Born in Gdańsk
Gdańsk
City and capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship on the Baltic coast of northern Poland
Gdańsk as a birthplace has produced a number of famous personalities of various fields (e.g. German actor, German actor, screenwriter ans assistant director, Polish politician, prime minister of Poland since 2023 and between 2007–2014, president of the European Council in the period 2014–2019 (8th European legislature)): Heinz Rennhack, Eva Ebner, Donald Tusk and some more.
Celebrities from GdańskCelebrities from Gdańsk
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Eva Ebner
German actor, screenwriter ans assistant director
*January 14th, 1922 †January 31st, 2006, Berlin
67 Donald Tusk
Polish politician, prime minister of Poland since 2023 and between 2007–2014, president of the European Council in the period 2014–2019 (8th European legislature)
*April 22nd, 1957
53 Paweł Adamowicz
Mayor of Gdańsk (1998-2019)
*November 2nd, 1965 †January 14th, 2019, University Clinical Centre in Gdańsk
72 Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher (1788–1860)
*February 22nd, 1788 †September 21st, 1860, Frankfurt
78 Johannes Trojan
Writer and opinion journalist (1837-1915)
*August 14th, 1837 †November 21st, 1915, Rostock
90 Horst Ehmke
Politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Lawyer (1927-2017)
*February 4th, 1927 †March 12th, 2017, Bonn
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Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
German-Polish physicist and engineer (1686-1736)
*May 24th, 1686 †September 16th, 1736, The Hague
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69 Janina Ochojska
Polish humanitarian activist and founder of the Polish Humanitarian Organization
*March 12th, 1955
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53 Andreas Schlüter
Prussian baroque sculptor and architect
*April 30th, 1660 †January 1st, 1714, Saint Petersburg
88 Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski
Polish noble (1734-1823)
*December 1st, 1734 †March 19th, 1823, Sieniawa
71 Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim
German painter (1808-1879)
*January 7th, 1808 †January 18th, 1879, Berlin
49 Luise Gottsched
German poet, playwright, essayist and translator
*April 11th, 1713 †June 26th, 1762, Leipzig.jpg "Richard Genée")
72 Richard Genée
Austrian librettist, playwright and composer
*February 7th, 1823 †June 15th, 1895, Baden
.jpg "Julia Kamińska")
59 Daniel Gralath
18th century physicist and mayor of Gdansk
*May 30th, 1708 †July 23rd, 1767, Gdańsk
80 Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff
German general (1833-1914)
*December 21st, 1833 †December 13th, 1914, Krakow am See
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Friederike Mulert
German politician (1896-1991)
*November 16th, 1896 †April 5th, 1991, Bad Nauheim
.jpg "Jan Mikołaj Chodkiewicz")
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Johannes Paul Aeltermann
German priest (1876-1939)
*June 26th, 1876 †November 22nd, 1939, Nowy Wiec
.jpg "Marek Wróbel")
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Leberecht Migge
German landscape architect, regional planner and polemical writer
*March 20th, 1881 †May 30th, 1935, Worpswede 79
Holger Czukay
German bass-guitarist and co-founder of "Can"
*March 24th, 1938 †September 5th, 2017, WeilerswistBirthdays of famous people
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