Activism and politics
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Jean-Jacques Aillagon (1946), French politician and contemporary and modern arts
connoisseur
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Charles Ancillon (1659–1715), French jurist and diplomat
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François Barbé-Marbois (1745–1837), French politician
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Jean Burger (1907–1945), French
resistant
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Marte Cohn (1920), French spy during
World War II
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Désiré Ferry (1886–1940), French politician
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Volker Hassemer (1944), German senator
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Jean Laurain (1921–2008), French philosopher and politician
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Willy Huhn (1909–1970), German
council communism theorist
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Pierre Louis Roederer (1754–1835), French politician and economist
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Fritz von Twardowski, German diplomat
Adventure
Arts
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Walter Curt Behrendt (1884–1945), German-American architect
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Solange Bertrand (1913–2011), French abstract painter, sculptor and engraver
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Christopher Fratin (1801–1864), French
animalier sculptor
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Monsù Desidero (1593–ca. 1640), French painter, also known as François de Nomé or Didier Barra
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Louis-Théodore Devilly (1818–1888), French painter
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Oskar Kurt Döbrich (1911–1970), German painter and
graphic designer
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Auguste Hussenot (1799–1885), French painter
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Jutta Jol (1896–1981), German actress
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Charles Willy Kayser (1881–1942), German actor
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Abraham-César Lamoureux (c. 1640–1692), French sculptor in Sweden and Denmark
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Tiana Lemnitz (1897–1994), German operatic soprano
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Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (1734–1781), French
etcher and painter
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Charles-Laurent Maréchal (1801–1887), French painter and
master glass maker
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Paul Niclausse (1879–1958), French sculptor
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Jean-Marie Straub (1933), French cineast
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Walter Ulbrich (1910–1991), German film producer
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Hugo Becker (1987), French actor
Business
Literature and poetry
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Joseph Décembre (1836–1906), French writer and freemason
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Otto Flake (1880–1963), German writer
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Rudolf John Gorsleben (1883–1930), German ariosophist
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Pierre Hanot (born 1952), French novelist, visual artist and musician
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Gustave Kahn (1859–1936), French poet
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Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), French
playwright and
director
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Wilhelm Michel (1877–1942), German writer
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Ernst Moritz Mungenast (1898–1964), German writer and
journalist
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Frieda von Richthofen (1879–1956), German writer
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Raymond Schwartz (1894–1973), German writer and
Esperantist
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André Schwarz-Bart (1928–2006), French novelist
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Stephen Michael Stirling (1953), Canadian-American writer
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Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), French poet
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Hermann Wendel (1884–1936), German writer
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Anny Wienbruch (1899–1976), German writer
Military
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Basile Guy Marie Victor Baltus de Pouilly (1766–1845), French general
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Wilhelm Baur (1883–1964), German general
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Hans Benda (1877–1951), German admiral
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Theodor Berkelmann (1894–1943), German general
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Julius von Bernuth (1897–1942), German general
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Ludwig Bieringer (1892–1975), German general
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Helmuth Bode (1907–1985), German officer
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Walter Bordellé (1918–1984), German officer
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Karl Braun, (1885–1945) German pilot
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Arthur von Briesen (1891–1981), German general
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Erich von Brückner (1896–1949), German officer
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Jean Baptiste Noël Bouchotte (1754–1840), French officer
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Peter-Erich Cremer (1911–1992), German officer
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Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740–1793), French general
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Joachim Degener (1883–1953), German general
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Abraham de Fabert (1599–1660/62), Marshal of France
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Kurt von Falkowski (1886–1953), German general
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Wilhelm Falley (1897–1944), German general
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Simon de Faultrier (1763–1815), French general
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Edgar Feuchtinger (1894–1960), German general
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Hans-Henning von Fölkersamb (1889–1984), German general
