Uhlman, German-English writer, painter and lawyer (died 1985) 25 March – Yeshayahu Forder, German—Israeli lawyer and politician (died 1970) 21 May – Manfred Aschner, German—Israeli microbiologist and entomologist (died 1989) 27 May – Georg August Zinn, German politician (died 1976) 8 October – Adolf Weidmann, German athlete and sports official (died 1997) 15 October – Hermann Josef Abs, German banker (d. 1994) 5 December – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (died 1976) 27 December – Marlene Dietrich, German actress and singer (died 1992) Undated — Yohanan Levi, German-born Hebrew linguist and historian, specializing in the Second Temple period (died 1945) Deaths 5 January – Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (born 1818). 27 January – Otto Jäschke, governor of Kiaochow (Kiautschou) 10 February – Max von Pettenkofer, Bavarian chemist and hygienist (born 1818) 6 July – Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1819) 21 August – Adolf Eugen Fick, German-born physician and physiologist (born 1829) 23 October – Georg von Siemens, German banker (born 1839) 28 October – Paul Rée, German author and philosopher (born 1849) 25 November – Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer (born 1839) 6 December – Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann, German photographer (born 1815) References Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany