Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 2

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• 1602 - Birth of Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher
• 1772 - Birth of romantic author Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg)
• 1886 - Birth of author Gottfried Benn
• 1892 - Birth of Red Baron Manfred von Richthofen
• 1945 - Capitulation of German forces in Berlin after the Battle of Berlin