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Also Known As Sophie von der Pfalz • Sophia of the Palatinate
Born October 14, 1630 • The Hague • Netherlands
Died June 8, 1714 (aged 83) • Germany
House / Dynasty House of Hanover
Peter Vischer, the Elder
German artist
Robert Wiene
German film director
Konrad Zuse
German engineer
Joseph Weizenbaum
American computer scientist
Christoph von Dohnányi
German conductor
Oskar Minkowski
German physiologist
Henry Melchior Mühlenberg
American clergyman
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Johann Heinrich Alsted
German logician
Bernard II
German duke
Johann Friedrich Cotta, Freiherr von Cottendorf
German publisher
Johann Georg Cotta, Baron von Cottendorf
German publisher [1796–1863]
Pina Bausch
German ballet dancer and choreographer
Friedrich William Heinrich Benda
German musician
Barthel Beham
German engraver
Johann Georg Cotta
German publisher [1631–1692]
Johann Christoph Blumhardt
German theologian
August Boeckh
German scholar
Rolf Hochhuth
German writer
Hans Eysenck
German-born British psychologist

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