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Catholic priest

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Romano Guardini		German Catholic philosopher (1885–1968)	Germany	1885-02-17	1968-10-01	Verona	Munich	Q44872
Johannes Joseph van der Velden		German bishop	Germany	1891-08-07	1954-05-19	Übach	Krefeld	Q1262238
Pierre-Marie Théas		French bishop (1894-1977)	France	1894-09-14	1977-04-03	Barzun	Pau	Q820432
Antoine Abed		archbishop (1896-1975)	Lebanon	1896-10-26	1975-09-15	Tripoli		Q585562
José Clemente Maurer		German cardinal	Germany Bolivia	1900-03-13	1990-06-27	Püttlingen	Sucre	Q65938
Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano		Catholic cardinal	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1903-08-12	1988-11-09	Piacenza	Rome	Q581898
Bruno Wüstenberg		German priest (1912-1984)	Germany	1912-03-10	1984-05-31	Duisburg	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q97970
Henryk Gulbinowicz		Polish Catholic arcbishop and cardinal	Poland	1923-10-17	2020-11-16	Vilnius	Wrocław	Q547061
Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy		Catholic cardinal	India British Raj Dominion of India	1924-02-05	2014-06-02	Kalleri	Rome	Q543426
Johannes Joachim Degenhardt		Archbishop of Paderborn, Germany	Germany	1926-01-31	2002-07-25	Schwelm	Paderborn	Q61896
Noel Desmond Daly		Australian bishop (1929–2004)		1929-02-10	2004-01-14	Sale		Q13409648
Giorgio Zur		German archbishop	Germany	1930-02-15	2019-01-08	Görlitz	Vatican City	Q96455
Oskar Saier		German archbishop	Germany	1932-08-12	2008-01-03	Buchenbach	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q99164
Henryk Muszyński		Roman Catholic archbishop	Poland	1933-03-20		Kościerzyna		Q704993
Paul Josef Cordes		German Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop	Germany	1934-09-05	2024-03-15	Kirchhundem	Rome	Q61159
Robert Zollitsch		German RC Archbishop	Germany	1938-08-09		Bački Gračac		Q45615

Marineoffizier

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Karl-Adolf Zenker		German admiral	Germany	1907-07-19	1998-03-27	Schöneberg	Bonn	Q1729685
Gert Jeschonnek		German admiral	Germany	1912-10-30	1999-04-18	Legnica	Bonn	Q1515223

actor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Rudolf Sellner		German actor, stage director, theatre director (1905-1990)	Germany	1905-05-25	1990-05-08	Traunstein	Burgberg	Q1436870
Karl-Heinz Stroux		German actor and director	Germany	1908-02-25	1985-08-02	Hamborn	Düsseldorf	Q1685147
Dieter Dorn		German theatre director	Germany	1935-10-31		Leipzig		Q109514

anthropologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Sedat Alp		Turkish archaeologist	Turkey	1913-01-01	2006-10-09	Thessaloniki	Ankara	Q560099
Hans Belting		German art historian (1935–2023)	Germany	1935-07-07	2023-01-09	Andernach	Berlin	Q66209

archaeologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ekrem Akurgal		Turkish archaeologist	Ottoman Empire Turkey	1911-03-30	2002-11-01	Tulkarm	İzmir	Q678483
Hermann Parzinger		German archaeologist, head of Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK)	Germany	1959-03-12		Munich		Q89733

architect

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Otto Bartning		German architect (1883-1959)	Germany	1883-04-12	1959-02-20	Karlsruhe	Darmstadt	Q62322
Walter Gropius		German-American architect (1883–1969)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Germany	1883-05-18	1969-07-05	Berlin	Boston	Q61071
Paul Schmitthenner		German architect; Judges' Trial affiant	Germany	1884-12-15	1972-11-11 1963-11-11	Lauterbourg	Munich	Q95325
Clemens Holzmeister		Austrian architect and stage designer	Brazil Austria	1886-03-27	1983-06-12	Fulpmes	Hallein	Q84902
Ernst Neufert		German architect	Germany	1900-03-15	1986-02-23	Freyburg	Rolle	Q66726
Albert Bürger		German officer and Knight's Cross recipient (1913-1996)	Germany	1913-06-13	1996-03-16	Schwäbisch Gmünd	Rottweil	Q2637742
Norman Foster		British architect (born 1935)	United Kingdom	1935-06-01		Stockport		Q104898

art collector

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Hans Purrmann		German painter (1880-1966)	Germany	1880-04-10	1966-04-17	Speyer	Basel	Q655484
Avery Brundage		president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972	United States of America	1887-09-28	1975-05-08	Detroit	Garmisch-Partenkirchen	Q155928
David Rockefeller		American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)	United States of America	1915-06-12	2017-03-20	Manhattan	Pocantico Hills	Q11239

art historian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Max Jakob Friedländer		German curator and art historian (1867-1958)	Germany Kingdom of the Netherlands	1867-06-05	1958-10-11	Berlin	Amsterdam	Q62110
Georg Karo		German art historian and archaeologist	Germany	1872-01-11	1963-11-12	Venice	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q1281716
Edwin Redslob		German art historian and art collector (1884-1973)	Germany	1884-09-22	1973-01-24	Weimar	Berlin	Q1294917
Percy Ernst Schramm		German historian and politician (1894-1970)	Germany	1894-10-14	1970-11-12	Hamburg	Göttingen	Q74203
Heinrich Lützeler		German art historian	Germany	1902-01-27	1988-06-13	Bonn	Bonn	Q102347
Werner Spies		German art historian	Germany	1937-04-01		Tübingen		Q76000
Hubert Burda		German publisher	Germany	1940-02-09		Heidelberg		Q88669
Horst Bredekamp		German art historian	Germany	1947-04-29		Kiel		Q111643
Mikhail Shvydkoy		Russian art historian	Russia Soviet Union	1948-09-05		Kant		Q827054

association football player

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Émile Hamilius		Luxembourgian politician, footballer, and army officer (1897-1971)	Luxembourg	1897-05-16	1971-03-07	Esch-sur-Alzette	Luxembourg	Q285965
Fritz Walter		German footballer (1920–2002)	Germany	1920-10-31	2002-06-17	Kaiserslautern	Enkenbach-Alsenborn	Q22717
Egidius Braun		eighth president of the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB, German Football Association)	Germany	1925-02-27	2022-03-16	Breinig	Aachen	Q74497

athletics competitor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Karl Ritter von Halt		IOC Member	Germany	1891-06-02	1964-08-05	Munich	Munich	Q877659
Max Danz		German athletics competitor and internist (1908-2000)	Germany	1908-09-06	2000-06-20	Kassel	Kassel	Q1912390

biochemist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Hans von Euler-Chelpin		Swedish scientist (1873-1964)	Germany Sweden	1873-02-15	1964-11-06	Augsburg	Stockholm	Q76613
Gerhard Domagk		German bacteriologist (1895-1964)	Germany	1895-10-30	1964-04-24	Łagów	Königsfeld im Schwarzwald	Q57192
Adolf Butenandt		German biochemist (1903-1995)	Germany	1903-03-24	1995-01-18	Bremerhaven	Munich	Q5327
Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker		German geneticist, biochemist and research manager	Germany	1941-07-26		Frankfurt		Q108800
Johann Deisenhofer		German scientist	Germany United States of America	1943-09-30		Zusamaltheim		Q76612
Thomas C. Südhof		German biochemist	Germany United States of America	1955-12-22		Göttingen		Q97270

biologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Günter Blobel		German American biologist (1999 Nobel Prize)	Nazi Germany Germany United States of America	1936-05-21	2018-02-18	Niegosławice	New York City	Q60108
Hubert Markl		German biologist (1938-2015)	Germany	1938-08-17	2015-01-08	Regensburg	Constance	Q110001
Rudolf Jaenisch		German geneticist	Germany United States of America	1942-04-22		Międzygórze		Q90073
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard		German biologist (1995 Nobel Prize)	Germany	1942-10-20		Magdeburg		Q77174

businessperson

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Wilhelm Zangen		German industrialist and supporter of the Nazi Party (1891-1971)	Germany	1891-09-30	1971-11-25	Duisburg	Düsseldorf	Q105910
Carl Hahn		German businessman (1926–2023)	Germany	1926-07-01	2023-01-14	Chemnitz	Wolfsburg	Q97087
Norio Ohga		Japanese businessman	Japan Empire of Japan	1930-01-29	2011-04-23	Numazu	Tokyo	Q455603

chemist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Hans Meerwein		German chemist	Germany	1879	1965 1965-10-24	Hamburg	Marburg	Q99052
Karl Johann Freudenberg		German chemist (1886-1983)	Germany	1886-01-29	1983-04-03	Weinheim	Heidelberg	Q95361
Walter Reppe		German chemist	Germany	1892-07-29	1969-07-26	Göringen	Heidelberg	Q68368
Boris Rajewsky		German biophysicist (1893–1974)	Germany German Reich Soviet Union Russian Empire	1893-07-17 1893-07-19	1974-11-22	Chyhyryn	Frankfurt	Q91538
Carl Wurster		German chemist	Germany	1900-12-02	1974	Stuttgart	Frankenthal	Q98335
Rudolf Wild		German businessman	Germany	1904-02-25	1995-09-16	Wiesloch	Eppelheim	Q98069
Heinz Krekeler		German diplomat (1906-2003)	Germany	1906-06-20	2003-08-05	Bottrop	Bad Salzuflen	Q214532
Horst Böhme		German chemist	Germany	1908-05-30	1996-07-27	Bernau bei Berlin	Bad Arolsen	Q111037
Günther Wilke		German chemist	Germany	1925-02-23	2016-12-09	Heidelberg		Q109847
Heinz Staab		German chemist	Germany	1926-03-26	2012-07-29	Darmstadt	Berlin	Q109807
Paul Josef Crutzen		Dutch climatologist	Kingdom of the Netherlands Germany	1933-12-03	2021-01-28	Amsterdam	Mainz	Q135139
Joachim Frank		German-born American biophysicist and Nobel laureate	United States of America Germany	1940-09-12		Siegen		Q28833112
Benjamin List		German chemist (1968-)	Germany	1968-01-11		Frankfurt		Q105572

choreographer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Marcia Haydée		Ballet dancer and choreographer	Brazil	1937-04-18		Niterói		Q443531
Pina Bausch		German dancer, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director	Germany	1940-07-27	2009-06-30	Solingen	Wuppertal	Q155538

church historian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Gerd Tellenbach		German historian	Germany	1903-09-17	1999-06-12	Lichterfelde	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q104579
Wilhelm Schneemelcher		Theologian and expert on the New Testament Apocrypha (1914-2003)	Germany	1914-08-21	2003-08-06	Berlin	Bonn	Q109002

