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| x Heinrich Karl Brugsch |
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Feb 18, 1827 | Germany |
Heinrich Karl Brugsch (also Brugsch-Pasha) (18 February 1827 – 9 September 1894) was a German Egyptologist, born in Berlin. He was associated with Auguste Mariette in his excavations at Memphis. He became director of the School of Egyptology at...
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| x Julia Franck |
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Feb 20, 1970 | Germany | Writer |
Julia Franck (born February 20, 1970 in East Berlin) is a German writer.
In 1978 Julia Franck and her family moved to West Berlin and later to Schleswig-Holstein. She studied German Literature and American Studies at the Free University of Berlin...
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| x Nicolette Krebitz |
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Sep 2, 1972 | Germany | Singer |
Nicolette Krebitz (born September 2, 1972 in Berlin, Germany) is a director, actress, model and singer. She is often credited as "Coco" in her creative works.
Nicolette Krebitz made her film debut at age eleven. Later, she hosted television and...
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| x Erich Mühsam |
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Apr 6, 1878 | Germany | Journalist |
Erich Mühsam (6 April 1878 – 10 July 1934) was a German-Jewish anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic.
Also a cabaret performer, he...
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| x George Schaller |
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1933 |
George Beals Schaller (born 1933) is an American mammalogist, naturalist, conservationist and author. Schaller is recognized by many as the world's preeminent field biologist, studying wildlife throughout Africa, Asia and South America. Born in...
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| x Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke |
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Jul 6, 1819 | Germany | Physician |
Ernst Wilhelm Ritter von Brücke (b. Ernst Wilhelm Brücke on 6 July 1819 in Berlin, Germany; d. January 7 1892 in Vienna, Austria) was a German physician and physiologist.
He is noted for his influence on Sigmund Freud, one of his medical students,...
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| x Malik Fathi |
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Oct 29, 1983 | Germany | Soccer Player |
Malik Fathi (born 29 October 1983 in Berlin) is a German football player of Turkish (paternal) and German (maternal) descent who currently plays for Russian FC Spartak Moscow.
In 2001–2008 he has played as a defender for Hertha BSC. On 12 March 2008...
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| x Oskar Messter | Nov 21, 1866 | Germany |
Oskar Messter (November 21, 1866 – December 6, 1943) was a German inventor and film tycoon in the early years of cinema.
He was born in Berlin, where his father had founded a company selling and manufacturing optical equipment in 1859. Messter built...
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| x Kurt Koffka | Mar 18, 1886 | Germany | Psychologist |
Kurt Koffka (Berlin, March 18, 1886 - Northampton, November 22, 1941) was a German psychologist. He was born and educated in Berlin and earned his PhD there in 1909 as a student of Carl Stumpf. In addition to his studies in Berlin, Koffka also spent...
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| x Rudolf Peierls |
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Jun 5, 1907 | United Kingdom | Physicist |
Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, (June 5, 1907, Berlin – September 19, 1995, Oxford), was a German-born British physicist. Rudolf Peierls had a major role in Britain's nuclear program, but he also had a role in many modern sciences. His impact on physics...
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| x Claus Moser, Baron Moser | Nov 24, 1922 | United Kingdom | Statistician |
Claus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, KCB, CBE (born November 24, 1922 in Berlin) is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service. He prides himself rather on being a non-mathematical statistician, and...
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| x Sally Keeble | Oct 13, 1951 | United Kingdom | Politician |
Sally Curtis Keeble (born 13 October 1951) is a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.
She has been Member of Parliament for Northampton North since the 1997 general election. She had previously been leader of Southwark Council from 1990-3....
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| x Frederick William I of Prussia |
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Aug 14, 1688 |
Frederick William I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm I) (14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740) of the House of Hohenzollern, was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg (as Frederick William II) from 1713 until his death. He is popularly known as "the...
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| x Werner Rittberger |
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Jul 14, 1891 |
Werner Rittberger (born 14 July 1891 in Berlin, Germany; † 1975 in Krefeld, Germany) was a German figure skater.
Rittberger invented the Loop jump in 1910. German figure skaters call this jump “Rittberger”.
Rittberger won the German Nationals eleven...
