| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Lord Acton |
Historian |
10-Jan-1834 |
19-Jun-1902 |
British historian |
| Valdas Adamkus |
Head of State |
3-Nov-1926 |
|
President of Lithuania, 2004-09 |
| Walter S. Adams |
Astronomer |
20-Dec-1876 |
11-May-1956 |
Long-time director of Mt. Wilson Observatory |
| Konrad Adenauer |
Politician |
5-Jan-1876 |
19-Apr-1967 |
Chancellor of West Germany, 1949-61 |
| Louis Agassiz |
Paleontologist |
28-May-1807 |
14-Dec-1873 |
Ichthyologist at Harvard |
| Richard V. Allen |
Government |
1-Jan-1936 |
|
Reagan National Security Advisor |
| Hans Bethe |
Physicist |
2-Jul-1906 |
6-Mar-2005 |
Atomic scientist |
| Ludwig Biermann |
Astronomer |
13-Mar-1907 |
12-Jan-1986 |
Solar winds |
| Günter Blobel |
Scientist |
21-May-1936 |
|
Protein signaling in cells |
| Heinrich Bruening |
Head of State |
26-Nov-1885 |
30-Mar-1970 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1930-32 |
| Joseph Campbell |
Author |
26-Mar-1904 |
31-Oct-1987 |
The Power of Myth |
| Walter Christaller |
Scientist |
21-Apr-1893 |
9-Mar-1969 |
Central Place Theory |
| Peter Debye |
Physicist |
24-Mar-1884 |
2-Nov-1966 |
Studied molecular structure, dipoles |
| Paul Peter Ewald |
Physicist |
23-Jan-1888 |
22-Aug-1985 |
X-Ray crystallographer |
| Bernard Fall |
Journalist |
19-Nov-1926 |
21-Feb-1967 |
Scholar of the Vietnam conflict |
| Hans Filbinger |
Politician |
15-Sep-1913 |
1-Apr-2007 |
Disgraced German politician |
| Hans Fischer |
Chemist |
27-Jul-1881 |
31-Mar-1945 |
Synthesized hemin |
| Hans Frank |
Military |
23-May-1900 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Nazi King of Poland |
| Wilhelm Frick |
Government |
12-Mar-1877 |
16-Oct-1946 |
Authored the Nuremberg Laws |
| Erich Fromm |
Psychologist |
23-Mar-1900 |
18-Mar-1980 |
Psychoanalyst, Humanist |
| Naum Gabo |
Sculptor |
5-Aug-1890 |
23-Aug-1977 |
Constructivist, Realistic Manifesto |
| Hans Geiger |
Physicist |
30-Sep-1882 |
24-Sep-1945 |
Co-Inventor of the Geiger Counter |
| Sigfried Giedion |
Critic |
14-Apr-1888 |
10-Apr-1968 |
Space, Time and Architecture |
| Hermann Goering |
Military |
12-Jan-1893 |
15-Oct-1946 |
Founder of the Gestapo |
| Romano Guardini |
Religion |
17-Feb-1885 |
1-Oct-1968 |
Roman Catholic theologian |
| Franz Guertner |
Government |
26-Aug-1881 |
29-Jan-1941 |
Reich Minister of Justice |
| Otto Hahn |
Chemist |
8-Mar-1879 |
28-Jul-1968 |
Demonstrated fission |
| Edith Hamilton |
Educator |
12-Aug-1867 |
31-May-1963 |
The Greek Way |
| Nigel Hamilton |
Author |
16-Feb-1944 |
|
JFK: Reckless Youth |
| Haldan K. Hartline |
Scientist |
22-Dec-1903 |
17-Mar-1983 |
Physiology of the retina |
| Werner Heisenberg |
Physicist |
5-Dec-1901 |
1-Feb-1976 |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
| Gustav Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Jul-1887 |
30-Oct-1975 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Heinrich Hertz |
Physicist |
22-Feb-1857 |
1-Jan-1894 |
Discoverer of electromagnetic radiation |
| Roman Herzog |
Head of State |
5-Apr-1934 |
|
President of Germany, 1994-99 |
| Werner Herzog |
Film Director |
5-Sep-1942 |
|
Fitzcarraldo |
| Rudolf Hess |
Government |
26-Apr-1894 |
17-Aug-1987 |
Deputy Fuhrer flew unauthorized to Scotland |
| Theodor Heuss |
Head of State |
31-Jan-1884 |
12-Dec-1963 |
President of Germany, 1949-59 |
| Felix Hoffmann |
Chemist |
21-Jan-1868 |
8-Feb-1946 |
Aspirin and heroin |
| Scott Horton |
Attorney |
11-Aug-1955 |
|
Human rights attorney |
| Karl Jaspers |
Philosopher |
23-Feb-1883 |
26-Feb-1969 |
Existential thinker |
| Wolfgang Ketterle |
Physicist |
21-Oct-1957 |
|
Bose-Einstein condensates |
| Paul Kollsman |
Inventor |
22-Feb-1900 |
17-Mar-1982 |
Barometric altimeter |
| Alfried Krupp |
Business |
13-Aug-1907 |
30-Jul-1967 |
Nazi munitions maker, convicted war criminal |
