| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
| Gerd Albrecht |
Conductor |
19-Jun-1935 |
2-Feb-2014 |
Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, 1998-2007 |
| Gordon W. Allport |
Psychologist |
11-Nov-1897 |
9-Oct-1967 |
Personality: A Psychological Interpretation |
| J. Michael Bishop |
Scientist |
22-Feb-1936 |
|
Genetic causes of cancer |
| Roland W. Burris |
Politician |
8-Aug-1937 |
|
US Senator from Illinois, 2009-10 |
| Karl Carstens |
Head of State |
14-Dec-1914 |
30-May-1992 |
President of Germany, 1979-84 |
| Gerhard Casper |
Educator |
25-Dec-1937 |
|
President of Stanford University, 1992-2000 |
| Peter Coym |
Business |
c. 1942 |
|
Lehman Brothers Germany |
| Otto Robert Frisch |
Physicist |
1-Oct-1904 |
22-Sep-1979 |
Described fission |
| Michael S. Greve |
Activist |
c. 1958 |
|
Co-Founder, Center for Individual Rights |
| Arvid Harnack |
Spy |
24-May-1901 |
22-Dec-1942 |
Hanged by the Nazis for espionage |
| Harald zur Hausen |
Scientist |
11-Mar-1936 |
|
Papilloma virus |
| J. Hans D. Jensen |
Physicist |
25-Jun-1907 |
11-Feb-1973 |
Shell nuclear model |
| Hans Krebs |
Scientist |
25-Apr-1900 |
22-Nov-1981 |
Tricarboxylic acid cycle |
| Siegfried Lenz |
Novelist |
17-Mar-1926 |
7-Oct-2014 |
Deutschstunde |
| William A. Rugh |
Diplomat |
10-May-1936 |
|
US Ambassador to Yemen, 1984-87 |
| Wolfgang Schäuble |
Politician |
18-Sep-1942 |
|
CDU Chairman, 1998-2000 |
| Helmut Schmidt |
Head of State |
23-Dec-1918 |
10-Nov-2015 |
Chancellor of Germany, 1974-82 |
| Emilio Segrè |
Physicist |
30-Jan-1905 |
22-Apr-1989 |
Co-Discoverer of the antiproton |
| Richard Sorge |
Spy |
4-Oct-1895 |
7-Nov-1944 |
Warned Stalin of Operation Barbarossa |
| Leo Strauss |
Philosopher |
20-Sep-1899 |
18-Oct-1973 |
Patron saint of Neoconservatism |
| Peter Struck |
Government |
24-Jan-1943 |
19-Dec-2012 |
German Defense Minister, 2002-05 |
| Albert Szent-Györgyi |
Scientist |
16-Sep-1893 |
22-Oct-1986 |
Vitamins C and B2 |
| Samuel C. C. Ting |
Physicist |
27-Jan-1936 |
|
Co-Discoverer of J/psi meson |
| Max Zorn |
Mathematician |
6-Jun-1906 |
9-Mar-1993 |
Zorn's Lemma |