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1995 Death - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor, dies at 88

1985 Event - L Brock, Slaughter, A Vaughan, and H Wilhelm inducted into Hall of Fame

1985 Event - Lou Brock and Hoyt Wilhelm, elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame

1981 Death - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch para-psychologist, dies at 87

1981 Death - Wilhelm H C Tenhaeff, para-psychologist, dies at 87

1980 Death - Wilhelm Weismann, composer, dies at 79

1976 Death - Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73

1972 Event - Dodgers release and end career of pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm

1970 Event - Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5

1969 Event - Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game

1969 Death - Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (Rubinstein-1905), dies at 85

1968 Death - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer, dies at 86

1968 Event - Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances

1965 Birthday - Erik Wilhelm, NFL quarterback for the New York Jets

1962 Death - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist, dies at 81

1960 Death - Wilhelm Pieck, president of East Germany (1949-60), dies at 84

1958 Event - Baltimore Oriole knuckler Hoyt Wilhelm no-hits New York Yankees 1-0

1957 Death - Wilhelm Reich, Austria/U.S. psycho analyst (sexual), dies at 60

1956 Event - 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)

1954 Death - Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor/composer, dies at 68

1954 Event - Attempting to handle Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball catcher Ray Katt of Giants sets a major league record with 4 passed balls

1952 Event - New York Giant Hoyt Wilhelm wins his 1st relief game and hits his only home run

1952 Death - Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed

1951 Death - Wilhelm Schafer, German writer (Mein Leben), dies at 82

1949 Event - Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of East Germany

1946 Death - Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged

1946 Death - Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal, hanged

1945 Death - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61

1945 Death - Wilhelm Canaris, Admiral/headed Germany Abwehr, hanged

1945 Event - "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed off Danzig by Soviet sub-c 7,700 die

1945 Event - German ship "Wilhelm Gustloff" torpedoed, 4,800 killed

1942 Death - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer, dies at 75

1941 Death - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84

1941 Death - Wilhelm II von Hohenzollern, emperor (Germany, 1888-1918), dies

1940 Birthday - Wilhelm Ruska, Holland, judo champ, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1940 Birthday - Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer

1939 Death - Wilhelm Grosz, composer, dies at 45

1939 Death - Wilhelm Bolsche, writer, dies at 78

1939 Death - [Karl Eduard] Wilhelm Groener, German general, dies at 71

1939 Death - Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olien), dies

1933 Death - Wilhelm Cuno, German Reich's chancellor (1922-23), dies at 56

1932 Death - Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist (Nobel 1909), dies

1928 Death - Wilhelm Wien, Germany physicist (laws of motion, Nobel 1911), dies at 64

1928 Birthday - Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Hamlet Trap

1927 Death - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56

1927 Death - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer, dies at 68

1927 Birthday - Wilhelm, Jr. Killmayer, composer

1925 Death - Wilhelm Gericke, composer, dies at 80

1925 Death - Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72

1923 Event - Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms

1923 Birthday - [James] Hoyt Wilhelm, knuckleball pitcher, Orioles

1923 Death - Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 77

1922 Event - Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government

1921 Death - Augusta Victoria, Queen of Prussia/wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, dies

1921 Death - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56

1920 Death - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher, dies

1920 Event - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies

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

1918 Event - Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia and Germany, abdicates

1918 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland

1918 Event - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I

1916 Event - Emperor Wilhelm II and French Jozef I establishes kingdom of Poland

1914 Event - Prince Wilhelm von Wied leaves Albania

1914 Death - Ferdinand AR Cabrera, Spanish/German of emperor Wilhelm II, dies at 58

1914 Event - Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I)

1914 Event - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize

1914 Event - Prince Wilhelm von Wied becomes King of Albania

1913 Event - Albania becomes sovereignty under prince Wilhelm von Wied

1912 Death - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer, dies at 88

1911 Death - Wilhelm Dilthey, Germ philosopher (Das Leben Schleiermans), dies at 77

1911 Birthday - Wilhelm F de Gaay Fortman, Dutch lawyer/foreign minister

1911 Death - Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49

1910 Death - Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, dies at 79

1910 Death - Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69

1908 Death - Wilhelm Busch, writer, dies

1907 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam

1907 Birthday - Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor

1906 Event - Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Captain of Kopenick) sentenced to 4 yrs

1905 Event - Treaty of Bjorko: Emperor Wilhelm II/czar Nicholas II

1905 Event - Emperor Wilhelm II lands in Tanger

1905 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II visits Tanger

1903 Death - Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies

1902 Birthday - Wilhelm Maler, composer

1901 Birthday - Wilhelm Conrad von Rontgen, physicist, Nobel

1900 Birthday - Wilhelm Weismann, composer

1900 Birthday - Wilhelm Steinitz, Germany, 1st chess champ, 1866-1894

1900 Death - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist/socialist, dies at 74

1897 Birthday - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian/U.S. psycho analysist, character analysis

1896 Event - German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's discovers x-rays

1896 Event - Emperor Wilhelm congratulates President Kruger on the Jameson Raid

1896 Event - Wilhelm Rontgen announces his discovery of x-rays

1895 Birthday - Wilhelm Kempff, Juterbog Germany, pianist, Unter dem Zimbelstern

1895 Event - Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays

1895 Death - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies

1895 Event - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 seconds)

1894 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II fires chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg

1894 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II fires Chancellor Leo von Caprivi and premier Botho zu Eulenburg

1894 Birthday - Wilhelm Grosz, composer

1894 Birthday - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist

1892 Birthday - Wilhelm Rettich, composer

1892 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer, dies at 59

1892 Death - Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69

1891 Death - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76

1891 Death - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer, dies at 79

1890 Event - German emperor Wilhelm II fires republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck

1890 Death - Augusta Maria L Katharina, wife of Germ emperor Wilhelm I, dies at 78

1889 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

1888 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer, dies at 79

1888 Event - Wilhelm II becomes emperor of Germany

1887 Death - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer, dies at 74

1887 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer, dies at 71

1887 Death - Wilhelm Troszel, composer, dies at 63

1887 Birthday - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence

1886 Death - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian, dies at 45

1886 Birthday - Wilhelm Furtwangler, Berlin Germany, conductor/composer

1885 Death - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor, dies at 65

1884 Birthday - Wilhelm Backhaus, born in Leipzig, Germany, pianist, Rubinstein 1905

1883 Birthday - Anton, Friedrich Wilhelm, von Webern, born in Vienna, Austria, 12-tone composer

1883 Death - Wilhelm Siemens, German/British physicist (steam engine), dies

1883 Death - Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, classic scholar, dies

1883 Death - Wilhelm Richard Wagner, composer, dies at 69

1882 Birthday - Wilhelm Keitel, German Field Marshal

1882 Birthday - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer

1882 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer, dies at 71

1881 Birthday - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor, Seated Youth

1880 Birthday - Wilhelm Pessler, German sociologist

1878 Death - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer, dies at 89

1878 Death - Wilhelm Speyer, composer, dies at 87

1877 Death - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65

1877 Birthday - Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia and Moravia

1876 Birthday - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor, 1922-23

1876 Birthday - Wilhelm Pieck, co-founder German Communist Party/president, 1949-60

1875 Death - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78

1873 Death - Carl Wilhelm, composer, dies at 57

1872 Birthday - GW Bitzer, Johann Gottlob Wilhelm Bitzer, Roxbury MA

1871 Event - Carousel patents by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa

1871 Death - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian Admiral (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43

1871 Birthday - Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer

1871 Event - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I and Bismarck

1870 Event - King Wilhelm of Prussia sends "Emser Depache" on Bismarck

1870 Birthday - Wilhelm Normann, German chemist, hardening of oils

1869 Death - Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer, dies at 66

1868 Death - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer, dies at 68

1868 Birthday - Wilhelm Schmidt, German anthropologist/linguist, Anthropos

1868 Birthday - Wilhelm Schafer, German writer, Ein Totschlager

1867 Birthday - Wilhelm Groener, Germany, general

1867 Birthday - Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, composer

1865 Death - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer, dies at 51

1865 Birthday - Wilhelm Bousset, German theologist/historian

1864 Birthday - Max Wilhelm Zach, composer

1864 Birthday - Wilhelm K. W. Wien, German phyicist, Nobel 1911

1863 Event - Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswok-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece

1863 Birthday - Wilhelm Marx, premier, Prussia

1862 Death - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73

1861 Birthday - Wilhelm Berger, composer

1861 Birthday - Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer, Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf