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Louis Charles Folliot de Crenneville (1763–1840), Austrian general
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Herbert Gundelach (1899–1971), German general
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Heinz Harmel (1906–2000), German general
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Kurt Haseloff (1894–1978), German general
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Johannes Hintz (1898–1944), German general
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Sigmund von Imhoff (1881–1967), German general
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François Étienne de Kellermann (1770–1835), French general
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Walther Kittel (1887–1971), German general
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Arthur Kobus (1879–1945), German general
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Karl Kriebel (1888–1961), German general
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Otto Krueger (1891–1976), German general
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Henry Dominique Lallemand (1777–1823), French general
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Charles Lallemand (1774–1839), French general
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Joachim-Friedrich Lang (1899–1945), German general
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Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle (1775–1809), French general
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Hans Leistikow (1895–1967), German general
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Hans-Albrech Lehmann (1894–1976), German general
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Joachim von der Lieth-Thomsen (1896–1918), German Pilot
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Rolf von Lilienhoff-Zwowitzky (1895–1956), German naval officer
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Friedrich Marnet (1882–1915), German pilot
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Johannes Mühlenkamp (1910–1986), German officer
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Eugen Müller (1891–1951), German general
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Henri-Joseph Paixhans (1783–1854), French officer
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Ferdinand von Parseval (1791–1854), Bavarian general
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Joachim Pötter (1913–1992), German officer
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Antoine Richepanse (1770–1802), French general
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Günther Rüdel (1883–1950), German general
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Hans von Salmuth (1888–1962), German general
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Hermann Schaefer (1885–1962), German general
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Ernst Schreder (1892–1941), German general
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Otto Schumann (1886–1952), German general
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Rudolf Schmundt (1896–1944), German general
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Ludwig Weißmüller (1915–1943), German officer
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Ernst Wieblitz (1883–1973), German naval officer
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Charles Victor Woirgard (1764–1810), French general
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Bodo Zimmermann (1886–1963), German general
Music
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Heinrich Bensing (1911–1955), German opera singer
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Philippe Boivin (born 1954), French composer
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Gabriel Pierné (1863–1937), French composer and
conductor
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Paul Pierné (1874–1952), French composer and
organist
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Hans Pizka (1942), Austrian hornist
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Claude Cymerman (1947), French classical pianist
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Maximilien Simon (1797–1861), French composer
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Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896), French opera composer
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Louis Corte (1972), French songwriter, producer, singer
Religion
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Joseph Coincé (1764–1833), Jesuit and physician
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Rabbenu Gershom (ca. 960–ca. 1028), famous
Talmudist and
Halakhaist
- Saint
Livier of Marsal (ca. 400–451),
Christian martyr, defender of Metz against
Attila's Huns
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Eliezer ben Samuel of Metz (ca. 1100-1175),
Tosafist, author of the
halachic work Sefer Yereim
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Nicolas Janny (1749–1822), priest, pedagogue and grammarian
- Saint
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus (1817–1898), founder of the
Religious of the Assumption
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Pierre Poiret (1646–1719),
Calvinic
mystic and philosopher
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Marguerite Rutan (1736–1794), French
Roman Catholic religious person, member of the
Vincentian Sisters
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Aaron Worms (1754–1836), Rabbi and
Tamuldist
Sciences and knowledge
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Max Braubach (1899–1975), German historian
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Laurent de Chazelles (1724–1808) French agronomist
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Robert Folz (1910–1996), French historian
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Claude François Lallemand (1790–1854), physician
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Louis Le Prince (1842–vanished in 1890), first man to shoot moving images
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Émile Léonard Mathieu (1835–1890), French mathematician
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Victor Nigon (1920-2015), French biologist
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Alfred Pérot (1863–1925), French physician
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Jean-Victor Poncelet (1788–1867), French mathematician
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Karl Süpfle (1880–1942), German physiologist
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Leo Weisgerber (1899–1985), German linguist
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Luise von Winterfeld (1882–1962), German archivist
Sports
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