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2000 Werner Klemperer, actor, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 80

1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51

1994 Werner Schwab, writer, playwright, visual artist, dies at 35

1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84

1990 Werner Janssen, U.S. composer (New Years Eve in New York), dies at 91

1984 Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61

1983 Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82

1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36

1979 Werner Forssman, German urologist (Nobel 1956), dies

1976 Werner Braunig, writer, dies

1976 Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74

1976 Werner Heisenberg, German Physicist

1970 Werner Hippler, WLAF TE for the Frankfurt Galaxy

1969 Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82

1963 Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle), dies at 77

1962 Werner Bock, writer, dies

1959 Werner Krauss, actor (Joyless Street), dies at 75

1958 Werner Schwab, born in Austria, writer, playwright, visual artist, studied sculpture at Vienna's Akademie der bildenden Kunste in 1990, wrote sixteen plays, produced eight, controversial works in the Austrian Black comedy tradition

1954 Professor Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69

1954 Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38

1950 Tom Werner, owner for the San Diego Padres/producer, Roseanne, Cosby Show

1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, Marriage of Maria Braum

1946 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67

1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor, Ehe der Maria Braun

1945 Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg

1944 Werner von Haeffen, German lieutenant (July 20th plotter), executed

1944 Werner Wehrli, composer, dies at 52

1943 RAF discovers Werner von Brauns V1/V2-base in Peenemunde

1942 Werner Herzog, director, Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck

1942 Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"

1941 Werner Sombart, Marxist economist (Handler und Heroes), dies at 78

1935 Werner Erhard, Philadelphia, founded EST

1930 David Werner Amram, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, composer, Splendor in the Grass

1930 Heinz Werner Zimmermann, composer

1929 Werner Rackwitz, German musicologist, Handel-Renaissance

1927 Dieter Noll, born in Riesa, Germany, writer, wrote two-volume novel Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt, over two million copies sold, volume one used as East German school curriculum

1926 Hans Werner Henze, Guttersloh Germany, composer, Das Floss Medusa

1926 Werner Torkanowsky, born in Berlin, Germany, conductor, New Orleans Symph

1923 Werner Haentjes, composer

1922 Oskar Werner, film actor and director, Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel

1920 Werner Klemperer, born in Cologne, Germany, actor, Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes

1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies

1919 Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrial/son of Werner, dies

1912 Werner Fussan, composer

1912 Werner von Braun, born in Wirsitz, Germany, rocket expert, I Aim at the Stars

1910 Werner Wolf Glaser, composer

1908 Hans Werner Richter, German author, Socially Responsible Cinema

1908 Werner Reinowski, writer

1904 Werner Forssman, German urologist, Nobel 1956

1901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty, Nobel 32

1901 Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer, Die Zaubergeige

1899 Werner Janssen, New York City, conductor and composer, New Years Eve in New York

1892 E Werner von Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens AG), dies at 75

1892 Werner Wehrli, composer

1886 Theodor Werner, German painter

1885 Werner Elert, German luthers theologist

1885 Werner Erich Josten, born in Elberfeld, Germany, composer, Jungle

1884 Werner Krauss, born in Germany, actor, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Joyless Street

1878 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr

1866 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel 1913

1863 Werner Sombart, German fascist, Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben

1823 Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36

1817 Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist

1816 E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor

1766 Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73

1693 Gregor Joseph Werner, composer

1679 Werner Fabricius, composer, dies at 45

1637 Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies

1633 Werner Fabricius, composer


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