1942 in Germany - Births

Births

  • 17 January — Ulf Hoelscher, German violinist
  • 21 February — Margarethe von Trotta, German actress, film director, and writer
  • 28 March — Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (died 1998)
  • 12 June — Bert Sakmann, German physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 5 September — Werner Herzog, German filmmaker
  • 1 October — Gunther Wallraff, German investigative journalist
  • 20 October — Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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