Rheydt

Notable residents

• 1815, May 15, Friedrich Beckenbach, renamed Brookland + Jan 28 1892 in Rheydt, textile entrepreneur in Prussia, Holland and Yorkshire England, son of Johann Heinrich Beckenbach of Lenssen & Beckenbach, Rheydt
• 1859, February 3, Hugo Junkers, † February 3, 1935 in Gauting, engineer
• 1863, May 30, Klara Hechtenberg Collitz, † November 22, 1944 in Baltimore, German philologist
• 1876, September 4, Ernst Jakob Christoffel, † April 23, 1955 in Isfahan, founder of the Christoffel-Blindenmission
• 1894, August 29, Werner Gilles, † June 22, 1961 in Essen, artist
• 1894, February 24, Josef Arndgen, † September 20, 1966 in Wiesbaden, German politician
• 1897, October 29, Joseph Goebbels, † May 1, 1945 in Berlin, Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the Nazi regime
• 1898, July 24, Peter Erkens, † October 22, 1972 in Mönchengladbach, politician
• 1910, Emil Vorster, † 1976, race driver
• 1913, December 18, Wilhelm Schmitter, † November 8, 1943 in action over London, World War II Luftwaffe bomber pilot
• 1917, June 2, Heinz Sielmann, † October 6, 2006 in Munich, film maker
• 1918, May 6, Ruth Lommel, actress
• 1925, A. Edward Nussbaum, † 31 October 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri, theoretical mathematician
• 1928 – 2008 Hermin Esser, tenor
• 1930, May 16, Karl Heinz Beckurts, † July 9, 1986 in Straßlach, Munich, physicist, killed by Red Army Fraction
• 1932, August 25, Alexander Arnz, † September 30, 2004 in Cologne, director
• 1936, August 9, Uwe Erichsen, author
• 1949, November 24, Christa Muth, systems scientist
• 1967, May 18, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, race driver
• 1973, February 24, Sonja Oberem, marathon runner
• 1977, May 10, Nick Heidfeld, race driver