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North Rhine-Westphalia
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Federal State

Memorials in North Rhine-Westphalia

165 memorials
1,297 Funeral Homes
3 cemeteries
62 Cities & Districts
Celebrities127

North Rhine-Westphalia: 165 memorial pages

of people who were born or died here, or were laid to rest here

HB
Portrait of Horst Buchholz (1939–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Horst Buchholz

01/23/1939 – 07/07/2025

86 years

German actor

Mettmann
1
VH
Portrait of Vlastimil Hort (1944–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Vlastimil Hort

01/12/1944 – 05/12/2025

81 years

Czech-German chess player

Eitorf
1
RH
Portrait of Robert Hübner (1948–2025) – memorial page

Memorial

Robert Hübner

11/06/1948 – 01/05/2025

76 years

German chess player, chess writer, and papyrologist

Köln
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Family Tree
CW
Portrait of Christa Wolf (1946–2024) – memorial page

Memorial

Christa Wolf

née Christa Ihlenfeld

08/13/1946 – 11/25/2024

78 years

German novelist and essayist

Meschede
11
WB
Portrait of Wolfgang Becker (1947–2024) – memorial page

Memorial

Wolfgang Becker

04/05/1947 – 10/27/2024

77 years

German film director and screenwriter

Hilden
1
CD
Portrait of Christoph Daum (1953–2024) – memorial page

Memorial

Christoph Daum

10/24/1953 – 08/24/2024

70 years

German football manager

Köln
31
WK

Memorial

Willi Koslowski

02/17/1937 – 07/11/2024

87 years

German footballer

Gelsenkirchen
1
KS
Portrait of Karl-Heinz Schnellinger (1939–2024) – memorial page

Memorial

Karl-Heinz Schnellinger

03/31/1939 – 05/20/2024

85 years

German footballer

Milan
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PJ
Portrait of Paul Josef Cordes (1934–2024) – memorial page

Memorial

Paul Josef Cordes

09/05/1934 – 03/15/2024

89 years

German Roman Catholic cardinal and archbishop

Rome
1
Family Tree
EE
Portrait of Elke Erb (1938–2024) – memorial page

Memorial

Elke Erb

02/18/1938 – 01/22/2024

85 years

German poet and translator

Berlin
2
HA
Portrait of Hans Albert (1921–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Hans Albert

02/08/1921 – 10/24/2023

102 years

German philosopher

Heidelberg
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KS
Portrait of Klaus Schulze (1936–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Klaus Schulze

05/30/1936 – 10/14/2023

87 years

German composer and musician

Solingen
2
MW
Portrait of Marianne Werner (1924–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Marianne Werner

01/04/1924 – 07/22/2023

99 years

West German shot putter

Dortmund
1
HS
Portrait of Heide Simonis (1943–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Heide Simonis

née Heide Steinhardt

07/04/1943 – 07/12/2023

80 years

German politician

Kiel
2
HH
Portrait of Horst-Dieter Höttges (1943–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Horst-Dieter Höttges

09/10/1943 – 06/22/2023

79 years

German association football player

Verden (Aller)
2
PB
Portrait of Peter Brötzmann (1941–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Peter Brötzmann

03/06/1941 – 06/22/2023

82 years

German jazz saxophonist and clarinetist

Wuppertal
1
AE

Memorial

Amitai Etzioni

née Werner Falk

01/04/1929 – 05/31/2023

94 years

German-Israeli immigrant to the United States, sociologist and political theorist of communitarianism

Washington, D.C.
1
HZ
Portrait of Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Harald zur Hausen

03/11/1936 – 05/29/2023

87 years

German virologist and professor emeritus

Heidelberg
1
TL
Portrait of Tim Lobinger (1972–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Tim Lobinger

09/03/1972 – 02/16/2023

50 years

German pole vaulter

München
1
YM
Portrait of Yuri Manin (1937–2023) – memorial page

Memorial

Yuri Manin

02/16/1937 – 01/07/2023

85 years

Russian mathematician

Bonn
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HE
Portrait of Hushang Ebtehaj (1928–2022) – memorial page

Memorial

Hushang Ebtehaj

02/25/1928 – 08/10/2022

94 years

Iranian poet

Köln
1
MK

Memorial

Manfred Köller

11/28/1952 – 02/26/2022

69 years

Bensheim
1
Family Tree
JH
Portrait of Janina Hübner-Bellersen (1982–2021) – memorial page

Memorial

Janina Hübner-Bellersen

07/20/1982 – 08/21/2021

39 years

Essen
31
PB
Portrait of Paul Berg (1929–2021) – memorial page

Memorial

Paul Berg

01/06/1929 – 06/21/2021

92 years

American biochemist, Professor emeritus at Stanford University & Nobel laureate in Chemistry

Herne
1

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