* 1700 – Heinrich von Brühl, German statesman ( d. 1763 )

* 1798 – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet ( d. 1874 )

* 1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman ( d. 1845 )

), Moritz Count von Dietrichstein, Heinrich Eduard Josef Baron von Lannoy, Ignaz Franz Baron von Mosel, Carl Czerny, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, and the eight-year-old Franz Liszt ( although it seems Liszt was not invited personally, but his teacher Czerny arranged for him to be involved ).

* Karl Heinrich von Weizsäcker, Das apostolische Zeitalter ( 1886 )

Heinrich Johann Nepomuk von Crantz | Crantz's Classis cruciformium, 1769

* 1261 – 1278: Heinrich I von Osthenen ( or Ostheeren )

* 1393 – 1406: Heinrich III von Bodendiek ( or Bodendieck )

In 1225 – 1226 the Bridge over the Rhine was constructed by Bishop Heinrich von Thun and lesser Basel ( Kleinbasel ) founded as a bridgehead to protect the bridge.

After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

Two individuals gave eulogies at his funeral: Gauss's son-in-law Heinrich Ewald and Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, who was Gauss's close friend and biographer.

In 1841, the German linguist and poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote the lyrics of " Das Lied der Deutschen " to Haydn's melody, lyrics that were considered revolutionary at the time.

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841

August Heinrich Hoffmann ( who called himself Hoffmann von Fallersleben after his home town to distinguish himself from others with the same common name of " Hoffmann ") wrote the text in 1841 on vacation on the North Sea island Heligoland, then a possession of the United Kingdom.

* 1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian ( d. 1895 )

The theme survives into medieval legend and folklore, with dragon slayers such as Beowulf, Sigurd, Tristan, Margaret the Virgin, Heinrich von Winkelried, Dobrynya Nikitich, Skuba Dratewka / Krakus.

Heinrich von Winkelried dies after the blood of the dragon slain by him accidentally drips on him.

A notable example is Heinrich von Kleist's classic novella, The Earthquake in Chile, which describes the destruction of Santiago in 1647.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Also Lord Chesterfield, Thomas Gray, George Lyttelton, Thomas Hollis, Metastasio, Benedict XIV and Heinrich von Brühl were among his correspondents

The other early authors and works included Christian Heinrich Spiess, with his works Das Petermännchen ( 1793 ), Der alte Überall and Nirgends ( 1792 ), Die Löwenritter ( 1794 ), and Hans Heiling, vierter und letzter Regent der Erd-Luft-Feuer-und Wasser-Geister ( 1798 ), Heinrich von Kleist's short story Das Bettelweib von Locarno ( 1797 ) and Ludwig Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert ( 1797 ), Der Runenberg ( 1804 ).

* 1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist ( d. 1964 )

* 1888 – Heinrich Schlusnus, German singer ( d. 1952 )

* 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied-Crete.

* Heinrich Schütz ( 1585 – 1672 ) composed " Fili mi, Absalon " as part of his Sinfoniae Sacrae, op. 6

* 1644 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Bohemian composer ( d. 1704 )

* 1647 – Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer ( d. 1719 )

* 1921 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza ( d. 2002 )

Auschwitz II – Birkenau was designated by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the " final solution of the Jewish question in Europe ".

* 1929 – Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia ( b. 1862 )

* 2002 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector ( b. 1921 )

** 1802 – 1803 Johann Heinrich Rothpletz ( b. 1766 – d. 1833 )

* 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer ( d. 1727 )

# Heinrich V " der Fromme " ( b. Dresden, 16 March 1473 – d. Dresden, 18 August 1541 ).

* 1324 – 1327: Heinrich II Count of Barby, not enthroned

* 2005 – Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician ( b. 1914 )

* 1942 – Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

* 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.

* Heinrich of Wartenberg ( 1272 – 1274 ) Anti-Abbot

* Erlung von Calw 1106 – 1121

To atone for her father and husband, Berta von Iringsburg and her sons Otto and Eberhard founded an Augustine monastery in 1121, which is now in the hands of the Salesians of Don Bosco.