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September Geburtstage (Birthdays)

1Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)

Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer, whose most famous opera was Hänsel und Gretel

3Ferdinand Porsche (1875-1951)

Konstrukteur / designer of the car bearing his name and the Volkswagen Beetle

4Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Musiker und Komponist / Austrian musician and composer

5August Wilhelm von Schlegel (1767-1845)

Schriftsteller / writer

9Max Reinhardt (1873-1943)

Regisseur / film director who directed the American film A Midsummer Night's Dream of William Shakespeare's play.

11Karl Zeiss (1816-1888)

Konstrukteur / designer of the microscope, telescope, and photo lenses

14Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

Erforscher und Geograph / founder of modern geography and a naturalist researcher, who had 900 plants, animals, mountains, and rivers named after him

17Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730-1794)

Soldat und Offizier / Prussian general who came to America to help train American soldiers at Valley Forge and became Inspector General of the Continental Army under General Washington

23Robert Bosch (1861-1942)

Elektriker / electrical technologian, whose company today produces electrical parts for cars

23Romy Schneider (1938-1982)

Schauspielerin / German actress, whose career was marked by tremendous success and personal tragedies

24Albrecht von Wallenstein (1583-1634)

Feldherr / mercenary general during the Thirty Years War

27Thomas Nast (1840-1902)

Zeichner / artist and drawer, who was considered the father of American political cartoonists; took many photographs during the Civil war; emigrated from Germany to New York in 1846

28Max Schmeling (1905-2005)

Boxer / German athlete, who was the first boxer to defeat Joe Louis

29Franz Daniel Pastorius (1651-1719)

Gründer von Deutschestadt / leader of the first German immigrants who settled in Germantown (Philadelphia) on October 6, 1683; his protests ended slavery in other German religious colonies