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| x Tanja Kolbe |
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Sep 7, 1990 |
Tanja Kolbe (born 7 September 1990 in Berlin) is a German ice dancer. She currently competes with Sascha Rabe. They teamed up in 2006. From 2003 to 2006, Kolbe competed with Paul Boll.
(with Sascha Rabe)
(with Paul Boll)
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| x Erich Mielke |
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Dec 28, 1907 | Germany | Politician |
Erich Fritz Emil Mielke (December 28, 1907 – May 21, 2000 in Berlin) was a German Communist politician and Minister of State Security of the German Democratic Republic from 1957 to 1989. A hard-line stalinist, he spent several years in the Soviet...
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| x Manuela Groß |
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Jan 29, 1957 |
Manuela Groß (born January 29, 1957 in Berlin, East Germany/GDR) is a German figure skater, two-time Olympic pair skating bronze medalist, and figure skating coach.
Manuela Groß began figure skating in Berlin. She was paired with Uwe Kagelmann. They...
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| x Nadja Auermann |
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Mar 19, 1971 | Germany | Model |
Nadja Auermann (born March 19, 1971) is a German model and actress. Fashion designer Valentino once commented on her physical resemblance to Marlene Dietrich. A fashion columnist wrote of her ice maiden visage and pole vaulter's legs.
Auermann was...
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| x George V of Hanover |
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May 27, 1819 |
George V (George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus; 27 May 1819 – 12 June 1878) was the last king of Hanover and a member of the German branch of the House of Hanover. In the peerage of Great Britain, he was Duke of Cumberland.
George V...
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| x Herbert Marcuse |
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Jul 19, 1898 | United States of America | Philosopher |
Herbert Marcuse (German pronunciation: [marˈkuːzə]) (July 19, 1898 – July 29, 1979) was a German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School. Celebrated as the "Father of the New Left," his best known...
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| x Viktor Meyer |
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Sep 8, 1848 | Germany | Scientist |
Viktor Meyer (8 September 1848 – 8 August 1897) was a German chemist and significant contributor to both organic and inorganic chemistry. He is best known for inventing an apparatus for determining vapour densities, the Viktor Meyer apparatus, and...
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| x Jana Pallaske |
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May 20, 1979 | Germany | Singer |
Jana Pallaske (born May 20, 1979) is a German actress and singer in the rock band Spitting Off Tall Buildings.
Possibly Sang in Geisterfahrer by Tokio Hotel
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| x Joachim Peiper |
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Jan 30, 1915 |
Joachim Peiper (German pronunciation: [joˈaχɪm ˈpaɪpər]) (30 January 1915–14 July 1976) more often known as Jochen Peiper from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a field grade Waffen-SS officer in World War II, convicted of war crimes in...
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| x Walther Rathenau |
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Sep 29, 1867 | Germany | Engineer |
Walther Rathenau (September 29, 1867 – June 24, 1922) was a German industrialist, politician, writer, and statesman who served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Rathenau was born in Berlin, the son of Emil Rathenau, a...
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| x Hannelore Kohl |
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Mar 7, 1933 |
Hannelore Kohl (March 7, 1933 – July 5, 2001) was the wife of former German Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old.
She was born in Berlin and was christened Eleonore...
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| x Clement Freud |
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Apr 24, 1924 | United Kingdom | Politician |
Sir Clement Raphael Freud (24 April 1924 – 15 April 2009) was an English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef.
Freud was born in Berlin, the son of Jewish parents Ernst Ludwig Freud, an architect, and Lucie née Brasch. He was the grandson of...
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| x Werner Fenchel |
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May 3, 1905 | Germany | Mathematician |
Moritz Werner Fenchel (May 3, 1905 – January 24, 1988) was a mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and to optimization theory. Fenchel established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory. Fenchel's...
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| x Willy Ley |
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Dec 2, 1906 | United States of America | Physicist |
Willy Ley (December 2, 1906 - June 24, 1969) was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his...
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| x Anna of Brandenburg | Aug 27, 1487 |
Margravine Anna of Brandenburg (27 August 1487 – 3 May 1514) was a German noblewoman.
Anna was the daughter of Johann Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg and Margarethe of Saxony. She was born in Berlin, Brandenburg, and died in Kiel, Holstein.
In 1500...
