- 1724 - The Johannespassion by Johann Sebastian Bach is performed for the first time
- 1885 - Death of physiologist Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
- 1944 - Birth of politician Gerhard Schröder, Chancellor of Germany 1998-2005
- 1977 - German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback is assassinated by the Red Army Faction
- 1994 - Death of historian Golo Mann