** Friedrich Blass, Teubner edition of the Greek text ( 1908 ) online

** Friedrich Blass, Die attische Beredsamkeit, part 2 ( 1892 ) online, pp. 345 – 363

** Friedrich Pollock –

** Der Messias by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock ( 1773 )

** Kalevipoeg by Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald ( 1853 Estonian mythology )

** Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1884 )

** Austrian-born economist Friedrich Hayek publishes his book The Road to Serfdom ( in London ).

** Friedrich Ebert is elected first President of Germany.

** Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1914 )

** Friedrich List, German journalist ( d. 1846 )

** Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss writer ( died 1990 )

** Adolf Friedrich VI, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ( d. 1918 )

** Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1949 )

** Friedrich von Ingenohl, German admiral ( b. 1857 )

** Friedrich von Flotow, German composer ( d. 1883 )

** Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier ( b. 1738 )

** Friedrich Breckling, Swiss mystic ( d. 1711 ).

** Friedrich von Wallenrode, komtur of Ryna ( in battle )

** Friedrich Ludwig Persius, architect ( b. 1803 )

** Carl Friedrich Zelter, German composer ( d. 1832 )

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

** Friedrich Baumfelder, German composer, conductor, and pianist ( d. 1916 )

** Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, French poet ( d. 1843 )

** Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar ( d. 1596 )

** 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.

** Abwehr conspirators Wilhelm Canaris, Hans Oster and Hans Dohanyi are hanged at Flossenberg concentration camp, along with pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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

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

** 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 )