** 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 ).

** 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.

** 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 )

** Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker.

** Eva Braun, German wife of Adolf Hitler ( suicide ) ( b. 1912 )

** Rocko Schamoni, German entertainer, author, musician, club proprietor and member of the comedy ensemble Studio Braun

** reserve artillery under Braun.

** Wilkes & Braun ( art director ) for Tommy ( rock opera ) ( 1972 orchestral version ) performed by the London Symphony Orchestra & Choir

** 1st Bob Wehman and Louis Braun, USA

** Carol Moseley Braun ( D ) ( inc .), 47. 44 %

** Physics-Guglielmo Marconi, Karl Ferdinand Braun

** 68th Infantry Division-Commanded by General Georg Braun.

** Carol Moseley Braun ( D ), 38. 30 %

** World heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis retires.

** Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving The Mother to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India.

** Lord Salisbury retires as British prime minister.

** The RAF retires its last Lancaster bomber.

** Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of Australia when Robert Menzies retires.

** General Rahimuddin Khan retires from the Pakistan Army, along with the cabinet of the country's military dictatorship.

** Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.

** His interim chancellor and effective regent, Walter de Merton retires from royal service to make the final revisions to his statutes for the foundation of Merton College, Oxford and take up the post of Bishop of Rochester.

** 1955 — retires

** Michel de Montaigne retires from public life and isolates himself in the tower of the Château de Montaigne.

** July, Chief Sarcillos Largos retires and Manuelito was elected to speak for the Navajos.

** Jacques Faizant, cartoonist on Le Figaro, retires.

** Edward I denies his claim to the throne and he retires to his estates in Essex.