Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/March/March 2


 * 1830 - Death of physician Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, discoverer of the macula in the eye
 * 1840 - Death of astronomer Heinrich Olbers, after whom Olbers' paradox is named
 * 1900 - Birth of composer Kurt Weill (pictured)
 * 1940 - Birth of Lothar de Maizière, the last Prime Minister of the GDR