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

* 1869 – Hans Poelzig, German architect, painter, and set designer ( d. 1936 )

* 1867 – Emil Nolde, German painter ( d. 1956 )

* 1646 – Godfrey Kneller, German painter ( d. 1723 )

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

The design is based upon a German war bonds poster by Fritz Erler ( painter ) | Fritz Erler.

Albrecht Dürer (; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528 ) was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg.

Albrecht Altdorfer ( c. 1480-February 12, 1538 ) was a German painter, engraver and architect of the Renaissance working in Regensburg.

In 1919 Swiss painter Johannes Itten, German-American painter Lyonel Feininger, and German sculptor Gerhard Marcks, along with Gropius, comprised the faculty of the Bauhaus.

By the following year their ranks had grown to include German painter, sculptor and designer Oskar Schlemmer who headed the theater workshop, and Swiss painter Paul Klee, joined in 1922 by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

In 1865, the German painter, author and caricaturist Wilhelm Busch created the strip Max and Moritz, about two trouble-making boys, which had a direct influence on the American comic strip.

Christoph Ludwig Agricola ( November 5, 1667 – August 8, 1719 ) was a German landscape painter.

* 1815 – Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist ( d. 1905 )

* 1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist ( d. 1969 )

* 1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter ( d. 1976 )

* 1836 – Franz von Lenbach, German painter ( d. 1904 )

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

* 1877 – Gabriele Münter, German painter ( d. 1962 )

* 1901 – Edgar Ende, German painter ( d. 1965 )

* 1772 – Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter ( d. 1832 )

* 1808 – Carl Spitzweg, German painter ( d. 1885 )

* 1730 – Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher ( d. 1788 )

* 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher ( d. 1831 )

* 1917 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician ( b. 1849 )

The term Animism appears to have been first developed as animismus by German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl, circa 1720, to refer to the " doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul.

* Georg Christian Lehms, Des israelitischen Printzens Absolons und seiner Prinzcessin Schwester Thamar Staats-Lebens-und Helden-Geschichte (' The Heroic Life and History of the Israelite Prince Absolom and his Princess Sister Tamar '), novel in German published in Nuremberg, 1710

* 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician ( d. 1946 )

His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.

* 1502 – Georg Major, German theologian ( d. 1574 )

The story of Ulysses and Circe was retold as an episode in Georg Rollenhagen's German verse epic, Froschmeuseler ( The frogs and mice, Magdeburg, 1595 ).

It was discovered in 1874 by Henry John Stephen Smith and introduced by German mathematician Georg Cantor in 1883.

* 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )

* 1893 – Georg August Rudolph, German politician ( b. 1816 )

Yet, at the 5th Congress of the Communist International ( July 1924 ), Grigory Zinoviev formally denounced Georg Lukács's heterodox definition of orthodox Marxism as exclusively derived from fidelity to the " Marxist method ", and not to Communist party dogmas ; and denounced the Marxism developments of the German theorist Karl Korsch.

In 1827, the German scientist Georg Ohm expressed his law in this famous book " Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet " ( The Galvanic Circuit Investigated Mathematically ) in which he gave his complete theory of electricity.

Georg Doring ( German Lutheran ), Rev.

* 1837 – Georg Büchner, German playwright ( b. 1813 )

* 1664 – Georg Dietrich Leyding, German composer and organist ( d. 1710 )

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

* 1639 – Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar ( d. 1691 )

* 1919 – Georg Gawliczek, German football manager ( d. 1999 )

* 1982 – Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge ( b. 1909 )

* 1948 – Georg Brunnhuber, German politician

Fichte is often perceived as a figure whose philosophy forms a bridge between the ideas of Kant and those of the German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Georg Ferdinand Ludwig Philipp Cantor ( ; ; – January 6, 1918 ) was a German mathematician, best known as the inventor of set theory, which has become a fundamental theory in mathematics.

George Frideric Handel ( German: Georg Friedrich Händel ; ) ( 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759 ) was a German-born British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.