| Richard Kuhn |
Chemist |
3-Dec-1900 |
1-Aug-1967 |
Carotenoids, and vitamins B2 and B6 |
| Karl Landsteiner |
Scientist |
14-Jun-1868 |
26-Jun-1943 |
Discovered blood typing |
| Max von Laue |
Physicist |
9-Oct-1879 |
23-Apr-1960 |
X-ray crystallography |
| Kurt Lewin |
Psychologist |
9-Sep-1890 |
12-Feb-1947 |
Field theorist, group dynamicist |
| Otto Loewi |
Scientist |
3-Jun-1873 |
25-Dec-1961 |
Acetylcholine as a neurotransmitter |
| Hendrik Willem van Loon |
Historian |
14-Jan-1882 |
11-Mar-1944 |
Juvenile historian, Story of Mankind |
| Feodor Lynen |
Scientist |
6-Apr-1911 |
6-Aug-1979 |
Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism |
| Klaus J. Mangold |
Business |
6-Jun-1943 |
|
Executive Advisor to Diamler Chrysler |
| Josef Mengele |
Doctor |
16-Mar-1911 |
7-Feb-1979 |
The Angel of Death |
| Paul V. Niemeyer |
Judge |
5-Apr-1941 |
|
4th Circuit Court of Appeals |
| Nam June Paik |
Artist |
20-Jul-1932 |
29-Jan-2006 |
Korean-American video artist |
| Helmut Panke |
Business |
31-Aug-1946 |
|
Chairman of BMW, 2002-06 |
| Erwin Panofsky |
Art Historian |
30-Mar-1892 |
14-Mar-1968 |
Studies in Iconology |
| George Papanicolaou |
Scientist |
13-May-1883 |
19-Feb-1962 |
Pap smear |
| Karolos Papoulias |
Head of State |
4-Jun-1929 |
|
President of Greece |
| Wolfgang Pauli |
Physicist |
25-Apr-1900 |
15-Dec-1958 |
Pauli Exclusion Principle |
| Linus Pauling |
Chemist |
28-Feb-1901 |
19-Aug-1994 |
Scientist and peacenik |
| Rudolf Peierls |
Physicist |
5-Jun-1907 |
19-Sep-1995 |
Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| Max Planck |
Physicist |
23-Apr-1858 |
4-Oct-1947 |
Originator of quantum theory |
| Ludwig Prandtl |
Physicist |
4-Feb-1875 |
15-Aug-1953 |
Father of Aerodynamics |
| Bert Sakmann |
Scientist |
12-Jun-1942 |
|
Cellular ion channels |
| Hjalmar Schacht |
Government |
22-Jan-1877 |
3-Jun-1970 |
Reich Minister of Economics |
| Maximilian Schell |
Actor |
8-Dec-1930 |
1-Feb-2014 |
Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Gershom Scholem |
Historian |
5-Dec-1897 |
21-Feb-1982 |
Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah |
| Karl Schwarzschild |
Astronomer |
9-Oct-1873 |
11-May-1916 |
Black holes, Schwarzschild radius |
| Wilfrid Sellars |
Philosopher |
20-May-1912 |
2-Jul-1989 |
Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind |
| Hans Spemann |
Scientist |
27-Jun-1869 |
9-Sep-1941 |
Experimental embryology |
| Oswald Spengler |
Historian |
29-May-1880 |
8-May-1936 |
The Decline of the West |
| Wendell M. Stanley |
Chemist |
16-Aug-1904 |
15-Jun-1971 |
First to crystallize a virus |
| Johannes Stark |
Physicist |
15-Apr-1874 |
21-Jun-1957 |
Discovered the Stark Effect |
| Hermann Staudinger |
Chemist |
23-Mar-1881 |
8-Sep-1965 |
Macromolecular chemistry |
| Otto Stern |
Physicist |
17-Feb-1888 |
17-Aug-1969 |
Molecular beam experiment |
| Marie Stopes |
Scientist |
15-Oct-1880 |
2-Oct-1958 |
Scientist and birth control advocate |
| Richard Strauss |
Composer |
11-Jun-1864 |
8-Sep-1949 |
Also sprach Zarathustra |
| Patrick Süskind |
Author |
26-Mar-1949 |
|
Perfume, The Story of a Murderer |
| Georg von Hertling |
Head of State |
31-Aug-1843 |
4-Jan-1919 |
German Chancellor 1917-18 |
| Baldur von Schirach |
Government |
9-Mar-1907 |
8-Aug-1974 |
Hitler-Jugend, Gauleiter of Vienna |
| Henry C. Wallich |
Economist |
10-Jun-1914 |
16-Sep-1988 |
Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| August von Wassermann |
Biologist |
21-Feb-1866 |
16-Mar-1925 |
Syphilis test |
| Heinrich Wieland |
Chemist |
4-Jun-1877 |
5-Aug-1957 |
Studied acids of bile |
| Richard Willstätter |
Chemist |
13-Aug-1872 |
3-Aug-1942 |
Plant pigments |
| Manfred Wörner |
Diplomat |
24-Sep-1934 |
13-Aug-1994 |
NATO Secretary General, 1988-94 |
| Richard Zsigmondy |
Chemist |
1-Apr-1865 |
23-Sep-1929 |
Ultramicroscope |
