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Facts

Born January 2, 1784 • Coburg • Germany
Died January 29, 1844 (aged 60) • Gotha • Germany
Ernest II, detail from a lithograph by C. Baugniet after a portrait by H. Thorburn, 1844
Ernest II
duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Jakob Fugger II the Rich
German merchant
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Reinhard Gehlen
German general
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist
Anton Fugger
German merchant
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Bernard II
German duke
August Boeckh
German scholar
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist