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November 1

1607 – Birth of poet Georg Philipp Harsdörffer
1880 – Birth of meteorologist Alfred Wegener, who invented the theory of continental drift
1903 – Death of classicist and historian Theodor Mommsen, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature
1949 – The first edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is published

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November 2

1716 – Death of traveller and physician Engelbert Kaempfer
1874 – Birth of politician Rudolf Breitscheid
1894 – Birth of aerodynamics pioneer Alexander Martin Lippisch
1956 – Death of rabbi Leo Baeck

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November 3

1801 – Birth of publisher Karl Baedeker, founder of the Baedeker travel guides
1867 – Birth of mathematician Martin Kutta, known for Runge–Kutta methods
1900 – Birth of Adolf Dassler, founder of adidas
1918 – The Kiel mutiny marks the start of the German Revolution of 1918–1919

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November 4

1847 – Death of composer Felix Mendelssohn
1847 – Birth of archaeologist Gustav Hirschfeld
1890 – Birth of writer Klabund

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November 5

1494 – Birth of meistersinger Hans Sachs
1667 – Birth of painter Christoph Ludwig Agricola
1923 – Birth of journalist Rudolf Augstein, founder of Der Spiegel

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November 6

1672 – Death of composer Heinrich Schütz
1929 – Death of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany 1918

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November 7

1810 – Birth of novelist Fritz Reuter
1818 – Birth of physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond
1918 – Kurt Eisner declares Bavaria a free state, leading to the Bavarian Soviet Republic
1989 – Willi Stoph resigns as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the German Democratic Republic

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November 8

1848 – Birth of mathematician, logician and philosopher Gottlob Frege
1868 – Birth of mathematician Felix Hausdorff
1918 – Birth of type designer and calligrapher Hermann Zapf

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November 9

November 9 in German history
1848 – Revolutionary Robert Blum is executed
1885 – Birth of mathematician Hermann Weyl
1918 – Germany is declared a republic in the German Revolution
1923 – End of the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler's failed attempt to seize power
1938 – A massive pogrom against the Jewish population of Germany is started, known as Kristallnacht
1989 – Fall of the Berlin Wall

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November 10

1486 – Birth of theologian and reformer Martin Luther
1759 – Birth of poet Friedrich Schiller
1887 – Birth of author Arnold Zweig
1918 – Birth of chemist Ernst Otto Fischer, winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1955 – Birth of film director, screenwriter, and producer Roland Emmerich

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November 11

1668 – Birth of classical scholar Johann Albert Fabricius
1884 – Death of zoologist Alfred Brehm, author of Brehms Tierleben
1918 – World War I ends with the signing of an armistice near Compiègne
1929 – Birth of author Hans Magnus Enzensberger

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November 12

1742 – Death of physician Friedrich Hoffmann
1923 – Birth of humorist Vicco von Bülow, usually known as Loriot
1929 – Birth of author Michael Ende, best known for The Neverending Story
1955 – The Bundeswehr is officially established

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November 13

1486 – Birth of theologian Johann Eck
1862 – Death of poet Ludwig Uhland
2014 – Death of mathematician Alexander Grothendieck

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November 14

1716 – Death of philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz
1825 – Death of writer Jean Paul
1940 – Most of Coventry is destroyed by the Luftwaffe in the Coventry Blitz
1990 – Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line

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November 15

1741 – Birth of poet and physiognomist Johann Kaspar Lavater
1787 – Death of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
1862 – Birth of author Gerhart Hauptmann, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature
1936 – Birth of singer-songwriter and dissident Wolf Biermann
1959 – The Social Democratic Party of Germany ratisfies its Godesberg Program, giving up on the ideas of Marxism

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November 16

1797 – Death of King Frederick William II of Prussia
1891 – Birth of politician and resistance fighter Julius Leber
1895 – Birth of composer Paul Hindemith
1909 – DELAG, the world's first airline, is founded

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November 17

1624 – Death of mystic Jakob Böhme
1790 – Birth of mathematician August Ferdinand Möbius
1876 – Birth of photographer August Sander
1901 – Birth of politician Walter Hallstein, known for the Hallstein Doctrine
1934 – Death of poet Joachim Ringelnatz

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November 18

1786 – Birth of composer Carl Maria von Weber
1839 – Birth of physicist August Kundt
1906 – Birth of writer Klaus Mann
1941 – Death of chemist Walther Nernst

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November 19

1833 – Birth of philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey
1900 – Birth of author Anna Seghers, who wrote The Seventh Cross

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November 20

1602 – Birth of physicist and politician Otto von Guericke
1917 – Beginning of the Battle of Cambrai

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November 21

1768 – Birth of theologian Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher
1811 – Suicide of poet Heinrich von Kleist

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November 22

1220 – Frederick II is crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1710 – Birth of composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
1897 – Birth of astronomer Paul Oswald Ahnert
1967 – Birth of tennis player Boris Becker
2005 – Angela Merkel is elected Chancellor of Germany

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November 23

912 – Birth of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor
1943 – Birth of politician Günther Beckstein
1991 – Death of actor Klaus Kinski

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November 24

1801 – Birth of writer Ludwig Bechstein
1887 – Birth of Wehrmacht commander Erich von Manstein
1934 – Birth of composer Alfred Schnittke

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November 25

1841 – Birth of mathematician Ernst Schröder, known for the Schröder-Bernstein theorem
1865 – Death of explorer Heinrich Barth
1881 – Death of Theobald Boehm, who perfected the modern flute
1940 – Birth of astronaut Reinhard Furrer

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November 26

1346 – Charles IV is crowned King of Germany in opposition to Louis IV
1832 – Birth of physicist Rudolph Koenig
1857 – Death of poet and novelist Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
1885 – Birth of Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany 1930-1932

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November 27

1308 – Henry VII is elected King of the Romans
1754 – Birth of scientist and revolutionary Georg Forster
1804 – Birth of composer Julius Benedict
2005 – Death of politician Franz Schönhuber, known as leader of The Republicans

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November 28

1815 – Death of violinist and composer Johann Peter Salomon
1820 – Birth of philosopher Friedrich Engels
1887 – Birth of Nazi Sturmabteilung leader Ernst Röhm
1983 – Ulf Merbold takes off with Space Shuttle mission STS-9 to become the first West German in space

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November 29

1626 – Death of soldier Ernst von Mansfeld
1802 – Birth of poet and novelist Wilhelm Hauff
1856 – Birth of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of the German Empire
1904 – Birth of architect Egon Eiermann, best known for the reconstruction of Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

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November 30

1756 – Birth of physicist Ernst Chladni, known for his research on vibrating plates
1817 – Birth of classicist and historian Theodor Mommsen, winner of the 1902 Nobel Prize for Literature
1954 – Death of conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler
1989 – Deutsche Bank chairman Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction bomb

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