* 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1722 )

* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )

* 1929 – André Previn, German composer and conductor

* 1953 – Christopher Franke, German musician and composer ( Tangerine Dream )

* 1648 – Johann Michael Bach, German composer ( d. 1694 )

As a music scholar and organist, he studied the music of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach and influenced the Organ reform movement ( Orgelbewegung ).

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

* 1905 – Karl Amadeus Hartmann, German composer ( d. 1963 )

* 1640 – Amalia Catharina, German poet and composer ( d. 1697 )

* 1891 – Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer ( d. 1952 )

* 1697 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist ( d. 1778 )

* 1857 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer ( d. 1922 )

* 1736 – Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer ( d. 1803 )

* 1759 – George Frideric Handel, German composer ( b. 1685 )

* 1683 – Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist ( d. 1729 )

* 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer ( d. 1812 )

* 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer ( b. 1567 )

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

While Italian by birth, Salieri had lived in imperial Vienna for almost 60 years and was regarded by such people as the music critic Friedrich Rochlitz as a German composer.

* 1560 – Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer ( d. 1629 )

* 1844 – Henri Berger, German composer and bandleader ( d. 1929 )

* 1947 – Klaus Schulze, German composer

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

* 1850 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer ( d. 1927 )

* Atlas, a book of photography by German artist Gerhard Richter

* 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian ( d. 1967 )

* 1637 – Johann Gerhard, German church leader and theologian ( b. 1582 )

* 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist ( b. 1895 )

* 1944 – Gerhard Schröder, German politician

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.

He entered the Kriegsakademie ( also cited as " The German War School ," the " Military Academy in Berlin ," and the " Prussian Military Academy ") in Berlin in 1801 ( age 21 ), studied the writings of the philosopher Immanuel Kant, and won the regard of General Gerhard von Scharnhorst, the future first chief of staff of the new Prussian Army ( appointed 1809 ).

* 1928 – Gerhard Kaufhold, German footballer ( d. 2009 )

* 1932 – Gerhard Richter, German painter

In 1999, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's government defined a new basis for German foreign policy by taking a full part in the decisions surrounding the NATO war against Yugoslavia and by sending German troops into combat for the first time since World War II.

On November 3, 2004, the Federal Chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, suggested that the " Day of the German Unity " be celebrated on a Sunday, for economic reasons.

Explaining the internal impact of the DDR regime from the perspective of German history in the long term, historian Gerhard A. Ritter ( 2002 ) has argued that the East German state was defined by two dominant forces – Soviet Communism on the one hand, and German traditions filtered through the interwar experiences of German Communists on the other.

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ( June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964 ) was a German neuropathologist, who first described the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

The American historian Gerhard Weinberg described the Henderson-Ribbentrop meeting in this way: " When Joachim von Ribbentrop refused to give a copy of the German demands to the British Ambassador at midnight of 30 – 31 August 1939, the two almost came to blows.

The latter, centering on the figure of Niels Ebbesen, a medieval Danish squire considered a national hero for having assassinated an earlier German occupier of Denmark, Count Gerhard III, was a contemporary analogue to World War II-era Denmark.

* 1867 – Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist ( b. 1795 )

* 1936 – Gerhard Ertl, German surface chemist, Nobel laureate, 2007.

* 1895 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( declined ) ( d. 1964 )

* April 24 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ( declined ) ( b. 1895 )

** German Protestant theologian Gerhard Kittel is arrested by the French forces in Tübingen, Germany.