Birthdate: October 3, 1889

Sun Sign: Libra

Birthplace: Hamburg, Germany

Died: May 4, 1938

German journalist Carl von Ossietzky was part of the army during World War I. Later, through a series of articles in his magazine Weltbühne, he exposed the Reichswehr leaders’ secret rearmament plans. He was later tortured in a camp and forbidden to leave Germany to collect his Nobel Peace Prize.