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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
Robert Wiene
German film director
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist
Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
August Boeckh
German scholar
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]