Berlin, Germany
LOCATION
Official Website:
http://www.berlin.de/
Population:
3,426,000 (2005)
NEWSPAPERS
| Newspaper |
|---|
| Berliner Morgenpost |
| Die Welt |
SCHOOLS
| School | Founded |
|---|---|
| University of Berlin |
ZOO
| Zoo | Founded |
|---|---|
| Berlin Zoological Garden | 1844 |
ORCHESTRA
| Orchestra | Founded |
|---|---|
| Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin | 1946 |
| Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra | 1923 |
| Berlin Philharmonic | 1882 |
OPERA
| Opera | Founded |
|---|---|
| Komische Oper Berlin | 1947 |
| Deutsche Oper Berlin | 1911 |
| Berlin State Opera | 1742 |
COMPANY HEADQUARTERS
| Company | Founded |
|---|---|
| SoundCloud | 2007 |
| Ableton | 1999 |
BIRTHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adolf von Baeyer | Chemist | 31-Oct-1835 | 20-Aug-1917 | Synthesized indigo |
| Steven C. Beering | Educator | 20-Aug-1932 | President of Purdue, 1983-2000 | |
| Walter Benjamin | Philosopher | 15-Jul-1892 | 26-Sep-1940 | The Arcades Project |
| Eduard Bernstein | Politician | 6-Jan-1850 | 18-Dec-1932 | Evolutionary Socialism |
| Elisabeth Bing | Activist | 8-Jul-1914 | 15-May-2015 | Natural childbirth movement |
| W. Michael Blumenthal | Government | 3-Jan-1926 | US Secretary of the Treasury, 1977-79 | |
| Curt Bois | Actor | 5-Apr-1901 | 25-Dec-1991 | Pickpocket in Casablanca |
| Rudy Boschwitz | Business | 7-Nov-1930 | US Senator from Minnesota, 1978-91 | |
| Horst Buchholz | Actor | 4-Dec-1933 | 3-Mar-2003 | The Magnificent Seven |
| Ernst B. Chain | Scientist | 19-Jun-1906 | 12-Aug-1979 | Isolated penicillin |
| Katharine Cornell | Actor | 16-Feb-1898 | 9-Jun-1974 | The Barretts of Wimpole Street |
| Max Delbrück | Scientist | 4-Sep-1906 | 10-Mar-1981 | Molecular structure of viral genes (phages) |
| Marlene Dietrich | Actor | 27-Dec-1901 | 6-May-1992 | The Blue Angel |
| Karl Doenitz | Military | 16-Sep-1891 | 2-Dec-1980 | U-Boat admiral |
| Klaus Eppler | Attorney | 8-May-1930 | Retired Partner, Proskauer Rose | |
| Paul Peter Ewald | Physicist | 23-Jan-1888 | 22-Aug-1985 | X-Ray crystallographer |
| Frank Eyck | Historian | 13-Jul-1921 | 28-Dec-2004 | Religion and Politics in German History |
| Hans Eysenck | Psychologist | 4-Mar-1916 | 4-Sep-1997 | Intelligence and personality |
| Thomas L. Farmer | Attorney | 26-Jul-1923 | 5-Feb-2015 | Overseas Development Council |
| Fritz Feld | Actor | 15-Oct-1900 | 18-Nov-1993 | Bringing Up Baby |
| Friedrich Karl Flick | Business | 3-Feb-1927 | 5-Oct-2006 | Richest man in Austria |
| Werner Forssmann | Doctor | 29-Aug-1904 | 2-Jun-1979 | Cardiac catheterization |
| Lukas Foss | Conductor | 15-Aug-1922 | 1-Feb-2009 | Director, Buffalo Philharmonic, 1963-71 |
| Frederick the Great | Royalty | 24-Jan-1712 | 17-Aug-1786 | King of Prussia, 1740-86 |
| Frederick William IV | Royalty | 15-Oct-1795 | 2-Jan-1861 | King of Prussia, 1840-61 |
