Nov 13 Kellie Waymire (Crewmen Cutler) died of cardiac arrhythmia, 2003
Jul 20 James Doohan (Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott) died, 2005
Nov 1 Michael Piller died, 2005
+Feb 37 Leonard Nimoy died, 2015
/* Literature */
Nov 10 Friedrich Schiller born in Marbach, 1759
Feb 15 Gottwald Ephraim Lessing died, 1781
Apr 1 Hans Christian Andersen born, 1805
May 9 Friedrich Schiller died, 1805
+Mar 26 Siegfried Lenz born, 1926
Feb 8 Jules Gabriel Verne born in Nantes, 1828
Sep 15 Agatha Christie born in Torquay, 1890
Jun 25 George Orwell born, 1903
Mar 24 Jules Gabriel Verne died, 1905
+May 23 Dieter Hildebrandt born, 1927
May 25 Robert Ludlum born, 1927
Oct 16 Günter Grass born, 1927
Sep 21 Stephen Edwin King born in Maine, 1947
Mar 12 Robert Ludlum died, 2001
Jan 28 Astrid Lindgren died, 2002
Jan 29 Ephraim Kishon died at the age of 80, 2005
+Oct 07 Siegfried Lenz died, 2014
/* Music */
Dec 29 Pablo Casals born, 1876
Jan 24 Neil Diamond born, 1931
Sep 30 Udo Jürgens born, 1934
Dec 21 Reinhard Mey born, 1942
+Jun 7 Prince born, 1958
+May 20 Joe Cocker born, 2014
Aug 16 Madonna born, 1958
Aug 29 Michael Jackson born, 1958
Aug 16 Elvis Presley died, 1977
Jun 10 Ray Charles died, 2004
Sep 11 Gordon Mattew 'Sting' Summer born, 1951
Dec 25 James Brown died, 2006
+Dec 12 Ike Turner died, 2007
+Dec 21 Udo Jürgens died, 2014
+Dec 22 Joe Cocker died, 2014
+Jan 10 David Bowie died, 2016
+Apr 21 Prince died, 2016
/* TV and Movies */
Dec 24 The first public radio show, 1906
Dec 14 Premiere von "Saturday Night Fever", 1977
Feb 26 Oskar Sala (Trautonium player) died at the age of 91, 2002
Mar 28 Billy Wilder died at the age of 95, 2002
+Jun 9 Founding of Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen
+ Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD), 1950
/* German Actors and Actresses */
Dec 27 Marlene Dietrich born, 1901
Dec 5 Johannes Heesters born, 1903
Jan 20 Heinz Erhard born, 1909
May 30 Inge Meysel born, 1910
+Apr 20 Brigitte Mira born, 1910
Mar 29 Brigitte Horney born, 1911
Feb 14 Georg Thomalla born, 1915
Dec 13 Curd Jürgens born, 1915
May 26 Horst 'Derrik' Tappert born, 1923
Nov 12 Bernhard Victor 'Vicco' Christoph Carl 'Loriot' von Bülow born, 1923
+Apr 8 Günter Pfitzmann born, 1924
Apr 2 Hans Rosenthal born, 1925
Apr 12 Hardy Krüger born, 1928
Sep 14 Hans Clarin born in Wilhelmshaven, 1928
Jun 29 Harald 'Harry Heinz Herbert' Juhnke born, 1929
Sep 8 Mario Adorf born, 1930
Feb 8 Manfred Krug born, 1937
+Aug 6 Evelyn Hamann born, 1942
+Oct 02 Dieter Pfaff born, 1947
Aug 12 Iris Berben born, 1950
Jun 18 Curd Jürgens died after heart attack, 1982
Feb 10 Hans Rosenthal died, 1987
Jul 27 Brigitte Horney died, 1988
+Mar 09 Jonathan Dümmcke born, 1991
Oct 3 Heinz Rühmann died, 1994
Aug 25 Georg Thomalla died, 1999
Feb 1 Hildegard Knef died at the age of 76, 2002
Apr 1 Harald 'Harry Heinz Herbert' Juhnke died, 2005
Aug 28 Hans Clarin died, 2005
Jul 7 Rudi Carrell died in Bremen, 2006
+Aug 24 Hans-Jörg Felmy died, 2007
+Oct 28 Evelyn Hamann died, 2007
+Dec 13 Horst Tappert died, 2008
+Dec 24 Johannes Heesters died, 2011
+Aug 06 Sylvia Seidel died, 2012
+Mar 05 Dieter Pfaff died, 2013
+Aug 05 Jonathan Dümmcke died, 2013
+Mar 17 Mareike Carrière died, 2014
+Jul 17 Dietmar Schönherr died, 2014
+Sep 2 Gottfried John died, 2014
+Sep 11 Joachim 'Blacky' Fuchsberger died, 2014
+Jan 2 Maja Maranow died, 2016
/* International Actors and Actresses */
Jan 18 Oliver Hardy born, 1892
Jan 18 Cary Grant born, 1904
+May 27 Christopher Lee born, 1922
Apr 16 Sir Peter Ustinov born, 2004
Oct 1 George Peppard born, 1928
Nov 10 Ennio Morricone born, 1928
May 8 George Peppard died, 1994
Mar 28 Sir Peter Ustinov died, 2004
Dec 18 Steven Spielberg born, 1946
+Jan 11 Whitney Houston died, 2012
+Jul 03 Andy Griffith died, 2012
+Aug 12 Robin Williams died, 2014
+Jun 6 Pierre Brice died, 2015
+Jun 7 Christopher Lee died, 2015
+Jan 14 Alan Rickman died, 2016
/* Miscellaneous */
Aug 31 Princess Diana killed in an accident, 1997