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Ed Heinlein: German Consultant

Juni Geburtstage (Birthdays)

1Heidi Klum (1973-  )

Modell / model, TV host, businesswoman, fashion designer, and occasional actress

2Johnny Weissmuller (1904-1984)

Schwimmer und Schauspieler / Austrian-American gold-medal Olympic swimmer (3 in 1924 and 2 in 1928) and portrayed "Tarzan" in films of the 1930s and 1940s.

6Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

Schriftsteller und Dichter / novelist, short-story writer, and poet, whose novels often had several levels of meaning

8Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer, who set to music the verses of many German lyric poets and also composed chamber music, symphonies and pieces for piano

10Frederick Loewe (1901-1988)

Komponist / Berlin-born composer of famous Lerner and Loewe musicals, including Camelot and My Fair Lady

11Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Musiker und Komponist / musician and composer, who was known for his operas, his songs, his tone poems, and other instrumental works; he was also a prominent conductor throughout Germany and Austria

12Anne Frank (1929-1945)

Schriftsteller / author of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II

12John Augustus Roebling (1806-1869)

Bauingenieur und Brückenbauer / German-American civil engineer and bridge-builder who designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge.

14Steffi Graf (1969-  )

Tennisspieler / a former German tennis player, who was ranked world No. 1 during her career. Graf won 22 Grand Slam singles titles.

22Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)

Pädagog, Philosoph und Staatsmann / educator, philosopher, and statesman, and founder of Humboldt University of Berlin

22Billy Wilder (1904-1984)

Filmemacher / an Austrian-born American filmmaker whose career spanned more than fifty years and sixty films including The Apartment, Double Indemnity, and Some Like It Hot

22Konrad Zuse (1910-1995)

Ingenieur und Computerbahnbrecher / engineer and computer pioneer, whose greatest achievement was the world’s first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer

28Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007)

Physiker und Philosoph / physicist and philosopher, who was a member of the team which performed nuclear research in Germany during World War Two, under Werner Heisenberg’s leadership

30Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973)

Politiker / East German leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961