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Today in History for May 17

On this day in 2004

  • BIRTHS
  • Joshua Krüger, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 2003

  • BIRTHS
  • Noah König, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 2002

  • BIRTHS
  • Lukas Reichel, Hockey Player, born in Nuremberg, Germany.
  • Louis Oppie, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Tom Schlitter, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 2001

  • BIRTHS
  • Benedict Hollerbach, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 1999

  • BIRTHS
  • Cerruti Siya, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Renat Dadashov, Azerbaijani-German football player, Rüdesheim am Rhein, born in Germany.

On this day in 1998

  • BIRTHS
  • Jonas Behounek, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Annika Loske,, Werder (Havel), born in Germany.

On this day in 1997

  • BIRTHS
  • Julius Thole, German (beach) volleyball player, Hamburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1996

  • BIRTHS
  • Lars Lokotsch, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 1995

  • BIRTHS
  • Max Gehrmann, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Benjamin Trümner, German footballer, Schwalmstadt, born in Germany.

On this day in 1994

  • BIRTHS
  • Timo Çeçen, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Sven Reimann, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Youcantellanybody, Blogger, born in Germany.

On this day in 1992

  • BIRTHS
  • Daniel Lang, German association football player, Backnang, born in Germany.

On this day in 1991

  • BIRTHS
  • Shervin Radjabali-Fardi, German footballer, Berlin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1990

  • BIRTHS
  • Matthias Rahn, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Fabian Giefer, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 1988

  • BIRTHS
  • Erik Lesser, German biathlete, Suhl, born in Germany.
  • Patrick Biedenkapp, Pilot, born in Germany.
  • Markus Scholz, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Martina Big, German model and actress known for her body modifications, Germany, born in Luxembourg.
  • Ludwig Trepte, German actor, Berlin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1987

  • BIRTHS
  • Patrick Buzas, German ice hockey player, Augsburg, born in Germany.
  • Torben Joneleit, German footballer, Monaco, born in Germany.
  • Ulrike Gräßler, ski jumper, Eilenburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1986

  • BIRTHS
  • Andy Reiss, German professional ice hockey defenceman, Hanover, born in Germany.

On this day in 1985

  • BIRTHS
  • Julian Loose, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 1984

  • BIRTHS
  • Andreas Spann, Soccer Player, born in Germany.

On this day in 1983

  • BIRTHS
  • Benjamin Reichert, Soccer Player, born in Germany.
  • Axel BELLINGHAUSEN, Soccer Player, born in Germany .
  • Erkan Öztürk, Turkish footballer, Leverkusen, born in Germany.
  • Sebastian HUBER, Soccer Player, born in Germany .
  • Reggie Williams, All-American college football player, professional football player, wide receiver, Landstuhl, born in Germany.
  • Ole Rückbrodt, German rower, Lübeck, born in Germany.

On this day in 1982

  • BIRTHS
  • Ivan Bošnjak, Russian basketball player (1982-), Langen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1981

  • BIRTHS
  • Laura Dell'angelo, Italian tennis player, Munich, born in Germany.
  • Katrin Kliehm, Association footballer, Hradec Králové, born in Germany.
  • Cosma Shiva Hagen, German actress, Los Angeles, born in Germany.

On this day in 1979

  • BIRTHS
  • Tyson Heung, German speed skater, Brampton, born in Germany.

On this day in 1978

  • BIRTHS
  • Stefan Herbst, swimmer, Leipzig, born in Germany.

On this day in 1975

  • BIRTHS
  • Kostas Sommer, Greek actor, Germany, born in Germany.
  • Jurij Kohl, Olympic wrestler, Jambyl Region, born in Germany.
  • Alex Wright, Wrestler, born in Germany.
  • Wolfram Kurschat, German Mountainbike cyclist, Werne, born in Germany.

On this day in 1974

  • BIRTHS
  • Vincenzo Palumbo, German footballer, Heilbronn, born in Germany.
  • Eero Lehmann, fencer, Düsseldorf, born in Germany.
  • Sebnem Dönmez, Turkish actress, Salzgitter, born in Germany.

On this day in 1972

  • EVENTS
  • Germany ratifies the Treaty of Warsaw. Chancellor Willy Brandt signed the treaty, by which Germany gives up any territorial claims and guarantees the Oder-Neisse line as the valid border to Poland..

On this day in 1971

  • BIRTHS
  • Claus Dierksmeier, German philosopher, Pforzheim, born in Germany.

On this day in 1970

  • BIRTHS
  • Oliver Axnick, German curler, Füssen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1969

  • BIRTHS
  • Birgit Jerschabek, German long-distance runner, Ludwigslust, born in Germany.

On this day in 1965

  • BIRTHS
  • Simone Kermes, German coloratura soprano, Leipzig, born in Germany.

On this day in 1963

  • BIRTHS
  • Susanne Jung, German javelin thrower, Meiningen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1962

  • BIRTHS
  • Heinz Strunk, German author and entertainer, Hamburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1961

  • BIRTHS
  • Achim Steiner, German politician and public servant, Carazinho, born in Germany.
  • Gisela Kinzel, German sprinter, Kirchhellen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1958

  • BIRTHS
  • Thomas Vogl, German university teacher and radiologist, Munich, born in Germany.

On this day in 1957

  • BIRTHS
  • Wilfried Hannes, German footballer, Düren, born in Germany.
  • Susann-Annette Storm, German attorney and lawyer, Stuttgart, born in Germany.

On this day in 1956

  • BIRTHS
  • Brigitte Fetzer, East German volleyball player, Bad Schlema, born in Germany.

On this day in 1955

  • BIRTHS
  • Edgar Baitzel, German opera director, Halle (Saale), born in Germany.
  • Joachim Reil, German ice hockey player, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1953

  • BIRTHS
  • Thomas Götz,, Schwäbisch Gmünd, born in Germany.

On this day in 1952

  • BIRTHS
  • Vera Kock, Swedish former swimmer, Heiligenhafen, born in Germany.
  • Bernhard Brink, German schlager singer, Nordhorn, born in Germany.

On this day in 1949

  • BIRTHS
  • Rüdiger Butte, Detective and politician, Lüthorst, born in Germany.
  • Martina Grunert, East German swimmer, Leipzig, born in Germany.

On this day in 1948

  • BIRTHS
  • Horst Köppel, German association football player, Stuttgart, born in Germany.
  • Winfried Kretschmann, German politician (Alliance 90/The Greens), Minister President of Baden-Württemberg, Spaichingen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1947

  • BIRTHS
  • Michael Wolffsohn, German historian, Tel Aviv, born in Germany.

On this day in 1946

  • BIRTHS
  • Udo Lindenberg, German rock musician and composer, Gronau, born in Germany.

On this day in 1945

  • BIRTHS
  • Renate Krössner, actress, Osterode am Harz, born in Germany.

On this day in 1941

  • BIRTHS
  • Csilla Von Boeselager, German baroness, Budapest, born in Germany.

On this day in 1940

  • EVENTS
  • Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins invasion of France.

On this day in 1936

  • BIRTHS
  • Peter Trunk, German composer, Frankfurt, born in Germany.

On this day in 1935

  • BIRTHS
  • Ryke Geerd Hamer, German physician, Biberach an der Riss, born in Germany.

On this day in 1934

  • BIRTHS
  • Hessy Levinsons Taft, German model, Berlin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1932

  • BIRTHS
  • Marianne Von Weizsäcker, spouse of the German President, Essen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1931

  • BIRTHS
  • Georg Zundel, German scientist, Tübingen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1930

  • BIRTHS
  • Alfons Lütke-Westhues, West German equestrian, Westbevern, born in Germany.
  • Otto Kraus, German zoologist, Frankfurt, born in Germany.

On this day in 1928

  • BIRTHS
  • Wolfgang Fikentscher, German anthropologist, Nuremberg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1926

  • EVENTS
  • Wilhelm Marx succeeds Hans Luther as Chancellor of Germany.
  • BIRTHS
  • Manfred Ewald, German politician, Podjuchy, born in Germany.
  • Henryk Bereska, German translator, Szopienice-Burowiec, born in Germany.
  • Karl Lieffen, actor, Osek, born in Germany.
  • Agnes Hürland-Büning, German politician, Dorsten, born in Germany.
  • Franz Sondheimer, British chemist, Stuttgart, born in Germany.

On this day in 1924

  • BIRTHS
  • Hannes Messemer, actor, Dillingen an der Donau, born in Germany.

