Related events:

1. Sunday 20th of June 1819 (+) — Composer Jacques Offenbach is born
   

2. Wednesday 5th of January 1876 (+) — First Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany Konrad Adenauer is born
   

3. Monday 15th of May 1911 (+) — Physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser is born
   

4. Friday 21st of December 1917 (+) — Writer Heinrich Böll is born
   

5. Saturday 28th of May 1921 (+) — Writer Heinz Konsalik is born
   

6. Sunday 16th of October 1938 (+) — Nico is born
   

7. Saturday 14th of October 1944 (+) — Actor Udo Kier is born
   

8. Tuesday 16th of February 1954 (-) — Triple murderer John Merrett commits suicide by a shot through the head
   Merrett shot his 55-year-old mother Bertha on 17 March 1926, she died on 1 April. Charged with murder and forgery the jury returned a verdict of not proven in February 1927. In 1954 he strangled his 43-year-old wife Veronica Bonnar and drowned her 72-year-old mother Lady Mary Menzies.

9. Wednesday 28th of January 1976 (-) — Poet and artist Marcel Broodthaers dies of a liver disease
   

10. Friday 18th of December 1987 (-) — Sound engineer and producer Conny Plank dies of cancer
    

11. Thursday 10th of June 2010 (-) — Painter Sigmar Polke dies of cancer