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- 1609 – Founding of the Catholic League
- 1809 – Birth of geologist Friedrich August von Quenstedt
- 1867 – Birth of Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany 1918
- 1883 – Birth of industrialist and war criminal Friedrich Flick
- 1902 – Birth of Kurt Alder, recipient of the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry