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Born August 20, 1802
Died January 6, 1875 (aged 72) • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Hassenpflug
Hans Daniel Hassenpflug
German politician
William IV, detail from an engraving by P. Troschel
William IV
landgrave of Hesse-Kassel
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Robert Wiene
German film director
Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Bernard II
German duke