composer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Werner Egk		German composer	Germany	1901-05-17	1983-07-10	Donauwörth Auchsesheim	Inning am Ammersee	Q458775
Abdul Ghafoor Breshna		Afghan artist	Afghanistan	1907-04-10	1974-01-04	Kabul	Kabul	Q317116
Karl Höller		German composer (1907-1987)	Germany	1907-07-25	1987-04-14	Bamberg	Hausham	Q315122
Wolfgang Fortner		German composer and conductor	Germany	1907-10-12	1987-09-05	Leipzig	Heidelberg	Q694204
Hans Werner Henze		German composer (1926–2012)	Germany	1926-07-01	2012-10-27	Gütersloh	Dresden	Q76915
Sofiä Ğobäydullinä		Russian composer	Soviet Union Russia	1931-10-24		Chistopol’		Q165668
Alfred Schnittke		Soviet-born Russian composer (1934–1998)	Soviet Union Russia	1934-11-24	1998-08-03	Engels	Hamburg	Q158078
Aribert Reimann		German composer, pianist and accompanist	Germany	1936-03-04	2024-03-13	Berlin	Berlin	Q246758
Wolfgang Rihm		German composer and teacher (1952–2024)	Germany	1952-03-13	2024-07-27	Karlsruhe	Ettlingen	Q77031

conductor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Leo Blech		German opera composer and conductor (1871–1958)	Germany	1871-04-21	1958-08-25 1958-08-24	Aachen	Berlin	Q66190
Bruno Walter		German-born conductor, pianist, and composer (1876-1962)	Germany France	1876-09-15	1962-02-17	Berlin	Beverly Hills	Q156910
Heinz Tietjen		German conductor (1881-1967)	Germany	1881-06-24	1967-11-30	Tangier	Baden-Baden	Q65622
Otto Klemperer		German conductor and composer (1885–1973)	Germany Israel	1885-05-14	1973-07-06	Wrocław	Zürich	Q155136
Rolf Liebermann		Swiss composer (1910-1999)	Switzerland	1910-09-14	1999-01-02	Zürich	Paris	Q688067
Sergiu Celibidache		Romanian conductor (1912–1996)	Romania Germany	1912-06-28	1996-08-14 1996-08-15 1996-08-13	Roman	Nemours	Q165671
Karl Münchinger		German conductor	Germany	1915-05-29	1990-03-13	Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Q65295
Wolfgang Sawallisch		German conductor and pianist	Germany	1923-08-26	2013-02-22	Munich	Grassau	Q61205
Pierre Boulez		French composer, conductor and writer (1925–2016)	France	1925-03-26	2016-01-05	Montbrison	Baden-Baden	Q156193
Michael Gielen		Austrian conductor	Austria	1927-07-20	2019-03-08	Dresden	Mondsee	Q213913
André Previn		German-American conductor, pianist, and composer (1929–2019)	Germany United States of America	1929-04-06	2019-02-28	Berlin	Manhattan New York City	Q155712
Lorin Maazel		French-American conductor (1930-2014)	United States of America France	1930-03-06	2014-07-13	Neuilly-sur-Seine	Rappahannock County	Q117710
Carlos Kleiber		German-born Austrian conductor	Germany	1930-07-03	2004-07-13	Berlin	Konjšica	Q160706
Helmuth Rilling		German choral conductor	Germany	1933-05-29		Stuttgart		Q61644
Claudio Abbado		Italian conductor (1933–2014)	Kingdom of Italy Italy	1933-06-26	2014-01-20	Milan	Bologna	Q151608
Mariss Jansons		Latvian conductor (1943–2019)	Soviet Union Latvia Russia	1943-01-14	2019-12-01	Riga	Saint Petersburg	Q158340
Gidon Kremer		Latvian violinist and conductor	Soviet Union Latvia Germany	1947-02-27		Riga		Q159915
Simon Rattle		British conductor	United Kingdom	1955-01-19		Liverpool		Q157814

diplomat

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Kintomo Mushanokōji		Japanese diplomat (1882-1962)	Japan Empire of Japan	1882-08-29	1962-04-21	Kōjimachi-ku	Japan	Q720735
Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron		German diplomat (1884-1955)	Germany	1884-09-01	1955-09-01	Stuttgart	Tutzing	Q212258
Georg von Manteuffel-Szoege		German politician (1889-1962)	Germany	1889-03-07	1962-06-08	Montreux	Bad Godesberg	Q96815
Werner Dankwort		German diplomat	Germany	1895-08-13	1986-12-19 1986-12-15	Gusev	Hyannis	Q214764
Hans Kroll		German diplomat (1898-1967)	Germany	1898-05-18	1967-08-08	Piekary Śląskie	Starnberg	Q215453
Walther Hess		German diplomat (1900-1986)	Germany	1900-03-12	1986-08-26	Frankfurt	St Ives	Q18589422
Samuel Reber		American diplomat (1903-1971)	United States of America	1903-07-15	1971-12-25	East Hampton	Princeton	Q2218800
Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter		German diplomat	Germany	1904-06-15	1970-11-12	Essen	Offenstetten	Q2033719
Herbert Blankenhorn		German diplomat (1904-1991)	Germany	1904-12-15	1991-08-10	Mulhouse	Badenweiler	Q214419
Masahide Kanayama		Japanese diplomat	Japan Empire of Japan	1909	1997-11			Q1906666
Olavi Munkki		Finnish diplomat	Finland	1909-07-08	1978-03-04	Vyborg		Q11885295
Rupprecht von Keller		German lawyer and diplomat (1910-2003)	Germany	1910-03-19	2003-07-19	Schöneberg	Tutzing	Q215404
Zeki Kuneralp		Turkish diplomat (1914-1998)	Turkey	1914-10-05	1998-07-26	Istanbul	Istanbul	Q8068670
Luis Andres Vargas Gomez		Cuban diplomat and dissident	Cuba	1915-05-14	2003-01-13	Havana	Coral Gables	Q1566059
Rolf Friedemann Pauls		German diplomat (1915-2002)	Germany	1915-08-26	2002-05-04	Eckartsberga	Bonn	Q214122
Peter Hermes		German diplomat	Germany	1922-08-08	2015-10-14	Berlin	Bonn	Q2075654
Niels Hansen		German diplomat	Germany	1924-11-07	2015-01-05	Heidelberg	Bonn	Q214643
Ardeshir Zahedi		Iranian diplomat	Iran	1928-10-16	2021-11-18	Tehran	Montreux	Q2860731
Andreas Meyer-Landrut		German diplomat	Germany	1929-05-31		Tallinn		Q215078
Delia Albert		diplomat	Philippines	1942-08-11		Baguio		Q1184198
Stuart E. Eizenstat		American politician	United States of America	1943-01-15		Chicago		Q7626497
John C. Kornblum		American diplomat (1943-2023)	United States of America	1943-02-06	2023-12-21	Detroit	Nashville	Q1700735
Heidi Tagliavini		Swiss diplomat	Switzerland	1950		Basel		Q123883
Maurice Gourdault-Montagne		French diplomat	France	1953-11-16		Paris		Q16001
Philippe Étienne		French diplomat	France	1955-12-24		Neuilly-sur-Seine		Q3381035
Peter Maurer		former president and of the International Committee of the Red Cross	Switzerland	1956-11-20		Thun		Q117796
Phil Murphy		56th governor of New Jersey since 2018	United States of America	1957-08-16		Needham		Q260042
Domingos Teixeira de Abreu Fezas Vital		Portuguese diplomat	Portugal	1958-09-27		Luanda		Q35496248

director

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Walter Erich Schäfer		German director	Germany	1901-03-16	1981-12-28	Hemmingen	Stuttgart	Q2544134
Hans Hartleb		German director	Germany	1910-05-03		Kassel		Q1368376
Harry Kupfer		German opera director (1935–2019)	Germany	1935-08-12	2019-12-30	Berlin	Berlin	Q67725

economist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Götz Briefs		German social ethicist and economist (1889–1974)	Germany	1889-01-01	1974-05-16	Eschweiler	Rome	Q104599
Constantin von Dietze		German agronomist, lawyer, economist and theologian	Germany	1891-08-09	1973-03-18	Gottesgnaden	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q112158
Giuseppe Ugo Papi		Italian economist (1893-1989)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1893-02-19	1989-09-13	Capua	Rome	Q3771561
Franz Böhm		German economist (1895-1977)	Germany	1895-02-16	1977-09-26	Constance	Rockenberg	Q69289
Karl Brandt		American economist	Germany	1899-01-09	1975-07-08	Essen	Menlo Park	Q6371653
Günter Schmölders		German economist	Germany	1903-09-29	1991-11-07	Berlin	Munich	Q1561015
Xenophon Zolotas		Prime Minister of Greece (1904-2004)	Greece	1904-04-26	2004-06-10	Athens	Athens	Q318009
Jaakko Honko		Finnish economist	Finland	1922-11-30	2006-02-13	Tampere	Helsinki	Q11865469
Helmut Schlesinger		German economist	Germany	1924-09-04		Penzberg		Q96812
Manfred Schüler		German politician	Germany	1932-03-07		Jessen (Elster)		Q104850
Klaus Schwab		German economist, founder of World Economic forum	Germany	1938-03-30		Ravensburg		Q76793
Rainer Brüderle		German politician (FDP)	Germany	1945-06-22		Berlin		Q495084
Pascal Lamy		French businessman and political advisor	France	1947-04-08		Levallois-Perret		Q277183
Manuel Pinho		Portuguese economist	Portugal	1954-10-28		Lisbon		Q1382767

engineer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Karl Willy Wagner		German electrical engineer	Germany	1883-02-22	1953-09-04	Friedrichsdorf	Friedrichsdorf	Q108239
Carl F. W. Borgward		German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen	Germany	1890-11-10	1963-07-28	Altona	Bremen	Q68907
Berthold Leibinger		German businessman (1930-2018)	Germany	1930-11-26	2018-10-16	Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Q89081
Lu Yongxiang		Chinese mechanical engineer and politician	People's Republic of China	1942-04-28		Cixi City		Q552928

