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

* 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet

* 1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet ( d. 1815 )

* 1719 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet ( d. 1803 )

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

He was a poet and a member of the völkisch agitators who, together with journalist Karl Harrer, founded the German Workers ' Party ( DAP ) in Munich with Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart in 1919.

After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

* 1567 – Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet ( d. 1643 )

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.

* 1933 – Stefan George, German poet ( b. 1868 )

* 1797 – Heinrich Heine, German poet ( d. 1856 )

* 1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( b. 1715 )

Erasmus Alberus ( c. 1500 – 1553 ), German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken ( now part of Friedberg, Hesse ) about the year 1500.

* 1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet ( d. 1927 )

* 1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author ( d. 1882 )

* 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet ( d. 1886 )

German artists and intellectuals, heavily influenced by the French Revolution and by the great German poet and writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749 – 1832 ), turned to Romanticism after a period of Enlightenment.

* 1781 – Ludwig Achim von Arnim, German poet ( d. 1831 )

* 1966 – Jean Arp, German artist and poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1715 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet ( d. 1769 )

* 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet ( d. 1909 )

* 1956 – Gottfried Benn, German poet ( b. 1886 )

* 1948 – Valeri Brainin, Russian / German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet

Unica Zürn ( 6 July 1916 in Berlin-Grunewald – 19 October 1970 in Paris ) was a German author and painter.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

We lived for a while in a movie melodrama with a German cook and her son who turned out to be Nazis.

At the beginning of the Hippodrome I saw the Kaiser's Fountain, an ugly octagonal building with a glass dome, built in 1895 by the German Emperor, and on my left, directly across from it, the tomb of Sultan Ahmet, who constructed the Blue Mosque, more properly known by his name.

The injured German veteran was a former miner, twenty-four years old, who had been wounded by shrapnel in the back of the head.

The trial will be held, probably the first week of March, in the famous Old Bailey central criminal court where Klaus Fuchs, the naturalized British German born scientist who succeeded in giving American and British atomic bomb secrets to Russia and thereby changed world history during the 1950s, was sentenced to 14 years in prison.

He also used as an example the manufacturer who introduced an all-automatic camera in Germany, with the result that it became the best selling camera in the German market.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

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.

He was a German Dominican friar and a bishop who achieved fame for his comprehensive knowledge of and advocacy for the peaceful coexistence of science and religion.

The projected union initially aroused great opposition: he did not consult with his father, who had been on vacation in Karlovy Vary and making arrangements to secure the hand of a German princess for his son, or his Prime Minister Dr. Vladan Đorđević, who was visiting the Paris Universal Exhibition at the time of the announcement.

The following year he was called to face German invaders in Gaul, who had breached the Rhine frontier in several places, destroying forts and over-running the countryside.

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies.

At the start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

The first proposal for a tank was by the Austrian Oberleutenant Günther Burstyn who, in 1911, proposed a design for " motor artillery " ( Motorengeschütz ) with a turret, but his design never progressed beyond a German patent in 1912.

The book tells the story of Paul Bäumer, a soldier who — urged on by his school teacher — joins the German army shortly after the start of World War I. Bäumer arrives at the Western Front with his friends and schoolmates ( Tjaden, Müller, Kropp and a number of other characters ).

It is named after Ernst Abbe ( 1840 – 1905 ), the German physicist who defined it.

Friedrich Sertürner, the German chemist who first isolated morphine from opium.

His work in engraving seems to have had an intimidating effect upon his German successors, the " Little Masters " who attempted few large engravings but continued Dürer's themes in small, rather cramped compositions.

Six weeks before the German invasion of Poland, Heschel left Warsaw for London with the help of Julian Morgenstern, president of Hebrew Union College, who had been working to obtain visas for Jewish scholars in Europe.

It is the subject of a recent study by German archaeologists who are digging and surveying at the site.

He is believed to have moved in with Ziad Jarrah, who got a new apartment on Bougainvilla Dr. in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, after both men gave the landlord photocopies of their German passports, which he later turned over to the FBI.