* August 1 – Eighty Years ' War: Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz retakes Oldenzaal, forcing Spain to withdraw from Overijssel.

Frederick Henry of Orange | Frederick Henry and his cousin Ernst Casimir at the Siege of's-Hertogenbosch.

He knew he was cut off from his base ; so he ordered his cousin Ernst Casimir ( Ernst Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz ) with a force to delay the advancing Spanish while he was bringing the best part of the army to cross again the Yser and rejoin the rest of the army to face the Archduke.

Ernst Casimir was ordered to seize the Leffinghen bridge, he commanded the Edmonds regiment ( Scottish ) and the Van der Noot regiment ( Dutch ) together with four cornets of cavalry and 2 guns, but when he arrived he found that the enemy was already in possession of it.

: Ernst Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz Regiment ( German, lieutenant-colonel Huysmann in command )

* Prince William Alexander Ernst Frederick Casimir of the Netherlands Dutch: Willem Alexander Ernst Frederik Casimir ( Brussels ( per one source ) or Soestdijk Palace ( per another ), 21 May 1822 – Brussels, 22 October 1822 ).

* 29 March 1712 – Tolerance Act of Ernst Casimir in Büdingen.

This enabled the new stadtholder of Friesland and Groningen, Ernst Casimir, to recapture Oldenzaal, forcing the Spanish troops to evacuate Overijssel.

Frederick Henry and Ernst Casimir at the siege of ' sHertogenbosch by Pauwels van Hillegaert

When Casimir died in 1633, his brother Ernst of Saxe-Eisenach ruled in personal union over Saxe-Coburg until his death in 1638.

# Count Ernst Casimir of Nassau-Dietz ( 22 December 1573 – 2 June 1632 )

* Ernst Casimir van Nassau-Dietz, ancestor of Kings of the Netherlands

* Ernst Casimir, was count of Nassau-Dietz and Stadtholder of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe.

In 1840, Graf Ernst Casimir III was promoted by a decree of the grand duchy to the status of hereditary prince.

In 1712 Graf Ernst Casimir I issued an edict of tolerance permitting religious dissenters to settle in Büdingen.

His own pupils included Franz von Suppé, Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Joseph Fischhof and Eduard Marxsen.

* July 20 – Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Governor of the Netherlands

Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( Heinrich Wladimir Albrecht Ernst ; 19 April 1876 – 3 July 1934 ), later Prince Henry of the Netherlands, was prince consort of the Netherlands as the husband of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands.

It is no coincidence that Ernst Happel, a talented Austrian player in the 1940s and 1950s, was coach in the Netherlands in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

T. p. clarkei, described by German zoologist Ernst Hartert in 1909, and named for William Eagle Clarke, breeds in the rest of Great Britain and Ireland and on mainland Europe in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and possibly somewhat further east.

After the death of Archduke Ernst in 1595, Albert was sent to Brussels to succeed his elder brother as Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands.

In 1918 the younger Duke Ernst August abdicated his throne along with the other German princes when all the German dynasties were disestablished by the successor German provisional Government which was established when the Emperor himself abdicated and fled Germany in exile to the Netherlands.

The other payload specialists on the flight were Ernst Messerschmid and Wubbo Ockels ( Netherlands ).

As a grandson of Queen Victoria, the Duke was a first cousin of King George V of Great Britain and Ireland, Emperor of India, as well as being a first cousin to the following European Royals: Queen Maud of Norway, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Empress Alexandra of Russia, Queen Marie of the Romanians, Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden, Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain, Queen Sophia of the Hellenes, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( the last two through his mother ).

In the 1978 FIFA World Cup tournament in Argentina, the Netherlands again reached the final, but this time without Cruijff ( who decided to retire from international football ) and under the guidance of Ernst Happel rather than Michels.

* Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort ( 1517 – 1604 ), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands

* Ernst Herzog von Bayern † ( 7 Mar 1573 Appointed-17 Feb 1612 Died )

* 1877 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss politician ( d. 1963 )

* 1882 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor ( d. 1971 )

* 1976 – Max Ernst, German artist ( b. 1891 )

* 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer ( d. 2000 )

* 1971 – Ernst Eklund, Swedish actor ( b. 1882 )

* 1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician ( d. 1944 )

* 1882 – The " Elektromote " – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin.

* 1933 – Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate

Some early scientists such as Georg Ernst Stahl ( 1659-1734 ) and Francisque Bouillier ( 1813 – 1899 ) had supported a form of animism which life and mind, the directive principle in evolution and growth, holding that all cannot be traced back to chemical and mechanical processes, but that there is a directive force which guides energy without altering its amount.

* 1760 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Liegnitz – Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.

* 1900 – Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer ( d. 1991 )

* 1953 – Ernst Savkovic, German footballer

* 1891 – Max Ernst, German painter ( d. 1976 )

* 1873 – Ernst Reckeweg, American gymnast ( death date unknown )

* 1874 – Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author ( d. 1941 )

* 1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist ( d. 1956 )

* 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist ( d. 1952 )

* 1963 – Ernst Wetter, Swiss jurist ( b. 1877 )

It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.

* 1900 – Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* 1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist ( b. 1804 )

In 1899, the memorial, by the Berlin sculptor Ernst Gustav Herter ( 1846 – 1917 ), finally came to rest, although subject to repeated vandalism, in the Bronx, at 164th Street and the Grand Concourse, or Joyce Kilmer Park near today's Yankee Stadium.