* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )

* Jakob Jonas ( 1500 – 1558 ): German philologist, jurist, politician and diplomat

In a February 26, 1942, letter to German diplomat Martin Luther ( diplomat ) | Martin Luther, Reinhard Heydrich follows up on the Wannsee Conference by asking Luther for administrative assistance in the implementation of the " Endlösung der Judenfrage " ( Final Solution to the Jewish Question ).

* 1663 – Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat ( b. 1603 )

* 1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat ( d. 1821 )

* 1873 – Konstantin von Neurath, German diplomat and statesman ( d. 1956 )

When he heard about the expulsion of his family to Poland, he drove to the German embassy and killed the German diplomat Eduard Ernst vom Rath.

In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.

One German diplomat later recalled that " Ribbentrop didn't understand anything about foreign policy.

Another German diplomat commented that Ribbentrop had the strange idea to " conduct international relations through aristocrats ".

Yet another German diplomat noted that, " He did not have the capacity to form an overview ; to see things in perspective.

One German diplomat, Herbert Richter, called Ribbentrop " lazy and worthless " while another, Manfred von Schröder, was quoted as saying Ribbentrop was " vain and ambitious ".

* Walther Hewel: German diplomat

So, that day, German diplomat Hans von Herwarth, whose grandmother was Jewish, informed Guido Relli, an Italian diplomat, and American chargé d ' affaires Charles Bohlen on the secret protocol regarding vital interests in the countries ' allotted " spheres of influence ", without revealing the annexation rights for " territorial and political rearrangement ".

* 1938 – Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.

The OSS also recruited and ran one of the war's most important spies, the German diplomat Fritz Kolbe.

In his early career in the Church Julius established a reputation as an effective and trustworthy diplomat, and was elected to the Papacy as a compromise candidate when the Papal Conclave found itself deadlocked between the rival French and German factions.

On the following day, 31 July 1944, in view of the likely invasion by German forces, the state sent three letters of protest: one to Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, one to Adolf Hitler and one to Benito Mussolini, the latter delivered by a delegation to Serafino Mazzolini, a high-ranking diplomat in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

* Heinrich von Siebold, ( 1852-1908 ), German diplomat and anthropologist

* 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker ( d. 1853 )

* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

* 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister ( d. 1946 )

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

* 1815 – Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer ( d. 1894 )

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany | German artist known for his works of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, visual arts, and science.

* 1839 – Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist ( b. 1763 )

* 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.

* 1881 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal ( d. 1954 )

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

* 1840 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German psychologist ( d. 1902 )

* Adrian von Mynsicht ( 1603 – 1638 ), German alchemist

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

* 1895 – German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his Navigable Balloon.

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

* 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and scientist ( d. 1832 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

* 1489 – Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer ( d. 1553 )

* 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as " The Red Baron ", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

* 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot ( b. 1892 )