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July 1
- 1646 – Birth of polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the inventors of calculus
- 1742 – Birth of physicist and aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- 1784 – Death of composer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- 1972 – Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Holger Meins of the Red Army Faction are captured in Frankfurt after a shootout with the police
- 1990 – Currency union between East and West Germany: the Mark der DDR is replaced by the Deutsche Mark
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July 2
- 1298 – The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg
- 1648 – Birth of organ builder Arp Schnitger
- 1714 – Birth of composer Christoph Willibald Gluck
- 1900 – First flight of a zeppelin near Friedrichshafen
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July 3
- 1676 – Birth of Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, called the Old Dessauer
- 1866 – The Austro-Prussian war ends with a Prussian victory in the Battle of Königgrätz
- 1875 – Birth of surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch
- 1932 – Birth of GDR politician Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski
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July 4
- 1715 – Birth of poet Christian Fürchtegott Gellert
- 1901 – Death of linguist Johannes Schmidt
- 1954 – Miracle of Bern: In the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final, Germany wins 3–2 against Hungary
- 1987 – Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon is sentenced to life imprisonment
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July 5
- 1884 – Cameroon becomes a German colony
- 1862 – Death of geologist Heinrich Georg Bronn
- 1943 – The Battle of Kursk begins
- 1969 – Death of architect Walter Gropius, founder of Bauhaus
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July 6
- 1854 – Death of physicist Georg Ohm
- 1885 – Birth of field marshal Ernst Busch
- 1898 – Birth of composer Hanns Eisler
- 1973 – Death of conductor Otto Klemperer
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July 7
- 1855 – Birth of writer Ludwig Ganghofer
- 1880 – The first edition of the Duden is published
- 1956 – Death of Gottfried Benn
- 1974 – Germany wins the 1974 FIFA World Cup
- 1985 – Boris Becker wins at Wimbledon for the first time
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July 8
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- 1919 – Birth of politician Walter Scheel
- 1867 – Birth of artist Käthe Kollwitz
- 1885 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Bloch
- 1936 – Frankfurt Airport is opened
- 1990 – Germany wins the 1990 FIFA World Cup
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July 9
- 1654 – Death of Ferdinand IV of Germany
- 1721 – Birth of poet Johann Nikolaus Götz
- 1809 – Birth of physician Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle
- 1858 – Birth of anthropologist Franz Boas
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July 10
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- 1609 – Founding of the Catholic League
- 1809 – Birth of geologist Friedrich August von Quenstedt
- 1867 – Birth of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany 1918
- 1883 – Birth of industrialist and war criminal Friedrich Flick
- 1902 – Birth of Kurt Alder, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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July 11
- 1535 – Death of Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg
- 1553 – Death of Maurice, Elector of Saxony
- 1906 – Birth of politician Herbert Wehner
- 1929 – Birth of baritone Hermann Prey
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July 12
- 1806 – The Confederation of the Rhine is founded
- 1863 – Birth of physicist Paul Karl Ludwig Drude
- 1773 – Death of flutist and composer Johann Joachim Quantz
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July 13
- 1896 – Death of chemist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz
- 2014 – Germany wins the 2014 FIFA World Cup
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July 14
- 1801 – Birth of physiologist Johannes Peter Müller
- 1933 – As part of the Gleichschaltung, the forming of new political parties is declared illegal
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July 15
- 1704 – Birth of religious leader August Gottlieb Spangenberg
- 1919 – Death of chemist Hermann Emil Fischer, recipient of the 1902 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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July 16
- 1664 – Death of writer Andreas Gryphius
- 1985 – Death of writer Heinrich Böll, recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in Literature
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July 17
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- 1571 – Death of poet Georg Fabricius
- 1954 – Birth of Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
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July 18
- 1864 – Birth of poet Ricarda Huch
- 1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes his personal manifesto Mein Kampf
- 1948 – Birth of biochemist Hartmut Michel, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
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July 19
- 1870 – The Franco-Prussian War starts with France declaring war on Prussia
- 1898 – Birth of philosopher Herbert Marcuse
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July 20
- 1847 – Birth of impressionist painter Max Liebermann
- 1866 – Death of mathematician Bernhard Riemann
- 1932 – The cabinet of Prussia is dismissed in the Preußenschlag
- 1933 – The Reichskonkordat between Germany and the Vatican is signed
- 1934 – Birth of writer Uwe Johnson
- 1944 – 20 July plot by German military leaders to assassinate Adolf Hitler (Operation Valkyrie)
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July 21
- 1893 – Birth of writer Hans Fallada
- 1935 – Birth of politician Norbert Blüm
- 1936 – Death of politician Georg Michaelis, Chancellor of Germany 1917
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July 22
- 1784 – Birth of mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Bessel
- 1887 – Birth of physicist Gustav Ludwig Hertz, winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics
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July 23
- 1164 – The remains of the Three Kings arrive at Cologne Cathedral
- 1777 – Birth of painter Philipp Otto Runge
- 1793 – The French retreat after the Siege of Mainz ends the Mainz Republic
- 1886 – Birth of physicist Walter H. Schottky
- 1899 – Birth of Gustav Heinemann, President of Germany 1969-1974
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July 24
- 1655 – Death of epigrammatist Friedrich, Freiherr von Logau
- 1851 – Birth of mathematician Friedrich Schottky
- 1864 – Birth of playwright Frank Wedekind
- 1922 – Birth of politician Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski
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July 25
- 1790 – Death of educational reformer Johann Bernhard Basedow
- 1802 – Death of Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz
- 1867 – Birth of author and painter Max Dauthendey
- 2005 – Death of jazz trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff
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July 26
- 1855 – Birth of sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies
- 1865 – Birth of politician Philipp Scheidemann
- 1882 – Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal premieres in Bayreuth
- 1953 – Birth of soccer player and manager Felix Magath
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July 27
- 1808 – Birth of philologist Moritz Haupt
- 1881 – Birth of chemist Hans Fischer, recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- 1940 – Birth of choreographer Pina Bausch
- 1997 – Jan Ullrich wins the 1997 Tour de France
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July 28
- 1750 – Death of composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1804 – Birth of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach
- 1874 – Birth of philosopher Ernst Cassirer
- 1954 – Birth of mathematician Gerd Faltings, winner of the Fields Medal
- 1968 – Death of chemist Otto Hahn, recipient of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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July 29
- 1843 – Birth of linguist Johannes Schmidt
- 1856 – Death of composer Robert Schumann
- 1979 – Death of philosopher Herbert Marcuse
- 2001 – Death of hacker Wau Holland, co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club
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July 30
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- 1814 – Birth of master mechanic and industrialist Johann Georg Halske
- 1855 – Birth of industrialist Georg Wilhelm von Siemens
- 1898 – Death of politician Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of Prussia and of Germany
- 1964 – Birth of football player and manager Jürgen Klinsmann
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July 31
- 1884 – Birth of politician Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, member of the German Resistance
- 1919 – The German national assembly adopts the Weimar constitution
- 1932 – In the July 1932 Reichstag election, the NSDAP becomes the biggest party in the Reichstag
- 1980 – Death of physicist Pascual Jordan
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