entrepreneur

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Otto Fahr		swimmer	Germany	1892-08-19	1969-02-28	Bad Cannstatt	Stuttgart	Q96818
Hans Lauda		Austrian industrialist	Austria	1896-03-25	1974-01-21	Vienna	Vienna	Q1477929
Georg Schäfer		German businessman, art collector and Nazi (1896-1975)	Germany	1896-09-07	1975-01-27	Schweinfurt	Schweinfurt	Q109263
Ernst Hellmut Vits		German entrepreneur and lawyer (1903-1970)	Germany	1903-09-19	1970	Barmen	Wuppertal	Q19965021
Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche		Austrian automobile designer	Austria Germany	1909-09-19	1998-03-27	Wiener Neustadt	Zell am See	Q78769
Josef Neckermann		German entrepreneur and equestrian (1912-1992)	Germany	1912-06-05	1992-01-13	Würzburg	Dreieich	Q518550
Berthold Beitz		German industrialist (1913-2013)	Germany	1913-09-26	2013-07-30	Bentzin	Kampen (Sylt)	Q95870
Reinhard Mohn		German businessman and philanthropist (1921-2009)	Germany	1921-06-29	2009-10-03	Gütersloh	Steinhagen	Q62631
Hans Peter Stihl		German businessman	Germany	1932-04-18		Stuttgart		Q1581726
Michael Otto		businessman	Germany	1943-04-12		Chełmno		Q75876

film director

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Heinz Hilpert		German actor and director	Germany	1890-03-01	1967-11-25	Berlin	Göttingen	Q78435
Ludwig Berger		German film director, screenwriter and cinematographer (1892-1969)	Germany	1892-01-06	1969-05-18	Mainz	Schlangenbad	Q40645
Gustaf Gründgens		German actor, director, intendant (1899-1963)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Germany	1899-12-22	1963-10-07 1963-08-07	Düsseldorf	Manila	Q61260
Hilmar Hoffmann		German cultural worker and cultural functionary (SPD) (1925-2018)	Germany	1925-08-25	2018-06-01	Bremen	Frankfurt	Q108619
Michael Haneke		Austrian film director and screenwriter	Austria	1942-03-23		Munich		Q84199
Wim Wenders		German filmmaker	Germany	1945-08-14		Düsseldorf		Q55411
Steven Spielberg		American filmmaker (born 1946)	United States of America	1946-12-18		Cincinnati		Q8877

geneticist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Alfred Kühn		German zoologist and geneticist (1885-1968)	Germany West Germany	1885-04-22	1968-11-22	Baden-Baden	Tübingen	Q120183
Walter J. Gehring		Swiss scientist (1939-2014)	Switzerland	1939-03-20	2014-05-29	Zürich	Basel	Q118909
Svante Pääbo		Swedish geneticist (born 1955)	Sweden	1955-04-20		Oscar Parish Stockholm		Q170342

historian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Theodor Schieder		German historian	Germany	1908-04-11	1984-10-08	Oettingen in Bayern	Cologne	Q84675
John Galvin		United States Army general	United States of America	1929-05-13 1929-06-13	2015-09-25	Wakefield	Jonesboro	Q877849
Stig Strömholm		Swedish legal scholar and writer	Sweden	1931-09-16		Boden		Q446338
Lothar Gall		German historian (1936-2024)	Germany	1936-12-03	2024-06-20	Giżycko	Wiesbaden	Q109395
Jürgen Osterhammel		German historian	Germany	1952-06-01		Wipperfürth		Q92287

historian of Modern Age

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Gerhard Ritter		German historian (1888-1967)	Germany	1888-04-06	1967-07-01	Bad Sooden-Allendorf	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q72371
Hans Rothfels		German historian	Germany	1891-04-12	1976-06-22	Kassel	Tübingen	Q92317
Hajo Holborn		American historian (1902-1969)	Germany United States of America	1902-05-18	1969-06-20	Berlin	Bonn	Q104543
James J. Sheehan		American historian	United States of America	1937-05-31		San Francisco		Q1680622
Christopher Clark		Australian historian	Australia	1960-03-14		Sydney		Q639522

inventor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Rudolf Hell		German electrical engineer and inventor (1901-2002)	Germany	1901-12-19	2002-03-11	Schierling	Kiel	Q76693
Walter Bruch		German electrical engineer	Germany	1908-03-02	1990-05-05	Neustadt an der Weinstraße	Hanover	Q63236

journalist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Erich Welter		German journalist (1900-1982)	Germany	1900-06-30	1982-06-10	Strasbourg	Frankfurt	Q1353471
Jean Rudolf von Salis		Swiss historian and writer (1901-1996)	Switzerland	1901-12-12	1996-07-14	Bern	Brunegg	Q121289
Joseph Breitbach		French-German playwright, novelist and journalist	France Germany	1903-09-20	1980-05-09	Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein	Munich	Q1706675
Rudolf Vogel		German journalist and politician (1906-1991)	Germany	1906-04-18	1991-06-04 1991-06-05	Bytom	Starnberg	Q1396087
Klaus Mehnert		German journalist	Germany	1906-10-10	1984-01-02	Moscow	Freudenstadt	Q85858
Hubertus, Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg		German journalist, historian and politician (1906-1984)	Germany	1906-10-14	1984-11-28	Kufstein	Bonn	Q105121
Richard Löwenthal		German journalist and professor	Germany United States of America United Kingdom	1908-04-15	1991-08-09	Berlin	Berlin	Q97771
George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld		British businessman and Baron (1919-2016)	United Kingdom Austria United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1919-09-13	2016-01-20	Vienna	London	Q84842
Hermann Neuberger		German football official (1919–1992)	Germany	1919-12-12	1992-09-27	Völklingen	Homburg	Q75199
Marcel Reich-Ranicki		Polish-born German literary critic	Germany Poland	1920-06-02	2013-09-18	Włocławek	Frankfurt	Q33637
Władysław Bartoszewski		Polish politician and activist (1922–2015)	Poland	1922-02-19	2015-04-24 2015-04-25	Warsaw	Warsaw	Q381185
Wolf Jobst Siedler		German writer and publisher (1926-2013)	Germany	1926-01-17	2013-11-27	Berlin	Berlin	Q87980
Helmut Zilk		Austrian politician and journalist	Austria	1927-06-09	2008-10-24	Vienna	Vienna	Q78983
Peter Tamm		German journalist (1928-2016)	Germany	1928-05-12	2016-12-29	Hamburg		Q107472
Claudio Magris		Italian scholar, translator and writer (1939)	Italy	1939-04-10		Trieste		Q274404
Roland Jahn		German activist and journalist	Germany German Democratic Republic	1953-07-14		Jena		Q87103
Hans van Baalen		Dutch politician and MEP (1960-2021)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1960-06-17	2021-04-29	Rotterdam	Rotterdam	Q1583347

judge

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ernst Ziehm		German politician (1867-1962)	Germany	1867-05-01	1962-07-07	Dąbrowa Chełmińska	Timmendorfer Strand	Q89594
Ernst Rabel		Austrian-American legal scholar	Austria	1874-01-28	1955-09-07	Vienna	Zürich	Q216637
Hans Müller		German politician (1884-1961)	Germany	1884-06-25	1961-04-19	Trier	Munich	Q1581446
Otto Weinkamm		German politician (1902-1968)	Germany	1902-02-13	1968-01-27	Aschaffenburg	Augsburg	Q111036
Ludwig Martin		German lawyer	Germany	1909-04-25	2010-03-31	Waltenhofen	Karlsruhe	Q103116
Erich Häußer		German judge, jurist and lawyer (1930-1999)	Germany	1930-06-09	1999-05-17	Markt Taschendorf		Q1352471
Helmut Türk		Judge and Ambassador of Austria	Austria	1941-04-24		Linz		Q87641
Andrzej Zoll		Polish ombudsmen for citizen rights	Poland	1942-05-27		Sieniawa		Q4759747

jurist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Martin Wolff		German lawyer (1872-1953)	Germany	1872-09-26	1953-07-20	Berlin	London	Q1243942
Alexander Kreuter		German businessman, Nazi SS 1886-1977	Germany	1886-11-29	1977-09-27	Speyer		Q1740997
Kurt Magnus		German radio pioneer and jurist	Germany	1887-03-28	1962-06-20	Kassel	Wiesbaden	Q1793834
Hans Frölicher		Swiss jurist (1887-1961)	Switzerland	1887-12-03	1961-01-30	Solothurn	Bern	Q1579631
Josef Hartinger		German State Lawyer	Germany	1893-09-14	1984	Pertolzhofen		Q1704746
Wilhelm Haas		German jurist	Germany	1896-09-04	1981-01-11	Bremen	Bremen	Q5406957
Theanolte Bähnisch		German jurist	Germany	1899-04-25	1973-07-09	Bytom	Hanover	Q1405485
Vollrath von Maltzan		German jurist and diplomat	Germany	1899-12-22	1967-11-22	Berlin	Wiesbaden	Q3562916
Ludwig Raiser		German jurist (1904-1980)	Germany	1904-10-27	1980-06-13	Stuttgart	Tübingen	Q1874891
José Herrera Uslar		Founder of the Venezuelan Basketball Federation	Venezuela	1906-06-04		Caracas		Q1709255
Wilhelm Grewe		German diplomat and professor of international law (1911-2000)	Germany	1911-10-16	2000-01-11	Hamburg	Bonn	Q214274
Joachim Zahn		Chairman of daimler benz	Germany	1914-01-24	2002-10-09 2002-10-08	Barmen	Munich	Q101174
Boris Meissner		German lawyer and social scientist	Germany	1915-08-10	2003-09-10	Pskov	Cologne	Q126894
Kurt Rebmann		German jurist	Germany	1924-05-30	2005-04-21	Heilbronn	Stuttgart	Q107235
Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker		German lawyer	Germany	1926-09-25	2024-04-22	Hamelin		Q109300
Christian Tomuschat		German jurist	Germany	1936-07-23		Szczecin		Q75712
Ivan Tymchenko		Ukrainian jurist (1939-2020)	Soviet Union Ukraine	1939-03-03	2020-08-12	Kalynivka	Kyiv	Q28702092

linguist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Max Vasmer		Russian-German linguist (1886-1962)	Germany Russian Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany	1886-02-28	1962-11-30	Saint Petersburg	West Berlin	Q77420
Herbert Hunger		Austrian Byzantinist	Austria	1914-12-09	2000-07-09	Vienna	Vienna	Q94733
Karl Dedecius		German translator (1921-2016)	Germany	1921-05-20	2016-02-26	Łódź	Frankfurt	Q74252
Walter Höllerer		German writer, literary critic, and literature scientist (1922-2003)	Germany	1922-12-19	2003-05-20	Sulzbach-Rosenberg	Berlin	Q106602
Walter Burkert		German classical philologist and religious scholar (1931–2015)	Germany	1931-02-02	2015-03-11	Neuendettelsau	Uster	Q61888
Willem Levelt		psycholinguist	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1938-05-17		Amsterdam		Q876888

literary historian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Wolfgang Clemen		German historian (1909-1990)	Germany	1909-03-29	1990-03-16	Bonn	Bad Endorf	Q2589392
Albrecht Schöne		German literary historian	Germany	1925-07-17		Barby		Q2639967

