* Karl von Marinelli becomes head of the Schultz theatre company (" Schultzsche Gesellschaft ") of Baden.

* January 28 – Karl von Marinelli, theatre manager ( born 1745 )

* 1960 – Justus von Dohnányi, German actor

* 1957 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian director and actor ( b. 1885 )

* May 12 – Erich von Stroheim, Austrian actor and director ( b. 1885 )

* April 10 – Max von Sydow, Swedish actor

* October 3 – Erik von Detten, American actor

* November 21 – Harry von Zell, American actor ( b. 1906 )

Holst's mother, Clara Cox von Holst ( née Lediard ), who died in 1882, was a singer and pianist who bore two sons, Gustav and Emil Gottfried ( who later became Ernest Cossart, a film actor in Hollywood ).

Gedeon Burkhard was born in Munich, Germany, the son of German actress Elisabeth von Molo ( then Burkhard ) and Wolfgang Burkhard, a great-grandson of Alexander Moissi, a famous Italo-Austro-Albanian actor of the 20th century.

: Erich von Stroheim's appearance as von Rauffenstein reminds us again of Hollywood's folly in permitting so fine an actor to remain idle and unwanted.

Max von Sydow (; Swedish: ; born 10 April 1929 ) is a Swedish actor, born in Sweden and now holds dual Swedish and French citizenship.

The novelist Theodor Fontane, the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the lieutenant colonel Otto Friedrich Ferdinand von Görschen, the general Hermann Hoth, the serial killer Karl Großmann and the actor Klaus Schwarzkopf were born in Neuruppin.

* Theodore von Eltz, actor

* Gustav von Seyffertitz, actor

Bernhard Victor Christoph Carl von Bülow ( short: Vicco von Bülow, 12 November 1923, Brandenburg an der Havel – 22 August 2011, Ammerland at Lake Starnberg ), more commonly known under the pseudonym Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.

It is left to the film's other main actor, Gustav von Wangenheim ( Eddie Izzard ) to explain to them that the mysterious lead is apparently an obscure German theater performer named Max Schreck ( Willem Dafoe ), who, according to Murnau, is a highly professional character actor.

He is perhaps best known as an actor for his role as von Rauffenstein in Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion ( 1937 ) and as Max von Mayerling in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ( 1950 ).

Schlöndorff then adapted Bertolt Brecht's first play Baal for television and cast an little-known actor named Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the lead role, along with Margarethe von Trotta, whom he would marry the following year.

An episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies entitled " The Exterminator " has a tribute to Lon Chaney as mysterious master of disguise actor " Lorne Chumley " and his butler " Otto " ( as a tribute to Erich von Stroheim ).

Stevens cast Swedish actor Max von Sydow as Jesus.

* Vicco von Bülow, German humorist, graphic artist, director, actor and writer

Gradually losing his Catholic faith, he studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on a minor 19th century romantic dramatist, Wilhelm von Schütz.

* 1761 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist and author ( d. 1819 )

** Heinrich von Kleist, German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer ( d. 1811 )

* May 3 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist ( d. 1819 )

As a sign of the popularity of the naming scheme, the German dramatist and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe composed four poems about clouds, dedicating them to Howard.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929 ), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Only one year after the inception of the Rhein University the dramatist August von Kotzebue was murdered by Karl Ludwig Sand, a student at the University of Jena.

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (; – ) was a German dramatist and author who also worked as a consul in Russia.

* December 9-Ödön von Horváth, dramatist and novelist ( died 1938 )

* February 12-Karl Eduard von Holtei, poet and dramatist ( born 1798 )

* March 23-August von Kotzebue, German dramatist ( born 1761 )

* May 3-August von Kotzebue, German dramatist ( died 1819 )

At the close of the war in 1918, the festival's revival was championed by five men now regarded as the founders: the poet and dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the composer Richard Strauss, the scenic designer Alfred Roller, the conductor Franz Schalk, and the director Max Reinhardt, then intendant of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, who had produced the first performance of Hofmannsthal's Jedermann at the Berlin Zirkus Schumann arena in 1911.

* Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen ( 1806-1871 ), known als Friedrich Halm, Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer

* Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, Austrian dramatist, poet and short-story writer

* August von Kotzebue, dramatist

* Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz ( 1790 – 1862 ), Austrian dramatist and epic poet

In 1986 he installed House of Goethe, a large piece that is a tribute to the German poet and dramatist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in the city of Frankfurt.

His eldest son, Alois Friedrich von Brühl, was also a Saxon politician, and a soldier and dramatist as well.

Eduard von Bauernfeld ( January 13, 1802 – August 9, 1890 ), Austrian dramatist, was born at Vienna.

Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List ( October 5, 1848 – May 17, 1919 ) was an Austrian / German ( Viennese ) poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and völkisch author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic revivalism, Germanic mysticism, Runic Revivalism and Runosophy in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and continues to be so today.

* Ernst von Wildenbruch ( 1845 – 1909 ), poet and dramatist

* Sir Peter Ustinov, born Peter Alexander von Ustinov, actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur.

Agitation by student organizations led such conservative leaders as Klemens Wenzel, Prince von Metternich, to fear the rise of national sentiment ; the assassination of German dramatist August von Kotzebue in March 1819 by a radical student seeking unification was followed on 20 September 1819 by the proclamation of the Carlsbad Decrees, which hampered intellectual leadership of the nationalist movement.