Friedrich Engels was born on this day, November 28 1820 in Barmen, then in the Kingdom of Prussia, today in Wuppertal in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Federal Republic of Germany.
His father had large factories in Salford in England and in Barmen.
Engels died from cancer of the larynx in England in 1895.
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Which means that Wuppertal is one of the few German cities - and certainly the only west German one - where one of the main streets is called "Friedrich-Engels-Allee"!
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