Famous Prussians

List of Prussian People

1605-07-29 Simon Dach, Prussian-German poet, born in Memel, East Prussia (d. 1659)
1613-08-11 Cristoph Kaldenbach, Prussian poet, born in Schwiebus, Prussia (now Świebodzin, Poland) (d. 1698)
1676-07-03 Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal, born in Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1747)
1684-10-26 Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal, born in Löwitz, Pomerania (d. 1757)
1696-06-11 Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal, born in Inverugie Castle, Scotland (d. 1758)
1699-02-17 Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian architect (Sanssouci) and painter, born in Kuckädel, Poland (d. 1753)
1699-05-14 Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1700-12-25 Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (d. 1758)
1721-01-12 Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, Prussian general (d. 1792)
1721-02-03 Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Seydlitz, Prussian general, born in Kalkar, Germany l (d. 1773)
1730-09-17 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian-American military officer (major general of the Continental Army), born in Magdeburg (d. 1794)
1735-10-09 Charles William Ferdinand, German military leader (Prussian army general) and nobleman (Duke of Brunswick, 1780-1805), born in Wolfenbüttel, Duchy ofBrunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1806)
1753-11-25 Otto Carl Erdmann Kospoth, Prussian composer, born in Mühltroff (d. 1817)
1755-11-12 Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussia general and Minister of War (1808-10) who reformed the Prussian army, born in Bordenau, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1813)
1759-09-26 Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1830)
1760-09-15 Bogislav Friedrich Emanuel von Tauentzien, Prussian general of the Napoleonic Wars, born in Potsdam, Brandenburg (d. 1824)
1760-10-27 August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal, born in Schildau, Saxony (d. 1831)
1768-11-21 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist and philosopher, born in Breslau, Prussian Silesia (d. 1834)
1769-04-03 Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1835)
1770-05-10 Louis-Nicholas Davout, French military commander under Napoleon (Marshall of the Empire, defeated Prussians at Battle of Auerstädt), born in Annoux, France (d. 1823)
1772-11-18 Louis Ferdinand, Prussian prince and a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, born in Friedrichsfelde Palace, Berlin (d. 1806)
1775-06-12 Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal, born in Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1851)
1776-01-06 Ferdinand von Schill, Prussian officer & rebel, born in Bannewitz, Germany (d. 1809)
1779-03-06 Philipp Roth, German cellist, and composer, born at Tarnowitz in Prussian Silesia (now Tarnowskie Góry, Poland) (d. 1898)
1780-03-27 August Leopold Crelle, German inventor and mathematician (1st Prussian Railway), born in Eichwerder, Brandenburg, Germany (d. 1855)
1780-06-01 Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian army General (Napoleanic Wars) and military theorist (Vom Kriege (On War)), born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1831)
1784-04-13 Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal, born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1877)
1800-10-26 Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian general and fieldmarshal, born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1891)
1803-04-30 Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman (Minister of War), born in Pleushagen, Poland (d. 1879)
1803-10-06 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, Prussian physicist and meteorologist, born in Legnica, Poland (d. 1879)
1805-02-03 Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian conservative statesman and Minister-President of the Kingdom of Prussia (1850-88), born in Lübben (Spreewald), Electorate of Saxony (d. 1882)
1805-09-27 George Müller, Prussian Christian evangelist and orphanage builder, born in Kroppenstedt, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1898)
1809-02-24 Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Prussian Generalfeldmarschall noted for his victories in the Franco-Prussian War, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1885)
1809-10-04 Prince Albert of Prussia, Prussian colonel general, born in Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kalingrad, Russia) (d. 1872)
1810-09-07 Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist, born in Düren, Germany (d. 1858)
1810-11-19 August Willich, Prussian-American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Braunsberg, Province of East Prussia (d. 1878)
1815-12-08 Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist, born in Breslau, Prussian Silesia (d. 1905)
1816-12-08 August Belmont, Prussian-American financier and diplomat (U.S. Minister to the Netherlands 1853-57), born in Alzey, Hesse, Germany (d. 1890)
1819-12-22 Franz Abt, German composer and choir conductor, born in Eilenburg, Prussian Saxony (d. 1885)
1822-01-07 Theodor Aufrecht, German linguist, Indologist, and translator (Rigveda's Hymns), born in Leschnitz, Prussian Silesia (d. 1907)
1824-07-20 Alexander Schimmelfennig, Prussian-American political revolutionary and Brigadier General (Union Army), born in Bromberg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1865)
1825-02-18 Carl Faust, Prussian military musician and composer (Marsch Glück auf - Lucky March), and conductor, born in Neisse, Province of Silesia, Prussia (now Nysa, Poland) (d. 1892)
1825-11-14 August Reissmann, Prussian composer, born in Frankenstein, Silesia (now Ząbkowice Śląskie, Poland) (d. 1903)
1827-04-12 Edward Mollenhauer, Prussian-American violinist and composer (Love Among the Breakers), born in Erfurt, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1914)
1828-08-11 Edward Saloman, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1862-64), born in Ströbeck, Prussian Saxony (d. 1909)
1830-02-11 Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, Prussian pianist, composer and music director (Royal Theatre of Hanover, 1867-87), born in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1913)
1832-04-08 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal and Chief of the German General Staff, born in Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1904)
1833-02-28 Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian fieldmarshal (Schlieffen Plan), born in Prussia (d. 1913)
1833-05-05 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and explorer, born in Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia (d. 1905)
1837-01-12 Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer, and teacher, born in Königsberg, Prussian (now Kaliningrad, Russia) (d. 1879)
1839-01-14 Emil Bohn, German organist, choral director, composer, and musicologist, born in Bielau, Prussian Silesia (now Biała Nyska, Poland) (d. 1909)
1846-12-31 Richard Kleinmichel, German pianist, composer (Manon), and arranger (Wagner operas for piano), born in Posen, Prussian Grand Duchy of Posen (now Poznań, Poland) (d. 1901)
1848-04-09 Helene Lange, German feminist (honoured with the Grand Prussian State Medal), born in Oldenburg, Germany (d. 1930)
1848-12-18 Karl Schröder II, German composer, born in Quedlinburg, Prussian Saxony (d. 1935)
1853-08-12 Jean Louis Nicodé, Prussian pianist and composer (Das Meer; Gloria!), born in Jeżyce (now Poznań), Poland (d. 1919)
1855-01-22 Albert Neisser, German physician who discovered the bacteria that cause gonorrhea and leprosy, born in Schweidnitz, Prussian Empire (d. 1916)
1864-06-25 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel 1920), born in Briesen, West Prussia (d. 1941)
1868-07-30 Alfred Weber, German economist and sociologist, born in Erfurt, Prussian Saxony (d. 1958)
1875-12-03 Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman and theologian, born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (d. 1943)
1887-08-08 Ullrich Haupt, Prussian actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), born in Falkenburg, Pomerania, Germany (d. 1931)
1907-07-19 Günter Bialas, German composer and music educator, born in Bielschowitz, Prussian Silesia (now Bielszowice, Poland) (d. 1995)
1908-08-26 W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)
1909-04-24 Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist (West Germany), born in Neisse, Prussian Silesia, German Empire (d. 1987)
1935-04-16 Sarah Kirsch, German poet, born in Limlingerode, Prussian Saxony (d. 2013)
1944-01-12 Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate, born in Klaipėda, Lithuania

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