Birthdate: January 14, 1892

Sun Sign: Capricorn

Birthplace: Lippstadt, Germany

Died: March 6, 1984

Best remembered for the quote “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out...,” Martin Niemöller was a German pastor who tried to counter discrimination against Christian converts with Jewish heritage. His Confessing Church was perhaps his apology for initially being a Nazi sympathizer.