Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 12


 * 1885 – Death of composer Ferdinand Hiller
 * 1900 – Birth of actress Helene Weigel
 * 1921 – Birth of artist Joseph Beuys
 * 1949 – The Berlin Blockade ends shortly after midnight
 * 1970 – Death of writer Nelly Sachs, recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature