Spiro Agnew was twice elected U.S. vice president under Richard Nixon, but resigned from his second term after being charged with bribery, conspiracy and tax fraud.

• U.S. Vice President, Governor
  (1918–1996)

Eva Braun was the mistress and later the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun and Hitler killed themselves on April 30, 1945, the day after their wedding—a decided alternative to falling into the hands of enemy troops.

• Model
  (1912–1945)

A new forensic study by French researchers studying a set of teeth has concluded that Adolf Hitler did kill himself at his Berlin bunker on April 30, 1945 and that he was a vegetarian. Some press had floated theories that the dictator fled Germany at the end of World War II.

• Dictator, Military Leader
  (1889–1945)

Joseph Goebbels served as minister of propaganda for the German Third Reich under Adolf Hitler—a position from which he spread the Nazi message.

• War Crimes
  (1897–1945)

Jacob Grimm was a 19th century German scholar who, along with brother Wilhelm, published Grimms' Fairy Tales, a collection famous for its children's stories.

• Author
  (1785–1863)

Wilhelm Grimm was a 19th century German author who, along with brother Jacob, published Grimms' Fairy Tales, a collection famous for stories like Cinderella and Rapunzel.

• Author
  (1786–1859)

William I is best known for ruling Prussia as regent, and king, and later as German emperor.

• King
  (1797–1888)

Rudolf Virchow was a 19th century German pathologist and politician known for his significant findings in social medicine.

• Academic, Scientist, Biologist, Doctor
  (1821–1902)

Johannes Rau was a member of the Social Democratic Party Executive and chair of the party state organization before serving as president of Germany (1999-2004).

• President (non-U.S.), Environmental Activist
  (1931–2006)

German chemist Martin Klaproth Heinrich discovered a number of elements in the 19th century, including uranium and zirconium.

• Educator, Scientist, Chemist
  (1743–1817)

German physicist Gustav Kirchoff became the first scientist to show that electric current flows at the speed of light through a conductor.

• Physicist, Scientist
  (1824–1887)

Philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was one of the creators of German Idealism. He explored how contradictions ultimately integrated to create the whole.

• Philosopher
  (1770–1831)

Frederick I was the first king of Prussia. He ruled from 1701 to 1713 and helped establish Prussia’s cultural significance in Europe.

• King
  (1657–1713)

Claus von Stauffenberg was a German army officer who, as the chief conspirator of the July Plot, carried out an failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

• Military Leader
  (1907–c. 1944)