| Henry Friedlander | Historian | 24-Sep-1930 | 17-Oct-2012 | The Origins of Nazi Genocide |
| Wilhelm Furtwängler | Conductor | 25-Jan-1886 | 30-Nov-1954 | Pre-War German conductor |
| Peter Gay | Historian | 20-Jun-1923 | 12-May-2015 | The Enlightenment: An Interpretation |
| Götz George | Actor | 23-Jul-1938 | Schtonk! | |
| Magda Goebbels | Relative | 11-Nov-1901 | 1-May-1945 | Wife of Joseph Goebbels |
| Bill Graham | Business | 8-Jan-1931 | 25-Oct-1991 | Rock & roll promoter |
| J. A. S. Grenville | Historian | 11-Jan-1928 | 7-Mar-2011 | Lord Salisbury and Foreign Policy |
| Walter Gropius | Architect | 18-May-1883 | 5-Jul-1969 | Founder of the Bauhaus school |
| George Grosz | Artist | 26-Jul-1893 | 6-Jul-1959 | German social caricaturist |
| Alexander Grothendieck | Mathematician | 28-May-1928 | 13-Nov-2014 | Grothendieck topologies |
| Albert Hague | Composer | 13-Oct-1920 | 12-Nov-2001 | Redhead |
| Veit Harlan | Film Director | 22-Sep-1899 | 13-Apr-1964 | Jud S�ss |
| Eduard von Hartmann | Philosopher | 23-Feb-1842 | 5-Jun-1906 | Philosophy of the Unconscious |
| Gordon Hessler | Film Director | 12-Dec-1930 | 19-Jan-2014 | The Golden Voyage of Sinbad |
| Karl M. von der Heyden | Business | ? | Vice Chairman of Pepsi, 1996-2001 | |
| Paul von Heyse | Author | 15-Mar-1830 | 2-Apr-1914 | L'Arrabbiata |
| Peter B. Hirsch | Scientist | 16-Jan-1925 | Electron microscopy in metallurgy | |
| Alexander von Humboldt | Geographer | 14-Sep-1769 | 6-May-1859 | Cosmos |
| Julia Jentsch | Actor | 20-Feb-1978 | The Edukators | |
| Gottfried John | Actor | 29-Aug-1942 | GoldenEye | |
| Nastassja Kinski | Model | 24-Jan-1959 | Cat People | |
| Fritz Kolbe | Spy | 25-Sep-1900 | 1971 | Allied mole in WWII Berlin |
| Henry Koster | Film Director | 1-May-1905 | 21-Sep-1988 | The Bishop's Wife |
| Nicolette Krebitz | Actor | 2-Sep-1971 | The Tunnel | |
| Willy Ley | Author | 2-Oct-1906 | 24-May-1969 | The Conquest of Space |
| Arthur O. Lovejoy | Historian | 10-Oct-1873 | 30-Dec-1962 | The Great Chain of Being |
| Ernst Lubitsch | Film Director | 28-Jan-1892 | 30-Nov-1947 | To Be or Not To Be |
| Christa Ludwig | Singer | 16-Mar-1928 | Operatic mezzo-soprano | |
| Hans Luther | Head of State | 10-Mar-1885 | 11-May-1962 | German Chancellor 1925-26 |
| Herbert Marcuse | Philosopher | 19-Jul-1898 | 29-Jul-1979 | One-Dimensional Man |
| Peter Max | Artist | 19-Oct-1937 | Psychedelic art has featured Statues of Liberty | |
| Audra McDonald | Actor | 3-Jul-1970 | A Raisin in the Sun | |
| Kurt Mendelssohn | Mathematician | 7-Jan-1906 | 18-Sep-1980 | Cryogenics and pyramids |
| Inge Meysel | Actor | 30-May-1910 | 11-Jul-2004 | Popular German TV actress |
| Stephan Minikes | Attorney | 29-Aug-1938 | 24-Sep-2011 | US Ambassador to the OSCE, 2001-05 |
| Dominic Monaghan | Actor | 8-Dec-1976 | Charlie on Lost | |
| Me'Shell NdegéOcello | Singer | 29-Aug-1969 | Eclectic R&B singer and bassist | |
| Helmut Newton | Photographer | 31-Oct-1920 | 23-Jan-2004 | Celebrity photographer |
| Mike Nichols | Film Director | 6-Nov-1931 | 19-Nov-2014 | Primary Colors |
| Meret Oppenheim | Artist | 6-Oct-1911 | 15-Nov-1985 | Fur-covered teacup |
| Gerd Oswald | Film Director | 9-Jun-1919 | 22-May-1989 | A Kiss Before Dying |
| Pief Panofsky | Physicist | 24-Apr-1919 | 24-Sep-2007 | Stanford Linear Accelerator |
| Christiane Paul | Actor | 8-Mar-1974 | In July | |
| Rudolf Peierls | Physicist | 5-Jun-1907 | 19-Sep-1995 | Frisch-Peierls Memorandum |
| John C. Polanyi | Chemist | 23-Jan-1929 | Infrared chemiluminescence | |
| André Previn | Pianist | 6-Apr-1929 | Concert pianist and orchestral conductor | |
| Hermann Prey | Singer | 11-Jul-1929 | 22-Jul-1998 | Operatic baritone, Figaro |
| John Price | Diplomat | 18-Aug-1933 | US Ambassador to Mauritius, 2002-05 | |
| Jürgen Prochnow | Actor | 10-Jun-1941 | Das Boot | |
| Rex Reason | Actor | 30-Nov-1928 | 19-Nov-2015 | Adam MacLean on Man Without a Gun |
| Natacha Régnier | Actor | 11-Apr-1972 | The Dreamlife of Angels | |
| Andrew Sachs | Actor | 7-Apr-1930 | 23-Nov-2016 | Manuel on Fawlty Towers |
| Nelly Sachs | Poet | 10-Dec-1891 | 12-May-1970 | O the Chimneys |
| Moritz Schlick | Philosopher | 14-Apr-1882 | 22-Jun-1936 | Positivist philosopher, Vienna Circle |
| Alexander von Schlippenbach | Pianist | 7-Apr-1938 | Improv pianist and bandleader | |
| Karl Schnabel | Pianist | 6-Aug-1909 | 27-Aug-2001 | Modern Technique of the Pedal |
| Gershom Scholem | Historian | 5-Dec-1897 | 21-Feb-1982 | Revolutionized the study of Kabbalah |
| Max Schreck | Actor | 6-Sep-1879 | 20-Feb-1936 | Nosferatu |
| Klaus Schulze | Electronic Musician | 4-Aug-1947 | Synthesizer pioneer | |
| Peter Sebastian | Diplomat | 19-Jun-1926 | 22-Mar-2011 | US Ambassador to Tunisia, 1984-87 |
| Georg Simmel | Sociologist | 1-Mar-1858 | 26-Sep-1918 | Philosophy of Money |
| Elke Sommer | Actor | 5-Nov-1940 | Deadlier Than the Male | |
| Willi Stoph | Head of State | 9-Jul-1914 | 13-Apr-1999 | East German leader, 1973-76 |
| Gustav Stresemann | Head of State | 10-May-1878 | 3-Oct-1929 | German Chancellor 1923 |
| Ludwig Tieck | Novelist | 31-May-1773 | 28-Apr-1853 | Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen |
| Walther von Brauchitsch | Military | 4-Oct-1881 | 18-Oct-1948 | Nazi general, failed to capture Moscow |
| Christoph von Dohnányi | Conductor | 8-Sep-1929 | Conductor, Cleveland Orchestra, 1984-2002 | |
| Erich von Manstein | Military | 24-Nov-1887 | 10-Jun-1973 | Nazi general |
| Baldur von Schirach | Government | 9-Mar-1907 | 8-Aug-1974 | Hitler-Jugend, Gauleiter of Vienna |
| Karl-Heinrich von Stuelpnagel | Military | 2-Jan-1886 | 30-Aug-1944 | Nazi general, tried to overthrow Hitler |
| Henry C. Wallich | Economist | 10-Jun-1914 | 16-Sep-1988 | Council of Economic Advisers, 1959-61 |
| Bruno Walter | Conductor | 15-Sep-1876 | 17-Feb-1962 | Conductor, Leipzig Gewandhaus, 1929-33 |
