** Wilhelm Canaris, head of the German Abwehr ( hanged ) ( b. 1887 )

** Die Sturmgesellen: Ein Wort zur Abwehr (" Stormfellows: a Defence ", essay, 1903 )

** Vice president ( since 1992 ): Wilhelm von Gottberg

** Wilhelm Kroft -

** 111. roentgenium, Rg, named after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, discoverer of X-rays ( 1994 ).

** Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates and chooses to live in exile in the Netherlands.

** Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia ( b. 1882 )

** Alexander Marinesko, captain of the S-13 submarine which sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustloff with 10, 000 casualties ( d. 1963 )

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** U. S. Ordnance troops find the coffins of Frederick Wilhelm I, Frederick the Great, Paul von Hindenburg, and his wife.

** Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader of Nazi-occupied Norway ( suicide ) ( b. 1900 )

** Wilhelm Frick, German Nazi Minister of the Interior ( b. 1877 )

** Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi Generalfeldmarschall ( b. 1882 )

** Wilhelm Beiglböck, German Nazi physician at Dachau concentration camp ( b. 1905 )

** Wilhelm Miklas, Austrian politician and 3rd President of Austria

** Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal ( b. 1876 )

** The World War I Allies demand that the Netherlands extradite the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has fled there.

** Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist ( d. 1991 )

** Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist ( b. 1895 )

** In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82, 856 Jews ( including Anne Frank ) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands.

** Wilhelm Kinsky, Bohemian nobleman ( d. 1634 )

** Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence in World War II ( d. 1945 )

** Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist ( d. 1969 )

** Wilhelm Cuno, Chancellor of Germany ( b. 1876 )

** Wilhelmine of Bayreuth, daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia ( b. 1709 )

** Double virginal by Hans Ruckers, Antwerp, 1581

** Der Mann, der vom Tode auferstand ( unfinished ; completed by Günter Bialas and Hans Werner Henze )

** 31 July 1945 – 8 June 1946: Hans Neureuther, Non-party

** Hans Reinowski, German politician ( b. 1900 )

** Hans Jonas, German philosopher ( b. 1903 )

** Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister ( d. 2010 )

** Hans Werner Henze, German composer

** Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian composer ( died 1972 )

** Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1881 )

** Hans Vonk, Dutch conductor

** Hans Scholl, German White Rose resistance member ( executed ) ( b. 1918 )

** Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland ( b. 1900 )

** Hans List, Austrian inventor and automotive pioneer ( b. 1896 )

** Hans Redlich, Austrian composer ( d. 1968 )

** Hans Bethe, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 2005 )

** Hans Richter, German artist ( b. 1888 )

** Hans Pflügler, German footballer

** Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist

** Hans List, Austrian founder of the AVL List ( d. 1996 )

** Hans Küng, Swiss Catholic theologian

** Hans Blix, Swedish diplomat and politician

** Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Dutch Superior General of the Society of Jesus, the largest male religious order of the Catholic Church

** Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist ( d. 1997 )