** Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist ( b. 1888 )

** Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer

** Ernst Messerschmid, German physicist and astronaut

** Ernst Kaltenbrunner, German Nazi Police General ( b. 1903 )

** Ernst Wetter, Swiss Federal Councillor ( b. 1877 )

** Ernst Neubach, Austrian screenwriter, producer, and director ( d. 1968 )

** Ernst Mahle, Brazilian composer

** Ernst Heinkel, German aircraft designer ( d. 1958 )

** Ernst Wetter, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1963 )

** Ernst Pepping, German composer ( b. 1901 )

** Ernst Hanfstängl, German-born pianist and U. S. politician ( d. 1975 )

** Ernst von Hoeppner, German cavalry officer ( d. 1922 )

** Finnish Minister of the Interior Heikki Ritavuori is assassinated by Ernst Tandefelt.

** Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and mineralogist ( d. 1889 )

** Karl Ernst, Nazi SA leader in Berlin ( b. 1904 )

** Ernst von Siemens ( 1903, Kingston upon Thames-1990 ), nephew of Werner von Siemens

** Ernst & Lyset — Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen

** Excelsior Hotel Ernst, Cologne ( est.

** Ernst Toch's Third Symphony is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music.

** Ernst Pauer, pianist ( b. 1826 )

** Pair skating champion: Maxi Herber & Ernst Baier, Germany

** 1923: new version as opera libretto ; music by Ernst Krenek.

** Slalom: Ernst Hinterseer, Austria

** F. Stieve, Ernst von Mansfeld ( Munich, 1890 )

** edited by Leonhard von Spengel, with commentary in Latin, Leipzig, 1847 ( online )

** Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach-( Middle High German )

** Hermann and Dorothea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1797 )

** Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( part 1 1806, part 2 c. 1833 )

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

** the King of Bohemia ( král český, König von Böhmen )

** the Margrave of Brandenburg ( Markgraf von Brandenburg )

** the Duke of Saxony ( Herzog von Sachsen )

** Die Witwe von Ephesus

** K. G. von Wächter, Beiträge zur deutschen Geschichte, insbesondere des deutschen Strafrechts ( Tübingen, 1845 )

** Max Ritter von Müller, German World War I fighter ace ( b. 1887 )

** Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

** Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor ( d. 1989 )

** John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician ( b. 1903 )

** Claus von Bülow, British socialite

** In a response to Georges Bonnet's speech of January 26, German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, referring to Bonnet's alleged statement of December 6, 1938 accepting Eastern Europe as being in Germany's exclusive sphere of influence, protests that all French security commitments in that region are " now off limits ".

** German surrender of Paris: General Dietrich von Choltitz surrenders Paris to the Allies in defiance of Hitler ’ s orders to destroy it.

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

** Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to U. S. forces ( later going on to help to start the U. S. space program ).

** Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

** Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( b. 1893 )

** Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter ( b. 1906 )

** John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician ( d. 1957 )

** Franz von Hipper, German admiral ( d. 1932 )

** Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American engineer and physicist ( b. 1881 )