-10-20 |
Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer |
1680-01-03 |
Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker |
1680-09-22 |
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (d. 1747) |
1681-09-11 |
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (d. 1741) |
1682-04-03 |
Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine/composer |
1682-07-10 |
Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719) |
1683-01-13 |
Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer |
1684-01-14 |
Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (d. 1742) |
1684-12-22 |
Johann J Dillenius, [Dillen], German botanist (Historia Muscorum) |
1685-06-30 |
Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche) |
1687-01-30 |
[Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized |
1687-06-24 |
Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757) |
1687-12-26 |
Johann Georg Pisendel, German violinist/composer |
1690-03-18 |
Christian Goldbach, German mathematician (Goldbach position) |
1691-04-09 |
Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761) |
1692-02-25 |
Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (d. 1775) |
1692-11-07 |
Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg) |
1692-11-15 |
Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (d. 1775) |
1693-06-17 |
Johann Georg Walch, German theologian (d. 1775) |
1694-08-24 |
Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25] |
1694-12-22 |
Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (d. 1768) |
1695-06-05 |
Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect |
1697-01-30 |
Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer |
1697-02-24 |
Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist |
1697-03-09 |
Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz) |
1697-06-04 |
Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi |
1697-11-25 |
Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (wrote in blood) |
1699-02-17 |
Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci) |
1700-05-26 |
Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, German evangelist |
1700-08-13 |
Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (d. 1763) |
1701-01-27 |
Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan (bishop) |
1702-01-10 |
Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762) |
1702-05-02 |
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782) |
1704-10-09 |
Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) |
1704-11-01 |
Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779) |
1705-09-07 |
Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788) |
1706-01-07 |
Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (d. 1751) |
1706-02-12 |
Josef Christian, German sculptor |
1706-05-17 |
Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (d. 1780) |
1706-11-08 |
Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772) |
1708-01-30 |
Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist |
1708-04-23 |
Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem) |
1708-05-03 |
Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer |
1709-01-01 |
Johann H H Butz, German/Dutch organ builder |
1709-03-10 |
Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746) |
1710-02-01 |
Konrad E Ackermann, German actor (Die Oberpfalz) |
1710-07-21 |
Paul Möhring, German physician (d. 1792) |
1711-09-06 |
Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787) |
1712-01-24 |
Georg F Schmidt, German engraver/etcher |
1712-10-30 |
Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter |
1713-09-14 |
Johann Kies, German mathematician (d. 1781) |
1714-03-08 |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach |
1714-09-17 |
Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire) |
1715-01-10 |
Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775) |
1715-03-07 |
Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759) |
1715-07-25 |
Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of Real Poetry) |
1715-11-13 |
Dorothea Erxleben, German, first female medical doctor (d.1762) |
1716-12-25 |
Johann Jakob Reiske, German scholar and physician (d. 1774) |
1717-08-13 |
Christoph Nichelsmann, German composer |
1717-12-09 |
Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art) |
1719-01-28 |
Johann Elias Schlegel, German critic and poet (d. 1749) |
1719-06-11 |
Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik |
1719-08-04 |
Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minerologist and geologist (d. 1767) |
1719-09-27 |
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (d. 1800) |
1719-10-20 |
Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistician/economist |
1720-01-04 |
Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist |
1720-05-11 |
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) |
1720-08-12 |
Konrad Ekhof, German actor (d. 1778) |
1720-10-03 |
Johann P Uz, German poet (Lyrische Poem) |
1720-12-14 |
Justus Möser, German statesman (d. 1794) |
1721-04-24 |
Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised |
1721-07-09 |
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (d. 1781) |
1723-09-11 |
Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer (d. 1790) |
1723-10-04 |
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (d. 1798) |
1723-12-19 |
Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother |
1723-12-22 |
Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer |
1723-12-26 |
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (d. 1807) |
1724-07-02 |
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet |
1724-12-13 |
Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist |
1725-02-25 |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (Geistliche Kantaten) |
1725-12-18 |
Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (d. 1791) |
1728-03-22 |
Anton Raphael Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter |
1728-08-26 |
Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777) |
1729-03-16 |
Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian (Annales typographic) |
1729-09-06 |
Mozes Mendelssohn, German englightened philosopher (Haksalah) |
1729-09-25 |
Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist |
1729-10-22 |
Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (d. 1798) |
1731-09-02 |
Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia) |
1731-12-28 |
Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master |
1732-08-08 |
Johann C Adelung, German linguist/librarian |
1733-03-15 |
Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized |
1733-04-27 |
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter, Sulz am Neckar, German Botanist who pioneered the study of plant hybrids, especially among the tobacco plants |
1736-09-16 |
Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician |
1736-11-11 |
Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver |
1738-11-15 |
F William Herschel, German/English astronomer (discovered Uranus) |
1740-03-19 |
Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist |
1740-08-15 |
Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815) |
1740-09-12 |
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817) |
1741-08-25 |
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792) |
1741-09-11 |
Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark) |
1741-09-22 |
Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist (Siberia/Krim) |
1742-07-01 |
Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg) |
1742-10-12 |
Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor |
1742-12-16 |
Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819) |
1742-12-25 |
Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827) |
1743-02-23 |
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812) |
1743-12-01 |
Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium) |
1744-07-19 |
Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806) |
1744-08-25 |
Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet |
1746-02-16 |
Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic |
1747-03-31 |
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen) |
1748-02-05 |
Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven |
1750-11-07 |
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819) |
1751-02-20 |
Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826) |
1751-04-09 |
Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann Schickeneder], German playwright [or 9/1] |
1752-02-17 |
Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr) |
1752-05-11 |
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840) |
1752-05-14 |
Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828) |
1753-04-28 |
Franz K Achard, German physicist |
1753-11-03 |
August G Meissner, German author |
1755-04-10 |
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy |
1756-02-22 |
Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821) |
1756-07-02 |
Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl |
1756-11-30 |
Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827) |
1757-01-19 |
Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831) |
1758-03-09 |
Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology) |
1759-02-15 |
Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena) |
1759-05-01 |
Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor |
1761-01-23 |
Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide) |
1761-05-03 |
August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819) |
1761-07-25 |
Charlotte von Kalb, German writer |
1762-05-19 |
Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre) |
1763-02-03 |
Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author |
1763-09-02 |
Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author |
1763-10-24 |
Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839) |
1764-05-20 |
J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer |
1765-03-27 |
Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist |
1765-06-15 |
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831) |
1765-12-22 |
Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825) |
1766-01-25 |
Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I |
1766-04-15 |
Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic |
1766-07-18 |
Friedrich Fleischmann, German composer |
1766-10-22 |
Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king |
1766-11-24 |
J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist |
1767-04-27 |
Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock) |
1767-06-22 |
Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835) |
1767-09-05 |
August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic |
1767-11-11 |
Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster |
1768-11-21 |
Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher |
1769-09-14 |
Alexander von Humboldt, Berlin, German naturalist and explorer (Kosmos), (d. 1859) |
1770-03-20 |
Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843) |
1770-04-09 |
Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831) |
1770-08-27 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic) |
1770-09-19 |
Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker |
1770-10-22 |
Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831) |
1771-02-24 |
Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher |
1771-03-10 |
Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe) |
1771-05-26 |
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author |
1771-09-17 |
Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816) |
1772-05-04 |
Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823) |
1773-06-03 |
Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist |
1773-07-13 |
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art) |
1773-08-23 |
Jakob F Fries, German philosopher |
1774-04-26 |
Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853) |
1774-09-08 |
Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet |
1775-04-22 |
Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen) |
1775-08-26 |
William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851) |
1776-01-24 |
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine) |
1776-08-15 |
Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten) |
1776-12-03 |
Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832) |
1776-12-16 |
Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810) |
1777-01-02 |
Christian D Rauch, German sculptor |
1777-02-12 |
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843) |
1777-07-23 |
Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810) |
1777-09-07 |
Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844) |
1777-11-28 |
Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat |
1778-09-08 |
Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842) |
1779-02-21 |
Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer |
1779-08-01 |
Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851) |
1780-01-10 |
M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist |
1780-01-12 |
Wilhelm M L de Wette, German exegetist/theologist |
1780-02-19 |
Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist (Nibelungenlied) |
1780-03-27 |
August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway) |
1781-01-26 |
Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) |
1781-02-09 |
Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826) |
1781-03-13 |
Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel) |
1781-05-04 |
Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832) |
1781-05-14 |
Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian |
1781-06-05 |
Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860) |
1781-11-20 |
Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian |
1783-01-20 |
Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860) |
1783-12-11 |
Max von Schenkendorf, German poet |
1784-02-29 |
Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg) |
1784-07-22 |
Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function) |
1785-02-21 |
Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner) |
1785-04-01 |
J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter |
1785-04-04 |
Bettina von Arnim, German writer and composer of the Romantic era (This Book Belongs to the King) |
1785-10-31 |
George F Kersting, German painter |
1786-09-18 |
Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer |
1787-03-08 |
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery |
1787-03-16 |
Georg Simon Ohm, Erlangen, Brandenburg-Bayreuth, German physicist (discovered Ohm's Law) |
1787-09-18 |
Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist |
1788-01-05 |
Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer |
1788-03-10 |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild) |
1788-04-05 |
Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund) |
1788-05-10 |
Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen (d. 1819) |
1788-05-16 |
Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866) |
1788-08-02 |
Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853) |
1788-08-26 |
Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist |
1788-09-06 |
F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari) |
1789-01-03 |
Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher |
1789-01-17 |
August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850) |
1789-02-09 |
Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849) |
1790-03-14 |
Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863) |
1790-03-15 |
Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861) |
1790-11-17 |
August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868) |
1791-04-23 |
W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist |
1791-09-23 |
Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet) |
1791-09-23 |
Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt) |
1792-02-28 |
Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist |
1792-10-12 |
Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860) |
1793-03-04 |
Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851) |
1794-03-26 |
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872) |
1794-04-09 |
Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881) |
1794-04-17 |
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868) |
1794-05-29 |
Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874) |
1794-07-03 |
Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt) |
1794-08-10 |
Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry) |
1794-08-17 |
Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849) |
1794-10-24 |
Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant |
1795-02-08 |
Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline) |
1795-03-28 |
Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876) |
1795-04-19 |
Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist |
1795-05-15 |
Adolf B Marx, German music theorist |
1795-06-24 |
Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878) |
1795-09-04 |
Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age) |
1795-11-26 |
Carl P Fohr, German painter |
1795-12-21 |
Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886) |
1796-02-17 |
Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866) |
1796-05-09 |
August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia) |
1796-12-29 |
Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877) |
1797-01-10 |
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848) |
1797-02-22 |
William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88) |
1797-03-22 |
Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88) |
1797-07-18 |
Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879) |
1798-01-24 |
Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician) |
1798-06-21 |
Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873) |
1798-09-11 |
Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist |
1799-03-28 |
Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow) |
1799-04-13 |
Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist |
1799-08-20 |
Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician |
1800-03-03 |
Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862) |
1800-05-30 |
Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach) |
1800-07-09 |
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885) |
1801-04-19 |
Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist |
1801-06-16 |
Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868) |
1801-07-14 |
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858) |
1801-11-24 |
Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860) |
1802-08-13 |
Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser) |
1802-09-13 |
Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880) |
1802-10-07 |
Bernhard Molique, German violinist and composer |
1802-11-14 |
August F Pott, German philologist (Etymology Forschungen) |
1803-05-12 |
Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics) |
1803-10-06 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879) |
1803-11-29 |
Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879) |
1804-02-12 |
Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865) |
1804-02-16 |
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885) |
1804-02-19 |
Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878) |
1804-06-10 |
Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884) |
1804-07-28 |
Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats) |
1804-09-08 |
Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875) |
1804-10-24 |
Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891) |
1804-12-10 |
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851) |
1805-03-16 |
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861) |
1805-12-06 |
Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875) |
1806-01-03 |
Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854) |
1806-06-12 |
John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869) |
1806-10-25 |
Max Stirner, [Johann C Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige) |
1807-03-07 |
Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist) |
1807-06-30 |
Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer) |
1808-02-05 |
Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885) |
1808-04-29 |
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883] |
1808-06-20 |
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888) |
1808-08-29 |
Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer |
1808-10-20 |
Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus) |
1808-10-24 |
Carl Bernhard von Cotta, Meiningen, Germany, German geologist |
1809-03-15 |
Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893) |
1809-07-10 |
Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889) |
1810-01-29 |
Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician |
1810-11-07 |
Fritz Reuter, German novelist |
1810-11-09 |
Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887) |
1810-12-07 |
Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory |
1811-09-28 |
Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician |
1811-09-30 |
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890) |
1811-10-24 |
Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor |
1811-12-25 |
Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz |
1812-01-10 |
Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881) |
1812-02-29 |
Hermann Hirschboch, German composer |
1812-04-26 |
Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant |
1812-04-30 |
Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe |
1812-06-09 |
Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens) |
1812-06-09 |
Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune) |
1812-11-19 |
Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885) |
1812-12-24 |
Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894) |
1813-02-11 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865) |
1813-05-12 |
Johann Czerski, German chaplin |
1813-06-16 |
Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869) |
1813-10-17 |
Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837) |
1813-10-23 |
Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848) |
1813-11-30 |
Hermann Kurz, German author/poet |
1814-03-05 |
Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889) |
1814-05-14 |
Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876) |
1814-09-02 |
Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian |
1814-11-25 |
Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878) |
1815-01-18 |
Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874) |
1815-04-11 |
Klara Fey, German orchestra leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein) |
1815-08-02 |
Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894) |
1815-08-04 |
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, Sulz am Neckar, German Physician and advocate of scientific medicine |
1815-09-29 |
Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver |
1815-12-08 |
Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905) |
1816-07-25 |
Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition) |
1816-09-11 |
Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888) |
1816-12-13 |
E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor |
1816-12-29 |
Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895) |
1817-02-22 |
Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880) |
1817-05-14 |
Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893) |
1817-09-14 |
Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China) |
1817-10-30 |
Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry) |
1817-12-02 |
Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895) |
1818-02-12 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei) |
1818-04-20 |
Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893) |
1818-07-31 |
Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer |
1818-11-07 |
Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896) |
1819-07-06 |
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, Berlin, German Physician and Physiologist |
1819-09-13 |
Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896) |
1819-09-22 |
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897) |
1819-12-22 |
Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor |
1819-12-30 |
Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest) |
1820-01-22 |
Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet |
1820-01-22 |
Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899) |
1820-04-16 |
Georg Curtius, German classical linguist |
1820-09-28 |
Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher |
1821-03-01 |
Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896) |
1821-03-15 |
Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881) |
1821-03-26 |
Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel) |
1821-05-17 |
Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897) |
1821-10-13 |
Rudolf Virchow, Schivelbein, Pomerania, Prussia, German politician/anthropologist/pathologist (cell pathology), (d. 1902) |
1822-01-06 |
Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje) |
1822-01-07 |
Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns) |
1822-02-22 |
Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease) |
1822-03-13 |
Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet |
1822-06-13 |
Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884) |
1822-12-23 |
Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875) |
1823-04-16 |
Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852) |
1823-10-26 |
Karl Weinhold, German sociologist |
1823-12-06 |
Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900) |
1823-12-07 |
Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker) |
1823-12-10 |
Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, Neukirchen, German composer |
1824-03-29 |
Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899) |
1824-07-10 |
Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician |
1824-11-21 |
Hieronymus Theodor Richter, Dresden, German Mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium |
1825-03-05 |
Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype) |
1825-06-28 |
Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf) |
1825-07-09 |
Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters) |
1825-08-26 |
Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian |
1825-09-11 |
Eduard Hanslick, German music critic (d. 1904) |
1826-02-16 |
Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Gaudeamus) |
1826-03-09 |
Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer |
1826-03-17 |
Oskar Peschel, German journalist/geography (Volkerkunder) |
1826-03-29 |
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP (social-democratic) |
1826-06-01 |
Carl Bechstein, German piano inventor |
1826-08-21 |
Karl Gegenbaur, German anatomist (d. 1903) |
1826-09-17 |
G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function) |
1826-12-08 |
Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist |
1827-02-02 |
Oswald Aschenbach, German painter |
1827-03-08 |
Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875) |
1827-04-23 |
Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer |
1827-06-13 |
Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (d. 1882) |
1828-01-10 |
Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892) |
1828-01-24 |
Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist |
1828-02-19 |
Johannes von Miquel, German politician |
1828-07-04 |
Theodor W Ahlwardt, German orientalist |
1828-12-23 |
Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter) |
1828-12-28 |
Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie) |
1829-01-03 |
Konrad Duden, German linguist (Der grosse Duden) |
1829-01-09 |
Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (Tarimbekken) |
1829-02-02 |
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884) |
1829-02-26 |
Levi Strauss, German-born clothing designer (d. 1902) |
1829-05-30 |
Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert |
1829-08-23 |
Moritz B Cantor, German math historian |
1829-09-12 |
Anselm Feuerbach, German painter |
1830-01-08 |
Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (d. 1894) |
1830-03-30 |
Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher |
1830-04-19 |
Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit |
1830-08-19 |
Julius Lothar Meyer, Varel Oldenburg, German Chemist who developed the first periodic table of chemical elements independently of Dimitri Mendeleev |
1830-11-23 |
Kaspar CE Ritter von Zumbusch, German/Austria sculptor |
1831-02-24 |
Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia |
1831-03-06 |
Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission) |
1831-03-23 |
Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866) |
1831-04-14 |
Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia |
1831-06-26 |
Julius Rodenberg, [Levy], German writer (Kriegs-Songs of War & Peace) |
1831-09-08 |
Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor) |
1831-10-18 |
Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia |
1831-12-10 |
Alexander Conze, German archaeologist |
1832-03-11 |
Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test) |
1832-04-15 |
Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908) |
1832-05-07 |
Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions) |
1832-05-14 |
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903) |
1832-06-10 |
Nikolaus A Otto, German technician (gas motor, otto motor) |
1832-08-16 |
Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher |
1832-10-20 |
Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894) |
1832-11-26 |
Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901) |
1833-05-05 |
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer |
1833-08-03 |
Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist |
1833-11-14 |
Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian/chess player |
1833-11-19 |
Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans) |
1833-12-12 |
Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica) |
1834-01-07 |
Johann Philipp Reis, German physicist and inventor (d. 1874) |
1834-01-17 |
August Weismann, German biologist (d. 1914) |
1834-02-06 |
Edwin Klebs, Kaliningrad Russia, German Physician and Bacteriologist known for his work on the bacterial theory of infection and his discovery, with F. A. J. Löffler, of the diphtheria bacillus (Klebs-Löffler bacillus) |
1834-02-23 |
Gustav Hermann Nachtigal, German physician/colonizer/consul in Tunis |
1834-09-15 |
Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member |
1834-11-19 |
Georg H Quincke, German physicist (test of Quincke) |
1835-02-26 |
Richard Andree, German geography/etnologist (Andree's Handatlas) |
1835-03-01 |
Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade) |
1835-10-31 |
J F W Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905) |
1835-12-06 |
Wilhelm Rudolf Fittig, Hamburg, German Chemist (synthesizing organic compounds) |
1835-12-11 |
Adolf Stoecker, German anti semite/PM |
1836-03-30 |
Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician |
1836-05-28 |
Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (d. 1918) |
1836-09-07 |
August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912) |
1836-12-13 |
Franz von Lenbach, German painter (d. 1904) |
1837-04-24 |
Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) |
1837-05-09 |
Adam Opel, German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars) |
1837-06-08 |
Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf) |
1837-10-18 |
Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter |
1838-01-16 |
Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) |
1838-05-24 |
Paul Laband, German lawyer |
1838-06-24 |
Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism) |
1838-06-27 |
Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914) |
1838-07-30 |
Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal) |
1838-12-11 |
Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG) |
1839-01-04 |
Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896) |
1839-04-22 |
August W Eichler, German botanist |
1839-06-03 |
Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause) |
1839-07-10 |
Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913) |
1839-08-19 |
Oskar Brefeld, German botanist |
1839-09-25 |
Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya) |
1839-11-18 |
August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt) |
1839-11-20 |
Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882) |
1840-02-22 |
F August Bebel, German social-democrat |
1840-02-25 |
Otto Liebmann, German philosopher (Climax of Theories) |
1840-03-28 |
Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer/governor (Equatoria) |
1840-04-21 |
Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist (Magister choralis) |
1840-06-16 |
Ernst Otto Schlick, German engineer (d. 1913) |
1840-06-22 |
Ernest Debes, German cartographer (Baedeker) |
1841-04-06 |
Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920) |
1841-04-26 |
Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian |
1841-05-11 |
Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter |
1841-11-25 |
Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902) |
1842-02-23 |
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (d. 1906) |
1842-02-25 |
Karl May, German writer (Old Shatterhand/Winnetou) |
1842-03-22 |
Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer |
1842-06-11 |
Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934) |
1842-08-16 |
Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922) |
1842-08-26 |
Heinrich I Quincke, German internist (Lumbaalpunctie) |
1842-09-07 |
John H Zuckertort, German chess player |
1842-12-07 |
Otto Ammon, German anthropologist/sociologist (schedelmetingen) |
1843-04-01 |
Ludwig Enneccerus, German jurist |
1843-07-29 |
Johannes Schmidt, German linguist (d. 1901) |
1843-11-19 |
Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896) |
1843-12-11 |
Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905) |
1844-01-30 |
Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, German gen/gov-gen of Belgium (1914-17) |
1844-02-01 |
Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen) |
1844-05-17 |
Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (d. 1918) |
1844-06-03 |
Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet |
1844-06-10 |
Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen) |
1844-08-30 |
Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum) |
1844-10-15 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, Röcken bei Lützen, Prussia, German philosopher (Beyond Good and Evil), (d. 1900) |
1844-11-25 |
Karl F Benz, German designer/auto manufacturer (4-taktmotor) |
1844-12-04 |
Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914) |
1844-12-18 |
Lujo [Ludwig J von] Brentano, German economist |
1845-01-07 |
Paul Deusen, German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft) |
1845-02-03 |
Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Sedan) |
1845-03-03 |
Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers) |
1845-10-17 |
Franz Ehrle, German prefect of Vatican library |
1846-02-09 |
Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes |
1846-09-13 |
Richard Kiepert, German cartographer (Africa) |
1846-09-25 |
Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], St. Petersburg, Russia, German Meteorologist and Climatologist who mapped and classified the climatic regions of the world (Köppen climate classification system) |
1847-02-07 |
Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor |
1847-02-16 |
Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise) |
1847-03-08 |
Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente) |
1847-05-10 |
Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (d. 1923) |
1847-07-20 |
Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter |
1847-10-02 |
Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German president |
1847-10-06 |
Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor |
1847-12-30 |
John Peter Altgeld, German/US (Gov-Ill)/pardoned Haymarket-anarchists |
1848-04-09 |
Helena Lange, German feminist |
1848-05-23 |
Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I) |
1848-07-27 |
Friedrich Ernst Dorn, Guttstadt, Province of Prussia (now Warmia in Poland), German physicist who discovered that radon is emitted from radium |
1848-10-05 |
Guido von List, German writer (d. 1919) |
1849-01-11 |
Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (bath house) |
1849-03-19 |
Alfred von Tirpitz, German World War I Admiral (d. 1930) |
1849-04-25 |
Felix Klein, German mathematician (Evanston Colloquium) |
1849-10-26 |
Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917) |
1849-11-22 |
Friedrich von Bernhardi, German historian (Germany & the Next War) |
1849-11-22 |
Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938) |
1849-12-06 |
August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
1849-12-22 |
Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) |
1849-12-28 |
Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck |
1850-01-06 |
Eduard "Ede" Bernstein, German marxist (New Era) |
1850-01-06 |
Franz Xaver Scharwenka, German pianist/composer (Mataswintha) |
1850-02-28 |
Hermann Schell, German theologist/philosopher (Gott und Geist) |
1850-04-27 |
Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (d. 1921) |
1850-07-12 |
Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912) |
1850-09-02 |
Woldemar Voigt, German physicist (d. 1919) |
1851-04-09 |
C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies) |
1851-07-24 |
Friedrich Schottky, German mathematician (d. 1935) |
1851-08-13 |
Felix Adler, German-born educator (d. 1933) |
1851-11-07 |
Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913) |
1852-01-11 |
Konstantin Fehrenbach, German chancellor (1920-21) |
1852-03-22 |
Theodor Birt, [Beatus Rhenanus], German classical/writer |
1852-04-12 |
[Carl L] Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician |
1852-07-10 |
Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister |
1852-09-25 |
Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy) |
1853-01-11 |
Gustav Falke, German author/poet (Der Mann im Nebel) |
1853-03-28 |
Rudolf Kittel, German theologist (Psalms) |
1853-09-04 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German Africa explorer/governor East-Africa |
1853-09-16 |
Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927) |
1853-09-17 |
Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Patristischen Philosophie) |
1853-12-21 |
Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter) |
1854-02-17 |
Friedrich A Krupp, German arms manufacturer |
1854-03-15 |
Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917) |
1854-07-29 |
Georg Kerschensteiner, German educator (Theory of Education) |
1854-09-10 |
Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman) |
1854-10-31 |
Georg A Erman, German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt) |
1854-11-28 |
Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist |
1855-01-22 |
Albert Neisser [Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser], Schweidnitz Prussia, German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy |
1855-02-17 |
Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I) |
1855-05-15 |
Eduard von Keyserling, Baltic German writer (Dritte Stiege) |
1855-07-07 |
Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920) |
1855-07-09 |
Johann P Zilcher, German composer |
1855-07-26 |
Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936) |
1855-09-09 |
Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist |
1855-10-08 |
Gustav Ehrismann, German germanist |
1855-12-27 |
Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist |
1855-12-30 |
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Humanity) |
1856-02-05 |
Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau) |
1856-02-15 |
Emil Kraepelin, German psychiatrist (d. 1926) |
1856-02-16 |
Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944) |
1856-08-30 |
Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927) |
1856-11-29 |
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Chancellor/premier Prussia |
1856-12-25 |
Hans von Bartels, German painter (d. 1913) |
1857-01-18 |
Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I) |
1857-02-18 |
Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor |
1857-07-05 |
Clara Zetkin, German women's rights advocate/communist |
1857-08-14 |
Max Wagenknecht, German composer (d. 1922) |
1857-08-15 |
Albert Ballin, German shipping tycoon (d. 1918) |
1857-09-30 |
Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge) |
1857-10-29 |
Conrad Haebler, German historian (Early printers of Spain/Portugal) |
1857-11-29 |
Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (d. 1911) |
1858-01-10 |
Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929) |
1858-03-01 |
Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist |
1858-03-18 |
Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel motor) |
1858-03-23 |
Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel prize 1927) |
1858-04-23 |
Max Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918) father of Quantum Physics |
1858-05-30 |
Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941) |
1858-07-21 |
Lovis Corinth, German painter (d. 1925) |
1858-07-24 |
Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp Putsch 1920) |
1858-08-01 |
Paul Barth, German philosopher/sociologist |
1858-08-16 |
Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927) |
1858-10-05 |
Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of queen Victoria |
1859-01-13 |
Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature) |
1859-01-27 |
Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918) |
1859-02-03 |
Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935) |
1859-03-26 |
Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919) |
1859-07-14 |
Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928) |
1859-11-13 |
Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains) |
1860-02-14 |
Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954) |
1860-03-22 |
Alfred Ploetz, German physician (d. 1940) |
1860-03-31 |
Isidor Traube, Hildesheim Hanover, German Chemist (founded capillary chemistry, research on liquids) |
1860-05-20 |
Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1917) |
1860-07-20 |
Johannes Walter, German geologist (Denudation of the Wilderness) |
1860-08-22 |
Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow Award) |
1860-08-28 |
Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [OS] |
1860-09-11 |
Marianne V von Werefkin, Russian/German/Swiss painter [NS] |
1861-01-13 |
Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959) |
1861-01-14 |
Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer (Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf) |
1861-01-18 |
Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist |
1861-02-12 |
Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott) |
1861-06-22 |
Maximilian von Spee, German admiral (d. 1914) |
1861-09-23 |
Robert Bosch, German inventor and industrialist (d. 1942) |
1861-12-17 |
Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer |
1861-12-22 |
Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theocentric Theology) |
1861-12-26 |
Friedrich Engel, German mathematician (group theory) |
1862-02-17 |
Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer |
1862-02-17 |
Edward German, Let's Make Up |
1862-03-05 |
Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934) |
1862-05-18 |
Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist |
1862-11-15 |
Adolf Bartels, German folk art writer |
1863-01-15 |
Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian |
1863-01-19 |
Werner Sombart, German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben) |
1863-02-23 |
Franz von Stuck, German painter (Der Krieg) |
1863-05-28 |
Georg Adler, German state economist |
1863-06-11 |
Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar) |
1863-06-21 |
Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932) |
1863-07-12 |
Paul Karl Ludwig Drude, German physicist (d. 1906) |
1863-09-06 |
Rodolfo Lenz, German/Chilian linguist (El Papiamento) |
1863-09-29 |
Franz Zorell, German RC exegetist/lexicographer |
1863-09-29 |
Hugo Haase, German SPD-German parliament/revolutionary |
1863-09-30 |
Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I) |
1863-10-05 |
Ludwig Borchardt, German Egyptologist |
1863-12-13 |
Johannes Weiss, German New Testament scholar |
1864-01-13 |
Wilhelm K W Wien, German physicist (Nobel 1911) |
1864-02-06 |
John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists) |
1864-03-30 |
Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician |
1864-04-10 |
Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem) |
1864-04-21 |
Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism) |
1864-06-14 |
Alois Alzheimer, Marktbreit, Bavaria, German psychiatrist/neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease) |
1864-06-22 |
Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician |
1864-07-24 |
Frank Wedekind, German playwright (The "Lulu" plays) |
1865-01-22 |
Friedrich Paschen, German physicist |
1865-02-22 |
Otto Modersohn, German painter |
1865-03-30 |
Heinrich Rubens, German physicist |
1865-04-30 |
Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944) |
1865-06-19 |
Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate |
1865-06-28 |
Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories) |
1865-07-26 |
Philipp Scheidemann, German Parliament (SPD)/mayor of Kassel |
1865-09-03 |
Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian |
1865-10-15 |
Walther Amelung, German archaeologist |
1866-02-06 |
Karl T Sapper, German geography/geologist (Vulkankunde) |
1866-04-22 |
Hans von Seeckt, German general (Future of the Reich) |
1866-05-23 |
Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist |
1866-08-05 |
Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923) |
1866-11-07 |
Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna) |
1867-01-17 |
Carl Laemmle, German-born film executive (d. 1939) |
1867-01-21 |
Ludwig Thoma, German writer (d. 1921) |
1867-02-11 |
August W Messer, German philosopher/educator/psychologist |
1867-02-12 |
Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German author (Warbride) [or Febr 18] |
1867-02-26 |
Siegfried Passarge, German geographer (Cameroon/So Afr/America) |
1867-04-02 |
Eugen Sandow, German bodybuilder and circus performer (d. 1925) |
1867-05-14 |
Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19) |
1867-07-10 |
Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918) |
1867-07-25 |
Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit) |
1867-08-07 |
Emil Nolde, [Hansen], German painter/graphic artist |
1867-08-13 |
Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter/writer (Legenden Der Zeit) |
1867-12-22 |
Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect (Wiener Sezession) |
1868-01-07 |
Abraham M "Mark" Lidzbarski, Polish/German orientalist |
1868-02-16 |
Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist (Anthropos) |
1868-03-31 |
Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist |
1868-04-14 |
Peter Behrens, German architect (d. 1940) |
1868-04-19 |
Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag) |
1868-07-30 |
Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist |
1868-10-08 |
Max Slevogt, German painter |
1868-10-16 |
Franz X Ritter von Epp, German general (China) |
1868-11-08 |
Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942) |
1868-12-05 |
Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951) |
1868-12-09 |
Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist (Nobel 1919) |
1869-02-11 |
Else Lasker-Schüler, German writer (d. 1945) |
1869-04-30 |
Hans Poelzig, German architect (d. 1936) |
1869-06-06 |
Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor |
1869-06-27 |
Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941) |
1869-10-03 |
Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942) |
1869-11-13 |
Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist and publicist (d. 1943) |
1869-12-02 |
Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects) |
1869-12-19 |
Eduard Hermann, Coburg Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, German linguist (Homer) |
1870-01-16 |
Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (hardening of oils) |
1870-02-10 |
Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter |
1870-04-07 |
Gustav Landauer, German socialist |
1870-06-21 |
Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915) |
1870-09-04 |
Friedrich Panzer, German germanist (Das Nibelungenlied) |
1870-9-27 |
Alfred Deutsch-German, Die Tat des Andreas Harmer |
1871-01-12 |
Paul Guthnick, German astronomer |
1871-02-04 |
Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925) |
1871-04-29 |
Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children) |
1871-08-13 |
Karl Liebknecht, German revolutionary marxist (Sparta Party) |
1871-09-19 |
Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert (examined syphilis) |
1871-10-29 |
Narziss Ach, German psychologist (Analyse des Willens) |
1872-08-13 |
Richard Willstätter, German chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1942) |
1872-12-10 |
Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves) |
1873-01-06 |
Karl Straube, German organist/conductor |
1873-02-02 |
Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38) |
1873-03-10 |
Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew) |
1873-03-25 |
Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist |
1873-04-26 |
Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon) |
1873-05-21 |
Hans Berger, German neuroscientist (d. 1941) |
1873-06-29 |
Leo Frobenius, Berlin, Germany, German ethnologist and archaeologist (African cultures) |
1873-07-06 |
Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich) |
1873-10-09 |
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (Schwarzschild effect) |
1873-11-09 |
Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist (d. 1941) |
1874-01-01 |
Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (d. 1927) |
1874-02-16 |
Marie Gutheil-Schoder, German soprano (d. 1935) |
1874-03-20 |
Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (d. 1945) |
1874-04-18 |
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941) |
1874-07-07 |
Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945) |
1874-08-22 |
Max Scheler, German philosopher (Vom Umsturz der Werte) |
1874-08-27 |
Karl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931) |
1874-09-01 |
Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica) |
1874-12-11 |
Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag) |
1874-12-13 |
Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst) |
1875-01-07 |
Gustav Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1945) |
1875-01-16 |
Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947) |
1875-01-21 |
John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist (Der Wille) |
1875-02-02 |
Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare) |
1875-02-18 |
Walter Andrae, German archaeologist (Babylon, Assur) |
1875-03-02 |
Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian |
1875-07-03 |
Ernst F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon |
1875-09-03 |
Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen) |
1875-12-03 |
Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist |
1875-12-12 |
Karl R G von Rundstedt, German gen-fieldmarshal (Normandy) |
1876-01-03 |
Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/pres (1949-60) |
1876-02-06 |
Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt], German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros) |
1876-02-08 |
Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter |
1876-02-13 |
Fritz Buelow, German-born American baseball player (d. 1933) |
1876-03-29 |
Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist |
1876-04-23 |
Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (d. 1925) |
1876-04-24 |
Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960) |
1876-07-02 |
Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23) |
1876-07-20 |
Otto Blumenthal, German mathematician (d. 1944) |
1876-09-05 |
Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (d. 1956) |
1876-10-22 |
Karl B Adam, German theologist (Christ our Brother) |
1876-10-23 |
Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician (d. 1970) |
1876-12-06 |
Fred Duesenberg, German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932) |
1876-12-07 |
Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv) |
1877-01-22 |
Hjalmar Schacht, president of German Reichsbank/minister of Economics |
1877-01-31 |
Max Ettlinger, German philosopher |
1877-02-07 |
Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..) |
1877-02-19 |
Else Berg, German/Dutch painter |
1877-02-19 |
Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962) |
1877-03-04 |
Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934) |
1877-03-12 |
Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia |
1877-04-02 |
Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik) |
1877-05-03 |
Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (d. 1925) |
1877-06-04 |
Heinrich Wieland, German chemist (bile acids-Nobel 1927) |
1877-07-13 |
Karl Erb, German tenor |
1877-08-10 |
Rudolf Hilferding, German economist/SPD-minister of Finance |
1877-09-13 |
Wilhelm Filchner, German explorer (d. 1957) |
1877-10-08 |
Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist (d. 1968) |
1878-01-16 |
Robert Garbe, German poet (Gorniek) |
1878-01-28 |
Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer (Der Juxbaron) |
1878-02-08 |
Martin Buber, German/Israeli philosopher/theologist (Ich und Du) |
1878-04-01 |
Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa) |
1878-04-06 |
Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934) |
1878-04-12 |
Richard B Goldschmidt, German/US zoologist |
1878-04-21 |
Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist |
1878-05-10 |
Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926) |
1878-08-10 |
Alfred Döblin, German writer (d. 1957) |
1878-09-02 |
Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr |
1878-09-16 |
Karl Albiker, German sculptor (German Art, female nudes) |
1878-10-24 |
Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram) |
1878-10-29 |
Alex E von Falkenhausen, German general (China, WW II) |
1878-11-13 |
Max Dehn, German mathematician (d. 1952) |
1878-11-21 |
Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice |
1879-03-08 |
Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium) |
1879-03-14 |
Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity) |
1879-03-19 |
Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich) |
1879-04-19 |
Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz) |
1879-05-27 |
Hans Lammers, German SS officer (d. 1962) |
1879-06-05 |
Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985) |
1879-06-11 |
Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936) |
1879-06-16 |
Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law) |
1879-08-06 |
Joseph Wirth, German politician (Stalin Peace Prize) |
1879-09-06 |
Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936) |
1879-10-29 |
Franz JHMM von Papen, German diplomat/chancellor (1932) |
1879-11-02 |
Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer (Prince Regent) |
1879-12-15 |
Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance) |
1879-12-18 |
Paul Klee, Münchenbuchsee Switzerland, Swiss/German abstract painter (Twittering Machine) |
1880-02-08 |
Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter) |
1880-02-21 |
Waldemar Bonsels, German writer (d. 1952) |
1880-03-21 |
Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real) |
1880-03-21 |
Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist |
1880-05-01 |
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo) |
1880-05-14 |
Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971) |
1880-05-15 |
Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church) |
1880-07-20 |
Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer |
1880-08-22 |
Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916) |
1880-09-14 |
Paul Fechter, German writer (Der Zauberer Gottes) |
1880-11-01 |
Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift) |
1880-12-03 |
Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
1880-12-10 |
Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965) |
1880-12-30 |
Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein |
1881-01-04 |
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) |
1881-01-25 |
Emil Ludwig, German biographer (Diana, Son of Man) |
1881-02-14 |
Otto Selz, German psychologist |
1881-02-19 |
Armin Knab, German composer (Eichendorff-cycle) |
1881-04-18 |
Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart) |
1881-04-25 |
Hans Windisch, German new testament expert |
1881-05-27 |
Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer |
1881-05-30 |
Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968) |
1881-06-29 |
Curt Sachs, German musicologist (d. 1959) |
1881-07-06 |
Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel) |
1881-07-19 |
Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist) |
1881-08-08 |
Paul L E von Kleist, German general-fieldmarshal (Eastern Front) |
1881-08-15 |
Alfred Wagenknecht, German-born American activist (d. 1956) |
1881-10-04 |
[Heinrich A H] Walther von Brauchitsch, German fieldmarshal |
1881-11-12 |
Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954) |
1881-12-04 |
Erwin von Witzleben, German fieldmarshal (July 20th plot) |
1881-12-31 |
Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist (The Bridge) |
1882-02-26 |
Walter Lucht, German artillery general (WW I/WW II) |
1882-03-23 |
Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935) |
1882-04-07 |
Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33) |
1882-06-04 |
Karl Valentin, German comic/writer |
1882-06-24 |
Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962) |
1882-06-27 |
Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator |
1882-08-26 |
James Franck, German naturalist (Nobel 1925) |
1882-09-22 |
Wilhelm Keitel, German fieldmarshal |
1882-10-03 |
Gunther von Kluge, German fieldmarshal |
1882-10-11 |
Will Vesper, German author (Vom grossen Krieg) |
1882-10-12 |
Hermann Wolfgang Sartorius Waltershausen, German musicologist/composer |
1882-12-16 |
Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner effect) |
1883-01-19 |
Hermann Abendroth, German conductor |
1883-02-22 |
Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps) |
1883-02-26 |
Erich R Jaensch, German psychologist (eidetism) |
1883-05-07 |
Martin Albertz, German theologist (Church Jesus Christ) |
1883-07-10 |
Johann Blaskowitz, German general |
1883-09-14 |
Martin Dibelius, German theologist (Die Lade Jahwes) |
1883-10-08 |
Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1970) |
1884-02-12 |
Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist |
1884-03-13 |
Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926) |
1884-06-13 |
Anton Drexler, founder of the German Worker's Party (d. 1942) |
1884-06-25 |
Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German art promoter (d. 1979) |
1884-07-02 |
Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931) |
1884-07-07 |
Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958) |
1884-07-31 |
Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German Leipzig mayor and Nazi regime opponent (20th July Plot) |
1884-08-16 |
Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942) |
1884-09-24 |
Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953) |
1884-10-08 |
Walther von Reichenau, German military officer (d. 1942) |
1884-10-11 |
Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist (benzine from brown coal, Nobel) |
1884-12-01 |
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976) |
1885-01-25 |
A J Else Mauhs, German/Dutch actress (Eline Vere, L'aiglon) |
1885-01-27 |
Eduard Künneke, German composer (d. 1953) |
1885-03-25 |
Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution) |
1885-07-06 |
Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
1885-07-08 |
Emil Bloch, German philosopher |
1885-08-17 |
Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German anarchists/feminist (Wife & society) |
1885-08-19 |
Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologian (d. 1954) |
1885-09-10 |
Berthold Altaner, German church historian (Patrologie) |
1885-09-16 |
Karen Horney, German/US, neo-freudian psychoanalyst |
1885-10-10 |
Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962) |
1885-11-08 |
Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951) |
1885-11-08 |
Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966) |
1885-11-09 |
Hermann Weyl, German mathematician (d. 1955) |
1885-11-09 |
Theodor Kaluza, German scientist (d. 1954) |
1885-11-26 |
Heinrich Brüning, German politician (d. 1970) |
1885-11-30 |
Albrecht (von) Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Poland/Netherland) |
1885-12-06 |
Albrecht Schaeffer, German writer (The General) |
1886-01-25 |
Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (d. 1954) |
1886-02-02 |
Kurt Baschwitz, German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Du und) |
1886-02-14 |
Theodor Werner, German painter |
1886-02-22 |
Hugo Ball, German playwright/co-founder Flametti |
1886-02-28 |
Max Vasmer, German slavic (La Tertulia de Pombo) |
1886-03-27 |
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus) |
1886-04-14 |
Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian |
1886-04-16 |
Ernst Thalmann, German communist presidential candidate |
1886-04-28 |
Erich Salomon, German photographer |
1886-07-23 |
Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (d. 1976) |
1886-07-27 |
Ernst May, German architect (d. 1970) |
1886-08-20 |
Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung) |
1886-11-13 |
Mary Wigman, German dancer and choreographer (d. 1973) |
1886-12-21 |
Hermann A J Kees, German Egyptologist (Problems of Egyptology) |
1887-01-01 |
Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence |
1887-01-03 |
August Macke, German painter (d. 1914) |
1887-02-02 |
Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975) |
1887-02-06 |
Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978) |
1887-03-09 |
Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976) |
1887-03-21 |
Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor |
1887-04-10 |
Heinz Tiessen, Königsberg, German composer |
1887-05-27 |
Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwarts) |
1887-06-20 |
Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages) |
1887-06-23 |
Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher (Rowohlt-Verlag) |
1887-07-22 |
Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925) |
1887-07-31 |
Hans Freyer, German sociologist (d. 1969) |
1887-09-01 |
Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar |
1887-09-30 |
Lil Dagover [Marta-Maria Lillits], Madiun, Java, Dutch-born German actress (Spiders) |
1887-10-05 |
Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter |
1887-11-10 |
Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun) |
1887-11-24 |
Erich von Manstein, German military commander (d. 1973) |
1887-11-28 |
Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA |
1888-01-08 |
Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (d. 1972) |
1888-01-23 |
Paul Peter Ewald, Berlin, German Crystallographer and Physicist who devised the theory of X-ray interference by crystals and pioneered X-ray diffraction methods, dies at 97 |
1888-01-24 |
Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft) |
1888-02-04 |
Paul Althaus, German theologist (The Christian Truth) |
1888-02-17 |
Otto Stern, German/US physicist (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943) |
1888-03-05 |
Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood) |
1888-03-19 |
Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus) |
1888-04-15 |
Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904) |
1888-06-10 |
Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse) |
1888-06-17 |
Heinz Guderian, German General (d. 1954) |
1888-07-11 |
Carl Schmitt, German nazi-lawyer (Verfassungslehre) |
1888-08-06 |
Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (d. 1952) |
1888-08-09 |
Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter |
1888-09-04 |
Oskar Schlemmer, German painter/sculptor |
1888-09-23 |
Gerhard Kittel, German anti-semitic theologist (Die Oden Salomons) |
1888-12-27 |
Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954) |
1889-02-08 |
Siegfried Kracauer, From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses |
1889-04-19 |
Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946) |
1889-04-20 |
Adolf Hitler, Braunau, Austria, Austrian-born German dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45) |
1889-04-22 |
Richard Glücks, German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945, by suicide) |
1889-05-23 |
Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967) |
1889-08-01 |
Walther Gerlach, Biebrich, German Physicist who, with Otto Stern, co-discovered spin quantization in a magnetic field (Stern—Gerlach effect) |
1889-11-03 |
Heinrich Campendonk, German painter/wood carver/glazer |
1889-12-30 |
Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren) |
1890-01-04 |
Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff |
1890-01-09 |
Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panther Tiger & Co) |
1890-01-31 |
Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde) |
1890-03-08 |
Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher |
1890-03-13 |
Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951) |
1890-05-26 |
Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudes/portraits) |
1890-06-15 |
Georg Wüst, Posen, German Oceanographer who provided the first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean |
1890-08-18 |
Walther Funk, German Nazi politician (d. 1960) |
1890-09-23 |
Friedrich Paulus, German Generalfieldmarshal (Stalingrad). Dies 1957. |
1890-10-05 |
Kasimir Edschmid, [Karl E Schmidt], German writer |
1890-10-10 |
Dick Howard, The Good German |
1890-10-21 |
Gerrit Engelke, German writer/poet (Love Letters) |
1890-11-04 |
Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia) |
1890-12-06 |
Rudolf Schlichter, German artist and writer (d. 1955) |
1891-01-17 |
Walter Eucken, German economist |
1891-01-24 |
Walter Model, German field marshal |
1891-02-05 |
Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum) |
1891-02-16 |
Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967) |
1891-03-28 |
Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag) |
1891-03-29 |
Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980) |
1891-05-18 |
Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist) |
1891-05-19 |
Oswald Boelcke, German World War I pilot (d. 1916) |
1891-07-29 |
Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist |
1891-08-08 |
Adolf Busch, German violinist (d. 1952) |
1891-09-16 |
Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972) |
1891-09-16 |
Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980) |
1891-10-12 |
Edith Stein, German philosopher |
1891-10-31 |
Charlotte "Lotte" Bartschart, German/Dutch operetta singer |
1891-11-15 |
Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal (WW II-African campaign) |
1891-12-10 |
leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German/Swedish poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966), (d. 1970) |
1892-01-14 |
Martin Niemöller, clergyman (German Protestant); imprisoned by Hitler |
1892-01-18 |
Paul Rostock, German surgeon (d. 1956) |
1892-02-08 |
Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt) |
1892-02-17 |
Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad) |
1892-03-30 |
Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian |
1892-03-30 |
Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972) |
1892-04-10 |
Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde) |
1892-04-15 |
Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975) |
1892-05-02 |
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron], Breslau, German World War I fighter ace |
1892-05-31 |
Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader |
1892-06-22 |
Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
1892-06-30 |
Oswald Pohl, German Nazi leader (d. 1951) |
1892-07-15 |
Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer |
1892-07-21 |
Anton Schnack, German writer/poet |
1892-10-24 |
Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter |
1892-10-28 |
Ludwig Strauss, German/Israeli writer (Night Watch) |
1892-12-05 |
Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (d. 1973) |
1893-01-02 |
Lillian Leitzel, German acrobat and strongwoman (d. 1931) |
1893-01-05 |
Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik) |
1893-01-12 |
Alfred Rosenberg, German Nazi official (d. 1946) |
1893-03-27 |
Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia) |
1893-05-24 |
W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda) |
1893-05-27 |
Hermann Dörnemann, German supercentarian (d. 2005) |
1893-06-30 |
Walter Ulbricht, president German DR |
1893-07-26 |
George Grosz, German painter (Gott mit uns) |
1893-09-20 |
Hans H B Scharoun, German architect (Berlin Philharmonic) |
1893-10-09 |
Heinrich George, (Schulz), German actor (Hitlerjunge Quex) |
1893-10-17 |
Fritz Ascher, Berlin Germany, German Expressionist artist |
1893-10-30 |
Willi Apel, German/US musicologist (Harvard dictionary of music) |
1893-10-30 |
Roland Freisler, German Nazi politician (d. 1945) |
1893-12-02 |
Julius Bissier, German painter |
1893-12-17 |
Erwin Piscator, German stage director (Der Stellvertreter) |
1894-02-08 |
Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher |
1894-03-09 |
Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976) |
1894-09-27 |
Lothar von Richthofen German pilot (d. 1922) |
1894-10-03 |
Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976) |
1894-10-27 |
Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor |
1894-11-02 |
Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (d. 1976) |
1894-11-13 |
Artur Nebe, German SS officer {d. 1945) |
1894-12-10 |
Earnest Haenchen, German new testament expert |
1895-02-04 |
Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-lt-general/SS police chief in Neth |
1895-02-09 |
Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959) |
1895-02-14 |
Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist (Studies in prejudice) |
1895-03-05 |
Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle) |
1895-03-20 |
Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981) |
1895-03-25 |
Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954) |
1895-03-29 |
Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998) |
1895-05-03 |
Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae) |
1895-10-03 |
Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS] |
1895-10-04 |
Richard Sorge, German spy for USSR in Tokyo (WW II) |
1895-10-10 |
Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945) |
1895-10-13 |
Kurt Schumacher, German politicial chairman (SPD) [NS] |
1895-10-15 |
Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil) |
1895-10-30 |
Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (d. 1964) |
1895-11-05 |
Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer |
1895-11-08 |
Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer |
1895-11-16 |
Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) |
1896-02-04 |
Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997) |
1896-03-01 |
Moriz Seeler, German writer and producer (d. 1942) |
1896-05-01 |
Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947) |
1896-05-03 |
Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (d. 1917) |
1896-05-23 |
Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966) |
1896-07-16 |
Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969) |
1896-07-24 |
Hermann Kasack, German writer (Die Stadt hinter dem Strom) |
1896-08-09 |
Erich Hückel, German physicist (d. 1980) |
1896-10-02 |
Fritz Eberhard, [Hellmut Rauschenplat], W-German lawyer/resistor (Law) |
1896-12-27 |
Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright |
1897-01-05 |
Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami) |
1897-01-09 |
Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973) |
1897-01-11 |
August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (d. 1979) |
1897-01-14 |
Hasso von Manteuffel, German general and politician (d. 1978) |
1897-03-27 |
Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist |
1897-03-28 |
Sepp Herberger, German football coach (d. 1977) |
1897-04-07 |
Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918) |
1897-04-08 |
Herbert Eimert, German composer/musicologist (Glockenspiel) |
1897-04-11 |
Caspar Neher, German set designer/librettist |
1897-04-13 |
Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917) |
1897-05-06 |
Paul Alverdes, German writer (Pfeiferstube) |
1897-06-16 |
Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1987) |
1897-06-20 |
Elisabeth Hauptmann, German writer (d. 1973) |
1897-06-23 |
Winifred Wagner-William, German organizer (Wagner Festival) |
1897-07-10 |
Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957) |
1897-07-24 |
Karl von Mechow, German writer (Auf Dem Wege, Vorsommer) |
1897-08-02 |
Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (d. 1945) |
1897-08-07 |
Franz J Weinrich, [Heinrich Lerse], German writer (Himmlisches) |
1897-08-12 |
Otto (von) Struve, German/US dir (Yerkes/MacDonald observatory) |
1897-09-10 |
Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976) |
1897-11-22 |
Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989) |
1898-01-25 |
Joachim Wach, German/US philosopher/sociologist (Understanding) |
1898-02-23 |
Reinhard Herbig, German archaeologist |
1898-02-24 |
Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer |
1898-04-23 |
Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov) |
1898-06-17 |
Carl Hermann, German physicist (d. 1961) |
1898-06-22 |
Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front) |
1898-06-26 |
Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer |
1898-07-06 |
Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda |
1898-07-13 |
Martin David, German/Neth law historian |
1898-08-25 |
Helmut Hasse, German mathematician (d. 1975) |
1898-09-14 |
Ernest Nash, German-born archaeologist (d. 1974) |
1898-09-30 |
Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler) |
1898-11-19 |
Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003) |
1898-11-26 |
Karl Ziegler, Helsa, German Empire, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (polymers), (d. 1973) |
1899-01-14 |
Fritz Bayerlein, German lt-general (WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo) |
1899-01-22 |
Guido Kisch, Czech/German/US historian (Jews in medieval Germany) |
1899-02-23 |
Erich Kästner, German writer (d. 1974) |
1899-02-25 |
Leo J Weisgerber, German linguist |
1899-03-10 |
Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007) |
1899-03-23 |
Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943) |
1899-08-12 |
Alfred Kantorowicz, German historian (Spanish Diary) |
1899-08-20 |
Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist (Church und Welt) |
1899-08-24 |
Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer (Rose, Black King) |
1899-09-20 |
Leo Strauss, German-born philosopher (d. 1973) |
1899-11-26 |
Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III (d. 1936) |
1900-01-26 |
Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967) |
1900-01-28 |
Hermann Kesten, German writer (Allert de Lange) |
1900-02-11 |
Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher |
1900-02-28 |
Wolfram Hirth, German pilot (d. 1959) |
1900-04-02 |
Heinrich Besseler, German musicologist |
1900-05-05 |
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt) |
1900-05-12 |
Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress (Metropolis, Mutter Courage) |
1900-05-14 |
Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971) |
1900-05-23 |
Hans Frank, German Nazi war criminal (d. 1946) |
1900-06-15 |
Gotthard Günther, German philosopher (d. 1984) |
1900-06-24 |
Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945) |
1900-07-19 |
Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor |
1900-08-26 |
Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980) |
1900-08-29 |
Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building/Centre Pompidou) |
1900-10-19 |
Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990) |
1900-11-19 |
Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross) |
1900-12-21 |
Oda Schaefer, German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only) |
1900-12-27 |
Hans Stuck, German race car driver (d. 1978) |
1901-01-27 |
Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon) |
1901-02-23 |
Edgar Ende, German painter (d. 1965) |
1901-03-21 |
Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958) |
1901-03-27 |
Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD) |
1901-05-14 |
Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951) |
1901-09-12 |
Ernst Pepping, German composer |
1901-10-05 |
Willy Lages, German chief of Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam |
1901-10-15 |
Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats) |
1901-10-21 |
Gerhard von Rad, German old testament scholar (Deuteronomium) |
1901-11-17 |
Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU) (Hallstein doctrine) |
1901-12-05 |
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 32) |
1901-12-10 |
F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4) |
1902-01-08 |
Gret Palucca, German dancer/choreography (Silent Song) |
1902-01-19 |
Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author (Moorkeerl) |
1902-01-24 |
Oskar Morgenstern, German/US economist |
1902-02-09 |
Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999) |
1902-02-18 |
Walter Herbert, German-born conductor and impresario (d. 1975) |
1902-02-22 |
Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord) |
1902-02-25 |
Max Kommerell, German literary/author (Die Gefangenen) |
1902-02-26 |
Rudolf Moralt, German conductor (Vienna Philharmonic) |
1902-03-07 |
Heinz Ruehmann, German actor/director (Der Hauptmann von Köpenick) |
1902-04-02 |
Jan Tschichold, German typographer (d. 1974) |
1902-04-25 |
Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist (d. 1964) |
1902-05-06 |
Max Ophüls, German-born director (d. 1957) |
1902-05-12 |
Heinrich Kirchner, German sculptor |
1902-06-23 |
Mathias Wieman, German actor (d. 1969) |
1902-07-09 |
Gerhard Pohl, German writer (Crazy Ferdinand) |
1902-07-10 |
Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950) |
1902-08-03 |
Regina Jonas, German first woman rabbi (d. 1944) |
1902-08-10 |
Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000) |
1902-09-25 |
Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche) |
1902-10-18 |
Pascual Jordan, German physicist (d. 1980) |
1902-11-01 |
Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch) |
1902-11-20 |
Wolfgang Kunkel, German law historian |
1903-01-06 |
Boris Blacher, Newchwang China, German composer (Orchester-Ornament) |
1903-01-18 |
Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci) |
1903-02-10 |
Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948) |
1903-02-27 |
Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970) |
1903-03-24 |
Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939) |
1903-04-30 |
Gunther AR Raphael, German composer (Symphony Breve) |
1903-05-15 |
Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998) |
1903-06-10 |
Theo Lingen, German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19] |
1903-06-19 |
Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938) |
1903-09-11 |
Theodor Adorno, German philosopher/sociologist |
1903-11-19 |
Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer |
1904-02-17 |
Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980) |
1904-03-05 |
Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984) |
1904-03-07 |
Reinhard Heydrich, German governor (Bohemen/Moravia (Lidice)) |
1904-04-06 |
Kurt G Kiesinger, German chancellor (Wherever They May Be) |
1904-06-20 |
Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister |
1904-06-24 |
Kurt Kusenberg, German writer (Wein Auf Lebenszeit) |
1904-07-15 |
Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007) |
1904-08-29 |
Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956) |
1904-09-21 |
Hans Hartung, German/French painter |
1904-11-29 |
Egon Eiermann, German architect (d. 1970) |
1905-01-08 |
Carl Gustav Hempel, German Logical Positivist philosopher |
1905-01-21 |
Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (d. 1978) |
1905-03-16 |
Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress (d. 1977) |
1905-03-19 |
Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP) |
1905-03-23 |
Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972) |
1905-04-01 |
Winfried P I Zillig, German opera composer/conductor (Fantasia Irica) |
1905-06-03 |
Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946, by execution) |
1905-07-23 |
Erich Itor Kahn, Rimbach, Odenwald, German composer of Jewish descent |
1905-08-20 |
Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973) |
1905-09-28 |
Max Schmeling, Klein Luckow, Province of Pomerania, German world heavyweight boxing champ (1930-32) |
1905-11-04 |
Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent |
1905-11-09 |
Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann |
1905-12-11 |
Eugen Fink, German philosopher |
1906-02-04 |
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church) |
1906-05-30 |
Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959) |
1906-06-06 |
Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn) |
1906-06-19 |
Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
1906-06-19 |
Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984) |
1906-06-26 |
Stefan Andres, German writer (Wir sind Utopia) |
1906-07-11 |
Herbert Wehner, German communist/anti-communist politician (SPD) |
1906-07-15 |
Rudolf "Rudi" Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1989) |
1906-07-23 |
Wolfgang Gentner, German nuclear physicist |
1906-08-25 |
Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU) |
1906-09-01 |
Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001) |
1906-10-30 |
Alexander Gode, German-American linguist (d. 1970) |
1906-11-10 |
Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1945) |
1906-11-18 |
Klaus Mann, German/US author (Mephisto)/son of Thomas Mann |
1906-11-24 |
Eduard Ludwig, German architect (Air Bridge monument Berlin) |
1906-12-24 |
Franz Waxman, German film composer (d. 1967) |
1906-12-30 |
Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe |
1907-03-11 |
Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot) |
1907-03-30 |
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994) |
1907-05-09 |
Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame) |
1907-05-11 |
Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988) |
1907-05-14 |
Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005) |
1907-05-30 |
Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007) |
1907-10-27 |
Helmut Walcha, German organist (church music) |
1907-11-08 |
Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader |
1907-11-15 |
Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel |
1907-12-27 |
Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and writer (d. 1999) |
1908-01-16 |
Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941) |
1908-03-02 |
Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990) |
1908-03-17 |
Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996) |
1908-04-18 |
Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele) |
1908-05-05 |
Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989) |
1908-06-10 |
Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945) |
1908-07-01 |
Peter Anders, German opera singer |
1908-08-27 |
Kurt Wegner, German artist (d. 1985) |
1908-09-15 |
Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain) |
1908-09-17 |
Franz J A Grothe, German composer |
1908-09-20 |
Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychotherapist |
1908-09-30 |
Edzard H Schaper, German/Swiss sailor/UP-correspondent/antifascist |
1908-10-22 |
Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologist/antifascist |
1908-11-12 |
Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema) |
1909-01-08 |
Willy Millowitsch, German actor (d. 1999) |
1909-01-15 |
Jean Bugatti, German-born automobile designer (d. 1939) |
1909-01-19 |
Hans Hotter, German bass-baritone (d. 2003) |
1909-03-27 |
Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism) |
1909-04-06 |
Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987) |
1909-05-25 |
Alfred Kubel, German politician (d. 1999) |
1909-07-02 |
Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times) |
1909-07-12 |
Fritz Leonhardt, German civil engineer (d. 1999) |
1909-08-09 |
Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat (d. 1944) |
1909-09-04 |
Eduard Wirths, Geroldshausen, German Empire, Nazi physician (Auschwitz), (d. 1945) |
1909-09-17 |
Elizabeth Wilkinson, professor German University College London |
1909-10-14 |
Bernd Rosemeyer, German auto racer (Indy 500) |
1910-01-20 |
Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician |
1910-02-05 |
Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WW II) |
1910-02-06 |
Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982) |
1910-03-11 |
Robert H G Havemann, German chemist |
1910-03-23 |
Lale [Liselotte H] Anderson, German singer/actress (Der Pott) |
1910-04-02 |
Joeri German, Russian writer |
1910-04-04 |
Yuri German, Verte mne, lyudi |
1910-04-12 |
Jorgen Rausch, German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys) |
1910-05-30 |
Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004) |
1910-07-02 |
Hans Gunther Adler, German writer |
1910-09-16 |
Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003) |
1910-12-23 |
Kurt Meyer, German SS officer (d. 1961) |
1911-01-29 |
Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986) |
1911-03-16 |
Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979) |
1911-03-29 |
Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988) |
1911-03-31 |
Elisabeth Grümmer, German soprano (d. 1986) |
1911-04-24 |
Karl O Schiller, German economist (Minister of Economics) |
1911-08-24 |
Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister |
1911-11-29 |
Klaus E J Fuchs, Rüsselsheim Germany, German/British atomic physicist/spy |
1911-12-14 |
Hans von Ohain, German/American aerospace engineer (d. 1998) |
1912-01-07 |
Günter Wand, German conductor, composer (d. 2002) |
1912-02-02 |
Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox) |
1912-02-14 |
Juan Pujol Garcia, [Garbo/Arabel], Spanish British/German double agent |
1912-02-17 |
Horst Birr, D III 88: The New German Air Force Attacks |
1912-02-28 |
Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director (Max-Planck-institute) |
1912-03-29 |
Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979) |
1912-05-01 |
Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998) |
1912-05-02 |
Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate |
1912-05-18 |
Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer |
1912-06-05 |
Josef Neckermann, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1912-06-06 |
German Khovanov, Kamyshi |
1912-06-30 |
Ludwig Bölkow, German aeronautical engineer (d. 2003) |
1912-08-11 |
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954) |
1912-08-29 |
Emil Schumacher, German painter (Tangible Objects) |
1912-09-05 |
Kristina Söderbaum, German actress and photographer (d. 2001) |
1912-09-18 |
Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (d. 2005) |
1912-10-14 |
Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex) |
1912-11-20 |
Otto von Habsburg, Austrian-German nobleman, head of the Habsburg house |
1913-01-15 |
Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine, which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff (d. 1963) |
1913-01-29 |
Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001) |
1913-03-18 |
Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander |
1913-04-10 |
Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda) |
1913-04-21 |
Kai-Uwe von Hassel, German politician |
1913-05-27 |
Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter |
1913-06-02 |
Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992) |
1913-06-28 |
Walter Oesau, German pilot (d. 1944) |
1913-07-14 |
Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP) |
1913-09-15 |
Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU) |
1913-09-26 |
Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist (Anne Frank) |
1913-10-02 |
Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967) |
1913-10-22 |
Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (d. 2008) |
1913-11-11 |
German Leont'yevich Zhukovsky, composer |
1913-11-13 |
German Zhukovsky, Sudba Mariny |
1913-12-18 |
Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971) |
1914-02-04 |
Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head) |
1914-04-22 |
Michael Wittman, German soldier and tank ace (d. 1944) |
1914-07-09 |
Willi Stoph, president German DR |
1914-08-12 |
Gerd Buchdahl, German philosopher (d. 2001) |
1914-09-04 |
Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive, third postwar chairman of Volkswagen (d. 2003) |
1914-12-05 |
Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989) |
1914-12-14 |
Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84) |
1914-12-26 |
Annemarie Wendl, German actress (d. 2006) |
1915-01-20 |
C W Ceram, [Kurt W Marek], German/US writer (March of Archaeology) |
1915-01-30 |
Joachim Peiper, German SS officer (d. 1976, by assassination) |
1915-02-23 |
Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth) |
1915-03-17 |
Hans Namuth, German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala) |
1915-05-29 |
Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990) |
1915-09-04 |
Rudolf Schock, German opera/operette singer |
1915-12-13 |
Curd Jürgens, German-born Austrian actor (d. 1982) |
1916-02-25 |
Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991) |
1916-07-02 |
Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982) |
1916-08-20 |
Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian-German chess player (d. 1984) |
1916-12-09 |
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog) |
1916-12-27 |
Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953) |
1917-01-02 |
Vera Zorina, German dancer (d. 2003) |
1917-01-05 |
Wieland Wagner, German opera director |
1917-04-16 |
Charlotte Salomon, Berlin Germany, German-Jewish artist |
1917-05-21 |
Rudolf Klicks, The Riders of German East Africa |
1917-06-02 |
Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006) |
1917-09-06 |
Philipp von Boeselager, German Wehrmacht officer, failed assassin of Adolf Hitler (d. 2008) |
1917-09-09 |
Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (d. 1942) |
1917-11-27 |
Tiny Rowland, [Roland Fuhrop], German/British owner (Observer) |
1918-01-02 |
Willi Graf, German anti-Nazi activist (d. 1943) |
1918-02-06 |
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007) |
1918-03-03 |
Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000) |
1918-03-10 |
Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot |
1918-03-20 |
Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, German composer (Soldiers) |
1918-06-13 |
Helmut Lent, German night fighter pilot (d. 1944) |
1918-09-10 |
Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932) |
1918-09-22 |
Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose) |
1918-10-20 |
Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003) |
1918-11-08 |
Hermann Zapf, German designer |
1918-11-10 |
Ernst Fischer, German chemist (Nobel 1973) |
1919-07-01 |
Hans Bender, German poet |
1919-07-08 |
Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president |
1919-11-14 |
Lisa Otto, German soprano |
1919-12-13 |
Hans-Joachim Marseille, German flying ace of World War II (d. 1942) |
1920-01-27 |
Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002) |
1920-04-21 |
Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (d. 1991) |
1920-06-05 |
Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim) |
1920-10-07 |
Georg Leber, German politician (SPD), (d. 2012) |
1920-10-31 |
Helmut Newton, German photographer (d. 2004) |
1920-10-31 |
Fritz Walter, German footballer (d. 2002) |
1920-11-23 |
Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose) |
1920-12-18 |
Rita Streich, German singer |
1921-01-14 |
Charles Gaupp, German/Dutch painter |
1921-05-11 |
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician |
1921-05-28 |
Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999) |
1921-06-10 |
Wanda Ottoni, German George |
1921-07-07 |
Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996) |
1921-09-08 |
Hans Ulrich Engelmann, German composer (Ophelia) |
1921-11-24 |
German Orlov, Marigolds in Flower |
1922-03-18 |
Egon Bahr, German journalist/politician |
1922-03-30 |
German Germanovich Galinin, composer |
1922-04-11 |
Geoffrey Perry, Churchill's German Army |
1922-04-19 |
Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts) |
1922-10-02 |
Wolfhart U Pannenberg, German theologist (Gingham Girl) |
1922-10-28 |
Gershon Kingsley, German composer |
1922-12-08 |
Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat) |
1923-01-08 |
Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008) |
1923-01-19 |
Markus Wolf, German spy (d. 2006) |
1923-03-11 |
Morschi Mirando, [Thomas Weiss], German/Dutch gypsy artist |
1923-03-26 |
Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992) |
1923-05-26 |
Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick) |
1923-10-22 |
Bert Trautmann, German footballer, (d. 2013) |
1923-11-12 |
Vicco von Bülow, German film director |
1924-03-15 |
Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997) |
1924-04-08 |
Frédéric Back, German-born Canadian short film director and screenwriter |
1924-05-05 |
Theo Olof, German/Neth violinist/prodigy/concert master |
1924-05-15 |
Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971) |
1924-06-20 |
Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister |
1924-06-20 |
Fritz Koenig, Koenig's Sphere: The German Sculptor Fritz Koenig at Ground Zero |
1924-10-15 |
Marguerite Andersen, German writer |
1924-10-30 |
Hannelore Weygrand, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956) |
1925-01-08 |
Helmuth Hubener, German activist (d. 1942) |
1925-02-09 |
Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001) |
1925-02-17 |
Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character (The Slogan) |
1925-02-20 |
Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader |
1925-05-04 |
Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn) |
1925-11-03 |
Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur) |
1925-12-25 |
Ossi Reichert, German FR, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1956) |
1926-03-17 |
Siegfried Lenz, German writer (Ein Kriegsende) |
1926-04-08 |
Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian |
1926-04-26 |
Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003) |
1926-07-01 |
Carl Hahn, German automotive executive |
1926-09-07 |
Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983) |
1926-12-03 |
Hans Otte, German composer/pianist (The Book of Sounds, Book of Hours) |
1926-12-20 |
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician |
1927-02-02 |
Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist |
1927-02-10 |
Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps) |
1927-03-10 |
Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor |
1927-03-21 |
Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German minister of Foreign affairs (FDP) |
1927-05-07 |
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter, (d. 2013) |
1927-05-09 |
Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 1967) |
1927-06-17 |
Martin Böttcher, German conductor |
1927-07-18 |
Kurt Masur, German actor (Hotel Deutschland) |
1927-08-27 |
Liselott Linsenhoff, German FR, equestrian (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1927-10-16 |
Günter Grass, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate |
1927-10-18 |
Hans Schäfer, German Fried Movie |
1928-01-27 |
Hans Modrow, a German politician, premier of East Germany |
1928-03-03 |
Gudrun Pausewang, Eastern Bohemia, German writer |
1928-03-21 |
Peter Hacks, German playwright (Tie Windloch) |
1928-03-28 |
Alexander Grothendieck, German mathematician |
1928-04-12 |
Hardy Krüger, German actor |
1928-05-04 |
Wolfgang von Trips, German racing driver (d. 1961) |
1928-08-22 |
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Modrath, German composer |
1928-10-02 |
Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian |
1928-10-27 |
Stefan Wewerka, German architect/sculptor |
1929-01-31 |
Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate |
1929-03-18 |
Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven) |
1929-06-18 |
Jorgen Habermans, German sociologist (Frankfurter Schule) |
1929-07-11 |
Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998) |
1929-08-03 |
Peter Adam, Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema |
1929-08-06 |
Anneliese Kuppers, German FR, equestrian dressage (Oly-silver-1956) |
1929-08-16 |
Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003) |
1929-09-08 |
Christoph von Dohnanyi, German conductor |
1929-11-16 |
Renate Rubinstein, [Tamar], German/Ned's author/columnist (Tamar) |
1929-12-03 |
Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist (Handel-Renaissance) |
1929-12-06 |
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German conductor |
1929-9-08 |
German Lavrov, Triumph Over Violence |
1930-02-23 |
Harry Boldt, German Fed Rep, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1930-03-03 |
Heiner Geißler, German politician |
1930-03-14 |
Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer |
1930-05-07 |
Horst Bienek, German poet |
1930-05-23 |
Friedrich Achleitner, German poet |
1930-06-08 |
Robert Aumann, German-born Israeli mathematician; Nobel laureate |
1930-10-05 |
Reinhard Selten, German economist, Nobel laureate |
1930-10-11 |
Harry Glass, German DR, 1st E German Olympic medalist (bronze-1956) |
1930-11-26 |
Berthold Leibinger, German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist |
1930-12-01 |
Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002) |
1930-12-17 |
Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor |
1931-01-16 |
Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006) |
1931-04-01 |
Rolf Hochhuth, German playwright (Deputy) |
1931-04-29 |
Frank Auerbach, German-born British painter |
1931-09-11 |
Hans-Ulrich Wehler, German historian |
1931-12-03 |
Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author |
1931-12-24 |
Mauricio Kagel, Argentina/German composer |
1932-02-09 |
Gerhard Richter, German painter |
1932-07-20 |
Otto Schily, German politician |
1933-05-14 |
Michael Chevalier, German voice actor |
1933-05-29 |
Helmuth Rilling, German conductor |
1933-09-10 |
Karl Lagerfeld, Hamburg Germany, German fashion designer (Chanel) |
1933-10-19 |
Wilfried Dietrich, German FR, super-heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1934-04-05 |
Roman Herzog, German politician |
1934-06-09 |
Helga Haase, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1934-06-28 |
Bette Greene, Summer of My German Soldier |
1934-07-20 |
Uwe Johnson, German writer |
1934-09-02 |
Hilla Becher (née Wobeser), Potsdam Germany, German artist, worked collaboratively with Bernd Becher her husband |
1934-09-07 |
Mary Bauermeister, German artist |
1934-09-24 |
Manfred Worner, German general/sect-gen (NATO, 1988-94) |
1934-10-07 |
Ulrike Meinhof, German Red Army member |
1934-10-26 |
Hans-Joachim Rödelius, German composer and musician (Cluster, Harmonia) |
1935-02-10 |
Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters) |
1935-03-12 |
Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu) |
1935-03-30 |
Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician |
1935-04-16 |
Sarah Kirsch, German poet |
1935-07-05 |
Edward McInnes, German scholar |
1935-07-21 |
Norbert Blüm, German politician |
1935-11-18 |
Rudolf Bahro, German dissident (d. 1997) |
1935-9-11 |
German Titov, Sputnik |
1936-01-11 |
Eve Hesse, Hamburg Germany, German born Jewish-American sculptor. |
1936-01-14 |
Reiner Klimke, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1984) |
1936-02-14 |
Anna German, Landscape After Battle |
1936-05-16 |
Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal |
1936-05-23 |
Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer |
1936-10-05 |
Annerose Schmidt, East German pianist |
1936-10-10 |
Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007. |
1936-10-28 |
Horst Antes, German painter |
1936-11-22 |
Joachim Bißmeier, German actor |
1937-02-13 |
Sigmund Jaehn, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29) |
1937-03-18 |
Rudi Altig, German cyclist |
1937-03-22 |
Armin Hary, German athlete |
1937-04-17 |
Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian-German automotive engineer and executive |
1937-06-09 |
Harald Rosenthal, German biologist |
1937-08-20 |
George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1937-11-20 |
René Kollo, German tenor |
1938-03-24 |
Holger Czukay, German musician (Can) |
1938-04-11 |
Kurt Moll, German bass |
1938-04-29 |
Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer |
1938-06-05 |
Karin Balzer, German DR, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1938-07-20 |
Aleksey German, Hard to Be a God |
1938-07-23 |
Götz George, German actor |
1938-08-02 |
Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960) |
1938-08-09 |
Otto Rehhagel, German football manager |
1938-11-29 |
German Kachin, Poslednyaya nevesta Zmeya Gorynycha |
1939-02-13 |
Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter |
1939-05-13 |
Hildrun Claus, German athlete |
1939-09-08 |
Carsten Keller, German field hockey player |
1939-09-29 |
Eberhard Koellner, German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31 backup) |
1940-01-04 |
Helmut Jahn, German architect |
1940-01-22 |
Tilo Medek, German composer |
1940-02-23 |
German Poloskov, Akvanavty |
1940-03-07 |
Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader (Glasnost Berlin) |
1940-04-17 |
Anja Silja, German soprano |
1940-05-03 |
Konrad "Conny" Plank, German record producer and musician |
1940-06-20 |
Eugen Drewermann, German theologian |
1940-07-18 |
German Kolushkin, Vzryvniki |
1940-07-27 |
Pina Bausch, German dancer |
1940-08-15 |
Gudrun Ensslin, German terrorist |
1940-11-12 |
Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician |
1940-12-31 |
Mani Neumeier, German musician (Guru Guru) |
1941-01-13 |
Meinhard Nehmer, German DR, 2 man bobsledder (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1941-01-27 |
German Yushko, Mersedes ukhodit ot pogoni |
1941-02-01 |
Karl Dall, German television host |
1941-02-13 |
Sigmar Polke, German painter |
1941-02-17 |
Heidi Biebi, German Fed Rep, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1941-03-20 |
Elizabeth Bell, The German Woman |
1941-05-22 |
Martha Langbein, German athlete |
1941-06-20 |
Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19) |
1941-06-29 |
Margritta Gummel, German DR, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1941-07-20 |
Kurt Raab, German actor (d. 1988) |
1941-09-28 |
Edmund Stoiber, German politician |
1941-11-13 |
Eberhard Diepgen, German politician |
1942-01-17 |
Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist |
1942-03-22 |
Bernd Herzsprung, German actor |
1942-03-28 |
Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (d. 1998) |
1942-04-18 |
Jochen Rindt, German race car driver |
1942-05-14 |
Rüdiger Vogler, German actor |
1942-06-12 |
Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel laureate |
1942-07-05 |
Johannes Löhr, German footballer and trainer |
1942-08-20 |
Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964) |
1942-09-26 |
Ingrid Mickler-Becker, German FR, long jumper/relayer (Oly-gold-72) |
1942-11-21 |
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, German politician |
1942-12-03 |
Alice Schwarzer, German journalist |
1942-12-21 |
Reinhard Mey, German singer |
1943-03-01 |
Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1943-03-21 |
Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor |
1943-03-24 |
Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64) |
1943-05-06 |
Andreas Baader, leader of the German organization Red Army Faction (d. 1977) |
1943-05-22 |
Gesine Schwan, German politician and science professor |
1943-06-28 |
Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate |
1943-07-04 |
Konrad "Conny" Bauer, German musician |
1943-09-07 |
Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer |
1943-09-30 |
Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
1943-10-04 |
German Moreno, Crossroads |
1943-10-28 |
Conny Froboess, German singer |
1943-11-05 |
Friedman Paul Erhardt (Chef Tell), German-born American TV chef (d. 2007) |
1943-12-01 |
Orton Enderlein, German FR, luge (Olympic-gold-1964) |
1943-12-23 |
Silvia Sommerlath, German wife of King Carl XVI of Sweden (1973- ) |
1944-01-12 |
Vlastimil Hort, Czech/German chess player |
1944-01-24 |
Klaus Nomi, German singer (d. 1983) |
1944-02-01 |
Burkhard Ziese, German football manager |
1944-02-28 |
Sepp Maier, German footballer |
1944-03-02 |
Uschi Glas, German actress |
1944-05-18 |
W. G. Sebald, German-born writer (d. 2001) |
1944-06-22 |
Michael Obst, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1960) |
1944-07-06 |
Gunhild Hoffmeister, German FR, 800m/1500m runner (Oly-silver-72) |
1944-08-12 |
Peter Hofmann, German tenor |
1944-09-24 |
Diana Körner, German actress |
1944-10-03 |
Roy Horn, German-American magician |
1944-10-28 |
Anton Schlecker, German billionaire |
1944-10-29 |
Otto Wiesheu, German minister |
1944-11-02 |
Liesel Westermann, German FR, discus thrower (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1944-12-02 |
Botho Strauß, German author |
1944-12-24 |
Erhard Keller, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72) |
1945-03-08 |
Anselm Kiefer, German painter |
1945-04-14 |
Uwe Beyer, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1945-06-09 |
Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater |
1945-07-15 |
Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003) |
1945-08-14 |
Wim Wenders, West German director (American Friend, Hammett) |
1945-09-11 |
Franz Beckenbauer, German footballer |
1945-11-03 |
Gerd Müller, German footballer |
1946-01-27 |
Jürg Löw, German Fried Movie |
1946-02-13 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor (Ehe der Maria Braun) |
1946-03-24 |
Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk) |
1946-03-27 |
Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers) |
1946-05-17 |
Udo Lindenberg, German musician |
1946-05-31 |
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director (Marriage of Maria Braum) |
1946-08-20 |
Ralf Hütter, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
1946-12-14 |
Ruth Fuchs, German DR, javelin thrower (Oly-2 gold-72, 76) |
1947-02-14 |
Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1947-03-07 |
Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver |
1947-04-07 |
Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
1947-04-11 |
Uli Edel, Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, German film director |
1947-05-24 |
Martin Winterkorn, German automotive executive |
1947-06-20 |
Josef Clemens, German bishop and Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity |
1947-07-17 |
Wolfgang Flür, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
1947-07-19 |
Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer |
1947-08-04 |
Klaus Schulze, German composer |
1947-11-16 |
Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer |
1947-11-29 |
Petra Kelly, Gunzburg, Bavaria, German politician and activist (German Green Party) |
1948-01-03 |
Manfred Kokot, East German runner (world record 50 m indoor) |
1948-05-09 |
Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician |
1948-05-25 |
Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions) |
1948-07-18 |
Hartmut Michel, German chemist, Nobel laureate |
1948-07-22 |
Otto Waalkes, German comedian |
1948-08-31 |
Holger Osieck, German footballer and coach |
1948-08-31 |
Rudolf Schenker, German guitarist (Scorpions) |
1948-09-24 |
Heinz Chur, German composer |
1948-09-29 |
Theo Jörgensmann, German jazz clarinetist |
1949-01-12 |
Ottmar Hitzfeld, German football manager |
1949-02-23 |
Anna-Maria Muller, German DR, Luge (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1949-03-05 |
Franz Josef Jung, Commander-in-chief of the German Bundeswehr |
1949-03-26 |
Patrick Süskind, German writer |
1949-04-11 |
Bernd Eichinger, German film producer |
1949-05-14 |
Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist |
1949-06-08 |
Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1949-08-30 |
Peter Maffay, German musician |
1950-05-12 |
Renate Stecher-Meissner, German DR, sprinter (Oly-gold-72) |
1950-05-16 |
Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987) |
1950-06-13 |
Gerd Zewe, German footballer |
1950-06-18 |
Annelie Ehrhardt, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympics-gold-1972) |
1950-07-17 |
P.J. Soles, German-born American actress |
1950-08-03 |
Waldemar Cierpinski, German DR, marathoner (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1950-08-05 |
Rosi Mittermaier, German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1950-09-02 |
Michael Rother, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Cluster) |
1950-10-13 |
Annegret Richter-Irrang, German FR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1950-11-17 |
Roland Matthes, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Oly-gold-1968, 72) |
1950-12-31 |
Inge Helten, German FR, sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1976) |
1951-01-01 |
Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver |
1951-02-07 |
Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976) |
1951-03-04 |
Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician |
1951-04-13 |
Joachim Streich, East German footballer |
1951-05-18 |
Angela Voigt, German DR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-76) |
1951-06-10 |
Burglinde Pollak, German DR, pentathlete (Olympics-bronze-1972) |
1951-07-14 |
Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003) |
1951-08-21 |
Bernhard Germeshausen, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1951-09-05 |
Paul Breitner, German footballer |
1951-11-23 |
Bernd Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976) |
1951-11-23 |
Jorg Landvoigt, German DR, coxless pairs (Olympics-gold-1976) |
1952-02-17 |
Karin Janz, East German gymnast |
1952-04-04 |
Rosemarie Ackermann, German DR, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1952-05-31 |
Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic) |
1952-06-12 |
Seigfried Brietzke, German DR, coxless rower (Oly-gold-1972, 76, 80) |
1952-07-08 |
Ulrich Wehling, German DR, cross country (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80) |
1952-07-24 |
Damir German, Glembajevi |
1952-08-17 |
Dr. Mario Theissen, German F1 team principal (BMW Sauber) |
1952-08-28 |
Wendelin Wiedeking, German businessman |
1952-08-31 |
Rudolf Schenker, German rock guitarist (Scorpions-Virgin Killer) |
1952-08-31 |
Herbert Reul, German politician |
1952-09-09 |
Manuel Göttsching, German musician (Ash Ra Tempel) |
1952-09-13 |
Johanna Klier-Schaller, German DR, 100m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1952-09-14 |
Margit Schumann, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1952-09-21 |
Anneliese Michel, German exorcism victim (d. 1976) |
1952-09-29 |
Monika Zehrt, German DR, 400m runner (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1952-11-24 |
Norbert Haug, German motorsport executive (Mercedes Benz) |
1953-02-11 |
Stephen D Thorne, Frankfurt-on-Main, German FR, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut |
1953-03-19 |
Hans Rinn, German DR, 2 man lugist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1953-04-06 |
Christopher Franke, German musician and composer |
1953-05-22 |
Doris Barnett, German politician |
1953-06-20 |
Willy Rampf, German F1 technical director (BMW Sauber) |
1953-08-23 |
Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German FR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14) |
1953-12-26 |
Henning Schmitz, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
1953-12-30 |
Harald Schmautz, German-born journalist |
1954-01-06 |
Norbert Hahn, German DR, 2 man luge (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1954-01-06 |
Hans Robert Hiegel, German architect |
1954-01-19 |
Katharina Thalbach, German actress and film director |
1954-02-07 |
Dieter Bohlen German composer |
1954-02-09 |
Ulrich Walter, German FR, cosmonaut |
1954-04-30 |
Gunther Tiersch, German DR, 8 man cox (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1954-05-14 |
Jens Sparschuh, German writer |
1954-05-18 |
Reinhold Heil, German composer |
1954-07-12 |
Wolfgang Dremmler, German footballer |
1954-07-28 |
Gerd Faltings, German mathematician |
1954-09-05 |
Hans-Jorgen Gerhardt, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1954-10-20 |
Günter Müller, German sound artist, improvisor and percussionist |
1954-12-26 |
Ullrich Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1954-12-26 |
Walter Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976) |
1954-12-31 |
Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit architect |
1955-03-11 |
[Kater]Nina Hagen, East Berlin German DR, actress (Blue Angel) |
1955-03-21 |
Barbel Wockel-Eckert, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-4 gold-1976, 80) |
1955-09-25 |
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer |
1955-10-30 |
Jeremy Black, Dam Busters: The Race to Smash the German Dams |
1955-11-07 |
Detlef Ultsch, German judoka |
1955-11-10 |
Roland Emmerich, German film producer and director |
1955-12-01 |
Uwe Benter, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1972) |
1955-12-20 |
Ed Kuepper, German/Australian, singer/songwriter (Saints) |
1956-03-28 |
Evelin Jahl, German DR, discus thrower (Olympic-2 gold-1976) |
1956-04-12 |
Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer |
1956-04-13 |
Michael Nikolay, German DR, gymnist (Olympics) |
1956-05-31 |
Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk) |
1956-08-23 |
Andreas Floer, German mathematician (d. 1991) |
1956-09-03 |
Hans-Georg Beyer, German DR, team handball player (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1956-09-05 |
Sandra Guiboard, US AFB German FR, actress (Donna-One Life to Live) |
1956-09-24 |
Ilona Briesenick-Slupianek, German DR, shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1956-12-05 |
Klaus Allofs, German footballer |
1957-02-18 |
Marita Koch, German DR, 400m sprinter (Oly-gold-1980) |
1957-05-13 |
Andrea Klump, German terrorist |
1957-06-03 |
Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player |
1957-07-25 |
Bogdan Musiol, German DR, bobsled (Olympic-bronze-1980) |
1957-08-27 |
Bernhard Langer, Anhausen, German golfer (two-time Masters champion) |
1957-09-12 |
Hans Zimmer, German composer |
1957-10-21 |
Wolfgang Ketterle, German physicist, Nobel laureate |
1957-10-24 |
Ron Gardenhire, German-born American baseball manager |
1957-11-06 |
Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist |
1958-02-28 |
Christine Lathan-Brehmer, German DR, 400m runner (Oly-gold-76) |
1958-03-21 |
Marlies Gohr, German DR, sprinter (Olympic-gold-1976, 80) |
1958-06-16 |
Ulrike Tauber, East German swimmer |
1958-07-26 |
Ramona Neubert, German DR, long jumper/pentathlete (Oly-4th-80) |
1958-11-22 |
Aleksandr Stolyarov, German I Karmalita |
1959-01-12 |
Blixa Bargeld, German singer and musician (Einstürzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) |
1959-01-28 |
Burkhard Dallwitz, German-born composer |
1959-03-30 |
Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist |
1959-06-09 |
Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony. |
1959-07-03 |
Andreas Wisniewski, Berlin German FR, actor (Living Daylights) |
1959-07-30 |
Petra Felke, German DR, javelin thrower (world record 1988) |
1959-08-08 |
Ronald Weigel, German DR speed walker (5 km indoor) |
1959-11-09 |
Thomas Quasthoff, German singer |
1959-12-22 |
Bernd Schuster, German footballer |
1960-02-13 |
Artur Yusupov, Russian-German chess player |
1960-02-23 |
Gloria von Thurm un Taxis, Munich German FR, Princess |
1960-03-04 |
Christina Sussiek, former German athlete |
1960-03-24 |
Nena, German pop singer |
1960-03-27 |
Hans Pflügler, German footballer |
1960-04-13 |
Rudi Völler, German football coach |
1960-04-13 |
Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist |
1960-04-16 |
Pierre Littbarski, German footballer |
1960-05-11 |
Jorgen Schult, German FR, discus thrower (world record 1986) |
1960-06-19 |
Heike Walpot, German, cosmonaut |
1960-07-16 |
Gisela Beyer, German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980) |
1960-07-21 |
Fritz Walter, German footballer |
1960-08-08 |
Ulrich Maly, German politician |
1960-10-24 |