mathematician

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Richard Courant		German American mathematician (1888-1972)	Germany United States of America	1888-01-08	1972-01-27	Lubliniec	New Rochelle	Q61046
Carl Ludwig Siegel		German mathematician (1896-1981)	German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany Germany	1896-12-31	1981-04-04	Berlin United States of America	Göttingen	Q61721
Olli Lehto		Finnish mathematician	Finland	1925-05-30	2020-12-31	Helsinki	Helsinki	Q1459204
Friedrich Hirzebruch		German mathematician	Germany	1927-10-17	2012-05-27	Hamm	Bonn	Q61753
Yuri Manin		Russian mathematician (1937–2023)	Soviet Union Germany Russia	1937-02-16	2023-01-07	Simferopol	Bonn	Q65196
Reinhard Höppner		German politician (1948-2014)	Germany German Democratic Republic	1948-12-02	2014-06-09	Haldensleben	Magdeburg	Q78414

military leader

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Govert Huijser		Dutch general	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1931-02-06	2014-01-05	Surabaya	Roosendaal	Q2236534
Mart de Kruif		Dutch general	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1958-09-01		Apeldoorn		Q2124404

military officer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Gerhard Matzky		German General and Knight's Cross recipient (1894-1983)	Germany	1894-03-19	1983-06-09	Kostrzyn nad Odrą	Bad Godesberg	Q96383
C.P. de Cumont		Belgian Lieutenant General	Belgium	1902-05-31	1990-06-09	Brussels-Capital Region	Brussels-Capital Region	Q28225285
Leo Hepp		German general (1907–1987)	Germany	1907-08-15	1987-10-24	Ulm	Bonn	Q106986
Hellmuth Mäder		German general	Germany	1908-07-05	1984-05-12	Rotterode	Koblenz	Q73269
Josef Moll		German military officer	Germany	1908-09-05	1989-01-07	Laupertshausen	Stuttgart	Q1705304
Werner Panitzki		German officer	Germany	1911-05-27	2000-06-02	Kiel		Q105524
Albert Schnez		German army officer (1911-2007)	Germany	1911-08-30	2007-04-26	Abtsgmünd	Bonn	Q1686570
Hannes Trautloft		German flying ace	Germany	1912-03-03	1995-01-11	Großobringen	Bad Wiessee	Q84354
Hansjoachim Linde		German officer (1926-2020)	Germany	1926-04-06	2020-02-12	Szczytno	Mönchengladbach	Q1583840
Fredrik Bull-Hansen		Norwegian general (1927-2018)	Norway	1927-08-02	2018-03-01	Skien	Oslo	Q882803
Charles A. Gabriel		United States Air Force General	United States of America	1928-01-21	2003-09-04	North Carolina	Arlington County	Q1063468
Marc Monchal		French general	France	1935-08-27	2020-11-12	Die	Trans-en-Provence	Q60499694
Michael E. Ryan		Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force	United States of America	1941-12-24		San Antonio		Q266040
Joseph Ralston		United States general	United States of America	1943-11-04		Hopkinsville		Q471517
Michael Mullen		U.S. Navy admiral and 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	United States of America	1946-10-04		Los Angeles		Q503161
Stephen Hadley		American National Security Advisor	United States of America	1947-02-13		Toledo		Q698907
David Petraeus		U.S. Army general and public official (born 1952)	United States of America	1952-11-07		New York City Cornwall-on-Hudson		Q28591
Claudio Graziano		Italian general	Italy	1953-11-22	2024-06-17	Turin	Rome	Q722499
Joseph F. Dunford, Jr.		19th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	United States of America	1955-12-08		Boston		Q6282969

military personnel

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Walther Forstmann		German World War I U-boat commander	Germany	1883-03-09	1973-11-02 1973-09-02	Werden	Essen	Q84924
Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz		German general	Germany	1895-12-23	1975-05-19	Strasbourg	Koblenz	Q63845
Max-Josef Pemsel		German general	Germany	1897-01-15	1985-06-30	Regensburg	Ulm	Q76199
Theodor Busse		German general of infantry in the Second World War (1897-1986)	Germany	1897-12-15	1986-10-21	Frankfurt (Oder)	Wallerstein	Q60472
Heinrich Gaedcke		German General and Knight's Cross recipient	Germany	1905-01-16	1992-12-21 1992-12-22	Guben	Waldesch	Q115392
Heinz-Georg Lemm		German general	Germany	1919-06-01	1994-11-17	Schwerin	Ruppichteroth	Q96759
William A. Knowlton		United States general	United States of America	1920-06-19	2008-08-10	Weston	Virginia	Q2577705
Johannes Poeppel		German general (1921-2007)	Germany	1921-07-20	2007-09-29	Świdwin		Q96233
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin		German resistance member	Germany	1922-07-10	2013-03-08	Smęcino	Munich	Q64878
Jürgen Brandt		German military personnel	Germany	1922-10-19	2003-07-26	Kiel	Meckenheim	Q100635
Friedrich Obleser		German flying ace	Germany	1923-02-21	2004-06-05	Pottenstein	Neunkirchen	Q101594
Eberhard Eimler		German Air Force general	Germany	1930-11-30	2022-12	Ulm		Q95799
Rolando Mosca Moschini		Italian general	Italy	1939-03-09		Terni		Q872082
Klaus Naumann		German general	Germany	1939-05-25		Munich		Q72607
George Joulwan		United States Army general	United States of America	1939-11-16		Schuylkill County		Q321368
Carter Ham		United States Army general	United States of America	1952-02-16		Portland		Q571169
Martin Dempsey		Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff	United States of America	1952-03-14		Jersey City		Q26093
Ton van Loon		Dutch general	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1956-10-10		Weert		Q2362292
Valdemaras Rupšys		Lithuanian military personnel	Lithuania Soviet Union	1967-05-02		Šiauliai Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic		Q25909922

musicologist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Carl Dahlhaus		German musicologist	Germany	1928-06-10	1989-03-13	Hanover	Berlin	Q62304
Ludwig Finscher		German musicologist	Germany	1930-03-14	2020-06-30	Kassel	Wolfenbüttel	Q88586
Christoph Wolff		German-born musicologist (born 1940)	Germany	1940-05-24		Solingen		Q66488

naval officer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jacques Lanxade		French admiral	France	1934-09-08 1934-08-08		Toulon		Q2392313
James Stavridis		US Navy admiral	United States of America	1955-02-15		West Palm Beach		Q116464
Haakon Bruun-Hanssen		Norwegian Admiral	Norway	1960-07-08		Bergen		Q11973582

opera singer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau		German lyric baritone and conductor (1925-2012)	Weimar Republic Nazi Germany German Reich Germany	1925-05-28	2012-05-18	Berlin	Berg	Q77060
Brigitte Fassbaender		German mezzo-soprano singer	Germany	1939-07-03		Berlin		Q66843

painter

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Jean Arp		Alsatian sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist (1886–1966)	France Germany	1886-09-16 1887-09-16 1888-09-16	1966-06-07	Strasbourg	Basel	Q153739
Hans Hartung		French painter (1904-1989)	Germany France	1904-09-21	1989-12-07	Leipzig	Antibes	Q657402
Fritz Winter		German painter (1905-1976)	Germany	1905-09-22	1976-10-01	Bönen	Herrsching am Ammersee	Q578152
Emil Schumacher		German artist (1912-1999)	Germany	1912-08-29	1999-10-04	Hagen	Sant Josep de sa Talaia	Q449119
Lothar-Günther Buchheim		author, artist (1918-2007)	Germany	1918-02-06	2007-02-22	Weimar	Starnberg	Q706662
Anselm Kiefer		German painter and sculptor	Germany Austria	1945-03-08		Donaueschingen		Q170344

pedagogue

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Eduard Spranger		German psychologist (1882-1963)	Germany	1882-06-27 1882-06-17	1963-09-17	Groß-Lichterfelde	Tübingen	Q61151
Jan Křen		Czech historian	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia	1930-08-22	2020-04-07	Prague	Prague	Q12022755

philosopher

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Leo Baeck		German-born rabbi, scholar and theologian (1873–1956)	Germany United Kingdom	1873-05-23	1956-11-02	Leszno	London	Q704954
Umberto Eco		Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1932-01-05	2016-02-19	Alessandria	Milan	Q12807
Onora O'Neill		British philosopher and college principal (born 1941)	United Kingdom	1941-08-23		Aughafatten		Q336089

physician

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Bernardo Houssay		Argentine physician (1887–1971)	Argentina	1887-04-10	1971-09-21	Buenos Aires	Buenos Aires	Q237160
Heinrich Adolf Gottron		German dermatologist (1890-1974)	Germany	1890-03-10	1974-06-23	Oppenheim	Mainz	Q1597391
Franz Büchner		German pathologist (1895-1991)	Germany	1895-01-20	1991-03-09	Boppard	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q550272
Ruth Pfau		German-Pakistani physician and member of a religious order	Germany Pakistan British Raj	1929-09-09	2017-08-10	Leipzig	Karachi	Q77128

physicist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Walther Bauersfeld		German engineer, employed by the Zeiss Corporation	Germany	1879	1959	Berlin	Heidenheim an der Brenz	Q86780
Max von Laue		German physicist, Nobel laureate and anti-Nazi	Germany	1879-10-09	1960-04-24 1960-04-23	Koblenz	West Berlin	Q57067
Theodore von Kármán		Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and physicist (1881–1963)	German Empire Weimar Republic United States of America Hungary	1881-05-11	1963-05-07	Budapest	Aachen	Q164384
Robert Pohl		German physicist	Germany	1884-08-10	1976-06-05	Hamburg	Göttingen	Q85706
Walter Gerlach		German physicist (1889-1979)	Germany	1889-08-01 1889	1979-08-10 1979	Wiesbaden	Munich	Q61745
Hermann Oberth		Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989)	Romania Germany	1894-06-25	1989-12-28	Sibiu	Nuremberg	Q78503
Wolfgang Gentner		German physicist (1906–1980)	Germany	1906-07-23	1980-09-04	Frankfurt	Heidelberg	Q96524
Nabor Carrillo Flores		Mexican scientist and engineer	Mexico	1911-02-23	1967-02-19	Mexico City	Mexico City	Q1962056
Wernher von Braun		German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)	Nazi Germany United States of America German Empire Weimar Republic West Germany	1912-03-23	1977-06-16	Wyrzysk	Alexandria	Q57384
John S. Foster, Jr.		American physicist	United States of America	1922-09-18		New Haven		Q6256253
Hermann Haken		German physicist	Germany	1927-07-12	2024-08-14	Leipzig		Q36067
Klaus Hasselmann		German climate researcher, meteorologist and oceanologist	Germany	1931-10-25		Hamburg		Q109370
Gerhard Ertl		German physicist	Germany	1936-10-10		Stuttgart		Q60066
Peter Grünberg		German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)	Germany	1939-05-18	2018-04-07	Plzeň	Jülich	Q57120
Herbert Knoblich		German physicist and politician	Germany	1939-06-11	2021	Jawor		Q1258650
Theodor W. Hänsch		German physicist and nobel laureate	Germany United States of America	1941-10-30		Heidelberg		Q71013
Anton Zeilinger		Austrian quantum physicist	Austria	1945-05-20		Ried im Innkreis		Q78610
Horst Ludwig Störmer		German physicist	Germany	1949-04-06		Frankfurt		Q71015
Stefan Hell		director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany	Germany Romania	1962-12-23		Arad		Q91410