| Alfred Wegener | Scientist | 1-Nov-1880 | Nov-1930 | Continental drift |
| Joseph Weizenbaum | Computer Programmer | 8-Jan-1923 | 5-Mar-2008 | ELIZA |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Head of State | 27-Jan-1859 | 4-Jun-1941 | Last of the German emperors |
| Adolf Windaus | Chemist | 25-Dec-1876 | 9-Jun-1959 | Investigated cholesterol, Vitamin D |
| Georg Wittig | Chemist | 16-Jun-1897 | 26-Aug-1987 | Wittig Reaction |
| Werner F. Wolfen | Attorney | 15-May-1930 | Former Partner, Irell & Manella | |
| Dana Wynter | Actor | 8-Jun-1931 | 5-May-2011 | Sink the Bismarck! |
| Konrad Zuse | Engineer | 22-Jun-1910 | 18-Dec-1995 | Built first Turing-complete computer |
DEATHS
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gerd Albrecht | Conductor | 19-Jun-1935 | 2-Feb-2014 | Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, 1998-2007 |
| David Anderson | Diplomat | 3-Jan-1937 | 4-Jul-1997 | US Ambassador to Yugoslavia, 1981-85 |
| Artur Axmann | Government | 18-Feb-1913 | 24-Oct-1996 | Hitler Youth leader |
| Rudolf Bahro | Philosopher | 18-Nov-1935 | 5-Dec-1997 | The Alternative in Eastern Europe |
| Ludwig Beck | Military | 29-Jun-1880 | 20-Jul-1944 | Supported failed coup against Hitler |
| Peter Behrens | Architect | 14-Apr-1868 | 27-Feb-1940 | Invented corporate identity |
| Gottfried Benn | Poet | 2-May-1886 | 7-Jul-1956 | Postwar Germany's T. S. Eliot |
| Anita Berber | Actor | 10-Jun-1899 | 10-Nov-1928 | Scarlet whore of Berlin |
| Eduard Bernstein | Politician | 6-Jan-1850 | 18-Dec-1932 | Evolutionary Socialism |
| Boris Blacher | Composer | 19-Jan-1903 | 30-Jan-1975 | Die Nachtschwalbe |
| Michael Bohnen | Singer | 2-May-1887 | 26-Apr-1965 | Operatic bass baritone |
| Curt Bois | Actor | 5-Apr-1901 | 25-Dec-1991 | Pickpocket in Casablanca |
| Franz Bopp | Linguist | 14-Sep-1791 | 23-Oct-1867 | Comparative Grammar |
| Martin Bormann | Government | 17-Jun-1900 | 2-May-1945 | Adolf Hitler's adjutant |
| Horst Buchholz | Actor | 4-Dec-1933 | 3-Mar-2003 | The Magnificent Seven |
| Ferruccio Busoni | Pianist | 1-Apr-1866 | 27-Jul-1924 | Fantasia Contrappuntistica |
| Eric Dolphy | Jazz Musician | 20-Jun-1928 | 29-Jun-1964 | Jazz saxophonist, clarinetist |
| Marion Dönhoff | Journalist | 2-Dec-1909 | 11-Mar-2002 | Die Zeit |
| Friedrich Ebert | Head of State | 4-Feb-1871 | 28-Feb-1925 | German Chancellor, 1918-19 |
| Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Philosopher | 19-May-1762 | 27-Jan-1814 | Critique of Revelation |
| Emil Fischer | Chemist | 9-Oct-1852 | 15-Jul-1919 | Peptide bond |
| Theodor Fontane | Author | 30-Dec-1819 | 20-Sep-1898 | Before the Storm |
| Frederick William III | Royalty | 3-Aug-1770 | 7-Jun-1840 | King of Prussia, 1797-1840 |
| Roland Freisler | Government | 30-Oct-1893 | 3-Feb-1945 | Headed the Reich Ministry of Justice |
| Klaus Fuchs | Spy | 29-Dec-1911 | 28-Jan-1988 | Manhattan Project scientist, spy for USSR |
