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Munich, Germany

LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.muenchen.de/

Population:
1,402,000 (2004)

Founding Date:
1158 AD

SCHOOLS

SchoolFounded
University of Munich
 

COMPANY HEADQUARTERS

CompanyFounded
HypoVereinsbank
1998
BMW
1913
Allianz
1890
Munich Re
1880
Siemens
1847

BIRTHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Brianna Banks
Pornstar
21-May-1978   Little White Chicks Big Black Monster Dicks #6
Moritz Bleibtreu
Actor
13-Aug-1971   Run Lola Run
Eva Braun
First Lady
6-Feb-1912 30-Apr-1945 Adolf Hitler's lady friend
Eduard Buchner
Chemist
20-May-1860 13-Aug-1917 Studied fermentation
Harold Faltermeyer
Electronic Musician
5-Oct-1952   Axel F
Ernst Otto Fischer
Chemist
10-Nov-1918 23-Jul-2007 Organometallic sandwich compounds
Werner Herzog
Film Director
5-Sep-1942   Fitzcarraldo
Heinrich Himmler
Government
7-Oct-1900 23-May-1945 Leader of the SS
Robert Huber
Chemist
20-Feb-1937   Proteins of photosynthesis
Denis Johnson
Novelist
1949   Jesus' Son
A. Elizabeth Jones
Diplomat
1948   US Ambassador to Kazakhstan, 1995-98
Marianne Koch
Actor
19-Aug-1931   A Fistful of Dollars
Georges J.F. Köhler
Scientist
17-Apr-1946 1-Mar-1995 Hybridoma technique (monoclonal antibodies)
Ludwig II
Royalty
25-Aug-1845 13-Jun-1886 Mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, 1864-86
Feodor Lynen
Scientist
6-Apr-1911 6-Aug-1979 Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Erika Mann
Journalist
9-Nov-1905 27-Aug-1969 Daughter of Thomas Mann
Rudolf Mössbauer
Physicist
31-Jan-1929   Discovered Mössbauer effect
Rosemary Murphy
Actor
13-Jan-1927   Eleanor and Franklin
Carl Orff
Composer
10-Jul-1895 29-Mar-1982 Carmina Burana
Arno Penzias
Astronomer
26-Apr-1933   Detected primordial radiation
Wolfgang Reitherman
Film Director
26-Jun-1909 22-May-1985 Jungle Book
Josef Anton Riedl
Composer
11-Jun-1929   Glas-Spiele
Ernst Roehm
Government
28-Nov-1887 1-Jul-1934 Organizer of Hitler's Brownshirts, the SA
Jeri Ryan
Actor
22-Feb-1968   Seven of Nine on Star Trek: Voyager
Richard Strauss
Composer
11-Jun-1864 8-Sep-1949 Also sprach Zarathustra
C. David Welch
Diplomat
1953   Asst. Secy. of State for the Near East

DEATHS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Rainer Barzel
Politician
20-Jun-1924 26-Aug-2006 CDU Chairman, 1971-73
Hugh Beaumont
Actor
16-Feb-1909 14-May-1982 Ward Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver
Ludwig Biermann
Astronomer
13-Mar-1907 12-Jan-1986 Solar winds
Eduard Buchner
Chemist
20-May-1860 13-Aug-1917 Studied fermentation
Adolf Butenandt
Chemist
24-Mar-1903 18-Jan-1995 Research in sex hormones
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film Director
31-May-1945 10-Jun-1982 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Ernst Otto Fischer
Chemist
10-Nov-1918 23-Jul-2007 Organometallic sandwich compounds
Hans Fischer
Chemist
27-Jul-1881 31-Mar-1945 Chemistry of pyrrole, synthesis of haemin
Karl von Frisch
Zoologist
20-Nov-1886 12-Jun-1982 Researched bee communications
Helmut Griem
Actor
6-Apr-1932 19-Nov-2004 Cabaret
Romano Guardini
Religion
17-Feb-1885 1-Oct-1968 Roman Catholic theologian
Werner Heisenberg
Physicist
5-Dec-1901 1-Feb-1976 Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Paul von Heyse
Author
15-Mar-1830 2-Apr-1914 L'Arrabbiata
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Philosopher
25-Jan-1743 18-Mar-1819 German Spinozist
Fritz Kortner
Actor
12-May-1892 22-Jul-1970 Pandora's Box
Emil Kraepelin
Psychiatrist
15-Feb-1856 7-Oct-1926 Manic depression and schizophrenia
Orlando di Lasso
Composer
1530 14-Jun-1594 Psalmi Davidis Poenitentiales
Justus Liebig
Chemist
12-May-1803 18-Apr-1873 Reformed pedagogy of chemistry
Feodor Lynen
Scientist
6-Apr-1911 6-Aug-1979 Cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism
Alistair MacLean
Novelist
28-Apr-1922 2-Feb-1987 The Guns of Navarone
William of Ockham
Philosopher
c. 1285 9-Apr-1348 Occam's Razor
Georg Simon Ohm
Physicist
16-Mar-1789 6-Jul-1854 Ohm's Law
Carl Orff
Composer
10-Jul-1895 29-Mar-1982 Carmina Burana
Talcott Parsons
Sociologist
13-Dec-1902 8-May-1979 The Structure of Social Action
Geli Raubal
Relative
4-Jun-1908 18-Sep-1931 Hitler's niece
Theodor Reuss
Religion
28-Jun-1855 28-Oct-1923 Founded the Ordo Templi Orientis
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Physicist
27-Mar-1845 10-Feb-1923 Discovered X-Rays
Hjalmar Schacht
Government
22-Jan-1877 3-Jun-1970 Reich Minister of Economics
Alois Senefelder
Inventor
6-Nov-1771 26-Feb-1834 Inventor of lithography
Arnold Sommerfeld
Physicist
5-Dec-1868 26-Apr-1951 Fine-structure constant
Oswald Spengler
Historian
29-May-1880 8-May-1936 The Decline of the West
Max Weber
Sociologist
21-Apr-1864 14-Jun-1920 The Protestant Ethic
Frank Wedekind
Playwright
24-Jul-1864 9-Mar-1918 Playwright born before his time
Wilhelm Wien
Physicist
13-Jan-1864 30-Aug-1928 Blackbody radiation



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