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| x Edmund Landau |
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Feb 14, 1877 | Germany | Mathematician |
Edmund Georg Hermann (Yehezkel) Landau (14 February 1877 – 19 February 1938) was a German Jewish mathematician and author of over 250 papers on number theory.
Edmund Landau was born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family. His father was Leopold Landau...
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| x Robert Huth |
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Aug 18, 1984 | Germany | Soccer Player |
Robert Huth (born 18 August 1984) is a German footballer currently playing for Stoke City. He was signed for Chelsea from the youth system of German club Union Berlin in 2001 by then Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri. He is often referred to as "The...
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| x Adolf von Baeyer |
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Oct 31, 1835 | Germany | Chemist |
Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer (German pronunciation: [ˈbaɪɐ]; October 31, 1835 - August 20, 1917) was a German chemist who synthesized indigo, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Born in Berlin, he initially...
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| x Elke Sommer |
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Nov 5, 1940 | Germany | Singer |
Elke Sommer (born 5 November 1940), born Elke Schletz, is a German-born actress, entertainer, and artist.
Sommer was born in Berlin to a Lutheran Minister and his wife. After the war, the family was evacuated to Erlangen, a small university town in...
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| x Erik Zabel |
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Jul 7, 1970 | Germany | Cyclist |
Erik Zabel (born July 7, 1970 in East Berlin) is a former German professional road bicycle racer who last raced for UCI ProTour Team Milram. With over 200 professional career wins he is considered by some to be one of the greatest German cyclists...
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| x Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann | Dec 19, 1916 | Germany | Political scientist |
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (born December 19, 1916) is a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in The Spiral of Silence : Public Opinion - Our Social Skin. The model is an explanation...
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| x Rudi Ball |
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Mar 27, 1910 | Germany |
Rudi Victor Ball (March 27, 1910 – September 1975) was a champion ice hockey player.
He was born in Berlin and died in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ball was one of two athletes of Jewish descent to represent Germany in the 1936 Summer Olympic Games...
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| x Leo Frobenius |
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Jun 29, 1873 | Germany |
Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 - 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography.
He was born in Berlin as the son of a Prussian officer and died in Biganzolo, Lago Maggiore, Piedmont, Italy. He...
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| x Sybille Bedford | Mar 16, 1911 | United Kingdom | Writer |
Sybille Bedford, OBE (née Freiin Sybille Aleid Elsa von Schoenebeck) (16 March 1911 – 17 February 2006) was a German-born English writer. Many of her works are partly autobiographical. Julia Neuberger proclaimed her "the finest woman writer of the...
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| x Kurt Mendelssohn |
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Jan 7, 1906 | Germany | Physicist |
Kurt Alfred Georg Mendelssohn FRS (7 January 1906-18 September 1980) was a German-born British medical physicist, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society 1951.
He was a great-great-grandson of Saul Mendelssohn, the younger brother of philosopher Moses...
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| x Jutta Limbach |
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Mar 27, 1934 | Germany | Judge |
Jutta Limbach (born March 27, 1934 in Berlin) is a German jurist and politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). She received her doctorate in law in 1966 by the Free University of Berlin and fulfilled the...
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| x Erich Hückel |
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Aug 9, 1896 | Germany | Physicist |
Erich Armand Arthur Joseph Hückel (August 9, 1896 - February 16, 1980) was a German physicist and physical chemist. He is known for two major contributions:
Hückel was born in the Charlottenburg suburb of Berlin. He studied physics and mathematics...
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| x William I, German Emperor |
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Mar 22, 1797 |
Wilhelm I, also known as Wilhelm the Great (William Frederick Louis, German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig) (22 March 1797–9 March 1888) of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia (2 January 1861–9 March 1888) and the first German Emperor (18...
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| x Klaus Voormann |
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Apr 29, 1938 | Germany | Musician |
Klaus Voormann (born 29 April 1938) is a German artist, musician, and record producer known for his long association with The Beatles, for whom he designed the cover of their album Revolver. He also is known for being the bassist with the British...
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| x Nastassja Kinski |
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1961 | Germany | Actor |
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszyński, born 1961) is a German actress, who has appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of the title character in Roman Polanski's...
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| x Alfred Schmidt | May 19, 1931 | Germany | Philosopher |
Alfred Schmidt (born May 19, 1931 in Berlin) is a German philosopher.
Schmidt studied at first history and English and classical philology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and later philosophy and sociology. He was a student of...
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| x Alexander von Humboldt |
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Sep 14, 1769 | Germany | Scientist |
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr von Humboldt (help·info) (September 14, 1769 – May 6, 1859) was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767...
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| x Francis Simon | Jul 2, 1893 | Germany | Physicist |
Sir Francis Simon, born Franz Eugen Simon (2 July 1893 – 31 October 1956), was a German and later British physical chemist and physicist who devised the method, and confirmed its feasibility, of separating the isotope Uranium-235 and thus made a...
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| x Baldur von Schirach |
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May 9, 1907 | Germany |
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (9 May 1907 – 8 August 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Reich Governor") of Vienna...
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| x August Diehl |
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Jan 4, 1976 | Germany | Actor |
August Diehl (born 4 January 1976) is a German actor, best known for playing the suspicious Gestapo Sturmbannführer Dieter Hellstrom in Inglourious Basterds.
Diehl was born in Berlin. His father is actor Hans Diehl, his mother is a costume designer...
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| x August Kavel | Sep 3, 1798 |
August Ludwig Christian Kavel ( 3 September 1798 – 12 February 1860). Pastor Kavel was a founder of Lutheranism in Australia.
Kavel was born in Berlin, Germany 1798. In 1826, he was ordained and installed as the Pastor at the church in the village...
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| x Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy |
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Jul 6, 1888 | Germany |
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (July 6, 1888 – February 24, 1973) was a historian and social philosopher, whose work spanned the disciplines of history, theology, sociology, linguistics and beyond. Born in Berlin, Germany into a non-observant Jewish...
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| x Harry Benjamin |
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Jan 12, 1885 | Germany | Physician |
Harry Benjamin (January 12, 1885 – August 24, 1986) was a German endocrinologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism.
Benjamin was born in Berlin, received his doctorate in medicine in 1912 in Tübingen for a dissertation on...
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| x Dru Berrymore |
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Aug 11, 1969 | Pornographic actor |
Dru Berrymore (born in Berlin, Germany) is a German adult actress.
She had a small uncredited role in David Lynch's 1997 film Lost Highway. She was also in Die Hard 2, in a very small role.
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| x Natascha Engel |
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Apr 9, 1967 | United Kingdom |
Natascha Engel (born 9 April 1967) is a British politician. She was elected as the Labour Member of Parliament for North East Derbyshire in the 2005 general election. She has extensive involvement in the trade union movement and has close...
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| x Ernst Lubitsch |
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Jan 28, 1892 | Germany | Film director |
Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 – November 30, 1947), was a German-born Jewish film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were...
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| x Kurt Eisner |
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May 14, 1867 | Germany | Politician |
Kurt Eisner (May 14, 1867 in Berlin – February 21, 1919 in Munich) was a Bavarian politician and journalist. As a German socialist journalist and statesman, he organized the Socialist Revolution that overthrew the Wittelsbach monarchy in Bavaria in...
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| x Erich von Manstein |
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Nov 24, 1887 | Germany |
Erich von Manstein (November 24, 1887 – June 9, 1973) served the German military as a lifelong professional soldier. He became one of the most prominent commanders of Germany's World War II armed forces (Wehrmacht). During World War II he attained...
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| x Friedrich Fromm |
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Oct 8, 1888 | Germany |
Friedrich Fromm (October 8, 1888 – March 12, 1945) was a German army officer.
Fromm was born in Charlottenburg. He served as a lieutenant during World War I.
In World War II Fromm was Commander in Chief of the Replacement Army (Ersatzheer), in...
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| x Tassilo von Heydebrand und der Lasa |
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Oct 17, 1818 | Germany | Writer |
Tassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa (known in English as "Baron von der Lasa", 17 October 1818, Berlin – 27 July 1899, Storchnest near Lissa, Greater Poland, then German Empire) was an important German chess master, chess historian and...
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| x Conrad Veidt |
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Jan 22, 1893 | Germany | Actor |
Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his films roles, such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Casablanca (1942). He also served as inspiration for the supervillain...
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