| Mikhail Glinka | Composer | 21-May-1804 | 3-Feb-1857 | Ruslan and Lyudmila |
| Magda Goebbels | Relative | 11-Nov-1901 | 1-May-1945 | Wife of Joseph Goebbels |
| Carl Goerdeler | Politician | 31-Jul-1884 | 2-Feb-1945 | Politician, hanged by the Nazis |
| Eugen Goldstein | Physicist | 5-Sep-1850 | 25-Dec-1930 | Cathode rays |
| George Grosz | Artist | 26-Jul-1893 | 6-Jul-1959 | German social caricaturist |
| Franz Guertner | Government | 26-Aug-1881 | 29-Jan-1941 | Reich Minister of Justice |
| Hugo Haase | Politician | 29-Sep-1863 | 7-Nov-1919 | German parliamentarian, Marxist, pacifist |
| Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel | Philosopher | 27-Aug-1770 | 14-Nov-1831 | Phenomenology of Spirit |
| Gustav Hertz | Physicist | 22-Jul-1887 | 30-Oct-1975 | Franck-Hertz experiment |
| Georg Heym | Poet | 30-Oct-1887 | 16-Jan-1912 | Der ewige Tag |
| E. T. A. Hoffmann | Author | 24-Jan-1776 | 25-Jun-1822 | Das Fr�ulein van Scuderi |
| August Wilhelm von Hofmann | Chemist | 8-Apr-1818 | 2-May-1892 | Organic chemist, researched aniline |
| Friedrich von Holstein | Politician | 24-Apr-1837 | 8-May-1909 | Ran the German foreign office |
| Alexander von Humboldt | Geographer | 14-Sep-1769 | 6-May-1859 | Cosmos |
| Daniel Ernst Jablonski | Religion | 20-Nov-1660 | 25-May-1741 | Worked to unite protestantism |
| Karl Gustav Jacobi | Mathematician | 10-Dec-1804 | 18-Feb-1851 | Investigated elliptical functions |
| Joseph Joachim | Violinist | 28-Jun-1831 | 15-Aug-1907 | Virtuoso violinist, Joachim Quartet |
| Gustav Robert Kirchhoff | Physicist | 12-Mar-1824 | 17-Oct-1887 | Theory of spectrum analysis |
| Martin Heinrich Klaproth | Chemist | 1-Dec-1743 | 1-Jan-1817 | Discovered uranium, zirconium, titanium |
| Hildegard Knef | Actor | 28-Dec-1925 | 1-Feb-2002 | The Murderers Are Among Us |
| Johann Heinrich Lambert | Mathematician | 26-Aug-1728 | 25-Sep-1777 | Pyrometrie |
| Melvin J. Lasky | Journalist | 15-Jan-1920 | 19-May-2004 | Editor of journal Encounter |
| Max von Laue | Physicist | 9-Oct-1879 | 23-Apr-1960 | X-ray crystallography |
| Lilli Lehmann | Singer | 24-Nov-1848 | 17-May-1929 | Operatic, Wagnerian soprano |
| Richard Lepsius | Historian | 23-Dec-1810 | 10-Jul-1884 | German Egyptologist |
| Karl Lohmann | Chemist | 10-Apr-1898 | 22-Apr-1978 | Discovered ATP |
| Rosa Luxemburg | Activist | 5-Mar-1871 | 15-Jan-1919 | Co-Founder, Communist Party of Germany |
| Anthony Mann | Film Director | 30-Jun-1906 | 29-Apr-1967 | El Cid |
| Moses Mendelssohn | Philosopher | 26-Sep-1729 | 4-Jan-1786 | Brilliant German-Jewish philosopher |
| Yehudi Menuhin | Violinist | 22-Apr-1916 | 12-Mar-1999 | Child prodigy violinist, conductor |
| Brigitte Mira | Actor | 20-Apr-1910 | 8-Mar-2005 | Fassbinder actress |
| Karl Philipp Moritz | Novelist | 15-Sep-1757 | 26-Jul-1793 | Anton Reiser |
| Hermann Mueller | Head of State | 18-May-1876 | 20-Mar-1931 | German Chancellor 1920, 1928-30 |