pianist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Wilhelm Backhaus		German pianist	Germany Switzerland	1884-03-26	1969-07-05	Leipzig	Villach	Q60256
Hermann Reutter		German musician	Germany	1900-06-17	1985-01-01	Stuttgart	Heidenheim an der Brenz	Q314867
Christoph Eschenbach		German musician	Germany	1940-02-20		Wrocław		Q60814

politician

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Theophil Wurm		German Lutheran bishop (1868-1953)	Germany	1868-12-07	1953-01-28	Basel	Stuttgart	Q75173
Heinrich Albert		lawyer (1874-1960)	Germany	1874-02-12	1960	Magdeburg	Wiesbaden	Q90832
Otto Gessler		German politician (1875–1955)	Germany	1875-02-06	1955-03-24	Ludwigsburg	Lindenberg im Allgäu	Q60909
Willy Hellpach		German politician (1877-1955)	Germany	1877-02-26	1955-07-06	Oleśnica	Heidelberg	Q69366
Werner von Rheinbaben		German politician (1878-1975)	Germany	1878-11-19	1975-01-14	Kowary	Losone	Q120188
Rudolf Petersen		German politician (1878-1962)	Germany	1878-12-30	1962-09-10	Hamburg	Wentorf bei Hamburg	Q87670
Hans Bredow		German politician (1879-1959)	Germany	1879-11-26	1959-01-09	Sławno	Wiesbaden	Q1578820
Hermann Dietrich		German politician, Weimar Republic minister (1879-1954)	Germany Republic of Baden	1879-12-14	1954-03-06	Elzach	Stuttgart	Q110921
Otto Frommknecht		German politician (1881-1969)	Germany	1881	1969	Grünenbach		Q98021
Georg Schreiber		German politician, church historian and theologian (1882-1963)	Germany	1882-01-05	1963-02-24	Rüdershausen	Münster	Q91555
Walter von Keudell		German politician and jurist (1884-1973)	Germany	1884-07-17	1973-05-07	Castellammare di Stabia	Bonn	Q85816
Karl Müller		German politician (1884-1964)	Germany	1884-07-29	1964-04-18	Süchteln	Bonn	Q737631
Hans Jahn		German politician (1885-1960)	Germany	1885-08-29	1960-07-10	Hartha	Frankfurt	Q1580445
Karl Gengler		German politician (1886-1974)	Germany	1886-10-08	1974-10-09	Haguenau	Rottweil	Q1731214
Thomas Wimmer		German politician (1887-1964)	Germany	1887	1964	Erding	Munich	Q96926
Louise Schroeder		German politician (1887-1957)	Germany	1887-04-02	1957-06-04	Altona	Berlin	Q104581
Franz Weiß		German politician (1887-1974)	Germany	1887-12-23	1974-10-02	Ebersbach-Musbach	Weingarten	Q1449410
Michael Horlacher		German politician (1888-1957)	Germany	1888-01-18	1957-10-12	Pottenstein	Bad Tölz	Q1417322
Virgilio Ferrari		physician and politician (1888-1975)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1888-03-09	1975-06-12	Pordenone	Milan	Q2527720
Maria Niggemeyer		German politician (1888-1968)	Germany	1888-05-18	1968-09-27	Münster	Unna	Q1896199
Lambert Schill		German politician (1888-1976)	Germany	1888-07-07	1976-12-13	Merzhausen	Freiburg im Breisgau	Q1801393
Hans Staudinger		German politician (1889-1980)	Germany United States of America	1889-08-16	1980-02-25	Worms	New York City	Q95928
Adolf Grimme		German politician, Lower Saxony Landtag member (1889-1963)	Germany	1889-12-31	1963-08-27	Goslar	Brannenburg	Q84851
Richard Freudenberg		German politician (1892-1975)	Germany	1892-02-09	1975-11-21	Weinheim	Weinheim	Q1734827
Georges Kaeckenbeeck		Belgian politician (1892-1973)	Belgium	1892-05-30	1973	Saint-Gilles - Sint-Gillis		Q1235294
Johannes Kunz		German politician (1892-1959)	Germany	1892-06-06	1959-10-11	Barmen	Bonn	Q1695233
Hugo Scharnberg		German politician (1893-1979)	Germany	1893-06-28	1979-04-30	Hamburg	Lugano	Q1635648
Karl von Campe		German politician (1894-1977)	Germany	1894-04-16	1977-09-08	Hildesheim	Munich	Q1041309
Frederick Bellenger		British politician (1894-1968)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1894-07-23	1968-05-11	Bethnal Green	Kensington	Q5497365
Eino Saari		Finnish politician and economist (1894-1971)	Finland	1894-10-07	1971-04-13	Turku	Helsinki	Q1308467
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi		Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher	Austria Czechoslovakia France	1894-11-16	1972-07-27	Tokyo City	Schruns	Q78525
William Borm		German politician	Germany	1895-07-07	1987-09-02	Hamburg	Bonn	Q2578076
Joseph-Ernst Graf Fugger von Glött		German politician (1895-1981)	Germany	1895-10-26	1981-05-13	Kirchheim in Schwaben	Miesbach	Q101974
Wenzel Jaksch		Czech Sudeten German Socialdemocrat politician (1896-1966)	Germany	1896-09-25	1966-11-27	Dlouhá Stropnice	Wiesbaden	Q70009
Richard Hammer		German politician (1897-1969)	Germany	1897-02-07	1969-10-03	Darmstadt	Darmstadt	Q2149690
Lode Craeybeckx		Belgian politician	Belgium	1897-11-24	1976-07-25	Antwerp	Antwerp	Q2990677
Gerhard Weisser		German politician (1898-1989)	Germany	1898-02-09	1989-10-25	Leszno	Bonn	Q1295469
Toivo Wiherheimo		Finnish politician (1898-1970)	Finland	1898-07-13	1970-03-05	Helsinki	Helsinki	Q1779747
J. O. Söderhjelm		Finnish politician (1898-1985)	Finland	1898-09-03	1985-02-28	Helsinki	Helsinki	Q17384100
Hans Reinowski		German politician (1900-1977)	Germany	1900-01-29	1977-01-03	Bernburg	Darmstadt	Q102318
Peter Wilhelm Brand		German politician (1900-1978)	Germany	1900-08-03	1978-08-01	Remscheid	Remscheid	Q1699697
Karl Walz		German politician (1900-1990)	Germany	1900-10-22	1990-04-17	Ludwigshafen	Saarbrücken	Q1733301
Gustav Dahrendorf		German politician (1901-1954)	Germany	1901-02-08	1954-10-30 1954	Hamburg	Braunlage	Q121236
John Burns Hynd		British politician (1902-1971)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1902-04-04	1971-11-08	Perth	London Borough of Enfield	Q1699462
Johann Baptist Gradl		Member of the German Bundestag (1904-1988)	Germany	1904-03-25	1988-07-02	Berlin	West Berlin	Q96959
Paul Bleiß		German politician	Germany	1904-11-06	1996-04-17	Berlin	Minden	Q2058927
Paul Wilwertz		Luxembourgian politician (1905-1979)	Luxembourg	1905-04-07	1979-12-28	Wiltz	Luxembourg	Q1759935
Arnulf Klett		German mayor (1905-1974)	Germany	1905-04-08	1974-08-14	Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Q90672
Johann Cramer		German politician (1905-1987)	Germany	1905-07-29	1987-01-14	Norden	Wilhelmshaven	Q1693149
Giuseppe Alessi		politician (1905-2009)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1905-10-29	2009-07-13	San Cataldo	Palermo	Q703555
Carl Stenger		German politician (1905-1982)	Germany	1905-11-26	1982-06-29	Höchst im Odenwald	Bad Vilbel	Q1040700
Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford		British politician (1905-2001)	United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland	1905-12-05	2001-08-03	London	London	Q2295962
Fernand Dehousse		Belgian politician (1906-1976)	Belgium	1906-07-03	1976-08-10	Liège	Liège	Q545041
Raymond Triboulet		French politician (1906-2006)	France	1906-10-03	2006-05-26	1st arrondissement of Paris	Sèvres	Q2695709
Bernhard Günther		German politician (1906-1981)	Germany	1906-11-04	1981-10-31	Koblenz	Cologne	Q825149
Josef Effertz		German politician (1907–1984)	Germany	1907-03-29	1984-05-31	Fliesteden	Bonn	Q1416964
Ulrich Biel		German politician (CDU) (1907-1996)	Germany	1907-05-17	1996-01-06	Charlottenburg	Berlin	Q121205
Ingeborg Geisendörfer		German politician (1907-2006)	Germany	1907-05-30	2006-06-25	Dillingen an der Donau	Würzburg	Q112234
Karl Bergmann		German politician (1907-1979)	Germany	1907-06-07	1979-08-21	Duisburg	Essen	Q1730475
Guido Colonna di Paliano		Italian diplomat (1908-1982)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1908-04-16	1982-01-27	Naples	Naples	Q1553509
Bernhard Winkelheide		German politician (1908-1988)	Germany	1908-05-04	1988-11-25	Recklinghausen	Waltrop	Q826172
Hippolyt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau		German politician and entrepreneur (1908-1990)	Germany	1908-06-19	1990-07-20	Bamberg	Zwiesel	Q98117
Hermann Glüsing		German politician (1908-1981)	Germany	1908-10-27	1981-09-25	Wrohm	Wrohm	Q1339043
Pierre Clerdent		Belgian politician (1909-2006)	Belgium	1909-04-29	2006-06-11	Liège	Chaudfontaine	Q872753
Giuseppe La Loggia		Italian politician, lawyer and teacher	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1911-05-01	1994-03-02	Agrigento	Rome	Q3770766
Franco Restivo		Italian politician (1911-1976)	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1911-05-25	1976-04-17	Palermo	Francavilla di Sicilia	Q550162
Gabriele Wülker		German politician (1911-2001)	Germany	1911-07-16	2001-10-10	Frankfurt (Oder)	Bonn	Q214256
Aenne Brauksiepe		German politician (1912-1997)	Germany	1912-02-23	1997	Duisburg	Oelde	Q272663
Giuseppe Codacci Pisanelli		Italian politician	Italy Kingdom of Italy	1913-03-28	1988-02-02	Rome	Rome	Q3770334
Silvius Magnago		Italian politician (1914-2010)	Italy Kingdom of Italy Austria	1914-02-05	2010-05-25	Merano	Bolzano	Q9399
Walter Behrendt		German politician (1914-1997)	Germany	1914-09-18	1997-07-23	Dortmund	Dortmund	Q213838
Herbert Czaja		German politician (1914-1997)	Germany Poland	1914-11-05	1997-04-18	Cieszyn	Stuttgart	Q72639
Herbert Hupka		German politician (1915-2006)	Germany	1915-08-15	2006-08-24	Diyatalawa	Bonn	Q84942
Ernst Müller-Hermann		German politician (1915-1994)	Germany	1915-09-30	1994-07-19	Königsberg	Wallgau	Q1359569
Hasan Esat Işık		Turkish politician and diplomat	Turkey	1916	1989-07-02	Istanbul	Ankara	Q6092855
Adolf Müller		German politician (1916-2005)	Germany	1916-05-13	2005-02-22	Lennep		Q363453
Hans Joachim Sewering		German physician (1916-2010)	Germany	1916-10-30 1916-01-30	2010-06-18	Bochum	Dachau	Q74289
Bruno Heck		German politician (1917-1989)	Germany	1917-01-20	1989-09-16	Aalen	Blaubeuren	Q316603
Olavi J. Mattila		Finnish politician	Finland	1918-10-24	2013-08-04	Hyvinkää	Hyvinkää	Q4285047
Hanna Walz		German politician (1918-1997)	Germany	1918-11-28	1997-12-17	Templin	Fulda	Q1575754
Maurice Herzog		French mountaineer and politician (1919-2012)	France	1919-01-15	2012-12-13 2012-12-14	3rd arrondissement of Lyon	Neuilly-sur-Seine	Q505819
Kurt Schmücker		German politician (1919-1996)	Germany	1919-11-10	1996-01-06	Löningen	Löningen	Q73927
Karl Fuchs		German politician (1920–1989)	Germany	1920-09-11	1989-03-31	Perlesreut	Passau	Q109243
Georg Ehnes		German politician (1920-1991)	Germany	1920-09-27	1991-04-27	Mittelstetten (Wörnitz)	Mittelstetten (Wörnitz)	Q107733
Georg Leber		German politician (SPD) (1920-2012)	Germany	1920-10-07	2012-08-21	Obertiefenbach	Schönau am Königsee	Q62237
