** 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 )

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

** 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 )

** 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 )