On this day in 1923

  • BIRTHS
  • Wolfgang Müller-Wiener, architectural historian, Friedrichswerth, born in Germany.
  • WEDDINGS
  • Actress and singer Marlene Dietrich at the age of 21 weds assistant director Rudolf Sieber at the age of 26 in Berlin, Germany.

On this day in 1922

  • BIRTHS
  • Antje Weisgerber, German actress, Königsberg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1918

  • BIRTHS
  • Hans-Wilhelm Bertram, German bomber pilot and Knight's Cross recipient, Breitenbrunn, Saxony, born in Germany.
  • Gerhard Köppen, German fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient, Kuhlen-Wendorf, born in Germany.

On this day in 1916

  • BIRTHS
  • Bele Bachem, German painter, Düsseldorf, born in Germany.

On this day in 1915

  • BIRTHS
  • Walther Hubatsch, German historian, Königsberg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1914

  • BIRTHS
  • Erich Wulff, German naval officer and Knight's Cross recipients, Stade, born in Germany.
  • Siegfried Rossner, German fencer, Berlin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1913

  • BIRTHS
  • Hans Multhopp, German aerospace engineer, Stuttgart, born in Germany.
  • Engelbert Bockhoff, German officer and Knight's Cross recipient, Stadtlohn, born in Germany.

On this day in 1911

  • BIRTHS
  • Herbert Crüger, German politician and author, Berlin, born in Germany.
  • Ilse Stöbe, German spy, Berlin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1909

  • BIRTHS
  • Magda Schneider, austrian actress, Augsburg, born in Germany.
  • Werner Widmayer, Association footballer, Kiel, born in Germany.

On this day in 1908

  • BIRTHS
  • Margot Dreschel, Nazi concentration camp guard, Mistelgau, born in Germany.
  • Johannes Krahn, German architect, Mainz, born in Germany.

On this day in 1907

  • BIRTHS
  • Ulrich Biel, German politician (CDU), Charlottenburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1905

  • BIRTHS
  • Kate Wallach,, Krefeld, born in Germany.
  • Hans-Joachim Caesar, German lawyer and banking official, Nysa, born in Germany.

On this day in 1904

  • BIRTHS
  • Fritz Lehmann, German conductor, Mannheim, born in Germany.
  • Heinrich Karl Ernst Martin Meyer, German professor, Nuremberg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1902

  • BIRTHS
  • Hans Gaffron, German biologist, Lima, born in Germany.

On this day in 1901

  • BIRTHS
  • Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), born in Donauwörth, Germany (d. 1983).

On this day in 1900

  • BIRTHS
  • Werner Bochmann, German composer, Meerane, born in Germany.

On this day in 1898

  • BIRTHS
  • Anagarika Govinda, Founder of a Buddhist order, Waldheim, born in Germany.
  • Dorothea Thiess, German actress, Merzig, born in Germany.
  • Karl Mauss, German World War II general; dentist, Plön, born in Germany.

On this day in 1897

  • BIRTHS
  • Oswald Rothaug, German judge and Nazi war criminal, Mittelsinn, born in Germany.

On this day in 1896

  • BIRTHS
  • Hannah Tillich, German-American writer (Harbor Mouse) and wife of Paul Tillich, born in Rotenburg an der Fulda, Germany (d. 1988).

On this day in 1895

  • BIRTHS
  • Gayelord Hauser, American nutritionist, Tübingen, born in Germany.
  • Georg Wulf, German engineer, Bremen, born in Germany.
  • Karl Stumpff, German astronomer, Schleswig, born in Germany.

On this day in 1894

  • BIRTHS
  • Hans Peters, art director, Hamburg, born in Germany.
  • Carl Rodenburg, German general and Knight's Cross recipient, Geestemünde, born in Germany.

On this day in 1893

  • BIRTHS
  • Kurt Diemer, Association footballer, Berlin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1890

  • BIRTHS
  • Kurt Pflieger, German General and Knight's Cross recipient, Wiesbaden, born in Germany.
  • Curt Badinski, German General and Knight's Cross recipient, Grebenstein, born in Germany.

On this day in 1889

  • BIRTHS
  • Leopold Siemens,, Berlin, born in Germany.
  • Paula Jordan,, Roetgen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1887

  • BIRTHS
  • Valeska Stock, German actress, Wroclaw, born in Germany.

On this day in 1886

  • BIRTHS
  • Ernst Deloch, equestrian, Anklam, born in Germany.

On this day in 1885

  • BIRTHS
  • Frederic Zelnik, German silent film maker, Chernivtsi, born in Germany.
  • Hans Finkelstein, German chemist, Leipzig, born in Germany.

On this day in 1883

  • BIRTHS
  • Franz Xaver Kappus, military officer, journalist, editor and writer from Austria, Austria-Hungary, born in Germany.

On this day in 1882

  • BIRTHS
  • Fritz Friedrichs, German painter, Hamburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1879

  • BIRTHS
  • Hans Grade, German aviation pioneer, Koszalin, born in Germany.

On this day in 1878

  • BIRTHS
  • Albert Windisch, German painter, Academy Professor, and typographer, Friedberg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1875

  • BIRTHS
  • Ernst Friedberger, German immunologist, Gießen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1871

  • BIRTHS
  • Gertrude Hoffmann, Character Actress, Heidelberg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1867

  • BIRTHS
  • Theodor Leipart, German politician, Neubrandenburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1862

  • BIRTHS
  • Agnes Sorma, German stage actor, Wroclaw, born in Germany.

On this day in 1860

  • BIRTHS
  • Otto Von Etzel, German soldier and diplomat (1860-1934), Naumburg (Saale), born in Germany.
  • Nataly Von Eschstruth, German writer, Hofgeismar, born in Germany.

On this day in 1857

  • BIRTHS
  • Gustav Botz, German actor, Bremen, born in Germany.

On this day in 1856

  • BIRTHS
  • Elisabeth Leisinger, German opera singer, Stuttgart, born in Germany.

On this day in 1848

  • BIRTHS
  • Tony Schumacher, author, Ludwigsburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1844

  • BIRTHS
  • Julius Wellhausen, German biblical scholar (analysis of the structure and dating of the Pentateuch), born in Hamelin, Hanover, Germany (d. 1918).

On this day in 1842

  • BIRTHS
  • August Thyssen, German industrialist, Eschweiler, born in Germany.

On this day in 1834

  • BIRTHS
  • Walter Hermann Von Heineke, German surgeon, Schönebeck, born in Germany.

On this day in 1832

  • BIRTHS
  • Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, German theologian, Karlsruhe, born in Germany.

On this day in 1830

  • BIRTHS
  • Joseph Conrad, American Union Army general, Wied, born in Germany.

On this day in 1829

  • BIRTHS
  • Heinrich Scheel, architect, Hamburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1822

  • BIRTHS
  • Bernhard Cossmann, German musician, Dessau, born in Germany.

On this day in 1821

  • BIRTHS
  • Johann Sudholz, Australian politician, Kirchdorf, born in Germany.

On this day in 1817

  • BIRTHS
  • Heinrich August Jäschke, German missionary, Herrnhut, born in Germany.

On this day in 1813

  • BIRTHS
  • Ernst Heinrich Meier, German orientalist, Bückeburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1812

  • BIRTHS
  • Johann Eduard Wappäus, geographer and writer from Germany, Hamburg, born in Germany.

On this day in 1800

  • BIRTHS
  • Ernst Von Bandel, German sculptor, Ansbach, born in Germany.
  • Carl Friedrich Zöllner, German composer, born in Mittelhausen, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1860).

On this day in 1782

  • BIRTHS
  • Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand Von Rohr, Prussian general and minister of war, Brandenburg an der Havel, born in Germany.

On this day in 1768

  • BIRTHS
  • Caroline Of Brunswick, Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom, Schloss Richmond, born in Germany.

On this day in 1749

  • BIRTHS
  • Christian Ludwig, German physician, Leipzig, born in Germany.

On this day in 1732

  • BIRTHS
  • Johann Carl Gehler, German mineralogist, Görlitz, born in Germany.

On this day in 1706

  • BIRTHS
  • Andreas Felix Von Oefele, German historian and librarian, Munich, born in Germany.

On this day in 1663

  • BIRTHS
  • Rosine Elisabeth Menthe, morganatic wife of Duke Rudolf August of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Brunswick, born in Germany.

On this day in 1626

  • BIRTHS
  • Countess Palatine Eleonora Catherine Of Zweibrücken, German noble, Stegeborg Castle, born in Germany.

On this day in 1381

  • BIRTHS
  • Johann Schiltberger, German writer, Freising, born in Germany.

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