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Hamburg, Germany
LOCATION
Official Website:
http://www.hamburg.de/ Population:
1,800,000 SCHOOLS
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
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| Sig Arno |
Actor |
27-Dec-1895 |
17-Aug-1975 |
The Palm Beach Story |
| Peter Behrens |
Architect |
14-Apr-1868 |
27-Feb-1940 |
Invented corporate identity |
| John Brahm |
Film Director |
17-Aug-1893 |
12-Oct-1982 |
The Lodger |
| Johannes Brahms |
Composer |
7-May-1833 |
3-Apr-1897 |
Ein deutsches Requiem |
| Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
| Otto Diels |
Chemist |
23-Jan-1876 |
7-Mar-1954 |
Diels-Alder Reaction |
| Johann Franz Encke |
Astronomer |
23-Sep-1791 |
26-Aug-1865 |
Investigated comets and asteroids |
| James Franck |
Physicist |
26-Aug-1882 |
21-May-1964 |
Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
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Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
| Helmut Griem |
Actor |
6-Apr-1932 |
19-Nov-2004 |
Cabaret |
| Friedrich von Hagedorn |
Poet |
23-Apr-1708 |
28-Oct-1754 |
German Anacreontic poet |
| 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 |
| Gerhard Herzberg |
Chemist |
25-Dec-1904 |
3-Mar-1999 |
Molecular spectroscopy |
| Luc Holste |
Scholar |
27-Sep-1596 |
2-Feb-1661 |
German humanist and librarian |
| J. Hans D. Jensen |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1907 |
11-Feb-1973 |
Shell nuclear model |
| Dagmar Krause |
Singer |
4-Jun-1950 |
|
Slapp Happy, Henry Cow |
| Karl Lagerfeld |
Fashion Designer |
10-Sep-1938 |
|
Chanel, Lagerfeld |
| Felix Mendelssohn |
Composer |
3-Feb-1809 |
4-Nov-1847 |
Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Angela Merkel |
Politician |
17-Jul-1954 |
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Chancellor of Germany |
| Brigitte Mira |
Actor |
20-Apr-1910 |
8-Mar-2005 |
Fassbinder actress |
| Lisel Mueller |
Poet |
8-Feb-1924 |
|
The Need to Hold Still |
| Johann Christian Poggendorff |
Physicist |
29-Dec-1796 |
24-Jan-1877 |
Annalen der Physik und Chemie |
| Sig Ruman |
Actor |
11-Oct-1884 |
14-Feb-1967 |
Stalag 17 |
| Helmut Schmidt |
Head of State |
23-Dec-1918 |
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Chancellor of Germany, 1974-82 |
| Douglas Sirk |
Film Director |
26-Apr-1897 |
14-Jan-1987 |
Written on the Wind |
| Jürgen Vogel |
Actor |
29-Apr-1968 |
|
Life Is All You Get |
| Carl von Ossietzky |
Activist |
3-Oct-1889 |
4-May-1938 |
German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
DEATHS
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