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German Roman Catholics

  • Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus entered the world on the 19th of February 1473 within the city walls of Toruń. This location sat in Royal Prussia, a region recently…
  • Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was baptized on the 17th of December 1770 in the Catholic Parish of St. Remigius. His father Johann claimed Ludwig was six years old for…
  • Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born on the 27th of January 1756 to Leopold Mozart and Anna Maria at Getreidegasse 9 in Salzburg.
  • Wolfgang OverathWolfgang Overath spent his entire professional career at 1. FC Köln between 1962 and 1977. He appeared in 765 matches for the club during that fifteen-year…
  • Helmut KohlOn the 3rd of April 1930, a boy named Helmut Kohl was born in the industrial city of Ludwigshafen. He grew up as the third child of Hans Kohl and Cäcilie…
  • Francis II, Holy Roman EmperorIn 1784, a young Archduke named Francis left the sun-drenched streets of Florence for the cold stone halls of Vienna. He was only sixteen years old when his…
  • Anna Maria MozartAnna Maria Pertl entered the world on the 25th of December 1720 in St. Gilgen, a town within the Archbishopric of Salzburg.
  • Maximilian III JosephMaximilian III Joseph was born on the 28th of March 1727 in Munich. He entered a world already burning with conflict when his father died in January 1745.
  • Jacques OffenbachOn the 20th of June 1819, a boy named Jacob Offenbach was born in the German city of Cologne. He entered the world as the second son and seventh child of…
  • Konrad AdenauerKonrad Adenauer was born on the 5th of January 1876 in Cologne, Rhenish Prussia. He grew up as the third of five children to Johann Konrad Adenauer and…
  • Johannes GutenbergJohannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was born in Mainz, a wealthy city along the Rhine, between 1393 and 1406. His father Friele served as a…
  • Erwin RommelJohannes Erwin Eugen Rommel was born on the 15th of November 1891 in Heidenheim, from Ulm, within the Kingdom of Württemberg.
  • Leopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was born on the 14th of November 1719 in Augsburg. His father worked as a bookbinder and his mother was Anna Maria Sulzer.
  • Manuel NeuerManuel Neuer made his Bundesliga debut with Schalke 04 on matchday two of the 2006, 07 season. He came on as a substitute for the injured Frank Rost during a…
  • Miroslav KloseMiroslav Josef Klose arrived in the Silesian city of Opole, Poland on the 9th of June 1978. His father Josef worked as a professional footballer for Odra…
  • Albrecht DürerAlbrecht Dürer was born on the 21st of May 1471 in Nuremberg, Germany. His father, Albrecht Dürer the Elder, had moved from Hungary to become a successful…
  • Constanze MozartMaria Constanze Cäcilia Josepha Johanna Aloysia Mozart entered the world on the 5th of January 1762 in Zell im Wiesental.
  • Otto von HabsburgOtto von Habsburg was born at Villa Wartholz in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria-Hungary on the 20th of November 1912. His full baptismal name included Franz…
  • Johann Joachim WinckelmannJohann Joachim Winckelmann entered the world on the 9th of December 1717 in the town of Stendal. His father Martin worked as a cobbler while his mother Anna…
  • Ferdinand von Hompesch zu BolheimFerdinand von Hompesch zu Bolheim entered the world on the 9th of November 1744 in the quiet village of Bolheim. This small settlement now belongs to the…
  • Johann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach entered the world on the 5th of September 1735 in Leipzig, Germany. He was the youngest child of Johann Sebastian and Anna Magdalena…
  • Franz BeckenbauerFranz Anton Beckenbauer was born on the 11th of September 1945 at a clinic in the Maxvorstadt borough of Munich. He grew up in the working-class district of…