Wilhelm Grimm is noted to be the first person to ever link Beowulf with Irish folklore.

* 1786 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist ( d. 1859 )

The first definite impulse came from the lectures of Friedrich Karl von Savigny, the celebrated investigator of Roman law, who, as Wilhelm Grimm himself says in the preface to the Deutsche Grammatik ( German Grammar ), first taught him to realize what it meant to study any science.

* Rede auf Wilhelm Grimm und Rede über das Alter ( Berlin, 1868, 3rd ad., 1865 )

" Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Carl " and " Grimm, Wilhelm Carl ".

The Deutsches biographisches Archiv records Wilhelm's name as " Grimm, Wilhelm Karl ".

The Allgemeine deutsche Biographie gives the names as " Grimm: Jakob ( Ludwig Karl )" and " Grimm: Wilhelm ( Karl )".

The National Union Catalog Pre-1956 Imprints also gives Wilhelm's name as " Grimm, Wilhelm Karl ".

Wilhelm Grimm collected versions in Serbian, Romanian, Estonian, Finnish, Russian, and German.

* December 16 – Wilhelm Grimm, German children's writer ( b. 1786 )

* February 24 – Wilhelm Grimm, German philologist and folklorist ( d. 1859 )

Wilhelm ( left ) and Jacob Grimm ( right ) in an 1855 painting by Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

The Brothers Grimm ( or Die Gebrüder Grimm ), Jacob ( January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863 ) and Wilhelm Grimm ( February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859 ), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together collected folklore.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm lived in this house in Steinau an der Straße | Steinau from 1791 to 1796.

Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, born on 4 January 1785, was 13 months older than his brother Wilhelm Carl Grimm ( b. 24 February 1786 ).

Both were born in Hanau, Germany, to Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, a jurist, and Dorothea Grimm, née Zimmer, daughter of a Kassel city councilman.

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in an 1843 drawing by their younger brother Ludwig Emil Grimm

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* Johann Wilhelm Ritter, chemist and physicist, born December 16, 1776 in nearby Samitz, died January 23, 1810 in Munich

He died alongside the body of Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Rediess, SS and Police Leader and commander of all SS troops in Norway, who had shot himself earlier.

In 1888, the German Emperor, Wilhelm I, died leaving the throne to his son, Friedrich III.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

* April 22 – Wilhelm Schickard, German inventor ( died 1635 )

* Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer ( died 1746 ) was Kapellmeister to Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden from at least 1695.

His brother, Wilhelm von Humboldt, died in Alexander's arms on April 8, 1836.

Pauly died in 1845, his work unfinished ; Christian Waltz and Wilhelm Teuffel completed it in 1852.

His father, Wilhelm Bombast von Hohenheim, was a Swabian ( German ) chemist and physician ; his mother was Swiss, she presumably died in his childhood.

The graves of Clemens Brentano and his brother Christian Brentano ( died 1851 ) and that of Wilhelm Heinse are on the Altstadtfriedhof.

In 1900 Daimler died and Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1907.

* Friedrich Wilhelm Sigismund ( 23 November 1893-12 September 1916 ), died in World War I

* Maximilian Friedrich Wilhelm Georg ( 20 October 1894 – 13 October 1914 ), died in World War I

The Xam informants of Wilhelm Bleek said that when a Hamerkop flew and called over their camp, they knew that someone close to them had died.

* November 1-Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer, novelist, dramatist and travel writer ( died 1877 )

Schenker was the fith of six siblings: Markus ( died 1880 in Lemberg ), Rebeka ( died 1889 in Gradiska ), Wilhelm, a doctor, Schifre, and Moriz ( Moses ), born August 31, 1874.

Early in the year, Emperor Wilhelm I died on 9 March 1888 after his long reign.

His mother Markéta ( née Smiřická of Smiřice ) died in 1593, his father Wilhelm ( Vilém ) in 1595.

* November 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, conductor and composer ( died 1882 )

Wilhelm Schickard died of the bubonic plague in Tübingen, on 23 or 24 October 1635.

The last veteran of the Silesian Uprisings, Wilhelm Meisel, died in 2009.

However, while arranging for the German Emperor Wilhelm II to visit Palestine in 1898, he contracted dysentery and died the following year.

* Wilhelm Georg Simpert of Baden-Baden ( 1703 – 1709 ), died in infancy ;