(died 1973) 14 January – Hasso von Manteuffel, German general during World War II (died 1978) 19 February – Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender, German opera singer (died 1978) 2 March – Gurit Kadman, German-born Israeli dance instructor and choreographer (died 1987) 8 April – Will Dohm, German actor (died 1948) 9 April – Ernst Melsheimer, German lawyer (died 1960) 19 April – Bruno Diekmann, German politician (died 1982) 11 May – Kurt Gerron, German actor (died 1944) 16 June – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (died 1987) 5 July – Paul Ben-Haim (born Paul Frankenburger), German-born Israeli composer (died 1984) 17 July – Max Knoll, German electrical engineer (died 1969) 4 August – Adolf Heusinger, German general (died 1982) 10 August – Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg (died 1970) 30 August – August Bach, German politician (died 1966) 28 October – Hans Speidel, German general (died 1984) 29 October – Joseph Goebbels, German politician (died 1945) 12 November – Karl Marx, German composer (died 1985) 23 November – Fritz Steinhoff, German politician (died 1969) 5 December – Gershom Scholem (born Gerhard Scholem), German-born Israeli philosopher and historian (died 1982) 14 December – Thomas Dehler, German politician (died 1967) Full date unknown – Shimon Fritz Bodenheimer, German-born Israeli biologist and zoologist (died 1959) Deaths 19 February – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (born 1815) 11 March – Daniel Sanders, German lexicographer (born 1819) 3 April – Johannes Brahms, German German composer and pianist (born 1833) 10 April – Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (born 1851) 11 April – Johann Nepomuk Brischar, German Roman Catholic church historian (born 1819) 17 June – Sebastian Kneipp, German priest (born 1821) 21 July – Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (born 1820) 8 August – Viktor Meyer, German chemist (born 1848) 20 September – Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (born 1819) 30 September – Leopold Auerbach, German anatomist and neuropathologist (born 1828) 1 November — Ulrike Henschke, German women's right activist and education reformer (born 1830) 3 December – Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke, German astronomer (born 1835) References Years of the 19th century in Germany Germany Germany