Claim: German poet and novelist Werner Bergengruen's roots could be traced back to Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia) where she was born on September 16, 1993.
Evidence: 16 September 1892
Riga, Livonia, Russian Empire
(Now Latvia) 
Werner Bergengruen (September 16, 1892 – September 4, 1964) was a Baltic German novelist and poet.