| Friedrich Olbricht | Military | 4-Oct-1888 | 20-Jul-1944 | German general, failed coup plotter |
| Wilhelm Pieck | Head of State | 3-Jan-1876 | 7-Sep-1960 | President of East Germany, 1949-60 |
| Johann Christian Poggendorff | Physicist | 29-Dec-1796 | 24-Jan-1877 | Annalen der Physik und Chemie |
| Johannes Popitz | Government | 2-Dec-1884 | 2-Feb-1945 | Prussian finance minister 1933-44 |
| Samuel von Pufendorf | Legal Scholar | 8-Jan-1632 | 13-Oct-1694 | De iure natura et gentium |
| Leopold von Ranke | Historian | 12-Dec-1795 | 23-May-1886 | Prominent 19th century German historian |
| Johannes Rau | Head of State | 16-Jan-1931 | 27-Jan-2006 | President of Germany, 1999-2004 |
| Franz Reuleaux | Mathematician | 30-Sep-1829 | 20-Aug-1905 | Father of modern kinematics |
| Ernst Ruska | Physicist | 25-Dec-1906 | 27-May-1988 | Inventor of the electron microscope |
| Giuseppe Sarti | Composer | 28-Dec-1729 | 28-Jul-1802 | I Due Litiganti |
| Friedrich Schleiermacher | Philosopher | 21-Nov-1768 | 12-Feb-1834 | A founder of Protestant theology |
| Werner von Siemens | Business | 13-Dec-1816 | 6-Dec-1892 | Founder of Siemens AG |
| Giuseppe Sinopoli | Conductor | 2-Nov-1946 | 20-Apr-2001 | Principal Conductor, Philharmonia, 1984-94 |
| Max Stirner | Philosopher | 25-Oct-1806 | 26-Jun-1856 | Existential German nihilo-anarchist |
| Willi Stoph | Head of State | 9-Jul-1914 | 13-Apr-1999 | East German leader, 1973-76 |
| Gustav Stresemann | Head of State | 10-May-1878 | 3-Oct-1929 | German Chancellor 1923 |
| Peter Struck | Government | 24-Jan-1943 | 19-Dec-2012 | German Defense Minister, 2002-05 |
| Bayard Taylor | Author | 11-Jan-1825 | 19-Dec-1878 | Europe seen with Knapsack |
| Ludwig Tieck | Novelist | 31-May-1773 | 28-Apr-1853 | Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen |
| Walter Ulbricht | Head of State | 30-Jun-1893 | 1-Aug-1973 | East German leader, 1960-73 |
| Rudolf Virchow | Doctor | 13-Oct-1821 | 5-Sep-1902 | Pathology and progressive politics |
| Helmuth von Moltke | Military | 26-Oct-1800 | 24-Apr-1891 | German military strategist |
| Carl von Ossietzky | Activist | 3-Oct-1889 | 4-May-1938 | German pacifist, Nobel Prize recipient |
| Claus von Stauffenberg | Military | 15-Nov-1907 | 20-Jul-1944 | Tried to kill Hitler in 1944 |
| Erwin von Witzleben | Military | 4-Dec-1881 | 8-Aug-1944 | German general, tried to overthrow Hitler |
| August von Wassermann | Biologist | 21-Feb-1866 | 16-Mar-1925 | Syphilis test |
| Helene Weigel | Actor | 12-May-1900 | 6-May-1971 | The Berliner Ensemble |
| Richard von Weizsäcker | Head of State | 15-Apr-1920 | 31-Jan-2015 | President of Germany, 1984-94 |
| Horst Wessel | Activist | 9-Oct-1907 | 23-Feb-1930 | Nazi martyr |
| Christa Wolf | Novelist | 18-Mar-1929 | 1-Dec-2011 | Divided Heaven |
| Arthur Zimmermann | Government | 5-Oct-1864 | 6-Jun-1940 | Zimmerman Telegram |
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