Eduard Adorno		German politician (1920-2000)	Germany	1920-10-31	2000-12-28	Munich	Bad Wörishofen	Q1287863
Lieselotte Berger		German politician (1920-1989)	Germany	1920-11-13	1989-09-26	Berlin	Berlin	Q1715592
Elfriede Eilers		German politician (1921-2016)	Germany	1921-01-17	2016-06-04	Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Q1168144
Norbert Schmelzer		Dutch politician (1921–2008)	Kingdom of the Netherlands	1921-03-22	2008-11-14	Rotterdam	Sankt Ingbert	Q472249
Karl Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg		German politician (CSU), Secretary of State in the Federal Chancellery (1921-1972)	Germany	1921-05-23	1972-10-03 1972-10-04	Weisendorf	Stadtsteinach	Q97122
Heinrich Windelen		German politician (1921-2015)	Germany	1921-06-25	2015-02-16	Bolków	Warendorf	Q74262
Friedrich Peter		Austrian politician (1921–2005)	Austria	1921-07-13	2005-09-25	Attnang	Vienna	Q112728
Carlos Galvão de Melo		Portuguese military officer (1921-2008)	Portugal	1921-08-04	2008-03-20	Figueira da Foz	Alcabideche	Q743274
Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia		German politician (1922-2007)	Germany	1922-01-30	2007-04-09	Potsdam	Holzminden	Q92141
Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski		German Social Democrat politician (1922-2005)	Germany	1922-07-24	2005-02-24	Olsztyn	Cologne	Q67517
Ludwig Franz		German politician (1922-1990)	Germany	1922-08-30	1990-07-02	Wörth an der Donau	Rottach-Egern	Q109843
Peter Lorenz		German politician (1922-1987)	Germany	1922-12-22	1987-12-06	Berlin	Berlin	Q63740
Karl Ahrens		German politician (1924-2015)	Germany	1924-03-13	2015-03-06	Hilter	Gehrden	Q1730229
Antje Huber		German politician (1924-2015)	Germany	1924-05-23	2015-09-30	Szczecin	Essen	Q87744
Wolfram Dorn		German politician (1924-2014)	Germany	1924-07-18	2014-06-17	Altena	Halver	Q1638766
Kurt Jung		German politician (1925-1989)	Germany	1925-02-15	1989-04-23	Kandel	Karlsruhe	Q1793703
Adolf Schmidt		German politician (1925–2013)	Germany	1925-04-18	2013-11-26	Homberg (Efze)	Wattenscheid	Q364156
Helmut Rohde		German politician (SPD) (1925-2016)	Germany	1925-11-09	2016-04-16	Hanover	Sankt Augustin	Q897281
Pierre-Christian Taittinger		French politician (1926-2009)	France	1926-02-05	2009-09-27	Paris	Versailles	Q820283
Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner		Austrian politician (1926-2008)	Austria	1926-04-25	2008-06-13	Vienna	Vienna	Q87476
Agnes Hürland-Büning		German politician (1926-2009)	Germany	1926-05-17	2009-03-09	Dorsten	Dorsten	Q394550
Walter Hirrlinger		German politician	Germany	1926-06-24	2018-07-24	Tübingen	Esslingen am Neckar	Q2544774
Alfred Biehle		German politician (1926-2014)	Germany	1926-11-15	2014-10-29	Augsburg	Karlstadt am Main	Q124182
Herbert Ehrenberg		German politician (1926-2018)	Germany	1926-12-21	2018-02-20	Gołdap	Wilhelmshaven	Q87678
Max Fischer		German politician (1927-2015)	Germany	1927-05-06	2015-07-11			Q105348
Karl Eigen		German politician (1927-2016)	Germany	1927-11-03	2016-05-13	Lübeck		Q1730847
Walter Althammer		politician	Germany	1928-03-12		Augsburg		Q103721
Hanna-Renate Laurien		German politician (1928-2010)	Germany	1928-04-15	2010-03-12	Gdańsk	Berlin	Q75085
Raimo Ilaskivi		Finnish politician	Finland	1928-05-26		Tainionkoski Ruokolahti		Q3072287
Mekonnen Endalkachew		politician (1928-1974)	Ethiopia	1928-09-08	1974-11-24	Addis Ababa	Addis Ababa	Q1340346
Henning Schwarz		politician (1928-1993)	Germany	1928-10-24	1993-04-13	Bad Oldesloe	Kiel	Q74264
Dorothee Wilms		German politician	Germany	1929-10-11		Grevenbroich		Q272658
Arvo Rytkönen		Finnish politician	Finland	1929-11-04	1980-02-24	Virolahti	Bonn	Q11853017
Egon Klepsch		German politician	Germany	1930-01-30	2010-09-18	Děčín	Koblenz	Q61013
Ignaz Kiechle		German politician (1930-2003)	Germany	1930-02-23	2003-12-02	Kempten	Kempten	Q87654
Helmut Kohl		Chancellor of West Germany and reunified Germany (1930–2017)	Weimar Republic Nazi Germany West Germany Germany	1930-04-03	2017-06-16	Friesenheim	Oggersheim	Q2518
Ursula Lehr		German academic and politician	Germany	1930-06-05	2022-04-25	Frankfurt	Bonn	Q290708
Liliana Segre		Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life	Italy	1930-09-10		Milan		Q1825004
Christian Schwarz-Schilling		German politician, entrepreneur and philanthropist	Germany	1930-11-19		Innsbruck		Q77550
Johannes Rau		president of Germany from 1 July 1999 until 30 July 2004	Germany	1931-01-16	2006-01-27	Wuppertal	Berlin	Q2551
Connie Morella		American politician	United States of America	1931-02-12		Somerville		Q1775679
Peter Schmidhuber		German politician	Germany	1931-12-15	2020-12-26	Munich		Q67956
Constantin Heereman von Zuydtwyck		German politician (1931-2017)	Germany	1931-12-17	2017-07-26	Münster	Surenburg	Q123370
Albert Probst		German politician (1931-2015)	Germany	1931-12-29	2015-03-24	Garching bei München	Munich	Q119696
Bronisław Geremek		Polish social historian and politician (1932-2008)	Poland	1932-03-06	2008-07-13	Warsaw	Lubień, Greater Poland Voivodeship	Q157282
Gerhart Baum		German politician	Germany	1932-10-28		Dresden		Q518517
Charlotte Knobloch		former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany	Germany	1932-10-29		Munich		Q67594
Habib Thiam		Senegalese politician (1933-2017)	Senegal	1933-01-21	2017-06-26	Keur Madiabel	Dakar	Q468055
Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder		German politician of the CDU and Vice President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) (1933-2015)	Germany	1933-03-03	2015-08-17	Mannheim	Stuttgart	Q74973
Alfred Bayer		German politician	Germany	1933-03-08		Munich		Q121346
David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton		British Baron (1934-2015)	United Kingdom	1934-05-08	2015-08-30	Whitstable	Taunton	Q336194
Dieter Haack		German politician and jurist	Germany	1934-06-09		Karlsruhe		Q85786
Hans A. Engelhard		German politician (1934-2008)	Germany	1934-09-16	2008-03-11	Munich	Munich	Q518703
Martin Bangemann		German politician	German Reich Germany	1934-11-15	2022-06-28	Wanzleben	Saint-Vincent-la-Châtre	Q61250
Heinz Riesenhuber		German politician (CDU)	Germany	1935-12-01		Frankfurt		Q73951
Ralf Friberg		Finnish politician and journalist	Finland	1936-04-17		Helsinki		Q11889979
Manfred Stolpe		German politician (1936-2019)	Germany German Democratic Republic	1936-05-16	2019-12-29	Szczecin	Potsdam	Q66127
Hans Zehetmair		German politician	Germany	1936-10-23	2022-11-27	Langengeisling		Q1302438
Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou		Belgian politician	Belgium	1936-12-05		Uccle - Ukkel		Q2550911
Harri Holkeri		Prime minister of Finland from 1987 to 1991	Finland	1937-01-06	2011-08-07	Oripää	Helsinki	Q273324
Klaus Peter Möller		German politician (1937-)	Germany	1937-08-08	2022-01-20	Darmstadt		Q1745549
Rudolf Seiters		German politician	Germany	1937-10-13		Osnabrück		Q73941
Johann Böhm		German politician, representative of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria	Germany	1937-10-18		Dasnice		Q97293
Sam Nunn		American lawyer and politician	United States of America	1938-09-08		Macon		Q946305
Jonathan Motzfeldt		Prime Minister of Greenland (1938-2010)	Kingdom of Denmark	1938-09-25	2010-10-28	Qassimiut	Qaqortoq	Q381139
Jorge Sampaio		President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006	Portugal	1939-09-18	2021-09-10	Lisbon	Santa Cruz Hospital	Q156780
Alois Glück		German politician	Germany	1940-01-24	2024-02-26	Traunwalchen	Munich	Q103383
Berndt Seite		German politician	Germany	1940-04-22		Trzebnica		Q75972
Erich Iltgen		Germany politician (1940-2019)	Germany German Democratic Republic	1940-07-10	2019-06-09	Cologne	Dresden	Q109573
Hermann Otto Solms		German politician	Germany	1940-11-24		Lich		Q70407
François-Xavier de Donnea		Belgian politician	Belgium	1941-04-29		Edegem		Q479383
Andreas Khol		Austrian politician	No/unknown value Austria	1941-07-14		Bergen auf Rügen		Q11782
Luis Durnwalder		Italian politician	Italy	1941-09-23		Pfalzen		Q9379
Edmund Stoiber		German politician	Germany	1941-09-28		Oberaudorf		Q44507
Maciej Nowicki		Polish politician	Poland	1941-09-28		Warsaw		Q831185
Eberhard Diepgen		German politician	Germany	1941-11-13		Pankow		Q60957
László Sólyom		politician and former President of Hungary (1942–2023)	Hungary	1942-01-03	2023-10-08	Pécs	Budapest	Q152335
Joe Lieberman		American politician (1942–2024)	United States of America	1942-02-24	2024-03-27	Stamford	New York City	Q160157
Peter Struck		German politician (1943-2012)	Germany	1943-01-24	2012-12-19	Göttingen	Charité	Q62202
Kazimira Prunskienė		Lithuanian politician	Lithuania	1943-02-26		Vasiuliškė		Q257779
Miet Smet		Belgian politician	Belgium	1943-04-05		Sint-Niklaas		Q458095
Günter Verheugen		German politician	Germany	1944-04-28		Bad Kreuznach		Q76525
Jürgen Möllemann		German politician (1945-2003)	Germany	1945-07-15	2003-06-05	Augsburg	Marl-Loemühle airfield	Q65521
Marianne Birthler		German politician	German Democratic Republic Germany	1948-01-22		Berlin		Q243081
Viktor Kress		Russian politician	Russia Soviet Union	1948-11-16		Kostroma Oblast		Q444185
Volker Kauder		German politician	Germany	1949-09-03		Hoffenheim		Q67164
Filippos Petsalnikos		Greek politician (1950-2020)	Greece	1950-12-01	2020-03-13	Mavrochori	Athens	Q704242
Karl-Heinz Lambertz		German-speaking Belgian politician	Belgium	1952-06-04		Amel		Q540164
Wan Gang		Chinese retired politician	People's Republic of China	1952-08-01		Shanghai		Q95023
Luís Amado		Portuguese politician; former minister	Portugal	1953-09-17		Lisbon		Q1382641
Reiner Haseloff		German politician	Germany	1954-02-19		Bülzig		Q69355
Meglena Pługchieva		politician	Bulgaria	1956-02-12		Balchik		Q11776956
Pierre Moscovici		French politician	France	1957-09-16		15th arrondissement of Paris		Q356919
Harlem Désir		French politician	France	1959-11-25		Paris		Q39015
Daniel Herman		Czech Minister of Culture of the CR, member of Czech Parliament (2013–2017) and Roman Catholic priest	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia	1963-04-28		České Budějovice		Q5217474
Paulo Rangel		Portuguese politician of the 3rd republic	Portugal	1968-02-18		Vila Nova de Gaia		Q10346767

