** 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 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 )

** ( formerly SS Sgt.

** ( formerly SS PFC Eugene A. Obregon, SS Thomas Heywood )

** ( formerly SS Maj. Stephen W. Pless, SS Charles Carroll )

** The Cathedral of SS.

** Former SS Captain Erich Priebke is retried ; on July 22 he is sentenced to 5 years in prison.

** The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port Chicago naval base ; 320 are killed.

** Resistance fighters ambush and attempt to execute SS general Hanns Albin Rauter, the arch-persecutor of the Dutch.

** Eduard Wirths, German doctor, chief SS doctor at Auschwitz concentration camp ( suicide ) ( b. 1909 )

** The SS Sussex is torpedoed, resulting in the Sussex pledge.

** The-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board ( an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot ).

** The first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia arrives in London aboard the SS Strathleven.

** The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes a national camp, taken over by the SS.

** 16 October: Sailed for Europe on board the Dutch packet SS Vlydte

** Acta SS.

** SS, a common naming prefix for any Merchant vessel

** SS, a Ship prefix identifying a ship's propulsion as steam powered

** SS San Mateo

** SS Shasta

** The SS Atlantic is wrecked off Peggys Cove

** Community building turned into a pig slaughterhouse by the SS, with Jewish gravestones from the Konskie Jewish cemetery

** 88th Oak Leaves on 20 April 1942 as SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS and commander of SS -" Totenkopf " Division

** 7. 92 mm Solothurn M SS 41