1861 Birthday - Wilhelm Bolsche, writer

1859 Death - Wilhelm Grimm, writer, dies at 73

1859 Event - Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope

1859 Birthday - Wilhelm Harteveld, composer

1859 Birthday - Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor, 1888-1918

1857 Birthday - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer, Evangelimann

1855 Birthday - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist

1853 Birthday - Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist, Nobel 1909

1852 Birthday - Wilhelm Posse, composer

1850 Death - Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53

1849 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63

1849 Death - Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69

1847 Death - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75

1846 Death - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer, dies at 63

1846 Birthday - Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes

1845 Death - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77

1845 Death - August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet

1845 Birthday - Wilhelm Gericke, composer

1845 Birthday - Wilhelm Konrad Rontgen, born in Germany, discovered X-rays, Nobel 1901

1841 Birthday - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian

1836 Birthday - Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion, 1866-94

1835 Death - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

1833 Birthday - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher, Das Leben Schleiermans

1833 Death - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88

1832 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, composer

1832 Birthday - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher

1831 Death - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher

1831 Birthday - Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, Der Hungerpastor

1827 Birthday - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian Admiral, Helgoland/Lissa

1827 Death - Wilhelm Hauff, writer, dies at 24

1826 Death - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer, dies at 82

1826 Birthday - Wilhelm Liebknecht, German MP, social-democratic

1823 Birthday - Wilhelm Kuhe, composer

1823 Birthday - Wilhelm Troszel, composer

1823 Birthday - Karl Wilhelm Siemens, inventor, laid undersea cables

1822 Birthday - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brigadier General, Union

1822 Birthday - Wilhelm Rust, composer

1819 Birthday - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor

1819 Death - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer, dies at 71

1817 Birthday - Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist, composer and conductor

1817 Death - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54

1816 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer

1815 Birthday - Carl Wilhelm, composer

1815 Birthday - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer

1814 Birthday - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, composer

1814 Birthday - Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer

1812 Birthday - Wilhelm Volkmar, composer

1811 Birthday - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz

1811 Birthday - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist, Bunsen Burner

1811 Birthday - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer

1810 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer

1809 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Jahns, composer

1804 Event - Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell," premieres

1803 Death - Wilhelm Heinse, writer, dies

1802 Birthday - Wilhelm Hauff, writer

1802 Birthday - Wilhelm Bernard Molique, composer

1802 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist

1799 Birthday - Olof Wilhelm Udden, composer

1798 Death - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24

1797 Birthday - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor, 1871-88

1797 Birthday - Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon map

1796 Birthday - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer

1796 Death - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer, dies on 67th birthday

1796 Death - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89

1796 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 56

1790 Birthday - Wilhelm Speyer, composer

1790 Death - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer, dies at 67

1789 Death - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer, dies at 61

1789 Birthday - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer

1788 Birthday - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter, Modern Vasari

1786 Birthday - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller, Grimm's Fairy Tales

1785 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer

1784 Death - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 74

1784 Death - Wilhelm Friedmann Bach, composer (Sinfonias 64), dies at 73

1784 Birthday - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer

1783 Birthday - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer

1783 Death - Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer, dies on 73rd birthday

1780 Birthday - Wilhelm M L de Wette, German exegetist/theologist

1774 Death - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies

1773 Birthday - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer, Fantasies about Art

1772 Birthday - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer

1770 Birthday - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor, dialectic

1767 Birthday - August Wilhelm von Schlegel, German Poet

1767 Birthday - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic

1767 Birthday - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German Educator

1762 Birthday - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer

1758 Birthday - Wilhelm Olbers, discovered asteroids, Pallas and Vesta

1747 Birthday - Johann Wilhelm Stadler, composer

1745 Birthday - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer

1744 Birthday - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer

1739 Birthday - Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer

1734 Birthday - Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Wenkel, composer

1729 Birthday - George Wilhelm Gruber, composer

1727 Birthday - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer

1725 Birthday - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet, Geistliche Kantaten

1722 Birthday - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle, composer

1712 Birthday - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter

1712 Death - Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer, dies at 48

1710 Birthday - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach

1710 Birthday - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of JS Bach, Sinfonias 64

1710 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer

1706 Birthday - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer

1686 Birthday - Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, composer

1663 Birthday - Friederich Wilhelm Zachow, composer

1663 Birthday - Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow, composer

1567 Death - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63

1503 Birthday - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German Lieutenant Colonel













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