priest

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Anders Nygren		Swedish bishop	Sweden	1890-11-15	1978-10-20	Gothenburg	Lund	Q442186
Andres Põder		Archbishop of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia	Estonia	1949-11-22		Hanila Rural Municipality		Q376349

publisher

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Max Tau		German writer	Germany Norway	1897-01-19	1976-03-13	Bytom	Oslo	Q215145
Franz Burda sr.		German publisher (1903-1986)	Germany	1903-02-24	1986-09-30	Philippsburg	Offenburg	Q76021
Fritz Heine		German publisher	Germany	1904-12-06	2002-05-05	Hanover	Zülpich	Q124053
Aenne Burda		German magazine publisher	Germany	1909-07-28	2005-11-03	Offenburg	Offenburg	Q64726
Friede Springer		German heiress, business woman, billionaire and politician	Germany	1942		Oldsum		Q84823

screenwriter

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Fritz Kortner		Austrian actor and theatre director (1892-1970)	Austria Germany	1892-05-12	1970-07-22	Vienna	Munich	Q78919
Billy Wilder		Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter (1906-2002)	United States of America Austria Austria-Hungary	1906-06-22	2002-03-27	Sucha Beskidzka	Beverly Hills	Q51547

sculptor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Rudolf Belling		German sculptor (1886–1972)	Germany	1886-08-26	1972-06-09	Berlin	Krailling	Q215029
Hans Wimmer		German sculptor (1907–1992)	Germany	1907-03-19	1992-08-31	Pfarrkirchen	Munich	Q315485
Günther Uecker		German artist	Germany	1930-03-13		Kuhlen-Wendorf		Q569940
Magdalena Abakanowicz		Polish textile artist and sculptor (1930–2017)	Poland	1930-06-20	2017-04-20	Falenty	Warsaw	Q158080
Heinz Mack		German artist	Germany	1931-03-08		Lollar		Q571469
Hubertus von Pilgrim		German artist	Germany	1931-08-24		Berlin		Q1500200
Rebecca Horn		German visual artist (1944–2024)	Germany	1944-03-24	2024-09-06	Michelstadt	Bad König	Q442192

stage actor

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ernst Deutsch		Austrian actor (1890-1969)	Germany Austria	1890-09-16 1896-09-16	1969-03-22	Prague	Berlin	Q86367
Karlheinz Böhm		Austrian actor	Austria Ethiopia	1928-03-16	2014-05-29	Darmstadt	Grödig	Q78928
Armin Mueller-Stahl		German actor	Germany German Democratic Republic Switzerland	1930-12-17		Sovetsk		Q164117
Jutta Lampe		German actress (1937-2020)	Germany	1937-12-13	2020-12-03	Flensburg	Berlin	Q92449

television presenter

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Heinz Sielmann		German zoologist	Germany	1917-06-02	2006-10-06	Rheydt	Munich	Q77844
Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond		British politician (Liberal Democrat) (born 1941)	United Kingdom	1941-02-03		Gqeberha		Q2636867

theatrical director

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Boleslaw Barlog		German theatre director and film director (1906-1999)	Germany	1906-03-28	1999-03-17	Wrocław	Berlin	Q108441
Peter Stein		German theatre and opera director (born 1937)	Germany	1937-10-01		Berlin		Q64421
Andrea Breth		German theatre and opera director	Germany	1952-10-31		Rieden am Forggensee		Q104988

theologian

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Hans Meiser		German theologian	Germany	1881-02-16	1956-06-08	Nuremberg	Munich	Q1581307
Paul Tillich		German-American theologian and philosopher	German Empire Weimar Republic United States of America	1886-08-20	1965-10-22	Starosiedle	Chicago	Q60104
Friedrich Gogarten		German theologian	Germany	1887-01-13	1967-10-16	Dortmund	Göttingen	Q68629
Carl Joseph Leiprecht		German Roman Catholic bishop (1903-1981)	Germany	1903-09-11	1981-10-29	Hauerz	Ravensburg	Q118290
Kurt Aland		German theologian and biblical scholar	Germany German Democratic Republic	1915-03-28	1994-04-13	Steglitz	Münster	Q61806
Franciszek Macharski		Polish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (1927-2016)	Poland	1927-05-20	2016-08-02	Kraków	Kraków	Q55772
Hans Küng		Swiss Catholic priest, theologian and author (1928-2021)	Switzerland	1928-03-19	2021-04-06	Sursee	Tübingen	Q123010
Eberhard Jüngel		German theologian	Germany	1934-12-05	2021-09-28	Magdeburg	Tübingen	Q85083

trade unionist

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Karl Buschmann		German trade union leader (1914–1988)		1914-08-12	1988-02-16	Bielefeld	Bielefeld	Q24283471
Günter Döding		German trade unionist (1930–2005)	Germany	1930-09-04	2005-08-08	Isenstedt		Q1560421

university teacher

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Erich Haenisch		German sinologist	Germany	1880-08-27	1966-12-21	Berlin	Stuttgart	Q74379
Carl Strehl		German educator (1886-1971)	Germany	1886-07-12	1971-08-18	Berlin	Marburg	Q214541
James Kerr Pollock		American university teacher (1898-1968)	United States of America	1898-05-25	1968-10-07	Pennsylvania	Ann Arbor	Q1680653
Joseph Schröffer		Catholic cardinal	Germany	1903-02-20	1983-09-07	Ingolstadt	Nuremberg	Q65876
Frederick Alexander Mann		British jurist	Germany	1907-08-11	1991-09-16	Frankenthal	London	Q15734535
Ernst C. Stiefel		German university teacher and lawyer (1907-1997)	Germany	1907-11-27	1997-09-03	Mannheim	Baden-Baden	Q21141914
Ioannis Argyris		Greek pioneer of computer applications in science and engineering	Greece	1913-08-19	2004-04-02	Volos	Stuttgart	Q705529
Hans-Jörg Bullinger		German scientist and current President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft	Germany	1944-04-13		Stuttgart		Q124865
Montgomery Meigs		Recipient of the Purple Heart medal, 1945-2021	United States of America	1945-01-11	2021-07-06	Annapolis		Q6905753
Mariano Gago		Portuguese politician (1948-2015)	Portugal	1948-05-16	2015-04-17	Lisbon	Lisbon	Q367910

