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.

The Wilhelm Busch Museum is the German Museum of Caricature and Critical Graphic Arts.

The collection of the works of Wilhelm Busch and the extensive collection of cartoons and critical graphics is this museum unique in Germany.

The Katzenjammer Kids was inspired by Max and Moritz, a children's story of the 1860s by German author Wilhelm Busch.

This highly inventive, blackly humorous tale, told entirely in rhymed couplets, was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865.

* January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter and poet ( born 1832 )

Wilhelm Busch also wrote a number of poems in a similar style to his picture stories.

Arthur Schopenhauer caricatured by Wilhelm Busch

* The Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hannover, is also " Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und kritische Grafik ", featuring besides Busch's works a wider collection of satiric graphics, including " Four Hundred Years of Caricature " with an active lecture schedule.

* www. zeno. org Wilhelm Busch collection at Zeno. org ( in German )

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His son, Karl Wilhelm Böttiger ( August 15, 1790-November 26, 1862 ; not to be confused with the Swedish writer Carl Wilhelm Böttiger ), was a historian and biographer of his father.

Sir Frederick William Herschel, KH, FRS ( Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel ; 15 November 1738 – 25 August 1822 ) was a German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and composer.

* January 15 – Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1946 )

* November 15 – Wilhelm Raabe, German writer ( b. 1831 )

* June 15 – Wilhelm II is crowned German Emperor.

* January 15 – Johann Jacob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, Baltic German naturalist and traveller ( b. 1792 )

* March 15 – Otto Wilhelm Masing, Estonian linguist ( b. 1763 )

Together, Wilhelm and Henriette had four children: Jacob Grimm ( 3 April 1826 – 15 December 1826 ), Herman Friedrich Grimm ( 6 January 1828 – 16 June 1901 ), Rudolf Georg Grimm ( 31 March 1830 – 13 November 1889 ), and Barbara Auguste Luise Pauline Marie ( 21 August 1832 – 9 February 1919 ).

* Frederika Luise Wilhelmina ( The Hague, 28 November 1770 – The Hague, 15 October 1819 ), married in The Hague on 14 October 1790 Karl, Hereditary Prince of Braunschweig ( London, 8 February 1766 – Antoinettenruh, 20 September 1806 ), a son of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg and Princess Augusta of Great Britain, without issue.

On October 15, 1968, Wilhelm was chosen in the 1968 expansion draft by the Kansas City Royals from the White Sox as the 49th pick.

In 1853, at the precocious age of 15, Perkin entered the Royal College of Chemistry in London ( now part of Imperial College London ), where he began his studies under August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

On 15 March 1848, the subjects of Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia vented their long-repressed political aspirations in violent rioting in Berlin, while barricades were erected in the streets of Paris.

* Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany celebrated his Silver Jubilee on 15 June 1913.

The Russians could expect to be reinforced by Anton Wilhelm von L ' Estocq's detachment of 9, 000 Prussians ; the French by Marshal Davout's depleted III Corps — proud victors of Auerstedt but now only 15, 000 strong — and Marshal Ney's 14, 000-strong VI Corps ( making a total of 74, 000 men ), which was shadowing the Prussians.

On the death of Prince Louis II, theretofore without a legitimate heir, the throne of Monaco was due to pass to Wilhelm, the German 2nd Duke of Urach, Louis II's cousin, a son of Princess Florestine of Monaco ; to forestall this event, on 15 May 1911 a law was passed recognizing Charlotte as Louis's daughter, and making her a member of the sovereign family.

In 1863, he joined the Bruderhaus Reutlingen, a Christian Socialist toolmaker, as inspector and later executive. While there, he met Wilhelm Maybach, then a 15 year old orphan.

The fame which this publication acquired him led to his being engaged by Schütz and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland to prepare an Allgemeines Repertorium der Literatur, published in 8 volumes ( Jena and Weimar, 1793 – 1809 ), which condensed the literary productions of 15 years ( 1785 – 1800 ), and included an account not merely of the books published during that period, but also of articles in periodicals and magazines, and even of the criticisms to which each book had been subjected.

Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve () ( April 15, 1793 – November 23, 1864 ( Julian calendar: November 11 )) was a Baltic German astronomer from a famous dynasty.

Mehmed V hosted Kaiser Wilhelm II, his World War I ally, in Constantinople on 15 October 1917.

After in early November 1918 the grand duke, the dukes and princes of the eight monarchies, later merging into the new State of Thuringia, had abdicated and thus released each of the eight territorial Lutheran church bodies from their respective supreme governorate ( summepiscopacy ), Lutheran church leaders, among them the Saxe-Altenburgian court preacher Wilhelm Reichardt as one of the driving forces, decided the unification of the church bodies on 15 November 1918.

Wilhelm Emil " Willy " Messerschmitt (/' vĭli ' messer shmĭt /) ( June 26, 1898 – September 15, 1978 ) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer.

Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann ( 15 July 1945 – 5 June 2003 ) was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party.

William I, German Emperor | Kaiser Wilhelm I reigned 2 January 1861 – 9 March 1888. Frederick III, German Emperor | Kaiser Frederick III reigned for only 99 days during the Year of Three Emperors ( 9 March – 15 June 1888 ).