Wikipedia, German, via WWW, Oct. 13, 2010 (Günter Grass, German author, sculptor, painter and graphic designer, born Oct. 16, 1927 in Danzig, today Gdańsk, Poland)
New York times (online), viewed Apr. 13, 2015 (Günter Grass; b. Günter Wilhelm Grass, Oct. 16, 1927, Danzig; d. Monday [Apr. 13, 2015], Lübeck, aged 87; German novelist, social critic, and Nobel Prize winner whom many called his country’s moral conscience but who stunned Europe when he revealed in 2006 that he had been a member of the Waffen-SS during World War II)