writer

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Annette Kolb		German writer (1870-1967)	Germany France	1870-02-03	1967-12-03	Munich	Munich	Q71112
Gertrud von Le Fort		German writer of novels, poems and essays (1876-1971)	Germany	1876-10-11	1971-11-01	Minden	Oberstdorf	Q62798
Carl Zuckmayer		German writer and playwright (1896-1977)	Germany United States of America Switzerland	1896-12-27	1977-01-18	Nackenheim	Visp	Q76820
Norbert Elias		German sociologist	United Kingdom Germany	1897-06-22	1990-08-01	Wrocław	Amsterdam	Q75812
Hubert Jedin		German theologian and historian (1900-1980)	Germany	1900-06-17	1980-07-16	Brzeziny	Bonn	Q67941
Eberhard Bethge		German protestant theologian, pastor and biographer of D. Bonhoeffer	Germany	1909-08-28	2000-03-18	Magdeburg	Wachtberg	Q96779
Pavel Tigrid		Czech minister of culture of the CR, publicist and writer	Czech Republic Czechoslovakia United States of America	1917-10-27	2003-08-31	Prague	Héricy	Q586153
Günther Rall		German general and fighter pilot during World War II	Germany	1918-03-10	2009-10-04	Gaggenau	Bad Reichenhall	Q58743
Max Mannheimer		Jewish author, painter and Holocaust survivor	Czechoslovakia West Germany	1920-02-06	2016-09-23	Nový Jičín	Munich	Q872108
W. Michael Blumenthal		Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury	Germany United States of America	1926-01-03		Oranienburg		Q62988
Martin Walser		German writer	Bavaria West Germany Germany	1927-03-24	2023-07-28 2023-07-26	Wasserburg	Überlingen	Q57387
Andrzej Szczypiorski		Polish writer (1928-2000)	Poland	1928-02-03	2000-05-16	Warsaw	Warsaw	Q451655
Elie Wiesel		Romanian-born American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel laureate, and Holocaust survivor (1928-2016)	United States of America Kingdom of Romania Kingdom of Hungary	1928-09-30	2016-07-02	Sighetu Marmației	New York City	Q18391
Günter Kunert		German writer (1929-2019)	Germany German Democratic Republic	1929-03-06	2019-09-21	Berlin	Kaisborstel	Q64400
Walter Kempowski		German writer (1929–2007)	Germany	1929-04-29	2007-10-05	Rostock	Rotenburg an der Wümme	Q61408
Imre Kertész		Hungarian author (1929-2016)	Hungary	1929-11-09	2016-03-31	Budapest	Budapest	Q47755
Herta Müller		German-Romanian novelist, poet and essayist	Germany Romania	1953-08-17		Nițchidorf		Q38049
Durs Grünbein		German poet	Germany	1962-10-09		Dresden		Q705090

Misc

name	image	description	country of citizenship	date of birth	date of death	place of birth	place of death	item
Ludwig Curtius		German classical archeologist (1874-1954)	Germany	1874-12-13	1954-04-10	Augsburg	Rome	Q65617
Max Hartmann		German zoologist (1876-1962)	Germany	1876-07-07	1962-10-11	Lauterecken	Weiler-Simmerberg	Q112507
Rinaldo Dohrn		German zoologist (1880-1962)	Germany	1880-03-13	1962-12-14	Naples	Rome	Q55027910
Hans Kelsen		Austrian lawyer	Cisleithania United States of America Austria Czechoslovakia	1881-10-11	1973-04-19	Prague	Berkeley	Q84165
Tevfik Sağlam		Turkish internist (1882-1963)	Ottoman Empire Turkey	1882	1963	Istanbul	Istanbul	Q913750
Hans Walz		German merchant	Germany	1883-03-21	1974-04-23	Stuttgart	Stuttgart	Q1582977
Wilhelm Stählin		German Lutheran theologian (1883-1975)	Germany	1883-09-24	1975-12-16	Gunzenhausen	Prien am Chiemsee	Q49713
Herbert Kraus		German legal scholar	Germany	1884-01-02	1965-03-15	Rostock	Göttingen	Q113036
Claudius Dornier		German aerospace engineer and inventor	France Germany	1884-05-14	1969-12-05	Kempten	Zug	Q71007
Wilhelm Furtwängler		German conductor and composer	Germany	1886-01-25	1954-11-30	Schöneberg	Baden-Baden	Q57285
Harold Nicolson		British diplomat, author, diarist and politician (1886-1968)	United Kingdom	1886-11-21	1968-05-01	Tehran	Sissinghurst Castle Garden	Q332956
Franz Dölger		German historian (1891-1968)	Germany	1891-10-04	1968-11-05	Kleinwallstadt	Munich	Q832730
Victor Gollancz		British publisher (1893–1967)	United Kingdom	1893-04-09	1967-02-08	Maida Vale	London	Q574400
George Nauman Shuster		American teacher	United States of America	1894-08-27	1977-01-25			Q15432477
Hans Kienle		German astrophysicist and astronomer	Germany	1895-10-22	1975-02-15	Kulmbach	Heidelberg	Q125716
Wolfgang Kittel		German ice hockey player	Germany	1898-01-16 1899-11-11	1967-02-27	Berlin	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Q1569672
Karl August, 10th Prince of Thurn and Taxis		German prince	Germany	1898-07-23	1982-04-26	Garatshausen	Regensburg	Q69446
Kurt Hamann		German businessman, chairman of the Victoria Insurance Company	Germany	1898-09-26	20th century	Berlin		Q17322927
Ludwig Guttmann		German-British neurologist who created the Paralympic Games (1899-1980)	United Kingdom Germany	1899-07-03	1980-03-18	Toszek	Aylesbury	Q76912
Wolfgang Schadewaldt		German classical philologist, literary theorist and translator	Germany	1900-03-15	1974-11-10	Berlin	Tübingen	Q67526
Eduard Rhein		German publisher	Germany	1900-08-23	1993-04-15	Königswinter	Cannes	Q87475
Carl Joachim Friedrich		German political scientist (1901-1984)	Germany United States of America	1901-06-05	1984-09-19	Leipzig	Lexington	Q77442
Siegfried Westphal		German General and Knight's Cross recipient	Germany	1902-03-18	1982-07-02	Leipzig	Celle	Q86608
Karl Rahner		German Catholic theologian	Germany	1904-03-05	1984-03-30	Freiburg im Breisgau	Innsbruck	Q57317
Viktor Frankl		Austrian Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, philosopher and author (1905–1997)	Austria	1905-03-26	1997-09-02	Vienna	Vienna	Q154723
Lilo Milchsack		Promoter of German-British relations	Germany	1905-05-27	1992-08-07	Frankfurt	Düsseldorf	Q15507897
Feng Zhi		writer and university teacher (1905-1993)	People's Republic of China Republic of China (1912–1949) Qing dynasty	1905-09-17	1993-02-22	Hebei	Beijing	Q1404688
William Henry Tunner		United States Air Force general (1906-1983)	United States of America	1906-07-14	1983-04-06	Elizabeth	Ware Neck	Q322891
Helmut Walcha		German organist	Germany	1907-10-27	1991-08-11	Leipzig	Frankfurt	Q133677
Christian Roy Kaldager		Norwegian general	Norway	1908-03-18	2005-06-23	Baltimore		Q504935
Karl Bosl		German historian (1908-1993)	Germany	1908-11-11	1993-01-18	Cham	Munich	Q1730540
Lennart Bernadotte		Swedish prince	Sweden	1909-05-08	2004-12-21	Stockholm	Mainau	Q564226
Walter Rossow		German landscape architect	Germany	1910-01-28	1992-01-02	Berlin	Berlin	Q1760476
Bernhard Baier		German water polo player	Germany	1912-08-12	2003-04-26	Hanover	Hanover	Q71705
Günter Kuhnke		German world war II Navy officer and U-boat commander (1912-1990)	Germany	1912-09-07	1990-10-11	Elbląg	Schortens	Q90792
Erich Lackner		civil engineer (1913-1992)	Germany	1913-05-13	1992-02-02	Himmelberg	Carinthia	Q101562
Konrad Henkel		German industrialist and chemist (1915-1999)	Germany	1915-10-25	1999-04-24	Düsseldorf	Düsseldorf	Q1664078
Gerhard Meyer-Schwickerath		German scientist	Germany	1920-09-10	1992-02-20	Elberfeld	Essen	Q41643314
Gerhard Fischer		German diplomat (1921-2006)	Germany	1921-09-20	2006-07-03	Christiania	Copenhagen	Q214271
Frederick Kroesen		Recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1923-2020)	United States of America	1923-02-11	2020-04-30	Phillipsburg	Alexandria	Q682032
Walter Jens		German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer	Germany	1923-03-08	2013-06-09	Hamburg	Tübingen	Q38573
Alejandro Orfila		Argentine diplomat (1925-2021)	Argentina	1925-03-09	2021-06-09	Mendoza		Q4714628
Hans Günter Winkler		German equestrian	Germany West Germany	1926-07-24	2018-07-09	Barmen	Warendorf	Q62177
Helmut Maucher		German businessman (1927-2018)	Germany	1927-12-09	2018-03-05	Argenbühl	Bad Homburg vor der Höhe	Q90702
Hannelore Kohl		Wife of German chancellor Helmut Kohl	Germany	1933-03-07	2001-07-05	Berlin	Ludwigshafen	Q68743
Konrad Porzner		German handball player and politician	Germany	1935-02-04	2021-12-01	Feuchtwangen	Roth	Q121730
Harald zur Hausen		German virologist and professor emeritus (1936–2023)	Germany	1936-03-11	2023-05-29	Gelsenkirchen	Heidelberg	Q75847
John Weston		British diplomat	United Kingdom	1938-04-13				Q744372
Jan Assmann		German Egyptologist (1938–2024)	Germany	1938-07-07	2024-02-19	Langelsheim	Constance	Q61247
Jiří Gruša		Czech diplomat, poet and writer (1938-2011)	Germany Czech Republic West Germany Czechoslovakia	1938-11-10	2011-10-28	Pardubice	Hanover Bad Oeynhausen	Q64579
Paul Baltes		German psychologist	Germany	1939-06-18	2006-11-07	Saarlouis	Berlin	Q75594
Sultan bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi		Member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	1939-07-02		Sharjah		Q754778
Michael Stolleis		German legal historian	Germany	1941-07-20	2021-03-18	Ludwigshafen	Frankfurt	Q1501879
Aleida Assmann		German professor of English and Literary Studies	Germany	1947-03-22		Bielefeld		Q111115
Karl Schlögel		German historian of Eastern Europe	Germany	1948-03-07		Hawangen		Q89173
Jean-Marc Sauvé		French official	France	1949-05-28		Templeux-le-Guérard		Q3167479
Lorraine Daston		American historian of science	United States of America	1951-06-09		East Lansing		Q529094
Reinhard Genzel		German astronomer	Germany	1952-03-24		Bad Homburg vor der Höhe		Q65807
Robert Zoellick		11th President of the World Bank Group	United States of America	1953-07-25		Naperville		Q312724
Uğur Şahin		German oncologist, developer Covid vaccine	Germany Turkey	1965-09-19		İskenderun		Q2505089
Özlem Türeci		German physician, scientist and entrepreneur	Germany	1967-03-06		Siegen		Q92379963
Emmanuelle Charpentier		French microbiologist and biochemist	France	1968-12-11		Juvisy-sur-Orge		Q17280087

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