Germany
- 1901 - HIM Emperor Wilhelm II (1859–1941)
- 1901 - HM King Oscar II of Sweden (1829–1907)
- 28 June 1905 - Hans von Koester (1844–1928)
- 4 September 1909 - HRH Prinz Heinrich of Prussia (1862–1929)
- 27 January 1911 - Alfred von Tirpitz (1849–1930)
- 31 May 1918 - Henning von Holtzendorff (1853–1919)
- 1 April 1939 - Erich Raeder (1876–1960)
- 30 January 1943 - Karl Dönitz (1891–1980)
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Famous quotes containing the word germany:
“It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed—and we face other delays during the present session because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn’s election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sun-set and moon-rise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and dreams.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We are fighting in the quarrel of civilization against barbarism, of liberty against tyranny. Germany has become a menace to the whole world. She is the most dangerous enemy of liberty now existing.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)