Joachim "Jo" Winkelhock, German race car driver |
1960-11-04 |
Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle |
1961-03-04 |
Sabine Everts, former German track athlete |
1961-03-21 |
Lothar Matthäus, German footballer |
1961-05-12 |
Thomas Dooley, German-American Soccer Player |
1961-05-14 |
Ulrike Folkerts, German actress |
1961-06-15 |
Kai Eckhardt, German musician (Garaj Mahal) |
1961-06-20 |
Karin Enke, Dresden German DR, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980, 84) |
1961-06-21 |
Sascha Konietzko, German musician |
1961-10-06 |
Kathrin Dörre, East German marathoner (Olympic-bronze-1988) |
1961-10-29 |
Cornelia Oschkenat, German DR, hurdler (50m indoor) |
1961-12-01 |
Armin Meiwes, German cannibal |
1962-01-01 |
Ari Up, German musician (The Slits) |
1962-02-25 |
Birgit Fischer, German DR, 500m kayaker (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1962-05-18 |
Sandra Cretu, German singer |
1962-05-20 |
Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model/actress |
1962-05-31 |
Sebastian Koch, German actor |
1962-09-08 |
Thomas Kretschmann, German actor |
1962-11-21 |
Sabine Busch, German athlete |
1963-01-04 |
Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein) |
1963-01-11 |
Petra Schneider, E German swimming star (world record 400m) |
1963-01-17 |
Kai Hansen, German singer and guitarist (Gamma Ray) |
1963-03-01 |
Thomas Anders, German singer (Modern Talking) |
1963-06-29 |
Khalid El-Masri, German-born suspected terrorist |
1963-09-23 |
Gabriele Reinsch, German DR, discus thrower (world record 1988) |
1963-09-27 |
Caren Metschuck, German DR, 100m butterfly swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1963-11-02 |
Ines Diers, German DR, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1963-12-11 |
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German FR, tennis star |
1963-12-19 |
Til Schweiger, German actor |
1964-01-06 |
Henry Maske, German boxer |
1964-02-08 |
German Gref, Taking Control |
1964-02-13 |
Evi Strasser, Bavaria German, equestrian (Olympics-96) |
1964-03-09 |
Herbert Fandel, German football referee |
1964-05-05 |
Heike Henkel, German FR, world record indoor high jumper (1992) |
1964-06-02 |
Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter |
1964-06-03 |
Doro Pesch, German singer |
1964-07-26 |
Ralf Metzenmacher, German painter and designer |
1964-07-30 |
Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager |
1964-09-04 |
René Pape, German bass |
1964-09-12 |
Dieter Hecking, German footballer |
1964-10-10 |
Maxi Gnauck, German DR, uneven parallel bars (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1964-10-25 |
Nicole, German singer |
1964-12-09 |
Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein) |
1964-12-16 |
Heike Drechsler, Gera German DR, sprinter (1988 world record) |
1965-01-06 |
Christine Wachtel, E German running star (world indoor record 800m) |
1965-02-27 |
Frank Peter Zimmermann, German violinist |
1965-03-04 |
WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ |
1965-03-18 |
Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete |
1965-04-06 |
Rica Reinisch, German DR, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1980) |
1965-05-18 |
Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (d. 1995) |
1965-05-23 |
Tom Tykwer, German film director |
1965-06-22 |
Uwe Boll, German film director |
1965-08-06 |
Juliane Köhler, German actress |
1965-09-07 |
Andreas Thom, German footballer |
1965-09-07 |
Uta Pippig, German athlete |
1965-09-12 |
Silke Horner, German DR, swimmer (world record 100m-breast stroke) |
1965-10-11 |
Alexander Hacke, German musician (Einstürzende Neubauten) |
1965-10-16 |
German Titov, Moscow Russia, NHL center (Calgary Flames, Oly-Silver-1998) |
1965-11-07 |
Sigrun Wodars, German athlete |
1965-11-15 |
Stefan Pfeiffer, German swimmer |
1965-12-21 |
Anke Engelke, German comedian |
1966-03-24 |
Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun) |
1966-05-01 |
Olaf Thon, German football player |
1966-05-11 |
Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein) |
1966-07-07 |
Gundula Krause, German folk violinist |
1966-08-10 |
Hansi Kürsch, German singer |
1966-09-09 |
Georg Hackl, German luger |
1966-09-13 |
Maria Furtwängler, German physician |
1966-10-18 |
German Sterligov, Kreml, Kaviar und Milliarden - Russlands neue Zaren |
1966-10-20 |
Stefan Raab, German entertainer |
1966-11-06 |
Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein) |
1966-11-14 |
Petra Roßner, German cyclist |
1966-11-16 |
Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein) |
1966-12-18 |
Mille Petrozza, German singer (Kreator) |
1966-12-22 |
Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer, German singer and bassplayer (Destruction) |
1967-02-11 |
Uwe Daßler, German swimmer |
1967-05-13 |
Melanie Thornton, African American German pop singer, former member of La Bouche. (d. 2001) |
1967-05-18 |
Heinz-Harald Frentzen, German F1 driver |
1967-06-02 |
Axel Holst, German Angst |
1967-06-24 |
Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German musician (Rammstein) |
1967-09-02 |
Andreas Möller, German footballer |
1968-01-24 |
Michael Kiske, German musician |
1968-01-29 |
Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger |
1968-02-02 |
Roland Jankowsky, German Fried Movie |
1968-03-08 |
Michael Bartels, German race car driver |
1968-04-01 |
Andreas Schnaas, German horror film director |
1968-05-01 |
Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer |
1968-05-21 |
Matthias Ungemach, German rower |
1968-08-02 |
Stefan Effenberg, German footballer |
1969-05-13 |
André Schmechta, German musician (X Marks the Pedwalk) |
1969-05-29 |
Dominic Comperatore, The Good German |
1969-06-15 |
Oliver Kahn, German footballer |
1969-07-07 |
Sylke Otto, German luger |
1969-09-13 |
Ilka Knickenberg, German actress |
1969-11-10 |
Jens Lehmann, German footballer |
1969-11-22 |
Katrin Krabbe, Neubrandenburg German DR, 100m/200m (World Champ 1991) |
1970-01-29 |
Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer |
1970-02-06 |
German Laverde, A Minor Miracle |
1970-02-27 |
Matthias Lechner, German art director |
1970-06-20 |
Andrea Nahles, German politician |
1970-07-07 |
Erik Zabel, German cyclist |
1970-07-23 |
Thea Dorn, German writer |
1970-08-31 |
Arie van Lent, Dutch-German footballer |
1970-10-10 |
Silke Kraushaar-Pielach, German luger |
1970-10-10 |
Corinna May, German singer |
1970-10-16 |
Mehmet Scholl, German footballer |
1971-03-19 |
Nadja Auermann, German supermodel |
1971-04-11 |
Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein) |
1971-04-22 |
Ingo Rademacher, German FR, actor (Jasper Jacks-General Hospital) |
1971-08-13 |
Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor |
1971-08-16 |
Stefan Klos, German footballer |
1971-12-16 |
Paul van Dyk, German DJ |
1972-01-17 |
Benno Fürmann, German actor |
1972-02-26 |
Gian Franco Tordi, The Good German |
1972-03-24 |
Igor Korosec, The Good German |
1972-06-14 |
Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist (KDE) |
1972-07-10 |
Tilo Wolff, German musician (Lacrimosa) |
1972-09-08 |
Markus Babbel, German footballer |
1972-11-27 |
Àlex Brendemühl, The German Doctor |
1972-12-09 |
Tre Cool, German-born American drummer (Green Day) |
1973-02-25 |
Normann Stadler, German triathlete |
1973-04-25 |
Barbara Rittner, Krefeld German FR, tennis star (1992 Schenectady) |
1973-04-29 |
German Saez, Pulgas en el 7 |
1973-05-01 |
Oliver Neuville, German footballer |
1973-05-02 |
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director and screenwriter |
1973-06-01 |
Heidi Klum, Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, German supermodel |
1973-06-24 |
Alexander Beyer, German actor |
1973-07-05 |
René Spies, German bobsledder |
1973-08-25 |
Fatih Akin, Turkish-German film director |
1973-08-27 |
Dietmar Hamann, German footballer |
1973-10-01 |
Jana Henke, German swimmer |
1973-11-17 |
Bernd Schneider, German footballer |
1973-12-02 |
Jan Ullrich, German cyclist |
1973-12-21 |
Karmen Stavec, German-born Slovenian singer |
1974-01-11 |
Jens Nowotny, German footballer |
1974-03-05 |
Jens Jeremies, German footballer |
1974-04-01 |
Sandra Völker, German swimmer |
1974-07-22 |
Franka Potente, German actress |
1974-08-28 |
Carsten Jancker, German footballer |
1974-09-15 |
Jamie Stevens, German singer |
1974-09-26 |
Boris Cepeda, German-Ecuadorian pianist and diplomat |
1974-10-27 |
Elena Roger, The German Doctor |
1974-11-05 |
Angela Gossow, German vocalist (Arch Enemy) |
1974-9-19 |
Janusz German, Kariera Nikosia Dyzmy |
1975-02-10 |
Kool Savas, German rapper |
1975-03-04 |
Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler |
1975-03-04 |
Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player |
1975-04-13 |
Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist |
1975-05-17 |
Alex Wright, German professional wrestler |
1975-06-22 |
Andreas Klöden, German professional road bicycle racer |
1975-06-30 |
Ralf Schumacher, German race car driver (F1) |
1975-10-01 |
Zoltán Sebescen, German footballer |
1976-02-07 |
Sreto Ristić, German footballer |
1976-04-25 |
Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player |
1976-05-25 |
Sandra Nasic, German singer (Guano Apes) |
1976-07-15 |
Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model |
1976-09-26 |
Michael Ballack, German footballer |
1976-11-12 |
Judith Holofernes, German singer (Wir sind Helden) |
1976-11-21 |
Martin Meichelbeck, German footballer |
1976-11-22 |
Torsten Frings, German footballer |
1976-11-22 |
Regina Halmich, German female boxer |
1976-9-04 |
Aleksey German, Bumazhnyy soldat |
1977-02-22 |
Timo Rose, German filmmaker |
1977-03-04 |
Daniel Klewer, German footballer |
1977-03-07 |
Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer |
1977-05-10 |
Nick Heidfeld, German Formula 1 driver |
1977-07-05 |
Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player. |
1977-08-24 |
Robert Enke, German footballer |
1977-08-29 |
Jo Weil, German actor |
1977-08-30 |
Jens Ludwig, German guitarist |
1977-09-24 |
Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer |
1977-10-25 |
Birgit Prinz, German footballer |
1977-11-21 |
Tobias Sammet, German singer (Edguy) |
1978-01-01 |
Nina Bott, German actress |
1978-01-20 |
Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete |
1978-01-21 |
Faris al-Sultan, German-Iraqi triathlete |
1978-01-29 |
Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper |
1978-02-20 |
Julia Jentsch, German actress |
1978-04-03 |
Tommy Haas, German tennis player |
1978-04-05 |
Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer |
1978-06-09 |
Miroslav Klose, German footballer |
1978-06-16 |
Daniel Brühl, German actor |
1978-06-19 |
Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player |
1978-07-09 |
Mark Medlock, German singer |
1978-09-28 |
Bushido, German rapper |
1978-10-03 |
Gerald Asamoah, German footballer |
1978-11-12 |
Alexandra Maria Lara, German Romanian actress |
1978-11-29 |
Lauren German, Hostel: Part II |
1979-03-14 |
Sead Ramović, German-born Bosnian footballer |
1979-04-05 |
Timo Hildebrand, German footballer |
1979-05-29 |
Arne Friedrich, German football player |
1979-07-14 |
Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier |
1979-07-22 |
Lucas Luhr, German racing driver |
1979-08-28 |
Markus Pröll, German footballer |
1979-08-28 |
Robert Hoyzer, German football referee |
1979-10-04 |
Bjorn Phau, German tennis player |
1979-11-14 |
Mavie Hörbiger, German actress |
1979-12-02 |
Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress |
1979-12-28 |
Senna Guemmour, German Singer (Monrose) |
1980-02-13 |
Sebastian Kehl, German footballer |
1980-02-17 |
Jamie German, Love the Coopers |
1980-04-09 |
Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer |
1980-04-20 |
Jasmin Wagner, German singer |
1980-05-02 |
Tim Borowski, German footballer |
1980-05-09 |
Tony Schmidt, German racing driver |
1980-06-13 |
Markus Winkelhock, German racing driver |
1980-06-13 |
Sarah Connor, German singer |
1980-06-20 |
Fabian Wegmann, German road racing cyclist |
1980-07-12 |
Johanna Klum, German TV presenter |
1980-08-08 |
Sabine Klaschka, German tennis player |
1980-08-22 |
Roland Benschneider, German footballer |
1980-11-05 |
Christoph Metzelder, German footballer |
1980-11-28 |
Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria) |
1981-01-02 |
Hanno Balitsch, German footballer |
1981-04-14 |
Dasha German, Street Racer |
1981-05-21 |
Max, German singer |
1981-06-16 |
Benjamin Becker, German tennis player |
1981-07-20 |
Thorsten Engelmann, German rower |
1981-07-21 |
Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist |
1981-09-23 |
Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada) |
1981-09-26 |
Collien Fernandes, German TV host and actress |
1981-9-15 |
Kristina Djukovic, I Don't Dream in German |
1982-01-07 |
Hannah Stockbauer, German swimmer |
1982-01-31 |
Andreas Görlitz, German football player |
1982-03-02 |
Kevin Kurányi, German footballer |
1982-03-10 |
Timo Glock, German racing car driver |
1982-03-12 |
Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer |
1982-03-18 |
Timo Glock German Formula 1 driver |
1982-04-03 |
Fler, German rapper |
1982-04-05 |
Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer |
1982-08-05 |
Tobias Regner, German singer |
1982-12-08 |
Hamit Altintop, German-born Turkish Football player (identical twin brother of Halil Altintop) |
1982-12-13 |
Dominik Werling, German footballer |
1983-01-11 |
Adrian Sutil, German racing driver |
1983-01-16 |
Aleksandr Sountsov, The Good German |
1983-01-17 |
Johannes Herber, German basketball player |
1983-01-21 |
Moritz Volz, German footballer |
1983-01-22 |
Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002) |
1983-04-30 |
Tatjana Hüfner, German luger |
1983-06-15 |
Julia Fischer, German violinist |
1983-08-24 |
Marcel Goc, German ice hockey player |
1983-09-05 |
Eugen Bopp, Ukrainian-German footballer |
1983-09-07 |
Annette Dytrt, German skater figure |
1983-11-05 |
Mike Hanke, German footballer |
1983-11-11 |
Philipp Lahm, German footballer |
1983-11-16 |
Britta Steffen, German swimmer |
1984-01-19 |
Celeste Cid, The German Friend |
1984-02-21 |
David Odonkor, German footballer |
1984-03-13 |
Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player |
1984-05-14 |
Michael Rensing, German footballer |
1984-08-01 |
Bastian Schweinsteiger, Kolbermoor, German footballer |
1984-08-18 |
Robert Huth, German footballer |
1984-09-26 |
Thore Schölermann, German actor |
1984-09-29 |
Per Mertesacker, German football player |
1984-11-02 |
Julia Stegner, German supermodel |
1985-03-01 |
Andreas Ottl, German footballer |
1985-05-16 |
Anja Mittag, German footballer |
1985-06-27 |
Nico Rosberg, German race car driver |
1985-07-10 |
Mario Gómez, German footballer |
1985-08-14 |
Christian Gentner, German footballer |
1985-10-08 |
Eiji Wentz, German-Japanese entertainer |
1985-11-04 |
Marcell Jansen, German footballer |
1986-02-14 |
Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver |
1986-09-19 |
Gerald Ciolek, German cyclist |
1986-10-12 |
Sergio Peter, German footballer |
1987-02-09 |
Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete |
1987-07-03 |
Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver |
1987-08-05 |
Ana Pauls, The German Doctor |
1987-10-25 |
Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast and Olympic medallist |
1987-11-03 |
Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player |
1988-08-23 |
Daniel Schwaab, German footballer |
1988-10-05 |
Bahar Kızıl, German Singer (Monrose) |
1989-04-01 |
Vietoris Krisztián, German racecar driver |
1990-01-04 |
Toni Kroos, German footballer |
1990-03-21 |
Mandy Capristo, German Singer (Monrose) |
1990-09-07 |
Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer |
1990-12-09 |
LaFee, German singer |
1993-02-07 |
Philip Wiegratz, German actor |
1995-12-06 |
Joy Gruttmann, German singer |
1998-10-06 |
Mia-Sophie Wellenbrink, German actress and singer |
German - Notable Weddings
German - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1707-10-17 |
German composer Johann S Bach marries for the 1st time his cousin Maria Barbara Bach |
1806-10-14 |
German writer, artist and politician Johann Wolfgang von Goethe marries mistress Christiane Vulpius in Weimar |
1837-03-28 |
German composer Felix Mendelssohn (27) marries Cécile Jeanrenaud (20) |
1870-08-25 |
German composer Richard Wagner (57) weds Franz Liszt's daughter Cosima Liszt (32) at a Protestant church in Lucerne, Switzerland |
1904-01-28 |
German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (28) weds Emma Weyer at St. Stephan Catholic Church in Lindenthal, Germany |
1919-09-26 |
German chancellor Konrad Adenauer (43) weds Auguste Zinsser in Cologne, Germany |
1920-07-05 |
Foreign Minister of the German Reich Joachim von Ribbentrop (27) weds Anna Elisabeth Henkell |
1934-01-07 |
Princess Juliana marries German prince Bernhard von Lippe-Biesterfeld |
1966-03-10 |
Dutch Crown Princess Beatrix (Queen Beatrix) marries German aristocrat Claus von Amsberg in Amsterdam |
1966-07-14 |
Sex symbol of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot (31) weds German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs (33) in Las Vegas |
2005-05-18 |
Television presenter and former Miss Germany Verona Feldbusch (37) weds German entrepreneur Franjo Pooth at the San Diego Court House in San Diego, California |
2005-10-22 |
German film and television actress Uschi Glas (61) weds Dieter Hermann in Munich Palace |
German - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2010-06-06 |
Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford (40) divorces German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 2 years of marriage |
German - Notable Deaths
German - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
482-01-08 |
Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies |
493-03-15 |
Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), murdered |
532-10-17 |
Boniface II, 1st "German" Pope, dies |
753-11-03 |
Pirminius, German saint (b. 753) |
814-01-28 |
Charlemagne, German emperor/Roman Emperor (800-814), dies at 71 |
849-08-18 |
Walafrid Strabo, German monk and theologian |
865-02-03 |
Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint, dies |
876-08-28 |
Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies |
876-09-28 |
Louis the German, King of Eastern Francia (b. 804) |
882-01-20 |
Louis II/III the Younger, German king (876-82), dies |
911-09-24 |
Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies |
918-09-23 |
Koenraad I, German duke/king (911-18), dies at 42 |
918-12-21 |
Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies |
918-12-23 |
Conrad I, East Frankish/German king (911-18), dies. Born 890 |
936-07-02 |
Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, dies |
946-01-26 |
Eadgyth, German Queen |
968-03-14 |
Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895) |
973-07-04 |
Ulrich of Augsburg, German bishop (b. 890) |
983-12-07 |
Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28 |
999-02-18 |
Gregory V, [Bruno] 1st German Pope, dies |
1002-01-23 |
Otto III, German king/emperor 983/996-1002, dies at 21 |
1024-07-13 |
Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies |
1043-02-15 |
Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52 |
1068-11-09 |
Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies |
1077-12-14 |
Agnes of Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies |
1080-10-15 |
Rudolf of Rheinfeld, Duke of Swabia and German anti-King |
1085-09-04 |
Irmgarde van Keulen, German countress of Aspel/saint, dies |
1100-09-16 |
Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054) |
1101-10-06 |
Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order |
1103-01-17 |
Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies |
1106-08-07 |
Henry IV, Roman German king/emperor (1056/84-1105), dies at 54 |
1125-05-23 |
Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies |
1125-05-25 |
Hendrik V, last Salische German king, dies |
1152-02-15 |
Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58 |
1197-09-28 |
Henry VI von Hohenstaufen, Roman Catholic German King (1169-97), dies |
1226-11-14 |
Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193) |
1242-02-12 |
Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide |
1250-12-13 |
Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55 |
1256-01-28 |
Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22 |
1280-11-15 |
Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87 |
1298-07-02 |
Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43 |
1308-05-01 |
Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered |
1312-10-28 |
Elisabeth of Tirol, German queen |
1313-08-24 |
Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies |
1328-04-30 |
... Eckhard, German theologist/mystic, dies |
1330-01-13 |
Frederick I (III), the Fair, Duke of Austrian/German anti-king, dies (b. 1286) |
1349-06-14 |
Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44 |
1351-07-20 |
Margaretha Ebner, German visionary (b. 1291) |
1361-06-16 |
John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 |
1366-01-25 |
Henry Suso, German mystic |
1378-11-29 |
Charles IV, Roman-German King/German emperor (Univ of Prague), dies |
1380-12-24 |
John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies |
1381-05-15 |
Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron |
1399-07-13 |
Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330) |
1401-05-18 |
Władysław Opolczyk (German: Ladislaus von Oppel, count palatine of Hungary 1367-1372, governor of Halych-Volhynia 1372 - 1378, count palatine of Poland |
1410-05-18 |
Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies |
1410-07-15 |
Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, killed at the Battle of Grunwald (b. 1360) |
1418-03-22 |
Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian |
1437-12-09 |
Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70 |
1461-04-08 |
Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423) |
1464-08-17 |
Nikolaus von Cusa, German theologist/mathematician/philosopher, dies |
1468-02-23 |
John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies |
1473-01-24 |
Conrad Paumann, German blind organist/composer, dies |
1475-06-24 |
Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt), dies at 54 |
1476-07-06 |
Regiomontanus, [Johannes Muller of Königsberg], German astronomer (b. 1436) |
1485-02-28 |
Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441) |
1491-02-02 |
Martin Schongauer, German painter, dies at 40 |
1491-10-12 |
Fritz Herlen, German artist |
1493-08-19 |
Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77 |
1496-03-12 |
Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies |
1498-12-07 |
Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist |
1499-07-22 |
Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle |
1504-12-21 |
Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild, German archbishop and elector (b. 1442) |
1505-10-21 |
Paul Scriptoris, German mathematician |
1507-07-29 |
Martin Behaim, German-born navigator and geographer (b. 1459) |
1508-02-04 |
Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459) |
1514-11-28 |
Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies |
1516-12-13 |
Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (b. 1462) |
1517-01-01 |
Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies |
1519-09-21 |
Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49 |
1519-11-30 |
Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85 |
1523-08-29 |
Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35 |
1525-05-27 |
Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader |
1525-12-30 |
Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66 |
1526-03-30 |
Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471) |
1527-11-08 |
Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477) |
1528-04-06 |
Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56 |
1529-01-07 |
Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies |
1529-04-19 |
John Cuspinianus, [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55 |
1531-02-16 |
Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) |
1531-07-08 |
Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71 |
1531-11-24 |
Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482) |
1535-02-18 |
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, physician and theologian dies at 48 |
1536-01-22 |
Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495) |
1536-02-25 |
Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492) |
1537-09-04 |
Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475) |
1538-02-12 |
Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57 |
1540-03-30 |
Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469) |
1540-10-04 |
Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies |
1541-08-01 |
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493) |
1545-01-16 |
George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484) |
1547-01-16 |
Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477) |
1548-08-06 |
Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies |
1548-11-16 |
Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44 |
1549-01-28 |
Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80 |
1550-09-08 |
Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies |
1552-01-11 |
Johannes Cochlaeus, [Dobeneck], German humanist/theologist, dies |
1552-02-26 |
Heinrich Faber, German composer |
1552-04-21 |
Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50 |
1552-08-15 |
Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477) |
1553-02-19 |
Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41 |
1553-10-16 |
Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81 |
1553-10-30 |
Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489) |
1554-02-21 |
Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies |
1554-06-19 |
Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53 |
1555-10-09 |
Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) |
1555-11-21 |
Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61 |
1556-06-10 |
Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies |
1556-10-31 |
John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50 |
1557-04-21 |
Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495) |
1558-04-20 |
Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485) |
1559-03-30 |
Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492) |
1559-11-28 |
Erasmus Sarcerius, German Lutheran theologian and reformer, dies at about 58 |
1560-11-07 |
Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies |
1561-03-25 |
Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518) |
1563-02-02 |
Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54 |
1564-10-18 |
Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520) |
1565-05-14 |
Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies |
1566-05-10 |
Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65 |
1566-09-22 |
John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister, dies |
1567-04-18 |
Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 |
1567-04-19 |
Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79 |
1568-05-23 |
Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27 |
1571-07-17 |
Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516) |
1574-04-14 |
Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle |
1574-04-17 |
Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies |
1574-11-28 |
Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502) |
1576-02-10 |
Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532) |
1580-08-01 |
Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524) |
1581-10-23 |
Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529) |
1583-03-06 |
Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48 |
1586-01-25 |
Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70 |
1588-06-10 |
Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies |
1589-11-14 |
Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geographer, dies at 58 |
1590-01-07 |
Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61 |
1590-11-29 |
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547) |
1592-01-06 |
John Casimir of Simmern, German prince and regent for his nephew, Elector Frederick IV (b. 1543) |
1595-05-25 |
Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567) |
1596-01-21 |
John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 |
1596-02-17 |
Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536) |
1596-09-15 |
Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540) |
1597-01-29 |
Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530) |
1597-06-02 |
Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67 |
1597-12-18 |
Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67 |
1598-10-11 |
Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies |
1602-02-03 |
Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62 |
1602-09-25 |
Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525) |
1607-10-26 |
Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52 |
1610-12-11 |
Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32 |
1610-12-31 |
Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540) |
1615-03-04 |
Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies |
1616-07-25 |
Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies |
1616-10-23 |
Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563) |
1617-05-07 |
David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53 |
1620-03-09 |
Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59 |
1620-03-25 |
Johannes Nucius, German composer |
1621-02-15 |
Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50 |
1623-06-16 |
Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599) |
1625-03-07 |
Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572) |
1625-09-20 |
Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555) |
1626-11-29 |
Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580) |
1628-02-20 |
Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63 |
1628-06-08 |
Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547) |
1630-11-15 |
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58 |
1630-11-19 |
Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Opella Nova), dies at 44 |
1631-10-20 |
Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) |
1634-02-25 |
Albrecht WE baron von Wallenstein, German duke, murdered at 50 |
1635-02-13 |
Georg R Weckerlin, German poet, dies at 50 |
1635-08-07 |
Friedrich von Spee, German writer (b. 1591) |
1637-02-15 |
Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58 |
1637-08-10 |
Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582) |
1638-08-12 |
Johannes Althusius, [Althaut], German lawyer, dies at about 81 |
1638-11-08 |
Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50 |
1639-06-01 |
Melchior Franck, German composer |
1639-07-18 |
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, German prince and general (b. 1604) |
1639-08-20 |
Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41 |
1646-01-06 |
Elias Hill, German architect of Augsburg, dies at 72 |
1649-03-19 |
Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577) |
1649-11-19 |
Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576) |
1650-07-18 |
Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer, dies at 74 |
1651-10-06 |
Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47 |
1654-03-24 |
Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66 |
1654-06-27 |
Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg), dies at 67 |
1656-07-27 |
Salomo Glassius, German theologian (b. 1593) |
1656-10-02 |
Stephan Otto, German composer, dies at 53 |
1657-04-02 |
Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 |
1658-09-22 |
Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (b. 1607) |
1659-04-15 |
Simon Dach, German poet, dies |
1660-09-08 |
Daniel von Czepko, German poet, dies at 54 |
1661-02-02 |
Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596) |
1661-10-26 |
Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian/vicar, dies |
1662-04-04 |
Leonhart Kern, German sculptor, dies at about 73 |
1663-02-19 |
Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603) |
1663-07-07 |
Thomas Baltzar, German violinist |
1665-01-31 |
Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622) |
1666-05-22 |
Gaspar Schott, German scientist (b. 1608) |
1666-06-30 |
Adam Krieger, German composer, dies at 32 |
1666-08-15 |
Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies |
1666-08-30 |
Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer, dies |
1667-05-07 |
Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist/singer/composer, dies at 50 |
1668-06-20 |
Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (b. 1620) |
1669-11-05 |
John Coccejus, German/Neth reformed theologist, dies at about 66 |
1670-03-10 |
Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604) |
1671-12-28 |
Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (b. 1611) |
1674-02-24 |
Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616) |
1674-03-06 |
Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter, dies at 58 |
1675-08-12 |
Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Neth baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 |
1676-06-07 |
Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606) |
1676-10-25 |
Justus G Schottel [Schottelius], German linguistic/poet, dies at 64 |
1677-07-09 |
Angelus Silesius [Johann Scheffer], German medical/mystic poet, dies |
1680-05-31 |
Joachim Neander, German clergyman (b. 1650) |
1680-11-27 |
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern), dies |
1686-05-21 |
(N. S.) Otto von Guericke, German scientist (b. 1602) |
1686-11-11 |
Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor, and politician (b. 1602) |
1688-05-22 |
Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist, dies at 70 |
1689-11-13 |
Philipp von Zesen, German poet (Bescheibung of Amsterdam), dies at 70 |
1689-11-26 |
Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (b. February 1, 1635) |
1691-07-30 |
Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (b. 1639) |
1692-11-14 |
Christoph Bernhard, German composer, dies at 64 |
1692-11-19 |
Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies |
1692-12-18 |
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (b. 1626) |
1693-02-13 |
Johann Kaspar von Kerll, German composer, dies at 65 |
1694-05-17 |
Johann Michael Bach, German composer, dies at 46 |
1694-10-16 |
Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf, German lawyer, dies at 62 |
1701-02-15 |
Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80 |
1702-06-15 |
Georg E Rumphius, German nature explorer, dies |
1703-01-11 |
Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (b. 1632) |
1703-03-20 |
Johann Kunckel/Kunkel, German alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies |
1703-03-31 |
Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642) |
1704-02-23 |
Georg Muffat, French/German organist/composer, dies at 50 |
1704-04-08 |
Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624) |
1704-11-04 |
Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654) |
1705-02-05 |
Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635) |
1706-03-01 |
Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632) |
1706-03-09 |
Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer, dies at 52 |
1706-12-03 |
Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and hymn writer (b. 1637) |
1707-05-09 |
Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69 |
1707-06-24 |
Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet, dies at 74 |
1708-10-11 |
Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (b. 1651) |
1709-12-01 |
Abraham a Sancta Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court preacher and friar, dies at 65 |
1710-01-21 |
Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (b. 1638) |
1711-11-03 |
John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666) |
1711-12-17 |
Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies |
1714-03-27 |
Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80 |
1715-12-15 |
George Hickes, English linguist (Old German Philology), dies at 73 |
1716-11-02 |
Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (b. 1651) |
1716-11-14 |
Gottfried W Leibniz, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 70 |
1719-08-19 |
Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52 |
1719-09-21 |
Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (b. 1647) |
1721-09-07 |
Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies |
1721-09-11 |
Rudolph J Camerarius, German physician (sexuality plans), dies |
1722-04-22 |
Pieter Erberfeld, German/Thais merchant on Java, dies |
1722-11-24 |
Johann Adam Reincken, German organist/composer, dies at 99 |
1722-12-08 |
Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70 |
1724-06-24 |
Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva), dies at 77 |
1727-06-08 |
August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (b. 1663) |
1727-06-10 |
George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67 |
1727-09-17 |
Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman (b. 1647) |
1728-02-12 |
Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 |
1728-09-23 |
Christian Thomasius, German jurist (b. 1655) |
1729-08-15 |
Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64 |
1731-05-01 |
Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677) |
1732-03-20 |
Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681) |
1733-05-18 |
Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, dies at 71 |
1734-05-24 |
Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) |
1736-04-30 |
Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668) |
1737-01-17 |
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662) |
1738-02-05 |
Georg Reidel, German composer, dies at 61 |
1738-03-16 |
George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72 |
1740-10-05 |
Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721) |
1741-05-25 |
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660) |
1741-08-31 |
Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681) |
1742-09-24 |
Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684) |
1742-11-12 |
Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660) |
1744-07-14 |
Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28 |
1745-01-20 |
Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47 |
1746-02-28 |
Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660) |
1746-11-14 |
Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709) |
1747-01-16 |
Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) |
1747-04-02 |
Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63 |
1748-03-23 |
Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63 |
1748-12-11 |
Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55 |
1750-06-02 |
Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68 |
1750-07-28 |
Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65 |
1751-03-21 |
Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706) |
1752-11-05 |
Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670) |
1753-08-19 |
[Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66 |
1754-04-09 |
Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75 |
1754-10-28 |
Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708) |
1755-09-09 |
Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694) |
1755-10-04 |
Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies |
1755-11-25 |
Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76 |
1756-04-13 |
Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29 |
1756-12-11 |
Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies |
1758-01-01 |
Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26 |
1758-03-02 |
Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78 |
1759-07-25 |
Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39 |
1759-08-08 |
Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55 |
1759-08-24 |
Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44 |
1760-05-09 |
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, Austrian born German religious and social reformer, dies at 59 |
1761-08-03 |
Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691) |
1762-02-20 |
Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723) |
1762-03-04 |
Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702) |
1762-05-26 |
Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714) |
1762-07-20 |
Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies |
1763-01-11 |
Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676) |
1763-10-28 |
Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700) |
1763-11-23 |
Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673) |
1764-04-17 |
Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82 |
1764-05-10 |
Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies |
1764-07-17 |
Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82 |
1764-11-20 |
Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies |
1766-11-16 |
Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81 |
1766-12-12 |
Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700) |
1767-01-22 |
Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719) |
1767-06-25 |
Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86 |
1768-03-01 |
Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694) |
1768-05-27 |
Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies |
1768-06-08 |
Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50 |
1769-04-03 |
Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71 |
1770-09-09 |
Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73 |
1770-09-09 |
Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62 |
1770-12-10 |
Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80 |
1771-02-08 |
Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies |
1771-11-13 |
Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61 |
1772-05-01 |
Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52 |
1772-06-18 |
Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706) |
1773-07-12 |
Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76 |
1773-10-21 |
Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78 |
1774-08-14 |
Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716) |
1774-12-02 |
Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54 |
1774-12-13 |
Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50 |
1775-02-05 |
Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692) |
1775-06-23 |
Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692) |
1775-10-18 |
Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715) |
1776-04-19 |
Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78 |
1776-04-22 |
Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67 |
1777-06-22 |
Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71 |
1777-10-05 |
Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704) |
1778-06-16 |
Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720) |
1779-02-24 |
Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704) |
1779-06-29 |
Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51 |
1780-02-17 |
Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706) |
1781-07-29 |
Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713) |
1781-11-04 |
Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721) |
1782-01-01 |
Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46 |
1782-02-10 |
Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702) |
1783-07-27 |
Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62 |
1784-04-30 |
Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies |
1784-07-15 |
Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies |
1786-01-04 |
Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56 |
1787-06-20 |
Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63 |
1787-10-07 |
Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711) |
1788-02-21 |
Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723) |
1788-12-14 |
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74 |
1790-01-02 |
Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies |
1790-07-25 |
Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723) |
1790-09-02 |
Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies |
1791-03-14 |
Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725) |
1792-04-23 |
Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741) |
1792-10-28 |
Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710) |
1793-12-23 |
Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699) |
1794-01-08 |
Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720) |
1794-01-10 |
Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754) |
1796-05-12 |
Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75 |
1797-02-22 |
Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) |
1798-01-20 |
Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66 |
1798-01-26 |
Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49 |
1798-02-13 |
Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24 |
1798-04-11 |
Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725) |
1798-04-29 |
Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723) |
1798-11-30 |
Friedrich Fleischmann, German composer, dies at 32 |
1798-12-09 |
Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729) |
1799-02-24 |
Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56 |
1800-06-10 |
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53 |
1800-06-20 |
Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719) |
1801-10-23 |
Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60 |
1802-06-28 |
Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 |
1802-08-10 |
Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77 |
1803-03-14 |
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78 |
1803-12-18 |
Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59 |
1804-02-12 |
Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79 |
1805-05-09 |
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet/playwright, dies at 45 |
1805-07-09 |
Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76 |
1806-09-10 |
Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74 |
1806-11-12 |
Josef Gottlieb Kölreuter, German Botanist who pioneered the study of plant hybrids, dies at 73 |
1807-02-18 |
August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53 |
1807-08-15 |
Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70 |
1807-12-19 |
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723) |
1808-05-18 |
Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49 |
1809-09-07 |
Caroline Schelling, [Michaelis], German author and academic dies at 46 |
1810-11-11 |
Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77 |
1811-09-08 |
Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69 |
1811-11-21 |
Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 |
1812-04-11 |
Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35 |
1812-06-16 |
Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23 |
1812-07-14 |
Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82 |
1813-08-26 |
Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21 |
1814-01-29 |
Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51 |
1816-04-28 |
Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862) |
1816-08-09 |
Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771) |
1817-01-01 |
Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73 |
1817-04-02 |
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740) |
1817-06-30 |
Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist |
1817-12-11 |
Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34 |
1818-06-29 |
Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22 |
1818-10-22 |
Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 |
1819-12-05 |
Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750) |
1820-01-25 |
Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79 |
1820-02-29 |
Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743) |
1821-02-21 |
Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756) |
1821-04-20 |
Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67 |
1821-11-10 |
Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54 |
1822-01-14 |
Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72 |
1822-04-25 |
Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83 |
1822-06-25 |
Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46 |
1822-08-25 |
F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85 |
1822-11-19 |
Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763) |
1823-01-17 |
Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36 |
1824-02-09 |
Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 |
1825-04-21 |
Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765) |
1825-06-13 |
Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82 |
1826-03-01 |
J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59 |
1826-06-07 |
Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787) |
1827-03-26 |
Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56 |
1827-04-02 |
Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776) |
1827-04-03 |
Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756) |
1827-06-26 |
Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies |
1827-06-27 |
Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754) |
1828-08-22 |
Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (phrenology), dies at 70 |
1829-01-12 |
Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56 |
1830-01-14 |
Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59 |
1830-03-02 |
Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755) |
1831-03-09 |
Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79 |
1831-04-19 |
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765) |
1831-05-13 |
Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74 |
1831-05-26 |
Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies |
1831-12-10 |
Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770) |
1832-02-22 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer, dies at 82 |
1832-03-12 |
Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45 |
1833-03-07 |
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61 |
1833-12-17 |
Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21 |
1834-02-12 |
Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65 |
1835-11-16 |
Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48 |
1837-02-19 |
Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813) |
1838-01-13 |
Ferdinand Ries, German composer dies at 53 |
1839-08-03 |
Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763) |
1839-09-21 |
Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60 |
1840-01-22 |
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752) |
1840-03-02 |
Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81 |
1840-05-07 |
Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774) |
1840-07-04 |
Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery dies at 53 |
1841-02-11 |
J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55 |
1841-05-23 |
Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76 |
1841-08-13 |
Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies |
1841-10-09 |
Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60 |
1843-03-27 |
Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769) |
1843-06-06 |
Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770) |
1843-07-02 |
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88 |
1843-08-10 |
Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies |
1845-02-13 |
Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773) |
1845-05-02 |
August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 |
1845-05-12 |
August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77 |
1846-03-17 |
Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61 |
1846-05-31 |
Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780) |
1847-01-11 |
Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 |
1847-05-16 |
Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59 |
1847-07-01 |
George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61 |
1847-11-04 |
Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies at 38 |
1847-12-11 |
Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25 |
1848-01-09 |
Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750) |
1848-03-03 |
Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies |
1848-04-04 |
Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer of northern and central Australia, dies on an expedition at 34 |
1848-04-30 |
Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53 |
1848-05-25 |
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797) |
1849-01-16 |
Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69 |
1849-11-17 |
Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794) |
1850-01-27 |
J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85 |
1850-03-27 |
Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53 |
1850-07-14 |
August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789) |
1851-02-18 |
Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804) |
1851-08-01 |
William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775) |
1851-08-11 |
Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779) |
1852-10-11 |
Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823) |
1852-10-22 |
Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86 |
1853-03-04 |
Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774) |
1853-03-05 |
Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75 |
1853-04-13 |
Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788) |
1854-03-06 |
Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80 |
1854-04-11 |
Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55 |
1854-07-04 |
Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72 |
1854-07-06 |
Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (Ohm's law), dies at 65 |
1854-08-20 |
Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79 |
1854-11-26 |
Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies |
1856-02-17 |
Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris |
1856-06-11 |
Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76 |
1856-07-29 |
Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46 |
1857-09-03 |
M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77 |
1857-11-26 |
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69 |
1857-12-03 |
Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80 |
1858-02-16 |
Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86 |
1858-04-28 |
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801) |
1858-10-10 |
Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73 |
1859-04-12 |
John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84 |
1859-05-05 |
Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53 |
1859-05-06 |
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, dies at 89 |
1859-09-05 |
W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68 |
1859-10-04 |
Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57 |
1859-11-22 |
Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75 |
1860-03-06 |
Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783) |
1860-05-14 |
Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801) |
1860-08-26 |
Philipp Friedrich Silcher, German composer, dies at 71 |
1860-09-21 |
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788) |
1860-11-28 |
Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies |
1861-05-09 |
Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805) |
1861-10-25 |
Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82 |
1862-02-21 |
Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75 |
1862-03-19 |
F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73 |
1862-03-23 |
Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81 |
1862-07-05 |
Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800) |
1862-08-22 |
Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51 |
1863-04-04 |
Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790) |
1863-10-31 |
Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51 |
1864-01-16 |
Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68 |
1864-01-27 |
Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59 |
1865-02-10 |
Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804) |
1865-02-25 |
Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47 |
1865-03-02 |
Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819) |
1865-08-26 |
Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73 |
1865-11-25 |
Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies |
1866-07-20 |
G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies |
1866-07-25 |
Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies |
1867-05-12 |
Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795) |
1867-08-03 |
Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785) |
1867-10-04 |
Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819) |
1868-05-22 |
Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies |
1868-09-26 |
August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790) |
1868-12-06 |
August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821) |
1868-12-13 |
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794) |
1869-07-22 |
John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806) |
1869-07-28 |
Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies |
1870-04-04 |
Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802) |
1871-12-16 |
Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73 |
1872-09-13 |
Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68 |
1872-11-07 |
Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833) |
1873-04-18 |
Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69 |
1873-06-14 |
Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92 |
1873-09-20 |
Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies |
1874-01-14 |
Johann Philipp Reis, German Physicist and Inventor, dies of lung disease at 40 |
1874-02-08 |
David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66 |
1874-10-26 |
Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49 |
1874-12-07 |
Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815) |
1875-06-04 |
Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804) |
1875-08-10 |
Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66 |
1875-08-17 |
Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827) |
1875-08-31 |
Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49 |
1876-05-07 |
Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69 |
1876-06-27 |
Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81 |
1876-11-28 |
Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84 |
1877-01-24 |
Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796) |
1877-07-13 |
Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65 |
1877-09-25 |
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, German Physician and advocate of scientific medicine, dies at 62 |
1877-09-26 |
Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809) |
1878-03-20 |
Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814) |
1879-03-13 |
Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60 |
1879-04-04 |
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803) |
1879-05-15 |
Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803) |
1879-08-08 |
Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1797) |
1879-09-14 |
Bernhard von Cotta, German geologist (b. 1808) |
1880-01-04 |
Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies |
1880-05-22 |
Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician, dies at 80 |
1880-10-05 |
Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer (b. 1819) |
1881-03-24 |
Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69 |
1881-04-26 |
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815) |
1881-05-26 |
Jakob Bernays, German philologist (b. 1824) |
1881-07-10 |
Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812) |
1881-11-25 |
Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (b. 1794) |
1882-01-11 |
Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (b. 1810) |
1882-01-13 |
Wilhelm Mauser, German weapon designer and manufacturer (b. 1834) |
1882-04-13 |
Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809) |
1882-06-03 |
Christian Wilberg, German painter (b. 1839) |
1882-06-24 |
Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60 |
1882-06-30 |
Alberto Henschel, German-Brazilian photographer and businessman (b. 1827) |
1883-01-24 |
Friedrich von Flotow, German baron/composer, dies at 70 |
1883-03-14 |
Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64 |
1883-11-18 |
Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies |
1884-01-17 |
Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (b. 1804) |
1884-11-11 |
Alfred Brehm German zoologist (b. 1827) |
1885-03-31 |
Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65 |
1885-04-07 |
Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804) |
1885-05-11 |
Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor, dies at 73 |
1885-05-13 |
Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (b. 1809) |
1885-06-16 |
Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (b. 1818) |
1885-07-01 |
Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73 |
1885-08-12 |
Georg Curtius, German classical/linguist/philologist, dies at 65 |
1886-03-18 |
Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 |
1886-04-09 |
Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60 |
1886-05-05 |
Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61 |
1886-05-23 |
Leopold von Ranke, German historian (b. 1795) |
1886-08-06 |
Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45 |
1886-10-18 |
Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (b. 1796) |
1887-03-02 |
August W Eichler, German botanist, dies at 47 |
1887-07-05 |
August F Pott, German philological (That Personennamen), dies |
1887-09-14 |
Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer), dies |
1887-09-29 |
Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (b. 1810) |
1887-10-17 |
Gustav R Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectroscopy), dies at 63 |
1887-11-18 |
Gustav T Fechner, German psychologist/physicist, dies at 86 |
1887-11-18 |
Heinrich Panofka, German violist/composer, dies at 80 |
1888-03-09 |
William I, German Emperor (b. 1797) |
1888-06-20 |
John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45 |
1888-07-04 |
Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70 |
1888-07-21 |
Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade), dies at 53 |
1888-08-24 |
Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies |
1888-12-03 |
Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (b. 1816) |
1888-12-31 |
Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808) |
1889-08-17 |
Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor, dies at 42 |
1889-12-21 |
Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (b. 1809) |
1890-10-03 |
Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824) |
1890-12-26 |
Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (Trojan War), dies at 86 |
1891-01-26 |
Nicholaus Otto, German auto pioneer (internal combustion engine), dies. (b. 1833) |
1891-06-23 |
Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (b. 1804) |
1891-12-29 |
Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician, dies at 68 |
1892-01-07 |
Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German Physician and Physiologist, dies at 72 |
1892-02-20 |
Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp), dies at 74 |
1892-02-22 |
Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828) |
1892-05-05 |
August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818) |
1892-10-23 |
Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52 |
1892-12-06 |
E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75 |
1893-05-14 |
Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83 |
1893-11-30 |
Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68 |
1893-12-22 |
Johann Czerski, German chaplain, dies at 80 |
1894-01-01 |
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857) |
1894-02-12 |
Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830) |
1894-04-11 |
Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832) |
1894-05-08 |
Klara Fey, German orch leaser (Die Kleinen Betrachtungen), dies at 79 |
1894-05-21 |
August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54 |
1894-06-03 |
Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on Byzantine Law (b. 1812) |
1894-09-08 |
Hermann von Helmholtz, German physician (b. 1821) |
1895-02-18 |
Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851) |
1895-04-11 |
Julius Lothar Meyer, German Chemist, dies at 64 |
1895-04-23 |
Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815) |
1895-05-23 |
Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96 |
1895-08-05 |
Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies |
1895-08-13 |
Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies |
1895-09-08 |
Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), dies at 58 |
1896-01-04 |
Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821) |
1896-01-20 |
Heinrich M von Battenberg, German son-in-law of Victoria, dies at 37 |
1896-04-28 |
Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies |
1896-06-02 |
Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer (Abbsynia/Ethiopia), dies |
1896-07-11 |
Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian (Olympia), dies at 81 |
1896-07-13 |
Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829) |
1896-08-10 |
Otto Lilienthal, German aircraft pioneer, dies |
1896-11-26 |
Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (b. 1818) |
1896-12-08 |
Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel), dies at 75 |
1897-02-19 |
Karl T Weierstrass, German mathematician, dies at 81 |
1897-04-03 |
Johannes Brahms, German composer/conductor (Hung Dances), dies at 63 |
1897-07-16 |
Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies |
1897-08-13 |
Antonius von der Linde, Neth/German librarian, dies at 63 |
1897-09-21 |
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (b. 1819) |
1898-06-25 |
Ferdinand J Cohn, German botanist/publicist, dies at 70 |
1898-07-30 |
Otto Von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83 |
1898-09-20 |
Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 |
1898-09-25 |
Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German Mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73 |
1899-02-06 |
Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67 |
1899-04-20 |
Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820) |
1899-04-21 |
Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer, dies at 80 |
1899-05-01 |
Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824) |
1899-08-16 |
Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811) |
1899-10-28 |
Ottmar Mergenthaler, German-born inventor (tuberculosis) (b. 1854) |
1900-08-06 |
Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74 |
1900-08-25 |
Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher, dies at 55 |
1900-10-28 |
Max Müller, German-born orientalist (b. 1823) |
1901-03-08 |
Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64 |
1901-03-17 |
Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde Test), dies at 69 |
1901-06-16 |
Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies |
1901-11-25 |
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62 |
1902-02-10 |
J N Krieger, German Selenographer, dies |
1902-03-12 |
John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54 |
1902-06-10 |
Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68 |
1902-06-16 |
Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (b. 1841) |
1902-08-31 |
Mathilde Wesendonk, German author/poetess, dies at 73 |
1902-09-05 |
Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist and politician, dies at 80 |
1902-12-11 |
Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies at 68 |
1903-09-18 |
Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, dies at 79 |
1903-10-07 |
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832) |
1903-11-01 |
[Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies |
1903-11-13 |
Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies |
1904-01-05 |
Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya), dies at 64 |
1904-04-16 |
Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888) |
1904-04-24 |
Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77 |
1904-05-06 |
Franz von Lenbach, German painter, dies at 67 |
1904-08-09 |
Friedrich Ratzel, German social-geographer (Lebensraum), dies at 59 |
1904-09-18 |
Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies |
1905-01-14 |
Ernst Abbe, German physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company), dies at 64 |
1905-02-01 |
Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77 |
1905-06-15 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German African expl/gov East-Africa, dies |
1905-06-16 |
Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 51 |
1905-08-21 |
Jules Oppert, German Assyriologist (decodes characters), dies at 80 |
1905-09-21 |
Rudolf Baumbach, writer of German student drinking songs, dies at 64 |
1905-10-06 |
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer, dies |
1906-03-10 |
Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal), dies at 67 |
1906-05-14 |
Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829) |
1906-05-31 |
Hermann Schell, German theologist (Gott und Geist), dies at 56 |
1906-06-05 |
Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842) |
1906-06-11 |
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50 |
1906-06-22 |
Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 |
1907-03-05 |
Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843) |
1907-07-06 |
August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826) |
1907-08-15 |
Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76 |
1907-12-21 |
Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 |
1908-02-23 |
Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823) |
1908-06-11 |
Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45 |
1909-01-12 |
Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (b. 1864) |
1909-01-15 |
Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 |
1909-01-22 |
Richard A C E Erlenmeyer, German chemist, dies at 83 |
1909-02-02 |
Adolf Stoec |